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WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 22, 1861
UONisWwASHINQTON!
v—v JUuUu. and other prints of
,,.;iy havedistroa south croaelvesverymuen
A a s tory of thoir own raising, that the Virgi-
1 were carrying off the bones of Waahmg-
;r om Mount Vernon, in order to prevent
■ failure by the drunken vagabonds at
The Hessian, the Tribune, and
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# World are ready to cry thetr eyes out for
Iwms of Washington are going to be
to the Northern invaders, when their foul
yrt-MW shall desecrate tho soil of Virginia,
, inra'lo the sacred precincts of Mount Ver-
Woe he to the blackguards, if the ina-
. , t . ,oul rf the great Virginian could once
U • mitahil the frail tenement of clay, and
I J fu i f r0 toi blanch them with its withering
, jiis lust and greatest counsels they
lTC "'.urneA They may talk about his dead
‘ but George Washington, a Virginian
Ui * slaveholder, living, they would haveexor-
■ .j #s , demon incarnate from their churches,
v„ sacraments, their council boards and their
L& fellowship. Nay, their mobs would
buii turn up at the first lamp-post The living
, lW »of that immortal warrior and statesman
tuning his countrymen against sectional and
noeranhical parties, they have treated with
cv tempt and now seek to remedy the menta-
yc consequences of their folly and wickedness
bv »raid of murder and rapine upon \ irgima,
the mother of Washington, and the whole col-
l f « of the great aposUoa of liberty and repub-
whose genius laid the foundations of
stupendous structure their vandalism has
firvi The very name of Washington should
srt* the lips of these miserable traitors to his
counsels and his warnings.
! rhaj-ncter
I seeking t
[ nothing but to be taken out an-1 shot. Af. 1 if
there is anything which ought to Open the cy,
of tho North-to lh«- »bj33rof’misery to which
they - are now being‘led, it is- the miserable
blunder which the Blade Republican press
now confesses to, in order to shield themselvc-
from the responsibility of- tho-;<leKlrijtefion
the Union. -Gv? > *.
There has, indeed^ been .no time! within the
last twenty years, in which ialargo number
the Southern people havo not regarded disun
ion as a dire and dreaded alternative to which
mere self-preservation would at last compel
them to resort. They saw the storm ofr&nall
cism snd sectional aggression
volume and power every year, and they would
have been blind and fatuous not to have been
aware of tho danger, and to have contemplated
somo kind of remedy. No man desired dis
union; it was thought of only as a last refuge
from insupportable tyranny or extreme danger.
Meanwhile, wo have not ceased, while manfully
repelling aggression, to warn the North of the
extreme danger of a sectional warfare upon the
muen South, and earnestly to eutreat' for pose* upon
an equitable adjustment of tho matters in con
troversy. Rutunfortunatelyeveryeffofl made
to avert a final collision has been stigmatized
as bluster and empty threats, and at. last we
find the North in array against us to enforce
an unconditional submission to their sectional
tyranny. The result will furnish a final and
and still stronger illustration of Black Repub
lican folly and crime.
DISPLAYING THEIR EARS.
The World, of the 10th, is republishing
otracls from Tucker’s novel, the Partisan
Ludcr, to prove that disunion |waa a thing
jJU -ht of lr. the South twenty years ago.—
Uk,»isb many- of the other Northern Black
iUi ubhcan prints are busy proving to their
>*iisfaetion, if uot to that of their readers
,b.t t!u> rebellion, as ‘ thoy call it" is by ho
aitribulablc to the. triumph -of a party
,rowing an irrepressible conflict witli thejprep-
cr.y mu-rcsts, civil rights and social organism
of the Sou Ui. that was merely seized upon,
hv the), as an occasion to accomplish a long
cktnstied purpose.
Thoc organs have a dreary prospect before
them. They know that when the North shall
I. r invading legions, now howling. like
won,., for {southern blood, driven back upon
Ihtir on it soil and the conquest demonstrated
to W : .file and hopeless—when they shall see
their territorv forever denuded of its most pro-
V , ,g'on—thur wharvfc, their townsnnd
tlicn man,factories paralized—their labor
dam ring ii vain for the busy and -productive
Haiti ■ iif former years, a day of fearlul reckon-
iii.- wilt oouie. liieso fivlsc prophets and delu
Id.-rs ot it,, people have mocked at all danger
of disruption. When the wisest of their own
Northern statesmen sounded the alarm and told
the people to beware—you yourselves would
not submit to the yoke you are seeking to im
pose upon your Southern brethren—Abey were
hunted down with the cry of dough-lhces and
Union savers, cotton slaves, pocket politicians!
The fears of the North were quieted by syste
matic vituperation of the South as a nee of
imbecile, cowardly blusterers, who so far from
going out of the Union upon their own volition,
could not be kicked out
Thu*, an unhappy peoplo were cheated and
delude! by these inlamous fanatical presses,
first out ol tbeir bread, and then sent down
South to fall victims to our climate and the
fiendish attempt to cover our land with devas
tation and murder, while the malignant authors
of the mischief slink out of harm’s way. Woe
be to them, when better experience shall have
opened the eyes of the Northern masses to the
ioUiea and crimes of the' Black Republican
leaders. Thousands of bloody graves and des
olate and breadless homes will not cry in vain
for vengeance.
I And will these Black Republican wiseacres
prove that the South has long meditated dis
ruption, and that Lincoln's election was merely
seized upon as a pretext and oocasion ? Then
let them stand before the world self-branded,
as the most atrocious falsifycrs, or tho moat
stupid of block-beads and blunderers! Did
you know that the South has been for twenty
years past planning disunion; and with this
knowledge did you assert, during the whole
Fremont and Lincoln canvasses, that she would
n °t go out—'.hat her threats were mere blaster,
uttered without any serious Intention ?' - All of
you nmde these assertions persistently^—con
tinually, for five, years before the catastrophe.
Bid you make them knowing, as you.say you
& o* do, that a foregone conclusion existed in
the South to dissolve the Union upon the first
Opportunity ? H you did, what are you but
th( must, biupendoun and wicked ‘of liars. If
|ju,l did not know it, then you have misled the
North to her ruin by the most stupid and in
excusable ignorance. One or the other horn
°f die dilemma must be accepted, and we will
assume that which evince' the least culpahil-
“>■ Hither involves enough, and well may a
l*"pl« tremble lor themselvHi when J heir po
litical leaders voluntarily convict themselves
ul * l,,! d ignorance and misjudgtneal jaf the
pgr*The report on the streets last night
that a dispatch had passed over the wires that
a fight was then going on near Norfolk, wc
learn from tho office to be without any founda
tion. v ■
Toe Relief Committee, having- charge of
the fund raised by taxation, as well as volun
tary subscription, have devolved the executive
duties on a sub-committee consisting of Messrs.
Sparks St Thomson, the former of whom will
enquire into the circumstances of the families
of absent soldiers, and give orders which will
be paid by the latter. As concert of action is
desirable in this matter, it is suggested that
those having charge of particular companies
communicate with Mr. Sparks, or send him in
their lista The Committee.
FEELING IN MISSOURI.
The following letter from the New York
World, of the 16th, shows clearly enough the
state of opinion and feeling in Missouri. It is
testimony from the mouth of our bitterest
enemy:
[The following letter reaches us from an es
teemed private source, and we publish it as in
dicativo of the actual condition of sentiment in
the interior of the State of Missouri.]
St. Louis, May 12.
I I have very recently reached my home in
southeast Missouri, from a'visit to the North,
and I regret I have to say that I found public
sentiment entirely changed from Union and
maintenance-of tho et»ro and stripw, to aooen
sion in its rankest sense. •
" Vhere some months ago the stars and stripes
were unfurled to the breeze in every village,
amid uproarious cheers, tht ladies being fore:
most in stimulating to the .support of the Con
stitution and the Union, now, that gloriousffag
is trailed in foe- dust and hooted at‘by every
body—man, woman, and child— and the seces
sion flag is everywhere hailed with-loudest
cheers by the ladies! . .. *
The country is flooded with printed hand
bills announcing “ War Declared:” that A
Lincoln is' assembling and arming hordes of
Black Republicans -and abolitionists to invade
and subjugate the South—devastation, rapine
and slaugntcr.being the Watch-word.
St Louis only is partially exempt from the
universal madness which prevails throughout
tho Statebut still, even in SL Louis, mobo
cracy reigns almost Supreme'when it is neces
sary t®' insult the Eedetal government
The other dny a half dozen unarmed regular,
solders,. With an officer carrying his sword*,
were discovered in the street cars. A cry was
immediately raised that there were some of
Lincoln's d—d Blade Republican Dutch in the
cars. A crowd, armed with revolvers, soon
rushed.into the cars, abused and ill-treated the
unarmed soldiers, by pointing revolvers at
them, Ac. They took his sword from the offi
cer, broke it over his head, and threatened to
shoot or hang.him and all the d—d Dutch Ab
olitionists, if they were ever seen in the cars
again. ^
The broken sword is now on exhibition in a
drinking saloon—hung up under the inscrip
tion “the first trophy from Brother Jonathan.”
There was no interference by the police or the
citizens. Tho fact is that throughout the city
and the State, the secessionists arc ihc higher
law party, and can do as they please in act or
speech
HEALTH OF MR. DOUGLAS.
Cdicaoo, May 21.—Mr. Douglas is better to
day, but he is not yet considered out of dan
S'*- •' \ >-•/ -
ANOTHER GLORIOUS STAR ARISEN.
Montgomery, May 21.—Gov. Ellis telegraphs
to President Davis that tho North Carolina
Convention has passed the Ordinance of Sere:
sion unanimously.
THE TEXAN RANGERS.
Tho Richmond Di*patc\ of Thursday says:
The advance guard of the Texas Rangers,
which hns arrived in this city, are certainly
about as dangerous combatants as any the
world ever produced. We bcliove* that the
lar-famod Zouaves, man to mnn, would be
children in tlieir hands. Even if they had no
other weapon than the eight pound bowie-
knife, keen as a razor on both sides, and wield
ed by hands which use it with the most extra
ordinary strength and dexterity, wo should
.. buzzard mu h in betting on om- of thov,-
Texan iions against any three of the enemy.
OFF FOR PENSACOLA.
Yesterday afternoon the schooner Diana, hav
ing on hoard a party of gentlemen from this
city, left our wharves for Pensacola. They
were accompanied by Mr. Russell, the corres
pondent of tho London Times, who goes for
the purpose of informing himself in regard to
how matters stand at that important point—
They were well provided with munitions of all
sorts, and if they fall in with the enemy, we
believe they trill give a good acconnt of than
selves and impress the boarding officer witli a
very high opinion as to how tho Southern gen
tlemen can do tho agreeable and keep a civil
tongue in his head. But should the officer be
cross-grainod and not disposed to treat them
with that courtesy due those on a peaceful visit
they will return to the theatre of their cavalier
treatment, in a different character, and-wipe
out- the insult as becomes brave men.
- *. .*.*■* -*• \31obile Hercury.
RIGHT ABOUT FACE!
If th$telegran ■ . yesterday's paper are to
'be relied dU| the Unco 1 .’ administration has, all
of a sudden, rev. rs I its policy and dotari*ined
to admit goods into Southern Ports, subject to
duties to be.Icvied and collected by a floating
collector on board thoir blockading squadron.
Wc arc, then, not to beitarted, but to bo tariff,
(d into submission, by a double duty under the
Morrill tariff and our own. If we were to
speculate on the causes which have led to this
qnlooked for change in the Lincoln policy, we
might, perhaps, justly attribute it to tho new
light • which has dawned upon Seward froth
Europe, substantially illustrated in the de
claration or tho London Herald that “it
cotton is not to be got by fair means, we must
not scruple to use foul means, or the daily
bread of five millions of tho working peioplo
will be at once stopped.” fa a word, Lincoln
sees that the closing of our ports will inevitably
bring his government flt ohee into coUtsioti
with France and England,' zabd therefore the
blockade is abandoned, oriepodified into a OnS*
tom House cordon outeido'tfioports. '.'<i
But will the modification,' if actually made,
improve matters ? We think-.not. The collec
tion of dulieti outific thVUohfhderite' j
hit wksti-rm corn
A gentleman cf this county brought us this
morning a stalk of corn hot a foot high, which
had shot out a'ftig tassel, and v is evidently
worthless. He said hq had a large field of just
such corn, and had Teamfedon the cars that
there were thousands of acres in Southwestern
Georgia in' no better condition—aO of which
bad been planted with the Western sack corn.
He asked us to urgsapoa all who have commit
ted this mistake of planting Western corn, to
plough up at once and replsnt with native seed.
Other planters here tell us that this trick of
Western com is so weU known among planters
that it is impossible that many can have used
thg Sack corn for seecL-
i We are puzzled a little on this subject—
After hearing these accounts, some few days
ago,- we went home determined to have
impracticable—noTrientuy nation wjn submf
to it The insurance and bills of lading are
conditioned upon ordinary risks, and would Jje
vitiated by detention and breaking bulk out
side of a harbor during one of the most criti
cal stages of the voyage; and moreover, under
the terms of the Morrill tariff bill, the impor
ter is entitled to the privilege of warehousing
his goods and paying as he consumes them
We have no doubt this scheme will be quite
as offensive to England and France as the
blockade. Indeed, it has already- been condemn
ed in Parliament' Both the great powers of Eu
rope wi 1 insist upon unrestricted commercial
intercourse with the South, and they will have
it. They eould not well get along without it
if they would, and they would not if they
could; and so Lincoln’s tariff and blockade
are both virtually gone to the dogs in less than
a fortnight Our ports will be open—our trade
uninterrupted—cotton will bring a good price
—and we shall JiaTC plenty of money and pro
visions for the war, so long as the incendiaries
choose to wage it Our hope is that a little
experience in the character and results of the
war will disincline them to persist in it
BIBB SUPERIOR COURT.
The Spring term of Bihb Superior Court
commenced its session yesterday morning.—
Judge Lamar delivered a brief but pertinent
charge to the Grand Jury, confining himself
to the statutes which by law he is required to
give in charge. At the close of bis charge, he
said that in his opinion the Grand Juiy should
recommend the Inferior Court to levy a tax for
the support of the poor of the county, and
called their attention to tho fact that many sol
diere who had gone into the service had left
families comparatively destitute, and that it
was the duty of the Grand Jury to assess such
a tax an would afford thorn tho noooiaurjr n
The announcement was also made that no liti
gated ease would he tried—that only verdicts
in cases p-here there was no defence couid.be
taken! The docket-was called, and whenever
a case was called in which there was * plain tiff
residing in the-Unitc^States - and out’ of the
Confederate States, the plea of alien enemy was
filed. Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri being
considered >! liners," a decision in tbeir behalf
was reserved, to give them a- fair chance to
come out » r . * ! ’ J|
The jail will be relieved of its Accounts by
to-night, and then farewell, a long -farewell to
judges, lawyers, clerks, sheriffs and constables.
Amen.- • - - v
THE FIGHT POSTPONED SEVERAL DAYS
The New York Worldof the 18th, contains
this announcement!— W
Our dispatches from Washington this morn
ing indicate that the approaching buttle will
be postponed for several days. The rebels at
Harper’s Ferry have withdrawn their forces
from the Maiyland side; Gen. Scott his ascer
tained from a messenger, dispatched for that
purpose, that no batteries have been erected
at Arlington Heights opposite Washington, and
that, except a picket guard of twenty men op-
pegite Georgetown, there arc no soldiers within
a radius of live miles of the Heights. But the
towns further south swarm with secession
troops, and all the indications point to a con
centration of a large army in northern Virgin
ia, for tho purposc of either making attack on
Washington, or offering battle to tho Federal
troops in their apprehended march on Rich
mond. It is supposed that active operations
will not commence until Jeff Davis arrives to
assume thocomn>* r ':i in person.
Tiie discoveries which produced this post,
ponement arc thus stated in the despatch :
Washington, May 17.
TOE CAPITAL STILL THREATENEI'
A gentleman who was permitted to pass from
Richmond to-day, reports that at Culpepper
Court House, thirty miles from here, there was
a force of from six to ten thousand tneo, and
that all along the route to Mannassas Junction
every station is fully guarded, and the towns
are tilled with soldiers. At Mannassas there
was a. large encampment All the indications
pointed to the concentration of an immense
force in Northern Virginia to move <n Wash
ington as soon as President Davis should arrive
to assume command. This state-men, maybe
relied on. The government is fully prepared
for any attack, though not a single p.-rmanent
battery has been ercc-.ed in the city < r on any
Of the heights, notwithstanding that over a
hundred Dahlgren guns are lying idle in the
navy yard. By to-morrow night, or Sunday,
it is expected that six thousand i.dditional
troops will arrive. Two or three more Michi
gan reg.ments are expected here in a few days.
The one which arrived last night s highly
complimented. It will have a field battery
here by Monday. CoL Ellsworth’s Fije Zou
aves intend to move their camp a carer the
river, so that they may bo more accessible to
lie water. ^ f*t|
THE CAMPAIGN SOON TO OPEN. ^
Major General Butler is still in this city.—
lie has had an interview with Gen. ,‘jcott and
the President to-day. It is expected that he
will leave in a day or so on an important mis
sion to the South, or to Harper’s Ferry, which
is not exactly known. All manner of specu
lation is rife here as to tho contemplated move
ments, but there la ho doubt that the next few
days are big with events. 1 1
Lincoln has commissioned Mr. Douglas as
Major General. It Is known ho will iiccept.
The Mails.—A special despatch to the Au
gusta Constitutionalist states that orders have
been issued at Washington for no more mails
be sent soutli of the Potomac. * 1
own little corn-patch replanted, hut found it
two feet high and showing no signs of either
succor or tassel. Moreover, the gardener told
os he planted sack com last year, and although
it succorfil badly at first, ft-'produced even in
^kf uninvorablc season fifteen taHwcnly bush-
L ckjo tho.acro-r-all ot
(about six acres upon poor satiny leh-’.; 9H
as. well as, corn can, and yet it vfjtaJjatjedcd
from sacks of the eommgn Wester^ rejtfeT. It
is -clear,, however,- that the sample ttttittgnt'nsn
will never produce any grain, and «ij porn in
that condition should be ploughed up at once.
■ r*»
REMOVAL TO RICHMOND.
Our government is going to remove, stock,
lock and barrel, to Richmond. On the whole,
we are glad of iti First, because immense
labor will be required ot its functionaries, and
the climate of Richmond is more favorable to
physical vigor than that of Montgomery.—
Second, Virginia will have .to boar the brunt
of this horrid war, and we want her to have
the moral, material and financial support of
the government Third, our government, in
his movement will display tho true Southern
valuation of the bloody Northern threats of
uiping ot out/ They will meet the invader
on tho threshold of tho Confederacy, and while
Lincoln is shaking in his shoes abont having
his “throat cut” (as he told Dr. Fuller,) in
Washington, our Court moves from the inte
rior of Alabama to Richmond, a place under
menace of imminent invasion. As tor the talk
about the disgrace of a peripatetic govern
ment we don’t value it a bawbee. The gov
ernment means to take time for a choice ot a
permanent locality.
jgp*The Ladies of the Soldiers’ Relief Society
thankfully acknowledge a donation from Mr.
Feutchwanger of one hundred pairs of home
knit socks, for our soldiers at Pensacola.
A Noble, and Patriotic Movement
Our public spirited fellow-citizen, T. R.
B’oom, has planted fifty aefia'^pf.bottom land
in corn, the 'proceeds, wlnaY gqthcred, to be
dtsuikutcU awontt the families (Jft6nldiers from
Bibb Ooanty, in the HervTCe arxTOi\wJi"»*>
States. Who will imitate thiS’*tfreiee-worthy
example? ' Doubtless, hundreds'afSgiher plant
ers will do likewise.
ADDRESS FROM GOV. BROWN.
The Federal-Union of Tuesday coritams an
address from Gov. Brown to the people of Geor
gia, which wc publish to-day.
PERSONAL CONTROVERSY. \
We exceedingly regret the personal contro
versy between our friends Capt. Folsom and
Mr. Tharp, but having rather incautiously
admitted the card of Mr. Tharp, we arc com
pelled to give Capt Folsom a. hearing in re
ply. With this we must close the controversy
•ih the columns of the Telegraph.
E. Fcuchtwaiiger left Tuesday night for the
Floyd Rifles, and.wo learn, agreed to personal
ly deliver 42 letters, and some 20 odd pack
ages to various mombejs of the Floyd Rifles
and Macon Volunteers. -.
,g~We are -pleased to learn that many of
our merchants arc preparing to visit European
marts, for personal selections of supplies and
for opening correspondence and direct trade.—
We trust they will use all possible diligence to
lay in select supplies of all necessaries.
Every merchant who goes from the South to
Europe will be virtually a diplomatic represen
tative, and will add new force to the considera
tions which must soon induce the recognition
of the Confederate States.
-* . I Charletton Courier.
Are any of Our Macon merchants preparing
to go to Europe to replenish their exhausted
stocks f- Already our housewives find a scarc
ity of many articles indispensable to their vo
cation. Needles, threads, buttons and a hostof
other articles, we cannot well dispense with,
arc getting low. A large stock of woolen
cloths, flannels, &c., will bo needed for our
army during tho winter,- and it is presumable
that the whole range of white goods will be
out by that time. Charleston will not be able
to lay in an adequate supply, and if sho were
able, there is no need of dependence upon that
market. Let our merchants send out a depu
ty from Macon with their orders at once. We
entertain not a doubt that our ports will be
opened to the reception of English and French
goods, if need be, by the cannon of their Gov
ernments. They want our cotton and will
have it We want their goods and they will,
sco that we have them in exchange for our cot
ton, if we but make the proffer. The Charles
ton Courier says every merchant will be virtu,
ally a diplomatic representative, and we are not
sure but he will bo a little better in some re
spects. Ilis arguments will be addressed equal
ly to the judgment and pocket, and England
and France have but to see the golden field of
trade wo can open to them to take possession
of it, and never willingly let it go. -
c . • f*
nmuII pox muons the !Vorthrrn Troop* !
There is but little doubt of the truth of the
tones about the small pox among the incen
diary forces. 'The troops in the Capital and
at Fortress Monroe are said to be suffering se
verely with it, and the World of the 18 th spunds
the alarm about it among those in New York.
The filthy vagabonds, thby collected in the
great Northern plunder and' murder army, af
ford a fertile field of operations for. the loath
some disease. - '
- BRIBING THE MUSE.
O. Vcrplanck, and a dozen other New
Yorkers, in the paper.- of the 18th, offer $600
reward for a “New National Hymn”—the old
ones being worn out, done up and inefficient
and the only decent national air “The .Star
Spangled Banner,” being a Southern produc
tion, and besides suggestive of unpleasant
ideas: ' , •
“And wXtrt is that Foe, who so vauntiugly swore,
A home and a country, they'd leave us no more t
* • Their Mood has washed oaf their font footstep
4 ;pollution! ”
Just so! That is the fate of invaders who
come vaunting that tbeir feet shall sere the
Southern soil and thoir steel wipe the Southern
race from the face of the earth—“ their blood
shall wash out their foul footsteps’ pollution!”
It is not a pleasant line to invaders, and no
doubt a new national hymn is wanted at an ex-
| pense of five hundred dollars. It should speak
of fire, rape and murder—a verse should be
thrown in for Wilson’s Zouaves, holding out
abundant promise of plate and gold watches—
and the Pennsylvania paper’s promise of “beau
ty and booty” might be worked into another
vetse. Gold ifor the song and gold for the sol-
may work wonders in tho iuyiosinn. -—
i tli-i .‘Icni iAi.l’r, AT YuRT SUMTER.
Thc-Nev. York paper.; of the lSlh prove by
the certificates of numerous Dutchmen that
the Carolinians lost about 300 men at Fort
Moultrie, during the seige of Sumter. The
Dutchmen swear they saw steamboat and wagon
loads of bodies, some of them not quite dead,
but writhing in agony. Thus for three weeks
they have been gathering fresh evidence of a
terrible loss, where not a man was lost. It is
a cheap method of gratifying an appetite for
Southern blood, on which prudence has impos
ed an unwelcome restraint for a few days, and
as It really costs us nothing, let them indulge it.
VIRGINIA.
The Virginia Election on the question of rati
fying the secession ordinance takes placo to
day. Several of the Richmond papers say that
theLincolnites intend to make a concerted at
tack upon the State at three points for the pur
pose of drawing the secession troops from the
polls and this giving the submissionists a
chance of carrying tho day. The scheme, if
contemplated, wears a dignity in character with
the -Lincoln administration. Li regard to the
result of the Election a correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, writing at Richmond on
the 17th says!—
There is but one opinion as to the result, and
it is that tho action of the State Convention
will be sustained by an overwhelming majori-
A squad of Capt. G. A. Dure’s Artil
lery last evening fired a salute of eleven rounds
in honor of the independence of North Caroli
na. “Old Rip” well deserves tho compliment,
for the unparalleled unanimity she displays in
hurling defiance to the Abolitionists, shows that
her sons are determined, and wide awake to
duty- ! ■ ' -
MZ ^ MILITARY GRAY.
>tw«4lw1, -by looking among our
advertisements will find where the Cadet Gray
Cloth can bo fontid in abundance, within
Macon abd Savannah.- * .
FRjDAY MORNING -MAY 24, 1861.
TIIE INVADING COLUMN.
A column of 25,000 incendiaries, under Brig
adier General Mansfield, are on the cv
stated, of making a descent on Virginia, and
Gen. Bjtler and his Massachusetts Regiment
have appointed to dine iu Richmond in a few
days. This is frightful news.. Butler, who
always carries a gallon of New England rum
under his belt, is evidently too drunk to re
strain -.he ferocity of those Massachusetts
tigers, and it is mucli to be feared something bad
will happen. We hope the column will be suf
fered to get far enough into. Virginia to be en
closed, r car, flank and front, in an ardent em
brace which shall attest the everlasting regard
of the Old dominion for these dear brethren of
the old Bay State. If one of them is suffered
to escape, he will only write lies for the Tri
bune. The cause of truth requires that not
one of the 25,000 should be allowed to leave
tho soil of Virginia.
Xiiscoln’s Administration on a high "Horse!
Tho telegrams say the Lincoln Administra
tion has given the representatives of European
re cogni t ic n'o ftfe'ci nefe j > ill SS JRfeW
rate State:!by. their rcspective guvcrnincnL, will
be' deemed a 'casus belli/and bo followed at
once by a declaration of War by the-United
States. Also, that Spain has been notified to
keep her hands off St Domingo, under the
same penalty, and Mexico has been guaranteed
by the same mighty power from all interfer
ence with her by foreign governments.
If all this be so, the Lincoln Administration
is daft. It is tho sheer desperation of a ruined
gamester, who .is staking his last farthing, de
termined to win or die. The European." gov
ernments will look upon such mad pranks by a
government in the throes of dissolution, with a
smile of contemptuous pity.
shot fly, that the latter Vessel backed out square
ly'directing her balls towards the defenceless
fortificationsuf Sewell's Point. It’:' believed
these were nearly destroyed. Two men came
up immediately afterwards to Norfolk, for the
purpose of carrying cannon immediately to
that point, as it appears, that the fortifications
were not defended by any guns whatever-. An
other account says, that the James Smith was
finally captured by the Montieello. This is all
I have heard. Commpdorc Prendergast, under
a flag of truce, is reported to have landed at
Norfolk to-day, for the purpose, it is said, of
removing some of his lady friends. I will not
vouch for the correctness of this statement.—
Everything almost is rumor, and but little news
reliable, just now. Wc arc now ready for an
attack. Let abolition hordes and vandals
eome by.the thousands; they will find bloody
hands ready to welcome them. Gorman.
FINE WHEAT.
Judge Lundy, of this county, has sent us a
little sample of his wheat, and a kind invita
tion to come and look at the fields before he
thrusts in the sickle.” Hard necessity does
not permit us to go beyond call of the office,
but the sample the Judge sends us is as fine
wheat as tho earth ever grew. The Judge
will produce twenty bushels to the acre.
Sfiect.of Abandoning tho Maryland
‘ Heights. - ' '
I According to a Cjrrespodent of.the Mercury-,
who visited Harper’s-Ferry on the 14th, the
abandonment of the Maryland Heights by the
Confederate troops on the order of Gov. Hicks,
of Maryland, amounts to a surrender of har
per’s Ferry. It js untenable. This corres
pondent says: -
“Those who have visited the place will re
member that- -the Potomac -river at this point,
running east, is met by the Shenandoah river
running north, and that the works are on thc„
soutli side of tiie Potomac, At tire junction.—
The heights upon which the buildings are situa
ted are called the Virginia heights, those east
of the Shenandoah the Loudon heights, and
those on the north side of the Potomac tho
Maryland heights. These Maryland height
are higher than the other two, and, with
heavy ordinance, commands them both —
These in possession of our troops, the place
would he impregnable. A garrison there
could only be dislodged by siege approaches
from the north, which would be very difficult
To us, with lines of communication open, the
approach would be much more easy. But if, in
obedience to the order extorted from the gov
ernment of Maryland, they be abandoned tho
place will be at the mercy of the enemy.—
With heavy siege guns they could rake not on
ly the town, but the works on either heights in
Virginia; and it is now to be determined
whether, in compliance with the requisition of
Maryland, these heights shall be abandoned.—
If so, the abandonment of the place must fol
low, for it would be a slaughter pen without,
and this is now tho question upon which the
character of the contest now turns.
De Vilroi’s Submarine Propeller.—Quite
an event in our otherwise quiet town to-day
was the trial of Mons. Dc Vilroi’s Submarine
Propeller, which has been lying at one of our
wharves through the winter. It is made of
three eight inch boiler iron, shaped like a se-
gar, sharp at both ends, and about forty feet
long by five in diameter, and is propelled by a
screw, worked by hand, from the inside. On
the top is a copper basin-shaped lid, which has
glasses for the men to sec out, and large enough
Ibr a man's head. It covers thiVOntrance. Sev
en men are required to work the bjoat. The in
side is partially filled with aii pumps, &c., of
which, as the proprietor is not/£?y communi
cative, It is impossible to inkirmAwu. It is
submerged by pumping water \nufj the lower
compartment, and it is claimed <xn he kept un
der for twenty-four hours, nn/Yrepelled five
miles an hour. To-day it was ilpAn one hour
and thirteen minutes. It is intendwl for scut
tling or blowing up vessels, and report says the
inventor was 'offered one million of dollars for
It by the Russian Government, to destroy the
Allied fleet during the Crimean war, but, being
a good Frenchman, ho declined. It will be per-
fected'here, and will then be tried before some
Government officer. The secret seems to Be
in an apparatus for purifying the air consumed
by the men. Jeff Davis’bold privatccifi must
stand li- .in under (or over).
[Philadelphia Inquirer.
COMMUTATION TICKETS.
General Superintendent Adams, as will be
seen in his note to us, is doing tho handsome
and patriotic thing in reference to commuta
tion, tickets to Norfolk and Richmond. We
anticipated nothing less of Mr. Adams.
CENTRAL RAIL ROAD.
Wc published yesterday the action of the
Central Rail Road donating $1,000 cash, and
$100 as a monthly stipend to the families of
absent soldiers in Savannah. The Republican
pays a merited tribute to the liberality and
patriotism of that company, not merely in this
act, but in its prompt tender of money to the
State and the government.
- CORRESPONDENCE:
Our numerous correspondents have'fift us
little space for editorial to-day. Their’ letters
are highly interesting. -
• THE.PLAN OF GEN. SCOTT.
A friend says that, in Montgomery they en
tertain no idea that a serious invasion of the
South is imminent just now. Gen. Scott’s
plan is said to be a general onslaught next
fall and winter, with a million of men more
or less, invading the South from half a
score of different points, .and meeting at a
common centre, where, it is supposed, a gen-
general massacre of the secessionists is to
take place. His'idea has in it, qf .coum
something grand, awful, stupendous, sfffitmg
and m jestic—something whifch will hand his
name down toposterity as the impersonation of
all military success and glory. It was in just
tho same way Scott undertook, to pen up the
Florida Indians, and during the entire inarch
of his three columns to a common centre, the
copper colored rascals were popping off his
sentinels and outposts, and when they came
together not as much as a .rabbit was caught.
At this the old General was enraged beyond
measure, and quit the field in disgust. His
indignation at the failure of his grand South
ern invasion scheme will wind up the career of
old Fuss and Feathers.
Camp Lee, Advanced Post, Va., )
May 17tb, 1SG1. j
Editor Telegraph:—The 2nd Independent
Battalion Georgia Volunteers, Major Hardeman,
arrived at this point and pitched camp this af
ternoon. Before our arrival, Major 'General
Leo and General Gwynr. had visited the post
camp grutind.
No sooner were our tents erected, than an or
der came for the Battalion to “prepare for im
mediate action.” Preparation was promptly
made, but we have had no sight nr hearing of
tho enemy. Ido not belitn. that ha
hiifaee Tho Commander of Fortress Monroe
expects an attack from u>—shall we expect an
attack from his force ? Wc shall at least be
prepared for it. Tho health of the men com
posing the Battalion is good; most of them are
in improved state of health. We have station
ed a strong picket guard out to-night on the
two roads leading to this point. A . Cavalry
Company skirmishes the coast to give notice ol
any force landing. The enemy cannot reach
us without our having three hours’ notice in ad
vance of his approach. Another Cavalry Com
pany is stationed within a mile of us. An Ar
tillery Company is stationed at the same point
where this Cavalry corps is posted. Both the
Cavalry companies scour the whole country;,
round us day and night.
We are encamped in an open field—near the
woods on all sides.
Our friends need feel no solicitude for our
eafety. They should place no confidence in
camp rumors. .Yours, .Sandv.
HARDEE'S TACTICS. . ,} -
A desire to serve the good cause at the pre
sent juncture, induces me to make public an
item of information that I have just received
from the hands of a friend. “Hardee’s Rifle
and Light Infantry Tactics, together with
Colt’s Revolver Drill," has been published
expressly for the Southern market, by J. W.
Tompkins & Co. (Address) Drawer 138, Louis
ville, Ky. Booksellers or private purchasers
can obtain them at the following rates: $2, per
single copy : -I \ ; er h.z m : $1'25. ;> r hun
dred. The most convenient-'antTreliable mode
of gettingJiMu^s by the Adams Express-fiom-
i . ! 'i . ■: 1 \\ ■ a-p-n-
cy, authorizing thyfAagent tuxLouisvillelo pur-
-liii-. tkv'ni, a:J i"i\ .i ; to you, with the
receipt of J. p. Toutktns A
amount paid fjr tUcih. jWfiefTuris receipt and
the hooks areDrelivofed t<yyou»y the Express
Agent—you \fyv aJTcharG^Tfncfhave the books.
I understaniVtnSre l.aybjyMw^great demand for
them all over the SyriSth, and none were to be H
had. Let thfsdiffonaation be disseminated,
and die want/
J. M. BONNE!.L.
taut
Rumors Respecting English
Action on American Affairs*
ABOUT TO BE SURPRISED.
Lincoln says that we are about to be very
much startled and surprised in a few days down
this way. Nothing will surprise us unless it
be something decent, gentlemanly, and patri
otic in the Lincoln administration. That would
make the very stones cry out!
THE SOLDIERS’ CONCERT.
In behalf of the patriotic amateurs wc agair
bespeak for tho second concert a large and at
tentive audience. Let the public show their
appreciation not only of good music, but of the
laudable and patriotic purpose in which th(e
entertainments are conceived. Public amuse
ments noware few, and wc ought to be c!
of some which serve the double end of ant c
rnent and patriotism. Ministers of the &
and their ladies will be admitted free.
Well Done for Rowan,—The Board of Mag
istrates of Rowan county have appropriated
$50,000 -for military purposes, to be applied in
equipping and subsisting tho volunteers from
that county. - v * •
The Hon. Burton Craige and H. Jones, Sr.,
Esq., have been unanimously nominated as
candidates for scats in tho State Convention to
represent Rowan county.—Raleigh Standard.
The' Ordinary of-Puinam county has re
corded the names of its -volunteers, thinking
it may be of use in the future. Should it net
he done in every county.? —Southern Recorder.
(Ej" Thu Hon. E. A. Nisbet, President
of the Board ofTrustees' of the Oglethorpe
University, has culled a meeting of the
Hoard, to convene in Milledgevile, on Mon-
:,iy, 27th inst., at 8 o’clock, P. flj., to con
sider the propriety of shorteningthe scholas-
tic year, in consequence of the excited
stale of the time.
Portsmouth, May 19th, 1801.
Editor Telegraph :—Considerable excite
ment prevails in tiie city on account of intelli
gence received yesterday evening from down
the river. It is reliably reported, that an en
gagement took place at Baush’s Bluff, about
nine miles below Norfolk, between the Monti-
ctllo, one of the blockading squadron, and the
batteries of the above named place. It appears,
that the James.Smith was down on an errand
near Baush’s Bluff) when she was suddenly ac
costed by the Montieello. The former refused
to notice her, when a. more rapid cannonading
commenced. Just at this juncture, the batter
ies of Baush’s Bluff begun to fire upon the
Montieello, and with such a rapidity did the
L French
^ .The Ncvr York papers of Saturday contain
setup interesting despatches from Washington.
We copy the following:
Washington, May 17, 18G1.—It is useless
to disguise the fact that the leading members
of the Diplomatic Corps in Washington are en
gaged in constant and anxious discussion on the
course it’ may bo necessary for them at any
day to adopt." They have recently received ur
gent instructions from their respective Govern
ments to inform them witli the utmost precision. ~
of the chances of the two sections in their pres
ent deadly quarrel. It is leaking out that the
Governments in question declare that their
commercial interests are identical in a great
degree with the South, and that if they are
forced into taking sides with either, they will
be compelled to look carefully after Cotton and
free trade.
England is disposed to move cautiously in
this important matter, and is playing her usu
al game of urging France to take the ches tnuts
out of the fire. The country may not general
ly be awLa'o that there is at this moment an
agent of the French Emperor traveling in the
South by the name of Baroche. He is instruct
ed to say that he is simply collecting informa
tion for the Commercial Bureau for the Minis
ter of public Works; but this artifice is too
transparent to deceive the most credulous. He
is a political more than he is a commercial
agent, and his despatches, regularly forwarded
to Paris, necessarily exercise great influence
over the mind of the Emperor. What may be
the final conclusions of France, whether she
will think it her interest to play into the hands
of the revolutionary party in the South, remains
to be seen. Our Government are preparing for
such an emergency, and it were better for the
leading powers in questson to reflect long aud
deeply before they take steps which may in
volve them in consequences they little dream of
perhaps at this moment.
It is beginning to t ranspire that Mr. Russell,
the correspondent of the London Tima, is not
merely writing letters to that journal, but that
bis private communications for higher quar
ters contain a good deal of interesting matter
he does not think altogether discreet to put in
print.
Several arrests have already been made with
in the last twenty-four hours, by order of Gen
eral Scott, of persons .vho have recently arrived .
in this city, and who register their names on
the hotel hooks is coming from the North.
These persons are believed to be spies, and are
undergoing a most rigid examination. If de
tected, short work will be made of them. Two
were seized in tbeir rooms at Willard's Hotel
last night. - *
Deatu of Col. Woolfolk.—One of our
oldest and most useful and respected citizens,
Col. John Woolfolk, died at his residence a few
miles below this city, yesterday morning. Col.
Woolfolk, wc believe, was a Virginian by birth,
and about 80 years of age at the time of his
death. He settled in this county in 1831, bad
long beer, a prominent, popular and highly
esteemed citizen, and at one time represented
the county in the Legisaturc. He was a
member of the Baptist Church, and a man
above reproach. He has closed a life full of
years and usefulness.—Col. Eng., lGt/i, #