@he Talatchman,
C. T. ALFXANDER,
JOE W. FUREY,
BELL
Editors,
The Central Press Once More.
The hireling scribler again makes his ap-
pearance in the editorial columns of the last
issue of the Central Press, under the at
tractive head of “No Apparent Change for
the Better.” in which he labo's with all the
malignity of which his perverse nature is
competent, to cast reproach upon the editors
of this journal. Ile hurls the charge of
treason at us as flippantly as though it were
but a meaningless sentence—and for what ?
Because, forsouth, the Junior, in his salu-
tatory romarks to the patrons of this paper.
in recounting the unhappy and unfortunate
condition in which cur country is at present
placed. told the truth in imputing it to those
twin devils—Secession and Abolitionism. —
The scribler feels very indignant, because
Abolitionism (the oldest devil of the two) is
not entirely exculpated from all blame, and
its leaders extoled for their treason against
the Constitution of our Government. Why.
everybody, except a few ignorant, benighted
numbskulls like the penny-a liner of the
Press, knows and are free to admit, that
Abolitionism and Secession combined, have
brought this war upon the country.
The Junior, in making this assertion, only
proclaimed a well known truth ; admitted
by all sensible men, and only denied by a
few hired abolition minions, who sell their
disordered brains for a penny a line to some
mule of an cditor, who is unable to write
himself, to fill up the columns of his paper.
This veritable patriot goes oft half-cocked
into a spasm of wrath, known among oll
women as a hysteric fit, because the Juniop
alluded to Henry Ward Beecher. Wm. Lloyd
Garrison, Horace &reeley, Wendell Phil
lips, Ansom Burlingame, Salmon P. Chase,
and Hinton Rowan Helper, as being able to
tell the cause of all this trouble, and tries to
exculpate these worthies from all responsiv
tility in this matter, and fearlessly denieg
that the weil known abolition treasonable
sayings imputed to them 1n past were ever
made by them, and denounces all who say
that such sentiments were held by them.
and that such speeches were made by them,
as libelers and falsitiers.
Now in order that the editor of the Press
may not be induced hercafier to father such
ignorant and disreprrtable blunders as his
own, we will call his attention to a few pas.
sages from the speeches of these infallible
patriots, that we hope will enlighten him as
to their loyalty to the Government,
Anse m Burlingame, in a speech made in
Philadelphia in 1856, uttered the following
language:
«The times demand, and we must have
an anti slavery Constitution. an anti--lavery
Bible, and an anti-slavery Ged.”
No Republican newspaper has ever rebuk
ed or dis-vowed this frightful blasphemy.
but gloried in giving it publication, until at
last it has become too odious to be longer
borne, and the Central Press comes out in a
denial of that which the world knows to be
true.
If the editor of that paper will refer back
to the printed report of his speech to be
found in newspapers published during the
campaign of 1856, Le will find that his pen-
ny~a-liner has falsified and deceived him in-
stead of us.
Next, Mr. editor of the Press, take down
that notorious newspaper from your files,
known as the Boston Liberator—cast your
eye to the head of the rizht hand column on
the first page, and behold this motto :
++ The Constitation of the United States- a
covenant with death and an agreement with
hell.”
Are those the sentiments, secretly en-
t rained, by the editorof the Press. 1f not.
why does he seck to exculpate the author
from any complicity in the cause of this res
bellion,
In a public speech made by this same old
traitor at Boston in February, 1860, while
speaking of the overthrow of slavery in the
United States, he said :
¢ Whatever stands in the way of this sa-
cred cause. put it down ; if itis a party, let
the party be abandoned ; if it is the charch,
let the church be anathematized ; if it is the
Gevernment, let the Government be vepudiat
ed.” .
Aye.yes.he was willing to destroy even the
church of Christ and the best government in
the world if thereby he could get rid of
slavery. Yet with the Press this is not
treason, but the purest patriotism.
Horace Greeley, editor of the Tribune, on
the Oth of December, 1859, wrote the follow
ing, which can be found m the Tribune of
that date. [In speaking ot the execution of
old John Brown, he says :
+¢ Urwise, the world will pronounze him—
reckless of artificial obligations he certainly
was—but his very errors were heroie. Let
whaever would cast the first stone, ask him-
self whether his own noblest act was ¢qnal
in grande: r and nobility to that which John
Brown pays the penalty of death on the gal-
lows.”
And again :
“Tt will be easier to die hereafter in a
good cause even on the gallows, since John
Brown has hallowed that mode of exit from
je troubles and temp:ations of this mortal
ife.
Again, when ths Kansas Nebraska Bill
was pending, this same Morace Greeley was
for destroying the Government and Union,
rather than allow the Bill to pass by the
ordinary process of legislation, he said :
«* Better that confusion should ensue ; bet
Councils : better that Congress should break
up in wild discord—nay better that the Cap- |
itol itself should blaze by the torch of the
incendiary. or fall and bury all its inmates
in 11s crumbling ruins than that this perfidy
and wrong should be accomplished.”
Yes, willing to see the Government de~
stroved ; willing to see the Capitol of the
nation burned to the ground, vet the Press
has no word of reproach for this old Infidel.
but on the contrary calls us traitors because
we dare to charge him with doing much to
inaugurate this war.
Candid reader, is it not a fair inference i
view of these facts, that the editor of th
Press secretly endorses these unholy senti-
ments, if not, why does he defend them ?
Wendell Phillips, in a speech at a meeting
in Boston in Fcbraary, 1860, says :
“ And better than that Puritan conscience
awakes and flings i 8 spear down into the
centre of Virginia, in the revolt of John
Brown :
of him ?
“Well.he is your eldest born. you ought to
know him : he bears your lineaments, you
ought to acknowledpe him. He 1s but the
natural product of the thought of the North
seeking vent somewhere. The irrepressible
conflict has begun.”
This speech was published in the Tribune
and other papers, yet the Press persists he
never made it. , uablushing eftrontery !
The writer of the article in the Press to
which we refer, is terribly worked up, bes
cause the Junior declared that Hinton Rowan
Helper was the greatest villain of them all
and as he says without one word to justify
the libel.
Does the writer suppose tha: the infamous
and treasonable teachings of *Helper’s Im-
pending crisis.” have escaped the memory o
his readers. and that it is therefore necessary
to recount his sayings in order to justify the
allegation that this same Helper was ins'ru
He whose
memory has not retained some of the tcach-
mental in bringing on this war !
ings of that celebrated book, is much to be
pitied on accoant of his failing memory.
The people, we know. well remember
them, but as they appear to have escaped
the memory of the penny~a liner ard the
editor of the Press, we quote a few by way
of * justification 7 He says, after speaking
of the evils of slavery :
«The great revolutionary movement set
on foot in 1775. has not been terminated ;—
nor will it be until every slave in the United
States 1s freed from the tyranny of its mas-
ter. Every victim of the vile stitution
must be reinvested with the sacr.d rights
and privaleges of which he has been depriv-
ed by an inhuman oligarchy,”
With him, the Constitution which recog-
nizes slavery, is an inhwman oligarchy!
Agam :
“In this extraordinary crisis of affairs, no
man can be a true patriot without first be
coming an abolitionist.” S
Again :
« Henceforth, sirs, we are demandants,
not supplicants. We demand our rights
more, nothing less. Tu is for you to decide
whether we are lo have it peaceably or by
Sollow, we are determined to have it one way
or the other.”
Is not this enough by way of ‘justification ’
No difference what may be the conscquen
ces, slavery must be abolished. Even should
it cause the overthrow of the Government. it
must be done, Yet the Press would justify
him.
This book is the anti-slavery Bible, spoken
of by Burlingame, and the general text [rom
which the Press weekly preaches is the sen
tence quoted above. That iu this extraordi-
nary crisis, no man can be a true patriot. un-
less he first becomes an abolitiomst.” Judg-
ed by this new political Bible, we must con-
fess we are not true patriots according to
the understanding of the very intelligent ed
itor of the Press: But according to our po-
litical Bible, viz the Constitution of the Unit
ed States we are willing to be judged.
Who 1s there that loves his country, that
can read the ahove passages, and lay his
hand upon Ins heart and while he contem-
plates the present civil war declare in sight
of high heaven that those men are innocent.
That Mason and Siidell, Davis and Stephens
actually taken up arms against the Govern-
went, are the chief irstigators of this rebel-
lion among the masses of the Southern peo-
ple, is true ; but these Northern Abolitior
quoted, have been the chicf instigators v
these leaders in the rebellion.
Secession and abolitionism
Government.
fend these abolition ti aitors ?
query to us, for we find in the very same ar
these men responsible, that
can be.”
expressing his sentiments 2 [5 it because
he wants to monopolize the business of just.
ly abusing Abclitionists for the part they
country ?
to yourself, for we do assure you that it is
rot a pleasant duty to us. But we are afraid
to trust you without security, because we
have yet to see the first line of reproach fur
any of these abolitionists whom he sa
so much despises. - 4
The editor of the Press is a good deal lke
the dog in the manger, which would not «at
the hay itself nor yet would let anything
else have it. He shuts his eyes to the crimes
tev that discord shavld.resgn in the National
a
of abolitigni=m, and when we bark at them
and the world says, do [ approve |
(meaning the abolition of slavery) nothing |
violence : for, whatever consequences may |
Yancy, Rhett and Breckinridge, who have
preachers and teachers from whom we have
are the twin
devils who are secking to destroy our fair
But why does the Press de-
This 1s the
ticle in which are denounced for lLolding
the penny-a- |
1 ver emphatically declares that the Press |
If this be your object, Mr, Editor, and you
will give sccurtty that you will get some
body more able than you at present have to
assist you, you can have the whole business
« Ton
he snarls and snaps his teeth at us. Why!
does he do this 2 He himself says :
“ That he does not recollect ever having
seen the name of even one prominent Repub
lican Statesian mentioned in the Watchman
| who was charced as having been mstiomen-
Ital in precipitating the country into its
present lameatable condition. for the reason
that any porticn of the Chicago Platform
! wonld he made the law of the land. hut al-
| ways ingenuously placed in the light and
position of Garrison, Phillips, Beecher and
| others.”
That is so. We have never blamed the
onest Republicans, as there are many in
| this county, but we have blamed, and do
| still, those Abolitionistsr who the Press de
| fer ds. and by so doing proves himself no
better than even *-the greatest villian of them
all—Hinton Rowan Helper.”
| But after his labored defence of abolition-
| ism (for such is really the gist of all his
writings) we can not see really how he can
! still claim to be a Republican, unless he
| locks upon republicanism snd abolitiomsm
| in the light of his pet God— Hinton Rowan
| Helper, who declared “that the only differ
ence between the two was the same as that
existing between the tadpole and the bull
frog.”
He looks upon himselt as the tadpole,
| (Hinton Rowan Helper the full grown bull
frog) and he, in lisinfancy. being compelled
p the sballowest water around the
| banks; he sighs for the day when be, a ful!
| grown frog. shall have lost the tadpole’s
tail. when he can climb upon a toating log,
and after a few chirps he can go ¢ ker chunk”
into the centre of the muddy pool of aholi-
| tionism.
| Honest Republicans. however, take avery
| decided exception to their close affinity to
Abolitiontsm, as shown by the teachings of
the Central Press. They do not ackaowl-
| edge the relationship, and therefore have
‘ceased to acknowledge the Press, as the or-
| gan of their political faith. The cloven foot
his been thrust out too far and ther have
turned from the inhuman thing and despise
it as they do the devil that crawls upon his
| belly in the dust.
| But one more quotation from the Press
{and we are through. lle says:
“Tt may be that the Senior editor cher-
{ isles the motto so long at the head of that
| pager, “Equal and exact jus ice to all men.”
| and pursuing this principle vigorously, he
| found his sheet arraigned on the charges
!speciticd in the presentment, because per
i haps Phillips Garrison Beecher and others,
| have advocated their peculiar measares of
Abolitionism with equally as much free-
: ness.”
oed their abolition treason suceeded incon-
vineing thirteen men that anything anti abo-
!lition was treason, and, therefore, we were
presented. Presented, because we maintain.
ed the principle of “cqua'and exact justice
to all men,” in opposition to the wrong and
| perfidy of abolitionism. But we have been
| sustained by the people, who, by their ver.
dict at the last election, put their veto upon
| the wrong perpetrated upon us, They have
rendered the stigma that the Press would
cast upon us easy to be borne.
We can not close this article without beg-
ging pardon of our readers for devoting so
much space to such a small subject as the
editor of the Press, and we hope they will
excuse us. We do not desire togoinio a
discussion of the causes of this war, until it
is over ; but it has been forced upon us by
the hbels of che Press. Excuse us for this
time.
| to kee
Aye, ‘hey have advocated Abglitionism
with a great deal more Ireeness aud perses
verence,and the Central Press having re ech-
Tuk Boston Pilot utters a great truth in
forcible lanuuage when it says, it the Sece-
ded States should lay down their arms to
morrow, it is lit le less than certain that
the Abolitionists of the North would imme-
diately provoke them to a resumption of
hostilities, The un emancipated negro
would be still superior in interest to the
Constitution of their country, with that
herd of fanati s; their irrational philcsophy
would be continued mall its strange exer.
cise 3 the * hentous guilt of slavery” they
would per-ist in amphfying and denouncing
in their usual turgid style of rhetoric; the
incalculable losses to business, and the
great destruction and mutilation of life and
lunb thet have already happened as couse
quences of the revellion, would have no
[weight with them 5 the rabid abolition sens
| iment would persist in all its elements;
and 4s an 1ssue of necessity, a new coufed
erate authority would be at once erected
again, and perhaps fo ever. This remark is
jusufied by the actual eunduct of the dan
| gerous fanatics to whom it1s applied. — Pa-
> :
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| trivt and Union.
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Snowing THE WHiTe FRATHER.—At the
“is as ra ically opposed to abolitionists “I Republican Congressional caucus held on |
violent emancipatiomsts as the Watchman | Wednesday night; Mr. Sherman, of New
Why, then, call us traitors for
| York, took the ground that we could never
| put down therebellion with the bullet ; that
About the Cor fiscation of Slaves
Correspondence of the Cincinna i Gazette.
TRANKFORT. Ky, Dec. 7.
Arrivirg hare yesterday evening on the
same tra‘n with the Civeinnati papers which |
brought to the Legislators of Kentucky their |
first information: of the Scerctary of War's!
imbrogl'o with the President, 1 have had an |
«xedllont opportunity of obse virg the pro |
found feeling with which the subject was!
regarded. Of its intensity there can be na |
dcubt. The President’s modification was
the theme of conversation in every group
last night, and tte voices were wonderfully
unanimous. On every hand I heard con-
gratulations over the ‘good news,” min-~
gled only with fears that it might ** be too
good to be all true .
+ We are as good Un‘on men as vou of
the North.” Such was the substance of
the conversation on all sides. ‘We have
done far more than you to prove cur devo.
tion to the Union and Government of our
fathers. You raise your soldiers and make
your cfforts to supiress the rebellion in
peace and quiet at home ; we are bearing up
and holding out faith ul amid the very
whirlwind of civil war at our own doors —
All we ask is that the pledges you have
made shall be held sacred. We have told
our voters that those men slandered your
Northern Admimstration. who said vou were
going to wage an Abolition war. We have
assured than that slavery was not involved |
in this war, that it was only a question of!
loyalty or reason to a tendficient Govern |
ment ; and now we call upon you to make |
good those pledges, on which alone we car
ried Kentucky for the Union. and preserved
her rom the fate of all her sister Southern
States. Our honor is involved in the 1ssue.”
Tt was useless to present the arguments
so emrrent at the North that those w#: at
tempted to overthrow the Constitution
could lay no clarm to Constitutional privil.
eges. + Certainly not,” was the reply,
+ hut we demand that in punishing them
you shall not disgrace and ruin us ”’
** Corfiseatior. is right.” they said : a man
who rebels against this Government has no
right 10 own anything. But you can only
confiscate property. 1f you confiscate
slaves, as property, (which is perfec ly right)
we demand that you shall eontinue to treat
them as property, and use them to assist in
defraving the expenses of the wa. low is
it that when you confiscate them they
property, while the moment afierward they
cease to be property 2 Suppose you were to
corfiscate all lands owied by rebels in Ken
tucky and instead of selling them for the
benefit of the Government at the fair maiket
value, should throw them open to pre
emption, and thus bring down the value of
all the land in Kentucky to a dollar and
a quarter an acre. Would you not be rain-
ing us as aell as the rebels, cutting our
throats with the same knife yoa used on
them 27°
are
{
THE VERY LATEST NEWS.
= od
BY TELEGRAPH.
BriLeFoNTE, Dec. 17, 1861.
The following dispatch bas been received by
e operator at this piace:
Parson Brownlow is in the Knoxville jail on
charge of treason.
The Federal forees occupy Portsmouth, Va.
The vews from Kentucky and Louisiana states
that the rehel troops and gun-boats have been
sent from Columbus to New Orleans. and a great
th
panic prevailed in that city. Citizens have fled: |
and report says that the demolition of the city is
threatened.
The conflagration at Charleston is supposed to
have destroyed from five to seven million dollars
worth of property. Five hundred and sixty-two
buildings were burned, among which were five
churches.
The rebels have evacuated Fort Pulaski, which
has been occupied by the Federal troops.
ee AAA eee
GREAT FIRE AT CHARLESTON!
A Large Portion of the City in Ashes.
ForTrRESS MoNROR, Dec 13, 1861.
The great conflagration at Charleston is attrib.
uted to the breaking out of a slave insurrection.
It is said that soon after the disturbance commen-
ced the spark was kindled, and at last advices
nearly one-half of the city was in ruins.
From Norfolk we have intelligence of a most
disastrous fire at Charleston, S. C. A despatch to
the Norfolk Day-Book of to-day from Charleston,
states that a fire broke out in that city on Wed-
nesday night, which was supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary. At the date of the
last despagah, five o'clock on Thursday afternoon.
the fire i. burning. The Round Church,
the Theats>®#. Institute. and other public build-
ings are stated to have been destroyeds The fire
swept across Broad street.
Assistance had heen sent for from Augusta.
The fire was still said to be raging on Thursday
evening, having continued for forty eight hours.
THF LIGHT SEEN AT SEA.
Fortress Moskos. Dec. 14.
There has been no flag of truce sent out to-day,
and consequently no news from Norfolk has been
received. and there is no further particulars of the
conflagration at Charleston.
Bautivorg, Dee 15 —T learn from the eaptain
of the Oid Point boat, that he was informed by
| the captain of the U S transport Illinois. arrived
at Fortress Monroe from Port Royal, that he pass-
ed within six miles of Charleston harbor at ten o'-
clock on Thursday night. and that a tremenduous
conflagration was evidently then at its height in
that city. The reflection on the clouds exceeded
anything he ever saw. and the whole bay, with
the dark outlives ot Fort Sumpter, was brillianlly
1luminated. It did not appear like the reflection
of smoulder ng ruins, but from a raging, uncon-
trollable conflagration. This is fiv: hours later
** Do you propose to inundate
free megers 27 demands another 3 ++ 1 would
as lief be in hell at once.” And the by
standers amte very heartily in the some.
what emphatic expression
“lt is not the value of the slaves we care
for.’ said a representative from one of the
Southern conuties to me: “1 for one, have
not seen my home in five months. It would
he worth my life to ven ure there. I do not
suppose myself to. day worth more than the
clothes in my trunk up stairs. Everything
I had I have sacrificed for my lovalty, and
I have therefor some right to speak my mind.
It is not the mere loss of our own slaves we
care for. Freemg the slaves of Seeessionists
in our midst would reduce our own to a mere
nominal value as well as destroy their obes
dience and usefulness; but it is not this
mere pecuniary loss to which we ohject. T
believe the Union men of Kentucky would
to-day sacrifiice every dollar's worth of slave
property they own, if that would restore the
Union ana end the war. But it is the prin.
ciple we complain of ; the dishonoring of our
word before onr constituents; the spirit that
would ruin friends and such friends as we
have proved ourselves, to strike an ineffect
ual blow at foes : the unendurable mortifi-
cation having a large free negro population
in our midst.”
The apprehensions on this subject for the
last few days are declared to have been 1m
tense.
The worst fear of the Union men appeared
to he that Camcron’s policy. or the action of
Congress in the matter, won'd split the Un-
ion party of Kentucky. Already they said,
some of their membirs were yestive. and
resolutions had been offered which no man
would have dared last season to present.
Dan Rice.
This inimitable and renowned jester is at
Erie, Penr., where he intends to winter. —
At the close of the last entertainment of the
traveling season at Erie, Dan was called on
for a speech ; he ¢c mplied, and gratified his
admi ers in th. follewing patriotic strain :
¢ Let me tell you, my friends that the man
who utters abohtion sentiments now is as
dangerous enemy as the most hot headed
secessionist. It all the people of the North
knew as much of the South as 1 and many of
my leading employees do. th y would at
once see the absolute necessity of crushing
out such incendiaries. Why, permit me to
say to and assure you that the diteful words
ot those negro sympathizers feed that mon-
8 vr secession, and that he fattens upon the
wild raving of political fanatics. Had we
no hollow hearted philanthropists like Wen-
dell Phnl'ps, Gerrit Smith, Joshua R. Gid.
d ngs, and others of smaller ealibre whe are
supporied by a cor upt press, suchas the
N.Y. Tribune. &e.. &c., why the secession.
15ts would have no tools to work with. But
Juft Davis sends to his friends of the Rich.
mond Enguirer and the New Orleans Cre
| scent some choice extracts (rom the abohtion
pr.ss of the North. and they are re publish-|
us with |
than the date of the Norfolk Day Book despatch.
| Exciting News from England- -War
| like Attitude of the Briti-h Press.
{ The foreign news Ly the Europa and
{ City of Washington, telegraphed from la'i-
fax and Cape Race. certainly wears a very
| warlike aspect, so far as the opinions and
menaces of the English newspapers are cons
i cerned. From the 28th ultimo, the date of
jour last advices, to the Sthinst., the Trent
| affair is reported to have monopolized the
jattentionof the p ess, a portion of which led
| off by the Times. sccm to be most ind«s
i triously engaged in an attempt to fan the
| exeitement into a blaze of war against the
| United States,
| Statements are made that the British
| Cabinet have decided that the arrest of Sli-
| dell and Mason upon the Trent is a viola=
| tion of international law—that a mess nger
has been despatened to Washington to de.
mand an apology and restitution of the pris~
oners. and if satisfaction is not obtained,
hat Lord Lyons is to withdraw lis legation.
There are exciting and excited rumors of
activity in the British dockyards, rapid na-
val preparations, the shipment of arms 0
Canada, and of a serious fall in Canadian
S curities. This latter damage, we are of
tne opmion, will ultimately turn out about
the most serions result of the whole unbrog-
lio. Tt will be observed that although the
tone of most of the British newspapers 1s
positive belligerant and even insolent, there
is not in all they say a particle of anthentic
intelligence or official authority to justity
cither the positions they assume or the state
ments they ruake.
Notwithstanding all this bluster of the
newspapers, we do not believe there is any
more purpose in the part of the English
Government o rush headlong into a war
with the United Stafes, than there is on our
part to provoke a war with England. A
conflict b tween two such Powers is no holi
| day diversion to be engaged in without re-
flection. and the sending of a feet and an ar-
my equal to the occasion across the Atlantic
is not an achievement to be performed before
breakfast.
After carefully scrutinizing the several
statements of the London journals, we ase
Lof the opinion that the following is about the
| substance of what has been done by the
British Government : —The Law officers of
the Crown. upon the ex parte evidence of the
officers of the Trent, have given ir as their
opinion that the arrest—particularly as to
| the manner in which it was made —is not
warranted by the law of nations ; that if
there was any rcasonable belief that the
Trent was carrying contraband, she should
have been seized as a prize, and taken into
port for adjudication of the question ; and
| that if the statementsupon which these views
| are based shall prove to be correct, then
{reparation must be made. All this looks. as
| we have heretofore remarked and still be
(lieve, to a settlement of the subject by di:
plomacy and not by cannon. The offence on
our side—f there 18 any offence in the mat
ter at all —dnes not approach the aggravated
we must emyloy the slavesto doit. Mad! ud throughout the country as the sentiments | €ase of the Caroline, in which Great Britain
{any person ventured to make the declara-
have played in bringing this war pon the ion (hree months ago that the United
North, with its eighteen millions of free
; population and vast resources, could not
; put down the divided South, with but seven
miliions, he would have been branded as a
coward or denounced as a traitor. But
times have changed, and the loudest boast,
ers are the first to show the white feather.
Shame on the white man who thus secks to
impeach No thern courage !—Palriot any
rr ere ll Pre eee.
u. ” Mr. Charles F, Brown, the famous
*¢Artemus Ward,” is about twenty-live
years of age. leis anative of Uxford Co.,
Maine, and a distant relative of Llon. Han.
| nibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United
of the whole Nurthern people. The hot im-
pulsive blood of the Suuthe ner is aroused.
his leaders tell him his howe is to be inva- |
ded by a host of John Browns, who intend
to set his slaves free and arm them against
him. And thus it is the ambitious South-
ern demagogue. who wishes to establish an
| antocratic government, takes abolition sen-
| tment as vehicles to carry out his nefarious
| aesign.”
The above, emanating from an illiterate
but patriotic showman, will do more good in
fostering and eneouraging Union sentiment,
at the South, and restoring confidence be-
tween the sections. than could possibly be
ace mphished by all the diplomacy of recog-
nized authority.
ee A A pm ee
MovinG for a new trial Courting a sec
was the aggressor against us: and the
threatcnings of the British press and the al.
leged position of the British Government. are
not in any degree more positive and belliger-
ent, in the Trent case. than were those of
our own press and Government against Eng-
land 10 1738. Yet all that was settled with:
out war. as we have not the slighest donbt
! this difficulty will be, whether with or with.
ont the meditation of the Emperor of the
French.
tl glee LR
Gen. Hallack bas published an order which
gives general satisfaction in Missouri, —
Hereafter nothing shall be taken from an in-
vidual except what is necessary for the
transport and subsistence of the roops, and
except he is actually in arms against the
Government, and such property must in all
cases to he taken by intelligent and respon-
sible officers specially detailed for the pur-
| States.
ond wife.
pose who will give the owner a receipt.
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News from the South.
: CiNoinNar, Dec. 13.
The Gazette's FranK'ort dispatch says
that when the stage -l¢it Somerset at 11
n'clock on Wednesday fhere had been no
fighting. The Postmaster wrote : “Weare
expectinga fight hoully. The enemy is
close upon us in forcq estimated at from
8 000 to 13.000 men. Dur effective force is
about 5 000. a
«Both marino. ou complain of
Gen. Thomas for nog” laving sent reinforce-
ments to Gen. Schoepff before this ; but as
it cannot now interfere with the plans, it is
not improper to state hat Gen. Buel’s plan
was, that Gen. Thoma; should get in the
rear of Zolicoffer.”
Letters to-night expr ss apprehensions of
the result, should Zol coffer force General
Schoepff to an -engagérient before General
Thomas arrives. .
ing. If this be true,
be in time to intercepfhim.
Troops continue to pur into Louisville.-«
Four regiments passe/ hrough yesterday.
The Commercials er from Frankfort
says that the Paymader from London re-
ports Crittenden at ‘umberland Gap, with
1.500 rebel troops, ajd a large force in the
vicinity. j
A letter to the Repitgentative from Wayne
county says that Mjor Helveti and three
others captured withhim were killed by the
Rebels after their coture. All the leading
men have been drive. from Owensville, Bath
county, and the towris in possession of 400
Rebels, who are comitting thr greatest ex~
cess.
A letter from Sprerset. Ky., dated the
7th, confirms the cafture, hy the rebels, of
Major Helveti and/(jptain Prince.
J. R. Richards® Postmaster at Somerset,
Ky., writes, undef Hate of the 10th, that
Zollicoffer has eraled the Cumberland nver
2) miles below Wisboro, on a bridge form
ed « f coal barges, ith from 9 000 to 15 000
troops. We expe fight to-morrow. The
Federal forces und Gen. Schocpft are six
regiments and twaoatteries,
The Democrat geredits the ahove, fails
ing to get a confirn™pu from its correspond-
ent. ;
The Commercial fys . we had yesterday
a very interesting i “tview with two Union
refugees from Loui.na, who had succeeded
in making their wy from New Orleans to
Nashville and thigh the rebels to the
Ohio. They covfi_ the report of the utter
stagnation of busipgs in New Orleans, the
constant appréyeion of attack and the
scarceity of neatly;dl the uesessaries of
life, All the men _iween 18 and 45 are
being impressed in service.
Memphis is etronr’ fortified on the river
side. There wete t) gunboats at the land
ing ; a regiment ofantry, and a few com-
panies ot artillery mprised all the troops
at that point. !
The refugees krrid at Nashville on the
6th. The city vagia high state of excites
ment on that dar, a on the following an
attempt was mide , draft the citizens into
the army. TH i/gnation of the peo
was intense. | ric Yroke out in the Fourta
Ward. Your plic/ nn. who attempted to
uell the riot, fped+tt Aeod. The mob
fg to the apit 2 attack Gey, Harris,
who fled to Menplg The papers the next
day announcedtha ad’ gone thither on
business. frie ?
Last Saturdy, dep men from Louisisna,
passed throug) Na tlle for Bowling Green,
carrying blacklage wbellished with a skull
and cross bon(. | J, Were mosily sixty
day men. arm. ¢ ‘ely with shot guns. —~
The people avast are constantly ex.
pecting a bale d wling Green. The
forces at thapoine, © estimated by the
papers and wl ir; sed people at 25,000,
and reinforcements € constantly going for.
ward
phville are filled with
eing estimated at from
8000 to 10,00 (7, inmates complained
of the lack ohtte 1» and that they were
suffering orang ig ron
The prevaing [¥ monia
ang Fill Xe 1a troops from Texas,
Louisiana. al Mj ,jiPpi suffered most. —
Almost all he 'E, Rangers are on the
sick list, anfin 8° ble condition. The
deaths werelreqt did supplied the drag-
men of thezity d- theirprincipal busi-
ness. I
On Satum)
sick, came t fro
The hospits at i
the sick, thejiml,
H of six cars, filled with
Ovwling Green.
Ar
jwf families in the war
d in the case of two of
families in Kentucky.
id-son of the States-
Dijatant general under
ot hard W. Johrson, in
¢ James B. Clay, 13 a
ow under bonds to ap-
pear for tl fof SON: Another uncle—
Thomas, fthe d States service—is re-
sponsibler the ®arance for trial of Jas.
B. Clay, A brah Thomas Clay, Jr., is
on the sf of As Beauregard. His sis-
ter’s hagid vhom young Clay re-
sides inoujsy has lately entered the
United Ses se} © with twoother broth.
ers for wer, tere is another example:
John J Jittentrd2S one son who is a
Brigadidener the rebel service, and
ah ad been honored by the
Si fr D Y years, Another son
yer Gon in the army of the
i hold is commission from the
Sao? vaclor Another holds the rank
nin 1h ‘deral army. John J.
itt hims) 3¢ the age of seventy.
six. byarm{®} Private in the Home
a Another example ig
ton family. The come
07 Thivis
is strikingliila
the most dling
Henry Cla; thi
man, is Isist
Brigadier ‘ene
Kentucky, Hi
violent seksio
*
a
found | the i
iontas, Captain Drayton
ai he W(General Drayton hid
commad the| troops at Port Royal.
h a thousand millions
t :
We Gent giming out of this rebell
or m
3 ; that. just now si .
lion, eems
iol Sha. bequeath them the
cause | too,[ '8! they may have a
like cit, w Ila 10nal “credit shall be
impaiby thpn’t We 8-€ creating. §.V.
Y. The. fal
West nofi! hope that when this
war § hav din the restoration of
the Th with’ ‘ights of the States ua-
imps that |? ibolitionists who are the
origitause qFe National troubles wil
nevemeard] SMD €XCEPt a8 8 wart.
erations. — Patri, and
AO ren
‘is lost slumber is said
y out on a night-mer
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