Litchfield enquirer., 1861-02-14


 Ths CONVENTION of the Seeding States at Montgomery on Saturday, elected President and Vice President of the Southern Confede- racy, as follows:
 For President-JErFERsoN DAVIS, of Missis-
 sippi.
 For Vice-President-ALEx. H. STEPHENS. of
 Georgia.
 The vote for these gentlemen was unanimous. Previous to this action, the presiding officer was instructed to appoint Committees on Foreign Affairs, on Finance, on Military .and Naval Ali. fairs, on Postal Affairs, on Commerce and Pat. ents. All laws of the United States in force on the lst of November last were continued by spe- cial ordinance, and will remain in force until re-. pealed or altered. The Committee on Finance was instructed to report, with promptness, ta- riff for raising revenue for the support of the new Government, and under this law 1t is con- sdered probable that duties will be levied on all goods introduced from the States not joining in the secession movement In the Constitution as adopted, there are special provisions for the rendition of fugitives, and for the settlement of all matters of territory and public debt with the non-seceding Slater. In all other particulars the Constitution is almost identical with that under which the United States have increased from thirteen to thirty
 STILL ANOTHER LETTER FROM MAJOR AN DERsos.-FoET SUMTER, South Carolina, Jan uary 2l.-J. PECK, Esq, Northfeld, Connecti- cut.-Deer Sir :-I thank you for the interest your note of the 18th inst. manifests for me. Be assured that not life shall be taken, not dwell ling demolished, unless there shall be an abso- lute necessity for it. No one would more deeply deplore the shedding of blood than should. I trust in God that time may now be gained, and that instead of resorting to the arbitrament of the sword, reason and good sense will regulate the actions of those in authority. am, Sir, re. spectfully, your servant,
 ROBERT ANDERSON, U. s. A.
 ANOTHER ONsLAur ON GOVERNOR HIcKs- Judge Le Grand, prominent Maryland seces sionist, paid visit, a few days ago, to Governo, Hicks, in order to induce him to call Conven tion. Being, however, unable to make any i'm pression upon the mind of the old Governor, he finally tried the same game which the Secession ists have been playing successfully on Mir. Blu chanan. He asked the Governor whether he was quite sure that, in the event he should con tinue to be deaf against the clamors of the advo cates of Convention, an attempt upon his life would not be made. The Governor quietly re piled to the astonished Judge that, if he had for ty lives to lose, he would lose them all, before he would call a convention. The Judge then left BY THE ARRIVAL of the steamship Canada a Halifax, we have advices from Europe two days later. The Canada's news is not especially i'm portant. The prospectus of an India Cottor Company had been issued in Great Britain, tn, object of which was to establish agencies in tn, 1 cotton region of India, to purchase the articl, l from the growers direct, and to endeavor to i'm prove the process of picking and cleansing by machinery. The bombardment of Gaeta stil continued vigorously, and was still feebly re- piled to. Military preparations still continued on large scale ill France, and it was stated that | an immense camp was to be established at Cha l lone carly in tho Spring. Later advices from China inform us that great part of the allied expedit:onary forces had reached Hong Kong. Col. HAYSE, the Special Envoy of South Car olina, and Lieut.. Hall, the messenger of Major Anderson, left Washington on Friday, bearing despatches upon.which depend possibly the ques- tion of peace or war-the former with the refu- sal of the Government to surrender Fort Sumter. in accordance with the desire of South Carolina. and the latter with the final instructions of the Government to the faithful officer to whom has been intrusted the command and defence of that fort. The impression seems to prevail in Wash. ington, however, that an attack upon it will not take place immediately, notwithstanding the bra vado of the South Carolinians, and their pro. fessed anxiety to pull down that hated fae.,
 THE STORIES about mutiny and insubordina- tion among Major Anderson's men can find no better refutation than in the fact that many of the men have served their time out and are en- 'Aeieo " Aea'e, out ieiuse tO re-enuSt, ana de- clare that they will never desert their post while Major Anderson remains or the flag waves over them, unless ordered away by their government. Some of these very men could have left with their wives on the Sd inst, but preferred to part with their better halves than their gallant comman- der.
 ADvIcEs have been received at Washington from Tennessee, which render it certain that at the election for the Convention on Saturday. that State went overwhelmingly for the Union. As an indication of how sweeping the triumph of the Union men is, it may be stated that, in one county only, 675 votes were cast for secession. while 5, 700 were given against it. The southern Union men in Washington are much elated at this result, which is considered as a great tri- umph for Mir Johnson, whose speech in the Sem ate, few days since, 80 enraged the Disunion- ists.
 SINCE the departure of Col. Hayne from the Capitol, the fear that an immediate attack will be made on Fort Sumter has beon gaining ground in some quarters. In view of tho action of the Montgomery Convention on Saturday, however, it is hardly probable that South Caro- lima will now assume the responsibility of taking so important step. Az she is now no longer sovereign mistress of her own actions. Governor pickens will most likely be glad to forego the