Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Chronicle it Remind.! _ II 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. <%mucle & i&fltfmtl. AUGUSTA, GA,i \YISnXEMJAY MORNING, ABRIL SI, IS*l. OUTt TERMS.—Single copies. *2 per annum; three copies $5; six copies $10; ten copies sls. Invariablv in advance. No name will be enter ed on our subscription books unless the money accompanies the order. The notas of all specie paving banks taken at par. We employ no travelling agents. WE ALW ATS stop the Chronicle & Senti nel at the end of the year, or the time forwhich it is paid, of which each subscriber will receive due notice bv letter, so that if ycu wish to con tinue it, it would be Wellto renew your subscnp i tion at least two weeks before the time expires. W3 CANNOT charge the address of a sub scriber unless he gives us his former as well as j his present address. 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*. —’ ! ‘V i ‘.i i <■.>.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. c "“ George Loyal, Naval Agent at Norfolk Va Major George C. Hunter, of Viririnil i> tei in the iateU. S. Army.-J aymfcs ’