Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-12-24
NEUtS or THE DAY.
'sTa s4ow thc oery age aadtody Of tie TTsEs.

will not be found separate and in opposing
position in this great struggle Tor State
Rights and Southern Liberties. Alabama
will, most assuredlY, secede first and make
| efforts at cooperation for Southern eonled-
eracy afterwards. No prollered comprolni-
ses, no amendments to the constitution, no
| prufcrad additional guarantees can delay her
action for independence moment"
! The New York Journal of Commerce says:
considerable interest has been manifested
| in this city withn IL few days in regard to an
| invoice of Peruvian cotton received via Pan
anna. We understand that It is 4; part Of Il
| shipment Of 1900 bales, mtst OF which was
consigned to Europe. The quality is very
beautiful, and the samples shown would sell
readily at Is cents, even in tho present state
of the market. The plant from which it is
taken is said to be perennial shrub i'll Peru,
indigenous to the soil.
| The Senate select committee on the crisis
met on Friday and had a free interchange Of
opinion, during which Mr.. Douglas said be
was ready now to unite iii recommending
such amendments to The constitution as will
take the slavery question out of Congress-
In view Of the dangers which threaten the
republic with disuniun, revolution, and civil
war, he was prepared to act upon the matters
in controversy withoutany regard to his pre-
vious actions, and as II he had never made a
speech or given vote upon the subject.
The passage of the secession ordinance by
the South Carolina Convention is, of course,
the great subject of remark with the press,
as it is Of discussion among the people gen
orally. While all look upon it as fraught
with important Consequences, there are a
variety of views entertained as to the ulti-
mate effect upon the future cDursa Of other
! Southern States as well rs the imme-
date influence it is likely to have in South
| Carolina.
A despatch from the editor of the mis-
sissippian and State Gazette" published at
Jacksou-dircctcd tc the Mississippi Dele
CATION in Congress-of this evening, states
that the State of Mississippi has elected del
egates to the Convention in favor Of separate
State secession, by very large majority
say seventy in Convention Of one hundred
delegates, and Il popular majority Of 10000
votes.
MIR. Calhoun was against separate State
action with view to coercing other South
ern States into the support Of South Carroll
na ''lle looked alone to the united and CO.
operative action Of Virginia. and majority
Of the Cotton States" Gen. James HamiI-
ton, 10 replying to an invitation to deliver
an eulogium upon Mr.. Calhoun, states this
fact, he having in his possession the most
irrelutable testimony" of its truth.
A strange explosion took place at the Gal
len House," in Wolcottville, Connecticut,
last week. Fires were being lighted in a
fire place attached to chimney-Aue through
which the gas from Al coal stove passes, and
at once a loud explosion occurred and the
chimney was completely torn apart from the
garnet to the ground. An accumulation OF
gas in the llue from the coal.stove is the only
accountable cause Of the explosion.
The shoe business Of Danvers, Mass, is
said TO be duller at tue present time than it
has been since 1887 The manufacturers
Especially those in the southern trade) are
curtaiing their business as fast as possible,
and putting cut but little work to the Jour
neymen. In consequence Of this a number
of workmen are out Of employment. Sever
| /.
Mass, have reduced their operations.
The Philadelphia Ledger says the through
and local freight business on the Philadcl-
phia, Wilmington aul Baltimore railroad is
better at the present time than ut the same
period last year. The through freight is
principally from the Ohio river. The South
ern passenger travel has fallen of very con-
| cil h,,t tbo =
the road is much better than last year.
The recent manifesto Of Thurlow Weed
has created perfect turorc in the Republi-
can camp, throughout the interior of n. York
There ere many bitter Recommendations Of
| Weeds course by the Greeley school Of re-
publicans, who are preparing to unite iii :,
crusade against the veteran manager, that
will, in their opinion, crush him out.
The Central American States are making
vigorous efforts to promote the settlement Of
their vacant territory by liberal grants Of
land to families cmigratng to their country,
and also by assisting industrious persons in
| Europe, who have not the means of removal
bus who are willing to undertake the journey.
A well-dressed negro, with $50 in his
pocket, was arrested near Rome, (Iud.) IL
few nights ago. and taken to the jail in
Hawsvlle, (Ky.). Tie confessed that he was
q runaway, and belonged to NJ. Boyd, Of
| Louisiana.
The pcopleof Cincinnati, not satisfied with
the census Of their city, taken by the United
| States Marshals, nave had the population re-
counted. and the result is that she has ten
| thousand more people within her limits than
was allowed to her two months ago
Senator Biglcr has been some days matur-
ing plan by which the slavery question, by
an amendment to the constitution, may be
removed altogether from congressional cen
troll 1t meets the appreciation Of distin-
guished gentlemen.
The police of Memphis, Tennessee, have
seized -, 500 worth Of stolen goods, and
among them was the valuable gold watch
stolen there last fall from Mrs. Judge Doug
las. Three negroes were found in posses
sion of the property.
The soldiers who fought in 1912 have pat
in circulation in Philadelphia petitions for
| pensions. The plan is to confer pensions
upon the widows Of such soldiers who were
left such.
At New Haven, Dec Dist, a tenement
house occupied by twenty.s'x families was