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I * Leave Charleston J 8.20 a m 8.16 p m
1 \ Arrive at Kingcvillo, the
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rrive at Cfruleston j 3.30 p ni I 4.30 a m
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? Jan 17?tf H. T.PEAKE, Gon'l Sup't. .
Tiie ('Overnment Loa.?Being somewhat
sceptical as to the statcmeit of one of our morn-'
I *nK .contemporaries, to the effect that the
| fifteen in llion loan was *till incomplete, we
institute! inquiries in the >roper duartcr, from
which v/% learn that the loa? was all taken before
the Con* dora e Government had left Montgomery.
We arc glsd to le able to announce
also, that the hundred mill:?n loan, of August
19th, i801, is in a fair w y towards speedy
con sum j intion; the bonds no being now prc"
| pare I.?~ /^iclonoud
TIIE LITTLE MAIDEN'S PRAYER.
Thore is a touching beauty and sweetness in the
following lines, which were originally published ii
tho Churchman, from the pen of an anonymous con
tributor:
She knelt her down so meekly,
Relieving none were nigh,
Clasped her little hands so sweetly,
And then with up-turned eye?
Said: " Father! please to bless mo
Through all the long, long day,
And keep me all so safely
Till I coine again to pray."
She simply asked forgiveness
For evil she had done,
Then said, "Nov I'm forgivon,
Through Christ, Cod's own dear Son."
Slio prayed for loved ones near bcr,
For friends, both far and wide,
Said, " I want Thee, God, to bless tlieni,
And all the world beside."
Vengeance Invoked on South Carolina.
The Yankee papers do not disguise their
longing to wreak a bitter vengeance upon the
Pal.nctto State. Under the heading "Shall
South Carolina Escape?" the New York Times
thus pours out the vials of its wrath upon our
little State :?Charleston Mercury.
Although the loyal public is not permitted
to know upon what part of the Southern coast
the immense navel expedition now about to
be precipitated, we think we do not mistakein
saying it is the almost universal wish of the
people that Cearlcston, South Carolina, if it
receive not the present, may not await a similar
blow. If the Government would arouse ttic
liveliest symphathy of Unionists, in the South as
well as in the North, let it be seen that a clear
and distinct memory is kept of the origin of
the war, and a resolute purpose held, however
the conlliet may go, and whensoever it may
terminate, not to fail administerinrr a f.-arfnl
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rebuke upon that accursed Ciiy and State,
whose crime it is to have originated the war.
South Carolina stands out pre-eminent in
the unhailo\N ed work of sedition and treason.
It is South Carolina that invented the words
41 nullification" and 44 secession," wlrch have
wrought such mischief; unsettling the minds
of men in regard to the rights of States under
the Federal Union. It is South Carolina that
has, for thirty years, been a malcontent in the
otherwise happy family of States, and an industrious
preacher of disunion. It is South
Carolina that incessantly muttered discontent
and threatened secession, until the national
mind became familiarized with the crime, and
ceased to regard it with that horror which its
enormity^should have inspired. And finally,
when the poison of thirty years' stealthy and
treasonable teachings had corrupted the South
and prepared it for insurrection, it is South
Carolina that led the way in the overt act of
disloyalty. Her Senators and representatives
were the first to vacate their seats in the National
Congress, and thus to proclaim to the
tuo ?i 1ir/\lrAn on/1 /1iCi?t?n/lifo/1 TTm/vw T 4
" vi *v* u ui nnu uiffvivunvu u iiiuu* it
was one of these recreant men?a true representative,
however, of South Carolina treason?
that proclaimed the infamous sentiment, in a
public speech in the city of Charleston, while
the State Convention there was sundering the
popular allegiance froni the National Government
: " Let us seize the pillars of the Federal i
Union, as Sampson did the pillars of the tern-/;
pic, and drag it down, though we likewise (
perish in the ruins.*' Such was and is thd i
true spirit of secession. It is infernal am
destructive; ready to involve thirty millions of
happy and prosperous people in strife, rapine s
bloodshed and Woe, to satiate the malice d (
subserve the ambition of a nest of disappoinj
cd and disaffected politicians of South Carolinj
Now, is it nk a duty, is it not more thii j
poetic justice,/ hat South Carolina, so flagrar
in sin, shoukyjc made to feel the earliest ail ^
heaviest pen/Hies of war? If a Southern cjy
must fall, Ifi Uliarlcston Do razed to to 1
ground, an</ salt sowed 011 its ruins. If Sou'i- j
crn fields \y ist be desolated by the invasionof
Union arrnos, let South Carolina's cotton jid 1
rice plantidons be marked by the comjncfig
advance. If slavcholding insolence and yranuy
iw- be humbled to a dcpcndcncuon i
the ConlJtution and the laws, let South Cro- (
lina's autocrats learn to tremble for their erfs j
in the presence of martial law. f
i Ane when South Carolina's desperate rea- i
Ron fo'nd" imitators, and one after air her s
[Htntorthrew off its allegiance till seven had p
| oni/even then there was hope of a jace- a
ibl</recovery of our national unity. Tl| bor- s
tWdavc States resisted the fanaticism and n
l w seven seceded States would have been L
./ died undei^tlm odium of their inr>ur|.al ion ? ,
A
j if the evil had stopped with them. The wickI
cd plotters of section knew this, and a con*
| fliel of arms was decreed in order that the
i flow of human W ?>d might madden and ovcr.
tnrn what judgment was left in the border
slave States. J* was found fit that South
Carolina soil ? should be the scene of this
crowning outlhgc ; and in Charleston harbor
the ensign <y the Republic received the first
wound, in tyoing lowered to armed in grates,
their countr s parricides. The seat of treason's
birth was thus made the scene of its
guilty triumph.
There v not only just retribution to be rendered
in visiting upon South Carolina the
heaviest blows of this war, but there is excellent
generalship to bo manifested in striking at
that Sti?.c. South Carolina is cordial/// hated
at the South. No State would have so little
sympathy and so little sunnort from thn otl.nr
State#. In numberless ways the fact lias become!
known in the progress of the war. A
few ?lays ago the pickets of a Pennsylvania
regiment had a friendly interview with the
pickets of a Virginia regiment 011 the Upper
Potomac. A discussion of the cause of the
war closed by an expression of regret on the
part of the Virginians that they had not a
1 regiment of South Carolinians to shoot at in
place of these Pcnnsylvanians. And this is
believed to be a wide-spread feeling among the
Confederate soldiers. Is it wise to overlook
such an advantage as this in planning oficnsivc
war movements? Let Charleston be lassailed,
and a feeling of gratilieation will possess
the blurts of three-fourths of the Confederate
soldiers, who for South Carolina's wrong,
now snlVer hardships in the field. And, even
if orders|?verc given to go quickly to the relief
of tlkt original seat of rebellion in its
strait, mpiy a mishap would occur to track
and train known to the oommon soldier soldier,
il jot to engineer and waymastcr, to retard
tlij expedition of the relief. Let the
prayer ii" Unionists in all thirty-four States
be head for the early and unsparing chastisement
o! South Carolina.
Tub Way tiiey Fioiit.?A person who
was in tlie battle of Lexington, Mo., relates
the folowing:
I sav one case that shows the Confederate
.a 1 <? rt 1 ? ? - ?
stvic oi ngnting. An old Texan, dressed in
buckskin and armed with a long rifle, used to
go uj to the works every morning about seven
fclock, carrying his dinner in a tin pail.
Takig a good position, be banged away at
the federals till noon ; then an hour, ate his
dine r, after which he resumed operations till
G, pm., when he returned home to supper and
a right's sleep. The next day, a little before
sevn, saw him, dinner and rifle in hand,
trulging up street to begin again his regular
d^'s work?and in this style he continued till '
thj surrender.
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Governor Harris, in his message to the Leg- i
isiturc of Tennessee, says : (
In the aggregate, Tennessee has contribu- 1
t/1 thirty-eight infantry regiments, seven cav- ]
^ry battalions, and sixteen artillery compa- '
108 to the common defence. Attention is .
Iso called to the efficient services of the J
>tate Military Board, whose labors are visible
in results of a tangible character. One in J
stance of their utility is seen in the establish- 1
incnt of a cap factory, which has already
yielded to the Confederate States over 12,000,300
of percussion caps, and is now producing (
nearly a quarter of a milliou per day. I
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What it Costs Tiiem.?The following a
itatemcnt is made bv "Ion,'* the Washington 1
;orrespondent of the Baltimore Sun:
14 The war expenditures are now stated, up- ^
>n government authority, to be eight and a \
lalf millions a week. The naval preparations, a
ind the extensive militrry movements in the a
West have, no doubt, cost more than was ex- ,,
iccted ; and, besides, the waste and loss in the <;
var must exceed all estimates. For instance, r
lie Cfttit.nro of flm tnilifnru ?.+ T
J, ? ?. V..V ' IVIIIj VUV0U (11/ JJCAIIJ^LUI1 rj
nvolvos a loss of a quarter of a million of p
lollars in specie."
A Floating Battery off Evansport.?
Ac learn from the chaplain of the 12th North
Carolina Begiment, that when he left Evans>ort
on Saturday last, there was lying just
ibrcast of that point, in the stream, a " float- ^
ng battery" of very large and diamondhaped
dimensions. It seemed to him to be a
dated with steel, and, altogether, was rather ^
n ugly looking customer, it is said there was '
ome liring in that direction yesterday afterioon,and
that Ben. Holmes went up last night, x;
mi without his command.?Jjanwulic t'c- it
in'drr. >>
From the Mobile Tribune.
ExtviiKive Arrest of Supposed Spies?
Ail Ex-Congressman in IJmbo.
During these times of war our detective
police arc kept busy almost night and day
watching suspicious characters and hunting
up spies. At eight o'clock Saturday night,
Smith Izard arrested a notorious personage in
the St. Charles Hotel, whom lie and the Chief
had been searching for all day. This was no
other than Ned McGowan, the California exCongressman,
who was given twenty-four
hours' notice to quit San Francisco by the
Vigilance Committee, and who found a new
field for his energies in the Territory of Arixona.
llo is a tall and robust man, although
about fifty-five years of? age, fine looking, and
wears a remarkably heavy moustache and
goatee, the hairs of whiuh arc white with age.
He arrived in New Orleans last Wednesday,
and was at once recognized by a returned Californian,
who questioned and watched him
until he became satisfied that Mr.Gowan w??
entirely too busy seeking military information,
and reported liini to the Governor.
When MeGowan was locked up he asked
Chief McClelland what he thought of the ease,
and the Chief replied, "My opinion is that
you have a very hard bed of it." " Ah, well,"
replied McGowan, stroking his beard with an
easy nonchalance, " I have seen harder ones."
The same evening, and in the same hotel,
Izard apprehended Isaac D. Marks, a man infamously
known to our community, although
lie has not been in our city for live years. To
a long list of private crimes lie lias added
public ones, piomincnt among which was his
embezzlement of the funds and supplies contributed
by our people in 185o for the sufferers
by the Norfolk epidemic. On reaching
this city yesterday morning lie acknowledged
that ho had left Philadelphia only three weeks
ago, and Cincinnati two weeks since, and
falsely asserted that lie had been playing the
spy there for President Davis. He boldly
called upon the Governor, and offered to return
to the North as a spy for him, and this led to
his arrest and confinement.
The above is from the New Orleans 13cc.
In addition, it notices the arrest of four or live
fishermen under circumstances of great suspicion.
If the statement is correct, the* men
have been in communication with the enemy's
fleet.
Two abolitionists have also been arret 1 in
incw urieans. Une is a Bostonian,
Anson Peck, a three year resident, and engaged
in the selling of toilet articles 011 Bourbon
street. The other is an Englishman,
named Win. II. Marshall, an eight year resi- ^
dent, and a grocery shopkeeper at the corner
of Julia and Baronne stroets. These men S
were not only abolitionists in sentiment, but w
acting as spies. They wcro detected by the
aid of a woman, Madame Boycr, who, having
suspected that there was a secret association
in the city, with grips, dec., set to work to discover
it. In her persait of the information,
she herself was suspected and arrested, and
.hen she let out the facts before the Mayor.
She said before his honor that both he and
jis chief were blockheads or they would have
ct her alone. She is an old habitue of New Orleans
and well known there. The True
Delta gives a long account of her skill in iho
natter, and calls her a "Fcmalo Vidocq."
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Tiik Wheat Chop in tiie North.?The incoming
Wheat crop of the Northwest is rc)orted,
by the best advices that can be obtained
>n the subject, as exceeding short; there being
i serious falling off from the yield of last year.
Accounts from all parts of Wisconsin, Iowa
ind Illinois, concur in representing a great
leficioney in the yield. During harvest time
ho reports had been encouraging, but it has
>ccn found that the crop did not thrash out
nything like expected, the i.iud not yielding
[uite ten bushels per acre, where last year the
icld was fully thirty bushels. A counts from
Chicago, the great grain depot of the west,
cpresent the falling off for tho pescnt month,
s compared with 18(>0, at nearly half a milion
of bushels.? Commercial Bulletin.
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An old lady was asked what she thought
f Aim i..> :~ki? -A* .1 * _ ?
. v.iv, jiv;i nci^iiuuia ui uio name 01 Jones
nd "\vitli a knowing look, replied :
" Why, 1 don't like to say anything about
>y neighbors; but as to Mr. Jones, sometimes
think, and then again 1 don't know?but,
ftcr all, 1 rather guess he'll turn out to bo a
ood deal such a sort of a man as 1 take him
> be r
? ? ?I
don't believe it's any use in vacillating,
lid an old lady. I had aeliihl vaccinated, and
; fell out at the window, a week after and
o1 killed and died.
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