Year: 1861

In to-day's issue we present a ticket for Pre- sident and Vice President and for Electors to cast the vote of the State for the same. JEFF PERSON DAVIS, of Mississippi, is our choice for the Presidency, and ALEXANDER H. STEVENS, of Georgia, our choice for the Vice Presidency, and accordingly we hoist their names at our masthead and shall earnestly advocate their election.

 1.-The electoral ticket we present is composed of distinguished individuals of all parties and l opinions, and have been agreed upon by the editors of the Gazette and the Washington Tel egraph, who happened to be in the city, and ourself, after consulting with such leading men of the State, as we could conveniently oommu- nicate with. We trust that it will be acceptable on all sides. The names of the gentlemen pre- sented as candidates for the electoral college IS sufficient guarantee that they will either sup port Davis and Stevens, or inform us ot the contrary that we might present other candidates in their stead. We place their names at the head of our paper as candidates without having consulted with any single one of them, but with the distinct implied understanding that they will support Jefferson Davis for the Presidency, and Alexander H. Stevens for the Vice Presi. dency. We will support no man who is op- posed to them.

 Presuming that we are 8 united people, that during the existence of the war, there will be no organizations of old parties nor formation ot new ones, and that all that is requisite for re sponsble positions is reliable and capable men, we believe and hope that the ticket to-day agreed upon and presented to the State will not only be acceptable but will receive an undivided, unanimous support. Davis and Stevens should be reelected to the positions they now hold, and have filled with such distinguished ability and success, without single dissenting voice in the Southern Confederacy. Their vote in Arkansas, we trust and believe, will be unani- nous.

 In presenting the ticket that we do this morn ing to our contemporaries of the press through out the State, we do not desire to be considered presumptious. In the absence of all party or ganizations, We have fallen upon the only feas- ble plan that occurred to us to get up ticket. We hope it will meet with the cordial support of every journal in the State, as under the cir cumstances the very best that could be done.

 In the selection of the ticket it was deemed proper to divide it equally between the two par ties. The State is entitled to six electors and the democrats are represented upon the ticket by Messrs. Cross, Jordan and Bevens, and the opposition party by Messrs. Walker, Grinsted and Mansfield. Some of them were original secessionists and some original Union men, until old "Abe's' proclamation united us all, and made us, as we still are and hope ever to be, one people struggling in common cause.

 We trust that the gentlemen selected as can didates will accept the positions assigned them. No canvass is expected at their hands because none is needed, unless indeed it should suit any of them to canvass for the Confederate States loan. That might be done with propriety, and would help the cause.