New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-13

provisions and in tbot respect the confedsrate future
looks dark; but, If yiorons onset now can he made,
money, arms and proyiliots may be gotten by II. The
South to make its future a. it goss along.
you expect to defeat this anticipation by merely lying
on the defensive, you will bedisapponted.
Sectional feeling in the South carries everything be-
fore IT, One who has not lived here form no con-
ception of the superiority which the seconal has over
the national sentiment 1t is not SO much the absurd
idea of STATE Allegiance which has proved 20 iress-
ibse-it is the Soathers feeling " To sand by inc
South" has been .he wnrcry Of the present generation
from baby hood so itease and alicontrolngis thai
Soubernors are really unconscious Of rkeir absurty in
charging vason ppon whoever opposes them, whe'
ther he be from North or South. Just little De they
understand any scrlpe in the mndo any one against
betraying his country. Treason is erpeeted ~ them
everywhere, and, l lear, with TOO good reason Al
Pickens 1 greatly fear sorge dsgra'eful, not fsti
denopment, wal yet result. Ia Washington In Balli'
more everywhere there is the most urgent call ior
the most stringent measures Of security against eaeh
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Amid these dark shadings of the picture, we have
few CLEANS O. light. While traitors and deluded IAN
stcs are putting every hnpediment in The way OF the
FEDERAL Government there crops ont now aud then
an unexpected deyelopmepto opposition to Government
tai operations here The frs. recruits to Virginia mar
rowly escaped being killed by the severance Of the
timLers Of a bridge their route Watches will have
10 be set here, toothat is consolation Prices are
going up rapidly -four, Sl2 to Sl5i corn, 81 % to
81 so; beef pork, and mutton, Is to 20 cents. The
Notifications on Tybee and Warsaw being pushed
ahead rapidly.
Whle tie unannity Of the South ia undoubted, it
can hardly be claimed Tor them that they have anything
like the enthusiasm which seems to prevail at the
North. Indeed, they have not the means of exciting
IT, Their cause is which takes hold Of he gem
erous sentiments of the soul The fight Is iather one
Of necessity than of option. Half OF them stand IN
falfe POSITION at any rate; while secret and unac-
knowledgad sense of shame at being found IN arms
aganf the standard which has long been theT boast
stings tho condolences Of many of tie most ultra.
Then, there are 10 artificial aries of enthusasnto to
compensate for this radical eiect of tue cause sself
have never witnessed such Gull displays OF military as
here at the Sou b. mss the music tie splendor, the
national souvenirs of the North. II is impossible 10
have any Of t enhvenipg surroundings Of civilization
in this slave society. 1t is dsgraceful to be musicia
it impossible get here the auxiliariesof display
A negre Gfer AMI negro drummers furnish music as
melancholy to She Themselves are to theeye.
he bands are scarce and poor at that. Negro bands
are occasional, but in character what might 9e eA'
peced. What all this is TO the sPirt-slring
scenes and sounds familiar in every city and almost
every village of the Nor;hl How absurd mus' seein TO
stranger the lofty claims Of CottondOm to "snpeno'
civilRaiionW But it is mons, nse TO talk OF 1t; The
only thing worth saying OF such claim is to explain
anybody can, how, by what infatua,ion, or sei.'im
posed ignorance, Southern men can ever have brought
themselves to the sudaei;y Of makingit.
Ten thousand cheers for Free Labor, Free speech
and Free Men One eds only to zee, TO be dnsusted
with, both the arrogance and the deprayity Of Slavery