The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-01-16

4.
f An OLD PLEA.-President Buchanan says ms
duty makes it nse4ssary to enforce the collection
Of the revenue This plea of necessity Is no
new one. If we believe Milton, it was urged bg
Satan;
= $50 spake the fend, and with necessity, -.
The tyrant's plea, excused his deyilish deeds"
The Arizona and New Mexico people say
that the destiny of the South shall be their des-
tiny. They will never place themselves at the
mercy of the tyrannical Northern majority.
Poor, crazy, priestridden, blood-washed
Mexico seems destined, atlast. toenjoy respite
from her woes. The Liberals have entire con-
troll of the Government and the star Of peace
which, for fify years, has been almost all the
time obscured by the bloodred cloud Of war
shines out at last .benignly, over what Heaven
has made the loveliest land of all beneath the
sun, though mans strife and folly have made it
by-word and reproach among the nations.
The Georgia Convention win assemble to-
day. 1t will probably pass the ordinance Of
secession tomorrow. .io43.i ~ A''t
Mississippi passed the ordinance Of seces
sion on the 9th instant; Florida on the 10th ;
and Alabama on the 18th. Our own gallant
State took second honor. i.i NJ ali 70,
The State troops of Louisiana, on the 10th
inst, seized Forts jackson and st. Phillip at
the mouth of the Mississippi river, and Fort
Pike, at the entrance into Lake Ponchartrain; on
the 18th, they took possession Of the Arsenal at
Baton Rouge, in which they found immense
stores of arms and munitions Of war.
We learn that General Twigg, commandin
the department of Texas, declares that he and
his troops are at the command of the Southern
confederacy. With Davis, TWICE, Ben. McCul-
| loch, and probably Huney, We need not fear
contest with the North. Then ll..,' e -a8 ad
"welcome be Cunberland's steed TO the shock
The Someryillc, Tenn, Times, calls the
Mississippi ordinance secession on paper
The Declaration of Independence, in l776, also
had the misfortune to be put on paper If Sc
cession written on parchment, with pen and
| ink, is not acceptable TO Lincoln and his CO.
horts, only lot them tell us so, and we will write
it on their carcasses in blood, with ball and bay
onet. We are disposed to be accommodating,
and if sheepskin W III not 10 We will even write
it on asses heads. ...t,...l.n .n......a
The Virginia Legislature has called Con-
vention to meet ON the 18th of February. 1t is
thought it will pass the secession ordinance in
two days thereafter.
Gov. Pettus las called a meeting Of the
State Military Board, OIL The 18TH January. 1t
is thought the Board will be reconstructed on
an improved basis, with jeff Davis as its Chief.
Alta meeting of the Holly Springs people,
on last Saturday night the contributions, for
armins the military of that city, reached the
handsome sum of 81, 800 in money, and $500 in
rations, clothing &c. Many ladies contributed
largely. Go and do likewise ."r"
The volunteer companies Of Marshall coun-
ty intend going into camp at the Fair grounds,
near FOLLY Springs, during the present week.
Capt Sears, Professor at st. Thomas Hail.
graduate Of West Point has, been al pointed
drill officer
-EAnTHorAKE AND SYowsToRM.-a letter
from Knoxville, Tenn, datcl January Sd,
says: awe have had the deepest snow thnt
has fallen since KnoxviIIe was set,le,!. 1t was
ten inches doop. It fcll on Saturday night,
and has not vet disappeared. We had quite
shock of an earthquake Mt halfpast four
o'clock this afternoon. 1t Shook all the
houses" ' .''- ''.'"
Eight printers from the South Carolinian
and Southern Guardian Offices arc in the
ranks of the Columbia artillery, which left
yesterday. They are all young men who
will be found equal to any emergency i, .i!'
"A wealthy lady living In Adams county,
Miss, the widow Of deceased planter, pre-.
sented volunteer rifle company with mi
form, rifles, and flag, and everything else
necessary for equipment. That company
will never run. a. auj n..ta .-- -.
No RrIEs.-Adjutant- General Sykes
publishes letter in the Mississippian, stat
ing that the State can only hereafter furnish
volunteer companies with the US. Muskets.
That no rifles are on hand and cannot be
procured. .