Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-11-21
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
On the 9th inst, Governor Pickens sent a
message to the South Carolina Legislature, on

)lor President and President of the Confede-
rate States. He says the State has now little
over 10000 troops in the field, exclusive of g.
900 on war footing in Charleston, and 81
companies OF cavalry and mounted men in the
parishes of Charleston, Beaufort Georgetown
and Colleton, held ready for immediate service.
The Governor recommends that a new military
organization be Immediately Organized through
out the State-that every man be enlisted for
the war; instead Of twelve months, us at present.
The State has expended, on account of the war,
81 .889, 81 in cash, Of which 1856, TIA has been
refunded by the Confederate government.
EFFORT Sumter" says the Governor, ''has been
put in complete order, with all the guns for the
first time mounted it entirely commands not
only the harbor of Charleston and its entrance,
but Fort Moultre, and therefore the possession
of the latter fortress is not at all essential to the
Confederate government"
The Governor concludes his message with the
assurance that there is not the slightest danger
of the subjugation of the South by the North,
where they are defective in military qualities.
eff we fail, with all our conservative elements
to save us, then indeed, there will be no hope
for an independent and free republic on this
continent, and the public mind will desponding-
ly turn to the stronger and more fixed forms of
the Old World
EXCITEMENT AT SAVANNAH, GA.
The Savannah Republican, of the 9th, says {:
Our city was in state of intense excitement
throughout the whole of yesterday. The news
of the capture of the Walker battery on Hilton
Head, and the arrival of our retreating troops,
among them many of the wounded, aroused the
intensest feeling. Everybody was in the street,
and large crowds collected around the news and
telegraphic offices throughout the day and until
late at night. Families commenced packing up,
and large numbers of females and children were
sent from the city by the night train to the up
country The efflux will probably continue,
and upon the whole, we think that this portion
of our population should not be present to en-
barrass our defensive preparations.
ANOTHER ARRIVAL AT SAVANNAH FROM EUROPE
Richmond, Nov. 13.-Special dispatches from
Savannah announce the arrival of Col. Ander-
son, with a new iron-clad steamer from Europe,
with large quantity of arms, ammunition,
clothing, blankets, chemicals, rit1ed cannon and
everything else which they need to prosecute
the war
LOUISIANA SUGAR CROP.
The Attakapas Register of October "a, says
that the sugar crop is not so good as it should
be, and the quality is not the best, but as the
weather has improved they do not despond of a
very large CROP, the largest ever made in the
parish.
RETALIATION.
The Richmond Dispatch, of the 18th, says
that if the .privatersmen captured by the Fed
erals are executed as pirates, retaliation will
quickly follow, AMI the war will assume a fero-
city such as the void has not lately witnessed. y
FROM VIEW ORLEANS.
The New Orlean Bulletin says that an i'm
proved battering-ran combining the valuable
properties of the Wnns steamer and the Ma
nassas, is in course reconstruction in that city.
It's cost will not exceed fifty thousand dollars.
CONTRIBUTIONS Fol THE MARYLANDERs
The Charleston Courier acknowledges contri-
buttons in the shape ofclothing for the Mary
land regiment One ofhe contributors was an
old lady in reduced circumstances, native Of
MARYLAND and another as Mrs. Eve, who is a
Elineal descendant Of eof the two hundred
! gentlemen who landed wie Lord Baltimore and
/ settled Maryland.