The Nevada journal., 1861-07-19
Hetter frcm DIR. Russell, of the LondO on
Times.

jeItcrS from ltS special COTFesOoHucut; DI- j
Russell, whose latest date are from Mont
eomery. Writing on the 8th of May, from
that city, he SAYS:
am on difficult ground, the land is on
fire, the earth is shaking with the tramp of
armed men, and the very air is hot with /
passion. Ny communications are cut off, /
or are at best accidental, and in order to
reopen them must get farther away from
them, paradoxical as the statement may
appear to be.
The people of the South at last are aware
that the Yankees are preparing to support
tie Government of the United States, and
that secession can only be maintained by
~ictory in the field. There has been
change in their war policy. They now aver
that they 'only want to be left alone and
they declare they do not intend to take
Washington; and that it was merely as
teint they spoke about it. The fact is, there
are, even in the compact and united South,
men of moderate and men of extreme
yews, and tie general tone of the whole is
regulated by the preponderance of one or
'hc other at the moment. Ihave no doubt
Oh my mind that the government intend to
attack and occupy Washington-not the
least that they had it much at heart to re-
dnce Fort Pickens MS soon as possible
Now some of their friends say it viii! be a
mere matter of convenience whether they
attack Washington or not, and that as for
Fort Picliens, they will certainly let it
alone, At all events for the present. They
have discovered that the position is of lit
tle value Sc lGag as the United States holds
1ort4g&s ard Key West
But tie Confedcrates are preparing for
tic conhict, and when they have organized
then forces, they will make, am satisfied,
= Very ,esolute defense all along the line.
Thy ave n present strong enough, they sup
FeSe - tncir domestic resources, and the
1;nieUit;cs presented to the advance of
hostile force, by the nature of the country,
20 oij defiance to INVASION or at all events,
to inliict 4 very Sc 5ere chastisement on the
jryaicr.; and their excited manner of
speech 20 acts upon their minds that they
begin ~ think they can defy not only the
'nited States, but the wcrld. Thus it is
1htt they declare they never can be con-
quefet. that they will die to a man, woman
and cai'd first, and that if $4,000, or any
numper Of thousands of Black Republicans
get 30 miles into Virginia, not one man
of them shall ever get out alive. Behind
ali th;s talk. however there is immense en-
crgy great resolution and fixed principles
of .,rtiea. Their strategy consists in keep
ing qp;et till they have their troops well in
hand. n such numbers and discipline as
sha!' give them fair grounds for expecting
snccess in any campaign with the United
States troops.
Listen to their programme. It is iHtend-
el to buy mp all the cotton crop which can
be brought into the market at an average
price and give bonds of the Confederate
States for the amount; those bonds being
as We know, secured by the export duty on
cotton ne OoNerniueHt Win 'HlS OottoH
orop in ITS own hands, will use it as a for
lnidable machine of war: for cotton can
81 anything, from the establishing of an
empire to the securing of a shirt button.-
It Is at once king and subject, master and
servant, captain and soldier, artilleryman
and gun Not one bale of cotton will be per-
3I,o
will be an otfcnse punishable with tremcn-
dous penalties; confscation of property,
enormous fines, and even the penalty of
death are enumerated, to send cotton into
the Free States. Thus Lowell and its kim
dred factories will be reduced to ruin, it is
sad, and the North to the direst distress
If Manchester can get cotton and Lowell
cannot, there are BOD times coming :or the
nill-owners.
The planters have agreed among them
selves to hold over one half of their cotton
for their own purposes and for the culture
of their fields, and to sell the other half to
shc Government. For each bale of cotton,
as hear, bond will be issued on the fair
average price of cotton in the market, and
this bond must be taken at par as circu
lating medium within the limits OF the
Slave States. This forced circulation will
6e secured by the act of the Legislature.-
The bonds will bear interest at Il per cent.
and they will be issued on the faith and Sc
rurity of the proceeds or the duty at an
per cent on every pound of cotton export
ed. All vessels loading with cotton will
be obliged to enter into bonds or give Sc
curity that they will not carry their car
goes to the northern ports, or let it reach
northern markets to their knowledge. The
Government will sell cotton for cash to
foreign hurers, and will thus raise funds
amply sufficient, they contend, for all pur-
poses.
"Sir, said an Ex-Governor of this State
TO me to-day, sssooner than submit to the
North we will all become subjects of Great
Britain again. The same gentleman is one
OF the many who have given TO the Gov
crnmen. Il large portion of their cotton
crop every year as free-will offering. In