Warlike preparations at the South.
--The Southern papers are full of items concerning the warlike preparations in the
Confederated States.
There are three powder mills in
Pickens District, S. C., turning out some 50 kegs a day. A firm in
Savannah has contracted for 3,000 shot and shell for
South Carolina, and another firm, in
Mobile, is casting cannon balls, grape, &c. A company of 70 recruits, for the
South Carolina army, passed through
Augusta, Ga., on the 23d inst., from
Tennessee.
For the regular army of Georgia, recruiting is going on all over that State.
In Athens a company of 40 had been enlisted up to the close of last week.
The volunteers in
Fort Pulaski are to be discharged, and the new regulars substituted for them.
The Columbus
Times publishes a letter from a delegate to the Southern Congress, in which he says:
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"We intend to put the strongest force in the field which can be raised, and the
President will accept from the States all the men that may be tendered.
They will be received with their own officers, but the
President must settle all questions of rank and position under the authority of Congress.
My information is, that
Davis will endeavor to secure for the officers of the U. S. Army, who have resigned, the best positions first, upon the ground that they are experienced and capable.
There has, as yet, been nothing done by the
Congress as to the raising of troops, except, possibly, in committee.
We are delaying much time over the most trivial matters.
We have a set of new men, uninformed upon the laws of the
United States, and all anxious to speak."
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