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Hoifses, takeir by yeas and nays, unless it be asked
and estimated for by some one of the heads of the
Department, and submitted to Congress by the Pres
ident ; or for the purpose of paying its own expen-
eesand contingencies ; or for the payment of claims
•gainst the Confederate States, the justice of which
shall have been judicially declared by a tribunal for
the investigation of claims against the government,
which it io hereby rntule the duty of Cour-ress to es
tablish.
10. All bills appropriating money shall specify in
federal currency the exact amormt of each appro-
priation and the purposes for which it is made ; and
Congre?'* shall grant no exlva compensation to any
public contractor, officer, agent, or servant, after
such contract shall have beeu made or such service
tendered. * ~ w
11. No title of nobility shall be granted by the
Confederate States ; and no person lidding any of
fice of profit or trust under them shall, without the
content c.r the Congress, accept of any present, em
olument, office or title of any kind whatever, from
»uy king, prince or foreign State.
*12. Congress shall make no law respecting an es
tablishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer
cise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble and petition the government for a re
dress of grievances.
13. A well regulated militia being necessary to
the security of a free Stale, the right of the people
to keep and bear anna shall not be infringed.
14. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered
in any house without consent of the owner; nor in
time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by
law,
15. The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, and papers, aud effects against un
reasonable searches and seizures, shall not be viola
ted ; ami no warrants shall issue but upon probable
cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and partic
ularly describing ihe place to be searched, and the
persons or things to he seized.
16. No person shall bo held to answer for a capi
ta* or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presen
timent or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases
arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia,
when in actual service in time of war or public dan
ger; nor shall any person bo snhject for the same of
fence to be put twice in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor
be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness
against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty
property, without due process of law ; nor shall pri
vate property be taken fur public use, without just
compensation.
17. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall
enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by
impartial jury of the S'ate and district wherein the
Crime shall have been committed, which district
shall have been previously ascertained by law, and
to be informed of the nature and cause of the accu
sation ; to be confronted with the witnesses against
him; to have compulsory process for obtaining wit
nesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of
counsel for his defence.
IS. In suits at common law, where the value ii
controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of
trial by jury shall be preserved ; and no fact so tried
by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any
court of the Confederacy, than according to the rules
of the common law.
19. Excessive bail shall not be required
cessive tines imposed, nor cruel and unusual pun
ishments inflicted
20- Every law or resolution having the force of
law, shall relate to but one subject, and shall be ex
pressed in the title.
SECTION 10.
1. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance
or confederation ; grant letters of marque and re
prisal; coin money, make anything but gold and
silver coin a tender in payment of debts,' pass any
bill of attainder, or rx post facto law, or any law im
pairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any ti
tle of nobility. *
2. No Stale shall, without the consent of the Con
gress, lay any imposts or duties uu import *
ports, except what may
v «w^ r . .... , - aosoiuieij
executing its inspection laws, and the net produce of
.ii .nJ : m po4*i«>. laid by any State on imports
or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of
the Confederate States ; and all such laws shall be
subject,to tire revision and control of Congress.
3. No Elate shall, witliout the consent of Con
gress, lay any duty of touuage, except on sea goinj,
vessels for tire improvement of ils rivet* and har
bors navigated by the said vessels, but such duties
shall not couflict with any treaties of the Confeder
ate Slates with foreign nations; and any surplus
revenue, thus derived, shall, after making such im
provement, be paid into the common treasury ; nor
shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time
of peace, enter into any agreement or compact
with another State, or with a foreign power, or en*
j»age in war, unless actually invaded, or in such im
minent danger as will not admit of delay. But when
any river divides or flows through two or more
States, they may enter into compacts with each oth
er to improve the navigation thereof.
ARTICLE II—SECTION 1.
1. The executive power shall be vested in a
- President of the Confederate States of America.—
Me and the Vice President shall hold their offices
for the term of six years : but the President shall
not b° re-eligible The President and Vice Presi
dent shall bc,elected as follows;
2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as
Ihe legislature thereof may direct, a number of elec
tors equal to the whole number of Senators and Re-
presentai ives to which the State may be entitled in
the Congress ; but no Senator or representative, or
person holding an office of trust or profit under the
Confederate States, »hail be appointed an elector.
3. The electors shall meet in their respective*
States and vote by ballot for President and Vice
President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an in
habitant of the same State with themselves ; they
elmll name in their billuts the person voted for as
President, and in distinct ballots the person voted
Coras Vice President, and they shall make distinct
lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all
persons voted for as Vice President, aud of the num
ber of votes tor each, which lists they shall sign and
certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the Gov
ernment of the Confederate States, directed to the
President of the Senate; the President of the Sen
ate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House
of Representatives, open all certificates, and the
votes shall then be counted ; the person having the
greatest number of votes for President shall be ihe
President, if such number be a majority of the whole
nnmber of electors appointed; and if no person have
eneb majority, then, from the person having the
highest nnmbers, not exceeding three, on the fist of
those votedfor as President, the House of Represen
tatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the Pres
ident. But io choosing the President, the votes
•bail be taken by States, the representation from
within th# limits of the Confederate States, as they
may exist at the time of bis election.
8. In case of the removal of the President from
office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to
discharge the poweru and duties of the said qffice,
the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and
the Congress may, by law, provide for the case of re
moval, death, resignation, or inability both of the
President and Vice President, declaring what officer
shall then act as President, and such officer shall act
ccordingly until the disability be removed ora
President shall be elected.
U. The President shall, at stated times, receive
for his services a compensation, which shall aeitber
be increased nor diminished during the period for
which he shall have been elected; and ho shall not
receive within that period any other emolument from
the Confederate States, or any of tlieifi.
f0. Before he enters on the execution of his office,
he shall take the following oath or affirmation :
. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faith
fully execute the office of President of the Confed
erate States, and will, to the best of my ability,'pre
serve, protect, and defend the constitution thereof."
SECTION 2. , .
The President shall be commander-in-chief oil
the army aud navy of the Confederate States, and
of the militia of the several States, when called
into the actual service of the Confederate States;
he may require the opinion, in writing, of the prin
cipal officer iu each of the Executive Departments,
upon any subject relating to tho duties of their re
spective offices; and he shall have power to grant
reprieves and pardons for offences against tho Con
federate States, except in cases of impeachment.
2. He shall have power, by and with the adviee
and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provi
ded two-thirds of the Seuators present concur; and
ho shal nominate; and by and with the advice and
c<*u*e9t of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, Judges of the
Supreme Court, jind all other officers of the Confed
erate States, wlioso appointments are not herein
otherwise provided for, and which shall be estab
lished by law; but the Congress may, by law, vest
the appointment of such inferior officers, as they
think proper, in the President alone, in the courts
of law or iu the heads of departments.
3. The principal officer in each of the Executive
Departments, and all persons connected with the di
plomatic service, may be removed from office at the
pleasure of the President. All other civil officers of
the Executive Department may be removed at any
time by the President, or other appointing power,
when their services are unnecessary, or for dishon
esty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect
of duty; and when so removed, the removal shall
bo reported to the Senate, together with the reasons
therefor.
Tho President shall have power to fill all
cancies that may happen during the recess of the
Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire
at the end of their next session; but no person re
jected by the Senate shall be re-appointed to the
same office during their ensuing recess.
SECTION 3.
1. Tho President shall, from time to time, give to
the Congress information of the state of the Con-*
federacy, and recommend to their consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary aud expedient:
he may, on extraordinary occasions, conveue both
Houses, or either of them; and in case of disagree
ment between them, with respect to the time of ad
journment, he may adjourn them to such time as In
shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors
and other public ministers; he shall take care that
the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commis
sion all the officers of the Confederate States.
SECTION 4.
1. The President, Vice President, and all civil
officers of the Confederate States, shall be removed
from office on impeachment fer, and couviction ol,
treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misde
meanors.
ARTICLE III.—SECTION 1.
Tho judicial power of the Confederate States
shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such
Inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to
time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the
Supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold their offices
during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times,
receive for their services a compensation, which
shall not be diminished during their continuance in
State that now is or may hereafter become a mem
ber of this Confederacy, a republican form of gov*
eminent, and shall protect each of them against in
vasion; and on application of the legislator# (or
the Executive when the legislature is not in session)
against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.t-SECTION 1.
1. Upon the demand of any three States, legally
assembled’in their several conventions, the Congress
shall summon a convention of all the States, to take
into consideration such amendments to the Consti
tution as the said States shall conenr in suggesting
at the time when the said demand is made; ana
should any of the proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution be agreed on by the said convention—vo
ting by States—and the same be ratified by the leg
islature of two-thirds of the several States, or by
conventions in two-thirds thereof—as the one or the
other mode of ratification may be proposed by the
general convention—they shall thenceforward form
a part of this Constitution. But no State shall,
without its consent, be deprived bf its equal repre
sentation in the Senate.
ARTICLE VI.
1. The Government established by this Constitu
tion is the successor of the Provisional Government
of the Confederate States of America, and all the
laws passed by the Utter shall continue in force un
til the same shall be repealed or modified; and all
the officers appointed by the same shall remain in
office until their successors are appointed and quali
fied, or the offices abolished.
2. All debts contracted and engagements entered
into before the adoption of this Constitution shall
be as valid against the Confederate States under this
Constitution as under the Provisional Government.
3. This Constitution, and the Uws of the Confed
erate States, made in pursuance thereof; and all
treaties made, or which shall be made under the au*
thority of the Confederate States, shall be the s u*
premc law of the land; and the judges in every
State shall be bound thereby, anything in the con
stitution or laws of any State to the eontrary not
withstanding.
4. The Senators and RepresenUtives before men
tioned, and the members of the several State legis
latures, and all executive and judicial officers, both
of the Confederate States and of the several States,
shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support
this constitution;.but no religious test shall ever be
required as a qualification to any offico or public
trust under tho Confederate States.
6. The enumeration, in the constitution, of cer
tain rights, shall not be construed to deny or dis
parage others retained by the people of the several
States.
7. Tho powers not delegated to the Confederate
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the States, respectively,
or to the people thereof.
ARTICLE VII.
1. The ratification of the conventions of five States
shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Con
stitution between the States so ratifying the same.
2. When five States shall have ratified this Con
stitution, iu tho manner before specified, the Con
gress under the Provisional Constitution,-shall pre
scribe the time for holding the election of President
and Vice President; and, for the meeting of the
Electoral College; aud, for counting the votes, and
inaugurating the President. They shall, also, pre
scribe the lime for holding the first election of mem
bers of Congress under this Constitution, and the
time for assembling' the same. Until the assemb
ling of such Congress, the Congress under the Pro
visional Constitution shall continue to exercise the
legislative powers granted them; not extending be
yond the time limited by the Constitution of the
Provisional Government.
Georgia State Convention.
THURSDAY, MARCH 21,1801.
The Bainbridge “Argus” and ‘.‘Southern Georgi
an” have recently united thete tf&tiniee, and are
now merged into the “Sfauti&tn Press.” The for
mer editors of the “Argus” anil “Georgian” will
conduct the “Press.” They are young men of fine
talents, and we trust they may receive that success
of which they are worthy: We insprt their
nouncement as'follows:
The Southern Press.
The undersigned having formed a co-partnership, the
papers heretofore known, aa the “Bainbridge Argus” and
“Southern Georgian 1 * are merged in one, to be entitled
“Thk Southern Paws.” Those'who have paid in ad
vance for the Argus or Georgian will be furnished with
the new paper to the amount of such advance payment.—
each State having one vote; a quorum for this
purpose chill consist of a member or members from
two thirds of the States, and o majority of all the
States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the
House of Representatives shall not choose a Presi
dent, whenever ihe rigid of choice ghall devolve up
on them, before the fourth day of March next follow
ing, then the Vice President shall act as President,
an in case of the death, or other constitutional dis
ability uf the President.
4. The person having the greatest number of
votes as Vice Pre.-ddeot shall be the Vice President,
ifaaeh number be a majority of the whole number
of electors appointed ; and if no persoD have a ma
jority, then, from the two highest numbers on the
list the Senate alta.lt choose tho Vice President; a
quorum for the purpose shall consist of twothirds
of tlie whole number of Senators, and a majority of
the whole number shall be necessary to u. choice.
5. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the
office of President shall be eligible to that of Yice
President of the Confederate States. ...
6. The Congress may determine tho time of
ebodsiog the electors, and the day on which they
shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same
throughout the Confederate States.
7. No person except a natural-boro citizen of the
Coo Cadent* States, or a citizen thereof, at the time
• of the adoption of this Constitution, or a citizen
-thereof burn in the United States prior to the 20th
of December, 1860, shall be eligible to lhft.office of
President j neither shall any person be eligible to
.that’joffice wbo abalj not have attained the age of
thirty-five years and been fourteen years a resident
1. The judicial power shall extend to all eases
arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Con
federate States, and treaties made or which shall- be
made under their authority; to all cases affecting
ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;
to all coses of admirality and maritime jurisdiction,
to controversies to which the Confederate States
shall bo a party; to controversies between two
more States; between a State and citizens of ano
ther State where the State is plaintiff between citi
zens claiming lands under grants of different States,
and between a State or the citizens thereof, and for
eign States, citizens or subjects; but no State shall
be sued by a citizen or subject to any foreign State.
2. In all eases affecting ambassadors, other pub
lic ministers, and consuls, and those in which a State
shall be a party, the Supreme Court Bhall have
ginal jurisdiction. Iu all the other cases before e
tioned, the Supreme Court shall havo appellate ju
risdiction, both as to law and fact, with such excep
tions, and under such regulations, as tho Congress
shall make.
3. Tho trial of all crimes, except in cases of im
peachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall bo
held in the State where the said crimes shall have
been committed; but when not committed within
any State, the trial shall be at such place or places
the Congress may by law, have directed.
SECTION 3.
1. Treason against the Confederate States shall
consist only in levying war against them, or in ad
hering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on
the testimoney of two witnesses to the same overt
aet, or on oonfession in open court.
2. The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason
shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except
during the life Of the person attainted.
ARTICLE IV—SECTION 1.
1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each
State to the publio acts, records and judicial pro
ceedings of every other State. And the Congress
may, by general laws, prescribe the manner inwhioh
such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved,
and the effeot thereof.
SECTION 2.
1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the
several States, and shall have the right of transit
and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with
their slaves and other property; and the right of
property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
2. A person charged in any State with treason,
felony, or other crime against the laws of such
State, who shall flee from justice, and be found in
another State, shall, on demand of the Executive
authority of ihe State from which he fled, be de
livered up, to be removed to the State having juris
diction of the crime.
3. No slave or other person held to service or la
bor in any State or Territory of the Confederate
States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully
carried into another, shall, in oonsequenee of any
law or regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim
of the party to whom such slave belongs, or to whom
such service or labor may be due.-
SECTION 8.
1. Other States may be admitted into this Confed
eracy by .a vote !of two-thirds of the whole House
of Representatives, and two-thirds of the Senate,
the Senate votimg by States; hut no new State shall
be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any
other State; nor any State be formed x by the junc
tion of two or more States, or parts of States, with
out the eonsent of the legislatures of the States con
cerned as well as of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of
and make all needfbl rules and regulations concern-'
ingtho property of the Confederate States, includ
ing the lands thereof.
' 8. The Confederate States may acquire new Ter-
SECOSD SEj-SION—EIGHTH DAY.
Savannah, March 16,1861.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment at
lo o’clock, and went immediately into Secret Ses
sion, fertile purpose of considering the Permanent
Constitution of ihe Confederate States of America.
The injunction of secrecy having been removed,
e are enabled to give the following proceedings of
the body : '
Mr. Alexander, of Upson, offered the following res
olution :
Revolted, That tho Constitution adopted by the
Congress at Montgomery on the llih dav of March.
of seven, with instructions to frame and report, du
ring the morning session, an ordinance to accept
and ratify the same for the State of Georgia.
Tho Committee reported the following:
AN ORDINANCE,
TO ADOPT AND RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION OP THE
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.
Be it ordained by Ike people vf Georgia, in Con
tention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by au
thority of the same. That the Constitution adopted by
the Congress at Montgomery, in the-State of Alaba
ma, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-one, for the “permanent Federal Gov
ernment” of the Confederate States of America, be
and the same is hereby adopted and ratified by the
State of Georgia, “acting in its sovereign and inde
pendent characfer.”
Mr. Clark, of Dougherty, offered tlie following
resolution:
Resoiced, That a Committee of Three be appoint
ed by the President to report to this body, the number
of Journals of the proceedings of this Convention to
be published for distribution, together with the man
ner of printing and binding, and to report also upon
the compensation to be allowed the Secretary and
‘ s assistants for their services.
The resolution being adopted, the Chair appointed
the following Committee: Messrs. Clark, Bartow
and Chastain.
Mr. Nesbit offered tbe following resolution, which
was adopted:
Resolved, That the President of this Convention
transmit to the President of the Congress of the Con
federate States a copy, duly certified, when enrolled
and sigued, of the ordinance this day passed, ratify
ing and adopting the permsnent Constitution.
Mr. Stephens offered the following:
AN ORDINANCE in additional to a previous
Ordinance ot this Convention ox the subject
OF CITIZENSHIP.
Be it ordained, <%c., That all white persons resi
dent in this State at the time of tbe secession of this
Stale from the United States, with the bona fide in
tention of making it the place of their permanent
abode, shall be considered as citizens of this State,
without reference to their place of birth, provided,
that any person ngt born in this State can except him
or herself trom the operation of this Ordinance, by a
declaration iu any Court of record in this State,
within three months from this date, that he or she
does not wuhjo be considered a citizen of this State.
(Adopted.)
Tho Constitution Ratified.
On Saturday last, our State Convention, now as
sembled in Savannah, unanimously ratified the per
mauent Constitution adopted by the .Confederate
States of America. This is a gratifying result, and
will be hailed with acclamations of joy and gladness
by every freeman throughout our Southern borders.
We now have a government in which all are equal,
abd in which all can live io peace and safety to
gether. The yeoman can dwell io peaedby his fire
side, his flocks and-herds can browse in safety on
the hills, and we can all dwell in that peace, inde
pendence and harmony which belongs to our race.
All, then, should unite in thanks to Him who gov
erns the destiny of nations for the charter presented
to,us for our future guide as a young Republic. May
it inspire us to grow great and glorious as a nation
and noble as a peopled The Constitution, when
tested, will prove its solidity and carry with it a
death blow to anarchy and disorder. It will sustain
the great question of man's .capacity for self-gov
ernment by its inherent durability, which will with
stand uuhurt the stormy conflict of opinion and
tempest breath of time, and those who doubt—their
words will melt like breath before the wind. This
liberal government must and will be recognized by
every civilized and enlightened power in the world,
(except it be by a Northern fanatical Abolition
power.)? The true men of that section will recog.
nize in it the best balance sheet that has ever emanated
(tom the wisdom of enlightened statesmen. It re
cognizes tbe right and power of man to govern,
his duty so to govern as to protect inviolate the sa
cred obligations of equal justice,! with no end io
view but the protection of life, property and social
order. It recognizes no law but the recorded will
of'the people; no end of law, bot fer mutual good;
superior, but Him who made all things, blessed
and prooounced'thein good. These are some of the
principles upon which ourGovernment rests. May its
superstructure never undermine but.last forever in
the future. Then we congratulate the freemen of
Georgia and of the Confederate States upon the
dawning of a day which promises to us a bright and
glorious future. May peace, happiness, prosperity,
glory and honor reward our good works,and may we
have courage and strength to sustain a government
which promises to be the admired model of all en
lightened and civilized powers. The glory of a
nation consists in its honesty and independence; let
this be our land-mark, and let us fellow it for all
time to come.
Those who are in arrears for either of the above, will
please come forward and settle. Contract advertisements
will be continued according to contract. We shall short
ly inaugurate a system of cash payments for subscriptions,
With many thanks tor past favors, we hope to merit pat-
-* ... - re it.
REYNOLDS.
Very Lateat from our Exchanges.
FROM WASHINGTON. T
WAsiiiXQTO!,. March 16 It is reliably stated that
Forsyth and Crawford, the Southern Commissioners,
entertain the strongest hopes ot preserving peace
ful relations between the two governments. It Is
believed that their course of diplomacy has been
wise and judicious throughout.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
Washikoxon, March 10.—In tbe Senate to-day,
Mr. Douglas* resolution of enquiry, relative to Ad
ministration movements in the ceceded States, was
further discussed, and then postponed until Monday
, SOUTHER!* CONGRESS. 1
Montgomery. ' Ala:, March 5 16;—The Congress
to-day confirmed the nominations of District Judg
es, as follows: , ,
A. G. Magrath, .for South Carolina. -
H. R. Jameson, for Georgia. J ' / • *•’ »
Wm. J. Jones, for Alabama.
Wm. Lanier Harris,-for Mississippi,, , -
Thomas 7. Semraes, for'LouisioW' ‘■ •
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not manufactured, indigo. lssting for shoes and bet1
ton., madder, music, pewter, old, aoda ash
watch materials, and unfinished parts ot watches
SCHEDULE 1—PUTT FREE.
Animals, agricultnral products in natural state
anna of ever, description, ail philosophical anoamt
taa, instruments hooka, rnape, drawing., &c., rmpor.
ted specially for an, school, college, academy or
seminary of learning, bacon, Slc., bark, Penman
boiling clothes, bone dOrt, brass, in'pigs or bars’
burr stone, unmanufactured, caps, bercussion, cofiea
and lea, imported in American vessels, coins gold
sliver and copper, copper, in pigs or bars, floor, gar!
den seeds, guano, fish, ice, lead in all its form! fin-
seeds, maps and chart, modles of inventions, mnoj-
burs or blacks, trees, bulbs, plant and mow, word no-
manulactnred, worth not more thhh 20 cents per
pound where purchased.* ...a-. 1
Troops Withdrawn! * i
'The Washington Slates 4 Union,-of the 1 Itb.aan:
“We'are overjoyed to- announce the withdrawal
of the United Stales troops from Fort Sumter. The
order of the President was issned this morning. It»
reception will ah once stay the progress olhostile
preparation, ward off a conflict, and seeme peace
We take it for granted the troops will also be with
drawn from Fort Pickens.. In that event we shall
see trade going on swimmingly in less than thirty
days. YVe learn.that on tbe strength of the good
news several New York capitalists have made heavy
investments. The same etfiict will be experienced
every where.*--* t"II - -1 t-'- ;>'r r
i r-'
and provide governments for
territory belonging to tbe Confederate States, lying
without the limits of. the several States; and
permit them, at such times and in such manner
may by law provide, to form States to be admitted
into the Confederacy. In all such territory the in
stitution of negro slavery, as U now exists in tha
Confederate States, shell be recognised sad protect
ed by Congress, and by the .territorial government j
and the inhabitants of tha several Confederate States
end Territories shell have the right to take to snob
territory any slaves lawfully held by. them in any of
the States or territories of the Confederate States.
| 4a The Confederate States shall guaranty to every
Speech of Bon. Samuel Hall.
We have before us the speech ol Hod. Samuel
Hally commissioner to North Carolina, unJ regret
we cannot make ro< m for it in this issue. We will
endeavor lo place it before our readers in our next,
in interesting and statesman I ike document, and
— mw>« -:»•> «iv»p mtenai .l... ..i,o Im«a au
eye lo national affairs.
Arkansas Convention.
From what we are able to gather through our ex
changes. we feel somewhat assured that the Arkan-
Miivention will puss the secession ordinance.
The vote given by the people in favor of a conven
tion ftood \ 1,586 majority, wc may therefore rea-
mably calculate that she will secede from the old
U. S. Government, and unite her destiny with the
Southern Confederate States. The trouble of get
ting up a border State Convention is time wasted,
for io our judgment it will prove a signal failure.
It is tbe part of policy then for them promptly to fol
low the seceding States and show to the world that
they are independent, or in default, let them remain
vassals to a Government tv tunica! to them.
are authorized to
state that O. J. MUNNBRLYIf, ESQ. of
Deeatur county, will accept the appointment of
“Major General” of the 13th Division, G. M., if
elected.
March 21, 1861. go
NOTICE.
H A\ ING been compelled by the state of my
health lor the last several months, to leave off
attendiug to my business in the low country and
elsewhere, and being still unable Jo do so, .1 have
appointed Messrs. CLAllK, IRVIN &*TATLOR, of
Albany, my Agents, and they are fully authorized
to transact for me and iu nty name, nuy business its
which I am interested. AU persons having business^
with me will for the present communicate with them.
JAMES BOND.
Columbus, Ga. t March 21, 1861. 62 tf
SOUTHERN GENTRY
W ILL stand tbe present Spring _ 0 ~ u
Season at PACE & McLKN-
DON’S Stable, in Albany, »t Twenty
Dollars to insure a Mare with foal, anil -Xx—»„li—
Twelve Dollars the single visit, paid at tbe time of
service. Fifty cents to the Groom in every case.
JEREMIAH WALTERS.
March 21, 1861.. 52—tf
50
For Sale.
Bales Clover; 100 bales Northern and East
ern Hay. By T. J. FLINT,
At the Rail Road Depot.
March 21, 1 801. 52-tf
"ALBANY MARBLE WORKS, -
rjiHE
UNDERSIGNED
s of Albany and s
flic Marble busiu
is prepared to fill all ordt
of the fmest
i tv inform the citi-
liug country, that
his dfty, where he
i town and country,
GREELEY—The Charlestonians and Fort Sum
ter.—Greeley tells his Abolition cohorts, the fol
lowing bit of morceau, and they glory over it:
“ Charles Parson has just returned home, after
several months sojourn. He left to avoid being
drafted into tho regular army of the Southern Con
federacy. ^ About eveiy third man is drafted. He
had no wish to be shot at by, or to shoot Northern
Williamsburg, N. Y., Feb. 16th, 1861.
Gen. Jefferson Davis, first President of the
Confederate States of America :
Sir:—I am a youug schoolgirl, born iu the State
of Peenaylvania, and the great grand-daughter of
Col. Eleazer Oswald, who served his country nobly
at Ticonderoga, Quebec; Danbury, Conn.; on ihe
line of the Hudson, at Monmouth, and on the battle
fields. My great grand mother was a Virginia lady.
Holt, by maiden name, whose brother, Capt. John
Holt, was a Captain In the old Virginia line. Yon
may be sure I feel proud of my ancestry. My pa
rents are not rich, and I thought I would make a
few roeeties, typical of the Southern Confederacy,
and dispose of them by sale, in order to buy some
rather expensive books I coveted. But none could
I sell, though one of my little brothers tried hard
to do so iif New York.
Now, what better could I do with them than to
send them to you as a present? Won’t you aooept
them ? I hope you will. If you give them away to
any "of your young aoldiere, eay that the little North
ern girl who made them, inspired by patriotic im
pulses, sent them as a souvenier to the gallant Col.
Jefferson Davis, of whose brave deeds at the battle
of Buena Vista she has so often felt proud in read
ing about. With much respect,*
■ m m ^ LOUISA GLEN.
Railroad Accident.—The freight train on the
M. &. W. P. Railroad, coming down yesterday*moni-
inr, ran off the track some seven or eight miles this
side of Cbebaw, killing one negro man sod breaking
an arm of another, it was found upon examination,
that a switch at that point had been put out of its
place by some fiend, which had caused tbe accident.
The passengers on the down train last night, did
not arrive at this city until 4 o’clock this morning,
having been delayed by the changing of can in <
sequence of it—Montgomery Poet 12ft.
John Hemphill, for Texas,
Jesse J. Finley, for Florida.
McQueen McIntosh to be Judge of the Admiralty
Court of Key West. *
David Hubbard, of Alabama, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. r.. r . - .r '
Alexander B. ClitheraU, of Alabama, Register of
the Treasure, t . I < (• * w \ 7-
Bolling Baker, of Georgia, Auditor of the Trea
sury.
LATER ~F ROll TAX Aft.* S'. :
New Orleans, SUroli 17.—We li»T»F*ceiTod Oil-
veston dates to the 16th. Fort Brown was evacua
ted by the Federal troops on the Pith; without any
trouble. "Major Porter was superintending the Fed
eral troops, aud they will proceed to Key West and
Tortuga* by the Daniel Webster.
Several hundred State troops were enlisted for
six months, to serve under Ford, on the Rio Grande,
by occupying the various posts.
Major Martin, of the U. S. Army, has resigned
and tendered his services to the State.
Camp Colorado, in the Northern frontier of this
State, has been taken by the State troops.
Capt. Sayre, of the Confederate States Army, has
arrived here to muster intu’'service a regiment of
rangers for the frontier, haviug received orders from
President Davis.
The steamer Rusk, from Brazos, has arrived with
300 State troops oq board.
ELECTION IN VIRGIN I aT
Petersburg, Va., March 15.—This city has given
majority of one hundred and seventeen for seces-
on. In February it gave six hundred Hud twelve
for Union.
A quarrel occurred on tha * morning of th*» 12th
in Atnericus between a mao by tlie name <>f
James P. Woodruff, and Thomas O'Hara, when
O'Hara alw>t Woodruff with a pistol. The bail
parsed through the muscle of the right arm between
the elbow and shoulder, and through the clothing
into the right side only just far enough to stick.—
South Western Georgian.
Goantsi >».—Wo learn that a collision took place
upon the Savannah, Albany &Gulf Railroad Wed
nesday afternoon last, between the 1 *t and 2d sta-
tion*, by a passenger train going out and a train wi'h
wood coming in. The locomotive witu the wood
train w.ta pre.ty badly smashed—the eng
reiving no ne slight w-miids. Tho loss s iu.ilhnaU.-J
from $2,000 to $ t.000.—News.
Our Now Tariff.
Tlie following abridgement of the new Tarifflaw-
of ihe United States, adopted by the Provi.iional
Congress of the Confederate Stales, is the most spe
cific and useful compendium we have seen. The
general classification heretofore given by Southern
papers is not a correct guide lor merchants and
others, because subject lo specific exceptions made
iu the original act or by subsequent amendments.
This abridgement (which we copy from the Rome
Southerner) will infenn importers of the duty they
have to pay on specific articles. It appears to be
iide up with a view to those articles winch our
merchants will import from the United States and
other foreign chantries, which accounts for the omis
sion of sugar and other leading articles which will
chiefly be obtained from our own States. It should
be read in view of the supplemental act by which
the Provisional Congress extended the free list. We
perceive that this schedule does nut include in the Also a lar-e stock, ot CHECK, SWISS, and BAR
free list “Gunpowder and all materials of yvhich it j MUSLINS, JACKONETS, NANSERKS, HDKF8-.
is made,” which are admitted free by supplemental j EDGINGS, INSERTIONS,and a perfect e^oiiueotof
act, and there may be other omissions. j "WHITE GOODS
It may be well to remark (to prevent confusion) *
that the late United States Congress, just before its * n of which are f f eih this Spring. Don't fail ffi czU before
.fijoarourtmt, rovi^ fi,e tariff that p °S£^k ’rfUdta .nd OAITER^HOES
Confederacy, bat that our tariff wa? adopted before ,„d SLIPPERS cannot ^surpassed for quantity, quality,
that revision, anu has no reference to it; or price. Give him a call.
schedules A and B—30 per cent. '
Brandy and other spirits distilled from graiu; cor
dials ; camphor, refined; cassia; dates; figs; fruits,
preserved; manufactures of cut glass, cedar, mahog
Italian and American Marble
Monuments. Tombs, Headstones, Table Tops, Urns,
Vaces, Sic., &c. Opposite JOHNSTON & CO’S-
\iu.eM. BITTI.KR.
March 21, lSlil. 52—tf
$10,000 worth of Spring Goods
selling off at reduced prices.
Ladifs wishing to secure bargains, will
find this a rare rhauce lo Economise!
9 *• * / jjtc OK ...
H'lIilfX ut fuck r.dnred
fail to draw attention, He has
me im*M harnUon'.*; .-tock of Spring div*s goods that ever
were in South-western Georgia, coniprHng in part
Silks, Orgstsidi(‘s,lliislius. V>«-luiiin, Bc*-
ragos, French and English Calicos;
Also, Summer Dress and Travelling Goods for suit*,
which are the
Latest Parisian Styles.
Albany,.March 21,18G1.
The much talked of floating battery ia abandoned
i a total failure. Mr. Pearson was presoot when
Gen. Beauregard first saw it. Tbe General laughed
at it,and soon after it waa launched, it candied and
sunk. When this disaster befell it, the Charleston,
ians said it was nerer intended Tor service,but
merely to smww the impatient hotspurs who insist
on storming Fort Sumter. M
We have news to match it, which is far io ad-
ranee of tbe times; and will no doubtastouish Gree
ley and the u Evening Journal," read as we write,
and weep.
BY HORSE TELEGRAPH.
CnaKLssTos, Jaly 4th, 1861.
Later and Exciting News from Ihe Fort.
[Twenty thousand of the enemy had their heads
knocked off this morning by the eaplasioo ot bomb
shells and other combustibles. The Fort was Mown
np by tho roots and tossed sky high. - Tbe little
piece of land on which it stood was sunk to tha hot*
tom of theocean* Load and continued shrieks rent
the air from those who had their heads knocked off.
Ohl terribly, terrible waa thia terrible calamity.
SECOND DISPATCH.
It is ascertained for a certainty, that taro millions
of tbe enemy, with no equal nnmbar of Percussion
caps, wen captured, and a like number expected to
be. ^
STILL LATER,
The enemy have been run over, “Horae, foot and
Dragoon.” Hurra for oor aide. Go it again Gree
ley. . En. Pat.]
Faax Colooed Pofolatiok a tee South.—A
writer in a Nashville paper baa complied the proba
ble number of tree colored persona now in the r
States, which is 360,000,dittribotedaiMlowai
Maryland, 80,000, Virginia, 60,000, North Caro
lina, 50,000, Delaware, 30,000, Louisiana, 30,000,
Kentacky, 11,000, District of Columbia, 16,000,
Booth Carolina, 10,000, Tennessee 6,000, Georgia,
3.000, Mississippi, 3,000, Alabama, 3,000, Florida,
1.000, Missouri, 1,300, Texaa, 1,000, Arkansas,
1.000, -
anyand rosewood; primes; misios;sardines;seewt-
meats; sugars; snuff; wines and imitation wines.
SCHEDULE C—24 rEE CEHT.
Ale, beer or porter; baskets; bracelets of hair;
broom; brushes; cameos; canes; card cases; car
pets ; carriages and parts of carriages; clocks; clo
thing of description; cotton velvets; cotton hosiery,
bleached or colored; coach and harness furniture;
coal; coke; combs; candles; crockery; cutlery; de
laines ; fans; flowers; fire crackers; furniture; ging
hams; glass;bats and boooets; iron and castings;
jewelry; manufactures of brass, copper, gold, iron,
lend or silver; manufactures of cotton, linen, silk or
wool, if embroidered; manufactures of glass, leather
or wood, Oils/volatile or essential, perfumes, paper
and envelopes, shoes of India rubber, soap, umbret
las, vinegar, wool, watcb Ayetals. . r
acHSObLE U—19 PER can.
Borax, burgundy pitch, buttons, baizes, candies,
calomel, champbor, crude, feathers, flanels, grass
doth, leather, japanned, manufactures of cotton
which are not bleached,printed,painted or died, mo
hair cloth, linen lustres, camlet lustres, manufactur
es of silk or woolen or worsted, matting, woolen
worsted yarn
SCHEDULE E—15 PER CEST.
Antimony, alum, blankets of every kind, bagging,
blank books, caps,' socks, stockings, * gloves^ wove
shirts, made wholly of cottoo, castor oil, cobalt, cop
peras, cocoins indie os, copper, In sheet or plates,
cream ol tartar,ether,flaxseed, glue, hair, moss, hats,
of wool, ipecacuanha, leather, linens, of all kinds,
litharge, manufactures of flax or hemp, medical
drags, roots and leaves and gums, metals; unmanu
factured, musical imtrgmepts,;needles, opinra,or-
aogee, lemons, pine apples, paints, paper hangings,
patty,quinine, quickailser, saddlery, eal coda, salts,
stereotype plates, starch, tarpeotina, thread, lace and
schedule F—12 r*p CEirr.
Gold and silver leaf, steels tn bare, cast, snear or
German, tin foil, low, hemp or flax, line.
SCHEDULE G—8 PES CUT.
Ammonia, books, magazines, bare stones, cam
phor. carbonate of soda, engravnigs, gold beater
•kins, mahogany, rosewood, ebony, cedarwood, salt
petre, sulphuric acid, tin in plates, or Bheets, watch
es and parts of watches.
SCHEDULE H—1 TER CEST.
Aeida, aloes, arMDic; asafoctidt, Iborax,- bVchn,
25,000 ARTICLES
IN
choice
Flower and Rose Plants/
OF VARIOUS SIZES AND COLORS.
A LL In good order and condition, of a-roreop^*
cimcn of beauty, recently imported from the best
NURSERIES IN FRANCE,
The Lots ore all assorted to suit. Purchn e crs»
choice, consisting of various Japoaica, Azalea’JU»*
dodendren, Jasmin, Oleo, Fragrans, Peonm Tt&z
and Herbaceous, Daphne, Oleander, Hortemri*.—
Also, a quantity of grafted and not grafted' Roee
Plants, of the newest improvement,
CHOICE FRUIT TREES, !
Consisting of Apple, Peer, Peach, Apricot, Chenr
and Plum. Raspberry end Strawberry plants aaq
Grape vines.
BULBS, HOOTS^, ,.,
Different 8periea of various quality and oolots,
consisting of Dahlia, Hyacinth, . Tulips,' Amarylh.
Narcissus, Gladious, Lili, Wattsonhn ana anew * nd
numerous qjri^r of Balb^ feo numeroua to
“Th. IADJB9 are resjectfplly invited toattondtlrt
“jar* Forsalu at K A tvs ON & KAWSOW
OLD STAND, opposite the Patriot Office, for, four
. .. .. / j.ram£l
Albany, March 21.
NOTICE.
GEORGIA—Dougherty County-
A LL parsons indebted to the Estate of Thomas
J. Johnston, late of said county, d-cea»ed »ro
requested to Como forward and make payment of
the same, acd.all having demands attainst ,““ d l L
ate will present them duly atleelVl within the time