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Tuesday March 26, 1861.
F. 0. Wiuneguist, of Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, was found dead a few days since
in his room at the Atlantic Hotel, Nor
folk Virginia. It is supposed that he
committed suicide.
Purser J. R. Beckwith, late of the Uui
ted States Navy has resigned his commis
sion under Uncle Sam, and proposes
shortly to enlist under the banner of the
Southern Confederacy, as we learn froc?
the Richmond Dispatch.
u i—n—
Two men were found near Warrington
on the 11th inst., reconnoitering the
works. They were arrested and gave a
very dubious account of themselveß ; said
they were from Fort Morgan, but could
not tell nothing of the Fort or any one
there. They were brought to Barrancas
barracks where they are at present con
fined.
The census of New Jersey foots up a
population of 672,021, of which 24,039
are free colored people. The largest
county is Essex, containing the city of
Newark, and a population of 98,875; the
next in population is Hudson, with 62,-
717. The of Trenton, the
capital of the State, is 17,221, and of this
number 627 are colored.
Fire.
On Tuesday night, between eight and
nine o’clock, says the Griffin Confederate
States, the residence of Dr. S. 11. Smith
was destroyed by fire. The buildiDg was
the property of the Rev. A. Buckner, and
not insured. It is believed by some to
have been the work of an incendiary.
We noticed at the depot yesterday, says
the Dalton Times, of (he 14th, six large
connon, weighing 5,000 pounds each ;
their length was about ten feet, the bore
five inches. They were built in Rich
mond, Virginia, and their destination was
Savannah. They were death dealing
looking monsters, and if properly man
aged will do fearful work.
The Charleston Mercury says a charter
has been granted by the Legislature for
the manufacture iu that city, of boots and
shoes on a large scale. An extensive hat
factory is also spoken of. The large
clothiug house of Mathiessou, O’Hara &
Cos., ba3 transferred its entire manufac
turing interests from New York to that
city. They will soon have one hundred
operatives employed iu their manufac
turing rooms.
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The Americus Georgiau says a quarrel
occurred on the morning of the 12ih inst.,
in that place between a man by the name
of James F. Woodruff, and Thomas
O’Hara, when O’Hara shot Woodruff with
a pistol. The ball passed through the
muscle of the right arm between the el
bow and shoulder, and through the
clothing into the right side, only just far
enough to stick.
Bitten by Bogs.
The Union Springs Journal says a lad
about sixteen years of age, son ofW. T.
Stone, was badly bitten a few days ago,
by dogs belonging to Mr. Hamlet, in Mid
way, Barbour county. A large piece of
flesh was torn from the calf of the lad’s
leg, besides the infliction of several oth
er wounds.
Spring Trade,
Under this head, a New York paper
notices that out of two columns of arrivals
at the hotels in that city, there were but
four from the Southern Confederacy, one
from Texas, one from Georgia nud two
from Virginia. The paper very truly as
cribs this collaps of Southern trade and
travel to the raid that Black Republican
ism has been running against the rights
and institutions of the South.
True.
The New Orleans True Delta says : If
those of our people, who are not compell
ed to go North on business the coming
summer, desire to fill the cup of transitory
pleasure, it can be done at our watering
places on Mississippi Sound, in the se
questered villages of the interior, at the
springs of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee
and Kentucky, and among the grand old
mountains of Virginia, where medicinal
waters and the exhilarating quadrille of
life can be danced, at least among friends.
Painful Shooting Affair.
We learn says the Wilmington (N. C.)
Journal, that on Saturday night, about
a quarter past 10 o’clock, a most unfor
tunate shooting affair took place on Mar
ket Street, near the City Hotel, resulting
in the infliction of'a painful, but not dan
gerous wound upon Mr. A. J. Costin,
and a most serious and we fear, very dan
gorous one upon Mr. Lewis Erambert.
The wounds were inflicted by a revolver
fired by a young roan named Pinckney
Shelley. Mr. Shelley gave himself up
yesterday and was released upon bail, to
appear for further examination.
A terrible accident occurre 1 at Delta.
Ohio, ou the 4th instant. The inhabit
ants were gathered to celebrate the in
auguration of Lincoln, and abou. day
break fired six or seven shots with an
old cannon, when the gun exploded,
blowing the cannon and carriage into
fragments, striking one of the gunners
with a piece weighing about seventy
pounds, thence flying about ten rods
against a shade tree and througha dwell
ing house, wherein a number of ladies
were assembled. The unfortunate, man
was struck on the head, scattering his
brains and parts of his skull bone near
ly to where the piece struck the tree.
Returning Merchants.
For the past two or three days we have
met in the city with several merchants
from South Eastern Alabama just return
ed from Charleston and Baltimore, where
they had been to purchase their spring
stocks of goods. Those from Charleston
represent that the stock of Fancy Goods
is hardly adequate to supply in full the
Southern demaud, but the supply of sta
ple Goods is splendid and amply suffi
cient to meet the wants of the trade.
But for the prospects of war and the
uncertain termination of existing trou
bles, the stock of both Fancy and Staple
Goods would have been much larger.
The Montgomery papers announce the
arrival of Maj. Ben. McColloch, of Texas,
in that city.
VOLUME iv.:
Election of Judges—An Important
Change.
The Alabama State Convention, and
we believe the Convention of Louisiana
also, have initiated a movement for a
change in the mode of electing Judges
from the people as it now is, and referring
it to the Governor and Legislature.
This is a most desirable reform, oue
that is indicated and demanded by the
experience of many years past. A few
years since Alabama adopted a system j
which required the Judges of the differ- ,
ent Judicial Circuits of the State to ro
tate, so that not more than once during
the time for which he was elected, did a
Judge preside in his own Circuit. This j
law was enacted by the Legislature obvi- \
ously for the purpose of neutralizing the
consequences of bringing a Judge in im \
mediate contact with a people by whom j
he had been elected. Moreover, it was ■
a virtual acknowledgement by the “ as
sembled wisdom,” that the judicial ermine
should not be dragged into the dirty ,
arena of politics, and that it should tie
elevated above the unwholesome influ
ences of popular contests at the ballot
box. The rotation system was found to
be too great a hardship upon the Judges,
auu it was materially modified by the
Legislature so as to remove this objec
tion. All this proved that in the minds
of the Alabama Legislature, the mode of
electing Judges by the people was an
evil that demanded reform ; and a virtual i
acknowledgement, that the only proper
way to preserce the judiciary pure aud
incorruptible, was to refer their election
to the Governor and the Legislature
We are aware that many who preside j
upon the Bench of our Courfts are far
above pandering to popular prejudices in 1
any shape or form. But “human na
ture is the same, the world over,” and
the safer plan is to elevate them above
the necessity of electioneering with the
people for their responsible office.
As the Convention of Georgia has occu
pied its time partly in important and rad
ical changes in our Constitution, we hope
i they will add to them that of referring
the election of Judges of the Superior
1 Courts to the Goveruor and Legislature;
not that we would abridge the power of
: the people, but that those who preside
| where justice is intended to be “judi
! cially administered” may be subjected
to no influence that will prevent an im
! partial dispensation of their rights as
defined by the laws.
The Zouaves who fought bravely at
Inkerman, Alma, Balaklava, Traclir,
Sebastopol aud the Malakoff, and who
formed themselves into a dramatic corps
for their own and comrades’ amusement
during the pauses of the siege, and who
went through Europe at the close of the
war performing in the various capitals
with success, are now iu New Orleans at
Spalding and Rogers’ Academy of Music,
playing every night to crowded houses.
Tho Delta relates the following anecdote
of the Zouaves:
Once, while theseclever warrior-artistes
were playing “ La Corde Sensible,” in
the Crimen, the Ruftians made a sortie
and interrupted the performance. The
dramatis personae were obliged to take
their arms, and, in their theatrical dress
es, to repulse the enemy. Glatingy,
among the rest, dressed as u woman, took
a part in the affair, and was wounded.—
The enemy beaten back, the Zouaves re
turned to the theatre, and resumed their
performance, ns if nothing had happened
to interrupt it. .
Missouri Convention,
The minority report, signed by Mr.
Redd and Judge Hough, was presented,
on the 11th inst. and read by the Secre
tary. The report opposes a National
Convention, recommended by the major
ity report, and proposes a border slave
States instead, to be held at Nashville,
to decide upon such amendments to the
Constitution as may be satisfactory to
them. It also recommends the Critten
den proposition to the Nashville Conven
tion, without, however, making it an ul
timatum, and ; dvises the appointment of
Commissioners to Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Arkansas, to secure the co
operation of those States in the move
ment. A debate ensued on the majority
report, but the Convention adjourned
without action.
Resignation of a Massachusetts
Justice.
Justice M. Bradford White, in the com
mission of the peace for the county of
Middlesex, Mass., it is stated, has resign
ed because he “ cannot conscientiously
hold a judicial office under the govern
ment of a state whose executive and leg
islature seem to manifest an anxiety to
involve the nation in war by the hasty
and unsolicited offer of the military for
ces of the state, to be used against the
citizens of sovereign and co-equtl states,
who seek no quarrel with us, who have
never trespassed upon us, nor menaced
auy of our rights as equal members of
the confederacy.”
Florida as a Cotton State.
The Florida Express says: “ The cen
sus of 1850 give Florida 45,131 bales of
Cotton. The census of 1860 gives her
185,720 bales, and increase of over four
hundred per cent., and nearly fifty per
cent a year for the last ten years. Most
of this cotton is long staple. W'e have no
doubt but that in ten years more we will
raise over 1,000,000 bales. We have
57,000 square miles, and can say, within
the bounds of reason, that there is enough
land here, suitable to cotton, to keep
over 500,000 negroes employed in its cul
| ture.” f
Incredible.
The Griffin Confedrate States of tho
14th says : W’e have in our possession a
specimen of hair work most handsomely
wrought- It is a watch chain, which
can be seen by any person who may de
sire it, by calling at our office. It is not
only a beautiful specimen of art, but,
what is incredible by strangers, and even
wonderful to her friends, is, that it was
made entire by Miss Ann E. Leak, a
young lady of this place, who has neith
|er hand 6 nor arms. The work, elegant
as it is, and difficult even to the most
; skillful hands, was done by Miss Leak,
with her feet.
I Apalachicola aud SewOrleau* Llae.
Some time since we noticed the inten
tion of the stockholders of the steam
ship Florida to add another steamer to
1 the line between Apalachicola and New
Orleans, the Florida having proved a
successful experiment. By the last Apa
i lachioola Times, we perceive that books
of subscription for the new boat have al
ready been opened in that city.
THE WEEKLY SEN.
Georgia State Convention-
Ibe injunction of secrecy being re
moved Saturday, the Committee on the
Fermauent Constitution of the Cunfeder
a>e States reported an ordinance adopt
ing and ratifying the same for the State,
in its sovereign character, which was
ordered ‘o be transmitted to the President
of Congress duly certified.
Mr. Cobb offered a resolution that the
i onslitution of the State be referred to
the Committee on the Constitution and
Laws for revision aud such alterations as !
they may suggest, which was amended
so as to except the Reduction question
until the final action of the Convention
on it.
Mr. Stephens offered the following
Ordi nonce, which was adopted :
AN ORDINANCE in additional to a j re- ■
vious Ordinance of this Convention on
the subject of citizenship.
Bt it ordained, sc. t That all white per
sons resident in this State at the time of
the secession of this State from the Uni
ted Slates, with the bonafide intention of
making it the places of their permanent
abode, shall be considered as citizens of
this State, without reference to their
place of birth ; provided, that any person
not born in this State can except him or
herself from the operation of this Ordi
nance. by a declaration in any Court of
record in this State, within three months
from this date, that he or she does not
wish to bo considered a citizeu of this
State. (Adopted.)
Mr. Hood presented an ordinance au
thorizing the Governor to raise and ex
pend money necessary to carry out the
ordinances of the Convention and acts
of the Legislature providing for the de
fense of the State ; and for this purpose
to issue the bonds of the State in sums
of SI,OOO or less ; and in case this be
insufficient, to issue Treasury notes in
sums of tweuty-five, fifty and one hun
dred dollars, at interest not exceeding
seven per cent. Referred.
On the 18th, Mr. Bell offered a resolu
tion that the sense of the people of Geor
gia is opposed to the multiplication of
unnecessary offices and excessive sala
ries by the Confederate States.
Mr. Thomas offered the following reso
lution ;
Resolved, That a special committee of
eight, one from each Congressional Dis
trict, be raised for the purpose ofreport
ing an Ordinance, at an early day, upon
the subject of the reduction of the fees
and salaries of all civil officers of this
State, from Governor down to county
officers ; and also the per diem pay of
members of the Legislature of this State.
The resolution of Mr. Nisbet that the
Legislature be required at its next ses
sion to consider the propriety of passing
a law authorizing Executors, Administra
tors, Guardians and other Trustees to
invest Trust bonds in those of the
Confederate States upon the terms those
Trustees now by law invest in the bonds
of the State, was adopted
The consideration of the Ordinance for
the Reduction of the House was postpon
ed until the report of the committee
appointed to apportion the Senatorial
Districts.
* The motion of Mr. Fouche, to take up
Mr. Hawkins’ resolution appointing a
committee of sixteen to apportion the
State into ten Congressional Districts, as
provided by the new Constitution was
adopted, and tha resedution passed.
Mr. Styles offered an Ordinance ten
dering to the Confederate States a loan of
$500,000 which was referred.
All plans for the reduction of the
House of Representatives were laid on
the table.
On the 19th, Mr. Cobb moved a recon
sideration of the action of tho previous
day laying on the table all matters per
taining to a reduction of the House of
Representatives. The motion was lost
by a vote of 117 ayes to 131 nays.
The chair announced the following
committee to arrange the Congressional
Districts:
Ist List—Fleming, Bartow, Jones, of Chatham.
2d “ Hawkins, (chairman of committee.)
Fort, of Stewart, Benning.
3d “ Lamar, of Bibb, Cleveland; Sharman.
4th “ Bindley, Malison, Alexander, of Fulton
sth “ Wood, Farnesworth, Walton.
6th “ Knox, Gibson, Ketohum.*
7th “ Jordan, Briscoe, Gray.
Bth “ Usry, Allen,Singleton.
The letter of the Governor of Maryland
iu answer to the communication of Com
missioner Wright, wasjaid on the table
for the balance of the session unanimous
>y-
Mr. Roddey offered a resolution that
the Confederate Congress be requested to
amend the revenue laws so that bills of
solvent Banks of the Confederate States
may be taken in payment of duties on
imports.
It is thought the Convention will ad
journ by Saturday next.
From Washington.
A dispatch from Washington to the
Montgomery Advertiser announces the
arrival of Commissioner Remain.
Mr. Breckinridge, who has just taken
his seat in the Senate, made a great
speech on tho 18th, iu which he stated
that his State would certainly secede if
her just and equal rights were longer
denied her. _
Fire in Atlanta.
The Atlanta Commonwealth gives par
ticulars of the fire which occurred in that
city on the night of the 1 < th.
It was found to be occasioned by the
burning of the wooden houses, corner of
Alabama aud Lloyd streets. Loss about
$9,500, mostly covered by insurance.
For the Southern Confederacy.
The St. Louis Republican learns that
an agent of the Southern Confederacy
has chartered the steamer H. D. Bacon
of that port to go to Alton Illinois, and
take in a load of provisions, consisting
of corn, wheat, pork, etc, to the amonnt
of 600 tons. The cargo is destined for
Florence, Alabama.
The Montgomery Confederation learns
that V. D. Grover, Esq., and Mr. Scott,
both of Virginia, have been appointed to
positions in the Confederate States army.
Mr. Grover has a Lieutenancy, and Mr.
Scott a Captaincy in the Infantry. o;her
appointments have been made, but the
Secretary of War has concluded to keep
them secret for awhile.
Lice’s Volunteers.
We learn from the Atlanta lutelligencer
that Lee’s Volunteers left that city on
Tuesday the 19th, for Pensacola, having
been received and mustered into the ser
vice of the Confederate States. They
number one hundred able bodied men.
A Secesssion County.
The citizens of Franklin county, Ten
nessee, have held a tremendous mass
meeting since the late Convention elec
tion, at which they adopted absolution
petitioning the Legislature of the State
to cede that county to Alabama.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MARCH ‘26, 1861.
Alabama State Convention.
On Monday, the substitue of Mr. Coch
ran, of Barbour, for the adverse report
of the Committee on the proposition to
restrict the power of the Legislature io
i creatiug debts, was adopted. The sub
stitute is in the following language :
“The General Assembly shall not bor
row cr issue money on the credit of the
t State, except for purposes of Military
defense against actual or threatened inva
: sion, rebellion cr insurrection, unless
two-thirds of the members elected to each
i boose shall concur : nor shall the debt or
liabilities of any corporation, person or
persons or other States be guarantied, or
any money, creditor thing loaned or giv
en away; unless by a like concurrence of
each house voting in cases provided for in
this section by ayes and noes to be placed
uprn the journals.”
Mr. Watts offered an ordinance carry
ing out the recommendation of the Gov
ernor that the Convention make the in
terest on the State bonds payable at other
; places than Montgomery, which was
| adopted.
The Special Committee made a report
to lay off the State into nine Congres
sional Districts, which was received and
adopted. The following are the Districts
laid off by the Committee :
Ist District Lauderdale, Franklin,
Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and Mor
gan.
2d District —Marion, Winston, Blount,
Jefferson, Walker, Tuscaloosa and Fay
ette.
3 d District —Jackson, Marshall, De
-1 Kalb, Cherokee and St. Clair.
4 tli District— Calhoun, Randolph, Tal
ladega and Shelby.
sth District —Bibb, Perry, Marengo,
| Greeue, Pickens, Sumter and Choctaw.
6 tli District —Dallas, Autauga, Coosa,
! Lowndes, Butler and Montgomery.
7th District —Tallapoosa, Chambers,
i Russell and Macon.
B th District —Barbour, Henry, Dale,
Coffee, Pike and Covington,
9 th District —Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox,
Clarke, Washington, Mobile and Baldwin.
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! Richmond Manufacturing; for the
South.
i It is a significant fact, says the Rich
mond Dispatch, that the principal means
of employment which we owe Richmond
working men in these hard times, are
furnished by the seceded States. Our
Southern brethren, so much denounced
and abused in some quarters, are keeping
our laborers alive and their families hap
py. It is to the South alone that Virgin
ia can look in udv event for purchasers
of heri manufactories. At the present
moment, their assistance is most oppor
tune, for most of the working men who
have employment at all in these hard
times, are indebted for it entirely to
Southern patronage.
Accumulation of Freight at Chatta
nooga.
The Chattanooga Advertiser of the
14th, referring to the accumulation there
of produce from the Northwest says :
We are informed that theN. & C. Rail
road Company has about 300 freight
cars and about 30 Engines, which are in
constant aud effective service—and with
this equipment, that road actually brings
freight to this place faster than it is taken
away by the State Road. On Saturday
last, there were no less than 130 loaded
cars from the Nashville Road standing
upon tho track here, awaiting the action
of the State Road. Yet this latter road,
we understand, has fully double the ef
fective rolling stock that the former road
has, and certninly ought not to suffer any
accumu : ation at this Depot. We do not
understand this, for we know that Dr.
Lewis has been on the ground for several
days, and Col. Camden, the local agent,
has been indefatigable in his efforts to
relieve the pressure. The fault prob
ably is below in not returning cars
promptly.
Shipments of Firearms.
Large quantities of arms and munitions
of war continue to go South from New
York, notwithstanding the vigilance of
that remarkable man, Superintendent
Kennedy. The steamer Jamestown,
which left on Tuesday for Norfolk, had
her main deck literally loaded with gun
carriages, and rifles in boxes and cases.
The former were shipped to the order of
Capt. Randolph, of Virginia, and were
manufactured at Troy. The impression
j is that their real destination is some
! point farther South.
1 The Petersburg Intelligencer notices
tlie arrival in that city of 1,800 kegs of
powder; 10,680 pounds of ten inch shells;
13,162 of nine inch shells; 5,340 pounds of
Mortar and 3,000 pounds of Columbiad
shells. Their destination was
but it is unknown to what particular
place.
Nashville Corn Market.
Corn was selling in Nashville, on the
16th at 60 to 65 cents per bushel for lots
from Btore, sacked. The demand from
the South has been good, and would have
been much larger if the shipping facil
ities were such as to enable dealers to
fill orders promptly. The stock was very
large, but there were no lots pressing
upon the market. The Nashville Union,
of the 16th says: The Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad is doing all it can
to move the freights awaiting shipment,
but it has not been able to keep up with
the extraordinary pressure that has con
tinued for several weeks past, and is
likely to continue for some time to come.
This road is sending off daily immense
quantities, and will move all that may
be offered with as little delay as possible.
Tlie Florida Forts.
It is stated that the two great fortifica
tions of Florida, Fort Pickens and Fort
Taylor, aienow in regular “seige trim,’
j and could hold out, it is alleged, for
eight months, were all the soldiers of the
South surrounding them. The sixty
tremendous guns added to the latter and
the reinforcement of artillery added to
the first named, have rendered them, in
the estimation of able engineers, perfect
ly impregnable to all probable means of
attack. Fort Jefferson will soon be on a
war footing. There are about one hun
dred and ten men in Fort Taylor.
Death of Ryiand T. Pollard.
The Montgomery Mail announces the
death of Mr. Rylaod T. Pollard, of that
city, which occurred on Saturday night
last. The burial services took place
Sunday afternoon from the Baptist
Church.
Mr. Pollard had been a resident of
j Montgomery for a long series of years,
i having been connected with the hard
ware firm of Garrett & Pollard. Mr. Ps.
death resulted from the wound he receiv
ed in a difficulty a few days since in
Montgomery by a pistol shot.
Sudden Death.
During the fire last night, says the
Atlanta Commonwealth, of the Utb, we
learn that Mrs. Hill, wife of W. M. Hill,
j Esq., proprietor of the Auction House,
| corner of Whitehall and Decatur streets,
dropped suddenly dead. Cause, apo
plexy.
The Petersburg Election—Popular
Movements in Virginia.
Oa the 15th inst., a vote was taken in
Petersburg, Ya., for and against instruct
ing the delegates to the State Convention
to go for secession. As already staled
by dispatch, the result showed a majority
of one hundred and seventeen for seces
sion. In February, at the election for
delegates to the Convention, the UnioD
candidates received a majority of six
hundred and twelve in the same city.—
The Petersburg Express commenting on
the result says :
This is truly an evidence of a most
astonishing revolution in sentiment in the
very strong hold of anti secession, and
establishes the fact that the people are at
last opening their eyes to the glaring
truth that has so long stared them in the
face.
The people of Appomattox and in vari
ous portions of the State, have held
meetings and adopted resolutions favor
tng the Union of Virginia with the South,
and requesting the Convention in session
to pass immediately an ordinance of
secession. The Richmond Dispatch ex
presses little doubt that a popular vote in
the State Would give 20,000 majority in
favor of secession. The voice of the
people is unmislakeably iq favor ot the
mevemeut; and if it is heeded, the Con
vention must decide that the Old Domin
ion resume the powers delegated by hfr
to the Federal Government, and unite her
destiny with the States that have already
seceded.
The Tariff’ Act.
The Tariff Act which we publish on
the fourth page of the Sun, we are
authentically informed was not made a
law before the temporary adjournment of
the Confederate Congress. It was pub
lished as it was reported by the Commit
tee to whom it had been referred, and
will not be finally acted on until after the
recess of Congress. Iu the mean time
publicity can be given to it and the
views of the people ascertained. Some
think the free list is too small, but as we
presume the Act is merely provisional, it
will be very generally approved by all
who would have the Government of the
Confederate States properly supplied with
the “sinews of war” and the means to
get it fairly inaugurated.
The following dispatch to the Chronicle
and Sentinel explains the state of the
case:
Montgomery, March 18.—The tariff
bill was published for information, and
has not passed. Another act has passed,
lowering duties on a few articles, which
will be published immediately.
C. G. MEMMINGER.
*
Southern Official Printing.
It is stated that George S. Gideon, of
Washington, who has heretofore had
some connection with contracts for bind
ing the account and other record books
and furnishing stationery for the U. S.
Government, is in receipt of an order
from the Government of the Confederate
States at Montgomery, directing him to
furnish duplicates of all the books and
forms used in the different Departments
t Washington.
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Fatal Accident*
We learn from a Louisiana exchange,
that on Washington’s birthday, while the
ladies of Thibodaux was presenting anew
flag to the Guards, of that place, Messrs.
David Phillips and Tames Harris, mem
bers of the Grivot Guards, were fearfully
wounded by the discharge of a gun pre
maturely fired. Mr. Ilarrisdied soou after
this sad accident, and they havo very
faint hopes of Mr. Pbillipp’s recovery.
The Washington correspondence of the
Pensacola Observer says the ladies are
engaged In making artillery cartridges,
and the ladies of Milton have proposed
to make any number of small arm car
tridges that may be required. The wives
of seven of tho Barbour County men have
arrived and others expected.
We learn from the Tallahassee Flori
dian that John B. Galbraith, Esq. has
been appointed by Gov. Perry, Attorney
General of Florida, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of M. D.
Papy, Esq. who has filled that station
since 1854.
The Charleston Mercury of tho 16th
says : A salute of seven guns in honor
of the States composing the Southern
Confederacy, was fired yesterday from
the floating battery. This structure is
now finished, and was visited by crowds
of our citizens yesterday.
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Ordered to Pensacola.
The Charleston Mercury says that the
gallant Captain Duncan N. Ingraham, C.
S. N., on Friday received orders to pro
ceed immediately to Pensacola.
♦ “
A Petersburg correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch notices at the depot
in the former city on the 13th, five cars
freighted with powder for South Caroli
na; the number of kegs was 2,800.
Col 11. P. Watson, of Montgomery, has
been appointed by Gov. Moore, Adjutant
General of the staff of Major General
Clemens of the regular Army of Alabama.
The Albany Patriot estimates the loss
by the late collision on the South Wes
tern Road between there and Macon, to be
about $40,000.
The Selma (Ala.) Sentinel says G. W.
Campbell & Cos., have located perma
nently in that city for the purpose of
establishing a hat manufactory.
Levi Tyler and B. O. Davis, old and
prominent citizens of Louisville, Ken
tucky, died on the night of the 15th
instant.
Elijah Hamlin, brother of the United
States Vice President, has been appoint
ed Commissioner to Canada under the
British Reciprocity Treaty.
The Selma (Ala.) Reporter learns that
Major Stephen S. Tucker has been ap
pointed Major of Artillery in the regular
Army of Alabama. Major Tucker was in
the Mexican War and was in Nicaragua
witli wa'ker in 1856
Twelve of the largest voting counties
of North Carolina, lying contiguous to
each other in the centre of the State, cast
20,319 votes against holding a convention
and 2,414 for Convention.
It is said there are one hundred thou
sand persons in New York city out of em
ployment, and thirty thousand maintained
by charity.
The Houseof Delegates of the Virginia
Legislature has passed a bill for the vol
untary enslavement of free negroes of the
Commonwealth.
1 Commissioner Wright—The Feeling
In Maryland.
I On Friday last the Secretary of the
I State Convention read a long eommunica
i tion from Hon A R. Wright, Oororais-
I sioner to Maryland, addressed to the
! Convention. The Savannah News gives
i the following synopsis of it :
“ In his letter to the President of the
Convention, Mr. Wright gave an accouut
of his interview with Gov. llicks, of
Maryland, in which that dignitary mani
fested anything but a friendly spirit
towards the seceded States. He declared
that he was in favor of co operation with
the Border and Middle States for the
formation of a separate Confederacy, and
announced to Mr. Wright that he was
already in official communication with
the Governors of Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York and other States, with
I that view. He disapproved the action of
the cotton States, and declared that he
would not call a convention of the people
of Marylaud, nor would he interpose to
prevent the invasion of the South by
Northern troops marebiug through his
territory. Mr. Wright concludes his
communication by expressing his confi
dence iu the sympathy and patriotism of
the people of M irylaad, aud in their de
votion to the institutions, rights aud
honor of the South, giving it ns his
1 opinion that should the emergency ever
! arise when Maryland would be called
upon to side with the United States gov
ernment in an attempt to coerce the
South, or to permit her sister States to
be invaded through her territory, Gov.
t Hicks will not be sustained by the people
■ of that State.”
The Army of tlie Confederate States,
Subjoined is a tabular statement of the
; materiel, offeers and men, which will com
prise the regular Army of the Confederate
States, and also a table exhibiting their
pay:
, > —...- , • ,
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. NON-COMMISSIONED.
3ig in o r t-i v. i ,-S g £
IIS | ? §’ g g : 1 1 I j |
1 !M ffl !'• & f! ? ! |
i ft: i*i i U I : I :,1 : f ; t : i :
Eug’r 1 lj 4, 5 *, ,110; 10 78. 2
Arti’y 40 1 1 10 40 80 40 160 160 2800 80
Oav’y 10! 1! 1| lj 10! 10 20 ! 40 401 000! 20
Inf ’y 00 6; 6 6 60 60,120 240 ; 240 5400,120
Tot.. Ill| 9 8 21,115j115 180 450 450 8878,222
RECAPITULATION.
, Total Engineers 110
j Total Artillery 3372
i Total Cavalry 743 and 20 Farriers.
; Total Infantry 6258
Total 10483
There arc also four Brigadier Generals
, who receive $3,612, in addition to forage,
1 fuel and quarters.
PAY IX ADDITION TO FORAGE, FUEL AND QUARTERS.
Engineers. Artillery. Cavalry. Infantry.
Colonel $2,520 $2,520 $2,520 $2,340
Lieut. Colonel. 2,220 2.220 2,040
Major 1.944 1,800 1,944 1,800
Captain 1,680 1,560 1,680 1.560
Ist Lieutenant 1,200 1,080 1.200 1,080
2d Lieutenant 960 1,080 960
Privates 17&13prm. 132 144 132
Nine dollars per month is added to the
above pay for every five years service.
*At discretion.
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From Montgomery.
From a member of the Alabama Con
vention who passed through Columbus
yesterday, we learn that the Convention
adjourned on the same day, at 12 o’clock.
Vigorous measures are being taken to
put the Confederate States iu a condition
of defense. Five thousand men will be
concentrated at Pensacola and prepara
tions are being made to meet any einer
gency that may arise iu the event of the
failure of the mission to Washington.
Hon. John Cochran, one of the “very
high privates” of the Eufaula Rifles sta
tioned at Pensacola, left Montgomery
yesterday morning, at G o’clock, to join
his Company, the Convention, of which
he was a member, having adjourned.
That distinguished trio, Pugh, Bul
lock and Cochran, engaged in wheeling
■ sand for the batteries, is a scene worthy
j of the pencil of any artist.
I , *
The Embassy to Europe.
The Selma (Ala.) Issue, of Monday,
j the 18th, says: We had the pleasure of a
| brief interview yesterday morning with
Mr. Yancey, who accompauied by his
i colleague, Judge Rost, of Louisiana, is on
I his way to New Orleans, whence they
will sail forthwith on their mission to
Europe, as soon as Hon. A. Dudley Mann
shalljoin they).
A dispatch to the Augusta Press from
Montgomery, states that they will leave
New Orleans for Havana, when they will
take the English steamer of the 27th, and
proceed direct to Southampton.
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The Fifteen Million Loan.
The circular of the Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr. Memminger, states that
five millions of the fifteen million loan will
be offered on the 17th of April next.
Books of subscription will be opened in
I the principle cities aud iuterior towns of
the Confederate States ; five per cent to
be paid in cash, the remainder on the Ist
of May, interest to run from the date of
j such payment. Those who desire to make
! a good investment and sustain the cause
! of the country, have the opportunity thus
i presented.
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Southern Remittance.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
of the evening of the 7th says: “The
Southern mails have brought more favor
able advices and quite large remittances.
One bouse received $16,000 —making
$32,000 since Monday from the Cotton
States. Adam’s & Co’s Express brought
a large mail from the South to day. All
the letters had a five cent stamp affixed,,
in addition to the usual postage stamp.”
Popular Movements In North Caro
lina.
A public meeting of the resistance men
of Mecklenburg is to be held to day in
Charlotte, says the Columbia Guardian cf
the 16th.
We notice in the Wilmington Herald of
Thursday a call for a mass meeting of the
State Rights party of the whole State, to
meet at Goldsboro’, on the 22d and 23d
inst. The people are not satisfied with
the present state of affairs.
Death of Paul Rossignol.
The Augusta papers announce the
death of Paul Rossignol, Esq., which
occurred in that city on Friday the 15th
inst., after an illness of several months.
Mr. Rossignol was, for many years, a
Teller in the Bank of Augusta and subse
quently Paying Teller, for many years
jin the Georgia Railroad Bank. He was
j formerly a citizen of Columbus.
i Official Vote of Worth Carolina.
The Charlotte (N. C.) Bulletin gives
the following as the official result of the
recent election in that State for a Con
vention : “No Convention,” 46,603;
i “ Convention,” 46,401'; majority against
j Convention, 194.
Mr. W. H. Murfvee, for several years
a planter uearCanton, was not long since
i killed by his overseer in his plantation
’ in Sunflower county in that State.
(NUMBER 49.
of State Officers.
If any movement that bus been made
in the State Convention is liable to the
charge of being introduced to enlist the
popular prejudices, surely that which
looks to the reduction of tiie salaries of
civil officers of the State from that of the
Governor down, is one of them. We are
aware of the opposition which the people (
generally entertain against unnecessary |
offices and excessive salaries, and fully |
sympathize with that feeling But the ;
movement in question is impolitic, if it j
is not wrong in principle. The policy of i
the State should be as it has been, to bold
out a bounty to the best taleDt witbiu her
limits, enlist it in her service, and force
the professional office seeker whose pri
vate worth is as raeagve ns his qualifica
tious, to seek the station mid employment
suited to his capacity. The beat legal
talent is needed on our Supreme Court
Bench always, us well as that of our
Superior Courts for iustauce; but the i
practitioner at the Bar whose fees ordin- ;
arily count up by thousands, could hard- j
iy bo iuduced to forsake the emoluments
of a lucrative and honorable profession
for the honors, perplexities, and iusulfi- i
cient salaries of those offices. There are
poor men too, whose qualifications would
adorn any position within the gift of the
State, but by the adoption of the policy
recommended, would forever be excluded
from a participation in public affairs and
subject to tlia discrimination that would
necessarily be made between them and
those who were more fortunate in respect
to worldly goods, and less richly endowed
with talents. The tendency of the policy
in short, would be the exclusion from
office of those who are best qualified to !
fill them, and the promotion of those who
are unequal to its responsibilities.
The legislation of the State should
always be shaped so as to secure the ad
vantages of the highest talents to fill her
public stations. We will not ouly have
better and more wholesome laws, but
they will be more efficiently administer
ed and the State more prosperous in eve
ry respect. A few hundred paltry dol- 1
lars thus appropriated by such a State as
Georgia, should never be weighed in the
scale against the importance of having
her stations of public trust creditably
and properly filled.
Llnweod.
Just beyond the corporate limits of our
city eastward, lies one of the most beau
tiful and picturesque villages in any
country, which has been appropriately
designated “Linwood.” The beautiful
residence of Maj. John H. Howard, stands
forth as the pioneer residence of this
surburban village. Many other beautiful
and handsomely decorated dwellings
occupy places there, while none are
superior in external or internal finish
and arrangement to the residence of Mr.
J. E. Appier, the polite and attentive
agent of the Opelika branch of the Mont
gomery and West Point lload, which has
but just been completed. The conven
iences and general arrangements of the
building and grounds reflect great credit
both upon Mr. Appier and Mr. A. C.
Kirven, the master workman, under
whose superintendence the building was
constructed. The cost of the building is
not so much as one would anticipate oifl
viewing it, nor as has been suggested V
but our great object is to call attentio™
to one of the sweetest and most retired
spots surrounding any city. Linwood is
almost a forest of shrubbery, intermin
gled with Roses, Hyacinths and other
beautiful flowers, growing upon a bed of
green velvetty grass ; while rich and
productive kitchen gardens are spread
out on thelevel plateaussurrounding each
dwelling. If there ever was a place cal
culated to attract one from the busy and
dusty habitation of the city, it is Lin
wood. This is but one of several surbur- t
ban villages surrounding our beautiful
valley city. Can any place be found
South more suitable than Columbus for
the Capitol of the Confederate States of
America ?
Hon. A. J. Donelson.
lion. A. J. Donelson, of Tennessee, j
who was ou the ticket with Mr. Fillmore
for the Vice Presidency of the United
States, has written a letter to Hon. H. S.
Foote, advocating a last effort by a Bor
der State Conference to obtain guarantees
for our rights from the North bring, back
the seceded States and reconstruct the
Union. Failing in this he is for one
Souther Confederacy, composed of all the
slave holing States.
The Guns Released.
We are pleased to be able to announce,
autboritively, says the Savannah News,
that the guns seized in New York some
time ago by Jno. A. Kennedy, of the New
York Police, have been released, and are
this time actually in the hands of the
agent of the State of Georgia. As soon
as they are shipped, and good and suffi
cient evidence of the fact is afforded, we
presume that the two vessels now held
here will be released.
True Knough.
Col. Lotte of the Northern army says,
in his report to the Government ou forti
fications. “That Pensacola is very strong,
and the only good harbor for vessels of war
on the Gulf.”
Arkansas Convention.
The New Orleans Delta, of the 16th
inst. learns that (he Arkansas Conven
tion has passed a Secession Ordinance
by a majority of two votes. This report
needs confirmation.
The Talladega (Ala.) Watchtower says
Mr. L. G. Sturdevaut, of that place, has
invented a rifle cannon, a model of which
he is perfecting. The plan is simple and
it may be converted into a mortar at
pleasure. It is rifled on anew principle.
The amount awarded to Mrs. Myra
Clark Gaines, widow of Gen. Gaines, by
the decision of the United States Supreme
Court on the 14th, aggregates $2,000,000
including 50 years back rente on the pro
perty in contest. The case has been in
suit for a period of thirty years.
The Warrington correspondent of the
Marianna Patriot says the troops from
Barbour county, Ala., are learning to
manage the guDB well. They are all
hale, hearty and intelligent men who
flinch from no duty.
The Mercury says the People’s Bank
of Charleston has offered for $200,000 of
the first loan of $15,000,000 of the Con
federate States, and the Bank of Charles
ton for SIOO,OOO.
The Benton (Ala.) Herald, announces
the deaths of Thos. J. Tarleton, Jr., and
Col. Wm. M. Curtis, both of that place.
Tuakegee Correspondence.
TirsJtroEE, Marob lt, v.i.
Fd Snr, : Enclosed you will find five
I dUre, the subscription price to your
valuable, and always welcome “Daily
Sun.” 1 fully appreciate, and am grate
i ful for your courte K y in continuing the
I same to my address during the stay of
! my husband in Florida; and feel that I
| ought sooner to have acknowledged an
! act of kindness on yonr part, which was
! without f rptriation or hope of reward. A9
the bead and representative of “the
large family” of which I wrote you in my
lust, has safely returned from the ware,
and relieved me from the “ cares and
! responsibilities of providing” for the
1 same, l feel it to be both a duty and
I pleasure to conform to the scripture teach
ing, ‘’owe no mau anything;” for if
, even the stupid “ox is worthy of his
I hire,” in how much greater estimation
| should we hold the Editor and Printer,
who labor early and late, for our enjoy
ment, instruction aud profit. I have fre
| quently felt inclined to write you some
of the many stirriug events of our milita
ry city of Tuskegee, but your columns
have been so full of matters of greater
interest, that 1 feared I might be deemed
intrusive : but as the race has been run
aud the Washington farce ended, the
| .• p eace Congress” adjourned, and Fort
I Sumter eraeuated, i will tell you of an
enthusiastic demonstration we had ou
Saturday last, when the flag of our glori
, ous “ Confederate States of America”
. was first thrown to the breeze from the
Armory of
i of the military companies of which we
i are so justly proud. When it was ascer
tained that the Southern edition of Stars
and Strtpes would greet the eyes of its
many admirers at 4 o’clock, crowds of
men, women and children were seen
.moving in the direction of the public
square, near which the Armory is situat
ed. Before the preparations were com
pleted for unfurling the ensigu of our
liberty, tbe company already named,
with the gallant commander, Captain
Mclver Law, one of South Carolina’s
i most chivalrous sons, made their appear
i ance aud delighted the hundreds of be
holders with their evolutions in drill, mar
tial bearing, quickness of step aud precise
motions, thereby giving ample testimony
of the ability of tbe officers and willing
ness of those under command. At the
first appearauce of the “ Red, White and
Blue” a salute of seven guns was fired in
honor of the glorious States that have
publithed to the world “ we are no long
|er slaves, but freemen.” If I have tres
passed upon your patience and columns,
I will beg pardon, and close with the
wish, that your time may be so fully
occupied in filling out long subscription
lists, that you will not have leisure for
vexatious thoughts of the length of this
article. Very respectfully, M.
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The Eufaula Ladies at Pensacola.
A few days since we noticed the arrival
at Pensacola, ,of seven of the wives of
members of the Barbour county Compa
nies in service there. The Warrington
correspondent of the Pensacola Observer
pays tbe following tribute to them :
Mrs. Capt. Baker, of wealthy, high
toned South Carolina parentage, born in
Georgia and raised in Florida and Ala
bama, could not fail to be possessed of a
great deal of revolutionary patriotism.
Mrs. Hon. J. L. Pugh, and Mrs. Lieut.
W. A. McTier, two sisters, also of South
Carolina lineage, their father a native of
the land of loyalty, but brought up from
infancy in Charleston, South Carolina, a
mau of wealth, possessed of a high de
gree of intellect aud military skill, a heart
for everybody, could not degenerate so
much as to prove disloyal to their country.
They„-tfre a specimen of the wives of the
Barimur boys come aud coming down
the interior in these critical times to
. Wipy the buildings vacated l>y the reg
HHFr citizens and property owners of this
Cplace. Such men ns we are now having
concentrated on this point, cheered and
encouraged by the dear favored ones of
Heaven, cannot fail to be invincible in the
cause of their country against Black Re
publican oppression.
From Pensacola—Extract from a
Private Letter.
You ought to have seen Pugh and Bul
lock working in the sand pits and roll
ing the wheel barrows. Bullock works
1 hard and blows migbtly, and I tell you
he rolls sund beyond belief and stands
buck from uotking that a soldier is re
i quired to do. * * * * Col. For
ney expressed pleasure at the energy
and subordination of the Company. *
* * * This is the most beautiful
place in the world. This bay is as splen
did a sheet of water as glistens under
the sun. The beach is white as snow,
, the bluff'high, tbe air sweet and the sky
I when clear as fine as Italy’s. The im
i provemente here are perfectly amazing
to me. The Navy Yard if located in the
i North would have been as well known as
Buuker Hill monument or tbe Metropo
| litan Hotel. It is one of the loveliest
places —the walks are all of brick, moet
smoothly and beautifully laid—live oak
groves, flower gardens, hot houses, vis
tas, splendid houses —all that money
could do have made this sand bar blos
som like tbe rose. Then there are fish
I and game aud oysters. Every body is
j getting fat, even my lank jaws are be
| coming round, and my cheeks are almost
! as red as my nose, which I can compare
Ito nothing short of a light house. I
i don’t think a razor lias been open in this
i camp since oar arrival; even Bullock has
! a beard! Pugh’s thin and fiery bristles
i aggravate the inflamed expression of his
j countenance, and “grim visaged war”
has communicated his griinnees to ouf
visages in a manner that would fill you
with admiration.
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Krona the Montgomery Advertiser.
Aggregate of Appropriations.
The following statement embraces the
aggregate appropriation for each depart
| mentof the Government of the Confeder
ate States :
! Legislative $ 55,740 00
! Executive 33,050 00
i Department of State 44,200 00
- Treasury Department 70,800 00
j War Department 59,000 00
; Navy Department 17,300 00
Post Office Department 44,900 90
1 j Judiciary 63,200 00
: Mint and Indp’t Treasury.... 80,000 00
! Foreign Intercourse 100.000 00
Light Honses 1 150,000 00
Expenses of Cltng. Revenue. 545,000 00
; j Executive Mansion 5,000 00
Miscellaneous.,,,, 200,000 00
$1,468,190 00
Col. Hardee.
This gentleman, for a long time &
prominent military officer in the U. S.
j Army, says the Montgomery Confedera
i tion, aud now holding the rank of full
| Colonel in the C. S. Army, has been or
i dered by the President to take charge of
■ Fort Morgan. He left the city on yes
j terday.
Another Olive Branch,
A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pennsyl
vania, the 14th, states that David Wilmot
has been elected United States Senator
from that State in place of Gen. Cameron
promoted to a place in Lincoln’s Cabinet.
The vote was 95 to 36.
The Charleston Courier oft the 19th,
states that Commodore Ingraham and
Capt. Ilartstein, in pursuance of orders
! from Montgomery by tbe Secretaries of
War and Navy, took their departure on
1 Monday tor that city. They both bear
1 important dispatches from Gea. Beau-
I regard aud Gov. Pickens.