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SlfJiiu’i, * . A TTOKNEY AT L^W, .. Qt I I'M VN, BROOKS G V. Will practice in Thouias % Ilr ■ Counties. . . ti’.h 10 ts • . P. U. KAtoi’d, • A’ TTOKNEY AT LAW, . WARESBOROUGH, GA. Will nractice in the c * • • ‘* and in Lownd sand Berrien Coontiesof the Southern Circuit. . • * * je 19 ts • * dolui 31. Dyson, Attorney at law. . rHOMASYILLI, GA. Office next noth* to Dr. Brn< e’s. 18 tf* s •—• 1 Eugene Hines, ’ , Attorney at lav:. *je 30-ts * .• THOMASYILLE, GA. * * L. f. llryan, Attorne-y AT *LAW. mh 10.. • . • THOMASYILLE,.GA. * A * E. C. 3locsan,-> * • • A TTORNEY.- AT LAW,* ** A; * IJASHVItLE, BERRJBN CO., GA. Will practice in tfee Count S Cf and the Cotmties of f>>- 4 , • Mao-ui: ait t_ W : t:.<> I'.: .k Circuit. # Address at Flat Cr< * iuTB ts .■ —* • . , 1 .* * , 11. T.*let'i>ses % • Attorney at law, •NASHVILLE, BERRIEN*CO., GA. • je*l2 * • • ts ’ j - ‘ - “ . . Cherokee Baptist CPliege,* * .GASSVILLE, CASS < pUNTY. GEO. 8139.50 IO g 10250 Pay* for Forty II orb* Tui tion. li0:14.1 P.oJaina..lViv*!!ina: Fuel. •■Hchool lncidcptl’ tor a XMBg nm. There are six classes, tw ~ .• • .four Collegiate.) * Students are received at any state ofpreperation, and foe any studies tj • payable in advance. Bbartiii _in prival* *. • 1 • •For fimher particulars, address * f • Rev. TH< IS.RABRAT7T, tL D-, Pres't._ . ’JNLB— Sr us Sass • s Thin * ‘y I*, 1861 . . . jan 94y_ ’ ‘sodawAter.. THIS DELIGHTFUL BEVERAGE—IN ITS I’ER eommenpea drawing to-day to* the season, at'tbe store of tbe*nndereigned. • E?” IFF kept < on hand and for sale by April -J. lSdl. ; JOHN STALK, Jo.R) Worli,. ■•\\ T E \BtE >OII PII'PAItEI> TO (to I,*. ■ T v kit I-ofJt IB FSBn ING.I ■>m a Yisiynd Cardts k n*E i . .... * * • • *v B I? vA *f A II B > 3: I V • } 0 g m Propra tori. • • s • • 0 • • i • The I’< t! cat iroui nn:l flccjipation ol* Harper’s Fery. . 0 . • . Jti( hmonij, Jane 28. 1s ! j 1? to lay is ns which impelled Gen. Johnston t > • * - from * . . • • to have . fat e olh, a-i.at ihe North. It turns out that the confidence ot jpjli ( corjesj osdent in the sagacity and judgment o* that officer, wta wot mi] laced. The wisdom of the fee apparel . i observer, if he will l;nf , his mp Bnd fc llow m# for a moment.* In : doinir thN, let huu rememltfr that in the game* * * • •* ■ s mxX-imes tak< s a position which he knows is uri*te*nable, and •which he w■ -n t intend or desire to hoid.-v- ThiS was tme in regg.rcf to j;lie occupation of Harper’s Ferry. MilUary men know, wad no on }• or tlftm Gen. Johnson, that ] vas uni *,* owing to thea eapo with whjph it can I>e turned.* The mistake that v!on. >:t made was in acting, upon the pra suu otii ft that we intended V .n*ake*a stand ‘there. In his vanity he forgot that the” Cdp- 1 federate officers were as astute* as himself —a* ke, as j >u will sfion see, which eftrne jeiy i Bear c >sti*ig him a disastrous defeat. It i* w ii 1 1> >wn tliat Gen. Pattersofl, at the : • ‘ hea of a heavy column, # w3s moving flown i *pon Haider’s Ferry frflft\ the North, bj way es Williamsport and Marjinshwrg, and* that Gen. moving from tire west by way of Ilomney, with the view of uniting their at 4 W*eliester, and a*t.tlffi kune time prevent , the co-operation of the forces under Johnston , and lh a urea trJ. This plan lias beeiico < mpk;t~ ly ch ’. . *1 le eneipy foiled -at his o\fn you will* perceive Uy thg follow* ing * xtract taken from the proof-sheet of an lytiele which‘will appear in to.morrov. ’s issue of the Richmond Enquirer* and which 1 have reason to believe*emanated from a bigh milita *ry source: •; . >f on or about Thursday,*the 16th iitst., (Jen., Johnson having awaited.at*Parper’s Ferry lon§ enofigffi toTmake the.enemy .believe that he in ’ tern] -d to contest bhttf. position to the last, and learning tlicy were a ;vancin2..on iiiiauis port ana Homnt;y, s< .. p rtion of hh fcrce # to Winchester.b*y rail. On tViday lie contitfued this movement, • . a’ck his lent equipage •* r h lavy.baggftgey Jiis sick. &c., Ac., set fire to, and burned the railroad, bridge, and such.of the phallic'buildings as coiild be burned without Endangering private property, spiked such of the heavy guns at *Jl;irper's Ferry as could not*be*removed, atnl on. Saturday moved withjiis \i*li> !aarmy, marebing on tboty yi the direction of Winchcstei*, encamping a i;;:I s until-it • st*of *Cfiariestßwn. ’The enemy, taking this.nfovemetrt,.as *it was intended they should take it, as a retreat, crossed a brigade of’ th6ir advance divisit * mleul Ijy Gen Cadwallader* (who joinejl their forces on Saturn day or Sunday morning,} which? was naovfid Toi ward to-wards*Martinsburg. ‘ * * . ‘‘On t'undnv ludrniut?, however, Hen. John son chaflged his line of Tmneli.'at right angles, ,an<b mowed square towar'ls Martinsbnrg, en camped at Banker Hill on she A\ iacbester*ahd Martinsbuag tprnpike, twelve miles from. Mar*- t’ir.'bu” .to c‘ r battle there, c* advance and o l jy. bn. movement placed the eqemy in a predicament. had not crossed*his whple* forcQ, and if the opposing forces had closed he must Jn*ve been Beaten in detail. Tie therefore “acknowledged tlsc corn - ', tirfhcd tail *and fetreated, the river and evacuated the Valley, retiring bay on and Ha gerstown. * • ‘ A dAv or two after this, Qoh Hill, 1 ?tb Akir jjiuia 4legimcnt, in Command of a nart of the •ibrccs who In*>l retreated from Harper’s Ferry,* and who had bechi puslicd forward towards Romney,‘sentforward ( w ards Y!ew Crhck, on the PotofUac nver, eighteen miles west o£ Cum berland,.four companies of Tennessee and ‘Vir ginia troops, under (fok \ Tennessee who fun 1 the*Ya nkees •po.sted the Mary land side of the Potomac, (fur brave fellows, in the face u>f thef*enemy, forded tßc stream, waist deep, drove thfcm off fn the utmost confiG stun, faptured*two pieces of loaded artillery find a stand oi* colors, (Tbstroved the rajjroad bridge at tluit nyint,, and returned to Romney, making a march ot thirty-six miles aad gaining a brilliant victory, within kweuty hours.. “Onr readers wilf't'ius see what Gen. John* ston’s retreat from IJjflrper’s Veriy.fias dour. — It has thoroughly Woken through Gen. Scott’s I c * programme, dcstr.>yed liis wdiole western combination* tmd comppllSd him to remodel his whole plau. If our retreats do this .jauc.li, we * wait with confident to see what our advances .will do*” . * ** , Having disarranged the plans of the enemy,. Gen. John-teai proceocTed to occupy Winches ter in force, and from that poif.t he*now dumi nates the whole Valley of* Virginia.* A suffi cient force has been thrown ijrto* Harper’s Fer ry tg complete the destruction of such property as ctjuld be of any use tg the enemy, while all communioation with *he West by the Baltimore and Ohio Riiilroad'has been* cut off. A railway officer has just informed mg that sixfy lgcomo* rs and *a.large number of cars have been seize ! bv the Confederates, and th&t h"e is” charged in part, the duty of Temoving* them to a plate of security. P.*W* A. O A _• 1 lime Tries AJI, . * . There are more things’latent in this 0 world , than are dreamt of in natural philosophy. *Tn isome men there is a*latent hero, a*u} itrotJiers a latent thief; inline an uiftmspectejl in another an undeveloped Robespierre# Time tries all. • All men are* honest, said Sir Walter * Scott, till opportunity, that fatal touchstone, proves their*metal to be base. And opportuni * ty, which is to many.a filial touchstone, is to oth ers a glorious one,* proving thgir metal genuine! • 4 * •- o 0 • I(Uenr Idlenegs the badge of gentry, the bane of bodv and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the •step* mother of discipline, the chief author of TnisehieT, one of the seyen deadly sirfs, the cush ion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great came not only of melancholy,Jbut of ma ny othe* diseases : for.the mind is naturally ac tive. and if it be not oe?flpied about some hon est business, it rushes into mischief o? sinks in to melancholy. * ... . THOMASYILLE,'GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY.” JULY 3, ISG-i.- °• • J • . * . . .. 1 • 0 * . FortfficntioiiN Agmust The Baltimore. American gives, frOty high military authority, adetaih . * . . • ( between*ships and fortificatTone, whidh ingon- ( blishee the general rule that guns fi r to gtfhs afloat, and that na o * .val ex;* ditions are utt. impotent aaaaist a. well Fortified coast. # • # •Jn 179! . •; g 1 out) at an expense. of eight millions of dollars, against Quiberon, a*port of thg* Ffench coast.* The bay • 9n i- o > motmeed hy Bren-J ’ton, in his British *Ntfcvkl History, “the on th<;coast of {Vance*or perhapsftn tl: world, dor landing an army.” Moreover, the inhabT-1 taut - gl* the eou>:':.’*y were in npgn insurrection* and a'-ager to*c&<<\ rate witlftne invaders. Ten thousand soldiers \yere Unded and arms luru ishgd.to many im re ro3v.fi t tro ,s, but the •combined forces tailed in fheir i ipJn Jth fortifications, and Gen. Hoche, frofti his cgi tiJ*nchmc!itS(with seven tf;i*ucaf. .1 lueji* held in check a body of eighteenthousand, penned up, # without defences,*in the narrow penin ula.”* In 1709, the Jinglish an} nude a I decent upon Holland*with fourteen ships ofyhc ; :** frigates, carrying aqput eleven I hundred guv ymf’ a great number of*trans-.j pouts, with an army of thirty-*six thousand men. ! The arnjv’ cor 1* :I of onb)’ twenty- men. . ]>?*id s their immense mor*l and military superiority, the invaders had the co-operation of the Orange party in as-* sisting the ihndijlg of thfir troops, yet they failed to geh possession of a single strongtplace, | and afigor a 4oss of six tliow ; and o inen were com pelled *to capitulate. * “Such,” says AlJison, “was the* dfsastrous issue of the grcnt"e~*t gxpe .ditigh which had ft es sailed lroni the British havbtr da.ing the wae. ‘ Can the* l. irtted States rfiisc such “a naval expedition against A lie S(tilth as that autinst Ilolivnd, and i; so 4 is it likely to ITc more successful against a united than that wav against a <1 i% i<{od peopfo ? In 1801, the illustrious Lord Nelson, the Napoleont>f tlyi seas, with.*thfey ships of the line, two frigates,* and kliirty-fivc smaller vessels, made a d* j erate attack ijpon*the harbor of i>o logue, Uut was repulsed with severe loss. • Iji 1800, the English out an ignmense naval expedition tb .-*eize upon the French de fences of the Scheldt. Flushing, at the moutji of the river, waß hut jll .sbeured, and Antwerp, sixiv r>r spveoty mises further up, was entirely defenceless at the time when the Britfsh arriV* ed %t Flashing* The British .attacking force consisted of thirty-seven ships of the. line,* twenty-three frigates, thirty-4hpee sloops of war, wenty-eight gunj mortar tyid bomb sels, smalle*r ve Is, eighty-t bolits, innumerable.’transports, with over forty thonsai: 1 troop< and ;;n intjner.se artillery train v making ;n all, *a\'S (he Knglish liistoriaii, “an hundred iliousagid coinbattfnjl.s.” Yet the fee ble defences at Flushing ivskheit suee; .-.Gully a fire from 1 . . et, compared with which French officers, who. had been at Austorliz and Jena, and j 1 that the cannonade at those J * * * a m re ft u d\ njfins , and were only reduc-. ed by .tbe land f irc-i s after a si&ge *of eidhtehji days. In the mfityitimp the fortifications at AiVt’.vev:* had been and after a fruit less operation of I moqj>h in the river, the Fnglish were gradually forced to retrgafc to the mouth*of the*Scßoldt, and finally to evacuate Such was the result of an ex; edition comprising a waval force 3nore than.three times the number of tfl* thd ships in the navy*of the t'tried Sfates, an*d having more than fgve times.thd combatants of the whole Ugdted States Army. In 1792, a large French Squadrop attacked Cagliara, whose defences were dilapidated as scarcely .to deserve the name, but, after a bom bardment of‘three days.owas* signally defeated and*obkgod to retire. In 1 JOT, two Briti.-h ships, the Fftvtitude, of seventy-four, and the Juno frigate, of thirty two guns, attacked a smalltown in the Bay of Nloi'teHf), Corsica, which? was firmed with one in barbette, anTlsa garrison of thirty°men. After a IrombaYdlnent of*tiw hours and a o half, tlie sf.ij s were forccd*io* hauljoff with consul ft'able daaiSge and loss of life, whilst the forti fication ahd tha garrison were unharmed, ilere was one htmdivd anJ aftiat to one on shore, and yet the lattej was successful. 0 •In 170IJ Nelson attacked the little, ineffiojent batteries of Santa Civiz, in Teneriffe, with eight four hundred guns. He was repelled with tlje loss of two Btfudred and*fifty •men, while thj garrison received 1 ittfc °or 118 damage. A single .ball, from the land battery striking the side of one? of hie vessels, instant ly sunk her \jith*all aboard. * # 0 In *lBOl, the French, with three frigate# and si r x thousand men, were Beaten tf ofl from the poor]} - constructed works of Porto Ferrairo, which If ad a garrison‘of only fifteen ‘hundred. In July, of the same year, an English fleet, eat rying five* hftndred and tw* guns, attacked the French land “battery of of only twelve gun and wa* oompelled to retreat.witlt great lo*s. . . In’l:03, ths English garrison* of Diamond ! Ro#k, near Eqji’Jßoyal JBay, with only*one hun j dred men and lift o ey guns, repelled, without’ . the loss of a single*iau, a French squadron ot ; two seventy-fdhrs, a frigate ad ft brig, assisted by a land attack of‘two huudiyd troojis. Ihe French lost men. . • • Iff li'OG, a French battery, on. Cape Licosa, of onlv.one gun and a garrison of twenty*W, I men resisted* without the loss of a man, the - , at.-. tack of a British weighty gun-ship and two frig ! ates, tarrying in all ever one hundred and fitty j gur?andaN'Ut one thousand three hundred men. | The assailants lost thirty seven men killed ahd wounded,*and the eighty gun-ship w*s much disabled. • . . * . * In 1808, a.French land battery, of only three •guns, near Fort Trinidad, drove off an English j seventy-four gun-ship and a bomb vessel. . In 1818, Leghorn, with weak defences and garrison,*drove Dff ait English squadron of**** i ships, carrying over three hundred guns*an*d I one thousan’d troops. In fact, the whole history of the Wars of. Ihe French ttevtdution is. one proof of ; the Superiority of fortifications as. a maratime frontier defence. The seacotTst of Frane’e is oifly eighteen and a half miles from Englaptl “ht thenarrowest. place of th# channel; it jvas J dotted with rich, commercial town.-, offerfog • a # _ _ . *0 • • aazamg b >oty ; tlie Frenbh navy was mcompe k. hi. to their U> . ; tb* Elm'iish In: .-y was supported at*an annual expense of “ninety mill • continftally critisingin sigh£* *©f JFrepch seaports, and*frojn long practice had acquired an ill tiiaatd knowledge .of the French * foays hnd‘creeks; the French harbjws ’and to'sytTs^stripped of theif narris’ons by neces sirieaof distani wars, were*lelt with* no other pee Jhau their fortifications ana militia, and thfffigh they were frequently attached, and the most df <: orate idlprjs made to effect a pe*- ; manent lo Ign §nf, jhey *eseaped uiAarmed**du- j ring the entire < <snt< -t. : . . 0 Tfie history pf naval atlacks on our own* forts in the wars.ftf the Revolution §uyi of 1812, teimhA us*tl san?< lesson. In. 177>b .'%• Pet< r Parser, withttiine vessels, carrying two hundred and .seventy guns, was rej bt Fort >1 *d*trie, armed with only ysix gu: and garrisoned by three hunj seventy-fife regular and a few mili "tia. The. British wore entirely defeated, and lost, in killed anti wounded, Two hundred and live nyuj, fvhifr the same frss in tbe Fort was only thirty-two. Gen. Moultrie said that only thirty rounds from the 1 atU ry were fi: .*d, and tlft; want of p qj der alone prevented ‘lie Amer icans from destroying the \ghole fleet? • In 1814, Fort Boyer, a small redoubt near Mo bile, garrisom ®l by one hundred and twenty men, and having twenty s9iall®piccs of cannon, some of them almost entirely useless, complete ly repulsed a British fleet of four vessels, car rying ninety-two guns aqd fiTe hundred and ninety men % aided.by a land lbfce id’ twenty artillerists, with twocanfton and seveh hunt]red and tlyrty iufai*try. Notwithstanding this ihi mens*’ disparity of fortw, the enemy was com ’pletely filled, one (**b the largest ships entirely destipyed, and eighty-men killed and wCunded, whilst the American loss was only eight or nine. Again, in G’ IT, a battery of otie er and two oightccn-pounder giwiff, at Stoning ton, Connecticut, repelled a British fleet of one, hunifted and thirty-four guns. Inconsequence of exhausting t’n* ?y :ynn*unition, only part of tlie Afnerican .'.uns was used during a part of tlui engagement, yet the ships were so much injured that**they were* obliged to withdraw witli a loss of twenty killed aud nug-e than fifty woufided 4 whilst tl*e loss on our side* wa but two kilTcu and fix wounded. Otff readers ar all familiar with the snisera- Jjle attempt to attack •Baltimore in the same Year. • Tiie British jleet consisted of forty sail, the laiagc.ft of \9liieh were ships of the line, carrying over* six thousand comjaatants. tiix tcen*of the bomb \essels and frigates bombard ed’Fort Mcllerrry for t;v*enfy-livft hours, throw-. Tng fifteen hundred shells, four hundred of v. b.irh* exploded within the walls oft the fort* but made no imptesskm. The BiTti.sh were ‘compelled to haul off.tfith uyieh lw-s. Equally ineflfectuSl Was.the attack of a Brit ish squadron in 1815* on Fort-St. Philip, on* tb.e Nississippi*a small w.ork of*only .twenty, .guns, but*which repulsed the fhjet after.a con tinuous Bombardment of •nine days ayd nights. * —— —— ® •0•® r 0 0 Correspondence Mobile. News. ..Tlie Mj-Steiftoj** Swimmer. , .’ Pensacola, June IT. o*. . o A boat’lias just arrived from*the Navy Yard and brings us some items of rftws. Last even-, itj*r abqilt Sft’clock, a man .was. picked up on the beach wear Barrancas,perfectly naked, who- an account of himself thus: Me, as usu al, went in’bathing n*ar {’ort Fickeus, aild ven ’taring4oq faiy was forced by the cpsrent ai*d wifids in to* the slice! of deep water that sepa- the two'fgrt*, ayd driven against his will to oqr shore. This is all Lc acknowledges of himself and Is probably correct. • He refuses to give #ny information in regard to Pickens, its member of froops* t?r anything else connected with the Island or its people.— We is*in duranct* and will be kept so. He says he is a Massachusetts man anti, his cause is rigljjt. , llculooksdike a felfow* that # has been hard worked. The flairs (ts the squadron, as well as that iti ,Fort IJicKens, have been at half mast all day. At ?i*)on a salutS was fired from Fort Pickens. The csusc we knoT not. it created sJme ei citcmentymiong tlie troops Rationed at l’egsa cola. ‘*. # * , ~ ** ; Within tho last few days nearly ijl the sand bags which Jaused sS rautfh apparent labpr to tiiount ifavg bed’ll taken off the parapet of Fort Dickens. The addition of the sandbag story probably rendered *tjie fort too liotf as it cut off the breeze°enti?ely and heiyce its removal. The fftjlow who reports hjmself as having jwam /rom Port Pickens beach to the Ba i?!iicas—a distance of two miles —is still obsti nate as ever, and refitses to give information of atfv importance.connecfed with fhc Fort or Is land. He is ironed and in prisdn at Banjncas fort. The feat wag “possible, and, when ffirst “told, thought highly probable by his*c*aptors.— His conduct’and manners, on,and after estimi* j nation, -R erenot such as*to commend a stranger, and it is now*thought that sonic o*thcr than a mild course*will bo pursuetl toward film. A simple wanderer from his wav wotild not be i mistreated by our officers on syldiffi-s.* A liar ] bor pilot told me this infilling Jthat*it would have been impossible for a man to hflve crossed •the channel y*t*th time *he did by* swimming •from the point^stated —the gull point of Fott Pickens—that he would I beyond dqubt—hence, some think he W4staken near the dark a stormy evening its a j boafi but for wliat jiurf osd we may nfiver ascer tain. It is liighl}’ probable, whatever the facts | of the case may be, he will not sec the. Inside of Fort Pickens a£ain during the war. Up says they work ha*rd on the Island —indeed his ’ app*carwice indicates hard .labor and watching; that there is aickness and some deaths among the.garrison—that they have batteries oif The but would net gi\*e the location; that they have horses, cattle, hogs,*&c. He was ta-< ben from the wat.e*r by the “Southern Aveng ers,’’ a Mississippi.company of volunteers, ivho ‘•generously clothed him and treated him with kindness. He gaVe his nanc as Jaimes Lober, tfiat he tV'as born in Baltimore, and nli?ted ! for Captain Broek,’s comparfy In Ne\*. Y'ork, in •January. Imrepjy to aiy officer, who playful ly asked, if .“he hadn’t enlisted on the wrong side,” remarked, he “didn’t know so well about th.at. J ‘ .He speliks French likfs a Parisian, and ’ swears by his beard that lie k 110 deserter. — •• o ° • e •• 0 • * A< to the prisoner and his Lsand*er feat, ever/ one can enteirfain his own opinion, but fact has been established beyond doubT —Fprt*Pick- -1 ens man slioru * * • *. . .* * - . • • • • O ’hat are lor ? # •ITideft* tltis caption the Netv Y*rk Journal,of (Jommerce a.ks the follywing pertinent que?- ! tions: * * ‘* ’ ‘ Are we fighting meryly.to protect bY.ushing- j ton and CaTrcf? * . * • * * Are we fighting merely io*keep the enemy , out of the free States? . • • Are we fighting urcrely so rotate Fort i’um-? tt*l‘? * * * • W.hen* shall wo retake it ? • What slqfll we do with 1t ? * • Wfimt shill we do further, aftof wg have re- 1 ,*, ■. 9 • .* • taken it. Dgi we wish to fetal.fft# ? • ... Flow will injuring Southerners benefit us ? * ** * i Is*retaliation, Christian ? . Wbat else shall we Jo besides retaliating ? Can we conquer the South in the fever* aiid heat of* this summer ? * . * • Arc we sure we can do it next wiitter? What will be the beifcfit of a long, war to our commerce and our morals ? What shall we gain by conquering the .South erner ? . ° , * . Can we subdue them ilitcf loving* obedience ? What is .any other obt*dicnce worth*? Are wc fighting to enslave our own fefioiy citizens ? * • Are .wc fighting to free theij slaves*? . How shall we do it ? . * . . AN*illtjicir master's consent?. Shall we free the slaves without their mas ter’s consent ? \ . . • Will the masters tlfen cuer yield us any ob cjience which will not, Cost more to get and to ’keep, titan it is worth ? . • .Do we wilnt any States *ll this T*nion, which can only be keiytfin byother State’s bayonets ? Will this war conciliate the Southerners? .Will anytlling ever conciliate them into, obe dience but compromises? • ’• •How IcTng Ivill a peace on ncV comprb mises.tiTslavery last ? * * . Can we make the seceded States willing* members of our Union ? • “ , • Do we w£?nt*ubwilling members ?• * *Ar3* wc sure .we can keep tlie seceded States ,in the Union if They do i?ot. come bftek with a wish to be friends? ** * Will Conquering them make (•hem wish to bd friends with jis ? . * * . If they'do’not^wish. tp be friends why should we keep them in the Union? * * May we,not be obliged to let them out *o!’ the Union, soorfer or later? . • If jvc.must Ift them go, how much blood shall bc*shed first.* • Cannot the next Cong(e3S.SO amend the Con stitution as to lot?them go? df Jeff. Davis is in.any darker of being ctjn quered, is he qot sharp enough to s&c it? WJmt are ‘wc fighting about That fs worth fighting for? * * < 9 9 *••-> —— 0 • New VorL aiudcr Ihe iniln.|jce of tfic .ll r nr. A late.numbgr (i‘ the Daily News draws the ‘following picture of New York’s great thorough fare, Broadway, in proof of the laiicolh dog-, ina,"that “nobody’s hurt:”* Smarting frfim the Astor “House, let your eye. rasge from cifch side of thf street as you pass up'towards Union Square, and, before you have gofie the distancs of three blocks, you will be gin to realize some of wfiat wo above*andelsewhSrc often stated. In every direction, “this house tg let,” or “store for rent,” “this .property . for sale,” or “selling off at less* than cost,” “assignees e sale” etc., stares you is “the face, flanked by hosts*of less ynportanf, byt similar announcements. N*or are these ‘offers confined to old and inferior buildings, but kang like .placards on “an effigy*, ovYr tlie door posts of some of tbe. most ele gant structures on our avenue. From the Astor House to the corner gif 14th , street, you may this morning count 189 of these conpneijcial epitaphs ; and if you slip qufokly* into many a handsome establishment, where plate-glass vies with gilding for the adornmei*t ol’ happier days,.you may be told, in a whisper that business is dead, and tire wflLsoon close. * 0 If, then,.at this season, and. with such pros pects iind accumulatiens pf money fft wo* had last year, nearly one-third of the business sites along tlie Tayest portions af Broadway be al ready hangiifg out tbe signal oJ distress, wlist may we expeek when the process of slaMghto*- ‘shall bring increased levies of mcnyind; jnopey and scatter terror and f.iourning in every Bouse hold*.* ; * . 0 . 0 May* not the effigy in the Park “yet dingle tiiere iy most appropriate precincts*to typify .tlie sad fate of a once glorious mftrte to death between a ft’ourt room, a bayack nod an alms house ? . _ • . • • • * Newspapers Dying. Wd arc not at surprised (it seeing pers dying so # rapidly urnfor the pressure of the times,*But w 8 are*a* little a.stonished at seeing tlrem st*and up under it so long. .We had ex pected tcjsce a great, many m&je die than havt! *as yet gon6 undei*, and we*will yet see a**grerft , many more perish if .these times Jast king, but it is no rcflpctlbij upon a man’s capacities ijof business tact in the management of a fo .have it go dawn on liis # hands under suchji n nancial crisis as tfie country’ is ijow “expeiien clng. Those who Jmow anything of the. neiv*s* papsr bltsihess*are .well aware of the dijlculties under jvhich all publications labor when moqey matters become stringent. Ijmy f ee l if sooner and more heavily than any other of Bus iness, and unlike all others iUs impossible to* curtail -expenses. Publishers haue to pay J j* s t.as much for paper and printers as i£ money was ever so plentiful, fience it is ot astonish ing to see papers ‘‘cave inj’ when times likS these gome upon him.— Temperance Crusader. ; The aboVe ig a fair, statement of the case. — But ought it so to be ? Honest tjnd apprecia tive readers will say no, and acf .accordingly. — Shuffling d?lihquents will continue mum? and still spohge upon the.printer, alike oblivious to fiis wants and all moral, obligations. It is through such patrons that papers perish.-r— Ma~ 1 con Joufnat A Mcncnger. • • * * • * *. ■ . • s XEBJBS, TIV/I *•• • • * * f# I':m in AbcN Camp, Some of ilie hdrdift. of Abe Lincoln**have fun in them, and seem to be ‘‘Tiring in clqyer.” the lwtfcir : I am/mug luxurioißdy* *t present,* on the. ; top of a^very*respectable fence, and fare sump tuously on threa granite biscuit a day, and u • o-lass of wate* weakened with branlTy. A bigji private in the 22d KqgiuieAt Hi* pftfiffsed” to ;• let me hate one of his square pocket-handker j chiefs for a sheftt the uext rainy “night, and I ° never go to bod on my cpmfoiftaule LbruSh without thinkinghqjg a poor creatures there art* m tbs wovld who i.ave to .sleep on. 1 bail*inatresses and.fpatlftr beds aH'their lives. Before ilv- great rush of 1 ire Zouaves apd the . rest of thg menagerie tommenced, I boarded ’ t-xelysively on front stoop in Pennsylvania. | avenue, and used to sTumboi* regardless of ex pense, in a well-conductad ash* box ; but the military 1: A :i w jk>liz . • ail ac c otu mo and uiono j now, aifd 1 give way for .of coun- I try. * • .‘I tell you,, my boy, we’re lilving*high ‘oh? \ times here just now;*and it they get any high er, I’shan’t be able to stay. The city is in dan ■! ger etary other hour, and as a veteran fti the 1 ["ire ‘Zouaves remained, there s*cems to be en ough da.nger lj*lng around loose on Arlington Heights*to m.ake a very blood and thunder nc- ° yion, in numerous pages. If the vigilant and well educated sentinels llappcn tosee*a nigger on the upper side of the Potontac, they* sing out, “Herd, they ce>rtie ‘■ aryl the whole blessed armv is snapping dtps in less thaw a minute. • Then all the reporters telegraph td their pa pers ip Ni3\v York and'Philadelphia, that “Jell ’Davis is within two minutes march the ( ap itol with a figw millions of men, and all the ! free States send six fhorc regiments apiece to crovM us a little more. I plum t sttiml ipucli 1 ’ more crowding, for my fence is full how, and ’there-was six applications yesterday tp rent improved knot bole. INIy landlord says that it more than three chaps self up house-keeping on _ one post, lie’ll be*obliged to raise the rent. ‘Tile greatest confidence in Hen. Scott is felfc by all,aud it would do you-good to ste the gray itf*hero takc'tho oath. ‘ l>c tal*cs it after eve- ’ ry meal, and tfie first tliingwl\cn he gets up in the morning. • * * •• Tlnjse Fire Zouaves are feltows of awful sue- .• tion, 1 tell you. “dust for greons, I asjeed ope. of .them yesterday what lit; came here for ? “Hah I” says * he, shutting qne eye, “we came ; here to strike for your altass and your lives- es-. peeialTy you* fires.” .Gen. Scott says that if* by wanted thepe ehaps to break through the ay my of fche*.foe, he’d* have a fire bell jrung for . some district on the otbdr side oi the rebels.— • He Says thaf half a .million f traitprs.couldn’t keep the T ire Zouuycs? out of Unit distiict fi\ e . minutes.” 1 btlieve him, my boy. Jlobtfe . Tijbune. . * * . —* —**:*” „ “. . poverty : bIQ-siii:?* . ■ The greafc struggle sot “‘riches among man kind is a Very mistaken .e for l*to acquire eitfcu r _ happiness or fafne. Pew chifdren born to rich es ever make a prominent hiayk in the world. Almost all great"and learned ificn acquift their . ‘greatness dr learning through extreme .difficul ty Resulting .from poverty. W e find the follow ing over the signature of TimotJjy Titcomb, so • full of trtith and s<s appropriate, that wc trgns . fer it.to our columns: • .* If thgre ft anything in the world that a young • mait should be moje _ grateful for tluai another, •it is tli poverty whiehnAcessitates tps star ting in lift; undej great disadvantages Poverty is one of the best tests of human quality in existence. A triumph over it is / like graduating with* • honor from • M Pqjnt. It demonstrates stuff and stamina.— It is a certificatb of wortliy labor faithfully per ’Tojmed. A young min tlmt cannot this . test is not goocl for any tiling. “Uc can pftser rise above a drudge or a pauper. A young mart who cannot feel his will.harden as the yoke of poverty presses ypon him, amt his pluck with every .difficulty tbat.povoity tiuws .in. his’, way, may as"well ’retire into some corner*and * hide himself. -TV,vftrty .saves a pmusaiul times ‘ more tli.au it ruins, for it only ruins tlrose who’ • are ifbf particularly worth saving, wliik-it saves multitudes (jf* those whern wealth would havu : ruined. If any Voung man who reads this let-* toy is so unfortunate as’to be aieb, I* give him imy .pity.* t pity you rich yoTmg/iiepd, be • “cause you are.in danger. You lack; one great stimulus to effort and excellence, v.hich.vour 1 poor companions possess. \ oti be \eiy apt 5 if v#u have a soft spot in your to think -nyourself above them, and that soil of tiling b makes you mean, and injures TViih full r pockets and full gtomach,*md good IFucn apd. * broadcloth on your back,, yoiy'“heart and soul is ; plethoric—in the.race of life yoif will find yoTir- . self surpassed by all the poor boys you,,’ s before you know it. r .No,my boy, k‘ yojn aec jpoor,*tbanx Cod and ; > take courage; for .lie iptends to* give you. a 1 chancdto make something of yotfrsclf. If yep liTid*plenty c4’ monfey. ten chances to one it would spßil yon* for all useful purposes.* Do you lack education ? Have you been sliort ‘ of the text books ? llemember that Iduoatiott s ,,like some otlief tilings does not-consist inMie 5 multitude of .things * man possesses, hat • can yoft do? That,is th tt question.that settle* 2 tlie lousiness foi*you. Do you kflow your busi- . t ncss ? I)o*you know nn and bow t<;deal witli them J Has yoijV mind'by any means wliatso- • ’ evel i:civcd that discipline which* gives To it ’ action, porter alid facility If so, then yest . Snj more a man, ami a thousand *timc% better* the fellow who graduate? from a college with his brains fulT of stuff can : not apply to the practical business of life—*stuft , the acquisition of.whichTias in no ?nse adisciplinary*process, so far as he is There ard very few men iti tlift wofld less than : thirty yeflrs of age, and*"unmarried, who can af*. ’ ford to’Ue rich. One of the greatest, benefits to be reaped from, greSt final disasters, is the ; saving of a large Ciyp young hien. O O 0 ———-—• ** # _ * A wise man fe*kes alUadversitieS an(l*nnsior- •, - tunes as bhissings in disguise. .He Jaug’hs ana - is always hgppy # while the poor, complaining ■ sinTpleton°facies happiness cdhsist 1(1 I pleasares, and never fiflds it. .* • . ) i •<* ►•-y “ . . j * Heading makes a learned a cor . rtet man, speaking a jeady man, and pra> in e a trooof man. “ • . • •*• NO.. 13. • •