The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1860, Page 1

"NEW YORK HERALD. 8879. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1860. PRICE TWO CENTS. ' ‘The pany to be pursued Ay the sdminiatretion ia re- gard W the military movements in Charleston harbor, ‘Wasurvaron, Deo. 28, 1960. The Interview of the Souk Carolina Commission rs and the ) THE REVOLUTION. PORTANT NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, - Resignation of theSecre- tary of War. |> Extraordinary Ultimatum of the South President. and tte further meagureaso be acopled in reference '® | ae, commienionors of South Carolina called on tho Pre: ‘Ube South Carotina Commissioners, are still subjects of ‘sideut to-day at one o'clock, Cabinet discussion, which now hold daily and protracted sexsions. Tt is understood that not only the Commiesion- ‘ers, but the entire Southern delegations bere, demand the withdrawal of Major Anderson from Fort Sumpter, A portion of the Cabinet are inclined to the same view. I have good reason to believe, however, that the Presi- dent will not accede to this demand. While he admite that Major Anderson, in his recent movement, was acting witbout special instructions to that effect, he feels that ‘There was no formal reception. The President was in his Kbrary, and whea the servant announced their arri- val be was directed'to conduct them thither at once. The interview was not concluded until after three o'clock. Jt is understood that the Commissioners presented in writing their credentials from the State of South Carolina, empowering them to treat with the general government in regard to the forts, arsenals and other property, &c. , &e, But it is further said that, in consequence of the news received here within the last forty-cight hours, they ibility of restor- | €XPressed ap unwillingness to enter upon any negotiations: ! Carolina Commissioners. the subsequent events preclude the possibility eo en ene ecne 3 ing the troops to the status quo. The President is deter- plained. =e mined to do everything in his power to avoid collision. ‘The Major’s despatch fully explains his conduct. Ho The Action ef the Howse | 5, jo: commitice of Thirty-three to-day voted to | wished to save the effusion of blood, He determinet to Crisis Committee. recommend an enabling act to admit New Mexico as a vc hr laa obtains ARs State, with or without slavergyas she may elect, The ‘The Commigsionere ask now that the troops of the go- proposition received the votes of all the republicans pre- | vernment shoukl be withdrawn, as their presence, pond- The Admission of New Mexico, With OF | gout except Washburn, Tappan, Kellogg, Morrill ax» eg aeeiisiions, ene, ~*~ ane . ‘ ‘A esident, it is understoo!, listened if repre- ‘Without Slavery, Recommended, Robinson, Sr. Washbwrne declared that it wasn offer- J i "eed tal ab aid Sal eo ) ing of anew slave State and two United States Senators | cogn tion to authority to address him, except se citizens of the United States. While the Cabinet was in sersion on this, the regular day, news came of the occu- pation of Fort Mouitric and Castle Pinckney by the Caro Nolans. The devermipation of the Cabinet (already, 1 pregume, communicated by telegraph) was that every- to appease Southern wrath; a proposition to create a State without people to strengthen slavery; thyt the Ter- ritory had not to exceed seven hundred white people who were natives of the United States; that it would be un- » Seiaure of a Revenue Cutter by the South Carolinians. a Just to the old States -to admit her as a State though she } thing should be placed in statu quo ante beldum—i. ¢., that : came 2s a free State, and that the only merit the | the Carclinions should give up Fort Moultrie and Castle a _ The Captain of the Slaver Bonita Res- aed! oll pia have to paciticate the | Pinckney, to the former of which Major Anderson should cued by a Charleston Mob. ps promptly return. ' ; by South would arise from the consideration that This plan for a pacitic solution of the Jatest element in a new slave State was conceded to them, and that if they | complications already mischievous enough, has given “The Attitude of the Non-Slave- | ‘i1t elieve that it was euch a concession it would Inuch comporure throughout the political circ'es to-night. f only aggravate the difiiculty. Extremo Southern men | PREPARATIONS FOR WAR IN MASSACHU- holding States. oppored it because it did not reach the root of the diffi- culty, which they frankly declared could gnly be settled by providing for the protection of slavery in future ac. quisitions offterritory. It is proper to state that the rest of the republicans, and the Union men of the bor- dor States, voted for these propositions of Mr. Adams from a desire to make all concessions they could coa- sistent with bonor, that there may be no question as to SETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. Bosrox, Dec. 29, 1860. ‘There is no disguising the fact that Massachugotts is ready to respond promptly to any demand made upon ber for troops to sustain the Union and the laws. I learn to-day, from ths highest authority, that seven thousand troups can be put in marching order on twenty- four hours’ notice, and that one hundred and forty-five thousand men aro enrolled in the militia of this State. Preparations for War in Pennsylvania, Massa- 2 chusetts and New Hampshire. Forthcoming Special Message of ; 3 Of this number twenty thousand could be easily mus- : 4 the President, their position as earnest friends of the Union. eed &e., &e., &e. Senator Bigler now propoacs, every other proposition ‘The financial resources of Massachusetts were never in ‘ peers having failed in the Senate Committee, that te people in pois be ons a ap emergency, and the ‘people OUR WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, | ¢ach Congressional district vote directly upon the qes- | ajutunt Gencral Abbott, of New Hampshire, arrived tion wnether there shall be a division line between the North and South as regards slavery. The proposition re- ceives democratic support, but the republicans are shy. Senator Dixon, republican, of Connecticut, says he will sustain it if areepectable pumber of his party will con- gent to dogo. Mr. Seward’s Astor House speech has been and still is variously commented upon, the Southern men regarding itasadeclaration in favor of coercion, while the ultra republicans consider it too conciliatory in its tone. The latter are opposed to concessions of any character, aod seem to regard the breaking up of the government with 8 much indifference as the most extreme Southera dha, It js well known here among the leading republicans that several of the Governors of the great non-slaveholding States have agreed to recommend a firm and determined resistance to the scoession movement of the Southern States. ‘The first States that will proclaim thia policy in their forthcoming messages to their respective Logista- tures are New York, Pennsylvania and Obie, to be fol- lowed by the other Northwestern States. ‘The South aro _beginnirg to understand that they . ‘or strength In the North, except from those who are oF posed to the repablican party. ‘These facts, just de- ‘velopee , are doimg much barm jn the South, and accele Fating the secession movement. ‘The Pennsylvania Legislature wi! meet on Tuesday next. [learn froma well informed gentleman, just ar- rived from Harrisburg, who saw aud conversed with the State officers and legislators elect, that one of the first acts of that government will be an appropriation of from ‘one to five millions of dollars, and one huudred thousand men, armed and equipped, to aid the federal government in the preservation of the Union. It is believed by Go- vernor Curtin that nearly all the other Northern States will follow this example, ‘The conduct of Major Anderson & universally com- mended by Northern men of all parties, and by all Union men from the border States, Postmaster General Holt to-day ordered warrants to be drawn in favor of the mail coutractors in South Caro- ima fer abont thirty-six thousand dollars, being the ‘Palanee to the credit of the department deposited with the Assistant Treagurer at Qhariestom, thus securing 1 the postal service all accrued full@n-ta-chat seeeding here this afternoon from Washington, and left imme- diately for Concord, with the intention of to Governor Goodwin that the Granite State be imme- diately put upon a war footing. Considerable excitement exists in consequence of the reporte that the muskets removed from the Springfield Armory have been distributed over the Mr. Whit- ney, Collector of this Port, Iate Superinté of the Armory at Springfield, returned from there to-night, having been there, it is supposed, with reference to the report from Washington to the Hirai that twenty thousand muskets have recently been taken from the armory and sold to Virginia, ‘The feeling is deep and not to be misinterpreted. There is no mistaking the fact that Massachusctts i m earnest in this crieis. The merchants are plucky, and the name of Andersonés uppermost in evéry conversation. ap j Wasurnerox, Dec. 28, 1860. { ‘The Cabinet have just adjourned, after a protracted session of six hours. The affuirs at Charleston was the + wubject under consideration. Secretary Floyd stated to ‘the President, in writing, that unless Major Anderson was ‘withdrawn from Fort Sumpter he could not remain in the \.— Gabinet. Secretaries Thompson and Thomas wore unter- i stood to eftertain the same view, but the events of to- | ¥ @ay changed their minds somewhat. The President de- termined, after full deliberation, not to withdraw Major Anderson, and Mr.Floyd’s resignation was therefore ac- Bepted. Secretary resignation is explained as follows:— ‘The South Carolina Commissioners demanded, as an ulti- amatum, the withdrawal of all the federal forces from the Charleston forts. The President was willing to restore the status quo, besides disclaiming Major Anderson's _oouree, but would not concede the demand to withdraw * 1 the forces. The issue ia Cabinet was upon this point, Mr. Floyd taking sides with the Commissioners’ demant, amd ihe Executive opposing it, and hence Mr. Floyd re- Bigned. Among the persons named 4s Mr. Floyd’s successor is » Gee. Benjamin F. Butter, of Massachusetts, who has been je confidential consultation with the President for several days. ‘ THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION. Cuantanron, S. C., Dec. 29, 1800. ‘The Convention reassembled this morning. ‘The proceedings were opened with prayer. ‘The Pxmapxst then read 4 communication from W. F. Of the Port at Charleston, ‘oferming the ail the ofMeeth of the cumtoms bed entered the service of the State, aud that he ha! com menced receiving duties and transacting other business Mr. Duxkw said there was an act of Cougress ju rela- tion to special duties. The Legislature had recently per mitted the banks of the State to suspend specie pay. ments. Specie is now four per cent preminm, and it is unfair to ask payment of dutios in specie when tixes are payable in bank notes. Mr. DexKrxe offfred a reeolution that the collectors of the State receive the payment of duties in any bills of any bank of the State. Mr, Maswevox—If necessary, the balks can inerense their circulation, and crabarraasinent wil! then be im possible. The motion in reference to commercial relations was then Jost. The Paeswent here received a communication from the Gévernor, through T. Watts, im relation to the Charleston harbor ‘The Convention then went jute secret assion. understood the Military bill is under consideration. ‘The Convention this morning possed the ordinance au- thorizing the reception of bills of th> banks of the State by Collector of the ports, provided none of them be be- Jow the par value of the Bank of South Carolina. ‘The Convention then adjourned till ten o'clock ou San. day morning. ‘The Comumitter om Constitatjon have prepared an ordi- Wasunvatox, Dec. 24, 1668. ‘The Mderal capital was in a state of wnwonted . ‘quiet all day until fivg this afternoon. The movements of the South Carolina Commissioners ceased to attract > much atention, a visit tothe Capitol, and paying their respects to Speaker Pennington and other dignitaries, being all that they did of a public character, They were ‘wil day without a desgatch from the seat of trouble, which fact they attributed to ap interruption of the wires. Thoy made no further call upon the President, nor ‘s it likely they will (rom present appearances. ‘That the Cabinet was holding a protracted session was * il of public interest that was occurring. In short, there ‘was nothing emeiting or alarming going on, on the Bircet or in private councils, “when. guddenly the town, at the hour above mentioned, was sel ‘apother blaze of excitement by a report, coming through “ srustworthy channels, that Mr. Floyd, Seorotary of War; It is Mr. Thomas, Seeretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Thomp- State. pres rong nied lately vested in Congress, pon, Secretary of the Interfor, had all resigned, on the ‘The report about a servile insurrection near Macon, ee re ieee ground, a8 was alleged, that the President had refused to order Major Anderson to return with his force to Fort not to extend without the direction of the Convention to duties ov imports, the Post Office, declaration of war, treaties, confederacy. &, Georgia, published with such a great flourish in this morning’s Tribune, is pronounced by gentlemen just from Moultrie. that section to be unqualifiedly false. Alllettems received | the ordinance concerning the judicial powers of the ‘ #o current and apparently reliable was the rumor, that | >. 5» from Georgia concur in stating that the slaves were | United States Courte revests these powers into the Courts Bevators, representativés, thg South Carolina Commis- | novep more obedient and so willing to work as at this | of South Caroliua as the General Assembiy may ditect. ‘The Charleston City Court is to have jurisdiction in admi- ralty and maratiine cases, and also in cases of appeal when the amount exceeds two thousand dollars, In cases affeeting the public ministers the powers are con. tinued pearly the samme as in the United Stater Courts. ‘Tbe General Assembly is 10 appoint the judicial officers. ‘The act of Congress to provide more effectually for the punishment of certain crimes, approved March 3, 1825,’ ie substituted by the State for all offences whirb are sub- Jeet to the juriediction of the Courts of the State. The Convention will take the subject of treasou under cons deration. ja DISCHARGE OF THE MECHANICS AT FORT SUMPTER. Bartimont, Dee 29, 1860 ‘The Sun, of this city, has on its pulletin a special des- petchfrom Charleston, saying that the carpenters and Dricklayers (rom Baltimore, amployet on Fort Sumpter, wing refused to bear a nat Sonth Carolina, were discharged by Major Anderson this morulog. THE SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE /WENTIETH DAY OF PECEMMER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1860. From the Charleston Mercury, Deo. 21.) Tnscribed among the calefidars of the world —meny Bioners, and many others having access to weil informed Circles, reiterated it, and generally expressed a belief that "5 was the fact. After investigation, however, at headquarters, the re- port was fonnd to be true only 80 far as Secretary Floyd was coneerned, and that Beesrs. Thompsin and Thomas + Still retained their pleeee. It is known, however, that a serious division exists in the Cxbinet, and a break up may at almost any hour be unticipated. Recent and highly important intelligence } From the South, received vy the government, may pre- 5 wipitate the event. The peaple, government, officials and non-officials, are all at seo,and,as it were, in a whirl ‘wind, inthe federal capital at this moment, and no woe can ford@iell whatastounding erents may trapepire from * hour to*hour. ‘The President i «ngaged in preparing a special ins rage, Whi will be communicated to Congress on Mon- diay, setting forth all éhe facts commeeted with the affuies mow tranapiring at Charleston, and elso the fects tn re- gard to the South Carolina Commissioners, for Congress te take sueb action in the premices ae Grey may deem pro- time. General Cushing is confined to his bed by ® severe rheumatic affection of the muscles of iis chest. OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Wasmoton, Dec, 28, 1860. the Movement of Mojor Anderion—the Policy of the Prevident. The excitement produced by the news from Charles. ton in respect to the forts has quite subsided. ‘The public judgment in regard to Major Anderson's tovement ought to be suspended until that gallant and in every wey meritorious officer's report is heard. Military men differ as to the question of expedicucy. Tollticans agree Mm condemning the procedure, because jt would be certainly misinterpreted by the Charles. toninne, end he Mkely to excite @ suspicion that it wae a coercionlike movement. This was in reality the first efect there. ‘The dieturhance of the Hatw que position, which the adneinmisation had resolved to preserve, constituted the chief grourdlof objection entertained by (ie President and Secretary of War. The report of Major Anderson willehow whether there was such a necessity as would Juetiy @ Mowement 60 momentdus and so pregnant with eonseqnences upon the relations of the State of South Caro Vipa to the federal government without apecitic orders. wit and tyrannous » per. Monday wil be 80 eventful day sa eur hlntory. | Tr ant da ansioualy expected. ‘The meversent | has fallen trem its high seta atnongrt the naduos 9 dhe ‘Look ou t for an explosion — from Fort Moultrie to Port Sempter was admirably earth, as wag gg Be ‘The Seeretary of the Treasury has Juet reesivet ©} yicnued and executed. The whole thing was done with- svar, St tiiberty bee warvived. Rigie raised his ¥ ting Uhat the revenue cutter | @ut the slightest euapicion on the part of any inhabitant be dy ay BN =. "$m the port Of Charlatton tad been se\zed by the autho ts eid altace te 5 oan ‘eccured itaelf from threatene| deetruction Titier, and that the captainywiy iso native of Charleston, einers here, and other Carolinians , ® thunder Sonth Carolion baa resumed her entire sovere: og 1 bas resigned. This intelligenge was immeiiately comme | Tye enemies of the Prosideut mecuse him of want 0 Necember, before leaked to the Cabinet, trmine-s. "No tis of seproach agatnat « pablle man, ia | o'ctk Ps Ue or Psi a een ‘The Navy Department at two o'otodk Fepeived a de. | any age or nation, eas ever facther from Me the to Qs patch from List, James P. Foster, commanding to ~ Slaver Bonite, whieh was carried into Charleston, stating shat hie prisoner, the captain of the slaver, had ‘boon: taken before a State Judge by writ of habess. corpas, that the Jodge remanded the prisunde to hia custody on the ground that he bad no jurisdiction, and shat on bis Sway to the Bonita with his prisoner he had been taken Dy forea from his custody by & mob. Every bour complicates affairs in Charleston more and } more. The people of that city seein determined to pre- Piet an jesue with the guverument, has hat',from firet-to last, Grofigh all tithe dimeuitine and compéications, hie own ] eilered and . Ne | tes to the Convention were signed, it wax oe way if not avert, tho dangers which 1 seo | om + Bia eco i ah ren shee ag i primate fre, Prat soc SOMETHING ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA, PUBLIC MEETING IN PITTSBURG, Pa. | The City of Columbia--Its Bdueational Institu- tions, its State House and its Gardens. POPULATION OF THE STATE? : Eaes The Military Organization of the Commonwealth. FINANC AL STATISTICS. Ent THE RAILROADS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. A GLANCE AT THE MOUNTAIN SCENERY, th a i He INTENSE ANTIPATHY TO NORTHERN A Northern Correspondent Put Through a Course of Sprouts. i fT #} 2 | i i +4 INGTON, Major of Ordnance. ‘the following resolutions were presente: After whi ppd and — Amusing Examination of the Special Corres< : State thy pou a st ame ae | Seca crena moter ommoons” Unkle bad! sea Pee “iegheny arsenal plats poe tig t Recent den xia — &e., &e., &e. Governor Gist, ere nee in kchet of eavanl or extra peesicn 1" ibe |. whereas, Our" Conuama, 8. C., Dec. 14, 1860. ae) pgp mee signa the President, advancing Senauaga th ‘have received no age the proper You perceive that I write from Columbia, the capital to the front of the , announced that the seal te “ fact that our | of South Carolisa. Ihave been here for several day#, the State had peen set, the » 168 Cearvostion ore. io and have also visited other portions of the State, in eom-= Bet to Rpg » : y _ plying with your instructions to obtain accurate informa~ To describe the enthusiasm with which Se tion respecting the real condition of South Carolina, and subsequently of the other Southern States, in the various departments of industry, in order that the North might fully comprehend the crisis in the present alarming as~ pect of onr national airs. The rabid abolitionists of the North ad the ultra pro-slavery men of the South, by their wholesale denunciations of each other, and their wide= f id o i i ESGEEE i aa ait it iu A : il td ready cx her fe = ly different statements of the economy and resources of < dignity the Preecri®ing to none, she will the South, have each contributed much to create the be dictated to by none; bey Hyg Peace, she is roaly unfriendly feelings now existing between the people im % ar. Deprecating blood A Re gE oe the Northern and Southern portions of the confederacy. swerved by frowns yeas waged by timorous soll diane Hele nihe cxlatenee of such a state of | A more intimate acquaintance would have led to the estab- citations of trends, the welt pur rect past, sad icparmeate of the publ wav ice ‘as to haveso | lishment of more fraternal relations, and I ain persuaded. liberties and her institutions. fiends may’ fail faker eu eee hich has pre. | that if the masses of the strong anti-slavery people of thes ant See + mag, very | prescntatious concerning the treatment of slaves, they or would soon modify their views on the subject of slavery. ercrmmg RON. tdterolt of any of te Rats ama t EF fp lagen bevedanpedernd mts ITEMENT IN PETERSBURG. ‘while edeval STATE HOUSE AND FPS GARDENS. The eawing down on morning last, at Poters- hicieher “auy 10 look to ‘Tho aaetity of her: Soke, Without tatendia to ah ren the elegant society and 3 burg, of a secession polo abd flag which had boen erected | and in that whew we call upon the ‘of the United , SS Chee sete 8 the previous day, is creating Lee , | States, asa citizen of this to see the re- } refinement of Charleston, which metropolis commands pote ite —— cost over nee gif = gpl renie ms pei, —— important consideration ag the commercial culminating: tiem Of rearing @ new one, and of ing i, if neces. | Thomas Williams and General J: K. Moorhead, M.C., | Pomt this Beautiful little city of Columbia may sary, Attack; but the Mayor of the Lay teartay were the principal spokesmen. General Moorhead spoke | be said to be the social centre of the Se taben dione; ona besertasted. Uy pocclnentiathaebs: A-aeul en, “hemes Willszms crged the yaunee et there? | ver, Ant it. le © fuck full Of signitcance—tos . ‘ilians urged 1) re. , tion of poles in the public streets, The parties owning | solutious, the vote for whi was cmatnons, with @ | tbe principle should bo established and carriod out tr the demoliehed pole have published s card, in which they | very tew exceptions, Hon. Charles Shaler rade’ ape every seat of government—that the eapital, where the ce the proceedings as outrageous, ut t House ta » audience, wi set | laws are made and the public business is transacted, ia though for last nine years a resident of Richmond, | portation through our streets would be in violation | the refinement and prosperity of the Commonwealth. was arrested upon the i of sawing down the pole bia is not a large city. Within the corporate limite ‘apd carry ing off the flag wuich adorned it. So proud was | would be as justifiable as the acts of South Carolina. ’ , he of hit complicity fo the ‘adair, that on Tuesday he | ‘The resolutions above given, as adopted at the mest. | 1 the immediate suburbs there are only aboat ning mounted the stump of the pole, and then and there ly | ing, bave the sy of & majority of our community, | thousand inhabitants, including, of course, both white and and dolily declared himeeif’ the author of the deedhand | and are eminently worthy of the endorsement of all. colored. But it is said to be tho most. delightful detied apy to resent it. It is also stated that he pin. Our telegraphic despatches give the latest news from city of its size and character on tho American con- tinent, It is what might be termed a country city. Ite chief attractions, especially apparent to the stranger, arise from the healthfuluces of its situation, the great, z Ef it headquarters of secession. Our people are determined to secure justice, and nothing short of it will satisfy them. Fi st é i THE NEW YORK MUSKETS SENT TO THE SOUTH. . regularity and width of its streets, which are lined with sen (From 1} Aue. sae ey . shale trees, the comfort of its houses and the beauty of "YT imrketa, olf pattern, were sold by order of the Secre- | its private gardens, It is sitnated on an elevated platean ~~ f tary of War, on the 9th of the present month, to 8. B. Litnar, of Savannah, Georgia, at $2 50 cach, and shippod to New York about the 14th inst, ‘These are the muskets referred to by the Horning Pow. The implied intimation that General Woo! ha control over the sale or trans- fer of these © toa veteran soldier who about the middie of the State, near the banks of the Congaree, which at @is point is not a navigable river. ‘The city is laid out with perfect regularity, and oceup' & space of ground about two miles square. Kxaetiy iim iu fue architectural: pro GEORGIA. THE GEORGE LAW MUSKETS AGAIN. vantal: Republican, speaking upon the recent ar- George Law muskets in that city, saye— mation we tind the new arms just ——. for ots, the State to be the old style of flint and steel ma ‘ ‘the Chien 2 . the centre is seen rising altered into a percussion by closing the old touch hole root te ~ rh yp portions, the new St Hox which divides tabe into the top of the barrel. They are titution, we venture to | the only buminers strect in the city. Om or- ail, however, used, aud, perhaps, would do ‘well in the rear as in front. in ood order; seem never (o been execution on a pinch—as 1 Wool, that he will be found es, and never, either by be found giving aid and f the Union. The Watervliet ol of the Ordnance Bureau, the g vested, next to tho President, in Ginary ceeasions Richardson street does not present @ very busy appearance, and yet there is consiterable Dusiness transacted there, for there ia scarcely a depart. ment of familiar mechanical industry or manufacturing thought, deed or act, will comfort to the evemir Arsenal ig under the ¢ MISSISSIPPY. ‘The elections in Mississippi, says the New Oricans Dela, | SUPreme control hems - { ok te ‘ ? Polum appest to have resulied overwhelmingly in favor of the the hand of the tary of War. There aro im store at interest but is represented in Columbia. The other mwah secessionists. With the exception of Vicksburg | the Arsenal 28,000 in ae altered from flint locks, and | streets are all unusually wide, none Joss qban one han- Natchez, the co-operationists have made but a feeble | #" immense quantity of balls, bullets, shrapnel, grape | area and twenty feet, and are lined on tHe sides with and canister shot In reply to certain queries we have received the fol- lowing — large water oak shade trees, some of the streets having im addition a row of trees planted all along the centre, still leaving on either side an avenue as wide as many of the dwelling streets in other cities, Some of these streets re- joice in such pretty and appropriate names as Lady, Divine, Blossom, Wheat, Rice, Tobacco, Indigo, and even Lincoln street. If any should suppose that the last is not an appropriate name for a street in the capital of South Carolina, and that all the republicans in Se would be Tesistance to the all pervading sentiment of the gallant. intelligent and truly Southern people of that great and wealthy State. In counties which gave large tajorities for Bell and Everett, and whieh have heretofore stood firmly by the Union, the ition for seperate Reces: sion has obtained ities. Missiesippi has ex her parpose, She will . Louisiana must not shor and sister, with whose inter. ot ber own are indissolubly blended. LOUISIANA. PIERRE SOULE ON TIF ORISIS. My name having been pny Fl those Pood may be propane’ te represent is city in the State Con- tection to be beld 00 ti ‘2d of next, I deem it my duty, before any definitive choice is made, to publish Abe following declaration, that there may be no misan- a8 10 the position which I occupy with refe- derstanding hd tat LETTER FROM GEN. Woot. ‘Trov, Deo. 27, 1800. Dean Stv-—The Feening Post in rotation to the rumor that five hundred cases oc rau Kets bad been removed from the At= senal of Watervliet to New Y: puton beard of the ftermer Florida, for Savannah, asks, “Where is General Wool” J answer that be is at his hexdyuariers and attend Ing to the duties assigned t jon. He, however, has antrol over the Arsenal of W atervilet, whieh is reserved the direction of the Secretary of War. Very respect. ly your obedient servant, JOUN BE. WOOL, To Thx Eorrons or THe TROY Daity ARENA. In a recent despatch from Pittsburg it is stated that the cannon whicli the government had ordered sent down to Savannah, aul whieh the citizens protested onght not to be removed, were to be furnished with thelr wagons and other complete fatures which were made at the Wa terviiet Arsenal, and which were about to be remove from thenee to Savanual. We learn that none of these guacacriages have yot been removed from the Watervilet Arsenal. certain to reside there, they may know that Jt was long since named after Colonel Lincoln, of Hevolutionary memory, and, further, that there is nota single aboli- thonist within the borders of Columbia There are plenty of secessionists, however, everybody here is a secessionist, even to the young ladies of the Me- tbodiet Female College, who have made and suspended — from thelr building a flag with a lone star, and in Latin THE JEWS AND.THE CRISIS. pans OS ge |, as well as with The the motto, “Now or never,” anderneath. That instite Jewish Merenger of Decomber 28 maker wetrang | tion ove hundred and tifty pupila, one Bayete Ay ge ty ett on, | editorial appeal to the Jows in the United States to ob- | hundred of ) Paniging from the ages of twelve to Union of sovereigns in a coufedersay of equals, I cannot | *T¥@ the 4th proximo us a day of prayer for the pro- | eighteen, board hh the building. Besides this there are ‘ servation of the Union. We regret that our space forbids vs to give the article referred to im fu!) but the follow (ng paragraph will afford the reader « good Mea of the whole — . As Israelites, we bave still weightier inducoments to pin with our’ fotiow citizens in observing this day of Prayer. The Union, for whose prosperity we ask Divine | aid, how been the source of hap ares tor and ourselves ~vern! other institutions of learning In Columbia. Fore- : most of (hem all is the South Carolina College, which te located not far from the centre of the city, and has the Non. A. B. Longstrom for ite President, It differs from any other in the country that Iam awareof in this arty, that ft has no endowment, and subsists al tir ty upon an annual appropriation of about twen- ur aucestors |? Under the provestin of the freedom | ty-ive thousand dollars by the Logisiatare of the State, it i ol "1 oo thon have tived Tiong, na Mubamit to. Doar alone Ite burtheus and oPlign: | guaranteed un Wy the comatitutio we have lived in the | with such vocantons additional assistance fror the same None of the associates have any rights which the others ted ‘orehip th) * source a the exigencies of its situation may require do not equally and individually ye Within campus @ncloeure of twenty acres are the col- ‘As long as the respective rights rye fringed, It gay be conceded that Rove baa « good ground rato gh Jogo buiklings of brick, andthe residences of the Presi for absotving bimeelf from the obligations which te is republic wae the tet te . dent and the professors. The institution has five scholar Compoct tmposes. baolute equality with rm twhat mw, fo hi * indebt ivate mea But an sou as tho compact ceases to de respected ibe | nation, Here we can wit, cone’ cer ine rindomd ay | Mubrs for which it ix indebted to private munitieesce. z bond i broken, ar! the associates are @ liberty to retarn | tree, with none to make bun alr. Th porpetult | Mort of the etedente pay a regular fee for tuition and a Individual und separate political existence. In | the national existenoe of this rey-ul imperi Dodrd, but by alow of the Commonwealth the Commis. the inpressive language febeter, rid | let us, then, right heartily joly wir: one fellow eitigens | siomers« oi yor are alll ond Droken ou one side is broken on all sides.’ in observing Friday yearn a & Paeors a) bee hon { the Toor or wel to send one student from ach district, wie ie entitied to all the privileges of the college free of charge. It has now one hundred and eighty five students, ‘The library, in a separate building , covtains twenty five thousand volumes, and an anauai in of two thousand doliars for ite gradual @n- allows (tat leaet to Keep wp with the current literature of the day. The college hall, whieh is used on Public cecasions, and will seat two thousand dive hundred persons, if situated outside of the campus. tion. Let us nasemible im our respertive synagogues, and pour forth in unison our beartfels supplier ions, that the Almighty may restore barmony end goo! will among all the pec this land, and fo govern the intellects of hority that iy be inspired with wis. ecure a pacitic settlement of whatever difcal tiee may exist in apy seetion of the country. Tt_were too late now, and utterly on the fmmediate eanses whieh he resent crisis. though it may not be ow « government is to be overthrown, and the South to organ. ine itaelf into a distinct and separate y, it were hardly anact of diseretion on our part to commit the SECESSION AND COERCION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The withdrawal of the State of South Carolina from the ron Pe federal Union twings ws fee to face with grave imues, | ‘There i# here a Sheotegeal ee to two ment, | taught with results of the most momentous importance. | °T tree Soutber® Pres yyterian synods. distin. guished Dr, J. H. Thornwell is its President. It has about forty students preparing for the Prosbyterian pulpit. Iie library, of nearly eighteen thousand volumes je pronounced the most valuable collection of theologion works this side of Princeton. In another part of the city je the South Carolina Military Academy, or, more pro. porly, the Arsenal Academy, wifich ie an auxiliary of the Citadel Academy in Charleston. The couree of instruc tion ie somewhat similar to that pursued in tho United States Military Academy at Weat Point, and both inatitu- i} The unavoidable duty now devolves upon every true pa triot and (riead of self.goverument of exemmining with care the great qarstions presented. and informing himselt aa tothe proper course to be pursued in thie trying emergency It i# worse than idle for bodies of men, whether they be representatives in Congress or leaders among tho poo- ple. to pase resolutions declaring | that the laws must and shall be executed."’ This is @ truism which mo sane man; will pretend to deny. ‘hat # is the duty of the President of the United States to excente the laws of the Union is beyond the shadow of a doubt; but where are they to be exeouted: Not in England, certainiy, nor in France, nor in any other territory not included in the Union. Tt is a these United States alone that his duty him to enforce them; and the real and euly tow before ua ig not whether he should execute the laws, but what are (® territorial limits of hiv authority, and what peo- ple does bis oath of office require him to coerce into sub- mission to Pheer awe? In other words, is South Carolina to-day a member of the federal Union, notwithstanding her ordinanes of #e- consion, oF ie she not? If the former, it is unquestiona- bly the duty of the President to enforce tho laws within (CONTINGED ON FIGUTY PAGE.)