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'fit rforlr fntclligrnttrr HOW1BO FALt'OVl Editor, F. A. DUVAL, AMUtitBI E4Ur, WEDXESD1T, Fenniarj 11, 1861. THE CASH SYSTEM. Tn "leUHiijencer' will published hereaf-tar strictly th ca.s rmx.

ahall writ a iwi in oar ubaeHQioit book, of a subscriber, unlaw th lboney accoinpaniea the order; and when a subscription expiree, the nam will erased from th list Wo bav to pay cash for paper, ink, printer, tndl searlj all also necessary to our operations. The "Iatulligenear" th lory ft and eleapett newspaper in tha county only tw dollars per annum and contains mora reading matter than any other country paper In tha State, A Terrible Danger I have nerer anppoaed that tha new Confederacy waa likely to be "upset, ao long aa the redoubtable James Watson Webb, of the New York Courier and Enquirer, could be persuaded to let it alone "but he has decided that it shall be put and, -of course, he will see that it is done, and thut right speedily. While our readers are resignedly waiting for tho thing to be done, they would like to know, perhaps, how it is to be accomplished. It is a very simple operation, "as easy as lying." When mountebank Lincoln shall have become President of tho United States, he has only to cause President Davis and Vice President Stephens to bo indicted for treason, require tho Governor of Alabama to surrender them as "fugitives from justice," and then quietly proceed to hang them. The head of the Confederacy being thus cut off, the "Chevalier" is confideut that It will straightwny give up tho ghost Tlie Cabinet of President Davis.

Tub President lias nominated, and the Provisional Congress has confirmed, Hon. Kobcrt Toombs as Secretary of State, lion. G. Memminger as Secretary of the Treasury, and Hon. L.

F. Walker ns Secretary of War. No other nppuintmunts havo yet been made. 4 The Late Secretary or the Interior. Tua Congressional Committee which was charged with the duty of investigating the fact's connected with the abstraction of $870,000 of State Tionds from tho Department of tho Intcrioi, has made its report, which is severo in its strictures upon the conduct of cx-Sccrctary Floyd, while it fully exonerates our respected townsman, Mr.

Thompson, not only from all complicity, hut from all blame, in connection with the affair. Considering thut the Committee was cotn- wposcd of his political enemies, now greatly exasperated, who would gladly have seized hold of the slightest pretext as the basis for an accusation against him', Mr. Thompson-may well be proud of the unwilling tribute they have been forced to pay to his official integrity. Tlic Malls. It is likely, we suppose, that one of the first nets of Lincoln's administration will be the stopping of the mails in the seceded States.

This measure will not be defended upon the ground that the States of the Confederacy are out of the Union that would concedo too much for the purposes of Illack Republicanism but the pretence will be, that the United States are powerless to prc-Tent depredations upon the mails, or to punish violations of private correspondence, within the limits of the Confederation. This, however, will bo merely a pretence; for the State laws are amply sufficient to guard the security of the mails, even though the federal lawsr in consequence of the resignation of federal judge, cannot be enforced among ns. The plain truth is, however, that the Lincolnitcs desire to annoy us, and this is one of the devices they have hit upon for that purpose. Very well. If the Northern people can stand it, oar citizens will scarcely find it unendurable.

We can soon put in operation, and at no great cost, a postal system that will suffice for our local and immediate wants and "our folks" will not suffer very materially by the non-reception of newspapers and business letters from the United States. Eastern creditors, deprived, by the!" wUe and patriotic government, of the privilege of writing to their Southern debtors, will come on in person to collect their claims perhaps, sj Dr. Thormreira Article on "Toe State of tbe Country." To tho exclusion of onr usual variety of matter, we give up onr first page, this week, to an" elaborate article, from the pen of Dr. Tbornwcll, which we hope will be thoroughly studied, and extensively circulated among their neighbors and acquaintances, by all into whose hands it shall come. Let its length deter no one from an attentive peru-eaV of it for, among the multitude of able essays that hare appeared during the present crisis in public affairs, this appears to be one of the most able and excellent Clear in statement, Christian in spirit, and invincible in argument it is eminently calculated to produce the conviction, in the mind of every eandid "and intelligent inquirer, that the movement of secession was a political ue-eessify of the gravest character, and that all Southern patriots are bound, by every consideration of honor, and interest and duty, to yield to it their earnest and cordial strp- Tire Columbus (Ga.) Times says the Ugle Manufacturing Company of that city has plie4 te military companies of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida 8,000 yards of eaasiniere fo uniforms since the secession mova-SBent began.

It is described as "a substantial fabric, ef the cadet mixad or rreen color." i Tho PrortftlOBsU CsmeUtnUObV Wt remarked. La our last number, that this instramcnt foreshadowed, la all proba bility, tha character of the permanent Co limitation which will be framed by the Pro-vuueaal Congress at Montgomery and submit tod to the States of the Confederacy for their adoption and we intimated, also, that hi onr opinion, those feature of the Provisional Constitution, wherein differed from the Constitution of the United States, were, each and all, improvements upon the latter instrument "'The Provisional Constitution, as we have heretofore observed, closely resembles the Constitution of the United States it is, iu fact, identically the same, with the exception of a few changes which the practical working of the old Constitution bad demonstrated to be essential. We propose now, in accord anee with tbe promise made in a former article, to institute a parallel between the two Constitutions, in order to point out the changes that been introduced, and to set forth, as briefly as possible, the grounds for our belief, as heretofore expressed, "tljet every change is a substantial improvement" The Preamble presents tha first point of difference. The old Constitution act out with these words "We, the people of the United States, in order, Ac, do ordain and establish, tc" The names of the several States that were "united" under that compact having been omitted in this place (which was done only because it was not known, when the Constitution was framed, which, or how many of thorn, would ratify it) the omission waa seized bold of by the Federalists as pretext for their absurd doctrine, that tho people of the United States, regarded as an aggregate community or nation, and not as composing distinct and independent 8tates, established the general government It is npon that pretext mainly, that the right of tho seceded States to withdraw from the Union is now denied by those who insist that the Union is indissoluble, except by the consent of a majority of all the people of all the States, and that this minority may rightfully imposo its will upon the minority as law. Such a political heresy can never creep into the minds of the people, or of any party, in tho Confederate States, bo-causo it is effectually guarded agaiust these explicit terms of their Prcamblo "We, the Deputies of the sovereign and independent States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, do hereby, in behalf of thoso States, ordain, Ac." The Provisional Constitution is silent in regard to a Scnato and House of Representatives.

These will ho provided for in the permanent Constitution. Under the old Constitution, the President was under the necessity of approving or vo" toing every bill, passed by Congress, as a wholo, Appropriations, therefore, for ob jects to which the President for the timo be ing was known to bo opposed, were often tacked to bills which could not be defeated without stopping the wheels of government; and many instances have occurred in which a President has thus been constrained to give his formal approbation to measures which he really reprobated, and which, standing upon their individual merits, could never have commanded his approval, or have been passed over his veto. This evil is excluded under the new Constitution, by the provision that "tho President may veto any appropriation or appropriations, in the same bill." Congress, under the old Constitution, had the power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United Slates." Tliis provision has practically been construed to confer upon Congress almost unlimited authority. According to Alexander Hamilton's views, whatever Congress, in the exercise of its discretion, might deem conducive to the general welfare, it could promote by the ex ercise of the taxing power, without restriction. It was under this provision that tariffs, imposed avowedly for protection, and not with a view to revenue, have been enacted, in order to enrich one section of the Union at the expense of the other.

This abuse is corrected by the limitation of the taxing power, under the Provisional Constitution, to the raising of "the revenue necessary to pay the debts and carry on the government of the Confederacy." The foreign slave-trade is interdicted in the new Constitution, and it is made the duty of Congress "to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent same," instead of leaving tho subject as under the old Constitution, to the discretionary action of Congress. In view of tins persistent clamor and misrepresentation of the Black Republicans as to the purpose of the cotton States to reopen the foreign slave-trade, it was well, perhaps, for the benefit of our friends in the border slave States, that the trade waa prohibited by a constitutional provision. It spikes a gun of the enemy that was calculated to annoy as. The power, conferred upon the Congress of the Confederacy, "to prohibit tbe introduction of slaves from any State not a member of this Confederacy," conveys a gentle hint to oar brethren of the non-seceding slave States, that the time may come, if they adhere to the enemy, when we may find it necessary, in self-defence, to close our markets against their blares. The old Constitution forbids any State to "keep troops, or ships of war, in time of peace." This prohibition is not contained in tbe Provisional Constitution; and it is obvious, that, under existing circumstances, it would have been unwise to have retained it That feature of the new Constitution which relates to the federal judiciary may he passed by with tbe single remark that the courts contemplated by it are entirely provisional, and will be superseded by the permanent Constitution.

The jurisdiction ef the federal courts it unchangej. The recovery of fugitive efaves is provided for, under the new Constitution, roach more efficiently than Snder the old. The State, ia which any fugitive is lost to the owner by rescue or abduction, is te compensate the owner for the full value of the slave, with all costs and expenses. The Constitution of .1787 conferred upon Congress authority "to make all laws which shall be necessary ami proper for carrying into execution the powers delegated to Congress and all other powers vested by the Constitdtioti in the government of the United State, or ia any department or officer thereof." Under this clause, large class of "implied powers," as they are termed, have been brought by the convenient process of construction, within tbe jurisdiction of Congress. The Provisional Constitution empowers Congress "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution certain specifically enumerated powers, and all other powers expressly delegated by this Constitution to this Provisional Government" thus materially narrowing the province of construction, by excluding the idea that the Provisional Government can rightfully exercise any authority that can only be established by implication.

We have now indicated all the leading and material points in which tho Constitution of the Confederate States is unlike that of the United States. The federative principle, aa contradistinguished from that consolidation, occupies, in the new Constitution, a degree of prominence that was lacking in the old, and to the want of which, more than to any and all other causes, the disniption of the Union is to be ascribed. The Constitution of our fathers was deservedly dear to our people, because, in the past it had proved itself to be the source of great and numerous blessings. That Constitution, however, was, in some particulars, defective; and, through these -defects, it had been perverted from its originally bcuign intention, and transformed into an instrument for the oppression and degradation of the South. The Provisional Constitution, therefore our Constitution in which all the errors of the past havo been repaired, conw mends itself more strongly to the approval, and to the affections, of the people of the new Confederacy, than the highly venerated, but comparatively imperfect instrument, which ithas superseded.

sf Shall we have War Every body is asking this question nobody can answer it For our part, we have not ceased to hope that an amicable adjustment of the present difficulties may yet be effected. For the brief period during which Mr. Buchanan will remain in office, we arc convinced that be will do nothing to provoke a conflict. If Lincoln, upon his accession to power, shall attempt to coerce the seceding States into submission to the authority of tho United Slates, cither by actual invasion or by a blockade of our ports, he will thereby commit an act of folly which could scarcely be expected even of a greater simpleton than we believe hira to be. Tho Ulack Republicans are intensely anxious to retain tho IJorder slave States in tho Union, arid we think they are now satisfied that thoso States will secede if a coercion policy is inaugurated by the new Administration and a declaration of war by the free against the combined slave States would be utter madness.

In the very nature of things, such a war could have but one termination. The South would at last dictate her own terms of peace. Lincoln, doubtless, if left to himself, would be foolish enough to provoke hostilities but he is now in Washington, and sur. rounded by men of better information, and broader views, than the country politicians who have had him in keeping for a few months past Those men, if they can, will undoubtedly persuade him to accept the fact of secession as a thing past remedy, and to direct his labors to tho task of conciliating the slave States that yet remain in the Union. Should he have sense enough to adopt that policy, we believe there will be no more secession.

What the Border slave States now require is not concession from tho North, nor even security for the institution of slavery, but simply some plausible pretext for remaining in the Union. Just let a National Convention be called, and let that Convention adopt some high-sounding but unmeaning generality which shall leave Black Republicanism at liberty to execute its purposes eventually, while it shall profess to repudiate them for the present and not another State will join our Confederacy. But it may be asked, will the Provisional Government of tho seceded States permit Mr. Lincoln to carry out such a policy, as we have indicated We answer, that it cannot do otherwise than permit him to do so, provided, he is ssgacious enough to surrender Fort Sumter and Pickens upon the first demand that is made for them but should he attempt to hold those forts, or to retake those that have been captured, war is inevitable. We cannot without a compromise of the dignity and honor of the Confederacy, suffer the United States to retain possession of fortified places within our limits, after a reasonable space of time for negotiations shall have elapsed.

Tm Secret or Scccess nc Brsnress. We clip the following from the Syracuse Union, and recommend its truth to the consideration of our friends When you find a man doing more business than you are, looking at the advertisements he has in the papers. The business man whe puts his sign in the newspapers, does a much wiser thing than when be fastens it over his store, and who would think of neglecting that The man who advertises informs the public that he wsnts trade, and his card in the newspapers ia an invitation to customers to come and bny. Where one person reads in the street five hundred read it in the papers. No matter how well a business man ia known, he can always pick up new customers, if he will take pains to let them know where he is and what be has to selL No one can afford not to advertise; for by neglecting the means of securing trade, he loses the best part of his An unsuccessful insurrection attempt was made by the negroes of a neighborhood about twenty or thirty miles from Aberdeen during last week but fortunately their plans were disclosed by a ssrvar.t girl who informed her master of the time and place of their meeting, and he collected a few neighbors who secreted themselves near the place and soon after, the negroes commenced collecting one by one.

From their conversation, it appears they only met on that night for consulting, and to prepare to make the insurrection between this and the 4th of March. They were all captured and flogged severely. Aberdeen Conservative, yj Arirul Dodging. AiMHiH, the seller of whiskey and splitter tif rails, wLe shortly to become the commander-in-tkief ef the army and navy the United States, has recently been demonstrating one of hi peculiar qualifications for that high position. His policy, in war, will be that of taking his enemy bv surprise, just a he took the people of Washington by surprise, on the morning of Saturday last, when he made hi appearance among them, unannounced and uuaceompanied, and long in advance of the hour indicated in the official programme.

It seems that Abraham, as he approached Baltimore, became unwilling to risk his safety by making a public entry into the monumental city. He was afraid that justice might be done upon him; and, doubtless, in view of the prospect before him. Lis condition became like that of the Babylonian monarch, of whom we read that "his countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joint of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote ono agaiust another." So, in aecrecy and darkness, like a guilty creature decking to escape tbe avenger of blood, separating himself from hi escort, he sneaked through Baltimore alone and in disguise, and made his way to Washington. It needed but this to finish Abraham. His principles and hj speeches had (prcviously made him odious: his abjoct cowardice has now transformed him into an object of ridicule, and made him, from henceforth, the butt of the country and the world If he wcre'not the halfwitted creature thut he is, Jie might havo known that the contempt of the people of Baltimore wonld havo secured Aim against personal violence for, surely, a city which sends to Washington, as its own immediate representative, an abolitionist of ability an brains, like Henry Winter Davis, and suffers him when at home to "run" aboat loose" through its streets, could well afford to permit an insignificant wretch like Abraham Lincoln, whoso lack of intellect renders him, comparatively, powerless for mischief, to pass unnoticed and nnhijitrcJ.

Abruliam skulks. He is timid and treacherous, and by no ineai.s to Vo trusted. Ho is not however, to be feared. At tho recent election in the city of Whcijing for the choice of delegates to tlie Stale Convention, only thirty-seven votes were cast against a referenco of the Convention's decision to popular ratification or re jeetinn. Tho policy of "precipitation" would not teem to have many advocates in that citv.

Xat. futellttrnrer. If we have not been misinformed, the city of Wheeling, nt the Presidential election in November last, went for the Lincoln ticket by a largo majority. It is not surprising, therefore, that the policy of "precipitate sub. mission" slu.uld seem to have many advocates in that self same city.

From the X. 0. rienj'int. KcTi'iiue of Hie C'oiilVtlcrnto Mules. Collector Hatch received to-day the following instructions and copies of sets of the Congress of the Confederate States, relative to the Collection of her duties CoMiiiKss or the CoxrEnnHATE States,) Montgomery, Feb.

18, 1S01. To Hit Cvlleclor at Xem OrleaM i Sin By direction of the inclosed resolution of the Confederate States of America, I herewith transmit fo you copies of tho acts passed by the Congress on the subject of duties on imports. You sre instructed to collect duties on articles imported from all foreign States, in compliance with the provisions of these acts. HnwEM. Coan, President of the Congress.

AN ACT to continue in force certain laws oT the United States of America. lie it enaetei ly Confederate. Statet of Ameriea in Coiiaret Aenih1ed, That sll the laws of the United Slates of America in force and in use in the Confederate States of America on the first day of Novcmltcr lust, and not inconsistent with the Constitution of the said Confederate Stated, bo and the same are hereby continued in force until repealed or altered by the Congress. (Signed,) flowm. Cobb.

President of the Congress. I certify that this act passed the Congress on tlie ninth dav of February, 1861. J. J. iloorEO, Secretary of the Congress.

AN ACT to exempt from duty certain commodities there namel, and for other purposes. Tie it enneted by the Confederate State) of America in Conarfnt Ataemhled, That the fol-1 lowing articles shsll be exempt from dlity, and admitted free into said States, to it Bacon, pork hams, lard, beef, fish of all kinds wheat, and flour of wheat, and flour of all other grains, Indian corn and meal, barley and barley flour, rye and rye flour, oats and oat meat gun powder, and all tlie materials of which it is made lead in all forms, arms of every description, and munitions of war, and military accoutrements, percussion caps, and living animals of all kinds also, all agricultural product in their natural state. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all poods, wares and mercliandise imported from any one of the.

late United States of America, not being now a memlier of this Confederacy, into this Confederacy, before the fourth day of March next which may bare been, bona jide, purchased heretofore, or within ten days after the passage of this act shall be exempt and free from duty. Sec. 8. And he it further enacted. That the State of Texas be and is hereby exempted from the operation of the tariff Laws, heretofore passed or adopted by this Congress.

(Signed,) Howell Cobb, President of the Congress. I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original act on file in my office, and which passed Congress on the 18th of February, 1861. J. J. Hoofer, Secretary -of the Congress.

February 18, 1861. We understand, says the Ticaynne, the 2d section is understood, at our Custom House, to mean that all goods, vfc, from sny of the late United States, not a part of tbe confederate States, on 18th of February, 1801, purchased prior to 18th of February, on or before the 28th of February, are entitled to entry free of duty, if imported before tbe 4th of March, 1801. Consequently all dutiable goods imported as above, after 4th of March, are subject to duty, and all dutiable goods, not purchased prior to 1st March, are on importation subject to duty, even if imported before 4th of March and, it also follows, that all consignments of goods not enumerated in section 1, are on importation btfor 4th of March, subject to duty. A CoBf-rrssmaa Assaalted. Washisgto, February 23.

Hon. C. n. Tan Wyck, (Republican) of New York, was assaulted by three assassins last night on returning from Hon. Preston King's rooms to his residence.

Van Wyck shot one of his assailants, and was considerably injured bimsel lion. J. Alexander Ventre or Wil-( kinson. (This gentleman, who, as one of the Trustees ef the University of Mississippi, has been long and favorably known to the great body of our eitircna, wa in Philadelphia a'short time prior to the holding of the great Union meeting in that city on the 13th of December, and was requested by the Mayor to lay before him an expression of hi opinion as to the sentiments of the people of Mississippi npon the questions then agitating tlie public iniud. Ia response to that calf, Mr.

Tentress, on the 8th of December, addressed to Mayor Henry, a very, able letter, which appeared, at the time, in the Philadelphia papers, but which did not fill under our observation until a day or two since, -we met with it in the WoodvUU Republican. We lay before onr readers the following extract from th letter, premising that Mr.Ventress had always been known, prior to the late Presidential election, as an ardent supporter of the Union, and that the Utter itself was evidently written under th hop that the North would make such, concessions as to render the continuance of tbe Union compatible with the rights and honor of the South. The portion of the letter which have not reproduced sets forth tho constitutional amendments, which, in the opinion of the writer, at that time, would have sufficed for the preservation of the Union. Subsequent evenK however, having demonstra ted th impossibility of procuring any reasonable amendments, We take it for granUd that Mr. Vsntress no longer looks to the reconstruction of the old Union, but rsther, to the establishment, upon a permanent basis, of tle new Confederation.

Eds. Int. It is now made apparent to every sensible person in the Union, that the present great crisis has been brought aloiit by the continuous and ever Increasing anti-slavery doctrines of the North and Northwest doctrines that have been for years preached from the preached from tho hustings and rireachcd in the lc-risla- tnres, by men wholly regardless of the rights of the people or the fcoutu, ana oi meirown oiu to support the Constitution of their country. IIUS HSS II1IS poUUCO-rcnmus mm iiiiir if miti.it lnfiisr.it lli ilnctriiies of anti-slaverVi and the hieher law doctrine, into religion, and ne cessarily into the ever too credulous minds of their congregations. Aiuea uy me rtooiiumiisw, and other iiolilico-rcligioiiistjs, the Republican party ha borne through the canvass triumphant-ltr tlie liner with the inscription on itof Freedom in the Territories, Homes for the homeless; thus inaiururatini! the doctrine lately promulgated by Mr.

Sumner, that the election of Mr. Lincoln had made all tho Territories Ire and the proper ty of tho free States. Fearful, sir. that I might be led to use epithets, though most appropriate, yet not very relined, to characterize the people of the eight States in which th Personal Liberty laws exist, I shall only say that they are either to bo much pitied fortheingnorancp, or despised lurllicir naseness. This much premised, it must 1 easy, sir, to per- reive whv tho people of the Scsith are arming in defense of their lives.

They are aware of the fact that the abstract doctrine of Anti-slavery brought about tho unconstitutional Missouri compromise that the crushing tarilT of tho North, whereby the South was to be th payer and tho North tho payee, brought aliout the crisis of 18U2 'that their anti-slavery doctrines and the itchinir palm of the North, for territorial ajriatidizement, brought about the greater crisis of 1850. find thrv tioie luotr full well that the Anti-slavery doctrines, conjoined i(h spirit of rapine, have prccipi'aleu this last great crisis up on lie country. The people of tho South knowing nil these things, and feeling most sensibly how they have been oppressed and insulted for years by the North, and firmly believing that their enemies, (the term, sir, in not too strong) are determined to rob them of their rights, their property, and possibly their lives, by fastening on them a servile war. havo resolved, and rightly resolved, to be oppressed no more. Thus has the cry to arms spread' with lightning speed throughout the land.

And it is for this the South now proclaims as her last motto, Equality in the Union, or Independence out of it." Such, sir, are the great grievances of which the South complains. Now, let the North state the grievances she has against the South. If JheSoufh have given the North one single cause of grievance, I know it not. I do remember well, how ever, the North charged home upon South Carolina because she threatened to nullify amostopprcsoivcand unjust tariir law, whereby she was to pay the North something for nothing. South Carolina did not nullify, yet this move on her pnrt, according to the North, was most horrible.

Yet, have eight of theso States not only nullilfed an act of Congress, but defled and threatened with contempt, a solemn decision of the Supremo Federal Court; infracted the Constitution and trampled upon the Constitutional rights of sovereign Statesl And, forsooth, this damning deed, this robber art. has been lauded by the priests, politicians, and the people of tho North. The South, licrc, is charged with being too precipitate at this juncture. If she he so, she has a good excuse for being so she has been most deeply Injured. I5ut who charges the North with tardiness? And vet she is tardy, and therefore greatly to bo blamed, as she has violated the Constitution, and trampled on tlie rights'of the South.

Some persons maintain that the South should come to the North for a compromise. This will never lie. The North inflicted the wound upon the South, an must atone for them quickly, or the South will pass out of the Union. That a State has the right to peaceable Secession, I have no doubt for secession is nothing else than revolution, which right no one The distinction attempted- to be drawn between revolution and secession, originates, I apprehend, in mistaking or restricting the signification of the word revolution. A revolution may be bloody, or it" may be bloodless; it may be of a physical and civil character, or it may tie of a purely civil character.

The first would be bloody, the latter bloodless. Thus a change in the organic or constitutional laws of the land, would a civil revolution. These remarks lead me to say a few words upon the doctrine of nullification. I maintain, sir, however new the doctrine may seem, that if a State nullified a constitutional right and above all when that right is sustained by a of the Federal Supreme Court, as eight States have done, and such State continues to remain in the Union, it Can only be from sufferance that she remains, for most assuredly the other States have as much right to judge of the matter in controversy as the nullifying State has if so, they have the right to determine whether the nullifying State shall remain in the Union or not Were this not true, the nullifying State would enjoy all the advantanges that might accrue from this peaceable and political secession for it is nothing else and also all the other advantages that would accrue from remaining in the Union. Printer for the Wart.

Th craft and editorial fraternity are pretty well represented in tbe military companies of this place. In tlie Home Guards are our cotcmporaries, Thomas A. and Kinloch Falconer, father and son, of the Herald, and two jonrneymcn printers. In the Jeff. Pa-vis Kifle are the local of the Argns, J.

E. Ballard, the editor of the Oxford Intelligencer, Howard Falconer, the editor of this paper and his son, and one joarntyman from the Herald, and one from the Arus office-ten in all. We think that these ten can whip any twenty abolitionists in the old puritanic State of Massachusetts, with old 'fus and feathers," and the "rail splitter" both thrown in for good count At any rate they will try, if tho worst comes, to see that the craft and fraternity are not dishonored by the Holly Springs n-prcscnlation, Jlolly Springs' Sonth, Kewi Items, and Item not Bitwfc -AKew Orlcan correspendent of ih St tool EcpublUan says The people of Louisiana are1 opposes to secession but they are forced to yield to the storm of popular fury and madness that ia raging at the present time" Th peeyU yielding to popular fury That very good, we must acknowledge, but eDoux as bio and as true a most of th assertion made by the opponent of secession. Th people of Ohio, lnd of Dean and of Dexter, are used to takiu' Buthin'," that, according to a correspondent of the Petersburg, Exprem, they "are seriously considering project to godown the Mississippi River and tok New Orleans." hop tliey will come, by all mean but by the time they get home again, they will doubtless conclude that they've been tatiu' utthin' learm." Tux actors and employee of tbe Tarictie Theatre, at Now Orleans, have formed themselves into a military company, and offered their Mr-vice to Gov. Moore.

Caft. K. M. Cary, of Richmond, have in course of publication, a book on skirmishers' drill and bayonet exercise, as now in use in the French army. -WnaT Is the difference between truth and eggs? Truth crushed to th earth will rise again eggs won't Exchange, Wt ham from the Pontotoc Examiner that our friend and classmate, R.

M. Leavell, Is oN ganizing a company in the Cherry Creek neighborhood, Pontotoc county. Dickie is tha right material, and, If there is a fight, will show the Yankees that he "knows how to make bis mark." -i-CoMHODOua Tatnall, recently distinguished for tbo effective assistance he gave to the French and English in the disastrous affair at Peiho, in China, has sent his resignation to Old Defunct, at Washington, and has offered his services to Georgia. If noisy choolboys are said to be boitteroiii, taay not tho whispering schoolmaster, also, bo called boy-itir-out A company, called Hardeman Cpt. P.

Neely, has been formed at Dolivar, Tenn. to assist the secedingStates in maintaining their independence. We notice tlie nam of our" confrere, R. G-. Adams, of the Southerner, among tho members.

A shooting affair occurred in Natchox on Wednesday last, in which Mr. John l'ountree was fatally wounded. Tho party who fired the shot is in jail. A dispatch to lie Memphis Appeal says-Arkansas has undoubtedly gone for accession, by a largo Ma. Thomas R.

Mynat'f was shot in Memphis on lust Saturday, by' S. M. Webb, brother of Mr. J. L.

Webb, shot and killed by Mynatt on the 3d of February, last year. Mr. M. had been admitted to bail only a day Or two before, in the sum of .3,000. Ho was shot under th right eye, the ball ranging down tho face and crossing tho mouth, and resting iu the left side of the throat, in the neighborhood of the carotid artery.

It is supposed he will not survive. Tnrr say Old Defunct at Washington, is writing his "Fan-well Message." That will bo Rii chauan's fast shot Wo can only say, with the poet, while our vest pocket are running over with tears Good bye, old boy, and don't get drunk" any more." Tonv says that a young lady! who marries in order to obtain a manager tut her estate, knows how to husband her resources. Wb would advise a dyspeptic man to get gloriously drunk, if Ho wants to have a happy-' iiyht. A kativk of tho Emerald Isle, who lived near Abbeville, in this county, had a pet puppy, which some graceless scamp killed not long ago. Paddy took his murdered pet and rolxnl her in a white gown and, procuring a jug of whiskey, invited his companions and had a regular Irinh wake over the dead dog.

Afterward, they interred the body in due form and Paddy, by the aid of brush and lamp black, placed the following epitaph on the board at the head of the 0Tave: "Iter lien Cora, HvlnvM lr all who knew her A tkr better dn Than ha who lc her." Poor Cora I Iieqyietcat in pact. TtsKKsstc has gone and dono it nd feels, no doubt a good deal like the boy who put his hand into a polecat' den. The smell was so deep in, water was of no use. He just had to tic up his nose, and wait for the smell to wear out SiiEU.tr, the poet Fpesks of Sleep, and his brother Death." This leads us to think that the difference between the ancients and ourselves is not so great after all. We reet to tleep; they ttoned to death.

We have seen a letter from Nashville, in which the writer asks if it is true, as reported, that Mississippi has levied a tax of (I a head on sll negroes within her limit, and confiscated to the State all negroes on which the tax Is hot paid. A more unfounded lie was never concocted in the brain of scheming mischief maker, or hatched in Coward traitor's heart And yet, within the next ten days, a thousand such lies will be sown broadcast throughout Tennessee, for the purpose of working upon the fears, jealousies of prejudices of the people, and influencing them to cast off their brothers in the cotton to yoke themselves, irrtroeahly mndftrtr'er, to our enemies. We are a native born TennesseMn, and know the patriot people of the Volunteer State too well te think, for an inlant, of then-forgetting their brothers and "running after strange Gods." Their interests' are with us their hearts are with us and they win not permit tbe shadow of a defunct Union te be a barrier between them and us. It must down at their bidding." St. Louis polled 23,000 votes at the convene tioa election, giving 4,720 majority for lb un' conditional Union ticket Tdb small pox has Created considerable alarm in Lyncbbnrg, Virginia, where there have been twelve eases and fire deaths.

Mississippi Nrcao to ok II is a. Th negro, property of Mr. O. P. Wright this county, will be hung on Friday, firvt day of March, on the spot where th murder wa committed, at the plantation of Mr.

Wright about three mile West of this aiy.Mimimippian. A FioimMO Pabsos. Rev. William W. Walker and J.

E. U. Crabb were arrestei in Westmoreland county, Virginia, last week, and bound over not to fight a duel, which had been arranged to come off With rifle. Th difficulty originated in politics. Tub Louisville Courier of the 22nd say Let (IT think to-day of the unflinching advocate and immortal leader of the great secession movement cf his ge WasHrsoroal At an old joldiers' convention" at apolis, Indiana, on the 22d instant resolutions were passed deprecating any attempt to main: tain the Union by war.

A fraction over SO cents on the dollar ha been offered for the eight million Ipan advertised by the Government There are said to be about one hundred and sixty bidders. CITATlbN To William M. Thrtlkeli "XrOF are cited to appear before tlie Probate Qoarf of the County of I-afavetw, on the 4th Monday in March next to show cause hj the final aceoont of KloTcl Coward, Administrator of tlie eMat of Aaafl Jones, eVeeased, should not be audited and final decree entered tbsreon. By eruVr of Court. c-'- E.

D. MOORE, February il, 1861. 9-4w. CITATION NOTICE. To'XanryS.

Sneedand her hutland, IT. V. Bnerd, Ckarlottt Courtney and ket kutband, Thamrnt Courtney: "rOU are cited to appear before the Probate Court of the County of Lafayette, on tlie 4th Monday in March next to show cause why the final account rtf W. U. Vunghnn, Administrator tie bonit fios of V.

R. Arnold, deceased, should not be audited and Gnat decre entered theieon. By order of Court. E. D.

MOORE, Clerk. February 21, 1S6I Adninistrator's Notice. IETTKRS of Administration on the estaU of John Jl Wilson, deceased, late of the County of Lafayette and Kttit of MissiMinpl, having ticva granted to the undersigned by tlie Prolate Conn of said t'uu-tyi at the February Terra thereof, 1801, all persona indebted lo said estate aro hereby required to make payment to me nnd all persons having claims agaiunt said estate are notified to present them to mo, duly authenticated, aithin the time prescribed by law, or tlie sama will ImitH. WILLIAM II. WILSON, Adm-r.

February 27, 1801. S9-6-. To (he Creditors of Tho. Raj, are notified that, th March Term, 1R61, of the Trobate Court of Lafayette County, Mia issippi, tlie claim against auid Kutatti ill lie taken up fur allowance aud aamination. All creditors are rc-picdled to atteud.

lif order of Coin. D. JIOOKE, Clerk. February 27, l8L 89-Sw. CITATION OTlCE.

To Z. i)rmnmond and Ribetca T. Drummontk arc cited to appear before tlie Probate Court of the County of Lafayette, on the 25th day. of March, lHHl.to showcanse Why the final account of John lliKarlaud, Administrator of Martha Drum ui'MiJ, (li'Cinsi'1, should Rot be allowed. fty order of Court.

E. D. MOORE, Clerk. February 27, 18I. 89-1 w.

Guardian's sale. IX ri'RtiCAXCE of a decree of the Probate Court of Lafayette County, Misaiwippi, made at th February Term, 1861, thereof, I will, on rluiday, the iiuth of March next, on the premises, proceed to sell to the highest a eredlt of one and two year fiiin tlie d.iy of wh', the following landt belonging to tlie minor heirs Of Jethro Harmon, lulcuf suid County, deceased, to-Hit: The West half of the North-wiwt quarter of Section twelve, Township seven, of Kange five West and th Kant halt' of Ilia quarter of tui tion eleven, Toworuipiicven of Range five West. The purchnser or purchawnr will tie required to give bonds with approved security for the puivhaso money, with intereat from date; and, iu aiklition, too atatutory lien will be retained upon said lands. J. II.

MAliTIN, Guanliaa of G. W. Hal muii aud L. L. Harmon.

February J7, 1861. S9-tw. Administrator's Sale OF Sixteen Likely Kegroes. IV PURSUANCE of sn order 6f the Probato Court of Iifavetto County, at th January Term thereof, i.Mli, I will, on Monday, tbe 4th day of il next, as Administrator of the estate of Lydia (larrett, deceased, at the lata residence of said decedent, near I.afomba, Lafayette county, Mississippi, proceed to sell sll the ne-' limes bclonrjnft to said estate, sixteen in num' ber. Consist inp of men, aomen and children.

Terms of nine months credit from day of sale, liond and security will be required of the 3. C. W. BARXF.TT, Administrator of said Kstnte. January 80, 86-4W.

Executor's Notice. To James Harrington, Suan, and hir hnthaml, Marral J. Smith rOlJ are cited to appear before the Prohato" Court of the Comity of Lafayette, on the" 2.1th day of March, IHIil, fo show cause why th' Petition of Y. II. Steen, KxeMifor of1 Martha Lusk, deceased, praying for a sale of Slaves and other personalty, for division, should not be' granted.

Ily order of the Court, K. 1). MOOItE, Clerk. January 29th, lflfil. 85-4w.

Administrator's Notice. IETTKRS of administration upon th estate' of Wcly Harmon, late of the county of Lafaveito and Mate of Mississippi, deceased. having been pranted to the undersigned by the' I 'rotate Court or said county, at tho Januarv Term thereof, 101, all persons indebted to said' estate are hereby required to make payment and all persons having claims apainst said estate are notified to present their claims to me, duly authenticated, within the time prescribed by law, or the same will be barred. SIMPSON LESTER, Adm'r, January 80, itlil. 85-6r.

Administrator's Notice. TETTERS of administration upon tbe esfat of Klizalx-th Harmon, late of the county of Lafayette and State of Mississippi, deceased. having been granted to the undersigned by th Prebate Ctmrt of said county, et the January Term thereof, lttlil, all persons indebted to said estate are hereby required to make payment; and alt persons having claims against said estate are notified to present their claims to me, duly authenticated, within the time prescribed by law, or the same will be barred. JAMLo IL MAKTljf, Adm r. January 30, 18C1.

85-ew. GEO. w. nrvsL. iluah Late of Mcoahiot Trnrn Of New Orleans.

GEO. W. DUVAL COTTON FACTORS, And General 63 Gravier Street, Cornet Ban Alley, Ti NEW ORI.EAXS, LA. JtirParllcutar attention paid to purtkaMt January S3, l8Cl, M. teas, Saddle and Harness Maker, OXFORD, MIgS.

ooo ry Klrni tin c. I tiMJii'iu a iww mum Mint Store, on dnre eaot of It yr'r. un nay nc ten ia anj kaKtSa, will to faithfully, well aud tW Ironaptly Done! jp rrtrvHra wih mnnnw xnt rtn-' nnace kindly extended to Mvud UmI mhfni will ariv f-w J-- im. l. TEAS.

LANDRETH'S GARDEN SEEDS. 3nr.fl FAT-EM nf th erp of 1W0 jhrt IMJ erired.4 for-MJetiy tlim i. t. CTllLTOS..