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It is not meant, by assuming the point under consideration, that none but a religious man can be a successful, skillful and distinguished soldier. The writer is too well aware that many of the taleuts, requisite for being an adept in military tactics and the manoeuvres of the battle field, can be possessed in the absence of a religious character, because they are, to a considerable extent, independent of the state of the heart, and so, are outside of the domain of morals; and he is too familiar with the exploits of such world-renowned warriors as Cyrus. Alexander, the Ptolemys, Usesar, Bcipio, uanmoai, unarigs otn, ixapoleon and Wellington, and some of onr own countrymen, to intimate that a man f may not be a great warrior and yet not a Christian. But what is implied, is, that he, who is distinguished in the art of war without religion, would have greater intrinsic excellences, and add enduring qualities to his soldierly character and new lustre to his reputation, by having it. Successful and noted as a warrior, the irreligious man may be; but still there are duties incumbent upon him, in his professional character, for which he has no fitness ?there are emergencies to which he is not equal, and there are dangers for which he is not prepared. This, which indicates the bearing designed to be given to the subject, will be clearly evinced in the illustrations of it. Your correspondent, gentlemen, feels bound to protest against all those false maxims?from whatever source they come ?which announce wickedness and moral degradation, and sinful recklessness, to be necessary characteristics for che soldier.? Such maxims originated with men who, fc wishing a cover for their own moral obliqui' ties and wretchedness, were speaking iu their own apology and praise; have had too trequent illustrations or tneir seeming, but still unreal truthfulness from the fact, that because of alarming moral defects in ' the military laws of almost every country, ?good men have been to a great extent conscientiously debarred from resorting to a soldier's calling, except under the crisis of impending war; and the result has been, that men who have been disposed to cherish and practice their military tastes and have filled the ranks of the standing army, are such as either were already profligate in habits, or those whose characters and morals have yielded to the temptations and vices to which they were subjected, without " moral restraint; and it is these notorious examples who have given apparent foundation to the infamous charge, that the "worse the man the better the soldier." We have it in our power, however, and it will be done | at the proper time, to show that the adage I has been contradicted by living examples, ^ of men who have been good and far-famed soldiers, and at the same time true and consistent Christians. Still further. In vindicating and enforcing the point assumed, it will not be disguised nor suppressed?and this will be objected to the position taken?that military life furnishes a severe ordeal to Christian character, and so, it is hard to exemplify , religion in such a sphere. This is cheerfully admitted as a stubborn fact. But this ' very fact supplies an argument for the necessity of religion in the camp and field; j for no man being called of God to be where | he cannot do his duty, and none beiogever j 1 s) it + IftO if flio nhriO- 1 CACUiptCU ilUUI UiUIOi UUVIVOj ?4 v- ?w i tian finds it hard to serve his God and bear arms, the irreligious man will find it harder i still to do duty to God, which is paramount , to all other duties. And besides, it can be j ! successfully maintained, that the very hardships and temptations to which men under arms is exposed, are favorable to the ! growth and developement of piety, where ; it really exists and controls the heart and life. Trust in God?yea, and all Christian ; graces are not hot house plants, which 1 1 thrive best without exposure; but they 1 strengthen by exercise, and are expanded by the discipline and temptation of practical life, even in its severer forms. Sadly true is it, that the common soldiery of the country, are usually lamentably deficient in fruits of piety, but it need not be, and is not universally so. Says a distinguished Chaplain in the English army?"The army far from being a desert waste, where weeds and thorns alone are to be gathered, is a field in which a rich harvest may, with proper culture, be reaped to the glory of God's grace. Such, at least, I have found it to be; fori can truly say that, during the twelve years that I have been a military Chaplain, I have seen far more to encourage me in sowing the seed of eternal life, than during an equal period of my ministry among civilians." That a man should be, as was said by an English Lord of the noble and immortal Havelock, who perished during the late war in India, ?'Every inch a soldier and every inch a Christian," and that a religious spirit is au essential endowment for the true soldier, it is now the purpose of your cor- j respondent to proceed to establish. 1. It alone, will furnish any security a- j gainst the incidental evil effects of such a life upon the soul. Separated from the soft- | ening and refining influences of the society at home, and on the other hand, surrounded by associations and circumstances, whose tendency is to harden and brutalize the soldier, he needs the power of grace to prevent this depravation or roughening of manners and deteriorations of morals, so naturally an accompaniment of camp life. The influence of religion is demanded also, to resist the demoralizing effect resulting from being deprived, to a large extent, of oppor- j tuoities for retirement, meditation, reading ' and religious devotions. Such are the crowded state of the camp, and the bustle and irregularities occasioned by the exactions of military duties, that the soldier cannot be often alone with himself and his j God : and under this privation, unless he i has the spirit of faith and love to raise him j above ordinary interruptions and enable him j to hold converse with his Saviour and his, own heart, the man will suffer injury every ! day. The examples, too, that are ever be- j fore him. will also brine into reauisition a high-toned moral character and elevated christian spirit, to restrain from imitation. It is an extraordinary company which does not contain a majority who are careless and loose in their moral tendencies and habits, and many others, who, at home are exemplary, are abroad, willing imitators of the vicious, thus circumstenced; it is plain that nothing less than grace in the heart, can make an effective resistance to the "evil communications which corrupt good manners" and defile the heart. So, also, the frivolity so generally prevalent in camp-life ?where tho giddy and reckless are brought in such close contact?the familiarity with , sufferings and death on the part of those who have been upon the field of battle, combine to make men insensible to the claims of religion and even humanity, and hereia is presented another demand for the control of the Divine spirit. To the same effect are the very passions that are evoked and cherished by a military campaign with an enemy, to be met. Feelings of hatred ' and malice, and revenge, are often thus dominant in the soldier's breast, and there also, duplicity and deception in practising 1 the strategy so often resorted to in war are ' cultivated; and hence, without the restraints ; of the pure and lovely principles of the 1 Gospel, the soul would be the haunt of all 1 dark and neudish passions. Whatever,] therefore, furnishes a shield and safety a- j gainst these incidental evils of military life, | should form a part of your moral furniture, | gentlemen, in the opinion of your n ' MENTOK. ! For the YorkvUle Enquirer. Sandy Sniffles to Abe Linkhorn. To Alerham the First: Most grave i Rev. Sigoor, yourn of the 11th is to ha an I'm mighty glad herin your stil in tl land of the liven, and in the hous of Bo didge. I've bin herin that yonre prepar to Bend the ships of tarsus down in our se tilments, to take charge of our muskeet swamps an tu drive the infernul varmun outen our parts. Its a mity lawdible at Christun undertakin on your part, an th wil confur everlastin compensashun to ag yit unborn, that is, metiforicaly spekin, a cordin to Josefus, the grate warrior. I'< had a mity hard time on it since my last 1 you; the infurnul varmunts hav bin pich: inter me the hoi time. I had a noshun I git ycu to ishu won of your proclamashui an send it down by Billy Willson, with h Zooaves. I kalkulnte he kould make orf devastashun in these parts, providin 1 kould come before tba git to hivin. Morri ly apekin, oetore tu rnenny or tnem coiec together. How's times in your parts How's craps? What's doin, metafisioa) speekin, in the way of bizinus ? How's t backur sellin ? I've bin herin the potom is so orful hi, that ther is, nietaforical speekin, as Richard cu de Lion said wh< he went to cros the rio grand, ther's i chance ofgittin over inter Ole Yarginy I git auy. Howsemdever, tribulashun ma cum, be the obersuvations what tha ma How's my old frien Areemedus Petolimt philadelphus ? I'm glad tn hear he's si totin on for you. He's a mity good hai providen you can only keep the steem i on him. I'm fearin mitely thow he'll co laps on aconnt of the onside preshure dov* in these parts, that is, diameturely spee! in, as Rodyrick Due said when he landr at plymuth rock. Whar's Abel Kader A dersun ? What's he doin ? I havent b herein much of him since he left these part I spose he's sorter tired burnin brick. IV bin hearin since your last, that he had mighty big kill on han in Charleston I burn, an wood hav made everlasting lor by it, only for the infernul mnskeeters wt set fier to it befour he was reddy. S transcript glory monday, as Peter the he mit, said when he took Oseola Prisenei How are yon gcttin along in your Cabin bisurnus. I've bin hearin that your woi / l nr* f ohn ?n Ifrt Tirol T onnoA tinn * InniVtAV uuuu ciau uiiKjf nci. jl juui iuujuci sorter green. I've been hearin that yoi plank kil sorter got fier, and the haos hs tu leeve it; couldent you send over an get sum of the lumber? I think the fr was cxtiDguist after tha left. Maby yoi glue arotgood. Sposin you send down he; and git sum?its made byBuregard. Wil Jef Davises improvement, its holdin on I every thing it tutohes in these parts. Km ent you come down in these parts an spec the sumer with us, as ive bin hearin yot lorls hangs hevy on your brow an is sort worrin you ? Kura down an take a ric roun an se the kurositys. Wouldnt yc like tu se the flotin Batry, fort moltre at the Kongres ? I think I could git you seat on the floar, but youl hav to kum pr pared, as the floar is mity clean. I've g sum mighty good corn juce from Ole Ri| I think it would help you. It would be sorter a change from what youve bin usii ics mjgnty goou?ic goes uy cue uumc Ellis?an improvement on the oJe plan.Give my everlastin respects to old mis ar bob, an except the same tu yourself. I r main yonrs til deth, unles otherwise di posed of, Youts Respect. SANDY SNIFFLES. Post Mortem.?I understand yonre bout to take Bill suward in as a pardnur.Bill is a mighty good han at layin of wor! if you can only git hands to put it up.Supposin I was to send you a hand or tv from these parts. Ole Ben MaCuller ha ent much to do now. If you say so, F send him on tu you. Give my respects all the hans in the shop, that i9 to sa Bates, Camoren, Blar, and all enquir frends, not forgetin Chase. Chase is su in a Bur fite. I ust to no hira mity wel when we hunted posums together. If not in hapins, I'll be on tu se you in about month. No more at presint. Yours, S. S. Can the South Support a Goveri ment??Eliphalet Case, in a communic tion to the Boston rost, iuny answers in qaestion, as follows: Now there is nothing that puzzles tl radical Republicans so much as the dif culty the South will have in raising a rev nue to carry ou their Government. D it ever occur to them that ten per cent. < this one article, of export duty, would rai on 8250,000,000. 825,000,000, and th this would not exceed one cent per pout =, i' rr j. ag$ 36 finally bore off the honors from Maynfe^' ffl 0- Reid! It was the on dit in the army, that ?||j Col. Burnett, of the New York regiment, . Bj wrote to Gen. Shields, saying: "Yoiu have, 111 1- in yonr report, done injustice to the New .. ||j| it York regiment " * , . Mi rt The reply of Shields (as reported) was |IS sr prompt enough: H ie "You are right! Had I done them jus- , |||g 1. tice, I should have said that they run like * llfi it a pack or d d cowards, and their Colo- ) ' , ? |||j it nel at the head of them!" How consol- H i?gi ifS if They certainly covered themselves be- ||1 1* 1 r y i* -n i i wflat on the entire cotton crop ? Then snppos the South should conclude to tax the pr< an dncts of the Northern States ten per cent n and the shoes, hats and other imports froi Ijg the free States east of the Alleghany mom n_ tains ten per cent., this would yield i jn least $25,000,000 more. Then an impo: Jt_ duty on nil other imports from all othe er parts of the globe would make an incom ^ of $10,000,000 more?$60,000,000, in al )(j The South is rich in all the resources thi at go to make the wealth and power of gret ,j8 nations, and can easily within its preset c_ territory support two hundred millions ( PeoPIe' M| tU From the Charleston Mercury. 10 Straws of Politics. The whole nation of Yankeedom is delh QS ered up to vanity. They are the greatei 18 braggadocios and humbugs that the worl U1 ha9 ever seen. Everything among thei 16 resolves into fuss and feathers. A city (Boi d- ton) storms when a poor British singe ts (Anderson) presumes to say that Americ is by no means the wondrous region whic 'y it cracks itself up to be I The same cit ?* goes into another fury when Edmun ic Kean (the actor), shows himself a littl 'y cool and contemptuous as to its wondroo ;n pretensions and opinions. Here, agaic 10 such is the enormous puritan self-esteeu tu that they become furious when the Iris 8t presume to set up for themselves. Thes y< Irish may do their slave labor, but let ther 118 not presume to carry arms. They will tak til from them their weapons. They will nc Q> allow them to carry arms. "We are th ip salt of the earth," says Yankeedom?"w r- want none of these Irish or foreign people rn Our ambition is to be homogoneons; the k- is to say, all rogues, bigots and beautief id together." n- The same spirit resents even the preter >n sions of women ; and the valorous wretohei s. who shrank from the tire of the Mexcac re at the siege of Vera Cruz, rush upon th a Catholic convent, burn it down with th tu most wondrous gallantry, and kick the sin Is pie nuns out of doors. Bead their histor io in their deeds. io And, New York, is a not dissimilar fast r- ion, under Yankee domination. She hug " ? Dickens for a week. The week after, sh et takes Fanny Ellsler to her arms;?and th rk same carriage which has been the triumph 's al car of the fashionable author, become jr instantly that of the danseuse, whom the id dub ilLa Deese,"?the goddess! ^ Barnum was a sort of demigod in Nei sr York?a Drofessional swindler, who boaste ii' of his success as a liar, and his profits a re a knave! Having the profits, he soon foum ^h his way to their prophets, their saints; am tu Iranistan became a very Mecca for Net York artists, who, feeding on Barnum >d glorified him ! They put him in the illas if trated nowspapers. New York has no greal sr er mode of glorification than an illastrate* le newspaper.. Her whole moral consists in ?Q lying history with big pictorial illustrations 'd Barnum published his "Autobiography1 a ?the mo9t popular book of the seasone greedily bought up as teaching the besl ot and safest methods of swindling. He wa P- the best authority in popular education. a His "Mermaid" was a faith in N. York Q- iu Charleston it was literally laid bare;of the seams?uniting the monkey with th ? fish?were soon detected by our savants 'd and Barnum would have brought his actio e- for damages against Charleston, had not on s- lawyers discouraged him; telling him tha however a lie might be relished in Nei York, it would not be appreciated by a* Charleston jury; and his damages would b ? Vi..nnm a:. mufto lUbUCi tuau HUIUUUJ U1C K likes Charleston. - With the Northern people?who are al! ro more or less, Barnums?success is everj s- thing, and justifies all vice, crime, swind '11 ling and lying. Their people seem to b 10 divided between vanity and knavery. T y. lie profitably, to boast uproariously, to wea In peacock's feathers on the crown, and enjo m the lusts of appetite with the money of at other, seem to be meritorious performances h* And for bluster, brag, swell and strut a no people equals?none could excel then During the Mexican war, when the Nei York regiment of Burnett could not b brought up to the scratch at all, the er N- gravers in New York sent forth a picture a- in which that blue-beard regiment wa id made to occupy the place of the Palmett regiment at the taking of Chapultepec.le General Shields could not get them to th R- scratch at Churubusco, nor the Pennsylvt e- nians. Some twenty gallant Irishmen, o id that occasion, joined themselves to the Pal in j uietto llegimeot. They were led on b sc Mayne lieid, a young Irishman of talent at and courage, who could not persuade hi id Colonel to the game! But the Colone mna a rancne, leaving may no neia, ana |gg| his twenty stoat Irishmen, to assert, in the * \ W& way of the Palmettos, the honor of their ; ? ||i skulking regiment. <v faf Jm Subsequently, Mayne Reid demanded, > as of right, from the city of New York, t . ||g the snuff-box, or sword, or cane, or "what j. * jBfl n not," left to New York, by Andrew Jack- / , : son, to be given to the citizen of that State ||| !r who should most bravely distinguish him- 1|? * self in the next ensuing war. ||S Mayne Reid should have had it. But ' Kg y what could a poor young Irishman, how- ' 1|| ever brave, expect at the hands of that ||lj e monstrous vanity?that imposthurae of j|g| 18 wind and conceit! He got nothing?not , ||8 '' even the thanks of the community. In truth |||j '' his gallant course had mortified their van- |P| ity. He, too, himself, Mayne Reid, was ||| e something of a peacock, but he had the t ' ||| n merit of being a gamecook also. He was s . |?9 e brave enough, whatever his weakness in |||j other matters. * > 11 e We have touched the vanity of these ||| 0 republicans, even as we have touched their |j| 5" pocket nerve! Fort Sumter was a defi- , . ,H lt acce to our prowess, which they perpetual- > |E ly flung into our teeth. Up to the moment 'v' ill when it was taken, they laughed at our ef- , i|| forts. Maior Anderson was to sweeD awav H J' our Iron Battery as with a bulrush; it was ||| 18 only necessary for Captain Doubleday Gothe am to look out at his south-east windows A e to settle the hash with Forts Johnson, Cum- ?j| l" mings and Morris. Captain Foster had de- |j| y vised some beautiful combustible experi- t |gj meots?rookets and serpents?whioh were to play about among our boys, frisk fiery ffla >s tails, and explode to our annihilation ! Fort ||j e Moultrie, riddled by Sumter, was to be |j| e translated into such a specimen of the cock- |? l" ed hat as to render it very uncomfortable i i? 19 as well as discreditable to its wearer! As |j| 7 to the "Boomarang"?the Floating Bat- , ' , H tery?that, in the hands of the Northern 1; '11 * press, was the most comical of military ex- ' |ffi pedients. According to their accounts, it >' , 8 had gone down in launching, it was lop- -. ?? j: sided; would neither float, nor lie flat, nor jgi sink, nor stand; it was all sorts of a farce 7 and failure ! It would be amusing now to '' read over the comments of Yankeedom not 'H only upon this experiment, but upon all the lg plans of South Carolina to capture Fort |a Sumter. H a Major Anderson involuntarily' helped 1h them to these ideas. He seems to have lj| been something of a blunderer. He was, |8 " no doubt, quite right when he reported Fort j^I '' Moultrie?in his hands?to be indefensi- J|g 5 ble against Fort Sumter. He never asked * jnj what it might become in OUR hands. He c Wm ' has been taught since. In his hands, Fort |1| Sumter proved to be neither shelter nor . ||g e power. In our hands, it will be a power ' and something more?a shelter! n n But we need not prate of what we can |w r do, or shall do, or are doing. Let the ene- |?i 1 my find out?soon enough?when we shall |il * remove the mask! "We shall teach them a |?| a few lessons in time. ||| 6 Enough, to illustrate the present wide- . |||j 5" mouthed and confident boasting of the Yankee press, with regard to the future, if we H ' make a gentle reference to what we have gSM r" heard from them touching the past. Sumters H and Stars of the West! These shall speak ?g e louder than Times, and Tribunes, and Posts, WJ& 0 and Heralds. One would think that the l|j r past experience would silence these blath- jffi y erskiter, who have proved so equally ridio- Ira '* ulous as prophets and politicians, soldiers ||& '* and strategists. But their impudenoe is |ag ^ the only one of their virtues which will ?|S '* never leave them, so long as they can * |&| w writhe and wriggle and blow a bellows. One e single grain of modesty, in their carcasses, j|S l" would shut their mouths forever. We do |a| !> not object that they should brag and bul- H 19 ly; they howl more loudly even than they ||& u brag. We can suffer this. Enough that gag we know them. We have only to remem- I? 6 ber how absurd and profitless was all their ?|9 l* former bluster, to rate duly the value of IB " their hound-like olamorings now. . H y S&" The mail cars on the Virginia and |& ? Tennessee Koad are now lettered "C. S. W& s Mail," instead of "U. S. Mail," as here- H >1 tofore. |?