The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1861, Page 6

_NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, errtce ¥. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Velume XXVI 7m AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. MIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Jacm Cape. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Quy Mann saine—Batsr Baxea WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Camraat Paax, LAURA KBENE'S THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway— Bares Busters NEW BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ron Ror—Roszat Micasaa—Lausm Monmon. THEATER, Chatham Borcu— BARNUM'’S AMERIOAN Mi Broadway —Buius, Tas Dua Bit Wouls tr Wars, arSane fog Oovocg Es pen ot ee apperanyg. Niblo’s pa] OANTERSURY MUSIC 63 Broadway.—Soncs, see BuaLesquns, ee ees es MBLODEON, No. 689 Broadway.—Soras, Dancas, Bux: Laegoxs, Ac. WHITMAN'S HALL, WestGold.—Unsworra’s Minsrasts mn Braiortan cones, Dancna, &c. "New York, Monday, March 4, 1861, The New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. McAulay, ‘will leave Boston on Wedacsday for Liverpool. Tho mais fer Burope will close im this city to-morrow afternoon, at = quarter-past ome and at half-past five o’olock, to go by railroad. ‘Tom Evrorzan Exrmon ov Tas Hear will bo published ‘at eleven o’elock in the morning. Singlo copies, in wrap” pore, Bix cents. The contents of the Evnorgan Korron ov ras Huraro ‘will combine the news recetved by mail and telegraph at ‘the office during tho previous and up to the hour of publication. The News. At noon to-day, at the national Capitol in Wash- ington city, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hannibai Hamlin, of Maine, will be inaugurated President aud 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 ex- peot to be able to spread this important document before the public in our afternoon edition of to- day’s paper. Numerous reports were 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 Hrratp on Saturday and yester- day. Our despatches this morning farnish a re- port of the'rumors, reports and surmises 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 made a most for- cibie and cloquent appeal in favor of his peace measure and forthe preservation of the Union. He was followed by Mr. Trambull, of [inois, 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 bo to recapture them, a declaration which produced considerable excitement among the Southern Senators. The Senate had not adjourned when we were compelled to go to press. On Saturday last the new tariff bill, recently passed by Congress, received the signature of Mr. Buchanan. 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 lessened by its provisions, may be withdrawn on payment of the duties herein provided.” The Congress of the Southern Confederacy on Saturday admitted the Texus delogates 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 » 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 Hena.p this morning. The ordinan- ces of the seceding States, the account of the seiz- ure of the public property, and the proccedings of the Conventions and logislative bodies in the Southern Btates, are valuable at the present time, and will enable the reader to form @ correct idea of the present condition of the country. By the way of San F isco we have some in teresting items of intelligence from the Sandwich Islands. The annus. statistics show that there bas been a large falling off in the staple products of the islands during tho past year; « decrease in imports of $332,000, in exports of £125,000, aud in exports of domestic produce of $118,000, The falling off in the domestic prodace is by some per- sons attributed to blight, and by others to the financial policy of the government. The last cen- aus gives Honolua # population of 12,408 natives and half caste, 1,616 foreigners and their children, and “5 Chinamen. The exportation of Hawaiian salt during 1860 amounted to 884 tons. Advices from Mayaguer, P. R., dated Febraary 22, 1861, say:—Tho health of this port and that of the whole isisnd is very good. Crops good and sbundant end weather very fair and fine, bat basi. | ness is exceedingly dull, occasioned by the r lution in the United 4( pan's im commercial ThePotton market yeoter ay wan without change of mo ment. The sales embrace: ‘ sing, in good part, on the We ing aplands, The four market was heavy and © rato, including ome lots taken for export; extra brands were unchanged and in fair demand. Wheat was heavy, whe prices were without quotable change fo good request, with @ fir amount of rales, at quote Pious given tn another piace. Pork wae stendy, with ‘sales Of meas at $17 25 and of prime at §) cagia 60. Sugars were quite wteady, with sales of 700 hhus, Gude musoovades wt full prices, Collee war in fair ce. which has coused Corn was mand, with gales of 100 bags Rio at Ifc. @ 13%¢0. Freight were steady for English ports, with « fairameunt of engagemonta. The Insugerail of Mr. ‘This day is the 4th of March—s 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 any apprehension of disturbance at the capital; but the little cloud “the size of a 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 inevite- 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 ope 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 under such circumstances before. It isa new 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—was enabled to a0 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 @ 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, tp 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 V eace Convention. In consequence of the soothing tone of the speeches of Mr. Seward, who, it was imown, 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 persists 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 to be 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 extremely 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 « 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 the man for the occa- sion. Farry ov tan Comprowsrs.—This is the last day of the present Congress, and after all the protracted discussion on the great difficulty now afflicting the country, what has it effected in the direction of @ settlement? ‘he 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- | Licans will no doubt go for this resolution; but that is no more than can be expected from them, Leewuse they only claim to deal with the slave question in the Territories at present, and notin the States, and thus they can afford to humbug the South by accepting the Corwin amendment, The House meets to-day at ten o'clock; but | a6 thie will be the last hour of its life—as it ceases its official existence at twelve o’clock— it is not to be expected that anything will be done by that body towards saving the country. ‘Thue at noon to-day a new administration will be inaugurated new order of things will be | cetabliched, without anything having been ao- compliched by all the Unfon loving men through- ont the eniire country to settle the existing difficulties. Mr. Lincoln will then find—as he has eaid in his speech at Springfiold—that he has to commence a task greater than that which fell to the lot of Washington, To-day the two American confederacies &6- @ume form and shape under their new govera- ments. The foliowing shows the composition 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- ment; it has adopted measures for the 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 immonse 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 euffer from want of food, and would soon be starvedinto 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 a 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 becn 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 o 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 of 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 the Presi- dent elect to-day. 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 attempt 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. Hiere in the North there will bea division between the radical portion of the re- publicans constituting one party, and the con- servative elomenis resolving themselves into another; and whilst all this is going on the ad- ministration will be weakened by dissensions in the Cabinet, resulting from tho efforts of the extremista to crush out 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, Rerorricay Muicary Desrortisw—Ture Mi tims «to «OBR ~CosxvertTeD Inro oA Serrne- wevrar, Porter Foror—We published yes terday a communication calling attention to a pill introduced in the Legislature to autho rize the Common Council to appropriate an- nually for the expenses of the Virst division, “as part of the police expemsws 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 patrolmen and detectives on flying expeditions abont the country, as they did on the occasion of Mr. Lincoln's journey to Washington. The gallant members of the division will not foel much flattered at the use that is proposed to be made of their services, Tax Arrroacuna Exxctions w New Exo Lawp—A Test oy THE Porutax Wu.—The =pproaching elections for members ef Congress in three of the New England States are fraught wi o deep import in the present critical con- dition of the country, and the result thereof will go far to prove the true sentiments of the people of that seotion in the question at issue between the North and South. Without exag- geration we may say that they are the mosi im- portant local elections which have ever taken ‘place, because the future destinies of the coun- try, aa far as they are involved in the decision of the existing vexed question of compromise or coercion, are in a great measure dependent upon the results, The election in New Hampshire comes off first—on the 12th day of this month. The Connecticut election follows on the lst of April, and that of Rhode Island on the 34 of the same month. Im these three contests the issue will be fairly put to the popular voice. The republican politicians seem de- termined to test the question of the Chicago platform, pure and simple, and the doctrine of non-compromise and coercion with the people, of those States, and they are now actively at work upon that issue. The battle has already commenced, and it remains to be seen whether they will be sustained by the popular will. We may expect'to witness a large developement of patriotism and no little excitement 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 members of the present Congress have been renominated by their party, and these men are known to be violently in opposition to any measures of compromise or conciliation—henco 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, bas recently taken a very important step in a measure which may command an expression of opinion from the 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 © tic 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 confederacy ’is to be cstablished as a separate nation, with all the horrors of civil war threatening us in the future, in 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 Curoxotocy 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 orators 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 were 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 ruin, and the 4th of March has come, leaving the difficulty 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 itin his pocket and taken it into retirement with himself to Wheatland. But it seems from our Washington correspondence that “he yielded to the persua- sions of his Pennsylvania friends,” and under that pressure signed the measure, which has thus become law. If the Southern confederacy is to maintain an independent oxistenee, and continue to be a separate nation, and if it were to ask from the North some measure calenlated 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 MARCH 4, 1861. the importation of foreign merchandise, which the exorbitant duties imposed by our aew tariff will send to a more profitable market. Direct Traps Berween Tax Sovra snp Gaxat Brrran.—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 meoting held at the Bank of Charleston last week, proposals were received from Mr. A.M. Weir, « 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 direct 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 has been appointed to solicit 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 test. 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—Yankece Doodle Still Alive and the Stars and Stripes Fiying, &c., dc. Wasumvetox, March 3, 1861. Somo additional intolligonce was recoived to-day by tho government from the Special Post Office Agent, who has been travelling in Texas, and who was at San Antonio throe days after General Twiggs bad surrendered the proporty and stores of tho United States to the State au- thorities of Texas. : General Twiggs’ conduct, he says, was severely eon- demned by all the officere 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 hey kopt tho stars and stripes fying to the great annoy- ance of the Texans. ‘The United States troops were only allowed a sufficiont quantity of supplies to last them until they could reach the coast, and very scanty at that. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. THE TEXAS ‘MILITARY MOVEMENT—CAPTURKE OF THR ALAMO—FOUR MEN WOUNDED, the New Orleans Feb. 26.) On Saturday last the telograph announced the gurrender By ti moraine sual wo reaived tuo folowing partic morning’ ‘Wo recoive articu- Jars of the surrender:— “ San Awtosro, Fob. 16—8 P. M. Four days ago General McCulioch called for yolunt-ers under order oi the Committeo of Safety, in the counties cast and south of Bexar county. Tho time and place of rendezvous was to be laat night, on Salado Crook, at the crossing of the Seguin road, which is four mes from San Antonie. Tho call was promptly responded to by about four hun- dred men reaay for immediate action. 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- panes from Guadalupe, Comal, Gonzales, Caldwell and other counties. After several hours of impationt waiting the order was given at half-past ope o'clock A. M. The companios from Guadalupe and Comal took tho lead on foot, next followea the others in close order gn horseback. On the edge of the city & bali was made, all the horses were tod In a mosquito thicket, anda given signal kav- tog beon answered from the city, a division, composed of . detachmont from all cempanies, alvanced and entered the city trom the cast by the Victoria road. This was at Steen minutes to four o'clock A. M. The balance re- mained ready to support the fret division by a direct at- (ack upon tho various occupied positions. ‘The first division, with the forces of the city, were quite auccesaful~the Alamo was taken by surprise, and che other places isolatea without the tiring of a gun. At daylight the reserve that had remained outside town entered the city on horsoback, passed in a direct ve and tp fae order to the maia [laze All businesa houses wore and aro still closed, as were all drinking places, and tho best order prevailed The Alamo property nad boon given up by the gallant Capt. Reynolds, as true a patriot as Texas can boast, who hog resigned his commission under the receat United totes government, determuued to adhere to the cause of the South. At prevent, throe o'clock, P.M. two companies of in- fantry aro still besieged; one in tho commissary, about 126 men, and the other in the arsenal, and their whcondi. onal surrender demanded. Genoral Twiggs had boon superseded and another officer appointed to take tho command of the foderal goyora- mont, formerly called the United States government, be- fore the attock was mate. Tho Lone Star tag uow floats as of yorp over the ro nowned Alamo, Negotiations are now going on for the other propert: in this otty, which, if net givon up in a fow ey will be taken Through the asciiontal discharge of a gun four men were wounded on the Pinan. A letter in the Galveston News atts: — Tho will return to their camp on the Salado, and will at nee march to take possession of the othor United States forts and garrisons on tho frontier. It is thought they will bo srrondered without resistance, #0 large will be the fores brought against them. TUA UNITED STATES TROOTS IN TAXAS—TRANSFER OF THK UNITKD SYATES PROPERTY TO THR STATE. Tho San Antonw Ledger, of tho 18th inst., has the an nexcd tntoresting statement: — Tho commissioners on tho part of the State mace tho domand, this morning, that tho public property should be transferred from tho general goverumeut to to wutho- ritios of Texas. Alter several hours spont in arranging details, the transier was mado by Gen. Twiggs, woos colduct Bs has been frank, manly and honoravie. With the of Raagers under command of Major Ken McCullough, numboring six hundred mon, out tho different military companies of this city, there wore not jowe than twelve hundred men under arms. McCullough’s ranging corps were choice mon. A body o8 that pamerical etrongth rarely ever been grouped together with the same rapidity, or one compusdd of finer material. Although the atroets and plazas havo beor crowded with armed mea, vot a drunken man was visible, aad overything was peaceable and quict; indesd, ov passed off with reat satisfaction, except that by of adoublo barreled shot cun from & horse amida geoup of geontiomen, it was discharged, wounding eeven mon and two bores, Novo of tho geatiomen are dangorously wounded. ‘The Leger also publishes the fe - Ban Asrowio, Fob. 18, 1861 ‘The undersigned, commicsioners on tho part of the State of Texas, fully empowered to oxercise the w undertaken by them, havo formally ana so! With Brovet Major General David FE. Twi army, commanding the department treops of tho United States shail leave State by tho way of the coast; that they thom the arma of the tive corps, including the bat tory of light artillery at For f the same charactor at Fort itrow: the necereary moans for rogular ment, proviaions, tents, &c., &o. nd transportation SAN AwroN ‘The State of Texas having doman Join bis rogimout af San Fran wan't ot SSeS Generel to ofa. js A= Rope eratlod can be sit CF 21 arms be TLS. Shae arcing oat ak ‘He contradicts the statement that President Davis haa ‘been to Charlestom. Ho says that the report that he had ‘been sick is without a particle of foundation. Heis ts good health, as is also his little band of soldiers, Affairs in Charleston harbor are arriving at a poimt when farther delay on thoir part will be impossibia, Their extonsive works of defence and attack are nearly if not quite completed. The feeling between the authorities and himself ca- tinues to be friendly, and he is allowell all the facilities that be could expect. Fresh provisions and marketing ere supplied in abundance. He experiences 10 diffeulay in sending or recotving his mai! matter, THE SOUTHERN CONGRESS. Mowrcomzar, Ala., March 2, 186%. ‘Tho Congress has admitted the Texas delegates to fall privileges of the othor members. There was a short ses- sion of eeveral hours again to-night, s ——— TROUBLE AT NORFOLK, VA. Nonroux, March 3, 186. Some excitement was created here on Friday night by ®@ suspected plot of insurrection by negroes and four whites. Precautionary measures were taken, a detach- ment of volunteors being ordered out. Thero are now ae serious fears. Interesting from Washington. ‘Wasusctos, March 3, 1861. ‘Minister Dallas, in communicating to the Presideat ia- formation relative to the proceedings before the Lord Chief Justice of England, in tho Anderson fugitive caso, says that the amount of legal acumen and astutemess brought to bear in support of 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 bo a subject for |) the consideration of the incoming administration. A now convention will probably be the resulé for o mutual understanding of the article. Senators Hemphill and Wigfall, of Toxas, leave Washing- tom for Montgomery on Tuesday, to join Mr. Reagan aad other members of the Southern Convention from thas State, No measuse which even the most ultra secessionist can construe as coercive has passed Congress. ‘Tho Pacific Railroad bill is beyond resuscitation. Non-Arrival of the Australasian. Saxpy Hoox, March 3-—Midnight. As yet we have no signs of the steamer Australasian, now due with later advices from Europe. The wind is freah from tho southwest, and the weather ia very hazy. Mayoralty Nominations. Unca, N. ¥., March &, 1961. De Witt C. Grove, of the Daily Olserver, is the deme cratic, and ox-Senator Alrick Hubbell tho republican caa- didate for Mayor of Utica. Tho election takes place em Tuesday. Markets. New Onumans, March 2, 1861. today 6060 bales: middling, 10%c. @ ©. for to uly, 1c. Sugar quiet at 4c. a bic capa at 200 wae Wreighte-otton to Laver- Monn, March 2, 1961. joe an Ries t0-toy tate bales, at 1p 60. a 10Xc., with jl 26 a $1 30. Corn active: A b dull, at $17. Goo, ees por ll a $17. Cote rm, Whimoy Grenexart, March 2, 1861. Whiskey Flour dull at $4 50 for su; \ dt 160. Mees pork in good demand at $11, Bi, 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 the opening of tho various trial terms. In the United States courts there arc several slave cases and criminal trials for offences on the high seas yot undisposed of; but as Judge Roosevelt, tho 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 casos will be called ap unt tho incoming administration can induce some wealthy professions! gentleman to accept one of the ‘worst paid offices under the foderal government. Unies the republicans intend to effect an honorable change towards tho incumbent and hie assistants in this dopart- mont, thoy had botter look out for as wealthy a repro- sentative as Judge Roosevelt, who can afford, not only to do without pay, but to bear all the oxponsos of tho office. The mean, miserable ami niggardly manner in which the Department of the Interior bas been conducted— profligate in ite wholesale plunder of bonds, but die- honorable in repudiating the lawfully contracted debta of its officers and agonte—ahould be a wholesome lesson to thoae who succeed the bad men who go from that depart- meat, suspected, “‘unwept, unhonored and unsung.’’ In tho Bupromo Court tho special session of the Oyer and Terminer will be reopened; but ax thero ts no proba- bility of Jofiards, of Walton-Mathows murdor notoriety, being brought to trial, it will adjourn without doing any business. The civil calendars of the Supreme Court aro, however, still very heavy, and two branches of the Oir- vit will be hold for trials by jury. A special term and chambors will also be held. In tho Superior Court a general and special term and two trial branches will bo held. The eslendara embrace, Qe usual, & largo numbor of actiona againat public compa- nies. The Common Peas and Marine Courts will onch hoa two tvinl branches and one special torm. Chief Justice Rorworth, of the Superior Court, has gone South for the benofit of his health, which has beon shat tered by the mworably “pent up" rooms allotied by our wuthorities for the busincss of that tribunal. Suite favolying about half « million of dollars will soom become matters of inquiry before our foderal courts. A highty respectable legal firm in this city are now busity ‘engaged in proparing the pioncer care for trial, COURT CALENDAR YOR THIS T1aen: Cocrr—Clrenit.— Part 1.—N 1, 106, 129, 196, 160,171, 2 or the Council. The Board of Aldermen w their Mareb v Commen hold the first meeting of on this evening, if the inauguration ab ton door not leayo that body without a quoram. hi nO Of the democratic mombers that any attempt to nominate a candidate in plac of Mr. Smith, the preeent Street Commissioner, will meet with moet decided oppesition. There is nothing elae of special inter. — tel fo Lnmediately ceeupy the attention of the Army Intelligence. Colonel Willam Ga Jind rogiment United States Artillery, hae been ordered by the War Department te 00, California