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Yankee Productions.

--We are by one of our Principal publishers that the demand for Yankee books is not affected by the war and that, a few days ago, he had for a considerable number of a Yankee confederate, although his shelves are filled with a work by an eminent Southern scholar which is confessed to be the best in the language.

There was one sentence in the first letter of Prince Narotens from this country which with dismay. He freely expressed in this letter his opinion of the up-hill job which the North had undertaken in its attempt to the South, but he added that, in his after the war, trade would resume its . If he was right in that prediction the war might as well, might better, have been never fought. If the South is to become a commercial tributary of the North, all, it is to look to the North for the of lie children, it is a subject and province, and nothing more nor the matter by what mocking name of it is deluded.

war will it require to wean this people from dependence upon the North? --Because it should last forever, than that the problem blood already shed should have been shed in vain. We have no reason to fear the North in war. But when the army of bayonets converted by peace into an army of intruders, the structure of Southern independence will be subjected to a test more severe and terrible than any which Scott or are able to apply.

As soon as this war be ever a Northern of salesmen will ever run the land, or home here to live and vote down our liberties at the polls. If we do not make provision in our laws to prevent these objects, Southern independence is an idle dream.

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