Smyrna times., 1860-11-22
Southern News.
DEPRESSION OF BUSINESS.

A"e news from Charleston is still of a start
ing Character. Advlces from The interior rem
'eSch' tue people as much excited, aud fully
determined 10 secede Meetiuus are Le,,,',
heIn III every parish, and nothing but secession
Is spoken ot. The Inauguration of Ijucolu -
not 10 De interrupted III any manner Ii Is adj
lii'led that lac was elected according to the
'othAs OF the Constitution, but South Carolina
VIII not acknowledge his authority.
Inc BANKS of the State still refuse TO sns
Pehd, awaiting the action of Northern Banks
Much Indignation among merchants Is the re.
SuI'' and distress may follow.
Louisiana Is declared 10 be opposed 10 the Sc.
cess'on movement New Orleaus u already
suffering slightly from strlngency IN the mo-
Ney market. Factors refuse to advance upon
P'Uu"ce, anu The supply Of cotton tor shipping
is doubtless short.
ne Alabama Convention will be composed
Lor the most part Of men favorlng sece>slon.-
NC Nominations from the Montgomery district
nave Deen made. One Of the nominees Is MIR.
4ancey and the other Col. Thomas Watts nm
Influential Bell man
ELEcTING PREsIDENr.-The Lo iv,lle
(hy.) Democrat says:
"OoV. Robt j.. Walker has originated. Der.
haPs' tie most feasible mode to prevent the re.
currence OF the present difficulties. It's this
that Electors shall be chosen by Districts in
stead OF by the States at large. Had this plan
"een ADOPTED, Lincoln, probably would not have
been chosen
Gov. Walker is by no means the inventor of
thiS mode OF electIcg President. Itwas very
aoIy aud strenuOusIy advocated by Col. Benton
immediately after the election Of Adams m
lS24, and has been brought forward Repeatedly
ma IN h.
Is much more Democratic than the present plan.
Obviously, however, 10 one State would ever
dlssipate her strength IN the election Of a Pres.
ldent, unless all should assent TO the scheme.
Pixies PEAK RAIL RoAD.--A meeting Of
about hve hundred persons IN favor ofthe con.
structon OF Pacific railroad BY the Pixies
reaK' gold mines, aud Utah rout, was held ON
4 i thursday evening at the Cooper Institute New
ork city. MIR. Samuel IIotalIng presided
l1emarKe favorable to the enterprise were made
Oy Hon. Horace Greedy and others, and a com.
~ l'tee OF htteen were appointed TO collect nil
Information necessary TO Commence the proiec,
inu report the same alta meeting To be called nv
The Chair.
ine Greensboro (Ala.) Beacon saws that
ot oil heSroes-some twenty or thirtv-were
'old at Eutaw. on the 29th ullimo, bv The
oherlif. The prices brought were at leas,
orty 10 nifty per cent. below the ruling rotes
VI last winter. A fraction over $l2O0-und
mat lor very likely fellow-was the highest
price that was obtained. A very likely yoonO
woman, such as would have commanded $I5U0 |!
10 10 @loOO last fall, brought only fraction over
SIUO0
REMARKABLE Cow.--The Village Record
,o'lceS tne Ptriormanceo of COW, the property of
'osePh u. Dickinson, of West Goshen, Chester
county, raised bv himself, which produced, in
he last year, 1856 pounds of butler, netting her
I"ner Sill 33. In addition TO this, she SUD.
llIed his family ofsix persons IN milk and or rea m
The butter was all cellar made, and produced
without churnIng.
VINO SCRATCHED FISHER "A reliable zen.
-leman of Chrstana Hundred iniurbs us Thar
there were thirteen Republican tickets with
Fishers name off and Blggs' on, voted in that
Hundred on election day, while not one of the
Bell tickets was scratched. Who, then, we
hsk, scratched Fisher !-COmmOnpe
Henry ALLEN and J. w. Dodd. of Georgi,
clerks Of the General Land Office in Washin0.
ton, have resIgnec, TO take effect at the close
Dl the present administration. Thos. Ii. Pat
lerson. of Alabama. has done the same. So
they won't hold office under Lincoln.
lT is stated Senator Toombs wore in the
streets OF Columbus, Ga, on Saturday last,
blue cockade. presented to him by some of the
Montgomery ladies', while he was in that CITY.
The New Mexican mail brings the inteIli.
gence OF the death of Capt. Geo Nc Lane, son
of the late Senator McLane, of Delaware, and
OF Maryland also, who was killed in
light with the Navajo Indians.
Americans with Garibadi are announced a.
follows: CHARLES Carroll Hicks, Of Columbus,
Onio; Frank Nancy, of Nashville. Tennessee
Henry N. Spencer, Jr., Of Pennsylvania, and
Alfred Van Benthuysen,of Louisiana.
SERIOUS ERROR.-A prominent gentleman
being i'll at Toronto it was tel sgra phed to his
amily that "Mr Brown is no worse" The
amily got it "is no more, ., and cent up tpecl.
II train for the remains.
The Dowager Empress of Russia, the wife of
he Czsr Nicholas, and mOthOr of the present
Emperor Of Russia, is dead.