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[ Gens. Beauregard and Johnston.
The following sketch of our generals now
commanding the army of the Potomac, appears
in the Opinione National*, of Paris,
the home organ of Prince Napoleon, and is
attributed to the pen of the Prince :
* Gen. Beauregard.?I have told you
of the generals commanding the Northern
army. The details which I send would be
incomplete, were I not to speak also of those
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who command tne ooutneru army, ureus.
Beauregard and Johnston.
Gen. Beauregard is of Frenoh origin,
that is to say, his family emigrated from
France to Canada about a hundred and fifty
years since. His father left the English
colony to become a citizen of the United
States, and settled in New Orleans. He
there changed his religion, abjuring Protestantism
and embracing Catholicity, which
is the religion of the general and his family.
A pupil of West Point. Beauregard
was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regular
army when the war broke out. He had
1 been appointed superintendent of the West
Point Academy.
The Government of his State, Louisiana,
k recalled him, made him leave the Federal
army, and President Jefferson Davis imme
, diately conferred upon him the rank of gen>
oral, and the command of the troops at
Charleston, South Carolina. We know
that the command gave him the opportunity
of firing the cannon shot which rent the
flag of the thirty-four stars. He bombarded
aud took Fort Sumter?a success which
achieved him an immense popularity.?
When the secession army formed to march
on Washington, Beauregard was invested
with the grade of general of division?
major general.
Beauregard is forty years of age. He is
small, brown, thin, extremely vigorous, although
his features wear a dried expression,
and his hair has whitened prematurely.?
Face, physiognomy, tongue, accent?everything
about him is Freneh. llis bravery
| is great and undeniable, and everything
denotes in him, if not a superior general
intelligence, at least a remarkable military
aptitude. He is quick, a little abrupt, and,
| although well educated and distinguished
in his manners, be must sometimes offend,
less by what he says than by his manner of
saying it. Perhaps he does not repress with
sufficient care the manifestations of an ardent
personality, which knows its worth,
anu to which an immense military success
may have given a legitimate self-confidence.
He is extremelv imnassioned in the defence
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of the cause which he serves ; at least he
takes less care to conceal his passion under
a calm and cold exterior than do most of his
comrades in either army. To sum up all,
the South has found in bim a man of an
uncommon ardor, a ceaseless activity and
indomitable power of will, characters by
which we recognize the men destined to win
battles and lead parties.
Gen. Johnston.?Gen. Johnston, of
West Point, is a little older than Beauregard,
and was a Colonel in the regular army
at the period of secession. He served very
f brilliantly in the Mexican campaign, and
enjoys in the United States a great reputation
for capacity and probity. An extreme
reserve, a modesty no less great, cause a
* sort of sadness to appear to paralyze in him
the brilliant qualities which every one re,
cognizes in him ; but place him in the field
k of battle, and then the true warrior re-apf
pears in him as if by enchantment.
L The same letter contains also the foliowj
ing:
Jefferson Davis.?The South has alj
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J reilUy UUUS?U a CSl I uiut Uiau, vcugiouu
1 Davis, for Presideut; for West Point is divided
like the rest of the nation, and furnishes
chiefs to both parties. Generals
Beauregard and Johnston are at the head
of the secession movement; McClellan and
McDowell are the Union heroes, and their
names take the place, in every one's mouth,
of those politicians whose weakness and iu*
capacity have brought the United States to
the brink of an abyss.
The war appears to be between comrades.
? In Western Virginia, McClellan has had to
operate against two West Point companions,
L one of whom, as I have said, was killed,
^ the other mad*1 prisoner.
Beauregard and McClellan, military leaders
of the two opposing parties, were not
only companions, bat intimate friends.?
I When Beauregard went to the North, he
went to no other house than McClellan's,
f and when McClellan went South, he stayed
with no one but Beauregard. One side aud
I the other are acquainted in the most intiF
mate manner, and sentiments of chivalrous
esteem are found almost everywhere in both
camps, for former friends are now become
[implacable enemies.
Such are the men whom the force of circumstance?
calls to direct the great revolution
which this moment upturns the United
States, and which will probably end in re
forming them.
B At first sight an idea mav be formed of
L the secession soldier's exterior. The question
of uniform, not fully solved at the
L North, is not thought of at all at the South.
W It would seem that the attempts at uniform
have not got beyond the distribution among
some corps of a kind of jacket of a heavy
!gray cloth, manufactured in Virginia. The
oiothes, whether of regular uniform or fancy,
are all in a very bad condition; the
soldier, nevertheless, preserves beneath his
rags an aspect sufficiently martial, and perfect
order reigns in the camp and the posts
The Southern Cavalry. ? What
strikes one most is the cavalry, which is
very numerous, admirably mounted, and
composed of superb men. It is plain at the
first glance that those men are the sons of
farmers and land owners, that their horses
are their own, and that they are accustomed,
if not to arms, at least to a rough country
life. Besides, nothing is more picturesque
than these Southern cavaliers. They wear:
the most impossible costumes, wofull? dilapidated
by a three months' bivouac; hats
without crowns, boots without soles, with
an air and heroic bearing that Don Caaaar
de Bazan would have envied; and since
these ragged cavaliers have as fine, energetic
Virginia faces as their horses are
magnificent, which they manage with great
daring, one is filled with admiration, just
as we admire the fantastic figures of the
warriors crearted by Salvator Rosa.
The Southern Staff Officers.?The
Staffs of the generals-inchief (Beauregard
and Johnston) are remarkable. If the
i United States were not a republic, I would
say that these staffs were composed of the
flower of the Southern nobility. Most of
them possess enormous fortunes.
Disinterested in this civil war, a stranger
to the hatreds, tho passions and the interests
which have influenced it, I could notj
feel otherwise than touched at the sight of!
some of those white-moustached men of
military, aristocratic bearing and distinguished
manners, who have left their families,
their fire-sides and high social positions j
to serve as aids, in the rudest of wars, to j
young generals, hitherto unUnown.
The Hero of Lexington.?General
Sterling Price was formerly a representative
of Missouri in the U. S. Congress, and j
was subsequently Governor "of that State.
He is by birth a Virginian, and by occupation
a tobaoco planter, in Charlton county
Mo. He is about 50 years of age, over six
feet in height, of large build and a stately
presence. His manners are extremely
polished, gentle and dignified; but his
heroic personal courage, so conspicuous at
the battle near Springfield, and his iron
firmness, are disclosed by his eyes and
massive chin. He is strikingly temperate
and exemplary in all the relations of life.
His most distinguishing characteristics are
sound, cautious judgment, and energy in
action. Modest, making no pretentions to
brilliancy or superiority, he seeks always
to bring to his aid all the talent or experience
of others within his reach; one of his
first acts as major general was to select for
his adjutant an experienced officer who had
resigned from the U. S army, and whom
he had previously known only by reputation.
Naturally taoiturn and secretive, he
makes it difficult for the enemy to discover
his plans. An excellent judge of men, he
selects his counsellors carefully and spar
ingly. In addition, he has the prestige of
success. Though neither a trimmer nor an
intriguer, he has never been a candidate
for political station without obtaining it.?
In Mexico, as more recently iu Missouti,
be never commanded in a battle that he
did not win. The Missourians are rallying
to him in mass. By the latest, though perhaps
exaggerated, statements of the Lincoln
presses, he has now 40,000 men under his
command.
This distinguished man is sometimes confounded
with Thomas L. Price, of Mo.,
once a general in the militia, and many
! years ago Lieutenant Governor of the State,
land now a supporter of the Lincoln Govl
ernment. They are antipodes in many re
spects, particularly in politics.
Prepare for Hard Times.
We commend the following well timed
article, from the Augusta Chronicle <k Sentinel,
to the attention of all our readers
and more especially to our farmer friends.
The advice offered is worthy of the strictest
observance. Read, and at once resolve to
heed the patriotic admonitions of the writer:
The people are just now beginning to
feel the effects, the hardships and trials of
a state of war. We had hoped that before
winter the war would have been pushed to
a successful and glorious termination, aod
there is still time enough and perhaps am
pie means at hand. We have a larger
force in the field thau the enemy, and his
enlisting has already been brought to a
stand still, while our men are still volunteering.
The enemy must resort soou to
drafting, to a forced conscription, to fill up
ranks to half a million, for he has yet not
much more than half that number in arms.
Perhaps he will be able to get the half million,
perhaps not, but we should act as if
he were certain to get them. And although
we are in superior force, and oar men have
proved themselves individually and collectively
the superiors of the Lincoln troops,
on almost every occasion, yet the look of
things now is not promising for a speedy
close of the war.
If the war does not end, or the blockade
is not raised within three months, v.e
shall have hard times in real good earnest.
And we ought to prepare for the worst, it is
wise and prudent to do so, for if the best
come we shall still have lost nothing by
preparation for threatened evil. We should
study and practice enconomy in all things,
and make what we have got produce its
greatest benefits. With cotton a drug in
the market, we should endeavor to supply
ourselves to the fullest extent with coarse
cotton goods. The little wool we have
should be husbanded, applied where it is
most absolutely a necessity, for soldiers'
clothing and covering; and we ought not to
! kill the sheep for food, if we can avoid it,
! when they are so valuable for wool bearing.
We should use as little bacon as we
jean well get along with, and be sure to
nrain c? n rl a in t.n
1 wuvcu ait vuc npaic gimu t*uv?
'j meat, for after bread that is the next great
need. It would be a great hardship if the
! I negroes were deprived of bacon, but it
should be given them as sparingly as the
i case will admit, while the white people,
except the soldiers ought to use none, if
they can get other meat.
We have a large number of cattle, and
they can never probably he of more service
than now. The fine grass of the summer
has kept them in good condition, and
now, as soon as they run through the peafields,
they ought to be killed, before they
begin to decline. It would be good policy
for nearly every farmer and planter in this
section to kill one-third of his cattle as soon
as fat, and the weather is such that they
can be saved, pickled or dried. Where
fhp ortrn ornn la nhnnrlnnf arnnlrl hp nrl.
visable to feed them corn and fodder and,
oats, after eating out the pea fields, and
thus increase the quantity of meat to the
fullest extent that grain can be spared for
that purpose. Let hogs follow the cattle to
eat up the waste. And the cows may contribute
very largely to the food of family,
black and white, in the way of milk and
butter, if properly attended to. This has
been sadly neglected heretofore and those
who have never tried it have no idea of
how much value to a family a few cows
may be, if properly fed and milked, to say
nothing of milk and batter and cheese for
market. Half an acre of good land, sown
thickly now with wheat in heavily maoured
drills three feet apart, will give half a dozen
milch cows a great amount of good winter
food. But if you want the very hest
milk --nd butter that can be made, feed in
addition to the green wheat, good corn,
fodder, cut up with a knife and placed in
a tight barrel, on which pour boiling water
and cover with a blanket, and to this add
four to eight pounds a day of pea meal for
each oow.
Wheat and other small grain should now
be sown as soon as possible, even to some
neglect of the cotton, which usually impedes
the sowing of fall grain. And we would urge
upon all that they sow largely, and on good
land, and with as thorough preparation
and good manuring as can reasonably be
given. Food is always in demand, and
likely to be more so in the future than the
past, so that itisno danger of over-stocking
the market, not even if grain were grown
to the entire axnlusion of cotton?though
that is not recommended. With the large
sowing of grain last fall and the bountiful
harvest, and with the extra crop of corn
planted and good returns, we still see food
of all kinds high, and it will probably remain
so. Then, by all means, put in large
^ropsoffall and winter grain as soon as
can be conveniently done.
We have gone into this contest to win
|?each one of us has all he is, or expects
to be, staked on the result And though
we may not have comprehended fully all
rue evils and hardships which may befall
us before we get through it, yet we must
bear them bravely and nobly, and never
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; despair nor repine, uuiess we eau u ui
|any and every evil probably in store for
us, we neither deserve our liberty, nor are
I we made of the stuff which can long maintain
liberty and free Government. And
with all the discomforts around us, and
looming up in the near future, let us nerve
ourselves to bear them, and let us labor too,
aud set our invention to work, to turn the
evil into present and future good.
For tile Lancaster Ledj^r.
First Class on "State of the Country."
Stand up here Bill Snookes and keep
your coat-tail out of your mouth.
Q. What is independence?
A. Do as you please, go where you
please, sell what you please, ask what you
please for it, and cheat all you can.
Q. What is love of country?
A To fight, bleed and die, and git no
credit for it.
Q. Do all men manifest this desire to do
i battles for their country?
A. No. Some had rather stay at home
aod make money; grumble at the faults of
others; speculate upon Tom's. Bill's and
Jim's bravery.
Q. What class is this?
A. They are commonly called street
loungers, but some call 'em soap tails for
short.
Q. All who stay at home are not so disposed
are they ?
A. Oh, no. Some are liberal in tbeii
donations to support the country and rejlieve
the wants of the poor.
Q. Do they get no credit for it?
A. Nary bit. You see the soap-tails do
all the talking, having more time to devote
to the bellows than working men, aod
they say when the liberal give a dollar, they
just add that muoh more profits on their
saleable articles, which the country is bound
to have
Q. Is it certain that any person does
this?
A. Without a doubt, a great many do
add on blockade, war tax, and many other
items too numerous to mention.
Q. Is it men that bave been born and
raised amongst us ?
A. Yes sir! Nary other kind.
Q. What is this class called?
A. Patriots of the right stamp
Q. What is patriotism now-a-days?
A. Talk big, tell what you hav^done,
what you gwine to do, make out you've
done everything and nobody else done nothing,
pay all your taxes and make 'em up on
yer customers, add a little more to the price
'every time you see the word "blockade,"
I oppress the people, especially the poor,
I they ain't got no business to be poor.
! Q. Who does this?
A. Merchants, farmers and school
teach * ' . >
Exit Bill with an inkstand in close proximity
with his snout.
Won't Sell their Cotton.
' At a meeting of planters, held in Wash,
ington county, Texas, on the 23d of Sep
teniber, resolutions were passed, compatible
with the following preamble:
Whereas there are being established ai
various points in this State agencies to pur
chase cotton, purporting to be for the pur
pose of supplying the demand for cotton ir
Mexico; and whereas it is an ascertained
j fact that already more cotton has been pur
I chased in this State than is sufficient to em
! ploy all the spindles in Mexico for the nex
:year, whereby we are satisfied that all sue!
latencies are not Mexican agencies in fact
I "RUnl- it onnhlioan nancies in disguise
u,?v. t' O o
I Now therefore,
Resolved, That the planters of Washington
county will not sell one pound of their
cotton at any price to such agency.
Resolved, That we will regard all per- ,
sons acting as such agents, as the agents of
Linooln and his despotic coercion Government,
and we will do all in our power to
bring such persons to punishment for thus
aiding and abetting the enemy."
Confederate Elections.
As a matter of general information the
Richmond Examiner publishes the following
abstract of the law regulating the Coni
federate States elections :
The election for members of Congress,
to be held on the first Wednesday in No|
vember, 1861, which election shall be conducted
according to the permanent constitution
and the laws of the several States in
force for that purpose. In States which
; may not have provided Dy law rorsuon election,
the same will be held according to the
! laws heretofore existing in such States for
' the election of members of the House of
| Representatives in the Congress of the IJni;
ted States.
The appointment of electors for President
and Vice-President is also made on the day
| of the Congressional election?the first
' Wednesday in November.
The electors are to meet in their respective
States on the first Wednesday in December,
1861, and proceed to vote for President
and Vice President.
Congress is to assemble in regular session,
at the seat of Government, on the eighteenth
day oj February, 1862. On the nineteenth
of February, it is provided that the President
of the Senate shall open the certificates,
and the votes for President and Vice
President shall be counted.
The President of the Confederate States
shall be inaugurated on the twenty second
day of February, 1862.
The Situation in Kentucky?It
would seem from present indications, that
Keutucky is to be a principal theatre of
the war, so far as inland operations are
oAnAnttnA/] T.nof n/^ni/ina fhaf fko
i;uuucmou. i^unv ouyiuta ibptboouv vuuu vuv
opposing forces are concentrating there, and
the probability is, that in a very short time
a decisive engagement will take place in
that State, wheu every true man within ftie
border will rally to the standard of the Confederate
States. In the person of General
Albert Sidney Johnston we have a leader
of undoubted military .ability. With the
disposable force which he has at his ooramand,
he will be able, not only to fight on
the defensive, but should the ocoassion
make it necessary, he will carry the war
into the enemy's country, end transfer the
scene of battle from Kentucky to the Northwestern
States. This would be a fine country
to quarter a large army, provisions being
oheap and plentiful- In every respect
the aggressive is the true policy for our
Government to pursue. If we make the
A _ j c u
present a ueieusive wui anugctucij it 10
simply obvious that it is uncertain when it
will terminate.?Richmond Examiner.
Patriotic Contributions.
The Richmond papers bring us daily reports
of the receipt at that point of the voluntary
contributions of the citizens of the
Confederate States. The amount received
Tuesday and Wednesday last amounted to
forty two thousand dollars, and our telegraphic
correspondent, in this morning's issue,
informs us that one gentleman from
Alabama arrived in Richmond yesterday
with hfteen thousand dollars' worth of
clothing, &c. We doubt, if in the history
of any country, such generous liberality
has ever been equalled. I3 it not monstrous
to suppose that such a people can ever be
, subjected ?
Among the contributions miblished we
note the following from this SljPte :
T. R. English, 8125 worth of clothing
tor South Carolina troops.
| Joseph A. Gaston, 81,000 worth of cloI
thing to 6th South Carolina regiment,
j J. H. McKnight, 8114 worth of olothing
. to South Carolina troops.
D. SI. Peden, 82,280 worth of clothing
to the 6th South Carolina regiment.
Capt. Richardson, 82,000 worth of clo,
thing to Blanding and Kershaw's South
Carolina regiments.?Guardian, 12th instt.
Extortion.
It is undeniable that there are men who
have taken advantage of these war times to
enrich themselves at the expense of the people.
The darling object with these sort of
men is to get rich, this, is the acme of tbeir
ambition, and the sum total of all their endeavors.
They have no regard for man or
devil, only so far as they may be made tributary
to these ends. They are the horseleaches
of the body-politic?the vampires
of society?in whose presence widows weep,
AP inrofrtKnrl nmha 1Q llOJirfl
auu u,.t rra.. wi ?
in vain. Their iron boxes are gorged with
gold and silver, and this is the Ark of their
Covenant with Hell, and the depository oft
a coinage from tears and blood. The laughing
fiend keeps guard over these boxes and
bagsof gold, aud grins horribly at the presence
of hollow-eyed penury. The beggar
is dismissed empty, with a grimace of which
hell is made ashamed, while the lean arms
of the fiend caresses the gold-like coiled
snakes in the darkness of his infamous den.
Such an one is ripe for the flames of the
pit, and should have the badge of damnable
doom nailed upon his forehead by the hissing
populace It is with shuddering feeling
we think of such men ; our souls revolt
?and we spurn them back as the refuse
and off-scourings of creation.?Sclma Alabama
Repulic.
Greeley.?Northern dispatches inform
us that Master Greely has got himself into
a peck of trouble with the Lincoln Admin
istration by divulging the preparation and
' destination of the naval expeditions. It is
said that some of the cabinet want to supt
nrnCQ Horace, he is such a persistent mar
f '
plot. All the provost tnarshalls and fede
ral police in the empire can't keep him
1 from nosing out and prying into what does
' not concern him, and he invariably and incontinently
blabs all he knows, regardless
- of consequences to his cause.
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1 The exports at the port of Philadelphia,
, for the week ending September 26, were
; 8202,530; tne imports for the same time,
837,579.
From the South Carolinian, 6th Instant.
Pair Grounds Hospital.
There are two hundred and twenty sick '
soldiers in the hospital at the Fair Grounds. 1
Twenty-four have been discharged. Though
the number has increased so greatly and so
rapidly upon the hands of the ladies, yet
there has been no flagging on their part.?
Their zeal and energy seem to rise with the
demand. Their liberality knows no bounds
snort of the comfort of every soldier committed
to their care. It is truly wonderful
to see what they have done, and are doing,
for the relief of our suffering soldiers.?
Their sacrifices and labors, to be appreciated,
must be witnessed. Will not the Ladies'
Relief Associations aid the ladies of
Columbia with their contributions ?
Most of the cases are doing very well,
under the skilful and faithful treatment of
Drs. Trezevant and Fair, aided, as they
have been, by Drs. Johnson and Kilgore,
the kind-hearted and devoted assistant sur
geons of the 12th and I3th regiments.?
Much praise is also due the young Drs.
Harris, Sylvester and Whitesides, for their
attention to the sick.
Mr. John A. Crawford has labored, day
after day, with his own hands, and most
efficiently, too, for the comfort of our sick
soldiers.
Mr. W. R. Runnels, of Spartanburg,
Captain Brockman's company, died on the
7th instant.
There are two or three very ill. Their
friends have been informed of the fact.
J. MONROE ANDERSON.
Our Soldiers in Virginia ?The following
is the conclusion of a report to his
Excellency Governor Pickens, made by a
pnysician sent on Dy mm to examine into
the sanitary condition of all our regiments
in Virginia :
"The sick of all the regiments in General
Bonham's and General Jones' brigade
fare now being sent back to the receiving
hospitals. The Surgeon of this regiment
(Col. William's) is much better supplied
than any Surgeon in the brigade, he having
saved his hospital stores in the retreat from
Fairfax, and since then he has had a requisition
partly filled. Most of the companies
have received their winter uniforms, and all
of them have made arrangements to have
them soon. There are still on hand three
boxes of shoes, and all have been supplied
that are in want New tents are being dis
tributed slowly among the different regiments,
and I expect they will all be supplied
by winter."
Life in the Camps.?The following
extract from a letter of a member of Col.
Kershaw's Regiment, S. C. V., has been
furnished for the Charleston Courier :
Munson's Hill, Advance Fic/ceL,
Army Potomac, Sept. 23,1861.
* * * So yon are still under the impression,
you folks in Charleston, that we
are starving?we are much better off than
hundreds of families at home. I will give
you an average day how we live, so you can
judge for yourself. There are nine men in
my mess at present; we have for breakfast
?coffee, beefsteak or fried bacon, and
nice raised bread, sometimes potatoes Our
dinner, yesterday, was roast beef, Irish potatoes,
cabbage, bacon and tomatoes and
rice boiled together. Our mess bill up to
this date, from the 23d July, is only four
dollars and a half, which is for extras. We
have men in this company who, if they
were in Heaven, would not be satisfied.?
I can now make good raised bread.
Tnr Speculators.?"We constantly
hear of the operations of the monopolists
of the articles of Bacon and Leather.?
They, and their agents, with the scent of
bloodhounds, smell afar off every pound of
bacon and leather which can be obtained,
and on which an extortionate profit can be
made. The State is thus; in its purchases
for the soldiers, most grossly imposed upon
by these harpies."
The above from the Raleigh Register is
as true as preaching?and not less true
than it is shameful, mean, and treacherous.
We have taken the pains to procure a few
names of the above named class of cowardly
extortioners and money leeches, whose
names we mean to give to the public whenever
a favorable opportunity offers?at any
rate, we shall surely do it, when the war
ceases, in order that they may reap the just
indignation of our returning soldiers whose
comforts they have sapped and whose interests
they have betrayed.?Salisbury
Earner.
Effect of Fremont's Proclamation
in Missouri.?The Cincinnati Enquirer,
of the 24th ultimo, fiuys that an intelligent
and prominent gentleman?a Union man ?
just from Leavenworth, Kansas, reports
that the proclamation of Fremont has had
a most disastrous effeot on the Union cause
in northwestern Missouri. It has driven
nearly all the Union men in that region into
the Confederate ranks. In the half dozen
counties in Missouri bordering on Kansas,
seven-eights of the people were Union men
prior to Fremont's proclamation, and had
formed companies in connection with Kansas
to protect the frontier; but since the
proclamation of Fremont, all the Missouri
companies have gone to the-Southern Confederacy.
The informant df the Enquirer
also states tnat tne uonteaerates nave au
southwestern and northwestern Missouri,
with not less than one hundred thousand
troops, well aruied.
Sensilbe.?The Mobile Mercury, commenting
on the scarcity of paper, thus
speaks of the proportions of newspapers:
"Newspapers everywhere have been curtailing
their dimensions, which was a wise
policy in these times of no profits and high
prices for paper. Wo sec many journals
who evidently fond of keeping up appearances,
have not yet followed the policy.?
Their columns are mostly filled with dead,
non-paying advertisements, grown very
stale. We even see 'Cephalic Pills' still
cumbering their columns. If they would
reduce the size of their sheets down to what
will hold their reading matter and paying
advertisements, they wouldn't look as big,
but would have as much in them. The
reading public will know how to bear with
small sheets in these terrible times if tbey
are well and judiciously filled."
The Naval Expedition.
There can scarcely be any doubt that ]
there is another formidable naval expedition (
on foot to operate on the Southern coast.? ]
The New York Evening Post of the 3d
inst., has the following: <
"We noticed yesterday the charter of the
Vanderbilt steamers, which arc to be added I
to the fleet of transports already chartered
and purchased by the Federal Government. <
A formidable naval expedition is now fit- ]
ting out at this port to act in connection i
with men-of-war from Fortress Monroe ?
Of the transports the Vanderbilt is provi- i
ded with births for two thousand men, the
Ocean Queen for two thousand three hundred,
Illinois for one thousand five hundred,
the Empire City for one thousand, the
Coatzacoaleos for one thousand five hundred,
the Daniel Webster for one thousand,
and the Baltic, Mantunsas and Atlantic
are also coaling and preparing for the expedition.
These vessels will carry at least
fifteen thousand men.
The Great Republic, the largest American
sailing ship afloat, has just been chartered
by the Government, and is fitting up
with stalls to transport horses."
The Richmond Examiner of Wednesday
says : "The most formidable additions are
being made, rapidly but very qnietly, to
the naval forces of the Lincoln Government.
These additions are evidently with a view
to coast operations. The fleet of gun-boats,
for which appropriations were made by the
Lincoln Congress, will in a few weeks be
ready for active service. Those vessels, of
which twenty three are reported to be building,
are about 500 tons burden, light draft,
strongly built, nnd calculated to carry one
150-pound rifled gun and four32-pounders.
Northern accounts of the naval preparations
of the Government state that there will also
soon be on the stocks a number of fast
side-wheel steamers, suitable for running in
shallow water and up narrow rivers. They
are to be built alike at bow and stern, so as
to avoid the delay or danger of turning a
round under the tire ot a Dattery.
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The Army in the Mississippi Valley.--Some
idea of the formidable obstacles
which Lincoln's flotilla will have to
encounter in its passage down the Mississippi,
may be formed from the annexed extract
from a letter to the Baton Rouge
Gazette :
Our troops are composed of the flower of
Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky,
and last, though not least, a brigade of
Louisianians, to which I hope will be addefl
the Donaldsonville Cannoneers now in Memphis
With Johnston, Polk, Pillow,
Thompson, Cheatham and, McGowan at
the lead of operations here, Zollicoffer at
Cumberland Gap?Buckner at Bowling
Green, with thousands rallying to his standard
daily?you may prepare to hear soon
of the grand ''smash" of the Lincoln project
to invade the Mississippi valley, as he
would have to walk over the dead bodies of
do le9s that 2UU,UUU Southerners to accomplish
the feat?not, however, without the
sacrifice of a few on his part. Strong fortifications
are being erected here, which
will make the place in a few days pretty
hard to take. Beyond that I cannot go?it
is all that can be said about our fortifications.
Critical.?The Raleigh Register of the
5th instant says that the two British vessels
which landed at Beaufort, North Carolina,
while the Yankee blockading vessels were
somewhere else, took on cargoes for Liverpool.
When chey were ready to sail, the
blockading vessels were back at the post9
assigned them, and refused to allow the
British vessels egress. The Captains re
monstrated, but without avail. They sent
for the British Consul at Charleston, who
came in person, and urged upon them in
the name of his Government that, as they
found no impediment in entering the harbor
of Beaufort, they had a right to depart
unmolested. This was also unavailing.
The Consul then proceeded to Washington,
and has laid the case before Lord Lyons.
The Rcyhtcr does not know, but believes
a portion of the British squadron has
been ordered to Beaufort to give the vessels
a convoy on their homeward voyage.
Prom Richmond.
Richmond, Oct. 10.?Col. Wiliam E.
Starke, of Loring's staff, has arrived here
from Gen. Lee's camp, with dispatches announcing
the retreat of Rosenorantz, on the
night of the 6th inst., from Big Sewell
Mountain across the Gauley River. It is
supposed that he is out of supplies. The
impassability of the roads and a lack ofsufficient
transportation prevented Lee from
pursuing him.
Richmond, Oct. 11.?The condition of
Gen. Wise, according to the talk last night,
was regarded as exceedingly critical.
No more passports will be granted to persons
to leave the Confederacy, who leave
their families here.
A petition was filed yesterday to sequestrate
Monticello, the .home of Jefferson,
now owned by a captain in Lincoln's navy.
Voluntary contributions to the army are
unabated. Among those acklowledged at
the Passport Office to-day was one from
George Kellogg, of $15,000 woith clothing,
etc., for the Georgia regiments. Kellogg
was in charge of contributions from several
counties, and kept with his trust until he
reached .Richmond.
Several hundred car-loads of voluntary
contributions from different States, for the
army, are at various stations on the railways
leading to Richmond. Great efforts
are making to move them forward. Insufficient
railway power, washing away of
bridges, and perhaps other causes, have pronn/inrl
fhp rlolflv
Richmond, October 12.?Voluntary con-,
tributions for the army continue to be received
in Richmoud in large quantities.?
The Mississippi contributions received today
amounted to 3130,000 in value, and
contributions from other States to a considerable
amount have been received.
Richmond, Oct. 13.?It is reported
here, on the authority of a gentleman just
from Baltimore, that Lord Lyons and Secretary
Seward had come to an open rupture
in their relations, and that Lord Lyons had
left Washington.
The total amount contributed to the soldiers'
fund since the 3d instant, as repor
jted at the Passport Office, is 8192,185, J
The Homicide o* Mrs. Withebspooit.^,
?Detective police officer Hicks returned
to the city Friday morning, from the vi-'
linity of the late tragic aflair at Society
Hill. He succeeded in obtaining a due
to the perpetrators of this horrid deed, by
the discovery in a negro shanty of some
cloths saturated with blood, which, upon
investigation, proved to belong to Rhody,
an old negro woman, the former attendant
of the deceased. On an examination of the
negroes connected with the house, it was
Richmond, Oct. 14.?Twelve Yankee
prisoners reached here to-day, taken by a
icouting party of Cobb's Legion, near New- I
port News. <
The indications here point to stirring
jvents at an early day.
Nothing reliably trne or interesting from
the camps.
Sequestration.?Under the operation
of the Sequestration act of the aot of the
last Confederate Congress, it is estimated
that about thirty millions of dollars will
pass into the hands of the Confederate Receivers
in the State of Virginia.
Important Notice.?The following notice
is from a Richmond paper. We understand
that by the authority of a late Act
of Congress, the Government pays the
freight on clothing, &c., intended for soldiers
in the Confederate service :
Notice.-?I. Persons who are sending
clothing and supplies te troops in the field,
are requested to mark distinctly on the
package (with marking ink) the name of
the party for whom intended, the regiment
to whioh he belongs, and the place of destination,
care of Quartermaster at Richmond,
to whom the usual railroad receipt
should be forwarded by the shipper.
II. Many paokages arrive at the depots
of the railroads in Richmond with paper
marks rubbed off; of course their destination
cannot be known by the Quartermaster
Others are imnerfectlv marked, and
g J ,
cannot be identified.
J. MAURY GARNALD,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.
From the South Carolinian, 13th Instant.
Fair Grounds Hospital.
We hare two hundred and thirty-five cases
in the various buildings, and ninety-two
have been discharged.
General Ripley passed through all the
houses on the 11th instant, closely inspecting
everything He seemed perfectly delighted
with all the arrangements. To
some of the ladies, he romarked that the;
might expect many of his soldiers, who
had been so kindly cared for by them, to
have the measles the second time.
Every day's experience adds much to the
efficiency and success of every department
of the hospital.
Special acknowledgements are due to
Mr. John Beard and Mr. H. Nichols for
their well directed and untiring efforts. In
addition to his labors at the hospital, Mr.
Beard has removed three or four of thesiok
to his own house.
We have observed with great satisfaction
the attention of the officers to the sick of
their respective companies. We might
make special mention of two, but forbear
where all are so kind.
Amongst contributions sent in, we are
pleased to find a nice lot of chiokens from
Yorkvillc, and a valuable box of hospital
stores from Rock Hill.
We would again say that comforts, blankets,
sheets, &c., are much needed.
The following persons have died : Mr.
W. R Runnels, Capt. Buckman's company,
died on the 7th instant. He was
very ill when he was brought to the hospital,
and only lived a day or two. Mr. Jas.
Hutto, Capt. Meetze, Lexington, died on
the 9th instant. He came in from the camp
on the evening of the 8th, and was appa
rently doing very well, but was a corpse
before sunrise the next day. His death, it
is supposed, was caused by exposure in getting
out of his bed and taking a large
draught of water. Mr. David Kennedy,
Capt. Gist, Union, died on the 11th instant.
Mr. A. F. Kirby, Capt. Smith,
Spartanburg, died this morning. The two
last cases were brought to the hospital on
the 4th instant. Very soon after their arrival,
alarming symptoms developed themselves.
Everything was done for them that
the best medical skill could suggest and the
most abounding Chiistian kindness could
prompt.
We trust that the voice of these Providences
will not be unheeded by our beloved
soldiers. It says with solemn emphasis to
all, especially to the sick, "Be ye also
ready. For in such an hour as ye think
not the Sou of man cometh." Who will
fall next ? Who can tell. It will be some
of you, and it may be any of you. Dangers
crowd your path. Death seems to
have at this time a most liberal charter for
the work of destruction. Disease, accident
and violence are all his swift-willing messengers.
Are you ready ? If not, do not
postpoue for an hour the work of preparation.
Prudence, conscience and the arm
of God all forbid. At once, then, go to
your offended Father, and tell him you have
sinned, and sue for pardon through Jc3us,
his Son. Seek His fear, which castcth out
the fear of man, and His love, which rasf?th
nut ihn fnrr nf ilaafh Do not DUt all
vi.V v?r ... J. ... v. r
this aside as the mere professional talk of a
preacher. No ! it is the language of one
who loves your soul?who has your owd
conscience and the word of God on his side,
and who would, if he could be permitted
to stand by your dying bed, as he has stood
by the death-bed of your comrades, have
also your own confession, that it was both
your duty and interest to have sought the
Lord in the day when He called you so affectionately
by His word, and so solemnly
by His Providence.
J. MONROE ANDERSON.
Columbia, S. C., October 12} 1861.
Where are the Wide Awakes??
The Boston Advertiser is anxious to know
what has become of the 50,000 toroh-bearers
of November The Syracuse (N. Y.)j
Courier answers the question. We can tell
the Advertiser where the "fifty thousand"
Wide Awakes of tost fall may be found.?
they are filling postoffices, customhouses and
other "peace" positions, or are begging appointments
at the hands of the Administration,
or are making themselves rich out
of swindling contracts, or are acting as legalized
pickpockets under the name of "sut?
*? L.Li, ?*:n
ler," and some 01 mem prouauiy uic ami
wearing the epauletts they were so covetous
to secure, so prompt to disgrace, aud so
ready, on the first practical experience of
danger, to resign. Some of them may be
found blustering about "treason," insulting
peaceable Democrats when they can do so
with impunity, and counseling mobs, in the
rear of which they would be the first to conceal
themselves, out of the reach of danger.
found that William, the carriage driver,
Rhody, the waiter, Romeo, her sod, and
Sylvia, her daughter, all servants of Mrs.
Witherspoon, had formed and agreed upon*
a plan to murder their mistress, for some
trifling cause, by smothering her while asleep,
which they carried into effect in a most
shocking manner. They have all confessed
their participation in this affair, and acknowledged
that Mrs. Witherspoon was a
most kind and indulgent mistress, and say
they did it to escape a whipping for an offence
of which they own themselves guilty.
They were turned over by officer Hicks to
the proper authorities. A trial was to take
place immediately. Some of the eitixens
were so incensed that they wish to hang the
negroes at once. Mr. Hicks .thinks they
will be executed to-dayCharleston Courier.
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Late from Europe.
Cape Race, Oct. 2.?The steamship
Vi'/i/n/t-M/t Vina orrino/I tinwft ' fV> T.ioaenAnl
if (uyu/ i* uao anif uu uvivj nmu uifvi^vvi
advices to the 22d of September. 4
Prince Albert, of England, comes passenger
in the Niagara.
The London Times sneers at Lincoln's % 1
Federal loan, and advises Englishmen to
have nothing to do with it.
An attempt had been made toassassinate
the Qaeen of Q-reeoe.
A prize fight had taken place in London
between Tom Sayers, the ex-Champion
of England, and Mace, the Champion. It
lasted thirty-minutes, and resulted in the
complete triumph of Sayers.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
The sales of cotton in Liverpool for the
week preceding the steamer's sailing was
40,000 bales. Advance of the week fjdj
and prises still advancing. Some circulars
report the sales of the week at 67,000
bales, bat this inclades 2,500 bales of Sarat
cotton, to arrive.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool, on the
20th in8t., was 818,000 bales, of which
487,000 was American. * 'lyt
Spanish Expedition against Mexico.
The New York Times' speoial dispatch j
from Washington, of the 8th, says that
highly important advices had been recei-*
red from Cuba, stating that the Spanish,'.war
steamer Leone was waiting at Cadiz
the result of a Cabinet conference on the
European coalition against Mexico, that
advices of the ultimatum of Spain might
immediately be dispatobed to the Captai"
General of Cuba. In the meantime an ex
pedition is being fitted oat at Havana for
Mexico, under pretext that it is going to
St. Domingo. The expedition will obtfsiat
of six howitzer batteries and 10,000 men.
It will be ready to start not later than next,
month. It is given oat that Spain is taking
these steps against Mexico on her
own responsibility; but advices state definitely
that England and France will send
their quotas of men, and, with their fleets
in the gulf, will co-operate. The whole
oountry, the Times says, will be startled by
this movement. The end in view?the
regulation of Mexico?is the least important
part of it. The object looks farther
North.
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Speculating in Provisions.
We hear it stated upon good authority
that we have, in oar midst, men who are
L tka
straining every nerve w uuy up, nu-u vuc
wholesale dealers, even at the present high
prices, the entire stock of those kinds of
groceries and provisions that happen to be
scarce in the market, in order that hereafter,
taking advantage of their monopoly of the
necessaries life, they may extort enormous
profits for themselves from the pressing
wants of our people. In N. Orleans, where
a few individuals have acted in a similar
spirit, the authorities have laid a heavy
hand upon them, and a generous public
sentiment has crushed the heartless movement
to the earth. If it should be necessary,
we must do likewise here.
Men who would prey upon the public
need, daring a straggle like this, are foes
far more dangerous to the weal of the State
than the Yankee ruffians, who skulk, with
torch and rifled cannon, along our borders
and our coasts.
. Wc have no "surplus" population. Ai
knnrionf rpnrlr nf fair mices. mav be had bv
all who care to obtain it. A reasonable advance
of prices, in times of scarcity, will
not be complained of, even by those in
straitened circumstances. But let us not
suffer the schemes of greedy and merciless
speculators to place beyond the reach of the
honest and industrious poor, ths wherewithall
to live and be happy.?Mercury.
The Prospect in Missouri.
The Northern papers are getting despondent
of the prospect in Missouri. The Washington
Star thus speculates upon the next
news from that quarter:
Undisguised anxiety continues to be
manifested in military cirol6S here relative
to the state of things in Missouri and Kentuccky.
The loss of Lexington, we hear,
has greatly increased the force of Price and
other disunion commanders in Missouri?
the wavering having accepted it as an omen
of the eventual defeat of the Union cause
[there. Previous to it Fremont was in
"poatar fnrnn throughout the State than the
fc.v?
disunionists. Its effect, however, has been 1
not only to lose him Mulligan's 4,000 men,
but to deter others (of Missouri) from joiniog
him, and to iuduoe quite tea thousand
to join the rebel oommanders, who would
have done no such thing had Price been
unable to reduce Lexington. I
Under these circumstances, aud the general
impression among the military men
that Fremont is not adequate to his command,
the impression is rife here taht the
next advices of a battle in that quarter will
continue unfavorable to the Union canse.
We state these facts in order to prevent the
j Star'8 readers from becoming disheartened j
[ by any approaching result in that quarter.
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