The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-02-13
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"A meeting of capitalists has been called in
New York to organize an association for the cul-
tiyation of cotton by free labor. Bahi where
is their land-in Hate-I?
Prentice says a great many people have
been expecting Mr.. Buchanan to take ground
in the present crisis, but a great many more
have beeh expecting thatlhe would take water. "
And after all, says Toby, he has done nothing
but take his whiskey, as usual. ~
AN exchange paper says; "on Tuesday
morning last eight ors nine persons passed
through Raleigh, North Carolina, on their way
North fsorn South Carolina, in Charge Of Adams
Express, with their heads shaved, consigned to
Abe Lincoln or his agents.
The New York Day Book says that lady
arriving at that city on the cars from the North,
the other day, accidentally overheard two men
in seat near her taking about going South as
spies Look out fer them
We learn from the Missssippian of the sth
inst, or the death of Mrs Crane, the cstimable
wife Of Rev W. c. Crane, the Rector Of st
Andrews Church and also the death of Judge
Daniel Mayes, an eminent member Of the legal
profession. .trst
TIM Illinois papers report that a young
Southerner, in passing through Centralia, ILL.,,
was rudely mistreated because he displayed on
the side of his hat blue cockade Judge o.
Meyany, bitter and uncompromising Black
Republican, was the leader of the party which
attacked the young man, tore off the cockadc,
and drove him out Of town.
"A correspondent Of one of the New York
papers proposes that our national difficulties be
settled by South Carolina and Massachusetts
constituting themselves the champions of their
respective sections, and to fight it out; Their
motto to be LET the best man win," and both
sections TO submit as soon as the contest is de-
cided.
-TnE secession spirit has broken out among
the boys at St. Timothy's Hall Institution kept
by Mr.. Van Bakkelon, near Baltimore. The
Principal being suspected of anti-slaycry views,
the small boys commenced firing pistols, etc,
and when they were taken in hand by the teach
senal and turned the guns upon the school
The school is broken up, temporarily, most OF
the Southern boys having left. 1t has combined
military with other instruction
Eliza Cook very truly says-"That to APP
prcciate the true value of newspapers we have
only to suppose that they were totally to be dis
continued for one month. The idea is horrible
-GEN. IIENNINGsEN, Of Nicaraguan notoriety,
has rendered his services TO the Governor Of
Alabama. He is now at Montgomery.
--yIcE-PREsDENT Breckenridge is out in q
letter opposing the doctrine of coercion, and
maintaining the right of secession.
TUE Jackson News says Jefferson Davis,
(our President elect on his arrival in that city,
to attend the meeting of the Military Board, was
clad in "homespun-lookins the embodiment Of
p!ainness and frmneSs."
Tue Northern abolitionists would go to wal
rather than admit another slave State into the
Union. The same party proposes 10 go TO wal
to keep the Stare state of South Carolina in the
Union. "Oh consistency, thou art jewell
-THE NEW ERA--fhc Charleston Couric
suggests that the 22d of February be made til
date of commencement of the new Southern
Conlcderacy, and asks: "What say our exchan.
yes TO the birthday Of GEORGE WASHINGTON,
the iustrious Southcrncr, as the official birth
day of the new Republic of the SOUTH" We
greet the suggestion as eminently proper, and
fondly hope TO see it realized"
TUE man who fell out of the rank, did not
hurt himself but broke the line
SURELY, man six feet and half high may
be called citizen Of long standing may he not
ALL fears that Southern ports will be sue
ceSslully blockaded, have been dispclled by the
action of the British Minister, who has ordered
the Consuls at New Orleans and Charleston ia
grant clearance certificates to British vessels
loading at those ports. Other Ministers have
followed his example, and the consequence is
that our cotton is going to market just as usual.
TUE CONGRESS of the Northern and border
States, which met at Washington on the 4th, has
thus far accomplished just nothing and is ex.
pected to accomplish twice as much yet
-BAcKRTER-A flea.
We suppose the regiment officers, in this
State, viii be elected as fast Ms the regiments are
enlisted We have our eye on a man whom,
above all others, We would choose for the com
handing officer of our regiment lie is not un.
known to fame, and has seen service upon the
tented field, and would be First to lead where
glory leads the way"
A FELLOW who stuck nail into his shoe,
was heard to exclaim that ''the iron had entered
his sole"
The military companies at Holly Springs
had grand turn out on Saturday night and
fired seven rounds in honor of the election OF
JEFF. Davis as President of the Southern Con-
fcderacy.
Two companies at Holly Springs-the JET
Davis Rifles and the Home Guards-havc en-
listed in the service Of the State under the new
ordinance. Each Of these companies numbers
about eighty members since the re-enlistnent
Tine 0'COnner Rifles, at Ripley, have re-en-
listed under the new ordinance The company
numbers fifty or sixty.
-TEyIS, Of the CoiIeeville Tntelligencer, wants
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