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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