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banjo aud merry | face, ©) proclaim | Miserable of men. What care has be” me, must clothe me, musk pure Ine accountable to God and mau for my own children.” Hear bln ace FEF fi it F = g ef i cf & nse low often doce he ask himself the question, what | of me but for master !’? j veriter coos on very clearly to define the position of | Southern servant his master, showing that the:e from servile insurrections, for the those who are placed over him, ailection of the character of this people, iret to be at the white man’s cradle and at his a. This ¥ Condition of the Routh. : jnently geen lepicted in the columns of THE QUESTION OF THE DAY. yl [ Correspon ite—The Herald Letter Box, de., Ke The correspondence of a newspaper like the HxraLp ‘must, to the generality of people, seem almost incredi- ble. As the Herat is the organ of the people, the peo- ple send to it all sorts of communications upon all sorts of subjects, to even read which is no ordinary task, and as for publishing them, that woukl take all the space daily of a newspaper very much larger than this, These communications come by every mail, express and con- ‘veyance from all quarters of the globe. ‘Their styles are as varied as their subjects, and their authors occupy every rank, from the highest to the lowest. The mer- chant slipe his pen over the edge of his ledger to drop a hint to the Hrrawp in his own crisp, succinct, condensed style. The lawyer semis us letters longer than his briefs and as difficult wo decipher. ‘The laboring man has a grievance to be redressed or a thought to put in print, and, after work hours, writes his letter to the Hxratn, his hard hand tightly clasping the unaccustomed %pen, and the very words’ he wishes to ure iting out of his reach like mischievous fairies. The Yankee schoolmaster bas bis word to say ond his isplay of his hair-line penmanship to make. The clergyman writes in order to speak from the secular pulpit, the press, what mnch interests him, but what he | thinks inappropriate for his Sunday discourse. The | farmer, taking advantage of these long winter evcuinge, Jaboriously puts upon paper the ideas which he has been turning over and over in his mind (munching straw stalke the while) for this many and many a day, aud ‘expects to sce himself presently in the Haxaun, he | Politician, Dandling his pen as defy as his tongue, spreads himself over page after page of fovls cap, and sends his Incubrations to the Hicks. And so the manager and the actor; the et ployer and the employed; the man of Icisure and | the man of business; nay, even the ladies of every ago and station, all have their representatives iv the dreis of letters, of all sizos, shapes aud colors, which | pour daily into the Hrxauw office, aa if that were, in fact, the general post office of the country. To many it is, ag ii must be, a dead letter ofle many write never to be answered. The Hkau can re ply to letters only through itz columns, and its eo!amus, alas, will onty bold so much. Fapecially duriug the pre- sent crisis, when all have 0 little to do and fo much epare time, and when all have #0 many thoughts about the questions of the dey, which tothem seem novel aad snteresting, ie the demand upon our columns enorin More letters are written than ever to the Hi e, ant and fewer Und their way into print. The | cause of this few know. Jones cannot be aware | that before his commupieation reaehos us the | rapid march of events bas proved ite wisdom fool bh ‘ness and its predictions absurd. Brown eannot tell that his new ideas were exactly identical with thoee of Thomp. | fon, whose letter was received the day before, or that | these vory ideas were published last week. So they go | on, writing and looking for the appearance of that comma nication which will startle the country, set mattors right and send gtateemen again to school. So, too, the Huxary | Jotter bag is always full, and advice, persuasion, instruc tion, threats, entreaties, news, information, ideas, opin- jong, reach us in a thousand varied forme; are welcomed | and are used somehow or other—the letters being pro ductive of good, if only by being destroyed. It may readily be believed—indoed, it could hardly be + Otherwise—that among this mass of correspondence there is much which is valuable and timely— | much which we would be glad to publish if the Jaws in regard to space admitted of exceptions. Some | communications are entirely good; in others, under | the great heaps of words, old truisms and stale opinions, are hidden singular jewels, found, as in the fable, even in a d@unghill. Very few letters come which have not some real value. Unable to publishthem all, or, indeed, to refer to them all, we select and condense from them the hints and suggestions which follow upon the questions of the day:— COERCION UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE. + A New Orleans correspondent, signing bimself -‘South- ron,’’—a favorite nom de plume at present—thinks ‘that it is time for the people to recognise the diference between affairs now and the nullification in ‘32, He con. tends that the Union is already dissolved, and a Southern confederacy a fixed fact. Not tho passage of a slave code, by every Northern State, could save the Union. ‘The South has warned and warned, but in vain. Now our correspondent thinks that she has acted, and irrevo- cably. The North should, in all consistency, be rejoiced to get rid of institutions so odious and unprofitable, in stead of secking to bring the South back. Geographically, the two sections are independent, and they are equally | independent in their rerources. The North should count the cost of coercion. By disunion it has loet two hundred and thirty millions of doliars—the revenue of the South. | Now, if it intends coercion, it must support a standing army, and thie can only be dono by direct taxation Will the West submit to such a war? Will land «submit to bave her communication with the cotton market thus interrupted? Will the city of New York submit to have her friendly relations in the South broxen up? Can the fouth “be conquered? ‘‘Southron’’ thinks not, and closes bis commmunieution by the statement that it has already cost the South twenty-Qve millions of dol- lars to,leave the Union, and by recommending to Beecher” the stuly pf the fable of the goose which laid the golden eggs, and of the wisdom of the man who | Killed this two legged mint. SAVE THE UNION. Our next correspondent (a New Yorker) complains ‘that here at the North an snimosity agalust the South is | carefully fostered and inculeated. That Northerners are tanght to hate an institution which originated with the country itself, which was once in high favor even at the Nortb; which wae only abolished here because it be- came unprofitable; whieh is retained at the Soutt bo- cause the elim: the soll, the country favors it, This feeling at the North has made civil war imminent, How is it to be averted’ By removing the curse of slavery (if it be a curse), says our correspondent, And how is this to be done? By parsing some compromise now, settling a line of domareation between freedom and slavery. Then, when the present excitement subsides, call a national convention of dele- gates from all the States, offer °o pay the South for its slavee and to colonize them when freed (for the South can no more be expected to give up its slaves gratis than we our horses), and thus settle the question amicably. | This will prove whether the abviitionists are in earnest and really love the slave. Tuus far they have only made his yoke tighter. In this way we can save the Union. ‘Our correspondent was born in a slave State, has lived ta ‘New York since 1857, and makes this suggestion for the good of bis country. A PLAN OF ADIUST MENT. ‘The author of the following plan of adjustment was a free soiler in 1848 an@a black republican in 1860. He is , diegueted with the milk and water propositions to settle the great queetion of the day, and thinks that something bold, nevel, ‘uergetic, showld be devised. He has devised it, and here it {#:—He proposes that all children of slave parents shall be free at the age of twenty one or thirt; « youre, as they are born before or aftor Jan. 1, 1861. bat all elaves under ay, yoars of Ld shall be gradusily omanctpated in 1876, 1872 and 1870, and that all over nifty shall remain slaves, to be taken care of. , Other provisions follow, auch as that the slave States make negroes citizens, and that after the pazsage of those propositions no slaves be sold (no slayer will be sold after the propositions pars we will warrant), ‘That the go- yernment jevue special stock to recompense the slave owners, ke, In reaponse to all of which the North will * sepeal tho Personal Liberty bills—doubtlese. >i COMPROMISE AND A CROMWELL WANTED. 5 “amions,’’ of Waterbory, Connecticut, says that fe Senators and representatives are ‘giving to party what was meant for mankind,’ and it is time for the great non outside of Congress to xettie this question of the day. “he South has been wrougel, and are alarmed lest the “epublicaa doctrine of “no property ia man’ may be- ye open abolitioniem. — Stil!, these grievances may be posed in the Union, and (A s' thinks they yet 1. There must be a compromise. The conser ive feoling Of the country, the poople en mam, diccharged mochanice, the unemployed laborers idle manufacturers, Uhe'conimnorcial and ship eats, the bone und sinew of the com all doen d mie, will have jt; will hold politéians respons) if everything alee fi ays Amicue, lock up 1 koop the mocibere on bread amit water, | Hoos jury, ontii they w OF oben, a ! hints at » secret society for | ou the day of e: }| could submit no lovger to t. | manage this matter for themscives. , rect interest? In spite of a j orga agen and benevolent) of the | ehould have had | Mextom: ropbers dispersed the Tong and ) the Connell of Five Hundred, tet Gem. Soott ‘ess aud assuine the dictatorship till a new Congress: canbe ckcted Videot aisanoce require vivlent reme- | dies Retter anything than disunion, anarélyy and civil war, A DIABOLICAL PLOT DISCOVERED, Ancther correspondent writes that he was in the Senate chamber, ab Warhington, « short time ago, and in the gallery, nearly opposite the Vico President's chair, found @ paper full of unboty and hellieh plots, | © an anfernaland traitorous letter,” which filled bim with | Painful sensations, This disbotioa! document he trans- mits to the Heray, to be used as may be deemed proper. The letter referred to is written very appropriately in the very blockest of ink, upon dirty paper, and evidently with the uxedt up stump of a bad quill Tt looks dia- bolical, and is infornally wo . Ithas neither Dexinping nor ending, for, like the Irishman’s rope, both euds of it are cut off, It declares “the world will soon hear from onr friends in the national legialatre, in bold, deflant speeches, wh’ch will make the North quake with fear and the border States tremble for their lives.” This is very heavy upon Toombs and W The letter then destroying the Union, which “embraces mostly Senaters who have initiated into full feliowship.’” (Floyay) is working night and — with unflay apa 7 the Ist of January will have withi most if not all the smail arms in the public armories be- Jonging to cur cefunct uncle—he will earn his title and sottlement. Old Buck is feverish and dreadfully nervous, and frequently We have to administer 1 doses, but he is in bands of careful and experienced nurses, who will nc ow him to be neglected, nor our cause to suffer. The committce has sutticiently canvassed Vir- 6 no concert. the former ginia and Maryland to determine to ed effort im the latter at present, and that will prove an easy vict . Leteber will call ture for a convention; come down and ‘the pedantic and would be ginian can’t resist the forces brought to, bear; we have already all Richmond on our side.”” The document con- cludes with some incoherences in regard to North Curo- lina, and with the remark that as ‘‘the Virginia Senators casing to ‘know more than I feel at liberty to com- it they be invited to be present “at the Singular, if gonuine; December meeting of the Junta.” Dut is it genuine? GEORGIA AND NEGRO INSURRECTIONS, “X,” of Talbot county, Ga., writes that the Georgia Convention was unanimous, und that the peeple of Geor- gia are unanimous for secession. The people of the South are not deceived in regard to the object of the republican party. They know more about the North than the peo- ple of the North do about them. ely a family at the South is without some Northern journal; but the people North receive all their information about the South from Northern and not from Southern newspapers, Tho Soath has plenty of provisions, aud cotton bas brought a good price all winter. Georgia can raise ai! cereals, bat don’t do it becanse cotton is more profitable, Because the South buys so largely fromthe North psople have come to underrate Southern agricultural resources. Alluding to the fears of negro insurrection expressed by Northern journals, ‘X” says:—‘Not far from where Iam writing sixty negroes, belonging to several plautations, left work on the day of the last Presidoutial election, and went sauntering up and down the road. When their masters returned home from the polis these negroes Were interrogated as to What they meaat. They re- plied that white men had told them they would be free on, and wauted them to kill theur mis- St. the whole mat put to work. Bince at the td fair sample of our ius eorgian says that, ‘as hon able people the Southorners: repoated wrongs they have hitherto endured, and the only alternative was the one which they have atopted.”? BERMUDA FOR THE UNION. An old gentieman in Bermula senda his regrots that anything should have ovcurred to interrap: the progress of our great republic, and deprecates that scotional fanaticism which has caused ail tho trouble, Born upon American waters, he claims to havo a sympathy with American freedom; and 00 cupying the position of looker on, — impar tial, unprejudiced, he hopes his plan for saviog the Union may be of some practical value. The plan is that the Fastern and border State representatives shall devise « compromise acceptable to the South. If this gentieman could only read the reports of the proceedings of these game ropreeentatives he would need no argument ia re- gard to his plan of adjasument, AN APPEAL TO THE NORTH. “Truth” sends a long appeal to the people of the Northern States, ‘Truth’ avke if political leaders shall De allowed to #0 inflaine the ininds of the people of both sections of our country ‘that disunién shail enzue, and America be made a byword and a reproach. false public servants, ready to sacrifice everything for place aud power, be thrust aside, and let the people The principal cause of of the trouble is the question slavery. To | the people of the North this question ia an ab Ptraction to be disevased phi ly. To the | people of the South this question is practical, vital, es- sential. 16 it any wondor, then, that the South, wi pends upon this question of slavery, becomes excited to frenzy when the Northern people in- terfere with un institution which they do not understand, of which they know nothing, in which they have no di- and quibbling about werds and phrases, slavery is clearly recoguized ip constitution. Some of the slave States, particularily Virginia, gave vast territories to the Union, and should the people of slave Siates now be debarred the ptivilege of carrying their property into the Territories? Not only was slavery ‘ledged, but tae slave trade was permitted. It was understood that negroes lost noth’ and gained much by being transferred from the cruel i ‘african bondage of their tyrants to the mild and benevo- Jent rule (even the abolitionists will admit that it is com- Amorican siavo- In exchange for the slave's labor the master 4 protection avd comforts such as he nad never fore ed. Then the relations between master and slave were most affectionate. Then slaves were educated, morally and mentally. Then slaves were often rewarded for thelr delity by the git of liberty. | Frequently alla planter’s slaves were liberated by his will. C ima tion Society, #1 ted by the South as well as ‘by the North, relieved the country of these freed negroes, and jlunted a nation in Liberia. Abclition changed this feeling. Defiance and distrust entered, like serpents. Negroes were stolen ar enticed from their masters, or worse, they remained uj lantatious with minds ed against their best friends, Of course, the masters, in a greater or less de gree, reciprocated dishke. ‘This was the first resuit; d, second, emancipation was interrupted, the Soath withdrew its support from colovizition societies, the two sections became separated, almost hostile. England caught up the idea of abolition, and with long sighted policy aided it with all her power, Aided it,as many think, to effect the destruction of our country. Sappose abolition, fustantancous, forcible, had trinmphed, we should buve had another St. lomingo at our doors, We iu the Union a number of negro Statce like those of Barbary. Are we propared for this? ‘And yet this is the practical result of abolition dogmas, | Gr if we adopt that other means of abolition, and let the North pay the South to free its elaver, does the result of a similar course pursued by Bogtond and Franee in their colonics at all encourage us to try the experiment? ‘Those colonies have been ruined; the nogroes refused to work; many have retreated to the woods; many more bave em'giated. Is a similar future for our prosent slave tater just what we could wish and desire, England, the philanthropic, discovers that she has paid too dearly for her whistic, and invents the coolie syetem. France does the same thing. This system is a system of compulsory lator, gleseed over by meaningless words, By adopt- ing it thes acknowledge the failure of abolition, Is not this warning enough for us? Bren in regard to tho Afri- cans kbgland and France manage by the*‘appremtice sys- tem” to colonize ail the blacks: cruisers capture, Yracticaliy this is an admission of the weakneas of abolition, aml ouly pride prevents these nations from avowing what their acts prove. Now, shall we at- tempt the same ruinous experiment, or shali we wisely adopt the result which England and France have worked out In the South the negro is happy and i safe, The ro- publicans, joining the abolitionists, have done all they can to make the negrocs and their masters unhappy and un- safe. This has caused the crisis, and the crisis can only bo removed by 4 compromise which shall restore the friendly aod harmonious feeling between the North and the Sovith by settling the slavery question, as far as poli. tice are couecrned, forever. Let the people deraand this, aud we thall once more have @ government and a country. SECESSION IN MISSOURT, A correspondent from St, Loais, Missouri, writes that be bag recently travelled over throe-fourths of the State upon a collecting tour, and has had many opportunities for ascertaining correctly the political geutimeut of the people. He ig satisded that not « ie the disunion sen- timept rapidly inerensing, but ‘two-thirds of the people now favor accession, unless & compromise be adopted at Washington. In Fe id assertions of the republican press, four fifths of thie Missourians are as pro. onvery the of Alabama, The census shows that the slave population has’ anwually increased since 1860, Unless a compromise be adopted Missouri will be the first bordor State to secede, THE PROPLE TO DECIDE. A “Typublican Voter’ of Now York fosista that many of the party were deosived into voting for Lincoln, and had no idea of the consequences of his election. The republicans did not intend to voto in favor of disunion and civil war. They now soe that the wefare of the country is of more importance than the negro question, and join the conservatives in demand- ing that the question of compromaise be submitted to the people, and taken out of the hands of inoiticient vom- promisers, UNION SENTIMENT IN TEXAS, A correspondent from Austin, Texas, writes that? al though seccesion is rampant in Texas, yet there is a strong, conservative, Union-loving sentiment there, which, if properly nurtured, will exercise considerable influence The Governor of Texas is strongly opposed to the imme: diate secessionists, and will in no way favor their schemes by advising precipitate action, Texas line gained too much by joining the Union to be ti wonable compromise to leave it r Jered to the South, At the time of it# annexation Texas only contained fifty thousand inhabitants, The last Consna shows that |.¢ inhabliante now numbor 415,000 Whites and 185,000 slaves. The Uuited States exp mds ennoaily about £2,500 000 in defending the frontier ‘of vinst Indian incursions; and the oxportencs of last win. ter shows that if the fedoral forces bo withdrawa, the rich valley of the Kio Grande will borome the prey 0 1 ihueters, No wonder, ther, that w any Let the | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1861—TRIPLE SHEET. 3 ‘Texas does not desire to leave the Un'on tf che can hoaor- ably remain. LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK. “4 Business Man,’ of Chicago, thinks that the whole question could be setiled, ana the country enjoy un ths turbea peace, if some prac:ical meaus could be devised by which the people coud de- clue their will, The efforts of Senators and Congressmen have availed nothing, and to but fur ther complicate the aifficuities they profess to soive. It is time the people were heard, the people are most ia- terested, The people are pow nearly auauimeus for compromise. the pevple suffer every diy that this orisw Insts. Let the Ne, then, answer for themselves, and deciare their Wi 0 emphatically that politicians must obey it, A VIRGINIA LADY TO HER NORTHERN SISTERS. A lady residing at Hampstead, Va., writes to the abo Hitiomssts of the North through the texarp. She says , Will you tell me what the abolitionists iutend to do with our poor blacks if they suceved in getty them all away from Virginia? I take a deep interest iu their pre- sent and future welfare,and though, m common with my sisters of the Sonth, I shall feel a great burthen and re- sponsibility taken of my shoulders when they are all gone, yet I can never be happy if { think they are not well cared for in their new sphere. { kaow that their brilliant anticipations can never be fully realized; but I must believe, of course, that such d :voted phitauthro- piste and 8 as Beecher and the Reverend Ohee- Vers (whose disustereated efforts to get chem away from the masters who have fed and clothed them from infan- ey are kuown to all mep) can never perinit the slaves to se actual want. Raida litte bieck shiny faced urchia, the otner day, as be ran breathless into our kitchen, “Gb! mamaay, stop work now. I've got sich news to teil ye. We reall to be free, au’ go Nof, 8 8000 as Liukutn’s ‘lected; an’ ob! what Jots of movey we're all to git dar.”” “Hush dar’, ye nigger brat,” said mammy, ruthlessly ‘Westroy ing his golden dream; ‘don’t ye listen to the poor white tra habuut here who telis yo sich stuff. Dey wants to rup ye of Norf, jes’ 8o dey may git more work here fur demsclves; an’ When ye do git off dar ye's goin’ to starve, jes’ like uncle Pompey, who was fuol enuf to run off from his good ote masser. | Wheu he came sneukin’ back, a year arter, the ole creeter was so poor fan’ yagged that=I clar to ‘goodness I didn’t know Is that ye, Uncle Pomp,’ sea 1, ‘a comin’ back here wid all yer riba a stickiu’ out so” “Yes, ‘tis me, Salty, and [ tell ye chile,’ he eed (sort of ‘fended at my obserwa'iou), ‘Thin telt ye, mM you hadn'tseen corn bread or pork for nearly @ year your ribs ‘ud be stickin’ aut 100,’ ”” Now, deus friends, it is the thought tbat seme of the servants to whom I am so mneh attached may share the luck of old Pomp thas moves me to write and ask you what provision you are making up North for their com- fort. Won t you take afew hunored from this viomity, and keep them immediately user your own eyes, where T know they wii be satey ladies of yOur families, who ure so overiiowing with \ and cberity fer the poor slaves, to mike their clothes, und look after them and’ their children in between you at L fe: the hours of sickness? For, they are such shiftiess creatures litte ones will die of ne, 7 to the care 4 their own mothers; but 1 rejoice to Know that this will not he the case, 6 the Indies of the North will gladly give up their own pleasures to attend to the physical aod 1woia) wants of the poor slaves taey 80 much pity. Alas, for tho degeneraey of the times, 8ome of our ownSouthora matrons and beiles are beginuing to thik it hard that Mey must #0 Otten spor their white lingers with the heavy shears, and bead their graceful backs in toil ov the heavy cwthing of tho tiela hands. They say—such the in ey of bi uo natare—How much bet. tor off we'd be if we thing todo but dregs ¢ Browiway when we ple: and 1, many of their leavin, to Irish biddies.”” Tw ald bot that this is true of us all, rity of Southern women are willing to do cheerfully their duty im that station in which it hue pleased God ty place them, believing that He kuows what is best for! bem, and for all His creataces inh e; but my remark does hold teue of a number, e=pe: jally OF those among us who have had the advantage of a Northern edueation. Ano there ie another question I want to ask you, dear fricnes. 1 see that the pew rent of Beecher’s church is annually over $30,000. Now, couldn't you persuade some of the members t bay (for manuniission) a few slay from sume of our poorer sluvetolders in the border States. They will be so desperate'y poor it you take them from them without remuneration that I Tear they will be ina bad a plight as poor “old Pomp,” and that, 1 know, will shock your feelings of brotherly love as much 2s your sense of justice. Your people will not mies the money thus nobly expended, and 1 hope you will tell them wt once their duty on this point. I Know they cannot resist Mr. Beecher's elo- quence, Which has done so much to rouse their country to w sense of figerror, No; they never can resist one whore name is destined to descend to posterity on the page of history in glowing covtrast with those of the rebels and slaveholéers—Wasrhington and Jefferson—whe founded a republic, the errors of which your superior wisdom bas latcly assisted to point out to a deluded na tion. Once in the arms of ihe disinterested abolitionists, the blacke will bo so deeply impreesed by thoir consistent practice of the Eighth and Teath Commandments, and so filled with gratitude for thoir delivery, that they will not even think of robbing your hencoops, breaking into your meat houses, or firing your @wellings, as would in- evitably be the case if large mumbers ef them re- mained here without any provision being made for them. And it is not necessary to tell you that their owners will be too poor to give them their freedom und support them besides? Do let me know soon what plans are on foot among your for BU} of the freed blacks ‘when “the; series, member of abolition churches will, doul , take some of thom = his home. esa re to them if — tell ou they have too many poor oir OWD pro- Jie for. You, their <4 8, are koown over tho civi- lized work! ag the Nona of the black man. There have always been poor white people in the world, and always will be; go let them pass; eflorts in their behalf ‘will not gain the notice of an admiring werld; but the eyes of Europe are upon you to seewhat you are doing for the poor slaves who have distingu you and your illustrious sisters. All the dukes, counts and lords who so lauded ‘Uncle Tom,” are now on the qué vive to see if your sympathy has gone any 4 than our pen and . ou don’t believe 4 the interest of in American slavery is prompted by eelfish motives? Surely, dear sir, that horrid rumor about their making a tool of savery for political can’t be true? Itcan’t pe posible that they Eee ‘been trying for years to excite the North the South in order to destroy this glorious republic, for which our fathers fought and bicdY Ob, no, It is too unnatural to believe such a report of the noble aristocrats of our mother country, however desirable it may be for their {nteresta to put down a democratic government. Witness their kind, benevolent conduct to their coolies, and to the laborers in their factories in 1d, and then believe, if you can, that they would plan the destruction of « uation Of freemen, lest their own aristocracy migat be €4 by the ‘sucodss of a republican government it Tevenous a nos mouiens (noire), dent deappoies me; Twit, with anxiety your reply to my question, what you abolitionists going to do with our poor servants when you weceed in gesting them all away from the fleshpots of ‘ole Virgiuny?” LOUISIANA. THE STANDING ARMY OF THE STATR, Louisians has commenced to raise an army of ri troop: to serve for several years. The higher rank of are 19 be one Major General, one Chicf Engineer, with the rank of colonel; one Quartermaster General, 'with the rank of colonel; one Adjutant General, with the rank of colonel; one Superintendent of the Military Academy, with the rwak of colonel; one Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of major, and one Chief Officer of Artillery, with the rank of colonel. The rank and file will consist of one regiment of tufantry and one rogiment of artillery A SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZER SHOT DEAD IN OHIO. The Zanesville Courier of the Ist inst. contains hay ticulars of the shocking murder of Wm. Wilkins, a few days previous, at Sewellsville, it county, Ohio. The murdered inan was engaged in a heated discussion of the national troubles, during which he earnestly sided with the South, and, exhibiting a pittol, expressed his willingness to dght for ber. One of his ions, who had taken part in the discussion, requested Wilkins to lot him gee the pistol, and upon his liasnce with the re- quest, remarked that if those were Wilkins’ sentiments it was as good a time now as any other com- meucement, and placing the weapon at the breast of the latter, fired, tho bail entering the beart and killing him instantly. No arroste were made, TWO NEW JERSEY CARPENTERS MURDERED IN CHARLESTON, 8. C. the Paterson (N. J.) Guardian, Fob. 7.) by re rosy arty is Bouin Ce oni ereby u avery party Jarolina, Ww! y two nan, well known in this vicinity, have been sacrificed to the mob yiovence of that institution which is the ‘sam of all villanies.”’ ‘The names of the murdered party are Andrew Acker- man and —— Bartoif. Both have worked about Saddle river and other parts of Bergen county, New Jersey. Mr. Ackerman was the sou of John Ackerman, of Rama- po, near the New York State linc, and the other was of the Bartolf family, who resido ‘in Bergen county, and whose relatives are vate, as was Mr. B. Many of Mr. Ackerman’s people live in Paterson, and we obtain these facts bus Own relatives, who reside in the North 5 Lg Be | gone down South to work at their trade, and when the secession broke out all business stopped, and they concluded it was best for them to come home. ‘They had accordingly completed their arrangements for returning to the North; but had to wait several days for their money, and it was during this timo that they were arrested as. and bung, their arrest, trial aud execu- tion having all taken place within one ir. They were Noribern men; but we believe, with all their families, democrate of the Bergen county stamp, and possessing Do sy mpathies with the republican party. ‘Tho first intimation that was recoived concerning their fate came from the man for whom they ont vo a ment of the circumstances, regretting the affair, aud 7. ing that had he been informed or time been allowed the suspected persons, their innocence might have been es tablished and their lives saved. An agent has been despatched by the friends af tho deceased , and it is Bu; the remaing of the uniorte- bate young men will be brought on for interment. Sorh were clever industrious mechanios , and were \ "nar. ried men. epee | another young man who was with them at the time and formed one of the party, nothing is known, and it is believed he, too, was in some way or other avi of by the traitors who hold high reve now in the city of Charleston. Since writing the above we learn that the father of Rartoir how left for the syne of the sbove outrage, deter: mined to know the worst, THE PALMETTO FLAG IN KENTUCKY A Pahnetto flag made its appearance at Glaagow, Ky the other day. A correspondent saye:—Tt was tree With little respect, A crowd took it in charge, placed it over a barrel of tar, and after dipping it im the same raaterial, burned it ‘And eain’t you persuade the. THE LOUISIANA CO <' ENTION. New On ams, Feb. 6, 1861. ‘The State Convention has passed .. ordinance coafer- ring the righ§ of citizenship upon 1 persons residing in the State of Louwsiava at the date o the adoption of the secession ordinance. New nimans, Fob. 7, 1862. In the Convention today, a motion to myite all the Slates except the New England States, to join the South- erp copfeceracy , was ordered to be printed and wit the epecial order for Saturday. Atthe reqneet of the Convention, Collector Hatch » ported fuily im regard to the New Orleans customs; he | abo stated the capacity of the cutters McClelland and Warhington, now in possession of the Siate. New Onusans, Feb. 8, 1861. ‘the Convention to-day passed an ordinance coatimuing 2 laws of Louiviaua all of the old federal laws relating to eireuit ane o:strict courts, A resolution was offered instructing the Committee on Finance to report as to the expodiency of a modification of ihe revenue laws to admit India bagging, and other articles vsed in dealing in cotton, free of duty; also, as to imposing & specifle instead of an ad valorem duty on foreigu sugar, with a view Lo protect the sugur interests of Louisiana, A resolution (het the crimmal laws of the United States courts remain as Low, was orvered to be printed, A resolution wi'l probably be offered to-morrow to abo- ish the Legislature, RESIGNATIONS IN THE FEDERAL GOVERN: | MENT SINCE NOVEMBER 6, 1800. RESIGNATIONS IN THE CABINET. Office. Date. of Treasury. Deo, 9, °60, Deo, 14) * Va. Jan. Jw’ Thompson... Mis Jan. P. F. Thomas, Sec, of Treasury, Jan, Md. A. Seo. of Trea’y THE UNITED STATES SENATE. Robert Toombs... . David L. Yulee. Louisiana, Judab P. Benjamin. so. cee. cee + Lonisiana, RESIGNATIONS IN THE ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Name. Stasi John McQueen. . ‘olina, W. P. Miles. South Carotina, Lawrence M. Keitt.... M. L, Bonham. South Carolina. South Carolina, + South Carotina, » South Carolina, + Mississippi. © Missiesippl. William Barksal + Mississippi. Orho RK. singleton. « Missiesippi. John J. McRae. 2 Missiseipp! . Alabama, Alabama. Lia A Sydenti Geo, 8. Houston. W. R. W. Cobb. J. 1, M, Curry : « George S : Mlorida. Miles Taylor...... » Vouisiana, ‘Thos. G. Davidson. + Louisiana. Joli M. Landrum, + Louisiana, Mt United Stat Jadge T. 1 Metaleb, of Louisiana, Judge Magrath, U. 8. District Court of South Car Judge Gholson,'U.'S. Court of Jackson, Mississippi. Judge Jones, Southern Dist iet of Alabama. Jndge J. A. Campbell, U. 8. District Judge of Alabama, ¥. E. Blackburn, U. 8. Marshal Northern dist. of Florida, Mr. ‘Irescott, of South Carolina, Ass’t Secretary of State, F. J. Lovejoy, U. 8. District Attorney for Missiesippi. Philip C. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. John Boston, Collector of the Port of Savannah. Benjamin Stiles, Surveyor of Brunswick, Georgia, RESIGNATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY, Name. State. Regiment. Lieut. Col. Wm. J. Hardoe..Georgin.1at dragoons. Major Pari Van Dorn.......Miss.. Brevet Maj. L. B. Northrop.S. C. Capt, A. 6. Myers: 8.C. Capt. H.C. Wayne Capt. John Dunvant... Capt. Barnard F. Bee. Capt. Nathan G. Ey 8. corps Engi ititary Academy. “ “ “ “ Cadet James Cadet Geo. N. Reynolds. RESIGNATIONS IN THK UNITED STATES NAVY. Commodore Laurence Kearney... New Jersey. Captain D.N; Ingraham. . South Carolina. Capt. Victor M. Randolph ox inginia. Capt. 1. C. Harby of the Revenue Service. South Carolina, Commander F. Farrand. New Jersey, Commander Henry J. Hartatene . South Onrolina. Commosore Lawrence Rousseau W. Brent South Carolina, ieorgia. South Carolina. South Carolina, -South Carolina, + South Carolina, - Alabama, South Carolina, South Carolina Pennsylvania, virginia. - Mississippi. South Carolina, : RT. Chapman, Henry Rolando, . Thomas P. Pelot. SPB. Renshaw. . R. Selden... -South Carolina, South Carolina. Liet Louisiana. Lient South Carolina, Lieut South Carolina, Chaplain ©. W. Thoma‘ Surgeon W. A. W. Spotswood., Surgeon —— Grafton... Passed Agsiet. Surgeon A. M. Assistant Surgeon Charle Navy Agent DP. B. Heriot se Naval Storekeeper 8. 7%. Gonzales Assistant Surgeon Thor. I, Charlton. Master Wm. F. Evans..... Master 7. Ii. Mills Mater Philip Pore! Midehipman John Grint Midshipman 3. 8. Gregory outh Carolina, th Carolina. mth Carolina. uth Caroliua, uth Carolina. South Carolina, Midshipman James L. Hoole, + Alabama. Midshipman —— Reed “ Mississippl. Acting Midshipman Wm. Wilkins. -South Carolina, | Acting Midshipman Richar ! Hays. | Acting Midshipman Ben) .F. Perry Acting Midshipman Francis M. Thomas. ‘Acting Midshipman R. M. Bacot . ‘Acting Midehipman J, T, Baker... Acting Midshipman J. T. Walke: Acting Midshipman W. W. Wilkiason . Acting Midshipman K. Flourno: Active Midshipman Acting Midshipman F Acting Midehypman &. ‘ Acting Midshipman W. F. Robison... Acting Midsbipman N. J. Smith, Acting Midehipman 1. C. Holcomb. Acting Midsbipman H. 1.. Halt, ‘Acting Midshipman J. H. Ingrebam. Acting Micshipman Richard F. Armstrong . Georgia. Acting Midshipman J. C. Holoombe.......Georgia. Texas having seceted, we shali at an early day be called vpon to record the withdrawal of its Congressional | delegations from Washington, RESIGNATION OF COM. LAWRENCE ROUSFAU. We learn that this estimable and excelient officer bas thrown up his commission in the United States Navy. Commodore Rouseean is one of those whom the Southera confederacy would require immediately in the organiza tion of its navy, and bis numerous friends, as well as the well wishers of the South, will be glad to know that, by | resigning from # position which might have brought him | into collision with his native State,.he has placed it in ' bis power immediately vo tender his services to that sec tion which all tho associations of birth and life have | made dear to Lim. | Commodore Lawrence Ronsseau was born in New Or- | loans at the clowe of the last contary, and entered the | navy as acting midehipman in 1907 or 1808, during the | administration of President Jefferson, To ‘was one of | those who gallantly fought in defence of their country’s | honor through the war of 1812, and served in several 6n- agementé on the lakes during that memorable conilict. fre‘wan always considered. as a most active and trust- worthy efficer, and commanded universal respect by his cecieion of character and pers: courage—qualities calculated to make him reverenced and beloved by all who served under hita, and cstectned worthy of com- manta of danger and iclicacy by bis suporior officers. Jn 1845, when questions of great \inportance were pending between the tt ment and the United Stator, Benry A Wise woe sent ae our M tT Plenipotentiary, and Commodore Rourseuy was entroated with the com mand of the rquadron. This post he likewise filled with honor to himecif and to his country. After afew yoars of ret Commodore Rovasenu was appointed to the Pen. | racoln Navy Yard, where he had already been stationed ob previous cecasions, and where he remained until 1857. He then returned to' New Orleans, and hag #inoe been | awaiting orders, THE PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. Harzusnune, Keb. 8, 1961. A Dill guaranteeing $2,800,000 United States bonds of the new twenty miilion loan, passed both houses unani- mously to-day. A letter from Major Anderson, in response to the reso- lutions of the Legislature congratulating tis bravery, was read in the House. It is a well written, though brief ex- pression of his profound gratitude. The Committee of Ways and Means bave agreed to re port favorably the bills for the relief of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and for the appointment of a committee on tonnage duties on the Pennsylvania Railroad. SECESSION PROCESSION IN MEMPHIS. Mumrmis, Feb. 8, 1861. ‘There was an immense secession torchlight procession to-night—the largest ever held hero, Great enthusias:n was manifested, THE SALUTE ON THE BATTERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THY HERALD. Tn your morning edition of Thursday last you say the “Union Committee’ caused the salute to be fired on the Battery on account of the successful election of Union men in Virginia—thirty-four guns for the States and an extra for Old Virginia, on account of her electing Union men. A mistake, The Union Committee, if there ia such a committee, had nothing to do with it. It was done by an old New Yorker, Genoral Henry Storms, and the attaches of the City Inspector's oftice. TWELVE-POUNDER. STATE OF TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. BUBINESS MATTERS IN BOSTON, Business continues quite dull in Boston, especially with the shoe trade, the clerks in many of the stores having no other duty of consequence to perform but to take down the shutters and read the newspapers. Now and then a few small orders are received, bat the Southern correspondents of business men till their letters with diatribes upon tae North. HAVERHILL. The disturbed state of tho country, writes our cor. respondent, still keeps back trade in that extensive ahoe | town, Haverhill, and the mechanic interests still remain under a cloud. J RESIGNATIONS IN THE HOME SQUADRON. A correspondent ut Vera Craz, writing on the 20th inst. states that Paymaster Clarke and Surgeon Grafton, both: of Arkansas, aud vow in the Home squadron, have sent in their resignations, and asked to be relieved at once. Lieutenants Rutledge, Porcher, Ingraham and Evans, of South Carolina, and Midshioman Read, of Mississippi, have done the same. Flag Ofticer Pon tergras bas tor warded thotr resignations, but refuses to allow them to return home. These officers have represented to lim that the Cion is dissolved, and that they cannot ant Will not serve under a flag that is hostile the South. Commodore Pencergrast, although a Kentuckian by birth, acheres to the central goverament, and. will pro badly throw every obstacle in the way of” Southern off cers leaving tho service. A STANDING ARMY FOR VIRGINIA, A bill is now pending bef ore the Legislature which au thorizes and directs the Governor to raise and organizo % ee Of not less then ten nor more than’ twenty , to be calied * The Virginia State Guard, ”? which are to Be organized like corresponding corps in the United Siates Army, aud to be governed by the same re- gulations and articles of war. The bill empowers the Governor to comission (with the advice and consent of the Senate) a person of suitable military experionce and qualification as commandant, with the Ute of major gencral who ebali have charge of all the forces of the State while to actual eervice. ‘Tho officers are to enlist to serve a term of years, and, as enlisted, if not previows- ly competent, are to be’ “ placed at a school of practice tebe conducted under the orders of the Mijor-Goneral-in ARKANSAS. PREPAKING TO CORRC E STATE. A despatch to the Memphis Enguirer, from Littl Reck, Arkunsas, gays the United States troops at the outposts Of the western froutier of that State, and in the Iydian Nation, have all been recalled from wiuter quarters to re inforce the garri:on at Fort Suni United States arsenal in Little Rock. This arsenal is one of the richos! depositories of military stores in the this is suppored to be the ultimate destination of all the troops ordered from the frontier, GEORGIA. ARMS FROM EUROPE. ‘The Miliedgeville correspondent of the Augusta Chvoni- tates that an agent of a Belgian company is now on & it to Governor Irown, and that he will negotiate to supply Georgia with any quantity of arms, Whe Kentacky Legislature. Lovnsvniux, Feb, 7, 1861. Both houses of the Kentucky Legislature have agreed to adjourn next Monday until March 20. Frozen to Death. Norwaix, Fob. 8, 1861, ‘Two Englishmen, named Weeks, father and fon, wore frozen to death off Round Beach last night. Their bodies were found to-day, Marinc Disaster. Boston, Feb, 8, 1861. ‘The schooner Kossuth, frown New York for Portsmouth, With a cargo of flour, is ashore at Cape Cod. She will go to pieces if the weather does not moderate. The crew have been saved. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOOK BOARD. Paras Books heavy. Railroad, 20%: 5036 Rail |, 10; Pennsylvara Railroad, 384;. Sight ox- on New York at par a 1-10 per cent premium. New OnvKANs, Feb. 6, Cotton—Sales to day of 20,000 bales at 110. a 1140. for middling, “Sugar sleady at dixe. & diac, for fair to fully fair, Molasses, 231{c. a 250. Pork firm: mess at $1875. The rest of the market unchanged. New Onveans, Feb, 7, 1861. Cotton—Sales to-day of 6,000 bales at Llc. for mid tteamer’s news caused less firmness. Sugar Size. for fair to fully fair, Molaaee Exchange on Loudon, 104 # 10444. Sight ex- ‘on New York, \ a % discount, New On:eane, Feb, 8, 1861. Cotton declined : Bales to day, 6.00 bales at 10% c. Le. for middling; sales for the week, 67,000 bales; re coipts of the week, 81,500 bales ageinet $0,000 in samo time last year; exports of the weck. 59,000 bales; total thie season, 1,175,600 bales; decreased receipts at this port, 184,500 bales; do at all the ports 000 bales; stock in port, 845,000 balos, Molasses, 250 bags, ai stock, 35,~ 600 on cotton to Havre, ike. E: 4 premium. Sight éxchange ou New York, *; a 3 per cont discount, Monn, Feb, 7, 1860, Cotton—Soles to-day of 1,200 bales at Le. for middling market doll and ier. Flour dull. Wheat dull visions steady: mess pork, 18: lar at 12',¢. a13\c. Whisk firm at 18: Puiaverenia, Feb. 8, 1861, Flour weuk at $5 26a $5 87%, for superfiue, unchanged. a 660. F Wheat Corn dull: now yellow, 56c. m 6c visions dull: bacon, sides, 1040. ulders, 830. a 83,0. Wiaiekey quiet at 1 Wer Twevty eon Pme w Srner At about « quarter past ton o'clock last evening a fire broke out in | the steam stone dressing establishment owned by Wea- | tervelt, Camp & Co., situated in Weet Twenty eighth street, between Tenth ond Eleventh avenues. The building was burnt up. Damage about $3,000. meured. The place was ect on fre. ‘Tur Porras Buck Laws.—In reply to inquiries from several correspondents, we state that the ancient Puritin Biue laws, quoted in an article published in tho Marcio afew days since, may be found ia a yolume entitled “Blue Lawe, Quaker Laws and Witcheraft,’* compiled by “An Antiquarian,” and publiehed at Hartford, Coun., in | 1838—copies of which are in the itxean library. The volume gives all tho laws, which have been proseryo!, upon the subjects mentioned in its title, with extracts from the colonial records of cases adjn floated undor them Tt 1s very frequently quoted in works upon the sulject, and is considered reliable Tur Riont Kixp ov Ixvasion.—On Tues min Dutton, of thi of sixteen carpenters, to get out sete of ship frames, one for himself, which he will probably put up at the South. end, and another for sale. are the mom wo want to send South—mon armed with axes to fell the forests. - Newburyport Herald, Feb. 4. y Mr. Benja- ARRIVALS. IVFRPOOL AD QureNsTOWwN—Sleamehip V ~Me Cheyne, RK Woolley: Mt and Mre le Nowit. Mrwed dire Dion Deasban, Mr and Alia Robert Murdep, © Tewdall, 8 Marrig Casing B 4% Kellochs, HN At mo, KH Murtom, Mr Mallets, J HJ Nugent. Liverroor—Steamsbip Angio-Sax borne Fimith and indy, Ste Lark {eo daughters k Wie Taooby, lady and two da’ iheehan—and 69 in the siecrnge Bavannatt—Stenms Smith and wife, Miee Imlay, Miss Murmford, Mise Bittle, Mr Brvckway, J H BR Change Lt Houweaia, #1 holm, N © Hen v8, © Baker, H MeCall, and 12'in the sterage. Beanvps—Brig Pecrieas—Thos 8 Eve, Daniel Hunt, " pip tha TURE! ATANEAs-Stenmehip Matanzas — Wate f APP Matanzas —Wateony Rand and jady, Aptome M Mora, Hampory, Mrs th f liza Huda and two Sani aren, Mia 0 rete, ehtlay © 1 Woodworth, Ba iio, Francis Gaba! "| giv ity, starts for yupee, with a gang | | } : | mont deeply to be deplored,” The character of tho de i | ' Patriotic Speech of Mr. Keiloxz onthe Great Question of the Bay, SUICIDE OF COMMANDER TILTON, Report of the Committee on the Indian Bond Robbery. Flare-Up Between Messrs. Douglas and Fessenden in the Scnate. Fort Sumter to be Attacked Next Wednesday. PROCEEDENGS OF THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION Re, be, ke. NEGOTIATIONS RESPECTING FORT stMTER. Wasurxeron, Pel. 8, 1861. The President of the Pnited States, in a nm mitted to both houses of Congress to-day, the correspondence which occurred in Deceraber last be tween the Commisetoner from South Carolin. self was sent in with bis meseage of January. On the J4th of that month Colonel Hayno called and informed him that he was the bearer of a letter from Viekens, which he would deliver next day, He (Hayne) bowever, was induced by the interposition of Hon. Jef. ferson Davis and nine other Serators from the seeds and seceding States, not to deliver the letter on the day appointed, nor was it commupicated to the iresident until the 8Ist of January, when Colouel Uxyne's jeter of that date was aleo communicated. ‘The letter of Hon. Jeflerson Davis and the nine South ein Senators urging this delay bears the date of January 15, and was the commencement of correspondence, the whole of which, in the President's possession, he now submits to Congress. Most of these letters haye recently been published, ‘The following ia the concluding part of Colonel Hayne’s letter: — COLONEL HAYNE TO THE PRESIDENT. Wasmyoron, Jan. 81, 1861. J advert to this point for the purpose of saying that to send reinforcements to Fort Sumter could not serve as a means of protecting and preserving the property, for it Must be known to your government that it would inevi tably lead to immediate hostilities, im which property on ailsides would necessarily suffer, South Carolina has every disposition to preserve the public peace, and feels, I am sure, in full force, those hgh Christian and moral duties referred to by your Scevetary, and it is subuitted that or part there is sev any consideration of mero property, apart from houor and gafety, which could juduce her to do aught to the prejudice of thit peace, still less to inaugurate a protracted aud bloody-clvil war. Sho helds ber position ou something higher than mere property. It is in coasiseration of hér own dicuity as a govercign and the eafety of her poople which promps her to demand that the property shoul not longer be uscd as a military post by a government she no longer acknowledges. She feels this to be her linperative anty—it bas, im fact, become an absolute necessity of hor condition, Repudiating as you do the idea of coercion, avowing peaceful intentions, and expressing a patriot’s horror of civil war and bloody strife among those who were once Urevhren, ft 8 hoped that, on further consideration, you will not, on @ mere question of property, refuse the rea sonable demand of South Carolina, which houor and ne- cossity alike compel ber to indicate. Should you disap point this hope, the responsibility for the result surely docs not rest with her, If tho evils of war are w be en countered, especially the calamities of civil war, elevate i stutesmanship would feom to require that it should be accepted as the unavoidable alterna tive of something still moro digastrous—such nations! dishonor or measures materially affecting the safety or permanent interesta of a people, that it should bea choice deliberately made and entered upon— war aud its get purposo But that war should be the incident oF accident atteudeut on a policy professeriy peacetul and not required to effect the object which is avowed a8 tho only ond intended, can only be excused where there has boen no warning given as to the conse. quence. Tain instructed to further say that South Carolina can not by her silence appear to acquieece in the imputation that she was guilty of an act of unprovoked aygaession on firing on the Star of the West, Though an unarmed vessel, she was filled with armed men, entering her ter ritories against her will, with the purpore of reinforcing # garrison held within her limits, and against ber protest. She forbears to recriminate by discussing the question cf the propricty of attempting euch reinforcement at all, ax well as of the disguised and secret manner in which it was intended to be effected; and on this occasion she will say nothing #8 to the manner m which Fort Sumter was taken | into the possession of ite present occupant, ‘The interposition of the Senators who have addressed Jou was a circumstance unexpected by my government, and opvolicited certainly by me. The Governor of South Carolina, while be appreciates the high and generous mo tives by which they were prompted, and while he fully approves the delay which, in deference to them, bas taken place in the presentation of this demand, feels tbat it cannot longer be withheld. Leonelude with an abtract from instructions just re- ceived by me from the government of South Carolina: the letter of the President, through Mr. Holt, received a8 the reply to the question you were instructed *oark. As to his assertion of his right to send reinforce ments to Fort Sumter, you were instructed to say to | bum, i he eseerted that right, that the State of South Carolina regarded euch a right, when asserted or with an | attempt at its exercise, asa declaration of war. If the | President intends it shull not be 80 underetood, it is pro per, to avoid any misconception hereafter, that be show! | be informed of the menner in which the’ Governor will fee! hound to regard it. If the President, when you have | Stated the reasons which prompt the Governor i making the demand for the delivery of Fort Sumter upon the the pledge you have been authorized to make, should re fuse, you will communicate that refusal withu delay to the Governor, If the President shall not be prepared to you an immediate answer, you will communicate t» him that bis answer may be transmitted within a rea | senoble time to the government at this place (Charles | ton). The Governor does not consider it necessary that you (1) should remain longer in Washington than is necestary t exeente this the closing duty of your (my) huission ‘in the] measures now ind! to you (me). | Av roon as the Governor shall receive from ‘you infor- | mation that you have closed Jour midiion, and ‘the reply, whatever it may be, of the President, he will consider the conduct which may be necessary on his part. Allow me to request that you will, as soon as porsible, inform me whether, under these instructions, I nee await your answer in Washington, and if not, I would be pleased to convey from youto my government informa tion as to the time when an angwor may be expeeted in Charleston, ‘The following is Mr. Holt’s reply:— REPLY OF MR. HOLT TO COLONEL HAYNE, Wan Derarrumer, Fed. 6, 1861. ‘The Preeident has received your letter of the 3ist wit., amd has charged mo with the daty of replying hereto, In the communication addressed to the Presi- dent by Governor Pickens under date of 12th of January, nigwhich accompanied yours, frow before ino, his Ex cellency #ays:—!T have determined to send to you the Hon, J, W. Hayne, the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, aud have instructed him to demand the sorrender of Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, to the constituted authorities of South Carolina. This de mand I have made of Major Anderson, and whish I now make of you; is suggested because of my earnest desire to oid =the = bloodslied, which a persistence in your attempt to retain the possession of that fort will cause, and which will be unavailing to seoure to you that possession, but indace a calamity and bia } be mand which was authorized to be made appears, under | tho intluence, T presume, of the correspondence with the Senators to which you refer, to have been modided by ie subgequent instructions of his Excellency, dated the 6th, and received by yourself on the 30th of January, in which he says, “If it be so, that Fort Sumter ie belt ae property, the rights whatever they may be of the United States can be ascertained, and for the satisfaction of these rights, on the pledge of the State of Soush Ga- a. you are anthoriaed to give the full scope.” The proeiee purport of your instructions, as thos modifled, [CONTINUED ON TENTIE PACK) acini te at ee