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A letter to the Alexandra Gazette, from Georgetown, S. C., gives the following items:
For weeks we have been in the midst of public dinners and meetings, Three last week, and speaking in the Court-House last night.--All are for secession.
The vote of the ladies was taken in the meeting last night, and "to a man" they voted to be rather the widows of secessionists than the wives of "submissionists." There was a meeting here last week to nominate delegates to the Convention, and night were appointed a committee to make nominations, and out of the eight, three were ministers.
We have a rifle corps here of 70 men, and our representative, P. C. J. Weston, a rice planter, has made them a present of 100 Minnie rifles ($3,500) and a Whitworth gun, ($1,500.) besides smaller contributions.
We have also an artillery company of 64 men, and Governor Gist has just sent them a battery of six guns; and three rice planters have sent them their checks for $200 a piece.
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