Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-23
A MetAedlst Preacher ON the
"Circuit.o
TEN DArs srours IN THE SOUTHERN coxrEpr.


"'Circuit.o
TEN DAYS sIGHTs IN THE SOUTHERN coSrEpE.
RAcY.
Undsr the heading of " Ten Days in For.
eign Parts" the editor of the Nashville
Chrssf.Gs Adrocafe gives very graphic,
readab e and instructive sketch of the late
Circuit ride through the South. From
II we extract all that is Of general interest
in this latitude:
We,have spent ten days within the
SOUTHERN Cvnfederacy. Our readers might
IKE % now something ofwhat we saw and
heard n Foreign parts.
The ninth Of March has been unusually
cold 70 Alabama and Georgia. Yet 1low-
ing anQ painting are going on. The far
mers 1<e well up to their work. The main
held iozte bave not been withdrawn from
He1r Vofx, Notwithstanding the musterings
and 41s meetings. ALI things 60 on
with t1|D1 as before. They look contented
and VI cared for. The polished plow-
share g1kes lie fsrroT, as Of old, in mel
!o0 - y. The trees are ,hpdding. Corn
is coming up. Cotton seed going in
Wheat and rye are beautiful. The flowers
bloom. The singing of birds has come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in the
land
About twenty per cent, more than COM
mon Of corn and smaller grain is being
sown this year within the limits of the
Southern Confederacy. This agrees with
our observation and the most reliable
| representations made to US. Those people
mean to be independent. A few months
will show that they can raise bread as well
as cotton. The cotton crop is now found
out to be about q million of bales short OF
the previous year. This fact has raised
the price to higher figure than has been
reached for many years. A few are hold
ing back for higher prices still. But all
this does not divert from the bread produ.
cling purpose.
Some things impressed us, along our zig.
gag way, and during our short stay in for
eign parts. Of course the area Of obserya-
tion was not extensive. The reader will
know how to make allowance for that. To
our own we added the observations of every
judicious friend and traveller we met up
| with and with whom we could snatch a
ten minutes talk, or take an no ur's set to.
These Impressions we give as facts, NAV be
news without comments. Wherever the
editor is. he bears the Adcocate in mind
and CLEANS for its columns.
l. The quietRess of men and things sur
prise one. From the seriousness and vast
ness of the revolution that has taken place
there within the last three months, and
from the accounts of mObs, lynch laws.
reign OF terror, &C., one can hardly help
looking out for evidences Of disturbance in
the public mind, and commotion in affairs
We never saw people calmer. in town,
village, county and crossroads, they are
sober in conversation and quiet in demea-
nor. Evidently it is not the calmness of
suppression, but of conviction and deter
mination. Less buster and big talk than
one sees and hears at a county election -
| No whistling to keep the courage M. No
nursing of wrath TO keep it warm. They
are in an uncommon bland humor. Even
the philippics, taunts and insulting para
graphs of the Abolition press do not rufie
their tempers, as they used to do. They
regard them as outside things, pretty much
as we in the United States regard the mart
ihgs Of Exeter Hall aud the swell sentences
| OF the Spanish Cortes about our affairs and
institutions. The EXTREMIST appointment
of MIR. Lincoln are coolly commented on
&" No concern Of ours"
2. They are not only quiet, but deter
mined. These people are gone, and gone
for good. The child is not born that will
| see them return. We do not believe one
man in thousand entertains the idea OF
reconstruction. If ever reconstruction
takes place, it must proceed from the other
side. They never will come back on any
terms. Any one who talks with slave.
holders and non Shareholders, large planter.
and small planters, merchants and mechau-
les, will be obliged to yield the cherished
idea Of reconstruction. Their State gov.
ernments never were in better actions. and
never before did the people SO highly prize
them. With their Federal Government
they are pleased. it's officers, Congress anC
Constitution. Whatever NAV be said il
Wall street Of their want Of resources fol-
sustaining government, they feel nC
uneasiness on that source. The difference,
between their commercial system and tina
Of the Northern States, under the presen
and future possible tariffs, opens to thei
view as ak in their favor. With trifinr
state debts, and ample resources, they fee
safe on the financial question. w,
actually heard such an expression as thi
smile at it as you may, The fact is
those poor fellows at the North, dom
see how they are to get along. Southern
custom lost; the difference between tn
tariffs turning everything to our ports W
making our own bread their East ant
West arrayed against each other in debt
and no prospects of paying out. their credi
10 per cent. under par ours above par. 70
our fifteen million loan will be taken n
one hundred and four cents on the dollar
what scdl they do ?" Put that speech i,
your pipe and smoke it. We heard it, an,
that, too, from a sensible citizenl
They have their stars, teo-and Tx
them have no objection to see the constel
lation enlarged, but will live aud die unde
the seven if not another is added. Thos
who have held on to The glorious old Union
with the patriotic hope of meditating
reconstruction and bringing back the los
plead, may give that hope up. We dis
tinctly despair Of it now, if never before. -
1t is not question of stars any more, bu
only of stripes. The Southern Confedera
cy Is not merely an accomplished, but
fixed faet-no experiment
3. We looked with delicacy but closet
for latent spirit that has, in certai
papers, been represented as existing yer
extensively in the seeded States-a sup
pressed spirit of discontent-the overawe
minority. 1t may exist somewhere, bn
we did not find it, Men who, to on
personal knowledge, in December, wen
into secession as timid bather steps int
water, have fully committed themselves t
the Southern Conlederacy as it has shape
itself Some had even gone to Pensacola
and were in camp there. Others who di
not like the way it was done exactly, no,
that it is done, proclaim their firm adhe
renee and satisfaction with the present or
der of things. Everybody praised tn
wisdom and moderation Of the Convention
and Congress.
3. The army-they are mastering stron
down there, and no mistake. Besides til
regiments which each State has, the Fed
eral Government is enlisting soldiers 70
one year, and also for three years, if nc
sooner discharged. The amount of frs
rate arms of ordnance and ammunitio
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