New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-11

happen to disagree; but every Northern moi
and every Northern murder is paraded in the
Southern newspapers as proof of that socia
dissolution which is always here impending
The Southern idea of a thorough Yankee il
like Sir John yanbrugh's ideal of Puritan
IA fellow with fat, plod Sizes, greasy hail
and dirty face-a friend to nobody, loving
nothing but his altar aud himself; debauchee
in piety, and as quarrelsome in his religion as
other people are in their drink" But our
principal wickedness is our love of money.
We do anything for dollars. We think more
of shilling than of our own souls. "Virtus post
nu,amos,7 ia written upon our heart of hearts.
Tho cosmopolitan moralist who admires hon.
esty wherever it may exist will be painfully
agitated TO learn that, living in the actual Gen.
ter of sweet and persuasive slayeholding inlu-
ences, tho respectable L. Hunter TaliaferrO,
first doorkeeper of the Confederate Senate of
Virginia, by which We understand the 'front.'
door keeper, has drawn forged warrants upon
the State Treasury to the melancholy tune of
DE has bagged the money, or those rags which
are supposed to represent the money. The
Richmond newspapers which report this back
sliding OF the wretched TaliolerrO do not say
that he has any Yankee blood in his ieIonious
heart; but we suppose that it will be eventually
Discovered that no has q great aunt living
somewhere in New-England, who Is church.
member and an Abolitionst. Nothing less can
account for his profound iniquty. He must
certainly be Of the old Puritan stock. Who
bat one purely Of that strain could rob impe.
crnious, starving, ragged Virginia. Surely it
cannot be one OF her own children who has
thus pilfered from al insolyent old mother who
has seen better days. Why, 'twould be like
ilching coppers from the dead eyes of opes
own gIandam 0 Hunter Talialerro What
a bad example have you set to the ingenious
youth of Virginia ....
So, too, We lament to record, In New. Orleans,
Gen. Butler has not found that pure Arcndian
simplicity Of character which should have been
eugendered and cherished by auction blocks
aud barracoons. 1t turns out that in
this city of primeyal innocence, there are Sc.
cessionists upon whom all classes have united
in comforting the gentle name OF Z" Thugs"
We suppose that most Of our readers know
what Thug lie. lie is gentleman Of Eastern
origin, who finds lie principal pleasure in play
ing such scurvy tricks upon travellers as muir
der aud robbery. What does he in the West,
when he should serve bis lord and master, the
devil, in the East Why is be not operating
in New Englandl We do ut know. We only
know that he is said TO be fearfuly lively III
NewO leans just now. Particularly ia men
toned Il certain " Red Bill Cor William
RGfus, we suppose), who for many years in
this Crescent City has performed creseendo
of crime, numbering whenever aud whom-oever
he plea ed, with artistic enthusiasm, and faaliy
closing his career of glorious guilt by diusng
a loyal person into the river 70 be drowned.
/ Hitherto, William the Red has pursued enthu.
siast.caly his brilliant career with no let or
intolerance. How many people he has
drowned, how NAM bushels oi brains he has
friendly pistol Ia. perforated, into whose ,
bowels liza bowie-knife has found sudden ana
ubweic1me entrance, We shall know when we 4
read bis Last Dying Speech and Confession,
for We are happy TO say that Gen. Butter, up
precatiug the merits of this sanguiaary chosa. I
er, and believing that his career should 10
POLITICALLY rounded, had concluded nj the last
ldylce 10 hang him. and. doubtless, before
faction of the spectators. But what ast0aisAes I
US 10 that this -colored gentleman was
man of black-colored property, and should, /
therefore, BY all Tue established rules. have |
been also person Of the most ait,udinous
sntue. Instead of roaming about, with Il
barker in one hand, and an acute, persuading
Jowie-knife IN the other instead OF giving HIM
self up To tie somewhat coarse dissipation OF
throwing inoiiensye people into the river, the
Rosy William should have remained at home
seated in LIS own tabernacle, pcrusiug tho HOY .
scriptures, or, under the shade OF bis own tg-
tree, he should have read and eypounded them
10 his hcnchmen and handmaldens, making
plain 70 their simple understandings the pro- !
ouhd commentaries Of Doctor Lord or OF
Doctor Fuller. But he doesn't appear TO have
been at all the sort OF person TO whom the
Apostle Paul would have been in a
hurry to send back an absconding Church
member. Ii ~ stated that his death Will give
,reat delight TO mis- personal friends, AS well as
b caluer satisfaction TO his enemies; aud, as
sc have every reason TO believe, from Gen.
Buffers well known CELEBRITY in such matters,
notice Of han by expressing our mild regret