Parras La Toya R Alamo Ft Ewell Palafoss F&McIntosh Huntsville Livingston Houston Prestom Columbia Terano Brazo Victorino Goliad Refugido Pret Preston Arunsas ESMerrill San Patric Corpus Christi Revilla PLAINS nggold Rio Grande Migr NUEV Seralve Marth L R. MONTEREY San Juan Cargo Chena Reingsa Palo Alto Indianola Guadelupe Santa Rita Brea Liberty UUESTION abine Aistered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1855. by J.H.Colton, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United Sates for the Southern District of New York. Majam S 22 LONGITUDE WEST 20 FROM 24 DIARY. DECEMBER 17, 1860. "Secession is not intended to break up tho -THE South Carolina Convention met this present Government, but to perpetuate it. We day at Columbia, the capital of the State, Gen- do not propose to go out by way of breaking eral D. F. Jamieson in the chair, and passed a up or destroying the Union as our fathers gave resolution to adjourn to Charleston, in conse-it to us, but we go out for the purpose of getquence of the prevalence of the small-pox at Columbia, which was declared epidemic. Dec. 18.-The bill for arming the State of North Carolina passed the Senate, after considerable debate, by a vote of forty-one to three. The Commissioners from Alabama and Mississippi have arrived at Raleigh.-Herald, Dec. 19. -SENATOR CRITTENDEN, of Kentucky, offered a resolution in the Senate for certain amendments to the Constitution, which would practically reestablish the Missouri Compromise, prevent the interference of Congress with slavery in the States, and provide for the faithful performance of the Fugitive Slave Law.-N. Y. Times, Dec. 19. Dec. 19.-A meeting of members of the Georgia Legislature, favoring cooperation, was held at Milledgeville. A convention of Southern States desiring coöperation was urged, and address to the people of South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, was issued.Tribune, Dec. 20. an -A BILL has been introduced into the Legislature of North Carolina, providing that "No ordinance of said Convention, dissolving the connection of the State of North Carolina with the Federal Government, or connecting it with any other, shall have any force or validity until it shall have been submitted to, and ratified by, a majority of the qualified voters of the State for members of the General Assembly, to whom it shall be submitted for their approval or rejection."-Evening Post, Dec. 20. Dec. 19.-The Commissioner from Mississippi to Maryland addressed the citizens of Baltimore this evening. In the course of his remarks apon the intentions of the seceding States, be said: DIARY-1 ting further guaranties and security for our rights; not by a Convention of all the Southern States, nor by Congressional tricks, which have failed in times pas', and will fail again. But our plan is for the Southern States to withdraw from the Union, for the present, to allow amendments to the Constitution to be made, guaranteeing our just rights; and if the Northern States will not make those amendments, by which these rights shall be secured to us, then we must secure them the best way we can. This question of slavery must be settled now or never. The country has been agitated seriously by it for the past twenty or thirty years. It has been a festering sore upon the body politic; and many remedies having failed, we must try amputation, to bring it to a healthy state. We must have amendments to the Constitution, and if we cannot get them we must set up for ourselves." -THE Secession leaders at Charleston declare no more soldiers shall be sent to the forts in that harbor. A captain of a schooner landed some supplies there a few days since, and was not be safe for any vessel to attempt it in futerribly abused for it. He was told it would ture. -THE Governor of Maryland declined to receive the Commissioner from Mississippi to that State, setting forth his reasons in an elaborate Union letter.-(See Document No. 1.) Dec. 20.-The news from Charleston is very unfavorable this morning. "Civil war is imminent-peace is impossible," are the utterances which meet the ear on every side. There is here no longer any more hope of peace than of compromise, say the people. The speeches from northwestern repre sentatives have taken us by surprise. Such flaming tirades against disunion, coupled with direct threats of coercion, were not expected from that quarter. It is not deemed impossible that the rich and saucy Northwest may join forces with the poor and starving East, and give the South some trouble, in the times now pressing upon us. The position of South Carolina is, however, so firmly taken, that though one rose from the dead" to urge her retreat, she would not take one step backward.-N. Y. Times, Dec. 21. 66 -THE Secession Ordinance passed the Con and of the wildest excitement at others.N. Y. Times, Dec. 21. Dec. 21.-At New Orleans a general demonstration of joy over the secession of South Carolina was made. One hundred guns were fired, and the pelican flag unfurled. Impromptu secession speeches were made by leading citizens, and the "Marseillais Hymn" and polkas' were the only airs played. A bust of Calhoun was exhibited decorated with a cockade. -SOUTH CAROLINA's secession produced no sensation at Baltimore. People seemed re vention of South Carolina to-day by a unani- lieved and cheerful, and the streets were gaily mous vote.-(Doc. 2.) crowded, and business was better.-Times, Dec. 22. As soon as its passage was known without the doors of the Convention, it rapidly spread on the street, a crowd collected, and there was immense cheering. In the House of Representatives at Washington, Mr Garnet of Virginia announced the fact as follows: "Why, Sir, while your bill is under debate, one of the sovereign States of this Confederacy has, by the glorious act of her people, withdrawn, in vindication of her rights, from the Union, as the telegraph announced at 1 to-day." [Here some three or four Southern members expressed approval by a slight clapping of hands. There was no other manifestation in the House.] -AT Wilmington, Del., one hundred guns were fired to-day in honor of the secession of South Carolina.-Tribune, Dec. 22. -THE Convention of South Carolina adopted the declaration of causes justifying the secession of that State.-(Doc. 3.) Dec. 22.-Senator Andrew Johnson was burned in effigy at Memphis, Tenn., to-day. —THERE was a secession meeting in Ashland Hall, in Norfolk, Va. Disunion speeches were delivered by Colonel V. D. Grover and General John Tyler. The speeches were enthusiastically applauded.-N. Y. Times, Dec. 23. -SENATOR CRITTENDEN, of Kentucky, made -THERE was an enthusiastic meeting at Mem- a speech this evening to the citizens of Washphis, Tennessee, this evening, to ratify the se-ington, in which he advocated Union and the cession of South Carolina. -THE Charleston Mercury discusses the necessity of providing for seacoast defence, and proposes to construct a half-sunken battery at the mouth of the river, with a block-house one hundred and fifty feet in the rear. laws. Dec. 22.-This evening the New England Society at New York celebrated the anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, by a dinner, toasts, and speeches. The reading of the sentiment, "The American Union; it must and shall be preserved," was received with unbounded applause. Among the speakers were the Vice President elect and Senator Seward. Dec. 20.-The secession of South Carolina was celebrated at Mobile by the firing of a hundred guns, and a military parade. There was great rejoicing. The bells rang merrily,|—(Doc. 4.) and the people in the streets by hundreds expressed their joy at the secession. Many impromptu speeches were made, and the greatest excitement existed. -IN the midst of a crowd of over three thousand people, collected in Secession Hall at Charleston this evening, the ordinance of secession was duly signed and sealed by the members of the Convention. The occasion was one of the greatest solemnity at some of its periods, -THE Charleston Mercury insists that the President will not reinforce the garrison at Fort Moultrie. "The reinforcement of the forts at this time and under present circamstances," says that paper, "means coercionwar.-When the forts are demanded and refused to be delivered up to those in whom is vested the title of eminent domain, and for whose protection and defence alone they were ceded and built up; and when, the Federal |