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SIYIKINS, DFRISOE CO., proprietors.. EDG27, 1861.
Thirty Years Ago.
I've wander'd in the village,.Tom,
I've sat beneath the tree,
Upon the school house play grounl,
Which sheltered you and me.
But none were there to greet mce, Tom,
And few wera left to know.
, That played with us upon the green,.
Some thirty years ago.
The grass is just as green, Tom ;
Barefooted boys at play,
Were sporting, just as we did then,
With spirits just as gay.
But the "master" sleeps upon the hill,
Which coated o'er with snow,
A tordod us a sliding place,
Just thirty years ago.
The old school-house is altered some
The benches are replaced
By new ones, very like the same
Our penktiives had defaced.
But the same old bricks arc in the wall,
The bell swings to and fro
It's music jist the same, dear Tom,
'Twas thirty years ago.
The boys were playing some old game,
Beneath that same old tree
I io forget tlio name just now
You've played the same with me
On that sante spot: 'twas played with knives
By throwing so and so,
The loser had a task to do
There, thirty years ago.
The river's running, just as still.
The willows on its side
Are larger than they were, Tom,
The stream appears less wide
But the grape.vine swing is ruined now,
Where once we played the beau,
And swung our sweethearts-." pretty irls"
Full thirty years ego.
Near by the spring, upon an elm,
m know I cut your name,
Your sweetheart's just beneath it, Tom,
And you did wine the same;
Some heartless wretch had peelel the bark.
'Twas dying sure but slow,
Just as the one whose name you cut
Died thirty years ago.
My lids have long been dry, Tom,
But tears came in my eyes,
I thought of her I loved so well.
Those early broken ties.
I visited the old church yard
And took some flowers to strew
Upon the graveS of those we loved
Some thirty years ago.
Some are in the church yard laid
Some sleep beneath the sea,
But few are left of onr Old glass
Excepting you and moe.
And when our time is come, Tom,
And we are called to go,
I hope they'll lay us where we laye.
Just thirty years ago.
Interesting from Virginia.
" PntasoNm," the Virginia correspondent
of the Charleston Courier, under date of Cen
t reville. Nov. 10, writes as iollows:
Sitting in a rainy tent last evening I over
heard the following fragment of a conversa
tiou between a party of Trish soldiers, which
for richness and raciness Charles Lever would
have immortalized himself by frescoing in
one of his iniznitab'e stories. The company
were detailing their experiences, "hair breadth
,scape by flood and field," spinning Mtunchau
sian yarns and cracking wonderful jokes,
when one Pat Mullooney, a genuine .son of'
the sod, broke in with an account of his ad
ventures during the battle of Bull Run. I
give you the ebullition entire--reriai: et
literalt ie spelleratiim, though half its l'un
and force are lost lay its transfer to paper.
"Ye see, gintlenmin," said Pat, (G od forgive
me for eallinag such spalpeens out uv yer
names,) that time wh'lin the ould Mnjor camae
down like a ilyin divil on his chisnut mare
wid his illiganat sword, that be jabers is like
a scythe blatde, a waviu about his bid, and
v-elled to us to come on and chaarge the bloody
Yankees, be gorra it was to Washington we
thought we were goin all the .way, and the
dlivil a time we were to stop at all, at all, on
the road, not aven for a dhr ap of wather.
Well, sure enough, the ould feller wint in
himself, and I afther hinm, not thinking about
anything at all, but jist going on. I jutmped
over a mite of a finmce as tighat as a toad, and
took to the wather (Bull Runa) like a duck,
and whin I got to the middle of the stramne I
looked around, and the divil recave the one
of 3ez near me. I was alone iantirely sure.
Thlina I thocught biig fools as ye all are that I
was a bigger wan for not sthaying in the
woods like the rist of yez, and waiting for the
spalpeens to come over. But as I was out
there I thought to mueself I'll take a look at
how. things is, htow things kis eyant, and
p'rtas l'11 have a crack o'tme goon. But
divil a thing couid I say. .list as I was maik
king utp mue mind to return to ye atll, a big
Yankee, who looked as if he was seventeen
feet high, livilledl his mnuskit at me and fired.
The bullet whlistled by tne c-ar wid a sharake
worse than im in l'ane'gan's life. Thd luck
to ye, yr thafe o' the wurld says I, whast
arc ye thryinag to shout mae fur ; sure I niver
adone nothing to, yez., and thaen I aimed shatraight
betwanec his eyes, and fired at Limt, hut the
murthierint ball did'uat tuch a hatir ov hti5 head
that r mist. Whgor'ra, sez. I to aaeself, now
I'll take yte a prsnr anyhow, and I put me
self across the river as haard :as iver- I couald.
Ijoompe~4d lil the bautk, tan looakina maightv
fe.-ce at 'ima, I sed " Surrindther, ye divil,
oar I'll blow yer baratins (out." 'Te fain ov it
peen to load me gun at all at all, and the li
bloody thafe must ov knew it, for he made at cr
-me wid his hay'net, like a two legged loco- ei
motive. iy the powers, but I was frightened. as
As he wat' coining down, laping siveral fate ht
at a time, says T to neself, " Pat, me boy, -ar
mind yer eye. Now's yer time to kape wide a
awake, or you'il have a gimlet hole through G
yer valuable bow'ils, and Biddy Mullooney lb
will be a widder." . But bad luck to the dril- si
lin, sure its neself.forgot how to come to the th
charge. So I tuk- me goon by the middle tu
just as ye wad hould a good ould fashioned hi
black thorn shillaly, and balanced meself fur
it. As he come down, the divil take me if I wi
knew how to git that bay'net pint out o' the cc
way. I twirled -me musket around me hed es
till me fingers ached ; but suddenly, bliss all ot
the IIowly Saints fur it, a root tuk the fut ov to
the bloody minded rascal, an he wint a sprawl. hit
ing on the turf lookin as pretty a letther X eg
as ye iver signed to yer name, at the same in
time that his baynet shtruck a fut in the up
ground. I gin a yell and was on him before Ia
a pig could grunt, and put inc fut on his neck. in
"Surrender ye divil," sed T, but the divil a pr
word did he spake. I thought I had his throte th
too tight, an I let him go to give him a fair th
chance to utthcr his sintimeuts. What d'ye re
think the spalpane thryed to do ? Sure it co
was to git his musket out of the ground and ni
shtruck me wid it again. But sthill I didn't hi,
want to hurt the baste, so I jist hit hint a lit- es
tle crack in the head wid the butt o' me th
goon, and broke his jaw. Then lie became of
quiet, an 1 made him take his musket and arp
cross the crake, when I drew him to the hos- mi
p'tal and the divil of a dacenter better be- co
hayed feller ye niver saw after that: Ile pr
laid in bed six wakes and did'nt spake nary th
word. That's what I did at Bull Run. Who'll de
give mte a poteen or whisky ? wi
The above is but a mere straw of humor sum
floating upon the surface of camp life. The pc
gleaner, whose task it is to col!ect them all
in a sheaf, could find thousands as fresh and no
happy as that which I have related. A camp
lire, or circle, is sure to bring out all the good pe
nature in a man, and woe be to the lugnbri- ru
ous individual who w ill not contribute his th
mite to the general stock. The little coummu- th
nity is as closely interwoven in their senti- ac
ment, association:, and dependence, as the ex
wythes ofsa basket, and each of its members teo
have their fitting place. Good nature i. the an
prevailing spirit. Whether on duty or at se
leisure, cutting wood, building roads, doing th
picket duty, on the march, or sleeping upon th
tc wtet grounnd without a cover, a word of e!l
complaint or ill humor is the rarest sound wl
that falls upon the ear. In fact it would seem be
as if the greater the hardships the hig4her the , ut
mercury rise in the thermometer of lite and th
gaiety.
The question was once asked me w:ether W:
in the course of my rambles I had discovered 1.a
a diiterence Isetween Soutl.rner, as peculiar j gi
to their sever"al latitudes. in this coiuer ion of
it may be worth answering again. 1let weeu l.
Virginians and the remainder of the Confed p:
eraev, the distinction is, to my mind, clearly shi
imarked. In what it consists is beyond analy- T
sis, but both physically and mentally there Si
is an cssent:al ditference. Taking the mnas B
of Virginia'a, they show the effect of sharp di
attrition witg their fellows. Frequenut inter- ht
course with the large towns anid cities in
which the State abounds, has polishued off the
rougher angl es which accumulate upon the 1i
surface of' a man's' character, enlarged the fr
views of the people, anid vestetd them with a
degree of conlidence, which is manifest in
both their acts and conversation. In a word,
they look more like citizens than countrymen. tC
The Louisianians to a great ex tent may be l
embraced uder the sinne generanl oubserva- m
tions. They, however, possess personal char- r
acteristics which distiinguishu theum from the
majority of the~ represeintativesof other States
There are more dar'k eyes and birown features .
among them as well as a peculiar pronuncia- jci
tion which indicates the cosmopolitan mix- b
Lure of' the people. o
Among South Carolinians, Georgians, Ala
bamians and Mississippians, the predomnina.
tig exptression) is that of innoceiice and in
genuousness. You see at a glance thmat as a at
general thing they are not acquainted witb
the ways of the world, and that they have s
brought fromi their homes all the freshness of
an untutored experienCe, tempered only by
the sturdy, uniyjelding common sense which
i their birth-right. You may' deceive them
once because you can impose upon their sup.
position, that all men are as honiest as thiemn
selvs, but you cannot practi'e youmr imposi
tion twice.
In dress there is no dlinfrenice. The'y will n
now all bear the application ofn the -nursery p
lines: .eli
" Some in rage, some in tags, at
And some in vehlet gownse."
Many a mani who used to sport his broad
cloth and diamonds, white kids and fast horses,
vsit the barb.:r's twice a day, and change his
shirt three times ini the same period, is now
so metaimorphlosed that his swecthueait would -
not knmow him. lie lhas wvorn - the sameo old
lothes for the last six months. They are
pmatched perhasps in the reatr amnd oii the knees."
May b~e he haus not. had them-u off tor three
weeks ; his shbirt is a cross between coal black IY
andu redh inu., anid sees a washerwvoiman oinly ni
when t he oneri hii:mse'!f has n, n opportunmity eg
of incinug it ouit in an adijiniing miu tmmpol. e;
Ifis shmoes (boots ar.- only twenutty-ie dollarut n
pair).ae the coarsest brotrans. such as a rc
st class nigger used to disdain.. JIls hair is
opped close to the caput ; whiskers grow
neglige: while face and bands are brown
sole leather. . Instead of a walking stick,
carries a musket. His fist horses, if any,
e a couple of-Virginia skoletons in front of
baggage wagon, to whom he is a monsters
nnyiede in the way of bringing water,
dder, cnrrying, etc., etc., while his barber
op is on the rim of the puddle that makes
e clearest mirror. Such is the present pie
re of your Southern gentleman. God bless
in !
Here he has stood for the last five months,
th a hundred thousand more or less of his
mpartriots, waiting to receive the vaunting
emiy who was to sweep whilwind-like across
r country. What a spectacle is presented
the nations of the world ! An army of-two
ndred and fifty thousand men, the best
uipped that ever went into the field, held
check by less than half thejr number,
on the very border of the country they
ve sought to repress. Nay, not only held
check but driven behind fortifications to
event the "rebellion" from rebounding upon
emselves ! What a contrast, too, between
ese contending farces ! The Southern army
presenting in its elements the patriotism,
urage, intellect, manhood, and wealth of a
tion ; the Northern army composed of mere
relings--a single stratum, and that the low
of the hybrid humanity which populates
e North, whose interest in the perpetuation
the Government is no deeper than their
peties. On the one hand we see the great
iu of the country serving in the ranks as
mmont soldiers. defending on the field the
inciples they enunciated in the forum. On
e other, the politi-.ian seeks his reward un
r the glittering epaullettes of a General, or
sely remains at home, interested in the
cess of his cause only to the extent. of his
rsonal aggrandizement.
The same correspondent writing from Ma
ssas, on the 12th says :
The anPiny is quietly sett.ling down into a
rmanent institution. Now and then a stray
mor reaches camp that the enemy are on
e advance, but we have become so used to
ese startling reports, that nothing :sort of
tual presence can disturb the montony cf
istence. Men and oflicers both seem do
-ined to make the best of their situations,
d are now sparing no means to render them
es comfortable. Taking it for granted
At. winter quarters will be provided at last.
ough no orders have been ikued to this
'ct, many have built substantial huts in
mch they live. Furnaces have likewise
en built in large numbers of the tents, and
r arrangements male to coumrensate for
e inelencies of :ut uln weather.
I find too that there is a general giving
w to anusenment. I)inneir part ices :re now
Frequ.ent c urrene;C. Last week there were
en no less than thirty in one brig:tde. ()no
these co t the oflice:s who aeted as hi,.t not
; than lire iiiimlred dollars-the wine;s and
ovisions being ordered from Richmond. A
ort time ago a dinner was given by Gen.
onbs, at which were present Johnston,
nith. GOu. Leteher, and some ten or twelve
igadiers and Colonies, and .ince then :
'zen others ot the same general description
se followed.
Hos.tc is C'oxvtiy 1n vIA - n.-----The s1:veral
Id and co mi'panly oli':ers selected by hot
mn among the Pederal prsnr at present
this city, as hostages for the safety oif the
mthrii privateersmien on trial in the North
are oii Thursday last transferred from the
haeco factories ini which they had previous
been conifinedl, to the county jail, where,
compliance with the orders of the Secreta
of War, they are to be closely imprisoned
in cells reserved for pisoners accused of
faous crimes.' Th purpose of. the G;ov
umet is to deal out to these hostages pre
sely such treatment, and such a fate as may
imposed upon our men now in the power
the North. Among those thus transferred
e Cols. Lee, Cogswell and Wood; Liut.
)l. Bowman ; Majors Potter, Revere and
agdes; and Captains Rickctts, McQuaLde
id Rokwood.-Richmiond IEmiuirer.
Ms. J.regso.--The Rtichiiond .Enju irer
The Charleston Merfcucrq/ is mitaken ill the
ount whiich has been contributed to the0
tnily of Jae'.-son, the Alexandria hero. Ini
md of $:10,000O, thbe amiount has not reached
.0. We shiouild be very happy if the
ircur'/s5 figures were the true ones.
T exxmssma: EI.scros,.-Accounts from Ten
ssee report large gains for the State Rights
*rty. G ov. i 1arris has prob ably been re
eed by a very fargo majority, and the
option of the pernmaneint, Constitunion is
't doubted.
Tu'm r S:cr.ss-rnArios LAn.-i min. Jiohni I.
limer, of Ta., in a letter to thne Receiver
rthe city of Richmond, takes the positions
.st, That the Conifederate Csongress had no
wer to pass such a hill ;2d admnitting tine
,er, that flhe bill on its face~ is clearly
1hc Washiington corre-jpondent of the New
ork CoTmm..rcir.- ..'drer/U~ue says that the
ider feelinig at theC caiital, pubhlicly express
I. is lhat ur for i. r el icatjints are in a eriti
I state. Secretanry Seward is not at present
,n the best. terms, personally, w~ithI the
.. igm miastrs.Cicinnati G a~tzette.
Yankee "Calculations" in Regard to
Beaufort District.
The N. Y. Herald of the 12th inst., pub
lishes the following:
The Beaufort District or county of South
Carolina, now in the occupation of our land
and naval forces is literally swarmed with
negroes. According to the census of 1850,
which is not materially varied in this case by
the returns of 1860, the population of this
district was as follows:
Total White Population.......... 5,947
Free Colored ................. .579
Total Free Population........... 6,526
Slaves.......................... 32,279
This will give us an average in numbers of
five slaves for every white inhabitant of the
district, so that no better point than this dis
trfct could be selected at this crisis for a trial
of the temper of this vital cotton Statainsti
tution of slavery.
The agricultural returns of the census from
this district embraces the following very in
teresting statisticts, and the reader will bear
it in mind that the whole district or country
is flat and swampy, and made up almost en
tirely of sea islands, separated from each
other by a very remarkable network of in
lets, estuaries and bayous.
UEAUFRT (S. c.) DISTRIcT.
Farms........ ...............842
Acres improved.............. 239,289
Acres unimproved................587,469
Value, improvements, &c........$5,601,350
Hurses, asses, and mules.........5...5,021
Neat cattle...................48.338
Sheep......................16,892
Swine ................... 37,855
Wheat, bushels raised ........ .2 465
Re an1 Oats.................29.913
I.dian corn...............492,071
Irish and sweet potatoes.........485,209
Peas and beans................76,35:
luckweat .......... - .. . - 25
Butter and cheese, pouuds ...... ....83,421
Hlay, tons.... . . ... .. .--- -- -- -1
Cane sugar, pounds................20;000
Molasses, gallons................ ,221
Itice. pounds..... ... ... -----47,230,082
Cotton ginned, balas 400 lbs each.....12 672
Wool, pounds................ 24,73()
Beeswax and honey.............,9f7
Animals slaughtered, value.......;121,17.
Produce of market gardens........ ....20
Orchard produce....................2,185
Wine, gallons.........................300
Xan factories. .
Capital employed................."5:.,800
hands employed......................75
Product ... ................... .5,0811
Produced in families.............10,690
leduced to an analysis, these are exceed
ingly interesting statistics. First we find
this district of Beaufort divided into 842
farms ; or in other words, the whole district
is divided among 842 land owners, allowing
an average of nearly 3,000 acres of improved
land, forty negroes, and only six hor:es,
mules and asses to each farm, all told. This
will give us an idea of the vait amount of
labor performed by the negros with the hoe,
the spade and the shovel ; and then it must
he remembered that cut up as the district is
with islands, boats discharge to a great extent
the duties performed elsewhere by horses,
asses and mules.
In the matter of pork and bacon, an allow
anee of one hog to each inhabitant will, perhaps
do. The great cash productions of the
country are rice, cotton (sea island) and Indi
an corn. A t the present price of sen island
cotton in England the crop of Bleaufort dis
trict may be put down at two million five
hundredl thousand dollars, and at six cents a
pomnd we may set down its rice crops at the
same figure, and, at a dollar a bushel, its In
dint colrn crop at half a million, making ain
aggregate product fronm these three staples of
$5,500,000.
Now, with our lanal and naval forces in oc
enationl of this distriet, a splendid market
will at once be ope::ed for all this vast sur
ulus in corn, rice and cotton of this Bieaufort
district upon the simple test of allegiance of
these B3eaufort lahnters. If they manifest
their loyalty to the Union they will be p~aid
for their produce, and such prices as
they have never been paid heretofore, and
they will be supplied in exchange with many
necessary articles of which they are surely in
need. Above all they *ill be protected in
the enjoyment of their slave property and
:2,00( slaves are equal to the respectable
item of sixteen millions of dollars. On the
other hand, if these Bleaufort planters adhere
to the rebel cause, they must be treated as
rebels, anid they must run the riskc of the
cofiscatin of their beautiful rice, their lovely
cotton and their desirable Indian corn, to say
nothing of their 3-2,000 fat and lusty negroes.
Thus, the reader will appreciate the impor
tance of our armed occupation of this Beau
fort district, from the powerful Union argu
ments which it will bring to bear upon the
planters thereof. They have from twenty to
thirty millions of mnoveable property at stake,
and the integrity of their institution of slave
ry. Will they sacrifice their cotton, corn,
rice and negros in behalf of the popular cause
of this suicidal rebuilion, or will they return
.to the l'nion, and he protected, enriched and
seuredl against the grinding despotism of
.Jet. DJavis ? An interesting question, which
ve hope will be solved in a general Southern
Ireaction for the Union, beginning at Bleaufort.
TnmE. BA1-rLE OF BEL~oT.--The .Memphis
)pali says the following is a recapitulation
of the killed, wounded and missing of the
Cofedrates at the batthle of Belmont :ith
Tennessee, 1419 ; 2d Tennessee, 11.1; 21st Ten
....SC 80; .9d Tcnanae Hi6; 15t.h Tonenn
see, 13; 11th Louisiana, 56; 13th Arkansas
79; Watson's Battery, 7; Mississippi Battal
ion, 1. Total, 585.
What our people are doing on the Coast.
We commend to the New York ilerald the
following extract of a letter from a friend ir
Charleston, which gives so'emn facts for its
consideration. So says the South Carolinian
CHARLESTON, Nov. 19, 1861.
Edisto Island is nearly laid in ruins. Mr;
J. J. Mikell, Mrs. Hopkinson, and Mr. L Le
gare, have all burned their entire crops-ne
gro houses, barns,. &c., and at a meeting of
the planters this has been universally-deter
mined on. The same spirit actuates the own
era of all the Sea Island plantations. I fully
expect to hear that the entire Sea Island crop
of this State will meet a similar fate. None
will be saved, for all is in the fields or gin
houses; thus twenty thousand bales, the
product of this State, amounting to two mil
lions five hundred thousand dollars, will be
destroyed by the hands of the proprietors
themselves, rather than it shall fall into the
possession of our vandal enemies, and I have
no reason to believe that Georgia will pursue
any other course. Her people are as noble
and as self-sacrificing as ours. The Sea Is
land crop of last year was estimated at forty
thousand bales, and this year the favorable
seasons made the planters calculate on forty
five thousand bales. Sould the vandals over
run Florida, and make any demonstration on
the Sea Island producing portions of that
State, you may expect the planters there to
follow our example, and thus will the entire
fine staple crop of this Confederacy be totally
destroyed, estimated in value at $100 to $150
a bale, from four to five millions; but this is
not all. The cultivation of this article will
not be resuised while the war lasts. It is
known to you that the sea-board of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida are tbe.only
regions of the earth where fine and extrafim
cotton, termed Long Staple, can be success
fully produced. Now, the production of this
article is indipensable to the manufacturers
of Bolton, Lancashire, and many other of
the districts in England, France, Germany
and Switzerland. There is no substitute for
it, and the lace and silk spinners will feel this
blow even more severely than we, iho only
sacrifice our luxuries; they have, besides
their mills to keep in working order and oc
cupied, a large number of operatives to feed,
and these people are not easily managed when
thrown out of employment. Thero is muci
trouble for England, growing out of Earl
Russell's idea that slavery is a wrong and
against the sentiments of England, and there
fore, acting on this principle, it were better
to exterminate the institution of slavery and
the South, rather than acknowledge our justin
dependence, which would insure the prosperity
of her people, even though the Yankee Gov
ernment go to war for so doing. I hope our
people will remember the course England has
assumed against us, and when we can, let us
express our sentiments freely. I see now no
hope for the raising of the blockade while
Earl Russell occupies the Government, but.]
do look in time for a change iii public senti
m int so strong that Derby will take the lines,
and the justice we seek be no longer de
nied us.
The weather is cold and winterish, yet the
body of the people are calm and determined.
The sacrifices our forefathers made during
the first Revolution, will cheerfully be endured
again. We will fight and conquer the Yan
kee vandals on our soil, even though we fight
them without shoes or clothing.
Oun IlnAve CoMoDoRE.-Conmmodore
Tattnall has, without intending it as such, set
the men of the South an examplle which all
should seek to imitate, viz: whether weak ot
strong, meet the enemy at the very threshold
and show him that you are resolved to dis
pute every inch of Southern ground, an
drive him back or perish in the attempt. Th<
commodore, with his little river fleet, didi nol
wait for an attack, but went out to meet th<
enemy in all their pomp-and power. He threv
his scornfidl and, defiant shot into the teetl
of their vast expedition ; and when they mue
him, not on equal terms, but with repeate
broadsides from their largest ships, he showei
his appreciation of their gallantry and man
hood by' dipping his Ilag in'irony, as muel
as to say, your achievement is worthy of hon
or, and here you have it ! It was a terribb
sarcasm, ingeniously yet forcibly expressed.
Let every Soutbern man, throughout thi
war, imitate the conduct of our gallant comn
modore, and prove his devotion to the cans
by meeting the enemy at every step of hi
progress, and if no better can be had, on hi
own iermns.-Savannah Republican.
IRELIEF FoR 'L.ANTERS.-A bill has beel
introduced in the Georgia Legislature, wit]
the following caption:
An act to incorporate the Cotton Planter
Bank of Georgia, to give steadiness to th
value of cotton, to make it available as thi
basis of a sound circulating medium for th
relief of the industrial interests of the coun
try, and at the same time to enable the plan
ters to control their own cotton until th~
blockade now attempted to be'enforced is re
moved. To' guard the planters against an ut
avoidable necessitous sale of their cotton al
less than remunerating prices, and agains
sacrifices alike detrimental to their interests
...nsnt upon their being forced to drai
upon and accept inadequate advancements
upon their crops, paying heavy eo.amissions,
interest, insurance and storage, ruinous to
the producers of this great Southern staple,
and for othor purposes.
The Capture of our Commissioners.
Of the effect of this measure of the Lin
coln Government, the Charleston Mercury
says:
With the seizure of Mason and Slidell, in
its relation to the neutral rights of the Brit
ish Government. we have no direct concern.
There are, however, certain well established
principles of public law,-to which the present
case will necessarily be referred, and from
these, we may anticipate the views of the
English jurists in regard to its merits.
The highest legal authorities unite in pro
nouncing despatches " the worst kind of con
traband." They consider the transmission of
a dispatch abroad as capable of conferring
greater advantages upon a belli. rent than
the introduction of any cargo forbidden by
the laws of war. A distinction, however, is
drawn between despatches coming to, and
those going from the belligerent. The former
aredeeied to partake of the peaceful character
of the neutral nation from which they come;
the latter are presumed to be of a warlike
import, and subject the neutral vessel carry
ing them to capture and condemnation. Such
being the law, the analogy between the con
traband letter, or dispatch, and the person
bearing it, seems plain. The Embassador,
whether lie carries his communication in
writing or in his memory, is the substitute
for the dispatch, and would seem to become,
like it, liable to capture.
But we are not left to form this conclusion
from analogy alone. Strangely enough, al
though the present case is one quite novel in
its circumstances, a distinguished English
Judge has given an opinion directly bearing
upon it. In the case of the Caroline (Eng
lish Admiralty Reports), Sir William Scott,
in defining the rights of belligerents in re
spect to neutral vessels, says with singular
terseness, "You may stop the Embassador
of your enemy on his passage." Certainly,
nothing could be more distinct, or more di
rectly applicable to the case of Messrs. Ma
son and Slidell.
Disagreeable as it is, we cannot resist the
inference, that the Einglish Government will
decline any interference in behalf of our cap
tured commissioners. If so, it is better that
our people should know the sober truth, at
once, than that, impressed with a vague be
lief in the protection afforded by a foreign
flag, they should cling, week after week, to
expectations, which must end in disappoint
inent and bitter chagrin.
- - 0_ ~. --
What the Yankees think of Hatteras.
Au Enchanting Spot.
The following letter from Hatteras Inlet is
published in the Indianapolis Journal. It
gives a droll, but we doubt not truthful, ac
count of how theit Yankees are enjoying them
selves on the North Carolina coast.
FORT Cr.AR, HATTERAS INLET, 1
October, 1, ]861. 5
After two days of gloomy storms, the sun
is shining down on us with tropical beat.
There are many -peculharities in this isolated
spot. Cut off' from the main land for sup
plies, and suspicious of the few fishermen that
visit us, we look to the ocean for every new
sail that brings us food and news from home.
Our band is playing '.' Our flag is there," and
it is still there on the coast of North Caro
lina.
The sea bounds the view on one side and
Pamlico sound on the other, and, in connec
tion with the beauties of the spot on which
we are encamped, it brings to mind the hymn,
SLo ! ou a narrow neck of landl,
Betwixt two boundless seas I standh !"
The verse need not be finished, for most of
us are rapidly becoming Universalists-be
lieving that we receive our punishment as we
go along. The dry Tortugas may be held up
as a terror to offenders. It has no terror to
us-for we are on the sandy Tortugas, where
sand crabs reign supreme. When it storms
the flue sand mixes in equal particles with
the rain, and a fleet of horizontal rain and
sand fills eyes, ears, month and. food, with
judicious impartiality. The sugar sands it
self.
Fort Clark is built of sand, piled up, coy
ered with turf to keep it from blowing away,
It mounts ten guns and is bomb proof. Going
along the beach half a mile to the inlet,, yor
come to Fort Hatteras-a little more sand,
a little more turf, a few more guns. Wher
the tide rises everything is covered with
water; when it falls everything blows away
So dreary is the spot Siat neither will birdi
smng nor grass grow near it. The first nighi
we got here we slept in the sand with uc
blankets. For a change we now sleep on
soft plank in a shanty. Men and ofiCers lii
'poon fashion till one sido gets sore ; at:
signal they turn over, and remain in thai
posture till the other side is worn out. It ih
a good country for health-chills, fevers
cramp cholic and other luxuries are plenti'
ful. To-day I saw a tree three feet high-ni
evidence of the luxuries of vegetation. Som<
of our men had jet black beards in Indiana
but all are now of a sanidy hue. "~Saiw'y" i
a pot name in the regiiment.
SW. L. Yancey and C. C. Clay, Jr., havY
been electcd Confcderate Senators from Ala
bama. Yaucey" oin the first ballot receive<
all the votes save two.
The Herald's Newport News Correspon.
deuce.
In the New York herald we find the fol.
lowing correspondence from "Camp Butler,
Newport News, Va., Oct. 27."
Last night, at seven o'clock, two deserters
from the rebel camp at Big Bethel cane to
our outside pickets for protection. Their
namesare Win. Dennis and Andrew J. Smaras,
and they are both natives of Augusta, Ga.,
and. privates in the tenth regiment Georgia
volunteers. The word "volunteers" must
pot, however, be taken in its literal sense, for
those men, with others, were impressed into
service. Of course all of their protestations
were unheeded. They left Big Bethel at six
o'clock in the morning, and by keeping in the
woods and wading through swamps they suc
ceeded in making good their escape, although
at one time they were very closely pursued.
They state that the camp at Bethel is about
five thousand strong, an equal quantity of
them from Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia;
besides these there are three hundred caval
ry, under the name of " Cobb's Legion." The
camp is under command of Brigadier General
McClaws.
There exists a good deal of dissatisfaction
among the men on account of the insufficient
clothing, the cruel treatment, and the want
of promptness in-the pay department; since
May last they have only received two months'
pay, and that, of course, in shinplasters, which'
they are unable to get rid of except by buy
ing sutler's goods at exorbitant prices. To
bacco costs 50 cents a plug; butter 60 cents
a pound ; salt 25 cents a tund ; and so on
in proportion. The men are 'only furnished
with flour and meat ; tea an1 coffee are luxa.
ries unheard of, and to procure an antidote
against the fever, which makes such havoc
among them, they dig up sassafras roots and
make a kind of tea of them, which they drink
on getting up in the morning. During these
five months they have had to work constantly
on the batteries, and all the spare time has
been filled up with fatiguing drills. While
the men are forbidden the use of liquor, the
oilicers.are drunk most of the time, arnd it is
surprising, with all the discontent prevailing
in the ranks, that no mutiny has yet taken
place. Gen. Magruder, who is commander
of the entire force in that neighborhood, oc
casionally visits their camp, and to use the
very words of the deserters, " Whenever he
is in whiskey he always talks of coming down
to Newport News to whip Gen. Phelps." But
not having come here yet, and not being wil
ling to receive any of our invitations, it is
supposed that when he has got over hie
"drunk" better reason prevails The battery
at Big Bethel consists of twelve pieces of
small rifled cannon, and is said Lo be well
manned.
These deserters were this morning turned
over to General Wool by Lieutenant Chris.
tenseii, aid-de-camp to General Phelps. Gen.
Wool, after hiving examined them very
closely, had them sent over to the Rip Raps,
where they will find work, and receive foodl
and clothing, cad where they will also be eut
of harm's way.
Yesterday afternoon General Phelps sent
out a detachment of Company D, First New
York volunteers, under command of Lieut.
Ingersoll, to a house belonging to Baker P.
Lee, about three miles from camp. Fur the
last month the only occupants of thme house
have been a poor white woman and three ne
gresses. Some days ago Lee sent a messen
ger to this white woman, warning her to leave
the house, as he purposed to burn it down
over her head. . The woman was, of course,
frightened, and fled in the direction of Back
River, and when one of our scouting parties,
on Friday last, came to the house, they found
one of the negroes in a dying condition, and
the other two, being old and diseased, unable
to take care of themselves. Out of foeelings
of humanity, Gen. Phelps yesterday ordered
the above mentioned detnehmeint to proceed
to the house, and after they had buried thie
dead woman, they brought the other two,
with all their baggage, into camp, and had
them sent by steamer to Fortress Monroe,
where the old ladies have friends and relatives.
One of them is "going on a hundred years,"
and seems, considering her age, to be quite
smart. Hecr eyesight and hearing were as good
as ini a young person, and she seemed much
affected at leaving the old homestead, where
she has workced so faithfully, anid seen genera
tion after generation pass on before her. It
was a touching sight to see her carry from
the house, as the last relic, her washing
board.
PowDxa.-We are gratified to know that
the Confederate States will not be wholly
without sources of supply of this indispensa
ble article, as the war progresses. The Gov
ernment Powder Mills, at Augusta, have not
yet been coinpleted, but temporary works have
been erected, which are now tnrning out three
hundred pounds daily.
There are several other mills in the Con
*federacy, which are working to the full ex
tent of their capacity.--Savannah Republican.
The Richmond correspondent of the Char
Ileston Mercury says:
Mr. Blakey, of the Virginia Convention,
proposes some very radical changes in the
Constitution, as, for example, that no one
who shall become a citizen of the Confeder
ate States :.fter the war, Yankee or otherwise,
Sshall ever be entitled to a vote, or be eligible