The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-06-25

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traditions of 9 people may be outraged, and
the best and wisest patriots in the land may
be seized in secret. thrust into dungeons.
and their very existence concealed in mys-
terry, all on this vague excuse of"preserving
national life." 1t would seem thatthe ina
tional life" was stabbed to the heart by acts
/ like these; but no one knows what is really
m cant by the phrase; but the miscreants
who employ it; and none but themselves
understand how it can be that measures 90
fatal to the public welfare can tend to "pre-
serve the national life."
The incarceration and condemnation of
Vailandigham marks the last step to despot-
ism. There is nothing now to distinguish
the politics of the North from thato of Aus
tria under Francis, and that of Naples, a
few years ago, under Bomba When a Gov
ernm ent finds it necessary to inhibit the play
of William Tell, 1t has reached the ne plus
ultra of Indifference to public opinion and
Of hardness in political crime and apostacy
They may now throw away even the con-
venient plea of preserving the national life,'
and hereafter disd ain to vouchsafe au excuse
for their measures or their acts. The North
ern eople of the better sort, will soon have
to take up tue same plea of preserving the
national life," and by this warrant hang
their base rulers up by the neck. There is
in fact no salvation for the North, except in
retorting the plea of Lincoln and his Secre-
taries upon themselves. When the bodies
of these men shall dangle in gallows in
Washington city, with the words. ''hung to
save the national life" inscribed, the plea
will then for the first time be true and legiti-
mate, and the measure eficacious for the
end proposed.
THE RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.
never more ample than now; and the pre-
sent condition of the COME e1eracy with ref
erence to material elements of success in the
war, is one of varied aud lively encourage
ment -.. san ......
1t is estimated that we have arms enough
to put in the hands of million of meu, aud
our available military strength is rated at
hut little less than a million and half
We have now in the Confederate service
from 600 900 TO $50, coo effective men; the
irregular organic ations and State militia
would probably add 100000 more. These
figures are authentic; a portion of them are
derived from such public date as appear in
the debates of Congress; while the estimate
of the additional forces that might be called
out in circumstances of paramount necessity
is probably not out Of proportion to well as
certained statistics of population.
Other aspects of the picture of our condi-
tion are not iscouraging. The recent alarm
with reference to the resources of subsistence
in the Confed eracy has. in great measure,
subsided aud given place to betterinformed ed
and more confident views of the stock of
provisions on hand, and our vast capabilities
Of production, which are now in exercise
The grain crops in the South were never
more prom ising than at the present season.
The crop of wheat likely to be harvested
this year will be without parallel in the
South
From all parts of the Confederacy, pfrom
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and the re-
motest w esteru boundary. we have cheering
news of the growing grain crops. Contrary
to the expectations of some that the cotton
region would not prove to be adapted to the
cultivation Of wheat, it has produced this
grain with luxuriance quite equal to that
we have seen in the best wheat districts of
Virginia. The corn. also is said to look
healthy and thrifty in all parts of the Con-
federacy, with the prospect of an over
whelming crop. .....-..--..7
Extending our survey of the internal con-
ditiou of the Coafederacy, we have also
cause for congratulation in its improved
finances, to excellent results ofthe Tax Bill,
the withdrawal of the currency, the red uc-
tions of outlays and the enlarged revenue of
the Government. We learn that already
there have been at least eighty millions
withdrawn from circulation and returned to
the Treasury. The consequences OF this re-
duction are already felt in the decline OF
prices. the encouragement of speculation,
and the moral as we'll as com m ercial benefits
of renewed confidence in the credit of the
Government.
These traits IN the general condition of
the South, viii we have hastily review
ed, are full of patriotic eucouragem emit
We commenced this war without manu-
factures, without access to the markets of
the world, and with scarcely more than
hundred tb ousand arms Surely, since we
have accomp plished so much under. the dis
advantages of the past we may look with
confidence to a future in which we shall
contest the fortunes of the war with armies
more numerous than we have yet brought
into the field; with well disciplined industry
at home, and with revenue large enough
TO nav off our present war debt IN five years
and therefore to pu the credit of our Gov
ernment beyond all doubt.-Riohmond Er-
dni7ler. ui -.. 80
A proud parsou and his man. riding over
common, saw a shepherd with new coat
on, tending his flock. The parson asked
ira in a very naughty tone. who gave him
that coat. 'ifhe same that clothed you
the parish" said the shepherd The par
son. nettled at this, rode on a little way
m urmuriug, and then bade his man go back
and ask the shepherd if he would come and
live with him, for he wanted fool The
groom went accordingly to the shepherd.
delivered his masters message, and con-
cluded as he was ordered, that his master
wanted fool. .Whv, are you going away.
then?' said the shepherd. No. answered
the other. Then said the shepherd, you
may tell your master that his living can not
maintain three of u.s." r.-e -.i