Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-02-01
Disunion Matters.

Win tnc IollOWlnB amendment
"No act, ordinance, or resolution
shall be valid to change or dissolve the
political relations of this State to the
government of the United States oil
any other state, until majority of the
qualified voters of the state shall ratify
the same"
THE frst section of the Misssissinn
ordinance of secession declares the state
absolyed from all obligations to the Fed
eral Union of the United States; the
second abrogates the oath of Mississippi
oi1ice-holders to support the Constitution
of the United States the third declares
that all rights acquired and vested under
the Constitution, and not incompatible
with this ordinance shall remain in force,
and have the same effect as if this ordi-
nance had not been passed. The fourth
section is as follows:
"Tbat the people of the state of Mis-
sissippi hereby consent to form federal
Union with such of the states as have
seeded, or may secede, from the Union
of the United States of America, upon
the basis of the Constitution of the
United States, except such parts thereof
as embrace other portions than such
seeding states"
Upon the announcement of the pas
sage of the secession ordinance by Ala
bama, Judge Jones shouted from the
windows of the Court House at Mobile
that the United States Court for the
Southern District of Alabama was "ad-
journed forever !"
The Savannah Republican of the 10th
says;
Savannah is presenting a busy APP
pearance at this particular time, at least
so far as the carrying trade is concerned,
having to do the work of both Charleston
and herself. The arrivals of vessels ex-
ceed those of almost any former period,
and we are informed that twenty-six
were cleared at the Custom House yes
terday."
From the following statement in the
Mobile Advertiser, we learn that the
Moultrie-Sumter game has been played
successfully at Pensacola:
A gentleman who arrived yesterday
from Pensacola informs US that the
Moultrie game has been played extern
sively at Pensacola Navy Yard. He
says that the commandant Commodore
Armstrong, we beIieve) has transferred
all the arms and munitions of war from
the Navy Yard, from Fort Barancas
from Fort Mckee, from the barracks ant!
the redoubt, to Fort Pickens on Santa
Rosa Island, which commands the en-
trance Of the harbor, and has concentra-
ted all his forces at that almost impreg-
nable work of defense, one of the most
powerful fortresses in the country, inten-
ded for nearly twice the number of
guns and men that Fort Morgan is.
There was much excitement in Pen
sacola. and large number were ready
to join an attempt at the occupation Of
Fort Pickens."
The Charleston correspondent of the
Boston Post, writing on the 10Th inst,
makes the following statements.
Every man in the community is anx-
ious the state of suspense tells upon the
spirits of the people. Almost any
change would be accepted with relief.
Business is as nearly suspended as pos
iible. Merchants new years accounts
bring no money. Where thousands are
due dollars fail TO be forthcoming. Mer-
chants of large means have hardly the
necessary money TO pay daily expenses.
The failure to respond to their obligations
1t the North is not the consequence of
any disposition to avoid such obligations,
out is the result of the impossibility of
collections in the interior. Planters
,rops have come forward only in a limit
ID degree. OF course they cannot pay
i'll they have realized from their crops. I
4 gain, the last three months sales have
,een nearly nothing in many branches of
business as possible. No man has bought ,
nything he could dispense with. Hence
toeks have accumulated, and merchants !
annot pay notes with stocks in their
torres. Owners of bonds, stocks, real I
state, cannot raise money on them
Everything combines to render it next to
npOssible to get ready money. There |
1re notes are returned unpaid.
The only course out of this distress is {
trough some concession by which the
seeding states may be allowed TO 70 on