Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-05
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------FROM- cHARBESTON.
Launen OF the Floating Battery
The Export Duty ON COttOn..ChaF:
lest ON AID the Nom BOmeryS Tariff
Tho Garrison An 6ulnter.
! EcoiTespondsne- of The n. y 1Imes.i
! CnARL EsTOS, G.S. a
Monday Feb. 20, 1851.
Gentlemenat the North very correctly
suppose that all that is worth hearing may
be found in the newspapers; so. while they
are PaTtnking OF their morning coffee and
cakes, or while riding down In tue cars.
&c, they post themselves up on every
thing, aud can. devote the rest ofIhe day
to business. There you have those uprf-
vailed light infantry, tie reporters, aud
wliut they doh'tkuOw isn't worth knowing.
We, inthe Queen City OF the T almettedom,
do very differently. In the first place, ws
DON triSs RgPprlyas y0piRnd in the second
place we never read the papers while
breSkEitstipR, as We tbink il Injuries the
morning . digestion. We wait philosoph.
ically until VIC walk. to our offices, where,
tell rs, We get to work abont ten o'clock
or so. What does not appear is by far the
largest portion OF tbs news ofthe day. If.
u man wishes for information, he must
hunt It up for himself, and that requires
vast amount'of that labor called pumping
your neighbor, aud il requires, too; u great
deal OF discretion just now, aud am for
cel to observe good many liltle arts and
seductiOnS which men of the world UNDER
stand i I = ~
III had asked any dftdehe of the Press
in Charleston If he thought Lieut.. Hanil-
tons iron plated EIoGting battery would
be launched this mhrniug from Mr.. Marsh,s
,shiP.yarti, he very likely would have told
me that he i'sreRlir did not know; it was
talked about; il was unceftain.p Sr
told QUE fofsmy speeinlsg that, zif he safy7
them greAsipg thssERys, OF doing tsiiytliinssS
stirring this morning, to- hurry aud tell
mel 80 aIEI Is. N:iHe rpshedinto my room
aud infOFmed me that everything WsS-
ready, and Lieut.. Hemiltoi would give the
word iu.H few minutes. Arrived att Pal.
netto Whaff1 ] saw; a small crowd gather
ing, which each moment increased, aothe
news spread through the town. By 81
O'Clock At least ., QUO people wcrc present,
and tue unknown quantity, called bS
many the 'sIaUgAte1 pen" rolletl heavily
and clnInsiiyi into her new elemelt.--
They haven't christened her, aud.svhen
they, do, it is my private opinion that
It will be done in the blood 4f All who
embark in her. | hope the Richardson
Guards in particular, will say their pray
&c
make their wills in some sort OF earnest
ness, for they never viii see Charleston
again. II will he another IBal1klara
charge without the glory of that superb
net of daring that Tennyson has inImor-
taiized. God help those who do go, If the
tide should turn her ronnd and present
her unprotected side To- Major AndersUu's
dcath-deHlers, AT Ouly 5iz hundred uartRs.
Only the guu-sids is plated, and the roof
of that part looks very like an 6Id.fash.'
Toned rOPe-walk. The machine feit-iuto
the water with strong list to starboartl,
AS the sailoral phrase it, drawing on the
gun side full seven feet, while OH the other,
not more than fourl Lieut. Hamilton Is
an ambitious man, and FIRST brought him
self into Palmetto notice by his aStrans-l
binary appeal to his ex-brothers of ILe
American Navy, to tear down the Stars
and Stripes wherever they had a change,
aud after mailing chem ignomintnusiys 10
the mast to bring the ships into-any Con-
tederale port. The Lieutenant is u bravs
man. eVeu unto rashness be can give no
better proof of it than his inteuTion 10
nerd tho boys who are ambitious of seek
ing bloody grave. II will take some time
to get her bsllastetl and to get her guns
properly mounted, aud tncn wewait for the
Ides of March.
nave no doubt from all hear on the
subject, that the Southern Congress will
lay tns export duty on cotton Of at least
one Cent pcE pound. Tie last cotton crop
was estimated at $4,000, 900, and Il IS
calculated that this tax onlRhAt will mo-
CessSriiy DO exported from The. seeded
SRtes will yield NJ least $25, 100000 Der
a9num. They arc already becoming alarm
ed ut the arrangements the different rail-
road directors are making 10 turn the prent
staple into tileirtoWd hands. to the eXt.It,.
sion OF Southern shipping. They fear
that If this contjnNes foreign nations will
not care anything about the auliciontkJ
blockade ottthe confederate ports: IL will;
destroy all tue S9ntrerce OF the cfdes that
tins me coast, and, worst4of all, 1t will
co'lnst the South TO receive all goods frotdT
the North after tho duties hayeSbeen Maid
there. They dread this as deadly stab,
~ their national Nitals ut the beEfnnthp Of
their existence. At Rome, in Geortia. rs /
learn from leading cotton tnctor here
twenty Thousand bales have heen sent by
rail to Norfolk, Va; and at Pttts6Si I'll ne
tells me, twenty-five thousand h4Iess have
oeepFscetVed from the Mississippiiand it's
tributaries. Il will be pretty dificult to
dam up this new channel, but herrulean
efforts will be male. IL the Eur0pean
Powers will not recognize their fTideDen-.
denEcP. as is feared from the tone Of the
most Influential Knglish and French iour:.
mails, they wish to cnefce them into tIoihs
80 by making tia matter OF necessity. TO
prevent commissions among their ossn on.
er1'ttyes. ThSs NC 90 tuIther than ever
from Father Siller's millennium that infatzi
u"ted thousands believed as close at baud
only few years ago.
ihe Charleston Mercury clique arc lit.,
fRFlH rod 60.
think II very unfortunate 'stliat nj the very
commencement of onr national existence
We Should stumble into suciI Il slough. p
They even assert what they would not
nave done u year ago, "thit this very point-
OF taxation has destroyed the Union and
forced tile South Into Independence. o.
Then they swore By the 1fgneFrS.ss and IL