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Correspondence Of the South carolinian.
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1860.
Washington is in despair. The property
holders and government officials are in abb
solute dismay. No one sees how the Union
can be saved. The border slave States are
going to demand new guarantees, but no
one expects they will be granted. This
process, however, is necessary to be gone
through, to prepare their people for South
ern Confederacy The most alarming ru-
mors are in circulation. Some say Mary
land and Virginia will seize upon Washing
ton, and prevent the inauguration of Lin
coin. Some say the city Of New York will
20 into revolution within thirty days
George Law is on here from New York,
and openly proolaims that New York city
must be free port. The New England
States are threatened with isolation. The
New Yorkers say they will not consent to
give the small New England States equal
representation in the Senate. This gavels
the New England men not little. We
are Upon the of the greatest events in
his history. Danger is apprehended from
Douglass heading the Northwestern States
against secession. He is said to be as
fierce and angry as Achilles was. This is
the fighting element of the North-the mil
lions of fierce borderers on the head waters
of the Mississippi. The President is urged
To send troops to the Charleston forts
He s,very anxious to avoid bloodshed, but
the danger is that he may not be firm e.
noughto resist the pressure on him. If,
however, you can avoid collision now,
the concert of four or five States will d.
minish the chances Of war. SOUTH.
WASHINGTON, Dec. -1l..-Yesterday was
not barren of results in Congress. Vallan-
digham, Of Ohio, took ground against coer-
cion, in the event of secession, but protest
ed against the Northwest being shut out
from the sea, either by the North or South.
If needs be, he said, the millions of the
North west would cut their way to the sea
with the sword. McClernand would not
admit the right of secession, denounced the
Republicans, complained of the South de-
serting their friends North, and announced
that the Northwest would not be cut off
from the great ocean that the Mississippi
must be free. This is important, as indi-
eating Douglas position.
Sickles, of New York, spoke with extra
ordinary power to the questions involved in
the crisis. Said if troops undertook to pass
through the city of New York to coerce any
Southern State, they would be repelled in
the streets of N. York by an army of brave
men. That if disruption took place, New
York city wonld set up for herself, and be.
comea free port That she had no idea of
becoming an appendage Of fauatical and
puritanical New England.
The New England Senators are becoming
alarmed, for in q reconstruction of the
Government, they see they will be shorn
of their Senatorial strength in the govern
ment of the populous North.
Coob has resigned. His administration
of the Treasury is not considered very for
tunate He is more astute politician than
6nancier. SOUTH.
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A CONGRESSIONAL JoKE.-Hon. W.
Porcher Miles, of the Charleston District,
excused himself and his colleagues, from
voting on the question of select commit
tee, intimating, in substance, that befTe it
could report its conclusions South Carolina
would be out of the Union, and he himself,
instead of being Miles in Congress, would
be Miles away.-Philadelphia LEDGER
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NAVAL observation-disclosures
shubrick, who has been fifty years in the
navy, has prepared his letter Of resignation,
to be rendered when South Carolina shall
secede. 1t is said to be conceived in the
most touching terms. Captain Ingraham,
who has gone to the Mediterranean, is un-
derstood to have left his in view of the
same contingency. They are esteemed a.
mong the best officers in the service.-N
Y. Tribune.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-It has been
ascertained from the census returns that the
population of the United States is 81, ,000,-
900. The representative rates will be a.
bout $4,000.
Howell Cobb, late Secretary of the Trea-
sury, left Baltimore this evening, and ex-
poets to stop for two days in Columbia, S.
Carolina.
Several Representatives from Georgia,
Alabama, Florida and Mississippi have
sent dispatches this day to their constitu-
ents that there was no hope whatever from
the action of the Committee of Thirty three.
Private letters from prominent citizens
of Georgia and Alabama indicate more fa-
vorable sentiments in relation to the main
tenance of the Union, although no decided
reaction has taken place. There is evident
disposition in some quarters to postpone
final action for a while, and await the de-
velopment of public opinion in the border
and central States. A paper is being cir
culated, by Southern extremists, for sigma
lures of Congressman, to the effect that no
hope is left for the cotton States but seces-
sion, and urging their constituents to pre-
pare for it. This paperis generally signed
by members from the cotton States, but BY
few from border slave States.
WASHINGTON, Dec. lit is under
stood that the President deprecates, and
will do his utmost to avoid, the necessity
If reinforcing the forts in Charleston har-
Dor, or of committing any act calcuated
either to cause an armed collision between
the United States troops and our citizens,
or to excite their apprehension, or to ii.
tate them. He is pretty we'll convinced of
the necessity of this course-partly in con-
sequence of the immense growth of public
sentiment throughout the South, in favor
of secession, aud the impossibility Of check.
ing it; and partly from his unwilingnesE
to shed blood in vain, for such, he knows,
must be the only result. That he has es
tirely relinquished the idea of holding the
forts, you must not, for a moment, suppose
His present attitude towards South Carroll
ais, in effect, such as might exist between
hostile forces-it is an ormistice, which he
is not likely to attempt to break before the
State secedes, unless he should be provoked
by irregular and unauthorized attempts on
the part of your people to do so. That
they would do so uuwise thing I am un
willing to believe. Their true policy is tc
hold themselves prepared to meet the worst
TO render it dangerous for any one tt
interfere ,cith hems-but at the same time
to settle peaceably, if possible, the differ
ences between the Government and them
selves. I am assured the President de
sires peace. But great political como'
nation like the Government he represents
dies only with the fearful contortions o
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although it be assumed that the Federal
Government shall! undertake to coerce that
State for the sole purpose Of preserving the
Constitution-yet, in attempting such CO.
erciou, the Federal Government will neces-
sarily defeat it's own object, will convert
inaurrection into legality; and, to the very
contrary of what it desires and intends, will
thus Itself produce the legal dissolution OF
the Union.
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No REpuDIATIoN.-A mercantile firm in
New York has letters from North Carolina,
Mississippi and Alabama, all of the same
effect, repudiatiug stay laws, and giving the
assurance that, in OF out of the Union, the
parties will pay their debts.
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ESr The Charlotte Railroad Company
have declared q semi-annual dividend OF
four dollars per share. a.
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The ENGLISH PRESS ON THE SECEs-
SION QUESTION. mails by the Cana-
dian bring US the comments of the En-
glish press on the election Of Lincoln. We
give the following extracts:
To all appearance, American institutions
are about to be tried by severer test than
has ever yet been applied to them, and we
need hardly say that civil war between
the North and the South would at the
present time prove highly injurious to the
cause of political freedom throughout the
world. We trust that American states
men of all politics will use their utmost eff"
forts to prevent So great calamity. Much
will depend upon the attitude assumed BY
the President elect; much will depend
upon the policy and conduct Of the present
administration. The Government of Pres
ident Buchanan has been characterized
throughout by moderation and good sense
it remains to be seen whether it is equal
to the task of maintaining the national in
stitutions and the majesty of the law against
the dangers which now threaten them. 1t
is easy to perceive that at period of unex-
ampled popular excitement a single false
step might prove fatal to the public peace,
|if not to the very existence of the Union.
But we have much faith in that love Of
political order which is inherent in the
Anglo.Saxon race; and, calling to mind
that this is not the first occasion on which
the dissolution of the Union has been vic,
lently threatened, we trust that the new
President, when the time for his entering
Office arrives, will be able to proceed tc
Washington without those four hundred
thousand Wide Awakes at his back, who
it is said, are ready, if need be, to accom-
pany him to the capital.-Londo~ Post
November g.
What will be the consequences of Mr.
Lincoln's election to the Presidency of the
United States? We may dismiss without
much hesitation the exaggerations of Nor
thern demagogues or Southern alarmists
A few fanatics at the North have expressed
sympathy with John Brown: and speak
hippantly of the servile war that woulc
have ensued from even his temporary sue
cess. Others, more prominent men of the
Republican party, speak vaguely of slave
ry being "doomed," and seem to anticipate
that shareholders will be coerced into sur
render by the gradual closing in aroune
them of freesoil States. These, however
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GEORGIA AoT1oN.-We stated, the 9th
er day, the resolutions passed by the Geor-
gia House of Representatives, pledging the
aid of Georgia to any seeding State. On
Monday, the Senate passed bill anthori-
zing the Governor to accept the services Of
any number of volunteer troops, not to ex-
ceed 10000, and providing for equipping
and offering them. They are to be used,
if, in his discretion, necessary. ..
On the same day, message was received
from his Excelency the Governor, in ref
erence to direct trade with Europe. The
Governor recommends the appointment of
q Commissioner to 60 to Europe to exam
inc FIVE ocean steamers, with which veal
thy company in Europe is willing to run
weekly line from Savannah to some port in
Europe, provided that a guaranty OF i've
per cent. on the capital be given; and that
said Commissioner be empowered to give
that guaranty on the part of the State OF
Georgia.
10 carry out this Recommendation, Mr.
Atkinson introduced bill to incorporate
the European and Southern Direct Trade
Navigation Company, with capital of s2,-
100000, with the power to increase it to
S., 100000. One hundred and fifty c)pies
ordered to be printed.
The Army Bill being the special order
of the day, was taken up.
Mr.. Bartlett withdrew his amendmentin
relation to contracting with Machine
Shop Company in Augusta, to furnish a
certain number of firearms.
Mr.. spalding, of Mcintosh, offered q
substitute in lieu of the original bill. The
substitute provides thatthe State shall agree
to take $4,000 worth of firearms, annu
ally, for FIVE years, from any private com
pany which shall construct an armory ii
Georgia, or any other of the cotton States
which armory shall be capable of turning
out 10000 arms annually.
i On motion of Mr.. Hill, of Troupe, i
was amended, 80 that the arms manrfac
tured at this Southern armory should be a
good as those which could be purchased
elsewhere at the time of purchasing. l
then passed the Senate.
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THE CHARLESTON FoRTs.-A correspon-
dent, speaking of these Notifications, says !:
"Hundreds of men are at work upon Ft.
Moultrie; among them some free negroes.
A moat, ten fest wide, and probably as
deep, is being dug around the entire ram
part, and filled with water. New bastions
have been hastily erected at the projecting
angles of the fort, armed with cannon, and
loop-holes for musketry to sweep the ditch
es with bullets and grape-shot. One Of the
bastions has been husriedly finished with
wood, armed at the summit with iron spikes.
On the ocean side of the fort, beyond the
moat, breastwork Of sand, fifteen feet high,
has been erected, which gradually slopes
toward the beach to the width Of one hum
dred and seventy feet. On the land side, a
high rampant of wood prevents outsiders
from seeing what is going OF in the interl-
or-but signs of great activity are there eV-
ident also. The barracks inside the fort
where they rise above the rampant, have
had loop.holes for musketry cut all around
them. The heaviest ordinance is mounted,
most of it pointing down upon the city,
while the rest range with the guns of Fort
Sumter opposite, so that their joint fire can
prevent the entrance of any vessels Mean
time assurances are repeated to the Charles
tonians that coercion will never be attemp-
ted. On the heels of this vigorous prepar-
alton, which is being made at the cost OF
Thousands, while the Government cannot
even pay its postmasters, Col. Gardiner,
who has been there for years, has been re-
moved. Why? Simply because he has
made too many friends in the city, and the
government doubts his loyalty. For the first
time, too, to my knowledge, citizens are re-
fused admittance to the fort. 10 test the
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THE SOUTHERN REPUBLIC.

THE SOUTHERN REPUBLIC.
New YORK, Dec. 10.-The Herald's
Washington correspondent says this new,
important and formal programme, which
has been presented for the consideration OF
Southern Senators, was talked over in eau,
GUS 1t emanates from Lamar, Of Missis.
sippi. The first object is to get the cotton
States to postpone final action, so as to give
time for other Southern States to co-ope-
rate with them. The plan is to have all
the Southern States in seperate Conven-.
tions at the same time, and adopt the pres
ent government of the United States at
first, without any alterations to provide
for the execution of all laws and treaties,
and for the general peaceable operation Of
all the machinery Of the present govern
ment. Even after thu several States has
solemnly withdrawn from the Union, invite
all other States to join them, with the hope
that New England will stay out
The first feature in the programme is to
have all the Southern States in separate
Convention at the same time, and have
suca a perfect understanding that they
should on the same day adopt the same
ordinances, verbatim ct literatim.
Second, that such ordinances, whilst
severing in solemn way the bonds which
unite said States to the United States Of
North America, shall provide that the
Constitution and laws of the United States
shall remain in full force and effect amongst
the seeding States, and that the present
Constitution shall be their Constitution and
compact.
Third, that laws and decisions of Courts
which are now of force in the Republic Of
the United States of Moth America, under
the authority of the Government thereof
shall be adopted as body of laws for tht
Federal Government of this, the United
States of the South.
Fourth, that the people of the United
States of the South hereby bind themselve
to observe and sacredly carry out the stip
ulations Of all treaties, subsisting between
the United States of North America ant
foreign governments anterior to the date 0
this ordinance, until such treaties ar
changed or altered or disregarded by sucl
nation with this government
Fifth, that the following persons ar
hereby appointed collectors for the Stat
of E, and hereby authorized and em
powered to cast the vote of this State, O
such day as may be agreed upon, for Presi
: dent and Vice President of the Unite
States of the South, and such persons a
may receive the highest number of votes
according to the Constitution which ha
f been re-adopted, shall be elected, inadgu
r rated and invested with the powers cor
2 ferred by the same Constitution upon tn
Executive, on the twentieth day after tb
j., adoption of this ordinance.
/. Sixth, that the Conventions are to prt
vide for the immediate convention of
f Congress of the United States of the South
e either appointed by themselves, or author
ize their present Representatives to act
t and that all officers, mail contractors, Ma
e sha!s and Judges shall retain their office
l.. until otherwise ordered.
!, THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE SECE!
- SION QUEsTIoN.-The mails by the Cane
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SOUTH-SEDE RAILROAD.
ON ANDAfTER MONDAY THE22d AU-E-
" gust, the pa senger Trains, VIII as follows ~
FROM PETERSBURG TO LYNCHBURG.
Mall Train sta daily at $50 A. NJ reaches Lynchburg at128o
Pm
Passenger Tsin starts daily, except Sundays AS ~,
reaches Lyncht,Jrg at 1890 A. NJ
FROM LYNCHBURG TO PETERSBURG.
Mail Train start daily II A. NJ reaches Petersburg at p NJ
Trsns daily except Sundays 1880 r. NJ,
reaches Petersburg at $50 A. VI.
These trans with tive daily trains TO the Springs Knox
vile Nashville, Memphis &C. to New Orleans
~ This II the shortest and expeditions all parts
Of Tennessee Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas and Texas
The City Point Train leaves Petersburg daily except Sundays
A. NJ and 2 Noon, and City Point Al $50 A. NJ and 1870 "
Extra trains to and from al the steam packets when
ceSsSry.
II. D. BIRD,
au4 General Superintendent
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1860 GREAT SOUTHWESTERN MAIL ROUTE.
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1860 GREAT SOUTHWESTERN MAIL ROUTE. 1860
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RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
ON and after Sunday January 29 1860 the Mall and Passen
~ ger trains on this road will as follows
Leave Richmond daily At o'clock A. for Junction burke
VILE Lynchburg Bristol Knoxville, Dalton Atlanta Ca
Chattanooga, Nashville, Grand Junction and Memphs Tenn
Montgomery and MOBILE, Ala, and New Orleans.
Leave Richmond daily Except Sundays for Danve Va and
RETURNING,
Leave junction plrkevle) daily at $50 An and arrive In
Richmond al IL 80
Danvi daily Except Sundays ats l. H. and arrive in
Richmond at 1890
~ The above ains connect bo ,odys the sOuthsIde
Railroad trains and nom at the Junction and
with the Virginia Central Potomac Railroad trains 70 and
from the North at Richmond.
Through Tickets t Baggage through the above
points also, TO the Virginia Springs.
For through Tickets and further apply At the Ticket
0ce Of the Richmond Danve Railroad Company Richmond
laSO ALEX W0RRALL, Superintendent
RICHMOND & YORK RIVER RAILROAD
ON and after MONDAY January 23d 156O Pas r. .r s1
~ seuger Trains will depart 49, - ~
PROM AICHMOND
Daily Except sundays) at NJ
Tuesdays and Saturdays ~ r. H.
FROM WHITE HOUSE
Daily Except Sunrays) at.............. .....4 W.
Tuesdays and Saturdays, A. NJ
STEAMER sEA-BIRD LEAVES NORFOLK,
Mondays and THURSDAYS, 81 A. NJ
LEAVES WHITE-H0UsE
Tuesdays and FrGays A. NJ connecting with Cars both ways
Cbanna stage leaves Whlteouse Tuesdays and Fridays
A. NJ, returning " ednesdays rnd Saturdays.
Walkerton White House Mondays Thursdays
A NJ, returning days.
Through freight SaTded daily freight forwarded Tues
DAYS aud Saturdays. TIOS r SHARP,
js23 Superintendent