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uot complain if wi*. L>ave coiisenleil to rely
ou Northern men as our factor* an*. agents,
in earn ing ou our foreign tia'L*, and
les constituted the great business of the | “From what has beefi detailed above, as
NottL. 1 hey immediately procured the j revealed to us from the return of the seu-
pasaage of u law granting a draw back on
furuibh'iug ut, with goods. They have ; tis.li exported, equal to the suppoit quan
amassed immense fortunes in tin’s transact
sus, it is quite apparent that the North,
as distinguished from the South aud West,
would be aloue periuauantly injured.—
titv of salt used. This was soon changed
ir.gour business. au«l we !<:.' <• been satis (or a law granting a bounty on vessels en 1 Its fortunes depend upon manuiactoring
fied with our dependent eeadi'iou. '* j »i l ~ *—* J
If they have made twenty millions an
Dually in the way freights on our products immediate effect was to stimulate the buil-
to Europe, and twenty rnillious more for ding of vessels, whilst the annual bounties
derived
Northern
gaged in the fisheries, aud this bounty has j and shipping ; but, as bas been seeu
been continued to the pieseut time. Its neither raises its own food nor its
to Europe, an«l twenty
freights in bringing back the goods for
which they were exchanged, and thirty
millions more as profits ou the goods thus
brought hack and seU to our retail mer
chants, we have submitted to it without
murmuring; and do not bring it up for any
purpose than to allow bow quietly and pa
tiently we have acquiesced to flic course oi
trade which has enabled them to make an
Dually seventy millions in acting as our
agents and factors. It is two oljvions »o
requite comment, that if the capital that
\vi rked this machinery of trade had been
it
nor its own
! raw material, nor does it furnish freights
1 for its own shipping. The South, on the
from the public treasury swelled i other hand, raises a supply of food, and
capital 1 hesc bounties have : supplies the world with raw
materials.
amounted in the aggregate to mere than i Lumber, hides, cotton, wool, indigo—all ;
thirteen millions «*i dollars, of which the, that the manufacturer requires—is within !
i : l :4- tpi. _ ~l *^
and reap from our own products those im
mense profits which the North has so loug
enjoyed. No people ever had greater in
ducements to put forth their energies in
the prosecution of the pending war. No
ueople ever fought for so high a stake.—
No people ever had such brilliant pros
pects after victory. Along with our po
litical, commercial aud financial indepen
dence, we will have all that can make a
nation great, powerful and happy.
Very respectfully,
A. O. P. Nicholson.
Massachusetts have received ! its own circle. The requisite capital to I
itds or more thau eight mil- put them into action is rapidly accumulate
people o(
over two t
lions.
As long as Great Britain exercised do- •
mi nil'll over her colonies, the North could
not compete with the mother country for 1
the carrying trade, hut so soon as the
Union was formed this restriction was re-
uiucd, and laws were passed giving large
What the War is doitif hir Colombo*.
Editor Enquirer: Having ail hour
to
ing, aud in the long mil it would lose— i spare, a few days since, I strolled around
after recovering from first disasters
by separation
•noth
the city to see what was going ou. We
have heard a great deal, of late, about the
owned in Baltimore, Charleston and New encouragement to the colonists to embark
Orleans, these immense profits, instead of
building up 15 >ston, New York and Fbila
defphia, would have contributed to build
in that trade. The North was not slow to
take advantage, of these Jaws.
\nother field of profitable enterprise was they were far more interested in the pies- j my voyage of observation by calling
op great Southern cities. It is equal- the same time opened up through the opera- ; ervatiun of the Union than the Southern my old friend, V . R. Brown, at the
ly obvious that if wc employ our own men 5 tions cf the tariff laws which attracted oar- people, and that if separation should take lutnbus foundry and Machine Shop.
Thus wrote a Northern author before i hard times, prospects of the poor starving,
our present troubles commenced. He 1 etc,; but, from observation made, I think
wrote to warn his own section of the utter | nothing is farther from the truth. 1 be
stupidity aud wickedness of tbe warfare ; rich seem to be the poor at this time. I
‘ visited all the p)ace3 of industry, and find
that those who will labor are employed ;
them the facts in order to show them that | still labor is wanted here. I commenced
011
Co-
which Nortl ern politicians w ere wagin
against Southern institutions. He gave
and means hereafter, in niauagiu
eign trade, we »h
rivaling those of il
our for ' ly attention. The whole country was place, the North would be. utterly and in- : Here I found all hands busy in the differ
all have Southern cities j dependent on Great Britain for manufac-j evitably ruined, whilst the South would 1 eut branches of mechanism. Ibis com
ha North. j tured goods. The North saw immediate- I really be greatly benefitted. His closing
It is not to be supposed that all of the j ly that if manufactories could be built up! ic marks were so lorcible that 1 cannot re
surplus products of the »Soutii are exported at home, the protection furnished by the sist the temptation to reproduce them;
to foreign countries. Unfortunately for ! tariff law would give them a virtual mou- j “The North has no future material resour
accuracy of statoiueut. wc have not the ofii opoly of the domestic trade in inanufac- j ces ; in materials, both the other sections
eial data ou which to exhibit that portion j ttiries. They bad the vessels to bring the surpass it. In metals, it is comparatively
of our products which is sent directly to raw material from the South, where it was ! destitute ; of raw materials, it has uone.
paiiy are enlarging their shops aud ex
teudiug their business. Success to this
and all enterprises that poiut to Southern
disenthralment.
I gave our cotton mills a call, particu
larly the Eagle Factory, under tbe ruau-
etnent of that eliicieut superintendent.
the North for exchange for Northern pro- produced—they had the wafer power to Its ability to teed itself is questionable.— J. Rhodes Browne. I lie factories pri
ducts. We know that about S0<) 000 bales 1 drive t.lie machinery—they had aecumula- ] Its commerce is to the wlicle country what j pally manufacture goods lor army use.
of our cotton — worth over forty millions ol 1 ted capital in the African slave trade, aud ■ that of Holland was once to the world-viz : j 'llieso mills give employment to a large
dollars—are sent yearly to New England, j now the tariff laws gave them large advan- ' living on the trade uf other people. Its ; uurnber of operatives, w no, without such
and wc know of many othot articles worth tages iu competing with ioreigu manufae-
millions upon millions of dollars that aie tures. There was a stroug disposition awaiting only tbe time wbeu the other
sent and exchanged for Northern products, j throughout the L nion to encourage domes- sections w ill do their own work. M hen
but of the aggregate amount we can only ; tic manufactures in order to render our
form an estimate. A very able and rclia ! independence of Great Britain still more j now occupies the proudest rank iu the Uu
Lie Northern writer, T. J\ Keitel, Esq.,
alter careful investigation, lias expressed
the opinion that the South sends annually ! with Great Britain iu 1812 the North ea-
to the North |woduce to the value of two!
hundred millions of dollars. Assumingtliis j
sum to be reliable, tbe account will stand
thus .*
Goods imported through Northern
ports in exchange tor Southern
products £218,81)5,4.'0
I’roduce sent direct!/ North 2(H),OHO,OltO
that moment arrives, Massachusetts, which
now occupies the proudest rank iu the Uu-
complete. This feeling was greatly I ion, will fall back on her own resources,
strengthened by tlie occurrence of tbe war : and still claim to be an agricultural State,
since her summer ctuy is granite and. her
erly availed herself of these favorable | winter crop is tee. This period the Nuitli
manufactures occupy tbe same position, \ employment, would be in a destitute cou-
j ditiou.
j Leaving the factories I passed'ou to the
sujiiueiy permits a few unscrupulous poii
ticlans, clerical agitators, ami reprobate
as the persons to hasten by the most wanton at
tacks upon the institutions of their best
establishment of Barringer &c Mortou.—
This, firm notwithstanding tbe war, seem
to be doing well. Their shop is well sup
plied with machinery for the manufacture
of sash, Blinds, Panel Hours, etc. All
such establishments contribute to South
ern wealth and independence, and should
be patronized with a liberal hand by the
South.
I gave Samuel Thom’s flap Manufac-
circiioifitances and embarked largely in
manufacturing. It was uot dift'cult to pro
cure such protective legislation
North claimed to be uccobsary, aud th
Bank of the United States was more than
w illing to contribute facilities for raising
the capital needed fur enabling the North the same position that New Eugland held j I would say to those engaged in raisin
to do the manufacturing for the whole i to the South on the formation of the Uu- companies, give Sarn a call before purchas
country. The Bank, with its branches ion. They are holding out to them the ! ing eiswhere Win. S. Lloyd is olso ex
customers. They are forcing the North- tory a call, He has a fine lot of Military
cru slave States to assume to the South j Caps on baud, gotten up in good style.—
Total *11:?,805,450
North as we sell there, the trade between scattered through all the States, played a j bright prize of becoming tbe manufacturers, ! teusively and usefully engaged iu this
the two sections is double ibis sum, or
*837,790,£*00 annually. If this immense
carried ou, ou
beneficial, it would indicate an amazing j cumulation of immense wealth, arid which with the North, iu order to enjoy (hose branch-
y in the natiou as a ; fixed the dependence of the South upon es of industry in relation to the South which
the North. This course ol trade Lecame hate conferred suck wealth and prosperity
most important part in enabling the North
to establish that course of commercial and
financial trade which resulted in the ac
importers and carriers for the South, at
the North has been. They offer than this
brilliant premium to eut their connection
prosperity, not only
whole, hut iu all oi its parts.
I have shown some of the
business.
Seeing a large number of women con
gregated before the office door of our pop
ular Quartermaster, I stepped across the
street to see what was the matter there.
To my surprise, those women and girls
Jvanta~ps firmly established before the Bank wa6 j ujron New England and the Middle States, were waiting their turn to receive goods,
enjoyed by the North, growing out of the
peculiar course of trade between the sec
tions. It falls iu my way now to notice
another advantage enjoyed bv the North, cfcl
and beyond ail comparison, the most im
portant and controlling one. My allusion
is to the influence of the tariff laws on the
trade aud commerce of the two sections. I
am not now criticising the policy of pro
tective or prohibitory duties, as recently
adopted by the Congress ol the United
vertbrown aud the high protective policy Eugland became ri-li by the colonies—re
in
the
w as modified, that the North has since had 1 pelling them. Her wealth fell on New Eng-
but little difficulty iu maintaining its as
denev.
It is not in the power of figures to cou-
vey to the mind a correct idea of the ad
vantages which tbe North has enjoyed
over the South, under the influence of the
various laws which have stimulated aud
controlled the employment of capital.-
land ; she has become rich, and in
turn repels the South iu lavor of
Ncithern slave States. These latter see ! (which have sprung up since the war coin
the prizefalling to them, and many become j meuced), aud was pleased with the air of
cut to baud, to make up for army use.—
Dillard seems to he tbe proper tuau in the
light place.
I visited all the sewing establishments ! ply them.
THE WANTS OF OUR SOLDIERS.
Dr Warren Stone, the cmineut New
Orleans Physician, writes as folluwes to
the Delta :
“For the last seven wt-eks I have been
with the Army of the Potomac, in atten
dance upon the sick and wounded, and
endeavoring to ascertain the wants of the
army', ami the best means of supplying
them. The people at home, by acting in
concert, aud concentrating their means in
depots for transportation, can do very
much iu supplying the wants of the army-
in diet, and thereby rendering it healthy
aud efficient. Two aitides of diet, which
can be furnished iu gieat abundance,
would contribute more thau anything else
to the health and comfort of our soldiers—
first corn ineal and beaus or cow peas,
which are in great abundance iu all the
Southern Confederacy, but at preesent
are not available, becaus tbev have uot
heretofore beeu gathered much for the
market. These articles are wdiolesome,
nutritious, and palatable, and can be
cooked anywhere and by any one. Wheat
flour cannot be well cooked in camp,
aud ought not be sent there, except in
moderate quatities, until it is cooked in
the form of hard bread. The constant
cry of the soldier is for corn meal : the
little they are able to get, they say is
pound too flue, but that might be easily
obviated. I have been told by those who
have more experience than 1 have, that
portable corn mills might be readily sup
plied, so as to furnish a supply of meal
fresh, and in the form desired. The prop
er atuhorities bhouid look to it at onec.—
The cow pea, as it is commonly termed,
can be produced in any quantity that may
he required, and its wholesome and pal
atable qualities are too well known to re
quire any mention on my part. Let ev
ery planter iu the Confederacy send a few
barrels, and send them to some suitable
point for transportation, and tbe army
will be supplied. There are other articles
that would contribute to health and cum-
foit, such as pepper, pickles, mustard, ecf.
I was told by Judge Davis, of Florida,
that arrow root could be procured in great
quantities in 1 iorida, if some agent was
sent there to stir up the people to gather
and prepare it. In October and Novem
ber they turn their hogs upon the roots,
instead of gathering them for market.—
These suggestions I have mentioned to
some of the authorities, and it may he
that some action will be taken to concen
trate our resources, but in tbe mean time,
the local authorities can start the people i
iu the light direction. No time bhouid j
be lost. Our country supplies every lux- j
ury and every necessary, if its resour- ;
ces can be concentrated, and it is a :
shame that our brave soldiers should want j
for anything that a little energy and fore- j
thought, ou the part of those whose soil
and firesides they are defeudiu
Tut Cotton Scri*LT m England —The
Loudon “Times" of September 10th gives
tbe following ;
Stock of American cotton, Sept, 5 1861,
533,370 bales. Consumption of American
cotton, and export, from .Jan. 1st to pres
ent time has been, per week, 45 590 bales.
Tbe present stock if ail consumed by 31st
Dec., 1801, would only allow a weekly
consumption and export of 33,700 bales.
The present stock of American cotton
is less than it was last year this time, by
300.000 bales.
Very soon the supply of American cot
ton will be exhausted and the spinners
must either close their mills or adapt their
machinery to the use of the East India
cotton, of which most fortunately their is a
good supply. But their is no use disgois
ing the fact, that they will not do so until
compelled to do so by the direct necessity
—a necessity, however, which is uot tar
distant.
Tralh From Beyond the Sen.
A very late number of tbe London Ob
server, iu an an article entitled the Re
sources of the States,” dwells particular
ly on the dependence of the North upon
the South ; showing conclusively that du
ring the early history of this country the
American States progressed very slowly j
“until the Cotton crop grew to be* of ini j
portance to England, France and Ger-'
many, and tbe great staple became the
king of Commerce,’ and adds tbe follow-- 1
ing significant sentences :
"The exports of the South have paid
eight-tenths of the imports in tbe Northern
States.” * ' * *
“ I here is nothing whatever produced or
manufactured iu the North but what can
be cultivated or wrought in the South ; but
it would puzzle the people of New Eng
land to grow cotton or rice in their cold cli
mate. * * * *
“Few persons believe that the South can
be subjugated, and every one sees clearly
1 that the North will come out of toe matter
very much damaged.
Stontjjnrn litfurfitr.
I ii E O G- E V I L L F
_ JWBDAT, OCTOBER 15, l36l
FOR PRESIDENT^
JEFFERSON DA VIS.
OF Mississippi.
Confiscation and SEycLSTRATiON.-Some
very troublesome questions are likely to
arise under tbe autboritivo construction
of tbe Act of the Lincoln Congress order
ing the confiscation of the propertv of
Southerners when found on their side of
the line. The circular of Mr. Seward,
published in these columns yesterday-
confines the operation of the Act to prop
erty in transitu between the North an
South, and
hostile purposes, j ne pi
North, thus far, has beeu without respect
to any such limitations. Ail property
belonging to citizens of the South, whetb
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
OF GEORGIA.
for congress—fofrth district
Hod. A. II. KENAN of Baldwin.
Electoral Ticket.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE :
DAVID IRWIN, of Cobb.
HIOMASE LLOYD, of Chatham.
* district electors:
I.-J. L. HARRIS, Of Glynn
2 -ARTHUR HOOD, of Randolph
3. -J. L. WIMBERLY, ofStewa-t
4. —ED. McGEHEE. of Houston.
L P. GARX IS, of Richmond.
6 —M. C. M. HAMMOND, of Clark.
t. O. C. GIBSON, of Spalding.
8.—JOHN RAY. of Coweta.
9- H II. CANNON, of Rabun.
10 —H. F. PRICE, of Cass.
lir The election of President and X>, .p.,,
dent, and for Members of Congress, will be held
the first Wednesday in November.
The Journal .V
to oar support of Col. A. H. Ken an for Com™,
and asks r> question to which we rep!/, that tk
whole Legislative course of Col. Kenan, extea;,
ing through many years, has fully proved his title
to our commendation, as a “sound and practict!
statesman.'' We do not think it necessary to a
’ T eaI t0 t5i e record to verify this opinion, bat oftLs
'j j we are assured, that for quickness of percepr r
1 clearness ot statement, and force in discussion, i*
such as is actually * used for U,‘ , - , ,
. 1 -, „ , wa» the equal ofanv man wno has for manr
poses. I he tnar fret <>t the ,. * -'".‘sit. man/ Tears
«TT*a id our General Assembly. .Vs to his
iu the Confederate Congress, to which thsJounu.
$r Mcsscngcs refers, we do not think he was ca„4
er arms, money or horses, has been seized J”-’ 11 ^ L ' r ciimst.uic.-s t-> figure m debate, as tm
under alleged authority ol law. Under | ^ °* was presented,',:
Mr. Seward’s interpretation of the law a j acU ““' ^ides, thejnjnnc-don of secrecy has de-
sii.all amount
property
Wakkln Stone, M. D.
eager to grasp it before the North shall hare
airahe/udto its danger.'
It is apparaut from the facts stated,
that if the separation between the North
aud the South hud been peacpable and
Many southern men saw aud protested
States; but 1 atn following the lights fur ! against the unequal aud unjust operation amicable, it would have been exceedingly
nisbed by the official report for I860, when j oi t,lie system of legislation which was j difficult for the South to establish and
tbe revenue tariifof 1S57 was in operation.! enriching one section at the expense of j maintain its commercial and financial iu
Iu I860 the dutiable goods imported I t * ,c otl *er. They struggled to resist the j dependence. The ties of trade that con-
amounted to 8279,872,327, and the average ! overwhelming power that was combined ' nected the two sectious weie so numerous
tariff was 20 per cent. Of this amount one a g u "‘M them, but they struggled iu vain, j aud so strong, and the habit in the South
hundred and fifteen millions were import- ^ they got for their labors the bitter j ot relying on the North for commercial
ed in exchange for Northern products, aud 1 denunciation ot the North as being rest- ! aud financial facilities was so confirmed,
one hundred and fifty four millions iu ex
change for Southern products—the former
yielding tweuty-tlircc millions of revenue
the latter thirty two millions. It thus ap
pears that the South contributes three fifths
of the revenue from importo, yet it is an :
undeniable fact that in the disbursement
of the revenues, at least three fifths are!
expended iu the North. If such is the!
unequal operation of a revenue tariff, it j
Southern men enga<
no power to stand
ed
less disuuiouists.
I in commerce had no power to stand up
j against the combined force of North-
j ern capital' wielded by manufacturing and
banking corporations, and fostered aud
that the obstacles to complete indepen
dence would have been next to iusupeia
blc. These obstacles were removed, how
ever, when Mr. Lincoln determined to re
sort to the military powrr of the Govern
protected by all the power of the Uu- j taent to prevent the separation. War has
ion. All they could do was to submit to! desolved all of the commercial and fiuan-
thc power they could not control, and cial, ?ts well as the political ties, that
glide into the course of trade which had
been the fixed habit of the country. It
buuud
longer
the
the
contentment that appeared in the collate
nance of each one engaged in them. 1
could not help comparing their condition
with tiiat of the same class North. The
latter look care worn and dejected, view
ing their Yankee employers as their op-
pressem. Nut so with the same class
South; they are treated politely by those
who employ them—lieuce their content
ment. May this continue is my devout
wish.
I stepped in to see what Ileiuman was
duing in the way of making blades to
help the Yankees out of the world. Heie
I found Swords gotl'U) up in a creditable
manner, considering the short time lie has
been engaged in this line. Ileinmau also
manufactures a handsome Sword Bayonet,
which can be fitted to the rifle or double
barrel shot gun.
While 011 this subject I would state that
[From the Richmond Di-patch ]
Tilt liclorv in the HiurUnvcM.
i very small amount of Southern
can sup- | .will be subject to seizure.
Supposing the Lincoln Government
should carry out this interpretation iu
good faith—and by the way they seem to
have made this discovery only after it
became apparent that two could play at
the game, and their opponents with fre
meudous effect—tbe question arises, shall
We conversed yesterday with soldiers
, j . . , , , . t mv/uuouo ciiv-vv tuv« uuVJSiUU nilOUO| OIJAll
who were engaged m the battle of Green- , the Confederate law of the sequestration
brier river, ou the 3d instant. J hey rep- b e relaxed l It is placed by the Congress
two
war
sections together. The j Isaac C. Moses is now engaged in putting
bhall continue, and tlie
up machinery for the manufacture of Yager
He expects iu a few weeks to be
would be difficult to estimate the injustice ! * 8 llut surprising that with such advantages more blood spilled, the more embittered Bifles
ol the protective tariff now iu operation in the North became rich, but it is suprisiug will become tbe people of both bides, and j able to turn out & hundred per day.
tbe Northern Government. that tbe South was able to endure the heavy tbe more impracticable will become any! Brands A - Korner are engaged in mak
But I do not note this inequality- iu the exactions w ithout becoming absolutely future reconstruction, cither political t>r ing Fifes aud Drums of superior quality.
1 equality
operation of the tariff policy in order to
complain of it ; the law gave jliis advan
tage to the North, and the South being a
law-abiding people, submitted to the injus
tice without complaint. The fact, how ev
er, is useful in showing the depen
the Soutli upon the North.
There is another feature in the opera
tion of the tariff policy which deserves
special attention. J have shown that the
South buys of the North about two hun
dred millions of goods annually iu addi
tion to the amount received ironi abroad
through Northern ports in exchange for
Southern pioductc exported to foreign
countries. The operation of the tariff pol
icy on the prices wo have to pay for this
additional two hundred millions of North
ern goods, is exactly the same, as upon
the like goods imported from abroad. It
commercial. The sentiment is already
wide spread aud strong that the separa
tion must ho complete and irreparable.
Jt would he absurd now to think of ever
again falling back iuto that cbannal of
impoverished, Nothing can show more
clearly tLe real capacity of the .South to
become the lichest people iu the world,
than the facts which we have detailed.
Hitherto the South lias done little else
nec ofi than produce capital for the North to trade! trade which has been broken up by tiie
, upon. We have produced annually over j wickednesa and madness of the counsels
four hundred millions of raw materials,
which have passed iinrnediatly in the
hands of Northern capitalists, and consti
tuted tlie basis ol the wealth which
diicli have inaugurated the war. W
bliall be compelled to make heavy sacrifices
maintaining our independence. We must
lose thousands ol our gallant men, and ex-
To all who wish to make a noise 111 the
world 1 would say buy your instruments
from these uieu.
Passing by the new Presbyterian
Church (which has stood in an unfinished
condition) my attention was attracted by
the merry ling of the carpenter’s hammer.
Upon going into this building 1 was met
by Mr. James Meeler, whose name is in
resent that the rout of the enemy w as com
plete; and the lack of cavalry only pre
vented his entire destruction. Portions of
the 23d and 44th Virginia, aud the 1st
and 12th Georgia regiments, participated
in the fight, but most of the work v.-.is done
by artillery. Uu one occasion, a Yankee
Colonel was observed waving his sword
aud leading his men to a charge across the
river ; but a volley from tw o ambuscaded
companies, one of which w as the Richmond
Sharpe-Shooters, occasioned a sudden
change in the programme, and a rapid re
treat was the consequence. The loss of
the Federals could nut bo ascertained with
any approach to accuracy, since they were
amply provided with wagons and ambulan
ces,and carried away most oftheirdead aud
wounded ; but one of our wounded pick
ets, w hom they left iu a house adjacent to
tho battle field, said they admitted having
had 150 killed. As heretofore stated our
loss was small, and mainly confined to the
pickets who were attacked early iu the
morning. 'The enemy threw away a con
siderable number of haversacks, canteens,
and other small articles, some of which
we saw yesterday. They come into bat
tle well provided with means of trauspor
tation, and rations for three days, it is
placed
that passed it ou the clear ground of re
tuliatton, and as a retaliatory measure,
exclusively, we expect to defend it in the
eyes of the w'orid, Shall we therefore,
relax, as they relax and repeal altogether
as they repeal J The former contingency
will likely engage the serious attention of
I Died to the public a knowledge of the part hem%»
| have acted in Congress, and for this Cel. K.abttiii
not be responsible.
XX e also notice iu the Journal .y Mtssenpr. tw,
communications, one suggesting J. M. Giles,
Esq., of Houston, and a not tier calling on the Hot
Washington Poe of Bibb to allow his name:
be run for Congress, in th Fourth District. Both
these gentlemen are worthy of tbe trust, and *<
| have nothing to allege against them. As Col. Ke-
i nan had served faithfully, and had been recom
mended by gentlemen from all the counties of tt-
District, we did not hesitate to place his name in
onr columns as a candidate. XVe have no desie.
however, to engage in any strife, though we w-
very well satisfied w ith tire positieu we hav- taken
in the matter.
As we opposed the cal’ng of a Convention on
our Government.—Sacannah Republican, j principle, we did not accept Col. Kenan as acar-
didate merely because the delegates from the Dis-
separably connected with this edifice, and ! evident they contemplated an almost sin-
was politely shown through tho same.— ! obstructed march to Staunton, but in tiiis
they Lave extracted from them. It lias j peud millions of money. When we shah
been shown how they have made an an ; have submitted to all this and won our in
nual profit of oue hundred and thirty mil-1 dependence, wo should be guilty of 1111-
lions in freighting our products, returning pardonable folly if we failed to guard
them to us in foreign goods, aud in the in j effectually against ary possibility ol be-
cideutal protection derived from the tariff’
law. But this does not embrace the millions
made in the way of brokerage, interest,
cuiuuiusion, insurance, iVc, in the man-
increases the piices to the consumers of | agoincnt of our produce. Nor docs it em
the goods at the rate of twenty percent.!
under the revenue tariff' of 1857, and of I
brace the millions which wc spend yearly
in travel iu the North. Mr. Keltell esti-
thirty to forty per cent, under the tariff of j mates that fifty thousand Southerners go
3860. Uuder the revenue tariff, the addi
tional cost to the Southern 11 consuineis
•would he sixty millions annually, inclu
ding tariff and freights, and with the pro-
Y’hc workmanship is done in a plain, sub |
stantial manner, which will reflect honor |
upon those having this building in charge.!
Another improvement was noticeable in j
they suffered a disappointment somewhat
like that of the “Grand \rmy,” in the
vaunted expedition to Richmond.
We are enabled to lav before our read-
regard to the woskman now employed in ’ ers a copy of the special order issued by
North every year aud spend an average of!
81,000 each—making the total annual ex
pend aturc for travel of fifty millions of
dollars. Nor dues it embrace the millions;
coming in futuic dependent, in any sense,
upon those who have shown themselves to
be our worst enemies.
We can never forget that after wc have
patiently and quietly submitted for years lauk,cadaverous looking crea
to a condition of dependence which has Yankees, who once stalked
enriched them, they have not hesitated to
wage a war, not nieerly of subjugation
hut of extermination, upon u«. The gulf
thus created between us can never be
closed up or bridged over. We must flrst
trust to our strong arms in repelling the
finishing this Church and those employed
on the. same building this time last year. ;
My eyes wandered around this building !
in vain to find oue of those long, lean, ;
natures called I
about this j
building like birds of evil ouien. 1 could j
see none—so I thanked God and took !
courage. Oi.i* Fogy.
tective tariff, from eight, to one hundred I that wo spend in siMiuing our sons aud ! invasions, and when our independence is
millions annually. As onerous aud uu- j daughters North to be educated. Nor j achieved, we must trust to our own resour-
just as is this annual imposition of sixty ’ docs it embrace that incalculable amount i ees, our own enterprise, and our own capi
millions upon Southern consumption, we
cannot complain of it, becaunc it is only
the incident'll protection derived by the
manufactures of tho North from a revenue
tariff, but when this amount is swelled to
highly or one hundred millions under a
protective tariff, it becomes a subject for
just complaint.
We may now recapitulate the substan
tial benefits derived by the North from the
course of commercial dealings cstablmhed
between the two sections. 'l'|, 0 following
figures exhibit the annual profits made by
the North upon Southern products :
For freight to and from Europe s 10000,000
For protiis on foreign imparted goods
sold to .Southern merchants 30,000,000
For increased tariff prices on North
ern manufacturers sold to the South 60,000,000
Total profits 30,000,000
For opportunity of realizing annually
this aggregate profit of one hundred and
thirty milliouR 011 Southern products, the
North is indebted mainly to the Union.—
These profits result from that peculiar course
of commercial trade between the North
and the South, which has been stimulated
and fostered and protected by the legisla
tiou of the Union, from the beginning of
the Government. As rich as the North is
now, she was once very poor. Before she
was blessed by Union with the South Iiei
people made a living by sending small
vessels lathe M est India Islands, iaden
with fish, beef, butter, pork, poultry, cidei
apples, eabbage.®, onious, &c. These ar
ticles they 6old for money, which they
carried to England, wllo bought their
goods, returning by the way of the African
coast, catching or buying negroes, and
bringing them back for sale to the South
ern colonies. They bad little or nothing
to export, whilst the Southern colonies
ha I a large surplus ol exports over their
impoi t'.
When the Union was formed the fither
derived by the North from the system of
banking, exchanges and credits which linb !
made us financially dependent on the;
North as we have befit comineicially. It!
is impossible to estimate with accuracy j
these Amounts, and therefore I adopt the j
result of Mr. Kettle’s investigations. He j
tal for securing that commercial and finan
cial prosperity which will liecessaiily im
poverish the North, and after the war her
people will lack the resources for recover
ing from its ruinous consequences. We,
too, will have to make heavy sacrifices,
but we can bear them without becoming
comes to the conclusion that the South pays | impoverished. Due half of the amount
annually to the North for interest, broker* %ve pay yearly to the North will carry us
age, insurance, travel, A c,, about one him- j through tho war. Tho suspension of all
died aud fifteen millions.
Whut the Union has cost the South.
In aspeach made in Congress, by Mr. Hunter,
of X irginia, about a year ago, we tiud the follow
ing estimates :
The annual exports of Slave States,
Freights paid to Northern vessels
on these exports
Freights do do. on return car-
„ - •
Freights paid
ing trade...
Manufactures
summed bv
same in the coast
of the North con
the South annual-
#*200,000,000
14.000. 000
7.000. 000
ao,ooo.oon i
480,000,000
*711,000,000
He then shows that a moderate esti
mate. between three and four millions of
tlie people of the North eastern States owe
1, . | • 1 x’ 1 i m 11 1 inn now no vi tuc ixuun caaicin gh.uco un
It this be aud- ; trade with the JNorlli ami with Europe I .« * . \ • . *• i .
. . , , . . 1 . • , j * * 1 * tueir subsistauce entirely to the commerce
Him an/ 4 1. 1 •• HI'GVO f il hn I lii'iiil V0I1 1011 f tint fnr>w<> . r - - .
ed to the amount of one hundred and tliir* may prove to bo inconvenient, but these
ty millions, before estimated as the com- inconveniences will only serve to stiimi-
mercial profits of'tlie North, it yields the j late our people to the development of their
sum of two hundred and forty five millions, | own resources, and bring to light our won
deiivwd niiuaily by the North from her derl'ul capacity for self-support. Ws may
union with the South.
It must not he supposed that these
heavy piufits are enjoyed by the capital
ibis alone in the North. As well remark
ed by the able Northern writer before
quoted : “T ficso transactions influence
the earnings, more or less, of every Nor
them uiau. A portion of every artisan’s
work is paid for by Southern means. Every
carman draws pay, more or less, lioiu the
trade of that section. T’l»e agents who
sell manufactures, tho merchants who sell
imported goods, the ships that carry them,
the builders of the ships, the lumbermen
who furnish the material, and all those
who supply means of support to them and
their families, the brokers, the dealeij i u
Southern produce, the exchange dealeis,
the bankers, the insurance companies, aud
ail those who are actively employed in re
ceiving and distributing Southern produce,
with the- long train of persons who furnish
them with horses, clothing, supplies, cJu
cation, religion, amusement, transporta
tioti Arc., are dependent upon this active
iuterchauge by which, at least, one thou
sand millions of dollars come and go be
tween tbe North aud the youth iu a year.”
And theu speaking of the consequences
of separation with the (South, he says:
not he able to sell our cotton, but it will
become none tho less valuable for keep
ing. It will constitute a prime basis of
credit on which wo can light the war
through, aud at its close liquidate the debt
incurred. We arc uuder no necessity of
going abroad to borrow money.
Uur cotton is money, aud we cau make
it available as the basis of a currency,
which will be as sound as any bank issues.
Wo may have to submit to increased taxa
tion, but this will be rendered compara
tively light by the wise issuance of a hun
dred million of treasury notes, and will
ba cheerfully borne in view of the great
stake involved by tho war. We are fight
ing for our iudcpeudeuec. for our homes,
for our property, for our freedom, for ev
ery thing dear. We can afford to make
temporary sacrifices, when all the advan
tages of future dependence, political com
mercial and financial, stand out before us
in bold relief. We uovv know that it has
beeu upon Southern products that the North
has grown rich and powerful. With lights
of experience to guide the paths of our leg
islators. w’e will not fail to developo our
own navy, our own commercial marine,
out owu seamen, onr own factories, onr
own mamifacttuea, our own bankers, (tnd
of the Soutli, but for which thej’ would bo
compelled to starve or emigiate. Heshows
also that several millions of the inhabi
tants of the North-western States aro also
supported by the market for their products
afforded by the Soutli, and that the money
paid by the North eastern States, is obtain
ed mainly from the South;aud lie thus
that shows a large portion of the population
of the North eastern and North-western
States is sustained by slave labor. Mr. Hun
ter then proceeds to show that the operation
of protective tariffs, aud revenue, have
thrown tbe burthen of the Government
unequally upon tho Agricultural States
of the South, who being the chief comsu-
mers of protected articles, have paid tbe
increased price into the pockets of the
Northern producers. But the South have
not cornplaiued of this; but they have
been driven to desperation by the persist
ent efforts of tbe North, for forty years, to
over throw flic institution of slavery.
Cotton a no Fork.—The Co’umbus
(M ise.) “Republic” remarks that a bale of
cotton weighing four hundred pounds will
bring thirty-two dollars and two hogs,
weighing each two hundred pounds, will
bring about the same amount. The Southern
planters say they can rase tbeir hogs at
one quarter less the expense, and many
of them announce their determination to
give up the cotton field and go in for hog
raising.
Gen. Jackson after the battle :
Camp Bartow, Gkeenukif.r River, \
N. W. A., Saturday, Oct. 5, 1861. )
\ Special Order No. 15.\
The following will be read at evening
parado before each of the corps of that
portion of the 1st division of the army
of Northwestern Virginia at Greenbrier
river :
Soldiers : After a campaign, to you of
peculiar hardship, the enemy, descending
from his mountain fastnesses, has afforded
you the long coveted opportunity of test
ing your efficiency in action. Confident
in his greater numbers, bis superior arms,
and the comparative weakness of your
position, he came with his wagon trains,
iu anticipation of an easy victory and a
permanent enjoyment of its profits.—
But gallantly atul well have you main
tained your place in line with your
brothers of the army of Northwestern Vir
ginia. Meeting his earliest advances with
striking exhibitions of individual daring,
receiving bis concentrated fire for more
than four hours with the coolness ol
veterans, ami then, when he soupposed
your spirit to be shaken, with a calm de
termination, indicating to him what bis
fate would be should he attempt to cany
out further his original designs, you have
repulsed his first efforts to chaige and
to break your lines. Though you were
iu not force to piwsne him, and to realize
the full fruits of your triumph, retreating
he left behind him the unmistakable evi
deuces of his rout in the bodies of his
dead, too numerous to be carried with him,
the abaudonineut of arms and accoutre
ments, even to the colors which in the
morning he had flaunted so insultingly in
yonr front.
(Soldiers ! with pride I congratulate y< u.
(Signed) Henry R. Jackson,
Brigadier General Commanding.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR. RUSSELL.
i he London Times, of the loth of September,
publishes another long letter from Mr. Kusseil. dat
ed at XXi’ashiugton, on the 23th of August. Mr.
R. is impressed with the beliet that the so-called
“peace party’’ in the loyal States is uot only in a
hopeless minority, but that a false pea'*e is impos
sible. \Ye quote a passage from this part of his
letter:
1’eace is 110 longer a panacea for the evils which
afflict the United States, and war lias produced
some of its usual results iu the necessity which
has arisen for the beaten party to regain their
prestige. Of all the parties in the United States,
that wuich desires peace, quoad peace, is at pres
ent the most hopeless ; because peace could only
now be obtained by the submission and cession of
everything for which the North is fighting, and by
the loss to the North ot all, or nearly all,its advan
tages.
But still it works on, and the end would justify
tlie means, indeed, it an absolute peace could be
the fruits ot its labors. There is no chance of such
a settlement, so far as I can see. There are, in the
North itself, the materials of trouble in tho anger
of the great parties, which accuse each other of the
offences that brought ou the greater war; and, on
the whole there is, iu my judgment, greater prob-
trict presented his name : bat as he was our cose-
ty man, had already served in Congress aEd had
merits for the station, we cheerfullv gave him cur
support as we would Itave done had he announced
himself a candidate.
Us? Persons outside of tlie army, and no c t.«
more forward in complaint than conductors of ti.- 1
press, are seizing command of the war. and ent,re-
ly cast aside the President and his Generals. For
instance, the apparent inactivity and idleness of
our columns ou the Potomac since the brilliant ti-
fair at Manassas, has been widely censured, for the
reason that the enemy is permitted to strengthen
himseil by the delay, and to reeover from the pan
ic which overwhelmed him, and made him the jest
of Europe. XX e are now given to understand.how
ever, tiiat a decisive blow will soon he struct, as
it is reported that the martial host of McGleliai
has crossed into Virginia, and is .esolved *0 re-
treive the disasters of the graud army on the field
of Manassas which McDowell failed to maintaic.
ability of a peacefulI adjustment offered by tlie ac- j We are daily expecting might v resuitsinthatqnar-
tual success ot the North, so that she conic, recon- ,, , , , ,, . . .
ter. though we shall so lar depart from the com
mon usage of the press of late months, as to per
mit Johnson, Beauregard and other chiefs to direct
Gen. Houston, in ouo ot his political
speeches,gave tho following description ol
the editor of the New l'ork Tribune to
whom this continent is indebted as much
as to any other man in it for the pres
ent convulsions and bloodshed :
“Horace is a most remarkable man ; be
is the wliitest man in tlie world. IDs skin
is milk-white, llis hair white, aud these
are scattering, lie wears a white hat and
a white coat, and I must be permiittd to
give it to you as my candid opiuion, that
|iis liver is of tbe same color.”
struct the Union or allow the South to go out as a in
dependent R. public, than by any other form which
the contest can assume. It is impossible for the
North to retire from the contest iu a moral Bull
Run.
Mr. Russell proceeds to show that the troubles
of the Confederates will couie hy water, and has
the following comment upon the
natal expeditions.
“XX'ithin a narrow belt of reefs and sand banks
are Pamlico Bound, Albemarle Sound, inland seas
running into innumerable creeks, and receiving a
system of rivers, by which communication is open
ed to rail roads and towns far in the interior of tlie
country. Here lurk the privateers, which sally out
througli the openings of the outer bank, and prey
upon the passing trader: arid here the coasting ves
sels have been plying up and down with security.
Oue hundred and fifty small vessels, laden with
stones, conveyed by the United States ships of
w ar, are on the way to block up the few passages |
by which these vessels can entur, and the men ot
war have also received orders to destroy the forts
and defences which the rebels have occupied along
tbe coast.
A similar process will be applied to other points
of the coast further South, w ith w hat success it is
not yet possible to predicate. Tlie external line
of reefs and sand banks is one of the most curious
instances of recent change, and of tlie effect of wa
ter deposits and euirer.tsin the world. At the place
w here Raleigh sailed in, with fourteen feet of wa
ter under his keel, there is now a sand bank which
is entitled to tlie appellation of Kili-devil-hill, high
above the surface. These banks extend almost to
I’anipico, ail rouud by Florida : and other places
the nature of tbe shores, and lhe great lakes, and
*lagunes inside, show that the process has been
carried on till the banks became united to the main
■Mid. There is inside the most extensive aud un
ique internal communication by water in the
world. Energetic efforts will be made to suspend
it, and the result will be serious suffering and in
convenience to the inhabit ants and the destruction
of their privateering efforts.
» » * ‘• X i, e closing up of the inlets on the
coast will prove very embarrassing, and wc shall
hear no more of vessels sailing out of such places
as Wilmington, and running the blockade, if tho
expedition carries out its object. Some trouble
will be saved to the British Legation, which has
had its full share of annoyance and correspondence
in reference to British vessels seized after they
have left ports supposed to be blockaded, uot to
speak of the great increase of work connected with
the new passport- system, and the sufferings of
British subjects who are seeking to get home, or to
any place out of the States, which no longer afford
them either a home or employment. ’
Hon. Ai ex. H. Stephens.—We perceive that
certain parties are making themselves foolish by
attacking this distinguished patriot- Fortunately
the attacks w ill iujiucouly those who make them.
They cai not hurt Mr. Stephens ; probably, almost
certainly, will benefit him so far as expressions of
public esteem aud confidence are concerned. A
nobler or purer man does not live iu tbe Confed
erate States, or one who possesses the public con
fidence to a grea’er extent. His intellect is as
clear aud brilliant as his patriotism is ardent and
his probity uubouding, unimpeached and unim
peachable. There are but few statesmen in this
country who can in truth and fairness be termed
his equal.—S. O. Bulletin.
The Louisville Journal fays Buckner’s expedi
tion is for the conquest of Louisville. Be it so.
Buckner is likely to accomplish what he under
takes. XVe think we see Prentice on his winding
way back to New England. Good bye, George!
[ Vaskeilte Patriot.
their own military proceedings, even if we are im
patient to receive bulletins of victory.
As an example ia poiut, we introduce apas>ag?
from tbe ietter of the Emperor Napoleon to Mar
shal Lefebvre in 1807, wheu the latter wearied
with fifty days iu prosecuting the seige of DaaUX
after the opening of the trenches, was anxious to
storm the garrison of tbe enemy by assault, wiueii
must have bt-eu attended with great slaughter,
even if it had been successful. The Marshal had
spoken contemptuously of the engineers, “decla:
ing that he couiJ do more with the breasts of his
soldiers, than the engineers with ail their science,'
and insisting upon a general assault. In his letter
of reprimand, the Emperor said—
“Reserve the courage ol your grenadiers tor the
moment when science shall tell yoa that it maybf
usefiiiiy employed, and in the mean time Uarn pJ-
tieuee. It is not worth while for the sake ot’a tVff
days, which besides I know not how r > enipk’f
just now, to get some thousand men k’Ued winw
lives it is possible to spare. Show the _cs!miw«-
the consistency, the steadiness which Tieiit your
ago Y’our glory is in th • taking of Daotzic. Tak
that place, and you shall be satisfied."
The Marshal succeeded without the bloody cos-
sequences of an assault, and was forthwith created
Duke of Danztic. After the battle of XYateri'#-
he, with a colony of French refugees, catnc W“ e
L'uited States and settled on- lands granted them
by Congress, in the State of Alabama. The Mar
shal kept a ferry on the Black XYarrior River, Mi-
rcugo county, and perished ac sea in IriO, ou h~
return to France.
1^ The Mobile Adcertiser notices the retain
that city, of Wm. DeForrest Holley, Esq-, 411 °' u
resident, who with his family had passed the sum
mer at his ranches iu Coma! county, XX ester®
Texas, where he is extensively engaged in
growmg. He was a uear neighbor to Mr. Ecu ■
of the Picayune who has many thousands of •
best varieties of sheep in thrifty flocks, the J 1 ?
clippings from which, aud from other large >
walks in Texas arc still on hand there, without
means of transportation. If rad roads exis
the Confederate States, the material ibrtbe wint^
clothiugof our army could he at once supplied #
very moderate term--. To show the ditfie ^
conveyances over a soil similar to that in •"
we subjoin a paragraph from the Advertiser
cribiug Mr. Holley’s experience on his return
Mobile: _ ;ir . r
Mr. H- encountered the transportation
which was toiling its way across Nor! fojjp
with a battery of four Colombians aiiU ‘ j fi
fled cannon with ammunition for ua.ve» •
this herculean undertaking of the gj e ■
draught force of between two and tniee en .
oxen were employed, aud the conductors, ^: B
deavoriug to obtain two hundred afore _ - ,
dragging tho vast weight through t “ a ’ " r0 .
soaked roads. Thecouducta was 'j. c h
rrress of about tea miles per day, the hue ^
having been taken up at Alexandria, on j, eW
where the ordnance was disembarked fr m
Qrlew? boats *