THE WEDMINGTON. JOURNAL
CO V; FEDERATE STATES OF AMKIUCA.
WILMINGTON, N. C, SATURDAY, MABCH U, 1863.
Beceoitrwilon und the Worthweit.
The feet that the question of making certain over
turn to the Northwestern States has been agitated in
Congress and its policy discusced with ranch vehemence
ia tiro leading Kichrnond papers, the Enquirer and the
Whig, the former opposed tD, the latter in favour of,
the measure, has brought the wholo matter more promi
nently before the country, through the press at least,
than anything: in the present position of affairs gives any
excuse or justification for. In fact there is nothing in it
Nothing at all. The Northwest has not exhibited the
least symptom of a desire now or hereafter to join with us.
The Northwest turn3 out the most determined and most
vindictive enemies that we hare. The Northwest has, it
ia true, a Bichardsow, Vallasdigham, Tobhkes and
Olds, all men of Southern extraction, but it has also
Bach men as Chase, Sheeha.v, Tecmbull, Giddixg3,
Abe Llvcclx, Jut Lxz, the late Jonx Bbown,
and hosta of others, and these last are the favourites of the
majority. It has tamed cut upon U3 Euch tyrants as
Eoeeceanz, Mitchell, McCcck, Bull Nelson, Tops,
and we know not how many others, who may be no
worse, but are certainly no better than these. The idea
' of any reconstruction embracirg in one Confederacy
with the South any cf these Ncrth-Western States
would-be simply ridiculous, if even the remotest possi
bility of its accomplishment did not involve considera
tions of the gravest character. We do not think that
in reference to any pOEsibJe re-ucioa with any one or
more cf those States, under any pcBsible contingency
that can cccnr in the future, there ought to be, cr will
be, but one sentiment among all thinking men at the
South. It would be the height of folly, while accom
plishing one revolution, to sow seeds, that mast, in
the not distant future, bear the bitter fruin? of another,
perhaps t.s grave and a3 bloody.
Bat while this is so, we cannot -see any use in the
adoption cf such language cf gratuitous insult as may
tend to strengthen the Lands of the supporters cf the
JLmcolx dynasty at the Northwest, and proportionate
ly weaken the hands of those in that section, who, if
not friends, arc at leaat lc-es bitter enemies to us than
are the Abolitionists. If there are in that section el
ment3 of division, why not let these elements work to
the best advantage ? Why say in effect to the anti
Lincoinifcs: "Gentlemen, we spit upon you just a.3 much
as we do cpon Cease, Li.vcolx or Seward ; we look
upon you as all the sam2 ; jcu may as well Leal jour
divisions at onco, for we don't believe rn them and don't
want them." Premising that ail thought of mirgling
in cur Confederacy the discordant elements cf uJavehold
ing and non-daveholding States should b3 dismissed as
plainly isadmlrsable, we see no need's :ity for going farther
than we have already gone, by which we leave open for
the consideration end acceptance of the non-sluvchold.ng
States of the Upper Valley cf
tie Missi
Sif pi, p
?cac
and friendly intercourse with the slaveholding Stntci cf
the Lower Valley, combing with bo free navigation
of that great highway.
This h3 always been the position of the Confedrrate
governmen?, and this has been openly and officially pro
claimed to be its position. Any further move remains
.with the State-! cf the Upper Valley. They hsve not
accepted .my of our implied prepositions. They still
make unrelenting v.ar upon ns. We must regard it as
not only infa dig. for our Congress to be renewing
these propositions in a quasi supplicatory mat:er, but
also calculated to do harm, by giving to tLe people of
those States filse impressions of their own great im
portance and of our growing vcaknee?.
But if a course cf apparent supplication is wrong ia
policy, one cf gratuitous repulsion 13 equally so. There
ure men in the Xorthwest who oppose Lincolnism and
who oppose the war made upon us. There is a feeling
growing up there, that may do U3 good, and cannot do
us harm : why cot frive these men and this spirit a fair
chance, without discouraging tbem and putting weapons
in the hands of their enemies, as is the tendency and
must b2 the result cf the remarkable well-written but
eminently injudicious crticlcs upon this subject which
have recently appeared ia the Richmond Enquirer.
We maie a serious mistake this morning. We some
how got the notion into our head that this was Satur
. day, and, blessed thought, that to-morrow would be
Sunday. But we find ourselves mistaken. The day of
rest i3 not yet at hand, and "copy" and "proof" and all
the other newspaper abominations have no intermission.
But growling is useless, end we would not think of it
hut for the complete lull ia the nrws market, which
makes our exchanges a3 dry as several "remainder bis
cuits" after a very long voyage. Verily we have a no
tion to serve cur exchanges like they serve us, give them
as bad as they tend, if not worse, and dare them to do
their biggest in the line of dullness.
From Fort Flilier.
We karn from Fort Fisher that all wa3 quiet there
on Thursday. In the morning there were four gun
boats, blockader?, we preiume, ljir?g cQ the Fort. In
the afternoon the number of vessels was increased to
seveD, three large tracrpcrts having arrived. The trans
ports stopped about two hoars and then sailed South.
Certain movements on board the gun-boats seemed to
indicate the presence of an officer of rank.
With the aid cf a good telescope it could be s;en that
the transports were crowded with men. Some of the
men in the garrison suggested that the Yankees were
going to attack Charleston, and that they were making
some more speeches to their men after the style of thing
they adopted at Fredericksburg.
We think it ia pretty evident that the force uador
IIuster or Bubxsids, whichever it may be, is being
constantly reinforced, and the question arises whence
are these reinforcements being drawn ? Evidently they
are not raw levies recently drawn cut, for, knowing the
magnitude and peril of the entei prise before them, they
would cot eend any but veteran trccps. TLey do not
come from Ncjtb Carolina, f'cr all cf Fosteh's disposa
ble force has already gene, and there ig reason to be
lieve that the number cf men under him is being in
creased rather than dimmishad. The probabilky is
that they are drawn from the army of the Potomac
The Question of Labor. The General command
ing in this district has at different times required the
services of a large number of laboring hands for the
construction of new defensive works, or the completion
of works already in progress. He necd3 labor now.
"When a call has been made for hands, or when the
militia has been called cut, the demand, in all cases, has
been confined to this district, and of coarse when im
pressments have V. ;en made, the impressment has neces
sarily fallen upon the labor cr the persons rncst imme
diately available. Thns the burden cf work for the de
fects of great State and Confederate objects. has fallen
almost exclusively upon a section already depleted of
' its fghting material and agricultural labor, a section
which, under any circumstance?, will find hard wcrk to
sustain itself.
Under these circumstances it weald seem but fair
that labor should be drawn from a wider field, so that
the burdens may bo more fairly distributed and more
nearly equalizsd. The people of one district are not
alone interested ia the defence of the one section of our
coast still held by the Confederates, and stiirunder the
jarisdiction of cur Governor, and we have reason to be
that Governor Vancs is folly sensible cf this fact
Without' the' concurrence and action of the State au
ttwitfcS hQirem foe General commanding the di
trict cannot move to. advantage, it at all. " VVe would
respectfully suggest that, taking this concurrence for
granted, the action to give it tff. ct roust bs prompt, we
might eay immediate to give it ary va'ue certnidy to
give it its full measure of value. We know .his to be
89, and therefore refer to it with acme degree of urgency
at this time.
This is Bight. We learn from the Wadesboro',
N.C, Argus, of the 12th instant, that Mr. James
Dujt, of Cribba Creek, Auson Coanty, informs the
(.Editor that he has ore hundred and nrty bushels ot
com, which he will sell to ntne other than volunteers
families and children, who can procure it at one dolh r
a bushel and not one cent more.
The Argut a!s) states that Mr. Johk S. Little, of
Anson County, sVnt last week, to Mr. J. A. Ltles, at
Lilesville, twenty-five bushels of meal for distribution
among the needy soldiers' families of that district. Mr.
Little sells corn at one dollar per bushJ, and meat at
twenty cents per pound to n.edy soldiers' families in
his neighborhood.
The Argus is ako informed th t there is not a man
ia Smith's beat, Anson County, who will charge the
wife of a s jldier mere than one dollar per bushel for
corn.
These things should be known, held up, proclaimed
as examples to stimal .te others to the same courae of
action. If a similar spirit could be infused into the
breasts of all who could well afford to obey its prompt
ings, we would have the satisfaction of knowing that
the families of the brave soldiers ot the Confederacy
would be in no danger of suffering from want or extor
tion ; desertions would be fewer if the soldier in the
field felt that his family at home was comfortable, and
lastly, many who are or ought to be planting a harvest
of remorse for their future years, by their indulgence in
habits of exttrtion, would, by a different course, be lay
ing up tteasure in Heaven, where there are neither
moths nor Yankees to iuterf.-re with or coosume it.
The Yankees in O.nslgw. After having driven in
ber pickets at Trenton, in Jot es county, on Friday, 71 b
inst., a force of cava'ry, estimated at five hundred, catnet
White Odk bridge, on Saturday nigh, and on Sunday
they, wiLh a battery cf artil ery and two brig .id s t,f in
fantry cr s.;fcd over, camping that night at Lltyd Med
ow, ten miles th's side of White Ovk. On Monday
th;- cavalry advuiccd to Finey Green, within about trn
uiiks ot Oiislow Court Hcufe.
went to he 1 of Lemuel
Young, about time miies from
Three of the cavalry
Stilks and Gbrge
Pin(-v Gren.
Tiy
took Mr. Stilrr prif-cmr, rnd also prred iff hi hr.
rand bugjry. Tf.cy alfo earned on a l.orsp from dwr-. .-
Yocn;.
Aftr-r ia thf' Ohvalrv wi-tit from Pinev :0
Anderson Costin's, two miles on the road to aui
bore', taking his son, Zadock Costin, a discharged
soldirr, prisou(-r, and also carrying off a hcrse and bug
gy. From CobtiVs tbej went to Qaeeu's Creek, where
they took o horse and buggy from C. H. Bafstjm.
Pursuing th ir way towards Swansboro', tLey took
prisoner Mr. Lkvi Xewbud, nn old man of seventy.
Tbey then proceeded to Mr. West Morton's, within
2r, mik8 of 2ryorproro', from which place they took
the yewbern rood bnck to White Oak. What they
did at Morton's or after leaving it is r.ot known.
Tho infantry and nrtilKry went ho farther than
Lloyd's Madow, rrtr.rt.ir.g rn Tuesday within their
own lir:(3. .
Upon the whole, it would appear to have been a mere
stealing expedition, or what is now commonly called a
raid.
We have these d-tail3 from a well-informed source,
and believe them to be correct and reliable.
All ClirSfctti .ttui:
Circling with the sun and following his course from
farthest China to the mid isle of the Pacific, the voice
of prayer and praise will ascend to-morrow from tem
ples dedicated to that faith preached by him whose ad
vent was proclaimed by angels to the shepherds keeping
watch over their flocks by night, amid the praises of the
heavenly tost, proclaiming glory to God in the highest,
and en earth, peace, good will towards men ; and from
the M issionary stations cf the East, the Cathedrals cf
Europe, the Parish Churches of Old, or the Meeting
Ucuses cf New England will go forth the summons to
worship. The States of the South too, will be at pray
er all Christendom will bow the knee, end we fear that
the knee only will be bowed, while the heart will remain
as stubborn as ever.
Peace on earth and good will to men can have little
place in the councils of those who pour dowp their le
gions to devastate te fields, burn the houses and shed
the blood cf a people etrnggling only for their indepen
dence, and almost as little place in the hearts of the
ruler3 of those nations who stand coldly aloof, indiffer
eat to the sacrifices cf struggling patriotism, dtaf to
the voits cf humanity, unmoved by the blooc! of men
or the tears and sufferings of women and children.
The Yankee preacher will harangue his flock against
the slaveholders of the South, and urge a vigorous pros
ecution of the war even to extermination. The sancti
fied and well paid English divine will thank God that
he is not as other men, nor even aa these Confederates,
unmindful cf the starvation which this war is produc
ing among his own people, but which he dees not leel.
The devotees cf foreign missions who mourn over the
p2rishing heathen, or whine over the atrocities of the
slaveholder, who sees the mote in their neighbors eye,
but behold not the beam that is ia their own, will be in
grand conventicle, feeling themselves so much better
than other men, although wholly oblivious of that great
commandment to do unto other men as ye would that
they shculd do unto you. And the extortioner at the
South will be as grave as any other, and perhaps as li
beral to the Church as the most liberator he can well
afford it. But still wars will go on and extortion will
flourish.
Verily, the millenium is not come yer, and apparent
ly is not near at hand. Man is a strange being, and no
doubt, with a perverted ingenuity, could quote scrip
ture to justify all his enormities. There are good men,
the salt of the earth, but much too much of to-morrow's
worship tiTughout the so-calicd Christian world
must be a mockery and a sham.
". Tiis Sentinel." VVe have before us the first num
ber of" Ihe Seritind," a daily paper jn?t commenced
ia Richmond, Va , by Smith, Bailet fc Co., t SlO -year
for the Daily, $6 for the semi-weekly, snv) J4"
the Weekly.
Mr. Smith, the editor in chief, is a veterc;-. cr the
press, having long presided over the columns of that
sterling Scutherh paper, the Alexander Sentinel, from
which position he was driven by the Yankee occupa
tion of that ancient city, no doubt losing heavily, but
preferring precuniary sacrifice to Lincolnite domination.
He was subsequently connected with the editorial de
partment of the Richmond Enquirer, discharging the
dut'es of the position ably and acceptably. Mr Smith
is besides persons lly a very clever gentleman. Of his
partners we know only the name of Mr. Bailet, but
feel assured that under their joint auspices the Sentinel
will be fully equal to any of its (temporaries, and
eminently deserving of support.
Wk learn that two transports passed the Cape Fear
Bar, on Thursday last, crowded with troops, who could
be plainly seen by the aid of a glass we suppose. They
proceeded South. Their object in coming bo close in,
and evidently out of their course, was probably to com
municate with the blockading Equadron off thia port.
A Diss Day. Precisely twelvt months ago to a
day, Ncwbtra fejj ioto the band! of the enemy.
Son Potator MrA. J. King, of Topsail Sourid
District; New Hanover County, has sent ua Yam
Potatoe, of a respectable size, weighing 4J poruids.
We presume he has more of t'.e same sort Potatoes
and Oysters are to be had," in ordinary times, w any
quantity in Mr, King's neighborho d.
A gentleman from the Sound informs us that a
vessel which answered the description of t turret ted
iron clad, passed in view of his place yest?rday afternoon
about two o'clock, goir;r Houth.
For the Jonroal.
Wilmington, March 13th, 18C3.
5'es8K'. Ebiturb : Cannot or will Dot the military an-
thtri'ie3 in power here give the plaEtera cf garden, and"
the raietB of produrs generally, in the viemify of "Wilming
ton, some prospect Tf eecority in planting a crop this
Bprirg ? Produce c f all kinds ia getting alarmingly scaree,
and it ia all important that everything tba can be plauted
thia coming Spring and Bnmmer sfcoald be planted. Kveiy
hill of corn, every t etk of potatoe b, every bench of turnip
raised, ei'ber for the fupport of a family, or for sole in the
market, will to that extent relieve the drain on th::t whxh
should go to the saeport of the a my.
I understand that scmof the troops are already on f hort
ratioES, and may cn ehcrter. Now all of us are wihing
to raie all we can to reliev.e the scarcity, and of coarse
relieve the drain upon the supplies deetined-fcr the sol
diers; but the experience of the past year will deter us
from doing so. '1 here seems to be a propensity atnocg
some of the strpggling soldierBto pillage and destroy every
thing that belongs to a citizen, whether it be in tha hhare
of vegetables or ieric'Eg, seme itdeed. not seeming to have
any nought beotd the present moment, not eeemir-gto
are or b now th.t eveiy Cfnt's wonhthat they prevent
from being raised cakes it just that much the worse for
themselves.
This may seem to be a srrall matter, but it ia nrverthelea-"
an important ore. The mountain is made of grains ai d
the sea of drop;?, rnd so ia the produce of the country.
A PLANTER.
From the Augusta Chrruicle and Bntioei.
Ihk Tax Bill We are iadebted to Hon. D. W. Levis
for a copy of the tax bill reported in the Confederate Coa
grees by the Committfje. The bill ia a lopg one. and may
be altered and arrer ded in various ways before it b comes
a law. We ebail therefore give only a synopsis of the bill
isintro.inctd.
The hi 1, as rtposted from the ccrrmittce. proposes a tax
of oi;e ier cottum on iho value of all persour.1 property,
moneys and credits, held' the 1 1th day of January, 1863,
and or, :he 11th day cf January cf each succeeding year
Uureafter, except on su- h property, money cr credits, eu?
u:ay b? employed in a l?ctnsftd business, cr the profits cf
which ar by the b II es; ect, i:y taxed ; prescribes the mode
of taLi i out i.-ei se. oud taxes business aafoSlows :
Daikeis three thousand dftlUrs ior each license, ond ten
pv-r centum upon the gropg amount of proSt realized daring
the yt ar e u rig. (! the Jls? of t'ecember, Imi.
Auction Kit) :wfi;t;-:'ve dollars for each license, and cnt
per crituTn uron thi gross amount of sales.
WLui' gate d ah is in h'qaurs one hundred dollars fcr.each
Ik', nse, ntid ons .per centum cn tLe gross f mount of alen.
i:c?a;l dealers-- hi 1 quor fifty doliais for each licerse a:;d
.'e per c ctafu on ihe (?rcs amourjt of saiee.
ReUi"l dt.1ert! (it; gioceri&s, merchaod z, &c ) twenty
five dollars for o.ich licence j.nd one per centum on the
grots imount of i-aiOB ,
Wh-jles-ilo dek rv, t r:e hu-died dollars and one per cen
tum t o the grtwttnioi.nt of sales.
Pawnbrokers one hundred dollars for e ;ch licenpe nud
en pr ofctum on the pr-a nniount of profits.
ii!?t'lierp, one hu'.'ujed i ; :!ii!s loreach Ijct-hc and ttj
i.er centum on the gross .-in tint cf tales.
i.etrn, nny ao tiara ior eacc ncease aca cue per cen
tum on the gross amount of Hales
Keeper of hotels, icns and taverns, twentv dollars for
each ikente, ar d ten per centum ov the pto8 amount ol
profit realized. Keeper of eating house, and boardfng
aousts wtiwre nitre re six ooaraera or more, rne same
Er liC-re, oi!e hisnan d dcllars for each license and ten
per ce-ntcm on the gross atnonnt ol profits realized
C-oroorcial brokers, one hnudred dollars for each li-
ceceeaiid one per centum upon ill aa'e
Tobacconists, twenty five doliara fcr e:ich licence and
ore i ex centum u press araoj-nt of sales. Ar.y person
whose buai.teps it ia to reta!! cigars, bnutt, and tobacco, in
ivy iorm, snaii oe aocmcu a tona co?jirt under this act
bat wholesale and retai: deakrs, having takn out a license
.1 . ' 1 . 1 . . .
kiirPiuf, tun!) uct ou rrquireu to rase cut a iicchho as a
tobacconist, ary thing in this act to ti-e contrary n twith
standing.
Theatres three hundred dtllais for each lieense. Every
ed fice ueed lor the pui pore of dramatic or operatic repre
sentittior s, plays, or perfrmaKces, and not includir halle
rented or csed occasionally for concerts or tkeatical iep-
rese: lanon-j, snail &e regaras-a t, theaters under thia act.
Circnscs one hundred doi;ars for each circus
Juggleis and other persons exhibiting shows, twenty five
dollars
Howling allci s and milliard roon-.s, twenty dollars for each
licerse, ana one per centum on gross profits
Cattie brot-e s twetty-five dollars for each licer sa, and
one per centum on gros amouut or salt s.
liutohers aLd baktrs, twenty five dollars for each li
cense and one per contain on the en ss amount of s.!es
i'edlc.s, fiity dolla s for each license and one ptr ctutom
on the yrom sales.
.Apothecaries, twenty E e dollars fur each licenpe, and
one per ceu m tfu the gn su amount of sales
I'hotograp aers, the same
Lawyers, phys ciaLS, sur(reor s acd dentists, twenty-Qve
dollars for each license, and one per centum oa the gr. ss
amcuM of reeeipts trurn practice.
Confectioners, tven'y-rJve dcl.'ars for each license, and
one per centum on gross amount of sales.
Baiaiies not exceeding fifteen hradred dollars, taxed o: e
per ctnium, ana any t xccps over that amount two per cea
tnm.
There are also provisions prrposing to tax rail read and
steam riav:trition companus : bai.bs, trust companies, s v
vines institutions, cas companies, insurance comranies. and
teiegTaph and manutacturinc companies. It further, pro
poses to levy a tsx of one per centum upoa any person or
peirc:,, firm or company, publishing any newspaper, ma
gazine, review or other literary, scientific, or news palli
cation, issued periodically, on the grops receipts fcr a!
advertisements, cr all matters for the insertion of which in
s tid newspaper cr other publication, as aforesaid or in ex
tras, suplements, sheets, or flyleaves, accompanying the
same, pay is rpqmreo or re cervefl.
Frcm the Atlanta Confederacy-.
A Good Hotel glory.
Many good things have been told of Dr. Thomj s.n,
the world renowned humorist and hospitable proprietor
of the Atlanta Hotel, whose ready wit bat few are
wiliicg to encounter ; but a little incident occurred there
last wet-k which rather worsted the Doctor.
A Lieut. Colonel who was wounded at Mutfrecs
bor6' wno had been stopping a while with him, on the
20; b day called for his bill. The oblig ng clerk handed
him the document with 20 dajB multiplied by 84. The
Colonel scanned the bill, and observed its footing up
886. He turned to the Doctor; who was present, and
asked him if he did not think that pretty heavy. The
Doctor, with that peculiar toss cf the head which iedi
cates a small whirlwind, said: "A'o,- if you bad to
pay fcur dollars lor a gobbler, one dollar a dozen for
eggs, lour dollars a pound lor Kio coffee, one dollar
twenty-five nts for butter, fifteen dollars a bushel for
potatoes, and fie dollars a pair for shad, you'd think it
was lights"
The Colonel rau his eye over his bill, again and quiet
ly replied : " Well, I have t .en here twenty days, end
d n the article you have mentioneJ have I seen on
your table."
It is said the Doctor rushed cut into the back yard
and did not cool off till he had whipped three little nig-
gsrs.
VVe ran never be conquered, says the Sou'hern
Christian Advocate, so long us we can feed our people
and our soldiers, and be is a patriot, who, dismissing all
preferences and all idea of gain, will devote all his en
ergies to 'this essential work. Give us corn, and peas
and bacon, and beef, and forage, and we can do
without more cotton fcr the present and doubtless
the gain will prove an adequate compensation for
every sacrifice the agriculturalist may make. The ad
vice was eiven and followed lest year, thanks to our
countrymen. Had it not been done there would have
been a famine in the land before the products of the
coming season could possibly be gathered. As it is
there is famine already in some households.
Augusta Constitutionalist
A Lament on the Naval Glory of the North,
The New York Trivune has the following lament
v r the departing nava, excellence of the United States
The American navy in other days achieved a proud
ard world-wide lame, wh:ch it seem3 resolved to Ios3 in
the present contest. To the long list of its recent d;s
graces, we have now to add the capture cf the gunboat
Indianola, whereby the rebels again become undisputed
raaslers-of the Mississippi and its tributaries from
Vicksburg to Fort Hudson. Of our war vessels run
by Vicksburg to sweep that important stretch of in
land navigation, tne Uueen of the West was captured
by a shore battery or fort, end now the Queen of the
West has captured the Indianola. The measure of ocr
disgrace is complete.
Ki capture of New Okleans. The Memphis Ap
peal thinks the recapture of the down-trodden city of
INew uneans irtm its xanKec persecutors is not only
possible, but probable, at an early day. It argues that
the capture of the Queen of the West and Indianola
has placed the means of so great an achievement in our
power, tinouid tne lest named Doat te saved ircm wrecs
and repaired, we shall have a force sufficient to go in
pursuit of the Essex, which is the only iron-clad
boat the Yankees have below Fort Hudson. Whh this
vessel in our possession, the remainder of the enemy's
fleet, all wooden craft, together with New Orleans,
would fall an easy prey to the prowess of our arms.
The project is a glorious one, and we must confess it
looks entirely reasonable. In 'Heaven's name, push it
forward t an early eonsummation 1 We have evident
ly the Yankees at a disadvantage, and the brilliancy of
tna achievemar will render the horsa marines of the
rYwt iDiaortal. i
- BY TELEG15ATH.
VOA TI1B JOUXLSrAI.
, CONFEDEHAIB COKGEES3. : -.
" 5 RICHMOND, Majch 13rh, 1863.
1 The Senate to-day disagreed to the amendmeats of tl
House to the resolution recommending agriculUralists to
raite large prevision crops; It then went Into secret ses
sion to consider the bill re'ative to furloughs .
The House in secret session.
An explosion occurred this forenoon at the Government
Labor at or oa Brewn' Tsland, near thia ciy, ia one of the
bui'd'ngs occupied by women and girl employed in tilling
Cartridges, billing and wounding thirty or forty persons.
The number ki'led n not yet known, bat bel eved not o
exceed ten. The explosion is fuppofced to be the result cf
accident.
OAPTD2E OF YANKEE BIGNiL COBP ;.
Chabliston, Marca 14, 1863.
A telegram from Hardeeville, S. C , announces that Cap
Mitchlor, cf the eleventh South Carolina regiment., wit . a
detachment of his Company went on Hitoa Hod Island
Jaat night to the Observatory, where the Yatkee Hgi al Corps
were stationed, and, without firing a gun, captured the whole
Company keeping watch, consisting of a Lieutenant, oEe
Fereeant. and seven privates. The r risoners have arrived
ia Hardeeville; roone lurt on our side. All qiietbere.
ALL QUIET AT FORT McATJSTER
TiTASNiH, March 13th, 1;G3.
Two fmall blcckaderrt far out off the mouth of the Ogee-
chee. All quiet here. No signs of the enemy.
i.r N. J,'8PH JOUNSTOS AT-MOE1LF3.
L'obilh, March 13th, 633.
Gen. Jos. JoLaston reviewed the aimy cf UobiUvyestcr
iay. Brig. Gen. D. W. Adams, of the army ot Tcnn- Esee,
has arrived here en r ute to rejoin his command at Tuila
homa.
From the Charleston t oarisr.
Messrs. Edito s : In your paper of the 1 1th of Feb
ruary, you notice the death of Lieutenant Henry K,
Stevens, C. S. X., wh Ia defending the Confederots
States steamer "Cot' on", against the enemy's attack in
the Bayou Tcche, aut esin? a ' just tribute" to his mem
ory Jrom the Ktcamond hxaminer. It brought to ray
remembrance a scene in 'Mv Last Crnie," bv Li u-
I
I tenant A. W.
IT.L '
erly of the U . S. JS avy
Ifiefmcerii cowiind was Lieutenant Steven,, as i
wns informed by the Author. I take the opportunity .of
mentioning that while it is correctly stated that he was
born in Connecticut, I understand it to have so occur
red b-'cauaie his father, a naval officer, was then atd there
on duy. . A COUNTRY READER
Fiona the Norh Pacific Surveying and Fxplorihjf Expedi
tion ; or, My Last Cruise.
It wa3 about three b.urg alter midnight, aaJ yet the
arcticsun wes already some decrees above th Enntern
horizon, while the "o:d J ohn " as it ashamed cf havipf-
overlept herself, was runriag under alu'l head of strain
from the ppot where, oly six short hours previously, we
had anchored for the night after one of our U;ue.l "day's
Don't smile, "reader ; we often worked more than
eighteen hours out of the twenty four, dun. g tho-e long
art tic diys.
I would not have any oce understand, from the fact
that the uold John" was under a full head of steam, that
she was rivalling a Is orth River steamer or even a fair
sailing ecow in speed fuch, indeed, being far from the
case as six and a half knots the tour was the most
that she could be prevailed upon to accomplish under
steam only.
,
Our old tub, as I have already remarked, wus run
ning away from her night's anchorage under all head
of steam. The rugged and saow-p,tched coa-st of Si
beria wus on our right, distant some mile or more ; sev
eral clustering islands dotted the smooth surace of the
Okolsk Sea on our left ; while ahead we could just seT
what might be a ship or a towering rock, so distorted
were all objects in that direction by the great it-fraction
common to high latitudes. We were not long ia doubt,
however, as to the nature of this distorted object. Ii
seemed to be raisiog bodiiiy cut of the corj fused horizon,
and to be rushing upon us instead of our slowly ap
proaching it. Could this b-a also refraction ? Hardly.
Suddenly we guessed tha mystery ; we had been anchor
ed during :he night in the eddy formed by a projecting
headland, but had now e-ieamed out into, one of the fear
ful currents against which we had been 'so oftea warned
by old (b-.r a3 we then thought marvel-loving) whaling
captains. It wps the same current with which wo had
measured speed durirg the previous day ; only it was
now running in f n opposite direction with evidently
greater str ngth. I
What v.'.8 to be done now ? To attempt to survey In
such a mill-race would have been absurd. Neverthe
less, we kept well in with the main land, intending to
ruu betwetu it and the distorted object, which had at
length resolved iteelf into three separate masses of tow
eric g rock.
The passage Loked smooth and beautiful frcm the
masthead at first ; but, as we approached it with cur
mad velocity, a suspicious lookiug streak of foam and
broken water wss gradually discovert d to connect the
extreme right of the black locking rock3 with the main
land. - Shonld this prove to be a rc?f but bah ! why
nunt up unpleasant suojects ror tnougbt 7
Any one who ha3 ever watched the hying landscape
from the window o! a rai road car can fcrm a vy fair iJ:a
of the appearance which the receding objects here pre
sented to us. Trees, rocks, patches of snow, dark accf
gloomy locking caves, with here and there a huge boul
der, snow fed torrent, or wandering bear, rushtd by us
in their constant flight, separate and distinct at first,
but finally melting into one conglomerate mass of un
recognizabia objects, over which the momentarily with
drawn eye ranged in vain for i:s former resting place.
This w?s the velocity with which we were going over
grciltid now for the first time passed over to our knowl
edge thirteen miles to tt e hour probably, certainly
not Irs than twelve; where would we all be in onfi
minute of time should the " old John " suddenly fiod a
reef cr a euoken rock under her already leaky bow ?
Some such questione r thi3 was drifting laz ly throuarh
my midwatch worn miud, when I was startled by the
voice of the Captain, who, from his look out on the
top-sai!-yard, oraered or course changed so a3 to pass
outside of the rocks, r i the streak of broken water be
fore alluded to was evidently a reef. This discovery
was no sooner made than I knew that the " old John "
was in another one of her disagreeably tight p!ace3 :
and, when I heard the rushing tide leaping up our sidos
in its mad ury, and refljetsd that we had to steam
against that tide before we could round those black and
towering piks'ol basaltic rock which blocked oor path
with certain death, a?y hca-t for a moment contracted
with spasmcdij horror ; and, when it again swelled af
moot to bursting, it wt'i with curse3 desp and bitter
against those in authority whose stupid ignorance or
criminal carelessness bad ri?Vrd the safety of so many
lives by detailing tach a vessel for the hazardous under
taking of a surveying voynge around the world.
" If there's any spec J in he-, it'll have to come out
now, or it s all day with v" said a voics at my elbow.
I turned with a look of gloomy iDquiry to se-3 the
speaker ; for the voice, though a famiiiar ore, wa3 zo
strangely medicated by emotion rs to be scarcely re
cognizable. It was the Captan, who, having nothing
more to di cover from aloft, had returned to ttfe deck
cool, co !oi, collected, and yet very pale ; and hi3 voice,
though thus strangely modulat-rd by emotion, was firm
and bell-like, and his eye bright, partially with moist
are, but more than partially with the light of that fire
which burns only in the brave mau'a eje when dan
gers crowd around him, or in the eagle's glance when it
meets the rays of the mid-day sun.
" Yes," he continued, in a voice whose forced cheer
fulness grated harshly on' the nervous ear, "the 'old
John ' must indeed ' scratch gravel ' now, or we are
lost at last Tell Lawton to' fire up ; let us have all
the steam he can. If the boilers won't bear it they
must lu'st. Even tow we are losing ground, and there
i3 not much of it between us and those "
He pointed to the dark acd towering: massjs of the
loosely piled rook, up whose ragged sides the bruised
and foaming sea reared its rushing surface, and through
whose broken breast it urged its half spent fury. No
gravity existed there of sufficient pewer to drag the
broken waters to a common level ; they rolled, and
leaped, and surged in their mad course until obstructed
by those hoary upheaval of nature's past convulsion.
and then pressed up their precipitous sides, or through
dark and gloomy looking archways, with a baffled
power that told of ruin, and destrcction, aid death, to
the hapless ship that should be swept with them in
their mad career.
The general view which met the eye was awful to
behold. -
There .are som8 threes of nature which God never in
tended man to describe. He reserves them in the wan
dering air, in the boiling centre of our common earth,
ia the fathomless depths of the slumbering ocean, or in
ltb.3 misty depths of tha failing, imagination, "until such
time as he eesa fit to bring them bcfV.re as in the shape
What pen ever yet did justice to-the raging breath of
tha West India hurricane, to the 'destroying action .of
the great volcano of Hawaii, or to the scenes of ruin and
desolation which follow in the trail of the mysterious
bore " of the floogly and other Eastern rivers ? My
pen also fails to do justice to the scene which I have at
tempted to place before the reader.
As I have already remarked, thtre were three of
these rockrone immecssly large, the others compara
tively Email. They were separated by passages of pro
bably fifty or sixty fiet in width, and were gaped and
undermined at the water's edge by'severel gloomy look
ing caves, through and down which the rashing sea
seemed finding a channel to the very towels of the earth.
It was opposite the larger of these rocks, and distant
from it coiy some three or four hundred yards, that we
found ourselves after the tteamer had rounded to and
commenced to measure her speed with that of this mov
ing ocean. Immediately in our refr was the largest
and most gloomy locking of those downward leading
caves. It was large enough, had our mas's been taken
out, to receive the entire hull of tne stc imer mto its ca
pacious iaws; and toward thesj capachu3 jaws we
were now beirjg urged by a power which the advancing
land slowlv advancin?. but still advancing told us
was greater thsa our means ol resistance.
Send the best h 'wsmnn to the wb-sl. Crowd the
furnaces with coal and pitch. Jam down the safety
valve. Any thing for yearn ! for steam and close
steering are now the oniy things that can save ua
Backward we go slowly backward ! The 3d craft,
as if con8cicus of the shattered timbers and mangled
forms which hut awoit her touching to spring into x
istenee trembles iu every joint as the tortured boilers
bear their increasing power sgaitst the v hi? ling screw
seventy revolutions to the minute, I think, we were
then makicg and jet backward, slowly backward, to
ward the yawning dea'h. It was sickening to &ee a
patch of sca-5vetd, on a drifricg log, pass us in their
unconscious cansr at;d iu less than a minute of time
disappear upon the breast of the diving flood down,
down, how tar ?
Even the wba'ed that h::d been rubbing thtir huge
sides against c ur barnacled copper for t':e last few days
gave one plunge diet er than the resr, and left man to
ieaa upon his whirling screw an.4 dio alone. The nu
merous varieties of the arctic duck, which had hereto
fore spotted the calm and polished fcuf u'C of the octatt
in every direction, were now no longer to te seen be
tween U3 and the rearing dancer. There wfre thou
sands of thtm etill drifting pa t ; but, warned by na
ture 'd tare instinct, th-y. like the whale, avoided the
risk of being thrown upon tho-e pointed rocks, or tuck
ed into those fathofii -t-8 holes, by pre ervhg a safe
distance. They, too, U3ing with ease the mem s of es
cape furnished theru by au all providing b iijr,Ieft
man to lean upon his broken reed and die alone.
Even the lost acd wet-ried land birds, which for days
past had found food and shelter upor, our decks, de
serted U3 for a rocky pcreh just over the dark and
roaring cavtrn toward which we were slowly drifting,
as if eclec'ing a commanding point from which to wit
ness the approaching work of dissolution. The very
dogs crouched at cur fe-jt in trembling fear as then&ise
of the rushing waters startled them, and howled pite
ous!? as th?y gazed into fucg so changed by Jeep and
ternbie emotion. Miliums of bats and shallows left
their thousand nc.vs at those dismal and unknown
sounds," started by the unusual proximity of mac to
their desolate haunts, aLd, circling through and around
our
gear
and decks, added their harsh, discordau'
screams to the rearing, of the wafers, and interposed
their black ar,d crowded masses between us and the
moroicg sun. J hey were like dense clouds casting
their parsing shadows" over us gloomy shadows, that
might be shading a mo.c gloomy fate.
Backward slowly bae-kward :
God of heaVen ! must wc in this quiet state- cf mo
tionless inactivity, driife k.cb by inch into that howling
cavern, or wilfully throw ourselves upon the tsharp
rocks of the sunken reef rs the only alternative ? Is
man, and man enly, with the vast resource? of his
mighty intellect to aid him, to be strangled, suilocated,
mangled, destroyed, while1 the inferior animals around
him swim majestically awiy, or hover on 'earis3 wings
over tne sullen una hopeless struggle r Is time to end
now, as far a3 we a'c coucerned ? we who have still such
strong framts, tueh cr!otvin bloci sach vivid recollec
tions of the pest, such vearniDg- of hope for tha fu
ture, such nerve to strusrgla againtt this hideous fate
could we but grasp it in some tangible form ?
Is that bright tun now shining upon us for the Jest
tm-; ? vs, whose path it was created to luht ? May not
soma wandering breez-" reach us in itn wayward course,
to till our id;e sans end urpc us forward whde y t a fe
short yards exist between us and that rocky pile ? A'ns,"
no ! The stern and loering"brow contrasts iu hopeless
despair over a broad excuse of'ca'ui and polished
ocean, while backward no ly bacKward we drop
aeaiust the struirghnir screw.
We can no longer measure our ya rds- by hundreds.
Time ia drawing to a close, atd fpace seems shrinking
into nothing as though they jounced to a common
grave. -V strong arm mignt bave cast a s'one into that
yawning gull, when a single order, the first that had
been given for apparently an vo, told us that the des
perate choice had been made.
Tv be thrown uron the s-varp recks of the sunken
reef by the bailing ocean which swept over them, as
sured us cf at leatt a s-ardit trrave : whrle the dark
depths of the dismal looking cavern, rendered doubly
oaru ar.i gloomy cy tne contraet with the snowy foam
wmcu irotnea around its moutn, resembled m their
inky hue the cemmencement of the shatlow of the val
ley of death.
" Starboard !"
Rieder, do jou know what that singlcjword meant ?
It meant that there no longer esistexl a hope of being
able to steam against the rushing tide with our power
less propeller and leaking boilers. It m:ant that we
were to go to death upon the foaming reef in preference
to being swept into fcis embrace in thee? gleemy depths.
It meant that the throbbicg brain of him whose slight
est word was law, even in that moment of awful sus
pense, had decided to give up the unoqualfstrnggle and
accept the hopeltgs alternative. It meant that by our
own act we were resigning the few minutes daricg which
the struggle might b 3 protracted, to rush hecdlorgupon
the less revolting death. It meant that at the end of
thoss "few minutes" certain and instantaneous death
awaited us, and that at the end of those Jew secoiids po.
sible salvation for a f ;w hours was in store for him who
shculd grasp a brc ken s par cr buoyant catk when the
vessel's hull should be ground from under us, and the
confused rnaf3 of shattered timbers, tangled rear, and
mangled forms oe swe
t over the boi liner line into the
fathomless water beyor.d. It meant that the moment
was at hand when thenveak man was to fisd a SDeedv
end, and when tha strong man was to feol his sinewy
arm elowly deaden from the protracted labor cf self-pre
servation, slowly, but surely, all flesh must sink. And
it meant that brav; hearts were now to die, and that
food hearts ia another hemisphere were to weap their un
snown fate and languish in lonely sorro.w until time to
them, also, should d aw to a close. All this it meant
and horror, and despair, and approaching dissolution,
gataered around U3.
" Btarboard it is, m !" said the -ready he.m3tnan: and
as he spoke tl whcsl turned evenly under his nervous
grasp, and the old trap's head dropped slowly off. Bod
ily, toptlessiy, rro. -.aside on, she now drilled toward
the last struggle. How qnickly those few seconds glide
cmaii secocos oi time, duc awial, awful , taxes upon
the mind's future lability ! Men live through pa3t
ages in moments like those. The straircd and laboring
brain burns with a nre that whitens the locks of youth,
or sows tne e'eds or future disease, through sheer inten
sity of thought.
It is cornel Men cease to breathe, and, with half
closed ejes acd muscles of iron, grasp a swinging rope
or near belaying pin whh unconscious power !
What ? Ihe reef ! Where i3 it ? A merciful Being
smiled upon hie help!cs3 creatures and strengthened their
brofecu reed m that moment of the;r dire -extremity.
Our eyes bad deceived us. Eyes whose business it had
besn f years to discover the unknown reef, and
to distinguish bei.wec-n that and tte deceptive tidc-rin
u , J f.-,:j r - iv'. r ... i .. '
uu miicu ivi uuce. io i eef exisiea. n was tne pe
culiar ferrnation cf the land, combined with tha feariui
velocity of the ruihing ocean, which created a tids-rp
,uat imgui wea oave ueceivuu a inousanci eyes. And,
a3 we drifted wildly over the boiling space into the
" fathomless waters beyond," man's failing eye which
had bean dry and hard and burning while death held
out his fkshles3 arms,. softened with cooling moisture,
until those sbapeles3 piles of towering rock grew dim
and u-defined in their uncertain vision.
It was with fearful speed that we had drifted. around
the angular comer of the in shore rock, and it was soon
left far, far astern. Msn began again to lock around
them and breathe freely ; the danger was past ; we
again went on our careless way.
" Blast her miserable timbers 1" said our friend Buns
by, as he took the old ship in at a single indignant
glance : " if she d only tnem coaps in uongress as ner
crew, them in tha Cabinet a3 her officers fand the old
President for ber Cap'n, I'd as soon seeher sink as
float shiver her I" And, with this emphatic eiprcs-
sion of " an opinion as was an n5niftn i,
" how much ' ionW we had tci f,. ' 1 ,r.wd
from his . moutb a p!ece of ; exhausted to'b&cpo
mupt have weighed something raoro than an oaPf
From-Wotth Alabama.
Tl e IluntsviHe (Ala.) Advocate of th ah n
We Kara that the gunboats have retired frcm FP'"
down the Tennessee river. 'I hey did but little a f:l5
as we heard. Ths cBemy's cavalry, however
came up as far as Town Creek, nd which B'.V','c!l
be from 600 to 1200 strong, did much damn ,0
was eomDCsed of Yankees and rer.poTftan r". It
n-negrde? fa
bam a, Mississippi, and Tenne.'s-e. It
plundering expedition, taking m-grcts, .hor R
wagons, cotton, money, &c; stizirg citizens r
monc-v out of them : deRlrovirtr lnrmir,,, (-xf :t
0 J J -f ""i'p, 1 lJ T
spinning' whetis, &c. It has, we hear, con L
inrr rn iavp rn nmrnpr it rntrapr. m n
not very fast in retiring our cavalry will overtake 1
capture, as we trust, the whole band of muraivV.-lu 1
We are pleased to krow, that the Tascuasi v
ley will no longer be left exposed sud defence!.'?
was recently by a disobedience of (Jen. Uroc'V 1
Forces sufficient to prevent any future raid s!e tt-' r'
cent one, and to punish severely the ivt&j ; H r
tempt to repeat the ftat, have been alrccjy piacJU"
proper points by iicn. S. A. M. Wood, wh-j tn'''"
for the purpose, ar.d who knows, ptriicneJl ?, 7 'Y'J
try. We, therefore, desm it safe to tuvthiUpri"
will b3 protected io the future from any Q-,ri" ri;C:ir
the enemy's cavalry. It is important that iwh.v I'
eo, for the people in it have alieady JTjU.ml vri .
ily ; and it can, if unmolested in the future, wv!"
uiu'juuiu v. w.uw.tyu j 1'-. fc.JC Ul.ijy arid tli"
pie.
A correspoudent in Walker county wii
have bard times in this s'ction cf cmmtiy ,
fear it will be harder next year. Mcst cl of t! .
uiiic jj'.'Lia ie. uic iLtir is uui tT,eu-'!j (
iuvu uuu ULj a jcib tu uiuaw I'iia J ic T ILC Wi'li,,-.-
children. .Most of the people here are p ior ponl '
v.,
will be compelled to EuffT, exctpt an hdervrr
I. .
DeKalb, Crerokee, Jgckson, IJcrgap, & ' 'j . .'
not enough labor It ft-, we fe tr. frcm vtbnr v.- i , r '
cultivfite the cleared lands and make br.ai ti'.''
The focd question is now of paramount im eri;:: fc-'
the people and the array. ' '
ine lennees'-e nvtr is agam out cf iis b
or ,
to be very high; and fcr a few dsys ifT.pusaJA:
Naturalization. A resolution tf exo!;ir
i-j: .1.. n. ..in..... . . 1
tei in me jiou-se ui i..eprcs.u;ativts the oicr
U.-5C wi i..rncs.u.il lives t:iC 01TCT u.V " ' '
batch ol Yankee prisoners of w.-r"'v ,
oath of fidelity to the OcnfcdeiV. Si..i"-'
reference to a batch ol
on taking the
were permnieu icrguioi. iu oce 01 the count is s of V
ginia, prercnis the ques'ion, whether fiierull' tLit !
occurred, we are to continue to cxUfd to thh r 1
race the rights and priviiegeg of eh if nship r.roo;,- '
The Richmond Whig takes tee o;casio.i to zr.-J.:
remarks of the right ?tamp on the subject ofNaiur.;
tion. That paper s.v s:
Till,,,-. . t. I ..
i.i iw.-fi: uuiiavrs, wno come ucrc io maroer.
r:;!
ravage, lakrn redhanded in thei.' work, arej Ly tho
pie process ot adding perjury to their other v.d!-ir,i
be received into full political and Ircl f -ilo'Al.Mi
those who are perillmg and endiiriug all what'i,
zenshtp worth, and what are we fighting for ? A;,d
the very agony of war we permit this to b iw.
. to
fi.'
it in
nli.-t
We
will we not submit to amid the hallelujahs of pe-ct ?
had supposed that the great object of' the f,ar w
dependence, and that to attain and maintain th'
. ''.
tl.r
one doubted that it was nece.c?arv to ctt rid of
lankee, not politically merelv, but fiociuily.
and from all manner of contact and intercourse. A "i
yet Congress hag idlowed two years to pass v-itl re.
touching the naturalization law; and if pea-e v.,,
made to-morrow, tne laciice has but to rpe"i cj:-l-j .
and walk in, without so much es saying ' by u:.r
leave." There should be no furt'-'r .hy
about this matter. We have vastly more to fear from
the Yankee alter than during the -war. TU-thi.c
millions ol conscripts that they now picpow to set.d
airairjet are fur less to be dreaded iliun '!..
cial inundation that, will come when peace ir, i, ,
unless we build breakwater3 now. TLey cr.nrj'
cenquer us by arms, but leave thtm free to tn'er en:
domain and enjoy here rights equal with cur cwr,,
they will pour over our bcrderd in tuch cumhtr t :,!!.
all that we may have gained by eucccstfal v;,ir will
lost ; we will ba suffjeated Py numbers, deb UUCtit.d t.I. J
Yaukce'zed by the contagion of their presence. l'-r
our part, wo could see but httle rcsscu or cout iiiLiit.t?
the terrible wer in which we are engaged, if we 1 new
that it was to end wi;h the free and full privilege ot ?
tizenship left open to the Yankee. Cod knows vve h.n-f
enough of Yankee .laws and mstttution3 nov, l;avj been
already sufficiently demoralized by their influence : t.;i
preaiuce, totatisfy the most cosmopollan politician.
Let us for the future keep the saceuc tzaleof tha South
free and pure from the base admixture. Let c have
citizenship of which we may he prend ar.d-reliio:;,
lws, education, mannwts nd foeiiil hdhifudes u;,cu;-
rupted by tLe 1-prcus infusion of Yar.kccwm.
Gen. Pillow and the PitEsrniJ.NT. Gen. P.'i'.r,v
recently made a speech to planters in Alatamn, to i i
duee them to permit their slaves to enter Governi))- r.t
employ as teamsters, etc. 'Io show that he. wrs i.ot
asking them to make sacrifices that he himself wc;;! !
rur, ttihkP- r.p in :i nr r.ia r.wn ir.ai u ai ii r.r-itn n .
gin houses worth $10,000 each. 100.000 kniuh
bacon, 2000 hogs, 500 he&d of cattl", hh hm.?. n-i
plantations destroyed and desolated, ard 2100 bi!e; I
hi3 Cotton burned by his own Government.
lie stated that Geu. Sherman hud wri;t-;i i.'t - .
letter, couched in very polite language, tdhrr:ir ' re
turn his negroes to him, ar:d to indemnify h f i i'.
his losses, if he would abandon the Confederate f;ctv:t.-..
His answer was :
" General, while I thank you for ycur courteous Li
ter, let me cay to you, the property your Goven Lt
has taken from rxe was my own. Your Govt rr.:.n-...t
has tne power to rob me ol it, but it is too poor t hu;
me." Concerning President Davis, le said:"'!;.
President is the very man for th pcsitlbn hs ho.Vo ; :(
he cannot conduct us through this revolution, no .. . n
could ; he is a man cf delicate form, but of large br.J.:.
and patriotic heart, and eminently qualified in every :t
epect for the Chief Executive of this Confe-'erat;."
Although he thought the President at had not d-;
him justice, yet ho preferred hirn for President to any
other man. We were not fighting for.Prts dent Pavi.",
nor for any other man, but for onr rights as fre,-L!i x ;
and a3 for himself he would, if he hud it to di ove :,
vote for Jefferson Davis for President, if he knew t!.::t
he would place bin in a dungeon during thw v.Lo!t
war.
The Southern C.'nntian Advocate my 3 ruch iec:a;Ls
evince a noh;e and urit?eihsh patnoti?m. tht f; ! : t'.e
country above self, arid we take pleasure in lccoidn:
them and recommending them to the notice ol wm-
ever se;fash churl may be locking to his own
honors, rather than to his country's weal.
gam uii
Wom'ot is Demand. Fifty damsels, se-nt from Kc
land to Vancouver's Island had, upon arrival, t be
housed in a government building and a guard put our
them, in order to protect tbem from the ru;h of aur
eus swains. They were all soon disposed cf, but vh.-'i r
by lot or to the highest bidder docs net appear. 'II'
Vancouver paper ekmora fcr more, but prefers tUiry
maids to governceses.
Incident at ti.s Battlb oa McaFaEKSSso'.
An esteemed friend has handed ua the following .'ctur
relating an incident in th?3 battle not yet puhli.-huJ,
which we cheerfully put in print : " Darin j th?. ii.;h
ing on Wedneeday evening, our sharp-abootcr.i wer.
compelled to fall back, wheu one Sergeant ilurpi;
coming along tha bank of Store's liiver, accidenta:.;
came upon a Yankee Lieuterant Colonel and four ir r.
Qarck as thought, he brought his gun to his should. . -and
demanedd the currender of the party. The Lieu
tenant Colonel hereupon ordered his men to fire u ;:;
the rebel : but unfortanateiy for them, their gur.s Lr.d
been discharged. The
Colonel then drew-hi-pal
t 1 . '
and flashing it over
his
neaa saia ne woaiu never
render to a rebel, wnicn words were no sooner eaid t-"-'
the sharp crack of the rebel lifla caused the Ysd'
Colouel to lie lifeless at his feet. The ScrirePTit tLi-:
drew bis revolver and rr.arched Ihe four men into ran ;'
This man has been recommended to the War !) pa"'-
mnt fcr promotion, to which he 13 well descrvir.;.
Natchez Co'iti:.-
The Marquis of Hartington was, a few. nights s.rc-
compelled to remove a secession badge which be
placed on his coat at a private ball in INew 1 cir
Ihe Kew iors rost says :
he Iieb cjlttwA his invrstications of our domestic trou".
into Dizie, and -taking the aristocratic view of the crutv
ticj, now wtara the rebel colors.
This young gentleman is tha third brother e l
he use of Cavendish, wno has been feted and made rru
of br our citizens. Since his last visit to New 1 oft