Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-02
IMPORTANT AND STARTLING
SECESSION STARE5 US IN THE FACE

special dispatches to the ". Herald.
THE EXCITEMENT IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
WAsHINGroN, Oct. %.
Intelligence flows In on all sides Of
fearful excitement in the Southern States
on the imminent prospect of the election
of Lincoln. The Decentralization OF the
negroes, which is rapidly on the in
crease, fans the flame. A gentleman
who arrived mere from the South to-
day, states that Minute Men and Com
mi;,ees of Safety are organizing all over
the South. In Virginia they are en-
rolling men all over the State, and the
regular volunteers drill taily. The four
batteries of rifed cannon, twenty pie
ces, lately ordered by Colonel Smith,
will arrive in Richmond next week, with
five thousand revolving pistols and TWEEN
ty-fivc hundred carblnes. Eight hun
dred barrels of powder have already
gone on. There Is no exaggeration In
all this. Governor Letcher declares
openly that its object IS to sustain any
Southern State against federal coercion.
Letters from Georgia say all parties are
united for secession on Lincoln's cleo
ton. No doubt is entertained here that
in lees than sixty days several of the
Southern States will have dissolved their
connection with the government.
The recent visit Of Dcirees is made
more significant by the fact that at the
same time several influential Union men
from the South and Southwest were
known to hold prolonged private confer
ences with the Republican leaders here,
among whom was Senator King OF
your State. Its whispered that one re-
suit OF those conferences was the con
clusion to press upon Lincoln the pro-
priety and expcdieucv Of offering, SO
soon as it is ascertained that his election
is fixed fact, the pest of Secretary OF
War to General Sam Houston, of Tex
as. No man is more bitterly hated and
feared by the ultra tne- eaters of the
South than is the hero Of San Jacinto,
and no one possesses more fully the con-
tidence of the Old Jackson Union men
Little doubt is entertained of Lincoln s
making the OHer.
The recently expressed sympathy o.
Secretary Cobb with the proposed &C.
ton Of the secessionists SO strongly ia
contrast with his former Union senti-
ments, causes the President the great
est distress.
Apropos of this disunlon movement
there is already considerable rivalry
spriuging up among the friends respec
lively of jeff. Davis, Toombs aud Wise
as to the superior fitness of these gen
tlemcn for the military leadership o
the Southern forces.
RICHMOND. Va, Oct. 26. 1860.
The following has just been received
in this city:
There is no doubt the President has
become thoroughly alarmed. Hitherto
be has trusted that, however threaten
ing the portents mi ht be, the crisi,
would not occur until after the exp;ra
ton Of his term but Secretary Cobb
who returned some days ago from Geor
gia, has disturbed even this consolation
by informing him that, from the genera
sentiment which he found to pervadt
that State, there is no doubt remaining
that she is prepared to 60 with South
Carolina, and withdraw herself from thu
Union upon the election of Lincoln
that Secretary Cobb would be com
PEELED, in the result of the secession o
Georgia, to resign from the Cabinet and
return to his State.
Great excitement prevails here, anG
the formation of companies Of minuts