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LEGAL NOTICES.
Commissioner's Sale of Valoahle Ktal
Estate I
BY v i r t j of a dmw of the Chancery Cosrtof
Ue4is n Coast, made st its September Term
180, whereto Martaa K.Pastoa, et e:s, areeora-
Paiaanle, ead A J. OiUeepie, 1 1 els, are Defendants,
will axp-we to aele et public out-cry, before the
Court Hoase door, in the City of Canton, MadUon
County, Mississippi, oa the first
Monday ib January, 1861,
all the Rest Estate, belonging to the Estate of Tho.
H GiUeepteeceased,Pfiogin the county of Madison
State of Mississippi, including the homestead plan
tation of (aid Thoa. H, Gillespie, deceased, con
taining 1380 acres, more er leas and being the W
X of S of E X of S Wii, and S yi of W U
oi S W s, , and W , of K X of S W , and W
, of S W K f ect .on 2 and E K. and S , of
a, 4, or w of section as, ana t. and fc J4,
of N W X, and 8 W V, of section 32, and N U, of
BJtT.of NEK.and WH.rf SK K.aadNYv
of section 33, all in T, 18, R. 3, East, eonstitntir.g
1 farming Estate ; and also at the same time aii j
place, the N E , aad E . of 8 E of section
33, and SW, aad WUi S W of section 34.
Township 11, rtaage 3, East, being 430 acres mure
or lees, making in all 1S40 aeres, more or less.
On .he Homestead are about a 1000 acres under
a high state of cultivation, situated in a beautiful
healthy and fertile section, this is justly regarded
one of the most desirable plantations in the eounty,
well watered finely timbered, and only 4 miles
from the city of Canton. This tract embraces
about 5 or 800 acres of rich poplar creek bottom.
The other land, (vis: the 490 tract) is unimproved,
but fair average land, and situated near the Artes
ian Springs. Maid land will be sold on a credit of
one, two and three years, with interest, at s per
cent., per annum, 1 rum the the date of sale the
purchaser giving bond, with approved security as
provided for in aud decree.
The title u believed be to benadonbted, but ac
ting as commissioner, I will convey only sueh title
as is vested in me. R. C. WYLY,
Jfov 20 tJ'6l. Commissioner.
NOTICE.
To Xon-Retident Htx-Paytn of Sttrjiotter County,
r tHE Taxes for tboaseal year I860, are dae on the
J- 1st day of January, A. D. 1961, and all non
resident tax-payers, ean, by sending the numbers
of their land to the undersigned previous to tho 1st
day of March, ISfll, settle their taxes at the Bank
ing Huu-eof Messrs. Brown A Johaawn, Tieksbarg,
Mies., where their receipts will be deposited witH
me, by good drafts, on New Orleans, La., or Mem
phis, Teen., by paying the nsaal per cent. I will
also act as aeat for non-residents, in psying taxes
in the adjuiciageaantieeof Wassanton and Bolivar,
aad to ml, deaden, and examine Linda. Will also
WattUae toarHTexanified.
ELI WAITES,
Sheriff of Sunflower County, Miss.
McSutt,Miss., Decl'60 t M 1st 1861.
Administrator' Sale.
BY order of the Probate Court of Minds eounty,
Mississippi, I will sell to the highest bidder,
on a credit of twelvemonths, with approved surety,
in fronlof the State Hoase, in Jackson, Mississippi,
on the first
Monday, Tin January, 1881,
Part of ten acre lot, three South, situated on Pas
eagoa'a street , also partof ten acre lot, two South,
situa'ed oa Pearl street, the property of Michael
Blase, deceased. Toe above property will be sold
at 11 o'clock, A. M., at tho place above mentioned.
lass titleof said property is considered good, but
I will convey such title only as ia invested in me
as Administrator on said Estate.
J0H5 BLAKE, j
joy 20 60 waw. Administrator
Valuable Tract er Land lor Sale.
THE undersigned offers a valuable tract of
land in Uolmae county for sale. It contains
Sou acres four hundred of which are cleared. It
baa excellent improvements ; and among other
recommendations, has an -orchard of ten acres con
taining (he best varieties of fruit trees. It is
convenient to the Yasoo 'river aad the Mississippi
Central Railroad being only 3 miles from
Pickens' Station. For particulars address,
LEMUEL DOTY,
Richland, Holme Co., Miss.
Sept. 21. '0-wSra
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,'
IaSAqrasA Cor NTT. 1
7 tie CAsaesr Court taid Couny, Sorrmber
Tern I860.
Eobxbt J. Tra.vBt LL, 1
vs. - Chancery, No. 28.
CoasexiA Tfa.vBCLL, wr it.)
UrON" opening the complainants' Bill, anl upon
affidavit filed herein, it appearing to the satis
faction of the Court, that the Detendanu, Cornelia
Tumbull, Lewis 6. Turn bull, Anne W. Turnbull,
Hiatlak G. Turnbull, Catharine E. Turnbull, An
drew Turnbull, and Goaveneur M. Wilkins, defen
dants in the above stated cause, are not residents
of tho State of Mississippi, bat reside beyond the
limits thereof, so tnat the process of this Court
cannot be served upon them.
It is ordered by the Court, that unless the said
detendanu be, and personally appear before the
Chancery Court of Issaquena County, Mississippi,
on the
Fourth Monday or May, 1801,
and shall then and there plead, answer, or demur
to the Bui of lioap'ainant, the sa no will be taken
tor iilllll ana aeeree renaerea sec ,rdingiy I
It is furtner ordered, that a copy of this orner-
be published ia the "Misaiesippian and State
lette," a newspaper printed and published in the
city of Jackson, and State of Mississippi, once a
week, for four weeks successfully.
Ordered, this 27th day of November A. D. If 60.
Teste : J. W. PRESCOTT, Clerk.
Marshall a Millxx, Sols, for Complainant.
bee 12 Vio w4w.
DELINQUENT TAX-LANDS.
ACBiToa'g Orrica. )
Jaeksoa, Miss., Dee. 26th, I860, f
THE following described lands, ia tho county of
Tallobusna, delinquent for non-aayment of
taxes of 1867, will be subject to entry or purchase,
at this office, after sixty days from the date hereof,
by any eittaea of this State, upon payment of the
! Miliar V.efc oatcj Itt4i are delinquent, and
all costs to tho State, with damages and subsequent
taxes accrued. See Revised Code of Mississippi,
chap. 1, see. , arts. 46 and 46, page 82.
Division otSeotion. S. T. R.
Lou 12 and 13 4 23 4E
Part n e q and e h s q 10 23 4
Whnwq 6 24 6
Nwq... 7 25 6
8 w q a eq and n w q s aq 17 2i i
N e q s w q aad s h s w q 17 25 5
N w q n o q and a eqn wq 2 35 4
Part a w q 8 22 5
Part nwq 8 25 4
Seqnwq 17 25 6
Swqnwq 37 24 4
Swqneq 18 24 4
Whswq 15 25 7
Seqandehswq 17 25 7
Noqnwq 20 35 7
Whswq and a h a w q 34 2-1 6
E h n e q and n h s e q and soqsoq. 3 23 6
8 e q n oq and a q s o q 9 23 7
Swqseq 17 23 6
17 23 6
E h n eq and a w q a wq 28 23 7
W hse qandneqswq 2 23 7
Nwqswq 27 25 4 w
All .? 1 11 7
h 3 11 7
LoU 1,2, 3,6 7 26 4E
8 e q s w q and whswq 13 22 6
Swqneq 23 32 6
Lots 4, 5, 2, block 1 18 22 4
Nsqtwq 18 22 7
Fractional E h 1 12 4 w
Nwq S 11 7E
Lots 5 and 6, in Graysport
Survey 5, and part 8, south survey,
Grenada
S h tot 19. block 1 18 22 5 E
Lot 12, Graysport
Swq 1 32 4
Partnoq 1 23 4
N w q a e q and swqnwq 16 22 5 E
LoU L 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 aad 12, Block 4, Oakland.
N b, lot 5, in bloek 11, and lots 4, 6, 6, 9, block 13,
Oakland.
Lo4 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11,12, bloek 16, Oakland.
All btoe 21, fn Osklan i.
Lots 23, 57, and 71, ia Grenada, south survey.
Lot 1, in Bloek II, Oakland.
LoU 1, 2.3,4,5, 6,7.8,9, 11, 12, bloek 8, Oakland.
LoU 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 8, , 11, 12, Bloek 2, Oakland.
Lou 1, 2, 3, aad 4, in Bloek 3, Oakland.
' E.8. BURT,
Deo 26 '60 w69d. Auditor Fun. Aect's.
PERFUMERY for the Toilette; Lnbins, Ham
ming Bird; Japaoe-e: Highland; Violette;
Jockey Club; New Mown Hay; Spring Flower; Mig
neonette, Ac., jast received by J. 8. SIZKR.
rucKPE.vrixE.
Linseed Oil, Varnishes, PainU
A in Oil and Brushes, jast received by
ed by
J.S.SIZER.
Nor 16 fja.
Plantation for Sale.
1 OFFER Sherwood for sale. It contains seven
hundred aad twenty aerea, and is handsomely
and substantially improved ; with plenty of timber.
This ptaee is well known as being one of the best
in the country. It Is located three miles from
Vernon, Madison County.
July 18 ' w tf. J. B. BALFOUR.
Jf welry and Watches I ! !
rjm
E must eleeant Jewel rv. and the beat or
Watches, at low price, at J. B. MOBKyH.
D
IHT UU m, J' ' '
J. B. MORET.
and freshest.
B
EST Virginia Coal Oil.
Coal Oil Lamps, just
J B HOBBY'S.
received at
A Farm lar Sale.
IT is one mile from Jackson, on tho Bailroad to
Brandon. Well improved about one hundred
acres in cultivation ; a good garden ; a large quan
tity of every kind of fruit; about lour hundred
acres in the tract; plenty of wood for the Jackson
market. Tae terms will be seoumodating to tne
parehaaer. March 10o-tf. K.L.eUYES.
FOR SALE.
A DWELLING House and Lot, situated imme
diately ia the Junction of the Sew Orleans,
and Jackson, and Southern Railroad. There are on
the lot, two comfortable dwelling blouses, each con
taining fire or six rooms : also cisterns and all
other convenances for families. For particulars
apply on the premises to
March 2 '60 tf. W. U. DONS ELI..
LaBdredth Freoh Gardes Seeds tit
TilS day received ,ur new stock of fresh Garden
deeds of 1860 growth, at 1, 90 per dosea : also
white and yellow onion setts. J. B. MOREY.
Xiss. State Keporcs.
HOWARD, 7 vols; Smedes k Marshall's H vols;
Cosh -Baa, 7 vols; George, 8 vols; 8. and It.
Chancery Reports, 1 vol; Freeman's Chancery Re
port 1 vol : Smedes Digest, I vol. J B MOKE Y
CULL and see those improved Pistols.
J Dec 25 '80. J B HOREY.
M
ANY Toys and aoo presents tioi. articles for
Sew Year's presents. j.o.auati.
nPOYS ! Toys 1 1- for Christmas, just received at
1 Dec 21 '80. JBHOREY'S.
Washington Connty Lands for Sale.
I AM disposed to sell my valuable tract of Land,
on Sunflower River in Washington County,
numbers are: X B , Section 25, Township 18,
Range i, W ; all of Section J8, X X, Section 31,
and N 4, Section it, all Township 18, Range 4,
west, containing HtO acres, iying one or two miles
oast of the river adjoining the original entries of
the Crane's and General Downing. For farther
information and terms apply to the Hon. Madison
McAfee and Hon. M. D. Barnes, State Treasurer at
the Capitol.
Jane 21 'Sfl-wtf. POWHATAN ELLIS.
For Bale.
t WILL sell a cheap piece of property
property la a Tan
flentoo, la Yasoo
I Yard, situated in the town of Hoi
Coaaty. The yarn is siiaaieu iu woaituj purnun
iftao Connty, and the facilities forgetting bides,
bark Ac, are certainly groat itduaeaents to those
wishing to engag in such a businees. The Yard
is large, and ia good order, with the necessary toots,
ad bark
i wiil be made for the tools aad
S'k oo in the yard. Address, W . P. 1150.
VOL. XXIX.
THIS MISS1SS1PPIAN
Jackson,
-December 28, 1860.
E. BARKSDALE, Editor ft Proprietor.
A nnovmoomonts
FOK MAYOR.
We are authorised to announce B. C. KKRR
as a candidate for re-election to the ollice of
Mayor. Election first Monday in January.
We art authorized to announce E.P. RUSSELL
as a candidate for Mayor.
A. MORGAN, is a candidate for Mayor of the
City of Jackson.
FOR ALDERMAN.
We are authorised to announce the name of
WM. M. PAT f UN, as a candidate for the office of
Alderman. Election first Monday in January.
We are authorised to announce H. M. TAYLOR
as a eandidato for the offioe of Alderman Elec
tion first Monday in January.
We aro authorized to announce the name of J.
II. ECHOLS, as a candidate for the office of Alder
man. Election rt Monday in January.
BsT" C. S. KNAPPjs candidate for A derman.
nMYM. BOYD U a eandidataTor Alder
man. 3f JN'O. W. ROBINSON is a candidate for
Alderman.
STATE CONVENTION.
Sf" We are authorised to announce the name
of J.J. DESSOX, as a eandidale for Bergeant-at-Anns,
for the State Convention on the first Monday
in January, 1861.
- We are authorised to announce the name
of '. A. POPE, of Holmes oounty, as candidate
for Seomtaryof the State Convention. First Mon
day in January, 1861.
BT DR. A. V. ROWE, of Lexingtan, is acaa
didate for Secretary of the Convention.
To Advktisixs. The Mlaalaslpplao goes to press lm
j mediately after the arrival of half paat 5 o'clock ears
i from WiwOstsaas. Those wlenW their advertisements
: Inserted would do well to bring them In be re 8 o'clock
on publication days.
Important News from Charleston!
Authentic information was received here
; yesterday, that on Wednesday night, Fort
' Moultrie was abandoned by the Government
forces cannon spiked and gun carriages
burnt. The forces were removed to Fort
Sumpter, which is believed to be impregnable.
This movement, it is understood, was caused
by the passage by the South Carolina Conven
tion of an Ordinance appropriating the cus
toms at the port of Charleston for State pur
poses. A collision between the authorities of the
enl government and the State tf South
xlina seems almost inevitable, and it is not
to be supposed that the people of Mississippi
will stand idle spectators of a contest involving
all that is dear to them and to their posterity.
: The attempt to crush th "people of that gal
lant State who have thrown themselves in the
' breach, is a blow aimed at the liberties of the
i entire South and as such must be repelled.
We do n0 more , , than to saest
I
to Mississippians to bold themselves b readi
ness to respond to whatever summons nay be
made upon them.
Black Republican Governors in Council--War
upon the South Threatened!
The following intelligence was telegraphed
from Washington to the New York Herald
of the 23d:
Important intelligence has been divulged here
to-night, via N. York. It is that the Govern
on elsot of avw Eaoturn and Northern
States met in New York recently, and after a
full review of the whole political battlefield,
unanimously determined that the republicans
should not offer a compromise, but on Mr.
Lincoln assuming the reins of government to
push their anti-slavery doctrines to the utter
most, even to the extent of a war upon the
South.
Or We are indebted to Mr. J. B. Fairehild,
of Raymond, for the very full statistics of the
late election in Hinds.
The Commissioner from Mississippi be
fore the Legislature of Georgia.
We have the pleasure of reproducing the
eloquent address of Hon. W. L. Harris, Com
missioner from Mississippi to Georgia, to the
Legislature of the latter State.
The resolutions unanimously adopted by
the Legislature aforesaid, are also published.
It will be seen that the sentiment under which
Mississippi has sought the co-operatiat of
Georgia, is fully reciprocated by that venera
ble Commonwealth, and that it has been un
hesitatingly pledged so far as her Legisbtture
i s concerned.
ALABAMA VOTES FOE IMMEDIATE
SEPARATE SECESSION ! !
The election for Delegates to the Alakma
I State Conrentiorjj was held on Thursday last.
r ,i a uaic use uwasiuc ui aiauug vua jw ' '
putting this sheet to press, we received adis
patch from Mr. Reid of the Montgomery'Ad
vertnser, conveying the cheering intelligence
that the State had gone for "immediate separ-
, ate secession by an immense majority."
Convention to Form the New Confed
eracy. The Charleston Mercury suggests toihe
Convention of South Carolina now in session,
the passage of an ordinance, inviting thee
ceding States to meet at Montgomery, Ala
bama, on the first or second Monday in
ruary next, by Delegates appointed by the Be
ceding Conventions, to form a ConsUtutionfor
a Southern Confederacy, and to put the sane
into operation and adds :
The Delegates appointed by the several ie
ceding Conventions immediately after the Con
vention has finished its labors, can reportto
their several State Conventions for a mutila
tion o." the Constitution. The Cons'.itufcn
can thus be made, ratified and put into opera
tion by April next
Secession State Conventions The
Sepaouc.
South Carolina having opened the btlof
secession, we reproduce, for the information
of our readers, the cotton States, in tie
order in which they are expected to foUonf
A secession State Convention will be herdV
In Florida, January 3.
In Alabama, January 7:
In Mississippi, January 7.
In Texas (spontaneous), January 8.
In Georgia, January 9.
In Louisiana, January 23.
A special session of the Legislatures ea of
Virginia and Tennessee, in reference k a
State Convention, will meet on the i th Ji
ary . The Legislature of North
now in session, and according to our
ports was engaged upon measures for
the State.
It is proposed that the foregoing
together with such others as are pi
act, will appoint delegates to a general
vention to assemble at some central
early as the 1st Monday of February,
ganize as early as practicable, a new
ment.
Chakce roa a White Bor. The PhOJel-
phia Ledger, a few days since, contained the
following advertisement:
" Wanted, by a respectable colored i!y,
a white boy, fourteen or sixteen years of age,
to wait on table and make himself piogfaUy
useful about the house."
Liscols'8 Cabibbt. It is annouced, au
thoritatively that Lincoln has tendered io Mr.
Bates of St Louis one of his Black sjtpub
lican competitors for the Chicago nomination,
the place of Secretary of the Interior, and
that it has been accepted.
BT Blood Food: Blood Food! Seesdrertiss
tat In another eel ma. march
Union Meetings at the North.
Our Northern exxhanges are coming to us
freighted with the proceedings of meetings
gotten up to save the Union. Bat they are
"sound and fury signifying nothing." They
originate with parties who vited against Lin
coln in November and who then exhausted
their efforts to prevent the causes which have
prodt'ped the dismemberment of the confed
eracy. It is a significant fact that Black Re
publicans who are alone able to give guaran
tees, even if they were worth having, do not
participate in these meetings. We have ex
amined the proceedings with much anxiety
and have not yet been able to find among the
participants the name of a single prominent
member of the Black Republican party. What
then are these Union-saving, peace-offering
demonstrations worth?- They come not from
our enemies who have brought all these ca
lamities upon tho L'nion t but from friends
who fought with the South in November and
who were borne down by tho black tide
which swept over the -.North. If they illus
trate any fact, therefore, it is the fact that the
Black Republicans in the North obstinately
and resolutely refuse to come to any terms of
settlement with the South; and that none are
willing to do so in the North except the conser
vatives whose inability to control the public
sentiment of that section was abundant' y
shown in the Presidential election.
A meeting of the kind here described was
held in New York city, on the 15th Mr.
Charles OConor presiding. It is thus men
tioned by the N. Y. Tribune:
We had, for a novelty, a Union-saving
meeting in our city on Saturday. It was
held at the effice of Mr. Richard Lathers, and
was composed in the main of the beaten can
didates and ustd-up stumpers and wire-workers
of the late Presidential canvass. Having
failed to exe. t any influence with the people
of their own and the other Free States, these
gentlemen were called together to try their
powers of persuasion upon those of the em
bryo Cotton Republic. Mr. Charles OConor
was very properly chosen Chairman, with
three persons whom we do not happen to have .
previously heard of as Secretaries.
The Tribune significantly adds : " Who
wants to be assured that Lathers & Co., are
devoted to the slave power? H7iif tin South
distrusts is not their icijl, but their power.
There, in truth, is the rub !
The Lincoln Doctrine.
In answer to an invitation from Boston to
participate in the celebration of Jefferson's
birthday, April 13tb, 1860, Abraham Lincoln
the Black Republican President elect of the
Northern Confederacy, enunciated this doc
trine: This is a rorld of compensations, and he
who would be no slave must consent to ha ve
no slave. Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just
God, cannot long retail, it.
Important Revelations.
The' following address was telegraphed by
Senator Toombs frjm Washington city to the
people of Georgia, on the 23d inst.
It will be seen that he announces the utter
absence of all chance of a settlement of the
sectional troubles.
On the motion of Mr. Powell of Ky., a
committee of thirteen was raised in the Sen
ate, to propose measures of pacification, and of
this committee, Mr. Toombs was a member.
He telegraphs to his constituents that the
Black Republican members of this committee,
of whom William H. Seward is prominent,
had voted down every proposition which had
for its object the removal of the causes of
dissension between the North and the South.
Among these propositions, were the series of
resolutions offered by Mr. Crittenden of Ky.,
for a restoration of the Missouri restriction,
and a modification of the fugitive slave law of
1850, so as to make it less repugnant to Aboli
tion sentiment. A settlement upon these
terms would have outraged the Constitution
and degraded the South ; but although of a
character so wounding to Southern honor
they were unhesitatingly rejected by the Black
Republican leaders. Tbey demand still grea
ter concessions !
These revelations will certainly convince
the most hopeful how vain is the indulgence
of the faintest anticipation of a restoration of
peace. They will strengthen the people of
Mississippi in the consciousness -of the wis
dom of their decision at the ballot-box on the
20th ; and will teach wholesome and profita
ble lessons to those who have been deputed to
reflect their sovereign will in the Convention
soon to assemble :
Washington, Dec. 23) 1860.
Senator Toombs telegraphs this evening
tho following address to the poople of
Georgia : .
I came here to secure your constitution
al rights, or to demonstrate to you that you
can get no guarantees for those rights from
your Northern confederates. The whole
subject was reierrua to a committee oi
Thirteen in tho Senate. I was appointed
on that committee and accepted the trust.
I submitted propositions which, so far from
receiving decided support from a single
member of the Republican party on the
committee, were all treated with either dor
rison or contempt. A' vote was then taken
in tho committee on amendments to the
Constitution, proposed by Hon. J. J. Crit
tenden, and each and all of them were vo
ted aguinst unanimously by the Black Re
publican members of the committee. Iu
addition to these facts, a majority of the
Black Republican members of the Commit
tee declarad distinctly that they had no
guarantees to offer; which declaration was
silently acquiesced in by the other mem
bers. The Black Republican members of
this Committee of Thirteen are represen
tative men of their party and section, and
to the extent of my information, truly re
present them. The Committee of 3a
on Friday adjourned for a week without
coming to any vote, after solemnly pledg.
iug themselves to vote on all the proposi
tions, then before them, on that day. It is
controlled by the Black Republicans, your
enemies, who only seek to amuse you with
delusive hope, until your election, that you
may defeat the friends of secession. If
you are deceived by them it shall not be
my fault. I have put the test fairly aud
frankly. It is decisive against you, and
now 1 toll you upon the fuith of atrue man,
that all further looking to the North for
security for your constitutional rights in
the Union ought to be instantly abandoned.
It is fraught with nothing but ruin to your
selves und posterity. Secession by the
4th of March next should bo thundered
from the ballot box by the unanimous voice
of Georgia, on the 2d day of January next.
Such a voice will be your best guarantee
for liberty, security, tranquility and glory.
R. TOOMBS.
Oir-Andrew Johnson, U. S. Senator from
Tennessee, who spoke in the Senate in favor
of coercion, on the 17th, was burned in effigy
at Memphis on Saturday night last
' United States Court in Georgia. The
House of Representatives of the State of Geo
gia passed, on the 19th, the bill to render void
all sales under process of the United Slates
courts in Georgia nntil Dec. 1st. 1861.
Nobthebn Publications. Mr. Carlisle, of
the News Depot in this city, we are informed,
intends sending for no more northern publica
tions which are in any way tinctured with the
Lincoln sentiments of the Black Republicans
of that section.
(pj- Extract of a letter dated Enterprise,
Doc 24th: "Clark, Newton, Lauderdale, Jas
per, Wayne, Kemper, Sco and all the East
ern counties, ban giv en decided majorities lor
the
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
JACKSON,
Members Elected to the Convention.
As far as heard from, the following delegates,
with their classifications, have been elected to
the Mississippi Convention, which will meet on
the t th of January :
HinW W. P. Harris, W. P. Anderson, W.
B. Smart. (Immediate Secession.)
Rankis. J. J. Thornton, W. Denson.
(Co -Operation.)
Scott. C. W Taylor, (Im. S.)
Smith. W. Thompson, (do.)
Madison.--A. P. Hill, (do.)
New in M. M. Keith, (do.)
I Neshoba. J. L. Backstrom, (do.)
Lauiehuale. Dr. Ramsey, Maj. Semmes,
(do.)
Copiah. P. S. Catchings, Ben King, (do.)
Claiborne. Henry T. Ellett, (do )
Jefferson. J. S. Johnson, (do.)
Wakren. T. A. Marshall, W. Brooke,
(Co-Op.)
Adams. A. K. Parrar, J. Winchester, (do.)
Holmes. W. L.Keirn, J. M. Dyer, (Im. S.)
Yazoo. Henry Vaughan, G. B. Wilkinson,
(do.)
Jarroll. A. Booth, J. Z. George, (do.)
Sunflower. E. P. Jones, (do.)
Tallahatchie. A. Patterson, (do.)
Yallobusha. W. R. Barksdale, F. M. Al
dridge, (do.)
Lafayette. L. Q. C. Lamar, T. D. Isom,
(do.)
Lowndes. George R. Clayton, W. S. Bar
ry, (do.)
Tippah. Joel Berry, Orlando Davis, D.
B. Wright, J. L Davis, (do.)
Noxubee, Israel Welsh, (do.)
Marshall. J. W. Clapp, Samuel Benton,
H. W. Walter, A. M. Clayton, Willis M. Lea,
(do.)
Pontotoc H. R. Miller, B. W. Flournoy,
C. D. Fontaine, J. B. Herring, (do.)
Harrison. D. C. Glenn, (do.)
Hancock. J. B. Deason, (do.)
Jackson. A. E. I-ewis, (do.)
Amite. D. W. Hurst, (co-op.)
Attala. J. W. Wood, E. H. Sanders,
(Co-Op.)
Winston. W. S. Boiling, John Kennedy,
(Im. S.)
Monroe. S. J. Gholson, F. M. Rogers,
(do.)
Wilkinson. Alfred Holt, (do.)
Issaquena. Albert C. Gibson, (do.)
Pike. J. M. Nelson, (do.)
Tishomingo. A. E. Reynol Is, J. A. Blair,
3. Young, W. W. Bonds, (Co-Op.)
Simpson. W. J. Douglas, (Im. S.)
Marion. Hamilton Mayson, (do.)
Chickasaw. C 3. Baldwin, J. A. Orr, (do.)
Okttbbeha. T. L Bookter, (do.)
Franklin. D. H. Parker, (Co-Op.)
Jasper. O. C. Dease, (Im. S.)
Panola. J. B. Fiser, E. A. McGehee, (do.)
Kemper. 0. Y. Neely, Thos, Wood, (do.)
Clark. S. H. Terrell, (do.)
DeSoto. J. R. Chalmers, & D. Johnston,
Mr. Lewers, (Im-8.)
Lawrence. F. T. Cooper, (do.)
Covington. A. C. Powell, (do.)
Coahoma. J. L. Alcorn.
TtoMVAK. Miles LL McGohoe.
Washington. J. S. Yerger, (Co-Op.)
(It is proper to mention, that as doubts ex
ists whether the members from Warren and
Adams were elected in accordance with the
form prescribed by law, the Convention will
probably refer the matter back to the people.)
From the foregoing returns, it will be seen
that the State has decided in favor of imme
diate secession with remarkable unanimity.
The counties yet to here from, will give a ma
jority for that side, proportionate to the above.
Postcript.
Since the foregoing was put in type we have
received the Natchez Free Trade, containing
the following. Dr. Blackburn and Mr. Mar
shall are both for immediate secession :
Election of Delegates to the State Con
vention.
City of Natchez. Dr. Ed. M. Blackburn
was elected delegate to the State Convention
from the city of Natchez yesterday, without
opposition. He received 11 1 votes at the
Court House and 42 at the Jefferson Hotel
precincts. Total 169.
County or Adams. We understand that
Geo. M. Marshall has also been elected the
Delegate from the county of Adams. The
full vote is not in.
No Hope.
In view of the defiant and arrognt tone of
the Black Republican organs and leaders in
Congress, the New York News which has
hitherto expressed a great degree of confidence
in the restoration of harmony between the two
sections abandons the hope altogether, de
claring that nothing can avert the impending
catastrophe of the disband ment of the Republic
but the interposition of a "higher power."
In the course of an elaborate article in its
issue of the 18th, the News, says :
The leaders of the Black Republican party
in Congress exhibit the same hardened spirit,
and are apparently determined to drench the
country in blood rather than recede from the
absurd and pernicious political notions adop
ted as the party platform.
1 o avoid this rate we cannot count on the
discretion or the returning sense of patriotic
duty of the Republicans, but alone on the in
terposition of a higher 1'ower.
Co-operation Unconstitutional. Hav
ing shown that co-operation in the Union
would be in violation of the Constitution, the
N. O. Crescent makes the following ijrnble
and appropriate remarks as to the object and
purposes of the submissionists calling them
selves co-ope rationists:
But it is useless to disguise the fact that this
project of "co operation" is but another name
for compromise fur submission. That is
what it means, and it is not worth while to
call it by any other name. Those who favor
"co-operation" not all ol them perhaps
have hopes that it will result in a demand for
guarantees which will be granted. They
think that what is called the "conservative
sentiment" of the border states will bear
down the other Southern States that are de
termined to have their plain political rights
and liberties. Tbey believe if the Gulf States
can be entrapped into a conference, they will
feel themselves bound in honor to abide the
resuit, and the result will be sulmission. It
is a scheme to drag on the Gulf States into a
conventicle where they will be overslaughed
by the numerical powers ol the others, and
I ,.i unituM. in , Vi . 1 1 il.niL'iAi, Tl.nt i
forced to acquiesce in their decision.
what it means, and nothing else.
Cholic in Horses. I will give you a re
ceipt which I have known to cure in a few
minutes, i Knew a norse tagen wnn it on a
tread wheel to a carding machine, so that the
owner thought he could not live. He got the
veterinary surgeons, and they did what they
could, and all decided that the horse must
die. The man's wife, who believed and prac
ticed hygiene, from the time the horse was
takjn tried to persuade her husband to use a
wet bandage, but he insisted it would do no
good. After all had given up that the horse
could not live, by her entreaties the doctors
saying it could do no good or hurt he took
a thick bed comforter, bound it around the
horse, went to the well and drew water, and
poured it on till thoroughly soaked. It seem
ed like a pot boiling. In leas than fifteen
minutes from the time he commenced the
watering process, tho horse was up and eating,
to the great surprise of the horse doctors, who
knew it could not live. The horse did good
service afterwards, litis recipe I gave sever
al yean ago, and it was copied into most as
I was told by an editor of the agricultural,
and many other papers in the United States.
Many have tried and proved it Try it, broth.
r farmers, Fa rmin' Advocate
MORNING, ON CAPITOL
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 18G1
Secession of South Carolina.
The following fa the form by which the
State of South Carolina, Thursday last, de
clared her connection with the, -Union dis
solved : .
AN ORDINANCE,
To dissolve the Ufion lieUveen the SLatc of
South Carolina atd other States united with
her under Ane Cjnpact entitled, "the Con
stitution of the -cgnited Slrs of America."
"We, the peopleJof the State of South Car
olina, in Convention Assembled, doaeclarcnnd
ordain, and it is hegpby declared amd ordain
ed, that the ordinaafB adoied by us in Con
vention on the tweaty-tiiird day of May, in
the year of our Lonf'one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-eigiijj, whereby the Constitu
tion of the United plates, of America was
ratified, and also all lets aiid parts of acts o!
the General Assembly of this State ratifying
amendments of tl'9 said Constitution, are
hereby repealed: afethjjhat the union notajsub-
sistinc between " .oWssPWiolins and other
Mates, under the name ol the united states
of America, is hereby dissolved.''
The ordinance was reported by Mr. Inglis,
from the Special Committee of Thirteen, ap
pointed thereto. During its reading the most
impressive silence prevailed throughout the
vast assembly. The door was then closed,
the Clerk called the rol alphabetically, and
the vote was taken by the ayes and noes.
The President then announced, at fifteen
minutes past one o'clock, Thursday afternoon,
the 'JOth of December, that the ordinance, had
been agreed to unanimously. f
In the evening the passage of the ordinance
was solemnly ratified in the presence of the
members of the convention, members oi the
Senate, members of the Legislature and a
large assembly of people. At the con
clusion of the signing, President Jamison
exhibited the parchment to the meeting, an
nouncing, that the ordinance of secession had
been signed and ratified. He therefore pro
claimed the State of South Carolina an inde
pendent commonwealth !
Vote of Hinds County.
SECESSION". CO-OI'EKATION
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58 56 57 62 02 80
17 17 31 : 41 40 35
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Clinton
Raymond
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Terry's
Burnett's Wells
Utica
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lOOOj 939916 U716670 600
Hon. J. L. Alcorn. This gentleman has
been elected to the Convention, from the
county of Coahoma, and is classified by
the Vicksburg Whig as a "Co-Opcrationist."
The term "co-oneraiidu'1 isv,ytague and
indefinite, and can have no practical applica
tion in contradistinction irom immediate State
action, inasmuch as it is net probable that any
member of the Convention will oppose the
co-operation of Mississippi with South Caro
lina, and such other Southern States as will
certainly have left the Union before the 4th of
March. The term was doubtless assumed in
many cases as a cloak for submission union
ism; but not in this sense can the Whig ap
ply it to Col. Ahorn, if his sentiments are to
be inferred from the following paragraps in
a recent publication of his of a Mem;ihis paper,
correcting certain statements which had gone
abroad touching the alleged punishment of
abolition emissaries in the county of his resi
dence. Says Col. A :
Our people are free from excitement, singu
larly free lrom it. They have been excited ;
but it has passed off. We regarded Lincoln's
election as a declaration of war on the jmrt of
the North against us. Wo regarded the de
claration as so unjust that we felt insulted ;
were indignant ; and became excited ; but we
are now rectus a curia. Our minds are
made up ; our action is determined upon, and
those who were a little noisy at first are now
stubbornly jilent. Indeed, I think rellection
lias induced a slight feeling oi" gratification
among all lasses of -our community, that the
time for a jinal settlement of tlie vezeit question
lias come.
Of tlien. Hh we have nothing to ash Bgivea
us pain to see southern members of Qmgrets,
patriotic th? tyh their motives are, moving in the
direction Oj compromise. The North has token
her position We of Mississippi will not ash
tier to recede. We would degrade ourselvs to do
so, yet mors' than cowards to yield the cause.
Yours verv truly,
J. L. ALCORN.
If the W ,tig is a Union paper and can ex
tract any comfort from the foregoing, it is wel
come to it.
s-o si
Kentucky Legislature Extra Session.
The Louisville Journal says it has good au
thority though it is not from oilicial sources
that Gov. Magoffin has determined to con
vene the Legislature of Kentucky in extra
session, on 'he first day of January.
(gj- The newly elected Governor of South
Carolina, in his inaugural on Monday, used the
following :
There is one thing certain and I think it
due to the country to na.7 o fn advance, that
South Carolina is resolved to assert her separ
ate independence, and as she acceded separate
ly to the compact of union, so she will most
assuredly secede separately and alone, be the
consequences what tbey may; and I think it
right to say, with no unkind feeling whatever,
that on this point there can be no compromise,
let it be offered from where it ma'. The
issues are too grave and too momentous to
admit of any counsel that looks to anything
but direct and straight forward independence.
In the present emergency tho firmest and
most decided measures are the safest and
wisest. To our sister States who are identi
fied with us in interest and in feeling we will
cordially and kindly look for co-operation for
a future Union ; but it must be after we have
asserted and resumed our original and inalien
able rights, powers of sovereignty and inde
pendence. We can then form a government
with them, having a common interest with
people of homogeneous feelings, united togeth
er by all the tics that can bind States in one
common destiny. From the position we may
occupy toward tho Northern States, as well
as from our own internal structure of society,
the government may from necessity become
strongly military in its organization.
.;e
Agrarian' Mobs at the North. The
Marlboro' (Mass.) Mirrior says that several
shoe manufacturers in that town have suspen
ded manufacturing altogether, while others are
cutting down the wages or time ot their em
ployes. A large number, of the French por
tion of the population have thus been thrown
out of employment. On Tuesday last they
formed in procession, a la Wide Awakes, and
marched to tho music of violins, fifes, etc.,
through several of the principal streets.
Nearly every person in tho crowd carried
either a gun, club, or other weapon, and a
black apron answered for the banner. The
burden of their song seemed to be "Hard
Times," "Hard Times."
Disunion Meeting in New Orleans. An
enthusiastic separate secession meeting was
held in New Orleans, on the 24th. C. W
Conrad, Chas Gayare and Judge Walker, were
the principal speakers. The feeling in lavor
of disunion is very strong in Louisiana, and
it will derive additional force by the news from
Miwisuippi nd Alabama.
STREET, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI.
Important from Texas.
Gov. Houston, of Texas, has convened the
Legislature of that Slate, in extra session, at
Austin, on Monday, the 2 1st of January.
The moowiug is his proclamation, brought by
the rrix&ta :
Whereas, There has been, and vet is great
excitement, existing in the public mind, aris
ing from various causes, touching our rela
tions w ith the Federal Government and many
of the States, and a portion of the people hav
ing expressed a desire that the Legislature
should be convenccd in extra session;
An;l whereas, the ExecuUn desires that
such measures should be adopted as will se
cure a free expression of the popular will
through the ballot-box, upon the question at
issue, involving their peace, interest, security
and happiness, and the action of the whole
people made known in relation to the course
which it may be proper and necessary for
I 1
Texas, as one of the States ol the Union, to
P
rights in the union, as guaranteed by the
Federal constitution;
And whereas, our frontier is now invaded
by Indians, and the lives ol ourck,zens taken
and their property destroyed;
And whereas, the Treasury is without
means cither to defend the frontier, or meet
ordinary expenses of government;
Now, therefore, I, Sam Houston, Governor
of the State of Texas, for the reasons herein
set forth, do hereby issue this, my proclama
tion, ordering the Legislature of the State of
Texas to convene in extra session at the Cap
itol, in the city of Austin, on Monday, the
-1st day: January, A. u. 1861.
Given under my hand and the
Si
r q f ft'va
seal of the Mate, at Auatm,
( ' ' 4 this, the 17th day of December, A;
!., I860, and in the year of Inde
pendence of the United States the 85th, and
of Texas the 25th.
lly order of the Governo, r
SAM HOUSTON.
K. W, CavC, Secretary of State.
The Peoples' Convention, also, meet at Ails
tin, on the 2Sth of January. The Legisla
ture and the convention, says the Galveston
News, will therefore act tog, uier ; and we
are gratified that the Executive has so far re
sponded to the people's wish.
ADDRESS
Of Hon. W. L. Harris before the Geor
gia Legislature. x
Mr. President, and gentlemen of the Senate
and House of Representatives i f Oa. :
I am profoundly sensible of the delicate
and important duty imposed upon me, by the
courtesy of this public reception.
Under different circumstances, it would
have afforded me great pleesurc, as a native
Georgian reared and educated on her soil
to express to you fully, the views which pre
vail in my adopted State, in relation to the
great measures of deliverance and relief from
the principles and policy of ihe new Adminis
tration, which are there in progress.
1 cannot consent, however, upon the very
heel of your arduous and exciting session, to
avail myself of your respectful courtesy to the
State I have the honor to represent, as well
as your personal kindness to her humble re
presentative, to prolong the discussion of a
subject which, however important and absorb
ing, has, doubtless, been already exhausted
in your hearing, by some of the first intellects
of your State, if not of the nation.
I !.', therefore, to refer you to the action of
Mississippi already .submitted to your Exe
cutive to ask for her the sympathy anil co
operation she seeks for the common good, and
briefly to suggest to you some of the motives
which iniluence her conduct.
I am instructed by the resolution from
which I derive my mission, to inform the
Suite of Georgia, that Mississippi has passed
an act calling a convention ol her people, "to
consider the present threatening relations of
tho Northern and Southern sections of the
Confederacy aggravated by the recent elec
tion of a President, upon principles of hostility
to the States of the South ; and to express the
earnest hope of Mississippi, that this State will
co-operate with her in the adoption ofejii init
measures for their common defence and safety."
It will be remembered, that the violation!
our constitutional rights, whi;h has caused such
universal dissatisfaction in the South, is not of
recent daU. Ten years since, this Union was
rocked from centre to circumference, by the
very same outrages, of which we now com
plain, only now "aggravated" by the recent
election. Nothing but her devotion to the
Union our Fathers made, induced the South,
then, to yield to a compromise, in which Mr.
Clay rightly said, we had yielded everything
but our honor. We had then in Mississippi
a warm contest, which finally ended in reluc
tant acquiescence in the Compromise measures.
The North pledged anew her faith to yield to
us our constitutional rights in relation to slave 1
property. They are now, and have been ever
since that ait, denied to us, until her broken
faith and impudent threats, had become al
most insufferable before the late election.
There were three candidates presented let
the North by Southern men, till of whom re
presented the last degree of conservatism,
and concession, which their respective parties
were willing to yield, to appease the fanati
cism of the North. Some of them were deem
ed sound, in the South, on the slavery ques
tion, and none of them suited our u'tra men.
nd yet the North rejected them all ; and
their united voice, both before and since their
overwhelming triumph in this election, has
been more defiant and more intolerant than
ever before. They have demanded, and now
demand, equality between the white and ne
gro races, under our Constitution; equality in
representation, equality in the rightof suffrage,
equality in the honors and emoluments of
ollice, equality in the social circle, equality in
the rights of matrimony. The cry has lieen,
and now is, "that slavery must ceai-e, or
American liberty must perish," that "the suc
cess of Black Republicanism is tho triumph of
anti slavery," "a revolution in the tendencies
of the government that must be carried out."
To-day our government stands totally revo
lutionized, in its main features, ?nl ourConsti
tution broken and overturned. The new ad
ministration, which has effected this revolu
tion, only awaits the 4th of March for the in
auguration of the new government, the new
principles, and the new policy, upon the success
of which they have proclaimed freedom to the
slave, but eternal degration for you and for
us.
No revolution was over more complete,
though bloodless, if you will tamely submit to
the destruction of that Constitution and that
Union our fathers made.
Our fathers made this a government for the
white man, rejecting the negro, as an ignorant,
inferior, barbarian race, incapable of self-government,
and not, therefore, entitled to be as
sociated with the white man upon terms of
civil, political, or social equality.
This new administration conies into power,
under the solemn pledge to overturn and
strike down this great feature of our Union,
without which it would never have been form
ed, and to substitute in its stead their new
theory of the universal equality of the black
and white races.
Our fathers secured to us, by our Constitu
tiontl Union, now being overturned by this
Black Republican rule, protection to life, liber
ty and property, all over the Union, and wher
ever its Hag was unfurled, whether on land
or see.
Under this wretched, lawless spirit and
policy, now usurping the control of that gov
ernment, citizens of the South have been de
prived - f their property, and for attempting to
seek the redress promised by tho compromise
laws, have lost their liberty and their lives.
Equality of rights secured to white men,
in equal sovereign States, is among the most
prominent features of the Constitution under
which we have so long lived.
This equality has been denied us in the
South for years in the common territories,
while the North has virtually distributed
them as bounties to abolition fanatics and for
eigners, for their brigand service in aiding in
our exclusion.
Our Constitution, in unmistakable language
guarantees the return of our fugitive slaves.
Congress has recognized her duty in this re
spect, by enacting proper laws for the enforce
ment ol this right.
And yet these laws have been continually
nullified, and the solemn pledge of the Com
promise of 1850, by which the North came
under renewed obligations to enforce them,
has been faithlessly disregarded, and the gov
ernment and its officers set at defiance.
Who now expects these rebels against the
laws passed by their own consent and procure,
ment rebel against justice and common hon-
esty to become pious patriots by the acquisi
tion of power ? Who now expects Mr. Lin
coln to become conservative, when the only
secret of his success, and the; only foundation
of his authority, is the will and command of
that robber elan, whose mere instrument he
is, who have achieved this revolution in our
government by treading under their unhallow
ed feet our Constitjition and laws and the
L'nion of our fathers, and by ojienly defying
high heaven by wilful and corrupt perjury ?
And, above all, who is it in the South, born
or descended of Revolutionary sires, sseVn so
loves swh company, as that he will long hesi
tate before he can obtain the consent of a s ir
tuous and patriotic heart and conscience to
separate: Jroin them forever f
Mississippi is lirinly convinced that then is
1ml one alternative :
This neiv union with Lincoln Black Repub
licans and free negroes, without shivery ; or,
slavery under our old constitutional liond of
union, without xAnoabi Black Republicans, i
free negroes either, to molest us.
If we take the lormer, then submission to
negro equality il our fate. If the latter, then
sec ession is inevitable leach State for itself
and by itself, but with a view to the immediate
formation of a Southern Confederacy, under
our present Constitution, by such of the slave
holding States as shall agree in their conven
tions to unite with us. -
Mississippi seeks no delay the issue is not
new to her people. They have long and anx
iously watched its approach they think it
too late, now, to negotiate more compromises
with bankrupts in political integrity whose
i recreancy to justice, good faith and constitu
tional obligations M the most cherished feature
of their political organization.
She has exhausted her righto in sacrificial
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uecome tne macule ol both our Ificnd
s and
our enemies mere instruments of fraudulent
evasion and delay, to wearout the spirit of our
people and encourage the hopes of our com
mon enemy. In short, she is sick and tired of
the North, and pants for some respite from
eternal disturbance an 1 disquiet.
She comes now to you our glorious moth
er, the land of Baldwin, who first defiantly
asserted and preserved your rights as to slave
ry, in the federal convention, in opposition t
Messrs. Madison, Mason, and Randolph, and
the whole Union except the two Carolina.-,
the land of Jackson, who immortalized him
self by his bold exposure and successful over
throw of a legislative fraud and usurpation
-upon tlie ngbts ol tbe peop! , the land of
Troup, the sternest Itoman 0? them all, wins
single-handed and alone, without co-operation
without consultation, but wit' truth and jus
tice, and the courage of freemen at haine on
his side, defied this National Government in
its usurpations on the rights of Georgio, and
executed your laws in spite of the threats of
Federal coercion. It is to you we come. the
brightes: exemplar among the advocateSf ind
defenders of State rights and State remedies,
to take.counsel and solicit.syuipalhy in this
hour of our common trial.
laskymt, shall Mississippi follow in tfte
footsteps of (Jeorgia, when led -by her gallant
Troup t Or, is it reserved for this generation
to repudiate and expunge the brightest gc
in the history of my native State ? Impossi
ble ! God forbid it ! Forbid it, ye people of
all Northern and Western Ger rgia, who to
day, owe your existence and iinparralleled
prosperity to the maintenance of your rights
at the risk of civil war.
I sec around me some gallant spirits who
bore their share in the dangers, and now wear
with honor, here to-day in this 'Hall the lau
rels won on the side of their State, under the
banner, inscribed "Troup and the treaty!! in
that memorable struggle. Need 1 appeal to
them in behalf of my adopted State, to know
on what, side tluiy will range themselves 111
this struggle of right, against usurpation of
brute force, against the Constitutional rights
of a sister of this confederacy of equal States':'
I make no such appeal ; 1 know where you
stand. To doubt it would be to offer you the
grossest insult.
In this school of old republican orthodoxy,
I drew my first breath. It was here, I first
studied, then embraced, and next feebly, ad
vocated, the principles of State Hights and
State remedies of resistance to tyranny of
the supremacy and sovereignty of the people
of a State, and the subserviency of govern
ments to their peace and happiness and
safety. These principles will descend
with me to the grave, where this frail tene
ment of dust must perish, but they will live
on with time, and only perish when tyranny
shall be no more.
1 need not remind your great State, that
thousands and thousands of her sons and
daughters, who hav e sought and fettnd happy
homes and prosperous fortunes in the distant
forests of her old colonial domain, though now
adopted children of Mississippi, still cling with
the fond embrace of filial love, to this old
mother of States and of statesmen, from
whom both they and their adopted State de
rive their origin. It will lie difficult for such
to conceive, that they are not still the objects
of your kind solicitude and maternal svmpa
thy.
Mississippi indulges the most, confident ex
pectation ami t-elief, founded on sources ot in
formation she cannot doubt, as well as on the
existence of causes, operating upon them,
alike as upon her, that every other Gulf State
will stand by her side in defence of the posi
tion she is aboujt to assume ; and she would
rei roach herself, and every Georgia son within
her limits, would swell with ind.gnation, if
she hesitated to believe that Georgia too,
would blend her fate with her natural friends
her bobs and daughters her neighboring
sisters, in the impending struggle. fc
Whatever may be the result of your delib
erations, I beg to assure her from my inti
mate knowledge of the spirit and nffectionsof
our people, that no enemy to her constitution
al rights, may consider his v ictory won, while
a Mississippian lives to prolong the contest.
Sink or swim, livo or die, survive or perish,
the part of Mississippi is chosen, she mil nev
er submit to the principles and policy of this
Black Republican Administration. ;
She had rather see the last of) her race,
men. women and children, immolated in one
common funeral pile, than see them subject
ed to the degradation of civil, political and so
cial equality with the negro race.
Mr. llartridge from the Joint Select Com
mittee, to whom was referred the oOmmuica
tion of the Governor of Mississippi to the
Governor of this State, asks 'ave to submit
tho following
REPORT
WHICH WAS CNANIMOUSLV ADOPTED.
WarsKAS, A large portion of the jieople of
the non-slaveholding States, have lor many
years past, shown in many ways a fanatical
spirit bitterly hostile to tho Southern States,
and have through the instrumentality of in
cendiary publications, the pulpit and the news
paper press, finally organized a political party
for the avowed purpose of destroying the in
stitution of slavery, and consequently spread
ing ruin and desolation among the people in
every portion of the States where it exists,
and
Whereas, This spirit of fanaticism basal
lied itself with a design long entertained by
leading politicians of the North, to wield the
taxing power of the government, for the pur
pose of protecting and fostering the interests
of that section of the Union, and also, to ap
propriate the common territories of the United
States to the exclusive use of northern emi
gration, for the purpose of extending, consoli
dating, and rendering that power irreversible.
And whereas, These designs and move
ments have attained such ascendancy, as to
combine a largo majority of tho Northern
people in this sectional party, which his elec
ted to the Presidency and vice-Presidency of
the United States, candidates who are pledged
iu the most solemn form and the plainest, re
peated declarations to weild all the influence
and power of the Federal Government to ac
complish the objects and purposes of tho party,
by which they have been elected.
And whereas, Many of tlie slaveholdin;;
SStates aro about to assemble in Convention
for tho purpose of adopting measures for the
protection of their rights, and tho security of
their institutions.
And, whereas, The State of Mississippi has,
in a noble spirit of fraternity sent a Commis
sioner to communicate to this General Assem
bly, her desire in the emergency in our Federal
relations. Therefore be it,
Resolved 1st. That the General Assembly
of Georgia, has listened with sentiments of
profound sympathy and respect to the message
of Mississippi, on the subject of tbe present
threatening relations of the Northern and
Southern sections of the United States com
municated by her distinguished Commissioner,
Hon. William L. Harris.
Resolved 2d. That believing as we do, that
the present crises in our National affairs, de
mands resistance, this General Assembly, at
its present esion, h, with great unanimity
NUMBER 2.
passed An Act providing for the call of a Con
vention of the people of Georgia, to assemble
on the 16th day of January, 1861, for the
purpose of determiningon tho motle, measures
and time ol that resistance.
Resolved, 3d. That we cord tall issasiissiil
to the iatriotie hopes of Mississippi, so earn
estly expressed by her l.eiriM;iture, and so ably
communicated by her Commissioner, and we
no hereby give to our sister State, tlie confi
dent assurance, that in our judgment Georgia
will promptly co-oicratc with her, in the
adoption o! rjBoMst measures, for the common
defense, safety, and honor of Ihe South.
Resoled 1th. That should any, or all of
the Southern States determine, the present
emergency, to withdraw from the Union,
and resume their sovereignty, it is tne sense
of this General Assembly, that such seceding
States should form a I lonledera.y nnder a re
puUicnn form of Government, and to that
end, they should adopt the Constitution of the
United States, so altered and amended as to
suit the new state of affaire.
5th. That wc do hereby express
our coruiai appreciation ot tne dignified and
gentlemanly bearing ot the Hon. William L
Harris, toward this Gucral Assembly, as well
as tne Hississauiy manner in which he has dis
charged the responsible duties of his high
commission.
Resolved, further, That His Kxcellcncy the
Governor, be, and he hereby is requested to
ci ise all the proceedings in the reception of
tne t ominissioncr troui the State of Missis
sippi to be enrolled on parchment, signed by
uK uurccra ui aim nouses 04 the Ueneral As
Bern My, anil by the Governor, with the Seal
of State attached thereto, and that the same
be presented l.v him to tbe Hon. William 1.
1 larris as the response of Georgia to the friend
ly greeting ol Mississippi.
Jl LI AN H AKTI11DGE,
GEO. X. LESTER.
SHAM L. FANNIN,
M. W. LEWIS,
CLIFFORD ANDERSON,
GK(). T. BARNES,
JOHN .. HARRIS,
Committee on the part of the House of Rep
resentatives. T. BUTLER KING,
HUGH M. MOORE.
L. H. Bill SCO E,
HINE8 HOLT
A. 8. LAWTON
D. S. PRINTUP.
Committee on the part of the Senate.
The North Backing Down.
Let those who are cheating themselves with
the delusion that the North is locking down,
read these extracts :
From the Phila.leljJn'a Bulletin.
' TlIK FOI.I.V OF "I'tAl EAM.E SECESSION."
The information now before the public makes
it probable that there wjll Ik? no resistance of
the federal government during Mr. Buchanan's
administration. Soflth Carolina, we are in
formed, declares that the collection of the
revenue will not be resisted previous to the
fourth of March, and that no attempt will be
made previous to that time to take the United
States forts. Their vengeance is reserved for
Mr. Lincoln. This is very well. It gives
time for folly to cool, and "it will give our
Southern friends
"A foemnn worthy of their steel."'
It is pretty clear now, from demonstrations
made bq 'i by .Mr. Douglas and Mr. Bell, that
both of their parties w ill, equally with the Re
publicans, stand by the Union. Mr. Douglas,
we are informed, will take ground that seces
sion is revolution, and there can be no such
thing as peaceable secession. This is com
mon sense, and we have never denied that
Quality, us well as pluck to the Illinois Sena
tor. Here is the plain, flat-footed truth about
this matter expressed in the simplest English.
e migru as wrn fight flea as last, lor, light
we iiillst, if a State secedes; and that for sev
eral reasons.
The thing must be stopped now. It must
be resisted in time. There never will be a
more foolish secession than this. Wre may
as well fight South Carolina as the next one.
Ohsta priocipi 'is. Bonaparte never would al
low a mob to be fire 1 on with blank cartridge.
He fired into the fori -nost of the mob, and
one shot was enough. So did Jackson.
From the Chicago Democrat.
PeackabLB SkubiOsT. There can be no
such thing as peaceable secession. We are
one of those who believe that all this talk
about secession is an old trick of the slavery
extensionists, to perjietiate greater wrongs
upon human liberty. We were in the storm
for the admission of California and for the re
peal of the Missouri Compromise, and we see
nothing now more alarming than there then
was. Thsj. Xorth was then disgraced to save
the Union, llulo or ruin is the motto of the
South. But granting that the South is in
earnest, the Republican party has its duty
plainly marked out. Peaceable- secession is
coivordiv on the part of tlie North. It is an
archy. It will lie the mnunencf ment of a series
of wrongs the extent of which no man can pre
dict. Scitssion must lie put down. R must
be clucked ia itr.y'tifaiiey by the sword and bay
oneL We have an army and navy. Let both
be brought to bear to preserve the Union of
these States. And We want no affiliation
vviiii any parly thai, with the sword and purse
of this nation in its hands, cannot keep the
Union together.
Tin: Dt fir ok the Northern Men in
CoNmis.l,ei them stand firm to their God
given doctrines. They have manfully sub
mitted to the slave power, and now that they
have got the ascendency they must make the
slave power submit to them to the extent of
the Constitution and the laws. And if a State
attempts to secede, the Republican party must
suppress such attempt, or be everlastingly dis
graced. Lincoln must hand over to his suc
cessor the si"ne number of States that he re
ceived fronUhis predecessor; and if war comes
of such an jittempt, why let it it come ! War
before dishonor ! Can a Republican President
do less than General .'ackson did ? No ! no !
Wab Bkfo&I SccxasiOsT. We may as well
have civil war liefore as after secession. Se
cession is both civil war and anarchy. We
fear our Republican friends are showing the
"white feather,'1 which is only an invitation
(at southern insolence.
This Union must be preserved and firmness
is only necessary.
The Position of the Governor of
land.
Mary-
Washinotok, December 'ii. Tho cor
respondence between Governor Hicks, of
Maryland, and A. 11. Handy, Commission
er from Mississippi, is published. Mr.
Handy enquires whether the Gov ernor will
convene the Legislature for the purpose of
eo-ope-rating with Mississippi iu measures
necessary to form 11 new Confederacy.
The Governor replies lit some length, stat
ing that Maryland is identified with tho
Southern Stales iu feeling, institutions and
habits, shut she is also conservative and
devoi, d to the Cnion of these States uuder
the Constitution, and her people will use
all honorable means to preserve und perpe
tuate the Union. He declares the senti
ment .it the people to be almost unanimous
to uphold the Union mid maintain the
lights of the South under it; they believe
their rights will yet be admitted and
ttrcured, aud that not until it is certain
'hey will bp respected no longer not until
every honorable, constitutional and lawful
effort fo secure thmn is exhiiusted will
they consent to any effort for its dissolu
tion. The people of Maryland aro anxious
that time shall be given, und opportunity
afforded, for nfair and honorable mijustment
of the itirticulties mid griev uces of which
they, more than uny other State, have a
right to complaii He believes that a
huge maj.ii'it v ol' the people of the Uuion
desire such an adjustment, and thinks it
will be effected promptly. Until the effort
is found to be in vain, he rniut consent to
any precipitate or revolutionary action, to
aid in the! dismemberment of the Union.
When satisfied that there is 110 hope of an
adjustment, aad not till then, willbo exer
eisc powers Wish which ha isvested.toafford
even an opportunity for such proceedings.
Whatever powers be may have, he will uso
only alter lull consultation with the other
border States, since they, ill tho event of
sjny disineinhei ioent of the Uniou, will suf
fer more than all others combined.
The Governor states that ho is now in
carrespoiuicnee with the Governors of
those States, and awaits, with solicitude,
for them to indicate the course, to be pur
sued by them. Wheu those State move in
tbe mutter hcfwill be prepared to take such
steps as duty and interest demand. He is,
consequently, unable to say whether or
when the Legislature will be convened.
Proceeding of the South QuwUas Oen-
rmtion.
The high ereaung power of South Carolina,
having dissolved her connection with the fed
eral government, ia quietly, but resolutory at
work, preparing to discharge the new duties
which it has assumed.
vrom a journal of the proceeding, before
oa, , have culled the following, via 1
VTANDING COMMITTEES.
. IhelSpett?. etatod the business in order
to be tbe coniifw.- n, ,h. xn
muuu, uiuuuuuca
"aterday by Mr. Hudson.
Resolved.
, inai tea, PpMirfant do aotwint
four standing Coromitu-, ... pJZTsl.
each consisting of seven, vjowg .
1. A Committee on relation giBT.
holding States of North America.
2. A Committee on Foreign Relau
3. A Committee on Commercial Rev
4. A Committee on the Constitution ot w
State.
The question recurred on the adoption of the
resolution.
Mr. .1 . J. T. Smith : It is sureestod, sir, to
my neighborhood, toadd the words, "on Com
mercial and I'ostal arrangements.
Mr. Mazyck : It is very desirable that as
many members ol uie vonvenisun msbbissi
should bo employed in the service of the Con
vention, and 1 therefore suggest, that it wouia
be perliaps proper to make these committees
lartrer. Now. I have no doubt, that for effic
iency, as few members as possible of this Con
vention should be placed upon it, bat it to
equally desirable that active employment
hould le civen to alarm number. 1 move,
therefore, to strikeout seven and insert thir
teen.
I'hc I 'resident : The third committee a
committee on Commercial Relations, and Pos
tal Arrangements.
Mr. v ilson : l would suggest tnat mere o
a separate Committee on Arrangements.
Mr. Calhoun : 1 move that Use
divided.
The President : Thequesticnison
Of ,mvnn inn iirmn rri mvinA I
vention also agreed to strike out 7, and
13 ; and the resolution was adopted.
The Convention also agreed to appoint a
committee on our relations to the slaveholdinf
States of North America.
COMMISSIONERS TO WA8HINOTOBL
Mr. Memminger: Mr. President, I beg
leave to introduce the following resolutions :
Resolved, That a commission, to consist of
three persons, be elected by ballot of this Con
vention, to proceed to Washington to nego
tiate with the United States, acting through
their General Government, as to the proper
measures and arrangements to be made or
adopted in the existing relations of the parties,
and for the continuance of peace and amity
between them.
Resolved, That five persons be elected by
this Convention by ballot, who shall be au
thorized to meet such Deputies as mav be ap
pointed by any other slaveholding State, for
the purpose of organizing or forming a South
ern Confederacy, with power to discuss and
settle a Constitution, or plan of Union, to be
reported to the said States for their ratifica
tion, amendment, or rejection. That the said
Deputies shall invite a meeting at Columbia,
or at such other place as may be agreed upon
among the Deputies of the several States, and
shall report to this Convention such Constitu
tion or Articles, as may be agreed on by said
Deputies.
1 move that they be referred the first to
the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the
other to the Committee on Relations with the
isaSlaveholding States.
ABROGATION OF LEGISLATION BT 00NGRX8S.
n motion of Mr. Mazyk, the following
resolution was made tbe special order for to
morrow, at one o'clock.
Resolved, That a Committe to consist of
members be appointed, whose duty it
shall be to inquire and report to this Conven
tion how much of the legislation of Con
gress would be ipso facto abrogated, so far as
this State is concerned, by the secession of
tbe State from the Federal Union, and how
much of it might remain of force notwith
standing the act of secession.
DIVISION OF PROPERTY,
Mr. Memminger. Are all the resolutions
disposed of ? I beg leave to offers resolution
on
The Prsident. There is another Special
Order. The next special order is the resolu
tion of Mr. A. G. Magrath. It is SS follows :
Resolved, That so much of the message of
the President of the United States as relates
to what he designates "the property of the
United States in South Carolina," be referred
to a committee of , to report of what such
'property consists, how acquired, and whether
the purpose for which it was so acquired can
be enjoyed by the United States after the
State of South Carolina shall have seceded.
consistently with the dignity and safety of the
State. And that said committee further re
port the value of the property of the United
States not in South Carolina ; and the value
of the share thereof to which South Carolina
would be entitled upon an equitable division
thereof among the United States.
CUSTOM HOUSE AND POSTAL ARBANQEatENTS.
Mr. Dunkin : In conformity with what I
said when 1 was on the floor, I beg leave to
present tlie following resolution :
Resolvetl, That it be referred to the Com
mittee on Commercial Relations, to inquire
what measures, temporary or permanent, or
both, it may be proper to adopt in reference)
to Custom Houses and Postal arrangements,
in consequence of the contemplated withdrawal
of South Carolina from the Union.
The resolution was agreed to.
A Committee was raised to draft an ad
dress, setting forth tbe causes of the with
drawal of South Carolina from the Union.
Messrs. R. W. Barnwell, J. IL Means and
J. L. Orr, were appointed commissioners to
Washington.
An ordinance was presented granting au
thority to the courts of South Carolina to ex
ercise jurisdiction in all maritime cans, and
those pertaining to admiralty, which was re
ferred to an appropriate Committee. Many
able speeches were delivered in tho course of
the proceedings.
At last accounts, the Convention had under
consideration an address to the people of the
Slaveholding States, and was also disscussing
postal affairs, and those relating to customs,
light-houses, &c, &c.
( Telegraphed totheN.Y. Herald.)
From Washington.
Washington, Dec 23. 186a
No additional intelligence has been received
to-day from Charleston. Whether the Char
leston ians really consider the appearance of a
revenue cutter off tho coast of Charleston
sufficient cause to attack and take the forts
and government property there remains to be
seen.
Last evening quite a number of telegraphic
despatches were received by Senators Davis,
Toombs and Wigfatl, to the effect that nnlssss
the government immediately withdrew tbe
said revenue cutter, which they regarded as a
menace on the part of United States, a con
flict was inevitable. Tbe facts were com
municated to the President What action, if
any, win ue tasen uy uio nvsnieaiut 1
mt , . 1 , a. T : j . e .
is not known. 1 be Cabinet was in
last night upon the subject.
It is evidence, not only to the government
but to nearly all the Southern Senators, thai
a collision between the federal and State au
thorities is not very remote, and may- be pre
cipitated at any hour.
It is understood that a meeting of a large
number of Southern Senators waa held last
night, and that its session was continued
until three o'clock this morning. The pur
pose of this meeting has not transpired, but I
am credibly informed that it was called with
reference to the exciting news from Charlea-
ton. Matters aro rapidly coming to a
Crencral Cushing arrived nere this 1
from Charleston. He represents the 1
ion of affairs there to be fearful and alarming,
and thinks that civil war is eminent. If the
Commissioners, who are expected here on
Tuesday morning next, fail in their mission
of negotiation for the government ptupetljt
within their limits, ana otner 1
postal, Arc, with trie government, a
may shortly be anticipated, for as so
is known in Charleston there will doubtless be
an attempt to seise the forts and arsenals, and
all other government property in the State.
President Buchanan will receive the South
Carolina Commissioners, listen to what they
have to say, and submit the whole matter to
Congress.
Turpentine for Snake Bites. Henry
Jennings, of Masontown, Pa., knows of th
application ot turpentine to the bite 0 ttaeop-per-head
and rattle-snake having been followed
by speedy cures. A lady oi his scquamtance
who was bitten by a ratUe-anake, was cored
by it ; as also was a man who had been Unon
bj a copper-head. The turpentine should be
put in a bottle, and, the mouth being placed
over the spot, the liquid is brought directly m
contact with the wound by inverting the bot
tle, and should be held there until relief to
obtained. A bomplete alleviation of pain hen
been known to ensure in less than a quarter of
an hour.
Georgia State Convention. Tha also
tion for delegates to the State convention of
Georgia will take place on Wedoeeday, Jan.
2d, and the convention will meet on Wednes
day, the 16th of January, 1861.
CjCr CABueut has just received all the
lat. paper and Magimnes,
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insert
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