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DIARY.

JUNE 19, 1861.

forces, will soon drive back the miscreants who have been deputized to crush popular sentiment as it has been done in Maryland. And here on the eastern banks of the Mississippi there are thousands of brave men congregated eager for the fray, whose impetuosity will not bear restraint much longer. As a contemporary remarks, "the result of these various military movements may not all be satisfactory to the South." Our forces may even suffer defeats and disasters. Military operations are frequently controlled by accident. But whatever may be the conclusion of any or all of the movements mentioned above, of one result we feel assured, and that is, of the final success of our great and apglorious cause, and of the eventual defeat and Our humiliation of our vaunting enemies. people are not discouraged—our troops are brave, anxious, and hopeful, and the God of battles will defend the right and carry our standard to victory. We may prepare ourselves for the development of the future at an early day.-Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal, June 19.

THE probabilities are, that the next few days will witness the most momentous developments in the history of the continent. The aspect of affairs in Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri betokens the proximity of a crisis of collisions upon the result of which depends much of the future. The preparations on the border, on both sides, indicate movements which may determine, and will be certain largely to influence, the result of the controversy between the hostile sections. The points towards which public interest will be generally directed are: Fort Pickens, before which the Confederates have the best appointed and plied army ever organized in this country, and commanded by an officer whose high renown attaches to his name the prestige of success. The signs of the times are, that public expectations in this quarter will soon be relieved. On the northeastern line, we infer, from the proclamation of General Beauregard, issued from Manassas Junction, that an early offensive movement is contemplated, which the South JOHN Ross, principal Chief of the Cherodesires, and will support. Fortress Monroe kee Indians, in a proclamation to his people, will be invested, and the marauding bands that reminds them of the obligations arising unhave been plundering the immediate vicinity der their treaties with the United States, and confined to their lines, or defeated in detail, as urging them to their faithful observance; earat Bethel. The Harper's Ferry force are now nestly impressing upon all the propriety of atengaged in a movement, the result of which tending to their ordinary avocations, and abwill, we have no doubt, astonish the country. staining from unprofitable discussion of events Missouri, too, has become the theatre upon transpiring in the States; cultivating harmony which startling events will soon be enacted, among themselves, and the observance of good if the people of that State sustain the action faith and strict neutrality between them and of their patriotic Governor in his determination the States threatening civil war, by which to drive the abolition marauders from her bor- means alone can the Cherokee people hope to der. If the people respond, important moves maintain their rights and be spared the effect upon the chess-board of war west of the Missis- of devastating war, hoping there may yet be sippi are certain to occur. Governor Jackson a compromise or peaceful separation. He adand his brave Missourians, supported, as they monishes the Cherokees to be prudent and undoubtedly will be, by McCulloch and his avoid any act of policy calculated to destroy or

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