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 fifty 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 seventy 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 forty 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:
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 United States 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.
The Daily Exchange, Baltimore, MD