The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1860, Page 4

NEW YOR THE CRISIS AT THE SOUTH, Soescorshtrnct resca or Etheridge, ask the Zzaminer to hold te yeace |i o a goverpment? They mgbt make the experiment; Despatches from Montgomery, Macom, pur tney would curso the day if they nowrd « rd from either that they entered into a co Richmond, Raleigh, Galvestow, Yio, win these men. the Beaminer conclaces New Orleans, Charleston, Bal- by raying that consultation is usciess if it is resoived in timore and Lexington. advance to seek no change io affairs, but recom mended a0 delay , and to make no demand of means to provent th= mischief which we are apprebending from permsuont sectional dom \aation ‘This te very much the tone of the entire press of Vir ‘Take be opposite of what Botts says in regard to the South, and you will bit upon the facts People here are generally governed by that rule ia reference to hin | The New Orleans Delta of the 18th says that « lange batch of Barper’s Weekly, received by J. % Morgan & ©>., of this city, bearing the likeness of Liucotn, was ro- | turned to the contiguer, The Delia regaras this as a seo | Bidle act of aon intercourse which the South would ap- preciate. | Some anxiety ts exprested here to ascertain tho views | Of both our United States Senators in the preseat state uf Ailarrs. Their counsele would be boneticial at this timer and they ought not be withheld. The course of Gov. lgtchor in calling eo extra session of the Legisiature has given gece | ral satisfaction. His recommendations, no doudt, 7, will be marked by wisdom, prudence and staves The Reports from the Wemerak |r skip, chise aie (uilision whion pevaliariy cilia Capital. | guish him. He is perfectly calm amid the raging oon | ficta, which ig an attitade well beditiog the Executive bead of the Old Dominion, Toin will teil by-aad by, when abe assumes the office of mediator. The Legisiature i@ emipently conservative. It will be composed of the Bame men wno declined the invitation of South Caroliina and Mississippi last winter to unite ta « Southern confederacy Every effort wil be made tn pe- Meeting of Friends of the Union at pair or pence; and it would be well if the North would the New Work Hotel, meet Virginia balf way, fore failure im this effort will | involve thorough disunion The Condition of Affairs in the Border and Cotton Slave States. © IMPORTANT NEWS FROM ALABA' The Baptist State Convention in Favor of Secession. THE RETALIATORY MEASURES OF GEORGIA Will Gen. Scott be Sent to Allay the Secest ion Excitement ? &., &., &o. — | THE REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON. IMPORTANT FROM ALABAMA, Wasmsarox, Nov 16, 1860. Mostoomaxy, Nov. 16,1860. | Thoke only who know the actual situation and ssatt ‘The disunion foeling is on the iacrease, The poople are | mente of the border slaveholding States cap appreciate more quiet than ever before known, but all are deter- | their moderation and their wisdom and self control at this mined to act. | crisis. Their people, endowed with characteristics equal ‘The State Convention of the Baptists, a very large and | Jy ardent and energetic as thore of Srata Carolian, aym- {effuential religious denomtpation in taia State, met on | Patnite with the teritation which the persistent bostility the 19th, and resolved unanimously {n favor of disuniea | Of repablicapi¢m bas been calculated to produce in every ‘They sent their resolutions to Governor Moore, who pro: | *! holding State, and can be scarcely astonisned thet ounces it the most important disunion movement yet Ferentment of Northern usurpation and of Northern naltt- made in Alabama. | Beation dispores at least oue State to Immediate seovesion, ‘The contest between the co operation men and the dis. | Yetthey controi their feelings by their sense of duty to the anionists bas not yet commenced. It will begin as soon | GOVerament of the Union, They deprecate secession, but as candidates are pat forth tn tho dilfsrent coaaties. | av the same time they oail om the nullitying 3tstes of tne It fs thought bere that Seuth Carolina will vadoubtedly North to put ap end to thetr warfare on she social and do- pecede on the 18 of December, and this adds grea | mestic system of the South—to repeal their odious, tuju- strength to tho secession feeling in Alabama | Pious and unconstitutioval legislation, They cail ov the President elect also 0 show bin hand, and to justify, by clearly cefined aununctation of nis intended contuct for Cuanuasrom, Nov. 16, 1860, the four years to come, the reapect which the friends of Preparations are steailily prog vg for the Conren. | regniatea liberty and covstitational government are ever tion There wil! be but litsle covflict of foterrst in be | ready render to the Constituted authorities of the taad. election of delegates In most disiriows one ticket only | This is, in brief, the subetance of the letters received will be run, and every man on it will be pledged to vote | bere today by influential poitticians from every part of for instant action, It ts a curious ctrcamstance tha: the South aud Southwest, The object of these represea- many of the delegaics chosen will be ministers of tho | tations aud appeals ip, of course, to preserve the peace of Gospel. the country, and, as necessary to that ens, the integrity Mr Orr isa candidate for the Convention, and plodges | of the Uoten bimuelf to vote for immediate State action, Mr. Keitt 1s) Those republicans who imagined that President Ba- also a candidate, and will certalaly be elected | charan would be embarrassed by the complicatious AFFAIRS AT CHARLESTON, Tho reports telegraphed North relative to the State | of ibe present crisis, must before this have banks about to puspend, are utterly without foundation. | serm that the United States bave at tho head of | The etramyth of the banks was never greater. Their re | affaires & man equal to the timer, As it is the province of Jaw to coatrol the excces even of lau tanie PaRsions ADs propensities In {odividua’s, Fo it i* tho duty of government to restrain within @xe bounce ihe enuill- Lions of tectioual sentiment aod the determinations of sectional parties, aod o regulate the course and the dire- | tion of popular tmpulses which cannot he altogether blamed. The Presideat has tuo much sepee, however, to mix bimeeif prematurely in the domestis affsirs of the | sovereign States of tyis confederacy. It is upon & jast be Jax.0e of conflicting obligations, and of rival and sometimes | apparently incompatible duties. thats President eh owe bis Strength, or burbands it for the occasions yet to come Thin quality tn @ chief mogistrave ts inoivly to be preferred to apy medaiivg and reatiese astl- Vity oF precipitate enthusianm. He will speak to tne South, apd to the whule American people, io bs annual BM: esage—not before, The abolitionist aspirants to bigh officer under Lincoln are extremely apxious that such @ number of States should secede as to give to the President elect a prepon- derance of frienés to bis nom(nations tm the Uuited States Seuate. The conservatives of the North and South equaliv hope that their friends to the slavenoiding states will not thos cut thelr own throats, It romored here that if matters at the South go on Inciance to cash oven sight cotton dra‘ts in the North, as heretofore ‘was usual, has forced shippers to dewaud specie in exchar ge for cota consignments, and gold ts daily received in large quantities from the Norto and Bugland, Cavairy and infantry are in the #treets to day drilling io large numbers, Exch company halted aud saluted | the immense fag of Svuthera Coufederacy floating trom the Mercury otlleg. Tuere are illumiuations to bight in various portions of the city im honor of tue encouraging news from Florida. ‘The latest private latelligence received here warrants the belief tbat every Galf State will cortatnly secede. Edwd, Rufio arrived in Charleston to day, and was enthusiastically received. A large palmetto tree was erected this evening fa front of Institute Hall An immense meeting was beid, and facing the apeakers’ siaud was & largo transparency, “Well done, good amd faithful servants.” Mayor Macbeth presided, and made a fine speech. RW. Gordin ad- dreas:d the delegates Sonator Porter's speech oxused prolonged applause. There were several other speakers, and tho greatest enthusissm prevailed. Dariag the day | cannon were Gred as fags wore raised with cvlonia aud Biate mottoes inscribed. K HERALD, SATURDAY, wbieb ccvld aot be vtuisted wiuhous vn France, vier iets aD ot Louisiane, and Creer you ration giveb tO E08 Bubjeot ( also refer whe re pUbNCAL yrene to the Of the Governor of Nebres: Ka, eet rg fo Uh bie reasons for vetning the mil probinit ‘ror bebion OF Blavery Into that ferritwy — fae Wi HOF was, thet any sucd legisla {the treaty with France wader ritory was rea ™, sbev you reflect over tne special character of Wrue an presented oy the State of Louiaisas, you 06 sbek tenable gronnde France will act It 18 18 from Engiaad, who at shat mrad g Morvinsippl, Jentral 80 French tp tan: Loutiang eontrois the mov ripp river, oud with it the export of two milion Dales of cotton sprually When she goes back to France for protection, with @ bistory of ber wrongs, Nao leon the Third will pot make Ger an exception \u hin traditioual porley, end refuse that gusrautee +ipulated for, by Napoleon the iret Chess ru wre, there ’ore, Moniio are merely idle, or ret in motion to mask the great cane vow playing tp raris Unless tne states of thin Uo oa agree to come basis of reunion, 1D six mootns fron (his date there wil! be a Freneb Geet as the mouth of the Mis eveipol Me North row iearvs for the drat time, through tre Naw York HERALD the trve Cause of the preeencs tn the vil of Mexico of dhe Kreneh power there ang tu Sen Wal America Here is elev the Key to Nepolesa's negro ‘abor polley ae to Eogland, ber policy all over the world is the some interest, eelf-oterest The douth will be eurtsined by ber herause we are producers of ber raw material and coprumers of her manufactured guode The North # ber Poval, beeanea you are@ ehivbullding, wean oarweting ane manufacturing people, What will Ragland waat with your eb1ps and worken spa? De the Northern peapie Ray- pore that Kogiand wil! abandon to Frause the oon aud of the cotton crop of the Souib wad the pro fitarle pixy of free trate, in order to ally bereedl toa mannfecturing sud shipping rivait Is tt pos- fible mer can be 80 deladed? Woy, Gogiant cara an httle tor the vegro as she does for the Pow or Munge rian She cares for herself, and after ner free negro Oiplomacy bas done ite work and her great manuf.ctur sls of the North are cut away from the no Setes, you will find Johu tal) suddenly oniy to all the caut a sont Invery. Kogland will go witn th me States which come levet tn competition with ber ofa ms oufactures and rhipping U1 trust tat ail our enemies, domestic and frrelge, may set be disappointed. The so y for ection she wil of our coustitutiunal compact, OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENO Ricumoyp, Va, Nov. 14, 1880 Progress of the Secession Cause— Virginia Uveting in the Mev-ment—the Porta of the Southern Confetecacy (0 be Tarim Cpen to All Countree except the Ninth— How the Union Can he Preserned— Le Lincoln be Xej-cied by the Electoral College Butts and Lincoln s Caton-t~ Ananiety to Hear Further Accounts from South Carvdina, dc No mo -eweut ever wonceived bas grown #0 rapitly in popular favor af the secession ecacme seme to advance to Virginia, At rat it was regarded here by magy aa 8 mere Umporary ebullition of Southern resentment, which would exbaust itpelf in a few epaenotic demonstrations; but the determined and perristent zeal of Suh Carolion and Goorgia bas given a characier of eerioucnees to the movement which ie rapidly dispelling all doubts as to tts real am and obj-ct Men who but a faw dave ago viewed tbe mu'ter slightly now gravely reflect upoo the impend- ing danger. Tey are beginning to estimate the conse queuces, and many bave come to the conclasion that peutrality 1# tmpcesinie ia view of the geaaral cbarsoter of the movement. Believing this, they are yielding to the popular current, and today we bave in Virginia twenty adherents to the secorsion cause to the one identi fled with it four days ago. So great is the revolution wrought upon pabdlic sentiment, that every account of the favorable progress of the secession cause wich reaches bore imparts. a thrill of joy, whea sadness ead ceapair were the effecis produced by similar sccounte four cays ago, ‘The press of the State are fully aroused, and are now seslousiy promoting the movement. The very women of Virginia ecem entbosiastic in ‘the good cause,” as they cai! ft, and they pour out seutiments of warm commen- dation upon tre glorious little Palmetto Sute, Not a submissionist bave [ met in my tutercourse with our sit zens during this day—a fact which I bave to record now for the Orst time since Lincoln's eectioa, If they do not “avow themselver in favor of secession, they are mam; and so with the presses which at the outset invel shed Against the movement, ‘The popular sentiment is @ great lever to work changes tm the policy aud opinions of men. It sweeps down like ap avaianche every obstac’e which ser pticism, or doubt, OF prejudice, or interest, may luterpose, In Virginia It is operating wonders, It is cheoging tne political ssntiment of the Btate from that of settled, trasitionary coger 7a Uist to tborough sectionaliem. Tee actual secession of South Carolioa, and the other Staer @id to be leagaed with her, will eo excite the popular wind of Virgioia as to render her immer tate co-operation im the soocesiva movement & matier of certainty. This being the case, ‘he formation of @ complete Southern confederacy will no ouger be & matter in auticipation. We are now ja the # | THE ACTION OF GRORGIA. | Maoox, Nov, 16, 1890. increasing in intensity, Mr. Buchanan @ill follow in the | footateps of Gen. Jackson, and call upon Gea, Scutt to act | as mediator; not, as in 1892, to bead the troaps, bat togo An agreement was made yeaterday at Milledgeville, by | on a peace miasion. It wiil be recellected thas Gen Sonte twonty-two leading men of all partics in Georgia, eum: | das been the great mediator with ‘Great Britain, aud oa moned by the House Committee on the State of the Re — seyerni occasicns in this countr, public to contult, that a bill should be roported calling « State Convection, with a preamble reciting the wrooge of the Sonth, and recommending resistaccr—the mode aud form to be determiced vy the Convention. “ Is was also agreed that no Usion party sno be formed, aad the delegates elected should be upsram- melied by pledges ‘There has been much excitement at Milledgerilie, bat * grest deal of barmouy aad good feeling. 4 the Convention will be calied to meet OUR BALTIMORE CURRESPONDENCE. Batrmoan, Now 16, 1850 Conrention of the States—Repeat of the Uncomsriutronas Leyialation of the North — France and Louutana~ Prem’ Fleet at the Balice— fights Quarantesd to Lousiana by tae Treaty “ta Pranco—Mowh of the Musmipm aw Two Million Bales of Cotton—Kngland and Her Seifish Policy—One More Chance for the Union, de The excitement in this city is something fearful, be ‘oanse it ts based on rr lial curreepowdend:s from the mor chante of the South to their corFospoudeuts ab thie poias | 14 we folly to expect apy thing but the Recession of tne Gait | Staves It ts the duty of wise and patriotic men to act | with Judgment, and not under the impulse of pemios ‘The true poliey to be pursued by New York city is to | Uarow the weight Of ber influence in favvr of @ couveu | Hon of the States. Prior to the holding of #ush a coavea | tom the Legisiatares of those Northern States waich hare pullifiec the Fugitive Slave law can be oalied together, And those obnoxious eoactmeuts repealed. With tbis | practical evidence of returning reason at the Nota, the | eeceding States would mect their friends im ovnventin, now thy no dolier Adovt the Gret week in January. AFFAIRS IN AUGUSTA. Avovrrs, Nov. 16, 1890. There is aotblog of tuterest from important Southern centres to day. SECESSION MEETING AT MOBILE. Mouus, Nov 16, 1860. A meoiing of all parties bere today unaaimousiy favored secession. Resolutions to awal: the action of other Siates were voted dewn and withdrawn. THE FEELING IN VIRGINIA of, as 1 told you before, the Southern States, 1a seoe ting, | whep (pis sectional controversy could be Qnally disposed Ricumons, | will not form at once | Soutwera cone tersoy. | speak The studonte in the Uoireraity of V phar ldo know. The more conservative mes. aad ny t! “ . | far the larger portion of the secession party, will mike @ tog om the 18tb tart ,and adopted resolations approving | far the larger Do a gp Be the action of the seoding States, ¢isearding party divi: | upon them to meet in comvention. [{ Know thie will be sious im v ¢w of the presen! crisis, declaring delay or in- | the Onai line of policy op the part of the south, and as the | HARALD i aways correct in its foroshadowing of events, Action on the part of Virginia as only tending t> eoosurags the ager. sions of black republican traitors, eulogixing Gov. Wirs a8 foremost amone all Sonthorn men ta his bold defence of Southern iastitution®, and expressing « | doaire to bear his views upon the great issues which | now distract the country. Also a resolution laviting bia | | | your readers may reat satisied that what | say will, . The cangeros psrta of tue disun, 2 the attempt if made to coolirm the free negro polloy of the Seward and Wreiey s.uool, of courte ali i# lost, and the golden fruit of oar country will torn to bitter sanes on our lips, May owerLs all (hings, from the fall of ihe cuirping spar to the fall of agovized nations, watea over aad pro “ to address the stadeufs at the oarliest practisap.c time. Resolutions were adopted at s mocting beld in Louise | county, on the 6th instant, declaring that should Lincold | be elected such election would be ipse facto a declaration | of war sguinst the rights of the siavehslfing States, | revolution and an atiempt to destroy the union of the Mates by destroying tae boot of union acd the constitu: | iy p64 in acourdance with the wili of @ majority of tie tion, A resolution was also adopted pledging resistance | American people. fhe wil of the majority has Sven pro to this dangerous invasion of Souther® liberty, and call- | DOmSoed sgainet bim, aod the claims ot his friends, thas ‘There is one viow of the question which I hare not aren ROY Perious Foggertion must be word for what it ie wortn, ie the wiection of Lincoln a he i@ entitied to the Presioentiat ition ing upon the other Southern States to edopt imme iiately Dt of the mejerity to rule, 18 sherefore witho such measures as would make resistance effective. A The electors, therefure, in voting fur hi st tbe will of a majority of the Am rican request Was also made of the Governor to convene the Legislatore within ten days after Livoola's election would be ascertained, in order to provide for the election of | delegates to the State Convention. ‘The Braminer of to day expreases some rtroog signif se Te EUNUN TGR REIT tis emmrioteat try trom athe bazar wich sures upon. referring to the fal Sie eatertaines . : by the North that those who sup sorted Bot! and Doogias | France sapeonet to play ts fete great parts trese would be opposed’to the exercise of any right of resist | Nepoteon wu not take part with South Caroline ance to the acte of Lincold’s adm{arstration, {t enya that Sas preaee vom Ld gh gy Gy the mass of the ropporters of Bell and Douglas never did | aii sequatoted with intormetional Ia wili call \ sanction the ulira federal doctrines and the idea of sub. | Franee wil Louie mission 10 & srotional government, whatever some of the | be Uraty male berwces traders may bare done. quisition of the Louimane territory Souther prees, and the commanications appearing ja be @ minority Pree den rity of the American people This cocmder uid Dave ite weight, if upaer the present cond the country the electors phonld exercite their ¢ooatita onal perogative and w! it reems to me, tbat ender puch ¢ foummances, the ere tow of Mr Reerett by the electors woud save ‘the coun It refers to the tone of the | that treaty, the civil, pervooal, religious and property a exosting, Were guarantee? to the Frenon fucoesBors and desvendavie for ail agere their pirgnted faith. The fret Napoleon, actiag on thet plightod faith, tarned ae the magn territory of Louisiaas. bas been observed the world wil sooa Stave of Lat them, to show thet they are done with the ephemeral ume. Mv unio the United Statce of the late canvats, and are now afdressing aa the efforts of the North tw accomplish that purpose, “The people,” says the Asaminer, ‘will 004 top now. ‘There = no temptation held owt to men south of Meron and Dixon's line to lok for federat borors or laduence ia | the fatare.” Where ie Botts? The Beaminer descants foretbty on the abject porition of @ man who accopts mice slarery, justifying bis vote vpom the under @ government which denonnces the moet Titel ia- ghar under the mor €, os | Mest, treaty of porchase by which the United Motion In his section as & monstrous iniquity, and the | State equivd tne Territory of Lowigtana, APKNSSA" had stipalation john Quiacy Adee (from whom Mr Seward gaye be cevgh! ble inspiracion Foted for the admission of that State tat the Uston with | trsveition perod, Teo montns, probably less, will dad the grad rebeme thoroughly consummated. What w to be the cotnmercial policy of the ne # Confede- ration? [learn to Cay, upon very good authority— gon- Ueman WhO Im b CoLatAnt Correspundeoce WLR the pro- Mipent leader e im tbe Se ceesiw movement—that the Svotbern porw sill be thrown Open to the free admis sou oF layorts from all countries toe Norsh Upp all goods i rpurted frow (pat section a daty of & 'yGve per cept will be levied, ia costuraity wita he suggeeten of Governor Brown, of Georgie. thre = 8 oath bow givep at ones to North. tT commerce. it is ereu t wus of yortbera States wih wil be texea to & Cegree porrible for them to maiute oral trace tb sbort, tt ® contempiated to cut off all aa soomtion, al Combection wikk tiv Nerta, social, political vd €¢ aime voval le there @ poesibility of avertiog these terrible conse- re ie, nud 1k Gem ODIY 06 done In One way, to the Bicctoral Coilege, and an who @oald be aocepianio » be cunciiiated by are Celudiog the mime tem gr MALE that the eecestion Mm ivement now going Oa at tbe ouch te eu OF ty oonetrelD thom to any soncematune It wectuated by po such pur. owes The dave of cuncilia the oaly feeliog pow ta y tbe 3 £6 to (he iast consumm stioo—t08 Tne very word “ormpromise” ie Every Clenster, every wrong, the prestige, her subj gstion and’ eon + traced to Ibe ortupate 1 fueaore of her promites [hey are Bow, Dowever, at aa ead, 47d the day of action bas come If the North deawes the U torved, 1! ¢he #tehes to keep oven @ prodtacie tor ber aacuiuctures, apd ty per petvate & couds tien of aanty, friendebiv ard good wilt between berecif Avo the Souin, it her throw Out abe" ov-rbomrd while abe has it yet aber pomer There is po other remedy for the im coding ewt. It le ether Limoon ana die. SpleD, oF some coveerrative caudidaty aod Uaton. etter be bead be hung than tbat this great oon try ebovid be ruined, amd the interests of miliions ercrifices The prestige of “Ol Abe"{for ‘not witt ot suffer by the g rar ‘splitting’ feat which be a0 compl rb oven to advacoe of bie assumption of the reine of f, mored, be shel ever be perartited w sein: them fe will have “apie a Coton ich it tong the Dieo of thouwant# and @ reren years’ war—marked DY pricatioos acd bardehips sithoat oareilel in the annals —w form Wet tbe North reflect, while a hitve Uime im yet left, wether thoy will permit #ach a oimaater fF tbe wake Of a te etnph which, after all. is out a barren ene the wemt Will be Fo CpoRt tu'od aR to pare iy an every effort of bisck repudlicaa Caton mpiltier, wg #1) De Bmivet by the victory but wile all, all that it dear to this ree Let be Bleotoral Ooliege throw Lin mars, aod there is an end of it J wequiries have heen umed a & shetherl bat any keow tbat the Yon. Joon inited Save |. of courte, couit foraation on that Bead, but (referred the partios to the HW a Growey, the delegste from Oregon, who #1! afermatioa avon the are, be ‘a free from the taiat of e°rruption, which # more than Greeley cap Say Moc auxtety existe for further ne #8 from South Caro Hom acd Georgia Some fa tuential mer iact correspondence with Mr Kdmuo @ at Colombia, South Carolina, urging the secession movement. Rien . Va, Now. 18, 1860 The Union Party in Virginia Ansions for a Sowhern Conference— Comperiiion of the Conference Great Aneie ty for an Barly Meeting of the Viryinia Lagulacure— Revell of amy Atiempt at Overciom of the South— Hundreds of Thowands of Minute Men to Be IA Loose om New Tork— Trade Prospecta—A Glut of Goods tn the Southern Market Real Cause Sf the Dipreianon in Slave Pro. perty, de Fo strong te the conviction of Impending diselation of the Union that the Union men tn Virginia are now using their beat efforts to Infaence an tmmetia‘e cai! of « Syuth ern Conference, if only to seeure unity, to the end oftler of Union or dissolution. This is the best they cao do un the present critical cosjancture, They cannot rem tho Current of seouesion; that is imposstbie Tho tea of reasoning South Carolina ani the other Stites leagaea ‘With ber in the secession movement into patience or NOVEMBER 17, 186U.—TRIPLE SHEET. delay ts out of the question, If secession involve the viter annihilation of the whole South, it will @@ a200m- | pliebed. It ts now @ questing of hoavr, and with South. erp men, life iWeeif does not stand ia the way of a vindi- | cation of that vital principle, “‘Desth before dishoaor’’ is a Gxed maxim with Souiherm gentiemes, end the sa crifice of material interes 6 is neocessari y regarded with leas Oonsideration than individual suffering where tue question of honor is tavolved. The Unioa men, knowing this, are doing their utmost to urge the adoption of the Iggrer ovil oy induotng the ultra Southern Mates to agree wo @ copferen se, promising at the same time to abide is ection, whatever it might be, With this wi +. popceoce bas been opened by some conservative men bere with some of the leaders of the secession movement, but eo far without auy favoraple effect. It {8 even contemplated, as 1 understand, to send one or two commissiouers to South Osroliae and Georgia to in- Cuce those States to acquivsce in this movement; » in. esmuch as Virginia gave a deaf car to the solicitations of South Carolios and Mississipp! through their comaission- ors, Messrs Memminger and Starke, to unite with the Suuthern States tp « conference last winter, I fear the mis- sion of the Vi-ginia commissioners will bo a fraitiess oxe This confereoce movement contemplates the admission of Northern delegates, but only o equal torms the ‘South in anumerical point of view; and, acs0rding tw the programme, the poiitical complextoa of the Northera de- legates must be conservative to entitle them to admissjon. If the seceding States can be brought to acquiesce in this arrangement, it will be as mach as can beexpected. But fires, recession will take piace to redecm tne pligatea benor of the South, and then only is there @ probability of any proposition in the way of a conference being ea tertained. A brief editorial in the Whig of today ad mob isbes patience, deliberation and prudence oa the part of the South, meanwhile indicating pretty clearly tts purpose to act “as Virginiaus” when a determination is formed free from the iufluences of impulse or passion. The Whig in proverbially conservative; heace this change tn its position from that of absolute hostiliiy to secession may be devmed to sume extent @ coacession to the se- ceasicn sentiment Party lines are fast disappearing, and (doubt if, i six montas from this time, & trace of auy of we old party Isnomares wil exist in the Svutn. ‘Avti Lineola" will be the oaly party design. tim south of Maron ans Dixon's lias, tf perohaace tue Uaion saould copbinue, of which there is but little probability as tais time Groat avxiety ie manifested for an carly assembling of tbe Virgiota Legwinture This anxteiy prooeeas fro 1 @ Stave Convention, which can ov y dowe tnrough the agency of that vody fact, po otper gathority to issue the call Parkes have their State Execute Committees which sre tovested sith that power, but inasmucno as this Ooo vention will be Organized upoo BO party lives, aud its sction will form the groundwork of leg isiation conoeraing the great issues pow mgitaring the Sourn, it w deemed must appropriave that the esi! should emavate from ene Legislature A porition of ‘masterly inactivity,” suod as many in Virgtots would seem to cou reel for her at this time, is looked upon, not only by a large body of ber owa collizens, but many eitigens of other States, ag utterly to covsietent with ber relations to the south as tts recog To preserve such an attitude, while revo tution stalks through the grease por Joa of the sevtion wit which she '6 uotted by every tie of a common tute rest end ® common destiny, i# looked upm as nothing les@than criminal. If abe stands by uatti ths evil te ac compiiehed, ail ber efforts ia the tuterosts of paace and Union wil be tn vaio It 18 far easier to avert au evil tha to remedy ita ter it has happened. Virgiaix saad by all menus muke some move bo avert the impeoding disasier if the can, or in care of faiiare make coun cause wita ber sisicr States, whether for weal or woo. 1b coes pot become her to look on complacently uotil the weue i decided, and then, after @ delidorave survey of the fleid, fail im without evcoupteriag @ mogle rive. ruc, Virginia is making every preosration watch tho Wpendieg crisis edmonienes, but they are made oaly to view of actoal hostilities. To avert euch an emergency thonia be Virginia's office. To tacur the risk of w couttict when there Was ® means of averting it is not the part of wisdom. Avd yet the Old Domtulon ix plactog bers.lf very much fp that attitude. She bas at tho head of ner aflaive, im the person of Governer Letwher, @ mea of pro ver bial prndenos and foresight, aud an energy and firm vers adequate to any crisis Ke wil, a9 doubt, do what ie b #t for the iuteresta of bis stete and the whole doatn, but in agreat crisis like Ubte, iavoiviog the peare and prosperity of millioes, it 18 proper that some waai(ceta Lien of popular sentiment an wid be made to aid aim in dete rmipicg tbe policy which ho should paree Tatt ¥i ual Opinions are irecly expressed; Dut toaemucd as Of the late election news from the North, and men and ‘women, whites and darkies alike, are up in arms at the overwhelming majorities given to the ‘‘rail splitter” can- idate for the Presidency of these now disunited States, ‘A large mass meeting was beld last night at Institute Hall, and st an carly hour the room itself, as well as every Corridor and avenue loading thereto, was densoly packed by the chivalry and beauty of the Palmetto State, Stir- ring speeches were made by Judge Magrath, Mr. Coloook, Mr, Rhett and others, and the burthen of them all was ‘immediate dissolution’ of that time hovored compact which bas eo long enabled us, as a Union of brothers, to ‘Atain and maintain the proudest position among the clvi- zed nations of the earth. Need I tell you that a feeling of melancholy, nay, almost of horror, pervaded my breast asl listened to the dig nifled and eloquent appeals which fell from the lips of the accomplished orators of the evening? ‘The history of the confederacy was traced back to the daye which tried the souls of the good and brave men of the Revolution, and every one felt, as the records of the Palmetto State were held up to view, that during all our fierce struggles for liberty the heroes of South Carolina bad well sustained their reputasion as patriots, warriors and statesmen. The beroism of Marion, the statesmanship of Calboup, were all portrayed in characters of light, aud my heart swelled with enthusiasm as I gloried in the ‘bought that they were my countrymen, the associates of my Northern ancestors on the red flelds of battle, and their hearty co operators im the council halls of our nation. Anc pow, toetand en earnest listenor in this crowded hati avd hear the prominent men of South Carolina not only advising, but insisting on immediate severance of the bonds of the Union—to see the fair ladies of Charlee- ton, with deaming eyes and excited looxs, filling the vast galleries aod waving their secession flags as the eloquent teptences fell from the speaxers’ lips—now, what “A change came o'er the spirit of my dreem ”” I can rearoely realize it now; but I look down the long avenues on this bright November morning, and my eyes bebold proofs exoogh that it {sali asad, a end reality. Farewell now to the culmipating progpority of what rhould be our glorious Union; a long adieu to the stirring eongs of Hail Columbia” apd the “Siar Spangled Ban- ver’ a plogle strain of which would lately bave roused to the bighert pitch the enthusiasm and patriotism of the Norih asd 4ontn alike. One of the orators jast night said, ‘The time bas come when that old aad beloved banner ot he allowed to float upoa tho Southern breeze, por sball Ibevemwave again with'n the four corners of the South Carolina State if we are true to our rights, our country aod ourselves.”” When I contemplate the future prospect of my coun- try, ano covsiver that this unhappy state of fecltrg has bech brousdt about by soulless fauasice, on a mere ab: stract question of * niggeriam,” 1 feel thas I coald soo every aboiitiontst at the Nortb, with demagogue Seward at their beac, bung up aloft, bigber and more deservedly, if peasibie, than crazy, murderous John Brown. has gone by for pleading or for compro- word bas beoa expunged {rom the yoca- Dutery 0! ‘almmottos. The vast nawbers who filled the Institute Hall wore wild with enthusiasm, and sheers and waving bate aad handkerchiefs pupctuated every renteuce of the addresses; while, mt tbe eame time, the street opposite the Mil Bouse wer tbronged to bear the epeakers from the bal- cony, and fireworks illuminated the #hoie city. From time to time the news received oy telegraph from | they lack the forms of popular pronunctamentos cina | the States of Georgia, Alabama sod Masissipyl was an- batiog from regularly organized axsemliog, they c.uoot | Lovnceé wud received with cheers of hearty approval ‘be rrgarde: as apy tate of the popular seuti, tof | ed the moet distnterested spectators must have taroed from the evene eatisfed tha} the days of the Uaion were pumbere 4 now I look forward with fear and tremDling to the at of Northern fanaticism and ecctional tri- tbe State. Tt 1s only tm the conorete that a2) avowais of policy can be deemed of sufficient consequence to nila euce + flloml action So far.not @ single county, town or city meeticg has been held in V rginie to give expres popular sentiment, and it ie cortataly aujast C resalts tion to tbe umphs. Tat God intenced this continent for « powerful, to take the whole tity of | free and beppy brotherhood of States I have always woving 0 eesentially grave ana novel ta ite | Ormly delioved. He smiled upon oar armies while bat character. Thoresbould be some manifestacions ta the | ting for thetr rights, aod bas showered innumerable ight of which be might act, Mectings should becatied | blessings upon them through eare of Unrougbout twe Staies, and expression given through jag A. 3 rw, a - 4 ‘the!r Jar sentiment. they otecting Sawee Op tet Power waich has #0 long blessed them and never them, of * 1 informed, day thatanew plan is on foot by restrain the North from aay attempt to cverce pg “teres. Should aay organized bots of men » North loud their rervices'for th's parposo, it is com plated, acour ing to gy informet, to pour \arode of thousands 07 Minute Men into Northorn cities to raa feck, aud plunder and devastate, Tae story goes that they’ sill invite the eo operation of the vicious and idle ot theee citi the stipalated terms of aa equal epare of theap ile The teducement, no doubt, is struag, Dut | doubt the feastbility of tne project At all events, {t is better pot to apply the provocation. The wealth of New York, the Cazzling splendor of ail, Black & Oo's fetadlicbment the rich and variety of stike, eatine ano Oiber valuables which render your grest dr; hoses ro attractive; the tecining wealts of Wall the Llood-cemented bonds of Union and of strength, T do beleve the r happy daye are nimbered, and that the fiat \# even pow going They are jomed to their idols; let them alone Deus vult prius demeniat, \s an old saying, whica ancient history bas fully vorised, and we are now to give a mosern illvatration of its truth, for I believe, if ever apy pation bad cause to curse (atcstine foos, that this beloved country of ours wili mourn ta sack and Qxbes tbe incendiary movements of the abolitioaists and the triumpbe of tbe republican party. Bosivess appears quite stegnact, in view of the ap- Proachipg difficalites; aad even this quiet, charch-golng people allowed themselves to be siartied from toeir pro vVerbial Sabbatn quietude, for as #000 as service was over ptrcet; and Inst tbe mnt least, t16 epl-ndia opportaai | tbey rosbes to the bulletin boards of the Mercury office ty thal would exiet (Or demolishing she Zyvbune dalidiug. | 8P4 read the latest intelligence with excited coun- are incentives very hard to be resisted. Let the Wice ‘Ove thing abolitionist manufac ments a: d discha-ge most of their employes, for the cot ton embargo will soon be ipacgurated, and instead of bothering their heads avout the condition of the happy Souiheru , they wiil flad abundact employ meat for pathies among the starving and usemployed the Norta. Only let the biow fall most severely where most de served, and [shall feel satisded, for ove, that the punish mast will not be witaout a Salatary lesson for oar future action. OUR NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE. Naw Onumaxs, Nov 8, 1859, The Rreeption of the News of the Presidential Ele tion—In- diynation and Alarm of Lowisianians—Sympathy with | the South Carolina Seo srion Movement— Minute Men Or awakes 8 the otner side of the line if they de- tire to prizes preserved to their sectiva, and Sieresaeacee anainile: I wae told wo day by agentioman having the best moaas Virgioi®, and probably the who South, a suilicieat quanticy of goede to moet the requiremeots of thet ses Hop fr over mx months La thie state of things. the Yorth way reasorably antic\oate a conmideranie dimination ia | Vor if uauai caports to the South. Keonom y lu every de pare- ment of expeoditare seomm pow the order of the aay. Che etate of affair 10 the douth a¢moniah each & policy, sad, m view of the disasters Oi 1557, \be waroug & cos vo tbe increase of bis labur force. thors is 00 sar. plus he makes no edition. It seems the demanis for ganuing in Lowsiana—The Heretofore Discordant Poli ‘vutstanding cebts from the North upon the Sonta this teal Element in Party Politics Becoming United on Se wonton are unusually pressing, becacse of the uowett of state of ataire 1D tbe letter section depreei wien iu slave cessionaThe Local Vote at the Late Election, hc. Our city was but vory partially prepared for the news of yesterday from New York. Many had hoped that New York would be able to stsy the mad carrent ef abolition aggression upon the South, ani few of us would allow ourselves to contempiate the ¢f- cortala as it is chie fy owing | neat Friday. Tuere » much anxiety here to asce tain what position Governor Wise will teke The position of Virginia will, { © greet measare, be determined by whatever coarse he eball poreve OU RALEIGH CORRESPONDENCE. Raumon, 8. C , Nov. 22, 1860, North Carolina Sentimeni—The Breckinridge Party—The Legstarure— What the Governor will in his Mrnage— Str Clingman and the United Staict Senator. ship, @e., de. Now that the amoks of the battle is clearing of and | ai ves os a glimpee of the Geld, we cannot precisely see all Ube damage thet we bear hes beeg dome. However unant- mour South Carolina may be in seceding, becacse North. cru men bave elected a free sot! President, yes hore there are a good many who do not think all ie quite lost, and | that s cersion ts atill distant at least another four years’ Journey, But {% cammot be demied that those are in the minority, and that there is an immense majority who, if not pesttively destrous of secession, think 1t Inevitable. Thiee are, for the most part, the supporters of Breckin ricge, Who, a@ | predicted in August, has carried tho State wo very much disappointed apd chopfalien parties. Thr one talbe lowdiy of defecers, arms, appropriations, militia and eveb kiodred topics, wile the others console themvelvee by trying to believe that the Old North State | OUR GALVESTON CORRESPONDENCE. Gaveeeton, Texas, Nov. 7, 1860. How the Result off the Election @ Regarded—The Policy to be Purrued by Oe Siave States—Linosin's Bleotion the Overt Ael to Justify the Recession of the Souih—Tzas to be an Ally of South Onrolina in the Scurion Move ne granted ‘with onthontasn there if the news! syeoelation as to what wilt vine aie the offices in ihe gift of tne Legielatare. © + inptanes, © to Pome extent anorpular oron wit the Sic Pure comsarew, sat tareare roaere ment— The Peeling Ooncerning New Tork Otty, de. fs moves to ont Dia Re bas great inany war | The olection ieover, The 6th of November, 1800, bas bit ‘er coemneah Cinemas veil wader otetly be 12 coat pases, and provadly ite record upon the page of A ner! nation, and bie friends will certainly vote for fg | can history will be elted as the mort importamt, io a po Aittcal point of view, that bas transpired since the adop ‘Son of the federal constitution. With us the day passed ‘Witaout excitement, but a deep feeling—an anxiety, & dread, pervaded the who'e community, for each voter felt that bis individual vote might have an important infu- ence upan the result. ‘ i Pspts sft fr E L Ht Hate el E z i i é Hi . i : 3 & £ 5 i g Ff a OUR LEXINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Laxioton, Ky., Nov. 13, 1860, fhe Result in Kentucky—Position of Mr. Breckinridge | Numbers Urging Him to Go Souwh—His Probable Future Course, de The returus from the ‘‘knobs,"’ or back counties, come | im slowly; but enovgh is known, however, to make it cor- talp that the State bas gone for Bell by from 4,000 ¢o 6 600 | Plurality, Breckinridge beats Douglas by from 20,000 to 25,000. In this, Henry Clay’s old district, pow the home of Breckinridge, the iatter beate Bell and Dougias combined, Heese is where the present Vice Presi tent made bis gallant fights for Congrcst—tiret beating Leslie Combs and then Biack Bob Letcher, two of tbe most popular snd well tried leaders of the old whig party of this State. Tho Breckin- ridge democrats, though mortified that Kentucky faited to give her vote on this occasion to hor most gifted, galiant ‘and vopular son, say, “Well, po matter whuse fault it ie, the thing ts done, and we are afraid that our bappy coun- try is to be tern asunder, never to be united agaiu.”? The excitement here to regard to the election of Ltnootn and the movements tp the cotton States is very great and on the increase It is muoh feared that onr happy coun- try is to be torn aeunder, never to be aniied again The ver men who abused, vilified and defeated Brecktor! are now by scores cailiog on him to go Sou Mates. It is Delieved bere that Mr. Breckinridge will visit the fonth at the proper time, and that ha influence will be powerful in tbe rig it quarter, aod ali directed towards NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. SOUTH CAROLINA. LETTERS FROM THE FEDERAL OFFICERS IN CHARLES- TON, 8. C. FROM EDWARD ® WITH. Performing duties «fa pnrely otvil aud ectentific cha racter for the general goverement, | have considered it uppecessary to obtrude myself upon the public—s thing 1am alwaye unwilling to But, in order that my po pode Ad be misunderstood, 1 beg leave to say, brovgb f mov tha [ on now, as of South Caroliaa, to devote my self and my fortunes to her rervice, and avait her dictation a: 4 summons EDWARD B. WHITE. ECuaxuarow, 8 C., Nov. 9, 1860. FROM K 0. GILCHRIST, UBITED STATES COMMTSSIONTR. Having been frequently wuerrogated during the last two days as to whether I # wid continue to ‘the office of United States Commissioner, | coanider tast it ts due to myself that my fellow citizens should not ‘the position I occapy A United States sioner derives bis offioo, not from the ————, by appointment of the United states Judges, at ibis port under a FROM B. G MERKIOT, AGENT Holding the cilice of Unites States Army aud Navy Pea- siom Agent jor South Carciion, | may be pardosed for ob- trudirg m) self apon the notice of the public at this time, alt yy ve be peces#ary to way that when my native acts in her capacity, my Ww ber is paramount, ard | stand of fall w: greene by =. oe eres, =e tbe | mpe Powers of Korope, tn view ive tion of one or morsel the Guuthere Slaten’ trom ths pre- {Se the entavlubinent Abe gover To H Prt, Chairman The pevatest meeting ever eombied in the inetiute Hall. ‘The menting been ad- o om Mo (or people canpot be restrained. Doliewe that there vention to be ta cea al nome cari Gay «Pf 0 be ane to alibe wopreeedented and ‘We hare bene Jed & committee to go to Columbia aod inform oar 3 ss Ui t 3 i a > 3 i fF 53 3 z z g ii Se iH