The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. W. COBNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. MIBLO'S GABDEN, Broadway.—Jacn Caps. BN, Bi 5 Bond _ PH Sannee, roadway, opposite street. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Cunrast Paax. IRA KBENE'S THEATRE, No. — Lav! 4 Broadway. NEw powsny THEATRE, Bowery,—Eos Ror—Roseat UNION THEATRE, Chatham street.—Lycnxsis Bo! Us Ms Five Suiiiings—-Masav Ocssise, ~— UM'S AMERIOAN MUSRUM, Broadway —Buins, Py yy. az Auaugonsfus Dua" ma, Woman un Wars, at 3 anv . ‘o’awoce P. BRYANT'S ‘Mechanics’ 472 Broad. CANTEBRSURY MUSIC 663 Broad porn UBIO HALL, 668 1 way. —SOnas, MELODEON, No. 689 Broadway.—Sones, Danons, Bux- Laegoxs, Ac, yemeere, HALL, Wostfcid.—Unsworra's Minstaats tm Braiortan cones, Dances, &c. New York, Monday, March #, 1861, MAILS FOR EUROPE. The New York Herald—Edition for Eurepe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. McAulay, ‘will leave Boston on Wedaceday for Liverpool. ‘Tho mais fer Burope will close im this city to-morrow afternoon, at = quarter-past ome and at half-past five ’olook, to go by railroad. ‘Tam Kororgan Eprion ov Ta Hikucp will bo published ‘at eleven o'clock in the morning. Singlocopice, in wrap” Pere, six cents. The contents of the Evrorsan Kormon ov rae Hxratp ‘will combine the news recetved by mail and telegraph at ‘the office durmg tho previous and up to the hour of publication. The News. At noon to-day, st the national Capitol in Wash- ington city, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, will be inaugurated President and Vice President of the United States. The inaugural address of Mr. Lincoln, which is looked for with great anxicty throughout the entire country, will, in its general tone, it is said, be conciliatory toward the South, but in firm and positive terms will assert the right and duty of the government to enforce the federal laws, and to possess and hold all the forte, navy yards, arse- nals, &c., belonging to the United States. We ox- peot to be able to spread this important document before the public in our afternoon edition of to- day’s paper. Numerous reports wero current in Washington yesterday that changes had been made in the Cabi- net of Mr. Lincoln, but there is no good reason to believe that any alteration will be made in the list published in the Hnmap on Saturday and yester- day. Our despatches this morning furnish a re- port of the rumors, reports and surmisos that were afloat until a late hour last night. The United States Senate were in session last evening, and the chamber was overcrowded with persons anxious to witness their deliberations. At the commencement of the proceedings the noise and confusion in the galleries were so great that quiet was net restored until they had been ordered to be cleared. Mr. Crittenden mado a most for- cibie and eloquent appeal in favor of his peace measure and for the preservation of the Union, He was followed by Mr. Trambull, of [linois, in a most ultra and uncompromising speech against all compromise. In answer to a question as to what would be the policy of the new administration ro- specting the captured forts and arsenals, he indi- cated very clearly that it would be to recapture them, a declaration which produced considerable excitement among the Southern Senators. The Senate had not adjourned when we wore compelled to go to press. On Saturday last the new tariff bill, recently paseed by Congress, received the signatare of Mr. Buchavan. The new tariff goes into effect the first day of April next, but the last section of the bill provides that ‘‘all goods, wares and merchandise actually on shipboard and bound to the United States, within fifteen days after the pas- sage of this act, and all goods, wares and mer- chandise in deposit in warehouse or public store on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be subject to pay such duties as provided by law before and at the time of the pas- sage of this act; and all goods in warehouse at the time this act takes effect, on which the duties are Ieusened by its provisions, may be withdrawn on payment of the duties herein provided.” The Congress of the Southern Confederacy on Saturday admitted the Texas delegates to all the priviloges of the other members. Advices received in Washington from Texas, throw some additional light on the surren- der of the public property by General Twiggs. ‘The officers and soldiers, when ordered to vacate the barracks for the use of the Texan troops, acted in the most spirited and patriotic manner by rais- ing the flag of the Union, the band playing “Yan- kee Doodle.” The provision made for their sub- sistence while on their way to the coast was of the most meagre and inadequate character. Considerable excitement was created in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Va., on Friday last by a report of an insurrection by the negroes aided by ® few whites. Precautionary measures were at once adopted, and the fears scem to have sub- sided. A vory interesting chronological history of po- litical events in this country since the Presidential election in November last, will be found in the pages of the Henan this morning. The ordinan- ces of the seceding States, the account of the seiz- ure of the public property, and tho procoodings of the Conventions and logislative bodies in the Southern States, are valuable at the present time, and will enable the reader to forma correct ides of the present condition of the country. By the way of San Francisco we have some in teresting items of intellige from the Sandwich Talands. The annus. statistics show that there has been a large falling off in tho staple products of the islands during the past year; a decrease in imports of $332,000, in exports of £128,000, aud in exports of domestic produce of $118,000, The | falling off in the domestic prodace is by #ome per- sons attributed to blight, and by others to the financial policy of the government. The last cen- us gives Honoluln # population of 12,408 natives and half caste, 1,616 foreigners and their children, snd °%5 Chinamen. The ¢xportation of Hawalian salt during 1860 amounted to 884 tons. Advices from Mayaguer, I’. R., dated Febraary 22, 1861, say:—The heaith of this port and that | of the whole isiand is very good. Crops good and sbundant and weather wry fei and fine, bat basi ness is exceedingly dull, occasioned by the revo Tution in the United Slates, which baw coused a janie in commercial aifeirs. The wotton market yester ay way without chang mont, Thosales embrace ih.it 600 2.600 w: sing, in good part, on the bul of 1 ing uplands, The four market was Pato, inoluding some iots taken for were unchanged and in falr while prices were without « fo good request, with @ fair amount of rales, at given io another pinco, Pork war ste ‘sales of meas at $17 26 and of prime at $12 60. Sugars wore quite eteady, with sales of 700 hhue. Que musooyades ut fuil prices, Collve wus in fou y and export; extra t de mand, with cales of 100 bags Ric at Ife. @ 130. Freights were eteady for English ports, witha fairameunt of engagemonta. The Inaugural of Mr. Lincoln. ‘This day is the 4th of March—a day which has been looked forward to with intense anxic- ty by the country. It is the day of inaugu- ration, when the President elect becomes Pre- sident de facto. The ceremony will take place at twelve o’clock, and Mr. Lincoln, like Mr. Buchanan, will deliver his inaugural before taking the oath of office. Never since the for- mation of the government was an inauguration day invested with so much of gloom. There is no longer apy apprehension of disturbance at the capital; but the little cloud “the size of 8 man’s hand” which appeared in the Southern horizon on the morning after the 6th of November has grown and spread and become darker and darker, till now the whole Southern heavens are overcast, and tempest seems almost inevita- ble. The clouds at the North, too, have been ever since gathering and growing blacker, and moving forward in dense masses charged with electricity. It only needs a word anda blow from one man to produce a collision and make the theory of the irrepressible conflict a fearful practical reality. A word alone may be suffi- cient to precipitate the antagonistic elements upon eech other, but, followed up by a blow, the result is certain. No President of the United States has ever been inaugurated under such circumstances before. It is anew era in the history of the country—an unprecedented result of a Presi- dential election. It is the first time that a party organized on an issue involving a eon- troverted question of morals and religion—a party organized moreover on a purely sectional issue, in opposition to the institutions of fifteen States, divided by a geograph’“al line from the other States—waa enabled to | lect its candidate to rule over the whole Uxion, in- cluding those fifteen Southern States, not one of which gave him a vote. Upon this danger- ous issue, therefore, Mr. Lincoln has been borne into power by a party whose princi- ples are antagonistic to the principles of the people—whose combined opposition stands recorded in the ratio of three and a half to one The popular vote for Mr. Lincoln was 1,865,840. The whole vote was 4,739,982. Tho official vote against him was thus 2,874,142. If from those who voted for him we deduct the whigs and conservatives, who merely desired a change, and did not intend to endorse the Chicago platform, and who if they had to vote now would throw their suffrages in a very different direction, the strictly republican vote was about one million, against upwards of 3,700,000 opposed to the Chicago platform. Yet it has been claimed, ever since the election, that the small republican minority have a right to enforce their policy over the large majority, to the overthrow of the constitution, to the dis- ruption of the confederacy, and even to civil war. ‘The result was that State after State seceded at the South, till at length a new confederation was formed and a@ new government is estab- lished at Montgomery. But it was earnestly hoped by every patriotic heart that the leaders of the republican party would be induced, from the necessity of the case, to consent to such guarantees and securities to the Southern States aa were calculated to bring the seceders back and prevent the rest from following their example. Instead of this, however, they have become more and more violent every day, re- jecting every concession and even the moderate compromises proposed in the border States 1’ eace Convention. In consequence of the soothing tone of the speeches of Mr. Seward, who, it was kmown, was to be Premier in Mr. Lin- coln’s Cabinet, expectations of modera- tion were formed which are now dashed to earth by Mr. Seward’s recent votes. And Mr. Lincoln himself, who had remained silent at Springfield when the people demanded his voice to still the rising storm, has lately spoken in words not calculated to reassure the country or disperse the clouds of war sweeping over- head. According to our best information, he peraists in the revolutionary doctrines of the Chicago platform as the practical policy of his administration, and will neither make nor ad- vise concessions, The radical wing of the re- publican party appears to have prevailed over the moderates, as the Jacobins in the French Revolution prevailed over the Girondists of the party,and from the inaugural, therefore, to-day, aothing conciliatory is to be expected. Now, if the tone of this official manifesto should turn out tobe of the nature indicated by all our intelligence from Washington-—hold- ing out the sword and not the olive braach— and if that be the real expression of the new President’s sentiments and the veritable pro- gramme of his policy, and not merely a bait to gain some point from the ultras of his own party, which would be playing an extromely foolish part, the ceremony to-day will be not only the inauguration of a President, but the in- auguration of civil war, and it will give birth to 4 new conservative party at the North which will utterly rout and destroy the republican party, horse, foot and artillery. Mr. Lincoln had a glorious ,ame in his hands, but we fear he has lost it forever. He might have saved the country and become second only to Wash- ington in the hearts of the people; a few hours will tell whether he is (he man far the occa- sion. Faury ov tin Comrromises.—This is the last day of the present Congress, and aficr all the protracted discussion on the great difficulty now afflicting the country, what has it effected in the direction of @ settlement? The Senate met last night at seven o'clock, and before they adjourn will probably adopt the Corwin reso- lution, amending the constitution so as to pre- | clude Congressional interference with slavery in the States where it now exists. Tho repub- | jeans will no doubt go for this resolution; but that ia no more than can be expected from them, beewuse they only claim to deal with the slave question in the Territories at present, and not in the States, and thus they can afford to humbug the South by accepting the Corwin amendment. The Hovse meets to-day at ten o’clock; but as this will be the last bour of its lifo—as it ceases ita official existence at twelve o’clock— | itis not to be expected that anything will be done by that body towards saving the country. ‘Vhue at noon to-day a new administration will be inangurated.- a new order of things will be cetabliched, withont anything having been ao- compliehed by all the Union loving men through- ont the enue country to settle the existing difficulties. Mr. Lincoln will then find—as he has raid in his speech at Springfield—that he has to commence a task greater than that which fell to the lot of Washington, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861. ‘The Twe Comfederactos—The Heal Crists Upem Us. To-day the two American confederacies aé- @ume form and shape under their new zovera- ments. The following shows the composition L. P. Walker. John Perkias, Jr HL f, Eiiett, J.P, Beojamin. The Southern confederacy, it appears, has already decided epon most of the financial, military, naval and postal measures necessary to its defence and consolidation. It has au- thorized the issue of a loan of $15,000,000 to provide for the immediate wants of the govern- ment; it has adopted measures for tho forma- tion of a small navy sufficient to protect its har- bors and coasts; it has organized an army of 30,000 drilled men, and it has laid in an immense supply of provisions and breadstuffs, thus giving the lie to the republican organs which have been telling their readers at the North that the Southern people were already beginning to suffer from want of food, and would soon be starved into submission. This accounts for the large amount of gold which has found its way to the Northwest, and which has been to a certain extent benefitting us here by helping to allevi- ate the embarrassments occasioned to the mer- cantile community by the stringency of the money market. In addition to these, the Southern Congress has passed several other measures which attest its foresight and self-reliance. It has adopted @ tariff provisional in its application, but which will answer its purpose by giving the new gov- ernment a portion of the revenue that it will re- quire. The national loan of $15,000,000, which has only been emitted within a few days, has, it is stated, been all taken up. In addition to this, Georgia has appropriated $1,000,000, South Carolina $675,000, Louisiana $500,000, and Ala- bama $500,000, for the necessities of the con- federation. It is amply supplied with muni- tions of war; for, as the Northern journals have been taking care to inform the public, the seceding States have seized on war matériel, belonging to the nation, amounting in value to about $20,000,000, but which, it is true, they offer to pay a reasonable price for when the accounts between the two governments come to be squared up, if that should ever take place. In point of military organization they have been equally favored, having secured the nucleus for a splen- did army and navy through the resigna- tion ef the numerous military and naval officers enumerated in the list which we published yesterday, and who comprise some of.the best officers in the service, the greater part of them having been educated at West Point, or on board the national vessels. In matters of internal economy the South- ern government has set us an example which it would have been well for us if we had long since initiated ourselves. It has decided, for instance, to make its postal service self-sustain- ing; and in order to equalize its receipts and expenditures it proposes to discontinue all useless contracis, abolish post offices that are an expense, do away with the system of free newspaper exchanges and the frank- ing privilege, all of which constituted the great obstacles to the proper working of the Department. Thus it will be seen that statesmanlike views have presided over the preliminary measures of the new Southern government, and that it is arming itself for all contingencies. In the seceded States men seem to be animated by but one spirit, owing to the failure in Congress of a settlement of the exist- ing difficulties, and they entertain strong hopes now, we fear destined to be realized, that they will be joined by the border States. Such are the condition and prospects of the new Southern confederation on this 4th ¢of March, 1861—a day likely to prove one of the most memorable in history. On the other hand we have the Northern con- federation, which is to Mangurate tho Presi- dent elect today. The new government, if it is not openly and boldly in favor of coercion, is in hopes of settling the differences between North and South by attempting to re- take the federal forte and to collect the reve- nue by means of a blockade of the Southern coast. Its leaders, it is true, protest against these measures being considered in the light of coercion; but this is a distinction without a difference. The mere aitempt to use force will precipitate the country into a bloody struggle between men of tho same race and lineage, and who, if they could only be taught to think so, have interests in every respect identical. Nor will this con- flict be confined to hostilities between the North and South. fiere in the North there will be a division between the radical portion of the re- publicans constituting one party, and the con- servative eloments resolving themselves into another; and whilst all this is going on the ad- ministration will be weakened by dissensions in the Cabinet, resulting from the efforts of the extremists to crush oat the more moderate, as well as from the jealoustes and heartburnings growing out of the distribution of the spoils of office. Such is the aspect presented by the two con. federacies as they stand to-day. Before a week passes the worst anticipations to which the pre- parations on both sides point may be realized. Should the administration of Mr. Lincoln at- tempt to carry out its indicated intention of coercion, we shall at once find ourselves in the midst of a crisis the most dangerous and mo- mentous that hae ever agitated the mind of a people, Reromuicay Mrirary Deseorism—Twe Mi. ums «TO oBR CCosverteD tro 4 Serrnn wiewrar, Porton Fonck.We published yes terday a communication calling attention to a bill introduced in the Legislature to autho rize the Common Council to appropriate an- nually for the expenses of the Virst division, “ge part of the police expemws of the city of New York,” the sum of four dollars for each officer, non-commissioned officer, musician and private who shall parade at the division, bri- gade and inspection parades. The object of the bill is purely and simply to enable the Police Commissioners to employ the troops of the First division on city duty, whilst they send their patrolmon and detectives on flying expeditions about the country, as they did on the occasion of Mr. Lincoln’s journey to Washington. The gallant mombers of the division will not foel much flattered at the use that is proposed to be made of their services, Tax Arrroacuixa Exxctions ww New Exo Law>—A Test ov THE Porvtax Woi,—The »pproaching elections for members of Congress dition of the country, and the result thereof will go far to prove the true sentiments of the people of that section in the question at issue between the North and South. Without exag- geration we may say that they are the mosi im- portaat local elections which have ever taken Connecticut election follows April, and that of Rhode of the same month. In Es termined to test the question of the Chicago platform, pure and simple, and the doctrine of on the occasion in all of the three States; but the Connecticut election is the most important of all, because three out of the four republican the verdict of the people for or against their re-election will be a very fair representation of public opinion upon the vital question of the day. Thode Island, too, has recently taken a very important step in a measure which may command an expression of opinion from tho people. The Senate passed a resolution in- structing the two United States Senators in Congress to go for compromise, but the As- sembly killed the resolution by a tio vote. Thus the voters of the State will, therefore, have an opportunity of pronouncing upon this subject by the disposition of their franchises at the approaching election. In every view, then, these elections must be considered of vital moment, inasmuch as their results may decide the question whether this confederacy is to be split into two parts, and whether the Southern confoderacy'is to be establiched as @ separate nation, with all tho horrors of civil war threatening us in the future, ia the event of the adoption of a coercive policy on the part of the new admin- istration. It will, in short, be a contest be- tween the republican politicians and the peo- plo; and the latter have a grave question to decide. Tae CuroxoLocy or Four Eveyrrut Montus.—Since the sixth day of last November a series of unparalleled and eventful circum- stances has become a part of the history of this country—circumstances which, in their present aspect, and in the gloomy hue they assume as concerns the future, vitally af- ect the prosperity and being of the most wondrous nation that ever grew from afew de- pendent provinces to the strength and majesty of a powerful empire. On that day a sectional party, born of fanaticism, and nurtured for thirty years by a violent agitation which pervaded the lecture room, the schoolhouse, the pul- pit and the family hearthstone, was ele- vated to power. Its success was the signal for revolt against its principles on the part of that portion of the country whose institutions its oraters and politicians denounced as an iniquity and ® curse. Six Southern States abandoned their allegiance to a government which was soon to be administered by the chiefs of this party, who were chosen according to the provisions of the constitution, but against the majority of the popular vote. Hos- tile attitudes were assumed by the seceding States, who seized the property of the general government, and the federal authorities, whose duty it was to protect it; but immediate collis- ion was suspended by the forbearance of the Executive, in the hope that some compromise would be effected which might spare the shed- ding of fraternal blood. Remonstrances poured in from all sections of the country against the inauguration of coercive measures. State Legislatures proposed compromise and concilia- tion; a Peace Conference met at Washing- ton; Congress talked by the hour over the af- fairs of the nation; financial disaster pressed hard upon every mercantile interest; threats of an attack upon the federal capital caused the concentration of a strong military force there; and while in many quarters voices wore raised for peace, preparations were making for war. But the politicians of the dominant faction, in the face of all this, were obdurate and unrelenting in their denial of any compromise which might save the country from impending ruta, and the 4th of March has come, leaving the dificulty un- settled, and the country in as periloas a condi- tion as ever. To-day at noon the administration will be established in power, while a separate con- federacy is organizing in the votton States; and in view of the alarming agitation which stirred the whole country to its utmost depths for the past four months, we have prepared and pub- lish to-day a chronological table of all the im- portant political events which have transpired in the period from the 6th of November to the 4th of March. That period will form a moment- ous episode in the history of the United States ot America. Tux New Tanivy a Law.—Mr. Buchanan, it appears, has affixed his signature to the new Tariff bill, although it was thought by many that he would have put it in his pocket and taken it into retirement with himself to Wheatland. But it seems from our Washington correspondence that “he yielded to the porsua- sions of his Pennsylvania friends,” and under that pressure signed the measnre, which has thus become law. If the Southern confederacy is to maintain an independent existenee, and continue to be a separate nation, and if it were to ask from the North some measure calculated to further its commercial and political interesta and strengthen its hands, it could not pos sibly select a better one for that purpose than this tariff. It will cnable the younger confederacy to open ils marts on favorable terms to foreign countries without resorting to free trade, and it will thus be able to obtain a respectable revenue, at loast, from the importation of foreign merchandise, which the exorbitant duties imposed by our aew tariff will sead to a more profitable market. Dmecr Tzape Berween THe Sovran snp Gaxat Burrani.—We see that British enter- prise is already preparing te take advantage of the policy which has driven the cotton States out of the Union. Ata mooting held at the Bank of Charleston last week, proposals were received from Mr. A.M. Weir, a large London capitalist, and Messrs. Laird & Co., the well known shipbuilders, offering to raise in Great Britain half the amount necessary to secure the establishment of a direot line of steamships between Charleston and Liverpool It is proposed that a joint stook company shall be formed in England under the limited lia- bility act, in which the Charleston share- holders will be placed on the same footing with all others. The company once formed, three iron screw propellers are to be built and run as a regular line between Charleston and Liver- pool. It is intended that they shall be of 1,800 tons measurement and 250 horse power, with capacity for 4,000 bales of cotton, taking the bale at 440 Ibs. The total cost of each steamer, it is calculated, will not amount to more than $235,000, or $705,000 for the three, the propor- tion to be raised by the people of Charleston being $235,000. The proposal bas been warmly taken up by the leuding merchants of that city, and a committee kas been appointed to aolicit subscriptions. It would be premature to enter into an in- vestigation of the merits of this scheme until we seo how the appeal made to the Charleston capitalists will be responded fo. Of one thing, however, there can be no question—that the establishment of the line will at once bring the calculations of the republican extremists to the teat. Should the incoming administration at- tempt to carry out a policy of coercion against the South, it must immediately bring it into collision with Great Britain. Tho vessels of the company being own- ed in moiety by English shareholders, any attempt to lay an embargo on them will be regarded, if not as an act of direct hostility, at all events as a case for damages. Under such circumstances, the threatened blockade of the Southern ports will be practically inoperative, and will affect only the vessels of those govern- ments which are too weak to force it. Its main object—that of prevonting Southern staples being sent direct to England—will be defeated, and thus one of the principal means of coercion relied-upon will fail the new administration at the start. IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH. ADDITIONAL FROM TEXAS. The Surrender of the Public Property by Goneral Twiggs—Spirited Condact of the United States Officers and Sol- dicrs—Yankee Doodle Still Alive and the Stars and Stripes Fiying, &c., c&c. Wasurveron, March 3, 1861. Some additional intolligonce was zecoived to-day by the government from the Special Post Office Agent, who has been travelling in Texas, and who was at San Antonio three days after General Twiggs bad surrendered the property and stores of tho United States to the State au- thorities of Texas. ¥ General Twiggs’ conduct, he says, was severely oon- demned by all the officers and soldiers of the United States. When the troops were ordered by Twiggs to vacate the barracks in order that the Texas troops might take thoir placo, the band played Yankoo Doodle, and hoy kopt tho stars and stripes dying to the great annoy- ence of the Texans. ‘Tho United States troops were only allowed a sufficient quantity of supplies to last them until thoy could reach the coast, and very scanty at that. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. THE TEXAS ‘MILITARY MOVEMENT—CAPTURE OF THR ALAMO—FOUR MEN WOUNDED, On Saturday lat the telograph announced the eurrender of the Sen Ant arsenal to the authorities of Toxas. mail wo recoived the following particu- San Awrom0, Fob. 16—3 P. M. Four daya ago Geaoral McCulioch called for yolunt-ors under order of the Committee of Safety, in the counties cast and gouth of Boxar county. Tho time and place of rendezvous was to be last night, on Salado Crook, at the = of the Seguin road, which is four miles from San ne. Tho call waa promptly responded to by about four hun- dred men reaay for immediate action. Berides theabove named forces, he knew of some three hundred friends in the city propared for co-operation. The camp on the Salado presented a very lively picture. Thero wore com- panies from Guadalupe, Comal, Gonzales, Caldwell and other counties. i After several hours of impatient waiting the order was givon at half-past one o'clock A. M. The companios from (uadalupe and Comal took the lead on foot, next folowea the others in cloae order gn horseback. On the edge of the city 8 halt was made, al) tho horses wero tied in a mosquito thicket, and a given sigual hav- answered from the city, a division, of . detachmont trom all cempanies, advanced and entered tho city from the cast by the Victoria road. This was at Steen minutes to four o'clock A. M. re mained ready to support the firet division by a direct at- (ack upon tho various occupied positions. ‘Tho first division, with the forces of the city, were quite auccessful—the Alamo was takon by eurprise, and che other | wy isolatea without the firing of a gun. At daylight the reserve that had romained outeide town entered the city on horsoback, passed in a direct ve and in fae order to the main Pasa. All business houses wore and are still closed, aa were «ll drinking places, and tho best order prevailed 10 Alamo property nad been given up by the gallant Capt. Reynolds, as true a patriot aa Toxat can boast, who hog resigned his commission under tho recoat United tates government, determuted to adhere to the cause of the South. ° At prevent, throe o'clock, P. M. two companies of in- fantry aro atill besieged; one in tho commissary, about 126 men, and the other in the arsenal, and their uncondi- Uonal surrender demanded, General Twiggs had boen superse ied and another officer appointed to take the command of the foderal govora- teat, formerly called the United States government, be- fore the atteck was mate. ‘Tho Lone Star dag uow floats as of yorp ovor the ro nowned Alamo. Negotiations are now going on for the otlu in this city, which, if net givon up in a fow bo taken Through the ascilontal discharge of a gun four nen were wounded on the Pisza, A letter in the Gatveston News atts: — The will return to their camp on the Salado, and will at Onee march to take posecesion of the othor United States forts and garrisons on tho frontier. It is thought they will bo «vrrondered without resistance, so large will be the fores brought against them. THA UNITED STATES TROOPS IN TAXAS—TRANSFER OF THK UNITRD BYATRS PROPERTY TO THR STATK. ‘The San Antoaw Ledger, of the 18th inst., nas the an nexcd tatoresting statement: — The commissioners on the part of the State mado the domand, thie morning, that tho public property should bo transferred from tho general goverament to tho vutho- ritios of Tox. ‘After several houra apont in arranging dotalls transier was mado by Gen. Twiggs, wooso throughout has been frank, manly and honoravie. With the corps of Raagera under command of Ken McCullough, numboring six hundred mon, out the different military companies of this city, there wore not lows than twolve hundred men under arms McUullough’s ranging corps were choices mon. A body o8 that numerical etrongth rarely over beott croupedt together with the same rapidity, or one compoaoa of finer material. Although the stroets and plazas havo beow with armed men, bots drunken maa was ¢il everything wns peaceable and quiot; indesd, passed of with creat satisfaction, except that by ¢ of adoublo barreled shot cun from * horse amid a gentlemen, it was discharged, wounding eeven mon and two boracs. None of tho geatiomen are dangorowsly wounded. ‘The Ledger also publishes tho following» Ban Aaroxi0, Feb, 18, 1961 ‘The undersigned, commiestoners State of Texas, fully empowered to exe undertaken by them, havo formally « with Brovet Major Goneral David FE. Twiggs, Unit 7 1g the department of Tex. treops of tho United Statos shall low State by tho way of the const; that t them the arma of the reapective corp: tory of light artillery at Fort Dupean, and the same charactor at Fort itrows the ne moans for regular ment, provisions, tents, &c., &o {General 0 Hasnavater MAN A wron the duet Major 1 comforts! stud transportati 0 6) good health, as is also his little band of soldiers, Affairs in Charleston harbor are arriving at a pois when farther delay on thoir part will be impossible, ‘Their extensive works of defence and attack are nearly if not quite completed. ‘The feeling between the authorities and himself om- tinucs to be friendly, and he is allowoll all the facilities that he could expect. Fresh provisions and marketing are supplied in abundance. Hoe experiences uo diffieuly in sending or recotving his mail matter, THE SOUTHERN CONGRESS. Mowtcommnr, Ala., March 2, 1861. Tho Congress bas admitted the Texas delegates to full privileges of the othor members. There was a short ses- sion of several hours again to-night. — TROUBLE AT NORFOLK, VA. Norroux, March 3, 1868. Some excitement was created here on Friday night by @ suspected plot of insurrection by negrocs and four whites. Precautionary measures were taken, a dotaoh- ment of volunteors being ordered out. Thero are now ne serious fears. “ Interesting from Washington. ‘Wasmuatow, March 3, 1861. Minister Dallas, in communicating to the President ia- formation relative to the proceedings before the Lord Chief Justice of England, in the Anderson fugitive case, says that the amount of legal acumen and astuteness brought to bear in support ef the British in. terpretation of the tenth article of the extradition treaty was astonishing, but not on account of the pecu- ar opinion held by Great Britain concerning the social condition of slavery. The correspondence has been sub- mitted to the Senate. The matter will be a subject for the consideration of the incoming administration. A now convention will probably bo the resus for a mutual understanding of the article. Seaators Hemphill and Wigfall, of Texas, leave Washing- tom for Montgomery on Tuesday, to join Mr. Reagan and other members of the Southern Convention from thas State, No measum which even the most ultra secessionist can construe as coercive has passed Congress. ‘The Pacific Railroad bill ts beyond resuscitation. Non-Arrival of the Australasian. Sanpy Hoox, March 3—Midnight. As yet we haye no signs of the steamer Australasian, now due with later advices from Europe. The wind ts freak from tho southwest, and the weather ia very hazy. Mayoralty Nominations. Unca, N. Y., March 8, 1961. De Witt C. Grove, of the Daily Olserver, is the demg- cratic, and ox-Senator Alrick Hubbell tho republican oaa- didate for Mayor of Utica. Tho election takes place en Tueeday. —— 2.18. ‘ew ORLEANS, March fitters Sales, to-day 500 bales: middling, forge: a 5 Sugar q cc. 8 sc. for Fs capa at 26c. a 28c. Freighta cotton to Laver: Monts, March 2, 1861. Ps anno to-day 1,700 pi a 1OXc., with ‘ amore, March 2, 1961. Mlour dull and heavy: Ohio and Tloward street, $3 35, Wheat steady: rod, $1 26 a,$1 30. Corn active: yollew, 570. @ 600. pork dull, at $17. Coffee drm. advanced to 193¢c. a 2c. Flour very dull at $4 50 for ne ei dal ob a . dat 180.” Maas pork in good demand at gir,” The March Term bf the Law Courts. If the inauguration of President Lincoln has not takem away all our prominent lawyers the courts will be busily engaged to-day at tho opening of tho various trial terms. In the United States courts there aro several slave cases and criminal trials for offences on the high seas yot undisposed of; but as Judge Roosevelt, the United States District Attorney, has resigned from this day, and only holds the office until his successor is appointed, it is not likely that any of those important cages y | be called up unt tho incoming administration can induce some wealthy professions! gontleman to accept one of the ‘worst paid offices under the foderal government. Unless the republicans intend to effect an honorablo change towards the incumbont and hie assistants in this depart mont, they had better look out for as wealthy a repro- sentative as Judge Roosevelt, who can aflord, not only to do without pay, but to bear all the expenses of tho office. Tho mean, miserable ami niggardly manner in which the Department of the Interior has been conducted— profiigate in its wholesale plunder of bonds, but dis- honorable in repudiating the lawfully contracted debta of its officers and agents—showld be a wholesome lesson to those who suecoed the bad men who go from that depart- ment, suspected, ‘‘unwept, unhonored and unsung.’ In tho Bupremo Court the special session of the Oyer and Termincr will be reopened; but a there ts no proba- bility of Joffurds, of Walton-Mathows murdor notoriety, being brought to trial, it will adjourn without doing any business. Tho civil calendars of the Supreme Court are, however, still very heavy, and two branches of the Cir- colt will be held for trials by jury. A special term and chambors will alzo be held. In the Suporior Court a general and spocial term and two trial branches will be held. The calendars embrace, te ueual, & large numbor of actions against public compa- ake. The Common Meas and Marine Courts will cach bok two tvinl branches and one special torm. Chief Jaatice Roeworth, of the Superior Court, haa gone South for the benofit of hia hoalth, which has beon shat. tered by the misorably ‘‘pent up’ rooms allowed by our authorities for the business of that tribunal. Suite fovolving about half « million of dollars will soom become matters of inquiry before onr federal courta. A highly respectable legal firm in this city are now busity engaged in preparing the pioncer case for trial. COURT CALENDAR YOR THIS DaY. & 9 March Session of Council. The Hoard of Aldermen wi!) hold the tiest meeting of their March reseion this evening, if the inauguration ab Washington doos not loave that t ‘The the Commen ody without « quorum. Its sald by some of the democratic members that any attempt to nominate a candidate in place of Mr. Smith, the preee ‘treet Commissioner, will meet with most decided ¢ n. There is nothing elae of special inter. — tec! fo Lunmedlately eeeupy the atteation of the Uigence. Colonel Wiliam Gator, Think rogimont United States » hae been ordored by the War Department te Join bis regiraoat at San Franc! 0, California Fase