Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-04-05
Affairs in the South.

Recruiting Offices for the enlistment Ct one
thousand men, called for by President Da-
Wis, of the Southern Confederacy, as Louis
iana's contingent of the Confederate army,
have been opened ut New Orleans The
men are to be enlisted for the term of three
years.
The Montgomery correspondent of the
New Orleans Delta secessicn) says that
prominent men there still think that war
must be the price Of Southern independence,
and says that the Montgomery Government
is energetically preparing for hostiities.
The Savannah Republican CT Monday
says that the steamer Georges Greek, Cap
tain Willets, from Baltimore in gong up
the Savannah river, Saturday night, was
fred into and brought to by the battery at
Fort Jackson. The Georges Greek, it APP
pears, having, when abreast of the Fort, no
lights was hailed, and giving no answer.
two blank cartridges were fired at her; still
failing to answer, two balls were fired at
her, one of which passed over her bows, and
the other over her stern, which Immediately
brought her small boat to the fort to ex-
plain her position.
4 writer in the Macon (Ga. Journal,
spoken Of and endorsed by the editors as an
| eminent jurist, declares that before the new
| Government can lie established it mast re-
ceiye the assent Of the peopleno not until
they have given their approval can it be
binding on them.
The continued presence Of Major McCul-
Tough, the Texas Ranger, in Richmond.
viewed in con JUNCTION with the call for q Sc
cesson Convention there on the 10th inst,
exctes much interest in Washington espe-
cially in army circles.
The Charleston Courier Of Monday thinks
| it unnecessary to inform the members OF the
Convention that Fort Sumter, that mouu-
ment Of imbecility, and vacillation, and
treachery, is not yet evacuated II, says
the Courier, tho order from Washington
does not reach US very soon, it will be pro-
per to give an order from the Generals
| Room" in the Secession Hail. for the evacu
alton or surrender.
Mr.. S. Hart, of Ell Paso, Texas, one Of the
| Commissioners from that State to New Mex
leo, has offered 1.-THE Montgomery Mail an
nounces) loan of $500, 600 TO the Confcd-
crate States without interest, to be repaid at
the convenience of the Government. Mr..
Hart proposes to have the amount doubled
by his friends, if such step shall be neces-
| Sary.
4 grand display of what the Memphis
Avalanche calls the Army Of the South
took place at Memphis on the 18th of March.
Five hundred Mississippi volunteers passed
through the city en- route for Mobile, and
they were received by the greatest number
of military ever collected at any one time in
Tennessee.
The State of South Carolina has paid for
the first seizure Of property made by the
State after the act Of secession, the amount
being for cargo of cement shipped by Della
field and Baxter OF New York, upon the
order of Col Foster, Of the u. S. Engineer
corps, and intended for repairs at Fort
Moultrie.
The Austin correspondent Of the New
Orleans Pcayuue, writing on the list, says:
General Houston made IL farewell address
to our people today. He is going to return to
his home at Cedar Point, on Galveston Bay.
A despatch from Charleston, asserts that
it is very probable that Major Anderson $
supplies will be entirely cut oil at an early
day."
The following, at present, comprises the
names and grades of the officers OF the Post
office Department Of the Confederate States:
Postmaster General, John II. Reagan,
Texas; Chief of Contract Bureau, Henry s..
George Ofiutt, Missouri: Chief OF Appoint
ment Bureau, Benjamin n. Clements, Ten
nessee; Chief Clerk Of Department. W. d.
Miller, Texas; Clerks, John /. Lewis, Texas;
John c. Bach, Louisiana; }. L. g. banner,
Alabama; j. Newton Lewis, Mississippi;
Messenger, Eugene B. Philpot, Alabama.
In Iuliy
cred at Charleston, by Rev. G. G. Plnkney,
and just published by request, with the sug-
gestive title of Observation-Disclosures Fault and
FALL" this striking passage occurs:
"Let us not rest our hopes upon identity
of institutions in the Southern States. ,Sta-
rery is itself no bond Of Union, 1t has be-
come so with us simply as the result Of out
ward pressure. The Chaldean monarchy,
the Roman empire the Greek republics, the
South American States, were all slavehold-
ing countries. But they have all fallen 10
pieces notwithstanding. Of itself, IL is a
mere rope of sand, with no more power, pc.
ltically than any other recognized relation
ship. Let Us not repose on our agricultural
staples. Cotton is the king whom commerce
now worships. But its reign may pass array
like other human sceptres. 1t Is not now
more firmly established in its supremacy
than Nebuchadnezzar was in his Sudden
ly as the ancient monarch was hurled from
his seat, the dominant staple may be from
its commercial throne. Sixty or seventy
years since, indigo was the produce Of South
ern fields, and cotton scarcely known
Serenity years hence some otter rulturc ".ay
supplant this, as II has implanted the .fos-
mer production, and mo,e TennteratiOe labor
may Jill its place. These are the two hu-
man props upon which the Southern mind
is now tempted to lean, instead of upon the
Eternal God. They are the arches upon
which pride is resting our political house
But they will sink beneath the superincum-
bent weight, like the arches in the walls of
Babylon.
We presume, Of course, that a. the PEG
pie of Virginia, without distinction Of party
are law abiding people, knowing that upon
obedience to and strict observance Of the
laws of their country, their own safety
and happiness depend, any temporary and
hashy excitement gotten up, because OF ap-
pointments of mail agents, and such like
matters where there is no real ground for
cDmplalnJ on account OF the character OF the