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t . vV-v- ' : ' -.".C ' the jmcmitx Ce&ger. * ,-- ?? ^sLBaBB=5ggBBBg;,M^, 12 PER ANNUM ' S^Wtt?^?2?.'SS!* IN ADVANCE I /fliuilg nail ^ilititii jfiiuispaprc?Draatcli in tb? Irta, Sciences, litecntnre. tiiiicatiaii, ilgricnltnrc. 3atrraal Suiprnneniftits, >nrrign anil Jlnraestit Mim, anil the Blarkeis. VOLUME IX. LANCASTER C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNINU, JAN. 9,1861. NUMBER 48. THE ADDBES8 TO THE BOOTH. Tim Address or the People of South 11 Carolina, Abrbmuled in Conven ' tion, to the People of the Slavbholdiko States of tl the United StATKB. c It is seventy three years aince the Union n between the United States was inula by \ the Constitution of the Unitad States.? t During this (into, ibair advance in wealth, % prosperity and power, Ima baan with I earct-ly a parallel in ilia history of tha | world. The great object of their Union r wm external defence from the aggress- v ions of more powerful nations ; which ob t ject is now attained, from their mere pro- o greaa in power. Thirty one millions of people, with a commerce and navigation t which explore every eea, and with agri < cultural production* which arc necessary ^ to jjvery civilized people, command the , friendship of the world. Hut, unfarlu , nately, our internal peace ha* not grown with our external prosperity. Discontent , and contention have moved in the bosom ( of the Confederacy for the last thirty-five t year*. During tin* time, South Carolioa has twice called her people together in ( solemn Convention, to take into conside- j ,rat:on the aggress-ont and u:icon*tilution , al wrong* perpetrated hy the people of , the North on the people of the South.? ( These wrongs were submitted to by the ( people of the South, under the hope and ( expectation that they would he final.? . Hut such tiope and expectation have pro < red to he vain. Ins<ead of producing forbearance, our acquiescence lias only in- , atigated to new forms of aggression and outrage; and South Carolina, again as- ( aembiing her people in Convention, has . this day dissolved her connection with the State* constituting the United Stales. , The one great evil, from which all oth- ( er evils havs flowed, ia the overthrow of , the Constitution of the United Slates? ' The Government of the United States is no longer the Government of Confedera ted lie pub lies, hut of a consolidated Dein' ocracy. It is no longer a free Government, hut a desp- liarn. It is, in fact, .such a Government as Great Britain at templed to act nver our fathers ; at d which was resisted and dele tied by a seven years' struggle for independence. The Kevoltiton ol 177G turned upon one great principle, self government?and self taxation, the criterion of self government. Where the interests of two people united together under one govern mrnt, are dith rent, eecb runs*, have the power to protect lie interests by the or gantzxliun ol the Government, or they cannot be tree. The interests ot fireat Britain and the Colonies were different and antagonistic. Great Britain was de uncus of t airyuig out the policy of all nations towards their Colonies, of making litem tributary to iter wealth and power. Site had vast and complicated relations witli the whole world. Her policy to wards Iter North American Colonies was to identify them with Iter in all these complicated relations ; and to make them bear *n common with the rest of the Em pire, the full burden of Iter obligations and necessities. fcthe had a vast public debt ; she bad an European policy and an Asiatic policy, which had occaaioned the accumulation of her public debt; and which kept her in continual ware. The Jfortli American ColonWa saw their is tereata, political and commercial, sacri ficed by such a poliey. Their interests required that tbey should not be identi fied with the burdens and wara of the mother country. Tbey bad been settled under Charters wbicb gave tbem self government; at leaat so far as their property wm concerned. Tbey bad taxed ?i....... i... ..u i i . .... i?? ? 1 i - ?ihi ifNu iiccr urtu mx?u uy the Government. of Great Britain. To make them a part of a consolidated Km pire, the Parliament of Great Britain determined to assume the power of legists' ting for the Coloniss in all cases whatao ever. Our ancestors resisted the pretension. They refused to be a part of the consolidated Government of Great Britain. The Southern States now stand exactly in thd same position towards the Northern States that our ancestors in the Colo nies did towards Great Britain. The Northern States, having the majority in Congress, claim the same power of em* nipotence in legislation as the British Par jiament. ~ "The General Welfare" is the j>oly limit to the legislation of either, and 4be majority in Congress, as in the British Parliament, are the sole jadges of the ^expediency of the legislation this "Gensr al Welfare" requires. Thus, the Govern paent of the United Slates has become a consolidated Government; end the people of the Southern States are compelled to meet the very despotism their fathers ^threw off in the Revolution of I77i. The consolidation of the Government . of Great Britain over the Colonies, wee attempted to be carried out by taxes.? The British Parliament undertook to lax the Colonies, to promote British interests. Our fathers restated this pretension. They claimed the right of eelf taxation through their Colonial Legistaturu. Tfcev were not represented in the British PerHemeot and therefore, could not rightly be taxed by Us legislation. The British Government, however, offered them a representation in Parliament; but it was not suf- | Bcieat (? enable th?m to protect tbonii selves Aon tbo majority, and thay refuted tho offer. Between Uiatioo without any representation, and Uiatioo without t?f representation adequate to proteotioo there wae oo difference. In neither com would the Colonies tax themselves* Heeee, they refused to pay the u*ea laid by the British rerjianvnn t, I Ami to willi the South- Stales to >ards ?he Northern Sin'.e-, in the vital latter of taxation. They ire hi a minor y in Congress. Their npresenlion in Jongress in ustless to proteu them against njiisl taxation; and they are taxed bv lie people of lite North fo their benefit, xaetiy as the people of treat lirilain axed our ancestors in the Jritisli Parliament for their benefit. Fo the last forty ears, the taxes laid by the Congress of lis United States, hare Imn laid with a iew of aubtePMig the ii.crests of the Sorlli. 'i'lite people of tie South have >een taxed dy duties on imports, not for venue, but for an objei inconsistent lith revenue?to promote bv rirohihi : I t -J I ? I ions, Northern interests in lie productions if their mines And nianufaruio*. Tbera is nnolhei evil, inthu condition if the Southern toward# the Northern state*, which our ances'r* refused to t rear toward* great Britai; Our a nee* j ors not only taxed then-elves, but all lie taxes collected froin lain wero ex tended amongst them, lid thev sub lulled to the pretensions f the British Government, the taxes ollected from [ hem would have been expnded in other | tart* of the British Euip'r. They were ! 'uliy aware of the eft'oct otslich a policy I n impoverishing the peo;e froin whom axes are collected, ami in urn-lung those who receive the benefit of lisir expendi lire. To prevent tbe evibjf such a poli v, was one of tbe motive which drove them on to Revolution. ^?t this Biiliah policy lias been fully reali-d towards the Southern Slates, by the ^irt!.? su Slates. j The people of the Southrn States are not only taxed for the benefit of the Northern State*, but afte the taxes are ' collected. three lourths or hem nia ex j |>rjii|?J h( th* North. Tie rause, with ! others, connected with th operation of ; Llie * rfnerstl Government, Inn made the ' cities of the South provimjtl. Tneir own growth it paral) Zed ; W lit they are mere suburbs of Northei c ties. The ) soricultural jrodtutioia ohlie South are j the lasii of the foreign roiaierce of the j United States ; yet Southed ciiiva <h> not c ?rrv it on. Our foreign -tide is almost | antihtlated. In 1740 thra were live j shin yards i i South Cart na, to build ship* to cHrrv on our duet, .'trad* w.th K .r. po Between 1740 a I 1770 ill te were I uilt in these yaid''twenty five square rigged vessels, lies:as a great uiimler of aioops and ach nera, to c*r ry on our coast and Wast Mia trade. In the half cntury imnredialey preceding thu Kavoiulion, Ironi 17'Joto 1775, the population of South Caneia iiu reused spVeli loltl. No man can for a loonier, believe that our ancestor* it-tended to ttubliah over tliutr posterity exactly the tine aori of government they had overgrown. The Uieat object of thu Con&ti'lioii of the United States, in its interni operation, was, doubtless, to aucure the real end ol the I Involution?a limited We goverto mailt?a government limite to those matters only whieh were gene.d and com' iiion to all portions of the I tied States. All sectional or local interest-are re to be left to iliu Slates. By no o'lir arrange mailt would they ol tuiu free (.jvermnent, by a Constitution common toao vast a Confederacy. Yet, by gradun|Snd stea dv tn.croachn eo s on the part I the people f the North, and acquiebenie on the part ? f the South, the lirtlftliona in the Constitution Iihv? been ?*t)l away ; and (be Government of theUded Slates bat become consolidated, wiihii clnini of limitless powers in its operattof. It in not at all surprising, Ijilst sucb is il>** character of the Governntat of the United Slates, that it should lisume to possets power over all lbs iostOlions of the country. The agitations oithe sub ject of slavery are the natura results of the consolidation of the Govt-ninent.? Responsibility follows power; ?od if the people of tbe North hsve '.btpower by Congress "to promote the generl welfare of the United States," by any leans they deein expedient?why should they not assail and overthrow the institution of slavery in the South I They se res pun ibla for it* continuance or evtnnce, in proportion to their power. A uiajori.y in Congress, according to theirntercnted and perverted views, i? omnipotot. The inducements to act upon tbe object of s'a?erv, under such circumstare*, were to imperious as to amount alio-t to a moral necessity. To make, umcver, tbvir d onerical p<>Mer availabs to rule tbe Un on, the North must cosolidaie their power. It would not be iqited on any matter common to the wh e Union ?in other worde, < n any cormtutional subject?for on st ch sulj*cta livisions are at likely to exist in the No.h as in the ' oath. Slavery was strict I a sec lional interest. If this con id be sad# the criterion of the parties at the Kfth, the North eould be united in its powe; and thus carry out its measures of ettional ambition, encroachment and agotnd ze mem. To build up their sectioial predominance in the Uoioo, the Contention must U Hist abolished by constrCtion* ; bet that Iwing don*, lb* consolid>??n of the North, to rule the Sooth, by il tariff and slavery i?sne?, wm tn tba iviou* Court* of things. The Const it o lion of tha L'nitedStates Was au experiment. Tba eiprbosnl consisted in uniting under one (pvern* mant different peoples, living in dflerent eiiioataa, and having different purota of industry and institutrops. It m*t?V not how carefully tba limitations of ffch a Government be laid down in tba f|usti' lution ?its success must at least >?nd upon tha good faith of the parties!? tba ooDitiivuouNi compact, in t?rorcin/tf>em. ft > not in tb? powar of bureau lnt?i*g? F V ?WMMfc to exclude false inferences, constructions and perversions, in any Constitution ; and when vast sectional interests are to l>e subserved, involving the appropriation ol countless millions of money, it has not been the usual experience of mankind that words on parchment* can arrest power. The Constitution of tiio United Slates, irrespective of the interposition of the Slates, rested on the assumption that power wouM yie d to faith?iIihi in'egro tv would lie stronger than interest?and tli.it thus the limitations of thaConsutu lion would l.e observed. Tie experiment lifiH been fairly marie. The Southern Siatse, from tlie commencement of the Government, have striven to keep it with in the orbit prescribed by the Constitu' tion. The experiment has failed. The whole Constitution, by the constructions ; of the Northern people, has been ?b- ' sorbed by it* preamble. In their reckless lust for power, thev seem unable to coin prehend that seeming paradox ? that the more power is given to the General Gov- j ernment, (lie weaker it. heroines. Its | strength consists in the limitation of its \ agency to objects of common inteiest to ' all sections. To extend tbe scope of it* power over secliona! or local interests, is j to raise up a.aiuxl it opposition and te i sista lice. In all such liMUers, the (ien I era! Goverinneiii must uecessarilv be ? : despotism, because all sectional or ! >c?l I interests must be represent**) bv a minor' | itV in the councils ol the General Governnient?having no power is protect itself against the rule of the uiej mty. The | majoriiy, constituted from loose who do ' ' not represent these sections! or local interest-, will control and govern them A I free people cannot, submit to such a gov. ernment. And the it.ore l enlarges tintpheie of its power, the greater must la- I tlie (iissalisluciiim il must produce, am) ' the weaker it must became. On the contrary, the more it shstiins from us I tirpeck powders, and the iroe faithfully it ' adheres to tlie limitalions d the Consti | tution, the siroiuer it is made. The ' Northern people have ha< neither the wisdom nor the taith P pem-ive, that to | observe the limitations ot lo -Constitution | j was the only ??v to tin per||tuitt. TO lis: CONCU DS.D NKXTWKBK. Aff.tiis al Forts Moultrie, lumter and Castle Piuckney 1 Our reporter visitor! the I*nnd \ester j I day, ami found matters ai Kri Moultrie ! piogressmg quietly all I ..(iislictorily. j The rul btsh lell by ine l'eera! troops | is being de nied away, and lie form:*.* assuming a defensible aspect .\lauy ap. prehendeu ditlicullies, of a lature we need not name, have been reinved ; and ! ilio Voluii'oer Companies uosuititing the gnrr *oii me in -kit g uierr over the ' j hardship* of the soldier. Suoe ot the ! guns are, it is supposed, badly ojuretl hy , the biiring of the carriages Agvity pre vails al the garrison, and its vgilaiit of ticers are determined on the iur*e that guides their action. Fort Sumter, a* viewed at a distance, presents an appearance ot livel activity, Scliooners ami barges weie phtinc be twesn the fort and toe char.nl ilnm.nr i I ilie day. Everything seen.a vindicate stive preparation. 1 Caste 1'inckney wi* reinfoml in the i 1 afternoon hv n < e achmunt of th Marion I Artillery from Fort Moultrie, ilder the 1 cO'iirnaiid of Captain K ng. AdeUcli m?nt of the Waihin^lon L ght nlantry \ wm transferred Iron) the Intinr to ihe ' latter place ill (lie forenoon, tin retnin 1 ing at Fort Moultrie the name orce as < first occupied it. ' 1 he garrison at Cattle Pinckuy con* 1 sists of about two hundred me Ten |* twenty-four pound cannon are itrunlvd 1 on the ramparts, besides some tif(yn pie j ' ces?a few of whicli are casern *d?in ' ' the lower tier. The work is well pivnlrd i < 1 with munitions of all kinds, and under , ' | the command of its field olli-a, Col ; 1 Petligrew and Maj. Ellison Capey will ! 1 make itself felt, if need be, when tk time 1 comes, it is fat from being the nigndi 1 cant position of which it has the flotation. Although a defective consticiion has impaired the power of the Io?m bat* teries to a considerable extent, it ke an 1 effective tier of rampsrt guns, biuli, i from its eligible position, are capsle of 1 inncti service. It is btnond the reth of ' 1 the largest guns of Fort Sumter, and | commands li e entire line ol wiiarvoand 1 shipping along Cooper Rivi-r, and > the I hands of an enemy would be capan of | I doing vast injury to the city - C button 1 Courier, Don't iik Alakmbu ? We can delv | aasure our frieuds, who are in the ibti i of visjt'lig C-tnden at th>a season oil,* I year, that they need fear nothing ire 1 I ivftr/l f11 it,a itnull I.* * * ? I ! single case in the town or vicinity. Tlie case leporled two weeks fo, < | Wrought from Columbia, has recovad, < : mihI no new c:tses have occurred ; so ?u i | we are perfectly safe in assuming tbafco i , apprehension*, upon that ground, r|d i | l>? felt by any one wishing to visit Cg- i den.? Camden Journal. I j i The Akaknau? Colonel John C?- i ingham, having been ordered by 1 Pick en* to take command of the Arseii, ] completed this order yesterday (Soodi) ! about half past 4 o'clock. At that bw 1 | Cant. Humphreys gaVe up the comma | to Col. Cuningham. The Federal Fit I '' was lowered after a salute of 82 gur | the State troops having been drawn t t in order, preeeatiog arms. The Palme I to Flag was then aiU tied, and run li 1 I with a salute of one gun for South Car i! line. The Ar*enal is now in eommttv < 1 of Col. Coning ham, of the )7lb Ueg < 11 mem.? Charlnton Courier. j < Congressional Proceedings. 81'IChCII OF Mil. 11ENJ AMIS. W asiiinoton, Dei ember 31. III if It) Sena e M> l'u?? i, I'min the (Joinniiltee of Thirteen, haiiI iioi 1 J. *tii hi 11 c**f 11 mi I in* Ktiucted linn to report Ili-i lin-jr bad beer, unable to agree ii|?oii in? m ii:ei8 referred In them Senator Douglass sai.j lie desired to Siiilrf.M llie Snii-tia li poll tins subject, and gave u<>tire tlia' be would do so on Weil Uesilav, Oil motion of Mr It ^ler, U wan agreed that when tie St-ii ?t* adjoiin s n does ?o lo meet mi **iln?*s<ir*% next. Tin* Senate t lit-ii postponed all fort Iter consideration of Senator Crittenden's res olntions iilit11 the Monday following at 12 o'clock. Senator Wi'son tinr???lin**-ti * resolution of ftiqtim ?s the |il ii'i n -if depos't, a DioilliI ill sales. ik . it lii' ji ilt'to atiii". I^aiil mi I . alt iTli K m-'i- lfi . tot* postponed till Mm day next 8 liao-r |( jaiir-i ai'.|ie?*ti(l |liv Sen att* in h hi irm.y; speech. 11 <* deelsted ill at the crisis m.-ih iio* it |>< > the com t' x rscking i' from one exlieim* "o the otino; it had noi conn* wii'omii Mill! riftit xvwin itijis (iinul met* had raised ihetr voir#** and had lort-w .riifit In* U |?uItlit* um of l lie <1 nyo-i* that a ?x n e* I t lie til rx . \ <*i I hex had He*itt**d at 11 e*in and neirlei ti-d them li iii I: it ?a? i*i. i e Now lh naw tlit* trill Ii lt-aliz<-d. ami lilt* * * 111' I't* country *11j*tr ift? ?I and icon with d ?s?.o siotir. Soillll Carolina. be said. had al ready declared Ii**r?eif tn 'eiietideiit, and he believed that bv the n**xt week Mw-ih sippi. Koinl t and A ahaina, woubl also dei'iaie their soxeieon hi lepen detiCe and tltat Georgia, too, would noi h" far !> iiitnl them, while L'Utsiana and T**x>.s would soon f llow. The olilv question now was whelhei their independence should h*- recognized at once. or whether e vil war wi Ii all itn Concomitant evils sh *u'd he begun ? He spokes earnestly and argument* live ly in fax or of the right of secession.? lift a*-S0lti-i| tlist ill |l Kioli'jr I In- Or.l tlUlV of the O.h of I)i'ftftuil.?-r, Smith Carolina had only rep? hi 18CU, ? Iih; she Iih<I thought |?r? f?#t in t.ftr sovereign cap-icily to ' ?i in 1 788. Sim had ifin ri111 m do so, liftO iii- i i* c nipnoi which bound In i lo it va? a compact I nik?-n mi On* siile; therefore, o?* i'if Token hi fact oil inntide the nijii'iMii. iii *?h? :ini:?llv broken on nil saift* The Una ii f S sun !? >I been foriiieil mi tliis pruicp p li\ ii lit* States seceding from the old Confedera lion. lift quoted ilie debates in (hp Conven lion o' 1788-'fl t-? slimv ih?* trirli of lit > Malftiilpi I, iin?l sustained tin* po*|ion lo well considered atgiiinent. Hi* declare I tlihi Spt'i** had two clns?ftiiof remedies? tlip l?i-t c'.iss wan opposition to power usurped in I lie nanift ot i lie Constitution like Secession, and the other was againsi abuse of lha Constitution. The resnln lion nt'Oti which he was speaking denied that Secession " as r revoltn ionarv right lit* quoted tlie Mi-Leon case to show that an individual could not be held responst Me for Irs acts when carrying out the orders of hi* government, and showed that civil process must slums precede the em plovniKiit of iiih'ary foice, and that in case of the seced tig of a Slate or States. it wa* possible to no civil process.? This branch of In* subject wm argued at length, and after ail eloquent reci:ati.ui i?f the wrong* endured bv the South, con rinded Ijv saying ' "You may bring war and Jeao'aiion up n our houses?you mar devastate our holds with tiro ami word ? Von inav bring, in sert and woe upon ua. but mu en never subjugate us ?never! never! never!" The inost tuinultuoua applause follow B<], which was carried to Mich a height that the President ordered the galleries to be cleared at once. While the are* and nays were being called the order was carried into effect, so far a* the gentle men's g*l ery was concerned. The ladies were auireisil to re nam. The Senate then adjourned. In the House of Representative, a coin inunication was received from Secretary Ployed, and rear! by the Speaker, e?plain ng the nature, character and causes of Ins Acceptances stolen in the U iv-ell and llaiicv ca*e. The communication state* that the Acceptance- were not due nor payable until *?r*ne* required had been performs I, The document was referred to the Select Committee on the sinjert Mr. Thaddeus S'evens offered a re?o ulion of inquiry in relation to the public property,'.he garrisons of the fo>u. con btion of the fortifi'ution?. Ac., in Char lia'on Citv and in the Harbor The House refused to e<>naider the resolution t>y a vote o< 91 nats 10 62 ayes. Mr Stanton offered a resolution, which eat Adopted, authorizing the Committee in Military Atfairs to report At any t me upon (tie resotiiiton of inqu ry into the '?cent sales of puh ic arms to the differ ?nt State ; also, to report upon the po lition of Affair* in Charleston Harbor, tnd upon th? Charleston Arsenal affairs. Mr, l'rvor offered n resolution, ileeUr ng that anv opt ?.o preesrve the Union by tores of arms *?? Hiipracnea lile and destructive to republican lihor'y. i he resolution was '.abled bv a vote of ?8 to 66. The resolution and substitute denying the right of secession and inquiring if the present lawe were sufficient to protect he public property, and inquiring in<o be necetaily of employing the Army sn<i Vavv for 'he purpose. While 'be resolution v?a* being consid red, the llonae adjourned til Wsdnealey. lloubta were eipresscd by many )f tbs prominent members, if there will ?v?-r l>e another *t-*sion of either House? or that a quorum will ever be obtained. It in tin* general opinion amonir all that this day's proceeding* were the last of the Congress of the United States of , A ineric.'i. From tlie Charleston Courier. Harbor Fortifications. CONDITION OF FOIIT SC.MTEIt. 'I'llmiighnut the city yesterday anil tl;e j day behoe. speculation was rife as to the . condition of the different foriifications in ] the iiatlxir. Much anxiety was manifest j < ed on <lie part ol the friends of our citl- i Zens in possession of Fort Moultrie and j Castle Pinckney, while no little curiosity exhibited itself to learn what was the ' condition of the occupants of Fort Sum ter. On tins latter point there were a ! variety of rumors afloat. Some wont so j | far as to say thai the United States troops I ! would he unable to tiold out two weeks ; j ' that their provisions were of the most 'scanty character; anil that water was I I very scarce. If this he so, and if it he | true, a*- reported, that the larger one of the l is'erns is rendered useless because of Hie salt uater thai makes way into it, the soldi r-< cannot, hv any possihilitv, i hold out longer than ten or fourteen lavs All the p< una from which supplies I.. ..I.........I ...... - I 1 : ' x .... irv V/I'KIIIiou an: icii'jric i llirtti't'SSlUlO. TIii-ip is h strong guard of tbo Char Muii U ttetnen s'atinned at the L'glit , House on Mortis* is and, even if a luvti ! hij- tias n?<t I eon erected there by this tune, mi was coiiteinpla'ed. Detachments f South Ca to I ii a iroojis are in posses* ion of the |?ost at Fort Johnson, while -Millivan'* Island and Mount Pleasant, as well an lies city, are rendered inaccessible io them for supp ies. The remaining cis j inn of the f >rt it is said is so befouled wuli s agnant waier that to dr iik of it won d he o pailake of dea'.ll and disease, i'lie only remaining way for tliem to pro are wat.-r >? provisions, will be by boats or vesst-U, and even this mode will be it oil" by the email oralis and steam hor.ts thai are constantly cruising around on I lie w alt Ii. From the woikmsn, however, who hare hem employed at the foil, we learn hat there are altogether in Fort Sumter I a out fortv or lil'tv mechanics and labor* j er*, to.etuer with some seventy soldiers. A nonl i w.-Ive c iseinate g ms are mounted <n si I v Oik'ng towards Sullivan's Island, and four or live barbeltu guns which work on pivots, and can lie worked lacing ii anv direction. \\ u|i their present force diet call p a? e several guns in posi lion each day, and they have an niutn datil supply of shot and shell, and prov sums and water, to last them tor months, the cisterns lining l*'ge and en ply sup poet wild good rain water. The gun* <>f ilie Isigesl nre not yet in p si tion, nml ilie number of cannon in the tort amounts to lia 1 f its armament. Ills DAM AG It AT FORT MOILTRIK, though yet unrepaired, is neither so ex leckoe nor so irremediable as was at first thought. Under coininand of M"j or Anderson, the work wns strengthened in t truly wonderful manner, (hough manv parts of it were unfinished at the lime of the evacuation. However, this is aii so much labor saved the South Carolina troops, and under the energetic superin ' n ence of Col (jsiinn, Kngineer in Chief, and Ins ellicient corps of Ai Is, chosen p iucipahy fioir. the Washington Arttlle, rv, ti e work commenced is being luisi y pushed foiward to completon. A large force of laborers have been put to work, i and in a ?erv short time everything will be est in order. Contrary to expectolion, none of the | guns of the f.#t are materially injured.? | those that were spiked were rendered ! useless for the tune being only. The in i ?iiuine?is used to stop up the much holes were simple wrought nails, most of which have already been taken out. None of the guns were injured by the application of tar eilliei inside or outside?and the way the impression got abroad that this substance has been used by the ovactia. ting party, was from the charred appear ance of the tar always used as a coating to protect the gnna fruin the weather af t?r t wfts ' t1 frfaU" d, Carnages for thtf ||yury inch Colum ! hi*'B, bearing iiti ill ^punnet, which were hr-.ftr* or the night of evacuatum, tire he Wk*N i eon^tructed with . all possible dispatch in this city. The . in?n it.a nl.l "?? ~- r'- - r 1..,,.. ..v? - ?M tv? W.?I ^uu? IV I <lj rtU C U1 In vug "M<1 again, so that, after all, not much tune will 1?h lost. I In deweniitg the fort, military man eNy M"j"r Auderron did ma little harm to ibe work* ma n was possible fur him tarHe 111 ^tiL have done h gr?*at d<-al fonre. j i lie might have blown up the work, or | j might have injured it to such a decree I i that it would have been rendered worth ls?s even af.er h year's labor had been pent in repairing it. A* it now it, to morrow night will sea it almost as strong ly fortified a* it was on the 2Gth. TilK GARRISON AT CA8TI.E IMNCKNKY > were in must excellent spirits throughout yesterday. The discipline maintained is , rigid, and well adapted to render the post a security and reliance in time of danger. Its position renders it very valuable to our people, and with the vigilant troops j who now hold it, we may re*t aecure.? I Nothing of interest has occttreed at the post since its occupancy, and, in all liksli | hoods, nothing in the premisea will be needed but the maintenance of the present good order and watchfulness. Till WORKMEN LATELY EMI"! VEl) ON THE VoRT. A number of the laborers employed I \>y tlia United State* Government upon the fortifications of our harbor, and principally upon Fort Moultrie, came up to the city on Saturday last, after having been discharged and set adrift, to find their way back to their homes in 'ialli more as best they could. Many of them ? i. ? .1? f---' ivvn ^noon^O *711 WUilTU lilt.* JYCJfSlOJlC &IGIC, A l*;ge proportion of lliem were en. gaged in August last by Capt. Foster, U, S. A , and one of tbem an intelligent foro> ntan, called on us on Saturday, and elated that by contract made with Captain Fos ter tliey were to remain in the employ ol the General Government until their work was all finished. This would bring them up to the middle of May, w hen they were to he discharged, and their passages paid to Baltimore. About five weeks since, as the foreman states, they were approached by Lieu ten' ant Snyder, of the Army, stationed at Fort Moultrie, who advised them to provide themselves with arms, setting forth, as his reasons, that in all probability they would soon be attacked by a mob from the City of Charleston, and self pro lectiou was necessary. The workmen refused to do so, replying at the same time that they were employed by the government to work and not to fight. At a later date a suggeston something similar to the one mentioned was again thrown out by Capt. Foster, who urged them to stiller themselves to be dri'led as soldiers, lie said that if they did this they would be better prepared to defend themselves in case ol an emergency, which he be ieved was near at hand. The work men, However, eou!<l not bo persuaded in to service, nor induced to swerve front tbeir purpose. Tliev positively refused to do h:>3* other duty than such a* they had contracted to perform, hut at the in stance of the otliceraof Fort Moultrie consented to go with the rest to Fort Munler. Here thev continued to decline the lion or of a blue uniform and cross helts, and pertinaciously stuck to pick axes and spades. Under the*? circumstances tiiev were ali discharged, except three ..r lour, who were finally induced to ei Iht. OTHKIl FORTIFICATIONS. In relation to other points of defence in the harbor, a great deal has heen said on the street, and since the iill'air at Fori Sumter, there has evidently l>e< n a disposition to gitniiLle because more active steps have not been taken in throw ing up breastworks and batteries on ail available points. Those who consider the subject, however, will see that until the act of evacuating Moultrie and occupancy of Sumter was consummated, there was a mutual agreement between South Cnio lina and the Fedi-ral Government, which bound us in honor to take no act ve, war like steps. After faith was broken by our opponents ali the dispatch rtquiri'.e lias been used by a prompt aduiinislra lion to fortify the harbor as completely as poss.ble. News from Washington Territory HOUKI1ILE INDIAN MA8SACKK OF OREGON EMIGRANT*?MOTHERS BATING TIIR DEAD IIOIlIKS OF TIIEIR IlfStlANDS AND CHILDREN. Fort Walla Wai.la, ) Washigton Territory, Nov. 8, 1800 \ fbe command ol Captain Dent, United Stales Army, lias just reached this puint from the scene of the late Indian massacre, near Fort lloise, bringing; with him twelve men, women and children, who have been rescued from this mas sacre, which lias been one of the saddest which has ever occurred on the emigrant route. These wretched creatures wore found almost naked, and eating the dead bod> ics of ihwau lliat had been massacreed. and in one case eating the head of a man that had been buried for ten days. The tarty numbered forty four souls, out of which twenty nine were massacred and fifteen saved. They had moved from Wis consul up to Fort Hull, where ihey received an escort of dragoons, who guar* dud them to uear Salmon Falls, on Snake liner, when the dragoons turned back, they were left alone for three hundred miles, when they expected to reach Walla Walla, W. T. Near Fort Hoise they were attacked by rroio one hundred and fifty to two hundred Snake Indians. They fought for two days, when, finding their men failing, they abandoned every thing and fled for tbeir lives. The next day tliay saw by the smoke that their (rain had been destroyed. They moved Ait for ftAVtrrM1 m?La on f/mt ?1.a k ,w. vu ivwi, mo uiuiufra, fDniiy of them, carrying their infanta at their breast*, until they caine to a small cr> eU lined with berries, where they Tad rema ned five weeks, untti the troops found them. Two men had made their escape and gave the information, upon which Col. Wright ordered out troops to their relief. The tn ops moved rapidly, and when they came up with the emigrants it i? said that the heart of every soldier w as moved at the sadeu spectacle tb it humanity ever witnessed. The poor people, man, women and children, bowed them selves on the sand desert, where they were found, and offered up a solemn and fervent prayer to God at their most mi raculous escape, and with one feeling the soldiers swore vengeance against the savages who have reduced this band of eon grants to tins condition. Hut the most horrible sight was vet to be witnessed. They were without food or clolbiug, and had made shelters for ihemselvea out of willow* and" ?!???, and the infanta that had been t?rt\ after theii n otlier* had been mMtRond wre csteP moat ravenously, and one lady >l? two of her own children thai had died of n?r vaiion, and afterward* dug up bar owr husband, and the ire ops found his head roasting upon the fire when they readied them. They said it was not until starvation drove them to it that they could ali low t v^s? ?'? I-'- 1'? 1 1 ' j wj i?r iiiii9 rVUUl'l'U lO IJV# i | upon human flesh, and that, too, in a putrid Hate, 'lhe women liad been ravished by the hellish savages, and their naked , dead bodies bore all the marks of horri ble brutality. When will our govern* ! I inent take some action to guard and protect our emigrant roads to the Pacific r coast ? This last act calls for vengeance loud and deep, i A rumor has also reached here that i the Flathead Indians in the Hitter liool i Val'ey hail risen, and were giving great i trouble at Knit Owen. Every-tliilig has ; been done bv Colonel Wright, the com 1 mauder of this department, that a hu ( mane and noble commander could Ho, | and inuch credit is due tbe officers and troops tinder Captain Dent, for tbeir efI licietit aid and kindness t<? these ami grunts. Lieutenants Anderson and lteiio, I and Dr. Taylor, United Stales army, tbe officers with the command, did everything that could relieve these poor people in their distress. A body of troops had been sent out from this post, as it was supposed, to bring in and protect any emigrants that might he loft on the road, but the troops returned here in August, witbou' bringi ing in any emigrants. We can only trust j that the Government may lake warning I from tins, and initiate such steps as to 1 prevent its recurrence.? Corrr."j>oiidcnc? A' i\ J/erald. The following Ordinance. in reference to the reception of Foreign Ambassadots, the appointment of Foreign Agents, and the appointment of a Council of Safety, was passed in secret session and ordered o he engrossed lor ratification t STATE OK SOUTH CAKOl.INA. At a Convent ion of the People of the Niate of South Carolina, begun and ho.deli at Columbia, on tbe sevi tneenih d-iy of December, iu the tear of our 1. >r<! one ihousniiiLjflfeht hundred and sixty, and thence coWWueu by adjourn inent to Charleston, and there by diners adjou'tiiiieiits to the twenty sever.u day of December, in tbe same year : AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION or TIIK STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN RK8PECT TO THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT We, the People af the Stale of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do de, clarc and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the (iovernor shall i havo |i??tr to receive ambassadors iniu j islers, consuls, and agents from foreign powers, to appoint such agents, to lie paid out of the contingent fund, as in Ins di> cretion lie may choose to employ ; to con duel negotiations with foreign powers; to make treaties hv and v itli the advice and consent of the Senate, provided 'wo thirds of the Senators present agree ; to nominate, and hy and with the adv.ee and consent of the Senate, to appoint such ambassadors, other public ministers and I consuls, as the Get eral Assembly shall have previously directed to ho appointed and also all other officers, whose appointment otherwise shall not have been pro videclfor by law ; to ti I ail vacancies that inay happen, during the recess of the Senate, iu the olii .es to which he had the I power to nominate ns above mentioned, i hv lrrantinc commissions ?Li/.l. -halt | ; o o " ",v" pire Mt the end of the next session of the Senate, and to convene the Senate when ever in his opinion it may lie necessary. Provided, nevertheless. That, during the i existence of h Convention, all treaties and | directions for uppointment of ambassa' dors, ministers, or consuls, shall he sub ject to the advice and consent of the ' Convention or to its sspsra'w action. And it is further ordained. That the Governor shall immedi r.elv appoint four persons, with the advice and consent of this Conve itiou w'io, together with the L'eutenani Governor, shall form H Council, to he called the Kxecutive Conn cil, whose duty it shall he. when required | by the Governor, to advise with liini up : on all matters which loav he submitted | to their considerations , and that a ree' j ord of such consultations shall he kept ; Provided, nevertheless, That the Guver 1 nor shall, in all cn?es, decide upon his own Action. Done at Charleston die I w ent v seventh j day of December, m the year ol our Lord one thousand eight hundred and aixty. The Convention adjourned at 4 P M., to meet to morrow at 10 A. M Special Dispatch to Ihe (Jharlotl' . Hulle/ia Attempt at InsurrectionChkhtkk, S. C., Dec. 27 ?There waa , a family residing in Cheater by the name of Hughe*, a. d they wero notified to leave the District on account of their tr*f tic with negroes and other conduct not j becoming to gentlemen. lliey then settled in York, and lately it was found that they were drilling corn pani"a of negroes to raise an insurrection, I and the Vigilance Committee got hold of il, and thev were airested, ihe number I b?ii g found, and one waa shipped to a free Si ate, and (lie remaining three wr in Chester jail, to await a trial diis the They received fifty lashec each, and U 1, , I i..i. ? -t ..? .? ? . ...ff. iff "j1 ^ The my iwcame to be (oiiinJ out *??ev \>V <.o# of the uenr??e? / > it, I'.ft* fol I k'f '?i*efer the i' * + r< " v f" ki?' ?l< ilj "ten euh .< v im*h ?? |??ke ihn. i :irf i?!ii?? (or wjv # 1?Y "?k ! ihem ever*' flnn* *.tf ?# v .kifjjou, ouv do e?rivuk ^ l i dot.o.