The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-01-28
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.

IL.
A friend just returned from the North expresses
his surprise at the appearance of cheerfulness and
business activity that prevails everywhere He
would not know that war existed here at all but
for occasional movements OF military stores, and
the appearance of uniformed men in the streets
At the North, he says, there is an entirely
different state of the public mind. Thefe IS
great anxiety aud serious apprehension evident in
the faces of the people The same people that
eight months since were rampant for war Jealous
in raising money for it and calling out Justify for
putting down the rebellion, are now silent and
melancholy While business is stagnant and the
streets deserted men are dreadtully Impressed
with. the weight of taxation incurred by the war,
and see hope of putting down the rehe lion
They are sharp enough to see what amount of
interest alone is involved in debt of Seren hun-
dred millions per dnnun1 some OF which is Dor
rowed at and 3O-100 per cent. They know
that the entire annual revenue of the old Union
did not amount to as much as the interest upon
this enormous one years debt. They say that
the Northern Union can never pay it and bear its
current expenses too; and they are losing faith in
the and the Government also. The universal
Yankee nation, in short, beg ms to see that the
don't pay.
Our informant confidently, and very naturally,
locks forward to a resistance of the war tax He
predicts the organization Of party the prin-
cIpIe OF the hi cher law, which will decide that
the war was unwise, FOOLISH and unhOly, and
therefo1e they will neither pay to continue it,
help to pay the debt Incurred for it, though it be
discontinued The Government Treasury notes
are losing credit; and people begin to say they
will never be redeemed, while the Government
has no other resource and no export commerce,
now that the Southern States are separated from
the North, upon which to base their credit
Lo inf, H.,
the absence of some great victory over the South
the Northern Government will be reduced TO
desperation-haying credit abroad or at home
aud being the object of universal contempt
What can hold such Government together?
1t is such anticipatons as these that sadden and
oercloud the public mind Of the North, while
here at the South the faith in just ProUidencr,
just cous", ond Il h4y"/ Pcopie, lend to the pub
lie countenance that confident hope and cheerful
ness which we may everywhere behold, and which
were so much admired by our Virginia feIIow-
citizen just come home after long confinement
in Fort Warrcn.-Richm"nd Disp"tch.
FROM WASHINGTON We extract the following
interesting items FROM late Northern paper:
A bill will probably be introduced in Congress
next week, repeating the act carrying the recipro-
CITY treaty with Canada into etlcct-advising the
President to give notice of the termination of the
treaty Itself ne passage OF TINS act may Iead 10
retallatory Legislation by Great Britain. such
repeal Of the liberal provisions Of the navigation
laws, by which vessels get a share Of their
coas1ing trade.
Several regular army officers have recently re-
signed.
Rosencranz had General Benham arrested and
sent to W Washington, to stand trial for not doing
what Rosencranz himself had failed to do--to wit:
capture General Floyd and his army. Mcclellan,
seeing the absurdity Of the thing, has discharged
Benham.
The Yankee Navy Department is receiving every
week thirty Dalghren guns Cfthe heaviest caIibre,
which are Immediately mounted upon gun
boats, and other vessels Of war.
R@2g- John Hughes from Virginia. aged about
40 years, shoe maker by trade, found dead
on Monday night, the 18th instant, in the grog
shop of Grandson Roberts, in Salisbury, the bar
being kept 10y one MIR Little He had been drink
ing from the Saturday evening before up that
time. The verdict of the Coroner's Jury was
that he came to his death by excessive drinking
of Intoxicating liquors.