The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-05 00:00:00

NOVA SCOTIA.

The gold mines of Nova Scotia were attracting a
good share of attention at the date of the last
advices. The Halifax Sun says ;—" During the
last week several men from Canada who have lately
returned from British Columbia, have arrived in
this province for the purpose of trying the Nova
Scotian gold fields."

WHY THERE IS NO UNION SENTIMENT

IN THE SOUTHERA STATES:

At a meeting held at New York on the 15th
the Rev. Mr. Browniow, a well-known methodist
minister of Tennessee, described his experience in
his own state. He said, in the town of Greenville,
where:Andrew Johnson resides, they took out of the
gaol, at one time, two innocent Union men, who
had committed no offence on the face of the earth,
but that of being Union men —Nashy and Fry. Fry
was a poor shoemaker, with a wife and half a dozen
children. A fellow, by the name of Daniel Land-
beater, the vilest wretch that ever made a track in
East Tennessee, Colonel Daniel Landbeater, late
of the United States army, but now a rebel in the
secession army, took these two men, tied them
with with his own hands upon one limb, imme-
diately over the railroad track in the town of
Greenville, and orderel them to hang four days
and nights, and directed all the engineers and
conductors to go by that hanging concern slow, in
a kind of a snail gallop, up and down the road,
to give the passengers an opportunity to kick
the rigid bodies and strike them with a rattan.
And they did it. I pledge you my honour that
on the front platform they made a business of kick-
ing the dead bodies as they passed by ; and the
women (I will not say the ladies, for down South
we make a distinction between ladies and women)
—the women, the wives, and daughters of men in
high position waved their white handkerchiefs in
triumph through the windows of the car at the
sight of the two dead bodies hanging there. Lead-
beater, for his murderous courage, was promoted by
Jefferson Davis to the office of brigadier-general.
He had an encounter, as their own papers at Rich-
mond state, at Bridgeport, not long ago, with a
part of General Mitchel's army, when Leadbeater
got a glorious whipping. His own party turned
round and chastised him for cowardice. He had
courage to hang innocent unarmed men taken out
of a gaol, but he had not courage to face the Yan-
kees and the Northern men that were under Mitchel
and Buell. He took to his heels like a coward as
he is. In the county of Knox, where I reside, and
only seven miles west of the town of Knoxville,
they caught up Union men, tied them upon logs,
elevated the logs upon blocks six or ten inches from
the ground, put the men upon their breasts, tying
their hands and feet under the logs, stripped their
backs entirely bare, and then with switches cut
their backs literally to pieces, the blood running
down at every stroke. They came into court when
it was in. session, and when the case was stated the
judge replied, "These are revolutionary times, and
there is
no remedy for anything of the kind."
In the
fictoi where I lay they were accustomed
to drive up
'with a cart, with an ugly, rough,
flat-topped Coffin span
men,
with bristling
it, surrounded fifteen
bayonets, as a guard
tot o fmarchorty in through the gate into the gaol yard,
with steady military tread.
ecl Weus trembled in itno ourbe
boots, for they never noted
hanged, and you may imagine how your hunable
that
claim gaol, ender
m to have
servant felt; for if any man in
their law, deserved the gallows,
been the man. I knew it, and they knew it. They
came sometimes with two coffins, one on each cart,
and they took two men at a time
and marched'
' them out. A poor old man of sixty-five, and his
son of twenty•five, were marched out at one time,
and hanged on the same gallows. They made that
poor old man, who was a methodist class leader, sit
by and see his son sinking till he was dead, and
then they called him a Lincoln Union
shrieker, and said, "Come on; it is your turn next."
He sunk, but they propped him up and led him to
the halter, and swung both off on the same gallows.
They came, after that, for another man, and they
took J. C. Haum out of gaol.:--a young man of fine
sense, good address, and of excellent character—a
tall, spare made man, having a wife at home, with
four or five helpless children. My wife passed the
they drove
farm of Haum's the other day, when

her out of Tennessee and sent her on to New Jersey
—I thank them kindly for doing so—and saw his
wife ploughing, endeavouring to raise corn for her
suffering and starving children. That is the spirit
31' secession, gentlemen. And yet you have a set
of God forsaken, unprincipled men at the North
who are apologising for them and sympathising
with them. (Applause.) When they took Haum
out and placed him on the scaffold they had a
drunken chaplain. They were kind enough to
notify him an hour before the hanging that he
was to hang. Haum at once made an application
for a Methodist preacher, a Union man, to come
and pray for him. They denied him the privilege,
and said that God didn't hear any prayers on
behalf of any --- Union shrieker, and he had
literally to do without the benefit of the clergy.
But they had near the gallows an unprincipled,
drunken chaplain of their own army, who got up
and undertook to apologise for Haum. He said s—
" This poor, unfortunate man, Who is about to pay
the debt of nature, regrets the course he took. He
said he was misled by the Union paper." Haum
rose up, and with a clear, stentorian voice, said—
"Fellow-citizens,—There is not a word of truth in
that statement. I have authorised nobody to make
such a statement. What I have said and done I
have done and said with my eyes open, and if it
were to be done over, I would do it again. I am
ready to hang, and you can execute your purposes."
He died like a man ; he died like a Union man ;
like an East Tennesseean ought to die. As God is
my judge, I would sooner be Haum in the grave
to-day, than any one of the scoundrels concerned
in his murder. (Great applause.) Time rolled on ;
one event after another occurred; and finally a man
of excellent character, one of Andy Johnson's con-
stituents from Greene county, by the name of Hess-
ing Self, was condemned to be hung by this drum-
head court martial, and they were kind enough to
let him know that he was to hang a few hours
before the hour appointed. His daughter, who
had come down to administer to his comfort and
consolation—a most estimable girl, about 21 years
of age—Elizabeth Self, a tall, spare made girl,
modest, handsomely attired, begged leave to
enter the gaol to see her father. They permitted
her, contrary to their usual custom and their savage
barbarity, to go in. They had him in a small iron
cage, a terrible affair; they opened a little door
and the gaoler admitted her. A parcel of us went
to witness the scene. As she entered the cage where
her father was—who was to die at four o'clock
that afternoon—she clasped him around the neck,
and he embraced her also, throwing his arms across
her shoulders. They sobbed and cried, they shed
their tears and made their moans. I stood by, and I
never beheld such a sight since God Almighty made
me, and hope I may never see the like again. When
they had parted, wringing each other by the hand,
as she came out of the cage, stammering and trying
to utter something intelligible, she lisped my name.
She knew my face, and I could understand as much
as that she desired me to write a despatch to Jeff.
Davis and sign her name, begging him to pardon
her father. I worded it about thus :

" Hon. Jefferson Davis (I did not believe the first
word I wrote was the truth, but I put it there for
the sake of form)—My father, Hessing Self, is sen-
tenced to be hanged at 4 o'clock to-day. I am living
at home, and my mother is dead. My father is my
earthly all ; upon him my hopes are centred ; and,
friend, I pray you to pardon him.—Respectfully,
" ELIZABETH SELF.

Jeff. Davis, who had a better heart than the rest
of them, perhaps, immediately responded—for he
could not withstand the appeals of a woman—to
General Carroll, and told him not to hang that man
Self, but to keep him in gaol and let him atone for
his crimes a certain time. Self has served his time
out and has gone home, and that girl is saved the
mortification of being left alone without a father.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the spirit of seces-
sion all over the South ; it is the spirit tha t actu-
ates them everywhere ; it is the spirit of murder, it
is the spirit of the infernal regions, and in God's
name can you any longer excuse or apologise for
such murderous and bloodthirsty demons as live down
in the Southern Confederacy. (Loud cries of No, no.)
Hanging is going on all over East Tennessee. They
shoot them down in the field, they whip them; and,
as strange as it may seem to you, in the counties of
Campbell and Anderson they actually lacerate with
switches the bodies of females, wives and daughters
of Union men—clever respectable women. They
show no quarters to male or female; they rob their
houses and they throw them into prison. Our gaols
are all full now, and we have complained and
fought hard that our Government has not come to
our relief, for a more loyal, a more devoted people
to the stars and stripes never lived on the face of
God's earth than the Union people of Tennessee.
(Loud cheers.) With tears in their eyes they.
begged me, upen leaving East Tennessee, for God
Almighty's sake to see the President, to see the
army officers, so as to have relief sent to them and
bring them out of gaol. I hope, gentlemen, you
will use your influence with the army and navy,
and all concerned, to relieve these people, They are
the most abused, down-trodden, persecuted, and
proscribed people that ever lived on the face of the
earth. I am happy to announce to you that the
rebellion will soon be played out. Thank God for
his mercies, it will soon have been played out.
(Cheers.)

THE INDIAN TARIFF AND THE LANCA-

SHIRE DISTRESS.

Yesterday morning a deputation from the opera-
tives of Preston, appointed at a public meeting held
there on the 28th ult., had an interview with Sir
Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India, at the
India Board. The deputation, which consisted of
Mr. Thomas Bankes, secretary to the Spinners' In-
stitution, Mr. Meagher, and Mr. J. Baxter Langley,
was accompanied by Sir Thomas Hesketh, M.P.,
and Mr. C. P. Greenfell, M.P., the members for
Preston, and also by Mr. James Pilkington, M.P.,
member for Blackburn, who represented the opera-
tives of that district, and who bore a memorial from
them upon the same subject as that delivered by Sir
T. Hesketh from the operatives of Preston.

Sir T. Hesketh explained the object of the depu-
tation, which was to induce the Government to re-
consider the last statement of finance as expounded
in the budget of Mr. _Laing, and to induce the Go-
vernment to repeal the taxes upon British goods
and yarns imported into British India.
The memorial alleged that the tariff in British
manufactures imported into India was irreconcile-
able with the principles of free trade, and not only
injurious bat cruel to the English operatives at
home. It urged that it was unjust that the Govern-
ment should spend upon public works and education
in India sums which were at present a great burden
upon the distressed operatives at home.
Mr. MEAGHER stated that the tariff, as at present
imposed, amounted to a tax upon each loom working
whichou ld
for the Indian market in Preston equal to L 7 lOs per
year, and as there were 27,143 looms in Preston,
market,four-fifths th oaf
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Several members of the deputation
having
spoken,
Sir C. WoOD, in reply, referred in the first in-
stance to the general questions of taxation and re-
venue in India, and said the Government felt the
deepest sympathy for the operatives in Lancashire,
while he assured the deputation that the whole
British Parliament regarded with admiration the
patience with which they endured the distress
through which they were passing. At the same
time he felt it his duty to explain that the distress
could not be attributed to the pressure of the Indian
tariff, bat it ought rather to be placed to the account
of circumstances in America over which the English
Government could have no possible control. He
regretted to say that there was no prospect of any
amelioration of those circumstances, nor any hope
of a cotton supply from America for some consider-
able time to come.. Sir Charles went on to say,
that it was necessary to explain the very peculiar
position in which the Indian Government stood.
Considerable
pressure had been brought to bear
upon him
by the manufacturers and cotton mer-
chants of this country in favour of public works in
India, which would open up the rivers and roads
of that country, and
enable the growers to supply
this country with a large quantity of raw material-
lle expressed himself somewhat surprised that any
complaint should be raised upon that score. With