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The Ports. A special dispatch to the Guardian has already acquainted our readers with the fact that President Davis has issued a requisition for 6,000 troops; "iz: 2,000 from Louisiana; 1,500 from Mississippi; 1,500 from Alabama; and 1,000 from Georgia. The destination of these troops is Pensacola, j and the object to take Fort Pickens, if it is not surrendered under the demand of the Government of the Confederate States. A number of the troops from Mississippi and Louisiana have by this time arrived at Pensacola, and the others are on their way or under marching orders. President Davis, in this instance, is acting with his usual promptness and sagacity, and in Gen. Bragg, now in command of that station, he has one of the most energetio and accomplished officers in the armies of either of the ConfedAM AIM The reinforcement of Fort Pickens seems to have been settled upon by the Lincoln Government. A special dispatch from Washington, in Thursday's New York Tribune, says: "Orders were sent by a special messenger on the 14th insc. to land the 400 troops on board the Brooklyn at Fort Pickens.? As the mail communication with that point is entirely cut off, no information has been received by the Government concerning their execution. The telegraph is in the hands of secessionists, upon all matters of this sort, therefore, the return of the messeuger must be awaited, or intelligence be received through the local newspapers. "It is not disguised that some apprehension is entertained here of a possible attack by the revolutionary army now encamped T? /-> i?f "Pirtb Ano n n/1 a* /iaim nrm n/1 A f UCIUIV JL' Ul fc X iVOVUO, UUUCl tUUi uiauu VI Gen. Bragg, tbongh wiser counsels are hoped. 'The Government does not regard this movement as a reinforcement, and if treated as sooh by the secession leaders, they must take the consequences. No hostile demonstration is designed, and no attempt will be made to retake* the other forts and Navy Yard, which were obtained by the most infamous treachei7"In transferring these troops from a sloopof-war which has been stationed at Pensacola for two months, the Secretary of War intended to protect Fort Pickens against surprise or surrender, and if their landing is resisted, re-enforcements will be immediately thrown there, be the consequences what they may." The military sagacity of President Davis was never better exemplified than in this movement. Fort Pickens is one of the most important fortifications on the Southern coast, and be foresaw that the United States would at all hazards attempt to re tain possession of it. Since he sent Gen. Bragg there it has been in a state of close seige, and we have little doubt but that he is ready to "take the consequences" of resisting the landing of these 400 troops. About Fort Sumter and Major Ander sod, we nna tDe ioiiowmg aispatcn in tne Tribune: "The assignment of Major AnderaoD to the Western Department of the Recruitiog Service, after the 30th of June next has no reference to his present position at Fort Sumter, and no significance as to the intention of the government concerning his withdrawal from there. The field officers for this duty are detailed every second year under the supervision of the commanding general. If there be any good reason why they should be employed elsewhere, others are substituted. In this particular case, if Major Anderson should be relieved from Fort Sumter, he will assume the recruiting duty, but the arrangement does not necessarily presuppose that he is to be called from that post. It is merely contingent upon the relief. All the speculations, therefore, which has been predicated upon this abstract fact are erroneous, for it is very well known here that it was a mere matter of routine, of which the Secretary of War had no knowledge until his attention was vaucu iaj it lu'uaj. This is an ingenious, if not very plausible, excuse for withdrawing Major Anderson. Id relation to Lamon's mission to Anderbod, the Tribune says : " Col. Lainon returned yesterday to Washington from Fort Sumter. He reports favorably upon the condition of the garrisoD, but is fully satisfied that reinforcements cannot be introduced without a seri ous collision, and that the attempt to introduce them would be of doubtful success with the force now at the command of the Administration. He describes the military preparations of the rebels as of great magnitude, and very skillfully made. After the reports of Capt. Fox and Col. Lamon, the President would seem to have no alternative but to withdraw Major Anderson." The Generalship of President Davis, and the energetic measures of his officers, Generals Bragg and Beauregard, will doubtless place both these important fortresses in the possession of the Confederate States. A correspondent of the Columbus Times gives us the following details of the operations at the Florida Forts: "Col. Bragg is now very busily engaged iD erecting batteries upon the main land opposite Fort Pickens, upon which the Columbiads iu Fort MeRee are to be mounted.? Three ten-inch Columbiads are already in position, and it is hoped by another week to have ten more ready for an attack. It is very well known that Fort McRee would be tenable but a short time in case fire should be opened upon it from Pickens, consequently the heavier guns are to be removed to a more suitable position. Col. Bragg thinks he has arrangements perfected that will be highly favorable in case of an attack. Very stringent orders have been issued to the people of Warrington in regard to trafficking with the fleet or with the fort, and great vigilance is used to prevent any communication with the shore. Troops are collecting at that point very rapidly, and it is supposed that in a short time five thousand men will be upon the ground."? Guardian. A Peep into the Bank of England. The Bank of England must be seen on the inside as well as out, and to go into the interior of this remarkable building, to observe the operations of an institution that exerts more moral and political power than any sovereign in Europe, you must have an order from the Governor of the Bank. The building occupies an irregular area of eight acres of ground?an edifice of no architectural beauty, with not one window towards the street, being lighted altogether from the roof of the enclosed area. I was led, on presenting my card of admission, into a private room, where, after a delay of a few moments, a messenger came and conducted me through the mighty and mysterious building. Dowd we went into thi a room where the notes of the bank, recei- vo: ved the day before, were now examined, of compared with the entries in the book, aad th< stowed away. The Bank of England never be< issues the same cote a second time It re- tat ceives, in the ordinary course of business, about ?800,000, or 84,000,000, daily in 'S< notes; these are put up in parcels according to their denominations, boxed up with vM the date of their reception, and are kept ou ten years, at the expiration of which period en they are taken out and ground up in the mill, which I saw Tunning, and made again ar? into paper. If, in the course of these ten So years, any dispute in business, or law-suit, ^ei should arise, coDcerning the payment of C01 any note, the bank can produce the identi- m cal bill. t0 To meet the demand for notes so constantly used up, the bank has its own papermakers, its own printers, its own engravers, So all at work ander the same roof, and it even makes the machinery by which the 00 most of its work is done. A complicated ne! but beautiful operation is a register, extend ing from the printing office to the banking D0' offices, which marks every sheet of paper f'a (that is struck off from the press, so that the ,n printers cannot manufacture a single sheet of bank notes that is not recorded in the co1 bank. On the same principle of neatness, a shaft is made to pass from one department to another, connecting a clock in sixteen rct business wings of the establishment, and wo regulating them with such precision that the whole of them are always pointing to tln the same second of time. Tn another room erc was a maohine, exceedingly simple, for detecting light gold coin. A row of them is 8'r dropped one by one upon a spring scale.? wo If the piece of gold was of the standard 0Q! weight, the scale rose to a certain height, . and the coin slid off upon one side of the box ; if less than the standard, it rose a lit- 0 tie higher, and the coiu slid off upon the **Dl other side. I E.sked the weigher what was du the average number of light coins that came into his hands, and, strangely enough, he se| said it was a question he was not allowed yen to answer. ?ul The next room I entered was that in mn which the notes are deposited which are ready for issue. "We have thirty-two millions of pouuds sterling in this room," the officer remarked to me; "will you take a in; little of it ?" I told him it would be vast upi ly agreeable, and he handed me a million rui sterling, which I received with many thanks hoi for his liberality, but he insisted on my pla depositing it with him again, as it would rht hardly be safe to carry so much monty into the the street. I very much fear I shall never tha see that money again. In the vault beneath ted the door were a director and a cashier, es 1 counting bags of gold which men were wh pitching down to them, each bag contain- for ing a thousand pounds sterling, just from mo the mint. This world of mouey seemed to dis realize the fables o( Eastern wealth, and naa rro r n n o rr? n nrl efi?nnn? 1 m nf f ha hlfl tLOVC UIO UC<T U LI VI OUUU^ lUJplCOOIVUO VI H?? "*w magnitude of the business done here, and pli' the extent of the relations of this one in- of stitution to the commerce of the world. rah Governor Houston's Appeal to the car People of Texas. his The following is the conclusion of Gov. he Houston's appeal to the people of Texas g?] The Governor, it will be seen, with com- ?ol mendable prudence, proposes only peaceful jQ efforts to maintain his authority : g0l You have withdrawn Texas from her > connection with the United States. Your jjc. act changes the character of the obligation UQ| I assumed at the time of my inauguration. ^ As your Chief Executive, I am no longer frj( bound to support the Constitution of the fu] United States. If your act did net relieve an( that obligation, it was nothing. If this is at not the result of the action of the people, Lt0 the position of the officers of the State Gov- (j ernment, and especially that portion who BA are members of this Convention, has in- prc deed been an auomalous one. Have they gre still been acting under their oath to sup- mu port the Constitution of the United States? ter As your Executive, no matter what my cov views may have been, I am bound to reflect gjc; J Ml T 1 > t . your expresseu win. 1 nave endeavored to pc do so. Were I asked to support your Coo- t0 stitutioo, I might waive my objections to UQ( the source from which the oath came. I c0l utu called upon to swear to support the Con- t0 stitution and laws of the Confederate States, tjla which I have never seen, and as your Chief C(J; Executive to render my allegiauce to that p0 Government, when you have never in any |jre manner or form declared your desire to be- pe. come annexed to the same. pa, Fe'.low citizeus, in the name of your tor" rights and liberties, which I believe have no) been trampled upon, I refuse to take this e] oath. In the name of the nationality of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I e( refuse to take this oath. In the name of Sp? my own conscience, and my manhood, which ^ this Convention would degrade by dragging me before it, to pander to the malice of my F enemies, when by the Constitution the privilege is accorded me, which belongs to sue the humblest officer, to take my oath of of- pos ficc before any competent authority, I refuse fed to take this oath. loa I am ready to be ostracised sooner than So' submit to usurpation. Office has no charms wil for me, that it must be purchased at thesa- wh orifice of my conscience, and the loss of my Th self-respect. (S; I love Texas too well to bring civil strife uii and bloodshed upon her. To avert this as! calamity, I shall make no endeavor to main- me tain my authority as Chief Executive of of this State, except by the peaceful exercise dci of my functions. When I can no longer do this, I shall calmly withdraw from the coi scene, leaving the Government in the hands ry of those who have usurped its authority, Co but still claiming that I am its Chief Ex- set eoutive. [an I expect the consequences of my refusal th< to take this oath. My office will be de- th; clared vacated. If those who ostracise me tw will be but as true to the interest of Texas th< nq T have endeavored to be. mv nravers will otl w - - ?/ ^ r~~w ? attend them. shi Fellow-citizens, think not that I complain int at the lot which Providence has now as- co signed me. It is but meet that my career zei should close thus. IhavesecDthe patriots lot and statesmen of my youth, one by one, gath- pl< ered to their fathers, and the Govornment thi which they had reared, rent in twain; and Tr none like them are left to unite it once thi again. I stand the last, almost, of a race lat who learned from their lips the lessons of human freedom. I am stricken down now G( because I will not yield those principles sit which I have fought for and struggled to thi maintain. The severest pang is that the Cc blow comes in the name of the State of flo Texas I have received blows for her sake, du and am willing to do so again. ab I protest, in the name of the people of an Texas, against all the acts and doings of thi is Convention, and declare them nail and id. I solemnly protest against the act its members, who arc bound by no oath jmselves, in declaring my office vaoant, cause I refuse to appear before it and :e the oath prescribed. cldiers in Peace?Citizens in War.' Northern pluck fully tested?a Northern lage thrown into intense excitement.?If r Northern neighbors of the old Confedicy could demonstrate their courage by ; threats which the Black Republicans ' continually venting against us poor uthern 'rebels' and 'traitors/ then, ined, would the world be compelled to resize them as amongst the most valliant ;n of the age. But, they are not the men face danger when it actually occurs? sy fight well on paper, but they certainly n't like to smell gunpowder, or to face uthern steel and bullets. In the village of C , in New Jersey, t a hundred miles from New York, is a st or nepuDiicans ot tne ttreeiey stripe, io have almost split their throats in deuncing the Southern treason, and in dering their intention to aid Mr. Lincoln 'enforcing the laws, and retaking all the uthern Forts.' On the day of Mr Linn's inauguration they became veryjubiit, and were bleating their predictions, a Greeley, that in thirty days the Southern >els would be brought to their senses, and uld be compelled to beg on their knees quarters, and they were ready at any le to go and help whip the unruly Southi rascals. A good Democrat, who sympathises very ongly with the South, concluded he uld play a little trick upon these valor5 Republicans and put their courage to ) test. Early one morniDg a strange inridual was seen going through the streets the village, who served notices on each d all the male citizens subject to military ty. The notice ran as follows: Trenton, N. J., March 9, 1861. Sir :?Yoa are herpby notified to hold yourf in readiness (subject to draft) to enroll irself in the New Jersey Militia, to be called t in three days' notice. If you have any lawexcuse, report immediately to the Quarter ster General, C. A. Arnold, Trenton, N. J By order of the Governor. J. C. Vesey, Secretary ' Never was such consternation produced any place as was witnessed in said village, on the circulation of these citations. If nor is to be credited, in less than six urs there was hardly a well man in the ce. One had the piles?another the iumatism?the third neuralgia?the forth i spleen?and one poor fellow discovered ,t be had the spine in his back. A tiobar-keeper, who was paying his addressto a young lady, much ! is junior, and o always asserted that he was not yet ty, was suddenly made bald, by the reval of his wig j his huge black whiskers appeared, and he discovered that he had de a mistake of ten years in computing age. The physicians had numerous apcations for certificates of disability, some which could not be granted. One very Id abolitionist, who could not frame any ;use, went home, and taking up his baby, if. vptv fonHnrlt? onrl r?nfr grief iu a copious flood of tears, because feared he would be drafted to go and it against the 'secessionist devils' down ath?wished all the niggers were back Africa, or that 'old Abe' would let the nth go?wasn't worth a curse anyhow ! 1*0 the great mortification of the Repub?ns, the hoax was discovered, but not til they had had full opportunity to show i 'white feathers.' Our demociatic ;nd, of course, received a summons, but 1 of pluck, as he is, he was ready to go i stand a draft, to shoulder bis musket any moment. The richest part of the ry remains to be told: Quarter-master A. Arnold, turned out to be a colored rber, in Trenton, and Mr. J. C. Yesey ived to be a myth. Mr. Arnold, to his sat surprise, received several official comnications, in his new character as 'Quar-master for the State of New Jersey,' rnring certificates signed by leading pbyians, assuring him that our very bellicose publicans, who had been very auxious see the South whipped, were laboring der such physical disabilities* that they ild not take part in the patriotic effort 'enforce the laws' and establish the fact, ,t 'ice hare a government.' They reved with great satisfaction the news that rt Sumter is to be evacuated. They :athe much freer, and think, after all, a .1: i u l 31_ puiiuy is iiiK uesv, us it wuuau uuruty ) expenses to subdue the Southern trais. Hurrah for Northern pluck! Does , the South tremble in view of her dan from these valorous champions of the rtheru Confederacy? We may be whipi some day, perhaps, but not by such iciruens of liumauity.?Field and Fire'e.. > ? ? inances of the Confederate States. The New York Times of Thursday has a ;ering notice of Mr. Memminger's promis for the first instalments of the Conlerate loau, and effects to believe that the n will not be takeu, and says that the uthern Confederacy will not get along :hless than tweuty millions a year. Now, at are the facts regarding the loan ?? e Banks of a siugle commercial city avannah) have already offered for half a Uinn ..r.u-tnrif li nf t-Kn rohrilo fimnnnt. ied for. New Orleans capitalists and :rchaots would probably take the whole it, if permitted to do so. A corresponnt from Montgomery wr'tes: "Proposals for the new government loan ue in with astonishing rapidity, and evebody is surprised that the credit of the nfederate States stands so high attheoutThe Mail of this evening contained editorial upon this subject, and stated it more money had been tendered already in was desired. A short time ago near elve millions of dollars was offered from 3 city of New York alone, and more from ler cities in the United States. This aws what financiers think of the invest :nt. Mr. Memminger his very wisely eluded to give theprefertnee to the citias of the Confederate State.), and the first in will be taken entirely by our own peo), in sums vary from fifty to one hundred ausand dollars. The Secretary of the easury is so pressed in this matter that a bonds caunot be executed before the ter part of next mouth." As regards the financial condition of the )vernment, the collection of duties at a igle port (New Orleans) ought to convince e most stubborn that the Treasury of the mfederate States will be replete to overwing. It is stated that the amount of ties collected at New Orleans averages out 335,000 daily. If this be the case, d we have no reason to doubt it, more in one half of the estimate of the Times will be drawn from that port alone p: But let the Times figure out for itself v< what the Southern revenues will be, when d' the merchants of its own city begin to im- pi port through Southern cities, and when S seven-eights of all foreign exports will find N their way through the same channels. We ei would be gratified to see the result of its calculations.?Columbia Guardian. tl 01 Lincoln's First Message.?"Honest tl Old Abe" sent his maiden message to the Cj Senate on yesterday. It refers to the cor- ai respondcnce between the war department tc and Major Anderson during the time that tl the latter has been in command of Fort ei Sumter. The President has "come to the r( conclusion" that it would be inexpedient ^ tn ntihli*h Maior Anderson's disnatches.? si r ? v ?l It is cheerful to know that the second Washington has arrived at a definite conclusion 81 about something, even if it is not so impor- ct tant as other matters now before the powers m at Washington. Perhaps we may ascertain, one of these days, the policy of the admin- 0l istration with regard to the Southern Con- a federacy. Let us live in hope. The Lin- 0i coin administration has "come to the con- bi elusion" at last. The sooner that the party w which put that administration in power 81 comes to a conclusion the better it will be pi for the country.?New York Herald. S tc ? ' . . - ti YORK VILLE, S. C. 'u THUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1861. ai ? ai 0@-Mr. John R. Ali.es, Post Master at Chester, is our q, authorized agent; and fully empowered to receive money ? forthls office, and give receipts for the same. In cases where subscribers do not take the Enquirer from the post-office, Post-Masters arc requested to nodfy us Immediately. QEOTLE UP!?ALL PERSONS * O Indebied to the undersigned by open account, previous to the FIRST of JANUARY 1881, arc hereby requested to Ol cl?se the strne by NOTE nt nn early day. L. M. GRIST. RECONSTRUCTION. Fears are entertained by some that the permanent constitution will consummate a 0 reconstruction of the American Union.? n The three-fifths representation of slaves, and P the utter condemnation of the slave-trade C( are preserved from the old Constitution, they ^ think, as a bid to the North We3t, the Mid- 8{ die States and ultimately, perhaps, even to t{ New England, to annex themselves to the D Southern Confederacy. President Davis 01 spoke the truth when he said that reunion with the anti-slave States is neither practi- Cl cable nor desirable. We have been rescued ^ from their grasp, almost by a miracle. The reproach of weak and spiritless vassalage 01 would be justly ours, should we return to ? the vomit of Union God has delivered us through the red-sea of secession. We should n not tempt his goodness and invoke his ^ wrathy iiy pining for quails and the flesh- 0 pots of Egypt. He did not deliver Daniel 11 from the den of lions but once. The people of the South must rise and resist the very J1 _t.-j c . ? it .1 ?:n p.< soauuw Ji reuuuaiiuuiiuu. n uui, tucy win reap the doom of Hayti and St. Domingo ^ We cannot believe that there is any serious 31 danger of this thing. Its very mention, however, is, as Jefferson said of the agi 81 tation of slavery, like "the alarm of afire- 8( bell at night." 8t THE CONSTITUTION. ai Our State Convention, which has been 0j in session since Tuesday week, are having a somewhat stormy time in regard to the adoption of the permanent constitution.? On the second or third day, it was resolved Dl to hold the discussions on this document $ in secret session. This vote, however, is a fair indication of the generul sentiment of a( the delegates?those who voted in the tl negative having more or less objection to 3" th* adoptiou. The delegates from York vo P1 ted unanimously in the affirmative. The//eas ? were loO, nays 29. The following gentlemen voted in the negative: Messrs. ^ A/tnrno Ttr>nnofin P T-* ltrnorn Itiipnnf (I' Curtis, Davant, Evans, Gist, Maxcy Gregg, e< Henderson, Hutson, John JeDkiDS, J. E. 81 Jenkins, Kinsler, Mclver, Maoigault, Ma- P zyck, John Izard MiddletOD, W. Middle- 111 ton, Pressley, F. D. Richardson, Rutledge, 8? Simons, Smith, Spain, Spratt, Wagner, al F. H. Wardlaw, Williams. C( The indications at first were that about tl forty were opposed to the adoption, fifteen or twet ty of whom would yield from pru- ai dential considerations, leaving twenty or ^ twenty-five who have sworn Hannibal's 9? oath of eternal enmity against Rome. In s' spite of the resolution of secresy, some b' thirty objections in all, some important, some not, have worked their way to the light. Mr. Manigault has offered the fol- j> lowing resolutions as covering his objec- ^ tions (and they perhaps explain all the lead- 81 ing objections) to the constitution : ^ Rfsc/ved, That in the Constitution adoo- 01 ted by tbe Cougress of the Confederate ^ States at Montgomery many, but not all, ai of the material defects of the Constitution d of 1787, pointed out by the experience of 01 seventy years, have been amended, but not ^ removed. .ai Resolved, That before the Convention 01 ratifies the Constitution adopted at Mont- ^ goraery, we feel bound to express our con- w viction that it is imperfect and objectiona- t( ble, and ought to be amended in the fol- ? lowing points: 1st. In leaving open tbe door for the admission of non-slaveholding States into this Confederacy. 2d. In adopting the basis of only three-fifths of the slaves entitled to federal representation.? ^ 3d. In granting to tbe Government of the ai Confederacy an unlimited power of indirect taxation. 4th. In making tbe prohibition ^ to import Africans a constitutional prohibition, and not simply giving to the Fede- a ral Government the power to prohibit it as Ja matter of expediency, and in not putting the Coolie trade on the same footing. 5th. a In putting the post office monopoly in the a hands of the Confederate Government. A SLAVE CONFEDERACY. C The ample experience of the last forty ti years justifies the conclusion that if the d South would build up a homogeneous re- tl public, where the blessings not only of civil tl liberty, but of peace, security, harmony and v prosperity, may be secured to future genera- a tions, she should effectually guard against u political reunion with non-slaveholding ti States. A difference of institutions that h enters into the very core of society and do- I mestic life, is, to say the least, inimical to ti that quiet and mental satisfaction which w enable a people to turn their attention to " the development of their resources instead c: of wrangling continually on the subject of " politics. This continent has been the thea- b tre of sickening disputes and broils for half w a century. It is high time that this state ft of things should cease. If our method of tl government is superior to the monarchy ii which prevails in Europe, we should now n radically vindicate it, beyond all controersy, in the eyea of the world. We cannot o so without quiet and oalninness in the olitics of the country. The old United tates were a nation cf quarrelers. The orth and the South could not live togethr?they should part and part forever. Mr. Rhett, fully perceiving this, has laid le ordinance which we give below, before in State Convention. Whether it meets le case in the best possible manner, we innot say. We suppose no one can. At 3y rate it indicates one of the gravest of all >pics that now appeal to the profoundest loughts and purest patriotism of the South:n Statesman. The ordinance was rcfer:d to the committee on Constitution, and ill be considered, doubtless, in seoret seaon: Whereas, experience bas proved that avebolding and non-slaveholding States mnot live in peace under the same govern ient. Ve, the people oj the State of South Car Una in Convention assembled, do declare nd ordain, and it is hereby declared and dained, That ahould any State hereafter s admitted into the Confederate States, hich, by its Constitution, does not tolerate avery within its limits, and provide for its rotection, the Governor of the State of oath Carolina is hereby ordered, forthwith i summon by proclamation the people of le State of South Carolina to assemble in onvention, and heshall issue writs of elecon to determine the time and place of hold)g (he same, and the time and place of the jsemblicg of said Convention, conforming 3 far as they are applicable to the provisions f the Act of the Legislature, whereby this onvention was called. GOV. PICKENS. In a message to the State Convention a jw days ago, from Gov. Pickens, the conluding remarks, giving a clear statement f the real position of the State during the inter and now, run thus: "When this State flrst withdrew from ie Federal Union, I felt that we bore, on ne side, critical relations to the Confedeicy we had left, and also very delicate and eculiar relations to those slave States who onstituted the border of the Southern tates, and we had still higher and more icred duties and relations towards our sis>r States of the South, who were expected obly to come to our side in the formation f a new Confederacy. All these relations made our course quite jmplicated, and full of deep obligations, n administering the duties of the Execu'' ve office, I can truly say that I never, flor ne moment, lost sight of the relations oar tate bore to all, and it has ever been my ndeavor, while sustaining her separate ghts and independence, never to do any ling that might show indifference to any f the great complicated interests and re'.aons with which she was surrounded. When your illustrious body adjourned, du saw the State standing alone, surroundi with peril, and clouds resting upon the lture. Under the kind dispensations c? a iperintending Providence, I am now able > present her to you under a brighter day, irrounded by sister States rich in their rejurces, with their brave and patriotic sons anding as a guard in the portals of a new emple, reared by our common counsels, ad dedicated to the separate sovereignty f free and independent States." FOETS OF SOUTH CAEOLINA. Mr. Kbett has laid the following ordiance in regard to our Forts, before the tate Convention : "Whereas, the Congress of the Confeder;e States has recommended to the respecve States to cede the forts, arsenals, navy irds and dock yards, and other public roperty contained within the respective tates: Iff, the people of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ora in, and it is hereby declared and ordainI, That the absolute and exclusive posseson of all the forts, arsenals, marine hositals, &c., lately occupied by the Governieut of the United States, be, and the ime are hereby, ceded to the Confeder:e States of America, with the following mdition, however: That should, at any me hereafter, two-thirds of both branches f the Legislature, or the people of the State isembled in Convention, require of the resident of the Confederate States that the lid forts, arsenals and marine hospitals tall be surrendered up, such request shall e complied with." Mr. Kbett said that Georgia and Alal-j _i?j_ j_j .u?:_ r j i? am a nau aireuuy ceueu iucu iuna, uuuaards and arsenals absolutely out and out; ut that he was not prepared to make any ich cession. 3Ir. R. N. Gourdin thought lr. Rhett was in part mistaken; that the rdinance of Georgia only authorized the onfederate States to occupy the forts, &c., ad to repair, regulate and control them at iscretion, until the repeal of said ordinance f the State of Georgia. Mr. Adams thought aere was a practical difficulty in the way, ad that his friend was premature, since ne of our forts (Sumter) is still in the ands of a foreign power. The ordinance as, nevertheless, referred to the Commit;e on Relations with the slaveholding tates. MERE-MENTION. Our insurance companies, we learn, says le Charleston Mercury of the 28th ult., esterday resumed their old rates of insurnce. The Banks of Philadelphia have jsumed specie payments. The United tates Government has issued proposals jr another $8,uuu,uuu loan mere re now 1200 United States recruits at Ft. lolumbus, New York. A bridle has een invented in France with which a run way horse's nostrils are suddenly closed, n effectual method, it is said, to stop the nimal. There is a rumor from Madrid lat Marshal O'Donnel is about to come to luba, and there organize a military expedite to Mexico to obtain satisfaction for the ismissal of the Spanish Minister. At he late session of the Illinois Legislature tie members, among other extravagances, oted themselves a gold pen each, valued t 815. Some of the members, who had no se for gold pens, supplied themselves with ible-spooos, castors, and like articles of ousehold value. The N. Orleans True )elta says, and says truly : "la this county Gen. Morris has taken the palm in songTiting." South Caroliua has taken the palmetto" in secession The Massahu?etts shoemakers are moving for another strike." It is said that bootmakers have een making boots for five dollars a case, bich they received ten and twelve dollars >r in 1859. ? A special messenger from le British Legation at Washington, sailed i the Cunardsteamer from Boston on Wedesday, with despatches for the British Gov ernment, giving a full statement of affairs i at Washington and in the South; also, copies t of tlie two tariffs. Northern merchants ' are already making arrangements to import ? goods via Charleston, Savannah and 'New i Orleans, in order to avoid the duties of the ( Morrill tariff. On the appearance of a i thunderstorm, the Indians invariably leave ? their pursuits and seek shelter under a beech t tree. In Tennessee it is also considered a i complete protection, as it is never known to I be struck with lightning, while other trees 1 are shattered to splinters. The Manu- ] faoturing and direct trade association of I the Confederate States, (says the Charles- i ton Mercury) after perfecting arrangements for the shipping of cotton yarns to Europe | direct, and appointing a Committee to re- j present to the Confederate States the "im- ( portanc* to the Southern cotton spinning j and cotton manufacturing interest of placing , machinery necessary to these industries up- k on the free list for at least two years," ad- j tn maaf tr> Atlontn nil fhn nf May next. i A DEAR WHISTLE. Our people have always gone into stockraising just far enough to make an immense 1 amount of fencing necessary, but not far J enough to make the thing remunerative.? Let our farmer-readers ask themselves the ' question, "Do I raise enough stock?horses, ' mules, hogs and cattle?to pay the annual 1 expenses of my fencing ?" and the answer in ' nine out ten cases will be "No!" If we * would fence our stock, and turn out our fields, it would be highly economical. Dr. j Lee, the Agricultural editor of that valuable paper, the Southern Field and Fireside, takes this view of the case: Think of it! At present we pay dearly for our stockwhistle. All the Abe Lincolns, who follow | rail-splitting as a calling, should be turned { out to "root pig or die." TRANSIT MERCHANDISE. The Provisional Congress passed an Act ' before their adjournment, granting a free transit through the Confederate States, to goods, wares and merchandise, imported ! from any foreign country into our Confed- ( eracy, and destined for any other foreign 1 country. The Secretary of the Treasury, 1 however, 18 empowered to maue sacn regulations in regard to this transit commerce, 1 as the public convenience may require.? This settles the question of the navigation ! of the Mississippi to a very great extent. MILITARY STAFF. As our regiment will be mustered into v the 3rd brigade of South Carolina Volun- 1 teers, our district readers will take special 1 interest in the following staff appointments made by Brigadier General, A. C. Gar- 1 lington : Wm. F. Nance, of Newberry, Brigade Major; W. A. Walker, of Chester, Inspector; T. Stobo Farrow, of Spartanburg, Quartermaster; Jas. D. Gist, of Union, 1 Commissary; Dr. W. H. Harrington, of Newberry, Surgeon; Creswell Garlington, 1 of Laurens, Aidde-Camp ; and Jas. F. J 1 Caldwell, of Newberry, Aid-de-Camp. "A FLEET OF OBSERVATION." > The Paris correspondent of the N. York ' Times says that France and Englaod are 1 fitting out a powerful fleet of war-steamers, < to sail under sealed orders for the waters of the Southern States. The suggestion , came from England. No hostile design, it is thought, is entertained towards the Confederate States: but the fleet sails merely on a vovaee of observation, and tODrotect V O ' t l the interest of French and English citizens, in case of active hostilities on this side of the Atlantic. "Where the carcass is, thither will the eagles flock together." LOCAL AFFAIRS. "Begalias." We are indebted to "Kahnweiler and Bros." for a box segars of the above brand. They smoke well. i New Advertisements. We invite attention to the advertisement in this issue, of the Confederate Loan of 85,000,000; also, to the "Circular to TaxCollectors." Award of Premiums. Monday last, the first of April, was the ' closing day of the contest among our club- ! makers for the premiums which we have ' advertised during the winter and spring.? ' The competition has been spirited, and has resulted in quite an accession to our list of * subscribers. The whole number of club- j subscribers procured during this time, has | been 938. Samuel G. Brown, Esq., for | the largest club, amounting to 125, is entitled to the five-shooter shot gun. Maj. | A. A. McKenzie, for the next largest club numbering 119, receives the brace of pio- < tares. The largest number of new subscri- : bers?amounting to 50?was obtained by ; Rev. W. W. Carothers, who is consequent- < ly the recipient of the sewing machine. We may add that a goodly number of ; subscribers has been received from other i sources than the competing clubs ; and that i our present issue is above two thousand < copies weekly. Our programme for this year entertained the hope that every family ( in York would patronize the paper; which , hope has been realized to a very great ex- | tent. We a.e gratified to say that the En- j quircr now visits more homes in the Die- | triot, than ever before. I Heretofore, the custom with us has been ] to publish a list of the several clubs, to- | gether with the number, and the name of t the person who raised each. We depart 1 from this custom at present, as unnecessary, i Our best thanks are hereby tendered to . the many friends who have shown during ' the season, a manifest interest in the Enquirer's prosperity. Their well-wishes as well ' as their material assistance, will contribute much to the end hoped for; inasmuch as for them, we will labor all the more cheerfully and persistently to accomplish that end. And now we start upon the new "fiscal year" with the interchange of kindly courtesies to all. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. While the South is endeavoring to < fix and perpetuate her "peculiar institution" ] as the proper relation to subsist between the ' Anglo-Saxon and African when living together, Russia is making a tremendous ef- i fort to elevate her 30,000,000 serfs who are < of the same blood with the ruling race.? ! The Paris correspondent of the Charleston [ Mercury says: I Russia has her own troubles. The great i measure of emancipation of the serfs keeps t that Government anxiously occupied with 1 home policy. It is a wise, bold and gener- < ous measure. Above all, it is just and i right; for the Russian peasants are of as good blood and race as their lords; and j lothing is more true than the doctrine conained in onr friend, Mr. Spratt's, formula, 'Amongst equals equality is right." The lerfs of Russia number about thirty-five nillioti8 of people?men, women and chilIren;?all this mass of population will be it once raised out of the state of absolute lerfdom, and the personal tie which bound ;hem to their lords will be broken. They ffill still indeed be subject to many restricdons, even as to locomotion ; for it would 3e highly unsafe to set them roving over Russia; but a great beginning will have seen made ; and that is the way the Czar :s consolidating his dynasty. The Edgfield Advertiser's hint is :aken kindly. We confess to a forgiving Favoritism for that funnily disposed and fan;iful individual. But, good friend, there a nnf rliffflrnnnn Kafranan no Wo were guilty of a " Willisism," the Advertiser of a il7oittici8m." Then after all that ibout ''Virginia's Tail," John Minimus Botts, and "blessing the hens," how conld pou? Come, lets both "go and sin no raore!" The rumor has been circulated in ;his country, but denied by Spanish authorities, that Spain is preparing to annex St. Domingo to her dominions. Spanish settlers, it is said, have been coming to the island for some time, with secret instruc;ions to raise simultaneously, at a fixed day, ;he Spanish flag, and claim against the negroes the protection of the mother country. NEWS FBOM THE STATES. South Carolina. Two members of the Convention have lied since the previous meeting, namely: EI. W. Connor, of Charleston; and Julias A. Dargan, of Darlington. Fitting tributes have been paid to their memories, by their colleagues, before the Convention.? Mr. Jas. Connor has been elected to fill the vacant seat of the former, and Thos. J. Smith that of the latter. Business has never been more active in Charleston than during the present Spring season. Instead of a depression, as is the oase in Baltimore, New York, and in fact all the large cities of the North, there is an actual increase of business, especially in articles of necessary consumption. This 3hows that Southern vassalage has heretofore been "artificial," and that, redeemed as we are in our commerce as well as rights, the South is destined to become the leading power on this continent. The Blue-Ridge railroad, in obedience to the inevitable mountain-ward tendency of internal improvements, is progressing in spite of the hard times, the general excitement aod the scarceness of money. It is soon to be completed to Walhalla?a German, town six miles, we believe, below the celebrated tunnel. The Butler Guards, an amateur Mounted Company of Greenville, drill, under present orders, six times a week. We know how this company was organized, as well as some of the men personally; and can say that they are a most energetic and spirited body of men. Their actions evince it.? The Greenville papers claim?and we doubt not rightfully?that they are one of the best drilled and most efficient companies in the State. California* The Senate of California has adopted a series of anti-coercion and Crittenden-com promise resolutions. The leader of the Breckinridge Democrats has called a meeting of that body, which was to assemble at Sacramento on the 20th ultimo. He says: "Let us have union if we oan, peaceable dissolution if we must, but conflict never. If a peaceable dissolution comes, why should California remain with the free States; if a bloody separation, why should she not establish a Pacific nationality ? Is she willing to be dragged into a war with a Southern Confederacy of her sisters?? Should such a Confederacy be irrevocably established, ought she not demand of the other free States to consent to a peaceful separation, if any must come, as an unyielding condition of her remaining with them ? Does not Lincoln's foreshadowed policy of executing the laws in the Federal States imply force, coercion and war? Are our people ready to plunge into aoarchy, and suffer the ravages of such a war? These ire the momentous questions to be considered." Virginia. Union resolutions, secession and reconstruction resolutions, and thorough-going secession resolutions, have been presented to the Virginia Convention from various places in the State, and laid on the table. Mr. Goggin has offered an amendment to the report on Federal affairs proposing the withdrawal of the State from the Union without determining its future position, and recommending a Convention of the border States to be held at Lexington, Kentucky, in May next, to prepare a plan for constructing a government with the Confederate States. Mr. Goggin declares that the Union can be resuscitated only by amendments to the Constitution proceeding from the non-slaveholding States. The Raleigh (N. C.) Standard says that an Wednesday of last woek, Mr.., Wetzel Dffered as a substitute to the report referred to above, the Constitution of the Confederite States, which was rejected by yeas none, nays 78?Mr. Wise leaving the Convention-Hall in a fit of disgust at the Union majority. The Standard adds: "'While the Coliseum stands Rome will stand'; and so it is with Virginia and the Union."? We would remind the Standard that the Coliseum is in ruins. Florida. PffloMonf T)ot71Q I AUG MWpo vuuyu ivi mj * iwaiuvuu for Pensacola, are rapidly concentrating at that point. Gen. Bragg is manoeuvring admirably. He has now 4,000 or 5,000 troops under his command ; and "still they come." It is said that Lincoln has determined to reinforce Fort Pickens; but he pill probably soon find its evacuation to be [<a military necessity." Kentucky. A Convention of the State Rights party jf Kentucky assembled, in obedience to a previous call, on March 20th at Frankfort, rhe call says: "All who love the South and are determined to maintain her rights; who advocate resistance to the coercion of the seceded States by the Federal Government; who prefer an alliance with slaveholding States ;o submission to Northern aggression ; and ,vho desire a reconstructed Confederacy of :he slaveholding and the loyal free States ather than the rule of an Abolitionizedand centralized despotism, are invited to meet n council at the State Capital on that day." The Legislature whioh was in session adourned on that day to give plaoe for the meeting in tbeir hall. A series of resolutions has been adopted by this Convention, denouncing any attempt to colleot the revenue, and recommending a border State Convention. Kentucky will act with Virginia and Arkansas. They all have radical sympathies for the old Union, aad a strong desire of reconstruction. They all, too, have a party anxious for immediate secession ; but it is at present in the minority. Arkansas. We stated last week that the secession ordinance was defeated by the Arkansas Convention. After news contradicts this statement. - It is said that the ordinance M passed, and will be referred to the people in August next, for ratification or rejer. tion. It is said that if the people had foreseen how all the peace compromises have failed, they would have created a convention for straight-out secession. If this be the case the ordinance will be ratified, and Arkansas, when the day comes, will take her place in the Southern Confederacy. Mississippi. The Convention of this State, by 77 to 7, has ratified the permanent Constitution, which is, therefore, now the "sapreme law of the land," by its own provision that it should become so when ratified by five States. Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi have all ratified it; and ] arc, therefore, leagued together under this compact. CHESTER CORRESPONDENCE. Chester, 8. C., April 2,1861. Editors of Yorkvilie Enquirer: Your friend "Damon," like otheruewspaper correspondents, is sadly in want of sen- m tation material jnst at this time. The dead * calm which has settled down upon us, is almost enough to paralyse the nimblest fingers. But we most do the best we pan, in hope of the good time coming. Yesterday, as yoo know, was sale Hay.? The appearance of thestreete, however, indicated nothing unusual. There werp-very few persons from the country, and, t believe, no property was sold Even the merchants seemed to be at leisure daring most of the day. iff Yesterday morning a free negro $y the noma rtf Troin ?Ati a .t. uauiu vi nao nvu if Uipj^CU IJj LUC proper authority, for adepredation committed oo Saturday night. Be had entered the tin-ware establishment of Mr M. Aldrioh with thievish intent. -/n The wheat crops, were apparently, considerably injured by the late; sleet and frosts, but they are now growing greenly, and no material damage seems tobave been done. It will be a happy thing for us, if the harvest should turn out to be abundant. Corn is scarce and dear. Sereral thousand boshels will be wanted from abroad, in this District. Many of the poor have neither corn or money, and must with difficulty procure % a subsistence. But this, after all, is a bright picture, compared with the true portraiture of matters at the North. Here comparatively few are in abject poverty, and no one actually suffers for the staff of life; there, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, are on the borders of starvation. Strange things have transpiredeinte the 6th of November last. Who would have dreamed five years ago, that in 1861 Chester would be a port of entry for goods from a foreign country ? But, as you have already published, it is even so. The Coltecc r\ a at . rrr m - _ *n tor 01 uustons, iur. w. x. noDinson win soon enter opoo the duties of bis office. This * reminds mo of what an old lady once said of ^ a town in this State which was sooo to be reached by the Kail Road, sod was rapidly increasing in wealth and population. -Said - she, "I do believe that Spartanburg will get to be a seaport town after awhile!" Chester is now a port town, if. not a seaport. / Several of our merchants have made ^ their costomary Spring purchases, not in New York, but in Charleston. Messrs. W. Hardin & Co., Graham and Atkinson, and others are opering and displaying their well selected goods and will, no doubt, be liberally patronized. You may have noticed that W. A. Walker, Esq., of this town has beeu honorod by Brigadier General Garlington with the office of Inspector, in the 3d Brigade of S. Carolina volnnteers. All who know Mr. Walker will agree that the selection is emi neotiv judicious, in tnia connection i may add that the "Calhoun Guards" in this place, a few days ago, presented a very handsome sword to Lieot. Colonel Secrest, their former Captain. A sword was also presented on the same day to Adjutant Julius Mills, who was formerly a Lieutenant in the same Company. It is refreshing in this oold and selfish world, to see trae merit meet its just reward. Market Reports ?Cotton.?Supply limited. All qualities have advanced.? Extremes, 7 to 11J. a Bacon?Hog round, 13@13i; Hams, * 15@16; Shoulders, 12f; Sides-,.* 15.? Corn, $1. Coffee?Rio, 17(2)18. Flour? per bag, 83 85@$4. Lard?14. Molaitcs. ?Cuba, 40; N. 0., 60(2)65. Oat*, 80(a) 85. Sugar?Brown, 9i@10; Clarified, ll$@12i; Crushed, 18?@14. Salt?per sack, 81.75. y DAMON. LETTER FROM TEXAS. We publish below, a letter from a subscriber, and an old citizen of York, now in Texas. We assure the writer that Judge Lyon, of whom he makes mention, is a myth, and the letter alluded to, a forgery: Williamson Co., Texas, 1 ? Maroh 18, 1861. / Bear Enquirer: Let me trouble you with a few lines, as I am a native of the Palmetto State,?I was bom and raised there; and I am proud of my birth-place. I am prjud of the history of South Carolina, and of her present position. Though A she is perhaps the best abused of all the \ , thirty-three States of the old Union, by the I An.iiuimhAM ?O r\ A fltA ? 1. Z r wuig party c*cijwuoig??uu kuq wuigs ui Texas are not behind in heaping abase and falsehood upon South Carolina?still I stand by her and defend her. I send you a copy of the Southern Intelligencer, published in Austin. It is "Old Sam's" organ, and is a sample of whiggery in this State. You will see a letter from Judge Lyon, of Abbeville, S. C., in it. I don't know him, and never heard of him while in your State?nor since, until now. You must have become a wicked people since I left; for he says you have taken away all his money, and will take his negroes, &c., if he stays there. Texas is out of the Union now, and he may fare no better if he comes here. All false as the report doubtless wsb, it went the round of the submission papers, J and others no less false, that Hon. Wm. Aiken, of S. C., was compelled to give the State $40,000 or lose all his negroes; that