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I VOLUME 7. YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1861. NUMBER 41.
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Important from the West#
Nashville, October 2.?The Louisville
Journal, of the 30th ult., states that it has
received reliable news of the taking of Manchester,
Clay county, by Gen. Zollicoffer.
, The Journal reports a large number of ar- {
rests in different counties.
Memphis, October 3.?John E. Kytt,
of Helena, just arrived from Ohio, says
that about 8,000 Federals are at Louisville
' and toward the Confederate camps. Five
. hundred Confederates, under Wickliffe,
from Fayette and the adjoining counties,
have passed through the Federals and arrived
safely at Green River.
Buckner took Hopkinsville, dispersing '
the Federals, who fired first, killing one.?
He captured 600 arms and three cannon, '<
and has quiet occupation of Hopkinsville, j
and took the cavalry back to Bowling Green.
The Kentuckians are generally pleased
with the Confederate movements.
Johnston is preparing for winter quarters
in St. Louis and Louisville. The skies
are bright.
f Gen. Price's official report of the battle
L ? T ' i i mi . /? l
| ot jjexington n_s oeen received, xne ioi-i
lowiDg is the closiog paragraph : "Our,
l entire loss in this series of engagements amounts
to tweuty-five killed and seventytwo
wounded. The enemy's loss was much
greater. The visible fruits of this almost
bloodless victory are great. About thirty
five hundred prisoners were taken, among
whom were Cols. Mulligan, Marshall, Recing,
White and Grover, Major Van Dorn,
and one hundred and eighteen other com
missioned officers; five pieces of artillery 1
and two mortars and over three thousand 1
stands of infantry arms, a large number of
sabres, aboutseven hundred and fifty horses,
many cavalry equipments, teams, ammuni- i
tion, more than one hundred thousand dol- '
lars worth of commissary stores and a laige '
amount of other property. In addition to <
all this, we obtained the restoration of the
great seal of State and the public records, 1
which were stolen from the proper custody, <
and about nine hundred thousand dollars <
in money, which the bank in this place had i
been robbed of, and which I caused to be i
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returned."
Federal officers from Lexington say that
a few men of the Jackson Legislature assembled
in that town and ""passed an ordinance
of secession. When our informant
left, they were discussing an Act for the
confiscation of the property of persons opposed
to the Southern Confederacy.
Nashville, October 3.?Judge Mouroe,
late of Kentucky, appeared before
Judge Humphreys to day, and took the {
oath of allegiance to the Confederate States, j
James B. Clay was taken to Louisville i
on Saturday. A writ of habeas carpus in |
his case was issued, returnable before Judge
Catron on Monday. He was released on a
bond of $5,000 to do nothing against the
government.
Fremont was at Jefferson City on the
28th. It was uncertain when he would
leave; probably on the 1st or 2d.
1 A gentleman who arrived here from Jefferson
City on the 29th, says that Lane
burnt the central portion of Osceola on the
25th, for the reason that the rebels fired on
f - his troops from the windows.
^ Interesting from Europe.
By the steamship City of New York.
from Liverpool on the 11th, the Herald of
the ^)th has the London files of the 10th
The following, on the recognition of the
South, is from the London Host, (Government
organ :)
"Secession is now an accomplished fact;
for the Federal Government can no more
exercise authority in the seceding States
than it can affect to regulate the Government
of Canada or this country. In support
of a Union which does not survive, it
not only wages a costly and unsuccessful
war, but it destroys e\ ry vestige of that
freedom which once was the pride and tnej
boast of the Anglo Saxon race in America.
It is said that the Confederate States have
announced their intention to prohibit the
exportation of cotton so loDg as foreign
powers admit the validity of the Federal
blockade. They hope by this threat to eo^
erce England and France into the recognition
of their national independence and
sovereignty. Questions of blockade can only
be determined by the law and practice of
nations. No case has yet arisen, but when
it does arise, little doubt can be entertained
that every tribunal, except perhaps in
America, would determine the question according
to the treaty of Paris. The recognition
of ifo facto independence, as in the
case of Spanish American provinces,
Greece, and Belgium, rates upon an entirely
different basis, and when the proper
occasion arises, we have as little doubt that
it will be met and decided in strict confor,
~ mity with the modem public law of Europe.
But the Southern States have recently announced
that, with the exception of the ar|
tide relatiug to privateers, they will, with
regard to neutral goods, contraband of war,
and the validity of the blockade, scrupulously
adhere to the declaration of the Congress
of Paris.
^ "We regret that the Southern States
should, for a mistaken view of interest, ad
here to this barbarous relic of the middle
ages, privateering.) * * * I3Ut
whilst we see the South, in regard to at
least three great principles of maritime warfare,
acting in concert with the powers ot
Europe, we see that a reign of terror has
been inaugurated in the North. Not only
is the press silenced, but a system of espionage
has been established which has sent the
Mayor of Washington to Fort Lafayette,
and has actually subjected women to its
savage and arbitrary rule. The passport
system in its most odious form has been in
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auguraiea m me norm. xi
we desired to sum up, for the benefit of
Mr. Bright and his supporters, the practical
result of American democracy, that result
would be irresponsible military tyranny,
the suspension of the habeas corpus act, the
stifliog of the press, and the wholesale introduction
of a system of passports and
spies. In fact, more outrages have been
perpetrated upon individual liberty in the
Northern States than even King Bomba attempted
to commit at Naples. The proclamation
of martial law at New York, is not
only an evidenee of national rottenness and
decay, but shows how, in a moment of disaster
and dismay, a subservient and excited
population may surrender all the freedom
and liberty for which they have contended
during nearly a century.
Circular.
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To ttie Soldiers axu societies oj o.
In aDswer to the numerous inquiries
which have been made by the different
"Aid Societies," whioh havo been recently
formed throughout the State, I have been
instructed by His Excellency Gov. Pickens
to give the following information :
Depots will be established by the Quartermaster
General, both in Charleston and
Columbia, for the reception of all donations
of clothing; and he is also charged with
the duty of forwarding and distributing the
3ame.
The "Department" will receive all donations
of clothing, say frock coats and
pantaloons, of heavy worsted goods, shirts
and drawers, of heavy homespun or flannel,
wool, or heavy cotton socks, blankets, new
np spnnnd hand ; also heaw shoes.
The plan upon which the State designs
supplyiug her soldiers with all the necessary
clothing, is based upon their willingness
to surrender to the State the amount of
rnouey appropriated by the Confederate
Government for this purpose?say forty-two
(?42) dollars per annum?this sum not now
being sufficient in consequence of the greatly
advanced cost of the material. It is in
view of this fact that these laudable "Associations"
of ladies and gentlemen are cordially
welcomed as coadjutors in this noble
work, and in proportion to their voluntary
contributions of labor and materials, will
the absolute cost of clothing for our gallant
volunteers be reduced.
In the event that any of the "Associations"
should not feel themselves able to
furnish both material and labor, the Quartermaster
General is instructed by his Ex-!
cellency the Governor, to re-imburse such
Associations the cost of all material, at a
rate not exceeding similar materials pur-j
chased by the "Department;" and the
quantity allowed for each garment shall be
the same as used in our manufacturing bu
icau.
Societies are particularly requested to advise
the Quartermaster General of the quantity
of work they can do per week, and the
amount of donations they will probably
send.
To prevent confusion and loss, the following
method for marking packages should
be strictly observed. All societies near
Charleston should ship to Charleston and
mark thus:
No. 1 To Quartermaster Gen.,
Charleston, S. C.
From Aid Society at (here insert place )
Societies near Columbia should ship and
mark thus:
No. 1. To Ass't. Quartermaster,
Columbia, S. C.
From Aid Society (here insert name.)
The packagas should be marked distinctly,
and numbered from one (1) upwards.
A correct invoice should accompany each
shipment.
All articles shipped at the expense of the
State. S. S. Glover, Q. M. G. S. C.
Office Assistant Quartermaster,
State of South Carolina,
Columbia, Ootober, 5, 1861.
The office of the Assistant Quartermaster
is now open on Main street, three doors below
Hunt's Hotel. Clothing will be received
and distributed according to the
above order and under the direction of his
Excellency the Governor.
Ladies and gentlemen desiring information
will please apply at this office.
J. H. AVERILL,
Assistant Quartermaster.
Southern Industries and Southern
Railways.?The Washington correspondent
of the New York Express says :
It is a fact not generally known in tlie
Vnrth thnt frmr.fifths nf the nnorer class of
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white3 at the South arc clothed in homespun,
either linen, cotton or woolen, or linsey
woolsey?as their forefathers were in
the revolution. John Randolph used frequently
to wear it; so did another excentric
person?Shocco Jones, of North Carolina.
It is spun and woven by the negroes
and "plain" white women all over the
Southern States. The manufacture of this
style of goods has obtained a great increase
since the opening of the war. As stated
recently in this correspondence, it is highly
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proDaDle tDat peace win una mu oouiu mi
more advanced in certain kinds of industry
than at any previous period of her history.
The Southern railways, having no freight
to transport for merchants or planters, are
used almost exclusively for the transportation
of troops, provisions and munitions of
war Being of a uniform gauge, the cars
and locomotives of one company can be
employed by all the others. Between Montgomery
and Manassas there is only one
; break, and that is at Petersburg. From
New Orleans to Manassas there is no reshipment
necessary. Between Boston and
Washington, on the other hand, three
breaks occur in the line, without counting
the crossing the Susquehanna. The new
Southern railways are of the first class, and
i several cr the old works have been relaid
i with heavy ivun. Distinguished engineers
; like Latrobe, McNeil, Child, Croset, Ellet,
Mabone, Garnet and Pritchard, have been
' engaged for a quarter of a century in the
construction of these works, with the aid
of the most successful Northern contractors.
Look on the Bright Side.
Look on the bright side of things. It
j is the right side. The times may be hard,
| but it will make them no easier by wearling
a gloomy and sad countenance. It is
' j the sunshine and not cloud that makes the
flower. Full one half our ills arc so only
' in imagination. There is always that be
i tore or around us wmcn snouia enecr una
j fill the heart with warmth.
The sky is blue ten times where it is black
once You have troubles, it may be. So
do others. None are free from them. Per
haps it is as well that none should be. Tbey
give sinew and tone to life : fortitude and
I courage to the man. That would be dull
sea, and the sailor would never get skill,!
where there was nothing to disturb the surface
of the ocean.
It is the duty of every one to extract all
the happiness and enjoyment he can without
and within him; and above all he
should look ou the bright side of things.?
What though things do look a little dark.
The lane will turn; and the night end in
broad day. In the long run, and very often
in the short, the great balance of life
rights itself.
What is ill becomes well; what is wrong
right. Men were not made to hang dowu
either their heads or their lips, and those,
who do only show that they are departing
from the path of true common sense and
right. There is more virtue in one suni
beam than a whole hemisphere of cloud and
I gloom. Therefore, we repeat, look on the
| bright side of things. Cultivate what is
; warm and genial; not the cold, repulsive,
UcUHj LUUIU3U.
Sending Cotton to tho Ports.
Governor Moore, of Louisiana, has issusued
the following proclamation, by which
it will be seen that he has forbidden the
bringing to the city of a bale of cotton.?
jGen. Twiggs, commander of the Confederate
forces in that department, has given
j notice that he will co operate with the
j Governor in enforcing compiiance with the
prohibition mentioned:
"Concurring entirely in the views exj
pressed by the cotton factors of New Or'
leans, in the annexed communication, I
have determined to take the most deciied
means to prevent the landing of any cotton
in this city. Notice is, therefore, hereby
given to all masters and owners of steamboats
and other water-craft, that from and
after ik< 10ih day of October, instant, no
cotton must be brought to New Orleans, or
within the lines embracing that section of
the country between the fortifications above
Carrolton and those below the city, and
extending back to the lake. All steaiu;
boats or other water-craft arriving within
tho r>roof?riKf>d limits will ho forthwith
placed in charge of an armed force and escorted
above the poiuts indicated. This
course will be adopted in all case9, whether
the quantity of cotton brought be large or
Ismail.
' The railroad companies have ulready
| issued orders in furtherance of the object
of this proclamation, and no violation of
jthem will be permitted.
THOS. O. MOORE, Governor."
The Post Office Department.?We
j have information that the Department has
| sent a special agent over the great Southern
route, for the purpose of putting into
I immediate operation the schedule of arrivals
and departures, whereby the Southern
mail will arrive in Richmond at 5 45 p. m.
' The fact that the city post office is now kept
open until nine o'clock, will enable the
clerks to open and deliver the mails on the
night of their arrival, and correspondents
i will thus secure an opportunity of answer
| ing their letters by the next morning's mail.
The Department is limited by act of Congress
to one trip each way per day. The
new schedule will insure the prompt receipt
of two mails at Charleston, Savannah, and
other points South.
We may add that the Department has
been investigating the causes of the failure
of the mails to reach these points with regularity,
and has learned that a portion of it
j was occasioned by the unauthorised iustituition
of a schedule by the Wilmington and
j Weldon Railroad, which differed from that
'adopted by the Department; and, secondly,
i by the carelessness of certain route agents,
who were yesterday removed.?Richmond
Dispatch.
Testing of a Columbiad and Submarine
Battery at New Orleans?
iThe New Orleans Picayune, of the 24tb
I ultimo, says:
There was a large crowd assembled yesj
terday afternoon, at the Lake end of the
; Pontchnrlrain Railroad, to witness the test'ingof
an 8-inch Columbiad, weighing a,
bout 12,000 pounds. This gun was cast at
i the iron works of Messrs. Bennett & LurIgcs,
corner of Magnolia and Krato streets.
! It was cast solid, and afterwards placed in
a lathe, turned by steam, the bit, or instrument
with which it was bored, being stationary.
It vas cast under the supervision
of Mr. D'.t.i.! Brasill, the foreman of
Messrs. Bennett & Lurges, according to
the approved pattern, and is prououuced
O'io > t the tinest pieces of ordnance
that has yet. been rurned out in the South.
Tlio rii.iM .ki'tMinii'd in horinj? this pun was
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two weeks.
It was tested under the direction of Lieut. I
Beverly Kennon, of the Confederate States
Navy, and Chief of the Naval Ordnance
Department, with eighty-four pound shell,!
under the general rules for testing cannon, I
and it was estimated the shell was thrown!
to a distance of two miles, without strain-!
ing the gun. Lieut. Konnon expressed |
i himself highly satisfied with the results, j
and pronounced tho gun one of the most
perfect and highly finished that he had ever
seen tested.
A sub-marine battery, invented by a gentleman
of this city, was also tested. A large
shell was sunk under a skiff, with a wire
leading to the shore, and on applying the
battery it exploded some sixty feet in the
air, shattering the skiff to atoms. It was
pronounced a perfect sncoess, and will prove
of great usefulness should Lincoln's fleet
attempt to ascend the Mississippi.
City Council Proceedings.?At a
meeting of City Council, held last evening,
the subject of reduction in the salaries of
city employees, proposed at a recent meeting,
was up for consideration, and af",r
some alterations became a law.
The salary of the Mayor has been reduced
from 84,000 per annum to 82,500.
That of the Chief of Police from 82,000 to
81,200, (the Chief of Police is furnished
with a house, rent free.) The First Lieutenant's
salary is reduced from 81,200 to
81,000; and the Second and Third Lieutenants
from 81,100 to 8800. They pay of
the Sergeants, except the Orderly, and the
pay of the privates remain unchanged.?
The salaries of the Clerk of Council, Messenger,
Superintendent of Fire Alarm Telegraph,
City Reporter, Port Physician, &c.,
| have also been proportionally reduced.
Charleston Alercvry, 2d.
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Marylanders Preparing.?We find
the following in the Richmond Enquirer
of the 4th instant:
The Marylanders resident in Richmond,
anticipating the early advance of the patriot
army into that down-trodden State,
are energetically preparing to take part in,
and, if allowable, to lead the advance of
that earnestly desired movement. As the
first step toward that end, they will hold at
noon to-day, we understand, a meeting, the
object of which is to devise some plan of
organization, and probably to select leaders,
&c. The organization, if effected, will be
a purely volunteer one, and will comprise
many gentlemen of substance and extensive
business pursuits, who are, nevertheless,
both willing and anxious to hazard
life itself for the proud joy of treading their
native soil as victors in a conflict for its
freedom. They are just the class of men
to be most feared by those who oppose them
in a war of principles.
Fremont's Troubles.
In the Nashv'lle Virion of Friday we
find the follov. .Dg characteristic letter,
which shows that he was in a peck of
trouble before his recall. It is written to a
friend in New York, and published in a
Cincinnati paper :
St. Louis, Sept. 26, 1861.?My dear
Sir : I leave at eight in the morning, and
send you this hurried note in the midst of
the last arrangements before staiting. We
have to contend with an enemy having no
posts to garrison, no lines of transportation
to defend or guard, whose whole force can
be turned at will to any one point, while
we have from Leavenworth to Cairo, and
from Fort Scott to Paducah, to keep protected.
I wish to say to you, that though the position
is difficult, I am competent to it and
to the enemy in the field. I am not able
at the same time to attend to the enemy at
home. It is a shame to the country that
an officer going into the field, his life in his
hand, solely actuated by the desire to serve
his country and win for himself its good
opinions, with no other object, should be
destroyed by a system of concerted attacks
utterly without foundation. Charges are
ppokeu of when there are no charges; explanations
where there are none to be made.
What is the object of the repetition of
of these falsehoods, except to familiarize
the public mind to the idea that something
is wrong ?
Already our credit, which was good, is
shaken in consequence of the newspaper intimations
of my being removed.
Money is now demanded by those furnishing
supplies. To defend himself now
would require the time that is necessary to
and belongs to my duty against the enemy.
If permitted by the country, this state of
things will not fail to bring on disasters.
"Rt%f T nrs\nM Kqtjo h?**m Atitanlrprf in
iuy capacity as an individual
I am an exponent of a part of the force
of the nation directed against the enemy of
the country. Everything that is directed
against me is directed against it, and gives
its enemy aid and comfort. My private
character comes in only incidently?I defeud
it because naturally his reputation is
dear to any man, but only incidentally.
This is the foundation of many of my
acts, and will be if I stay here. Everything
that hurts, impedes or embarrasses the
work intrusted tome, Tstrike without hesitation.
I take the consequences. The
worst that can happen to me is relief Irom
great labor. Yours truly,
J. 0. Fremont.
No Money for Mr. Lincoln.
Mr. Belmont, who went on a borrowing
mission abroad for Mr. Lincoln, has returned
empty-handed and disconsolate.?
The battle of Manassas Plains has exerted
a potential influence in money circles
in Europe. The London journals contain
significant sentences like the following,
employed by the Saturday Reviews :
" We need scarcely say the attempt to
introduce the proposed federal loan into
the London market has proved a failure.
Mr. A. Belmont, the New York agent of
the firm of Rothschilds, has finally taken
l.Io Jnm.him /.nnwinpnrt nf thp hnnfilpSS
ess of persuading the English publ'o to
lend themselves to the speculation. It is
universally felt in this country that if the
Northerners mean to conquer in this unhappy
strife, they must conquer by their own
energies, and their own money. The Federal
Government can (jive no adequate seI
cur itj ; and the Eoglish public are well
aware that neither Messrs. Rothschilds nor
any other 6rm, however eminent, can or
will give security for the payment, punctual
or unpunctual, of the interest."
The Next Great Battle.?The next
| great battle between the armies on the Potomac
is not lightly estimated by the Northern
press. The New York Herald says of
it:
A terrible battle is at hand between the
400,000 troops on the banks of the Potomac,
in the vicinity of Washington?200,000
on either side?a battle which will be
greater than that of Waterloo, and it will
probably be decisivo against the party
which lo9e8 it. The mighty results depending
on it involve the destiny of the
people of this continent, and perhaps of
modern civilization. If there should be a
partial defeat of the Federal army, let the
Abolition leaders who instigated the war?
Phillips, Garrison, Greeley, Beecher,
Cheever, Tappan, Jay and their associates
?look out for another country, as this
will be too hot to hold them. If there should
be a total defeat of the Federal army, together
with the capture of Washington,
let the anti-slavery demagogues who, for
the last thirty years have been stirring up
the embers of strife which resulted in the
Southern revolt, look out as fast as they
can for some asylum beyond the limits of
the American continent, for this is the on
ly way in which they can consult the safety
of their imperilled necks.
Jenkins' Begiment.
We copy the following paragraphs from
a correspondent's letter to the Columbia
Guardian :
Flint Hill, Sept. 23, 1861.
We are once more back at our old home,
as we call it, near Fairfax. And really it
appears to me like home, after our trip to
the vicinity of old Abe's dominions, bristling
with cannon from every frowning rampart
and hill.
We designed when we left our camps to
be gone only four days, but eight had trans
pired before our cosy tents were in view again.
Why we were so loog delayed T nru
not informed. The duty assigned us was
to support the pickets and scouts until relieved
in turn by Col. Jenkins' regiment
This is the best equipped regiment from
South Carolina in the Army of the Potomac.
They are armed with Enfield rifles
and Minnie muskets, and know well how to
use them with effect upon the enemy.
It would seem, too, from a joke cracked
at their expense by some of the civilians
around Falls Church, that the gastronomic
energies of the regiment are in direct ratio
with its fighting qualities. They assert
that if the Confederate generals wish to
take Arlington Heights, they have only to
inform Jenkins' regiment that there is a
field of roasting-ears on their summit, or
just beyond, and somebody will be hurt up
there in a little while.
For two days, in sight of the same poiot,
after our regular ratious had given out, we
subsisted on roasting ears and potatoes.?
Our men seemed ravenous; a cob of corn
was at their mouths the last thing at night,
and the first thing in the morning. The
devastation that an army can make in such
a crop is perfectly awful, but no man of
proper feeling in the regiment foraged on
any but the plantations of those who had
deserted to the enemy.
tQr The Richmond papers say that the
Federals have commenced the business of
negro-stealing in good earnest, and for the
purpose of speculation, unless prevented
through fear of some law. A negro man
escaped from them a day or two ago, and
says that he heard that it was the intention
of the Yankees to collect as many blacks
as possible, send them privately to Cuba,
and sell them for what they would bring.
There are schooners and sloops enough, with
practical commanders, to engage in this
contraband trade, on account of the very
large commissions they would receive.?
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Alany ol tne negroes now in me enemy s
hands are eudeavoring to escape. Night
before last, a inau by the name of Dolan,
living near Falls' Church seeing he was in
danger of being within the Yankee lines,
determined to remove his negroes to Fairfax.
Preparations were made to remove
in the morning, but when morning came
the Yankees were upon him, and he barely
escaped, leaving his property behind him.
The Stolen Treasury Notes.?The
New Orleans Crescent has been favored
with a copy of the following letter from the
Secretary of the Treasury, written in reply
to one suggesting a different form of engraving
and paper in the Confederate Treasury
notes :
C. S. Treasury Department, 1
Richmond, Sept. 6, 1861. j
Sir :?Your letter of the 2d instant is
just received. Accept my thanks for the
kindly and patriotic spirit which it evinces.
T am fullv impressed with the difficulties of
_ ?J k
which you speak. We have until to-day
been unable to procure bank note paper,
and in order to get the best work we sent
as far as your city to have it done. The
unfortunate counterfeits referred to in the
slips which you enclose were caused by the
carelessness of the New Orleans engraver.
Ho remitted the sheets by express in paper
covers, which chafed through, and one of
the express agents stole from it some of the
sheets, which he signed with fictitious
names and put in circulation. I have succeeded
in arresting all the parties engaged,
and they are now in jail here awaiting trial.
I Lave also, I hope, all the stolen impressions,
with the counterfeits. They are all
fives and tens. None of the fives are yet
in circulation, and if, upon careful counting,
I find that all the impressions are not
recovered, I will suppress the issue, so that
the l.'-inks need be under no apprehension.
In the course of this week I hope to put
out a plate with two colors, and hope soon
to have a better issue In the meantime,
the necessities of the country require that
you should submit to the present difficulties
Be pleased to make known these part.n
ntlipr KnnVs
With much respect,
Your obedient servant,
C. G. MEMMINGER,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Withholding the Cotton.
The Mercury of Tuesday says:
"It is now settled by the patriotism of
our shippers, and by the will of the people
of Charleston, that no cotton will be shippers,
and by tbe will of the people of
Charleston, that no cotton will be shipped
from this port to foreign nations. The
embargo which Congress has failed to put
upon the exportation of cotton, the people
of S. Carolina have imposed on themselves.
~ < .1 1_ ?e a?I
i5ut it win Dein vain ior me peupiu ui ouuw
Carolina to practice this act of self-sacrifice
and patriotism, unless it is supported
by the people of the other States in our
seaport towns. If cotton is exported from
Savannah, Mobile or New Orleans, the
policy fails. Foreign nations, by obtaining
partial supplies of cotton, through a
blockade sufficient for the purpose, will
hope for more, and thus be induced to
withhold that decisive action, which should
be enforced, to rid themselves and us of a
blockade which no nations should respect
on account of its illegality, according to
the law of nations. Will the patriotism
of the planter and the merchant join together
in these cities as they have done in
Charleston, and withhold our cotton from
the markets of the world ? Our cause and
destiny is one. Let us have also one policy,
and satisfy foreign nations by our free and
resolute control of our property, that we
cannot be used for their purposes, against
their rights and ours; and to obtain our
agricultural productions they must be true
to their own rights and honor. We wish
free and open trade with them, but a furtive
trade, by the permission or neglect of
our enemies, we reject and spurn."
Reign of Terror in New York.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Register, of the
28th nit., has the following:
A Southern gentlemen who has recently
escaped from New York, reports that Seward,
on a recent visit to that city, informed
the bankers and other capitalists that
they mnst subscribe either their money or
fKflll* nl Anrl t/\ flirt Qnnn.nmnMt 1n iU.k I
UJUUU tw VIJC uuvciuuicub iuau?tiiat
there was no use in mincing matters?that
the simple question, was whether the Government
shall get money without blood,
or get it at the expense of blood. The
baboon despotism is fast culminating to
the height of the highest atrocities of the
Frenr j involution. Bastiles are dotted in
the N.T'h "lettres de cotchet" are in vogue,
a system of espionage which Fouche might
have envied, is in operation, the habeas
corpus is suspended, and soon, no doubt,
"the Maiden's Daughter," (or guillotine,)
will raise and lower ber bloody hands on
prostrate necks And all this goes on in a
country professing not oDlyto claim liberty
for itself, but also the emancipation of the
slaves of the South !
News from Arkansas.
The Fort Smith Times <? Herald, of the
18th ult., says :
Col. flindman is raising a legion of picked
men to serve under C-en. McCulloch.?
Gen. Pearce, under whom the State troops
woo so much glory, is raising a regiment
for the same service. Colonel Frank Rector,
another hero of Oak Hills, is raising
also a regiment. Captains Carrol, Humphreys,
Lewis, Kayser, Head, Griffith, Dotson,
all of the Oak Hills army, are actively
engaged raising infantry companies among
their late comrades in arms
Lieutenant-Colonel Province is raising
a fine artillery company. Captain Maddox,
of Texas, is now encamped near here, filled
up his cavalry company under the special
direction of General McCulloch.
Companies are also rapidly filling up in
Madison and Washington counties.
The Jaybawkers, under Lane and Montgomery,
were becoming very troublesome,
and General McCulloch was preparing to
march against them.
Col. James Mcintosh, an experienced
and educated soldier, has been appointed a
Brigadier-General, to serve under General
McCulloch.
Troops from Texas and Louisiana were
also hastening forward to join McCulloch.
Reports bad reached Fort Smith that
S5,000 U. S. troops wereatRolla, Missouri.
Resignation of Prof. Stevens.
The Charleston papers announce the
resignation of Prof P. F. Stevens, of the
State Military Academy. He graduated
in 1849, and has been ever since connected
with the institution as Professor or Superintendent,
and leaves to enter upon the
duties of the Ministry in the Episcopal
Church.
Prof. Stevens commanded the Citadel
Cadets when they fired on the Star of the
West, and has the honor of having directed
the first guns which inaugurated the
war.
He had discharged his duties with signal
ability, and leaves his post with the
best wishes of the community.
Capt. J. B. White, the Senior Captain,
succeeds him in charge of the Citadel Academy,
and Capt. J. P. Thomas take his
place as Superintendent of the Arsenal Academy.
Important Movement.?His Excellency
Governor Moore issued an order yesterday
to seize all the pork in the city held
by speculators, who had advanced it we
learn, to the enormous price of fifty dollars
per barrel. We feel assured that the
Governor will be unanimously supported by
our citizens in this movement. We see no
good reason why merchants should take advantage
of the scarcity of provisions in time
of war to speculat-. upon our Government,
any more than that our gallant volunteers .
should demand higher pay for their services.
These speculators are the last men i
in our community to come forward in aid .
of the Government and in support of the ,
holy cause for which otLer citizens are sac- ,
rificing their all. It is certain that such ,
acts do not show a great amount of patriot- J
ism.?N". 0. Picayune.
BSF Gen. Fremont's proclamation occupies
largely the attention of the jNorihern '
press. The N. Y. Express states that
"President Lincoln in his anti-Fremont '
Proclamation letter" has virtually killed I
the proclamation. It represents that Dr. i
Abe is beginning to comprehend "the negro I
part of the crisis" and sees, what was long
before predicted, that the adoption of prin- <
ciples like those set forth in Fremont's bid '
for the Presidency are sure to cost his Gov- <
eminent more than thev come to. The Ex- 1
press thinks that ten thousand lives and 1
8100,000,000 will hardly pay the damage i
of Gen. Fremont's manifesto. Its effects <
upon "loyal men" in Missouri and Ken- i
tucky are said to be disastrous, while the i
Rebels are emboldened and stimulated to
greater energy by it.
BSyThe federals are arresting men and
women at Wheeling of secession proclivities.
Growling.
We regret to find in the Richmond Whig
n violent attack on President Davis and the
administration, accusing him of incompetency
and mismanagement j and we also regret
to find this groundless sssault copied
into the Charleston Mercury. The
writer is, no doubt, some disappointed individual,
whose liver is greatly disordered
by gormandizing or copious draghts of mean
whisky The charges in the communication
are untrue, and are calculated to give
aid to the enemy and impress him with the
false helief that the neonle of the South are
r--r
divided It is 9trange that respectable
Southern papers, like the Whig and Mercury,
should publish such a batch of spleen
and malice against men who are doing all
they can for the success of the Southern
cause. The main cause of complaint seems
to be that Davis did not make Beauregard
push on to Washington immediately after
the battle of Manassas. The writer puts
his judgment against that of experienced
warriors. He ought to be made to enlist,
and then probably he would not be so anxious
to move on Washington. ? Charlotte
(W. C.) Democrat.
Your District Paper.
The following from a city paper is so
much to the point that we commend it to
our readers:
"We occasionally receive letters in which
the writer expresses the determination to
stop their district or village paper, and take
our publication instead. We think a man
ought to support his own paper first, and
then if he can afford to take a paper from
a distance, let him do so, and we will be
happy to furnish him with ours. The country
press is, in our opinion, the most important
in its effect on the enlightenment
of the nation. It conveys in ten thousand
rills, intelligence to every home in the country
The country press ought to receive a
cordial support. Every place should try to
have its paper of such a character, that
people could justly be proud of it. To this
end, let them pay promptly, advertise liberftlltt
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difficulty, stand by the editor as they can
conscientiously.
Affairs at Hatteras.?Wc learn
from our exchanges that the Yankees at
Hatteras have cut a canal across the point
on which the fort is erected, and above the
latter, to assist in keeping away the Confederate
troops. The water flows very
rapidly through this dyke, which is thereby
deepening and widening, and it is probable
the small island on which the fortification
is built will be entirely swept away by the
storms which are common at that locality,
especially in the winter. The fortifications
of Roanoke Island, twenty-five miles distant
from Hatteras, are progressing rapidly,
and vigorous and judioious measures are in
progress to prevent any further intrusion
by the federal vandals upon the soil of the
old North State.
Fort Smith, September 26.?A regiment
of Missourians, under Col. Hunter,
has been defeated by the Kansas ruffians,
under Lane and Montgomery, backed by
Federal troops.
Lane and Montgomery are burning towns,
robbing and committing the most atrocious
crimes.
They are marching upon the Arkansas
frontier. McCulloch has only about thirtyfive
hundred men.
A proclamation of General McCulloch,
dated Headquarters, Camp Jackson, September
25, says :
Kansas Lane and Montgomery have defeated
a Missouri regiment under Colonel
Hunter, and have burned Osceola.
I need three regiments of infantry immediately.
1 will accept them for twelve
months.
Let all those who have arms bring them,
as the arms turned over by the State may
fall into the hands of those nearest to them.
Let those who wish to serve their State rally
to her defence at once.
BEN. McCULLOCH,
Brigadier-General Commanding.
Arkansas Items.?An express arrived
yesterday from Col. Stand Watie, bringing
news of a battle between a company of
Cherokees, of Col. Watie's Regiment, and
a number of Kansas Jayhawkers, in which
the Cherokees killed twenty-six, and three
killed of the Cherokees, one of whom was
Capt. James Bell, younger brother of the
late well known Jack Bell.
A company of Cherokees start to-day
from the opposite side of the river. The
Jayhawkers will have a warm time now.
The Cherokees will furnish three regiments
from the Nation.
The Creeks wiil furnish two regiments,
and the Seminoles one batallion. They
will soon be after the Jayhawkers.?Fort
Smith Times, 30th:
Tennessee.?The Memphis Avahnche
has "abundant evidence of a diabolical and
deep-laid plot between the dominant party
in the Legislature of Kentnoky and the
Lincoln Government to excite civil war in
Tennessee, and lay waste her territory with
Sre and aword. The leaders of that party
are actuated by the most deadly hatred towards
the South, such as only traitors and
renegades can feel. They are ready to do
the bidding of the tyrant to kindle the
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Barnes of servile insurrection in toe ooum,
and involve her in wide spread and irreparable
ruin."
Failure of tiie crops in Ireland.?
The Metropolitan Record, of New York,
has dismal news from Ireland in regard to
the harvest: "In some localities, we are
told, the products of whole farms will, it is
?aid, bo entirely bst, while the potato disease
has re-appeared in several counties
with all its former virulence. Large tracts
jf lands have been completely covered with
water, in some instances great quantities of
fcnrf have been destroved. and serious fear
ire entertained of another famine, only less
disastrous to human life than that which
3hocked the world twelve or fourteen years
ago." \
$6?* Mr. T. J. Hart, of Columbus, Ga.,
has invented a peg-making machine, which
can suppl j the demand of the whole Southern
Confederacy. He will make them at
31 to 81.50 per bushel.
Memphis,
October 4.?Hardee and his
troops are at Columbus. Jeff. Thomson's s
force is at New Madrid, Mo., bound to St.
Louis, conjoining with Price and McCulloch.
General Clark is moving hence in
the same direction, with twenty cannorf.?
Fremont is endangered. Eight thousand
men will move Paducah-ward from Columbus.
The Eentuckians are redeeming Kentucky
and predict that the Southern winter quarters
will be St. Louis, Louisville, Washinginffton
and Baltimore.
o
South Carolina College.-?For the s
information of persons who have made special
inquiry upon the subject, and for the public
satisfaction generally, we have been requested
to state that the exercises of the
South Carolina College will be resumed
next Monday, the 7th inst.?that several of
the professors and some of the students are
already here, and that the president and
other members of the College faculty are
expected at an early day.?Guardian.
New York, September 30.?The steamer
Persia and Saxonia have arrived, with
over 8200,000 in specie.
The Persia passed the steamer Great Eastern
on the 16th (two days out from Liver- 1
pool) in a damaged condition, putting back.
The nature of the damage sustained by the
monster steamer seems to have been very
severe: "Both side wheels gone, all her
boats but one carried away, bulwarks stove
in and rudder damaged, and rolling heavily."
J5QP The New York Herald, in a slapdash
editorial on the 19th ultimo, says: "If
the English government and English cotton
manufacturers and stock operators will only
keep perfectly quiet, we will undertake, in
two momns irom tne present time, tnat oar
[Federal] army, with the military movements
now in operation, will penetrate to *
the very centre of the cotton States, and
supply them with all the cotton they want,
say 4,000,000 bales, value two hundred
millions of dollars."
Call for 30,000 Te.vnesseans.?The
Government of the, Confederate States,
through Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson, has
called upon the Governor of Tennessee for
the additional force of 30,000 troops for
immediate active service. The Governor
has accordingly issued a proclamation, in
which it is stated that "Volunteers for the
war are .greatly preferred, but will be accepted
for the term of twelve months."
snubbed.?ine iNortnern papers state
that England, France, and even Russia,
have scornfully rejected Seward's proposition
to make privateering piracy, which the
United States Government had refused to
do till it found that the Confederate Government
was about to engage in the business,
and their own ox was about to be
gored.
Election of Governor of Georgia.
?The Georgia papers generally concede
that Hon. Joseph E. Brown has been elected
Governor, by a handsome majority,
over Judge E. Nisbet. Thus ends the
most sharply contested State canvass that
has taken place since the formation of the
Confederate Government.
North Carolina Expenditures.?
According to the official report of the Military
Secretary of the Governor of North
Carolina, that State has expended for the
purchase of arms, pay of troops, coast deT
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ICUCCOy ULU.j 11UIU LUC 10w ui u auuuij laai iu
the 20th of September, 1861, the sum of 3
of $2,044,522,96. |
Easily Pleased.?Some grown up people
are very easily satisfied, "Pleased with
a rattle, tickled with a straw." A western
editor expressed his delight at having nearly
been called "honey" by the gal he loves,
because she saluted him as "Old Beeswax,"
at their last meeting.
Patriotic Discounting.?The Edgefield
Advertiser says the Bank of Hamburg
will lend money for purchasing hogs from
Kentucky and Tennesseee. This will be |
a great accommodation to all who can get
salt to save their bacon, and to who do not
rear their own hogs, as very many Carolinians
should and could do.
Lynchburg, October 4.?Hon. J. C.
Breckinridge and other Kentuokians were
at Abiogdon, yesterday. It is understood
that Mr. Breckinridge will resign his seat
in the United States Senate, issue an address
to the people of Kentucky, and actively
engage in the war. It is believed
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com ue win ue iu muuuiuuu iu a icn uoj<a. ygs
Vessels at Cuba.?A letter published ||
in the New Orleans Delta, dated Havana, H
September 18, states that at the date of ||f
the letter, there were in the different ports i|
of Cuba over twenty-five vessels from the H
Confederate ports, which have not seen a ||
blockading vessel of the enemy. s||
The defensive works at Mobile are ifi
going on rapidly. The people have respon- H
ded liberally to the call for a thousand ne- fa
groes to carry on the works, by either sup- ||j
plying the hands or commutation money s||
for the labor. People in Mississippi have B
also sent three hundred hands to assist. f||
A Good Use.?The first trip over the ??|
Macon and Warrenton Railroad, (designed ||j
ultimately to connect Macon and Sparta, |j|
Georgia,) was made on the 13th September, fig
over the iron which was used in "Stevens' j||
Battery," on Morris' Island, in the invest- ?||
meat of Fort Sumter. H
fifc^Secretary Memminger, of the Treas- j||
in TJipfno Ap fKo A f*? nf fVlA Dnfl- fS58
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gress, has ordered the establishmeDt of re|
ports of entry and delivery at Nashville and
Memphis, Tennessee, for goods, wares and H
merchandize imported or exported. |1
Boston, September 30.?The bark ?1
Mary E. Porter, at Gloucester, from Deme- ||g
rara, on the 4th instant, report that the jagl
privateer Sumter was supplied with coal 1?
at Surinam, by an English planter named
Wright, and she sailed Southward on the H
1st instant.
Bit the Dust at Last.?Among the ii
killed by the Little Platte Bridge-disaster |||
was Barclay Coppie, of John Brown raid |||
notoriety, together with five or six men agP
with him,' eii route to join Montgomery's ||S
Kansas Kegiment. |j|