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VOLUME 7. ' YORKVILLE, 80UTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1861. NUMBER 25.'
K A Calm Appeal.
John A. Green, Esq., well known toj
, many readers as Chairman of the Mozart j
Ilal! (Wood) delegation that sought ad J
mission to the Charleston Convention, writes,
a very calm and cogent appeal through the
Syracuse Courier and Union. We quote i
the following paragraphs:
Without the sanction of Congress, which
is alone empowered to "declare war," A
braham Lincoln, the accidental choice of a
minority of the American people, gi ig
himself up to the extremists of his party,
has precipitated the Northern and Southerly
States into armed hostilities.
Having accomplished this dire result, i.e
calls a special session of Congress. He
conveDesit, not at an early day, when yet
it might avert the great calamity, aod wheD
it might advise c:.d consult v.itb him to
that h ippy end, bu' -is if fearful lest it
might thwart the bloody scheme, or as if,
in imitatioo of the rulers of the Old World,
who deem it the chief . ffice of legislative]
bodies to provide the means for the wars
^ royalty may see fit to engage iD, he postpones
it to a period when his fatal, if not
criminal, policy shall have left it no choice
but to pay and provide for the fleets aod
armies he has raised. Why else was the
session of Congress caned on the 12th of j
April, deferred to the 4th of July? Did
not every reason connected with the public
good require its instant assemblage? Or,
if it must not assemble earlier, ought not
every step tending to civil war, except as
called for by self defence, to have been delayed
until Congress should have been convened
and its advice taken? Impartial
history, when it shall record these events,
to the shame of our nation, will declare
that civil war seemed the object of the Ad-j
ministration and of the leaders of the Republican
party, and that both studiously
avoided the paths of peace.
This accursed fraternal contest into which
Mr. Lincoln has hastened us, in contempt
of the Constitution he had just sworn to
support, is the loDg foreseen result of the
wicked aod persistent assaults made by the
party which dow holds power in these
Northern States, upon the rights aud propf
erty of their fellow citizens of the South.
The statesmen of the Democratic and Conservative
parties of the country, from Jef
ferson to our own times, have constantly
and assiduously warned the people everywhere
of this inevitable result of a sectional
anti-slavery agitation. You and I, sir.
have ever been loyal to the Constitution of
our country; loyal to the interest of every
State in our Confederacy; loyal to every
section and tne entire Union; loyal to the!
flag of our fathers, and the hopes of mankind.
Those who now denounce us as;
traitors, in past times have derid' d usas|'
"Union saversfor years they have sullenly
nulified tl.e Constitution, resisted the
execution of the laws, and encouraged those
who pronouticed the Union "an accursed
bond"?yet they now claim to be par ex
cellence "Union lovers." * *
Abraham Lincoln is butcnirying o'u f.e
war t!> o begun. He came into the Pn. i
dency twc-ive weeks a-:", to find . seven State.secedjd;
ho, and the Republican maj >rit\
| in Congress, adopting the no concessit,?i
and the no compromise policy of the Tribune
school of politicians, and aggravating
the disastrous influence of that policy by
menac- - of coercion and subju;. tlioo. have
sincesc.ceeded in uri . gout oi the Union
four more States; and according to every
public indication is yet pursuing a policy
v :ich will as ertainly mike the Southern
States still adhering to the Union a unit |
with those already seceded, and then pro-1
poses to carry on, unless soon and stern-j
ly forbidden by the voice of an outragedj
people, a war which must rival the blood i
iest and most desolating in all the world's!
records and all for thebaic of negro emao-|
cipation ! Let the white men of the North
calmly consider the causes and count the
cost of this war. It is they who are beggared
by taxation, ruined in their property,
and drafted off by hundreds of thousands
to the battle field, to murder or bo murdered
by their brethern of a common country.
The American people of this generation
uo not know what war is. They cannot j
realize its sufferings. They cannot anticiP
pate its horrors. War, among thirty millions
of the most chivalrous, ingeuious,
brave, disciplined and martial free people
the world ever saw, must present scenes of
terrible tragedy such as the most hardy will i
shudder to contemplate. War in the Nine-'
teeuth Century proposes means and appliances
for the dest; action of human lite
which convert battle iDto mere butchery,
where every wound is fatal, and death
of thousands may be the work of an instant
War involves the stoppage of trade, the
cessation of peaceful industry, stagnation
inrp ororu infprpet.
auuni^Biuun, *"J"'J "" j
Factories are sileDced, warehouses closed,
fields lie uncultivated, ships lie idle at the
wharves, the work shop and the counting
room are abandoned, agriculture receives
diminished returns from its labors, taxatiou
increases ten f Id, churches are turned into
hospitals, school houses and Seuate chambers
arc converted ioto barracks, the people
are impoverished, labor goes uocompensa 1
fc ted, propei;y loses its value, debts aud in
comes are uncollc'nble. starvation w: 'f?
abroad in 'he street and roads, noble < es
sink into piles of smoking and bloody ruin*
he i pi ess women and innocent children sui
fer untold miseries, and the wrath and man
ness of u.ao call down the veQgeaoce <>,
Heaven
Ti. >s (he entertainment :o vhio
are invited. This is the price xn are askt .
t . pay for tr?t- liberation of the negro-. ano
bis elevation to civil equality we : tie
white man! When we are called upon to
forget our principles?to fling aside all that
we nave hitherto possessed?to disregard
the c!a: s of our Southern brethren to fra
tcrnitj- 'nd equal; t > 1 to hu y forward
upon tUe impulse of I -e icidal excitement,
in support of a war poiicy against brethren
o* a common : vestry, we should first pause
a. consider i u duty ourselves, to ou
I country and our (rod. For uiyseif I have
felt disposed to answer in the words of the
great Teacher, ''Blessed are the peacema
ker!" But I do not deprecate war alone i
because of the ordinary evils it brings in its <
train, but because, also, it will still further
alienate for all time a people whom God i
and nature and their patriot sires joined ':
together I deprecate it because the so ji
verance thus begun is daily widened and!
made more incurable by the shedding of ji
fra'erna! blood. '
Convinced of the wrongfulness, injustice
and inexpediency of this most causeloss
and unnutNrized war thus forced upon
us; convinced bypassing events that the |
policy has been promotive of disunion. I, <
have been led to believe that the tru, T'ni
meD are uottho.-e who threaten devastation'
and slaughter, but they who invoke thej:
persuaMve influence and power of peace i
i. wouM repeat the language of Edmuud :
Bi. ky when he urged upon the British
Government a policy of conciliation towards i
her rebellious AmertcaD colonies. "The i
proposition is peace. Not peace through
the medium of war; not peace to arise out
of universal disoord. fomented from princi- i
pie in a'.l paiis of the empire : not peace to
depend od the judicial determination, or the
precise marking the shadowy boundaries of
a complex Government. It is simple
peace, sought in its natural course and in
its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in .
the spirit of peace, and laid in principles
purely pacific." If to reason thus be treason,
there are many traitors; and if the war
continues, we may eventually all deserve
the reproach ur incur the stigma.
***** *
What then remains to be done ? In this
exigency a prompt and perfect co-operation
of all the branches and elements of opposition
to the administration of Abraham
Lincoln is demanded. As a supporter of
John C. Breckinridge and the Maryland
Institute Platform in the last election, I
would invoke a union of all the supporters j
of Stephen A. Douglas, of John Bell, and]
of every patriotic citizen, with ourselves in
the work of staying civil war and restoring
peace. In such a holy labor, we should
know no distinction drawn from our past
differences. In such a cause I would follow
any leader.
Let all those who adhered to parties opposed
to Abolitionism, and favorable to the
just rights of every State in this once happy
and united Confederacy, band together
at the North, and demand with one voice
that this struggle shall cease. Aud New
York, the first of the States, which w; ! be i
?has already been?called upon to make
the greatest sacrifice, and which must re- 1
eeive the greatest damage from this war,
should be the first in which a united elfort
of all opposed to civil strife and consequent i
disunion, should be boldly* made
And shall not you aud I, addressing our !
fellow Democrats and the Constitutional;1
V..?L in rlomunrlinir! 1
IIH'U U1 iirw JLUJa, CAViaIUI . iu |
peace and opposing war you are but exer-j
eisiag your lawful right?nay, uiore, (lis '
charging y urpiaiu duty as citizens, vindi- <
eating yvir principles, and obeying rhedier-ites
<>f humanity, putriotisuiand religion!
'the sober second thought of the people
will sustain you, and our bleeding conntry.
when rescued from her frightful pen! will'
thank and reward you.
r dor-Currents in New York.
fT following extracts from a private I
leu i, received in this city, have been sent j
us by " friend to whom the original came j
safely, though somewhat, soiled, smeared |
and rumpled, as if for some time in contact
with flakes of codfish .?n-i . .shers of raw bacod.
It contains some hints of things
which we had more than half suspected
oefore, but upon which we have forcbornc,
all comment. We shall make noue now
There is matter in it, however, calculated j
for reflection.]?Mercury.
New York,.May .10. |
M'; T)ear***** : 1 seize upon a singular
cha o which offers, to write you secreUy 1
by private batitl. M returns to Sa-1
vannah via. Charleston, and will be with j
you after a week's delay. As his route!
must be circuitous, it may be that ten days
will elapse before this reaches you But
as I have really no news to give you, which
you cannot easily anticipate, the delay will
be of little moment. I shall confine myself
to the things which do not lie upon
the surface. And thete is a very considc-i
rable undertoic in this quarter, which is
eveu now making itself felt upon the cur-|
rents. That New York is utterly ruined!
for the nest twenty years, all feel, but no
one is quite willing to admit. The nation-]
al enthusiasm is born of their desperation, j
As they have never understood the South-1
em people, so, in spite of all the warnings
they have had, a perfect and permanent
rupture of the Union takes all parties by
surprise. A flippaDt people, whose levities
and caprices usurp the place of thought
and wisdom, they rush into this war j tst
as they rush to welcome Dickens and Fanny
Ellsler. The sensational is their forte.
Hence the lying, boasting und grandiloquence
of their newspapers. They must
invent, daily, the provocations for a menf.;-1
spasm. Being the most enormously vai:
people in the world, they are the most tor- i
rible braggarts; and having, for long ?ea-|
sons, persuaded themselves that New York)
had only to will to perform, and that s!iC|
j was the observed of all observers, anything
j which is c l-uluicd to rebuke this braggart!
jspirii. is afixture to all classes.?'
!"i in- taking of Fort Sumter, in spite of all
j the cotilidetii a serftona of the pre-- lt?*r? . ]
wounded their vn,it\ to t??t quick Al:|
their ' niriizi/ nncu" is the spawn u u i
i ?.
\ unity 1 :ey <to not love lighting uver I
hiu?-ft Che city stomach is not kecu ?.n ;
' is ect Hitf, by the war. tin y get rio
, ho -y mo. hs ;?and. ? wtnen is more!
, in: .t to their safety?most unscrupn
j ious as well as voracious appetites. We
'shall d ourselves ot some fifteen thou-and
1'iespc. ies iu the city in > -v. . al
ready oast covetou.- *-y - rem
i wealth, ie goods and i?". : >:
garnered up01- ?e gr<? :i .f i;
{Confederacy. They can tiolonue. ti d ieu
v! r work, or food, for the poor de-'i a.<
oeigoers; and it is iu the ?t'?re.?'to. s "I
j these wretched outcasts that they enlist ?
'are willing, Sacking all o her food, to be
i cotne themselves the food for powder. But,
though they thus employ and enlist, thry
do not trust this people. The Irish are especially
suspected, and pretty closely watched,
not only by the police, hut by special
igents. It was well understood, long ago,
that they had no desire to cross weapons
with their kiodred Irish in the South, or.
indeed, with any of tho Southern people. I
They all felt, by infallible instinct, that the
North, rather than the South, was hostile
to them as a people, and only tolerated
them because of their capacity for labor.?
What affinity had they with the Puritans
of New England ? What love had these
people ever shown them ? What charity?
Be assuss. 1. they do not take up arms with
iny heart tor this contest. But what had
the poor fellows to do? They must either
starve, or rot, or enlist. They have no agpetite
for starvation. The time has not yet
come which legitimates robbery, and enlistment
is only a means to escape from surveillance
and brutal usage. Meagher could
never have got out of Now l ork* alive, nor
any of his followers, had not he and they
lifted the "Stars and Stripes" and sang out
lustily for the Union ! But if you suppose
that these men really mean to fight you, I
fancy you are greatly mistaken. They
icill fraternize with you us soon as they yet
fairly vpon Southern soil, and out of the
reach of Yankee hangmen. They could
only do so by enlistment. This is half suspected
here already. They know that they
deserve nothing at the hands of the Irishmen?certainly
anything but sympathy
with their cause. Give, then, the Irish
every opportunity before you use the bayonet.
They are watched now pretty closely,
even as [ am watched; and if you knew
what caution I have to observe, even in
slipping this epistle into M.'s pocket, you
would at once comprehend how close is the
espionage kept up, especially on Meagher
aud bis command. Even our cypher is no
security, though it will puzzle the devil
himself, for a while, to make it out. Yet
there arc no less than three men here, io
New York, who can find the key to any cypher
you can employ, as well as oar friend
M , of Alabama. Do not write me, at
present, even in cypher; but, should Barney
come back hither, as M tells lue
he will, in June, you can whisper iu bis
ears all the necessary initials, aud uiy Bible
will furnish the key us agreed upon. Your
war will need to be an aggressive ono.?
- rt l Y .L.
lou must carry it into k.annate, ana tue
sooner your troops take possession of Philadelphia
the better. That city lies tolerably
open to you; for, of course, one victory in
Virginia gives you Maryland by a general
uprising of the people ! The policy of the
North is to overwhelm you quickly by
numbers. They have no idea of a long
war. Therefore be rapid, and use all your
energies to drive them back without wait
ing. As soon as they fail you get peace.
A three years' war will entirely break down
these people, cut of! all their resources,
crush their commerce, stifle their trade and
force the whole population into insurrec
tion. Before September there will be fity
privateers, from this port alone, sailing under
the Confederate flag; and Boston ana
New York together will probably show a
greater n.Miber still. What other business
so profitable ? I know nothing of Philadelphia,
but M assures me that he
kuows of three hardy follows who have
their plans Jaid to take the oaean field in
search of fat prizes. Again : write nothing.
All letters from the South are searched.
TTTi,rp^
vv 11 at axicj arc w<jxxiixi? xu.
The Washington Government started out
in this war with a debt of a hundred millions.
Its expenses per diem of all sorts
cannot be far less than a million of dollars
By the meeting of Congress there will be a
hundred millions of deficiencies to meet,
and a prospective expenditure of two or
three hundred millions to authorize and to
provide for. If a public debt be a public
blessing, the North is soon to be immersed
in an ocean of complete beatitude. Tiie
end of the first year of the war will find a
d ot of five hundred millions of dollars,
and the prospect of an indefinite increase.
The only limit to the debt will be in the
capacity of the Northern market to take up
the loans. That capacity is not very great,
fur your Wall street capitalists are, in general,
but mere agents for foreign leuders of
mouey. In all New York there are not a
'hundred million of dollars of genuine New
York capital for loan. All the rest of the
mo . -y they have had at command has come
from abroad, and belonged to foreigners.
Debentures o; the Washiugton Government
cannot command sale for a very long
They are out the obligations of a
?:ional Northern Government. The South
has withdrawn, and will never consent to
pay any part of the debt now growing up.
It will be a debt, of the North alone. Probably
Kentucky and Maryland will have the
felicity of sharing in its burden to the extent
of forty or fifty millions each ; but except
such part as the prudent States of the
border shall share, it will be a debt of the
XT. 1. An .maK if AunnAf nAmm?.?nrl faunr
*nurill. i'13 ll< VUUilVl luuiuiuuvi lu VI
among foreign capitalists ; for these people
know very well that all the financial power
anil commercial wealth of the North were
derived from its dealings with the South.
There is not enough capital in the North
to support a large increase of rhe public
debt, and the Government before a great
while will be bankrupt. The Treasury is
already in a state of collapse.
The first expedient they will resort to,
after exhausting the resources of public
mans, will be a national bank. The Herti/il
is already calling out lustily for a nalional
bank, with a hundred millions ot
capital. Thev will authorize one of sever
-ii hund- ' millions, and the government
will etnplo, II the agency and resources ol
It'iat institution to sustain its credit and to
-'upply itself with money. The Washing
. mi Government itself will subscribe to it?
capital Ki. ' Northern State will sub
!scribe liberally. Beef and other contract
ors ?.f the army will subscribe some ol
ir hundred" of thousands of profits; anc
!i">r iiirtunate speculators, looking to fur
o er ittle favors and to further good luck
. wj|t take many share*. It will be a stu
ti e j.ii.ts affair, tt colossal machine, a tnagnifi
. nt bubble ; and thus, with a high pro
-entice tariff, a huge national bank, a maui
oioili public debf, and a vast standing army
all in full b!..st, the Northern ideal of i
! erreat and strong government will be com- <
plcfely realized. i
What will be the condition of the people I
all this time? The stoppage of Southern <
trade and the cutting off of its Southern (
markets will bankrupt their manufacturers.
The loss of the coasting trade of the coun- '
i try and of the carriage of Southern staples
I will destroy their shipping interests and
bankrupt all their Laws and Vanderbilts,
: great and small. Their merchants will lose '
I their business and go to protest; and the J
j bankruptcy of the East will bankrupt the '
| West. Bankruptcy will soon be as univer- '
jsal us the war fever has been. It will be a 1
' Nemesis at the heels of war. :
| Already their editors see these things, '
land the Herald mingles with its prayers
, fur a great national bank, still more urgent *
!appeals for a general bankrupt law, to wipe '
out all debts. They feel that they are all 1
going to ruin together. They want nation- '
jul bank notes for a fictitious currency with 1
! which to bolster up their affairs awhile; <
[and they want to postpone the evil day of 1
[protest by means of loans from the few '
I hundred millions of new fictitious national '
[bank capital. But, iD spite of these pal- 1
iliatinc and dilatorv expedients, they know 1
the end must come, aud they want a gener- 1
al bankrupt law to fall back softly upon.? '
They want to stop payment with something 1
still in hand for a rainy day, and they want
a bankrupt law to protect them from the '
sheriff. Probably a bankrupt law wiping
out all old debts will be followed by de- 1
, mands for no agrarian law, making a new 1
! division of property.
With a public debt, a protective tariff, a
.national bank, a grand army, and all tbese 1
fine agencies of magnificent speculation in
full blast, the system would lack its most :
j important part, its most beautiful and charm- !
; ing feature, if it lacked a general bankrupt
j law; and a general bankrupt law they will
jhftve. When men are provided with unI
limited means of- speculation, they must be 1
{also provided with a convenient means of
I release from debt. With all these great
institutions in full play, the Northern genius
will find itself at last in an element
exactly suited to its character. Speculators
will flourish, bankrupts will remain
J rich) but what will be the condition of the
'people, of the government, of the country?
:
The Periods of Secession of the
Confederate States.?The States that
have gone out of the old Union, seceded in
the following order:
Vote of
j State. Date of Secession Convention.
South Carolina...Dec. 20, 1860 unanimous.
{Mississippi Jan. 9, 1861 84to39
| Alabama Jan. 11, 1861 61 to 39
| Florida Jan. 11, 1861 62 to 29
' ? -r i 1 n/>i ono x _ O ?
Georgia Jan. iy, iooi...sUi: coo*
Louisiana Jan. 26, 1861...113 to 19
Texas Feb. 1, 1861 ...166 to 7
1 *Virginia April 17, 1861
j Arkansas May 6,1861 69 to 1
j North Carolina... May 20, 1861.unanimous.
jj"Tennessee
i 'To ratify liv a vote of the people, May 23, 1861.
, f.Vdopted' In the Legislature by a vote in the Senate, 20 to
; !; House, 46 to 21; to be referred to the people for ratilica;
lion.
j The Date of the Ratification of
! the Confederate States Constitution.
?These States have ratified the Constitution
of the Confederate States by the folj
lowing vote :
Vote of
| State. Date of Ratification. Convention.
{Alabama March 13, 1861 87 to 5
[Georgia March 16, 1861 96 to 5
| Louisiana....March 21, 1861 101 to 7
i Texas March 25,1861 68 to 2
1 Mississippi...March 30, 1861 78 to 7
jS. Carolina...April 3,1861 ..unanimously
j Florida April 22, 1861 149 to 29
Arkansas May 6, 1861. .unanimously.
|N. Carolina...May 20,1861..unanimously.
Tennessee Not voted
Stephen Arnold Douglas.
The late Stephen Arnold Douglas was
born in Brandon, Rutland County, Vt., on
the 23d of April, 1813. He learned the
trade of a cabinet maker in Middlebury, i'd
I his native State, and continued for a year
j in that business, but was obliged to aban
don it on account of the state of his health.
From Vermont he removed to Canandaigua,
New York, where he pursued the study of
the law until his removal to Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1831. From Cleveland he removed
still farther West, and finally setj
tied in Jacksonville, Illinois. He obtained
employment at first as clerk to an auctioneer,
and afterwards taught a school,
j still uevotinghis leisure to the study of law.
I He was admitted tu the bar in 1834, and
rose rapidly in his profession, being elected
Attorney-General of the State before he
was twenty-two years of age. In 1835, he
was elected a member of the House of Representatives,
and at the expiration of his
term was appointed by President Van Buren,
in 1837, Register of the Land Office
at Springfield, Illinois. In 1840, he wa9
elected Secretary of State of Illinois, and
the following year, Judge of the Supreme
Court. Notwithstanding his robust appearance,
he seems never to have possessed
a strong physical organization, and resigned
his judgeship, after occupying it fbr two
years, in consequence of ill health. From
this period bis first prominence in national
politics may be said to date. He was again
elected to the United States House of
Representatives in 1843, and continued a
member of the lower House for four years,
| where he was one of the most active memibers,
able speakers, and ardent Democrats
of that body. He was an advocate of ' fif
ty four forty or fight," on the Oregon ques
ition, and was a firm supporter of the Mex
' ican war. One of his best speeches was
Mm question of refunding to Gen. Jacki
m<u the fine which he was obliged to pay at
1 New Orleans In December, 1847, he was
elected to the United States Senate. His
course there is fresh in the public memory.
F He was a desperate political gamester, and
I sacrificed his all, and hazarded his coun
try's all, to obtain the Presidency. Atone
, time he was considered a national states
| man, and a map of intrepid spirit, but th<
I manner in which he succumbed of late to
- Lincolnism, proves that he was supple as a
-.willow to the popular breeze What a
, contrast to Vallaudighain, standing almost
ii alone in bis BUDlimo moral courage and fi
ielity ! It cannot be denied, however, that
in the death of Senator Douglas the North i
lias lost the greatest man in its limits?the i
inly man, in fact, who approached the char- i
icter and proportions of a statesman. 1
mi. 1
3eoession of the Indian Territory? ]
Capture of the Ports and Expulsion ]
of the Enemy.
We had the pleasure yesterday of an in- 5
;erview with Mr. John A. Peel, who has
ust returned from Fort Ouachita, in the j
[ndian Territory. Fort Ouachira, he informs
us, and all the other forts in the Tet- i
itory, were evacuated by the Federal forces (
lefore the arrival of the Texas troops un <
ler Coi. Young. The company to which
Mr. Peel belonged. r!ie Dead-shot Rangers, .
from Jefferson, Texas, captured fourteen |
wagons belonging to Emory's command, ,
which had been left behind. A company I
from Fannin county also captured several ,
wagons. Emory, finding the Texans in |
dose pursuit of him, threw away guns, am- ,
munition and Government stores into the
Ouachita river, first destroying the guns
ay breaking the locks and taking them to <
pieces. The enemy left at Fort Ouachita ,
?large quantity of clothing, some provis- <
ions and one field piece. At Fort Arbuc- ,
kle, also, they abandoned various Government
stores and supplies, most of which j
were stolen and carried away by the In- i
lians before the Texans got there.
After taking possession of Fort Arbuckle. (
it was garrisoned by a company of Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indians under Capt. McKinney.
Fort Ouachita was garrisoned by the
Dead-shot Rangers under Captain Mayberry.
Mr. Peel also informs us that the Chickasaws
held a council on the 24th of May,
and formally dissolved their connection
with the United States Government, and
issued a manifesto to the Choctaws, Creeks,
Cherokees and Seminoles, and to the Reserve
Indians, advising them to secede from
the old Union, and to petirion the Southern
Confederacy to be received as a distinct
organized Territory, instead of an Indian
Territory. The friendly Indians are all
in favor of it. They had ordered off all
the Yankee missionaries in the country.?
The Indians also took up two Abolitionists
from Northern Texas, one of whom was a
preacher, and hung them. The forts were
all to be garrisoned iD twenty days, in accordance
with a treaty made with the Re
serve Indians.
Mr. Peel further states, in illustration of
the spirit of the Texas troops, that within
forty-eight hours after the news came across
the Texas border that the Kansas bandit
Montgomery wuh coming down, there were
10,000 men underarms who started immediately
to meet him. lie says that, instead
of there being any Abolitionists in Northern
Texas, the people are unanimous for
fighting, and all classes, including preachers,
were eager for the fray.?Ncic Orleans
Crescent, June 7.
An Incident in Fort Sumter.
Most of our readers are aware that we
have in our office a ninety-six pound shell,
which was fired from the steamer Monti
cello upon the Manchester Artillery, on the
occasion of he." attack on Sewell's Point.
In connection wir'i this incident, a gentleman
who was pro-en et the battle of . Fort
Sumter, states that one of these dangpivus
missiles entered that fortification just above i
the magazine, but outside of it, descended
thrcugh a block of granite ten or twelve
inches thick, and exploded, one of its frag,
ments, weighing nearly twenty pounds, striking
the door of the magazine and so bending
it inwards that it was afterwards found
impossible to close it without the aid of a
Within a fpw hnnrq of this ne
currence a red-hot shot from Fort Moultrie
passed through the outer wall of the magazine,
penetrated the iniier wall to the depth
of four inches, and then fell to the ground.
All this time grains of powder, spilled by
the men in passing to and from the casemates
and magazine were lying loosely upon
the floor, which, ignited by a spark,
would have blown the structure into atoms.
Throughout the entire engagement, so holy
and obstinately contested, the hand of Providence
was everywhere equally visible.
Death-dealing balls flew in every direction.
Men heard them whistle by their ears, and
had the earth torn up around their feet.?
Groups were spattered with the mud and
dust of plunging thirty-two pounders, and
splinters of wood aod iron rained among
the unflinching soldiers with such murderous
vehemence that nothing but a higher
power could have prevented them from
harm ; yet "nobody was hurt " Let us hope
that the God of battles, who has thus far
been so gracious, may still di-ect our efforts
and carry us safely through the storm of
war.
In this connection we may mention that
Lieut. Valentine, of the Confederate Army,
who commanded one of the batteries on
OUJiivuu a isiauuj wuiuu uiu Luuau
work in this battle, is now in th;s city, at
the Exchange Hotel. On account of his
labors in the fortifications around Fort Sumter
for the last four months and a half, he
has received a furlough of thirty days from
General Beauregard, but like a true soldier,
ho proposes to occupy his time upon the
fields of Virginia He has no particular
place to fight, but will leave in a day or
two for Manassas, as the liveliest scene of
operations, to take his chances of "mixing
in" miscellaneously.?Richmond Dispatch.
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The Case of Do Vino.
We find in the Camden <"l an ae
count of tho trial of the traitor De Vine. The
letters, of which he acknowledged himself
to be the author, were read before the com
uiittee of citizens appointed to examine him.
In the letter to ft.-. litoi of flic Scientific
American, we fin.; j following <? rap I. :
"Ceiph-'tieti, .here are plen v t.. Union-j
issts .'.'iiiii. but ihey are afraid even to ex i
pie.-.- pinion, having no leader, aod be j
ing i.nimidated by those who are large
slave owners, and who, if the trutli was
known, are literally shaking in their skin,
for feartheir darling idol, slavery and mammon,
should fall, as it uuck-ubicdly will,
sooner or later. To protect this is the
main object of these men, and to extend
slavery to the rich lands farther South,!
which would of course pay them better!
tha- the poor, worn out lands here." '
While we would not impugn the judgment
of the large committee of gentlemen
who had the case nnder consideration, we,
nevertheless, think they have dealt very
eniently with the scamp who. after living
in a community 8ix years, and earning his
livelihood among them, conld pen snch a
libel and slander as the above against them
We take the following from the Journal's
account, of the trial:
"Mr. Pegnes, the postmaster, was examined
and the letters read to the meeting.
Mr. De Vine was allowed full permission
:o make his statement and auy explanation
jr defence which he might be able in au?wer
to the charges preferred against him.
He did so, and acknowledged the authorjhip
of the letters, and attempted to excuse
himself by various subterfuge*, which of
course did not amount to anything, and ony
satisfied the e immittee still more of his
guilt. After all the evidence had been
presented, and the defence heard, the committee
was addressed by Messrs. William
M. Shannon, Hon. James Chesnut, W. H.
Workman, and Tho" m J. Warren. The
Oourt room, which hud been crowded by
jitizens, was cleared, and the committee,
with closed doors, proceeded to consider the
jase.
"The committee decided that it was not
a case requiring capital punishment, and after
due deliberation, determined that dc
portation beyond the limits of cue C .nfed
sracy should be the penalty."
From Pensacola.
A writer in the Mobile Tribune says:
"This great line of railroad between
Montgomery and Pensacola, is but one
living, moving throng of people, from all
parts of the country, going to or coming
from the wars. Fort Pickens aud the immense
works by which it is surrounded are
particular objects of interest. From the
most distant part of the State, from Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, and
even Virginia, they come by every train
and return with all sorts of speculations.?
They all, of course, feel very bad that the
bombardment did not take place while they
were there to see ; hut then the confidence
gained from personal observation, that "we
cau take the place when we please," somewhat
mollifies their feelings.
In regard to this I have not changed my
opinions since I left Pensacola. On the
contrary they are here confirmed on high
authority. The statu quo at Pensacola will
be preserved for the present; but how long
will probably depend upon the movements
of the enemy And this is doubtless wise.
We lose nothing by delay, and may gain
much. We are daily strengthening our
batteries and positions; our bruve citizen
soldiers are every day becoming better disciplined
and better prepared, though always
ready. It is an admirable school of discipline.
In the meantime we employ and
keep iu check outside, seven of the most
efficient ships of the United States navy,
and several large transports. They cannot
be better employed for us or at a cheaper
rate.
"On the other hand the enemy gain no
advantage by our delay. They already
find great difficulty in procuring provisions,
water, &e. Santa Rosa is a barren, desolate,
sunburnt Island of send Nothing
but brackish .atori- t!.> on. and
cm only a thing man y. oeasi can cat The
health of the men is already seriously affected,
and it would not be surprising if the
works outside the fort had ultimately to be
abandoned.
"Again, we have it in our hands, holding,
as we do, the ?k.? :ny of the place, to
take any advantage i>f ibe false movemouts
or dispersion of the fleet Providence certainly
favored us at Charleston, and should
a sfnrm nnaur at, Pensacola as there, nre
venting the participation of this formidable
armada in the fight, we may tuke Picken9
without the loss of a single man. Should
the blessings of Heaven so favor us, we
should also save millions upon millions of
valuable property, the navy yard, village
of Warrington, and perhaps the principal
forts themselves. Without the cooperation
of the fleet, Pickens would have enough
to do to take care of itself, and the
shot and shell from five miles of batteries
would soou make that, like Sumter, untenable.
These are the opinions I have formed
from personal observations, and they
are confirmed by all with whom I have eon
versed, either here or at Pensacola.
Important Movements on the Mississippi.?A
Baltimorean, (says the JSun),
who has just returned from Texas, and
who passed some time en route in Mississippi,
Alabama and Virginia, makes the
following report:
"Large quantities of ammun'tiou had recently
been received at Memphis from New
Orleans, and the defences of the city w^e
proceeding vigorously. There are ten thousand
troops at Memphis ; all the approaches
to the city, both ou rhe river and on trie
railroads, are guarded by troops and fortified
by batteries. There is no railroad from
Cairo to Columbus, Kentucky?twenty
miles. At Columbus there is a regiment
uf Kentucky riflemen, one thousaud men.
At Hickman, Kentucky, about twenty five
miles further down the river, a railroad
commences, which runs to Union city, Ten
nessee. At Iiickraan there is a battery ot
small field pieces, and five companies of
Kentucky soldiers?-ay 000 men. At CJnion
city there is another battery of small
field pieces, and three companies of Teuucssee
troops. At Osceola, Arkansas, on
the right bank of the Mississippi, 95 miles
north of Memphis, there are several batteries
ou a high bluff, and these are the first
really formidable defences of the city ?
The batteries arc mounted with heavy guns,
and there ic a force of 'iT'H) Arkansas
rr .j in a: ' near I : ><- .
i iv/ksoR I't lif CSsCe, I.s at til. jUDCtli O of
the Mobile ami Ohio railroad with the rail
road to New Orleans. There are no batteries
there; but at a point called Humboldt
Station, eighteen miles above, there is a
battery of two thirty-two pounders on an
embankment that r < nands the ' ailroad
track for two miles norm. A . Waight,
Tennessee, on the left bank of the Missis
sippi, sixty-eight miles above Memphis,
there are 8,000 or 10,000 men, six thirtytwo
pouuders, ten sixty four pouoders, aod
five large mortars for throwing shell. At
Fort Harris, Tennessee, fifteen miles above
Memphis, there is a force of three thous
and men, and batteries mounting eleven
thirty two pounders and some guns of smaller
calibre. At Fort Rector, Arkansas, ten
miles north of Memphis, on the right bank
of the Mississippi, there are 5,000 men I
and heavy batteries."
A Model Autobiography.
Perhaps the briefest personal memoirs
ever written were the memoirs of Count
Rotophein, written in ten minutes We
subjoin a few paragraphs; each of which
constitute a 'chapter.'
My Birth?On the 12th day of March,
1765 I merged from darkness into the light
of day. I was measured, I was weighed,
I was baptised. I was born without knowline
wherefore, and my parents thanked
Heaven without knowing for what.
My Education?I wa9 taught all 3orts
of things, aod learned all sorts of languages.
By dint of imprudence and quackery, I
sometimes passed for a savan My head
has become a library for old volumes, of
which I keep the key.
My Sufferings?I was tormented by masters,
by tailors who made tight dresses for
me ; by women; by ambition; by self love;
by useless regrets! and by remembrances.
Memorial Epochs.?At the age of thirty
jl gave up dancing; at forty my endeavors
to please the fair sex ; at fifty my regard to
public opinion; at sixty, the trouble of
[thinking; and I have now become a true
sage, or egotist, which is the same thing.
Respectable Principles.?I have never
meddled in any marriage or scandal. I
have never recommended a cook or physician,
and consequently have never attempted
the life of any one.
My Dislikes.?I have a dislike to sots
and fops, and to intriguing women who
make gamo of virtue ; a disgust of affectation,
pity for made-up men and paiuted
women; ao aversion of rats, liquors, metaphysics
and rhubarb; and a terror of jus
lice and wild beasts.
Analysis of my Life ?I await death
without fear and without impatience. My
life has beeu a mclo drama on a grand
stage, where I have played the hero, the
tyraut, the lover,, the nobleiuuu, but never
i the valet.
My epitaph.?Here lies in hope of repoo?,
an old, di.soea.sed man, with a worn
L..? _i l .. . .1
j uui an UA.iuiuaic.1 ui'-nt. uuu nj/
body.?Lad it:* and Gentleman pus* on.
~ - --Andrew
Johnson's Treason Discovered?We
have just seen a letter from
Aiuos A. Lawrence, of Boston, well knowo
to the country as one of her men of capital,
and n leading Black Republican, iu the
full confidence of President Lincoln and
his Government at Washington It is addressed
to Andrew Johnson, of'fenncs9oe,
and encloses a draft for one thousand dollars,
us a part of ihr. pay inteuded for his
.-ervices in betraying the confiding portion
: of the people of Tennessee who have stood
'! by him in -upport of the maintenance of
I the Federal Union. We give this letter
1 to the public. It was intercepted in its
[passage to Johnson, and is now in the possession
of a reliable gentleman of this city
j?one well known to the country. There
j is no doubt of the genuineness of the let1
ter:
Boston, May 13,1861.
! Dear Sir: If your note to me were pen
Jtedinour newspapers, it would be good
I f . - _ ai j j ii :_ A?~,.
ror ten tnousanu uouars in utree ua_ya umc.
But of course I must only use it as a private
letter.
Id order that you shall be sure of sumeI
thing at once, I write below this a draft,
'which some of your Unioo bankers or mer
l chants may be willing to cash at the usual
'premium for Kant exchange. Probably
j Gardner & Co., Evans & Co., Douglas &
I Co., of Nushville, will know it.
; The Government will soon exhibit a
! power which will astonish even you. The
.uullitiers have been playiug into Scott's
| hands for three weeks, and now they have
| lost the game. Yours, with regard,
AMOS A. LAWRENCE
If you cannot use the draft, return it
'and tell me what to send.
Boston, May 18, 1861.
At sight, without grace, pay to Aodrew
Johnson, or order, one thousand dollars,
for value received, and charge to my account.
AMOS a. LAWRENCE.
I To Mason, Lawrence & Co., Boston
| Across the face of the draft is the acccp!
inn.m nf Muson Ti'twrftriOft J fc Co.
The original of this letter is now in the
hands of Gov. Harris. Several previous
[letters have also been intercepted
Richmond Enquirer
Debts due an Alien Enemy.
When a war breaks our between two nations
which have Uad commercial ;nfercoui-o
with each other, their citizen- will
owu property iu these nations respectively.
Can the citizens of one nation, owuiDg prop
erty in the other nation, sell this property
to citizens of the other nation, and thus
escape loss or confiscation ? We suppose
that all over the Confederate States there
are transferences of stocks and bonds due
in the Confederate States by citizens of the
United States. In some cases, powers of
attorney to sell arc sent on to Southern
jagents to se'l and transfer property.
In our opiuion, all such sales and tr ??hi
f.,?a am fr-inrtiilpnf :> nrl Void. Bv the laWS
it..3 u.v. , I
of natious "very species of private contract
made, with subjects during war is unlawful.
The drawing and negotiation of Kills of
j Exchange between subjects of the powers
at war, and the remission of funds in money
or bills to the enemy's eon itry, are equally
;uulawful. Buying from an enemy, or sel|
ling to an enemy, is a contract, and unlaw
j ful. Any trading whatever, whether in
j goods, or stocks, or bonds, or notes, be
j t wet the citizens of belligerents, is forbH
den i y the iaws of n t; >ns. Tlv univei |
| sal sense of nations ha c acknowledged the
j demoralizing effects which would result
[from the admission of individual intercourse
[between the States at war The whole na
'f.:on is embarked in ooe common bottom,
I |. I
per; , ps struggling for its existence, and
[must be reconciled to one common fate.?
! Every individual of the ..it nation must
| aoknowledge every individual of the other
| nation as his own enemy, because he is the
enemy of his country. This being the duty
of the citizen, a hostile or disloyal character
is attached to trade or contracts with
the enemy of his country. So, also, the
presumption is, that everything which issues
from a hostile country is, prima facie,
the propeity of the enemy. As such, it
must stay to be amenable to confiscation or
appropriation, as the exigencies of the war
may require; and to attempt to change its
character as enemy's property, and thus to
avoid the legitimate coosequenoes of war
in its effect on the enemies of a country, is
fraudulent and illegal. It will, we suppose,
be difficult for the people of the Confederate
and of the United States to realise
at once that they are no longer citizens of
the same government; and still more difficult
that they are enemies. But war has its
duties as well as peace, and we should endeavor
to understand and practice them.
Charletton Mercury.
The Hampton Legion.
The following is a roll of the field officers
and companies of the Legion. Six companies
are now in camp near Columbia, and
the others have been ordered to come forward
; Wade Hampton, Colonel; B.J.
Johnson, Lieutenant-Colonel; J. B. Griffin,
Major; T. G. Barker, Adjutant; C. L.
Goodwin, Quartermaster; T. Beggs, Commissary.
Artillery?Washington Artillery, Charleston,
Capt. S. D. Lee.
I Cavalry.?Brooks Troop, Greenville,
Capt. J. F. Lanneau; Edgefield Hussars,
Edgefield, Capt. M. C. Butler; Beaufort
District Troop, Beaufort. Capt. T. 0. Scriven,
Jr.
Infantry.?Washington Light Infantry
Volunteers, Charleston, Capt. J. Conner;
Davis Guards, Greenville, Capt. W. M. L.
Austin; Gist Riflemen, Anderson, Capt. H.
J. Smith; Bozeman Guards, Greenville,
Capt. T. L. Bozoman ; Watson Guards,
Edgefield, Capt. M. W.Gary; Manning
Guards, Olarendnn, Capt. B. Manning.
There is one cavalry company to be supplied,
and it is likely Capt. J. H. Morgan's
company, from Edisto, will fill the vacancy.
Several other companies fully armed
and equipped arc anxious to be annexed,
but the Secretary of War declines to rccdvc
them. Wc are pleased to state that
Col Hampton's health is much improved,
H?itl he will iu a few days assume the command.
Capt W. R. Calhoun is here as the mustering
officer to receive the Legion into
Confederate service.?Carolinian.
Bold and Successful Scouting ?
The Virginia papers publish the following
account of the interesting interview between
Captain Wui. H. Werth, of the
Chatham Grays, of Pittsylvania county, and
a scouting party of the Hessians in the
neighborhood of Hampton on Friday last.
Captain Werth and another officer being
together, and unaccompanied, on a reconquering
expedition, some distance in advance
of the main body, separated at the
forks of the road, each going on bis own
hook. After Captain W. bad proceeded a
short distance, he found himself snddenly
in the presence of five of the enemy. Having
no idea of surrendering, he instantly
drew his revolver, and without parley each
party commenced firing, Captain W. killing
two of the party, the remainder retreated.
The mule ridden by one of the
! party, however, was killed by Captain W's
last shot, the rider having slipped off at the
instant and taken to the bushes. Captain
W. seems much chagrined that the bad
ground on which the rencounter occurred
prevented his bagging all Jive. When this
affair is reported for the Northern press it
will, of course, be stated that their scouts
were attacked by a whole troop of dragoons.
Captain W. was, in truth, alone until joined
immediately after the firing, by his companion,
from whom he had parted only a
few minutes before. The two men killed
iaresaidto be officers. Their arms were
! taken by Captain W. as fairly won spoils.
Our Southern Cause.?Rev. Dr. J.
N. Waddel, President of Lagrange College,
in a letter to "77<e True Witness" gives an
account of the Volunteer camp near Memphis,
and alludes to the number of ministers
of all denominations, who have given themselves
to the service of their country and
belong to "the church militant" in a new
sense He says:
"Now, is it possible that men who go
into this contest under the circumstances
w",icti surrounded fhese Southern troops,
can he conquered ? Never 1 never ! There
is no f:in.iticisui here. There is the deep,
-tern, fisect and settled purpose to go through
thi.-contest without a thought of abandoning
i* until the righteous ends we aim at
are obtained, or die iu the attempt. But
_ L ii .. . r :t
| vi* >nu;i !'JI I III vjruu is iui us, nuu wtu
can coatjuer us ? We bave made no aggression
upon any. We ask do favors. We
will do no man any wrong. But our rights
wo will have. The decree has gone forth
and 200,000 warrior spirits have sanctioned
it, by the unreserved dedication of their
[lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the enterprise
Negro Soldiers ?Baltimore, Jane 7.
?Among the 9th Regiment from Pennsylvania,
which passed through this city yesterday,
were a number of negro soldiers,
who, by their constant association with the
whites, had become most impertinent and
overbearing A9 the regiment was passing
along Cathedral street, near the Bolton deput,
a lady standiug upon the sidewalk was
so disgusted with the familiarity of the ne
tiroes among the men that she gave vent to
her indignation in a rather bitter remark,
when an impudent yellow scoundrel turned
toward her and applied the epithet of "Go
to h?II, you d?n white hussey." The
remark was distinctly heard by his comrades,
who instead of beating him to the
earth as wi wmld have done, laughed
heartily at 'tis impudence. The villian was
discovered by several citizens afterward,
and had it not been for the police he would
have been dragged out regardless of consequences.
The Montgomery Confederation
learns tnat the commissions which have
been given to lieutenants in the Confederate
army, under the age of twenty-one, are to
be revoked by the President