University of South Carolina Libraries
......M.^sr^?fc^.".:",T*5J?MM*?' ? * [ *-' - C, .. -if?Lx.: ' "--rr >...>?..<?, .>,.. "WE Will CLIlTe TO THE PILLAB8 OF TH? TEMPLE OF 0?3 LIBEBTIES, AED IF IT MUST FALL, WE WILL PEBISH AMIDST THE 2UI??8.'? -s SHIRKS, ???RISOE & CO., Proprietors. E'DGE'FIELD. S. Ci, KEBI?UARY 20; 1863. a..:. u..w?cV??. ?Va .if M BY MISS CLARA V. DARGAN. ??When the War Ends." That's the err now-a-days. How many plans are laid off, how many schemes pro jected! Mrs. Jones-the virtuous better half of John Jones, Esq.. is earnest in her de sire for the war to end as the following col loquy will prove. ': Oh, what times is these! I laly don't see what I'm to have for dinner. There's Husband always grumbling becaue I don't have ham and aigs. I wonder if he thinks anything about my struggles to make both end? meet ; I wonder if he knows'that a ham which ase to cost two dollars now costs eight-about twenty-five cents a slice ;-and aigs a dollar a dozen, a-uigh ten cents a piece. Oh, the?ie men ! It almost" breaks my heart to see how little the onfeelin' creeturs care for a housekeeper's troubles, so she keep?, a good table and don't bother them aboutit. And I declare there ain't a whole sheet iu the house. J never was in sich a fix b.-fore : it seems as if everything's just weariu' out a purpose. Well, thank goodness ! when tin war euds I'll lay in a supply of things, and Husband shall have ham aud aigs to his heart'.? content, aud not have to pay a dollar o mouthful !" Airs. Jones lives in the city, and, of course, i sees the darker si Ie of the picture, but Mts. j Smith is equally u misfortunate." "You, Jule, hav you sowed them seeds? The squash seeds on the fur side of the gar ding, aud the kebbages up here by this spar row-grass bed ?-Xo ! Do you mean to tell me, Julius Casar, that you hain't planted them s;-eds yet ?-Hain't pat- none ? Why. j what's become 6f that paper-full I give you ? - The raf s eal'em I BU*s ray soul ! lill didn't know better I'd think the sperits ol' ! dead Yankees was m them rats. They eat i e?erylLi.:g. and presently there :von't be noth ? ii.' left. Yuu, George Washington, you run j over to Mis' Brown's, and ask her to lend tnt-, tb?> loan of a few uarding-seeds-?qnas!i um] ; kebbage. Tell her the rats is rat all mir.e, j and tell her if she ain't Imisy couldn't sin- ! come owr and help nie lo warp that piece for j Jeemes's coat, and ask her if she's got any ? copperas to spare, and tell her-Bless my soul ! if he ain't gone !' That's the way willi nigger.--. Allers tjoes oft' half-primed, as hr ' says. I had a message to send ti, Mis' Brown. ' and now he's run off beiore I be?nn. But j there's them pertaters to cut lor coffee; I got no time to stand talkitr; 'twou't help things. ? 1 do think limes is growin' harder and hard- j er. In my day just as reglar as the cotton ! went down to town we got guiding seeds, and I always of the best. But since this dreudful j war has coote on, there-'? nd sieh thing ; the ; blockhead's blockheaded out everything, and ! ? supjtose if we don't eat corn and cow-peas ; this summer we must starve. I ucver could get on without kebbage. But he says we'll ! hav peace by winter, and next spring we'll ; Uav garding seeds a plenty ; and ?Mirandy | -lane she must hav a new hat and u whoop j skeart, poor thing !'' But iMrs. Smith is not the only one that ; softers;-;for " garding-secds "' i.-> not. the! chief object of life, nor the. only precious j commodity u blockheaded out.'" Miss Boadi- J cea Beaumonde bears witness to this : .; .VJ Jid: What shall I do ! Not a single j pair of clean kids to wear, and the rehearsal j of the concert given by the ' Habet hm Ladies j Soldier's Relief' and Aid Association for the : purpose of sending jews' harps and linen handkerchiefs to our brave men on the i; tent ed field" to come off at Mrs. Stuckup's this j very evening. I know Pauline Parvenue will j laugh if I wear these silk gloves, and one j can't go bare-haaded if one does wear a dia- j mond solitaire, and hus a white hand. Oh, ? this chocking war! I never was without a dozen new pair before.' Papa must takt) me lo Paris coule que route as soon as it is over, and then 1 shall shop day and night till my j wardrobe is replenished, of the six new j silks I had two winters ago there is scarcely ? or.c lean wear again-so horribly out of' date. The idea of wearing the same fashion I tito winters ! Cdt ! I ne\er should survive j it ! And there's fha', ?cir French hat Mid- I ame Phceya.imported for rae. It was a lovt . ? 1/ thing, Lut I've "worn it a wintle season. J Papa declares he cannot give forty dollars foi a 1-onnet, aud is so old fashioned and epieer j as to ask me before Adolphus Stuckup if I had knit a pair of socks cr u.ade A shirt for the soldiers. Grace a D?eu ! these dreadful needles would ruin my fingers, tho' I have, had to have something of the kind fo hold when 1 wont out to ride, li look* so inter esting, so devotee, to be knitting when oi c L taking the air, as if one had no time to lose j for thc dear soldiers. 1 have finished almost ' two inches since Juui-, it ready does very ' nicely only Bettina has to wash it and take ! np the stiches every month or so, a .d tom- \ times I eerily believe the girl rips it out and ! does it over. But I have been woiking very ! hard for the soldiers. A lolphua says it makes a man feel as if ke would swallow brimstone and hot lead wh-i.-i Le sees th? "dtar -rea tures' as he calls u-?, working f,r thtni. I have embroidered Adolphus a beautiful |Ivjr of slippets, silk lloss and velvet, for him to .vrear when Le is fatigued. I wonder if he would 'march I? death' us he vows so pretti ly, fur my sake. They do say that Adolphus ' never marched to anything except the bottle, and that he was court-martialled for running away at Mantissa^ but I don't believe it,-Ile I wears such a lovely uniform. Wei!, besides the j slippers, I have made an exquisite cigar-case j fur Geueral Bombastes Furioso asa token of J my regard. I admire him so much : they say he drinks the best of wine, a^d swears sublimely in French. Think of it ! But I munt beg Papa for thnt hat if it docs cost f >r [ry dollars. I heard the Hon. Mr. Humbug say money was more abundant th our country than it ever was before, and I cannot, ??w tit eli/, do without one of those exquisite beau ties Madame declares ha? just run the block ade from Paris, tho' I half sutpec-t Paris is Madame's back-parlor. But Pauline Parve nue won't know the difference. ' A kingdom' for a new pair of pale primrose kids." We wish thc war vas over, and Miss B. B. rafely lauded in her .adored 11 La Belle France." We Lave no aced for young ladies who wear kids, and .-ilks, and Pat is hats, and are afraid of spoil ng their pretty white hands at such a time as this. But Kittie Knitter ?peaks quite differently. Kittie is quite a novice in French, but she understands Eng lish and common sense: ''Sa'lie, Saide, du come litre aud see my new dress ! Isn't it a beauty ? This blue stripe is double-and-twisted, and this dove color single; dyed with indigo and a tea spoonful of copperas, and-I ve forgotten thc rest, but mother can tell you. She made the nyc, and that is tho only help I had. Made it ever}- bit myself from thc spinning to the weaving, and :;o body helped me to warp but Tom. You know Tom has been j home on thirty days furlough. Ha! Ha! ! Ye*, he says I wove roses iu my cheeks. While 1 was at the loom, he split the Pal metto for this hat. Isn't it antee one? li am going to trim it in the ribbon I had on j my Summer bonnet three years ago. I t's fa- j i ded a lit tir- but 1 can wear it still, for you j know Sallie, anything will do til! the war is i over. Mother and 1 have Wuii cardiug wool i i and knitting socks for our company all the ! win-er, and I platted this hat at mid limes. We baVeti*t much time for anything bat soldier1* work these days, have we. Sallie? But it's all play to me. 1 love lo*work for our boys?, and il seemed wrong-like io make that dross for myself, bill mother .said 1 ueed j i'd it and roust have it. So I was very well F contented to sit al the loom all day for a ' week-for you see, 1 also gol out two pairs j of pauls lor Tum and a coat-?ix yards a j day, Sallie, arid mother said that was doing j very well, tho' in her young days '.hey wove i eight orten. Well : Tom >-at byrne while; 1 was at the loutit, and split the Palmetto, oi ent .p?tate CS for Codee, while W.e talked.' Happy titnes? Oh, Sallie, we talked il ail ; over, and laid ott' plans for our cottage, ..'arden, and Bower plat, and furniture and all. | Voil know-hide your face, Sallie, till I tell ; you-Tom aud 1 are lo be married when thu war is over; that is, il God spares him.- | Oh, no ! Fin not crying ! These snipes dsz- | rile my eyes. Pretty dress isn't it? I al- , ways think of Tom when I look at it. ll v. happy we will bo when the war is over !*' We all love Kittie, don't we, and wish thc ! war was over for her sake if nothing else ? ? We hope Tom will come back with all his ! limbs safe, and his love for Kittie as true as : hers for him ; and that the cottage, ''furni ture, garden, and alf will test the advanta ges of Kittie's " Confederare experience."' But Mrs. .Iones, and Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Boadicea Beaumonde and Kittie Knitter arc not all who say " Wh-.-u the war ends.'- There is souiethiog else we need bssides ham and : eggs, and sheeting, and garden seeds, anil kid gloves, and nev/ drc.-scs, and-a husband ! What is it ? C. V. I). Maggie's Verses. It is natural, and Jioly, to mourn the loss ! of dear departed friends, and we therefore1 give place to the ver?es of MAGGI:. But is it right to despair under the decrees of Heav en, and to yield the he-art tip under any cir cumstances to this very lethargy of gtief. ; Thc present gloomy war has allliottd many ? lender bosoms most grievously. And yet . .shall we even seem to forget that there is "balm in Gilead" ihat can still heal the . deepest sorrows und lead us to the exercise of ! many charities worth living for ? We seek not to give reprojf but to encourage hope-, aul we trust that MAURIE, and tho liions-' amis who suffer like her all over our fair land, will awake to energy and /.-al in the discharge ' of life's varied duties. God will bless the ef- ; fort._ Solution of Enigma. * j Thc following we think is a correct solution of the Enigma published in the Adtertif-r "I the J?ih u!1 : 1 .-itu noni; ose lof 21 letter*. My 1. 9, 18, I'?, i.? n Uiver in England. Ai:.?.-Temo. My 14, 10, 4, 3, ?1, 7, was a celebrated Puke of Xormaudy. llohcrt. My 8, 17, lj, 0, is an old-fu-hioncd musical in strunen', Lot". My 2, j, IS, wa? the .--.coud son of Noah,-liam. My 4, 20, 8, 12, Iii. li, io- tho emporium ut' thc linen irado in Ire'.md, Belf?Vt. My ?, 19, ii :i proposition, At. My whole is one ot" the most glorious event.-; ?ii the history of the Confederacy. Tie JJutite nf Kit .VsMi/ef. S. .1 CliltUKKX. He who gives for the sake of iba uki knows uot the pleasure of giving. ' For tr e Literary Corner. I'm Weary. I'm weary of fins world so drear, This cold, unfeeling world below Wc vainly seek for pleasure here, "There's ?.farce a dream unmixed with woe. Thc brightest hopes my Fancy drew ... Have been the first to know decay : The dearest friends I ever knew Hi;ve soonest parsed from carib away ! Tho " mother dear" I called wy mn, . When first my yoong heart learned to love. Long since on angel wings hath Mona To her bright, blissful home above. She ?oollicd my cares and dried my ten rs Timi kind and loving Angel mother, And by her tide has slept for year? My darling, blue-eyed baby brother. And now again a brother brave, A soldier to his country true, In youth has found i cheerless grave Remote from home ami kindred too. I'm weary of Time'.! thickening euros, There is uo mortal tic can give A charm lo chase n\r.iy these tears And make mc wish ou earth to live. I long to lay this aciiing heart Bencnth the sod and be at rest, I long to meet, no more to part, The kindred spirits I love best ! Lu Fayette, Ga. MAOGIK. Solution of Chess Problem. First More.-Advance the Queen obliquely lo the left one sqiu.re, taking up the Pawn by which she was in check. Second .Voce.-Iletire thc Queen obliquely to thc left one square, whick brings lier in front of Opponent's King ; and. if he has re moved Lis Bishop frua: his Kind's front, brine his King in check, which will cause him to ! return it to that position. Third Move.-Advance the Knight on Ike ! ?eft one ?quare in frotiT and two squares to j ihe rifdit. and his King is milted. Two. j [Your solution wont hold out, Two. Yon i forge', the Black Castle thal can li? brought ; lo bear upon White Queen. We have wit the solution L.-furc an, lint venture lu oller 1 the following as eorreci : . i 1. Q lo K's li's ::. 2. Q to Qa H's C. .;. Knight Q's .*., or, if lhe [?ame requir?-s ! il, Q to Q's 15.-En ADV.] . - ? ? -A Cut?iv.iled FIoVuVs. -'. ' 4 Tuc diminutive chain of habit is scantily heavy enough lu lu mil till it in loo strong lu lu? broken. Memory ix the cr.binet of imagination, the : ireasury of reason, thc registry of conscience, ' mi l the council-chamber "I thought. A (.?ltKKK maid being asked what fortune , she would bring her husband, replied, '. I will bring him whal gold cannot purchase- i a heart unspotted, und virtue wilhonta stain, which is all thal descended to me from my parents." . Wt: ute all eoitij laiuing thal our days aie ! so few, yet aoiing as though there would bo I no t nd to (hem. A PERSIAN* philosopher hising asked by ! whit method he had acquired so much knowl- \ edge, answered, "liv not beinr prevented by ; ?haine iroiu asking questions when I was ig- \ notant/' j ABSTINENCE-Except thou desvre to ba/*: [ ten thy ?i'd, take this fur a uc-nernl rulo-.' that thou never ado any artificial heat to thy bodv hy wine or spict^ until thon lind that I time bath decayed thy natural hpr.i : and the ; sooner thou cost begin to help Nature, the I " oner she will for.-ake thee, and leave thee tu trust altogether to art.-Sir Waller Ha My.',. Goon manners is the art of makin? those happy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in the compuny. THE Soul..-There is soinethinsiu us that cannot be without ns, and will be after us ; though it is strange that it hath no history of what it was before us, nor can tell bow it en tered us. SPARK MOMENTS p.ve like the gold dust of time: and Yoting vras writing a true ?us weil as a striking line when he taught that "Sands make th?; mountain, and moments make the Vfcar." Of all the portions of our life, spat e moments arc the rmst fruitful in good as: evil. They ?re tho gaps through which temptations lind the easiest access lo the gardcu of the soul. V.'ur.x thc veil of death has been drawu be tween us and tho objects of our regard, how q-deksighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we then remember word?, or even looks ol' unkindness, which may have escaped in our intercourse with them ! How careful should such thoughts render us in the fulfilment of those ollicesoi' affection which may jet bo in our power to perform ! for who can ted how soon .he moment may arrive % hen repentance cannot be followed by re paration ? O .MENS OK PEACE.-A correspondent of tho floridian and Sentinel, writing from L'jcdcricksburg, gives the following singular freak (d' nature in his "letter. Ile snj's: "While speaking cf peace there is a legend connected with H spring mar Fredericksburg, : which I will relate for the benefit of the euri ' ons: According to tradition, this spring was discovered running li.r.e mouths lief jr e the revolutionary war. Three mouths before a j nealy of peace it dried up and ceased to ruu. I lt commenced menin-,' ngain three months be fore the war of 1812, and three months he fore its close, as in the revolutionary war. it j again dried up. a:;d so with the Mexican ivar, i Throe months before the) fall nf Fort Sumter j it commenced running, and a shot t time sine? ! dried up. I I give as .my author fer lids an aged man, ! who was bern and is bring neur the spring ' and who has cottsiderableproperty, .and offers J lo bet it all that we will Lave peace in three j month? from the drjing fcpof tue spring. ' (Frnpt tie X. Y. World.] ?? God and thcffcpiro." j One member of the Beecher faniilv has! enriched the religious phraseology of the j American people with the refiner! and pious j ejaculation.of " Bully Hallelujah !" Another | scion of the same steck -bas now favored us with a new national slogan. ,; God and thc Negro? is"the '.var cry which Henry Ward Beecher recommends to the ar mies of the republic, through the columns of j the Independent, ia , the following passage, which nothing but a sense of public duty could induce us to quote : . ,; Congress is to dispute over a bill to arm and equip 150,000 negroes to serve in the war. Let it atop tuc flebate! The cas?is settled : the problem is solved ; thc argument is done. Let the recruiting. sergeants beat their drums ! The next lev*' of troops must not be made in the Nona, but on the plan tations. Marshal them fnto line by regiments and brigades ! The men that Lave picked cotton must now pick flints! Galber the third great army ! For^ two years lite gov ernment '-.as been searching, in an enemy's j country, fer a pal li to victory; only thc ne ??ro can lind it ! Give bim gail and tiaro- j not. and Tot bim point tb? way ! The future is fair ; God and Ike Negro aro t.i save tho j republic!'' If those brutal and Jdrr-phomous ravines j reached our ears from Bedlam they would bc j sufficiently shocking.-But tko}' aro ilelihcr- j alcly printed in a paper .professedly religious. They arc intended to Ijeread in tho homos of | . hioz.-d hnd Christian mon. Thrv are the i-rec-d of a mau railing hims .-If a minister ??! lov? .ind mercy. And'ruadp a.s they aie lhere ?salmean method ii?,Irheir niadnesii. Thc-I sanguinary' ribald ry ^^fbe calculated voi.-c of) a mont ^^^-^?s?^^: Jtttie is ihojirgii-^ mont of lids Jn?rr?hle cry : " The"interval 'oct ween tho tlcstcrnction and the salvation-of the republic is measured hy ovo stops : ono is, emancipation ; tia; oihcr, miliairy success. The first is taken : the ot ber delays. How is lt tobe achieved? There is but etie answer : hy tho negro! " Tho negroes aro thc lina! reliance of thc government..They at e thc forlorn hope of j tho republic. They aie ike last safe-keeper* nf I ?J? good cause. We must make alliance wi!ii diem, or our final success is imperiled." . Wo hog thc reader to cont roi fir a momea'. ! his disgust and bis indignation, to weigh these I words coolly, to measure widi unimpassioned J eye the abyss of degradation which they re veal. Three rude, ignorant millions of no groes are the " forlorn hopo" of twenty mill ions of civilized Anglo-Americans waging a great war against five millions of their own race. Unless we can seduce these African allies into talong oin' guns and bayonets and fighting for us we are hopeless!}' beaten. Vve | have not thc manhood to maintain our own ? cause : and when wc cfler freedom to the j Southern slave it is not became vee feel out- ! selves strong enough to give him what we j promise, but because we hope he will be j strong enough not only to secure Lis own : freedom but to save us abo from defeat and i shame. Is thc man who writes these things ' an American or a Chinese? Are we Greeks j of the Lower Empire clamoring for thc help ! of black Yanu.'giuns : gainst thc terrible | I hordes of Jackson and of Lee? j Thc negroes are not commonly reputed a i I very warlike race : but the mildest Congo j ! that ever sunned himself among his pump i kiris might shrink in scorn from an "alliance" I . ?iib men whose philantbropby thus shame- j lessly proclaims itself to be poltroonery hi disguise. With the soldiers and the citizens of thc! I North this crowning insult, offered by the j ; radicals to thc American name and race, may ] safely be left fur redress. Wherever a man lurks within the most stolid armor of fanaticism they must surely : lind him cu|. and hiing his spirit up to some . dim sense at leastoi the crisis we ba. J reach ed and of tho futuro which threatens us. There are really no overtures or demonstra lions at all made to us by either North-west, or North-east, by either the Democrats or Abolitionists, which may not be most fitly j met, aa;s thc liicbmond Enquirer, wilh tho diplomacy of ?air c AU non and bayonets. They all know nt thc North-al! without exception -that if they indeed desire peuce, they have nothing to do but take away their armies ; from our soil. We know nothing of peace or j conciliation except on that basis. Wo care not ' who plunders at Washington : have no interest ! in tbs success of auy of their parties, and consent rather to die thau to touch that abomination forever more. Whoso dreams ol a Dy other basis for a peuce will do well lo keen his own counsel. D:FKJCU1.TIE8 arc like thc Wiil-o'thu Wisp: ii y preseut an imposing uppeoraiicc only when they are viewed at a distance. President Lincoln asa Dictator. The important measures which have late i passed, ard others.which aro now under co , side-ration in the two Houses of Congre* j will leave no excuse fur a failure on 'he pa : of rhe present Administration to put an cr io the rebellion. Wi!h tue closing of tl present session; President Lincoln will V Drastically invented with the powers of adi? tator. The scope of his authority and dh cretion as President of tho United State will hardly be less than that of Louis Nape leon as Emperor of France. Our whole pc lilical system of the peace establishment, ic eluding the subordination of the J?ederal Gov ermneut to the will of thc States and th people, wili ix* reversed : for the States an< the people wiil b? rendered subordinate to th will r.f the Federal Administration. Ao< this will bo done, fo, through thc duly eleel ed representatives of the States and the peo plc in Congress assembled. This most re nurkab'e political revolution is now withit a few days of its consummation. The mili tia bil', which has passed, places under th( control of the President all the militia of tin United States, for the purpose of the banking bill, which has pass-'d, and the Treasury note or. financial bill, which is under consideration will iuvest him with almost unlimited powet over lite bank-, finances and currency of the country ; and th2t other bili which is pend ing before the House, providing for the stis pen-iou of the writ of habc?s corjms, will ?ive him full authority over the liberties of the in dividual citizen. In a word, we may say that with the adjournment of Congress on the Ith of March. President Lincoln, for the two years remaining of his term of office, will be cloth ed with dictatorial powers, political, military and financial, over State and citizen, and by the action ot Congress and under the anthea 1 ty of the Constitution. This organic instrument and the laws pass ed iu puntualice thereat constitute the su prctne law of the laud. Nur do we think it can be successfully denied or contested that in slra?niug ?M warlike authority to e..-,tab!i-.b inenl nt Wasbingtou of a temporary dicta it.r.Jiip Congres* has ill the acta indicated, passed the barril, of the Couatilution. The legislative power of Congres.? in regard lo (Le militia, in case ol rebellion or invasion, and over the financial affairs of the country, 3ud thu iiultcU's iJ?rpiti^fk br,)*} -and c<jmpa*h>?o?? sive, lt ?s possible that with a Napoleon, or a Cromwell, dollied w?t h this provisional die tutorship, there would he an cud of our Re publican institutions and the beginning of an imperial establishment ; bot there is not the slightest danger of tho abuse*of his authori ty by President Lincoln for ambitious purpo ses. We all know that his ambition ia limi ted to the suppression of the rebellion; but if he were not, we ?ill know that he would be powerless to employ (he intelligent, liberty loving soldiers of the Union in any movement involving the suppression of our regular Pres idential election ! We therefore entertain no apprehensions of evil to tLe reserved rights of thc States or the libci ties of thc people from these extra ordinary powers with which Congress is cloth ing the President. Un thc other hand, as theso laws will be passed over to the next ad ministration, they may even then bc turned to good account,' in the application of their pains and penalties, to the Abolition disor ganizes at the Xorlh. after thc rebe's of the South shall have been reduced to their prop er allegiance. Meantime, accepting thc plea of imperious necessity, wc cheerfully consent to this transformation of our President into a temporary dictator. We cheerfully consent, in view of the great object ol' concentrating the forces and resources of the loyal States againt those of tha rebellion, and in the be lie! that this is the shortest way to the res toration of the Union, we cheerfully consent to surrender, for the present, some of the privileges, immunities, exemptions and bless ings of peace, to push on this war, upon which depends the very life ol this nation. Upon this point thc patriotism of the loyal States is surely equal 'to that soil-sacrificing fanaticism which governs thc people ol the l?bclHous States. Those people nie under the most loriible despotism ever known to modem times ; they bear it, they sustain it, and they submit to conscriptions, cruelties, extortions, privations, sufferings and losses painful to contemplate, under the belief that all these things are demanded of them in or der to secure the indepeudenccof their South ern Confederacy, and under the belief, too, that with the object secured, they will have a better Government, and a new career of hap piness, security and prosperity. Are not, then, the people of the l?yal States capable of.sustaining, in a comparatively light de gree, thc-burdens ofa struggle upon which not only the life of the Government, but the safety of the property, the home' and the house hold gods of every man in the conni ry depends ? The intelligent will need no promptings to answer this question. lint we concur in these war measures of Congi ess from still another view of thc sub ject. 'They will admonish thc great Powrra of Europe that foreign intervention against the Union is not to be thought of, and that they eau only intervene in support of the cause of thc Union. Thin Louis Napoleon may, perhft| -, be convinced that the time has.arri ved when, acting upon Seward's Con gressional peace proposition, he may Bay to J Jeff. Davis and his confederates : Further re j sis tance to the Federal Government ?a uae l-less. .Accept the friend!y o?ices of France j ia behdl ot your submission to the Union, cr I prppare for'tbe consequences. But in every ! view of fho subject, foreign and domestic, we ; ?re prepared to sustain these war measttres of j Congress, and to support the President eveD as a temporary dictator. Let us support him, and nil that we have lost may be restored ; but if we shandon bim, all that we have may I be lost. - New" York Herald. Intervention. From the beginning of thia war up to the present time, our people have been seriously troubled with periodical attacks of a diseasa which, in the phraseology of the day, may be properly called " Intervention on the brain." After the first battle of Manassas, we ware assured, by political phophets, who plumed themselves on their prophetic ken, that for eign powers would not wit??3s with indiffer ence the fierce carnage of a civil war. When foreign powers failed to interfere, and thus proved them false prophets, they no longer fixed tho time,, but declared that the next decisive victory would settle the whole mat ter. After every defeat, these lovers of ex citement have set the people agog, by de claring to the delighted crowd, that now the time had really come for intervention. Now, said they, you shall have the M Gallic Cock" crow defiance to the American eagle ! Nowr Yankeedoodlodom shall quake in its boots, when John Hull paws the earth and lashet his side-when the invincible Rritish. lion, .! shakiug the de .'. -drops from his mane,'* shall roar in his wrath ! In ll Helloed by these motive", our people have been on tip-toe, eagerly listening for the first note of foreign intervention. And lil! lately they have listened in vain. The British lion I Oared, it is trite, but ,; gently a-" 'iwere any sucking dove.'' Like Carlyle, (the man who in attempting to reform English man, succeeded in murdering English,) the people of .langland tho up Lit if was ?he foul levi chimney that had b^en alire this centu ry and ?ere willing to see it burn out. Exe ter ll til ?poke and politicians trembled al ?lie howl ol' fantlci.Mii. ''King Cotton"low ereil his sceptre to King Wooly head, and white KnglMimen became starving paupers kf*t tlevate the down-trodden African. Andi. * li .lohn Bull, the pugnacious, invincible fillibus ? ter that, always opposes fillibustering-th? pious hat?r of slavery, that makes abjeel slaves of his own subjects-this same iaoffen sive, quiet old gentleman, who preaches one tiling and practices another, puts his thumbs in the arm holes of his vest and coolly telb UH, " this is a dreadful state of aflairs you have amone you, bul 'pon my word, gent le inen, I seo no remedy, can't do anything for yon, bul wish you very well." France has dore better. Napoleon has j manifested a willingness to mediate in our affairs, and has lately made an oiler, which has been summarily rejected by Mr- Seward. | And now the great question of quid nutics is, what will Napoleon do? Some say he has contracted for cotton in the Confederacy, and that be will speedily raise the blockade, lo get his cotton.' Rumor says that he has already declared his inteution to raise the blockade, recognize us and to settle all our troubles cu this side of the oceau by a Na poleonic cou]) de main. Whatever may b? the intentions of Napo leon there is one thing Certain, 'that neither the prospect of intervention, nor intervention j itself, should at all divert ns irom our plans, or diminish our Eclf-reliance. An Indepen dence that is worth anything must be acbiev cd by our own efforts. God helps those wi o help themselves is true of nations as well j s of individuals. If our independence is <s tablished by the active interference of for eign nations, will we n 'the dependent upi n i he m ? Muy they not look upai us HS the .' sick mau"-the Turkey of this continent, to be dcOlored by foreign tpaacks, and per haps parceled ont hy g.cody soveruments ? No men vr nation will obtain lecognilion by beding or whining for it. Let us not de ceive ourselves. If we wish a permanent peace, we must conquer it Thete is but one path, ill these descu?rate times, to our hide- j pendence, uud that is the war-path. We must win recognition, at home aud abroad bv self-reliance and hard blows. Let us bc deluded no longer, with the orv of interven tion, nor with the, perhaps, delusive hope of peace, but conscious that we are fighting io behalf of liberty, of human rights,and our holy religion, lut us go forth to tho fight, trustirg in the ,l God of battlea," and leaving results with that All-wise being, who alone can give ! j us tho victory.-Christian Index. LETTERS HY F?.AO or TRUCE.-The Ricb m jud Dispatch says that, by orders issued by Brigadier-General John H. Winder, all letters .intended lo be seut to the United States by hag of truce must bo mailed at his office, where they are subjected.to examination, and if deemed unobjectionable are forwarded. / ll letters must have on them either a three 1 cent piece or U. S. postage stamp, and they j ' must not exceed a page in length, or contain [ any allusions to political or military matters. ! Letters to bc despatched^ by flag of truce ac . cumulate so rapidily, that if they are written I (.f thc usual length, the officials would never ! lind lime to wade through them. i The Cotton Qnestiofl im England. A correspondent of tb? Charleston Courier, writing from Nassau, gives the following cotr cerning.the distress caaaed by'the want of cotton in England : From the English journals we observe that the distress ia Lancashire is aaa urning ap palling proportions. The number of opera tives out of work at the last report waa 26.3, 000-every one of them dependent upon char ity and rated as out-door paupers. Large public meetings aro being held over England for the purpose cf raising funds' to support the sufferers. At a public meeting held in London, Lord Stanley has made a speech in which the fol lowing sentence appears : "He expressed a boper that w?should soon have seen the worst. That depends on when the American war shall terminate. If it last? another year we have not by any means seen the worst ; should it but five years, the rum of Lancashire will Jje'irretrievable." The Dublin TJuirerait/ Magazine for De cember, has an article on tie Lancashire troubles entitled " Men, Masters and Cotton." After portraying the suffer rugs of the opera Lives, and paying a tribute to their patient ind orderly conduct, the writer makes these significant remarks : " It now appears that the Cotton crops lave been but partially destroyed. An im neuse quantity await-* the breaking of the stockade for shipment Her Majesty's Con mi at Charleston 6ets down the total /'took of Cotton in the South at 3,000,000 bajes. Is it ? lot worth running a risk to obtain this sup sly and light up all the factory fires again ? lt would be H difficult matter if England Were expected to act alone, but all' Europe would v with us, in any effort we might make to iring about a settlement and stay the useless rifusion of blood. Unless through foreign in' ervetttion then? is no hope fur peace. The vmarkable lettecof General Scott, read ata NW York meeting, show? that the North ?rners co cpi ve themselves little more than it the beginning of the war as yet. The veteran rude: named three years us the shortest tun A within which they can roiicjiier the South, uid they splined prepared to accept hi* dic ;uin. The question fur our Government is whether il will support our workmen byoa-^ [.ional grants,- for what .remains -of ?bu *p\??V traded period. The aid -offered by- publie ::ontri buttons will lorin ?ieas?. ' What^ihen ia robe done? lt hos now been shown that the most India can do lor us is very little. All our substitutes have failed. We are thrown back. on the Southern American produce. Phe eyes of tens of thousands are strained Westward to discern the first streaks of an ?pproacbing peace which will restore happi ness to the desolated homes of lancashire We. have KO other hope-no other reliance.'' " We shall never be free from embarrass ment until we make up oar minds to recog nize the Confederacy, and thus do more to put an end to the miseries of war in America inti enforced ??ll?neos in Lancashire than if joined in the half measure of mediation pro* posed by France, which, if not' backed by loree, would only irritate and give a little fresh strength to the Lincoln Government." An English paper, in remarking upon the condition of affairs in the manufacturing dis tricts, states that iu Lancashire there are thousands of stalwart men loitering about with their hands in ?heir pockets, waiting for nothing but the next bulletin of American news. A traveler through the manufactur ing towns describes the appearance of "hun dreds of smokeless chimneys1' as a " harrow ing sight/' A TOUCHING ROMANCE: IN REAL Lire-A touching romance in real life is afforded by the death of Capt. Chalmers Glenn, of Rock ingham County,-N. C., and his faithful fol iower Mat. Reared together from childhood, Mat had shared in all the boyish pranks and trolics of his master, and iu later life had been his constant attendant and most faithful servant. Cu the morning of the battle of Boonsboro, Capt. Glenn called him to him and said : l! Mat, I will be killed iu this bat tle *, see me buried ; the? go home, and be to your mistress and my children all you have ever beeu to me." From behind a rock ?he faithful fellow watched all day the form of h:s beloved master, as the title of battle ebbed aud il o wed over the eventful field. At last he missed him, sod rushing forward, found the prediction, alas I too truly verified-life was already extinct. Assisted by two mem bers of his company, a grave was dug with bayonets, and soon the cold and silent firth held all that was dearest on earth to Mat. Slowly and a ad ly he turned his face home ward, and theft faithfull/ delivered til the messages and valuables with which hu mas ter had entrusted him. From that day h seemed as if his mission on earth was ac? eomplis-hed. Though constantly attending his master's children and promptly obedient to tho slightest word of his mistress,, he visi bly declined. Fi lally, he was taken sick, and despite all the assistance which medical skill and kind attention could afford, he died ou the 4th of February. What a strikiug in stauce of the power of affection in the negro heart, and the strength and beauty of the tie between a kind master and faithful servant. Peace to Mat's ashes. May the unholy tread of a uegro worshipper never pollute the last reeling place of his gallant master or his faith* ful self.-Raleigh Register.