The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1861-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

The MONEY WASTED IN WAR.-"Give
me-" says Stebbius, 1.-THE money that has
been spent in war, and will purchase
every foot of land on the globe. / will
clothe every man, woman, and child, in an
attire that kings and queens might be proud
of. | will build school- house upon every
hill side, and in every valley over the babl
: able earth. | will supply that school house
with competent teacher; will build al
academy in every town. and endow il; col
! lege in every State and fiji it with able pro-
/ fessors; will crown every hill with churcn
consecrated to the PRONUNCIATION of the Cos
pei of peace; will support in Its pulpit an
able teacher Of righteousness, so that OF
every Sabbath morning, the chime on one
hull shall answer to the chime on another
arouad the earth's broad circumference; and
the voice of PRAYER and the song of praise
shall ascend, and the smuke Of universe
holocaust shall ascend 20 heaven.
"REIIABLE" AS a WAR TERM,-The
PhiadelpDs BaHcnn thinks thar the wora
'reliable" has played its part in the war
1t says:
Purisls in the English tongue say that
there is no su,h word as "relable" 1t IS
an invention Of the enemy of good English,
the Yankee nation. Webster accepts 1t, Of
course; but Worcester, in putting 1t IN his
dictionary, does so with protest. Never
theless il is such convenient word that 1t
is impossible to keep it out Of the ne"SPa-.
pers
Without utterly coudemniug the Tord. we
do coudem1 t5e Iepo1s 40 common now-f
aaFs On the au,harity Of "a 9hl genie
MAJ TIN, Notwithstanding gossip has
been telling lie after lie for full year, and
oue-half the stuff reported in the papers
has.come from him. Il has reported negro
iusur. ectinUs that never took place. 1t
killed hundreds of men in Fort Moulrie,
who are still 10 the land of the living. 1t
slew at Manassas the General Johnston who
is now leading an army threatening Wash
iugton. 1t killed Ben McCulloch at Spring
f-ld 1t murdered Jeff Davis at Richmond.
1t killed Brauregard once at Charleston,
and now Stays him once more at Ne" y
leans. The people are losing all faith
it, and we wish it could be put out OF sight
forever, and the fact could be reported TN
some better authority. The etym, iogy OF
the bogus word is evidently wrong, 1t
cannot come from the verb to rely upor.
1t must be an epithet used to describe
man who can net only lie, bat also re-he.
The London Times in an article upon the
American war makes some heavy thrusts
at the Northern generals.
"Where are the cool courage and mutual
confidence necessary to an advance In line
# battle, to crossing bayonets, to a steady
retreat, to ordinary maL@uYerlng, to all sue
cess on a grand scale Where are the fore
thought, the tactics, the capacity Of mnd,
qared for a great GeueraI2 The truth
must be spoken. The Americau-certainly
the Ncrthern States-haye yet to learn the
art OF war.
1t remains 70 be seen whether the young
Napoleon" who has just reviewed the whole
army and cleared Washington II idlers will
do more than his comrades whet 1t cones to
the tr,aI Bur hitherto neither the man nor
the oGieef IS up to the m0rt anu YEA com
pei vd lh.us here must be some thing IN
the stories oE American dcgenerac'. Oae
caSe.Rade -fer 6n0. her has ectfpOr ted Bull
R.. 10 Is s.,l dosu s'.ry -''-.svl -'zen lhe
DISASTER az SpuD gdeld srJtIed US al! @ntr
W we're; and since that, nov for another
month, We have been waiting for the tide
to turn OF at au} rate fer an achievement
Of Que sort or another. Except successful
attack by al oyerpowenng force on some
maritime forts off No, tn Carolina, there has
ben nothing to sh9w for the colossal p"PH@-
tiols.
RtMOv l. OF TIE C0LORED POPULATION |
OF Tun UNITED STATES To AFRlCA,-the |
annual report of the Pennsylvania Coloni-
,tion Society considers the practicablity |
f toe removal Of the colored race from
America to Africa. We make the fOlloSing
extract:
The census Of 1860 gives the number of
frae coorpd persons 400 100 and slaves
at 1872 3t3 making total of / 44O O52
By the If ial returns obtained from the
State Department at Was 'ington,it appears
that FROM September 81 1918 to Decem
Der 81 1860, there arrived at the ports of
the United states, by sea, from foreign |
lands, 306 AL passengers. The greater
nuaber thar arrived in a single year was
400,474 From this it is evident that the
free colored population If this country might
migrate to Africa or elsewhere, within
lille more than single year, and that the
entire body of the people IF color, with the
increase, might remove in less than twenty
years Two-ffth8, or 5000 900 900, If the
amount recently voted by Congress for war
purposes, would be sufficient to cover the
expenses of the passage Of these emigrapts
to Liberia; and also to pay for six months
of their support after arriving in that conn-
try.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-A marriage
between two cousins Of the RothsChid fami-
ly has been arranged, and will take place
10 as,soa. 4 great many million seFi1s
sill meet on the occasion aud be consoh
dated.
FRENCH CAuCnES An imperial decree
dated February l3,h 1861, authorized the
importation Of foreign cloths free of duty
on condition of their being re-exported after
having been printed at French mills. Since
that data about s 100 600 Of printing cloths
have been imported nto France, a consld-
cradle portiou Of them from Englan and