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The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource]

Sec. 9. That the said Board be and are hereby authorized to employ a scientific and competent Military Engineer, who shall, as soon as possible, make an examination of the Coast of this State, with a view to the defence of the same, and make a report, or reports, to the said Board as to the points which need defence, with plans for the same. To carry out this bill, the Committee on Military report in favor of an appropriation of $400,000. In Florida, a public meeting was held at Fernandina, on the 5th inst., at which resolutions were adopted calling on the Legislature to call a State Convention. The following resolutions were also adopted: Whereas, We are advised of the certainty of the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, and Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President, upon a sectional platform, at variance with the Constitution of the United States, and derogatory to the rights and interests of the Southern States: Therefore, be it Resolved. That

d, That the assurance of the Hon-W. F. Colcock, Collector of the port of Charleston. and M. Jacobs, Esq., Surveyor, that they will not hold office under a Black Republican Administration, has been received with great satisfaction. Resolved, That the determination of our Collector and Deputy Collector to pursue a similar course meets with the hearty approval of this meeting. The Southern Press contains appeals on both sides of the disunion question. The Southern Confederacy, of Atlanta, Ga., says: We ask the people of Georgia to be not ensnared or entrapped by the disunion party. --Listen not to the mad rantings of Toombs, or the deceitful sophistries of Cobb. But let the councils of Stephens, of Johnson, of Lumpkin, of Jenkins, and of Warner, be heard. If Georgia, in her sovereign capacity, declares for secession upon the election of Lincoln, be it so; we are ready to follow her mandates, and defend her from federal coercion or abolition aggression. But we counsel

an, noticing the meeting, says: Three thousand people turned out to enter their solemn protest against the election of a sectional Black Republican Executive over the American people. The movement commenced early in the afternoon, when the Colonial flag was raised on the base of the Greene Monument, in Johnson square, amidst the plaudits of the multitude, who were addressed by a number of speakers. On either side of the flag, which was in the form of a transparency, were branches of Palmetto. The device was a rattlesnake in a striking attitude; the inscription above, "Southern Rights and the Equality of the States;" below, "Don't Tread on me." in the Hall, the people collected in such numbers that the meeting was opened nearly a half hour in advance of the time appointed. The President of the meeting was a Union Democrat, who had been the leader of that wing of the party for many years past. The speakers were both old line Whigs, who were never connected with the Democr

Affairs at the South. the flags — the Bill for Arming SouthCarolina — feeling in Alabama, &c. Charleston is gay with State-Rights flags floating from public and private buildings.-- at the theatre the Palmetto has been substituted for the national flag, and, in some cases, a flag with two stars, representing Georgia and South Carolina, has been hoisted. A dispatch from Judge Perryman, of Alabama, to the Governor of that State, places "two sons and $10,000 worth of railroad stocAlabama, to the Governor of that State, places "two sons and $10,000 worth of railroad stock" at his service. At the public meeting in Savannah, Ga., Friday night, the resolutions (already published) declaring that Lincoln's election should not be submitted to, were adopted, the people rising and cheering, and the following was also carried without a dissenting voice: resolved. that our thanks are due, and are hereby tendered, to those noble men of the North who attempted, at the ballot-box, to roll back the Black tide of fanaticism. They failed, but we shall ever recognize th