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NUMBER 22
VOLUME XLII.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1861.
n m-ORME&son,
'"editors and proprietors
STEPHEN F. MILLER,
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or Guardians, are required by law to be held
;Ir. first Tuesday in the month, between the hours
.t' pn in the forenoon, and three in the afternoon, at
j'„. Court house, in the county in which the proper
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of side-
Entices for the sale of personal property must he
rv a at least ten days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of au Estate must
be ’iuhlished FORTY DAYS.
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0 f Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must
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nnhlished thirty Hays—for Dismission from Admin-
urration. monthly six months—for Dismission from
Guardianship, forty days. ■ _ -
SPECIAL NOTICE!
READ.
Great Bargains
jY|Y STOCK is now received and comprises
T’ A alni '?st everything in my line. I would call
the attention of buyers to my stock of
LACE, PRISTS A\l) MANTLES,
which were bought in the Auction Room. Also my
Muslins, Organdy's, Zenobius, Silks
and Silk Grenadines.
A few pieces of BAREGE ANGLA left, at 12^
cents per yard, worth 20 cents.
Gimpun, Thread and Brussels
LACES,
At loicer figures than has ever been offered in the City.
Pant. Stuffs, — Tickings, —- Stripes.
Pleached & Unbleached Homespuns,
At the usual low prices My stock of
BOOTS &, SHOES
I will sell at old prices.
The Ladies who have charge of my IVUIiXiIiriij-
O'V nPT> » Rq„o rQ ,.„;„ 0 a
\_From the Richmond Whig.]
“Clime «r tbe Sunny Sontbern Land.”
BY MRS. D. K. WHITAKER, OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Clime of the sunny, Southern land.
Where fragrant breezes blow,
Where Nature rears, with bounteous hand,
Each flower of richest glow.
Thine are wood minstrels, blithe and gay.
Chrystal thy tingling rills,
And tall oaks, clad in long moss gray,
And flocks on verdant hills.
Thine are soft skies of deepest blue,
And stars of mellow light,
And forests grand of sombre hne,
And fruits that cheer the sight.
Thy wide fields wave with golden grain,
And teem with wealth like snow,
And rich beneath the summer rain,
The corn fields greenly grow.
Joy for thee, too, a hero race,
Unknowing fear, I see,—
Thy sons, before whose dauntless face
Tyrants shall turn and flee.
Firmly the guard the sacred trust
Their noble fathers gave,
Who slumber in the hallowed dust
That makes a solder’s grave.
Calhoun lias spoken, Sumter bledl
They know their duty well;
Can they, with memory of the dead,
In bondage basely dwell ?
’-eadful. on bintr*
a emphatic leap at every new caper she
may choose to cut. The time has passed
long since when wc indulged in such fun,
but the memory of it will go with us thro’
life and it gives us pleasure to plead for
and excuse the^little extravagances of
school girl romps. Mary E. H. M.
Physical Demonstrations ol Immorlalily.
The caterpillar, on being converted into
an inert scaly mass, does not appear to be
fitting itself for an iubabitant of tbe air,
and can have no consciousness of tbe bril
liancy of its future being. We are masters
of the earth, but perhaps we arc the slaves
of some great and unknown beings. The
fly, that we crush with our finger or feed
with our viands, has no knowledge of man,
and no consciousness of our superiority. We
suppose that we are acquainted with mat
ter and all its elements, yet we cannot
even guess at the cause of electricity, or
explain the laws of the formation of the
stones that fall from meteois. There may
be beings, thinking beings, near or sur
rounding us, which we do not perceive,
which we cannot imagine. We know very
little, bnt, in my opinion, we know enough
to hope for tbe immortality, the individual
immortality, of tbe better part of man.
Where’s the Man’s got ins Hair on.
—Our friend Grimes, a member of the bar
? n Virginia, has very little hair
; and is forced to conceal this
day be had important
from
[From the London Times, April 15.]
Hr. Bussell's First Letter te the London Times.
Washington, Wednesday, Marcb 20.
It is difficult for one who has arrived so
recently in this country, and who has been
subjected to such a variety of statements,
to come to any very definite conclusion iu
reference to tbe great question which ag
itate it. But, as far as I can, 1 shall form
my opinions from what I see, and not from
what I hear, and, as I shall proceed South
in a few day, there is a probability of nvy
being able to ascertain wbat is tbe real
state of affairs in that direction. As far
as I can judge—my conclusion, let it be
understood, being drawu from the prevail
ing opinions of others—“tbe South will
never go back into tbe Union.” On tbe
same day I heard a gentleman of position
among the Southern party say, “ No con
cession, no compromise, nothing that can
bo done or suggested, shall induce us to
join any Confederation of which the New
England States are members;” and by
another gentleman, well known as one of
tbe ablest of tbe Abolitionists, I was told, ‘If
I could bring back the Southern States by
bolding up my little finger I should consid
er it criminal to do so.” Tbe friends of
tbe Union sometimes endeavor to disguise
their sorrow and their humiliation at the
prospect presented by the great Republic,
under the garb of pride iu tbe peculiar ex
cellence of the institutions which have
permitted such a revolution as secession
without the loss of one drop of blood. But
concession averts bloodshed. If I give up
my purse to the footpad who presents a
■ -» v head, I satify his demands,
inirT miscreant if
expected in some parts of the Union.—
Nothing but some overwhelming State ne
cessity will overcome that opposition, and,
as the magnitude of such an occasion will
have to be estimated by those who are ve
hemently opposed to an extra Congress.it
is not likely that any thing can occur
which will be considered of sufficient grav
ity by the Government at Washington t*
induce them to encounter tbe difficulties
and dangers they anticipate in conseqence
of an extraordinary assemblage of both
Houses. Until next December, then, in
all probability, tbe President and his Cab
inet will have such coutrol of affairs as is
possible in tbe system of this Government,
or in tbe circumstances, together with the
far more than co-ordinate responsibility at
tached to their position as a Federal Gov
ernment. It is scarcely possible tor au
Englishman, far less for tbe native of any
State possessing a powerful Executive, to
comprehend the limits which are assigned
to the powers of tbe State in this country,
or tbe extent to which resistance to its au
thority can be carried by tbe action of tbe
States supposed to bo consenting parties
to its jurisdiction. Take, for instance,
what is occurring within a few miles of tbe
scat of the central Government, across the
Potomac. At a certain iron foundary guns
have been cast for the United State Gov
eminent, which are about to be removed
to Fort Monroe, iu the State of Virginia,
one of the fortresses for tbe defence of the
United States. The Legislature of Vir
ginia sat all night last Saturday, and au
thorized tbe Governor of that State to call
out the public guard in order to prevent
by force, if necessary, the removal of thoB«
guns, at tbe same time offering to the con-
tor the price which lie was to have re-
r <hc Federal Govern-
- writ of
very midst of the hymns which are offered
up around the shrines of the Constitution,
whether old or mended, all celebrating the
powers of the great priestess of the myste
ries, there are heretic voices to be beard,
which, in addition to other matters, deny
that the Snpreme Coart was never intend
ed by the Constitution to exercise the sole
and final right of interpreting the Consti-
tntion, that it is competent to do so, ov
that it would be safe to give it the power.
Its powers are judicial, not political, and
Mr. Calhoun on that very point said,—
“ Let it never be forgotten that if we should
absurdly attribute to the Supreme Court the ex
clusive right of construing the Constitution, there
would b<*. in fact, between the Sovereign and sab-
j ct under such u Government no Constitution, or
at least nothing deserving the name, or serving tbe
legitimate object of so sacred an instrument.”
The argument revolves in a circle; it
ends nowhere, and there seems uosolntion
except such as concession or a sword ent
may give.
There are at present in Washington two
of the three nnrec ignized Ministers Plenipo
tentiary of the Southern Government, Mr.
Roman and Mr. Crawford. Judging from
the tone of these gentlemen, all idea of re
turning to the Union, under any circum
stances whatever, has been utterly aban
doned. Mr. Forsyth, the third of the Com
missioners, who is at present engaged ir
adjusting certaiu^business of a very impor
tant character at New York, is expected
back in a few days, and it will tlieu be
seen whether the Commissioners consent to
walk up and down in the sail ties pas perdus
any longer. They are armed with full
powers on all questions which can come
>*p for settlement. IX•government has
refused to receive them, or t*»
ticial notice of them whatever, but tba»
is reason to believe that certain proposi
tions and negotiations have been laid be-
,r - Seward iu a private and unoffi-
UEVISED BY THE SOUTHERN RECORDER.
SUPERIOR COURTS.
JANUARY'.
0,1 Monday, Clialham
Hh Monday, Richmond
Lumpkiu
* Floyd
FEBRUARY.
1st Monday,Clark
2,1 Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
tPoIk
Glascock
Meriwether
Walton
4th Monday, Baldwin
J aekson
Mootoe
I’aulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
1st Thursday, Pierce
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Crawford
Gwinnett
Madison
M arion
Morgan
, Butts
Cass
Coffee
Elbeit
Fayette
Greene
Pickens
2d Monday,
JULY
1st Monday, Floyd*
4i,h Monday. Lumpkin*
AUGUST.
2.1 Monday, Campbell
Clark
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
tPolk
Glascock
Meriwether
Walton
4th Monday .Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
W alker
Thursday after,Pierce
SEPTEMBER.
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
Madison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday,Butts
Cass
Coffee
Elbert
F ay ette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
Webster
3d Monday, Cobb
Thursday afi’r. Montgomery
Calhoun
oJ Monday, Cobb
Hall
Calhoun
Hart
Hall
Heard
Hart
Macon
Heard
Newton
Macon
P'jtnam
Newton
Talbot
Putnam
\V are
Talbot
Bolloch,
Tattnall
4lh Monday, Clinch
Ware
||Chatahoocliee
End ay after,Bulloch
Emanuel
4itt Monday, Clinch
Lee
[|Chaitahaocliee
Twiggs
-JE5 ora true 1
White
Lee
Wilkes
Twiggs
Monday af- Y
White
the 4th > Echols
Wilkes
Monday J
Monday af-'),,, , ,
l«4j.Mon-;£ch°l s
OCTOBER.
j. 1 Lflinghnra
1 st& 2d Mon.Carroll
APRIL.
1st Monday Dooly
lst.V 2d Mon. Carroll
Early
Tneidsv
1st Monday, Dooly
Early
Fulton
Gordon
Pike
Rabun
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
2d Monday, Habersham
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Sc riven
Sumter
after.McIntosh
3d Monday, Franklin
Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jefferson
J ones
Liberty
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Monday ) Worth
after, p Bryan
4th Monday,Wayne
Banks
Decatur
Deli alb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Whitfield
Wilcox
Triday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after,Irwin
Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
MAY.
1 st Monday, Clayt m
Gilmer
Randolph
Upsou
-o Monday, Burke
Catoosa
Oh atham
F anuin
Mitchell
Mu sco gee
3,1 Monday, Bibb
Quitman
Spalding
Troup
Union
Baker
’th Monday, Dade
Terrell
T Towns
hastMonday, Colquitt
l ,, JUNE.
Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d\i i Milton
Monday, Brooks
tClay
Johnson
. , Monday, Thomas
11 Monday, Richmond
NUller
Striven
W RIGHT <fc RliUVViN.
Opposite the Milled "evil le Hotel.
OFFERS FOR SALE LOW
FOR CASH
1200 Bushels of Corn.
100 do do Oats.
75 barrels of Refined Sugars.
50 bags of Java and Rio Coffee.
100 barrels of Family Flour.
30,000 lb of Bacon Sides and Shoulders.
10,000 Hi Leaf Lard.
20 hogsheads of New Crop Molasses.
10(1 boxes of Adamantine Candles.
100 Cases of Boots and Shoes (at Cost.)
CROCKERY 6c GLASS WARE.
TUBS, BUCKETS AND BROOMS.
BUTTER AND CHEESE,
No. 1 and 2 Mackerel. Pickled Shad.
TOBACCO and SEOARS.
White Lead and Oil—Camphene and B Fluid.
Nails, Trace Chains and Axes.
LIQUORS, of all kinds, and in any quantity,
with many other articles not innumerated.
Milledgeville, March 19,1860 12 tf
Gilmer
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
j Wednesday after. Rabun
2d Monday, Fannin
Habersham
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
M
sS
Sumter
3d Monday, Franklin
Glynn
Haralson
Hen ry
Jefferson
J ones
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
W ortli
Thur sday j Montgomery
4th Monday,Banks
Wayne
Decatu r
Delvall)
Houston
Jasper
Liriroln
Sell’ey
Tattnall
Towns
Whitfield
Wilcox
(Friday after Telfair
Camden
Thursday after. Irwin
Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER.
1st Monday, Berrien
Clayton
Effingham
Milton
Randolph
Upson
2d Monday,Bnrke
Catoosa
Mitchell
Muscogee
;3.i Monday, Bibb
Quitman
> Spalding
Troup
Baker
l Illi Monday, Dade
Terrell
(Thursday after, McIntosh
j Monday after, Colquitt
j do do Liberty
Mon. afier Liberty. Bryan
| DECEMBER,
list Mouday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday, Brooks
*Clay
Johnson
Id Monday, Thomas
May hold three weeks/ if necessary, at each
‘‘•rm.
1 1 his change not to take effect till after the next
re gular term of the Court.
. Courts in Clay county, which, under the
^ ' a ' v > would sit between now and the times as
hy this act, must stand over till the times fix-
above.
-‘I* he County of Chattahoochee, by act of this
of the
January,
FREE FORWARDING.
Private Bonded Warehouses and
CUSTOM HOUSE BROKERAGE.
The undersigned has, with Messrs. Brigham,
Baldwin & Co., Messrs. Wilder & Gallie, and
Messrs. Hunter &. Gammell, formed an Association
for the purpose of entering at tbe Custom House
and Storing in Bond, in accordance with the Reve
nue Laws, any goods arriving at this port which
may be intrusted to bis custody-.
He being tbe managing and active partner, has
bonded, with the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, commodious Warehouses, where all
Merchandize coming to this port can .be stored,
every attention paid to its preservation, and for its
prompt delivery when entry has been made at the
Custom House, at the lowest possible tariff charges.
Merchandize destined to the interior will be en
tered for payment of duties, or in bond, as may be
required by the Consignees. All Goods consigned
to him to be forwarded, will receive the greatest
despatch at the lowest rate or charge, and in such
manner as may be directed. If the duties are to
be paid in this port, funds must be provided for
that purpose, but if to be forwarded iu bond, tbe
requsite bonds will be given.
Goods intrusted to care of undersigned, con
signed to points in the interior, will be forwarded
by Rail Roads or other conveyance, as directed
free of commission.
An experience of nearly twenty years in the
details of Custom House business, and a thorough
acquaintance with llic Warehouse laws, in every
detail, will enable this copartnership to give the
greatest despatch consistent with the safety of the
revenue. CIIAS. C. WALDEN,
Office in Claghorn & Cunningham’s Buildings,
Head of Drayton Street.
Savannah,March 12,186] 11 4t
With Georgia’s champion stand,
Both crowned with fame already won,
Proud bulwarks of our laud.
•ssiou, is to be added to, and become apart
j'^I^Koochee Judicial District, after 1st Jai
blanks for sa,le at this Office.
ROOFING, ROOFING, ROOFING.
SLATING.
W. E. ELLIOTT,
PRACTICAL SLATER
A.YD DEiLEIt 13
Best American and Welsh
SLATES.
PATENT COPPER LIGHTENING ROD.
W E. E. has effected and procured the
• sole agency for the sale and putting up
of AMOS LYON'S COFFER LIGHTNING
RODS in Savannah, Chatham county, aud other
places where lie may be patronized, and will al
ways be ready to execute all orders with despatch.
W. E. E-, having established his business of
Slating in this city, with an experience of twenty-
five years in all its branches, hopes to merit public
patronage by bis work, which shall give every satis
faction to his patrons.
N. B.—Oid Slate Roofs repaired, and stripped off
if required, and relaid—warranted tight.
W. E. E., is also agent for Wood & Perots
Iron Railing and Ornamental Iron Works. Plans
and designs of all,with prices can be seen at his office,
over Morning News office, Bay street,Savannah, Ga.
A specimen of our work may be seen on the De
pot building iu Milledgeville and over the Maga
zine East of the State House.
Reference—G. W. Adams, Superintendent C. R.
R. Savannah.
October 30,1800 4 4_ tf
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Address L. F. W. ANDREWS,
Macon, Ga.
March SCth, 1861. 13 tf
For the Southern Recorder.
A Plea for Romps.
“There she goes ! look, do look at her !
She has bounded over that fence like a
deer and is gone down the lane like a
streak of lightning to have a romp with
her dog, she’ll worry my very life out of
me yet,” exclaimed Mrs, Smith to a lady
friend. ‘‘Why, is she so bad as that 1 I
knew her to be a romp, but thought her a
warm hearted affectionate girl. I had no
idea she gave yon so much trouble.”—
“Bad ! why she is tbe most incorrigible
little piece of perversity that ever put a
poor mother to her wits’ end. I’d lay p
wager she lias bursted every book and eye
off her dress, and made innumerable rents
in it besides. It is an utter impossible to
keep that child quiet or neat.” And the
mother turned sadly from the window
where she had witnessed tbe impromptu
flying leap of her romping little daughter.
Why what has she done, thought wc,
that should cause such a lugrubrious sigh
and make lier mother look like a devoted
martyr ? Simply this : God has merciful
ly given her health and strength and active
young limbs, and she has the unparalleled
audacity to rejoice in his gift, by exercis
ing her limbs and thus promotes the growth
of her body and the expansion of her mind
—and for this slie is blamed and reproved
and odious epithets such as “romp” and
“tom boy,” are applied to her.
If a girl wants to be a ‘tom-boy,’ why,
for mercy’s sake let her be one. She will
only have a stronger constitution aud a
better balanced miud. No matter if she is
hoydeuisb,we have enough men and women
children now, who dare not take a step an
inch too long or raise their voice above
tbe nicely modulated parlor tone.
If mothers would patiently endure a few
headaches caused by the noise and merri
ment of tlieir frolicksome little girls, they
would have fewer heart-aches to bear on
account of tbe suffering of‘ their poor sickly
grown up daughters. If there were more
romping little girls the number of invalid
wives and mothers would be greatly de
creased.
The fact is, a woman must be “suffering
with a special disease,” or her “throat and
lungs” must ‘effected,’ if she would be con
sidered a delicate refined lady. So,
mothers restrict the use of their limbs
and lungs ot their little girls to make them
gentle and lady-like.
Away, with such unnatural restraints.
Let them run, jump, laugh and scream as
much as they wish, for it is only for a short
time aud then they will be chained down
to stern duties and wearisome toil that will
leave neither time or inclination for such
recreation. What matters it if their dies
ses are torn, their shoes bursted, their
hands tanned and their faces freckled 7
Dresses arc more easily mended than doc
tors’ bills paid, aud when they are young
ladies they will have time enough to fair
their hands aud bleach their faces.
The greatest romp we ever saw was a
school-mate of ours. She could swing
higher, leap further, jump faster, laugh
heartier aud cut more extra capers gener
ally then any one we ever saw, and yet
she was the kindest truest most sympathis
ing of friends ami geueroua to even her en
emies or rather reprovers, for enemies she
had not. She was the favorite of the
whole school and reigued the unrivaled
queen of the play-ground, and yet she nev
er abused her power.
We never yet knew a romp who was not
a true friend and a generous foe, and what
difference does it make if ‘people* do talk
about them ? Feople will talk and it is
well wheii they have nothing worse than
that to say.
We never see a real genuine “sure
enough romp,” get into any mischief that
our heart does not throb quicker and gives
sound sleep, iron:
the boy entering the room,
having overslept himself, he sprang up in
bed, and asked—“How long before break
fast?” The boy, without noticing the
question, apostrophised—“High ! I didn’t
know two white folks staid her last night;
where’s the man’s got his hair on ?”
BREVITIES.
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons
suppose, by fortunate speculations and
splendid enterprises, but by tbe daily
practice of industry, frugality and econo
my. He who relies upon these means,
will rarely he found destitute ; and he who
relies upon any other, will generally be
come bankrupt.
What is fashion ? A beautiful envelope
for mortality, presenting a glittering and
polished exterior, the appearance of which
givesjno certain indication of the real val
ue of what is contained therein.
Never be cast down by trifles. If a spi
der breaks his web twenty times, twenty
times will he mend it. Make up your
miuds to do a thing, and yon will do it.
Fear not if trouble come upon you ; .keep
up your spirits though the day may be a'
dark one. *> ;
’/♦.*
Have you ever seen a drunken man
trying to make believe that he is sober ?
How ridiculous the spectacle-? And yet
more ridiculous still is the Attempt of an
ignorant and ill-bred person to appear very
wise and refilled in society.
An important reason for benevolence is,
that though you may forget your own joy,
from being so accustomed to it, the joys ol
others seem ever something new.
A religion that never suffices to govern
a man, will never suffice to save him ; that
which does not sufficiently distinguish
one from a wicked world, will never dis
tiuguish him from a perishing world.
Many who would not for the world utter
a falsehood, are yet eternally scheming
to produce false impressions on the minds
of others, respecting facts, characters and
opiuions.
Marty appear to fancy that prayers are
like a flight of promiscuous missels, of
which a few find the mark, but the great
er number alight nowheie and bring back
nothing.
Patiently endure all the attacks of those
that envy you ; you will, hy that means,
conquer them all. Thus fire itself is ex
tinguished, when it meets with nothing
that it can barn.
Let no reproach make yon lay aside
justice. The frowns of the world are noth
ing to the smiles of heaven.
With established principles, our feelings
contend against evil, as an army without
a leader, and are far oftener vanquished
than victorious.
Create not imaginary difficulties; suffi
cient are the real ones we have each to en
counter, in the course of our lives.
True friendship is very rare in human
life ; bnt, like the shadows of the evening,
where it exists, it increases even till the
setting of the sun of life.
It is easy to exclude the noontide light
by closing the eyes, and it is easy to resist
the clearest truth by hardening the heart,
The vain man idolizes his own person,
and here he is wrong ; but he cannot bear
his own company, and here he is right.
Some think life too short, nevertheless
find it long enough to outlive their charac
ters, their constitutions, and their estates.
Nothing is ever well done in a small
household if the master and mistress are
iguoraut of the mode in which it should be
done.
Chilo, one of the seven sages, being ask
ed what was tbe hardest thing in the
world to be done, answered, “To use and
employ time well.”
Children are much like jellies—as they
are nioldod, so will they turn out.
Keep aloof from quarrels ; be neither at
witness nor a party.
Those who go to law for damages, arc
pretty sure to get them.
Begin life with but little show; you may
increase it afterward
It costs us more to be miserable than
would make us perfectly happy.
A man had better need alms than be too
mean to bestow them.
He is truly wise wbo can endure evil,
elijoy good.
inent iuvu
maintained the thesis ....
States Government has no right whatew.
to assert its authority by force over the
people of any State what ever ; that bas
ed on the consent of all, it ceases to exist
wherever there is dissent—a doctrine
which no one need analyze who under
stands what are the real uses and ends of
Government. The friends of the existing
Administration, on the whole, regard the
secession as a temporary aberration, which
a “ masterly inactivity,” the effects of time
inherent weakness, and a strong reaction,
of which they flatter themselves they see
many proofs in the Southern States, will
correct, “ Let us,” they say, “ deal with
this matter in our own way. Do not inter
fere. A recognition of the secession would
be an interference amounting to hostility.
In good time the violent men down South
will come, to their senses, and the reason
will die out.” They ignore the difficul
ties which European States may feel in re
fusing to recognize the principles on which
the United States were founded when they
find them embodied in a new Confedera
tion, which, so far as we know, may be to
( all intents and purposes constituted iu au
tentire independence, and present itself to
the world with claims to recognition to
which England, at least, having regard to
precedents of dr facto governments, could
only present an illogical refusal. The
hopes of other sections of the Northerners
are founded on the want of capital in the
slave States; on the pressure which will
come upon them when they have to guard
their own frontiers against the wild tribes
who have been hitherto repelled at the ex
pense of tbe whole Union by the Federal
troops; on the exigencies of trade, which
will compel them to deal with the North,
and thereby to enter into friendly relations
and ultimate reaUiance. But most impar
tial people, at least in New York, are of the
opinion that the South has shaken the dust
off her feet, and will never enter the por
tals of the Union again. She is confident
in her own destiny. She feels strong
enough to stand alone. She believes her mis
sion is one of extension and conquest, her
leaders are men of singular political ability
and undaunted resolution. She has but to
stretch forth her hand, as she believes, and
the Gulf becomes an American leak close
by Cuba. Tbe reality of these visions tbe
South is ready to test, and she would not
now forego tbe trial, which may, indeed,
be the work of yearp, but which she will
certainly make. All the considerations
which can be urged against her resolves
are as nothing in the way of her passion
ate will, and the world may soon sec un
der its eyes the conflict of two Republics
founded on the same principles, but sub
jected to influences that produce repulsion
as great as exists in two bodies charged
with the same electricity. If ever the ex
plosion come it will be tremendous in its re
sults, and distant Europe must feel the
shock.
.Ur. Russell's Second Letter to tbe London
Times.
Vivid Description of Affairs Here.
Washington, April 1.
From all I have seen and heard, my be
lief is that if the Southern States have
gone from the Union, if not for ever, at
least for such time as will secure for their
Government absolute independence till it
be terminated by war, or, if their oppo
nents be right, by the certain processes of
internal decay, arising from inherent vices
in their system, faulty organization, aud
want of population, vigor aud wealth.—
That the causes which have led to their
secession now agitate the Border States
most powerfully with a tendency to follow
them is not to be denied hy those who
waich the course of events, and, as these
powerful neutrals oscillate to and fro un
der the pressure of contending parties and
passions, the Government at Washington
and the authorities of the revolting States
regard every motion ’with anxiety—the
former fearful lest by word or deed tl ey may
repell them forever; the latter more dispos
ed by active demonstrations to determine
the ultimate decision in their own favor,
and to attach them permanently to the
Slave States by resolute declarations of
principle. Whatever the results of the
Morrill Tariff may be, it is probable they
must be endured on both sides of the At
lantic. for there is no power in tho Gov
ernment or in the President as I under
stand, to modify its provisions, and there
is a strong feeling in Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet
against the extra session so loudly de
mantled in New York, and so confidently
Tu
rnout ; aud tiie . . t
the point, discharges the prisonei, ...
that it may be freed from responsibility.
On the other hand, tbe Federal Govern
ment remits the penalties of forfeiture and
fines ou the vessel seized by the custom
House at New York for want of proper
clearances from Southern ports. The ster
eotype plates with the words “ Evacuation
of Fort iSumter” have apparently been
worn out, but its believed on all sides that
it will be abaudoned by Major Anderson
this week, although J heard a member of
the (Jabiuot declare last week that no or
ders had been issued to that officer to evac
uate it. If the opiuions of some of the
Northern people prevailed, the fort would
be retained uutil takcu by assault. The
Southern Confederation, secure of Fort
Sumter, are now preparing lor active ope
rations against Fort Pickens, which pro
tects the entrance to the quondam United
States Navy Y ard at Pensacola, now in
the possession of the troops of Florida ; and
certain organs of the extreme party in the
South have already demanded that the
forts at Tortngas aud Key West, which are
situated iar out at sea from the coast,
should be surrendered.
T iie Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln is under
stood to contain the representatives of three
different courses of policy,—that trinity of
action which generally produces torpid
and uncertain motion or complete rest.—
First there are those who would, at any
risk, vindicate the rights they claim for
the Federal Government* and use force,
even though it could only in its most suc
cessful application, overrun tho States of
the South, and compel a temporary sub
mission, without leading to the re-estab
lishment of Federal authority or the re-in
corporation of the States with the Union.
Secondly, there are those—men of intel
lect and capacity—who, dissenting alto
gether from the doctrines propounded by
tho leaders of the revolution, and convinc
ed that the separation will not be perma
nent, see the surest and safest mode of
action in the total abstinence fiom all
aggressive assertion of rights and in a pol
icy of latsscz alltr of indeterminate longi
tude and latitude. These statesmen be
lieve that, like most revolutions, tbe seces
sion is the work of tbe minority, and that
a strong party of reaction exists, which
will come to the front hy and by, “ expel
the traitors,” and return triumphantly with
their repentant States in the bosom of the
Union. The gentlemen who hold these
views have either a more accurate knowl
edge than tlie public, are better read in the
signs of the times, or have more faith in
the efficacy ot inaction on the love of
Americans for the Union than is possessed
by most of tbe outer world. The third
party is formed of those who are inclined to
take the South at their word—to cut the
cord at once, believing that the loss would
be a gain, and the Southern Confederation
would inflict on itself a most signal retri
bution for what they consider as a crime
of breaking up tbe Union. Fractically,
so far as 1 Lave gone, I have failed to
meet many people whe really exhibited any
passionate attachment to the Union for its
own sake, or pretended to he animated by
any strong feelings of regard or admira
tion for the government of tho United
States iff itself. The word “Constitution”
is forever ringing in one's ears, its “prin
ciples” and its authority are continually
appealed to. but the end is no nearer.—
The other day I bought the whole Consti-
tutiou of the United States, neatly printed
for three half-peuce. But the only conclu
sion I could draw was, that it was better for
States not to -have Constitutions which
could he bought at such very moderate
prices. It is rather an inopportune mo
meut for the Professor of the Harvard Law
School to send forth his lecture on the
Constitution of the United Stales, aud on
the differences between it and that of
Great Britain. Just as the learned gen
tleman is glorying in the supremacy of
the Judicial Body of the United States
over Cougress, Presidents and LeghJa
tures, the course of events exhibits that
Supieme Court, es a mere nullity in the
body politic, uuftble to take cognizance or
nuwilling to act iu regartfto matters which
are tearing the Constitution into atoms.—
No one thinks of appealing to it or invok
ing its decision. And, after all, if the
Court were to decide, what would be the
use of its judgment if one or the other of the
two great parties lesisted it ? The ultimo
ratio would be the only means by which
the decisiou could he ouforeed. Jn the
U 5C1IU1UI
these shores, though coming in a very
questionable shape, has excited uneasy
feeling aud some recrimination.
If the Congress is reassembled, there is
much reason to fear an open rupture ; if
not, another solution may be arrived at. It
is unfortunate for the Government that Gen
eral Scott is suffering at this moment from
the infirmaries of age, and the effect of tho
great demands made upon his strength.
Mr. Lincoln gave a dinner to his Cabinet
on Thursday last, the first of the season,
in honor principally of ,Gen. Scott; but
the veteran General, who had entered the
White House, was obliged to leave before
dinner was served. There has been a
great emigration of candidates and office-
hunters from this since I last wrote, some
contented, many more grumbling. It is
asserted that there never has been snch a
clean sweep of office holders since the
practice was introduced by Geueral Jack-
son. If I am rightly informed, the Presi
dent has the patronage of 140,000 places,
great aud small—some very small.
Night.
The influence of England and of'France
ou the destinies of the republic is great
er than any American patriot would lika
to admit. It must not be expected there
fore that there will be any proof of exces
sive anxiety afforded by the leaders cf ci
ther party in reference to the course
which may be taken by the European.
Governments in the preseut crisis; but it
is not tbe less to be apprehended that au
immediate recognition of the confederate
independence ol the South, or of the doc
trine of absolute individual sovereignty on
the part of those States, may precipitate
the hostile action which, in the event of
absolute final separation, seems to be ine
vitable. To the North it would be a heavy
blow and great discouragement, the con-
sequencej of which cotiltl only be averted
by some very violent remedies. Separa
tion without war is scarcely to be expect
ed. The establishment of an independ
ent Republic in the Sonth may, indeed,
be effected peacibly, but it is not, human
ly Speaking, within the limits of any prob
ability, that the diverse questions which
will arise out of conflicting interests in re
gard to revenue and State and Federal
rights can be settled witout an appeal to
arms. At the present minnte there is
nothing to induce a stranger to believe that
au effectual resistance could be offered to
a vigorous aggressive movement from the
South, supposing the means to make it, ex
isted either in the alHiesion or permission
of the Border States.
The North, however, is strong in its
population, in its wealth, and in its calm.
In the hands of the Border States are all
the arbitraments of revolntion or union, of
war, of peace. By anjmmeauing euphem
ism the revolution of the South has been
called a Secession, hut the.confusion and
mischief caused by the euphemistic timid
ity of statesmen disappear when tbe acts
of the South are tested by the standard
applicable to revolutionary crises, and by
that standard alone are these acts intelli
gible and cohere^ Measured in that
way, the seizure of property, the deeds and
the language of the leaders of the move
ment, and the acts of the masses can bo
properly estimated^ Mr. Douglas, whoso
mental capacity is a splendid justification
ol his enormous political activity, and of
a high political rank “unattached,” is un
derstood to be engaged on a vast system
ior establishing duties all over the North
American continent in the nature of a
Zollvcreiu. It is his opinion that tho
North, iu case of separation, mast fight
tiie South on the arena of free trade—that
the tariff must be completely altered, ami
that tbe duties must be lowered from point
to point, in proportion as tbe South bids
against the North for the commerce of En-
rope. till the reduction reaches such a point
that the South, forced to laise revenue for
the actual expense ot Government, aud un
able to struggle against tbe superior
wealth of tbe Nortb iu such a contest, is
obliged to come to au understanding with
its powerful competitor, and to submit to a
treaty of commerce which shall include
all the States of the North American con
tinent from the isthmus of Panama to the
ice of tbe Arctic Seas. The Canadas are
of course, included in 6uch a project, in
deed. it is difficult to say where the mean*
of escaping from their present embarrass
ment will uot be sought by the leading