The Nevada journal., 1861-03-15

trustees from the contractors Parson Deal will
soon occupy the mansion.
THE LONDON TINES speaks sensib.y of the
secession movement and its probable
causes. We quote from - The Thunderer:'
From many sources, and from the speech
es of widely different opinions, we are able
to form some noti0n of the state of the
South at the time of Mr.. Lincoln's election.
That so trihing spark should have pro-
duced so sudden blaze shows that the
materials on which it fell must have been
infiamable to high degree. The South,
in its recent acts, exhibits uncOnsciouSly
one conspicuous passion, that offear. Even
its boldness partakes of desperation. 1t
denOunccS and defies the North much as a
timOrous animal turns at bay when it sees
no chance of escape from the hunter. In
this case we who are at Il distance cannot
perceive the danger, and wonder what the
South can dread in the election of an hon.
est Western politician of good character
and moderate views. But it is plain that
the people of the Southern States have for
some time been influenced by terrors
which, whether vain or not, have driven
them in some districts almost to madness.
The people of the Slave States are subject
to fears far more terrible and real. They
live among population whom they strive
to keep in ignorance of everything, but
whom they cannot hinder from knowing
that they are slaves, and that there are
white men who think they ought to be free.
| The negroes are, indeed, in the most dam
gerous state of mind as regards local out
breaks; they know that there is such a
thing as rebellion, and they do not know
that it is hopeless. Planters and over
seers are sufficiently acquainted with what
| is passing with those stolid, subtle char
acters, who gain an influercc over the:r
fellow slaves; they know that, though
nintty-nine negroes never have a thought
or hope, the hundrelh chershes schemes
of ambition, vengeance, covetousness and
! lust, at the expenses OF the master aud his
family. Though the most panic-stricken
slayc-owner can hardly believe in a gener-
al insurrection, or picture to himself Sec
ond St. Domingo, there can be no doubt
that for long time, and especially since
the affair at Harpers Ferry, extreme APP
prehension has prevailed, and belief,
most unwarranted and unjust, that the Alb
olitionists as a body are willing to effect
their objects by exciting slave insurrec-
ton.
| Yet in land of newspapers and free
discussion one can scarcely conceive that
such ideas should have place in the
minds of men. The explanation is. we be-
lieve, that the mass of the people in the
Southern States are in tate of deplora-
bic Ignorance. We are so accustomed TO
look upon the United st tes as country
OF education and TO k owlcdge our own
inferiority on this point, that it requires
some effort to realize the tact that the en-
| lightenment which exists in New England
/ gradually fades as the traveller moves
southwards, till, in South Carolina and
Alabama the class which governs is real
/ lv hardly more instructed than the Irish
peasant1y These men are not the grtat
slave owners, but poor, proud, lazy, eX-
| citablc and violent class, ever ready with
knife and revolver. and hating the negIo o
and his Northern f. :nds with equal hatred.
These men possessed with the idea that the
triumph of the Black Republicans y
meant an armed propaganda il favor OF
abolition, rose in unreasoning violence at
the first news of Mr.. LincOlnS election.
The richer citizens did not approve, but
but could not stem the movement. The
regular politicians thought it wiser to go
with the stream. With thousands of mad
dened white men, each expecting the ne
groes of his plantation to commit some
4 atrecious act before the next morning, and
crying fol a separation from the Northern
abettors of murder and pillage, the moder-
ate party had no chance.
MAJOR ANDERSON sTARTLEs THE CHARLES
roSIAxs.-The Charleston correspondent OF
the New York Tribune writes under date
of Feb. 4th:
A few days since an incident occurred to
enable Fort Sumter to giveits assailants-to
be an ;nkling of what that fortress
had in store for them. 1t was a fine day,
and the revolutionists were parading and
drilling in force in full view of Fort Sum
ter The Major fired one o. his huge CO.
lumbiads, shotted with an explosive ball,
which struck the water not far from the
revolutionists, creating by its own explo-
| sion foam on the surface OF half an acre
around. They were struck with astonish-