The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1861-12-13

1 wv" Va0Se ss'o uesu uctIou OI all property
that may be 10 danger Of falling into the
hands Of the Union army, and says by way
of illustration:
There are twelve or fourteen millions of
coin in the vaults Of the banks of New Or.
leans. Suppose for the sake of argument,
that New Orleans was bound TO succumb
before the overwhelming forces of the enc,
my. Would it not be the part of wisdom,
policy and patriotism, to sink this twelve
or fourteen millions of coin to the bottom of
the Mississippi, rather than to allow it to
go into the Golfers of the "Gorrilla" at
Washington, to aid them in ensIaving and
robbing the people Of Louisiana and the
South? We "pause for reply"
The Crescent announces the capture of
Mason and Slidell and says:
The above intelligence is as startling as it
was unexpected and while we deeply de-
plore the misfortune that has happened to
our friends, this high handed interference
with British mail steamer by the Lincoln
government, will either arouse John Bull
to the highest pitch of indignation, or it
will demonstrate that there has been an
/
ments for long time-that England has
been, and is now assisting the abolition
government to the detriment of the South.
We shall await further developements with
much interest.
The New Orleans Bulletin calls the
Federal entrance into Port Royal 'another
Hatteras affair" and says
| Somehow or other things seem to be out
OF Joint on the coast of the Carolinas. The
only success the enemy has met with have
/ zen there. The telegraph announces that
the Federal armada has taken our batter
| les at the entrance of Port Royal and hoist
ed bis flag over them. Here is lick back,
and although we can hardly expect an un>
interrupted series of victors everywhere,
we had supposed that sufficient notice had
been given US by the enemy to have had the
two best harbors On the Atlantic coast
placed in such state of defence IS to defy
assault, especially since they are located so
near the important towns of Charleston and
Savannah.
The Savannah Republican of the l4th
says
From the moment the news of the at
| tack on South Carolina soil, and the danger
of our own coast became known, one loud
| burst of patriotism has resounded through,
out the State OF Georgia, from Tenness
| to the seabOard. Every able-bodied man
and boy is aroused and ready to fly to our
! rescue and repel the invaders. Arms only
are wanted, and of these every species is
ing gathered and forwarded to this city.
J t&u fb01cap1 ho
or rather would place themseves-in the
field within week, did we only possess the
ma erials to arm and equip them. We love
| our noble State the more for this grand
exhibition of the patriotism aud valor of
her sons. A dozen Lincoln fleets could not
conquer such a people.
A correspondent of the Atalanta (Ga.l
COaatederacy writes as follows regarding the
sufferings Of the rebels in Western Vir.
ginia
l have seen soldiers, good and true men,
who would be an honor to any nation,
parched and burning up with fever, lying
in wet tents without bedding, supplied with
! food in such manner that Southern plant.
ers would not allow their we'll negroes to
be saw fit, in the majesty of his exalted
position u to answer the call at all, it would
be % ask few grabbed questions, utter a
few oaths, and, without one word of sympa-
thy or encouragement, turn upon his high.
heel boots and proudly strut of.
And have seen worse sufferings, if poss
sible, than this, from another source, where,
perhaps, there was not any one so much to
b1me. have seen wagons crowded with
sick men, with no bedding but knapsack
and an old blanket, and conveyed over mis-
erably rough roads forty or nifty miles. l
have seen the same men put out of the wag.
ons, when they could be hauled no further,
| to drag themselves over the mountains as
st they could staggering from weakness
and disease after they have been literally
| jOlted to death-or tried to walk until the
st expiring breath, aud then buried in
some unknown spot, far away from home
and loved ones.
The New Orleans Picayune is Mortified
at the idea of using the negroes as means
of bringing the South to its senses. 1t
says it is the indignant purpose Of the fee
BILE man in power at Washington to make
the war one for determination" over the
millions of the South. 1t thinks the black
element is openly adopted as a fixed eleu
ment in the war, and continues:
With this black flag unfurled against
US, the people of the South can see what it
is against which they must fight, with all
their souls and all their strength-as they
would fight on the deck of ship at sea,
boarded by pirates, or as they would in
trench themselves in their own houses
against assassains. There could be no
thought of surrender while there was
strength to WELD weapon, or to die crap.
ping detested enemy. And there is the
buoyant faith that courage, faith in the in.
vincibility of brave race defending q
righteous cause, and trust in Divine Prov
idence to battle the crimes OF men and ma
tions, will save this land from ineffabIe pol
luton.
1t is with amazement and horror more
than alarm, that we record these proofs of