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From the London Times.
England Unable lo Follow the Changes of
American Sentiment.
The Americans, accustomed to make
their own interests and feelings the stan
dard of international law: to repudiate what
ever was inconsistent with their claims to
universal dominion in the New World ; to
support at one time the claims of authori
ty, at another the indefeasible rights of ex
isting majorities; to cite precedents or defy
them, as it suited the cause they favored
—are now. in all innocence, and with full
belief in their own consistency, holding
within six mouths two opposite theories of
their own Constitution, and expecting En
glishmen to change their views just as
popular feeling in the States has changed-
The doctrine which we are denounced
for not instantly and eagerly acceding to,
dates from the 15th of April, 1S61. Gn
that day a proclamation of President Lin
coln was icceived at New \ ork calling
out a large force of militia to combat ^the
Secessionists, who had jnst taken 1 ort
Sumter. The Northerners, who till then
had been perfectly apathetic, whose lead
ing orators had treated disruption as an
irreversible event and whose newspapers
had courteously advocated the seizure of
Canada to make up for the loss of the Cot
ton States, now found in the prospect of a
campaign a sufficient reason for repudia
ting the constitutional theory which had
hitherto prevailed.
That theory had been fully enunciated
Mr. Buchanan,and assented by the leading
statesmen of tiie North, and by none more
completely than by Mr Seward, who, while
expressing that the seceders migbtbe coax
ed back yet acknowledged that an appeal
to arms was impossible; and who, even after
he became Mr. Lincoln’s Secretary of State,
repudiated a war policy on the ground that
the subjugation of recusant force was abhor
rent to American principles, and that the
last argument of monarchies was inappli
cable to the solution of political diffieul
ties in a republic. The Revolutionary
right to secede was clearly acknowledged
by the President of the United States, the
authority from whom foreign uatious are
bound to take the law on constitutional
questions relating to the Union.
We may, therefore, go even so far as to
say that if Gieat Britain had, on the
strength of Mr. Buchanan’s decision, recog
nized the independence of South Carolina
immediately on her secession, the act
would not have been a ground of legitimate
complaint. For nearly four months this
view of the case prevailed, and we in this
country merely followed in the wake of
American discussion when we speculated
on the likelihood of the Southerners
“coming back ;” of the planters see
ing their folly in quarreling with their
customers, agents, and bankers ; of
the attachment to the name of American
proving too strong for sectional interests
aud electioneering pique ; and the lovers'
quarrel proving a renewing of love. The
whole grievance of the Northerners against
us is. that we think as they thought six
•weeks before.
The “electric shock” which they de
scribe themselves as liaviug felt when
Sumter fell, was, unfortunately, as in the
case of the ill fated telegraph, too weak
to be propagated though the mass of the
Atlantic. We have not been startled by
tbe fate of the federal troops who might
have been killed iu that celebrated fortress.
Hence the Government and people of this
country have retained, for the most part,
the opinions which the Americans them
selves held and taught us up to the 18th
ot April, the day before the New York
firemen changed themselves to Zouaves,
and the Herald was forced to reconsider its
principles by tbe appearance of a mob be
fore its office. If before that date any
English member of Parliament, or any
English newspaper, had ventured to sug
gest that the new President should orga
nize a large standard army, blockade 3,000
miles of coast, aud invade a flourishing re
gion at the head of 150,000 men, what an
outburst of indignation would have met
the Machiavellian counsel.
How we should have been reminded
that republic rests ou the consent of the
governed, not like the old British Empire,
on tyranny and taxes ; that the Southern
States were not a Hindoostan, to be lecon-
quered in a twelvemonth ; that the people
of New York and other seats of commerce
were not likely to make themselves cats-
paws to carry out England’s Abolitionists
schemes, by invading the planting States
and encouraging lazy uiggers to rebel
against their masters ! In short, it would
have been triumphantly demonstrated
that] our sympathy for the Federal au
thority was only affected with the dia
bolical purposes embroiling the two sec
tions of the American people. Yet be
cause from the sudden access of patriotic
feeling, the Northern population are orga
nizing a descent on the South, we are ex
pected to forget all the decency and pru
dence of international intercourse, and join
in hounding on the invaders ! That the
people ot the North should be uuable to
control their anger at finding that au in
dependent foreign power does not commit
itself to demonstrations of hostility against
ten millions of civilized men with whom it
has no quarrel, and whose rights to inde
pendence though not denied, were admit
ted by the North itself a few weeks ago,
shows to what a point of irritability the
Americans had been brought by years of
prosperity and success.
The country has chosen its course, and
is not likely to depart from it. That the
Americans should expect ns to be swayed
by any strong feelings of attachment to the
United States’ Government, argues an ex
traordinary forgetfulness of what the con
duct of that government has been to us bn
all occasions. While our behavior to the
people of the United States has always
been conciliatory, it is no exaggeration to
say that their Government has been uni
formly hostile and ungenerous beyond
auv European precedent, except perhaps
that of the first French Empire. Iu our Eu
ropean disputes our statesmen, wdien called
upon to face hostile despotisms, have al
ways been haunted by the fear of having
tbe American Government on tbeir backs.
Is the paltry quarrel they fixed ou us in the
business of tbe enlistment, cr the tone of
Mr. Seward’s speeches, likely to arouse us
to enthusiasm iu the cause of the Govern
ment at Washington? Neutrality—strict
neutrality—is all that tbe United States
Government can claim ; aud as we main
tained neutrality in tbe Italian war, when
all our sympathies were awakened, much
more shall we maintain it when wc look
on a struggle where our judgement still
waits for turtLer information, and where
we shall assuredly not rejoice iu the mili
tary success of either-party.
A man may possess untold riches, and
yet he is no less a dependent being—de
pendent in health upon bis fellow-man for
aid in protecting bis civil rights, bis life
and bis property—in sickness dependent
for care and skill in watding off the fear
ful assaults of disease-and iu death, depen
dent upon his fellow man to be borne to
his last resting place. Be generous, then,
to thy brother man, for sooner or later he
will be called to render you service such
as gold can not purchase.
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. 1
IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
Fredericksburg, June 30, 1861.
I write to inform you of the partially
successtul issue of a most daring adventure
which has been concocted at this place,
and executed on the Potomac R‘ ver au
the Bay. Capt. Hollins has just returned
from the expedition this evening, and from
his report and from personal observation
I have collected the following circumstan
ces attending the affair :
Friday morning our town was thrown
into great commotion by a rumor being
spread that a secret expedition was form
ing. whose object was unknown. Men
were seen gathering in small groups at the
corners of the streets, conversing on this
all absorbing topic. Some three or four
davs previously, a gentleman of the name
of Thomas was seen about tlie streets with
bis head shaved very close and dressed in
the Zouave style. He attracted upon him
self universal obseivation, and was even
suspected by some of being a spy. He
was evidently affecting a character very
adverse to his true one. He, it has
since been ascertained, is a native of Alary-
land. He had learned that the St. Nich
olas was soon to start from that port to
Washington, and had come on to concert
with Capt. Hollins a most perilous and
important expedition. Ihe object of the
expedition was no less than the capture of
the Pawnee. It was to have been accom
plished as follows, and nothing but a
stroke of providence could have made
them fail of their object :
Capt. Hollins and Air. Thomas were to
go to Baltimore, take passage with twen
ty-five or thirty chosen men on board the
St. Nicholas, and as soon as she had en
tered the Potomac and arrived at the
mouth of Cone River, to overpower the
crew and embark five hundred r I eunessee-
ans, who were to meet them at this point.
They were then to sail up the Potomac
with the United States ilag waving at
their mast head, aud then perforin the
grand act in the drama. The latter was
disconcerted by an unlooked-for accident.
According to the proconcerted plan, the
Tennesseeans left this place I riday
morning, carrying with them ten surgeons.
Hollins and Thomas went to Baltimore,
and embarked on board the St. Nicholas
with twenty-five or thirty of the most
adventuresome tars they could find.—
Thomas was dressed in female habiliments,
and was assidiously attended to by her
attentive beau, Capt. Hollins. But, alas
for human hopes! While everything
prospered and all were expecting a happy
issue of the affair, it was reported that it
could not then be carried into effect. Capt.
Hollins determined, however, not to lose
all his labor. So when they were at the
mouth of the Potomac, at a preconceited
signal his men rose up, took possession of
the steamer, and stiring straight for the
mouth of Cone River, they soon reached
the place pre-arranged as the point where
the Tennesseeans were to join them.—
Hollins informed them of the failure of
their original design. He then returned
to the bay and scoured it, capturing the
following prizes in addition to the St.
Nicholas : a vessel laden with 3,500 bags
of coffee, another laden with ice, and a
third with coal. They have all been
brought within the protection of our bat-
terries. The St. Nicholas with one of the
vessels is in sight of our wharf.
This success has illuminated the counte
nance of our townsmen with exceeding
joy. Their anxious and care-worn faces
of yesterday are lit up with a luminous
expression of joy and satisfaction. The
crew of the St. Nicholas, consisting of
twenty free negroes aud nineteen white
persons, are in our jail, and will, in all
probability, be sent to Richmond.
Capture of Prize Vessels.
Daring Exploit of Maryland Zouaves !
Lieut. Geo. W. Alexander, of the 1st
Regiment of Alaryiand Zouaves, reached
Richmond on yesterday morning, with for
ty odd Lincolnite prisoners of-war, captur
ed on the Potomac early Saturday mor
ning. It appears that the Zouave Regi
ment has been for some time past iu pro
cess of formation by Col. R. Thomas, of
Richard, Lieut. Alexander, (Adjutant,
Lieut. F. Gibson, and others, in Baltimore.
A short time since, Col. Thomas went
from Baltimore to Philadelphia in disguise
and procured a supply of arms. Himself
and comrades then conceived the project
of capturing the St. Nicholas, a large
steamer iu the employ of the “General Gov
ernment,” running between Baltimore and
Washington. The boat started at four
o’clock on Friday evening from her wharf
in Baltimore. Previous thereto Col. Tho’s
went aboard with 12 men—the latter as
passengeis, and their commander dressed as
a French lady. The vessel got under way
aud stopped at Point Lookout, where, ac
cording to the plan previously agreed on,
Lieut. Alexander, with another detach
meut of men, came on board and secured
passage for Washington. By accident (!)
Liet. Alexander went, into the cabin of
tbe steamer and recognized the French
lady (!) as an old acquaintance from Paris.
Both Thomas and Alexander speaking the
language fluently, tliey found no difficulty
in lnaturiug their plan of operations. Du
ring the conversation that ensued between
the French lady aud her acquaintance,
instructions were given as to how the par
ty should pioceed. The aims, which had
previously been carefully loaded and con
cealed, were made readj' for instant pos
sesiou. At one o’clock on Saturday mor
ning, the time for striking the blow having
arrived, Col. Thomas threw off his disguise,
appeared in his uniform, and ordering his
men to do their duty, the steamer iu five
minutes was a prize to the forces of the
Confederate States. The Captain aud
crew surrendered without striking a blow,
and were confined without trouble They
appeared ovei whelmed with surprise.
Captain Geo. N. Hollins, late United
States Navy, who had gone aboard at
Point Lookout, then assumed command
of the steamer and ran her into Cone riv
er, expecting to meet the Tennessee Reg
iment and jointly commence further ope
rations against the enemy. The Tennes
seeans, however, did not arrive on the
ground till late Saturday morning - It.
was then too late for any demonstration up
the river as originally intended, and the
steamer was headed down the stream.—
On her passage she captured two schoon
ers and one brig. Each had a crew of
about teu men, who were taken prison
ers.
One of the vessels was loaded with 3,500
bags of coffee, another with anthracite
coal, aud another with ice. The steamer
St. Nicholas is a first class boat, 275 feet
long, side wheel.
All the prizes were safely towed to the
mouth of the Rappahannock, and thence
to Fredericksburg. Their value is rough
ly estimated at three hundred and sev
enty five THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The captains of the respective vessels,
with their crews,including several negroes,
are now lodged in the prison depot on
Alain street in this city.
[Richmond Dispatch July 2.
The War—When shall the End Be?
The subjoined paragraphs are from tbe
conclusion of an editorial article in tbe
New York Journal of Commerce, of Friday,
21st, says tbe Charleston Courier. There
are errors in it, which will be readily
detected by the reader ; one is the intima
tion of a possible revolution in the South ;
nevertheless, the article will be read with
interest:
We have said, and we now repeat, that
the North has been deceived and misled
into this war by tbe Northern Republican
press; and since the war began they have
been as constantly deceived and misled in
every particular relating to tbe force, the
ability aud the courage of the foe. r I his
deception has led to fatal results already.
It is now leading us to destruction. Ihe
suppression of truths which show the
strength and resources of the South, the
misrepresentati-ns of their financial and
cormnissaiat resources the false reports of
their disaffection, desertion, sickness, &c.,
have characterized the editorial and news
columns of the papers alluded to, and have
so misled the minds ol men at the North,
that the error could only be corrected by
some such lesson as was received at Great
Bethel, which may thus, perhaps, be pro
ductive of good ou the whole.
It is beginning to dawn on men’s minds
that this contest is not the affair of a day,
or a month, or a year. If the end is to
be the conquering of the Southern armies
and people, that end is probably very far
distant. Let no man promise himself that
the battle of Alauassas Junction, now ap
parently near, will be decisive of the war.
If we are beaten at that point, is there
any Northerner who proposes to give up
the contest? If the South are beaten,
is there any probability that Southerners
will yield the contest any more than we
would ? They are Americans, blood of
our blood, our brothers, cousins, friends—
and they reason, thiuk and feel just as we
should under similar circumstances. There
Testimony of a Northern Witness—
Rev. Herman Bangs, one of the oldest
Methodist preachers in New England,
wrote in a recent letter:
“The relation of master and slave has
never, to my satisfaction been proved to
be a sin. That there are great evils con
nected with it, or that may grow out of it,
I hav6 no donbt. So are there evils that
may result from the marriage rela
tion, nr the relation of parent and child,
but this does not prove the relation itself
to be a sin. A great change has come
over the public feeling both North and
and South, within the last twenty-five
years. One extreme begets another. The
extreme measures of the North on this sub
ject have driven the South into the oppo
site extreme. Heretofore there were thou
sands at the South who considered slave
ry an evil, but a necessary evil which they
knew not how to remove ; but now, so far
as I could learu, they have come to the
conclusion that “the institution” is right
aud scriptural, and the best state possible
for the blacks. I will not stop to argue
Cotton Growing in the British Colonies.
Periodically the subject of growing cot
ton m the British Colonial possessions, to
supply the wants of English manufacturers,
is mooted in tbe English Parliament. Thus
far, notwithstanding the fact that some
members have been and are entirely con
fident that a plan for raising cotton could
be adopted, which would render the Eng
lish people independent of the cotton sup
ply of the South, nothing appears to have
been done to bring about such a result. Iu
the House of Lords on the 29th of May,
Lord Brougham called the attention of the
Colonial Minister to the subject, saying
he considered it absolutely essential that
the English Government shonld by every
means in its power encourage the growth
of cotton. He had received samples of fine
quality, grown in Jamaica, and was assur
ed that it could be cultivated there in such
a manner and quantity as to prove remu
nerative. He had no doubt that with due
encouragement cotton could be grown in
unlimited quantities in the English Coloni
al possessions, and he looked forward with
As to the physical condition of the slaves
at the South, I believe they are far better
off than the free blacks of the North, better
fed, better clothed, better housed, and do
less work. They appear the happiest
people to be found—tbeir masters and
mistresses have all the care aud expense.
I am told that the laws of Louisiana aud Mis
sissippi are very severe in protecting the
slave. The Methodists are doiug a great
work among them. Alauy missionaries are
employed on the plantations; some of them
are paid by the planters themselves, some
by the Alissionary Society, and some con
gregations of blacks in New Orleans sup
port themselves. I conversed with a broth
er preacher who is constantly laboring
among this people, and be gave a thrilling
account ol his mission.
“The movements of the Ablitionists of
the North have been productive of evil
is. therefore, little hope of an end of the and only evil to the masters and slaves, ex-
war by a decisive battle or a short cam- asperating tbe former, and causing them
P a ’g n - < . to restrict the privileges of the latter. Oh,
Another possible end of the war is one when shall this wicked strife come to an
that may now be talked of freely, though | en( f t and brotherly love aud fraternal in-
a few weeks since it was impossible to tercourse return !”
mention it. We lately published a very j .
mild letter from a St. Louis correspondent,
suggesting a possible peace by compromise.
The Hartford Times copied it, aud the
Hartford Corant hurst like a thunder cloud
on the Times, charging them with treason;
and flatiy pronouncing it to he treason iu
any one to propose a compromise before
we bad flushed the war! But we are
living in cooler times.
the point at all; I merely state the fact.I ♦’ .i .- , „ . ,
\ _ J a confidence to the time when Eugland
should receive her necessary supply from
them.
War Signals of the Confederate States
Army.—The Norfolk correspondent of
the Mobile Advertiser aud Register tells
1 the following :
“Nothing can be more perfect than the
system of signals by which communication
j is maintained with all the principal points
of defence, and by means of which the
, - . . • i slightest movements of the enemy, whetb
Another possible end of the war is in i *? , ... , J . .
r r „ er by day or night, are known at head-
a fit anntliar rnvnlntinn in TIIA * * . . ° .
the occurrence of another revolution in the
South. It may be that the States which
went mad for secession, a few mouths ago,
may change. In other words, there may
be a strong Union party there some day.
If we are to believe the Republican papers,
the South has actually a majority of Un
ion men, who are held down by mobs. We
don’t believe any such thing. We don’t
believe there are ten Union men in South
Carolina. There were many such in all
the seceded States, hut tbe attempt at co
ercion hy arms has carried them nearly all
over for the present. Is there a sane
American who believes that any amount ! ^
of physical force will ever prevail to make
Union men out of Americans who don’t
choose to he such ? Can you starve them
into it ? Is there the remotest hope
quarters with more than electric rapidity
1 was an occular witness of the efficiency
of the system tbe other night, happening
to be, at a late hour at the General’s head
quarters, where the principal officers of
the Adjutant General’s Department sleep,
so as to he ready at a moment’s warning.
Ic was a rainy, stormy night, the very
night for a surprise attack, and just such a
night when the magnetic telegraph would
have been useless. A party of us were sit
ting chatting about the war and incident
al topics, when a flash of what seemed to
he red lightning, hut which none of us for
an instant mistook, passed through tbe i
window. In a moment the Chief Inspec
tor of the signals, Capt. Alilligan, was at
his post, and two minutes later we knew
The Duke of New Castle replied to this
statement by saying that the government
had not neglected the investigation of this
important subject. He thought, however,
the information of Lord Brougham in re
gard to making cotton growing in Jamaica
remunerative, must be erroneous. He was
of the opinion that one of the greatest im
pediments in the way was a want of suffi
cient laborers. This want could only be
supplied by the introduction of coolies,
and to this there was a serious objection.
If it were possible to introduce coolie labor
into British colonies, the experiment might
he tried with some prospect of success, oth
erwise he believed the attempt would be
useless.
It matters not how many times tlie sub
ject of cotton growing is brought before
Parliament. Every discussion renders it
more clearly apparent that.Great Britaiu
must remain dependent upon the Southern
States for this indispensable staple. The
English have tried and are trying to pro
duce cotton in India and elsewhere, and
have in some of their colonies, succeeded
to a limited extent. The soil of India,
however, will not produce the fiuer quali
ties of cotton, and iu the West India Isl
ands, where the natural relations formerly
existing between the whites and blacks
have been broken down through the work
ing a false philanthropy, they are uuable to
produce more than enough to preserve tbe
miserable lives of their inhabitants. We
think the South need feel no alarm on the
subject of cotton. The Southern people
have the system of labor best calculated
to be employed in the culture of cotton ;
they have an unsurpassed soil and climate,
and will continue, in spite of all opposi
tion, to control tbe cotton markets of the
world.—Exchange.
., , , ... i n . i . r that “au armed schooner is passing up
that a long war will make friends out or T T> . „ , i r • i
n ° a James River, and resumed oiu - pipes aud
minminc l Na ' nil nr no t ha fv nr r Ik cl arula 1 1
enemies ? So long as the North stands
where it stood six months ago, and says
to the South, “you must yield, hack down
from all this, and give it up. we will not
give you auy excuse, any plea, any argu
ment by which to move your doubting
friends ; you must give up at once”—so
long as the North maintains this grouud,
just so long the war will continue.
We do not believe, if the South were
conversation. Had the information por
tended mischief every regiment and post
within fifteen miles of Norfolk would have
known it almost as soon as ourelsves, and
been ready for action.
“Norfolk Day Book.”- This lively little
sheet, published at Norfolk Va., is the only
paper we receive from that interesting
successful, and overran the North with i oca l*ty» and w - e peruse it with great pleas- j
their armies, that a Northern man Vould u,e * Hems of intelligence in regard to
lay down 1jis arms so long as there remain- | *{ ,e Geoigia and Alabama troops stationed
ed a rock to hide behind while he fired, or
a mountain side from which to hurl down
stones oil his foes. Nor do we believe any
less of Southern men.
When Jackson overcame the South Car- ;
oliniaus iu the matter of the revenue laws,
it will he remembered that the tariff hill
was changed, and thus an excuse was giv- ,
en to the rebels for laying down their
arms. Too many persons forget this im- j
portant part of this nullification contest. j
In all wars between equal or nearly j
there, are frequently given, which we get
j from no other source. The issue of Mon
day last is “scissorable.” We clip the fol-
| lowing, entitled “Anecdotes of the Race :”
“Our boys” tell a good many anecdotes
about the Yankees engaged in the battle
at Bethel on Monday last. A few of these
we propose to dot down for the amusement
of our readers.
It is related that while Old Abe’s fel
lows were iri full flight along the road to
wards Hampton, and long after the South-
Deeidtdly Rich.
The “ Vox Populi," published at Fulton,
Missouri, gives the following genealogical
facts, but has, we suppose, accidentally
omitted to state the source from which he
has gleaned such interesting particulars,
relative to the origin of thesepolitical par
ties :
Palmyra, AIo., Alarch 30, 1861.
Once upon a time the Devil watched the
Almighty making meu. He saw him go
to a pellucid streamlet that danced grace
fully over the pebbles and get from its
channels pure, unadulterated clay as his
material; and as he formed one after an
other, aud stood them up, and “breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life,” lie
looked approvingly and pronounced him
“very good!”
At this, the Devil’s heart swelled with
anger, and envy, and malice; aud he de
termined to do something by way of a set
off. So he went to a damp, miasmatic mo
rass and scooped up from the bottom of a
stagnant, slimy, grcen-scummed, wiggle
tailed, lizzardly pool, and from this mate
rial lie turned off a Black Republican.
As he contemplated this creation cf his
“prentice hand,” there was a mixture of
gratification and disappointment visible in
his countenance, though it was very evi
dent the first greatly predominated. At
length, looking around him, he soliloquiz
ed : “There are a great number of scraps
left, and I will make another. I think I
can do more than that!” So he sets bim-
solute. It is not in one of a thousand wars
that auy result is reached otherwise.
equal powers, the rule lias been to ask ev- | ern troops had ceased to chase them, sev-
erything, but to be content with a small j eral of them oveitook an old negro woman!
an Abolitionist. “Ibis suits me better,”
said lie, as with a sheet iron handkerchief
he wiped great drops of fiery perspiration
from his brazen forehead but it does not
yet come up to my ideal. I perceive there
still remains some leavings, or tag-ends,
and as the charm is said to be a third trial,
I will test it.” So saying lie began pick
ing up the rags, first with his right hand,
next with his left, and occasionally with
the barbed point of his iron-wire tail, un
til he had collected a bushel basket full.
He then sat down to the job, aud after
much piercing aud splicing, and trimming,
he stood the thing up.
The Black Republican and Abolitionist,
who had been standing quietly hy, wateli-
ing the movements of their Father with
{ much interest, no soonor saw the third fig
ure standing erect, than their mean na-
uecessity of compromise in the end is ab- jthey looked round, and finding no enemy
' ' immediately behind them, one of them
said: “For God’s sake, old woman, do
i tell us how r many men Colonel Magruder
jliad in that battle.” “Bress your soul,
! honey, I do’no ’zactly, hut I hear de white
; folks say de Gen’ral had a whole heap,
| at least a thousand.” “Come Jake, don’t
let’s stop yet, then. Ain’t it a great won-
chaps bad’nt surround
ed our army and cut us all to pieces.”—
The Blockadf.—A Noteworthy Fact.
Reflecting readers can have hardly failed
to notice a significant fact connected with
the Liverpool cotton market.
The Jura two days ago brought a de
cline of a quarter, and the Africa to-day j der them chivalry
reports the Liverpool market dull at this
of
decline. These facts occur in tlie face of j And having satisfied themselves thus much,
a supply believed to amount to little more j they renewed their race towards Hampton
strictly mer- | at 2 40 speed. We do not vouch for the
truth of this, and as it was told us by the
old woman herself, we have no way of
proviug it, as the negro’s evidence will not
he received iu court.
Another anecdote, we understand, was
told by some of their own men. It is said
than half a million bales
chantable cotton, and in the teeth of tlie
Blockade aud in Lincoln’s threats, that
not a bale of the growing crop shall leave
our ports. How is such a state of facts to
be accounted for except upon the supposi
tion that the European cotton buyers are
well assured that our ports will be opened
for trade, and the transhipment of cotton
in ample time to meet their necessities?—
That such assurance is felt we have fur
ther reason to believe, from informa
tion that agents of British and French
houses are now in Savannah and Charles
ton, soliciting orders for goods. They
meet the reminder that the ports are closed
with the confident assertion that the goods,
if ordered, will be forthcoming. Lincoln’s
blockade will prove but a cobweb to cer
tain European blue-bottles by next Octo
ber.— Macon Tel.
Neatly a Half Million Army Guns in
the South.—A writer suggests that there
are three or four hundred thousand sport
ing rifles in tlie South capable of being
couverted into army guns by the smiths of
the country in ten days. He thinks there
are but few that are not long enough,(39
inches if longer) to which length they
could be cut down, aud a few that have
not metal enough to hear boring out to the
size of a Minie ball. It is suggested that
a pattern of a mould for one of these balls
he sent to the Clerk of the Court of every
county, which would facilitato all thofre
who would like to have their guns altered.
It is a good suggestion, and whether acted
on by Government or not, might and should
be acted on by individuals. Let the gun
smiths provide themselves everywhere
with a pattern of a Minie bullet mould,
and advertise for all those who want their
rifles altered to bring them in. The own
ers of these rifles will be well pleased when
they find that the gun which had barely
hehl up 100 yards with the old fashioned
round ball, bears np with as deadly a force
a quarter of a mile.— N. O. Delta.
Fifty-one prizes, in all, have been taken
by Southern privateers, whose aggregate,
value is computed to amount to $3,000,000,
.» , fa .i • -j • * . *11 BIO ObaUlUiltL Ui Cvl) 111 clU lilClL illCttU Uu
that Gen. Butler was riding about a mile 1 , , , , ■ , ,, ,
, „ i i • . ° ,i : tures began to develop. 1 hey both went
Irom Hampton, when his troops came dash- - — — - - -- J ...
ing down the road at full tilt. Recogni
zing a captain among them, Butler accost
ed him and asked what they were running
so for.
up to it. The Black Republican pushed it
with rude violence ; the Abolitionist pull
ed its nose ; the Black Republican tripped
at its heels ; the Abolitionist spat in its
in. - T.l'r, ca P tain ' | P a “ ti “S to ' h ™ th ’\f*cei the Black Republican called it .
told him. “Ihere s a whole lot of Southern CQward anJ tb<> Abo 1 itioni-tf more erabol
gentlemen chasing us.”
From the same paper we learn that a
new guerilla company has been organized
in Norfolk, and James Y. Leigii, Esq.,
elected Captain. The name adopted is
the “Lee Guerillas,” in honor of the gal
laHt commander of the Virginia forces.
Chronicle if Sentinel.
Cost of the War.—The New York
World says Congress may as well make
up its mind for a funded debt, such as the
country never saw. It estimates that the
debt of the United States at the close of
this year will be tbiee bundled and fifty
millions of dollars. Taking the popula
tion of the North at twenty millions, it
would require a tax of over seventeen dol
lars for each man, woman and child to
pay the expenses of the first year of the
war. When the Northern people come to
realize the fact that this debt has been in
curred merely to gratify partizan hate,
with no prospect of their being benefited
by the result of the war, they will curse
the day they gave their sanction to it.
Such talk sliowa signs of returning rea
son. Fanaticism is beginning to think.
Canning ii only the mimic of discretion,
and may pnaa upon weak men, jnst as
pertness is ofteu mistaken for wit, and
gravity for wisdom.
Wbeu Sheridan was asked what kind
of wine he liked beat, he answered—
“Other people’s.” There are a great ma
ny Sheridans uow a-days.
i dened than ever, planted his right foot so
i firmly about the termination of his coat
| tail that it landed full tea feet upon its
I face.
1 To all this the thing had made no resist*
I ance, nor manifested the least resentment,
although a number of the men the Almighty
had created shouted to it “to knock its
persecutors into the middle of next week ;”
but it held up its hands imploringly, and
bung its head in the most abject and ser
vile manner, so that the meu went off in
disgust. But the Devil, who had stood by
all the while, his iron sides almost burst
ing with laughter, uow fairly shrieked with
delight, sprang seventy-five feet into the
air, turned thirty-five well defined somer
saults, and alighting by its side, raised
both hands, and bringing them forcibly
down upou its shoulders, shouted, “It is
enough; I dub thee a Submissionist/”
Whereupon the cieaturo raised its head
looked tremblingly around, partly arose,
and in a stooping posture sneaked off’.
The Sooth Western Fouudry at Wythe-
ville, Virginia, has twenty man employed
in making rifles, who tarn out tan per day.
They expect to increase tbe number to
25 or 30 per day as soon as they got all
tbeir machinery in complete order.
The Memphis “Avalanehe” says the first
lot of Southern made powder was received
from Panola eonnty, Mississippi, over the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad, on the
21st ult. It is said to be eqnai to any
made elsewhere.
Smarting nnder tbe keen lash of a pa
triot lady, one of tbe enemy’s officers in
Alexandria lately remarked to another:
“These Virginia ladies are very fearless.
They are more plucky than the men.”
“Sir!” retorted the lady, “you have not
met our men yet. When yon do, you will
change your opinion 1” Another, a widow
lady, when offered “a pass” by Col. Wil
cox to and from Alexandria and her farm
near by, indignantly spurned it. “A Vir
ginia lady, on Virginia soil, and daughter
of a Virginia statesman, disdains to move
by *a pass’ from a wicked invader !” When
warned that the sentinels might molest
her, she said if they did she would send
them to their master for better instruction.
She carried the day, and travels as she
lists.
The Usurpation.—The Cincinnati Ga
zette—whose editor is an office holder of
Lincoln, and a confident of Chase, does not
deny that Lincoln has trampled on the
public liberty. His declaring war—his
raising armies—his invasions of the States
— his arrest of citizens by the military—
his suspension of the writ of habeas co-pus
—his closing ports—his piratical depreda
tions upon the property of tbe people,
were all incontestable facts and palpable
and outrageous infractions of the laws and
Constitutions. The Gazette meets the is
sue plumply by coniessiug : That “the
public safety being the supreme law, al
most the first act of the President was the
suspension of the Cousitulion.” This is
the Yaukee idea of Republican Govern -
meat.
Statesmanship—What is it.—It con
sist, so far as we are able to form an opin
ion of it, from the actings and doings of
thoso who claim to be and are considered
statesmen, in outraging the dictates of com-
monseuse and perverting the plainest
principles of common justice.
Our Congress, as it chooses to call itself,
has exhibited a notable instance of this
kind of statesmanship in its recent enact
ment of postage laws, in reference to news
papers. The common rule with those who
undertake to serve others for pay is to
charge in propotion for the labor per
formed. This mle commends itself to tbe
common sense of mankind and to their
general ideas of justice. But our Congress
reverses the rule and clnrges the larger
price for the smaller labor. It carries a
newspaper from Richmond. Virginia, to
New Orleans and delivers it for a little less
than four filths of a cent, but if a paper
is printed in New Orleans and not trans
ported a foot by the government, but de
posited in the post office for distribution,
the government charges one cent for it.—
There may be sense or justice in this, but
we are unable to discern it, perhaps it is
very plain in the eye of a statesman.
| Columbus Corner Stone.
Profession vs. Practice.—Every one
knows with what horror the people of the
North have professed to look upon the
iustitutiou of slavery, as it exists in the
Southern States. The right of property
in slaves was strenuously denied, and the
Southern people were denounced as barba
rians and robbers, because tbey did not at
once ruin themselves, the country, aud
the slaves, by passing a general act of
emancipation. We never believe they
tnemselves would have been guilty of such
au act of lolly if the slaves could have
been placed in tbeir hands, aud the con
duct of some of the Lincoln troops, from
New Eugland, who are now in Virginia,
shows that they have no objection to the
institution when there is a chance for
them to make money by it. They are seiz
ing all the slaves they can get their hands
on, for the purpose of selling them and
pocketing the proceeds. One of the Mas
sachusetts soldiers who was killed at
Great Bethel had in his pocket a letter
which lie had written to his mother, say
ing he had already secured twenty-five
horses, aud a number of slaves, which he
hoped to be able to sell soon. The ac
tion of Gen. Butler, as well as his men,
exhibits the difference between Northern
profession and practice. They profess to
abhor slavery, but have no objection to
pocket the profits arising from it, no matter
in what shape they may come. Such has
been the history of New Eugland men from
earliest times to tbe present day.
[ Montgomery Advertiser.
“Sacked Soil.”—The most absurd of
all the ridiculous and impudent dodges of
the Confederates of Jeff. Davis is their
impudeut outcry that when the United
States forces disturbed their rascally
doings in any State, the “sacred soil” of a
sovereign State had been outraged by a
hostile invasion. The rebel Confederates
of Kentucky are trying this miserable
dodge just now, and they shonld be
brought to tbeir senses. The soil of every
one of the thirty-four States of the Union
is the sacred soil of the United States, and
there is no outrage committed against this
sacred soil except when it is occupied or
invaded by the enemies of the United
States.
Movement of tiif. Southern Presbyte
rians.—We are informed (says the Rich
mond “Enquirer,”) that the following pa
per is in circulation among the Presbyteri
ans of this State, and is rapidly obtaining
signatures. We cordially commend the
manly aud patriotic spirit, and the devo
tion to Christian principle and duty in
which the movement had its origin :
“ Whereas the General Assembly of tbe
Presbyterian Church, Old School, with
which we have heretofore been in cordial
connection, lias, by the vote of a large ma
jority of its members as reported to us, sus
tained the Government of the United
States in waging the most unchristain,
criminal and atrocious warfare of modern
times, upon the free and sovereign States
known as the Confederate States of Amer
ica, thereby violating the first principles
of our holy religion, in its injunction of
“peace on earth and good will to men,”
and in its prohibition of aggressive war up
on any people struggling for its indepen
dence and liberties.
Therefore, the miuislers and elders of
the churches iu said Confederate States are
hereby invited to assemble iu advisory
Convention, in such ratio of representa
tion as may seem to them advisable ( at
Richmond, Virginia, on the 24th day of
July next, to advise and recommend meas
ures to assertain tbe sense of the fc Presby
terians in regard to tbe formation of a
General Assembly of tbe Presbyterian
Church iu the Confederate Staets of Amer
ica.
Ministers and members of the Presbyte
rian Church throughout the Confederate
States are requested to give circulation to
this paper, obtain signatures, and forward
to Rev. M. D. Hoge, Richmoud.Va.”
[Newspapers throughout the Confede
rate States are requested to copy.|
The Cincinnati Inquirer states that tbe
loss sustained by the pork packers in that
city', up to tbe present time, will not fall
short of $1,000,000.
Tbe first daily newspaper printed in
Virginia was in 17S0. and tbe subscription
price was $50 per annum.
mi%rn licturiier.
TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1861.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Hon. THOMAS W. THOMAS, of Elbert
[ELECTION OX THE FIRST WEDNESDAY IS T
PRAYER FOR THE COUNTRY. ^
The Pastors of the several Churches in 11,1s c ; t -
have, during the last week, been holding, nr.,] <fe.
sire to continue on alternate mornings at$oV.
special Prayer meetings of one hour for tlie com,
try. The interest manifested has been quite en
couraging.
FOURTH OF JULY.
Hitherto, when strangers visited PhiladelpJ a
their first inclination, and, as they esteemed i;
their first duty was to see Independence Hall, with
its variety of portraits on the walls, seme of the
large cushioned chairs in w hich the signers sat •
the bell which called the people together in the
square to hear the declaration read by Charles
Thompson, the Secretary of Congress; many au
tographs of men of Revolutionary lame, the writ
ing table of Franklin, and other associations which
rendered Independence Hall the Mecca of Ameri
can patriots. Many large and handsomely bound
folio volumns are filled with signatures, as each
visitor is requested to register his or fier name
date, aud place of residence. For more than titty
years this custom has brought together names of
all sorts, perhaps not less than a million, many of
them distinguished travellers, authors, diplomat
ists, and men of science from Europe.
The Day, however, which has been thus conse
crated in the annals of Liberty, does rot attach as
the exclusive property of the North, like Indepen
dence Hall in which the Congress of i776 framed
and signed the immortal Declaration. The people
of the Southern Confederacy freely give up the Hal',
and wish that the North may carefully preserve it
as a hallowed memento of a common struggle aud
a common triumph: bnt the principles of the Dec
laration the South will forever cherish, as they are
taught by it that Governments derive their powen
from the consent of the governed.
On Thursday, 4th inst. the ‘ - Baldwin Blues, Ju
nior,” Capt. Conn, in their handsome dress uni
forms, received their military guests, the “ Black
Spring Rifles,” Capt. White, at the Oconee Bridge,
whence with a band of music they were escort- i
to the State House, where an audience awaited
them in the Representative Chamber. Braver was
offered by the Rev. H. J. Adams, after which that
patriotic song, “ God save the South,' - was sung
by the audience, standing. The Declaration
American Independence, adopted in 177b was then
read in a distinct and agreeable manner by L. Cak-
RINGTOX, Esq., after the close of which he said
that he had been requested to read also the Decla
ration of Georgia Independence in 1861, at the same
tiiue refreshing tbe audience with the Report of
Mr. Toombs from the Committee on Federal H i:
tion.- adopted by the Convention, and forming
about nine pages of the printed Journal of that
body.
Captain Thomas W. White, of the R.fies :h^u
delivered an address of about an hour’s length, iu
which he reviewed the controversy between the ,\
and the South, often nsingfigures and illustration,
peculiar to his varied learning and caustic wi:.
which were received with applause. At the con
clusion of the address the audience retired, and
the “Blues” and “Rifles” with banners and music
marched to a grove near the Lock, a mile or two
below the city, where a bountiful and well pre
pared barbecue was served, under tae direction of
the “ Blues,” of which the military- and a number
of invited guests partook. Every thing was man
aged in good taste. Even the light shower of rain
which drove the people nnder trees and umbrellas
for shelter, added to the enjoyment, as it was much
needed for comfort as well as for the crops.
After ihe cold rcater feast (the “ Bines Junior"
being a strict total abstinence company) the mil:-
tary aud guests, not omitting a large company of
boys who delight in such displays, repaired to
an open space where the “ Blues” raised a target .v.
eighty yards, and opened fire upon it r.s the r .
was called. The result was, that a large Siin
Cup was awarded to Sergeant J. J. Woottf.n. a,
the best shot; and Sergeant W. A. Fair and Cor
poral J. B. Beall as second and third best shot.-,
received each a handsome plume.
At the request of the donors, L. n. Briscop.
Esq., delivered the prizes in a brief and eloquent
address to the young Sharp Shooters, in the cour--
of which he remarked that the corruptions of ti.-
ballot-box had driven the South to the cartridge-bo■
in defence of its rights, and hence it was of impor
tance, that the art of shooting correctly shonld re
ceive due attention and honor. Late in the after
noon, the military companies marched back to the
city, through the principal streets, and the
“ Blues” were dismissed at their Armory.
COL. BARTOW AND GOY. BROWN.
The Savannah Morning Xcurs publishes a letter
from Col. Bartow, dated Harpers Ferry, i4th
ult. in reply to the letter of Gov. Brown, of - * 1 "
May. Mr. Lovell, who furnished the reply, re
quested, through the Xeirs, “ the papers in ti;
State that have published the previous portion ot
this correspondence, to publish Col. Babtow sre-
p lj-”
As an act of justice we are disposed to comply
with the request, as we aided in giving publicity
to the first part of the correspondence,with no design
to espouse either side. But we perceive sufficient
reason, in the language which Cot. Bartow has
thought proper to apply to the Chief Magistrate
Georgia, yvhy we should decline giving circulanoa
to a note more than usually caustic between eta
cial characters, as the following passage wnl site" •
I have little time and less inclination to rep
iu detail to the insoleut missiec you have thoug-
proper to publish in my absence.’’
We consider thU words we have placed in it*H [S
so extraordinary that we believe the friends o*
Col. Bartow, and even that gentleman himself " ■
reflection, will regret seeing them in print,astir
have a literal meaning inconsistent with the military
rank, if not with the social position of the part c-
for while in the latter sense there is no inequuiil)■
we think there is something, useless to deiia*' -
the ofiice of Commander-In-Chief of a Irtate, ° a ‘“ r
one hand, and the Colonel of a Regimen: on t'
other, which renders the term “ iusulent so •
remarkably inapplicable, that we feel called D P° n
to notice it thus formally, and to express ° ur 1
gret that a term of such decided significancy*-*
exclude it from use where gentlemen
each other’s equality, should have been a l'f - ‘ ^ _
the Governor of a sovereign State ; tor in onr ^
ception no man can be “insolent, excep 1
superior in rank. Whether the Governor or ^
Colonel has the advantage in this re5 P ,c! ', ;
leave the public to determine. As - lUze
Georgia we confess that it is disagreeable to
dignity of the Chief Executive Office ' eDor ^J^j t
such contemptuous phraseology, however g •
the sourse from which it emanated. w
That CoL Bartow has permitted his
betray him into rashness, is no dishonor.
that the rank of Brigadier General by ^
been assigned him in the command of the l- ^
bama, 7th and 8th Georgia Regiment.-, ® n ^
Battalions of Kentucky troops, now the C
rate army in Virgins. We can never be * E “ ,
ble to his merits as a soldier.