New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-18


tariff acts having Disseminated in favor Of goods
shipped prior to certain date, there mas 0een
considerable show of business tor tho last ten
days, to be followed, however, oy greater
drouth than ever. But few merchants are pre-
pairing for Spring business or intend 70 make
purchases. The establishments that have been
kent active by the Sumter seige, will now lose
that themselves and fall back to the dead level OF
the rest The condition of this community re-
minds me of the neighborhood that scourged with
drouth in Summer, and failure Of crops in the
Fall, have spent all the money it could make and
scrape BY selling of stock and every thing else
that could be spared, to get enough to live on IN
the Winter and whose condition realizes windy
the idea of Spring poverty. Recuperation must
be of slow growth. rl.-
A single fact by way of illustration. gentle
man. formerly resident Of this city, but now,
and for several years, living in New-York, is
now here temporarily to collect interest on loans
on plantation security. Last week, in lieu OF
collecting $1,000, which was the least he eh-
pected. and far less than was due, his receipts
aggregated the sum of tpenty dollars! This is
not an extreme case but fair sample of the
mapy transactions in Charleston and South Car
DINA generally. ..
The notice for the reassemblng OF the Conven-
ton of this State has appeared. That body will
meet in Charleston on the Goth inst. 1t will be
called upon among other things, to adopt or reject
the permanent Constitution of the JEFF Davis Con-
federacy, which the Montgomery meeting has just
promulgated. The adoption of the instrument by
South Carolina, is even now, a matter Of grave
doubt. The feeling against it is growing daily,
and there is good prospect that she will decline
the invitation to jump from the frying pan into the
fire. At any rate powerful influences are at work
in favor of rejecting the Constitution and OF
standing out on the Slave Trade and Anti Tariff
grounds. South Carolina seeded for Free Trade,
especially in negroes, and she will not surrender
thd idea without a struggle. There is grand
fpht brewing that will be more likely to explode
the JEFF Davis Confederacy more efectually than
hundred Sumtsrs filed with men. Never be-
fore have known an instance where the appeal
for hands of, 30 that the fellows may have then
own way, was so strong as in this. find myself
strongly incliniDg to the idea Of giving the con-
spirators rope aud room with which they Will b
quite certain to hang themselves.
The feature in the JEFF Davis Constitution pro-
viding for peaceable secession, hereafter, BY the
States belonging to the Confederacy, will, if any
thing, cause the Carolnians to take it. They
will certainly be first to avail themselves Of it
In Georgia the principle was strongly contended
for. and that State may not be more than second
in acting on it.
The James River tug-boat, for which s33, oOt
was paid, has been christeDed the Lady DAVIS,
in honor of Jef's wife, and armed with "a
Founders. She is under the command Of Lieut.
Huger. The duty to which sbe will be specially
assigned, will be to intercept vessels OF Govern
ment and merchantmen attempting to violate JET
Dayis's tariff. Carolnians feel much elated with
the fact that they have got navy ut last
only hope the Lady Davis win not prove ~
wretched failure ss the former attempt Of thu
State did in the earlier days Of Secession.