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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-08-22
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e| ruth by a drupken man: CapL sAlex-
.apder then answered that Gen NcD0,oeU

s| wtM by drunken man: "Capf, ALEX
apder then sanswered"that Gen, JsD9weU
no~ uested tie a,ohoze azispQsitior aSr the
troops IN nj, and that l must .use1mYi own
Judgment. Invent to- .aaothe her obattalion
In line, and I was net by. Colonel Miles,
who ordered me to form that regiment in
another direction: Ireplied >hatazs19uld
obey no more orders. that he r. iqktayespp it
to give me.":, Col, Miles then said, YCol.
Richardson, ! shall put you In arrrnest.Si /
told him ~ never should obey bis arrest,
and that he never could put me in that DO
sition.' Col Miles answered that lie did
not understand this. I said nothing, and
went on with further disposition ST the
troops, which ~as~d,nc according tosthe
next diagram. vturo) 80
~ AS soon as the line ofbattle was we'll
formed, the enemy's cavalry made its ap-
pearance on the Centreville and Manassas
road, and l ordered Lieut. Benjamin. to
open his rided cannon upon them, which
ne did, and the cavalry Disappeared after
a few shots. It was now nearly dark; and
the troops encamped in. their present sp1osi- 1si
tlo About ten o'clock P' NJ Gen Nc
Do~ell Informed me that retreat y VAS Sc e.
solved upon ii that the troops. must Be staff
Cd on the road to Eairfax Us soouilss as poss;-
ble, aud ordered me to move last aud cox-
er the retreat Of the army with my @bti-
gade to1d the General L. would do 50,
anu would stand by him as tong Is. any
man would. left with MY brigade at z
O'clock AN. latter all Che other regiments
and batteries had retired. On reaching
Fairfax, found it abandoned By our troopa
and | covered the rear, bringing edp my
brigade III good order, the New York: regi-
ment in front, chen the Massa -husetts. reg
il! iment and Che two Michigan regiments in
rear Of. the whole; Arrived at. Arlington
at ? O'Clock p ~. on Monday after the
actio1. '.,'
It wills seen from the above that the
charge Of drunkenness is made against; CT.
Miles by both. Cos. Richardson and Ste
vens. The time ahe manner Of the retreat
differs materially from the exaggerated ac~
counts furnished BY civilians who ran away
from the field of battle nearly half Jay
before Col. Richardson's command began
tormove towards Washington
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to an adversary whom he had overcome n per
sonal struggle, as he plunged his luekiess we
inns head beneath flowing stream, = 90 nov
intend 10 drossn thee shall merely hold my
head under the water until the breath depar'eeh
from. tby body" If slavery had ten thousand
constitutional guarantees against being drowned
who is so simple as to believe that Black hepuo'
licanism would not quickly devise some equally
ingenious plan for stopping the breath OF the
great object of its hate?
/ Outspoken abolitionism, Of the Garrisonian
school has at least the merit of frankness. One
is never in doubt as to the position Of its dlscl-
pies. They wage an open war against slavery
and against all laws and compacts by which it
IS supported. Setting out with the same abstract
opinions which Mr.. Conkling imputes to the
great mass of the Northern people, they follow
them out to their EXTREMIST logical results
Their path confronts them with the Constitution,
and they spitupon that instrument, dcnouncing
I II as "a league with Death, and covenant with
Her.n The Bible, and the Almighty, oppose
| their onward progress, and thereupon they clam
or for ian anti-slavcry Bible and an anti-slavcry
1 God" Black Republicanism, on the other
hand whilst It aims at The same practical result,
processes to be shocked by the total want OF con-
4 servatisnl that is betrayed by It's more honest
1 ferow.laborer II will not overthrow the obsta-
cIcs that stand in its path it win turn them by
series Of ingenious stratageIns and reach, at
last-a little later, perhaps, but just as surely
1 the goal towards which the other speeds by
| straighter road Itdoes not affect the highway
mans method Of proceeding, but prefers rath-
1 err to initiate the furtivc policy Of the midnight
thief, who commits his depredations upon the
effects of the unconscious sleeper. The latter
mayhap, will bear away as heavy spoil as his
more adventurous brother, and then he will in
cur great deal less Of hazard v
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Retaliation, and its Fruits.

The frmness displayed by Gov. Brown, of Geor-
ga, in scizing five vessels, belonging to citizens of
New York, in retaliation for the seizure of arms,
destined for Georgia by the Black Republican police
Of New York city, produced very healthy effect up
on the officials of that city and State. The arms
were forthwith surrendered into the hands of an
agent Of the State Of Georgia, and thereupOn the
vessels, by the order Of Gov Brown were released.
Il is Fortunate perhaps that our citizens owe large
sums Of money to Northern creditors. This indelt-
edness constitutes fund, upon which, should the
North not behave itself, We can 'retalate" to any
extent that may be required in order to bring them
to their senses. u
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Auditor Public Accounts.

SEcEss1ox--An Interesting Gase.-A few
days ago, prisoner in the Georgia peniten-
tiary, convicted ofrobbiDg the United States
mails, sued out a writ of habcas corpus, and
asked to be discharged on the ground that
the State had seeded from the Union. The
court, however, decided that the ordinance
BY which Georgia had declared her secession
from the Union does not extend beyond a
separation from the other States and a with
dfawal Of the powers she delegated to the
general government that upon the past ex-
ercise of those powers by the latter govern
ment the ordinance does not assume TO act.
and was not designed to act; and that it
does not annul any Of its acts. The prisoner
was therefore reInanded.
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Adminiatrator,s Notice.

4 ETTERS Of administration upon the estate
A. of Wcsly Harmon, late Of the county Of
Lafayette and State of Mississippi, deceased,
having been granted to the undersigned by the
Probate Court of said county, at the January
Term thereof 1861, all persons indebted to said
estate are hereby required to make payment;
and all persons having claims against said estate
are notified To present their claims to me- duly
authenticated, within the time prescribed by law,
or the same will be barred
SIMPSON LESTER, Admir-.
January so, 1851. 95-6w.
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Administrators Notice.

T FILTERS Of administration upon the estate
4 Of Elizabeth Harmon, late of the county Of
Lafayette and State of Mississippi deceased,
having been granted to the undersigned by tho
Probate Court Of said county, at tie January
Term thereof 1851, all persoss indebted to said
estate are hereby required. to make payment :;
ard all persons having claims against said estate
are notified to present their claims to me, duly
authenticated, within the time prescribed by
law, or the same will be barred
JAMES II. MARTIN, admir-
January so, 1861. 35-6w.
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The Peace Conference at washing.
-xol s-s91 T95lr bra ron pc N9ts CT" = y


IA This hmbug has notryst exploded. Wehavenev-
len FOR single Instant supposed that it would agree
upon any satisfactory plan of settling he existing
difficulties nor, If such miracle were 20 be wrought
have we the slightest idea that the Northern States
woad adopt it. We DO not believe, moreover, that
c ofginators Of the Conference expected to ac-
complish anything more than to delay the action Of
the border slave States in reference to secession To
some extent the thing HIS already answered It's OBJ
sjeet Tennessee was dcluded into the belief that
oAsomctling WIS certain tobe done in a few days '
aArkansn and Missouri, ON Monday the 18th inst,
tIsoted for delegates their Respective State conyen-
tons under the positive that settlement
swas aboutto bemade and ii may be that the farce
Twill bekept up until after Texas and North Carolina
shall, have voted. Probably, the Conference will
either break up in arrow, dissolve itsef without
doing anything except to recommend the calling of
Convention of all the States recommendation
wholly without authority 1t will answer well en-
ough, however, to serve the purpose Of the proessed
Union-savers in the border slave States When it is
proposed HAT anything shall be done by those States,
sor either Of them, those gentlemen will stand ready
10 swear until they arc black in the face that there is
a certain prospect OF complete adjustment OF the
pending controversy IL the people will just await the
sitting of the Convention. OF course, the Conven-
ton will do nothing but time will have been gained
1.-The border States will have been persuaded to humil-
oate themsevesby. submission to Black Republican
administration and, having done this, the de-
scent will be to that slower deep of degmda-
ton into which the Acknowledgment desire
70 plunge them. t...4 al L1t -rs
The Washington correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury writes that Southern Senator said to him,
concerning the Peace Congress :-"It will do nothing
If one Of the old setting hens who compose it, should
get dozen cggplants, and put on pair of feather
'breeches, and set on thcm there would be as much
probability Of his matching brood of vegetable
schckens as Of this Congress doing anything pructl-
LtaIn 4 D. u IL u IL y III
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-THE Mobile Advertiser, of a late date, savs.
Judge Jones, of the United States Ds,ri.,
Court, yesterday afternoon announced from the
windows of the Court Room in the custom Hons.
building, that the United States Court, for III.
Southern District of Alabama, was adjourned
forever"
"A "stay law" stopping the payment Of al
debts, has passed the Tennessee U. s. Legisla.
ture. - 4 tAAG.EA ~ 2A
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Executors Notice.

To James n. Harrington, Sasan SmiA, and
her husband Mural j. Smith:
YOU are cited to appear before the Probate
L Court Of the County Of Lafayette, on fhC
25th day Of March, 1861, TO show cause why the
Petition of W. II. Steen, Executor of Martha
Lusk, deceased, praying for sale of Slaves and
other personality. for division, should not be
granted. BY order of the Conrt,
f. ID. MOORE, Clerk.
January 29th 1851. F, 85-4w
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ThePeacc Conference.

= By dispatch received here yesterday, we learn
that the so-called Peace Conference at Washington,
had adjourned sine die without efectng anything to-
wards the object for which it was convened. The
Virginia Commissioners started for home, determined
to urge the immediate secession of Virginia from
what is left Of the Unaed States .Hr
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0nr sleu aabntisssemnepts
Administrators Sale
OF III illI
Sixteen Likely Negroes.

IN PURSUANCE of an order of the Probate
Court of Lafayette County at the JANUARY
Term thereof, 1861, will, ON Monday, the 4th
day of March next, as Administrator of the es.
tate of Lydia Garrett deceased, at the late resi-
dence Of said decedent, near Lafomba Lafayette
county, Mississippi, proceed to sell all the ne
groes belonging TO said estate, sixteen in nun.
Der, consisting Of men, women and children
Terms Of sale, nine months credit from dav
of sale. Bond and security viii be required Of
the purchasers.
j. G.. w. BARNETT,
Administrator Of said Estate
January so, 1861. 354w
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that ,bov ,;IrS,v sasp,aaa an addition or h,arod
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order tha, sl.vorv ,n;obt ha ex,o,slad n tho MI,
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;aor,nt than b;s verv ;ll.;nformod ,,osoordan, 90
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The South is tainted for going out of the
Union and leaving everything in the hands o.
its enemies. There are two ways of looking
at that matter. al never give the road te a
DID rascal" said low bully to John Ran
dolph one day on the street. "Iatsoags do, .
said Randolph, quietly passing around I'm.
-LoaisriHs Courier.
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Twenty cases Of Minnie Rifles. and ten
cases Of Colts revolyers, which are intended for
the Republic Of Mississippi reached Lypchburg,
Virginia, Friday week, under charge of Adams
Express Company. They were Immediately
forwarded to jackson, Miss their destination.
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~. "A COUNTRY editor says the only punishment
equalto the desserts of a man who strikes wo-
man. would be to place him on a hardtrotting
horse, and make him try to collect newspaper
accounts for the remainder of his life e.,
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.--GsxEaAL Lomax, Of Alabama, is now in
commsni at Pensacola, and says he Will take
Ports Pickcns. Large bodies Of Alabama troops
arc daily arriving there. -
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s1--THE FLAG OF MSsIssIPPL--The Convention
ordered the following design for the flag of Mis-
sissippi: A Flag of white ground, Magnolia
tree in the centre blue field in the under left
hand corner, with q white star in the centre
the flag to be finished with rcd border and a
fringe at the red extremity of the flag
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--JpHS Minor Bolts, a recreantson Of the
south. was defeated in Richmond for the Con-
vcntion, where the party with whom ne affiliated
has large majority, Thus Virginia rcbukes
traitoFs. { .r.rl.i Z l-ai -T
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/. OoHee, 90. l9sSlO,uJu. iOJo, 90
Now when it is remembered that the exports of a
country furnish the measure of its ability to purchase
the products Of other countries, it win readily he
perceived that the experiment Of emancipation has
been disastrous in the extreme to the material inter-
ests of Jamaica But il is not only in the dimnution
of her productions that Jamaica has suffered The
wealthy planters have been impoverished, partially
I by the insuficency of the compensation that was
awarded to them for their slave property, and par
TALLY through the depreciation in value of their land
ed estates The free blacks of the present generation
are more depraved and degraded race than that
which was cnancipated; and the whites, reduced to
social and political equality with the negroes, have
sensibly refrigerated in civilization since the epoch of
emancipation. Negroes hold seats in the colonial
Legislature and fill other civil Offices in the island
OF the 1900 soldiers on the island 500 arc negroes
or mulattOcs. Their police force, numbering AL
consists almost exclusively of blacks The. negro
population Is idle disordery, vicious, filthy and i'm
pudent, Large. tracts Of fertile land, once under
thorough cultivation, have been abandoned, and are
now overgrown with dense thckets and jungle. In
a word, the land is becoming wilderness, and the
negroes are relapsng into their normal condition
of barbarisn.
"The thing that hath BEEN is that which shall be .
and the fate of unhappy Jamaica foreshadows the
fate that is in reserve for the saveholdng States of
America, when they shall surrender their destiny to
the control Of the fen spirit Of Black Repu5canis
or permit themselves to be deluded with the belief
that slavery is not the real foundation Of their pros
petty Without slavery, the great staples of cotton
and sugar could no longer Reproduced in the South
ern stafc exCspt in comparatively small quantities
Our wants uould,be largely increased by the neces
ty of providing for immense pauper population,
and, at the same time our resources would be
measurabl cut of. t
1t is clear from the statistics of labor that have
from time to time appeared in the journals Of the
day, that the wages of mechanics, and of all those
who labor for their living are, and have long been,
far higher in the sareholding than in the nOnslave-
holding States; and hereafter, the wages Of skilled
labor, of every description, viii be relatively higher
than they have been The Confederate States Of the
South have cast off their dependence upon the North
for all purposes Those things which the North has
hitherto manufactured for US, we shall henceforth
manufacture for ourselves. new demand win
spring up for the products Of our own home industry
in an the departments Of mechanical and Inanufae
turing skill and every man who desires to labor viii
find remuuerative employment The products Of
slave labor will furnish the basis upon which ma
terial prosperity viii be founded: and the bboring
White Iuan, vino owns no slavcs, viii Be far more
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NINE out of ten Of the New England manu-
factories are either closed or runnngf on short
time, which means keeping the workuen alive.
This is Stree society" .,..-....
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-CoLuNsus, Miss, with population of not
moro than 1000, has seven regularly organized
and equipped military compares, numbering, in
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Virginia state Convention.

RIcrMoxD, Feb ls-In the State Convention,
yesterday several resolutions introduced against
resources of Virginia against any other mode of
ercing the seeding States by the Federal Govern
ment, and saying that if compromises fail, Virginia
will unite with her sister Southern States
Ex-Governor Wise reiterated his policy of fighting
in the Union, and eounsclled speedy action. 2
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"A man calling himself Holiday was arrest
ed and committed to jail, for forgery and horse
stealing, in Columbus, Miss, last week. Bra
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haATHE border States haveall bound themselves
to resist the coercion Of any seeding State
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b.4GovERSoR jackson, of Missouri, has refused
30 commission Capt Geo. L. Andrews, Of the
National Guards, of St Louis, on the ground
that the Captain insists thathis allegiance is first
due the United States.
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-BEFoRE the election, the manufacturing ma
bobs Of Philadelphia discharged all their work
men who refused to rote for Lincoln, and now
they arc amusing themselves by turning out Of
employment all ,eho did cote for him. -s
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.~--THERE is no doubt of the European powers
recognizing the Confederated States of America.
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Ca-THE meeting of the New York working men
has pronounced against cocrcing the South.
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] aFoUR cases o. accidental shooting occurred
IN Aberdeen recently, in one week.
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MISSISSIPPI FOUNDERY AGENCY
AMERICAN MACHINE DEPOT,

AMERICAN MACHINE DEPOT,
&c 81. oKa,lss S., Corner Of iyvri.r,
NEW ORLEANS. ..s.....LA.
II IRlNti the present year beautiful patterns 81
IL 6, s, g 10, II. Il and Is inch eynders staiien-
airy, and ;, s. Z. s, 9, and 10 inch, Portable Engines
have been completed and are now cfferrd for sale;
together with Saw Mills, Gfist Mills. Single hf-
chimes, Brick Machines, Cotton scrtens. and otheI
machinery, comprising the largest stock ever offered
Tor sale while, at the same time il i Of souihsTn
Invention and rnanufacture, md of style md euay
unequaled by any northern iupoitatisns-
nl-rstrafed Cat lc-res sent to any address By mail
jan@nsl-sm SAMUEL H. GILMAN.
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-CouNTERFEIr five andten dollar gold pieces
are in circulation. They may be easily detected
by close cxamination.
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AUDIroR's OFFICE, Jackson, Miss,
January 80. 1861.

To the Tar Collector of County;
S1R-Your immediate attention is directed
to the enclosed Ordinance to raise means for
the defence of the state.
The increase in taxation takes effect upon
the state Tax Of the present year. You viii,
therefore, proceed atonce to collect the spe-
cial tax of fifty per cent. from all taxpayers
on real and personal property. irsn-fi 81
Forms and instructions in relation to the
next general assessment will be sent from this
Office in due time. ,sr .t..9.y
..,i =, Very respectfully, !. =. -..
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THE CASH aYsTEM.

Tmrx4atelFgencer" viii be Published hefsaf-
ter strictly on the CASH SYSTEM. We shall write
npname in pnrsqbscfiftion book, of subscri-
Der, unless the money accompanies the order
and when subscription expires the name will
be erased from the list -
x41Ut - slc4lli1 r19NtsC fk-1Aa- fsssA t' tsFt
Siisws have 70 pay cash for paper ink. printers,
and nearlyali else necessity to our operations.
saTherIntelligeaecr" Is the largest and cheapest
linewspapcri in the ebunty-LOhiy7fro dollars per
annum -and contains more reading matter than
amy other country paper in the State. sssao
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The SPEcIAL TAX OF FTFTT PER CENT
The following is the circular of the Auditor
of Public Accounts to the Sheriff of the re-
spective counties, in regard to the special
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Is good do nothing. as to no purpose.
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Assuming, now, that Mr.. COnkling does not
overstste the snti-slavery feeling of the North,
is it not obvious that the institution of slavery
cannot be safe in the hands of those who thus
regard III With such opinions concerning it,
how could they be expected to observe any con-
stitutional restrictions that might be designed
for ifs protection: II slaveholding is, in truth,
''the worst Of wrongs" would not the sin Of
covenant breaking" in comparison, be but a
light and venial offenees Even if the forms Of
the Constitution were respected, would not its
spirit be violated through ali the ingenious de-
vices Of construction Would not that instTu-
ment at length be so construed away that it
would no longer constitute shield but be
transformed into destroying sword, to be
welded against those rights for whose protec-
ton It was framed Friend" said Quaker