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"What news-you mean? my little one, It mus be mighty fine, To make my darling's choeks so red, ' Her merry blue eyes shine." " Why, Abram Lincoln, don't you know, The Yankee President, Whose ugly picture once we saw, When up to town we went; Well he is going to free you all; And make you rich and grand, And you'll be dressed in silks and gold, Like the proudest of the land. A gilded coach shall carry you Where'er you wish to ride, And, mammy, all your work shall be, Forever laid aside," The eager speaker paused for breath, And the old nurse said, While closer to her swarthy cheek, She pressed the golden head: " My little Missus, stop and res, You's talkin mighty fas, Jes look up dere, and tell me what You see in yonder glass? You see old Mammuy's wrinkly face, As black as any coal; And underneath her hankercher, Whole heaps of knotty wool. My baby's face is red and white, Her skin is soft an' tine, And on her pretty little head Do yeller ringlets shine. My chile, who made dis difference 'Twixt mn mmy and twixt you ? You reads Ie dear Lord's blessed book, And you can tell me true. De good Lord said it must be so, And honey I for one, Wid tankful heart will always sly His holy will be done. I tanks Mass Linkum all the saue, liut when I wants for free, I'll ask de Lord of glory, Not poor buckra man like be. And as for gilded carriages, Dey's nothin 'tall to so: My massa's coach, what carries him, Is good enough for ine. An' honey, when your mammy wants, To change her homespun dress, She'll pray like dear ole Missus To be clothed with righteounness. My work's been done dis many a day, And now I take's my ease, A waitin for do Master's call, Jes when do Master please. An' when at las' de time's done come, An' poor ole mammy dies, Your own dear mother's sof white hand all close dese tired ole eyes. in~arf- rdo., eJuwessoon-will-tall, - t le mammy home to him, An' he kin wash her guilty soul From ebry spot of sin; An' at His feet I shall set down. Who died and rose for me, An' den, and not 'till den, my chile, Your mammy will be free. Come, little Missus, say your prsyers, Let ole Mass Linkum 'lone, De debbil knows who b'longs to him, An' he'll take care 'f his own. Free 'he Newcberry S. C. Cunn-rt. Something more about Sper:ts. " And there were nline of themu, all1 stand ing round the door, and the last one of them said they would take sugar~n m there'n, and a little boy, eight years old, says he, Pap, I'll take a litc it it kills me. My dear brethren: The last sarmuint I preached you, was on the subject of sper its. In that discourse I told you of the different kind of sperits, evenly of the sperits of' just men miade perfect, for there was " nine of themi all standin' round the door, and the last one of them~ said they would take sugar in thiere'n, and a little boy, only eight years old, says he, Pap, I'll take a little if it kills me." and in the present discourse, I will tell you of' the use that is muade of sperits. Ia the first place, myw brethren, thtere are those who don't use those gifts of' nat tur iu their purity, nor as their own c:ou sience dictates-for instance the candy dats-but they are iln the hab.it of poutr ing out tandeleg and buckeyve in killin' doses, and Jhey arc gulped downt by the pople in summiter and winter, in seedtimela and in harveat. and the " last one of themx said they would take sugar in there'n, and a little b'oy only eight ye:'rs *.l. says. Pap, I'll take a little. if' it kill< toe Now, moy brethren. do you spose these candy-dates keer for the good of the coi~l try, or the internal comftirt of~ the people ? Not a bit; for ef they had a sly chanice. and they thought they could make any thing by it, they would take a feller oil by himself' and treat him to pop skull andi rd eye, and there might be niine of them all staindin' round the door, and the I.a-.--i one ot' them, if' they was :-xt, would~ say they would take sugar in therc'n. But m y brethrenig. there is :umother' class of sperits rappers, who are ver~y different fromt this class. The ob jetioni I have to them is that they are to keerful. If' you keep a look out. yoi u an a mowst any tune' see one of these felIlows stepj til to the speit land, by his self', antI undier te pretense of' the ionly.grubis, or sonme tther ail:nnt, call far a fou'tr.fingered load fori his stumiei sake. I havee seen them at slippin' away f'romi their friends, when, " there was nine of themt all standmii rouniid the door. antd the latst one of ltem said they woubil tatke sugar in the're'n, and a litte hoy' only tight yea:rs old sayvs lie. Pap. lIl take ai little it' it~ kills mue !'' A mny a haird shell lBaptist. hhie-b.ellied Presi 'vt erian, cavortin Me.thodis, and ~i.thid tut Pis-opadlii b'ing to this set. anl t hey are expect in' Stomeit dayv to p:ay upon that " har-p of a thojiuand st rintr; spits of just men mzade perfct''t," but in that day it will be' no go, I ir they will atll " e sttadin' rotnid and the last onet of thel will take sugar in there'ni, liut there will be nto sugar." But my brethering, there is still ani.tht-r ,lass of speritul people, who are ailwaiys tandin' round the dioor. Som~tetimes I wnt to) axe one of rmy brethring to take .a drink with moe, a drink with sugar in it. and I can't do it, a for there are nine of~ them all standin' round the door, antd the last one of them said they will take sugar in there'n, and the little boy on ly eight ve.,-C old. saLv' he. Pap. J'll take a little et it kills ie." These fellows, my brmth ring, never huy any sperits of their own, but they drink the sperits of everybody s else. In election times they stick to can. a dy.dites who treats the most. and they t; may always be seen "standin' round the s door." They never lose sight, much less il smell, of the critter, and they are not ' particular about having sugar in ther'n- V but they had something rather. J In conclusion, my dear breethring, be. t ware of the candydates, look with a wish- (t tl eye upon the brother who drinks his t self, and if you should happen to be at i Fairtix Court house, or Massas 1 unction, f tarry not in the plains, but fly to the I a mountains, "for there are nine of them all s standin' round the door, and the last one v of them all said they would take sugar in t< thern, and the little boy eight years old, d( says he, Pap, I'll take a little ef it. kills mue!" ti lDut when you go to drink, drink a gdod 1 article, and never go in without axin' me, 1( or some other one of the breethring-for i - there are nine of them a standin' round p the door. and the last one of ihei said \ they would take sugar in ther'n, and a f little boy only eight years old, says he, c Pap, I'll take a little of it kills mue !" c The health o' our Camps. il PaOF. DAnnY, Or EAST A.AUAMA COLLEGE h T the Editors of the Enjuqirer: "1 Gentlemen :-Feeling, like thousands ti o our taelow citizens, the deepest solicitude P in regard to the health of our army, I t visited Fairfax and its environs, to see if P there was any obvious cause of the vast to atouiit ot sickness amoing our forces. S The cause, in tty opinion, are most a :pparent. It is now a well established b tfear. that for the atmosphere. to rightly t perform its office in supporting hunan . health. it mnust contain ozone, the active a condition of oxygen. It is readily detected ii in all healthy localities. I tested for it a in the tents of our so!diers, and none a could he discovered in the lower parts of C the tents in the morning. The sleepers s then were without this essential condition b ef' the vital air. The mere absence of this might, perhaps be borne by imiost h constititions for many successive hours ; but it would be remarkable that the agent that neutralized the ozone should just ti be sufficient to produce that neutrality, C and not be in excess. Hence, we tested. - ttr what Savi calls rekrine, and found it ti abundantly in a tent in which live of our j, oldiers slept. This is s heavy putrescible ' 'ub st anee. without odour, and is gener ated in certain conditions of decaying matter. Its source in the tents is probably ti mostly from the emanations of the bodies n fth'e -&errr Aicthig' purifies -more' readily than those emanations, as may readily be proved Another --";rce i ti trotm the soil on which they 1Ii,. The g living vegetation, which would (itlme?:; t I) cstine thos, materials, is des't r edel a1nd the warmti of the body hastens its production, and there is no ozone in the u air to constiue it. Ozine and puterine are antagonists. F Where one exists the other cannot. The above are the thts-caln they be tl remitedied ? We think their cotditions might be reversed. 'The tents are toon close at night. 'I hey might he made so that thev could not he closed only tosheiter Ii andl keejp oflf the storm. One thbird of the tent should always lie o'pen ; the op~emlng sarranged that it might b~e altered to ditlrent sides of' the tent, so as to be to the leeward in storms. There are too. manuy in a tent as now construted.t T1he tents are too near each other. a There should be at least one road between the tents ; so that the sun may have its full et~ect on the intervening spaC.c'. l The contents (of the tents, especially r laikets. straw, &ce., should lie platecd out in the sun every day, when the sun shines.t The tents should be completely rolled up or removed at least onice a week, that the sun may have its purifyintg effect on the : Much aidvantage, no doubt, might. be gained in the location of the tents mi regiard to each other and surrounding localities. Our prevailing winds are westerly. All j iive loealities should, of course, be J to the leeward, or east bide of the c ap; the tents being arranged North and South,I the cooking and fires should, as mucih as possible, lhe on that side, that the vitiatedI atir ay not be driven inuto the tents. TlheI conditions are rever-' int the arrangemelt ct dI ot muymt of the campt. 'lThe sickness ia now somewhat submiding for want of material in subjects ; but if no better arraneentst are inade, pneumonia, pleu risy imid typhoid fever will aippear with grcater virulence. Manyv of the camps are kept clear from otlensive materials; but even this, we are sorry to say is not the case~ with all. lBut the utnost cleaimnnss is nt sufhicient. The viruts has nto necssary Lc ttlition with filth It:i exhib ited toi sightt I, or smell. The most loathsomte conlitidnis * ia be fcree from itthe act ive: age~t ill I produciniig diseatse, antd the tmoist cleanly b ippetv. Imay pruceuil it itn greatest ' po~er. The tests atre the only' critet riln,,. aid Itlese.alotld lbe "lpp'lid. , n It is said the condi it ions repured are irmpctiable. 11loweve.r t h inimay beI, I cannot, sa.i If arm disipline. ." enats and is inflxibile, site is inl conflict inever vield, Ilutttan bin~gs must have ( and the~ contditionis of surply intst, he obserCivd. or* such re-ult5 as or m now mutm. t fstint themtselvyes ini our -inty wil fui ow. I I have made~k thte aboi ve statemenntts with-t ut arutmenwt or proof; that your space m igt be sp,:uie'l, :uud with the kuuldest ' is~ towards'.h alii conegrnted . havn no to (ither mi tive t han the ieres:t oif oitr o gl riuis cause'. by promottg the he.altht of~ a our oblef soldliers. h Very respectfully, o * J. C.I). ti _. - .-- ,-----.- t Lincoln pays~ wel for info'~rmiationl from 1 Ihe "reb els."' Th'e sp Iies are doing a b thriving buinesis~. A Washiny;e'i dis- in ptc mto the New Y. k I Ierald, of tnh :5h II ultio, says. that a yimung man w~ho' enmrie I. there and statted thait the rebel army~ wasL well stpplied with shoes, has been ap- t pointed a Lieuteniant in the army for such Winter Quarters. There seems to be an -impression with Dme -rsons that the troops on both sides re going into winter quarters, and mili try operations will be suspended till the pring. The Northern generals have not te most remote idea of any such inaction. 'he policy of the North is to make the 'ar short and sharp" and with this ob yet, it has carried on its military opera ions during a season far more trying to ie health and endurance of Northern roops than the winter. If they had gone ito summer quarters, and waited for the l or winter before attempting to invade Southern country, . they would have hown more wisdom tian in choosing hot 'eather for such an enterprise, and adding that folly by suspending operations tiring the most salubrious and invigora ug season in our climate. So far from ling into winter quarters, the North uoks to the winter-which, in the South, i mild, agreeable and healthful-as the eriod of its greatest activity and eflort. Ve may set this down as one of those .ed facts which we may base our own lculations upon with the most perfect mnfidence and safety. To wait till the ring is simply to wait till the wurs ason foib Northern military movements as returned again, to perpetuate the comu, iercial misery and individual distress in le Northern cities, and to increase the robabilities of foreign interference for to purpose of procuring the cotton sup Is. McCiellan looks forward to no win J quarters except in the heart of the outh, and will be compelled to make the tenipt, if not in the direction of Manassa, y some other route which will strike at ie capital and cotton of the Southern onfederacy. That he will meet with an ihilating defeat, that he wiil be even tore thoroughly routed than at Manassa. id not only routed, but followed tip and iihilated, is our firm conviction. Nev rtheless, he will make the attempt, and ich a thing as " winter quarters" cannot e found in his vocabulary. "Winter quarters," in thct, is an obso te idea among the military men of odern times. Even in the old wars of merica, our glorious ancestry uas not ed up to " winter quarters." The snow ad regions of Canada were invaded in id-winter. and it was over frozen rivers tat Washington led his soldiers, with are an.d bleeding feet, to their glorious ictories in New Jersey. We have a utter and more inspiring cause than ever fashingtoi defended. We must take no ate of winter, except to provide our -oops shelter and clothing, and derive ,w energy from its heahhful airs and ieing-.winds." -So-far 2as- going -into winter quarters" implies inuactioi during t winter, we apprehend that nio1 Sottherii ineral dreams of Cnry suih suicidal imi eilitv.-Richnond Disp atch. " 1 Mr. .1. Woo D).melnsos, Contrib. torial Editor of the \Vinnshoro Register, riting from the Camp at Lightwood not springs, near Coltnbia, says: This period of the year usually find i sprils L gland other plIeasture resorts de :-zed ; hut Liqhtrwon Kiwi Spriigx is ill in the l'ull tide of sueeessfu l attend le. There is a great deal of conung r et. .ll' .i.-ut-/ i.e/ up field pui-suits \Var is a veryv big lbing ats our men are st lindiug out. The romianice (A the -ted field is not: hard to kinock out of a Ilow who is well exercised with early reilles and lots of doule-q1uick dtiriing i day. Arims (not womian's) are rough d heavy things, breast-.worlks (ditto) aLre ct pleasant to mieet. But apart fromt the romance and all at, we have as noble an army as ever llied to a country's banner. Our sol. iers in active service suilier ofteti; but iy feel the eyes of' interest and afflectioni em on them fromi home. It has been said that the peculiar char. eteristic of the souitheirner has alvays ee his devotion and deferenc toi woman. \len this war is 'over thait devotion may tell become worship aind that 'lelirenice aiere into reverce;~C fir ler in the isto'y of any people sin1ce civilizaitioni awned, has womaniil roSe to SO pure and oble (nay, divine) an attitude as now. iigle in.-,tanc.'es, here mid there in history, ave reflected honor uipont our own race. ere. woman'i has ri~cen as one~ andu pre-. mts the subliime exanple of universal evoioin to our cou'lntry pr''I'vationi, saeri c, dutv. ebarity, Ilove, laboui -/,eroom. ever before has~ woman, as a whole pee. I, conw forward thus. Bless them all. To Cmlarins CoFEE.-Don't use the Luf. There isn't tone cook in five hun. red who ever did anythiing else than bme~x it. Some of the papers are recom ind ing sub sti tutes--par'ched beants, peats, ye. bread cru'ist4. acorns. &c., &c. Swamp mad willI blacken water' just as eflectuail. , but m-ithier' of theimi will ma~ke Colfee ny mtor'e thatn ebalk will inak'' cheese. ou ust hav'e a warni dinik. t.ske oiig wvater' anti put a little milk and iari in it. C omipared with what is called 1e. ini utine eases 'ut of' ten-it. is the~~ ectr out thle go ds to Ilarger beeri, and doeits oa no harm, whiila the coffee fills your oach with mud banitks andI sht'als, .ninst which the hark of' hmtiian lif'e is ient wreckeid. The gre:iuest htumblug im , world, as cuiommoly iund~erstood and ac'ticed, is roife! T''hink of patying ity cenits a piounid fur charcoal to embhit 'r id blacken the water you drinik. The ractice should be suppressed by the ;oard ot' Health, if' there were no war to Thei~ l'allowing extracts friotm the letters ' Gein. Nathaniel Greeiie I think worthy fa pa:ce in you l.p'per at this timie, -heni mai~ny are prone to complini of dships and sufferings brought oin us by r war for independence. " At the hat e of the Etutaw Springs " hundreds of iy men w ere nakedl as they were born. 'osteity will scare'ely believe thant the are loins oIf many b rave men'l, who unr jed death into the en'ittvs ranks at the tutaw, were galled by their cartouichi tixes, while a folded nig or tuft of moss rotected thiir shoulders from sustaining' i same injury from the musket," Ia letter to the Seeretary at War, he .'aWe lianv three httndredl ment without arms, and more than one thousand so naked that they can be put on duty only in cases of a desperate nature. I I have been seven months in the field with out taking off my clothes. Our Position--We are for Peace. It is proper that the position of every man and every political press should in the present crisis be distinctly defined. We have no hesitation in defining ours. While we acknowledge the duty of allegiance and fidelity to the government of our country, by whomsoever admin. istered, we are against coercion. We are for peace. The South, which, in this scandalor civil war, will include every slaveholding State, cannot be re-couz uered. Her sons may he defeated on the field of battle ; her cities destroyed, her fields laid vaste, but they will not then be conquered. It' defeated they will flee to their mountain fastnesses and their morasses, still carry on the war, until ultimately their invaders will be driven frotm their soil. They never will be conequered. Then why make war upon thema ? Why sacrifice thousands of precious lives and hundreds of millions of money, when in the end it will avail nothing ? Now, let every true patr' t in the land -Republican, Whig, or Democrat-de mnand that this fratrieidalstrife shall cease. Let our Southern brethren go, if they cannot remain with us except by coercion at the pointof the bayonet and the cannon's month. .We are for the peace policy. When our land is filled with widows and orphans, aid our homes draped with mourning, as they will be in two short years, and we thet find our brothers of the same race still unconquered. all will be for peace. Then why not make it now, before all these tremendous sacrifices have been made? We are for our country, or what re mains of it. We are for its brilliant and gIl'rious emblem-the stars and stripes. its glory should never be-bedirnmmed by bathing its fblds in the blood of brothers. We are for naintaining the glory of this flag on the soil of our own country We are not fir the invasion of the South. We are for the defence of the North. If'our brethren of the South invade the North, we are for repelling them. We tire for defending the cit - of Washington until Maryland shall se :edc. As long as that State shall renair in the Northern Union, we are fore - soil, and that ington. If si. even to de feid Such is our p be-the positiul-OJ North. It probalbi) only their position, hI. of thousatnd:s of JReput war. shall have been I -Concord (N. 11.) Dem. Standard. PRoPoSED DiscIn.tRG. oF SICK Sor.tmeI', -We understand that the Go vernImlent is considering the plan of giving absolute ikeharges instead of furloughs to the sick soldiers likely to be incapable of doing duty for any considerable period of time. TIle Iplan is reconmnended by a nuiber of cotsiderations. It may be safely esti. mated that a good proportion of the sick solili.rs discharged, under these cireinn sine(', wilt, after rec'ruitinzg at their homies instead of the hospitauls, volunte:er auit to take the lie~d. The plan proposed will, secure of them the best tre'atmnent. of couse, with t he care of relatives and friends and the conuventiencte of hoes; will relieve thle hospitals of' mtuch of the inconveient pre'ssulre upon themn; and is calculatedl to f'urnish, on the whole, the most economical. expeditiouis, and, per haps. hunmane disposition of our' invalid soldiers.-Richmtond Exaine. Pi' r Ux.--A corr'espondent of' the Clrendon B~anner' is down on "mnopo lies" with a v'engeance. Pecad how he crowds the poor untbrtunate i'ellows whose avaricious in(-lintlttions hanve led thenm astruy: "We imake the broad :ztz1 unqualified assertion, that the ma wht ~lo carries within himi a heart that cold prom~lpt the desire n>"iake mzone'y" from'tz the neces'ities aind :7i,tses of' the peophle at tis tie and umler e.ristiuv/ cir'cums'atacx', he that imanl ths allrtiler or' the wholceule <1eaher woth s thi'e - enhoh a hIs~ conduct is not only -- imean and con kiemp1tible," hut he is a truitor' to the mzost. vhal interests of' the country, and as a traitor r'ichly merits the denunciation atnd condemnnat ion of every good citizen." Arnd the Sounthern HWatchman on the same subject says: "lHe who, by word or action, creates that influence which tends to clog the whels of' our rolling car of' indlependenee, whih'l tenids to increase the dimliulties and t'rials librough which our peo.ple are now iasiig. c:utini(t bei ela-sed' attonig the true fi'nds of' our1 great cauise. 1Tis is no0 time to. heap up trea.sure fr'om the results of the neceessitie's o~f the coutriy, and IA't'ry mtan, lie is positioni inl socity what it. may (ev'en though lie shiould ha ppe'n to le assooiated with those who pr'ofe~s to be guided by the senttimnents of' love and chariiity) who tus enigages hants'lf. shultad have the mark platcedi upfon him, in orde'r that he may' be idlentified in fit tutre." A T 1'W \omA.--The Worl d's WVash ingtoni correspon'tdent relartes the followv Iwas told to-day of' a marvellous in stane of' escape of a prisotner' captured byteeev. IIe was a member of' the SeodRgimnent of' Vermont. After the battle he was place~d in a tent. lie noticed that hte was not guarded, and wacing an opportunity, eff'ected an es. cape into t.e woods near by. lie made his way to ntear Lcesburg, and finnishinig for want of' food, asked a wvoman to give him sotmething to eat. "Xou are' a Federal soldier I see,'' said " I ami," he r'eplied~ and wetnt on to ex lhil about his being takenm prstisioner, and how he~ escaped. "Have yotu a mother ?" " I have." "I1 will rriva yon fnnol anelt navc voun said.the lady : "a son of mine in the'rebel al agmy has been taken prisoner, and I have ei te feielings of a mother ihr you." L She at once gave him a hat and a suit "w o clothes behImging to her hunband. who hi ma miller, and through this disguise he h6 worked his way outside the enemy's lines fr and thence to this city. He now wears c: t e hat and suit about town. a From the South Carolinian. ospital Supplies. r For general information upon a matter I di special importance at this time to our (tizens, we beg leave to quote the Army Ii Iegulations upi li lospital Subsistence. Sestion 1.073 of the Regulations reads : e lssues to .the hospital will be on re- di t ns.by the mediical oflicer feLr such pro- fC vpio only as are actually required for fo the sick and the attendants. The cost of suich parts of the ration as are issued will becharged to the hospital at contract or .e t prices, and the hospital will be credi- S tto by the whole nunmbe r of complete ra." tens due through the month at contract It oncost prices; the balance constituting it' fli hospital fund, or any portion of it, th .be expended by the conniesary, on tl .-requisition of the medical offier, in the purchase of any article for the subsis t ice or comfort of the sick, not author i d to be otherwise furnislied. At large I is or general hospitals, this fund may li biVpartly expended for the benefit-of de- Ii pindent posts or detachments, on requisi- di tijns approved by the medical director he oVsenior surgeon of the district." th The fact that the Ladies' Hospital at it the Fair Grounds, in this city, has been a b gely dependent for needed supplies upon the generosity of our citizens, espe cidtly of the ladies, has raised in some niinds the inquiry, why has not the regu. ni la course for furnishing supplies been th taken, so as at least tosassist those volun. is] tary Q>ntributions which have flowed in with.' sch noble liberality ? We have taken occasien to make some inquiries. e know,. of personal knowledge, that the surgeon of the post at Lightwood Knot Springs, and the surgeons of the tree regiments respectively, have iiiade G proper and full returns to the regimental L commissaries, and these commissaries M huve di.,htarged their duties by making St r4.uisinis upon the conunissairy of the pt. But as yet the arrangements have fu nit been successful, owing to difficulties thi 1 ing beyond the reach of these officers. sec au : ticle. from the Saranauh Re- is publican. uking for inormation as to the best mriithad of pickling beef. I have thoroughly tested the following recipe, N and tin the pjust seven years have never p tiled by this process, and have hadl the P very best corned beef I have ever eaten. c For pickling 100 pounds beef. Take six gallons of water, nine pounds of salt. n three pounds browln sugar, one quart i lasses. ttoz saltpeter, loz red pejper, and one oimewe potash. Boil and Skim~ it well,a and let it staind until enti relyv cold ;then having rubbed your meat with line salt anid pa;cked aind closely tilled in a water tight eask, pour the birinec over it-after stanlding :,ix weeks, reboil the brine and return it to tihe tub, or if yon prefer miak- et mug it into b~acon, take it outt of the brine t aIt thle end of thu ,-ix weeks and, smioke it .' well with green hickory wood. This reC-b eipt answers admuiraibly for curing haims also. J. R. S. Rome, Ga., Oct. 7th 1861. MErr CoI.Luso wivh rilE RIE..- II Amiong the arrivals at Richmond last week f we see chroniicled that of Sir James Per guson, Knight, a memtiber~ of the Uritish etc Paurliamnent ; and, it is stated in connec tion with him, that lie brings letteris toi-r the Prersident of the Rebel Confederacy Y fromi Dudley Maini, one of the rebel ' Commissioners to Europe. If~ this be so, it is a nota ble inistance of' thie viohitiont of neutrality, and deserves to have the :at. m tt'ttion of the Enuglish Government called be to it. Anly subject, of Great Britian; who e would identify himself so far with theu th rebel cause as to act as bearer of djes patches between traitors at home and traitors abroad, can have no very nice fl sense of honor or self.respect, and as Sir James must have passed through the thi Northern States to get to Richimond, lie hi has doubtless given tihe JemT D~avis cabali p1 tile benefit of hiis observations. and earned, h< in addition to his knightly title, that of spy, so that he may be known hereafter as Sir James Ferguson, Spy, M. P. We a wish him joy of his new hoos-Ni Yourk Heral. ll;IA L oF MExIC.t N Ciiu n~n h N.l eau- Si iful is the biurial of children among the Mxicans. No dark processions nor gloomy looks mark the passalge to the grave : but dressed ini its holiday attire and garlanded with bright, fresh flowers, the little sleeper is borne to its rest. Glad eC songs are suing and joyful belle are rung,S and lightly as to a thustivatl. the gay group goes its way. The child is not dead, they at say, but "going home." d The Mexican mother who has house- d hold treasures laid away in the " camopo j santo,"-Godls's sacred field-breathes a - sweet flhith only heard elsewhere in tihe poett's utterance. Ask her how manmy ye children bless her house, and she will atn. swer: " Five, two here and three yonder." So, despite death aud the grave, it is yet sl an unibroken household. Ouma Er'ron.--!t niibrded 11s mutch o1 pleasure, on iMonday afternoon last, to shake thle hand of our editor, W. P. tI1 Price, Esqj., whlo had just returnled on fulugh from Virginiua. Hie looked like a oe whot had seen service. In the engage-. iment at laewinisville, tin thle 25th lilt., he received a shock fri-om a riled cannon ball strikinig within a few inches of him, which S rmaiyed his r'i6ht side, and came near P td we hope will soon be entirely reem red. 'rhe same ball killed private WW .M. A. Scruggs. of the hitler G uard. ho was lying beside hM. Poor tllo'. never knew what. hurt him. his hen cuing torn almost entirely, if not quit otn his body. his remains were we; ired for by his comrades, and receive decent interment.--Greenville Entte rire. News and Mliscellneous Items. The appointment of Generals in the Con derato army are full, having reached th ititation of five general oflicers, provided b. :isting laws of the Confuderate States. Th stinetion between the Provisional and Con derate, or regular organization is, that th rmer expires with the termination of tit rr. "- A Goon Best':tus.-Georgia tmilt ate Railroad, which hap for years been beat g the greater part of the State expenditures paid into the State Treamnry, of net prof for the month of July, $-2,0u0, and to e month of August, $60,000. laNo Monts P4ssas T CtmLtss.-I is yesterday rumored that all civilians ar mceforth to be rigidly exclude.l from ou -es at Mannssas, and that no more pass >rts will be issued to that useful, ht nov nited class of cr citizens until further or ,r. No such instructions had bern received >wever, at the passport ofliec last n'ghlt ough the applications of civilian visitors t< ir army of the Potniac were ~ruted with ident reluctance.-Richmuond Enquirer, I lith ,o' Among the arrests in Louisville, foi aiding the Southern rebellion," were three ,roes. There is nothing singular to uz, it at, but such things must occasionally aston; i the Yankees. Ofi- The merchants of Shreveport, La., heldt eetiug on the 1st init., and agreed upon th< lowing rates as a standard price upon whiel ey would take cotton in payment of debt: ie them, or for goods: od Middling.......................7: :w. M iddling......................... iddling,............................ 8: rictly Middling,....................i The object in view is to substitute cottor e money, as a circulating medium betwee e planter and the merchant. ?9 The Washington Republican say a inove I LUa - Er The war correspondent of the Sa nuah Republican, says a late number of th . Y. JIerald put, down the imports at tha ace for the week at $600,000. For th rresponding week last year they were ove t,000,000, or five times as large as they an sw. These figures tell a woful tale for th nighty North." SA Qc.ER CerrR.--" Let mec ha' pound of oysters, my goodl tman, 14ill yont Pound, sir I we don't sell themt by weigbl e sell thema by mneasure." " Then let in ve a yard." gr A Wrr-rY MoTIRu:.-In oue of th urts in Alabama, recently a woman wvr stifying in behtalf of her son, and swor ~hat lhe worked ont a farm ever since lie wa r.' The lawyer, who cross examined hei d, " You assert that your sont lhas worke a farm ever since he was born ?" " 1 do. Xlhat did he do the first year ?" .4 11. .lil " she replied. Thte whole court laughec artily, and the witness was quiestioned' tn rther. ?M" The following is an epitaph from th Larchyard of St. Philip', Birmingbam: C, cruetl Death I-how cul you be su unk id atake bh tbefo ad luae a uo beLhind ? su shouldI have taken t.,b uf u.s ir eiher, high woub! have been moure ple.niu;; to Itl $3rA verdant Yankee sceing the at mucument ini harge letters, in hrout of ok'tore, ".Nothitng to Wear Sold Ilere, :elaimuedl: "Wal, now, I wontder who said ere was!"' girAn Arkansas exchange gets off th lowing, which sounds quite characteristic " Jeff. Thompson, of Missouri, being tols at Ilecker had offered a reward for I ad, replied "sorry I cant return the coni mnt, but I wouldnt give a d-d for in ad," E'~ There is a purple hlnf to the grapt metl.low and crimson half to the. peachi tny hail' to the globe, and a invtter half t f A 1loi.o PuA'tvmn.--The Re~v. M earuts, who preached in a Newark (N. J. isopal Chunrc'h on that day. in the couirs his sertmon pointedly justilled the S'.ut d denounced the North. The co'ngregatio sed, and the leading vecstrymnen have sine mplined of the clergyman to the Unitel ates District Attornaey. jlii The Sewanee coal ttines in Tennesse e now int full blast, and one hundred tons y are being raised, which the proprietor omise to deliver in Nashville all wintera cents per bushel. R~K ln Tmts.-.A banker asked ug lady what kind of mtoney site liked besl "Matrimony," she replied. " What interest does it britng?" asked th arp baniker. "If properly invested, it will donble th~ iial stock every two years," she repliet He conicluded she was a mtatcht for hhn, be e rest is a secret. ag The commandant at Fort Pickens set Ilg of truce ott the 1-ith, to inform (Get ragg that the prisoners captured in the Sat Rosa fight would he sent to New Yor'k o mnday. Geti Bragg sent a paymaster, ant tid the men in full for the repasainder of the; rni od seryige. From the S.n:harn (;I::riian. Mr.. Etrrn: Iam rather "pp- sed to an , ;swering; anonymns' .vriter-. t pra-iUd!y when coutched+ ini langullaa.! unb.e coming1I a newcspa; per correspondent. I hav,-, i.:ve' er, Con1CIur ded, if von vill allow t so miu1cu space in your aluable paper, to reply briefly to the interrogatories of your corrclpondent " Coro naka," published in the Guardian of thu 5th in:tant. I am aware that " Coronaka," in this con test, is my bitter political opp:,nent. urge.i on as he is, by those who would seek vcry tp portu ity to destroy me, both puliti'ally and c pecuniarily, as will plainly be seen from the vindictive spirit exhii-ited tl:rouh .ut his in qugries. lid is.egvjiiently inthie ied i.\ utie Pi inIes than tlis, as he Fdiye, -of a1vi.-t:!O tihr the' pr'1ici!'.-, the" firmneol', thei sanonaiu of i.n who wosibli se?ek 1:. tt' 1..',11e pla ei of trust and reslnrsiibilit." During the adiinistrattion of .ame-: 11i chanan, who Was e-la~ed President by .outh ru votes, including th- vo:c of Su1 tob C:ro linai, I hel a clerk.-hip in Wa'ingtn, wuder the direction of the lion. Jacob The!ipion, [ Secretary of the Interior, and meore ihum mcdi ately under J?udg'! G reengood, of .\rka , as Conunissioner of Indian Agiairs. lietter - and Iruer Sout h.rn mniu than they are do not exist, " Coroinika," viih :ill his b:ued a - triotism, not excepte'l. Both of these gen tlenien resigned at the close of Mr. Blelian an's Administration. When the ordinance of secession was paeod by Sinth UCarii na I I wrote my .resignation, and informed (ov. Pickens that if an atitempt to coerce South Carolina was made by the General (overn ment I would hand it in, and return ,o my native State, as a tirne Carolinian should do. andl battle for. Southern iniependence.' No lenionstration being made against her, I re turned home in the month o' February Lit. I never held oflice under Abe Lincoln, :nor any other Black Republican, nor have [ seen the day I would have done so. While in Washington I addiressed letters to several of my friends, (many of thema at their own request,) counselling against immediale separate secession on the part of South Caro lina, unless we had the best evideice ;other States would soon follow. I did not believe then, nor do I believe now, South Caroua could have sustained herself alone. Vice President Stephens, Ex-Gov.. Johnson, of --in. the lanenta -14t ccrtser for s:mne time while in Vashington, and I am not aware that I promulgated such a doctrine. On my return to Washington city. last De cember, I met, on the G. & C. Railroad, Mr. Wn. N. Blak', and the Rev. Mr. McLees, froi Greenwood. The conversation turned eupon polities. The position of South Caro lina was freely and pleasantly discussed for a considerable tune, at thie close of which btth the gentlemen remarked to me, they would hlke to see, and would take it as a favor, if~ I e woul send thiem a few Black Republican pa pers; they wanited to see, to use their owni language, "what the Abolitionists had to s say about South Carolina." I told them]I would do so, and senit themi a fe numbers of s the New York Herald anid Tr ibiune. ~,jIt is now as "clear us the sun in heaver,' fromt the great struggle that is going on for 'olice, that political aspirants were at the- heaid -of the secession movemient. Wiil Coronaka i point his finger to a prominen~t leading poli. i tician, who has sung~ psalns to the praimses of~ ecessiont, or prehe'd long.wi nded s.ermn s fronm the same text, I will s.howv hi ni an olhii holuer. it is enrrently reported. and i~euntr ally believed, that Coronaka biam-f (tie M1odern lhi.tcrianm) volunteered more t:. an eonce, and tailing to obutainm .jhilue fr want el ppujlalrity, refous.d to arve his cour.try as t . private. Thu at initrcogatory is so very contempti ble i hat it is searcely worth a painotice. I will only say. however. that it is news to nu-, nlews to umy faumily anud ne~ws to tmy neighbors, that <tjipsition wvas made by my self, or a- ,eml.*r of my famnly, to amy sonm's volunter ing. Iaving encouraged him my self to volunteer, my son felt, in doing so, his father ad 11o submsiou principles to re Ihaving now disposed of a long list of in terrogatorics, I will pay my respects with ~gves off to " (oronaka." I will informt Vdur readers that he is a well-informecd g*tleti Sman, scarcely ini t he prime of life. living in the villa;;e of. Green~wooad,. .\bbevill district. . who figuiredi souwu time siuce n-s a nwspape~r corrspondenut fromi theu seamt of war in Vir inia. It is said that heu was r.t 3Ianassas I n Iithe eve of the great bat tle, andu a more re-st ness bing never livedu; the white feather was eplainly to ise seen, when a gun was oi~ered iihim to aid in the achievement olf Siouthern indeende'nce, which lie politely declined, and left the field in doubleuquiek time, niot stop aping until he got seven miles oif, a distane far beyond the range of MleDowel's longst ,~guns. The Miodern Ihistorian, no doubt. contsiders the peln a imUCh more formidable weapon thman athe sword, for with the former he. can ask im pertinent and disrespectfl quest ions. while ie reftises to wield the latter in defence of his bleeding country. Ite says these are times Ithat try* men's souml. In this retmark he is p erctly correct, for lie has been tried and found wanting. t This is the gentleman that presunmes to sit in judgmtent up1on a trute atnd loyal cit izen of t Sotht Carolina, and paiss sentences upon the . . charnter of a priva~te individual. - Iad " Coronaka" lint his iuterrogato~ries to i m mmcin a respectful matuner, I would have an Iswered him in a similar way ; but as his ob r ject was miore to insult, than to obtain infor , &nsD T will remind him that one Hiaman once voilntarily built a gn'tows for anottcr, oln which lie .ais :ihung haii.:if. The 4o,.'!. r:i.t. r::n t nv ,r : 1: , iot lLaeh l of I {.t ctw. ..I;. C. GRIFFIN. On to Chartcston. - The hero of Solferino, the on to Ricliniond and back to WasLintgton strategist of the N-:rv York T inus --lenry J. ThIvzmond-is out vo. cilrousl with aiiother programme for con tiering the r.bels. Co)ast attacks atre the very things an:d on thes.e our modern Alexan .der expiatiates as follows: c:Clellan, and all suchsaml fr, su-1aside! The plat is so atirae*ive ::nd fiible, -hat, whl unl tments of volunters " fur the r:.i" ;,:-e" mad31.e 1,:,v a1 the rate of a few bundr' "I a day in the New En:ynd St::es, twen y hoes a:-di r;':-m ' enhs: tt-d iii a v.e1, were the .2. .. -* .. ,: ;:" r.L 1[& 1ti hiit. . or .o a::d t; hert be-I. :niaterial in the w. irt the amy-utn ii.tr.i to e ery kin: ' ar *!:ip. :mee : .p.at ::.t: er ; or .'.ein to all tl.e peril., .1 the a.dv':wt., life of sa.heii. IL-re wul . :1 wo;rk whie:i every soldier 1 caid undrr,:atnd, a:al Is.ward the execut:ont .t' which each one would direct all his t:, - ulties. , . New England ii nautical, and has s1f!red molnt by the wtar. II.-r people are faii Ii:r .u irh e-e ry fatot ",f S..ut!:era !-oil. They t:mt, i.y subduing the n, bullion, it) restore the e" " r: i::g tr:Jle. Thts:y have numerous gru.1,.es :., .yt.{. We crn hardly estimate the emir v aiid enthin wiithi which s'ich an ceer i p:.r would be undeiakcn and carried tii I ward. We trust the reported movenen" ofI m-r".al futler have r etimnce to One agair.,{ twe hopes, t!: very sear " the secestion in i.p!ity. The reeapire :>cf ! rt Sumter is a nutter of national honor. Our people hi.v. v'ow whjsicht must he perlurn:ed. At that f.rt was the I!qi of the: eountry;'the Eynbc'l of their unity ant power, first insulted and over thrown. E4pon the s:mne spot Must' it be raised andlioured ,y. the very hands that .desecrated it. - - We can only end ite war..)y the capture of the Southein'seaports. A demonstration of our power in these will he the only thing that will bring the -obels to their senses. We can in no other day jrotect our commerce from their cruisers and pirates' and put a com plete stop to smuggling. The same succe'ss solves the cotton question. Cotton will cou fnrwnrd ths moment W hA - movemnicut Or Li .. would ponr New England into the hot-bed of slavery. The maere apprehension of such a thing tvould send homie from Virginia ne.irly every soldier from the cotton. States, leaving the former to bear alone the brunt of the ii mense force directed against it. We could then tight the South single and decimated, in. stead of collectively. Another motive which .tiCtld tie a c.Jonstalt ,imr in her sides. i ti.e release ot our pris nmers lost at Bull Run fromn the damlp and luathsotne Fort Pinckney, in Charles.toni harbor. Trhese tr~en must be goecd ily releaised, if i.'t by exch:oInge, by th i r re capture. Will not the Government speedlity mnore fur the executionl of this plan? The Webster (Ma.ss.) Times relates the followintg ineident of the return of the - Sixth Regiment: The engine halted for water at the Noirth \'iihig'e, and as the girls in Sisater's miills had congregat ad upon the lawin beween1 thle mnilb and 111e railroad tract, the soldiers ilocked fromx the earsan oeenieLd the ttfe miutes of the~ ha:lt in1 the most pron.unged .&:d indiscrinimt hisring, to which the bh~ is.hing girl:. uba.' miiiited with connuiidat'ie and becom'tig 'ruce. IONt Phay wa:, a character. No: lon.ig sinee1c. whzen his horse det d, he spen: l'aif the nizht in calIn ting~ lhe price he shold( re*ciye four the hide, as~ there was ai t1. ii-r-v in thle vicinity. Tihe next dIv t6,atd him21 curaing fearltdly, as the mien of the tan2-ardl had zskinned the aniinal andi~ a;,propria1ted the hzide during I he iight. Old l'eep~s had another auima!, 'in its last legs, anid lhe looked to see himu die every dayi, anid swore lhe individually, should have the skin and skining. One duv while riding the vettnable brute and( iriously drun'k. his "' animal" espied a ead and Iaed horse in the road-nnseen by the rider. The ghastly sight made him shy aind~ thlereh~y pitch-old Peeps a.s raddle th de dead horse. As the old ,;ellow thinking his animial had fidlen de. under imi, glanced at the hideless Ca: .ass hev h.. re'. he v.elloed :'Skiimed alrewly, be twe my le'gs ! CNuss the tan-yard'. sno . a-o~i\L umi (or.os-A Gentlemnan f omn t- l..l emiatnin tells the fellowving: AX sqnai~d of indianta volunteers, nut S:OtitiIa. camea acrois an old womian in a I I o cabi. in the mou.,ntaiins. After the u.'nal salntations. one of them asked her . 141 ol lady are you secesh?' -- No." was her answier. " What are you then?" I "A Ilaptist, always have been." The Ioosiers let down. A- The Richmnond I7iig says it is only in timen of' war, and wheni we are guarded at all positions, that the Yankee 6ease to be " terrible." In time of peace he is very for miidble, and it will be when peace is mande that the real danger to the Confederate States will begin. Say Tt is stated that G'en. Btowman, for 11r Supe1,rintendtent of' Publie Printing, and farmer proprietor of the Washington Con tiuinI hats subscribed $30,000) to the na tionl luan gy somei live or six th->u~and hogs from Kentucky were driven through Nashville on Wedneday. They conie to TOnnesOse for he impravement of their' phjeioal C~adition.