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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 44, 10 April 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)

Dr Russf.t.l's Opiniox of " tiif. Gfntlfmen of the South " — As to the ferocity and cowardice of Southern duels, Mr Tiussell substantiates all that previous English writers have advanced. " Well," said the Governor of Mississippi, "I think our average in Jackson is a murder a month ;" Imt the Governor used a less offensive term than murder. At Jackson the traveller gained much information about the duello. "I learned," he says, _" many va'uable fact^. I was warned, for examp'o, against the impolicy of trusting to small-boied pistols, or to pocket six-shooters in case of a close ficht, because, suppose you hit your man mortally, he may still run in upon you and rip you up ■with a bowie knife before he falls dead ; whereas, if you drive a good heavy bullet into him, or make a hole in him with a ' Derringer'bal], he gets faintish and drops at once." Hero, again, is useful instruction ; "If a gentlem.m with whom you nre enencred in altercation moves bis hands towards his breeches pocket or behind his back, you must smash him or shor,t him at once, for he is either poms: to draw his six-shooter, to pull out a bowie-knife, or to shoot you through the lining of his pocket. The latter practice is considered rather ungentlemanly, but it has been more honored lately in the observance than in the breach." Of Great Britain tie Southern gentlemen displayed equal ignorance and disdain. To them we are a race of cowards, because we have put down duelling, and our country is but " a sort of appanage of their cotton kingdom." Indeed the old boast of "Cotton is King," was repea'ed to Mr Paissell with a frequency and an emphasis that sorely irritated him at th ■ time. and made him now say, "Liverpool and Manchester have obscured all Great Britain to the Southern eye." Another article in the true Southern creed is " Great Britain is in moral fe/ir of France, and is abjectly subdued by her great rival." Of N T ew Orleans, Mr Ttusse!l speaks in terms wlvch lead us to b?lieve that its present state under ! the iron rule of General Butler must be an | improvement on its former condition. The blood curdles as the eye reads the description of New Orleans gaol, where murderers and burglars are herded with b >vs undergo ; ng imprisonment for trifling robberies; where accused persons waiting for trial are made to associate with the vilest reprobates of a vicious city, and female pauper lunatics ate confined in the same court, though in different gal'eries, with felons condemned to death. Well may Mr Russell exclaim, "Shame and horror to a Christian land !" S'ich is the special correspondent's picture of the South, such his description of the Southerners whom Mr Spence, a few months ago, was painting as refined and chivalric gentlemen, anxious to till their ancestral acres in pastoral simplicity, and be at peace with all the world. It is needless to state that Mr 'Russell charges the Slave States with being " mainly responsible for the defiant, irritating, and insulting tone commonly used to us by American statesmen." — Athenaum. Sf.lt.ing Ino:an CHrr.DRF.v. — The AHa California says:— "Mr August lies?, who has returned to this city from a prospecting tour through the lower ]iart of Lnkc county, informs us that he saw a number of men ' driving Indian children before them To sell in ' Napo, Solano, Yolo,and other counties "f the Sacramento Basin. In, one instance lie saw | two mi n driving nine children; in another, I two nvn with fforu r children ; in another, one man with two girls, one of them about fourteen ye.irs of age, apparently. The nge of ' these children varies from six to fifteen years. Rumor says that about one hundred children have been taken through Lake county this summer for sale. They do not follow the main roads, but usually take by-paths. Kumor says further that the hunters catch them in Mendocini and Humboldt counties, after killing their parents. If the children try to escape, and are likely to succeed, the hunters shoot them. 1 ' ■■ '» DEAN SWIFT'S CELEBRATED " LATIN " PUNS. Apud in is almi de sire. A pudding is all my desire. Mimis tres I ne ver re gui re. My mistress I never icquire. A\o veri flndit a gestis. A lover I find it a jest is. His miseri ne ver at reslis. His misery never at lest is. Mollifi abuti. Moll is a beauty. Has an acuti iso Josbo finis. No lacs so line is. Onii do arinirftrea. O my dear mistress Cantu disco ver. Can't >ou discover. Meas alo ver. • Me a« * lover.