, 1861-04-12
Late liens.

Gen. Butler, of Lowell, Massachusetts
is wit. He was in Washington, the othe
day, and during a conversation with South
ern meu, Georgian said, 81 do not believ
there is an honest man is Massachusetts
= After a moments reflection he added, Z"
beg 10 assure you, Mr.. Butler, / mear
nothing personal" The General respond
ed, 81 believe there are a great many hon
est meRin Georgia; but in saying SO, sir,
do-Hot mean anything personal"
4 George NJ, Dallas, American Minister a
the Court of St. james, writes very eloquent
letters to his friends on this side of the At
lantie, deploring the present condition o
political affairs in the United States, nnC
expressive of the disgrace which the mad
ness of portion Of our people, and The
pitabIe attitude Of the government, has re
l fiected upon the American name. Public
men Of England in high station condole
with him upon the state Of his country, and
this intended kindness he feels to be a re-
proach and humiliation.
The demoniacal correspondent of the N.
Y. Tribune advises from Washington that
eff the secession epidemic reaches the ex-
treme Border States, and the whole aspect
Of affairs becomes threatening, high reasons
of State may compel prompt and radical
measures of emancipation wherever it can
be safely attempted. And no one would
be likely to deny that it could be safely at,
tempted in all the States West of the Mis-.
sissippi River as well as in Maryland and
Delaware"
One Of the small States Of Germany hav-
ing. on account Of the unsettled appearance
of the European horizon, determined to put
its army upon q war footing, resolved, as a
means toward that end, to purchase the
most improved weapons of war, and accord
ingly procured an Armstrong gun upon
trial. Having got the gun, great diffiul-
ty arose-they had no place to put up the
target. Their own space of territory was
not large enough; and as none Of the neigh
boring States were willing TO allow it be
pot up on theirs, thelrial had to be fore
gone.
A Richmond letter writer says a number
of gentlemen left that city, to tender their
services to the Governor Of South Caroli-
ma, paying their own expenses.
Wendell Phillips, in his characteristic
abolition harangue, recently delivered at
Boston, was very profuse in his laudations
of the secessionists of the South for their
profered aid in sundering the accursed
Union"
The President elect says the crisis we
are having is artificial Heaven forfend q
real one, thenl say we.
The Chicago Tribune threatens a deadly
conflict on the Missouri, Kansas, and Ar.
kansas borders, and the Cherokee country,
in the event Of dissolution.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, wife Of the Presi
dent of the United States, has two married
sisters on visit to Montgomery, Ala
One is from Kentucky, aud Oh a visit to
her sister, who resides liz Selma, Ala. They
are both strong secessionists, aud opposed
10 the government Of their brother.inlaw,
Abraham Lincoln. or course they attract
considerable attention, aud are the toast
Of Southerners. The husband Of one has
offered his services TO Governor Moore, OF
Alabama, to further the cause Of secession
The Charleston Courier very quietly ap-
pends to an article from the National Intel
tigencer, calling upon South Carolina to re-
trace her Steps into the paths Of peace,
these four words: I'VE are-for peace.''-
The contests Of ambition and OF common
sense are going on in several Of the seced-
ing States, and there are numerous conflicts
between the minor districts and those where
the secession ardor is intent upon organiza.
tion and consolidation.
Davy Atchlson, in recent speech at
Plattsburg, said 4" that should Missouri,
through her convention, vote to remain in
the UnioD, when majority Of her sister
slave States we're out, he would then vote
for the abolition Of slavery in this State"
This is paragraph from the prospectus
Of Georgia paper: We shall counsel
our people to throw OF the tyranny Of
iauaticism, aud substitute Independence and
freedom in its place. We shall hail liber-
ty as a celestial goddess, and counsel our
people to enjoy it in a Southern Confede-
racy. How rich, how great, and powerful
it may become, will appear from time to
time in our columns"
The chap who writes Charleston letters
to the n. Y. Tribune from the corner o.
n. ssau and Spruce streets, New York city
makes some terrible blunders occasionally
Thus he let his Imagination loose the othel
day in description Of the balmy aimos
phere there at date when Charleston wal
suffering some Of the most disagreeabl'
weather known for years. A bad guess
Greeley is after Cameron, and every 9th
er Republican who dares utter nationa
+, sentiment, with a sharp stick. Weed, th'
representative Of the conservative wing o
the Republican party, is also after Greele.
with sharp stick, with strong ProbabilI
ty Of caging him.
Boston in her late election for Mayo
having repudiated abolitionism-the ques
ton now is--will the Legislature "coerce
. Bostonl
III. rNLs..z IT,. cave thoN tba Rapni