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SOUTHERN Q O/N FEDERACY. Sout&em 0anffdetitcg j. mnjfi vHtminr, ITLMXTA WITM, {o-Mdttor* . 3a$*pta~ -v-—nr-** FHIDAT. APRIL IS, 188). Cotton and lipr CnJtnre la Africa—Ao Effort oftho Negro Hepubllront to brook down the Prednete of the loath. Wo Dotleo that on "African Aid Socl.ly hu booo- Iwod to- looidoi »Wh tho KOI what ootorloH Dr. (f) Dolalnay At Ila hood, for tbo purpoeo of enrryiqg a d uot bar of forsaken free negro— la the Kfgin settlement, to Aft »<•*, end planting a colony of ooUon aud eager growere at Afecokuta, in tLc Niger VaJ- Wj District. ThU |io| of tty,grafts from Can ed* It to be accompanied bj 100 free negro** from New York, under the eharf* of the ne gro sensation preacher, Hthry Highland Oar- nett. Waare entry for all theee free negroee. Their present condition, a here they can lira t>7 begging of white people, stealing, Ac., is bad enough, hut when they get to Africa, where no sueh court** of eupply ersii he el hand— where they meet lit* by donation* from the hide-bound "friends of negro freedom** In Eng land and Amerloa, (they will not live by hon est labor here—they cannot in their father- land,) their condition will be deplorable in deed. Funds are called for to eotablieb theee "Chris, tian industrial settlements.** They are to take out negroes skilled in the culture of cotton and sugar, with implements, Ac., for its cultivation. It issaid that the ooUon plant is Indigenous and perennial, and that U is the M moot productive country in the world for that valuable article" called cotton. It promises, to all who will con tribute for this purpose, the grandest results regarding tbs production of sugar, cotton, Ac.; "and more important still, • • * slavery will become unprofitable." We also And an article from the Cincinnati *• Octette," In which the editor looks to this " native land of negroes and cotton "to break down slavery among us, by cultivating cotton in its native land with the negro, oa bis na tive soil. Hs says it needs only " organized la bor" iu Africa, to make negro labor, applied to cotton growing in America, "as worthless as mules applied to weaving." We notice that tho African Aid Society of Canada are making efforts with ths British Government to scad a Consul to Abeokuta.— Thay suppose the Government will snap at anything that promises to come in competition with the American culture and trade in cotton, aud perhaps they are right. We also see an inkling or two that some of the nigger Repub licans era trying to get Old Abe to eend a Con sul to the same point, and one also to Liberia. From these two sourees, we have developed the last scheme to destroy slavery among us. We have foiled their efforts to use the Govern ment as a mighty engine with wbkh to crush it out; now soother tact must be taken. It it to bring negro labor in Africa into competition with our negro labor and productions. It exhib its the blind rage of fanaticism, and ths sens# lessness which is a characteristic of sbort-rght- ed desperation. The men who are engaged in this enterprise are knavee and fools, and all who contribute to carryout the scheme, are fa natics and dupes. They know nothing of the real negro characteristic, la the first place; and in the second place, they are trying to turn a a penny by tbis nice little Yankee-Englisb trick. They see how profitable the culture of cotton by slave labor has been to us. They always envied us ou this account. With jeal ous and greedy eyes they have looked on our prosperity, and would fain do any thing to break it down. This, more than any conscientious scruples about the rectitude of slavery, has been the cause of the anti-slavery war against us from the first. Now we are out of their reach, and they are making a desperate effort to get the money of such dupea as will con tribute towards oarryiog nsgroes to Africa, (they say it will take $100 per hoed to take them there,) to break down the monopoly which the haled South has so long enjoyed, aud to bag that monopoly themselves, by using negro labor for that purpose. The British Government has been laboring for years—expending large and almost fabu lous sums of money in expeditions and explo rations ia the interor of Africa and India—try ing to find out a cotton growing country. For a number of ysars put, thay have been rais in cotton in the English nigger colony of Sierra Leone, in Africa, and in their possessions in India, for the purpose of trying to compete with u« and break us down. This cotton hu cost 50 oants per pound to make and export It, and still they are making efforts. Ths Ameri can Colonisation Society have long since triad to make their boasted Liberia a ooUon growing country, but have failed. It costs a half a dol lar a pound to make and export cotton from there. That free negro colony is an establish ed failure—" a delation and a snare." It hu existed forty four years, and is now a weak, poverty-stricken free negro settlement, which dou not support iUelf—never did, and never will. Up to the year 1857, the society had car ried there from this oountry 10,511 negroee \ and yet with all their natural iocrttat, and the annnal emigration, the whole popula tion of the colony does not et this time reach 8,010. This colony hu been cared for—In fact governed, by the officers of the (Lloniialion Hoolety at Wsahington. That aoetety hu dia- bureed annually, since lilfi, u near u we een now ascertain, from $26,000 to $200,000 in try ing to plant the colony and make it »«lf sup porting and proeperous. It now receive* annu ally $25,000 from rente, Ac., of the McDonough estate, beeidea other luge ineomes. The Govern meat at Wuhiag tea hu fostered it In numberless ways ever sines its establish ment. Millions of the people's money, under one pretext or other, hu keen spent to try to make a eneoestfcl free negro republio, with whieb 0* truth <mt cur iuatHfeOodfe, strip «c e# our wealth, add entail untold miseries on as through not nil ngtfe. This f ignntie effort, et nearly a half oentuty's standing, AM fsilsd— iiciiur vulxp ; and the now effort will also fell, fhoy ***** do nntfco barm they seek lode God hat deemed otbestrit and that9 puny end sin tel arm will net aeaMfepOishn when retted against HI* oupruGTUwO. ? The men engaged In this diefccucri flMhfifet, will meet with the fkte of all fools and hypo critee-wdbols beeaus^^y don’t understand ^ Crap Prorfcct*. * what fley are uaderttkEg. nod hypocrite* be- *j| Ofpfo earnestly request ear bus i ness oef- respeadidt* throughout <;he country, to add d B Mckeli y and lh* eowOributeg by lb# drgrd woooblpsre hftea exhausted, and the enterprise a proves and acknowledged failure, that the per ennial cotton of Africa cannot enter into com petition with our staple; that we have just the soil and elimats which alone can supply the world with Ootton ; that free laker, end especi ally free negro labor, never csfl mske Cotton ; staple must be grow a by slave labor; that when they enslave the African on bis own spil, that sail will not yield Cotton in quality and quantity that can compete with ours. In short, they havs yst to learn the great aud im portant troth—the Inexorable decree of Heaven ■—that no one section of country can produce 4 great and profitable surplus of more than one article. In the North-West, they export grain. In Ohio, Kentucky aud TVunessee, thay export stock. In Virginia,tobdeco. In Pennsylvania, coal. In North Carolina, turpentine. In the Southern Slope, cotton ; and in some portions of tbe extreme South, rice, and others, sugar.— Every country has its own specific surplus pro duction ; and Africa is not behind in this re spect. Her prod seta are SLAVES, and is not, and never can be, Cotton. It Is against the es tablished laws of nature aud nature's God to make it a Cotton exporting country to any profitable extent; and every effort in that line will fail. Tbe Yankee aud English Abolition ists will learn, when toe late to benefit them, that they bare but little sense and less dispo sition to do what is right towards their fellow man the world over. When they have involv ed themselves in rain, they will find nut that God is wiser than they are, and that it is fool ish, as well as sinful, to fight against their Crestor. Submitting the Constitution. Tbe Macon Journal A Messenger suggests, that, for the purpose of quieting a few croakers about tbe people not baviog a voioe in tbe for mation or adoption of the Confederate Consti tution, the Legislature, at its next session, sub mit that instrument to the people for adoption or rejection. We dissent from tbis totally.— There was no necessity whatever for submitting the Constitution to tbe peoplo, either to a direct vote by tbem.or to a newly elected Constitution chosen for that purpose. The very men who are now complaining because it was not sub mitted for ratification in one of these ways, know, that, as a whole, everybody is not only satisfied and pleased with it; but notone voter in five hundred expected or desired any such submission to them. It is well known that everybody in tbe South was satisfied with tbe provisions of the old Constitution, if they bad been faithfully adhered to and carried out in their original intent and meaning. Our new Constitution has made no innovatious on the principles of the old—no radical change—no subverting of its time-honored principles: in short, no changes were made, except such as have been thoroughly discussed and well un derstood by everybody who reads newspapers, and, as it is well kaown, has met with almost universal approval for many years past—just such as everybody knows o»r people have ask ed for and would be satisfied with—and no other. Ia such oat* as tbis, we contend that any sort of submitting the question to the people would not only been uselese, but foolish. Those who made n'.d ratif el hat Constitution, un derstood well what the people desired and ex pected ; and never was public desire and expec tation more entirely met in anything. We do not oppose submitting such things to tho people, ns they have not been consulted about, and their wishes not known ; but we do oppose all hhIm references to the people of any question. Such references are burdensome at all limee, aad it ie wrong to impose them on the people except in esse of positive necessity. Such necessity can only arise where tbe mat ter has not been discussed before tbe public and their will is not known. The men who now grumble became our Confederate Con it i- tion was not submitted, would act with far more eousistonoy and propriety, if they wore to de mand tho submission ot every law and resolu tion passed by the Legislature Very few laws are passed, which are known to be in accord ance with public will. If a known public sanction if neceessry to give validity to any enactment of oar Representatives, the submis sion of the laws should be demauded by those who are now eroaking. We are, however, afraid there is a deeper ob jection to the Constitution, by those who now ootnplaimabout ita non-submission, which thay weald like to urge if shame did not prevent— For tbeir own credit—to keep down suspicion, and for tha public good—these objections should oease. Hon. B. H Hill’s Speech. A coteroporsry, in copying of our report of Mr. Hill’s Speech, lays i "The mind and forethought of the statesman aad the fervor and impulse of tbe patriot char acterise the speech of Hon. B. H. Hill, at At lanta, which wo copy to day. It is, to our ap- prshshsion, the soundest sad most interesting address upoa the principles, history and pros pects of onr new Government, that baa yet been reported. The reader will not stop, after be has commenced perusing the sketch, until he has finished it, for he will perceive that he harbefore him ths thrughts of a master mind upon questions deeply efleotins himself aad his country. Thera is food for thought In its suggestions, and stimulus to patriot!* hope in it# cheering views of our future prospects. Our spate could not he belter occupied to-day, and we cheerfully devote so large a portion of It to tbe outline report of this admirable effort." An Brrer. We aotice that many of our exobangea, in publishing the names of the offloers of the Treasury Department ef the Oonfederatattntfea hern the name ef A. M. Clayton, ef Georgia, as Assistant Secretary. This fa a mtstaxo. The name of fhls officer Is Philip Clayton, Ifete of Waahlnglen, hut formerly of Athens, Georgia. tew wo/d* so tbeir tellers, giving information ooneerntng the seasons—the profs see aad pros pects ot tbo crops, Ao. If will sett but a few moments, and be vastly interesting and la- •tmofirs to all our readers. It will plan richly repay those who give us tbie Information, In what thay will see from our correspondents in other sections. We sheer folly annex the following response Ut cur request made a few days ago t meaem, On* Bonaav. Ala., April 6, 1861. As you are desirous of knowing something relative to onr crops, A*., I am glad to any that we are now having glorious showers et min, and our prospects era flattering for an abun dant yield of oats and wheat—particularly the latter. We have good stands of oorn, and all things now look prosperous and cheerful to the farmer. We are all pleated with our new Constitu tion, and admire the coarse of the noble aad trae patriot of your State, B. H. Hill. Yours respectfully, J. H. H. The Crops, Ac. Cusmixo, April 8, 1861. Editors Coxvxnxiticr: The prospect is flat- ering for an abundant crop of wheat the pres ent season, in Northern Georgia, should noth* ing befall it in future; sod were it not that rain falls in such abnndance, the farmers would be planting corn extensively. Yours, Ac, W. 8 SANFORD, Agent. Bible Presentation to tlic KoIdler*. We oopy tbe following from the Columbus Sun : ArraopaiAVa.—Ou the eve of the departure of the ‘‘Florenoe Guardi” from Florence, Ala bama, to Fort Morgan, the ladies of the place presented eaoh one with a copy of tbe Bible, iu the presence of an immense assembly, a discourse was also preached to them by Rev. Dr. Mitchell, from the text, "Be not yc afraid of them; and figbt for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your bouses.”—4th chapter, 14th verse Nehe- miah. While layiDg the foregoing before onr read ers, we deem it appropriate to mention a pleas ing incident connected with tha departure of the Gate-City Guards, which has not yet been made public, and whico is kuown but to few persons. On tbo day of tbe departure of tbe Company, Col. C. R. Hanieiter presented each mess of the company with two copies of the Holy Bible.— There are eight meases in the company, and two tents to each mess. A Bible was presented to oaoh tent. Each Bible had on it, in gilt, the following inscription: "Gate-City Guards. Mess No. —. From C. R. H." lk-sidcs tbeeo, a larger Bible was presented to tbe Officers' Mess, with the following inscrip tion : ' "Gate-City Guards. OAicers’ Marque. From C. R. H.” Thus, seventeeu Bibles were presented to this company by Col. Hanleiler, out of his high re gard for them, and his sincere wishes for their temporal and spiritual welfare. These gifts of tbe Word of Life, coming from such a highly ttteemed friend of the company were gratefully accepted by the compaoy. We hope the perusal of (those Bibles will often bring comfort to tbe hearts of tbe members of the Company while engaged in the arduous duties ef serving our beloved Confederacy at Us point of danger. Tmx Ftxsomfot c# rut 11 its list rf i 8tatb CoMVixTie*.—Of ike uteri/-nine members sL this Convention, says the Vicksburg WVf, forty throe «rt kw/tui—4hc ftti are afenrlj til planters. Bet tmrteea eve natives et Mk- Meeting of Working Men. We notice, in one of our Northern exebanges, that a meeting of Working Mon was held in oao of (ho largo manufacturing cities, to devise some plan by whioh work oould be obtained for the largo number of persons now out of em- ploymsnt. One roan made a speech and pro posed "that the unemployed should form into prooession and parade the streets, with the words "work or bread” inscribed on thsir ban ners. Another speaker opposed this suggestion.— Various propositions were mads and discussed. Finally, "a motion was mads to appoint a Com mittee to memorialise tbe city counoil to fur nish more employment than has already been provided. The motion prevailed and the Com mittee was appointed, with instructions to re port at an adjourned meeting to be held on Monday nexi.” Our olgect in noticing this matter, is to say to our rsadara that we shall have jnst ewch soenes as this in Atlanta, whan w# get to b# a large manufacturing city. We shall have idle men strolling about our streets, wbo will be vicious, for " idleaess end vies." Oui property will be unsafe, vur moral atmosphere tainted, the rising generation corrupted, want and squalid poverty will meet us at ovary corner, crime will be rife in eur midst—<n short, we shall havs ail ths evils, the crime, the wicked ness, and rascality, which characterise the manufacturing citiss end communities of tbe North. If we preserve ths morality, the quietness Xad good order, and ths plenty whiob we now have, we must remain an agricultural people, aad not have large eitiee—especially manufac turing cities. If our cities grow large from mercantile enterprise, let it be so--it will not brew idleness and vioe; bat not so of manu facturing communities. Ws warn tbs people against ths delusion el being a manufacturing people, which ambition seems to fill the rniads of many misguided peo ple in the South at this time. No# we hive no breed riots, no working men’s associations, and no disturbing dement among ns. If wa gat to spinning a si ton and making notions on a large acute, we shall have all these evils. Pertinent. The Rome "Courier" eontaias a communica tion, nddreeeed to Memr* Fouchd, Word and Shropshire, late delegates to onr State Ooaven- ties, from Floyd county, inquiring If they un- [ted for or against tha reeolntion of tha Conven tion, which awarded to Its two Secretaries $5* per dejr* *tefa, for their services. s tr • ***• communication ie signed "ATex Pay- iSCfSfa An or. .arrtod Mw- < "V—** “ •i kw «*n if. boaholart mi Vaj.W.tktak la a perttnow* *0-4Joa la ba pat Mbnn. Tfca loaiiM fb«r,rt«tht allbat elnlye or. lawn art toa, , w ** kl » k *>“• U » portlWB* noa*k>a i« Mrexty* |r to every delegate fa that Mf. Let ns haft tli* yaaa amt aayeep the ee*w African Mlac to as. A local otfiroepeodont of the Prof ideoce Daily u Poet," one ot tho ablest, soundest, aad must reliable Jeoraal* in America, Ikes gives farther Intimation ef tha intention of Liaooin's black Government to reoegnlfe*. make Ignaties and eelehHeh diplomatic relations with tha various trihm of Africa. Look out for black represen tatives to coma to Washington from Liberia, Dahony, Guinea, Hayti, Ao. "Liberty- Equality—Fraternity " with eli negrodom, is the watchword; Mn. Editor:—Your usual enterprise as gleaners of early news, seems to have strangely forsaken yoa upon one subject. As a friend and wall wisher, both of yourself and theoause whieh yea advocate,—or which I supposed you advocated, aed whieb 1 should have no doubt of now, only for tbe terrible charge of treason which teems to besmear you all over, as quoted ie e recent issue ot the “ Post, ” from tbe New York Tribune, a vary pious, rwligoua journal, and squally pious correspondent, if hyocrites and kuaves can be pious,—I hasten to supply the neglect. I hevo it from an honest Republican, that tbe Administration are intending to create a fow first class foreign missions In Africa, in Guinea, at tha august, refined and polished Court of Ashantee and Dahonv. And that Mr. Greely is spoken of and his claims oonsidered superior by his friends, to any other individual, for the mission to Dahony I Who will receive the appoiuUuent to Aehaatee, is not well set tled, but probabir tbe Providence correspond ent of the New York " Tribune.” At any rate, I venture to predict he will go in some capacity to one or tbe other: perhaps as Secretary of Legation. • eeeeeeu They oould do all the secular business of the legation, the preaching, and from time to lime communicate to the people of this country, through the columns tbe “ Triouno,” the latest discoveries in the arts and sciences, mechanics, agriculture, Are arms, war, and other wonder ful result* of tbeir obeervations. Then their reeearehes in Natural History would be ex ceedingly rich and entertaining; especially when they got into the grade next above Ou- rang Outang; as tbeir associations and studies have pre-eminently fitted them for it. All of which is respectfully submitted. B. Correspemlcnre of the Baltimore Sun. Washington, April 7. JnUrviruf of Yirginiant with Mr. Lincoln—Pol icy of the Government—The Expedition from Mew York—Defence of the Capitol—Cull for Volunteers, j*c. Messrs. Thomas and Segar, who are here in tbe behalf of the “Unlonista” in the Vir ginia Legislature and Convention, have had an interview with tbe President, which hes not proved satisfactory to them. They want as- suranoes that Forte Sumter and Pickens are to be evacuated, but cannot get them. Tbe substance of the government policy concerning these forts is, that peace will eontinue if tbe garrisons are allowed to have provisions ; but rather than that they should be starved out, they will be supplied by force. Mr. Fox and others have suggested schemes that they were willing to execute iu person to relieve Sumter by ships, but the idea is generally tabooed by military men. If there are to be successful operations against tbe net-work of fortificatioua around Pickens and Burnter, they must be by lend.— The shipments if horses, Infantry, Flying Ar tillery, fixed ammunition, and especially of five hundred 24 pounders at New York, looks to nothing but land operations. Field works, defended by the 24 pound guns, can be tbrowu up aa a base and be advanoed as circumstances may require. Hence the probability of the statement, attributed to Gen. Scott, that in case of hostilities at Pensaools, batteries must be put in position oo the land. I do not credit (he idea that is suggested in some intelligent quarters, that the New York expedition is in* tended for Texas, wbeu in fact the govern meat is now withdrawing its forces from that point. The better opinion would be that ths troops from New York and Texas will cooceo Irate at Key West, and from that point strike as circumstances may require. Suggestions are again current that Wash ington ia in danger of invasion from Virginia, Ac. On tbis bead 1 am informedin a reliable quarter that the Executive is prepared to hold it. Gov. Curtin’s visit to this oiiy is suggest ive concerning the calling out of volunteers from Pennsylvania, even if one’s judgment was not convinced that sueh steps may be re sorted to from the faot that the Attorney Gen eral is hunting up tbe authority of law on th< point. Look out for a treaty between this govern ment and some leading ones of Europe guar anteeing the inviolability of the existing stal ua aa to Mexico and Cuba. AQA. Secession Precedents. Thera are strong commercial reasons ia fa vor of tha recognition of the new Government by Englend, France and Belgium, whose trade with Ibis country would be muoh impaired by ike Morrill Tariff, sod much improved by the proposed Tariff of the Coafedsrate Elates. But there is no political reaeee for withhold ing recognition from them. There Ie a virtu al, as well as a formal recognition of a new State by third parties. The refusal of tbe old 8tate, after the aem- blaoee of control haa ceased, ia no legitimate bar to the complete sod formal recognition of the new 8tat* by tbe other communities of the world. Upon this point both the reason of tha thing aad the ancient and modern prno tie* of nations are quiet decisive. Thus every Stmts in Europe, except Austria recognised tbe new 8tatt of the United Neth erlands during the long interval of eevtaly years whioh preoeded their recognition by Spain. Tbe revolt of Portugal from Spain, ia 1640, was not followed by recogeition from 8paio till lfigfi, hut within a years after ike revolt Eogland entered into a treaty ef pees# and al liance with Portugal The King (Charles I) allege* in tbis treaty that "he is moved to oenclude it lo secure the liberty of trade of bit beloved subject• ” The formal recognition ef the South Amers loan Republics by Great Britain teak place in 1826, and aader the negotiation ef a treaty ef asm mures, while they were yet unacknowl edged by the mother country. Holland established commercial relations with the North Amsrieaa Colonies during the revofotiee of 1778, aad It wa* aot oomplained of by Sighted. Set England on one or two eeeeutoft* remonstrated with Holland against furnfottUf arms aad meaHions ef war to the revolted Ceteeie*. trade, ia everything bat contraband af war. wm permitted. — Washing ton cer. Journal of Commerce. The /eftewfog letter was reeeired by Postmaster General Reagaa a few days since, from James W. Hughe* Postmaster at Bell- villa, Illinois. It speaks for itself» Bsaavinca, lax., March 27,18*1. J. S. S, Dean 8mEnclosed yoa will gad my letter of resignation as Postmaster of tbis city- -ea office worth orer two thousand del- lent per aanem—bet aa my feeling* are all Hi fauerof the rights , ef the South, either In or oaf of the Unkm, I ess net consent to hold of fice under Id abotitientel. The Revolution. Sydmej Smith but announced a historical feet when be said : •» There was a period I when the aligheet oonceeoioa (by Great Bri- linn) would have satisfied the American# ”— Previous to the battle of Lsxlagtoa, tbe polo nies did net coetemplace a permanent separa tion from the mm her oountry. Franklin, not long bvfore, bed said to Lord Chatham— 41 1 never heard from any person tbe least ex preseioa of a wish for s separation.” In Oo- lober, 1774, Washington wrote, 44 No such thing ae independence is desired by sny thinking mao in America.” Jefferson says, u Before the 10th of April, 1776, I never bad beard a whisper of a disposition to separate from Grsst Britten.” Only thirty-seven dsj s before tbe battle, John Adams, is Boston, published to tbe world : “ That there ere sny who pant after Independence ie the greatest •tendor on the providence.” Aa there was s period wben ** the slightest eoneeesion would have satisfied the A men oao colonies,” as there wee s period when tbe Btsek Republicans could have easily prevented a dissolution of the Union, but that time is past and recon struction, we believe, is an impossibility.— While the border 8tstcs, in Congress and out of Congress, have been oonstaotly engaged la endeavoring to prepare en adjustment, the an itslsvery 8tates, in Congress and outof it, have cither stood utute or breathed only threats of subjugation. A Border State Convention at Frankfort Kentucky, is now spoken of, but we have never heard of a Border State Conten tion in the Black Republican States to effect a settlemen, and yet wears occasionally told that the prospects are bright and brighteoing to obtain all we desire. Every day experience is increasing the ranks of ikebitterly denoun ced Secessionist?. The people are opening their eyes to the foot that a revolution ie new progressing, that the Union is now dissolved, that we are| iu the bauds of *our enemies, and that our every interest is identified end indissolubly connected wiib the prosperity of the South. Many wbo not many weeks since had, in ihejeogtisge of Franklin to Lord Chat ham, never "heard from any person the least expression of a wish for a separation,” are now like Franklin a little later, wishing for it themselves. Aud si eight yesrs, tbe conversa tion at tbe Lion and the Lamb, "ao awkward looking gentleman, to plaie clothes walked up to'tlie drawing room of 8t Jatues iu|> he midst of tbe gentlemen of the Lion and the Lamb, and was introduced as the Ambassador from the United States of America, so within less than eight years, some such looking gentle man will be walking up to the Capitol of the Northern Confoderaoy an (he recognized Ambas sador of the Confederate States of America.— Xanhviile Union $ American. Thb Charleston Evening News.—Tbo Charleston Evening News, of April 9th, con tains the following card : Temporary Sunpennon. — Wc are compelled, from tbe state of affairs, to temporarily sns pend the Evening News, from sheer physical impossibility of issuing a daily shest. The largest number of our compositors ere now on duty ; our pressmen end our clerks have been summoned to join tbeir respeotive Corps sta tioned at military points iu the harbor, with the certainty of being deprived of the small remuaut of our force left. We shall resume as soon as circumstancrs will permit. JOHN CUNINQHAM ft Co. A Frksh-wateb Spring at Sea.—Mr. W. A Booth, tbe coast pilct of tbe revenue cutter Harriet Lane, reports the discovery of a boil ing fresh water spring at sea off the ooaal of Florida. lie says the spring is situated twelve miles north by east, from St. Augusiine, Florida, and eight mites off shore. It boils ns with great force, and can t e descried at a diet) of two miles. Wben first seen it hae the an- pearanee of a breaker, and te generally avoi ded ; but there is no danger in the vicinity, as there is fivt fathoms of water between it and the shore. Ten fathoms of water are found to the seaward, but no bottom can he reached with the deep sea lead sod thirty fathoms of tine at the spring itself. The water in tha spring is fresh and is by no means anpaltabls. One peculiarity about this phenomenon ia, that when the 8t. John’s river is high, it boils op from six to eight feet above tbe level of tho sea, and presents rather a forbidding appear aooe. This spring haa doubtless dacsived hundreds, who have hastily put about froi aa they thought, imminent danger, and report ed seeing a "rock with water breaking over it.” The Harriet Lane has passed through it several times, and water has been drawn from it by a bucket thrown over the side, and when drank no unpleasant tests or smell has b> found. Its position and harmless character havs been long unknown, but now tbesuppos ed danger haa beoome, aa it were 44 a well ot water in a barren land.” A Courageous Girl.—Here is a little item from a late Texas paper ; showing the old pi oneer spirit still pervading tha wivaa and daughters of the backwoodsmen. Tbe party of Iodians who paaeed through Jack Parker and Palo Pinto oountias test week, marking tketr way with desolation, and atriking terror to tho stoutest hearts, drew np at the reeideaoe of Mr. Eubanks, and ware holding a parley, and no doubt forming a plan to eUaok the house. There wee not a man on the premises at tbe time. Mrs. Eubanks, bar daughter and several small children were alone. The yard was enclosed with pickets, about six feet high. Mies Mary Kubeaka, (ha daughter, with unequalled presence of mind for erne so young, eeiaed a shot gun, pul en her broth er’s hat aad plaoed a bench near the nieketlag ee ae to peep over without exposing nor body end then deliberately fired at tbe party, wbieb stratagem and beroio conduct doubtless saved bar ewa life and tba lives of her mother aad Hula brothers aad sisters, ea tbe cowardly scamps immediately fled, no doubt believing the house defended by a body of armed hm*. Fugitive mere Case at Chicago. Chicago, April 8, 1861.—A colored man named Harris, with hie wife aad two children, were arrveted here ibis morning on a warrant issued by U. 8. Commissioner Coeaeau aad seat by special train to Springfield, where they will be examlavd to morrow. The maa is claimed by Mr. Patter son of St. Louie Coun ty, Me , aud tha womau aad children by Mr* Vail of tbe same oouoij, from whonoo they eseaped. Aa It was almost entirely unknown that waijj rant# were issued, they were executed with little difficulty, hut after the affair became known tha moat intense excitement prevailed among the oolored portion of the community, and large numbers gathered at the depot at the time (ho regular morulug train left, the wd supposing the fuxltivee to be oa heard. Oa* ar two shott worn fired at the train. Be yond this there wee ao dlstarbaaoa. A teacher bed been explaining to hie elaes the potucu ef tha eomnum. All were drawn up la front towards the nartb. “Now, whal ia before you, Jehu t” "flu north, elr. H — "Whal Ie behind you, Tom ?” -My coat tail, Mr, * as id he, Irrfag at the some time It gat a glimpse effc. liav m nz innra -OK THE— C ONFEDEJU Tli 8TA‘l$ T H ‘ Itortf Amorim, MCeZmlWloner^/Sj— * xte, to brine forwardjo nM Wat*, In - loon of flflcoa million* of dollar* reeottl* by Aet of Oonrre**. Vor tbo purp«M> ofV opportunity to all who may be wiling to takeewMt ltd* loan, w* propoM to bavc Books op«ned ooiCr day of April list, at th« following point* aad?— other place a* wc may hereafter »fc. ■ah, August*, Macon, CoHimbua, Allan!* Mu ' aad Rome. Special noUce of tbe place where the Book* wis opened, and of the p#r*>o* appointed for thbimr- at«Mbo< Mmsamteu, wUi be la due i|J ~ tow we submit « statement from the Sec retorr«tff In connection with the Act, le plainly explanaioVf^Tl nature and ekwacter of tbe loan. And we con Meat hope that our feBow-elUiet* *Ul § thii direct appeal to the people, rather than to a- capitalists, for the means of carrying on our oew ar&utooi; aad that oil poo*ea**d of the ateoae it their dafy to avail themselves of an opnorturii* enables them to sake aa oaUrgly .a<«, aud a* Investment, and, at the same tin*, contrive aid cause of patriotism and their country. KBUTK ST ARM*, ) JOBKFU MILLIGAN, '-('oinmisaioner*. WM. H. JO U HUT ON,) Augusta, March 28,1*5*1. Loss for the Defeaee —Of T1IR— CONFEDERATE STATES. P IVK millions of UR* most advantageous lav- will be offered to the public en tbe l?th of Aprlisa, sutnf, and every dtlsen ihroaghout the CoufsdcrZ States will have (he appertanity of taking a share of the benefit, and, at the name time, of sustaining rh* can## of his country. Bonds with coupons will be Issued In sums from 11 tW to $A0, aad, where It Is preferred, stock certlf- ' ' ” the usual form ntay be bod. The Interest Is at PKR tJTNT. per annum, payable every six moa all our principal cities. The debt haa the very unusual end important • ty of a duty ot one-eighth of a cent, per pooa* about 42 cents per bale, on all Colton exported, duty, under all circumetaocea, of peace or war, — - the punctual nay merit of the Interest, and furnishes? slaking fund for the redemption of the principal. TV coupons, when due, are receivable In payment of tte doty oa Cotton, and are thus made svallaMa aa aata. everywhere Iu our country. In order to enabletUmP tione of our people to take a part of this valuable g.' vestment, and to exUbft their common Interest)a igfe. Ing funds for the common defence, books of Mbsim tion will be opened at the eltlea and principal tMwfer v towns: fiye per cent, n jt he paid In oash at UratteMT sup ciiptfoo, aad the remainder on or before tbe MB of May—Interest to run from the date of ouch payawLj Persons desiring to soesvu tbeir msbosriptisas, osy yso. In cash the whole amount, and take a receipt fsr the 1 — livery af bonds or stock. To equalise the rate of seb script Ion at all polnto, and to suable all persons e—- veiilently to subscribe, current bank Dotes of the (date will be received at their market rotas Id oota. ( In caae of aa ever aubacilption, preference will given first to thnao who pay down their whole tlon ; nest to subscriber* of $50; next to sahserlben • 100. C. O. HUMMINGIR, Beoretary ot the Treasury, t Montgomery, Ala., Marc* 14, lb4L crwwUMj, and to provide for the 1 federate States America. Bee. L Tha Confederate HUUt* ef America do aoasL That the President of tbe Confederate Btstes be, aa4te Is hereby authorised, at any Uute within taelve hh after the passage of this Act, le borrow, oo the * of the Confederate States, a atun not exceeding fe millions of dollars, or ao much thereof as, In Ms syfe lon, the extgeaoee of tbo public may require, uksm plied to tbe payment of appropriations made ‘ for the support of the Government and for the d of the Ooafederate States. *. The Secretary of the Treasury le hereby aa ed, by tha content af tbe President of the Gonl Btates, to cause to be prepared certlflcate* of • bonds, la each sums oa are hereafter mentioned, feels' amount to be borrowed oa aforesaid, to be signed by lbs Register of the Treasury,and scaled with the scalar '' Treasury; and tbe aald certificate of stock orb. shall be mods payable at ths sxplratlon at tea yean from the lrst day of September text; and the isteUu thereon shall be paid semi-annually, at the rat* of slat* per cent.per annum, at tha Treasury and snch other place as the Secretary et the Treasury may dog And to the bonds which shall be Issued os a shall be attached coupons for tbe feud-annuai Interest which mar accrue, which coupons may be signed by oflicers to be appointed for the purpose by the secreta ry of the Treaoury. And the faith of the Confederate States le hereby pledged for the due payment of the prin cipal and Interest of tho o*ld stocks and bonds. 8. At the sxplratlon of live years from the 1st of fep- tember next, the Confederate States may pay ep a*/ * portion of the bonds or stocks, upoa gfvfng three uiealhs preetous public notice, at the seat of Government, of . the particular stocks or bonds to be paid, aad the tlsig and place of payment; and, from and after the tla>e se olnted, no further Interest shall be paid on laid stocks 4. Tha certificates of the stocks tnd bonds shall ti Issued In such forms, and for such aiuoants ss way te determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, aad uay be aarifited or delivered under each regulations as tu may establish. Bui sons of them alioll be for a Mu than $50 ; and he shall report lo Cougresa, af 1* J to the due pa>ment of Inters* an provided for U this Act, not •saury Is hereby authorised and ■hall be levied, collected and paid, a duty of one cent, per pound on *11 collon In the t , exported from the Confederate State*, which deey w hereby specially pledged to ** * * *' * and principal of tha loan p the Secretory of the Treasury is hereby a required to establish a sinking fund to carrr Into r! ths provision* of this section: Provided, koatcer, That the Interest ot coupons, Issued under Iksbetaed section of this Act, when due, eholl be reetiveM* M payment of export duty oa cotton: Provides, _ That when the debt and Interest thereon, herein enther- Ised to be contracted, shall be extinguished, sf m Oat- lag the fund provided for that purpose shall be Adequate to that end, the said export duty shall cease sod duterj, «Une. Marat r-hrMUb , COX, HILL & CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS, AKD PIRXCT I If PORTER* Of WINES, MUCOUS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, AC. Ptaek- Tru Strut, AUmta, Cur,In. March M. G. LAURANT & CO., 1TO, Hay Street, Savannah, Ca» Auction, Commurion Mmhmto, end ft** *— porttri ,f Vina, Brand,u, Cigon, |a A DVANCES evaSa ea Oeuign—at* a klnJe. Auetioa Balee on TaoWaye TharWaya. March IMS-- PATTTEN k MILLERS, GENERAL COMMISSION FORWARDING MERCHANTS. Savannah, Georgia- nm r. '*»* . Special P«r»rf. OBORQR PATTiV ANDREW J. Mll l.au, WALTS* J. VILLEN, March 16-Jra. )! n. a. McLendon, WHOLESALE GROCER*. in ooaiha ii FOatlQN AND DOMtSTIC tl«UO«A Tobtsoo, Oigars, Ac., —itoo— •ACON.LAND. COejTtTtOUA a a. fAwetw f#tar*. ruuS-Tra *».« Atlanta, Oejrgla. T BS attention of cIom Caab Buyani » anaetfhlly inrltod to tha abovaatoee. Month t. IIOCIIIIS, Mill If, jtoA-nwSwf. *fU _-., TT ^.—i mu9WtP§A»U A FINS euafly oT Oeen, Bacon aa< A WMI tu BUM. ‘ *