Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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For each additional line, #1. 1 "* *?- - -f ?% Ttaafhg VntlPRinf ijft' IjT aQUDOJJCOiUCUUl*uotiio^vo v. i Meeticgg published GRATIS and solicited. Eg* Tributes or Respect rated as advertisements. Ky* Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length, wilTbc charged for the overplus at regular advertising ? rates v' %*Personal Communications, when admissible ; communications of limited or individual interest, or reeommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, profIt or trust, will be charsedfcrtt from 3 to 10 cents per line. Our Future if Defeated in the Struggle. 5 The Rev. J. R. Thomas, President of Emory College, Georgia, in a letter dated the 19th ultimo*, says: Much has been said of late about oar prospective condition if the Yankees sueoeed in ovt"-runniog the country. Some of the pictn?3s which have been drawn are frightful To look at, and yet I do not believe that any one of tbem truly represents the facts of our future history if we are to be a oonquered people. The phrase "colonial vassalage," has no force or meaning to convey the slightest > idea of wb(t will be our real oondition.? Whether we make inferences from a just estimate of Yankee character, or from the appaliog facts of Yankee history siuce this war commenced; whether we credit their own declarations as to their proposed line of policy towards the South after our sub-1 jugation, (of whieb they seem to nave do doubt,) or whether we reason from the premise of a monstrous national debt which the war is entailing upon them?a debt so frightfully enormous as to preclude ail hope r. of payment, unless it be by the total eon, v fiscation of all our property and the levying of a lifetime tax upon cs and our children; in any event, we shall reach the certain conclusion that our doom will be that of the most debasing bondage ever imposed npon any people. Tbe present condition of Southern slaves will be a paradise in comparison with what these malignant fanatical marauders have in store for us, if they succeed in their wicked purposes. An opportunity will than be furoisbod them, for sating a long cherished feeing of bitter ha-1 tred. There are doubtless millions at the North who are so deluded and enslaved to the 8W8y of a devilish fanaticism, that they wonld deem it an act of Bcrvioe to God to snbject us to tortures worse than those of the old inquisition. The horrors of our fate would be aggravated by the semi-barbarous element which predominates in the Federal army. Their - ^ soldiery would, doubtless, be quartered upou us by the half million to keep us in subjection, and perpetrate daily outrages upon us ?' ?a soldiery very largely made up of raw emigrant Dutch?many of whom are the most savage, meroiless and ferocious brutes that ever disgraced the form of man. it ^ has been my iU fortune to know something I of these remorseless monsters. Many of oar German emigrants?especially of those who are partially or well educated, are noble 8t>eoimen8 of humanity, and make the 1 ; > ? best of citizens, bat the illiterate, low Dutch, recently landed upon Northern soil and constituting a larje element in the Northern army, are, beyond ooncoption, coarse, vulgar and brutal. They have no sense of decency. Their cruelty is beyoDd measure?there is no bounds to their lust, and their rapacity has no limit that is not prescribed by the strong arm of power.? Only imagine our condition, with countless hordeB of such demons quartered upon us everywhere, through all time to come, as the minions of Yankee despotism, to coerce - our obedience, to control our labor, and to >' ? exact as tribute all our earnings, beyond a meagre living for the dear ones whom God has given us. What is worse than all, and sure to occur if we should be subjugated, our wives and daughters would be exposed to the insaltsof these degraded myrmidons of Yankee power, and we oould resent it only at the risk of being arrested upon false accusation and oonfined in Lincoln's Bas tile for life 1 * Southern freemen, what think ye of this? The man who can, for a moment, think of it, without being almost frantic, must be as cold and torpid as a frog. If, with the knowledge of Yankee character in general?if, with the facts of this war before us, and the avowed purpose and policy of Northern functionaries and newspaper editors, together with the obvious necessity of keeping in our midst a strong and rapacious military force in order that we may be perpetually awed into subjection and coerced to pay the expenses of this in^ human war?if, with all this in full view, we withhold anything of toil or means which our Government may need, surely > the heritage of our fathers has been unworthily bestowed, and we'deserve even a worse state of bondage tban Yankee cruelty can inflict upon us. n 1 nMMnonaou nf thrills vjoniempiaiiDg uic oupiuuu^ ? ? ands who have dooe DothiDg, as yet, to aid the Southern cause, and the cold-blooded mercenary craft of thousands more, who have lost sight of every iuterest but that of ^ growing rich out of the spoils of this wrr, 9& and that, too, at the expense of the poor m soldier and his family, who have laid their \ ali upon the altar of our country, [ am constrained to acknowledge that i had misconceived Southern character?greatly uver( rated Southern patriotism in supposing that we bad but tew if any such creatures among us. A inert money-maker, in this hour of peni to our country, is a monster, whose infamy ought to be commemorated in opprobrious legend or song, through all suc, ceediog generations. Yet far more infamous and detestable is the man who, for the sake of making mou ey, will not only skulk from his duty when fighting men are called for, but who, when patriotic meu have gone to moet the fee, will aid and abet a system of monopoly which aggravates the poor soldier's buideo and sufferings, beggars his poor family, impoverishes the country in all the resources and applianoes of war, and thus indirectly! subsidizes the enemy in his work of subjugation. All such men, together with those who are doing what is worse than to destroy the cereal produots of the country, by transforming them into poisonous fluids, aud then charging the most enormous compensation for achieving the .work of ruiu. All such men as these ought to have their names enrolled iu a "black book," and their memories ought to be preserved but' to be,execrated, down to the remotest generations. J once knew a narrow-souled I mk/tm /mn T Oflmit. LUUU&lCll&t?} nuUUi Uljr Oohluv j x. ? *\*kx**vted to-atemporary intimacy, during which time he related a dream he had. Be dreamed that the devil met him one night and proposed to pay him oDe hundred dollars if he would steal and carry an infant to him, down to bis infernal smoky caverns below?"and," said he, "strange to tell, I ratified the contract aod fulfilled its stipulations " I should not think it strange if all the distillers, all extortioners and all mere money-makers, in this crisis of our country's peril, should, without hesitation, ratify a similar contract if opportunity should be presented. Satan, however, will hardly trouble himself about them. He feels sure of them any way. If any cases can defy the power of atoning blood, these men bave good reason to quake with fear and trembling. O, my countrymen ! I implore you to denounce these monsters. Let them be scowled upon by the intelligence and patriotism of the land, and let their names be handed down npon the scroll of infamy. We have no time, now, for anything but the best expedients for clearing out our enemies. Let there be a general uprising of our people, from one end of the Confederacy to the other. Let all our means, if necessary, be directed to this glorious ob jeot. What is our pelf when the foot of invasion is upon our soil, and when our all of" treasure?our liberty?our altars?our wives and our children?all are imperilled? ? . i . .-t.iV. j r.u:.. We KflOW not wnai IS DO DO tut* issue UI nils straggle, but we do know that anything else is better than subjugation. We may not make a sucoessful defence, but one thing wo oan do?we can die nobly, every one of us?we ought to do it rather than submit to such a foe. It will be a glorious martyrdom. God will honor our devotion. Our wives, our children and other dear ones will love our ashes, and our memories will be revered by unborn generations. If we fall it will beour own fault. God will be on our side if we will permit Him to be, but He helps those only who help themselves. Let us do our best; then we can trust Him. This Southern Confederacy is the last hope of freedom and the iust hope of a pure Gospel. God will help if we honor Him and do our duty.?Atlanta Confederacy. GEN. JOE.^JOHNSTON. "Timon," the Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Courier, in a letter dated 29th ultimo, has the following in regard to m this able general and his recent Fabianj strategy: Private parties who have arrived here to-day from the North, represent the Lincoln Government, and the Lincoln Generals, have not only been surprised, but greatly alarmed, by the recent masterly movements of General Joseph E. Johnston.? The New York Herald has maps and essays upon triple sheets, in illustration of "the situation." The Yankee Generals, fearing masked batteries, traps, aud anoth er Ball Bod experience, nave renrea 10 their lines of the Potomac; and they freely confess that by Johoston's policy their pro gramme has been thwarted for at least ninety days. Bat they may calculate, and the Herald may amuse itself and its artists with speculations : for the future ''situation" of General Johnston is likely to unpleasantly employ their skill. It is not iin-1 probable that, if Bennett's organ is to fol-j low his strategy, it will bear to facts the relation which the dying Dolphin bears to I color; and if oar newsmongers will only praotice a little share of the retioence of our favorite General, Yankeedom toill soon be taught a new lesson in the history of invasions. At least, 1 ask the readers of the Courier to pat firm and implicit faith in our Government, and to expect glorious deeds from the genius of General Johnston. He is the favorite of all thinking, intelligent and experienced men in this region. His intellect and fine common sense now begin to display themselves grandly. Between him and the President there is a perfect and harmouious understanding?the one faithfully relying upon; the other. Johnston is perfectly reticent, and the anecdotes told of him by his familiar observers are always instructive, and sometimes humorous. He never relies upon Aid, Commissary or Inspector- Gener al for the discharge even of the most trivial nf imrvnrtnnt rintioc Re lnhnrs without v* ?r- ? ?~ cessation, until he has seen that -nil has gone right. To every paper of note issued by bis authority; his own signature is affixed j down to the furlough of the humblest private. That popular and accomplished officer who is his aid?and of whom I heard the President speak yesterday in terms ot high commendation?Major Thos. G. Rhett, Major R. G. Cole, who is his Commissary, and Major Luy, his Inspector General, never know to day what are to bo the marching orders of General Johnston to-morrow! But his great labors sometimes render hint oblivious to those who surround him. A story is told of him in this respect too good to be lost?olio of hi.si favorite officers, indeed a moss-mute, accosted him pleasantly a few mornings since. But the Geuoral scowled, muttered to I himself, and never recognized the oompli! ineut. The anfortunate man felt uot aloue ' slighted but humiliated. He went to i\laj. Rhett, related what had passed, and grievously protested that be knew not how he could have ofieuded his superior officer.? Dinner hour having come our pining friend was not at the mess. "Where is ?? ?" inquired Gen. Johnston. "He is mortified and afflicted by the slight which you put upon himtbis morning." ".Vc slight him?" exclaimed the General. "I have not seen him to day." An explanation ensued, the officer was sent for, Johnston apologized, and peace was again restored to the bosom of a loyal and sensitive soldier Soon after, however, while pacing in one of these moods by the door of his residence, an officer, with a saddle on his back, inquired of one, his-superior in rank, if he knew where to direct him to a shoemaker. "There i9 one," was the waggish answer, pointing at the same time to Johnston, who was in cit- 1 izen's clothes. Onward strode the interro [ gator untii ho reached the iatter. tie tnen i 'threw down the saddle, and looking sternly at the General, with his hands in his pockets, gave the word of command, "That saddle must be ready in one hour, sir."? He then turned to depart. "Hold !" said Johnston. " What did'you observe ?" "I said have that saddle ready in an hour," responded Captain Obstreperous "Do you know who I am ?" "Yes! you are a shoemaker, and I want you to hurry up too I" "I am Gen. Johnston, sir," shouted the 1 commander. In another moment, the sad- 1 die was picked up, and the Captain in retreat. "Halt!" shouted the Genera!: "who told you I was a shoemaker ?" "An offi- ' cer, sir,?I don't know his name." "Then 1 leave the saddle and return in an hour precisely " He heard and he obeyed. In one hour the saddle was mended and in his possession. "Now, Captain," said the General, "endeavor to servo your country 1 as I have endeavored to oblige you, and 1 depart." Such a man makes heros and patriots out of soldiers. But he is also a 1 rigid, severe and jealous disoiplinariau.? 1 And for traitors, or persons suspeoted of 1 treachery, he has no charity, lenity, or 1 oommisseration No person, civil or military, is permitted to cross or recross his lines, unless possessed of his own special permit. Whoever is found, without this authority, inside of the prescribed and forbidden limit, is immediately arrested and brought before him. Under such ciroum- 1 stances, prevarication or suspicion is fatal; and the General's orders are simply?"send bim to the rear !" More of Lincoln's Troops Captured. Oq Monday night, it was rumored in our i city that a gkirtuish had taken place betweeu our troops on Wilmington Island, a portion of the 13th Georgia, under command of Captain Crawford, and a party of Federals, but having no "official information" on the subject, and not wishing to give to the public the vague and unreliable reports which daily float through the city, we refrained from giving it publication.? It appears, however, that a number of the enemy, said to be between sixty and seventy men, were landed on Wilmington Island Our men waited their approach, and when within range opened fire on them. The Federals, who belonged to the 46th New York Regiment, were commanded by Lieutenants Leibi and Reddish. One Federal was killed, shot through the head. His name was Ludwig Herwick. He resided in 37th street. New York, where he has a wife and two children. Another, named John Miller, was wounded in the side.? He was from Baltimore, and died on Tuesday morning at Thunderbolt Ho leaves a wife and three children. The prisoners state that their Lieutenants and seventeen men escaped iu a boat through a cicck, and express their regret that they were not captured. They state that their officers evinced great cowardice. TKq nrionnopj aatr t-hnfc Rriinpfimft sinfifi f?J tl\e 3d Illinois regiment was ordered from Port Royal to Tybee, 6at that after landing, became dissatisfied, and a mutiny ensued, when they were ordered back to Hilton Head, and the 46th New York regimeDt was sent iu their place The Germans assert that the Yankees would not fight, and that the Germaus were, on all occasions, sent to bear the brunt of the contest. The vessels on whioh these men were was an old whaler, armed with three guns, one of which was a thirty-two pounder and the others were six pounders. The vessel is represented to be a miserable hulk, and only intended to blockade the port One of them says he was with the party who captured Barron and Ayers, and that they are on Hilton Head. They also state that Patsey Egan, who was carrying a mail to Fort Pulaski and was captured, is also at that place. They state that they are well treated. They informed us that the Federals are erecting a formidable battery opposite Fort Pulaski. It contains from twelve to thirteen large mortars, five or six ten-inch Columbiads, three eight-inch Columbiads, and a number or Parrot guns. They confirm the previous report that the Federal marines are alone engaged in digging out Wall's Cut, and that it would soou be accomplished As soon as done the gun-boats would enter Savannah river, and in co-operation with the fleet, would attack Fort Pulaski. They also stated that a negro from Savannah, who said he belonged to a Mr. Wash, had arrived at Tybee. There are uow some ten or twenty negroes on Tybee. These men were at Hilton Head during the bombardment, but took no part in the action. They say that the Federals sufferered more than the Southerners; that they lost many in killed and wounded, and the hospitals at that place are full of sick soldiers. j They tell the usual tale that they are tired of the war, and that all their comrades in the 46th are dissatisfied and wish to return home. The Late Skirmish.?DariDg the late skirmish on Wilmington Island, we regret to learn that u member of the 13th Georgia Regiment, named Brown, received a musket ball in his left side, and it is feared that the wound will prove fatal. He is at the hospital at Thunderbolt, and receives every^ttontion his situation requires. ?Savannah. News, 2d. Good.?The Abingdon Virginian tells the following good 'uu of two persons who claimed exemption in Smythe County: One man, in enrolling himself wrote his name, 'One leg too short.' The next man that came in, noticing the excuse, and deeming it pretty good, thought he would make hit own better, and wrote opposite his name, 'Both legs too short.' " Late from Newbern. A gentleman who has recently returned from the vicinity of Newbern, N. C., in forms us that the Yankees have complete possession of the town, and are helping themselves freely to everything they desire. Gen. Burnside has appropriated the partial residence of the President (ft the Bank ol Commerce as his headquarters. General Foster has taken possession of another hand' 9ome dwelling, and Gen. Reno occupies the Bank of Newbern. The pickets of the Vandals are thickly stationed in every direction, for nine or ten miles out, but our scouts and piokets are so familiar with the country, that not a daj passes without sealing the fate of a Yankee. .1, 1 / l/ne vunans are pillaging tne people tor miles around, stealing every article of value upon which they can put their thievish hands. One day last week they went to the house of a widow lady, residing some seven or eight tniles from NeWbern, and seized a splendid piano, placed it into a wagon and drove off A faithful old dar kie on the plantation, knowiug the locality of some of the Confederate pickets, slipped away and made known the movements of the thieves. Our men laid in ambush, on the side of the road, and as the wagon approached, rushed out and demanded a surrender. The Yankees immediately got out, and intimated a willingness to succumb. One of them, however, attempted to run, but was halted by a well-directed shot from one of our men. The explosion of the gun frightened the mules hitohed to the wagon, and they started off at full speed, taking the wagon and the piano safely into Newbern. On Friday la3t, three hundred Federals landed from their gun boats at Washington, N. C. and headed by a band of music marched through the town, playing Hail Columbia, and waving the stars and stripes at a lively rate. The few people who had remained in the place since the fall of Newbern, received them with marked coolness. Their music and their banners wholly failed to arouse any of that Union feeling which Marble Nash Taylor collected several thousand dollars in New York to set -free, so they left without disturbing either persons or property. The people, we hear, are burning theii cotton and turpentine in all directions. Foi miles and miles, our informant states, immense columns of dense black Bmoke, are ascending to the heavens and darkening the skies. Capt. Sutton, who was taken prisoner al Hatteras, and suffered a long oonfinemenl at Fort Warren, gathered all his cotton intc a pile, surrounded it entirely with all the turpentine he possessed, and then, with his own hand, applied the torch. Recent advices from the scene of battle, confirm the fact, that some of the hardest fighting was done at Newbern, which has occurred during the war. Col. Vance's regiment, also Col. Avery's, Col. Campbell's, and particularly Whitford's Battery, fought with tiger-like ferocity, piling up the Yankee dead. Whitford's Battery, it is said, played upon at entire brigade as it advanced, and everj shot swept through and through the lines, as many as fifty falling at a time. It is stated that Burnside has offered a reward of 81,500 for the securement of Captaic Whitford's person The Methodist Church, both hotels, ont of the banks, and a large academy, are al used as hospitals. Hundreds and hun dreds of the Vandals have been put undet ground already, and hundreds more yei linger in extremis, with no prospect of re oovery.?Petersburg Express. Affairs Along the Potomac. The Fredericksburg Herald has the following of affairs along the Potomac: We learn from a gentleman who has jusi arrived from the upper country that lasi night fifteen thousand of the enemy were ? mile and a half this side of the Warrentoc Junction, on the Alexandria and Orange railroad. During the evening General Stuart'i cavalry captured ten of the enemy. These men say that the fifteen thousand are being closely followed by fifty thousand more.? One of them stated that the fifty thousand were to advance upon Fredericksburg froa Catlett's Station. Another said that an army of fifty thousand, disconnected froa their division, was to make the advance upon Fredericksburg. Our informant was in company with some of the cavalry scouts, and saw the encamp ment of the enemy at the poiot named, but formed no opinion of the number. The number is based upon the statements of the captured prisoners. The command was under Geueral Sherman. It is reported that several of onr pickete were captured this week in the vioinity ol Dumfries, by the rather sadden appearance of seven hundred of the enemy's cavalry. On the other hand, our piokets oaptured seven of the enemy this week, not far from Evausport They had .strayed off from camp, and were without arms. On Tuesday night, eight yawl boats, filled with men, were sent ashore from two steamers in the Potomac, at Body's Hole. They landed at "Somersett," Mr. Henrj Fitzhugh's place, and without any provocation whatever, burned his newly-erected large dwelling house, together with most, if not all, his out buildings. We hear, also, that on a reoent oocasion, Jim Lawson, (the late body servant ol Colonel Tayloe,) who ran awuy from his master a few weeks ago, landed in a boal at "Chatteron," with a number of other negroes, and proceeded to the house, where he demanded the keys of Mrs. Jones, whe was thero at the time, and, after ransacking the premises, took what he wanted.? Jim was dressed in uniform, with a sword by his side, and was addressed by his companions as "Captain Lawson." It is said be is a captain in General Hooker's army It is reported that the negroes who latelj ran off from Mr. G. B. Wallace, of "Little Whim"?thirteen in number?were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in attempting to get to a steamer in the Potomac. . 3 A gentleman from the Potomac reports that the Yankees have been carrying a great number of troops from Washington down the river, probably to Newport News. Io two days upwards of a hundred tags and ' transports heavily laden, have been to pass down. ! Heavy firing was heard all day ThuraI day along the Potomac from Boyd's Hole, and seems to extend as far as Washington, ' and firing was also heard Thnrsday evening ^ for about an honr in tho direction of War' renton. i What they may Expeot. The Northern people, by professions as - profuse as they are insincere, would fain i lead the negro to believe that they are his i friends, and from the fact that a few of our 1 colored population have availed themselves of the'Opportunity presented by the present state of affairs to escape from kind masters 1 and comfortable homes to find a refuge among these miserable hipoorites, we are lead to infet that their "blannery" has not i been altogether thrown away. That the poor deceived wretches who are thus led away by Yaokee lying, find out when too late that they have misplaced their confidence, and been made the vie timsofaoruel oppression, needs no other demonstratious than their own testimony. Of this we have an abundance, and it is all in the strain?regrets that they left their home?longings to return thereto, and bitter denunciation of their oppressors, i It will be remembered that we published sometime since a letter from a negro man who escaped to the Yankees addressed to his master in this city, which he ab> jured him to keep a strict watch upon his i children, whom he had left behind, and not suffer them to be deoeived; that Yan kee land was a hard road to travel, and not a fit place for his children to be. This i letter was actually received, and was the production of the negro to whom it is aci credited. We have now another proof of the crueli ty of these hipocrites toward those whom they profess to love and sympathize with. It will require but a few words to give it and yet it fully developed the character of these venomous reptiles who crawl in the dust before those who are only when the object of their venom has been securely > bound and rendered harmless. i It is stated by a gentlemau who came a passeoger in the traio from Weldoo on ' Monday afternoon, that in conversation with a paroled prisoner from Newbern, he learned that the negroes at that place not i behaving themselves altogether as well as ; they were expected to behave, or, if you please, becoraiog a little boisterous, a de ; taohment was ordered out, and forty of the ; wretches shot by order of the commanding i omcer. ( It is trne that, from the account given i us, they used language not calculated tc make the ears of their severe task-makers i tingle with delight?such, for instance, as ; they were as good as Yankees, and othet i remarks of a similiar character; yet where is thr. recount of a Southern overseer pun, ishiog with death the insolence of the ne groes over whom he has jurisdiction V Verily, verily, it may be said of the na tion of hypocrites who so deeply sympai thize with the poor slave as to preach ar gainst his enslavement and pray for and , contribute of their means to effect his de) liverance from a nominal servitude, for the i purpose of inflicting upon him such deep i and gross wrongs as would make the heart of his humane Southern master shuddei i ?verily, we say, it may be said of this naI tion : "Ye are of your father, the Devil." ?Norfolk Day Book. i The War. What is the North fighting for? The} have set aside the Constitution, and liberty under it?so they are not fightiug for con stitutional liberty. They have set aside the honor of an A merican citizen, by pretending to respeel t property and then destroying it?so the} t are not fighting for honor, i They have set aside respeot for womer i and children, which savage natioos have al i ways entertained, by murdering them it cold blood?so they are not fighting for the 3 principles of humanity. 3 They have set aside the commandment > I nThnii ahnlfc not stftftl." hv marauding and , ? 1 -j a appropriating, or destroying all they car I lay their hands on. i They have abandoned the American i Declaration of Independence, which claim i ed that all men are entitled to "1 fe, liberty, i and the pnrsuit of happiness"?so they are not fighting for political princle. j They have incarcerated men and wo men on suspicion of certain po itioal prin t oiples professed by them, and universally ! acknowledged?so they are not fighting for i the rights of man. i They have imprisoned editors for asserting political rights?so they are not. fighti ing for the liberty of the press. F They have imprisoned age, and worth i and excellence in man and woman, because they have dared to express the language I of freemen?so they- fight not for free i speeob. i They are fighting against the ballot-box by surrounding it by their myrmidons with , bayonets?so they are struggling against > the right of Democratic representation, and in favor of tyranny. i For what else, then are they fighting ? For the unlimited power of numbers?rhe ! right of might?the first element of savage , sooiety. ^ They are lighting for the subjugation of , a civilized people far superior to them in F the appreciation of liberty aod right, and i to reduoe to the yoke of barbarous oppresi sion those who have given character to a Government which, by fraud on the South, i they have subverted. > They are fighting for the means of en slaving a noble race, exalted among the nations of the earth, on the pretence of deI votion to an inferior race better oared for and enjoying more freedom than their own i olass of laboring population. They are fighting for their own existence ' as a people, who can only live by preying > upon the labor and rights of others This is the Yankee nation?this the ; great Lincoln Government, which is great in iniquity and its nefarious efforts to pro i pagate its wicked want of principle among a population imported to vote for the good of the few at the expense of the many. It is against such a people that the South has to assert and defend its glorious preroi gative?liberty of conscience, liberty of thought and speech and liberty of aotion; all of which will be defended while life lasts.?South Carolinian. The Metal of which Cannon are Made. The appeal of Gen. Beauregard to the people of Tennessee to furnish metal to be cast into cannon for the Confederacy, having elicited the voluntary contributions of the patriotio men and women of the South, the following letter from Adjutant-General Wayne, containing valuable information on the subjeot of the composition of gun metal, will be read with profit and inter6St March 25,1862. Mrs. Dr. Blackburn, Barnesvilte, Ga. My Dear Madam : I received, this morning, your note of the 24th inst, assu-. nog me that you had commenced collecting the old bras9 and copper in the hands of your citizens, and asking me to state whether such articles are needed and where they should be sent. I fear that some of our patriotio citizens, with more zeal than knowledge, are about to inconvenience sadly our good housewives in Georgia without any corresponding advantage to our cause. Brass is a composition of copper and zino, and of no use in making guns, which, like bells, are made of copper and tin. If Gen. Beauregard, in his appeal to the planters of Mississippi, meant anything more than to arouse their slumbering patriotism to aotive exertion, he wanted the tin of whioh their bells were, partly composed. We have the copper, but for the fabrication of bronze, (commonly but erroneously called brass guns,) we want tin.? That you may uqderstand this, I will tell you that soience has determined for guns, as best, the proportions of nine parts of copper to one of tin; and for bells, seven or eight parts of copper to three parts of tin ; By having a large number of bells, therefore, we can add two or three times the ! weight of copper, as analysis may determine their composition, and bring them to the standard of goo metal. The lightest A A_rtAnn/)nw UmU*piCUO ill UUI uavbcucoj a v-pvuuuvi) weighs on aa average, eight hundred and eighty-four poands. For the easting of a 6-pounder, therefore, at least one thousand pounds of metal would be necessary? Bronze guns are used ia field batteries, only i for their lighter weight, by which the battery is more readily moved. They are not so durable as iron guns. Soience, within the past five years, has opened the way for casting irou guns of sufficient lightness for field uses, and there is not a foundry in the Confederacy that is not now working to i its utmost ability. If there is I should like to know it, and it should not be idle i long. The tin referred to is block tin, not sheet t tin, wbioh is only sheet iron, washed with a solution of tin. I mention this that we may not have our roofs stripped to no pur-1 pose. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, HENRY WAYNE, Adjutant and Inspector-General. From the Edgefield Advertiser, . "If you have Nature in you, Bear it j Not." , Our loss at Fort Donelson is 23 Regi. ments; at Roanoke Island severe, besides . 2440 Prisoners, released on parole; the Fishing Creek defeat, where the gallant 1 Zollicoffer fell; the loss of our own Port Royal; the occupation of Nashville and Newbern, and other disasters, certainly should awaken us from our tatai letnargy, r and should open the eyes of the soundest f sleepers in our midst. The crisis has come. . Let every man from 18 to 00 rally at once to the defence of his country. Let those . uoder 18 and over 00 (for the present) : form tbc Home Guard. Dcn't. wait for a r draft, but be men for once in your lives.? Volunteer and cheerfully go either to Viri ginia or help meet the requisition for 5000 . made on the State. Be up and doing, or i leave for the swamps. If the latter is ohoi sen, be sure to beg, borrow or steal petticoats and hoop skirts?as many of them as will be let cheap, tho rightful owners bav[ ing to take your places in the army. Don't i for a little cold, rheumatism or sore toe, claim exemption, for fear the uncharitable i might suppose you wanted protection too. Abraham's protection would be of little avail here, and the women (God bless them,) j have no use for cowards. Our great and glorious cause may languish for awhile, but can never die, upheld as we fondly hope by our Maker, and blest by the labors and the prayers of our women. Were the men in the Confederacy to do one half what is being done by the women, a speedy and healthy reaction would soon take place; and instead of losing near one-third of our beloved country, the whole of it would soon be in safety. But if things do not improve we will soon be a bye word and reproach, i not only to the Yankees, but to the more decent nations of the world. A change must ocour and that soon. Our outposts in Virginia and other places must be strengthened ; our own dear State must have troops?and thoy will be had even if the disgraceful resort of a draft has to be applied?but as a gallant old man of this District well says: "'Tis better to be kil1 1 ? *A ka anWAlIo/) oo o I (3d 88 ft VUlULuecij tuau iiu ut ouiuuvu uo w drafted man." The time has passed for douDt and hesitancy. Action, prompt and decided aotion is needed. A VOLUNTEER. High Pay.?A Richmond correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist says: "How beautifully a paragraph like this will read in the future: "At the most critical orisis in tfc? great American revolution of 1861, the . ambers of the Southern Congress were discussing about the amount of salary they should vote themselves for doing three hours work a day?although at the time they were receiving eight dollars a day for their services. They finally voted themselves a salary of 82,760 a year? this, too, in the face of the faot that many men more able and talented than themselves were fighting the battles of their country at a salary of about 8150 a year. Speech of a Patriotio Negro. There was a sapper got ap the other day by tiie colored folks of Gonzales, Texas, for the benefit of the sick soldiers, at which $60 was raised. The following speech, delivered by one of the darkies, we find in the Inquirer: Feller Citizens: I spose you wants me to spaoiate boat de casion ub die gatheria, and oar poor sick sogiers way back in Kentucky, ole Virginny, Norf Calina, and de rest ob de forrin countries. Hut what does yoa spose dem darkies is stayin out doors for ? Why doee'n you: j?y your four bits and oum in here, andjine wid us, an jine wid us, an joy yourselves wid dese white darkies poo de bountiful supper fixed by dese white ladies for us ? Dia rigger hopes dem niggers out dar ain't like de lousy calf?lib all winter an die in de spring. Aint you ail kep fat an happy, an when you gits sick don't yon git de best ob noussin from de missus, an when you cams to die aint de funeral formed by de good ole massa hisself ? Bat de poor siok soger way back in de forrin lands hab nobody to tend to him, an when he dies may be so he's pat way worse nor any Gonzales oonnty nigger is pat way. Maybe you'll nebber see de poor" sogier till yon meets him in heaven, den how'Il yon feel in dat glorified place when de poor feller say, "nigger, you owes me foarbite!" Dis nigger has gib all fur de war, an dis nigger will 'tinue to gib. I Dis nigger wish he ooald shoe de horses | for de enemy jast afore dey make dar big charge. Dis nigger drive de nail plum fra de, frog ob de horses' foot. We mast dribe de bobolitionists from ole Eeataok, dat forrin land whar dis nigger was born, an ole Virginoy, whar diB nigger's fader and mudder was fotohed up. I wish I was dar, I does. I'd git one bobolitionist shure, and may be so two, three, four ob em.? Feller citizens, cum long in. [Great applause.] An English Review on the American crisis.?The Northern papers complain of a ponderous article in the London Quarterly, in advocacy of the justice of the Confederate cause. The Yankee papers give but a few extracts from the article. Among these we find the following significant sentences: "It does seem the most monstrous of ao-J omalies that a Government, founded on the sacred right of'Insurrection,' should preI tend to treat as traitors and seven miilionsi of people who withdraw ffom the Union and merely ask to be let alone." Again: "There is verge and room enough on the vast Continent of North America for two or three, or even more, powerful Republics, and eaoh may flourish undisturbed, if so iaolioed, without being a source of disquiet to its neighbors. There will be no loss of anything which oondaoes to the general happiness of mankind, for the contest of the North now is confessedly for em? pire." Another: "Of one thing the citizens of the Fedeeral States may rest assured, that if ever the time arrives when the Confederate States may be entitled, according to the usual course of international policy, to olaim our recognition, that recognition will not be delayed an hour out of regard to all the menaces which the disappointment party may fulminate against us." The Duration op the War.?Wilbur and Smith's European Times, of the 1st of March, a very influential commercial journal published at Liverpool, concludes an editoral on the American war with the following significant, paragraph : The struggle is about to begin in earnest, and must terminate between March and May. We enter this day on the first of three months, and the next few weeks will be the most important in the history of the United States that have occurred since the States wrested their independence from the grasp of George the Third. Washington's great experiment, whioh has worked such extraordinary results during the last three-quarters of a century, will have to pass, in the next ninety days, through the severest ordeal to whioh it has ever been subjected. If the North cannot I L.C .. Q/\nfrV* in fKtfl Kflflf hmA DUUJ UgatC bUO UUUVil tu vuiu Vi.v. ???) which is very unlikely* it is almost moraUy certain that the "mlropean Powers will step in and propose terms, and in mercy to all parties?to the famishing operatives of England and France, as well as to the combatants themselves, the act will be real humanity. The South-West Aroused ?By a gentleman was has just arrived from the South-west vid*Mobile, we learn that the whole South-west is most thoroughly and' heartily at work. The Mississippi valley is one camp. The wave is gathering which is shortly to meet and roll back the tide of invasion. Had the elements of resistance been thoroughly aroused, and the proper machinery sooner in motion, muoh loss and suffering might have been avoided. It ia now a matter of time. The enemy's advance will be stayed and bis forces driven back, but at what point is somewhat doubtful. He may be able to oompel the evacuation of Island No. 10, or he may not. This will have no serious effeot upon the even* tual course of the oampaign, or upon its * "' ?UliAn?li nnnn tho I a n rrt H r>f Uuai icouibO) aivuuu^u i*^/vu ?uv *vwg?u w? time dariog wbiob tbat post can be held may depend the extent to wbiob the advancing wave may go. Below Forts Pillow and Randolph the enemy oannot penetrate. Of further important movements, we do not feel at liberty to speak farther than to say that they are in the right direotion, and it is only to be regretted that they were not sooner made.? Wilmington Journal. Worth Knowing.?If those who have smoke hoases, that have been used for some time, will take the earth floor, put it in barrels and ? .eoh it as they do ashes, then boil down the laxivated water, they will obtain more than enoogh salt to pay for the trouble. The writer knows of two instances in which the yield of one was ten sacks, and the other enough to supply a large family for a year.?[ Columbus Sun. Unole Sam as an Ovebsesk on Southern Plantationa.?In alluding to the bill of Mr. Senator Foster, taming Uoold Sam into a cotton planter in Sooth Carolina, which has passed the Senate, the New York Exprm says: The "elephant" of 8,000 or 10,000 p^a* per negroes being on their hand*?their natural South Carolina proteotora having runaway?we have no; alternative than to tarn negro overseen, and work the negroes as well as we can. But "Unele Sap" is notoriously the poorest sort of. a landlord, . and, of course, a much worse planter. We have no donbt that, in his near character of cotton planter, he will ran . in debt,, beejs over head, and that his "Boardof Receivers," "Guardians," "Superintendents," etc., will eat him out of bonseand home, and come np to the Treasury with the heaviest sort of unpaid bills! Bat what ; can we do ? The man that has aa "elephant" most not let him starve. A Mebited Tribute.?The Lynchburg Republican, in a late issue remarks ' "The women of this day have established their claim to be regarded as worthy of the matrons of the revolution. Nobly have they discharged their doty and fulfilled their high mission, tfhey have labored for the defenders of the country. They have olothed and fed them, and at the": couoh of the low-lying invalid their minis- " trations of mercy have been signal and abundant. Eveiywhere these self-denying'' women have shown a devotion to the cause, wbioh should shame those whose only aim has seemed to be that of making the most out ot the miseries of their bleeding oountry ?Xf our cause fail, which Heaven, in mercy, forbid?it will not be. because the women of the South have not done their dnty; nor yet because the. masses of our men have failed in theirs. We shall have to look higher for the causes of our miscarriage/' * ' From the West.?Des Abo, March 25.?The troops are gathering in Targe numbers at Jadisooport and Pocahontas.? They are in the highest spirits, in prospect of immediate service. General Van Dora and General Jeff. Thompson are preparing ior an eariy move* meat on some point on the Mississippi river. With this force it is considered the Mississippi Valley is safe from the enemy. Cobin'th, March 25.?The enemy an not in foroe higher np on the Tennessee river than Pittsbuig Landing, eight miles above Savannah, and twenty-two miles from Corinth. Their scoots had appeared yesterday in the vioioity of Licking Creek, ten miles on the road from Pittsburg, towards Corinth. .Another fight took plaoe at Eastport yesterday. Two of the enemy's gnu-boats, with two transports, opened fire on oar heavy battery. After they bad fired about forty shots we succeeded in driving them off, 'Tippled. Feom Fort Jackson.?A private Jet* tor, dated at Fort Jaokson on Monday, anticipated an early attack from the enemy. The writer says there an twelve steam menof-war anchored at the head of the Passes, besides the old Calhoun. Ten of them are long gun boats, propellers, and two?the Brooklyn and the Hartford?-eloope-of-war, mounting twenty-tw? guns each. These vessels have lowered .their topmasts, yards, and all their top hamper, and are in fact stripped for actioa. Oar garrison is actively engaged in potting the fort in complete fighting order. Every man is ready to have a tussel with the detestable Yankees, and a "more enthusiastic and determined set of? men I never raw. In my humble opinion, you will never see a Yan! .? ! ?? tiAansI in fha mninifv nf V?W fir. aco n ?i vooooi km vuw i v? *?%m* >*-* leans. None will pass this place until ihejr take the forts, and if they dp yon may rest assured there, will not be many prisoners. ?N. 0. Bulletin, 26th nit. ??> ?. The Beutal Ruffians.?The murderPus firing of the Yankees, says the Richmond Dispatch, upon the flag of truce which we sent, after the battle near Winchester,, to bury our dead, is of a piece with the shelling of a town fait of Women and children at Newborn; and with their whole inhuman and barbarous conduct through the~war. Gen. Shields the Commander of the enemy's foroes by whom this brutal deed was performed, is the same who reoeived an ovation from the oitfaeoa of Richmond soon after the Mexican war. This is his method of re paying Virginia hospitality. This same Shields was entertained in like manner by the citizens of Columbia after tbe close of the Mexican war, and received a sword from the State of South Carolina.?Ed. jBnq. Capt. Fey Caught?A rumor was current yesterday, which is vonohed for to ns as reliable, that the notorious Captain Fry, bridge burner and. traitor of Greene county, was captured in Dee county, Va.? " With a company reouited in East Tennessee for Lincoln's service, he was making bis way to the Federal lines, but was encountered by a body of Confederate troops, when a fight ensued. Twenty of Frfu men were killed, and forty, inoluding himself, were taken prisoners.?KnoxviUe Register, 25tA. 19* Andy Johnson, the military Governor of Tennessee, has arrived at Nashville. He made a speeoh an hoar long, and said became to restore the Constitution and ornsh treason. He called the Unionists to the rescue. Maynard and Etheridge aooompanined him, and made speeobes.? Etheridge said Bell was a secessionist, and the meanest of them all. The audience was exclusively composed of Yankee soldiers. Congressional.?The Senate, on Saturday, derided a question of constitutional construction viz; that a President can only bo elected by the people for the regular term of six years, and that if the offioe becomes vacant during the tend, the functions thereof most be exercised by an officer designated by law, antil the expiration of the term. .,