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Tuesday Jan. 39, 1861.
The Ames Company, at Chicopee,
Mass., are manufacturing bronze twelve
pounders for Alabama, and a large
amount of small arms for several other
Southern States.
As enquiries are made in regard to the
truth of telegraphic dispatches concern
ing the supplies sent to the officers of
Fort Sumter, says the Charleston Mercu
ry of Saturday, we would satisfy all
parties by stating that there is not the
slightest doubt of the fact. Provisions
are sent them daily by the State authori
ties.
Mineral Springs in Alabama.
Dr J. D. Rumph, of Mount Andrew,
Barbour county, Ala., communicates to
the Southern Field and Fireside, the dis
covery of a mineral spring in that neigh
borhood the past summer. Its waters
have been analyzed by Prof. Darby, of
Auburn, and pronounced, from the re
sult, to be adapted to all ills that flesh is
heir to.
Flag for Fort Sumter.
We learn from the Mercury that the
ladies of Charleston have sent a Carolina
Flag to Headquarters, with the following
note attached :
“ From the Ladies of Charleston to the
Minister of War, the Hon. D. F. Jamison:
This Flag was made expressly by them
to be opened for the first time on Fort
Sumter.”
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Conflagration at Dadeville.
From the Tallapoosa Times Extra, of
Friday morning, we learn that about one
o’clock that morning, the entire block of
buildings fronting the North side of the
public square wa3 consumed by fire.—
The loss is estimated at $40,000, with
little covered by insurance. The Times
thinks it the work of an incendiary from
the fact that fire was also discovered on
the East side of the square while the other
block was burning. The fire on the
East side was discovered in the shavings
under the Turning Lathe of a Cabinet
Shop. The store house of J. Newman &
Bro., T. Hatcher, Paige & Fleishel, and
the Grocery store of L. Davenport, and
retail Grocery of B. S. Smith, and the
Carriage shop of Hendrix, are the prin
ciple buildings consumed. Messrs. Paige
& Fleishl and J. Newman & Bro., were
covered or partly covered by insurance.
Tlie Collectorsblp of Mobile.
Thaddeus Sanford. United States Col
lector of tho port of Mobile, as will be
remembered, recently received a draft
drawn on his office by the General Gov
ernment for the sura of $26,000 in favor
of the United States Navy agent at Pen
sacola, to pay certain merchants and
mechanics of the latter city for goods
furnished and labor performed for the
United States Government. The Collec
tor referred the matter to the Governor,
who communicated it to the Convention,
where it was referred to the Committee
on Imports and Duties. The committee
after considering the question reported
through their chairman, Judge Bragg,
the following resolution :
Rfsolved, That in response to the dis
patch received from T. Sanford, Collector
at the Port of Mobile, in reference to a
United States Treasury draft, bearing
date the 7th Jan., 1861, drawn on his
office for the sum of twenty six thousand
dollars, the Governor be authorized to
inform him that it is the sense of this
convention that he may pay the same.
Wrong Policy.
Our cotemporaries of the Tallapoosa
(Ala.) Times differ from the majority of
the Alabama Convention, but says very
patriotically, that the duty of all is to
“-stand by Alabama in weal or in woe.”
In their next issue they propose to give
some of the reasons why the action of the
convention should have been referred
back to the people. This is wrong. Let
bygones be by gones. The action of the
convention can’t be rescinded —or ra’her
will not be ; and the proposed discussion
will be productive of no good whatever.
It may be productive of mischief. Let
the Times subserve the cause of a united
South by avoiding such ill timed discus
sions. All of which we suggest with due
deference.
Tbe Sand Bags.
Mrs. Covington, the agent of the Gro
ver & Baker Sewiug Machines, says tho
Mobile Evening News of tho 16th,-is dili
gently prosecuting her patriotic em
ployment of manufacturing sand bags
for the State, and is well seconded by
other ladies, one of whom yesterday gave
her ten dollars to invest in materials for
a hundred bags. Mrs. Covington is mak
ing upwards of a hundred bags a day,
and expects to turn out a thousand this
week.
The ladies of Marion, Ala., are also
engaged in making sand bags tor the
State.
Items from the Lake City (East Flori
da) Press, of the 9th :
Death of Mr. Henry Walker. —It is
with feelings of regret that we announce
the death of this gentleman which was
caused from the effects of injuries re
ceived, some three weeks ago, by the
explosion of a steam boiler, at his mill,
near Miccosukie Lake.
Stabbing Affair. — We learn, through
a private souroe, that a stabbing affair
ooourred at Newnansville on Saturday
morning, sth inst., between the Postmas
ter of that place, and Mr. Flem Buford,
the stage driver between Lake City and
Newnansville, in which the latter received
a severe wound.
Sad Accident.
A son of Mr. John Clayton, about six
years old, was badly, if not fatally woun
ded this morning,, says the Augusta
Chronicle, of Saturday, by the accidental
discharge of a pistol in the hands of a
playmate. The bullet passed entirely
through the little sufferer’s body, and the
chances for his recovery are very doubt
ful.
He baa since died from the effects of
the wound.
Capt. Asa White, the oldest citizen of
Eutaw says the Eutaw(Ala.) Whig, of the
J ~th, and the owner of the land purchas
ed by the county for the county town,
died in this place on Sunday night last,
a t an advanced age. He was badly
wounded when the ill-fated steamer Tus
caloosa blew up, several years ago, a
** miles above Mobile.
VOLUME IV.}
Message of Gov, Moore.
The message of Gov. Moor, of Ala.,
i was delivered to the two Houses of the
i Legislature on the 4th. Much is al
ready known to the public which he
i communicates to the Legislature re
garding the action of the State, the
I seizure by the State troops -of the Forts
and Arsenals, &c., within her limits.—
These facts were communicated to the
President of the United States by the
Governor, but no reply has been made.
Arrangements have been made with
the Bankß of the State to furnish a loan
of $1,000,000 in specie or its equivalent,
whioh amount is to be advanced in pro
portion to their respective capitals. In
order to enable them to accommodate the
State he requested and urged them to
suspend specie payments and urges tfie
Legislature to legalize the suspension.
In order to put tho State on a war foot
ing he recommends the State to borrow
an additional million of dollars on her
bonds in sums of SSOO and SI,OOO each,
bearing interest at eight percent, with
interest payable annually, to be sold
within the State at par—the bonds paya
ble in not less than ten years.
The Legislature is recommended to
provide for raising, arming and officer
ing a regular force of troops as the basis
by which the army of the United States
is regulated; the term of enlistment
twelve months, two years or when hos
tilities might cease and a bounty to be
provided when they are discharged. The
establishment of a Military Board is also
recommended. .
The Legislature is urged to make pro
vision for the poorer classes to guard
against privation and starvation; also
that tho contingent fund at the disposal
of the Executive, be increased to $25,000.
Out of the appropriation by tbe last
General Assembly for the purpose, the
Governor has purchased about nine thou
sand stand of small arms, ten brass rifled
cannon, (six pounders,) and two Colum
biads: twenty thousand pounds of lead,
seven hundred kegs of powder, of twenty
eight pounds each, and one million five
hundred thousand caps.
New York Tribune on Crittenden’s
Compromise.
The New York Tribune discussing and
explaining its understanding of what
Mr. Crittenden’s proposed compromise of
existing difficulties between the North
and South, says that when the Missouri
Compromise line was established, it was
“ neither agreed, understood, implied
nor anticipated, either by the North or
South, that toleration or protection of
slavery” South of that line constituted
any part of the compromise. Mr. Crit
tenden’s proposition is to restore the
line, but also proposes to incorporate into
the Constitution an article recognizing
and protecting slavery by the Federal
Government in all the territory south of
it that we now have or may hereafter
acquire. Commenting on this the Tri
bune vents its aversion as follows :
We shall not stop now to discuss the
merits of this unconstitutional mode of
amending tbe Constitution—this clandes
tine attempt to precipitate the country
into wars of conquest for the establish
ment of eternal slavery in all the regions
lying between us and the equator.—
Suffice it to say, that neither persuasions
nor threats can induce tbe Free States
to engraft such an article into the organic
law of any Confederacy of which they
will consent to be a part ; and that any
Northern Senator or Representative who
who shall vote to send it oat to distract
and insult our people will be branded by
a retributive mark as indelible as that
which disfigured the forehead of Cain.
Such is the temper and spirit of those
with whom it seems, some are yet loathe
to dissolve political relations.
Incendiarism in Dadeville.
The town of Dadeville, Ala., has un
doubtedly been infested by an incendia
ries, judging from tbe recent attempts to
fire the plaoe. In our last issue we made
a statement condensed from the Talla
poosa Times extra, of the result of the
second attempt at incendiarism there.—
The first attempt the same week was
made by setting fire to the law office of
Mr. Burns, but was soon extinguished.
It was first discovered in an inside corner
of the building in a pile of rubbish paper.
No fire had been in the office for twenty
four hours previous.
Pensacola and Georgia Railroad.
We learn from the Lake City (Fla.)
Press, of the 9th, that several new freight
cars have been placed on the above road,
and a regular freight train is now run
ning between Lake City and Tallahassee.
This road is now fully equipped—hav
ing recently purchased two new engines
—and is in a most flourishing condition.
Landing of Troops In Pcncacola.
Pensacola, Jan. 16, p. m.—We have
just arrived here. The steamer Oregon
has just landed the troops, numbering
between eight hundred and one thousand
effective men.
The Evening News says that the night
was terrible with its wind and rain, and
the voyage round was a perilous feat, and
must have been most uncomfortable.
A Noble Offer.
The Charleston Courier says : “When
it was reported and believed at Marietta,
Ga., that Fort Sumter had opened against
Fort Moultrie, Edward Denmead, of Ma
rietta, a well known citizen, offered
promptly to supply provisions, &c., for
two months, to a company of seventy
five men.” _
Commissioners from Florida.
The Hons. S. R. Mallory, D. L. Yulee
and G. S. Hankins have been appointed
by the Convention as Commissioners from
Florida to negotiate with the authorities
at Washington for the surrender of all
Forts, &c., within this State. So says
the Tallahassee Floridian, of the 19th.
The Natchez Free Trader learns “that
the Order known as the Knights of the
Golden Circle have tendered the servi
ces of 20,000 men to Gov. Pettus, of
Mississippi, for offensive or defensive
measures, as may be required by the
State,” and that “the offer has been taken
into consideration”!
A correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury from Williamsburg, Long Island,
who signs himself A. Hubbell, offers to
enlist in the service of South Carolina,
and knows many who would follow him!
Boston, Jan. 16.— Mr. Taylor intro
duced a resolution in the House to day,
appropriating a sum of money for the
purchuse of provisions and stores for the
relief of our suffering fellow-countymen
in South Carolina.
B The Louisville Journal says that troops
are being rapidly raised and enrolled in
all parts of Kentucky subject to the call
of the military authorities of the State.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Southern Congress*
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph of the
15th inst., in allusion to the call made for
the assembling of delegates in a South
ern Congress to convene at Montgomery
on the 4th of next month, expresses
great confidence that Texas will be rep
resented at an early day after the assem
bling of the body. It thinks the Conven
tion “Which is to assemble in that State on
the 28th inst., will make short work on
the ordinance of secession, so unanimous
are the delegates for secession. It thinks
the ordinance will pass on the 29th, and
the delegates to the proposed Congress,
be appointed on the 30th, so that the
information can be telegraphed to Mont
gomery previous to or by the 4th To
show however, that there is some feeliDg
among the people of Texas, looking to
that State’s forming itself into its origi
nal element, of the Republic of Texas, we
copy the concluding paragraph of the Tel
egraph’s article. It says :
“It is all important that Texas should
be represented in the Southern Conven
tion, even though .she should finally de
termine to maintain her seperate nation
ality. Should a confederation be adopted
in which the rights and prosperity of
Texas would be better secured than in a
state of independence, it will be for our
people to determine upon the question of
joining that confederacy in due time.
We throw out these hints because no time
is to be lost, and to us they appear to
embody a feasible plan for action.”
Tennessee Convention.
The act calling a convention of the
people of the State of Tennessee, passed
the Legislature of that State last Satur
day. The convention is to be composed
of 100 members, to be elected in the same
manner as representatives to the General
Assembly. The election is to be holden
on the 9th of February, and the Conven
tion is to assemble at Nashville on the
25th of the same month. The act further
provides “that*no ordinance or resolu
tion which may be adopted by said Con
vention, having for its object a change of
the position or relotion of this State to
the National Union or her sister South
ern States, shall be of any binding force
or effect until it is submitted to and rati
fied and adopted by a majority of the
qualified voters in the State, taking as a
basis the vote cast in the last election for
Governor and members of the General
Assembly.
Southern Congress.
The following gentlemen have been
selected by the Alabama Convention, as
delegates to the Southern Congress, com
posed of represenatives from the seceding
States, whose business is to consult to
gether and construct a provisional gov
ernment for the Southern Republic.—
This body is to convene at Montgomery,
Ala., on the 4th of February :
DEPUTIES FOR STATE AT LARGE.
Hon. Richard W. Walker, of Lauderdale.
Hon. Robert H. Smith, of Mobile.
DEPUTIES FOR TIIE DISTRICTS.
Ist Dist.—Gen. Colin J. Mcßae, of
Mobile.
2d Dist—Hon. John Gill Shorter, of
Barbour.
3d Dist—Hon. W. P. Chilton, of Mont
gomery.
4th Dist—Hon. S. F. Hale, of Greene.
sth Dist—Hon. David P. Lewis, of
Lawrence.
6th Dist—Dr Thomas Fearn, of Madi
son.
7th Dist —Hon. J. L. M. Curry, of Tal
ladega.
The Feeling in Mississippi.
The New Orleans Bulletin learns from
a gentleman of Holly Springs, Miss., that
a meeting was recently held in that place
for the purpose of raising means to equip
a company of volunteers, and that SSOOO
was subscribed on tbe spot. One of the
subscribers was a lady, who stated that
her husband and two sons were ready to
fight for the rights and honor of the
South, and that her three daughters
would make cartridges, lint and clothing
for the soldiers. Our informant says
that Marshall County will arm and equip
one thousand men, if necessary, and
furnish SIOO,OOO to sustain a Southern
Army.
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The City Council of Atlanta has passed
an ordinance imposing a tax of sixty five
cents on every hundred dollars worth of
produce of auy kind, bacon or lard,
brought to the city by non-residents by
Railroad. An exception is made in favor
of non residents who shall bring for sale
any such article of his own raising. The
penalty for the violation of this ordinance
is SSO fine or thirty days imprisonment in
the Calaboose. Like all laws taxing ped
lars, its object is to protect regular mer
chants.
Etowah Iron Works.
We notice that the entire property of
this company, estimated at $400,000, is
advertised by tho President at Etowah, to
the highest bidder, on the first Tuesday
in February. These works are of the
most expensive and important character.
A large portion of the iron for the Geor
gia and Tennessee rail road3 has the last
six years come from them.
Homicide.
We learn says the Wilmington (N. C )
Journal, that on Sunday last, 13th inst.,
an altercation occurred between Messrs.
Owen R. Cowan and Jesse B. Bowden, in
Rocky Point District, in this county,
which resulted in the immediate death of
tbe former. The killing was done in self
defense.
Neutrality of Foreign Powers.
A dispatch from Charleston to the
Montgomery Advertiser on the 19th, says
“ Foreign Ministers at Washington assert
that their rights with seceding States as
neutrals will be exercised, the Adminis
to the contrary notwithstanding.’’
The New Orleans Picayune learns that
in consequence of the difficulty of ship
ping cotton at Mobile, the collector of the
port having resigned his office, so that
there can be no clearances, large quanti
ties of tbe staple are being sent over to
New Orleans daily by the mail boats for
shipment at that port.
The negroes and land of tbe-Gwpenter
Estate, which was sold on last Monday,
flays the Eutaw (Ala.) Observer, of the
Bth, brought very high prices. The land
sold for thirty-five dollars per acre,—and
choice negroes sold from SIBOO to $2300.
“Cora $1 50. t
It is now reported, says the Charleston
Courier, that Col. Colt will soon estab
lish an arms factory in Georgia, in con
nection with Mark A. Cooper.
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Rev. J. E. H. Seymour, a talented and
promising young minister of the Baptist
persnation, died recently in Charleston,
of which city he was a native.
COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, JANUARY ‘29, 186).
The Illumination, &c
The demonstration Monday night in
honor of the passage of the secession
ordinance by the Georgia Convention was
gotten np on a grand scale, and was quite
a magnificent affair. The manifestations
were not so boisterous as on the occasion
of the action of South Carolina, but the
feeling, if there was any difference, was
more deep seated.
At eight o’clock, the cannon boomed
forth the preconcerted signal of five guns,
when, as if by magic, the city was in a
blaze, and almost every window illumi
nated. At the appointed time, a proces
sion armed with torches was formed at
Temperance Hall and marched through
the principal streets, headed by music
with its spirit stirring Strains. Promi
nent in the procession were the Colum
bus Guards, City Light Guards, Georgia
Grays, Muscogee Mounted Rangers, Com
pany D. of tbe Southern Guard and Fire
Company No. 5.
At appropriate intervals, the procession
halted and the cannon thundered a sa
lute. The display of pyrotechnics was
beautiful, and added much from first to
last, to the brilliancy and animation of
the scene.
The illumination was general—more so
than on the previous demonstration of the
21st ult., in honor of South Carolina,
and too much so to admit of particular
izing. We will, however, mention the
Perry House, which was brilliantly
illuminated, and showed to fine advan
tage ; Cook’s Hotel, as formerly, was one
blaze of light. Here we noticed a trans
parency, as follows : “ We are divorc
ed,” “South Carolina, Mississippi, Flor-
Alabama, Georgia.” “Come on sisters,”
with ten stars underneath representing
the ten States still in the Union. In tbe
tvindow immediately above this was a
representation of a Palmetto tree with
fifteen stars scattered here and there in
the branches. Conspicuous also, was
the Marine Bank Agency with a large
transparency in front inscribed “ The
Empire Republic” and the star of Geor
gia in the centre. Throughout Broad as
well as more private streets, transparen
cies, devices and mottoes both suggestive
and appropriate adorned the windows of
public and private houses.
The whole was concluded with the fir
ing of guns under the flag of Georgia
which made the hundred and ninteen in
honor of the majority by which the Ordi
nance was passed. Notwithstanding the
inclemency of the weather, the streets
were thronged with crowds of ladies and
gontlemen. On the whole, the display
passed off very creditably to the origi
nators as well as all who participated.
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Tennessee Legislature.
In the House last Tuesday, Mr. Paine
introduced a bill authorizing tbe Bank of
Tennessee to issue six months Bonds to
to the amount of $1,000,000, to enable
the Executive of the State to maintain
the honor and secure the defence of the
State, if, in his judgment, the former
may be imperiled or the latter demand
ed. The bill was readand referred to the
millitary committee.
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Troops for Pensaeola*
The Marianna Patriot says there has
been a requisition on Jackson county for
two hundred volunteers to go immediate
ly to Pensacola. They were ordered to
rendezvous at Neil’s Landing on the
Chattahoochee river last Thursday.—
These troops are daily expected to arrive
at this place, by boat, en route for Pensa
sola.
Counterfeiters Arrested.
We learn form the Advertiser that three
gentlemen were arrested in Montgomery
last Monday on the charges of passing
and, attempting to pass, counterfeit bills
on the Merchants Bank of New Orleans.
There names are Richard Morgan, Theo
dore Ankles and C. Clark. They were
sent to prison in default of bail.
Narrow Escape.
Matt Peal’s troupe of Campbell Minstrels
came very near being all lost a short time
ago, while crossing in a small boat from
Ogdensburg to the Canada side. They
were caught in the ice, and remained
three hours aud a half in extreme peril,
very near going over Gallop’s Rapids at
one time. They were finally rescued
through great bravery on the part of two
men named Murray and Murphy, who
went off to them.
Snow Storm in Texas.
The Galveston News of the 12th inst.,
says the snow storm which took the
people of that city by surprise on the
30th ult., swept over all the lower and
central portions of the State, from the
Sabine to the Rio Grande. The storm
lasted one day and the snow fell to the
depth of three inches, and is stated to be
the heaviest experienced in that State for
many years.
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Death of Major Bingham.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph an
nounces the death, near that city on the
12th inst., of Major M. A. Bingham, an
old and esteemed citizen of Texas. Maj.
Bingham was a native of Virginia, but
emigrated to Texas in its early settlement
and took an active part in her revolution
ary struggle for independence.
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Pensacola Post Office Discontinued.
A dispatch from Washington to the
Montgomery Mail, says the Post Office
Department has concluded to abolish the
Pensacola Post Office and to order the
mail directed there to be returned to the
Dead Letter Office.
Mississippi a Unit.
The Jackson Mississippian says that
the Ordinance of Secession was signed on
Tuesday, and that every member of the
Convention, except two, who were ab
sent, affixed his signature to it.
Removal of Jewish Disabilities.
In reply to a petition of 250 Hebrew
congregations, a declaration has been
published by the Prussian Government,
intimating its intention, for the future,
to avail itself of the services of Jews in
the various departments of the State.—
This is carrying out the spirit of the
law enacted to 1847, which has, hither
to, been almost a dead letter.
Cannon Casting In Memphis.
The Memphis Argus has been inform
ed, on authority the most reliable, that
the Governor of Georgia has written to a
firm these to know at what rates they
will cast cannon for the State. The head
of the firm, already possessed of a very
extensive foundry here, starts for Geor
gia to see Gov. Brown and make the ne
cessary arrangements.
—
A company of some seventy five or
eighty men were to have left Marianna
on tho 17th, as volunteers for Pensacola
Signing the Ordinance.
From the Milledgeville correspondence
of the Macon Telegraph, we learn that
on Monday the following preamble and
resolution emenatiDg, it is said, from tbe
Messrs. Stephens, were introduced in the
Convention by Judge Nisbet:
Whereas, the lack of unanimity in the
action of this convention on the passage
of the ordinance of secession, indicates a
difference of opinion amoDgst the mem
bers of this convention, not so much as to
the rights which Georgia claims, or the
wrongs of which she complains, as the
remedy and its application before a re
sort to the other means of redress ; and
whereas, it is desirable to give expres
sion to that intention which ready ex
ists among all the members of this con
vention to sustain the State in the course
of action which she has pronounced to be
proper for the occasion : Therefore
Resolved, That all members of this
Convention, including those who voted
against the said Ordinance, as well as
those who voted for it, will sign the same
as a pledge of the unanimous determina
tion of this Convention to sustain and
defend the State in this her chosen reme
dy, with all its responsibilities and con
sequences without regard to individual
approval or disapproval of its adoption.
Under this tender nearly all the dele
gates, excepting three from Gwinnett,
one from Union, one from Fannin, two
from Towns, two from Montgomery, one
from Catoosa, one from Clinch and two
from Hall signed the Ordinance, but these
it was said, would sign it the next day.
We have since learned that all but four
did so.
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Manufactures iu tbe Soutb.
The cotton and woolen manufactories
at Richmond (Va.) are said to be doing
an excellent business, and will continue
to work their usual number of operatives
during the present year.
So will all other similar manufactories
in the South. They will not only con
tinue to work their present number of
operatives during the present year, but
will do an increased business in the way
of filling orders. Owing to the present
unsettled condition of the country, there
maybe a cessation in the activity of their
business, but it will be merely tempora
ry. The cotton necessary to its being
carried on is cultivated here at home, and
is therefore accessible; besides the neces
sity for patronizing them by the pur
chase and use of their products will in
crease as the present state of feeling be
tween the North and South increases.
As we have said, there may be for a short
season, a temporary cessation of activity
in the business of our home manufacto
ries, but a reaction must take place
which will give them an impetus, that
will hereafter enable them to compete
with Northern manufactories in so far as
products they may turn out. For the
manufactory ofootton and woolen goods,
we have one or more in Columbus that
cannot well be surpassed in the style and
quality of goods made. There is also
ample water power here for the establish
ment of forty or more factories in other
branches of the business ; and the time
is hastening when capitalists will learn
and appreciate the locality in that res
pect.
The Georgia Convention has declared
it to be tbe right and duty of the State
to secede, by a vote of 165 yeas to 130
nays. There is evidently a strong oppo
sition there to secession, and if the friends
of the Union could obtain the powerful
support of the Federal Government, tbe
traitors might be baffled yet, and the
State saved.— N. Y. Tribune. -
We will state for the information of the
Tribune that the Secession Ordinance of
Georgia passed by a vote of 208 to 89,
and our information from Milledgeville
to day is that it has been assented to and
signed by all but four members. The
difference between the secession and co
operation parties in Georgia as in other
States of tbe Soutb, does not originate
from opposition to secession, but as to
time and manner of secession. Whilst
the one favors separate State action, the
other advocates consultation and co-oper
ation with the other slave States of the
South in a simultaneous movement of
secession on or near the same day, by
which movement they designed to paral
ize the Federal arm, thereby rendering
even an attempt at coercion an impossi
bility.
Louisiana Convention.
The State Convention of Louisiana
recently elected, convened at the Capitol
of the State to day. Its political com
plexion, from the best information, is
decidedly for immediate separate State
secession. The Senatorial representation
stands, for secession 21, for co-operation
10, and Claiborne Parish to hear from.
The Representative delegates stands, for
secession 59, for co operation 34, and
Bossier, Bienville and Claiborne Parishes
to hear from. The Delta says if the
delegates yet to hear from be equally di
vided between the two parties, they will
stand in the convention'B3 secessionists
to 47 co-operationists. Secession ma
jority 36. This secures the undoubted
secession of Louisiana from the Union at
an early day. She will doubtless be out
of the Union by the afternoon of Satur
day.
♦
Vote of the People.
Before the Convention proceeded to
sign the ordinance on Monday—says the
Southern Recorder —Mr. Martin of Lump
kin, offered a resolution to submit it to
a vote of the people, through the proc
lamation of the Governor, and the ques
tion should be “Secession” or “No Se
cession” at the ballot box. If a majority
of votes were for Secession, then the or
dinance was to take effect, and not other
wise. The resolution was rejected by a
large majority.
*.
Another Ticket.
Tbe Apalachicola Times hoists the fol
lowing ticket for the highest offices of
the prospective Southern Confederacy:
For President —William L. Yancey, of
Alabama.
For Vice President —J. H. Hammond, of
South Carolina.
Gin House and Fixtures Burned.
On Friday, the 11th inst., as we learn
from the Bainbridge Argus, the gin
house, mill and engine house belonging
to Judge A. A, Allen, at his Rock Pond
place, were burned down. The fire was
communicated from the engine room, the
gin and mill being worked by steam.
Loss about $15,000.
♦
Gov. Brown arrived in Angnsta Tuesday
night, accompanied by his Aids-de-Camp
H. R. Jackson, W. Philips, M. C. Fulton
and C. J. Williams.
The Virginia House of Representatives
has passed a bill issuing one million of
dollars Treasury notes for the defense of
the State.
The Right Spirit.
It gives us great pleasure (says the
Mobile Register, to publish the following
letter, and its enclosure. It evinces a
patriotic spirit on the part of our friends
in the interior, from which the best re
sults may be expocted, in these times
which are to “try men’s souls.” We
invite prompt attention by the proper
officers, to the generous offer communi
cated by Mr. Sturdivant:
Livingston, Ala., Jan. 14, 1861.
Mr. Editor Register, Mobile:
Dear Sir : Enclosed please fiud list of
several farmers tendering tbe services of
their slaves to assist in doing any work
you may need in way of breastworks, &c.
We await further orders to send them,
and if neocssary can send three times as
many. They are held in readiness. Let
us hear from you.
Yours, respectfully,
E. T. STURDIVANT.
We, citizens of Livingstou and vicicity,
in Sumter county, Alabama, do hereby
oflbr the services of our slaves to the
State of Alabama, in erecting breast
works, or doing any other work necessa
ry in or near the city of Mobile for our
protection.
E. T. Sturdivant, 5 negro men;
M. C. Houston, 5 “ “
R. F. Houston, 5 “ “
Richard Wooten, 5 “ “
A. M. Garber, 2 “ “
D. O. White, 2 “ “
James Hair, 4 “ “
L. F. Whitehead, 4 “ “
11. W. Norvill, 1 “
A. R. Scarborough 2 “ “
P. A. Scales, 2 “ “
Joseph Arrington, 1 “ “
S. M. Potts, 3 “ “
D. Cockerell, 3 “ “
G. L. Kornegay, 2 “ “
Secession in Illinois.
The Springfield correspondent of the
Chioago Times says, that at the session
of the present legislature, the collection
of persons from all parts of the State re
veals some startling facts. In case a
Southern Confederacy is formed of all
the slave States, there is a strong proba
bility that the State of Illinois will be di
vided. The people of Northern Illinois
have been in tbe habit of taunting the
Egyptians with ignorance, and pharisai
cally arrogating to themselves all the in
telligence and virtue. These things
rankle in the minds of the citizens of
Southern Illinois, and create no little
hostility. A large share of Southern Illi
nois is peopled with men from or des
cended from citizens of the slave States, -
and they naturally sympathize with the
South. The opinion is freely expressed
that an army of ten thousand men from
Northern Illinois, marching against the
South, could not reach the Ohio river.—
Hundreds are ready to fight in the de
fence of the South, and are tendering
their services.
Gen. Harney Challenged.
Gen. Harney has been challenged by a
late officer of the United States army.—
The challenging party is Lieut. Therie,
who resigned his commission in the army
a year ago on account of some difficulty
with the General. It appears that this
long standing quarrel has not been for
gotten. Last Thursday Gen. Harney,
who is staying at Willard’s Hotel, receiv
ed a challenge from Therie, who has
recently arrived at Washington from
Pennsylvania. Harney declined, and
the matter thus stands at present. Such
is the rumor from Washington.
Sad Accident.
We learn from the New Orleans Picay
une, that in the course of the transfer of
some deck passengers from the mail
steamer Creole to the shore at East Pas
cagoula, one night last week, the boat in
which they embarked for the shore, was
upset and all were drowned. The fol
lowing are the names and residence of
the poor unfortunates : Mr. Portier and
two sons, from Biloxi ; Mr. O’Neal, from
New Orleans ; boy Washington, belong
ing to L. McKay, from Pass Christian.
<► ■
Decline in Mules. •
The Nicholasville (Ky.) Democrat says
that Mr. J. Funk, of that county, offered
a lot of fat mules for sale at public auc
tion in Lexington on County Court day,
in December last, for which the highest
bid was one hundred and twenty six
dollars per head. On last Monday he
offered the same lot in the same market,
and the highest bid was only ninety five
dollars, thus showing a decline of more
than twenty five per cent in their value
in the short space of one month.
Corps of Alabama Cadets.
Agreeably to an order of the Governor,
says the Montgomery Advertiser, of
Wednesday, the corps of Alabama Cadets
of the University of Alabama are expected
in this city on Thursday next, uuder
command of Col. lluse, the accomplished
military commandant of the University,
and in full military trim. They come to
make a sort of public manifestation of tbe
working of the military system lately in
augurated in our University. We are
told the corps is well drilled, make a fine
appearance, and are about 120 in number.
Tbe Feeling in North Carolina.
A correspondent of the Wilmington
Journal from Greenville, Pitt county in
that State, says that 100 guns were fired
there on tho 11th inst., in honor of the
people of Smithville. The Journal says
there is a strong feeling throughout the
State that demands legal expression
through a convention of the people.
Gov. Peters, of Mississippi, has ap
pointed Hon. Walter Brooke and Fulton
Anderson, Esq., commissioners to Vir
ginia to solicit her co-operation in the
formation of a Southern Union. These
gentlemen, says the New Orleans Bulle
tin, were elected co-operationists, but
voted for immediate secession, acquiesc
ing in the decision of the majority of
their State.
The bark Modena, Capt. Ryder, of
Silloway’s line of packets, plying between
Boston and Charleston, S. C., arrived
recently at the former city with clear
ance papers from the newly constituted
revenue authorities of South Carolina. —
The Boston Journal says the Custom
House officers refused to enter the ves
sel, as they had not been notified that
South Carolina was out of the Union.
.
Resignation of Federal Judges.
The Mobile Tribune says Judge Jones,
Judge of the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Alabama, has
forwarded his resignation to Washington.
Tbe same paper says Mr. Justice John
A. Campbell, of the United States Su
preme Court, as he has assured ns, will
also do bo soon as the news of the seces
sion of Alabama shall have reached him.
{NUMBER 41.
Magofßn’a Message.
Vv e make the following extract from
the recent message of the Governor of
Kentuckj to the Legislature of that State :
It now seems inevitable, that before
your deliberations will probably close,
eight States will have withdrawn from the
Confederacy, and most probably will be
in consultation touching the organization
of anew Federal Government. It cannot
be successfully responded in refutation
of this presentation of facts, that the
Secession Ordinances are nullities. I have
no disposition at such a time to indulge a
discussion touching the abstract ques
tions which might be raised. We have
to deal with facts as actually existing,
and have no use for hair-splitting theo
ries. I assume, that in a very few days
eight States will have declared their
sovereign independence, and that, to that
extent at least, our Union will have
ceased to exist, inasmuch as no power on
earth can coerce their uuwilliug allegi
ance to the Federal Government. In that
contingency, now so imminent as to be
almost a certainty upon which you may
safely project your action, what attitude
shall Kentucky assume, and by virtue of
what authority shall her external rela
tions be hereafter determined ?
Kentucky will not submit to the degra
dation of inequality in the Union. Con
scious of the will and ability of her
citizens to maintain their honor, their
rights, and freedom, she will protect them
in the Union or out of it. Kentucky has
to this hour borne herself with the dig
nity, the forbearance, and the moderation
becoming her historic character. She has
borne much, and will bear much for the
cause of the Union. But in my opinion
the people of Kentucky will never consent
to remain in this confederacy, now aban
doned by- a large portion of the slave
holding members, with no guaiantees of
protection from the anti-slavery power
now dominant. Kentucky will not and
ought not to submit to the principles and
polioy avowed by the Republican party,
but will resist, and resist to the death, if
necessary.
But I recall the suggestive inquiry just
put. In view of the partial disruption of
the Union, the secession of eight or ten
States, the establishment of a Southern
Confederated Republic, and the adminis
tration of this Government upon the prin
ciples of the Chicago platform—a condi
tion of our country most likely near at
hand—what attitude will Kentucky hold,
and by virtue of what authority shall her
external relations be determined ? Herein
are involved issues of momentous conse
quence to the people. It is ;of vital im
portance to our own safety and domestic
peace that these questions be solved in
accordance with the will of a majority of
our people. llow have our neighboring
-States prepared to meet this emergency ?
Tennessee has, through the action of her
Legislature, referred the whole subject to
her people, to be passed upon in their
sovereign capacity. Virginia and North
Carolina are discussing the propriety of
a similar course, and will most probably
authorize the people, through sovereignty
conventions, to dispose of questions so
deeply and vitally concerning their in
terests. Missouri seems likely to adopt
a similar policy. These States wisely
recognize the fact that the country is in
a state of revolution, and it seems to me
there is an eminent propriety, at such a
time, in a direct appeal to the people.
The ordinary departments of the Govern
ment are vested with no power to conduct
the State through such a revolution. Any
attempt by either of these departments to
change our present external relations,
would involve a usurpation of power, and
might not command that confidence and
secure the unanimity so essential to our
internal safety. Thus encompassed by
embarrassment, complication, and doubt,
assailed by a diversity of counsels, and
encountering much variety of opinion, it
seems to me that the wisest, as certainly
the safest mode of meeting the extraor
dinary emergency is to adopt the course
pursued by our neighboring States, and
refer these great questions to the arbit
rament of the people, whose happiness
and destinies they so deeply affect. We
should in this mode secure unity among
ourselves, and attract the cordial loyalty
of all our citizens to Kentucky wherever
she may cast her let. I therefore submit
to your consideration the propriety of
providing for the election of delegates to
a convention, to be assembled at an early
day, to whom shall be referred, for full
and final determination, the future Fed
eral and inter-State relations of Kentucky.
Meantime, I would leave no experi
ment untried which promises, however
faintly, the restoration of fraternal rela
tions between the States, and offers even
remote hope o£again reuniting the mem
bers and rescuing the Union from its
present peril. We seem to be drifting in
a gale upon the rocks of disunion. Let
us make one more, one united, one last
effort to save the old ship. Although
she has never encountered such a tem
pest, she has weathered many fearful
storms. Anchor after anchor has been
thrown out to save her, but she still
drifts before the swelling waves upon the
fearful breakers —hull and cabin and deck
are creaking and cracking, and every
joint and bolt and timber is strained to
its utmost tension. There should be no
divided councils now. Let us throw
overboard former jealousies, past party
affiliations, passions, and personal ambi
tion. Let us make one more effort to”
save her altogether; and if she is lost let
us cling to the noble wreck, and recon
struct the vessel from the staunch old
timbers of the Constitution. There is
hope that an adjustment, honorable to
all, may be effected through the action
of the Border Slave States, including
Tennessee and North Carolina. Their
approval of the amendments to the Con
stitution proposed by Senator Crittenden,
with security for their future observance,
presented to Congress, to the free States
in Legislative session, and to the people
if practicable, as an ultimatum, may yet
secure the guarantees we require, and
possibly in the end bring back all the
States in one Union. To this last effort
a convention of these States is necessary.
I would therefore recommend to you the
adoption of resolutions inviting a con
ference of these States, and of such oth
ers as may choose to co-operate, at Balti
more, for an early day in February. It
will then devolve upon you to provide for
the appointment of Commissioners to
represent Kentucky. The conjoint de
claration of these States against coercion
might do much to avert impending war.
Their united co-operation in any event,
would materially promote their future
safety and peace.
The relations of the Federal Govern
ment with the seceding States have
occasioned the most anxious solicitude
with those who have at heart the peace
and tranquility of- the country. I had
hoped that when the secession movement
or the revolution, had assumed its pres
ent aspect, when four sovereign States,
by the almost unanimous vote of their
people, had announced their purpose to
close their past federal relations, and
likely soon to be joined by four others,
there would be found none so mad, none
so blind to the dire results, as to advise
er countenance the employment of mili
tary force in futile resistance to their
action. Such a proposition, whether It
be called plainly coercion and subjuga
tion, or be disguised under the specious
phrases of “ enforcing the laws” and
•* protecting public property,” means
civil war, and war of the most frightful
and abhorrent character. I can but re
gard the action of the Federal Govern
ment in refusing to recognize the fad of
secession, and its proposed attempt to
maintain the supremacy of its laws with
in the borders of the seceding States, as
a policy more utterly barren of good
resalt, and more certainly fraught with
calamity, that any step yet taken in the
drama. This government stands upon
the consent of the governed : its internal
strength springs from the voluntary alle
giance of the citizens, it is sustained by
the common affection, the mutual confi
dence and fraternal feelings of the peo
ple. It cannot be held together by force,
and the attempt so to sustain it will not
only fail, and fail in blood, but will
destroy the last hope of reconstruction.
Kentucky cannot and will not be an in
ditlerent observer of the “force policy.”
The seceding States have not. in their
hasty and inconsiderate action our ap
proval ; but their cause is our r ghts, and
they have our sympathies. The people
of Kentucky will never stand by with
arms folded while those States struggling
for their constitutional rights and resis
ting oppression are being subjugated to
an anti-slavery Government. Thousands
of our gallant citizens would fly to the
conflict. Moreover, the idea of coercion,
when applied to great political communi
ties, is revolting to a free people, con
trary to the spirit of our institutions,
and, if successfully prosecuted, would
endanger the liberties of the people. I
cannot believe that these threats of
coercion, nor these denunciations of
treason against the people of the South,
coming as they do from men who have
for years habitually violated the Constitu
tion, elicit any sympathy in the hearts of
Kentuckians, no matter what may be
their opinions touching the abstract right
or present policy of secession. I trust,
therefore, you will at once declare by
resolution the unconditional disapproba
tion of Kentucky of the employment of
force in any form against the seceding
States.
Mobile and Great Northern Rail
road.
We are pleased to find the following
very gratifying announcement in the
Mobile News of the 18th instant:
We announce with much satisfaction
that the work on this great enterprise,
notwithstanding the times, still goes on
with energy. Up to this time all claims
against the company have been promptly
adjusted and paid, and the progress of
the work has been such, that it may be
confidently expected the road will be
running from the Alabama and Florida
’Railroad to the Tensas river by next fall,
in time to carry off the coming crop, if
the company are not compelled to stop
for want of funds. The resources of the
company are ample to enable them in
ordinary times to complete the road. A
large portion of these resources,. how
ever, consist of city bonds, which in the
present state of affairs cannot be sold.—
The company have therefore mainly to
rely for future means upon the individ
ual subscriptions to the capital stock;
these we are happy to be informed, if
fully and promptly paid up monthly as
called for, will permit the company to go
on with the work, and will, with such
other assistance as it is hoped can bo
counted on, place it in their power to put
the road in running condition to the Ten
sas river in good time.
A Scrap of History.
It is not law, but merely usage, that
requires the President to be inaugurated
at Washington, and the official oath to be
administered by the Chief Justice of the
United States. President Fillmore was
sworn in by Judge Cranch, the Chief
Justice beiDg at that time absent from
the city. An ordinary justice of the
peace or commissioner of deeds would
have been just as competent to adminis
ter the oath. As little is it necessary
that it should be administered at the seat
of government. The Vice President, as
well as the President, is commonly sworn
in at Washington ; but on the 4th of
March, 1853, Vice-President King was
in Cuba for bis health, and the oath of
office was administered to him at Matan
zas by a United States consul. Had he
been President, the legal effect of admin
istering the oath on foreign soil, and by
a subordinate officer, would have been
precisely the same.— JV. Y. Times.
Georgia Convention.
A dispatch to the Times in this city,
announces the election by the Conven
tion on Thursday, of the following Depu
ties to represent Georgia in the, Southern
Congress, to assemble at Montgomery on
the 4th of February :
FOll TIIE STATE AT LARGE.
Hon. Robert Toombs.
Hon. Howell Cobb.
FOE. THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
Ist District—Francis S Dartow.
2d “ Martin J. Crawford.
3d “ E. A. Nisbet.
4th “ Beojamin H. Hill.
sth “ A. R. Wright.
Gth “ Thomas R. R. Cobb.
7th “ Augustus A. Kenan.
Bth “ Alexander H. Stephens.
Enfaula Express.
Jos. H. Butt, Esq., Editor oftheEufau
la Express and Lieut, of the “ Pioneer
Guards” of that city has thrown aside the
pen and scissiors for a season and joined
his fine company in camp near Eufaula,
awaiting the order of Gov. Moore. The
locum tenens of the Express is W. M.
Flournoy, Esq., who makes a handsome
debut in the last issue.
We congratulate Lieut. B. on procuring
the services of one so competent as Mr.
Flournoy shows himself to be. After
his experience in camp life we hope Mr.
B. will be able to tell us whether “the
pen is mightier than the sword.”
♦
True to the South. ,
The National Volunteers at Washing
ton city held a meeting a short time since
and adopted the following resolutions
unanimously and with tremendous ap
plause :
Resolved, 1. That we will stand by
and defend the South, and that under no
circumstances will we assume a position
of hostility to her interests or affiliate
with a military organization prompted
by a partisan spirit to subserve the aims
of the Black Republican party.
2. That the reign of terror attempted
to be inaugurated in our midst is a sys
tem of tyranny which calls for the most
emphatic rebuke.
3. That we will aid each other and all
good citizens against abolition violence,
and attacks upon private property.
4. We will act in event of the with
drawal of Maryland and Virginia from
the Union in such manner as shall best
secure oursetves and those States from
the evils of a foreign and hostile govern
ment within their borders.
The National Volunteers are five hun
dred in number.
The News In Sonth Carolina.
The Columbian Guardian says that the
news of the secession of Georgia was
received there with every demonstration
of joy, which were greater than when
South Carolina seceded. Judge Long
street made a speech in which one of his
illustrations was to this effect :
In old times goods had to be hauled
from the North to Georgia. Some wago
ners going home oue night were startled
by the sudden light from a large meteor,
when one of them in the wagon put out
his bead and said that they need not be
alarmed—“ the moon had only broke
loose.” The other States which had al
ready seceded were bright and glorious
stars, but this evening the moon had
broke loose.
In Charleston a salute was fired in hon
or of the event.
Items from the Charleston Mercury, of
the 21st:
An Officer of Fort Sumter, on Satur
day, called at our counting room and
subscribed for the Charleston Mercury,
to be mailed to him at Fort Sumter, for
the next three months.
Refusal to Sell Revolvers to South
Carolina. —We learn thatin consequence
of the late charge of Judge Smalley, of
New York, the agent of Colt’s revolvers
in that city has refused to fill any orders
from this State for those weapons.