News from the South.
From our Southern exchanges we glean the following summary of news:
The privateer Jeff. Davis--Foul play.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 10th, says:
‘
Deputy
Marshal J. J. Beasley, of the
Confederate Court, succeeded last Saturday night in arresting four conspirators belonging to the crew of the privateer
Jeff. Davis.
We learn that a conspiracy existed among the passengers and a portion of the crew of the privateer to kill the
Captain and officers of the Jeff.
Davis, and to take the vessel into the port of New York.
This conspiracy has been disclosed since the return of
Capt. Coxetter and crew to
Charleston, and proof of the designs of the conspirators established by the affidavit of one of the crew.
It is thought that the conspiracy had some agency in the stranding of the Jeff.
Davis on the
St. Augustine Bar.
’
Specie stopped.
The
Clarksville (Tenn.) Chronicle says: ‘$9,000 in specie was intercepted, some days ago, on the
State line on the
Louisville train.
It was destined to some point in the
United States.
It was taken to
Clarksville and deposited in one of the banks to await an investigation as to the ownership and destination.’
The prize boat Rowena.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 13th, says:
‘
We had yesterday the pleasure of spending a social hour with a genial ‘"crew"’ aboard the prize bark
Rowena, taken by the
Dixie, and now lying at our wharves.
She is a splendid craft and will well repay a visit.--The taut and sausy looking Dixie, with her ominous thirty-two pounder amidships, lies snugly at the next wharf, soon, no doubt, to dart forth again, to spread terror and confusion among the
Yankee mariners on every sea.
’
Mr. Richards, the Light-keeper, arrived a this place on Saturday last, bringing the intelligence that the blockading steamer took her departure from our waters on Thursday of last week.
The
Linconites, before they left, were driven to the necessity of burning the cutter
Appleton, tender to the steamer, she having been blown high and dry on Egmont Key by the late blow.
It is more than probable that the absence of the steamer is only temporary — her object, doubtless, being to procure another tender.
Appropos.--On receipt of the above intelligence, detachments of the
Sunny South Guards, Coast Guards, and a number of our citizens, proceeded to Egmont Key, and removed the lamps, oil, &c., from the light-house, and brought them to
Tampa.
These lamps will never again give light to the benighted followers of King Abe.--
Tampa Peninsula.
Sale of the ship Danure.
The
Mobile (Alabama) Tribune, of the 8th, says:
‘
Three-fourths of this ship, which, it will be remembers, was taken in the bay as a prize, by the
Gulf City Guards, some time since, was sold yesterday, under and by virtue of a decree of the Confederate District Court of
Alabama, for the sure of $10,200. The other fourth is owned by
Capt. Sykes.
The purchasers, we learn, were
Messrs. Duplat & Co., of this city.
’
A preacher Suspected of Disloyalty.
The
Goldsboro' (N. C.) Tribune, under the head of ‘"Affairs in
Beaufort,"’ says:
‘
Rev. Mr. Van Antwerp, Episcopal Minister at
Beaufort, we are reliably informed, treated the fast day, recommended by
President Davis, on the 13th of last June, with contempt, by not opening his church on that occasion.
Alike insulting to the
State and Confederate authorities and to the general Southern sentiment, was the conduct of this preacher, in reference to thanksgiving day, on the Sunday after the
Manassa battle and victory.
He did not say anything about it, or make any allusion to it in any part of the services of his church on that day. We are gratified in being able to state that some of his church members, good and patriotic citizens, have ceased to attend his preaching.
His street talk indicates that he is a Lincolnite in heart and feeling; and this manifest traitori is a preacher and a school teacher in
Beaufort, on the seacoast of
North Carolina.
’
