New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-29
An Expected Adysnce-Alberf Eihc.

Junction. correspondent oil one OF your CO.
teIuporaries, who ls to be the Thucyddes OF the
march, bought him horse yesterday for the war
trail. Whether Gen. Scott will allow his $50
mounted rangers to be reinforced by even
solitary horseman is a matter of doubt / have
no difficulty in believing that the quadruped will
devour several ratiOns of oats aud consume nu-
merous baitings of timothy hay before the battle
trumpet shall wind out its pealing blast
While | do not at all discredit the report OF
a forward movement, / must record my previous
experience. l intend, now and hereafter, to
write veritable history on the joint models of
Livy and Tacitus, and am constrained to inform
the believing reader that we have had, regularly,
for the last three weeks, march of columns ID
the morning, after breakfast, aud battle at
yespers every evening; but when it was supposed
the last charge was being made by the Lieut.
Generals Mamelukes on the broken and flying
fuQit;ves, the face of Gen. Mcdowell calm as
full calendar OF Summer mornings, would be seen
at the outer portal of Wizards, to destroy the
Illusions of carnage and fill the breasts of news
cleaners with irrepreIsible sorrow.
But to those who arc behind the bastions OF
Forts Corcoran aud Seward there is calm
sense of security which dsmisses every forbod-
ing. The designation of the latter is a name of
fear. IT, in the excited calculation of the Scottish
minstrel, one blast of Roderick Dhu's bugle-horn
was worth thousand men, / think by the same
! arithmetic the pstronymc Of Fort Seward Is TO
be valued at ten hundred aud fifty. 1t does, III
| deed, teach bloody intentions, aud is eloquent OF
| battle, and murder, and sudden death. Still,
with proper regard to economy, and high rates
of interest on war loans, there might have been
retrenchment in the armament. For any pur-
pose present or future, an old-fashl0ned pump
anger and q dozen saw.mill logs would have
made ordnance quite as good as the eight and
ten.inch columbiads. In fact, as you look into
their huge, open mouths, there ia sort of shy
grin which, being interpreted, means, don't be
alarmed; We are not put here to hurt anybody"
But cOtemporaneOus Yankee friend IL waiting
10 the ante-room to sit for his photograph.
Walk in Capt. Pike. You can have your choice.
VIII you be done in sunbeams or crayons, water
colors, or Osl The Captain was born in Mas'-
acbusetts. If you wish to reach the ultimate of
have him born in New.Epgland aud then trans
plsnt him to cotton soil. The experiment has
| never been known to fail. Capt. L. IL now,
| it ia said, Generalissmo OF the cohorts OF
| Choctaws and Chickasaws who have sprung
TO arms to defend "tbe honor Of wives and
purity of households" TIE change from Ar
kansas civilization tO Choctaw is an advance
To ComaHche would be still higher eleya-
ton. look hopefully to the day when the
resident citizen OF the State will bring himself
up to the standard of Mackinaw blankets red
Ochre and eagles feathers, but it will not be
done suddenly. Society cannot at once be anne
lorated, and years must be given to Arkansas
to pass through the gradatiOns which separate
them from the comparatively high planes of
savage life. Capt. Pike, in his hot youth, was
poet, and bore both Tyre and sword, Kind Of
cannibal Koerner or a barbarian De Lisle, and
sung not only of "Aches wrath" but Of
EARNS and the man" and also addressed hymns
to the gods, praised of Blackwood and printed
| by Dr. Gris~old. He must have an immense
hydrostatic power to raise bis thoughts to the
| immortals, living as he does on the west bank
of the Mississippi, and in a low latitude. OF
| late l think Bacchus is his faYorite divinity
in mythology; and now the red planet Mars
rules his hour of life
| II is not pleasant or a proud illustration Of
human character, that the most ebullient and
bIatheriDg mouths of Southern sedtion, are those
which sucked their nutIiment from Northern
breasts There is q degree of respect which can
be paid to the native-born STAKEHOLDER who has
been educated to the system, which must be de-
| MED to the Yankee dilettante who goes down to
the land Of Ebony to put money in his purse by
eschewinr all of the virtues of Southern life, and
| patterning after the vices only. peripatetc
New Highlander, who pitches his tent toward
the Gulf Stream, is a gentleman or dog. There
are no intermediate shades of character He be-
longs to one extreme or the other. 1t is not
a negative or balanced arrangement of quality,
but decided preponderance Of the good or the
evil of conduct. The loudest lungs, and the most
loouaeious mouths in Charleston, Mobile, and
New. Orleans now are the children who were
Graded in the free mountain air Of the six North
Eastern States, with every breath and inspiration
that of Freedom.
There is another matter which is thought of
in this relation with Capt. Pike and bis copper
skins. There are Indian annulties and yearly
payments made to our aboriginal belligerents
What effect will this alliance with nsurrection
have upon prompt payment now aud grstuity
hereafter Arc We still to give to the ingrstes
who take our food and then fight against us'
We are illustrating most OF tho Christian graces.