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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
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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
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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
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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,