WEDNESDAY.JUNE 06. 1861.
JS^sF'The Editor of this paper is sick,
which we hope will he sufficient apology
for the appearance of our columns
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Southern Independence—Commercially.
Notwithstanding blockades and the many
restrictions which a state of war always
entail, yet, our Southern people must now
and at once set about the accomplishment
of our freedom, commercially; for, if pro
per exertion be made, and efforts be thrown
in the right direction, we honestly believe
that a magnificent future will be opened to
us, and the most brilliant triumphs awaits
us in an extended trade and an immensely
profitable commerce with the nations of the
earth. In the exercise of our inalienable
rights, with justice and reason on our side,
we have thrown oil the accused thraldom
of an iniquitous and galling tyranny, and
now, with sword in hand and God o’er
head, are ready and determined to main
tain our rights. It behooves us as a wise
people to see to it, that while we are es
tablishing our political independence, we
do not neglect our material interests, which,
while now they may be prospective, yet
must in the end prove the very soul of our
progress and prosperity as a nation. We
learn from history that “the power of na
tions has generally been in the ratio of
their trade,” it is this trade which has built
up the cities of the North and West, that
lias made New York what she is, and
opened up a magnificent future to Chica
go, Cincinnati and other Western cities.
Under its potent and talismanic influence
small villages and obscure towns soon
make gigantic strides, and become popu
lous, thriving emporiums; railroads are in
creased, vessels multiply on our rivers, in
harbors and docks; the money flows in in
steady streams, the laborer and artizan
are all happy, because work is abundant
and pay good, while the tiller of the soil,
nature’s nobleman, laughs and grows fat,
when lie hears the hard cash jingling in
his pocket, the remunerative returns of his
well-directed skill in farming, and with
the certainty of always finding a market
for all of his productions, his countenance
beams with smiles. Wc have all read it
in our old geographies, and know it too,
that when the cities on the Mediterranean
Sea monopolized the rich trade of the In
dies, they were by far the most opulent
and influential centres in Europe; but that
when that enterprizing and maritime peo
ple, the Dutch, stepped in and virtually
tubbed them of ibis trade, then the cen
tre of power too departed, and left them
^ucccssful rivals lords of the field, politi
cally and commercially. In a few years
mother England takes a hand in this trade,
the Anglo Saxon blood could not brook a
superior, so that in the course of time this
comparatively little island controlled so
much of the trade of all countries as to
make itself emphatically the power of
-Ehtistendom, “while her merchants be- 1
came the bankers for the world.” Mean
time this country of ours was rapidly ad
vancing in all the elements of a great na
tion, and the child soon became a success
ful rival of the mother, indeed the North- |
ern States competed with England in every ,
land and on every sea, using the produc- |
tions of our Southern clime as the great |
basis of their commercial prosperity, and ,
thus at our expense, building up their em- (
poriums, New York, Boston, &c. Ilappi- «
ly for us, Cod has put it into the hearts of,
our people to throw oil. this vassalage; we j
have seceded (tom the grinding tyranny i
of the North, and, if true to ourselves, will i
snap in twain the sceptre which the yan- 1
kees have so long wielded to our detriment; i
. we will have our own shipping, our own t
manufactures, &e. In iiiis matter die f
North !)•-«'■ played into ur in,0t i
k
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beautifully, for instead of acknowledging
gracefully our independence, and thus, bv
! a pacific policy, securing a good share o(
our trade, it has determined upon the co
ercion game, and alienated the South to
sucli an extent, as to render it impossible
for its people to do our trading again : no!
“ Southern geese will never go to ynn
kft’bs nests to lay their golden eggs,” our
profits will be kept at home, and our cities,
and our towns will soon bound forward in
a career of glorious success. To secure
ibis, wo must be wide awake, active, en
ergetic; wo must have at least throe mil
lions of tonnage, which will require a cap
ital of one hundred and fifty millions ot
dollars; we must have thousands of sea
men. ship-builders, ware-houses and other
agencies, these we will have if we put our
hands faithfully to the plough; and the
profits will he immense. In this way
alone can we secure and maintain our
! commercial independence, and become
what we ought to be, the controlling sec
tion, and the most powerful nation on the
face of the earth.
In Important -Consideration.
There is gaid to he very little difference
between the uniform and nppearance of
the Southern and Northern soldiers, and
lienee it becomes of the highest import
ance that some measures should be em
ployed to distinguish them. The Rich
mond Enquirer says:
At first, there is danger that when the
forces meet upon the field of battle, and,
after the first shock, are broken up into
small fighting sounds, who will roam here
and there in search of enemies, many a
brave man will fall by the hands of his
comrades, who, in the excitement of the
moment, will fail to recognize him as a
friend.
Americans, to a great extent, strongly
resembles each other, and where the vol
unteers of both sections have been equally
exposed to the sun, the Southern soldiers,
except as regards intelligence, cannot be
separated from those of the North. Let
steps be therefore taken to remedy this
defect at once.
Attach a badge, a stripe, or a mark of
some description to your coats or shirts,
which Will be known to ail by a generally
disseminated order from headquarters.
Take pains to maintain a distinction be
tween your true blooded Southerners and
your mercenary enemies, and when upon
the field of battle you draw your bead
upon a man, or plunge a bowie-knife in
his heart, you will not have the melancho
ly thought, afflicting you like a nightmare
for a lifetime afterwards, that you killed a
friend instead of an enemy.
Let this subject be agitated by the press
of the South until it receives the attention
of those who have the remedy in their
hands. Mistakes enough have already
occurred to furnish a warning.
X&ET* The New York Express recom
mends these means to end the war speed
ily :
As the war is to be prosecuted, let it be
doue with gigantic and Titanic force!
Congress, extra session, ought, forthwith,
not only to levy a high duty upon tea and
coffee, but to increase the duty on sugar.
Direct taxes must come, and the quicker
the better for the credit of the country.
“Loans'1 will not long carry on the war,
and direct taxes are inevitable. 1 tie se
cretary of the treasury, Mr. Chase, ought
now to he preparing his programme of
farm tax, poll tax, carriage tax, watch tax,
etc.
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$3"“A correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce, referring to the let
ter of Bishops Otcy to Seward, published
3ome weeks since, say.,:
It seems but a few short months since,
in journeying through Tennessee, I found
myself in the seat adjoining that of this
venerated father in Israel. From no lips,
either at the North or South, have I heard
more union-loving sentiments thau were
lttered by him during the day or two we
ourneyed together in the cars.
Is there no meaning in the great change
ipparent in his convictions as to the dis
positions of the Northern people ? And
:an it be that Mr. Seward will listen to no
mice but that of war ?
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It is stated that Captain Wilson,
ate of the brigMinie Schiller, whoso
gallantly rescued the passengers of the
aiming steamship Connaught, has recent
y gone into tbe privateering business un
ler the Southern Confederacy, lie is the
ommander of the privateer Calhoun, fitted
iut at New Orleans.
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fr**)1* It is said that Col. Magruder had
vith him at the Bethel church his old force
if regulars who were under him in the
Jnited States army, they having deserted
n order to join their old leader. This
aay account, in part, for the terrible cf
L>ct with which the guri3 were managed
r. the late fight.
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CassiU3 M Cloy.
Tin: letter of this noted mdividnl, ad
dressed to the English public and publish
ed in the London Times, is acknowledged
by his warmest friends at home to have
been impolitic, and entirely outside of his
routine of duty as a diplomatist. Hut in
England John Hull resents the imperti
j nent interference strongly. The Times,
in the columns of which the manifesto ap
peared. says:
Mr. Clay must renby allow 11s to give
our own version of the honor and interest
of England. Our honor and interest isto
stand aloof from contests which in no way
concern us, to he content with our own
laws and liberties, without seeking to im
pose them upon others, “to seek peace and
ensure it,” and to leave those who take to
the sword to fall by the sword. In war
we will be strictly neutral; in peace we
will be the friends of whatever power may
emerge out of the frightful chaos through
which Mr. Ciny sees his way so clearly.
And that neutrality which is recommended
alike by our interest and our honor, we
will npt violate through fear—no, not of a
hundred millions of unborn men. Let
Mr. Clay and iiis country-men look well
to the present, and they will find enough
to occupy their attention without troubling
themselves with long visions of humilia
tion and retribution, which no man now
alive will ever see accomplished.
The London Standard is equally un
kind.
We hold ourselves, in spirit and in deed,
aloof from both sides, in a war begun with
too much bravado on the part of the states
men of the North. We'are at once un
convinced and unmoved by the somewhat
impertinent letter of Mr. Clay, which was
hardly worth a column of the Times. It
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and nationality. It is not the part of good
and brave men to boast that they are sure
to conquer. The argument that England
must help the North for fear that the
South should conquer our West Indies,
was hardly worth putting to paper. Just
as idle is it to threaten us-with the future
vengeance of a possible hundred millions
of Americans a century hence — who, if
ever they are called into being, will pro
bably be divided into half a dozen repub
lics and as many empires.
in
speaking of the first fight of Aquia creek,
between the federal vessels and our troops,
says :
“There was no one injured on our side
exept Wm. McDougal, of this place, who
received a slight flesh wound on the hand
by a shell that exploded above him. Mc
Dougal had gone in a boat for the pur
pose of bringing m a guard of a small
schooner. His quick eye descerned a
shell making direct for him as he sat scul
ling; with one bound he cleared the boat
jumping into the river, but still holding on
to the bout with one hand; the shell ex
ploded above him, and one piece struck
his hand.” The Fredericksburg Recorder,
in speaking of the second fight, on Friday
last, relates the following incident:
“During the firing twoshells fell in one
of the batteries, and, so soon as they had
fallen, both were taken hold of by Lieut.
Yance5\ of the Tennessee regiment, and
pitched into the river before they could do
any damage. We have this from an eye
witness.”
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“The (jan ib a i.di Legion.”—We find
the following paragraph in the Baltimore
Exchange of Thursday last :
Yesterday morning there arrived from
Washington filty-six of the (Jaribaldian
regiment which passed through our city
a few days since. These men state that
the regiment is thoroughly disorganized,
and the men, for the most part will return
to their homes. When it was proposed
to enlist them for three years they refused
to comply, and the government threatened
to disband the regiment unless they en
tered the service for three years. The
threat did not have the desired cfi'ect,
and the regiment will certainly disband
Those who have arrived here state that
they have been cheated and deceived
from the time they tendered their services
until they left the regiment, and under no
circumstances will they fight to sustain
the government.
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The Tony Convention.—This body,
in which (the northern papdrs say) forty
counties were represented, met at Wheel
ing on the 11th instant. Arthur J. 13ore
manwas chosen permanent chairman*
The following dispatch tells us what was
done on the second day :
Wheeling, June T2, p. m.—This af
ternoon a committee of thirteen was ap- I
pointed to prepare business for the con- i
vention. Resolutions were submitted
for the separation of Western Virginia
from the State, and the formation of anew ‘
State, the preparatory arrangements to he i
submitted to a legislature, to be convened t
in this city. This mode is proposed, in
mler to avoid a burdensome State debt, '
which Western Virginia had no part m 1
incurring. I
When we get tired of all the
Measures within our reach, we can have 1
in unfailing resource in thinking of those 1
hat ire out of it, |,
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LETTER :?so h • :op:” .
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Headquarters Ark. Volunteers, 2
15 Miles Above Randolph,
June :21st, 18(31. )
Dear Citizen : —I have failed to write
to you in the last two weeks because there
was little or no news, and I was waiting
like Wilkins Mieawber “for something to
turn up,” and although that auspicious pe
riod has not yet arrived, still, 1 Will nt
tempt to make out. a readable letter.
W e removed from our position below
Randolph about two weeks since to this
place, which is situated on the 1st Chicka
saw Bluff, and about fifteen miles above
Randolph. It is a fine location for a fort,
and to-morrow we will receive several
large pieces of ordinance, which, with the
number we already have, will make it im
pregnable. Almost the only objection
which could possibly be raised against the
place is the bad water we are compelled
to use, and which always generates a
great deal of sickness. Besides, a large
number of men are daily detailed from
each company to go on fatigue duty, cut
ting out roads on the sides of the sleep
hills, felling timber and building fortifica
tions. This too, on account of the hot
sun, contributes to fill the hospital, for there
are many here who are unused to such
labor. It is confidently believed here that
this will be our headquarters forthe future,
because the officers are taking so much
pains to get the place inhabitable and
make the soldiers comfortable. At least
we hope this is the case, for every place
we have heretofore occupied, by the time*
we built roads and were in every way
fixed comfortable we have hud to move to
some other point. Shovelling, dirt when
the weather is “awful” hot is not an agree
able occupation I assure you, for I speak
from experience. However, 1 hope this
work will soon be finished, and then we
will be allowed rest from our labors.'
Three companies have joined us since
my last—the Tyrongee Rebels from Miss.
Co., Capt Harding 6i men — Monroe
Blues, Monroe Co., Capt. Baldwin, 73
men—Crittenden Rangers, Crittenden Co.,
Capt. Earle, 61 men. The Tyrongee
Rebels came from the vicinity of Osceola
and Bearsfield, and they report that their
whole section of country is heaping bitter
anathemas on Bradley for bis disgraceful
retreat, which has entailed disgrace upon
the whole Slate and^upon the courage and
valor of Aikansas troops. >
Speaking of Bradley reminds me that
he intends instituting a court-martial to
examine our field officers, Capts. Glenn
and Harris, and attempt to displace them
from the positions they occupy, and dis
grace them, if possible, in the opinion of
the State. The absurdity of the charges
brought against them will only give them
an honorable acquittal, and Ins attempt to
dishonor them will return with fourfold
shame upon the head of their cowardly
accuser. But if he does succeed by mis
representation etc., to link their names
with infamy—something however hardly
possible—there will be such a mutiny here
as lias no parallel in history. The men
here love and admire the officers against
whom the vile shafts of his enmity are
hurled, and they would sacrifice life itself
before they would see them harmed or dis
honored unjustly. The terrible excitement'
which was first raised against our puissant?
General, has in a great measure subsided,
but it is only the slumbering of the passions,
and iEtna-like is liable to burst forth at
any moment, and woe be to him who
stands in their way. The Military Com
mittee of the Stale can certainly have no
conception of the unanimity of this mutiny
among the troops against the redoubtable
Bradley or they would not attempt, as I
have heard they intend to, to force a
man upon us who is distasteful in the '
highest degree. It is strange to mo that .
mowing the contempt and detestation i
which every man here has for him that he
Joes not resign, and let some man take his •
dace, who, even if inexperienced as he j
s, will at least be held in higher estima- j
ion and treated with more respect, because
tc would deserve more. i
'iiiebo.ys are tired of laying inactive (
n camp and are anxious for a brush with \
be enemy. Gov. Jackson’s proclamation, f
ailing out 60,000 troops to repel the ag- (
sessions of old Abe’s minions, ami re
enge the many outrages committed on c
Jo. soil against her citizous, makes them
till more eager to be led into the field c
gainst the abolitionists who slaughtered X
lelpless women and children. From the
no vu character of the bravmj of die u
abolition troops lit-y would obtain
M t'U.yj
victory.
I was reading an .article in a North,.,,
paper yesterday, in regard t0 the lrtM(
merit etc. of their soldiers, and thev n
y j'rf•
sent quite a contrast to ours. Jn ||lfi n()
them camps it is stated that the office,
are comfortably quartered arid farjnn.
sumptuously, while their men are hvin^
in rickett y shaniees or poor tents, and |J*
ing on mean fare. They also say that
the officers see comparatively little of i|1(,jP
troops, and never mingle with them as if
on terms of equality. No doubt, the
northern soldiers as a mass, deserve no
better treatment, because, from the best
information we can obtairl on the subject
their ranks are filled with villains of the
deepest dye, penitentiary convicts, deni. !
zens of the Five Points and similar hells
of crime, and they only enlisted that they
might plunder and burn, and gratify tothe
greatest extent their hellish passions.—
•Then we cannot wonder at their treatment
and that gentlemen will not associate with
them. In the southern army no such line
of distinction is drawn between the officers
and the men. They fare alike, and our
field officers are daily seen with the fu.
tigued party assisting them in their labors,
and are always encouraging them by their
example to endure everything for their
country. The Southern soldiers are gen
tlemen, who have left their peaceful pur
suits to battle for every right inalienable
to man, and do not merit the usage of the
lazzaroni troops of the North, who fight,
for plunder, not liberty. Many of our
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ence, and occupy a high social position
wherever they go. Then it does not be
come our officers to treat them as they
would mercenaries because invested with
a “liti}n brief authority.”
Last week the first regiment was pre
sented with another beautiful flag, made
by the fair fingers of the ladies of Desha.
It was to have been presented by Miss
Johnson of Austin, hut that lady was un
expectedly prevented from coming, ami
she requested Lieut. Blackburn of the
V el! Rifles to read the address she was to
hav£ delivered. It was eloquently writ
ten, and the many cheers that rent th«
air attesied that her words were apprecia
ted, and all joined in the regret that she,
herseli was not present on the joyful oc
casion. The flag has inscribed on its be
spangled folds the most appropriate mot
to I have seen yet—“Death before sub
mission.” Around the large star in the
centre is neatly painted the word “Arkan
sas.” Col. Cleburne received it in a short
but stirring address.
Mr. John Norwood, one of otir mem
bers died of the flux last Thursday. Al
though comparatively a stranger to a ma
jority of the Company, he was universally
admired for liis many good qualities, and
his loss is deeply regretted by all.
Mr. M. Mizell lias been appointed Sut
ler for our regiment. Although now en
gaged in catering to his friends, he al
ways is prepared to receive company ol
another description, and will treat theta
freegratis to a ‘soothing mixture,’ composed
of powder and ball well rammed in a Min
nie rifle.
Our camp has been christerycd Fort
Cleburne in honor of our gallant Colonel,
who is in command of the post. He is an
honorable high-toned gentleman, and the
iroops are justly proud of their leader.
Long may he occupy his present position
is ihe earnest wish of all here. COP.
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Localities.—Hampton roads is 'he
name given to the broad expanse ol water
jet ween the mouth of James river and
he entrance into Chesapeake bay.
Newport News point, on lire No/th side
if the river, and Pig point, on the South,
it the junction of the Nansemond with the
fames. Between these two points the
listance is about five miles.
Craney island lies at the mouth of Eliz*
'belli river, some six or seven miles East
>f Pig point.
Sewall’s point is about the same distance
Sorth of Craney island. These four points
brm, therefore, very nearly a parallograin.
Pd point is five miles North of Sewall’s
mint.
Pliillippi, the scene of the recent' fight
n Western Virginia, is the county town
'f Barbour county. It lies near the foot
d the Blue Ridge, on Tygarts valley ri
e#about twenty miles to the South of
«ra(ton, which is on the Baltimore and
Piio railroad.
The Brandon (-Miss.) Rcpobfi*
an says:
“We learn from Judge Ward, of Smith
ounty, that the people in that county are
•oiking out the crops of those who are
one to the wars, and are appointing coin*
litlees to ascertain what families of vol
tilers need assistance.”