Smyrna times., 1860-12-27


s opped. There IS no warrant for the state
ment ln the report made to the Legislature of
South Carolina on this subject, that the Depart. |
ment here will permit the service to continue
IN It's present form, when that act ehall be con.
sunmated. Mr.. IinIt has no inclination to COL |
lude with the conspiracy and those engaged IN
1t must take the consequences. ln twenty |
days after the secession ordinance IT the sece
ders carry out their present programme, no
mail will be delivered in South Carolina, a nd no
foreign or domestic vessel will enter the port
of Charleston. After same experience, the
people will discover what consequences have
been entailed on them by ambitious leaders, in
pursuing their own selfish schemes.
DISuNIoN AND UNIoN.-Thursday was nar.
k,d by two events, both Of the first Importance
but OF very different cast, aud looking to con-
sequences as wide apart as the poles One OF
those events was the secession (On paper) OF
South Carolina, and the second event, which
Will override secession everywhere, was the
passage by the House Of the Pc iic railroad
bill, with two lines, one Cel raj and The o,hcr
Son hern, ch will bind the UnIon together
with bands Of IRON, if not with hooks OF steel.
Tits vote Of the House Thursday, meeting
great emergency with a great measure Of poll
cy, with the energy of the decrees Of the o!d
Nalioral Assembly Of France. will carry to tie
pIotters Of treason every where, ihe same terror
which IS depicted upon their faces here.
DIED.-ln this city, on Friday, Dec 2lst
lion. William Huntington, aged about 81 years
Mr.. Huntington was an old native Of Delaware
ana has resided Ii this city since l--iJ Nr lao
lie has been several tunes clerk IN one branch
or the other If the Legislature. He was may
or ol our city, and hss, al various times, held
places OF trust under our State government
MIR. Huntingdon Was a lawyer by profession
and possessed considerable OF a literary turn OF
mnd. lie died at the lndian Queen Hotel,
alter an illness ct about three mouhs-tilsease
lyss.-WH. Inquirer.
The Raleigh (N. c. Register suggests
Couiederacy consisting of all the st te, CXccp
ting the New-Englang States" New. w.England."
II says, "Out OF the preseu- CDLteGeTacv, would
lose all.the markeiswhch she now has 10 it, tor
the new Government would foster their own
manufactures by excluding hers. New EEg-
land having great sympathy with Exeter Hail,
aud its Praise God Bare Bones carnations, may
annex herself to Cauadl, aud become por-
tion of the British possessions. This would be
merltcd fate for her,"
At Newark n. j., a shoe factory was partly
destroyed on Friday morning, causing loss OF
/ about 5000. Al New Haven, about the same
uue, tenement house containing twenty
families. was destroyed by fire, aud SIX pcreOns
burned to death. The L1vrpnce Hotel, Of Rq.
leigh y. c., was destroyed Friday loss $:50HO
Twelve buildings were burned ~ the town Of
Adams, n. T., and loss ot $<22O 900 caused.
CorTON is kING.-In spite of ;he dull times
foil two thousand bales of cottoa have been
sold in this city during the past week THIS
!osks like something vas doing, ard hen we
Ike into cons d4ralIou the fact thlt about 100 :
900 bushels OF corn have been sold IN the pa st
eight days, We may cOngra tulate ourselves GA
tue fact that there is something dolng.-Nt =
folk Day boot.
TIE e. s. ARMY FOR UNION 1t is stated
on good authority That the sentiment Of the
entire army of the United Stotes, among o!ii.
GERS of all grades and natlvllles, on the ques-
tion Of the day, is for Union. Gen Scott, in
whom the protoundcst confidence is placed,
Notwithstanding tee rumors of his resigna ION,
is known to be staunch Union man.
CHAPLAIN SrOcEroN's opening prayer in the
House of Representatives. contains The follow.
ing not very fresh Information:
90 Lord. consider our President and his ad-
viscrs. They tuck uiSiom; hut if they ak oI
3 ;
bruid them not"
MR. A. q. BROWN, the Senator from Missis.
sppi, declined go!ng bail for some one, tie
other day, IN the District of Columbia, on the
ground that his State was going out OF the
Union, and he would br, thereby, foreigner
he did not wish 10 leave behind him any obligs-
lions uuiuliIled.
RLPAIRs.-The President is repairing For
MOutrle Insiean of turtItylng 1t, so that It NAV
pass into the bands of the nullGers IN oood
condition. Mr.. Miles said in the South Caro-.
lima Convention on Wednesday "All the re-
pairs now being made will be 10 our advantage
"Secession is abolition" exclaimed Sena,
Andy Johnson, of Tennessee. Never vas NOR,
truth crowded into three words. Says the Pa
trtot Maryland understands this perfectly, ant
will therefore, never give Up the Unsn come
what may.
DEMOCRATIC TRIUMrHIN New HAvEN-Th,
New Haven city election, on Friday, resulted
IN an emphatic Democratic victory. Th,
Democratic majority, in poll Of 5000 votes
IS about 500.
DR.. Livingston writes from Sem tothe Bsh
Op of Oxford, that the whole region balhed b.
lakes, in the interior Of Africa, Is a cotton pro
ducIng one OF the first order.
f The London Times, ofthe 3d inst, is yer
severe upon the message otGoV. Brown, Of Ga
: aud rIdIcUlcs its suggestions as more worthy O
iunatlc usy lum, than of the statesmun's cnam
Der.
The line of steamers between Boston an
Charleston was withdrawn last week, the en-
terprlse in the present paralysis OF trade invoI
vIHg a loss.
1 The Pacific Railroad bill before the house i
f the two route bill-one northern or central a.,
8 the other southern-repOrted from the Selec
2 Committee OF fifteen at the last session.
) The coal operators OF Pittsburg have recon
mendod the suspension of operations in tn
mines until the LIST Of March This will thro,
= several thousand miners out of employment.