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Henry A. Wise and John Quincy
Adam*.
A correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch, who witnessed the delivery of a
speech by Gov. Wise in 1841, on the oc
casion of the presentation of Abolition
petitions by John Quincy Adams, to abo
lish slavery in the District of Columbia,
says:
When I entered the hall Mr. Wise was
speaking. I shall never forget his ap
pearance. His stand was on the right of
the speaker; Mr. Adams on the left.
Mr. Wise was pouring hot shot into the
abolition ranks generally, and into Ad
ams particularly. It was the first time I
had heard Mr. Wise. He was then in his
prime. He wore his hair long ; he was
dressed in a plain suit of black, and he
seemed to address himself to Mr. Adams
and not to the Speaker. I can never for
get that fierce flashing eye; that long,
bony finger, shaking tremblingly into the
very face of the old lion ; and, as the
burning, hissing hot words of sarcasm
and defiance rolled out of that wide mouth
of his, I really thought he was the hand
somest ugly man I had ever seen. And
when he taunted Adams with coming
down from that lofty eminence which his
oountrymen had once placed him, to dab
ble in the filth and mire of political strife,
and in such a cause the excoriation was
eo severe—so much more severe than any
one else could do it, that the old man could
stand it no longer, and bounced to his
feet and cried, “Mr. Speaker,” and was
about to proceed, when he was called
lustily to order, and had to take his seat.
“ Wise turning to him,” coolly said, “be
still old man, I have a few more shot in
the locker for you,” and proceeded ; and
of all the Hayings that was ever admin
istered to mortality it was the most bit
ing—the most withering. 1 stood imme
diately over Mr. Adams, ami I could see
tho blood rush and recede, ever and anon
from that great bald head, showing the
strife going on within.
Letter from Fort Sumter.
The following is an extract from a let
ter recently received by a gentleman in
Brooklyn, from an officer at Fort Sumter.
Speaking of the proposed assault of the
Palmettoans, he says :
“They evidently intend to shell us, and
also to make an attempt to breach this
work on its south or weakest side. This
they will find considerably easier said
than done. The idea of an escalade, or
an attempt to storm this place, is simply
absurd. The excitement inside when the
Star of the West was being fired on was
intense. Breakfast was being served when
the first gun was fired; on hearing the
report of the second, an idea that “some
thing was up” seemed simultaneously to
take possession of every one. Before the
third was heard, every man was at his
post, eagerly waiting for, nay, in some
eases begging for, the order to fire. The
word was withheld, the Star of the West
put again to sea, and the men skulked
back to their quarters, disappointed, be
cause, and puzzled to know why, Major
Anderson did not five. Ono thing is plain
to us now: that in the recurrence of a
similar event in the reach of our guns,
we are infinitely better prepared to resent
it, although even then we could, I think,
have silenced their batteries in less than
an hour. Cramped in the grub line, eh?
Not that I have seen, or am likely to sec,
for a month or two yet. True, we have
no fresh provisions, but the substantial
parts of a soldier’s rations we have in
abundance, and none complain. Our
private effects were all lost on leaving
Moultrie. I arrived here the indisputable
possessor of all that I had on my back,
but no more. Tobacco is far above par,
and whiskey is unprocurable ”
The Chronicle and Sentinel says : We
are reliably informed by. a military gen
tleman, just from Montgomex’y, who is
now in the service of South Carolina, that
President Davis declares that war is in
evitable, and that within ten days. On
the other hand, Vico President Stephens,
Mr. Secretary of War Walker, and the
Hon. Howell Cobb, concur in the opiuion
that there will not be war. We learn also
that the military bill will pass this week,
and that President Davis will entirely
ignore the two regiments now recruiting
in Georgia, by order of the Governor,
and all the Governor’s appointments, and
that he will not allow civilians or West
Point juniors to rank above West Point
seniors, citizens of the Confederate States,
who have heretore seen service, and
who have resigned their commissions in
the United Staten Army. Cols. Bragg
and Johnston will likely be Major Gener
als, and Csl. Wm. Henry Walker, of cur
oity, a Brigadier. Capt. Bartow, of Sa
vannah, Chairman of the Militrry Com
mittee of the Confederate Congress, is
winning golden opinions among the mili
tary men.
Indian Citizens.
A petition was presented v to the Senate
from twenty or thirty Sioux Indians,
asking the Legislature to grant them all
thff'rights of citizenship. They stated
that they had adopted a number of cus
toms in vogue among the whites, such as
wearing pantaloons, living in houses,
using knives and forks, being content
with the possession and control of one
wife, being willing to earn their bread
“by the sweat of their brows,” total ab
stinence from intoxicating liquors, regu
lar attendance upon stated preaching, &c.
In view of all these things, they asked
that further and estimable privilege of
voting “early and often.” It will be
granted them without doubt, if the mem
bers are satisfied that they will vote the
straight ticket every time.— St. Paul Pio
neer.
Col. H. S. Wel)b.
This distinguished gentleman, formerly
of the United States army, is in the city.
Although now at a ripe old age, he is as
hale and hearty as he was during the
Mexican war, and expresses his willing
ness to serve the South again, together
with his four sons. His services in the
Mexican war and on our frontier are too
fresh in the memories of our army friends.
It is a notable fact that Col. Webb is a
brother of James Watson Webb, of New
I ork, and is as diametrically opposite in
every respect as it is possible for two
men to be.— A r . O. Delta.
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Taxes In Alabama—Extension of
Time.
The time for the collection of taxes in
Alabama has been extended by the Legis
lature to the first of May next, when they
are required to pay fully all the taxes due
for the year 1860. They may levy upon
and sell property at any time between the
first of March and May. The consent of
the securities of Tax Collectors to the
change is required to be obtained in writ
ing and filed in the Comptroller’s office.
The provisions of the Act do not oxtend
to the fiscal year commencing March,
1860.
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Fort Sumter.
The Boston Post, of the 20th, says : We 1
have information in which we place con
fidence, that the United States steamer !
Brooklyn, on her way to Pensacola, lan
ded a detachment of troops with provis
ions at Fort Sumter. They were put
into the fort by night, in boats propelled
with muffled oarß. One of the boats was
fired into on the way, but no damage was
done. The shot was fired at random,
and the secessionists probably made up
their minds that it was a false alarm, as
the bombardment was not continued.—
The secret has been well kept by the offi
cers of the Brooklyn.
Ileeiian.
A New York letter writes says: “The
Benecia Boy is sufficiently a public char
acter to make his movements of interest
to a large class of people who take and
i deal in ‘the papers.’ H has been said
k that he has ‘gone to New Orleans to en-
| fS a g® in business, and hopes by strict at
tention to realize a fortune.’ The busi
■■ess which John C. has gone into is un
■ps ood to ha,ve some connection with
iogy-_i think they call it the ‘tiger.’”
i Resolution*of tkeColumbus Guards
COLUMBUS GUARDS A EMORY, 1
Fel*. 2-i.l. 1861, |
Your committee on resolutions, in rela
tion to the lato encampment of the Com
pany beg leave to report the following:
1. Resolved, That we acknowledge the
kind attention and generous hospitality
extended to us by the citizens of Mont
! gomery, and appreciate the honor of the
position assigned the embassy in the es
| cort of the first President of the Confed
! erate States cf America.
2. Retched. That it would have afford
| ed us unfeigned pleasure to have met our
| old friends and companions in arms, the
Montgomery True Blues, but that our re
gret on this account is mollified by the
fact, that their absence was caused by an
engagement in performance of the highest
duty of soldiers, and the cordial greeting
of their gallant commander, Capt. W. G.
Andrews, just returned from the field, in
which his excellent Company had per
formed the arduous labors of garrison
duty, and other members of the Company
who, as individuals, maintained tho rep
utation of their absent comrades, by such
acts of hospitality as have ever signalized
our common meetings and intercourse.
3. Resolved, That we return our thanks
| to the officers and men of the Montgom
ery Fusileers for their notice of us on our
leaving “Camp Farley.”
4. Resolved , That we shall ever remem
ber gratefully the frequent acts of kind
ness manifested toward us by Captain
Seheusler, Messrs. Glackmeyer, Cara
way, andotbers, during our encampment.
5. Resolved, That language fails us in
furnishing appropriate expression of our
profound gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
A. Farley, our kind neighbors, whose
goods we were made to feel to be almost
our own. As men do not gather grapffe
of thorns, nor figs of thistles, neither does
such generous hospitality spring from the
hearts of the cold, indifferent, or selfish,
but arc the characteristics of enlightened
minds and cultivated tastes; and dis
carding resolutions, how well soever they
may be written, as too meagre an ex
pression of our esteem and obligations,
which the kindness unremitted of the
generous family have placed us, we re
commend to the Company the immediate
preparation and presentation of a more
suitable arid substantial testimonial of
our remembrance of the numerous acts
of kindness, to be forwarded to them as
soon as practicable, in a proper commu
nication.
G. Resolved, That these resolutions be
furnished the city papers for publication,
with the request, that the Montgomery
papers copy.
Adopted unanimously by the Company.
A. INGMIRE, Sec y.
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T3se Forts at Pensacola
For the information of our readers says
the Montgomery Mail, we have carefully
compiled from personal knowledge, the
number of guns, &c., at present in the
forts at Pensacola, Florida, which is as
follows :
Fort Pickens. —ln bastion, 2G 24 lb.
Howitzers; Casemate, 2 42 pounders, G 4
32 pds; 59 24 pds. la barbette, 24 8
inch How.; G 18 pds.; 12 12 pds.; 1 10
inch Columbiad, mounted; 410 inch
mortars, in bad order.
Fort Barrancas.—ll 32 pds.; 3 8
inch paixhans ; 2 3 inch Columbiads;
8 24 pus.; f> 18 pds.; 2 12 pds.; 8 121 b.
Howitzers —flank defences; 2 18 inch
mortars.
Fort Mcßee.—Lower Tier, 22 42 pds.;
2d Tier, 12 8 inch Columbiads ; 18 32
pds. Barbette G 2 24 pds. ; 3 10 inch
Columbiads—none mounted.
In addition to the 500 barrels of pow
der recently brought to this State, there
still remains in the magazine at the Navy
Yard GOO pounds cannon powder, 3500
pounds musket powder.
In Sand Battery A, there are 2 8 inch
Columbiads
From Washington,
Washington, Feb. 22. — Montgomery
advices indicate that tho Southern Con
federacy will authorize instantaneous
reprisals of the United States attempts to
maintain authority in the Seceding States.
A large number of privateers are ready
to commence operations at a moment’s
warning. It is reported that arrange
ments are also made in California for
privateers on the Pacific.
An army officer writes from Savannah,
that privates are enlisting, and that 8,000
applications for commissions in the army
of the Confederacy wero applied for the
first week. The Governor of Georgia has
ordered the purchase of a steamer, for
SGO,OOO.
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United States Congress.
Washington, Feb. 2G —Senate.—The
Senate passed the following bills estab
lishing Territorial Governments for Colo
rado, Nevada, and Dacotah. The postal
route, consular, and diplomatic bills, and
the army bill, were discussed.
House.—ln the House to-day Stanton’s
force bill was postponed until Thursday,
which is considered to be equivalent to a
defeat. The vote on the postponement
was—ayes 100, nays 74.
Crittenden’s resolution, or the sub
stance of them, were under discussion ;
and hopes are entertained by many that
they will be adopted.
The tariff bill of yesterday abolishes
the duty on tea and coffee, but that on
sugar remains unchanged.
It is believed that Crittenden’s resolu
tions will be introduced into the Peace
Congress to-morrow, in lieu of Franklin’s
substitute, which was voted down to-day.
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TJie MilleOgeville Court. House.
We have already published a dispatch
announcing the burning of the Court
House of Baldwin county. The following
particulars are taken from the Milledge
ville Union of the 2Gth instant:
The Court House in this city was des
troyed by fire on Sunday morning last,
about 8 o’clock. All the important re
cords in the clerk’s office were lost. No
thing was saved in that part of the build
ing. Most of the books in the ordinary’s
office were saved. There is scarcely a
doubt that the fire was the work of an in
cendiary. No fire had been made in the
Court House all the day before. Our
deputy sheriff rocmed in the building and
did not even light a match to go to bed.
The fire originated in tho clerk’s office.
The Nashville Union says the Chatta
nooga Rail Road still continues to move
oft her freight according to turn, and now
has cleaned out three of tho warehouses
containing the accumulated freights that
arrived at the time of break in Georgia
State Road. The road is, however, yet
so situated that it is beyond her capacity
to receive as was her custom, consequent
ly has to refuse freights consigned to her.
Harrssou & Son now receive all the road
refuses, which they store and send off in
regular turn, at the additional cost of
$1 15 per ton.
The same paper says the shipments of
cotton last week from Memphis by the
Eastern Rail Road through Virginia to
the North, was G,33.9 bales—and to New
Orleans 16,084 bales.
Trade with Charleston ami Savan
nah.
The Norfolk Day Book of the 19tb,
says: Three vessels, loaded with rice,
arrived at Norfolk on Saturday from
Charleston, and several more came in
yesterday and to-day from Savannah,
loaded with the same staples; all of
which is intended for foreign shipment, I
having been purchased by our merchants j
for that purpose. The cotton is of that !
class known as “ Upland,” and is well
compressed. The most of these vessels
were loaded*witb corn to those ports, and
have returned, as above stated.
We learn that on Monday of last week,
that being County Court day, a beauti
lul seeessiou flag, manufactured by the
ladies of Cynthiana, was hoisted on a
liberty pole one hundred and thirty feet
high, in the capital of old Harrison, amid
the shouts of the gallant men of that
county. — Lou. Courier, Feb. 18th.
Gov. Brown’s Letter.
Executive Department, )
Milledgeville, Feb. 21st, 1861. j
Sir: On the fifth day of thi3 month 1
directed you to cal! out sufficient military
force, and seize all ships then in the har
bor of Savannah belonging to the citi
zens of the State of New Y'ork. The
reasons for the seizure were briefly sta
ted in the order. Citizens of this State
had been robbed of their property by the
police of New York, acting under the au
thority of that State: I had demanded
the restoration of the property to its own
ers. The Governor of that State had
given an evasive reply, excepting to the
form of tho demand sent by telegraph;
which clearly evinced his disposition not !
to comply by ordering the restoration of
the property. If the protection of this
State were not in such cases afforded to
its citizens, it not only invited further
aggressions upou their rights, but for
feited all just claim to their allegiance.
I therefore had no alternative left but to
order reprisals. This is the mildest
remedy provided not only by the law of
nations, but by the law of nature, for the
redress of grievances between sovereign
States, in the last resort.
Your prompt execution of the order,
by the seizure of five vessels owned by
citizens of New York, met my highest
approval. The seizure was made on the
morning of the eighth of this month.—
On the evening of that day, I mailed to
the Governor of New York, at Albany, a
communication stating the fact of the
seizure, with the reasons for it; and that
I should hold the ships till justice should
be done the injured citizens of this State,
by the restoration of the property of
which they had been robbed by the police
of the city of New York.
On the night of the ninth inst , I re
ceived a telegiaphic dispatch from Mr.
G. B. Lamar, of New York, whom I had
appointed agent to receive the guns, seiz
ed by the police, if delivered up by the
authorities, stating that the guns were
then at the command of their owners,
and asking me to release the ships At
the same time I received a dispatch from
Mr. John Boston, the Collector of the port
of Savannah, stating that he had just
been informed by Mr. Lamar, that the
guns had been delivered up.
Regretting the necessity which com
pelled me to resort to a means of redress
which, while natural and legal, might
interrupt the commerce between the two
States, and expose to temporary hard
ship individual citizens of New York,
whose property, under the laws of na
tions, is subject to seizure for such out
rages committed by the authorities of
their own State, though they may disap
prove and condemn them, I was deter
mined not. to occupy the position of an
aggressor for a single hour. So soon,
therefore, as I was iuformed that the au
thorities of New \ T ork hau made repara
tion for the robbery, I immediately or
dered the release of the vessels. Since
that time 1 directed Mr. Lamar to have
the guns shipped to Savannah, that they
might be delivered to their owners. He
now informs me that he demanded their
shipment, and was informed by the Su
perintendent of the Police of New York,
that he had changed his mind, and that
he would not now permit the guns to be
shipped; hut that he would order fur
ther seizures of what he is pleased to call
“contraband articles.”
Twelve days have passed since T mailed
to the Governor of New’ Y'ork the com
munication above referred to, and I
have received no response from him.—
He has not only refused, therefore, to
order the restoration of the property of
which his police had plundered our citi
zens, within the iimits of his own State
on a demand sent by telegraph, but he
has neglected and refused to answer a
written communication upon the subject,
sent to him through the regular medium
of the mail.
While I held possession of the vessels
seized, my agent was informed that the
guns were at the command of their own
ers. Acting upon this assurance, I or
dered the release of the vessels ; and my
agent is now informed that the officer in
possession of the guns has changed his
mind, and that he will not now permit
them to be returned to their owners.—
These facts show very clearly that it is
the settled policy of the authorities of
New Y r ork to subject our commerce to sur
veillance, which we cannot with honor
submit to, and to seize upon our proper
ty aud plunder our citizens at their pleas
ure.
Under these circumstances. I I‘eei that
I, as the Executive of Georgia, would
prove recreant to the high trust reposed
in me by my fellow-citizens, were I to re
fuse to protect their rights against such
unprovoked aggression, by all the means
which the laws of nations, or the consti
tution and laws of this State, have placed
at my command.
It therefore becomes my duty again to
direct you to call out such military force
as may be necessary for that purpose,
and to renew the reprisals, by the seizure,
as soon as practicable, of vessels in the
harbor of Savannah, or other property in
the city, or elsewhere within your reach,
belonging to the State or to citizens of
New Y'ork, at least equal in value to
double the amount of the original seiz
ures made by you. Y'ou will hold the
property seized, subject to my order; and
it will be released when the guns in ques
tion, (together with any other property
of our citizens which has been, or may
in the mean time be unlawfully seized by
the authorities of New Y'ork,) are ac
tually shipped from the harbor, and are
beyond the reach or control of the police
of the city of New Y'ork, or the authori
ties of that State.
Respectfully, &c.
JosEni E. Brown.
Col. Henry R. Jackson, Aid-de-Camp,
Savanuab, Ga.
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Special Dispatch to the Memphis Press.
Little Rock, Feb. 20. —The State will
go (or convention by a small vote. There
will be a respectable majority of seces
sionists, on condition that the peace con
gress does nothing to adjust matters. The
immediate secessionists will be in the iui
nority; so will the unconditional Unionists.
In Hemstead county the anti-secession
candidates are elected: in Sabine county
the anti-secession candidates are elected ;
in Clark and Dallas counties secession
candidates are elected.
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Texas Ratification.
The people of Texas voted lust Saturday
on the ratification or rejection of the
secession ordinance. The Convention
convenes next Saturday (2d of March) to
receive and act upon the verdict of the
people. There can be little doubt, we
think, that the vote for the ordinance
will be found to be almost unanimous,
and that Texas will at once take her
place among the Confederate States of
America.
A Female Travis.
A correspondent relates to the St. Louis
Republican, a shooting exploit of a Mrs.
Hord, wife of Willis Ilord, Esq., resid
ing near that city, which has gained her
much notoriety in the neighborhood.—
Recently four wild turkeys alighted in
her yard, where a flock of tame turkeys
were feeding, and at once commenced a \
war of extermination upon the domestic !
fowls, which the fair marksman (?) ter j
minuted by producing a six-shooter and
killed the invaders with four successive
shots, at ten paces distance.
The Memphis Avalanche says that
freight has accumulated in the depots of
the Memphis and Charleston Rail Road
to such an extent that it is impossible to
remove it fast enough. In consequence
no more freight will be received until
what is on hand has been forwarded to
its destination.
T. N. Gardner, editor of the Brunswick
Advocate, was elected on the 23th inst.,
a member of the House of Representa
tives, Georgia Legislature, from Glynn
county, vice John L. Harris, resigned.
The Southern Confederacy.”
Were we to venture a prediction, we
would say that we here have the germ of
a Republic which history, at no far dis
tant day, will record as the most power
ful and wealthy of ancient and modern
limes. It will grow, and that, too rap
idly, by additions from the North, from
the South, aud from the West Its Gov
ernment, purged of every notion of con
solidation, no State will hesitate to take
shelter under wings from any fear of los
ing its sovereignty. The burdeus of that
Government be will light. Tt will bead
ministered according to the Southern
idea. In the exercise of its powers it
will be confined within the legitimate
sphere of the Constitution. It will not
be used as an engine of corruption. It
will not be used as an instrument of ex
ecuting those projects which belong only
to State governments or individual enter
prise. It will build no rail roads and
canals. It will undertake to build up no
manufacturing interests at the expense of
other interests. Hence its burdens will
bo light, and consequently the trade will
be nearly or quite free.
Capital, which has for the last three
quarters of a century been aggregating
in Northern cities, will begin to turn
Southward. By degrees, the trade of
Boston, New York aud Philadelphia will
decrease, whilst that of Charleston, Sa
vannah, Mobile and New Orleans will
propolior ately increase. Immigration
will also turn thitherward The North
has lost, irrevocably lost, we fear, her
largest and best customer. Our future
we may read in the past of Canada. Ne
gro sympathy, which has of late been so
active with us, will in a few mouths more,
be like a tale that is told. AVe shall hear
no more of slavery in the South than we
now hear of itin Cuba and Russia. From
New England, at least, the sceptre of
empire has departed forever, uud that
through the folly of her own sous. Ban
gor [Me ) Union.
Interesting from Washington.
United States Congress.
Washington, Feb. 25.—1n the Senate
to day, Mr. Wigfall, of Texas, strongly
opposed the Postal suspension bill, which
passed, however, after a lengthy debate
and some amendments.
Several miscellaneous bill were de
bated.!
House.—ln the House the Tariff bill
was passed, with 150 amendments.
Stanton of Ohio, was endeavoring to
get up his force bill.
Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.
The Peace Conference.
Washington, Feb. 24. —lt is under
stood that Commissioners to the Peace
Congress from several Southern States,
including N. Carolina, Virginia, Mary
land and Kentucky, have united on a
request to the Southern Congress to
delay the attack upou Fort Sumter until
after the inauguration of Lincoln, and the
nature of his policy is announced. It
is generally conceded that the Peace
Congress will be unable to effect an ad
justment. It is evidently the policy of
the Republicans to postpone a settlement
until Lincoln gets into office, when they
hope by threats or promises to compel the
Border States to acquiesce.
Washington, Feb. 25. — There was no
decisive action taken in the Peace Con
gress to-day.
Special dispatch to the Advertiser.
Washington, Feb. 25.—There was an
extra session of the Cabinet held last
night on the despatches from Charleston.
Lincoln is found to be rough aud uu
courteous to many, including Rives aud
Summers, members of the Border- Con
ference from Virginia.
It is understood that Gilmer, of North
Carolina, will be offered a place in the
Cabinet.
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, Feb. 25.—The steamship
Tennessee lias arrived from Vera Cruz,
with dates to the 21st inst
Mr. Pickett, consul at Very Cruz, has
resigned his consulate, and returned to
this city.
The rest of the exiled Bishops were also
passengers in the Tennessee.
The Constitutional Government was
organizing fast and successfully.
The army is to be recoguized.
Liberal schemes for colonization have
been arranged.
The U. S. sloop of war Macedonian
arrived at Vera Cruz on the 20th inst.—
The U. S. war vessels Powhattau, Cum
berland and Pocahontas were about to
sail for New York.
United States Property in Texas
Surrendered.
New Orleans, Feb 25.—Advices from
Texas state that the Federal property in
that State has been surrendered to the
State authorities. The Federal troops
were allowed to leave the State with all
the facilities. The property seized is
valued at $1,300,000.
Washington, Feb. 25.—The Washing
ton Star of this evening states that the
Government here has received advices
from Texas announcing that Gen. Twiggs
had surrendered all the Federal Military
property in his Military Department to
the State authorities.
Arkansas Election.
Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 25.— The
election in this State has resulted in a
majority in favor of a State Convention.
There have also been elected thirty se
cessionists, twenty-five conditional seces
sionists, aud from fifteen to twenty Union
delegates.
Senator Sumner Censured.
Boston, Feb. 22. — The Common Coun
cil have passed resolutions censuring
Sumner for his remarks relative to the
signers of the petitions favoring Critten
den’s resolutions.
From the Tallahassee Floridian.
Prices (if Negroes.
Messrs. Editors: —Your remarks re
lative to the lying report of the New York
Times in relation to the price of negroes,
has induced me to refer to sales on the
Ist of January last.
I sold on that day 20 Negroes, consist
ing of men, women and childreu, for
SBG7 50 per head. No sales since that
time. Money being plentiful, parties
prefer holding until i settlement of the
new government, when Negroes will com
mand better prices.
Yours respecfully,
R. 11. BERRY', Auctioneer.
Don’t do It.
Never make use of an honest woman’s
name in an improper place, at any im
proper time, or in a mixed company.—
Never make assertions about her that you
think untrue, allusions about her that
you feel she herself would blush to hear.
When you meet with men who do not
scruple to make use of a womau’s name
in a most reckless manner, shun them,
for they are the very worst members of
the community—men lost to every sense
of honor, every feeliug of humanity.
A New York Salute in Honor of the
Southern Confederation.
A ealute of six guns was fired on the
Battery yesterday afternoon in honor of
the six seceding States, and one each for
the Hon. Jeff. Davis, of Mississippi, Pro
visional President, and the Hou. A. 11.
Stephens, of Georgia, Vice-President, by
S. J. Anderson, Esq., and others of this
city. —New York News.
Revolvers In the French Army.
“We are reliably informed,” says the
Memorial de Saint Etienne, “that the
Imperial Government is taking active
measures to provide with revolvers the !
whole French army. They will be six- |
shooters. This dangerous arm will hang j
by an iron hook at the foot soldiers’ j
waist belt; the cavalry will have it in the
right hand holster.”
It seems that Clemens, of the Wheeling
district, who boasts o# being the owner of
more negroes than all his constituents
beside, is in reality, the possessor of
“nary” nigger. He married a wealthy
widow, but in so doing, by the terms of
her husband’s will, she forfeited all claim
to his estate. Her husband’s brother
generously gives to Sherard a $3,000
annuity, So say the newspapers.
rOBTAT. BEPOItT AND BfLI., j
’ Tbe following is tbe postal report and {
bill referred to by cur Montgomery corre
spondent in Monday’s Sun. They were
adopted in secret session on the 21st,
and secresy removed on the 25th :
REPORT.
Mr. Cbilton, from the Committee on j
Postal Affairs, made tbe following re- j
port :
Tbe Committee on Postal Affairs having
considered of the duties assigned them, ;
have instructed me to submit the follow
ing report, and the bill accompanying the
same.
The Committee have mainly directed
their inquiries to the question whether,
without material inconvenieuce to the
public, the post office department of this
Confederacy can be made self sustaining.
The Committee find from the latest and
most reliable means of information, of
which they have been able to avail them
selves, that the excess of’expenditures
over the receipts of this Department in
the six States composing this Confedera
cy for the fiscal year ending 30th June,
1859, was $1,060,595 83. They have
not been able to obtain the report of such
reports and expenditures for the last sis
• cal yenr, they presume the above furnish
es an approximation sufficiently accurate
for the predicate of our present action.
To provide for this deficit your Com
mitttee would suggest that the rates of
postage may be increased, as proposed
by the accompanying bill. By this bill
they estimate an increase of receipts ap
proximating $578,874 83.
They believe that a saving can be etl'ec- i
ted by a change in the mode of letting ;
out mail contracts, adopting what is j
usually called “the star-bid system.”— i
! Providing all due safe guards for the cel- j
I erity, certainty and security of the mails,
; but without other restrictious as-to the
i mode of transportation. In this way
your Committee are satisfied that the ex
pease of mail transportation may be re
duced, say 33J per cent, upon the pre
sent cost, say $619,033.
They are further of opinion that there
1 should be a discontinuance of numerous
1 routes, the cost of which is greatly dis
: proportioned to their convenience, and the
| receipts of the postoffiees supplied by
| them. In this way they believe a sav
ing of 1-10 of the present cost of trans
portation may be attained, say $206,344.
The service upon many of the routes
may, without material detriment, be
changed, daily routes reduced to tri
weekly, &c., at an estimated reduction
Os, say $206,344.
They would also recommend the abol
ishing a number of minor Postoffices
which occasion considerable expense
without corresponding profit or conven
ience. In this way a saving to the De
partment might be readily secured to the
amount of, say $50,000.
These sums added, say by increased
receipts by raise on postage rates...ss7S.S74 S3
By saving as above indicated, t0ta1...1,081,721 00
Total 1,600,595 83
Present excess of expenditures over
receipts 1,060,595 83
Your committee are of opinion that
steps should be immediately 7 taken to
procure postage stamps of the denomina
tion of two, five and twenty cents; that
these stamps will be sufficient to meet
the wants of the Department for the
present.
They would further suggest that imme
diate steps should betaken for procuring
a supply of locks and keys for the mail
service; and for Postoffice blanks, such
as are now in use.
They would further recommend that all
the mail contracts within this Confeder
acy be re let at as early a day as prac
ticable, and until they are re-let the
existing contracts remain of force, this
government becoming responsible to such
contractors from the Bth day of February,
1861.
Your Committee are unable to suggest
any plan until further arrangements shall
have been made for the transmission of
mail matter to and from other govern
ments. They believe, however, that until
postal treaties can be made, expedients
arising from the necessities of the public
will readily suggest themselves, which
will, in a great measure, remedy the in
convenience. The wide-spread ramifica
tions of the Express Companies would
furnish valuable auxiliaries for commu
nicatiou beyond the Confederacy, the
mail matter bearing the stamps of each
government through which it may pass
by said Express.
All which is respectfully submitted.
W. P. CHILTON, Chm’n.
An Act to be Entitled an Act to Pre
scribe Kates of Postage in tbe Con
federate States of America and for
other Purposes.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confeder
ate States of America do enact that from
and after such period as the Postmaster
General may by proclamation announce
there shall be charged the following
rules of postage to wit: for every single
letter sealed aud for every letter in man
uscript or paper of any kind, upon which
information shall be asked for, or com
munication in writing, or by marks or
signs, conveyed in the mail for any dis
tance between places within the Confed
erate States of America, not exceeding
500 miles, 5 cents; and for any distance
exceeding 500 miles, double that rate ;
and every letter or parcel not exceeding
half an ounce in weight, shall be deemed
a single letter, and every additional
weight of halt’ an ounce or additional
weight of less tliau half an ounce shall
be charged with an additional single
postage; and all packages containing
other than printed or written matter—
and money packages are included in this
class—shall be rated by weight as letters
are rated, and shall be charged double
the rates of postage on letters; and all
drop letters or letters placed in any Post
office not for transmission but for deliv
ery only, shall be charged with postage
at tbe fates of two cents each ; and in all
the foregaiug cases the postage must be
pre paid by stamps ; and all letters which
shall hereafter be advertised as remain
ing over or uncalled for in any Postoffice
shall be charged with two cents each in
addition to the regular postage ; both to
be accounted for as other postages of this
Confederacy.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
all newspapers not exceeding three oun
ces in weight, sent from the office of
publication to actual and bona fide sub
scribers, shall be charged with postage
as follows, to wit: the postage on the
regular numbers of a newspaper publish
ed weekly within the State where pub
lished, shall be 61 cents per quarter ; and
papers published semi weekly double that
rate ; and papers published thrice a week,
treble that rate; and papers published
daily six times that rate ; aud the post
age on all newspapers to actual subscri
bers without the State where published
shall be charged double the foregoing
rates ; and periodicals sent from tbe of
fice of publication to actual and bona fide
subscribers, shall be charged with post
age as follows, to-wit: the postage on
the regular numbers of a periodical, not
exceeding II ounces iu weight, and pub
lished monthly within the State where
published shall be 3 cents per quarter;
if published semi-monthly double that
rate; and for every additional ounce or
fraction of au ounce double the foregoing
rates shall be charged ; and periodicals
published quarterly or bi-monthly shall
be charged one cent au ounce ; and the
postage on all periodicals without the
State where published shall be double the
above specified rates; and regular sub
scribers to newspapers aud periodicals
shall be required to pay one quarter’s
postage in advance. And there shall be
charged upon every other newspaper, on
each circular not sealed, handbill, en
graving, pamphlet, periodical and maga
zine, which shall be unconnected with any
manuscript or written matter, not ex- j
ceeding three ounces iu weight, two cents; |
and for each additional ounce or frac
tion of an ounce two cents additional;
and in all cases the postage shall be pre
paid by stamps. And books bound or
unbound not weighing over four pounds
shall be deemed mailable matter, and
shall be charged with postage to be pre
paid by stamps, at two cents per ounce
for any distance. The publishers of
newspapers or periodicals may send to
each other from their respective offices
‘” of publication, free of postage, one “copy j
of each publication.
Sue. 3. Andie it further enacted. That it
shall he the duty of the Post Master
General to provide and furnish to all
Deputy Postmasters, and to all other
persons applying and paying therefor,
! suitable postage stamps and stamped j
j envelopes of the denomination of two j
i cents, five cents and twenty cents, to fa- j
i eilitate the pre payment of postages pro
! vided for in this act: and any petrou who j
shall forge or counterfeit any postage ]
! stamp provided or furnished under the
| provisions of this or any tormer act,
j whether the same are impressed or prin
j ted on or attached to envelopes or not, or
any die, plate or engraving therefor, or
shall make or print, or knowingly use or
sell, or have in his possession, with intent
to use or sell, or have in his possession,
with intent to use or sell, any such false,
forged or counterfeited dies, plate, en
graving or postage stamp, or who shall
make or print, or authorize, or procure
to be made or printed, any postage
stamps of the kind provided and furnish
ed by the Postmaster General as atore
said, without the especial authority and
direction of the Post Office Department,
or who, after such postage stamps have
been printed, shall, with intent to defraud
the revenues of the Postoffice Depart
ment, deliver any postage stamps to any
person or persons other than such as
shall be authorized to receive the same
by an instrument of writing, duly execu
ted under the hand of the Postmaster
General, and the seal of the Postoffice
Department, shall, on conviction thereof,
I be deemed guilty of fellony, and be pun
! ished by a fine not exceeding SSOO or by
j imprisonment not exceeding five years,
! or by boih such fine and imprisonment;
j and the expeuses of procuring and pruvi
! ding all such postage stamps and letter
envelopes as are provided tor or author
ized by this act, shall be paid after being
adjusted by the Auditor of the Postoffice
Department ol 1 the certificate of the Post
Master General out of any money in the
Treasury arising from the revenue ot the
Postoffioe Department
Sec. 4, And be it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of every Postmaster to
cause to be defaced iu such manner as
the Postmaster General shall direct all
postage stamps of this Confederacy, at
tached to letters deposited in his office
for delivery or to be seut by mail ; and if
any Postmaster sending letters in the
mail with such postage stamps attached,
shall omit to deface the same, it shall be
the duty of the Postmaster to whose
office such letters shall be seut for deliv
ery, to deface the stamps and report the
delinquent Postmasters to the Postmaster
General, and if any person shall use or
attempt to use in the pre-payment of
postage, any postage stamps which shall
have been before used for like purposes,
such person shall be subject to a penalty
of fifty dollars for every such offense, to
be recovered in the name of the Confede
rate States of America iu any Court of
competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
from and after the day wheu ibis act goes
into effect the franking privilege shall be
abolished, providing that the Postmaster
General, and his chief clerk, and the au
ditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice
Department shall be and they are hereby
authorized to transmit through the mail
free of postage any letters, packages or
other matters relating exclusively to their
official duties, or to tbe business of the
Postoffice department : but they shall in
every such case indorse on the back of the
letter or package to be sent free of post
age, over their own signatures the words
“Official Business,’’ and for any such en
dorsement falsely made, tbe person so
offending shall forfeit and pay S3OO, —
and provided further, the several deputy
Postmasters throughout the Confederate
States shall be and hereby are authorized
to send through the mail free of postage
all letters and packages which it may be
their duty or they may have occasion to
transmit to any person or place, and
which shall relate exclusively to the bus
iness of their respective offices, to the
business of the Postolfice Department—
but iu every such case the deputy post
master sending any such letter, or pack
ages shall endorse thereon, over his own
siguature the words “Postoffice Business,”
for any and every such indorsement
falsely made, the person making the same
shall forfeit and pay S3OO.
Sec. G. And be it further enacted. That
the third section of an act entitled an act
further to amend an act entitled act to
reduce and modify the rates of postage in
the United States, and for other purpo
ses, passed March 3d, 1851, approved
March 3, 1855, whereby the letter regis
tration system was established, be and is
hereby repealed from and after the day
when this act goes into effect.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, ,jv ,
That no letters shall be carried by the
Express or other chartered companies,
unless the same shall be prepaid by being
endorsed in a stamped envelope of this
Confederacy, aud any company violating
the provisions of this act shall forfeit and
pay the sum of five hundred dollars for
each offense to be recovered by action of
debt in auy court of this Confederacy
having cognizance thereof in the name
and for the use of this Confederacy.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted. That the
Postmaster General of the Confederate
States be and is hereby authorized to
make all necessary arrangements for the
transmission of mails betweeu the Terri
tories of this and other governments,
subject to the approval of the President,
until postal treaties can be effected.
Passed Feb. 21, 1861.
Go tt> Gov. Harris!
Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, was in
Memphis a few days ago, and tbe Som
erville Times, of the 10th inst., relates
the following, as having occuired going
or coming:
“Governor Isham Green Harris—in a
conversation on the cars of the Memphis
and Charleston R il Road, ou Wednesday
last, declared that lie would sink the whole
fifteen Southern States in the vortex of
destruction before he would accept the
Crittenden proposition as a settlement of
the difficulty between the North and
South. He also contended that it was the
duty and right of South Carolina to take
Fort Sumter; even if total destruction
became necessary.”
Vote on tlie Reference ttueution.
Dispatch to the Petersburg (Ya.) Express.
Richmond, Feb. 20. — Gen. Raymond
has returns from the election on the re
ference question from all the counties
except sixteen, which foot up as fol
lows :
Whole vote 140,511.
For reference, 96,684
Against reference 43,827
Majority for reference, 52,857
Important News.
The Columbia (S. C.) Guardian, of the
22d, is indebted to a friend for tbe fol
lowing dispatch from Charleston :
There is reason to believe that Holt
intends to reinforce Fort Sumter by
stealth und at night, by men in small
boats, within a few days. The ships
will surround Fort Pickens at the same
time—the movement to be simultaneous
When Juarez occupied the city of Mex
ico, he seut an officer and a file of men
to arrest the editor of one of the bitter
est Reactionary journals iu the capital.
The editor declined beiDg arrested, and
inflicted a severe wound upon the officer,
whereupon his exasperated soldiers rush
ed upon the journalist and dispatched
him—a martyr to the liberty of the press.
Mortars and Columbian*.
The Petersburg Express notices the
passage through that city on the 22d in
stant, from the Richmond Foundry, of
two large Columbiads for Alabama, and
two Mortars for Sonth Carolina, together
with a number of balls.
Rev. S. G. Bragg, formerly Rector of j
the Episcopal Church in Macon, died at
Kingston, New York, recently.
PHD VISIONAL CONGRESS
OF THE
CONFEDERATE STATES. !
The Congress of the Confederate tStates
on the 27th,. removed secrecy from the
following nets in addition to those pnb
j lished in this morning’s edition of the
I Buu :
j An Ait to authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to establish additional Ports and
Places oj Entry and Delivery, and ap
|, point Officers therefor.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That the Se
cretary of the Treasury be and he is
hereby authorized and empowered to
establish such ports of entry and delivery
of goods, wares and merchandize as in
his judgment may be necessary for the
proper collection of the customs and the
enforcement of the revenue laws of the
Confederate States ; and that he have
power to change, alter and abolish such
ports.and places of entry and delivery,
at any lime when the public interest may
I require it.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be and he is
hereby authorized and empowered to ap
point suitable persons as collectors of tbe
customs at such ports and places of entry
and delivery under such regulations and
with such salaries as he may from time
to time prescribe and establish.
An Act Jor the establishment and organiza
tion of a General Staff for the Army of
the Confederate States of America.
See. 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That from and
after the passage of this act, the general
staff of the army of the Confederate
States hu 11 consist of an Adjutant and
Inspector Generala’ Department, Quar
: tei master General’s Department, Subsis
tence Department, and the Medical De
j partuient.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the
Adjutant and Inspector Generals’ Depart
ment shall consist of one Adjutant and
Inspector General with the rank of Colo
nel; four Assistants General with the
rank of Major, and four Assistant Adju
tants General with the rank of Captain.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the
Quarter Master General’s Department
shall consist of one Quarter Master Gen
eral with the rank of Colonel—six Quar
ter Masters with the rank of Major—and
as many Assistant Quarter Masters as
may from time to time be required by the
service, may be detailed by tbe War De
partment from the subalterns of the liue,
who, in addition to their pay in the
line, shall receive twenty dollars per
! month while engaged in that service.—•
The Quarter Masters herein provided for
shall also discharge the duties of Pay
masters under such regulations as may
be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the
Commissary General’s Department shall
consist of one Commissary Gtneral with
the rank of Colonel—four Commissaries
with the rank of C&ptain—aud as many
Assistant Commissaries—as may from
time to time be required by the service,
may be detailed by the War Department,
from the subalterns of the line, who in
addition to their pay in the line shall
receive twenty dollars per month while
engaged in that service. The Assistant
Quarter Masters .and Assistant Commis
saries shall be subject to duties in both
departments at the same time, but shall
not receive tbe additional compensation
but in onedeportment.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the
Medical Department shall consist of one
Surgeon General with the rank of Colo
nel—four Surgeons with the rank of
Major—and six Assistant Surgeons with
the rank of Captain, and as many Assis
tant Surgeons as the service may require,
may be employe! by the Department of
War, and receive the pay of Assistant
Surgeons.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the
officers of the Adjutant Generals, Quar
ter Master Generals and Commissary
Generals Departments, t hough eligible to
command, according to the rank they hold
in the army of tbe Confederate States of
America, shall not assume command of
troops unless put on duty under /orders
which specially so direct by authority of
the President. The officers of the Medi
cal Department shall not exercise com
mand except in their own Department.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted. That the
Staff Officers herein provided for shall be
appointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Congress,
and shall receive such pay and allowan
ces as shall be hereafter established by
law.”
Washington Mews.
Special Dispatches to the Advertiser.
Lincotn visits Congress — Conservative. Re
publicans in ascendancy Much feeling
about the Cabinet, Ac , §c.
Washington, Feb. 25.—Mr. Lincoln
v.sited Congress to day. He was unuo
ticed by any of the Southern members
except Andrew Johnson, of Tenn., and
John P. Kennedy, of Maryland, and Ee
met with about the same reception from
the Southern members iu the House.
The Senate has passed the civil appro
priation bill, including the appropria
tions to the Southern coast light houses,
beacons, &c.
The Border Conference have agreed
upon a plan of settlement, similar iu ef
fect to the Missouri Compromise.
The anti-compromise Republicans in
the Conference are now endeavoring to
postpone making auy report until Lincoln
is inaugurated.
It is understood that the conservative
Republicans have triumphed over the
radicals.
About the formation of a cabinet, there
is much feeling It is thought that
Seward wW be retained as Secretary of
State.
Washington, Feb. 26. The Border
Conference shows signs of breaking up.
Guthrie threatened to ieave last night.
lion. John Bell arrived to day and
urged the Conference to make a speedy
settlement.
Arkansas has gone for the secession
candidates for the Convention by a large
majority.
Honeat Old A lie’s Better Half.
The Cincinuatti Enquirer gives the
following as one of the incidents of the
trip from Indianapolis to Cincinnati, on
the traiu with Mr. Lincoln and suite:
The following s£ene actually occuired,
aud we think should be set down. A
gentleman, one of the suit, we believe,
while passing through the rear car, was
addressed by the future mistress of the
White House as folows:
Mrs. L.—How do you “flourish ?”
Gentlemen.—Well, I thunk you.
Mrs L.—ls that a Cincinnati paper
you have iu your hand ?
Gentleman—Yes, (passing the journal
to her.)
Mrs. L.—Does it say anything about
us ?
The manner in which these questions
were propounded was more suggestive
than the interrogatories themselves.—
Imagine the successor of the accomplish
ed Mrs. Madison, Mr. Polk and Harriet
Lane addressing a foreign Minister with
“ How do you flourish ?” The “us” re
mind us of an anecdote of the wife Cf au
honest Dutchman, who had unexpectedly
been elevated to the position of Major of
the militia. When the result of the
election was known, the children wanted
to know if they would not all be Majors.
“No, you fools,” indignantly replied the
mother, “none but your daddie and me.”
A Costly Set of Diamonds.
A New York reporter who has been
locking in the jewelry shops and noting
their precious stock, mentions a set of
diamonds, consisting of a necklace, brace
lets, brooch and ear-rings, value twenty
five thousand dollars. The necklace ia
composed of forty-three brilliant gems of
the first water, forming a circle ; from
the centre are appended seven pearshaped
diamond pendants, of rare form and value.
The cost of the necklace alone is sixteen
thousand dollars.
The Revenue Bill has passed the North
Carolina Legislature. Land pays eigh
teen cents on the one hundred dollars
of valuation.
The Tariff Question.
Messrs 8 llothcbild & Bro., having
goods in New lurk city, that were ini
ported directly Irom Europe, undei a
purchase made two or three months since,
addressed a letter to Mr. Toombs at
Montgomery, through a gentleman of this
eify, inquiring if they would be subject
to duty a second time on their arrival at
our ports, under the operation of the
Tariff of the Confederate States. Mr.
Toombs being absent, his Assistant Sec
retary submitted the matter to tbe Vice-
President, Mr. Stephens, who stated that
the goods would not be subject to duty a
second time if landed here before the 4th
of March ; but if they arrived after that
time they would be, irrespective of the
time they were purchased.
This is from an authoritative source
and seems to be in accordance with the
reading of the 2d clause of the Tariff Act
which we republish as follows:
Sec. 2. That all Goods, Wares and
Merchandize imported from any one of
the late United States of America, not
being now a member of this Confederacy,
or before the fourth day of March next,
(which may have been bona fide pur
chase heretofore,) or within ten dajs af
ter the passage of this Act, shall be ex
empt and free from duty.
Liberal Proposition.
One of the largest mercantile houses
of Columbus has received a circular from
Ilenrys, Smith & Townseud, a well known
firm of New York city, which in connec
tion with the Tariff and our political
relations with the North, will be read
with interest. The following is a copy
of the circular in question:
New York, Feb. 19, 1861.
Gentlemen : With the object of retain
ing our present connection with our
friends and customers in the South, we
have decided that, in case any duty shall
be laid by the Confederate States of
America upon imports from the Northern
States into the said Confederacy, we
hereby agree and stipulate that we will
pay the said duty to the extent of ten
per cent, upon any Goods sold by or
ordered from us, whenever such duty
shall be imposed thereon and payable.
Whenever such an act goes iuto effect,
our Agents at the several points to which
the Goods are shipped, will be provided
by us with means to pay the duty, with
out trouble or charge to the buyers of the
Goods.
We believe this proposal will be accept
able to ‘our customers, until we decile
at what point in your Confederacy we will
establish our House, of which we will give
you due notice.
From Charleston.
A correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch from Charleston, says:
Great domestic economy is being prac
ticed herein all the walks of society.—
The ladies are wearing their old dresses
aud hats ; fathers’ old clothes are being
converted into garments for the boys,
and we husbands wear our old suits
through the week and to church on Sun
days—which, with plain fare on our
tables, make us as independent as “wood
sawyers.” Spunky women we have here,
| too. One lady of my acquaintance, iu
the Courier of last Monday, says, in a
letter to a Northern lady friend : “If our
husbands, sons and brothers fall by the
invader, the women will take their places,
I and their last words to their children
I will be, ‘Never submit to Black Republi
I cau rule.’” Another lady said, in my
hearing: “If my husband, who is an
officer at Fort Moultrie, fulls by one of
Anderson’s guns, I will stand at the cor
ners, of the streets, with pistol in hand,
and he shall never pass through this city
alive.” Dear creatures, they feel all
this, and would, if possible, carry it all
out ; but we men will save them that
trouble.
Origin of tire Last Fabrication.
“Zed,” tbe Washington correspondent
of the Richmond Dispatch says :
It turns out that Mr. Dejaruette, whose
able speech on Friday last I commend to
your readers, is the unwitting cause of
the base fabrication started by the New
York Times about tbe stealing of books
by Southern members. Needing a number
of books for consultation and reference,
he requested a friend then in his room to
write an order for them. The discrep
ancy between tbe handwriting of the or
der and Mr. D.’s signature excited some
suspicion in the miud of the librarian,
aud out of this trifling circumstance was
manufactured the prodigious falsehood
which appeared in the Times—the same
paper which lied so outrageously about
the Prince of W’ales in Richmond.
Court House Destroyed.
Mieledgeville, Feb. 24.— The Court
this city was destroyed by fire
at 4 o’clock this morning. The books
and papers, to a great extent, were saved:
but uothingis left of the building except
the smoking walls. It is supposed to have
been set on fire.
Xorlh Carolina Legislature.
Raleigh, Feb. 24.—The General As
sembly will adjourn on Monday morning,
leaving a large portion of the business
unfinished.
Virginia Convention.
Richmond, Feb. 20.—Yesterday the
convention listened to the eloquent ad
dress of Mr. Preston, Commissioner from
South Carolina. A resolution was intro
duced in effect that Virginia should pro
pose an ultimatum, and if not accepted,
that she should leave the Union.
Musltettfor fortress Monroe.
Norfolk, Feb. 15.—One of the bay
steamers brought to Fortress Monroe to
day five large cases of muskets, manu
factured at the Harper’s Ferry Arsenal.
The surveying schooner Crawford is
preparing for sea at the Gosport Navy
Yard.
The Best Platform After All.
It will be noticed in the speech of the
President aud Vice President elect that
they have no faith in the Cabinet which
is shortly to assume executive powers, in
the new Congress, the fossil Peace Con
vention or the politicians. They put their
trust in Divine Provide*nee, and, we pre
sume, take the New Testament for their
platform. The doctrine there inculcated,
“peace on earth, good will to men,” is
just the very best for the present crisis.
Mr. Lincoln and his advisers will find
that it will work much better than the
Chicago platform. So let them stick to
Divine Providence, and cut the politicians
altogether.— N. Y. Herald.
Robert .T, Walker has suddenly become
a millionaite by the decision made in the
Supreme Court, involving the title to a
quicksilver mine in California, estimated
to be worth $10,000,000. Mr. Walker is
the proprietor of one-fifth of this valuable
mine, and was offered not long ago $2,-
000,000 for it, provided the Couit should
give a favorable decision. That decision
has now been given, and Mr. Walker,
who was, to use his own words, “a beg
ger in the morning, went home to his
dinner a millionaire.” The disastrous
condition of the North may, however,
prevent his immediate realization of bis
“expectations.”
Old Fort Itearwey Taken.
Nebraska City, Feb. 19.—01d Fort
Kearney was taken possession of last
night by the Disunionists, causing great
excitement. An attempt was made to
retake it this morning, aud the Palmetto
flag was torn down, and the Stars and
Stripes raised in its place.
A British bark which brought over a
cargo of iron for the Macon and Bruns
wick Road, fired a salute of six guns in
honor of the Southern Confederacy, on
her departure from Darien, the 19th inst.
By the arrival of the steamship Fulton
from Havre, we learn the death of the
illustiious Marshal Bosquet, of France.
It produced a general gloom among the
officers and soldiers of the French Army-