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An Eventful Week
The present week has been ene of stirring
events, which will form an important theme
for the future historian. The news crowds
so heavily up — On us that we have no room for
'editorial comments, even had we the incli•
nation to make them, at this terrible crisis.
when the heart of every true lover of his
country is appelleil at the prospect of the
dark domestic tragedy that now seems
The:correspondence with the
earOlina CORMINNIMICri, and the President's
Rtwcinl message to Congo as. completely
vmdicete his position For inlet.. his as.
sitlants are silent They date not praise
hum, but the miserable pretexts upon winch
they founded their Jeers and denunciations.
have utterly failed them The oilbual records
now disclosed. prove that in the exercise of
his humane forbearabee toward the people
of SouthUarolisia, who are rushing madly
to their own destruction he has done no
act. and Made no philges, inconsistent with
his sworn duty to milldam the rightful au
thority of the Federal Government. and en- I
force the laws of the land. •
The intelligenoe ce h►vc rro , l Charleston
Or the attack upon the I . S Steamer Star
of the West, by the forcer; off' the seee,iion
seems to preclude all hope of a peaceful
adjustment 4 the in elioliat feud The first
blow has been struck, and nothing short of
Divine interposition, mellow avert the hor
rors of civil war The bloody drama opens
Mr. Seward's Speech
Mr Seward, the oracle of the Mad( Re named Fort is one mile from the town, 1101
publican party, has spoken. Ail the ac- Pert Johnston is two and a quarter miles
keowledgeal premer of the incoming admin k from the town These measurements are
titration, this spe‘ch ha, been moat one ororrect, being taken from the latest surveys
ioualy looked for, and has been the aid ject made by the United Stitt s coast survey
of much speculation Inirense it is as - to be
expected that R vrotililiorealiadow tliti policy
of Mr Lincoln and the party which elected
him. In that party there is a strong body
that claims a certain degree of conservatism,'
and are, consequent') , to • gri ater or less
extent. the advocates of compromise This
speech of Nis Sewerti h.is demolish , . d t heir
last hope , and will, if anything can so
convince the inch who, iii the lAte contest
were induced to lend their aid to his elec
tion upon the argument that his cours., would
be coneerva 13 ye. that they hove been titeetv -
ed, and that the Abolition element of the
party is in the ascetoiancf, and a ill remain
This speech is reinarsable as tienw a
calm, dispassionate and philo.ophicil
dis
9ut•ttion on the effects of disunion upon the
eafety of the American people In thin re
spect it present', utritlitng beyond that which
the public press has lung since presented to
the people , nothing he) liii that which the
National Democratic press pointed out he
fors the Presidential diction, as the !remit
of —the-wiemphs of 11.4p4licaniain
711 ASM A C lat - SETTS GOY V IMMO Is FAS -SU Lab
Carolina has exactly copied Masitiketetts
in sending ConiMissioners to 'Westin% n to
treat with the President and Congress. The
'Governor of Nlassachtp.etts wpm the pro
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•ceinilinge of the llartford l'onvention in ISt 4
appointed three Guininiseionere to proceed to
'Washington and negotiate with the Pie.l
- and Congress lor the formation of a
New England Confederacy l'ommis
aionera were Harrison ti Otis, Thomas II
Perkins, and William Sullivan . but they
were met at %Washington with the news of
peace.
'rug sam CAILOLIN• Pl/9111ASTRILA
Alfred Huger " , 'P.st master of Char lesion, has
written a setter to the Postmaster lieneral,
In reply to the circular sent to the several
iPostun.sters of South Carolina, by Mr. Holt,
that he will continue in the service of the
United States, and Will pit form his ditties
Ana Tender NS Recount,' faithfully Ili the do.
partasent. at IVahhington Other postmas
ters in 'South Carolina have rrsponded in the
8/460 way.
While an the Shoemaker shop of Air. Ed
ward Graham, the other day. our attention
llTdirected 11 a side of Spanish Sole Lea
r tanntd at the Unanwrille Ti.nnery by
r. W. H Hosenateel, that is, in our judg.
went. the best specimen of good tanning that
we hare seen for many da)g. Mr Graham,
a competent judge, pronounces it a very au
perior article. We learn that it is only a
lair sample of tile leather furnished'by that
establishment.
A Itagnificedt Trick.
I*"Evening Journal,Bell Everett, says
The ':iptihint Anderson" is now the crY of
"Abolitionists," who, having brought the
Union to the fearful bripk of dissolution,
start in aright, and call upon Anderson to
save them. They were - implored, before the
election,to stop this 4ai upon fifteen Statei
we besought thenf not strike down the
Union : and now, Illsy make Major Ander.
sou r s simple - act of self preservation and
precaution en occasion to clamor and shout
for that union which tpey have disturbed.—
Major Anderson, like a discreet man, went
from a ireqk fort to a 3.!/0,14 , e, one. This
the Abolitionists call ••vrontlerful heroism."
and see shouting praise and glorification,
which the Najur understands and despises.
lie is not an Abolitionist, but scorns the
whole brood, as enernie*of the Union, open
or disguised. ilk wife, 111 New York, re•
fused to receive the calls of the "A,hafitton
ists " on New Yearb day, seeing through
the nefarious purposes of those wbo pre ten
ded to glorify her husband for what Major
Anderson himself says, was but a simple
act of duty. The.object of the • •Abolition
fiats'' is seen through, They must seek
some other means of saving their party from
the growing indignation of the people.
OM=
, The Alabama Umhention has passed the
Ordinance of Secession The reason
led for the secession of the State is the elec
tion of Lincoln anikllamlin by a sectional
party avowedly hostile to the domestic in
stitutions and price and security of the peo
ple of Alabama, following upon the heels of
many and dangerous infractions of the Con
solution of the l'intedNiakM by many of the
States and people of the northern section of
the Confederacy '
Mr l'owaN. the 1 - nittd States Senator
elect from tins State, has never been in pub
lic life. Ile is a distinguished lawyer of
Wenterb Pennsylvania. and a gentleman of
high literary and sen.tititic attainments. Ile
was a member of the old Whig party. ,
thd
is classed as • tunderAte Republican. fits
election over that sank abolitionist
indicates that the conservative sentiment
predonimates in the I.egi.lature, notwith
standing it IS So strongly Republican.
PINTA %CR Or TIT f; FORTY FROM ell 1111./C9
TON - Fort S imtiter is three tighths wiles
from Charle,ton, one and one.eightli miles
from Fort Nfoultrue, three quarters of a mile
to the nearest land, one and three eighths
miles to )'ort Johnson, and two and live
eighths miles to Castle Pinckney ---The last
At Rochester, N Y ,on Friday last. an
abolition demonstration was forcibly pre
vented by the people, and a union 'neon%
held in its stead. 9 A Bag beariug the in
menption, " No compromise with Slavery...
Man not allowed to be suspended across
lindflo street. The authonties had to in
terfere, to prevent a general riot.
A dispatch from Norfolk, nays, that the
steamer Express, of 13altimore, steamed up
to loort Norfolk on Finlay night, ■od took
on board a quantity of amtnunition. She
steamed away at 8 n'etock Saturday morn
tug Rumor Says She wont to Furt Munroe
Gen Scott has made lull preparations to
quell or rather prevent any outbreak ■t
Washington. he having stationed troops in
differi,nt parts of the city, though the Hi
morn that all the public buildings are close
ly guarded is greatly exaggerated
A dispatch from St Louis says thst by
order or Lieutenant Genera/ Scott, ■ detach
Intuit of Ended States troops yesterday took
pof.session of the sub -treasury, post office
and custom house at that city.
We direct the attention of our readers to
the letter of Our fellow townsman. la♦ C.
Mornei.t. Esq , which will h found on our
first page Mr M is an able writer, arid
anything from his pen is read with interest.
At Newark. N J , oA Friday evening, a
It. publican 71 eeting adopted resolutions a
garnet compromise, and in favor of Oustatn
rug the Constitution and enforcing the laws,
In the l'ennsylvtinia. St nate Mr. IV4
Resolution's propovulg to ro peal ilie,ohnoix
loos prOVIbIOIIF of the :let of I Sl7, and the
penal code, were voted down : all the Re•
publicans voting agamw 111C111
Advires from Galveston say that at the
election on the Bth instant, the candidate',
laving the organization of a southern con
federacy obtained a majortiy.
Washington, Jan 15 The Republican
Senators have refused by 7 majority to con
sider Mr Cnttenden's Resolutions. There
is great excitement and disappointment over
the fact.
It is reported (lint in [Amman". the Dela
gatem to the Convention has revolted in a
n.ajority agai not secession
The U S. Sloop of WVar Macedonia, from
Portsmouth, N. U , passed tho Highland
Light Una morning, bound South, with seal
ed orders.
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rived slid is now ready (or del
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The siihjohied %article, from the Boston
Post. is'imssfithig fur the historical facts it
recalls, and the forcible manner in which it
sets fifth the duties sod powers of the Pres
Weill, under the constitution, is applicable
to the present threattning condition of V e
country:
Certain people at the North will insintriat
the United States government is a Military
despotism, and that President Buchanan has
all the powers of the Shah of Persia to seize
and imprison and hang melt at his pleasure,
Thus the Republican preset; are demanding
of the President that he shall seize the coo
missioners from South Carolina, and try
them for treason If you ask them what is
treason, they ca'n't tell, hut they innint that
lire President ought.to hang_somebreli, be
cause Patton, nn what ho calls his "Life of
Andrew Jackson," (eonipiled too much from
street talk and newspaper slander) sets it
down that Gen. Jackson proposed to hang
Mr. Calhoun for nullification, s Inch is false.
No citizen can be punished or deprived of
life or libertyetn this cMmtry without due
process of law.
Massachusetts contrived the Hartford con
vention in the war of 1814, to set up vorth
ern confederation, and South 'Carolina has
I got up a secession convention to precipitate
the slaveholding States into a southern con
federation. -
Massachusetts, in lsl4. sent two ambas.
sadora of the It. r.r..r,t zoItIORCIORO Waah
ington to demand of PreSident Madison the
sepailltion of New England from the Union,
in carrying on. ttkL3 , war. William Sullivan
and Harrison Gray (his, were the commis
stone. s. Mr Madison did list propose to
hang theni Hut, as Mr John Quincy Ad
ani, says of the peace of Ghent the news
of which c►mew hole the coninniononers were
at Washington. ••the interposition of a kind '
Pro•idence averted the moot deplorable of
catastrophes" the establishment oft North
ern confederacy
South Carolina now follows the example
of Massachusetts by A:eliding her commix
sitiners to President *Buchanan. and Preto
dent Buchanan is abused by Massachumitta
in particular, because he won't hang them
for treason without judge or jury !
Now let us "intiulre what tree-ion is. and
what the Constitution says about seizing and
hanging pewle in this country The Cori
slitution of Pie Ui.ited States save ' ' Trea
son against the United States shall consist
only in levying war against them, or nt ad
honey to their enemies, giving them aid and
cumfurL"
This last applies . only to ailing a foreign
enemy and giving them comfort, as the
Hartford convention did in ISI4
l'he United Stater; not Ming at war. trea
4011 flow can consist tinily in keying war up
on the United States, and the Comuttit ion
Nays there mid be sortie overt act preyed
by two witnesses And . what is kV) 1114
war is thus defined by the Supreme Court
in the United States vs. Asmn Burr - ••To
levy war is 10 raise, create. make or carry
on war War can he levied only by the
employment of actual force —troops must he
embodied. men 111181 be openly raised ' &c
And the purpose [omit be to make war on
the United States Thus to march in arias
With a force marshalled and arrayed ,rom
mating arts of amtettee and devasi atm.+ in
order to compel the resignation of a piddle
Offi•er, or IA) render no IfeeliVe an art Of Coll
grist is high treason,'' se) a Chid Juat me
liirshall
Th it was the nature of the ofienee vt hich
Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillipe,enit their intensely interesting
seasoctitein were charged with when they lb : ON air two 'Sr STAR or Tina Waal', I
cited the mob in reneuiribli to go to the , S.torday January 5 li 1861,
Court house to rescue Minns the fugitive The si.antehip Star of the West mailed
glare, in which unlawful enlet prise Batch f the fon of Warren slier' New York,
elder one of this marshal's deputies %RS L
1•1.14 afternoon, at 116011 t ri 0 . lock, limier
Murdered .and btre again South Carolin• cui „,„„„a o f Capta in Mel hot a,. an expel'
IS Will folli)Wing (lila example of Mssstehii ~,„.„,1 „ Il i ~,. who for in lily I.
~,, was iii tht ,
setts in the allaek Ilion the fort a if she hiss ri i
,filltn,zwes revenue SurVic.
really used military force to take them The ve-,sel cleared fir Neu 1 /deans and
That is lreaSon in the in,.„ wilt „o„,„,,tred Havana but thus wait only a i cautionary
and incited the act unless Sin o l Car !'"a ma••iire as the real object of 'he expedite.,
has a right to s e cede trim on. (loom Illt lass hi convey proviNloll.l Sad ii 101)S to Ma
it is not treason in the State for a Slate canjor .11 I •at FortStmiter The plan of
0 lr.01)
hut Cullilllo treason It is only treagon in to t
l 111010 meal seem' to be to , oases theme
ti.e individuals who rommit the overt act [nowt 110 stores as they won 4lw coriveyeet
And nit be treason or misdemeanor. where in time of profound peace. except that it is
is the authority of the President to Selte Or intended to go in early in the morning, if
hang anybody as the IL.hilblicalts are in possible, without the knowledge of the South
awing he ougot to do awl Charge AIM V , lth Carolinians In accordiance with this plan,
being a (moor for no( illsog it 1 The the greatest dreelUtlons posatfile !lace broil
constitution is very plain on this point It employed to keep the ruoveMent wholy be
reads thus cat t/
. The trial of all crimes shall he by jury., The ream! left her wharf before dark, an
mid suet) tonal s'on.li be hi I'l in the Store it it as thought her Hailing would attract lens
where the said crime shall have been corn at ten t ing , an d b e less liable to create lingo.
Inal. d " . ' mon by following such a course It was as
wkiNie person-shall he held to answer for a !retch as to say, we have nothing to conceal
crime unless on a presentment or indictment W. sailed out leisurely, until dark. when
of • grand jury, nor deprived of lit.. liberty , 5 .,. ~„„ a , mo , 4t to a dead stop, and finally
Or prirrivlty a shout due prOCel49 of kik," .off the it,,l ii ,C, it ~./ lighthouse ale was
...•
And -41 , accused shall empy the right to lovi•eil to firth ; and here we waited the sr
a politic trial 1 1 au imp ar t ia l ju r y of the rival of twe hundred troops from tiovernor'n '
Stoic where the crime has been comm.tted " , Island ,They did riot come quite as soon as,
These arc the limitations of that ilespotram se as expected The delay, however, was
which certain people sii Inconsiderately chum only temporary, and at fine minutes before
now a days for the President ' eel* o'clock we detected the approach of,
II any citizen or body of men iii South the steamship Lockwood .At seven o'clock ,
Canilina have levied war spinet the United piecisely that boat was alongside our vetted i
S iii a they calmer be arraign, il or tried for the night wall clear and beautiful, though
it anywhere but in South Carolina Ther' i moonless, and I watched the approach of the ,I
!mist that he an indictment tiered by a gra Lockwood from the upper deck She dm
jury in South Carolina There titivicb a played no lights, and I could nee no one, as
de tort attorner to prepare and attest jhe the 111C11 had been purposely kept out of
in lictment There must be a courOn re- amid. riot as the boat came near the deck
Velire 11 and arraign the ',moiler, at a Joeysoddenly became alive with soldiers.
I
to try him ...
The transfer of the men and baggage from
This last was the protection wflidlit.Farker i the Incksrood to the Star of the West (nom-
• nd Philips amid them ilomemle forMillilen ' minced immpdiately, and was conducted
they were indicted fur wt) they called' with as ntucfi expedition and silence as pos.
''free speech." in connectio with the mor - _,' , amble Iplaced myself et the head of the
der of Batchelder, and the attruetion of th e' gangway, "eel although our lights were dun,
lave of the United SLA for the rendition I c o uld sec the soldiers distinctly is they
of fugitive slaves. Th President could not' s.ame up, in their gray overcoats and dark i
"'le them , nor coill they be tried soli 1 , cat.s Officers and privates were as fine'
where but in ; l ase* ileette : Ind though looking fellows AS one could wish to see —1
there were all e •re of law hero rind a I leave• however, that about one hundred',
graudjury indict thorn, they escaped a and fifty of the men are rem-Mtg.
trial and got of! pon a very small techni• 1 Such secrecy bad been observed in start
cality, which 4raen, that the commissioner mg on the expedition that the officers in
who issued s warrant of arrest had signed command sere wholly ignorant of their dee
d only eom ismorrerwithodt saying what titration until a few hours previous to their
committer ' er ; and the court held that the departure After they were informed of it
indictdi t, however drawn. could not sup• they were not permitted to leave the Wand
ply thi deficiency. because it could not go until they 'let foot upon the Lockwood. All
beyo the description in the warned. the communmStion, in, fact, between the k-
J et so President Buchanan has no power. land and the coy was cut of. One of them
hi v i/teize or arraign or try anybody in Wash- showed me an order issued but a few days
1 gton or anywhere elle. if there have beensince, directing him to proceed to Cslifornin,
eta of treason. they 'have been committed I and he had been horneird made %lithe pre '
only in Seidl Cerullo'. The parties charge petitions for his journey. Now his bagged
ed mulct be tried in that State by a jury of is in New England, and he is on the Star of
the State, There is no United States mar the West, hound fur Fort Sumter.
libel to arrest' them, no district attorney to But shall we get to Fort Sumter I That
iddiet them• no grand jury to find a bill, no hi the gnestion which has been freely discus
court to arraign and no jury to try them.— sed this peening. Here we are, with two
How then are the steps to he Oaken which hundreedohliers, good men and 'rug tt may
the coestitutipn demands in every Clara of be., led by experienced officers, with plenty
alleged crime I And if there were all the of muskets and &munition. But whet of
°Were of the court and inner', enesepaiadv that should they open fire upon us from the
knows that a court in South Carolina would batteries of Fort Moultrie, or should send A
hold that the right of secession absolved the vessel or two outside to capture us 1 What
party accused from his liability to the laws would our muskets avail against a twelve
eif the United States, and no jury would pounder 1 A hole in our machinery. and we
convict. are probably at the mercy of the Palmetto
It would be the same in Massachusetts, if chivalry. We have, of course. absolutely
under the personal liberty bill, a fugitive no means of resistance out of musket range,
from labor should be taken before a jury to hut must runt in under a full head of steam
he tried. No Maesachusette jury could be if possible. There is • email brass on our
found to agree that he was a fugitive Wave deck, but we have no balls for it. and the
Thus it in pblivious teat Massachusetts and captain mays if a ball were to but fired (rein
South Carollea #tand in the same category it it would kick clean (leer, and be more
of-disunion and secession, so long as these likely to kill the man who'should stand be.
laws remain on ber 'statute book, and so hind it than the enemy. ... •
long as ha people resist and refuse to exc. Our principal hope is in (ha ignorance of
cute the laws of tha.ifluited- Stitek within I tho Charlestonians: and if they get no whir
her n o rders, i per of our plan. we hope to slip into Fort
' Bid it is aatil...eulipose the di - lige and all
..-.14 Sumter without opposition or hindrance, tiii
Wedueaday morning next at daybreak.—
the lliiiliortriatdpfli , :ers have resigned in I
South t;tiroliiin. why don't President n u . ; But the belief is pre% olent hero that the
rhanan :molt t.feri., V11110 . 1101(01 ? But what Charlestimians are itat ignorant of our more
tlitio ? Ile Solid find no , Nnin South Cat. ; mint There aas *inner; on the deck, in
ohne to Itocoilt,itto olltor4. and the law re fact. hefire we atartml, that our destination
was yi i , h...t..., and that we were to convey
quires that they shall be appointed ark the !
I troops. Inim Governor's Island. It is not to
dial net: Frei a. hi, sent Northern men
there they would nit lie allowed to act, and be presumed that no good friend of the Pal
if they were resisted, then it comeeback to ! metto State will immedintsly , elegraph this
just where we started from :' those who re rumor to Uharleiton ; nor is it ibe presum
ed that. a ith much an intimation the author
Mated must be indicted hod trifel 'by a court
and pry in the State. .itie4 there will not be on the look out for
I '
If men of Meuse would look at the facts ' the Star iti the Nest.
and law, and re/111 the Constiiiition, they I But if they to heir of our approach
~ ,if
would see the praNlcal dab:lilting in the tinny do actually learn, beyond doubt. that
way of the summary with which thav re- i we have reinforcements and
,provimons for
Major Anderson. aii I are actually under
quire the President to deal with existing
difficulties. Ile can only move the conati- : weigh, will they n.ist our passage to Fort
tutionaj machineryof government in °semi. , Sumter either by Nulling fire upon us from
ting the laws. If the inschowry i s s o A ter i Hart,Niop
u , 10", or hy -. lll • MtMg one nr trinta Itql•
ken up in a State, he cannot invade a State, , ails (AIL 10 capture 11M1 f IN' echo the trend
or send 411 army there, to enforce martial tnent of every mall on this vessel who has
expressed an opinion on the, subject in my
law, unless the Governor or Legislature call
-
upon bon to suppress the insurrection o r lotrUlg. I shall answer • Yea.' Fhe belief
domestic violence Ile can send troops to Moe seems to be unanimous that if our otp
the forts, and if the e9nnnitoinnierH of South jeet is known we shall he fired upon.
Carolina require-him to order troops to one' Sunday January 6..
or another fort, they assume what do-s not , We have had it most delightful dzy ; the
belong to them. The President. PH C o m s, water is smooth as a lake, and this evening
mender in-chief, is to j u dge for himself of' we Caught the warm breezem of the South
the expediency ; and on this point he should 1 You will easily guess that the chief sub
insist, and yield to no threats from South ject of our conversation has been our chance
It of getting into Fort Sumter : and the more
Carolina. or arty body, if they are 111311.-
Is this questim of expediency its to.reinform , th'e sttlYeet is discussed the more probable
ing.khe forts a Charleston winch the Pion. it slums that we shall have Jo lake our
dent has grow y coosidered • i charters against the'S•mtli "Candina hatter•
fro ..I wo o„ 11........1-.4 ii....111(11.u1i ,1 is . 1 1 1 .... 11... u 1 0t,.......a.n d tt• 1,... us,
WwithoutWPM Jed, No much the better Of vire Bloch can be sent out to disable ax. —
what avail 4 - old United States troops have' Tlll.lll, will the lights On horning in the light.-
born there if sent, as they mutt have been, ' house and it ill the bii-iy 5 b e iiimmi eh i e d 7
whin their presence would have brought on , 15 it riot tooleibli• it is asked that the
a bloody couflict f if any "ere sent ill S11(.11 GOVl`rlllllrllt has mder...l the Brooklyn to
/1 crisis, an army should hay,- been sent sof Charle.ton, and that we shall ind her there
,flownt to conquer South l'arohnn aided as in cover MU l'ilt ran , - in case of am attack ?
.he would be. the moment blood aam slirli. I Thr th"'"Y his 1 11 . 1 . 11 rl - 11.1' 111•1 . 1111.11.11 but
by the sympathizing Stamm •••• That would as w e buve "" 'net" "f,ll' li"°""t".z airy thing
have been dint V! a 1 . T lit! 11 1 , 4 1,1,,, t (1,1 nisi
, 111 ,1, 11 t 11 1 1 , 1 .1. 11. ,,, y1 1 1 , 1 a 1
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snivelll/1 r/Lll
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s l f ll 2, i . l t /r in llo ry
bring on this •• irrepressible conflict. - and
will endeavor to avoid staining hot hands cotudiemin
with the blood of his fellow citizens 111 a If we are attaoh,il %will Kiri 'info!, r pro.
fratricidal war. It us his purpose land lie feet its I It is soot it e,p silence the Flute
will prove the true patriot Nod Clinton') if of M.mltrie in a few hours. rind if it shall do '
,
lir stircreit4 in doing it) to leave his_Jogh of- l ' Ro• we Call 11, ~fr wild nit. j obus ac,.,,,,,ph.h.
t i er . ~,uh,sul. a drop of blood having bean ed, and then perfoatti our work We fully
expect the protection of Fort S linter. The
needlessly shed in this &wittily unpend,ng
, battle of the States " 1- • , cam ain 11114 an inninriow American flag '
Mr Lincoln whl that take the response tvemity feet by forty-fret-anti has been in
I strutted to raise this at the` masthead the
Inlay. and he has four years in which tut strutted
the first shut Di fired There mal
carry out his policy If lie means prime arid ,
union he will recommend cmwession and ready an ordinary United Slaw , II ig aft, and
compromise, and a Vidorattoll of the fr.iter raising, this large one forward rail hardly
nal rrlatiiiiiii of all (We S(A Leti , • 1111 tool...ninon! Ind to inform Major Aodc7son that ae con
to shed lid blood to madden the whole coon aid'''. oursel VI'S UlOllll his protection
try. ! At a few minutes past eleven o'clock this
In the meantime, •Alr. Buchanan must bear
al the unressohing assaults made upon !JIM,
until reason shall resume her sway and Jos
tity the only pear policy that co.dd save a
civil war. it indeed policy can do it. But
really it is not so small a thing as some peo
ple thuuk to sacrifice mill of lives in the
attempt o f o n e s e ction of the country to coo
quer another section of the country and pre
serve the as they call it, by bathing
it in seas of blood and cariage Let us
a little while, study the Constitution,
and reflect.
The Star of the West
The New York Evening Post of last fright
contitios a (till journal of the events cunnr•et
tvch the recent trip of the •• Star of the
West ' to Charleston by one who MIN on
board We give it below It will he tumid
evening we met the steamer Colombts from
Clkarleston, bnnel fir New York Unptam
berry, who is a zealous sere4sionist let ofl
nine rockets. hut our captain,Aid not re
spend. 14e ilimiay but few lights. land the
soldiers are.not permitted to remain on deck
while a vessel 14 in sight
We took an exi.erienerd pilot from New
York. as a Charleston pilot was not to be
thought of: hot he is not familiar with the
Charleston lutOlior. and this adds much to
the einharrnsiment of our captain
Monday. January 7
We made Gape Hatteras at ton o'clock
thia morning.
W,• had a derided "ssiolataii,n" on board
e. One of the officers was reading
aloud from Saturday's evening edition or one
of the New I%irk morning parsers. when he
stumbled upon a paragraph announcing that
there war, reason to believe that the steam
ship Star of she W. at would sail that idler
noon with (rooms and provisions Pie Fort
lull er. Of comae there is 00 koiger any
&obt but the ehivalrio Palmetto soldiers
will be alter or,, and that we shall have tel
ruin their grille or he so ilk Our captain
who has Neel, much service. assures that it
Isa very unpleasant business to he shot at
it great while, Without any chance to shoot.
hn •k In confirmation of this upimoo he re-
Into. )1011/ A vessel wh u •h he .was on c e o n
Bred Mtn from a fe=lean batt e ry for
shoot half in hone before the ship had ■ny
opiii.rtunity of returning the compliment.--
Ito says It was viry enpleast nt. I am not
a military man, but tho assertion appears
wi , tc rtamorlile lo me.
Tmotiday January 8
W e made Cape Fear about 8 o'clock thin
!wrung We have moved slowly. as the
capiain:s in- , tructions are to cross the hic ,
early iii the Morning' arid ru i to Fort 'loin
ter at dal hr. ak and we w nth to approash
the harbor by night Tnis afternoon we
stopped about seven miles from the bar for
three boors Or more, and had some ii.hing
The diy has been delightful, and our success
in catching unsuspecting beau was Title sat
isfactory
Toward night we put on steam, anxious
for (he te.illt of 1.411 morrow exile
ri went. In the Recollect WWI of a Zou•ve."
I have resd that on the morning of 1 battle
the bravest moldier, while nothing would
tempt him to be elsewhere, awriously wishes
'himself eighteen hours older, and I doubt
not that in now the prevailing sentiment on
board the Star of the Went At illy rate,
we wish ourselves safely within the walls
of Fort Sumter where all hands may we
are bound to be in a few hours, unless we
are in the bottom of Charleston harbor, or
prisoners of war Every arrangement with
in the power of those in charge has been
made to secure the success of the enterprise,
anti anxious interest increases every lipur..c
Every light hag been extinguished ; even our
state rooms are ip utter darkness, and is
the cabin we have only one lantern, by the
dim light of *Mob one of the officers has
this evening been reading the Adventures of
Captain Simon Suggs, for the entertainment
of his companions.
The provisions have been brought wp
from below, and placed in the cabin and on
deck. [(Moultrie disables us, the captain
is determined to run the vessel agrpund as
near Fort Sumter as possible ; then the bmits
which are all in readiness, will be instantly
lowered, and the men conveyed to Fort Sum.
ter as rapidly es possible It is hoped also.;
that by bringing the plovisidns up. much of
them may be conveyed to Major Anderson.
We have six boats, capable of holding nine
ty men. They have all- been overhauled
since we left New York, and aro in perfect
order. Arrangements have been made fur
steering the boat from the lower deck. in
case the wheel house should be abet away
Men will he stationed below with mattresses
to till up shot holes. In short everything
has bgen done to Noce" the accomplishment
of our mission.
=ES
. . . . .
f
We nesday, January 9.
I awoke at three 'clock this morning, 1
and went immediate! lite ,the upper deck, '
where I bond the captain, mate. pilot, and,
two military °fibers. I learned that we had
arrived in the vicinity of the Charleston bat
about midnight : that all the coast lights d
been extinguished and thus far it had n
impossible to find the main channhl. It is
evident by these indications that the f•
table :South Oarolidtrfc9'do -- 119VIMIA Inn
we should go in without a salute.
A light wan seen off the coast, but we
could not make out what it wan A little
trier three o'clock we discovered the light
on Fort sumter, end with those exceptions
everything was dark. It was, of course.
impossible-to get over Oil bar without the
lighthouse, and so we aw ' the break of
,
day
I hire never seen after morning than
the one _which dawned upon us. —The --sky
was clear, and the moon. a fainl crescent of
silver, had just arisen. and the low coast
looked like a dense forest of eer'rgeren.
The spires of Charleston becitme visible in
the approaching dayllght. an 1 on the walls
of Sumter we desentted the American flag
floating in the breeze.
Now, about G o'clock, we see the light
house ; and now, too t we discover that-the
mysterious light Just mentioned was that of
a steamer at nur right. Nowasfhe situation
of the channel is ascertained, and we are
under weigh : and now the steamer at our
right is burning rzd and blue lights : and
now she muds up rockets. Them If no mis
taking her ',interment , elm is-giving the a
larm signal to Fort Moultrie.
On we go; the soldiers are below with
loaded mualtets, and , the (Accra arc ready
to give the word if there is anything to do.
Now it is broad daylight and we ■rc mak
ing directly into the guns of Fort Moultrie,
whose black walla are distinctly visible
The„littir grtilnifl - *Prate right is burning a
signal light aft, and is making all possible
headway up the harbor. Now we discover
a red Palmetto Nag at our left on Morin Ia•
land; at a little village called ~l'ounings'
Point, and apparently biit little more than a
mile from Fort Sumter
•• fa it potasible that "those fellows him
got ■ bawl" , of here f'• asks one.
" No,^.•newere another
battery there•" -
But there i 9 ft is now quarter past Rel ,
0 1 , and we are about two main from Fort
Sumter and Moultrie. which aru goal dot.
timer from Os. •tol, suddenly. a hitz. ! comes
• rirothrt Owl-from Morn...lslam, It 'dosag
es into the water, and idops along. hut falls
far short Of oor Ito,. was for
ward of our bow, and Was. of ,-out*.' an 11)-
I,ollllOn to 'Any 11,1 we are lout ready to
areept the proff, red - lomio tty, and the
ea plain pays IW lei It. swept in
run lip the stars and %trots, at the 'mast
head -the garrison flag mem toned In fore -
A moment of anxious suspense. tool bang !
goes a heavy C Iron the +am,.
twittery. The (ills short of ils a lino
(Ins! yards or more and hounds rlran over
our v. asel eft, nearly on a line with the
head ol a sailor, hot. lorkily • little above
I . l ‘.ha and - wfire4' - to, 110 grfl". 1110
,malb•r gum first tin il snu'h. r
shot skips along th,• sir it. r and falls short
of or
•• Boob !" aiclumrd the capiam ; • you
must give 11171 huggl•r gun% than that. 614,
or-you cannot hurt tot "
On we go. without It ediria tle compli
ments of oar l'harleston friends. Ann , her
moment and ban, ! again goes the lienvy
gun. The hall row ttrikes our ship in the
fore chains. about t wo . fert shove the water
A „seaman was holding the !cid to hike the
11101111111/Nri, and the twill struck ihreetly on
tier his fret not Hoirpri.img thst. under
the cocuns-tri+!e.. Jsck wit strongly in
dined to take to his he, Is, and begins to
scramble up with might and main, when the
captain assures him that there is no danger.
one ball having struck so near him : on( the
principle, I suppose. that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place. Jack, re
immured, patiently taken his place and drops
the lead again.
The ball, itorimpstely wll.l too far spent
to go through the sir of our* •..•1 alth I
it left an honorable Near
The battery continues to play upon us.
and another hall melee than over us near
the wheel hotrie. We an, not yet within
range of the guns of FortMoultrie, and yon
der is • cutter in tow of a steamboat, pre
paring to open fire upon u‘ A moment
longer and we Atilt he to range of these
three batter'''. The canners on Moira Is
land are snowing confident : it they get the
right range they will send • shot through
our side, sc alleging dech and destruotion
Moultrie, directly in front, will bring her
111%V! gnus to hear and will Inve their dead
ly 11111111 . 011 IWO our low, while tie cutter
will 00ell en our nght.
Why does not Major Anderson open fire
upon tbat battery and ..are 111 I We look
in vain for help Aihr, American Mae flies
from Yort Sumter, and the Ainer.ean flag at
oar b w and mi l to 41 fired upon : yet there
Is tat the slighted{ recognit ~,,, of our pre,-
vies frogs the foil to which we look for pro
tection The unexpected battery on Morris
Island has rut null hope of escape by run
fling the vassal *mind near Sumter and
taking to the boat+. pOl4ll/4 , ,thlt
Fort Sumter liac teen taken by the-'oiwith
Caridinians ? If it h.a not, why fines not
Major Andersen, show that he will protect
us, or at lent r1011))(1104C UR m /WOW II ay f -
• go within raw of Pie going of Port klOlll.
rto to eX1101C4:41111. IMO at0r,.4..t0
almottt mutant /ClllOll. jr ellipt tire by th
enemy
" Helm out 01 port '" shoos the caption,
and the Star of Vie West turned ataiultwith
out any great loss of time. an
. 011 * Nay well
imaging.. We tom without aocttlent andh
ntearn away, with the stars and stripes still
float INC. and the battery playing upon
us by way of a par nig .shoe
its we steam • w•y the s'iliner near
Moultrie h lying the hnshle rioter In tow
steams away into Swish eh one). ender ly
with the intention of cu.t tog our retreat,
but OW WOll •bil/1.10514 t h e chase, and w e
sai l out, with o ut a Man or wounded.
with our stores unharmed and proceed un
molested, probably on our homeward Jour
ney
After the brief, ibiit exciting i xperience of
the morning. I am Piteliared, without hesita
tion. to concur with the captain in the opin
ion that it is very unpleasant to be Ored at
with hard cannon balla;without any chance
to fire back. I wish t say, however. that
no one on board &vie ed any symptoms of
fear Captain Mellow Nand the pilot. 4r.
Brewer, were probably cal marksfor the
Mocris Island battery a good shot
throuih the wheelhou br•en
moat disastrous. The e Ihfough
two thirds of them arc re runts. appeared to
be quite indifferent to the music. while the
officers agreed that It was scandalous that
they could not fight back•
The ritilitity . men on board highly com•
plimented the South Carolinians on their
shooting, in this first attempt. They say it
was well done i that all which was needed
was a little better range, which they proba
bly could have obtained in a few minutes.
Their line was perfect; and the opinion is
exprested that some one had charge of the
guns who understood his business.
"It was very good aporlfarihern," re
marked one of our offi , :ers, "to shoot at lir,
and there was nothing to trouble them.—
They had it all their own way. But when
Uncle Sam gets a man-of war in the chan
nel, throwing shells into that sand bill, they
will learn the dififerenoe."
Two guns were employed ; the smaller,
it is believed, a twelve pounder, and the
larger a thirty-two pounder. This, however,
is only conjecture. Whatever their size,
they were well manned. They were fired
rapidly, and with a will.
One of the officers hazarded a joke soon
after we left Charleston harbor. "The peo
of Charleston." Re remarked. •' pride
selvesisipson their luispimlity ; but it
sleeede my expectations. They Nee us
vent balls before we landed."
ant believed that, if the South Carolini
ans had not made a mistake, we should have
partaken of dietr hospitality, whatever it
may be, as prisoners._ If the battery on
Morris Island had waited ttrn minutes long
er before firing, we should Imre been com
pletely at their mercy. It RIM only necee
sary for them to wait until we .were within
mugs of tint guns of Yort Moultrie and es
cape would have been impossible. So that,
had it not been for this new and unespeeted
battery on Morris island, slid the premature
flrin , we should inevitably. have fallen into
the, a of the enemy, if we had escaped
shi ihjg I nd drowning.
Although we had a nurgeon on board, he
hail no instraMento or medical stores.
It is bollixed that the cutter which waa
tow of steamboat wam the Willign
Aiken, which was treacherously surrendered
to the South Carolinians by its cotninsfuler.
Any one vilio is familiar with tho Chu,
leston hailtior j eannot fail to appreciate the
impOrtance of Fort Sumter. from the deck
of onr vessel it had the appearihde of 4 new
red brick building. It completely command•
the channel. Fort Moultrie and Morris Is.
land. Our Akers, however. are in doubt •
whether it commends the masked battery
on that island which Bred on us, The hatw
try i 4, apparently, simply an earth work,
constructed among sand hills. The port
holes of Vert &miter .overlooking Morris Is
land were closed, and it is pocuble that tl t ,
guns nn that side of the forum have not
been Mounted.
=MB
We crossed the Charleston bar, outward
.1011w1, about nine o'clock. There was then
a consultation as to oot trt‘urs,:movementi
The imposSibility of entering the harbor and
Intolmg at Von Sumter was muttlatently
parent - r Wil„ bad no instruetions except to
pwr II Sumter. and it mins decided that
lie only thing to be done wee to put back to
New York as soon as possible.
Om e is no
j 'lll.. iveonher • WAN delightful thr,
dayi - Tuesday. Wednesday, and l'lnirsda
I we bad no lireg, and,felt no need of ov.r
MEI
On Thur.:day afternoon however. we be
gan to feel the northern climate. Du n%
the ntglo. we had'a very heavy hem] 41,1
On Friday et I. had A gmoot SIA Aga in and
Ow+ (Smut day) 4torning we tulde Saab .
11.3, nt (in) break
VVe •rtiv, ~ f r Warren , dret t a little nth r
ClgiOt o'clock „gild ancboi.apd m.the mr, a n,
until benienatit 11'wda enidarrport and re
ceter relative lo theAtatittstUgo of the
TreWrA Tt6itrted'eiieitidetl a sea royaite of
neatly a wv.k'y ilnraf inn : and although the
11 it of the West failed to fulfil the mis4t,,,,
1,111 a hleil vas dry:Wit, d every one r ho
wilix on board (cola that est•sything wag dune,
that could be done
PIST 1s171: or 11117. WRIVIRS. room Taviroriv
.1 he Star of the West was about lire
eights of a mile from the battery on 31orn.
lend When she turned ate were shoot a
mite and a half from itirt Solder. and the
Name don:tore from Moultrie. The M ,ryes
Wend lfrry tell apparently about a mile
and a (planer from Fort Sumter lied we
not turned about we el Id hire soot twee
within lest than three tutu ths of 4 tulle
Moultrie.
Since our return. it has been nwertate• '
that two idiots took elect on the xt , anne,
one. as already stated. on her port how sod
a seegnd, as Abe was turning. on her oar
board quarter Otte, ft bot i passed between
the smokestack •nd the engine het In
j It is not true an I learn ha■ been .tares
in Ann) Of the morning papers. that the 's ar
of the ►Feat struck tier colors. We (:in.
out of Charleston with the NW s and stripe,
I strn vying t• II
i ft
'rim l'itowisitp (700 Ti ew..i During ibe
whole of al,. 1a.1 . t New ential canva.“. lb,
Blank Kq)u , ,lleari n apapera an I htump
mpeaker4 manure(' the oplr dell the election
of Linean would be immedi.glely followed
by •• good tunen and great pr"wperity -
I/coo-weals predicted plat the irreire, an4l
loratried the people agn jolt mou t he for IA:1.01n,
an.orniethem !Nit hot election tvottitt p.
duce great digtreen, and might result in r.
dtnsoltitioi. of the Union Well the peopla
trusted the R.epublicang, awl beholrl the end'
?Janke tuspended !
liusiness prostrate'
Hundreels bankrupt'
Thousands slot rtng
Cu.ll ronitnotian at our
Ind 81 "lay Ae rats of 11 ' M —of Irv,
of Mood!
- ea-ea-a
The !lurid* Unio
nance of neceimon oat Thu4r.lAy
THE pEciiii NltiTi Ks or the ft
ititutibn and the %anon , ' trials to • h li the
8..1 ht subjected, demand •n fteettmoteil
room( Lo stimulants It fa hiipotte..l, how
ever, Coot these shall be of a harmless 111111 n
and at the same time accomplish the ile•or , . l
tint Hostetter . * Celebrated y mulch flit
tt ra is the very article. Its t ir,t4 in all c i•
es of debility are 0111011 t magma' It rt-itomi
the toot. of the digestive organs,
fresh vitality into the whole system. and
gives that eheerfulneas to the temperamen t,
which is moat valuable of feminine IlittriC
Woof ' flie propriellire feel 'Uttered (win
the fact that many of the iriomt urmuwint
medical gentltlineti tit the I ' lllllll hm• la
Mowed enltol7lllll7lB upon the Bitters, the ru
t or% of %loch they have fr , r+ l,4
and aeknowletigod. There rue nu ro~r on '
counterfeits offered for sale, all of whieli
destitute of merit, and positively injurious to
the system
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