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VOL. XXIV.
GALVESTON, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 14. 1861.
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TUESDAY, JIAi T, 18«1.
car Washington county baa appropriated
$12,000 to buy arms. Almost every man in
the county is a volunteer.
¿rxamsas.—Judge Walker, president of the
State convention, bas issued a proclamation
convesing tbe convention on the 6th.
-j B?" The D. 89 steamer Mohawk, which re-
^ntly 141 Indianola and went to Havana for
coal, been ordered to Pensacola from
Havana. o
13?" The If. York Day Book says that Gen.
Hall, of that city, has a son in the army of the
Confederate States, and another in the Seventh
Regiment. Such are tbe incidents of civil war.
There are doubtless thousands of persons at
tbe South devoted to the interests of the new
Confederacy, who have relations among the
Republicans of the North. Can nothing but
the sword settle the political question upon
which they are divided ?
A company of volunteers, from Milam
county, under Capt. J. C. Rogers, got as far as
LaG range on their way to Indianola, when they
found they were tosíate.
The Fayette company got as far as Victoria
before tbey heard of the surrender of tbe U. S.
troops at Indianola. «
The Austin Light Infantry, under Capt. B. F.
Carter, took up the line of march for Indianola,
but were ordered back.
vw Pitience and fortitude are virtues as
much required in times of war as courage
on the field of battle. It is seldom that the for-
tunes of the belligerents are determined by one or
two battles or a single campaign; nor does suc-
cess invariably follow a single banaer. Dis-
appointments and reverses are to be expected
on both sides, and success often comes where
there is no good cause to expect it. " The for-
tunes of war" involve many vicissitudes; and
partial successes should be only encourage-
ments to vigilance and perseverance, while re-
verses should teach lessons of caution and en-
durance. The present enthusiasm, North and
South, is likely to abate much, or be greatly
modified by the course of events; and
Thoughtless mortal, eyer blind to fate,
tar So heavy bave been the shipments of
provisions to the South, under the apprehen-
sion that the supply might be cut off, that tbe
„ people of Louisville have become alarmed for
themselves. A few days since tbe President
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Jas.
o Guthrie, gave orders to delay shipments, as he
had been waited upon by a mob, ahd informed
that if be persisted in sending trains forward
tbe track would be torn up. An examination
3 revealed the fact that the supplies still remain-
ing, and constantly coming in, were unusually
heavy. There will be no famina.
o ' '
Kg* The franklin (La.) Banner says that J.
B. Price^sq., the enterprising stage contrac-
tor of that place, has been written to from New
Orleans to take tbe contract to carry the Texas
mails through by land, by way of New Iberia.
We believe tbe arrangements are about com-
plete for carrying the mails and passengers
from New Orleans for Texas by the route nam-
ed in case the Gulf steamers should be discon-
tinued. The Railroad from the Sabine to Hous-
ton is now about finished, and the time by land
will not be greater than that by the Mississippi
river.
£7* The steamer Diana, Capt. J. H. Sterrett,
commander, from Houston, arrived this morn-
ing, with 40 bales cotton and the following pas-
sengers :
Airbanks, Flournoy, Richardson, Hulac, Car-
din, Randolph, Butts, Barlow, Sumbry, Tate,
Johnson, Sherrill, McDonald, Morris, Kelsey,
Askin, Strieker, Rloomfield, Gorman. Under -
win. File £ svt. Gee , Lavender, Watson, Du-
rand, Runnels A svt, Miss McLemore, McDon-
nell, Harrison lady A svt, Sherrold lady and
cblid, Preston A lady, Askew A lady, Gregsby
A 3 children, Smith lady A child, 3 Misses
Smiths, Miss Richards.
M* The man who went ashore at Napoleon
Ark. to look for a free fight, found it and re-
ceived full satisfaction in time to leave by the
; same boat. The Napoleonites are still of the
same accommodating spirit. They bave erect-
id a battery, consisting of two or three guns
and a mortar, and are determined to capture
and bold every Cincinnati steamboat, till the
arms belonging to Arkansas, and held in Cin-
cinnati, are delivered up. The Ohio Belle, from
Cincinnati, was tbe first boat captured. The
steamer Mars has been tied up at Helena. She
is owned in Ohio, and is held until the Ar-
kansas guns are given up at Cincinnati.
Th*. Capture of Fobt Smith, Ark.,- of
which we had news by telegraph some days
since, was effected by an expedition which went
on the steamers Tahlequah and Frederick
Notrebo, from Little Rock. Tbe force consisted
of five companies of state volunteers under tbe
command of Col. Borland, with orders to take Ft-
Smith if resistance should be offered, but tbe
bi^s had flown—Captain Sturgis, with the
force of the place, having departed about an
hour before the arrival of the volunteers. At
the post were Major Gatlin, of the line, and
Capt. Modgomery, of tbe quartermaster's de-
partment, who were taken prisoners and put on
their parole.
With the fort a considerable amount of for-
age and some public property fell into the
lands of the Stat*.
®
Extradition.—There seems to be a good
understanding between the authorities of Texas
and Mexica along the line of the tower Rio
Grande, in regard to the return of criminals and
suien property. The Flag reports the return,
to Brownsville, of Messrs. Howard, Weber and
Cunningham, non-commissioned officers of the
Fort Brown Command, dispatched by Colonel
Ford, in pursuit of horses stolen from the gar-
rison, and who were furnished with an escort
into ti iiterior of Mexico by Gen. Garcia,
commandante of tbe line of the Bravo. They
found the horses at San Fernando, one hundred
miles from Matamoras. Upon the requisition
of Gen. Garcia, endorsed by the civil authori-
ties of Matamoras, tbe horses were promptly
delivfcfed up. The thieves were not overtaken,
c nor is it known by whom the horses were stolen,
turther than that one was an American, the
other a Mexican.
Oen. Garcia has the thanks of all honest in-
habitants of the border for bis course in the
matter, and we trust that Texas will reciprocate
the favor, should occasion offer.
The Louisville Journal, which has been
one of the most decided Union papers in any
of tbe slave States, in alluding to Lincoln's
war proclamation says:
" We are struck with mingled amazement
and indignation. The policy announced in the
proclamation deserves the unqualified condem-
nation of every American citixen. It is un-
worthy not merely of a statesman, but of a man.
It(tf a policy utterly bairbrained and ruinous.
If Mr. Lincoln contemplated this policy in the
inaugural address, h# is a guilty dissembler ;
if be has conceived it under tbe excitement
raised by the seizure of Fort Sumter, he is a
guilty hotspur. In either case, be is miserably
unfit for the exalted position in which the en-
emies of the country have placed him. Let the
people instantly take him and bis Administra-
tion into their own hands, if they would res-
cue the land from bloodshed, and tbe -Union
from sudden and irretrievable destruction."
Advice to Volcntexrs.—A writer, wbosigns
fcimself " An Old Soldier," give* the following
advice to young soldiers: •
1. Remember that in a campaign more men
die from aieknet/tban bj the bullet.
2. Line your blanket with one thickness of
brown drilling. This adda but four ounces in
weight, and doubles the warmth.
3. Buy a small India rubber blanket, to lfty
on the ground or to throw over your shoulders
when on guard duty during a nun storm. Most
of the eastarn troops an pro vid d with these.
Straw to lie oa is Dot always to be had.
4. Tbe bent military bat in use is tbe light-
colored soft felt; tbe crown being sufficiently
high to allow apace for air over tbe brain.—
You can fasten it-up as a continental in fair
ii ssthsr. or tarn it down when It is wet or very
Tíet
throat
9. Keep your entire person clean; this pre
vents fevers and bowel complaints in warm
climates.
Me.
beard grow, so as to protect tbe
Wash your body each day if possi
7. A sudden cback of perspiration by chilly
or sight «ir ota asases fever and death.—
When thus exposed do not forget your blanket.
Too soon dejected and too soon elate!"
may imagine that the contest is ended, one way
or another, before it has been fairly begun.
The present hostile attitude of the two sec-
tions of the States of the former American Un-
ion, can have but one termination—the complete
separation of the slave and free States. Fight
as little or as much as they may, injure each
other as little or as much, " to this complexion
must it come at last." The estrangement be-
tween the people of the two sections has been
too long and steadily increasing, is too com-
plete and bitter, to admit of any other adjust-
ment. No two natioos of Europe now entertain
such antipathy towards each other as tbe peo-
ple of the North and South. Eighty years have
not been enough to obliterate tbe feeling en-
gendered between the people of Great Britain
and the United States by the American revolu-
tion ; yet the Colonies bad ten times as much
sympathy and ten times as many friends in
England, at that day, as the Southern States
now have at the North. The British Govern-
ment, unable to raise men at home for the pros-
ecution of the war, had recourse to foreign
mercenaries. The North is sending both her
own fanatic hordes and such mercenaries from
the old world as make war a trade, and are
willing to kill for pay and plunder, without re
gard to tbe cause. But, while the North boasts
her advantages in numbers and the materials of
war, both the North and South must remember,
that the people of one section fight for their
homes and their inalienable lights, while the
others have only passion and plunder to push
them on.
Tbe N. Y. Journal of Commerce, in alluding to
tbe universal movement at tbe South lately said
that when men of the highest official position take
their places in the ranks, and, though nnac
customed to hardship, volunteer to toil with the
shovel and haul tbe ponderous machines of
warfare, nothing but an overwhelming force
can crush them. The spirit that pervades all
classes alike, must reader them invincible
while breath and life remain. There are do
hired mercenaries who make warfare a trade—
who offer their lives as ' food for powder.' The
Journal of Commerce well remarked that such
men are worthy of more noble foemen than
many of the employed troops that have been
sent againt tbem. " If life for a life" is to be
given, let the vauntiug editors of the north, the
Sharpe's rifle preachers, and the whole horde
of abolition fanatics, who are so clamorous
for war, coercion, and "no compromise with
traitors," and who cry " bang the rebels," vol-
unteer to march against them. Those who
have raised the war should do the fighting.
This is the true idea; but the South can ex-
pect no such good luck. Their enemies will
probably pursue the safer course of a protract-
ed war , by pretended blockades, and the em-
ployment of mercenaries to menace and depre-
date upon the border States. The South bas
most to tear irom sucb a system of protracted
and harrassing warfare, with no aim on the
part of the North but the gratification of the
malignant feelings which the politicians, press
and pulpit have been for years engendering to-
wards the South.
pg* The New York Tribune has discovered
that it would be a piece of folly to undertake to
introduce more United States troops into West-
ern Texas, or send back anF who have been
here. In noticing the arrival at New York of
such troops as had returned from this State
the Tribune states that the officers are very
decided in the opinion that if the President
should seod such troops as he could command
to TexS8, to assist in regaining control of tbe
State, it would not do any goed. That paper
says:
From their long residence in Texas, and their
familiarity with the people of that State, the
officers of the 2d cavalry state that it would be
folly to return tbe regiment to Texas. The men
were got out of the State, with much difficulty,
the black sheep being weeded out pretty tho-
roughly by desertions ; but it would not be safe
to trust the remainder into Texas again. Any-
where else they would be as true as steel. Of
the officers of the Second, the men of Northern
birth are true and loyal; but Seceseion has so
demoralized those of Southern origin that it
would hardly be safe to send them on duty to
the South. The resignations already have been
so numerous that not a single second Lieutenant
is left in the regiment."
Greely, who, a short time since, urged the
invasion of Texas, seems now to see that Lin-
coln and his followers have work enough to
employ them nearer home.
Not all Black.—Hon. D. W. Voorhees,
Democratic Congressman of Indiana, made a
speech at Greencastle the other day, in which
he said, amongst other good things :
Indiana had no quarrel with the South—had
no reason to wage war upon her, for the South
bad always been the friend of the West, while
the Eastern States had done all in.their power
to cripple us in our early infancy. ¡Should war
be inaugurated by the Administration of Abra-
ham Lincoln, it would be a party war—a war
of passion, a war of vindictive uialice, and a
war having no sanciion in the political impul-
ses of the people of the North or West. " For
myself," said Mr. Voorhees, " I say to you, my
constituents, that as your Representative, 1 will
never vote one dollar, one man, or one gun to
the Administration of Abraham Lincoln to
make war upon the South, to carry death and
desolation to the land of Washington, Jackson,
Clay, and Joe. Davis. Never, never! I will
defend my country from foreign invasion, and
vote the last farthing to save her from dishon-
or, but you must not ask me, yon must not ex-
pect me, to counsel the slaughter of those who
are to us as fathers, brothers and friends."
These declarations were received with tr -
mendous cheers.
Hon. C. L. Vallandingham,of Ohio, has pub-
lished a card, in wbicb he says—
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1861'
13?" Col. Waite, late commander of the U
S. troops in Texas, Col. Moffatt and Col. Chan-
dler, Dr. Abadie, Capt. Brown, Capt. Lee, Dr,
Smith and Lieut. Reed, arrived at Galveston
this morning, on their way to New Orleans.
UST" War is a great leveler. ' Sir William
Napier says, " the glory of arms, which can-
not he obtained without the exercise of honor,
courage, obedience, modesty and temperance,
excites tbe brave man's patriotism, and is a
chastening corrective of the rich man's pride."
J3F" The steamship Matagorda, W. S. Shan-
nan, commander, from New Orleans via Ber-
wick's Bay and Sabine, arrived last evening
with the following passengers :
Mrs Menard, Miss Nolan. Grgisby, lady &
2 children, L M Newson. J L Banda—5 on deck.
ISf The steamship Mexico, Capt. Talbot,
from New Orleans May 5th, arrived here last
night with the mails and the following pas-
sengers :
Miss McKay, Mrs Wallis, Mrs E A Ewmg A
svt., Mrs Thompson, Dr R L Graves lady 2
children A 3 svts., A W Hill A 2 svts., Collins,
Wissher, Green, Layton, Hill, Seymour, Con-
ner, Church Levey.
Arkansas. — Tie people of Arkansas are
eager for the fray. We have already mention-
ed the capture of Fort Smith, aDd theestablisb-
meot of a force at Napoleon. Another large
body of men bave concluded to locate them-
selves at or near Osceola, some twenty miles
above Randolph. Some six or eight more com-
panies arrived at Memphis on the 2d inst., in
addition to the regiment of Arkansas troops
already in service on the river.
tsr St. Louis is said to remain quiet amid
the present political and military excitement.
We fear, however, that the Lincoln Government
bas things its own way there.
On Thursday nig'ot a large quantity of mus
kets—from 14,000 to 20,000, it is reported—
were placed on board the City of Alton at the
arsenal and transported to Alton. A quantity
of guns marked for Frankfort, Ky., were seized
on Thursday, on the Levee, and their Shipment
prevented.
Tbe Threatened. Blockade.
NO. 6.
Bad News for Texas Volunteers.—Col.
Ben. McCulloch having telegraphed from New
, Orleans to Montgomery to enquire whether the
My position in regard to this civil war, which o . ,. „ .. _ „ , . „. .
the Lincoln Administration has inaugurated,,i,ecretary <>f War cf the Confederate States
■ *— ■ .... wou)d accept an armed Regiment from Texas,
to pay its own expenses to Virginia, received
for answer that the Secretary will not accept
the Regiment from Texas.
Col. McCulloch advises all 'l'exans te be
ready to respond to any call that may be made
upon them.
was long since taken, is well known, and will
be adhered to to the end. Let that be under-
stood. I have added nothing to it, substracted
nothing from it, said nothing about it publicly,
since the war began. 1 know well that I am
right, and that in á little while " the sober, . e
cond thought of the people" will dissipate the
present sudden and fleeting public madness,
and will demand to know why thirty millions
of people are butchering each other iu civil
war, and will arrest it speedily.
tsr We fear that we shall never be able to
report all the volunteers who responded to the
call of Col. Van. Dorn, for the capture of the
U. S. troops at Indianola. The number who
bad an opportunity to participate iu the affair
was much less than those on the way and eager
to be in time. We hive already mentioned
many. In mentioning the arrival of Col. Van
Dorn at Victoria, on his way to Indianola, the
Advocate says he was followed in a short time
by three companies from Lavaca county; one
from Hallettsville, commanded by Capt. Sear-
cey, numbering about 86 men ; Capt. York's
company from Rocky Creek, about 60 men.
Capt. A. J. Scarborough's company from
Brushy, 90 men.
From Whartoo couuty tbe company consist-
ed of about 50 men.
The company from Victoria county, under
Capt. J. G. Hampton, had about 60 men. Tbe
DeWitt company, Capt. W. R. Friend, about 50
men.
Jackson company, Capt. C. L. Owen, about
100 men.
Fort Bend company. Capt. Holt, about 50
men.
Two Goliad companies.
Colorado company, Capt. Herbert, 80 men.
Lockhart company, under Capt. McDowall,
70 men.
Two companies from Gonzales, commanded
by Capts. Key and Harris.
The following was Col. H. E. McCulloch'a
command : W. O. Yerger, Adjutant; Edward
Burleson, acting Sergeant Major by request ;
Capt. Wm. A. Pitts'company of 69 men ; Capt.
T. Hill Ashby's company of 79 men : Capt. W.
G. Tobin's company of 72 men ; Capt. William
Edgar's company of 56 men : and 4 pieces of
artillery.
The Matagorda Gazette says that the two com-
panies from Lavaca were commanded by Capts.
Finlay and Phillips.
The company from Matagorda was comman-
ded by Capt. Pearson.
From tbe Gazette it appears that the Mata-
gorda, Colorado, Lavaca, Wharton, Victoria,
and Indianola companies, were under the im-
mediate command of Col. Van Dorn, in taking,
first tbe steamer Fashion, with 40 U.S. soldiers
on board, at Indianola, and then proceeding on
tbe steamers Fashion, United States and Mobile
to Pass Cavallo where they found 450 ü. S.
troops, on board tbe vessels Horace and Shark,
anchored off the Pass. The presence of the
large body of volunteers on shore, and of the
expedition by sea from Galveston, doubtless
added greatly to the progress of the negotia-
tions.
Hundreds of other volunteers were on the
way; but ordered back by Col. Van Dorn.
Enropeaii Political Kcivt,
The Spanish Government intends to reject the
offered retrocession of San Domingo.
The Russian troops are leaving the Polish
Provinces with a view of concentrating at
Warsaw.
Mr. Scott Russell lias obtained a writ of ex
ecution against the Great Eastern.
In the British Parliament the conservative
members were preparing a strong opposition to
Mr. Gladstone's -project to cause a ministerial
crisis.
All the great mercantile houses of Marseilles
had suspended because the Turkish Govern-
ment does not pay its acceptances, and the
Bank of France had stopped making advances.
In the Italian Parliament Gen. Garibaldi had
said that Court Cavour's explanations were un-
satisfactory, and that the prospects were alarm-
ing. He in.-isted on the re-organization of the
Southern army.
The motion was carried by tyi against 75.
Pince Napoleon says he will demand satis-
faction of the Due d'Aumale for his recent pub-
lication.
In the Eng ish House of Commons Lord John
Russell said the proposed conference relative
to the slave trade had not been held because
tbe American Guvernment declined to partici-
pate in it.
Continental Europe, as well as our own coun-
try, resounds wilh the clung of arms, and the
near prospect of a resumption of the fierce
struggle of last year between Austria on the
one hand, and France and Sardinia on the other,
the one to maintain its authority in Venetia and
Hungary, and the other to reform it, or sweep
it altogether from existence—is already having
a marked influence upon Foreign commerce and
trade.
The N. York Dispatch is greatly shock-
ed at " tbe disgusting mockery enacted by some
of the Charleston clergy after the evacuation of
Fort Sumter. The Roman Catholic bishop per-
formed a Te Deum in honor of the event, and
the leading Protestant clergymen solemnly of-
fered up thanks to Heaven and publicly attri-
buted their signal and bloodless yictory to the
Infinite mercy of Chid." The Dispatch says—
"such revolting byprocrisy fully justifies the
prevalent complaint of tbe time-serving propen-
sities of the modern clergy." Probably this
inference is for the northern use. If so, we
have nothing to say. Nothing can exceed the
fierceness of tbe denunciations of the northern
clergy against tbe Sonth. They all preach up
the support of Lincoln as a religious duty. At
Boston, a few days since, Rev. Dr. Adams,
preached to bia people on "Government," from
Romans xiii. 1—" The powers that be are or-
dained of God." He aaid that " Government',
(meaning Lincoln's administration) " is an or-
dinance of God, as truly as the law s of the ma-
terial world. No form is prescribed, but the
people having adopted one God recognizes it.''
Hia reverence does not tell ns why this rule
does not apply to the Southern Confederacy-
He and tbe Dispatch doubtless agree in think-
ing with the lawyer in the fable, that circum-
stances alter cases.
Ambitions Chaps.—The writer who pays
tbe Magazines for inserting bis communications;
the politician who quits his party because he
cannot get into office ; and the fellow who ex-
pects to be President.
Mean People-—Tbe man who kicks folks
when they aro down ; and the subscriber who
refnses to p«j for his paper.
No Sabbath.—In a "Priz; Essay oil the
Sabbath," written by a journeyman printer in
Scotland, there occurs the following striking
passage :
"Yoke-fellows! think how the abstraction of
the Sabbath would hopelessly enslave the
working classes, with whom we are identified 1
Think of the labor thus going on in one mono-
tonous, and continuous, and eternal cycle—limbs
forever on the rack, the fingers forever playing,
the eyeballs forever straining, the brow forever
sweating, the feet forever plodding, the brain
forever throbbing, the shouldeis forever droop-
ing, the loins forever aching, and the restless
mind forever schemingThink of the beauty
it would efface, of the merry-heartedness it
would extinguish, of the giant strength it would
tame, of the resources of nature it would ex-
3ST" Old Abe seems to be threatened with
the fate of another ancient heathen divinity of
questionable morals—who was torn to pieces
by his own dogs. The rabid Republicans pro-
fess to be greatly indignant against him for not
destroying tbe city of Baltimore and declaring
war against the State of Maryland. They de-
nounce him for making a sham war, and threat-
en to depose him and place some military con-
queror in his place. There is a prospect that
these fiery spirits will yet bave war enough to
satisfy them, and that Maryland will be happy
to meet them on the iield.
iré?" The Boston Traveler says that a good
dual <>f apprehension has been created bv a re-
port that a privateer has been seen off New
Bedford, and that city is iu a state of great ex-
citement. Earthworks are being constructed,
and Governor Clifford has beeu to Boston to
procure a battery of rifled cannon.
It was reported in New Bedford that two or
three steamers, supposed to be priyateers, had
been seen oil'the mouth of the bay. Guns were
at once mounted on the old brick fort at Fair-
haven, and three guns were taken down to
Clark's Point, where a second battery is being
built.
Jjgf The Boston Republicans seem to doubt
the fidelity of their own people to the prevail-
ing sentiment of the North. The Boston Her-
ald says that 100 young men have left that city
for the South within a few days, as recruits for
the army of the Confederate States.
In noticing the seizure at New York of a ves-
sel having on board 1000 bbls. of powder for
New Orleans, the Boston Commercial Bulletin
says:
Let it not be supposed, for a moment, that a
similar attempt to reinforce the rebels will not
be made from Boston, but more likely from the
lower ports, all along the New England coast.
A proper force should not only be detailed, to
search suspicious vessels, but to watch cargo
as it goes on board every vessel lading at our
wharves.
E5ÉT" Last Sunday night, about 10 o'clock, a
firs broke out among the steamboats lying at
Algiers, opposite New Orleans. The wind was
blowing very strong, and in a few minutes
haust, of the aspirations it would crush, of the eight steamboats were enveloped in flames and
sickness it would breed, of the projects it ; • , , , , . . . , n>, ,
would wreck, of the groans it would extort, of 'I""*1? burned t0 U,e Water s ed*e- Thebllrn-
_ *- •- ' • - * - - • ■ • ing bulls of three of the boats broke loose and
floated down the rivjr, endangering the nu-
the lives it would immolate, of the cheerless
graves it would prematurely dig! See them
toilingand moiling,sweating and fretting, grind-
ing and hewing, weaving and spinning, sowing
and gathering, mowing and reaping, raising
and building, digging and planting, unloading
and storing, striving and struggling—in the
garden and in the field, in the granary and in
the barn, in the factory and in the mill, in the
waarehouse and in the shop, on the mountain
and in the ditch, on tbe roadside and in the
wood, in the city and in the country, on the sea
and on the shore, on the earth in days of
brightness and of gloom. What a sad picture
would the world present if we had no Sabbath."
Historical Corrkction.—An article is go-
ing the rounds of the press, stating that during
the siege of Fort Brown, at the opening of the
Mexican war, the pulley of the flag got derang-
ed, so that it could not be raised. An officer
climbed the staff, and in the midst of a terrible
tempest of shot and shell, calmly and deliber-
ately arranged the halyards, righted the pulley,
and hoisted the flag. This heroic deed has been
ascribed to Capt. Hanson. The Port Gibson Re-
veille says that Earl Van Dorn, was the hero
of this brave and dangerous exploit.
The same man now has command of tbe
Confederate forces in Texas.
Total.
Slave.
407.185
l3.3i 1
1,082,79
63,soy
145,604
9i6,917
435,473
450,22
836,415
600.431
312,186
134,956
600,955
495,826
1,593,199
The accession of Virginia to the Southern
Confederacy increases the number of States to
eight, and the aggregate population to 6,596,-
779. The details, according to the census just
taken, are as follows :
State. Free.
South Carolina. 308,186
Georgia 615,336
Florida 81,885
Alabama 520,444
Mississippi 378,188
Louisana 364,245
Texas 415,99
Virginia 1,097,373
Total 3,772,656 2,825,123 6,596,779
Grkat Balloon Voyage.—Prof. S.C. Lowe,
the well known aeronaut, ascended at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, on Saturday morning last, at 4
o'clock, and landing at 10 o'clock, P. M., the
same day, in Union District, S. C.
He passed up the valley of the Ohio river to
Virginia, with the intention of landing near
Petersburg, but after crossing the Alleghanies
a current bore him south between this range
and the Blue Ridge. A little before 1 o'clock
he came down near the line between North and
South Carolins, but finding himself at too great
a distance from any railroad, be ascended agaiu,
and next came down at Pea Ridge, in Union
District, at 1 o'clock, P. M., having thus trav-
eled, by the course he pursued, about 1200
miles in nine hours.
D^initions of Chabactkr.—Fine fellows.
The man who advertises in your paper; the
man who never refuses to lend you money, and
the fellow who is courting your sister.
Genteel People.—The young lady who lets her
mother do the ironing for fear of spreading her
bands; the Miss who wears thin soled shoes cn
a rainy day : and the young gentleman who is
ashamed to be seen walking with his father
Industrious People.—The young lady who
reads romances in bed; the friend who is
always engaged when you call: and the cor-
respondent who cannot find time to answer vour
letters.
Unpopular Persouage.—A fat man in an
omnibus; a tall man in a crowd : and a short
man on a parade.
Timid People.—A lover about to pop tbe
question ; a man who does not like tobe shot at;
and a steamboat captain with a cholera case on
board.
Unhappy People.—Old bachelors and old
maids.
Lincoln issued another proclamation April
27, in which he adds Virginia and North Caro-
lina to tbe States whose coasts are to be block-
aded. He is laying out his work on a pretty
extensive scale, if he is in earnest. The effec-
tual blockade of some thousands of miles of sea
coast and some millions of people is not quite
as easily done as said. The Scientific Ameri-
can gives an accurate list of the vessels belong-
ing to the United States navy, and proceeds to
make the best showing of their actual naval
power. That journal regards as little better
than useless, all vessels of the navy not pro-
pelled by steam. The old sail vessels carry
1,800 guns ; but many of these vessels are tin
fit for sea, and none of them in a state for efli
cient service. The real strength of the navy is
said by the American to consist of seven screw
frigates, five screw sloops, four side-wheel
sloops, and eight gun sloops, making a total of
twenty-four vessels, carrying 387 guns. That
paper says " this is absolutely the entire na-
tional fleet of the lTnited States, and no ether
statement of the case cau make it greater." All
of the screw frigates, sloops and gun sloops
and the Powhatan, are armed with 9 inch 10
inch and 11 inch cannon of Captain Dahlgren'¡
model, except the Jacinto.
The efficient blockade of all the ports of the
Confederate States, by such a force, is simply
impossible, had they no other duty to perform
but the North already feels that they will be
needed for defensive as well as oflensive ope-
rations.
What are the actual preparations and de-
signs with regard to the threatened blockade, it
is hard to determine.
The New York papers tnnounce the charter
ing by the government of the bteaniships Au-
gusta, the Star of the South and the Florida.
The steamship Kedar, of the Cunard line, has
also been chartered, she ii to carry 1,000 men,
it is stated the steam gunboat Monticello left
the navy yard, Brooklyn, on Thursday, as an
escort to the steamer Parkersburgh and Day-
light. The latter will lay off Cape May to
await the appearance of the Monticello.
The steamship Mount Yeruen has been char-
tered and goes to the navy yard at Brooklyn, to
be fitted out as a gunboat.
The steamship Roanokt has berths fitted up
to accommodate about 1510 men. She has fires
banked and ready to proceed to sea.
Accounts from Brooklyn say that "the steam
tug Yankee was dispatcl.ed to join the blockade
of the southern ports—hiving been armed with
two heavy guns. She is rather a rough look
ing specimen of a man-of-war." The Quaker
City was being fitted witk two thirty-two poun-
ders, and the Empire City was lying in the
stream, waiting to take ter place for a similar
purpose. These two vessels will be employed
on the same service as '.he Yankee. Another
steamer called the Dawn intended for the same
service, was to be repaired and armed. The
Huntsville, a screw steamer, has been recop-
pered and her machinery repaired. She will
be armed like the others.
The Wabash is near y ready fur sea, and
the work of rigging the Savannah w s in pro-
gress.
The precise destination of none of these
vessels is stated.
THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS
•• •
Oen. Beauregard in montgomery
♦ #
Montgomery, May 5.—Congress sat with
closed doors all of yesterday.
The veil of secrecy was removed from an act
which passed, providing for the formation of
regiment of Zouaves.
A resolution was dopted allowing all per
sons in the slaveholding States desiring patents
to file caveats with the Attorney General.
Gen. Beauregard and Mr. Russell, correspoo
dent of the London Times, are both in this city
There is nothing new from Pensacola.
3Iore Pennsylvania Troops.
Annapolis, May 4.—The President has made
another requisition on Pennsylvania for troops
to proceed to Washington immediately.
lwo first-class steamers are now plving be
tween Perryville and Annapolis.
military Companies of Delaware
_ ^ ilminüton, Del., May 4.—Three compa-
nies have been sworn in under the Governor's
proclamation.
The Knights of the Golden Circle are plenty
but quiet.
War Appropriation by Connecticut
Hartford, May 4 —The Legislature of Con
nectlcut haa passed a D;li appropriating $a,ooo,-
000 for military purposes.
Another Virginia Regiment;
Richmond, May 4.—Hod. Roger A. Pryor's
regiment of Virginia volunteers is now fully
organized and ready to defend the State.
Travel on wortHern Railroads.
Philadelphia, May 4.—Travel south of
Philadelphia has been stopped.
America.
New York, May 4.—Tbe Pacific and Atlan-
tic Mail Company's steamship Northern Light
arrived at this port to-day from Aspinwall.
She brings $800,000 in treasure oh freight.
Advices from Valparaiso say that the towns
of San Juan aud Mendoza, in Chili, have been
destroj-ed by a terrific earthquake. Eight thou-
sand lives were lost in Mendoza.
Troops Pouring into Washington.
Alexandria, May 4.—Federal troops are still
pouring into Washington from all quarters of
the North and West, and rumors of an attack
on Alexandria are rife.
The bridges on the Baltimore and Wilming-
ton Railroad, lately destroyed, are being re-
built.
The Confederate Congress.
Montgomery, May 3.—In Congress, to-day,
a model for a seal of the Confederacy, was of-
fered and referred.
No business of an important character was
transacted. Most of the day was spent in se-
cret session.
Southern Troops at Lynchburg.
Lynchburg, May 2.—The Mobile Rifles and
Cadets have arrived here, all well and in good
spirits. Tennessee is all right. It was one
continued outburst of enthusiasm the whole
route.
Virginia is all eager for the frav.
The other Mobile companies will be here to-
morrow.
The women and children and all want to
fight, and will move " Old Abe" aud family
tsr t he papers state that the "Smelling
Committee," of Cincinnati, seized considerable
provisions on the 7th, destined for the South,
'i'bo couiuilite declare that uuiUIug coming
under the meanipg of contraband of war shall
leave that city for any southern state.
The South is in no danger of being starved
out by tbe North ; and the dog-in-the-manger
policy attempted by some of our enemies is
likely to work no better in fact than in fiction.
At the late term of the 1". S. Court, at New-
Call for a Fourteen Till lion Loan.-
\\ ASniNUToN, May 3.—The Secretary of the
Treasury advertises for proposals until the 30th,
unless the whole amount ofl'ered be sooner tak-
en at par, for nearly fourteen millions of dol-
lars under the act of June, 1860.
Canada and the United States.
Toronto. May 3.—The Lead 'r, the Govern-
ment organ, fears that OaL.ida may Itecome in-
volved in the United States ditHculties, and ad-
vocates an armed neutrality, and suggest that
the Canadian Government represent to the im-
perial authorities the expediency of sending
six or eight regiments of the line for the pro-
tection of the frontier.
Proposition to Avert Civil War.
Baltimore, May 3.—The Senate of Maty-
land has adopted a resolution recommending
the appointment of a committee to wait on the
President of the United States, the President of
the Southern Confederacy and the Governor of
vi. K.uia, wiin a Vie™ „r about so.no
understanding whereby civil war may be pre-
vented.
Seizure of Gunpowder.
Boston, May 3.—The brig St. Mary, with
five hundred kegs powder, was seized to-day.
THUKSDAY, MAY 9, 1S6I.
i=ST" The steamer Ruth ven, Thos. Peacock
commander, from Liberty, arrived here this
morning with the following passengers :
Donahur, Green, Richardson & svt., Allen,
Stnckner, VV esterlage, Forth, Edgar. Haskins,
Andrews, Miss E Reed, Hanks.
ISf The steamer Diana, Capt. J. II. Sterrett,
from Houston, arrived here this morning with'
29 bales cotton, and the following passengers •
Walker &, Indian, Miss Price, Mrs Sterrett'
Miss Flake, Clark lady A child A svt. '
J3T" At New York, a few days since, U. S.
District Attorney, E. Delafield Smith, sent an
official notification to certain banks, holding
balances due banking institutions in seceded
States, that any attempt by them to forward
specie to those States, while the rebellion con
tinued, would be regarded and treated as trea
sonable. The papers laud this act of robbery
15ÉT" A letter from Concord, New Hampshire,
dated April 27, says that Ex-President Pierce,
in obedience to a telegraphic dispatch received
from Hon. Mr. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, had
gone to that city and perhaps to Baltimore.
It is understood that the purpose of his mis-
sion is to tender his services as mediator be-
tween the Southern Confederacy and the Unit-
ed States.
merous vessels moored along the Algiers Le-
vee, and were carried against the wharf, great-
ly endangering other boats, including the Star
of the West, Sumpter and Havana, belonging
to the Southern Confederacy. The boat3 de-
stroyed were the Geo. Pike, (on which the fire
started,) tbe Telegram, Editor, Madison, Re-
public, Tensas, Grenada and Dolly Webb. The
loss cannct be less than $100,000.
Property Saved at Portsmouth.— The
Petersburg Express of the 1st inst., has a letter
^ „ . from its regular correspondent at Portsmouth,
l ork, Judge Betts charged the Grand Jury that , . , , ,
, „ , . i ,i - dated Apnl 29th, Irom which we extract as
the Seceded Mates now stood in the position of I ^}j|ow
foreign enemies to the United States, and laid
down the ancient doctrine against outlaws in
the strongest terms. He said, with reference
to the course to be pursued by the North to-
wards the South, and enforced under the death
penalty : " Giving aid or comfort to the ene-
mies of the country, consists in furnishing the
military supplies, food, clothing, harbor or con-
cealment, or communicating inform ition to
them, helping their hostilities against the coun-
try and its government " He charged the jury
particularly to bring iu indictments against
those "engaged in any way in fitting out or
victualling vessels" to aid the South. Never-
theless, the South is about as far from the dan-
ger of starvation as ever. At New Orleans,
last week, the receipts of flour were 19,f>50 bb'.s.,
while the exports were only 2,729. The re-
ceipts of corn were 83,317 sacks. The receipts
of pork were 9,614 bbls. The uto k on hand of
all these articles is very large, and the demand
moderate. A telegraphic dispatch, dated Louis-
ville, Ky., May 4th, says that there had been
large shipments of provisions to New Orleans
last week, and there are no apprehensions felt
here of their capture at Cairo. Accounts from
that point say " the hirelings at Cairo are keep-
ing themselves quiet. They do not board
passing steamboats, and are evidently making
preparations for a vigorous defence in case tbey
are attacked."
The Southern harvest promises to be both
early and large ; ajd we think it will be hard
to get up a food panic.
Scarcely anything has been destroyed which
was of immediate necessity to us, except the
ships. The machinery has all been repaired,
and is now buzzing in the service of Virginia.
On a beautifully finished steam engine 1 count-
ed the imprints of some fifty blows with a
sledge hammer—all of which did so little dam-
age that the manager informed me it wag in
uccessful operation again, whithin ten hours
from the time the Vandals left it—when a
single blow in the right place would have dis-
abled it for weeks, A large stock of shot, shell
and carbines, thrown into the river, have been
recovered. Gun carriages are being rapidly
put in order, and guns—of which there is about
four thousand left—are shipped daily to dif-
ferent parts of Virginia and the South. Des-
pite all their intended mischief, the pirates left
us a legacy of which France or Great Britain
mi.;bt be proud.
Í3F" The steamer Island City, C. Blakeman
commander, arrived here this morning from
Houston, with 222 bales cotton and the follow-
ing passengers:
Simms lady, 2 children A 2 svts, Mrs Tim-
mons A son, W L Adkins child A svt, Mrs El-
lis, Miss Adkins, Miss Stratton, Mrs Adams,
Rutledge A lady, Col Moffit U S A A lady, J
Aken A daughter, Dr E H Abadie U S A A lady,
2 children A 2 svts, Col Waite USA lady A 2
svts, Daman, Powers, Macrea, Crommell, Dr
Winston, Richardson, McDeleny, Gillespie, Buf-
fington, Sprague, Woodcock, Wagner, Guard,
McNeel A svt, Noland, Hensley, Wilson, F C
Barnes, Freagood, Towns, Hay, Stratton, Tomp-
kins Mickland, Maj Nichols USA laiv five
children A 2 svts, Col Chandler USA lady A
svt, Randle, Walker, Dr Frost, Capt H Brown
US A., Capt Lee USA lady A child, Dr
Smith U S A A lady, McClure lady A children,
Halker lady A 2 children, Lt. Reed U S A A svt,
Calhoun A lady, Gov F R Lubbock, Ehinger—
152 head cattle.
"The Flag op the Star o/ the West."—
The Memphis Avalanche t'aus comes down on
one of our young Galvestonians, whose modesty
seems destined to be as much tried as his cour-
age. We copy for the satisfaction of his friends :
"H. L. {Lowneh] ÍI. L. Allen, its Bearer.
This gentleman, just from the seat of the late
triumph of the Texan forces in taking posses-
sion of the Star of the West, has exhibited in
our sanctum (made glorious by its unfurling)
tbe Confederate flig as raised and flung to the
breeze by bis own hands. The flag is tasty, and
is an emblem of a past victory that will entail
undying lustre on the gallant young gentleman
who" bad the honor of elevating to this proud
position a flag that the brave vow shall be flung
proudly from the dome of the Capitol of the
usurper; and it may wave (who knows ?) from
each dome and turret of the princely mansions
and State Capitols of the mercenary North.—
Mr. Allen clings to bis treasure, and we wel-
come him with bi3 precious relic to our sanc-
tum, guaranteeing to him and all such, a truly
Southern welcome. Any one wishing to see
tbe glorious banner can do so by applyng to
Messrs. O-gill A Bros.
Old Dominion in Arms.—The Richmond
Enquirer of the 22d ult. says :
The proclamation of Gov. Letcher for volun
leers bas been responded to by over seventy
t< ousand soldiers. Young men from every
class and profession throughout the State, all
of them raised with arma in their hands from
earliest boyhood, form Virginia's army. Good
marksmen] enured to fatigue by hunting and
farming, riding and exercise of all kinds, eager
to rush to tbe defence of their bornes, fathers,
mothers, rights and liberties—such are the de-
fenders of Virginia. All of the State has not
yet been heard from, and when it is,tbe number
will be swelled to one hundred thousand of the
best soldiers that ever stood forth to defend
their country from oppression; Such an army,
officered from the flower of the United States
army, and commanded by the brave and gal-
lant" Lee, the nobis son of Light Horse Harry,
conquest will b« impossible, and the invader
that has the hardihood to trespass upon the soil
of Virginia, will meet a sure and speedy death.
The Religion ok Paying Debts.—The fol-
lowing remarks, from two contemporary pa-
pers, contain a lesson worthy of serious con-
sideration :
Men may sophisticate as they please. Tbey
can oevcr make it right, and all the bankrupt
laws in the universe cannot make it right, for
them not to pay their debts. There is a sin in
this neglect as clear and deserving Church dis-
cipline, as is stealing or false swearing. He
who violates his promise to pay, or withholds
payment of a debt when it is iu bis power to
meet his engagement, ought to be made to feel
that ¡D the sight of ail honest men be is a swin-
dler. Religion may be a very comfortable cloak
under which to bide; but if religion does not
make a man deal justly, it is not worth having.
Good 1 every word. So if you owe anybody
a cent, and have a cent in your possession, go
and pay it. If you have none, go to work, dig,
ditch, plow—work at any honest work until you
get it and pay it out. You will breathe freer,
sleep easier, eat and digest better. You will
honor and love all men, and yourself, more.—
Do you owe your merchant? Pay him, or stop
buying. Don't eat your bread without paying
for it, or knowing that you can, whenever it is
wanted. Otherwise, it won't fatten you, and
will bring on physical and moral dyspepsia.—
Do not forget that little subscription for your
editor and preacher. Have you paid up to both ?
It is a small amount, but their income is made
up of littles. He that is unjust in the least is
unjust also in much. You will enjoy your pa
pera thousand times more; tbe sermons you
hear will seem infinitely better, if you know
you are not ¡° debt to either your printer or
pastor.
The Retiring U. S. Officers.—The San
Antonio Ledger savs :
Col. Waite with most of the officers of his
'.II", and others, who had been stationed at
Di'| artuient Head Quarters, left yesterday, as
prisoners on their parole.
In severing our social relations w ith these
gentlemen and their most estimable families,
San Antonio, in her Churches, in her Sunday
Schools, in her festive, as well as in her do-
mestic circles, indeed ill her every phase of so-
ciety will have cause deeply to regret their de-
parture.
It bas been the singular good fortune of all
the other officers of the U. S. Army, ever sta-
tioned here, to attach to them, the kindliest feel-
ings of this community, and in this permanent
separation, while all admit the justice of its
necessity; yet we are assured, that the feeling
of this community, is blended in one sincere,
ardent, aspiration, for the health, prosperity
and happiness of each, not alone of the de-
lightful coterie, that has just departed, liut em-
bracing all of the U. S. officers and their fami-
ilies that have been with us, even iu the halcy-
on days of times past.
Affairs in Baltimore.—The St. Louis
Democrat of the 1st inst. has the following
telegraphic dispatches, dated Baltimore, April
29th :
Hon. Henry Winter Davis has been publicly
walking and driying through the streets of
Baltimore for several days past, wholly unmo-
lested. It is understood that the newly appoint-
ed federal officers for Baltimore will enter upon
their duties on Wednesday next. Some pretend
to say they will be resisted, but tbe authorities
are prepared to protect them.
Gen. Scott writes in a recent letter to his
daughter Mrs. McTavis, residing in Baltimore,
telling her not to leave the city, as all would
be safe. Several New York soldiers of the
Seventh Regiment are at Barnum's, who re-
turned from Washington, refusing to t ke the
required oath. The Maryland Guards,
others of our military, paid
visits. . .
Business remains stagnant here. Specie is
at three or four per cent, premuim. Tbe State
military organization is perfeoting. All is quiet
down the bay. Strangers from the Northwest
everywhere are treated with the utmost kind-
ness. Two-thirds of all the rumors about tbe
incivilities offered them are ridiculously false
Sensible people here will as soon shake hands
with Northern gentlemen as with any other s
and
them friendly
Tbe refuse charcoal from coal pits or old coal
bins, is extremely valuable, spread upon and
dug into the guíen soil. All early vegetables
as radishes, turnips, Ac., when grown in a soil
of charcoal mixture, are very tender and deli-
cate. For vines, as melons, cucumbers, Ac.
there is nothing better than a mixture of fine
charcoal in the soil, and for sweet potatoes it is
just the thing.
Major-Generai. Robert E. Lee.—Iu con-
formity with a resolution offered by Mr. Mac-
farland, in the convention on Monday night, the
22d instant, savs the Richmond Enquirer of the
25th, Colonel Robert E. Lee, late of the United
States Armv, was formally received by the con-
vention on yesterday, and the unanimous con-
firmation of his appointment to the office of
Major-General, commanding the military and
naval forces of Virginia, made known to him
by John Janney, Esq., President of the conven-
tion, in behalf of that assembly.
Says the Dispatch of the 26th :
We have already announced that Gen. Robt.
E Lee, late of the U. S. Army, haa been ap-
pointed by the Governor Commander-in-Chief of
the Army of Virginia.
General Lee isa son of "Light Horse Harry,"
of immortal fame, and is well known as one of
the most accomplished officers of the lateU. S.
service. It was Lee who engineered the victo-
rious march to Mexico, for which tbe greatest
flunkey of the age got all the credit. A more
heroic, Christian, noble soldier and gentleman
could not be found
ÍS?" The New York papers express great
fears to Fort Sumter as about to be captured
by the secessionists. The telegraphic dispatch-
es say that "fourtten pieces of rifled cannon of
immeuse size, one of them weighing 10,000
pounds," have been received at Norfolk. This
is since the evacuation of the Navy Yard, and
the New York Times says that these cannon
cannot be intended for anything else but to
pierce the wall of Fort Monroe. The Times
say heavy guns from Gosport Navy Yard, just
seized by the secessionists, are beginning to be
landed at Hampton, whence they can be ad-
vanced to within one mile of tbe undefended
northern and western wall of Fort Monroe?—
From that point of attack the wall may be
pierced right through into the magazine, and a
hot shot or two following, would blow up the
finest fortress on the continent! The Times
express great fears of such an event.
Disaffection in the Famed Seventh Reg-
iment, New Yore.—The Baltimore Republican
of Monday, the 29th ult., says :
A number of the members of the far-famed
Seventh Regiment, of N. York, passed through
this city yesterday, en route for their homes,
having become disgusted with the duties devolv-
ing upon them in Washington. One of these
gentlemen states that great disaffection exists
among the entire regiment. Upon their arrival
in Washington city, they were called upon to
take tbe oath to support the Federal Govern-
ment for a term of three months.
This nearly every man refused to do, unless
the time was made shorter and the oath modi-
fied. The required modification was made, and
about 500 of tbe entire number—991—took the
oath for 30 days. The remainder refused even
to sign the oath, uoless it was again modified
by inserting the coDditioo that they " were not
to bear arms against either Virginia or Mary-
land." To this, it is said, the Government gave
their consent, and all but about fifty accepted
the oath as modified. Many of them, however,
have refused to take any oath, giving as a rea-
son, that tbey have been deceived, and will never
engage in any unholy war against Marylandera,
and particularly Baltimoreans.
Humble Persons.—Tbe husband who does
bis wife's churning ; the wife who blacks her
husband's boots ; and the man who thinks you
do him so much honor.
Theory may be very well; but young doctors
and lawyers always prefer practice.
Why is a spendthrift's purse like a thunder-
cloud? Because it is continually light'ning.
Fight fairly when you do fight, but the better
way is not to fight at all.—Fiddle for no fools.
Why is a kiss like some sermons? —Because
there are two heads and an application.
" Night threw ber mantle o'er the world and
pin*d it with a star." Tasty wasn't she?
In all matters except a little matter of the
tongue, a woman can generally hold her own.
He who labors for mankind, without a aire
for himsslf has already begun his immortality.
Piling it On.—The Washington Republic,
oi the 1st iust. says :
The President yesterday morning directed
the enrollment of forty thousand volunteers for
three years' service, and the enrollment of
twenty-five thousand regular troops for fiye
years. He bas also directed the enrollment of
eighteen thousand sailors for the navy for five
ears.
This is a little " too much booing." Lincoln
lias already done a number of things which
neither the constitution or laws warrant; but
we hardly think lie has gone so far as to enlist
40,000 soldiers for three years and enroll 18,000
.sailors for live, when the whole army and navy
authorized by Congress do uot mueli exceed one
fourth of these numbers, Lincoln's only excuse
for bis present assumption of power is that
Congress is not in session and that his object
simply to keep the country in its present
state until Congress meets. A law of Congress
provides "that no officer, non-commissioned
officer, or private of the militia shall be com-
pelled to serve more than three months."
t3f° As a sample < f the gentle measures pro-
posed against the South by the neTSpaper he-
roes of the North, we give the following from
an article in the lioston Courier— a paper until
recently regarded as favorable to the South.
" An army of 100,000 men, stationed in and
around Washington, with Baltimore in the
hands of the United States. * * Richmond
must theu be menaced, and Norfolk laid low.
Expeditions should be immediately fitted out
against every Southern seaport, large and
small. Pensacola Navy Yard should be re-
captured, Mobile burnt, Montgomery threaten-
ed, and tlie levees above New Orleans levelled
when the Mississippi rises, so as to wipe out
that black spot."
This is only a fair specimen of what is said
throughout the North, in the papers, the pulpit,
and streets. Those wLo do the talking, how-
ever, show very little disposition to do the
work they recommend.
It is stated in the Chicago Times that while
thirteen appointments, foreign and domestic,
have been given to editors and atlachees of the
New York Tribune, not a single man connected,
as editor or correspondent, with that paper lias
volunteered to fight.
It is almost universally the case, that those
men who talk the loudest are the last to fight.
^ irginia.—The Richmond Enquirer says
that A irginia is better provided with all the ne-
cessaries of a great campaign than any State
orth of Mason and Dixon's line—if she is not
equally as well supplied as the Federal Gov-
ernment itself. The Navy Yard at Gosport, the
Magazine at Norfolk, the Arsenal at Harper's
Ferry, added largely to the supply ; but the
action taken by many of the counties, without
the knowledge of the authorities at Richmond,
in purchasing arms and munitions of war for
the companies within the county limits, lias sup-
plied, to a very great extent, the hundred thou-
sand men which, within a few days, will be
ready to defend the soil of Virginia from Fede-
eral invasion.
The thorough and complete organization of
the Quartermaster and Commissary Depart-
ments, which Gen. Lee bas perfected, will ena-
ble the immediate concentration of troops upon
the borders of the State wherever the move-
ments of the enemy may demand the presence
of troops. Should the folly which reigns at
Washington íivtuia on invasion of V¡ro-i'ni.
and a demonstration agaiust Alexandria, Geo.
Cocke is prepared to meet them, while Colonel
Jackson from Harper's Ferry, crossing the river
with ten thousand men, would immediately ad-
vance on Washington, and, assisted by Mary-
land, would soon end the invasion of Virginia
by tbe capture of Washington. Gen. Lee can
at any moment leave Richmond at the head of
twenty thousand men, now there and in the
counties between that and Alexandria. Gen.
Gwynn, at Norfolk, and Gen. Ruggles, at Fred-
ericks lurgh, have each a very large army un-
der their command. The railroads of the
State, under the Quartermaster's Department,
are held in readiness for the transportation of
troops from point to point.
So great has been the enthusiasm of the peo-
ple that Gov. Letcher has teen compelled to
forbid any more troops rendezvousing at Rich-
mond without special orders.
The Stockton Family seem to belong to the
class of heroes who mass opportunities for the
exhibition of their prowess and the acquisition
of laurels; but not the class who. would put
their light under a bushel. Ca'sar used the
pen well, and owes his fame to the feather
of tbe Roman bird as well as the Roman sword.
The son of Commodore Stockton, who is sup-
posed to represent the United States at Rome,
is represented by a late letter in the newspapers
to have set the soldiers of the Pope at defiance,
and driven, six in hand, through their lines, to
visit some late pageant. The six in hand, how-
ever, of the yankee hero, was the six barrels of
a revolver, and penny papers of tbe North laud
young Stockton as though he had doue some
heroic instead of a very absurd and unmanner-
ly thing. The young one, however, is a very
diminutive chip of the old block. Tbe old
Commodore is the real hero—of his own story.
The young one may do well enough among the
degenerate sons of Rome, but it takes the old
man to play the hero among the " tumultuary
inhabitants" of America, lie is the man to be
taken to Abraham's bosom at Washington city,
and eclipse the fuss and feathers of all com-
petitors. Had he been around the song of the
Star Spangled Banner" would never have
been written. No Key would have been neces-
sary to solve the riddle whether it should con-
tinue to wave. The Commodore woul I have
waved it, as a matter of course, lie always
does. In a late letter to Gov. Olden, of the
mighty State of New Jersey, the Commodore
tells what he will do, and has done. We have
only room for the conch-ding sentence of his
I nited states Circuit conn.
Chabue to the Grand J cry at New York*
—At the opening of this Court, Wednes-
day morning, the Grand Jury came in and wer
charged as follows, by Judge Betts :
Gentlemen of the Grand Jcby—Yoo are
not called together at this time for tbe discharge
of the ordinary routine of the duty of grand
juries. It will", therefore, be unnecessary that
the Court should address you on those topics.
You are convened in a solemn crisfe of our na-
tional affairs, as an important element of the
public force, to render aid in preventing the re-
public receiving harm from open enemies, or
persons practising iu secret against the safety
and peace of the Government. Your fellow-cit-
jzens, called from all avocations of life, neigh-
bors, kindred, brothers and sons, at the national
appeal, are rapidly mustering and hastening to
the battle field, bravely and freely to peril their
jives in support and vindication of the consti-
tution and laws of our common country, openlr
assailed by hostile armies. Your ministry, gen-
tlemen, although necessarily of a calm and
peaceful character, is only second in importance
to military power, in checking and counteract-
ing these henious crimes set on foot against the
peace and existence of the government and th©
afroSio'us Bfli aViTifftf ruiiw. lW^*c w'IM. njflSl
piracy, (the latter involving war against all
mankind, equally with hostility against the
country to wnich the offenders «we allegiance)
and concomitant to treason, the lesser but vet
henious crime of misprision -of treasou. The
latter is enly second to treason in being nega-
tive in its character, in wilfully omitting to do
what the duty of a faithful citizen requires he
should do for the safety of his country. Our
Constitution declares treason to " consist #>f
levying war against the United Sutes or iu ad-
hering to their enemies, giving them akl or com-
fort." The law pronounces the penalty of death
against every one convicted of the offense in
any particular of its definition or description.—
Piracy consists in a forcible capture or robbery
on the high seas of any vessel or hat lading,
by a vessel or her company, not authorized by
a lawful commission from our government, and
organized and acting under the law of nations,
and is punishable by death by any tribunal ot
all countries, where tbe offense is triable.
Two witnesses to overt acts of treason are
necessary to convict of the high crime; or a
confession by the accused in open court. His
admission of acts alone by him, made in writing
or verbally, are legal evidence, and become, in
judgment of law, tantamount to tbe testimony
of two witnesses.
Col. Van Dorn'b Report.
" 1 will hoist the Star Spangled Banner at
Morven, the former residence of one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence—
that flag which, when a boy, 1 nailed to the
masthead of the frigate President; that flag
whose honor I have maintained in more than
one jiersonal combat; that flag which 1 have
carried honored aud res| ected in every clime—
which I hoisted on Cape Messurado, in Afiica,
and carried through the Territory of California;
that identical flag which 1 bore across the Rio
San (jabriel, and over the plains of Mesa, and
hoisted in triumph in the city He Los Angelos,
in the fice of a despotic foe; that flag which
the immortal Washington, iu the name of our
country, our whole country, planted on the
ramparts id' Liberty."
Sir John Falstaff must look to bis laurels.
A Wet Blanket.—Some ot the Northern
papers have been counting largely upon aid,
in men and munitions of war, from the British
Government, aud visions of Minnie rifles and
other arms from Canada, bave tilled their eyes.
Tbe following from a Montreal I aper throws a
wet blanket over these enthusiastic calcula-
tions :
The Duty of Canada in the /'resent Rela-
tion in the States.—Telegraphs have been
received in this city from tbe Governor of Mas-
sachusetts and others directing the purchase of
large quantities of arms for the Northern States.
Applications have also been made from the
same quarter for the loan of the Minnie rifles
belonging to the Volunteer Forces. Of arms
for sale there is no quantity in Canada; the
application for the Volunteer arms is utterly
inadmissible. Canada ought not directly or
indirectly to interfere in the war between the
Northern and Southern Confederacies.
The application comes too with a peculiarly
ill-grace from a people who made such a fuss
about the Crimean enlistments, and actually
refused a passage through its territory by way
of Portland for the very rifles which it non-
desires us to lend them.
The Provisional Government should interfere
promptly to stop the export to either of the bel-
ligerents of articles contraband of war, and to
prevent all enlistments or other participation in
the contest now going on in the Repulic.—Mon-
treal Com. Advertiser, 24th ■ult.
We have already published the fact that the
Leader, the government organ, advocates an
armed neutrality, and suggests that the Cana-
dian gnvarnniAnt raprauitnt to tllrt i 11. J if r i :i 1
authorities the expediency of sending six or
eight regiments of the line for the protection of
the frontier.
Waaliingtoii City.
The New Orleans True Delta obtains the fol-
lowing facts from a man wli > visitM Washing-
ton city in order to secure his discharge as a
sergeaut of the I'. S. army, formerly stationed
in Texas. Having resigned he returns to the
South, where all his interests li««. What he
say3 may be implicitly relied on.
He says that there were, when he left, about
eutv thousand Northern troops in Washing-
ton. These troops are principally stationed iu
the arsenal, capital, new treasury buildings,
patent office and postoffice. A new York regi-
ment was at Annapolis, en route for Washing-
ton.
Head Quarters, Department of Texas.
San Antonio, May 3,1861.
General Orders,
No. 4.
The Colonel Commanding the troops in Texas,
acknowledges with pride the valuable services
of the volunteers called out by his orders, to
arrest the U. S. troops at Indianola. .
With short notice, they sprang to arms and
joined him at Victoria, with a celerity amount-
ing to eagerness, that will ev«r stand as a proof
that the State of Texas has nothing to fear from
invasion from any quarter. With tbe fatigue
of forced marches—night watches—exposure
on the crowded decks of the transports in La-
vaca and Matagorda Bays—and scanty previs-
ions ; there was no murmur of dissatisfaction,
and no unwillingness manifested to obey any
order.
The aged man, and the youth without beard,
the father and his sons, the heroes of San Ja-
cinto and the Rangers who became veteran* in
the Mexican War, were seen side by side in thu
ranks, with faces expressive of that determina
tion to win or die—that ever gives assurance
of success—and which ¡jare success. The
companies wbicb reported at Victoria on the
23d and 24th of April, were :
Captain Herbert's company, Colorado ;
•' Saarborougb, ( Davis Guards,) DeWitt;
" McDowell, Lockhart;
" A. C. llorton, Matagorda;
" W. R. Friend, DeWitt Rifles ;
" Hampton, Victoria;
" Upton, Colorado;
" Holt, Fort Bend ;
•' Jones, ) Col. DeWitts, ., _ ,
" Harris,! Command, ^«ales;
'• Williams, Layaca county:
" ky\e"'}fays county:
" Stapp, Indianola -
" Searcy, Co'.orado:
" Phillips, Lavaca Town ;
" Finlay, " "
" Pearson, Matagorda;
" C. L. Owen, Texana;
" Barkley, Fayette:
" Gordon, Matagorda couuty.
In addition to tbe above, there were rnauy
companies who reached Victoria too late to par-
ticipate, and were turned back without report-
ing—nevertheless, they are entitled to all honor
for their zeal and patriotism.
The command of Col. H. E. McCulloch con-
sisting of five companies of Cavalry under
Captains Pitts, Tobin, Ashby, Bogges, and
Nelson, and the battery of Light Artillery un-
der Captain Edgar from San Antonio, made ex-
traordinary exertions to reach Victoria on the
day specified for the rendezvous, for which die
greatest praise is due them, and although they
were not enabled to reach Lavaca in time to
participate in the manoeuvres on-the Bay, (as
the movement was made before the time ap-
pointed,! they proved that thsy oould be relied
upon in any emergency.
The Colonel commanding desires also to ac-
knowledge the services of Judge Haws of S
luria, who promptly secured two pieces of ar
tillery, unavoidably left on his wharf on tbe
night tbe "Star of the West" was seized, and
who tendered the hospitalities of hi® bouse dur-
ing the drawing up of the agreements betwwn
the Commanding Officer of the U. B- troops,
and the Colonel Commanding.
Captain Chubb, of the "Royal Yacht" from
Galveston, did material service in giving facil-
ties of communication between the vessels io
No lortificatijna have b.'en thrown up Hay, and afterwards in transporting arms
where in the city or its neighborhood—not a
ngle battery plauted. Tbe roads are go tided
and munitions of War, taken from the U. 0.
troops to Indianola and to Galveston, free of
■ . b " - ' . . i troops to inaianoia ana to viaivesiou, ura oi
night and day by mounted men. A guard is . chJ for wl,ioh be aIso degerves and has the
stationed, by Lincoln at Long Bridge and the t ianki of the Colonel Comnandine.
\ irginia side of the bridge is guarded by \ ir- Mesgra j¡. A uoward ndT. J- Ward,Capts.
We quoted Lord Napier, yesterday, in
support of the idea that temperance was among
the virtues of military life, though we are
aware that fame of the highest kind has been
acquired without it. -As has been remarked,
Alexander conquered Thebes, Athens, Thrace,
Thessaly, Persia, Judea, Tyre, Caucasus, and
Scythia, but <T¿d of drunkenness. Alexander
did not conquer King Alcohol, though he beat
the world with men, and was a regular Karey
in horse-taming. We regret to seethe escutch-
eon of a modern military man tarnished by the
same weakness. The Baltimore Clipper gives
an impartial report of a complaint made against
the sovereign State of Carolina and the Con-
•federate Congress by a man named John Ap-
pleby, who has returned from Charleston to
Baltimore. He complained most bitterly of the
treatment which be received while a valiant
soldier, and warns all aspiring young military
gents to beware of the allurements offered by
the Palmetto agents. The returned volunteer,
among other complaints, pitifully remarked
that while in Charleston he was fed on mush
and rice three times a day. In mitigation of
these damaging charges, it is only to be ob-
served, that, in answer to questions put to him,
by the Reporter of the Clipper, he admitted
that he was drunk when he enlisted, drunk
when he arrived in Charleston, drunk when he
was declared unfit for military duty on account
of an enlargement of the heart, drunk when he
•was requested to leave Charleston,drunk when
he arrived in Baltimore, drunk when he made
his statement, drunk when he left tbe Clipper
office, and likely to be drunk so long as whisky
is easy to be had.
In á P. S. tbe Clipper reports a second visit
from him, drunker than ever. Consequently
that paper gives his statement with many grains
of allowance.
A true philanthropist and a well-trained
horse, always stop* at the sound of wo.
This is a great proapect," as a prisoner «aid
in peeping out of nis cell window.
ginians
The windows and doors *>f the new treasury
buildings are barricaded, and the basement oc-
cupied by troops. Gas is used in daylight, so
dark are the rooms made by the barricades.
In tbe capital the Rhoile Island and Massa-
chusetts troops are quartered. The Senate
chamber and House of Representatives are in a
terribly filthy condition. Barrels of bread and
pickled pork were emptied on the seats and
floor. The soldiers cook and eat in these cham-
bers. The committee-rooms and galleries are
equally filthy. In the rotunda nails are driven
through the beautiful paintings on the walls to
bang knapsacks on.
The patent office is turned upside down, the
postoffice building made a commissary depart-
ment.
Citizens are leaving Washington as fast as
possible.
The White 11 «use is guarded night and day.
It is said that Lincoln's family sleep only during
the day, such is tbe fear that reigns in tbe man-
sion, of an attack.
Gen. Scott looks woru and infirm His quar-
ters are guarded at night, and so great is his
anxiety that he scarcely has an hour's rest.
F, tbe vl.liv.
of Washington.
No man cau express sympathy for the South
without subjecting himself to immediate vio-
lence or arrest.
Gen. Scott has uo idea of resigning. The re-
signation of Col. Robert Lee made a sensation
Fears were entertained of the resignation of
Gen. Harney. The secretary of war has on file
a large number of resignations of army offi-
cers which he pays no attention to.
No batteries bave been erected c-n Arlington
Heights. Near Alexandria, the Virginians had
planted a battery on the Potomac. When our
informant passtd through Alexandria, four
Virginia companies were there, and troops
were being raised in the city and vioinity, and
he understood that companies were going thither
as fast as possible.
Troops were concentrating in large numbers
in Richmond and Lynchburg. The excitement
was tremendous. Every train was jammed with
southern soldiers. Hie journey of southern
companies was a perfect ovatiOD. Companies
were ordered to be formed in ^ irginia, and were
filled immediately. Those who could not be
instantly enrolled declared they would not eave
at any Vate. All the Virginians want la the
word to march on Washington All along be
road tbe enthusiasm knew no bounds. Our in
formant, who has seen excited people in his ex-
perience- describes the patriotic outburst of the
f^onle to surpass the power of language. Men,
women, all classes are seized with the military
The excitement on the route through^ lennes-
see wa3 very high. He met between Knoxville
and Ljnchburg, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ala-
bama volunteers going to tbe latter city in
large numbers. Every train was crowded
U. S. Gunboats.—The New York Post, of
the 29th ult. says :
Tbe United States gunboats now attached to
the blockade fleet, and those which have been
chartered to act as gunboats, will be posted
along the coast, as their strength and the
portance of the stations for which tbey are
detailed may direct. Each regular sai g
vessel of the navy will have two s'4*™
when practicable, and one in any ca .
large steam frigates and corvetta will ootfor
tSe'pretnt be drawn
smaller ones are under orders to leave already
The future blight* naore reputations than ever
ripens.
A man with music in his soul—a chap with
a pair of squeaking boots.
A horse's teeth tell how old the creatpre is,
but a woman's tongue dosn't.
Bradfute and Mecbling.Capt. Minter and Lieut.
Major, C. S. A., acting as Staff Officers, are
deserving of the bigeest praise for their energy
and for the efficient aid they rendered during
the whole of the operations.
Bv order of Col. E. VAN DOaN,
W.'T. Mechlino,
Capt. and Act. Aet't Adj't --J
Fitting out ol Volunteer .
Col. (¡eorge W. Lay, late aid to Gen. Scott,
but now aid to tbe Governor of ^ irginia, baa
published a card, io which he makes the follow-
ing seasonable suggestions in regard to the fit-
ting out of volunteers :
The State can furnish only the equipments
of primary necessity, in which are not included
by regulation many small articles thM are al-
most indispensable, sucb as tin cups, sbeatb
knives, materials for sewing—with which «very
Russian soldier is furnished by bis government
—brushes, spare buttons, shoe-strings, tape,
Ac. Each man will bave to keep his own clothes
'U$neeof tbe best securities for health, in CWe
the soldier will be content Io adopt a precau-
tion everywhere counseled by the highest sur-
gical authority, is the wearing of a flannel belt
next the skin'from the waist to the hips, so tied
as to lap well in front. A soldier's greatest
Pabilitv to disease is from exposure to wet, and
to change of temperature, producing rheumitic
or intestinal suffering. The flannel belt, closely
wrapped, keeps tbe loin* and abdomen at a
nearly uniform temperature, which tbe loose
shirt will not effect. This belt has been requir-
ed to be worn by British troops in tbt W est In-
dies, since many years, and was prescribed in
the French and" English armies in the Crit**i,
and considered equally important in hot and
cold weather against dysentery and against
rheumatism. The material costs little, and one
lady could make up a number of belts in a day.
Gaiters of linen duck or light cloft—a ma-
terial that will wash is best—to fasten over
shoes or ankle boots, will, by keeping out the
dust, prevent the feet from cbaflng, and not
only increases the comfort, but the rapidity,
and endurance of marching. The color should
be white, or very light, to keep out heat. The
experience of the French, the best marofcng
army in tbe world, has caused these gaiters to
be adopted as a part of the regulation equip-
ment. Tbey are, however, of less importance
than the belts. ..
To every company leaving for tbe nela *
suitable quantity of sucb small comforts migti
be furnished at a trivial expense- A sma
package of tea, and one of citno
cases of sickness, when separated fro™ j
al stores, might be added ; but nothing should
be allowed that is of weight, "d woM^rthen
the small means of transportation furnisbe*
f0CoW.URcompanies these suggestions
with another excellent one, that societies be
formed in each town of tbe State for the pur-
nose of providing the means and per soca un-
attending to this important service to our brave
volunteers.
Life may be merry as well as useful. Every
person that owns a mouth ha a good opening
for a laugh.
Some author' tells us that "much ia said about
the tongue." True, the thing la in everjbjdya
mouth.
It is observed of a deceased lawyer, that be
left but effects ; on which a female reten ked
that be had but few causes.
Poverty is like a panther, look it steadily in
tbe face and it will turn away trom you.
How immensely would our conversation be
abridged, if all mankind would only speak the
truth.
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