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The Secession Movement.
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Mobile Anxious to secede - Another Union Article by Amos Kendall - Financial Pressure in the South.
AUGUSTA, GA., November 16, - There is nothing of interest from southern counties to-day.
MOBILE, November 16. - A meeting of all parties was held here to-day, unanimously favoring secession. Resolutions to await the action of other States were voted down and withdrawn.
CHARLESTON, S. C., November 16. - A conference of the leading men of Georgia, held at Milledgeville, yesterday, unanimously agreed to hold a State Convention at an early day. Resistance is in the ascendant in that State. Money tight; banks awaiting the action of Philadelphia and New York.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., November 16. - The State Convention of Baptists met here on Wednesday, and resolved unanimously in favor of disunion. They sent their resolutions to Governor Brown.
WASHINGTON, November 16. - Amos Kendall publishes another article opposing secession. He states that the Constitution refused to publish the article, on the ground that its editor is a secessionist.
COLUMBIA, S. C., November 17. - There is more quiet in political circles to-day, but there is such a unanimity of feeling existing among the people of the State as to make secession a fixed fact.
Messrs. Orr and Perry and other Union men, neither co-operate in or oppose the movement. Meetings are being held in all the districts and parishes of the State, and all favor secession.
AUGUSTA, GA., November 17. - There is very little opposition to the secession movement by the people of this State, although the mass of them are unfavorable to participating.
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Lady Franklin to Embark for the Pacific Coast--A New Counterfeit.
NEW YORK, November 17, - Lady Franklin is soon to embark on the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s steamer St. Louis, for the Pacific Coast, stopping at Rio de Janeiro.
Twenty-dollar bills altered to the Bank of North America, of Providence, R. I., were passed about the city last night, Vignette, a man and woman of each end, and head of Washington in the center.
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From Washington.
NEW YORK, November 17. - A special dispatch from Washington says that Minister McLane has resigned, and that Gov. Weller, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Minister to Mexico.
Senator Slidell expresses himself warmly in favor of secession.
Advices from South Carolina, to-day, say that the entire Congressional delegation will resign.
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From Kansas.
LEAVENWORTH, November 17. - The Times of this city publishes a letter from Linn County, Kansas, giving an account of a new outbreak in that region. At the date of the letter one man, named Russell Hinds, after a trial by Lynch law, had been hung and others ordered to leave the Territory. The cause of the outbreak was alleged attempts at kidnapping and threatening free State men by Hinds and his associates.
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Anti-Prince-of-Wales Meeting.
BOSTON, November 17, - At a meeting of Irishmen who sympathize with Col. Corcoran of New York, held here last night, resolutions were adopted complimenting his conduct in refusing to do honor to the Prince of Wales, and inviting him to Boston, where a congratulatory public address will be made to him.
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Virginia Election.
ALEXANDRIA, VA., November 16. - The Gazette has returns from all the State but Logan and Webster Counties. Bell over Breckinridge, 446.
RICHMOND, VA., November 17. - The election returns are still incomplete, but show that the contest has been very close. The Bell men are more confident to-day.
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Later from Pike’s Peak.
FORT KEARNEY, November 17. - Denver City dates to the 12th inst., have been received here. Full returns of the Presidential election were published at Denver City on the 10th inst. There is no news of importance.
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Outward Bound.
NEW YORK, November 17. - The steamers Atlantic and Edinburg, sailed to-day. The former took forty-eight passengers and $80,000 in specie, and the latter 270 passengers and no specie.
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Florida Election.
SAVANNAH, GA., November 17. - Official returns from sixteen counties in Florida indicate that the majority for Breckinridge in the State will be about 3,000.
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River News.
LOUISVILLE, November 17 - P. M. - River falling slowly, with eight feet ten inches in the Canal.
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