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VOL. VI---NO. 1913.
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THE NEWS,


Georgia has seeded from the Union. At
2.lO P. NJ. Saturday, the 10th inst, the or
dinance Of secession was adopted by the
Convention, by vote of two hundred and eight
in favor to eighty nine against it.
Our dispatches from Washington inform US that
COL Hayne, the Commissioner of South Carolina
has made application to the President that the
present military status of Charleston be maintain
ed, to which he assented.
In the Senate on Saturday Mr.. Thompson pre-
sented memorials for a general convention of the
States at Independence Hail. Philadelphia. Mr..
Sumner offered resolution, which was passed.
calling on the President for correspondence with
any foreign Minister with reference to foreign YES
sells in the port of Charleston. Mr.. Mason offered
resolution to the effect that all the laws for the
collection of South Carolina, and in any other
states which may place themselves in the same at
titude, be suspended for the time being. The bill
for the admission of Kansas was taken Nd Mr.
Green offered amendment bill for the Or
ganlPaton OF the Territories of Jefferson on which
he took the floor for speech, when the Senate ad-
journed.
In the House, the army appropriation bill was
passed. Memorials in favor of the Crittenden
compromise were offered by several members On
motion OF MIR. Sherman, the House went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the California debt bill for
the suppression of Indian hostilities, which was
passed. There was no other business of general
Importance.
Another minority report of the Committee of
Thirty-three is published signed by four Southern
members, recommending the adoption of the Crit
tenden resolutions as the only way to settle our
existing difficulties. The report says that if
Constitutional majority cannot be had in support
OF these resolutions, the substance of them the
dissolution of the Union is unavoidable.
The Senate of Virginia has adopted the report
OF the Committee on Federal Relations contem-
plating the call of a national convention after add
ing amendments naming commissioners to meet at
Washington the commissioners from the other
States, and also appointing ex- President Tyler as
commissioner to visit the President and Judge
John Robinson to visit South Carolina and the
other seeding States, to request them to abstain
from hostile acts during the pending of proceed
ings. resolution adopted by the Senate de-
caring that if all efforts fail of satisfactory ad-
justment of the difficulties between the two sections
of the country, then Virginia shall unite her dest-
MES with her sister slaveholding States. Other
resolutions relating to the crisis submitted
The Alabama Legislature passed bill on Satur-
day, to provide against the invasion of the State
by sea. Pilots are not allowed to bring vessels in
to port only under certain conditions and the
commander at Fort Morgan is authorized to re-
move the buoys and landmarks at his discretion.
The commander of the Florida forces has asked
aid of Louisiana to take Fort Pickens, and Gov.
Moore has agreed to send them two thousand
men. Great excitement prevails at Pensacola.
The New Jersey Legislature on Saturday adopt
I'D n1nksn Al
Congress to support the Crittenden resolutions
The bids for the Five Million Loan we're opened at
Washington on Saturday, and it was found that
the entire amount was taken at average rate of
Interest at 1O1z per cent.
telegram from Fort Laavenworth, announces
the arrival of the Pony Express there on the 10TH
The California news is Iunimportant. The steamer
Golden Rye sailed from San Francisco on the lst
inst. with 81 ,2e5, GOO. Among her passengers was
Ex-Gov. Weller, who is on his way to Mexico, Col.
Nesmith, U. S. Senator from Oregon, and Jno. c.
Fremont.
The steamer Asia arrived at New York on Fri
day night. Her intelligence had been mainly an
ticipated
Messrs. Tighman, Adkins and Williams, the
committee appointed at the recent meeting of the
citizens of Talbot county to wait upon Governor
Hicks to request him to convene the Legislature.
have reported that they fulfilled their duty and
that he refused to accede to their request. His
reasons urged being the same as used in his late
address to the people.
The special session of the Texas Legislature will |
assemble at Austin to-day.
The Presidents of the several great trunk lines
of railways will assemble in Washington to-day
The Committee on the Southern movement in
the Mississippi Legislature have reported in favor
of the formation of a Southern Confederacy and
the establishment of provisio nal government.
The Tennessee Convention is to assemble on the
25th of February, the delegates to be elected on
the 9th.
large quantity of munitions of war was shipped
at Petersburg, Va, for Charleston on Saturday.
An antcompromise meeting was held at Pitts
burg, Pa, on Saturday night. The proceedings
were disorderly and the lights extinguished
by order of the Mayor.
1t expected that Judge Bond will deliver his
opinion this morning in the case of the State
against Milton Whitney.