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osing with the expression of a hope that the "terrapin" (meaning the Union men) "would begin to crawl, now that the fire was applied to his back." The hour of half-past 10 having arrived, Mr. Southall was called to the Chair, and the Convention went into Committee of the whole, for the purpose of considering the report of the Committee on Federal Relations. Mr. Ambler, of Louisa, availed himself of an opportunity to respond to the courteous disclaimer of the gentleman from Augusta, (Mr. Baldwin.) He was satisfied with his explanation, and met it in the spirit which had prompted it. Mr. Whitfield, of Isle of Wight, also made a personal explanation. He continued his remarks by alluding to the commencement of hostilities as good and sufficient cause why Virginia should at once be taken out of the Union. The substitute offered by Mr. Boyd, of Botetourt, for the 1st section of the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution, being in order, it was read, as
ary of War his dispatches from Lieut. Slemmer to the Government at Washington. The Attorney General's opinion has been requested as to the law in his case. Weeden violated his promise to report to Gen. Bragg, and carried in secret his dispatches to Fort Pickens, showing to Gen. Bragg other dispatches, and failing to report himself on returning to Montgomery. Fort Pickens was reinforced last night. The news of the surrender of Fort Sumter was received here with immense cheering.--Crowds of excited people filled the streets; Confederate and Palmetto flags were flying, cannon firing, and bells ringing. Great rejoicing everywhere. Augusta,Ga., April 14.-- A salute of one hundred guns was fired here, on the receipt of the news of the surrender of Fort Sumter. Savannah, April 13.--The lights at Tybee and in the harbor have been discontinued for the present. Montgomery, April 13.--President Davis has appointed T. Warren Moise Judge of the District of Louisiana.
y as editor of the New England Gazette, a sharp, pithy, pointed weekly, that cut into men and things without much mercy. The case of Mrs. Mary Ann Lovett, indicted in the City Court of Cincinnati. Ohio for throwing vitriol over the person and dress of Mrs. Parrott, was settled on Thursday last by the jury finding a verdict of $10,000 against Mrs. Lovett. A member of the company of volunteers which left Branchville, S. C., on Wednesday night, was run over by the freight train from Augusta to Charleston, and instantly killed. It is rumored that several of the prominent officers of the U. S. marines, born in Virginia and other Southern States, intend shortly to throw up their commissions. The resignation of Dr. John Ward, of Virginia. Surgeon in the late U. S. Navy, has been accepted. Kossuth states in an affidavit that he makes before a Court in England, that be still considers himself Governor of Hungary. James Wherry, of Va., has been appointed Receiver