The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-12


articles imported also bore sgher prices haa usual C
table Is calculated to astonsh temperance pcop!e Tho
porta,ocs Of Champagne alone reached aoou, l75 O1
baskets, Of f2 bottles esobthe value of which, s,,n stei
Al the low figure Of 81 per bottle. would TO the
large sum OF s., 10000.
Moro OF the Effects or Northern Incen.
dtaTism Mt tho South.
In another page We publish statement
which appeared yesterday in the leading incen.
diary print Of the North, showing how an
ir'shman named Crspgale, dry goods clerk.
after residing two or three years ut the South,
and even holding public office, was seized at
Augusta. Georgia, by the Vigilance Committee,
thrown into prison, tried narrowly escaped be-
ing hanged, and finally was bauished the place,
after the expenses of his arrest and imprisou-
ment were paid for him by his counsel. He
now comes back to the North and reports him.
self at the head treason shop in Spruce street,
New York.
1t appears that the man was either an aboli
ton propaganda, or suspected of being one,
which, in the present temper of the public mind
at the South, amounts to the same thing. Gran
gale himself protested his innocence, and de
clared that he came to Augusta from Columbia,
in South Carolina, for 10 other purpose than to
collect judgment against bis employers,
Messrs. Gray Il Turley, dry goods merchants,
having establishments in both cities. He was
engaged by this firm at the North, ana
induced to 90 South, and at first was
employed in the house at Augusta, and
then at the house in Columbia, where
they dismissed him. He brought an action for
salary or breach Of engagement and was sue
cessfnl. But, as he alleges, he could not get
any Of the authorities to levy the Judgment
AT last he proceeded to Augusta himself, aud
when he was there at the hotel he was arrested,
falsely imprisoned, and otherwise maltreated,
on the ground of his being an incendiary He
says the whole affair was the result of plot
against him by the defendants in the suit, in
order to evade the pay ment of the Judgment
debt.
Now, whether this part of his story is true or
not makes no difference. The main part of it
is probably true; and whether he is an ennis
sary of abolitiOnism is of small importance,
hough we must confess that his coming with
lis tale to the chief organ of Northern incen-
liarism, which fully endorses him, looks rather |
'uspicious. If he does tell the whole truth, and
lothiDg but the truth-if he is not an abolition
st, ard if the firm of Gray & Turley invented a |
fasehood against him in order to get rid of their
liability then this indicates all extraordinary
a highly dangerous state of the public mind
At the South; it shows that such preju-
dice can be instantly excited against any
Northern man, or even any Southern man, if
he has not been born at the South that
though perfectly innocent of abolitionism, he
may be tarred and feathered, sent riding on
he is dead, if he does not make his speedy exit
in obedience to the popular sovereignty" or
the orders of vigilance committee. In all the
Southern cities, and particularly in Augusta,
citizens of Irish birth abound and it is notorious
that no class of native citizens are more at
tached to the institutions of the South, or more
loyal to the Union and the constitution, than
the Irish. Yet even against some of them is
suspicion now excited; and all this is owing to
John Browns raid and to Helpers Impending
Crisis being SO extensively endorsed at the
North.
From the same cause many Northern
teachers have been recently compelled
to return from the South under the
terror of Lynch law, though never ex-
pressing any sympathy with the anti-slavery
sentiment Nor is this extreme course to be
ascribed to the planters or shareholders, 1t is
the action Of the nonslaveholding white popu-
lation, which Helper pretends is hostile to
slavery; and in recent case, the planters were
the only friends of two ostracised teachers, and
protested against their Punishment in strong
card. The main design Of Helpers book, and
of Northern incendiarism in general is to
create division and enmity between the planters
and the non-slavehoding whites; but how COM
pletely this propagandism has failed may be
seen in the tale which we reprint from the
7ribuoe and in every Indication of popular
opinion at the South. On the subject Of
slavery or meddling with their institutions, the
Southern people are united as one man. The
incendiaries and the organs Of incendiarism
have only succeeded in one thing, and that is,
in alternating the South completely from the
North. even to the extent Of nonintercourse;
and if this be continued much longer it will
amount to a practical, substantial severance Of
the Union, rendering the future secession of the
Southern States q mere matter Of form.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL Can
vAss-From our correspondence, and other re-
liable sources, We learn that preliminary ope-
ratiors for the canvass Of 1860 have already
been commenced. The bloody black repub.
licans are flooding Pennsylvania, Illinois,