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THE PUBLIC GOOD BEFORE PRIVATE ADVANTAGE. TUESDAY MMW, APRIL % 1861. NEW SERIES: YOL. I-NO. 59. 9 WtnU&mq , _*n Tin ha United io lb. l»ic< >ejr will be chsrjted «xtr* at regular ratee la. 1*morale, Oopartnerahijw, Notice* to >d payment demanded quarter!/. Aamnmia neat aa ram roa is will appear in the Weekly paper a IM Weekly paper on . ird, Town and other Public be charged half price, and deaths are published as news; but jjbwtes of Respect and funeral Invitations olices in Local Column will be charged 20 tsder ao circumstance*, to be Included In m or variation will be made from the fore- liANLtlTEH A AD Aik. ■Umd a —»Mar Company. Atlanta, 171 Mileb—Kara, $6 60. IE YONGE, Superintendent. a is i mo pasaiisoER traim. la, daily, at... Uguata at.. ista,dai RAILROADS. 0.06, A. M. _ OJO, P. M. San r, at 0.10, A.M ntfatt..-0.00, A. M. Wr tuemn nun. a. daily, at 8.40, P. M. K ueta at 6.60, A. M. . at > 60, P. M. at - 11.46, P. M. rune in connection with the Trains Carolina and the Saraunah and Droadi, a Augusta. AGRICULTURAL KOOKS of ere^ description. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS of every description. MEDICAL BOOKS. SUPERB GIFT BOOKS. SPLENDID FAMILY BIBLES. ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS. PICTURES FRAMED TO ORDER. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PAINT- 1NGS OF LANDSEER and other Artiste. TKREOSCOPE AND STEREOSCO PIC VIEWS. ARTISTS’ MATERIALS. WALKING CANES—from 30 cents to 830. VIOLINS—from 73 cents to 873- All of which will he sold cheaper than the cheapest, at the Sign of tho “BIG BOOK!” octsa—tr. j. McPherson a co. I)B. J. H. Mel,UAH’S STHENBTHEKINB CORDIAL * — AND— BLOOD PURIF1KH, a a West-Point Railroad. Feat-Paint, 87 Mtle»-Fere,..8S 60. 1 G. HULL, Superintendent bar riaannnn raaia. kata, daily, at 10.10, A. M. Teat-Point at - M0, P. M. t-Point daily, at — 8.00, P. M. Ltlanta at - 7.61, P.M. us by raaaaaaaa mu. nta, daily, at - 0.80, A. M. Teat-Point at 6.48, A. M. t-Point daily, at 8.16, A. M. Manta at 7.60, A. M. bennecta with tha Montgoaaary A 1 at Weit-Foint H Atlantic Railreaa. hattauooga, 188 Milea—Fare,....$6. LEWIE, Superintendent. 'Oar raaaaaaaa taam. daily, at 10.10, A. M. Thattauooga at 7.00, P. M. ttanooga at - 1.48, A. M. Manta at ..-10.00, A. M ■.each way,with the Bone Klngeton, the Eaet Ten- _ a Rialroad at Belton, and the Ohattenooga Railroad at Chatta- ea 4k W eaten Railread. Haoon, 101 Milaa—Fare $4 60. D L. TYLER, Superintendent. nr raaeaaeaa rut*. eU at U.OO, A. M. (aeon at 4.66, P. M id at .10.00, P. If. ,Uinta et 4.00, P. If. nawT airaaie Turn. bte at _ 11.00, Might [aeon at 7.10, A. M. »» at. 11.00, Night. Urate et Ml, A. M. t Traina will net to ran on Bun- the Oentrel Railroad lor Sayan, t. A. M., and the Booth. Weetern for Oolnmbne, at 0.46, A. M. 1*rain from Atlanta, connect! with Bellroed for Sarannah at 10.00 P. lOoatfc-Weetern Rail Road for Oo- 11.60, P. M. uogh Ticket! from Atlanta to New flng Omaibtu far* la Bavannah, IB-HAKIXO. Mil !•* Btrengthenlng Cordial, certify that It la absolutely an infalllabl* rem edy for renovating and Iivioobatino the shattered and diseased system, purifying and enriching the Blood—re storing the sick, suffering Invalid to HEALTH AND STRENGTH. There Is no mistake about I*. It will cure Liver Com plaint, Dyspepsia, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Headache, De- preatlon ol Spirits, Veter and Ague, Inward Fever, Bad Breath, or any disease of the Liver, Stomach, or Bow- ala. tgrGENTLEMEN, do you wish to be Healthy,Strong and Vigorous? CV LADIES, do you want the Bloom of Health to mount to your Cheeks again ? Then go at once and get McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier. or Bladder: Fainting,Obstructed Menstruation, Palling of the Womb, Barrenness, or any disease ariilng from Chronic or Nervous Debility, U Is an Infalllahle Remriv. For Children. Do you want your helicate, sickly, puny children to be Healthy, Strong and Kobust? Then give them Mr- Lram’s Stxrbgtbknihq Cobeial, (see the directions on each bottle,) It li delicious to take. OF” On* table-spoonful, taken every morning fast ing, la a sure preventive against Chills and Fever, Yel- low Fever, Cholera, or any prevailing disease. BW~ Captiq*.—Beware of Druggists or Dealers who m|y try to palm upon you a bottle of Bitters or Sarsa- part Ilka (which they eau buy cheap,) by laying It Is just as geiad. These are even men base enough to steal part of my name to dub their vile decoctions. Avoid such Infamous pirates and their rlllalnous compounds I Ask for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier. Take nothing else. It Is the only remedy that will purify your Blood thoroughly, and, at the earn* time, Strengthen and Invigorate the whole organisation. It Is put up In large bottle*— tl per bottle, or six bot tles for $.V DR. J. H. McLKAN, Sole Proprietor. Corner of Third and Pine Sts., St. Louis, Mo. DR-MCLEAN'S UNIVERSAL PILLS, For Liver Complaint, Riliousne*», Headache, Ac. T HERE has never been a Cathartic Medlcloe, offered to the public, that has given such entire satisfaction as McLkaxI CvrvassAL Pills. Being entirely vegetable, they are perfectly Innocent, aod san be taken by the moat tender Infant; yet prompt and powerful In removing all Bilious secretions. Add, or Impure, Feted Matter from the Stomach. In fact, they are the only Pills that should be used In malarious They produce no Oriplng, Sickness, or Pain, In the Stcmacn or Bowels, thoogh very active and searching In their operation, promoting healthy secretions of the Llvsr and Kidneys. Who will suffer from Biliousness, Haadaolis. and Foul Stomach, when so cheap a remedy eao be obtained ! Keep them constantly on hand ; a single dose, taken In season, may prevent hours, days, and months nf sldcnem. Ask for Dr. J. II. McLeau’s Universal Pills. Take no other. Being coated, they are tasteless. Price only 23 cents per box, and can be seat hjr nsll to any part of the United Slates. J. II. McLEAN, Hole Proprietor, Corner of Third and Hu* fits., St. Louis, Mo. Dr* J* H. Me Lean's Vole ante Oil Lini ment. The Beet tsrUmal In the World, for Man or Beast. fliMOCSANDS of human brings havs bees saved a fife 1 of Ousrspitude and misery, uabls Liniment It will hr, audit win r theuMof this Inval- lu stalest taruneoas bust tha foulest Sore Lviv** Volca*i* Oft relievo tha most Inveterate case* of Rhea- Dallam, Gout, or Neuralgia. For Par tyris, Conti acted Muscles, Stiffness or Weakness In tho Joints, Mugclss or * uts, H will never fall. Two applications wlUcure stoat, Headache, or Baruche. For Baras or * oc any Pain, U is aa InCalliable remedy. Try It, wlUftoi it an ladlspeaaibie remedy, trip it Ptautera, Farmers, or say on* having charge of hors- eu, will sAv* money by using Me Lean’sVolcaoleOll Lin- Iment. It lu a speedy end Infallible euro lor Galia, Sprains, Chafes, Awrittaf, humsneM, Sweeney, Sores, Wounds, Baraiebeu, et any autegaal dtseses. Try It, uad you wiU be eoorliMud. ww .W . A. X MvLCAN, Bole Proprietor. . Marsh 7, Ufil-dAwly. SelatLsrie, jjo. ML* *te! KfiDXLL, iff#. The Correspondence Between Mr. Sew ard and the Confederate Commissioners —The Gage of War Thrown Down and Accepted. The following is the correspondence between the Secretary of Slate and the Commissioners frtm the Confederate States : Messrs. Forsyth ano Crawtoru to Mu Ss ward, Opening the Negotiation ard Sta ting the Case. Washington, City, Maroh 12, 1861 Hon. Win. II. Seward, Secretary of Stale of the United States: Sir—The undersigned have been duly ac* credited by the government of the Confeder ate Stales of America as Commissioners lo lbs government of the Uoiled States, and in pur suance of their iostruciionehave now tha bon or to acquaint you with that fact, and to make known, through you, to the President of the United Stales, the objects of tboir presence in this capital. Seven Slates of the late federal Union, hav ing. io the exercise of the iaherent right of every free people to change or reform their polttioal institutions, and through conventions of their people, withdrawn from the United Stales and resumed the attributes of sovereign power delegated to il, have formed a govern ment of their oun. The Confederate States constitute an independent nation, de facto and dr jure, and posses a government perfect in all its parts, and endowed with al! (he means of self support. Wiih a view to a speedy adjustment of all questions growing out of this political separa tion, upon such terms of amity and good will as tho respective interests, geographical con tiguity and future welfare of the two nations may render necessary, the undersigned are instructed lo make to the government 0 f the United Stneta overtures for the opening of ne gotiations, assuring the government of the United States that the President, Congress, aod the people of the Confederate Stales ear nestly desire a peaceful solution of these great questions, that it is neither their interest nor their wish to make any demand which is not founded in strictest justice, nor do any act to injure their la'e confederates. The undersigned have now the honor, in obedience to the instrueiioos of their govern ment, to tequest you lo appoint os early a dsy os possible in order that they may pre sent to the President of the United States the credentials which they bear and tho objects of the mission with which they are charged. We are, very respectfully, your obedient servants, JOHN FORSYTH. MARTIN J. CRAWFORD. THE REPLY OF HR. SEWARD. MEMORANDUM. Department of State, \ Wasuinuotn, March J3, 1801. / Mr. John Forsyth, of the State of Alabama, and Mr. Martin J. Crawford, of the Slate of Georgia, on the 11th inst, through the kind offices of a distinguished Senator, submitted to the Secretary of State their desire for an unofficial interview. This request whs, on the 12th instant, upon exclusively public cou siderationg, respectfully declined. On the 13th instant, while the Secretary was preoooupied, Mr. A. D. B inks, of Virginia, ca\)ed at this department and was received by the Assistant Secretary, to whom he delivered a scaled communication, whioh he had been charged by Messrs. Fortyth and Crawford to present to the Secretary in person. In that communication Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford inform the Secretary of State that they have been duly accredited by tbe gov ernment of tbe Confederate States of America aa Commissioners to the governmeal of the United States, and they set forth the objects of their attendance at Washington. They ob serve that seven States of the American Un ion, in the exercise of a right inherent in ev ery free people, have withdrawn, through conventions of their people, from tbe United States, rgassutned the attributes of sovereign power, and formed a government of their own, and that those Confederate States now consti tute an independent nation de facto and dejure, and possess a government perfect in all its parts and fully endowed with all the means of self support. Messrs. Forsyth end Crawford, in their aforesaid communication, thereupon proceed to Inform the Secretary that, with a view to a speedy adjustment of all questions growing out or Ihe political separation thus assumed, upon suoh terms of amity and good will as tbe respective Interests, geographical contiguity and tbe future welfare of the supposed two na tions might render necessary, they are in structed to make to the government of tha United 8tale« overtures for the opening of ne gotiations, assuring this government that the President, Congress and people of the Confed erate States earnestly desire a peaceful solu tion of these great questions, and that it is neither their intereet nor their with to make any demand which is not founded in strictest justice, nor lo do any act to irjuro their late confederates. After making these statements, Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford close their communica tion. aa they any, in obedience to the instruc tions of their government, by requesting the Secretary of Slate to appoint as early a day aa possible, in order that they may present to (be President of tbe United Stales the credent tiala which they boar and the objects of the mission with whioh they are charged. The Secretary of 8tate frankly confesses that he understands the events which have re- firmer occurred, aaJihe oen(Milan t tpolWcaf affairs which actually exists iu the part of the Union to Which his attention has thus been directed, very differently from the aspect in whioh they.itrt presented by hUaar*. Forsyth aod Crawford. He io them, not a right* ful and accomplished revolution and an inde pendent nation, with an ea'abHabe# govern- purpoatt lino,) • tkotftp S7S.» M «f onjnai ggrcaalon upon UatrilptkVA itabU ltd ■■ooDalUn. o Ika rig&ia aod tha au- tnsx ed, for the maintenance of the Union, tbe preservation of liberty, and the aeourity, peace, welfare, happiness and aggrandisement of the American people. The Seeretmry of State, therefore, avows te Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford that he looks patiently but oon* fidently for the cure of evils whioh have re suited from proceeding so unnecessary, so un wise, so unusual and so unnatural, not to Ir regular negotiations, having in view new and untried relations with agencies unknown te and noting in derogation of the onnstMution and laws, but to regular and considerate no tion of the people of those States*, In co-oper ation with their brethren in the other States, through the Coogress of the United States, and such extraordinary conventions, if there shall be need thereof, as the federal constitu tion contemplates and authorizes to be assem bled. It if, however, tha purpose of the Secretary of State on this occasion not to invite or en gage io any disouaaion of these subjects, but ■imply to set forth bis reasons for declining to comply with the request of Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford. On the 4th of March lost, the then newly elected President of the United States, in view of all tbe faota bearing on the present ques tion, assumed the executive administration of the government, first delivering, in accordance with an early and honored custom, ao inaugu ral address to the people of the United States. Tbe Secretary of State respectfully submits a copy of this address to Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford. A simple reference toil will be sufficient to satisfy those gentlemen that tbe Secretary of State, guided by the principles therein an nounced, is altogether prevented from admit ting or assuming that (lie States referred toby the have, in law or in fact, withdrawn from tbe federal Union, or that they could do so io tbe manner described by Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, or in any other manner than the consent and conoert of the people of tbe United States, to be given through a natioual convention, to be assembled iu conformity with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Of course tbe Secretary of State caunot act upoo tho assumption or in any way admit that the so called Confederate States constitute a foreign Power, with whom diplomatic relations ought to be established Under these circumstances the Secretary of Stale, whose official duties are confined, sub jeot to the direction of the President, to the conducting of the foreign relations of the country, and do not at all embrace domestic questions or questions arising between several States nud the federal government, is unable to comply with the request of Messrs Forsyth and Crawford, to appoint a d-iy oi which they may present the evidences of their authority and the objects of their visit to the President of the United States. On the con trary, he is obliged to state to Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford that he has no authority nor is be at liberty to recognise them as diplomatic agents, or hold correspondence or other munioatiou with them. Fiuaily, the Seoretary of Stale would ob serve that, although ho has supposed that he might safely and with propriety have adopted these conclusions without making any refer ence of the subject to the Executive, yet ao strong has been hia desire to practice entire directness and to act in a spirit of perfeot re apect and oandor towards Messrs. Forsyth aod Crawford, aud that portion of tho people of tbe Union in whose name they present tb selves before him, that he has cheerfully sub mitted tbis paper to the President, who coin cides geueraily in the views it expresses, and aanotiona the Secretary’s decision dtoliniog of ficial intercourse with Messrs. Forayth and Crawford. April 8, J8G1. The foregoing memorandum was filed in this Department on the loth of Maroh last.— A delivery of the same, however, to Messrs. Forsyth aod Crawford was delayed, as was un derstood with their consent. They have now, through their Secretary communicated their desire for a definitive disposition of the sub ject. The 8acretary of State therefore direots that a duly verified copy uf the paper be now delivered. A true oopy of the original, delivered to me by Mr. F. W. Seward, Assistant Seoretary of State of the United States, on April 8, 1861, at 1. 15 P. M., in blank envelope. Attest, J. T. PICKETT, Secretary to the Cemmissiooers. The com mission brs in reply to Mr. Seward, accusing the government or deception, AND ACCtPTINQ A SOLUTION BY THB SWORD. Washington, April 6, 1861. Hon. Wm. II. Seward, Secretary of State of ihe Uaited States, Washington : The “memorandum ” dated Department of State, Washington, March 15, 1861, with post script under date of 8«h inst, haa been receiv ed through the hands of Mr. T. Pickett, Se cretary to this Commission, who, by the in structions of the undersigned, called for It on yesterday at the department. In that memorandum you correctly state tbe purport of the oflicial note uddreaaed lo yon by the undersigned on the 12th ultimo. Without repeating the contents oi that note in full, it is enough to any here that its object was to Invite the Government of tho United States to a friendly consideration of the relations be tween the United States aod the eevea States lately of ihe Federal Union, but now separa ted from it by the sovereign will of their peo ple, growing out of the pregnant and undeoU able fact that those people have rejected the authority of the Uoiled States aod established one of their own. The relations had to be frieqdly or hostile. The people of the old and new Govern meats, occupying contiguous terri tories, had to at and to eaob other in tho ralai ion, peaoe, and to offer to adjust the queatiooo pending between them In thh only way to ho justified by the consciences and common sense of good msn who had nothing bat tho welfare of tho people of tho Coafsdoroetoa at heart. Your Government baa not chosen to meet the undersigned in the conciliatory and panes ful spiri tin which they are commissioned.—* Persistently wedded to those fatal theories of construction of the Federal constitution al- waja rejseted by the statesmen of the South, nod adhered to by those of tho administration school, uutil they have produced their natural and often predioted result of the destruction of the Union, under which we might have continued io live happily and gloriously togeth er, had the spirit of the aneeatry who framed tbe oommon oonstltuiion animated the hearts of all their sma, you now, with a persistance untaught and uncured by tbe ruin whioh haa been wrought, refuse to reoognixe tbe great fact presented to you a completed and success ful revolution ; you close your eyes to the ex- is tence of the Government founded upon it, and ignore the high duties of moderation and humanity which attach to you in dealiog with this great fact. Had you met these issues with the frankness and manliness with which tbe undersigned were instructed to present them to«youand treat them, the ubdersigned bad not now the melancholy duty to return home and tell their Government and their country men that their earnest and ceaselees efforts in behalf of peaoe had been futile, and that the Government of the United Slates meant to subjugate them by force of arms. Whatever may be the result, impartial history will re cord the innocence of the Government of the Confederate States, and place the responsibil ity of tbe blood aod mourniog that may en sue upon those who have denied the great fundamental doctrine of American liberty, that “ Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and who have set naval and land armaments in motion lo subject the people of one portion of thisland lo tho will of another portion. That that can never be doue while a freeman survives in the Confederate States to wield a weapou, the un dersigned appeal to past history to prove. These military demonstrations against tbe people of the seceded States are certainly far from being in keeping and consistency with the theory of the Secretary of Slate, main tained in bis memorandum, that those States are still component parts of the late American Union, as the undersigned are not aware of any Constitutional power in the President of the United States to levy war, without tbe con sent of Congress, upou a foreign people, much less upon any portion of the United States. The undersigned, like the Secretary of State, have no purpose to “invite or engage in dis cuHsion” of the nubject on which their two Governments are so irreconcilably at varlenoe. It is this variance that has broken up the old Union, tbe disintegration of which has only begun. It is proper however, to advise yon that it were well to dismiss the hopes you seem to entertain that, by any of the modes in dicated, the people of Confederate States will ever be brought to submit to the authority of the Government of the United States. You are dealing with delusions, to j, when you seek to separate our people from our Govern ment aod to characterize the deliberate, sov ereign act of that people as a perversion of a temporary and paitsan excitement.” If you cherish these dreams you will be awakened from them and find them aa unreal and unsub sianiial as others in which you have recently indulged. The undersigned would omit tbe performance of obvious duty were they to fail to make known to the Government of the Uni ted States that the people of Confederate States have declared their independence with a full knowedgs of all the responsibilities of of that act, aod with as firm a determination lo maintain it by all the means with whioh na ture haa endowed them as that whioh sustain ed their fathers when they threw off the auth* ority of the British crown. The undersigned clearly understand that you have declined to appoint a day to enable them to lay the objects oft hejinission with which they are charged before the President of the United States, beoause so to do would be to rec ognize the independence and separate nation- alii ‘ * of goad neighbors, each seeking their happi ness and pursuing their natural destinies in theic own way, without interference with the other, or they haa to be rival and hostile na tions. The Government of the Confederal* States had no hesitation in electing its choice in this aUatnMiH* {frankly*nd unreserved ly, seekipg the good' of the people wke had eotruetea iBem'with the powei*, in the spirit of humanity, of ihe Chrtfetian civilization of tfcerogv; anff of that Americanism whioh re gards rite true waiters sad happlaeos of tha pooptfe, ik* Gw*erement of tbe Confederate Statea, among iu deal note, eommisafeoed the undersigned to approaek tbe Goverament of tho Ualtod States with the olive braaok of ity of the Confederate Slates. This is the vein of thought that pervades the memoran dum before us. The truth of history requires tknt it should distinctly appear upon tbe re ford that the undersigned did not aak tbe gov ernment of the United States to reeognise the independence of the Confederate States. They only asked audienoe to adjust, in a spirit of amity and poaoe, the new relations springing from a manifest and accomplished revolution In the government of the late federal Union. Yonr refusal to entertain these overtures for a peaceful solution, the aotive naval and mili tary preparation of this government, and a formal notice to Ihe commanding general of the Confederate forces in the harbor of Char lesion that the President Intends to provision Fort Sumter by forcible met ns, if necessary, are viewed by the undersigned, and can only be received by the world, as a declaration of war against the Confederate Stales: for the President of tbe United States knows that Fort 8urater cannot be provisioned without the ef fusion of blood. The undersigned, in behalf of their government and peeple, accept the gage of battle tbue thrown down to then ; and, appealing to God and tbe judgement of mankind for the righteousness of their cause, the people of the Confederate States will de fend their liberties to the last against this fla grant aod open attoopt at tbeh* subjugation to sectional power. This communication cannot be properly cloevd without adverting to the date ef your ■smorandna. The official note of the under signed, ef ike 12th Marsh, was delivered to the Assistant Seoretary of State on the 18th of that month, the gentleman who delivered It Informing him that the Seoretary of tbit Commission would cal! at twelve o’clock, noon, wo tho noxVdsy, for aa answer. At tho ap- polated hour Mr PiekoU did tail, end wet in formed by the Assistant Si erst pry of Stats that tbe eafafeamett tf the Seoretary ef ffiate hod prevented him from giving the note hia nutation. Tbe AeeisteOt Seoretary of State then asked for tha address of Measi*. Craw ford aid Fenytlf tha member* or ihe Corns' afvelee then present is this cHy, took note ef the address aa » eard, and ehgagad t* aaad it dated March 15, and waa not delivered on til April & Why woo It withheld daring the intervening twenty-three day at la the post script to your memorandum you any it •• waa delayed, as wea understood, with their (Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford's) consent.” This is true; but life also true that on tho 16th of Marsh, Messrs. Foreyth and Crawford were assured by a peraoe occupying a high ofiioial position in tha government, and who, ne they believed was speaking by authority, that Fort Sumter would be evaouated within a very few dnye, and that no measure changing the exist log etatu* prejudicially to thu Confederate States, aa repeoin Fort Pickens, waa then con templated, and tbeee assurances were subse quently repeated, with the addition that any contemplated change aa respects Pickena would be notified to us. On tbe 1st of April we were again informed that there might be ao attempt (o eupply Fort Sumter with provision*, but that Governor Pieken* should have previous notice of this attempt. There was do sugges tion of any reinforcement. The undersigned did not hesitate to believe that these assur ances expressed the intentions of the admin istration at the time, or at all events of prom inent members of that admi nisi ration. Thin delay was aasented to for tbs express purpose of attaining the great end of the mission of the undersigned, to wit:—A paoifip solution of existing complications. The inferenoa do- ducible from the data of your memorandum, that the undersigned bad, of their own voli tion and without cause, consented te tbis long hiatus in the grave duties with wbieb ibey were obargrd, ia therefore not consistent with a just exposition of the facia of the case. The intervening twenty three days were employ ed in active unofficial efforts, the object of which was to smooth tbe path to a pacific so lution, the distinguished personage alluded to co operating with the undersigoed, and every step of the effort is recorded in writing, and now in possession of the undersigned and of their government. Il wss only wten all these anxious effort* for peace had been exhausted, and it became clear that Mr. Lincoln bad de termined to appeal to the sword to reduce the people of the Confederate States to tbe will of the section or psrty whose President he is, that tbe undersigoed resumed tbe official ne gotiation temporsrily suspended, and sent their 8ecre'ary for a reply to their official note of March 12. It is proper to add that, during these twen ty-three days, two gentlemen of official dis*. fiction as high as that of the personage hith erto alluded lo, aided the undersigned aa in termediaries in these unofficial negotations for peace. The undersigned Commissioners of the Con federate 8ta<es of America, having thus made answer to all they deem material in the mem orandum filed in the Department on the 16th of March last, have the honor to be, JOHN FORSYTH, MARTIN J. CRAWFORD, A. B. ROMAN. A true copy of the original by ooe deliver ed to Mr. F. W. 8eward, Assistant Secretary of State of tbe United States, at tight o’clock in the evening of April 9. 1861. Attest, J. T. PICKETT, Secretary, &c , Ac. Mr. Seurard, in Reply to the Commietionert, Ac knowledges the Receipt of their Letter, but De clines to A newer it. Dspaxtmint or State, 1 Washington, April 10, 1861. j Messrs. Forsyth, Crawford and Homan, having been apprised by a memorandum whioh ban been delivered to them that the Secretary of 8tate is not at liberty to hold offioial inter course with them, will, it ia presumed expeot no notice from him of the new communication which they have addressed to him under date of tha 9»h instant, beyond the simple acknowl edgement of tbe receipt thereof, which he here by very cheerfully give*. A true copy of tbe original received by the Commissioners of the Confederate 8tates, tbis 10th day of April, 1861. Attest, J. T. PICKETT, Seuratary, Ao., Aa. DENTISTRY. H. HUNTINGTON, M. 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