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W1B? 4ULITAKT FOLICY 07 BCT.. 600TT. Viewed entirely iu * militury point of view^ ?ii* pai ific policy towards the Southurti St *{< *' i whioh General Scott is undtrtPatood to ;be*?tt*? ging at Washington, must command the approval of intelligent and enndid minds, of all. sections and air parties. We arc persuaded that those who clamor so ipudly against the abandonment by Uft Government of ooercive tqealiVMfeliave not the'falbtefct idea of the imlactate difficultly aud'exnensfi of t!fe?nl?rt>?:>.? to which they would urge the Executive.? They hfcve a vaguo idea that a strong naval ex ^edition, carrying aorae thousands of" troops, could With great ease captilre the forts in the atceded States,.and reduce the country to subjection. Wo shall entitle ourselves to . their gratitude by condensing; from a military^work' <>f high authority,, ^'detailed-history of actions between ahips and. fortMSi?t1on^ which incontratably cstabliehi-e the gcne?'*l rule that guna ashore are euptt'fer U> guna afloat, - apd that , naval expeditions are utterly ithpoletit against a well fortified coast In 1796 a British expedition was' fitted out, at an expense of eight milliooa of dollar*, against Quiberon, a port of-the French coast. The bay of Quiberon is pronounced by Brenton, in his Britirh Naval History, "the finest on the coast of France, or parbapa in thd world, for landing an army." Moreover, the inhabitants of the country wore in open inaurrcction, and eager to inoorporate with the in-* ader*. Ten thonsand aoldiere were lauded and arm* furnished to as many more royalist troops, but the combined force failed in ^freir attack upon the fortification*, and General Ilochc, from his entrenchments, witii soren thousand men, held in check a body of cighteen^thousand, penned up, without defences, in the narrow peninsula. Thia single fact alone justifies the opinion, which the highest military authority in o'nr own army has expressed, that it would require twenty thousand men and the whole navy of the United States to overcome the fortiBcations which the Carolinians have erected in Chnrlcflon harbor. Io 1709 the English and Russians made a, descent upon Holland villi fourteen phi pa of the line and ten frigates, carrying about eleven hundred gun> and a great number of tran?T port?, with an army of thirty-six thousand men. The defeneive army cou?i;U.d of only twenty-eight thousand men. Besides their immense mora! and military superiority, the 1- -1 > -- - - uisudii mu wie co optration or the Orange party in assisting the landing of their fcroops, yet they failed to get possession of a single atrong place, and after a loss of six thousand men were compcllad to capitulate. "Such,'* ,aJ'* Allison, "was the disastrous ifsue of the greatest expedition which had yet sailed from the British harbor daring the war." Let the men who clamor for coercion most lustily de tide whether the United State* enn raise anoh naval expedition against the South a* that against Holland, and if to, if it is likely to be mora successful against a united, than that was against a divided, peoplel ^ In 1801 Um illustrious Lord Xelaon, the Napoleon of the Sens, with three ships of theline, two frigates, and thirty-five smaller vessels, made a desperato attack upon the harbor of Bologae, but was repulecd with severe lots. In 1809 the English fitted out an immense naval expedition to seixe upon the French defences of the Scheldt. Flushing, at the month of the river, was bat ill secured, aud Antwerp, aixty or seventy miles furlh cr up, wap entirely defenceless at the tirao when the British arr*? *ea si riusmng. ine unusii attacking force consisted ?f thirty-seven ships of the line, twenty-tfyee frigates, thirty-three sloops of iwenty-crght gnu, mortar and bomb Teasels. thirty-six smaller vessels, eighty-two gun.boats, innumerable transports, with over forty thousand troops and an immense artillery train, making in all, says'the English historian "an hundred thousand combatants." Yet the feeble defences at Flushing misted suceesifully a fire from the fleet, compared with which French officers, who had been al Au&terlitz and Jena, deelared that the canonade at those batilea vai amerO^eu J"en/ant and were only reduced by the land force* after a scige of eighteen days. In the meantime the fortifications at Antwerp had been repaired, and after a fruitless operation of a whole month in the rirer the English were gradually foreed to re1! treat to theoioulh ofthe Scheldt, and finally to evacuate their entire conquest Bach was . the result of an expedition con prising a navat forae more than threo times the number of all the ships ip the Navy of the. United States,. : >ndfcsvifeg-more than five times the combat, aBts of the whole United Stales Armyl Ili ll9t .a large French squadron attacked . Cagllari, whose defences were 00 dilapidated osscarcely to deservs the name, but, ait?r a botabardment of three days, Wa* signally de-r fested and obliged to retire In 1794 two British ship#, the Fortitodeof seTenty-four, and the Juno frigate of thirty-two' guns, at.aeked-aaman;^g|gWtolBy cf HortSlp) I ? tjnuoU prwf "6f tli? iu|*r!<#w^feo?, fvrtl6eelioii? tin tntultiros frontier defcncA Thp Hn (bf,J?fAnco is only eighteen and ? linlf mil*? jfrptn England it the ^fiwrowMt place of the Channel, it *M dotted with rich conrtnercial town*, offering dazzling booty; the French, navy was incompetent to their defence; the English navy was supported at an annual expanse of near t{iutty'~fniillont of doltart, was continually cruising Wiibin sight of Fron^b seaports. and. fkt>m Inuv nriolios. li?d acauired an intimate knowledge of the Preach harbor*, bays and creeks; the French harbor* and towns, stripped of their garrison* by the necessities of distant wars, were left with no other defence than tlieir fortifications and militia, and yet, thoygh.they were frequently attacked, and the most deperota efforts tnadc to^ef?. feet a permanent lodgment, they escaped ?mharmcd during; the?ntir?contei?, Let the Itopublicans who criticise General Scott so sav-*, agcly for Jissundiug the Geoernl Government from^UackingalMaodisifiT* hundred miles (Vom Scott's bftso of operatiops, reflect ttpon such faeta as th?s?; and consider whether General Scott-may oat possibly comprehend^the difficulties of such an undertaking better than themselTta. The history *>f naval attacks on. our own forts in the wars of the Revolution and 1812 ?wvu?? MO tug OHIUV icooVUi AO 1 IUQ OIT t OWr Parker, with.nine vessels, carry ing two hundred and seventy guns, wis repulsed by Fort Moultrie, armed' wit)> only twenty-six guns, and garrisoned by three hundVed' and' seventyfivij regulars and a few militin. The British were entirely defeated, and lost, in killed and wounded, two hundred and-five men, while the same lors in the forts was only thirty-two.? General Moultrie said that only thirty rounds from the battery was fired, and- the want of powder alone prevented the Americans from destroying the whole fleet. Ita 1814 Fort Buyer, a small redoubt near Mobile, garrison ed bj one hundred and twenty men, and' ha* ing twenty email pieces of cannon, some of them almost entirely useless, completely repulsed ? British fleet of fonr vessels, carrying ninety two guns, Mid fire hundred and ninety men, aided by a land force of twenty artiller Jt ?- ? ---? .u?q IUII vnu VBUIIVU dliu ?0?cn IIUI1UI VU HI1U thirty infantry. Notwithstanding this immense Jinparity of foroe, the enemy was completely foiled, one of hia largest ships entirety destroyed, and eighty-five men killed and wounded, whilst tho American loss was ouly eight or nine. , Again, in 1814,?* battery of one four-poonder and two eighteen-pounder guns, at Stonington, Connecticut, repelled a British fleet of one hnndred ana thirty-foar guns. In consequence of exhausting their ammunition, only one of the American^ne was used during a part of the engagement, yet the ships were so much injured that they were compelled to retreat yrith * loss of twenty killed and more than fifty wounded, whilst the loss on o&r side was bat two killed and six wounded. Our>eaders are all familiar with the miserable attempt to attaek this city in the same year. The British fleet consisted of forty sail, the largest of which were ships of the line, carrying over aix thousand combatants. Sixteen of tho bomb vessels and. frigates bom bnrdcd Fort licllenry for twenty-five liourf. throwing fifteen hundred shells, four hundred of which exploded within the walls of the fort, but mado no impressiou. The British were compelled to haul off with much lou. Equally ineffectual was the attack of a British squadron in 1815, on Fort 8L Philip, on the Mississippi, small work of only twenty guns, but which repulsed the -fleet after a continuous bombardment of cine days and uighta. oucu lacia at tnese ouglil (o reconcile the war party of tlie North to the peace policy which General Scott is believed to have successfully inaugurated at Washington. He knows better thau they that, even if coercion were just and humane, it would require a fleet and arm)' such aa Great Bi itain herself cannot raise, to obtain a permanent lodgment on the distant Southern coast and subjugate its people, ?Baltimore American and Commercial Advcrtiter. ' How to Conquicb tub BoKDKft States.?The Philadelphia Preti correspondent thus commends to Lincoln the policy of "divide and conquer" the border States by tlie purchase of publio men: . Wasbmotok,^. C., March 20, 1801. The pppointmeut of Hop. Green Adams, of Kentucky, to important.position under the Admistration of President Libooln is, unquestionably, intended aa the commencement of iik wise and conservative policy in reference to the distribution of. the patronage of the Adliilfijrtrsitjon inWt bordtrjIiir* States; fir. Lincoln yrlH not ?ppq?at ?^vBtpuEiicaps to the offices at his . diepoeitfou- in any of thcu* St&tes. Thefe tact, but few influential BepuWieftj^M* ?uy of them, with, possibly, the *?9?ption of Miseouri pod, Maryland. Ho therefore, th*?fw himself iipon the eonnaalaof <ths Un!?tt',.men,^jeh, for instance,. aa PreDtice,Johu^V Mason and Guthrie, in Lout*-' r~wr* ? "V- ?? >. fflrWT Wf&SSSK <<1'tors of th? Richmond Whig, ^ber?,.ln y?rgti^ ?dd w> on in r?8tate?.' If Mr. Lincoln c#o in Kgre^t.Union p^rty in tie '"VtyMBfcgbld the friwrtda of the coun?. opdNU oeceMfulIy npP/?*rdetiti?l campaign ^gg^oold be induced to act mU* doqa^lio tranovsil; iHSeptnp^!!# w. H " J&. ; j'ijfc i&?jbcbiHe ffessi. I'BBEVltLE, 8. C. W. A. LEE, EDITOR. > " V : 1' Friday Morning, March 29.186L . -V-*-.-1? U J. HT Tlie friends of GAIT. JESSIE JAY, announce him as a Candidate for .MA JpR ol the Lower Battalion of-the Eighth-"Raiment S. tJ. M. . The Editor's letter wne received late. We regret being compelled to oiqit^ portion of It. See advertisements of F.-Breda, J>. ^Vyatt AtkeoAad W.JQ*1 gmi%'the Richmond FHCor' ' > ??-.?, to -- * * I EES KIKE COLLEGE. . The Senior Exhibition of Erskine College coueanfif on. the evening of Wednesday the 8d of ApriL next. Exercises commencing at early candle-light. Tlio public are invited tu attend. . '? ^ JKE8SEB. XOBWOOD AND PELOT. We would direct the especial nttention ol our readers to the large and attractive advertisement of Messrs. Norwood <b Pjslot, Druggists and Chemists, of Cokesbury, S. C. Their Stock is large and varied, comprising everything kept in & first class Drug Store. They will be found gentlemanly and accommodating merchants. Give them a call. NEW GOODS. We are pleased to see that Messrs. Gray & Robertson, arc new receiving a large and seleot, Stook of Spring and Summer Southern bought Dry Goods. Their Stock is complete and the purchaser cannot fail to be pleased^ with their new and elegant Goods. Their Bonnets are tlie neatest and' prettiest of the season, to which we would especially direct the attention of our lady readers. An early call will secure one of the latest styles. For full particulars call at the Store, No. 1, Granit.? RkllOK Jnil <li? ... Q-. | wmm-ml kMV UVVUO IWI' ^ OUP eelves. ? - - - C0NFECTI0NAB1ES. Mr. E. Triblk has now on hand and is just receiving a large stock of Confcotionaiies, Ac., and solicits a share of public patrooage. llis goods are excellent, and- will be sold at the lowest living rates. He liav a largo supply of the best ItisIi Potatoes, Lemons, Oranges, Candy, It-aisous, Nuts of all kinds, Tobacco, Cigars, Sugar, Coffee, Porter, Ale, Sardines, Candles, Matches, Ac , dec. lie will please aa cept our thanks for the liberal share of OrangeB left on our tables one day ibis weelc.? They were of the finest and were duly appreciated by its. THE CONVENTION. According to the call of the President, tb< State Convention met in Charleston on Tuesday of this week. The most, important budines; before the Convention is the adoption or rejec tion of the Permanent Constitution framed bj the Congress of the.Provisional Government al Montgomery, for the Confederate S^tes. Thi? Constitution lias already been ratified by some of the Confederate States, and we have nc doubt that it will ratified by the State Con vention without a dissenting voice.^Anothei matter that will,"we presume, receive the at tention ef the Colftrentiojp js, the disbanding ol the first Regiment of Volunteers, now ot? Mor ris Island, imder command of Col. Maxcjf Gregg. Hiia Regiment was called info.aervice by the Convention, and the Companies formrag this Regiment gallantly responded, hurriedly leaving their businesses, at great sacrifices, and aince that time a large number oi Regulars from all sections of tlie^61ate bavi eniisieu id me service tor the term of twelve months or longer, end el the'present indications are decidedly pacific, the wsr cloud having to n considerable extent disappeared, we eannot doubt the propriety of their being discharged in a &ry short time. By doing so, it would relieve our brave men from the privations and hardships of the camp life for three months, thus allowing them to return to .their homes before Ibe hot and sickly season of the year. Religious Trouble ijc Enouand.?Tito Bishop of Darham has created an unpleasant sensation in England beeauso lie presented to Rey. Mr, Cheese, (not Cartis' "Cream C?l?ee?e, .)Pe< lviflre?lH?og!?tO?*I*-Sp?PO*. worth about $6,600 ft year, though the population or th?- psr[*b 4s- kit a? thousand souls. Wear this parish is the town of Darlington, with fifteen thousand souls and three churches micro luiuuiers nnve to live.by dividing ampng themselves the munificent sum of she hundred pounds, say three thousand dollars a year. The people of Darlington memorialized titf biahop to alienate some of the Hangh(on revenue* for the benefit of their churches ; but the bUhop dectioed to yield to the reqoeit, but rather irrelevantly replies thif be has eeut to the living of Hanghton a gentleman of fervid piety, who, ip ease the popalatigq^of this pariali increases,%will get additional helpfor himself. He nlfio pays a tribute to Mr. Mintoa, one of the Darlington clergy, Wbeing a "good man." The Saturdajf lUvu*, after' stating the ^oircumstances, adds: -v: "Vbbody says that Mr. anS Mrs. Cheese should not have their bread at papa's hand's ; bot^rbat people *pmplai?of.,ls that no eromhs fall to the ^tactcal La^ffof Darlington. A*# if the biahniavta? - M -.W?** tobAfoFjrfcuV'it U vorth?4i *?*? do not tell n iaefanee of fioly eeal. Mr, Cheese, in purraiBcioB, 1iMBWjBHMfeW? **$*?.* arafc A) wrrroKtAi coK^?sp?foEin5E. Monms Island, MnrcH Mjb. IUar, WiiioN :?Another wc?k liaagone ' by. and Anderson StiU|>olds Fort Sump'ter, a?jd instead of bnr own dear Palmetto Flaig, tbe "Stars and 3trip?" still float triumphantly over the wnlls of tbe fortress. "Hope deferred mateeth the heart'siok," nndjjaome of our. eager and restless spirits'are becoming a* inciedulous as ever asjjo the promised evacuation, and are * beginningNto doubt whether anything short of General Beauregard and his bon^b shells, will ever bring about tbo desired result; Saturday last was the day announced in the newspaper* as that on which the surrend|f of the fort was t<J take place, and as you may imngine, Sumter was^an object of eager interest arid constant! i scrutiny during the day, and particularly as I the hour approached for the dolling o( the N?w ( York Stertratr Columbia, which it was alleged * would probably tramport the garrison. At aboiit 8 oNjlook some qtJLlie oaufders an noun*,, ced to .the Camp, that a white flag was to b<^ feon iyor very near to Fort Suiter,, and vt immediately made steps Ifor the uearest sandhills,, to watch the progress of events. Sure enough, thefe was a steamer at the wharf of the fort, with a white flag floating -fr. m the - mast head, and wivh epy-glflss in band we anxf iouslyvawnited the sinbarkntion of the troops. There was no movement of any kind to be observed for sometime, and we began to think that the troops were busily engaged inside of the fort, prepariug their baggage. Ia a short time the steam- r left the fort, and the more sacguioe among us jumped immediately to the conolu*ion that tlic troope had already been stored away on board* At this moment a New . .York steam ship was seen approaching the fort, and conjecture became almost certainty, - - -i.- * - - a uvu UD sue jJBBBeu, U10 "SISri and StDptS" were suddenly lowered. But oa "Vent the steamer and up again went the flag, and we were sadly disappointed. Again our hopes ro-' vive ns anotksr steamship is seen to leare the city whari But that is not the Columbia, aaya one, the Cohanbia is a side wbocl steamer, and that is n sere w propeller. She" too passes by without a sign of recognition from the fort. Finally the Columbia herself heaves in sight, Approaches, passes, makes out to sea, and finally is lost to view?and with her our hopes seem "in the deep ooean buried." The solution of the whol e matter which thus excited oar hopes was, that a steamer had been employe^ t?> transport to Fort Sumter some of Capt. Fosi ter'a affects from Fort Moaltrie, and in the dia> i charge of her mission exhibited the white flag, approached Die fort, transacted the business, , and then quietly left. Hut is the fort to be eur, "renderedt and* if so, whenl We think tlmt there can be no- doobt that such must be the result, and in a very short time. Gen.^Scott urges it as a military necessity, Lincoln and his Cabinet adopt his conclusions, and the Black Republican.journals are forced to admit the fact, and justify its policy. But why. the delay t President Davis, and the Southern Commissioners perhaps know certainly?the rest 1 of us may conjecture. It would seem that the surrender of the fort is so important a step and 1 so much in the teeth of Lincoln's inaugural, that he wouTd again eona>'It his political r chart, the "latituJo and departure," and' ahitt ^ It in pnni'iA 1a *1.? - w sun* who vumgc ui circumstances. 1 lie and bis advistrs want time to mature a ! system of policy, and to prepare the public ' sentiment of the party, and to conciliate the ' more radical and intractable of the freesoil leaders. Let them have the desired delay, and ' let timo produce its natural result. The recogt rvition of the Southern Confederacy, and the Southern forts, may b<s delayed for a time, but we think, that thia result will rapidly succeed 1 the surrender of FoftSomter. There are but ;?,tWo aUemsirves?recognition or civil war.? ' Tbe.TWtiae itself admits-that it would be futile to. attempt the collection of TA??niU in thaaecedeu States,"ftjid to blockade Southern 1 ports, even if practicable, would naturally 1 provoke n conflict with the Europeon powers^, and necessarily a civil war at home. No mid* die ground or half way' measures ore left to 1 Lincoln's 'Administration. In the face of war, with an empty treasury, and a decreasing rev* ' enu$ the prompt recognition' of the Southern Confederaey would seem to be ? measure of vital policy and prime necessity. Tbia or a recognition of the Union on.^he^basia of th$ new Confederacy. This last ) to be depreoas. ted?we ar? At last free of allconnection with the North?let the alaveholding States shun all affiliation with the noh-el?T?holdibg. .. With the evacuation of Fort Samter, will | follow, we sappote, the discharge of our imeBt. _ ]Ve were raised for alpeqial purpose, and with the and a$eoriipliahad, oir mission will be ended:. The-Regular^ 'will' take our placaa, or else twel.romonth's Volunteers on the pay.of 'the fconffifrrata-States. 14. would nvw w yi* u^icn im opqo tsutt, to eon tinoe tu a ds/ longer tiM}? the exigences of. service demand. * Our discharge ia generally conceded to depend upon tbo. evacuation of the foH, arWt.l'e Convention which will on to-morraw-4 ill probably take some cotton id tn? / '' W*>tj#*i?t CoMtOn.frd, and only * few nighU eince, a veaael ia pa*fog ttp ihyohtnni>601Wto gtt? the prop* aifcoal#, ?afai4d .itftfc * fire of m?? k?t*y fNwp th* th? Vwt B?tteiyr. WDkstv q0fckl^.brooght h?r io. v ' ? W? ari g?rre rally in good h*?Ub.' Y Weh?T?ltUl3r b?d tb?fj?Wu1r? of greeting 1 of fri?odfc . ; i "J- j . k " }! . v* ' ' Wj % "?* flL-; :" * 'jj a*""-"1* ? v a 7 ' T7 ~ vf'TP* IwrMwawB OR' whleh ,ufc* plM? to-dny, will pw*nfc ? gr??l - "'WPg xw that of ptreviou yntt. The ?' ffWW1 Uwgenertl btuinete depression ; Mfckh bttiitiDlUd fniD ttikttaiM n# , pnb1ko5 p*rty i??t November^ Retrenchment fawgl&Udlo cr.?j lie ?pp??s?? of *U kiod? j? the con??flOfineo. THE IfOBlHSUr &&> BOUTHJ^H TABIFF8 1 ^"^OtfPABED. publifhed yesterday .tt)0 l,vto tnrjEh side ' "by side, bo ns to enat&e all rcadors interested to eorftpare them; StibjoiAed le'aUbl^.ofthe principal import*, with the dutiea of ?h.Ii tariff, from which it wjll be seen tbat in most cases the doty is doubte/'or 100 per cent greater. at the North than n?. ili? Bnnii. ? . ?! ?l % * Sf Arlicit*. pr et. pr ct. Cutler^*, - - - 30 16 Mfttbl mnnnfaclnroi -30 16 Glow manufactures -80 16 Ltncn - - - 26 to 30 16 Cotton Diaoufncturad 20 to 30 16 Sijk - - - - 30 15 ^ed^Iier ( . ,iMfej , 20to26 16 iy?airier, mruuilactureil - - 20 16 'Woollen manufactured 25 perot. to 12c. 16 Article* of woollen clothing 26 per ot. ** & 12c. lb. #8 Hosiery * . SO 15. Carpels * * 26 to 60c. *q. yard. 16 Blankets SO to 25 per ct <k 6 to 12c. lb 16 Hots - . - . 80 15 Woollen yarn - - -30 15 Velvet ... -v - 20 16 Wines .... - 40 25 Brandy - - $1 per gal. 25 l^per 80 15 Paper for ncw?t>ancr? . . sn ? Books, mops, Ac. - - 15 10 Brass, pigs .... 10 5 Copper, pigs ... 2 cts. Ib 5 Iron, pigs $0 to $15 p Ion. 5 Iron burs and bolts . $15 per t*>n. 10 Iron plates'and rails - $25 per ton. 10 Steel, bars ? 20 10 Tobacco, unmanuf,, in leaf 25 10 Tobacco of every other kind 30 10 Segars 20 to 60c. lb. & 10 per ct 25 Carriages and wagons - . 30 15 When to thi? wo add that gunpowder and the materials of whfoh it is composed; lead, in. pigs ov bars; shot or balls, for muskets, rifles and pistols; arms and ammunition of every kind,rogs ships and steam?rs, are admitted to the Southern porta free of duty; and when we futher state that the Southern tariff issimple and intelligible, while the Northern is complicated, self contradictory, and, in many puinta, unintelligible having been drawn up by an incompetent, ignorant mnn, who knows nothing of trade and commerce, it will 'appear evident tS all that the great bulk of the imports from Europe ^ ill be entered jn the Southern port*, and that there will be hardly any duties to be collected at the North to sustain the government, though its expenses will be greatly increased. The greed whiah suggested the Morrill tariff will defeat its owu pur pose, and it will be- necessary to inflict upon the Northern people direct taxation to keep the machinery of Government in motion. Well may thSComraisaionere from the Southern Congre?, taking the two taiiffa, present them to the governments of France and England, and say with exultation, "Look upon this picture and on this." The Southern tariff appeals with a force that i9 perfectly irresistible tn ilia - - ? ...? v?.um?.cioi luM-icew ui kite two greni Powers, while the Northern tariff is caloulnted to repel them, as it is to provoke the hostility of the enlightened spirit of the age. It is easy therefore, to, see which set of diplomats?the Northern or i&e Southern?is the more likely to sueceed, even if we did not take into account the argument of the supply of cotton boing dependent on the prevention.of civil war, and the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States by the two great Powers ol Western Europe. It is true the Southern tariff is not yet passed; but there.is no douot 1h9l.it will be when Lh? VI? ?? i^uaaviuuico 111 iuayv ii even q lqwerjionle of duties' s!iou\jl not be adopted Free trnde is the basis on which Southern commerce is placed in ~ the uew constitution. Id .the meantime the low tariff of IB57 is in operation at tile South, and will continue to be till the new tariff becomes law. So great is the difference between the tariff of 1867 and the Morrill tariff, that under the Utter seflreely can any merchandise be imported, while the treaeury-bf-the" Confederate States will overflow with gold; The expenses of the Southern tsnfederaey, en the other hand, will be email, while those of tJjo^Uiiited States will-be enormous. Economy is the order of the day at the Sooth?profligate expenfture at North. The duties whioh Will be hereafter <u?1le?l<M* h? - T J the Nortbern-confedersoywiH not amount to one-fourth Uie coat of keeping up lines of revenue poata on the Canadian frontier, the Southern frontier, and a coast guard from the Chesapeake to Aho jltlo Grande. Then the trWcat will find it* commercial interests so com plelely identified .idtfi the Confederate States , that it will become their most zealous frier, d and ally, instead of Joining in the mad schemes of coercion whiehara now being concocted at , Washington. The Southern confederey has * mighty destiny "before.ft, andlheonly way in ; xit.LVi.- -w?i - ' if. - - wun.u hiv iwrimm ovavea no snare at ana 09 gfcve.i from rain is by adopting the aey coDatiWi?L-ir. r, ? . - _ Fssxcm Oni(.ion or vim Mobkiu. Tawif.? . Among the items of news which eoq>? from the United States is one wliieli doM not directly concern the doraertia crisis, but is bo lew worthy of attention, for it has on international -Waring which ftl eie*fie no oni"? attention. Tba representative!1 of the-.Northern Statea, talking advantage of the absence of the South ^ S?*** naate to vote a new custom house tariff. Now. then, the North, which to deeiroa^cf protecting iU manufabler#*, is,Tery* abf?ithfu 1 to" i Jens of IiWty wheo it Jim to do it with tariff*, and does not keep in Ti'ew the iut*re?U of(Jit, Sooth^A The tariff h*r#toforc id force "wm very prcUctire, tiiet. H iiupi>??d.pn fereian merchant Um uxta?ith?r ''directly Or b* tombiaMfoofc. tay-MMiT^iaigliind, nd Thtrt I Et?.?Emtnon, ia hi? new Tolmnv Thai Conduct of Life; thus discourse of the human eye : "The>?yea of mcneonverse iM their tongues/,#5th the advantage that the ocular dinleet needs n? dictionary, but is understood all the world over. Wh?n the ej*es say one ?thing and the tongue another, a practical man relies on tbe language of the first. If the man is off his centre the eyes show it. You can i read in tbe eyes of your', companion whether ! your argument hits htm, though his tongue will not confess it. Tliore in a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thin", and a look when lie has said it. Vain oud forgotten ore all the fine offers and offices of hospitality if there is no holiday in the eyev IIow mnny furtive inclinations avowed by the eye though dissembled by the lips I One comes away from a coirpnny, iri-w^ich, it may easily hnppen. be lias said nothing and no* important remark, ha* been addressed to him* and yet, if i in sympathy wiih the society, hejihall not have a sense of this fuct, such a stream of life has I been flowine into him. and out fro*i bim through tho eyes. There arc eyes, to be sure, that give no tiior* admission into the man than blueberries- Others are liquid and d ep? , 'Veils thflt a man might fall into; oth'-rR ore apcresiive and devouring, seem to call out the police, take all too much notice, and require croWdcd Broadw^av*,, and the security of millions, to protect individuals against them. The military eye I meet, now darlcly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows; 'tis the city of Lacedmmon?*ti? a stack of bayonets. There are asking eyes, asserting eyes, prowling eyes, and eyes full of fate?some of good and some of sinister omen. The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts is n power behind the eve. It must be a victory achieved in the will, before it cau bo signified in the e3*c." j OBITUARY. DIED, On the ICth March at, his rflsid?noe in Grantville. Qeorpia, Mr. JAMES ELLISON PATTERSON*. son-in-law of Dr. W. C. Nor"wood, of this District. He leavos toffiourn his parly death, n daughter epod two years, arid a large circle of relatives and friends. COMIMERCIAl.. ' Abdevillf., March 29. There ?s good demand for cotton. Prices have an upward tendency. We quote extremes at 8 to H-ccnl?. GUN PISTOL STORE, In the Wooden Building adjoini.1 tut i-.n uig me iu.uruuu.il HouseTIIE undesigned, respectfully informs the public of Abbeville District, that he has opened here, n. Branch Business from Ander ou C. II., and offertt the sale of a large Stuck of Guns, Pistols, Fine Gun Material. &c.. ' just for Cash Trices, ns lie intends to carry on ' after this, Workmanship ouly. I F. BREDA. March 27, 1861. 48 It BLACK HAWK. : - a? THIS celebrated Trotting STALLION will otand the present season, commencing 10th MAR III, and ending 15th JUNF, at the following places, dtc: Every ^MONDAY and FRIDAY nt STOI^Y POINT; every TUESDAY at SMITH VILLE ; every WEDNESDAY at ABBEVILLE, C. II.; and every SATURDAY at NINETY-SIX DEPOT. He will be let to Ma^es for the very small " ii vi ?iu iui lupiiroiicc,* unu tor iwo marcs owned by the name person. Flying Black Hawk was 7 years old. 14lh of June, 1860, and was sired by the famous Ver^mont Black Hawk, whose superiority, as a trot ting harness Stallion, and sure foal-getter, sustained him triumphantly, for nearly two years over the Continent of Eurone. Him T1?m wn? Lady Matilda, a Morgan mare ovoed by Hon. B,. Middleton of N. Y? tliat trotted her mile* often inside of three minutes on the N. Y, torf. _t*r Flying Black Hawk can be seen at Mr. P. 8. Rutledize's Li*erv Stables, at Abbeville C. H., on Monday nest, 1st April. ... ,V- P. WYAT AIKEN, . .. ... . "4 W. SMITH. - 1 March IB, 1861, 48 It OCTANT TO -PLAHTEBS." ' .** *. ~ THEE niflifiiAum nirrrlnnir MuiHu.vii mmir Richmond Co., (ia., . /~AONTI8DES t> mnnufdct'ire WOOLLEN V, CIX>fO at 12-} cents per,yard for Plain and 16 for Twilla?findinir everv material ?t ,cept the Wool. The extensive arid MMt^Qtlv increaeinjf patrontg* the Fuotory bnjSftftjoyad for yefira past, oware the Proprietors tfcaT the , article of Winter Clothing for Negroes, made by them, Hu not bWo iurpassddby my Cloth made North or South. " Iteeent exten?ive impioveraents, and others np.w befog creeted, enable ua to keep ao the standard of the Good*, and to aeoare'&n rtHy 'delivery. . . PUntera, ?*r otheVs, who may. wiatr to send ? ' Wool*? h* m*<to itflo CJotli. -o^itwnd' Jk dirty' or el^an?3f w??hed itahould fcx? done in coid * v COKESBimY DfiDG STOBE. NORWOOD & PELOT, Druggists & Chemists, Have on Hand, and are Monthly Receiving ' t Fresh Supplies Of the Puree* Selected DRUGS, AND ^ v PAINTS, OILS, ' 1DYE STUFFS, PATENT MEBIClffl, KEROSINE LAMPS and Fixtures. FINE TOBACCO, Havana and Florida UiaARS," LI 1 HUliRAPHS, GILT PMITffiffi fft&KSS, OIL COLORS, FAINT, HAIR, TOOTH AND NAIL BRUSHES, AVERY laree variety of SOAPS, PERFUMERY, HAIR OILS, COLOGNE, from Sevtntyjive Centi to Tico Dollar?per Quart. Cfioitc Magical BRANDIES AND WINES, STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS, CONFECTIONERIES, * > Of all kinds, Oranges, Lemons, JTtgs, liaisons, Citron, Prunes, Apples, Almonds, Cocoa Nuts. Nuts of all kinds, Sardines, Pickles, Tapioca, Sago, Arroio - HootT and a ihovfc v i sand other articles in our line. f We tcoald call the aileni&n of houtekeep? ' era particularly to our Superior Dc~ odurized Kerosine Oil, cheaper . L than Candles and ty-illiant as Gas, Concentrated v Lye or Saponifier, French Mustard, Macaroni, - Densloio s Benzine and Har~ rison's Erosive Soip, for removing Greece Spofs, Paints, dkc-, Spal ding's Prepared Glue, Leonard do., Cephalic PHlj)iAyer'iPills, \ Molt en StonefJStnory. Jhimace Sloni, Balh Brick, Patent Gans.for Spices, Cbffct\ > ?e. ' Hat Proof arid .vlir Tight, ^ : Diamond and Pearl Ce~, .* x titent,,for Glass and Ghina, Garden $ / , Seedf, d'c. 4 & : - - . . .. . . ; . Call and See for Yourselves.. Vft buyforCAftii. and ?eU mostly&Jg?& and can conKtfjttonliy afford fo ?ell" CHEAP FOR CASH.' SB m*'