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Yesterday we received information of an authentic character that the large fleet of war vessels of the Lincoln Government, which has oocupied Broad River and the waters in that neighborhood since the bombardment of Hilton Head and Port Royal, had suddenly pat oat to sea and had gone, no one knew whither. Speculation is rife as to the meaning of their departure en masse, and many believe that they intend making a new descent upon some point on the coast of this State or Georgia. The more general impression, however, is that their mission is. to co operate either direot ly, ox by diversioo, with the contemplated movements;! of General Buroside's light draaght fleet. ^ The. following extract from the Fortress Monroe correspondent of the New York Herald, relates to matters on our coast. - * # and will be fouod interesting, as an exhibit A' V.rtao i/loao nhnnk tha invasion of thft "First Confederate State Fortress Monroe, Jan. 7. The readers of the Enquirer have, no doubt, read-with some interest and concern the recent reports, taken from Southern newspapers, touchiog the operations of the Federal fleet at North Edisto, South Carolina?, recently, and they will anxiously await the arrival of the next transport from Port Royal for the Union advices. In the meantime, a few speculative remarks, based upon the reports, as published in the Charleston Mercury, of January 2 and 3, may not be devoid of interest at this time. Although we look for nothing favorable t > Federal arms in this inestimable Rebel sheet, we have a right to form conclusions from what is published therein as facts. Edisto is the name of a large island on the coast of South Carolina, forming an entire district of that State It was one of the wealthiest cotton and rice growing die tricts of the "first Confederate State," and possession of it has only been relinquished fJiroat noonriaifo The island of UV/UI VUV \*l?wwv UVVVUW..J - Edisto is curiously formed by an arm ot the sea, entering at what is called South Edisto Inlet, traversing a vast tract of land of over'20 miles square, and emptying into the sea agaio through North Edisto Inlet, but greatly augmented by the embodiment of the streamsof creeks, rivulets and springs. North Edisto Inlet is navigable, it is said, some miles south of Willstown, for the largest vessels, and schooners can sail en , tirely around the island. Willstown is situated on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. It containsouly a few hundred inhabitants, and is, at best, a dull place. It was to *' is town, standing as it does only a few uiiles from tbe banks of the North Edisto, that Commodore Dupoot. acting in concert with General Sherman, has thought proper to send a fleet of gun boats and a brigade of soldiers, and white Vyillstown and the railroad were to be taken possession of, Edisto Island was to be secnred as a place of refuge iu case of any disaster, and as a base of future operations At the same time, General Wright was to move wtlfh a strong force inland, west of Beaufort, and take possession of Station No 4, of the Charleston and Savannah Rail road, and if both expeditions proved happily successful, one would have railroad cornuiu nicatiou with the other, as well as telegraphic Our troops would be between Charles ? i L - ci? ton and the rebel lorces, ana oeiweeu o?vaunah and the rebel troops, leaking the latter liable to disaster from want of food, long marches and close quarters, with a powerful and resolute enemy. Taking this view, we shall not be surprised if the nest steamer should bring us the welcome uews chat General Evsds has been defeated at Station No. 4, Colonel Maxcy Gregg at Station No. 2, Colonel Juues at Wilistown, and Charleston iu great danger of oapture, even as a mass of charred ruins; whilst the people of Savannah and Columbia grow frantic in dread of the Yankees. Leaving Charleston to rot and be forev er blockaded by the "rat bole squadron," what an excellent thiog it would be if we could notice a year hence the planting of a fine Yankee colouy of thrifty, indastrious, aod prosperous Americans in South Carolina, aod the erection of a great commercial city, where the rickety village of Beaufort now s auds! In alluding to the condition of things at Tybee and thereabouts, the Savannah News of yesterday says: Matters on the coast remain pretty much as they were a week ago. On Tybee" the Yankees keep out of both range and sight, but are understood to be strengthening their batteries which command the entrance to our harbor. If any works are preparing for operations on Pulaski, they have no been discovered. Quite a fleet?it is said ten vessels? came in at Warsaw Weduesday evening probably for shelter against the rough weather at sea. Yesterday all except three disappeared, and weot to sea. The utmost activity prevails aloog our coast old batteries being strengthened and new ooes erected. If the Yankees should succeed in reaching the Georgia main, they will do it with ranks fearfully thinned, and hod their troubles just begun. Thraldom and Independence. Now that we have broken the bondage we were under to the North, we are fully sensible of the nature and extent of that thraldom. And when we call to mind that degrading servitude, the blush of sbnme reddens our oheeks, and our manhood is amazed that we submitted to the yoke for so long a time without being conscious of the disgrace. How it came to pass that the vassalage was borne so meekly is a question to which several satisfactory solutions might be giveD, but we do not purpose te reply to this question at the present time. The simple foot of our servile and absolute depondeooe on Stafpn nf thp Nnrf.h is what we desire f:o deal with. That fact does not admit of doubt or question, and however disagreeable to our pride and self respect, we are forced to acknowledge that we endured and cherish-, ed a dependence upon the brains and muscle of the States which now constitute the dominion of Linooln, wbioh could not have been more complete had we been reduced to that condition and held in thrall by force of arms. What makes our amazement the greater and our indignation the hotter, is the con sideration that we not only submitted to this servitude, but gave our masters freely of our gold for the honor of wearing the collar. The North supplied us with every article that contributed to the comfort and luxury of our homes Our houses were swept with brooms made in Now England, the same industrious section supplied us with oloobs, our feet were covered with shoes from Lynn, and the severest denunciations of the hypocrisy and knavishness of that people were written on paper manufactured in Northern mills. Northern vessels transported our great staples to foreign markets, our horses fed upon hay grown in the Eastern States, we were furnished from the machine shops of the North with the products of their mechanical skill and ingenuity, our carriages came from that ? ? * - - ? J ? hah rJ /\P .votn o nil Kpj SBCUUIJ, iiuu 1U linen j;n;cu ut c,?iu uuu v>? Z0O dishonesty the enterprising people with whom wc are now at war, set themselves up as rivals of the spicy isles, and sent us such excellent imitations of the nutmeg, that clear visioned housewives of large experience were imposed upon by the cheat.? The humane people administered liberally to our ailments and diseases, and thousands had recourse to their nostrums to the great detriment of our own doctors. The mind of our youth was* formed in Northern moulds Our sous were sent to Northern Universities and Colleges, and our daughters to boarding schools in tbeir cities. Not content with patronizing these institutions where the daily recitations were made offensive by vulgar abuse of our people and our institutions, we must needs employ persons from tne hostile secrion as professors in our Colleges, and as tutors in our families. Magazines oonducted witb oKIIifn nnft taut a. whnQP t.nne WHS Worthy of -V... , j ft christian and ft defined community, were suffered to drag out a miserable existence, aod go down to unmarked gravts without a sigh of regret or sense of shame, while Northern monthlies wore purohased in an told numbers, and the trash they contained greedily devoured. They arrogated to themselves all the historians, poets and novelists the country had produced, and in deed, went so far as to represent us as without just claims to soholsstio training and oulture. They ignored the productions of our literary men, and while orowuing Martin Farquhar Tupper the greatest poet of the age, they exalted Longfellow above Tennyson, and pronouaced Mrs. Southworth's sensation balderdash pure sentiment, and more faithful portraitures of hu man nature and life than are to be found in the best works of Walter Scott and Field |iD?We rested meekly under these apersions apd stupid utterances, and would not bestir ourselves to assert our rights, or enter our protest against tho3e absurd and injurious opinions. Such was the vassalage to whioh we were subjected No wonder that when we broke the yoke, the fearful were apprehensive that we oould not support a separate nationality. No wouder the hearts of many sank at the prospect of the inconveniences and discomforts and hardships involved in secession. Those bonds could only be cut asunder by the sword. It was necessary that we be forced by high handed measures, flugrant perfidy, unblushing dishonesty, sav age outrages, to leave the Union that held us in such degrading servitude. Had the mask not beeu torn froic the faces of'those subtle and wicked people, by events and acts that exhibited their real character, and discovered their base purposes, we might not have seen the danger that' threatened us until too late to avenge our wrongs, aud save ourselves from destruction. Charleston Courier. What the N. York Herald Thinks of Mr. Vallandiqham.?From the N York Herald, of the 9th inst., wo extract . the following editorial: At the last session of Congress, the Hon Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, and Burnett, of Kentucky, now a prominent leader ol r the Kentuoky rebels, were almost as inti mate as the Siamese Twins, for they were , always together. At the present session, Mr. Vallandigham is left to do the best he can for the rebel oause without the assist ance of Burnett; but he seems to labor as i willingly for a war with England, in behal! , of our Southern rebels, as if bis Kentucky : friend was at his side. The speech made the i other day on the Tre::t settlement by the ? patriotic Vallandigham, was just such : l speech as Burnett or Breokiuridge woulc have made iu our Cougress on that subject - So it was understood in the House, and si , it will be accepted by the loyal people o our loyal States. The gentleman from Ohio is understood, and he is only wasting his time in beating about the bush, instead of slipping off to Dixie. The Settlement of the Trent Affair. In the House of Representatives, on the 7th instant, a motion having been made to refer to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the papers in the Trent affair, which had been communicated by President Lincoln, Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, said : I avail myself, sir, of this the earliest opportunity offered to express my utter and strong condemnation, as one of the representatives of the people, of the act of the Administration in surrendering up iMessrs. Mason and Slidell to the British Government. For six weeks, sir, they were held in close cus ! tody as traitors of the United States, by order of the Secretary of State, and with I the approval and applause of the press, oi the public men, of the Navy Department, of this House. and of the people of the U States, with a full knowledge of the manner and all the circumstances of their cap ture, and yet in six days after the imperi oas and peremptory demand of Great Britain, they were abjeotly surrendered upon the mere rumor even of the approach of a hostile fleet, and thus for the first time in our national history have we strutted insolently in a quarrel without right, and then basely crept out of it without honor 3 and thus for the first time has the American Eagle been made to cower before the British Lion. Sir, a vassal or fettered and terror stricken press or servile and sycophantic politicians in this House or out of it, may ap plaud the aot, and fawu and flatter, and lick the hand which has smitten down our honor into the dust But the people now or hereafter, will demand a terrible reckoning for this most unmanly surrender. But I do not trust myself to speak of it cow as I propose some day to speak. I rose only to put on record my emphatic protest agaiost it, and to express uiy deep conviction that the very war which' the other day might 1 have been avoided by combined wisdom and firmness, is now inevitable Sir, the surrender may be no fault of the Secretary of Stat , but he has sown, I fear, the dragon's teeth, by this, his fatal dispatch, and armed war will spring from it. In the name of G.<d, sir, what does England want with Mason andSlideil? It was a surrender of the claim of the right to seize them on board her ships, under her flag, that she demanded, and yet this is the very . ai- ? a. o j :... .1.. .Af? CQinsj inui jic* ot:w?tru pumnauiuu^iy iciusea, and be only c?>ndemus Captain Wilkes 'because ho did not enforce this asserted right with greater severity against the offending Deurral ship. Why, sir, upon the principles of this dispatch, if a merchant vessel, as at tirst intended, had been employed to carry these men out frotn Fort Warren to England, she might to day have been arrested on the high seas, and they dragged from her deck, provided only she were forthwith brought back to the port of Boston for confiscation. Bat more than this. England needs, I do not say wants, a war, but she must and Will have it, and this Administration has acted from the beginoiog as if it was their purpose to oblige her in it Jo the utmost.? Look info yonr diplomatic correspondence. Look at your atone fleet But let that pass. Who, I ask, among all the millions of this country, or even in this House or Senate, or the Administration itself, iu the midst of the dead calm of stolid, security which seems now to rest over all, has reflected for a moment upon the significanoy of the e jveats of the passing hours? ! A British man-of-war bears to the shores iof England, there to be received in tri utopli aud with shouts of exultation as mar tyrs and heroes, and with the gustos of thepeople of England, and as the proteges of their ministers, the very men who, but for the rash act of Captain Wilkes and the still more rash endorsement of the Administration and the country, would six weeks ago have been quietly landed from a private ship in quiet security as rebels and refugees. All Europe echoes now with their Daines. All Europe will rise up to do them honor, and yet you surrendered them, did you, to escape the recognition by England of the Confederate States, and your Secretary of State, with Christian resignation or stoic philosophy, calmly rejoices that the effectual cheok upon, and waning proportions of the insurrection, as well as the comparative unimportance of the persons concerned, happily enable the Administration, after six weeks experiment, to cheerfully liberate them, and thus to remove the tcterimi cami belli. Sir, give me leave to say, that the moment they (Mason and Slidell) stepped upon the deck of a British man of war, your prisoners of State, who.j the other day you would have consigned ts Klin's cells, became indeed the envoys and ambassadors of a recoguized independent State, and I. predict here to day, in spite of this deep national humiliation, or rather, perhaps, bo cause of it, aad in spite, too, of the surrender, without protest, of the Monroe doctriue, for forty years the cherished and proud policy of this Government, in less than three months you will be at war with Great Britiu, or else, in the meautime, will have basely submitted to the reeogni tiou of the Confederate States, and the breaking up of the blockade; and if at war then, with hearts unstrung and bauds (>unncrved by this very surreuder. ' Courage ! courage! courage ! sir, is the best and first of peaoe-makers. I know well, of coarse, sir, that like all other similar predictions for some years past, in regard to our public affairs, you will treat this j, one also with scoffing and incredulity; but, nevertheless, I put it ou record here to day. "The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and [ are punished." Secession in London?A letter dated ' London. December 4, received in N. York, f speaks of seeing a newly painted cab in J Oxford street, with the British and rebel > flags crossed ou a panel, and little secession 3 flags for sale on the street. At the Adel 1 phi theatre, controlled by Dion Bourcicault, 1 where the "Octoroon" was, playiug, the stars and stripes which had floated there } was wrapped around the staff, and the stars f'and bars displayed. The Post Office Department. i We acknowledge the receipt of the re- i port of Postmaster General Reagan. < The total cost of mail service in the elev- i en Confederate States, while in the United ] States, was, for the year ending June 1, 1 1860. 84 296.246 78?the total receipts < 81,517,540 55 ; the excess of expenditure 1 over receipts 82,778.706 23. The Confederate Congress having authorized the President to take charge of the telegraph lines, the Depattment has estab- 1 lished 217 miles of telegraph and furnished batteries. It has also sent miles of insula- 1 ted copper wire, with batteries, reels, &o., ' to the army for field operations; other contracts are in progress in different parts of the States. In the eleven States are 8.411 postraas- 1 ters, 2,579 contractors, making 43.960 accounts to be audited annually. There are 2.579 pest roads. The overland route from Sf.n Antonio, Texas, to San Diego, < California, has been stopped 1 There are nioety-one railroads and branch roads in the Confederate States, of which umber only fifteen have entered into contracts. Much difficulty exists in the mat teras to sohedules, and the claims for ad vaaoed rates ' The number of postmasters appointed by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate, is 70, of which namber 67 ' have been appointed, confirmed and com- < missioned. The number of route agents is 123, of whom 110 have been appointed and 5 removed The number of dead letters received and opened was 88,682. At the request of the 1 Frenoh Consul, letters from France have been opened, and those containing money and valuable papers have been delivered to 1 him English letters have been delivered to the English Consul. A large number of letters belonging to non residents of the Confederate States will be plaoed in the hands of the sequestrating officers. Much difficulty has existed as to postage stamps, but 1,430,700 stamps have been issued. The estimated number required daily is about 260.000. A confidential aitent has been sent to Europe to procure steel dies, plates and paper, and a full sup- 1 ply of stamps. The deposits from Postmasters since June 1861, have been 875,605 70, and the amount of grants 8820.060 36, of which 8225 434 have been expended, and 8670, 231 10 remain undrawn.?South Caro linian. Don't Fire too Soon. * j- .u. *-ii : A correspondent sends us iue luuuwiug copy of a letter written by Gen. Charles Lee, of revolutionary memory. It is dated Charleston, 2", June, 1776, and addressed to Col. Thompson, at Sullivan's Island : Sia : It is a certain truth that the enemy entertain a most fortunate apprehension of Americau riflemen. It is equally certain that nothing oan contribute to diminish this apprehension so infallibly as a frequent ineffectual Are. It is with some con cern, therefore, that I am informed that your men have been suffered to fire at a most preposterous distance Upon this principle, I must entreat and insist that you consider it as a standing order that not a man uoder your command is to fire at a greater distance than one hundred and fifty yards at the utmost; in short, that they never without almost a moral certainty of hitting their object. [They had an enemy who, if waited for, would come close enough ] Distant firing has a double bad effect?it encourages the enemy, and adds to the pernicious persuasion of the Ameri can soldiers, viz: that they are no match fbr their antagonists at olose fighting. To speak plainly, it is almost a sure method of making them cowards. [This latter effect we need not dread; but it wastes am munition, which we have not to throw away.] Once more, I must request that a stop bo put to this ohildish, vicious and sr'Andnlrmq nrnntine. T extend the rule to those who have the oare of field pieces.? Four hundred yards is the greatest distance they should be allowed to fire it. Transgression of this rule will be considered as the effect of flurry and want of courage ? Those who are accused of transgression will be proceeded against as aoting from these principles. I have, sir, the greatest opinion of your good sense and spirit, and flatter myself that you will not only issue orders of restriction on this head, but that you wil' be attentive that they are rigorously put in execution. And am, sir, &o., Charles Lee. The Wreck. No government ever presented a more degraded spectacle than the present one at the unfortunate old city of Washington ? Without virture, without genius, without strength, its abortive plunges in the mud and mire of its increasing difficulties would be pitiable if they were not supremely disgusting With an armed force of six hun dred thousand men, including a boasted navy of a hundred ships, it is toppling to its fall day after day with a gravitation that nothing oan counteract; for it is the gravi tation of Black Republicanism, weighed down by the heavy guilt of a wicked cause. Bad the government all the ability and skill that were ever concentrated under the old eagle, it would contend in vain against the might of our young and enthusiastic Confederacy. But counseled by such statesmen as now control its destinies, and genera'ed by such soldiers as now lead its ar 1 I* - -!?. I lilies, me a ay 01 us political perdition uaunot be distant. While its devotees are yet singing ribald songs around its miserable President's mansion, and quaffing big red cups of imprudent vanity, the angel of ret ribution hovers above to number its days. Bow oould it be otherwise, when its admin istrative circle embraces nooe of the wont ed wisdom and patriotism of the Americau people, but exhibits in its once high places of power a league of mongrel spirits, in which the ohildren of Mammon vie with Freedom-shriekers, and the disciples of de generate Puritanism in destroying the ancient landmarks of American liberty. The crying gvil is arousing the virtues, not only on this continent but in other countries also, and.the better sentiments of humanity are everywhere marshalling themselves silently but sternly against the crazy demon of Northern lust. It requires uo presoieuoe to read the inevitable future of auoh a government. The band-writing on the wall is , jven' now before its eyes; nor can the jag- i ?lia|g sophistry |of Seward or the maudling philosophy of Lioooln construe away the rerdict: << Ood hath numbered thy king' iom and finished it:?Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting Edgefield Advertiser. Aemy Appointments Confirmed by Conor ess.?Congress has confirmed the following nominations made by the Presi dent., to take rank in the order in which they are named: major generals. Braitton Bragg, Sept. 12, 1861, Louisiana. Earl Van Dorn, Sept. 19, Mississippi. &us:avus W. Smith, Sept. 19, Kentucky. ^ II HJmAo 7 WrtiifK flofAlina JL Ui lAUIUiC^j VUU* If 11 ui VII VH4VIIUM* W. if. Hardee, Oct 7, Georgia. Ben. Hager, Oct. 7, South Carolina. Jaa. Lcngstreet, Oct. 7, Alabama. J. II. Magrcider, Oct, 7, Virginia. F. J". Jackson, Oct. 7, Virginia. MarsBeld Livell, Oct. 7, Maryland. E. K. Smith, Oct. 11. Florida. BB.IGADIER GENERALS. Jos. R. Anderson, Sept. 3.1861, Virginia. Simon B. Buckner, Sept 14, Kentucky. L. P. Walker, Sept. 17, Alabama. A. G Blaochard, Sept. 21, Louisiana. Gabriel J. Rains, Sept. 23, Kentucky. J. E B. Stuart, Sept. 24, Virginia. Lafayette McLaws, Sept. 25, Georgia. T. F. Drayton, Sept. 25, South Carolina. T. 0. Hindman, Sept. 28, Arkansas. A. H. Gladden, Sept. 30, Louisiana. John B.-McCown, Oct. 12, Tennessee. Lloyd Tilgham, Oct. 18, Kentucky. N. G. Evans, Oct 21, South Carolina. Cadmus C. Wilcox, Oct. 21, Tennessee. Philip St George Cooke, Oot. 21, Virginia. R. B Rhodes, Oct, 21, Alabama Richard Taylor, Oot 21, Louisiana. L. 7'. Wigfall, Oct 21, Texas. Efforts to Supercede Gen. McClellan. We have already mentioned that great dissatisfaction was springing up in the North with General McClellan, for the inactivity of bis army. We have additional evidence of this fact from the Washington correspondence of the New Fork HeraUl: During the recent illness of General McClellan the President has been teased and tormented day and night by the Jacobin club of the Senate, and by their oonfreers in the House, to appoint a provisional commander in-chief in the place of General McClellan. They had the shameless audaoity even to suggest two of their own ciamber, either one of whom they assured the President would, in the space of six weeks, from the.first of Jannary, attack and defeat the rebels at Manassas, march on Ric irnood and take that city, attack and take successfully Savannah, Charleston, Mobile and New Orleans, *<olean out'<tbe Mississippi river, and utterly exterminate every rebel in arms. They assumed to speak for the people of the whole country, and assured the President that the people would brook delay no longer; that if this winter was not marked by vigorous operations and decisive victories the people would withdraw their support from the administration. Northern Financial Crisis ?A correspondent from Norfolk, who has the opportunity of reading the Northern papers, writes as follows : The financial crisis in the North is increasing. There will be a break down soon that will throw the great "Mississippi bubble" in the shade. The banks of N. York have a capital (total fifty-four banks in the city) of 869,493,577. They have loaned the Government 872,500,000. Thus you will see the New York banks have loaned the Government 83,006,423 more than -t-.i :,_i vr. 1 : : Lliesr uapuai. 11 u wuiiucr a uiisis 1.1 uijujineot! Id the Legislature at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, there was a caucus in which forty-seven democrats refused to go with the Government. There were only seven Union democrats. Mr. Gallatin boldly charges Secretary Chase with fraud, and a violation of obligation with regard to fi nance. Go on fightiog, oh ! Yankees.? Wonderful people ! What a pack of "Kilkenny cats " The Strength op the Sooth ?The regular statement of the receipts of cotton at the Southern ports furnishes one of the most strikiog evidences of the strength of the Confederate States. 0 The receipts of cotton from the 1st of September, 1860, to the 1st of January, 1861, were 1,488,004 bales; while from the 1st of September, 1861. to the 1st of January, 1862, the feceipts at all the ports have not reached 10,000. Let any one oonsider that notwithstanding this vast amount of capital locked up, the plantersare suffering comparatively little inconvenience, and the machinery of our Government going on smoothly, and the conclusion must be that the South is indeed mighty in its resources. We further see it stated that whereas the Northern banks at the latest aocounts bad only 829,000,000 in their vaults, the banks of the South had 820,000,000 of coin, and in foreign exchange 810^000,000. Add this to the value of the crop now on hand, and there can be no doubt left of the entire ability of the Confederacy to maintain herself uoder all oircumstaDC68. Guardian. I The Town op Romney.?As Romney is becoming a place of some notoriety a?s a Btrategetio poiot, a short description of the town and its vioinity may prove interesting t j fpl. to many oi our reauera. xuc tunu iloch > beautifully located, resting upon the South branch of the Potoraao, about eighteen miles from its junction with the North branch. It is surrounded on all sides with declivitous hills and mountains, and if well fortified would be almost impregnable to an advancing army. It has been in a measure fortified by nature, and only needs the hand of science to make it a powerful post for purposes of defenoe It is forty-two miles from Winchester, on the North-western Turnpike, sixreen miles from the Baltiuore and Ohio Railroad, and twenty-five miles South of Cumberland, Md. It is the shire town of Hampshire County, and contains about five hundred inhabitants. The town was founded by Lord Fairfax, aod is one of the oldest in that seotiou of Virginia. I "Many a True Word Spoken in Jest."?In one of his late letters, published in the Milton (N. C.) Chronicle, that reJoubtable genius, "Jesse Homes, the Fool Killer," has the following paragraph : Among the latest aots of my maulings was a chap who almost wore his lungs out i orying for immediate secession, and when i secession came, and war with it, he held i back under pretenoe 'hat his business was i such he couldn't leave home ! The troth i is, he was afraid. Another chap of the i same kidney I caught nosing about for a fat I office before he could volunteor. I have slaughtered legions of these "immediate" larks who were going to play the devil with the Yankees, if war followed seoession; and some of them that "pitohed in" managed to "pitch out" as soon as they smelt gunpowder. They sneaked out by various ways; some by one "ailing" and some by another; and some by getting a civil appointment at home. But since I was born I never heard of so many "ailings" that didn't seem to u:,. on... u?.,i impair tne pnysicai muu a lmu. iuc umuest case, however^that I bave had to obas tise was a clamorous seoesh gent, who bad business South when the first tap of the drum for a volunteer company fell upon his ears. They say he bid in a barn as he saw the man approaching to solicit his name, but being found, his excuse was that he had business in the South that wouldn't let him do it. Destruction op the Northern Missouri Railroad.?We learn from our Western exchanges that the North Missouri Railroad has been completely destroyed.? The bridges at Sturgeon, Centrailia, Mexico, JefFstown and Warren ton had been burned ; also one station, and perhaps twenty cars, from fifty to sixty culverts, large and small, destroyed; three to four water stations; 10,000 ties; 200 to 300 telegraph poles; and five miles of iron and ten miles of wire rendered useless. Where the traok was taken up the rails were removed, ties gathered in piles and set on fire?rails set on the fire, so that when the centre of the rails became heated, the weight of the cold ends benfthem, so as to render them ur.e less. The Southerners also captured two trains, one having ejght car loads of hogs, and several cars of hemp, and the other having two care of merchandize. Pour engines are also where the Southerners can capture them. The bridge on Salt River, I the largest and most costly, except the Pereque, was burnt on Sunday night, 22d ult. The station house at Jacksonville was also burned, together with four or five care. Complimentary to the Yankees.-1The London Sunday Mercury thus express es its opinions of Capt. Wilkes, and of the Yankee nation : "Capt. Wilkes is, unfortunately, but too faithful a type of the people in whose mis-1 sion he is engaged. He is an ideal Yankee. Swagger and verocity, built up on a foundation of vulgarity and cowardice. These are his characteristics; and these are the most prominent marks by which his countryman, generally speaking, are kuown all over the world. To bully the weak?to trample over every law of courtesy and custom?wilfully to violate all the more sacred instincts of human nature?to defy as long as danger does not appear, and as soon as real peril shows itself, to sneak aside or run away. These are the virtues of the race which presumes to announce itself as the leader of civilization, and the prophet of human progress in these latter days !? By Captain Wilkes let the Yankee breed be judged !" The Louisiana Sugar Crops ?The Suyar Planter, of the 11th instant, says : Our planters are fast finishing the rolling season. In two weeks more they will nearly all have done. It has been an unusually busy season, and accompanied with fewer mishaps than might have been anticipated I from the large crops. Taking everything into .consideration, planters should be thankful that prices are not worse. The Pointe Coupee Echo, of the 11th inst., says : The sugar planters of our Parish, with but few exceptions, have finished grinding. The crops this year, we think, will greatly exceed that of any previous season. The Plaquemine Gazette, of the same date, observes: We have had no frosts as yet to taint even the joints of the stable cane. The planters are generally through with grinding, and from what we learn, a great deal of sugar is stored away indefinitely in the purgeriea. File Your Papers.?The past year has been one of the most momentous in American history The present year, wij^e not less crowded with great events. It will probably constitute a very conspicuous epoch in the political and commercial history of the human race. Newspapers are the mirrors of passing events. We may say, more properly, they arc the daguerreotypes which catch and preserve their fleeting shadows. We, therefore, recommend every subscriber to a good newspaper, to file them carefully away. They will form a valuable volume for future reference, growing eaoh succeeding year more valuable, as events fade from memory With such a volume before him, long years hereafter, how eloquently could a raau, now in the bloom of life, discourse to his listening children, and, mayhap, grand children, of the stirring events, of this great war. Perhaps he may say to them, "much of this I saw, and part of which I was."?Augusta Constitutionalist. The British and the Yankee Na vies ?The disparity between the British and Yankee navies shows at a glance the result on the high seas iu case of a war be tween the two countries. The British navy is composed of 619 vessels, 32,000 guns, 80,000 sailors. That of the United States numbers 246 vessels, 1,892 guns and 20, 000 sailors. Apart from the pleasant little diversions afforded in suppressing the Southern "insurrection," the Lincoln Cabinet might well ponder seriously under suoh circumstances before taking up toe gauntlet of war, recently offered by John Bull. DlFFrCULTY BETWEEN llbebia and Spain.?The negro republic of Liberia has a quarrel oo its hands with 8pain, that is likely to bring upon it a terrible chastise* meat: The Monrovia (Liberia) correspondent of the Boston Journal writes that a naval engagement took place in that harbor on the 11th, a Spanish war steamer beiogbeaten in attempt to revenge on the Liberian authorities. It seems that tl Liberian schooner Quail overhauled and bnrned a Spanish sl&ver in Galibas some months before. The Spanish Governor at Fernando Po became greately enraged at hearing ol it, and ordered a war steamer to proceed to Moorovia, and eithe? sink or oaptare the Quail. ? ?? distressing Casualty.?-We regret to hear of a distressing affair which oqeur ed near Pocojpligo last week, resulting in the death of one Lancaster volunteer and dangerously wounding another. Petei Twitty and Bradley," members of Company E, Capt. Clybarn, (Blair Guards] were sent from Page Point to headquarters in charge of three negroes (ruraways) wbc had been taken by our piokets. On theii way, the attention of the guards being diverted for a moment, the negroes rushed ot them and in the struggle which ensued Twitty was killed and Bradley dangerously wounded. The prisoners made their es cape. The body of Mr. Twitty was broughi home and buried at Fork Hill Church ? few days ago.?Lancaster Ledger. The Irish Famine.?Although 8ii Robert Peel has reported that L ere is uoth ing like a famine impending. in Ireland the accounts from other sources indioab that there is, beyond doubt, a great scarcity of food and foel, and consequently mucl want and suffering. The latest Irish ant English journals state that the news Iron the town of Galwsy and the western country generally is of a very melancholy charac ter. The corporation of Dublin had, by t unanimous votej called the attention of th< English executive to the impending fate o the people by death from starvation, whili the friends of their country and humanity in Tuam and Galway had come forwar< with the most generous subscriptions in ai< of their famishing fellow men. VST Greeley, of the New York Tribune don't enjoy the humiliating attitude of th< Yankees in their recent surrender to Johi Bull as much as we Southerners do. H suggests with a good deal of troth, that i there in anvthin? else the British want whether a part of Maine, Nantucket Re; West, or Washington territory, now is tfaei time to make the demand. If, he says Great Britain's "modesty does not stand ii the way, she may drive a good basines with as for the next few weeks; for if sh is refased anything she pleases to demand it will not be oar faait We propose t give her fall swing."?Memphis Appccu Salisbury (N. C.) Benefitted by th: War.?Salisbury does not present so ga and prosperous an aspect on the street a she did a year ago, yet the dall monoton of the street but adds to ber intrinsic worth The cheerless rcatine of commercial inter terohange, contrasted with the busy tap | ping of the shoe hammer, speaks a word o praise in every way worthy of her oitizene She is more jastly entitled to the name c la manufacturing than a commercial town Eight months ago she had scarcely a sho shop of any size or merit in the place; nor they are as plentiful as grog shops in Western village?so much for Lincoln' War. Sketch of Vallandioham.?Th Nashville Banner gives the following "per Dortrait" of the Hon. Mr. Vallandigham the Chatham of this war: <'Vallandigham is a man of more coar age, character aod capacity, than aoy othe man in Congress, take bim for all io all? He is about five feet seven or eight inche high, with a fierce looking face, keen darl eye, black bair, inclined to curl, florid com plexion, with moustache and whiskers. Hi features, though not handsome, are striking His manner is quiok, nervous and impetu ous. He does not speak well, unfortunate ly. His manner is too hasty and passion ate, and his voice not full and rotund 6a for dauntless bravery, keen managemeo and independent spirit, be stands befori the whole of them!" Poor Samzo among the Yankees.? A negro belonging to Mr. Chapman ha< the good luck to escape from the Hessian at Port Royal and reach his master, in Sa vannah, last Friday. Ho desoribes th treatment of the unfortunate servants ii the hands of the Northern troops, at Por Royal, as hard in the extreme, They an forced to labor on the entrenchments froo gray dawn until dark, unremittingly, am are then confined under guard at night. Mr. Chapman's servant managed to esoap< at night?slipped by the piokets in th darkness, and put off from the island in ; batteau He says the negroes he left be hind are in a melancholy condition?siol enough of Northern bosses. Speech op Gen. Bull Nels?n to hi Brigade, November 12th, 1861.?Th Fraukfort correspondent of the Louisvill Courier says the following is a verbatim f literatim copy of Gen. Nelson's address delivered to bis soldiers on leaving tha place. It was copied , from a ny-iear 01 which the talented General had written it Men and Fellow Soldiers 1 I am a Bow to take my final lave of yon But Before par tint; I shall endever to retarn you my sin sere thanks for the promptness with whiol you have discharged your duty as soldier you have Been icouipeled to make forcet inarches fyr twenty days doying withou tents drenched by the Chilling rains of no vember without the necessary Clothing fo: this season of the year you have Been sac oessful driving the enemy from Kentaoki and restoring her to law and order. Brig general Nelson "US. A. if A Calhoun Dead.?Mr. James E. Cal houn, a son of the late John C Calhoun of South Carolina, died in this city on Fri day last of consumption. Mr. Calhoua was lawyer of great ability, an old resident is oar midst, and ayoong man who had endear* ei himself to a host of friends. He tojp merly practiced in connection with Mr. Blinding and Col. Delia Torre, bat of late, kept himself retired, awaiting the summons of the stern monster, of whose calling he was assured bat not certain.?San Frasbcuco Morning Call, December. 1 it. The Rogoe'8 March Superseded by Yankee Doodle.?A correspondent of the ^ Richmond Dispatch, writing from "Camg 12th Mississippi Regiment," Virginia, says: 1 The only new thing of note is a castom just adopted in the army. When a worth* ' less soldier is "drammed oat," it is done to the taoe of Yankee Doodle, instead of the Rogue's March, as was the castom. The , new custom arose from the fact that more rogues march now-a-days, to the taoeojf Yankee Doodle than have marched in all i times to the Rogoe's Marsh. The castom t ? ~r n_i rr n.M uruac uuuj ? su^^osuuu ui vyi* ufiijr of the 17th Louisiana Regiment, and doea that gentleman credit as an observer of f- % ' vents. Cofpkk prom Mexico.?From a late camber of the Saa Aotooio Herald we take the following item: Considerable quantities of coffee are be* ing brought to oar city from Mei co. The tide of trade has been turned of late. In* stead of getting their coffee from New Orleans, as formerly, oar merchants are famishing shipments of it for that city. Mexican coffee, which is a very superior article, is now selling in this city at from 4ft io4(jL cents per poand. Rio coffee, it is. probable, will soon be brought from Mexico in large quantities^and at lower figures. The supply can be increased to any quantity -required by the market, and we are informed am pie arrangements to that effect have been made. JHHr'' 19" The ordnance report to the Lincoln Navy Department from the fleet at Port Royal, shows the following to have been the quantity of munitions expendedjn the . capture of the Confederate works on Hilton Head and Bay Point: 22,880 pounds of cannon powder, 300 11 inch shells, dp 10.inch shells, 508 9-inoh shells,7018-iocb . shells, 704 82-pound shells. 128 80 pound Dahlgren rifle projeotiles, 5612-pound DabL gren howitzer projectiles, 66 30-poand salid shot. *' e - The Goveenment Prisons.?Captain a Gibbs, who, for some time past, has had e charge of the prison depots here, haa1?ea f promoted to the raok of major inth& JPkk visional army, and goes to Salisbury, N. y G., this morning, to wbioh place ill the r prisoners not sent away under the flag of i, trace will be transferred. The prisons in n Richmond will be kept as a receiving do-. g pot, and placed in charge of Lieat.jGairee ton, of the 19th Mississippi regiment. [, Richmond Dispatch, 13th inst. 0 Sugar and Molasses.?We learn from ' the Vicksborg Citizen that the' boats still condone to bring large quantities of sngar E and molasses to the landing of that city, ? and the levee is all covered over with bag* 8 rels and hogsheads. The Citizen is told ? that the shipment of these articles .on the Southern railroad are so large that the cots* paoy is compelled to refuse receiving aojf f more at present, not having sufficient roll* 1 iog stook to forward it eastward. ^ Raleigh Register. I. Surrender of Vera Cruz.?While e oar own great straggle progresses, other v events are looming op around us that will a give their impress to this remarkable era. A a The Havana intelligence confirms the fed of the entire surrender of Vera Cros to the Spanish arms. The debarkation from thd e fleet and the occupation of the city oocnr> red daring the month of December. The t Mexican soldiery retired to the interior, and the people of Yera Crux reoeived the ' new-comers as their protectors. What r next? 19* The New Orleans correspondent of 8 the Charleston Courier, under date of JaU1 uary 5th, says that the recent arrivals from Havana, in that neighborhood, have caused 8 a deoline in coffee. That article is sow ' selling in New Orleans at 50 eents per pound. The cargo of cotton whioh the steamship Vanderbilt took oat to Parana was boaght in New Orleans at 8 cents per 1 poand, in paper currency, and sold in the 1 latter port at 25 cents per poand in"gold ! 9 Her return cargo was even more profitable. Pregnant Queries.?The Louisiana - Baptist asks: 1 1, Have prodaoe sellers and Dry Goods s Merohaots reflected upon the' influence which extortionat prices mast have upe on oar soldiers on the battle field, whose a families at home are compelled to pay ex* t travagaot prices for the oeoessariea of life 1 e 2. Have they reflected what effect the a same coarse mast have upon those who ? may be called on hereafterlo volunteer ? Hoo Market ?A personal friend, just 9 from Nashville, and who has long been ip 6 the hog business, informs" as, that in the 9 coarse of a few weeks, meat oan be par* chased there in abundance, for eight cents -?? Tt*a nnonrnmpnt hnn ?nmnlfttad its UCV> X aw vvrvt MH-v*.* ?? ? ? ? r purchase, and the supply is yet abundant g Columbus ((7a.) Sun. e tar The Cincinnati Gazette estimates e that there will be a surplus of 89,000,000 t pounds of Bacon in the Northwest this year j should the rebel markets not be opened, t but if the latter event should take plaoe the 3 hog crop would not supply the demand ? It is conjectured that the Lincoln army t will consume 40,000,000 pounds daring the year. 98* ^Hermes," the spicy and vigorous 1 Richmond correspondent of the Charleston 9 Mercurfy, says that at a turn out of "the * inelish," in the former city, the other day, 1 one regiment mustered fifty six officers and ' twenty six privates. That's the crowd to r play soger with. f 98* The Cincinnati Commercial, reviewing the several propositions for .emancipation in the South, sensibly asks >? "Had'ut their armies better be whipped be' fore we emancipate the negroes V* tQT H. H. Carter, of Arkansas, hn , manufactured, in toto, a splendid six afcfiOU i it wnich will send a shot to the distant of a a quarter of a mile.