The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-08-16

The latest received letter from Mr. Russell
the special correspondent Of the Londol
Times in America, is dated ashington, Jul.
8. We take from it the following interesting
extracts:
COMMUNICATIONS NORTH AND SOUTH.
The rail and the river still connects Soutl
and North together. With all the hate o
the South toward the North, and with all th'
anger of the North toward the South, there
is vet some lingering aversion to the tota
j disruption of all ties between the belligerents
The trunk is torn from the limbs, but the po
litical surgeons are 10th to cut the tendons
and seem to act as though they thought Con
scryatiye surgery would effect some miracu
lous recovery.
Although Postmaster General cut off the
mails, they wink at the devices of expressing
agencies and railways to keep open the COM
munications, and thus man or letter may
at risk of certain contingencies be sent
through. The contingencies are that he
or it may be opened if there be ought trea-
sonable in expression inside or out-and
treason is determined by both sides as they
list. SO it is am here without being open
ed, and | am bound to say that all the myths
and they are many and gniticent- (which
have been hymned and hummed on the Tyres
of the type, none have been SO quantity fan
cifui, though stupidity mendacioas, as those
which have been published to the effect that
| have complained of my letters having been
"tampered with"
TIE GREAT UPRISING.
There was never people which rushed SO
rapidly to the conclusion that the argument
of force was the great solvent and settler of
disputes as our American brethren. See
New York now-just recollect what it wa,
toward the close of last March, Sumter can
not have made all these banners, filled all
these streets with soldiers, turned the Laodi-
ceans into frenzied Unonists. ard shut the
mouths of the disailec.ed. People who ar
gued phi!osophically about the right Of seces-
sion, and the impOtency Of the Federal Gov
ernment TO restrain States from exercising
that right, have all Of a sudden begun to find
out I've must maintain our glorious Union .
We must have country" :" and then they 60
off into sophistica. argument. on the other
side about the Mississippi and unity of peo-
pies and political necessities.
Had YOU @'ways held this langusge, good
gentlemen. You might never have had this
present contest. You Strengthened the hands
Of the secess;onists, just as YOU weakened the
hands of the United States Government, bv
the Indifference or actual hostility to it. meas
ure, which YOU displayed when II most re-
quircd support. One half Of the Indignation,
one hal! OF the strength You exhibited after
Sumter had fallen, might have prevented is
ever being attacked. Why are the South
erncrs SO much more irritated against New
York than any other part Of the Union, bat
because, in their own words. ",hc deceived
us at the last moment? | p to the taking OF
Sumter she pretended 10 be friendly, and
then, when that happened which she seemed
to approve, She turns on Us more savasciv
than even the Black Republicans
In fact, though the government may not
now wish to recall the circumstances, the tone
Of the North IN reference to vital points in
policy must have pcrpexed it almost as much
It, .hc hostility Of the seccs.ionis;s. 1t is all
very well TO talk Of the outrage on the flag
bu, before Sumter was fired on, the flag had
beer exposed to insults sufficient. Ii had
been hauled down by force from the UniteC!
States arsenals The Star of the West car
ried it as much as MAJOR Anderson's COM
mand, and she was fired on; one shot a. q
casus Jelli OF causa bclH is as good as TWEEN
ty. Why, when arrived in the United
States the newspapers We're treating of the
surrender Of Sumter as an abstract question
and the headings about it and PicAens barely
excited a lansuid curiosity in the minds of
many men. and Northern journals. not mere
ly in New York, but Pennsylvania and other
States, seriously warned the government that
if they attempted to hold the one or reinforce
the other they would be responsible for the
destruction of Union which at the time was
manifcstly destroyed.
How the tone is changed now. l can rec
ognze no reason for the change in events
but can understand that behind all this sur
face show-this varnish coating which pre-
{ tended to reflect public opinion-there was a
solid, deep and powerful mass, inert, howey-
er, and needing strong excitement to set it in
motion, which only began to heave upward
and burst through the glaze when heated by
the news that the stars and stripes had been
shot away by rebel bullets. The mass is now
at work in earnest. 1t is rolling the land in
lava streams.
What may come after battle who can say
At present dismiss entirely from the mind OF
Eng land the idea, no matter how it ma,
originate, that there will or can be peace, com
promise, union, or secession till war has de-
termined the issues.
WARlIKE SIGNS AND RELICS.
How gay New York is with flags? The
Stars and Stripes float on the fainting air Il