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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
the flag deposited in a sale corner, where it will await the demand of its owners. The Secession flag has a blue field with a single white star in the centre. Many mistook this for the "Lone-Star" flag of Texas, which, it is not generally known, is a type of the American flag, with the exception that in the blue field there is but one star — all the stripes, however, are attached. Public Burning. As we walked along the other day, says the Cuthbert Reporter of the 8th, we saw Captain Platt coming out of the bookstore with his arms full of Harper's Weekly Magazine, followed by Mr. Chas. Seavy, clerk in the bookstore, with a torch in his hand. After suitable ceremonies, these semi-abolition prints were committed to the flames. Mr. Seavy is from the North, but he came forward voluntarily on the occasion, and willingly supplied the torch to the pile. How the preachers stand. The Macon Telegraph says that a vote was taken on the train, between Augusta and Millen, by