From Montgomery.
Montgomery, Ala., May 1, 1861.
Congress convenes at 12 o'clock, and adjourns at 4 P. M.
A few resolutions are submitted and referred.
A few petitions are directed to the appropriate committees; after which a motion is made to go into secret session, when the unwilling audience, with slow and flagging steps, take up their melancholy march.
Editors and newspaper reporters cry out, in the language of Cassius; ‘"O, God ! ye Gods, must I endure all this?"’ Everybody pronounces the secret sessions a horrible bore.
Even the ladies, most singular to relate, have some curiosity, and appear quite loath to deprive the honorable Congress of their vast magnificence.
They listen eagerly to catch some welcome sound of an exception in their favor; but, alas, none is heard.
Then the smiles which a moment ago played on their ripe lips are seen to wither, and after a few quick, indignant vibrations of the head, they take up the line of march, with the tune of Yankee Doodle beating in their hearts, just out of spite casting behind them glances of scorn and astonishment, as if they truly believed with their departure ‘ "The Sun itself would sink, And all order confounded lie;
Beauty be bold, distinction lost,
And gay variety one universal blot."
’ And all this because the poor privilege — even demanded by Lincoln — to hold, occupy and possess the public places belonging to this Government was shamefully denied to the fair creatures. I do believe if this meanness is persisted in, they will really sympathize with Old Abe in his efforts to hang the unmannered ‘"rebels"’ who dare to refuse the company of refined young ladies. Applause from impulses, praise in the exercise of calm judgment, admiration, enology and honor, have all been lavished on the Message of President Davis. Politicians and people all unite in declaring that it reflects the highest credit on the statesmanship and ability of its author; that it triumphantly vindicates the people and Government of the Confederate States from the vulgar slanders of the President and his clan of perfidious usurpers at Washington, and in power, beauty and pertinency, stands unrivalled. The invitation extended by the Virginia Convention to the Congress and Government here, to change their location to Richmond, will, it is thought, be adopted at a very early day. The political effect that the removal to Richmond would accomplish, ought to ensure the change, omitting from consideration the hundred extraneous advantages possessed by ‘"Big Richmond"’ over the agreeable little city of Montgomery. The moment the people of Virginia ratify the Secession Ordinance of their Convention, three-fourths of the Congress will favor an immediate removal. The newspapers here are said to be alarmed, and the Mail, of to-day, publishes an article on the subject, urging the authorities, in consideration of the little loss of time that would be occasioned, to ‘"defer the matter to a more convenient season."’ Several large requisitions upon the Treasury, from the Department of War, have recently been made, to defray the expenses of recruiting and the transportation of recruits enlisted by the officers of this Government in Tennessee, Kentucky, and portions of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. So, when Mr. Lincoln marches his army of Goths and Vandals upon the South, it will encounter thousands of brave men from the North, actuated by high and holy motives, fighting in behalf of Southern liberty and independence. A highly intelligent agent from the Brazilian Government, Signior Don Felix De Castro, left Montgomery on Monday for New Orleans, but will return here in a day or two. He came by way of Washington, where he held an interview first with Mr. Lincoln, who referred him to Seward, in relation to the blockade of the Southern ports. He expresses a warm feeling for the Confederate Government, and is confident that the Brazilian powers not only sympathize with us, but will strongly protest against a blockade, which, if effectually established and enforced, must prove very injurious to the commercial interests of their country. He declares that all the Foreign Ministers, and especially the Minister from France, will oppose the blockade. Seward, Secretary of State, forwarded, some days ago, to the Hon. Robert Toombs, a copy of Lincoln's blockade proclamation.--Viewing it as an official courtesy, the Secretary of State here enclosed a copy of President Davis' proclamation in reference to privateering, in a Government envelope, in return.--There has also been officially sent a copy of the President's Message, from which Mr. Lincoln can gain much instruction. Sigma.
