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IT COLLBIIK N’T., NASHVILLE,
lANUfACTCBIK OF STIIVFS, TIN WARE it,
Makes Foui Sizes of the
TENNEHHEAN !
A Wrought Iron Cooking Stove,
If \DK hi all Ita uart* In this cHv, and cut of the best Ten-
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water Holler.
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part of the courtly Order* for them filled without delay, and
aattalactlcm guamutMl In o\ery case.
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J. S. WILCOX. )
P. It. WILWX.V
April AIWL Hml J. W. DAVIES, \ * xn ’
FOR SALE!
m|| \T desiraMe RESIDENCE in Harrisonville, at pre
1. aeul occupUd by Mr. JMm H. Trippe. containing fifty fire
aerea. more or l**-', with a good Dwelling House and all the
neoeesair outbuilding*, a bmvi Orchard, ami on* of the beet
Wells of water In this vleiuhy—ln Net. It 1* the beet we know of.
Thia is one of the meet deetratdv situations in the vicinity of
Augusta, and not mure than l/> mlnutee ride from the rite.
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rmnuim
This wiU befotmd the moet tuperiir MANURE 1
Dew offered tor sale. in the propagation and ‘
growth of Wheat, Corn, Cotton, and all kind* of j
Garden Vegetable*. In Corn pUutiag, use, my
one handfal to the hill, and the effect will be most
wonderful. It mar be applied in the same man- 1
ner on Cotton, only let the qeantHv be increased
a little. On Wheat, o*e, aj too™ 2R> t 0 800
pounds to the acre, broadcast, or put in dnll, and
the effect will be most marked, for just at the
time when Penman Guano foils in the supply of
that element which mature# b Grain, this Ma
nure feeds the plant until the end of tha season,
and the Farmer may calculate with certainty on
an abandant crap.
J. C. DAWSON, AGEKT,
JaalO-Sm AO. S WAKKXK BLOC B
. -Clmmiclc & Jiottmd.
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Additional Troop*.
Ibe two compaciei wboae muster rolls are
i J?iYen below, complete the list of corps detailed
for service in the Third and Fourth Regiments of
I Georgia Volunteers.
And in closing our labors in this particular de
partment, we return our thanks to the officers
and men of these regiments for their uniform
courteaj and kindness towards us. Everj facili
i ( tv in their power has been afforded us for pro
curing the several rolls. And we deem it proper
also to state— and we make the npitement w ith
pride and gratification—that we never saw so
large a body of men together, whether soldiers
or not, who preserved so generally the urbanity
and decorum of gentlemen. The Georgia Volun
teers are nature's noblemen.
j Dawson grays.
j Th * B company numbers 73 men. Their uniform
is Georgia gray, trimmed with black.
OFFICERS.
Captain—R. L. McWhorter.
Ist Lieutenant—Jas. R. Sanders.
M W. J. Boswell.
Ensign—J. P. Wilson.
Orderly Sergeant- J as. Armstrong.
2d Sergeant—W. R. Wilson.
2d “ D. S. Sanders.
4th “ Stephen English.
Ist Corporal—A. L. Langston.
2d “ J. O. Boswell.
2d “ J. J. Burnett.
4th 44 W. A. Wilson.
FBIVATRS.
B E Spencer, J T Dolvin,
J Gorgharn, F Barnwell,
W Morgan, W S Williams,
A F Dunham, D C Moore,
J S Barnwell, John McGuire,
W T Lindsey, R Bowling,
J H English, P McCutchina,
J G Beasley, J Edmondson,
J L Wilson, John Armstrong,
J A Foster, G Griffin,
W H Johnson, O Rav&le,
W B Tuggle, LD Bruce,
J Ft iioltzclaw, N Greer,
K R Cheney, C C Lankford,
Joseph Davison, It S Williams.
II C Fears, Isaac Haynes,
M B Tuggle, GeoK:den,
P J Frommersbosen, N A Hobbs,
W P McWhorter, J Adkins,
Ft W Edmonds, W i) Sullivan,
C B Mitchell, J W F'erry,
J W Lankford, M Lankface,
X Pippins, Ft W Langston,
A S Morgan, J B Williams,
B Johnson, G G Johnson,
G Bonling, * WE Lawrence,
K Veasey', J W Whitlan,
W Brugej, B S Baden,
S Agee, J X English, ‘
G Freeman, Jas H Whitlan,
ATHENS GUARDS.
This company has 75 men. One of the mem j
here is an old man of 72 years, named Richard ]
1 Irenes, who served in the war of 1812, and says 1
he is capable of doing effective service yet. He J
has two Bonsin this corps, and bis remaining son ]
is in the Troup Artillery, at Fort Pulaski. The j
uniform of the Athens Guards is Georgia gray, *
trimmed with black.
OPFICSBS.
Captain—H. C. Billups,
Ist Lieutenant—T. M. I)hdil.
2d “ l). B. Langston,
iid “ G. E. Hayes,
let Sergeant -G. A. Carlton.
2d “ A. M. Wing.
3d “ A. S. MaudeviHe.
4th ** S. L. Alexauder.
sth “ J. S. Williford,
Ist Corporal—lt. 11. L. Hughes
2d R. A. Whitman.
8d “ R. M. McAlpine.
4th “ H. M. Delucy.
FBIVATBB.
H M Aiken, Geo Williams,
It A Bristol, J W Nabors,
I) H Bailey, Burford,
W Bearden, G H I'aimer,
Willis Bone, R K Reaves,
Win Bone, J J Sunni.-*,
J B Brupee, S M Stark,
M J Clancy, T H Frierson,
J S Colbert, G C Graham,
W H B Culbertson, J S Greer,
Chas Dean, J W Gilliams,
Ft T Durham, H M Gilliams,
G C Daniel. Samuel Hayes,
W I) Luckie, P W Hayes,
VV R liambert, John Harris,
Thoa II S Hughes,
Miller Lumpkin, Itichard Hughes,
C F* McAlister, J W Hallam,
W II Mortos, J R Ivey,
J H McClcsky, J J Karnes,
It P McWhorter, A C Smith,
John Mason, M G Simmons,
C W Massay, J W Teuney,
Daniel Mclienr.ie, J F Thurmond,
T G Macon, K C Thomas,
P M Nceac, . J I) Thomas,
J J Parr, A A Winu,
G K Porter, fl I) Whitman,
G W Hamev, D P Williams,
J E Dickson, W U Viuceut.
A A Edge,
GOVERNOR’S GUARDS.
This is a capital company, composed of muscular
men, under the command of Capt. Joel R. GRir
riN, a thorough soldier and finished gentleman.
He whs formerly captain of that efficient corps
the Macon Guards, now at Fort I'ulaski. He has
won distinction in the Mexican w.ir, and, if oppor
tunity offers, will gain fresh laurels in the cause
of tho Confeuerncy. There are 80 men in tile
Governor’s Guards. Their uniform is a red jacket,
blue black pants, with white stripe, and German
fatigue cap.
OFFICERS.
Captain—Joel R. Griffin.
Ist Lieutenant—John A. Hamilton.
2d “ B. LeSeur.
8d “ J. N. Smith.
Ist Sergeant.—Geo. Allen.
2d “ J. G. Royal.
8d “ A. 11. Fiuuey.
4tli “ (Vacant.)
Corporals—(Vacant.)
PRIVATES.
Chas U Walker, George Teudall,
R W Rutherford, Itenj Upton,
W P Wright, W H Kennedy,
J J Keils, U J Caltmen,
Robt C Daniel, Thos A Price,
W E Boler, Wm Rowland,
Geo W Snead, D Jenkins,
W G Hancock, Johu Sheehau,
S W Sullivan, N S Bowse,
Robert H Baiiev, W A Calhoun,
Wm J SuUivau, W P Thompson,
Joseph A Allston, Thos J Howell,
A Adkins, Jesse Hammons,
5V 11 Smith, C F Smith,
G M Gaitwood, Wm Rergamy,
N A Penick, .) W Mathews,
W C Wilder, Robt R Wrigbl,
John Teudall, D C Rogers,
Henry Glover, Wm II Tine,
G M Solomons, Clifford Bussey,
Henry Thompson, Elijah Sourman,
Samuel A Fields, Joseph Barnes,
John A Harris, Tbos M Christmas,
A D Myers, E J Nesbit,
G M Mmmons, S A Murray,
11 S Hudson, A W Watson,
W D Clark, C A Edgeworth,
J Thos J Glover, W M Thompson,
Thos X Amason, E J Mundy,
I John W Belton, V Pratt,
| W II McDonald, Anthony Campbell,
j E Jordan, J b Bates,
| David Harrington, John McNeil,
j J M Rountree, Wm Billups,
i C J Bass, Jas T Smith,
W A Tooke, J J Nobles,
| W F Poole,
BI’RKE GUARDS.
This company is from Burke couuty. Their
uniform is of dark gray, trimmed with green;
officers with coats, privates with jackets ; slouched
hsts.
orrieins.
Captain—Wm. C. Mnsgrore.
Ist Lieutenant—J. R. Sturgea.
2d “ T. J. Burton.^
Sd ’• J. M. McCullers.
Ensign—Antony M. Buford.
Orderly Sergeant—S. A. Corker.
2d Sergeant—Homer C. Glisson.
sd “ S. J. Bell.
4th “ K. Goriick.
Mh “ Jas. A. Lambert.
Ist Corporal—David J. Wright.
2d “ Abraham Chance.
cd “ Robt. E. Clark,
4th “ J. S. Presoott.
Chaplain—Robt. B. Leater.
Armorer—Thos. Fitxpatrick.
Quartermaster —Stanlev Young.
Secretary—Jas. M. Stokes.
Treasurer—D. Glisson.
raivavß.
Jas Attaway, Avery Jenkins,
H Attaway, Jerry Jones.
Jno J Attaway, Stephen Jackson,
K M Adkinson, A w Kersey,
Jas W Allen, John S Kennedy,
Jno N Applewhite, A J Lassiter,
Jo# P Applewhite, J Lewis,
W H Reall, E G Lambert,
Moses Block, W \V Dawson.
W T Brinson, Thos H Lassiter,
. Jos P Ball L B Lightfoot,
. Francis Burton, A W Murphey,
W m A Cameron, Geo F NasworthT,
! John H Clarke. S B Paimer.
j Elisha W Clarke. W J Randle,
1 Aaron Co*. D Reeves.
| De W it* Clinton, R V Saxon,
i Jas J Coosey, D M Stone,’
j A C Douglas, Robt R Stone,
, Jchn Dickey, R Sumner,
.- Simeon Dickey, V P Shewmake,
Jas M Downs. U J Skinner,
j Thos B Everett, Wm Sconyers,
: Wui Fredericks, A H Sconyers,
Wm H Fulcher, Wm Tompkins,
Greene E Glisson, A J Templeton,
| Wm Grubbs, R C Wimberly,
I G H Hajslip. M \V W,mberly,
Stephen B Hargroves. J C Whitehead,
Thos J Hargroves. E B Wooding,
M M Herrington, . G G Williams,
1 MM Hines, R War nock,
Jnc R flvaea, C Wheejpr.
Geo F Hvnes, € B Wffketaon,
Stephen “Hynes, J** J Wa.lace.
• Jas Hodges,
MACON COUNTY VOLUNTEERS.
The uniform of this Company is Georgia gray
trimmed with black. They number e* able-bodied
men.
orrtcsßS :
Captain—Samuel M Pro thro,
Ist Lieutenant—Wm H Willis,
Jd Thos G Hall,
Brcret -U Lieut— Jefferson J Worsham,
,st Sergeant— M Harrison,
*d “ Phillip Crook.
*d Jowph Brantler,
4th „ , f letth *r T Snead,
let Corporal—Levi E Folk,
2d “ Jas M Rogers,
kd “ Ja* A Smith,
4th “ Ja* C Yarborough.
raivirxs
. David Blackman, H M Kaiglet,
W H Bledaoe. H Lacy,
lidmand Blunt, A A Lone,
John J Brown, Alex Law,
T A Cantrell, E M Law,
j Joseph P Carson, E A Leggitt,
\V m W Cloud, Thoa P Lloyd,
Alex H Cloud, A M Martin,
; Jas W Cloud, Robt Martin,
Robert Cook, Wns Martin,
: Wm M Covington, J E B Mathis,
Wm CCochrell, WC McLendon,
| Rich'd A Davis, J J McLendon,
: W M Dixon, R T McMullaa,
! JaaG Felton, J F McMurrain,
Wm T Fish, R J McNeil,
Thos J Fish. Geo W McNeil,
David A Fish Geo W Mott,
Robert B Gaines, S Odom,
A J Gaines, Jas K Parks,
John M Greer, J M Patterson,
Thos J Gilbert, John J Quick,
J B Griffin, R R Hally,
Benj ¥ Harris, F E Robinson,
Wm H Harrison, W A Robinson,
W€ P Haugabook, J G Smith,
A W Flicks, Chas E Smith,
E D Hicks, V H C Smith,
W It Hicks, J M Simpson,
W B Hill, Chas A Taylor,
W H Honeycutt, Chas X Waiters,
D M Hogg, B B Wilkinson,
Thos B Hogg, J H Wilkes,
Jas M Hornaday, J S Williams,
Jeremiah Joiner, I> Wood.
J T Jay,
TOOMBS VOLUNTEERS.
J The uniform of the Toombs Volunteers is gray
| cloth of Roswell make, trimmed with black. They
| number 97 men. They are from Calhoun, Gordon
county, and are composed of hardy fellows,
“picked up among the rocks of Northern Geor
gia,” as one of the members informed us. They
are admirably fitted for service.
OFFICERS.
Captain—Blair R. Mayes.
Ist Lieutenant—Jas. W. Jackson.
2d “ Jas. F. Sullivan.
8d ** Geo. W. Cary.
Ist Sergeant—John E. McConnell.
2d “ Lewis M. Cobb.
8d “ Joseph M. M. Carter.
4th “ Tyre H. Johnson.
sth “ John B. Higdeu.
Ist Corporal—Robert Wiley.
2d “ Joseph McCouuel.
8d “ Augustus F. Malone.
4th “ Robert il. Porch.
Fifer—William Mobley.
Drummer—William H. Hanes.
FRI TATES.
Peter Bedford, S H Cox,
F M Boaz W Clark,
Geo It Boaz, S T Cantrell,
Wm B Brownlow, C Cantrell,
Elias Butler, Wm H Crawford,
Jas M Burch, Geo W Cbaflin,
Geo W Bray, F H Cooper,
Ebenezer Bradley, SCarleton,
Geo W Bradley, K J Kiker,
M S Blackburne, Robert J Love,
John It Dorsey, D H Love,
B K Dillard, E M I^yuch,
Elijah L Dillard, II G Mobley,
Alex Dobson, A f Mims,
Andrew J Darn aid, J McClute,
Chas A Ilorsett, L I) McClain,
Richard H Dorsett, It C Mooney,
N F Ellis, E T Nichols,
John S Ellis, Duncan A Norton,
Thos J Edwards, Wm M Owens,
Itobt W Edwards, Wm B Osborn,
Archibald Eaves, J I) Phillips,
Martin V’ Eaves, C A Phillips,
Madison Free, D L Reeves,
Jas H Fox, B D Reeves,
Jas L Fowler, S Smith,
W T m W Ginn, J Solomon,
Wash W’ Garner, C Sparks,
Jas J Hunt, J U Stanford,
G W Hollis, P A Sumrney,
E G Higdon, Asa Tavlor,
S C Henson, It if Taylor,
Wm II Hanes, L P Thompson,
H It Holden, Wm J Underwood,
T H Hickman, Win L Vandyke,
Wm II Hensley, (J Ft Vandyke,
C M Johnson, E C Wofford,
Evan W Kiker, J C Witcher,
Wm A Binion, Jefferson Wade,
I) B Chandler, J L White,
Wm A Causebey, J n W r illingham,
American 3?raft Baud.
This excellent Band, organised in May, 1860,
and which came here with the Sumter Light
Guards, has afforded our citizens great gratifica
tion during their sojourn in the city, by the very
fine music they have given us. They are capital
performers. On Tuesday evening they played a
musical melange upon the Bell Tower, and the
sweet harmony elicited was the theme of general
remark and commendation. We regret that their
engagements rendered it nec ssary for them to
return to Americus Tuesday night, and hope that
w'e shall enjoy a visit from them again at no dis
tant day.
We give btdow a list of the members with the
instruments of each :
Prof. Loui Zitterbart, Leader—lst E Flat Cornet.
W. W. Ford, 2d E Flat Cornet.
W. C.P. Cleghorn, E Flat Soprano.
L. A. Smith, Ist B Flat.
J. W. Wheatley, Ist B Flat Alto.
P. S. Twitty. 2*o B Flat Alto.
Samuel Dunlap, Ist Tenor.
James C. Ford, 2d Tenor.
J. W. Willey, Baritone.
John Lamon, Tuba.
Pat B. Sims, Tenor Drum,
Charles M. Wheatley, Bass Drum.
Dick Cleghorn, Cymbals.
A letter to the Richmond Dispatch, from the
Headquarters of 8d Regiment Virginia Volun
teers, Portsmouth, dated April 26, thus speaks of
onr Georgia friends:
We have also in barracks four large, efficient,
and 1 may add thoroughly well drilled companies
of infantry from Georgia, who arrived here a few
nights back, officered by the first men of the
State, and tho soldiers are the very flower of the
South. They are tho Macon Volunteers, com
marded by Captain Smith, a very emineut lawyer
of Macon, who has laid aside a practice of SS,OOIi
or *lO ,000 to respond to the call of his country ;
Floyd Rifles, Capt. Thomas Hardeman, member
of the last Congress of the United States; City
Light Guards, of Columbus, Capt, P. 11. Colquitt,
son of the Ex-Senator, and a gentleman of high
legal attainments; and the Spaulding Greys, of
Spaulding county, Capt. L. T. Deyal, a jurist of
considerable note.
“Leo,” the usually well-informed Washington
correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writes
from the Federal Capital, under date of April
25th :
Gen Beauregard, on the 24th instant, visited
the Washington Heights, and took measures for
forming there an entrenched camp and a line of
batteries. The President's house, Treasury and
Capitol could not stand live hours under a brisk
fire from these batteries. Therefore, it is now
said that Gen. Scott has a plan for dislodging this
force, and taking possession of the Heights by a
movement both on their flank and rear. But it
appears to me very plain that the Confederate
army will cross the Potomac below Fort Washing
ton,and cut off the Government’s communication
with Annapolis. So on the Elkridge road will be
the first great battle of the war.
[Rectal Ditpatch to the Charletton Courier. |
Alexandria, Va., April 27. The Maryland Le
gislature have ratified the Baltimore Ordinance,
appropriating five hundred thousand dollars for
arming the State.
Alixandhia, Va., April 27.—The Linceln[United
States Government cannot get arms or men from
Canada, as has been reported.
H. B. M. Consul-General in New York, declares
that the attempt to enlist a regiment of any color
in Canada for the United States, was without
authority, and will be resisted.
Richmond, Adril 27.—1 tis reported by a passen
ger who has reached here, that 25,000 soldiers
were in Washington, and about the same number
on the wav under orders for Washington, under
General’s Va'terson and Kerr, of Pennsylvania.
Th* Blocxadi of SorTHBBN Pokys. —A dis
patch dated Washington, 27th ult., 6avs :
Some excitement has been produced in diplo
matic circles, growing out of the proclamation of
the President, directing a blockade which, to be
respected by foreign Powers, must not only be
effective, but due notice must be given of such
inieutiou to their representatives. With Braxil
and all South American Governments a notice of
flt> days is required under treaty.
But this has not been given by the Govern
ment. Hence consignments of coffee and other
natural products, designed for Southern ports,
are delayed in their transportation to that portion
of the country, the merchants not being satisfied
of the effects of immediate blockade. It has,
therefore, become necessary that specific inquiries
be made of the Federal Government in relation to
this subject, so that treaty rights and privileges
may not be damaged.
The foreign ministers will msist that the stipu
lations shall be respected and observed. Other
wise naval forces will be dispatched hither as a
means of foreign protection. The delicacy of
the question is apparent; and, from wbat is
known, may involve serious consequences to all
concerned ;"at all events, produce trouble now as
well as in the future.
News It*ms from the Baltimore American of
the 27th :
Workmen were engaged on the Bush River
Bridge, for the purpose of reopening travel and
carrying the mails between Baltimore and Phila
delphia, and it was expected that the trains might
pass last Friday. Bat on Thursday uight a party
of men saturated the timber* with cimphene, and
destroyed the Bridge—a mile long. They design
ed also to destroy Gunpowder Bridge Friday
night, and were aot acting under orders from the
civil or military authorities.
There was some excitement in Baltimore Fri
day, caused by the raising of U. S. flags. Th
Police ordered that no sort of flag should be dis
played, and so the matter was dropped.
It is said that Gov. Sfbagc* Commanding the
Rhode Island Regiment found two negroes near
; Crownsvill# claiming tobe free. On inquiry it was
I found they were the property of Mr. Krst.
1 brother-in-law of Gov. Pratt, and so Sprague
sent them back to Annapolis under a file of sol
| diers, and delivered them to Sheriff” I*ila.vd.
Gsorgb Law, Simeon Drapbr and many others
i in New 5 ork call on the President to open a way
j wasblngtan through rebel Baltimore.
\trpeeta-. e the 1 i Or r,-. Courier.
‘V C-> M *y !•—The Legislature met at
1, A. M., and at 1 P. M.. the House passed a Bill
for a Convention, unrestricted, to meet on the
20th instant. The Bill passed un&nimouslv and
will, no doubt, pass the Senate. The elections
are ordered for the 15th iost.
Richmond, May I. —The proclamation of Abra
ham Lincoln has reached this city. He proclaims
martial law over Maryland, dividing it into four
military district* or commands, and a fifth district
includes the District of Columbia and City of Al
exandria.
Inoffensive citixens have been driven off at the
point of th* bayonet.
There is an absolute reign of •-nor in and
around Washington.
The Dalton Timer suggests Hon. B. H Hill
and Governor Brown for Confederate Senators
from the State of Georgia.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY S. 1861.
TIESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.
: To the Special Section of th Concrete Coetened at
Montgomery, April 25 th 18*1.
J Gx.tTi.Ejre>- ox the Congress :
It is my pleasing duty to announce to you that
; the Constitution trained for the establishment of a
rermanent government for the Confederate States
as bean ratified by Conventions in each of those
j States to which it was referred. To inaugurate
; the gorerument in its tull proportions and upon
j its own substantial basis of the popular will, it
! only remains that elections should be held for the
designation of the officers to administer it.
| There is every reason to believe that at no <lis
| taut d3y, other States indentified in political
j principles and community of interests with those
which you represent will” join this Confederacy;
giving to its typical constellation increased splen
dor—loits government offree, equal and sovereign
States a wider sphere of usefulness—and to tuc
friends of constitutional liberty a greater security
for its harmonious and perpetual existence.
It was not, however, for the purpose of making
this announcement that I have deemed it my duty (
to convoke you at au earlier day than that fixed
by yourselves for your meeting. The declaration |
of war made against this Confederacy by Abraham j
Lincoln, the President of the United States, in his
proclamation issued on the fifteenth day of the
present month, rendered it necessary, in my judg
ment, that you should convene at the earliest
practicable moment, to devise the measures neces
sary for the defense of the country.
T he occasion is indeed an extraordinary one. It
justifies me in a brief review of the relations here
tofore existing between us and the States which
now unite in warfare against us, and in a succinct
statement of the events which have resulted in
this warfare : to the end that mankind may pass
intelligent and impartial judgment on its motives
and objects.
During the war waged against Great Britain
by her colonies on this coutiuent, a common dan
ger impelled them to a close alliance, and to the
formation of a Confederation, by the terms of
which the colonies, styling themselves States, en
tered ‘‘severally into a firm league of friendship
with each other for their common defense, the
security of their liberties, and their mutual and
general welfare, binding themselves to assist each
other against all force offered to, or attacks made
upon them or any of them, on account of religion,
sovereignty, trade or any other pretense what
ever.”
In order to guard against any misconstruction
of their compact, the several States made explicit
declaration, in a distinct article, that “each State
retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence,
and every power, jurisdiction and right which is
uot by this Confederation expressly delegated to
the United States in Congress assembled.”
Under this contract of alliance, the war of the
revolution was successfully waged, and resulted
in the treaty of peace with Great Britain iu 1783,
by the terms of which the several States were,
each by name, recognised to be independent.
The articles of confederation contained a clause
whereby all alterations were prohibited, unless
confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, after
being agreed toby the Congress; and in obe
dience to this provision under the resolution of
Congress of the 21st February, 1787, the several
States appointed delegates who attended a con
vention “for the sots and express purpose of re
vising the articles of confederation, and reporting
to Congress aud the several Legislatures, such
alterations and provisions therein as shall when
ugreed to in Congress, and'confirmed by the Stales,
render the Federal Constitution adequate to the
exigencies of government and the preservation of
the Union.”
It was, by the delegates chosen, by the several
States, under the resolution just quoted, that the
Constitution of the United States was framed in
1787, aud submitted to the several Slates for ratifi
cation, as shown by the 7th article, which is in
these words.
“The ratification of the Conventions of nine
States shall he sufficient for the establishment of
this Ccnstitution between the States, so ratifying
the same.”
I have italicised certain words in the quota
tions just made, for the purpose of attracting at
tention to the singular and marked caution with
which the States endeavored, in every possible
form, to exclude tho idea that the separate and
independent sovereignty of each State was merg
ed into one common government and nation ; aud
the earnest desire they evinced to impress on the
Constitution its true character—that of a com
part between independent States.
The Constitution of 1787 having, however,
omitted the clause already recited from the arti
cles of Confederation, which provided iu explicit
terms, that each State retained its sovereignty
and independence, some alarm was felt infihe
States when invited to ratify the Constitution,
lest this omission should be construed into an
abandonment of their cherished principle, and
they refused to be satisfied until amendments
w.ere added to the Constitution, placing beyond
any pretence of doubt, the reservation by the
States, of all their sovereign lights and powers—
not expressly delegated to the United States by
the Constitution.
Strange indeed must it appear to the impartial
observer, but it is none the less true, that all
these carefully worded clauses proved unavailing
to prevent the rise and growth in the Northern
States of a political school which has persistently
claimed that the government thus formed was
not a compact between States, but was in effect a
natioual government, set up above and over the
States. An organization, created by tho States
to secure tho blessings of lifierty and indepen
dence against foreign aggression, has been gradu
ally perverted into a machine for their control in
in their domestic affairs ; the creature has been
exalted above its creators; tke principals have
been made subordinate to the agent appointed by
themselves.
The people of the Southern States, whose
almost exclusive occupation was agriculture,
early perceived a tendency in the Northern States
to render the common government subservient to
their own purposes, by imposing burthens on
commerce as a protection to their manufacturing
and shipping interests. Long and angry contro
versy grew out of these attempts, often successful,
to beuefit one section of the country at the ex
pense of the other; and the danger of disruption
arising from this cause was enhanced by the fact
that the Northern population was increasing by
immigration and other causes in a greater ratio
than the population of the South. By degrees, as
the Northern States gained preponderance in the
National Congress, self-interest taught their peo
ple to yield ready assent to any plausible advo
cacy of their right as a majority to govern tho
minority without control; they learned to listen
with impatience to the suggestion of any consti
tutional impediment to the exercise of their will;
and so utterly have the .principles of the Consti
tution been corrupted in the Northern mind,ihat
in the inaugural address delivered by President
Lincoln in March last, he asserts as an axiom
which he plainly deems to be undeniable, that the
theory of the Constitution requires that in all
cases the majority shall govern ; and in another
memorable instance, the same Chief Magistrate
did not hesitate to liken the relations between a
State and the United States to those which exist
between a county and the State in which it is sit
uated and by which it was created. This is the
lamentable and fundamental error on which rests
the policy that has culminated in his declaration
of war agaiust these Confederate States.
In addition to the long continued and deep
seated resentment felt by the Southern States at
the persistent abuse of the powers they had dele
gated to the Congress, for the purpose of enrich
ing the manufacturing and shipping classes of the
North at the expense of the South, there has ex
isted for nearly half a century another subject of
discord, involving interests of such transcendeut
magnitude as at all times to create the apprehen
sion in the minds of many devoted lovers of the
Union, that its permanence was impossible.
When the several States delegated certain pow
ers to the United States Congress, a large portion
of the laboring papulation consisted of African
slaves imported into the colonies by the mother
country. In twelve of the thirteen States, negro
slaves existed, and the right of property in slaves
was protected by law. This property was recog
nized in the Constitution, and provision was made
against its loss bv the escape of the slave. The
increase in the number of slaves by further im
portation from Africa, was also secured by a
clause forbidding Congress to prohibit the slave
trade anterior to a certain date ; and in no clause
can there be found any delegation of power to
the Congress authorizing it in any manner to le
gislate to the prejudice, detriment, or discourage
’• ment of the owners of that species of property, or
| excluding it from the protection of the govern
! ment.
The climate and soil of the Northern States soon
proved unpropitious to the continuance of slave
| labor, whilst the converse was the case at the
South. Under the unrestricted free intercourse
i between the two sections, the Northern States
! consulted their own interest by selling their
1 slaves to the South, and prohibiting slavery with
in their limits. The South were willing purcha
sers of a property suitable to their wants, and
; paid the price of the acquisition without harbor
: mg a suspicion that their quiet possession was to
be disturbed by those who were inhibited, not
i only by want of constitutional authority, but by
; good faith as vendors, from disquieting a title
emanating from themselves,
j As soon, however, as the Northern States that
prohibited African slavery within their Units had
reached a number sufficient to give their repre
sentation a controlling voice in the Congress, a
persistent and organized system of hostile meas
ures against toe rights of the owners of slaves in
the Southern States was inaugurated, and gradu
ally extended. A continuous senes of measures
was devised and prosecuted for the purpose of
renderioginsecure the tenure ofpropertv in slaves;
fanatical organizations, supplied with money by
voluntary subscriptions, were assiduously engaged
in exciting amonest the slaves a spirit of discon
tent and revolt; meaus were furnished for their
escape from their owners, and agents secretly em
ployed to entice them to abscond ; the coustitu
tutional provision for their rendition to their ow
ners was first evaded, then openly denounced as a
violation of conscientions obligation and religious
duty; men were taught that it was a merit to
elude, disobey, and violently oppose the execu
tion of the laws enacted to secure the perform
ance of the promise contained in the constitution
al compact; owners of slaves were mobbed and
even murdered in open day, solelv for applying
to a magistrate for the arrest of a'fugitive slave ;
the dogmas of these voluntary organizations soon
obtained control of the legislature* of manv of
the Northern States, and laws were passed provi
ding for the punishment by ruinous fines and
long continued imprisonment in jails and peniten
i tianes, of cilizens of the Southern States, who
should dare to ask aid of the officers of the law
■ for the recovery of their property. Kmbolddened
, by success, the theatre of agitation and aggression
i anainst the clearly expressed constitutional rights
: of the -Southern States was transferred to the
| CoDgress; Senators and Representatives were
: sent to the common councils of the nation, whose
• chief title to this distinction consisted in the dis
i play of s spirit of ultra fanaticism, and whose bns
: mess was. not “to promote the general welfare or
ensure domestic tranquility,’’but to awaken the
i bitterest hatred against the citizens of sister States
; bv violent denunciation of their institutions ; the
; transaction of public affairs was impeded bv re
! peated efforts to usurp powers not delegated bT
the Constitution, for the purpose of impairing the
security of property in slaves, and reducing those
States which held slaves, to a condition of inferi
! oritv. Finally, a great party was organized for
i the “purpose of obtaining the administration of the
government, with the avowed object of using it*
•ewer for the total exclusion of the slave States
*om all participation in the benefits of the pub
lic domain, acquired by all the States in common,
whether by conquest or purchase; of surrounding
i them entireely bv States in which slavery should
be prohibited ; of thus rendering the property in
i slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worth
j less, and thereby annihilating in effect property
worth thousands of milhons of dollars. This par
tv, thus organized, succeeded in the month of
, November last, in the election of its candidate for
] the Presdiency of the United States.
In the meantime, under the mild and genial
1 climate of the Southern States, and the increasing
i care and attention for the well-being and comfort
j of the laboring class, dictated alike by interest
i and bui f the African slaves had augmented
in number trum about 600,000, at the date of the
adoption of the constitutional compact, to upw -rds
iof 4,Qoo.'oof'. In moral and social condition, they
j had been elevated tram brutal savage* into docile,
intelligent and civilized agricultural laborers, and
supplied not only with bodily comforts bnt with
1 epeful religious instruction. Under the super
, vision of a superior race, their labor had been so
directed as not only to allow a gradual and marked
amelioration of their own condition, but to convert
hundreds of thousands of square miles of the
wilderness into cultivated lands, covered with a
! prosperous people ; towns and cities had sprung
into existence, and had rapidly increased in wealth
i and population under the social system of the
■ South ; the white population of the Southern
slaveholding States had augmented from about
I 1,250,000 at the date of the adoption of the Con
stitution, to more than 8,500,000 in 1880; and the !
productions of the South in cotton, rice, sugar
and tobacco, for the full development and contin- ‘
uance of which, the labor of African slaves was, ;
and is, indispensable, had swollen to an amount
which formed nearly tliree-fourths of the exports
of the whole United States, and had become ab
solutely necessary to the wants ot civilized man.
With interests of such overwhelming magnitude
imperilled, the people of the Southern Stales were
driven by the couduct of the North to the adop
tion of some course of action to avert the dauger
with which they were openly menaced. With
this view, the Legislatures of the several States
invited the people to select delegates to Conven
tions to be held for the purpose of determining
for themselves what measures were best adapted
to meet so alarming a crisis in their hiatorv.
Here it may be proper to observe that from a
period as early as 1798, there bad existed in all
of the States of the Union a party, almost unin
terruptedly in the majority, based upon the creed*
that each State was in the last resort, the sole
judge as well of its wrongs, as of the mode and
measure of redress. Indeed, it is obvious, that
under the law of nations, this principle is an axi
om as applied to the relations of independent
sovereign States, such _s those which had united
themselves under the constitutional compact
The Democratic party of the United States, re
peated in its successful canvass in the de
claration made in numerous previous -political
contests, that it would “faithfully abide by and
uphold the principles laid down in the Kentucky
and Virginia resolutions of 1758, and in the report
of Mr. Madison to the Virginia Legislature in 17yji;
and that it adopts those principles as constituting’
One of the main foundations of its political creed.
The principles thus emphatically announced,
embrace that to which I have already adverted,
the right of each State to judge of, aud redress
the wrongs of which it complains. These princi
ples-were maintaiued by overwhelming majori
ties of the people of all the States of the Union at
different elections, especially iu the elections of
Mr. Jefferson in 1805, Mr. Madison in 1805, and
Mr. Pierce in 1852.
In the exercise of a right so ancient, so well es
tablished, and so necessary for self-preservation,
the people of the Confederate States in their Con
ventions, determined that the wrongs which they
had suffered, and the evils with which they were
menaced, required that they should revoke the
delegation of power to the Federal Government
which they had ratified iu their several Conven
tions. They consequently passed ordinances re
suming ail their rights as sovereign aud indepen
dent States, and dissolved their connection with
the other Stutes of the Union.
Having done this, they proceeded to form a
new compact amongst .themselves, by new arti
cles of confederation, which have been also rati
fied by the conventions of the several States with
an approach to unanimity far exceeding that of
the conventions which adopted the Constitution
of 1787. They have organised their new govern
ment in all its departments; the functions of the
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Magistrates
are performed in accordance with the will of the
people as displayed, uot merely iu a cheerful ac
quiesceuce, but in the enthusiastic support of the
government thus established by themselves; aud
but for the interference of the government of the
United States in this legitimate exercise of the
right of a people to self-government, peace, hap
piness and prosperity would now smile on our
land.
That peace is ardently desired by this govern
ment and people, has beeu manifested in every
possible form. Scarce had you assembled in Feb
ruary last, when, prior even to the inauguration
of the Chief Magistrate you had elected, you pass
ed a resolution expressive of your desire far the
appointment of commissioners to be sent to the
government of the United States “for the pur
pose of negotiating friendly relations between
that Government aud the Confederate States of
America, and for the settlement of all ouestions
of disagreement between the two governments
upon principles of right, justice, equity and good
faith.’*
It was my pleasure us well as my duty, to co
operate with you in this work of peace. Indeed,
in my address to you on taking the oath of office,
aud before receiving from von the communication
of tliis resolution, I Lad said, “as a necessity, not
a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of se
paration, and henceforth our energies must be
directed to the couduct of our own affairs and the
perpetuity of the Confederacy which we hare
formed. If a just perception of mutual interest
shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate
political career, my most earnest desire will have
been fulfilled.”
It was in furtherance of these accordant views
of tho Congress and the Executive, that I made
choice of three discreet, able and distinguished
citizens, who repaired to Washington. Aided by
their cordial co-operation, and that of the Secre
tary of State, every effort compatible with self
respect and the dignity of vhe Confederacy, was
exhausted before 1 allowed myself to yield to the
conyictiou that the government of the United
States was determined to attempt the conquest of
this people, and that our cherished hopes ol'peuce
were unattainable.
On the arrival of our commissioners in Wash
ington, on the sth March, they postponed, at the
suggestion of a friendly intermediary, doing more
than giving informal notice of their arrival. This
was done with a view to afford time to the Presi
dent who had just been Inaugurated, for the dis
charge of other pressing official duties in the or
ganization of his administration, before engaging
Sis attention in the object of their mission. It
was net uutil the 12th of the month that they offi
cially addressed the Secretary of State, informing
him of the purpose of their arrival, and stating
in tho language ot their instructions their wish
“ to make to the United States overtures for the
opening of negotiations, assuring the government
of the United States, that the President, CoDgreas
and people of the Confederate States, earnestly
desire a peaceful solutiou of these great quest-ons;
that it is neither their interest nor their wish to
make any demand which is not founded on the
strictest justice, nor do any act to injure their late
confederates.”
To this communication no fmrmal reply was re
ceived until the Bth April. Dtting the interval,
the Commissioners had consented to waive ali
questions of form. With the firm resolve to avoid
war if possible, they went so far, even, as to hold,
during that long period, unofficial intercourse,
through an intermediary, whose high position and
character’ inspired the hope of success, and
through whom constant assurances were received
from the Government of the United States, of
peaceful intentions; of the determination to
evacuate Fort Sumter; and further, that no
measure, changing the existing status prejudicial
ly to the Confederate States,| especially ,at JFor
Pickens, was in contemplation, but that in tie
event of any chaDge of intention on the subject,
notice would be given to the Commissioners. The
crooked paths of diplomacy can scarcely furnish
an example so wanting in courtesy, in candor
and directness, as was the course of the United
States Government towards our Commissioners
in Washington. For proof of this, I refer to the
annexed documents marked , taken in con
nection with further facts which I now proceed to
relate.
Early in April the attention of the whole coun
try, as well as that of our Commissioners, was at
tracted to extraordinary preparations for an ex
tensive military and naval expedition in New York
and oilier northern ports. These preparations,
commenced in secrecy, for an expedition whose
destination was concealed, only became known
when nearly completed, and on the sth, 6th aud
7tfi April, transports and vessels of war, with
iroops, munitions and military supplies, sailed
from northern ports bound southwards. Alarmed
by so extraordinary a demonstration, the Com
missioners requested the delivery of au answer to
their official communication of the 12th March,
and thereupon received, on the Blh April, a reply
dated on the 15th of the previous month, from
which it appears that, during the whole interval,
whilst the Commissioners were receiving as
surances, calculated to inspire hope of the success
of their mission, the Secretary of State and the
President of the United States had already deter
mined to hold no intercourse with them whatever;
to refuse even to listen to any proposals they had
to make, and had profited bv the delay created by
their own assurances, in order to prepare secretly
the means for effective hostile operations.
That these assurances were given, has been vir
tually confessed by the Government of the United
States by its sending “ messenger to Charleston,
to give notice of its purpose, to use force if op
posed in its intention of supplying Fort Sumter.
No more striking proof of the absence of good
faith in the conduct of the Government of the
United States towards this Confederacy oan be
required than is contained in the circumstances
which accompanied this notice. According to
the usual course of navigation, the vessels com
posing the expedition designed for the relief of
Fort Sumter, might be expected to reach Charles
lon harbor on the 2th April; yet with our Com
missioners actually in Washington, detained un
der assurances, tbat notice should be given of
any military movement, the notice was not ad
dressed to them, but a messenger was sent to
Charleston to tgive the notice to the Governor of
South Carolina, and the notice was so given at a
late hour on the Sth April, the eve of the very
day on which the fleet might be expected to ar
rive. That this manoeuvre failed in its purpose
was not the fault of those who contrived it. A
heavy tempest delayed the arrival of the expedi
tion,” and gave time to the commander of our
forces at Charleston to ask and receive the in*
structions of this government. Even, then, under ,
all the provocation incident to the contemptuous
refusal to listen to our Commissioners, and the
tortuous course of the Government of the United
States, I was sincerely anxious to avoid the effu
sion of blood, and a proposal to be made
to the commander of Foit Sumter, who had avow
ed himself to be nearly out of provisions, that we
would abstain from directing our fire on Fort
Sumter if he would promise not to'open fire on
osr forces unless first attacked. This proposal
was refused and the conclusion was reached, that
the design of the United States was to place the
besieging force at Charleston between the simul
taneous fire of the fleet and the fort. There re
mained, therefore, no alternative but to direct
that the fort should at once be reduced. This
order was executed by General Beauregard, with
the skill and success which were naturally to be
expected from the well known character of that
gallant officer ; and although the bombardment
fasted but thirty-three hours, our flag did not
ware over its battered walls, until after the ap
pearance of the hostile fleet off Charleston.
I Fortunately not a life was lost on our side, and
we were gratified in being spared the necessity of
I causeless effusion ofbloou by the prudent caution
I of the officers who commanded the fleet, in ab
staining from the evidently futile effort to enter
the harbor for the relief of Major Anderson. I
; refer to the report of the Secretary of War and
the papers which accompany it for further details
; of this brilliant affair.
1 In this connection I cannot refrain from a well
! deserved tribute to the nobis State, the eminent
soldierly qualities of whose people were so con
j spicuoosly displayed in the port of Charleston.
’ For months they had been irritated by the spec
tacle of a fortress held within their principal har
bor, as a standing menace against their peace and
independence. Built in part with their own
I money, its custody confided with their own con
‘ sent to an agent who held no power over them
| oiher than such as they bad themselves delegated
for their own benefit, intended to be used by that
agent for their own protection against foreign at
-1 tack, they saw it held with persistent tenacity as
| a means of offence against them bT the very gov
ernment which they had established for” their
; protection. They had beleaguered it for months
—felt entire confidence in their power to capture
i it—vet yielded to the requirements of discipline,
. curbed their impatience, submitted without com
’ plaint to the unaccustomed hardships, labors and
Crivarions of a protracted seige ; and when at
*ngth their patience was rewarded by the signal
tor attack, and success had erowned their steady
and gallant conduct—even in the very moment of
triumph—they evinced a chivalrous regard for
i the feelings of the brave but unfortunate officer
who had been compelled to lower his flag. All
manifestations of exultation were checked in his
presence. Their commanding general with their
’ cordial approval and the consent of this govern
ment, retrained trorn imposing any terms that
I could wound the sensibilities of the commander
iof the fort. He was permitted to retire with the
honors of war—to salute his flag, to depart freely
with all his command, and was escorted to the
1 vessel in which he embarked, with the highest
; marks of respect from those against whom bis
I guns had been so recently directed. Not only
| aoes every event oonnected with the seige reflect
the highest honor on South Carolina, but the lor
; bearance of her people and of this government
from making any harsh use of a victory obtained
under circumstances of such peculiar provocation,
attest to the fullest extent the absence of any pur
pose beyond securing their own tranquilitvj aud
the sincere desire to avoid the calamities of war.
Scarcely had the President of the United States
received intelligence of the failure of the scheme
which he had devised for the reinforcement of
Fort Sumter, when he issued the declaration of
war against this Confederacy which has prompted
me to convoke you. In this extraordinarv pro
duction, that high functionary affects total igno
rance of the existence of an Independent Govern
ment, which, possessing the entire and enthusi-
astic devotion of its people, is exercising its func
tions without question over seven sovereign
States—over mo-e than five millions of people—
and over a territory whose area exceeds half a
million of square miles. He terms sovereign
States “combinations too powerful to be sup
pressed by the ordinary course of judicial pro
ceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals
by law.” He calls for an army of seventy-five
thousand men to act as a posse comitatus in aid of
the process of the courts of justiceiu States where
no courts exist whose mandates and decrees are
not cheerfully obeyed and respected by a willing
people. He avows that “the first service to be as
signed to the forces called out,” will be, not to
execute the process of courts, but to capture forts
and strong-holds situated within tho admitted
limits of this Confederacy, and garrisoned by its
troops ; and declares that “this effort” is intended
“to maintain the perpetuity of popular govern
ment.” He concludes by commanding “the per
sons composing the combinations aforesaid,” to
wit ; the five millions of inhabitants of these
States, “to retire peaceably to their respective
abides within twenty days.”
Apparently contradictory as are the terms of
this singular document, one point was unmistak
ably evident. The President of the United States
caffed for an army of eventy-flve thousand men,
whose/rri service was to be to capture our forts.
It was a plain declaration of war which I was uot
at liberty to disregard, because of my knowledge
that under the Coustitution of the United States
the President was usurping a power granted ex
clusively to the Congress. He is the sole organ
of communication between that country aud for
eign powers. The law of nations did not permit
me to question the authority of the Executive of a
foreign nation to declare war against this Con
efderacy. Although I might have refraiued from
taking this active measure for our defence if tho
States of the Union had all imitated the action of
Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri, by denouncing the call
for troops as au unconstitutional usurpation of
power to which they refused to respond, I was not
at liberty to disregard the fact that many of the
States seemed quite content to submit to the ex
ercise of the power assumed by the President of
the United States, and were actively engaged in
levying troops to be used for the purpose iudicat
ed iu the proclamation.
Deprived of the aid of Cangress at that mo
meut, I was under the necessity of confining my
action to a call on the States for volunteers for
the cemrnau defence, iu accordance with the au
thority you had confided to me before your ad
journment. I deemed it proper further to issue
proclamation inriliug application from persons
disposed to aid our defence in private armed ves-’
sels n the high seas, to the end that preparations
might be made for the immediate issue of letters
of marque and reprisal, which you alone, under
the Constitution, have power to grant. I enter
tain no doubt you will concur with me iu the
opinion that in the absence of a fleet of public
vessels, it will be eminently expedient to supply
their place by private armed vessels, so happily
styled by the publicists of the United States “the
militia of the sea,” and so often and justly relied
on by them as ati efficient and admirable instru
ment of defensive warfare. I earnestly recom
mend the immediate passage of a law authorizing
me to accept the numerous proposals already re
ceived.
I cannot close this review of the acts of tho
government of the United States without refer
ring to a proclamation issued by their President
under date of the 15th iust., in which, after de
claring that an insurrection has broken out in
this Confederacy against the government of the
United States, be anneuuces a blockado of all the
ports of these States, and threatens to punish as
pirates all persons who shall molest any vessels of
the United States under letters of marque issued
by this Government. Notwithstanding tho au
thenticity of this proclamation, you will concur
with me that it is hard to believe it could have
emanated from a President of the United States.
Its announcement of a mcro paper blockade is so
manifestly a violation of the law of nations, that
it would Beem incredible that it could have been
issued by authority; but conceding this to be the
case, so far as the Executive is concerned, it will
be difficult to satisfy the people of these States
that their late confederates will sanction its decla
rations, will determine to ignore the usages of
civilized nations, and will inaugurate a war of
extermination on bothsid t, by treating as piratas,
open enemies, acting uuder the authority of com
missions issued by an organized government. If
such proclamation was issued, it could only have
been published under the sudden influence of
passion, and we may rest assured mankind will be
spared the horrors of the conflict it seems to in
vite.
F’or the details of the administration of the dif
ferent departments, I refer to the reports of the
Secretaries which accompany this message.
The State Department has furnished the neceß
sarj instructions for three commissioners who
) are been sent to England, France, Russia and
Belgium, since your adjournment, to ask our re
cognition as a member of the family of ations,
and to make with each ot these powers treaties of
amity and commerce. Further steps will be
taken to enter into like negotiations with the Eu
ropean powers iu pursuance of your resolutions
passed at the last session. Sufficient time hss
not yet elapsed since the departure of these com
missiouers for the receipt of auy intelligence from
them. As I deem it desirable that commissioners
or other diplomatic agents should also be sent at
au early period to tbe independent American
powers south of our Confederacy, with all of
whom it is our interest and earuest’wish to main
tain the most cordial aud friendly relations, I sug
gest the expediency of making the necessary ap
propriations for that purpose.
Having been officially notified by the public
authorities of the State of Virginia, that she had
withdrawn from the Union, aud desired to main
tain the closest political relations with us which
it was possible at this time to establish, I com
missioned the Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, Vice
President of the Confederate States, to represent
this Government at Richmond. lam happy to
inform you that he has concluded a convention
with the State of Virginia, by which that bouored
Commonwealth, io long aud justly distinguished
among her sister States, and so dear to tbe hearts
of thousands of her children in the Confederate
States, has united her power and her fortunes
with ours, and become one of us. This Conven
tion, together with the ordinance of Virginia,
adopting the provisional Constitution of the Con
federate States, will be laid before you lor your
constitutional action. I have satisfactory assu
rances from other of our late confederates that
they are on the point of adoptiug similar meas
ures, and I cannot doubt that ere you shall have
been many weeks in session, the whole of the
slaveholding States of the late Union will respond
to the call of honor and affection, and by uniting
their fortunes with ours, promote our common
interests and secure our common safety.
In the Treasury Department, regulations have
beeu devised and put into execution for carrying
out the policy indicated in your legislation on the
subject of the navigation of the Mississippi river,
as well as for the collection of reveuue on the
frontier. F’ree transit has been secured for ves
sels and merchandise passing through the Con
federate States ; and delay and inconvenience
have been avoided as far as possible in organising
the revenue service for the various railways en
tering our territory. As fast as experience shall
indicate the possibility of improvement in these
regulations, no efforts will be spared to free com
merce from all unnecessary embarrassments and
obstructions.
Under jour act authorizing a loan, proposals
were issued inviting subscriptions for five millions
of dollars, and the call was answered by the
prompt subscription of more than eight millions
by our own citizens, and not a single bid was
made under par. The rapid development of the
purpose o t the President of the United States to
invade our soil, capture our forts, blockade our
ports, and wage war against us, induced me to
direct that the entire subscription should be ac
cepted. It will now become necessary to raise
means to a much larger amount to defray the ex
penses of maintaining our independence* and re
pelling invasion. I invite your special attention
to this subject, and the financial condition of the
government, with the suggestion of ways and
means for the supply of the Treasury, will be pre
sented to vou in a separate communication.
To the Department of Justice you have confided
not only the organization aßd supervision of all
matters connected with the courts ot justice, but
also those connected with patents and with the
bureau of public printing.
Since your adjournment, all the courts, with the
exception of those of Mississippi and Texas, have
been organized by the appointment of Marshals
and District Attorneys, ahd are now prepared for
the exercise of their functions.
In the two States just named, the gentlemen
confirmed as judges, declined to accept the ap
pointment, and no nominations have yet been
made to fill the vacancies. I refer you to the re
port of the Attorney General, and concur in his
recommendation for immediate legislation, espec
ially on the subject of patent rights. Early pro
vision should be made to secure to the subjects of
foreign nations the full enjoyment of their proper
ty in valuable inventions, and to extend to our
own citizens protection, not only for their own
inventions, but for such as may hare been assign
ed to them, or may hereafter be assigned by per
sons not aliea enemies.
The patent office business is much more exten
sive and important than had been anticipated.—
The applications for patents, although confined
under the law exclusively to citizens of our con
federacy, already average seventy per month,
showing the necessity for the prompt organiza
tion of a bureau of patents.
The Secretary of War, in his report and accom
panying documents, conveys full information con
cerning the forces, regular, volunteer and provis
ional, raised and called for under the several acts
of Congress, their organization. Also, an account
of the expenditures already made, and the further
estimates for the fiscal year ending on the 18th
Febuary, 1862, rendered necessary by recent erens
I refer to bis reeort also for a full history of tbe
occurrences in Charleston harbor, prior to and
including tbs bombardment and reduction of Fort
Sumter, and of the measures subsequently taken
for common defense, on receiving intelligence of
the declaration of war against us made by the
President of the United States. There are now
in the field at Charleston, Pensacola, Forts Mor*
San, Jackson, St. Philip and Pulaski, nineteen
lousand men, and sixteen thousand are en route
for Virginia. It is proposed to organise and hold
in readiness for instant action, in view of the pre
seat exigencies of the countrv, an army of one
hundred thousand men. If further force should
be needed the wisdom and patriotism of Congress
will be confidently appealed to for authority to
call into the field'additional numbers of our no
ble-spirited volunteers,*who arefconstantly tender
ing service far in excess of our wants.
The operations of the Navy Department have
ceen necessarily restricted by the fact that suffi
bient time has not yet elapsed for the purchase or
construction of more than a limited number of
vessels adapted to the public service. Two ves
sels purchased, have been named the “Sumter”
and “Macree,” and are now being prepared for
sea at New Orleans with all possible dispatch.—
Contracts have also been made at that city with
tw different establishments for the casting of
ordinance, cannon shot and shell, with the view
11 encourage the manufacture of these articles so
indispensable for our d<fenso, at as many points
within qur territory as mssible.
I call your attention-to the recommendation of
the Secretary for the establishment of a magazine
and laboratory for preparation of ordnance
store*, and the necessary appropriation soy that
purpose. Hitherto aueh stores have usually been
prepared at the navy yards, aud no appropriation
was made at your last Session for this object.
The Secretary also calls attention to the fact
that nn pn.vision has been made for the pay
ment of in v did pensions to our own citizens.—
Many of in -se are advanced in life, they have no
means of iupport, aud by the secession of these
States, have been deprived of their claim agaiust
the Government of tne United States. I recom
mend the appropriation of the sum necessary to
pay these pensioners, as well as those of the ar
my, whose claims can scarcely exceed seventy
thousand dollars per annum.
The Postmaster General has already succeeded
in organizing his department to such an exteDt
as to be in readiness to assume the direction of
our postal affairs, on the occurrence of the con
tingency contemplated by the Act of 15th March,
1861, or even sooner if desired by Congress. The
various books aud circulars have been prepared
and measures taken to secure supplies of blanks,
postage stamps, stamped envelopes, mail bags,
locks, keys, etc. He presents a detailed classiff
cation and arrangement of his clerical force, and
ask 9 for its increase. An auditor of the treasury
for this department is necessary, and a plan is
submitted for the organizatiou of his bureau.
The great number aud magnitude of the accounts
of this department, require an increase of the
clerical force iu tho accounting branch in the
Treasury. The revenues of this department are
collected and disbursed in modes peculiar to itself,
and require a special bureau to s*ecurc a proper
accountability in the administration of its finances
I call your attention to the additional legislation
required for this Departmant, tothe recommeuda
tiou for changes in the law fixiug the rates of
postage on newspapers, and sealed packages ot
certain kinds, and specially to the recommenda
tion of the Secretary, in which I concur, that you
provide at ouce for the assumption bv him of the
control of onr entire postal service.
In the military organization of the States, pro
vision is made for brigadier and major-generals,
but in the army of the Confederate States, the
highest grade is that of brigadier-general, lienee
it will no doubt sometimes occur that- where
troops of the Confederacy do duty with tho mili
tia, the general selected for the command and
possessed of tho views and purrposes of this
government, will be superseded by an officer of
the militia not having the same advantages. To
avoid this contingency iu tho least objectionable
manner, I recommend that additional rank be
given to the geueral of the Confederatearmv, and
concurring in the policy of having but one'gradc
of generals in the army of the Confederacy, I
recommend that the law of its organization be
amended, so that the grade bo that ot general.
To secure a thorough military educati u, it is
deemed essential that officers should emu-upon
the study of their profession at au earlr pr: u.l
of life, and have elementary instruction in ) mi;
tary school. Until such school *4 Ml be established !
it is recommended that cadet* appointed ami j
attached to companies until < y Fiuve attained
the age aud have acquired t! aiowledge to lii i
them for the duties of lieutem
I also call your attention t omission in the
law organizing the army, in t ion to military
chaplains, and recommend that ~.ovision be made
for their appointment.
In conclusion, I congratulate you ou the fact,
that in every portion of our country, there has
been exhibited the most patriotic devotion to our
common cause. Transportation companies have
freely tendered tho use of their lines for troops
and supplies. The presidents of the railroads of
the Confederacy, in company with others who
control lines of communication with States that
we hope soon to greet as sisters, assembled in
Convention in this city, and not only reduced
largely the rates heretofore demanded for mail
service, aud conveyance of troops and munitions,
but voluntarily proffered to receive their compen
sation at these reduced rates in tbe bonds of the
Confederacy, for the purpose of leaving all the
resources ot the Gurernmeut at its disposal for
tho common defense.
Requisitions for troops have been met with
such alacrity that tho numbers tendering their
services have, in every instance, greatly exceeded
the demand. Men of the highest afficial and so
cial position, are serving as volunteers in the
ranks. The gravity of age and tho zeal of youth,
rival each other iu tho desire to be foremost for
the public defense ; and though at no other point
than the ono heretofore noticed, have they been
Stimulated by the excitement incident to aetual
engagement, and the hope of distinction for indi
vidual achievement, they have borne what, for
new troops, is the most severe ordeal—patient
toil and constant vigil, and ali tho exposure and
discomfort oi active service, with a resolution and
fortitude such as to command uppiobation and
justify the highest expectation of their couduct
when active valor shall bo required in place of
steady endurance.
A people thus united and resolved, cannot
•hr nk from auy sacrifice which they may be call
ed oil to make, nor can thero be a reasonable
doubt of their final success, however long and
severe may be tho teat of their determination to
maintain their birth-right of freedom and equali
ty, as v ‘rust which it is their first duty to trans
mit, umliminisbed to their posterity.
A bounteous Providence cheers us with the
promise of abundant crops. The fields of grain
which will, within a few weeks, be ready for the
sickle, give assurance ot the amplest supple of
food for man ; whilst the corn, cptton, and other
staple productions of our soil, afford abundant
proof that up to this period, the season lias been
propitious.
We feel that our cause is just and holy; wo
protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we
desire peace at any sacrifice, nave that of honor
and independence ; we seek no conquest, no ag
grandisement, no concession of any kind from the
States with which we were lately confederated ; all
we ask is to be let alone ; that those who never
held power over us, shall not now attempt our
•übjugation by arms. This we will, this we must
resist to the direst extremity. The moment that
this pretention is abandoned, the sword trill drop
from our grasp, and we shall be ready to enter
iuto treaties of amity and commerce that cannot
but be mutually beneficial. So loug as this pre
tension is maintained, with a firm reliance on
that Divine J’ower which covers with its protec
tion the just cause, wo will continue to struggle
for our inherent right to freedom, independence
and self-government.
JavraßSON Davis.
Montgomery, April 29,1861.
The New York Herald of Thursday, 23d ult., in
great fright lest Washington be taken by the
Rebels, even if it were not then in their possess
ion. says Davis and Beaurkoard were certainly
at Richmond at the head of 27,000 men, and thus
continues—
There has been great mismanagement on the
part of the Government, as well as a want of vigor
and determination. The revolutionists nave been
silently acting, while Messrs. Lincoln, Seward A
Cos. have been writing and talking and vacillating
and procrastinating till it is almost, if not alto
gether, too late to save the Capitol from capture.
We have fightiug men and money in abundance,
but we appear to havo no Government. There
are half a million of soldiers ready to take the
field and two hundred millions of dollars on hand,
if required to sustain them. But where aie the
men to lead them to action V It is stated that
both Chase and Seward have succumbed. Indeed
the letter of the Secretary of State to Gov. Hicks
is tbe plainest proof of his caving in, aud that he
meditate* a peaceful separation of tho States,
while Mr. Lincoln, as is evident from his parley
ing with the rebel Mayor of Baltimore, has also
grown weak in the knees, snd does not mean that
anybody should be hurt. A million of dollars
would be cheap for a President with a backbone—
a man after the stamp of Andrew Jackson, who,
being first sure he was right, would take the re
sponsibility and go ahead, looking danger and
death in the eye.
No Triflinq with bSKTissLs.- Littlb Rivbr,
S. C., April 17, 1861.—Editor Horry Dispatch :
It becomes our painful duty to record the most
distressing and untimely death of Arthur Ste
vens, which occurred ai this place on the night
of the 15th of April. The circumstances, as
elicited from the witnesses, who came before the
jury of inquest, being substantially as follows :
Thirty ot All Saints’ Riflemen having been de
tailed for duty at Fort Randall, were encamped ini
tbe ship yard, awaiting tbe morning tide to go*
down. Hugh Causee was placed on guard by the
Orderly Sergeant, and Artuur Stevt ns acting as
Corporal of the Guard. He gave Causee the pass
word, with instructions to allow no one to pass or
approach without ordering him to halt and give
the password, and then left him ; but in a short
time Stevens returned, and was ordered by Cau
see to halt and give the countersign, which order
he did not heed, aud continued to advance, when
Causee fired, the ball taking effect just under the
sixth rib, where it joins the breastbone, and pass
ed nearly straight through him. He staggered a
few paces and fell.
Medical assistance was immediately summoned.
In the meantime he called up Causee and other
friends and told them good-bye, but when the
doctor arrived, ho was pulseless and lived but a
few moments after.
It is be hoped, in such times as the present,
when the whole country is in a ferment, that tri
fling with sentinels to duty will no longer be
countenanced in military encampments, where
orders are to be implicitly obeyed, let the conse
quences be what they rn*v. ’ W. I. Gohk.
Signing or thb ViaoiKiA Ordinance or Ss< es
siox.—We have been credibly informed that when
the ordinance of secession was being signed by
the members of the convention, the deepest
solemnity prevailed, and almost every eye was
suffused with tears. Stout, manly hearts were
breaking at the thought of being compelled to
abandon the government constructed by Wash
ington, Madison, aud their illustrious compeers,
under the especial patronage of Virginia. Men
who went to the convention pledged to labor for
the perpetuity of the Union, and who would, at
least, have saved Virginia to it, had not the fa
natic who is now attempting to govern us by his
armed myrmidons disappointed tbeir most rea
sonable expectations—felt that no alternative was
left them Dut to appeal from a government of
force and usurpation to the patriotism of a proud
and gallant people, who never yet submitted to a
yoke. Tbe struggle that it cost them to separate
from a government to whioh a majority of the
people of Virginia hare been sincerely attached,
is flattering to that Virginia pride and historic
loto of liberty for which the Old Dominion baa
been so renowned. As well might Abraham Lin
coln and his Northern hordes think of undertaking
the conquest of the world, as to dream of subdu
ing a people who will make any sacrifice for liber
ty.— Ly nchburg Virgfaiaa.
Counsel to oce Volunteers How to Preparb
fob THft Campaign.—The following hiDts to vo
lunteers are timely, and should be heeded :
TO OCR YOCXG SOLDIERS.
1. Remember that in a campaign more men die
by sickness than from the bullet.
2. Line vour blanket with one thickness of
brown drilling. This adds but four ounces in
weight and doubles the warmth.
*. Buy a small India rubber blanket (only $1.50)
to lay on the ground or to throw over your shoul
ders when on guard duty daring a rain storm.
Most of the Eastern troops are provided with
these. Straw to lie upon is not always to be had.
4. The best military hat in use is tbe light
colored soft felt, the crown being sufficiently high
to allow space for air over the brain. You can
fasten it up as & continental in fair weather, or
[ turn it down when it is wet or very suddj
5. Let your beard grow, so as to protect the
throat cud lungs.
. 6. Keep your entire person clean. This pre
! vents fevers and bowel complaints in warm ch
mates. Wash your body each day, possible,
strong coffee and oily meat. Gen. Scott
i said that tbe too free use ©f these, together with
; neglect in keeping the skin clean, cost many a
soldier his life in Mexico.
7. A sudden check of perspiration by chilly or
night air often cause* fever and death. When
; thus exposed do not forget your blanket.
{ An “ Old Soldibm.”
VOL. LXXV. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXV. NO. 21.
BY TELEGRAPH.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEaMER
ADRIATIC.
St Johns, April 29,-The steamer Adriatic ar
rived this afternoon from Galway. She brings
Liverpool dates to the 23d. B
The Africa arrived out on the 2d.
Cotton was active, with sales of 15,000 bales.
Breadstuff’s closed dull. Provisions steady.
Consols closed.at ‘Jl%@92.
The political news generally was unimportant.
Scott Russell has had issued a writ of execu
tion agaiust the steamship Great Eastern.
Prince Napoleon demands satisfaction of the
Due D’Arundle for reflections on Latters’
pamplets. •
Numerous failures have occurred at Marseilles.
Garribaldi insists on reorganizing the Southern
Italian army. The measure was approved by
Count Cavour, but the Chamber subsequently
gave an order establishing tbe army.
SOUTHERN CONGRESS.
Montgomery, April 30.—Congress was in secret
session nearly all day. Nothing of general inte
rest has transpired.
Montgomery, May I.—Congress was id secret
session nearly all day. The public proceedings
aro unimportant.
Montgombrt, Ala., May 2.—ln Congress to-day
Mr. Wright, of Georgia, introduced a bill au
thorising the President to accept volunteers with
out the formality of a call on the States. The bill
was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Bartow, of Georgia, offered a series ol
resolutions expressive of thanks of the people of
tho Confederacy to Gen. Beauregard and the
forces of Carolina for his and their gallant and
successful services ill the reduction of Fort
Sumter.
These resolutions were unanimously adopted.
Mr. Bartow, of Georgia, introduced a bill pro
viding for the appointment of us otany Chaplains
iu the Army as the President considers expedient,
at a salary of *BS per month each, without further
emolument.
The bill was passed.
Montgomery, Ai.a., May 3.—A model for a Seal
for the Confederate States was offered to Congress
to-day.
Congress v ill hereafter meet in tho Representa
tive Hall.
The day was mostly occupied in secret session.
Nothing of importance has been made public.
LINCOLN COMING !—TWENTY DAAYS
NEARLY OUT!
Nbw York, April 28.— The Tribune says that
-o> soon as everything requisite cau be prepared
and supplied, there will doubtless be a force of
200,000 men sent to the relief of Fort Pickens,
and this force will march not around, but through
Baltimore, ns well as Richmond, Raleigh, Charles
ton, Savannah, Montgomery, and New Orleans ;
being joined at the last named place by a like
force, which wiil have made its way down the Mis
sissippi river.
NO MORE CLEARANCES.
Boston, Mass., April 27.—The Collector of this
port has received orders to grant uo more clear
ances for any port south of Delaware Bay.
LIBERAL WITH TIIE MONEY.
New York, April 28.—1n the Northeastern
States, cities, towns, Ac., including private sub
scriptions, the of *11,289,000 has been con
tributed for war purposes.
LIVELY TIMES FOR STEAMBOAT OWNERS.
Nkw York, April 28.—The steamers F. W.
Brune, Fanny Cadwallador and Win. Woodward,
have been chartered by the United States Gov
ernment. They left here on Saturday morning
for Trenton, N. J., to take troops to Washington*
GUNPOWDER THAT CANNOT “GO OFF.”
New York, April 28.—Several seizures of gun
powder on board of vessels were made on Satur
day night.
AFFAIRS ABOUT BALTIMORE.
Baltimore, April 29.—Much activity was visi
ble to-day between Forts McHenry and Carroll.
It is reported that the guns have been taken
from the latter, which ia being placed in the best
possible condition for defence.
The city is quiet.
Volunteers are offering their services to the
South iu large numbers.
MILITARY AND NAVAL PREPARATIONS.
Alexandria, Va., April 80.—The steamship
Coatzacoalcos with troeps on board, passed Alex
andria to-day. The U. S. Government will call
for 25,000 additional troops, which, with 75,000
alleady called, and the regular army and navy,
will make a total of 183,000 men at Lincoln’s dis
posal.
CURTIN RAISING.
Harrisburg, Penn., April 28.—Gov. Curtin, of
this State, in his message to the Legislature
earnestly recommends an appropriate of *5,000,-
000 dollars, and the raising of 25,000 men, for do
mestic defence, as well as for the Federal service.
“ EDWARD EVERETT CELEBRATED ORA
TION.”
Boston, April 27.—Edward Everett delivered
an eloquent speech, in which he say* that we are
all (meaning of course, the Northern people,) of
but one heart, undone mind; that the Govern
ment must be sustained ; we forget that we were
ever partizans—we remember only that we are
Americans.
ASKING A GREAT DEAL.
Philadelphia, April 28.—A petition is in cir
culation here, urging the President to open a
route through Baltimore.
TROOPS IN NEW YORK.
New York, April 28.—About 15,000 troops are
quartered in and about this city, destined for
\Vashington.
Alderman Wilson’s Zouaves, -500 strong, are
quartered at the Old Government houses on
Staten Island.
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA.
Albxandria, May I.—This city is quiet. It is
rumored that an attack will be made on ‘.his city
by the Federal troops. Citizens are leaving-and
tho streets are desertod.
More troops arrived in Washington to-day from
Annapolis.
Long bridge across the Potomac ia guarded by
eight pieces of artillery, and a largo force of In
fantry.
Gov. Curtin sent a message to the Legislature
to-day establishing the recommendation already
reported. He says tl at the government has the
right to unobstructed passage to tho Capital
which must be enforced if not yielded.
Dispatches received here from Harrisburg Pa.,
dated 29th ult., say that full dreparations are ma
king to rebuild the bridges which were destroyed
on the line of the Northern Central Railroad.
The Pennsyjvania Railroad Cos. has loaned the
Government a number of iron bridge frames.
A gang of carpenters, 250 strong, and other
workmen of approved skill, .have been quietly
concentrated in New York since Saturday, and
will be protected by troops ns they advance.
Sills and heavy beams of timber have been for
warded, to be used wherever necessary.
The five regiments now here will move to-mor
row for York. The intention is to guard every
bridge with troops all the way to Baltimore.
When the troops reach that point they will pass
around to the Relay House at the junction of the
Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio R.
R., where they will be permanently occupied.
A desperate riot occurred at the Adams House,
one of the depots for volunteers, at Albany, N.
Y., on the 22th. The men complained of the food
fuoished them, an officer knocked down a waiter,
aud a general riot ensued. Chairs, tables, dishes
and windows were smashed. One of the Dela
van House waiters was thrown from a window,
and had a leg badly broken. Pistols were fired,
and knives were drawn. Several men were badly
cut and injured, indiscriminately. The Governor
repaired to the scene, and the police were called
out before the riot could be quelled.
The rumor is confirmed that Gov. Dennison, of
Ohio, will move two Regiments to Bridgeport,
one to the point opposite Parkersburg, and one
opposite Point Pleasant, another will be held in
reserve at Zanesveille.
The Baltic sailed from New York, on the 29th,
with Ellsworth's Regiment of Zouavee, 1,100
strong —recruited from the New York fireman.
The 24th aud 28th Regiments left New York in
the steamers Columbia and Star of the South, on
the 30th, with steamer Harriet Lane as convoy.—
Steamer Chesapeake arrived at New York on
30th, from Fortress Monroe, having landed cargo
and provisions there.
FROM RICHMOND.
Richmond, Va , May I.—Senator Jas. M. Mason
arrived from Fredericksburg to-day. He speaks
encouragingly of the probable secession of Mary
land.
Tbe Baliimore and Norfolk boatfchave stopped
running. .
Tbe Saluda Guards, and a detatchment of the
Governor’s Guards, of South Carolina, and the
Blodget Volunteers, of Georgia, have arrived.
There is a perfect reign of terror in W asbington.
Frederick, Md., May I.—The Senate bill author
izing the banks of the State to issue small notes
was amended in the House to limit the issue to 10
per cent, on their capital and time until March
nth’ iggi, and thus amended was passed with 1
negative vote.
BLODGET VOLUNTEERS.
Wilmington, N. C., April 30— 6 P. M.—The
Blodget Volunteers have arrived thus far on their
journey. All well. F. Blodgbt.
COTTON SHIP BURNED.
New Orlbans, May I. —The ship Ironsides,
henee for Liverpool, with 2,400 bales of cotton,
and 8,000 barrels of flour, caught fire at the bar
below this city yesterday night. Tow-boats are
now actively engaged in pumping water into her,
in hopes of saving her.
ALABAMA TROOPS.
Montgomery, April 30.-—The First Battalion of
the Third Alabama Regiment, left Montgomery
this morning for Virginia. Two companies of
DragooDa are ready to leave for Pensacola -
ARRIVAL OF VICE-PRESIDENT STEPHENS.
Montgomery, May I.—Vice President Stephens
has arrived in Montgomery, from Richmond.
PENSACOLA ITEMS.
Montgomery, May I.—Passengers who left
Pensacola yesterday, report the troops generally
in fine health and spirits.
Tne Confederate fortifications are rapidly pro
gressing. Troops, arms and munitions aro daily
arriving.
Col. George S. Wards, well-known as an elo
quent and fearless Whig leader in Florida, has
arrived as Congressional successor of J. Patton
Anderson, resigned.
DEATH OF BISHOP ONDEUDONK.
Alexandria, May 2. —Bishop Ouderdonk died
in New York on Tuesday.
SECESSION OF TENNESSEE.
Richmond, May 2.—A private dispatch received
hero to-day says Tennessee has past an ordinance
of Secession by a large majority.
PROTECTION OF CANADA.
Alexandria, \ a., May 2. —The Toronto (Oa.)
Leader v the Government organ) fears that Cana
da may become involved in the U. S. difficulties,
and advocates an armed neutrality ; suggests
that the Canadian Government represent to the
home Government the expediency of sending six
or eight regiments of the line for the protection
of the frontier.
UNITED STATES LOAN.
Alexandria, May 2.—The Secretary of the-Trca-’
sury at Washington has advertised for proposals
un iltthe 30th inst., unless the whole amount of
fered be sooner taken, at par, for nearly $14,000,-
000, under the act of June, 18(50.
SEIZURE IN BOSTON.
Alexandria, May 2.—The hrig.St. Marts, with
600 kegs of powder, was seired at Boston to-dav.
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
Alexandria, May 2—ln the Legislature of
Maryland the Senate adopted a resolution recom
mending the appointment of a Committee to wait
on the President of the United States and the
President of the Confederate States, and the Gov
ernor of A'irginia, with a view to bringing about
some understanding whereby civil war may be
prevented.
MILITARY UNION OF STATES.
Harrisburg, I’a., April SS.-'-In accordance
with an understanding between the Governors of
Now York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana,
those States will act in conjunct. . to throw
troops and provisions into Washington, or else
whore in the South upon an order from the War
Department. ‘
WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE AND ALEXAN
DRIA NEWS.
Alexandria, Va., May 3. —Troops are still
pouring into Washington from all quarters of tbo
North and West.
Rumors of an attack ou Alexandria are rife.
The bridges on the Baltimore A- Wilmington
Railroad, lately destroyed, aro being rebuilt.
Major Anderson left Philadelphia for Washing
ton to day.
MARKETS.
Charleston, May B.—The sales of cotton to-day
were 956 bales, at prices ranging from TiVi to 18c.
Prices unsettled.
Departure of (Were Troop*.
The Confederato Light Guards of Augusta,
Capt. E. J. Walkbii, left for Richmond last night.
Our citiicns know the members of this company,
and their capabilities for effective service. They
are all men of undoubted nerve and strength,
with that unflinching courage which dure lace
even tha canuon’s mouth. We shall hear a good
report of them hereafter.
There was a large number of friends at the
depotto bid them farewell, and before the train
n.oved off, Capt. Walker and the Messrs. O. and
G. Snead said a few purling words. Meredith's
“private battery” woke the echoes about Shultz's
Hill in honor of the occasion.
The following is the muster-roll of the company
OFFICERS.
Captain—E. J. Walker.
Ist L.eutenant—Claiborne Snead.
2d “ Alex. Philip.
8d “ 11. B. Willis,
Orderly Sarg’t—John L. Ells.
2d “ Matthew Riea.jr.
8d “ Martin Bridwell.
4th “ Wm. R. Hunter.
6th “ Garland A Snead.
Ist Corporal —Dau’l H. White.
2d “ James A. Dale.
8d “ Patrick Gallagher.
4th “ Wm. B. Tankersley.
PRIVAETS.
John T Adams, Owen Keenan,
R A ABliwood, W W Lewis,
J It Butler, U .1 Livingston,
L H Boles, J N Lassiter,
M I, Bridwell, B Lafarge,
Wm H Blount, A W Malone,
John D Bottom, V/ M Moseley,
Patrick Barllcy, I) McCook,
Wm Bartley, Wm McDearmond,
John Bradburv, A W Philip,
Jas Z Burton, David Peterson,
J M Blackburn, John Pruitt,
Wm Cauley, J A RobineoD,
Isaac Coleman, I) Culbreth,
Wm Chamblin, D E Thompson,
E D Connor, Flovd Thomas, jr
K L Davis, T ,\i Widncr,
Mac Daniels, M A Widncr,
I) Fountain, Chas Welsh,
M J Faulkner, Jas Butler,
W A Fountain, W Reid,
S M Goodman, C Sanford,
Elbert Harris, Isaac Sanford,
J A Howell, John Shaw,
Alex Head, James Sharp,
G E Uerdv, H M Thomas,
W U Henderson, Henry Vail,
J R Irwin, L J Widner,
A R Jones, Joseph Widner,
W II Johnson, LM Wylds,
N B Jordan, W L Bluckston,
F M Jordan,
The Young Guards, from Covington, Capt. A.
11. Lee, left by the Soath Carolina train yester
day morning, for the same destination. They, too,
were sped on their way with tbo good wishes of
the people.
Probably a large number of the companies
will leave for Virginia to-day.
Tbe Times, Tribune, and Courier and Enquirer
aro emphatic in their complnints of the Adminis
tration for lack of energy in getting off troops to
Washington, and the genera! inefficiency it has
manifested throughout the cumpnign. In this
they simply reiterate tbe prevailing sentiment of
all classes, regardloss of party. They are now in
the city ,.fully organited and awaiting equipments
and orders , fourteen regiment* of volunteers.
This is a ploasant New York item. These
knights of the quill fight all their battles on paper,
and they do it exceedingly well too. They pro
visioned and reinforced Sumter, landed many
thousand regulars on Morris’ and Sullivan’s Isl
and, atormed Castle Pinckney, and from thence
blew Charleston sky-high—all in their offices in
New York. They excel really in that kind of
fighting, and it is the only kind they are eve
likely to engage in.
Kicitimbnt in Me ii on is—Steamboats Forb
ben to Pass. —The Cincinnati Enquirer of Thu r
day has the following special dispatch from Mem
phis, dated the 24th :
The excitement in this city is at a high pitch.
Volunteers are enlisting for the Southern Army.
Businoss is almost, entirely suspended. Batteries
are erected, and ho steamers will he permitted to
pass up or down. There are four boats coming
up from New Orleans, which will be seized, viz :
the Mars, Queen of the West, Ohio Belle, and
Wostmoroland.
Noam Carolina Calls a Conhextion. —A dis
patch to the Savannah ftepublican, dated Raleigh,
N. C., 2d inst., says :
Tbe North Carolina Legislature met to-day at
11 o’clock. At 1 o’clock the House passed an un
restricted hill for a Convention unanimously. It
was immediately seat to tbe Senate, and will pass
that body also to-day. Tbe election for delegates
to be on the 13th, and the Convention to meet on
the 20th iustint.
Gboroia State Agrictltural Society.—Th
Executive Committee of the Georgia State Agri
cultural Society, met in Atlanta on Monday, 29th
uit., and alter some discussion of the effect of the
present condition of affairs, the lollowing resolu
tion was adopted :
Resolved, That it is inexpedientfor the Execu
tive Committee now to determine the propriety
of bsiding for the present year the A.nnual Fair ;
but should circumstances at any time between
this and the loth day of July, justify the holding
of a Fair, the President is in that ease to call a
meeting of the Executive Committee.
Also resolutions appointing a comm'ttee to pre
pare an address to the people, offering the tsut
cloths of the Association for the üßeof the troops,
and every dollar in the treasury aud the proceeds
of the sale of the silver ware on band for the
cause of the South.
Practical Patriotism —Tbe well known house
of J. A Peale A Cos., hardware dealers of Vicks
burg, state that on all demands due their bouse,
they are willing ta receive one-half in the bonds
of the Confelerate States^
Anbrew Johnson, the Nashville Banner has
been informed, has made two speeches since his
return home, and was to speak in Knoxville last
Saturday. He advocates armed neutrality for
Tennessee, but the people disregard him totally,
and are arming to fight.
The Petersburg Express of Monday has a dis
patch from Richmond, ot Sunday, stating that
89,000 volunteers had ottered their services to
Gov. Letcher for the public defence.
Adjutant-General Cooper notifies all officers of
the Confederate States Army to report their ad
dress aud await orders.
Lieut. Maury, late in charge of the Nations
Observatory, Washington, is a native of William
son county, Tennessee, and not a ‘ irginian. So
says the Nashville Banker. . < 1
The Vermont Legislature has appropriated
$1,000,000, and the Legislature ot Maine $1,300,-
000, as a military fund, and to establish a coast
guard.—,
Third and Fourth Georgia Regiments Com •
pletb.—All the volunteer companies comprising
the Third and Fourth Georgia Regiments, have
now mustered at this point. Some have gone On
tbeir way, and when joined by those still here,
will undoubtedly be put. into immediate service
tbeii-field officers chosen, Ac.