The New York herald., 1862-01-10

COTTON CULTURE TN THE NORTHWEST
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A PROSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE WAR.
The Rabid Tone of the South
ern Press.
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AN ARISTOCRACY FOR THE SOUTH.
MATTERS At THE REBEL CAPITAL.
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Reported Rebel Victory ON the
Arkansas Border,
&s, &C., ks.
AN ARIST0CRACY FOR THE SOUTH
MATTERS At THE REBEL CAPITAL.

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Ncnmond Examner. ner................... January and
richmond Dispatch. h..................... January6
These papers will be seen are Of recent dates and
will repay the general the perusa Of
We have collected.
VIRGINIA.
WHAT WILL THE YANAEEs WITH THE CONTRA.
BANDSH
From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan RI
Nothing seems ts give our good friends the Yankees,
90 much trouble the contraband, in other words
the negroes they have stolen from Southern
They are utterly at loss what to do with them They
cannot send them 10 LIBERIA for Liberia has up
herself and will soon have Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Penipotenary Of her at the Court of
White House. her must obtained before so
many lazy ignorant vagabonds be packed upon her
They cannot them loose in Central South America
for they own no land there and John Bull backed by
France and Spain is dete mined that the OF
DOM shall not be enlarged in that direction They will
not let them settle in Yakeedom for OF all things
ture negro is most detestable to Yankee. In this
dilemma, "certan prominent members Of Congress )"
we are assured by that mirror OF TRUTH the Washington
Star, are coming forward to solve the difficulty 'lhey
are considering, says the Sar, "a proposition for
the solution of the contraband question: in order to
avoid the expense Of supporting crowds Of slaves in idle
ness, and 10 furnish the American mills with cotton"
The latter part oil the sentence is the key to all Yankee
movements They hare found out that cotton king fter
al They are mad for cotton Put bale in their sight
and they fall into commissions a rabid dog when be
secs vessel of water. They can't get cotton, they
are prepared to 60 to all lengths for it, Their present
says theXar hst the Indian Territory of louisiana
and Arkansas ceed the United states by treaty
and certain conditions The Indians having violated
the treaties and spurned the obligations proposed
by these long headed Cong occupy their
tory and put the contrabands in possession it, The
plantations OF the Choctaws and Chickasaws alone the
Star tells US could fully supply the American mills the
first YEAR and. as Cuff famous for making cotton only
when ne Is compelled system OF apprenticeship is
TO be established, TO take the labor that him
"from st. Louis through Springfield, distance of
three h1ndred miles" 'Ihe remainder of the rail.
road from ato Fort Smith be completed in twelve
months Ae country thus revcrting TO the govern
ment embraces the vaes Of the Red Arkansas ard other
rivers and contains 20 900 000 Of
ty capable OF producing Is 900 COO baes Of per
annum.'
This sanly grand scheme, and does credit the
there will be difficulties in carrying out we ven
ture to point them out to the prominent members Of
Congress-" that being forewarned they may be forc-
armed-Frst there is man named Sterling Price living
out In Missouri the line Of this railroad who will be
sure TO object to il and If not summarily dealt with
will be very apt to thwart it. He is whom will
not do to despise. some time ago a body of federal
troops attempting to get to Arkansas through this
very Springfield, when this fellow Price fell with them
there and cut them into ribbons We not
that what were left Of them done running yet.
Nay he followed them up and took whole army OF them
prisoners within week afterwards 1t is altogether
certain that he will not have St. Louis in possession
before the ''promnent members'' start the first
cargo TO the promised and OF cotton and glory Now IL
is certain that Price will raise his back against this
scheme wise as 1t Is; and as he has something like fifty
thousand men ut his beck and call and is desperate
fighter, there is chance that he may trouble In
the second place, after disposng o Price, s
probable that tho Choctaws and Chickasaws may be
willing 10 give their lands at the bidding OF spromi
nent members" They number some ell ht thou
sand warios and would have their all Arkansas
all Western Lou aua and all Eastern Texas. This scheme
VIII not do We can put the prominent members" on
better Let them drive out the whites from Louis
ana Missssppi, ana plant the "eontrasands' there
Of some hundred aud fifty thousand men, and
to boodthirsty Bull Trottcr this would hardly
furnish food for breakfast they object to this
enterprise too easy of accomplishing let them
Georgia and Alabama or Arkansas and Texas all of
them together. II Yankees notoriously
would submit 10 the " prominent memberx.N In
doing betray confidence but feel jusilGed BY
the occasion. great Eng sh astronomer has made
discoveries through the telescope OF ths Ear - h~s
which throw all otherseven those revosiea ~ iscks
twenty-ivs years ago-lnto the shade. Hs haa ftana
that there magnificent cotton lands IN Tia ula,
not Choctaw or u Chickasaw any where - 80
prominent members forthwith seize then fsf a.
benefit OF the " "conrabands." Il viii b. uarh =. af
than il Is TO take the lands Of the ChckaSav
tsws Professor Lowe can furnish them with transport,
alton Let them apply at once. They will give b m
opportunity Of doing something really useful.
THE REBELS COURT An ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND
LAW.
From the RichmO1d Dispatch. Dec. 81.
Grca. Britain certainly better entitled appea.
ton than the United States period of
its existence 1t rs true that we never had king,
hereditary arstocracy: but the sovereign OF England
weath:rcock upon the church spe, for ornament
rather thin use and for use only so far il yields the
current OF public opinion rs ariocrdcy has generally
the p>rit Of at least thousand years Of good blood: Il is no
mushrcoa affair like the aughable limitations on this
continent it composed OF the geemen of tie land
whose well ascertaned position enables them to be Kind
and afabe to those beneath them, without hazard to
their own dignity.
England has been its most trustworthy friend and cham
pion. In the United States there always tyrant-
the mobwhch in the Developments Of the last year,
has proved that Of all tyrants 1t is the most absolute
irresponsible, bloody ignorant, brutal and base bid
ever. In its best days. demonstrate the capacity for
sef-government which cringing and place hunting
demagogucs sscrbed to iu Did IL choose the best
men for PRESIDENT, or for Governor, or for
bcrs of Congress or for anything wherein its chocs
cxocisedy Was not the truly great man. who acted
upon principle f ever such men since George Washing
have lived in Amerca) and dared 10 rebuke the po
puar tyrants for his evil propensties did not PIE
tend to believe that the Ioo OF fallen humanity Is
sign and seal his own political perdition9 Look at the
f'vrtuous and intelligent cole OF the United States by
tho lurid danes of this internal invasion and any
tyrant Of modern or ancient times who approach
this monster in the variety aud magnitude of his vile
passions and strocious crmrsy What tyranny there
what deed Of wckedness what violation Of liberty what
moral debassmcnt tom the cold bloodod massacre Of
women and chl to the most petit larceny which has
States and approved by the virtuous and intelligent
peopey What chance Is there for 40 much protest
OF the few wise and good men In its own section against
the most tyrannical and nhuman act which the depotc
mob through its Washington representative, may per
formy The silence Of death the Dastle the only
alternative which the despot presents
We hap, Iona been of o1.bn hat nth all he talk about
ibfy and equally in the UniLei Ststes, there less Of
ether. and certainly raa iafroriy az the administration
off ,usice Great Britain II is true social equality in
England Is unknown, and so u Is everywhere. and
where more than IL s in the Union, where upstart
money arstocracy peitner education good oood
nor good manners has uniformly treated the poor with
degree Of brutality and tyranny unparalleled in any part
Of the world But equality IN TIE administration Of justc
10 reality in Gret Britain, cds IN the Uted
States Here money could always save ruhsn from the
consequences Of his crime there the proudest nobleman
and the wealthest who violated the laws OF
the land have chance Of escape before english
Judge and jury than the meanest occupant OF ST. Giles
England land Of law In fact well name land
where every man life and property a. well a. liberty
are secure land which, in its conservative spirit. its
equal administration Of justice and lie practical sympa
and btftfah
we'll adopt az lis model
In looking late Gle Of London papers observed
one Of lite solid columns OF editorials devoted TO case
which in an American newspaper would have scarcely
occupied ten lines OF local II was case OF boy who
for throwing a stone In baronet's window, had been
fined twenty shlines and sent TO prison for month
while man who had committed the same offence upon
the window Of publican had been discharged on the pay
ment small hnci and without any abridgement Of bis