New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-14

Harpers Ferry"
The Pensacola Obsereer Of the 4th instant learns
that Maj9 Chase has resigned his position as COM
mander of the forces at the NavyYard and that Colo
mel Forrey will remain in command until further
orders from the Executive Department OF the Coned-
crate States.
Some of the freeaters seem really to entertain the
idea of an invasion of the North Charleston cores
pendent of The Richmond Dispa'ch writes:
Theproect which limited Ut Yesterday Of an lnvad-
ING army find is now tue orier If the Jay, ard that
the battle ground will be charged from South Carolina
to another local y Lot ten thousand miles from you Is
in my Judgment fixed fact. If were TO Predict that
ia eiSty Gays the CITY of Washington would be rl2ed
20 thai low share should be over the place where
now Lincoln Eervously rests, and that magilheeht
monument of former greatness, the CAPITOL would De
flown sky-tigh nj GIT not IN such predletl3a &c Il
false prophet. /, like many Southern man, nave
few cent, invested III that other monument begun ears
ago to the memory If George Washington, wllco
monument if left to Black Republican keeping, hope
to rent twain frOm'top to bottom. oOme VI YOU
submission readers may call tis vandalism. III mat
tiers not with what they call IL; That mop9
will never be allowed to sand o. Black Republican
soil, and you may take that as another prediction II
Won will look 10 TIE Courier Of tie date Of the eth
inst you will zee my invading Tlot limited at there
The Southern heart is fired Dow, and that hire VIII
rot lie easy.quenced VIII II be- fear unless IL
be quenched u blood.
"A letter from Montgomery records an irreconcila-
bic difference Of opinion in the Traitor Congress upon
the slaye-trade The new Constitution seems to leave
the business untouched. The letter-writer says:
II ia now feared that the Government will pass no
law for the prohibition and punishment Of the slave
trade True the Congress did manage to compromise
upon law against the traffic by denomiDating the
crime bish msdem- amor and making It's punishment
tiHng; but even this learn the PRECEDENT has wisely
ed 10 veo-though the fact Is kept, ike every
thing, until it leaks out. What his reasons for veto
Were am unable 10 say; and believe the Congress
is unable to pass the bill his veto, ON account OF
the diyer,ity Of sentiment among Its members. The
pro-slaye-tradc men are numerous and l doubt OF
could succes siuy manage 70 draw on tier eide MULE
over oue-ird of the whole. That 10 enough and thus
tie matter must rest for the present.
The tariff trouble Of the Rebel States bids fair to
undermine their sham Union. The correspondent Of
The Baltimore american says:
"The tariff land here is bone OF contention for the
future of the Coufederacy well as tie present. ex-
cites no little of public attention. Georgia must have
a tariff-,o must Lonisiania ond 70 must Alabama.
All three are manufacturing States and mnst have po
tecoD South Carolina Texas, Mi.si,ipFi, and lor-
ida will not agree 10 II. The hkt VIII De conducted
on the sane broad prin piles ia the Of len time. II
will rack the new COnfderacy as 1t did the old-and
there will come onother Sceess. on
That the reports o, starvation in Mississippi were
not unlounded is proved by the following remarkable
statement from Tie Brandon Miss Republican
Major Hawkins is now or hs way to the Western
States 10 buy cor agent fOg lib friends and nlSn
bor. lie showed list OF ihosc who bad requested
him purchase for them, and al 50 list oil those VINO
were in & destitute cOnOon aid compelled to ark the
citizens OF the Western States, through him. TO ave
them corn to keep them and their families from sary-
ing Tie two lists comprised 29 Names
The ordinance for the permanent seizure of the
Government money at New Orleans adopted by the
body Of thieves calling themselves the Louisiana State
Convention, reads follows:
AN oRDIsANCE to transfer csrn funds to the Government
Of the Confederate states Ct America
srcros IL" A5y Ordainca Tia, the ,g'n Of hre. hun
.I. and rty cents the h-nd, OF GVr9i State
Deposry known the Bullion Fund be transferred 10
lid Stat. Depo,tsry be he Is hereby authorized ane In
rucsd 70 pay .s upon the order Of the Secretary o. tie
So n fyStle1 oycaisrd That the sum Of hundred
and thousand he hundred snd niue, do5I, and
;siy m the Custom House Of January last be Ars
sid and paid BY said Depo'i'aIy upon The
order Il said Secretary
The Mobile papers are rejoicing over the receipt Of
the big guns cast al Richmond for tie State Of Alabama
The guns. which are Of l0-inch caliber, are feet
deep il the bore with foot Of sol iron IN toe breeeh
the entire length being 10 feet inches They arc US
inches in diameter ut the muzzle snd about ~ at the
breecb. and weigh respectively 1858 and 1908
POUNDS. Tie truhions III inches III diameter aud
measure about 4 feet from end 10 end. The hollow
shot have cavity of about Inches n diameter, which
produce but little dminuon In the weight OF Tie ball,
and practically none in its strength, thai Will pen
etfae wherever a solid shot OF the dimensions
would and then explode. One object of these guns
being 20 lire effectively at long range, It If necessary
they should have greater slope oil elevation, and q
more speedy means for changing il, than ordinary
pieces for which purpose ratchet teeth cut in the
bieeoh Tie irages intended TO traverse on pivois
present nothing remarkable 10 the eye but for eonven-
ierce of transferring them from place 10 place they are
a. ..as.fT md nn.ha
in the tread
1t seems that Browne of the late Old Public Func'
tionsry's newspaper had or thought ne had, urgent
reasons for quitting Washington. 4 washington dis
patch in New Orleans paper says:
ME- Browne Assistant Secretary Of State Of the
Confederate States was in this city yesterday, but
hearing that he was threatened with arrest by tie
Government he left Immediately.
Senator Slidel of Houma fraud fame, il appears
was offered CommissonersLp to Europe, by Jeffer-
son Davis, but sagaciously declined.
The latest news about the Texas election isin
The Houston Telegraph Of the 5th inst:
The entire vote heard from is about ~ 800, OF which
the Seoeesion ticket has about II JOO The total vote
in the several counties, in August, tor AtorneyGen-
eral, was 81 600 The total vote III 'Le wno'e os'e'
on that election, was So 200. From present indica-
lions tie total vote in the Late election for Secession
will reach 000 from which the Secession ticket has
received about $1,000.
The GQlreston Civilian of the 4th says there was
rmor current, but not generally beloved that Capt
Hin had surrendered Fort Brown. The same paper
says:
Some time during last night n row occurred at the
Planters House, Mr.. Martin Rayee was shot and
tadly wounded, and Mr. Sylvester badly cut in at
tempting to ttop the disturbance; Burns, pugiist,
aud PARTY with him, charged with having caused
the di-tur6ance One of he rioters was sbot, though
we believe uo: seriously Injured, by Officer Dierck,
Lef,re he could he arrested. Mr.. Raytlle IL, We be-
lieye. the only person dangerously wounded.