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Tc'empbcd to the <-'harleston MercuryWASHINGTON DISPATCHES. Washington, March 19.?The Commissioners from the Confederate Government have ohanged their policy. They do not now require or expect an answer from the Administration on the subject of their recognition for a week or ten days hence. Gov. Roman held his first conference with his colleagues to-day. Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, it is understood, coincided in the policy of delaying the issue until the matter of Fort Sumter shali be quietly settled, and the post falls into the hands of the Confederate States. This course is Baid to be pursued at the instance of President Davis. The Abolition Administration is roundly abused by friends and foes. Lincoln is now universally admitted to be weak, vacilating and unreliable. He is afraid to take the roRnnnsihilitr r"l.her of nnnnsinp the South J J rr 0 ^ em Government, or acknowledging it. Scott seems to have reconsidered bis de termination of transferring Maj. Anderson to Fort Monroe. Whether his change of programme was made to avoid arousing the Old Dominion, or because it was thought impolitic to place a Southern officer in com mand of a Southern fort, does not appear; but it is now given out that the Major is to be sent to the Barracks, at Governor's Island, New York, to superintend the recruiting servioe. I am reliably informed that the new Ministers will be instructed to propose to England, France and Spain a formal guarantee of their talked-of protectorate over Mexico, and also assurances to Spain of the undisturbed possession of Cuba, provided these great powers will refuse to recognize the independence of the Confederate States. It is estimated that there are between five and ten thousand applications already for appointments connected with the Postoffice Department. The number of letters daily received is unprecedentedly "large, sometimes amounting to six or seven hundred. Nineteen clerks are engaged in attendiog to them. The applicants for employment in other departments of the public service are correspondingly numerous. In the Senate.?Mr. Douglas' resolution was taken up. Clingman, of North Carolina, argued that the inaugural meant war, and that war was the real purpose of the Administration Within the last three days, he said, he had been informed that heavy guns and large reiuforcements had been sent South to take possession of the forts in North Carolina, Virginia and elsewhere. Hale, Chandler and Simmons replied.? And then, after au exesutive session, the Senate adjourned. Washington, March 20.?The Southern Commissioners received despatches from Montgomery, but they contain nothing of special interest. The Commissioners are exceedingly anxious to hear from Charleston to-night, in order to know whether the Administration is acting in good faith. They have received semi official intimations that the Federal troops would be withdrawn to day. One hundred and fifty volunteers from this city have offered their military services j to the Confederate States. They are ready to leave as sood as an answer is received that they will be accepted. Among the late confirmations by the Sen ate in Executive session, was that of First Lieutenant Theodore Talbot, of the garrison of Fort Sumter, to be Assistant Adjutant-General with the rauk of Captain. It is now generally conceded that an ex-! tra session of Congress must be called to get the government out of its present plight. Nobody believes that Lincoln means to shoulder the responsibilty either of surren dering or attempting to hold the Southern forts. The problem of replenishing the treasury begins to loom up with a very serious aspect. The Morrill tariff, denounced without stint by friends and foes, will not uiend matters. The Union, in fact, is financially, as well as politically defunct. In the Senate, Mr. Hale offered a resolu tion (which lies over) providing that the Senate shall adjourn on Saturday next at one o'clock p. in. It is thought that the i resolution will be agreed to, and the ad-i journment take place. Mr. Douglas* resolution being taken up, j Mr. Bayard of Delaware, said that the cri-1 sis which be had long anticipated had at ( length culminated. Seven States have I withdrawn from the Union. He intended j to offer a resolution, giving the President, power, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to enter into a treaty with the Confederate States, and thus avoid the only alternative left?civil war. He explained; toe elementary principles ot Government, and defined the relations belweeu the State and the Federal authorities. Secession, he said was not among the reserved powers of the States, but revolution was a common; right. He considered the present state of j affairs as revolution, and in this connection! the will of the majority was to be consider- j ed the will of the whole. Insurrection and i violence in a State might be put down by the law, but you cannot meet the collective act of a collective people except by war or peaceful negotiation. When revolution comes, it cannot be met by the law of treawm. Allegiance is due to States as well as! to the Federal Government, and the law of domicile must necessarily govern the case in which a State has departed from the Federal Government. This speech of Mr. Bayard produced a great sensation. After a short Executive session, the Senate adiourned. Washington, March 20,-9, p. m.?It is reliably reported to-night that LiocolD intends to maintain the military status of the Gulf forts. Capt. Frazer, of Mississippi, and Lieut O'Bannon, of South Carolina, both of the army, have resigned their commissions. Intelligence received here by telegraph states that foreign goods are arriving in St. Louis in considerable quantities via New Orleans Washington, March 22.?The correspondents are in agony to day. There have been no new or startling developments.? The impressiou seems to be steadily gaioipg ground, that Lincoln means to withdraw the Federal troops from the South, as soon as the rage and mortification of bis supporters bave had a little time to cool down. Jo the Senate Mr. Douglas' resolution vu taken up. Mr. Bayard concluded his argument of yesterday. He favored a recognition of the seceded States and a treaty with them. j Hr. Howe, of Wisconsin, opposed the resolution. He doubted whether the War Department could answer the call, and if it could he did not think it would be judicious to do so. He said that it was the I fixed purpose of the Administration to maintain the authority of the Government over the whole United States?not its authority over this or that section merely.? They would try peaceful means, if peaceful means will suffice. He would admonish Senators that if another revolution is to be thrust upon us we shall take special care that future historians may not be compelled to record that, with the friends of Union were found only the semblance of the "Cowboys" of the Revolution. The Senate then went into Executive session. The two indictments against ex-Secretary of "War, Floyd, in the court here, have been dismissed as untenable. The first was for conspiring to defraud the Government.? The District Attorney stated in open court, that there was no evidence to sustain the charge, and with the leave of the Court, he entered a nolle prosequi. The second was for malfeasance in office, in issuing acceptances. The indictment was ordered to be quashed, as it could not have been maintained. It is believed universally here, rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, that Fort Sumter will certainly be evacuated speedily. It is considered equally certain that Fort Pickens will not be reinforced. It is now known that the four vessels chartered by the government at New York sailed with sealed orders. The reports concerning their destination, therefore, were mere speculation. It is said that they took no troops but abundant supplies of arms and provisions. There was some excitement in the neigh-' borhood of Alexandria and Washington today, in consequence of discovering a Urge number of boarding pikes, covered with leaves, on the farm of Louis Bailey, of Fairfax county. Mr. Bailey took them to Washington for sale. Subsequently they were purchased by Virginians, and are to be sent to Richmond, it is stated, to move the scales from the eyes of submissionists. An investigation shows that they were the property of a gentleman deceased, who had a contract to supply the navy, and they were rejected. The mystery is, bow they oame to the place where found Washington, March 24.?The Southern Commissioners yesterday paid their first visit to the State Department. The particulars of the interview have not transpired, but the Commissioners appear to be well satisfied with the manner in which affairs are progressing* Mr. Forsyth left by this afternoon's train for New York. He wili be absent several days. Gen. Ben. McCullough, of Texas, is now in Alexandria, Virginia. The Abolitionists are boasting that they will have him arrested if he should come to Washington. Fox, the special envoy of Lincoln to Fort Sumter, reached here on his return yesterday. The Administration keeps its secrets oarefully, and no one knows what account Fox has given of the state of affairs in Charleston harbor. It is presumed, bowevever, that his story was not particularly encouraging. The doings in the Senate yesterday were not of any special interest. The Prospect in the North, I find that it is the general belief of all who will venture to look the matter in the face that the country generally is to be sopplied with imports from foreign countries through ports of seceded States, and which pay duties in those ports, and enrich the exchequer of the Confederate States at the expense of the Treasury of the Federal Government. The true question to be met is not whether the Federal Government can collect revenue in the ports of the Southern Confederation, but whether it can collect revenue anywhere. It cannot be denied that public anxiety concerning the condition of the country has been greatly increased the past week ; that the apprehension of a terrific war has quickened ; that the Union men of the Southern border States have become discouraged, and will have soon to J yield to the pressure of sympathy with the j seceded States; that commerce is about tor be seriously disturbed or destroyed; that the business interests of the North are to be more than ever depressed ; and that the! Government of the Confederate States is resolved and determined and fully prepared to attack this city (Washington) with an overwhelming force upon the first indication of j aL _ r - a _ _ A r _ _ r tt l _ a ~ i me mieotiou ui uiuoviu to upirjr uiji uic policy of force which they believe his Inaugural to foreshadow. Every Southern State is prepared to unite with the Government of the Confederate States in war agaiost the Lincoln Government, if the latter really attempt coercion or semi-coercion. Military men say that for the purpose of carrying out a coercive policy and to retain this city, the Lincoln Government must have an army of 300,000 men, the cost of the support of which will be three hundred millions of dollars. The Republican leaders in the Senate, and the Republican press generally, all deuy that Lincoln's policy is peace. They deny'that the evacuation of Fort Sumter is intended as a measure of peace, but merely of military necessity. They demand the call of Congress to confer on Lincoln the power and means to initiate piyil war, though they know they will be run out of this city in sixty days after they shall have attempted to carry out a policy of force.? Washington : Correspondent of N. Jr Jour, of Com. Obituary?WILLIAM MAXWELL MARTIN, son of William and Margaret Martin, heads of the Columbia Female Column ^;0,i of T?nKrnorn loof in iKo I "-B"' "" v ^ ? city of Columbia, S. G., iu the 2-fth yearj of his age. He was a young man of rare endowments. His immediate ancestry, in the paternal line, were from Mecklenburg county, North Carolina; his great-grandfather, besides other revolutionary services, commanded a {company at "King's Mountain;" in the j maternal line, they were from Dumfrieshire, {Scotland. The Bard who fras immortali! zed the Shire was not his superior as a i i poet, at his age. In some respects they {were alike ; in others they differed widely. They were both tender in sentiment, {sparkling in wit, and glowing in fancy; both appreciative of nature in all her aspects ; both sportive and grave by turns, and both convival, sometimes to a fault.? But the errors of the one were life-iong, of the other, brief. The one was often a leader in forbidden pathf?; the other, only a follower. The faults of the one were ae- i rious; of the other, venial. The first gavej a charm to vice and a pang to virtue, by i the witchery of his verse; the last, never, j At the precipts of the grave we drop the! comparison. During the funeral obsequies | of the deceased, his remuins reposed ou the, I spot where he received the ordinance of: ibaptism in his infancy, and gave his hand! to the Church in his early boyhood. His last public address was on "Patriotism and the last scene of his life was a beautiful illustration of it. He was among the first to volunteer in the service of his State, after her second Declaration of Independence. He was assigned to the defence of Fort Moultrie. Here he renewed his covenant with his Maker; and now, uniting in himself tbe Christian, the scholar, and the soldier, be discharged his duties to the admiration of every one. Called suddenly from his bed to his gun, upon a raw and chilly night, he neglected the proper precaution for shielding his person from the severities of the season. Exposed to them through many hours, he contracted the disease which terminated his existence. He lived to reach the paternal roof, leave to his parents the best consolation in their bereavement, and died?the first martyr to Southern Inde pendence. A. B. Longstreet. ?ib ?0AuiIfo #Epiw. YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1861. 0(7-Mr. John R. Allen, Post Master at Chester, is our authorized agent; and fully empowered to receive money for this office, and give receipts for the same. COM.. cases where subscribers do not take the Esqcirkr from the post-office, Post-Masters are requested to noufy us immediately. QETTLE UP!?ALL PERSONS lO indebted to the undersigned by open nccount, previous to the FIRST of JANUARY 1861, arc hereby requested to close the same by NOTE at an early day. h. M. GRISJC^ ^CHESTER A POET OP ENTRY. ' We learn from a private source, that Chester has been made a port of entry for goods coming from the United States into the Confederate States. Mr. William T. Robinson, the very efficient and energetic agent of the Charlotte and S, C. Railroad, has been appointed Collector of Customs; and will, we presume, enter upon the duties of the post immediately. JUDGE LONGSTREET. Judge Longstreet, owing to the ill health of his wife, has left Columbia for the west, ; and it is doubtful whether he will return to the post of president of the S. C. Colle.-.e. lie has endeared himself to the people of this State; and all will regret his depar ture. His name is the synonym of public ; spirit, and whatever is beautiful, tender, generous and manly in sentiment. May a kind Providence speedily restore him to , the College which he has governed well and wisely, and to the State which loves ; to honor his name. A WORD OP CAUTION. Latterly we have seen quite a number of warnings in our exchanges, in regard to counterfeits on banks in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.? We mention this fact that our mercantile and business community may keep their eyes wide awake, and not blink them at all.? "Forewarned is forearmed." There are two many cases of counterfeiting for us to give a specific and minute description of each, but this renders a bright and constant look out only the more important, on the ( part of those handling money. A counterfeit detector is a valuable thing to have at times; but a watchful and practised eye is , no less so. "OUR SOUTHERN FLAG." This is the title of a spirited National Song written by cur esteemed and valuable contributor, Mr. Samuel L. Hammond, set to music bv Mr. J. P. Caulficld, and pub lished by Geo. F. Cole, 179 King Street, ^ Charleston. This song, which is destiued, we thiuk, to become a favorite, is dedicated to the Citadel Cadets of South Carolina ; and was composed while the author was on sentry duty at Fort Johnson. It is a sudden flash of sunlight round the grim edges of the war-cloud that ha9 hung its gloom for the winter over the harbor of Charleston. Our friend should carefully cultivate the art of song-writing, and those natural and joyous gushes of spontaneous feeling, melody and beauty, will bring to him an enviable name. THE POSTAL SERVICE. The Post-master General of the Confederate States, has issued a couple of circulars to post-masters and contractors for mail routes, the substance of which we give to our readers. Post-masters will act under thoir contracts with the United States, until this Department of the Confederate Government can be organized, or the United States refuse to carry the mails for the seceded States. In the latter case, Postmaster General Reagan is authorized by proclamation to continue, provisionally, pre sent Post-masters, and to enter into new contracts with parties carrying the mails.? No change whatever will be made until one or the other contingency arises, owinir to the impracticability of mixing the employees of two governments in one and the same servjpe. STATE TAXES. It has been said by our enemies that the people of South Carolina were taxed beyond endurance, but the facts of the case will do anything else but bear them out in this egregiously false assertion. The taxable property of the State is estimated to be 17,500,000 acres of land which valued at only 86 per acre (and it is nigher worth 812 or 15) is 8103,000,000; 386,000 slaves, at 8700 per head, 8270,200,000; and taxable Sundries, at S73,000,000?making a Total of 448,200,000. The requirement of the last Legislature was 8800,000 of revenue.? This, distributed CO an ad valorem basis, would be a tax of only 173 cents on every huudred dollars' worth of property. The land tax, especially, is little more than nominal; being, as estimated, one cent and three mills, two cents and six mills, five cents and two mills, eleven cents, or . * t . twenty one cents?as tne case may De?on an hundred dollars' worth of land. This arises from the fact that the lands of the State were diyided forty-five years ago into ten classes for the purpose of taxation, and no change has since been made in the classification. These lands, according to the class in which they were placed, were then valued at from 20 cents to $26 per acre; whereas, they are now worth from, 810 to 8200 per acre. The tax is levied upon the valuation made 45 years ago, and not on the basis of present value. There is no ground for the maligning assertions in regard to our taxes, except it be stupid ignorance or unscrupulous animosity. Our taxes are as light as they should be, to keep up an awakened interest in the affairs of government. "Nobody is hurt" in this quarter, by excessive taxation; and we have yet to hear the first expression of discontent from anybody. THE CEY OP "PEACE, PYACE." We are not disposed to sound a false alarm; but we wish to say to our readers again, that we regard the permanent settlement of our difficulties as yet to be achieved either through blood itself, or such argus eyed watchfulness and thorough preparation and readiness to defend ourselves, as will render the abandonment of all schemes of coercion a "military necessity." Fort Sumter is to be givea up; but what does that signify ? It i3 no concession to South Carolina, or the seceding States The desiign is to lull the border States, until the folds of the anaconda of Union can be wrapt about them. A Richmond paper makes the startling announcement, that the North Carolina forts art to be garrisoned and provisioned to stand a siege for one year, and that a plan has been concocted for the subjugation of the South. Norfolk, Va., is to be the point d'appui, or centre of a circle of operations, to overawe the border States, and, vi et armis, to master the cotton States. We may despise these plans for their weakness. They show, however, that hatred and treachery rankle in the breast of our adversary. Greece had her Philip of Macedoo, Rome her Goths and Vandals, who rested not till the pride and beauty of the ancient wotl$i were defaced beneath their vandalistio tread.? ' The South has her would-be Philip and Attila in Scott and Lincoln. These "veili omous reptiles" would slime over their victim before they gorge it. We have little confidence in their ability to judge discreetly in "the present anomalous situation of public affairs"; we have less in their honesty of purpose and action. They act like enemies at war. "Gentlemen may cry 'Peace, peace'; but there is no peace."? Every condition of war, except blood-sbed ?and Vi know not how soon that may come?is now upon the country. NATIVE NOBILITY. We can never cease to admire an act of disinterested patriotism and magnanimity. A soldier may do well and bravely on the field of battle, merely for his own glory; a statesman may utter lofty sentiments or do noble deeds, and it cost him nothing; but the poor widow who gives her brave boy? her only 3taff to lean upon in declining years ?to serve his country, evidenoes pure, selfsacrificing patriotism, and is, therefore, worthy to be held in lasting remembrance. Revolutions, apart from the wrongs they overthrow, and the rights they establish, are valuable because they develop in a thousand different ways, this under-current of uncalculating and sublime devotion, when right and liberty and the public weal are in jeopardy. They are, indeed, times to try tneu's souls; and the stuff a people is made . of, becomes apparent from the trials through which they have to pass. Every noble act, therefore, that marks the era through which we are passing, is in its most significant aspect, the exponent of a pervading emotion that trob3 at the very heart of all the community. But this does not detract froui any individual act that may occur. If in the midst of so much elevated patriotism, a person distinguishes himself, he is so much the more deserving of praise. No State has been more prompt to resist coercion in any shape, than Georgia; and no r.ame at the South is to-day more worthy it9 peculiar meed of praise than Gov. Brown. But Col. Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, has recently, in our opinion, shed a new lustre even upon^he Dame of Georgia, lie is a poet and a lawyer of unquestionable ability; r.nd besides possesses military skill and experience meriting promotion. Gov. Brown recently assigned him the place of Major General of the First Division of Georgia volunteers. Mr. Jackson felt that this honcr was due to Col. W. H. T. Walker, "a scar-honored son of Georgia" who distinguished himself for gallant conduct in Mexico, and who is familiarly called "the walking shot pouch", from the shot wounds he has received Fearful that his friend would object to this kindness, Mr. Jackson positively insisted that he would not accept the position in any eveut, and that Col. Walker must. Mr. Walker called and had a full, fair and frank conversation with him ; but he would hear to nothing else but his friend's becoming Major General of the First Division. IIow noble, how princely, do these men appear, each possessing admirable talent and qualification, their mutual admiration heightened by mutual friendship, parleying together, each for the privilege of elevating the other to the highest military position, in the gift of a sovereign State ! Our gratification is the very keenest at this exhibition of magnanimity. It lifts them both in point cf fact to a level with the Governor, who is the appointing power j and in point of true glory, infinitely above any mere position. THE LONDON TIMES. Mr. Wm. H. Russell, the travelling correspondent of the London Times?a man of varied experience, large and liberal views, and Irish birth and sympathies?is on a visi: to this country, North and South, ?n nrdor ronnrt n full arirl 'pun stofamiint of facts, as they are on this side of the Atlantic, for the benefit of the Timn and the English people. He is expected daily at Charleston. lie will, perhaps, make a leisurely tour through the principal cities of the Confederate States. Mr. Russell was present at the celebration of St. Patrick's day, by the Irish of N. York, aud made a speech of teD or fifteen minutes, which he said was the longest speech he had ever made in his life. He complimented us as a peoplp, on haying perfected the art of public speaking 5 but his significant remark and short, pithy speech, were, nevertheless, rebukeful of that eternal "gift of gab," whose over-use has been a potent cause of our national ruin. In appealing to Americans to hear the voice of England and of Europe for bloodless peace, he remarked : "Gentlemen, believe me, the press, wherever it is to be found, will find its freest development and its most liberal interpretation in the land where the freedom of opinion is founded upon the largest basis. And we, who are the children of the press, great and small, in England, shall grieve deeply indeed, if all our arguments are set at naught, and if all our words fall dead and listless by seeing this country rent by the opposition of two great parties where we hoped to find unanimity in the cause of progfeso and in the cause of liberal representation." The London Timea is the leading paper of Great Britain, and, to a large extent, forms and controls English opinion. This mission shows the catholic liberality of this journal, which is cosmopolitan in its views, 1 though English in its influence. We of 1 the South, have everything to hope from ' such a frank, straight forward, practical course of conduct. The English people will rely upon Mr. Russell's statements: and we believe from his history, which ie marked with all the evidences of honcsl and bold manliness, that he will "speak the truth in his heart" in regard to both the cis-Atlantic Confederations. Rut evidently, like thousands of liberalists in Ireland, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Italy, he has looked upon the United States as the sinecure of republics?whose downfall would crush the kindling aspirations after liberty all over the world; and he will, doubtless, write of us with the sentiment of England's greatest poet in his pen : "To plainness honor's bound When majesty stoop.' to folly." The very object of this mission is a jusi occasion to condemn a vice which is growing upon the whole American people. Whj does Mr. Russell come? Because the American papers which reach England car _ -.4. 1* J A _ J _1 i. V T> uul ue icjicu uu. ivuu wuy uut : j-ieuuum they ore false to the truth, in order to b( true to party. In the hurry to get the news and the eagerness to bolster up favorit< ideas and pander to prejudice, the demoralizing stigma of unreliability has fastened not only upon notoriously vicious papers but upon the press at large. The leading journals are constantly accusing each othn of manufacturing the news and letters 0; correspondence. A cry of bitter and burning ridicule against this state of things should come up from the whole people.? The press is the great medium of populai education. Shall it be made a cheat and a delusion ? Instead, however, of public opinion and custom checking the evil, it increases it. The endless cry is "newsj news"; and the papers to appear enterprising, make news if they can get it no othei way. When the demand shall be rathei for truth and information, the press will become more reliable. Though Mr. Russell's mission, then, may serve a peaceful end; now when falsehood rules the hour, the lov ers of solid prosperity aod permanent peace, may pray for the time when a purified and elevated press will banish the need of anj such mission. MERE-MENTION. The Alabama State Convention has adopted an ordinance, providing that the General Assembly of the State of Alabama shall cede a District of ten miles square for a seat of Government of the Confederate States.*" Since the 15th of Decembei last, the sum of 319,320,455 in specie ha< been imported into the United States from Europe. About forty clerks are required in the respective departments al Washington, to read and file application* for office. There are nineteen in the Posl Office Department alone ! There are now no cadets at West Point from the seceded States. Last week, Mrs. Harper, daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, died at Baltimore. She was presenl as a child when Washington resigned his commission at Annapolis. Her picture may be seen as one of the two auburn haired girls in Col. Trumbull's painting, in the rotunda of the National Capitol. We notice that Charleston aod Augusta are des ignated ports ot entry ana delivery "until other arrangements are made," for good* imported from the frontiers of the United States. The decrease in the receipts of cotton at all the ports to latest dates amounts to 712,658 bales. This deficiency is affecting prices in some of the markets. The stock on hand shows a deciease from that at the same time last year of 437,216 bales. The Treasury Department has received information that the Texas authorities have seized the United States vessel Guthrie., which supplies oil and provisions to the light-houses on that coast. The Cincinnati Enquirer notices the departure from that city, on the 18th inst, of a splendid pair of dark bay horses, designed as a present to Mr. Yancey, from Benjamin Robertson, Esq., of Kentucky. Two large buildings, embracing the only hotels in Laurens, was detroyed by fire lust Saturday night. The origin ol the fire has not transpired. The loss was about 820,000. No insurance. Only one of the hotels was in use. Some writer has suggested that the new Southern Confederacy be called "The Panola Repub lie." Panola, he Bays, is the Indian name for Cotton, and would be the most appropriate title by which the young Republic could be designated. The sugar crop of Louisiana for last yeai amounted to 228,753 hogsheads, at the ratio of 1150 pounds each; the molasses crop amounted to 18,414,550 gallons.? Steam engines are used on 1009 Louisiana sugar plantations; 283 are operated bj horse power.* Samuel Marshall, a well known citizen of Abbeville, died on Thursday week. Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria, will visil Canada this summer, and travel by aboul the same route his brother did. He will arrive in June.*"<*The postage stamps for all the postoffices in the United States are manufactured by a firm in Philadelphia The number furnished by them last yeai was 223,867,270, of the value of 86,218,310. The increase from year to year is very large. The Massachusetts Personal Liberty bill has been revised and changed so as not to conflict with the Fed eral Constitution. Attorney Ceneral Wharton, of Mississippi, has given an official opinion, to tbe effect that the licenses of "various foreign insurance companies" cannot be renewed in that State. The reasons assigned are, that the Stat? code requires the agents of such companies to furnish satisfactory evidence that each company is secured by investments in stooksheld "by oitizens of the United States," and that as "the United States" no longer exist, the agents cannot renew their licenses. The Pennsylvania papers are opposed to an extra session of Congress, fearing that the Morrill Tariff bill would be repealed or modified. General Twiggs has declined the appointment of Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army, on account of feeble health."?Col. H. P. Watson, a native of York District, has been appointed Adjutant-General of the Staff of Major-General Clemens, of the regular army of Alabama. Hinton llowan Helper, author of the "Impending Crisis," is an applicant for the Consulship at Manchester, or Southampton, England. We learn, says the Savannah Aretvs, that Hon. Henry 11. Jackson declines the appointment of Judge of the District Court for the District of Georgia, teodered him by President Davis.'" "Hon. W. Porcher Miles, on his return from Montgomery, brought with him the original flag of the Confederate States, which he presented to Mrs. Pickens, with the request that she have it hoisted over Fort Sumter, A I few days ago four wealthy planters from > Maryland, one owning a hundred slaves, ; passed through Rome, Ga., on their way to ) Alabama, to purchase plantations with the t intention of settling in the Confederate ! States. Over one hundred recruits ; for the regular army of the Confederated States have left Baltimore for Charleston. ? ? , THE CONTRAST. , While Lincoln's government is prostrate [ and helpless, the South, without a single r blow, by dint of the justice and greatness of ( her cause, has completely achieved her in5 dependence. The people of the North are divided, and hold their leaders in check ; the people of the South are united, and rea dy to yield a cheerful obedience to constit tuted authority. At the North they have I the old government, and anarchy in em. ' bryo; we have a new government, with or der growing out of it, contentment and a 1 brightening future. The Northern loan at ! 12 per cent., goes at a discount; the South5 ern at 8 per cent., goes at a premium. The i Morrill Tariff, with an average duty on im5 ports of 50 or P>0 per cent., will, it is cod" ceded, bring no revenue to Lincoln; the ' Southern revenue bill, with duties avera? ging 12 or 15 per cent, only, will abundant lv meet the wants of the Confederate Treas| u:y. Lincoln wants war, but is not preparj'l for even a dignified peace; Davis wants ' peace, but is able and willing under heaven, i to meet the issues of either. editoeiaiTinklings. 1 "The Aurora" is a Southern Lite! rary Magazine, published at Memphis, at : 82 per annum, and edited by D. A. Hoi, man at the office, and Edwin Ileriot at Charleston. It has a ladies' feature. The - y . r A. . i? *. 1 oi ! list or coniriDUtors is large. oiuries, es says, poetry, criticisms and costume pio tures, are leading attractions of the magai zine. 1 That excellent and diversifiedly in' teresting journal, the Charleston Courier, 1 for Saturday, says: "Mr. D. W. Came1 ron, the gentleman who fingers the telegraph wires at Branchville, S. C., sends us a minute specimen of that well known vegetable, the Irish Potato. He informs us that it is the produce of this season, and was unearthed from his garden." Where upon we infer that this season is very "proI ductive,". and the potato must have been 1 quite an "unearthly" sight at this early day. The Virginia Methodist Conference, lately in session at Staunton, repudiates the ' "new chapter on slavery," introduced into ' the discipline by the Northern General Conference. They regard it as not law; " and recommend their members to ignore it entirely. The last resolution of a series " passed on this subject, reads : Resolved, That we utterly condemn any attempt, in any way whatever, to interfere with the legal relations of master and slave, and that we will seek to protect, as did our ' lathers, their best interests, by preaching to 1 them the unsearchable riches of Christ, ' and by teaching them their reciprocal duties as taugh' in the Holy Scriptures, j Nothing more than the facts connected with raising the Confederate luan of I 815,000,000, shows the confidence at home i and abroad io the permanent and dignified I establishment of our new Government.? ( The Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Confederacy says: "A distinguished politician of the r North came on to Montgomery last week with offers for the whole of the fifteen million loan at par, the bid being made by I English capitalists. We learn that Mr. ! Memminger declined the negotiation, preferring to give domestic capitalists the refusal of the bids. Since this offer was ( made we have been told that New Orleans takes ten millions, and a Georgia house five, all at par!" Some weeks ago, just before the Convention election of Texas, a letter villainously slanderous of South Carolina, appeared in a little sheet published in Texas, purI porting to have been written by one Judge Robert Lyon, of Abbeville. The letter ? declared that ten thousand negroes had left i our State; that the taxes were insupporta. blej that everybody's property was confis, cated by the secession party in power; and i mentioned one man?the Judge himself^ we believe?who had ?27,000 in bank stock, i and, poor fellow ! had e\ery cent of it taken . from him. There was more of the letter, > but this is enough to show the reader its character. You cannot conceive of the chuckling , gusto with which the Abolition press and a , few papers of the border States, published and circulated this letter as "high authori( ty." It now turns out to be a complete r falsehood ; and was probably designed i merely to influence the Texas election. No ( such man ever lived in Abbeville. It is . highly probable, however, that the majority ' of the papers which have published this ! slander on South Carolina to injure her fair I name, or to stultify the border States, will i leave it uncontradicted, now that its foul s character is seen. So much more ready are we, often, to injure without cause in or^ der to gratify prejudice, than to make amends for the best of . reasons, when it goes i against the grain. The interesting correspondent of the | Charleston Courier from Montgomery, thus . speaks of the Alabama Convention which | is in session in that city: "It is really the best exhibition of the ) irue l/eiuuuruuy, iu ita uiigiuai, ^euuiu-j ' signification, to be found in tho limits of the . South. Not the wild, turbulent, unman. ageable, crushing together of the ignorant . "sans culotte," nor the faotious assemblage . of political demagogues, but the dignified, [ liberal, generous representatives of thepeo[ plo. Those who meet together for the ben. efit of the public and not themselves; those, whose ambition is laid out upon their coun. try, and not their cloth?s; independent, fearless of public censure, desirous of pub. lie approbation, each seems controlled by i the dictates of his own conscience, and not . the outcry of sedition. There is no display of vanity, no strivings after self-aggrandizement, no longings for Egyptian flesh pots, i The body is composed of those who have t inherited the virtues of our ancesters unmingled with the vices of the present day. No one seems apprehensive that his motion won't pass because he has not clothed himself with broadcloth. One may see members occupying the most prominent positions in the State, whose elbows are not confined within proper limits, hqt seem to have been eminently successful in their struggles for independence and liberty. The want of an odd shoe string, or the loose flowing cravat, is not a national dishonor. The homespun coat, the cotton vest, and the untanned shoe, are no signs of poverty or neglect of j person." I The Washington States says that tele grapic dispatches from the South announce the departure, via Havana, of the Hon. Mr. Maon, the Hon. Mr. Rost, and the Hon. Mr. Yancey, Commissioners to the European Powers from the Southern Confederacy. We do not doubt that they will be received both by England and France. As to the success of their mission, beyond the procuring of the recognition of their national independence, an opinion can hardly be formed with more positive information conceriing their detailed instructions. In a general way, however, it may be presumed that England and France will be loth to shut their doors in the face of the peculiar credentials which these gentleman bear. We are not so much an idol, or so great an enemy, of "King Cotton," as to be blind to one or two facts, which make him a very potent monarch, and nowhere more so than in the realm of the British crown. Close up the Southern ports, shut oat the Southern trade, and cat off thereby the supply of cotton, and we would very soon see how susceptible hia majesty is of the ridicule heaped upon his old, white, tough head by certain Abolition newspapers. We would rather bear a tuft of cotton in our hand than the credentials of any administration. We do not doubt that the tripple commission understand this thoroughly. They are all men of ability, gentlemen of accomplished address, and are led by one of the most finished diplomats America has ever produced?the Hon. A. Dudley Mann. The annexed paragraph from the Carolinian is twice suggestive; first in view of the increasing tendency to home patronage j and secondly, in view of the forth-coming self-expatriation of many noble Virginians. No State can boast of a higher spirited people than portions of the Old Dominion. Ten thousand welcomes to those who will exile themselves rather than stay to see "the fair and beaming forehead" of their State brought to the dust beneath the heel of tyranny. But it is really sad to see abandoned to ignominy and remediless vassalage, this land of "ancient renowne," whose sons once fought on every field from Quebec to Kutaw for independence. "To the Ladies op Columbia :?We have seen a statement in the papers "that you positively refuse to purchase any goods brought, this Spring, from any Northern city, and that the merchants be advised to bring from Charleston, or from any Confederate city, imported goods, or to import directly themselves." All bail to the ladies of Columbia. We glory in your determination to become independent of your worst, and most deadly enemies. If it had been lawful to elect ladie.<? to our Convention, instead of the cowardly vien we have there, we would now be a member of the Southern Confederacy. We hope your determination will be carried into effect and adopted by all the ladies in your Confederacy, from the Atlantic coast on the East to the Mexican border on the West. Virginia Ladies, Whose husbands will take them South as soon as they can close up their business and leave." LOCAL AFFAIRS. Divine Service. We have been requested to announce that Rev. Thomas L. Allen, will preach at the Poor House, on the first Sabbath in April, at 3 o'clock, p. m. Spring. The martins?those infallible signs of rigid wiuter's flight?have made their appearance ip our vicinity. Their exuberant notes, after the snows and "black frosts" of the last fortnight, have a most cheerful and gladdening effect. "Everett's Varieties." This old and favorite company of the pleasure-loving public will appear in Yorkville, on next Monday, as may be seen by advertisement in another column. Those who are fond of comicalities, music and magic, will be gratified by attendance. The company has been here frequently, and is too well known to oar people to need a more extended notice from as. Fire. On Wednesday night of last week, a negro cabin on the premises of Mr. Moses Lindsay near Olivet Church, was consumed by fire, destroying three negro children, respectively 13, 7, and 5 years of age. A negro boy of a neighbor, on a visit to his wife at Mr. Lindsay's, saved a woman by catching her as she leaped from a window, and extinguishing her garments which were on fire. The cause of the fire is attributed entirely to accident. NEWS FROM THE STATES. North Carolina. The Southern Rights party of this State, held their proposed mass Convention at Goldsboro', on last Friday and Saturday. Fifty counties were represented on the first day; about a thousand delegates were present; and all were for immediate secession. r\? o..i. n uur oiaie VvOluluissiuuci lunuiiu uawuug, Hod. F. J. Moses, was present, and spoke, together with two or three other gentlemen. But action was the ory; no compromise; absolute aotion without delay. Men of all parties were present?men "who have met each other in maDy a hard-fought political conflict, but are now hand in hand, side by side, and shoulder to shoulder, in their efforts to save North Carolina from Black Republican tyranny." It is stated that Gov. Ellis, who has been ill for some time, is sinking under a rapid consumption. Arkansas. The Arkansas Convention has adjourned till the third Monday in August, after defeating the Secession Ordinance by four majority. This does not, however, mean "absolute submission and passive obedi >> rru 1 * ?? ?: euCc. iuu peupic uie tu vuic apiu uu iuc first Monday of August, and their voice then, adopted by the Convention, is to be law of the State. Meanwhile delegates are to be sent to a Border State Convention. Virginia. Ex-Secretary Floyd has been acquitted of the charge of complicity in the embezzlement of the Indian Trust funds. As much as his enemies disliked him, and as heartily as they wished to disgrace his name, it stands out beamingly like that of the chevalier Bayard, "Sampuer et sans reproa che." The revolution among the people of Virginia, in favor of secession, still progresses ; and is compared by the leading papers to a whirlwind sweeping over the country. The most moderate statements assure us that the "Valley" is wild with enthusiasm, while the "Mountains" are taking fire. This revolution n. occasioned by Lincoln's inaugural and the utter failure of the Peace Conference. Mr. Barbour, of Prince Edwards, a leader in getting up this Conference, and heretofore a leading Union member of the Virgiuia Convention, has come out warmly in favor of immediate accession. Prince Edwards County, which elected him to the Convention overwhelmingly as the Union candidate, has recently sustained him unanimously at a large mass meeting, in his present position. It is stated that the troops will not leave Washington, until some action is had by the Virginia Convention. Texas. The Texas Convention have passed an | ordinance deposing Gov. Houston from the gubernatorial chair, and placing Lieut. Gov. Clark in his position. "Old San Jacinto" would not take the new oath of office, aud 90 goes to the wall. What he will do is not yet known. Col. Ben. McCullough ha9 gone to Richmond, Va., to purchase arms for Texas.? He also visit Montsromerv with a view to Q V " ioduce President Davis to order a regiment of mounted riflemen to the nothern frontier of that State. The Indians are still hostile. Florida. President, Judge McGehee, has issued a call for the Florida Convention to assemble at Tallahassee on the 18th April. Gen. Bragg has prohibited supplies of wood and water to all United States war vessels outside the hurbor, by the citizens of Pensacola and vicinity. It is positively affirmed that no attempt will be made to reinforce Fort Pickens. This and the promised evacuation of Sumter tjcgin to i look a little like peace. Oor governmental Montgomery, place no reliance on these ' peace indications; and will, it is said, throw 5000 troops into the Pensacola Navy Yard at the earliest practicable day. Four vessels left New York last week for Texas to convey the United States troops from that State. It is vaguely hinted that these troops will be distributed to Key West, Tortugas and Fort Pickens. Before they enter the latter place, Southern blood will redden the waters of Pensacola bay. Missouri. The Legislature of Missouri, it is said has elected United States Senator, public printer and commissioner, all from the ranks of the secession party. This would indicate that the State is prepared to move with the border States, if war comes, or if compromises fail. The convention, however by G1 to 30, has voted down the following admendment, which puts the State on the fence: "And farther believing that the fate of Missouri depends upon the peaceable adjustment of our present difficulties, she will never countenance or aid a seceding State in making war upon the General Government, nor will she provide men and 4 money for the purpose of aiding the General Government in any attempt to coerce a seceding State." CHESTER CORRESPONDENCE. Chester, S. C., March 26,1861. Editors of Yorkvillo Enquirer: We have no Court this week. Jurors were called yesterday and dismissed. It is a question whether this law's delay is wise or not. It will certainly favor many who deserve clemency; but others will suffer because they cannot force collections from those who are able to pav. The prisoner. Mr. Brooks, who was committed for murder some time ago, will, of course, have to remain in jail in suspense for several months to come. I have been sorry to learn that Mr. Jamieson Cherry, of this District, had the misfnrtune, a few days ago, to have his barn a.. J stables, and also a fine mule and a quantity of fodder, consumed by fire. I have not heard how the fire originated. On last Saturday Col Rion, of Fairfield, who has recently been honored with the command of the Chester and Fairfield volunteers, drilled the soldiers of the Eastern portion of this District at Rich H'll. Maj. Woodward, of Fairfield, commanded the Chester Guards, in the Western portion of the District, on the same day The two companies in and near the town of Chester, were out on parade with full rahks. It is truly gratifying to see the rapid progress that has been made by all our volunteers, during the short time that has elapsed since their enlistment. I have read with great pleasure your editorials on "The Dallas Connection." I am fully satisfied that this is the time for Yorkville to bestir herself, by way of opening a medium of communication with West era North Carolina. I am also of opinion that the construction of a Railroad from Yorkville to Dallas, would benefit Chester, -ft would certainly increase the travel by this route; it would improve the receiving and forwarding business, and it would, doubtless, increase the trade in produce and ^ groceries. Gaston, Catawba, Lincoln and Burke, as well as Caldwell, Watauga, McDowell and Yancey, with other Counties in North Carolina, would, no doubt, patronizethis road to some considerable extent. If Yorkville does not intend to have the go-by given her on all hands, she must move for the consummation of this contemplated enterprise. The general impression here is that we shall have no war. If Liocoln, Chase, Scott & Co., cannot reinforce Fort Sumter, how will they manage to subjugate the South? The foolish idea of treason is already becoming antiquated. The world never before saw treason on so large a scale, participated in by the flower of the Army and. JNavy, and advocated by raany~t>fUhe wisest and be9t men on the face of the earth. It is believed that the desire for peace is continually gaining ground even amongst the Black Republicans, and that the men of the North can only save themselves from Commercial ruin, by acknowledging the Id- ^ dependence of the Confederate States, and entering into treaties with them. Trade has been very dull in our town for the last several weeks. But perhaps this is as it should be. The planters are busy preparing for the coming crop, that they may have the means wherewith to make \/ purchases. The only commercial entertainment that we have had lately, has been at a Book Auction whioh has been in progress for a day or two. Books are dull sale just at this time; the people mu9t have food and raiment, but they are not compelled to read. However, for the credit of our town, I must say that the sales have been good considering the pressure of the times, and the quality of the stock. Market Reports.?Cotton.?The prospect of a short crop, has given a stimulus to the market. We quote: Choice, 1OJ0 10.85; Fair, 10?@10?; Good, 90101; Ordinary and Inferior, 6@9. Bacon?Hog round, 13@13i; Hams,