Important from Georgia.
secession of the Empire State of
the South.
enthusiasm of the people.
Milledgeville, Jan. 19.
--The State Convention, at 10 minutes past 2 o'clock, passed the ordinance of immediate secession by a vote of 208 to 89.
It will be made nearly unanimous.
The Convention adopted the following ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of Georgia and the other States united with her under a compact entitled the Constitution of the United States: ‘
"We, the people of the State of Georgia, do declare, ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by the people of Georgia, in convention, in the year 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States was assented to, ratified and adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting the amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated; and we do further declare and ordain that the union now subsisting between the State of Georgia and the other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved; and that the State of Georgia is in the full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State. ’
Augusta, Jan. 19.--Our city is illuminated with fire-works, and cannon are firing in honor of the secession of the State.
Bells are ringing amid great enthusiasm and rejoicing. 