The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-28

The Comptroller Generals report is interesting
giving the details of system of land tax He
says that 10000, 900 of acres have been re
turned valued at 20 cents per acre. agreably to the
law of 1915, when several of these millions were
worth immensely more
lie advises alteration of the law to increase
the revenue. The report objects to the system O.
banking prevailing in the State, but considers the
institutions of the State as good as Northern
Banks He advises incidentally the grant of the
State House at Columbia as the Capitol of tht
Southern Confederacy.
The public debt in stocks and bonds is 81, ,4O6 600
The aggregate receipts from taxes near So 900 OO(
per annum. The average tax on lands is a fraction
less than FIVE cents per acre.
The Military Committee make a report, recon-
mending that in case of coercion or an act indi
eating preparation to coerce, that the Goyerno,
call ont the State forces to resist and invite such
aid as may be necessary from other States The
Committee also advise the establishment of q
Board of Ordnance, and the adoption of all mean:
deemed necessary.
THIRD DEsPATCH.1
COLUMBIA, Nov. u, p. M.-The reported preya
lence OF smallpox here created quite stir, but
the Board of Health report.only three cases, which
are now isolated, and quiet and confidence has been
restored.
SECESSION FEELING Observation-Disclosures OF CO.
VERNON PETTUs-TnE MEMBERS OF THE LEGIs1A.
TuRE UNANIMOUS FOR SECESSION.
JACKSON Nov. 27.-The Legislature of this State
met here to-day, pursuant to the call of the Co.
vernon.
The two Houses merely met and organized, and
received the Governors Message, which is uncom.
promising in its tone.
The members of the Legislature appear to be
unanimously in favor of secession
HON. WIN. CURRY NOT OPPOSED TO SECESSION.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-The Hon. VIM. Curry, OF
Alabama, in private letter, gives fat contradic-
ton to the report that he is against secession.
CONSERVATIVE MEETING AT LOUISVILLE
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 27.-The citizens of Louisville
OF all parties held large meeting here last night,
and passed resolutions reported by minority of a
Committee ON Resolutions deporing the election of
President of the United States upon sectional il.
sues; declaring that Kentucky has a common in
terest with all saveholdng States; that she don't
despair OF justice within the Union as both Houses
OF congress are opposed to the newly elected Execu-
tive; that Kentucky will insist upon the repeal of
the Northern statutes nullfying the fugitive slave
law; appealing to the Southern States not to
desert the common cause of the South within the
Union; and resolving that Kentucky will stand by
the Union till aggressions her constitutional
rights become more intolerable than revolution
MR.. CLEMENS POSITION.
The Hon. Sherrard Clemens, of Virginia, has
puoilshed letter to his constituents, in which he
says that he regards the recent election as only
pretext OF the disunionists for an assault upon the
Constitution, and denounces the hot and indecent
haste OF South Carolina with unqualified condem-
nation, regarding its effect as perilous to the cause
OF the South and considers that it will only result
IN the Southern States becoming colonies of Great
Britain or stpendiaries of France. He will resent
by his vote any wrong against the Constitution,
and, rather than join the secession movement, will
retire from public life.
A CONSERVATIVE VOICE FROM GEORGIA.
The Miledgeve Recorder of Saturday last un-
der the caption of Extremists" says:
We are sorry to see that several papers in the
State are advocates for outrg ght secession Indeed
1T would appear that they were even willing for
the Legislature to have taken the matter in hand
and have precipitated the State into troubles they
know not where 10 end. Happily, however, all
parties have ultimately agreed to submit the cues
tlon as to what shall be done, to a State Conven
ton. Notwithstanding this Convention is vet to
assemble, and doubtless many things to transpire
between now and then still these prints persist
ent in trying to forestal its action, by holding up
to public notoriety the names of Tom, Dick and
Harry, as in favor of secession the only cure for
the evil. They thus stimulate violent feeling and
division among the people, when in truth, in all
hkellhood the decision of the Convention will meet
with the unanimous support of the people. Now
as all the slaveholding States alike Interested
would it not be better, far better to let the dele
gates 90 into the Convention untrammeled to de-
eide from the light then before them, as to what
position the South should assume, to secure her
rights under the Constitution-the best govern
ment, faithfully administered, now under the sun u?