Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-04-01
From the SOuth.

The Nashville Patriot of the Goth receiv
ed last evening, contains several imports
art items Of suurthern news. OF matters
at Nashville the Patriot says:
The river continues To recede fast. and
III few days will be only havigabla Tor
small class steamers The levee IL cun-
?aranveiy bare Of boats ut present, all the
the larger ones having left il consequence
of the river falling 50 fast.
The Patriot says:
We have on several occasions spoken of
MIR. 1ancey's speech, made in New Orleans
on she 18th INST. There is great curics-
ity expressed among all classes to know
more about 1t. We therefore, give the fol.
lowing hynupsis, which we find in the
Huntsville Ala. Adr0cdte, of the 10 in
STINT.
mir. Iancey is decidedly of the opinion
that the South has no frierds in Europe,
and that the North is in similar condi.
uon. lie says there is very strong pref
udIce in all of Europe against the South IN
Consequence Of an errocous IMPRESSION
which prevails in reference to the institu-
ten "t slavery. There are many persons
Ia Europe who C nsider the southern people
sefni-cvilZad, and believe that negroes are
Is NJ disposit ion to Interfere in American
affairs
The blockade enables the British h liers
ct the great staple (catten) to reuhze IN
Immense advance upon its cost in cnnse-
quence of the scarcity of an article These
holders are the wealthy few, who have the
ear of the government. Another reason
for not interfering with the blockade was
the belief that the scarcity of the article.
and the remote prospect of obtaining sup
ply from this country, would create such o
demand for East India cotton az to increase
itseulture to a very considerable extent
Another reason, in Mr., Yancey's opinion,
"hy European powers will not interfere n
American affairs, il tie hope and belief
that permanent dissolution of the United
States will weaken a nation of whose pros
PerIty and greatness they had became ieal-
Gus. They hOpe to see the war prOtracted
until bnth divisions are involved in rninaus
debt to hang over them ike an incubus for
year. t. come.
lie Incines to the opinion thar England
and France would sooner interfere to pre-
vent reconstruction of the Union than for
any other purpose. And he believes that
unless their starving operatives, engaged
IN the manufacture If cotton fabrics. compel
them to interfere, they will stand aluof un-
til they see the South is about to conquer
it's independence or fail in thea.tempt. He
has no nope ofrecognition Of the Confed-
crate States by either of these powers until
the occurrence of one of these events. In
view of these facts, Mr. Yancey is of opn>
ion that we might as we'll recall our com
mlssiOners from Europe, and wait the
action OF foreign pOwers-wait until they
propose negotiation and recognition"
The family of Gen. Pillow nave taken up
their residence a: Oxford, Mass.
Gen. Beauregard appeals to the planters
for their bells to'be cast into cannon.
Major Gen. Lowell has proclaimed mar
tial law in New Orleans Pierre Saule
w. Frerd, Henry ID. Ogden, and Cyprien
Duf,ur are Provost Marshals.
The Crescent opposes the proposition to
burn New Orleans. 1t says:
The remarks so freely made about burn
Ing the city are entirely out of place. We
should like to know what is to become of
the tens of thousands of women and children
IN such an event. Fortunately, these
remarks como from those who have moth
log at stake, not owners of property or,
perhaps, they have removed their families
into the interior and get all their securities
in their breaches pockets, and will advance
into the country on the first appearance of
the invaders. There are coed many Of
these kind IF people about our city.
The Knoxville Register. Of the 18th inst,
says there is little prospect Of the cultivation
Of crops of any kind this year in PowelPs
Valley, one Of the most fertile valleys of
East Tennessee. The Unioa people are
fleeing to Kentucky, whilst those who ad
here to the Confederate government are So
harassed by Union cavalry from Kentucky
that they cannot attend to the labors of the
farm