Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-02-05

by thirty in dmeusons. aud cell about eight feet by
ten in size. In Tho latter female dodgers placed
while the male outcaSia have no shelter but the cellar.
The latter is whdm regular bosrdedfoor, and thereis
little or no ycnlaen. Into these wrctched quarters DO
less dan one bundled and onehomclcss wanderers wefc
crowded last night They werc literally piled in, add
they made their bes upon coal heaps or wherever ebc
they could STOW themselyps Tie horrible condition of
the place and of the atmosphere may be imagined.
CHARLESTON ITEMS.
We clip the following items from the Charleston Con,
rier:
! "A Noble Erampie-The senior pastor of this city,
who among the oldest active pastors the State and Of
ered the prayer which preceded the ratification ~ethe
Ordinance in Secession Hall on the goth December $780,
has appeared in and Is now wearing full suit Of Georgia
plains which was presented'by a friend =.
| appointment We are pleased to learn that Wade
Hampton Gbbes late Of the United States Army has re-
ceved from Governor Piokens the first appointment OF
! First Lieutenant in company Of Artillery to be raised
for three years. under the recent act OF the General As
semby establishing military organization Tor the state
Relieving the Port-Arrapgement have been made
for the departure of the women and children IRON Fort
SUMTER according to request which lately appeared In
the Courier. ..r. -..
Twenty women and seventeen children will be taken
! to New York in the steamship Marion on Saturday.
We have no doubt that similar request for the men
would be granted the satisfaction of all concerned
Commissioners TO North Carolina-Tbe Hon. Frank
| lin j. Noses of Sumter District, has been appointed
bv Gen. D. f. Jamison, President of the State Conven-
ton Commissioners from South Carolina to the Conven-
ton Of the State of North Carolina.
4 Good Tsst-Jefersou Davis has not lately visited
Charleston although several Charleston letters to New
York papers give particulars and details OF his arrival
| ception and interviews with the Governor
| This confirms what we have stated concerning the
the Charleston correspondence OF the New ork tribune
and other organs of fasehood This correspondence Is
1 in New York. the centres
4 of falsehood
IL affords us pleasure to state that letter has been
received by one of the friends Of Lieutenant Thomas B.
| Huger U. S n Informing him that he at Genoa,
| Oh the Sth of January, and had shipped some OF his
baggage and in daily expectation of receiving leave
TO return home immediately and take his part IN deence
| of his native State. ..--
| THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER MCCLELLAND
Capt Breshwood, of the United States cutter McCel
land at New Orleans having refused TO obey the orders
of the government Mr. Dix Secretary of the Treasury
last week sent the following dispatch TO w. H. Jones,
| in that city
"Tell Lieut.. Caldwell TO arrest Capt Breshwood, as
sumo command OF the cutter 1.-THE McClcind and obey
the order gave through you. II Capt BreshWood, after
arrest undertakes to interfere with the command OF The
cutter tell Lieut. Caldwell to consider him as mutineer
and treat him accordingly IL any one attempts TO haul
down the American flag shoot him on the spot
| SOUTH CAROLINA'S ULTIMATUM
| WASHINGTON, February 2.-The Senators of seeding
Safes this week have all united in advising Colonel
Hayne present the ultimatum OF South Carolina
| antil the Southern ConfedPracy is formed.
Col Hayne has replied that if he could be assured
that no achievements would be sent South he would de-
fer his letter till he could have consultation with his
| Governor.
letter from Col. Hayne sent to the President,
and the Secretary of War states in reply that without
plcdgng the President not TO send renorcements, he
would say that none would be sent unless Major Ander
son demanded them.
This state of the case Colonel Hayne communicated to
the Legislature Of South Carolina when the resolutions
passed Offering TO pay for the forts and refused
demanding surrender.
These resolutions have been laid before the President
hy Col. Hayuc, who awaits reply. The President as
generally supposed will refuse TO dispose OF the forts,
and 80 inform Col Hayne. In fact the latter anticipates
ihis When he receives the answer ne will return TO
South Carolina.
This is the truthful condition OF these negotiations,
and thus they stand at present. Until Col. Hayne
municates the Presidents action to South Carolina no at
| tack will be made on Fort Sumter.
THE ABOLITIoNISTS AND THE MAYOR OF AL
BANY.
| ALBANY Feb. 2nd-0ne hundred citizens Of Albany
having petoned Mayor Thatcher TO prevent the meet
ing of Aboitonists in this city next week for fear OF
ro he REPLIES stating that he has neither authority nor
inclination to interrupt freedom OF speech; that he has
no fear OF riot IN the orderly city OF Albany and that
the best way 10 treat the Aboonsts is TO leave them
| ment about them.
RECEIPTS FROM CUSTOMS AT NEW Y0RK-THE
EFFECTS OF NORTHERN AGITATION.
| WAsnINGloS Feb. 3.-The receipts from customs at
New ORR for January lS6l are less by Just about one
half than for the same month last year The falling oil
of southern trade at Northern ports may be said have
commenced substantially at The date OF the Presidential
election In November 1879, the receipts from customs
| at New York, were 81 1871 ooO-in November, 1860,
Il SOC 600 In December 1889, 50 s5t 00O-n Decen-
fu.lI Ia, = y lin
January 1861 - o6S 900. The aggregate OF difference
in receipts of customs at New York for three months
| back AZ compared with receipts for corresponding
period yeer ago, is s. $4,000.
Add to this the difference in such receipts in like Pc
Rod. nj Boston aud Philadelphia, THE former $3.50 900,
tbcIe, S2al 600 and We have an aggregate Of 81 49,
600 which would represent twruty millions Of dol
lars in value of foreign dutisble articles Thus much of
sales OF foreign commodities at the North has been al
ready lost by he present political a2ita'ions and TO II
must be added what has been lost OF sales OF domestic
nroducts by the Withdrawal OF the Southern demand,
which cannot be approximately given for the reason that
there Is no proper bureau here TO take cognzaICe OF
trade between the several States but the trade must be
very much in of that upon imported products
LETTER FROM LIEUT.. BERGMAN.
| Lieutenant o Bergman in command Of the United
States steamer Wyandote off Fort Pckens, has written
| a letter to a Pensacola paper, in which he says o..
my orders from the proper authorities OF govern.
meu have. loYed and served as faithfully as could,
still when tllt SINH ne Nls'oI'eu
by the decision Of my great aud noble State, (Vrgna
| | hope to prove myself worthy Of holding commits
| sion even under Southern Coincidence
| NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN MEETING
The republicans in Paterson, " j., "put through in
public meetsg Friday evening, resolutions in opposition
TO "Crtteuden but not without much uproar and con
| fusion. There Is a strong conflict" going on even in
the republican BOSOM to say Nothing OF the rrepress
bic conflict" between them and Others who resist ther
proposed civil war. republican journal says OF the
! meeting:
{" For five minutes it seemed if chaos had come
apar so inc sant were the hiss ngs and he ngs, none
However comngs to blows or breaking the furniture"
ARREST OF AN OFFICER.
! Lieut. Jewett OF the navy, has arrived in Washing
ton from Pensacola. lie states that he was arrested by
authorities Of Florida who held him in custody until
he gave his parole OF honor that he would never lake up
arms against the State OF Florida The facts in the case
nave been communicated to the Navy Department.
WHY FORT SUMTER SHOULD Nor BE ATTACKED.
Judge Longstrtet, in a communication. In the Coum-
bs Guardian defends Governor PcEens for not ordering
an attack Oh Fort SUMTER contrary to the oamor ring
ing through Charleston and the State Urging it. The
dd lie says he would not order attack though all the
ne )pe of South Carolina demanded it. The following
are his raas6ns f"' co. $500 -
"Becau;e every day is weakening the fort, and
sreng hniug power over it-because nothing c'n he
lost hy delay up to within eight ten days before La
| c,In's observation-disclosures don't wish TO give the
sabnissonsts of the South apology Tor their iears-
because am every one of tie seeding States
would oppose the attack because it would be wrong,
il would embaITass their operatons-because
il would give aboLionsts the North power over our
friends in that qu4rer-becacse believe, soon as the
Southern Confed, racy formed the forts will be deliver
ed up without observation-disclosures am now sure 10