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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-25
9 NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JANUARY rs 1851.

Jury has more power to compel officials to perform
their duties and to suppress crime than any other
branch OF our judicial system.
NO thermometer is 0 more accurate indicator of
atmospheric temperature than our public institu.
tons are Of the condition of the poorer classes and
inc severity Of the times The weekly returns
mace to the Commissioners OF Charities and Cor
rection yesterday show that they contain at pre-
sent the extraordinarily high number of 1913 per.
sons-another increase during last week of 1856.
The number admitted since the last return was
l.665, and that discharged, transferred, or who
died, was l,523.
We are indebted to Adams Express for Now
Orleans papers three days in advance of the mail
The extreme inolemenoy of the weather yesterday
tended TO check transactions in descriptions OF pro-
duce The foreign impaired moro vitality to tho
cotton market, which closed al advance Of 10 70.
Tho sales footed up about 800 bales 800 OF which
were closed late in the afternoon We quote middiin
uplands at about 1870 Exc. Flour less active
and the market heavy and lowor for some dcscrp
tons. The chief sales made for export Wheat was
quiet and easier with sales Corn under the pres
sureof liberal supplies Of new heavy and while
sales were to fair extent for export and to the local and
Eastern trade Pork was less buoyan and aclive sales
OF new mess made at SIT 8TH Sls and now prime
at $l3 SIS 25. Sugars dull small sales of Cuba in
jobbng lots made with 800 boxes 200 bags on
terms stated elsewhere. Coffee quite steady with
sales OF 500 bags RIO at 1lc &c., and $50
at 16c. Freighs were arm, while engagements were
moderate.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-25

publics upon firm. sound and enduring
basis. Let Mr.. Seward stand firmly and un-
waveringly upon the principles enunciated by
him in his Western speeches, delivered In tho
months of September and October last, and
actively assist in giving practical effect to his
own teachings, and he will be able to claim
the enyiable title OF having laid the corner
stones Of two majestic friendly empires, whose
future grandeur We are now scarcely able to
conceive.
This is an age for the successful application
of new international as well as philosophical
principles. The agitations which commenced
in the religious world three centuries ago, were
the foundation Of the Independence of mind
which obtained its political development at
the time of the French Revolution and which
can never be stayed, In whatever channel the
spirit of the ago causes them to run. Freedom
is all that is needed to enable systems, how di-
verse soever they may be, to receive their ap-
plicaton without interference from one an
other, in perfect harmony in their different
spheres, and without the remotest danger Of
collision The withdrawal of their allegiance
from Great Britain Of the thirteen colonies, was
regarded by many, at tho time, as fertile
source of disaster. What has, however, been
the result While the United States has
prospered, England has derived advantages
from us in commerce tenfold greater
than she could have received, had we
continued to be the dependents of the mother
country. Our relations are of the most salts
factory nature, and each country respects and
rejoices in the welfare Of the other. The same
end would be produced by proper solution Of
the difficulties between the North and the
South. Grateful remembranccs of the past
would remain, and an alliance, offensive and
defensive, founded upon mutually advan-
tageous commercial treaties, would bind US
with links of adamant together
Let the Union then be peacefully dissolved.
Let the South take its own course, and the
North extend itself in the manner which its
destiny calls for. Each will need the assistance
of the other. Northern troops may yet have
to repel invaders Of the possessions Of slave
holders in Mexico and Venezuela, and our
fleets will joyfully aid in dispensing new
Spanish armadas on the coast of Cuba. Nor
do we doubt the truth of the assurance of our
Southern correspondent, that under the walls
Of Quebec, and on the banks of the St. Law
renee, legions from Louisiana, Alabama and
South Carolina, will aid US, if required, to Sc
cure the fruits of victories or annexation in
Canada. No more favorable auspices could
exist for the creation of two American con-
than those that exist now, and the
sooner it happens the better.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
ToRTUGAS AND KEY WEST.

The whole interest of the war question
is and has been foc some time concentrated
on Forts Sumter and Pickens. This has
caused the public mind, in measure, to
lose sight of Tortugas and Key West,
which we regard as of far more Importance,
both politically and militarily. A distin.
guished Abolitionist of the Senate, before
the extra session adjourned, said that the
former two of these positions might be sur
rendered peaceably, but before the North
would give up Tortugas and Key West,
they would 60 to war He claimed that
the North would hold these Notifications at
all hazards and to the bloody end, for the
protection of their commerce in Southern
waters, as England holds Gibralter at the
mouth of the Mediterranean. This idea
cannot be entertained by the South, and
when the time comes to demand their sur
render, they will be demanded. They are
far more important to the North than Sum-
ter and Pickens; they command the en-
frances to the Gulf Of Mexico, and are, there
fore, an indispensable necessity to the free
dom of our commerce, and the dignity of
the Southern Confederacy. The U. States
will anxiously desire to retain them the
South must have them. When the time
comes for them to exchange hands, it may
the beginning of bloody strife.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
FOREIGN RECOGNITION.

If we are not much mistaken, the ques-
ton embraced in the above heading, is just
now the one of paramount importance to
the Confederate States. Will the leading
foreign powers, at once and without hesita-
ton, recognize our separate national exist
ence, and thereby promote the prospects of
peace, by disarming the hatred of the North
ern States? Or will they hesitate, and
thereby cause Lincoln's administration to
hold on tc Southern forts, until CALLED and
iusulted beyond endurance, the South is
forced to appeal to arms in order to accom-
plsh her independence !!
We have all the while discredited the ru-
mors in regard to the evacuation Of Fort
Sumter; because such an act on the assum-
ed ground of "military necessity" would
greatly benefit the South abroad, and to
the same extent degrade the Northern gov
ernment. All the foreign journals whose
opinions have reached us-not excepting
even the organ of Exeter Hall abolitionism
say that England and France will GER
tainly recognize the new Confederacy when
established dc tacto. Sumter, Pickens,
Tortugas and Key West, constitute the very
last foothold of Northern power in the sece-
ded States. Is it reasonable, then, to sup
pose that they will abandon all, or either,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
FORT SUMTER.

Gen. Beauregard has positively notified
Maj. Anderson that supplies and all com.
munication will be cut off from him, from
and after last Sunday. Fort Sumter, then,
is now in a state of actual siege. This is
precisely as it should be. We should meet
no-compromise with the most extensive pre-,
paration, and lying duplicity and deceitful
dalliance with the spirit of the most manly,
open and determined resistance.
The Northern loan has oeen bid for; up.
wards of S30,0O0,000 were taken, much
however, at 933; and We much fear that
this abundance of money which is found to
be in the grasp of the Northern Govern.
ment, though at tremendous sacrifice, has
somewhat added the brain of Lincoln.
We are told that the coercion policy has at
length triumphed in his cabinet; and it is
said that the administration contemplate
land as we'll as sea operations. The proba.
bility is that Fort Sumter will be abandon.
ed, or rather Maj. Anderson will be left to
withstand close siege as long as he posi-
bly, can; and that all the available naval
force will be concentrated around Pensacola,
and about the mouth of the Gulf in the
neighborhood of Tortugas and Key West,
to overlook the movements of the Franco
English fleet, when it comes, and to assist
Fort Pickens in case of an active engage
ment.
1t will be polite measure for Lincoln
to retain possession of Sumter, in order to
keep our troops and munitions concentrated
at Charleston, and to prevent them from CO.
operating with Gen. Bragg to drive the
enemy from the coast of Florida. The
same reason makes it highly important from
South-side point of view, to "hurry up
the cakes," and "take the Fort" We are
glad, therefore, that Pres. Davis and Gen.
Beauregard are rapidly bringing on the cri-
sis of evacuation or expulsion.
Border States submissionists have said
that we were eager to get into war in order
to force their States into secession The
moderation and delay which have prevailed
in regard to Sumter, make them appear
simply ridiculous in this assertion. Ifblood.
shed was all We wanted, we could have forced
that any day. The truth is, South Carroll
ma has all the while desired what she will
probably yet obtain and that is, a bloodless
surrender of her fort.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11

att. was STOPPING to the low and vile tlth OF
abolitionism. We do not yet know that the
advertiser was mistaken. 1t has, hoWeV-
er, been contradicted "distinctly and en-
phatically" by Southern writer @ to the
Washington States and Union. We sim
cerely hope, for the honor of letters if tor
no higher or more practical consideration,
that Morris and Willis, both of whose names
are welded to American literature, will
keep the Home journal where it has al
ways been heretofore, entirely above suspl-
cion. Let US have amidst the unbrotherly
and contemptuous depreciation so universal
at the North, at least one paper that floats
to us simply upon the breast-deep current
of human sympathy
- No State has so many public men in
high position just now as Kentucky. Presi-
dent Davis was born 10 Todd county, Ken.
lucky, 10 1903. President Lincoln, was
born in Fayette county, in 1909. Vice
President Breckenridge, was born in Fay
cite county, in 1921. Senator Crittenden,
the great pacifcator, was born in Woodford
county, Kentucky, in 1885. James Guth-
rie, the Chairman On Compromise Resolu-
lutions in the Peace Conference, was born
in Nelson county, in Kentucky, in l795.
Joseph Holt, the war-like Secretary Of War,
is a native of Breckenridge county. Major
Anderson, was born in Kentucky, in 1905.
DR.. Breckenridge, brother to the ex-Viee
President and native of Kentucky, one Of
the first theologians Of the country, has
been reviewing pretty sharply, DR.. Thorn
we'll on the state of the country.
- The american Agriculturalist thus
describes the method of making "Apple
Russo :"
"Aunt Sue says, this is very stylish
but simple pudding, prepared as follows;
Make some apple sauce, very speet; spread
some slices, (sides and bottom then pour
in your apple.sauce, and bake until your
bread and butter is nicely Drowned. When
done it should turn out of the pudding.dish
all standing, but if you are preparing it fol
company, it is almost sure to turn out ker
sEu1,,p"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
LOCAL AFF AIR S
Charleston Advertisement.

eASSA~ASAAos
We invite attention to the card of Messrs
Fogarties & Stilman in another column
This is reliable and enterprising firm,
worthy of liberal patronage Our merchant
readers will find it to their interest to give
the card their early attention.
The Weather in March. ~
From Maj. McKenzie's weather reports,
we learn that during March the thermome-
ter varied from 26o to S3o-having stood
at the former on the mornings of the 9th
and 10Th, and at the latter, on the End at
noon. It rained only 5 hours, or LAP
inches, during the month. The wind was
s., I days; W., 9; N, 2; S. w., 8; 8.
F., 3; N w., S; and N. E. 2 days. Very
high winds prevailed during the month, on
six days-namely, the Sd, 5th, 9th, 18th,
2lst, 26th and 9th. These facts do not
verify the old saying :'March comes in like
lamb, and goes out like lion.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
NEW YORK CITY.

AS an evidence of the prostration in busi-
ness circles of the Metropolitan city, the N.
York Daily Nevs Of late issue, says that
the topic of conversation is not now of "a
falling off in business" or "the tightness Of
the money Market" but of "the destruc
tion of trade" The oman about town"
editor, in casual stroll on last Friday,
counted forty closed places Of business,
without taking any special pains to make a
full enumeration. If the capital. holders
are thus swallowed up in the "political and
financial chaos" the threshold of which the
New York Herald says they are just enter
ing, what must be the condition of the Ia
boring classes; and what will be the condi.
ton of all classes, monied and poor alike,
when the Morrill, Tariff actually prohibits
trade from going to that port, and the quasi
war-peace policy Of Lincoln robs Wall street
of its last million?
Already we have an account of riotous
mob headed by three riug-leaders, named
Mike Walsh, Michael Gray and Patrick
Gaynor, striking for higher wages, and as
saulting other laborers who refused to strike
With them These riotous proceedings are
instigated, possibly in part by greed for
higher wages, but more probably in most
cases by a state of want and penury border
ing on lingering starvation.
Many, very many, if we catch the truth
from the press, have been turned entirely
out of employment. Notwithstanding this
sign of the inability of capital to employ la
bor, the laborers who are now at work,
finding gaunt hunger and raggedness at
their doors, are clamorous for higher prices
The Morrill, tariff is claimed to be the cause
of this state of things to great degree !;
and "a free trade league" has been formed
under the pressure of necessity.
This picture of distress (and it is very
moderately in the great monied and CONNER
cial centre of the North, should make our
citizens cheerfully bear the paratively
light ills which have fallen upon US of the
Confederate States. While too, as the Her.
aid says, the North are just entering upon
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
CALL TO BATTLE.

BY WILLIAM W. EAST.
Hark hark! hear ye o'er the hills ringing past,
With the speed of the wind-aye, the swtness OF the
light,
The shri, stirring music of the bugle's wild blast,
Calling freemen TO arm, and to gather TO the fight?
Yes hear, and hearts leap TO know If the fray
Is rs holy az the strife of the memorable men
Who Moultre and Cowpes, and Eutaw, won the day,
And gathered like storm in the dark Watauga glen.
Oh ye know that the cause is the same that has e'cr
Lit the fire in the hero, bard, PATRIOTS eye;
And the mountan-bom goddess of Freedom will bear
The flag of the Palm and the Crescent on high.
'Tis enough and we come TO the buglc's wild CALL
With the speed of the wind, and the rushing Of the blast
And the first In the welcome affray who shall fall,
Win be pattern and guide TO the middle and last.
Fare ye well, mothers dear, sisters gentle and sweet
And ye loved ones who halo the hearts secret place.
Our glance shall speak triumph, when first again we meet,
Or the noble hue of death each brow with Its grace
'Tis for you and the land of our birtl-love we 60,
Meath the flags have mae while they float in the sky
And whenever they trail to the ravenous foe,
Yc may know kept the pledge to defend them, die
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11

Some Of the strong-minded women from the
West insisted on dancing the Rail Splitter s
dance, which consisted in simple walking in
zig.zag manner from one side of the room
to the other, as though they were following
a split rail fence in the dark. II certainly
was the most undigui6ed and childish per-
formance ever seen in the White House.
The faces of Senators Seward and Cameron
were red with shame. In receiving his
friends, and in shaking hands with his
friends, Old Abe does the business up like
a regular rail-splitter who had just gone
through the marriage ceremony, and was
receiving the congratulations of friends
In his reception he labors harder perhaps
and goes through more hard work than any
six ordinary men could stand. Western
admirers fancy all his movements are beau
tifully Frenchy."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11

of those positions, until their abandonment
becomes an unquestionable "milItary me-
cessity?" We think not.
But Sumter and Pickens are for all practi-
cal purposes, already in our possession
They are commanded by Notifications and
besieged by troops, sufficient to take them
in short while by regular Investment
The Confederate States are de facto strong
and well-ordered government. If our con-
dition is properly understood in Europe,
there is no serious obstacle in the way of
our speedy recognition. But the abolition
lists and the liberalists there, have been
bitterly prejudiced against the South by
long years of misrepresentation and vilifca-
ton. Seward, the Northern Secretary of
State, has, we are told, adopted and will
carry out plan on an extensive scale, to
have us again grossly misrepresented abroad,
and no means will be left untried, to build
up mountains of difficulty in the way Of our
recognition.
In calculating the prospects, therefore,
of speedy and peaceful settlement of the
great difficulties which still surround our
infant government, we cannot keep too
steadily in view the fact that all Christen-
dom is and will remain opposed to US in
sentiment. Harmony amongst ourselves,
ardor for our cause kept burning in every
heart, and readiness to submit to any and
every sacrifce-"the upconquerable will,
and courage never to submit or YIELD" un-
til the end for which the revolution began
is completely attained-are necessary to
convince the world that sooner or later our
separate nationality must and shall be &C.
knowledged, because three millions of free
men, reared TO govern two races, never can
be deprived of the right of self.government.
Late news even goes so far as to assert
that England and France will not recognize
our independence. We see no good reason
to believe this statement. The fact is,
they have not yet, perhaps, come to any
final conclusion. We, for our part, have
no fears on this score in the end; but the
delay may be such as to necessitate war
Every moment of hesitation will increase
the iusolence and duplicity of the North,
and the exaspiration and war-spirit of the
South. 1t is to be hoped, therefore, that
the love of peace, as we'll as due regard
for the material interests of all concerned,
will induce foreign powers to speedy recog-
milton of our Confederacy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11
MERE.MENTION.

Madame Huate de Yterbide, widow of
the former Emperor of Mexico, who was
executed in 1924, died recently in Phila-
delphia where she has lived since her hus.
bands execution. ......'.George Little has
been appointed marshal of North Carolina,
by Lincoln. .....'....The Grand Division of
the Sons of Temperance of South Carolina
will meet at Sumter, on Wednesday, the
24th of April, at 7 o'clock, p m.'''''''''
Quilp wants to know whether the initials,
G. S. A. mean "Can't stand Abe. "......'..
From the Austin correspondent to the Hous-
ton Telegraph, We learn that Ex-Governor
Houston made application to Gov. Clark,
on the 18th, for the pardon of convict
So it will be perceived that General Hous.
ton himself recognizes Clark, at least, as
Governor de tacto. '''...'..The Vicksburg
(Miss.,) Wing of the 3Oth states that from
fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars were
collected there the previous day, under the
tariff laws of the new Confederacy. ''....''.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin reports
eleven failures at New York, six at Balti-
more, seven at Boston, and twenty three in
other cities, during the week ending March
29....'.''..It has been suggested that the
words "Jehovah Nissi'' ''-"The Lord our
Ensign"-be written on the white, or mid.
die bar of the Confederate States Flag, as
a proper motto for the South.
A champion runner challenged another
to run with him, agreeing to carry ten
pounds weight, leaving the choice Of what
he should carry to his opponent, whereupoD
the latter chose ten pounds of full blown
bladders. ........We learn from the Edge.
field Advcrtiser, that "Mr. A. A. Clark
and others propose to establish Piano Fac,
tory at Newberry village. The scheme is
considered by many not only entirely prac,
ticable, but as holding forth the promise Of
quick and handsome profits. We wish it
success. Capitalists would do we'll to watch
this chance. The company will probably
be formed at an early day. ."'''''''''The to-
tai Indebtedness of the United States Gov.
ernment, on the 7th of March last, was
S74, ,9S5, ,299.. There are at the pre-.
sent time on file at the War Department
fifty thousand applications for positions in
the army of the Confederate States. Pret
tY good number, that
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-11

We have now, de .tacto ct de jure, in
six States, Southern, a slave-holding Con-
federacy. And never before, in the history
of the whole world, did a government
launch into being and start upon its career,
with more opposition from abroad, or more
harmony and confidence at home. Our
patriotism should, therefore, spring to clasp
it in our arms aud give it our unyielding
and uncalculatiug support. GA friend in
need is friend indeed )" and he who stands
frmest by the infant confederacy struggling
to fix itself among the nations of the earth,
is the greatest and best Of US all. A far
seeing and thoughtful poet has said, that
"the government the best administered, is
best" With such men as Davis and Ste-
phens, Cobb and Memminger, at the helm
of State, and with constitution built upon
the principles of right and justice and prac-
tical common sense, and which will there.
fore administer itself we'll, we may look for
ward without doubling, so long as we prove
worthy ofsuch national blessings, to career
of unexampled prosperity; and our chill
dren's children will glory in the boast -
"Here equal laws have sway"