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The Kevolntfon iu Tennewee.
and ir Nashville ecban;;e! are Oiled with report* j
of meetings, formatim sos tnilitarr companies, !
ic , all indicating rapid change in the coarse of I
public opinion thro dinot tbe State since the call j
was is- it'd for trnrr. - hv the Federal OoTernment. I
The following is the telegraphic correspondence j
between the U. S. .Secreurf of War and Governor j
To/: t tlUneg J’t.OM ti. Horn*, Governor of 1
/v> - o* . •
Call made on you hr to-night’s mail for two;
regiment* ot militia lor immediate service,
Siaos O'akkrox,
Secretary of War.
Htfc ‘ Tit a He.PAßTuexr, I
Va dii tile, Venn., April 17,1861- Ii
//o'O ■ (teo-.*, .VsMtarv of War,
Waihingtou, V. C.:
Sir Vonr dispatch of the i 7th’ iust., inform
ing me that Tennessee is railed upon for two rep
meats ot militia toi immediate service, if received-
Tennessee will a-t furnish a single man for P>"-
poses of coercion, hut .V -.0 ,f neeeasarv, for the
defense of our rights, and those of our Southern
brothers Jshah G Haaais,
governor of Tennessee.
In Nashville meetinga beve been held every
aucoesstre night during the week, and late promi
nent Union men, Bic .i. electors, Dorotss electors,
, . ~ e are atN urging unanimity
action OD tbe part of Tennewee
~ (. .States. Memorials urging j
, , . , of tbe legislature were pouring in I
the Governor ttiick and fast. In Memphis
t idav nigh*, l'“b, an tinmens* meeting was I
, Q d the folium wig among other resolutions,!
Revived, That the war winch Abraham Lin
r( , miming to be the President L'nited fltstes, !
’,re< p’tated up a the country, in the face of
i ■ m ihi (VMMtHatton exelu
• 1/ the war making power in Congress,
( and treacherous course, is a gross act
’ .rilin', and usurpation, and will be opposed
l, v ,-n dauntless determination to resist his
1! t.lvd, That we t s tfully but earnestly
tin.'*- upon the Govern* r of Tennessee the impor
tance of immediately convening the Legislature
in extraordinary se-sMon. .and that our delegates
from this county, and lha Senator and Floater be,
und they are hefeby irmtrueted to vote for a bill
ailing a convention immediately, with tb#Yiew
of pa-wing forthwith an ordinance withdrawing
Tennessee from the Union.
Resolved, ‘J nat in the judgment of this meeting
it will the duty of the State -Convention, when
assembled, without unnecessary delay or debate,
to pass such ordinance, resa tiling the delegated
powers of iht State and placing her in her appro
priHte portion m tin* Southern Confederacy in
>,i ,:or<: kiice with what we believe to be the true
interests of the flute.
K -solved, That m view of thb pending war, the
uncertainty of the direction wuich hostile move
ment.- may take, and the duplicity which has
heretofore characterized the conducted th<* Liu-
C’ Jn Government, Memphis, and the county of
No lby, should he immediately put in an adequate
-ute of defenc , and so occupied as to prevent
the passage of troops and munitions of war
through or by the city, to operate against tbe
South, and that the proper authorities of the city
and the county of Shelby be requested to adopt
immediate iinancial measures to that end.
Resolved, That in ease of alt efforts by an or
ganic act of the Stat. , to place our city outside the
pale of Lincoln’/! authority tail, we shall be com
pelled to assert the laws if self-preservation and
to defend our hv. , property and families by our
own efforts and arms
Afterward**, <’!. K W. Munford came out, and
though having been a co-operator with the Union
party, he >aid that the day of divisions at the
South had parsed His heart, soul, and worldly
means were now enhMed in the defense of South
ern right* against Northern aggression. He
offered the following resolution :
it* .|v and, That a committee of three be np
po.tiled by the chair tt; inform President Davis
that the city of and. cjdits has seceded from the
late United State ,t'< >’ever- -and that she places
he i elf under the <• rnment of the Confederate
States, and will lvspund to any cal! for aid from
him.
It i iuipo:- lie to describe tbe wild enthusiasm,
as evidenced by tie deafening shouts of appro
bation und the rap.d waving to and fro of hats
and li tnd that pervaded the assembly upon the
reading of this resolution. The shout that went
up from near three thousand throats, proclaimed
its unanimous passage.
The f ‘nion gives the following extracts from
letters:
Shelbyv f illk, April 17.—A1l hail l The people
of Lincoln county are united to resist and de
clare themselves out of the Unkn, and for the
Southern Confederacy, and sending members to
tin* Washington Congress.
Clarksville, April 17.—There was an immense
public meeting here last night. Three hundred
..luiiic* i.s have enrolled themselves. The War
feeling is mtense. The tirg of the Confederate
States floats from the top of the Court House with
universal approbation.
Gallatin, April 16.—1n order to give you an
idea of the public feeling, it is only necessary’ to
*.iy that tin* Hag of the Confederate States is float
ing proudly to tin* breeze from a hundred leet
hickory must planted on the Public Square, and
that every one is gre. ting it. Party feeling has
been ignored, and at last we are brothers in ac
tion. Don’t this look right ?
Two military companies have been r aised, one
at a reserve, the other for immediate action. At
Hurls, ill** another fine company is being organized
while ut Uustuhau Springs, the old stamping
ground of the heroic settlers of the country, a
company of cavalry, already equipped during the
last full, is fully organized under Capt. Humphrey
Hate, mother of Geu. Rat-?. We learn also that a
company is mentioned in-the Western purt of the
county.’ >
It President Davis wan s Five Hundred Fight
ing Men from old Sumner he can get them. Just
i*t him send around the “Fieiv Cross,” and never
“Mails*’ sped luster over Scottish heather to
arouse the mountain clansmen, than onr gallaut
bays will to rally the descendants ot the warriors
©f New Orleans and Pensacola. R.
Warlike Cuau.yuKt in New York. -The New
York Last Methodist Conference was full of tight
mi Monday. The war was freely alinded to, and
prayers were put up that their euemies may be
scattered to the wind. One of these prayers con
cluded with asking the Almighty that the seces
sionists b<* brought to destruction, and be “wiped
out from the face of the country.”
Quite an exciting debate followed tho prayer,
.upon a motion for a committee of five to prepare
‘resolutions expressive of the feelings of the con
ference in regard to the present condition of the
country Oue elcrgyman thought they would
better serve Uoii bv attending to their religious
duties, and let the slate of the country alone. An
other Mr. Curry * suggested that oare must be
taken that no traitors oe appointed on the com
mittee. To this remark several of the brethren
look exception, and oue of them. Rev. Dr. Ferry,
ros** and said that if he were certain that the re
marks of the gentleman, (Dr. Curry,) so far as the
word “traitor” was concerned, were mteuded for
hun, he would use nnans of punishment on the
spot. His (l)r. Curry Vi remarks were unchris
tniulike, as well a** ungentle manly, and should not
be uttered before t • couferenee. Dr. Curry sab- j
sripicntly explained that he did not intend to be i
pei.sr tuii, aud the explanation was accepted as
satisfactory. Afi* r some further squabbling, the
committee submitted a report calling upon all
good Methodists t* stand by the government.
The report was adopted. _
Ois A'lTßors Finn in M acon.- About three o’clock
veaterday morning, yie cry of tiro was raised, and
it was soon discovered to.proceed from the garret
room? of that hue building in the centre of the
old Washington Block, known as Granite Hull, J
aud occupied as a H tol by Major R F. Dense. ]
lit a short time the whole building waeconsumed 4
sint it the hour es this writing, (Thursday A. M.) |
the walls have fallen in. Considerable loss has !
been sustained by Major Deuse, as he was onlv I
partially insured on the furniture of the hotel. J
The owner of the building, Mr. Dunham, of Eaton-1
ton. is insured, we lean, to the amount of $20,000,
which will nearly cover his loss. Most of the j
poods in the dry goods store of Messrs. Piuddens, j
and in the Miliuery store ot Miss Murphy, under j
the Hall, were safely removed, and their loss will j
not therefore be great. The adjacent new storo j
of Mr. It. F MeErov. on the north side of the
alley, and that of John L. Jones, Esq., on the
south side of the hotel, were somewhat scorched, !
but. we believe, not materially damaged. The \
family of Mr. 1)., as well as his guests ami board- j
ers, lost nearly all of their personal effects, iu the
hurry of departure at that early hour of the morn- j
ing.
Doubtless the tire was the work of an incen
diary, but we have uot learned that the linger of
suspicion points to any one in particular as guilt?
of the act.—.l/ax>* Tt'h-ijrapk . I MA.
Thf. I S Troops in Texas.— From the San
Antonio Ledger of the >th we extract the sub
joined : On Friday last, the regimental staff and
band of -d cavalry that regiment which has
shed such lustre aud renown on cur frontier ser
vice, with Capts. Johnson and McArthur’s—(Van
Dorn’s old company - passed through our town, j
on their march to the coast, to bid adieu to Texas, j
On Saturday, (.'apt. Wallace’s company Ist U. S. j
infantry, passed through, destined for the same
point, and with the stone object. There remains j
yet. of ail the troops that were within the borders j
of Texas on the day of die transfer, eight com- !
paoies of the Sth infancy, aud the regimental |
staff ami bands of the Ist and Sth regiments of in- j
tauirr. The companies are all en route from El !
Faso and the upper forts on that lino. The bead j
quarters of both regiments are at this place. We j
learn that Lieut. A. F. Cone, the only subaltern
with Captain Wallace’s company, resigned, while
here, his commission iu the U. S. army, to take ;
oue iu the Confederate service , and it is a re- !
markable fact, that the id cavalry had not a 2d,
lieutenant in the regimert—-every commission j
being vacated by resignation, promotion, or caau !
ally. Lieut. J. F. Mutter, 2d cavalry, has resigued (
an'J accepted service in the Confederate army. I
Lieut Harvey, vth infantry* has resigned. I
A Noble Mahos.—The Mobile Advwiiter pub- ■
lisbes the following letter, which the Editor has
received from a widowed lady. Verily, “this poor j
widow hath cast more in, ihan all they which !
have cast iuto the treasury
Mr. Editor: Hearing that a public loan is to be
subscribed for. for the protection of our Sotbera 1
homes, and the Southern right*, j
aud being a widow, poor and, alas! unable to con
tribute even the small sum of fifty dollars from
my limited means, 1 take the libe iy of sending !
> ou with this note a j aokage containing six silver S
spoon*—relics ot once prosperous days—as a free i
contribution to'the Government, hoping that al- j
though of little*value, they will be received from
one who did her means permit would cheerfully ]
give thv'u*and s for the suoport of a cause so pa- ;
tnotic and so holv. I beg you. Mr. Editor, to de- }
the mc.v. $ necessary, for forwarding my hum- f
gift to proper destination. 1
W ith respect. 1 subscribe myseft.
A Souther* Matron.
Mobile. April I®, i^,-.
We have core fully laid aside says the Editor.!
the package referred to, acd shall take an early j
opportunity to giw it b .proper direction.
W ash IN or.* Cltr —Wr sincerely hope that no i
effort will be made by ctikm of the South to !
take possession of the. t> of V'aahiußton. audio j
expel the officials 0! the Gooaiument of the United ,
Slates from tbeir abode* or offices. If , nT SU( .|, ‘
effort is made betore \ irginta and Maryland shall j
t avc .eceded from tha l ntou . f the United ."states
„ - verv disastrous to the Ciu.-o of secesnoii
it w ill t. - the t'tate pride of the cil:zcos of these
proud Commonwealths, who will uot be able to j
see, with indifference, tlietr territories lawlessly ;
tnvided and list'd for an unlawful purpose. And
when these Mates have seceded, it will be for t
/ . -m to M tiie their relations towards Washington
The rourse of James the .'■ecoud, we think, will
be followed That “roteh cap and military cloak ■
willaa'.iube called into sertice; aud the Black
Republican borde, who now defile the high places
at Washington, will flv like rat* out of a burning !
.yarn, l.et tnetn ge “Do uot pollute the soil of
Vl. ginia or Maryland with their mean blood. Let
Them go. To keep them in Washington, after
Ytr u\ i and Mart land Lave seceded, you will
have u>w.‘* them in a thrAO-stA*ry tail. Ho wot
dtgnifv then, hy chasing them—much less killing I
Cin. iNNAit April i ‘ —All the volunteer compa- !
Dies heie are filled and nior c are offering than
can be accented Three coa.' T,|u,t *' 8 etart tonight
• rendeivoa-at Columbus To ‘ r hundred troops
are in readiness at Newport The work ;
Vt enlistment is progressing rapidly.
* Vi* ;
(ialti
Where**, teren of the State, formerly nompo
i sing a part of the United States bare, by authon
i tr of their people, solemnly resumed tbe powers
, granted by them to the United State*, and bare
i framed a Constitution and organized a Uo*, _
i meat tor themselves, to which the people ot
i Slates are fielding willing and na
S notified the President of the United
the formalities incident to such action, an
; hv become to tbe United States a separate, mde-
, Tints potion* Os the United
StaLfA invested CoDgress with the sole power .
and £u. .. I
made, the President has no au.hontv to call for
an extraordinary force to wage offensive war
: , D , foreign power, and, whereas, on the .
!,R m „ the President of the L nited States, in
i i Vain violation of the Conatitotion, issued a proc- i
! | . ..ion calling for a force gs seventy-five tbon- |
! sand men. to cause the laws of the U. States to be
j j u j r executed over a people who are no longer a
part of the Union, ana iu said proclamation tureat
er.s to exert thin unusual force to compel obedi
i <>nce to his mandates ; and whereas, the General
Assembly of Virginia, by a majority approaching
j to entire unanimity, declared at its last session,
that the State of \ irginia would consider such an
exertion of force as a virtual declaration of ar
to be resisted by all the power at tbe command of
Virginia; and subsequently the Convention, now
in session, representing the sovereignty of the
."tale, has re-affirmed in substance the same poli
cy, with almost equal unanimity ; and, whereas,
the fltate of Virginia deeply Sympathises with the
Southern States, in tbe wrongs they have suffered
and in the position they have assumed, and hav
ing made earnest efforts peaceably to compose the
differences which have severed the Union, and
having failed in that attempt, through this un
warranted on the part or the Draaident; and
it is believed influences which operated to
produce thin proclamation against the seceded
State will be brought to bear upon this Common
wealth, if she should exercise her undoubted
right to resume the power granted by her people,
and It is due to the honor of Virginia that an im
proper exercise of force against her people should
be repelled:
Therefore, I, John Letcher. Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, have thought proper
to order all armed Volunteer Regiments or Com
panies within this State forthwith to hold them
selves in readiness for immediate orders, and upon
*he reception of this proclamation, to report to
the Adjutant-General of the State their organiza
tion and numbers, and prepare themselves for
efficient service. Suob Companies us are not
armed and equipped .will r-port that fact, that
they may be properly supplied.
In witness whereof, I have hereuuto set my
hand, and caused the Beal of the Common
Il.h. I wealth to be atfixed, this seventeenth day of
April, 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of
the Commonwealth. John Letchsk.
Gov. lietcher’a Reply to tlie Secretary
of War.
Executive Department, 1
Richmond, Va., April 18,1881. J
JJon. bimon < inu'ron, fircretary of lU*#.
Sir I received your telegram of the 15th, the
fenuineuess of which 1 doubted, flince that time
have received your communication, mailed the
-lame clay, in which I am requested to detach from
the Militia of the State of Virginia “the quota
designated m a table,” which you append, “to
serve as Infantry or Riflemen for the period of
three months, uuless sooner discharged/’
In reply to this communication, 1 have only to
sav that the Militia of Virginia will not be fur
nished to the powers at Washington for any such
use or purpose as they have in view. Your ob
ject is to subjugate the Southern States, and a
requisition made upon ms for Such an object—an
object, in my judgment, not witbin the purview of
the Constitution, nor the Act of 1795, will not be
complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate
civil war, and having done so we will meet it, in
a spirit as determined as the Administration has
exhibited towards the *Soutb.
Respectfully, John Letcher.
Supposed Pwawage of a Secesalon Ordi
nance by the Virginia f'onvention.
[From tbe Richmond Examiner, Wednesday.]
The Convention going into secret session, on
yesterday, the public was kept in the utmost sus
pense as to the nature of its proceedings, and at
every hour of the day rumors of various charac
ter were rife respecting it. None, of course, were
authentic. When the Convention took a recess at
half past two o’clock it was evident, from the cas
ual eoqvertioa of the members, that nothing had
been done. The question had arisen upon the
policy of immediate secession, and it is believed
that an ordinance to that effect had been oflered.
It is certain that Messrs Stuart and Baldwin, of
Augusta, opposed it vehemently—whether the
simple question, or the ordinance itself, could not
at the time, be discovered. The Convention reas
sembled at four o’clock, and remained in session
until eight. The discussion during the evening
was very animated, and a vote of a decisive char
acter, it is said, was arrived at. A member, who
was unable to attend on account of illness, having
nu understanding with his friends that he was to
he sent for upon the taking of a very important
vote, was seut for, and was conveyed to the hall
in a carriage. Perhaps the rumor is based upon
this circumstance.
Among the few certainties attending the cur
rent reports may be mention ‘d the fact that du
ring the proceedings the noble-hearted Win. Bal
lard Preston sobbed and wept like a child” It
may also be stated, as another fact, that Algernon
Sidney Gray, in attempting to address the Con
vention, was overcome with emotion, and could,
for a tmig, only utter impassioned and incoherent
sobs. When the Convention adjourned for the
• rening it was remarked that a glow of satisfac
tion mantled upon the countenances of the advo
cates of immediate secession; but every man, not
withstanding, wore an air of solemnity, that, to
one unversed in physiognomy, was as impenetra
ble as the pallid and impassive smile of the Sphynx
of old. Rumor upon rumor “follow ed fast and
followed faster,” but not one, as regards the
adoption of any particular course, was based upon
an indubitable fact. Yet there existed a strong
ground for inference. Every Eastern member,
with but few exceptions, was for immediate seces
sion. There was a sufficient accession from the
Western representation to give them a majority.
Their opponents were not against secession, but
advocated co-operation, because, w hatever their
decision plight be— immediate secession or not —
it could notne ratified by the people until the
20th of May. This excuse being open to many
vital objections, it may naturally be presum ted
that thtifiinmediate Secessionists maintained their
strength. Taking it for granted, therefore, that
the test did come, we are tempted to believe, what
was generally believed by the great body of in
telligent inquirers last night, that the Old Domin
ion is no longer a member of the Northern Con
federacy.
Charleston Items.
We take the following items from the Churles-
ton papers of the 20th :
Direct Importations.—The brig West Indian,
and schooner H. I’. Russell, xvhicti cleared from
this port this week, loaded with lumber, rice and
rosin, for Uio de Janeiro, are to return with coffee
for Geo. W. Williams A Co.—Mercury.
Help for Virginia. —South Carolina will aid
Virginia with two regiments of her victorious
troops to muintain the bold position which she
has assumed against Federal usurpation. We un
derstand that the regiment of Col. Maxcy Gregg,
aud the regiment of Col. Pettigrew, have been se
lected for this service. Os course these regiments
will have an opportunity of voting for or against
the service, but no oue doubts the result. Both
regiments will be en route, in a few days, for the
scene of their future laurels.— Mercury.
Appointment.— Gen. M. L. Bonham has been
appointed by President Davis a Brigadier-General
in the Confederate States Army.— Courier.
Transfer op Troops —The Secretary of War,
Geu. D. F. Jamison, leaves to day sot Montgome
ry, to make arrangements for the transfer of
the troops now iu the service of the State to the
Government of the Coulederate States.— Courier.
Great .Excitement in Norfolk, Va.
We learn from Capt. Pearson, of the steamer
j Georgeanna, that there was some excitement at
Norfolk on Wednesday evening, growing out of
rumors to the effect that the \ trgiuia Convention
j uad passed an Ordinance of Secession.
A party of men, without any authority, had
j seized the light-boats, and floating them to the
j shallowest point at the mouth of the harbor, had
I sunk them to prevent the removal of the vessels
I of war from the Navy Yard. The channel was so
j completely blocked” that the Georgeanna was
! compelled to cross over the flats to get out.
It was also said that another party of men had
broken into the old abandoned Custom House,
and seized two guns from au old revenue cutter
and deposited them iu the building. The marines
and Government troops at the Navy Y ard num
ber uot less than 800.
The war steamer Cumberlan, after au ineffectu
al attempt to get out, returned aud went up to the
navy yard for protection, as there was a ruitier
that the yard was to be attacked.
It was rumored that a battery was to be thrown
up, on Sew all's Island, Governor Letcher was ex
pected in Norfolk on Wednesday evening.
The excitement was increasing, and many were
clamorous for the immediate seixure of Fortress
.Monroe before the Northern relief troops could
arrive. —Baltimore American.
• M
I ears of an Overflow,, —The river continues
steadily rising, about half an inch per hour, with
sixteen feet steamboat water on the falls last
evening.
At Cincinnati, if the dispatches are correct, the
river has risen four feet in the last twenty-four
: hours eudlng at noon yesterday.
The nver here last evening was rising faster
than in the morning, and the wharf space is very
I muoh circumscribed. A rise of another foot or
two will bring it to the side walks along W ater
j street, overflow the Shippingport bottom, and the
i landing above the Point,
gTbe Lower Mississippi, at Memphis Monday, was
rising, with reports that it was out of it banks at
various points in the neighborhood of the mouth
of the Arkansas, but as that stream was falling at
the last accounts, the hope may be entertained
that the Mississippi will commence receding before
the Ob'.o freshet overtakes it. If it does not the
inundation of the lowlands is inevitable. —Louis
milt Courier, IHZA.
The river at this point rose about one inch yes
terday, and is now within two feet and a ha£f of
high water mark. At St. Louis the river is sta
tionary.—Memphis Ataianeie, April 20ZA.
The New Orleans Delta learns that recent rains
throughout the Rad River counties has com
pletely overflowed Lake Bisteneau and the sur
rounding country to about four feet, destroying
whatever portion of the cotton crop that was up,
and also washing awav vast numbers of houses
and trees. Mr. J J. Carter’s ware house, at
Mtnden, being at the lower landing, was over
flowed to the depth of four feet, completely dam
aging its contents of salt and other goods, his
toss being one thousand dollars or more. The
inhabitants state it was the greatest overflow that
has occurred in that neighborhood since the year
>e!zike or rax Steaxu Silvh Wave it Na
poleon and the Ssylxkk at Five Bluff—Oap
-s or f states Property.—The steamer Vic
toria, the tycoon of the" Memphis and Vicksburg
line, arrived last night, her officers and passen
gers lull ot enthusiasm for the Southern Confed
eracy. From Dick Lighthouse we learn that the
steamer Silver Wave, laden with Government
property, lrom St. Louis, destined for Fort Smith,
was seized at Napoleon on Wednesday by Col. M.
W Johnson, of the Eth Regiment of the Arkansas
Militia. The commander of the Silver Wave re
fused to show bis manifest, but when the artillery
was brought to boar upon the craft he capitulat
ed. Bi this prompt movement the South has ob
tained a vast quantity of serviceable materia! to
prosecute the war.
We learn bv telegraph from Pine Bluff, Ark., j
that the citizens of that place stopped the steamer
Skylark, and took from her nfty-one ton* of Go
vernment freight, which w ill be appropriated to j
the use of the South. The Skylark is a St. Louia
boat. —Memph i- Aoaianchs, -JOZA.
The New Orleans Pwayune says: “'We have j
been put in possession of a letter trorn a relative
< f the Hon. John A. Campbell, of the Supreme
Court of the U. S., dated the 7th inat..to a citizen |
! °* a Orleans, stating that the only intercourse ‘
that the Southern Commissioners have had with
I t iv Administration at Washington, has beeh car
. ned on through Judge Campbell, and be haa had !
the emphatic assurance ana promises of the Ad- ‘
ministration that the peace should be preserved, j
At the same time, Judge Campbell received assu- i
, ranees, ana was authorized to write South, to say !
that before his letter reached there, the order
wcuid be telegraphed for the evacuation of Fott
Sumter.
lot the Sottb.—The Davis Guards, Captain
B. M. Anderson, a deompanv enlisted in this
city for service in the Southern Confederacy, will
leave to-day for New Orieana, at which point they j
will await the orders of the Commander-in-chief j
i of the army of lh South. —Louittill* Journal.
fiayt+r. Mr, 4nd the CorJulq&H ‘'Oorwi* j
; mfcicnert-rjh* of war Vtroum down and j
| (fv., liV.
i The following is the correspondence between
1 the Secretary of State and the Commissioners
from the Confederate State. The letter addressed
’ by tbe Commissioners to Mr. Seward is recapitu-
I lated in the reply of Mr. Seward entire, and we
therefore omit it:
THE REPLY OF MR. SEWARD.
Memorandum.
Department op State, )
Washington, March 15, 1861. {
Mr. John Forsyth, of the State of Alabama, and
Mr. Martin J. Crawford, of the State of Georgia,
on the 11th inst., through the kind offices of a dis
tinguished Senator, submitted to the Secretary of
State their desire for an unofficial interview. This
request was, on the 12th inst., upon exclusively
public considerations, respectfully declined.
On the ICth inst., while the Secretary was pre
occupied, Mr. P. Ranks, of Virginia, called ax this
department aud was received by the Assistant
Secretary, to whom he delivered a sealed com
munication, which he had been charged by
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford to present to the
Secretary in person.
In that communication Messrs. Forsrth and
Crawford inform the Secretary of State that they
have been duly accredited by the Government of
the Confederate States of AmericaasCommission
ers to the Government of the United .States, and
they set forth the objects of their attendance at
Washington. They observe thatjseven States of|tbe
American Union, m the exercise of a right inhe
rent in every free people, have withdrawn, through
conventions of their people, from the United
States, reaasumed the attributes es sovereign
power, and formed m government of their own,
and that those Confederate States own constitute an
independent nation de facto and dejure , and poss
ess a government perfect in all its parts and fully
endowed with all the means of self-sopport.
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, in their afore
said communication, thereupon proceed to inform
the Secretary that, with a view’ to a speedy ad
justment of all questions growing out ofthepohti
cal separation thus assumed, upon such terms of
amity and good will as the respective interests,
geographical contiguity and the future welfare of
the supposed two nations might render necessary,
they are instructed to make to the Government
of the United States overtures for the opening of
negotiations, assuring this Government that the
President, Congress and people of the Confede
rate States earnestly desire a peaceful solution of
these great questions, and that it is neither their
interest nor their wish to make any demand
which is not founded in strictest justice, nor to do
any act to injure their late confederates.
After making these statement* Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford closj their communication, as they
say, in obedience to the instructions of their
Government, by requesting the Secretary of State
to appoint as early a day as possible iu order that
they inav present to the President of the United
States the credentials which they bear, and the
objects of the mission with which they are
charged.
The Secretary of State frankly confesses that
he understands the events which have recently
occurred, and the condition of political affairs
which actually exists in the part of the Uuion to
which his attention has thus been directed, very
differently from the aspect in w’hich they are pre
sented by Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford. He
sees in them, not a rightful aud accomplished
revolution and an independent nation, with an
established government, but rather a perversion
of a temporary and partisan excitement to the
inconsiderate purposes of an unjustifiable and un
constitutional aggression upon the rights
authority vested iu the Federal Government, and
hitherto benignly exercised, as from their very
nature they always must be so exercised, for the
maintenance of the Union, the preservation of
liberty, and the security, peace, welfare, happi
ness and aggrandizement of the American peo
ple. The Secretary of State, therefore, avows to
Messrs. Forsyth aud Crawford that he looks
patiently but confidently tor the cure of evils
which have resulted from proceedings so unneces-
sary, so unwise, so unusual and so unnatural, not
to irregular negotiations, having in view’ new and
untried relations with agencies unknown to and
acting in derogation of the constitution aud laws,
but to regular and considerate action of tbe peo
ple of those States, in co-operation with their
brethren in the other States, through the Con
gress of the L'nited States, and such extraordina
ry conventions, if there shall be need thereof, as
the Federal Constituiion contemplates and author
izes l be assembled.
It is, however, the purpose of the Secretary of
State on this occasion not to invite or engage in
any discussion of these subjects, but simply to set
forth his reasons for declining to comply with the
request of Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford.
On the 4th of March inst., the then newly elect
ed President of the United States, in view of all
the facts bearing on the present question, as
sumed the executive administration of the Gov
ernment, first delivering, in accordance with an
early and nouored custom, an inaugural address
to the people of the United States. The Secreta
ry of State respectfully submits a copy of this
address to Messrs. Forsyth und Crawford.
A simple reference to it will be sufficient to sat
isfy those gentlemen that the Secretary of State,
guided by the pl*inciples therein announced, is
prevented altogether from admitting or assuming
that the States referred to bv them, in law or in
fact, have withdrawn from tfie Federal Union, or
that they could do so in the manner described by
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, or in any other
manner than with the consent and concert of the
people of the United States, to be given through
a national convention, to be assembled in con
formity w ith the provisions of the Constitution of
the United States. Os course the Secretary of
State cannot act upon the assumption or in any
way admit that the so-called Confederate States
constitute a foreign power, with whom diplomat
ic relations ought to be established.
Under these circumstances the Secretary of
State, whose official duties are confined, subject
to the direction of the President, to the conduct
ing of the foreign relations of the country, and do
not at all embrace domestic relations or questions
arising between tbe several States and the Fede
ral Government, is unable to comply with the re
quest of Messrs. Forsyth and Craw’ford, to ap
point a day on w hich they may present the evi
dences of their authority, and the object of their
visit to the President of the United States. On
the contrary, he is obliged to state to Messrs.
Forsyth and Crawford that ho has no authority,
nor is he at liberty to recognize them as diplo
matic agents, or hold correspondence or other
communication with them.
Finally, the Secretary of State would observe
that, although he has supposed that he might
safely and with propriety nave adopted these
conclusions without making uny reference of the
subject to the Executive, yet so strong has been
his desire to practice entire directness and tcf act
m a spirit of perfect respect and candor towards
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, and that portiou
of the people of the Union in whose name they
present themselves before him, that he has cheer
fully submitted this paper to the President, who
coincides generally in the views it expresses, and
sanctions the Secretary’s decision declining official
intercourse with Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford.
April 8,1801.
The foregoing memorandum was tiled in this
department on tho 15th of March last. A delivery
of the same, however, to Messrs. Forsvth anil
Crawford was delayed, as was understood, with
their consent. They have now, through their
Secretary, communicated their desire for a dyfi
nitive disposition of the subject. The Secretary
of State therefore directs that a duly verified copy
of the paper be now delivered.
A true copy of the original, delivered to me by
Mr. F. Vi. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State
of the United States, on April 8, 1861,” at 2.15 P.
M., in blank envelop.
Attest, J. T. Pickett,
Secretary to the Commissioners.
THE COMMISSIONERS IN REPLY TO MR. SEWARD, ACCU
SING THE GOVERNMENT OP DECEPTION, AND ACCEPT
ING A SOLUTION BY THE SWORD.
Washington, April 9,1861.
Hon. Win. If. Seioard, Secretary of State of the
l'll tied States, Washington:
The “memorandum” dated Department of State,
Washington, March 15, 1861, with postenpt under
date of sih inst., has been received through the
hands of Mr. J. T. Pickett, Hecretaay to this com
mission, who, bv the instructions of the under
signed, called for it on yesterday at the depart
me nt.
In that memorandum you correctly state the
purport of the official note addressed to you by
! the undersigned on the 12th ultimo. Without re
peating the contentl of that note in full, it is
enough to say here that its object was to invite
the Government of the United States to a friendly
consideration of the relations between the United
States and the seven States lately of the Federal
Union, but now separated from it by the sover
eign will of their people, growing out of the preg
nant and uudeniable fact that those people have
rejected the authority of the United States and
established a government of their own. Those
relations had to be friendly or hostile. The peo
ple of the old and new governments, occupying
contiguous territories, had to stand to each other
iu the relation of good neighbors, each seeking
their happiness ana pursuing their untionul des
tinies in their own way, without interference with
the other, or they had to be rival and hostile
nations. The Government of the Confederate
States bad no hesitation iu electing its choice in
this alternative. Frankly aud unreservedly, seek
ing the good of the people who had entrusted
them with power, in the spirit of humanity, of
the Christian civilization of the age, and ot that
Americanism which regards the true welfare and
happiness of the people, the Government of the
Confederate States, among its first acts, commis
sioned the undersigned to approach the Govern
ment of the United States with the olive branch
of peace, and to offer to adjust the great questions
pending between them in the only way to be jus-’
titled by the consciences and common sense of
good men w ho had nothing but the welfare of the
people of the two confederacies at heart.
Your Government has not chosen to meet the
undersigned in the conciliatory and peaceful
spirit in which they are commissioned. Persist
ently wedded to those fata! theories of construc
tion of the Federal Constitution always rejected
by tne statesmen of the Sooth, and adhered to by
those of the Administration school, until they
have produced their natural and often predicted
result of the destruction of the Union, under
which we might have continued Jto live happily
and gloriously together had th- spirit of the ances
try who framed the common Constitution anima
ted the hearts of all their sons, you now, with a I
persistence untaught and uncured by the min i
which has beeu wrought, refuse to recognize the
great fact presented to you of a completed au J
successful revolution ; you close your eyes ro the
existence of the Government founded upon it, and
iguore the high duties of moderation and humani
ty which attach te you in dealing with this great
fact Uad yon met these issues with the frank
ness and manliness with which the undersigned
were instructed to present them to you and treat
them, the undersigned had not now the melan
choly duty to return home and tell their Govern
ment and’their countrymen that their earnest and
ceaseless efforts in behalf of peace had been futile,
and that the Government of the United States
meant to subjugate them by force of arms.
Whatever may be the result, impartial historv
will record the innocence of the Government if
th* Confederate States, and place the responsibil
ity of the blood and mourning that may ensue up
on those who hsve denied the great fundamental !
doctrine of American liberty, that “Governments ;
derive their just powers from the consent of the
governed,” and who hsve set naval and land arm
aments in motion to subject the people of one
portion of this land to the will of another portion.
That that can never be done while a freeman sur- i
vives in the Confederate States to wield a weapon, :
the undersigned appeal to past history to prove. !
These military demonstrations against the people
of the Receded States are certainly far from being
in keeping and consistency with the theory of the
secretary ofState, maintained in his memorandum
thnt thase States are still component parts of the
iate American Union, as the undersignad are not
aware of any constitutional power in the President
of the United State to levy war, without the con
sent of t. ongress, upon a foreign people, much
less upon any portion of the people of the United i
States.
The undersigned, like the Secretary of State
have no purpose to “invite or engage in discus
sion of the subject on which their two Govern
ments are so irreconcilably at variance. It is this
variance that has broken up the old Union, the i
disintegration of which has onlv begun. It is i
proper, however, to advise you that it were well
to d.smiss the hopes you seem to entertain that,
by any of the modes indicated, the people of the
Confederate States will ever be brought to sub
mit to the authority of the Government of the
United States. You are dealing with delusions,
too, when you seek to separata oar people from
our Government and to cnaractenxe the deliber” ‘
ate, sovereign net of that people as a “perversion
of a temporary and partisan excitement.” If
yon cherish these dreams you will be awakened j
from them and find them as unreal and unsub
stantial as others in which you hare reoewlly in
dulged. The undersigned would omit the per
formance of an obvious doty were they to fail to
make known to the Government of the United
States that the people of the Confederate States
! M r#psMioliinda of uw
wL trf ST h* adpurm*nation tc maintain it e \* mi
j the with whioh nature haa endowed them,
• as that which sustained their fathers when they
threw off the authority of the British crown.
The undersigned clearly understand that you !
have declined to appoint a day to enable them to !
lay the object of the mission with which they are
charged before the President of the United States,
because so to do would be to recognize the inde
pendence and separate nationality of the Confede
rate States. This is the vein of thought that per-
vades the memorandum before us. The truth of (
history requires that it should distinctly appear J
upon the record that the undersigned did not ask
the Government ot the United States to recognize i
the independence of the Confederate States. They .
only asked audience to adjust, in a spirit of amity
and peace, the new relations springing from a
manifest aud accomplished revolution in the gor- j
eminent of tbe late Federal Union. Your refusal
to entertain these overtures for a peaceful sola- j
tiou, the active naval and military preparation of 4
this Government, and a formal uotice to the com
manding General of the Confederate forces in the |
harbor of Cnarleston that the President intends
to provision Fort Sumtor by forcible means, if
necessary, are viewed by the mndewigued, and .
can only be received by the world, as a declara
tion of war against the Confederate States; for the
President of the United States knows that Fort
Sumter cannot-be provisioned without the effu
sion of blood. The undersigned, in behalf of their
Government and people, accept the gage of battle
thus thrown down to them, and, appealing to
God and the judgment of maukind for the right
eousnes of their cause, the people of tbe Confede
rate States will defend their liberties to the last
against this flagrant and. open attempt at theif
subjugation to sectional power.
‘ibis communication cannot be properly closed
without adverting to the date of your memoran
dum. The official note of the undersigned, of tbe
I2th March, wes delivered to the Assistant Secre
tary of State on the loth of that month, the gen
tleman who delivered it informing him that the
Secretary of this commission would call at twelve
o’clock, noon, on the next day, for an answer. At
the appointed hour Mr. Pickett did call, and was
informed by the Assistant Secretary of State that
the engagements of the Secretary of State had
prevented him from giving the note his attention.
The Assistant Secretary of State then asked for
the address of Messrs. Crawford and Forsyth, the
members of the Commission, then present in this
city, took note of the address on a card, and en
gaged to send whatever reply might be made to
their lodgings. Why this was not done it is
proper should be here explained. The memoran
dum is dated March 15, and was not delivered
until April 8. Why was it withheld during the
intervening twenty-thjjee days? In the postscript
to yapr memorandum you say it “was delayed, as
was understood, with their ( Messrs. Forsyth aud
Craw ford’s) consent.”
This is true ; but it is also true that on on the
15th of Marcli Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford
were assured by a person occupying a high official
position in the Government, and who, as’ they be
lieved, was speaking by authority, that Fort Sum
ter would be evacuated within a very few days,
und that no measure changing the existing tt-ah/8
prejudicially to the Confederate States, as re
spects Fort Pickens, was then contemplated, and
these assurances were subsequently repeated,
with the addition that any contemplated change
as respects Fort Pickens, would be notified to us.
Gn the Ist of April we were again informed that
there might be an attempt to supply Fort Sumter
with provisions, but that Governor Pickens should
have previous notice of this attempt. There was
no suggestion of a reinforcement. The under
signed did not hesitate to believe that these as
surances expressed the intentions of the Admin
istration at the time, or at all event of prominent
members of the Administration. This delay was
assented to for the express purpose of attaining
the great end of the mission of the undersigned,
to wit: —A pacific solution of existing complica
tions. The inference deducible from the date of
your memorandum, that the undersigned had, of
their own volition aud without cause, consented
to this long hiatus in the grave duties with which
they were charged, is therefore not consistent
with a just exposition of the facts of the case.
The intervening twenty-three days were em
ployed in active unofficial efforts, the object of
which was to smooth the path to a pacific solu
tion, the distinguished personage alluded to co
operating with the undersigned, andjevery step of
that effort is recorded in writing, aud now in pos
session of the undersigned and of their Govern
ment. It was only when all these anxious efforts
for peace had been exhausted, and it became clear
that Mr. Lincoln had determined to appeal to the
sword to reduce the people of the Confederate
States to the will of the section or party whose
President he is, that the undersigned resumed the
official negotation temporarily suspended, and
sent their Secretary for a reply to their official
note of Marcli 12.
Jt is proper to add that, during these tweotv
three days, two gentlemen of official distinction
as high as that of the personage hitherto alluded
to, aided the undersigned as intermediaries iu
these unofficial negotiations for peace.
The undersigned, Commissioners of the Con
federate States of America, having thus made
answer to all they deem material in the memoran
dum filed in the Department on the 15th of Marcli
last have the honor to be,
John Forsyth,
Martin J. Crawford,
A. B. Roman.
A true copy of the original by due delivered to
Mr. F. W. Reward, Assistant Secretary of State of
the Uuited States, at 8 o’clock in the evening of
April 9, 1801.
Attest, J. T. Pickett,
Secretary, &c., Ac.
MR. SEWARD, IN REPLY TO THE COMMISSIONERS,
ACKNOWLEDGES THE RECEIPT OF THEIR LETTER,
BUT DECLINES TO IT.
Department of State, )
Washington, April 10, 1861. )
Messrs. Forsyth, Crawford and Roman, having
been apprised by a memorandum which has been
delivered to them that the Secretary of State is
not at. liberty to hold official intercourse with
them, will, it is presumed, expect no notice from
him of the new communication which they have
addressed to him under dute of the 9th inst., be
yond the simple acknowledgment of the receipt
thereof, which he hereby very cheerfully gives.
A true copy of the original received by the
Commissioners of the Confederate States this 10th
day of April, 1861.
Attest, J. T. Pickett,
Secretary, Ac., &c.
Letter lrom tlie Volunteers.
We are permitted to make the following ex
tract from an interesting letter from a member of
the Oglethorpe Infantry, to his parents in this
city. The letter is dated
Beat of War, Warrington, Fla., \
April 18th, 1801. \
Dear Parents ."—After a journey of two weeks,
we arrived here, aud found everything looking
warlike. Gen. Bragg, so I understand, is going
to send us down to Fort Mcßae, and we have to
learn the Artillery drill, because we are the best
drilled company in the whole now
stationed here. We have about 8,000 troops here,
and more are arriving every day.
Kverybody welcomed us heartily when wear
rived at Pensacola, us they bad beard and read so
much about us, and said we were welcome to
anything they had. Some of our Mess are on
guard, and tbe rest of them cleaning up a parade
ground.
Gen. Bragg says he can take Fort Pickens with
the forces he has, in four hours. We have some
of the best batteries in the whole of North Ameri
ca. Onr men will take charge of four 10-inch
columbiads, throwing 128 pound balls ; four fl
inch, throwing 100 pound balls ; and will be be
hind a breastwork about 20 feet thick, including
wall and sand-bags.
We will in a few days have here two of thegreat
est Generals in the world—Gens. Bragg and Beaure
gard. We have also tbe best Engineer, that is,
the man who superintends the making of mortars,
bomb-shells, cannon, cannon halls, Ac., and also
the throwing of shells. It has beeu acknowledged
thut he can throw shells with greater accuracy
than any other man in the country.
Please send on my trunk, with underclothing,
as we are allowed everything for our comfort.—
All of our company tire well and iu excellent
spirits. J. R. 0.
better From tlxe Volunteer*.
Camp Georgia, )
Near Pensacola, Fla., April IS. j
Kd. Chron. £• Sent. :—Now that our tents are
pitched and we are fairly settled, perhaps some
incidents connected with the ride from Macon to
this point may uot be uninteresting to the many,
borne friends of the Augusta volunteers. On
Tuesday morning, the 9th inst., the Washington
Rifles and Oglethorpe Infantry escorted Col. Ram
sey and staff from Macon to Pensacola. These
were the last companies of the Georgia Regiment
who left Camp Oglethorpe. The ride from Macon
to Montgomery was exceedingly pleasant, inter
rupted on the route, as it was, by many agreeable
and encouraging welcomes and shouts of greeting
along the road. At every stoppage there were
gathered crowds of true southerners to bid us go
onward ; all were enthusiastic—men, women,
children, white and black. Not the least worthy
of mention of these short and sweet attentions of
our men, was the little schoolboys and schoolgirls
l ashing from the school-rooms, cheering the sol
diers with the vvavmg of handkerchiefs and ban
ners and the lavish distribution of beautiful
boquets. When all are ready to stimulate the
patriot with such profuse congratulations—when
the school-boy, with sparkling eye, is eager to
join you witli his arms—when the mothers tell
their sons to go to the battle field, that liberty ami
honor are dearer than the lives of loved ones —
when grev-baired sires and grandsires tell the
young volunteers that it is physical inability alone
that prevents them from shouldering their arms—
when onr countrymen would willingly, aye, cheer
fully and spontaneously urge us to place the ban
ner of Southern rights upon the ramparts of our
foes—who so dead to the purest impulses of home
and country as to discourage the impetuous vol
unteer! Such were some of our reveries en route
to Montgomery, and after reaching there we won
dered if the demonstrations along the Rail were
were real, or were they phantoms of the train ?
The escorting companies remained in Montgome
ry until Thursday morning, the 11th inst. do
much has been said of tbe city of Montgomery,
its beauty, its wealth and its “hospitality, that “it
would unnecessarily fatigue the reader to attempt
a description of all these things. After visiting
the Capitol and other public buildings of the city
I whiah we were allowed to do by one day’s delay)
we aguic resumed our travel, ani reached Garland,
Alabama, on Thursday morniug. At this point
commenced a gap in the Ala. k Fla. K. R. Here
we were quartered until Saturday afternoon, when
at five o’clock we marched to Evergreen, Ala., a
distance of 18 miles, and left the latter at fire
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, reaching Pensacola
at o’clock the same evening. And your
correspondent will venture to say that no body of
men has ever been more warmly welcomed than
were the Georgia Regiment from the moment they
entered Alabama until they reached Pensacpla.
The Alabamians are aroused, aud woe to the
enemy who would inflame their passions and be
get their enmity. To verify this, the instance of
Barbour county is sufficient; so large were the
numbers of volunteers from this county, that the
ladies told tbeir husbands, sons and brothers, to
! march to Pensacola and they wonld attend to the
farms and protect their homes from invasion,
j Leaving Pensacola on Monday last,the 16th inst.,
! the escorting companies to the Colonel and Staff
were stationed with the Georgia Regiment in the ;
’ rear of Fort San Carlos de Barrancas.
At last we are here—settled on “this camp
ground"—and what do you suppose the Georgia ;
volunteers are doing? They are no longer the
idlers at Camp Oglethorpe, near Macon-=-bat
1 something more romantic—none of your material ;
practicalism—but the fascinating employment of
wood-cutters, brnab-bnrners, entertaining brass
j buttoned officers with filling empty sand Dags to
catch Lient Adam Slemmer’s cannon balls. Nor
is this all; your Augusta volunteers are up to
their elbows in saap sods over military “duds
| and when the game of rubbing, washing, sunning
: and ironing with a tea-cup flat-iron, or such other
[ utensil as may be most convenient, the butt of j
yonr gun for instance —is played out. Some of.
your fashiouable’ laundresses will certainly be !
round behind the age at least a quarter of a cen- ■
tury. AU are at work, you may rest assured, and I
are working with a vim. There are many Geor
fians here iu the different companies from Ala
ama, Mississippi and Florida. I have seen the
ugly Fort Pickena, with its guns mounted and
pointing to Mcßae. Barrancas, the Navy Y’ard,
and the different encampments. There are to
day seven men-of-war around Fort Pickens; three !
of these are bearing directly upon the Navy Yard,
and there is no doubt of the fact that Fort Pick- j
ens has been reinforced. Tbe more the merrier; j
and there trill certainly be no lack of material to
feed the havoc of war when the baU is fairly
opened.
Y'erterdav Wednesday the Washington Arid- :
lery reached here, ready to join in the conflict.— J
The Confederate troops are nil animation, drilling ’
regularly day after day. Yesterday the Georgia
Regiment was reviewed by Col. Ramsey, after
which the Colonel turned the Regiment over to 1
i Bijt in i*. !■(***#, wbfiTmtrt kfciHM, ?h|
if K*m a*i toa HBt’
cliUv Wsfit.-Cufi OiirKo. who U oomiuniiliy aduiu
| w Ms **.U.SQjji laufuU hr bis skillful manoeu
vres, hi. piemptneea, kindness mid attention to
! lliose (Wider bis oommsad. Augusta'muy well be
| proud 6f such an officer, for while weiring his
. modestly and becomingly, should the occasion
occut, he will gallantly sustain the reputation of j
tue Augusta soldier*-. It will no.,doubt bo the
pride of Georgia to know that there is but one
Feeling animating her Regiment, and that is, bar
, mony and the determination to maintain the
I nnnnr nt lieiir.m a nnl>l. .f ... _n m
. _ -v,,uiiuouu uiaiuiam tue
honor ol Georgia, noble mother of U£ all. There
! ls Dow t u regimental parade elery afternoon at
‘ 0 c oe v’ .encampment is under strict
i inUnary discipline, and Gen. Bragg has placed
I th J* P O,Dt under martial law. The Confederte
soldiers are active, Und determined to have Fort
PiCKeoto. Hurrah for the Carolinians ! Our flar
waves over fallen Sumter, and Major Anaerson is
spared the necessity of shedding the blood of
■ those dear to him. Pickens, we hope, will fall
* 1 “ tf ‘ om . “ AQ ds as successfully as Sumter ; but
J ensacola mav yet run red with the blood of
(Americans iff fratricidal strife. If such be Na
"ures decree, then “welcome be Cumberland’s j
steed to vhe shock—let them dash his proud foam ,
i eu ‘y ave on tbe rock”—for Georgians, andMis
siasippians, and the true Confederate troops, will
cheerfully yield their blood and life rather than
the subjects of bigotry and insolence,
n hen I again get leisure, I will speak more
particularly ot things about Pensacola Bay, as I
become la miliar with the military curiosities.—
More anon. Lennox.
From the correspondence of the Savannah Be
jrublican y dated the 17th,we extract the following .
Memmer was in command by Major
Tower, of the Artillery ; end he (Tower) superse
ded by Col. Wood to-day.
Additional forces have been thrown into Pick
ens, and any quantity of shot and shell.
The Lomederate forces now concentrated here
amount to over 7,000 men, and all as eager for a
light as an Irishman at Donnybrook Fair.
The Washington Artillery, of Augusta, arrived
here on the 16th, and were generally observed
lor their soldierly appearance/ They were much
needed here.
1 here will be warm work here ere this letter
reaches you. The ball will open in a lew days.
Neai'ly all the families have left the village of
Warrington, by order of Gen. Bragg, and the re
niainder will do so to-day.
A demand is said to have been made to-day, by
the h ederul officers for the surrender of Forts
Mckae and liarraucas, and the Navy Yard!—
Rather cool, isn’t it? I think the report untrue.
Gen. Bragg is said to have telegraphed the Se
cretary of A\ ar, for instructions to-night.
1 hough not quite us well prepared as at Charles
ton, no hostile fleet will ever enter this harbor.
Bragg has been allowed till 6 o’clock to-morrow
morning to answer.
From, the Charleston Courier
Teles rains to Governor Pickens:
Wilmington, N. C., April 20. -A steam tug,
whose uanie 1 do not know but which w’as sent by
Old Abe with provisions for you or the fleet, put
in here for coal this morning and was seized by
the Committee of Safety, who will take care of
both provisions and vessel. Other of Old Abe’s
vessels will be similarly received and furnished
accommodations If they are desirous of doing good
service for the Confederate States.
Richmond, Aprii 20* —Things are now quiet in
Baltimore. Governor Hicks has refused to per
mit Northern troops to be sent through Balti
more. All is ready at Norfolk to receive and pro
vide for the South Carolina troops who may ar
rive. The Fort is in possession of Virginia troops.
Norfoliv, April 20. -Our boys captured the ua
vul magazine last night, with three thousand bar
rels of guu Dowder, and vast quantities of loaded
shell and other ammunition. Most of the powder
is now half way to Richmond.
The Cumberland lies abrest of the Navy Yard.
Four hundred of her crew swear they will not
fig!* t us. We expect to capture her,* and then
the Navy Yard is ours, with not a man lost yet.
Norfolk, April 20.—1 t now appears that Com
modore Paulding, of the Cumberland, was the
party who spiked the gnus in the Navy Yard two
hours ago- He sent, a flag of truce* to General
Taliafero, commanding in this city. The officer
bearing the flag has been in secret conference
with Taliafero until a few minutes ago, when he
returned to the Cumberland, which is still at the
Npvy Yard. The result ot the conference is not
known. Twenty two sailors escaped from the
Cumberland last night to our side. As events
transpire 1 will inform you. Rumor says that
Paulding threatens to shell the city, but as yet
rumor only.
Norfolk, April 20.—The object of the flag was
to state that Paulding will not fire on us if we will
not (ire on him. This is not official, but there is
no doubt of it. Paulding has scuttled the Mem
mac and the Germantown, which vessels are now
sinking at the wharf.
Two steamers from the North threw a large
body of troops this morning into Fort Monroe.
Foui- hundred Petersburg volunteers will be here
this day at 5. P. M. For the last hour the Cum
berland has been throwing into tfie river from
her own hold large quantities of boxes aud cases,
supposed to contain small arms, taken by he?-
from the Naval Arsenal. The work is going on
now. Its cause cannot be conjectured. Some
think it is a mutiny.
Baltimore Telegraph Office.—The Superin
tendent and operators of this office have closed in
consequence of threats again si their live*. Parties
came into the Baltimore “office with despatches,
and threatened to shoot the operators if they
were not sent, while others threatened to shoot
them if they did. Tbe wires are all cut between
Baltimore aud Philadelphia.
J. R. Dowell, Superintendent from Washington
to New Orleans, lias been arrested by the authori
ties at. Washington for announcing himself a se
cessionist. He i a a Virginian by birth.
The mails are all stopped.
A bridge a mile long has been cut all to pieces.
Norfolk, April 20, 6:40 a. m.—Paulding has just
now cut down the shears in the Navy Yard and
has destroyed the gates of the Dry Dock. I doubt
not that all the ship houses aud timber sheds will
be in flames before morning. Oh ! that a Pickens
era Beauregard could be over us.
Norfolk, April 20, sp. m.—lt is McCauley, and
not Paulding, who is in command of the Navy
Yard and the Cumberland. Four hundred and
fifty Virginia troops have just arrived with four
six pounders.
Norfolk, April 20, 9 P. M. —The Pawnee passed
by to the Navy Yard at a quarter past 8 P. M.,
with 500 Northern troops. They will no doubt
cut our wires to-niglit, probably tear up our rail
roads.
Norfolk, April 20,11 P. M.—They seem to be
very busy ut the Navy Yard. We have heard
them as though busily breaking up things, half an
hour ago. From what J have learned since nine
o’clock, I think it doubtful whether the Pawnee
brought many troops to the yard. It was nearly
dark when she passed our wharves. My idea is
that before morning she will take half of tbe crew
on the Cumberland.
Norfolk, April 20.—Two messengers, one after
the other, have just come over from Portsmouth,
to report thut some of the Federal forces are now
going out from the Navy Yard towards the Peters
burg Rail Road, it being supposed that their ob
ject is to destroy the bridge. Geu. Taliafero has
just ordered some troops in that direction.
Norfolk, April 20.—Tbe Pawnee conveyed the
Spaulding to Fort Monrqe, with about 1400 North
ern troopson board. This makes about 2400 troops
thrown in there during this day.
Norfolk, April 20,"11:50 a. m.—Henry A. Wise
has arrived here from Richmond, and lias tele
graphed to Letcher tor more troops to come im
mediately. We have received one 18-pounder aud
are now mounting,it. We much need a General
of capacity. Lieut. Baker, of the U. S. service,
lias resigned to-day, and is now with us. lie says
he can take the Navy Yard, for all the men there
have told him they will not resist him, aud he
says, also, the crew of the Cumberland will not
tight us. lam busy at my own establishment
getting ready food for our soldiers, therefore,
caunot learu whether any troops have come unto
us.
Norfolk, April 20,12 m.—The Navy Yard is in
flames.
Norfolk, April 21, 1:40, a. m.—l have just come
up from the wharf, and from looking at the fire.—
It is a great pnzze to us. It does not spread at
all. Nor,is the ignited at other places. The
lire is about the size of u burning of a large
dwelling. Now and then it brightens up as if tar
barrels or other combustible matter were thrown
upon it. It has not increased iu size for the last
hour an j half.
A company of soldiers were ordered out lo the
bridge about two hours ago, and ordered back
again before fliey got uport the cars. The Presi
dent and one other offioer of tbe road have gone
upon tbe curs alone toward the bridge.
Norfolk, April 21, 2A. M.—l canie back to say
that the President of the Railroad has just re
turned from the bridge. No attack has been made
on it. The fire remains without increase or dimi
nution. The Pawnee has kept her steam up all
night. It will be high tide, and I now think she
will then try to tow the Cumberland out of the
harbor.
Norfolk, April 21, 4:30 A. M.—l wake to find
the Navy Y ard oneuuiversal sea of flames, which,
iu their wild leaping, lick the very clouds with
tongues of fire. The noise of their devastation
reaching distinctly to ns, is like the deep tened
roar of Niagara. One long continuous hoarse
growl is filling the whole atmosphere witli angry
reverberation. The scene is now awful. I learn
from a seaman on tbe wharf that the Pawnee
passed our city for the Fort about fifteen min
utes past 4 o’clock, with the Cumberland in tow.
No opposition was offered to her departure. After
writing the above, I find tbe telegraph office
closed. At half-past 5 o’clock beard two very
heavy explosions from the Navy Yard. Six
o’clock, six more heavy explosions.
Norfolk, April 21.—New3 from Maryland by
this morning’s boat states that Maryland as far as
is ascertained, is a unit, and is, ready to dispute
every inch of ground, Baltimore is unanimous to
resist the passage of Northern troops, but is com
paratively defenceless. All the bridges on the
loads leading to the North have been destroyed
and the Susquehana Ferry boat is sunk. There
are not more than’ five thousand troops iu Wash
ington. It is beliered that with energetic action
on the part of the South, Washington may be
seized, and possibly the Administration. This is
perfectly reliable and by a gentleman who has
just arrived from Baltimore. They are preparing
in Baltimore to drive back the Rhode Island regi
ment. A few on both sides were killed yesterday.
Winans, of Baltimore, offers seven millions of
dollars to the Southern Confederacy. We are in
the hands of an imbecile.
Norfolk, April 21,4 P. M.—On examination of
the Navy Yard, now in our possession, the dry
dock is found uninjured. Two ship's bouses are
safe. All the cannon are in perfect order except
twelve. The boys are taking out many of the
spikes with their fingers. The ammunition and
all the timber sheds are safe. The blacksmith’s
shop, machine .shop, foundry, and public stores,
and twenty-five new gun carriages are all safe.
We are rapidly placing twenty-site heavy guns in
battery at the’Naval Magazine and Naval’ Hospital
betow Norfolk. The great smoke and flames
arose from two ship houses and the various ves
sels on fire.
Go* sloop of war can be raised with a steam
pump and made good. The Cumberland aground
on obstruction at Seawell’s point. They are try
ing to get her off. We are sinking obstructions
three miles this side ofher. Tbe men are rapidly
bnildiag gun carriages at the yard. Col. Tricot
is with Gen. Taliafero.
Norfolk, April 21, 1 P. M.—Coleman Y’elott,
ot Baltimore, has called the Legislature of Mary
land to maet at Baltimore on the 25th of April.—
The approaches between Baltimore and Havre de
Grace, are destroyed. The rail road ferrv boats
at that place uaiik and the bridge on the North
ern Central Hail Road ust beyond Cockseys
ville is destroyed.
Pzckexs.—We regard it, upon the whole, a for
tunate thing that the contemplated attack on Fort
Pickens was frustrated by the indiscretion of a
newspaper correspondent. Tbe plan, it seems,
was to scale the walls with a body of five hun
dred picked men, an experiment which, if suc
cessful at all, must Bare necessarily been accom
panied with an iffmiense sacrifice of human life.
The Confederate army has learned a useful lesson
from the recent engagement at Charleston. It
was there proved that no fortress surrounded bv
others well armed, can long withstand a vigorous
bombardment The geography of Pickens and
its vicinity, i s peculiarly favorable for this kind
of investment. Any number al batteries may
be erected within range of the Federal fortress,
and to play upon it almost from every point of
the compass. Several iron batteries, like that on
Morris’ Island, would do most effective work in !
a bombardment, both in protecting our own troops ‘
and battering down tbe enemy. We hope such
arrangements will be made, and even though it
should require a month, or three months, the
lime will have b*eu well spent if at the end of it
we can accomplish every purpose and save the
lives of onr troqps besides.— Sa/annah JSepub.
New Jersey.—Tanrros, April 17.—Senator i
Thomson expresses bis determination to sustain
the General Government. The Military Board is 1
in session, and orders have been issued for four
regiments to be mastered in immediately.
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Columbia County meeting.
A meeting will be held at Appling, Columbia
eo., on Wednesday, the Ist day of May next —for
the purpose of organising a Home Guard. It is
hoped that all the male citixens of the oouuty,
over 45 years of age, will respond cheerfully to
the oalL
Secession ol’ Virginia,
The inielligence of the secession of Virginia,
which, though not announced direct by telegraph
from Richmond, was yet ascertained almost be
vond doubt to be true, was received in this city
ast week with less noisy bnt fully as heartfelt
demonstrations of rejoioing as has accompanied
the reception of the news of any event of the past
three mouths. Cannon were fired in the after
noon, and at night the streets were illncuinrted
with bonfires, while the expressions of gratifica
tion were cordial and unanimous.
A Local on his Travels. —Our frieud Whidby,
of the Evening Dispatch, informs us that he had
a very pleasant trip on the Waynesboro Road to
Milieu, returning with the troops on Sunday. At
Milieu a gland dinner was given to the compa
panies—the ladies distributed buoquets generous
ly among them—there were speeches, incidents,
Ac., Ac.,—all of which are worthy of record. At
Allen’s Station the ladies insisted on and obtain
ed a felicitious speech from Capt. Dotal of the
Spaldiug Grays. All along the way, in fact, the
path of the soldiers was strewn with flowers—a
fitting tribute front Beauty to Valor.
A Pleasing Incident.— Quite a pleasing and af
fecting incident occurred at the St. James Sab
bath School on Sabbath evening. The Superin
tendent alluded to the fact that quite a number of
tho School were enduring the rough camp life ot
the soldier, at Pensacola, and suggested to the
children that instead of the usual sumptuous
feast at their annual Pic Nic, on the Ist of May,
each oue take a simple lunch, and that the usual
delicacies and luxuries incident to .such an occa
sion be packed up and setu to; the absent loved
ones, to whom such things would he deubly ac
ceptable, coming from such a source. On asking
if such a course would he satisfactory to tho
School, front every voice resounded a hearty
aye ! aye 1 and the eyes of the “little ones” shone
with intense delight, that they could thus testify
their love and kind memories of the absent.
We arc glad to record such pleasing Incidents
as this, and we know the hearts of the young
warriors will be cheered attd strengthened by the
fact that young and old vie with each other in
efforts to testily their appreciation of those gal
lant ones who are defending our rights and
liberties.
Meeting at Clara Hall. —The members of the
Augusta Fire Department will meet at Clara Hall,
at 8 o’clock to morrow (Wednesday) evening
when an organization of oue or more military
squads, made up of detachments troin the several
Fire Companies, will doubtless be effected. The
Mayor, it is understood, has already sent an or
der to Gov. Brown for side-arms far their use.
Confederate Light Guards. —We are authori
tatively informed that this military corps, owing
to a mistake in their marching erder, will not
leave the city until some time during the present
week. Their ranks we believe are now full.
The Muting To-Night. —lt will be remembered
that the adjourned meeting for the formation of a
Home Guard, to be composed of citizens over 45
years of age, is to be held at the City Hall at 8
o’clock this eveuing, at which time the Commit
tee appointed to procure enlistments will make
their report. Let there be a full attendance.
The Richmond Hussars, having proffered their
services to the Confederate Government will hold
a meeting to-night for the purpose of enrolling
any ivho may wish to join. They will adopt a
uniform not costing over sls, so that it may be
within the ability of all. The prospect is that
they will be called into service very soon, so that
those who contemplate joining their ranks should
do se at once.
A Noble Example. —The Dispatch ot yesterday
says that Mr. F. L. Medium has donated fifty dol
lars to the Blodget Volunteers—remarking, if that
was not enough he would double it. Mr M’s. ex
ample will do to imitate. We cant all do as mu
nificently as Mr. Winans, of Baltimore, but if we
furnish our quota of the “sinews of war,” we
shall not have to bear the reproach of niggardli
ness hereafter.
Trophies of the War. —Our cotemporary of
the Dispatch, on his late visit to Charleston, re
ceived some trophies of the late conflict at Fort
Sumter. Among them are two 32-pound balls, one
taken from Sumter by the editor, just after the
surrender, the other fired by Axderson into the
Dahlgren Battery ; a canister ball from Sumter;
a piece of flag-staff shot down at that Fort; a
piece of the old Moultrie staff’ cut down by
Anderson when he left, Ac.
Man Killed. —The up train on the Carolina
Railroad tan over a matt named Lee, a carpenter
on the road, at Lee’s station, S6 miles from Char
leston, killing him instantly. He was crossing
the track and fell, the train passing over hint. Me
was a worthy man and leaves a family.
The Reinforcement of Fort Pickens. —The
Montgomery Mail says the telegraphic intelli
gence was received in that city on Saturday last,
that Fort Pickens had received reinforcements
from the United States steamers Wyandotte and
Brooklyn. The reinforcements comprise some
1000 or 1200 men, and was effected en Friday night
last.
Narrow Escape. —There was just enough calor
ic in the atmosphere on Wednesday night, to
save us from the devastating effects of a frost.
A few degrees lower in the thermometrical scale,
and tlie mercury would have reached the freezing
point—it stood at 40 deg. yesterday morning.
We have had a narrow escape. The weather is
so much milder now, however, that we shall dis
miss our fears of a visitation from Jack Frost this
time.
Going to Pensacola. — We understand that a
number of the “home guards” of the Oglethorpe
Infantry, left this city yesterday for Pensacola,
to join their comrades in arms. Several other
patriotic citizens, desirous of engaging in the
contest, have also departed for the same point.
li logout Volunteers. —This new Company was
fully organized on Wednesday evening last. It
numbers 81 rank and file—all active, able-bodiod
men, who will make efficient soldiers. Ex-Mayor
Foster Brodgit, Jr., is Captain of the corps. The
following is a list of the officers elected :
Captain—F. Blodget, Jr.
Ist Lieut.—W. H. Stallings.
2d “ —J. A. Bennett.” .
3d “ —Samuel Moore.
lst'Serg’t—J. C. Harper.
2d “ —A. F. Clemence.
3d “ —W. Crittenden.
4th “ —L. L. Antony.
sth “ H. C. Keener.
Ist Corporal—J. Loyd Beers.
2d “ —W. J. Roberts.
3d “ —J. E. Green.
4th “ —James Dunham.
The Company will be ready to “go where glory
waits them” in a few days. Hurrah for the
Blodget Volunteers.
Our city military have again been assigned the
duty of guarding the magazine. A detachment
of the Clinch Rifles went on duty last evening.
Messrs. Tuck£r it Perkins have taken, from
life, a splendid photograph of the Hero of the
Age, Gen. Beauregard. It is said, by those who
have seen the General, to be a very accurate like
ness. All who wish to supply themselves with
these potographs, jean now have an opportunity,
as duplicates can be multijUedju any quantity.
Hon. Roger A. Pryor, the distinguished Vir
ginian, we are informed, passed through this city
last week, en route for Montgomery. He was
bearer of dispatches to the Provisional Govern
ment.
Since writing the above, we are told that Mr.
Pryor, when about to take the cars at the Geor
gia Railroad Depot, was called on for a speech.
He complied by addressing the crowd briefly and
pointedly—stating, in the course of his remarks,
that he had actually received a telegraphic dis
patch announcing the passage ot the Virginia
Ordinance of Secession.
Augusta Independent Volunteer Battalion.—
The Dispatch. of Friday says: “We learn that
Col. Jackson, in behalf of the portion of the Vol-
unteer Battalion of this city remaining at home,
tendered their services to Gov. Brown, in the
public defence, and expressed the general desire
that the whole Battalion might be permitted to
serve together. In reply, Gov. Brown expressed
thb highest admiration for the patriotic ardor
exhibited by old Richmond, but thought that she
bad famished her full quota of men already, and
declined accepting the Battalion unless invasion
should make it necessary. If that alternative
comes, the full Battalion, and twiee as many
more, good men and true patriots, will be foMii'l
ready to march at a day's notice.”
| The oflers for the U™B™Treaaury notes were
’ opened on Thursday at Washington. The amount
called for was $4,04*2,000. The offers made
amounted to $5,340,000, being $430,000 in excess
I of the required amount. The bids ranged from
par to 27-100 premium.
Another.— Major Anderson, in command of the
Company of United States troops at the Arsenal
at Fayetteville, publicly proclaimed on the streets
I of FaVetteville on yesterday that he bad resigned
from the United States service.
[ Wilmington (If. C.j Journal.
fit# a'i **• •*<•**
The war has now commenced, and U has be
come a necessity from which there can be no
escape, that all the Southern States must take
sides. We do not allow ourselves to doubt which
side they will take. We can see no honorable,
safe, wise course left for the Border Slave States
to follow, but immediately to make common cause
with their frieads of the Confederate States, and,
to abandon a government and a people which
have piaiuly declared their intention to wage the
“irrepressible conflict,” no longer, however, with
tongue and peD, but with cattuoa and musketry,
with shot and shell, with fire aud sword. The
Border States can no longer he idle spectators of
the great drama of civil war, now inaugurated
deliberately by an administration which owes Its
elevation to power to its panderiug to the basest
passions of Abolition fanatics, and which con
fesses that its ability to maintain itself depends
solely upon following the programme of its most
wicked aud depraved and maddened membership.
Maryland, Virginia, and their sisters of the
border, not only can ffo longer remain mere
lookers-on, but all their interests as well as their
instincts, we should think, must lead them to join
arms with their brethren of the same peculiar in
terests, and to stand solidly with them to tight
out the issue of freedom and slavery—for that is
now the issue, and it has to be fought out on the
battle-field, unless the aggressors upon the prop
erty rights of fifteen States relent, or become con
vinced of the utter hopelessness of the task. Un
der the specious cry of maintaining the Union and
the authority of the Government, the Lincoln
tiovernmeut endeavors to arouse the loyalty of
the people. But the great fouadatiou stone on
which his war policy rests is hatred to the South
and her institutions, and a will, without the pow
er, to crush out the South. No oue need doubt
it, and therefore appeals to the loyalty of the citi
zen should go unheeded.
“We all the border States are irrecon
cilably opposed to any attempt of the government
to coerce the seceded States into submission—and
in fact they have particularly and earnestly de
sired, not only that the Lincoln Government
should make no such attempt, but that it should
offer terms of reconciliation and adjustment, such
as would satisfy them to remain longer in the
Union, and such as they have mistakenly hoped
might induce the seceded States to return. But
not only has the Administration refused to make
terms, it has proceeded finally to attempt coer
cion, lias announced its policy to hold
the forts, arsenals, Ac., in the seceded States, and
has by proclamation made its requisition upon
the httates tor seventy five thousand militia to
enforce the laws—that is, to make war upon the
Confederate States, which havo declared their
separation, and are determined to maintain their
independence, cost what it may. Under such
ciroumstances, is it possible that the Border
States can longer hesitate about their duty, aud
about.the pluin course that destiny has marked
out for them V Is it possible that they can ever
join our enemies and their enemies to make war
on us—aud to rnuke such a war as cau never end
except by the recognition of our independence, or
the slaughter of all our people ? Never, never.
We have thought a great deal lately about the
policy of glorious and gallant old Maryland, the
birth place of our maternal grandfather. She is
a glorious State, with a uoble-hearted chivalrous
people. She was colonised by the best blood that
came to America—she has always beeu noted for
her love of liberty. She was not peopled by Pu
ritan Round-heads, clamorous for liberty to do
as they pleased, and to make every one else sub
scribe to their dogma, but by men of enlarged
views and great hearts, men who appreciated and
understood real liberty of thought and of action.
And shall Maryland prove recreunt to her old re
nown, shall she forget her proud, untarnished
history, shall she ignore the tiuuscendaut glory
of her old names, shall she dishouorthe graves of
her old patriots aud heroes and statesmen, shall
her Carrolls, aud Calvebts, aud Tilghmans,
aud Bowies, and Fearces, and .Kenned vs, and
Goldsboroughs and Dorseys cease to cherish the
virtues which adorned the fathers of old ? Heaven
forbid. We shall believe no such thing of dear of
Maryland, notwithstanding things look a little
doubtful. The old Dominion, proud old mother
of States will lead the way, and little Maryland
will fellow, we hope and believe.
But what a destiny is in the future for Balti
more, the Monumental city, famous for her pub
lic spirit, the energy and probity of her mer
chants, the speed of her clippers, the beauty of
her women, and the gallantry and patriotism of
her men. In the Union, it is true, she has grown
and prospered, and stretched out her arms to all
the seas, and to the ends of the rivers—in that
Union she has loved so well, to which she has
ever been so loyal, hut which she plainly sees
now is turned into an engine of oppression for
the whole land. The great centre of the tobacco
trade, the chief entrepot for commercial fertili
zers, the best coffee market in North America,
largely engaged in the manufacture and ship
ment of flour to South America and other
markets, the shipping port for vast amounts of
wheat and corn, with great capital invested in
manufactures and shipping, and in her great Rail
road connection with the Mississippi valley,
healthy, desirable for residence, her interest and
destiny are intimately bound up with the Confed
erate States.
With Maryland a member of the Confederacy,
what is there that shall hinder Baltimore from be
coming the Emporium, not only of the South,
but of the western continent ? With her vast re
sources, her energy and capital, her position and
her character, she, as a city of the Confederacy,
relieved from rivalry with New York and Phila
delphia, may confidently expect to become the
chief city of the western world—the great centre of
Commerce, regulating exchanges, controlling and
bending to her influence all the currents of trade,
rich without ostentation, magnificent without
gaudiness, powerful and respected, the home of
literature, art and fashion, giving tone and charac
ter to an Empire, the pride and glory of America.
Her people, we think, can not be slow to see and
appreciate the great advantages held out to them
as a city of the Confederacy, for they can not ex
pect to compete with Philadelphia and New York
for the trade of the North, if Maryland remain a
member of the Union, nor cap they, in that event
expect the active sympathy and cordiality of the
South. Besides, Baltimore naturally does not
look Northward for her advantages—all her in
terests are South and West, to the Gulf and to
the Mississippi, and to Havana, Rio, and the La
Plata.
quick Work and a Geuerouw Dona
tion.
We have already noticed the formation of the
“Blodget Volunteers.” The company was organiz
ed on Wednesday night. Capt. Blodget started
immediately for Milledgeville—saw Gov. Brown
on Thursday—procured from him his commission
as Captain, aud au order for the arms of the Compa-
ny, and returned on Friday. An instance of
energetic’work, which does great credit to Capt.
Blodget, and indicates that he -ill not provs an
unworthy son of the man who volunteered alone
to swim the Withlacoochee in defiance of an am
bush of hostile Seminoles. Capt. Blodget and
his Company will be heard of with honor in this
war. They will be ready to respond to their orders
in about ten days.
In this connection, we cannot refrain from no
ticing the generous conduct of one of our citizens,
who is not the inaD to blazon his good deeds to
the world. Mr. Blodoet had engaged to uniform
and equip the company at his own expense, and
was making preparations to raise the funds for the
purpose. His design became known to Thos. H.
Metcalf, Esq., who at once sent to Capt. Blodort
the note which is subjoined. The donation in
effect amounts to nearly two thousand dollars.—
The unostentatious manner in which the donation
was made, greatly enhances the value of the gift,
and though Mr. Metcalf is one who looks for no’
thanks for such generous actions, we must take
the liberty of thanking hiru in the name of the
whole community.
We accidentally learned that Mr. Metcalf pre
sented five hundred dollars a few days since to the
families of those now absent at Pensacola. He,
as well as many others of our citizens, make such
donations in so quiet a way, that they are only to
be heard of accidentally, or we should have no
ticed the fact before this.
Augusta, April IS, 1861.
Friend Blodget: —You asked me this morning
to assist you in clothing your new Company to go
to the wars. Ido so oneerfully. Have a complete
suit for each member made and send the bill to
me. While on tour of duty, I will have
placed to your credit fifty dollars a month in the
Mechanics’ Bank of this city, and you can draw
your checks for the same from time to time, for
the most needful of your company, to be distribu
ted here to their families, or to tbe most deserving
in your corps for other reasons.
Respectfully yours, Tnos. S. Mrtcalf.
Other Patriotic Citizens. —Benjamin Conly,
Esq., presented to the Blodget Volunteers the
sum of on- hundred dollars, and we understand
also, that Judge A. P. Robebtson gave one thoue
atul dollars towards the relief fund for the
families of absent soldiers. We hope to have a
list of those of our citizens who have patriotically
subscribed for tbe defence of the country, and
shall take pleasure in publishing it.
The Independent Blues.— This Company, orga
nized at the opening of the secession ball, are now
uniforming themselves, and not having funds
enough to furnish all the members, they have
appointed a Committee consisting of Sergeant
DkLherbe and private Thompson to solicit pecu
niary aid in behalf of tbe Company. Our citi-
zens who are deterred from doing military ser
vice, at home or abroad, should contribute liberal
ly to those who are willing to face the enemy for
them. We understand that this Company is even
now under military orders, that is, is doing
military service at home, by assembling at their
alarm poat whenever called out, and while our
citizens quietly sleep they are guarding the pro.
perty of all. The original object of this Com
pany was that of a home guard, it being com
posed mostly of married men, but if it should be
necessary for them to go elsewhere to meet the
enemy, in the language of their otDcers “they are
ready.”
New York papers say the bustle and activity at
the military and naval stations continue. Several
tons of shot were received a few days since from 1
Boston at Governor’s Island. Bomb fuses, 5000
each, and 20,000 Columbiad bombs have just been
ordered by Government from Troy. Work goes
on and Dight in the arsenal there.
Accepted. —Gen. Pillow and his Tennessee regi
ment have been accepted by President Davia, and
will go immediately into service.
~n —r —inMiinin i
wrangled among ouri#l*a ”apg 1
enough. Heaven know, the time has at last oome
when all our home dissensions should cease, and
when we should all stand together as one'man.
hand in hand, heart linked to heart, with shields
locked, ready, and prepared, and determined, to
meet a common foe, a merciless fanatic enemy
that declares for our subjugation. There are two
large, distinctly marked classes of men in the
Confederate States, to oue of which, with whom
we have sympathized and acted, we feel that we,
have a right to address words of counsel and ad
vice, aud to the other of which we feel it our
duty to speak.
It is well known that there was a large party
in the Confederate States, composed of as good
and patriotic citizens as any in the land, who
were not satisfied with the time and mode, if in
deed with the measure, of redress, which has
beeu consummated, and is Dow a fact of history.
That same party, to a great exteut, has not beeu
altogether satisfied either with the manner in which
affairs have beeu conducted since secession. We
are perfectly aware that these men have had great
provocation to discontent, to dissatisfaction, and
to the nursing of a wrathful and unchristian temp
er, having been most unjustly, falsely, cruelly as
sailed and traduced as untrue to their homes, un
faithful 4o their section, and unpatriotic at heart.
It was greivous to be borne, aud in human nature
it was to have been expected that such treatment
should breed bitterness and exasperation.
And now to you, friends, wo appeal in calmness
and in sincerity that the time lias come tor you to
forget and forgive the past, and to prose your pa
triotism and your loyalty by your acts —by acts
whieh shall put to the blush the words of others.
The legally expressed will of the people, acting
in true republican form, through delegates, has
been expressed, and it is law —the law for us all,
the law to which every good citizen is to yield a
cheerful obedience. While maintaining and defend
ing with alacrity, and without murmuring, our
government, you will never yield, and we will
never yield, the inalienable right of a freeman to
discuss, to criticise, to pass judgment upou, all
acts of administration aud all laws, upon all
proper occasions, for when we tamely yield that
we have reached that lowest depth the abject
ness of slavery. But nou\ friends and country
men, with whom we have been proud to act, and
for whom we have labored, it is our plain duty to
maintain our independence, aud to sustain oar
government to the last extremity, at whatever
cost, at whatever sacrifice of time, money and
blood. So help us heaven, we intend to do it, and
we call upon all of you to do it.
Amoug the other party, to whom we feel in
duty bound to address ourselves, has been a large
number of violent, excited, and unreasoning men,
who, in the heat and strife of the tune have beeu
incapable of understanding how others could see
matters in a different light from themselves, and
who have thoughtlessly allowed themselves to
indulge in denunciations which were unjust, un
generous and unwise. While you sustain the go
vernment to the full extent of your powers, we
tell you that it is now your plain, uuniistakeuble
duty to cease your denunciations. Let the only
rivalry between ns now be as to who can best
serve our common country. Vou have doue
wrong—your duty is to repent, and to abandon
your course, and let harmony everywhere prevail
among us. For weal or for woe this is our coun
try—the country of most of us by nativity and
birthright, aud of the remainder by choice and
adoption, and residence and intermarriage.
Perish forever all dissensions among us. Let
denunciations on the |one hand, and murmurings
and revilings ou the other, cease, till we have re
deemed our fair laud, conquered our independence
from a ruthless, and insolent, and dospicable foe,
and set our new Confederacy as u light upon the
hill—a beacon to the nations of the earth. Then
close the ranks, stand shoulder to shoulder, as
brothers animated by only one pure, patriotic
impulse, and that a determination to tight this
fight out, come what may, be it loug or short,
and never submit to the domination of a fanatic,
puritan horde of agrarians, abolitionists and free
lovers, while there is a dollar or a man left among
us. Let us all, with one accord, prepare to wel
come the invaders with “bloody hands to bospitn
blo graves.”
One word further. We have to deal with an
enemy wily and treacherous, base, malignant and
full of bate. It is impossible to know what are
the full designs of Lincoln and his black band.
Os one thing we may be assured : they will strike
wherever they can strike effectually, and do us
any and all the harm they have the power to do.
Therefore we can lose nothing by being fully and
thoroughly prepared at every point, aud for any
emergency. In Georgia, and perhaps in all the
Confederate States, except gallant South Carolina,
where the military spirit has always been kept up,
aud where almost every man is a soldier, or can
be at Very short notice, the military feeling has
been comparatively dormant until recently. The
militia musters have fallen into disrepute, because
men did not see the necessity of learning to drill,
and of being always ready. Now we recommend
that every man capable of bearing arms, regardless
of age, and every boy sixteen years old and up
wards, begin immediately to train and drill. All
will not be needed for active service in the field,
hut when a sufficient number is called out, it is
still important that those at home should be ac
customed to military exercises and military duty.
It can do no harm, and may do much good. In the
cities and towns the drilling can take place at night,
without loss of time from business, and in the
country almost every man can spare a half day
once or twice a week to prepare himself for effec
tive service at home or in the field. Wherever
thirty or forty or more men and hoys can be got
together conveniently in a neighborhood, let a
squad be formed, and armed and regularly drilled
once or twice a week. This is no ordinary time.
None of us have ever seen tho like of it before—
let us all then get ready. Arm and drill, arm and
drill, should be the word now, all over the land.
Save Your I’owdkb.— We endorse the prudent
suggestion of various of our contemporaries in
this respect. The Savannah Republican says:—
“This is a valuable suggestion at the present
emergency, and should be heeded. We hear of
one hundred guns being fired in some places over
Sumter, Virginia, Ac., Ac. Far better save your
powder for the enemy, and give one hundred
cheers. So far as Savannah is concerned, we are
setting a good example. We have saluted no
body and nothing, where powder was required,
since South Carolina went out of the Union. We
made an emphatic demonstration then, aud in
tended it to last for the whole war. Even the
secession of our own State was not made an ex
ception. We kept back (he big guns, or rather
had them in battery, ami brought out a swivel
which has been used as our saluting ordnance
ever since, and you can fire it from a powder horn
to your heart’s conteut. Again we say, save your
powder, and, what is equally important, keep it
dry /”
Military Meeting.
At a meeting of citizens held at tbe City Hall,
on Saturday, April 20th, 1861, for the purpose ot
forming a Military Company of persons exempt
from Militia duty, Wm. T. Gould was called to
the Chair, and Enoch W. Brown appointed Sec
retary.
On ipotion it was
Resolved, That it ih expedient for us to form a
company for the protection and defeuce of the
city of Augusta; and that all persons present,
disposed to join it, do now enrol their names.
Fort-seven names were enrolled.
It was then
Resolved, That a Commiltee of two from each
Ward be appointed to obtain further enlistments;
and that they report to a meeting to be held on
Tuesday evening next, for the purpose of farther
organization.
The following committee was appointed :
Ist Ward.—Lewis Levy, Robert D. Glover.
2d “ -J. Thompson, Isaac Levy.
3d “ —W. E. Archer, Wm. Hardeman.
4th “ —G. W. Ferry, J. P. Ford.
The meeting then adjourned to Tuesday even
ing next.
Wm. T. Goijld, Cbm’n.
E. W. Brown, See’y.
The Fief. Department as a Home Guard.—We
heartily endorse the idea of organizing our excel
lent Fire Department into a military corps, or into
separate squads, for the better protection of our
city. Our firemen have had this project in con
temptation for several days, and the Mechanic
Cos., 2d Independent Division, have already ten
dered their services to the city and been accepted
by the Mayor. The officers of the Department
have held two mecliugs to take this subject into
consideration. They meet on Tuesday night next,
when the responses of the several companies to
the proposition will be presented. The combined
Fire Department will make a powerful and efi’ect
ire force. *
The Nashville lOtriot, the home organ of John
Bell, and hitherto a strong Union paper, now
urges Gov. Harris to call the Legislature to
-ether, in order that a popular Convention mav
determine the policy of Tennessee. The Patriot
also denounces Lincoln’s war policy, and says
Tennessee will never respond to his call for troops
to subjugate tbe South.
Instructions to Foreign Ministers.—Tom Cor
win left Washington on the Bth fast., for New
I ork, and will leave by the first conveyance for
Mexico, to assume the duties of bis position. He
has received his instructions; they are of tbe
most explicit character, covering tbe entire
ground of policy towards the new Mexicau admin
istration, givingassurance of the friendly relations
and interest of the U. S. Government towards
that. The position of the secedfag American
States is also fully discussed, and the Mexican
Government is called upon to sustain its present
relations of non-recognition of the Confederate
States. Os the same character will be tbe instruc
tions to the European Minister.
Fugitive Slaves, —The Baltimore American re
marks that the “recent arrest of five fugitive
slaves at Chicago, and their quiet return to Mis
sonri, has created a great consternation among
the fugitive slavesj in Illinois. Over Jone hun
dred cf these fugitives left Chicago on Sunday
night bound to Canada. A large number from
other parts of the State were also making their
way to Canada. At Detroit three hundred bad
passed into Canada since Saturday.”
Egyit for the South.—A special dispatch to
the Charleston Courier, dated Montgomery, April
17th, says :
We have intelligence that five compani s have
been raised in Southern Illinois, (Egypt,) and are
en route to join the Army of the Confederate
State*.
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<■.>.mi at
Veii.rday (Sunday) our city presented ac uuu
aual sight, from the number of uniformed .soldiers
in our midst. Tho day of peace and rest.—the
holy Sabbath—was distinguished by the tramp of
armed men and the music of the drum and fife.—
These demonstrations, now that war is upon us,
may often characterize our future Sabbaths.
The six o’clock Waynesboro train of yesterday
morning, brought to this city three military com
pames en route for Norfolk, Va. They were the
Maeou Velunteers, Capt. R. A. Smith; Floyd
isles, Thos. Hardeman ; and Columbus
Light Guards, Capt. I>. 11. Coi .QUITT.
They were received at the depot by the Cliuch
Rifles, Capt. Platt, and the Richmond Hussars,
Capt. SrovALL, which companies escorted them to
the South Carolina depot, where they deposited
their arms and then marched to their quarters.-
The Maeou Volunteers wt ie quartered at the
Planter’s, the l’loyd Rifles at the Globe and South
ern States, aud Columbus. Right Guards at the
Augusta. Our hotel keepers fully sustained their
reputation for courtesy aud attention to the wants
o) their guests. Great praise should be accorded
them lor their substantial aid and comfort to out
friends.
At nearly all onr churches yesterday, A. M., the
uovel sight was presented of men clad in soldier
habiliments, sitting among the congregation, or
occupying the pnipit.
At. St. James M. E. Church, Rev.T. 11. Jordan,
tormer pastor of that Church, mow Chaplain of
the Columbus Light Guards, preached a most im
pressive and eloquent sermon to a large con
course, who were evidently deeply impressed
with the words of wisdom which fell from his lips.
In the pulpit with him was another Minister, the
Ivov. Mr. Treadwell. Both clergymen were in
uniform.
lu this connection we would state, that Rev.
Mi. Cook, the present esteemed pastor of St.
James, has a brother and two brothers-in-law in
the ranks ot the Macon Volunteers.
The Columbus Light Guards visited the First
Baptist. Church. At the close of the regular ser
vice/the pastor. Rev. Mr. 11. ntixgton, addressed
the soldiers for a few moments, in a solemn and
impressive manner. The incident was one of
peculiar interest.
The three companies took the cars on theScuth
Caroliua Railroad yesterday at 3 o’clock, P. M
A large number of our citixens were there to bid
them God speed. Josei-h Ganihl, Esq., of this
city, addressed them in some eloquent aud feeling
remarks, to which Capt. Hardeman responded in
appropriate terms. Among the spectators were
many of the Augusta ladies, who, with smiles
and generous floral favors, gladdened the hearts
ot the soldiery. Amid the cheers of the multi
tude, the booming of cannon, and waving of hats
and handkerchiefs, these gallant men sped on
their wav to tho Old Dominion.
At 6 o’clock last eveuing, the Spaldiug Grays,
commanded by Capt. L. T.' Dotal; arrived in the
city by the Waynesboro Road. They were re
ceived by the Clinch Rifles, Richmond Hussars,
and Irish Volunteers, and marched to the Clinch
Drill Room, where the<r arms were deposited.
They wefle then escorted to their quarters tor the
night the Globe Hotel. This company is also
bound for Norfolk. A neat address was made
them at the Globe by Ensign Ells, of the Clinch
Rifles, to which Capt. I)oyal responded.
In this tine cprps is Private Garret Rick,
whose head is silvered with ags, he being now 66
years old. He has two sons, also in the ranks
with him. Mr. Rice made a speech at the Globe
last evening, we understand, whioli was replete
with patriotism and fervor. All honor to the “old
man eloquent” and his hardy boys!
Our friend Mullarkey, of the Globe, took good
care of the Grays during their stay with him, as
was to be expected.
At 8 o’clock this morning, under the escort of
the Clinch Rifles, the Spalding Grays marched
to the Carolina Depot. A great many of our
citizens were of course ou hand to see them off;
Hiid the ladies, who were present in goodh num
bers, distributed flowers to the men by the scores
—throwiug them into the windows of the ears, or
handing them gracefully lo tho stalwart arms
eagerly outstretched for them. At the appointed
time the train moved off—the cannon thundered
its adieus, and cheer after cheer rent the air.
The four companies named above have tlicir full
completement of men numbering in the aggregate
about 320. They are fitted for service, physically
and by inclination. Their praise will be in all the
Confederate States.
Success to the braves ! May victory perch upon
their standard, and may they speedily return to
their homes, not one of their number maimed or
lost.
Gov. Harhis has called a special session of the
Legislature of Tennessee, to meet on Thursday
next, 25th inst.
No mail from the North beyond Richmond was
received here yesterday, and we have, conse
quently, no further details of the news from Hal
timore. It is probable considerable interruption,
perhaps the entire cessation, of the mails North
and South will occur. The Richmond Dispatch of
Saturday says:
No mail, bound North, left Richmond lasi night.
It was rumored here yesterday that, Lincoln had
seized on the Fredericksburg Railroad Company’s
steamers plying on the Potomac between Wash
ington and Acquiu Creek.
Gov. Ellis has issued a proclamation calling a
speoial session of the Legislature of North Caro
lina, to meet on Wednesday, the first of May next.
In conclusion, he snys : “United uclion in defence
of the sovereignty of North Carolina, aM of Hie
rights of the South, becomes now the dJfy of all.”
The Brown Riflemen, Capt, Thomas E. Dicker
son, from Canton, numbering 84 stalwart sons of
the mountains, passed through Atlanta last Fri
day, on their way to Fort Pulaski. All honor to
tile Cherokee boys.
Troops on the March.— The steamer S. K.
Spaulding, left Boston on Thqrsday last, far Nor
folk, with 540 troops. Their destination is said lo
be Fortress Monroe. The remainder were to start
overland by special train.
Capt. Arnold Eleey, who lias been recently
stationed ut Old Point, Va., has sent in his resig
nation, or rather dismissal, us it is now culled. He
was a resident ol Maryland. So says the Norfolk
Herald.
The Pennsylvania legislature on Saturday
passed a hill against enlisting men or furnishing
arms or ammunition for carrying on traitorous
correspondence with, or plotting in favor of the
Confederate States. The penally is not ■ less than
ten years imprisonment and fine not more than
ten thousand dollars. The penalty for building
or fitting out any privateer is the same.
A despatch from New Vork to the Charleston
Mercury says that the reinforcements which got
into Fort Pickens consisted of only a Captain and
70 men. This is positive.
Goon News from Charlotte. -A dispatch da
ted Charlotte, N. C\, April 21st, to the Charles-
ton Courier , says : The Branch Mint in Char
lotte was taken possession of this morning by
Col. Brvce and the military, by order of Gov. El
lis. No resistance was made nor the slightest dis
turdauce occured. Several military companies
are awaiting marching orders.
The Waresboro (Ga.) Forrester has been sus
pended “until the close ot the War,” the pro
prietors and printers, ail members of volunteer
companies, having received marching orders. The
proprietor requests those indebted to remit to
Mrs. Georqia Forrester, ut Waresboro. The credi
tor who does not respond under such circumstan
ces sjould be declared a traitor to mankind.
The Rioht Spirit.— We understand from a pri-
vate letter received from one of the “Oglethorpes”
yesterday, that the young men of the Company
who are members ot our various Churches have
organized a daily prayer meeting, which is quite
largely attended and innch interest manifested.
This is right. The God of Buttles never deserts
the ]>rayinfj soldier. 0
LfvcdLN Stopping tup. Mails.— A dispatch dated
Richmond, Va., ApVil 120th, to the Charleston
Courier , says : President Lincoln has stopped the
mails coming to Richmond. No Baltimore Ex
press has beeu received. The dictator is evident
ly beginning to think “somthing is going wrong.”
The Commissioned Otticerji amT Ist Sergeants
of the Fourth Brigade, First Division, Georgia
Volunteers are ordered to meet in camp five
miles from Marietta, to-d;iv, f or drill and disci
pline.
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, issued a proclama
tion urging the people to preserve the peace and
obey the laws. lie says :
I assure the people that no troops will be sent
from Maryland, unless it may for the defence of
U*e National Capital. _
Washington, April. 17.—Twenty tons of shell
and grape shot were removed from the Washing
ton navy-yard to Georgetown yesterday, in view
of"a possible attack on Washington city from that
direction.
A delegation of Kentuckians, two members of
which served in the Mexican war, waited on Sen
ator Cameron yesterday and tendered two regi
ments, notwithstanding the Governor's refusal to
callout the militia. Secretary Cameron said he
wotild accept them.
Capt. Talbot, just arrived from Fort Sumter,
has plans nearly perfected for the distribution of
fifty thousand volunteers, on a base line from
Fort Monroe to Harper’s Ferry.
Enlistments are active in the secession com
pany of this city, commanded by Dr. 0. Boyle.
One hundred and fifty joined each night.
Lieut. Slemmer, the commander ot Fort Pick-
ens, has been superseded.
The city is presenting daily a more decided mi
litary appearance, anil, aside from the regular
United States forces, volunteers are marching to
the War Department in Lrge numbers. Several
companies which were raised last night were
sworn to-day without uiiitonnA Ihe department
of Washington is very active just now, bui wishes
to avoid all publicity with regard to any of its
contemplated movements. Col. Smith is in com
mand assisted by Assistant, Adjutant-General
Talbot‘late of Fort Sumter.
Two companies of infantry are stationed in
front of the i’resident’s House, and it is supposed
that they will b e continued there for some time
to come. Col. Magruder’s battery is stationed at
Long bridge, connecting with the Virginia shore.
More Southern Resignations.— Among the
further resignations from the United States ser
vice, which we have noticed, are the following
Col. Benjamin Huger, in command of the Marv
land State Arsenal. J*
Major Anderson, in command of the coinnanv
“ftheUmtedStates troops at the Arsenal at Fa/
etteville, A. C.
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George Loyal, Naval Agent at Norfolk Va
Major George C. Hunter, of Viririnil i>
tei in the iateU. S. Army.-J aymfcs ’