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others, that the surveillance should be removed by which he has been prevented from procuring supplies, have had the desired effect. Information to-day states that he has all the expected privileges. The following letter from Major Anderson, in reply to one addressed to him by C. G. Childs, communicating to him, as chairman, a resolution unanimously adopted at a meeting of prominent citizens of Philadelphia, without distinction of party, held at the hall of the Board of Trade, on the 3d inst., will be read with interest: Fort Sumter, S. C., Jan, 13, 1861. Sir --I thank you for the complimentary terms in which you were pleased to communicate the resolution unanimously adopted at a meeting of the citizens of all political parties, held in the hall of the Board of Trade, in your city, on Thursday, January 3, 1861. Such an endorsement, from such a source, is a compliment which I feel most deeply — a compliment, I know, not lightly bestowed, and therefore more highl
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his attention was called to the fact that he had one of the notes described. One of his young men, Mr. Pritchett, received it in payment for clothing, and handed it to witness. [The young man alluded to was sent for.] Joseph Stern deposed that one of the prisoners, Chilton, bought an opera glass of him; paid a $10 South Carolina note and borrowed a dollar of the other. [Witness identified the note.] Mr. Powers, clerk at the Exchange Hotel, testified that on the evening of the 4th inst., Riddell questioned Mr. Simms in his hearing about the difference between South Carolina and Virginia money. Remarked to witness that he had some of the former, which be had bought. The next morning Mr. Wemmell came in and said he had a South Carolina note which he thought was counterfeit. Remembered the conversation of the previous evening, and in compliance with W.'s request pointed out the young men in the dining-room. Witness afterwards told Riddell that he would show him a broker'
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The New York resolutions in Georgia. Milledgeville, Ga.,, Jan. 20. --The Governor yesterday communicated to the Convention the threatening resolutions adopted by the N. Y. Legislature on the 11th inst. After they were read, Mr. Toombs introduced the following resolution: Be it resolved, unanimously, by the people of Georgia, in Convention assembled, as a response to the resolutions adopted by the Legislature of the State of New York. That we highly approve the patriotic and energetic conduct of the Governor in taking possession of Fort Pulaski by Georgia troops, and request him to hold possession until the relations between Georgia and the Federal Government shall be determined by this Convention, and that a copy of this resolution be ordered to be transmitted to the Governor of New York. The resolution was unanimously adopted.
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lls; also, joint resolutions in relation to the ultimate destiny of Virginia in case of a formal dissolution of the Union, and the principles upon which the Union might be reconstructed. On motion of Mr. Brannon, the resolutions were laid on the table. The President laid before the Senate a communication from the Governor, transmitting a letter from Wm. M. Brooks, President of the Alabama State Convention, enclosing a copy of the Ordinance of Secession adopted by the State on the 11th inst. The communication was ordered to be printed. Bills Reported.--By Mr. August, a bill authorizing the Superintendent of the Armory to provide quarters for a portion of the Public Guard; by Mr. Smith, of Greenbrier, a bill authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Robert W, Handley; and a bill to amend and re-enact 6th and 7th sections of chapter 103 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the voluntary enslavement of free negroes. Petitions.--The following petitions were presen
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of the Valley, asking the authorization of the extension of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad; by Mr. Knotts, the proceedings of a meeting of the people of Gilmer county; on the state of the country. Secession of Alabama and Georgia.--The Speaker laid before the House a message from the Governor, in which he says: "I communicate herewith a letter from Wm. M. Brooks, Esq., President of the Alabama State Convention, enclosing a copy of the Ordinance of Secession, adopted on the 11th inst. "I communicate also a telegraphic dispatch received from His Excellency Joseph E. Brown, Governor of the State of Georgia, announcing the passage by the Convention of that State of the Ordinance for immediate secession." The Ordinance adopted by the Alabama Convention, January 11th, is: "To dissolve the union between the State of Alabama land the other States, under the compact styled the United States of America." The Governor's Message and the documents accompanying
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News from Pike's Peak. Fort Kearney,, Jan. 18. The weather is mild and it is snowing fast. The Western stage, with passengers and the mail, and Hinckley & Co.'s messenger, with $6,000, passed at half-past 10 P. M., last night. Denver City dates are to the 14th inst. A severe snow storm will delay the movements of many San Juan adventurers who were about leaving for that point. About thirty quartz mills are still running in the Mountain City neighborhood, and they are doing well. The water gulches are failing steady; only those can run that have mills. Several sluices have been started in the Platte diggings, eight miles above this city. --They are supplied with water from the Hydraulic Company's ditch, and miners say they can make wages where heretofore work would not pay. A pottery manufactory will commence operations in a short time near this city.
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o had chanced to be her schoolmate in Scotland, but who was, for many years, ignorant that the Lola Montez of the newspapers was the innocent school girl of thirty years ago. "Though disabled by sickness, and deprived of all claims, according to worldly principles, upon any such association, she here found a self-denying friend, who soothed her dying moments, and led her to take refuge in the consolation of the Christian faith. The Rev. Dr. Hawks, on being requested to attend her, was frequently at her bedside, and gave her the benefit of his pastoral instructions, as if she had been one of his own flock. He officiated at her funeral, on the 17th inst., and Mr. Brown, who has attended so many funerals and weddings in his day, (may he live many years,) was seen to wipe the tears from his eyes as he heard the clergyman say that he had never known a case of more sincere penitence than was evinced in the present instance. 'Let him who is without sin east the first stone at her.'"
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It having been frequently announced in the papers of the city that I would be voted for as a delegate to the State Convention, to assemble on the 13th of February next, and being called on through the Dispatch of the 18th instant, and again to-day, to announce myself a candidate, I feel it due to those of my fellow-citizens making the call to state that the continued manifestation of confidence on the part of those whom I have had the honor to represent for the past twelve years in the City Council, and now honored with a seat in the Legislature of Virginia. excited in my bosom the liveliest emotions. The position is one, in my humble judgment, which should be neither sought nor avoided, unless for good reasons; but as I am now holding two offices by your kindness, and the Convention and General Assembly will be sitting at the same time, both demanding The constant attention of the members, would make it incompatible with your interest that I should accept of a seat in the Conv
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Wreck of the Golden Star. --The wreck of the ship Golden Star, bound from Mobile, for Liverpool, off Waterford, Eng., on the 29th, and the loss of 18 lives, has been announced.--An account from the surviving mate, says: The ship went on the rocks stern foremost. They tried to send a line on shore to the people they saw there, but failed; the current set it along the beach. There was an attempt made to throw a line by a rocket from the people on shore, but it also failed; the people on shore thought they had the line, and made no further attempt to send a second. In about haft an hour after she struck the ship went to pieces. There were 18 people drowned and seven saved, including the mate. When the for ward part of the ship broke away from the stern part, it swung round and burst all to pieces; the next two seas burst the starboard side of the stern part of the ship, which was hanging on the rocks, and the port side heeled over to seaward, and near 200 bales of cotton
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ppropriated to the State's prison purposes, so that the Legislature will encounter pecuniary embarrassment from the Start. During the late storm snow accumulated to seven feet in depth on the Sierra Nevada, but the obstruction was so rapidly removed that teams to and from the Washoe mines crossed the summits daily. Throughout the Washoe mining region the snow is now from one to two and a half feet deep. Gilbert A. Grant, a Republican of some prominence, died here suddenly on the 31st ult. San Francisco was thrown into unusual excitement on New Year's day by the killing of Samuel L. Newell, editor of the late Democratic Signal, of Placer county, by Horace Smith, a lawyer of considerable position in the same county. Newell is charged with having slandered Smith's wife, which so incensed him that he followed his intended victim to San Francisco, in company with his wife's brother, who is the somewhat noted Judge Hardy. Newell was stabbed several times by Smith, so t
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