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Southland Times, 2 March 1864, Page 5

The Selma Reporter, in recording President Davis's visit to that town, says :— "A lady, intent on seeing President Davis, awaiting liis arrival most anxiously at the depot, and, upon seeing him, rushed frantically to where he was, exclaiming, in. pathetic accents, ' Oh, Mr President, will you let the Yankees come to Selma V ' I assure you, my dear madam, they shall not/ replied the dignified M. Davis; and thereupon the overjoyed fair one smacked' his lips. No dainty 'bus' it was either, but a regular ' sockdologer,' that sonnded like the report of a small pistol." » Extent of the American Blockaded Coast.— Professor A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, states that the length of coast of the United States now under blockade by the Federal naval forces, beginning at Alexandria Virginia, and going down the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay-to Cape Henry, and thence along the outer line of the sea coast around. the peninsula of Florida as far as the Rio Grande, is 3o4J> statute miles. In this line there are , 189 rivers, bays, harbours inlets, sounds or deep openings, of which 45 are under six feet in depth at mean high water, 70 are between six and. twelve feet, 42 are between twelve and eighteen feet, and 32 are over eighteen feet in depth. , .■'.:■■'. Tub Fedetal Debt.— The T hues' New York cor* ! respondent says,— "The public debt of the Northern States on 'the Ist of September was approximately stated to be 1,223, 832, 771 dollars. This, however,'by no means represents the amount of liabilitiesincurred by the Northern States in the pursuit of ; this war. Were the civil strife to come to a sudden ■stand, and wore accounts to be wound up this very ■cl-vy and claims -on the' Government to be satisned, I am assured, by persons competent to speak on the subiecV that the publicMebt would be between twe'itfcv-n ye ' hundred and> three thousand million dollars ! Truly, the finances of the South are in no •better condition." «-. ;