The Resignation Of Secretary Cobb

My Dkau Sir - A sense of duty to the State of Georgia requives me to tako a step trbieh malies it proper that I should no longer oontiuue to be a meuiber of your Cabinet. In the troubles of the country consequent upon the late Presidential election, the honar and safety of my State are involved. Her people so regard it, and in their opinión I fully concur. íbey are engaged in a struggle wliere the issue is life or death. My friends ask for ray views and COQD80I. Not to respoud would be degrading to myself and unjust to them. I have accordingly prepared, and must now issuo to thera, an address which contains tho calm and sohnin convictions of my heart and judgment. The views whieh I sineerely entertain, and which therefore I am bound to express, dififer in some respects Irom your own. ïho existence of this diiference would expose me, ií Í should reiuain in my pre eut place to unjust suspicions, and put you in a false position The tirst of these consequences I could bear well enough, but I vrill not subject you to the last. My withdrawsl bas not been occasioned by anvthmg yon have said or done. - Whilst cliffering from your message upon some of its theoretical doctrines, as well as from the hope so earnestly expressed that the Union can yet be preserved, there was no practical result likely to follow which roquired me to retire frora j your administratie. That necessity is i created by what I feel it my duty to do; and the responsibility ef tbc act, therefore, resta alone upon myself To say that I regrnt,- deeply regret, - this necessity, but feebly expresses the feeling with which I pen this communication. For nearly four years l have been assoeiated with you as one of your I net officers, and during that period nothing has occurred to mar, sven for a moment, our personal and official relations. In the policy and maasures of your adniinistnnion I have eordially concurrud, ; and haü ever feel pnud of the humble place winti) my "lmtí Ina3' 0CCUPJ' '" its history. If wiie ceunsels and patriotic w'arnings had been heeu'ed by your countrymen, the 4th of Maroli next 70uld ; have found our country happy, prospereus. and united. That it will uot be so, is no fault of yours. The evil has now passed beyond control, and must be met by each and all of us under our responsibility to God and 1 our country. If, as I believe, history wili ;ave to record yours as tho last admiuistration of our present. Uiiiun, it will also place it side by side with the purest and ablest of those that preceded it With the kindest regards for yourself and the members of your Cabinet, with whom I havo been so pleaeuutly associated. I am, most truly and sincerely. your friend, HOWELL COIÍB. To the Presidknt. Washington, December 10, 1860 My Dear ïmr- I have received your comniunication of Saturday resigning the position of Secretary of the Treasury, which you hare held since the coinmcncement of my administration. Whilst I dei-ply regret that you have determined to separate yourself from us at the : ent critical moment, yet I admit that the ; question was one for your own decisión. 1 could have wislied you had arrived at a '■ different conclusión, because our relations, both official and personal, have ever been ot the most friendly and confidential eliaraeter I may add that I have been ontirely satisfled with the ability and zeal ; whicb you havo displayed in performhig the duties of vour important office. Cordially reciprocatingyour sentimente of personal regard, I remaiu, very respcctfully, jour friend, JAMES BÜ0HANAN. ITon Hor'.T. GÓbd, GtwAnd División of thk Sons ot TbmhKranc::. - SotRO )two or three week si.hü the annuul meeting of the Grand Öiviaion of Iho Sons of Temporánea was hokl at Adrián. Tbo fwlloning officerá wem chosen for tho ensuing y car : G. W. R, Israel Coggshnil, of AlbJon ; O. W. A., O. W. Stroud, of Hiid-ioii ; (v ïl S., R. D. Green, f Detroit; G r, A. P. McKcnzie, of Adrian ; G. CÍ., V. P. Cory, f Adrián ; 0. C, VVvnkoop. of Dtetrolt; G. S-, Wra. M Loo(ii!n. of Ailbion' The semi íi-iTiiimI tntoting ot tho Grand Divisi(!r wül be u H-ifdfon, the third Wednesday in May, !&&},- nnd the nnmia! meetiov ín :hi.s city in Nnvambor, 1801. - Adrián Expositor, Dec. 15. F" A gentleman who cou'd oót pronounco ihe letter B, was )cod tó' roiin the f üowing: ,- "Robert yave Richard h rap in tfitwri'b' Fur ro:isting the mbbit so rare " He eraded the dillieuliy in the filowing iiiareniiiiis marnier: - "Jjobby trnve Dicky n thump in the sido, For eoolciag the bumiy so liulo."