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2 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1862. What Will the Yankees Do with the Contrabands? COTTON CULTURE IN THE NORTHWEST THE SOUTH. A PROSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE WAR. The Rabid Tone of the South- ern Press. AN ARISTOCRACY FOR THE SOUTH. MATTERS AT THE REBEL CAPITAL. y iinacnnaraililigntoere Reported Rebel ‘Victory on the Arkansas Berder, &e, &e. Re, We have received another instalment of Southern news- papers, among which are the following :— January 3. Gemaeaenas January 6. ‘These papers, as wiil be scon, are of recent dates, and ‘will repay the genera! reader fm the perusal of theextracts ‘we have coliceied. VIRGINIA. WHAT WILL THE YANKEES bu WITH THE “‘CONTRA- NDB?! [From the Richmoud Dispatch, Jan. I.) Nothing seems tw give our good friends, tho Yankees, ®0 much troubie us the “contraband,” or, in other words, the negroes they have stolen from Southern plantations. ‘They are utterly at aloss what to do with them. They cannot send them to Liberia, for Liberia has set up for Derself, ud will soon have an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pienipotentiary of her own at the Court of the White House, and her consent must be obtained before so many lazy, iguorant vagabonds can be packed upon ‘They cannot turn them loose iu Central or South Ameri for they own no laud there, and John Bull, backed by France and Spain, is dete:mined that the ‘‘area of free- dom” shall not be eniarged in that direction. They will not let them settle in Yaukeedom, for of all things in na- ture a negro is most detestable to a Yankee. In this dilemma, *‘certain prominent members of Congress,” as we arc assured by that mirror or truth, the Washington Star, are coming forward to solve the difliculty. “Lhey are considering,” says the Star,‘‘anew proposition for the solution ot the ‘contraband’ question, in order to avoid the expense of supporting crow:ls of slaves in idlo_ ness, and to furnish the American mills with cotton.” ‘The latter part of the senteuce is the key to all Yankee movements. They have found out that cotion is king after all. They are mad for colton, Puta bale in their sight and they fall into convulsions, asarabid dog when he 800s a vessel of water. They can’t get cotton, and they are prepared to go to all lengths for it. Their present scheme is a very wise one. ‘They take the ground,” says the'Star, ‘that the Indian Territory west of Louisiana and Arkansas was cuded to the United States by treaty and on certain conditions.” ‘The Indians having violated the treaties and spurned the obligations, it is proposed by these long headed Cong'essmeu to vecupy their terri- tory and put the contrabands in possession of it. The Plantations of the Choctaws and Chickasaws alone, the Star tells us, could tully supply the American mills the first year; and, as Cult is famous for making cotton only when he is compelied, a system of apprenticeship is to be established, to take the labor that 1s in him out of him. “The country is approached,” it seems, “from St. Louis through Springfield, a distance of three huncred miles.” ‘“ihe remainder of the rail- road from x to Fort Smith can be completed in twelve months."" —.:c country thus reverting to the govern ment embraces the vallics of the Red, Arkarsas and other rivers, and contains 20,000,000 acres of unsurpassed fer- tulity, capable of producing 15,000,000 bales of cotton per annum.” This ss cer.ainly a grand scheme, and does credit to the “prominent members of Cvng. ess’ who concocted it. As ‘there will be some «iiilicuities in carrying it out, we ven- ture to point them out to che “prominent meinbvers of .? that being forewarned they may be foro- armed:—First, there is a mun named Sterling Prico living ‘out in Missouri, on the line of this railroad, who will be ure to object to it,and, if not summarily dealt with, will be very apt to thwart it. He isa man whom it will not do to despise. Some time agu a body of federal Sroops was attempting to get w Arkansas through this ‘very Springfield, when this fellow Price fell in with them there, and cut them into ribbous. We are not sure that ‘what were left of them are doue running yet. Nay, he followed them up and took a wholearmy of them prisoners within a week afterwards. It is not altogether 80 certain that he will net have St. Louis in possession defore the “prominent members’ can start the first cargo to the promised iand of cotton and glory. Now it is certain that Price will raise his back against this schome, wise as it is; and as he has something like fifty thousand men at his beck and cali, and is a desperate fighter, there is a chauce that he may cacge trouble, In the second piace, after disposing of Price, it is but too Probable that tho Choctaws and Chickasaws may not be ‘willing to give up their jands at the bidding of “promi- ment members.” They number some et bt or ten thou- sand warriors, and would have at their back ail Arkansas, all Western Loui iaus aud ail Eastern Texas. This scheme will not do. We can put the *‘promisent members” on a better. Let them drive out the whites from Louisiana and Mississippi, and plant the “‘contrabands” there. ‘They will culy have to walk over the bois of some hundred aud fifty thousand men, and to & bloodthirsty ull Trotter this would hardiy furnish food for a breakfast. If they object to this as au ‘enterprise too easy of accomplishment, let them take in Georgia and Alabama, or Arkansas and Texas, or all of them together. If Yankees not $0 notoriously bloodthirsty, we have yet a scheme in reserve, which would submit to the “ prominent members.” In doing 80 we betray confidence, but we feel justuied by the occasion. A great Engiish astronomer has discoveries through tbe telescope of thy Earl of Rew which throw ail ctlers—even those reveulel by Lecke twenty-live years ago—into the shade. Me bas femd ‘that there are maguificent cotton lands in he Gee not a Choctaw or 4 Chickasaw any where (7 «prominent mem for tne Denefit of the “ It will be mock eave than it is totake the lauds of the Chickasaws and (hee taws. Professor Lowe can furnish them with tranepert- ation. Let them apply at once. They wili give him an opportunity of doing something really useful. ‘THE REBELS COURT AN ARISTOCRACY—LIBERTY AND Law. [From the Richmo.« Dispatch, Dec. 31.} Great Lritain certainly is better entitled to this appella- tion than the United States was even at the best period of its existence. It is true that we never hada king, nor @ hereditary aristocracy; but the sovereign of England is a mere weathercock upon the church spire, for ornament rather than use, and for use only so far as it yields to the current of public opinion. [ts aristocracy has generally the merit of at least a thousand years of good blood; it is n> mushroom affair, like the laughable imitations on this continent, it is composed of the best gentlemen uf the land, whose well ascertained position enables them to be kind and affable to those beneath them, without hazard to their own dignity. Instead of being dangerous to liberty the aristocracy of England bas becu its most trustworthy friend and cham. pion. In the United States there was always a tyrant— the mob—which, in the developements of the last year, has proved ‘hat of all tyrants it is the most absolute, irresponsible, bloody, ignoraut, brutal and base. Lid it er, in its best days, demonstrate the capacity for self-government which’ cringing and place hunting demagogucs scribed to itt Did it choose the best mon fur President, or for Governor, or for mem. bers of Congress, or for anything e'se wherein its choic. was exorcised? Was not the truly great man, who acted upon principle (if ever such men since George Washing- ton have lived in America) and dared to rebuke the po- pular tyrants fur bis evil propensities, and did not p tend to believe that the voz joouli of fallea humanity is any more likely to be voz Dei than vor diabie, sure wo sign and seal his own political perdition? Look at the “‘virtuous and intelligent peop le’’ of the United States by the lurid dames of this infernal invasion, and is there any tyrant of modern or aacient times who can ay h this monster in the variety and magnitude of his vile passions and atrocious crimes’ What tyranny {s there, what deed of wickedness, what viotation of liberty, what moral debasement, (urn the cold blooded massacre of ‘women und childreu to the most petit larceny, which has not been porformed by the representatives of the Unite! States. and approved by the “virtuous and intelligent le?" What chance is there for #0 much as a protest of the few wise and good men in its own section against the most tyrannical and inhuman act which the despotic mob, through its Washington represontat ve, may por form? The silence of death, or the Dastile, is the only alternative which the despot presents We have long been of mm that, with all the talk about Uberty and equality in the Uniled States, there was vas of either, and rast inferiority in the administration Ch to Great ‘in. It is true, social equality in is unknown, and so it is everywhere, and no- where more than a in Sleccnone, fF, oY money aristocrac; neither education, ood, nor r& manners, ha anormiy treated the poor with a degree of brutality and tyranny unparalleled in any part ‘of the world. But equality administration of justive ia in Great asit never was in the United Serine 8 in thos pute nese is crime; nol na the wealt it commoner who vi the laws of land have no more chance of escape before an and jury than the meanest occupant of St. Giles. is a land of law in fact as well as inname—e land 's life and property, as well as liberty, are secure, & which, in its conservative spirit, ite ‘equal administration of justice, and its practical sympa- poor and humble, our own new country may woll adopt as ite model. ‘im looking over a late fle of London papers we observed ‘one of ite solid columns of editorialk devoted to a case which in an American newspaper would have scarcely ecu ten lines of a local. It was a case of a boy, who. for throwing a stone in a baronet’s window, had’ been gE fined twenty shillings and sent to prison for’ a month while a man who had committed the same offence upon the window of a publican had been dischargod on the pay- ment of a small fine, and without any abridgement of bis liberty. The journal boldly the magistrate for the oppressive puns ument of a mere child, and tho par- tiality shown to a greater offender, in terms and with an emphasis which to American journalists scem altogether dis; roportioned to th - character of the offence. Bu: the press in Enyland is freer and braver, as well as more tignifie! and intelligent, than in the United States, and the people, of whom the press is a representative, are more rigid in their ideas of justice and fair play. The government also never forgets the claims of its humblest subjects upon its attention in any partof the earth. We have lately noticed a case of this kind which occurred under our own observation, and which well might form & model for official example in our own government. THE REBEL VS. THE UNION. ARMY—THE SONG OF THE SWAN. (From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 2.} ‘Tho public mind hag been puzzled for a solution of Me- Clellan’s long-continued inaction upon the Potomac. That he has a large and well appointed army is a well ascertained fact. More than five mouths have ejapsed since the battle ‘of Manassas. More than five mouths, @ period ‘enough to begin and finish a modern European war, aut made | of course aflording time, with ample opportunity, to re- organize armies, develope immense resources and reani- mate drooping courage. For three months the Ni bas had a force at Washington which, to its own account, outnumbered our own two to one, which has. abundant time for discipline, and has at its command an and ij of war. And yee wi the winter bas thus far the:mildest on record, while the roads have ‘and smooth as in midsummer, while this de- has @ daily invitation of federal ari ti ‘vontinues to lie sluggish, torpid and miptionless behind its intrenchments on the Folamas. “If you are coming, why don’t you come Among the variety of speculations upon the real cause of this long continued delay, the theory is gaining ground arrives when the term of enlistment of our volunteers ez- mabye hy in consequence of their return to their » Southern army will be so reduced im numbers as to present but a foeble barrier to his immense masses. the is evident that,even with heavy odds, for. the chances’ stomach por Manas- sas. The Southern expeditions, it was fondly hoped, would draw off a great body of the Southern troops to the defence of their own fireside, and inspire the succes- sors of the Bull runae:s with courage enough to make an advance movement. But this ‘hope failing, there remains but one Squaliy prom‘sing opportunity—the expiration of the term of duty of the volunteers—and the belief is now gaining ground that McClellan will await that moment before making his onward mvemen', and that then, when our camps are deeried. or the vacant places supplied by troops who cannot by any possi¥ility, in the interval now re- maining, be made the ome the volunteer army in drill and efficiency, yt & Forces will make thet grand and lung promised onward movement. We are awarethat Congress has legislated with a view to encourage re-rntictmen’, but we have not learned that its legislatin has, to any extent, securea the object de- sumed. Our volunteers did not enier the army for money, though they have huda right to oxject the treatment due to goat.emen and to soldiers—treatment which would have boon of far more sorvige in attaching them to their cvse. than any pecuniary advantage. This treatment they hive not aways received, there have been civil an! miliary oficial whose heartless and bru al neglect have put the Southe n cause in mire i} thin all the armed l-gims of the North. More even than this cause, the rust of in- action, to which they have been condemned, has eaten cut some of the bravest spirits; and these facts, as weil kuown to the enemy in their front as to any one in the Southern confederacy, have embo dened them with the hope th.t,at the expiration of their time of enlistment, vur volunteers will return to their homes, and that Vir- cinia will then fall, almost without resistance, into their ds. We trust that these confident expectaticns are destined to inevitable disappointment. Certainly we have formed @ ‘aise conception of the character of Southern volunteers if they, like the Northern volunteers, are bent upon for- saking their cam» when their time is up, no matter what the danger by which the country is menaced. Indeed, such @ supposition would be more derogacory to Southern thau to Novthern volunteers; because when the latter leit they injured nobody but themselves, aid did not expose their territory anu their homes to fureign invasion; while the withdrawal of southern volunteers would le: the way to their own ficlds and drestues toan invading horde, who deciare that their time for submission and compromise bas forever gone, and who aro panting to Dring desolation and defilement upon every Southern home. “Never,” says 1.7. Moore, as truly as eloqaentiy, in his late ‘Fast day sermon, ‘‘never since the terribl. se nes oi La Vendee, under the ravaging hordes of re- pub.ican France, bas the old heathen war cry Ve Vi-tis! (woe to the c mquered) been more unmistakeably sound- ei by auarmy of invaders. Let this tremeadous cru- sade become successful, either by mismanagement in the army,” or, we may add, by the refusal of volunteers to re-eniist ,“‘or ouwardice and grvediness at home, an't history furnishes no page so dark and bloody as that which would record the result. Our best and bravest men would be slaughtered like bullocks in the sham 3 our wives and daughters dishonored before our eyes; our cities sacked, our fields laid waste, our homes pillaged and burned, our property, which we are perhaps selilsily hoarding, wrested from us by fines and confiscations; our grand old Commonweaith degraded from her proud historic place of ancieat dominion, to be the vassal pro. vince of a huge central despotism, which, having wasted her with fire and sword, would compel her by military force to pay the enormous expense of her own subjuga- tion or, in de.ault of this, parce! out her broad lands to insulting emigrants as a feudal reward for the rapine and murder of tuis new Norman conquest, whilst the owners of these lands mus: either remain as cowering factors for insolent conquerors and oppressive lords, or wander as peuniless and homeless fugitives in a land of strangers.” ‘Nor would this be the fate of Virginia alone. Every other State in the confeleracy is equally intevested. It is the causo of every other State as much as 0: Virginia Uhat is to be decided by the wager of battle on the Poto- mac. Richmond, with its immense milit stores and manufacturing resources, in the enemy's hand, other parts of the State would soon follow, and the federal murch into North Carolina be instant and comparatively easy. Then would be realized the favorite scheme of Scott, the tightening of the anaconda fulds, which have so loug becn preparing, about every part of this body po- litic. Then, from tueir different basis of operation upon the sea coast, the invading armies would advance to pe- netrate the interior and unite with the grand army of subjugation on its resistiees soutuern march. Then, woe, woe, Ww the ¢ nquered in every Southern State and every Soutvecn habitation. All (hs, and worse—horrors, un imaginable horrors in every Southern hume and every Souther piantation rise before the eye. And cau it be possible that southern men, the husbands of Southern wives, the sous of Southern mothers, the brothers of southern sist by refusing to re-enlist, can expose their country and ali they hold dear to this bot- tomiess abyss of woe and perdition? We canno: believe it. The conduct of the Northern volunteers, who left when their time was up, but who imperiiled neither home oor fireside by their leaving, would be glorious in com parison ether than submit toa face like this, the hardships, the privations, the petty official insolence of twenty years, or of a lifetime, ought to be borne with alacrity. | lt would be better, far better, that our brave soldiers ed wot put their hand to the plough at all than that, having put it there they should turn back. Better to bave mace no resistance to Northern tyraany than, hay- ng made it #ufficiently to iaflame and intensify th: ma iignity and vengeance of our enemies, it should be with- crawn at the very moment that it is necessary for our protection. A few more m beyond the period of enlistment will, in all probability, terminate the strog- ic, if our gallant soldiers prove as persever- jag as they are brave. That they should de- sire to see their homes again is natural, and the act of Congress has made provision for this purpose, if shey desire to re-enlist, but what will liome be worth if, for the purpose of enjoying it for a brief period, they put it in peril of perpetual ruiny Hence, in view 0. all these soiomn considerations, wo in- dignautly reject the idea that Southern volunteers will hesitate on the subject of re-enlistment one moment after they become apprised of the trick to which Me- Clellan looks for our destruction. ‘Their places cannot be supplied by others; it wiil be impossible to manufacture such troops ina few mouths as those tried, experienced and valiant veterans—thoso ‘eroes of Bethel, Bull run, Manassas, Carnifex Ferry, Greenbrier river, Leesburg, Alleghany, a8 well as others, who have been panting in vain to incet the enemy. One more great sacrilice for their country and her indepentence is secure, their homes free and happy. and their own hoarts irrailiated to the end of time With a more satia(yiny glory than that of the most brilliant battle feld—the consciousness of having done their duty. We sinceroly hope soon to hear of some geaeral con ‘suitation and conclusion among the soldiers whose term of enlistment soon expires, which will give assurance both to the country the delusion that they will fail to re-entist at the end of their term. WHAT WILL THE NORTH DO WITH A SUBJCGATED sourn? (From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 1.) If the invader should accomplish his purpose of subju gation, he would find bimsolf in possession of a dearly purchased conquest. His work could not be compleedt within less than three or four years of hard fighting, which, at the rate of six hundred inillious @ year, will have run up a debt of two or three thousand millions of dollars. Piedged beore the world, and in iis own conscience, to emancipate the slayer, he would have another huge and costly work to perform in transporting and colo- ing them in some ‘tropical region beyond the limits of tbe Unite: states,’ To remove four intiffons of people another, to purchase a territory large cnovgh for their comfort and subsistence, and to provi'te them with food, clothing and shelter for the period of one years, occup in the transit and in the new do: ition, would cost two or three hundred dollars a , or another thousand million of dollars. The cost of the South would thus fail oot far skort of four thousand the higher latitudes, whore the sun’s rays were less ver- tical and fevers less it, and where the neat bus- bandry required for the profitable culture of the cereals and the intelligence required by the mechanic arts de- manded the labor of whites, the unceasing streams of emigration from Europe, and the prolife activity of na- tive generation, had populated the country with a hardy and industrious throng of white agriculturists and me- el In the Southern States, where the climate was too warm for white labor, and where those staples were pro- duced which can only be grown in regions generative of fevers and tions, an apparently miraculous series of events had provided a race of laborers four millions in number, better fitted by nature for bondage than free- dom, and so physically endowed as, while capable of 1a. boring actively in the fields under the rays of the sun, to be proof, in a great measure, aguinst the diseases which flourish side by side with cotton, tobacco and rice. To remove this system of labor from the Southern States would be to spread ruin and desolation universally over the land. The wholesale removal of white labor from Northern fields and w , and the substitution in their of biacks or coolies, would not work a more complete desolation in that busy and prosperous section than the general emancipation and transportation of the negroes of the South would effect in this. Supposing, therefore, the North to have accomplished its two cherished objects of subj.; the South and colonizing ity biacks—which dould done only at a cost of some four thousand millions ef dollars and may scores the lives of those white laborers, who, if em iu her neds and e far more tober than when in ber ar- mi she would ‘have conquered a coun- try not, half its cost, even in treasure, say! Ro- thing wi property of the North under oi teat millions of dollars, ven public debt would keep out of the ments of immi its sufficient in number to take a tution should not be prevented by climate causes. unlike those usually engaged in by the Yankees, turn out to be a bad speculation. operation would be precise- ly like that of a farmer who, already Loca. | a large farm not yet fully s*ocked with lal , and needing many improvements, should give two prices for another farm larger than his own, without fences, improvements or furniture of any sort, with no possibility of procuring labor toem loy upon it, going in debt for the entire pur- chase, and mortgaging both places for the purchaso mo- ney. ‘In ninety-nino cases out of a hundred such a ven- ture would cost the farmer all he was worth, and leave him, after the first serious financial reverse, the owner of no farm at all. But the folly of such a man would be no greater than that into which the whole North is now rushing with blind fury. Taking the most favorable view of the transaction, that which grants them success in subjugating the South, the scheme they are engaged in is a scheme of madness. Bat as sure as there is a just Providence which rules the affairs of men, aud as sure as there are patriotic arms in the South ca- pable of striking many such blows as those striken at Manassas, they will not conquer the South. In view of that result, what then shall be said of their present un- dertaking?’ Taking only a pecuniary view of it, it is cer- tainly the most ruinous speculation that Yankees ever ventured into. DIFFICULTIES OF INVADING THE SOUTH—PHYSIOLOGI- CAL PACTS. ‘From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 3.} ‘The diflicuities of invasion increase tn gcometrical ratio with the distance. It also increases in geometrical ratio with the numbers of the invading column. This double impediment acts with tremendous power against the enemy. The slow which has been mae by his armies seems already to havo established the proposition that invasion cannot be effected at all by regular marches. ‘An invading army of magnitude cannot penetrate a coun- try as barely provided with provisions as the South, ex- cept by slow movement, fortify ing as it moves. European warfare furnishes no criterion for military operations on this continont. There the country is denso- ly populated, and abounds in provisions at every step. ‘Shere, too, the agricultural laboring population are non- combatants, and are not visited with the penalties of war. ‘they ave humasely and prudently left to till their fields and gather their harvests inthe midst of flagrant war. 1vo much credit 18 not to be allowed to modern humanity on this score, for, if any other policy were pusgued, the great potemtates who conduct the wars would be as un- able to move their armies as Buell is found unable to move Lis in Kentucky, as has been expected of him for several Woks past. ‘AS our agriculture is not sufficiently thorough in the South or productive to admit the passage of ariuies over our sparsely populated domain, 80 our roads are, for the most part, mere natural paths, made by use, and not by heavy outiaysof money aud labor. They are not, as in Kurope, finely paved streets, hard and smooth as a mar- ble floor. For the greater part of the year they arc more it for navigation than travel; and it not unfre yucutly has happened in the last season that army horses and mules have sunk down in the highways and drowned in the mad. To compare European campaigning to Amv- rican is to compare things totally unlike in all their cir- cumstances. The im;ements used in modern warfare add much to the ditheulty of transporting an army. ‘ihe chief imple- ment relied oa is tue caunon, aud thu batteries requiced for afew brigades, fifteen or twenty thousand troops, will suffice, in running ovor them, to ruin the best of vue rows.’ Add to the, wear and tear caused by these tha: prod: ced by all the wheels an! teams necessary for {hs c ansportation of twenty regimenis, aud it is at once seen in how wretched # state the passage of a sinall iuece will leave the roads of this county. ‘The etfort to move an army of fi'ty ov 4 hundred thousand men over considerabie distauces in any of the Southern regions is ‘a.nost Hereuiean—and wo have uot yet seen it maide with success by the Yankees in the prog ess of the war. ‘There is an important physivlogical fact to be recol- lected also in connection with this subject. For men to fight well and long they must not have be.ore undergone fatigue and loss of resi. If an army is 1oquired.to riss erly and march several hours it is a physical impossibi- Lity for them to exhibit, for any length of time, the proper nerve on the field, On the morning of Manassa’ the federal army were required to rise at three o'clock, after a fatiguing previous day, ant to march a full day’s journey before aching the battle fiel’. They fought pretty well until na- ture becxm: over tazeil, anit at three o'clock in the afternoon, | just tweive hours had risen from sleep they took that patie which bas brought upon them so mucu ridicnle, and which has excited so much disgust amoog all intelligent men, except the more observant of physiologists. ‘The ‘ease was very much the Bethyl. Their deteat was yanic into which they (ell is only to be accounted for on the physiological priucipies. The case was ‘ly the samo again ut Carnifex Ferry, whe: uiitted the indiscretion of attacking posted, with twelve hours on tue m lusted by # tramp o: tweuty tiles. stand the flerce volleys of our men; they took it into | r heads that we were shotting our guns with molten speiter, they Wook a stampede and tied enerals th oe ght it advisuble to -*ce The best and most nn we rai Taylor, have always ‘n well inimediate ly betore goiug into act i an hours before going into a fight, the that they will mainta.n the action ten symptoin of iiaching or flagging unlesstromexeessiveheut | orsome other extras ary cause. The phy a) condition of soldiors on cutering aa engagement has much mo.e to do with their moral ceportment while it is pending than js usaally supposed. This of knowledge has always by great generals, and must scrupulously employ nning all thei actions. In respect to this paysiological fact we have always hat the | advantage of th ny ia the progress of this war. We | stand on tho defensive. The ciemy invade. They must | tyke the assault; aud the fatigue and protracted ‘loss « rest cheountered tm reaching our lines, make them a pre The Bail run and Beth that have seized them. ‘their stampedes from Prestonsburg and from Camberland Ford wore even more remarkabie then the others, trom the tact that they ran, like the wicked, “when no man pur- suet.” ‘There is also superadded to all the difficulties which at- vader oi Our soil the corroding and moralizing retlectton that they have no right to invade te the South, murder its people wnd desolate that they are engage. in a wicked uuuer- to panic and morbid in panies are not the only onc tuking, and are sustaining a wick ‘ Tis conscience makes cowards of us all; ond this text of shakspere is at-lasi the best vindication of Yankee courage that can be given atter the disgraces of this war, A REBEL VIEW OF TAB MEXICAN IMBROGLIO. (From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 3.1 The joint naval expedition of England, Frauce and Spain will not save Mexico. The case of thmt “sick man” is eyoud the reach of medication. It is a error to ascrive the low estate into which Mexico has fallen to her civil convulsions. ‘The prevailing discord isa result and not acause, Since the abolisbinent of African slavery Mexico has become more and more the hibtation of owis and bats, the tramping \d of robbers and guerriilas. Search the New World through and no well organized syatom of labor can be found adapted to warm regions ave that of the transplanted and ensiaved Afri- can negro. Wherever any country exists, in million of dollars ‘They wonld find themselves after the achievement in 4 land desolated, exhausted and without aay orgauized system of labor—a country whose condition of forlorn poverty and ruin is emly partially pictared by that of Ja- maica, in the West Indes. There is no calamity which can befall @ country so great as the lors of an efficient system of organi: labor. Look over the word, and it will be found that no pation is prosperous and flourishing which does not enjoy ® system of labor to ite climate and its productions. The repablic of Mexico and the wretched Spanieh States of Ceutral and South Ame- rica have never seen one day of prosperity since they abolished their slave system of labor. The abori race is too enervated, and the Castilian too ‘and physically feeble to endure the toil of the fields. In consequence, they have no agriculture, and all other industry has perished with the downfall of that nursing mother of all, the agricultural art. The North. orn United States themselves owe their rapid advance in wealth and power to the vast accessions of labor which they obtained by the emigration from Europe. In a broad territory, abounding in excellent soils, nothing is 90 necessary to prosperity, nothing promotes a more ra- pid and ourishing national pow, ‘than an abun of laber. The wonderful prosperity of the Ameriean Unita was due to the admirable system of labor respectively in ope ration at the North and the South. In the States lying wm whatever zone, without an jent labor organization, «il its material aod moral in- terests will be found in @ state of dilapidation and chaos. The labor aystems of the tropical regions of Asia ace imperfect, and imperfect from uke fact that compul- rion is not so complete and organization not so thorough as was the case with the siave labor of the fi American States in the days of their prosperity. best system of labor that ever existe! for warm regions is that of the enslaved African ards Of the succeeding that of they are known to have » One ‘wisest and most humane schemes ever devised and carried into effect was the rhich originated with that brave race of sea- heme furore and colonizers of ‘ing idle and lusty Afri- cans from their native. iungrds to hi in the mines and plantations of the New World. The t and cruelty which these people sometimes suffered were abuses of the system which called alond for correction, but whieh really constituted no good reason for condemn. ing the system itself. ile African slavery was maintained in Spanish Ame- rica all the interests of thore splendid countries flourished ; but when, in an evil hour of fanatical enthusiasm, that rystem was uprooted, from that moment the busy work of ruin in all those regions. Without labor, with out a well di ned, well organs system of industry, no country can flourish; the bes, system of labor ever devised for warm regions ia that of the ensiaved African race. niary demands fro Mexico. If they choose to disem- bark their forces and to occupy the principal places of the country they may succeed in order and en- forcing subordination to law: but neither a wholesome foreign presence nor apy other influence can establish a new prosperity in Mexico until she shall be provided with some system of effective labor. The only system adapted to the circumstances of Mexico is that which she abolished simultaneously with throwing off her allegiance to Spain ; and she will neyer rise to the dignity of a tenth rate power, or of actual independence, until that system is |. Her case is just as hopeless as that contingency is improbable, and, until that contingency shall happen, Mexico, one of the fairest regions of the giobe, will have no farther importance in the world than that which her eye eet position between two great oceans may give oF as affors facilities of transit. a serves. It is an encouraging sign of the times that the are now willing to consider the matter in the serious light in which it should be regarded. We hope the enemy ar never come this way ; we don’t believe that bo ever will, but should he ever do go, the value of the batteries to our citizens would be beyond computation. THE LATE REBEL GENERAL COCKE. ing of General 8t. large ‘estates, both in Virginia and the South, he bad made ample provision for the religious instruction of his numerous slaves, by erecting chapels and providing com- petent Christian teachers. Devoutly Southern in all his principles and feelings, he was one of the first to volun- teer his services in the cause of his country, and as cap tain, colonel and general, to devote all his energies and abilities to her defence. His countrymen will never for- get his arduous and successful labors in preparing the Department of the Potomac to repel invasion; and fear- lessly and faithfully, as commander of the Fifth brigade, did be meet the foe on the famous fleld of Manassas. Re- turning home after an eight months’ campaign, with a mind and body shattered by unromitted attention to his duties, the last sad act was the result of devotion to his country. RELEASED UNION PRISONERS. [From the Potersburg Express, Jan. 4.} About two hundred and forty Yankeo prisonors, who have been exchanged for a similar number of Confede- rates, will be sent down James river to Newport News, under a flag of truce, this morning. This route has been adopted on account of its economy, it being much cheaperto transport them by steamer than over two railroads. We can better imagine the delight these men will experience at once more standing among their friends and kindred, after months of imprisonment in a hostile land. The lerate prisoners for whom they were exchanged testified their emotions by shouts and tears, and cries and cheers, and rolling on the ground, when they landed at Norfolk. NEWSPAPER SUSPENSIONS. The Clarke county (Va.) Conservator states that tn the counties of FreJorick, Ciarke, Jefferson, Berkeley, Mor- gan, Hampshire, Shenandoah, Warren, Rockingham, Au- gusta and Loudon, there were published twenty-three nowspapers. Now we know of but seven that are pub- lished in theso countics, only three of which are pub- lished every week, and ail, with ono exception, comeider- ably reduced in dimensions. Those entirely discontinued are the Berryville Journal, Charlestown Spirit of Jefferson and Independent Democrat, Shepherdstown er, Martinsburg American, Berkeley Springs Constitution, Komney Intelligencer and Argus, Piedmont Intependent, x rk Tenth Legion, Luray Review, Front Royai Gaxette, Harrisonburg Citizen, Vatley Democrat, Staunton Vindicator and Leesburg Mirror. The balance are pub- lished occasionally. “VICE PRESIDENT’ STEPHENS. A Richmond letter in the Savannah Xepublican alludes to Alexander H. St«phens as follows:— But there are moral aa well us military heroes. There is one in Richmond at this time—a man of groat intellect and high position. His hoalth has been indif-rent for some days, but ho is much better now, and will soon be able to resume his official duties. He may be seen any day, when well, moving noiselessly about the hospitais where the sick soldiers are sent. He has a kind word tor every patient, lingers around their cots, inquires after wanis, and consoles and eticourages them by his quiet at- tention and brotherly language. His-public duties press heavily upon him, yet he finds time to steal away from the crowd that would follow at his heels,and to search out the safferer. Does now your heartt Il you inStinc- tively who this hero of tho hospital is? It is Alexander H. Stephens, of whom it will not be said in the last day, “1 was sick and ye visited me not.”’ AN ATTACK ON JEFFERSON DAVIS. ‘The Richmond Wisg of the 4th instant, in the course of an article on the Davis administration, says:—If they (the Yaukecs) have not subjugated us they have im- pigned upon our soil,and they hold military possession of a part of Virginia and of the three siavehoiding States. ‘This, we confess, has a!ways been to us an unmixed bit- ter. And what renders it still more disagreeable, we cannot divest ourselves of the convicti n that it has been owing to the fault of our own administration. Our army, composed of the best material that ever shouldered a musket, went to the field to fight, and for nothing else, and has been panting for an advance from the moment of enlistment to tho present hour. Doomed to inaction, and rotting on straw, we have lost moro by diseaso than a dozen victories have cost. aud we have lost the national reputation we enjoyed for dash and clan, Unless there 1s a promise, and one to be relied on, of @ total change in this policy of the great Canctator, we shail have no more volunteers after the expiration of the present term. This is a vital matter, to which all our anthorities should at once direct their attention. Congress, as well a¢ the Executive, isentrusted with the pubic weal. All should exert themselves to the utmost for the common safety and the common glory, for the fortunes of us all are at sta LECTER FROM A REPEL. PRISONER. The Richmond Enquirer publishes the toliowing let ter:— ‘TO THE EDITORS OF THB ENQUIRER, CENTLEMEN—I observed some remarks about the treat- meat ty Washington of the prisoners lately relea t have been in the o!d Capitol prison since the 10th Ssitember, aud have never been myse‘f or seen ot insulted, The government allowed us soldiers’ r and we received everythiug our friends sent us except money. 1 was permitted to see ali my friends in presence of an officer. I think our passage through Baltimore was known to but few. and there was no demonstration. At Fort Me» Henry Colonol Morris was very attentive and polite, } make this statement merely that the truth inay be kuown, Yours respectiuliy, GEO. HOWARD. of Maryland, paroled prisoner. A NOTE TROM BEAUREGARD. The Richmond papers publish this letter:— Caxrneviise, Va., Dec. 29, 1861. Mrs, 8. H. Bertox:—Dear Madam—Permit me to thank you for the two bottles of home made wine you had the kindness tv send me. ana which [ have found to bo most excelient. We shal! have tho pleasure of drinking it on Now Yeats day to your very g perity, aad to the snevess of our sacred 2 With much respect, I reinain, dear madam, your most obedient servant, G. T. BEAUREGARD. MISCELLANEOUS VIRGINIA ITEMS. {Krom the AT HALF MAST, ‘The flage of the Confederate states on the Capitol and Costom House were at half mast on Monday, in conse- quence of the death of a member of Congress trom Texas, THE HABEAS CORPUS IN RICHMOND. George Twells,a political prisoner, who has been in confinement for some time past in’ the county jail as Richmond, is to have a heariug before Judge Meredith on the 8th inst.,on a habeas corpus, asked for by the pri- suner and granted by the Judge, WAR RUMORS. It was eaid last night that a despatch had been received bere stating that Gen. Jackson, with ten thousand men, had marched into and taken possession of Komney, in Hampahire county, the Yankees making little or no re- fistance. A report prevailed in the city last night that the enemy, said to be five thousand, had taken possession of Huntersville, Pocahontas county. We do not learn the particulars. JEFF. DAVIS’ NEW YEAR'S DAY RECEPTION. ‘Thre was a more general observance of “New Year's” ‘than usual, owing to the fact that the war has brought to Richmond @ considerable addition to our population from other cities where the anniversary is social festivity. and ly looked gay and cheerful events of the daw was the President's reception, which commenced at twelve o'clock ae three 5 verteniiy to give hits Trisadly rasp of the ‘hand him a fri y ire Davie wan resent, but her place was well sup- plied by her sister, Miss Howell, Mrs. Col. Davis and Mry, Gen, Jones. of introduction were com: The ceremonies ducted by the President's aids, Col. Joseph Davis and (ol, GW. . The was present, and every- thing passed off dotighttulle. aria ANOTHER YANKEE DOODLE. ‘From the Richmond Whig. | ‘Yankee ph a mind To whip the Southern traitors, Because they didn't choose to live On cod! So-eee, Yankee Doodle dandy, ’ And 80 to keep his courage up He took a drink of brandy, net Yankee Doodle said he round Hy all the census figures, That ho could starve the rebels out, If he could steal their niggers. Yankee Doodle, doodie-doo, or drink Of gunpowder and brandy, Yankee Doodle made a 5; Twas very full of feeling: I fear, says ho, Teannot fight, But! am good at stcalinje. Yankee Doodle, doodie Goo, “ nkee Boodle dandy. Hurrah for Lincoln, he’s the boy % take a drop of brandy. Yankee Doodle drew his sword, And practised all the passes; Come, beys, we'll take another drink When we get to Manassas, Yankee Doodle; doodie-doo , Yankes Loodie dandy, They never reached Manassas plain, And nevor got the brandy. Yankee Doodie soen found out ‘That Mull run was no trifle, For if the Nortti knew how to steal ‘Tho South knew how to rifle. Yankee Loodle, doodic.doo, Yankee Doodle dandy, ‘Tis very clwr I took too much Of that infernal bran: Yankee Doodle wheeled about, And scampered off at full rum, And such a race was never seen As that he made‘at Bull run. Yankee Doodle dandy, Thavn’t time to stop just now take a drop of brandy. Yankee Dodie, ‘oh! for chame, Lat gant alone, thoy ro duncocean things rns 4 ‘re serous 5 You'd better stick to " Yankeo Doodle, di Yankee Doodle dandy , When next I yo to Rully’run 1'll throw away the brumdy, Yankee Doode you had ought To be a little smarter; Instead of catching woolly theads I vow you've taught a tartar. Yankeo Voodle, doodie-doo Yankeo l'opdie dandy, Go to hum, you've had ¢nough Of rebels and of brandy. REBEL NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENTS. The following are a few of the novel advertisements in the robel newspapers. ‘Theso are but a few of a similar kind which fil their sheets dail WAR TAX. War Tax Urvicg Por Virointa, Ricuony, Jan. 2, 1862. Aocollector of tho war tax is needed for the city of Norfolk. ‘The necessity should appeal to the patriotism of the city, as it is the only one of the cities of the Stat not in possession of the enemy, where such a difficulty has arisen. . Surely some suitable and res;.neib'e person can be found who will enter into the usual obligations, which have invariably been required elsewhere in, the State, and perform the duties required by the War Tax act. ‘It would be an unpleasant duty for the Chic Gol- lector to appoint, and for tho people to receive, a tax col- lector from outside the district or city of Norfolk. Ap- plications, with testimonials, for the place will be waited for awhile longer before such a course is resortedto. The Jaw is imperative, and, I doubt net, will be cheerfully obeyed ina city which is 80 widely known, and now fur- nishing so many stout hearts and strong arms for her de_ fence as Norfolk is. H. T. G. , Plst Coljeator ef Confederate War Tax for the State of ginia, TURKEY HUNTERS, DEER STALKERS, DUCK SHOOTERS, And all who are fond of rousing up big game, especially if well acquainted with the woods anu water courses of the State between Savannah and Charleston, and pared for 3 long maroon, are requested to {eave their Bames and addresses at the Courier office. Enfield rifles, tomabawks and scalping knives will be furnished cheap. NEGROES WANTED. I wish to hire for the piesent year (1862) twelve or fit- teen smart, active negro boys, from ten to twenty years old, for whom I will pay the highest market price. Apply to Capt. John G. Wallace, at St. Heléna, or to the subscri- ber, Geo T. Wallace, Lake Drummond Post office, Va. NOTICE. For, and on account of the Confederate States of Ame- rica, will be sold under the supervision of Capt. Edgar Burroughs, at the Pleasure House Beach, on Monday, the 6th of January, at one P. M., tho schooner John F. Couch, of Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, appurtenancer and cargo of Cumberland coal, so far as now remains unclaimed. Terms cash. By order of Brigadier Genoral MAHONE, Commanding Second brigade Voluntoers. R. Tavtor, A. A. A. G. NEGROES WANTED. T desire to purchase a few negroes, botween the ages of nine and twenty-five years. Any person wishing to sell willcall on me at the Fair grounds, near Nortoik. L. . DOYAL, Captain Spalding Grays. SOUTH CAROLINA. THE REBEL STEAMER ELLA WARLEY (ISABEL)—HOW SHE RUN THE BLOCKADE—PARTICULARS OF HER VOYAGE—THE WAR ON THE CAROLINA COAST. {From the Cbarleston Courier, Jan. 3.) Tho good people of Charleston woke up yesterday morning to be hugely delighted with the news that tho fine ocean steamer Kila Warley, Captain Swasey, from Nassau, N. P., had entered our harbor with the first rays of the rising sun, and was already safely moored to our wharves. At early dawn she appeared off Charleston entrance, in full view of tho blockading vessels. These immediately gave chase, and commenced a rapid fire of shot and shell, all of which, however, fell short. After passing for soveral milos under the enemy's fire un- harmed, the noble steamship finally came within the pro- tecting rango of the gans of Fort Sumter, and swept majestically up to the city. How far the Yankee naval otticers indulged in profane expletives, as they beheld what would have been a very plump prize slip from their grasp, we leave to the imagination of our readers. ‘The Kila Warley bring: a valuable assorted cargo, con- signed principally to Messrs. John Eraser & Co., Hyatt, McBurney & Co.,and Kerrison & Leiding. Her passongor list is as follows:—G. 8. Sharp, London; H. D. B. Gorris, Havana: J. 8. Murdoch, Manchester, England; H. F. Black, Nassau; John F. Young Scotland; John E. Ed- wards, Liverpool; John H. Mooney, Scotland; Angus Smith. Scotland. We hear that the Flla Warley also brought Mr. B.T. Bisbie, whose name, however, does not appear on her passenger list. Mr. Pisbie was sent out several months ago as bearer of despatches to Messrs. Yancey, Rost and Mann, our commissioners abroad. He reached’ Nassau in the English steamship Glatiator. He teft Charleston yes- terday by the two o'clock cars, for Richmond, carrying important despatches from Mr. Yancey to the ‘State De- partinent. When the Warley left Nassau tho steamship Gladiator and tho British ship Eliza Bonsall were both in that port. ‘The United States gunboat Flambeau, which had been cruising off Nassau fur some time, left that station on last Saturday, bound, probably, for Key West. The want of coal was the cause of her departure. ‘Ihe Lincoln go- ‘vernmemt has sent out two schooners laden with coal sup- plies for the Flambeau, but the Nassau athorities refused to allow the last named vessel the use of the harbor for the purpese of coaling. One of the coal schooners was the E. W. Perry, commanded by Captain Adams, well known here as the former master of the schooer Geo. A. ‘Little, The Yankees reported that one of their transporis was leaky, and hoped by this dodge to get permission to transfer @ portion of her coal on board the Flambeau, within the harbor, but the trick failed. A number of the cnemy’s vessels have lately been seen near the Bahamas. What Lord Derby, and the owners of the Engtish cotton ships, and John Buil generaily, will say, when they hear of the Eila Warley having run into Charleston barbor in broad daylight, with the Southern flag flying, and in wilful and contumetious disregard alike of stone and paper blockades, is likely, we imagine, to be a little Tybee Island, and dated December 25 and 29, be ate fe yore ‘of the Ottawa with Tat: nall’s muaquito fleet, contains the following:— ‘The steamship Fingal, loaded at Savannah with 2,000 yr roy Cog te oor ae we have . Old Tatnall comes down is any chance for the of a Mim;and, as we fave from ingal is armed with four rifled cannon, and commanded by an ex- lieut: nent of the navy, who swears he will run the block ade or sink his ship. Yesterday morning at half-past five o’clock I took @ boat’s crew of six men and started in pursuit of some wild game, in the direction Dau- fuski Island, lying abont north, and in range of Jort Pulaski, three miles distant. We landed opposite the plantation of one Stoddard, I marched my men in single file to where the nogro huts where huddled to- gether, and surrounded them, im order to prevent any alarm being given, This island bad not before been visited by our forces, and I deemed it prudent to ascer- tain, before exploring, who occupied the island, and found only eight negroes, all except one, a , 00 old for service, The plantation was a fine one, said to be ‘one of the most beautiful along the coast. The planter’s house gave evidence of having been mangnjposnkiy Dar nished. Every room in it bad a Sine frame of the finest Fgyptian marble, and the house was built in the best thern country style. The t grounds occupied several acres, and were as nicely laid out as any you can , CRORES, ‘been ‘tripped of carried away. to take @ look at us and see if steamer to get ou. On Mon aboard every valuable thing which could be Attached to it wasa splondid which still con- tained a large quantity of pot plants. { got some sweet potatoes and chickens, and took away some of the luxu- Tiant japonicas, geraniums and cactuses, NORTH CAROLINA. [From the Raleigh (NC) Standard, Jan. 1.] Wo visitod, 9 day or two since, the wooden shoe manu- factory of Messrs, Thuim & Fraps,of this city. We hed frequently heqrd of this establishment, but we had no ided woti/ our visit to it that it was so thorough andin- teresting in its »perations as we found it to The en- torprising manufacturers have in their employment some thirty hands, and are turning out about one hundred pair of shoes per day. The shape and size of the shoos aro first marked and sawed out, and then it is bored and scvoped out and fashioned at the bottom, and sand pa- pered, and lined, and painted, and topped’ with leather, Most of this work is done by bron nih erable by steam. ‘The wood is gum and popiar, whic! before the shoe is made. We und shoes are actually lighter than the leather brogan of the same number, and as for durability, the bottoms will last until the next war. We learn that Messrs. Thyim & Fraps, who are finishing one hundred pair per day, pave more orders than they can fill. ‘Wooden shoes are worn in the northern part of Europe, ‘and in some localities in this country: but we suppose this is th» first manufactory of the sort, by machinery and steam, which has been established. CONFEDERATE PRISON IN NORTH CAROLINA. A great prison is being built in Salisbury, N. C., in- closing fifteen acres. ‘The buiiding is capable of contain- ing 1,500. There are now in Richmond 1,029 ‘There have been sent to Raloigh 81, to New Or! to Charleston 150, to Columbia, 3. C., 150; Tuscaloosa 500, Salisbury 176; released and sent home 56; in jail 43; «ied in prison, besides those died in the general hospital, 200; escaped 8. Es GEORGIA, THE LADIES OF HAVANA AND THE SOUTH. The Savannah News notices that ears | the late arrivals in that city from Cuba is a large box beautifully pre- pared lint, presented, through Capt. Gladding, to the soldiers of the Confederate army by a number of the Senoritas of Havana. The lint is drawn in threads, four or five inches long, from the fluest linen fabrics; is white as driven snow aud soft asdown. It is put up in neat little hanks and tastefully tied with ribbons. ‘The lint was made and contributed by a number of the first ladies of Havana. ARKANSAS, WAR ON THE BORDER -ANOTHER REBEL VICTORY (!). {From the Norfolk Day Book, Jan. 6.) ‘Maris, Jan. 4, 1862. Despatches have been received from Little Rook oon- taining official intelligence from the Northwest, MclIntosh’s command, of a fight between four regiments and Opothleyholo, the Indian chief. The fight occurred seventy-five miles northwest of Fort Gibson, on the 25th of December. It lasted four hours, and resulted in the total rout of the onomy. ‘Tho enemy lost 200 in killed, wounded and missing, and 100 taken prisoners. The Confederate’s loss is twelve killed and twenty wounded. Macintosh is stiliin pursuit of Opothleyholo, who is retreating towards Kansas. The Confederates captured a large number of wagons and one hundred horses. ‘The official confirmation of the above has been received at Richmond. TENNESSEE. (From the Memphis Appeal, Dec. 29.) BROWNLOW DISCHARGED. In the Confederate court, at i.noxville,on Friday, & nolle prosequi was entered iutho case of Parson Brown- low, on the ground that ho had surrendered himself vo- luntarily, on condition that the government would agree to convey him out of East Tennessce, and protect his exit. The faith of the government being pledged, his discharge was ordered. ¢The Knoxviile Register remarks on the arrest as follows:— Whether Brownlow was well enough to loave the jail last night, or what has become of hi we have not Iearne|; though we understand it was the intention of the commander of the post here to hold him under arrest, be pt te iia sate sonciaes beyent the lines. it ion of the soidiers here, upon hear! bis Kisser te understand to have been fitenss, What may follow we cannot conjecture, though we presume the malit authorities wiil see that he is protected and transport beyond the lines, where he may be able to co-operate with Johnson and Miynard. ZOLLICOFFER’S POSITION. The Memphis Appeal gives the iollowing account of the position of affairs in Somerset and vicinity :-— Geceral Zollicoffer , bel ving that it was the intention of Schoepff to advance jim, took time by the fore- lock and thade a forco: march towards his camp. Schoepff hoard of his approach aud fled with all possible haste, and when Zoilicoffer got to his encampment he was cight hours ahead of him. General Zo \licoffer is now securely tntrenched, the pre- cise point vot necessary to be known, ana we in the p Kentucky in which our army has been stations ympathies of the better class are with our cause. ‘lle message of Lincoln, indicating that the war is one of exte tion of slavery, has given much dis- it is said that the otficers in the federal isfaction; an section of country evidently contemplate rmy in thi resigning. General George Crittenden has gone to join General Zol- licoffer; and we judge from all we hoar that a forward movement may be confidently anticipated at an early day. But for the mismanagement of those in command, in not affording proper facilities, we are led to believe that General Zoilicofler would now haye been in Lexing- ton. EAST TENNESSEE AFFAIRS, The Knoxville Register has information that the people of Jefferson county, heretofore intensely “Union,” are fast coming over to the Southern cause, and that the leaders of the Union party in that county are confessing the error of their ways, and manifesting a will! wo pay allegiance to the ‘Southern confederacy. \ Swain, Bewley, Harris and Cawvod, all heretofore in the foremost rapk in opposing anything favorable to the Seuth, and, withal, formerly warm supporters of the arch-traitor Andy #Johnson, have taken the oath of alle- giauce to the Southern States. ‘Twenty-five prisoners, from Hardeman county, arrived at Nashville on the 26th. The Gazelte says all of them were willing to take the Confederate oath of allegiauce. In this connection we may quote the following extract from a letter to the Memphis Appeal:— stronger than anything they have yet said. THE WAR ON THE SEACOAST. ‘The long agony of suspense is over, and we have now every reason to believe that the enemy has began the active operations of the invasion. Late in the forenoon of Wednesday, the Ist inst.. the Yankees hed the mainland in their boats at Chisholm’s and 's Points. ‘These places are on opposite sides of Port Royal ferry, and about four miles apart. One of these attempts to ‘land appears to haye been a feint, as we hear of sharp fighting ouly at one of the points named. Here the eemy, 5,500 strong, was met by Coloncl Jones’ Sonth Carolia jment,and a sharp skirmish ensued, during which Colonel Jones wos reinvorced by a Tennessee regiment. Our troops, though still inferior in numbers, determined to try the ‘efficacy of cold steel, and atvanced with the bayonet. The enemy immediately tel back. A portion of Colonel Jones’ regiment, in the beat of parsuit, ven- tured within range of the boat howitzers of the Yankecs, which poured a sudden fire into our ranks, killing six and wounding twelve of our men. ‘The enemy rallied under cover of their guns, and again pressed forward. But this time they were met by a still more impetuous charge, onr brave boys pursuing them to their very boats. So precipitate was the fight of the Yankees that they incon. tinently threw down and abandoned their guns, and whatever else oncurmbered their valuable persons. ‘It is said that in the second charge of our troops not a musket was fired. But the @onnecticutites did not fancy the por tentous tramp of our companics and the silent glitter of our bayonets ; 80 they broke and ran in the true Bull run style. ‘Dut loss, beyoud those killed and wounded by the shells of the boat howitzers, was but Lt 3 Of the enemy's loss we bave no definite account. When they finally departed in their boats, they left four killed and many wounded upon the field; but it is kuown that, be- sides these, they carried off with them numbers of both ot, cenaay hors the enemy again approached yester ay the pe in much eerttertores ean enias prostion day. . Giregg’s bi whieh was stationed in the borhood, tell bact distance, to secure an advan. ground, and, at last accounts, tho Yankee forces were advancing up the Combabee road, the skir- between the pickets being heavy and continuous. Of the results of the action yesterday we have no news whatever, but the firing was steadily maintained untit Tveheve wes the above account brought b: fe has ¥ passen- gers from the scene of action. Up to a late hour last night no official d had been received in relation bagi phate Seg oh am tenn At five o'clock P. M. yesterday ‘ial despatches were iceriehmaa apa aiiavoa ee ‘° al a ite Poin' e at upon 5 that on Tuesday iasta Yankee gun- Bay and chased a schooner that was coming from Santee by the inland . ‘The steamer was crowded with men on . She ran the schooner up a oreek, but, finding the water too shallow, coased the pursuit. BRITISH STRAMER FINGAL—A DRSERTED PLANTATION. A lotter from one of the officers of the gunboat Ottawa, I understand that the immortal Andy Johnson and Emerson Etheridge have been recently, and are now, in iucah, making speeches to the abolition soldiers. Etheridge’s district lies imunediately back of us, aim he would doubtless take the greatest priae in accompanying Lincoln’s hordes through the homes of that people who once trusted him as their political leader. There is now scarcely a roof in that district from underneath which has not gone forth a number to fight for the Confederate States, And while they are thus contending for thoir homes, this base ingraie iv urging on the Northern Van- dal to deeds of intamy , crime and shame. It is truc, a few of his constituents are on the other side, but they are as nothing compared with the number that’are in the Southern army. No matter how the war may terminate, these men will ever be looked upon as traitors to their country and enemies to their God. But lot them alone—they hav ed without our threshold forever—they vo longer belong to our land or hold com- munion with us, but now dweil with the stranger. HOW THE REBELS PUNISH DESKRTERS. Another letter in the Appeal, dated ‘Camp Beauregard, nerr Foliciana, Ky., December 22,” says:— On Friday all the troops at this station were assembled together and formed into square for the purpose of wit- nessing the punishment of three belonging to the First Missour! Tegiment, convicted of desertion. Itis not necessary to give their names or the facts drawn out by the court martial concerningt heirerime. They wore branded on the left hip with letter D, which was done with a hot iron made im the shape of that letter, then their heads were closely shaved,and finally they wore each hit tifty lashes on toe bare back, im the presence of all their comrades, and drummed out of the service to the tune of the “Rogue's March.” Volunteers who often speak of quitting the serv ieciaegea, and ho seem vo regard the act ‘ig, por discharges, and who seem ot '. should bed ‘warning from the fate of these poor - hate fellows. A REBEL HARNEY. A. 1. Harney, a member of Col. Cook’s regiment, from ‘Tennessee, died suddenly at Bowling Ureen, eivatnondey last. He was a nephew of General "4 United States Army. aitrond, 18 wiio - Sehammnet eecraayet * Pamapeurma, Jan. 9, 1862. Flour firm: 3,000 bbis. Wheat advancéd lo. snles 8,000 bushele—red, $1 35 2 $1 36; white, $1 40a $1 50. Carn firm: salep 4,500 bushels ‘at 680. 0 890. Whis- key unsettled, but at 250. ALBAN, Jan, 9, 1862. ‘There are large receipts of dressed hoge hore, ity onr loads of dreased hoge loft for New York last evening. Large receipts are in prospect, and the market is deci. ing. Sales of 1,000 head of State a 0 $4 50, the | outside figure for choice, and 400 head of Western at $4.