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From Charleston. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.
Charleston, Feb. 21, 1861.
It is pretty well understood here that Mr. Memminger, of this city, is to be Mr. Davis' Secretary of State; and it is also rumored that Mr. Cobb (not Howell, his brother,) is to be Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. Toombs, Secretary of War; Mr. Conrad, of Louisiana, Secretary of the Navy; Interior, ,Hon. Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina; Postmaster General, Judge Chilton, of Alabama; and Attorney General, Mr. Benjamin, of Louisiana.--This may be so, but no one knows positively.
I said to you a few days ago, upon what was good authority, that President Davis would be here to day. Official business prevents it.
We are getting exceedingly impatient with the slow movements of affairs in every direction; and I do not think that the people of the Southern Confederacy will much longer endure the menaces of these forts and the taunts in various quarters.
As for that Peace Conference in Wash
Auction Sale of valuable Real Estate in the city of Richmond and in Henrico county, Adjacent to said city, and five very young and likely Slaves.
--As attorneys and agents for the parties interested, we shall sell, at public auction, the following very valuable Slaves and Real Estate belonging to the heirs of the late Mrs. Eliza Ann Goddin, who was a devisee under the will of her father, the late Major Hugh Davis, dec'd, on Thursday, the 28th day of February, 1861, at 12 o'clock M., in front of the State Court-House, in the city of Richmond, (if fair; if not, the first fair day thereafter.) five likely and very valuable young Slaves, viz: Randall, Robert, William, Charles and Albert.
One of these Slaves has been accustomed from boyhood to the Grocery business, and is now acting as a Porter in a large establishment.
One other has been raised to the house, and is a first-rate Dining-Room Servant, in which capacity he is now employed; and the others are Tobacco Factory Hands, and