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THE EVEN © G STAR. WASHINGTON OY: WEDNSFSsDAY. arch 13 1861. Spirit ef the Morning Press The Iateiligenc-r thinks that the people of the Weceding States ore fuciined already to protest against the spirtt of intimidation and moral coer- cion by which the leasders of the secession move- ment attempted in some quarters to crush out al! Popular opposition to ‘heir authority. The Republican, in urging the appointment of Republicans of this city to District offices, says: “There is no doubt of the fact, that the general seutiment among our political opponents in this istrict, Who are not themselves seeking offic that the Repablicans are entitied to the loca’ Sppeintwents. This has been expected, and no considerable number of onr crtizens ever thought of cempiaining about it —————_++e——___—_ - Fort Suurkx —li is confidently believed that the withdrawal ef the troops from Fort Sumter was directed this morning—the Inevitable mil- itary necessity bequeathed to President Lin- coln through the policy of bis predecessor. as we bave lately takea occasion to explain. Tue Peamansnt Constireriox, WADE IN SE- cnet !—It ts said that the Montgomery Congress have completed their tisk of making, in secret S-ssion,@ permanent Constitution forthe future government of the people of the Gulf States! Not & member of that Congress holds his place by pep- ult election. The Congress itself was improvieed ‘by the different State Conventions, the disunion Insjorities of wh ich, (except, possibly, in South Carolina,) were elected in every instance by weeful minori ies of the popular vote. In no State have tuey yet dared to submit their usurpation to ap- proval or disapproval by the people, acting in their soverelgu czpacity, st the polls. Nor do they entertain the least Idea of submitting this “ Permanent Constitution’ to be accepted or re jected by the masses. They propose, instead, to put it through the mere form of submission to the self-perpetuated Conventions of the several Gulf ‘States. The instrument, as far as its features have been made public, contains many points designed, evi- dently, to build up in the South, at the expense of the rest of the community, en aristocracy based on the ownership of siaves only, that shall be hedged tn with sucn privileges as will eventu- ally enable them to carry out every where under the juriadicion of their proposed permanent gov- ernment, the ideas so elaborately set forth by the Hon. Mr. Spratt, ia bis recent pro-African-slave trade and aati-white-labor-at-the-South letter. the creation of sueh a naked, nexeusable and anti-American despotism, should be essayed among any portion of our people in this liberal and enlightened age, seems, at first glance, incompreheas:bie. Nevertheless, all must now realize the fact that to such a pass has Rhett & Co.’s usurpation come so soon Does eny sane man doubt that the life time of the monstrous outrage on civil liberty which the oligarchy are thus seeking to perpetuate, is to be measured by hours and days, rather than by yeers and decade? Does any one imagine that the People of the Gulf States can much longer be kept under the unqesticned despotism of their present rulers, with liberty of speech and liberty of press Hone, aud taxation (uot permitted to be questioned) increased ten fold upon them—with all their in- dustrial pursuits desiroyed, and no man’s life or Property ssfe anywhere wiere the oligarchy claim Jurisdiction? Tse Vacaxt Bricavizx Gungxatsuir.—Yes- terday, in Cabinet council, it was determined to nominste Col Sumner to this position. As a con- Fequence, the Army officers now here are much Eratificd, indeed. Col. 8. obtains the position in accordance with the regular order of promotion in the service. Hence much of the satisfaction cf his Drother officers, one and all, with his selection ; 2s, Lad Major Anderson been Selected, perhaps a Luudred of them would Lave been overslaughed “Poere ore causes enough existing, tending to the demcraiization of the service, without the perpe- tration of an act of injustice to it, lkely to make a handred officers discontented, under the influence ef the idea that length of active and etticient militery service is not hereafter, 2s heretofore, to Secure promotion iaregular turn. No other officer of bis grade tn the Army of the US. bearsa fairer et more brilliant professional record than Colonel Sumner ; nor bas any other performed more la- Dorious active duty. Under every administration ef the War Depertment, Col. Suniner has enjoved the entire confidence of his superiors. Under Such circumstances, to have denied him his pre- motion tn regular tara would have been gross in- justice, indeed ; and weare ylad that, on ascer- taining all the facts of the case, the President has Promptly declined todo so. Major Anderson de- Serves well of his country, as all know, having fairly earned the honors which doubtless awalt Lim—promotion by two brevets. See Ovr Quonpam coTrMPoRaRny, Mr Brown-e, late editor of the Wasbington Constiturion, but now Assistant Secretary of State under the gov- ernment of the ithett-spratt & Co. oligarshy, !s anid to have been in Washington—perdu—last week or the week before, for two or three Asys. In the meanwhile there is «ll sorts of pother about the troe ownership of the types, preas, &c., of his Tate journal. The press bas beeca attached, we bear, by one of more late employees of the Office, for money cl«!med to be due. Ina financial point of view, no‘withstanding the many thousands squandered by the Government in the vain labor of trying to put life into bis paper, it proved from first to last the greatest financial fiasco known to the history of the affairs of the Press in this coun- try. But for the superior claims of such finan- ciering secession leaders as Mr. Goddard Bailey for instance, to the title, in the distribution of the honors of the oligarchic governinen t, (when it is fairly elaborated into the limited monarchy advo- cated by Senator Iverson’s home organ,) we should Insist that it shall reward Mr. Brown-e, ia view of bis late presence here, perdu, and the iatter day financial history of the Constitution’s affairs, with bis alleged family title, with a change of buta single letter only—Marquts of Sly-go. BEntrits oF Szcussicx.—The People of the eeceded States, under the oppressive government of the United Staies, got their letters by mai! for @ postage of tirre comts. The new government Imposed ujon them, them withia the Confederacy five cents. All letters Ming out of the Confederacy, to points within the United ‘States, are thus made to Pay eight cents, five to the Confederacy, and three to the United States ‘This ts postage reform! Hurrah for secessiun’ The United States charges no duties on exports, and coiun from the soutbern States has always ‘been exported free. Now, the Confederate States have imposed upon it an export duty of one eighth of @ cent per pound. Hurrah for secession! The cotton planters have, heretofore, received free of duty from the northern, western, and inid- die Siates, per annum, militous of dollars’ worth of manufactured articles, on most or «li of which the Southern Confederacy now requires them to pay duties. Hurra-a-a for secession and free trade! Tariffed at both ends, and taxed in the middie! —_—_—_____. Captain Mrics ann Ancnitectr Wattsr — We hear that on the 2d of March Captain Meigs wrote Architect Walter, dismissing him from bis position in connection with the prosecution of the ‘work on the extension of the Capitol, and that the latter replied, denying Capt. M.’s authority 80 to do, and intimating his Purpose of disregard- ing it. Whereupon Captain M. directed the architect's room in the building to be kept closed against bis cntrance, offering to permit him to repossess any private payers or property ef his own that migbt be in them. Mr. Walter is sald to contend that be holds the position by Presi- dential appointment, and is therefore not remov. able by the Superintendent of the work We presume that the President will shortly settle the question, which if not settled promptly bids fair to renew the former vexatious troubles tm connec- tion with the prosecation of the work on the building. TENDERED AND AccerTED —The President bas texdered to the Hon. Francis E. Spinner, of New ‘York, the positien of U. S. Treasurer, which that | gecteman bas fer as the public interest ts concerned, could not j Setts Catbolic Church last Sunday. . A better selection, so | city ribus CONGRESSIONAL. Sexate —When ottr report closed yesterday, the Senxte was in execntive session. Soon after the doors were reopened, and they adj+urned. Ria emis Wepsxeepar, March 13, Senate.—Mr. Hale — a ts ti structing the Secretar the Senate to the clerks and pages cupleyel in the Senate du- ting its extra session, the usual per diem com- nsation; agreed to Pr Donglas Introduced a resolution instructing the Secretary of War to comm! po the Sen- ate what forts, dockyards, arsenals, and other ablic property within the seceded States is now n actual fon of the United States; whether the United States has power to reinforce those now holding Federal property; whether it be necessary to capture and reoccupy the stolen property, and if so, how many soldiers would be required. Mr. Mason objected. A communication was present from the Secretary of War, ee a to that bedy a copy of the correspondence with Gen. Shields relative tu the trang ition of troops over the overland route. Referred to the Com- mittee on Military Affairs. Mr. Fessenden offered a resolution expelling from the United States Senate the Senators of the seceding States, upon the ground that they had renounced ell allegiance to this Government. Laid over under the rules Mr. Sumner made a report from the Committee on Foreign Relations, @ the President's message relative to Mexican affatra. The Senate then went into executive session. woe Tue Bosiness or tax DErPartmEents.—There is so much goed sense and so many sound sug- gestions in the following brief extract from a late Washington letter in the Philodelpuia Ledger, as that we give it space in the Star, to-day: Able and experienced clerks in the Treasury Department say that the work of revising accounts under the new tariff will be more than donbled. It does not follow, however, thatadditional clerks will be employed; for if Mr. Chase dismisses secessionists and incapab! ns, and sup; ited to the Renate le Hes their places with men of ability, every ear for diligence and industry at the Treasury can readily be answered. It is said by those in his confidence that he pro} to restore the Department to that condition of eiliclency that existed previously to Mr. Cobb’s mismanagement of {ts affairs, and that old and able subordinates wil! not be removed by him. Something of the same sort may be in- ferred from the remarks of Mr. Montgomery Blair to the clerks of the Post Office Department There is a law requiring the examination of per- sons whose appointment to clerkships may be contemplated. But the law has been much evaded latterly, to subserve the wishes of Secretaries who desire to furnish places for small politicians, even if not fully competent. As a consequence of this sort of things in the Pension Bureau, probably one quarter of all bounty land warrants issned under the act of 1850, were granted upon fraud lent or insufficient Papers. This has been co rected under Mr Whiting’s bus’ ike adrmin- istration of the affairs of the ottice; but many mil- lions of dollars have been lost to the G »vernment by appointing small partisans to responsible posts. The new patent bill provides for fifteen additfonal appointments Every man doiny business at the ‘atent Office desires the designation of accom- plished men, and also, that its affairs shall not be confused or obstructed by removing the able and experienced men now connected with the office OBSERVER. es Tue Cure CLerxsnip or THe War Derart- MENT.—It affords us great pleasure to have it in our power to say that Secretary Cameron has con- firmed Mr. Joha Potts, acting chief clerk of the War Department during the brief administration of its affairs by Secretary Holt, in the Position of the Department's permancnt chief clerk. Mr Potts has grown up in the clerical service of the War Department, earning gradual promotion through twenty-five years of efficient labor. No man could be better qualified for the position, nor could the «ppointment of any one else have been likely so to lighten the labors of the Depart- ment’s new chief. Rev. F.8. Evans —Our old cotem porary, the Rev. F. 8S. Evans, now of Baltimore, is bere laboring very hurd tosecure the prize of the Naval Office In the city of his residence. We bad in times past many an editorial “bout” with him, yet we sincerely wish him well. If length, activity and ardor of service in the cause of the party now in power ia to secure the Pesition he alms to get, the Rev. F. S. E. will doubtless bear off the prize; as we presume he can exhibit ten scars obtained in battling for it, to one that can be shown by any of bis competitors. Notastes Herz —The now venerable, as well as well knowa, Hon. Truman Sinith, of Con- necticut, again turns up among us, looking even younger and handsomer than of old. His army of warm personal friends greet him with pleasure, 0 where he will in Washington. Marshal Rynders, of New York, is alao here, 28 Gay, spparently, as aman sure of getting one of the best offices in the President's gift, instead of being, as he is, sure of losing his one on "em. Nomixatzp Yrstexrpay.— The only nomina- tions of genersl interest sent to the Senate yester- day, in addition to those mentioned in yesterday's Star, were those of Willard Phillips, to be Cal- lector of the Port of Salem, Mass, and Rufus Hosmer, to be Consul General at Frankfort on-the- Main. We stopped the press yesterday to an- nounce the nomination of Cassius M. Clay, of Ky., to be Minister to Madrid. New Mesic—We have received from Met Zerott a pretty new song and chorus entitled “Al- le May.” Also. the Musical Bouquet, containing Preusa’s song ‘‘God save our noble Union.’ Also, “Captain Kidd,” balled; “Bygone Hours,”’ by Ovsten; and “God seve our President.” as played by the Marine Band while President Lincoln was taking his oath of office. APPLICATIONS FOR OFFics are coming so thick and fast on the Secretary of the Treasury, as that five of his clerks are now required to opea, glance over, fiieand brief them! Uader such circum- stances, for him to read them isa physical impos- sibility. Noone man living could accomplish the task. ee, Nomixations.—The President to-day nomt- nated —— Edmonds, of Mich., to be the Com- missioner of the General Land Office He sent to the Senate a large batch of nominations shortly before the Star went to press. Personal. Com Gregory, U.S.N, isat Kirkwoods’. Hon. J. E. Holmes, ex-M. C. from 8. Cc. is at Browns’. «s+; R.F Beekham, “e and A.J. Baldwin, U.S.N Mayor Bigelow, of Newark, N. J > met with a serious accident on Satur lay, breaking one of his ribs, by falling from a new building. :**+Jobn Covode, of Pa , and Charles H Van Wyck. of NY , have taken an active Partin the New Hampabire canvass during the past week. -->The wife of President Davis, emulating the custom of the White House, is uiving recep- tlonsat the “executive mansion” in Montgomery. betel ee Bishop, Lieut. H Erben, Lient. R D Minor, Com Pennock, U.S.N: Major Kendrick, West Point; Col Reynolds; B. de Bar- Robinson, U.S A, » areat the National. ros. jan Legation; Hon. Thomas Swann, M4; Hou JH. Grosbeck, Gbio; Judge Haines, iM Beans Jos. J. Lewis. Lieut. Torbert, U. and Col. Hager are at’ Willards’s The Boston Traveller of yesterday says :-— «A rumor lias been in circulation several weeks thatthe Hoa. Wm Gf emgee member of Con- Gress elect from the fifth district. conte:m, lates resigning on account of impaired health. and that f PF. Durant, Esq , will Probably be the candi- date to fill his place. His friends expect that he will receive the nomination, which, ia their opin- ion, is equivalent to an election.” << U7 In the Virginia Convention yesterday, Hon. George W Summers, one af the most emi nent orators and 2 leading mon in Western Vir- ginia, ante 6 reek Spenok in opposition to sr- cession. He expri fall confidence in the eventual restoretion of the Union i> The Kentucky See: ssionists have issued a elrcular etn | the immediate institution of measuges in all the counties ot the State for the election of delegates to « Convention to be held at Frankfort on the 2uth of the present month. sncenmaesavaaponmel cuca et W_W. Holden, the editor of the ve ) Standard, received his third for this season last week. He refuses or re ract. Raleigh challenge to accept UJ Thomas Rese, a Insanity by de in J. .M wealthy planter, driven to reciation of negroes, cut his throat Iee., last week” mn {7 Fifteen babies, all less than si were christened In the Northampton Masacu? pton Massachu- 7" It is said that the copy right of “Dixie's Laod” has given to the pied sfc. oe epaien Guernsey is now the editor of Harper's There were fifteen deaths {i iin Pas last week. ho Mo: Co: - TTO OF THE oat @ hy many E Plu. DEPARTMENT NEWS. Tue Orricers or tHe Water Witcn.—The list of the cilicers ordered to duty steamer Water ¥\ w fing for eae We d; Ist Assistant Engineer, Charles H. forte, 3d, Wm. ©. Selden, E. Scattergood and R Driver. i Arrointep —Mr. Mark H. Cobb, of Pa. has been appointed Disbursing Clerk of the War De- partment, (salary $2.000,) vice Mr. John Potts, promoted to the chief clerkship of that Depart. ment. Prof. Masson, of Tenn , bes been appointed to a first-class ($1,200 per annum) clerksbip in the Post Office Department, to fill a vacancy. -——- + ResionEp —T Cooper DeLeon, a clerk of class one (81,200) In the topographical bureau of the War Department, (a native of South Carolina.) has resigned. - Removep —Mr. B. P. Porter. of Pa, a $1,200 cle k In the Census Bureau, was removed yester- day. - FRANcE anv THE Cotton ConrepERacy —The Paris Constitutionnel, to which. it is said, the Emperor of the French frequently contributes editorial articles has the following remarks on the secession movement in the United Stas: We beileve the time has come to rectify certain re- sertions which have been propagated through the medium of newspapers in the southern States of the American republic, in relation to the attitnde which France ijntendsto observe toward the United States. Some correspondents have asserted that onr Government had given South Carolina the ae- surance of our sympathy, and even the promise of its support shouid it be needed. France. which remembers with pride the part she took in the war of independence of the United States of Amer- ica, has never ceased to behold with a sincere satisfaction the marvellous proyress and unheard of prosperity of her ancient transatlantic ally. In nee of the events which now threaten to rend the Union asunder, she can but experience a deep feeling of regret. Far from encouraging the views of the disuntonists, and of participating in the perpetration of so deplorable a fact, France would see with pleasure the settlement of the difficulties now existing between the North and the South of the great republic. would be happy to learn that the sentiment of national Union but lately so deeply seated in the heart of the nation, has brought them together sgain and restored to {ts former integrity the powerful Con- federacy of the New World, Errrcts or Secession on TrRapE.—A promi- nent merchant of Memphis, Tenn., states that since the secession movement began to affect the channels of trade, the business of Memphis bas doubled,—and that the Memphis and Charleston railroad has been actually choked up by the pres- sure of cotton coming into Memphis and supplies going over the road to Charleston The official statements of the Harbor-master at New Orleans show that only #8 many vessels have arrived at that port from seaward, during the last month as during the corresponding period last year. The agent at Cafro, of the Mlincis Central rail- rond, collected last week $165,000 freight money on sonplics going over that route, to the South, through Memphis and the ports in Kentucky and Arkansas. These indleations of the changes which secession is ¢ffecting in the course of trade, are significant and ouvht to be alarming to the people of the Gulf States, who are josing their cemmerce at the same time that they are spending their money lavishly In “playing soldier” like 2 squad of echoolboys. “an—F, d hits his Captain. —The Chari he Ith inst. has the following: Abaut two o'clock yesterday afternoon, officer Hicks arrested Isaac Johnson, charged with Captain Stedman, at the foot of Broad a1 Jobuson did not deny the charge raft, and fancied he saw a ‘mink’? on the wharf; anxious to test the quality of bis gun and his buckshot, he fired at the mink and hit Ca Stedman, who was in the same ling, but f nately at a greiter distance. One of the bull. lodyed in Mr. Stedman's head, and was extract by Dr. Wragg. The wound, thouga not serious, and as the matter was accid Jobason will doubtiess be released to- paying the necessar: city ordinance. bowever, inasmuch as be considered himse! side of the city, and he thinks the officer a: a Brave Peguonieslingt f in arresting a free citizen without a warrant. He will plead his own case before the Mayor this morning. A Sovurn © Minka ata uu Mer- ooulng t. Mr. wie on a ptatin rortu- lay, on y fine for infringing on the He objected to bein crrest Tue Famous Froatino Battery a Deap Fa:ture —The Albany Evening Journal says: Charles Fesrson, formerly a clerk for Wendell & Feltman, of this city, has just returned home, after several months’ sojourn in Charleston He left to avoid being drafted into the regular army of the Southern Confederacy. Abont every third man is drafted He had no wish to be shot at by, or to shoot northern men ‘The mucb-talked-of floating battery is aban- doned asa total failure. Mr. Peargon was present when General Bexurepard first saw it ‘The Gen- eral lang hed at it; and soon after it was launched it capsized and sunk. When the disaster befel it, the Charlestonians merely said it was never intended for service, but to amuse the {mpatieot botspurs who insisted upen storming Fort Sumter . =a ee VaLur oF Govarnment PRorerty SuRREND- ERED iN Texas —The San Antonio Herald gives the followtng Hist of the property delivered up there, on the surrender of the U 8. troops : 1700 mules, valued at $50 each, $90,000; 500 wagons, valt at S110 exch, $9,000; 950 horses, valued at $150 each, $142,000; 500 harness at $50 each, (AN; tools, Wagon-matcrial, iren, nails, horse snd raule shoes, $250.00; corn’ 100; clothing $150,000; ec 000; ordnance stores S100 exclusive of eral Governme tssary stores 2: , bile buildings, to whicu the Fed? bas a title Juch of the above property is estimated at the orlyinal cost, i's value ere being much greater, being worth to the State atleast a million and a baif of dollars. The ely it artillery guns allowed the companies are.valued at $5,000 Sy $7.0 € Suootinc ArFray IN Battimo afternoon, about thr-e o’cloc D. Lingenfelter was patrolling hia beat, he ob- served a iman named Coakley tha drunken state, acting tn an offensive manner to street. On approaching Coak Fs bim to go away aud be quiet, Coakley became angry. and efter leaving the necnsed. the oifleer was startled by a report of a pistol in the hands of Coakley. The officer turned around and faced the laiter, when Coakley fired Several times, grazing the officer's arm, and wounding him in the breast and right thigh. A young lady who was standing in a book store was struck in the ankle and seriously injured. {t is thought she will be a cripple for life. Coakley is now in jail. ib Ge eco’ ty New York Stock Marker —The New York Tribune of yesterday sava:—There was a very ex- cited and buoyant Stock Market this morning, with large transactions in all the leading fancies The report of the intention of the Government to abandon Fort Sumter brought abont this change from previous dullness. The movement was ked upon asa peace measure, and as removing e of the mist dangerous points of collision zently the shorts rushed in to cover, the ‘oHowed the ir lead, and in the contest fer prices were put up frem js lo 24 per = —Yester day k, as policeman Jas. on Conseq: bulls stock the cent Tur Caitrenven Comriiment —The following 1s the resolution adopted by the Richmond Con- vention on Monday: “‘Resolved, That the thanks of the People of Virginia be, and they are hereby most cordially tendered to the Hon. John J Crittenden for his recent able, zealous and patrictic effortsia the Senate of the United States to bring about a just and honorable adjustment of our national difl- culties ** Among the sixteen noys tothe resolution was the Hon. Henry A. Wise and all the prominent dis- unionists per s+ in the Convention I~ The Lansing correspondent of the Detroit Advertiser says that the reading of the President’s Inaugural before the State Legislature was fre- quently loterropted by loud ‘applause. At the close, the Senate suspended the operation of par- liamentary rules, rose to their feel, and gave three rousing cheers. Meanwhile, the German artille- ry were firing a national salute, belle were peal- ing, and a general good time being bad by almost every one EE —EE——— Senator CLinoMan RerupiaTED BY WIs OWN Distxict —The vote in the Mountain District for d+ legates to the Convention is, says the Raleigh Register, a very decided repudiation of Senator Clingman’s tire-eatiny proclivities. His own county is dead set against him. 47" The ship Victory, before Teported as hav- ing gone asbore on Frida ¥ on Currituck beach, went to pieces on Satu rday during the hex storm Ship end cargo ak a total “a be loss The — Thomas £. Pratt is also asuore off Car- r % UG The Charieston correspondent of the Rich- moud Dispatch says: Are you aware that Gov. Brown, of Georgia, Hon. Wm. L. ol sarong ; ud NM eh sd ng men in the secession movement, — where, ae Carolinians? i 1" We learn from a gentleman direct from Lancaster, that Mr Buchanan {s lying seriously dil at Wheatland, from a nervous affection su ind by the excess! af sere excitement be has lately experienced .— Baltimore Clipper. bo Bia soldier who smuggled in the ball Wateries on Friday ‘moraine, at Tenens, faand Courter, has been arrested. —Charisston Cowrisr. aarp ge pee Gy” ap ap 455 SS == I merase SST =R E Items Telegraphed ie | Washingten. i Wasutxcton. Mareb 12 is known that the intention of the President is fo Grst fill the vacan- cies which exist and muos$ be filled during the resent session of the Senate. Excepting ina few natances, other appointments are deferred until this isdone. In the Meantime applicants are re- quired to file their papers in the proper Depert- ments It is understood that Senator Hunter will offer resolutions in the Senate on Thursday, iz. ing the indepe.dence of the Confederated States. They will, of course, be voted down, but they ere to be introduced asa means of vecasioning another excited debate, in the hopes thereby of “firing the Southern heart” of Virginia. Senator Latham has succeeded in getting a tri- week!y mail service of four horse coaches from San Francisco to Los Angelos with a weekly ser- vice to Sen Diego. The contract has also been closed for the removal of the Butterfield Com pany to the Central route, with a service from St. Louis to Placerville, California in sixteen days. The two Commissioners of the ‘Confederated States,’ Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, have not yet bad an interview with the President They are in telegraphic correspondence with President Davis, and awaiting the arrival of Gov. Roman An exciting rumor wasstarted this afternoon, of a flare up in the Cabinet, resulting in the resigna- tlon of Messrs. Chase and Blair, and the appolot ment cf Messrs. Gilmer, of North Carolina, and Etberidge, of Tennessee. Of course it was wl jolly untrue, aithough another strong contest took place in the Cabinet to-day over the nomination of Mr. Crittenden to the Supreme Court, which was again resolved upon over Mr. Chare’s oppcsition. It is now said that his nomination will be sent to the Senete to-morrow. Bera, Betta, Horrpa Devt !—The Charles- ton correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch {s becoming terribly oracular in his communications tothat journal “His letter of the 7th instant ts strongly spiced with the following sxnguinary hints: The project which I hinted at reaey of an invading army, I find {s now the order of the day, and that the battle vrouad will be changed from South Carolina to anotuer locality not ten thousand miles from you, isin my judymenta fixed fact. If I were to predict that ih sixty days the oF of Washington would be razed so that a plow-share should be run over the place where how Lincoi nervously rests, and that magnifi- cent monument of former greatness, the Capitol, would be blown sky-high. I might hot ia such a predi: tion be a false prophet I, like many a southern man, have a few cents invested in that other monnment begun years ago to the memory of George Washington, which monument, if left to black republican keeping, I hope to see rent tn twain from top to bottom. Some of your submiesion readers may call this vandalism. {t matters not with me what they call it; that monvment will never be allowed to stand on black republican soil, and you may take that as another prediction. If you will lock to the Courier of te date of the Sth inst you will ree my invading plot hinted at there. “ ‘The south- ern heart is fired now, and that fire will not be easily quenched, nor will it be, I fear, uniess it be quenched in blood.” We beard heavy cannonading seaward this Morning, at 2bout sunrise—the elty was azog. It turned ont thet the -* Crasader” was expected last night, aud the guns were “shotted,”? and this morning they were unshotted. The flonti battery is now ready for mounting, aud they for two heavy gnos of the Dahl ghren order. fhe front of the battery is about fonr feet thick. made so by four thickuess-s of palmetto leg the planking an can ever gel rely anchore vent his rag dit will: Son bas not « ruortar in bi all, throws shells it will be « Columbied, and they are said to be enti ted to that work. Yort Sumter is the hollow tree, Anderson is the old back hare—we will smoke him out iv ort: at STRENGTHENING THE DereNces oF Fort Picx- kxs —! he imporiance of the recent move of Lieut. Slemmer in erecting a sand battery to the east- ward of Fort Pickens, is thus explained by the Mobile Daily Advertiser of the 6th instant: The sand ba'tery defends the only land ap- proach to Fort Pickens, which stands on the ex- treme western pointof Santa Rosa island The island is some 40 miles long, but very narrow, in some places being scarcely more than a third of a mile in width. The battery stands on a narrow prt of the tsland, and is an effectual outpost to prevent surprise from rming force If we are tocome to blows with Lincoln’s Ad- ininistration we shall want to take t Pickens and will try; and es we bave no and our batterles on the main land can on lay at long taw with the powerful Island fortress, which can tore than hold {ts own at thatyame, and destroy any attacking force approaching in boats, the most feasible method of attack {s to throw a pow- erfal force on the Santa Ross Island, several miles to the eastward, crossing them over fron the main land acressa sound about a half mile, more or less, wide. Once on the island, their programme would be to rash down on Fort tickens aud take it by overwhelining assault We understand that Slemmer has taken every care and precoution in bis power to strengthen his defences on the island side of the fort, and no © We are advised that be hos provided an out- post work of defence; and if it be nothing more than a station for picket guards, it will answer toe purpose of effectually preventing anything ike asnrprise. The Island, however, affords the € ineility of making regular 'sieze approaches by an attacking fe and yet this fe could be excessively annoyed inthe day time by the shot and auell of a squadren playing upen them in fank from the Gulf or — We hope the worst will not come to the worst, and thet we shall get the fort easier than ti er ar. mis; but if we do not, this sind battery of Lieut. Slemmer’s is a matter of interest, and wil play a part of some importance in en attack on the only pan ts which we can quickly gain possession of ickens << —____. ARGE oF Suucr ann Suot —The Xpress relates that on Saturday last, Heavy Petersburg while ad bexvily loaded with IW-tnch was proc ng up Sycamore st, the tafl-bourd came off, in consequence of the pressure caused by the bolls, while ascending the bill near the store of Messrs Meliwaine, Son & Co..sttewing the tron piilaall over the pavement ‘The weight of these death-dealing missiles may be judved from the fact that wherever one of them touched the pavement, it mede a hole three or laches deep 7 ere gathered up, one by pisced on the vebicle, and hauled to th cepot Their destination is eral theusend have preceded them si of Jcnuary, but the end is not yet. We are cred- ibly informed that the ord dy given the establishment where these are manafactored can- not peasibly be filled before the Ist of January, i The Secretary of the Navy resides in Hartford. Ct , os dova his predecessor, Mr Toucey, d artford Tim: Democratic,and almost + ssion journal, says of his appotnimrnt : he bead of the Navy Depariment will be a st of unusual responsibility. and anything buta sinecure. This office is ranked as a higher grade in the Cabinet than the Post Office, and eveats clearly Indicate that it isto be, during Lincoln's sdmiuistration, a much more impoitant one Gideon Welles, however, is not the man to sh:inuk from the resporsibilities of any post which be has accepted; be will be found firm in the discharge of bis duty, and we can only trust that be will take a broader and more jnst view of what bis duty ts, than we could bope to expect from some of the meu by whom he is surrounded.” [9 The New York Herald says that the present crisis has most seriously affect-d the interests of the publishers of books. Several strong houses have found themselves compelled to ask accom- modatiou from thelr creditors; one very largely engaged in the southern trade has stopped, and advertises to sell off its stock for the price of the white paper on which the books are priuted; ut in the keeping of Slemmer, he could not ie held the Fort any lonzer than it would have pg that crowd last night to get to Pensacola ry Forts Sumrzx and Movttaiz.—A feationsa who arrived from the South a day or two si: relates an anecdote that was current in a, though but little was said about it in Charleston. The gunners at Fort Moultrie recently anchored a rice tierce equal distance from Forts Sumter, and fired some twenty or thi without effect. Major Anderson wai oultrie and shots st it ings for some time, and then aij and pods one of bis large guns, shivered the at the first shot.— Boston Traveller. Gov. Magoffin, of Ki bad his left en brckas at socket on V last, by the upsetting of & stage couch at Harrodsburg. Army and Navy News. Colonel Crossman, of the Ordnance rt. ment, has been ordered to proceed at once to St. Louis, to assume the control of the military ord- nance there. The Untied States Corvette Constellation, of the African Squadron will be relieved the coming pain inicuaen ted tebentes aoe conned | Ca Nic! | captured severa! 5 ‘The Constellation was rebuilt from the old craft of that name There is considerable discussion going on as to the intended destinetion of two artillery officers of the army who left New York ina Havana steamer some weeks since, under ‘‘sealed orders.” It is said that they bsve got into Fort Sumter, notwith- standing the vigilance ofthe Charlestonians One * of them is a gentleman of considerable experience ia the science of fortifications. The ramor is probably a beax A private Bourd of Officers will,it is understood be appointed to investigate the alleged ‘‘disaffec- tion” inthe army. The antborities of the War Department have not received any intimation of mutinous intentions, or dissatisfaction am pany Portion of the troops except those in Texas Even of the Iatter it is siid that a thousand true men | Will still remain in the federal service The distribution of our naval forces, as given in the Naval Reyister for 1561, is as follows : . SU7 The Army Re; r for 1861 gives the total en- listed men of the Army at 17,05; ageregate, 18.122. There are 198 companies in the different regiments If all these were subject to the tn- creased allowance of the regiments serving in dis- tant stations, the total enlisted would be 17,547, and the aggregute 18 666 Lieut. Hudson, the officer in command of Bed- loe’s Island, New York barbor, is about to have a proper battery mounted, as much pose of drilling bis artitlerists as for any other cause There is large quantity of ordnasce rubbish pow on the Island; but only about elybt | cannon are in good order There are about sixty ment to work the guns and garrison the place, the | greater part of them being experienced soldiers é chment of forty men has been sent to Sed. Ialand from Fort Columbus. é loe’s ‘Tux Wearnen.—The following report of the weather for the morning is made from the Amer. lean Consolidated Teiegrsph Line to the Smitb- sonian Institaticn. The time of observation ‘s about 7 o'clock. : Maxca 13, 1861. Burlington, Vt. nowing, 21°. New rork, N.Y Philadelphia, Ps.. cloudy, f ‘warm, wind N Washington, D. ©. cloudy. Richmond, Va clear, pleasant. Petersburg, Va clear. pleasant. Norfolk, Va. Raleigh, N. ©. Wilmington, N.C clondy. 51°, wind & clear, 54° clear, pleasant. Charleston, 3. C clear, 54°, wind SW Auzusta, Gz clear, cool. Savannah, G lear, 55°, wind SE Macon, G car. Gritfen. Ga. Mon'gomery, Jackson, Ala. Mobile, Ala. New Orleans, FROM THE WasT. Frederick, Md.. cloudy, damp Cumberland, Md. cloudy, pleasant. Pittsburg, Pa. raining, 42° Grafton, Va cloudy, pleasant. Parkersbur, raining, miid Harmer, O. raining, warm cloudy, mild overcast, 33°. mitbsoniau at7 a m.. (cor- rected for tempersture,) 29, noon, 29,918 ‘Thermometer 2t 7 a.m... 513g 7 Maximum during 24 hours, ending 9 2. m, to- day, 55 ; minimum 403°. Norroix Arrains —We glean from the Ports- mouth Transcript the following items: F. O. Winnerquist, a German musici-n, and supposed to have been once connected with the Crisp troupe of theatricals, who visited the two citles some time ago, committed suicide at the Atlantic Hotel, in Norfolk, on Friday night last, abont I! o'clock. This morning, on the flag staff in frent of the Norfoik naval rendezvous, the flag of South Car- colina was fiying insteed of the red, white and blue, to the great delight of numbers of people. There was another discharge of workmen from the navy-yard Saturday night. We presume that this thing will continue until Virginia determines Whetber she will remain in or go out of the Union. When this Is done. we may expect active times. ‘The first requirement of the South ie 2 navy. LED Bt STEAM IN is —The Evening News, of this city, Mr Charles Ridon, an ingenious ma- chinist, is engayed at the Western Foundry in making an apparatus to propel the street cars through the avency of steam The furnace end boiler are to be upright, and pleced in front of the car, occupying a space of about three feet square The civlinders are to be three inches in diameter, with a nine inch stroke, and will give a power equal to that of about three horses. Coke will be used for foel id the steam will be condensed ina large water chamber under the sente of the car, to prevent too free escape of the steam {nto the streets In tne opinion of those sO have investigated the machinery, there is every prospect of its being entirely successful for th® purpose designed Missin Fisnixg Vessets.—The Boston Jour- nal says: “‘We are pained to hear that four of the George's Bank fishing fleet, from Gloucester, are missing, and were probably lost in the heavy and cold westerly vale of the 7th February, and their crews, numbering forty cr fifty men, perished. This winter fishing is carried on at two Rreat a secrifice of life. If it were not voluntarily engaged in by the fishermen, the world would pronounce it the harshest cruelty to send men, for a meager remuneration, upon such dangerous service.” DanLongca Brancn Mint —The Atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer learns that the superintendent of the United States branch mint at Dabionega now holds that property, with $20,000 in gold coin contained therein, for the State of Georgia, under a written order from Gov Brown, REE Ste ea tine A TowN Sxcevine rrom a County —Seott Township, in Fremont county, Jowa, bas actually seceded from the county, and “set up for iteeif A list of grievances was enumerated, and com- missioners were appotuted to confer with other disatlected townships. oe COMPANY C, Ww Vs I B—Mert at yo Li armory i HISEVENING, @- pall paced o'clock. Business of im porta oo wil be brought before the raveting and fu | atrendance ist quested, he WM. Fit GUSON,Cor Seo, Te ATTENTION, PEDERAL fIFLES— .¥. You are Lereby notified the: there will bea me tins ef he Company on THURSUAY, March lath. nt the armo:y,(t mon Burdiigs,)atths o'o k A itll sitentarco is Geatred. as there will be an es 4 tor Ce ptain and uther importsnt officerr, as 1; or of the Company. ma 13 2i* “i SAY, STRANGER, WEERE ARE you going? Yous om to bsins creat hur- ry.? “So Lam. Lam going ‘02M: TH'S. No 400 eventh strect, to buy a suit of Clothes. T) ond say he has & very nice avsortinent, 2 seils them so cheap.” Note.—The of tho strang 18 “SMITH, he poo- tuey say t ve caw ing up Seventh street ‘No.460" fo 2-6w IPE, ATION ER . BR. Spartans of 8 WEppis f runni singing out n eminent lawyer of ah ee mot Alan aoe ¥. 7. * + x. . ol an ‘ASH! T DEN Wi nm ed petent man, who braveh 1 paid, | dens f 'ADER, price of ite f: rom. Dyape ri accord rt for thi me “3 h she hes had = aoe nea, preced: scab, and being and dint th 7 nf Jor business and ke cmap rete t AKILLA, which o is ekin sfilts SHOOK, oR va cay the Gaui ce! ms 13 eolm ust 2 food | rss Siete Ponte AUCTION SALES. By 1. C. Mos LIKE ets EW _ AN? SE-OND-BAND © Avction—On SATURDAY Mt oh ania eeloc! . in front ei— iN ING, the Avction larch }6tb. irr-eeat eed Fire seat Oven ¢ Germintown Wagon, new- y done up, ~seat Summer Carrinre, but littie weed, im; socd » suitable for a physician. ree 5.0. MCGUIRE & Co.. Avcta, = SS eee KN & WILLIAMS, Auothoncers. {ae corner Tih and D sircts RE,CAR e, Re ON THURSDAY, tre nate inet; we sha'l ec'l, mn front ef our Auction Rooms, ssrortment of gard gene: ware and t ‘eols, a < of— lanes, Uhisels, Batodet~, Bolts, wares, Roos, Soythes, Forks, Re. “Pheattaat.on of builders : ‘eq vested to the above ea'e, as they will be sold without reserve, mein GREEN & WILLIAMS, Avets. of fier {s0:n@ isenod from the Clerk’ MARSHALS SALE—In virtue of two wr the Cirouit Court of the pone = Columbia. leview the sof pa SG YS 7s Nowe. 138 sto. Januat 4 cor or Sei‘hauns Heutioks & Ferber. aud Somme S. Sievers. .SE N. US. Marshal for ma? dts” pier nce Dnstrict of Columbia, _ | Myesuaus s | ALE.—In vii ofa ‘fice m the Clerk's | the Girout Courtot the Distriat of Col at of the 4 of Wash: » and to me di j ad to pablie nie, Be cash, in fro: of said counts, on FI 1 together al and singular a ts thereon, seized and levied upom | Re the property of Brook Mackall, and will be word i tusfy pudicia’s No. 43. to January term, 1961, im > oh Hooe, Brother & Co. fs * w SELDEN, v.8. Marebal. 7ROM BOSTO. F eee bas ar ived i ret: She wil: be reoetvin 4 | #PE tee bate port TO-MORIO W' Wed newiay.) Apply to SARTLEY & BROTHER, 99 and 101 ¥ ts _ma leat | QreciaL pane Ss that have bern ser tar to m-mbera o: Congre: gains, at Caiokering & So: Agenc: JOHN +. ELLIS, 306 Pa av., between Shard Oth ete, Pianos acd Mciedeons {1 rent upon esey terma, ery nies Rosewood C en; Ro ewootN winan & tr mnie for S15, the Alusro Store of W. G. METZ. EROTT j ! ; j 1 j EE . soe Brent of Steinway & tone’ and & Co" 08 Lh R . — 300 yards beaaiifel Eaglish Prints, for Sprizg 4) dozen Jouvin’s Undressed Kid Gloves, in black ad Gark color; “mo dczcn Juuvin’s best Kid Gloves, in all colors. Ji j: Tasos We wie y ¥ oct ne new goods, and eeiling them ver Cae N A RILEY & BRO. No. 36, Centra! Stores, Between 7th and &h ats., il 2weo Cpposite Center Market, OME-MADY Bours AND SHOES, ‘or Lass’, Misszs’ axo CuiLpren’s Waar, a Lreeedingly Low Prices. ‘At 1 ROSE STGALss, me 8.00 Pa av . Bey ? \ PuBuic BatTss. i HENRY SCHAEFER, BARBER AND HAIR-DRESSER, E greg Ag hey : bss PL pacer conneotion with hit setariishment, 4 ul seoommodations for aflording to hie | Quetwuers and the pud1e the lusury of COLD ot | WARM BATHS t any time Curing business moderate—t went hours. U.s charg: dec tata ee ecatefor a cine j When tickets zor that aad for in ree. ; Phir. Sohneter takes this opportunity to ieform ite omece that this desirabieaddition ty hy: hiathme And to teal of Catting or hair, he bees betior secomm | ro: te EYesr VISITOR TO WASHINGTON SHOULD PURCHASE PHILP’S WASHINGTON DESCRIBED. This ts the only Complete Gurde book tothe Nation- @i Capra! ever published. The Velame conta v« a omprehenaive Hi | the City from ite Barhest Se:t'ement to the } P.esent Time, wit every Imp rtant Event ecanected with it: ‘at of Sovernmont. A so, Elaborete Descriptions of the Various Pablio pisces Relis: le L.formaty ng titow thst he has obiidren ovided for them AU +o 8,in having fitted o> a emeil co Appronriated it exclusively to their use. m i ette of OF- ficial Intercowrse; Desorption of tae Pisces of Inter-si the Vi ing &c,&o. Inuvetnatep with a Mir akp Nemenovs Ex- KAY! El-sontiy Bound Frey by mnilice te trtee e d prise, ge RT mar? eolm 332 Pa. vv.» bet Sth wud 16th ste, Are \n she oid with on lemponast large stock of READY MADS CLOTHING aod GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS ° new offer tout bs mail The trade and Prices by ms 8 FRENCH & RICHSTEIN. SHIK TS—SH'RTS-SRIRTS. Shirts, the best fittiog n Dirts can only be had BROTGENS’S Esta) iisimeat, corner ef Kend Seventh ate >t ere in want of Cveon Shirts wi. find it to their advactage to give oso col mer S-lw 7s | Taz rinet Rete eae Shirts, id the most durab! at BaR & WOOD AND CUAL. at surely PIONE mer of Seventh street and Ascent) They weil cheaper oa, money's worth by i sane (GEO PASE ; ana, and give better measure tuan any others in the eity—oul +, Split, and dels’ erel free of charge. If you don’t bel it. give | the Pioneer Mi.is a trial, and be sausfi: | dat « BUME, and retty Musie or MM of JUHN E ” Penn. avenue, bore, ‘oh ead ‘ach me SFICEKS, PETTY Of FICER: O men who were on board of any wey oat the capture of any siaver oan have for se VELO! i ty and Head. joney promptly to. this is only the beginning. Now-a-days people A= beautiful reesing % ach have no telare or teetieation od ee: ral Pik Pa. Av., betwoen ‘oh _ ee a ton, D> at - i a are commencing a new era in the world’s hist a INGTON. = ry > 71 With the dawning of each day coma new and —— | SCHENCK’S PULMONIC SYRUP. startling events, and truth is indeed stranger than oO THE- ADMIRERS. OF THEIR GAR- pr. SCHENCK, of Philadelphin, finds it i fiction WM. HUGHES, Florist, Seventh st., Island, sibie to visit Waehington every week. fod he ton bas made ements to positively be in the city Soornern Postace Stamp.—We saw a letter n m= Saal beste tye ¥ third Wedseodes ‘every month. from Florida this moruing on which was one of oe Sohe On cevote his ante yee eoes fie has a seit els at the Avenue House, Which this wtan Postage stamps. The letter on | jaying out or making how Gardens wad sesso | Whete patieute can obtain advino. ivee Be only which this stamp was placed was marked as paid, luring the summsr mon charges when it is noocsaary to —+y and came through asa distributed letter from WM. HUGHES, | S8muaron of the eg 5 Savainzh ‘the Postmaster could not recognize RE. i 91 por bettie for themes wo ag it, and ordered the regular postage to be collected | Peruse the fol a sve Consumption; banean = on it when delivered. It . therefore, go ite facta for you Price @! per bettie, for 1 ; among the uncbarged letters, and three cents will] ABRAM CULE, of Brook], - ber ver be due on it when it is called for nown citiz-n there, had suff ¢ the ° The Postmaster will write to the De; t | for some years, witheat per at, 5. ‘wouid be finn e immediately to know if those postage stamps can | tried AYERS r1l.1.8, which taken we their cure wi WATTS be acknowledyed —Norfolk Day Book. corner ath et. and La de Tux INavGugAL tn Mosite —The Mobile Dally re PORTANT TO BHUUSELERPERS Advertiser, poking of its issue of an extra, on . i the recelpt of the inaugural, says: E. K. DURRES & Cus ‘The rush on our office was without lent cf SPircoms. in all our experience of Mobile journalism. Had Goaranteec not or!y this office been Fort Pickens, it would have been ABSOLUTELY AND PERFECT: RE, captured by escalade in two minutes, such was ap ona fom Re eclected s pneu the eagpid | so impetuous the charge of us express'y for the curious and indignant citizens on our counter, r skin sfill shows 2 If the only copy of Lincoln’s address bad been | 80ms scars from it it is otherwise cost. are benutihaliy pecked in tinfoue es a eae ae KYO! ° "a ‘trig. fe 13-if.D& W.tr LINCOLN as Prove, Bi Panes Gare, E is.

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