Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-01-17
AFFAIRS AT THE SOUTH AS
REFLECTED FROM PRIVATE
SOURCES.

A gentleman recently from Charleston
and who has resided there for several
years, says the people at the North can
form no idea of the excitement which ex-
! lists in that city. He believes that the
| people are as much insane as most of those
who are in our mad houses, and nothing
but sound drubbing will dispel their il
| lusions. They have the most exaggera-
ted notions of their own strength and i'm
portance, and the most ridiculous ideas OF
Northern dependence upon their counte-
nance and favor. They acknowledge the
business stagnatiOn in their own city, but
lseem to take a patriotic pride in their pc
cuniary 4ufferings, believing that the dis
| tress and destitution ut the North is ten
fold greater. 1t is the universal belief
! that the danger of bread riots in the large
cities of the North is imminent-that the
| manufactures are all stopped-and that
the operatives are starving. They ex-
press great deal of sympathy for our
poor, but say they have nobody 10 blame
but themselves for their abject condition.
They laugh to scorn the idea of coercion
on the part Of the general government,
and say the first blow struck will be the
signal for civil war at the North, in
which the Democratic and Bell-Everett
parties will throttle the Republicans and
( insist that the independence Of the slave
States shall be acknowledged.
1t short, like the fly on the chariot wheel
they e"i'frtain the most exaggerated ideas
OF their own importance and power.
These ideas are famed by the leaders Of
the mob for the control is virtually in the
hands Of the mob-and whatever can be
CLEANED from Northern papers to strength
en- the delusion is diligently circulated.
As theirIow papers do not show the bus
mess stagnatiOn and the destitutiOn which
exists in Charleston, they imagine that the
Northern press is also prudenlially silent
upon the social and business condition Of
the Free States. They are expecting ev-
cry day that the North will come down Oh
Its knees to South Carolina and beg her
to remaib in the Union.
How the delusion Of the citizens OF the
Palmetto State is to be banished cannot
now be anticipated, though time and the
thickening dangers about them Will prob
ably solve the problem.
The following is private letter from
New Orl cans to gentleman in Boston.
The writer. it will be seen, Is completely
imbued with Southern ideas, but we give
the letter a. written, without attempting
to contrdyert It's erroneous assumptions:
New ORLEANS, Dec. %. 1860.
rs the country IS past saving, you may
just As well spend your time in writing me
a longer letter next time. You ask for
some account Of the state of things. The
South are all mad. The immediate Sc
cessionist ts see 10 help but in following
South Chrolina's hasty steps. The Tn
ion scces sioni~ts are still for going out of
the Unidn, but doing it in body they
say the North make no offers. and will do
nothing 10 coucliatc and when they look
al the mHn that is Governor Of Massachu-
sett~, and -ee Wendell Phillips still 50 ac-
tive, they care lttle who is Mayor Of Bos-
ton-in fact they are deteymined to end
tIl, matter OF aggression from the North
1t Is a sad state Of things
| enclp lp,cd a piece cut out OF one OF our
papers, the account given by AN Aboli-
tionlst trOm Chicago Of the state Of things
in New Orleans. This man was known
to be what he has rroved To be. and an
intimate friend Of ours prevented the Wig
ilance Committee from requesting him to
leave to- Fn. In order to accomplish his
business, he professed to have changed his
politics and be for the South he goes
home and puts these fadsehoodS about New
Orleans in the Chicago papers and it will
not be we'll for him to come out here soon
again. i kuOio Of two instances OF small
steamboats, stopping, one on Mississippi
plantation. and one Oh Red River. u>tcnsi-
bly, TO bury their dead, (as is the custom
and one OF the negroes who was asked to
assist said, Master, that WAS the heaviest
coffin ever saw" This caused suspicion,
and on digging ii up, it was found TO con-
tain arms OF course this causes great in
dignation The only result that the AbO-
litionists will be sure to cause. Is the dim
inished freedom of the slaves, and the
opening OF the African slave trade. which
never could be done while the North and
South were united There seems to be
growing feeling that after secession has
taken place reunion will be made with
the West and New York, and they hope
New England will not be with them; and
this is no passing fancy they have no faith
that New England can agree with them.
Last evening the Marsellaise Hymn was
sung at the Opera. Hail Columbia was
stopped, and the American flag was taken
down. In fact, we are in state of open
and war. OF course there is
much tanaticism, but there is but one voice
for disunion, not because they want To be
separated, but because they see no other
chance. There is large party here, who
are trying to keep the question open a
while longer, hoping there may be decided
action in the North, but they are not san
guine There is not the slightest doubt
that there is constant tampering, by white
persons, with the slaves, and promises OF
freedom and money If they will runaway.
We know Of many instances where they
have told their mistresses of the fact, and
it makes all parties very uncomfortable.
| think our Republican friends and rela-
ttOnS had better look about near home and
see if they cannot find sins and sinners
nearer to them, upon whom they can ex-
pend their energies, for they are surely
working no good here,
COMPosT FO STRAWBERRIES. - The |
Southern Cultivator says an excellent |
compost for an acre of ground may be
made by mingling sixty bushels of leaf
mould from the woods, twenty bushels of
leaGhed ashes, five bushels of lime, and
three or four quarts of salt. Mix thor
oughly, let it stand two or three days,
scatter broadcast and plow in.