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The Snnlli and Ike Sorlh.
The last few days have sufficed, we
presume, to open the eyes of all the people
of the South, the border States included,
to the inconceivable malignity of those
who have heretofore been in nominal alli
ance artd union with us in the North. The
tone of the Boston, Now York, and Pliiiadel
pliia press, upon that prolific theme which
was afforded them bv the sudden outbreak
of popular feeling in Baltimore, lias betrayed
a spirit so utter.y devoid of national kin
ship ami fraternity, in lact so malevolent
and savage, that it resembles more an ex
plosion ot the horded hate of dissembling
Iocs than even the just anger of offended
allies. We cannot conceive that their has
been any bond of love or respect, any con
straining influence ol reciprocal regard,
any concern whatever fur the l ights of the
South, where a consolidated hostility,
breathing fury and destruction, is so sud
denly engendered. The conviction is up
on us a6 it by a shock of nature, that while
we have loved, and honored, and spoken
with national pride of the people ot the
north as brethren of one common country,
they have only tolerated, and endured,
and used us lor pioinotitig their own pros
perity. And no sooner do the people of
the South, under strong provocation, do an
act of violence in maintaining the integri
ty of their soil than they are overwhelmed
with malediction and threats which the
ingenuity of fiends could not surpass.
The horrible excesses of the Sepoys dn
ring the India insurrection; the more recent
barbarities in Asia Minor—deeds, in short,
short, which have elicited unqualified con
demnation of all Christendom, are coolly
implied in the vengeance with which we
are menaced. We bad not imagined such
a spirit possible in a civilized country,
much less in our country—much less among
people of the same general institutions and
national instincts, and still less in the con
ductors of the public press. It is unac
countable, for there is no principle of jus
tice, equity, reason or common sense upon
which it is possible to account for it.
And for the sake of humanity we dare not
ascribe it to interested, mere mercenary
motives.
What are the facts ? The people of
Maryland, whose institutions, associations
and instincts are Southern, have been per
sistently denied any expression of their
sentiments, and the man through whose
mischievous influence this has been done
lias been bepraised, flattered and befooled
for it by those who now denounce him as
a traitor. He affected to be the State of
Maryland, when lie was nothing but the
tool of designing men.
Hence when the sentiment of Maryland
was brought to the test of the transit of
northern troops through Baltimore, aud a
demonstration occurs, the ridiculous as
sumption is entertained that Mary land lias
been false—that she has played fast and
loose, and that she must be punished, let
this very conflict with the northern troops
took us all by surprise. And it occurred
while the mayor of the city was at their
bead, and the entire police force acconi'
pany ing them. Under such circumstances
as these the suppressed indignation of the
people found vent, and all unarmed they
dashed upon the soldiers who had fired
amongst them, exposing themselves to al
most certain destruction. But with ali
this Maryland makes no war, seeks no i
quarrel with the North. She lias only
signified the desire that her soil should not
be invaded, her dignity humbled, by the
tread of armed hosts passing on to war with
her sisterhood of the South.
If there were any reason left amongst
the people of the North, we should think
it would assert its power by an argument
to the popular feeling there. Only imag
ine Jefferson Davis elected as a sectional
candidate of the South, and an avowed
propagandist of slavery, menacing the
North with an “irrepessible conflict” and
a declared purposee to spread the institu
tion throughout the free States, in open vi
olation of the constitution. Suppose the
New England States to have seceded,
and the Davis administration to be di
recting armed hosts against them to war
with them, and troops from Maryland ven
turing through the city of New York for
that purpose, and the forts of New York
harbor pointing their guns upon and threat
ening the city, and we have at once the
converse of the affray iu the streets ot
Baltimore, and the capture of Fort Sum
ter. A rational inau can have no difficulty
in realizing facts and feelings, by chang
ing the position and bringing the argu
ment home to himself in a parallel case.
But while “threatenings aud slaughter”
are breathed against our city, the lact is
carefully ignored that the wounded of the
volunteers were rescued from the populace
as soon as possible, aud tendeily cared for,
and the dead decently laid away in the inau
solemn at Greenmount. The fact is careful
fully ignored that one of our most worthy
citizens, who had immediately before his
death resisted a demonstration against
them, was wantonly murdered iu ourstreets
By these volunteers. And it seems hard
ly worthy of remark that while our people,
of every class age and degree were arming
to resist the Pennsylvania troops advan
cing upon the city on Sunday last, the lat
ter were no sooner remanded by orders
from Washington, and it was ascertained
they weie suffering for want of food, than
it was supplied abundantly by our citi
zens and sent out to them by the hoard of
police.
Surely with such facts as these the real
spirit which actuates our citizens ought to
he better understood. If not, let us say
in one word, it is that spirit which would
but very lately have dared to oppose with
hared breast and all unarmed the advance
ot a foreign foe across tlie soil of Mary
land, threatening her whilom sisterhood of
the North. Alas! that such bonds should
ever have been sundered.— Unit. Sun.
The Nature of cur Enemies.
The motives that have impelled the
Northern hordes to obey with bounding
alacrity the summons of their President,
are so mean and wicked, that all corrupt
as they arc, they dare not avow them.—
Lincoln stultifies himself by giving out
that he has called that immense force
into the field simply to protect fhe
property of the Government. His ser
vants practicing the same concealment
pretend to he hurt by the dishonor done
their national symbol. The one is as
transparent a falsehood as the other. The
proclamation of Lincoln and the flags that
wave from Church steeples, and houses
and hats, are huge and unqualified lies.
Who so simple as to believe that a mere
sentiment could cause a people eminently
practical, shrewd to an unusual degree,
and greedy of gain beyond any other peo
ple on the earth, to abandon thr-ir employ
ments, leave their homes and engage with
sncli unanimity and fierceness in a war
both meaningless and ruinous ?
No. all this talk about the glory and
sacred ness of the Stars and Stripes is stuff
and nonsense. The flag lias nothing to do
with the crusade against the South. Se
cession lias mortified the pride ot the
North, marred its unparalled prosperity,
diminished its power, and aroused its hate
and malice. The people that now threat
en its with destruction have grown rich
and great on our labor and at our expense.
The products of our fields have bmlt their
eities and whitened the seas with their
sails. The vast and rapid increase of
their substauce has made them arrogant,
and lifting their heads high, they smile
scornfully upon those whose industry and
good nature they have turned to such good
account.
They are enraged at seeing the limits of
their dominion so materially lessened.—
The loss of each State that has asserted its
sovereignty is the loss cf so much money.
Every Southerner stands iu their eyes for
so many dollars. Excellent accountants,
they have calculated the loss their pock
ets have suffered, and the total has terri
fied and infuriated them. Having made
a prey so long of the open handed mer
chantman and planter, they had persua
ded themselves that they would continue
to do so until the end of time. The politi
cal action of South Carolina did not cre
ate serious alarm. They professed that
they were prepared for it, hut that step
was the inauguration of a movement that
would shake the government to its centre,
they laughed at as the dream of au enthu
siast.
Forced at last to admit the tact of the
formation of new government, and to feel
its power, they w r ere filled with amaze
ment, chagrin and wrath. The sense of
the loss they had sustained was realized
at once. That their judgment has been
at fault, that their pride has been humbled,
their arrogance rebuked, their national
glory been diminished, has not operated
with nearly so much potency as the
ruthless blow inflicted on their avarice.—
All the other evils combined would not
have so wrought upon their anger as this
cue alone. It is this that has driven them
mad. Contemplating the ruin that stares
them in the face, seeing themselves shorn
of their glory, they gnash ther teeth and
foam in their rage at the authors of this
direiul mischief.
So long as these worshipers of mammon
could cherish the hope that the integrity
of the Uuiou was only slightly disturbed,
that the feeling under which the seceded
States had acted woulS soon exhaust itself
and come to nothing, the Northern cities
were filled with friends of the South.—
Strong voices were lifted iu justification
of the manful course wo had pursued.—
Distinguished names protested against the
egregious folly and bloody tyranny of
coercion. AVe were told that large and
organized bodies stood ready to oppose
the march of invading bodies from New
York.
But when forced to believe that the
South is in earnest, that the States have
gone to take their places as a nation among
the nations, when all their arts have fail
ed, and all their aims have been frustra
ted, then we look again for our magnani
mous friends. We hear nothing but threats
and curses. Every brow is black with
wrath, hate lages in every heart. Those
who, for the love they bore us, fought for
us with tongue and pen, now urge on the
multitude to the bloody conflict, and poiut
their naked swords at our bosoms.
[ Charleston Courier.
The Transparent Lie.
The flimsy cloak under which the Nor
thern press and people attempt to veil the
iniquitous war which has been proclaimed
against us, deceives nobody, not even the
most credulous in their own section. To
say that this war of extermination and
subjugation of the South, is to protect the
late National Flag, the Stars and Stripes,
is a miserable hypocrisy, which will be
thrown aside as too bald and contemptible
to impose on anybody. How do they pro
pose to fight for tlie flag! The black
hearted New York Tribune answers be
holding out to the mercenaries of the
North °the hope of dividing among them
the lands of the South. Is it fighting tor
a common flag to engage deliberately in a
war, the end and object of which is to sub
jugate an unwilling people to the power
and dominion of a hated and hostile gov
ernment ? Is it a love for the South, as a
part of a common country, which induces
them to revel in tlieir beastly imaginations,
over pictures of servile insurrection, ra
pine and ravishment of Southern homes ?
What is it that stimulates them to the work
of blood and desolation ? Is it to restore
the principles for which the American rev
olution was fought ? especially the great
principle of this right qf self government ?
Have they not utterly abandoned the doc
trine of Republican liberty—that every
fiee people have, by nature, the right to
govern themselves? All this bombast and
Buncombe about “the flag °f oul ’ country ’
is the merest clap trap, to stimulate au ig
norant and deluded people to take U P the
unholy weapons of civil war. 1 he real
cause of the preseut fury ot the North is,
the impending ruin of their commerce and
manufactures. In the loss of the South,
they see the band-writing on the waii,
which pronounces, with unerring truth,
the downfall of its greatness and glory.
The picture which the bistoriau Macaulay,
drew of a traveler in after ages sitting up
on a broken arch of London Bridge aud
surveying the deserted ruins of what was
once the mighty and wealthy city of Lon
don, bids fair to he realized on this conti
nent as to the commercial cities of the
North. As tlie change in the currents of
trade aud travel depopulated *he city of
Palmyra, the proud Queen of tlie East, and
gave up its palaces to the wild dogs and
hooting owls, so the mighty revolution of
the South will turn away from tlie Noitli-
ern seaports the rich curreuts of trade
which have built them up and reduce New
York aud Boston to the condition ot desert
ed fishing towns. It is the prospective
loss of wealth and greatness which has
driven these yankees crazy with rage and
drunk with hatred. It is therefore, a war,
not of principle, as they falsely pretend,
hut a war waged purely for the most sel
fish motives which ever took possession ot
a people. It is not within the recorded
annals of the world that any war waged
on such low and mercenary grounds ever
commanded the sympathy of mankind.—
The mask of flimsy pretence, of love of
country and patriotism will he torn oft by
an indignant world, and the universal
speculating and self seeking yankec na
tion will stand exposed before the nations
as being as selfish and mercenary iu its
wars as it is in its diplomacy and its peace
ful relations with the world.
No longer able to appropriate Southern
labor by its arts and diplomacy, it seeks to
hold it by force. Pure, unadulterated
yankee selfishness is the motive which
now prompts the North. Its talk about
patriotism and the flag of our country, is
as miserable a specimen of yankee pinch
beck jewelry as was ever manufactured in
that nation of humbugs.
[ Richmond Enquirer.
Unused to Arms.—The Philadelphia
North American laments the fact that so
few of the Northern people are acquainted
with the use of arms. Not one in a tbou
sand of the filthy multitude who are
shrieking for war in New York has ever
seen a gun, except iu a shop window.
A Hobte StRlimeil.
An Octogeuarian, the venerable Dr. Ar
chibald Campbell, of Nottoway county,
mortified by the delay in the aetion of
Virginia, on hearing of the glorious bom
bardment of Fort Sumter and some expres
sion of regret at the expected loss of life,
lifted himself up on his conch of disease
aud his eloquent eye flashing with youth
ful fire, exclaimed ; “I had rather be a
dead South Carolinian than a lire Virgin
ian /” The noble old patriot had note
rather be a live Virginian than a sceptred
king! A nation has been horn in a day,
and that nation is bristling with arms!
Childhood and old age vie with powerful
manhood in the generous rivalry of burn
ing eagerness to do, and dare and die, if
need lie, for the soil and the homes, the
honor and independence of Virginia! Thir
ty thousand volunteers were called for, and
three times the number have already ap
peared! Can such a people be conquered?
Never ! Never! The spirit of the fathers
still breathes and burns in their sons!
Aud the Revolution of '61 will be even
more triumphant and glorious than that
of '76, which threw off the less degrading
tyrauny of the British crown !
Who Ought to Fight ?—Speaking of
the noble sons of the South, who are now
rallying en masse to tlie call of tlieir coun
try, the New York Journal of Commerce
says :
“When meu of high social and official
position, and unaccustomed to hardship,
volunteer to toil with the shovel, and haul
ponderous machines of warfare, nothing but
au overwhelming force can crush them.
The spirit that pervades all classes alike,
must render them invincible while breath
and life remain. They are no hired mer
cenaries who make wafare a trade—who
offer their lives as ‘food for powder.' They
are worthy of more noble foemcn than
many of the employed troops that have
been sent against them. If ‘a life for a
life is to be giveu, let the vaunting editors
of the North, the Sharpe’s rifle preachers,
and the whole horde of abolition fanatics,
who are so clamorous for wax, coercion and
‘no compromise with traitors,’ and who cry
‘hang the rebels!’ volunteer to march
agaiust them, and they will not have occa
sion to complain of the reception they will
meet with. Those who have raised the
war should do the fighting.”
& Beautiful rieture.
The man who stands upon his own soil
—who feels that by the Jaws of the land
in which lie lives—by the laws of civilized
nations—be is the rightful and exclusive
owner of the land which he tills, is by the
construction of our nature under a whole
some influence not easily imbibed from any
other source. He feels, other things being
equal, more strongly than another, the char
acter of a inau who is the Lord of an inani
mate world. Of this great and wonderful
sphere, which fashioned by the hand of
God, and upheld by his power, is rolling
through the heavens, a part of his—his
from the centre to sky. It is the space on
which the generation before him moved on
its round of duties, aud lie feels himself
connected by a visible link with those who
follow him, and to whom he is to transmit
a home. Perhaps his farm has cotne down
to him from his fathers.
They have gone to tlieir last home; hut lie
can trace tlieir last footsteps over the scenes
of liis daily labors; the roof which shelters
him was reared by those to whom lie owes
his being. Some interesting domestic tra*
dition i3 connected with every inclosure.—
The favorite fruit tree was planted by his
father’s hands. He sported in boyhood be
side the brook which still winds its way
through the meadows. Thro’the fields lies
the path to the village school of early days.
He still hears from his window the voice of
the Sabbath bell which called his fathers
to the house of God ; near at hand is the
spot where his parents laid down to rest,
and where, when his time has come, he
shall be laid by his children. These are
the feelings of the owners of the soil.—
Words cannot paint them: gold cannot
buy them ; they flow out as the deepest
fountains of the heart; they are the life
springs of a fresh, healthy, and generous
character.—Edward Eeerctt.
llcultli.
Health, like virtue, seems more easy to
admire than to achieve. Is it not, indeed
the virtue of the body, and only to be at
tained in compliance with a system of rig
id rules, and a life of scrupulous exactitude?
No. Its preservation involves no such
sacrifice, cannot he purchased, indeed, at
any such price. Health is no more a thing
of rules and systems than life is, or joy ;
or that highest thing which exists on earth,
the goodness of a true Christian man, flow
ing warm from his heart, effortless and un
conscious. No man is truly happy who is
thinking of his happiuess; so no man is
truly healthy who is thinking about his
health. Happiness, goodness, health, ali
are of one kin; all consist in the full outpour
ing and interflowing of our life with that
which is around ns. One word might also
define them all, and that word is—sympa
thy. A man is happy when his heart
bounds to another’s joy, or thrills with pity
for sorrows which his hand relieves, or his
affection heals, lie is good when his soul
lies open to his Maker, and his desires find
their fulfillment in the eternal Will. lie
is healthy when his body is in liarmouy
with the ceaseless activities of Nature;
when his blood is warm with the soft kiss
of air, his muscles vigorous with hearty
toil, his brain fertile iu wise and earn
est thoughts, liis heart glowing with gene
rous purposes. When a man lives must
out of himself, then does lie must truly live.
Health is a thing of freedom ; it exists in
ceaseless adaption to all the infinite vari
ety of nature—ever the same, yet ever
new. This is in a great part, the secret of
its pleasantness. Health knows no mo
notony. The ever varying influences of
the boundless world enter into it, and
mould in to tlieir sway. The invisible
forces which regulate the grand rhythm
of (lie universal order, sweep through it,
and draw forth each its own melolody.—
The living body should thrill with every
thrill of the wide earth, as the aspen leaf
trembles iu the tremulous air. Its perfect
ness lies in its continual change.
f Conkill Magazine of March.
What a glorious troop might he formed
of those men who have won tlieir laurels
in the campaign of life; fighting not
against sword and bayonet, hut againat
hardship and circumstances, natural de
fects, and the ridicule or opposition of
their fellow men. Nor lias the fight beeu
against a visible or tangible foe aloue ;
these men have had themselves to conquer;
tlieir ignorance or indolence; their natural
leaning to evil, the bad habits of early
days, or even tlieir poverty, and the low
ness of their social station.
A physician in Wisconsin being dis
turbed one night by a burglar, and having
no ball or shot for his pistol, noiselessly
loaded the weapon with dry hard pills,
and gave tho intruder a ‘‘prescription”
which he thinks will go far towards coring
the rascal of a very bad ailment.
i GIliM #f tulilgUl it K HlW ll.
The Washington correspondent of tho
New York Times gives the following
sketch of Washington, as it looks under
the war aspect. This letter is dated Sat
urday last, the 20tb:
It needs password and contersign new
to cross its poreh, and to gain admittance.
I must have safe passage from au ‘‘officer
of the day,” aud give proper token of my
loyalty to a sentinel marching to and fro
with a bronzed face, that betokens service
and the resolution which grows out ol ser
vice—hacked by a fixed bayonet on a mus
ket that looks as though, it occasion re
quired, it could throw bullets with a pene
trating force that might leave an unsightly
orifice, through which the breath of life
would be diverted to the great detriment
ot the human system. Thauking fortune
that I have successfully run the gauntlet
of the gentleman with the unsightly combi
nation of steel, powder and lead, let me
jot down some of the strange scenes by
which 1 found myself surrounded.
Iu the House wing of the capitol I found
the quarters of the Pennsylvania regiments
—the first command to reach Washington
in response to the call of the government.
The troops were billetted through the
various retiring rooms and offices of the
House—the Representative Hall being re
served for the Seventh regiment. Armed
men and tlie rude implements of carnage
massed in these marble corridors and gor
geous rooms, awaken me to a deep sense
of the power and the abandon of military
rule. I realize the desolation now which
war brings in its train. On the luxurious
damask and brocatel covered sofas lay
stretched incu who probably never before
reposed in such magnificence. Over the
tapestrial carpet of the floor are strewn iu
profusion and disorder, the suddenly ac
cumulated stores of the commissary's <lc
partmeut—here a slab of bacou, theie a
quarter of beef, or a saddle ol mutton, or a
Virginia ham—a sea biscuit, tin clrinkin
cups, papers of pepper, hags of salt and
cans of vinegar tilling up the inter
vises, and rounding up the pyramid.—
Upon the rich and costly ornaments—upon
the gas chandeliers, aud upon the gilt
brackets that bold hack the silk and lace
curtains, were fastooned knapsack aud
belt, cartridge-box and bayonet-scabbard
—the smaller implements and surroundings
of a soldier.
In the halls and corridors the ineu were
being drilled aud taught the expertness of
carnage. In broad contrast to the dark
and polished Tennessee marble waiuscoat-
iug, arc the blue uniforms and rough bear
ing of the men Upon the rich eucaustic
tilings falls with a dull, heavy sound th
iron shod butts of musket and rifle, The
arched and frescoed ceiling echoes and re
echoes the ringing clatter of tho ramrod,
as the recruits perfect themselves iu the
manual of loading their pieces.
In the Senate Chamber are quartered
the Massachusetts regiments. Upon the
cushioned sofas of the galleries of the Sen
ate Chamber the meu found excellent
couches. When I visited them this morn
ing they had concluded breakfast, and the
guard for the day being detailed, the re
mainder of the command were at their
ease. In the Vice President’s chair sat
Col. Jones, the commandant of the force
—a frank, free hearted, soldierly looking
man. The clerk’s desk was occupied by
the adjutant aud his assistants, engaged
in making up the muster-roll, returns and
requisitions incident to active service.—
The privates were engaged at the (Senator’s
desks writing letters.
All the statuary iu the halls of the Cap
itol, and in the old retunda, has been box
ed, to preserve it from injury through
carelessness. The pictures in the panels
have also been faced over with heavy
planking, which secures them from harm.
The porticos of the Capitol building are
barricaded to the height of about eight
feet. The iron plates for the new dome
are used for the breastworks between the
marble columns. Behind these are placed
barrels of cement, piles of stone and tim
ber, forming an impenetrable harrier, in
the rear of which the troops could take
shelter in case of au attack. It seemed a
strange contradiction to see the workmen
agaged in the construction of the portico,
going on with their labor of laying the
foundations,amid thousands of armed men ;
the click of the chisel, the stroke of the
hammer, and the ring of the trowel, blend
ing with a word of command, the challenge
of the guard, and the tramp of the battal-
liotis drilling in the coriidors. So reluc
tant is civilization to recede before the ad
vancing desolation of war, that the arlisau
lingers to enrich with his skill the parapet
and dome that the morrow may see level
led to their foundations. Within musket
range of the outposts of tho troops are
even now a score of men chiselling iu mar
ble the flowers and clusters of grape and
ivy wreaths, with which the finished por
tions of the Capitol are so profusely deco
rated.
A South Carolinian in Philadelphia.
W. 0. luglis, Esq., of Clieraw, wdio was
in 1‘hiladelphiu recently, for the purpose
of having au operation performed on the
eyes of ouo his children, narrowly escaped
wi th h is life. The Cheiaw Gazette speaks
as follows of the affair :
“While the city was in the hands of au
unprincipled mob, a newspaper, claiming
respectability announced to the mob that
the clerk of the South Carolina Secession
Convention, aud tho mover of the Scces
sion Ordinance iu that Convention, was at
a relative’s house, iu the Tenth Ward.—
The mob needed no better incentive to
violence than this, and but for the iutcr-
ventiuu ol the Mayor aud his police, aud
personal frieuds, not tho mover of the Se
cession Ordinance, hut a relative of his,
would have fallen a sacrifice to mob vio
lence. Warned by the Mayor of his dan
ger, W. Cooper Inglis, the sou of the mov
er of tlie Secession Ordinance, left Pliila
dolphin with a friend, by stealth, for New
York, where they registered with fictitious
uanic. But next morning they were spot
ted by the New York Tribune, aud were
only saved from violence by the interven
tion of friends aud the police, who warned
them to flee also from that city. Such are
the scenes daily euacted in these civilized
aud christianized Union-loving cities.”
Combativene**.
Men and animals are born with a pro
pensity to fight. Is there, in the whole
range of the animal creation, one animal
that docs not fight, if it lias sense eiiongh
and powers of locomotion 1 Oysters can
not fight. If tlieir organ of combative
ness is not wanting they have no use for
it. Lobsters fight. Bo do many other
kinds of fish.
Bees fight savagely, both in swarms aud
singly. Two bees having a qnarrel, go
out, armed with tlieir deadly stiugs, more
formidable than ten inch bowie-knives—
go out of their hive and fight a duel.—
Ants fight with great ferocity. Amies of
sn‘8 meet other armies -in deadly battle,
aud cover the field with killed and wound
ed. They also fight dnels. This is the
ease with many other insects. Spiders tot
only fight bnt eat onw another up like hu
man cannibals. From the elephant to the
boot*, the quadrupeds fight .; even the'
gentlest, under snfficieut provocation. We**
believe the whole moukey tribe, as it ap
proaches hnmanity.increases iu pugnacity.
As to man—-do we not know that his
whole history is a history of war ? In the
savage state, tribes are in a continual war
fare. In barbarous nations, these fierce
contests are prosecuted ou larger scale.—
How seldom were the tribes of Greece at
peace ! How seldom closed the doors of
the Temble ol Janus in ancient Rome !—
Read the history of modern nations—of
France or Great Britain, for example—
and how frequent are the wars, bow brief
are the intervals of peace !
The same spirit that has led men in all
ages to engage in war, drives them into in
dividual contests. After thousands of
years of civilizing influences, of education,
pleaching, and the arts and the advanta
ges of peace, we find even as ready as
ever to fight. Whole nations are interest
ed in the contests of two prize fighters.
There are quakers and men of peace
from principle ; and there are cowards and
men of peace from constitution , but these
are exceptional characters. Humauity,
like animality in general, is bcligercut.
It loves a row. It finds the highest ex
citement aud the keenest pleasure iu
a combat. An officer once confessed
to ns that he never had kuown an hour
of such keen delight as ir. the heat of a
sanguinary battle. It is human nature—
its lower side, if you please, but the side
that has always been most active, ami
which is likely to he for ages to come.
£fftt%rn gtciirttr.
Lincoln’s Rugged Regiment.
The Philadelphia North American and
Gazette of the 24tb, the leading Republi
can journal of Philadelphia, describes our
coming assailants:
Lincoln's Ragged Regiment.— It is great
ly to be feared that the raw troops we are
hurrying forward to the seat of war are
not likely, Irom the condition they are in,
to reflect much credit upon their State or
prove very servicable as soldiers. At Camp
Curtin nea - Harrisburg, we are told by a
gentleman who has just returned from
there, all is disorganization, aud (lie gath
ering has more the appearance of a mob
than an army. If the country companies
and regiments which have passed through
Philadelphia may serve as fair specimens,
we should judge this report to be true.—
After midnight on Monday they fired off
guns as they marched through the streets
of our city.
Wc saw several companies. They had
arrived in the city during the night, and
had nothing to eat since Tearing Harris
burg. When we saw them they were dis
contented, insubordinate, and swearing at
the city, their officers and everything else.
They had each man a loaf of bread stuck
on his bayonet, that being the only way
they could cary their next meal, as they
had no knapsacks. A blanket was slash
ed around the body, and some had what
seemed likea satchel hung at theside which
we took to he either a pouch for catridges
or a place to put a ration of meat. Others
had no cartridge pouch at all, and ou be
ing asked pulled out their cartridges out of
their pockets, which seemed to he stuffed
full ol them. One man told us that he
had been furnished with no rations since
lie left his home in Huntingdon.
A number of companies from Schuylkill
looked as though taken fresh from the
mines, hands and faces being black with
coal dust. Indeed, all of them might be
regarded fairly as the great unwashed,
whether coming from Sehuykill or any
where else. As for uniform, we did not
see the slightest pretence at it among any
of these men. One German company had
not even arms. Several companies had no
drummers, and there was one regiment so
completely disorganized that the men
could] not tell the namejif any of their of
ficers except ilie Colonel. Inquires lor
the quarter master seemed to he fruitless, as
there appeared to be none, and yet there
were over six hundred men in this regi
ment, commanded, too, by a member of the
Legislature.
Give iis our Dues.
The Columbus Enquirer, of Saturday,
quotes from the “Southern Recorder” List
of the 50 companies of Georgia already
mustered into service, by Gov. Brown, of
which four only are set down from Macou.
How this is shearing us of one third of our
honors, at least, say nothing ol the addi
tions now making in this city to the num
ber of companies in active service. Tlie
following is the Muster Roll of Volunteers,
by companies, hailing from Macon, which
the Enquirer, Recorder, See., will please
copy, for the sake of truth of history.
Jackson Artillery, Capt. Parker, (now
at home on furlough awaiting orders.)
Browns’ Infantry, Gapt. Geo. A. Smith.
Pensacola.
Independent Volunteers, Gapt. J. W.
Aderliold. Pensacola.
Macon Guards, Gapt. L. Lamar, Tybee
Island.
Macou Volunteers, Capt. R. A. Smith,
Norfolk, Va.
Floyd Rifles, Capt. Thomas Hardeman
Norfolk, Va.
To these add the Sparks Guards, Gapt.
Cummiug, and the Central Blusc, Captain
Rogers, and the Bibb Cavalry, Captain
Napier—all of which companies are ready,
or nearly so, for service, besides the home
organizations, (each about half full) of the
Rifles and Volunteers, aud it will he seen
that Macon can Muster for the present war,
not less than a Regiment of volunteers!
One thousand troops from a town of 10,000
inhabitants, or one tenth of the whole ! If
this has been hetiten, by any other village
of the same population, iu auy of the Con
federate States, we shall he glad to make
record of the fact, hut until it is proven
otherwise, we claim for Macon the proud
distinction of being the Banner City of
this Southern Republic, in regard to the
number already iu the field and ready to
go, at a moment’s warning.
f Daily Georgia Citizen 6th.
The State of Texas contaius a larger
arcaoflaud than tho whole of tho new Eng
land States, New York and Pennsylvania
combined' It is increasing rapidly in pop
ulation, by an imigration of the most desir
able character and is gradually developing
the elements of an almost unequalled na*
national wealth. Its cotton is of the finest
quality, aud the lands within its borders
adapted to its culture capable of yielding
more than the entire preseut crop of the
whole country. Tobacco, sugar lumber,
aud all cereals aro raised in abundance,
aud from the success which lias attended
tlie large experiments in sheep raising,
the day is evidently not far distant when
sufficient wool will he raised iu the State
to supply the wants of the continent.
There are in this city, says the Sche
nectady Star, a very estimable married
couple, who have had eleven children, six
of whom were born blind ; the youngest is
blind, and only a few weeks old. When
of sufficient age they are sent to tho Asy
lum for the Blind, in New York. They
are said to be possessed of fine talents.
We understand tbat their parents are
cousins. There is no defect iu the eyes of
either parents.
lillari PilhMR ttd Ibr f«s&
History furnishes, says tbe Savannah
Republican no more striking illustration of
tbe mutability of human opinion—tbe oid
Latin proverb, tempera mat ant nr, Ac.—
than the course ot oox quondam good friend,
ex-President Fillmore. He is now clam
oringfor “tbe Constitution, the Uuiou, the
Enforcement of the laws,” and the snbju
gation of tbe South to a government which
they reject aud abhor.
It was not always so with Mr. Fillmore.
The time was, and of every recent date,
when he foretold the causes of our present
troubles, and maintained the South would i
be right iu doing just what she has done.
We quote irom bis patriotic speech made
at Albany. N. Y., in July, 1856 : iMILLEDGEV I £T^
We see a political party presenting candidates
for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, selected
for the first lime fiorn the free States alone, with
the avowed purpose of electing these candidates
by sufferages of one part of the Union only, to rule
over the whole United States. Can it be possible
tbat those who are engaged in such a measure can
have seriously reflected upon the consequences
which must inevitably follow in c.use cf success ?
TUESDAY, MAY 14, i 86l
INFLUENCE OF sLAVERy
A previous article on this subject did
sent all the views we desired to lay'*
readers, as 1 (earing on the peculiar relat; * "
have brought upon the people oi th
which must inevitably follow i„ cue cf success f have brought upon the people oi 1 ‘T thi
Can they hare, the madness or the folly to believe that i 1 ' r “ e ?x<Utht
our Southern brethren would submit lobe governed by ^ ostl e proceedings now waged against fl**
such a Chief magistratef " * • * the anti-slavery hordes of the North \\ ,'
Suppose that the south, having a majority of the j maintained, and still maintain, that a
electoral votes, should declare that they would on- i* ts at the bottom of domestic slavery i n 1
ly have slaveholders for President and Vice-Presi- era States which, iu its moral Pcd nr *
dent, and should elect such by their exclusive sut- fonncd a distiuet „ f d £ *
tinges to rule over us at tlie North. Do you think . n a ACler n
we would submit to it / .Vo. not for a moment.— togeiher superior to that which could p.,,< i
And do you believe you Southern brethren are less found iu non-slaveholding communities v '
sensitive on this subject than you are, or are less more is necessary to prove >hw , . ‘ wk -
jealous ot their rights ! If you do, let me tell you , *i.« *. ,, , • ■« it.on th* t .
that you are mistaken. And, therefore you must , _ , he demonstration fofl vv
see tbat if this sectional party oueceds, it leads ine
vitably to the destruction of this beautiful fabric
reared by our forefathers, cemented by their blood,
and bequeathed to us as a priceless iinheritauce ’’
To begin with society at theXort
Wonderful Galculaliiin.
A writer thus undertakes to convey some
idea of the greatness ot the population of
China :
“ The mind can not grasp the reaTini
port of so vast a number. Four hundred
millions ! "What does it mean ? Count it.
. . 6*. as we lw,
witnessed it, and know its influence on char-
Every mind that has not been stifled bv pr ,: ; "'
or by contracted ideas, or by perverted .
will at once apprehend the instincts and |fcf I
es to which we refer as imparting elcvafl,/
Southern men This being so, it w no virf,*
unnatural conclusion, tbat where opposite j,J
cnees exist there will bo a reverse of ehara'-.-
a dogged selfishness t<> protit by the labor ot
who from morn till night scree us Lift lings, fed
v . , , , . , , , hirelings, are humbled in their souls as b; r ' .
Night aud day, Without rest, or food, or and who are forsaken as hireling whet, (1 |
sleep, you cmitiuue the weary work ; yet comes up .m them, with no rr.oure- but th
eleven days lias passed before you couuted which ha, boon paid, and no hop.- beyond '
the first million, and more than as many tor, food aud raiment which that penny
years before the end ol the tedious task : cold of strength, can obtain.' ’nt
cau be reached. j no bond of sympathy, no mutual interest, actm
He also supposes this mighty multitude th ? employer aud the hireling. As imr* rntif
to take up its line of march, in a grand j machines they bargain with each other
procession, placed in a single file at six feet ; machines they reckon iu settlement, as Va* '
apart, and marching at the rate of thirty |they pait without feeling and have ao '
miles per day, except on tho Sabbath, thought of each other until some piecerf*
which is given to rest. shafl revive their acquaintance in the sameV^
“ Day after day tbe moving column ad- | less relation- A day’s sickness abates the C
vances, the head pushing on far toward the jand stiuts the table: a week of afflictionU«, '
rising sun, now bridges the Pacific, now j strong man, and a mouth's absence from hislat-
bridges the Atlantic. And now the Pa-J whether caused by his own ilim S s or til ”
cilic is crossed, hut still the long procession family, threatens him with famine, and heb t
marches ou stretching across high motin- | degraded from w hat little of manhood lbs ^
tains, and sunny plains, aud broad rivers, • employments permitted hint to retain.
through China and ludia, and the Europe- j •
, .O . . / BMcn IS Old} a gtance at the dark pictuic
an kingdoms, and on again over the stor- i . - .. . .... , „ j
, ° , , . . 5 ,, . . . , Khilc slavery in the North. What shall we wi f
txr Imuritn rvf t!m A iiautli* Knf flia /Mrniiif . * I
white men as bootblacks ’ After they have poit i
my bosom ol the Atlantic. But the circuit
of the world itself affords not standing
room. The endless column will double
upon itself, again and again, and shall gir
dle the earth eighteen times before the
great reservoir which furnishes these num
berless multitude is exhausted. Weeks,
mouths, and years roll away, aud still they
come, men, women, and children. Since
the march began the little child lias he
ed yanr boots at tbe Hotel, they cringe with
quious entreaty for a dime, and then hrndir
your coat, go through the same reverence hi,
] like donation. We neves beheld a spectacle lit
this (and we have se* n many of the kind) wit's
feeling unhappy. A conviction that the
ot Ptovidence had been thwarted or abused, a..-
the service of white men iu such menial cap*. -
disagreeable to us, anu we claimed as little of the ■
come a man, aud yet on they come, in un
failing numbers. Not till tlie cud of forty- : * tt ™“ on * Up ^? iblc 1 '. in ® r4er t0 , rrli ’‘ ve oar5 ’
one years will the last of tbe long proces
sion have passed.”
Such is China in its population ; and if
Homer could preach eloquently on the
from the painful sight. It is an honor to the If
can slave to black boots, aud to brush the coat
his master, or of auy other respectable white ait
because the African was made inferior, for
j such work, and h*- is happy in proportion as .a
vamtv of man as a mortal, with equal elo- , . ..
- iii . i . i .i I ot bis superior stimulates him out of *
quence, had he seen or contemplated the i . . , f , ,
*c oi - iiii i j 1 constitutional indolence and sensaalirv. I
millions ot China, coulu he have preached > , . , , -
., -. r ■ j■ , , , mack man is worthless except in slavery, wi-
on the vanity ol mau as an individual ! .. *, I
* wlnte man never attains to the stature oi hm* r
while acting as a substitute for the black mm. 1
feeling of repugnance teaches him the error oiks
position, if he have true sensibility; and if thhV
Tbe Camel in Texas.
The power of endurance of the camels
introduced into T. exas was very severely j wanting, it makes but little difference whetherh-
tested during the past summer, by Capt. i employment be one thing or the other, as his Ur
in. H.Echels, of the lypograpliical En- \ piness will be the same. We suppose there ir
giueers, who started with them tbe latter ; cases of this description; but for the creditor*
part of June, to make a reconnoisance in j race we are persuaded of their rarity. Itisov-
North-westem lexas. The country tbro . possible, however, lor a white man, origina'ijv
wlncb they bad to travel was exceedingly |ceptive of generous impressions, andcapa>!-
rougb, locky and billy, and destitute of j nian ]y development, to Isse all these tendencies.
water fut Jong distances. I he grass was ! stooping to Sorthem bondage, such as auivens.
all dried lip, so that there was no forage j prevails there, and resulting in aii-'tocratin"- po»-
for the animals. All the water for the j the klrers ^ m socijll iulcliofitv Ul tfae
party, both men and beasts, had to be Xhetw0 wtreuies ^ as distinct.and.
carried on the backs of the camels and
mules. Some of the hills traversed were
so steep that the camels were obliged to re
sort to their feat of walking on their knees,
to prevent tlieir loads from failing.
No water was met with after leaving the
river Pecos, a brackish stream, on the 29th [ed out wpCftn have uo ^
June, until the 4th of July, after a journey tllw the L)fcbe8t type ot hummntv.w
of 137 tntles through the barren and dtfli- 0 , , .. ,.
. . ° , .. . a GtNTLEM.\> boru to a heritage moro mtwe
cult country above described. Uwtng to , . r t> .. . . ,
, . J ,. , P ... i.i ° I letters-patent from Kovaitv canbestow.amlBia'
the supply ot water railing short, the cam-; ..... . ‘ ...... .
. .. f r , ° . ,, , . i entitled to resix?ct than > lttli Avenue erinas*
els did not have a drop to taste in ali this , .... . e
, . . , * • , | have acquired then' ranK- manv of them, »'
lime—duriu'r six tlavs : the mules were ...
rigidly enforced in the Northern States, as tie
| are in England between the nobles and peasant?
| But we will refrain from pressing this vie* a;
I farther, thongb the topic affords a bountiiui hr
j vest of speculation. As society is constitute:-
the North, mainly by tbe influences wc have poi-
from people who ne?
patent nostrums, iu ukc
tune—during six days ; the mules were , . ... , , . ., c „.,
. ° .. , . / t i ii venting quack medicines, and deluging the Tim-J
allowed none alter 1st ol July; and the . , ‘ .
, ... J . i with a flood ot certificate!
men composing the expedition were put on ; exi t . d t0 ^ t(j ,:
short allowance, and on the morning of! , ' ’ ,, “ . , ....
. . , | . . they too well succeeded. Otner gentry of u*
the last dav there were but two swallows ■ . ... . , , ? '
, . ,, a- , . I Avcuhv obtained promotion by the legitimate
ot water for each man. All suffered terri- ; ..
,. ... . m ,i tot commerce, others bv fne tricks oi tie stoc>»
hie from thirst. 1 lie strength ot both men , , * ,
, , , | cuauge, and some bv means which must ever
broods were abandon- 1 . i
, main a mystery. Boston and Philadel phis U'
not carry 1
and animals failed,
ed because the animals could
them, aud some of the mules broke down
eutirely and were left in tbe rear,While
several of the men were sick, and declared
they must give up before they reached tbe
stream which saved the whole party from i
the horrible fate which stared them in the
face. Being warned of the consequences,
however, the latter persevered.
main a mystery,
tlieir nobles ou the same plan,all flouri>iiiujoB»
muscle of the white laborers, from the maufi
turer of a sewing machine, to the lanD'.-hiug oi'-
ocean steamer, or to the building of a Kaiiro*
In all tbe departments oi mechanism at the
wliite labor is the ruling eb-ment; fur whi.
constructed the machine to do tbe work of fe
hands, it only adds to 'ire enormous gains® 1 -
! employer, without at all diminishing its own t-
The animals would go to the water casks, 0f incr , asing its r , , vard . Capital ami la
draw out the bungs with their teeth, and ve absolnte relatioi)s * the Sorth-tUc one a‘"I
gnaw at the bung holes- The mercury and the othcr a flaK withollt jmparU! ,g *
stood at fOO deg in the shade. 1 he last i (her coua , ptlou abeve th,- kvel of brick-
day but one of the camels bellowed fontin-! mortar aud ambltious ,, l(lipages in tlwOnt
ualiy, owing probably to their suffering
from thirst. Still, they bore tbe hardships
and fatigue of the terrible march well. Ou
the day tbat water was discovered, the
camels manifested a knowledge of the near
ness of water ten miles before they reach
ed it, by increasing their speed so that
they had to be held hack. The water
reached was the head ol San Francisco
creek, at Camel’s Hump mountain. The
next day camel s were sent back with
water for the abandoned mules. One of
the mules iu camp died, and the rest look
ed badly. Several of the inen were sick.
It appears, then, that the camels have
fully vindicated their reputation for endu
rance aud usefulness in their new home.
The mules, also, held out remarkably
well, hut water was dealt out to them two
days after the camels got their last drink
at Pecos.
Honey for the Mivy.
We are authorized by a patriotic gen
tleman of intelligence and bigli standing,
ot Thomas county, to say that he will he
one of one thonsaud citizens in the Con
federate States to givo SI000 for the build
ing of a navy for immediate aervice. Tbe
suggestion has been made that subscrip
tion lists be opened iu the various news
paper offices throughout tbe South for. this
purpose, in order to afford opportunity to
nil who desire to subscribe monejr for the
immediate construction of ships of war to
protect our commerce aud drive the Abo
lition fleets from tbe blockade ef our bar-
bun.— |F»e Gras* Repos Ur.
Park. These fora the horizon of Northem W 1 *
tv I—the ultimate grandeur oi all human
enee, and tie- perfection ot ali faculties and J 01
fortune.
Tlie Southern man is limited by no such id’ 1 '
and his nature is .satisfied with no such nia*-*
objects. His aspiration.-; are higher. Be
not for himself, inn for his race. He is uar!'-
amid influences which uwensibiy form a libew *•
cympathisiug character. His orders ate ohc.
with prompt and implicit obedience. Como
of the power which ho possesses, his tone of
maud, while authoritative, is yet mercitul t0 "*
uis slaves. They understand his feelings-
they strive to please him. while at the sane -
they are assisted by his firm will, which h-e? -
infused into their own to a degree which eJ>|
them to labor cheerfully aud dis, recti;. T- 1 .
so know that tlieir owners, or those w bo re l' r ^
them iu the field, are good judges ot
much ought to be done in ag:ven time, -t- 1 '
what skill- They have been accustomed o 1
diligently, and it any tiiu^ they &Lou.* ^
short, a very good reason must be
suitable punishment will follow. So mm
sphere of the slave.
While it is evident, from the nature vi ^
that as authority gives elevation to
must the habit of prescribing rules to
conduct of others, awaken reflecUon and i P
the judgment Enterprise and iar reaching
m thus fostered in all those pursuits w ^
•lave labor i* adapted, whether ou a +
Tn»li scale. There are planters in the feou ^
own a thousand slaves or more; and ^
three hundred » quite common.
Ja the hands of meu
