, 1861-04-19

I were OUefeu, ana l0lu on the table.
Mr.. Goggin offered an amendment to
the report of the Committee on Federal
Relations, proposing secession with view
to the eventual reconstruction Of the Union.
The amendment was ordered 10 be printed
The Union men were ascertained to
have clear majority in the Arkansas
/ Convention.
The Montgomery Congress has confirm
ed the District Judges, as follows: A. G..
McGrath, South Carolina; H. II. Jackson,
Georgia; w. Harris, AIssissippi; Thos. j.
Simms, Louisiana; John Hemphill, Texas:
j. Fnlay, Florida: Mcssrs. Mcqueen and
Mcintosh have also been confirmed Judges
of the Admiralty Court at Key West; d.
Hubbard, Of Alabama, Commissioner Of
Indian Affairs; Alexander B. WitLral of
Alabama, Register Of tina Treasury and
b. Baker, of Georgia, Auditor of the
Treasury.
An adjourned Southern Rights meeting
was held in Louis,i lille, KY, on the after
noon of the lGIh March, when delegates
were appointed to q mass convention at
Frankfort.
! On the lGih, in the evening, the Hon.
James Guthrie addressed Union meeting.
He counseled moderation, and said that
Mr.. Lincoln was honest, aud that the North
would ultimately accord the just demands
of the South
The first war-vessel of. the embryo navy
of the Southern Confederacy was commits
stoned OF Charleston on the l4th. The
Indy Daris arrived with 24-pounders, un-
der command of Lieut.. Huger
Advices received from New Orleans to
the 10th ult., state that Camp Cooper has
surrendered to Texas. The United States
officers and soldiers were permitted to
march, with transportation and subsistence,
to San Antonio, at which place all public
arms and pronerty were to be delivered to
the Texan authorities.
A Galveston dispatch of 18th ult. says
the steamer Rusk returned that morning
from Brazos with State troops The Fed
ernl troops evacuated Fort Brown on the
18th. They got on the Webster for Key
West and Tortugas.
Several hundred State troops have en-.
listed for six months, 10 serve under Ford
toH tho Rio GsaRde, occupying the various
forts.
Maj. Mclean, U. S. A., had resigned
and rendered his services to the State.
Camp Colorado, on the northern frontier,
has been taken by the State troops.
Col. sayes, Of the Confederated army
is enlisting a regiment of negroes for the
frontier, according to the orders Of Davis.
ST. LOUIS, March ls-Waldo P. John
son was elected United States Senator by
the Missouri Legislature to-day, Green
having been previously withdrawn. The
whole vote was l45 necessary for choice,
73; johnson, 80; DoniphoD, SO; English.
20.
The Charleston correspondent Of the
New York Herald of to-day says the new
tariff aud constitution are unsatisfactory.
Tho floating battery ut Charleston viii
be moved on the Gath, but not towards
Sumter.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Herald reports that Major Anderson
bad informed the Government that if rein
forcements be intended, South Carolina
would Immediately GIL all the channels,
and render communication by water impos-
Sble.
The Cabinet arc considering measures
relative to the seizure Of the revenue cutter
IsrdS.
1t is understood tho Administration
have sent out agents TO different European
Governments to inform them Of the future
policy Of this Government, thus forestalling
and defeating the object Of the Southern
Coniederacy in sending their Commission
ers thence. The same course will be pur-
sued relative to Mexico.
The Cabinet, as soon as the Southern
forts affair is settled, will take into eousid-
Grafton the collection Of the revenue. All
are known 10 ogree that il should be col
lected, but the manner is the trouble.
Lieut.. Putnam has arrived from Texas
with dispatches from Col. Waite, who has
been instructed to withdraw from Texas,
and was concentrating his troops at Indi-
anola. Col Waite will remain till all the
troops have left. All the stores and mu-
nitions Of war we're in the hands Of the
Texas Commissioners, who allowed the
necessary supplies to send the troops out Of
the State. The military post on Brazos
Island was surrendered by Lieut. Thomp-
son, Gen. Nichols FIRST insisting that the
flag should be saluted. He had only fifteen
men and two guns.
The Texas Rangers are stationed from
Brazos to Brownsville, aud it is anticlpa
ted that they would attempt to prevent
the Government troops taking away stores
and artillery.
& Washington dispatch Of to-day, says
the last remittance from any Of the seeding
States, on account Of the customs, were re-
ccivcd from Galveston, towards the close Of
February, about $4,000. Drafts on bal.
apce previous TO secession and receipts
other than from customs, it is said, are
honored in those States, with The exception
Of Louisiana.