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Fair of the South! rare beauty V crown Vc wear with matchless grace; No classic fair of old renown. Deserve a higher place. The palace and the cot: Wives, mothers, daughters ! every home Ye make a cherished spot. Flag of the South 1 Aye, fling its folds Upon the kindred breeze;? Emblem of dread to tyrant holds? Of freedom on the seas 1 Forever may its stars and stripes In cloudless glory wave ; Red, white, and blue?eternal types Of nations free and brave! States of the South 1 the patriot's boast Here equal laws have sway ; Nor tyrant lord, nor despot host, Upon the weak may prey. Then let them rule from sea to sea. And crown the queenly isle: Union of love and liberty, 'Neath heaven's approving smile 1 God of the South! Protect this land From false and open foes! Guided by Thine all ruling hand In vain will hate oppose. So may the ship of state move on Upon the unfathomed sea; Gallantly o'er its surges borne Jta fatotiag <f THE TRAPPER'S WIFE. A TRADITION. Ferdinand McKenzie, trapper, was floating down the Missouri, somewhere between the mouth of Knife River and Stone Idol Creek, through the country of the Mandans. Ferdinand was lazily reading Horace's Odes, a queer occupation for a trapper; but he had been to college in his day. A sudden, swift shadow on the page ; t rush through the air, a scream, a splash.? Down went Horace, up sprang Fedinand, and stood gazing where the ripples showed that the creature, whatever it was, had gone down. Another moment it rose to the surface, close to the canoe?a woman ! Ferdinand grasped ner aress; ana wud some difficulty, drew herinto the boat, quite insensible. No other human creature was near! She had thrown herself into the water. She was a young girl not more than fourteen or fifteen She wore nothing but a pair of old moccasins and a deerskin skirt, also old and much worn; her long black hair, which fell nearly to her feet, was her only ornament. Ferdinand recognized her as a little girl he had seen in the Mandan village, about four miles above?the dependant of Shawtaharora, or the Coal, one of the inferior chiefs. She was called among them Melahartah, or Daughter of the Willow; but she was not of their race. Her shoulders were bruised and marked as with a whip ; the blood oozed slowly from a cut on the pretty brown arm. Evidently the poor child had been cruelly abused, and Ferdinand pitied her sincerely. He tried to bring her back to life, and his efforts were successful; a pair of soft black eyes opened and fixed themselves on his face with a bewildered, beseeching look, pitiful to see. "Why did you do that, my child ?" he asked, in the only dialect of Sioux that he could speak. To his surprise, she answered him in English : ,,f\U (V.. U* T?l!nnn Ala ? Ma "Viij nutti iui liu ict ucctiuau uiw aw want live?no can live so"?and she straggled to throw herself into the water again Ferdinand held her gently but firmly. "No, no, little one ! You are too young for that yet," he said with a sigh; for Ferdinand had been driven into the wilderness by a love affair with a pretty St. Louis girl, and supposed that his heart was broken thereby. "Where did you learn English !" he asked, kindly. I never heard you speak it, nor any of your people " "They no my people," said the girl, with sudden haughtiness. "Never! Leelinau Winnebago woman. Sioux steal her long time ago?sell her to Mandan?Leelinau talk to herself white fashion?so no forget. Mother, father, all dead?Oh !"?she broke out passionately, "let Leelinau die, too.? See, they pound her good deal?hurt her. So worse if she live," she added, with a shudder. "No can live their fashion. Let her die." "No, child," said Ferdinand, with a sudden impulse; they shall not hurt you. Will Leelinau go with me and live with me ?" "You want me be your wife ?" she asked, softly. "Yes," said he at a venture. "Yes, Leelinau. They will kill you if I leave you here." v "Leelinau will go. You eery good," answered thejittle thing, nestling into his bosom. "Love you good deal." "Poor little darling !" said Ferdinand, as he kissed her. "How they abused you. The fellow ought to be shot," he added, his indignation risiog on a sudden, though he had been for some days a guest in the lodge of the Coal, and had become, in a manner, accustomed to see women beaten and abused, as well as to other usages which will not bear description. The Mandans might be described as the sea-captain described the islanders?"manners they have none, and their customs very beastly."? Ferdinand staunched the blood from her wounded arm, and bade her sit down in the boat. He did not mean to run away with her unless her owner refused to sell her.? Leelinau was horrified that she should sit 'still while one of the stronger sex degraded himself to paddle the canoe; but he told her that such was white fashion, and she was satisfied. Ferdinand had not forgotten that he was a gentleman born and bred, trapper though he was. That respectable chief, the Coal, made no objectiou to parting with the little maiden. He said she was "icah keitcha"?bad medicine. She would not work, and he! had flog, ed her and thrown a hatchet at I her, upon which she had run away. Nevertheless, he made an excellent bargain j with Ferdinand, according to the then state: of the market. Ferdinand gave a pair of; pistols, two silver dollars, and a horse for i his wife, and, the treaty concluded, was' anxious, for various reasons, to get his lit-! tie bride as soon as possible out of the Mao- i dan capital, only delaying his departure to: purchase from a wandering trader a com-1 plete Indian trosseau, scarlet cloth, beads, | hawks' bells and ribbons. Very pretty I Leelinau looked in her new finery, which j made her the envy of the ladies of the first j circles in the Mandan metropolis. Ferdinand began to have quite a liking for her, though he regarded her merely as a pretty child and plaything. Leelinau, in the Winnebago tongue, is nearly equivalent to "little darling." She utterly repudiated her Mandan title, averring that she would rtartaT non.n Vioroulf fnr Ufhpm naiicrhfv naughty people, 'cause hate 'em with j which declaration the young laay shut her j white teeth with a snap, and looked e a' little savage. "Leelinau," said Ferdinand, rather uneasily, "it's wicked to hate people." "Why ?" she asked, innocently. "Because it's not right," dogmatized he. Leelinau's eyes filled in a moment. "She wicked?you no love her any more, j No hate 'em if can help it?but they hurt her so." Ferdinand did rot like to see her grieve. He kissed away the tears, and called her by a pet name and she was happy, admiring and reverencing him with all her soul. She thought him a miracle of kindness, because he did not beat her and make her carry the heaviest burdeus. If he had, she would have taken it as a matter of course. Ferdioand placed his lodge for the winter on an island in the Missouri, five or six miles above the mouth of the White Iliv-| er. A pretty place it was, with the great red cedar trees dipping their branches into the water, while the wind sang through them all day. Grcpe-vines, loaded with blossoms at that season, trailed over the ground and through the trees, under which frisked and skipped inumerable gray rah bits. Tbe great river roiieu past unaer dark high, bluffs, that kept off the west winds from the little hut which Ferdinand built. At the east it would have been called a wretched hovel, but in Leelinau's eyes it was a palace of splendor. Ferdinand was ingenious in the use of the knife and hatchet ; he contrived a table, two chairs, and some shelves, to furu:sh their establishment, and when he purchased a few common do mestic utensils, from a trader on his way to the river, she considered that the world had nothing more to offer of comfort or luxury. Ferdinand liked to play with her and make her talk. She was quick, and her mind was active and susceptible. Her naive remarks, herquaint little ways, pleased him. How it was all to end he did not trouble himself to think; but gradually found himself thinking less of Miss Sophy May, and began to suspect that his heart was not broken, after all. He hunted all day, but generally managed to return at night to his home, where he was always sure of a loving welcome from Leelinau. He made friends with the Indians of the neighborhood, the Getons of the Burnt Woods or Bois Brvles, who smoked with him solemnly, and assured him ad infinitum that he was their dearest friend and brother, generally concluding their professions of fraternal regard by begging for povrder and shot, or for anything else he might happen to possess. Occasionally there came to the island a trapper, Buckstone by name, a semi-civilized, swearing, fighting, driokiug creature; raftl-looo no o nrnirio fim onrl Kmtro qq Q igivaigoo OO v* |/tUlliV/ KIO UUU C 4 M I V uw V% grizzly bear?such a kind of person as i* made, by a mist of years and distance, romantic and hero-like, but is considered in the actual present very disreputable. I wonder how many young women who sentimentally admire Berserkers, pirates, corsairs, Norman knights and the like, would ever look at a trapper. Buckstone rather fancied Leelinau. He thought she made nice moccasius, and that she had more sense than women in general. He considered her thrown away upon Ferdinand, whom he despised as a green hand, and thought rather soft withal, ever since he had heard him quote poetry. It was not in Ferdinand's nature to be harsh or brutal toward a woman; but it never entered his head that his wife was more than a plaything, and the careless regard he gave her pained the little creature sadly at j times, though she never uttered a word of complaint. She had never heard that it was divine to suffer and be strong; but she thought that sort of thing was what women had to bear all the world over, and so she bore it; but her mind was very full of thoughts that perplexed and disturbed her exceedingly. One day, when Ferdinand vi ao ouv iuua up uuc ui tuc uuyao uc was iD the habit of reading. Ferdinand's library consisted of the Horace aforesaid, and Shelly's poems; and there was a little New TestameDthis mother had giveD him; but he very seldom opened it. Leelinau turned over the pages of Horace wistfully and wonderingly. What was it? What did it say to him when he looked at it so long? She held it up to her ear, intently listening. Not a word did it speak to her. i What were all the little marks? How she wished she knew. Perhaps if she understood "white ways" he would like her much better. If he were good-natured to-night she would ask him to teach her, for of late he had not been very considerate of the feelings of his little wife. He had grown tired of her adoration and submissive affection, and had half begun to wish she b?.d never come in his way. That evening, however, he returned in unusually good spirits. Leelinau drew off his wet moccasins, and prepared his supper with even more thaD the usual tenderness she was wont to lavish on her careless lord and master. He had taught her something of the white way of managing household matters. She was very quick to learn, and kept the I little hut in nice order. "Thank you, Leelinau," said he, as she jsat down at his feet. "You are a dear lit-1 i tie thiDg." I It was some time since she had heard so kind a word from him. She put her head' on his knee and looked up to his face ''You make Lcelinau know," she said, earnestly. "What do you mean, child ?" She put the book into his hand. "Make her know this. Make it talk to her," said Leelinau. "Ah, why should you vex your little brains? Leelinau is too pretty for such: things." I "Wan' to know," she persisted. "But it is hard work, and you would have to think a great deal more than ever you did before." "She think good deal now. Lcelinau think all the while, when her alone. You like me better if mo know something.? Then no be 'shamed of her when you take her home." Ferdinand looked confused. The idea of taking her home had never entered his tniud. What would his mother and sisters, fashionable, elegant women of the world, say to such a little wild bird? What wruld all the decorous Western New York town, where his home was, think about such a Mrs. Ferdinand McKenzie,as little Leelinau? It began to dawn upon him that he had taken the responsibility of auother human creature upon himself. She did not notice his disturbed expression. She was bending over the pages of her book. "Well, Lily," said he, at last, "I will tell you all you want to know; but you'll soon be tired, I fancy " He tore out a blank leaf from the Horace, and, printing the letters upon it, began to teach her the names. She was very quick to learn, and he was astonished at her intelligence. She was delighted with his praises of her rapid progress, and redoubled her efforts. It needed but very little to make her happy. She learned to read with wonderful quickness, employing every minute of her spare t me over herstudiesaud as her mind opened to new ideas, Feruinand began to feel that she was no child, but a womau, and one quite removed from the ordinary type. One day Buckstone, who had been absent on an expedition to the Platte River country, came to the lodge, bringing Ferdinand a letter, which had been sent up by another trapper on the mere chance of its falling into the right hands. It was from his father, an affectionate, loving epistle, begging the son to return to his home and his friends, and concluded with kind messages from his mother and sisters. Ferdinand was troubled. He would have started for St. Louis that very day?but Leelinau ? Did she really care for him so much ? Suppose he could send her back to herown people, Winnebagoes? He would speak to Buckstone on the subject. a ?? ???? ,10 x\uuui UIU^JJJ tuat anciiiuuuj an nuvu uo they were alone, Ferdinand opened bis business with some circumlocution. The trapper looked at him with contempt. "Want to get rid of her, do you ?" he answered, in so many words, thereby making Ferdinand feel rather ashamed of himself. "Well, I cannot take her east with me; she'sa sweet little creature, to be sure; but she is only a child, and no doubt she will find some young fellow of her own race, nearer her own age, whom she will soon learn to like better than she does me." "She's to.> good for any Injin 1 cersaw," said Buckstone. "She's as smart as a steeltrap, and as pretty as a picture. If I'd found her I'd a took her to the mission, or to St. Louis, aod married her?I would." Some way this remark made Ferdinand feel rather indignant. What business had any one else to talk of marrying Leelinau ? "I'll take her off your hands," pursued the trapper; "if she'll come?women have mippr notions snniefinips Thorp's a fellow [ kDow, a Delaware, he married, a Winnebago woman, and they're going back to her people. She can go along, and I'll go, too." "She can, if she chooses," said Ferdinand, haughtily, "and if she likes you I am sure I have no objection. I will speak to her forthwith about it." Poor little Leelinau, ten milesaway, longing for the return of her hunter, and tracing, with exactest care, the copy he had set her on birch bark?how little she guessed of what he was thinking. "Leelinau," said Ferdinand that night, "do you remember your own people ?" "Yes," said she, with a sigh. "Sioux kill 'em all my folk?ray father, mother, my two brothers?used wish they kill me, too?no wish so now," she added, with a brighter look, nestling closer to his side. "Would you like to go and see your relations ?" "You go, too?well enough," she answered, carelessly. "But without me ?" he went on with some hesitation, suspecting in his inmost soul, that he was doing a cowardly and cruel thing. "Never go anywhere without you," she whispered, softly. "Leelinau would soon fiud some handsome young warrior she could love better than she does me." She looked up in grieved astonishment. He went on hastily, but not unkindly. "Leelinau, I must i?o home. You would not know our ways?you would pine and be unhappy?and for your own sake you had beetter go to your people." She sprang up and looked into his face. To his dying day, he never forgot the look, nor the cry she gave as she turned to leave him, and dropped senseless at his feet. [to be continued.] Wholesale Business of Charleston. ?The Charleston Mercury gives the following favorable report of business in Charleston : "Our wholesale traders in Hayne and Meeting streets are still doing a heavy busi TU/, otnsilra nf hnnrv jinrt sfiinln n-nnrts UeSS. J.UO oiuvao v* . j 1 D are fully equal to the demand, and late arrivals have added very considerably to their assortment. Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and our own State, are all taking their supplies from here,, and we have seen three or four agents of European houses soliciting orders for all supplies.? Thus everything looks bright for Charleston, and we are only waiting to see our flag floating over Fort Sumter." jpficks. [Special Correspondence of the New York Times.] The Fortifications on Morris Island. Charleston, C. S. A., Monday, March 25,1861?Your correspondent has been unwilling to acknowledge that he could be defeated by the South Carolinians iD his efforts to see the must important of all the fortifications in the harbor, viz: those on Morris Islaud. He had tried every expedient, had been promised over and over again that he should certainly see them, but invariably the promise has been revoked when the appointed time came. After the avelauche of crinoline that I alluded to in a recent letter, Gen. Beauregard issued the most positive orders, that no civilians, nn/lor nnn fiircnmotonooq aVirmM hp TW>rmik. ""J w.~-. r -ted to visit either Fort Johnston, Moultrie or Morris. Notwithstanding this imperial edict, the tbiDg has at lust been done, and I have to thank that bundle of charming contradictions, a woman, for the modus operandi. I was coming out of Quatermaster-General Hatch's office, on Meeting street, last Saturday afternoon, when I met a very lovely creature in tears. She had been to General Beauregard's headquarters, in Secession Hall, but he, she said, was no gentleman, and wasn't an American thus to refuse a lady who had not seen her husband for eight weeks. She had also been to Gov. Pickens' headquarters, but could not see him. I returned with her to Mr. Hatch, and pled hurd, but the Quartermaster, although made of fine-toned material, dared not disobey t! e orders of his superior in rank. I determined on a coup, and told the iudy that if she would come down to Southern wharf at 10 a. m. precisely, on Sunday moining, that I would have at her disposal a safe boat with fourtrusty oarsmen, and we would see if we could not run the gauntlet successfully. 1 am thus minute, because a leading merchant here told ine only a fortnight since that if uhe litard of my going or attempting to go to any of the forts he should notify the Government that T icasa spy!" Yetan extraordinary piece of good luck has enabled me to see the whole net-work of immensely strong fortifi cations, covering the whole of Camp Gregg, as Morris Island, six miles long, is called. Punctual to the moment, the lady arrived, and we sailed down the beautiful bay with the thermometer at 75 deg. When off Sumter, we stopped to observe the effect of that "accidental-on-purpose" shot from the columbiad at Stevens' battery. I observed that a place full two feet square had been knocked away, and that a deep indentation had been made, which is now partially filled up. On the same siue tuere are two Jong rows or rifle holes on two sides of the pentagon, facing respectively Forts Morris and James. These also answer as ventilators ; but owing to the imminent danger of an attack at any moment, the lower range had been sealed up with lead, and the upper one partially so, thus protecting themselves on this side, but adding to the dangers of a long siege by shutting out a free current of pure air. From Cummings' Point, which threw the shell into Sumter, we turned our course for Morris' Island Creek, and made for Col. Gregg's private wharf, about one mile up from the bay.? As we neared the landing, the sentry, a rough up-country soldier, who, like many of his companions, has not seen a woman's face for over a month, stared my beautiful companion completely out of countenance, and evidently was so completely nonplussed that we iright have passed without aoy ^permit." I gave my card, and requested him tn send at nnnp tn f!nl. Crrpcra and in. ? form him that the representative of the New York Times had taken the liberty of visiting the island, and trusted that he would be permitted to see the different batteries, and also to escort a lady who wished to see Lieut. , of the Richland Rifles. In fifteen minutes Col. Gregg himself came riding down, eyed me pretty sharply, evidently wondering at the temerity of the "Special," but, nevertheless, invited me to land, and also my companion. While she was escotted to her husband's quarters, I was carefully shown all the batteries on the island, for which I wish here to thank the Commandant of Camp Gregg, and especially Capt. McGowan, the Quartermaster, who extended every possible facility to me.? Starting from Cummings' Point, let me describe them in detail. At the point nearest to Fort Sumter^ called Cummings' or Pelican Point, we have first t he Columbia Battery.?This battery is commanded by Capt. Green, and has four teninch morta.rs and two Columbiads. Secondly, the Stevens' Battery.?This is commonly oalled the Iron Battery. It was invented by the Cashier of the Planters' and Mechanics' Bank of Charleston. Mr. Stevens submitted his plan to Gov. Pickens, but meeting with no encouragement there, he showed his plan tc Mr. Hatch, who interested the Secretary of War, Mr. Jamison, in it, and he praised the idea so highly that Gov. Pickens gave his consent to the erection of it. His brother commands it. Here there are three Columbiads, sixty-four pounders; the front or ylacc, as I believe it is called, is protected by sand-bags twenty feet thick.? The doors for the embrasures work by a lever, which, although bomb proof, can be opened and shut, through a novel contrivance, by a chain. These doors are five feet by three and a half. The "rat trap" of this battery, as the place for the reserves is called, is protected by sand-bags fifteen feet thick. The roof of this battery, as I "believe I have before mentioned, is covered with two layers of the T pattern rail, which are dove-tailed together, and closely pinned to tho fibrinous Palmetto logs underneath. This whole battery is so unique and so strong, that doubtless it is destined to revolutionize all the old-fashioned ideas of fortifications. It is the intention of the Palmettoans, when they occupy Sumter, to pour into this battery a perfect shower of iron hail to thoroughly test its merits.? They are confident that not the slightest impression will me made upon it. Leaving this rhinoceros-like mass of Palmetto, iron and sand, we come thirdly to Fort Morris Battery.?This is commanded by Capt. Green. Here there are three Columbiads and four mortars, which can be used either for Fort Sumter or for the channel, being en barbette. All of the above guns can be brought to bear directly on Sumter, aod each one of them can throw a shell every Jive minutes. Forthly, we have Green's Battery.?This also commanded by Capt. Green. Here there are four Columbiads, and two forty-two pounders en barbettei which will sweep the whole island. Capt. Green is a wealthy planter, and has in his company five high privates who are each worth 8200,000. They were lounging in their rough barracks when I passed, a regular Hudson River Railroad looking Irish shantv ! Fifthlv. we have Col. JUacrcader's Battery.?This is defended by three forty-twos, and one thirtytwo pounder, all en barbette, which sweep the island. Sixthly, the Channel Battery.?This is commanded by Capt. J. G King. Here there are three twenty-four pounders, en barbette. Seventhly, the notorious Star of the West Battery.?Capt. Green holds this point, with four twenty-four pounders and one forty-two pounder. At the northeast point of the Island where the channel turns, we come to the Eighth, the Dahbjren Battery.?This is commanded by Lieut. Warley, late of the United States Steamship Richmond. There are two swivel guns, of 10 inch; they command the whole channel up and down. We come uow to the narrow part of Morris Island where it is only one hundred yards across. This is called the Vinegar Jlill Battery ?Here there are three guns, eighteen pounders, en barnctte. Tenthly, the JJeacon Hattery.?four thirty-twos, en barbette, are placed near the old beacon, on a range of sand hill. We now approach No. Eleven, on an elevation one hundred feet, where the exUniced States lighthouse stauds, which is not allowed to burn at preseut. This is called Lighthouse Battery.?This most important point is guarded by two forty two pounders, en barbette. In the rear of this, intended to open ou <?a fire in the rear," is the Lighthouse Inlet Battery.?This post of the inlet is protected by three twenty-four pounders, and two forty-twos, en barbette. The entire island is thus fortified in the strongest manner, and every point is carefully watched day and night by two thousand men. The strictest military discipline prevails. Col. Gregg, to set his men a good example, keeps no liquor himself, and if any is found in the soldiers' quarters it is thrown away. The men are all volun teers, serving for six months; and as they enlist for glory, they submit to regular New York "tenement house" quarters without a murmur. Their cuisine would shock a French soldier. I was hospitably entertained at Col. Gregg's, and found on the dinner table very excellent Fulton Market beef and Goshen butter. Lamar, of Wanderer notoriety, was one of the party of twelve. He belongs to one of the regiments. The South Carolina beauty came back happy, escorted by Jasper. [From the Mobile Mercury.J Sharp Talk about Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter never is, but always to be, delivered up. We arc heartily sick and tired of hearing, by telegraph every day, that Fort Sumter ia to be evacuated. It has been the daily announcement for two or three weeks, and Ihe day of evacuation has been fixed again and again, and the day has come and gone, and Fort Sumter still holds out in defiance of the immense appliances for its destruction. The latest news from Washington now is, that the order to evacuate is conditional, namely: evacuate if unable to hold out any longer. It has cost the country an immense amount of money, preparation and excitement to get the Government at Washington to the point of ordering a conditional evacuation. We apprehend that the Government of the Confederate States is now in a condition to hasten up the determination of Abraham's Government. It would probably be a wise economy in the Government to do so. If it is prepared to capture Fort Sumter, it is costing the country a great deal to watch and wait for it to crurjble down by the abrasion of time. The Government is concentrating a great many troops at Pensacola. We are mistaken in those who have control of public affairs, if this is for any idle purpose. If any interesting occurrences are to take place at Pensacola, the forces that watch and wair at Charleston, after the fall of Fort Sumter, might be actively employed, so as to be making the best use of their time, which they seem now to be throwing away. We just now had a call from an excellent mechanic, who came to oonsult us about the prospect of getting employment at the Navy Yard at Pensacola. We told him that while Fort Pickens frowned down up on the Navy Yard the Government could carry on no work there. Perhaps that's the clue to the movements of troops towards Pensacola?the Government wants the Navy Yard to begin to build ships. We hope then that they will "hurry up the cakes" about Fort Sumter, in order to be more _LI. I iL. --I _1 i T? i auie io uurry up tue uaaes auuui .puii, Pickens. The country is sinking into a fatal apathy, and the spirit, and even the patriotism of the people is oozing out under this do-nothing polioy. If something is not done pretty soon, decisive, either evacua tion or expulsion, the whole country will become so disgusted with the sham of Southern independence, that the first ohance the people get at a popular election, they will turn the whole movement topsy turvy so bad, that it never on earth can be righted again. Arrest and Expulsion op an Abolitionist.?This community was thrown into a state of unusual excitement on Monday evening last by the arrest of one "Dr. Home, Resident Dentist," charged with having used incendiary language and expressing abolition sentiments in letters written to certain Black Republican "brethren" in the Northwest. The arrest was made, ? after oareful investigation, and the most convincing proof, by a committee of oar oldest, most respectable citizens. About five o'clock od Monday afternoon he was summoned before the committee, and then and there informed, for the first time, that he was suspected, and that it was necessary for him to decamp without further delay.? Be at first hesitated in admitting his guilt, but upon one of his letters being produced, at once perceiving that he was entrapped, he acknowleged to the whole matter and confessed that he was deserving the traitor's doom. The committee informed that, in consideration of his wife and two little children, it had been determined that heshould be allowed to depart with his neck unbroken, although the righteous indignation of the people generally pronounced in favor of his beiog suspended to the nearest tree. After arranging his affairs in such a manner as to secure creditors against loss, this Hfininr flnmmitt.pp t.urnpri him nvpr t.n nnnf.h. er Committee, composed of younger men, consisting of twelve, who were to have exclusive charge of him, and were instructed to place him on the cars the next morning for immediate transport to a more congenial clime. This duty they performed satisfactorily, and at early dawn on Tuesday morning he was escorted to the Depot, and started for Indiana or some other free State.? Before this, however, the said Committee conducted him to the suburbs of the town ; and in the still hours of the night, after receiving a full confession of his guilt and a voluntary acknowledgement that his traitorous conduct deserved nothingsbortof death, twenty stripes were administered in approved style He made no resistance, and felt grateful, he said, that his punishment was so light. Afterwards his hair was closely clipped on the right side.?Anderson Intelligencer. From the N. Y. Tribune. Signs and Portents. The Charleston Mercury renews the consideration of the Jeff. Davis Constitution, and is much concerned lest that provision which allows the admission of Northern States into the Southern Confederacy, may work a great mischief, and make a new deal necessary. It now perceives with alarm that "there is nothing to prevent the admission of Northern States into the new Confederation." Now we do not think there is any immediate danger that any one of the Free States will voluntarily knock jit the door of Jeff. Davis, applying to be let in ; yet, after all, there may be some ground for the Mercury's suspicion. Leaving the door open bad a meaning, and was not altogether accidental. Only a few days ago the same journal gave expression to its foreboding that after all the independence and supremacy of the Slave Confederacy, which has been the dream of his life, was to be defeated. There are specks, it exclaimed, upon the Southern horizon that ere long may become dark and muttering clouds.? We fear reconstruction on the basis of the new Constitution." The correspondent of the Tribune, at Montgomery, who is deep T?flr u..J iu Liic occicLo ui ycu. ?/avia, piuuauijr uau a clearer vision of these clouds, when, a few days since, he telegraphed us in the following language : "The Government of the Confederacy intends to send Embassadors to the Democratic Conventions of all the Free States except those of New England. The authority of the old bulk of the Uuion will be disregarded. Herschell V. Johnson and John Slidell will probably be sent as Embassadors to New York to treat with Peter Cagger and Dean Richmond. You may expect soon to see some original and startling diplomatic movements." Mr. Breckinridge, when making his speech in the United States Senate last week, had the same thing in his eye, but iustead of a cloud, he appears to have regarded it as a bow of promise. The late Vice-President permits a glimpse when he cautiously draws the curtain aside : "The Border Slave States cannot reunite his Confederacy. The majority of the nonal.'.veholding States alone have the power to do so, and he expressed the opinion with /?t a. M n ? .1 . griei, Due wun a nrrn conviction tnat unless within a short time the Republicans who are here manifest a spirit to give the 'equality' which the Border Slave States claim, the question will be solved in one of these ways: We may drift into civil strife if the people are allowed no opportunity to speak; but if we have not civil strife, then a peaceful separation by treaty. If the Republican statesmen and their friends remain firm, rigid and determined, there can no other result than to drive the Border Slave States into a union with the Confederate States, in the belief thr.t the Government represents the true principles of the old Federal system. If the Border Slave States hold a Convention, which seems probable, and the people of the non-slaveholdiug States deem it their duty to reject such proportions as may be essential, then the disruption of the Union will be inevitable to the extent of fifteen States, and at no distant day the new Confederacy will be the largest on this continent" This is as definite as we could expect, at present, from Breckenridge; but the Pennsyluanian, discussing his speech, puts the idea in the following emphatic language: "The issue, then, unavoidably arises, do the people of the Northern States prefer a Republican administration with principles and a policy which perforce, and of necessity, excinds the whole of the slaveholding States, or will they repudiate these and secure a harmonious confederacy of thirtyfour States? This is the root, the very pivot of all discussions." The N. 0. Picayune says the future is free from all doubt, and that there will be a permanent separation on such terms as may be demanded by the seceded States, or | "honorable reconstruction." The same idea uiupo UUl IU VUUU Uo JUUUliLlCS 1U tuc UULLI1Uions of Mr. Jeff. Davis. We find it also nearer home. At a Democratic meeting lately held in the town of New Rochelle, Westchester County, in our own State, the proceedings of which were published in the Journal of Commerce, probably on account of its nearness in sympathy with the sentiments expressed, the following resolution was adopted: "Revalued, That the Democracy of New i Rochelle adopt as their party platform the Constitution of the seven Southern Confederate States." i As there is a reason for the milk in the < foreign cocoanut, so there is one for it in the domestic article. New Rochell has the 1 honor of being the residence cf Riobard t Lathers, Esq., formerly of the City of ( Charleston, S. C., the same gentleman who originated and engineered the famous Pine i street meeting, gotten up mainly to glorify t himself. It is also the residence of several 1 Federal Custom House employees, whose t bread and butter being seriously threatened i by a recent appointment by President Lin- t coin, are ready to bid for pay and rations c from the crib of the Southern President, t The Albany Atlas and Argus also ap- 1 pears to have scented the reconstruction 1 idea on the basis of the Jeff. Davis Consti- i tution, for it has of late been praising that t instrument as "admirable." We may ex- i pect soon to see Jeff. Davis' Commissioners 1 anions? ns. and the Democratic nress through- 1 oat the North with full accord supporting i the plan. On our part, we are ready for the day which is to witness the opening of I such a contest, and we trust that the ma- t chinists and scene-shifters whose office it is, I will not long postpone the lifting of the 1 curtain. nan ? - - I The Inundation in Holland.?I , have just returned (says a correspondent of the Daily Neios, writing from Amsterdam I on the 17th ult.,) from a visit to the inun- > dated district of Mass and Waal, and a i more saddening scene of desolation it is i difficult to conceive. Between those two ] rivers were about forty villages?most of I them populous?and about 50,000 acres of i cultivated land; and the greater part of this i dis'.rict lies now under water. The vast ice-masses which dashed through the breach i of the dyke?a breach nearly a quarter of !J milp in tonnfll rlocf-rnoinrr txrKataaar M M???V IWU^VM >?vun ?? IIHIV vvt houses or bams impeded their progress, have now much diminished in extent; though for some time after the waters had begun to subside they lay about in huge accumulations?miniature icebergs. As we passed through the village of LeuweD, knee-deep in mud aod slush, the evidences of this fearful desolation were everywhere visible. Here the ruins of a cottage whose walls had been beaten dowu by the ice or i undermined by the hood; there the remains of a barn reeling over iDto the submerged meadow; the carcasses of drowned oattle and domestic animals lay half buried in the oozy surface of the fields, while in the cottages not beaten down by the floods were many Rachels "weeping for their children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not." Several entire households were swept away by the force with whioh the rushing waters burst through the dyke, whilst few families have Dot to mourn the loss of some of their members. The dyke is dow being repaired, and it is thought that in a few weeks t'ue waters will have entirely disappeared; but it will be several months before the houseless laborers of this district can return to their toil. The national subscription on the 19th produced almost a million guilders, whilst a similar amount had been previously oollected for the relief of the numerous sufferers from this unexampled inundatian. Hard Times in Washington.?The Washington Star, one of the papers newly converted to Abolitionism, and which systematically re-vamps the falsehoods of the New York Tribune about sufferipg at the South, gives the following doleful picture of the times in Washington : For many months past, and at this time, hundreds and buudreds of honest working men here, as elsewhere, are unable to procure a day's work ; many are now in almost a state of starvation. In fact, they would be at that point were it not for friends, and dealers in groceries and other necessaries of life, who have thus far given them oredit. The owners of the houses many of these people occupy can get no rents frona them. This state of things cannot last.? Many have families dependent upon their dnilr lnhnr fnr 5nK?i?tpnpo on/I in timoo - ?V * "" ? when employment was easily obtained, found great difficulty in making both ends meet. All these men ask is employment; and that, it seems, they cannot get now.? Many of them tell us (for they often appeal to us) that they are in the habit of leaving their distressed homes morning after morning, after a very scanty meal, with a fixed determination that, if possible, before they return to their families, they will get some employment; but, alas! bitter disappointment meets them. They have no means to leave this city, and if they had, no one can tell them where they may obtain work. If these troubles continue for any considerable length of time, no one can foresee what the consequences may be.? Public as well as private improvements are everywhere curtailed, and io moet case* altogether suspended. Very few, if any, who have a dollar, will risk investing it anywhere now, while so much uncertainty exists. & r> n o mi iv jtktixtr xiumanujs oxuileu xne ''gallant" correspondent of the New York Times went a little too far when he paraded the overwhelming attention which he i professed to receive from Col. iMaxcy Gregg. All about the "fair lad/" may be strictly < true, (?) but certain are we that this vera- ' cions correspondent is a total stranger to I Col. Gregg. Col. Gregg did not know there was such a biped in the city until the advent of his letter, and we are of opinion the knowledge which he now possesses will not strew roses in his path. Col. Gregg's affability is everywhere acknowledged; but what he might, could, would, or should do in an emergency like this, we are sore we don't know. In the meantime let us ask, what will be the next story, and who will be made to father it ?? Charleston Mercury. A Homespun Party.?Col. Donald, of Leake county, Mississippi, recently gave a i novel party to the young people of his neigh- v borhood. The ticket sent to each young i lady required that she should come dressed t in Mississippi manufactured apparel, in the c manufacture of which she must in some 1 way assist. The young gentlemen were also required to dress in the manufacture of Mississippi, made in Leake and Attala. t There were near one hundred persons of I both sexes in attendance, all attired as spe- t cified above. t Compliment to the State Convention. The Charleston correspondent of the N. fork Herald pays the following compliment o oar State Convention, now sitting in Charleston: .. "Your correspondent has attended manj >ablic assemblages, has seen the collected visdom of the nation in the Senate Cham)er of the United States, in the Hall, of ihe House of Representatives, in the Legslatares of a number of the Eastern, MidHe and Western States. He has performed )fficial doty in the United States Senate, in ;he House, in the Legislatures of Maine, Sew HamDshire. Massachusetts. New York* !few Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Uliaois, and in innumerable public conveniens ; and candor compels bim to say he lever beheld a body of men in either of ;hose assemblages that could surpass, colactively, in personal appearance, in dignity, in that solid and distinctive attribute of the American character?independence?the 3ody he has this day beheld assembled for ;be purpose of adopting the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. There was not a mean looking man among them. The physiognomies of the miser, the spendthrift, the braggart, the thoughtless, the Jolt, the demagogue, could nowhere be seen. It was, in short, & body of men who were bom, who were educated and who were de?igned by Providence to achieve great things. They were not all statesmen, iilthongh there were many; they were not all politicians, although there were many of ihflt olnsn thai? wara nnf all nlnnf.orG tl. though many of that class; they were not ill lawyers, or merchants, or soldiers, or manufacturers, or mechanics, or doctors, although there were several of each olass but, as a body, they presented as fine ft * combination of the true American character as was ever congregated within four walls on the American continent. Thede* liberations of such men must be attended with triumphant results; and South Carolina, with the members of this Convention as her representatives, may well rank among the first in mind, as she has been the firft in fact, in the revolution whioh has secured the second independence of her own and sister States." Mr. Russell at Charleston.?Tho reader is already aware that the London TV/wi /ij Vino \f m W IT T? nflCAll ? ini-co uao uinpiuuou uxi ?? ix. uuo^u to this country as a special correspondent. His expected arrival at Charleston is- announced in the papers of that city. As the ^ representative of the leading journal of Europe, Mr. Russell will be accorded facilities for gaining information such as would be granted to no man from a Northern State of the Union, uuless he were known to be fully in sympathy with the insurgents. The strong desire, too, for a recognition or some kiod consideration on the part of the British Government will procure for him a degree of protection from danger and insult, such as the correspondent of any Northern Republican journal might look for in vain. More than this, Mr. Russell, as the record- * er of the events in the Crimean trar and ^ the East Indian insurrection, has a reputation as extensive as the Eajgliah language, and this, with the position and influence of the London Times, will afford the. fullest guaranty against mis statements originating in personal malevolence or party prejudice. His letters, therefore, will possess a degree of reliability such as few other writers can lay claim to, and they will doubtless be perused with avidity by countless readers both in the Southern and Northern States. ?New York Commercial Adoertiier. The Episcopal Church and the National Troubles.?The N. Y. Church Journal states that there will be oo schismatical division of the Episcopal Church in consequence of the separation of the Confederacy. In the organization of that Church each State composes a Diocese, and' each Diocese, like eaoh State, is sovereign and independent. Their national Oiganfaa* tion resembles the-Federal organization, and consequently according to the Journalt not only will the effects of State secession upon the diocesan relations of the charob in the seceded States be at once recognized, but wbere, as in the case of the Bishopric of Alabama, the concurrence of the National Episcopate may be neoessary to fill a vacancy, the promptest measures will be taken by the Northern Bishops to give the requisite sanction to the elections in Alabama, and to every other act necessary for the entire independence of all the dioceses in the Seceded States. This is in perfect harmony with the noble attitude of the Episcopal Church in the North from the beginning, which has always and everywhere set its face as a flint against abolitionism, and every other ism, and which is oomposed of a body of clergy ^nd laity which would have done honor to any age and any nation of the Christian Church. The Policy of the Southern Commissioners.?Washington, Maroh 30.? The nervousness whioh has been privately developing itself for two or three weeks past at the South, in regard to the polioy of thft Confederate States Commissioners at Washington, has broken oat at last in a captions leader in the New Orleans Delta, which will be followed ap, it is understood, by a general volly from the entire war wing )f the secessionists. To the ability and consummate tact and addressof the Commission* jrs the country is indebted for the peace it low enjoys, and the removal of federal iroops from the seceded States, whioh will loon take place. Their policy has been 'masterly inactivity" from the start?parey, diplomacy, the avoidance of all abrupt ssucs, accepting every overture for time, vith the conscious knowledge that if the administration could afford to ask for delay heir true policy was to give it By this neans an opportunity has been afforded President Davis to concentrate an overwhelming force on Fort Piokens, rendering ts abandonment a necessity, and affording ime for deliberation on the question, which nast inure to interests of peace.?N. York Yerald. Confiscation.?We understand that, inder instructions from Mr. Lincoln, orders lave gone West to confiscate all goods inroduced into the Southern ports without he payment of the regular U. States duties.