Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-03


D. Charleston - TIE Crittenden .Proposittcn
Gyoioingin Fdvor-MgOr AndSsSsoR nosto
be RemdHded to Fort AoNItrie. ~ .
CHARLEsToN, s.. c. January 4 Com-
mander Pettigrew,of Castle Pinckney, has
issued orders against the approach of boats
to the wharf, under serious penalty
The city and river forts are carefully
guarded. Ladies have rendered their sery-
ices to the forts.
The City Vigilant Rifles are dispatched on
secret service to Morris Island. The Zouaves
and German Rifles have proceeded down the
hatbor. The Palmetto Ggards have charge
Of the Arsenal where the Palmetto flag
waves. ~. -....-.
Several interior banks agree to take re-
spective portions of the State Loan.
Collector Colcock advertises that all the
vessels from ports outside of Carolina, must
enter and clear at Charleston.
I The President of the Convention has APP
pointed Commissioners to Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Arkansas and Georgia. None
to Texas.
In secret session, yesterday, an ordinance
was passed defining and Furnishing treason.
1t declares that, in addition to former def
nitions that treason shall consist in levying
war against State adhering and giving aid
to enemies, and is to be punished with death
without the benefit ofthe clergy.
An ordinance was also passed, providing
that all judicial power delegated to the
Courts of the United States shall be exer-
cised by the State Courts; and another that
all power heretofore delegated to Congress
shall be vested in the General Assembly, ex-
cepting that during the existence of the con-
vention, their power shall not extend to
duties on imports, postoffice, declaring war,
treaties with other countries, the rights of
citizenship and treason.
CHARLESTON, s. O., January 2.-The Presi-
dent announced the result of balloting for
Commissioners to certain States. The Con-
yention then went into secret session to
ballot for Commissioners for Georgia and
Texas.
The Columbia ARTILLERY, numbering fifty
men, arrived here to-day at one o'clock, and
| proceeded to the harbor. They will use
| cannon belonging to Charleston.
Two hundred thousand pounds of powder
have been ordered to one of the forts.
The Convention has adopted, as amended,
the report recommending that proper meas,
ures be adopted to insure the forming of a
Southern Confederacy, by the appointment
of Commissioners to the slaveholding States
asking them to call conventions to consider
future political relations.
This step arises by no means from pre-.
sumptuous arrogance, but an advance in the
position Of circumstances given South Care
lima in the line of procedure for the grea
designs of maintaining the rights, securit!
and very existence of the slaveholdinj
South. The instrument called the Oonsti
tuition of the United States, is suggested as
suitable and proper basis to be offered for
provisional government The following
are the principal considerations which in
duce the committee to give that the prefer
| ence: .t f...r Go U-l ..v r
That the said instrument was the work G
minds of the first order in strength and &C
complishment; that it was most CAREFUL
constructed by comprehensive views, and
careful examination of its details has prove
it 10 be good form of government for thos
sufficiently yirtuous, intelligent and patriot
to cause it to be, fairly and honestly con
strued and impartially carried out; that
is the settled opinion of this State that ther
has never been an adverse plan of govern
ment for the COME derated States on accoun
of any thing in its structure, but dissatisfaC
tion attributable to false glasses.