Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-06-28

| peace anu thC hiOot Sotuiai relationship
so far as its section is concerned redi.
rect the trade into its accustomed chan.
nels, and in every way restore the happy
days of our foretathers. My informant
says this, too, was poremp!orily rejected.
Others say this proposition will not be
unacceptable to the Secretary of State,
and will, therefore, meet with favor from
the President.
THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN FROM A
SOUTHERN POINT OF VIEw.-The fol.
lowing article from the New Orleans
Delta of June 10, furnishes an interesting
Southern view of the campaign in Vir-
ginia. The apology of the Delta for the
lack of valor displayed by the Yirginians
is amusing.
"The correspondent at Manassas juno
ton of the Charleston Mercury, referring
to the ranks of the enemy, thus giving
their own statement of their armies, and
of the force with which the Confederate
States will meet them:
by the achievement of this magnificent
programme, they have now in the field
about 95,000tIoops-as, they say and tits
well to admit it for the sake of argument;
$1,000 in Western Virginia, 10000 in
Pennsylvania upon the border, $4,000 at
Washington, 5000 at Alexandria, 5000
at Baltimore, and 10000 at The mouth of
York River, Old Point Comfort
On our side they admit $4,000, about
the disposition of which it were as
well not to be particular and the
question is, will they carry out their
scheme? They say there is no doubt
of it but it were scarcely necessary to
say that we doubt it greatly. We have
the inside track, if nothing else. We are
at the centre, while they are upon the
circumference, and it will be hard with US
if at some point we do not break up their
daring lines. We have, besides, State
of at least 100000 men able to fight, and
who viii fight, and grandly, when they
get used to it.
1 wrote some time ago that the leviea
here were a little panic stricken, and
given to unnecessary alarms, but already
the feeling of dread is wearing off. Every
man is beginning to feel, that with his
sporting gun he is good for at least one
invading soldier. Their sentinels are be-.
ing picked of, and scouts to bristle up in
front of the invading columns, that of it.
self would almost seem sufficient for re-
sistance and in the end there may not
be much for the regular fighters to &C
complsh.
The writer is not Of the over sanguine
and too confident correspondents, and on
that account his statements are entitled to
credit and repect. What he says of the
change in the spirit Of the Virginians is
confirmed by many other indications.
Considering that the people in the vi
entity of Alexandria have been in the
habit of intimate intercourse with the
population of Washington City, that
many of them have friends and relatives
in that city, that they have been SO long
accustomed to look up to the Federal
Government as all powerful and irresisti-
Bile, it should occasion no surprise if they
were not fully prepared at the first out
set to repel the large force sent against
them.
Indeed we doubt if any people have
ever evinced as little alarm under like
circumstances. 1t is not becoming or
Just in citizens of States remote from the
seat OF the Federal Government, who
have scarcely witnessed or experienced
any evidence of the existence of such an
authority, to taunt Virginians with lack
of spirit and vigor in encountering the in
vader, who is backed by the whole re-
source of that government. That there
has been a woful lack of system, prompt
itude and energy in the authorities
charged with the military defenses of the
State, is painfully manifest in the defence
less condition of the important position Of
the northwest, and in the failure to resist
the advance onAlexandria, and destroy
the bridge across the Potomac.
We rejoice, however, to perceive a
new born zeal among the Virginians, an
awakening ofafull sense ofthe dangerand
disgrace which threaten them. They are
now bestirring themselves in an efficient
manner to destroy the enemy in detail,
and the whole lighting population of the
State in the field, either in organized or
regiments and companies, or in scouting
parties-annoying the outposts and haras-
sing the enemy"
A little trading goes on between the
fleets and coast, notwithstand-