[by telegraph]
Meeting at Augusta, Ga.
A committee having been appointed to prepare business for the meeting, they reported a series of resolutions, declaring--1. That we live under a government of law and order, and it is the bounden duty of every citizen to see all rights respected, and wrongs speedily redressed, in the forms provided by law. 2. That the genius of our institutions forbids the punishment of citizens without a fair trial by jury. 3. That the assumption by individuals, however respectable, of any power of government, is subversive of all constitutional liberty, dangerous in its tendencies, and fatal to the vital interests of the community; and 4. That if the existing laws are insufficient to protect the rights of citizens, the proper course is to apply to the Legislature to amend or modify them as the interests of society require.
Unusual excitement at the time prevailed. The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Cumming, Wright, Cone, Sneed, Montgomery, Dorue, Ford, and others, and a conservative sentiment prevailed. The resolutions were unanimously adopted.
Counter public meeting at Augusta.
Augusta, Nov. 10--A large public meeting is in progress to-night. The Savannah resolutions were unanimously adopted, after having been so amended as to declare that the only remedy for Lincoln's election is immediate secession. This was received with loud and prolonged cheering.It was moved and adopted that the thanks of the people of the South are due to the gallant men North who attempted to roll back the tide of fanaticism at the recent election.
It was resolved, further, that the meeting pledge themselves to submit to a rate of taxation sufficient to raise a million of dollars to organize and arm the military of the State. A further resolution was adopted, condemning the action of the citizens' meeting this afternoon, and declaring that the resolutions adopted thereat do not express the sense of the community.
Colonel Anderson, of Savannah, addressed the meeting, decidedly in favor of immediate action by the South. Intense excitement prevailed.
Resignation of Senators Toombs and Chestnut.
Augusta, Nov. 10.--Senator Toombs, of Georgia, and Senator Chestnut, of South Carolina, have severally resigned their offices as Senators of the United States.Volunteers in Alabama.
Mobile, Oct. 19--A battalion of cavalry is now forming here, whose services will be offered to the Governor of the State.
