New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-30
Assembling of the Confederate conoress


| to-day. The Presidents message was read He
| announced the ratification of the Permanent Con-
sttuton by all the Confederate States and that it
only remains for an election to be held for the de.
| signatiQ@@pf the officers to administer it.
He sgEs the declaration of war made against this
| Confederation by Abraham Lincoln rendered it ne.
| cessary to convene Congress to devise measures
necessary for the defence of the country.
| The President then reviews, at length the rea-
| tions heretofore existing between the States and
the events which have resulted in the presen war.
| fare.
In referring to the result of the mission of the
| Commissioners to Washington,h he says the crooked
| paths of diplomacy can scarcely furnish an ex-
ample so wanting in courtesy, candor and direct
| ness, was the course of the United States Gov
| ernment towards our Commissioners.
The President incidentally refers to tile prudent
caution observed by the fleet off Charleston during
| the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and pays high
compliment to the Carolinians for their forbear-
| ance before, during, and magnanmity after the
bombardment.
| He says Commissioners have been sent to Eng.
land, France Russia and Belgium to ask our recog-
milton as member of the family Of nations, and
| make treaties of amity and commerce. He recon-
| mends the appointment Of other diplomatic agents
| The President says the Confederacy, through
ce-President Stephens, has concludeda Conven.
ton with Virginia by which Virginia has united her
powers and fortunes with us.
He has satisfactory assurances that other South
States will soon unite their fortunes with ours
He says most Of the Executive Departments are
! in successful operation. Tie Postmaster General
will soon be ready to assume the direction of pos
tai affairs
In conclusion, he congratulates the Confederacy
on the patriotic devotion exhibited by the people
of the Confederacy. Men of high official and So
cial position and wealth, were serving in the vol
| unteer service.
Railway companies, at liberal rates, were per
| forming the duty of transporting the mails.
| The President says people thus united and re-
solved, cannot fail to meet with final success.
We feel that our cause is just and holy, and pro-
test solemnly in the face of mankind. We desire
peace at any sacrifice. We ask no conquest, no
aggrandzement, no concessions from the free
States all we ask is to be let alone, that none
shall attempt our subjugation by arms. This we
will and must resist to the direst extremity The
moment this pretention is abandoned the sword
will drop from our grasp and we shall be ready to
enter into treaties of amity and commerce, mu-
tually beneficial.
So long as this pretention is maintained with
firm reliance on that Divine Power which covers
with its protection the just cause, we will continue
to struggle for inherent rights to freedom in
dependence and self-sovernment.
1.-THE above synopsis is all we could obtain, not
wthstanding our best endeavors to have the whole
message, which numbers some 6000 Wordsl
Foreign Ministers with the South.
MONTGOMERY, April 29.-At an election held to-
day for officers of the second regiment of Alabama
volunteers, Hon. j. NJ. Withers was elected Col
onel; Tennent B. Lomax, Lieutenant Colonel !;
and Col. Battle. of Tuskegee, Major.
night for Virginia.
The city is full of volunteers, and the hotels are
jammed.
The war feeling is up to the fighting point.
DR.. DeCastro, the Brazilian Minister, arrived
here last night and says he had an interview with
President Lincoln, and that all the foreign diplo-
mats at Washington sympathize with the Confed-
crate States, and think their Governments will op-
pose blockade of the Southern ports.
A large number of Congressman has arrived.
ALEXANDRIA, April 29.-Four vessels, two of
which were war steamers and two transports, with
Northern troops, passed up the river this morning.
Gov Hicks, of Maryland, has issued proclama-
ton, recommending the State Of Maryland to oc-
cupy neutral position.
The mail steamer Adelaide Bell, of the Norfolk
Line, was fired at by the revenue cutter Harriet
Lane on Friday night last off Rappahannock riverg
in Chesapeake Bay. After having been boarded
by the officers of the Lane, she was allowed to
proceed on her voyage.
The citizens of Washington who sympathize in
the Southern movement are still compelled to
leave Washington in large numbers.
A large quantity of shell has been landed at
Fort Washington by orders of the Lincoln Govern
ment.
Two gentlemen, one of whom is a citizen of North
Carolina, the other resident of Washington, have
been arrested and are now confined as prisoners in
the Capitol at Washington, for having expressed
secession sentiments.
The celebrated New York Seventh Regiment
having openly declared that they will not invade
the South, are evidently looked upon with much
suspicion by the Lincoln administration.
The Seventy First New York Regiment, quartered
at Inauguration Hall, reyolted account of their
bad quarters, and had to be removed to the Navy
Yard.
A man by the name of Boyd, was shot on Island
Washington on account of his having expressed
Southern sentiments. He was called from bed at
midnight, and was led without preparation to be
shot.
Burning of the ship Ironsides at the Bar
PASS A-L'OurnE, April 29.-The ship IronEides,
Chase, master, with twenty-four hundred bales of
cotton and eight thousand barrels Of flour on
board, put on the bar yesterday morning,
bound to Liverpool.
At halfpast3 O'Clock this morning the ship was
discovered to be on fire, the smoke issuing from
amidships.
The towboats Jas. W. Whann, Junius Beebe,
L. Millaudon and Anglo American, are now en-
gagged in pumping water into her.
They have already pumped eleven feet waterinto
her, and hopes entertained of saving the ship.
The towboat L. MiIlaudon has on board fifty
bales oflGotton and all the ships sails.
The lronsides main-deck is burned through at
midships.
Troops to Attack Cairo.
CAIRO, April 27.-Passengers from the south
being raised in Memphis and other points, to pro-
eeed by rail through Columbus, KY, to attack
Cairo from the opposite side of the river.
The steamer j. d. Perry, from st. Louis to Mem
phis, was brought to. Nothing of q contraband
character being found on board, she was allowed
to proceed on her trip. s
Southern Rights Meeting in Warsaw, Missouri
@ WARSAW, Mo-. April ga great Southern Rights
meeting was held in this city and addressed by dis
tngnished orators.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted fayoriug