The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1860, Page 1

THE NEW YORK WHOLE NO. 8835. MORNING EDITION- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1860. VW Ji PRICE TWO CENT DMPORTANT PROM THE SOUTH. | The Legislature of Virginia Convened by Governor Letcher. BMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS IN GEORGIA. Fhe South to Insist upow the Repeal of the Personal Liberty Bills or Secede. The Position of Alexander H. Stephens and Senator Toombs. A Call for « State Convention in Alabama. Grand Torchlight Parade of Armed Secessionists at Columbia, Enthusiastic Secession Mass Meeting im Charleston, &e., &o., &o, —_— THE FEELING IN CHARLESTON. Omaa.reton, Noy. 16, 1960, Another tremendous demonstration took place to night ft welcome the Obarleston delegation, Institute Hall ‘was magnificently adorned by the ladies with mottocs, pamners and Palmetto branches, and crowds thronged in and arcund it. Addresses of weloome wor® presented amid deaf @ming cheers, and State Senators Porter and Le @eane, and Representatives Buist, O'Copnor, Whitley, Brenbolm, Yeadon, Pope, Ramsay, Simonton, Coffin and | hers delivered stirring addresses, all breathing she sen- ‘tment that there was uo alternative left South Carolina Buve instant accession or cternal diegrace and ruin. Bb the courte of the proceedings Mayor Macbeth, who presided, read @ despatch from General Bonham, an- Bounoirg that he was out of the Union, having resigncd vt seat in Congress, The news was received witha Darat of enthuelasm. Poa tires and rockets arc now blazing outeide the ball. ‘The Mililary Committees row sitting in Colam ia, dur- Wa the recess, are understood to be adopting the most ene rge’ ic mesures to arm the State to the teeth. ‘The Legirlature on the first day of the regular searlon wit! unaoimously pass ihe bills reported. ‘Tne principal jobbing merobants to day raised an tm wense liberty pole at the corner of Hayne and Meoting Mireets, from which none but Palmetto fags will ever wave. ‘The government offictals all over the State continve fending in their resignations, PARADE OF MINUTE MEN AT COLUMBIA. Couemma, 8. © , Nov. 15, 1880. Bix hundred Minute Men, with the military and fire. men, tarned out here jast nigh; ina grand torch!igbs pro- ceesion 'p honor of recession. A moeting wan afterwards Bold, at which Speaker Orr made @ #peoch, espoaning se- cession. He was followed by Mr. Koltt and othors. ‘The State Fair is progressing satisfactor)ly. THE EXCITEMENT SPREADING IN GEORGIA, Macon, Now 15, 1960, ‘The Senate has passed, aleo unacimously, the bill ap propriating one million of dollars, at the discrojion of tho Governor, for the defence of the State. The Jo'nt Committe on the State of che Republic agreed ‘Waulmously to report.a bill fer calliog a convention of éhe people, with a preamble recommeadiog restetance, It te understood that Gov, Brown, 4. B. Stephens, H. ¥. Jobnson, Linton Stephens, T. R. Cobb, and all otber leading men, have eodorsed the bill, and that (t will pars snanimoumy. Tbe legisiaiors dilfer somewhat oa the mode of resistance, but the immodiate secession men bave a large majority. A. H, Stephoos spoke at MiMedgevilic last night. He favored the Stato Convention demanding of tho States which bare nullified the Fugitive Slave law to repeal thelr acts, and upon their refusal, walch wae cortaln, ‘then the “euth cor Id go ont with elean hands, The crowd calles for Mr. Jackson, of Savannah, and a ebarp disevesion followed, Mr Jacksoa eposking strongly for immeviate tecersion Boch is the feeling to Savannah that {t is bard work to Prevent the popul.ce from seizing upon Fort Pulaski. Wirtaporrmia, Ga., Nor. 16, 1880 ‘Ther: was covei¢crable diecession in the Senato to-day @n tho motion referring the million appropriation bili for arme nnd munitions to the Finance Committies, The ‘Vill provides that the monoy be subject to the ooutrol o fhe Governor, Many Sevators objected t» placing the Sword and the purre io the same bends, when th pro posed reference ialied. The Dili will proceed ia regulsr order and will pass. A Dili! was introduced suspending the © !leetion of debty enti) 1861. Laid over. A recolotion was iatroduced giving power to the Gover nor, in 0x80 of federal cnereion beicg eonployet against « seceding State, to employ the effectual milltary ree sarct of Georg's to resist sacd cooreiou. This resviaiioa wi pas. Sena'or Tuombe made a powerful Becessiou #peech lar: pight Mr, Bartow followed, orgiag the ertablisnmen! of » Bouhorn confederacy with sovereignty ia the federu power, acd that all State limes be optiteraie’. ‘The leading men of aii parties had & vouferenoe to-day end onan iinousiy agreed to & Stale Convention, They r ooramend res!rtavoe, the thne and mode to be aeitled by the Conventinn. Good feeltng prevatied. OUR MACON CORRESPONDENCE. Maco, Ga., Nov. 0, 1500 Political Porment—Brl! and Douglas Men S'rom,ty Sow'h arn Sulemn Determination of Ove Southern People— Black Republican Pary Charged with the Blams—Prv cardings of the Macon Citizens—Minute Men—Ge yin Blate Leyisiature—Special Menage on Sowherm Rela thone— Bill for Defrnce-—Slave Inurrectim—The No tional Fleg Taken Down, fe. I porpose giving yous short socount of public fesling here. Our State, a you may be aware, is in & perfec polition! ferment, esused by the overwhelming mejurition Given to Abraham Lincoin in the antl slavery Sales, an’ aasoring v# that by bir election the North bas determn ined to fasion peo us & cational admin‘stration which is to De arowed!y hostile to our greatoet aud indispensable in- Gostrial interests, With this view of the case, ant oon- mider ng the Northern States and the elect President, pot nly wholly anti elsvery, bat solemnly committed to an “ trrepreasiblo onniiict”’ against our peculiar institation Of slavery, a conflict which binds itself to exterminate Gar righ to our slave property, which right we are de- tormined (» me ntein, we cannot be otherwise thas ox- ited. Without being en extremist, Georgia bas taken high fand patriotic grovads; her action will be guided by wie dom, Jortion and moderation, and what she does fixy be Gonriiered tho courte which will be taken by the entire Bouth. Let me therefore inform you somewhat of tho stale of allaire here, Strange as it may appear to yoo, She strongest advocates for instaut and decisive Histo sotion are the Belt and Douglas men; while there was & hope for preserving the Nulon they strove for tt with « manliness that ir roker the Bighest efmiration; Bot now | when the die is cast, and when the step for or against Beuthore rights and Souvherm bonor mast be taken, they fre found shoviter to ehoulder with the Areotinridgs men, ardent to their maintenaooe of our rights; and as we ali ceo the utter impoasiniity of our over @eming the orerwheiming anti stavery majoritics of the free States, and can therefore look Borward to nothing bat inferiority end vassalage in the ‘Unico, we mee determined, rather than sodmit to such degradation, qnietly and peaceably to withdraw. Thy, sire, ‘2 2 ¢ colem determination of the Setbern They no longer can expect peace, harmony or Justioe ta | ‘that Union which t» endeared to them by so many bely | tep, and around which cluster 60 many beloved associa | ; and though they leave that Union, they with one | ‘volce cast the blame upon those who were not willing to lot them live there ia peace, enjoying undisturbed tho rights and possessions which God nimeelf bestowed; «nd they Jook upon the black republican party as the true dis- ruptors of this g’orioas fabric—as the true deatroyers, ‘who, winding their arma about the fair columas of our national temple of glory and Union, in order to over- whelm and unjustly immolate their friends and.:~there, bave brought crumbling do@n upon their heads ‘f of the fuires: government and brightes; monument of ‘man’s love of true iberty that the world ever saw or bad | ever bestowed upon it, Sirs, this you know to be trae; | and the deed ts done, Let the fanatical bisck republican party thank ‘hem- felvee for all the distres*, horror, confusion and fading glories that now bedim the heavens of our beloyes coun- That our poople are thoroughly arocsed, and thi the | public mind of the South is made up to severance from a | general government which is committed toa des ruction to all the sourses of our vational prosperity, let the fol- lowing facts convince you. 1m all our towns aud cities aro botng organized bodies of | Minute Men, whoge daties and alma you will flat ia the resolutions below. I herewith transmit to you tho pro- | ceedings of a meeting of the citizeos of Macon, Ga :— At ® meeting of the oitizens of Maton, helt Novem- ber 7, convened for the purpose of adopting measures to recure oor political and welfare, in view o' the ef Abraham Lisooln to the Presidency of those Univd sigtes, on motion of Dr. J. Mavcss Garan, the Ba W: ogton Poe was called 10 the chair, and jon RB Hill and Josiad Base, Eaqra , were requesied to act sa secretaries. Mr. Pow, on taking the chair, made a few Introd remarks ‘Ww the object of the meeting, urgiaz the no. overity of the exercize of calmness and deliberation, bot Soe ee determination in the action of the ing. ‘On motion of Romt. A SwrTw, Exq., the Crair was ro. quetted to appolat ® committes of eleven to ri ‘busi- pere for the meeting, whereupon the followig .entem o were appointed tbat oommittes:— Robert A Smith, fsq ; Col. Sam. T. Batisy, Low's N. Wailitie, eq ; Col John'B Lamar, Dr Joo! R. Branhim, Ohat. J Barris, Req; Br. BL. Strokecker, J. HOR Wasdingion, Thorston R. Bloom, Dr. J. Mercer Green, Dr. Jes, A. Damour, The committee asked snd obtained leave to retire, and doring thety abreoce Mr. I R Bravham, Jno BR. Hil) aod | Jeffereon Lamar, “2qrs., being cailed for, addreesed we | meeting. The committee returned and reported a resolution askx- | tng time for more mature deliberation, and that when the meeting adjourn it may adjourn until tomorrow et bail pest seven o'clock, whereupon, Ooi, Bailey avore and jaan edie sed impressive specch ex- plained the object of the request ‘The meeting on motion adjuurped to meet on Thuraday i half-part seven o'oicck P, AL { TavespaY—7.20 P. M. ‘Tho meetiog convened pursuant to adjournment, an wpusually large concourse of citizens present, and the Hoa, Wai hington Poe in the cbair. The report of whe Committoe ca Business betng criled for, they submitted, through Robert A. Smith, Chairman, tbe folowing report :— Lion ee to wea States of the United States were crgap'zed out of the thirteen distinct and separate colo- nice of Great Britain, wholly separate and independent of evch ober; aud when they reparated from the mother country Wey did It as separate .onlederated communi- Hes, abd were tv the treaty of poace 80 recognized by the King—for be treated with them by name, as thirteen | aistmet sovereign Powers. Theso Powers or separate vetient, comfederated und united by treaty aad alliance for their mutual defence, conceding to each other as s whois powers, bus never surr ‘one iT, or one part to the other part of tho fe their soverelguty; Genee tbe constituted United “tates, Or fovercign coufederated Power, and of course absolute equale without regard to size or population. The sovert ment whied iney formed for the was only thotr — to protest weak commooitics, not a cover: went for (heir poptlations, where ruled; for bat ik been #0, ibe six !srgest Htates would now be en: | Utted to govern #l) the rest, forthete have « greater po yolaben than all the beinace united These seve were compe’ solely of wolte men, and thoy formed ge 7rers ments only for white men. blocs Were Lamerous amongst them all, ba! were everywhere regarded uot only as servile subordinates, but as eba’te! property, and were so recoguized Dy the Jaws of ml aud each Of ine Confederates, and 80 treated as commodities of Commcroe ku The couAtisution of the eon: federacy, abd {h ult treaties between them and foreiga Powers. | Bot slave ‘abor toon proving upprottabie in tnhorpitable oitmate of the North, the alsves ferreu farther Sout, aud slavery was protib States North And po pooner was this done than theee aud beve Oouiloned their aggressions vpon the Sater further south; aod this they did, avow eaiy, 10 Jessen the potitical power of the Suuth, and en- bance their own. Thie was Poidiy pros.aimet by tbeir 1 leucer, Senator Zofur King, upon the floor of the Senate The men of that day were too magnanimous aad meply to concen! thelr desigus under the hypocritical mantle of philacthropy. Ibet the Southern people have suffered and are suffer- ‘sg (rem the North wroags to grievous to be borne, let facta be suleitted to bbe Just jucgmento’ a candid world. Alter tbe Sonta bad volantarl'y surrendered to them Le Vast empire Lorthwest of be Ohio, they insisted apon he prebiditian weet of tbe Mlsalasipol aod kept Migsour! yet of the Union until Laey forces the South, unwiseiy, to oortt to R compromise by eurrendering 0 them terri. ry evongh for twelve Slates, aud retataing to herself rittory Oniy epongh for tree; and yet afer eajrying ‘s benefits they havo ever since repudiated the oblige ‘ons of tha! compromise whenever it might iaure to the net of the douth, Their Citizens, without rebake and withoat pantshment rom their tribanals, bave fur a lopg ferice of years stolen pnd carried away our elares, and hen we have arked for redress they have replied with mockery, They bave by their Stato Lagisiatares wuilified withia heir border® the moet expileit Injacction of the federal ~mpaet binding them to surrender fugiii7e slaves, and belr crarts have @ustained tueh apoometitational laws, Their citizers have uniformly modded, ma'treated, and We ee Veral iuatagcer pat to desth, Southern citizens when secklog to reclaim theis lost of stolea property within their com tplons, and io 20 instance bave Lhe wrong doers voce tried of punmoed by the'r tribunals certain Thew Citizens have ip teveral justances come within the elavebolaing otates and stolen gad carried awey our claves, aud their Governors bave refused to eurrencer on eight of sbeir promineat members of ‘wi hout re duke, subsoribed for, patroat: cursged tbe publication aud the circulation of a book pat recommer da to the slaves the indiscriminate murder asters snd the re cnsctment of the horrors of ‘t_ Domingo apm our wives ard daughters: ‘The notoriour thief aod marderer, Jonn Brown, with of seansiua, failing to effoct such @ mersacre, mod | a) tng the penalty of the law with his iife, i# canonized fo saint by many of the p.ewees, pulplie and thousands | * ther citizens, and po mark of cenpare js branded pou them, Dot rather approbation aad increased patroa- bave Oriven onr citizens by bind aaewelpe, with | ory, purchased | re of our citizens; ana then, world, pretended wach ‘territory pled to slave labor, when it is notorious that such abor te x oo te tei ‘#008 terri. wry than tn sey otber part of the Coited Tney have probibited the common how cxp bed Gur eitizees from their moat popa- ton impere fer thelr communion crowned tholr long feriee of Inenit vere, without our alt, and 1a tou t and pemem brarce, a mao—ee Pres) weir popular regard is bis ain an * irre confict ” nd © becomen or doty, a duty whic wo owe | eed ur posterity, to arrest a Measares rrqnented to nw Ing of @ fu sabject to military duty 8 Rerotved, Toat we recommend to our fellow citizens: of Feorgia 1B every county to proceed at once to organize and arm themselves ar well aa they may bo abe, for their protection against tmp nding ¢angers Semuel T. Bailey, Joe! R Braham, Robert A Smith, Ea card L. strontoror, Charles J. Merrit, J AR Washington, Lewis N, Whitte, che 8. Lamar, 1. R Bhoed, Ard poor committee recommend the tollowing rerotctions for the of nafety ,”” and for the orgeolzsiion of « 1. Resolved, That we will appoint ‘-gomm)t'ces of em oty ' te conmiet of #ix magieterial district of Bibb county, a for each cistrict may act. They eh: taesraree of pottee for cer enfely ans erotzing 8 vooy of “Minete Men,” #00 James Mercer (rren, James A Damovr, Oommittee adoption of the 5 t F} a3: Hi cf t i i 28 Fy for for wh g Ht z i | Ominently sound sod eta mmanlike views, sod which ise in the same or a similar mans”, estions as we ‘tn the Ptate to pple tie thelr for. The preambie was then adopted unanimonely by ® yote and amt/et deafening applause Each resolation tmilarly adopted. Pend juent remarks, concurriag therein, ir. E A. Witcox, all the city papers Hinge of this requested to publish the proceed! bus, being present, wat Pairiotic manner. was Col A. @. Cuarrsi., of Colum! loudly called for, ascended the stand amid and addressed the meeting in @ <. was Yeceived with every demonstration of satisfaction by the Tho meeting then adjrarned sine die All this betokeus en earnestness and decision, aad an exottement in our people, which it will be in vain for any- thing to soothe short of tho tucontinent resignation of Abraham Lincoln as President elect, and the clection of Dovglas, or Bell, or Crittenden, or some other national man, Our Stato Legislature bas jugt convened, and our Gover- nor has tranemitied to it bis usval message, which I berein send you. You will flad that it gives evidences of great prosperity in our State. Bealdes this, Covernor Brown sent a special message to the Aesembly in relation to our federal relations. You will persotve that be takes high Southern ground, though counselling caretu! and considerate action. Now, be it known that Govervor Brown ts s homble, pious Christian, and far from belonging to tho Young America school. The truth is, the South is not only ripe for action, but she te really taking ber destiates into ber own hands, as 8 proof of which I will inform you that» dill bas been already introduced into our Legisia- ture to provide for the common defence of the psople of Georgia, and to appropriate mouey for the same. This Dil propoees ene million of dollars for that purposs. A couvention will soon be called, and Georgia will do cide authoritatively for herself what course she will pur- fo, and that decision will bo adopted unanimously by the wbole body of tbe people, What !t will be, let the dovuments I have sent you declare; and what some of the motives inducing It are, lot the following facta show:—Ia Crawford county,of our State, are two abolition emis: aries ip jail for iaciting an Lasurrection among oar slaves, fixty of whom, also, aro imprisoned, having oonfomsed that they were incited by the above mentioned men to rise on the day of election, wheu all the mea were ab- sent at the polls, murder the olf women, retain tho Younger for their own use, and slaughter the men as they returned from the polls unconscious of danger. One of the negroes betrayed tue infernal plot, and pre- ‘Vonted Sis execution. A white man in Augusta telegraphed to « negro woman of this city to moet her daughter im Augusta by tho bext train, escsplog for that purpoeo, it belng his desiga to ron ber and her son snd daughter off to @ Northorn Btate, the two latter being in Augusta, Fortunately tho | despatch wan delivered to the woman's master, and thas Ue plot was dofented, What are we to do when such sets as there aro commit- ted hy those who are iatueuced by abolition and revolutionary appoala, and etatemeate of that portioa of onr Union whieh begs us not to leave them, and uses | great swelling words of the glory and honor of ur mighty Coufcderacyt Ie tha wooder that the national flag should be taken ad our old own from our Custom House in Savancah, culowiai Seg hoisted ta ite piace? Is ita federal ofhice:s should resiga, when they bebol ficiency of tho general government? ¢, foaily be exproted of @ great and bigh minded people soat they rele wotok threstens the overthrow >” our in- the murder of our families, the violation of our moibers and #)s.crs, aud ike compleve se of our entire commusity? The above I end to you to exhibit tho ati'oof ex of {ta Caures, aud b © course IMPORTANT FROM VIRGINIA. PROCLAMATION OF GOV. LETCSER—THE LEGISLATURE TO MBBT IN JANUARY. Ricumonp, Nov. 16, 1860. A preolama!ion from Governor Leteber, calling an ex- ‘tra easton of (he legislature, to meet on the 71d of Janu Ary next, will be publiahed tomorrow, He gives, es.oue of the reasons for this action, the gale of the James Hive: and Kavawha Coval to acompany of French capitalists, | whieh requires the sanction of the Legislature to Le ren Gered perfect. The next rearow I give in bis own words:— . Appolatment of lector @ majority of whom are known to be «vorable @ riection of sectioual caudisates a8 Proeijeat aad Vice Presideut of vue lied Bhatcr, whose principies sad are believed by & Iarge portion of ths Southera ies to be ta direct hostility to thelr consi\iutional rigui® and interesta, and in consequence therect great excitenent prevatls ia the public mind, aud pradecce re quire thet the representatives of the povpie of this Commonwealth should take }nto consideration the coo 4@t«p of public affairs, aud Covermine calmly and wise ly #hat action is pecessary !a this emorgeacy—I, Jobo ate, Govervor, by virtue of bho authority alorobais,’ . . . . . . Corps of Minute Mea are betug raised in several coun- thes of the stato, and some mon here, more enibustestio than their fellows, propose raising a corps of Second Meu. Toe people of Farmsille, Prince Edward county, con template toviting Governor Wise to banquet. They are atx ous that herhould wee the progress they are making | le their organization of Minute Men, and also to boar bis views ov the existing rtate of affairs ‘The Bzaminer of to day Clecusers the Impoanibility o° Virgucis retaining slave property within her iimits otberwite than by a union with the other Southern States Tt ehows that private Interests make men dread to make an effort to insure the permanent posecasion of that pro- perty, and its inefficient employment here will berry ft from the State faster than the evil decree of Louls XIV. drove Huguenot labor from France. “All thin”? tays, “mast bo eyvolded. Let the people of Virginia ray to hermirter Staves, ‘Weagree with you that {ts not copsietent to live uder a goveromeut which will wot protect our property and will act to destroy it. We must beve power to protect It, We do rot desire to desircy the relations bet woen the States’ but we will unite with you and obtein power to deford oor property, 80d t develope our scheme of industry and civilization.’ Sueb a position, once taken, will inrore | the peaceadic solution of seotional difficulties. It te the | only mode of averting a dissolution of the preesot oon federacy, Or one precedod by a long and severe sirnggic, | in whieh both sections will be subject to heavy and ruin. of | 000 lorses In money, under & series of retalintory omficts by matotes, all directly injurious, if not ruinons, to pri vate fortanes,”” The Bnquirer of to-day, Inan article evidently written after moth deliberation, diseusect very folly the present mate of aifsira, and the prompecta whieb {t foreshadows. Th refers to what it calle the “ Politico fanatiolem of the North, and the efforts of the poltsicians to foster and use for thotr own advancement the growing fentiment of in. Yolerance againat the domestic juetitutions of the South,"’ aud wen details, in © comprehensive form, the evils ‘Wrought by these influences, among which are the con- Ptant agitation of the slavery qnestion—the denial of » right to bold slavee in the Territorier—the abolition of Mavery ia the District of Culumbia—tho atiompt to light the toreh of servile inwurrection—-the extirpation of slavery from Kansas by massacre and arsoe— the carrying of armed invasion, rapine and murder into Virginia—the fending daily to the South the firebrand of incendiary appeal, which creates eonetant 1pprehensioa ia maay Gistriots of the border States, depreciating the value of Innd as well as of perzonal property, the creation of in- rubordipation and indolesce among the slaves, nuilisce- liom of the Fugitive Slave law, and theft of slaves to the ‘value of hundreds of thousands of dollars snnually. ‘The Enquirer also refers to the couree of policy which the republican party will pursue—namely, the admission of a8 many free Mates as possible, and the employment of the federal patronage to facilitate emancipation in the dorder slave States, with s view to secure « three fourths may rity of the free Slates to ratify an amendmen ' to the constitation haying for of slavery. ‘The Enquirer predicts am’ jority of republican mem dere and Senators in Congress at un enrly day, and the reconstruction of ihe Supreme Court. It urgos the neces- nity of preparation, and suggests to that end the formation of committees ofsatety and corps of Minute Mea in every county and town. Some of the military companies of this city are yolun- teoring to act as Minute Men. In Petersburg the citizens bave furnished funds to arm their ca- valry with Merrill's , carbines. In Hampton one ‘thousand five bundred dollars have been expended tm the purchase of breech-loading carbines for the use of the volunteers there. The very ladies are pur- chasing revolving pistols, aud practising with them zcal- ously. The enthusisam everywhere is inteuse. Depreo! ‘ation ip stock, or wheat, or cotton, or tobacco, is never once thought of. It is a struggle for constitutional right, ‘and this right eball be vindicated If the heavens should fall. William D, Totty will be executed here to morrow, for the murder of his sister in !aw, Catherine J, Thom, He abot ber while she was sitting at her father’s table, in fit of jealousy, because sho refused to elope wita him. OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. Ricuaonp, Va., Nov. 11, 1860, The Southern Traitors and the Herald—What Lincoln's Kliction will Develope in the Soulh—More than One Oald- well Likely to Turis Up—Douglas to Solicit Favors of “Old Abe!’ for His Eriends—A Grand Scrimmage in Prospect, de. I peroctve that my statements in the Haast referring to the scceation movements in the Soath have been tar pngned by parties writing from this city, Wasbington and Baltimore, to black republican journals in the North. The \ssue between these parties and myself is in @ great measure one of political acumen whieh time alone can de- cide, and, 80 far aw Iam concerned, I trust sincerely my predictions may prove falec, My predilections erust not be permitted to control me in the discharge of my duty to the Humatp, and were I to yicld to them I would be led to perpetrate as grogs a falsifcation of facts as man ‘was ever guilty of, I venture the assertion that no man in the South who values his reputation for political fore- sight or sagacity will stake them ‘upon tho negative in this iesue. I of course except the office seekers, for it palpably their interest to misrepresent the true state of feeling 1n the South, and manufacture @ public opiaion in nocordance with the wishes of their benefactor in ex: peotancy. Thero is not, I veuture to eay, ab this momen’ a man south of Mason and Dixon's line, ancontrolied by the influences of some prospective gain at the hands of Lincoln, who is not convinced that seocesion of three or more Southern States is inevitable. Not one, The South regards hortelf as reduced to a choice between two dreadful alternatives— secession or dishosor, disgrace and degradation. Every man of every state of opinion on the great issuo now pending, admits this fact; and mo one, North or South, is at aloes to judge which alterne:ivo the South will choose, I feel agsurod that the great impediment, perbaps the greatest !mpediment, to @ peaceful acquit eecence in Linco!n’s election by the South, 1a thia print of honor. For years thoy havo been threateaing secession upon a reries of contingencies which have happensd—the Bbolishment of the siave trate in the District of Qolum. bia, &c —Ddat inasmnoh ss these grievances word not suf Octently aggravated to seoure anything like union for fecoesion, even in Alabama, the project wes abandoved For five years past tho election of & bis.k republican President was pointed to as (he isnuo walch, by cocamoa consent, would constitute the foous of disumtoa, The South hae been taunted for years with uttoring silly threate which ebe hai aos the courage to execute. Many “of her own people, im utter shame and chagriu, baye often ridiculed ber biuater as vex ef pratrea nihil, an’ t!, ¢ yvdet eens at lact to Cesperation by the taucts of friends aud enemies, she has pow taken ber etacd, resolved to subjeot berself no more to the derigion of the world. If there was no other incentive to ® tion thee zn mice of hornet which submissicn woul. euough. Rot my statements to the Hrrarn hare been based upon of other and moro substantial gr onde than mere print benor, 1 bad the rery best aut ity for ai! t etater | toe requet will vinticmie ile wosbeuticity, Seon | repeat, vow Is inevitablo—of what pamDder of States time lone Gen determine, The mort astate poilticlans hore put the nomber at five. and some of thoso with whom I conversed upon tbe ck boned this ewtim: vate toformation, received frou sources uf th rerpeoiability It ts tmovegiote to deane aay other motive for the mis Tepictentations of thage who undertake to create the om Viction that no danger of rooverlon exieta thaa that o | Prrtonal preferme Tt is paid—and { foar, unfortunate y, With too much trush—viat ihat motive le vory geno | relly operating fu the South, Liveoln’s election will, tn | ail prouxbiiity, have the same + fect upon some aiamus ja | the Youth the:’brviles pork hae apon rata It will brtog prt iguest them forth {rom their secret lens, of rather develop: | their trae characters in all thelr hideous deforrotty, is | will reveal the ead truth that we have more thaa one Al frea Caldwell in the South Apropos cf Caldwell, 1 qilt mention that be was Serator from Wheeling im tho Inst Igisintar of this State. fis weathery was eo palpable as 1 ave male him en chject of contempt to every | member cf that body, acd so strongly did he yearn for a crown of martyraom that he pereisted tn retaistng bis veat in the Seraio im the teeth of tho moet marked roputiation by bie associates, in the hope | at he would be vlitmately expelled. {he Sonate, however, wisely tolerate’ fim ia their midet and | he lost the coveted glofy. fn will now, in all provabsli ty, receive the reward of bis treachery to some subordi tale foreign miesion, to whieh it is sald he now aepires It is from fuch 6 source as this that these arsarances of Acquicsoence snd submiraion om the part ot the South, Which Ord their way into biack republican jouruals, ems rate Thore who would fain pass censare up the fe ZALD for tha noble advocacy of the constitutions righ's | the South are the prowtypes of this coturious individual. No one, no Sosthern man, who is snimated by w patriotic zoel for the honor ane welfere of bie portina, mld be found to uiter @ word in dizpayagoment Of the motires uf that gront journal On the coutrary, tho higuewt mood of praize ie awarced to It by every man who is cap bic of nppreciatiog dim mterested ferviee, and whore good ‘woman or ebitd sonth of Magon and Dixoo's line capsbie of uncerstanding or dieoaroment who does not kuow w the contrary. ‘of 00 currenee. jon is deemed emsential wow, if only to secure Southerd rig! withia the Unioo, if by sudre quens negotiations the Union can be perfected, of which Mapy conservative men have an abidirg Dope. In any event, if but to redeem scuthorn honor, which has ‘Deen over acd over goin pledged to the Cousymmation of ‘thie act of secession ta the event of the eleotion of a black republican Presi‘ent, it will be sccomplished. Tue #trongest Union men in this section favor it, in view of fie tendency to eeenre garantees for niays property wbicb the th will usist upon af @ condition of her re mainirg to the Union. Dongiaa will bs a applicant to Old Aber? who Ticera that bores 89 realously to Ww we Mow the Judge with bis avowed hoatnity w bie fallen fortanse an reconcile such @ 0° block repnbliesn em. A divegreearie suspicion aireaty } reste upen him, snd It will need but litte to confirm tt | Bie services to Lineola were indeed groat,aod if the equirslent is tn the game ratio the Jadge will have it i | hie power to confer larre bens. | Secession oF no eeceerion, | takes tt that a grand sarin mege for federal ¢ fore la tye South ts ia prospect. The richest developements ever m3te would xe broaght to ight by the pabltoation of the lotters raid to he ataremet | to “Old Abe” from the doutb for offloes, Thay won't | prove &® source of the Fogtiah “tue Books” would be pothiag. siapa tbat every effort will be made to procare copies of these letters, {¢ they cannot be prooored, a mirict wat ob | will be Rept at the departinenta after Livcoin assames tho reina of office, in ordor, if porsivie, to bring to liah the namen of thor who give countevance to ais wiminis bration by eoliciting office at his banda At the Close of @ two *eeks miaaion in the Catholic os thedrad in this city to night, given by the * Kodemptioniat Fathers,’ Bishop Mil, in a brief addrose of thauks to | the missionaries, re'erred to the groat peed of reiigion ar the op)y means of elevating man Sbove bit usteral ooo) Hon, and directing him to tho attainment of the ruyor patoral gifte in view of whieh he was created. Lo tnie connection he referred eloqoentiy aod with moeb forling to the threatened cirmombermet of this, too freest wad Rappien governmens co corte, wat Oe o>, upon @ moral quession whieb, If ad) Jo the Nght of Oatholi> faith, would have ceased to operate the evils nuw im ing Tt were well the oouutry would take exemple the church, if in ao other Sah leant in | this, apd practise the tolerat! oh have bo Sh Ea Whe Gisturbing \nfluences ‘voxed question. ! CALL FOR A STATE CONVENTION IN | ALABAMA Montoousnr, Ala , Nov 15, 1800 ‘The Governor of the State will imme @ call for s State Convention to sesemblo on the @th of Dooomber He urges the people to prepare for secession. | Teend you the leading points in the jeter of Governor $$ ee us object the extinction | Alabama and other slayeholding States i ta socassioa = IMPCRTAN FROM ILLIwors, from the Union. I deplore the necessity for conmag to such a conclusion. It bas been forced upon mo, ant Shore who agree with mo, by » wicked and porverse party, fatally bent upon the destruction of wetitations | The Polley of Mr. Lincoln Relative ‘Vital to the Southern Biater—a party whose ovnstitations! righta wo haveencver disturbed, and who should be to the Svuth. our friendse—yet they hate us without cause We should remember that Alabama must act and degide the great questions of resistance or submission for herself. No other Btate has the right or power to dectte it for ber, She may and should ocovgult with other slaveholdteg States to eecure concert of action, but stilt abe must decide the quesiton for hevself aad co-operate afterwards, What will the intelligent and patriotic people of Alabama do in the tmpen iting erista? Jadging Of the fnture by the past, I believe they will prove them welves equal to present or any future emergency, aad never will consent to affiliate with or submit to be governed by a party who entertain the most deadly hos. tility towards them and the inatitution of slavery. They are loyal and troe to tho Union, but nevor will content to remain a degraded and dishonored member o! it.” THE POSITION OF FLORIDA. ‘Wasuusaton, Nov. 15, 1800, A despateh received at Charleston from the Governor of Florida states that Fierida goes with South Carolina. THE REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasumato, Nov. 15, 1660, There is decidedly a better feeling wday about the probable political result of theo —_.otions in the cotton States. The safety valves of entirely unrestricted diacus- sion being all open, thero is felt to be less danger of » sudden explosion. The Convention of South Carotiaa, not meeting before the 17th of Deeember, may find its me- maced proceed ings rendered unnecessary by 4 declaration from Mr, Lincoln himself previous to that day. ‘At any rate, tho President's rnuaal mersage will bo trantwlited to Congress oven before the lay of the eleo Lion of delegates to the Convention, and no weil informed person in Washington doubis that its gevera! epirit and specific recommendations will be Atted Wo oalm the stor of discontent, to allay passion, ta recall sionista to refection, and toy uvite the citimns ofall parts of the confederacy once more as a band of brothers. Time is # great mollifer, and before the ist of January, 1861—ibe day fixed for the secession of South Carolina in any even!—1 now venture to predict that every other slayeholding State will have resolved to wait for Mr. Lincoln’s inaugural acd the appointment of bis Cabinet. From those slavebolding States come many powerful arguments, by some of tho ablest constitutional lawyert ‘and political writers of that section, d: wonatvating that ‘the right of secession cannot be recognized wilnout dan- ger to the very principles on which the secoders would sstablfeh a Southern confederacy wiih any hope of suc- cess or permanence. ‘The tatimstion in s New York Sowerd paper, toot Mr. Buchanan ‘desires to evaio bie daiies’’ at this crisis, only shows the maiignant mcndacity of the writer, and is ap audacious denial of the culluenes which sonserys- Alves, North and South place io the © mprehensive inte: Higence, solid semeo, Wit’ ou vad pwiriosisma of the Prosi dent. The Lincoin men rely oo Mr. Buchanan to save them from the cousequcncs of the confilot which they have proroked. A good dea! of ridicule is thrown upon Mr. Corwin’s guthorized disclaimer of the views attributed to him by irreepontibie seribbiers, If meo of aay mark, soolat or political, are expected to notice authoritatively what ts sald about them, they would have little else to do, Men of character Ougut to trurt to the tewor of their tives and the rentiments and tho testimony of thone to whom they are personally knows, All the nows from North Ca:olina shows tbat Stave is bot ready for secession A lotler frome etyong cotton houce {n Caarlerton anya that there is really no unsalmity evea tm Syvth Oarolina for seceseion Toe ousiness men weil artisans aod me. | chanles, acd all the professional clatsea, aro ducttedly op: posed to secession, and dia got wish South Caroliaa “ to throw the se? ove: board,” ae eho has done. It ceme that Senator Hammond's resigvation 's im ne dinte,a letter bay been received bere dircoting nis personal effects to bo forthwith nent {0 South Caroiinw The Collector at Pornfort has officially indicated bis rerignation, being anwillivg, he say®, to verve under » republican adm'utrtration. Ik Das beretofore beoo Bt sted that the euhject of an ad dress wor under executive consideration, but it now a pears the idea te abandoned, in view of tha early meeting of Copgrens, to whom, by the conrtitution, the President ie required to give information of the state of the Union. NEWS BY THE WAY OF BOSTON. THE FRRLING IN CHARLESTON—EXPULSION OF MR. WOOD—TAMI BRING WITH SLAVBS, RIC. (¥rom toe Boston On the arrival of the rteamwer reporters vigited ihe versal and rucceded In obtaining sa iierview With Capt. Baxter, ine captain eaid the story cireniated relative Ww Feveral bales of ouston baving been removed {rem the steane! utterly without foouca Hon, sad as bo had leerned, 1t was origtonted in Angusta, bo wens oUt te tHE Htexmer tm Auganta st tbe time eport was put in cireul Mr. Hi, believing the sory Urne, and fearing tbe vervel wae in danger, bustened ecally Purpriad ou bis arrival to His Cooper Institute Speech, His Debate with Douglas and the Chicago Platform His Policy, &e., &o., eo. Cmicaco, Nov. 15, 1860, ‘The Tribune and the Evening Journal of today, the re- cognized organe of Mr. Lincom in this Siste, repudiate the idea of his announoclng his future policy more than he has already done in his Cooper Iustitute epeech, his de- Date with Dougian, and ia sccepting the doctrines of the Chicago piatiorm. ‘Both papers point to these record of mr. Lincoln a8 embracing the privoiples by which he will be guided in administering the goverum nt. There is a strong feeling bere against Joka Wentworth, for the bitter spirit he manifests towards the South, agalnat the known wishes of Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Linceln in Springfield. TRE PRESIDENT ELECT AND THE SBOES8ION MOVE- MENTS ATTHE SOUTH —THE NEW CABINST— INCREASE OF VisITERS—MR. LINCOLN'S CORRESPONDENOE— HIS DAILY LEVBBS—M4S. LINCOLN AND ORR VISIT+ EXS--WHO ARE TO PRASIDE AT THE WIIIT# HOUBE, Ere, ETC. SraivoriaLy, Nov. 15, 1860. The repobitcan Mecca is at present one of the most attractive places on the globe. Mr. Linooln is bardemed with an’ immense correspondence, Abou: filty of bis let- fers lo day Poiicited autograpts. Mr, Lincoln talks freely wit ry one who calle, having something pleasant to say to each, He bas boon urged to annource his policy te advance of bie in- avgnration. He, however, positively declines, az he also declines indicating to any one who will compose bis Cadioet. He said to day that some of the poiiiioians of the South bad falrcly anuounosd, curing the reoent cam- paigo, that if be (Mr. Lincoln) was ekcted srmod ands were formed ia the North to go down there and Itberate the slaves, and the most that be feared was, that an ipsurrectiovary wovement amorg the slaves would result from thoir own teaching It iw fettiod that no Cabinet cfloer will be taken from this State, ae in that cveut many of the iesver tights could: Bot consiatently be rewarded, It in understood that Mr, Lincoln will acquieste in ths poticy, aa] indicated in my despatch in Sunday's Bexaro ‘Tho most emeciog thing to the republicans of Tiinots ts the woree thea Garrisonian radicaliem of Joba Went- worth, who daily insists upon burdening Mr, Linooln with bis intemperate and impolitic aotlous about glavery. Tocy do vot reflect the conservative ideas of the repabil- cans of the State, aud greatly anger Mr, Linoola, who doen Lot hecliate to express hin disapprobation of hem, Mr Lincoln has fo many callers that be continues to receive them tn ihe Executive Chamber of the State Houee; and in order to obtain time te attend to hia oar- respondence bo bas been obliged to Ax the hours of from eo tobtwelve 4. M. aud from two to four P. M. for his recepttens, Mrs. Linecin, also, ber many callers She does not ap- peor toresiize that she bar been elected preside at the White House the pext four yeart; but by the easy freco and dignity with which she receives thos> who call upon her dat'y, ehe shows that she possesses the ne- cevtery iHeatione to astome the higher dattee of the President's wife at Warniugton, Her sister, Mrs. Mirloia Kdwards, of this city, an ednoated avd accom plitbed iady, and @ nipoe, a benutiful yonog lady o elgdteen, will accompany Mra, Linoole to the White snd assist her in doing the honors at the Presi- Jersey City News, THE AbSOM POUND CASE. ‘The hear'og im this case was coutlaued yesterday be fore Coroner Gafsey at Communipaw. The first witnors examined waa Charlotte Braut, who tertitted that she saw the deceased oo Thurstay previous to her death; did not bear bor compiaty of aoy vomiting but ef a severe pain ip the chest; the did not complain of hor buaband’s til treating her; saw ber egais on Friday; Mr. Abrom wwe pre nd appeared to be trytug to heard bim say he gnve her a powder, and afr tt ig tn lying ont the cor w it in the fire; be ery Kav O9€ Of thy four powders preser bitter; heard father ray m ther had bat ete commenced sheking ater he contiaaed votes, tl her oat sone Mrandy witha pe- red Ww mother; woen I eft he greatest palm, up alone; moiher was out of he gy op then without « 0 wor the erence procer nt, except aa to coptratietiog the rorvaut girl Rawaid Muffy, a bey, ewure tuat he orn tod Julie veveral timex ed Mr y ae Wo bor vinta to worn that she never visited there Bight she seeme abe cool wot bed Thurs yy CK mparAt rely quiet, aud the steamer ro- peng. oe usual, In Peace at OH Of tbe wharves of the Htennehipesameany. Jr ibe city of Charleston, the oap- tain BAYS, the queetion of eeceRsion, OF Bon FeOeREIoN, Ie generally and eontrnonlly ngitated, i mppears to en ah be attention 1 , women, and even ehidrep,and Pervaces ai! clases of soolely. AB to the reported ‘foret he bao ro die expulaion”” of w gentleman pamed Wood from the | jp m New York efiever thes once a week, whien Med. ate, ne A eenvoman Damed Wood went oot WD | Cpe revlote by way ire war in the habit fr quently mes TREE On uo stecner’® lane run to Charleston sce for oyalere, an Inte gome Parke He Went to 8!! a flustion as tercher in s echool at @ place ot Jar distant from weeny. When be arrived be woos ashore ina qnie!, pesceablo mapner, and without iaver ference from any ove He keen took (be ones for bis fan deevumation, aed while in (he care courersed (crely with bis fellow partcoger Me. Biodget The coaversation was carried on in a bigh tone Mr. Weod spoke favorably of the elrction of Mr Livovin, but Mr. Bioaget was more re- rerved in the exprertion of hie political views, Without know mg it the two were overheard by some Southera grotiemen, who oncupied reate just bebiad the Northern. yn reporte? what they had mites Mrs Robineon w ning New wan djourned wntil Mt ' of edming nighta ee ele ve miced at length, though r Flere the Cage wer w cially for the accommo .Won of the jiters, when th ia ex- apalyele wil ie peereated Tascent vron Ruxsane —Yeatercay afters oo the vigt | | | | | lant Jersey City polioe made a gencral haul of Now York Tuopers. Who CAive quite ® bosinees by solloiing pwmen- ker? @t the pleametip and rarlroae eintionn fhe gentle wen errceted were taken before the Reonnter, who kindly invited thet (0 add $20 erch t the city’s faances or re- melo at the public's hospitality until vaid amount was tortncom ing 8 with pet abou aecertained the whereabouts of toon visited hi sod was asked oy the committee if be v wot enurtali, sent Mase Meeting of the Working Men. TO THK RVITOR OF THE HERALD. Your remarke in tocay't Menany oo thy condition and tntorerts of the wor classes are thwely and to the polos, Alrendy are the effets of the exeitement at the dovth beginning to be felt by the working men of the North, ard the nooner they take steps to counteract them the better for themselves aed for thetr an Yoo will remember that rn tae day befare tue election 1 Wok Gocsmon to fay, threugh the eolu aus of tne Hansin, to tho working wee of New Yor’ aud other el- 48, Stat would be the conmega nee ef their going w the pelle vader the barnens of aoy political party; bot thane eurpequet ere have Bow Fur pesere my woret mull Toe pene i* already ween we, apd ¢ wearily re pen ter and tr; oid not complain sawn of agin: imminietered 10 von y of arsenic, portion of Dit nam Mthem Mr Wood euvly ineenand people ip the neighborhood againat all Northern cit! ene”? In conelary n, Captain Baxter eal) he was of oot sien that Sooth « Arally retara to & hao put in ibe pe This tho pinve bad vrs yatione, employers are we clog Our Wager lame for CowgE fe, onger ihey Will Soom bave Bovhing for us to do at any rice Ic le, therefore, Imperatively necessary, as you gett, that we have & greai mess meeting of all the work. rk hen of this city, aud hare tt tmmouintely, eo a# aot to be locking the door when the horse w etokea In thie meeting We Coad Exprere the real feeling of the middia ond working clansee of ibe Norb, free from politionl re Firaint. We could let our Bonthere friends tes that wo are pot to be ruled by the teuchings of © parcel of Nerth- ore fapation, whether they try ft knroog? ® portion of tha prees or wbetber [t emansies from tbeir political pulpite, ep baa Intely been the case lets, ‘therefore, bare ® meeting at once. “py A Would eveutunlly Fooeda, bot alc giaGoe Lo the United Contes ornay. The Vote for Miectors New Jory, The total yote for electors wat ae follows — Heward W. tine George AL Brown... David Thempeon. Inmae Wo Poadder. ‘The tottering vor are as followe:— tet the belt roiling? Nov, 14, 1800. Perron tel ce. Coptain Lee, of the United staves Navy, ie mopping ot the New York Bote @ A Manle Cleveland, Obie; James T. Greene and «if, of Rhote Weland: A Kemp, George Tharbee and M. Conk ip, a of New York, are topping at the Lafarge Joho B. Darcy, Breckinriden, bad 248 “pes Ey Provm ef Aton: ar The sdove shows an opp sition majority against bisck | irpicn. |) © . Noble, republicanian of nearly ten thoumnd voter avn gee at Liveomee, & oa: ak de a lle a of Boston, are stopping at the Brevoort Court Calrndar-Thts Day, ” 217, $012, 6195, 6728, 6808, 4697, 4303, 6902, 1018, BRIO, FOES, ob 6, £498, 4648, 4464, BODE, A461, 87" 2610. 4101" bier, 2412 bord 6796 6927,* 6116, 6780, 4404, 4RDY, Geb 5269 HEAD 6140 6949 O89 6068 6, OTHL, Ged, 6948, 6777. 6214,* 0205 0140, 6805, 6199 ri St rmwon Cover — hart |New, 108, 929}, 087, ABO, OAL THB 1045, 1047, 1061 1049 1083. Unorep Starke inermet Cont = Nom 92, 26 to Bt to 86. Poumon Fipaa — Pers 1— Soe 996, 1399, 9986 10 204, a4 2994 2900 Part 3—Now wie, of 8 #00, wore among the arrivals at shove) yerlerday. ty A J Ford, of the United States ae Unites sovet texas, Silas Md | te Liewt Poy of the United States Navy, aro sopping sh tne Bh. Deals Hotel.