Year: 1861

patriots 2b5talntd rom pursuing tnehe io,UUt enemies because they were not informed how stark frightened these were.

 Even the artillery were not captured, bu picked up. The guns were left behind because they impeded the flight ofthe artiilery-men, an( they might have been to a great extent carried of if the apprehension of the gunners would have allowed them to take advantage of the leisure which the prudent conqueror was SC ready to afford. On the other hand our cor respondent thinks that the panic had gone sC right to the heart of the North, that if Gen. Bauregard had the enterprise to follow up hi> advantage, he might have gone almost unre sisted into Washington City itself. All that the northern press says upon this subject IS to con gratulate themselves that the enemy did not know in what fright they were.

 This is not our account of this battle. It |: the American account. It is the account otthc New Y ork papers, alternating as they do be tween shrieks of victory, of agony, and ot yin dictive despair If they have only lost between three hundred and five hundred men, 1t seems to us to be a very cheap lesson. See what they have gained by it. They have found out now that the spirit of patriotism, and even the in stant of combat, does not prevent northern volunteers from going of in a body under pre- tense of their time of enlistment being up, al l though the morning of the combat may be come and the cannon may be sounding in their ears. | They have found out also that even a northern army can, without much good military reason given lose its attraction of cohesion, and dis solve into a mob. They have also found out l that the southerners are not to be walked over l like partridge manor, and that they have some military heads among them.

 Ofcourse, we must expect them to meet these 1 L,- e, I,yo Of They must call out a few more millions of vol unteers, and they must make confident de- mand upon an ncredulous world for few more hundred millions sterling. But behind all this there must rise a gathering doubt that this southern nut is too hard to crack, and that the military line, as a matter of business, does not answer. The North has now made its eXperl- ment, and not only has 1t not answered, but the 1 process has not been encouraging. As mat l ter of habit and to ease the American mind, a 1 certain quantity of threats and tall words may be necessary and they may pass. But they Will be of small avail against the facts they now stand. In the face of the picture ofthat scream ing crowd-the grand army of the Potomac, etc.-these great words from the eXpectant gentlemen of Washington lose their every charm.

 These people do all in their power to alien ate our sympathy, for they are amenable neither to courtesy nor to misfortune. Nothing clvlll- zes them They seem to think that at all sea sons and upon all occasions England IS 8 safe target for their insults and threats. They either fegn very well or else they positively think they can influence our policy by their buster. | There was a moment, on the List of July, when victory was supposed to be with the grand ar my of the Potomac" and the most popular -,,,l+ Il, .,-,I ty to show what use our excellent friends pro- posed to make oftheir victory. The first thought was revenge upon England.

 A fter some taunt5 at what are supposed to be our recent recantations, the organ of New ork moderation continues: And now for5ooth, because the Queens government sees it to sfulhfy itself not daring to carry into eXecu- ton it's implied threats, and prohibits the entry of southern privateerS into British ports, we are | required to let bygoneS be bggoncS, and even | to ignore that any cause of displeasure has eX- 1 istedi TThe absurdity and inconsistency of acknowledging the equal bellgerent rights ot | the rebel States, and then snubbing them from sheer cowardice and fear of the consequences, | bestows no title to consideration. nor will els- urely repentance for hastily offered indignitcs be considered the slightest atogement when the time shall have come to present them. Both | England and Spain may rest assured that just retrbution will be visited upon them for taking advantage of our domestic disturbance to fur ther their own selfish schemes of aggrandze- 1 ment."

 "For the outrage offcrd to the Queen procla- nation, the United States will possess itselfof Canada, and for the invasion of St. Domingo her Cathollc majesty will certainly have to pay with the sacrifice of Cuba. We have first to put down rebellion at home, but every hour proves that the war that has begun will prove a short one, and that ere the lapse of another half year armies will exist on the American | continent of over half million of men thirst | ing for a foreign foe upon whom to cXpend their strength. When the Union element at the South shall have been fairly emancipated, and the forces of the republic shall have been united, let Great Britain and Spain beware. Our armies never will consent to lay down their arms while vcstige of European domination remains in the western hemisphere. Causes of war they have enough and they will not cool for keeping"

 Ifthis is what we are to receive from the su- premacy of the North, the North can scarcely expect that we should put up very ardent VOWS for their conquest of the South. fthe conquest Southern States means of the also the con- quest of Canada and Cuba, and the establish ment of great military aggressive power in North America, we may learn to bear more patiently the scene that occurred at Bull Run. We are not, however, fearful enough to be ferocous. On the contrary, we cordially and even sincerely congratulate our would-be enemies that they have escaped with such small | loss from the sword of Gen. Beauregard, and much as they tell us it would be against oul | interest, we sincerely advise them to make up | their quarrel, and avoid all serious effusions O. l blood.

 When they have returned to the habits O peace they will not be nearly so bloodthirsty as they think they will be; or, if they should be they will not be so mischievous as they say they will be. Spain will know how to keep i'll check a navy which is now terribly embarrassed by two small privateers, and the Canadas have in other days given very good account of inva | ders from the the other side of the river The United States very great nation, and wt wish them all lawful prosperity; but they are not half so capable of mischief as their newspapers think they are.

 ge7gn The Mobile Advertiser and Register, 0 the 3Oth ult., announces that the banks of tht city decided to receive the Confederate State treasury notes and bonds at par in payment 0 their discounted paper; and they will continue to pay specie in payment of their notes and de posits, as usual. This, remarks our cotempo rarv, is the substantial statement of the conven ton of our banks in regard to the troasur,

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