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;Xhe Old Rifleman. KOUTI1KUN AltMX. Nov; bring mb out my buckskin ault ! \My pouch Qml powder, too! " .. We'll BOO'if seVoniy-slx eau shoot . Ab Bixtooii used to do. Old Bos3 1 wo'Vo kept Quv horrels bright ! Our trigger quick and truo! As fur, if not ns jh\o a sight, . Aa long ugo, >vo drow ! Arid pidk me out a trusty flint I ? A real whito and hluo. Perhaps 't will win Hie other tint, before tho hunt is through I I Give boys your brass percussion caps ! Old **shut pan" suits.AS wolli There's something in tho ?park-?; perhaps *; Thore's something in tho smell ! Wo've seen tho rod coat bri tain bleed ! Tho red-skin Indian, too! Wo nover(.tliought to draw a bead On Yaukce-doodlo-doo ! Hut, Bessie ! bless your dear old heart ! Those days aro mostly dono ; And noW wo must revive tho art Of shooting ou tho run ! - If Doodlo must bo meddling, why, There's only this to do: Seloot tho black spot in his eye And lot tho daylight through I And if be doesn't Uko tho way That Bess presents tho view. He'll may ' o. chango his mind and stay Whore tho good Boodles do! Whero Lincoln lives. Tho man, you know, Who kissed thc Testament: To keep tho Constitution? No! , lo keep tho Government? - Wo'll hunt for Lincoln, Boss ! old tool, And tako him half and half; We'll aim to hit him If a fool, ' And mi?? him if a calf! Wo'll tench theso shot gun boys tho tricks By whioh a wards won : Especially how seventy-six Took tories on tho run. IPO(L0T0?^!L Lincoln Indiotod. "Wo give below a few extracts from the opinion delivered by Chief Justice Tn ney, in thc cliso of Murryinan, u citizen of Mnrylnnd, arrested and detnincd by Gen. Cndwnlndcr, commanding in Maryland. We regret tbnt our limited spneo will not permit us to pub- j Hali tho ontirc opinion, as it is worthy of thc groat reputation of thc vcncrablo jurist who for moro than twenty-five yenrs hus expound ed tho Constitution of tho United States in the spirit of its maker's, lt is a rcmarl. ablc in . diotment of thc "Washington usurper, and ar raigns him before America and thc world for a gross and dnngerous violntion of the Con stitution bc lins sworn to support. *MIE HAIIKA8 (JOttl'US ' CASK IN BATVNMORK. Reparte ? Before tho Chief Justice of . J.' Merry man. -< . tho Supreme Court of tho U. States, at Chambers. Thc application in this ease for a writ of kaunas corpus is mado to mo under the 14th .section of tho Judiciary Act of 1789, which renders effectual fot tho cit i zen tho constitu tional priviloge of tho writ of habeas corpus. * * * * # * The enso, then, is simply this. A military officer, residing in Pennsylvania, issues nn .order to arrest a citizen of Mnrylnnd upon vaguo and indefinito charges, without any ?'roof, so far ns nppcars. ' Uftder this order is house is entered in thc uigpt ; he is seiz ed ns a prisoner und conveyed to Fort Mc Horny, and there kept in Closo confinement. And when a habeas corpus is served on thc commanding officer, requiring bim to pro duco tbo prisouor before a Justice of thc Su premo Court, in order that bo mny examino .into tho legality of the imprisonment, the nn swer of thc officer is, that he is authorized by tho President to suspend thc writ of habeas eorjnts nt'bis discretion, und, in the exercise of that discretion, suspends it in this case, and on. that ground refuses obedience to thc 1 writ. ****** As thc oaso comes beforo mc, therefore, I understand that tho President not only claims thc ritrht to suspend the writ of habeas cor pus 1 limsclf, nt bis discretion, but to delegate that disoretionnry power to a military officer, and td lon VC it to li ph whether he will or will * not obey judicial process thut may be served upon him, No official notioo has been given to the courts of justice or thc public, by proolniun tiou or otherwise ; that tho President claimed this power, and ?iud. oxcroiscd it in the man ner stated in tho return. And I certainly listened to it with sollie surprise, for I had supposed it to bo ono of those points of con stitutional law. upon which there was no dif 'fcrenco of opinion and that it wna admitted on nil bunds that tho privilege of tho writ . could not bo suspended except by act of Congress. . * .- * * .* * * ' Hnvirig, 'therefore, regarded- tho question as tpo plain and too well settled to bo open to dispute,-if the commanding officer hud stated that upon his own. responsibility, and in tho oxcroiso of his own discretion, ho refused obe dience to tho writ, I should havo contented myself with refcring to the obtuso in the Constitution, und to the construction it re ceived from every-jurist and stntcsinnn of that day, Whop tho case of' Burr was before them. But hoing tb'ua officially notified tbnt thc priv ilege of thc writ has. been suspended under ,ibo orders and by tho nutliority-of tho Presi dent, ond, bcliovjug,' as I db, tbnt tho Presi dent has exercised n power which ho does not possess under thc Constitution, a proper respect'for the high office bo fills requires mc to state pb|inly and fully the grounds of my opinion, in order to show that I have not ven tured to question tho legality of this not with out a careful and deliberate examination of tho whole subject. * y . * * * lt is tlu> ?.d nrtiolo of tho Constitution that proyldos for tho orgnnizntipir of tjio l?xocu tivo Department. o".4 enumerates the"powers -voe^feVrVd on it, and proscribes its duties, And.if tho bigh pdwer Over tho liberty of tho citizoqs now claimed, wns intended to bo conferred on tho President, it would undoubt edly bo found in.plain words in this nrtiolo. But there is not a^word in it that ona furnish tho slightest grou/id to justify tho oxcrcise of-tho power. - . * *, * * So, too, his powers in rolntion to tho civil teutio.-i ,a?S3 authority necessarily conferred on bim aro carefully restricted, ns well na those belonging to bia military character. Ho oan ^Ofcappoiat tbo ordinary officers of (lovorn ?n?nt nor make a fronty with a foreign natiou 'or Ir?dian tribe without tho advico and con - ?ont ot th? Sorbite, ond cannot appoint oven inffll&y oi?cov$;lJulce? bow outboimUbji-nny act of Congress to do so. Ho is ?ot empow . ercd to arrest ?ny one ohargi ' with an offen oe against the 1'nitod States,?nd whom ho may, from tho evidence before bim, believe to bo guilty---nor can he authorize any officer, civil Or military, to Vxoroiso this power} for tho 5th article of tho amendments to tho Consti tution expressly provides thut no porson " shall bo deprived of lifo, liberty or proper- j ty without duo process of law "-that is, ju- | diebil process. And oven if tho privilege of tho writ of /tabeas corpus was suspended by oct of Congress, and u party not subj oct to tho rules and articles of war was afterwards arrested and imprisoned by regular judicial Erecess, bc could not bo detained in prison or rought to trial bofo.ro-a military tribunal, for tho nrtiolo in tho amendments to tho Consti tution, immediately following tho one above ; referred-that is, the Gth oriole-provides j that " in all criminal prosecutions thc accused i shall enjoy tho right to a speedy and publie | trial by an hnpartiul jury of tho Stuto und district wherein tho crime shall have been committed, whioh district shall have been pre viously ascertained by law, and td bc inform ed of thc nature and cause of thc accusation ; to bc confronted with tho witnesses against bim; to have compulsory process for obtain ing witnesses in his favor und to have the as sistance of counsol for his defence." With such provisions in thc Constitution, ox pressed iu language too clear to bo misun derstood by any oue, I cnn see no giound whatever for supposing that thc President, in uny emergency or in any state of tilings, can authorize the suspension of the privilege of tho writ of habeas corpus, or arrest a citizen except in aid of tho judicial power. Ho. cer tainly docs not faithfully execute tho laws, if ho takes upou himself legislative power by suspending thc writ of habeas corpus-und the judicial power also, by arresting and im prisoning a person without due process of law. Nor can nny argument be drawl) from tho natnro of sovereignty dr tho necessities of Government ior self-defence in times of tumult and danger. Thc Government of thc United States is one of delegated nod limited powers. It derives ita existence .and author ity altogether from thc Constitution, and nei ther of ita branches, Executive, Legislative or Judiciul, cnn exercise nny of thc powers of Government beyond those specified nod grunted. For thc 10th nrticle of tho amend ments to. tho Constitution, in express terms provides thnt " tho powers not dolegntcd to thc United Stntes by the Coustitution, nor prohibited by it to the Stntes uro reserved to tho Stntes respectively or to thc people-" Indeed, thu security against imprisonment by oxecutivo authority, provided for in thc fifth article of tho amendments of thc Con stitution, which 1 hove before tpir ed, is no thing more than n copy of a like provision in the English Constitution, which had been firmly established before the Declaration of Independence. ****** Hut I am not left to form my judgment up on this great question, from analogies be tween English Jurista, or tho decisions ol English Courts, although upon this subject they nro entitled to thc highest respect, and j arc justly regarded und received as nuthorita tive by our Courts of Justice. To guido mc ton right conclusion, I have tho commenta ries on the Constitution of thc United States of the late Mr. Justice Story, not oui} ono of tho most eminent jurists of the age, but for a long time ono of tho brightest orna ments of tho Supreme Court of thc Uniter' States, mid also thc clear and authoritative decision of that Court itself, given mon than half a century since, and conclusive!} establishing tho principles I have ubovi stated. ****** But thc documents before mc show tba the military authority in this case bas gom far beyond the mere suspension of tho priv ilego of tho wrjt of habeas corpus lt has by force of arms, thrust aside the judiei.i authorities and officers to whom tho Constitu tion has confided the power and duty of in terprcting and administering tho laws, am substituted a military government in its pince to be. administered and executed by militar officers. For, nt the time theso proceeding were hud against John Merryman, the Db trict Judge of Maryland, the commissione appointed under 'thc not of Congress-th District Attorney mid the Marshal' ??1! ri sided in thc city of Baltimore, a few mile only from tho home of tho prisoner. Up t that time there had never been tho sliglitci resistance or obstruction to tho process of nu court or judicial officer of tho United State in Maryland, except by tho military a? tho ri ty. A"d if a-military 'officer, or nny other pe son, had reason to beliovo that the prison? had committed any offence against thc hiv of thc United States, it was his duty to gil information of thc fnot, and tho evidence support it, to thc District Attorney ; and would then bavo become thc duty of th officer to bring tho matter before thc Distri .Judge or Commissioners and if there w sufficient legal evidence to justify his arr?t the Judge or Commissioner would hnvo sued his warrant to tho Marshal to nrrc him ; mid upon thc hearing of tho par would have held him to bail or committ him for trial, according to the character thc offence ns it appeared in the te.stimoi or have discharged bim immediately if the was not sufficient evidence to support tho i ousatipn. There was no danger of ?nye striation or resistance to tho notion of t civil authorities ; anti therefore no rena whatever for tho interposition of tho milita And yet, hilder these circumstances, n mili ry officer stationed in I'onnsylvnnin, withe giving nny information to thc District Att ney, mid without nny application to tho dicial authorities, assumes to himself tho dicial poworin tho District of Maryland, t dertukes to decide what constitutes tho cri of treason or rebellion, what evidence (if, deed, ho requires uny) is sufi7 dent to supp, tho accusation and justify thc commitine mid commits the party, without hnvinf bearing'oven before himself, to chino oust in a strongly garrisoned fort, to be there lu it would seem, during tho plcnsurc of th who commit fed bim. Tho Constitution provides, ns I bnvc be! snid, thnt " no person * shall bo deprived life, liberty or property, without 'duo pro? of Itiw." It d?chires that " the right of people to bo secure in their persons, bod pupers mid effects, against unreasonable som cs sud seizures, shall not bo violated, une warrmlt shall issue, but upon probable, cn supported by oath dr affirmation, and patt . lurly describing tho plnco lo bo searched, tho personi or things to bo selfed." It vides that tho party nce'used shall bo en ti to a speedy trial in a court of justice, Aud tbcbb yvtat. and faudatucut?l h Wilton Congress itself could not suspend, have been disregarded mid suspended, like thc writ of habeas corpus,' by a mil itu ry order, sup ported by force of nrius. Sucb is .tho eise now boforo ino, and I omi ouly say that, if tho authority which tho Constitution has confided to' tho judiciary .department and judiciary officers, may thus, upon any pretext, or under any circumstances, bo usurped by tho milita ry power at its discretion, tho pcoplo of thc United States uro no longer living undera government of laws, but overy citizen holds life, liberty mid property nt tho will and plea sure of tho army officers in whoso military district ho.may happen to bc found. Tn such a caso my duty was too plain to b( mistaken. I hnvo exercised nil tho powoi which tho Constitution mid lows confer on me, but that power hus bcon resisted by a force too strong forme to overcome. It is possible that thc officer who lins incurred this 'grave responsibility, mny hnve misunderstood his instructions, und exceeded tho authority in tended to bo given him. I shall, therefore ordcr^nll tho proceedings in this case, witl my opinion, to be- died hud recorded in the Circuit Court of tho United States for tin District of Maryland, and direct the Clerk te transmit a copy, under seal, to tho Presiden of tho United State's. It will then reinaii for that high officer, in fulfillment of his con stitutionul obligation, to " take care that tin laws bo faithfully executed," to dctcrmim what measures he will take to cause thc oivi process of thc United Stales to bo respect?e and cuforced. IVB. TANEY, Chief Justico * Of thc Supreme Court of tho Uuitcd States The South Carolinians in Virginia. Wo clip thc following extracts from th Richmond correspondences of thc Petersburg Express : The .Eighth Regiment South Carolina Vol uiitcers, Col. Cash, 1,000 strong, arrived n ll o'clock this forenoon. The*)* were greotci nt tho Petersburg depot by un immens crowd, mid vociferously cheered ns the marched off to the quarters assigned them. This is a magnificent body of men, hud wi make thoir mark. In a company from Darlington, Si C., noticed among tho privates Mr. Charles Ai drews, accompanied by his wife. She march cd in tho ranks by ber husband's side, occi sionally relieving him by appropriating hi trusty rifle, or his well-filled knapsack, willoi over he might proffer. This devoted wife nnd heroine hoard till her husband had received orders' to marc instantly to Virginia. She was visiting hil ut camp when the order came, and resolve that she would not bc sopara ted from bini. Secreting herself so as to avoid thc eye of th Colonel, she marched off with.her husbane unel was not discovered by tho noble cniumar [1er until the regiment reached Wiliningtoi N. C. Sho was told that she could notai company her husband, but with tears in he ayes she entreated that she should not 1 torn from bini whom she Would cheerful 1 follow to the cannon's mouth. She pledge to moke herself useful in various ways, lit) finally her eloquent veticc and still more ch ?piont black eyes eovercaine the Colonel, tin lie elecided that she might accompany lu lusbaiid. Oh, woman's devotion! WI jan estimate? who can properly value it'( Tho pretty young woman is to bo thc vital J ieee, of tho gallant Eighth, and she td read Kindles a gun like one used to thc service. Gen. Beauregard has assumed commun it Mnnassas Gap. Rely upon it that this n .omplished officer will lead the Southern a ny victoriously through Alexandria, Was! tigtoii and Baltimore. Prom all I can heil ho war is to bo curried into the very bea )f the enemy's country. Thc \il nlnoi scoundrels and ruthless invaders arc to I nade to feel our power-they aro to 1 aught a lesson-they are to be learned th .here are blows to receive as well as blows ?ive. * As an illustration of thc opinion cute mined by South Carolinians of Gen. Beam gard's abilities; let mo recite a little ineidei I'o-day, upon tho arrival of the Eighth Hot ment, a gentleman asked a Carolina soldi ivhat bc thought of Gen. Beauregard. T prompt reply was, 1 f Gen. B. were to ti inc that Portress Monroe could be taken, would bo ours before Saturday night ; if were to say it could not be taken, wc won not go within fifty miles of it." Thc atrocities at Hampton Roads have t cited our people almost to frenzy, and t universal cry now is that the injuries of tin pcoplo must be avenged. INDIAN PATRIOTISM.-The Montgonu papers, nu nott nee thc arrival, in thal city, two Chiefs from the Creek Nation, who ca to consult with the President and Congre with reference to tho admission of their t ritory into thc Confederacy, and also to ol several companies of Indians to the Cont' crate service. These Chiefs, (.'hilly Mc tosh and Stedham, passed through Kin ville, on Wednesday morning, on their wu) Riehmond. We have learned that Albert Pike, of A ansas, thc " Poet soldier of thc South-wes is raising a regiment among tho Creeks f Cherokees. Col. Pike lived for many ye among thc Indians ; they all know him, i will follow him nnywhc.ro. A picked n incut of Indian bu'sh-flghtcrs? h'd by sue mau as Albert Pike, who has all of tho he ns well ns much of tlio nppenrailc?, of a 1 will make their mark in any war, moro Ci cindy such a ono as we ure engaged in. f Cu roi in icm -?. > ? A Noni.K MATRON.-We understand 1 tho nccoinplishcd lady of tho Hon. A. Hopkins, recont Commissioner from . bama, is'in this city, mid engaged in es Hulling nn iissoointion of nurses for tho ( federate army. After having boort months past nmst laboriously engaged in pcr'tiitcnding thc making of clothing and fit for tho gullnnt soldiers of Mobito, ? Hopkins, on hoaring tho chief scat of WHS about to bo transferred to Virginia, with unabated zeal, returned to her nt State to carry forward ber mission of bon lenco and mercy. Shu will, no eloubi warmly received, and t'ceondcd in her II offorts by tho patriotic ladies nf Rjchm Mrs. Hopkins is the daughter of Col. II Opiu, who for. many yours,represented great ability the Jofforson District in Stnto Semite. " Lot honor bo give whom honor is due."-Richmond Exam ABE LINCOLN has the impolitciics? impudence to threaten Queen Vioteiria. fair rulor of lf)0,000,000 pcoplo wo pros onros ?4 inuoh for thc snarling of this III boor ns she would for tho burking of bc dog. It would only toko nor about n to annihllato his onttre Navy, nod, utile politic fctowolf voty ^raijjfy ehe wiiit I _ I il il* Ijjl I?! IM ll ll I Ipili.* tl? Mp I'" ?frw*l'?? I ?Hill? i ll I ?hi "Events Develops Men." It ts untura!, in times of publio onxiety, to ask who .will lead na? Tho popular mind is restless until it can repose in confidence upon : souio obviously proper man for tho perilous 1 hour. It is unwise to loso our hopefulness j bocauso some master-spirit does not appear os ! quickly ns our impatient desires domand his . coming. Tho history of tho Avorld shows i that tho public exigencies of u .people, when groat events uro occurring,- nlways call out in to prominenco men for tho timos. When ev erything is ready, and tho fullness of time is como, Providonco places in command tho guiding and ruling man. "While tho ungod ly may seo nothing in this but thc ordinary course of a development of character, purely duo to human and nintcrial influences, nnd may philosophize nbout it hs ono of tho phe nomena of human history, the people who believe in tho (Jed of tho Hiblowtll regard it ns tho gracious pinn of our m mei ful Sovor oign, whoso watchful caro provides in wisdom and lovo for every exigouoy of mankind, nnd especially supplies tho douinud which thc wellbeing of Iiis own people makes upon Ilia providence. Thc God wbo'gave Joseph for Egypt; ?Moses for tho Hebrews ; Paul for .thc Gentiles; thc Reformers for corrupt times in thc (Jimrob, and mon nod women in every j ngo competent .to take tho commanding post? 1 tions which ordinary chnrncters could not fill, ni ny now bc supplicated and relied on to bring into action every needful mensuro of intellect nnd moral energy, und give heroes i nnd heroines in abundance to guarantee thc healthful nnd successful progress of a good CHUSO. It is well, in this view of tho mntter, to take cure that our expectations and our COM I fideneo aro not rather occupied with thc ser ! vant thnn with the Muster who sends him. Clod will not givo His glory to another. Let us not forget tho duty of trusting in (Jod nnd recognizing His bund in thc gift of valuable men. Tho wisdom of the maxim, 11 It is ! better to trust in the Lord than to put con i fidence in men," is what, tho Christians ol j this lund ought to appreciate nnd illustrate. We hnvo n good cause, und, so fur, Divine Providence has supplied us, step by step, with just tho men for the place and hour. Lot us not be unfaithful to such goodness, but heed its suggestions, and be encouraged by its provisions to n larger faith. If wc shall do our duty, and humbly rely on .Ioho yuh, tho blessing of Heaven will abide or our tents, nnd tho end of tho troublous ti mci wo live in shall be nu issue of grout good tc human society, und au enhancement of everj spiritual interest of Zion. Lot each man and woman of God in om con f?d?ration offer unto thc Lord tho prayer " Lord, what wilt Thou hnvo rue to do? - Lot us, unreservedly, give ourselves to tin Lord, to bc nnd to be led ns He may deter mino, nnd those who are faithful over thu which is least, shall God employ in succ?s sivcly higher duties, nnd to him that hat! shall bo given, until we >,hall lack for noth ing, but prosper und abound in every gooc word und work. Those who, with cager impatience, seel place, power, honor, are not tho ones whosi names until) be associated with the history ? tho great events now transpiring ; btu wbei thc memorial of tho times shall bc writtei up, the linger of honor shall point to thpsi whoso unobtrusive zeal nnd unselfish dcvo tion to their country and to tho ohureh sc cured them God's blessing, mid enshrine! their names in Imperishable praise. ! LIVK?.Y HUMOUS.-Tho victory nt Oren Bethel, Virginia, occurred un Monday, l?tl inst. Tho locality is in tho Pcnisulu forme by tho James und York rivers, in tho South I custom part of that State. On the 12th inst ns wo learned by telegram from Norfolk, th sound of another battle in the Peninsula wa heard nt Pig's Point. Passengers who stri ved this morning from Virginia, td uto thev is no doubt that (mother important con fi it hud occurred, lind they give ns u report tin tho Lincolnites were, again routed. A r< treat of n portion of their forces to Newpoi News was soon, and riltnor says that at til close of tho battle, the North Carolina rog mont nnd n Georgiu regiment cbnrged the ei erny with thc bayonet, who gave way in fu confusion, threw down their arms, cried u um der nnd fire," and lied. Charleston Unen i ny xVeics, Saturday 15A TEN N ESS BR JS HEADY rou TUT, CONFKIC -Many of our fellow-oitizens in the omi tics of Middle ami littst Tennessee have Int ly asked us : " Wh::t hus been done to pr pare our State for defence?1' Wc state from the highest authority th every thing has been done that could bo f this object. There is now established on tl Mississippi river five or six butteries of bett' guns, including mortars, coltimbiads, ni thirty-two and twenty-four pounders, cm tunneling the river from Memphis to the Ko tucky lino. These butteries ure command by Col. J. P. McCown, formerly of the Ut teil States Artillery, now Colonel of a cor of ten companies ot Tennessee Artillery. PIKED .DEPENDES.-In addition to" th Various field defences have been establish in Wost mid Middle Tennessee, nt tho prop points, under tho direction of expenene officers.-Xash rifle Cn ion MAJOR-GEN nt AL DAVID E. Twjanft. Wc lind thc pleasure of meeting this guilt veteran, this morning, who, wo uro plen?od lonni, hus boon nppointed by the Gove mont of tho Confederate States to CO ut mu tho Military Department of Louisiana. Gen. Twiggs only arrived this niorni from Potisuoolu, mid is looking in fine beni Ho takes coiinniind of the department to d Wc ure glad to hear of this appointment, wc shnl} now have n most efficient office? the head of thc Military Department of t State.-New Orleans Picayune. 1st. - ? -- TlIK DIFFICULTY OF II KOCK A DI Nd.-1 London Times, of tho 15th May, soys: " It is rto easy thing to stop privateer! fillibust.ers of tiny kind. Pow Dloottudos the annals of wnr lift ve boon sdriotor thnn t which the British? fleet kept up nt tho p of Prance during tho ivni' of thc rovolui nnd tho Empire ?nd yet the son swnr.i 'with "French privateers. Tho lbs* s. toe British nierchnntiiicn wore gronto st in tho ieurs of tho'Wnr, after thc navy pf? Franco cen destroyed by tho victorios of Nelson his comrades. We moy well doubt, tl whether it is in thc power of tho Union, c with thc nid of stcupi, to keep up un offee blockade of thc wholo Atlniitio and Gulf c from tho Chesapeake to tho Kio (?rando. Southerners, though not ns maritime us t adversaries, aro quite cn pa bl a of fitting mid sailing privateers in numbers dango to Northern cOmnicrco, mid i tis possible tho Spaniards both North.nnd South of Isthmus may bo tempted to join ip tho U tlvo^rudo of Oojpturinjj .^lii' ?lnjt?.?^^: >^w?jw>i*i ?i^..M<y?ai.iMuiiytoi hui iiixn .MIWI j *>1< ?!??/*! "'j' South Carolina. -.. In nit ablo article of tho Southon) Presby- j torin? Roviow, ontitlcd A Vihdicntion of Secession and tho South," by tho Rov. ?)r. j Pulmer, of New Orleans, is tho following ol oquont defonco of South Carolina against tho j , charge that thc secession of that Stnto took ! ita HBO'in her .?* chronio hatred to tho Nation al Unioti : " I .? Wo deny that South Carolina haft over been uctuated by so baso ti sentiment as . lia?j treil of tbo Union '-especially a hatred that is \ chronic.' lier statesinon and her people | did, indeed, despair of tho Republic sootier thnu others. .With that penetration into tho working of secret and potential causes which seems intuitive]. Mr. Calhoun long since an- . nouueed tho catastrophe that has occurred, with ii precision that looks Uko tho inspira* tiou of prophecy. Rut that she bas ever beeit disloyal to thc Constitution, is historical- ! ly untrue. During thc Revolutionary strug gle, overlaid by tho British forces, she passed ? through unparalleled sufferings, and contrih-1 utcd her full proportion of blood and treasure to thc common causo, ss tho numerous battle Holds which dot ber soil abundantly show. Prom that day to this, in all her country's battles, ber sons have stood nearest to tho Hashing of tho puns, always prodigal of life, | whether amid tho hmiimoeks of Fbridn, or upon tho plains of Mexico. In tho moro j quiet walks of civil lifo, she has taken her i share in tho public council, and borne her j fsiir proportion of tho publie burdens, how- I ever oppressively distributed. liven in tho memorable .conflict of Nullification, for which she has endured long reproach, she was bat tling for the Constitution, and for tho equal rights of which it was tho bond. Upon that Constitution she stood then-upon that Con stitution she stand? still-Mid in her depart ure from a faithless Union, she bears it into a new sanctuary, the Palladium of Liberty. " Put when all hope bad died within her, she .stood calmly under the shadow of tho Capitol, before the clock which silently told thc nation's hours, and which would ere long sound the knell of its destin}'. No sooner was this heard in the shout of Black Repub lican .success, than she leaped, feeble and alone, into tho deadly breach History has nowhere upon her record a more sublime ex ample of moral heroism. Ignorant Whether sho -would bc supported, even by her sister across tho Savannah, relying on nothing save the righteousness of her cause and tho power of Cod, she took upon her shield and spear as desperate and ns sacred a conflict as ever made a State Immortal. It is just this hero ic devotion to principle, this faith in the right and the true, this singleness of heart in tho presence of duty, and this abiding trust in the power and righteousness of Cod, that render her capable of a thousand martyrdoms, and incapable of political bondage. It is just this combination of attributes, crowning her with moral dignity,'that draws to her own hill sides and barren pines thc ' untravelled hearts ' of her sons, who, in ull their .wander ings, from thc tropics to thc pole, breathe no more fervent prayer than in death to sleep upon her faithful bosom until thc awful day. Her ncoiisors prejudge their own cause, when it is alleged that sucha State can bato the Union. If it were true, it is only because that Union had become the synonym of tyr anny. Rut the breath of slander will pass over her fame as upon il burnished mirror-n moment dinii then brighter than before. Tho Genius of History luis already wreathed tho garland with which her brow shall be decked. Long may she live, the mother of heroes who shall be worthy of their birth. ? ? ? -* D KAT ll OP STKPI?KN A. DOUGLAS.-A telegram announces the (louth, at Chicago, on the fourth instant, of tho lion. Stephen A. Douglas, at the age of foi ty-eiirht years-hav ing been born April -il, 1.818, at Brandon, Vermont. The public career of Mr. Douglas is familiar to most of our readers, and tho necrologist of thc current year will assign to bini a promi nent position among departed statesmen. Prom a graphic notice of his demise, wc are reminded that Judge Douglas was no orator, hut n man of sound judgment, of great will, of inflexible, purpose, and his popularity was attributable to his personal qualities, bis tact, bis vast capacity for combinat ion and manage ment. Ile has been prominently before tho country since 1857-5K. when ho broke with Mr. Buchanan, thc Administration and his party. He was among tho earliest advocates tor the annexation of Texas, and ardently sus tained President Polk in the prosecution of the Mexican War. Ile was a fifty,four forty or light" man in tue Oregon controversy, and opposed tho treaty with langland, whereby Mr. Polk accepted the 40th parallel ns the Northern boundary of Oregon, lie also np* posed the treaty of peace with Mexico. He also opposed the treaty of pcaoo with Mexico. Ho opposed thc Wilmot Proviso, though once voting for it in the Senate, under instructions, and in August, 18-18, offered an amendment to tho Oregon bill extending tho- Missouri Compromiso to tho Pacific, which passed the Rel?alo but was killed in tho Houso, thus leaving the country to the exeitementsof 1849 f>0, which were settled by tho compromise of September, 1850, of which Judge Douglas was un ardent, supporter. As is wei) known, bc introduced and carried through tho celebra ted Knnsns-Nobraskn bill,' which caused such intense excitement throughout the country. .Judge Douglas lenves two children by his first wife. Miss Martin, of North Carolina, to whotn ho was (harried in April, 18d7, mid who died in 1865. In 1850 ho married Miss A dolo Cutts, of Wtishington City, who sur vives him, but by whom bc has.no ohild liv ing. For four years past bc bas broasted a storm of no common sort, battling manfully ngninst ancient foes'nud nnyieut friends, with a boldness, n daring, almost un nudacity, whioh won tho ndinivation of nil. Ho has been sev eral t imes, within n few yen rs, attacked with violent illness which his iron constitution on abled him tu overcome, until tho Inst and fatal sickness-FUld and Fi resille. DKTKK.MINKD TO CUIIKII rt?K SOUTH.-A former member of tho U. ,S. Congress from h Southern Stnto recently bad nu interview with W. H. Seward, in which bo ondonvorcd to disnbuse bis mind of tho error cominon'nt the Norilr that there ls still n ntrong Union party iii tho seceded.States. Mr. Soward re plied that bo wns woll nwnro of tho fact that ibero no longer existed nny sueb pnrty, but flint ho was determined to tcMt tho question whether tbo U. S. Oovernthont could be over thrown or not. Tho same numibor of Congress oise saw Mr. Lincoln and repented lo him substantial .ly tho samo statement of Southern unity ho bad nindo. to Mr. Seward, to whioh Mr. Lin coln replied thnt ho was well nwnro the South was now n unit, but thnt tho North,lind tho power to,onish it, nud wus determined to ;l,il,l.ifi.illft.l l ? .hh**?*im.*.*?m SUOOESTIONS.-Our peoplo sll???./',. |ifO pnro themselves (says tho Mucop Telegraph,) for Buffering und indurunco. Wo oannot tell tho duration of tho war. Wo should turn our attention otoncoto overything that will support man and beast. Wo must bo fed nt homo, us' we muy bo cut off from nil other supplies. Not only must wo bo fed nt home, but if th? wnr lusts for somo yours, wo.mny ha\o to be olothed nt homo. Let mothers, wives und sistors prepare to clotho tho mon nnd children. Such neccssnry articles ns negro shoes and clothes, ngricultUrnl implements, negro hilts, mid a considerable list of such things, will h'nve to bo mudo nt homo. Tho sooner peo ple turn their uttention to thonf tho better. Wo oyght to bo indulg? nt to thoso who owo us, nnd wo ought to pjiv one another ns fur ns possible. Wo must protect and succor tho families of thoso who go to fight our buttles. ARMS pott TIIK SOOTH.-Tho " Montgom ery (hnjhhi'ot.?on" saysl u A vessel ar rived nt New Orleans from Eu ropo-, on Mon day, the Otb instant, with 260,000 stands of arms for the Confederate States. This is tho same vessel whose, arrivai has been expected for several days, mid to which attention hus boon repeatedly Culled in thc sheets of tho Little Villain und old Squint -Eye. After nil tjio earnest. ' entreaties of the Tnnrs nnd' JTvrahl, that Old Abo would keep a (ooh out for her, she reached hero safely mid landed' her cargo." COTTON STATISTICS.-Thc latest reports from Great Britain show that tho consump tion of cotton for the current venr hus dimin ished an average of .6,200 hales per weeli, or 270,400 bales for the year, owing to the high prico nnd the commercial depression. Tho stuck in Liverpool, May 21, was 1,112,000 bales, sufficient to supply tho weekly cou ."umpjion nt the hist average (dJl,(300 bales) for more than twmity-five weeks. Besides, there were nt sen, bound for Liverpool, 120, 000 bales from thc United States mid ,290, 000 bales from Bombay, or ?ttipplies for niuo weeks more-thirty-five weeks in all. FROM Nt\\\ YOUR.-Tho special-corres pondence of tho Tribune dovclopes the 'pro gramme for the Wheelli?g Convention, which is to establish il Provisional Government for Virginia, declare Governor Letcher deposed, appoint u new Governor, declare Eastern Vir ginia in insurrection, call for another election, elect United Stales Senators, mid perform all tho functions of the whole Sttte. A lotter from Gem Fremont Soys that thc Confederate Commissioners have sucoorded un purchasing two steamers, which will fdiortly sail in ballest under British flag und register. Coi.. RION*.-It is-reported by the volun teers who caine up on Saturday, says the CJicstor Sifonifitrtii that Col. Rion,,6th Regi ment S. C. V., hus resigned, und bis resigna tion hus been accepted by tho Governor. TUB DESPOTISM AT WASHINGTON.-It f? reported by gentlemen employed in the Con federate Government, just arrived here fron? Washington, that numbers of men and women uro confined in the basement rooms of the Capitol ns suspected persons, either from the South, or who sympathize with the South A CONTENTED MAN.-A story has been told of nu CCCOIltrio mun of wealth having' nmuaod himself by causing an inscription to bo placed conspicuously over thc g-ilOwny of a beautiful property belonging to him, to this eject: "This property Mi ?J II be given with out reserve, by the present owner to any np plicaut who eau produce satisfactory evidence that he is a t mtentod man.". Soon there was> ou nppliciwit. " 1 think," said he, " .L may lay oliiim to thc character of *n contented man." "That," replied the owner, "i* n most enviable character ; but arc you quite sure that you are truly a contented mun ?" " You mny rely on it. sir," said thc other. '. Why, then, do you apply for this property! " inquired the owner.. Thc applicant retired wiser than be was before. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ix on ni XA uv-CITATION. Vy iIl?KKAS, ?snWll Winchester und W. Winches ? V ter applies to me fur loiters of administration upon all and singular (lie personal estate ot Joseph Winchester, d?conseil, late of tho 13?Htriol of Piek en? ami Slate aforesaid : Tim kindred and credit ors ol' said deceased, aro, therefore, oiled to nppenr bet?re me at Picketts C. M. on Friday the '2Hth limo, inst.,, lo ?how cause, if any thev can, why said letters should not he granted, ('liven under my hand and seal, this 13lli .lune. TSUI. W. E. I KM ?HOM UK. o.e.n. IfiBLiF) AUTHUR ' 1 Finn 1?K.UMSNT. S. C. M. j on nun yo. 1. OFFICE IVS, whether oomtniRshmod or nort Comi?issionod. will dnko charge of their respective oom pa nies io ibis Rugimont. and proceed forthwith, nocordiug to law, to completo tho organivuition of said companies, and res niuo tho Usuuj drills. Commanders, of companies, liro ulsirhcrohy ordered to koo|> up strict patrol in their ro<poenve bents. A Regimental Court .Martial will bc ordored, when all delinquents must ho reported. iL J. ' HKUD, Acting Colonel. June 3. 1301 J\_ H ^ t? ll E ENVI f, h VJ IM A li HI, E YA BB. r|MlF. subscriber bus on bund und is constant _i ly receiving ti large nnd varied nsfmi tmoni of American and Italian Mti.rMe, Tn which he would cull theiittentieii of thoso'n want of u soil ;il)le Monument to mnrk tho ftpOl where repose tho remains nf their departed rel atives and friends. . Curving and lettering of all kinda ncntlynnd prmnptlv executed; Purticular intention paid to orders bv mail JAM HS M. ALLEN. Greenville C. IL, S. C.. Feb t\i '? ;tl-tf N. B. Ile rofcrs to ll (? Westfield. Gowor.Cnx, Mmklv & Co.. Dr. M 1) Karlo. W ll Watson, rfr?j.yCol DJbjke^ lOIcKny. Esr,. _____ ?OMIE TO TUB ItBS??IB J T U K CRISIS IS CPON US'. 4' LL poisons indebted to W, ?I, OKNPY Ss. J\ CO., for tho vern- IMO. rn Urti come firwurd timi niako settlement hy N'.ilo or 'Cash-'cash jtf?ffihjed-ns wp, urn needing moiiov. Potions indebted to tho linn of- DENBY ? PULLKN for tho yours. isiH-*;>'.) most pn* within twenty days from this dato, ur.pn,V cost., without discrimination. > . W. IL DSN DY & CO. Walhalla. l-Vlr. 1. ISQl J?(\ ?f. T?I? STATH OK SOPT?l~C^ j - iN onniXAiiv-ficiccxs. N'nnoy A. K. Uilliluud ) L v?. J. Pct. for Partition, John lt. Y. Oillihind, ct. ul?, j IT annoarlugtjQ my ?utUfiicrmii ihnt.I.uimmi .?< tOillifaiitl. ono of tho dofcndntils in this oauo.'ls absent from am) without the limit? of ibis Siatot U I? onioned, thovofore. that tho ?md nbxont do-? fondant do upborn- in tho Court ol' Ordinary, nt Piekcji? C. IL on Monday tho- 20th diiy of A[?K?>?t next, amt object lo the partition or Halo ci tho ttca\ K?tato of David (Hllilnnd. dooona?il, or iii? consent to the san\o Will bo onlcrod ol' record.