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Alabama--the Popular secession vote.

Official returns from all but five counties in Alabama of the vote cast for Delegates to the State Convention, show the following result, viz:

Immediate Secession35,776
Co-operation26,286
Majority for immediate secession9,100

Compared with the Presidential, the falling off in the aggregate vote is about 22,000, which amount, of course, is reduced by the returns from the five counties not heard from. The secessionists claim that their majority would have been increased by the increased vote. --Nor is it reasonable to conclude that co-operationists are not secessionists. They were most of them in favor of seceding when four States had seceded. But Alabama makes the fourth out of the Union, and so the co-operationists have not much to complain of.

The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 21, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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