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COLUMBUS, FUID.VT, MARCH 13, 1801.
Term of Enlistmefit.
Id th« event our volunteers are called into ser
vice, they will enlist for the period of one yea*,
“unless sooner discharge I." This is equivalent
to laying that the volunteers will enlist for the
eampagn, and be discharged, unless the war
should last longer than twelve months. From
the signs of the political heavens at this writing,
it portends a gathering storm, and nothing but
bloodshed and the sacrifice of lives trill appease
our enemies- We look still to a returning sense
of justice from the North, and trust they may
not plunge the country into civil war.
MHMMT CORRESPIiMUifI.
Etablithir g a Mara'iui « Court in Min.; the Pos
tal Estimate; Washington Commissioners; Con
vention.
Montgohkrv, March 14.
Upon opening of Congress this morning, Mr.
Ochiltree, of Texas, presented a communication
from Qen. Sidney Sherman, now in command at
Galveston, Texas, which was referred, without
reading, to the Committee on Military Affairs.—
Mr. Maul presented a communication from John
A. Wilcox, which was similarly disposed of.
Judge Clayton, of Miss., reported a hill which
originated with the Judiciary Committee, estab
lishing a Court of Admiralty and Muratime Ju
risdiction in the State of Mississippi. This hill
ia essentially the samo us that passed establish
ing a Maritime Court at Koy West. The object
la to guard the navigation of the Mississippi riv
er, and to carry out more fully the revenue laws,
which may be prescribed by tho Confederacy.
Under this bill a Court is to bo established at
Viokaburg, to bo presided over by a Judge who
has the power to appoint as many deputies as he
may see fit; he, of course, being responsible for
their acts. Tho salary proposed was largo and
the office a sinecure. Tho necessities of such a
court is in the fact that tho District Courts can
not take cognizanco of all cases which may come
up, so a court to ho kept open through tho year
would have the power to adjudicate cases
coming uuder tho revenue laws to a better ad
vantage. There was objection to this bill, not
that the court was opposed, but tho provision for
a special Judge was deemed unnecessary. Tho
Judge of the Circuit Court could very well sit
upon all cases coming up in tho Court of Admi
ralty, for it is well known that tho United States
Judges over Maratima Courts have had little to
do, and nothing, perhaps, that the Circuit Judge
could not have done witiout interfering materi
ally with his time. It muy be urged, too, that a
Court of Admiralty in the interior of Mississippi
is hardly more necessary than a like Court in
Mobile, Savannah, or Aapalachicola; but it
might begranted, provided the expense of a Judge
be dispensed with. In starting a government
de novo economy is a necessity until some decided
revenue is established—still it should not bo car
ried to the extent of miserly hoßiling; when im
portant matters are at stake, in medio tectieaimuo
ibea is a sass rule. This bill was referred back to
the Committee on Judiciary, and copies ordered
to be printed to facilitate amendmo ts. Ic wiJ
probably pass without tits provision for a special
Judge.
Tuo President of Congress handed in a com
munication rota the Secretary of the Treasury,
containing an estimate of the post office expen
ses. I t avo learned from a private source, that
the amount required at once will be small, and
the sum total for the year $5 500,6000. I will
not vouch for the truth of this statement but
consider it probable.
Gen. Roman, one ofour Washington Commis
ioners is in town to-day but will leave to-morrow.
Forsyth is cot sick as was reported in Washing*
ton dispatches.
I was prevented going to ths State Convention
on account of illness, but I hear that no impor
tant business was dene. They too will adjourn
in a few days. Unless some important news ar
rives, this will be the last day of Congress until
after the expiration of the recess.
EVELYN.
A Financial View of the Export Duty.
The Mobile Advertiser furnishes the following
calculation cf the probable amount of the export
duty on cotton and iu relation to the fifteen mil
lion lean. Its estimates look quite reasonable :
By the aid of a table of average, we find that
the hypothetical e.op of the United States in
creased from some 2.509,000 ba es in 1850 to
about 3,019,000 in IS6O, an increase of upwards
Os 56 per cent, in ten years. At the same time,
the s are population of the eight cotton States
increased from 1,809,000 to 2,451,000, or at the
rate of 35% per cent, in ten years.
With these data before us, it is notan extrara
grant estimate that the ci ttun crop of the eight
States, during the next ten years, will increase
iOperceut. But when to this is added the con
sideration that in the event of the border States
Handing aloof from the South, an increased emi
gration hither of the citizens of those States with
ibeir tamilies of slaves is sure to take place, we
may safely di>regard the 4% percent, of tho crop
which is produced in those states, and base our
calculations upon the former eutire crop> of the
United States. On that basis, tho expectation
of future crops iu tho Lonfederate States is as
follows :
Bales. Bales.
1861- .4,083,000 1866-7...4,535,000
1862- ..4,228,000 1867-5...5,000.000
1863- 373,000 IS6S-9...5,171,000
1864- ..4,520,000 186D-70..5,348.000.
1865- 4,675,000
The next element iu the calculation is the av
erage weight of the bale of cotton ranging from
300 pounds on the Alantic coast to 400 on the
Mississippi river, and upwards of 400 pounds for
the Mobile inarket. This we think; way safely
be put at 446 pounds; according to which the
duty per bale will be 55 cents. These data
give us the following results, as the principal and
interest of the $15,600,000 loan for each vear
the income applicable to the redemption of the
debt, and the balance remaining each year.
Debt. Sinking fund. Balance.
1862.. 200,000 $2,245.400 $13,951 000
1863.. 15.067,728 2,325,400 12.742’32S
1846.. 13.761,714 2,405,150 11.356 564
1865.. 12,265,089 2,486.000 9.779,089
1866.. 10.561,410 2,571.250 7.9*0 166
1867.. 8.629,379 2 659.250 5,970,129
1868.. 6,447.739 2,750.000 3.697.739
1869.. 3,919,603 2,844,050 1,074,553
In 1870 the sum of $1,161,599 would have to
be provided for, while the duty would vields2,-
941,400, or nearly three tunes the necessary
amount.
THE RETEXtI EIU„
(Con inued from Yesterday.)
.‘ osedule D. (ten percent. ad valorem.)
Acids of every description not otherwise pro
vided for. Alromoquo. Aloes. Ambergris
Ausber Ammonia, and sal ammonia. Anatto,
roucoo, or Orleans. Angora Thibet, and other
goat’s hair, or mohair, unmanufactured, not
•therwise provided for. Annisseed. Antimony,
crude or regulus of. Argo!, or crude tartar.—
Arsenic. Articles used in dyeing and tanning,
not otherwise provided for. Ashes, pot, pearl
tud *vda. Asphaltum. Assafoetida.
Bannanas, cocoa nuts, pino apples, plaintains,
oranges and all other West India fruits in their
natural state. Barilla. Bark of all kinds, Dot
otherwisoprovided for. Bark. Peruvian. Barb,
guiila. Bismuth. Bitter apples. Bleach ng
powder of chloride es lime. Bones, burnt.—
Boards, planks, staves, shingles, laths, scantling
md ail other sawed lumber; also spars and
hewn timber of all sort?: Bone-block, or ani
mal carbon, and bone du3t. Bolting cloths.—
Bo ks, printed, magazines pamphlets, periodi
cals, and illustrated newspapers, bound or un
bound, not otherwise provided for. Books, blank,
bound or unbound. Borate of lime. Borax,
crude or tincal. Bouchu leaves. Box-wood, un
manufactured. Brazil paste. Brazil-wood, bra
zilletto, and all dye-woods in sticks. Bristles.
Building stones. Butter. Burr stones, wrought
or un wrought.
Cabinets of coins, medals, gems, and all col
lections of antiquities. Camphor, crude. Can*
haridc3. Cassia and cassia buds. Chalk.—
Cheese. Chronometers, box or ship, and parts
thereof. Clay, burnt or unburnt bricks, roofing
riles, gas retorts, and roofing slates. Cloves.—
Coal, coke, and culm of coal. Cochineal. Co
coa-nuts, and cocoa shells. Cecu’us Indicus.—
Codilla, or tow of hemp or flax. Cream of tartar.
Cudbear. Gutch.
Diamonds, cameos, mosaics, gems, pearls, ru
bies, and other precious stones, and imitations
thereof, when set in gold or silver. Diamond
glaziers, set or not set. Dragon’s blood.
Emery, in lump or pulverized. Extract of in
digo. Extracts and decoctions of log-wood and
other dye-woods, not otherwise provided. Ex
tract of madder.
Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessel. Flax,
unmanufactured. Flax seed and linseed. Flints,
and flint ground. French chalk. Furs, hatters',
dressed or undressed, not on the skin. Furs,
undressed, when on the skin.
Glass, when old and fit only to be re-manufac
tured. Gold and silver leaf. Gold-beater's
skin. Grindstones. Gums—Arabic, Barbary,
copal, East Indies, Senegal, substitute, traga
canth, and all other gums and resins, in a crude
state, not otherwise provided for. Gutta Percha,
unmanufactured.
Ilair, of all kinds, uncleansed and unmanufac
tured. Hemp, unmanufactured. Hemp seed,
and rape seed. Horns, horn-tips, bone, bone-tips,
and teeth, unmanufactured.
India rubber, in bottles, slabs, or sheets unman
ufactured. India rubber, milk of. Ivory, un
manufactured. Ivory nuts, or vegetable ivory.
Junk, old. Jute, sisal grass, coir, and other
vegetable substances, unmanufactured, not other
wise provided for.
Kelp. Kerms.
Lao spirits, lac sulphur, and iae dye. Lemons
and limes, and lemon and limes juice, and juices
of all other fruits without sugar. Lime.
Madder, ground or prepared. Madder root.
Marble, in the rough slab or block, unmanufac
tured. Metals, unmanufactured, not otherwise
provided for. Mineral kermes. Mineral and
bituminous substances in a crude 3tale, not other
wise provided for. Music, printed with lines,
bound or unbound.
Natron. Nickel. Nutmegs. Nuts, not other
wise provided for. Nut galls. Nux vomica.
Oakum. Oranges, lemon, and limes. Orpi
ment.
Palm leaf, unmanufactured. Pearl, mother of.
Pine apples. Plantains. Plaster of Paris, or
sulphate es lime, unground. Platini:, unmanu
factured. Polishing s ones. Potatoes. Prussian
blue. Pumice and pumice stone.
P.attans and reeds, unmanufactured. Raw
hides and skins of all kinds, undressed. Red
cha k. Rotten stone.
Safflower. Sal soda, and all carbonates and
sulphates es soda, by whatever names designa
ted, not otherwise provided for.
Seedlac. Shellac. Silk, raw, not more ad
vanced in manufacture than singles, tram and
thrown, or Tganzine. Sponges. Steel in burs.
Sumac.
Tallow, marrow, and ail other grease or soap
stocks aud soap Btuffs, not otherwise provided
for. Terne tin, in plates or sheets.
Terra japoniea, catechu, or cutch. Tortoise
and other shells, unmanufactured. Trees, 6hrubs,
blubs, plants, and roots, not otherwise provided
for. Turmeric.
Watches and parts of watches. Weld. Woad.
Woods; viz., cedar, box, ebony, lignum-vitte,
graaadiila, mahogany, rosewood, satin-wood,
and ail other woods, unmanufactured.
Iron, in bars, bolrs, rod , slabs, and railroad
rails, spike-, fishing plates, and chairs, used in
constructing railroads Maps and charts.—
Paintings aud statuary not otherwise provided
lor Platini, unmanufactured. Wool, unmanu
factured, of every description.
Specimens of natural history, mineralogy, or
botany, not otherwise provided for. Yams.—
Leaf and unmanufactured tobacco.
Schedule E, (Fiveper centum advaiorem.)
Brass, in bars or pigs, old and fit only to be re
manufactured. Bells, old bell metal. Copper in
pigs or bars, copper ore. Copper, when old and
lit only to bo remanufactured. Diamond,s cam
eos, mosaics, pearls, gems, rrbies, and other pre
cious stones, and imitation thereof, when not set.
Guano. Iron, in blooms, loops, and pigs, and
iron ore. Manures, and fertilizers of all sorts.—
Paving stones. Paper for printing newspapers,
handbills, and ether printing of similar charac
ter. Sheathing copper—but no copper to be con
sidered as such, except in sheets 4S inches long
and 14 inches wide, aud weighing from 11 to 34
oz. Sheathing metal, wholly or in part of iron.
Sheathing paper. Stave bolts and shingle bolts.
Tin ore ami tin in pigs or bars. Zinc, spelter,
ortentecegue unmanufactured.
Arrival of Ex-President Buchanan at Home,,,His Re
ception.
Ex-President Buchanan left Baltimore on
Wednesday, escorted to the depot by the City
Guard, and arrived at Lancaster, Pa., that after
noon, The arrival of the train was saluted with
thirty-fo«r guns and the ringing of bells. The
Mayor, City Council, military, firemen, and a
large concourse of citizens welcomed the ex-Pres
ident. To an address of welcome by the Mayor,
Mr. Buchanan replied as follows :
My old neighbors, friends and fellow-citizens
—I have not language to express the feelings
which swell in my heart on thL occasion ; but I
do most cordially thank you for this demonstra
tion of your personal kindness to an old man,
who comes back to you ere long to lay his bones
at rest with your fathers. And here let mo say,
that having visited almost every clime under the
sun, my heart has ever turned to Lancaster as
the spot where I would wish to live, and die, and
be buried. When yet a young man in far remote
Russia, my heart was still with your fathers, my
frieuds, and neighbors, in good old Lancaster.
(Applause.) And although I have always been
true to you, I have not been half so true to you
as you have been to me. Your fathers took me
up when a young man. and fostered and cherish
ed me through many long years, All these have
passed away, and I stand before you to day as a
man living in the second generation.
A Voice—l saw you mount your horse when
you marched to Baltimore, in 1812.
I feel with all my heart, though in the midst of
posterity, that these sons aro manifesting the
same kindness which their fathers would have
done had they lived to this day. Generations of
martial men rise and sink, and are forgotten, but
the kindness of the past generation to me, now
so conspicuous in their sons, can rever be forgot
ten. I come, my fellow-citizens, to pass the re» J
“y da y® among you, as a good and
fauhful friend, a benefactor of the widows ar and
the fatherless. (Loud applause.) All polit cal !
aspirations have departed. All that I have done
during a somewhat protracted life has passed In-
to history, and if I have done aught to offend a
single citizen, I now sincerely ask his pardon.
May God grant that this Union and Oonst.tu
tiou may bo perpetual. (Applause.) I close by
repeating the sentiment dear to my heart: God
grant that tho Constitution and the Union may
be perpetual, and continue a shield of protection
to ourselves and our children forever.
Mr. Buehanan retired amid enthusiastic ap
p'ause. lie then resumed his place in the car*
riage and was escorted to Wheatland,
Frotn the Eufaula Spirit of the South.
Interesting Pensacola Letter.
Babancas Barracks, Fla., 1
March 3d, Ibol. J
Fear the last night of tho life of
the administration of the last President of the
United States, I suppose. To morrow anew
state of things begins. Yesterday Gol. Forney
was placed in full command of ail the forces at
this place, Col. Chase baviDg resigned, and he has
commenced his operations with energy. A sand
battery is a cellar dug in the sand, three feet deep
and eighteen by twenty four wide. The sand
which comes out of this place is piled up so as to
make a sort of wedge shaped defence 13 feet long
and lour feet high at the edge of the pit, which
being itself 3 feet deep, makes the whole from the
bottom of the p t to the top of the parapet, seven
feet; high enough to protect a man’s head. I en
close a di awing which will explain to you the
whole concern if you will study it. Forney is
constructing three of these batteries, distant, th
extreme one from the other, 1% miles. The right
extreme one is to have four 8-tnch Columbiads
two of which are already mounted and ready for
action. The left extreme one four 8-inch Colum
biads and the central one three 10-inch Colum
biads. The 8-inch ball weighs 64 pounds; the
10-inch 120 lbs. Although this is Sunddy, there
have been 300 men engaged all day in building
thise batteries. With good luck 1 think that in
a few days we can haveall the guns mounted.—
The 10-iuch guns in FortMcUec, which is by the
way we have to go nearly four miles distant.—
These 10-inch guns weigh each 15,000 lbs. and
it is a vast labor to get them here through this
sand. Y’ou see the gun is much bigger at the
butt than the muzzle and therefore will not roll
forward, but Forney has had arrangements made
to go round the muzzle so as to equalize the di
ameters and then taking about 50 men to each
gun they will be rolled along on skids, and
in time will reach their destination. One hun
dred an twenty pounds of Iron flung by twenty
pounds of powder will batter clown any britk
work, I don’t care how thick, which is only 1)4
miles distant; and, if the enemy will stand still
and let us pound away upon them, we will in
ovitably knock down Fort Pickens. Its walls
are not of granite, as we have heard, but of brick
just like all the other forts here, and they have
only two 10-inch guns while wo have three.—
Then every brick we knock out of them is a brick
gone, but they may fling 100 ten-inch balls into
oursand3 and it will do no harm and hurt no
body and make not an inch of progress, unless
they hit our gun itself a very r unlikely possibili
ty. They may may fire a week and do little
mischief, # * o 0 * ts»
I cannot understand why tho services of
troops are not accepted and they sent here. If
wo had 3,000 men properly armed we could re
duce Pickens and take it I think without the ru
inous sacrifice of life we have heard so much
apprehended. I have no Idea that the men-of
war can come into the Bay. They would have
to pass within 600 yards of Fort Mcßee, where
thakhs to Forney’s energy, we have 20 32s and
42s mounted aud shotted. Six hundred yards
is just as near a3 is wanted. Wecan sink them
from Mcßee dead certain, or as you would say,
to a “dead moral certainty.” Then, if they
should get by Mcßee, they have to face our three
tremendous sand batteries, besides the guns of
Fort Barancas. FortMcßeois a pretty strong
place; about as much so, in my opinion, as Fort
Pickens, but Fort Barancas is much weaker,and
is not, I think tenable. * * #
You ought to have seen Pugh and Bullock
working in tho sand pits and roiling tbo wheel
barrows. # * * ifc
Bullock works hard and blows mightily, and I
tell you he rolls sand beyond belief and stands
back trom nothing that a soldier is required to
do. o 0 n -lit Coi Forney expressed
pleasure at the energy and subordination of the
Company. «* * * This is undoubtedly the
most beauiful place in tho world. This bay is
as splendid a sheet of water as glistens under the
sun. The beach is white assnow, the bluff high,
ihe air sweet, and tho sky, when dear as fine as
Italy’s. The improvements hero aro perfectly
amazing to me—the Navy Yard, if located in
the North would have been as well known aa
Bunker Mill monument or the Metropolitan Ho
tel, It is one of the love iost places; the walks
are all of Brick most smoothly and beautifully
laid—Live Otik groves, flower gardens, hothous
es, vistas, splendid houses—all that man could
do would have made thissand bar blossom like a
rose,
Despairs op YmGiNrA.— —The Southerners arc
quitting Washington in crowds. ‘'Zed,” tho
sprightly Washington correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch, who has done yeoman service
in the cause of the South, announces that he too
is “going to go,” and, despairirg of tbs Old Do
minion, in his piquant way betakes leave of the
City of Magnificent Distances :
Detained a night longer than I expected, sup
pose you accept a farewell letter, by way of help
ing me to pass the time—for the town is lonesome
exceedingly, like the inside of a college ia vaca
tion.
Some Virginians have been much wrought up
by the news from Lynchburg. Pooh ! when the
dead arise, Virginia will move. She is not going
to get the “kick too much,” which is “the hope
of liberty.” Lincoln threatens war because he
knows bis hands are tied. War is not the thing
we ought to fear. Peace is our destruction, war
our salvation.
And now, weary of work, and satisfied that no
power on earth, short of the insane folly of her
enemies, can save our noble and beautiful Vir
ginia from dishonor, your correspondent puts his
worn pen into the thick crusted inkstand, there
to remain—a pitiful monument of unavailing la
bor. When Katie, the only pretty maid out of a
dozen, wo have had this winter, comes in, he will
point to the pen and the inkstand, and say to her
as the sea sick Frenchman said to the steward
when he asked him if he wanted his boots clean
ed— ‘ Sare, you may take sera; I shall vant zem
Dairy more.”
Zed.
A Tbue Patriot. —We clip the fellowing elo
quent and patriotic extract from the speech of
J ohn T. Thornton, a nephew of John J. Critten
den, recently delivered in the Virginia Conven
tion :
Sir. i accept the vaticination of President
Lincoln. It is not the first time that the Al
mighty has placed the words of prophecy in the
mouth of a wicked man. He has labored effect
ually in the North, to prevent the government
from extending over the free labor and slave la
bor States. So help me God, I will strike hands
with gentlemen in the South, to make the residue
of his prophecy come true. I will labor with
them, so that the land over which this man Lin
coln sways the sceptre, shall embrace the free la
bor States of the North, while the land that is
under that warrior statesman, Jefferson Davis,
shall embrace the slave labor States of the South.
He may take for his guide the light of the North
ern bear, that spreads its disastrous gleam on the
wigwam at Chicago. I will see that the light
that illumes my path, shall be the pure and steady j
ray that streams in lustrous beauty from the
Southern cross as it breaks in gentle radiance
over the Capitol at Montgomery. (Applause.)
Soctkbbx Remittances. —The New York
Commercial Advertiaer of Thursday evening,
says : The Southern mails have brought more
favorable advices and quite large remittances.
One house received sl6.ooo—making $32,000
siriee Monday, from the Cotton States. Adame
A Co'a Express brought a large au.il from the
South to-day. All the letters had a five cent
stamp affixed, in addition to the usual postage
stamp. )
Telegraphic.
Special to tho Times.
Slave Trade Bill.,.Eecess of Congress.
Montgomery, March 15.
Th* rote on the siave trade bill, taken Marek
21, was made public to-day, and was retoed by
tie President on the ground that it contravened
tie provision in the Constitution of the Provis
ional Government. The bill was reconsidered by
Congress, and not receiving a Constitutional ma
jority was lost. The vote stood, yeas 15, nays
24, not voting 11.
Congress takes a recess to-morrow.
(Special dispatch to the Montg’y Adv).
HIGHLY IMPORTANT SEWS.
WAR STEAMERS HEATING NEW YORK.
DESTINATION SUPPOSED TO BE
CHARLESTON.
Richmond, Va., March 14.
A letter received at this office from a highly
responsible citieen of New York, dated March
13tb, says that the steamers Star of the West,
Harriet Lane, Crusader, Mohawk, and Empise
City, were ordered to sail from New York iast
night, said to be for Charleston.
Look out along your coast, as they carry arms,
provisions and men.
It is supposed that some vessels hare also gone
from Norfolk.
Special to tho Montg’y Adv.
From Washington.
Washington, March 14.
The Commissioners from the Confederate States
have filed an official communication with Secre
tary Seward to which they have received no re
ply. The State Department intimate that they
desiro time. The Cabinet is in extraordinary
session to-night on Southern movements. A
session was held this morning in relation to the
collodion of revenue in the seceded States.
Corwin declines the mission to Mexico. Cas
sius M. Clay, of Kentucky, accepted it.
It the administration decides to collect the
revenue in the Confederate States, an extra ses
sion of Congress must necessarily be called.
Secretary Bates states that the administration
cannot collect revenue in tho Confederate States
under the laws as they now exist.
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Washington, March 14.
j i.o Supreme Court rendered a decision in the
celebrated ease of Mrs. General Gaines. The
decision wa.s in her favor on every point. The
secession of Louisiana does not affect tha dccia
ion, as provision was made in the ordinance for
such eases.
Washington, March 14.
It is understood that the Southern Commis
sioners yesterday sent an official note to the
Secretary of State, asking for recognition, and
stating that an answer would be called for today.
The secretary of tho commissioners called on
Mr. Seward to-day for a reply. The response
was a request for time to consider their proposi
tion which was accorded. The opinion prevails
that the President will refer the whole matter to
the Senate for advice.
It is denied in administration circles that any
unusual naval display is to bo made in Southern
waters, The vessels of war now in Northern
ports, it is said, are preparing for sea merely
for transport service, as upwards of 2500 troops
new in Texas are awaiting means to return
northward.
Washington, March 14.
The Senate refused to take up Senator Doug
las resolution relative to the administration’s
policy in reference to the Southern Forts, Arse
nals, etc.
A resolution was adopted, that, whereas the
■eats of Senators Benjamin, Brown, Davis, Clay,
Toombs and Mallory, having become vacant,
theretore, be it resolved, that the Secretary be di
rected to omit their names from tho roll.
Edward Bates a Family Man.— Hon. Ed
ward Bates, of St. Louis, who has been selected
by Mr. Lincoln to a place in the Cabinet, in a let
ter to Thurlow Weed, in August, 1847, among
many other interesting things, adds the follow
ing as a reason for his declining official posi
tion :
‘T never had tha gift of fortune making, ami a
large family are depending for support and edu
cation upon my professional labors. Next month
my wife expects to present me with the four
teenth child, and her first is barely 23 voura
old.
f, And so, sir, you perceive that at home I am a
sort of captain, with a whole company of light
infantry under my command, whose physical
necessities and moral discipline must bo sup
plied from my bands, and youTnay well sup
pose that a man so circumstanced should not be
ready to launch upon the stormy deep of poli
tics. I have no thoughts of doing so. As far as
my feelings of personal pride are concerned, I am
satisfied."
Bound fc-r South Carolina.— Yesterday af
ternoon our attention was attracted by a number
ot wagons passing through this c ty, containing
emigrants with th ir negroes and property, and
feeling somewhat inquisitive, we hailed the par
ty to learn wheie they were going to, wherefrom
and the cause of emigrating, when we received
the following replies :
“My name is J. A. Adams. lam from Dud
son, Surry county, North Carolina, and bound to
Newberry District, South Carolina, where I de
sire to settle and feel safe with my property, liv
ing under a Government able, willing and ready
to protect it."
South Carolina and the other Confederate States
will soon have large numbers of the best and
most wealthy citizens from Virginia and North
Carolina applying for a home upon their soil, if I
the two Stares named do not very soon take po- j
sition as members of the Southern Republic.— j
Our advices from several sections of North Car- i
olina warrant the remark. Look out for slave- j
holding emigrants and preparo good homes for j
hem. —Charlotte Bulletin.
The Oil Discoveries. —The oil wells dia- ,
covered in tho valley of Little Kanawha, in the
northwestern part of Virginia, are said to surpass 1
all of the kind in the United States. Some six ;
Wells juiteunk yield more oil (according to the j
Parkersburg News) than the hundreds which i
have been opened in Pennsylvania. The News j
notices two extensive land sales last week to 1
companies who are going into the oil business, j
These sales average from fifteen hundred to two
thousand dollars per acre. The Lewellyn well—
to give an idea of their richness—pours out five
thousand dollars worth of oil in ten hours. An- ;
other yields tuo hundred and fifty barrels in I
twenty-four hours. These well* are found in ;
the counties of Wood, Wirt, Calhoun, and Gil- j
mer.
HAY, HAY!
a a BALES fine Eastern Hay, just landed and
JLDUfor sale on the wharf.
marifr—dif 1- C. MOSES A CO.
TAKE NOTICE !
AbL indebted to ihe lste firm of M V?. LEY.
& DO., will please come forward and
*#ttle
and that fiom ilioue indebtf and to said firm.
Columbus March 16 —ritt
Columbus Guards I
ALI.ED MEETING for Saturday night.—
The members are requested to be in attend
ance. By order of the Captain.
Marchlo—d2t A. INGMIKE, Sec’y.
COLUMBUS
Building and Loan Association.
THE Stockholders in this Association are here
by notified that the 77th monthly instalment
on their Stock is dueat tho office of the Treasurer
on Saturday next, the 16th instant.
Tho money on hand will be sold at 7M* o’clock
on the evening of that day.
Marla—d2t R. J. MOSES, Treas.
J. il. SIKE’S
FURNITURE STORE,
48 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS.
/’"Sags Tho subscriber desires, in tho present
■■■Spar hard times, 10 renew his acquaintance
hi 9 cM customers and friends; as he
saMßSakas a good assortment of plain and neat
Furniture, which he iaanxious to dispose of at mod
erate prices, consisting of Wardrobes; Bureaus,
Bedsteads, Chairs. Wasiutands, Desks, Safe?, <s-e.
Also, Matresses Pillows. Bolsters. Comforts. &c
Allof which may be had at prices to suit the times
marls—dtf J. 11. SIKES.
SPRINGSTYLES! I
HATS
Je*. X J^.l^'XsoP4r,
Would inform his friendsand the public generally
that he is now receiving his Spring and Summer
styles ot Hats, consisting of all varieties of
Panama, Legorn and Straw,
For men and children's wear, embracing she hand
somest patterns ever brought out.
ALSO,
Cassimere, Moleskin
& French. Felts*
Os every color and quality, and of the VERY
LATEST IMPORTATION, at prices to suit all.
CAPS of every kind, and also a great variety of
CHILDREN’S HATS AND DAI'S,
And a good assortment es
Umbrellas and Walking Canes.
Give me a call, ' Marchls
Fort Sumter at last accounts
was in Possesion of the U. S.
Troops!
in - all their varieties fresh baked.—-
Parched Peanuts; Apples, Oranges. Pine A
pples, fresh Cocoanut and Peanut Candy; Sugar
Plums of my own manufacture, without tho use
of flour. Lovers of pure Candies should remem
ber that I am the only manufacturer of Sugar
Plums in this city. Stato Plights Candy.
MEERSCHAUM CANDY, entirely now, of
my own make, very nice and delightfully flavor
ed. ‘ YV T . 11. H. PHELPS,
March 15—ts Under Cook’s Hotel.
ACARIJ
arOESINT LESE,
S DESIRES to inform his friends
that he has purchased tho entire in
terest in tho SEED' BUSINESS
which he has been carrying on for
the last two yoars, and now will be
able personally to guarantee all SEEDS, MA
NURES, Ao. JOHN LEE.
Marehls—dlw Seed Store, 70 Broad st.
FAINTER TO HIRE.
A NY person vriabing to hire a good house
Painter can find one by making application
at the TIMES OFFICE.
March 15—dtf
Tt STO CKWELL.
BOOT ANB SHOE MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber has t ken store
room opposite Cook* Hotel where
%i- is prepared to accommodate all
who are in want ol a good article of
Mfe* BOOTS AND SHOES,
REPARINO attended to with dispatch. A share
of pa ronage sollcted. R. STOoKWELL
March 13—dim.
DRS. LEE & PHELPS,
DENTISTS,
OFFICE Corner Broad and Randolph Streets
CO Ij UMB US GEORG IA.
December 31, ISfl. wAdly
| White and Mixed Seed Corn.
| Sfinn BUSnELS in store and to arrive, for sale
< /v/at a small advance tor Cash.
| FeblS—dwtf E. BARNARD.
S ■ ——
Star Candles.
WHOLE and Half Boxes Candies, prime qua
fJV/ lity, for sale at a small advance r or Cash.
Feblß-dwtf E. BARNARD.
IROl'lltllT & UltPliW,
AT THE OLD STAND OF
DANFORTI-I &NAG-EL
DEALERS IN
DRUBS, MEDICINES,
Paints, &c.
yi We have a large and
complete stock embra
cing* the beet articles>f
jfgi English, French and
American manufacture,
among which are
Oils of all Kinds,
Austin’s White Kerosene Oil.
Landreth’s Fresh Garden Seeds,
Spic s, Soda, Gelatine,
White anu Gray
Perfumery, Soaps and
Toilet Articles of ail Kinds,
Fishing Tackle, &c,
We will be happy to serve as usual ail of. our old
customers and as many new ones as may favor us
with their'patronage.
TO CASH CUSTOMERS,
At w hoiesale or retail, we offer equal inducements
to those of any house in the city.
URQUHART & CHAPMAN,
druggists.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
February 14th. llSSl^fiwlv
FREE FORWARBINJ.
Private Bonded Warehouses &
Custom House Brokerage.
f IMiB u d-jsign <1 1?:., with „
1 Baldwin At (Jj.. M isis. V. , i£i er * iJi"? “Si
Messrs. Hunter A Gammed, formed an As o , a
for the purpose of enlermi: a ib« l’umoiu hZ*!!
aid Btenug in Bond, in acco dance wnh the R v
nue Laws, any goods arriving atth s i>„it v V i , h
be entrusted to ins custody. * 11
II being the manning ard active partner he.
bonded, with the approval of the SecrltarJ"’f ih!
teasury, commodious Warehouses, where all M?r
ihaHUt/.e coming to this port can be stored
attention p ,hi to its pr, »erv*tu n. and for it.‘premia
delivery when entry has been made at the E
blouse, vt Hi lowest pnsstbie tar If . t arces. * to "'
Meic iaodize dcsti «*n to the interior will he em» r
ed for payment ot duties, or in bond as may be '
quued Li ihe consignee* All poor's consul ed 1 ,
him to he forwarded, will receive the g.eafest de
spali It at the lowest iute 01 charge, and m 3. ch man
; net a? may be directed It the duties are 10 be uaid
in this.port, funds must be provided lor that nnr
pose.bht.it to be forwarded fi bond, the requufle
bones wtil be given. 4 ■
Goods entrusted loth.- < re of th? undersigned
consigned to points in he >tcrior will be forward'
ed by Rail roars or other conveyance, as directed
free of Commission MriCle “,
An experience of nearly twenty >e are i„ the
tat s oi Custom II -use htwiness, and a thorough
acquaintance with the Warehouse laws, in tvetv
detail, vvi 1 enable tnis copannership to give the
greatest despatch consistent with tho tafttv of th e
revenue.
cu ts. c. wajldea,
Office in C'agiioru Cunningham’s Building
head ot Drayton sst. S.,v:uiiuh 7a
| *»avanhalt, March If 6l . marli— dim
& CAPS
jTUUACCO IIK POTT
\Vu an; the Agents lor the Mile ot l, TO
BACCO manufactured by the mosl reli
able VIRGINIA AND NORTH CARO
LINA TOBACCONISTS, many of whom
are well known to Southern dealers.
Our present stock consists of about One
J liousand Boxes of ail grades and prices,
to which attention is specially invited.
; To dealers in other ciiies and States, we
wiii furnish a iist of prices, and send same,
with samples, hy Express, at their charge.
J. A. ANSLEY & CO.,
Ao. 309 Broad Blreet,
! AUGUSTA, GEO.
| March 7, 1801—d 10.1.
WAE!
ATTENTION JMIfiITARI!
RECEIVED THIS MORNING
Swords. Pistols, Sashes.
j Spanlotts, Bolts,
A host of Buttons,
j ALABAMA & GEORGIA LACE3 &c.
And for sale at the lowest prices,
j Jan26—dtf A. li. DkWITT.
{TENTHAT, RATT ROAD,
Savannah, Feb. 23, 1861.
j r PUE Congress of the Confederate States of
! Jl America having, on tho 18th day ot Feb
j ruary instant, enacted the law hereunto aunex-
I cd, it becomes necessary that this Company
■ should change the system heretofore pursued bv
| them in receiving ands rwarding goods con
j signed to their care, as they are not prepared to
i transact the business at tho Custom Kongo and
i advance tho duties, or give bonds for tho
I same, as will be required.
Therefore, Merchants, Consignees of good?,
heretofore consigning them to the care Cen
tral Railroad Agent, are hereby notified that
from and after the 10th day of March next, their
goods must be consigned to tho caro of some
Commission Merchant in the city, whose out
lay (commissions and duties always c-xcepted,)
will be advanced r y this Company, and charged
to tho goods as formerly.
Bill oi Lading, Invoice and accompanying in-
Btruetions should be mailed to the Commission
Merchant employed to forward the goods; and
it would be weli for Merchants to instruct their
shippers so to do.
R. R. CUYLER, President.
AUNT ACT.
See. 1. Be it enacted hy tho Confederate
I Slates of America, in Congress Assembled, That
i the following articles shall be exempt from du
| ty, and admitted free into said States, to-wit:—
! Bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, fish of all kinds,
; wheat and flour of wheat, and flour of all othci
! grains; Indian corn and meal; barley and barlev
flour; rye and rye flour; oats and oat meal; gun
powder and ali the materials of which it is made;
lead in all forms; arms of every description, and
munitions of war and military accoutrements;
percussion caps; living animals of ail kinds; al
so all agricultural products in their natural
state.*
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That ali
goods, wares and merchandize imported from
any one of the late United States of America,not
being now a member of this Confederacy, into
thin Confederacy before the fourth day of March
next, which may have been bona fide purchased
heretofore, or within ten days after tho passage
of this act,shall be exempt and free from duty.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the
State of Texas be, and i3 hereby exempted from
the Tariff laws, beretoforep isscd and adopted by
this Congres;. l .
[Signed] HOWELL COBB,
President of the Congress.
Passed by Congress on the ei, hteenth of Feb
ruary, eighteen Lundrded and eixty-one.
J. J. HOOPER,
Fel>2s—dwlm. Sec’y of the Congress.
Alt ORDINANCE
! In relation to firing cunnon icitkin ti e limits o>
! the City of Colambas.
The Committee to whom was referred the duty
of reporting upon account of P. Gittengcr for re
pairs of damages produced by the firing of can
non in the street, as well as reporjiDg an ordi
nance regulaticg tho firing of cannon in the
city limits, respectfully report as follows:
Resolved, That it shall not be lawful for an;
person to fire a cannon in tho City, without
first having obtained from the Mayor, Chief
Marshal, or (in their absence from the city) the
chairman <#f tho Street Committee, a permit fi r
the same, and that said permit shall particularly
describe at what points said cannon may be dis
charged.
Resolved, That any violatfon of tho above
ordinance shall subject the offender to a fine of
ten dollars.
Resolved, That tiio foregoing ordinance be pub
lished daily for two weeks.
SALISBURY, )
BOZEMAN, > Coin.
MARCUS, J
Which was received and adopted.
A true extract from the minutes of Council
March 4th, 1861.
G. W. JONES, Clerk.
March 7—dlw.