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Wealth and pride still walk together, Yice and crime are blighting still; But press onward, firm and fearless, You can conquer if you will. All around you fainting, dying, See the sons of sorrow lie, With their pale, cold, pleading face, Turned in sadness to the sky. You can aid them, you can cheer them, You can calmly bid them rise, And with hearts renew the struggle, Till they gain the envied prize. Tender little babes are weeping Fathers, mothers in the grave Homeless, friendless little nestlings You can shield them, you can save. All along life's rugged pathway, Seeking not the world's applause ; Plead, oh ! plead for truth and virtue, blan, or. aven's dwn-tramplel laws. Bow pure seeds of love and kindness, In the hearts of sinful men ; "Cast your bread upon the waters And it will return again." Brother, thus I bid you labor, Iy the love yol bear our Lard! He will aid you, he will bless you, And in Heaven your toils reward. An Angry Word. Withhold the angry word, Unknit the st'rny brow: Let passion's vire unheard, Depart forcver now. Y.-u little know the woe' An ireful word may bring, The ial ant bitter throes W1ith it. lbirth tusty spring. While anger rule the mind, W1itht might combat its sw ay. Re'ist each conneel blin-l, In :ilence turn away. An angry wor: may sever Our brightest hipes in twain, An.1 o'er life's path Forever Stre' misery nod pain. Early Birenkfast. Breakfast should be eaten in the morning, before leaving the house for exercise, er lthbor of any description ; those who do it will bt able to perform more work, and with greater comfort ard alacrity, than those w'he-work en hour or two before breakfast. Besides this. t he average duration of the life of those wht take breakthst before exercise or work, will be a number of years greater than those who do otherwise. Most persons begin to feel weak after having been engaged five or six hours in their ordinary avocations; a gootd meal re-invigorates, but from the last meal of the day until next morning, there i, :n interval of some twelve hours; hence the body in a sense is weak, and in proportion can not resist deleterions agencies, whether o'f the fierce cold of mid winter, or of the poisonous miasmi which rests upon the surface of the earth, wherever the sun shines ont a blade of vegetation or a heap of offal. Thtis miasm is more solid, more concentrated, and hence more malignant, abo~ut sunrise and sun set, than at any other hour of the t wenty-four, because the cold of the night condenses it, and it is on the first few inehes above the soil in its most solid form; but as the sun rises, it warms and expatnds, and ascends to a poitt high enough to be breathed, and being taken into the Iuntgs with the air, and swallowed with the saliva into the stomach, all weak and empty as it is, it is greedily drank in, thrown immediately into the circ'ulation of the blood, and carried directly to every part of the body. depositing its poisonous influtences at the very fountain head of' life. When in Cuba, miany years ago, wve observed that the favorite time for travel was mnidnight:; and the old mer chants of Charleston may retmember that when deadly fevers prevatled in hot weather, they dared tnot ride itnto town in the cool of the evening, but midd:,y was accotunted the' safest. We know, from amany yeare' living in New Orleans, that it was when the eve inings and mornir.gs were unu-ually ceo', balmty and delightfu', the cit-zans prtpuzed themselves for still greater ravages of the dleadly epidetnic for the first few days fol. lowing. If early breakfast was taken in regions where chill and fever, and fever and ague prevail, and if in anddition, a br isk lire We kindied ina tlhe famnily' roon', for the hour int cmudinig sunset antd -uoris.-, tt~ese troublesome maladies would dimninish in any onte year. not ten-fbld, but a thonsattd-fohl, b ecatuse the heat of the fire would rarely the tmiasmatic air instantly, and s'end it ab've the breathing point. Bunt it is troubllesomet to be building fire's night antd mnornti g all sutmmer, and not one in a thaousand. who reads this will put the suggestiont into practice, it being so " trouble: .sa,'' requtiring'. no vllrt ta .'hliver and shaake "y the hour. daly;, foar weetks andm months :togethecr ;suc h is the stu:pi.lityV of the anittal man.- I allrs d1oura!. StuonT 32a[tt: I Paav a.--liev. 31r. lI)erwell1. a~ piu and e.uriou<a a ld 3Mthodist .M in inter, to visit~ his relative, Ilona. Wmz. Boltona. Thea maan was not, a religiouas mn:mt, but was a' :er:. tlemain, anrd invited the aminiter to have fian ily wvorship every eveninmg. While he was vi-iting thero, Judtig' Eone andI hi.1 wife, front Nashville, arrived thtere to pass the, night, iad Mr. Bolton, being a little ermbarrased, ,'aid to thte old minister, as lie broughat out the B'ble, tthat he had bjeter he short as the Jundge was probably not acustoamedl to stuch things. "Very well," said hec, and readintg a siatgle ver se, lhe knelt dlownt :and prayed: -'O Lord, we are very poor tnd nteedy c'rea pyall our wants, but Coausin William say~s that Judge Con and his wife from Nashville are here, and ate not usel to family worshlip; .ntI however Dee~d w ve are, there is nso tim~e to spare in te1ling Thee our wants. Amen!' The Judge was taken all aback, and so wa Cousin William. They both pressed the oh gentleman to conduct the services in his owi way which he did, to their great gratification How a Republican Got Swindled. The New York Day Book contains the fol lowing conversation that recently took place in the State of New York, between a gentle man who signed the petition for peace, and o Republican: Republican-- I regret to see your name Mr. -, on that petition for peace. It i twe duty of all good citizens to support th government in such emergencies." Democrat-" Very well, suppose it is. suppose I have a right to my opinion as t< how to settle our troubles as well as the righ to express it. This is a free country, or wa up to a late date." Republican-" Yes, but it is opposing th government, and though I have known yot for many years, Mr. ---, yet I am a mom' of the grand jury, and r'y ..r - . m;-. to place your name bet*e O;:.: hd . . very sorry to see you in such cr:-pany." 1emocrat---"Well, now as you :a't ex pressed your opinion of me pretty fre ly, wil you allow me to express mine of you?" Republican-" Oh, certainly; I have n objection." Democrat-" Well, to tell you the plair truth, I think you are a d-d fool." ' " Republican (sharply)-" Look out, sir I feel half disposed to slap your .,e for thal insult." Democrat (squaring off and jerking up hi: sleeve)-" Well, come on ; come on. I wa, born in the sixth ward. It you want to fight say the word." The determined attitude and manner o the democrat was enough. The Republicar .ubsided at. once, and went off lookigas mil as a spring lamb. 1I only needs a little 01 this spirit to do away with all the lullyiing that now seeks It drown public Opiniontt. As INIeNr or -rt-: Ilet.i.'s Rex F:,:ur. 'he Lynchbitrg Rl,mblican narrates the fil lotwin : " uJri ; the height of the battle, many of o:r troops, in their anxiety to get a sure p-p at the enemy, left the rants for that pur pse, and advanced somse distance in front. ,n,- of these, .lames Woondridge, of Capt. B3lnintship's comup:mty, who was wounded, nade for a tree. which would aftrd him ,pro teetion. but just as he arrived there, a Lin inite cane up, who disputed the possession 4 the tree with W<ohiridge. The matter ws, however, quickly settled, for without any. arley, Wooldridge tau his bayonet through the Yankee, killhzag hint instantly. A Federal flicer thet rode up, who had observed the atfair. and while W oldridg's bayonet wvas .till in thc body of his victim. ?rdlered him to surren.ler. The proposition, however, did not accord with Vuoidridge's idea, for in an instant his bayonet was withdrawn, when he let the ofticr ltve the full benefit of it, and killed Lim instantly also. Two more Lincoln ites were jt:t thetn rushing upon Wooldridge, but observiig the fate of those who had pre ceded them, itutntdiately turned about, and, tking to their h~eels as fltst as they could, eft our hero in possession of the much cove ed tree. Wooldridge wasi subsequently ounded, no doubt ini conseq~uence of expo ing hims.elf unnecessarily." Tur-z1"A1 lts' Dt~tscIrrent AND -riu Ron n~a.-A farmer living a few miles from East ern, sent his daughter on horseback to that own, to procure from the bank smxaller notes n exchange for one of one hundred dollars. When she arrived there, the batnk was shut, ad she endeavored to effect her object by of. fring it at several of the stores, but cound ot get her note changed. She had :iot gon far on her return, wvhen a stratnger rode up tc hei side of her horse, and accosted her with o mnuch politeness, that she had not the slightest suspicion of any evil intention on is part. A fler riding a mile or two, employ d in ver'y social conversation, they came to a1 ery retired part of the road, and the nan commanded her to give him ti. a. nte. It was with sotme difficulty thatshe culd be miadle to believe hinm in earwt,, his demeanor laud bien very frendily: but the presentationi of a ptistol place i the na:tteri eynid a doubt, and she yielded to neceal y Just as she held the nte to him,, a sudden uff of wind blew it into thme road, and car -ed it gently severa! yards from themr. Thet iscourteous knight alighttedI to overtake it. tn the lady whipped1 her hiorse to get ouit of his power, and the other horse, which hadtt een left standinig by her side ;started with ie. hlis owner fired a pistol, which only tended to increa:se the speed of all parties amd the lady arrived safely at hoime with thec 1rse of the robb~er, on which was~ a pair of i ide-bags. WhLen these were opened, they were founid to cotain, b~eides a tinanitity of csun:ea-it bank notes, fifiteen hunxdred d I1 lars in good mtoiiey. '[le hiorse was a goodi oe, and when saiddled andI b ridled, wao thonght to be worth as much att least ais thec hank note that was 'tub'n. T m lb:rei as': f1tiM::m::-.-The p!!ianat ..vnmt y fir~st and eiti h miade a 11:1w: appear mee a< they ptaraded tip Broadway yesterday. Their 1hill l.as bec':me excellent; btut joy3 a.1 d..picted on the ftcct of the brave fe! ws wiva have~ itu returned to teir wives n families. and we venture to prnedict that tey wi i set the gto.i c::tample of detcaring to t!.eir ft ienis that the war is a cheat anid a nare, :and that if the'y htad known beforc hand whither and for what they Were going o Wash.ingttoii, thety never would hatve shoul (lered a mustiket, in a cause which, by the avowal of Gen. Scot t. has been so badly con tectd. The "plrivate resitentets' which the veteran comozmander-in-chief has de ,oced~ as th~e principal motive of action of the Pre~sident atlnd members of the Cabinet find no re-chi' ini thetiri breatsts. Wouldl to Uod that all of omur New Ytork soldiers were Itcre atgai i; nt proc;lamtations, and no fatlse clap-trtp appeals uonhail again lure themi away~ no darctio.-N. Y. News, 27th tilt. From the Southern Guardian. s Evacuation of Fort Saunter-Secrel 1! History. STAT. OF SoUTH CAROLIA, Headquarters, August 3, 1801. I have every reason, from information re ceived by me in the most confidential manner (not forbidding publication, however,) and through one very near the most intimat( counsels of the President of the United States to induce me to believe that the following ar tiele was submitted, as a proof sheet, to Mr Lincoln and his Cabinet ; that a proclamation in conformity with its general views, was t< be issued; and that a change in the decision of the Cabinet was made in one night, wher exactly the contrary course was adopted. II is asserted in this article, (which in all pro bability is a proof sheet from a confidential New York paper,) that if the President de sired to excite and madden the whole Nortl to a war of extermination against alavery vl in favor of the absolute plunder and con. .- - the South, he had only to resolvt ..:lhjor Anderson and his garrison at Fort Sunter should perish, as it appears was~well known would have to be the case. Major An 1 dersou and his men were to be used as fue to be thrown in to kindle the flames of fana cisi, and to fbrce the Northern people into a united war, which would give the abolition lenders absolute control over the Government and country. What must be the feelings of the civilized world, when it is known that the President of the United States and hit Cabinet did so act, and with a view expressly to carry out this policy of exciting the whole Northern mind ? !Major Anderson had officially informed the former Administration that he could hold Fort Sunfter ; and, of course, if the object of that Administration was to betray the Gov ernu'nt into the hands of the secessionists, as is charged in the article, then Mnjor An derson must. have been a party to the treason and if he informed the new President. on the fourtb of March, as is said to be the case, that he could not hold the fort, then he acted out his part fully in aiding to place Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet exactly where they were, and to compel them to evacuate the fortress, or to use the garrison as victims, to be slaugh tered on the unholy altar of blind fanaticism and mad ambition. I know the fact from Mr. Lincoln's most intimate friend and accredited agent, Mr. La. mon, that tle Presidentof' the United States profled a desire to ovac.uate Fort Sumter, and he (Mr. Lannon) actually wrote me, after his return to Washington, that he would be back it a few ~days to aid in that purpose. Major Anderson Was induced to expect the same thing, as his notes to mme prove. I know the fat that Mr. Fox, of the .nited State' navy, after obtaining permisi-on from me, upon the express ganaran.ee of a former gal lant ass elate in the x::', to vsi M1jur Au dlerson " f'r paci fii purp-as," planned th preteied attempt to relie'v: an:s r--in;f'&rc the garrison by a fleet, and that Major Andlers'on protested against it. I now helieve that it was all a scheme, and th .t Fox's disgrm'ii expedition was gonet up, iu c.jneLrt with dir. Lincoln, nerely to deh:de the Northern pub lie intlo the belief that iher intended to sus. tain and protect M!ajor Ande'rson, when, in, fact, accordirg to. the article now pubi~lted for the lirst timeC. tihev. de'cide(d to dlo no such thing, aud acted with the deliberate intentmioni to let the garrison perish. that they might thereby excite the North, and rouse them to unite in this unholy and unnatural war, by which the desperate and proihlgate leaders of an infuriated anid lawless party might gratify their vengeance and lust of power over the ruins (If their country, and1( amid the blind passion~s of a maddened peol1e. The document now published, and the pe. culiar circumstancees, show the basest and most infamous motives that have ever aetua ted the rulers of any people, except, perhaps, in the days of' the first F~rench revolution, when history shows that wh~olesale murder was often platmned by insurrectionists ini Pa ris under the deliberate guidance of mnalig nant leaders, whose whole objects were uni versal plunder and murder, in order to exter inate one party and ride into power them A mIome'nt'5 review of the line of argu-~ mment pursued in the article, will show that the policy finally adopted in regard to Fort Sumter was intended and desired by Mr. Lincoln and his advisers to lead to a war, not to b.2 regulated by the ru!es and usages antm n civiliz~ed and i nligt en-d poopie, but to One of rapine, murder, and utter exterumina tion of the peole against whom it was in tended to be waged, founded upon no princei ple of right, seeking not to re-establidh anly disputed authority, or' accomplish any other obiject than to gratify a lust f'or power and r 1evenge. F~or the purp'lose of' directly proving the motives and im~puil's of tile United States Go;tvernment in the inaugur ation of this war', it is only necessary' to mlake several extracts from the article in qfuestion, as they will serve also to direct the special attention of thme publie to those plortionas whic'h most vividly prove thte unhtallowed purposes of' P. este Lincoln and his advisers. One of the chief ends of the article seems to have beeni thme proof of treason on lime part of Presidlent lBuchnlan, and thtrough all of it rUnas the of'i-repeated "alternative" left thenm by him, of " p'ermitling Major Andlerson and h iis commanl~hd to starve within fif'teen days, or of ignominiously abandoning it to a nest of tr'aitor's," &c. Tlhis "alternative" is dwelt upon as if to dir ect spteciail attenitioni to it; and this very "I alternative" proves, above all the rest, the purpose which they hlad in view wheni they adopted their /inal policy. It is argued, nnd very elaborately too, that the pups of Presidenit Lincoln was to " pre serve pleace-.nt to " mamke war ; "to pro tect the sacred Constittution" confided to his keping ; and to gain over, by his avowedly peacefuld objects, those who had delie~d thlat "Const itutionI" amnd broken its~ laws. It is asserted that President Lincoln could not signing the order for the evacuation of Fort Sumter called forth ; and it is said, too, that he desired to "discharge his duty to humani ty;" and yet he has chosen to " discharge" that "duty" in the singular way of resolving on a policy which, in Ais own words, he knew would "raise throughout the mighty North a feeling of indignation, which in ninety days would have emancipated every slave on the continent, and driven their masters into the sea." The sacrifice was made; Anderson and his command were forced to become liable as victims to fanaticism ; Fort Sumter was wrayt in flames-; and yet, forsooth, they tell us that the only man who ;could- have prevented it "resolved to dischatge-his dutyto lkumanity,"' and that his purpose was."-peace't-his aver I sion " war." His " purpose" was chariged, and he resolved to bringon this unhallowed war. It is a Government actuated with (hess, feelings that we are to defend ourselve4 against; it is /his kind of war, then that thg people of the South are to meet; and under these circtumstances it bfcolues my duty to f publish the article in question for the infor mation of the-. peos' of the Confederate States, and for thcool and unbiassed con templation of the civilized world. A war thus inaugurated-from such motives and under such circumstances-surely can never meet with the favor of Heaven. A people educated and trained up to constitu tional liberty can never, for any; length of time, sustain such a war. - F. W. PICKENS. Abandonment of Fort Sumter. Kecessity Knote' no Lar.-There are pe riods in the history of nations and individu als, when the force of even- tis Proverb, is illustrated. The Law, or rather the demands of .fuctice, self-respect, National honor, and the vindication of our Nationality in the eyes of Europe, all demand that we should.retain possession of Fort Sumter at any and every sacrifice; and no man in this Nation is more deeply impressed with the paramount impor tance of doing, than is Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States. le feels and recognizes his duty in the premises; but the Law of necessi/y steps in, puts at defiance hi- wishes and his duty, and sternly forbids his attempting to hold or relieve the nolile Portres; so promptly snatched from the bands of the Rebels and Traitors of Charleston by the timely action of Major Anderson. Bu chanan and his Traitor Cabinet, had- delibe rately planned the Robbing of our Arsenals under the stuperiiitendence' of, and yith the eenniviance of the miserable fellow Fid whose portrait-now hangs so conspicuously in the Rogme's Gallery of our city Police, and we all know, that when Major Anderson took possession of Fort Sander, Floyd demanded its restoration to the Rebels, and Buchanan actually yielded to the demand, until threat ened with dhangeutr to his person if he ventured p,-; ani -n i -t ,if treacherv. iHe yielded to :t .-t:rt ier.--'t ; but in yicldiing he deter mained to a:rp lish I by mu:migenent and ;ins-"e. what he had not thi courage to do openly. 1ie aecordingly refusei to permit the 1'o to be reitlfurced u.s it couli have been in th) e days. with the n.e.essary i. n and stores to enabl: it to htohl out for a year at le:at, aintany 1hree whticht could be brought agtintst it ; and it was tnt unt ii after .Morris Island had beenf fortifled, that lhe sanctioned the abot tive aittemipt at succor molae by the SarIe of 1ie Il'est: and even counte.rmatded that order before it was carried into elfect. From Christtmas until the fourth of March, the Traitors and Rebels of Charleston and the Cotton States, received every coun)tenanuce and support from Mr. Uchanan whicht could be afforded thtem; atnd when hec retired from oflice on the 4lth intst., he gloated over the conviction, that he had fostered Rebellion and Trreason unitil they had become so rampant, that they were beyond the control of his sue cessor. And the one great source of his glo rifictation was, that Fortsumter was withont provisions; and thtat, of necessity, the gar rison must surrender from starvat ion beforeI it would be in the power of the ltiepul ican Administration to relieve and reinfore' it. Of course, Abraham Lincoln could know nothing of this treason; and when in his inaugural lie .spoke of occnpying the public Forts and collectintg the Revemue, he little dreamed that his Predecessor had treasonably arranged to make the abandonment of Fort Sunmter a political nzecessity. He was soon apprised however, that the Treason of his Predecessor, had ctuningly devis..d for him the most serious mortification that could be inflicted ; and that he had presented to him te altornative of permitting Andersotn and his comand to sfturc or promptly to with draw them, anud ignomitniously permit the Fort to fall into the hands of the Rebels. To rein force the garrison or to supply themt with Provisions, are egnally impossible, because Jamies lBuchanan and his associate Traitors, dsigntedly refused to do so while it was in their power to do it ; and compelled thte comi mandment, of thme Fort quietly to permit the cosruction of~ works int his immtediate vicin ity rand .mnder the range of his gunms, which - .aeffectually prevent his beitng relieved when an honest man assutmed the Govern umtnt ott the 4th of Match. liucluyuan's final act o.f Treason has been consummated. H~e prevented the late Congress passing a law givinig power to the Executive to call for vol unteers to occupy and recapture the jiiie Forts. and Arsenals; atnd he designedly left Fort uum/er ini a position which rend!ers re lief physically impossible without an army of from ten to twenty thousand men, atd the employmenut of a naval force greater thtan we can command ; and Ite and his myrmnidons now exultingly and tauntingly say to the Re. publicant President-" Do your worst. We have designedly withIheld from you the mac anms of relieving and holding Fort Sum/cr, and we invite you to the pleasinag alternative of per nitting Anderson and his cotmmand to .iturre withitn fifteen days, or of ignomninionsaly aban. donuing it to a nest of Traitors and Rebels whom we have nursed into existence as the only certain muode of destroying the Republi n Party. Such are the simple facts or the case as they are presented to the new President upon his assuming the reins of Government; and we speak advisedly and from knowledge when we say, that while the country has been wick. edly made to believe, that the time of the Administration has been occupied with the disposal of offices, fourfifths of all the hours spent in consultation by the Cabinet have been devoted to the consideration of the all important question--how to save Fort ,S'umter and avert from the Government the dishonor of abandoning it to the miserable Traitors who for months have been in open rebellion against the au'nor ity of the Government? Generals Scott and Totten, and all the mili tary and nrval chiefs at Washington, have been consulted ; every plan which military science could conceive or mi!itary daring sug gest, has been attentively considered and maturely weighed, with a hope at least, that the work of the Traitor Buchanan, was not so complete as he ann his associates supposed. But all in vain. There stands the isolated, naked fact-Fort ,S &nntr cannot be reliered because of the Treason of the late Adminis tration : and Vajor ANuransox and his com mand must perish by starration unless with <1rawn. What, then, is to be clone? Could the President leave them t3 starve? Cui Bono? Would the sacrifice of a handful of gallant men to the treason of thieves and rebels, have been grateful to their countrymen ? But, says the indignant yet thoughtless Pa triot, "think of the humiliation and dishonor of abandoning Sumter to the Rebels !" We do think of it, and weep tears of blood over the humiliation thus brought upon the coun try by the Traitor President who has just retired to Wheatland to gloat over his con summated treason. And we are assured too, and do not doubt the truth of the assurance, that when Abraham Lincoln was compelled to yield his reluctant consent to this most humiliating concession to successful treason, he did not attempt to suppuess the sorrow and tears which it called forth. But he had no alternative. "Necessity knows no lawx;" and to save the lives of the gallant men who have so long held Fort Sumter against an over whelming force of heartless traitors and wicked and unprincipled rebels, whose treason has been steeped in fraud and theft, vulgarly known as " Southern chivalry," the President of the United States in the discharge of a du ty to humanity, has signed the order for the evacuation of Sumter. - Had war, not Peace,. been his object-had 'e desired to raise throughout the mighty North a feeling of indignation, which in nine ty days would have emancipated every slave on the continent and driven their masters into the sea if needs be-he had only to have said -" let the garrison of Fort Saumter do their duty and perish beneath its walls; and on the heads of the Traitors and Rebels of the Slavery-propagandists be the consequences." Such a decision would have carried joy to the bosoms of Phillips and Garrison and their tanaticai ac'eeiates, who so justly consider allitionium and disunion synonymous; but it would hare bruught upon the country such scenes of horror as the mind shrinks from contemmpating. Verily, the blood of the mar tyrs, would have been the seed of "..%fro ~nancipaion.' For every patrioit soldier thus sacrificedl to the revival of the African Slave trade arid the establishment of a hideous Slaveocracy at the South, ten thousand negro slaves wvould have been emancipated and as many of their masters been driven into the ocean to .:pla~te their crimes onl earth. But Mr. Lincoln desired to rouse no such feeling of revenge amior.g the people of the Friee States. ie knew-no man knew bet ter-t hat he had but to hold on to Port Sumi ter agreeably to the plainly expressed will of L'he people and~ leare its galkmnt garrison to the fate prepared for thenm lby rebels aind traci trs, to insure an uprising which would at once have wiped~ out Slavery from the face of thc coiutry ; and wth it, all engaged in this atrocious reb~ellio~n against the Government. But his purpose is Peace, not War. Ihis ob jet is to restore. to, rebuild and to preserve the Governmentj, and the Constitution which enacted it; and his great aim is, while main taining the Constitution and enforcing the laws, to bring back good men to their allegi ance, and leave thme thieves and rogues, and braggarts who compose the great mass of the Rebels under the cognomen of "Southern Chivalry," to the uninterrnpted enjoyment of their own precions society and the reflections which thme tnutt awake even in them. Hec Is mindftil of his oath " rgiste~red in Ucaven," to preser-ve the Constitution and enforce the laws; and he feels that his mission is to re claim and not extinguish ; or most assuredly he coal have left Fort Sumter to its fate; and that fate, would have been speedy, cer tan, and nbisolute annihilation to the traitors now in rebellion Igainst the Government, and to the very existence of the institution of Slia very ott the American Continent. But he has been faithful to his oath of oflice and to the Constitution ; and~ by yielding to 'the ne cessity of the case and listening to the cry of humanity, Slavery has had accorded to it its last victory over freedom and the Const.: tu tion of the United States. The deed has been accomplished ; the sac. rilc has been made; Traitors ancd lebels are again triumuphant ; and the Stars and Sriems are again to be dishonored in the sight o the Nation and of' astonished Europe. The flag of the Union is to be pulled downm, and the bloody banner of Pirates, Freebooters,, Rebels and Traitors, is to be run up to wave, triumphantly over Surnter and be saluted from hundreds of guns in the Rebel camp,i amid the cheers of thousands whose sense less gasconade and bragadocio vauntings, hat e long since disgusted brave men and honest citizens. And yet, we approre thee act. A traitor President rendered it a necssity; and hunanity demanded that Abrahiam L incoln should sacrifice all personal feelings, and gracefully yield to that necessi/y and the de liberately planned treason upon which it is based. His countrymen will sustain him in ths discharge of an humiliating but an im neratie duty -lhnt with him they7 feel. that the acount is now closed with Treason. There is nothing now to yield to Traitors-nothing more to sacrifice in order to give to Slavery and the Slave trade the odor of Nationality. In future the President of the United States has only Laws to enforce and a Constitution to sustain; and woe be to them who thwart him in the performance of his duty, and to himself, if he. dares to shrink fpm the per formance of his whole duty. From the Toronto (Canada) Globe, July 26. The Civil War in the States. It now appears manifest that the estimated loss suffered by the Union army at. the battle and in the retreat from Bull Run was greatly exaggerated in the first accounts received ; and the direct mischief done is far less than have been anticipated. Had General Beaure gard possessed even a small number of well drilled troops with which to follow up the enemy, there is small room to doubt that the Union army would have been well nigh des troyed. But as it is the Federal forces have received no injury of vital importance.. The regiments got mixed up with one another in direct confusion; but having arrived in a place of safety, the men were at once able to range themselves under their proper flags. No estimate whatever has yet been given from Northern sources of the number of rifles thrown away in the retreat. That coming from a secession authority in Kentucky, which boasts of the capture of 25,000 stand of arms, as mentioned.by the telegraph this morning, we must,'.believe greatly exaggerated. Ac cepting the figures, however, the federal gov ernment will find little difficulty in replacing even so lerge a quantity of rifles before an other movement in advance is made. The cannon lost have already been replaced. Eigh. ty thousand additional troops are said to be ready to reinforce those now in Virginia, and every hour brings from the loyal States some additional tender, of men andj means for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion. The effect, then, of the defeat has been limitedwithin the smallest possible compass. The federal army is within a few men as strong as ever it was; ;the enemy have not gained one'yard, of ground. They have re pulsed an attempt to drive them from the pc. sition they occupy, but nothing more. Of course the success will give the rebels more confidence, increase their ardor, bring addi tional troops to their standard, confirm waver ers and induce greater sacrifices on the part of the people to sustain the cause in which they are eigaged. The influence of Generals Beauregard and Johnson will be increased no unimportant consideration, when it i- re membered that one of the first requisites to success in military matters is that the soldiers should h-ve confidence in their leaders. Hitherto necessarily untried men have been employed on both sides. The result of the first serious encounter indicates-we cannot say it proves-that the best generals are those on the side of the South. A great moral gain is therefore with the Confederates. They are stronger now than they have ever been since the contest commenced. They have however, done good service to the federal cause. The people of the North have been too confident. They imagined that the'ir enemies were to be swept off the face of the earth with the greatest possible ease. F-oreigners have never seen any reason to be lieve that American citizens of the South were to any greatt degree inferior in courage to those of the North. Yet the Unionists have, by repeatedly reiterating the accusation, convinced themselves that all the traitors were rarrant cowards. That they were greatly mistaken in these and many other matters unnecessary to mention, they are now con vinced. We apprehend, however, that the North retains sulticient of the old British leaven to see in 1he way of suppressing re bellion, reason only for greater exertion. The heart of the people of' the loyal States is set upon preserving the integrity of the repnblic. They will endure nmany hardships, make great sacrifices, submit to heavy taxes and lavish their blood for this purpose. The check received at Bull Run lasa convinced them that the work must be done deliberately-and they will wait in patiemce until their most ex perienced military oficers themselves pro nounce an advance desirable. We shall have nto more Congressional movements, as Gen eral Scott is said to have pronounced the one which resulted so disastrously on Sunday. The volunteers, too, will submit with patience to the needful military training, and public opinion will enable the General to o!!icer the troops as ho may think fit. Ety's EvperincemC and Good 1Promises. There are a great many prisoners in Rich mond, among them Ely. a Congressmnan. He says lie had no idea of being on the battle ground, but Foster (a Senator,) camne by him in a carriage and asked him to ride, and he went, and the first thing he knew of it the carriage run against somel artillery and broke down. ie jumped out, and the bullcts hailed so fast and thick that he run and got behind a tree. Presently some men came along, and thinking they were United States, he hailed them. Said one of them, who the h-I are you. I anm Ely, a member of Congress. The h-I you are-come go along with me, Mr. Ely. They carried bim (this is Ely's story told to Pryor) to Col. Cash, I think, and he aiys Cash nearly frightened him to death, telling him, damn hinm, he believed he would hang hinm there and then, and let it he thought he was killed in battle. Ely sent for Pryor, cried and hung around his neck and begged him to get hinm out. Said he never made a speech against the South, that lhe was always opposed to the way the admiinistri.t'on was doing, and that if they would let him go he u-ould hare our- prirateers released, that theU should'nt be kiung, and that he would vote and speak right. When they marched Ely to jail into the room where the common soldiers were, which stunk like a jail will, crowded, he stopped on the threshold and said gracious mercy, you are not going to put moe in with all these common soldiers, are you. The sentinel fixed his bayonet, and said, get in or I'll stave this ayonet throngh vOA. le sent for Wigfall and askedl him who, he supposed would he done with him. Wi fall said "hang you, ( -d d-n you, han you. Address to the Army from Gebeal Johnston and Beauregard. The following eloquent address of our ger erals to the army under their command wil excite the patriotic emotions of every South ern reader: HRAnQrARTE:S ARMY OF TILE POTOMAC. MANAssAs, July 25, 18S0. Soldiers of the Confederate States : One week ago a countless host of men, or ganized into an army, with all the appoint ments which- modern art and practiced skit could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia Their people sounded their approach witl triumphant displays of anticipated victory Their generals came in almost royal state their great ministers, senators and women came to witness the immolation of our army and the subjugation of our people, and to eel ebrate the result with wild revelry. It is with the profoundest emotions of grat itude to an over-ruling God, whose hand i manifest in protecting our homes and ou liberties, that we, your generals commanding are enabled, in the name of our whole conn try, to thank you for that patriotic courage that heroic gallantry, that devoted daring ex hibited by you in the actions of the 18th and 21st, by which the hosts of the enemy were scattered, and a signal and glorious victory obtained. The two affairs of the 1Sth and 21st were but the sustained and continued efforts o your patriotism against the constantly recur ring columns of an enemy fully treble youl numbers; and their efforts were crowned or the evening of the 21st with a victory so com plete that the invaders are driven disgrace fully from the- field, and made to fly in disor derly rcuts back to their entrenchments, distance of over thirty miles. They left upon the field nearly every piece of their artillery, a large portion of their arms equipments, baggage:, stores, &c., &c., and al most every one of their wounded and dead amounting, together with the prisoners, t< many thousands. And thus the Northert hosts were driven from Virginia. Soldiers ! we congratulate you on an even which insures the liberty of our country We congratulate every man of you, whose glorious privilege it was to participate in t' triumph of courage and of truth-to fight in the battle of Manassas. You have created an epoch in the history of liberty, and unborn nations will rise up and call you " blessed." Continue this noble devotion, looking al ways to the protection of a just God, and be fore time grows much older, we will bo hailed as the deliverers of a nation of ten millions of people. Comrades ! our brothers who have fallen have earned undying renown upon earth, and their blood shed in our holy cause is a pre cious and acceptable sacrifice to the Father o Truth and of Right. Their graves are beside the tomb .f Wash ington; their spirits have joined with his ii eternal communion. We will hold fast to the soil in which the dust of Washington is thus minged with the dust of our brother.<. We will transmit thi: land free to our children, or we will fall int( the fresh graves of our brothers-ia-arms. WC drop one tear on their laurels, and move for ward to avenge them. Soldiers ! we congratulate you on a glori ous, triumphant and complete victory, and w thank you for doing your wchwle duty in th( service of your- country. J. E. JlonssroY, General C. S. A. G. T. BE.WREnARD. General C. S. A. PosT~wE os LFEIRS OF SoI..ERs AOn MEMnEumu OF CuN R Ess.-Congres's has passe-d. in secret session the following bill, which will be of interest to our readers: An Act relatingq to thec Pr-epayme'n/t'f P'o~etage in certain easts. Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact: That all letters nd other matter authorized by law to be transmitted through the mail, written or ment by any officer, musician or private of the army engaged in the actual service of the Confederate States, may be transmitted through the mails to any other place in the Confeerate States without pre-payment of postage; but leaving such postage to be col. cted upon the delivery of said letter or oth r matters. Prod'ied, nevertheler.s, that in il such cases, the letters and other mail mnat, er so sent shall be endorsed with the name. md shall ho on account of the individual sending the same, and shall contain a de icription of the party who sends the same, by edorsement of his military title, if an oflicer, or of the company and regiment to whic~h he belongs, if a musician or private. SEc. 2. That letters and other mail matter sent to any officer, musician or private in the Confederate States army, at any point from which the said officer, musician or private may have been lawfully removed, shall be for warded to the person to whom directed, at the post ollice nearest which he may hav been removed, free of additional postage. Sse. 3. That on letters transmnitted bya member of Congress, with his oflicial signa' ture endorsed on the same, pre-paymnit of postage shall not be required, but the saum may be p~aidl on the delivery of the lette' thus transmitted. SE. -4. Any person attempting to violatC the provisions of this sct shall be guiltyo misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay th( sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace having cognizane thereof. First Bale of New Cotton. . The first bale of new cotton in market this season, was received on 310th ult., from the plantation of Samuel P. Davis, Esq., of this county, at Ware-House of Simm & Rust. it weighed 500O pounds, was clean, well handled. Staple good, and classed as fair cotton. We are glad to report that this first bale of the c..p tooke a ferid oa n same Ana. in nassen. < ger train to Macon, and will, in a short time, return made into snbstancial goods, which, nn dcr the nimble fingers of the Dougherty counly ladies, will be speedily transferred in. t' clothing fur our patriotic soldier:.-Alba ny Patriot. The Battle at Manassas. 1RICHMoND, VA., July 29, 1881. - To the Editors of the Dispatch: Among the many incident of t';e battle of Manassas which have been 'reported in the city press since the fight, there was one important fact which should not be pas3cd ovcr in silence, - and I am surprhied that it has not before . this time been mentioned, viz: the share iyhicli two South Carolina regiments had in the affair. These regiments (the' 21 Soitth Carolina, Col. Kershaw, and the :.I South Carolina, Col. Cash.) reached the scene of action about 17. o'clock, p. m. Just before they caught sight of the enemy, they were met by at least fifteen hundred of nr men-many of them womdlcd-coming away from the Reld of battle, who told them "the day was lost l' that " Col. Hampton and all his officers were killed, and the enemy were driving our forces hack?" This was the tenor of the informa tion received by these two Palmetto regi ments, who had already gone over four miles of hilly and broken ground at the double quick step, and wore of course, in no plight to plunge into a contest with twenty times their force, probably flushed with the pros pect of victory, and excited to madness by the contest. But the gallant Palmettoes, al though believing they were marching on to certain destruction-upon a worse than for lorn hope-never faltered. a moment, except to inquire the nearest way to the scene of combat, and hurried on. They soon heard a sharp volley from a wood in front, and the balls whistled through their ranks, cutting down many of their number, white the air overhead was alive with the hoarse scream of shells and the hum of cannon shot as they crashed through the branches around. Charging through the -wood, they came in sight of the enemy-the N. Y. Fire Zouavee and the Chasseurs-and with a cheer that was beard through the din of battle rushed upon the foe, firing as they went! The en eny immediately broke and fled across fields, fences and ditches for about a mile; but five or six regiments of them rallied on a high hill opposite. The Palmettoes made at them, but were ordered to halt. Why this order was given we could not at first see, for ou ranks were being rapidly thinedl by the long. range Minnie and Maynard guns of the Yani kcns. But while asking each other what it meant, we heard the clear voica of Col. Ker shaw ringing over the field, " Boys, lie down, and let the artillery lire over von!" We iam mhediately fell upou our ftces, and the artille ry (consisting of Kemper's Alexandria batte ry,) sent death and desolation among the well-drawn-up lines of the foe on the opposite bill, while our men picked off the officers or individuals occupying prominent places among them. They began to waver, and a few more Dhots from Kemper and a volley or two be tween the pauses of the artillery from the deadly Mississippi rifles of the Palmetto boys completed the rout. ald the enemy fled in confusion. Their own artillery (six splendid tilled pieces of Grillin's battery) was turae:l upon them, and lent additional terror to their flight. But the fact to which I referred in the beginning of this slight outline was this : These two South Caro lina regiments, togeth er with Kemnper's battery, and a detachment of the irginia Black Ilorse Cavalry, pursued I he ene-my for :six miles beyond the field of battle and captured over twenty pieces of ar. tillehry, biesides armsi and .stores innumerable. which o:.herwvise would have been entried off ! P.orJmKTO. A PI.LcrY W~ovA.--We know ofa North ern horn and Northern raised lady, who mar. ried a Southern plant,-r, and who,, w t er husbanud, makes her ahede a: a p .int j *.w z.: of a certain city on the M:ssissippi river, aat a hundred thonsand miles above New Orleans. Thbis lady has nyver let an occosion slip on which she conld abuse and villify the South ern Confederacy. A short time since slhe was on board a steamer, going up from New Orleans, and was, as usual, wagging her tongue at a 2:40 rato against our sect ion. Among har anditory was a lady of the true Southern grit, who listened to the harangue, while he-r cheeks grew pale and red by turns, and her teeth made deep indentations in her coral lips. At last, when she could stand it no lnger, the Southiernt matron rosc from her acat and walked over to where the female speaker was letting off her abolition gas, and. shaking her finger in that, lady's face slowly and distinctly caid: " Madaine, I have a husband. two sons and three brothers in the army of the Southern Confederacy They are fighting for their country, and if' they are killed, they will die like gallant men, and however great the loss may he to me, I shall have the consolation of knowing they fell in a good cause. You are a woman, and you talk as you do, because you know that no Southern gentleman will force you to stop. I am a Southern woman, and I now tell you that you shall not abuse my people in my presence. If you say another word against the Southern Confederacyv, I shall whip you in the presence of those pas sengers!" The Southern blood was up, and there would have been an awful wreck of de laine and crinoline if that Yankee wvoman hadn't been immediately struck dumb. To make safety doubly sure, she also retired- to her state room, and locked the door with the key inside. That's the style of woman for Louisiana to swear by.-New Orlean~s Delta. " LIFc SETT.EMETs."-The Richmornd irl~g thus gouges into the New York Times with a quotation from its own columns: " The thousands of our soldiers who are anxious to make life settlements in that miag nificent dominion (Virginia) have already had their wishes gratitied. They are im proving the lands about Bull Rtun, and will soon render them the most productive in the