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FRIDAY,-' Marcli S7. 1S53.
There is a' species, of tactics, being resorted to in
tW clajs tt. inileiv.i. puilic opinion anu to raise
strife, not or.'y insanely foolish, but desperately
k wicked. .
We allude to ''the. constant clamors which certain
men and presses are raising, ; attempting to raise,
against meu whom the e insatia e scolds persist in de
claring in favor of a continued war.
" If these charges were 'leveled at dishonest quarter
masters,'', at heartless Krw.ih-.lor8, or army officers!
whose .e-onsequeuce mustcollapse as soon as their rank
is laiim away, we should care nothing how frequently
they were made. . . -J. ' i
Doubtless there are men of this kind who see in a.
continuance of war the gratification -of tj cir selfish-nc-f-s,
and who I ok -u?on peace, as robbing them of
cither Jjonorsof gain. Rut they arc comparatively
few - The majority of poisons who are making most
money, the majority of officers in the, army, would
as gladly hail the announcement of peace as the most
timid woman io the land, whose heart beats with re
doubled anxiety at the report of every battle in which
her loved ones .are exposed to death. .
The charge of wihif.g for longer war is not con
fined to men of 4he .cWses we have enumerajed.
Ij)ay after day the entire people of the S't:th, who
ijclieve in the teality of the objects for which the rev
olution was fegim, arc held up to the world as being
thirsty for more blood, and as delighting in carnage,
slaughter, suffering, .starvation, and all the attendant
horrors of a protracted War.
JvqjeciaJly in. Ihh Stdfe arc these constifuiiwual
grumblers active. Tliey industriously point to.seces-"
ionisf.s as wishing for nx.re warv.-hilst they -rs.com--'idaeentlv
iiistanc themselves, and those: who cote with
j. -
tiienij as the votaries of mild and blessed peace. And T
they always end their exhortation with a declaration,
that -o long as the . Yanku s refuse to let us go in
. peace, to long will they critiiiue this contest.
These charges arc both dishonest and false. There
is not a roan ia the Confederacy, outside of the clashes
we have named; .let his opinion on political questions
be w hat they may, that dot-s not earnestly desire peace
noun the ver ferivil which these self-elected beat'
.tudes ile m and.
Tf the Y;nl:d's will let us alone, give up tbeirwkk-
led designs to enslave its and take from us our pivp
triv, :u;d ackiioAvIedsze our right to be free and inde
penderu, every :o.v('t of ttsc war will have teen a'c
. complished, and if, will.tiop amidst the loud thauks
l givings of every. ohm dc" V the rights of freemen,
'j Do these ma'.C(!iten:s wish to stop our resistance
) short of. inlependeiii-e? Do they wish to see us throw
i flown -our arms wl.ii.st the lankees are asserting tneir
i right to 1 c our rn-isiers. Do. they wish to see our
property co:,t"isc:i!ed ai d the. homes of our pcpld oc
cupied by Yanlaes.. whilst the true owners ave turned
lons-e iqion tlje world, exposed to every . indignity
'wTiic :! Yar.l;eem'!ic4 and ingf.-nuity can inflict ? Do
the v
Wlntj
Silt
c-Very ti"wa its
,i:-rt-ja ..auoliua
and
iws oL tru:ioouan(..
MuilK'ii woven r.rcM-nd us. tij
be construed- and cxe-,
ttr'.f u l v d:o;o Vi .. h;itc cud fear u
and tear us. . j
idition of evt ry copqilereu !
iS-ieh has beeil !:
j eojile ;nch would !
Do these men thi
gnieral su:Tv:ing aiv.'
p con
e f'lirs.
rk that tliey would cscanc
.e
tal irnity .ot t!;e iand. m
sHeration
of th
'r services in en.davin t h-v -jo n-
. . H e tell tlieitf v.o. i ney woulu be t?stet mrc
than any other class, by their mys. The Yan
"I.ecs wi ulil doubtless fad v.yo'jj ,c i-ece'sticni'sts first
and destroy them, Thi."
;lit aifoid a short lived
gratifia tion to tiKii- rf.-a-.uceis. 1 n t the Yankee, like
thc'f'"xin the-f-iblc,' would no s'loner finish the se--
cessso'nists, then .wining his unsatisfied jaw's, he
i wotdd, turn to the snbmissionjst and say. " -The
seccsionist were very g od. but jl am still hungry."
Iei.voii!d then fill upon the innocent lambs and eat
then" up also. :
. We all desire peace Above evcri-'tlung else, provided
peace can come without dishonor or s! ifery. No one
- ever wantcd.w'ar for tire sake of war unless ii be
. tli'isc whese heads were as empty f.ih! whose hearts
V were as false as the. men who now .vec'i, by slanders,
I to fasten so njousi reus a wickedness ujinn their fe'kny
eiiizenh. (, .
- 'Wh-it -:o these men seek t accompli;'.! Do-thcy
want to go back 'to the old Union eventually ? Do
j they want to go now ?. Are. they con.-futing- to our
; defeiuc only until they can get a promise of some sort
! from the Yankees ? Whv don't they sav what thev
want? Thcv declare thev- mean t fight so lone as
, the Yankees pi r.-'ist in fighting-us. Ni one can go
-further' than tbis no one has gone further. Arei
they fixed in their declarations, or do they seek by
eternal comohv.nt some excuse. o withdraw from
the en
igements ?
: ' . The Voice of the People.
Vc observe the Handurd is parading what pur
ports to be "ex tracts' from letters received by its Bnlfa-
Ine editor, but .most of which we believe tote manu-
i'actured " ea jhe premises.' The ed jeci
;t oi mese
" eixtnicTs ' is to afiVct public i pinion. , We despise
sqeh shdllow arts. But to show what at least a part
of the public opinion ef ihc State aud the unatamous'
p.moa f'f the Ai mv is, we pioiiose to draw from our
letter fito
extracts. If any gentleman doubts'
our extraks, the orkmais are fir inspection. The
Standard makes one of its ."-extracts" say that the
ie
ay that tbe
Stale-Journal is dead i The w-sh is father-to the
thought.
The State Journal has (fully three times the
circulation of thy Standard and! ten limes as many
-readers. . Lt tto Standard console itself with that.
.Ati'd i.ow fir a specimen mck of a pyrand-l f ex
tracts wfe proper e to build up as ccuvcuience may
A soldier in the field, in :Easteru North Carolina,
.writes, dai:d'" Camp i.ear Kinston. March 21st,
1803 :"
1 -cannot do without your Daily Journal. I love
tear you put it to that miserable, detested man,
,V. U . llolde-i!. 1 teil you ho would fare but mid
cnng.had tie; soldiers arehance at him. " We think
S'e have had much hardships to endure in Nr C, that
ce has been instrumental in bringing about. Many'
..'arms are now lying in waste, and many a fine house
jam m asnes, that the lankees never had seen had
iinstx)ti, N. c.
. Welo hope Ilolden's day is about'plavtd out. and
that it is, we shall this year point to the popular vote
of the patriots of the State to prove. 1 - 1 -
. Another correspondent writing from Kinston says
.Under date of the 1st inst. : -' ' "'' ' :
noi notiien - encouraged them to come on, ii an indi
rect if not a dii-ect Way. But I hope his day i- about
played out. Don't, mil f
: rt Not a deserter; not a'grumWefibor a bad. man or
a bad soldier can be found bel.ongibg to our regirrJInB,
who is not a Uoldenite or a reader bl his paper. And
what is true of this regiment will be found to.be true
of every other regiment from our State." .
; Just as might be expected. Seviral of our soldiers
have been shot or degraded for desertion! and oth-r
offences all of which is chargeable to the teachings of
the Standard. More ahon. - 1
The Gold Fauic " . .
- We have to-lay to jerform the highest duties of
thn journalist. -It is v combat dangeryus errors, illu
sions and paidcsfu the public miud to keep col and
hold on to reason as a cuide; while excitement and
apprehensum areloing their fearful work out t:f doors,
and scattering the tenses of thoselwho ought to be
hensibte men. liko so many ' timid; hares. We h ive
Kpoken eiicwners or tne iooa panicias or a cia-s wttn
the powder pauic th arm panici and tlie salt panic
of former epoch; of the war. The; gold panic is one
of the last hallucinations of the titiieis. The currency
question is vital to us; it is our weak point, because
it is keositive as an exposed nerve, and most inviting
to the operations of speculators at home, and enemies
at home and abroad. - Timid men among the people
are the ready dupes of these operators. . It becomes
every man of sense and motive who h ve the cause
and his country: to fight the evil manfully.
It is telegraphed from Richmond,' ''Advance in
gold I Exodus of foreigners ! Gold has risen in
Richmond to 400, and Bank notes to 60 premium."
The esc-dus of foreigners, as a cause of the ri.e, is a
table. It uiight temporarily affect that tn uket, but
there is no exodus of foreigners', here to account for
the flutter on St. Francis and St. Michael street.
Can any man perceive any rational canse in the
present condition of our military affairs, why Confed
erate currency should suddenly jump down 100. ? If'
Richmond or Charleston' h?.d been taken, or Vicks
burg reduced, the reason vould be clear enough. But
it comes when there is no defeat or series of defeats i f
Our arms to dampen the hopes of ultimate triumph,
and when every thing looks more favorable for us
than at any 'period of the'war. No man with a mag
nifying !as: ca-i discover a single reason why a O n
federate note to-day -is -not worth just as much as it
was.'yestcrday. Yet, upon the breath of a report, a
vapor of suspicion of evil, lots of people are, wh le we
wrifc, running to the broker's offices, eager to ex
change their paper for gold at any .price. They veril y
the maxim, f A fool and his money are soon parted '''
To-morrow, the wind may set in a different quarter.
The wire-workers having suceened in bagging a suf
ficient h't of dupes, may find it conyenienl'to let up
tLe snare, and a good piece of news may come along
to justify, au advance1 in Oi'ifederate paper. Then
these dupes who bought at 400 will begin to think'
they had been to easily -scared, aiid come back to .-ell
again at 300. One thing i& svorthy' of remark, and
'we comnicri'1 it to th timid patriot who is the pos
sessor of Confederate money. It is, fhat it takes two
to make a bargain, and when he can sell all his paper,
there must needs be a buyeri Now, it is as get-id in
his hands as in those of the buyer, a;nd the buyer is
ike smartest dud sharpest hand in the buryaia.
There .are no more dangerous enemies to "our cause
than those timid possessors of Confederate money. -Mot-1
of tht'Ki have made it outof .tbd war and out vf
the derangements in prices and Currency7 occa
sioned by the war. They are now using their garns
to weaken the general cause, to strikqa blow at pub
lic 'credit ami public c4ifidenco. The; alarm they crc
.ate by the misuse of their ill-gotten veaith is more
dangerous to the cause than the fury; of pur enemies
and their countless armies. It is iu their power to
conquer us when Lincoln cannot do it, with "all his
Dictatorial powers. And sometimes jwo think we see
the hands of our own wily and hi Per foes in theimt
tacks upon our currency. It would; bo a scheme
worthy . of the cunning brain of lho STaebiavelSian
Seward. He and ht brother Yankee are a "money-
understanding people. They; know what an eiemout j
of evil a disorganized currency is -worse than a dis
organized army. They know bwth by a bitter expe
rience Having failed t')dis.irgauizjur noble armies,
(and they never have, been in such splendid fignthig
condition since the war began) may they" not bo try
ing our currency ? Gen. Bragg' army left in Ten
nessee and Kentucky several millions of Confederate
dollars. It K no grcut stretch of the imagination to
s-uppose that Seward may have ordered them to
Richmond bv averts instructed to invest them in
r gold at 8Q0 premium, then 350 premium, then 400'
and so on, at any premium, until Ahey rutr up gold to
5, 0, 7, 8 or 10 for one. A panic is the consequence,
and at a cost of half a" million of dollars, Reward
- eiTectsi the ruin of our finances.
If Lincoln is not doing this it is certainly being
done by speculating sharpers on one side, and timid
fools, ?.ud in a patriotic sens ', vilo. knaves on the
other7. The remedy is in the. public fi-n Jts courage
and novo, iU determinati n to stand by the credit of
tlie Government, and to sink or swim .with it, and its
frownin'j dovn the cowardly herd who Jo not hesi
tate jeopard ,to the cause of a nation and set at uaught
all the precious blood and god-like heroism which
has been expended in it, in order to save their vile
and paltry dollars. There is no cause for this alarm.
It is.of the very essence of panic. 'Our prospects
v. ere: never brighter,- bur success is ctrlain, (fur its
only real enemies are the engrossers and the inex
ruiustiiile resources of the lichcst country in produc
tions on tiie habitable globe, are ampio to pay all the
.debts of the war. Oui people want faith, constancy
aud courage. Their brethren in the armies have sef
them' noble examples of it. With herofcs in the field,
for God's sake let us not show oursilvcs cowards a iid
time-servers in the walks of civil aud political life.
Mobile Adv.' Sc. Reg. '. j! . "
From" Tennessee, &c. t
A correspondent of tho Mobile Advertiser writing
from Tennessee . says that the " Federals' on their for
aging expeditions take away everything thafthey can
cany, and then destroy ,the balance.; . They admit
that they can never conquer us by forde o? arms, and
have now determined, as a last resort, on the Santanic
policy of spreading ruin in their jravhway, and by
(kvasiating and wasting vwr fields a nil stores, firing
us to t -rnis'of'suT mission by means of stauration."
In Tennessee the Federals- frequently. 'gi.veHis warm
work in front of our picket lines, in; their foraging
.expeditions, and lately their visits have been moie
Ircq-nent, and bold than iWual. Their i forage traips
are always attended by a large force of infantry, ar
tillery and cavalry ; but notwitbfcta'rjding our great
discrepancy iu immbeir..- we often drive them back
wi hout their 'accomplishing! their plundering purpo
ses ; a d sometimes our dashes upon them have been -so
sudden and irresistible that, Although largely su
pe'ior to us in force, they have been 'compelled tocut
lo-'se tleir teams atid leave kheir wagons to our un
disputed possession. , ; j. - I ; -
Very iccenily a f raging party t-f the Federals,
escorted by a command of cavalry", visited the premi
ses of Mr." Anthony, in Williamson;! county. . The
Colonel, Major -ftid other officers entered the house
and indulged in tho uual freedom and f license. At
tho same time they encouraged a number, of negro
teamsters to commit the most infamoijU -.outrages np
ou the daughters of Mr. Anthony. ; Their mother be-:
sought the prt.t tjctiou of the officers, but these brutal
men only cursed' her, saying that they understood
that the husbands of her daughters were in the Con
federate service, aud they were being served properly
thus to be outraged by arace they had enslaved. We
have no comment to make upon this.', lit is a sadden
ing, sickening picture of j tbe condition, to whjch soci
ety is reduced wherever the vandals . of the v North
pollute our soil. But it, is only, tbe execution of the
thrpat which Gen. Uosebcranz made three -months
ago when be assumed command of tlie .' army of the
Cumberland. He then threatened toil devastate the
country with fire and sword,, aad bis underlings are
faithfully executing bis barbarous order v God help
every section of our struggling and bleeding country
that may be subject to these worse than savages ; and
God grant that our mctbers and daughters may soon
be relieved from the contaminating presence of these
demon3in human fchape. Charlotte Bulletin.
The Impressment Bill Reported by tbe Commit-
teeef Conference of btttlt Houses of Csngrcss. ;
We give bel-itr a Qareful'y made atal compendious
abstract of the Impressmeiit lini,. yesterday reported
to C'u:gres.s by tbe Committee of Gvnference: By the
'.Seuate the bill w as ordered t o Sj printed," aud made
; the order of the day for t j-day. -
y Sici'ioK 1. Whenever the exigencies of an array
n lb field are such as to make "iuipressments for its
support necessary,, property njay ha impressed by the
ofli.cerswhose duty it ii to furnish such property to
v KAiAlij 1 1 io iu y ' -
the- atim. When the owner bf the protjcrty and the
irripressing officer anhdt agree upon the, value of the
property, the impress ng officer, upon tje affidavit of
the owner jox tis agent thatuch property wa3 grown,
raised, oi: produced by the tuvix-r, ov is;held. or has
. been purchaseel, by him, not for said r spectdatrom;
but f -r bis owre.oKsumpU.jn. hail cause the value to
be ascertained by the judgment of two loyal and dis
interested citizens of the city, couuty, or parish where
the impressment may Iw made, one assessor to be se
lected by the impressing officer, ami the other by the
owner, and in case of a -'disagreement between die apr
prafser, the latter shall choose an umpire, whos.t de
cision shall be final. The impressing officer shall ad
minister an oath to appraise fairly and impartially to
the appraisers, who shall thee proceed to assess just
compensation for the property impressed, whether the
absolute ownership ur the temporary use thereof only
is required. . . '
'Sec. 2. The officer impressing property shall, at
the time of impiessment, pay to he. owner or bis
agent the compensation fixed by the apprisers; and
shall also give the owner, over his official signature, a
certificate that said property is essential to the use of
the army, and thai "it con Id not be otherwise pro
cured, and wlas taken through absolute. necessity ; set
ting forth thd time and place when and where takcu,
the amount of compensation fixed by the appraisers,
and the sum, tit any, paid for the same." When the
imprftssing officer shall fail to pay for property irn-picssed,-
the owner shall be entitled to the speedy
payment for the sime by the proper disbursing offi
cer. '
" Six. 3 Whenever the appraisement 'provided for
in the first section shall from anyr cause. !. impracti
cable at the tiin of. impressment, in that case, the
value of the property impressed shall be assessed as
soon as possible by two loyal and disinterested citizens
of the city, county, or parish wherein the property was
taken, chosen, one by -the owner atrd one by tbe Com
missary or Quartermaster-General or his agent, who
in ca.-e of disagreement, shall chnose a third" citizen
of like qualification as umpire to decide he matters
ia ili-q.utty who, beii-ig duly sw jm, shall hear the
proofs of the value of to-- property .and assess a ju.-t
compe.n-iation therefor, ucC'-rding to the testimony. . -iSy.c.
4." "Whenever the .Secretary of War shall
think .it r.cccssuy to take private property for public
use. he may by general order, through the proper sub
Oidinafe officers, authtjrize such property to be taker;,
the compensation fr the same to lo ascertained as
provided i:i the first and second sections.
' JSkc. 5 It shall be tlie'duty o the President, im-mcdiati-iy
after the pa-sige of this act, to appoint a
Cumri.is.-i ner in each .-Stato where pr..perfy shall be
t- ken for public use, "ami rcqiiest the Governor" of
' such of the States in which he shali ajipoiut said
. Commissioner, to appoint ,in' hi?r Commissioner to
set, in conjunction with the Commissioner appointed
. by' the evident, -who shall receive eight dollars a
day compensation and ten cents mirage, to bo paid by
toe Confederate :- Government; .S.uu GMiimissioners
sb1 .! constitute a Board, whose 'duty it shajl be to
, fix upon the prices to t 6 paid y-the Government f-r
all property impressed v taken, so as to afford-' jest
cranp"nsation to the owners tlu-icof, SaiJ tiMnic
s ioncrs shall agree upon and publish a schedule 'of
prires every two mouths, or oftener ii they shall deem
proper; and in the event they shall not agree in any
nia-:tr confided to them, they shali have poiver to
appoint a:; umpire, wluso decision shall li the de
cision of the Board. The Commissioners sh .:! be re
sidcuts of the; Stale for, which they' are appointed,
and if the Overn-)!-of any State refuse a-in flect
to appoint a Conimisioner within ten- day s alter a
request to do o by the Proddet. Va- President shall
app -iiir b-'U) Ciimmi'ssioner,' by and withthe consent
of the St ii ite.
" Sec. G. All. pr.'priy iui.'ressod in the har,ls of
any persou other than tiie persons who l avd grown,
raised or produced the same, or persons howling the
s one for heir own toe or consumption, shall bs paid
for according to the schedule prices fixed by the com
missioners. But if the impressing officer or.the own
er shail ditfer as to the quality of the article impress
eel, thereby making it fad' within a h-.gher or lower
price named in tb.e schetlulc, the the owner or agent
and the officer impressing may select each a loyal and
disinterested citizen, duly oiialificd, to determine the
quality e said property, who. in ease of disagree-
ni-vnt appoint au umpire ot hue qualifications, and
bis decisi- n, if approved by the improving officer,
.shall be final. If not approved, the impressing offi
cer shail send t'ne award to tho C'mmissiiners of the
State, with his 'reasons for disappr -ving tub same, and
said Commissioners may bear testimony, and their dc-
cisioil shall be final. The owner imiy receive the
price offered by the impressing offieer. without preju
dice to b's claiin to receive higher compensation . m
Sue. 7. The property necessary for the support
of the owner and bis family, and to carry on his or
dinary agrieuitiu-al or mechanical business, these facts
to be ascertained by the appraisers provided in the
1st section, shail not be taken or impressed for the
public use; andwdjon thehuprcssiwg officer end the
, owner cannot a-Jree as to the" quantity ef property
' necessary as. aforjee-aid, then the decision of the said
appraisers shall be binding .on the officer and all other
persons.
,4c?kc, 8. When property impressedTor temporary
" purposes is lost or destroyed without the default of
the owner, the Government shall pay a just compen
sation therefore, to-be ascertained by appraisors ap
jx.inted and qualified as provided in the. third sec
tion. When such property when returned has," in
the opinion of the owner, been injured whilst in the
public use, the amount of damage thereby satisfied
shall be ascertained in the manner prescribed in the
SsL section, too officer returning the property being
authorized t act on belialf.of tho Government ; and
' upon such inquiry the-certifi:ate'of the value- of the
. property when originally impress d shall be received
as -prima facia evidence of the value thereof.
"Sec. 9. Where slaves are impressed to labor on
f rtifications or other public works, the ioipressmcnt
shall, be -made according to the rules and regulation's
proscribed in the laws of tho Staje wherein they are
iiupt-'ssed ; and in the alnce of any such laws, in
accordance with such rules and regulations not in
cnnsir.teijt with th.e provisions of this act, as the Sec
retary of War shall from time to time prescribe, pro
videel no impressment -of slaves shall be made when
thty 'chiii be hired or prcicured by the consent of the
-.owner or his agnt
'Sec. 10. This' section provides for the punish
ment of any officer, non-centnis.doned officer or pri-,
vatc who shad violate the provisions of this act; and
. nrovides that the biirbe tntitl d ;i Ari act to reguhta
impressments. Examiner.
- We have just learned by telegraph that' the above
bill has passed both houses of Congress.
. ' The Kag Bag. The rag bag should become an in
stitution in every houshold. Paper, for Government,
printing, business and private purposes, is not only in
great-dciiiand, but bears an exhorbitant price. Noth
ing would tend more to increase its quantity and cheap- -
eu its price, than the general institution of the rag
bag. Lcevery scrap of cloth, ropeaad thread, refuse
coton, and all wasted material of which either cotton,
flax or hemp forms the fibre, be dilljgentiy saved, and
sold to tbe paper mills, and paper will become abun
dant and be furnished at reduced Tates. Let Uie rag
bag 7ic be the order of the day Charleston Courier.
If the Yankees really want to take Richmond, they
should send up Prcf. Lowe in his balloon, and let him
take a Photograph of it. .
- - " v From tbe Barlington (Iowo,) Argng. .'
TVhata Republican Soldiers thinfea or thj War.
: The following. JetUT has been sent lis for pnblica
tiem. The writer was a resident of Louisa county,
this State, ami before be went into tho nnv I
violent Republican', so muek so lhat be drew ui aud
w.vuiieu peucioii agKing rne arrest o! Mr. Mahony
andr other ..Democrat who were opposed '.to tbe war
policy of th.e administration. A fz w-'mooths cxperi
ence of the actual realities of the.' war seems to hive:
cured him of tho fanatical- heresy of nboliiionim.
omce me jetter was . wrutec, this soldier .has gone" to
i l - .. ... " " p't. -y
4 noaie, a vieum cl this Iratncidal strife, so on-
pte. His wife, to whom this letter was written, is
now a bereaved widof. Great God! when is this
sUugbJerfo cease ? --r
- Wilson Spbixg3, Hq.,
Sunday, 2oy ember 30, 10 .A. M., 1802. 5
My Dear Wife: .
It is with renewed pleasure that I take my pen in'
hand to write you. I had expected a letter very
strongly until yesterday's mail; but have been disap
pointed. I desire to write to you more especially, as
I feel disappointed with regard to the probable result
of the war ; though a thorough -going war man, I have
become op uuseil to carrying ou the warafter January
next. I have been induced to this from a belief that,
after that period, we could be able to conquer it suc
cessfullyan honorable peace if, .with an immense
army while holding out the right hand of fellowship
and terras of amnesty and State equality we cannot
whip them, we certainly cannot when ve propose to
strip them of everything nearaud deaTthem and all
that makes life' interesting and valuable. They are
of our own race and nation, brave and jealous of their
rights, privileges and liberties, and will fight harder
for an existence, with a population for. fighting .pur
poses almost equal to that of our own, than we will
lor revenge or cwaquest for the purpose of .producing
labor.1- Their four millions of slaves are worth at least
eight millions of ours., which leaves but a small bal
lanco of effective strength of only four millions in our
favor. Now, when it is collected what we can,
without moral or material injury, stop the war at any
time, and when "we shall become tiieJ thereof, and
that there is no hope for thern after January uext but
in fighting for their independence it seems to me
that our canse is hopeless.
With regard to the" slaves which we propose to
emancipate, they are of great service to the enemy,
while they would be correspondingly useless and bur
densome to us ; besides, they have got them ami we
ha7e not, nor are we likely to get them ; but if wo
could, 'vhat would we do with them ? They would
inundate our country like the flow of the Nile oi an.
army of locusts, and how should we get rid of them ?
If : wo wlup the South and get their slave?, we get the
worst of the bargain. It would impoverish us to col
ouize them if they were willinj if unwilling, it
weaild be impossible. -
Shnli we give lliem, in addition to what we bave
already two hundred thousand lives and five hun
dred millions of dollars, for the purpose of saddling
upon the natiou a debt, say of&eu hundred millions
of dollars incurred by colonizing the niggers and
shall we do this, and for what ? Because the-people
of the South do not like to live with us ; because
there is no express provision in the .Constitution to
that effect. Is the Constitution better than the peo
ple who made it? Are we 10 save tha Constitution
at the expense of the Union? Shall we fulfill a
piece of paper to the letter, designed to protect and
guard the people, at the price of the liberties of the
people? Any man can see a thing after it is done.
It would have been almost infinitely better for us to
have parted in peace ; in fact, we have lived together
t'o long as we could in peace; what remained but
separation '? Oh thlt it hai been a peaceable sepa
ration, . .
From the difference of our institutions, customs,
feedings and manners, I argue- tbe ultimate necessity
of t eparation. Enough, the war Is on our hands, and
the only way to get rid of it is to support anti-war
men and measures at the ballot box. There is a good
deal of discontent in the army on account of the turn
the war seen.s to be taking ; we have meetings, but
very meagre attendance, say a hundred. .We rather
now expect to go to Little Rock, Ark.
Monday Morning, Dec. 1. I received yours of
the 20th ultimo, last evening. Of course there, is
not much news, but it was gratefully received. You
will see by this that I agree with you in the saying
that it seems as though the war is further from a
close to-day than when it first began ; you will sa'
what is my hope. 1 answer, in closing the war by
our acknowledging the independence of the South by
text spring, they will close the war effectually by
refusing to vote more means with which to defray
the current expenses .thereof ; again their uidep aid-
! .ence will be acknowledged by -several foreign-nations
by the 4th of July next ; tins, ot itsell will amount
almost to compulsion, so keep up courage. Ii lire
1, think I will beat home next summer ; if the war
goes on perhaps I can' procure a substitute. 1 shall
not deem it a duty to serve the country alter January
next, unless the proclamation is modified, so I will
urocure a substitute if -il will pay.
1 WM. A. hall:
N l?.--This-is the last letter he wrote while liv
ing, and this is.a true copy.
LOUISA HALL.
IVoui tlia Jackson Appeal.
Federal Kule in New Orleans
. Jackson, March 0.
So much curiosity is shown in Mississippi for any
details, however, trivial, of "Yankee misrule and But
ler's course iu New Orleans,' that a few desultory re
marks and anecdotes from an eye witness, may prove
acceptable to yojir readers. .
A Ilichmoud editor says that tbe departure of Gen.
Butlerin safety was a disgrace to every citizen in New
OiK-aus. This sanguinary "man cannot have reflca.e.l
tht New Orleans is the gathering point for the run
away negroes from the whole interior and the Gulf -coast,
and that there were 15.009 of New England's
choicest thieves in.and around the rity, restrained on
ly by "the restless severity of a commander Avho would
allow no other hand to share the ep oil. Butler's as
sassination would have beer, the signal for the incen
diary and the pillager,; and 30,000 of the loveliest
true hearted, and most helpless of God'screation womd
have been at the -t.crcy.of a lit rde more barbarous and
loathsome than the Huns and Goths and Vandals of
the lower empire. -
Gen. Butler wore a coat of mail, whic'i was clearly
discernible, under, his 'clothes, and extended to bis
hips. Iu his office two revolvers lay continually on
his desk, which he ot.cn fraiKli d, to impress or in
timidate. Until after the entire population had been
disarmed, he never appeared -u the streets except, in
a carriage, wit h three orderly sergeants, and surround
ed by a troop of horsemen, all armed to the teeth'.
: As he lay stretched back on the cushions, his glances
were as cruel, restless and suspicions ?s a tiger cat's.
His behavior was full of Oaten ta'ion and bravado.
1 His manner showed him to have been bred in a yul-tr-41-
.staii'.-and no ditter r.f authority that could im
press foe beholder that bo was aught but & parvenu
and a pie'cuder, - ' ;
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The editor of the Brandon (Mbs.) Reniblimn, last
week took notice in his pafK?r, of the fact that the
gardens of the soldiers' wives and poor widows in
town needed plowing, and called on twenty gentle
men to send a hors-and plow each, on a certain day,
and do the job. I Fourteen of them responded one
of them sending' two plows, and another two men in
stead, to clear off the ground. Encouraged by this
success, h has this week designated fourteen more to
send a hand each, with the necessary tools, on a day
named, to repair such of: tne garden fences as may
stand in need of it. ' - s
The Columbus Times has seen a case of very neat
and handsomely finished axe handles, made in .south
western; Georgia, They are f very good hickory
wood, though not of so fine's grain as the Yankee
made handles. They are tough and will break before
they will bend. . '
2JiIhEGHAPlI.
rKerrtedxpreasb for the State Journal. I
, Socccssful Cavalry Bash.
Richmond. Marrfc ?9
U Pt. Mosely,. of Stuart's Vavatry r-rnade another
riashjDto the enemy's lines at Bristol Statin, on the
.Orange and Alexandria ftulroad, Tuesday. He can.
tiired four cprnmissioned officers aa twerrfy-ono pri
, vateg The latter Vere paroled and tbe officers sent
to Richmond. : V"' v : " -
Iinnortant Deelft!Aa.
'-s
Ci applicator. :of Wm. B: Isaacs, "wLWnWfha
been impressed, Judge Lyons granted an iniunction
eto-lay.to restrain tho Government from taking pos
session bf said flour, oil. the ground that the impress
ment was not warranted by the public exigency of in
accordance willi law. '
From Charleston.
Charleston, March 23.
; Tbceaemy have been shelling the wreck of the
Georgiaiui, which stir! lies off Long Island beach.
Otherwise all is quiet. -
Confederate Congress.
v IfrcmioKD. March 23.
j In the Senate a report was presented from the
Committee of Conference on the subject of regulating
impressment of private property .for the use of the
army. . ' -
The bill reported provides that when property be
longing to producers is" 'Impressed, it shall be ap
prised by two disinterested persons who shall award
just com perrsalion. It also' provides lor the appoint--ment
of two commissioners in eajh State one by th0
President, the other by the Governor who shall fix
a schedule of prices every two month's or oftener,
which shall regulate, the amount to be paid for the
property impressed iu the vhands of any person other
than producer, or a person holding the-same for his
own u.-e.
t - .
jThe bill was postponed until to-morrow.
(The bill'to estvblUh a Court of Claims was dis
cussed till adjournment.
;In the House tbe Tax Bill has passed.
When the doors opened the impressment bill rc-p-rtad
from the .Committee of Conference was dis
- cussed and passed. -' ' -
iThe bill for the assessment and collection of the
direct tax and internal duties was considered till ad
journment. .
; From the Soalltwest.
I- Mobile, March 23.
(The 'Appeal of the 21st say the packet steamer
Natchez, withTuOO bales of cotton, was destroyed by
fire on the 13th sinst., in a trip tip the Yazoo river.
iThe Hartford and Mouonyahela were allowed, to
approach within 400 yards of our batteries at Grand
Gulf, when the batteries opened upon them, the ves
sels replyiug with broadsides several times repeated.
A dozen shots struck the vessel Parties were seen .
carrying the wounded below. No damage was re.
ceived on our side. , . ; '
The Natchez Courier says tho llartfotd, tho Fede
ral flag ship, with Commodoro Farragut on board,
anchored in front of the- city on the afternoon of
Ttjesday the IGtli. The .Commodore sent a small
boat with a llag of truce ashore, with a note addressed
to it he -Major, stating that if too United S; a tes boats
were fired on by the people of Natchez or by gueril
las, he would shell the city.. The Harifurd remained
all; night, and left in the morning with the Mononga
kfla. - - ,. , .
We learn from Vicksburg x-n the 13th, through
dispatches from Memphis to tee Grenada Appeal, on
the 20 tli, that 25 rebels were captured whilst tearing
t ut tho levee above the canal. .
Bayou Macon is pronounced unnavigablo on ac
count of snaga. m ' j
One division of the Yaukco army left Memphis tfcio
loih in light steamers, bound f t the Yazoo Pass, j
The river is falling at Memphis, also on the upper
tributaries
j Latest from the .North.
U , KiCHMoNP, March 24.
The Examiner ha3 Northern dates to the 21st.,
The lltrahl s.vys the spring' campaign is about to
o-eju the long, monotonous vintci's quiet wilt soon
be succeeded by the echoing thunders of battle.
Burnside left Washiiigtoii oa the 20th for Fort
'. Monroe to assume command, and a Hilt n Head dis
patch says Burnsidc-'s army is expccfed.tliere.
Great interest is felt hi executive quarters at
Washington about the Yazoo expedition.-; The Reb
el batteries, theyay, may bank the ''fleet, but there
is no danger of its falling into thr hands of the ene
my.' The Retribution has captured the ship Emihj A'iA
cr laden with molasses, off the Bahamas.
A Louisville dispatch says tho Nashville train was
thrown from the track on Hie 19th by Guerrillas
The Express car was rifled, the mid seized and pas
sengers paroled. Soldiers in stockade came up and
recaptured the train, dntdng off the Guenillas.
The N. House of Delegates by .a tie vote refuse
to investigate the: arbitrary arrests made in that State.
:Gbld closed at 154, Exchange 170.
' fFhn BtPftmsfdn Narie'uieaii has arrived with Enff-
lUh1 dates to.thc 6lh. .- - -
In the House of Lords Lord. Strathcredeu'u mentions
in1 favor of the recognition of the flout h, when France
.is ready, has not been brought forward.
" 'The Times condemns the motion and depricates the
discussion of the subject and urges strict neutrality.
Le Xorde says : 'Tis rporte(l lhe Confederate Gov
ernment has contracted a loan irr Palis of sixty mil
lion francs. It is also reported that the Confederate
loan in London of tho three hundred thousand pound
sterling will be at ouce raised a t;gb$ per cenf stock,
at seventy-scvej.
pot'ton was doll- and nominal, middling upwards
20V. Tl-.e stock at Wvcrpqol is 408,000 bales, in
cluding 55,000 Amcricau. Consuls for Ibocey,
02 three-eight. i- ;
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,! . Chattanooga, March 23.
No movements of our army in Te'unessee. ; ,
. On Friday the enemy advanced on the road from
Franklin towards GJnmbia; tit ou Saturday they
, retired to Franklin.- ' :- ':' ' ..' ' ' - .. ; . .
r Van Dorn is still on the north side of Duck river.
Our forces occupy Florence" and Tuacumbia, No
movements tf the eiiemy from Corinth io ibis direc
tion , - - -' j .. -
flforgan had a figlt at Audtil3ou, Cfennoncounty,
Tcnn,, on Frietay, with an overwhelming force of the
enony- ?.He fought gallantly, and killed and wouuded
a large number of the eneniybut at last was forced
to retire before the superior numbers of the enemy,
. ? " latest from thc Xortb. -:
i - y - Iviciimon-d, Marcri 25.
A Cincinnati dispatch of the lStb,says that 'special
Memphis dispatches announce that the Yazoo Pasa
expedition Lad met with a check. : - 4 . ,
The guoboat Chillicotkv cncounU-red a rebel battery-"
at the mouCi f.f tlw Tallahatchie, a fight ensufd lasting-all
day. 0w shot" from f tho balterf ciitcred a
ort holaof the ChUlictfkit: killing four and wound
ing fourteen. She received sixty-four shots, od wes
damagcd-"seriously. ..The fleet consisted of the ChiUi
cothie, DeKalb,1 five small gunboats and eighteCii
transports. . .... . .-.'; ;
At last accounts (he fleet was three miles above tho;
battery. - ' "
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Cougresslonal. . !
. ' . Riciiiio.fD, March 21. 1
Tho Senate to-day passed the Impressment BillJ.
which passed the House yesterday. The Senate also!
passed the Senate bill establishirig a Court of Claims.!
Proceedings in tbe House unimportant. ,
Richiiokd, Matxh 25. !
The Senate to-d.iy passed the Senate bills to' pay! -the
salaries of our tgnts "abroad in coin ; also to'
continue iu'-fitrco the provisions of an act approved
May lCth . 18C1, relative to ten year bonels ; also the !
two year treasury note bill for tho relief of tho Brims-!
wick and 'Albany Railroad in Georgia, and for the j
publication of ihe laws in three public gazettes in i
each Slate. Tho Senate then" went into secret ses-
sio:. ..." ..;.'- "!
In the House, Martin, the new member from Flor- j
ida, appeared, and was qualified.- f
The Assrssntent bid was considered until adjiurn-
merit. There was a protracted debate upon' an amend- j
ment providing that credits shall be valued as payable !
in gold, i-t tbe market value, when holders whall havo !
refcBed Oonfederate notes in dischargo thereof. Iio I
amendrpcnl was finally adopted. "-W hat is it7 Eo. !
Position of Caleb Cunning. . j
The Northern papers publii tho following letter ;
from Caleb Cushihg to Daniel Marcy, da.od March o. '
1803:. ' ". - ' ' ' " : !
I hoar that some political uso is . made in New j
Hampshire ef a report attributing b me a speech do- !
uverea not long since in .New York; at a. meeting
held to promote tho project of Mr. Eli Thayer for the
forcible colonization of Florida, and I write to say
that the report is, of course, an erroneous one, and
that the speech ia question was "deliiercd by Mr.
Caesius M.'Clay.
How this crude utterauce came to lo ascribed to
me it is impossible for me to conjecture. Nor is that j
important to know.- Suffice it to siy that the speech
is not mine in fact, and that its opinions are not my
opinions'. I. reprobate alike its arguments and its j
objects. The same mischievovs plans brought upon j
us the curse of Kansas. . . . . I
This new Emigrant Aid Company belongs to that ,1
bae brof dof pestilent echemes of policy, towards tho
insurgcut States the subjection, confiscation, dbloni- j
zation, enihncipation, dcvtistatioo," extermination !
which sound 1 Ice the delerious ravings of bodlam let 1
loote, vvhich, if carried into actuab operation, would .
in their ultimate c.Tur-t nfost. of all injure the loyal
States, and which tend to cause a great national up
rising, entered npon by us for the maintenance of tij
Constitution and the Union, to sink down into n
more desperate struggle of suicidal blind rage of self
destruction tho abolition of the Constitution and tho
overthrow of the Union by our fatal hand, not that
of our enemies. Thi3 gospel of death, this radical
dastructivenes3, is tho emly practical diauniouism ex- j
isting among us in 4ho loyal States.' Though' it ;
makes believe 'support, it fiercely opposes tho Admin- j
istration ; it is in eleadly hostility to tho freedom,
prosperity and happiuoss of the people ; it is treason-
able conspiracy against the Government. . " '
May God in his mercy confound all such disloyal, f
counsels, that thus for thus only can it be tho r
Union shall ba strengthened and shielded to pass un
scathed through this its sc. ond baptism of blood and " I
fire, and our suffering country bo enabled to"-repo33
once more in peace under the broad sh alow of tho '
Constitution, . . .-,,-. ''. i
The Min'ehm, Wealth of; the" SotrTir. It ii'an
iridisputablo fact, says the Richmond Examiner, ;that 1
the. South has within her b"om tho rich tit mineral i
wealth that can be found upon the globe. We ale
glad to see that rbuih Carolina is taking steps to work
its fine beds of iron ore that run through the uppVr
' part of that State. We noticc't hat there arc now ibro "
Iron companies in.thc State: the South Carolina Man- -ufacuuing
C.'rnpany, at Huiricane Shoals, on tto
Pacolct llivtr the Magnetic Iron Company, at Che
rokee Foid, Union District,' Brortd River,- and tho
King's Mountain Iron Company, in York District.
These companies, we brieve, are now in full blatt. 1
and are furnishing a largo amount of the indispensa
ble metal the Government and to the planters in
theUipper portion of the State. We sec alv that a
charter has been obtained from iQ Loiishtturc o '-.
Sotitli Carolina for a railroad from Shelby, North Can -lina,
to thi iron 'regrorj of ou.' Stat."'' This road, v.hrh
''built, connecting with tho North Carolina railroad,
will enable the iron masters to obtain an abundant
supply of mineral coal, and place them within reach
of the markets. . r '. ' . -
' South. Carolina possesses-iron ores as exlsts no when)
else on this continent, and we & e do reason why South
Carolina ir,n should not compete with the English and,
Swedii-h article. In 1840 samples of this iron were .
sent to Washington and tested at the navy yard. In
strength it was declared superior to' any other iron
ever tested there. In 1857 fomc specimens of South
Carolina iron, sent to Europe from the Ncsbit Woris,
were made into steel at .Sheffield, and" pronounced
equal to the celebrated iron frofh the Tannemore y
miucs of Sweden. ' ' ! ; -':' ''-.'. .V
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Later- from :Tbxas.-We have before us files cf
the Houston (Texas) Neves to iho 11th nlt.VThe
news from that secticn is generally unimportant; - '
The Art?iM publishes part' of an extr from the ' i
Houston Telegraph in regard to Missouri affairs,
which will be - new to our readers. - Tho Telegraph
say3 that tl.e Missouri militia, under General Harney;
have' rebelled against'tbs Liucnln authority, retained,
the arms put into "their 'hands by Che AVolUionists,.
and seized every town of iiujortance ou liji Missouri ,
river, together with a vast amount of supIics, arms ;
ad ammunition., The writer says , o ' .
Upon tbo reception, of tbis im prrtaut news bytrCD. .
Hindmau, at LoaUturg. be dcpatchel immedUtel
Gens. Blartnadiike and iSbelby, with 10,000 cavalry
and infantry to their reiief, until hi mainibrce could
ibe brought up. jit was also said that-Geo." Hind-nan;
himself has gono into Missouri to confer with liar-'
noy and perfect . their combinatior.a. God grant it
may all bo true r- even 0o3 half, of it Jackson
Crisis. " . i'J . '- 'r- f";':;'''''i :- "
Arrum or tub Draft. Since thapa-Mnge of.tUor
bill to call out tho ..militia, ui.goma sections of tlto-
city conkrable-txcltemeut..laS pre vaihtd, especially
in Swampooille,1 : among-. Ihc Jru.b,- many of-whom' i .
think that the" whole people ore to be cal'ed cut."
Within a few days eevcral of the .Irish have, made ;!.i
application to some of our.magbtrates to swear that'
thev aro' not citizens, in ; order to. secure thcaiselvcsl ; !
from th draft. , Yet they have voted heto lor some, : ; .;
years past,' exercising tho rights of citizens, which .j ;j ;
now they desire to renounce, fbia; however; is net lii i
the Tirevailing feeling arnongst our Irish fellow citi- r
zens," so -largo a proportion of avhom have, shown
their patriotism in tba most earuesl maimer. ioiV :
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