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Washington News. W.sumtoe ros, March G.-Maj.r Anderson has been tendered th.- posttiot of Brigadier Gr.aneral in the United S : to Aromy, lately hItl -"I General T I Senator Seward's sou was confirined to-lay as Assistant Secretary of State. E . iecre-a:Y F.ovi arrived her. to-day. }it a ,erts that he i I-:emto x sto-ne W' t e trnacutis oft t :e la:e .\oti;nistrat ion. Lt i; tunnpiut linut *;. xilt "Will Pin"ICA n Buck atnI his Cabinet in noo v, ry e:v*b;h!lil lighlt be.abre the cou:atry. Mr. Flo'yd is i'I. nant at the charges 1n1d, against Litm. lHon. Sartii J. Crawford and .ohn For syth, two of the Ctaoissioners of the Coin leer.ote States are both i her". I hive ' id re-uson to belive that Lincoln vwill hold ni1) offi:'al intercourse whatever with them. The muo e violent of t ox coercionists t;,lk of arrest. ing them a traitors., but Seward -. too enin ning for that. A speeial messenger leaves the city to-day lr Ponsac-.la. Ilk mis,ion i< to at;nul all the arrange:neonts tiaIle by ex Secretary Tou. Cey. Tho R0publicat.s in the high places sa. that heavy reitofocenents will steedily be Sent both to Forts Suiuter a d Pckins. The Inatnes of Jo.hn Sherman, John 1ii :k mutn, and John C. Frono-ot, are sp.fken o in connection with the reapective uiussiuos 4f Engand, Spain antd France. Fremonmt let for Euro:pe in the lItt steamer from New% York, and. it i:a said, was 4il red, befiore hi at-rted, a place in Lincoln-s Cabinet which he declined. The friends of Seward say that le is pre aring I plan of policy for the almi:iktratioti oiking to the pre.erv:ii.an of peace ; but fe-tr are eutertainoedI that Chmse andf Greeley will defeat the whole scheimie l-elire it can b. laid before the Cabinet, and ruin Seward wit h: his party besides. It is said o:i the strets to-night that An dcrson has been appointed Drigadier Gen eral, icet Twiggs, but the ri.'nr Ieeds confir ication. It is repourted that the naval cons!tructlor s.id that in less than thirty days orders wii! be issued it"r the imilling (f ten lightdraught 'canm revetie cutler-, two) of whieb will he c I-tructe i here. If true, this i, stron;g!l i licative of the intent ion( of the present ad n.:istrati o to colleet the :enu in South trio ports. March ,.-Senators Ileniphiil a.d Wig!d! are ' conlO!ol to renttii h-re unlil: icy c .;i receive Miliitl nfll1i-- 1o odf the cot.hir mation of thu secessiont of T-.' Their lrt .nec here at this criti:. jt::ctur: is de tne: ve-v deiracb!e by Southern tn'in. NI.ssr-. Cr.roford an.l For~ th. t wo of the .o-itfon tit rv Cotmiissioners. held a long int.erview wit' I ho ex Ts Sena tors t! i., Inori:1. anic d1d im wi; teit this atilermoon. 31r. toman ha, niot vet art lve.. I tuiderstan:d that it is inttended to pot pone, for a few d1ays, the opjlenli:g of negotia tiom, t ath. Wigthil was ini Iav'or ott imnoooC liate action. inl order to give the S'outl a fair chauicc to take Forts Snatter :mill 1 'ckens he fure the' are rcinotrcedw . bot whel!.er th Co:nmiooidionoeri I-eseit their creiential., Itc W, VtJav, the re-tlt will be the samte ; the% 1.iii :.lt be rec ogni.ed. 'T.: ::w C a.inet ws in SeSin aill ayI.. A 1t.:e ttti m-0le - of tointiilations were oprev- Ilo. - ;tc are , ..m .2 to the Seoate (111 .mnd:ty. Th. remzi;v-d have alrewly begt. A 0 riang.. R!ctrder of the Genoeraol Land Ofllie,. wa.s the lirt to be dCecaIitted1. This wa Ittgrateful, after Douglas defetnc of the in a Iiural. Crittenden Is not yet been nominated to the vaic tnt Supremte Judtgeship ; noor, if nom-~ inoated, is it certain that he wili aiccept. Uit fears that the Abolitionists tonight defeat hi. confirmation. be'cau e he upholds the D)red S ott decisiton. Was.rs March 8.-Inm the Senate, Mr. Foster. of Connecticut, othfered the followinp~ pre'ambole antd resolution: WN hereas. Senator Wigfall has odeclared, in debate, that he is a foreignoer, and owves hi allegi~ince to Texas aind a toreigno Governo tment. atnd noot t'o tthe U.ited States. thoeref.ore b0e it Res.oored, That he be expelled from the Mr. Clingmoan, of North Catrolinoa, off'ered the followintg as a substituite: Resoled~t. 'That, as Tenas is no ltonger otte of the United States, she is entitled to no Representattive (otn the fio~r of thte Senate. Mr. Wigflt being ab..ettt, nmo acetioni wei taken. The Senate then we tt ito Esecuuy.- Sen Oli. anod contirtual(' 3Mr. Judd! as 31iaster to lBerli. It is noW itotimnatedi ino the bet.t mtformed'i political circles here, that iif Servard shoul get c'ontrol tof the Cabinet, the Coomissioner of the Conofederate States wvill he re.,pectfully heard. T1he Cormmissione., say that they are gite hopeful to-slay. Theoo cuomunicaoti' i with the new Adinitstration, I r' prud..n :iml rea sos will he post lIC'te ihr a few datys, unto thec terr 'oe Outside pre'sttte oft theo. otlioce-!oun ters upj~n the Cablinoet sh-. il have ditminished somiewhat. [[otn. A. H. Itomano has ntot yet beeon heardh froom. i[e is, I helieve, on his way to this cityv. Adjutant-Geoner:dl Coooper, n citizen oft New Yo rk. atnd ta relative of Senmator 31aon~o. alwc Assaant Adlj utanot-G etierat Withers, a eitnzeno cot TIennessee, have resigned. It is said that the leadinog men of the Corn federate Stattes ar e quietly selectinog atnd mtak in..t overttures to sotme ot' the best ofiiers ino the U. S. servi'e. Ex-Attornoey-Gteeral Black remarked yes terday that he would noot be surprised to -ee Pr..sidetnt D~avis anti lady di-pemo.ing the hos pitLtities of the White Hous~e in less than ine~ty days. The oi'inationt of lion. J. J. Crittenden to the vacaint Stupremel Judoge.-h p was agreed on int Cabinet mneetinog last oonit. Inhs is a d citled Sewatrd victoirJ . Cha.,e violenotly op po0-ed the nomroiationt. Ex-Secretary Flooyd is out ino a pammph'et in repl:.y to the chaurges ot' the Con ro s.io:nm.l Cointnittee. I segrnX ns.i s.-Thoe elegant dwellintg house of Th'los. Ashoby, jr.. Esq., situated about ninte mtiles below~ this townm, was enutr--lV coosumte-t by fire on lotndayt i;;t.t the '.tat utt., hin stltf andh wife barely escapintg ant awful deatht. A tnegro eairpenoier, the proierty of 1rs. Meluityre, of' Mlarito. i the emipooymoenit of M{r. A., had been ,-niity of stealing somte tools. which he acknowledg,.d and for whtich hie was notl punuishted. Trhat night th2 hoouse was fired. atod ano at temto was ma~de, to tire the toihletr s house, which filed. A pecutliar tratck, contnected with other evidence, tixed susinonoo ont the cairpenoter, who porettomla to be very pttiou oer hap~os preee.. 11e onenco confessedo the eritoe -noV donoies it. The triatl was to htave takent pltace yesterday.- t)arlinogtono S uitherner. Setnnos D)errus-A S-rtANO;: Coontc coe. -We learn thoat on S:.turda~y evenoing Itast, MIr. .fohn liadley, tao agedl anod imuchl respect. de td while ino lt: act 'of 5hav nig. 'Plh' siste of t he deceatsedl was ionnneih:tyl sent tair, who ton reaoching thot r.ynno of hoer borother, fainted. ando ditd ii ta few mtom.tentst.-Abbe ville B.ttner, tith iutst. Waor No-r Pncuta Inns Foters.-Tihe Phil* adl -tphoia Ledger, it adlluinog tao the fatct thtot the So'uth Catrtolinoianis have orected ant iu pr.nable hatteory o~n Cummotinogs 'i ot, ol rroih--,tod ionto imak.:s thle iii lw. ,n 00 impr .o Thi~s, we bl.ieve, is thte firt oitstatnce whetre i ron has beo.o-' ite m'. t tort:li eatin asOt5 t a m..antsm of' odeence. thohl Ito' h t he Frencht anj Ewog lish aroe t ryi~ it'"o tam' i'..ey~ ino war se.nnter's.. oot wi y cob 0'.4 a tort he' hui' t to iron0 ins'tta-t oft ':.-.ioa y I lhe resstanceto ot irot '''o ev f 'ree is known. ano.h ohn-aL ott olbis men.toIrm . .t ti I'ttl stilici-a:!y otick to .c iv, a I I. btar m h--!. 00 ,si aniatoil re.''v'< a hiot - ot h's huntii. r. Sucoh irono io.0%~oo. co:'bil hoe Laui~er ft--dt thantt stooe, and. tho"y .oo m ILsot .r al ite. The e'xpen;e of stih f nrtific~Oatin wo foibe'reat wu-Ito::k- la-r the elb.np:~it int thI t.ott run. i'h'' torribb' p we owhh-h a ot l o in ta'elit th d-ir-e tVe poj et' -- '' war reno'- ef .0 n-. ir tttto.'otittonal m-:ueo5t a:..a.woe ehnaZ loe devised, and iromn seems to be Iookedt to as .a trtr the req..:ired pretectio. Lousiana State Convention. Ngw Oa:Ass, March 8.-The convention, ut-dae, in secret sesionl, transferred to the Co~eerate Staies live hundred and thirty six tlhou:..io. a, the sum of collection fr..n e--tunsat ti,*. port, and. of bullion in the in lit at this city. t North tur..linn Ui;uicmentioin Election. Rtu.:::n, .. (.. .lareb .-..Te State has v.>..:gainSt hohtig a convention by about n:hotu--anm.-jority. T6e meuiber elect ed ar,- tvu t. one for Union. From Texas. 'Te Texas lel-gatioun in Moltgoumery has ree-ived the fullowing dispatch Aes-rrx, IXA., February 2S.-The vote of Texas wi:1 foot ip from 65 to 75 000 votOs. 1 h'liere will not be mot e than from 10 to 12, OdO urain-t the ordinance of secessiun. t We have news Irom the Northern portion i ihit all the posts on that line are in the pos- j ses'.ion of State troop. Political Movements in Virginia. LcYseic o, VA., March 6.-A petition, z i.umerously bigned by the imiediate suppor- I ters ot Messrs. Speed and Slaughter, is in ci' eula:imI, in-i ucting them to vote lir an or .iina.ce of st cessioln. It is Contemplated to .;end it down to-morrow. GmootiSoN, V,.. March G.-A lage meeting xas held here to-day, and resolmiions pa ed iriig the Convention to vote fr imnediae I Important News. NEw Or .i AsS, Al ch 7.-Advices received here from Pensacol, to the 4th instant, say hat Lieut. Shiunner ha-; had about forty men i ny..ged in raising a sand battery about a < quarier of a mle to the vastward of the fort, It SaMa RLosa Island, for the past two or bree days. The 1l qyoaotte was engag"d all 'lay Suiniay in conveying water to the United States ships outside. Lieut. McNab, of the t tkfaula Rifles, being anxious to find out what i Slimmer's men were doing on the Iland, i priocured a boat and went over; he was placed j under arrest by the autborities of Santa Rosa i Island and seit to the navy yard. The work on the land batteries of the .ni he in I rps oppo-ite' Warrington wai be- I ing vsorou:-ly pushed forward. It is reported here that Fort Brown, on :he lRio Grizanade, the la-t strongbold of' the I 1 d.-c.d Iroops in Texas, has surrendered to t Lte Kzia ,er.t Tie Statc Legi.siature hIS pssed a r'esolu t XI p ving the course of Gon. Twig-a. I Unwolii's liangural is looked upon here as n..thiig mure nor le-s than a declaration -f war. Blockade Of' The Southern Ports WasmuxoroM, larch .1, 186 . I learn that Lord lyoiiis, the Britih linis- i :er. has olially notilied the American Gh-. .:ritnint that Gtreat Uritain will not reeogmi. t aL bloclaie tit the southern ports, unless it is l tholrn ' th and effetunl, and that tle mere i annm0ine .me.t 0' a bloekade, in necordance : with the treat y of 'aris, , ill tiot be recognised. In order to make the bllckade of the Siuthern ports thus complete, the Aimriean i G-ve'rliient must have vessels enough to blockade every port, ctherwize the British I c;evtrnmeniclit will feel theimtselves compelled. in I ace.>rlance with their eligagelments with other I priwerg, to disregard the restriction aid carry ou their commerce with the Southern ports I as i f1 no such blockade hal been annonneed. z It ii undersciod that it is also the intention I of M1. Mercier, the Fre-nch Miniter, to give tim .5:ttne notilication to the Governmtent in reg~ard1 to Frainee, and that all the Furopean power-, in .qin~equience of the peculiar rela ions they have with the cotmmerce of the worl. will likewise take advantage of' the treaty' of Paris, and act ini neCo(rdanic-e viih the policy adlopted by the French and English G overnmnents. IAs Iseiimlx-r AT TUE Fonvs.-At an earlyl hour vesterd ry morning, while the gunners were i'ring blank cartridges fronm the guns of ther Iron Bhattery at Cummaing's Point. Wne of lie gunis loaded' with ball, the mni not iOeng aware of the fa-:t, was dis.:harged. The ball struck the wharf ul' ? or i tr, clos. 0o tile itate. This, it atlppars, causeid some ex(eite ment itn the garrison of Sumiter, foir three or four of the ports frotingu Cumming's Point wvere SOOn af'ter thrown cpeni. No warike re::ly to the unintentional shot was given, he'wever, ad atbout two hours aft'erwards5 a :ioat was senit over to expltaini the oe-,urr nee :o Major Anderson. The 31ajor rceeived the meiige in good par't, ami thus thle ma~tter ended, alter having caused no0 little talk at ~he barbor' forts and in thet city.--Mercury. Tr ty: Sr.tis t.as A t..it~a :n.--John Mitchdl writes to te Charle tion Mauroy, fronm Pa: is, imt the Spianiardls beign to take alarm fromn thm, ir leutrs of' the designs of theSouthern Con fL.h ratcv " Tuie /-poci.a, a 3iadrid iper. cadls for ad-. di: iv.nad reinfoircemient~. of Spuiisht tr-oopA to ,e sent to Citba, and "earnestly warnls its .ovrnmen':t that the dlanger-which was ie miole, comiingent and vh~:unar'y while two ,ef acrate natio~ns and two incomipatibile sys temts of so'iety woem nentr'ahiz.ing one anuot her in th~e AmerIcan U nitn--becomnes immuinent. noicw thiat eacit is shaking itself loose of the oiLer, atid prepatring to go its owniwy. Cci:3amssmo:al -ro Fusesc:.-.The New Or leans C'.,mmrrin! Bu/!-/in uinder.,tands that .Julge P. A. ]Rost, ..f that State, has heen by Ciingree, as Coniunissioner fromt the Con federate Stat..s to Erance. Thbis is an excel- i lent apipoinltnent. I I~-* I A Senmoossa Fit.:n l..o--TutE Exrren~ SrrrES FIun " No-r Wecdrn .A D--x."-We m-.ike. the following~ extract fromtl a letter to the Maconm, Ga., Tee-rratg', of the I th, fromi a memnb'r of the .haekson, A rtillery, stationiedl at Fort Brown, Georgia: . "On 'Tiesdaty nmorniing, a schooner was dis cov:-d .1' Je-kvil Point, which .cion showed a o'isp:psitio~n to pass us without calling. Lieu Iten t:t Cmtinmintgs was the othicer of the day, ad in a f'ew mninutes lie had thegulls miannetid ala ball whistling across the bow of' the" eraf:. This tihe schooner did not heed, but a shell f'romn one of' our howitzers passIng tin- , cof ~ai near lier i~iw, brotight her to as qikas p'ossihle. A boat was lowered, and the~ captain came ashore with thuecrowun of his I i-it full of' pa~pers. 'To Lieutenatnt Cummings' I inqluir'y why he did t:ot show a flag, he answer ed that he hiaud none on board but a United States t!ag, whi-h lie suppr'sed was no: worth niichd. The Lieittent~tnt ne'swered, " Not a dn," aI alter ex:un it'ing his pipers, invi t I h:imi to the otlicers' qfuarters, andi theta dimissedl himi. To-day we have oiverhiauhled two miore schioners, but have f'ormid them all right, and let themt go on their way rejoiig" AmTK.lrr:n Tsstunta:rio.--We have jn-t. reeoived news f'rotnm .\!Ktnh-y, Ahlb:ua, that c a motst hdamnah!e plot 1:hi'been detected: in h it ni'ihblorhoode. T'he negroes we-re fur-( inei''nd~iari.-s, fari the putrpoiseI of servile inisur re't io n. TIhe whlob1: plot, wvas ' irtuna~tel v di+' cv.'ri'i in thnle. These wh'ip~ fiends in hunnan sh-ipe whto pronmpt tile happy~ andl connttied ne 'ro to deeds of blood and violence, shouldt hie ealt with to the extreme penalty of' the law.--A tlanta lntelligencer. .\\ii .iinsss Kii:nsm:s ixrs or.x's INS'-. I l winii ae'uit of the visit hiy a po'ty' of New Yorkers~ whon called up~on Lincolnh, Ctameron I The4 pa rty was headedi by Thturlow' W'eedl. The 'in~r says:I " Upon'' miiit- tna of~ . i' , Qucwhiush, thelcni 1' e i-i'dny th' pro'eededlt ci::.y thiri respect - to: vior. miy I Johnson, of'~ Tennes.,. a lr. t u- : l'.:si,-/'s lanyura/ :cri/mu qua'iih liei~n.u.~ w'lrr', iif ic a few d-Su sineCrexinirnd yeth' d t)A.iimtheefe- h eae a;cr The Taritf. The subjoincd renarcs are taken from the [obile 1&jilr. The tone is right, and the Jggestiious are good. We would oily a.,k 'aders in this longitudo to substitute Charles. m or A ugusta for Mobile, where the namte f hat city occurs in the at ter part of the' rticie: " That we will itve a. tariff Ont imports n4d oneil in many respec.., resetnbling that of -hich the South complained-nust he set own as one of those SLternl niecessitie's which he exigencies4 of reveue for the pre.ent ren .er untivoidabile. In acquiemcing in, or even dvocating such tariff, we do not of course urreniler our matured convictions on this uthject, bit simtiply bend to expediency. Per. aps, while bednmg to that expediency, we hould have preferred a dilferent plan from hat which is likely to be adopted. Perhaps re might have favored specific duties, or a ixture of the two, because most of the rea ens which caused an ad valoren tariff to be nt article of lie dein:ratic creed, have ce%,ed o exist and others have becomu preponde alit. But in this article we have not pro iosed to ourselves to argue these quehtions. )ur object is merely to offer a few practical uggestions of purely local importance. By the middle of Augiust, at fl'urte4t, t here eIl be in operation a tanif system, which v th the aid of' land custin-houses will bear ually ou those numeraus articles which we rive been accustomed to receive dity free roin the North, and on those which we have ieretofore paid duty upon from Europe. The eneral ifect of this will, tio doubt, be a rholesome one. It will tend to make our copie more econoiicid, and thus keep inl he country nmieith of' thte muoney which we anMnot tnow afford to spend. Nor will the he ierchant or small dealer -uf'er thereby. Lheir stpplies are, in great part, already iade, .rd they can 1uietly coileet their dues with iut iicuo ring very serious new liabilities, aind his enter better prepared upon the new con nercial era which must open Bs) soon as peace 1 pernaently as-ured. But meanwhile eve. y out who-e stock is not quite complete, is aturally anxious to complete iL before north rin metc':andise is sutlect to duty. The :reat importers ut New York are fully awake o tue crisis. Their stock in bonded ware iouse.s not. yet having paid the northern duty. s bein: rpidily directed to soutliern ports, o avoid double duties, and will be disposed if on 1ivorable terms. Country' dealers, onl lie other hand, are seeking the centres of outhern trade to sectre go:d bargains. So ar, New Or!eans has bieeni, and is likely to oitinue to be the principal beneficiary of this tate of things. 11th policy of Mobile mer hants, inder these cireum.t ances, is pln ndstarely reptires argnmnt or elahoration. ,et tivtm at oie,,. Iv advertising for the coun ry' an I by every available mcalns. hold out nducemetid!. 111-1 temII:ttiS L till the coun ry trade whicl they can posily coiimand ir attract, and let theni be prepared to make ood the protiises thius held out. Now or ever is the thne. There is estimated to be t this noment mn New Orleans, or actually in the way thither, sUICe twO muillions of noney, from the interior, seeking investment n nortliernt goods. To what extent this tmtomit mtay increase is almi.ut bevond calcu ition. Mob0jile is entitlei to her share uf the rotits, and nothing but lack of fihresight. or ck of prfper nterpris, can deprive her of t. Theti sendi out ytur a:ents, it~e every pa te: which has a large circulatiotn in tle inte ior ; advertise your goods at reasonable ad -aces on New York prices, itate yourislf cady to accept and gr.int terms which will emupt the country dealer. In other words, hi aus New Orleans does, atnd the saute efieet till result. Horrible Murder. We leatrn fromt a reliable source, that a areachter by the name of' Andrews, residinig in Sumter county, had beetn accused of per. otratitng ati outrage upion his niece, and ha ,ituial ly maltreat intg his wifes. lTe Regniators mmiltinoedl Andr'ews to apipeair before them >n the I 1thI; tot the mnoriig of 13th, An-. Irews, armed with a dlouble-barreled gun, ri le, brae of' pitols, anid a couple of' knives, risited the house of' Mr. Mc~lhtdont, firi-ng >ne charge at htiti" witi fatal resnit. le tit ntediately' discharged the other barrel at Latig, who wa':s partially cotncealed,) disabling him ni his hatnds. Lanig closed ini with Anidrews, vrstiing the rifle fromt hiim, antd retreat ing ave the ril, to 3i'. I[yatt, who had just eacbedl the gr'ound. As Anidrews was still it pu r.uit, hlyatt hireud at himi, but without l'eet. Andrecws returtied th.e fire- f'rom ta pis ol, woiohing hiyvatt ini the shiouhler. lie theni -e loaed- hi, gu., wentt t othe house of Mr.l S.tidry and killed him. Rev'. Mfr. Porker he og at the hiouse, and Dr. .\lellent'y riding uip, teized. Anidrews, atnd ini the sculhie which etn. te-I, Di'. McIletnry niarrowly escapedl being itt by Anzdrews, who lrttuniatezly pulled the vrong~ trigger, thus givinig the Doctor time to livert the muizz.le of' the gun before it was dis :harged. 'The omrderL-ier securetd, the chidzens w1ere ammtttonie-t to the .seenec to discnss the mierits i the case, anid in a half' hour Anudrews ex iate-d his crimtes upont tlhe gallows, regretti ng leply that lie hal not killed his~ wife, the egulato~rs and (othier's, whomt he namued.--Mi -aniopiy (Fla.) Cottont States, 25th ult. Tm: TrExas WaHEv CaioP.--The GalveSton 'irLiaw, of the 22d ultiumo, has thte follow tg: The wheat crop of Northern Texas is rep esented as unusuatlly promising. A larger mount 1.f hand has beeni devotedl to) the~ crop~ han ever befor e. while the raeasotn has been ighily favormable, and the pilant is well ad ance~d and thrifty'. The cro p is now regard das almtost beyonid danger, atnd an early arvest is conmfidlently expected. The ,Jefferson (Cass cotunty) Ierald, of the 5th ultimo, says: We are informed by personts recenttly fr'om he tuppier coutnties that thle prospect is fine or ani unuisually' large crop of wheat. A grea er breatdth has beetn suwn than ever before. .nd the growth is atonishuigly' luxurianit. tmmriml-a Coiin..-We lear'n that a ves4el, etinig untder the orders of the Untitedl States ovenmentt, replaicedl, a few days ago, the uoys lately removed froit St. Helena bar. he f.uct, being brought to the tnotice otf lie tate authotrities, ptromupt measureS were t ent to utndo this gzratuiitonts anid somewhat 1timied harbor- improvement. Fnoit Fuon-r Se.mr~i.--Two of the laborers rrived in the city Weudnesday front Fort umter, atnd their accounts of' the doings -ithitn the piost attfrace~ed a good deal of at tntioni. No new facts of' importance. how vet', were elicited. Pi ss..--Hon. .Judauh P. Benjanjin, A t nrecy Genieratl u' the Conflederate State', as arrived in Monigomiery. W. S. Croft hasu beeni appinted bty his Ex eley Giovernor Pic~ketns, and Commuiis'uus d, Inspector rif the purt of Georgetow. ~haleton Mercury. llowing siiggest-on to the Georgia Convient ittn, which meiets 5-.ion: Th'ie Congr ess oif thle Conuufederate States hta< assed a nt a uthorisinig thue raisin~g of' lifteeni ashitins of dollars, ion i'ighit heer eenit. hoins, t lie raisedt by ani iepint il ty of one -eighth eout pir potn ihlr Cu: ton. terorgia hasu amt lu ecuh u,tiorees to take otioJniii of this itnm. Shie chuldl convenietlyh etnt raet tot take certint amuii:tnt oh' thiese btond, Iazt once, antd ay ftor thi-m ont oif her cash aus~ets nowt ini er' t r-estuy, antd to t ake ani aidoit itonadt inout very inont h w thI the init rei-pits fromii tlhe VLlttad Atlanttie ltailroadi ntot ,itrwise rmitiim the mtomuent uthe indiepttedencue tif i hea tn federn:i e tati's i..ts r tcgi.etd by~ the Uni ted useritmtent, andl by ftineigni puow.i't A ui: --r ior Cor's-rti:r: :s. -hei de tec ut. P'olicei haveii arre.-teid andt imprh~is4oned at btE-.do. N. Y., este A nidrews and his assi lii. : . h.i.v eaumht itn thie neut, eef mta~ki e..i 'et' of '.\yur-i Cahttie Pills. Teir t ati.,ii wats eiinntlihed ait the instan ice of~ essrns J. C. Ayer & Co., of' Lowell, Mass.,j ho t.os.,out a eommienduablo eniergy ai promptitude in protecting the public fro- im p isition through spurious imitations of their invaluable medicines. Uc-r. Ayer's Sar.-aparilla, Cherry Pectoral anl P1ils have coine to be staple necessities "n with the eommunity, ald the imposition upon Ox the sick ef spuriou.', worthless, if not injuri- pr ous t 1hications o' them. li in fact. the con. bh simnitt ion of villainv. We hope the sCoun- ac Lrels will get their (fue, and in the keeping er 1111-V now are. they are pretty sure of it.- in Police Gazette. th 'TI: r . vt I Uiie RIA I l tnom .- The graling an on the railroad bet ween Walhalla and Pendle- Y' ton is nearly all done, with the exception of bY the "Shiloh Cut," which seetus to have been cn an 1 yptiai task. The bridger aeross Seneca will be completed bi, ly the middle of March, so say some of the th workinen, a:nd we think it quite probable, as they have reached the water by this time. The greater part of the timbers have been laii down ready for the iron. The depot at this place is up, and we liope t the tine ik not far distant when the snorting cO of the iron horse will be heard here contigu. di ous to the mountains.- Walhalla Banner. In ---- -+ - th AnKAsNsA.-A dispatch dated the 2d, at in Little lIock. states the majority for Conven- ki tion at I1,58t. This majority looks like Se , it ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR. di WEDNESD)AY, MAR. 13, 1861. gi Iteligious Notice. of Rev. J. E. McMoints, D. D., will deliver a-fla discourse appropriate to the timep, in the Court je llouse next Sunday, the tith inst., at 11 o'clock, tb A. .1. tb * -*-4 w ;ng'-See Agricultural Corner. Omission. Inadvertently, we omitted to state in our ob servatiulnE of last week in regard to boys carrying at weapons, that the teachers in our Male Academy t had already begun, with their accustomed energy, to to ferret out offenders and correct the evil. We qi know they will do it thoroughly. It is unnecessa. ry to add that they will be sustained in their ci efforts by tie united voice of the Trustees. d gW"We are requested to say that by an acci- ti dental omuistion the names of JAmxs A. RAID Unn, I Gxnv G. Antei and L. R. GLOVER were not upon the list of "116 Rtifleotn," lately pub lished. The omission aroee from the fact that the w Orderly Sergeant never received a correct copy of the naincs of the volunteers. _ * -0- *W Governor Pickens and Fort Sumter. Ne A few querulous persons, writers and talkers, ti are still disposed to carp at the course of Governor P( l'ex:Ns tuwrls Fort Sutmter and its garrison. w We are pleased to learn from a gentleman who ul has been lately in Montgomery, that the memberp 1 of the Southern Congress generally applaud his line of action as the very bost under the circum- tb stanccs. So did the South Carolina Convention v and Legislatur,, and the result will show that i they are right. -I~ 1t Trials in Court. of The trial of the Messrs. SAMcEr terminated on e Saturday 6s'. The verdict was one of acquittal ju as to the two yoiuiger brothers, and of manslaught- gi r na to Mr. Josi::i SASext.. The counsel for p, the defence were MonIacSM, AaNsv, Ti.LMAN, al G~n and BrviLxx. Mr. A~nnten appeared with al the Solicitor on the part of the State. The charge w as regards the killing ut' Suntw, resulted in a se Kolle P'reeqi. i WrLI~r:uA.S tried for the killing of PouEr, was ie acquitted. GaReFFI and BUrrLEr. for the defence. ti So far as we have heard, our Solicitor, Mr. Pan. ul R, coIntinues to give great satisfacetion. Several e, of his efforts during the present termn have heen tI higliy extolled. May his shadow never grow less. w Neighborhood Mail arransgements. A In revolutionary times like these, when news is le of such interest t., all and mail faucilities are mere or less interrupted from necessity, it is advisable sl for each neighborhood to take care of itself in the a matter. We know this to be done in one or two a parts ot Edgetiilbl, but -generally speaking it is th ~eglectedl. We make ai suggestion to all interes- vi ted: Let a messenger 1be sent from each neighbor- it .od to this oflce every Tuesday evening. Our tI su~scriers wiil thus bie furnished with the Adr-r in line fresh fromx the 1,es and always fraught em with the latest intelligence of itaportance. Extra te copies .will b~e snupplicd at moderate rates for cash. tI For the lust nine wee-ks we have given our read- p or the news up to date at. our own expiense, indc- im pedety of the trn-weekly mail. We shall con- g tinue t s.' regardlless of trouble or cost, when-.o ever aniy news of stirring interest is to be expec ted. Thus, at headt once a week, every neighbor- ii ho'l could be freshly posted. Those mere con- et venient to the ]Hamburg P'ost Offce might send ut their mieawenger to that point. The suggestion is w before you, gentlemen ;-think of it. C Thej Loudest Yet. We arc impressed writh the belief that our effi cent constable, Mr. WVILLrIAM A. Tu-aan, is the 0 loudest pulie crier out. This, the second week of nuirt, lie may he somewhat hoarse; but, du ring lnst week, we hazardi little in saying he could ai have beeni beard a mile front the Court House in every direetion. In fact we can prove it. If we hi were called upoun to comptare the word car, we m should assuredly sasy: Positive, C'ry,-Compara- S tive, Crier,-Superlative, WV. A. Turnrr. lii The Ladics Giving Us A Lift. T Our gratification was comlete on the reception di receitly of a list of new subscribers from Mrs. pi Lr ws Cr'i.nirAvu, of Big Creek, on the Saluda cc side of this di.,trict. With our best thanks to tIs tb knd lady, we respectfully euggest her example to 1l1 oir matny lady-re:,ders in Edgefield and elsewhero. In their easy and elegant way, they can do us a "ret service with the Lords or Creation. A word C from woman is worth more to any cause than an iirguent from the rougher sex. We would rather have the aid of three ladlies, in extending the cir culatin of the Atd derrier, thano the volunteer icr vie of thirty male canvassers. That's so. We have it in contemiplation to give our paper a cast imr suited to the parlor, after the troubles of the N ay are blown jpast. In the mean time, the ladies = ill pleise accept the assurance that any favors t on their pairt, aimiilar to this of Mrs. CUt.BxnEAT, t will timulate us to do something handsome in their behest, apecialier. Dr. liuirt's Crop of 1860. To show the world at large what may hec done c in Egfield, S. C., towards the cotton supply, e' w have takein the trouble to p~rocure from the tO 1otir's own 1ip's an exact sttment of his crop at fr ls year. C. lIe workedl t.-u fell hands. Planted one lion. d 1red and thirty e.ve aceres of sanidy upiland in cot. t'n. Solhl in llinsburug one hundred and thirty b: bles of cotton averaging -1110 lbs to the b~ale. And inc maise plnt of Con, Sweet P'otatoos, &c., to last ts lhm until another cr..p. This was done without working beyo~nd jte hour, ai d1ay at any season of the yer. Ihis allownee of prvsin was: three poundiiiI clear iddl ing menat, one peck of corn- er m.-al, Jun abuntdaincei of green vegetabhle food, po- se mil's, salt, milk &Ic.. to eachl handt per week. e 'his statenL-it may be hooked as an undoubted ni trth. tu Martial Law. vernor Psie~ :Ns has lacuied Fort JTohnson, h andnt ihr ilie all n r..oud thle Furt, nuder umartial a. 8ullivn's Ibla:.d hias been under martial lw or .iuomt time. Fleming & Co. Al por.mus wishuing, to p~urchasu frsr rore pro-w vishii- on fair terms.:,re adlvised tou nutiee the ad v rtisenemt uof TI. W. Ft.asis~u & Co. This firm d -ucs siibstantIiaul busi ness. dealing u.nly in arti e l-s hat will bear the tet of sc-rutiny. Such i.,or, I,,i hrdt, corn. andI sweet iidelinig mi-at t ui he sell, caii with difliculty he fond elsewhere. te They niw have a superior stock of these desirable J te u~jes. fe A Secret Session of Opinuions. Fournalists at the South might derive a lesson m our Conventions, at this particular juncture, the business of with-holding the newspalr pression, of thougisl that may a well be sup esed for the nounce. This is specially applica to any criticisms we may venture, upon the s of our --uthoritics, State or Confederatc, ticisms usually attempted withjut the full facet view which ihfluence and guide the conduct of ,s2 authorities. It is rendered peculiarly our ty, to exercise this dierution towards the Pro. ional tovernueat of the Confederate States, several reasons which we would barely indi :0. First, the South is juet emerging from the tur I waves of long-centinued insult and wrong into : open sea of her independence. In doing this, a has ctoenaaCit her destinaie' to Cuejtentoinr of jeejple, each State for itself,-and is uow On r the guidance and controll of these Couven us "fur better or for worse." If we have not mplete confidence in the wisdom of those bo s, it is to be regretted ; for their power is abso t and irrevocable. But we have yet to learn t this confidence is other than strong and abid throughout the South. In South Carolina we ow it is ; it could not be less, in view of the triotism, wisdom and courago which con'pose r Convention. These then are the grand con rvators of the welfare and honor of their re ective States in the new Government now form g. It is for them to consider and discues, in ir own way, the questions of policy and expe uncy that are presented by the Provisional Con es ; and it is for them to decide, each Conven n for itself, how far these questions are matters serious dispute in the present crisis of our af ire. It nay be said that all this sugges ts no ob tion to the free expressions of journalists upon ese quostions as they transpire. Wo reply that e sovereign power of each Southern Common !alth will at least hold itself slightly compli Bnted by an officious forwardness on the part of a (so-called) Third Emtate, in dissecting and ex ,ing matters of which each State Convention is e proper and final arbiter. Surely vanity will it carry gentlemon of the press so far as to make em suppose their editorial lucubrations necessary the full understanding and appreciation of the estions at issue, by those sovereign assemblages talent and worth. And if nut, then why anti pate their judgment, when it is morally certain at it will only be rendered upon matured con tion? In this view of the matter alone we hold at it becomes the press to be chary of its expres ms. But, secondly, this fitness becomes a duty when conider the preunat importance to our South n cause, of a patient adaptation of our policy the difficulties of our situation.-and that too thout even the appearance of strife among our Lvs. If we are not to agree, let the Conven ms so determine ; but there is no reason for sup ising that this agreement will not b cordial, ion the proper tribunals shall have calmly passed ion the Constitution and Organization of our i Confedoracy. Why then initiate objections to is, that or ile other measure soglibly now, when e only effect of it is to injure our cause in the w of the outside world, amongst friends as well foes. It is to be deeply regretted that one of the ques no, thus prematurely diecussed, should be that 'the African Slave Trade. To make a hasty hibition of our differences upon this point, is At at this moment very unfortunate. It is but ving aid and comf,.rt to our enetnies, morail and itical. With the certainty that this Trade is present under t'.ae han of public disapprohation the South, its advocaites insist upon a hearing, hen that hearing can do their favorite cause no rvice and may tend to weaken the faith of some, the Union new coming into existence. How uch better fur these gentlemen to hide their ne, and, if there tbe strength in their policy, g it and illustrate it when we shall have becomue tirely free from our late entanglements ? If ere ho truth in their reasoning, a few years maore ill perhaps enabale them tn demnstrsate it. But broach the effort now, is hut calculated to pre. dice men who at a more convenient season might ad it an impartial consideration. The question of the Tariff'too is an unlucky one to lit upon at a time like this. We are aware that division upon this point hac occurredl in the mnrss itself. So much the mnore implortant that press should luinve it there, and witb toe Con. untions asemnbling and to assemble. Some tariff, is admitted, is necessary for revenue. Butt gen smen differ as to whether a moderately low or a! o.erately high tariff will lbest subserve that U. In regard to the attacks made upon the pro tive features of the Southern tariff, we submit at they are ill-tiwned even if pertinent. The sct is understood to be a temporary arrange ent, to meet the demands of the political exi ny in which we sudadenly find ourselves. With it a doubt, it will gradually give plaice to one apatiblo with the perfect hocmogeniety and entity of interests of the Secedled Stater. Hlow *n it be otherwise ? It is this assurodl ground of ity upon which we must rely for the success as have done for the inauguration of a Southern nederacy. Andl thus relying, it appears to he e teaching hoth of amity and wisdom to accept esent discepancies as but the ineidents of our tw position. -. -. Ass Adnairable Appointment. In a late number of the Charleston Coua~rier we e pleased to observe the following: "Wo lcearn that Col. John Cunningham has n appointed by Governor Pickenms, Quarter-. asterGenral of the regular mailitary forces of uth Carolina. This appaaintanent, whaich we lbe ye has been accept ed by Col. Cunniugham, will, feel assured, give very genteral satisfaction, e dities of this important department are ar os, requiring the offieer to he a thorough and. 'actical husiness msn, as well as a military ofti r. Cal. Cuninghan thorounghaly underst-aends all e details and wants of the military in a time te this." Lincoln's Catbiuect. On the 5th inst., the Senaste coufirmed Liacot~a's inet appointments. They are as fellows: Wr. HI. Szannt, of New York, Secretary of S. P. CnAse, of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury; Sexos Cauetnoe, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of GeroN WaI.rLs, of Connecticut, Secretary of the FaIeAst 1P. Br.ARn, Jr., of Missouri, Post-Mas r Geral ; CAu~sa B. Sxt-rn, of lIdiana, Secretary of the teror ; Eewnn hA-Er of Missouri, Attorney General. The votes for these were unanimous for all ex pt fur Byrvas and Br.A~a, four or five votes being at against each -certain Senators objecting them, baucanse they were unwilling toa vote for y member from the Slave St:ates to go itnto the Won't Be Bowed Off TFhe Stage. The lay succeediaig our least iesue, in wheich we de Witter ian aff'ectioanaete adlieu, an old friend costed us with ; " G ood mnornini,-made a mis ke this time! " How so ?" ".Caid 'farewell winter," and here's ice again." We gave it up aaf caourse, foar ice there wacs. Ncr wans .shadol of aspen leaf moore tilel than our uthern easons. Here cante gloriouas sunt-shine, 4d all tec early birdls anal fawers. That very glit old Winater remiembered that he hail forgeet kill our Taom 'rTub peas, and whirlead araundl attend to it. Sure enough, he slayed thiema Id. All we coaul.l dlo in the way of'consolation as to whistle the iierry tune aof "lRip, raip, set 'em map again." Ini a bad Fix. An Alabama exehetinge says : "An edaitor in the mstern part of the state is in a fix. lie adunned subscriber for haii suhscriptiian, who~ refused to ,y, aand tiroatened to flag the editoar if he stopped pper."____ p lp aan," tae W%,ahiangaau euarreamundtenat of e Balti--re Sun', ays : "Ma. Hleart, Smuperin aadeaat of thae Public Pritnting, resignaed his office President Buchanan, hut will continue to peer. LjATEST -NEWS. Important fron Washington. In advance of our wail, we are in possession o onme news of interest which will1-e acceptable t -very reader. A apeciai dispatch tu the Charleston Ciourie ruis thus: WAsHNGToN, March I0.-I informed by lRepublican Senator, high in the confidence of th Administration, that there is no earthly doubt tha the troops will be removed from Fort Sumte within two weeks. 'Ibis fNet is generally credite in other authoritative circles. The Commnissioners called upon President Lii coin yeoterday, and left their cards for him an Mr. Seward. They hope to-ourrfow to presen their credentials. Various opinione prevail as b the disposal of their mini~in. It is alleged that i will be some time before an answer is given, shoul they nut present their credentials immediatel: Otherwise they will be returned. Presirlent Lincoln expresses himself desirou that peaceful measures shall prevail, and so strun is this assumption, that Republicans assert that tt troops wIl be withdrawn from Forts Sumter an Piekens. I have good authority for asserting th such a step has been considered in the Cabinet to day, and a withdrawal favored. Yesterday the War Department received di: patches from Major Anderson. Only a portion p their contents has been made public. The portio relating to his supplies, says they have enough fu twenty days inore. Severnl Clerks in the Departments resigned ye terday, and have left for Montgomery. An arti also left to-day, by order of President Davis, i make a seal for the Confederate States. An examination at the War Department, show that 1000 regular troops cannot lie concentrated i one place for o.ne month tat a time. A Cabinet meeting was held lust night on oth subjects than appointments to office. The condition of the Southern posts held by th Federal troops, engaged the deep attention of Go Scott and other# yesterday. Secretary Soward will be able to attend to h duties to-morrow. Gov. Floyd has published a reply to the Con ittee's charges, relative to the Indian Trust Fun defalcation. lie says the acceptances were mer ly in anticipatirn of the earnings of Messrs. Ru sell & Co, and that only $600,000 of them we nutstanding, and if the Government will perm their work of the present year to ofset these a ceptances, that aun can be liquidated withox touching the property of the firni now assigned. It is said that Judge Douglas will aet as a n1 ditor between the Southern Coinis-ioners ar President Lincoln. The Commisioners will n present their credentials until next week. Secretary Sewaril is preparing his programi for a peaceful settlement, and gives the contlde assurances to all who converse with him, that E measures calculated to lead to bloodshed will 1 reeerted to. The Charleston Jlerrrry, tit the 11th, has Pp ina dispatches from Washington of the Oth, whit relort that a war of coercion is expected (?) Als of the 10th, as follows : '' A Cabint meeting was held last nighL It known that the discussion bore upon subjects ut er than the apjiiit.:iatti is to the reininig fut tice;9. The rondition ut the Southern ;osty lie by Federal troops entgaged duel attention. Sco nitd others were prsent. Front alicial infortation recently received, appearthat there is great dissatisfaction prevy ing in tTl- Army-evet on the frontier. A lar number of suborlinate otlicers have resigned, at many aotheris are preparing tai follow their example The tenor of these dispatches of the 10th not co ficting with the Courier'a infurnaationt, we ma hope the nlews of atn early evacuation of Fos Sumter and Pickeus is true. Tlhe peae intelligence is rendered probiablo 1 a certain palpable fact, thus hinted at by Se ator Dortr.A5 in some late remarks: Mr. Douglas reptying to ,tueh harts of Mr. M so', spiteb ias referred to him, said the siup reson why un attempit wouldlnot he miade to r inforco Fort Sumter, was ai~at it was impuaas.-ibl While he hail nao kntowledge oaf the views of at oty conanectead with the govertnmetnt, havitggcol trol .,f the riue-sti..n a to Easr' Suamt'.r. he t...-t, for granated thatt ant armay its large as would be r quaired could noit bao got toagether for sotme maoauth as the raising of it would require a session of Coi gress. And agatin: There was a time wheta Fort Sumter coeld hai etn reinafaorced. lie bele,'mt it routeul no't Le red form.. i or acithouit the ii.r of ut least 10.0100 nwnv I ad,ael e4it. There 'nrere but feie ,n to, srrre t ynns-ircho irouald soona le .rha,,ntd-uned they iii ut breoil ad salit enough~l toi luat for thirty duia There must be prompilt action in the direction pace. Fromi Montgonstery. In the .lereinry of the 11th, we find some net frio the Southern Contgress: M tMo aoaa, Maracha 10.-The Permianent Cot stiettioni was aidapted ian secret session last nigh bit was nout male pubilie. "' It is sonmewhiat inta satifactry," a dele'gate reamarkedl, " than ti Proviional Constitution, excel~t in the matter slave rep'resentation" The Constitution, as adapted, is now in ti hanns oaf the priaater, and will be made publicc Moday or Tuesday. Congress will pribiably trike a recess this weel in order to allaow the several State Conventions a opportunity to act oan the Constitution. Several of the delegates left Montgomery th morning. Texnas ini Action. A dvices froma tGalveston up to the 9th inst. stat On the -lth the State Conaveiationa declared Text out of the Uniona, tand Gov. Houston issued a prol lamation to tat effect. Incomplletei returns show a majority of 25,ut out of 51,500 votes. Ar Ordinance wa4 p'assed authorisitng the Deli gates at Maaontm:ry to representt Texas in ti Proviinal GIovernment. The 'res-sels senat by the Federal Governmnet will neot bh seizedl. Guy. Houmston, it is said, will not resign na tke the oatha of alley.jience. The Conavenation: was discussinig an Ordinanm dfninag treasion. Majoar McCulliough has sent a detachment troops taa guard the upper forts. Virginia. The Chatrleston Jhlercuary of the 11th stays : " A the Virginia papers represent the imtpetus give to the secession feeling in that State by the inaul ural of Abraham Lincoln as somnethinag remnarki ble aad unpirecedentedl. A Richmoand correspot dalt of the Petersbuarg E.rpres saays: The excitemaetnt heare is still hat the increatse, an the rage faar seceassioan beyond all expecaitiol The inauguiral oif Liniciln has crushed eiumphletel the Union se'ntimaenit. Every man youa meet no is for imm~aediaate secession. I udersiandl. to from reliabale nuthtority that the cause of the Siau i raialy gaininag griountd in thiu Cuonventiion. Many entertain strung hopes that a Secessiioa 0 dinance will pass early naext week. A gentlemant reccently froma Richmond conlirn this statomosant, atnid sa.ys that everyboidy in Riel onad seemas to be fur secessioni." To thte Ladhiex. The Augusta Sainthiern Riepaue, aif a late dat says : " .Althougah it is scarcely necessary, we ena the attention of the Ladies to the advertisement I Messrs. Giray & Tuarley. His assortmeant of Spria oid, now arriving, is one of the best, selectedi the city ;his capacious siire is crowded froi 'early morn to adewy eve " with delighted andl et thsiatie' purchasers of his excellout gods. M called in to see thena yesterday, and what aan ava aiho iofaidjectivais greeted our ears ! Hlow Iorn ! Oh ! isn't that beautiful, and such like e2 laaationas were all that we hoarid. We loft, Ii mnactitg the caollatpsed condition of our pock pa A resaalutiaan has passedl the Alabutat Sta Covetntiin now in sessioan, in relation to) the al~ p opiatiutn of at' amuch of the paroceds of the huh ie lans, as maay Ibe necessary to purc~haase a di. rict of tean miles aqunlre, within that State, to tnlerdi to lto C.,gre'ss fur the seant of Goveri mett of thae Conafedlerate States. pdi Twaa ciameatS are naow loakead for lay astrait en-the De Vico comet, which appeared Miscellaneous Items. t- The Augubta (Georgia) )i'sputci says: " The negroes employed in grading the Ma1con and Warrenton Railroad, m-ur Warrenton, have hoisted scewr.iun flags on their dirt carts, bearing eight well executed stars. On being asked why they added the eighth star, the reply was, 'Old Wirginny's bound to cone."' p$ Of two million young ladies who last year were asked to sing, it is a fact that sixteen did so without making an apology for having a had cold. t ggr Mr. Wigfall said in the Senate that ho r would rather keep a railroad hotel and sell un I baked bread, pies, ineat, and rye coffee at twenty five cents, than be President of the United States. -p The amount of Northern manufactures sold to the South in 1859 is estimated at$240,000, t 000. Will it he the half of that amount in 1861? p#r- Greeley raves like an enraged man at the way things are goit-g on. He blames Lincoln for feeing in disguise to Washington, would evidently have been glad had he been killed, and says, "If a the alleged conspiracy was real, Mr. Lincoln may live a hundred years without finding another so e good a chance to die." I pr- The Southern Congress has confirmed ,t John H. Reagan, of Texas, Postmaster General, in place of Henry Ellet, declined. X. A few days since a firm in Boston, sue. I- cumbed to thme pressure of the times, with, as it f subsequently appeared, liabilities to the extent of n thirty thousand, and assets to the extraordinary r amount of eight dollars. ggr We have received the first number of the "Hurry Dimpatel.," recently established at Con it waybort-', S. C., by Messrs. GiLXc'r & Dann, and 0 edited by Mr. J. T. W.uLs1. It is a neat and in teresting sheet, and one on which the good people a should bestow a liberal support. A good time and a protltablo sone to you, gentlemen. rl&- The opinion is prevalent throughout the SLuthern States that Lincoln's Inaugural address is a virtual declaration of war. . g' Gen. Twiggs arrived in New Orleans, on the 5th, and was enthusiastically received. A a salute was fired by the Artillery, and the General escorted to his residence by the military and mem e brs of the State Convention. Immense crowds d were gathered along the line of the procession, -. and the enthusiasm was very great. - ar The Augusta Banks are selling Sight Ex e chnnge en New York at 21 per cent. premium, for it currency. it At Louisville, Ky., a few days since corn wa.s selling fron 40 to 45 cents in the ear and 511 to 53 fur shelled in socks. jZV- A Western editor, speaking of a blind saw yer, says:-" Although he can't see, he enn saw." pV Mrs. Catherine Harper, relict of the late ic General Robert Goodloc Harper, of Baltimore, it died on the night of the 12th of February. Mrs. 0 Harper was the last surviving child of Charles e Carroll, of Carrollton, and had reached the ripe old age of four-scuro years. -. The Legislature of Louisiana hare passed h a resolution approving of the course of General o Twiggs. is TV- It is said that more sinners are now seek ing Abraham's (Linuoln) bosom than have before . been on the anxious seats for sume years. a - In a spreeh delivered in New Orleans on the 22d uit., Attorney General Benjamin an it nounced the conviction that our Southern inde I. pendence could not be maintained without blood d shed. " 9-_ The effcay of prayer is claimed hy the - Philadelphia Ledger because not a drop of blood y has been shed since the President's Fast Day, the t 4th of January, contrary to general anticipation. fe' Accounts from Virginia speak favorably of y the present appearance of the growing wheat. per The Fredericksburg (Va.) Herald ays that the secession feeling is on the increase in that lneighborhood. s. Acts of the Southern Congress. ySee in othier columns several Acts of public In ie tures..pxased..y the Southern Congres.. The' - are invariabily wise mand propler. The act whic "ordains an export duty on cotton has l.een carped at; liut it is feir defence, ands to exl.ire when the necessities of that defenco shall ptasi awasy, or rath eer, we migh t say, whens sur Confedleratiomn becomes -anx admitted member of the great family of . - 3tiuns. The duty is but ft sf a cent per lb. on ect. Ston ; and we are at a loss to see where it could .have been more eamsily levied, or with less strain f upon the general w.Mlare. If it nffeet the price of cotton, that i~rice will be apt to aset the prices of other things cerrespointgly. A Welcomse Thrust. .Ma. E. DF.I.A tr.n nmrr, of New York, is said , by tihe Day /io..k, to ibe " the loo.diest minded fel e .low thse R.-publicans hais e yet produced." At a erecent political meeting he was reported as say ing: " Is wcas a diwjrace to erpurntle th1e fiin eri lout c tar. If the worst should cosmne to the worset, he ewould unfurl the stars amnd stripes, andm mke the S'outherni ,S~trs do as emur forefather. dlid-gain their independencsie by sheddsing~ their ludm. [Tre mendeus anid repoissed cheers. Three cheers for the Star Spangled Llanncr.")] Right, Ma. Dx.artr.L.D. We take the place you unwittingly assign us. " Ax o~rforeAdthers did," saidst thou? We thank thee for the word. A Hecro. Among the officers who will probably be placed in high position in the arnmy of th.- South, no one is moisre truly the hero than Col. W. 11. Tr. War. gent, of Georgia. We adopt the language of one 0 who knows him well. " Col. Walker was gradlua ted in the Military Acndeun.y a West Point in the yexar lS:07, andi imixmediately entered the army, as brevet !!d lduutenxint, befo.re hei had attained his majority. It u sy I e troly said of him that he has t fought his way" up~ to the piositioni which he no~w orenpies. lie tmet his etnmy for th-> first *r time upion the blo;;dy tiell of ijehecobtee, in which engaegemnent he receivedh fivme wounds. Ihis gal e hant and daring conduct npoxn that occsiosn was soon rew~arded by hisprootion to a C'nytainey, f upon limo ree..mmiedationm of Gen. Taylor, than whomn there was nu better ju-lge of the merits and worth of a sohslier. lHe was afterwairds assigned to time division comsmnded bsy General Scott in 1 the Florida war, and ina every battle fought on n that line lie gallintly su.-tained his well-earned -reputation. lai this camxpaign he renidered ardu -ous anid eflicient service for two' years. -" At the battle of Molino del 16y lhe was againi severely wounded inx a storming party, in which d elevenx out of thirteen oflicers were either killed -or aorely disabled. lie was contlined eleven mouths from the wound received ins that engagement. "Since that tinme he has becen detailed upon vs. rios duties connected with the service, among which wats the comnxmnd of the corps of Cadets at West Point, which positiont he held for two* years. " Aside from the ardsuous andi dixtinguished ser vices which ho has rendered, lie is enititded to thme promotion which has been indicasted, frm the conidratiion, that he is the ranking otlicer L65 oge Sof all the graduattes at West Point, niow itn the iCofeerate States. Hlis claims are aliso fortihied ifby the fact thathe was time lirst oficer in the atmy~ g of the late Unitedl Slates to resign his comamission, n and offer his services in defence of the rights axnd a hionor of the Souiths. Animtated by ia lofty anti virtuous patrioti.-m, isndi -.-martinig uinder a tnse e of the wronigs mind outtraiges which haid been indic -ted uponi her rights and her e.iunli:y, lie could ntc -brook delsy until his native State Geo'rgia bud - spokeni, bitt he seceded tromt the army on the very day that South Carolina sereded from the Federtal t Unioni. " In view then sof setmimrity oif rantk-of his long and gallanit services andi of his proficiey in all e that pertainis to time skill and disciplinte 01' the soi -sdier, ito mana is nmore worthy of the favrorable con iieration of our Watr Dcpat tment. - 7g The ,ttory of the cats that fisught nsuet left nothing lbut at Clot of grease is t'ld ;liut we have nly ju.-t heardt for the first time, through time -'KnicLh rhud-er, oif " that unfortunate individual n whit blew himself out through his nose entirely, For the Advertiser. MOutmic llorasr, Sullivan's Island,) February 26th, 16l. j Dear Culowl.-The Fourth of March draws igh apace. On that day, "fatal to liberty,' Lbraham Lincoln, the sectional exponent of a uctional party, will, beyond a doubt, be inaugu ated as the President of the immaculate (?' iorthern Confederacy. By the pre-concerted cc paration of tadetzky-Scott and his worse than lessian hirelings, a demuntration will, almoat to c eertainty, be made by a truculant and foul iearted mobocrat, who exults in the name of co :rcion, to rivet gyves on the limbs of a nation of Southern freemen. Every effort has been exert id, every argument has been exhausted in order in induce an infatuated and purblind dotard to listen to reason and to concede to the people of the South their inalienable and blood-purchased rights without the desperate alternative of an ap peal to the arbitrament of the bayonet. The President has shown the cloven foot. That he bas adherod to a traitorous and janus-faced policy with regard to the South all along, and has evi 'lenced himself to be the mere obsequious slave and harlequin of a wire-pulling military despot, I need waste no words to establish. The day of compromaisa is now past and gone. Hellow pro fessions and Punic faith are the order of the hour. The South has been hoodwinked too often already and beguiled into a fatal feeling of security by pharisaical overtures of concession and concilia tion. Jacta est aleo ! It is the eleventh hour now for " Patriarch" Lincoln and beetle-browed Scott to think of em ploying the rod of coercion in chastising the Southern States into submission, or withetheir "mercenary Swiss who fight for pay," to prevent the ensign of the Palmetto and the creecent from floating proudly over the Capitol of a Southern Confederacy. President Buchanan has peremp torily refused to comply with tho demand of Col. Ilayne to surrender Fort Sumter. The refusal of the renditition of that stronghold, per se, should be adjudged a sufficient foundation for a formal leclaration of hostilities between the South and the North. Notwithstanding this, bundry wise aeres and " counts of Solomon" ignore the idea of a war between the North and the South. The war, they over-confiduntly allege, is restricted to tbb " poet's corner of the Charleston fercusry." I ta not so sure of this by half. It is true a some what different direction has been given to matters in consequence of the election of Jefferson Davis to the Presidency of the Provisional Government. But there is no occasion to concludo that our pro visional President will adopt a regimee of policy tm-iterinilly foreign to the one meditated by Gover nor Pickens, and to entertain the conviction that Fort Sumter will not be assaulted before the ides Af Marck detnands the incredulity of a St. Thom as. The flesh-?ots and penny-a-liners of the Federal Capitol are blatant uegue ad nouseui in the 'expression of their maudlin admiration of Maj. Anderson. But it is an inEult to common intelligence to maintain that the forcible occupa tion of Fort Sumter by United States troops is not a most flagrant infraction of international law. It is curious to reflect what an exaggerated apicion obtains in certain quarters touching An .lorson and his preparations for defenso. Of one thing we may rest assured : whether his prepara. :ions are of such a magnitude as they have been represented or not, every exertion will be made, by fair or foul mens, to reinforce the bastion which he occupies. Lincoln's Indianapolis speech is a plenary eartest of this asseveration. In fur heranco of this view litten to the Springfield Illinois) Journal, Lincoln's home organ. That otncompromising sheet says :--"We should net talk about compromise while the flag of the tral or floats over an American fort, and the flag of our country trails in the dust. Until that flag is unfurled over Moultrie, and every other stolen frt, arsenal, custom.house, and navy-yard-until she laws of this Government are obeyed; and its authori'y recognizedl, let us never talk about compromise. Let the stolen forts, ursenals, and tavy-yarda be restored to the rightful owners tear down your rattlesnake and pelican flag, and run up the ever-glorious stars and stripes-die bian policy with regard to Fort Sumter has missed the golden opportuni-y of n aking exclusively her ula all the glory accruing from fr.rcing Anderson to strike his colors. She mast now rest content to, share this glory wIth her co-confederate States. Go v. Pickens by flailitng to aticil.ate and arrest Anderson's recherelae mavement in the evacuation of Fort M' ultrie and the occupation of Fort Sumter placed Charleston in the same awkward attitude that Gov. Brown saved scavannab from by his opportune seizure of Fort Pulaski. What la Costa de los ('ontrastea-the Coast of Vexation -was to the Discoverer of the New World, that, and more, has been Fort Sumter, since the Presi dential contest, to the Sta'e nf South Carolina. To sum all up in a word, it naust capitulate what ever he the effur'on of blood. It mst be ours if it cost ten thmn.sand lives to take it. The Edl,ejeld Rifton.n :i:e n >w enca e:ed at Thompson's l'oiut, east en I of th.: Islan.l. Truly ! W. K. !.. rar 'Tb.- correspondent of the Charleston Yer cury, front Sentgomery, writes that President Da via has vetoed the act of the Southern Congress in relation to the African slave trade. We see no mnention of the matter in any other of our ex changesz. 0 BITU?1ARY. DU : rD this life, in this Village, on the 5th inst., of 4Aonsumptiomn, MRLS. JANE M. WOOD itUFF, wife ef Mr. SAitU,'L Woonnta'F, in the af6th year of her age. Religious Notice, Th~e next meeting of the Edge field Aseeition .d Bible Society, will Ibe held at Chesnut Rilge Church, on Friday before the fifth Sunday of the present month, Elder J. F. Patrnsos to preach at 11 o'clock, A. M., Eler D. D. Bat'asos, a-n $Sturdlay at 11 o'clock, A. M., and Elder L. R. tilvw..v~ to) preach a sermon relative to the cir eulation of the Bible, on Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M. WM. P. H IL L, Pres. A. B. S. Mar 12 I t 10) Religious Notice. Tut' next Fifth Sabbath Union meeting will be held with the Mt. Lebanon Church, commencing on Friday before the 5th Sabbath in March, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Elder S. P. Gwrzyax to preach the Introiluetory Sermon ; J7. P. MEALtxG, alternate. Wxs. L. Ccanar to preach the Charity Sermon ; J. S. M~cAsuws, Alternate. Quaery lst.--Can an unordained person admin ister the Ordinatnces ? Query 2d.--Is it right for 1 ievers to marry unbhelievers. J. S. MATHEWS, Moi~erator. G no. W. Nt cos, Clerk. Medical. W S. CANNON, M. D., having located e in Beech Islandt, offers his P'rofessionnul wrviees to the public. Office and residence at Mr. S. J. M. CLAat's. lUcecha Island, Mlur 9, 1961l. 6t 10 96 Rifleman, Attention. YrOU will appear at Edgefteld C. H., on Satur Iday the 16th dlay of March itnst., to elect Coinmtis-ianed andl nton-Cummtissioned Otftcers. It is desired that all the mnemubers of the Company should attend promnptly. 'T110S. G. BACON, C..l. 7th Rteg't. Jail. A. Doztr., 1st Sergt 916 Ritfleanen. M ar 13 tf 10 Shingles, Boards, &c. T lIE Subscriber will furnish to, order and de liver HEWED TIMBER. BOARDS, SHIN. 0 LES, L AT HS, &kc., ut the usual prices, arnd will till all orders promptly. He piromises satisfaction to all who may favor him with their patronage. He inay at all titaes be fotund at hir father's resi dence four miles from Edgetield C. IH L. DELOACII, Mar 13 tf 1 Notice. A. L pcrstons having demands against the Es tate of Reosola Blalock, dee'd., will please hand thetm ini to me, Isroperly attested, immtedi ately. -P. R. IBLALOCK, Ex'or. N a. oIf 1