Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ah ! would that we might meet again, Nor part till life's decline; F or know that thou a golden chain, poth bind this heart to thine; A chain whose tendril will entwine While an this earth I rove W,hich naught but love can e'er dissolve, .The magic chain of love. Ah-! wouldthat Me might moet again, For lone and dreary are The hours, when thou art far away-; - Yet love's my guiding star; AYd'still amidst the darkest hours, c"Twill sweetly point to thee ; For-thou this heart's hest treasure art, And thou shalt ever be. Yes- would that we might meet again, Tpry smile I fain would ee; slut dost thou, when,,mid other scenes, :Stll.oast one thought on..me ? Doth thy mem'ry. o'er recall The hour when first we met?.. The hour with joy and gladness fraught, Thiis heart can ne'er forget ? Ah ! would that we might meet again ; I would the hour might como That " where thou guest I may go," And there shall be my home. Yet still, as days glide swiftly by, Though joy or sadness reign, This hoo I'll fondly cherish still That we may meet again. The Stranger's Death. Lay his hands tenderly across his breast, The stranger young and lone;' Boar him all xently to his quiet rest, The desolate one. Remember, his sad fate may yet be thine That thou maystdie where love-lights do not shine. Speak of him generously-what can we know Of his soul's hates or loves ? how high they soared above, or sunk below? Whether with worms or doves? He was a:man of warm and genial heart Act towards him, then, a brother's manly part. He has a mother, whowill weep for him So do the people say A sister, whose young eyes will soon be dim; And both are far away. 'Twill ease each pang to know that friendly hands Smoothed-his lone passage to the spirit lands. lo sing .the hynin of praise above his bitr; .ingle your-voices free; Drop for the stranger youth a sorrowing tear; lie would have wept for thee. We know him kind, for, on a 'estal day, We saw him help a lame man on his way. We heard his voice but unce-.'twas soft and low, - ' And' full of sympathy : 'Twa!i ll of him, perchance, we e'er shall know, - That-he was kind and free; And-wben he found astranger, bruised and broken, He gave him aid, nor asked of him a token. afot a A Our task is done, in the cool forest shade, Beneath the old oak tree, By generous hands a resting place is made. Stranger, all peace to thee May the good Father, all thy sins forgiven. Receive thee to a higher life, in Heaven. Surprise of the Mississippi Blockaders. The following graphic account of the late naval exploit of Con. loliins at the Passes of the Mississippi, is taken from the New Or leans Bee : Quietly and unsuispectinugly thre Lincoln ships were. riding atnanchor, and all on board of themr except the watch ou deck, were in their bunks asleep, and perhaps dreaming of a victorious ascent to the Crescent City, and the booty~rnd beauty they would find in its thoroughfares. It was fifteen mninuten befoire four o'clock, the muon hrad set, and all.was silence and darkness, when suddenly a cry of alarm tout up frorm the deck of uone ship, and it was answered I iutu one to another, fotr they had discov'ered a lotrg. luw, black object skim ming down' the current that, fromn its very in-! distincvness,sand shape unseen before, alnost palsied them with featr. Tire Manasssi wade straight for the broad side of oue of the sloops of war, (repoirted by Conu. Hollins to be thre Preble) rund rau into it with a tyemendous coneusdoun. On-long, fearful shriek arose from the men on board,! who had. been only the preceding inusant aroused..Qi' their btCedp by the cries of the watch, amil then the stiricken vessel became the .wene of terrible confusion, and lhe: menr ran up on deck, expecting to goto the bottom of the river every moment. H~ardly' had the officers of the other vesesels had timne to comn prehend the ntature of ourr attinek whens they perccivcd the gunrboats steamiing down the river towards thaema. The choek of the colli. eion-hrad beocu so -great as t-, thro.. tho en.! glines of the Manrassas off' tlhwir centre- and render hart per feetly helpless. The t olid live oak zi'~ocf the P'rebl had been eut into; but'not tcorn to piecer', :ind Lie MLnnssa was thrown back. by the reboutnd. Tire vessrl s were lying up streamr, and the one best seern front the .Manas.,as w as the Pre le,-so Capt. Austin steered her diago:.ally cneress the river, right for that ship's bow, striking huer betlwhen the cat-hend and the buwsprit: and cuing hecr right open. 'Tie force of' the conentrsion and lihe noise of tdie eraak. were tr~:eendoas, a.. the .Matns as had been 'goin~g at jhirteen'knota. Every o~ne on -ho'ird oft her was knocked Ilat dowrn. a o s the enigineerC ~cnid regaiin his feet he backedl t he engines. and she~ drew off eat iybut with' who(!' leshets of thme 1'ele's cupperng ansd pieces of her wood atib.kinag to the prw. The conentmnttt tin boat.: the Pl'~oe v~ ..-rao eny. IHer office'rs nd crmen seerned to be rushing about in every direction, shriek ing and screaming. They were cryiu;;:."Firel Murder! Oh ! my God I The ship's-afire! It's going to blow us up! We're lost !" and simi lar wild ejaculations. Some of them actually jumnpd o'verboard'in their fright. The Manassas recovered itself and Oaptain Austin'saw that he was beside the Richmond ivith a fine chance to run into her amidships, and he agaif told the engineer to crowd. on the steam. It was just then that the acci dent to her machinery was discovered, and one engine would not work it all. "At this moment the Richmond gave her a broadside, and immediately after the Vincen ne. gave her another. Most of the halls went over her, but some six 6r seven strick her, makilig slight indentations in her iron sheat ing. Hecr flagstafr and chizicy were shot away, and Capt. Austin and .the ebgineer went up on top and cut away the. wreck of the chimney. She then made- the best of her way from thei, crippled as hn was,-and they fired sev eral more broadsides at her without doing any more damage. She will be repired and rcailv fur srvicC again by to-morrow morning; and Capt. Aastin, who is delighted ivith her success, says he will guarantee to sink every vessel,. fron the Niagara to the Water Witch: that dares to enter the river again. The - Richmond and Water Witch, having steam up, cut their cables and threw out hawsers to the Vincennes and Preble with all the haste that their fears pushed them to, wbile.at the same time they fired theirbroad. sides at the cause of their fright. But in their hurry, confusion and terror they fired 'wild, and only a few balls struck the Manas sas; these doinig her no harm. Our gunboats now came within range, and at once opened fire upou the vessels, and' kept-up an iron rain upeon them all the time they were get ting under way. It. did not take the Lin colnites long to get - o11 however, and they started down the - Southwest Puss. with all the speed they were capable of. The McRae, Ivy and Tuscarora were close after them for awhile, and the firing 'as kept up uninte-r ruptedly until half past four o'clock. Still the terror-stricken blockaders kept up their flight, and so great was their wild haste geach the oj.eu gulf that they ran hard autoundon the bar. The Preble, which had been settling steadily, despite the inscesant working of all her pumps, now sank and creened over on her beam ends. Huer men were taken off up ;n the other v. sscls. She is a total los;, rltihuugh the enemy may suc ceed in sa in, her rigging and some other artidles of va'ut by wrecking her. Never more, however, can she float upon the water. or mnen.-ce our const. At nine o'clock the McRae, Ivy and TLu, carom came up within range of the stranded vessels and opened fire upon ui.i1, bulling them several ti wes, and duing -omue da.^mage to their rigging. But the enemy, n!tlong'h fat aground, had complete use of their guns, and in the broad light of day they could now see with what insignificant hat.' they had to cote::d api:n-t. They recovered fr.ni their panic when they found they could not run away, and replied to the peppering of our little craft with whole broadsides. Fo~r one hour this cannouading continue-d, and then Commodore Hullins withdrew hi.s boats and quietly returned the way he caine. is twelve or iurteen guns wsere no snatch ihr their forty, nor were his frail craft able to witstaull shot as well as their stauneb bul warks. To have approached them too clos would probably have cost him the bobta that had cleared the river one, and] night be needed to cear it again. UDGERSiu or. Jzrt'Lsg.-Ou the outposts of the human soul a seutiuel Is statioii&d, whbose duty it is to) waich for dlanuger. W beu faith ful, it warns ofI both phyaiual andl moral dan ger. Its eye is au eagle's and its heart sen Citive and easily'alarmed. B'ut,-strange as it may seem, many youths have deemed it cow ardly to listen to the warnings of the heutieel till be has ceased his cry, and the citidet has ben overrun by enemies from 'without andi within. Youthful reader, are you one of this un Wise number ? Does the cry oif the senutinel ring through the arches of your soul, warnin~g of the danger o'f impulse, and re-hem sing in your ear~s the mirserable results of its hnpe.u Ositis? Jf m .t, c~.sl him to duly; fur above all things elSe you need his fritudlly adino nitios5. The dlangers or impuslsivenesas are not chi merical, They arc real, positive and awfli All very imnpulsive persons tare perpeetually among thorns. They do and say, ahnef ,daiy, things that cause themselves or somic body else sore dimq'uetude. When thtey are so sti.pidl as not to see the impuirprietie~s of their own course, they mcay be casig fre quent and deep wounds in theheiarts of all who love th..inu beer. flow often un impul. sie person wounds the. f..eling~s of his truest friends? Ilis thoughtless words, poisoned, it may be, with thegal!-drops of a lit of anger pr jealousy, emnvy or p.ride, or a miomentary llashif displeasure, may cut like t ~ivo.d swords in the heart's core. (Or war.ting thet sweet, refinement given by se-lf con'trol., that. er~ roighne a and har-dness umay "ruste horrible discord" in the ears ofC those that 1 ie him andi would gladly be charn:od by his d eeods of wiwlom and -roodness. Letter from ion. C. G. ieinminger. Co,,FoDIRAT.STAT.9 oF AMEWRIA, - TR -..SRY .DEPAaT ExT, ? Richmond, Oct. 15th, 15G1. j To the C.ntmissioners Appointed in Receive1 Si.eripins t, the Prduce Lowvi: Gentlemen :-Enquiries have bean made from various quarters 1. Vhether during the continuance'of the blockade el'orts should be' made to procure further subscriptions. -..Whether. the Government will authorize promises to be hold out of aid to the planters, as an- inducement-to such further subscrip tions. Tl-e first enquiry iseems to impy .. isun derstauding of the scheme of the suhscrip tiuns. Many persons have supposed that the Government. was to -ave.some control of the produce-itself; others.that the time of sale ap pointedhy the subscription was to be-abso lute-and unconditionidl The caption at the head.of ihe'lists, wben exaniinied, wiTl cr rect boih these errors, The subsription is confined to the proceeds of sales, and con tains an or'ter on the co uiissions merchant or fhctor of the planter to pay over to the Treasurer the amonnt subscrioed, in exchange for Confederate Boa~tds. 'The transaction is simply-an agreement by the planter to lend the. Governnient so much money ; and, in or der o complete tho transaction, a time and place are appointed when and where the par may meet to carry it out. The i:npor ta::t point is, that it certainly shadl be comn pleed at some time. and tha, it is secured by the. engagement of the planter. Whether that time be December or June is simp:y a question of coiveniencc, and works no injury to either party. The Government is sure of the eventual payment, and derives from that certainty so much credit; and it loses noth ing, because it gives its bonds only when the money. is paid. It is obvious, :thercfgre, that the subscrip tions are quitte as valuable to the Government during the blockade as after it. The bock ade simply suspends the completion of the engagement. It becomes the interest of bo:h parties to wait for a good price, and the Gov ernment will readily consent to a postpone. ment of the sale. . You perceive, therefore, that it is delirable to continue your e.'tiozus to increase the sub seribtions; and you are Authorized to say that the Government. will consent to a reasonable extension of the time appointed fur sale. ". The next inquiry is as to a promise or material aid from the Government to the plan. ters. In answering this inquiry, I am to speak in advance of any action of Congress. What that body may see fit to do, it is not for me to determine. I can express merely the views of this Departneut, and these must govern your action, until reversed by a higher au thority. It would be a sufficient answer to the enquiry, to say, that the action of the Government is settled by the Constitutlon. No power is granted to any Department to lend money for the relief of any interest. Even the power of Congress iu relation to muoucy is cunfinei to horrowing, and no clause can be fouud which would sanction so stu pendous a schemue -s purchasing the entire crop with a view to aid its owners. But it may be said that the Constitut ion of the Pro visionul Government imay be altered by Con gress, and that it is the duty of this Diepart imit to prepare thii way for such alteration, if. in its judgment, the tinancial necessities of the country demanid the chaauge. 'I ani, rnot dispooel, then, to < lo-ac tie eni qrywith the abrubt anjwer thus made by thu Cinnlion,; and will proiceed to eon dd.er tho subj-..ct upou its intrinsie~ mert. Twr~o plans of rulluf have b,'en proposed. The oue 1.5 that the Goverm' ,-ut should pur chase the~ en:ire crop of thu country. ;. the other that an adlvance.,hould be2 madeI of part of its value. lu either case the payment is to be made by the issue of Treasury ur tes, and therefore, if we put aside for the present the muany and serious objectuous to the pos ession, trausportation and tuuagemneut of the cropi by the Governmnut, it becomes sim lly a que.stioni of amount. To purchase the whole crop would require its whole value, less the atuount of the subscriptions made to the Governmen~t. If we estiuumte the whole crop of couo' at :200,000):000 :mdl the subscription ~a 3t tii t p , thle purchase would then re qmire. 1..:t,!mi00 of Treasury noes, and, if to this isum be added the amount of values for other agricultuzral I roduct, which would certainly claim the same benefits, the sumi required would prob.bbly reach )J75,000,000. Thie zunotunt ctdeld for by the other pilatz Of miaking an adveic, would depend uponi thec poportionh of tha:t advaince. Few oif the ad& vocates of this pdan have put it lower than fn-e er nts per pound on cotton, and at the sanne rate upon1 (ther products. It inay, therctore, be very faitly set down at the 100,. 000.00O0. If we consider first, thu least objectionable of these plans, it is certainly that which re quires the smaller sum; and if this be found impra'irable, thei larget must of necessity be ri-jected. Our enquiry, thmen, may be liar. rowed down to a proposal that the Govern ment shall isue one hundred milions of Treasury notes, to be distributed amtong the planting community upon the pledge of the forthcoming crop. The first remarkable feature in this scheme a, ta it prmpose that a new Gqov,r'nn yet strug;iing for existence, should reject an. the lessons of expe;ience, and undertake that whicih no Governmeit, howerer Iong estab lished, has yet. .suceeCe< in eflfecting. The organiz.-tioni of hber has e:all. d forth mny. igenions atenpti:, both. speenlative and practical, among well estatblisheed Govern ments, but always with disastrous failure. With us, however, the experiment is proposed to a new Government, which is .engaged in a gigantic war, and which must rely on credit to furnish means to carry on that war. Our encmies are in possessiou of all the munitions and work-shops which have been collected during forty-fivo years of peace-their 'sleets hive been built up at our own joint expenses. With :.ll these on hand, they yet are oiliged to expend nearly .ten millions of dollars per week -to Parry on the war.. .Can we; cspect to c.,nte:i with them at less than- half that expenditure ? Supposing that it inacrequiire 234} rnillions of dollars; ten.the proposal is that at a time when we are called. upon .tu raise this large sum for the support .of G.v ernment, we shall raise a further sum of 100 millions for Lim, benefit of the planting in terest. For it observed, first, that the Government receives no benefit whatever from this ad vance. The mon-: is paid to each individual planter, and in exchange the Governtnout re ceives only his bond or note-or, if the cot tOu be purch-wed, the Government receives oply certain, bales of cotton. That it is to say, the Government pays out money which is nedful to its very existence, and receives in exchange planters' notes or produce, which i- des not. need and cannot in any way make use of. It must be observed, in the next place, that Treasury Notes have naw become the cnrren cy of the country. They are, therefore, at plreseit, the ueasures of value. In this view It is the duty of the Government to limit their issue, as far as practicable, to that amount which is the limit of its currency. E ery person acquain-ted with this branch of politi cal science, is. aware that if the currency pis-es this point, it riot only becomes depre ciatcd, lint it disturbs the just relations of so ciety, precisely as though in arbitrary author. ity should change the weights and measures of the country.. If the currency of a country shotrld be suddenly extended from one hun dred to two hundred- millions of dollars, that, which was measured by one dollar is now measure'i by two, and every article must be rated at twice its former price. Of course all contracts are disturbed. Tae debt incurred before the increase is .discharged.by paying .,ue half its- former value; and each article purchased must he paid for at double its for .rer price. The Government,' from tis n esities of war. is the' largest of all purcha sers, and thus, by a kind of suicidal act, eom pels itself to pay two dollars for what one would have formerly purchased. And, at this rate of- advance, two hundred millions . f dolltra can effect no twore than one hundred millions of dollars would have eiTected before; or, in other words, ono hundred millions of dollars ate actually sunk in the operation. Such a condition of the currency, the Gov emrnent has an.iously eudoavorod to guard against. The war tax was laid for the pur pose of creating a demand for Treasury Notes, and a security for their redeurption. Their redundancy has been caref ully gargde~d against by allowing them to be' funded in eight per ceut. Louds. If nece.ssit.y shall com pel the Governmieut to issue tfor .the defeuce of the eountry, and to keep out. two hundred milions, it is plain that every accession must impuir. and may defeat all thes precautious. II the (hiver,,m'.ut should undertake. for te sake of private interest::, so large an iu c:Cee of issues, it may hazi-4 its entire credit .nd stability. The. e'xperi~'meut is to:, danger. 00s, and relief f~r the, planiters must be sought in somu other directionu. And muynot that, emedy be found 7 In thm first place, let the planters immedi a'ehy td.e measures for winter erops to re lieve the demand for gzaiu aud lrovisions. Let them proceed to divert part of their la bor from cotton, and 4nake their own clothing and supplies. Then let them apply .to the great resource presented by the mioney cal~i tal in -banks and private hunds. Let this capital come forward and assist the agricultu rl interes.. lleretofore the banks have emt ployed a large part of their capital in the pur chnse of. Northern exchange. Let them ap ply this piortioin to factors acceptances of planters' drafts secured by pledge of the pro duce in the planters' bands. A n extent-ion if the tirmo ususily allowed on these driats wouldI ovrcome men. t of the probable time of ale of' tbe crops, inasumuch as tbc anipendlon of specie paymtucs throughout the entire Con. federacy relieves each hank from calls for coin. The banks are accustomed to manage loans of this character, and will conduct the operation with such skill as will make t hem mutually advantageous. The amount of ad vance asked from the banks would be greatly less than if advatnces were olered by the Government; and all the abuses incident to government agencies would be avoided. It seems to me, therefore, that it is neither necessary nor expedient that the Government shold embark upon this dangerous experi inent. It is far better that each class of the comnunity should endeavor to secure its own existence by its own exertions, and if ane tort be ait once made by so intelligent a einass asth bm lters it will reult in relhef Del-a Affecting Anecdotes. . On one of the many bridges in Ghent stand two large brazen images-of father and son who obtained this distinguished rnark of the admiration of their fellow-citizens by the fol lowing incidents: Bothithe father and t.e .son were for some offince against the State, condemned to die Some favorable cirenmatance appearing or the side of the son, he was granted a retis sion o his aenflence, under certain piovis ibns;, in shoat, he was olfere'i a pardon, ot the most cruel and barbarous econdition namely, that he'would become the, .execu tioner of his father! HIe 'at first resolutel; refused t. preserve his- life by mneans-softta and de' estable.' This is not to be wondere< I at; for I hope. for the honor of our nature that there are but very few sons who *bul not have spurned with abbbttence lif its tamed on a condition so horrid and unnatu ral. The so,.though lung inflexible,. wa:s a length overcome by the tears and. entreaties of a fond father, who represented to him that at oil evintts. bis (ih.e fither's) life *as fir feited, aid t hat it W.ld id be the greates: pn* siblo concolaion ihr him in his last moment: to think that in.his death. he was an instru. ment of his son's lreserva! inn. The y;uth consented to adopt the horribb means of recovering hi< li;e and liberty : he lifted the axe- -but aw itw'as alimut to fal! his arm sunk nervel'ess, and the ace dropped from his hand! Had' he as many livc as hairs he could have yielde' them all, one af. ter another, rather than again oneeive, muc less perpetrate ouch. an act. Life,- liberty and everything vanished before the dearer inl terests of filial affection ; he fell upon Lis father's neck, and embracing him triunophant ly: "My father ! my father I we die togeth er :" and then called for another executioner to fulfill the sentence of the law. Hard must their hearts indeed be-bereft of every sentin~nt of virtue, every. sensation of humanity--who could stand insensib! spectato:-s of such a scene. A sudden pea of irivolnutary applause,- nixed with groans and siglts, re:it the air. The execution wa su-pendti, an-1, on a simple report of the transaction to the authorities, both were pzar doned. High rewards 'and honors were con. ferred on the son, and finally those two ad mirable brazen inages were raised to cotu m:eniorate a transaction se) honorable. to hu. nu. nature. and trapmu:it it for the 'instruc tion and emnulation of posterity. The statut represents the son in the very act of lettin; full the axe. Mcre Southern Finrma. A 'Northern journal has the following par agraph: " Great indn',eermente are to be oflerad foi the enlistment of men in the army of half u million. Besides a hundred dollars at thc end of the three years, it is now seriontl) contemplated to offer hounty lands and al. lotments of laud in the fertile territory tha may be permaneitly held - by the Unitei States. The offer will be tempting to the un employed in this country and abroad." This is the old plan revived. This is a re newal of the pronise of' carms in Virginia A protnise wvhich has been gontcusly ful illedl lby Beauregmutd, who gave the invadehr; some tent thou.,and snial! farms Ott the 21st o July, nId put act le::st live thouisand tmore it a condiitin to heiroe beifore I. tg tihe somn kiud -ot freholdrs. Of course ' the unean ploed in th is country and abroad" wiP jij at su(lch prepeict. Stir theta np, ye :.ansei: entious jo urraligss, with linitg accounts c. "mall losses at Manaaseas and a tempting' promi es of that whlich the North is no morn ablo to give thn tbe Dievil was acble tt givt " thc f-rtile territtory" widch lie pormi.,edi our Lord would falil dowu and worship. Brinc back yaur dupes apin to occupy ".nug lit.:l Virginia farw'. like those so plentiful abou Mzaaas; but rewmnber that you arc re~ sposible for every drop of blood thus~ shed adthat it will lie required at your hands sooner or later, unless what " the fool haitI said in his heart'' is truth--" There is ut God.". Rightly' Hinted. The Antgusta paplers~ cotmain the followini sensible hints by the Mayor of that city: A C'.sa' -ro -ru; !'t iLe.--t i.s curretnti rutor' - upon our streets, laml generrauly I e leed, that numblers of our mearc'hants airi enshged liii eeilat ing ini the prime neccessa ries of life, and that tLere are niow ini our cli; Iother ariieles, whzi,:c are bein~g hldl bnek fo sti.I hiyuh:-r ' ri C. Ii .- w~taei.. t n tte that th~em reprrti nr' ensip- the mani estationm of' much feeling, rnd I deemii mu dtyf. to appeal in the must solemun mtainte to all who" way be: enpy~d ini thesc attempt to conttol the prices of atrticle's of nece-sity to aibstain from a c~iorse which cann~tot lhat re sut in great dist res :co all the poorer classe f our' comntity. Comn 1 patriotismi de mands that all out citizens should make sac rilices for the commuoni good, andl tnot that to] vantage sthould lie takeni of those least able tI suffer. I sinerely trust that while thes troulesomre times shalcl exist, our mnerchant .and I radIers will be sati~afied (as they wero be fore.) with lir iny/ pruls. I hIl()l1T. II. M AY, I tliayera City of Augusta. Garn'is isz H oxuts.--Tuakei I pinit stroti viegar. 1 ounce c'hatlk int powder, stiri mll'and drench the animal. in these efiorts, occnsioned by vague expec tatinns of relief from Government, which 'can not b, re'aliil, may defeat that which is yet practicable. l 1pncifully. * ou r obedieit servult. - i.. G. ME.MING ER. Secretary of the Tri-mirj.. Mail Depradationse-Important Arrests. We are pleiiaed to learn that Hon. John D. Ashmore: one- of Ihe special agenis of the Post Ollice~Uepartment, has recently cffete! two important arrests of person guilty of violati'i the maila of ther (irederte State:;. One wau a clerk in the poist oflieo at Au gusta, Ofa., wh9, :ter his arrest, filly con fessed hi-: guilt in Ihl case ol which he wais tak. n.ini.> custndy. The nuimerous loise to. inldirih'luds-f n .neyent ro:i ni the theal, occurrir;.mprdintly; at thij impongtrit clice have.'aused the depairtment much annovaince, and we truat: that rho guilty can u has inow .been deteted and renoved. Tbe other case war. .he'arre.t of ru:mil cnr rier bectween. Augusta,:., a:oid Giib sonviill. S. C. le was detected in the act of :reiaking open the mail, and, upo' being se.Orlied. part of a former mail that had been iifll 1 wat found upon his person. le confessed to eight distinct robberies, and gave information that may lead to the recovery of the valuable con. tents of many stolen letters. The business public and the entire letti.r writing community will rejoice that these of fenders are to be brought to pfni:hment, and will also commend the zeal and intelligence with which the special agent conducts his ar duous and important duties. A few more depredators arrested and com mitted for trial will teach the useful lesson, that there resides in :he Post Ofiee Depart nient both the vigor to pursue and the dispo sition to punish all those who violate, in any way, the mails of the :Confederate States. Richmond Dispatch. From Harper's Fcrry--Brutalities of the Federal Troops. Two young ladies belonging to liar per's Ferry, Miss Becker and Miss Annie Glasky, arrived in, this city by the Central cars on Sunday.. They are both refugees from their homes, and are seeking a tepj p.rary :abode ntong friends in North Carolina. They have been instrumental. for some timhe past. in giving aid to such of our friends as have tihleu into the hands of the hIessians. On Wednesday week they assisted in the escape of one of I enderson's troop ers, who had been captured by the enemy. Their complicity in the afisir was discov. ered by Gen. Banks, who ordered. Miss Becker to be taken into custody. She innaged, however, to escape on Snndav week, and with her friend walked to flail. town, where conveyauce was procured to the railroad. From this source we have the following particulars: .The Federal troops aound Harper's Ferry are committing the most liendish brutalities and are spreading terror wher ever they push their marauding e:pedi ticus. The common practice amnonig the privates seems to he to sell their rations for whiskey, under the influence of which they enter the houses of private citizens, Union men meeting with noI moore famvor than secessionists, and committing every species of depredation. .The furniture ini th hos o n gentleun~n, a physician, refused to liirnish dinner for a party of On Thursday, October 10, a daughter of Mir.'Hunter, (who runs thu ferry be tween Loudoun and Harper's Ferry,) at little girl, only .pine years of ng.e. was killed by t~be enemy. . he~ was playin" beside the rivtnr, when a Yankee soldier, on the opposite r-ide, deliberately dihot her throeugh the hiead'. The bodyv floe.: ~ d :tbout on~ the river'uiitil recove'red onIJI: heurs a fter. The childreun, while goning and returning from school. -aire freqjuemly :-hot at by the Federal picket* IAll who cani get away from 11Uarper's Ferry, withst~ t.,~ great taeriee, are' domng so anrd acaping to the South. Riichimond Enq: irer. Secret any S.:ward has addnres:-ed a ecom manientionm to the (Governors of the fed eral Sta:es. inliimating~ that ih. Europeain a ents rof lie Confederate States may in volve the United States ini at lreigni war,. and urges the Governors to plalce their coasts in a proper condition oft defence. iHe considers: that the federail Government will pay its proportionazl share of they ex pendituriecs necessary f.or snehl preparia. }'mo,~s llioon.upy.-The Colmbuhts (Ohio) ,5'alexnwn publishied in 18.54. a.s Clonmel Fremount's biography, thne fidllow " A son without a ifater--a husbanud without, a wedding-at millionaire ithoutn a dollar-a statsman without a spech a legislator almost without a vote-a military chief'tain without a battle. ';ake room for Col. Fremont, the gentleman who is never ini the right place at the right time." American letters-fromr London and Pa ris say that thne object of the English, French and Spanish coalition against Mexico, is to open tip commercial com. mnunicatio~n, through Mexico, with the C nifederate' States, so as to get cot ton. tnhacco, A-. Gen. MClelinn. The Savannah Jejnbdican ':ayr: On the go!n.h iur.aitn that even tha --l 4uould hhve hi- ri.t.?. w' een .tninte to .-'ederal State :iett - y~ : -.-e . , r f. tilet tirst tinih a ki+'t,:.ri ti2 1. l .."1 o~f bn i. rho hias Seol! cit Of :' 1r : *!!.t f Ct. iovern a ' .rf'r. i a o c.iizd .ati:p. This in eiipyh : ,right, but it.vwiries so widely from Iiaok ..epubrlicau poicy in gen eral, that the exception may alnot be n garded as'a'vit:te: McClella di d frs frot:n his 'ci-r.enit Fad amsociate gener"a-i.in t:ac. ht r!ep:t.d.i:L:L" the rediculotis .::. zuiin t b l1, ,we :met - im~ ly traitor and itbi'l.'1,.r d i, r..eu dtl t.. :r. 1;, as belligere: le repuditet:. t hm, a t a ; ori y oa 1.;5 government, -ematl:i 1.imed an (:r~ir i 1ugitive slav's M1'll i.' tl tojs'i'et to lire dcmand''o'f It hir laitul wu"r-: . -' f S haac+t'ls. nnneld-;thet fr'.t:"t :of firing upon picets, and Ai i' ued ;':e orders agtlsit.' lIe his d.:,aig..iA i.e n 1tra p..:i:it. against ilk-tih trn. - of pri .".r.:.,, ,s d .. ;i. catted kinzdi:cio am1i rt'";.teCt fa . n. a . tunate. Finally, he lips .et .is :aeh gainst .rg'.: ing in its var ::n f-mr.r..', a:l i. ,t.d a c :.g mation of ('ik t gir:. c'. :r , aball be guilty of derstreing p.r. vme pr'pmy. lu fine, he plaes u U tlf ti'e t, it i::gp(f :nenijes, and hlIhk that w. are eniith;ci t, every right. and privilege reenn .i bciii ized nations in time of war. * We can have Butt: e.re. I repce: kir such an ene:y:, 'even though I.; t houi.i cn sent to becona the. leader in the fimid of a foul and iigni ous tyranny. War ii b:.d enough in itlt, attendd with laorror., aind calamities si~Cleient, witint adding to thern by acts of ii;humanity and cruelty. .A desire to mitigate these cultlitie is at leut hon orable, and shows that all .f our ernuies have-not pa-ted with the uensibilities e'rac teristic of a christian p'ople. FATAT M vr A --)eATor 'A , Cin:;:tA . Pr.s eas.-The Me: ;zpisAp~cd, oftLe 18th inst., thus annunees the death of Dr. Lewis Shanks, formerly of Virginia, but at the time of his death a reideant of that <ity: Seldom have we taken up our pen with more. melancholy feelings tharwe-ixperieicu' in fulfilling the duty of. ainouncing the death of one of dut' oldes, most amiable, and iust respected citizens-Dr. Lewis Si:anks. It was stated in our paper.; Yes:erday that the doctor. was in a dangerous condition, in consequence of having taken morphine, a deadly opiate, for quinine. On Wendadaay morning at eight O'clock, in Conseogenco Uf illness,. he tok lrot mcdie:isq he had in the lute c a dose from a.paper amarked "quinine." TLis drug and morp'ine are alike in apperancu' and similar in taste. After taking the ',ue.'ici::c, re doctor expericucd svuiptouti whtch led him to fear that it was aot quinine, but naor paino he Lad takeu. On rel'rring to the Ia bul, and firing it born 'the word "quininet," ue was satOf-ed for a bort ti:e that all waas right, but the symptons becoming uunistake able, he exelaimed: "I have taken morpihine, and it will kill me!" Medical assistance was at once obtained, and during the day the most ablo medical gentlemen in the city exerted their utmoet skill. Their eti'orts were ina vain The poJwerIful narrotie had sei:-:ed too fir miv the springs of life, aud at half past .ivuon ecc in the evens::g MemphUW b:.i lo.st omi: ::J its richest potsosago i.. '.o visit the iwu; toIemets in-prore.s :tIthe Columbus Iroa Wvrks~ tic:: the~ T.-af The large tucugee to ibe used in castinig ear wheels and Cannon is aboJut coile~ta, wiIh di.e great. irilt.q Al: *'ten u. fe uced in;~L art I conuueted il iin whVlieb t st~Imeturet th~e rjh. oratex iesi ,..i ifle re"d othe~raeinali nra, is pushing toralad to coitup~lotiona with geri~t eergy. A ponrhin of theL biring wia:mery is already in operation, and Iirum a saiup'e we saw, dous i'.s worl adazair:a.bly. Ther n.ahisino kar rilling . LU4ug construc~teda aumwafl.go ia. to operation duing t14: prec.ut week. Added to this, .the regnklr busailess of' Moulding, general blacksuith w~or guing on, nial..a~ thi one ot the gnea'. indutrial shopsn of' thec.&uth; and will serve to give emplomymient to a l..rge number of arti.'us, and ail ini a:idiug to the wealth of our city. We give this notic~e tha'. thje peigaja~ rbrua:1 may khiow whjat is betn' doti iu thj; l~.eiiI tijward# tl t indel.9D:nu, id that thue' ig iknuW uxstadly where to send 'rdcrit for onuch articles as we ifave-menutioned. Our city is fast filliug with "iustitutio'i" of industr'y and independence, and we bid them~ God Coatni~NDADL1.-Tbe Raleigh IE'gisiff says that Adjutaut G.-neral Mnurim, of North Carolina, has giveui notice that theo Legislature, having authorized him to do~ so, he is prepj.ared to pay to the wives and children of tho oflicers aud men belouging to the vol.unteer for ces of that State, cap tured at I~atteras, half the pay they would have reccived it' they had not ieen cap tured. The willow bark, the. bark of the root of the wild plum, and piperine, can. bo advant~tageousy. used as substitutes for aGuini. -..