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0 WEEKLY
REPUBLICAN,
By K. W. B.imu,
City and County p r 5 a i cr.
, SiS It. BNKKO, “ * KI>I IH*n
SAVANNAH, ga.
Saturday Morning, May 31, 1863.
25f“ The copy of the Herald from which "'
have made some extracts to-day, contains two
columns of deaths; and nearly three columns
headed “situations wanted—by females.
A rolling-mill is to be started soon, at the
iron works near Tuskaloosa, Ala., to turn out
the iron for gunboats, etc. Iron of the best
kind and good coal are found there in great
abundance.
The Southern public will be joyfully excited
to learn, from a late number ot the London
Illustrated News, that there is to be another
prize fight in England soon. We shall be im
patient to hear—that both have been beat into
jelly-
The Lite Riot in Pennsylvania.—North
ern papers report all quiet again in the mining
districts of Pennsylvania, where lately a serious
outbreak among the miners was reported.—
They styled the strike for higher wages “anoth
er rebellion,” for the purpose of having the
credit due to its suppression. The word "re
bellion” is in fashion, and the proper term,
“riot,” was ignored.
Another Train in From Nassau.—We are
indebted to our fellow-citizen, Capt. Augustus
P. Witter, who recently arrived in a Confede
rate port, for late London, Liverpool and Cork
papers, for which we return our sincere thanks.
We will, on to-morrow, give such extracts
from them as are of general interest. Among
other items we have and will publish is the
speech of night Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, on the American war.
, rgi” The news from Virjinia is most grati
fying and enconraging. Gen. Jackson has
swept the Shenandoah Valley. The day he
rested after the battle at McDowell, to devote
to prayer, was time well speul, and he has
reaped his reward.
If the' skirmishes near Richmond are the
opening of a general engagement, it would
seem to be the plan of Gen. Johnston to delay
his attack until Gen. Jackson had secured a
position in the roar of McClellan. This has
now been successfully accomplished, and we
look for a bloody day during this week, ou the
soil of Virginia.
The cause of the death of the Federal Gen
C. F. Smith, is reported in the St. Louis Demo
cral to have been as follows : “For two or
three nights he was very much exposed in front
of Fort Donelson, to wind, sleet and cold, in
arranging and preparing his troops, and alter
the capitulation he was taken with fever and
argue, which weakened him greatly. But his
spirit was indomitable. Upon the first symptom
of recovery he was again in the field. W hile at
Pittsburg Landing he jumped from a gunboat
into a yawl, and ran a spike into his leg, which
penetrated to the bone and caused exfoliation.
Erysipelas intervened, and In nine days Irom
tthe ime of the accident he died.”
Benjamin Franklin Butler.— Our readers
need no incentive beyond Butler’s inlaiuous
order to the ladies of New Orleans to make
them hate the very name of the detestable
scamp; but the subjoined article from the
Wilmington Journal lays the lash upon the
villain with such a vim, that we eunno; relrain
irom copying it:
The Richmond Dispatch, with the above cap
tion, copies our editorial article on Gen. B. F.
Butler, which appeared in the Republican ol
the 31st.
The error in giving the proper credit lies at
the door ol the Dispatch, as the Journal in
copying gave us credit.
As Butlef is our pet, we must demur to any
infringement of the right ol private property.
Guntowdisk Wanted. —Dr. N. A. Pratt, of
Milledgevllle, and late professor of Chtmlstry
in the Oglethorpe University, has been appoint
ed hy iheC. 8. Government to explore certain
sections of the Confederacy in search of nitre
caves, galena (or lead ore) and iron pyrites.—
These are articles which, as every one knows,
the Government very much needs.
And it will he the part of patriotism if any
one who knows of deposits or caves containing
these minerals, will spcdily convey information
thereof to Dr. Pratt. Letters will reach him
addressed to Milledgevllle, Ga. They will be
forwarded to him from that place.
He earnestly solicits minute information as to
localities, descriptions of deposits or indica
tions of such, as well as of the nature of the
surrounding country.
The districts from which he wishes informa
tion embraces East Teunessee, Alabama, Geor
gia and Florida.
Cotton Planting — Executive Ordek. —The
Jackson Missisxippian, remarking on a iate or
der of Gov. Pettus, says :
“Already many of onr planters have refused
to raise cotton, influenced purely by motives ol
the loftiest patriotism ; but as the Governor
truly says, in order to make the policy effectual
it must be general Those plauters who have
showu a disposition to disregard the safety of
tiie country, aud to jeopardise our cause in the
eager pursuit of gain, should not be permitted
so to uo. They must share the same fate with
those whose patriotism outweighs avaree. They
must not be permitted to raise cottou aud thus
imperil their country.”
Sometime since one of the Columbus (Ga )
papers referred to the fact, that a gentleman of
high political and social position in Georgia,
and perhaps in the Confederate army, had
planted a very large surface of land In cotton.
We hope the name of ihe gentleman will be
published. It is due the public that they should
know that one who has been honored by them
iu times past, aud is now leading his fellow
countrymen, and enjoying their confidence in
the hour of conflict and death, has no more
patriotism or judgment than to employ his
means in raising that which is useless to him
self, and destructive of his country.
[For the Savannah Republican ]
Vr. Editor .—ln your last Issue, I see a coni
utuuicallon under the head of “Florida News,”
in which it remarks that, “J. W. Bryant, form
erly a lawyer of Jacksonville, subsequently edi
tor of the Cubau Messenger, now FMeral Military
tioumor of Ferula, was on one of the gun
boats if'this be true, I desire to state that an
old white haired mother, now over three score
years aud ten, of whom he was the pride uud
idol in tormer times, and sisters, who ouee
loved him with ihe fondest devotion, now utter
ly denounce him forever ! At such a crisis the
oflVndlug “right eye” sbu.il be utterly pluckrd
uni, the “right hauU” cut i 11, though it should
,yw our life . The family tLat would have but
clung the more closely to h-m in the hour of
adversity, repudiate him 1010, and *Jh him, the
dark shadow of Infamy he would east; there is
a higher principle than Unman love or life—
tumor ami fiber y Ou that prlncly lo we will sacri
flee not only life, but all the hope* that make
life dear !
For the sake o! his relations I desire lo state,
that he has two noble sons, and an oniy son-in
law, lighting in the Cos ti fed orate servlet They
w* * a th oy tx fun&M* au lie for his
derlUctlon. Justice
Thomasville, May 27th,
HVtiK SiitLte.—e were shown yesterday
by sonje members of the First , regi
o'c't. 'Who brought them up from City Point
several tremendous shells, which hvd been
thrown at our pickets by the enemy * gunboats
just after the capture of the Yankee prisoners
a lew days s nee, but which failed to ex,lode.
They are conical shaped, fully eighteen or
twenty inches long, and weigh over one hun
dred, prolvtMy one hundred and twenty-eight
pounds. They are terrible looking implements,
and would undoubtedly do a good deal of exe
cution, if one of them exploded in the midst
of a company or lu a house. The only damage
done to life at the Point by these shells, that
we have heard of, was the killing of a little j
<*•'/, on Saturday evening, when our pickets on (
the blaff were fired at.
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j-pTTn A~v A TsTTsT A-S, aT IE^IE3IE 3 T JIBLIO.A_II!Sry S A-TTri,
Tire Bible and tlic Soldier.
The Bible. Society of the Confederate States
of America, (headquarters Augusta, Geo.,) have
appointed the Rev. E. A. Bolles, of South
Carolina, General Agent, to travel at large
throdgh the Confederacy, and to obtaiu funds
to assist In the publication of the Word of God
tor the destitute. The Board from whom his
appointment is derived, is now engaged In pub
lishing 50,000 Testaments, and Testaments and
Psalms. The first supply will be delivered by
the 30th June prox.
The Rev. W. H. Clarke, of Augusta, Ga,, Is
president, and Rev. E. H. Myers, Correspond
ing Secretary, and Rev. W. J. Hard, Secretary
ot the Board of Managers. The Rev. Joseph
R. Wilson, D. D., is also one of the Board of
Managers.
Mr. Bolles is now in Savaunah. He comes
among us accredited by letters of recommenda
tion from many gentlemen of the highest posi
tion, and among them is a letter from Birliop
Elliott. He will remain here a week or more,
for the purpose of soliciting contributions to
carry on this good work, and any persons de
siring to contribute can do so most convenient
ly by handing the money to their pastors, or to
any pastor in the city.
And who is not willing to give in such a
cause ? A more beuevoleut object the public
have not now before them. It is to furnish the
Word of Life to the destitute ; not to those ouly
who are destitute in this world’s goods, but to
those, also, who are now so situated that with
wealth behind them at home, they are yet des
titute of the Bible and its treasures. Our sol
diers in the field are embraced within the scope
of this benevolent and Christian enterprise.
Cau the rich man, with money lying idle be
cause he has no need of it, and can find no in
vestment, hesitate to give of his abundance ?
Will not the soldier who knows that wherever
the Bible or tbe New Testament is established,
order, cbedieuee and courage are the natural
results, give wnat he can to introduce one into
every tent ?
Read the brief account in another column ol
what these soldiets, in whose behalf this be
nevolent society, in pact, makes its appeal,
have suffered to protect us and our property,
and ask yourself: cau I refuse to do all in my
power to supply my defenders with the only
food which will sustain them when falling and
“dying from exhaustion ou the roadside?”
Under such circumstances, hearing them “beg
ging their comrades with tears in their eyes to
3end back for them,” who of us, if we were
near, would not give thousands of our useless
and idle wealth to administer the consolation
to be derived from the only companion who
can attend them “through the dark valley and
the shadow of death.”
“He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the
Lord,” and this bread nowcast upon the wa
ters shall be gathered atter many days.
Our Army Correspondent.
It will he seen by reference to our telegraphic
column, that Gen. Beauregard has issued an
order requiring ail correspondents to retire
from the army. Thus has he followed the ex
ample of Geu. Johnston in the army of the
Potomac.
Why such an indiscriminate order should
have been made, we cannot understand. It ap
pears tbat the correspondent of the Memphis
Appeal bad sent forward a telegram, which
proved .objectionable. But at the same time it
also appears that the Adjutant-General to Gen.
Beauregard had seen and appro v -1 its contents.
Who is to hltmeiu this raatUi ? i- he cor
respondent? By no means, uia t-kiris are
clear. lie did his duty by c informing to the
regulation, to submit his communication for
inspection before it was sent. Gen. Beauregard
should have visited the penalty on his own
officer—the censor of his appointment.
But more than this, what justice is there in
punishing the innocent for the guilty ? The
public will b- ar witness that our correspoudent
has uttered nothing that could endanger the
public good or welfare; and yet he, with all
others, are swept away, because of the indis
cretion of one man, and that man not a corres
pondent.
We have used our best endeavors to furnish
our readers with the latest and most reliable in
formation during the war, and we believe that
our efforts have not been unsatisfactory, or in
vain. But without fault on his part either in
Virginia or in the West, our correspondent has
been exclnded from the lines, on account ol
the indiscretion of others. There is neither
reason nor justice in the order.
But of this more anon Wo will recur to the
subject in a few days, perhaps, under another
arrangement and other auspices.
Stonewall Jackson Again.
Onr readers will see by the telegraphic news
that this indomitable warrior has pressed for
ward with his victorious columns from Win
chester to Martinsburg since our last intelli
gence of him. Martinsburg is nearly thirty
miiea-northward of Winchester, and but twelve
or fifteen from the Maryland line. The great
feeder of Baltimore and Washington from the
west—the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad—has been
torn up; Banks’army is no longer entitled to
ihe name, aud the conqueror is free to occupy
.the soil of Maryland at will.
If lie has under his command uear the report
ed number of troops —sixty thousand—McClel
lan will be forced either to risk a battle at once
near Richmond, or divide his command, iu order
to protect Washington and Baltimore. It is
known by the letter from 11. J. Reymoud, which
we will publish to-morrow, that Gen. Sumner’s
command of raw troops is the only protection
now afforded Washington City. It is also
known that but a small federal force has
been left at Baltimore. And we further
more know, Ironi Northern papers, that
the camps o( instruction in the west and in the
tast have all been drained by Ihe respective
commauds of Halleck and McClellan. So that
the detense of Washington and Baltimore must
be made by McClellan, li Raymond's state
ment be true, Unit McClelland’s command is
but little more than one buudred th usand, he
can ill aff >rd to tight two large armies, in the
front aud iu the rear.
Wo, therefore, look confidently fora radical
change iu the state of affairs arcuud Richmond
before’this week is ended.
1 hr Emmy’s Movements on the Comiuuee
111 VeK —V\are o.debtcd lo a trieud ou the
Comtwhee river lor the tollowirg InulUgeuce:
On Thursday evening lasi twenty five Yankees
paid a visit to Mr. W i.. Henry Heyward’s plan
uiliou, on tha Comba'.te liver. There were
two or three of our picket.- at Mr. Hejwood’s
when the Yankee' arrived, 'i li-v immediately
gave rein to their horses, ih e Yankees firing
fifteen or twenty shots at them, doing no dam
•ge, lint increasing me speed of the horses.
Ftie Yankee* remained at Mr. Hey wood’s
house all night, and ie at daylight next morn
ing. On Friday morning one company of cav
alry were sent iu pursuit ol them, but saw
nothing, being too iale to do any good. The
Yankee' here* out are becoming bolder every
day. —Charleston Mercury, 2R/A
Goon Shooting.— itic buoruicru accounts
more ihan coufirtu ail that has been said of the
spl ndid man igvim-oi of our artillery at Drew
ry’s lilull, when the Federal Heel was repulsed,
"the shots filed at the Galt-im, which was so
completely riddled, were directed by an artil
lerist of the name >i Muciartane, a Scotchman
by birth, and *<ll kuowu to many persons in
this city. He was at one Mine in the regular
army, lint ur.’l ;h P. evr v one struck the
vessel but the first. Such precision is really
marvellous-. It is slated that be managed his
cannon so perl<city, that he would tell his com
pan ions around him, where the balls would
-trike, and they had but to look to see it veri
fied. On one o< c.esson, on the raising ol the
cover to the port hates ol the vessel, he sent a
ball through ibeport. Immediately alterwards,
steam was seen to issue from the vessel, and a
number of the crew to run to the outside.
The Unit* or the South. —A Washington
correspond ant writes :
Officers who have been in regions lately re
conquered by our troops, testily that the “men
can be got along with well enough,” but the
women are exceedingly violent and insulting,’
This sort of malignity, doubtless arises from
sympathy for “their boys.” who were first to
i <ke up rebellious arms, and with whom the
cotiaseSa of apt and experience went for noth
ing. These boys were to the great conspira
tors, iike clay in the bands of the poller. The
mothers and daughters are continually thinking
of these “ youug Southern gentlemen, every
one of whom could drive twenty Yankees.”
2*ome wo in in in Georgetown has threatened to
shoot President Lincoln, if her son in the
rebel army, shall be killed.
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
Of the Savannah Republican.
Army of the Mississippi, I
Uouinth, May 33d. i
A day of great suspense has passed. Beaure
gard had determined to give the enemy battle
yesterday morning, but a heavy rain having
fallen night before last, he decided to postpone
the movement until this morning. Accord
ingly, the entire army moved outlast night to
a position just in iiont of the enemy’s lines,
where the troops bivouacked in line of battle.
The order of battle, however, which I have
been allowed to inspect, involved a flank move
ment of several hours’ march, and over ground
of which we had very little previous topograph
ical knowledge. Toe troops assigned to this
latter duty, were put in motion as early as 4
o’clock yesterday afternoon, and at noon to-day
it was discovered, alter they had got within a
short distance of the Federal lines, that the
character of the ground was such as to render
it impossible to advance further in that direc
tion, and it was too late to retrace their steps
with any hope of getting into position before
night. These troops were to have made the
attack, and having become fully engaged, the
other corps were to move forward and engage
the enemy at other points.
It was expected that the battle would open
by 9 o’clock, and tbe entire army were anx
iously listening for tbe signal gun to spring
upon their prey. The appointed hour arrived,
but no signal was given. Ten o’clock came,
and still the wind which blew from the quarter
where the first blow was to be struck, brought
not to our ears “the clash of resounding arms.”
Eleven came—and then twelve—but with them
came no order to move. At last a courier ar
rived, with intelligence of the physical diffi
culties to which allusion has been made ; where
upon the troops, to their great disappointment,
were withdrawn from their advanced position,
and ordered to retire to their camps.
The result ot the day’s operations demon
strates the importance of having a corps of
intelligent and enterprising engineers, who
shall survey the ground wherever the army may
be required to move, and procure full and ac
curate information of tbe topography of the
country. If tbe country between Corinth and
the Tennessee river had been tally examined,
and maps and drawings made, designating the
roads, water courses, fords, hills and swamps,
and the cleared and uncleared land, we should
have experienced no such disappointment as
that of to-day. Indeed, it is impossible for
an army to operate with any certainty,
or even safety, in the absence of an efficient
cor;.s of engineers. Unfortunately, the wound
received at Shiloh by Major Gilmer, the Chief
Engineer of the Army of the Mississippi, has
deprived the army of his valuable services for
the present. Had he been able to remain at
hia post, it is probable we should have engaged
the enemy to-day in a great battle; and it we
had done so, and the order of battle had been
cariied out, I do not see how we could have
failed to gain a decisive victory.
Meanwhile, Hilleck is strengthening his po
sition and receiving fresh reinforcements. A
prisoner, taken to day, states Seiglehad come up
with 20,000 men from Curtis’ army in Missouri,
aud that batteries have been planted, and other
defenses provided, along the route by which
the enemy has advanced. We hear, also, that
Mitchell is moving up Irom Huntsville, and
that Denver had arrived with such regiments as
could be spared Irom Cairo and other points
on the Ohio aud Upper Mississippi. The
knowledge of these facts, doubtless, had much
to do with bringing Beauregard to the decision
to give the euemy battle to-day.
We ueed also a corps of pioneers—men who
shall go before the artny and open aud repair
roads, build bridges, make fords, remove ob
structions placed in the way by the euemy, and
clear the track for the advance of the army. In
the absence of such a corps, the movements of
our forces must necessarily be slow and irregu
lar. In this respect, the enemy has ihown
more foiesight than we have. He is uot only
provided with an adequate force of active and
well trained pioneers, but he has organized
alsoa corps of pomonneers, whose services in
a country intersected as ours is by water cours
es, are of the highest value.
The transportatiou of the Army of the Mis
sissippi is superior to that ol the Army of the
Potomac The teams at e better, aud the wagons
are better. Mules are used here instead of
horses as iu Virgiula, and the drivers are more
accustomed to the management and care of
teams. The roads, however, are worse, and ihe
supply ol forage much less abuudaut.
T-ae patriotic work of destroying the cotton
continues to be prosecuted throughout the
southwest. The people scorn to be more de
termined than ever to allow the euemy to take
nothing by his invasion, and to tight it out to
the bitter end. The infamous proclamations of
Butler,aud especially his treatment of the ladies
of New Orleans, have fired the hearts of our
troops to an extent I have not witnessed before
Dr. Palmer of New Orleans, now with the
army, delivered an address two days ago to
some live or six thousand men, on the subject
o Butler’s conduct to southern women, which
brought tears of indignation to eyes “all un
used to wetp.” P. W. A.
[Corrtsp mdenco of the Ootumbui fiua ]
Brevard, Fla., May 21, 1812.
Eds. Sun :—A scouting squad, belonging to
Capt. Alien’s cavalry company of Montgomery
county, Alabama, had the good fortune yester
day evening to pick up three Tanks within two
or three miles of Barrancas. They say that
they were engaged in llie amuseraeut of hunt
ing deer and turkeys, with no expectation of
being hunted. • When they encountered the
scorns they showed fight, and before surren
dering one of them was seriously wounded,
being t hot through the breast and arm, which
was brokeu. The prisoners hail from New
Jers.v, and eay they belonged to the 2d United
States Artillery, aud have lor years been regu
lars. They report ihe enemy lourteeu hundred
strong at Pensaco'a, three hundred in Pickens,
and three c- m) antes of artillery at Birrancas,
the whole under command of Geu. Arnold—a
suggestive name. The physical appearance of
the prisoners does not denote a high develop
tuent oi the muscular man. There are six guns
mounted at Barrancas, pointing landward.
It is to be hoped that this is but the begin
ning of the end, and that I may have the plea
sant task of retaining to your readers many
occurrences of similar captures, ou a scale of
much greater magnitude. Iter.
[Curie fjwtdi uce 1 1 ihe Atlaeta Confederacy .]
NTckajack, May 25, IBt>2.
Fifteen hundred Yankees crossed Ihe Nash
ville & Chattanooga lid I road at Cowan, be
tween Stevenson and Winchester, about 85
miles trout here on Thursday. Two hundred of
them were cavalry and the "rest infantry, with
foqr pieces of artillery. It th< i- > bj c was to cut
ofla body of our cavalry wes oi Winchester
they were 100 la e. Our men. between seven
hundred and one thousand strong, are near
them ou the side, waiting for ammunition
which will reach tnem to- morrow. It they in
tend striking at the railro-.d near here to inter
cept the eoai, they are not strong enough, nor
in sufficient force to attack Chattanooga.
Kettles have been placed in vickij ick Cave,
aud tbe manufacture of Saltpetre resumed.
Yours respectfully, jp jj
P. S. —Since writing,"news ha- arrived that
our lorces have repulsed the Yankees near
VVinchester, with a loss of five killed of the
enemy and one on our side. The Yanktesare
committing much depredations cu piivate pro
perty.
Col. Harris, of the 48 J Georgia Regiment, ar
rived here this morning with about forty of our
soldiers taken by the Yankees at Bridgeport,
and exchanged at Belleionte. H H
Chatt nooga. —W e are informed that a de
spatch was received here night before last by
f’apt. Wright from Chattanooga, stating that tbe
enemy bad built gunboats at Huntsville, and
were approaching Chattanooga with them ; and
calling upon him for all the heavy ordnance he
had. We have not received any of the particu
lars, but refer our readers to the despatch of
Gen. Mitchell to the Federal Secretary of war
in another column, from which it appears that
be is getting up gunboats to conquer all East
Tennessee with. We suppose he will hardlv
succeed. — Atlanta t onfedcracy. *■"*•
Gittin into Maryland.— Old "Stone Wall”
will probably be in that down-trodden S'ate
soon, and the men under bis command miy
have the honor of first planting the Confeder
ate flag over the old Capitol and the President’s
House in Washington. The 21st Georgia regi
ment is with that division of tbe army ; tnd it
it does fake Washington and redeem Maryland,
Georgians will have a hand in this glorious
work.
Lieut. Butt is here, and will take a company 1
Into that regimenj.— Atlanta Confederacy.
LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.
[From the Liverpool Daily Post, April 25,1562.]
Speech of lit. Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
CHANCELLOR Ot TELE EXOHERUER, ON THE AMERICAN! J
WAR,
Delivered before the Manchester Chamber oj < tnn
merce, April 24fA, 1863.
After dwelling at some length on the financial
condition of Great Britain, Mr. Gladstone said:
And now, Mr Mayor and gentlemen, after having
said thus much, I come to that which moro part’culany
touches the state of your own district. We stand here
at a time when, bat for one unfortunate event, it i
probable that you ard your workpeople would alike be
enjoying a great prosperity. That one unfortunate
event you have described in this address, and m my
opinion truly described, as ‘the deplorable s.ruggle in
which the two sections of the great American ro public
are now engiged.” It.is, gentlemen, a deplorable
struggle. We are not of Uiose, if such there be, who
envied 'she greatness of the American republic (heir,
hear). We could have been Well content to to Eee hvr
enlarge her borders from year to year, gradually in
creasii g in her wealth aud Strength; wo should have
retained the consciourneaS that in our part nothing
would be done to prevent tit o continuance ot the moat
friendly and peaceful relations (hear); and the admira
tion with which we regarded the energy of that nation
would have been toially untinged either by envy or by
fear (hear, hear.) But this struggle has come abo .t
through no fault of ours, and I inir.k we cannot but
feel that the portion and attitude of this country with
respect to tee United States has not been on the other
side of the water quite impartially or fairly judged
(hear, hear). Now, gent'emen, I am n' t going to make
this a matter of complaint. Let us sympathise with
our American brethren in their difficulties. L* t us al
low that, under the excitement of those difficulties,
and of a desperate..and agon'zing conflict, the mimla
of men are not in that state oi trat quiity which ren
ders them the best judgeiot the conduct of thei- neigh
bors. Under such circumstances, the proportions of
s .bjecls alter before the eye, and expectations are
formed, and arc thought to which, in a dispas
sionate moment, will be seen fed felt to have been un
founded. Why, gentlemen, there was a demand ma ie
upon us by ilie ■ üblic voice in America at tbe outse, oi
tnis deplorable struggle for what was called ‘sympathy.’
Well, now, what was thereat meaning ot ihatdemand,
at least if 1 can understand it; snd I hope that in what
I say I shal l not say a word inconsistent wi h ihat Pa
ternal fetling which Idesiro to cherish towards ali men,
and especially towards ou k’ndred be; oml the water;
but, practically, what was the meaning of that disire
and tint call for sympathy? Why, it was tnis; that
we should ako such a cou-ee by our language and
by our public acts as would place the €,1)00,000
ol men, or the 10,000,090 I care not which you ca 1
them—o. the South iu permanent hislil ty with us
(hear, hear ) Wei', now, we may have our own opin
ii>DS —and I imagine we have our own private opinions
about the institutions of the South (hear), as, unfortu
nately, we may have our own private opinions abo it
the countenance that has > een given to ii.o3e instit j
tions iH thr North (hear, li n- end cheers). But that
is no reason why, on the one side or the other, we
shou'd adopt a course of conduct 'hat is to lay the
foundations of a'ii nation of ie bug and permanent
h siiity betw eu ourselves and those who may here
after be a great nation, claim! s to enter iato peaceful
relations with us (chei-rs). Why, no doubt, if we could
sec that ibis was a corims, o slavery or freedom theie
is not a man in the long h ami bread.h ot this room
there, perhaps, is hardly a man io all England that
would lor one moment, hesitate upo r the But - which
he would take. Hut we have no tauh in the propaga
tion of free in titutions at t e point of the sword (hear,
hear). It is not by such means that the endi of free
dom are to be gained. Freedom must be fre ly ac
cepted, and freely embraced You cannot invade a
a nation in orde- So convert Its tnstituti ms from bad
ones into good ones; and our friends in the North have
as we think, made u great mistake in supposi g that
they cau b*m all ihe horrors of this war to puilanlh-o
pic ends Indeed, geuttomea, there are those among
us that think—aud i confess, for one, I have shared
the appr hension—that if, in the ourae cf the vicissi
tudes of the w,.r, the Southern States of America
should send an emnassy to Washington, and shar'd
say, “Very well, we are ready to lay doon our arms
on one condition ; wears ready o renew the compact
we are ready to in ke it perp trial; we are ready to
attach to it every guarantee and security that you can
imagine for your holding us fast; but upon one
con .it on—'.bat you will assure uj that theresha ! b ; no
interference witn our domestic institutions ” Ah, gen
tlemen, we hive had the fear that thar a lieaUcn. if it
were made, wo Id receive a very favorable reply (bear,
hear). Imi K that it is well stated by my noble col
league, Lord Russel, that “this was a straggle on tie
one aide fo m r macy and on the other for in ep.in
dorsee” (cheers.) Now, g uttomeo, I cannot but
sympathise with those wbo are making the struggle
for supremacy. It is painful to surrender a great tn
imposing, and a magnificent national unity.* We the
English people, in other times, have ielt that paia
(lu-a-, hear). Old George 111., np n the throne,
who fid tte feelings of an Englishman—wliettieP
y u may approve his policy m all things or
no’, he was a true Englishman in heart and
sontim nt ; old Ounri lit. 'ell h s > ea-t “rent
in twain” by the lace ation of the empire when the
American colonies were parted from us. But, gentle
men, I ihink wo tesi this, that the experience which
we have had in r.ur null -lial history iu some deg ee
gives us the means of judging of ibe prospects of this
American struggle batter than those which are p s
se'sed by ihe Americans themselves. We have felt
that, after the pain o that se erance was over, we
came at length lo recognize it as a t ood, an I wo an
thankful that the American c ilonies were parted from
u>, because w. think tbot wo cmld not have governed
ttrem as much or Ih ir own advantage as they have
been enabled to govern iliem’elves (-beers) Soma
persons may say tae Northern States are a great deal
stronger iu lor ner times thaa Scotland; but the Eng
lishman as well as the Scotchman knows that when it
was the ol ject of I nglaud to cstab ish by torce a su
premacy over So Band, the Scotch proved themselves
to be wh it a r e called “very ugly cust liters” (laughter):
and at length it was not the exercise ot force, nut it
was a sense of policy and pruden-e on both sides, dic
tated in the main by natural circumstances, that led to
the union of the two kingdoms But the position of
the N rrtharn States isthi- —' We won’t let you go.”
The poi i ,n of the Soothe n States is—“We are de
termined to go” (laughter). Now gentlemen, you are
men of bj-ines-, and if one of you has g >t a partner,
and that par ner warns to separate from you. I ask
you whether, in the long run, it w ould not be very and f
tiou t to hold him ( uugbtor). B :l I ask you more, sup
poting thst you w-re able to h dd that partuer, sup
posing you could contrive some indenture ol pivrtn r
ship by which he shonl i a' dioaie fiiafr. e will and tie
himself to you, like a captive to the chari- t wheel of a
victo-, but ha still retaining an alieuated heart—no
comm m interest in your business—a desire to trip yon
up and embarra-syou—why, 1 say, y u wou’d not h >’d
that partner if you could (laughter anil cheers). The
Northern States of Ami rica nave undertaken a mili
tary enterprise of enormous difli -ulty. It is but fair,
I think, that we sh >uld record our sense of the vast
and gigantic energies whica thoy have unfolded in
the proeecu’ioa of that mi itrry enterprise (hear, hear)
They have had cer ain successes in the field Bat,
gentlemen, again I all back upon our English experi
ence. If you revert to th > anna.sof the Waroi Inde
pendence between tbe imorican colonies ani this
country, where were the sacce ses in the field in that
war? It wss not for want of successes in the field
tha' we did not conquer the Aur rican cfinales
It wa? this—that wh n wo hau tu.ee ses
In the held we were no nearer ou o! ject th.n belore
It is net the question when )ouare endeavoring to
conquer a co miry whether you can break up its em
battle i armies, and and ive them off the plain where
they have c >tn led wila yon in fight; the ques.ion
is this, and this alone, wheth.r ihe h art of the coun
try is s-l upon the separation (hear, hear, and cheer.-).
If it is n t sat upon a separation, it mar be conquered;
bu - if it is set upon a separaiiou, and if ihe brood of
Washington, and of die men of Virgo ia of his day,
still runs in the veins of th se who inhub t Southern
America, then it ir al but impossible that the military
object should be effected: arid if trie military object
were tffectrd, the civil aud poll ieat difficulties re
claming would render that mi itaiy success a curse
and a misery to those wto had achieved it Well,
gentlemen, we in this country are in the ► abit of plain
speak mg, and it is wel , I think, upon this subj, ct,
considering the nearness and intimac) of our relations
with a l those who Inhabit the American coniin nt,
that we eh)u and tes our minds in regard to the senti
ments with wh cu we view what you ha-o well called
this “deplorable etrugg’e” M-y tne A m ghty Dis
poser o. Even's bring that struggle quickly to an end 1
For ibe sake oi ourselves, for the sake < f the Arner -
cans above al', may that strneg e quickly reach iis
termination, stay ihrt tare plac , not which we with
or pre'er, hat which is lor the peace, happiness, and
wellare of Ihe inhab tacts of that count-), be ih-y
white or te they black (hea ) Eut, gentlemen we
also feel the painful aua deplorable t If rets of this si ag
gie upon our elves It is impos-ibie to deny them,
not upon ourselves aloDe. but upon oilier c unfies of
Europeaso trance is suffering, Belgium is surfer ig,
every cou dry that has a cotton manuiaetcre is suffer
ing grievous')- —mo e grievously iu | r'portion to the
numbers employed than in Ibis country—because iu
these countries ih -re is not the cense o' independence;
there is greater disposition to lean up m the govern
ment for nelp than hap it) prevails aei u< ourselves.
But when we are told by an organ ol Ameicen opin
ion thit Europ ■ or that Engl .nd has behaved unhand
somely by Avnertc i. 1 feel ihe utmost couti lene-i mat
iba final verdtet of history will bs this—that there
never was an occasion in which Ihe civdized nad m
ol the win Id in general bore, aud had been cori.entto
bear, so much rial misery, femltiug f om a civil and
municipal q mirel In anoth r Sale, win.out line f=r
eoce, a' there has been on the present occasion ( ear,
hear), it we look upon tbe pain ll h s brought upoo
us, it is a grlevo s thought. In another point of
view it is a remarkable testimony to the real pro
gress ot civi iz&tten and peaceful views among the
nations of the world. It is homage to what is call
ed an abstract principle, that til tbis misery has
been borne. It has been a sense of the danger and
mischief or interforence in intestine quarrels in other
countries ; and tbe detct.ee that has been paid to that
principle of international poliey by Ei gland aud all
ihe nations of Europe is. Issy, among the most re
markable features that deiermlue the character of his
tory as applicable to the 15th century in wtieb we live
fence's.) In your own dUt/ter, gmtiemen, it is impos
sible to move without being struck on ibc one hand by
the menacing character ol the time, no man knowing
whether to-morrow wilbe darker than to-day, and
whether another montn will not greatly tdvar.ee in the
tale of suffering upou the month that is now passing.
On the other hand the nio’al signs and the social s gus
which the daikness of this p~-<lod has brought into
view though the eye might rot have discerned them
amidst th elareoi prosperity, arc such as at or.ee to
touch the heart, and cheer the mind of men with the
hopes that they open lor the tuture. We are Sol i that
the people cannot be trusted; that they are fit for
nothing except to earn dai’y brtad , and that you mutt
not call them to ihe exercise of high-r functions, or
lock to them for enlightened views. I ask wfcat prscti
cat evidence of enlgalened views are -he workmen of
Lancashire and Cheshire now affording- (cheers)-in
their patient endurance, in their mutual help, in ihtir
respect for order, in their sense of independence, in
their dt sire to be a burden to no one—(hear, and
(.(jeejst—in the pa ienco wiih which they submit to
positive privation (near, and cheers)? And, gentle
men, let me add thus much, havii g apokeu of the work
people. that, if I am able to judge, the mssters who
employ them are worthy of those workpeople (hear,
hear). And I can give them no higher praise. It is a
satis actory and an ennobling spectacle to see and to
know the way in wtich, in this city, and, I believe
throughout tee district, according to lbsir means, em
ployment is given ; the steam engino is kept going, the
factory, if not on ail dais, on some days is kept at work
not with tbe hope of profit to toe master, but in lace oi
a known and positive loss, in order that eyen under
the pressure of difficulty they may rot and •*. rl and
abandon ihe nbble bands that they employ (cheers )
Gentlemen, it is a sight good lo’us a!L—it h iws us
that in this country class is bound to class Clear, hear)
by something belter man merely pecuniary and econo
mical relations. It shows us tbal you have in the com
mum tv something of a common heart, aud the day
may come when you will look back upon this period of
crisis as a period which was blest to you in this that it
united you more closely than over to u‘ workpeople
among whom you live (hear)
The London Time* on the Tfhankw C i v -
Ing Proclamation or Abraliuui Lin
coln.
Frgsident Lincoln has appoint and a Day of Thanks
giving to the Almighty God lor I lie successes ot the
Federal arms and the deliverance of tbo States from
foreign intervent on and Invasion. Nothing c.n be
more orthodox than such a proceeding, for there never
wap a seot that did not think the slaughter of its loes
a proper occasion or gratitude to the Author of our
being. 1 bis we will not dtapute. Nor, again, can it
be denied that, in the u‘ual scale ol successes such
affairs as those at Forts llenry and Donelson and Is
land No. 10, as well as the unresisted advance of the
Army of tho Potomac, are matters for congratulation,
['he only critici im that we have to offer on the Thanks
giving for these successes Is one that arises naturally
out ot our own slower and more deliberate ways
European nations do not shout 111 they are well “out
ol the wood.” When a tew fl. e's and armies h iveboer.
destroyed, and forms of peace agreed on. they ome
to church with a respe. table list of achievement! aud
a well certified balance iu their favor. Tin y can then
worship honest’y and gratsmOy. at the last dzt -sfrom
Ameiica matters were in av, ry different state Two
immense armaments were watching one another at
New Orleans—the one in possess on. lhe other waiting
to attack; two again, under the eaine circumstances
below Richmond ; while at Corinth, in the heart ot the
country, tbe remains of two such armies were In.,kino a j
one aimther after two days’ hard fighting, whi h seems
to have leit neither sUo much matter for congratula
tion. In fact, the occasiou was evidently what we call
critical, as contrasted with Ihat quiet- r phase of af
fairs whf n we begin to take breath, aud can rest on our
oars. It was the eve of th.ee battles, not the morrow,
and remin Is us of the wise old recommendation that
they who are buckling on their armour should not
boast as they who are taking it off- The Americans
willgetoutof their trouDles very soon if th-y pay
their earthly <iebt3 as promptly as those whi h !h-,-
acknowledge to <leaven. But there ii a poiut ia ibe
P/esideuts proclamation which surp.s e* t>e common
prol-.ni y and Srlf.deeepti m Incident to such cere
monials Tha North, rn States are to tnaok iii-j Al
mighty for their deliverance irotn foreign invasion and
int.r. ention. Whit does tnis mean.? If the happy
event al u led to is the tardy surrender of Messr ,
Slidell and M ison, unlawfully ami violently taken ou*
or a British mail packet, then of rt only the America tie
may thank Heaven for ilie unexpected ami uuw.iiiog
discretion they have showed on ihat sirens ou. Per
haps iheco is no better subject for Thanksgiving' hau
a time'y repentance and due restitution. Hat the
America's have not heretofore cor.si tarel such an act
a matter lor national gratia Je. Tut belter inarmed,
We mu t suppose that Thanksgiving is to be for the
mysterious defeat or withdrawal of some intended in
vasion or forcible intervi ntion, by European a.m i.—
A Thanksgiving engraftiug a calumny exceeds even the
usual liseuce, ample as th-.t may bo. I the interven
tion is only tiiat oi kind w shes and good advice, then
it realties to be seen whether the Northern etatesbuve
so mieh to t e thankful lor their deliverance. It s
quite possible that they miy even:daily have io make
peace ou worse terms, and under more untoward
circumstances, than ail amicable ‘epa atiou between
the Northern and Southern ot.-.tes. Even il they beat
the Soul i within the next sixiy days, as they must do
if they do it at all this year, Hi -y wtl hove to pty lor it
with a taxation fully equal to our own, and y t leave a
mutitu ie of questions s.i ; l to be settled between tbo
North and Sou.h, East an i West But the Northern
States, it is ait, end they say, h da right to expect
a European iuteiv nt on, because ti e tfoutuerii
States reckoned upon it and rebelled on foe
faith of it So tar, too, old they agree with
the Southern Sta'es, for Hey thought England
and France would do anything to get co.tou.
A ew people in ibis country cried .or iuteivcnii >n,
but they cried j st enough to give England an oppor
tui ity of declaring against it. It cannot be said ilial
England never thought ol it, or ihat lhe idea never
crossed the bead of'.lie public, lor inlerventlon was
strongly urged by s >rne of our Manchester imndr, on
the single ground of obtaining cotton by fair means
or by (out, to keep open their mills, A ow, the eu'orcod
idleness aud starvation ot a million or to of our fdiow
subjects is no Pitting matter; ar.d had It bean possible
to make the North and South shake hwnds across tbe
Potomac, and set tire e tton at liberty, vve do not deny
that the end might justify area onab'e ch ice and ap
plication of means, but there is no occasion t > defend
a course which we did not take. On the contrary,
consult ring the greatness of the occasion passed by,
and the terrible rosui s of noa-inervennon, we are
rather concerned to defend ourselves ior not in erven
ing. We sat still an 1 watched the c>i flic, in mute
distress, and a good many ol us in starvation besides.
What tied our hands was simply r. eptet lo; the inde
pendence ot nations, and an op nion that reople must
and wit gene-airy fiaht their own way out of their owu
quar-els. People will n t lean peace ani mutual
courtesy till they have had a little ex crienco ot the
contrary course. They must suffer a good deal before
they come to the conclusion thatthei; uetghbors are
proba ly as good as therm-elves, aud have as mreb to
say for themselves. But this is . nly one more example
of the ridiculous opinion maintained by some ot our
neighbors, and o ten want only encouraged by some of
ourselves, that material considerations sway tne policy
of England.
What ri-.es to the lips ol a rival or a detractor as ths
readiest thing th-rt can be said ag dust us is, that we
are a shopkeeping nation, and wili no a iy hir.g to
keep the shop going. The French have lullen into a
thousand mistakes by assuming the British merchant
man to be be tha true avunt courrier of our armie,
and navies The Russians never would have attacked
Turkey atid prepared to conquer the East had they
really believed that we shouU go to war wheeour
trade was not in question. The Southern Americans,
so it seems, would never have seceded had not their
evil genius persuade! them that their cotton e rot -
tates an inseparable link between them and this coun
try Tae Northern Americans no wr- coguiz > the same
belief, nor will any amount oi adverte facis disabuse
them of it. The truih, tho uniortanats truth, it it
must be so describ'd, is that John till-, whom ertainr
s > humble an opinion of himself) and who submits to
so many jokes on his sleek aud susceptible egr tism, is
in fact, the mod roman ic gentleman in Europe.
What figures in the caricatures, and is the subject of
so many laborious foreign invectives, ii the Banclio
Panza of the composition; it is tho Don 1 imself who
is the leader, and whose chivalry carries England into
a thousand scrapes. No nation to ready to see a high
eentiment at issue, to :nist ke windmills f .-r giants,
travellers for magicians, dairymaids for princesses,
and convicts for ihe repr. se.datives of ou raged hu
mauiiy, as this same John Bail, whoso ruif i counte
nance is owing much more to hP dreamy benevolence
than to hit c mmorcial industry. It is wa who “li hi
for ide-iS,” when France fig, ts for territory, monopoly,
lor a political rooting, lor something to call her owu.
Ideas aud sen' men s, as opposed to possession and
privileges, are the basis of our domestic as well as our
loreigu politics. It is not the Engl.shmau who stickles
for his suffrage, ior his equal sham of inheri ence, for
Ilia bit oi cartb, or of political standing. Nor is it
the EDglishmau who i always planting his fopt on th *
shore o some continent w o refuses lo take him in.
Much less is it tho Englishman who reiuaes toriSt
content as tong as a river, or a degree ot latitude, is
all hatseparaUs hm rom a neighbor of the same race
and tongue. For the Dus reign ol mats rial territorial
ideas tho Americans must look eiaewhero or nearer
home.
[From tha Cork Daily Reporter, April 28.]
A Suspicions Craft,
On Saturday a largn, handsome and clipper built
screw steamer, of fine irces, an i eviden ly Capable of
last sailing, put in'o the Harbor of Q leenatown, re
ported ss “to flit up coals and take in passengers.”
she sailed under tho British flag, was stated io be
from Hull to Nassau, with general cargo. Her delay
for two days, and no nppearanco of passengers await
i:.g ln-r seems to excite some suspicion?, which ser uia
to meet confirmation by the arrival of one
by the speusl tram conveying the American mails, a
very gentlemanly looking man, but of great shrewd
ness of expression, though of very quiet demeanor.
With him was cunvejed a large quantity of heavy
baggage, and on the American mails having been put
on board the steam lender Jackall for the conveyance
to the outward found mail steamer for New York, the
gentleman proceeded wtlh his luggage by a special
steamer or board the other steamer, tiie one we have
already indicated lyinw in tho c fling Iu the m an
timo certain vigilant authoiities al Queenstown had
not been nnawakened. and towards 4 p. ru in the af
ternoon ol yestsrday it was v r> generally rumored
and believed tht t tbe st- am r was ibc hero, and ihai
ber dcstinatli n wus Dot Nassau but New Or earn, to
■ihich port the purposes to tun the blockade. Tnu
result of this information —supposed and believed to
be authentic—was that despatch*! were sent out by
the American Consul in Queenstown to apprise Ihe
Ft di-rai Oovi rnmtnt ol tbe movime.it* ot to s craft,
We hear, hrough touices th it warrant us in giving
the statement, though of course wo cauLol officially
vouch to: its accuracy—that in-'.rceuocs have been
sent through the Captain of the Australasian, to eom
tnun cale the intelilgence to any Federal vessels whom
he may m* t with iu his duo course across the A tlaulic.
The Nero fil ed up c m’s oil Satur 'ay and received, aa
we have said, her only pasieng r, believed to beau
authorised agent of the boutbern Confederacy, yester
day. She lias not yet sailed. We learn mat her sttam
power is fully equal to thlrtetn and a hail knots per
tio rr, even wiih <lI the aid of canvass, and that in la
v-rat)le circumstances and average fair weather, she
can beat that by “.-t'ong lines and hickory gads.” A
Reportir from ihe office of one oi our con empoiaries,
who was duly pursuing his vocation in Queenstown
y.-sterda , se- med veiy anxion 10 go on board the
vessel, but had r ot th- opportunity affinltdof grati
fying his praiseworthy inclination of ‘the purmit of
kuew e 'ge under d.ffl’uUW— a favori-e theme ot
Lon Brougham's—snd on his eipres tng I is regret to
that elf ct to a I tend, the latter ia-ouically replied,
“It’s jutt a* well for you y m dld .’t, lor as su e au
you’re there, they’d have found out yon were a news
paper ma , by reason of the manner y. u’d be asking
questt ins, ad the next foot of laud y u’d pul foot up
on would be New Orleans.” We cannot say whether
our friend of the foot th estate regretted, or did not,
that he hadn’t g >t a chance of trying ihe txperina nt,
ml his observation, very quaintly uttered, w .s, ‘-Asa
who knows if ihey kidnapped mo off bnt it would torn
ont another Slide'.! and season affrir.”
Tne Cork Daily Hep rter is rich on the Cir
cumlocution Office.
A Cuai-tee irpos Circu Mt.occTiON—A day or tvo
since an nmopbisiica’ed dirkey waited upon a certain
military gentleman with a bill ■.! i do,lS?.,for wasaii g
and me at ih- camp hospital, which a'ler undergoing a
rigid scfUiioy by tpe ( flic r, waa relum-d with t ■ io!-
lvwing exnlanation, wh.ah .he astoni-hed so i of Ethi
opia iitened to wi.h an >qual amount of wor-der and
perplexity ;—‘‘This bin.” .-aiu tie milit try gentleman,
* wiii first have to be tent to the Quaitermasb r- rent'
ral at Wash ng'oe, and he will report to the Adjut-nt-
Gen ral, who will lay it b-.fire tne . ecreUrv of War
lor his approvaL The acjaiant leiug satisfied, it will
be sent 1 1 the Auditor ol the t tale, who will approve
of it, and send it to ihe tecre ary cf th ■ Treasury, who
wi 1 at on<e despatch an order to the Coi'ec or of this
port 1 1 pay the bill” The darkey relieved h mseli o. a
long drawn sigh. ‘•Then massa,” he remarked, -‘Jal
last getublem you spike of pa a tor de washing, dins
hef’ “No,” toniieutd the other, “he wOthaud it to
tho Quartermaster; but as tier j is no such < Dicer here
at present, some proper person must be appointed by
the Secretary at War, under direction of the t’resid n ,
and his appointment mast be approved by t e Senate.
When till." ecmuiission is r. cs.ved the Q lartermastur
will show it to the Chancellor and derua. and the funds.
Yoawill then call upon him; be wi.l ex‘.mine your
bill, and if found correct he will pay it, you giving
yoar receipt-’ Ybe unfortunate nigger scratched h s
head, then tho-k it, and fiaaliy sa and, u gutss 111 hah
to let dis wa-hing !ide. but it am de lasi job I does lor
Uncle earn, shu
[From the London Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, ,
L April lt> ii. j
r ,rr Ar>-1' 15 —There has been a little more done
in toee'ioth ha * 10-d y u,:in on last Tuesday. The
weather isnow mor .etUed, s . that spring appare is
beginning to he worn and he r.tau as a cOcsequence
.W a 11- tie more a> i>n ed th cu we have latter!) hd to
report it. Afo w Wtne;, strong Melt -n-, and some
other heavy g oi* are n“W sein g, chiefly oa account
t lanadiun orders. A lit lit is doing In tbe American
trade, even ior the Confederate elates The txport
irale’to Au-.tralia is dull, nor is there much doing for
China. As to prices, iney keep steady, those of wool
as well a* those ol cloth.
HVC-A.'? 31, l.‘ 3ss -
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce . A P ril
15, has the following under its comm. *‘ ia *
head:
Monetary and Commercial.
Livzepool, Monday Evening.
The Cotton market has been more activo to-dey, and
n consider bio busmen* has been dqjje, f e ss'es reach
ing 10,000 bales The demand wis general, and the
supply of American being very small, prices improved,
and in many c Sos a farthing per pound advance was
pa don the prices current, on F-iday last. Out of the
entire . unuess about 4,000 bales were taken lor spccu
laiion and export.
uii^n ,> i t ' ir L by lhß , We T “ d ia mall have been de
livered to-day, anil the mmt notable point ot their
contents relates to the p-og ess marie in the
ciilliration of co ton in Jamaica. 11 appears that lhe
Cotton Company r- ce-tly organized have me hundred
aud fifty acres of land in the Mulrton estate in’ the
Mancbi mekl diitdet, plant-d with cotton, Ufy acr s
o' which is expected to yield cuton ii,i„ season. The
cot on larked heal liy. at and the tr es were c ,vered with
pods, and great care appears to be taken in the culti
vation. The c mpanv seem determined to give every
chance to th ) undertaking. They have gins of various
kiDds, and un hydraulic press on the estate ; and au
engineer Uon his way out, with machinery lor ex
t aeiing lhe oil, and making tbe cur from the eo oa
nuit ou lhe property. Every thing on Mulrton indicates
success ; and if successful, the undeitaking will be of
immense benefit to tbe Island. The Governor rf the
Is'an l has also, wo are informed, upon his estate at
Weybridge, about tweutr-flve acres of land planted in
crvton-ine greater portion of which will be picEcrl
this sea-on. No less man twelve thousand crcoa-rut
trees have recently be -u planted upon this property by
direction ol hia I‘xceil ncy. t'u it appe n thatJa
maica is noi the only place in which the American war
nas stimulated the production of cotton. We learn
Irom our Panama lexers that the steamship Bogota
hail arrived at Tobago with 509 bal s of cotton for this
р. r.. in re erence t < this announcement the Panama
, H hl £lr i ! 1 |> rk6: -“ That this ar tc , brought fr. ru
, I T ;',U 3 ° * eru ’ ,low hums a large part of tho cargoes
mall the compam’s st umersarnvingatPansma
-Ihe impose given to the pr dition of cotton in all
paitsotLhe worfo by the late events in the United
с. itss is also producing 1 s t ffucts in Peru. Iho quality
ot taocotton is oi tua von beat description and each
plant jieltls four times as much as iu the Boulhern
btates ■>( America. Next year it is expected lhe ex
port from Peru will be over a million of pounds
weigju.”
Cotton.—Trifi sales of cotton to-day are estia-a'ed
at 10,000 bates, iuc.u ling 4 000 on spocalßion and for
export
SALES- IMPOHT
™ !ay - : Judy" l
1 920 7410 Ame-lcan..lo @,14
2SbO | 2TOI Brazil ll%@tfi | 333
1700 |' SOjj Egyptian. ..12 @,O | 1560 I—
-3500 | 7000 Hu rat 7 @loxl i—
-1 —iOiho-kinds— @— i— | _
10000 I 15000! ' 1560 ss3"
j 1000' I j 1560
125000 ’i 2443
Taken t. -duv ou sp-caption 85 0
Previously this week .4000
6500
Taken to dav for export 1500
' Previ lUely this week 2uoo
T 3500
There h, been a very general ilcna- and tor cotton to-,
day, and tee market closes with much firm 11 ss, at the
fu'l prices of Ba’unlay for ail descriptions. —Liverpool
Journal of Commerce , April 15.
The Post of the 25th April, in referring to the
news of the day, remaiks editorially:
Mr. Gladstone’s speech at Manchester, yesterday,
was spirited aid eloquent. It was devoted t > tome
two or three subjects, on each of which the Chancellor
of the Exeh qter expressed himself witr, originality
end animation. U-form 01 Parliament Mr Gladstone
was prepared icry resig ed’y to see given up. Finan
cial reform, however, he insisted on with mu h en
pna is, especially complaining, but in lha general
terms which on this subject he always iulopts, of tbe
excessive , expenditure of the countay. The el< queut
spe ker passed irom ibis su ject to the American war,
and it is indubitable that the tone of his remarks was
somewhat favorable to the South. Mr. Gladstone’s
main a gameut was that if the south was heartily de
terinuiea to be separated fr m the North it would b
luipostib o f r the N rlh to retain it; and second y,
that il it c uiii, the heart nuruings and enmities
which would remain would make ,he restored Union
a curso instead of a bies-ing We cannot help saying
that an argument of this kind sounds very extraor
dinary in the mouth of a Minuter of the Crown.
[Correspondence of tho Mobile Adv. & Register.]
E. IE S'TiSK FKOJI COHINTH.
Corinth, May 21, 1862—10 P. M.
There is a dead ea'm prevailing to-night-tbat ter
rible stiiln ss which precedes the storm. ’ And what a
wild storm ot human stri e is there not in the lit te
cloud of war whici sleep- q irtiv on the horizon, in
creasing every hour with its portentous threatenings !
r>Uf little town is 11 but deserted, and fec-ms to nigbt
like a country village on the (Sabbath. No beat ng of
drums was liea'd as usual in the camps—no mariiil
rnnsie by the band 9. Tne chirp of he wicket repeat
ing its nightly song air ne is heard upon ihe slill> air.
iiis a glorious s arlight n'ght. On ihe surroundii g
hills lo .m up against the da' ku;sa camp after camp of
sn wy white tents, stretjhtng out on tilher hand for
miles, against a tack-ground of demo woods and
forest trees. But they, too, aie unoccupied and de
serted, a few smouldering camp fires alone indicating
the presence o: a camp-gu„rd. But what a diff rent
picture do not our trenches present ? There, bivouack
ed, sleep our ar my on I heir arms ! Let the enomy
“Beware the confines of the wolf; nor spread
llis snares ior foxes ou theOrehaiian hills !”
,r e need no oracle from the Ismrn'an Apollo to tell
us of fbecomirg battle, but without some unforeseen
event t .kea place, to morrow’s sun shall see our Inns
in battle array, aid g isiening bayonet become dim
mo t wi h the life-blood ot ti e foe. There is much
s: ecu atlon whether the enemy will give us tatt’e, or
fail back se'erting his own po iliouj, and gradually
retiring>oas to prevent agnterai engagement. But
if followed up, he mu t be tore and to make a stand,
when the late of Corinth will be decided. Tha nature
of the ground, both on our right and let, is a succes
sion of ridges, and ruling hills covered with dense
forest trees aud un'ergrowtb. On our ce Ire towards
tbe Monterey rood, for some five mi es. th? woods are
a'so very thick, bcit'a t umb r of faruiß line the woods
on either si ie From this there Is a dense swumo of
about a rciie, but w hich no doubt has nearly become
dry by ti.is tim?. The wo ds will ufford shelter to bo'll
par icq but will be much n the way of maiuimviiug
an a-my, besides toromg us to attack a covered f e.
I is said th ,t the enemy have be n cutting a treat
deal of tin.bjr for the purpose ot forming abatlis, or
obstiuct or-s formed by trees hewn down with their
points outwards. This will prevent the action of our
cavsliy and artillery, if they have pursued this corn- e
to any ex'ent on the roads hading to tho Tennessee
river, and w 11 greatly lend to oov r the retreat of the
rnemy. But as .Jouiini. Iho great French writer on
the art of war, has sud, alter th.- disposition 1 f tiie
fore s, much depends ou chance, or forti.ne, for the
n suit.
0.. e of the basest acts which the enemy has yet been
guilty of, and most revolting to humanity, is that ia
relation to the exchange of prisoner" by linileck. Gen.
Bt-aur gard in good ailh sent him 20) prisoners, who
hu l been well fed aud their liea lit cared t r, and who
had been paroled, to beexcha ged, if Halleck thought
proper to do so. He agreed voluntarily lo lire propo
sition, but instead of sending us men who h .and been
well treated and iu horithy condition, he sends 200 ot
onr men from St. Louis to Fort Pillow, who wo.-e af
flicted wilh the small pox.! Gen. Viltepigne, in com
ma and at Fort Pi low, of corns- reiused to lecc-ive
tin m among his troops, and sent them back, informing
Gen. Beau-egard of ihe outrage. To-day the General
sent Lieut Col. J. W. Ferguson, ol Stark’s cavalry,
with a flag o truce, to Ben. Halleck, and a despatch
complaining o' the bakl la'.lh and inhumanity which
attached to such an act of infamy Ho r. plied pre
tending ignorance of ilia whole matter, and that he
was not aware the disoaso exi -ted among our m n 1
Msj G. W. Brent', Asai taut Inspector General, baa
been appointed Act ng Chief of Staff to Gen. Beaure
gard, in pises ol Brig. Gen. 'lll s Jordan, whom I
regret to say has been o’ liged to be relieved on ac
count of j.lness. Maj Brent Da most talented officer,
and r'istinguised hiiitsed at Ihe Hitlo of Mana-sas.
where he s. md as *sJ >r of tho ITth Virginia Regi
ment
LATER.
Mat 22, 5 a. m —Our troops inarched out this morn
ing at 3 oVock on the right, under be .8. Van Dorn
and Brice, feeling fit ir way gradually—and heavy fir
ing has b en heaol iu that dir.-ctn n, towards tho ’ arm
ington road, wlrcb gra uai y increased a l al ng our
in s to tho left, becoming very heavy at tim s, and
wi h occariot al intervals of some fi teen minutes
There is no doubt that the cur my has (alien buck, and
wili endeavor to draw n r on the other side of ihe
swamp, (already menii nr-d ) before he makes a stand.
! go to pin this on the train l r Mobile, and then, ho!
for ih tiiit’.e field. OitA.
STII.L LATER.
[By Te’egraph io ihe Advertiser. .
Corinth, May 2§. —Alter ihe confident expectation
of a!) that ihe battle would occur to-day, Halleck fad
ed to make the attack.
There w is cousidera le ski-m’shiog on the Monterey
roa 1 to-day. One nan wa? kiiicd on <ur side, and
Private Price, of bom, auy ft, . re-c nt Ro.truent, was
badly wouudvd.
Tow-rd evening Hindman's Artillery opened a heavy
fire, and shelled the enemy irorn a hous; on ibe Farm
ington road.
Our picket’ row occupy Ihe vi Inge of Farmtng'on,
the enemy having teen ertven rack Ora.
The Enemy’s Operations near George
town.—A private letter hr.s beeu received in
this city giving some iuterestitijf accounts of
Hie doings ct the Yankee gunboats in the neigh
borhood ol Georgetown. It appears that ifie
gunboats ysccnded the Waccamaw river for a
di*uinee o' eight mil*-?, stopping at the plan
io of the If ;n. J. Izard Middleton, 'i here
thiy made fa-1 to the wharf, and began a wan
too shelling of every portion of the premises.
Mr. Middleton was absent at the t line, and his
family just succeeded in escaping ia time,
through the exertions of the miller, Mr. Dag
gett. The negroes alt, lied at the approach
of the invaders, excepting lour, who joined
the Yankies. Doe of these latter subsequently
escaped from the enemy, and returned to ijte
plantation. 'lhe ni-rai; dvrs tillered the rice
mill, on the pf uration, where about 100 barrels
of rice were stored, and, ot these, they carried
ofFab ut2oo-anoch as the:r vessels COU;d hold
Io k-ating they promised to return in a short
time for the lemaiuder of tbe riee. After
leaving Mr Middleton’s place, the gunboats
went down Winyah Bay, taking ofl 1 , it is said,
jonia of the-negroes of Mr. Win. Johnstone
and of Mr. Wm. Mayrnnt. There gunboats
w ere wooden vessels of no great strength.
[Charleston MercuryZith.
Information from the Bar —Reports from
below state that the blockading fleet run OH a
propeller on Monday morning, which was try
ing to make this harbor. Tire enemy 3 vessels
fl ed at her for some time, wneu sue stood to
the southward. On Saturday afternoon a steam
er was seen among the blockade**, which look
ed like a prise. Ala A vur-el. a t-eiUin gnowi
tdge of the position of your vessel before the.
dajr dawrs, and Dot too much ro! the eue
my’a shells, are absolutely necessary to run the
blockade.— Charleston Courier, ‘ilth.
TELEGRjt ~10
LATEST FROM. CORINTH.
[From oar Special Army Correspondent. J
jj 0 liii, May 27 —Gen. Beauregard bai Issued ai
order pi "'Mbitlng tbe usn of the telegraph frem Corinih,
and rt quit 1u '*9- correspondents to retire from tho
army.
This is done k&Hiose ol a telegram to the Memphis
Appeal by Its Cor. v ® f P on . dellt > notwithstanding it had
been approved by h Adjutant General. I return to
Saorgia,
Tho Federals have go*t one seige gun in posldrii, and
are bringing up others.
From Virginia—Official Despatch f'roin
Stonewall Jackson.
Eichmond, May 27—The following detp&fob was
received by Gov. Letcher this morning.
biAu.NTox, May 27.—Banks’ army has been ci.n
pl-’tely routed. He is still flying in ustcr cons,era;t
tioa. Tbe rout is worse than that at Bull Eun Can
nons, stores and provisions, are still being c‘ pttired by
our forces.
Winchester, May 27.—Gen. 8. Cooper, Adjatai t
Gen.:—During the last three days, God has blesse,)
our arms with bril iant success. On Frida", the Fed
eral at Front Boya! were routed, and one section of
arlilleiy, in addition to many prisoners, we e captur
ed.
On Saturday, Bar ks’ main column whilst repeating
from Strasl u-g to Winches;, r, was pierced in the rear,
a part rctreati g towards Strasbjjrg.
On Sunday, the other part was routed at this place
At last accounts, Brig. Gen. H. Stewart was ]■ ur-u:n ?
him with cavalry and artillery, and capturing fugitives
A large amount of medic ;1, ordnance and other store-,
have fallen into our hands.
[Signed ] T. J. Jackson,
Maj. Gen. Commanding.
General Engagement
Richmond.
ErcnaoND, May 27.—Ail is quiet along the lines to
day, so far as is known hero. There has been n,
cannonading heard to-day. It It new raining f-t,
which interferes With military operations. The coun
try bo dering on the Chickahorainy being swampy, it
is almost : mpassable in wet weather.
EtonMOND, May 27.—Heavy skirmishing was heard
from 1 to 7 o’clock this afternoon, In the direction of
Hanover Court House It is beiievoi to be in that
vicinity. The cannonading was heard here. No par
ticulars have been received.
This skirmish is believed here to be the prelude tj
a general eLgagement.
RATES*
Richmond, Vay 27.—The skirmish this evening was
at Hanover Court nous3. Th 9 25th New York anil’
23;h North Carolina were principally engaged.
* Eighty Federals were killed ands xty captured. The
prisoners have arrived here. The Confederate loss is
six or eight.
Nothing is yet heard of the skirmish at Atlee’s eta
tion.
Hie Steamer Gordon Captured with
her Cargo—s,ooo Arms and 25 tons
of Powder.
Wilmington, May 28.— The steamer Gordo”, Geo.
Walker con mending, was captured by the bluckad<-r s
at ten o’clock this morning off tbe main bar of Cape
Fear river
One of Ihe b iat’a crew escaped and reports no or e
hurt. Her cargo was five thousand stand of arms and
twerity-flve tons of powder
Two Y ankees captured on tha Manchester road fO
miles hence have been brorght here. They are proba
bly spies or bridge burners.
Reported Fight Near Richmond—Re
sult not Known.
Richmond, May 28.—A1l tbe sick and wounded in
tho hospital at Ashland were brought here tc-day.
The Yankees are leported to be advancing o that
place in force. Telegraphic communicatT n was sus
pended ttiis afternoon.
Soldiers who arrived on tho trains tc-day report that
a serioiD engagement took place on yesterday, near
ihe Central Railroad, between Branch’s Brigade and
a large force of Yankees. Nothing official has betn
received All efforts to obUiu reliable information
have proved unsuccessful.
'there has ceen no fight to-day. The city remains
quiet.
Flight of Ranks’ Army— Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Broken up.
Richmond, May 28 —The following telegram was
received to-day by Gov. Letcher, from Staunton :
Banks has fled with his whole army in broken squads
across Ihe Potomac. The stores we have capt ure aat
Martinsburg arc innumerable
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has been effectually
broken up.
Steamer Ashore.— At daylight, Snnday ear
citizens were nrou.-ed by the sound of heavy
cannonading, which was discovered to proceed
from tho fleet of the enemy off this port. Num
bers of persons soon collected on the wharves,
and in answer to anxious enquiries it, was ascer
tained that a steamer, in attempting to run the
blockade, had been eh iscd ashore ou t he south
ern end of Long Island by the Lincoln cruisers.
During the day an officer of the steamer arrived
in the city, and she was discovered to be ihe
Nellie, Captain Moore, from Nassau, having on
board a cargo of medicines ad general merch
rindizs. At day dawn off Dewees’ Island she
i assed a schooner which soon commenced
firing at her, and several armed steamers which
lay between her and t he bar cut off her entrance
into port, compelling her officers to run her on
the beach. She had not commenced leaking
up to a late hour, and it is thought tbat her ear?
go will be saved, and perhaps the boat, if she
can be sufficiently lightened and the weather
continue moderate. She is partly protected by
a battery, and we are informed that a detach
ment of riflemen will be placed near her to keep
off the launches of the fleet. Her agent has
proceeded in tbe steamer Ualdweli to her as
sistance. The Nellie was shelled for several
hours by ibe Lincolnites, but none of their mis
siles struck her. —Charleston Courier.
Capture of tiie British Steamer Stettin.
The British steamer Stettin, from Plymouth,
England, via Nassau, and bound for this port,
was captured shortly after daylight on Saturday
last, off Cape Romaiu. The Stettin was lying
off P.omain the wnole of the preceding night,
her Captain thinking that he was off the Charles;
ton Bar. Before break of day on Saturday, a
sailing vessel tired into them, and the report
soon drew tire steamers to the locality. Onr
informant, Mr. Fred’k J. HiKon, at: English
man, but for some years a resident of Mobile,
seeing that e.-eape from the blockades were
impossible, in companyiwith the pilot, Mr.
Henry A Mulling3, Mr. T. Orison, of Wilming
len, and Capt. Smith, lowered one of the life
boats and made towards the shore. They land
ed on Mr. Blake’s plantation on ihe Smith
Santee, bnt before they had landed their steam
er had fallen a prize to the Yankees. The Stett in
was laden with powder, saltpetre, lead, iron,
ta, coffee, anti other valuable articles. Her
cargo was insured in England at an avenge f
sixteen guineas. The enterprise was a private
one, and the vessel, though chartered at a high
rate, was not insured. We are indebted to Mr-
Hilton, whovis the only one of the four who
eseapGd who has yet reached Charleston, fol
iate English papers.— Cfior. Mercury, lllh.
Government Cotton.— Nearly every steam
transport from Port Royal bring* a small lot of
confiscated cotton. The whole amouut of
seed, or unginned, cotton sent to New York,
from Ijie Sea Islands of Georgia and South
Carolina up to this time is about 1,000,0001b*,
and of ginned cotton 000 bales. Upon the seed
cotton 23 of the Macarthy gins and half a
dozen of liic Brower machined are constanUy
engaged. These are the only varieties of gins
employed ; and between them all the cotton to
arrive "will be divided in such proporti#**! as
the government agent may determine upon.
Small consignments of confiscated cotton are
expected from those portions of the Florida
er ase which have been reoccupted by the Union
troops. Hitherto none has been received
from that Quarter. Among the trophies of the
Union victory at Fort. Douelson were about 30
cotton bales which had been used by the rebels
for strengthening their defence. This portion
of the rebel ramparts has been sent to this e-ty
for sale by the government agent.— New York
Journal of Commerce.
Col. Jack Morgan arrived in Mobile on ibe
2jth instant. It appears that the brave C'llom 1
i* something of a wag, and enjoys a good joke
as weil as a good fight. A story is in circuia
,ion that ou tlie day of his arrival in Mobile lie
went into a dry goods establishment and, after
bargaining for a few articles, he handed the
clerk a Yankee bill in payment. The latter
cohld not have been more surprised it a bomb
shell had come crushing tbrongh the roof,
and, looking the customer in tlie face, said,
“We don’t take that kind of money here, sir.”
“You don’t,” was the reply of the soldier;
“Why baint our fleet got here yet?” “No,”
answered the dry goods man, “and they isn’t
going to.” “Well,” was tbe response, “they
will be here sblorty and then I guess you’ll
take it.” The clerk was seen slyly to put on
hi* hat and start towards the Provost Marshal’s
office.
In the verses of Mr. Ilavne, published in yes
terday’s is*ne, Butler was. by a misprint, styled
“Friend of lu*t and guilt.” It should have
been “Fiend of lust and guilt.— Charleston Mer
cury, 27th.
A distinction without a difference.—Rep.