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, Delation*.
TV Boston Courier—a straggling number of whiah
hi- reached us by unknown means—contains a chapter
on d h on* North and South. The worthy Yankee finds
verr few to chronicle on the northern side of his account.
The Yankees understand everything perfectly and cor
rectly. They are laboring under no mistake whatever.
They see the Constitution, and the bapp'est Government
tint ever existed, threatened wiih destruction; they rise
as one man to upheld it. They sec their dear l nion
friends in the South oppressed and silenced by a factious
minority of rebels, and they rush to their rescue. These
are the sole causes alleged for the uprising of the \ ankee
nation. Thev involve uo misapprehension, whatever
The Southerners, who profees only to desire to live under
a government of their own chooeiug, are iateut on de
stroying Yankee government. The Union men of the
South, who hwe uo existence, are in a majority, and ye',
ms.nwi. fra ca* urA < Pliahpll •trill 1Y Vr Vk .'fTU*t i ItT A. T.i
nority !
While the Yankees are thus elevated above the mists
of m -apprehension, and see with eagle vision the whole
f .J, the poo: Southrons an befogged aud laboring un
der the most deplorable deln.-ious. They are strangely i'.
fatuaicd with the idea tha'- tbeirdear Yankee friends and
brothers design to overrun their country aud suhj ug&tc
ft Their beloved brethren have sent down regiments oi
rubiJ.s and felous, who are plundering and laying wash
the countrv, stealing negroes, ravishing women aud kill
ing men , but all with the kindest and most affiMonate
intentions possible! They are only in quest of rebels
aud traitors ! Tue? ody propose bv means of powder
and bal’, to briug their dearly beloved but erriug brother*
of the South, to a sense of the error of their ways! They
would not for the world do theta the slightest irjisry; end
they entreat them to dismiss from their minds all appre
her.a on 1
All this is g ively put forth by the Boston Courier.
which professed in times past to comprehend i onstitu
t. ju*1 liberty, and to have same appreciation of So it hern
rights; ar.d which Is, perhaps, the most Ligh-toncd Oi
Yankee papers. And vet its idea is, that a free people
nay t>e coerced into submission and affection : that the
sword and the bayonet, pillage aud devastation, may r<.
vive confidence and restore a goverument of love aud
consent! It judges others by itself, and its position
throws a Hood of light upon the Yaukee character. Thee
are themselves wretches whom the lisu would reduce to
submission and in*p!re with affection ; and tfu-v suppose
the Southern people to be accessible to the same influences.
We confess to having labored under a delusion, when we
supposed many at the North were of ccbhr and better
materials. But the delusion is at an end for ever. Wc
rate them all at their true value—a? flunkies, base and
sordid time-set vers, ignorant of constitutional govern
ment, or too m> an-spirited to assert their own rights, oi
too penurious and b'gotteJ to appreciate the rig&ts Of
other*.
W ith this light which the Courier, tepresenting tl e
better portion of the northern class, gives us of tha1
cl ia*. we are enabled to appreciate the delusion which
has prevailed at the North, it respect to the South. We
have seen it frequently stated in northern paper*, that
the Yankee government h:J on’) to make a display of
fores, to overaw • and subdue into eubmie.-lon the whole
people of the South. We suppoted these paragraphs
ouh dew. cued for home consumption, and never dreamed
that the authors of them had any faith in Ihetn themselves.
We now -ce and admit the mistake. They really think
we are as craven hearted as they are themselves; ai d
their whole plan of invasion is based on tha* cilculation.
Whether thev or wo will suffer most from the mistake
time will determine.
ForsiiiU News.
The extracts from EugU-h p*|«ers, in another column,
by the last steamer, supply v- ry few crumbs of comfort
for the Yankee*. Ia Net, the whole t*ue of the English
p ese appears to be unfavorable to the Rump cor.ceru at
Washington. Lord Palmerston's organ, the Pont,comes
out and in pUia terms admits the Confederate States to
be a tie fort•• Government. The Hlolu. Lord John Rus
eeU’s organ, is still more emphatic—its sympathies, as
well as its opinions, arc Southern. The Herald, Lcrd
1» -rhy’e organ, denounces Lincoln as an usurper, aud as
fully appreciates the merits of the contest as we do
ourselves. The articles from the Tune.*, oa CWiufl
CUv's letter and Seward's dispatch to !>*yton indicate the
temper and views of the most influential journal in the
world. The bullying and bluster, either of Clay or Sew
ard. seem to have no effect oa tbc mighty thund* rer. A
verv few paragraphs riddle the absurdities and contradic
tions of Clav and treat with Warning contempt hi* empty
bravado. The dissection of Seward’s missive discloses
as thorough a knowledge ol the charlatan as wc have on
• • .a* __.... T as.) T -nra art il.tithf htl^ An
exact gunge of the vaior and gentility of the would-be
J c'ator and gjntleman, and in all probability he bus
transmitted bis in formation to head-quartf"*. Th>
French eaib »*<ad©r,we are assured, perfectly uuderstau J?
Seward, ind that shrewd oN*erTer aud accurate jud^e o.
meo, Louis Napoleon, is not more ignorant than hi? Min
uter. Knowing ii*ward, »» he mutt do, to bo a brageart
aud pretender, we can well i magi re’ ;!«t shrug of tie
e .ouldrrs with which he read the menace contained in
the letter to Davtoa.
B n, the beet interpretation of foreign sentiment is
fouud in the Yinker papers. All of them complain bil
i*riv of the uakiud m anile? tation# which greet them both
ia Kurland and France. Not on? ol them professes to
awe a favorable indication on the Lori/an. The ilouse of
Lords is aristocratic and v-cretie rejoicing at the prospect
o’ the down'iil of Republican institutions on this conti
a ut! The 3ri:Uh press is all under the influence of the
cotton spiuacr- » o must hare cotton or starve ! The
F.-ench Emperor i- a pc 4 usurper and fcatee liberty
as bitterly a* the English Lords ! The whole world is in
a comb.ua..ou agaiust Yaakeedom—the only land which
sets up as the champion cl f-ecdotu ’ The London Times
very frankly conies*?* its inabiktv to understand this
pretension, while the Yankee* are attempting to impese
:h?ir institutions on a people who abhor them. The
Yankees, with characteristic bluster, profrss thsir readi
ness to one the world in arms. But K g'ishmen and
Frenchmen, as well M everybody m this country, per.
feetlv understand them. England and Franco have only
to speak, to make Seward fall upon his knees. With their
co-operation, the South would have no contest; without it,
they can give the Yankees as much employment as they
can attend to. _ _
Fall lu Cotton.
The las: arrival from Liverpool brings news of a de
cline in cotton. This puixles and alarm* the Yankees.
With less than six weeks’ supply in Englaud and with a
blockade of the whole Southern coast, to render the re
ceipt of any wore impossible, there is only one solution
of the decline. It is that England doe- not intend to
pay much respect to the .blockade, and that the uiaaa
fac'. irera know this to be the intention of the Govern
ment. Turn is the Yankee'eaplanatioo of the matter. It
is a very reasonable one.
Attack on Ulcbinoutl.
One of the New Yotk military editors suggests to
General Butler the propriety of attacking Richmond by
way of Petersburg, crossing James river at or below
City Point. If the General does an the editors tell him,
he will Lav# his hands fulL
The Regiment of Foreign Adventurers, recently en
gird in New York, and who arrived ton days ago in
Washington, A in a very di*org*uix?d condition. The
Government required that they should enlist for three
years—which they refused to do. Fifty-odd have gone
Mok to New York, sad the others will follow. They
gay 11neoin 4 Cot, are cheat* and humbugs.
A Speech by be ward.
When the New York Seventh Regiment wu about
leaving Washington to return home, after a gloriou*
campaign, they were very much glorified by the author
lti?a. They reciprocated thedittos, and tho following
is recorded:
Last evening the band belonging to the regiment sere
naded Got. Seward, who appeared at the window and
made the following remarks , . .
1 sec many visiters to-mght, my friends and neigh
bors of New'York. 1 have ever thought—1 have *1
wavs knowu—that the Union would not bo worth murh
without the State of New York, and by the events that
are now progressing, New York believrs that she would
not be worth much without the Union. [Cheers. 1 We live
in Stirling times. People are trying to abolish Yankee
Doodle, Had Columbia, and the Star Spangled Banner.
V< <—“Not a one,” "Don’t see it," “Nary time,’’
“Never, never."]
And they are also trying that Other and greater im
pesMbrlitv, to abolish the Fourth of Ju'y. [Voices—
•Never “Can't do it.”) Congress will meet here on
the Fourth ol July, with the country in the n idst or a
civil war. Let us hope that when it meets egain on the
iidl Fourth of July we iray see peace, harmony, and a
Ql . . | p: In t- wer<- her" g TOO for Gov.
Siw»ni, ltd-owed by a tig-:r am a rkv rocket | Geutlc
in -ti, will you do me the favor to walk into the house
and take a glass of wine with mu?
This is cot the first, nor socoid, nor third time, that
we kavo Sica Seward eapiees.ng his tears for Yankee
Doodl. and the Fourth of July. Toe subject of Umeut
at.oti is worthy of the ora’or. Yet, wo don't sec who
ire the peeyle at’a king Y’aiikce Doodle or trying to
abolish the Fourth of July. Since the great principle of
ilt-governmcut, consecrated by the Fourth of July, is
, -«iled by tho usurping government at Washington, it
ia foriuuate there tie ariue people determined to up
;clJ it. 1( Y'arikce Doodle suras in the way ot these
jaop.Ie, it must take the ionscqueucee. But we are
content that the Yankees shall have the ex.lu-ive aud
entire and i:ciatcrrupu.d eijjymeut of Yankee Doodic
or all titte. We don’t want any part or io; in it. It is
not, however, so much Yankee Doodle that is threatened
will-, destruction as the deliverance oi the men who p^y
tor bis piping. There lies the rub. ‘"New Yoik bt
eves she would not he much without the l niou. Teats
toe -ecret. She aud all Yank redo in hive been living on
the South for loug years, and they arc vrrv reluctant to
surrender their prey. They will not have tho heart to
sing Yankee Doodle any more—;nd it may bo m that
sense that it is in danger of extinction.
Too Ytbjeet ot Use M nr.
It is a pu/x'.e to Flnropeans to ascertain the ofj'ct of
’he war which the Yai k es a’e wagirg against the South.
Cassius Clav wiitos to the Loadou Tunes that it is for
•‘nationality and liberty” But that sagacious paper
cor.fv.- cs iliat it cannot see how nationality is involved,
nr how those who urc trving to impose a hated yoke ou
j li«*rs caa be regarded as the chair pious of liberty.—
The Yankee a themselves say they are lighting for the
pre-ervation of ti e Us; of Gaveiumetits. Well, we arc
*!Ukg to let them b».ve the whole of that best
iJovernmeut—relk quishing our share iu it entirely.—
This, however, docs not content them—which leaves it
o be iuler.rd that there is something in the baik
•iound. Tie Lou is who Jurnal and Sativnai ftUelli
«». <r protest that subjugation is impossible, and wrs
■>«ver dreamed of; and that uo dUtuibtnce of the right
ol prep.rty iu slave* was ever coatemplated by the Yan
kee Government. But Cameron, the Secretary of War,
a a speech made las: week iu Washington, seems to
•cutradict these w 11-accredited Torv organ i. In tfat
<;e e.!i, he said, addressiog the Seventh New York R;gi
ment.
» I; i* not for nio to determine when this struggle will
er. i. But I may ray ho* it shall ead. Soouer or lat*r,
it cun Lave hut out conclusion, aud that wi.1 be when
•he disturbing cause which gave rise to it is utterly ob
literated.”
W hat this “ disturbing cause ” is, we are rot told by
he Secretary ; but the Now York supplies the
l> for tuii don. 1: is slavery—iud its obliteration is the
object of the w ;r—if there be any object besides that
ol plunder aud ambitiou.
Slputc the Norlhwcat.
We continue, every now aad then, to see signs in the
Northwestern States, which indicate a lccling of strong
d ; -dtisluctioa with ealsteng Yankee rule. The Interests
of that region are linked with the Southwest, aud direct
!v oppo-itd to those of Yankee land, and iu time this
cannot tail to bo felt. The following proceedings of
the Iowa Set-a'.e are of a character to arrest alter,
tion :
[Proathe Dul>uque(lawa)Herat 1, Nayil 1
PEACE KESOL! TiUNo IN' THE SENaIE Of IOWA.
We arc gratified iu being able lo lay before our read
ers f.. fohowiiig resciuttou* introduced into the Semite
of this Sratc hi Mr. Duncombc, aud the vote by which
V it on the table. This is an iu
4 . atiou ibat thire is still left a healthy conservative cou
siitutiooal setitio.-.n: in Iowa, which needs but a favor
»ble opportunity to manifest itself for the preservation
of at leas'. a remu.-nt of the Union, and some of the po
'it .a! rights resulting from the acknowledgment of the
Ind pendenco ol the l oiled States.
The following arc the resolutions referred to:
WuKueas, At thi.= time nearly one third of the States
of tliis Union have takeu upon ihcmse.ves the respotisi
bi.i v of withdrawing their allegiance to the federal gov
ernment, and have establish* d a confederate government
separate Irora the government ot the United States, aud
cstabliabing a coustitu'ion Repuhiicati in form, hate
sent Commissioners to the federal government to nego
ti .t, -* stive to the propriety and rights ol the belliger
ent parties: and
W h kkk as, It is not oaiy desirable but indispensable
to the - •* rrv and welfare of the people of tho United
States that terms of peucc be arranged between the por
tio is of the country now in a state of war, belure the
b t erue-s ot fraternal bioediueu shall make arrangement
impossible; and
\Yiiirkas, The necessary consequence of such a war
would be the ruiu ol thousands of loyal citizens in the
State* now seceded and in other portious of the Union,
• boareiuro way responsible for the fratricidal war
uow commenced in our unfortunate country, and believ
ing, as we do, that the calm patriotism and reason of the
A'l.nican peojile may yet settle upon honorable terms
the* \i*tiug troubles, and believing that civil war, if per
stated in and pushed with the malignity which universal
ly characterize all civil war, will only terminate in an
ov*t whelming indebtedness, public and private, without
hetifhtting either of the parti*-* u» this controversy, and
a military despotism in which the liberties of the people
will be disregarded, the butchery of the patriotic and in
nocent ci'ireus as well «- the guilty, aad such a war, if
possible to be honorably avoided, is unpatriotic, unna
turally and aiiti-cht istiau; therefore
Ktnolutd, That the Senate ot the State of Iowa recstn
m.'iui to the Government of the United'States iu thi«,
their most earnest appeal, that while every prepsratiou
tor the defence of the government shall be made, a ce9
a:ijn of actuil hostilities may take ti’.aee until Ooncree*
>aall have time to act in the premises.
2. That we reecmuietui to Congress the calling of a
Vationsl Convention, for the scttietm nt of our national
J'lHcuHies, and that ev»rv possible honorable means
shail be first exhausted by the national government be
i r>> our prosperous people lie plunged into a civil war,
the ultimate te-ult of which the wisest cannot foresee.
X. Thai we are opposed to a war prosecuted for the
uintiou of the .needing States, while it is impossible
mi cably to settle the difficulties now existing.
4 That we are opposed to the prosecution of a war
against the secedes! Slates, waged uuder auv circumstan
ces for the purpose |t»f emancipating the slaves of the
southern glavefco! Jing States.
. That the Secretary of the Senate be requested to
forward a copv of these resolutions to the President of
tI'nited Suites, and to each of our Representatives in
Congress.
Mr. Hammer moved to lay them ou the table. Ayes
IS, nays 21.
nititary Despotism.
Th' military Despotism which Lnccln inaugurated iu
11,: viand ce-otinues, and has to be of increased rigor,
u order to continue. Federal officers are making regu
lar f-cxrches tor arms, and seizing all they can find. A
urm mauefacturing arms in Baltimore has been com
pelled to shut up shop and dismiss its hands, numbering
>, who are thrown oat of employment. At Port To
bacco and vicinity, the rebellious spirit among the peo
ple is so rife, that the Washington Rump has determin
ed to establish (here a camp ot a thousand men, to keep
order and prevent communication with the Virginia
rebels.
Every neighborhood in the State will have to be “oc
cupied’’ and every man disarmed and watched to ensure
the -»fetr ef the precious system of Free Government,
which Lincoln has brought into vogue.
Kuuiora, Ac.
No one could take greater pleasure than we in chronic
ling hardy enterprises and glorious victories over our
encodes. We would most joyfully surrender all our col
umns to -.uch narratives; and we are quite ns Impatient
as any of our readers to enter upon the task. But we
t ave determined to await authentic accounts, or infor
mst.oo based upon authorities in which we have confi
dence. We could fill columns daily with reports—some
of them apparently Hue—which would make very pleas
ant re&dicg; but the publication would serve little else
than to mislead the public and discredit ourselves. We
prefer silence to misrepresentation.
We hope, however, the day is not distant, when we
uiiy have the pleasure of recording the rout of the in
vaders.
Prrylus on one Another.
All the accounts that reach us from the N’orth repre
teat the grossest extortions upon the public by jobbers
tad contractors to be the o-der of the day. We never
read one of thsee accounts without thanking an overruling
and beneficesl Provideuoe for opening the way to our de
1 verance. The wretches in future will have to devour
one another, A jolly feast may they have of it I It i«
reported in & Washington letter, that a combination of
theee harpies are raising a clamour against old Scott,
with the view of precipitating his movements on Vir
ginia, in the hope of exposing him to reverses, that they
may havo an opportunity of fleecing the Government,
by providing fresh supplies at their own prioes. This is
a specimen of Yankoeism that had never occurred to us. ,
Tennessee election.
The Knoxville Register of Sunday brings a few par
tial returns from the election which took place in Ten- |
nessee on Saturday last, upon tho question of separation
from the Federal Union, from which we gather the fol
lowing particulars;
Ksox Corktt—In the city of Knoxville tho vote was
Sepiratioa 7S0, no Separation 377— mt.jority for Sepa
tion 409. lu six of tho nineteen country precincts heard
from the vote stood, Separation 184, no Separation 884
_mej Jiity agaicEt separation 700. Nett majority against
Si paratiou in the city and county as far as heard from
291.
Sullivan County—In three precincts including Bris
tol, on the Virginia Slate lino, the vote foots up as fol
lows: Separation 501, no Separation 4. Sullivan has
undoubtedly given a large majority for Separation.
Bradley County—Union majority 04. Niue d'stricts
to hear from.
McMinn County—In eleven districts the mejority for
Union is 208.
The following is the vote of tho towns along the line
of the East Teuuessee and Georgia railroad:
Separation. -iVo Separation.
Loudoun, 07 ^^4
Cleveland, 105 ^92
Charleston, 144
Calhoun, 138 d
Chattanooga, 421
Davidson Countv—Majority for Separation 5500. In
Nashville the vote stood Separation 3,030, no Separation
215.
Robirtson County—One precinct reported by tele
graph 40*» for Separation, 1 against.
Washington County— Jonesboro’, June 8, 1801.—In
twelve diotiicis the I’nioD majority is ninety-five—a gain
of two hundred and eighty one to the Secessionists from
the February vote. Six districts to hear from.
Memphis, June 8, 1801.—The vote in this city is near
ly unanimous for Separation.
The State has gone for Separation by a majority of
probably not less than 50,000.
tlorre*poii<l«‘ii<’c of llie W hig.
I’ATRIOTISM OF MONROE AND MERCER
Centbiyillx Monroe Co., June 5th.
71* the Editor of the Whig ;
On the morning of the third, news reached our quiet
mountain homes, that a company of men from the North
had invaded Western Virginia, burned Grafton, 8uttoo3
vi!i - ar-.d SuiumersvilL*. aud were on their maich to Lewi*
burg, and would be there that night. Runners were sent
out in every directiou, ladies volunteering to bear part
of the fatigue. Several horses fell under their enthusias
tic and patriotic riders.
Many armed men asjwtnbled in Centrcville ou Monday
evening, anxious to go on to Lewisburg that night. They
reluctantly consented to wait for further particulars and
written orders from General Chapman.
The Peterstown Cavalry reached here about 7 o’clock in
the nigh ; all were armed with riflesaud kuives, eager
for the scene of battle.
Col. Suttle arrived here with orders from Gen. Chap
man to start for Lewisburg at o’clock with his regi
ment. Armed men were arriving here all night, and great
excitement prevailed.
Such a scene as was witnessed in Centrevill*, by 1»*
o’clock iu the morning, would rouse and cheer hearts
the least inclined to patriotism. Men whose locks were
whitened by the frosts of many winters were in the ranks
armed, and eager fer the defence of their country. May
God bless the old pa .riots, and tptre them loDg for coun
sel and example! Many men not on the muster roll were
in the ranks. I need not say that the sons of those pa
triotic fathers were in the rankp, and enthusiastic for the
defence of their inheritance. The childreu of such men
cou!d no. fail to be brave.
About two-thirds of the men were armed with that in
strument of death which brought food to the pioneers
of our country, defended their Louies,and did its work in
the gaining of that independence which we enjoyed un
til the despotic reign of Abe Lincoln. Others were
armed with patois, knives, pitchforks and axes. The
Ccn'reviile Volunteers were armed with rifles. The
ladies were engaged in preparing food and clothing for
their husbands and sous.
To increase the interest of the occasion a company
from Mercer ariived, and a formidable company it teas.
A true description of this company 1 cannot give. The
company was composed of farmers who stopped their
f bws in the middle of the field. Some of them did not
go home to bid their wives good-bye. Others were bare
footed, but were supplied with shoes on the way. Most
of the meu were young ami hardy as pino-knots; bowevei^
a smart sprinkle of gray heads were seen in the camp.
I never saw more brave looking men; you could see
“fight in eveiy eye.” They were all well armed with
rifles, pistol* and large kuivea, some of them made at ti e
Siith shop at home.
Taey repotted that they had killed hundreds of deer
and could hit a squarrel’s head along distance. Tluy
a 1 looked disappfluted when the rumor proved to be
false. After firing a salute which made our grand cld
hills ring, tlv>y left u> in good spirits for their homes
with the promise that they would hold themselves in readi
ngs for any emergency. They informed us tint hundreds
of Mer er men had gone to other points. Can North
ern men piss through' tho counties of Monroe, Mercer
and Greenbrier, whose meu, women and children will
light to the last? Never! Never!
P. B. S.
T"K MARYLAND EXILES.
To the Editor of the Whig:
A company of volunteers from Maryland, stationed at
Manassas Junction, are without tents and other essentiils
fjr a soldier. Sqme citizens of Albemarle are now prepar
ing tents for them, and propose that the county adopt the
company as oue of its own. It is suggested to other coun
ties, that each adopt one of these companies as its own, and
supply its wants. There are many of them now in our
service, and thtir numbers are increasing daily. These
men are proscribed exiles, from a State crushed under
t te iron heel of despotism; most of them from their
i) riu» UttfO CVJWJCU an IUBI. "a null nuu v vmj/i.'vnv; vvuiu
give; they have lied to us, many with nought but the
clothes they wore. They are now in our rauks, to fight
our battle*. Is any appeal necessary to the patriotism
of our people, or to the sympathy of mothers, wives and
aistsrs, whose sons, husbands and brothers are in the
field in defence of all that can render life desirable. 1*
it na:essary to remind them, that these volunteers, many
of them mere youths, have fled to escape political per.-e
cu.ion, or degradation worse than death in taking the
oath to aid in the destruction of the liberties of tbeir
country ; that they have mothers, wives and sisters, pro
hibited by despotic vigilance from ministering to their
necessities. Supply their wants cow, and if wounded
or siik. take them iuto your families, and mu*j them te
you would their mothers, wives and sisters shou'd nurse
your loved ouea. Be prompt and efficient iu your action.
The heart bleeds to think of the sufferings and destitu
tion of these brave boys. Will the editors of newspa
pers in the State take this subject up, and urge immediate
attention to it. The Slate cannot supply tbeir wants in
time, if at all.
Tnos. J. RANDOLPH.
June 10, 1S61.
PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.
Grkxnsboro’, Ga, June 4, 1861.
To the EUtor of the H'Aiy:
The suggestion that has been made, that the Govern
ment officers of the Confederate States were to take pay
for one half of their respective salaries in Confederate
States' bonds to be issued by the Government, has given
a considerable impetus to the willingness of subscribing
funds for the support of the Government. It relieves tbo
coll re dug agents from the suspicion (unfounded of course)
that they were gathering funds to be wholly reaped by
the Government official?. It seemed eminently proper,
while they were feeiing the importance and neeesity of
raiding funds for the public defence, and were urging
of, ore to contribute of their menus that th*y should set
the example. This wise and patriotic resolve of theirs call?
forcibly to mind the magnanimous conduct of our iliustrii
ous Washington, who, being able to live without it, abso*
]ute!y refused to receive pay from his country in her hour
of distress, and earned thereby a name for disinterested
patriotism. Acts speak so much louder than words.
So one can estimate ibo encouragement to contributors
from this commendable act of our officers, and they en
title themselves to great praise for it.
Civis.
Affairs at Alixandria.—A letter from Alexandria,
published in the Baltimore San, says:
“ Military matters have been quiet here for several
days, only one company being in town, except the artil
lery aud cavalry at the upper end of King street. The
rest of the force is on the west side oi Sbuter's Hill,
w.th a few at Cloud's Mill, a few miles further, no troops
being south of Cameron Run. About 2<J0 Irish laborers
occupy the Lycsutg here, who are daily engaged in forti
fying Outer's Hill,
LETTER FROM MANA88AS JUNCTION.
OormpondwM of th« Lynchburg Republican.
Camp Pickkns, ManassAs Junction, )
Home Guard Quarters, June ll, 1881. )
I was told yesterday, coming from one of tho paniei
engaged, (the capuaiu.) that a party of scouts, seven in
number, under Capt. McKay, commanding an independ
ent company, late of the United States service, met^with
four federal cavalry, also scout*, at Kails Cnurcb, Wed
nesday night, and taking deliberate aim at the Federal
ists, tired, killing three instantly and wounding the
fourth eo badly that he had to cling to the neck of his
horse as he ran. This happened in distant view of the
enemy’s camp, supposed to he dragoons, about six
miles from Alexandria. The rangers made good their
escapeJ'naving only one shot fired after them.“This came
from the captain himself, aud was told to Lieutenant K.
of the Artiilcry, from whom I got the information.
A painful accident happened in oue of the South Caro
lina regiments two nights since, which resulted in the im
mediate death of a young South Caroliniau quarter-master
sergeant. A Virginia volunteer was in the camp with
bitn, and in handling a musket it was by some meaDS dis
charged, nearly blowing the South Carouniau’s head off.
1 did not learn his name.
Some seventy-five negroes from Fauquier county nr
rived here this evening, and were immediately put at the
fortifications, for which purpose they came. Gibers arc
said to be coming.
I took a good look at Gen. Beauregard to-d;»y, and
though his face shows tha highest order of intellect, yet
he has the most unfathomable eye I ever looked into.
Every one feels the greatest coi fi lence in him.
Yours, truly,
RAMBLER.
THE LAST HOURS OF HON. S. A. DGUGLA8.
The Chicago Joural of the fid instant, in recording the
doccase of Judge Douglas, thus refers to his condition
during the closing hours of his existence:
For a week past the lamented deceased has been only
semi conscious. Though recognizing hia frieudj ho has
been unable to locate them, and his mind gave out con
fused fragments of the great thoughts with which his
giant intellect was wont to grapple.
The ia-t week was an anxious oue of hopes and fears,
aud as we went to press on Saturday evening more fa
vorable oymptoms inspired the beliel in his friends that
he had passed the crisis, and that he would again ho
spared in this hour wheu his country so much needed
hia strong arm aud his experienced counsels. His phy
sicians, men of experience aud skill, used every resource
to take advantage of these favorable symptoms, but in
vain. At twelve o’clock, last night, he faded to recog
ni/.J his most intimate friend, aud became totally uucou
feious; at three o'clock he commenced rapidly to fail,
and his unwilling physicians pronounced him beyor.d
hope Tbeir only duty left was the mournful oue of
easing his dyiog hours. He gradually failed, seem ngly
without a sigh or struggle. His devoted and loving wife
remained with him to the last moment, solacing him as
best she could, buried umldr tho weight of the deep al
tl ction. Madison Cults, his brother-in-iftw, Miss Young,
of the Tremont House, B. Caulfield, and Dr. Hay were
also present.
His djath was peaceful and tranquil as the raciliDg
away of a summer cloud at evening, aud the mourning
watchers were alone with all that was eartLly ol Stephen
A. Douglas.
The Chicago Post says:
. . , ll_SI_II ..J ..ll./l
U UsjU^IK'lftUlUVU iivyjitv- ““ ■' -•■1-_
bis in odical attendant on Thursday, May 14 HU primary
attack was acute rheumatism, which rapidl; assumed a
typhoid character, and continued from the first very un
yielding. After some ten or twelve day s hU attack was
complicated by an ulcerated sore throat, which soon yield
ed. Torpor of the liver and constipation of the bowels
ensued, soon followed by a jaundiced condition, accom
panied by poisoning of the blood, which prostrated his
nervous system still more. Constant wandering and de
li.um accompanied his attack from its inception till he
died. His utterance*, though broken, gave evidence that
he was conscious of hie approaching dissolution.
On Tuesday Lid remains, accompanied by a military
escort, were taken to Bryan Hall, where they were laid
nut in state, and were visited during the day by about
twenty thousand persons. The Chicago Post, in an
nouncing that Mrs. Douglas had, at the request of a
large t»ody of citizens, consented to have the deceased
buried on the Bake shore, at College (irove, near Chi
cago, instead of Washington, says :
It was her desire and intention, in case he was buriod
theic. (College Grove,) to reside in a small cottage near
his tomb, to watch over and be nrur all that was left of
him she so dearly loved. No more appropriate place
could be selected. A monument was already there,
erected by him*elf in hi* liberality ; that monument was
the University, which faced the spot chosen by Mrs.
Douglas for his place of burial.
Hon. W. A. Richardson, ouc of the committee, an
nounced that Mrs. Douglas had expressed the desire
that, as Mr. Doughs had never intimated to her any
preference for any particular faith, he should be buried
with the service of her own Church. The Rev. Bishop
Duggan will therefore officiate.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, June 7.—The gossip here is, that Cum
ming, of the ‘-World,” (a N. Y. newspaper,) has bceu ap
pointed Brigadier General, prepiratory to being made
ijuartermastir General.
Secretary Sewtrd remarked this rr.orr.ing that
ho exjiected toon to hear of 6iiarp work at Harper *
Ferry.
Reinforcements have been ordered to Chambcrsburg,
Pa.
Measures were taken to find out bow many of the
three-months volunteer* were willing to enlist for the
war. The result was that the Government has determin
ed on a new levy.
It is believed here that Beauregard is preparing to at
tack Alexandria.
It is believed that LorJ Byon-i' despatches to his
Government i.ro unfavoraldu to the Bincolnites. Toe
cabinet ha* been in session every day this week on
foreign affairs, which it is believed are ominous of trou
ble.
Hon. John. V. Wright, lite M. C. from IXth Di?
1 istrict of Tennessee, has been elected Colonel of the 7th
Regiment of Tennessee Infantry.
Zacbaruh Grant, of Montgomery county, Tenn ,
has thirteen sons und two grand-sons in one company,
cow at Camp Duncan, near uLikesrifle.
A Sad Accident.—We regret to state that Captain
Charles Van Dtaunt- lost h * life vesterday accidentally
He wa*at the time engaged in polishing with sand paper
a steel plate, used in the manufacture cf percussion
caps, and in which there was a slight fliw. A very
small quantity of percussion powder, lodged in this tUw,
was exploded by the friction of the sand paper. The ex
plosion unfortunately communicated with small quanti
ties of the powder under the plate, which was prrj.-ctfd
again«t his forehead with Euch momentum as to carry
•way a portion of the bktt’.l and brains, and pass ou to
the ceiling.
Captain Van Damme wss a Belgian hy birth, a fine
scholar, and had an extensive fund of military informa
tion. He was very proficient in pyrotechnics, and
the manufacture of fultniualiug aud detonating powders.
He had been for some time pint in the employment of
the State, manufacturing percussion caps.
The death of Capt. Van Damme will not interfere with
the manufacture of percussion caps. The arrangements
are so perfect that they can be carried on without him,
and 5o,OoO manufac'urcd drily.—XathvilU J'alriot.
More Resignations of Naval Officers —Cupt. Geo.
X. Hollins, of Greytown fame, Lieut. Joseph N. Barney,
Gunner S. \V. Lev.;tt, Carpenter M Bain, Sailmaker Win.
M. Mahoney, Midshipman Hodge, and two other midship
m**n, just arrived from the Mediierrnean on the war
steamer Susquehanna, have tendered their several resig
nations, which will not be accepted, the Star takes it for
granted ; but, instead, their names will be struck from
the United State? nava! list.
Lirf.rai.itv of ocr Jobhino Merciiants.—The mer
chants of Hay no and Meeting streets have taken up a
i-ubsoription, amounting to $100, which it is their inten
tion to invest in Confederate Stocks, the interest from
which will be applied to the use of the family ol James
Jackson, the hero of Alexandria. The money, welcaro,
is already in bank, ahd will be formally invested as soon
as the initials of Mrs. Jackson, the widow, can be cor
rectly ascertained.—C'harU»ton Mercury.
ITEMS OF THE DAY.
Br:g Gen. John Gailtud, U. S. A., died in New York,
Thursday the 6tb inst. He was a native o* Nelson (then
Amherst) county Virginia, and was born near the close
of the last century. He bad long held a commits'ion in
the U. 8. army, and was honorably mentioned and pro
moted for gallant conduct in the Mexican war. He was
a brother of Hon. James Garland of -Lynchburg.
Tho Arkansas State Convention has passed a military
bill, authorizing the Governor to call out t’.O.OOit men if
necessary. It halves the State into two grand divisions,
Eastern and Western, aud appoints ono Brigadier Gen
eral for each. Gen. Bradley was unanimou.ly elected to
the command of tho Eastern, aud Gen. Pierce, late of
the United Slates Array, to the Western division.
The Austrian Government have doe'ined to receive
Burlingame, sent there as Mimstcr by the Lincoln Gov
ernment. ILs agency in raising the Sardinian legation
to a full mission is the cause assigned.
The fly is said to be injuring the wheat in Lancaster
county, Pa. We have similar accounts from Kent coun
ty, Del.
Mr. L. M. Hoffman, the well known New York auc
tioneer, died ou Wednesday in an epileptic convulson,
after a few hours’ illne^.
Be-jamln G. Harris has been nominated for the Wash
ington Congress, by tho Southern Rights party, in the 6th
District of Matyland.
Hen. John J. Cri.tendcn is running as an Independent
Union ciudiJate for Congress, in Keutucky.
Josh. Lazarus, an old and influential citizen of Charles
ton, S. C., died last week.
On Thursday afternoon the Convention of North Carc
lina adopted, by a unanimous vote, the permanent Con
stitution of the Confederate States of America.
A large number of passenger cars for the Orange and
Alexandria railroad, to be used by the enemy, passed
through Bahimore ou Friday last; also one or two large
engines.
Hon. Samuel Appleton, a prominent,citizen of Boston,
Mass., died on the 5th inst. He was a son-in-law of
Daniel Webster.
Memphis has already sub-eribed over $600 for the fa
mily of Jackson, the Alexandria martyr.
Mr. Summers, for twenty yeara book-keeper of the In
surance Bank of Augnsta, Ga., has b*en arrested, charg
ed with writing treasonable letters North.
We learned yesterday that a large British frigate had
arrived in the Hoads, but were unable to get further par
ticulars.—Norfolk Argut, Ulk.
A writer in the Atlanta Confederacy proposes that ths
name of “Confederate State* of Virginia” be (Iren to
the whole of ths Southern States.
AMERICA* AFFAIRS I* EUROPE*
Tone of Lor* Palmerston’* Organ-Views of
a Member or rarllameal-fausSs and the
Balance of Fower-inU-rewlin* Comments of
Ike Brlllak Press, Ac.
Foreign filon by (he Australasian, at New York, dhow
that the question of llio American wtr continued to cn
E;c attention. Tho letter of Cassius M. Clay, in tbe
udon Times, had boen followed by another from Mr
Motley, the historian, who had at great length set forth
his views of the Amt rican guuggle, attributing all the
trouble to tbe South. Mr. Clay bad found an antagonist
in tbe person of Mr. De Leon, fonueriy American conaul
in Egypt. Mr. De I.ron writes to tbe Time* contro
verting the points set up by tbe Kentuckian.
The tone of the Palmerston organa is decidedly favor
able to the letters of marque of the Southern Confede
racy. Indeed, it is now held by high commercial and
legal authority in England, that its commissioned priva
teers may Uke prir.ee ioto any neutral port aud keep
them there until their condemnation is prouounced by
the admiralty courts sitting in Charleston, New OrleaDs,
Mobile, or Savannah. This judgment, if equitably ren
dered, will, it is alleged, be binding on the British mari
time courts.
The people of England are said to be averse to the
piivatecriug business, but Mr. Lindsay, M. P., who re
cently visited this country, in a speech to his constituents
at Sunderland, advised France and England to step for
ward aud proclaim the iudcpendence of the Southern
Confederacy as tbe only means of allaying the thirst for
blood which he says prevails at the North. Tbe Lnudon
Morning Post, Lord Palmerstou’s organ, asserts that tbe
Southern States were d* factu independent at the mo
ment.
Lord Palmerston says, through his London organ, the
Post, that Canada will soou become the centre of com
merce and emigration for tho American continent, and
that a domestic army is about to spring from tbe gtouud
in Canada, not only to protect the neutrality of tbe pro
vince, but to maintain that b dance of power which the
folly of Republican America has transferred to British
North America.
THE THUNDERER ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
WILLIAM It. SEWARD AND (1KORI1K III — IIOOTLESSNR8S AND
SJLLV OF THK EFFORT TO SUiMUOATB TH* SOUTHERN
STATES.
[From tho London Times, Maj 23 ]
War to the knife—war, if nectssary, pushed to abso
lute extermination, to tbe destruction of cities, tbe deso
lation of provinces, the letting loose of millions of ne
groes on tbeir proprietors—these words furnish a brief
abstract of the resolution at which the people and Gov.
eminent of the United Stales appear to have ariived.
Respective lenity is delegated to heaven, and govern
ment aud people alike breathe the language of massacre
and destruction. No potentate, against whose sway tbe
ancestral vassals of his houso, who followed his forefa
thers to the Crusades, have risen in armed revolt, can
feel more acutely the outrage to his sovereign rights
than the imperious democracy of America, founded on
the declaration that all men are free aud equal, and
that every man has a right to seek his well
being and happiness under whatever government he
pleases. Tbe term “secession” is objected to, though,
after all, it is probably the moat suitable to describe tbe
action of & Suoderbund, or a portion of a federation
withdrawing itself from the nmainder; because “seces
sion,” like “federation,” expresses an absolute equality
and correlation of rights which, in their present mood,
the Nortbaru atatrs are not prepared to concede. The
spirit of George III seems to have entered into the de
scendants of his revolted subjects. “B fore I wi:l bcar,f
writes George III, in 1779, “of any man's readiness to
eo®e into oi^re, I will expect to sec it signed under hia
own bxnd that he ia determined to keep the Empire en
tire, and that no troops shaii consequently be withdrawn
from America, nor independence ever allowed.” “The
thought of a dissolution of the Uoion, peaceably or by
loroe,” writes Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton, “has never en
tered iuto the mind of any candid statesman Uere, and it is
high time that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe.”
W’u utofeca that we think the laugu.igo of the King the
more moderate end rewsouable cf fhe two, for George
ill only refused to admit to his councils any one who
would not sign a declaration against that independence
which he was forced to admit, himself, three years after
wards, white Mr. woward not only refuses to admit the
pos.-ibili'y of that object for which one-baif of the j'nion
is in arms against the other, but issues an int ioition to
all European statesmen to allow guch a thought to cross
their minds. This is, indeed, a high strain ot preroga
tive, and one to which Lone ol the antiquated despot
isms of Etrjpe could for a moment aspire. The truth
is, American statesmen da at last know tbvir own minds.
Alter six months of the most pitiable vacc lUtiou and
uncertainty, they have at last heard ihc voice to which
they pay implicit obedience. State after State went on
seceding, S.uator after Senator took a long farewell of
the Capitol, a Governin.-ut tv is form"'!, a Constitution
drawn up, a President elected, the arsenals of the
United States were ecujd, and batteries thrown
up, for the attack of Fort* Sumter and Pick
ens, yet the people of the North made no sign;
they went about their business as usual, and
U[, the Southern States to Jo exactly as they ph ased
As long as this lasted the Government of Mr. Lincoln
had really no policy—at least none to which it dared to
give any practical t fleet. But the cannon which singed
the defenders of Fort Sumter awoke the people of the
North from their lethargy. It eocn became evident that
they were not prepared to permit i.be secession of the
South without a struggle The will of a Democracy, es
unused to and as impatient of contradiction as any eas
tern monarch, w •* distinctly expressed. From that mo
ment Mr. Seward and his fellows became the most reso
l..tc and decided of men. They brcatheJ nothing but
war and slang't r, and occupied themselves, alter an un
easy slumber of six .reeks, w ith the most v^orous pti -
piraiions for a cotnpsigu iu Maryland and \ irginia. Iu
all this there is oothit g to complain of. The voice of
thi American people is the voice of the deity who is
worshipped under the forms of the American Constitu
tion, and we have no right severely to criticise men who
have shown them3.ivea ready to give effect to the popu
lir will as soon as they have di-cuverod what the popu
lar will i;.
But w ■ do think that ids own experience might teach
Mr. S.-wurd a lit le more charily and toleration for the
doubts r.n J difficulties of European statesmen. Let bicn
remember his own uncertainties till within the last two
or three weeks, r.or let him altogether forget that, if we
have not the same confidence that he ha**, neither hare
we the advau'-ge of the same unerring Mentor to guide
us The voice of the America a people ia, after all, only
the voice of a local divinity, whose oraelrs do not pass
currant on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Seward may
believe and tremble! we are not disposed either to do
the o* e or the other.
»k’e havo had occasion to poirt out the utter Inade
quacy, r.nd even the ignorance of the real nature of fhe
quarrel, which characterized Mr. Seward's proposition for
conciliation, and we have remarked how precious time
had been allowed to stoal by, the loss of which can nev>r
be compensated by efforts ol the most spasmodic energy.
We must entirely decline to recognize iu Mr. Seward that
gifted seer to whom the future is as the present, and who
has the power of informing ul not only of the event of
a civil war, bet we., n two Confederacies, which may possi
bly shiver to pieces in the very li'st moment of cirect
impact, but who can tell us, in language ill suited to the
present condition of bis country, that in America there
will be only one nation and one Government, the same
republic and the same constitutional Union that bave
already survived a dozen national changes, and changes
o. Government in almost every othtr country.
This is tbe message which, through Mr. Dayton, the
American Secretary of State sends to the Government of
Frtnoe—a mersage, if not of detianc*, certaioly one
which sounds very like an insult. What good purpose
can be served by reproaching France with a long and
tragical history ol her revolution at the moment when
America is about to plunge into a civil war without one
of the excuses which lend so thrilling an interest to the
catastrophes of Lyons, Toulon, and La Vendee ? There
is no Duke of Drunswick on the frontier; there is no
Cobleul* ; thero is no pretender to the Crown—none of
those things which make men cruel by appealing to thei.
fears. At any rate, we have undergone no violent change
since the Declaration of Independence, and have, there
fore, on Mb. Seward’s principle, a right to give an opin
ion on the subject on which he prououuoes so dogmat
ically. The opiuiou which we incline to—though we
confess with the very greatest regret—is that, what
ever be tbe result of the civil war now pending,
the result least likely to occur is tho one so
confidently predicted by Mr. Seward. Let us
grant that the South will be conquered — can
the vanquished Stato be once more admitted to the en
joyment of equal Federal rights? Is it conceived that
Mr. Davis, for instance, or any of the present Sou'hetn
leaders can again take the r seats in the Senate, to de
liberate with the men of the North on the common in
tirests of the Confederacy ? Will the North ever sub
mit again, after tho experience of this year, to the gov
ernment of the Southern President ? W:il it place the
A-my or tbe Treasury in tbe hands of a Southern Secre
tary, after the exp< nonce it has bed of Mr. Floyd and
Mr! Cobb? Will the victors submit to be outvoted by
the vanquished? Is Mr. Seward of the opinion that the
institution of slavery can survive the vicissitudes of a
bloody and keenly contested war? Is he prepared to
give the four millions of negroes who would thus be
emancipated a voice equal to that of thef whites in the
national councils? Will that antipathy which now barns
so fiercely, be allayed by tbe process of conquest and
suf j igallon ? And if these things are more than doubt
till, what is it that gives Mr. Seward tho confidence to
say, at a moment when the world stands aghast at the
hutrible preparations for a civil, and probably a servile
war, that the Government of the United States will s and
hrrealter, as it has hitherto, the otjjct of human wonder
and affection.
CASSIl'S CLAY ATTEMPTS TO EYLIGHTEN TnK TIMES, BUT
FAILS*
The limes publishes a letter, a column long, from Co?,
gius Clay and comments on it as follows:
This lively letter writer proposes six questions—three
relating to his own country, three relating to England,
the first question he is more suuces-ful in asking than
answering:—“What are we fighting for?" We are fight
ing,” says Mr. Clay, “lor nationality and liberty." We
can understand a fight for nationality between different
races, but a fight for nationality between men of the same
nationality is to us, we candidly conf.ss it, an inexplica
ble enigma; nor ran w* better understand how a people
fighting to put down a rebellion, to force their Jelluw
citizens to remain in a Confederacy which they deleft,
and to submit to institutions which they repudiate, can
be called™* cuamimoks of liberty If the South seri
ously threatened to conquer the North, to put down trial
by jury, freedom of the press and representative gov
eminent, the con'est might be for liberty; but, as ibis is
not so, the introduction of such topics is mere rhetorical
amplification. “Can you subdue the revolted States?”
“Of coursa we can,” says Mr. Clay. So on that point
there U no more to be said. “Can you reconstruct the
Union when one-half of it has conquered the other?”
Nothing easier," Bays Mr. Clay. The victim of to-day
will become the Confederate of to morrow; the traitors
will be cast out, and the Union firmer than ever—witness
the happy results of the conquest of Ireland by England,
repeated over and over again, and always repeated in
Tain.
Oaring answered the question* wbWt he luppoeeq to
be addressed to him by England, Mr. Gay beoomea the
questioner, and asks u# where our howor would place at
in tbis contest? Clearly by tbe side of tbe IJoioo, be
cause, he says, if slavery he extended in America it must
be rcsio-ed in tbe West Indies. If awy one double the
force of Ibis demonstration we are sorry for It, for Mr.
CUy has no other to effer. Our examlner^iext asks us
to consider our interest. Clearly, he says, it is to stand
by tbe Colon, because they are our beet customer*, and
because, though they bare done all they can, since tbe
separa ion of tbe South gave them tbe power to ruin their
trade with ns, they will, in spite of their own hostile ta
riff remain our best customers.
lastly comes the momentous question, “Can England
afford to offend the United States?” “Certainly not,"
gays Mr. Clay, “for in half a century they will amouot to
a hundred mil.iooe of people, and will hare railways four
thousand miles long.” But is Mr. Clay quite sure that,
even if we should offend them now, the people of Amer
ica will bear malice for a h»lf a century; and, if they do,
is he quite oeruin that bis hundred million* will all bo
members of one confederacy, and that we may not then,
es we might now, secure either half of the Union as our
ally in a war against the other ?
Mr. Clay must really allow us to give our own verdoo
of tbe lmnor and intercet of England. Our honor and
interest is to s'and aloof from contests which in no way
concern us, to bo content with our own laws and liber
ties, without seeking to impose them upon others, “to
seek peace and ensue it,” and to leave those who take
to the swoid to fall by the sword. In war we will be
strictly neutral; in peace we will be the friends of what
ever power mar emerge out of the frightful chaos through
which Mr. Clay sees nis way eo ebariy. And that neu
trality which is recommended alike by our interest and
our honor we will not violate through fear—no, not of a
hundred millions of unborn men. Lst Mr. CUy and bia
countrymen lock well to the present, and they will find
enough to occupy their attention without troubling them
selves with loDg visions of humiliation and retribution,
which no man now alive will ever see accomp'tshed.
OLII VIRIrINtA KIOBT1BO OVER AOAIN THS REVOLUTION 0»
76—Till NORTH PLAYJ Till PART OP THI BRITISH OOV
RRNMKNT.
Prom tbe London Times of Har 17th.
* * • It is a curious chapter in the history
of political vlc'ssitudrs. I.rss than a century ago Mas
sachusetts and Virginia were closely leagued for the pro
motion of rebellion. Franklin in one Slate and Patiick
Henry in the other, combined their talents for tbe asser
tion of libertv, and were suoocasful. Now, before even the
centemporaries of these very men have all expired, we
see Virgiuia once more advocating the principles of re
volution, while Massachusetts is enforcing at tbe sword's
point the doctrines of legitimacy and toryisu. The errand
of tbe New England Utttaliona to Washington resembles
more nearly than they would care to believe tbe errand
of Gen. Gage's regiments to Conccrd. It U a remarkable
conversion, but not an unexampled one. We a.*e the
principle in action everywhere. The government of a re
volution always declares itself “legitimate" at the first
opportunity, and a congregation of secedera eagerly pro
tests against a repetition of Siceaaion. The Americana,
however, are all dissenters together. They all combined
to repudiate tbe old political establishment. And they
must not he surprised to find that the aobiam reproduces
itself in polities as well as in religion, flu the general
prospects of the case we concur entirely with our cor
respondent. Wc admit that tbe proceedings of the Con
federate States express nothing less than revolution. We
admit that this revolution has not been provoked. We
deplore the ruptnrw, and we are Jiapoeed to fear, though
on this point there can bo no certainty, that the results
will be fraught with disaster. Hut all this is beside the
question. The Southerners have no real cause against
th*ir Northern brethren, but they have an argument
against which the North will kick in vain. Toey claim
to be the best judges ot tbelr own interests, and they
hold that their interests require independence. The
North appeals to the sword, exactly as we did. It is con
fident also ia its strength, and so were we- Whether
the parallel will continue to be traceable in the event of
the contctt s a question which time alone can determine.
THR TIMES ON pRESIDENT DATIN' MESSAGE.
The l,c.q Ion of the 321 nit., publishes Presi
dent Davis' Message to the Bouthrrn (lorgress entire,
and closes an editorial comment upon it in the following
language :
' Mr. DavD while making a studious display of mode
ration, and endeavoring to conciliate the good will of
European nations, is perfectly aware that his theories
depend for acceptance on the rifle* of his fellow citi*?ns.
The tribunal which decides questions of international
law *s usually a stern one. If tho north prevails, it will
prove that the Union was a nationality; if the South
makes good it; independence, it will prove that the
Union was a partnership during pleasure.
“That ia what has to bo decided, and we must wait
the event. For the present th»ra is no indication of a
peaceful issue. The secession of the border States seems
to have been hastened rather than delayed by the for
midable preparations at the North. Tennessee and Ar
kansas are said to have gone over; the former is a great
addition to the resources of the Southerners ; the latter
it of comparatively little weight. Virginia and North
Caiolina are preparing for the war which must take place
on their borders, while Kentucky still remains neutral,
tho igh the Oovernoris said to be in correspondence with
the Seces-ioris's.
“On the other hand, the enthusiasm of the North Is aj
great as ever, and the first movements in the war may be
shortly looked for. They will, it Is avid, be limited to the
occupation of Harper's Ferry, and one or two o'her
places, on the Virginia frontier. A more important mat
ter is, however, mentioned, that the campaign could not
begin in earnest tor some months, and that the volun
teers who marched to Washington must be replaced by
regular troops. This, it ia now declared, will be the eas •.
Though there may bo desultory fighting in the interval,
yet the real invasion of the Confederate States ia not to
lake place till the fill of the ysar, when it ia to be ex
ecuted by a standing army of 100,000."
WHAT THE OTHER JOURNALS SAT.
ENGLISH MEDIATION OrVEKED.
[frim the London fitar—Radical.]
The war must ead in an accommodation of some sor',
however severe the struggle, however decisive-the issue.
Tii« South ai tv Ui thoroughly defeated, hut cannot he
destroyed. Surviving the conflict, she will be in a posi
tion to negotiate with her victors. The more she is hu
miliated, t: e more she will be embittered. On the other
side there will be (xbaustion, or at least wearines*. The
conquerors will lie divided, and the vanquished will find
advocates fur clemency among the claimants to the spoil.
Either secession must lie permitted, or terms of reconcil
iation adjusted. Even the victorious Republican North
—the Free-Sailers and Abolitionists—may beglai »t such
a ftvge to accept the mediation we now urge them to in
vite. Th*v can have no nearer kinsmen,no truer friends,
than the Liberals of the mother country. In the uame
of those men—in the name, at any rate, of Liberal prin
ciples, and of the Liberal cause throughout the world—
we beseech the New Kogland communities, so nobly for
ward in the strife, to pause ere they irrevocably commit
them; elves to the chances of battle, and to trust the in
threats of liberty rather to the arbitration of its
1 riei. da in Europe then of the blind and senseless
sword.
“ ALTERED CONDITIONS OF RETNION."
[From the London Globe. J
Statesmen in Europe will probably form their judgment
from their own observation, and not from the manifestos
of either party in a dispute which has attained the di
rntn-iou.- of civil war. An Union which requires to
maintain it the calling out of an hundred thousand vol
unteers and upwards—an increase of some tweaty thou
sand in the regular army, and some eighteen thousand
in the navv—cannot but aDDear to most Kuroo an eves
an Union past praying or fighting for. We are at all
events well convinced tbat "this Union," (as Mr. Seward
terras it,) will Dot come out of tbe cofliot jost as it goes
into it. If that cor Hint is ever so littlo exasperated or
protrae'ed, it must draw much altered conditions of re
union after it » » * We do not think the preeeot
secescion of North or South the result of any sort of
misundetsUnding, either on one side or tbe other. But
we think it a very strange misunderstanding of the real
depth of its source, whieh permits parties to it to fancy
for a moment that the close of the struggle can leave the
organized id:as and interests engaged where they stood
at its opening.
Lord Palmerston Cuanois his Opinion in a Dat—In
dependence or thk Southern Govirnmeht Acknowl*
tiji.xn as Da Facto.
[From the London Port, May 22.]
Mr. Seward, in a dispatch which ncently appeared in
the American papers, baa announced, with rqual char*
nen and emphasis, the determination of President Lin
coln not only to treat the Federal Union as a still exist
ing compact but to enforce the authority of the central
government even at the risk and cost of an angry and
long protracted civil war.
Facts are stubborn things, and when we learn by the
last advices that nine States have actually seceded, cer
tainly something more is requisite to prove the indisso
lubility of the Union than the brave words of Mr. Sew
ard. Tbe document to which we allude is a dispatch ad
dressed bv the American Secretary of State to the Ame
rican Minister at Paris. * « • «
Recognition of tbe Southern Confederacy by tbe great
I’oweri of Europe would give an amount oi moral tup
port to the cau-e of separation greater than tbe tffeeU
of the most brilliant military successes.
For the purpose of avoiding any danger of this kind
the Am:ricau minister at Paris apolte to M. Thouventl
on the subj *ct, who, in reply, stated tbat no application
had been made by the Couiederate Statet for tho recog
nition of their independence, and that tbe Government
of the United States might rest assured tbat no hasty oi
precipitate action on the subject would be Ukeo by the
Emperor.
But M. Thouvenel most property added that “the prac
tiee and usage of the present century had fully estab
lished the right of dt facto governments to recognition
when a proper case was made out for tbe decision ol
foreign powers.’’ If we refer to the cases of Greece and
Turkey, and Holland and Belgium, we find that both
these apply to nations which bad been united in a com
pact more close than any federative compact.
The re:oguition of the thirteen North American colo
nies by France, and the recognition of Mexico and the
Booth American provinces formerly held by Hpain, fur
nish a rule which the Government of Mr. Llocola cannot,
with any regard to consistency, afford to disregard.—
Neither in France nor in this country, will any haaty^de
cision be pronounced; but tbe time ia rapidly arriving
when the question must be considered; for do one at tbe
present time can doubt or question the de facto inde
pendence of tbe Southern States.
As an expedition of the warlike policy of tbe Federal
Government, Mr. Seward’s dispatch ia worthy of deep and
careful consideration; but it would have been better
timed and more likely to have produced come effect, if it
had been written on the 4th of March, and not on the
4th of May, when separation, to human speculation, ap
pears to be a melancholy but accomplished fact.
From the London BJpplaf Oil .Us, May 2 J.
TBB EUROPEAN POWERS WILL BOOM DECIDI.
A very important announcement is made in tbe newt
just reoeived by the Arabia—namely, that the Federal
Sovernment have notified to the European Power* Ural
ley will hold no Intercooree with any Stale which re*
eefniaea the Southern Qommintatra, re«aiM * tM
mm how Ur Uiit Ihwal of a dlpUwutie raptar* w« ^
rata. Thu Southern Oonotatouer* ht?« already „ JT
ed Europe, and only await tha decision* of th« T,r7/
governments to which they hare been accredited j,'
course teksn by the Cabinet ol Washington will ra'uf i
ly bring the matter to an issue,'and force every *
ment baring diplomatic arrangements with the Utii»s
Hiatts to take a decided course.
a voice racii tiii mcltitcdc.
It baa been suppo-ed by soma at ibe North tint 0, j
the “ari-tocratic claseet" in England were sidiig
the Southern Confederacy, but the following•r.n.l< f(tin)
a j mrnal which represents the Democracy, or radical#
goes to show that the North baa no more to expect j ’
at. G.lea’ than it baa from St. Jantea’.
Prom the l.>>odoD Telegram, Mt.
TV dispatch (from Mr. Seward) to Mr. Dayton, dated
at Washington ou the 4 h of May, batrayi the *urem,
anxiety of the American Government to make the g,ro.
p-tau Cabinets beleve the maintenance of the Union rj
youd any possible chance—beyond so much as « »p , „4"
live dissuasion. Bu’, while aa-erung mis bo,, d >»<<*.
fider.es, lie labour* to prevent eren such dr. /ar<n m*
union of the Southern Confederation a- land J ,iMl i; *
•< II has already annouuced, and as no European g0,,„
merit, responsible for the saiety of a mere ntereaun*
mariue, could possibly refuse. This anxiety in u
very significant fact. We have already seen how ;ij
public in America is told, though unofficial, tu,t q
representative Europe to government* have "consent/,
to the Southern blockade; how falsely we know, «,-! *
America must equally kuow the truth from ih* p
dcclaraiioa of Lord John Kurwell, and the obeerr»tl>
of M. Thou vend and Mr. Fau.kner.
The London Standard is equally unkind ;
Wo hold ourselves, in spirit and m need, aloof fr<M|
both sidts, in a war begun with too much br«v»d0 ue
the part of the ataleruien of the North. We *r* M
ouos unconvinced and unmoved by Uie somewhat ;Q|.
p-rtinent letter .of Mr. Clay, which wa« hardly wona
a column of the Time*. Ii is noua--n*e to talc i,| jjt|,
iug for liberty and nationality. It is not the p*riYf
good and brave men to boast tost (.bey are sure to cor
qu. r. The argument that E'.gland must help the Nonb
tor fear (bat the a ruth should conquer o ir West ladis,
wsa hardly worth putting to paper. Juai as idle m „ ^
threaten us with the future vengeance of a p.j..„,|,
hundred millions of Amertcaos a century hence—who if
ever they are called in o beiug, will probably be dividU
into ball a dcuu republics and aa many empires.
COMBINED MOVEMENT OF FEDERAL TROOPS,
There «re so many rumor* all >tt aa to the p.-obahls
onward movement of the Federal troop- further u
Virginia, that little dependence is to be placed on aa
of them. The New York Express, however, haa a -ui*.
ment from a correspondent that looks probable Ali-r
stating that there will probably be no immediate *j.
vane j on Manassas Junction or Aquia Cretk, the writer
proceeds:
About 14,»»»3 troops are collecting on the Pemuylr».
nia line, iucludiog the Fort Humter force, Cap'. Double
day, a body of Uuited States engineers, artillery,
airy, A
Four brigades—sixteen regiments—will l* at Ch<ln.
bereburg by the close of the week. Col. Ball er'» rid*
regiment, McMullen's company of dewpera-e rough-, the
Scott Legion, and the Pni apelphia City Troop art arno^i
them.
The artillery will all be regulars. Three ba'Ui'onsof
that arm are under orders, and of these the t hief > p,
Fort Sumter garrison. Gentrtl Patterson's am has
neeii 10 secur* tfiose wiiu uavc area «ervic«\ cotoorl
Hire's hue regiment ot Hniladelphia City Gear Ja »,ii 14
part of the matching army, which it is sapp-wcd wi,| !jVt
be less than id,tM.'t. The ConlederaU* forces are b 1. g
posted at Richmond, Hirper's ferry, nod Norfolk Tt.«
movement planned out lor the United Suits c.rpt f.
arm** of Genera! McClellan is from the Writ; fur t,.;.
eral McDowell from Washiugtou, ieaviug General Bu'Ur
for the seaboard. General Scott is eitlier to force the Cot
federates to concentrate at Richmond, and link a ban,*
there, or to cut them cfT iu detail, and thus render the
cip'ure of the main point more easy.
McMullen’s men, ills said, will lead the forlorn bop*
at Harper's f try, supported by th* Scott Legion II ^ .
dier General Thomas is spoken of as haring been fix d
upon to couimaud the brigade, lie it a exillul cfltar,
and whs lately colonc-l of the cavalry regiment lo* at
Chimbersburg. This latter force is expected ui b* in
creased by additions Irom fort Leavenworh, Gom 'he
companies which have seen service tbeieon the great
plains, so that the cavalry will be not only unmerou* but
exceedingly effective.
Gen. McClellan, it i» thought, will do mr.st ferries by
crossing from Qraltoo to Winchester, and the vallev —
To do this position he mnst also taks up 1 position at
Strasburg, so as to prevent LeeV farces ea.-tot themouc
uiius from a quick tian.-it by railroad to hi* r- ar.
He I ling these two posiliut a, and (leu. I'at'.ei sot’s corp*
moving iu force upon Harper’s ferry, no*, only vn.u*d In
Utter be cut oil', but the Contederalia at M • 1 a-- .* J n c
tiou an l elsewhere assailed or t realcaed simlumeouvly
from Arlington, would be in an uueuviath way.
The purpose of the Govcrum nt is to loiov the enemy
to treat or tight, as Harper’s ferry and Ma- a-sas Junc
tion are esatoUal to the safety of the (ore 1 at Chat loti' *•
viile, Culpeper, f.edcrickshurg aud Aquia Creek. If
these be lost, the rapid movements of three euch armies
as those approaching Irom the West, the North aid the
I’otomac, would render it impossible to maintain any
past north of Richmond.
St. Louis—We barn that the removal of Gen. Faa
xxv, from the command ot the Uniitd Slates forces a 8.
Louis, bus caused deep feeling autoug-t the Union nun
in that city. Under his authority confidence had b.-gun
co he resumed by the people, aud affairs were gi n* riliv
brightening The substitution of the butcher l.vox for
him is regarded as an evil omen, and is re-kindlit g (be
slumbering animosities which hud been fired by the cap
ture of Camp Jacksou. There is t) be no peace (or ot.
Louis and Missouri until they turn upon their assailant*
and rend them —Nos hr ill* !'a'riol.
SOUTHERN DRUM MANUFACTORY.
fatUK act er ber la engaged iu the manufacture of Omni*, o'
X all • rta and vUis, of the Peat material, In ht in 1 -
woikroinUke atyle, ami at rnuouabl- raua. Their t .CjS
wa it are reiiuaatad lo call at Mr. btfiuaanaau a bin Sior. >*M*<
Maila'.re.t, or 00
r POL la-u,
Jell—41m Corner of Broad an t »Ji awnta.
University liotels
n>HE T Hit EE HOTLLV AT I ME I'NIVEK*
X rlTV or VlttMNlA wiu he vacated at the euo of 0- 4k
preset aesaloand vhr Board of Vidtir*. at Ihe Annual Sr U
ilia on the 1* day of Jot/ mil, w.U restive l*roj,ii*ll f<r U e
l.g tbs t.me
App liama dialrlog laformatl'n will addrea* ihe eoderSrtied,
ami tfi ae lending m Prupr.aala wld «l reel lb«m to the Proctor ana
TUI Von vf the bntvcralty of Virginia, Vo lb* ear* of lb • Pra-tor.
ROUT A. PaKNTIS, Procvor If of V*.
Proctor'* Ofii :e, Jane ith, lvSI.
jc U—kuwtiivjaly. _ _
HEAD-QUARTERS VIRGINIA PORCBM, 1
Ricawoko, Viauiaia, June s, 1*41. I
OENKSAL OROXJtS, I
No. S5. f
I3y the Governor of Vii ginia
A I'KOIXAMATIOV
“The drlogaU* of the pecple of Virginia In Conven len *imb
bled,having by ibrir Oreii»nc», passed April ¥6lh, lktl, *d< pted
and raUfl .d the ConaJlutioa ol ti e Provtak nal Oorerniaeoi 01 d.e
Confederate * Lie* of Amerioa, ordalne 1 and eeiabltahrd ai Vt- i t
g -mrry, Alabama, on t*ie St 1 day o' February, I -A!. and the Mill
of Virginia having beeu, by an art ol Ihngreei of ihr P » r ►..o*l
Government of 'he Confederate htaiee, paaacd May 1,1**1. anndv
tad aa a State Into Ibe Confederate Government and thepriv
dent bdng, under the Coaeiliutlcn cf the Provisional liove.-narol
• f the Coo.'edrrat* Btatee, the Oommandrr-ln-Oblt f rf the Amy
aad -avy ol the Confederate M »l--a. aud af the Mulda of th- •■•*
eral stale* when called Into til - aervtce of the Confederate S ate*
“Now. therefore. I, JOHN LETCH KK, Governor of Virginia, ty
and with th* adv 4* eai coaaent of the kxicatlre ceuisei, oo
herebi traMfer lo the authorities of ike C’onftd -rate f> atn, b; ’*
r menu, til llie vnlanUer fore** wMrh have been rour.rn d Mo
th* aervlce ol Virginia, and do order a III* rantfer to bemad*,
hy regiment*, battAlloci, niaadrona and eompanlea, of all t ua
le;ra • r miUUa, lathe a*n.e ibaLi be formed and their aeivLr*
may be i-.(a‘red
-T fun her heieby Iranafrr to th* aothorltte* of th- Coen-dm'*
States the command t f all the offleera, teamen and marine* of U>*
Provi'lonal Navr ol Virginia lor lervtcelo the Confcd<raie M>«a.
* I do farther order ibat all o (Be era of ihe Viiginla ierv.ee no*
on du'y, In any of the department* of till Staff, continue to dla^
charge their respective fuoctnxu under lo* i Perm u atd eonirul
of the Prcaiden'., u.'.'ll otberwlae irdered: and that all Uuartrr
ra»»«er»f cominiUArj ara Jteaicai Bu>re* ot.odk'.cm iv
an I inchtrgeof .eld itt^evs, he turned over, fur tfcenaeofue
Confederate Mates, upon proper receipti for the tr.icle turee
over, to i e forwarded la the account,og olh :er for .etl.ement —
All moo as tn chaige of any of the Depeniunt*, willt; fsrtbaitk
returned Into the treasury of the Stale.
“I do further order all the Provisional Army of Virginia to re
spect and obey al> 'awful orders emar a.in* from ite P.-e.lde*i «r
tno.e com-randlr-g under hie autr.orlty; and tliat the *»me may
We Incorporated, tn whole « r lo part, Into the Provisional army
of the Confederate States at the pleasure • f t‘ e PrisidenC
“1 do fuilher authorise the «« of all pubilr propirty, nut Itlons
of war, Ac .captJiea from the United State* the machinery at
Harpir's Perry excepted by the Prrs.dcnt or these ac.log under
hU authority, for the common defence. .
_ “Glten under my hand, as Governor, and under the seat
l . I of the State, at Richmond, this sixth Has ol June, 1*1,
I L "• ( and In the sjth year of the Cjmnunwial h.
' . _. ’ “JdtiN LETCHER.
“By U'e Governor— „
Cr. jaos W Muxroxn, Becretrry rf the Commonwealth.
In compliance wl>h the fjregoirg prnrlamat'oo the command of
the y.idiary end Naval force* of t/ e Mate of Virginia is i:*n<l>r
red to the Confrdeiats SU'.s All ofBcer* of saill»*K -
• obey the ordrr* they tusy reee VS from t»e head* of the It.r anu
Navy Deparm-n's respectively Officer* of the 8 alf w.d ri '
their instructions from the Chiefs of the severs’, bra-ches ■ I
Oonfyd.-ra.eStateG/Vernmedt. . *■
i«li— 8t flutrtl ^ _
NOTICE.
Drua-QCINT OOSSUMKKS 0» WATER it JEEPERW"''
Ward are hereby notlfl.-d, that If they fal’ to pay their bdl*
on or before the ldtlt In.lani, bifore the hoar of S a cloeX, P. " .
they wlJ be dealt wph accordlrg to the requir.ro. i.t* if'be ■>
lowing extract from the ordln.nee concerning the Water wot**
By an ordinance passed by t c Council May 81s’, 1 •• “ ••
Water Bill remain unpaid ft. Vinner hits nest alter that on eh
it l< presented the Auditor (hall notify the eup li: tendett, »'■'
stall at-p the Water being used on tie pen lset, in respect to “
the defaud exi* s,(and he shell not ail it to be Bu d onthr.e pre® ’
ines again until Said bill Is paid,) and five pee c ut. »l I he ‘*-J7
ta tile original amount of the bill, wh'.eli .hail be pla ed la ih
hands of the City Ci liector, wltela hereby authorised and squired
to colloct the tame at II W wai duo f-r c.ty taxes.
D J 8 iL'N <BRS. Ja-. f<*
Jt II—at M. L. STRATTON, Auditor.
Grey flannel and iillk cloth.-J*
re:etf«d a gyod supply of the above, and a large lot ®
lay goods generally._WATKINS A IICILIN _
WAITED,
IMMEDIATELY good Carpenters anl Cabinet Makers, te war*
on Army work." * R 0. bOWC
jeT-Rt Oov«rn-.r Street _
15Q HBL8. PORTLAND BYRCP, In store
MEDICINAL BRANDY.—Pure Wlna and Bran. <*.
lor medieiaal pwrpoM., for sals by *
jel _Mb Main Str.et-^
Military ijlove*—wh,w Rrrtin “**. c‘’
or J.^v“,vlr‘'nU “4je ■"••"■fflff-sK®!!
W1NB9. 0RANDIEF, AND LIQI’OR*. — *
l. I asiortment on kaad, and ^r sale Mol pMcjs^
-y9q Cor. 14ha«eOe>yitA-_
g p, McDssuwow, Dr. J. A McDnsawow,
Lato Inspector and saleman, I Appomattox,
flhockoe Warehouse. f
S. D. & J. R. M’DEARMOff,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
HVOR the sale of TOBAOOO, WHEAT, 00RN. FLOUR. U.
X offlo* on Bhaekne Blip, next door to eatraaee to iwwToboooo
LtiiuagT, Rlotnwad, YlrgUta, l4*"**