hesitation in saying, that the men of property in both States are unanimously opposed to the Secession movement. It is got up and engineered by the poiiticians and poor whites. The slaveholders are compelled to fall in with it for fear of having their property confiscated. The largest slaveholder in this State was warned, the other day, that if he gave vent to his Union sentiments, he would be lynched, and his property confiscated. He took the hint, and left the State. It is so in every county, and also in Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia. The interest of the owners of slaves, and property of every kind, makes them friends of the Union; but in the present state of feeling in these States, they cannot declare themselves without running more risk than they care to encounter. I have very little hopes myself in the future. If I could sell my slaves, I would go North; but I could not sell now without losing sixty per cent., at least, on their cost. So I must swim with the tide, and bear what fortune brings along."

"It is," says another writing to the N. Y. Tribune, an undeniable fact, that starvation, and danger from mobs of the poor whites, and insurrection from the slaves, are daily staring them in the face. Many are sending their families to the North, and many more would do the same if they had the money. A resident of South Carolina, who owns over 100 slaves, writes to a friend that he has been taxed $16 on each of his slaves, and that it would ruin him to pay it ; some of his neighbors have had their slaves confiscated because unable to pay the tax; that there is no more business done in his town at mid-day than there is at 12 o'clock at night."

"The Secession," says the Nashville (Tenn.) Democrat, "has almost ruined every man in Tennessee. The price of property is reduced about three-fourths of what it was worth before the election; the poor are thrown out of employment, and their families brought to the point of starvation; every interest in the State has suffered; men almost bankrupt, who would bave been wealthy but for the secession of South Carolina. The Disunionists, not satisfied with the ruin they have brought, propose to make the ruin still greater by the establishment of a standing army, and, to cap the climax, bring Disunion, with all the horrors of a civil war. At present our poor men can scarcely get bread for their children. Men who have lived comparatively comfortable heretofore, are now brought almost to beggary. Suppose this condition cf affairs should continue for a month or two, and grow worse every day, as has been the case for six weeks past, there would be such a degree of starvation as would make men desperate, and ready for the most rash acts. What is to be the result of this pressure, no man can tell.

MORAL EFFECTS OF THE REBELLION.-The Sabbath..-"The Secession ists at Charleston, having repudiated their oaths and obligations to the General Government, of course can not consent to be trammelled in their course of pro-slavery independence by the law of God. On Sabbath the 30th ult, their Convention was in session, and on the afternoon of the same day they took possession of the United States Arsenal, raised over it the Palmetto flag and fired salutes in honor of treason, slavery, and Sabbath breaking.-Wis. Chr. Ad. Jan. 1861.

Intemperance. A gentleman, recently from Charleston, says that whiskey had a great deal to do with the secession movement in Charleston. The entire population seems to be in a perpetual debauch. Bar-rooms, restaurants, stores, shops, all public places were crowded incessantly with a drunken, blaspheming mob. This is the material which constitutes the principal strength of the secession movement. The orderly and conservative portion of the citizens are completely overawed by them, and carefully avoid taking any steps which might excite their displeasure.

The general Spirit.-Every man here wears a pistol in his belt, and a bowie knife in his bosom. You scarcely see a woman that has not learned to shoot. Everywhere the insurrectionary movement is going on; and men look forward with fearful apprehensions. I fancied when in New York we heard exaggerated accounts of the excitement here; but it is beyond even my wildest conjecture. Men seem drunk with passion, and women share their frenzy. Disunion, disunion is the watchword everywhere; without bloodshed, peaceably, if possible; if not, with bloodshed and ruin as its attendants." For a while" says a lady in Ala. writing to a friend in R. L., "I was the most cowardly of cowards; now, I am all anxiety to be nearer the scene of action. I can mould bullets, make cartridges, prepare lint, bind up wounds and nurse the sick. Do not think that we are going wild, and casting off the fear God. Oh no: I pray that we ever may be a God-loving, God-fearing people. Our motto is, We will fight, and trust in God.' Almost every public meeting is opened with prayer; at the departure of the soldiery, prayer is offered for their preservation and success, and as many a manly form passes by, a fervent God bless you!' is sent up from many hearts. We are willing to deny ourselves every luxury, that necessaries may last the longer, and our surplus funds we will spend for arms and amunition."-Prov. Press.

INHUMANITIES.-Hospital at New Orleans.-The barbarizing tendency of affairs in the seceding States, is well illustrated in the inhuman conduct of the rebel authorities of Louisiana, in regard to the United States Hospital at New Orleans. Downright savages could hardly have gone further in outraging the sentiments of the civilized world, than these conspirators in ordering the removal of nearly three hundred invalids from the hospital, to be left at the mercy of outside benovolence, or altogether to chance. Whether the prompt and indignant rebuke of Secretary Dix will have any effect in bringing the insurgents to a sense of their shameful conduct, and cause them to retrace their steps, is perhaps worse than doubtful.-Cinci. Eng.

Murder in cold blood.-The Patterson (N. J.) Guardian narrates a horrible case of Southern fanaticism and brutality. Two young workingmen, the one named Ackerman and the other Bartolf, went South in the autumn to work at their trades. They found work in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C,, but on the outbreak of the secession frenzy, lost their employment. All business was stopped, and they concluded to come home. But having to wait several days in order to get the money due them, they were denounced in the interval as abolitionists and spies, the mob seized them, and they were tried and hung within an hour.

"The first intimation," says the same paper, "that was received concerning their fate, came from the man for whom they had worked in the vicinity of Charleston, who, finding out what had been done and where Bartolf's father lived, wrote a statement of the circumstances, regretting the affair, and saying that had he been informed, or time allowed the suspected persons, their innocence might have been established and their lives saved. An agent has been despatched by the friends of the deceased, and it is supposed the remains of the unfortunate young men will be brought on for interment. Both were clever and industrious mechanics, and were unmarried men. Concerning another young man who was with them, and formed one of the party, nothing is known, and it is believed he too was in some way or other disposed of by the traitors who hold high revel now in the city of Charleston."

A less offence than this, committed by the Barbary states upon American citizens, led to a vindictive war. The same offence committed by any of

the Central or South American nations would cause them to be swept from the face of the earth. If England or France, or any other powerful nation, should suffer it to be done, without bringing the offenders to punishment, the United States would cease all friendly relations at once, and demand redress.

Threats against the Capitol.-"We tell the people of Washington," says the Richmond (Va.) Inquirer, "as soon as the State of Virginia shall take active measures of resistance to Black Republican rule, her authorities cannot and will not brook the presence of a Federal army of coercion at Washington. If the army shall remain there, it must be driven out and the city captured, even if an assailing force of one hundred thousand men shall be required, and if successful assault shall first require a cannonade which will level every roof with the pavements of the streets."

Retaliation on the Mississippi.-Such orders have been given at the New Orleans State Custom House in regard to the shipment of goods to certain ports of delivery, as will no doubt cause much irritation at the Northwest, and show those who dwell on the upper Mississippi and its tributaries, that they must,sooner or later, prepare for war against foreign, hostile and aggressive States on the lower Mississippi. I hear the most moderate north-western men declare that they will not submit to such aggressions as are contemplated and perpetrated. They say that they want no other force for offensive war than their own natives of the Mississippi, with which they will flood the enemy States and cities, overwhelming everything in destruction. All they have to do, they say, is, when the river is full, to open the sluices through which the overmastering deluge will be poured. They are in no haste, they say, to make military preparation, because when the war shall begin, it will last long enough for the entire generation of military ardor.-Cor. N. Y. Jour. of Com.

A Southern view of the dangers ahead.-If war breaks out, it will rage in the interior, on our seacoasts, on the high seas, and on our frontiers. One section will let loose the Indians on another section. Twenty millions of Northern people will at once become our enemies. They will war upon us along a line of three thousand miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One section will call in foreign troops against another section. One confederacy will humble itself before the powers of Europe to get better commercial terms than the other confederacies. Meanwhile war will rage. Negro property will cease to be valuable, because the products of slave labor and of all other labor, will be in a great degree cut off from the markets of the world. The negroes will know, too, that the war is waged on their account. They will become restless and turbulent.

Heavy taxes will result from these wars. These taxes must be paid mainly out of slave labor. Strong governments will be established, and will bear heavily on the masses. The masses will at length rise up, and destroy every thing in their way. State bonds will be repudiated. Banks will break. Widows and orphans will be reduced to beggary. The sword will wave everywhere paramount to all law. The whole world outside the slaveholding States, with a slight exception, is opposed to slavery; and the whole world, with slave labor thus rendered insecure, and comparatively valueless, will take sides with the North against us. The end will beAbolition!"—Raleigh (N. C.) Standard.

Such extracts as these are of course to be taken with many grains of allowance; but they undoubtedly contain an amount of truth that ought to make the nation pause before plunging into the deluge of crimes and woes inseparable from civil war. Through the forbearance of our national

government, the mischief has not yet reached actual war; and devoutly should all lovers of their country and their race pray that it may never come to a catastrophe so fearfully deplorable.

THE HERALD STAR: A CHRISTMAS POEM.

BY THE HON. MRS. NORTON.

Lo! the recurring Season, and the time
Of festal meetings and familiar love;
And the sweet pealing of the silver chime
That gives the day its blessings from above.

Once more, innumerable teachers read

The wondrous story of the Saviour's birth:
The Herald Star that promised to our need

Peace and Good-will through all the suffering earth.

It shone not on the steel-clad conqueror's tent.
Nor on the palaces of sleeping kings;

Nor where the sage's studious head was bent,
Rose the white lustre of the angel wings.

On Herod's purple couch no glory fell;

To Pilate came no quick revealing gleams;

Nor lords nor princes started as some spell

Flashed their bright warning through their land of dreams.

But to the men of toil and simple need,

Whose lives were subject unto others' wills;

Whose emblematic task it was to lead

Flocks to green pastures by refreshing rills;

To them the choral angels in that night

Sang the meek advent of the Shepherd Lord;
They saw the shining of the wondrous light,
Sought the Redeemer, found Him, and adored!

We hear the marvel! Yea, Lord, is it so ?
Shall we, too, find Thee, after many days?
Is there yet light to guide us in the glow,
That lingers faintly from Thy vanished rays?

Our earth is full of tumults and of wars-
Our map of nations, rife with battle-fields,
Shows like a warrior's face all seamed with scars,
Dead on a heap of broken spears and shields;

And far and near the horrid clash of swords,

And serpent tongues of swift destroying flame,
And crimson streams of blood, and shouted words
Of marshalling cries, proclaim peace but a name.

Yea, where war is not, suffering yet appals;

The meek are crushed: the Despot smiles and dares;
The poor lean shivering up by rich men's walls,
And Slander wrecks the good man unawares.

How long, O Lord, we ask, ere Peace shall come?
Let our souls dwell in patience: God sees best.
The cross, and then the crown: the struggle home,
And then the hush of an eternal rest.

"Peace and good will!" the choral hymn of Heaven;
Are not faint echoes of it yet on earth?

Are not some softening gleams of glory given
In each recurring day of Jesus' birth?

GARIBALDI IN A HOSPITAL.-Mason Jones, describing in a lecture at Hull, Eng., some scences he had witnessed in the hospitals of Italy last year, thus introduces the great Italian Patriot Warrior:

"I went through one of these hospitals with Garibaldi. We went from bed to bed, the great general shaking hands and giving a comforting word to every one of the poor wounded lying in it, who forgot their sufferings in the pleasure they experienced in beholding their noble commander. In one of the wards was a young boy, only twelve and a half years old, who had been seriously wounded in the leg while fighting in the very front of the battle of Volturno. He had partially recovered, and when they entered was busily employed polishing a sword. Garibaldi spoke to the boy kindly, and then took him into his arms, and pressed him fondly to his bosom, and then they wept long and loudly together. We next entered another ward, in which was a young Venetian, the son of a nobleman, who was just dying. He was also one of the boys who had fought so valiantly in the front of the battle of the Volturno. He had received four wounds in various parts of his body, in consequence of which he was then rapidly dying. Garibaldi asked him if he could do anything for him. The poor boy looked up at the general, and gasped in piteous tones, 'Oh, my be loved general, my darling mother! shall I never see you more ? Oh, do not forget my country! Viva Garibaldi!' And then he lay back and died.