Washington telegraph., 1863-08-19

she has made noble sacrlhces OF her sons
and her treasure. 1t is a slandcr to hint that
she will quail from the evils viii cl new fall
upon many other States OF the South: and
place herself in the attitldp of demanding
from the government that the absolute protcc-
ton of her soil from invasion shall be the price
of her loyalty.
TAKE CARE ..-Numbe-s, strangers may
be seen about all important towns and villa
ges of South Arkansas. Some have uniforms
and some have not. Some are passing to and
fro on business which no one cap conceive,
and others lie about for days doing rothing i'm
aginable. Some look like Southern men. and
Others, have the mark of the Puritan stock
in their face, tones and manners.
They may all be right-most of them prob
ably are, and would be pleased to remove
from themselves, all unpleas ant suspicicn.-
We would. Any gentleman would. Therefore
We think that any stranger, stopping amongst
us should be approached in a courteous man
ner, and interrogated as to his business, and
if he be unacquainted amongst Us, requested
to give some proof. What in times Of peace
would be impertinent curiosity, becomes now,
in the midst of our dangers, only necessary
precaution, which it would be folly to neglect
on the one hand or to complain of ola the 9TH
er. The enemy knew every foot of the way
and the condition of every point, before Gricr-
son made his raid through Mississippi. We
calculate largely on their sturidity if we sup
pose they are Rot making similar investiga
tons about ourselves.
If any traveller or visitor has been careless
enough to 60 where he is not known without
means of establishing his character, he should
not complain of the Inconvenience of an un-
pleasant detention. If he does, he lisa fool,
and ought to be obliged TO the people for
teaching him some sense by experience.
Gsy" We cannot sometimes avoid the queer
est conceit. and the most ridiculous association
of ideas. The result Of the present efforts on
foot to subjugate the South, reminds US Of the
old pantomme ofthe circus, which any OF our
rea lers who have ever been n boy, and man
crawled under the curtain for want of it, will
no doubt remember The clown. turned dem
tist, who kills his patient by shooting tooth
out eff his head, attempts to lay him out. lie
down decently to the side, and the legs fly
apart. lie goes to the feet and brings them
together, when 10! the arms fly out at right
angles again. He goes back to the arms to
bring them back to the side, and as he does SO
the legs open again, and thus he goes on in
his hopeless effort to straighten the patient, tc
the vast amusement Of all the good natured
audience.
Lincoln has been three years almost laying
out the South, and with the exception of Rich
nond and Charleston, has generally managed
the particular point at Which he has aimed
But the deuce of the matter is, that it will not
stay subjugated He over runs Missouri. and
has it all right; but, upon the withdrawal OF
his troops. Ouantrell and all his sort are in
Al ms in every county, and the State in con-
dition of volcanic eruption. He subjugate:
Kentucky, and proceeos ou u 'ne 'ou'"' ~"
10. Morgan with his raiders are soon al
through the State again, protected and assist
ed by the people, burning bridges, cutting of
his comm unications, and making it the bas'
for al invasion over the Ohio. He conquer'
all Virginia down to the Rappahannock, bu
no sooner turns his attention to some othel
part of the Southern body, than Lees army Ii
over the border and far up into Pennsylvania
Even North Arkansas will not stay conquered
and Marmaduke and Cabell rise up behind
him as his armies remove the very pressure oil
their feet from the soil. To "strain all tna
milk over again. as the good housewife sait
when the dog Tapped in the pan, is tedious
business; to roll up the stone of Tisyphus FOL
ever and ever, will exhaust the most here ulean
strength.