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* a • • ... * *••• °©* VOL. IV. • 9 • • 4 t, ,g i’ • <krr <.|>oMtl<Mr4 ol Hi* :ii*iiiili li* i>iu>- . • *licn. . • • • •o sand • J o . *• - •*..,* ° Hulory SfC„ \C . • —• . . R|(*lim*nd. Va., Vug. 12,1*G1*. l promhedto giveyou some. apcdkiot of ths ■ battly field of Manassas ®j .by moonlight* nnd by sun light. The first,part of the pronqise ha? bcen’ftdcuineii —she layei* much to. my remains to bs*performed. * It is any* thing bqt *n.inviting*theme. Oue#oon become to the otf the dead and fivirig_to ;iT a.< 11< -s*l?jdies, torn anil tyemblinii* Uin’tis, and. the cries and straggles of the woun-J ded. Hiblood oflee up. he may Sven become judifTefeot to danger—to* the dread of .battle, “the clash of resounding arms,” the lea'ren.hyrricane sweeping and -hi u _ among thf broken bones .and mangled bodies of the contending hosts. ,r Dbe battle neld isbnot with* out t> subiii - well V its terror. The long line pf glttterjpg bayonets, the* roll “1’ a* thousand the and rushing’oj’ squadrons, the hag columns of*dast and smoke .that shOot .up like great pyramids iftxh the plains bchov! the incftssant*roar of artillery and musketry, the great balls %nd shelht that rush streaming through t{)( a,i like winged devils • sea] ed from Ae regions of tip, dammed —tin re is something in all fnis4o stir the blood, to in*, spire thg heart, nerve the.arm, arfd to snake *n desire his fife atnid the mighty din and uproar, Rut when tire conflict, is o\>i *and the*blood has reap its *ac"custcnnbd- flow,, there is something repulsive, a* le-4 to me, .in the sight of a bottle field. . • *lt commenced to rain early on Monday morrr ing—the day after the *battie —and continued to p*..ur down iu.torrents . all tbat day and night.” Tuesday thd sua shone “out, and B was “very it was on \\ ednesday„w.hen I ande my second visit t’> the field. All of uur wounded tlu*t could be*found, were .cared for on Snftday* night*, though many of thejn wlere exposed to the drenching rain on Monthly, their tents not having arrived. This jvas “no disadvantage, however, as the rain serve'd to keep down'fev er and prevent mortification. * On Monday our _ dead were baried or boxed up and sent home for interment, and many of the enemy’s woun d d'were brought in and attended to. All day ‘Tuesday devoted tef burying the dead on the other side, aud.yet the work had not been half finished when 1 arrived on the field Wed nesday morning.. So intolerable was*the stench arising from the dead, arjd especially from the horses, (hat our men had been fomnclled to Suspend their humane labors, I did hear that?] ’ some*of the prisoners we had'taken, were sub- | sequently sent out a"nd ordered to .finish the work, wfiich they did, though reluctantly. . 1; was a sad sight—the battle field, that day. The efieniy’s dead still lay scattered in every 5 “direction, and the silent vulture*had begun to circle above them. 1 lu;y were well clad, and were larger aftd stouter than ours. Nearly all j of them were lywig unon their.backs, smnoWif tltvui With their le-s’aml arms” stretele and out t, C? o 0 the utmost. Many had their feet drawn up somewhat, while their arms, from the elbows, were raised, and the bands rather tloscd, after the.fashfui of boxers. l( was'a singular and yet the prevailing attitude.* Most of them had sandy or red hair, and 1 have observed that 1 tins is tlie predominant, color auTong oifV mvfi soldiers. Those who were not killed “Jtad almost invariably torn open tht'ir shirt col* ars, and loosened their clothing .about, the ! waist. There was another mark in addition to this, by which we .could tell whether thtdr, death was sudaen or lingering. It was the c >l ~ or of the face. If (he bpdy had time tiv be- ‘ conic cool quiet beforeCdeath, tile turps w;ft pile, though not so Tnucli so as those who die from disease. .Those who were killed instant ly, however, aW while heated and excited, were purple and ’black iii the face. In such eases, the blood being in full circulation, “there \pas not time for* it to return to the heart before the tody’ iid (’eased all its functions. At leaet, I suppose such is the explanation? and a physjciarr confirms me in it. . . • .*• Bueh ojf the ptjor wretches as had been ou ried were placed, in long ditches o*r •trenuhes, solnutiuies twenty.or thirty in thv same trench. •Os cQurse.’it va? impossible to procure, cofiips oj boxes for them. They.-were laid away iatho same attitude ifi whiett they/were found, and iti'which their bodies and iimbs had become /tiff and rigid—'one with anus aud lega stretch ed dufy—another bent nearly double a third with hislkukls.raised, as above.described. One, podr *fellor had died, with. Kis arm cjaeped .aroan’A a-siTiall and others With their hand clashed tightly qbou? their muskets, or sveli °t"wi u *s *r routs tfs were in their readh. -One was foaud with his.l’ible.openetf irpon hiahveast — Somhad their*hands crossed and l l K * whole bfidy composed after tlie manner of,# corpse. A few were found upon whom there was not the leas wound or .mark. W hether they had olie<.f frojn sunstroke or-from exhaustion, ftr sim-* ply fright.*it wiTre imp*-vible *tu *thou*glt probably it was from the fir-t cause. Thu? dying,.and t*hus buried, tlleir dus| will soon and to mortal* vision Beconre oue undis*tinguisJial*le mass. Whether It shall be blown about this, pendent globe*by the yind. of heaven, o*r SCfttered by the wjieels of Time in its re"morseless sweep to that goal tq, which everything L- hurrying, or i€"shall con .tiuoe tg repine, quietly where it nftw sleeps’, it is . not tv.r..us’to deterealine.* We’wfly know that • this dust, shall be gathered together on the. aorning'of the resurr'eotipn* and that.fhe Spir its which animated ft” iy “this lifq will he 4tun . moned befora the jtfdument seat to.give*an ae evunt of the devds done in the hfuly. chiet.am .ong which* will their wicked invasion of Southern homes and altars. Having performed the duty required of us.by humanity,. we.may well leave the ifst tQ that dread Judge whose protecting ffeindtiess Tias* been around us and ovar us i.u all our troubles. . ** I*Was glad to se that most of i?ur own dfad had been buried upou the battle ground-j-many • of them'where had fallen.” fn *)nie in •stances, these belonging to the same company or regiment wgre gathered up .and burred near ■ met} other, each little hUlock being marked by a board or stone w*th tlie name of the hero cut upyfl it.” }Yhat more iittiog ccmet'ery cduld •* * ,'BK -.%*•* K K VK A I .*> ( . Proprietor!*. ) o • • •he i’ljumT for the gallant dead Into thtf*field whiqh has beefi sanctified by their IpreqiiHß hi ‘ 1 and rendered furcwt*i innmwtal for their rd e< Is of vlflor! • lean sympathize with she tender sentiment tlmt vaoyld gather up ho> ndhnj asßes of Its Joved ones, ami transport them for ini rment into the “Id fahlily]lyirying- in thgTar South fund yet I can but ad- patriotism —if it may be thus • called—wliich.wonhl prefer the torn and •bloo fly plains of Manassas to the proudeStfr mause leunf below 4iie sun. • • “ # . And the heroes who fell upon those pfiJVis— who vvnuld flieir*lnt “ju tltij life and that which i- u> come, t.r that *of Yhe heastiy, tyrant who would crush u- beneath his , he^l # ?— # 4 and o n. thenohas always seemed to be a species of religion in the feeli*g which frotjpts a man to forsake father ayd mother, wife and child, and go loi. s h in the ‘bd'ence ot .yhe Hbeyti #ot his°cuun*ry, *ll* who fads o such a caus£, qp vi- falls too soon? •The blood tdius Sgilt, one mav hope v. HI not be an nnacceptahle sacrifice hes re tin* Lord of the friend* of tiie • • *we;yk, apd the avenger of thefwrodged and op ]/tc*sed. M'c may not claifli that the spirits of the fallen brave are caught in chariots ot fir#. an*l borne to realms where thew*shall he n more drawing ol’.the sword and *o tqore op pression ; and yet, we may he allowed to in-* dulge the belief, that it fe no sin it* the sight of Heaven for 9 yny to defend the ‘graves *oI his . ancestors aod*tbc ScPnctity of his health stoi.t’ and even to lay do\fn his life ih so holy a cause. * • • *¥<m have doubtless seen frequent allusions to the house qf an aged •woman —-Mrs. Judith Henry—which ix-cupicd nearly thi? centre ot ‘the hatflo'lield, and which was completely rid dled by t*he halls o*f the contending armies.— A son and an anyient maid.en daughter, some j • 5() old,*were*with Jheir motbev, who was i •almost bed ridden and got about vitli great dif ficulty. It is said ihat they mov*cd her. to a neighboring gully, hut she would qot remain,, • and that tlifey’next placed her in* the cellar and* then*up stairs, or w'hcreyvr hyr fancy woukl dictate. Meanwhile, ball* and shells confjnu *cd to fear through the holism, and whistle ar- above her. Disturbed and restless, like an evil spirit asshe was, she insisted upon crawling aud groping about amidst iron hail ‘•that heat upon that houife,” and finally placed herself on her own bed, where she was soon shot in three different place* aud killed.— But I do not refor to the incident so mucji for the purpose of describing the house or the manner of her death* as to correct an error which has been set afloat bv some <*f tRe news papers? as to the diameter of this old woman. She is represented to have been an extremely exemplary person of great a/e (^ ; >) and piety. Thislnay qt so; but hep neighbors, who might to know her well, telLme that slie and all her household wore Tories, and were in frequeyt 4 communication with the enemy? If. this he true, and I have no doubt ol it, then she only received her just deserts, first in the fiery orde- , al through which she passed, and ihtyi in the /terrible doofh which ended her life. It was within a few paces of this house that (•01. Bartow folk, and it was t lit re. the great °struggfc occurred over Sherman's favorite bat tepy. The fighting w,- i'uri’m-, aud tin* battle raged and roared around the house, and the lull upon which it stood, until the ground was literally covered with the dead and wiJUnded. — j It was Shopman s b’ttepy,* though it was com manded .by (’apt Uieketts—*Sherman heing*in* command'd’, a regiment —aed hence the con fusion gifen in tlie accounts given by corrcs poiqhuits and lette , ®writ > ers. M h*n the hatter? , was finally taVen,‘every horse and man about it had been killed or wounded, or had fled. — •No particular regiment is entitled to flie ‘ex clusive credit, of capturing* it .. Our * forces, composed of thU 7th find &th Georgia Regi iiAcnts, the 4th \ irginia Bwi*nent, Hampton’s ‘Legiort. and, l.think, the -fth Alabama Begi rnent, all maved’upoh it the same time, and in tlje * form* yf a crescent , and they /II reached it about the same time. Lieut. Bux ton, of •Virginia, who was Wearing the flag ol the 7th .Georgia •Regiment, at. the # tame, and] ’Col? t fartrell Inid other Georgians insist that it was the only standard that was planted upo’n tfie’hattery, and that Kli \V. Hoyle, of the At fauta Confederate Volunteer* was the first man j to mount the battery. “While 1 have-no doub( of the*correctness of this “afieount, 4 entertain as little doubt that* the ‘honor of the .capture .should be Equally .share’d* by all the “.regiments • named abov;e. • Not the least interesting part of “the battle , fieht to.me w?is.a’hody of thick woods, jhree fourths of* a mile in the rear ofHhis battery, and.skitting the road by. which the enemy had approached from Sudlpy’s Ford.. A large body of his forces had evidently* hailed here long enough <0 consult their haversacks. It was a “hasty plate of soup,” however, if one may “iudgeriVoui the immense quantities of bread* and other bqt aides scattered pon* the groitntl. . Among other things, I found castors, •’ mustard boxes, fickle jars, fine glass wait', ale and brandy bottles, several numbers of the X. Y. Tribune, various illustrated pa per*. political and religious tract/ and several ‘pieces of Huh. music. The gfficers bad evi dently been*having a flood, lunch, preparatory to the grand dinner they were to take at Ma nassas. A little further on 1 stfw a mu.-?|uito | net,. which some boastful warrior, mindful of liV Best, wa- doubtless taking along to be'used among the swamps and lagoonk ot the South. In (he corner of a fence, and covered over ■. with leaves, I found two gplcodfil Collin s.axes, • with leather coverings, .or Roisters, for the - blades. • A iarge nunfbe* of axes, were captur ■*. ed—a.part, peshapp,. ot’ 7,00fi that wcr ■” sent over from Washington some weeks ago, by f G*en * Scott, to hew a way to Richmond jor hfs i grand army. The fences throughout the bat tlefield warg torn down., in order to *>n*l*le the ■ mC n and htfr/es to* move with facility. ’The horse? of the enemy were largo and fine, .and our sharp shooter* were-very sacoessfulrin pick ing them off. Tlie.gtound around the batteries where this bosses for tbs part, killed • was torn anti rent into ’gullies by tUe bursting shells and plunging balls from the Confederate • guns. Somorf)f the horses had been disembow eled, while qthers had their heads and limbs • carried away. . * . 1 liut enough. M lifu *he futifre historian TIIO'MASVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. SEBITAIBK.K 1.- ••e a a comes tq the chapter devoted to the battle of Manassas,* he will say, .if he ’tells ties truth,’ tha# ouT/oldiers were Uhll handled by the offi cer-. and tbt .the infaiftry, 0 the ca\*i!ry, and.; the artillery*were maneevred skillfully and suc cessfully. He-will say, also, and with emphasis that the day v- carried, qml the victefry *\n, by the our men. Many of fhesewmen and *V it * r just from the of their mothers aiyl ye^,*rieitlier. legions, nor the %)ld Heard of Napdleog, nor the Grenadiers •of Frederick the. .Great,* ever fought better, or charged *ll ore gallantly, or retired more dogge.d . U‘. All hotyir, blien v bow, and hereaf'R'r, to the last bv liable of recorded time® to the herfles of* Manassas ! . I*. .M . A. ••• • f -•* • • • • Pronounced as if spelt o _ ----- . , • ‘ ■ 0 •rr<‘?i)Oiiih iiv< > of’ flir **itj 211111 lUi |iffi^- o • licM. 0 • . *9 r j, f<& /// t'n ntry pom ■< m ned — The War Tax —*Tifr (Jol- IcchV for (weorgtu. • . • RfCiftfoND, August 20, 1861. Tbcre is a growing evil in#s&ipe 01 our regi ments* \;lfieh calls for exposure tion. . You will he surprisefl to hear that it, is > itin/irif/. An intelligent and reliable friend informs 111 c that lie knows of two dftels now on the tapis between volunteers fropi Georgia.. I have heard of simiJar afffirs among the troops* from athefi States. 1 know nothing whatever of’tliu partisb to t # hese quarrefe —neitbwir their j nantes doe the regiwefits to fidiicli they belong, •n*of the counties* fropi whence they came. — \Yliaf l may* lwve to say, have < no personal rel'crc*nce to the gcptlcmcn ongac cd. .* *. A volunteer is a person wlio freely at*d of his own accord-offers his services to liis Gov j •eminent to defepd it- territory u’nd maintaiiq.its rights and .honor upon the field of battle—if nt'ce-sary, even iTnto dfath —when Re •enters the army* he hinds himself, .its a soldier and a man of honor, to square his conduct by the ‘ rules and regulation# adopted for. the govern ment of the army. He obligates himself*to obey* those wh*> aro in authority, and to do whatever he ‘may be ordered, to advance, re treat, fight or run, or do whatever his official superiors may think is best. In other words, during his ti?rm of enlistment lie parts with all control over himself, and transfers to the Gov eminent all his faculties and energies, mental and physical, stfbject only to the ’terms of the law in such cases made and provided. There is another oUigation lie takes upon himself, which, thdugh not 0 expressed, is •im plied, and of equal torce with the foregoing. — It is to inflict all the injiwy he cars upon® the enemy, and to jwomote, in all proper ways, the welfare of his Government, its people .end its army. If any emc infringes uppn his own rights, whether lie b? a private and*below him, or an officer and above him, lie lias a full, com .pletc and ample remedy. l lie rules of the ar my, which lie agreed to observe when lie en* tered it, provide a suitable triimnal where his’ wrongs may he promptly redressed and.his rights respected and enforced. •What right, then, lips any soldier, whether private or offioer, who has thus disposed of him self to his Government, to send a challenge or light a duel during the term of liis’ciifi.-tment ? ! lie has volunteered in the service of the Gov ernment, and has.tpkcn up arms agirinst the • enemies *f that Government. Nay, as in this war, lie is fighting in tl*e sacred cause of liber ty, and against a gorrupt, licentious and vin dictive cruyuy. All that man or woman Jiolds dear is at stake. Before tli volunteer stands the armed lb<* of his country. Will lie lftove. forward to meet that foe, as he has bound hitn self to do, or will lie turn aside, and for some trivial, technical offi nee of *a private nature, se(4( the'liffe of his brother volunteer in the same holy cause ? If the wrong be slight, a brave .man may overlook” it. • If it be gross ami'griovous, there is the Court Mattial —let. him apply to that. ’ If it be of a character that eftnhot he’ reached by that tribunal,* let .him adjourn the (fuarrel until the common cu emy §hall be beat.cn. back and the national wrong* avenged. But if he muss sight —it lie must have bloyd. °amd ‘caifiiot. wait —tlieu,” in the nanui of all that is national and patriotic, le’t him strike at tlie fooyi front,* and not at tin? brothei* on liis right hand or his left. . With an enemy in (hedjeli?, no man should* he tolerated in the army one day who would •/end. bear or accept a challenge. lit? i* no. frieiut to liis co.untry*, hut it# ejicmy. makes war upon its Irieiffls. lie thirsts for the ! blood of its’soldiers, a*nd, so far he is con cerned*, leaves the enemy free to burn, to pil lage, and to murder. What more can the eue rmy.do? Wha*t more does lie do.? There is another eviKijhich requires correc tion, but winch has gone Woo Jar, l fear, .to ho ■ entirely extirpated f allude to the practice of carrying side ai'msvby volunteers. The niasket and the bayonet arc the true weapons of the soldier. They*are the best, too —the .best fer offynsc* and defense. All weapons are in the way, art?seldom used, frequently lost, and instead’of adding to,really detract dromthe ef fectiveness of tie soldier. 1 made special in quiry’among the liien who were engaged in the battle of Manassas, ai*>J co’uM not licar of a single instauc# where a pistol or a howieknife had been Tised, except one.* 111 tjje exception al t-a.se alluded to, a regiment had been order ed to foil hack, and a captain of one of the companies, who wa.s reluctant to retire, fired ofl* his revolver at the enemy, three hundred‘yards’ distant, by way of expressing liis defiance, it is rire that thh opposing forces get near enough to each’other to justify a resort to side arms! and wheiT they do. no. other weaptWi ever in ventefj is*equsl to the bayonet. Is is saiii that there i- no instaneb on record, where an Army has successfully withstood a bayohet charge prqperly directed and gnade with determina tiori. kaw*volunt#ers, however, win? do not appreciate the great value of this weapon, when they get iqto close quaftere.’sre liable to he I thrown into.inextrieafcle c.onl’w.-ion by ••relying upon their revolvers, which aft oi as little*usc. •gaiinbt a weirdirected ifbargg,*as so lflafiy pop gtfli- woujd be in staying the onward sweep of uh valaache. .. But the greatest evil arising fTom this prac -1 tice is the cowsta#t hleodshetfto which it leads. • • Scarcely ifcweek passes that we do not# hear of a difficulty involving life orjimb, all of which can be traced to this* wrote lied practice. Ido •not mean that tligse thitigs occur in camp and after the soldier his position in the army. It is on tfye rgad, andgat way stations, aud especially tit th*- gml other point.® wliei®’ lie is halted for a week or t\vt> bM'ore entering into actije*service, atitl where lie can get ’any quantity of* the* fueanesf kind of liquor. A drunker®soldier, with g revolver stuck- in his twit on orw sidg anti* a* bowieknife on the other, is about as fit*to go at larg’e as an infuriated inanity; and £he authorities ought to see to it, that no more men afe s’uffered to entcrblie ser vice unless they leave att such, weapons at home, where tlwv ngy He peedcX A pistol is* partof a horsc’untn’u equipment, but ’it i not ,a legitimate weapon in ths bands of tli infaii~ try. • • Q . . *. \ ou will find in the papers of this tnorning Tax Act lately passed by the Confedcftite Congress, and sauctionecUby the President: It received the v.te of every member of Congress present, and should riAjeiv* a like unanimous report frong tbe*pcoplc. *V great war, like that in wliiedi we are engaged, cannot Ife carried without looney. Our liberties are at stake; and if we do not succAid, every like, arid (KillaVs wjjrth of property in tfie South will he at’the mercy ©f the North. The tax is wisely arrang ! ed, and till Is lightly upon the poor. This ft , right* for the poor are <b®ng .their duty *Hbly upon th* field, and this they qpuld.not do if tin* tax were of a character to requirg their la btfrr ;ft home to rtiisc Hie means to.nieet it.*ll lie object of tlrg tax is to provide* ;* fund to pay .the jirincipal interest, as.it may accrue, ®p-* on the Treasury notes provided for in ting Act. To this end a direct wat tax of fifty cents upon i'very oin? hundred dollars in value is inijgnstgd. Wliare the amon’tit of taxable property owned by the leemj of a family does not exceed iif val ue five hundred dollars, yo tax will bg requi red. *‘ . * Each State will constitute ;i tgx division, •o; T r whicTv shall beappoihted by ting I‘resident one Chief Collector* wh® shall he charged with the*duty of dividing tlie State into a conveni pnt’nuniber of collection districts. ‘J'lie salary of the* Chief Collector is §2OOO. It iff a very important office, and your readers wWI be glad to he;ir. that their congressional delegation have recommonded to 0 the President the ap pointmentof Judge Cabadiss, of Monroe coun ty, a® the Collector for Georgia. o .P. w. A. - - • - *o e 0 9>i-:ili lion ui I lie North. ° From the Bangor (Mr,.) Democrat. The last of our constitutional rights has been, trampled under foot by the Administration” and° its tools, the Congress. The edict lias now gone forth that the private property t>f each man who dares to think differently from the Government standard is to be confiscated — in other words the Congress have “given the people notice tliat the Government at Wash ington is no longer for the “protectiono>f life, , Ijht'rty and property,” but is to he converted into a grand engine of robbery. • o * From the Seneca Observer, The Independent Treasury system was a fa vorite Deufocratic measure, anil it was likewise a sound financial system, and lias in several pressures prevented us from gfting to wre elf and ruin—that is, it has brought ab#ut*a crisis when matters were m a bad state financially, before, we’liad reached a point wliicji would have ruined thousands and caused general bankruptcy. There is no sheet anchor now, and we are fairly on the way to irretrievable ruin. * • From the fiaift/ Register. • The majority of the Congress which has just, adjourned have Covered themselves With infa my —hujtipg as*the history of their acts. Nev *er before lias any legislative body in the histo ry of ibis, and we might s*y any otlffcr Gov ernment, slgown itself so utterly oblivious to the duties and obligations of its position. ; . f'rom ike A'fi* Ma m pshi re* Fat riot. • \Vho are the fifteen traitors in the Senate, whose insane and feckless conduct.* ioi concert with th Greelevsj the Blairs, and the Aboli tion members of* she House, has “'added anoth er year to the war, an. ‘hundred million dollars to its cost, aifd. opened grawes for fifteen* or twenty thousand more soldiers.” • • • • From ?Tie “Buffalo Post. * . With a public debt augmenting with fearful rapidity, with inefficiency in *ll the departments of the State Government, with the unremitting efforts of unclean birds to pick an*l filch from the public? treasury, can it*be otherwise than certain that a long sufficing and indignant peo ple wilf seize upon rhe opportunity to place the seal of their condemnation upon*the spoilers. . -•••►. —• . * yVnuiiid. • • • • • Jlrcat, indeed, is the task assigned to woman. Who can elevate its dignity? ‘Not to inukg laws, not to lead atonies, isot to govern <*ift]>ircsy but to form tho3C by whflus hfws arf made, ar mies led, and empires governed; to guard ag ainst the slightest taint of bodily infirmity tli® frail yet spcAlc.** ckeature whos*e moral, i.o less than physical being, must be derived.from bur, to inspire those principles, to inculcate # those doctrines, to animate tlioso sentiments which ’generations yet unborn and .nations yet unciv ilized, wiiriearn to bless; to Softer? firmness in to mercy, and chasten honor into refinement; to exalt generosity into virtue, by soothing care to allay the anguish of the.body, and the > far worse angtysh of tluj, min<j, lv her •tender-, ness to disarm pasjion, by her purity to triumph over sense ; to cheer the scholar sinking.ryidar his toil; to Console the statesman for the • ii*- gritilude of a mistaken people ; Jto b®* compen sation for friends tliat.arc prrfidious £or happi ness that has passed away. §uch is her voca tion. ° * . • The couch of the tyrtured ’sufferer, the pri son Af the deserted‘friend, the cross of the re jected Saviour —these are the theatres on which hey greatest triftuqfhs have been achieved- Such is her destiny ; to.visit* lie ftpsaken, to • tend the neglected , when jnomftxdis abandon, wjien betray, when justice-prase cutes, when brethren and disciples flee, •to re main unshaken aud unchanged, and to exhibit in the lower world a tyye of thufc love —;®ire, eanstant*and incffiable —which in another..wg are taught to believe the test o£ virtue.’ 0 0 0 o • ~ • Million jof .I ml#|M int< ii< r of III® *lal<- o| . * TliM.soigri,* „ i In fjie.exereisc of .the right roscrVcd to the people of Missouri by the treaty\ui3e which tlic I nited Statty- rfcqnired tlirn temporary do-* .minion of the country wes.t of the Mississippi* river, ju (lotsf for the several sovereign ’afterwards to be formed ’out of it, that people did on the 12th. day of Jump one thousand i eight hundred and twenty* “mutually agree Ito form and establish, a free and independent • republic by the name of the State of Missouri.” I On*the tentfi day of August eighteen hundred iiml twenty-one, the State was duly admitted into the.rnion of the United States of Ameri ca, muter the compact called tJie Constituticui • of the United Stages, and “on an equal footing with the original Stati*sin all respects whatev-. cr. - ’ *ll®’ freedom, Independence and sover eignly of Miss mi, and lie* equality with gth er State.®of the Unhon, were thus guaianteed, not only by that Qonetitution, but*by flic law. requiring tl*e sacred obsenvMiee of, treaties? . ... * Fn’repeaf'd instances, the Government and the ]*'opie oj’ the States now* t;enqiining in tjiat Uutem, iiave grossly violated, iw’their conduct toava iJ, the*]>e*op!e and*State of Missouri, both tUe A'on.-jitufitai of yhe United States and that of Missouri, as well as the •rentral, great and Essential principles *f liberty and free Govern ment.** Tip'A Abraftam IJn*c®ln, in l “’avowed dctiatice of law amTthe Oon®titution oY jlie linited.?''tates # and under the tyrant’s fifea of necessity, lyjs assumed t regulate comnunee pith foreign nations and Among the several States, stopping by vdolcncc with our. neightiors, and depriving our fitizensm of* the light, -secured to them by a special, ! solehin compact the Ujiited States,.-of.*fin; .free nafigatign of the Mississippi rivgft. He I Jias usurped powers granted exeiusively to Coii-< in declaring war against the Confederate States ‘f> to ffarry on this unholy attempt to re (°luce a free jieonle to slavish.subjection to him, hc.has, in like violation of o thc.Consthuiion,. raised amt supported armies, an*l provided and. maintained a navy.. . Regardless* of 4hg right reserved to the States respectively, of training its militia, gud appointing ifs officers, he lias enlisted and armed, contrary to the law, under the name of llo’pc Guarcte, whole regiments of men, foreigners and others, in our State, to de fy*the Constitutional authorities, and plunder and murder our citizens. Ry armed force and actual bloodshed, he has even attempted to de- 1 prive the people Os their right to keep* and • bar arms ui conformity to State laws, and to ~ form a welt regulated militia necessary to tlie< security of a free* State. this sanction . Ims soldiers have been quartered in housesNvith out the consent of the owners thereof,’ and witliout any authority of law. The right of the people to lie secure in their persons, .houses papers and against unreasonable search es and suizmtes, has been habitually jtn'd grossly violated by his officers acting under h"is.orders. He has utterly ignored the binding force of our constitutional State laws, and carried his inso fence to such ay extent as to introduce, from ’ ytlier States, free*negroes into our list, and j'lace them in positions of authority over our white citizens. * lie ha® encouraged the stealing of our slave property. In these and other pro ceedings the Government and people of the Northern States have unmistakably shown tlilir intention to overturn the social institutions of Missouri.’and reduce her .white, citizens to an equality with the blacks, . In the execution ol‘ his despotic wishes, his agents without even re buke from him, have* exhibited .a brutality scarcely credible of a nation pretending t®*civ ilization. Even women and children of tender. age,*luA'e fallen victims to tlic’jinbudlpd license of lfis unfeeling soldiery. lie has‘avowedly undertaken to make the civil poweu nate to the military ; and with ihc despicable rm’J cowardly design of tlm’s prbtectjng himself and hi& accomplices, by binding the conscieu -1 Ces'of the unhappy victims of Jus, tyranny, he • lias exacted front peaceful citizens, &uilt*y of no •crime, an oatii to support his detestable Gtsycrn , ljiewt. .To crjish out even’peaceful lawful opposition to it, lie lias forcibly and unconstitu tionally suspended* the privilege* of the writ of habeas corpus, and abridged *tlie freedom, of > speech an<| of the firess by subjecting innotent citizens.to punishment for mere opinion’s sake, • Imi by preventing the publication of newsna ’persdndepgndent eiiough to expose his treason l to liberty® .. • These njanifold and inhuman wrongs ycra ; long submitted to in patieffee. and almost in liu fuility, by khe people of Missouri and their afi i thorities. Even when thre cund.uct ot tlfe Lin ■ col® Government had. culmitfatcd in an opn war upon us,, those authorities offeu'ed tb its military commauder in Missouri to refer to tlie people of the I'Ttate ftjr decision, the question of ouf separation from*a government and nation thus tqrcnly hostile to us.* Those aifthorities relied on the consecrated in the Dc - crlaration of Independence ot* the United £ta*tcs, that, to stcqi ® the j'ights of the citizens, - “governments are instituted among* men?, deriv > ’their just powers from the consent* of Uie’jgov ; erned : tliat? whenever any form cd’ government , becomes destructrive oi these ends, it,is the • right yf the people to alter or abolish it, and to i institute anew government* laying its founda ■ tion on such principles, and organizing its*pow - ers iu such form, as to ‘.them shall’seem mosl ; JTkely to ellect tlicis safety and happiness.”— - Missouri lving an admitted equality with the : origin’ll States wdiigli had mgdc this declaration • it wtys hoped that the rights therein asserted i would not be deni<*d to her people. Her atf • thorktes’also i*licd on tlie clause in. tlie ve.ry • Constitufton with which* she was adniittedinto the Union, asserting as one oT the general, great anyl essential principles? of liberty and fYee . tsovernmot, “ihat the people .of this State , have the inherent, sole and exclusive right of - ululating’the internal Government thereof,’ . ami of*altcring or abolishing their Constitution i ’and form of Government whenever it may be - necessary to their safety and Happiness. But this military oomniiinHer haughtily refused tlie , consent of lift Government ta the exercise by - us of these rights, which our ancestors’ in tjic l ,st century emlm'gd.aw eight year’s war to vin t jdicate. Jle but expyessed, however, the dclih , ,prate purpose of his at Washington j gml people ovc® which they rule ; for’his prede cessor at St. Louis had,.a few* weeks’ before, • • • •* . o • v ’IBSJIK.TWO 1)01.1. ) * ) . * tu kdlnwr. V • 9 • f formally proclaimed* to our. people that our •Ctyiwtity wit othat States woujd be ignored •hat we shduld’be held in shbjertion to Uie North,* ven Aioirh. the 0 independence °uf our Southern sister States might-be acknowledged;* • that, to use his ojvn words, ‘‘whatever juay be tin*tormyiatioti .of tipi unfoftunata tfmdfyon of filings iii respect to t]ic so-callpd Cotton States,. Misou{i must •hare tljti destiny..Qf the 1 flion ; * that the ftsC will*of her peopl* should o pot de-’. eide’her future, hut that A fhf. whole* powei 1 tf tlje government of the l nited States, if pcPe*s>* sarv,*witl be exerted*to maintain Missouri in her pVesent position in tin? 1 nion,’ tn subjec tion to’thc tyranny f tlu; North. The acts o f*l'resident* Uncoln have been cn’ dorsed by tl*e’Congress and people of the por’ thorn. States, and fbe war thus eomiftenCed by, Mini bits bee it made the acf of the .Government and yation over which h§ rules. -They have not ouly adopted thisjwar, bpt they “have gaud , to tlie.extrciufc of inciting portions of qyp’peo , pie*to revolt jjfainst the*.State authorities; V intimidation, they have pbtained control ot the remains lef t <Jf a convention (driving its powers Irony those ’ authorities, and usjng it s a tool, they Ijave through*it sut up an insurrectionary government in <ypen rebellion against tlie State. , .No alternative is leit must draw the sword and dhfrnd opr sacred rights. . . I>\ the racogpized•universal public lawoPaTl “the earth, war dissolves all political Cotnpatts.* Out* forefathers gave as one of the grounds for. ’asserting thcir’indepe’ndcnce, that tli*> King of Croat ltriiaiu had “aWigt’c’d government here hy ’declaring us out of his protection and wa* gang War upon us.” ’• The phPjjle *md meet of the Northern States of the latd Cnion, have ficfacd in the same manner towards -Mtssbir rij and have dias'olved, by war, tlfe* connection heretofore existing between her and thhiw. * ~* The Ccneral \sseTnbly of Missouri, the’reC’ ogniged political, department of liar” govern nitfnt, by an act approved May 10th, 1801, ca titlijd, “Ay Actio authorize the Governor .of , the State of Missouri4o supprass rebellion and . repel invasion/', hns vested in the Governor, iu respect to tlie rebellion and invasion npW ear- Aied on in Missouri by °the Government and people of The Northefn States and tbeir allies, the “authority to take such measures as in his judgment lie may deem necessary or proper, to 1 repel such invasion or put dd\tn such reballiOh Now therefore, Hy virtue of the authority in’ me vested by sajd act, I, Claiborne F. Jaefcsonv ” Governor of the State of Missouri, appealing to flic Supreme Judge **of thb world for the .rectitude of my intentions, and firmly believing < that I am herein carrying into effect the will of the people of Missouri,, hereby in their name, by their authority, and in their behalf, and subject at all times tw their free and unbiassed control, mate and publish this Provisional De elaration, that by the acts* and people, and Gov ernment of the United States of America, tho political connection heretofore existing between said States and the people and Government of- Missouri, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that the State of Missouri, as a sovereign, free, and independent republic, has full powef. to levy war, conclude peaci;, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts, and things which independent States may of right do. „ • o Published and declared at New Madrid, Mis- O , ‘ souri, this fifth day of .\ugust, in the yeyr of “our.Lor<A, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. • • Claibobne F. Jackson,. . Governor of Missouri. •• * „ Tin- i\rn Orleans JS uttering Rniti. * J’artiPs.who arrived at New York from the ’ Soutji, have’ furnishcd’thc New York Commer cial with the following description of a 0 novel .*• ° 1 • , implement of.war intended to operate against the blockading fioef: * . t •At Algicfs.! a formidable‘instrument of de struction is-bcing prepared*, and “was oxpcctcd to be launched aborit the 20th. The*tug-boat*. (i Enoch Train, built in Hs4on; and one of the most powerful tugs of her class,-has bocn con- verted to a purpose never intendcif by her Buil- Tlcr or the gentleman*whose nanc she bears.— TKg upper portion of the boat lias been cover-* ed with jailroad-. iron* and perfectly shielded frflm the attack of an ordinary cannonade. At the bow a ram lias been constructed. The bow lias biVn built ouj to the extent of fjve fget,., heavily framed with timber, and then covered ♦ with heavy wrought metal.* • . • ► • At the extreme cmj a formidable mass of iiain project,s.in the form of a*knob. BcneatJi this knob ynd beneath tfie surface of tlie Wafer “two strong •grapples h.rvc been arranged, so fashioned that upon collision with a* ship the ■ j claws will fasten into the side of a vessel and take a firm’liohl. Protected by these grapples’ in a mannner mrt anlfkc an insect’s lance or, stifg,° there projects an auger connected by mgans of shafting, within independent machine on the bof\t.. This instrument is intended to Operate as follows: Upon the attaclimnt.of tho , grapples to the side of the attacked vessel, the augec will be set in raptd motion and 1 bore its way into the side. *\\lien one hole has been forcecr thiDugb the guger cair be withdrawn, # andjby means qf an independent axle, the pO“ . 1 sition. will be changed so *5 jo oficraic upon .an-, other* portion of tlie ship, thus boring holes ra-. pidlynd large enough to sink the vessel. The - boat will have a grew of six men, w3tj) _will be‘* protecte’d bene’ath the iron roof, the pil©t •serving the direction through a hube. or-small •telescope.* •/ .* * •* • # —V 4•■ ■, , ll'np Her! Nt*p Ifrrt “Ilallpo, Mr.. Fmginbman ! can’t ymu stop your steamboat *a minute or two . * • • “Stpp the toat! What.for .f r * • “Wife wants* 4 look pt* jonr bijer ; shtl a afraid of its bustin.” • . . .—, • r . , . Ki{l-<l l‘nnnH. • • Messrs. * Noble,* Bro. & t’o., of HoTnc liavo sent two Jtiflcd* Gannon, of their own mamv facture, to and will have..>tfn<v more •rnady.in a feif •• # 0 15v taking revenge, a man iv*bJt even with his enemy ; bufc in passing it owr, be is superi-* or : . ~ r • ~ “(b father, give me ten cents —I want lo see , tfie grimly bear —he w*‘igbs 4000 tens, ad I* ean i?ee the tvlidle of him for ten cents V’ # • o • - MO. 22.