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Wc copy the following exquisite yon dc rsj>ri( with great pleasure. It is seldom that poetry and humor, sentiment aud drollery nre found combined to such an extent in so small a compass. The spirit, too, that would give birth to such an effusion under such circumstances is worthy of all our admiration. We are still further interested in hearing that the author is a native of this city, and is now an officer on Gen. Loring's staff: The accomplished humorist, known as Asa Hartz, was captured some months ago and taken to Johnson's Island. Although cribbed, cabined and confined, the irrepressible ecnins of Asa will assert itself. Witness the following lines which were handed us by a friciul of the gifted captive. They will be read with pleasure by Asa's thousand of admirers in the Southwest, and, we trust, bring tears to the " love-lit eye" of his ladve love.? Columbia (Itmrdian. MY l.OVK AX It I. My love reposes on a rosewood frame? A " tnmk" liavc I: A couch of feathery down fills up the same? Mine's straw, but dry : She sinks to sleep at night with scarce a sigh? With waking eyes 1 watch the hours creep bv. My love her dally dinner takes in state? And so do 1 (?); The richest viands flank her silver plate? Coarse grub have I ; I'urc wines she sips at case, her thirst to slake! 1 pump my drink from Erie's limpid lake ! My love has all the world at will to roam? Three acres I; She goes abroad or tjuict sits at home? " So cannot I : J>right angels watch around her couch at niffht? A Yank, villi a loaded gun, keep9 ?<c in siglit. A thousand weary mile.- now stretch between My love and 1 ; To her, this wintry night, cold, calm, serene, 1 waft a sigh, And hope, with all my earnestness of soul, To-morrow's mail may bring me my parole . There's hope ahead! We'll one day meet again, My love and I ; We'll wipe awav all tears of sorrow then : Her lovolit eye With Ml my many troubles then beguile, And keep this wayward reb. from Johnson's l>le ! Love Undiminished by Amputation. There is an affecting and thrilling story told, in illustration of our thetue, says an exchange, of Commodore Barclay, who fought the battle of Lake Erie against Perry, lie was engaged to be married to a fine English girl. At Trafalgar, with Nelson, he had lost an arm. At Lake Erie he lost a leg. On returning to England feeling his condition very acutely, he scut a friend to his betrothed to tell her that, under the circumstances in which he found himself, lie considered her released from all engagements to him. The lady heard the message, then said to the friend : ''Edward thinks I may wish our engagement to be broken because of bis misfortunes, does he ? Tell him if lie brings back to England body enough to hold the soul he carried away with him, I'll marry him." Exchange of Prisoners. "We learu another flag of truce boat is expected to arrive at City Point in a few day-, with auotlicr lot of Confedcrae prisoners for exchange, but the precise time is not yet ascrtained. A proposition is pending, we understand, which, if mutually agreed to, will result in the cxchauge of several thousand at once, and probably relieve Danville of the large number quartered there for some time past. The arrangement will be quite as convenient to both sides, and to the enemy especially, as their great facilities for transportation enable them to bring up several thousand as easily as the number recently sent to City Point. Owing to the non rocognition of Butler, and the absence of official communication on the subject, except through Major Mulfard, the Assistant Federal Commissioner, it is impossible to predict with anything like certainty, the arrival of a truce boat from one time to another. The llichmond Whig is gratified to state, however, that the probabilities are favorable to the continuance of the exchange, and that our gallant soldiers yet in the hands of the enemy will soon be restored to their families and friends. <?l> Steamers sailing from San Francisco are now armed. Xo arniedj passengers are allowed on board. v; mmnmammmmmmmaoMsmmamMmmnmsBmamBami wmi'?ri A Voice from the North! "POPULARITY OF THE WAR"?A SCATII- ' ING ARTICLE FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY.NEWS?LINCOLN AND niS CREW UNMASKED. We find in the editorial column of the ; New York Daily News of the 9th ultimo ' ot> nrtioW ontiflorl ' Ponularitv of the ! I -- "" ""'~i ? -- ?r j -- ?7 War," which sets forth, in forcible and graphic terms, the fast wauing war spirit of the Northern people. It is as follows : There has been no bugbear more alarming to the timid and unorganized friends of peace than the pretended "popularity of the war." Tho negro worshippers aud their allies of the " War democracy" know this so well that they fiavc spared no efforts or bpnlftmroe to ; spread and heighten (hedelusion. Nothing could illustrate more fully the maducss, which is now wauing so fast, than the facility with which they have been able, hitherto, to impose it on the public credulity. We presume that no one who knows anything of theJAmcrican character, or j has read the history of the American people, cau honestly believe the latter to be either cowards or mercenaries. With the sad exception of a portion of the pop- | ulation of New England, in the struggle of 1812, there is no record of their Invcilifinil. f,.nni .iiitr nf f lin (lllticd .ub v.v? ..w... ? or sacrifices imposed on thcin by patriotism in time of war. On the coutrary, they have been so ready always to answer to the call of country, that they have uiore than once mistaken fur it the J disc appeal* of detnagogueisni and passiou. They have always been so willing, and often so auxious, to fight, that European diplomacy has long characterized them, proverbially, as disturbers of the peace of nations. It was this hasty and pugnacious impulse, so peculiar to litem that it could be counted on with absolute certainty, which the unprincipled contrivers of our present suffering abused and 1 tempted fur their own unholy cn Is at the | beginning of the war. To the cuthu-iasm with which the first calls of Mr. Lincoln were responded to thousands of desolate households?tens of thousands uf brave hearts now cold?bear mute and fearful witness. Then, indeed, the war i was popular, llight or wrong, it ap ! pealed to the popular heart, aud was an- i swered with its best blood. Let us look, now, at the contrast. To j do so, we must not go to the columns of j j the DQUsioned pJViis of tlio dynncty j of New England or Now York, or elsewhere, who have grown fat 011 the carnage of better men ; nor to the traders, 1 or jobbers, or contractors, or place-men, or parasites?the myriad of jackals who jfec^-onthc bloody offal of the strife, j We have only to contemplate the simple | and naked facts, that with a populati ?u ' three times that of the States at war j with us, and a fighting population pro- j 1 portionatcly much larger?with bounties . proffered, such as never tempted cupidity, in any war before?we are compelled to seduce foreigners from their homes to j fight our battles for pay, aud arc driven to the still more degrading necessity of, committing the honor of our flag, and the vindication of our manhood to the hands of negroes, bond and free. Not the relentless grasp of a most merciless and unconstitutional conscription, n othe seduction of bounties large enough to make a poor man's fortune, cuu now drag or entice American eitizeus, except. in numbers absolutely insignificant,' to fight the battles of this war. It is insolent, as well as idle and absurd, to talk of the " popularity" of any war tli.it can command no warmer sunnort than this, froiu a bruveand-impulsivepeo- ! pic. If the hearts of the people were in i the war, they themselves would be in ! the field to light to the death. If they I sincerely believed it to be a war iu which ; they ought to offer themselves as a sac- ' rilicc, they would crowd to the very j horns of the altar, without threat or bribe, j That they shrink from the contest?that they will devote all the little earnings | of their lives to purchase exemption? j ! that they cannot be tempted or forced 1 into the.ranks, while there is any escape { ? all these things tell the story. The people do not feel any longer that the? war is their war. They may support it, for a little while because the Government is waging it and the flag is waved | CO o ^ over it. Some of them may be willing ! j it should continue because it pays them- | selves or their friends large profits, or j keeps up their influence, or advances ; thrir nartv. or flatters their vanitv. 01'I I J J ^ ^ , gratifies tlicir rancor. Hut the great curi rent of public feeling and opinion runs in its favor no longer. It has now no hold on public enthusiasm. Its popularity is dead! If the Administration really believes that all this is false?if it is persuaded that the popularity of the war continues, let it abaudon the conscriptiou and the bounty system and make the experiment of volunteer enlistments for a single 1 i week. That brief space of time would I suflice for the entire solution of tlic prob- j i 1cm. If such 011 experiment, however, : be deemed too hazardous, let Mr. Lincoln | and his councclors make a still simpler : one. Let them tell-the people the truth ! lor a single mouth, if the thing be possible, if uot let thctn endeavor to do it for j a fortnight. Let Mr. Chase give us the real amount of the public debt and of his means and provisions for its payment. Let him inform us of the auount of taxes which we must endure to avert the sbarafi of repudiation now, without increasing ' ? -ythe debt a single dollar. Instead ofsedy! sawing between greenbacks and bonds,4 which appears to be the substance of h'fs |l financial policy, and concocting paltry < schemes for jubbing in gold on WftU ] street-, let him trust the people, if he j darcj with tho facts from which they t may know their own solvency or insol- ! vency, and appeal to them to meet 't}m- I issue, face to face. Let Mr. Seward try 1 ] * ? --i:* j . lr dxs can wrue oue soiuary uuopavvuar without some intentional perversion of_ I the truth, and confine himself to the lc- 1 gitiinate purposes of diplomatic corros- ; pondence abroad, iustcad of loading the files of the State Department with clap- li trap and misrepresentations for bonjc.jJ consumption and deception.. . Let Mr. S tendon, mstead of Hooilfcjy' the couutry with false bulletins fronTir-j i rcBpousible or fictitious sources, under- j i valuing the strength and resources of I : the enemy, exaggerating their wants and j sufferings, multiplying their reverses and : our triumphs, give himself up, for cvy i so brief a space, to the dissemination of I the truth, which the people are entitled i to have in regard to a struggle for which i they arc taxed to the utmost in treasure and blood. With what face can ho assert the war to be the people's war, i when, after having caused the press to j teem with telegrams announcing the almost universal and enthusiastic re-enlist meut of the veterans of the army, ho has caused the l'resideut to refuse to give the 1 Mouse of 11'preseutatives any information on the subject, on the ground that j it would be ? prejudicial to the public | interestIf the Administration will not venture to pursue the plain, straightforward course we indicate, let it cease to prate of its war policy as rooted in the coiffidcnce of the people. If the people unli.ilrt it win- 1 from the nconle what they uphold ? Or, is it that the ' war cau be maintained in it.s pretended ! popularity, only so long as the people arc kept from knowing what it is and what it promises. Wc are rejoiced to see that these considerations and others akin to them tire t openiug so many krng blinded eyes. The | people have begun to think for themselves at last, and there cau be but one ; result of their so doing, if they will hut speak out, fearlessly, what they think. The war cannot bear probing in its causes, its couduct, its purposes or its prospects.. It cannot survive the touch of free! thought and free speech. The friends of peace, heretofore, nave lacked boldness 1 'afiT confidence in themselves ' and feheir j cause. ' JJosctTOiTprtt rue- mrtsct, oj'ttnvsc in whom they trusted as leaders, it is scarcely to be wondered that they should have despaired,an.1 have permitted them-; selves to be bullied out of the expression of their conviction?nay, almost out of these convictions themselves. Put times have changed. The tide is now seting in the right direction, and they must take it at the liood. The people must not await for men to lead tlic'ni now, Humanity, civilization, the i blessc l teachings of Christianity are leaders enough. The renegade of to uay will be only too happy to return as the i cause of peace develops its grand pro-1 portions and its strength. Let, then , every man who wants peace, cry Peace! ; Let there be no disguise?no catering f.ir nnmiVirifv nr for this illfluOUCC C'l" that?u ) putting 0:1 of the.devil's livery, j The c tu.se can an 1 will t of itself j and its advocates, if they afraid to proclaim their allcgiruce to it. Let! no man be fooled or frightened by the i suggestion, that he is bound to "support ' the Government," or that, by crying out for peace, he is "embarrassing the Government." Every citizen who has to uphold the Government with his money, and his blood, has the right, nay ia- bound in duty, to influence its policy, by the public expression of his lmnest opinions.?. lie is bound to obey the laws, but pot to smother or belie his convictions. The j talk of "embarrassing the Government," j is but the stereotyped jargon of despo- j tisrn and servility. Free governments were made to be " embarrassed'' by free speech and free suffrage. It is precisely what distinguishes them from governments which arc not. free. Such "embarrassments" may be inconvenient sometimes, to botii the people and their servants, but all inconveniences of the sort 1 are involved in the fact, that our chief servant is a .President and not an autocrat. Let him and his Cabinet and his Congress be dealt with as servants and 1 not bowed down to as masters. Let 1 them iiear the truth, from those to whom i they will not tell it?trom those who , mode them and can and will unmake i them. Unless we greatly err, the seemingly |1 small voices to-day will be loul enough for them, ere many morrows. The pen- j: pie yearn for peace and they will have ; it. They are tired of "military ncces- J sity" and military rule. They prefer the i government created by the Constitution to a war begotten despotism^ supported ! by black janazaries. They do not desire to exterminate the# "slave aristocracy" at the South, in order to establish, at the . North, an aristocracy of ehouidorstrnps ' and cavalry boots. They believe that ; the mission of this Republic is something | better than "misccycnaliou" and the establishment of negro equality or supcri-; ority. They will endure taxation, pn-1 vations aod sacrifices 110 longer, to defy the idols of New England's hypocrisy, cupidity and fanaticism. They yearn for peace, wc repeat, nud peace thoy will ' have. ^ Tlic Beginning of Anarchy. The.papers from the United States I1 aring us tidings of the commencement;: )f the rbign of terror, which sooner, or : later must overtake their people. At | Dayton, Ohio, aud in Greenville, 'Drake j ;ouuty, Illinois, the Democratic pi-esses | bave beeu^destroyed?types thrown into j the street and 'their defenders shot. ? ! Furloughed soldiers were the instruments j ;ct on by the Black . Republicans. In j ibe latter place public meetings h^tve been held by the Democrats, and rcfraliltion threatened and vengcaucc vowed. VVc havo no other interest in these do aestic Drolls, except itiai which prompts \ the hope that they may be after the ' manner ,yf the Kilkenny catc. Bat they Instructive lesion. .Those who are old enough to refifcrntcr' the ^origin , of the Abolition party t^ill not have for- j gotten some early incidents which show ! that the Black llepublicans arc now ad- ! ministering to thc:r neighbors the same j chalice once presented to their own lips j by the Democrats. In Galena, Ohio, I Biddings' press was mobbed and its j editor escaped with difficulty. No doubt! many similar ecencs could be recalled.? In process of time the llopublicaus have conic into power, and they arc now pay-. iug ofl old sfcorca. A people whose early ! history was marked by which burning and j other atrocities upon those who took the I liberty of thinking for themselves?and | i:i a later day have howled with satisfaction over the flames of Catholic Convents ?in a land boasted as the home of free thought and free speech, must accept as well as they can the fruit of their prac-1 tical philosophy. Mob law is one of the least remarkable offshoots from a j state of society which breeds Mormonisiu, j Free Lovcisin, Fourierism and the other ! isms of Yankee life. To all the social evils which have sprung from their prac- j 1 2 .. I! .1 .. 1 ! * .. 1.tKrtm \'y A11V LICit 1 JIlUUUlluV j V. U uilti; OU\0U iuv,ui HI S c*. day subjected, first to the despotism of mob law and then to military tyranny. They have one more stage !o reach and that they arc rapidly approaching universal anarchy. The Democrats arc becoming day by day more and more sub- . dued. The votes in Congress, of which we give an account this morning, prove the rapid decay of the spirit of resistance. Wo invite the careful attention Lo it' of | any of our readers who may delude | themselves with -the hope of scciug a peace party spring up at the North.? The papers, it is true, give as an account of a "monster.meeting" at the Cooper Institute. \n f-.vn- i f .McC'e!!: n fbr the rrtwiiitmiiy. tutttt nTiwnrrc xonts to' be deceived by such exhibitions. Now York is monster enough for any number of such meetings on any subject without our deriving any benefit. We have not forgotten the lessens of this war. Yfhere j are the voices of John Van Ilurcn, Jha-1 dy, ]>rooks, am' last hut loudest, the no- i * ' I* _ . ! torious L'apt. it uy inters, or.co oo hi;roc | til)J blatant? All hushed into silcDco under the potent spell of the power of, Abraham 1st. There is and there can ' be but one peace party among the Van kces. That is to be called into existence I by the success of Southern arms ?, Vicksburg, Port Hudson aud Chatauooga ; have stilled the voices so loud for peace after Manassas, and Fredericksburg and j Chauceilorsvillc. The eeho we must expect will ouly respond to the voices of i our cannon when th.ey thunder forth their ! victorious notes iu the battles ol the j spring campaign. We would not be understood, however, : as depreciating the effect of other causes operating among the Yankee people.? The evidences of perturbation and anx ious forebodings are visible even in their boastings. The Herald announces that the rebellion is to he crushed in tho spring campaign, or it never will be.? The Northern press generally has lowered i its touc from the Iriumphaut key it gave j forth some mouths ago. In spite of their i ?? i,^r?n flmt? nflVirrl linniistaka- i i H I I Ult ^ vJ U1 UV|#Vj IHOJ MMVAM . bio proof that they are beginning to rc- j alizc the self-supporting ami recuperative j energies of the South. They have seen the tone ef our people recovering under j shocks which theirs would never have survived. They have noticed a people j whoso country has been devastated, whose families have beet dispersed, their : property stolen and armed against them, ! maintain a deep seated, united and buoy-1 ant spirit, which the Yankee is incapa- j blc of exhibiting or appreciating, and which nothing hut an abiding confidence in the justice of our cause ever could in-, spire. With all our sulferings and persecutions from a race, to whom the lau- | guage of Drydon in an inverted sense,? "None but himself could be his paral- j lei," is applicable, they liml us still uiu- j ted and resolute, they see a depth of re- ' solution which they begin to And can never he overcome. And while they sec ' all this among us, what do they observe 1 among themselves? The Yankees arc acute enough to see the true state of things at home, however their natural pre science in all matters where truth is ! involved compels them to falsify it. j 'Jdiey know they are nearer ruin than I they vainly hope that we arc. A society i unstable in religion?disfigured with , vice, and abounding with so many clo- j ments of disintegration?cannot bear the j shocks of tli ise convulsive elements ii"\v 1 surely at work and destined before long to shake their (Jovcrnment to pieces. A j tttlinon nrmins li:ivr>. Til'aetieed SO I j'V-Vj .n, " - r many enormities, arc themselves as cor-! rupt and as degraded as their armies. I The violence we have uoliced.in the commencement ot' this article is the natural; exhibition of their depravity. It is im possible that such scenes cau go on with- j out.their natural consequeuces of divi- i sion, disunion and bloodshed. The domes-1 tic disturbances of Merico must soon be ; repeated in the United States. Aa the j war wear,s on, vengeance v/ill be taken j for the heoatou?b of lives they have wasted in this struggle. The suffering j families?tbo survivors of so many murdered. victims cannot.remain passive. If they "ha7c nature in them they will bear it not." The time will come when theyr will turn upon their tyrants and rend them. . . We cannot tell when those scenes will occur, God will yet use even the wrath of men for His glory. He bar, seen lit to punish both the oppressed and the oppressor. Let us bear his chastisement .With br epminr- hnruTfity and > c-rcrcrtinl awe. Hut let e; confide also firmly: in the faith that with all our sufferings lie i is preparing our deliverance with swift vengeance upon those who have so cruelly \yrouged us.? Columbia Guardian. A Hick P.uriesque. The army correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy indulges in. the follow-; ing amusing satire upon the system of issuing orders indiscriminately by many general officers, it was written by a private soldier; is a very happy hit, and will be duly appreciated by those who, like him, have become well nigh demlirirrl trvinrf tn "lfom the rilll of ? -- r them Headquarters Keskievk Lrigade, ) February 2Uth, 1864. j [General Order* Ao. 30,217.] In view of the numerous orders on the subject of Furloughs from Army, Corps :iud Division Headquarters, and in order the more effectually to guard against the j possibility cf any soldier obtaining a furiot-gh or leave of absence, the following i liegulations in reference thereto are published, and wiil bo strictly observed in this command : 1. Ju ail applications under Genera! Orders Nos. 227, 14, 0, 1.3, 10 and 20 the certificates o: company, commander 1st. That "Order is Heaven's first Law." 3d. That none arc absent or desire to he absent on furlough or otherwise, 3. That every man in the Company has re-enlisted for the war, and has signed a pledge to re-enlist again for the same length of time, ueder tl^.Li-* -It!:. That tlio applicant has been a "gallant ami meritorious soldier," ana Las slain at least eleven or eight Yankees in single combat, fc'calpa mast be forwarded with application, or the certificate ol'a Medical J.Mari who saw the same taken in action. 5th. In order that the above paragra: L in ay be fully carried out, aud only the meriturio'is receive furloughn, a certificate is required that applicant has been chosen by lot. Oth* The number of barefooted meu must be given together with the condition of the camps, aud number of cases of camp itch. Tin. "The vulgar fractions of each ( Company will be aggregated with the extra duty men," wagous aud ambulances, 1 the square root extracted, aud nine wagons out of every ten i'urlcughcd. II. When a recruit is furnished, cerlilicaio of the mother of recruit must show that he was piously brought tip, that he is not subject to desertion, inclined to cavalry, and that lie is not now, aud has never been, a minor or nitre bureau. (Family .Bible will in all such < cases be inclosed with the application.) III. In case of officers applying for leaves < f absence, certificate must show. 1st. That applicant is alive aud well, aud hope that Colonel George "Win. Brant, A. A. G. is enjoying the same blessing. '2. That applicant Las never been tried by Gcueral Orders or General Court j Martial. od. That lie fully and entirely under- j stands all orders upon furloughs and J leave of absence, as well us all other or- j ders whatsoever that may have been or will bo hereafter issued. IV. Mo such plea as a desire to mar- 1 ry, or attend to important business, or to visit a dying wife, father or mother, will j be considered. In the present crisis of our affairs, no person' of common patriot- j ism will eutcrtaiu the idea of dying, i neither will it ho allowed. They must; rjuietly await their turn under flcnerai ! Orders. Y. No application for furlough or leave of absence will bo cntcrtaiucd un- i ijss f.d.led according to form,'"prescribed in (j. O. No. o, and neatly secured with 0 yards red tape. VI. The following persons are c.tciud- : cd from the beucdls and operations of J the foregoing order : j 1st. All men who have been executed j under sentence of a court martial. 2d. All married mcu who have either j visited houic or written to tlieir wives i within twelve months preceding the bat-' tie of Missionary Ridge. 81. All unmarried men who have at any iime during the period ox" six months next proceeding the lStli of January, 1804, entertained the idea of a wutrimo- j nial alliance. i VII. 2\o furloughs or leave of absence will bo granted iu auy ease whatever. JJy order of Ultra. C ex. Vi uettc. Ti'rinv Spnr.\v"?. Active Bxncctant , ' ' (v V'T.li. f *< : " The Han on Horsebaok at Last.0 The Now York Herald says : The man on horseback, with his "headquarters in the saddle," has come at last. According to "General Orders No. OS,", from the "War Office, "Major General Haijeck is, at his own request, rcl-eved from duty as General-in-Chief of the army, and Lieut. General U. S. Grant is assigned to the command of the armina nf tko Ttntfrvl Sfnt.M." nnH "ihfl headquartors of the array will be in Washington, and also with Lieut. General Grant it. the field." This i3 the arrangement effected in the General's late visit to the national capital. 'As General-in-Chief he is not to be shut up and tied in tho War Of-. " ficc but is to be free to visit in person our d?J*?rcat. armies, in shaping and direnting thoir movements. "Instead] there- i fore, of losing his services in tho field by . > ' . his promotion to his prosout position, they are extended around the cutire circle of the rebellion. jji *?V It i3 the fixed condition of the country that the approaching campaign will extinguish the rebellion or give it a nc.v lc^c of life; it is the belief of the country ihat our armies in the field, with our powerful co-cperating fleets, are abundantly able to put an end to the Davis Confederacy in this campaign. This is the opinion of the couutry and the army. The administration is aware of it; Gen. Grant knows it, and we doubt not shares iu this opinion, aud is shaping his plaua accordingly. He has some difficulties before him; but the immense advantages which ho has gained, aud which he now holds, makes him the undoubted master of the military situation. * Let the movemeuts of our armies, therefore, in tho interval of the mt jting of the Baltimore llopublicau Convention iu June, strengthen or sustain the miliI fli.r? on.l , it' ij iv. |mviuiua vi v*wu* vn*u?j vuw | Convention will bo irresistibly borue S along to his nomination. Wo believe, ; too,. that between this day and the 7th I of June such victories will be gained by j our armies as will electrify tbe ccuutry , from the Atlantic to tbe Pacific coast. Seward and Louis Napoleon. The Paris correspondent of tl>? Hew York Times says that the French Gov* ! ernment has bei<? UTficially notified that i it "will be" held responsible for any damage the ilappahannock may do to Yankee commerce." We. da naLbelicva. -?--f ' anything or the kind. The Yankee cabinet have found that they may trifle with the English authorities they please?that they may pull Lord JolmAlwyejU by the nose,"threat, fume, apologize, and" end a .smothered fire in smoke?but neither Lincoln, Seward, Stanton or any other Federal bully bus the hardihood, for one momcut, to threw an insult in the teeth j of that prtTmpt, vigorous and dangerous ^ ; iit'.lo Frenchman, who is doing the broiui work of the whole continent of Europe. Napoleon is not a man to be trifled t with, and no people arc as apt to learn this character in an antagonist as cow- , ardi. When the French Emperor allowed the llappahannock to depart from < his ports, he did so with a full kuow- . A ' ledge of her mission, and a well-set detcrminationto shoulder the responsibilities connected with that act. His sympathy for months has been with our cause, and the preliminary steps have been taken which looks to the ultimate vecognitiou, by his empire, of the Southern Confederacy as a sister nation. If in this condition of affairs a quarrel is forced upon Napoleon, it will find hixn ripe for all of its emergencies, anJ the last man in the world to follow the example of the British Premier in truckling to the policy of the Yankee Government.? Carolinian. ? Liquor at the Present Day. Some tenor fifteen years ago the intemperate man was only known by his rubicund nose. Then, as he coutiuued to indulge his appetite, the uasal organ first assumed a suspicious redness, that gradually grew brighter and brighter uutil the carmine tints corrugated into spots _ and assumed the growing brilliancy of rubies; then Nature, in her profuseness, threaded these splendid settings with avniv* T-nJna t.Krt nncn nnno en nnmnlxr and pale, projected out in front as a beacon light, informiug all men that its ov.cer carried the sign of a consumer of good liquor; and when said nose was gathered home to- its fathers, it warmed up, as with a ray of sunshine the surroundiug pallor, aud cvcd to the last shed a genial glow over the use of the social glass. But now, how changed? In these degenerate da}3 the intemperate man, however much he may try to hide the habit from the world, is known by bis sunken eve, his attenuated cheek, his shrivelled up aud contracted nose, that, by its very death like look, shows too plainly of the ruin going od in the system. The reason is, not that human nature has changed, but that ardent spirt have; and what was once a thing that made "the heart glad," is now a slow but sure % poiscn. What once made the face glow with health, now prepares it with the expression of the grave. Heavy Losses.?The Brandon(Miss.) Republican nukes an estimate of the property destroyed daring the whole of the enemy's march to Mcredian, and sets it dowu at lis. millious of dollars; it publishes, also, a portion of the individual losses iu Brandon and Rankin counties? It iuakc? a very formidable appearance. . * L