The President of the United States has sent another message
to Congress relative to the hostile position of South Carolina. Though very long, it contains little in the way of argument that he has not said before. He calls for additional powers to repress the expected aggression of the insurgent state ; and details the different measures which have been taken by the Legislature of "South Carolina to resist the authority of the General Government. As yet, however, there is no account of troops being sent to Charleston. The Carolinians are as fierce as ever in their expres- sions of determination to "fight it out." In the Senate, Mr. J. C. CALHOUN, the leader of their party, was very energetic in his denunciation of the President's last message. Mr. MDUFFIE, in the House of Representatives, was more temperate, but quite as resolute in his opposition to its doctrines. Volunteers are said to be offering themselves in considerable numbers to the Caroli- nians from the adjacent Southern States. Matters cannot long re- main as they are ; and in the course of a week or two, the news of something decisive having been done will probably arrive.
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