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The war Prospect.

IT seems wholly improbable, at present. that
any conflict Of arms viii occur, between the for.
Cos of the Washington Government and those
of the seeding States, before the inauguration
Of Lincoln. The declaration, made BY Mr.. Blu
chanan to ex-President Tyler-that he snticipa-
ted no such conflict during bis administration,
and that he should make every effort to prevent
| Improves that the President is only anxious to
escape responsibility by handing over the exist.
ing difficulties to his successor, just as they now
stand We may reasonably expect, therefore,
that no attack will be made, under Mr.. Buchan-
ans orders, upon the States that have seeded.
The chief danger Of hostile collision grows
out Of the impatience with which South Carolina
views the continued occupation Of Fort Sumter
by the u. S. troops, and the eager desire Of
Florida and Alabama to secure the early posses
sion of Fort Pickens.
In our opinion, the wisest course for the Sc
ccdirg States TO pursue will be to maintain the
existing status for the present Time to us, is
of the utmost importance. We require it for
various purposes for consultation among our
selves, for our military preparations, for nego-
tiating foreign alliances, for sending off our
cotton crop, to afford the slave States that have
not yet seeded an opportunity to range them.
selves upon our side, and to allow the Northern
people season for rejecting upon the magni-
tude of the task Of coercion. Indeed, we have
not yet ceased to- hope that the thrifty North
will come to the conclusion that it will be far
more profitable to treat with US than to fight US.
They are in no condition to engage in war.
Their Secretary Of the Treasury tells them,
that, to carry on the Government until the 1st
of July, next simply upon peace footing twen-
ty millions will be required, in addition to the
revenue that can be expected from all sources.
They have Navy that is entirely inadequate to
the demands that-war would make upon it.
Their army is but a skeleton, and they cannot
fill up its ranks soon enough to enable them
either to take us by surprise, or to retain snpe-
rior force upon any given point for two success
i've weeks. Ours is sparsely populated region,
while theirsis dcnsely peopled; and, therefore,
by making sudden forays, inforce, over the bor-
der, we could inflict upon them an amount Of
injury argreater than any they could inflict up
on us in return The frontier is so extensive,
and the interests they would have to guard are
so vast and SO exposed, that even by threaten
ing them continually at many points, we could
almost crush them beneath the cost OF main
tanning the force required for the protection Of
their homes, and wear out their soldiers by the
constant marchings and countermarchings to
which they would be subjected Their cities
would liein ashes their commerce fall prey to
our privateers. and their armies most certainly
be defeated We think the Northern people
have sense enough to comprehend all this; and,
if we are not mistaken in this opinion, they will
be guilty of egregious folly if they 60 to war
with us because we have seeded from the
Union. 4
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THE CASH SYSTEM.
A Fresh Canse for DisunIon.

TIE Northern States, fearful that they are
about to lose some of those vast advantages
they have been accustomed to reap from the
Union, are threatening to cocrce the seeding
States into provincial subjugation. If the
Southern States had not, previously, abun-
dant cause, for secession, such cause would
bc'fprnished by these internal threats, which
clearly prove the existence of such state Of
feeling at the North as renders the continu-
ance OF the Union between them and us no
longer proper, or desirable, or even safe for
u.s.. The Union was the outgrowth of feel
ing Of mutual and fraternal regard and con-
,fdence between the people Of the different
States and sections of which it was COM
posed; and, when that feeling died out in
the hearts Of the people, il was fitting, as well
as natural, that the Union should have given
,pp the ghost. We trust that the Southern
States, which are yet clinging to the dead
carcass Of a once living and glorious Union
may have the sa9acity to comprehend the
taCtyitiihls ~ tiicl rciiihiu W tnc CHiou uo",
they will be as truly conquered, and as certain
y ruled in the character of conquered pro-
yinces, as though their soil had been ovcrrun,
and afterwards overawed, by victorious enc
mics. Suppose that dozen brothers, who
bad lived for years as such in a common
household, should disagree among them
selves, and that four Of them should there
upon propose to leave the family and set up
another oftheir own. il, to such PROPOSE
,tion, the remaining eight brethren should
respond by forcible endcavor, or by the
employment of threats Of personal violence,
Ito deter the minority from the execution of
their purpose, who does not perceive that
the pirif manifested by the majority would
,besueh as rendered it impossible for the
athers. to remain with them as members of a
common familyi Who believes that they
could expect, from those who would thus CO.
ERGO and threaten them, any exhibitions Of
generosity or forbearance, or augl,t else than
daily and studied wrong, injustice and con-
tcinpti
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no Concession.

The Black Republicans are proudly and de-
family marching onward to the accomplish
ment of all their reasonable schemes. Sew
ard, the arch-encmy of the South, is to be
premier to the incoming Administration
Vermont and Pennsylvania have refused to
repeal their personal liberty bills. During
the last few DAYS, since the secession of four
States from the Union, Pennsylvania has
elected to the Senate of the United States
the ineanest and most offensive Abolitionist
in her borders. All propositions to compro-
misc have been spurncd. Not single
Black Republican has yet been changed in
the North. With rapid and steady tread
the enemies of the South and the Constitu-
ton are marching on to the accomplishment
of all their helish schemes yet we still find
in our midst men denouncing the South as
rash and prccipitatc, and endeayoring to lull
our people into the belief that a reaction is
going on at the North. 1t does seem to
us that it ought to be clear by this time, to
persons of even limited capacity, that the
crisis has reached a stage at which it is idle
to talk ofpcace even by dishonorable conpro-
misses. Each day only adds to the rapidly
accpmulating proofs OF the malignant hatred
which the n Jrth cherishcs towards our ir-
situations. The South has already endured
too much, and since the last feather has
been placed upon the camel's back, it seems
to us the whole South should rise up as one
man and sever the chains that bind her to a
Union in which she is to be disgraced.-
Memphis avalanche.
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/ The Mississippi Convention.

rHrs body adjourned on Saturday last, and our
Delegates have returned to their homes Besides the
ordinance of secession the Convention passed several
others amending the Constitution to meet the altered
state Of things occasoned by secession, providing for
a Southern Confederacy, making arrangements for
the postal system Of the State organizing and officer
ing the nucleus Of army and raising the re-
quired by the existing emergency. The State tax is
increased fifty per cent. Money of our citizens,
loaned out Of the State is subjected to taxation, and
million Of State bonds bearing interest at ten per
cent and payable in one, two, and three years, are
authorized to be issued If VIC are to have no war,
our means VII be fully adequate to our wants. II
vat comes Che Legislature must be called together to
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES True.

The Charleston Courier says: "A monkey
over powder magazine would represent, with
tolerable exactness, the late conduct and present
position of the President Of the once United
States -sr
No great eonfederacy. or family Of States,
was ever before cursed with President so utter
" ignorant Of the real character of the people
end principles be was called on to rule or d.
rect
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Administrators Notice.

II ETTERS of administration upon the estate
IL of Elizabeth Harmon, late of the county Of
Lafayette and State of Mississippi, deceased,
having been granted to the undersigned by the
Probate Court of said county, at the January
Term thereof 1861, all persons indebted TO said
estate are hereby required to make payment !;
and all persons having claims against said estate
are notified to present their claims to me, duly
authenticated, within the time prescribed by
law, or the same will be barred. ~
JAMES II. MARTIN, Adm'r.
January 80, 1861. 35-6w.
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ITEIp AT RULES 1sr MONDAY IN JASrAKy, 1861
IT BEING THE Urn DAY OF JANUARY, 1861

HELD At RULES, 1sr MONDAY IN JAEUAKy, 1861,
IT BEING THE Urn DAY OF JANUARY, 1851.
N. j. McGrmE, UPON opening and
VS.. reading Comp lainant's
S. G. W. HAYNIE. bill of complaint herein,
and il appearing to the satisfaction Of the Court
that the Defendant in this case is a nonresident
Of the State Of Mississippi, and resides beyond
the limits thereof SO that the ordinary process
of This Courtcannot be executed upon him,
It is thereupon ordered by the Court that said
Defendant make bis appearance herein, on or
before the LIST day of the next term Of this Court
to be held for the County Of Lafayette, at the
Courthouse, in the town Of Oxford. on the fourth
Monday after the fourth Monday in March, 1851,
and plead, answer or demur to said Bill. else the
allegations therein will be taken as confessed.
Iii further ordered that a copy Of this order
be published in the Oxford Intelligencer, pub
lie newspaper of said State, for four weeks in
succession. La HICKMAN; Clerk.
January Q, 1861. go .32-4m
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Administrators Sale
Sixteen Likely Negroes

IN PURSUANCE Of an order Of the Probate
Court Of Lafayette County, at the January
Term thereof 1851, viii, on Monday, the 4th
day Of March next as Administrator Of the es-
tate Of Lydia Garrett, deceased at the late resi-
dence Of said deccdent, near Lafomba, Lafayette
county, Mississippi proceed 10 sell all the ne
groes belonging to said estate, sixteen in mum
Der, consisting Of men, women and children.
Terms Of sale, nine months credit from day
Of sale. Bond and security will be required d
the purchasers.
]. G. W. BARRETT,
Administrator Of said Estate
January 90, 1861. S5-4w.
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Administrator's Notice.

+ ETTERS of administration upon the estate
IL Of Wesiy Harmon, late OF the county Of
Lafayette and State Of Mississippi, deceased,
having been granted to the Undersigned by the
Probate Court Of said county, at the January
Term thereof, 1861, all persons indebted to said
estate are hereby required to make payment !;
and all persons having claims against said estate
are notified to present their claims to me, duly
authenticated, within the time prescribed by law,
or the same will be barred
SIMPSON LESTER, Admir-.
January 80, 1861. 35-6w.
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0nr sleb Sobntisfnltnts
Executors Notice.

TO James r.. Harrington, Susan Smith, and
her husband, Mural J. Smith:
you are cited to appear before the Probate
i Court Of the County of Lafayette, on the
18th day Of March, 1861, to show cause why the
Petition of W. H. Steen, Executor Of Martha
Lask, deceased, praying for sale Of Slaves and
other personally. for division, should not BE-
granted. By order of the Court,
3. D. MOORE, Clerk.
january 29th. 1861. 35-4w,
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SECESSION OF LoUIsIAsA--THE telegraph informs
~ Mat fbe Louisiana Convention passed secession
sriinmcs, on Saturday. the 26th inst, by vote of
lI3tel1 The Convention also declared, by resolu
ton, the readiness Of Louisiana to concede, to all
friendly Powers the free navigation Of the Mississippi
river sad is mouths and to guaranty this right by
treaty stipulafions
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The Government has arrayed against It. at
the present time tmakiug allowance for INCREASE
of population in the last decade) not less than
1, 100, 900 white Inhabitants in the States named I;
and this number may be doubled by new defec-
tons within the next week or fortnight To
oppose them, the United States has an army
are protecting the frontier against Indians. For
additional recruits, we must look to the count
ing-roOms and work shops Of the Northern
States. Who wants TO enlist Journal Of
Commerce.
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FEDERAL AIRS HTsszD.-0n Saturday night
during dramatic performance at the Academy
af Music in Philadelphia. the National airs,
fail Columbia, Yankee Doodle, &c, played by
the band, were Kissed by party Of men in the
galleries, creating intense excitement among the
audience. Order was only preserved by the
immsdiats election Of the offenders
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THE Seeded STATEs.-If we are going to
force the seeded States back into the position
they lately occupied, let us see what the FEEDER
al Government has to contend with The States
already out are as follows:
Dec. 20.-South Carolina ordinance passed.
Jan. 9.-MisSissippi ordinance passed.
Jan. 11.--Florida ordinance passed
Jan. 11.-Alabama ordinance passed.
The population of these States, according to
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Chancery Court
Chancery Court, s'i~
HELD At RULES, LIST MONDAY IN JAsuARy, 1851,
IT BEING THE TIN DAY OF JANUARY, 1861.
n. j. WmkBRsoN UPON opening

n. ]. WILKINSON UPON opening
VS.. and read1n tho
NANCY L. NJ. wnRERsoS. Compliments Bill
of Complaint herein, and it appearing to the
satisfaction Of the Cont that the Defendant in
this case is nonresident of the State Of Mis-
sissippi and resides beyond the limits thereof
30 that the ordinary process Of this Court can
not be executed upon her, ass s q igo
1t is therefore ordered by The Court that said
Defendant make her appearance herein on or BE-
fore the LIST day of the next term Of this Coart,
to be held for the County Of Lafayette, at the
Courthouse in the town Of Oxford, on the fourth
Monday after the fourth Monday in March, 1861,
and plead answer or demur to said Bill, else the
allegations thereof will be taken as confessed
and true, and the cause set for hearing exparts>
II is further ordered that copy Of this order
be published in the Oxford Intelligeneer, public
newspaper of said State for four weeks in sue>
cession. j. A. HICKMAN, Clerk.
January Q, 1861. 324w.
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J. M. TEAS,
Saddle and Harness n aker,
OXFORD, MISS.

Il SHOP up stairs, over stanfsrdss Beet and
Shoe Store, one dore east Of Doyle,s- al -
Any work which may be left IN my hands, VIII Be
faithfully, wei and a-a n si+
U Promptly Donei II -
only ak that my old friends viii contisue che rat.
ronage hitherto 80 kindly extended to me- and that
Others win give me fair trial.
ian. 9. 1861. j ~. TEAS.
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u Promptly Donei "a
FOUNDERY AGENCY
AMERICAN MACHINE DEPOT,

AMERICAN MACHINE DEPOT,
ts 81. Charlie 81, Corner Of Grpsiz,
NEW oRLEANs........................LA,
~ URlNG.the present year beautiful patterns Of
IL g. s. 9, 10, IL, Il and l6 inch cylinders station
airy. and $ g. 4 8. g. and 10 inch. Portable Engines,
have been completed, and are nov pffered for sale
together with Saw Hills, Grist Mills, Single Ma
chimes Brick Machines, Cotton Screens. and other
machinery, comprising the largest stock ever offered
for sae while, at the same time it y of southern
invention and manufacture and Of style and quality
unegualed BY any northern importations.
Illustrated Catalogues sent 70 any address BY mail,
ienznsl-em SAMUEL II. GILMAN,
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SrkKT1IxG News FROM THE SEABoARD.-The
NiIledgeville correspondent Of the Augusta,
CGa) Dispatch, reports, upon rumor, the arrest
Of John Brown. Jr., and Redpath "a notorious
sbOlFsionisD, upon the seabord- A schooner
containing them, purporting to be bound for
Hsyti left BSston short time since Surmises
have been sometime entertained that the vessel
may be lurking about some Of the unprotected
Southern iulets or hsrbOrs, awaiting favorable
opportunity for descent upon the plantations.
We hope that the rumcr Of their arrest Is true.
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81 The Chicago zouAves have offered their
services 70 he United States government
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Come in the morning carly come in the eve
ming late, come at twelve o'clock at night and
you will find us ready and anxious to wait on
you.
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c7iy~ CAKES FOR WEDDINGS, or other
occasions supplied at short notice. 70
Chancerv Court.

Oxford. January Q. 1861.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-05-08


The KILLING OF TIMOTHY MALOSEY.-The Coro-
ner yesterday investigated the death of Timothy
Maloney, who was cut by Michael Collins with a
razor on Friday night last, in his own house, No.
l44 New Levee street. The following testimony
was taken:
Collins came to my house Thursday night oeoc Ny
Ss nd"s ss collins %oHsy y"t
ss o my GD Ga took on q d IF ea h
IS aSs siS SFss s." % sSSy VA
Tanei my roo sad he wanted stay the h"Hse for
S own nn aGS Swn Sa s h er h IN
few minutes went back to my leaving him in the bar
Fons aFt aSH no f%
hf s ps hi" S% ct so s had S o he re
mSGkc ef m nnT I nt n to n my and laid aGwn @
was He was told She did not Know Hs came M tom to my room
nd nn G the dPG GSa , ed s he sA1d IS M Fn' ] ad d GEe S
he wanted to rob or murder me- He then called me very
SRo E"n to ss n Vie IL TO abuse
for te and and then left the house saw @ him
the bar into he dining and called bad names
@ s S Sp m do s % a h Ma" sp mn INTO s the ros
hell, if dsn kill yonn Ieoud notget by him go for
osh the, i bar cons lad tn D IN bis SSnd SS"
dsed him to 90 away that he wanted nothing t. do with him
When * husband @ to o e. for % an Gs ond na sye Collins
ah hm lie cured me ana my my husband again. and srugk
him he ddn 20 ont would strike him with it.
He said he didn't care for the all the officers
band showed him out on the banQee and into the gutter He
into the house again drew from his bosom, and
after my hashand and myself got out of his way and
while my husband was rum ng;fro hm he stuck ct him with
cried out, "Im cut"
Cross-examned-Ny husband had weapon in his hand
Mrs 1nla lIcHy sworn-I live in the house with Mrs.
Malonsy Did Collins Maoney present
the time. him draw The Of mis- bosom and
away. When I returned heard Maoney say Il am cut
When reached the spot again. Collins bad been knocked down
and MalOney and another was kicking him.
Larry DiDRsy swornI live ut the house occupied omeriv
by dceased was sitting Mt the door, about O'Clock Friday
the Sd of May Maoney absent Collins and walked
and down before the door, with knife in his ha d. He
asked Maoney within the house told him In
few minute Saoney n, and took off his coat Collins fol
lowed him in md began talking to him. saying l will not
ont Of the house until have life Malone told him TO
of the house, that he wanted nothing do " til him.
Collins replied II will of b-h Maoney then
towards him Collins walked back, until he
side of the h0useAaloRey being inside the door, They
Qtarrelrg izrd with fit ,f coughing and moth
ing until Collins in again, following Manney told
MAoney TO walk smart that Coil MS was after him with knife
Collins then up nj him with knife.
know which, Collins knocked down and kicked by
some one whom could not see. then went away.
After hearing the above testimony, the Coroner's
jury retured verdict of wilfu murder against
Collins, who still lies at Charity Hospital.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-05-08


In ordinary racing seasons the four-me day is
generally able to command, even in bad weather,
a large attendance the great contest between
Lexington and Lecomte drew the most extraor-
dinary assemblage; Lexington against time left
barely spot for anybody but no such crowds
have yet been seen at the Metarie Race Course, as
those of last evening. All the avenues leading to
that beautiful spot were rafting full of life and
excitement; the muutudes were such, that even
the accommodations lately erected, and the fields,
all in best order, could hardly accommodate. 1t
was q glorious spectacle. Over three thousand
troops marched in martial array from the race
course to the City Park, better known the Oaks,
to be inspected by the Governor of the State who,
by-the-bye, during the whole time of his official
position as such, has had to meet issues rarely
offered to men, and, moreover, has met them with
tirmness and prudence rarely equaIed, but never
ex3eled, by any Governor Of this or any other
State.
The men looked extremely we'll for raw troops
in their very counenances and eyes, the spectator
could discover spirit manliness and courage. The
ladies', as usual, were in full attendance giving by
their encouraging presence the greatest ecat to the
occasion.
To particularize would be useless, and injustice
might be done; but (far from drawing improper
comparisons) any one company of those we saw
yesterday would, in our opinion be well calculated
to ettectually quench the hopes of those aspiring
planters" who intend to come South, under com
mand Of "Col. William Wilsonh of New York. or
any other set of thieves and numbering villains
from the North.
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ALLEGED AeoLlTioNIsTs:

An engineer, who has lived many years iu the
South, was on Monday invited to leave Agers by
committee of the citizens of that place. He was
charged with having said that there were Union
men hereabouts enough to wipe out all the bloody
Secessionists, etc. Though he denied having ut
tered such language, he deemed it prudent to
leave.
A man named Gihon was yesterday afternoon
arrested by the Mayors officers, being charged by
Mr.. Stinson, of the Verandah Hotel, with being an
Abolitionist sailing under false colors. Gihon
bitterly denied the charge. He said he had been
a Democrat all his life that he was Secretary of
the State of Kansas under the Pierce Admnistra-
ton; that he subsequently published a Democratic
paper in Patterson New Jersey; that before the
late election he said he would quit that part of the
country in the event of LincoFn's election; that
the election of Lincoln broke him up, and he did
quit and came South and that his name was now
on the roll of Capt Chafin's company, the Rough
and Ready Rangers, city company now at Camp
Walker He furthermore declared that the charge
was altogether false and malicious, and that he
could prove his character by far better men in this
city than his prosecutor He was detained in GUS
tody until hearing could be had
New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-05-08
THE ENTHUSIASM AT CAMP.

friend who was present gives us more par
ticular account of the reception of the Bienville
Guards at Camp Walker, on Monday evening. He
writes to us as follows:
BY the O'Clock of the Jefferson and Lake Potchnraln
Raroed addition The eomnaDies in camp arrived
BienVile Guards the command of Captain u l. Moore
mastering 50 mpskets aud presenting very ne
This company the OF tie regimentn Ag Of the
Second Regiment Col Hunt commanding y which this
is attached lately presented through Major Dean to that
regiment by Mrs Holloway and other ladies of the First Dis
rct The flag beautiful and reflects great credit
the donors Ubder The Instructions OF Major Dean the color
guard OF the Bienvies formally delivered he regmana
sign 70 Captain Holiday Of Orleans Cadets Captain
of the regiment in camp who duly received Is aud in company
With The sonih9n under command Of Captain Psek, pAadsd