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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-26

THr FINANCIAL. CosDrTIoN AND PROSPECTS OF
THE REveLTED STATES SOMEWHAT BELOW PAR
A Montgomery correspondent Of the Savannah
Republican gives the following gass@y exhibit
Of tho financial condition and prospects Of the
Confedssste rev lted States:-
FIRST Faults or THE BLOCKADE.
feared s. tho s,scsses q WI :s ass
dim nsh ths revenue uIo0 sps1diiy raised, and aoe
Ne govern Will hsve 70 resort 70 direct taxaton, In
ptabe TO sne people, win be effective than
o peLderce uyon an uncertain ncome some one
tas susereieu ihope h not officially, the project Of levy
g Tax o. four Yer cent upon slaves but considering
the ave age value q the slaves at present to DO four
hundea collars, he income vii not exceed thirty Six
millions The Secretary OF War alone estimates for
thirty five ons ard ii is probable that at least one
hupoIed Wll be needed for disbursement this year
a may therefore Confidently expect system OF direct
taxa7ou in ease any inconvenience experienced IN col
c,ous OF The customs revenue The tariff will DO re-
cuced 10 an exceedingly low figure, and viii expose py
u action, the monstroeities OF us coleague 'oo
Ntesin.
INC "blockade of Lincoln" is beginning to
be felt by the GantsGsrates ut will seriously
diminish their revenue unless speedily faised y
This they confess but 1t will do more-it will
completely cut off th'simport source oftheir re-
venues, v bich they have been Boosting as yield
!pg them vt The rate Of twenty millions o year
And 60 they begin to talk of direct taxation,
and of tax of four Per cent upon slaves; and
they must come to It, or abandon their des-
perate cause. The prospect Of revenue from
an export duty on cotton is not much better
han the chances Of revenue from imports.
Direct taxes, forced contributions and shin
plsssers redeemable in other shinplasters, are
DOW the financial resources Of the revolted
States.
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Is not half 30 black as he has been painted
Down to that stealthy, underhanded ordinance
of secession Of the Convention at Richmond,
the Governor was ranked and violently de.
nounced as among the submissionists and
now, if it be true that " the most abiect sub.
pissioDists of the late political struggle get all
the good prizes (al the fat Offices Of the State),
Governor Letcher and the party at his back,
ia assuming the control Of the secession job in
Virginia, may, after all, turn it to good ac-
count. The Examiner says "all who haYe done
anything 10 create the Southern confederacy
are prescribed, tabooed and disfranchised,"
and there are doubtless good reasons for this
When it comes to the serious business of the
management of State affairs, these noisy, blus-
tering, rampant secession fireeaters are as USE
less to the Southern confederacy as our blus-
tering and bloodthirsty Northern abolitioniss
and their cruel counsels are to the government
at Washington. We may be sure that things
are going on well in behalf Of the restoration
of the Union when the implacable secessionists
of the South and the fanatcal abolitionists OF
the North are each in their section superseded
by more reasonable and rational men.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-26

PoLTIch SENTIaENTALIsM-EnANoTP or
| THE RUSSIAN SERFs-A good deal of political
ssntimentalism has been wasted on the de-
cree by which the Emperor Of Russia has
converted the twenty millions of serf. belonging
to the crown and the nobility into freemen
The measure is no doubt an important one. and
inaugurates agreatsocial revolution in his dom
MONS. But the praises which have been lavi.hed
on Alexander for this act of grace, a. it is
called, are As historically oblivious as they are
extrsvagant II |. now upwards of eighty
years since the expediency Of the measure w<s
first mooted by one of his predecessors and; its
execution has been only question of dme
In entering upon it Russia is merely about
to pass through that great phase of 4
cial transformation which other European
countries underwent some centuries back
The growth of manufacturing industry, and the
rice Of Independent commercial communities
in the Middle Ages, necessarily led to the ex-
tinction of feudal vassalage, with all its odious
and onerous obligations. 1t was found more
advantageous by the great landed proprietors
to throw the labor OF their serfs free into the
market than TO keep them in = condition
that entaicd upon themselves responsibilities
which the progress Of peaceful and en-.
lightened ideas rendered thom the less able to
meet When, owing to the force of public
opinion, 1t became impossible for the feudal
lord, by raids upon his neighbors, to maintain
the extIsvagant expenditure to which he was
accustomed, vassalage lost its chief value in
his eyes. lie had then to look to other means
of sustaining himself, which could only he
found in the cultivation of his lands and the
labor Of free population.
Serfdom in Russia did not differ materially
from the vassalsge Of the Middle Ages. The
system of forced labor, Though IL implied no
obligation inconsistent with the allegiance due
by the scrf to the owner, was still a, oppres-
sve and burdensoms a. the latter. Had the
progress of Russia in the manufacturing arts
and commerce been more rapid IL would no
doubt have been abolished long since. The
advantages resulting to the landed proprietors
from the expansion OF industry would have
convinced them of The wisdom Of giving
the fullest development possible to free labor
The strides made by the empire in internal i'm.
proyements Of every kind since the Crimean war
opened their eyes to the fact, and in the
measure recently decreed by the Emperor
we ,ee-not great democratic triumph,
a. some assume-but simply victory
of political economy over vicious and worn.
out system. Russia is. in fact, emerging from
her Middle Ages. That is the whole significance
of this emancipation measure.
Non NERy PROBABLE UNDER THE CmCua
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Southern ConledaIatri writing from the head
quasters Of the JEFF. LAWS government NJ Mont
L>fomery, says
The Navy Department Is stretching every sncw to or
sanize Efficient police and very many privatecr
ug sIissons have Issued. The ten gunboats
NeS Orleans rapidly approaching completion and the
steamer lately engaged in the Havana trade is being
guDned aad prepared for action.
This steamer, we suppose, is the unfortunate
Star Of the West, and they have also at New
Orl65rs fnefc'c- srsaiSh. Aexieaa ship ffuta.
nero. The ten gunboats referred TO arc doubt
less intended as coast police detectives of our
incoming California steamers, a single one Of
which, with million Of specie on board, would
be q prize worth having. Such capture would
also have the effect of stimulating this priva
teerng business to very misohievous extent
and it becomes very important therefore, TO
have our blockade at once extended to an eff
cient locking up Of the several mouths of the
Mississippi.
In this connection we are glad to learn that
the Navy Department at Washington is about
to invite proposals for building the steam ma
chinery Of number of screw gunboats. This
is good move in the right direction, and we
hope that the Secretary of the Navy will issue
bis proposals at once. We have the foundries
and engine shops in New York requisite for
very large amount of work Of this description
little steam gunboats along our Southern
shores for the purposes Of a coast guard, would
not be too many at this crisis.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-26

Mon VERY PROBABLE UvpER THE Cmcua.
,aiIIls.-The ysport has been again started
pntg .sry, Alabama, that the govern
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RRyANTs, MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, Az Broad
,~ay BuRrxsoURs seNas DANCES do.-HUGaED PATH
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NTBLO's SALOON, BroAdwsy.-LLYoD's MEsTRELs 4
rgRI xsouxs SONGS, DANCES. &c.-sILyER TRUMPET
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SOUTHERN PRlyATEERs- STEAM GUNBoATs.-A
Southern ConfedaIate, writing from the head
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-26

BAgN MS AMERICAN MUSEUM Broadway ~ R1aV
srt Eyeuinp-PArRIor HEAr OF susTda-buokLs os DniL
s MS RE, SEA LION AND OTHER ouRIosITIEs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-26

IRVING HALL. Irving Place.-GRo CHRIsrrs MI
ssREIs N ETHIOPIAN SONGS, DANCES, BuRLEs2uks, &C
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"ANoInER INDICATION THAT REcoNsTRUCTIoN
rs AFooT The Richmond Examiner thus bit
ierly complains Of the msuassment OF the Sc
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NEW BowFPY THEATRE, Bowery.-soARLEr LITTER
nv Wtyy,s SECOND FLooR-TaE sry.
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WINNER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bono street,
oUp AMERICAN COUSIN AT HOME
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-26

LAURA KEENEs THEATRE, No ga Broad~ss'-
ExyEN SISTERS
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-26

Cessl0D INT IN VlrssinIa by tne otssSs aUtHUrl-
ses
ut While the spirit OF the people is high as it be,
fe Complaint egars. the STATE Iuthor deep. the
odious most sbect cub missonists or the late
po!tcal struggle get all the good pr'zss-get all the
pr!Ms which deceLcy necessity and the actual
a!ety Of ,he state require be distributed else
where The whole mscbnery OF the and the govern
fails day after day more and more into the hands
Of en who have utterly denied the States right TO
Gee and who have constantly denounced her present
post.cn. All who have cone any thing TO create the
southern conederacy prescribed and tab soed and
difI archised We have yet 10 hear Of single orgna
champion OF the South who he's beer treated with com
consics rat,on ordinary poieness The men are
Ggthe,n the matters Northern, till 1t wss pro
80 70 be something ese.
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AMrssaYNrs TOMORROW EVENING.

Volume xYVI...............'.'
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CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU SITS
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hyLoDEoN CONCERT HALL, No. $50 Bro'
Soscs DANCES, BuRLxsaUKs, &c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-09

We learn from the officers of the Chester A shlet.
who arrived last evening, that Gen. NcCulOch took
up his line of march from Fort Smith for syette-
vile, a few days since. His command consisted Of
5000 Confederate troops 500 Choetaw Indians, and
a company of half breed Cherokees, 500 sirou9.
commanded by Chief Geo. johnson. It was ex-
pected that the advancing force would be ten or
twelve thousand strong its arrival at the State
line.
We also learn from the Fort Smith Times Of the
18th that considerable force of COnfederates were
at Camp Walker, that Gen. Price, with one thou
sand MissOurians, who were poorly armed, WAS
within thirty miles, and Gov. Jackson, with 500
men, within eighty miles Of that point. The Fede-
raj forces marching for the State line jn pursuit of
Gov Jackson, number 5000. and are said to be well
armed. Itappears that the Federal troops are adj
vanciug on the State line at two points. The one
from Springfield, No, toward Fayetteville, and the
other toward Camp Walker, by way Of CRANKY.
The Nissourians appear to give way and let these
troops pass without resistance. The State is now
completely overrun ike Maryland. Gov jackson
is deposed by the military despots, and new Gov
ernOr set up in his place, by the Of Price, not
Ex-Governor Price, now Maj. Price.
We think that If they attempt to invade Arkansas
they will lind sharp resistance-Keaphis Appeal,
JUN 4.
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NUMBER "a

Inese same ambassadors are pretending il France
that me purpose Of their Governments Is to purge
Conteoerate states Of traitors and rebels, who are
hlnderlng the progress Of civilization; while Official
organs Of their party in thesState Of Massschu-
sets utter rallying cries which would cause tis
barbsrsns OF the most barbarous times to blush for
shame!
Considering all these things, Rr. Faulkner noti-
fes Mr. Lincoln that his aggressive policy did not
to the European Cabinets, appear to be insDred by
prudence that according to the law Of nations The
Confederate States had really right 10 ne reeo0ni
ton of the European Powers. And then. for0sttin0
tnat these rebels not yet eosquered Mr. Lincoln
levels his thunder against all Europe First Mn
ster of his appears in England and addresses TO the
Times that famous letter which every one Knows
about. Then comes that gracious dispatch from
Mr. Seward to Mr.. Dayton. Then, still later, comes
the warning 70 Europe to suspend all commercial
relations with the Confederate Statee And, finally
we have an ultimatum By which Mr.. Lincoln an
nounces that he viii declare war against any Euro
pean Power which shall take part in this quarrel.
This is the policy Of the Washinton Government.
Unable thus far to conquer the Confederate States
itneYertheless pretends to be PREPARED to carry
war, if necessary, against the whole world.
Hsd we not reassn for remarking, as we did 1t
the beginning of this article that the most singular
insanity appears to rule at Washington city
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-09

Immersion Etheridge has received the price of
his treachery having been elected clerk Of the rump
Congress now in session at Washington.
By misrepresenting his Immediate constituents,
in the last Congress, the betrayer paudered to
our enemies to such extent that he has
forced them to act contrary to the NAHUM Of
honest men, that of despising the traitor while low
ing the treason. He has accomplished his purpose,
and we feel confident Tennessee is rid of him-for
we give him the credit of having sufficient penetra
ton to know that the people of his district should
he appear among them, would only tolerate his
presence long enough to prepare themselves to con-
fer upon him the punishment he merits at the hands
Of an outraged people.
At the late election the district in which Ethe-
ridge resided gave vote Of 2,2l5 for separation
and 1859 in the negative Our adyices from the
several counties, give assurance that general ae-
quieseeDce in the popular verdict pervades the dis
trict. There is no division now in the locality,
neither would there be, should Etheridge return,
any diversity of opinion as to what punishment
ment should be bestowed upon him.-Asnphis Ap-
peal, judy 6.
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Three Months of the LIncOIn-Seward Adj
minIstratiOB.

From lie Pays Of Paris, June T.
When we review the policy of Messrs Seward and
Lincoln when we examine the facts which have
TRANSFERRED and the occurrences we have witnessed
recently at Paris, we are almost tempted to believe
that the Administration of the United States is
nected under the delusion of lunacy!
tits fact that after the Presidential election Mr.
Lincoln himself so far from considering himself
elected by the national preference, that he entered
Washington City furtively, in order to escape he
pretended from certain internal plots it Is evident
only existed In his own weak brain.
Assuming the reins of Government this excellent
Mr. Lincoln inagined-at least he predicted that the
Confederate States were only temporarily separated
from the rest and that they would soon return and
resume their places under his parental authority.
But the refusal of these States to respond to this ap
peal of their indugent father angered him to such
an extent that he soon after called on his Northern
friends for troops in order to treat the South
as rebelliOus.
Those Southern States which had not yet seeded
fapd upon the fidelity Of which Mr.. Lincoln had
reckoned in order to intimidate those which had
heretofore seceded having protested against an I'M
constitutional cOercive policy, his anger seems 70
have been thereby aggravated into furious rage.
He proposod to punish them severely. and having
doubtless little confidence in his IS 600 volunteers
he DEGREES under his individual authority regular
army of As 600 men overlapping utterly the resric-
tons of the Constitution, which forbids such act!
Like a new Louis XIV. this Republican Lincoln ex-
claims. Il am the SJaLe anu tiie OOnsItuLOl.
Soon after this, we became witness here Of sim
liar spectacle. While Mr.. Seward declares that he
possesses the materials necessary to equpa quarter
of million of men, and arnories capable Of max
ing more arms than the Government requires, he
sends to PARIS certain agents, who publicly at the
Hotel Of the Louvre, open list of individual sub
scriptions periodically destined for the purchase
of French and English arms; and these agents hold
meetings, in contempt Of our hospitality and neu-
trality, even setting at defiance police Tegula
tons and our laws concerning public assemblsges!
And while from the White House Mr.. Lincoln
threatens SPAIN one of his ministers in Paris so
lcits her aid While ore Of his ministers defes
England, one of his agents solicits arms of her.
In the United States, Secretary Seward pretends
that he is strong enough to crush out the rebellion,
while his plenipoteutiary ambassadors abroad are
demanding, through the columns Of Galignanis
Messenger, the assistance of France, of England,
of Spain and Of Mexico, in order to save the
Union -
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To BE CARRIED BACK.-The Captains and crews
of the steamer st. Nicholas; brig Monticello from
Brazil bound 70 gslfimore with ss50e bags Of cot
fee; schooner Nary Pierce, from Bosfon, beund 70
Washington City, VIII 200 teas tf icss schQonef
Margaret, from Alexan,irii bound % Siatan fsIlss
with 270 ton Of coal The three last named having
been captured on Saturday the 18th INST. sitter the
steamer had been taken by q detachment Of the
Confederate army, under Colonel Thomas, and Cap
tain Hollins, G. S. n, having been brought to Rich
mond carried before to the proper authorities
at the City Hall, at two O'Clock yesterday for ex-
animation. The evidence being adduced TO show
that they were eombattants, found with arms in
their hands resisting the legal authority Of the
Government, an order was entered that they be
transported hencs this morning to Aqua Greek,
and be conveyed across the Potomac into Maryland
and released. No doubt the personal effects Of the
parties will be delivered to them. The number Of
prisoners here and at fredericksburg IS about thir
ty-iye to forty. The articles Of war do not hold
men captured while sewing on board merchant ships
as prisoners Of war hence the above decision
Richmond Dispatch, Jtly f.
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PROCLAMATION
IsHAm G. HARRIS,
of 1he state of Tenpes.

Governor Of the state Of Tennessee.
To the Sheifs Of The counties Of Madison, Hqlhoood
and Henderson in said State Greeting
W OF are hereby commanded to open and held election
all the places Of holding elect in your respective
ties hs lst day 81 August Rr having given The
ce required BY law for the elecono Judge for Tour
eenth Judicial Chea Of said State 10 I'll the vacancy
stoned ~ the resignation Of John Reed and due return there
OF make to me, according to laE.
-, In testimony whereof, have hsreunt0 set ny hand
and caused the great seal Of The State - ziEedsI
IL. Nashyills, on this 18th day q Jaee A. D
1861. = -
~ By the Governor IsHAM g. HARRIS.
J. E. R. RAT, Secretary Of State
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WILLIE.

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NDERTAKERs lat J. II. ourreys old stand Union be,
Cherry and GUNNER streets prepared to attend
to Funerals st all times with wooden Cons plain or cOloTd
and Metallic Burial Oaskets ami Cases Of RsupeIOr quality
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