Gen. Beauregard, now in command of the rebel forces in Charleston, has much fame as a tactician.-Harper's Weekly, March 23. Yes, call them rebels! 'tis the name And by such deeds they'll hallow it At Lexington, and Baltimore, Was poured the holy chrism; For Freedom marks her sons with blood, Rebels, in proud and bold protest, A unity which every quest Proves false as 'tis ideal. A brotherhood, whose ties are chains, Rebels, against the malice vast, Malice, that nought disarms, They would be cowards, did they crouch Which speaks of other days, Fair was the edifice they raised, A mighty Samson 'neath its dome With thong or chain to bind, -N. O. Picayune Supplement, May 2. VIRGINIA'S MESSAGE TO THE SOUTHERN You dared not think I'd never come; II. Where should this struggle work and end? Upon my soil your swords you'll wield; III. Where, but on my mountain's heights, VI. Upon this earth is there a spot Nor one so brave to shield. If you doubt it, scorn History's pages; Then, soldiers brave, come forth! And yield your homes to others. THE STARS AND BARS. Fling wide the dauntless banner From Moultrie to the seas! 67 That it may cleave the morning sun, We wreathed around the roses It wears before the world, Where it has been unfurled; Its staff, shall wave it o'er our lands, No! by the truth of Heaven, It never shall be done! Before that day, the kites shall wheel Hail-thick on Northern heights; Then, spread the flaming banner SOUTHERN OPINIONS. From the Charleston Mercury, April 30. The bug-bear of civil war need frighten no one. We are not engaged in civil war, and, thank Heaven! all danger of that most dreadful of human scourges is past. It almost reconciles us to the delay of the Convention. That delay has made Virginia a unithas made the whole South a unit. The natives of the South are leagued and confederated to repel Northern invasion, and establish Southern independ ence. ent. Not for an hour since the first white man set his foot on American soil have the people of the United States been one people. From the beginning, each colony had its separate and distinct laws and institutions, and its separate Government. We have planted and have grown up as distinct and different peoples and nations; and the difference and distinction between us have been increasing and widening from the day of our birth until the present hour. Virginia and Pennsylvania would be no civil war, A war between because we are separate nations; far less, then, is a war between the North and the South. cially and politically as distinct a people from the We are soNorth, as from France or England. The people of the two sections have ever hated each other, not merely because their laws, customs, manners, and institutions are different; but more still, because their races, their blood, their ancestry, were differThe people of the South belong to the brave, impulsive, hospitable, and generous Celtic race; the people of the North to the cold, phlegmatic Teutonic race. We include the old Greek and Roman among the Celtic races;-and also the Anglo-Normans, whose cleanly habits, language, laws, and personal appearance, prove beyond a doubt that they were of Latin origin. The South was settled by Anglo-NorApril 23.-Massachusetts and Rhode Island have and Spaniards. These were all Celts, all belonging mans, Welshmen, Scotchmen, Irishmen, Frenchmen, won the praise and the blessing of all men. sons of Massachusetts lay dead in the streets of Bal- Few Teutons and few Anglo-Saxons (who are of TeuThe to what may be classed as Mediterranean people. timore on the anniversary of the battle of Lexingtonic extract) settled in the South. What Teutonic ton, before a single regiment of New York had crossed the border between the slave and the free States. Soldiers of Massachusetts have made their way to Havre de Grace, seized a steamboat, reached Annapolis, and taken a position by which they could keep open a road to Washington, before a single troop of New York soldiers had found a passage into the enemy's country. and Rhode Island have been sent by sea, and were Troops from Massachusetts thrown into Fort Monroe, commanding Norfolk, O'er mountain, lake, and plain ! -N. O. Delta, May 5. blood did settle in the South, has been diluted and show that we have never been one people, and that 68 the war between us is no civil or fratricidal war, but Davis was a Traitor, Disunion was Treason, and the We wish to make peace with them as soon as possible and to keep peace with them, by having in the future nothing to do with them.-Richmond Ex-ing ever saw. When McDowall Moore can sign him aminer. self" sinner saved" at the bottom of an Ordinance to unite Virginia to a rebel Confederacy of slaveowners, and Bursted Baldwin inspects the troops that are to take Washington and march on Boston-who may despair of getting to glory? No heard-of bison ever went over a precipice with precipitancy like that of our mummied Federalists and galvanized Submissionists plunging into the Southern Confederacy. It is a race to Montgomery-office is at Montgomeryand the devil take the hindmost.-Richmond Ex It is important that we of the South, at least, should understand the nature of this war fully. Many of us are too prone to take our enemies at their word, and look upon this war as one that must be marked with all the terrible convulsions and unnatural horrors of a civil strife. It is time to realize the fact, that we are engaged in a foreign war; that the Government at Washington represents a foreign power, which aims at our subjugation; that we have all the rights, and owe all the duties of an indeCONTRABAND OF WAR, CONSTIPATION, AND COMBUSpendent people placed in a state of belligerency ; and that we have nothing to apprehend from civil TION.-The Secretary of the Treasury at Washington war so long as we are a united people, able to main-has added to his list of contraband of war articles the tain and worthy to enjoy our independence. By doing this we will get rid of much morbid feeling, produced by delusive names and sophistical confusion of ideas in regard to the existing contest. Are we a homogeneous people? Are we free? Are Have we a common Government to we united? which we render cordial allegiance, and which we are ready to defend with patriotic resolution? If so, no civil war can exist within our borders. We know where the enemy is, and who he is. He is on the He is the other side of the Potomac and the Ohio. cnemy of our country, of our property, of our institutions, and our homes. Let us front him manfully, and we shall come out of the conflict as safe and triumphant, as he shall come out of it discomfited and humiliated.-New Orleans Daily Delta. LET THE DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST.-Let us see Now who shall get South fastest-farthest-first. that the word to bounce is come, let us know who can jump the biggest summersault with the most proOf all Secessionists that were ever digious energy. seen, it is certain that the Union-shriekers make the best. Beyond other fire-eaters, are Submissionists fierce. Those who have risked every thing and dared every thing in the late struggle for Liberty and Independence and long before it was begun, for Southern rights and Virginia's honor-are utterly confounded and struck dumb by the fiery enthusiasm of those who were lately denouncing them as rebels ripe for hemp, Southern rights as sedition, and State sovereignty a blasphemy against the Constitution. The natural congratulations of the conquerors in the fight are drowned in the shouts of triumph raised by the vanquished; and the world has lived to see that Lost Principle, to the victors belong the spoils,-displaced by this other, that from the victors shall the spoils be taken! Long was belief, and deep was once the conviction, that the shriek of "Union the winning cry; and just so long as that belief endured, it was written in the Book of Judas that was aminer. ** * - following:-" Mercury in all its compounds, chlorate Now, Messrs Editors, I should like to know where 69 set the Secessionists on fire, and prohibit the use of brilliance and breadth of flash are said to have shown Alum in order to prevent the Southerners from making their clothes and bodies fire-proof. I can under-nance have decided against the adoption of this exa terrific intensity. But the British Board of Ordstand the objection to Chlorate of Potash, because that makes a terribly explosive compound, being the chief agent in the manufacture of percussion powder. But it is a dangerous article to handle, and why not let the Southerners have it, and blow themselves sky-high with it? But the prohibition in this particular amounts to nothing. The Muriatic Acid is prohibited in order to prevent the Confederate army from manufacturing Chlorine gas, by which Chlorates and Chlorides are made. Muriatic Acid is not only not essential to the manufacture of Chlorine, but it is not used at all in making that article on a large scale. It is easily made with manganese, table salt, and unconcentrated sulphuric acid. This produces Chlorine, and neither of these articles is prohibited. The manufacture of Chlorine from the Binoxide of Manganese and Muriatic Acid is so perilous, owing to the action of the acid on the lead, and the evolution of Hydrogen gas, by which a spontaneous explosive mixture of Chlorine is produced, that the attention of the Secretary is respectfully asked as to the utility of preventing the seceding States from blowing themselves up. Why prohibit them from using the dangerous articles, and allow them free access to means unattended with any peril? And why prohibit Potash, when it can easily be manufactured wherever wood can be obtained? The small quantity of Chlorine and of Potash needed for war purposes, can be obtained without the use of the Secretary's interdicted articles, and might be dispensed, as the authorities of Massachusetts sold whiskey some years since-for medicinal purposes. plosive article for fire-arms, for reasons already given. It is a clear case to one of the Plymley family, that Secretary Chase, if he designs evil to the Southern Confederacy, should encourage the transit of articles for the manufacture of gun-cotton. It would be likely to injure the Confederate more than the Union armies. perfect of all explosive materials for fire-arms. It Gunpowder is by far the most manageable and is very curious that it was invented by a priest, and greatly improved by an English Episcopal bishop. Watson, of Llandaff, and George III. once twitted the soldiers of the gospel of peace about the gunpowder direction of his mental powers. great improvement is due to what is called "cylinder" charcoal, made by distilling wood free of resin, The last in iron cylinders, thus gathering its volatile products. Gunpowder made of this charcoal is so strong, that the charges for this used in ordnance were reduced nearly one-third, as compared with gunpowder made with ordinary charcoal. read to the Royal Institution, showed the importance of time in the production of the effects of gunpowMr. Faraday, in a paper der. If it exploded as instantaneously as fulminating mercury, or those terrible explosives, chloride of nitrogen or iodine, it would be useless for its present applications. It would go the wrong way. For example: Mr. Faraday placed on a plate a small particle of the iodide of nitrogen, and touched it with a long stick. The parts in immediate contact with the iodide were shattered, the end of the stick was shivered, and the spot in the plate, covered with the The prohibition against Nitric Acid and its com- passed through it. Yet the stick was not lifted by iodide, was drilled through as though a bullet had pounds can answer no very useful purpose. The cir- the explosion. The merit of gunpowder is, that it cular explains that Nitric Acid is prohibited because lifts and projects the materials in front of it, and it can be used in the manufacture of gun-cotton. thus acquires its force. Instantaneous as the effects Why should the Secretary discourage the manufac- seem to be, the explosive force "does not reach its ture of this article? Its use is attended with a good intensity until the space it occupies has been endeal of peril to those who handle it. For war pur-larged by that through which the ball has been proposes it cannot be compared with gunpowder. It is much less tractable, very perilous in itself, and terrible on weapons. It has much more force than gunpowder, and does not make smoke, but it has disadvantages that counterbalance all these qualities. It may ignite from percussion, or even spontaneously, or it may be decomposed by the moisture of the atmosphere, or even spontaneously, and thus become worthless. Its explosive force is subject to great variations, and the great danger attending its manufacture has caused the almost universal abandonment of attempts at making the article. The velocity of its combustion is too great for all fire-arms, except those of unusual strength and the smallest bore. If it gives out no smoke, it gives out something more deleterious-acid fumes, which destroy health. Then, again, cotton is a fibrous body, and the physical conditions of a fibrous body are strongly opposed to its use in fire-arms. The projectile power of gun-cotton is nearly or quite double that of gunpowder. When prepared by the American method, by treating Schonbein's gun-cotton with a saturated solution of Chlorate of Potash, it acquires a remarkable force. A pistol loaded with one grain of this cotton has driven a ball through a yellow pine board one inch thick, at the distance of twenty feet. At the siege of Moultan, in India, gun-cotton was used for the first time for military purposes, and the pelled during the first moment of ignition. Its expansive force is thus brought down and kept below that which the breech of the gun can bear, whilst an accumulating, safe, and efficient momentum is communicated to the ball, producing the precise effects of gunnery." Fortress Monroe has a powder made expressly for it The inventor of the monster gun at on these principles: It is very coarse-grained, or it is made in perforated cakes, to secure the results just mentioned. But although the most perfect explosive article for war, it is wasted on a grand scale. In one day at Sebastopol the Russians fired 13,000 rounds of shot and shell, and the only result was the wounding of three men. At Ciudad Rodrigo, 74,987 pounds of gunpowder were consumed in thirty hours and a half; at Badajoz, 228,830 pounds in 104 hours, and this from the great guns only. I appeal to you, Messrs. Editors, should not the Secretary furmanufacturing gun-cotton! nish all possible facilities to the Confederacy for mercury for percussion powder and caps, mercury is In order to prevent the manufacture of fulminating prohibited; but why does the Secretary order an interdiction upon all the compounds of the article? salivated? Are our teeth to remain wedged in our Are we no longer to enjoy the privilege of being with the "divine remedy"? Are inflammations to jaws? Are sluggish livers no longer to be spurred go on with their deposits and effusions, and are we to 70 THE Richmond Dispatch gives the following de- use nothing to cat them up? Must we be under the -Louisville Journal, May 28. In a town in Indiana, an old man of sixty-five years, with hair and flowing beard as white as snow, implored permission to join the volunteers, but being refused, he went to the barber's, had his beard cropped, and his hair and beard dyed, and again applied for admission. Not being detected, he was received, and being asked his age, replied, "Rising thirty-five."-New Haven Palladium, May 6. SAVANNAH, GA., April 30.-On the occasion of Of course every one can understand how Massa- EPIGRAM ON SOUTH CAROLINA. O Carolina, sister, pray come back; THE Charleston Courier gives the following intelligence of matters at the North : We learn from a passenger from Philadelphia, that one day last week at Havre de Grace, three of the Northern volunteers refused to go any further, assigna war of invasion upon the South. An officer standing as a reason that they did not volunteer to go into ing by instantly cut and hacked two of the men to pieces. A third, who took the same ground, gave vent to a similar expression for the Union, and cut his own throat from ear to ear, rather than allow himself to be hacked to pieces. Mob law (in New York city) is triumphant, and Southern men, or those known to sympathize with the South, are in constant danger of their lives. Vigilance committees visit the houses of the wealthy, and every man is heavily assessed for the support of the families of those who have volunteered their serThose merchants who refuse, or vices to the Administration. Assessments of $5,000, $3,000, and $2,000, on large houses, are said to be very common. make the slightest hesitation, are threatened with the cleaning out of their stores, and several already have been emptied by the mob. Three men were set upon in Florence Hotel, New York, and two killed, for packing off their clerks, and it is said that several expressing sympathy with the South. Merchants are large manufactories have been stopped, with a view of forcing the operatives into the ranks of the volunteer soldiery. The Mobile Advertiser says: They may raise plenty of men-men who prefer enlisting to starvation, scurvy fellows from the back slums of cities, whom Falstaff would not have marched through Coventry with-but these recruits are not soldiers, least of all the soldiers to meet the hot-blooded, thoroughbred, impetuous men of the their rations, not on men, they are-such as marched South. Trencher soldiers, who enlisted to war on |