The Shasta courier., 1862-03-08
Watching the Lion while the Fox steals
the Chickens.

Price is in full retreat Southwark Price
will probably continue in full retreat, for there
are several-indeed no less than three-Fed:
eral armies, each as large, better armed and
better equipped, converging upon him. His
past victories have been rendered valueless.
Federal forces have been masse6 in Ken
tucky too greatfor man of Sidney Johns,
toms calibre to venture to attack. and the
paralyzing of Price through the withdrawal
Of McCulloch has rendered the oyerturning
Of Missouri 20 the Arkansas frontier an fas7
out of Missouri--check-m mated in Kentucky.
Chase has obtained his money in Wall
street.
The blockade is unbreakable by us as
yet. In one word we're hemmedin We've
allowed the moment of victory to pass. We
were so anxious watching the operations of
England, that we stand aghast on turning
our eyes homeward again to find ourselves
ten-fold worse off than we were ere the com.
menccment of Prices last forward march,
and that accnrsedly used sensationism, the
arrest of Messrs Mason and Slidell. Day
follows day, and IN lien Of being weakened
we find the Federal armies, at all points, be-
ing strengthened, almost every article of
manufacturing and domestic necessity
quadrupled in Price, and our money viii
soon be exceeding scarce for lack of PAPER
and pasteboard whereyith to make it.
We pay fifteen cents a piece for sperm
candles, and are told we ought to be glad to
get them at that. Our twelve months sol.
diers time will very soon be up. and what
have they been permitted or led to do 1t
is an old and ever proven trueism, that where
two nations are at war, that which has the least
means must find success in early and rapid
action, for it can gain little by time, while
the other finds in time the power to bring in.
to efficient use its more varied means.
Cabined, cribbed, confined as we were and
evidently would be. our shortest, clearest
and most noble policy was to find in the
rapid use of our early revolutionary enthu.
siasm an over match for the slower and
less spirited, but more enduring North
Where shall We seek relief? Where should
we ask it save in the camps on whom have
been lavished our hearts blood, our hopes,
our wealth, oyr whole where but upon the
Lanks of the Potomac? When will we see
an end of the farce there being enacted, at
our expense?
Indirectly every mouthfnl we eat is taxed,
our babies wear taxed caps and shoes, our
boys write on taxed paper, our girls wear
taxed calicoes, our men do taxed business,
and hopelessly ride in a taxed hearse to
taxed grave, and we, forsooth, are hurting
:" the cause" if we dare turn from Messrs.
Mason and Slidell to look at the country
we were born and bred in, and, having looked
we are hurting the cause if we dare tell what
we see
Our cause is right, it is holy. Our suffer-
ings may be Gods price of success, but who,
seeing what mis- ht haye been, and knows
what is being suffered through its being un:
done, can refrain from cursing the selfish
ness or idiocy that stopped the conquering
Beauregard, that arrested the march Of
Price, that checked the gallant Jack.
son.
We have gazed implcringly on the lion,
while the fox had been weaving his tolls
Our press and our people have trusted far
enough. We now ask, are we to continue
hemmed in for another SIX months and lack
all things, or shall our armies on to Wash
ington and Jack nothing.-Aemphis argus.
Jan, I'd.