Year: 1861

The New \ DIRK MovEMENT.-The follow
ing remarks by the Amador Ledger are
worthy of attention:


This is new feature in secession. and may
have much to do with the solution of the
question. The "Cotton Republic" it is cal
culated, shall levy no duties upon mporta-
tions and by that means moro tlan COM
pete with the northern commercial marts,
and at the same time secure the sympathy
and favor OF foreign countries But the great
city of New York, one street of which could
buy and sell the whole of South Carolina.
including the niggers, is prepared for this
emergency. We do not believe in the truth
OF one-tenth that is contained in the Atlan-
tic sensation letters writers, (under pay,) to
the California press. We do not believe that
all the male adult inhabitants of New York
City, Brooklyn, and other surroundings,
have been enrolled, drafted, marshaled pro-
\ided with arms, and made ready for an up
rising, and the establishment of free port
Of entry. But We do believe that in the
event of a Cotton Republic, (embracing all
of tie cotton States,) with free ports of en-.
try, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and
other important northern cities would unite
in movement that would abolish all duties
upon foreign goods. This would make an
open market of the Great West and North
west, and sink into nothngness the "com.
mercal sagacity" of the Cotton Republic.


1t is said that if you touch mans pocket
you tough his soul. As a general rule this is
true of individuals, and equally true Of COM
munities ard nations 1t would be true of a
Cotton Republic; and the wise ones of the
South will, if they do not already, see this
"soul and pocket matter in the distance, as
a thing certain to follow secession. Free
ports at the north would be death to the pros
perity of a Cotton Republic With high
tariff at the north, or even n tariff for reve-
nue-and free ports in the secession States,
the latter would have decided advantage !;
but upon an equality of Duties, or with no
duties at all, the northern section would re-
tain its present commercial superiority and
advantages. These things we look upon as
practical In their nature, and calculated to
exert powerful influence against secession


A PosER.-The editor of Moneys Express
has received the following letter from a la
dy;


"Sr, as observe in your paper an obliging
disposition to answer questions in manner
to enlighten, l make bold to put 20 you the
following: Having been TO see the Siamese
Twins, was informed that they were IN fact
one; moving hy the same mpulse, having
the same appetites desires and tastes, feeling
hungry at the same moment; and, in short in
all intents and purposes being as one. They
are married to separate women, and have
separate famiies-can this be looked upon
as bigamy? Can the movements of one be
passive while those of the other are active !
Were you to strike one would the other feel
the pain and the indignation in an equal de
gree? Have they separate souls and only
one will2 Does the will of man spring from
his blood, or from his soul, or from his brain?
If from his blood, then those two men having
common blood, must have an united will
If from the soul, those men must have only
one soul, or they would long since have, at
all hazards, cut loose from each other. If
the will springs from the brain, here are op-
posite councils in two brains, and but one
motion? Pray give us your opinion"


We must ask time, says the non-plussed
editor to answer SO talented, and so search
ing correspondent Meanwhile we solicit
the aid of the medical faculty.