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THE ( NRETURNING

A touch of the old joy ™Y steal late our hearts, ith sweet appeal Atthough we may Bot Cru The deur white! em we loves Nor in the nny walk once wore He hold the much iV ed face

. i of yore,

which took

Nor hear the maiden s voice,

The sfenee Wane a murmuring | rook When all the land i still

Nor hear the sound of the little feet

With mese in HM, wondrous sweet, The ¢umest sense to fill } } : shall mise them all, and sigh to feel nee steal

We 4% many a heart sud sil For the ¥ aeturn Be more With the snewdrep and the lily leuf, Hie dreary winter long ot brief, Whee Uhre wild dark days are « ome back with song and sm And winning grace and pretiy Ww For oh! what mortal hand Bball seize the gowing glass of Time Aud turn—revewing sWeet prime— The duwaward-running suc

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Yet maurn we pet tide of veare—

That dark and wearisome appears, Doth ewer heat and swell

Oe summer ishes of perfect calm,

Axd shores all glorious with the palm, Where happy spirits dwell

They come wet back

(a whieh the abips of earth de ride, Ebvhe newer, never there

The silem ferrvacan of Death

Without life, or light, or breath, Steers for a haven fair.

the awful tide,

A aill smal! veice we then shal! hear,—

Thea welcomes from all voices dear As we do make the Jand

And faces fondly loved «

Bball greet us—we eball fee! the wort! Ct many a clasp I

© then to fel eur pimios

4pur vooves Weth new wusic tind heawe our throbbing breast

Where all Light, and Leve, and Peace ;

“The wicked from their troub And the weary are at Test

m earta

whae

he Cease ,

OF THE UNSEEN.

foft, low murmurs, echoing faintly, Thrill chroughout this dreary hall ;

And the shadows, flickering quaintly, Waver up and down tl !

the wail

How the spectral fire-light dances On the gleaming window -pane— Which in tame a moment clances,

Then to shadow turns aguin!

rel

Viewless forms are with me biding, Liding with me to n And | feel an inward chidu

When my spirit turns to them

Ah! indeed full oft I meet t! Day and gight they falter not Pride alas! can ne'r defeat them

Grief cen neyer be for

Memory holde few joyous traces Which past pleasures may have n

But if pala perchance embraces, Wbeu eball ics grim token fade! +

uule ;

Neter, never! Dark and fearfu! Back ward comes the stern reply ;

Aud I bow we sa! and tearful

But with tears that dim no eve.

With a grief that knows no sighing, Wiha pen that none car sce

dae tulsoring, faiuting, dying Spirit of suleumity

Hark! 2 sol- wu whisper stealing, Pleats throeshout this shadewy room ;

* Mertale, wherefore shrink frou fee his Sorrow resteth in the tomb?

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True, fet all at last be finished, Hegre and fear and jow und pain: Lat the spark of ‘ife diminished Part, and nought but cluy reusda Then, indeed, there is an ending Of the sullering we have borne, With the dust a final blending Of the heart that hath been torn.

—_—__—_~-Sao—__-— (From Blackscood’s Magazine fer December. }

AMONTH WITH “THE REBELS.”

Concluded from our bast.

At Charleston we had aa opportunits of visiting ove of those societies which are organised threugh- est the whole South for eupplying the army with dothen §=The evntral depot ix situated im the Biddle of the town. Ia the basement door we fund large packages marked for different tegi-' ments then at the seatet war. Lp stairs several | ladies were engaged im arranging im “lotsa” diffe- | reat kinds of uniform, and measuring out cloth. | taaoel, fimen, cuttan to be made up by the bands | of the fairest in the land. i

We learnt from those who bave the superinten- | éuee of this vast establishment, that about a| Gousand ladies are daily employed at their sewing | wtehines making different articles of military | ative. The work of the week which had then | Det elapsed consisted of 200 coats, 300 pairs of | Ceasers, JOO shirts, besides worsted gloves for the |

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“This is ¢ruc Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak ftree.”’---Euripides.

Paper money is, therefore, almost the only medium of exchange; and the inferior quality ef which it consists has led to much inconvenience, for it xeon gets destroyed and useless in the pockets of the bearers. Here, again, vigour and energy have met the difficulty, for we found that -nachinery had been imperted inte many districis tor the purpose of making good strong wotes, instead of the villaineus scraps hitherto in common Uke, designated by the inelegunt name of “ Shin Plas- ters.”

Ihe Gevernment have net prohibited the ex- port of cetton, except to the Nertheru States; but self-constituted authorities have, in more than one instanee that we knew of, made it impossible for ships to load which had run the blockade, and whose owners were desirous of doing se again The popular feeling which dictated these vielent acts is caused, first, by the desire that the North should be made te sutler tor entercing the blockade, and the Apprehension that ian) cotton were to be allowed to leave the country, Massachusetts would manage to ebtain it; and, secondly, by the im- pression that in iayiwg on # general embargo thes would ineiine European governments to recoguise the Confederacy latter metive wae always repudiated; but there ean be no doubt that the prevalent conviction

throughout the South is that England caunot do | without the “ king ;” that all cotton except Ameri

ean. 8 either too short or tee long; and that the |

medium is the only staple which Manchester cares to have. In vain we would tell them that our

and adapt it to the necessities of the times; that /our Gevernment was making great exertious to | precure cotton trom Ladia and Africa ; that it was | eur interest to foster our own colonies, and to

| produce it there if possible; and that the longer!

we were deprived of America a8 & market, the mere strenuous would our efforts be to render

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ineradically impressed with the con- tliat 5 the nx ul and that the ce from England at re placed must always give the

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i which its rivals oO!

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| Confederacy a great advantage

| The possibility of the North succeeding in ob-

| tainmg any lnpertant success by “ opening & port

j ridic li they were toe sue-

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leeed in making a descent Florida or South

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| Carolina, an event which appeared to be earnestiy |

| hoped for, we were told that no material result ; would ensue; the produce ef the country would tbe removed to the interior, where it would lie j safely in the bosom of trackless torests ; and svoner | than allow it to fall into the enemy's hands, the people would burn or destroy every pound No } such extre is, however, appeared to be anticipated, for the crop of this year bemg still on the piantauions, noe great quantity is accu- | mulated in any one locality. | Being now desirous of pushing on to the army, | we spent but a short time in Georgia and North | Carolina, and were bappy te tiad, ou our arrival } at Richmond, that President Davis was none t | worse for tl Iden, | and vatural which had lately overtaken him, ac- leording to the various Tribunes, Times, Heralds of the North. His popularity throughout Joabtes!

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1¢ numerous deaths, vielent, su

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| the count: ; and althe some ardent spirits te be found, who freely eriti-

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ugh there are

| cise the caution bitherte displayed in the strate

ot the Seuth, and are jor twaarching “et once on | Washington and finishing the war “ right away,” the heart of the peuple is veverthelesa entirely

j his, and all acknowledge the masteranind that directs the great plan of the campaign, and hapertant aifuir of th .fereign and domestk

| Having been kindly provided with a pass to the

| headquarters of ove of the generals near Manassas,

e every tot e atate

about a hendred and twenty miles from Richmond, we were allowed to go up in a soldiers’ train. | All along the line we found flags waving from

the houses, and crowds assembled at the statious t to bid God--peed to those whe wert

family, and profession ier the reugh reautics ol tive Wartare

leaving heme, ae ;

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|} General Johnston, “chief” of the arn \in Virginia, isa man whe appears te be about ithe age ot forty-five or In atature he is i middle size, and posseskes a powerful upright | form, a quick, intelligent eye, while his manner }@ indicative of that resolute determination for | which he bas always been distinguished. (General

Beauregard, the second in command, looks two

or three years younger, bears in his face (strong marks of French origin; while his features | are taose whieh generally characterise the gentle- | man of Louisiana, his native State. |

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fifty.

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and wiry, be struck us as a man capable of doing much bari! work and enduring great fatigue. j General Gustavus Smith ‘ate Street Comnussieper ,at New Yerk, the schoolieliow and intimate friend fef Generali M*Clellan, is third in rank. He is other two, broad-shouldered, slightly inclined to flesh, with a# honest and straightfurward a countenance as is possible to isee. AJ) three were distinguished at West Point | Academy, and served afterwards with credit in | the Mexican war. attainments, unimpeached integrity, kind disposi- tion, aud kéty patriotism, are qualities which the army believe their three great commanders to be endowed with. This conviction, added to the sur- prising success that has hitherto crowned the Southeru cause, inspires in the ranks a confi- dence seldom to be found in newly-raised bat- talions.

We must, of course, speak with reserve just now of our visit to the great force which is de- fending the northcast of the Confederacy, and take care that we do not abuse the coufidence

with which, as guesj* of a distinguished officer, we |

Witter, steckings, old linen, and many fancy ar-| were favoured.

tees which were sold fur the beuefit of the}

wriety's tuuda.

} These establishments save the Government |

The country for many miles around Manassas is hill and dale, covered naturally with dense hard- wood of various kinds, which is cleared away from

Amongst the enlightened this |

Small, active, |

; army, fell into the hands of the Confederates, Undoubted bravery, scientific

otkeeus sums of money, and appear to be m-/ time to time, leaving patches of open ground, Geamag in numbers and efficiency every day. | varying in size from two to a hundred aerex; but

Phe army, being composed in a great measure | few of these spaces are greater in exteut thap the |

# vaiumteers, the hearty «ympathy and | Green Park in Londov, whilst some of Leems are tection of the whole population: and as most | much less. Altogether the character of the dis- Auilies have more then onr of its members at the | trict would not be unlike that of the neighberboud ur, the comfort of the suldier is vot ouly univer-| of Bromley in Kent, if the latter were more ex- aly considered a subject of patriotic interest, but | tensively wooded, and less generally cultivated. thy one which excites the anxiety and stimulates | Through the valleys run numerous streams, the = wens of every household. When we met) largest being Bull’s Run, a winding but somewhat hee ) spoke with evident pride of the number | sluggish river, about forty feet wide, varying in tats, trousers, shirts, stockings, which they had | depth from two to eight feet, with rocky banks on |, We could not help hoping that this use-| each side, which in some places are quite perpen Xe that the war had given them would} dicular. The different camps are scattered about mae jer times be thrown away, and that, through this great wooded tract in strong positions, tag i peadent of tailors, dressmakers, and | but ao little seen are thev, that frequently, when era, they would be able to avoid many | galloping down « uarrow ‘pathway, we would find © Bowe mesdane difficulties whieh usually beset | ourselves in the midst of tents and suldicrs almost @arriages™ and tuterrupt “the course of: before we could pul up our horses. “welove” = We may, perbaps, have alsoex pressed | cumvietion that ue ~ Mother of Seven’ south | the country was the respect which is everywhere ae Ohio would ever have rrascu to ~ lament,” | shown fur the rights of property. Gentlemen's ee daughters of the South, having emit | villas lie aloug ruads over which many thousand virtues aud Spartan fortitude of Pene-| soldiers daily pass, and we never saw a piece of Would each be rewarded with as many | paling hurt or a garden intruded upon; and in the Mier and ax brave a husband. | villages the poultry aad pigs are running about as ming our tour we had many opportunities | in times of profound peace dineuaainig & question which is generally con- The appearance which a regiment presente ou to be the rock ahead of the Confederates | parade is remarkable to the eye of a European. ee the means of providing the “ainews” | Many are composed of companies who have uui- Satryiag ou the war. forms of different colours; but in these cases there The Gevernment loan sitnsply consists in a pro-| is always some distinctive badge by which their wae on the part of the lenders to subseribe specie, | particular corps can be easily told. This detect, cvrewlating medium, military stores, raw pro-| consequent upon the compauies being raised in » #f Manufactured articles, for whieh the | different neighborhoods,is being quickly remedied, intgaen te i. return treasury bonds bearing | and we saw uumerous r ‘iments w hich had Jately Yeutly. and ag per ceut per annum, pay able half | arrived, whose dress was all that the Horse the be. f the wltimate redemption of whieb | Guards could desire. : t aad wealth of the uation are pledged.) The personne/ of the army is very varied. For ae eee of produce have already | instance, in the Louisiaua regiments are seen the » Sad the most complete contidevce | bronzed and fiery«yed Freuch creoles mingled the qailiceany et the minds of a!! investors as to with many Irish aud native Americaus from New termination tp the security. — The general de | Orleans. The seman, Fe of their galiant iemse involved aud the importance ot the 4th, their fiving artillery, and other regiments,may “¢, 8 of course the main foundation be known by their stroug frames, gay manners feeling. ian y= trong nes, Cay Mayers, Te is distinguished senator from | and devil-may-eare air. The Svuth Carolinians, + 18 Cxpressing his owy opinion of these

treg ry bonds sallow in completion, tall in stature, seldom need what we men awe to ws pretty correctly | the Palmetto to tell the stranger the State from

» be the genera! opinion through- which they come; but in all regiments it is easy me ary. He «aid, “ There is byt one to perceive differences in manner and bea: ww, Currence of a can be thought of, upon the oc- indicative of the various classes of which the army ot may fe these bouds may not be paid, is composed.

w inaar o marketable value. That cou Numbersof wealthy planters serve as privates eed eleat in the pending struggle for side by side with the professional men, the shop- ©; iG whieh eveyt every mau must keeper, the clerk, the labourer; and all go through We shall all be irrevocably ruined, ' the ordiuary fatigue duties incident to camp-lite. s “tripped of freedom, property, and | We saw a poor negro servant actually shedding Pewuit of this ee 3 What may be the ultimate | tears because his master, on being told off to dig Prediet ; but pa al policy it is impossible toa treneh round a battery, would not allow him

those most in’ could perceive jn the minds of “to lend a hand.” v a a bo malstrust in ite soundness.| “Iwill nebber do, massa,” he said; “I go

wents. a thie he Gouree, specie pay- ‘tarnal mad wid dem darn'd Yankees.”

State } ate supported by the different) One day we heard a lad boasting to one of a different regiment of the number of gentlemen iu

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authorities, who natural] j ant should come in uateien ea an bodies od securities. In some States solvent

aho command. The latter replied, “ Oh, of course

been allowed to issue notes they Sight; but we bare some in ours who bave

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' fell. The first thing that struck ua in riding through

his company who had thousands of dollars at their

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, January

not got a cent!” The Washington artillery, com- prising many batteries, is composed of the bent | blood in New Orleans. ‘The gunuers, dressed in light-blue uniforms, are all men of independent means. General Beauregard’s son, for instance, | left his father’s staff, and entered as a private. Phe drivers are regularly enlisted into the army, and paid by the regiment; so here is a toree which does not cost the country a single farthing. Their | efficiency is undoubted, and the execution which | they did at Bull’s Run has led to their material augmentation, aud the formation ef others on similar principles. From the same city comes a) very different regiment, called the New Orleans “Zouaves,” dressed in red caps, blue braided }

jackets, and trousers striped with light grey and | struggling for independence; nor can we think | red. ‘These men look like pirates—bearded.tierce- | that the condition of the negre in the Southern | | States will remain long what it now is, but that,

looking tellows— “ Theirs to believe no prey, no plan amis,’ Apparently at least; for as they marched past the | General with a long swinging step, singing a wild martial air, we thought they were as formidable a | body of men as we should care to see.

‘The drill of the army is the same as the French, | ao

the step even quicker than the Zouaves, and a} good deal longer than that of the English infantry. | Movements are exeeuted with considerable pre- cision, and us rapidly as in English light-nfantry battalions.

From the reports we had heard in the North, we expected to find ragged and half-clad regiments ;

linstead of which we tailed, during many rides | manufacturers would soon change their machinery | |} was net clad in serviceable attire. It was ex- | Seward's confidential agents, we have come; may still further abuse it. You may pros- |

through the various camps, to see one man whe |

pected that winter clothing would be served out | before the Ist ot November, and that dress would | then become more uniform.

But the point to which the chief attention of | officers aud men is directed is the arms. Besides | the Enfield rifle, most of the privates in the army | carry at least one revolver and a bewie-kuife : | these are iavariably kept bright and in good con- dition; and the early training which all Southern- ers undergo in shooting *quirrels as soon as they are able te handle a gun, gives them a fucility of | using their weapons and « correctness of aun that reuders their tire unusually formidable.

The commissariat seemed to be most efficiently | administered.

A large depot of bread-stuffs is placed in con- venient positios, whence the different corps are supplied in waggous drawn by four horses, ove of Which a negro generally rides. ‘Lhe resources of the country produce the fresh meat necessary for | the enormous daily consumption; and we fre- quently saw scores of cattle and sheep driven ulong the roads, from the condition of which it was evident that their journey had not been long. Indeed, a country gentienmn informed us that there were aninals enough in two counties of Virginia adjacent to the seat of war to last the

‘army tor two years.

We were vaturally anxious to inspect the ground | upon which waa fought the great battle, called in England “ Bull’s Run,” but in “ Secessia” that of “Manassas Plaius;” the former name being in} America applied te the engagement which took | place on the Ith of July, three days previous to the great “* stamp de.”

‘The open space w hich formed the battle-field is | scarcely a mile in length, and considerably less in | breadth. Undulating ground declines to the centre of this cleariug,through which runs the Warrenton | high-road. Upon these slopes the great struggle | tooh mace. |

Th» object of the Federal general was to cross | the valley and fall upon the flank and rear of the | Contederates, who were drawn up in line of | battle along Bull's Run, at lit angles to the | ad ' General Johnston bad therefore to change his | front when he found that a powerful attack was | being made upon his lett, and that the whole force | of the enemy had already overlapped it, and was i deseending the hill to the Warrenton road. }

General M‘ Dowell ski'fully avoided the defences | of the Confederates, and with great ability suc- | ceeded in conducting his troops to a point fron which auecess seemed inevitable. He reached the ruad without much opposition, and began aseend- ing the broken greand im freut. There the battle really began. Again and again the Southern bri- gades, as they Came up in suecession,were thrown luto contusion by overpowerng numbers, and | forced to retreat into the woods at the summit of the hill. Generals Johnston and Beauregard caine | te the front at this erisis, rallied the wavering | troops, and turned the tide in favour of the South. | General Kirby Sinith, whe happened to be passing along the railway with treops tor Manassas, hear- ing the engagement going on, stopped the train and brought at this seasonable moment four regi- ments inte action. In another hour all was over, | and then took place that remarkable * tall walk” | so graphically aud truthfully described by Mr. Russell.

More than four thousand small-arms and twenty- eight field-pieces, belonging to the United States

hh ri } ripe

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The Southern official account has net yet been | published, but when it is, we think the publie will read with surprise the list of articles actually | “ carried over” to General Jobnston’s stores after | the Zist of July. It will be seen that the cele- brated masked batteries must have been altogether a myth, the battle having taken place at least two miles from where the nearest Confederate gun |

| was situate on the morning, and at right angles }

to the position at which the attack was antici- | pated.

Several wounded soldiers were walking about | the ground the day we visited it, who took great | pleasure in showing us the places where the hottest | parts ef the contest took place. One of them, an | Irishman, belonged to that gallant band nf 300 who | bere the whole brunt of the enemy's left for the | first two hours in the morning. He told us that | this furce consisted of two companies from New | Orleans, called respectively “ Tigers’ and “ Wild | Cats,” the 4th Alabama, and some companies of | the 6th and 7th Georgian regiments. He said he |

‘himself was “bate up wid foitin,” and when |

“ Gineral Bewregard kem up wid rayinforcements | in the afternoon and tould the ‘Wild Cats’ they

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|had done enough—Bedad, they wint to the rear |

and got a few glasses of whiskey, and kem back | to the ‘ foit’ as fresh as the flowers of May!” On| our remarking that we had heard that the 69th | Irish New York Regiments had fought very bravely | on the side of the North, he replied, * Indeed they | did, sir; divil a better. Troth, the Irish did) the best part of the foitina both sides, and no! mistake"*!!

A small pillar, in all respects like a milestone, | has been erected on the spot where Gen. Bartow | His last words are engraved upon it—| “They've killed me, boys; but don’t give up the | fight.” This is the only monument as yet erected ; but numbers of graves are to be seen around the brow of the bili where the fival struggle took piace.

We have heard it frequently remarked that the volunteer system was tried and found wanting at the battle ot - Manassas ;”” but surely the best re- ply that can be given to such a statement is that the whole of the Southero army is composed of volunteers; and we saw mavy regiments whieh arrived in Virginia only four days -betore the action.

The time which we bad allowed ourselver for our Ainerican tour being now nearly spent, we re- turned to New York, where we found most persons altogether in ignerance of the feelings and juten-

ous of the South ; and so strong is the contidence geverally reposed in the uumerieal etrength of their vast army, the alleged efficiency of the navy, and the great wealth of the New England States, that few persons are to be met with w ho think gluomily of the future. The hundreds of con- tractors, who are making large fortunes by the war, form no ineonsiderable part of the public. The taxation consequent upon the Ntate spending nearly £300,000 a-day has not yet fallen upon the peuple, while their worst passions are excited by an unscrupulous and one-sided press, Better mea, and far mere true to the Constitution, thaa the Government, would then be heard. Genius,virtue, jutegrity, now languishing in Fort Lafayette, it too late to save the Union, will then at least be exerted to bind together what remains. but, alas! a raging democracy now supports a Minis- try which bears no reproof, and will endure no criticism ; and signs pregnant with those conse- quences eloquently predicted by Sir Bulwer atten are rising in the political horizon. General Fremout has been removed from the command of! an army over which he possessed undoubted in- fluence, and although no success has hitherto at-| tended its efforts, the supporters of the Union in the West are ardent admirers of its late chief. Whether he is destined to become the bead of an Abolition Cabinet at Washington, or the dictator of a North-Western Republic, we cannot attempt

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to foretell; but we mistake the cbaracter of the |

‘his removal will not affect Southern politics.

iter or responsibility ; that during the first evenin | tally

ment is idje. Freedom of speech, freedom o thought, every right pertaining to the citizen

‘nan if he be coutented long to remain in a subor-

One thing is, however, certain; By this measure, of course, Mr. Lincoln wishes to im- press upon the seceded States that it is his inten- tion now te preserve the “institution” in all its integrity; but such a policy is too late. The South cannot beliewe in men who, merely catching at a straw, repudiate in the hour of peril the doctrines which they have hitherto held, and to which aloue they owe their advancement.

In thése islands, of course, we all pray for uni- versal emancipation. We have made enormous sacrifices in the cause ourselves; but we cannot help sympathixing with ten millions of people

dinate position.

if European intercourse be established with the

| Confederacy, and she be adinitted into the family | an then gradually but surely effect far more

which the most sincere} but a little while since you were quite as)

of nations, commerce, always favourable to tree- dom, will humane Besults than those

Abolitionists can ever attain.

MISCELLANEOUS.

[From the Richmond Whig, Dee, 23.)

WASHINGTON.

Through the instrumentality of one of |

in possession of the following letter, address- | ed by a brave and noble woman, to Lincoln's | vizior. We are given to uuderstand that the perusal of it was not without visible effect upon that impersonation of all human villainy. ‘The twitchings of the muscles, and

‘his agitated manner betrayed, not perhaps, |

any compunction, bat sense of personal in- security at the hands of the avenging Neme- | #is.

The letter is the most granhic sketch yet given to the world of the eruel and dastardly

i tyranny which the Yankee Government has established at Washington.

Russell, in one of his letters to the London 7%nex, mentions the expedient of ‘arrest by tclegraph,”’ which has been introduced by Seward, as somethiag new and appalling, and outstripp- ing all the ingenious cyntrivarces of all the | despotisms thatever existed. But the incar- | cernation and torture of helpless women, and | the outrages heaped upon them, as detailed in this letter, will more shéck manly natures, | and stamp she Lincoln dynasty everywhere | with undying infamy. |

‘The letter tells its own tale, and may be relied on as the true ory of the original, | in the hands of William H. Seward :—

Wasnixetons Nov. 17,1861. | To the Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of,

State:

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Sir—For nearly three months I have been | contined a close prisoner, shat out from air and exeteise, and denied all communion with family qd friends. }

Patietce is suid to be .great virtue, and, [ have practised it to my wtmost capacity of endurance.

Lam told, sir, that upon youripse dizit the fate of citizens depends, and that the sign manual of the ministers of Louis the Four- teen thadpd lt iiteon te wastmotamore potential in their day than that of the Secretary of State in 1861.

I therefore most respectfully submit that on Friday, August 24, without warrant or other show of authority, i was arrested by the deteetive police, and my house taken im charge by them; that all wy private let- tersand papers of a lifetime were read and examined by them ; that every law of decen- cy was violated in the search of my house und person, und by the surveillance over me. |

We read in history, that poor Marie Antoinette had a paper to:n from ber bosom by lawless hands, and that even « change ot linen had to be effected in sight of her brutal captors. Itis my sud experience to record, even more revolting outrages than that, for during the first duys of my imprisonment, whenever necessity forced me to seek my chamber, a detective stood sentinel at the | open door. And thus for a period of seven

jdays 1, with my little child, was placed ab-

solutely at the mercy of men without charac-

a portion ef these men became bru- | runk, aud boasted in my hearing of the ** nice times’’ they expected to have with | the female prisoners ; and that rude violence was used towards 4 coloured servant girl during that evening, the extent of which || have not been able to learn. For any show) of decorum afterwards practised towards me, | [ was indebted to the detective culled Cap- | tain Dennis.

In the careful analysis of my payers I deny the existenve of a line L had not a perfect right to have written, or to have received. Freedom of speech and opinion is the birth- right of Americans, guaranteed to us by our charter of Liberty—the constitution of the) United States. -I bave exercised my prero- | gative,

amd have openly avowed my senti- | ments. During the political straggie, I op- posed your republican party with every in- | stinct of self-preservation. I believed your! success a virtual naliification of the eonstitu- | tion, and that it would entail upon us all the direful consequences which have ensued. | These sentiments have doubtless been found recorded among my papers, and I hold them, as rather a proud reeord of my sagacity. I mast be permitted to quote from a letter | of yours, in regard to Ruasell, of the London | Times, which you conclude with these admr- | rable wotde: “* Individual errors of opinion |

‘may be qwleréted, eo long as good sense is

left to combat them.”’ By way of illustrat- ing theory and pees am I, a priso- ner in sight of the Executive mansion, in. sight of the Capitol, where the proud states- men of our land have sung their peeans to the blessings of our free institutions. Com.

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has been suspended by what, | suppose the Presedent calls a ** military necessity.”” A blow has been struck by this totul disregard of all civil rights, against the present system of Government, far greater in its effects than the seyerance of the Southern States. Our people have been taught to contemn the su- premacy of the law, to which all have hither- tw bowed, and to look to the military power fur prsteetion against ite decrees. A mili- tary spirit has been developed, which will only be subordinate to a military dictator- ship. Read history, and you will find that the causes which bring about a revolution rarely predominate at ite close, and no peo- ple have ever returned to the point from which they started. Eyen should the Sou- thern States be subdued and forced back into the Cuion (which 1 regard as impossible, with a full knowledge of the resources) a different fourm of Government will be found needful to meet the new developements of na- tional character. ‘There is no class of society, no branch of iodustry, which this change has not reached, and the dull, plodding, me- thodieal habits of the peor can never be re- sumed.

You have held me, sir, to a man's account- ability, and I therefore claim the right to speak on subjeets usually considered beyond woman's ken, and which you may class as errors of opinion.”’ I offer no exeuse for this long digression, as a three months’ im- prisonment, without formula of law, gives me authority for oecupying even the precious

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My object is to cal] your attention to fact that during this long imprisonment,

‘but it cannot crush out, the spirit of resist-

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am yet ignorant of the cause of my arrest; Relay

House, southwest of us—the largest importance second to no other. that my house has been seized and convert- and strongest of all—and tell you that the in the elements of power 1% ed into a prison by the Government; that peace and quiet and peaceful industry that, butedin the several

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the valuable furniture it contained has been you see all through the city depend on these.’’ | besides, many that have bel to no other

abused and destroyed; that during some | period of my imprisonment | have suffered |greatly for want of proper and suffieient food. Also, | have to complain that, more , recently, a woman of bad character, recog- ‘nized as having been seen on the streets of. Chicago as such by several on guard, calling | | herself Mrs. Onderdonk, was placed here in | | my house, in a room adjoining mine.

In making this exposition, | have no object | of appeal to yoursympathies. If the justice | of my complaint, and a decent regard for the |

| world’s opinion do not move you I should

ut waste time to claim your attention on) other secure. may, however, recall to your mind, that

much proseribed by public sentiment here | for the opinions and principles you held, as} I am now for mine.

1 could easily have escaped arrest, having | had timely warning. I thought it possible | that your statesmanship wight present such |

: : cS oe ee | @ proclamation of weakness to the world, as, } THE COWARDLY DES POTISM AT | even the fragment of a once great government |

turning its arms against the breasts of women | and children. You have the power, sir, und}

trate my physical strength, by confinement |

in close rooms, and insufficient food—you | may ‘subject me to harsher, ruder treatment |

than 1 have already received, but you cannot |

imprisun the soul. Every cause worthy of! success has had its martyrs. ‘The words of | the heroine Corday are applieable here: ‘© O’est le crime qui fait la ionte et non pas lechafaude.’’ My sufferings will afford a significant lesson to the women of the South, that sex or condition is no bulwark against the surging billows of the ”* irrespressible | confliet.”’

The ** iron hee] of power”? may keep down,

ance of a people armed for the defence cf! their rights; and { tell you now, sir, that | you are standing over a crater whose smo- | thered fires ina moment may burst forth. |

It is your boast that thirty-three bristling | fortifications of Paris did not prutect Louis | Phillippe when his hour had come. {

In conclusion, | respectfully ask your at-, tention to this my protest, and have the! honor to be, &e., &e., &e., i tose O. N. Greenuow. or

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~~ | Sap Fare or Deserrers From 4 Wiracer. | —The ship Daniel Webster of and from New| Bedford, bound whaling off Greenland, caine | to anchor in Cumberland Straits, July 6, | 1860, where there were several other vessels, | and among them the ship Ansel Gibbs. A| boat's crew, composed of John Giles, boat- steerer, John Martin, Hiram J. Jarvis, Wil- lard Hawkins, Thos. Colwell, Joseph Fisher and Samuel J. Fisher,deserted from the Ansel Gibbs, and took from the Danl, Webster Jobn F. Sullivan, « landsman, of Hadley | Falls, Mass., and Warren Dutton. The

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boats thus manned stood across the Straits, | —The after the crew C#ted to the French

and finally reacned the snore, suffered great hardships. On ‘he 3d of August, Hawkins and Davis ran sway from) their companions, and took everything with | them of any consequence, leaving the others entirely destitute of the means of subsistence. Shortly afterward Warren Dutton died of starvation, his suipmates cooked and eat his| body and made soup of his bones. When) this food was exhausted they tried to kill! Sullivan, who, in defending himself, killed