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--->? . ^ ? wisiam wrie4st. [ Proprietors- 5n> Jitbcpcnknt Ifamilj ftcfospapcr: ^or t|c ^promotion of tjje political, Social, Agricultural airir Commercial Interests of % Soutjj. |$2 peh yeab, is advance. 5 VOLUME 7. YORKVILLE, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7,1861. NUMBER 6. ____ ; : ; ... . "r ; > ??>' i. A | Ik pW? I JHLiwm ^ For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. ARGUMENTS FOR SLAVERY. OBJECTIONS TO THE BIBLICAL ARGUMENT CONSIDERED AND CONFUTED. The positions assumed aDd the facts presented, in developing the Bible argument for slavery, are controverted by many op- I posers of the institution. It is proper, i therefore, before passing from this general point, to discuss some of the objections that are urged against the reasoning for slavery i upon Biblical grounds. We give, in detail, i the most important evasions and pretexts , that are resorted to by objectors, and will add a brief refutation of each. 1. It is said that the Jcicish code is now obsolete, and hence, even if slavery was authorized under that, it is no authority legalizing the institution or relation at the \ vresentdau. Answer. The objection ad- : -T v mits the incoDtrovertible fact that the Jew was authorized to hold his fellow man in bondage, but assumes that the authority aod right for slavery ceased with the passing away of the Jewish economy. The following facts are fatal to this conclusion : 1. Nothing incorporated in the Jewish code, could be essentially sinful in itself. It is not consisted t with the character of God to authorize and legalize what is moral/// wrong. Hence, as the relation of master and slave was not only permitted but expressly sanctioned to the Jews, it could not have been, in the eyes of God, a moral wrong; and so its existence, and the authority and laws for it, need not, of necessity, evanish with the economy that recognized and legalized it, unless it be proved that it was designedly temporary, and so passed away with the laws, ceremonies, types and shadows of the Jewish codes. 2. But in all the instances where the duty, privilege or right, was designed to become obsolete under the abrogation of the Mosaic economy, we are instructed as i to the fact, and find it expiring with the limitation of the Old Testament economy. But in reference to slavery no such a fact is indicated. It existed before Moses; was ; recognized in his statutes as not simply temporary, but perpetual, and besides it was embodied in the moral law, and so an intimation is given that instead of being a Jewish privilege, it is to pass on into subse- i qnent ages and never be authoritatively an- i nulled until the 4th and 10th Command- i ments cease to be laws regulating the rela- I tions and duties of men. : 3. The recognition of slavery in the ' cimes of our Saviour and the Apostles, clearly contradict the assumption that it was ' to disappear with the Mosaic enactments. > In reference to all the facts and teachings, ' authoritatively given by Moses, it is iodis- 1 potable that wherever Christ was to become J the eiid of the law, and the force of the 1 law to be either repealed or expire by lirni- 1 tation, we can note its disappearance from j the New Testament economy. But not so with slavery, for instead of its repeal or ab- ! olition in the new dispensation, we find its 1 continuance distinctly recognized, and laws 1 are given for its regulation. 2d Objection. Another class o? opponents of slavery allege that it was not sanetioned in the Bible, but only permitted as , polygamy was under the Old economy.? Others go so far as to say that slavery was ' authorized by Moses just as polygamy was. But the objections, being in the spirit the same, may receive the same reply, borne interpreters of the word of God, and advocates of slavery, would answer it by admitting that God not only allowed, but sanctioned both slavery and polygamy to the Jews. And thus they would meet the objection, by saying that whilst slavery and polygamy were both lawful under the Patriarchal and Mosaic Economies, only the one is lawful now, the law and sanction for the other having been withdrawn oy Christ. But we make no such admission, as that polygamy was sanctioned, or even authoritatively allowed in the Pentateuch. Good men, it is true, did practice it; but the ev:Is that in every case sprang out of it, and attended it, showed that it did not receive the approval of Jehovah, but always brought sufferings as chastisements upon those who practiced it. And we call upon the objector to show that the two were placed upon the same platform, by either Moses or the Lord. But whilst he cannot show that God by formal sanction, or a direct law, authorized any man to take more than one wife at a time, we can, as we have already, quote 1 language authorizing slavci-y. See Exod. ' 21 : 7) 7 :20, 21, and Levit. 25 :44?46 1 as specimens. Thus we overthrow the objection, by denying the premises of the argument. But we answer again. Were it even true, that slavery and polygamy were treated alike in the Old Testament, it is evident that it is not so in the New Testament, for oneisthere condemned, the other ' not. From Mat. 19 : 3?9 ; llom. 7:2,3; 1 Cor. 7:1, 2, 29, it is plain that the laws of marriage, as announced by Christ and ! the Apostles, imply that it shall be between one man and one woman at a time, and so polygamy is excluded as involving, necessarily, the sin of adultery. But in no case does the relation of master and slave receive a similar condemnation, being on the ' other hand received as an integral part of the social structure, it is guarded against abuses, but pronounced a lawful relation to Christians. That this is the fact in reference to the institutions of marriage and slavery, may be inferred from ihe universal rejection, by ! Christians, of polygamy; but the extensive and approved recognition of slavery as lawful among the most intelligent and consis- ' tent members of the Christian Church. - 1 3d Objection. Another subterfuge resorted 'o by the opponents of slavery is, ( that the terms "bondsmen" of the Old Testament, and 11servant" of the New Testa- ' ment, should not be construed us mcanimj slaves, but simply a species of hired see- ' vants. This allegation is almost too ridieu J lous to receive serious attentioo, because: a. Every Hebrew scholar knows that the word Ebed usually rendered bondman and sometimes servant, and Ngabdecha and Amatheca rendered io the 4th Command < "man servant" and "maid servant," con- f veyed to the mind of the Jew just the idea i involved in oar word slave. Of this wen have the recent testimony of Dr. Raphall, of New York, one of the best llhabbinical scholars of the world, b. We have already adduced passages from the Old Testament, where different kinds of slaves were specified, but in these the hired servant is expressed by the use of a different word from that which is rendered in other places bond I man and bondservant. c. In the New Testament the word dovlos occurs about a hundred and twenty times, and is rendered servant in each. Its real meaning is apparent from Dr. Hodge on Eph. 6:5?9, who 3ays, "Doulos from dc.o to bind, means a bondman or slave, as distinguished from a hired servant, who was called misthios and misthotos; and from the term used, and from known historical facts, that slavery J prevailed throughout the Romau Empire, during the Apostolic age, it is evident that j this and other passages of the New Testa-j ment refer to that institution." The samel is admitted by the best exegetical scholar I of the world, d. As explanatory of the j fact that the term servant is used to translate doulos, of Greek, and Ebed of Hebrew, it must be remembered that at the, time at which our English version was | made, the word servant had the meaning | dow attached by us co the word slave. 4th Objection. It is by others, with an air of supposed triumph, asserted that as the Bible condemns manstealing, it thereby condemns slavery. Id reply, we admit that "manstealing" is forbidden both by Moses and the Apostles, and we are far from saying that the act is right But we deny that j the fact of holding slaves is thereby condemned, for reasons: 1. That this condemnation reaches only to a particular form of procuring slaves and not the act of slaveholding. The Bible in its spirit condemns the stealing of wives and every other spe-j cies of property, but who is idiotic enough thence to conclude that the possessing of wives and other property is condemned ? 2. In the Old Testament, there are numerous lawful ways of procuring slaves specified, and if holding men in servitude, when | obtained in any of those lawful ways?as I by purchase, by inheritance, &c , did not I subject the owners to the crime of manstealing, so it need not and cannot do it now. 3. Good men, as patriarchs and prophets, and men associated with Christ, and received into the Church by inspired Apos-j ties, were not rebuked for slaveholding, al i though even in those days the prohibition of "manstealing" existed. Thus it is plain that1 manstealing"andslaveholdingare not it all the same thing, aud the forbidding ?? "? <"? ? ?/??* m Anf nrvmncf AfKor J1 cue uuc is uu at^uuicui/aguiuoi uuv vkuw? 5th Objection. Others assert that Christ nul His Apostles did not explicitly and formally condemn slavery because of prudential considerations. Slavery was so universally prevalent, was so iuterwoven with :he vital interests of society, that to have nterfered with it would have arrayed the prejudice and power of every slaveholder ind the whole State against the Church?j This is their reasonicg, and that it is but a subterfuge will appear: a. From the fact that if slavery was sinful, as a relation, the Saviour and the Apostles could not have withheld a condemnation of it, for b. They faithfully and constantly condemn sins of all kinds, and they designate the sins of idolatry, adultery, robbery, profanity, Sabbath breaking, &c., &c., which as exten sively prevailed and were perpetrated by the rnlers to as great a degree as slavery. And we know that timidity and forbearance upon these sins might have averted some opposition to the religion of Christ. But as the denunciation of all other sins was prac ticed, and that in the face of opposition and persecution, is it reasonable, that if slavery had been essentially wrong, they would have spared it ? c. Is it not even more remarkable that instead of speaking against it, as objectors say they should have done, they testified in such a way, as to convey the idea to thousands of unprejudiced minds that they designedly recognized and impliedly approved the relation of master and slave? d It is to our mind nearly, if not quite blasphemous to say the Bible seems to approve what is always and everywhere sinful, as slavery is denounced, by modern so called reformers, to be. e. But at most, it seems to us, that if for even prudential reasons, the writers of scripture forbore a condemnation, their example ought to be imitated by a large class of men, who have, in other respects, risen no higher than the Apostolic standard of morality. If Christ and the Apostles were right in not condemning Grecian and Roman, then the Abolitionists can't be right in condemning Afri can slavery. 6th Objection. It is objected by others that the principles, and the spirit and tendency of the Gospel, even without a Jormal condemnation, icill overthrow slavery We answer, that the principles of morality are immutable. If these principles did not cverthrow slavery in the days of Moses and Christ and Paul, they will not do it now. A wain Thp flrpaf Tpnnhpr and flip in. spired expounders of Gospel Morality, did not make any such application of these principles, but on the other hand, pronounced many men moral and Christian who were involved in ilaveholding. Nor do many, yea very many, who have solid claims to competency to understand Christian morality and Gospel precepts, regard the relation of slavery as at all at war with the spirit and principles and tendency of the religion of the Jews. And besides, in the institution of slavery are presented abundant opportunities for the practice of ill the morality and every christian gruce inculcated by a Divine tongue or an inspired pen. The most then, that the Gospel does for slavery, is to remove its abuses and incidental evils, and this it does in reference! to this as well as every other relation of life. I But this is a very different thing from des-1 troying the institution itself, just as making ?ood husbands and wives differs from des:roying the marriage relation. There are| some other minor objections to the Bible I irgument for slavery, but the above covers ;he general ground, and hence, the rest arc! emitted by PHILEMON. ? ?? ? The Seizure and Return of the North Carolina Forts.?The corrospon-; dence between Governor Ellis, of North ! Carolina, and the Federal Government., rel-j itive to the seizure of the forts in North! Carolina, is published. Governor Ellis in-! forms the President of the seizure aud his order that they be returned, and then asks if the President intends to garrison them. In reply to this, Secretar Holt compliments the high sense of honor of North Carolina, and, on behalf of the President, says that he will not garrison these forts unless some apprehended demonstration of violence should render it necessary. Jtet ictes. TAX BILL.~ An Act to Raise supplies for the year Commencing October, 1860. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That a tax for the sums, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the Treasury of this State, for the use and service thereof, that is to say: One dollar and thirty cents, ad valorem, on every hundred dollars of the value of all lands granted in this State, ac cording to the existing classification as heretofore established; oue hundred and twentysix ceuts per head on slaves; three dollars on each free negro, mulatto or mestizo, between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall clearly be proved, to the satisfaction of the Collector, to be incapable, from maims or otherwise, of procuring a livelihood; twenty-two cents, a<l valorem, on every hundred dollars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings within any city, town, borough or village in this State; one hundred cents per hudred dollars on factorage, employments, faculties and professions, including the profession of dentristry, and including herein Clerks of Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions, Sheriffs, Masters aud Commissioners in Equity, Registers in Equity, Registers in Mesue Conveyance, Ordinaries and Coro ners, whether in the profession of Law or Equity, the profits be derived from the cost of suits, fees, or other sources of professional income, excepting clergymen, schoolmasters, school-mistresses and mechanics; one hundred cents on every one hundred dollars on the amount of commissions received by vendue masters and commission merchants; forty cents on the capita! stock paid in on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred aud sixty, of all banks which, for their present charters, have not paid a bonus to the State; eighty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of any batik of issue, not incorporated by this State, paid in on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred aud sixty, doing business by agents within the limits of the State: foity cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated gas light companies; one and a half per centum on all premiums taken in this State by incorporated insurance companies, and by the agencies of insurance compauies and underwriters without the limits of the State; tweuty-two cents ou every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandize, embracing all articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange (the products of this State, and the unmanufactured products of any of the slaveholding States of the late United States excepted) which any person shall have made from the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, either on his, her, or their capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of any person or persons as agent, attorney or consignee; ninety cents on eve ry nunarea aonars or tne amount or sales, goods, wares and merchandize whatever, which any transient person not resident in this State shall make in any house, stall or public place, whether the said salo be made by sample or otherwise; tweDty dollars per day on all circus exhibitions; five dollars per day for representing publicly, for gain and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or other employment of the stage, or any part therein, or for exhibiting wax figures, or any shows of any kind whatsoever, to be paid into the hands of the Clerks cf the Courts respectively, who shall be bound to pay the same into the Treasuries of the State of South Carolina, except in cases where the same is now required by law to be paid to corporations or otherwise; one-tenth of one per cent, on all monies loaned, monies at interest, all monies invested in the stocks or bonds of any other State, other than the bonds or stocks of this State, and other than the stocks of the banks and railroad companies of this State ; one dollar and fifty cents on everyone hundred dollars of gross receipts of all commercial agencies within the limits of this State; thirteen cents on every pack of playing cards sold in the State; fifteen dollars on every billiard table within the State used to and for raising revenue therefrom; one hundred cents on the hundred dollars of all the salaries, including public offices, (except officers of the Army and Maw and wjurpq nrpr fhp sum nf fion J ' O? v,v' v ~ w hundred dollars,) from whatever source derived or p; id iu this State. Sec 8. That the President of the Bank of the State of South Carolina be and is hereby authorized and required to issue in the name of the State of South Carolina four thousand five hundred certificates or bonds, of the value of fifty dollars each, two thousand five hundred certificates or bonds of tbe value of one hundred dollars each, and four hundred certificates or bonds, of the value of five hundred dollars each, to be signed by the said President and countersigned by the Cashier of tbe said Bank, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable on the first day of July of each and every year, at the Treasury, and redeemable thereat; that is to say, the four thousand five hundred certificates or bouds of fifty dollars each to be redeemable on the first day of July, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight huudred and sixty eight; the two thousand five huudred certificates or bouds of one hundred dollars each, to be redeemable on tbe first day of July, which will be iu the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and the four hundred certificates or bonds of five hundred dollars each, to be redeemable on the first day of July, which will be iu t: e year of our Lord! one thousand eight hundred aud seventy-: two, aud which said certificates or bonds shall have suitable coupous, to be signed by an officer appointed by the President of the said Bank, attached thereto. Sec. 9. That the said certificates or bonds, and the respective coupons thereto, shall be received at the Treasury of the said State, as the same shall respectively become payable, in payment of taxes and other debts doe to the State of South Carolina. Sec- 12. That in case there shall be required for military contingencies a larger sum of money than shall be raised by the taxes herein provided for, it shall and may be lawful, upon theiequest of the Governor of the State, for the President of the Bank of the State of South Carolina to issue and put in circulation notes or certificates in the form hereinafter prescribed, of such . denominations, not less than one dollar, as the said President may think proper; which said notes or certificates shall be receivable in payment of taxes and other dues to the State for the sums therein expressed ; Provided, that the whole amount of such notes or certificates shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars; and the said notes or certificates shall be in the following form, viz : (fThis note or certificate shall be received in payment of taxes and other dues to the State for dollars," aod shall be signed by the President and Cashier of the said bank, or such other person or persons as the said President and Directors may appoint for that purpose; and it shall be lawful for any banks in this State to pay or deliver out and circulate the notes or certificates issued in pursuance of this Act. That the President of the Bank of the State of South Carolina shall pay the drafts of the Governor, countersigned by the member of the Executive Council charged with the Treasury Department, for any amount not exceeding the amount of such notes or certificates issued and put in circulation by the said bank. That the twenty-first section of an Act, entitled "An Act to raise supplies for the year commencing October one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, ratified on the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three," be re-enacted am5 henceforth declared of force in the words following, that is to say : "That the Treasurers ot the State shall be required hereafter not to receive ano tax returns which shall not be made in strict conformity to the instructions of the Comptroller General. That the Treasurers of this State be instructed to receive, in payment of taxes, the bills and notes of all the banks of this State, unless, in the opinion of the Comptroller General, it shall become unsafe to receive the bills or notes of one or more of suoh banks, in which case he shall be authorized to issue instruetions to the Tax Collectors to refuse the notes of such bank or banks." LIST OP ACTS. An Act to authorize the formation of a Volunteer Company within the limits of the Independent Battalion attached to the Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry. An Act to repeal the Acts of Incorporation of the Town of Bluffton. An Act to increase the number of Commissioners of Roads for Kingston Parish and for other purposes. An Act to authorize the formation of a new Volunteer Company to be called the St. Paul's Rifles. An Act to alter the law in relation to Fish Sluices on Broad River. An Act ts alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act to make malicious trespasses indictable." An Act to incorporate certain Societies, Associations and Companies, and to renew and amend the charters of others. A Will to alter and amend toe renin Section of the First Article of the Constitution of the State of South Carolina. A Bill to provide for the appointment of an additional Magistrate in All Saints Parish. A Bill to amend an Act entitled "An Act to afford increased facilities for the administration of justice in Charleston District." A Bill to incorporate the Village of Ninety-six. An Act to establish certain Roads, Bridges and Ferries, and to renew and amend certain Charters heretofore granted. An Act l;o repeal an Act entitled "An Act to require and regulate the granting of Licenses to Itinerant Salesmen and Traveling Agents. An Act to incorporate the Shoe and Leather Manufacturing Company. An Act to establish a Corps of Military Engineers. An Act to alter and amend the Charter of the Hamburg and Edgefield Plank Road Company. An Act to increase the powers of Commissioners of Public Buildings. An Act to authorize the Rail Road Accommodation Wharf Company to construct a Draw Bridge over Mazycborough Creek. An Act to provide for the proper administration of the Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the State of South Carolina and for other purposes. An Act to incorporate the Presbyterian Church of Yorkville. An Act :o provide for the maintenance of a Police Guard in the Town of Georgetown. An Act to amend tho law in relation to House Burning. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to convert the Arsenal at Columbia, and the Citadel and Magazine in and near Charleston, into Military Schools. An Act for the establishment of a CoaBt Police for the State. An Act to authorize the formation of a , Troop of Cavalry at Spartanburg Village, to bi received into the Upper Squadron | Ninth Regiment, Fifth Brigade of South | Carolina Cavalry, and to incorporate the ( same. , An Act to repeal tho seventh section of ] an Act entitled "An Act for the more effectual relief of Insolvent Debtors, and | for other purposes," passed the seventh | day of April, one thousand eight hundred i and fifty-nine. < An Act to prescribe the form of permits < for slaves to be absent from the owner's < premises. J An Act to amend the Charter of the 1 Georgetown Rail Road Company, so as to 1 authorize the said Company to extend their road to Bishopvilie, in Sumter District, and to reduce the amouot of stock necessary to be held by any one before becoming a Director or Officer in said Con. jany. An Act to incorporate the Due West Female College. An Aot to amend and renew the Charter of Graoe Church, Charleston. An Act to authorize the issue of Bonds or Stock for continuing the construction of the New State House. An Aot to vest in certain persons all the right, title and interest of the State, by escheat, in and to certain property. An Act to incorporate the Calhoun Guards. An Aot to incorporate the Buford's Bridge Rail Road Company An Act to incorporate the Greenville Gas light Company. An Act to authorize the formation of a new Volunteer Company of Infantry within the limits of the Fifteenth Regiment of South Carolina Militia, to be called the "Lexington Volunteer Rifle Company," and to incorporate the same and to authorize the formation of certain other new vol unteer companies, and for other purposes. An Act to incorporate the new Building and Loan Association. An Act to amend the Charter of the Town of Sumter. An Act to incorporate the West Point Mill Company. An Act to amend an Act entitled ((An Act to enlarge and extend the powers of the Governor and of the City Council of Charleston over Quarantine and for other purposes," passed on the 20th December, 1832. An Act to lend the name and credit o! the State to the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road Company in the re-adjustment of their debt. An Act to authorize the formation of a new Volunteer Company of Infantry within the limits of the Twenty-sixth Regiment of South Carolina Militia, to be called the Chester Rifles and to incorporate the same. An Act to declare a certain portion of Four Holes Creek a navigable stream. An Act to amend the Charter of the Laurens Rail Road Company. An Act to provide for compensation to owners of property taken for public purposes. An Act to afford aid in the construction of the Georgetown Rail Road. An Aot to incorporate certain Towns and Villages, and to renew and amend certain Charters heretofore granted. An Act to provide a Patrol and Military Guard for the City of Charleston and for other purposes. An Aot to alter and amend the law in *i? ftU.J ....~ rciuuuu tu LUC LilCbUUU U1 UUUUl/lUg VUbCa iD all elections by the people. An Act to incorporate Ninety-six Church. An Act to incorporate certain Religions and Charitable Societies for the advancement of Education, and to renew and amend the Charters of others heretofore granted. An Act to incorporate the Citizen's Line Railway Company of Charleston, South Carolina. An Act to incorporate the Centrai Rail Road Company of South Carolina. An Act to incorporate the Barnwell Rail Road Company. An Act to incorporate the Prcsbyterien Church of Aiken. An Act to incorporate the Charleston City Rail way Company of South Carolina. An Act to incorporate the Bennettsvillo and Society Hill Rail Road Company. An Act to authorize the formation of a Volunteer Company of Riflemen within the limits of the Seventh Regiment South Carolina Militia, and to ir corporate the same. An Act to provide an Armed Military Force An Act to raise Supplies for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. An Act to make Appropriations for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. An Act creating a Military Establishment for the State of South Carolina, and for other purposes. An Act to amend the Charter of the Town of Georgetown in sundry particulars. An Act to renew and amend the Charter of the Town of Greenville. An Act to authorize the appointment of a special Magistrate for the Town of Summerville, and an additional Magistrate for Lexington District. An Act to repeal certain Acts in relation to the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the State of South Carolina. Lieut. Col. W. J. Hardee. Presuming that it will be of interest to our readers to kuow something of the military history of this distinguished Georgian ?next to the veteran Gen. Twiggs, the highest officer in rank from Georgia now in the Federal Army, and upon whom the eye of his State is now turned with more than usual interest?we have collected some facts in relation to his services, which we present below: Col. Hardee entered the Military Academy at West Point, as a cadet, in 1834, and after four years of application to his 1 studies graduated with honor, and wasgazet- 1 ted to the second regiment of dragoons, as ' a Second Lieutenant. Joining his regi- i mentin Florida, he remained on duty with it for two years, after which time he was ' 3ent, by the Secretary of War, to theCaval- < ry School of San Mur, about eighty leagues < from Paris, where for eighteen months he ? was regularly attached to the Cavalry De- J partment of the Freoch Army. Applying ? himself with great assiduity, he completed his studies and returned to the U. States, i thorough cavalry offioer, and bringing I with him a flattering recommendation from I Marshall Oudinot, to the Secretary of War. t Rejoining his regiment, now stationed on i ihe Western frontier, he was aotively em- t ployed in defending the advanced settle- J aaents from Indian depredations until he I was called, with many a gallant comrade, s :o participate in the more exciting scenes t )f the Mexican campaign. Heorossed the i Rio Grand with Gen. Taylor, having pre- t viously attained the rank of Captain, and t his company was the first to engage the i enemy. This engagement occurred at a placed called Currioitoa, where, after vainly endeavoring with his gallant little band to out his way tnrough the Mexican ranks, he was overwhelmed by superior numbers and taken prisoner. He remained a captive for several months, when he was exchanged in time to take part in the bloody action of Monterey. Col. Hardee continued with Gen. Taylor for some time, when he was detached with a large part of that officer's force, to join the division of Gen. Scott at Vera Cruz. His next interview with the enemy was in a hotly contested skirmish near Vera Crnz, in which the Americans were vie torioaa, and he received the brevet of Major for his gallantry. He accompained Scott in his triumphal march from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, and which marked the progress, of the American army between those two points. At the close of the war the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel was bestowed on him as a special recognition of his bravery and usefulness in the stirring conflict of Churubusco. Duriog the administration of President Pierce, Congress created four new regiments, and he was promoted to the rank of Major in one of them. At this time he was detailed by the then Secretary et War, Col. Jefferson Davis, to prepare a system of tactics better adapted to the use of the infantry of the army than the antique and slowmotioned method of Scott. After bringing his labors to a successful issue, he was or dcred to West Point, as Commandant of Cadets, for the purpose of putting his system into practical operation. The young soldiers, it is said, became very partial to this new drill, and it has been so generally introduced into the army, and adopted by the volunteer companies of the country to such an extent, that in these exciting times, "Hardee's Tactics" have become like "household words." He has but recently i ^ j ?_ il. T : l * n~i ueen pruuiotuu mj me uieuieuttuvvAnuueiujr of the first regiment of cavalry We presume that Col. Hardee is ready, at the call of his Dative State, to give her the benefit of his valuable experience and services. If Georgia should oall an army into the field, she cannot entrust its destinies to a more capable director than her gallant son, Wm. J. Hardee. Savannah Newt. Going, Going, Gone! The Philadelphia Inquirer (Blaok Republican) at last believes the Union is nearly gone. It says : "To the dreary catalogue of secession States we have now to add Louisiana. It was announced some time ago that this State would go out on Saturday, the twenty-rxth of January, and accordingly she went out on that day, by a vote of one hundred and sixteen to seventeen. Whatever other element of foresight disunion may lack, it certainly shows no want of precision as to time. In nearly all cases of secession thus far it has been declared beforehand that a State would secede on such a day, and on that day the fatal work has been invariably accomplished. Every probability was arrayed against the secession of Louisiana, but she has seceded, and unless the people stimulate the callous patriotism of Congress, other improbabilities of the same disastrous character may be expected on the part of States much nearer our own borders. Texas, too, notwithstanding all the confident hopes based upon the strong Union feeling there, and excited by the patriotic course of her conservative Governor?Texas is announced by telegraph to be in favor of secession, and prepared to follow the other Gulf States before the close of another week. The whole sea coast, from Cape Fear to the Rio Grande, as the case now stands, is lost to the Union." The history of the world presents no parallel to the revolution which is now disintegrating a powerful government. The very precision and promptness with which the secediug States have acted thus far, alluded to by the Inquirer, demonstrate that the hearts of the people are in the movement?that they appreciate the great necessity of such action; whilst their previous forbearance and long suffering under wrongs forbid the hope of their ever again subjecting themselves to such a trial. We apprehend that, before many weeks, f Ln vNAinf r\( * V? rv f%r\rto? i n^5/lotl'nr? tKfl r> r\r f V> biic jjuiut kjl uic tuaob luuiuaciug vuu uv/uuera boundary of the country lost to the Union will be removed still further North.? Guardian. The Leader op the Florida Troops at Pensacola.?Major Wm. H. Chase, formerly of the United States Corps of Engineers, is the leader of the State troops at Pensacola, Florida. He was formerly a resident of Massachusetts, and received the appointment of Cadet from that State to the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated March 3, 1815. He was appointed brevet second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in the same month, and i promoted to full lieutenancy April 15,1818. His subsequent promotions to first lieuten* j ancy, captain, and major, date respectively i Maroh 31,1819, January 1,1825, and July j 7, 1838. In 1844 be was a member of the Special Board of Engineers for examination j of Florida reefs, &c, and for the examina- j tion of harbors, channels, &c., on the Gulf i frontiers of Texas and Mississippi. He was j i member of the Board of Engineers from ] March 13, 1848, to September, 1848. He | resigned his position in the Federal army i Dctober 31, 1856. Major Chase is a man J jf indomitable perseverance and courage, \ tnd ranks high as a military engineer and \ itrategist. He is about sixty-four years of 1 ige, and possesses a large private fortune, i t A powerful Bulwark por our De- t i'ence?Letters of Marque and Re>risal?Privateers.?We are happy to >e informed that in case any act of coercion ( s attempted against any Southern State, ? hat the Governors of all the seceding ( States will be prepared to grant letters of n Marque and Reprisal to armed and manned d ihips, brigs, steamers, &c., as priva'eers, a o wage war against the United States flag p n every sea. The result of this will be, u hat the brave of all nations will be invited r o a feast that will literally shatter Yankee ? nteresta and credit, as their shipping is c really the main spring of all their interests, p Nothing can be more effectual than this : c Minie rifles and bowie knives are innocent tl weapons in comparison.?Mobile Mercury. I MM* o Magnanimous Buchanan. D There is something base, on the part of the President, in keeping Major Anderson at Fort Sumter under the present oircum- stances. Knowing him to be a Southron 1< and a slaveholder, he should be offered a furlough or leave of absence, and a substi- p tute sent who is not a Southron. Leave o all'the Doubledays?whether three score or si one. The people of South Carolina have C been measurably disarmed by their sympa- a thy for Major Anderson, and President m Buchanan knows it. Why was the former ii commandant at Fort Moultrie withdrawn, si and Anderson putin his place, just at the n beginning of our issues? Had the latter fa been as good a politician as a soldier, he v would have declined the appointment, and a then was his moment to resign. Now, it is o a point of honor with him to remain, unless v the Federal Government will show more a magnanimity than is its character, and will I voluntarily move to relieve him. Aucon- r trarie: the purpose is to disarm us, through c him. But this cannot last. The result will h be tho sacrifice of a brave man, at the post of d a supposed duty, whose government delib- r erately sacrifices him with the hope of some 1 small temporary profit. Why not send b General Wool, who seems spoiling for a r fight, and ought to be indulged, in consid- c eration of his name, ii nothing more. We 1 should be more readily disposed to wool " him than the brave Kentuckian whom they k have selected for the sacrifice. Any how, ? we cannot well keep our hands off from c wooling somebody shortly after the 4th of y February. We cannot suffer a flag, so hate- t ful as that of the United States, to wave in a insolent defiance in the harbor of an inde- t pendent State.?Charleston Mercury. fi a Good Material for Soldiers. e A letter from Warrington, Fla., to the Pensaoola Observer, thus describes a private in one of the companies : p "Piofessor Day is just six and a half p feet high in his stockings. His weight is a three hundred and ten pounds, and he r measures seven feet id the girth, hie is the tallest and biggest man in the regi- fa meDt, and is noted for his great strength o as well as for his huge proportions. He ? has been known to shoulder a six hundred t bale of oottton, and has frequently taken t a whiskey barrel by the chines, raised it at c arms' length, and drank at the baDg hole. 1 On one occasion he threw a mustaog pony s and his rider over a ten-rail "fence. For fa this offence he was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale county, and fined five hundred dollars. This remarkable man is the youngest and smallest of seventeen brothers. His father is two and a half inohes taller than he is, but not so thick set. His brothers are taller, but none of them are so stout as the Professor. It is necessary to state that his father has been twice married, and has eight children by his first wife and nine by his present wife. The Professor is the Principal of the e Marion High School, and is a learned man e in every seDse of the word. He is a mas- fa cer or six languages, ana as a matnemati- v cian he has no superior. He is, besides, t one of the best men living, and is noted t for his good nature. He never had but t one fight in bis life, and then he killed a a horse and nearly murdered a man. e "Thirty-Six Thirty."?The reader q who is curious to know exactly where runs h this oftmentioned line, will get a clear idea b of it by taking the map and tracing it as h follows: It commences at the point on the Atlantic coast where the dividing line betweeD ^ Virginia and N. Carolina commences; pass- . es along the line between Tennessee and Kentucky; along the line between the ^ States of Missouri and Arkansas, thence ' 0 through the Territory of the Cherokee na j tion, through New Mexico, striking the Eastern boundary of tbt State of California, a short distance South of the middle, striking the Pacific a short distance South of P Monterey Bay. On the South of that line there are about 300,000 square miles, inclu ding Indian reservations, while on the . North there are about 1,300,000 square ^ miles. Of the 300,000 square miles South n of 36.30 there is not the slightest proba- ^ bility that there could be carved out more than one slave State. All New Mexico, ' comprising about 210,000 square miles, ^ would never become slave territory, from the fact that it is not adapted to slave la- j bor. It produces neither cotton nor cane. . North of than line, thouch slavery were to . ~ ~ ' ? . " fcl be legalized, it could never exist. The Cruise of the Brooklyn off Charleston.?The Boston Journal of Friday, publishes the fol'owiug extract from o a private letter, received in that city from Capt. W. S. Walker of the U. S. sloop-of- c war Brooklyn. It is interesting, as throw- d: ing some light upon the motive of her re- C cent oruise off Charleston harbor. He writes 8t as follows: cl "Although my mission to Charleston was tb i peaceful one, there would have been a ft Eight, sure, had I arrived there at the time h< the Star of the West was fired upon. My hi instructions from the Department were sent 8t by a special messenger, and were confiden- ac tial, enclosing orders from General Soott to p( the commander of the detachment for Fort ht Sumter. I am not at liberty to tell you tb vhat my orders were: suffice it to say, they D( vere carried out to the letter. I am for the gr Union, and my services will be devoted to c0 t. It is very gratifying for me to know fu hat I shall be sustained, and that I have W( he approbation of our people." in ap Hiron Tn he Anw.n?Thn N?w Alhanv V"4M,V *V . y W4 Indiana) Ledger learns by letter from wc Southern Illinois that the City Counoil of Jairo, on Saturday night, passed an ordilance, appropriating a considerable sum of th< aoney for the use of the city, and that an vei gent has started East for the purpose of th< irocuring the arms. The object of this Co aovement is not to fight the South, but to to epel any attempt that the Abolitionists of ed Northern Illinois may make to convert their vo1 ity into a camp from which to carry on a thi redatory warfare against the South. The orrespoudeot farther states that so great is be indignation of all parties in Southern llinois against Governor Yates, on account f his late message, were he to go there ow, his person would hardly be safe. The Cause of Lola Montez's Dea*% * -The Philadelphia Prest relates the foljwing of the late Lola Montez : A few months ago, she was attacked with aralysis, whioh ended in death. The cause f this attack remains to be related, and we kail mnnfion it Via* a WLan T.aIo aranf fn uiau uiwuvtVU 1H UQIOi TV UWU XIUIO UVUK W lalifornia as an actress, she engaged an gent. This gentleman was a married man, rith two children, and seeing him unhappy 3 their absence, she presented him with ufficient money to bring them and their lother on. Shortly after their arrival, the nsband died. Lola then adopted the ridow and orphans?educating the latter t Mrs. Willard's seminary at Troyr' An fficer in the United States navy fell in love rith one of these girls, and Lola, literally cting in loco parentis, approved of bis suit. )uring her last visit to England, the mar* iage took place. Lola did not again enounter her protege, (who accompanied her msband to a distant State, where he was letailed for public duty,) until a reoent pe- > iod, when she met her walking down Broadway, in oompany with a lady of the lighest ton. With her usual impulse, Lola ushed to her young friend?literally the hild of her uharity?as if to embrace her, !"he young lady coldly drew back and said, 'Madam, I do not know you I" "Not now me? I am Lola?Lola Mootes."^--^ 'Madam," she exclaimed, as she turnedV.. oldly away, "I know you not, I never^saw I ou before, and if you persist in speaking*' o me I will call a policeman," and walked way. Lola went home, "more in sorrow ban in anger," and that same day had the irst attack of paralysis, which, a few days go, destroyed her. Lola Montez was litrally murdered by ingratitude. , . ' J&, M Fort Morgan, Mobile.?The Mobile tapers give acoouots of the continued-jprelarations of the forts in that State for an ttack. Of fort Morgan one of the editors eturncd from a visit there says: . ^ Marks of industry and system were vinile everywhere about the fort, which isocw ccupied by about 480 troops, besides up* yards of 150 laborers. To accommodate his increased force, a suitable number of he casemates have been planked dp and lonverted into very comfortable quarters, rhe ramparts on the channel side have been odded to a considerable extent witb, sandtags, and the work will be completed in he same style. Sods have been out from be fosse to be applied to other faces of the vorks. Trenches have been cut at the ftibt >f the scarp in necessary places, which iave filled with the water percolathig hrough the soil, thus converting the fosse nto something like a wet ditch, and adding o the seourity of the works. All the gutiis or wbioh there are carriages have been nounted, and some attention has been paid o artillery practice, in which the boys show ncreased proficiency. The garrison are in ixcellont spirts, and good health prevails, ixcept that most of the newly arrived troop* iave to go through a course of seasoning vhich generally attacks them after the first wenty-four hours and leaves them after atout the same length of time. The cisterns >y-the-bye, have been thoroughly cleansed, nd the rains have since filled them witn zcellent water, and the health of the garison has been greatly improved in conse- * [ueoce. Tenders of the services of negr? iborers by planters in the interior "Save een accepted, and some foar hundred lands are expected to arrive in a few days. Another Letter from Major An1er8on.?The following letter from Major Anderson has been received by a gentleman q Cincinnati: "Fort Sumter, January 11th, 1861.? Vhether a bloodless separation can now be ffected, after her (South Carolina) foolishy firing upon a vessel bearing our flag, the ther day, I think very doubtful. 1 was arely tempted to open my battery, buV erhaps fortunately, for the chance of havig matters settled without bloodshed, I ould not have touched the battery That pened upon her, and my defences were ust then in such a condition that I could ot have opened the war. I am now nearly eady. The people have supposed that his work was ready to be defended when I ame in. It was far from it?and it would ike me, even now, one week's hard work vrt ) have it in a complete state. My com-; land is only about one-eighth of what it hould be in time of war?but though small i number, I feel strong in the confidence lat providence will goard and gaide me ifely through any danger that may threaten. ROBERT ANDERSON. A New and Formidable Instrument f Warfare?A Hint for the South. -Upon the late false report of a conspirap to seize the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in adition to the usual military preparations,, hief Engineer King, in charge of the earn and other machinery, had under his large twelve large steam boilers (some of lem on wheels), and a number of poweril steam pumps and fire engines, to which a had ready for attachment India-rubber ise, to lead to any or all parts of the yard, earn being kept in the boilers ready for ition at all hours. The pumps could be it into operation at any time, throwing indreds of tons of boiling hot water into e faces of the invaders, in the same man;r that cold water is thrown from steam e engines, "of oonrse no number of men aid stand one minute under suoh a fear* 1 and terrible havoc. This powerful sapon of defence, not heretofore known warfare, is proposed by Mr. King to he plied to all fortifications and steamships war, so that taking by storm or boarding iuld be impossible." Arkansas.?On the 18th of February, 3 people of Arkansas will vote for "Con* ntion" or "No Convention." They at 3 same time vote for delegates for the nvention. If "Convention" carries, it is meet on the 25th. Each delegate elect* is made a special messenger to carry the te of his county to the capital, bo thatt ey will be there if a Convention is calfcd.