llcpdbt urn BY 0. B. G00DLANDER & CO. PRINCIPLES, not MEN. TERMS $1 25 per Annum, if .paid i 'advance VOL. XXXI. WflOLK NO 1G52. CLEARFIELD, PA. WI)NESEA, APRIL 21, 1861. NEW S El J I ES VOL. 1. NO 40. fJOOD MOKMVCi. "Oh, I am o happy!" a little gi-1 said, Ai she ipranir, like a lark, from alow trundlo bed; "Tii Burning bright uioruing ! Good rooming, . i 0, give me one kiei for good morning, mamina? Only Just look at my pretty canaiy, Chirping hi sweet 'Uord morning to Mary;' The mo is peeping straight iuto myeyei Good morning to you, Mr. Sun, for you rise Early to wake my birdie and me, And make ue hnppy ai happy can be.,, "Happy you may be iny dear little girl," A) the nuther atruuk ioflly a clustering culr 'Happy you can bo but think or the One Who wakened thi morning, both you and thesitn. The girl turnod her bright eyes with a nod : "Ma, may I say, then, good morning tot!ud?" "YeJ, litllo darling one, suroly you may ; Kneel as you kneel every mo ning to pray." Mary knelt solemnly down, with her eyes Looking up eunestly into the skies. And two little hands, that wero folded together, Boltly the laid ou the lap of her mother, "Good morning, dear Father in llcuven," she said, I think thee for watching my snug little bed' For taking good care of me all the dark night' And waking me up with the beautiful light; 0, keap me from naughtiness all the long day, Dear father, who taught children to prny." An angel looked down in the sunshine and smiled, Cut she saw not the angel, that beautiful child ! From tho Danville Quarterly Koview. OUR COUNTRY : IT i PERIL : ITS DELIVERANCE. By Ilov. Rouert J. Hkeckeskidge, I). D., Uativillo, Kentucky. I. 1. What we propose h,rsl, to make such abatement of the condition of af fairs as muy be of use to upright men, in enabling them to determine what ought la bo attiempted and what can be accom plished, in the way of preventing the ru in of their country ; and, secondly, to make clear to all men, the position of a vast party in this country, who drsiro and Iid deserve, in all possible event, to be un derstood by posterity and who, fven if their principles ate overborne and their counsels are now rejected, may, if they are fuilhful to .heuwclves, retrievo from the wreck of their country, whMever ur vives wnen the period of exhaustion shall como upon it i destructive madness, j was possible, in the state of national par- 2. Thero is no le-on which tho univer-j ties as they arc now known to have exia al courso of hum.tu affairs teaches so ted nt that time. For there wns tl,it falal thoroughly, as tin Ir owr. instability. And element, long concealed not geneially vet there is no lesu t s j hara for men to learn; no lesson o pregnant ot results, and to little hee'ied. How faithful ought men In be when overtaken by defeat and adversity if thev w ould consider that defeat and adversity, with courage and wisdom, are a preparation for triumph ? llowjust and forbearing ought men to be in the midst of power and prosperity, il thev would consider that power and prosperity, in the degree that they are corrupt, mako tho road to destruction broad und sure ? Anil how immense, how unexpected, how elfectual are Ihe resour. ces of God in the nucomplit.hmuut of w hat lie ordains to ie results ot Human cons duct 7 3. Look nt (ho actual condition of pub lic fdluirs throughout this great nation consider whither they nre tending cou pler whence that tendency has arisen consider bv what means it is propagating itself: and then reflect upon tho unox ptcted and extraordinary mean by which ruin is overtaking every interest and hepe of the country and upon the abso lute completeness of tho ruin, when those means tliull have worked their full effect. In state of security apparently perleot, and of prosperity apparently complete it small unci lierce party scattered through some of the Northern Stutes, commenced a systematic and persistent agitation con nected with the liluck raco on this conti nent : and in the heart of their system lay this idea, thai laws and institutions una rights and duties and interest cf ev ery description ought to give way, if there was need of it, to tho dccompli&hmcnt of tbeir designs. In the progtess of time and events, and the ruin of political par- pies, this fundamental idea which U the Msunce of law lessness an i anarchy al- ktrhet i'self in the public mind of some Iji llie Aorthern States, to that particuur ipect ol the question ol tho HIack ICace hie li relates to the obligation, under the f ederal Constitution, of delivering fugi ive slaves j and laws of various kinds are asted, throwing tte weight of State uu- bority against the obligation of the very ghost national law. Arid so the idea Mid process of disintegration, as the ten ncy to lawlessness A anarchy strength- pa, lias thus risen from tho condition ot tansticism, to the dijnity of a principle Jccognizcd by States and asserted in laws. it to warn men of the breadth ot the Mn involved in this tendency, und to larK the extremity ot toe peril arising hrn its connection with the question of! Muck Kace. ono of the slave States I I"! already, under a similar, but directlv loosite ipn lpncv. f.irmnllv nsisprtp.l it's . pit, not omy to obstruct the execution the laws of the United States, but to lulify them absolutely, and upon itsown lie snd sovorpiim flisciftinn ; bo ilint 1 la sp rit of luwlessncs and anarchy, in ! ausoiuteand universal tendency to. wnterrato nil thinn mm-ml tliniiph Mrst, yet more tapibly, and bv morel r'isive acts, at the South and "nt tho ! PUh. f. Once more in the progress of time! truction ol uverthing that human govern M events, and the ruin of nr liiicnl nnr. ! meiits are instituted to protect ; and that s-tho wholo nation finds itself mrsy- in the last Presidential election, into P opposite parties, (of which the dn-1 I'M one is mad enough to subdivido War :.. . . . . . f. . . 1 " "no mree) ; ana tins same question the lllack Hace, both in the aspect of s rendition of fugitive slaves, and in the eciof slavery in the Territories und "o wme quest-.ons of supreme law and Uwlessiioss corrected therewith 'unting to iho higliost national iiupor- ee, and apparent Ir swallowing up all other questions, are resolved, so fur as that election cnuld resolve them. Hut the solution is every way remarkable. 1 - " I "1 . If. 1 ' 1 . 1 - I . idont rur wiiiio nir. Lincoln is elected i resi- the minority of the nation is so de cidedly against him, that lie would have been beaten if the power of CongtesB to to create uniform electoral districts had ever been exercised ; nay, would have been beaten under the existing system, il all opcosed to him had been allowed by the corruption or folly of parties to unite on one opponent. Moreover the solution is further remarkable, in this, that both Houses of Congress, and, as is ulleged, the .Supreme Court of the United States, held his most dangerous opinions to bo unconstitutional; and it is still further remarkable iti this, that Mr. Lincoln himself, while representing the Northern section of the aiiiirchial tendency of the times, is known to repudiate the original principle of thut faction concerning the rendition of fugitive slaves and is by universal content, even of his candid op ponents, an able, Lonest, and patriotic man. At the end of thirty years of work ing of the spirit wo have been tracing, a decisive event had thus put tho country in a posture where it would clearly ap pear whether the the hereditary law-abiding spirit of our race remained, the great prop and safeguard of all our insti tutions : or whether the spirt of anarchy already so signally manifested at belli extremoties of the nation, had so far poisoned the national life of our race at its fountain, that the time had come for one of those great explosions of human passion which (ill to many melancholy pages in the history of our race. 5. 1 1 is not easy to conjecture, and it is impossible to say with certainty, "hat would havo occurred it the late Presi dential election had terminated different ly from what it did, in any one of the vaiious ways in w hich n ditlcrent termi nation was possible Thij far we may now spiak with certiinty, that in some form or oilier, tlx spiii. of turbulent fa naticism which had porvaded the States of the extrenio North so long and so deeply, would not without a miracle, such as history does not record, have been al- laved cr composed under any deleat that boliovod but openly avowed since the secession of "out li Carolina that seces sion, as the final and di liberate choice of the extreme South, was the point to wich , politeal opinion had beer, long and care fully trailed, and political parties, long anil singly directed. This fatal training, added to the widely diffused spirit v'. an archy, smw ting under a defeat equally signal add unnecessary, and stimulated by considerations ot tho very highest im portance connected with the question of the Ulack Kace in every uspect ot that question produced the apparently sud den revolution which has already, when these pages aro written, led the six cotton States (South Carolina, Mississippi, Flori da, Alabama, (ieorgia and Louisiana) to pas' separate acts of secession from the United States of America. Hero then is the consummation of this spirit of law lessness and anarchy, working as wo havo already said it universally works, unto tho disintegration - tho mcrcelnieiit of all things ; the consummation of it, so f:ir as to embrace all tho Slates producing cotton, sugar, und rice, ns thoir jjreat sta- pies. What is next to be determined is, the fato of tho mixed slave States those divided between farming and planting (North Carolina Tennessee, Ar kansas and Texas): and lb 3n the fate of the border slave States, (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri): and then we may confidentially add, tho fate of tho nation. Whatever, in the meantime, it is of tho last importanco'to boar in mind, shall bo the conduct ol the whole of the freo States (Ne-v Jersey, rennsy lvanuv, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois snd Iowa), may be decisive alike of their own fate, and of that of all tt e lest of the nation itself fur many generations. (. Is it possible tor any tuougiitiui per son to suppose, that tins spirit of reckless disregard of all existing institut:ons, has ulrcadv nccomiilished all the results of w hich it is capable T What shsll prevent it fioin the swallowing up all the remain ing shtvo States t What shall, after, that is accomplished, prevent a counter-revo-lu'.ion in every ono of'thoso slave Stales? What shall prevent its Uking some new direction With still more vehement force, throughout he rv i l o North? What shall prevent a counter revolution in every Northern Stuto? And who can venture to hope, lUal everywhere tramples under fuot those institutions which everywhere have been esteemed most sacred, and ev- ery whole despises tho most venerable and the mom cnotisneu irauuious oi our coun- try mm our race, win uuauy euiKe ns thirst in anything but human blood,, or fail to assuage its insatiable rapacity by universal piunder? Cannot even tho blind see. Hint when laws are violated in the Hume of morality und order, and con- stilutions are set ut nought in the name of nucrty mm security, gnu unmuiiuui me accomplished by terror and conducted undertheeuidanceof irresisiiblefanatieism that there can be no result to such a ca- reer, hs long as il has way. but the des- at every step of the career, the overthrow ol every saiuury power uuu mo uisiiueg- ration of every healthful Jmce ol society. more und more confirms the existence nnd . . i i. .. i Aa :rfiA.i renzn or universal niimeujr i iuj" u .uU sho'uld destroy every principle of cohesion in the physical universe, and leave every sepurate force in it norking to the des- truction o! nil things, ii is as 11 iie should destroy overy idea of subjoction in the moral tiniverse, and leave the passious of men to work out all the horrors of in infiuite disorder. It is as the steady work- th one hand, or its violence ou tho other; ing of omnipotent force unto the produc-; 2. The conduct of the Federal Govern tion of universal helplessness. It is, when nient towards those States; as it may be it shall pervade the earth, the realization firm and jet temperate, or as it may be of the conjectures of those who expound vacillating and timid: 3. The conduct of the divine predictions concerning the con- j the slave States continuing in the Union; dition in which The Sun of Man will find .as they may shaie the madness of the six all nations at his second coming the uni- seceding Stales, or as tin y may arrest the versnl reign of lawlessness alter the uni- pestilence at the cotton line, and by their vcrsat disintegration ot every element ca- wisdom and courage restore the Union ; pable of restraining it. What we say is 4. The conduct of the free States, and es not that these results are inevitable : God . pecially those along the - ;ve border; as forbid! Hut wo say they aro natural they shall obstinately persist in fome'nt they aro imminent they aro far more to . iug opinions unci performing acts touch bo apprehended than what has already oc-1 ing the whoh question of the black race, curred both in the -North and in the which they can now clearly see must in South, was to bo apprehended thirty j volvff the country In one common ruin, year ago. And we muy say these things' or as they, by a common consent, or by a with a greater confidence of an insight of counter-revolution in their own bosom, the ton iblo future, and a mere eager be- I restore public opinion to n condition un seeching of our generation to beware ; der which slave States may safolv livo in since during more than thirty yearn we have not ceused to lift up an unheeded testimony, both against the principles and tho proceedings, both at the Noith and at the South whose frightful results the dubious aro the issues sulmittcd to them. inevitable counter-revolution in the.States country IB now beginning to reulize. 3. The remaining nine slave States, of i which hi-ve already seceded, which will II. 1. Let us now seek, an idst this which five are border States, and four are 1 disabuso the minds of men of the duhi cbaos, for some ground of hope and eflort. mixed slave States, have in each of these ' sion that the revolution there has been, Throughout the eighteen free States, so- classes peculiarities as marked as those as to Ihe popular masses, either spnnta.' ciety is supposed to be under the control j which distinguish the cotton States; yet neuus or cordial, and rest ire those Slates nt' ilin Iteinihliciin tiarlv. As lndic.itad ' no (ho ul.r.l ,,, ,,;!.. ... . i. . . ., ,. , by the Presidential election in November j last, il may be conceded thut the mi.jori- ty in ull those States, did at that time, believe the election of Mr. Lincoln to the I Presidency, to bo the best of the alterr.a- . j I".',' , uves lucu oueii:u iu im-u muiic , ui.-u iv nay bo further conceded, though it is not tstriutly accurate, tlmt, at present, the lo- cal, political and military power, in all those States, is in the hands of the He publican party. Hut it is alio true that a minority in those States, numerically nl.. iuosi us iuige io iniiiu turnip in'mii-; .....I nn.ttltil !. . .11 .1 - tion ot tho in teen siave states, voieu part ot them, embracing the leading and against Mr. Lincoln and are thoroughly powerful Stales, refuse to unite in tho opposed to tho distinctive principles of movement taken by the six cotton States, the lU'publuan patty. It is also undo- that movement must necessarily prove a uiablo that a very large number of those failure, both us to its avowed, and as ti who voted lor Mr. Lincoln, are far more any concealed object; a counter-revolu-Whigs or Americans than they uro lie- j tion in the cotton States b -conies pres.. nublicans : and it is equally certain that , entlv inevitable : and those cotton States a very large number of the lfcpublican party itself, strictly speaking, are patriot-1 lo men, who, wnuo iney picierrcu me success of their party to the success of any other party, prefer the peace, the prcs- nerilv. und the security ot their country ' alxH'u anything that could bo obtained by the triumph of their parts'. If ny po- j ilticul refult in tho future, tborefore, cm be considered certain, it is certain that a 1 evolution in opinion, more or less deci- ded, will manifest itself throughout tho : free States, whenever the issue is clearly put to them betwecu their country and ... ,,. certain, that whatever parly shall hurry those States, by whatever means, into tlio ' horrors of civil war, and tho nr.g'iisli of that impending unarehy ol which wo 'l...... I.n.i ...;il r..lfill llIT U Pltiml.'l1 flillO , ,11 J vvM..fcv.. revclution, just as ajit to le bloody tuero as in any Kjrtion of the nation. 2. In the position of ull the slave Slates . anv political party. Anuitis cquany;na, and ouoptea ty .there are peculiar circumstances much ever of the possibility of lning either overlooked, both among themselves and .stable or strong : 2. Tho method of se nd others; but nevertheless decisive in cession by scjmrate Stale action, is found- tho long run. No force, however small, ' ed on illusions utterly fatal and absurd, jbut will accomplish its end, if sufficient 1 that tho American are not u nation the : time be allowed ; even that which is infi- ! Federal Constitution not a govern ment ! nitelv minute, if it operates through an the American people not bound to bo indefinite period. The six cotton Slides nppcnr to us lo have taken their course in such a temper, w ith such purposes, upon such principles, and under such foregon a conclusions, that they nei'.ner uesne to retum to their former position, nor would at present agree to any thing that they i bclicvo would accomplish that result. It 1 is, of course, possible Unit we nre mista- j ken in this painful conclusion, and we I should heartily rejoice to know thai we Into; but, seeing no grouui on which wo can doubt th it the caso sianu uius, nui- ereigniy oi mo jieopie, iiuot cmisiuu Iherdowo soo any on which wo can tional liberty and security impossible, and avoid stating our belief. It would bo invites factions, in proportion as tli"y are gross injustico to many thousands of pa- corrupt or incon.pcient, to usurp and to triotic men in all tte cotton States, to 'abuse sovereign power : 4. The utter re supposo that either of those States would fusal to consult w ith States, all ot which havo been ullowod to lake the courso it were united by tho highest human oblign has pursued, without a desperate political tions nnd many of which were involved struggle in its own boson), if tho circum-j in perils the very same in kind and high stances of those men, in encli of those cr iu degree is a line of conduct, rtek- States, had appeared to them to allow ot less in iue.lt, insulting to all others, ap resistance to tho organized force which parently adopted with tho purpose of rett swspt society away. There aro also Ihou-, dering ull peaceful, eonsiderile. or even sands of persons in till those States who decoious arrangements impossible, ami even now consider it a slander and a re- necessarily jeopurth, in iho result reached, proach, that ulterior designs are ascribed ! the profitable continuance of slavery, if to those who direct this secession move- not its very existence, in the greater part ment, which il seems apparent to all ( of the slavo States, and amongst them the mankind, except thonnelvos, are not on- niost powerful, the most loyal, nnd the ly certain to bo realised if the movement most enlightened of them all. At tho is permanently sustained, but which wero 1 present moment two most important amongst the eailiest ami most powerful t truths are perfectly distinct. The is, cuuses of the long cherished desire to be that the action hitherto taken in the relieved from the real restraints of the States whoso positions wouieuow con Federal Government, nnd the imaginary ' tidoring, no matter whnt that notion perils and injuries of the Federal Union. 1 muy lead to involves a fundamental ilis In the actual condition of tho States ' gent from the conduct pursued by those which have already seceded, us wo under-1 seceding States una contemplates ro stnnd that condition and the manner in ' dress in a dillerent way, und upon oppo which it has been brought about, we silo principles. The teeond is. that a very deim it perfectly obvious that a counter- great port'n of each of the8 9 States, prob revolution must manifest itself in eve-y I ably the majority of the people in most of one of them equally as decided, nnd 'them possibly in all of t liom, --uro wnrm perhups more violent", than the revolution ly attached to the Union, are resolutely which has u I ready occured. That coun- determined to maintain their loyalty lo tor-revolution may be in a direction more that nation as their nation, nt the same fatal bringing into uncontrolled power, time that they maintain their loyally to parties wholly unfit and unworthy to , tho particular States of which they are possess it. It nay bo in a direction emi- citizens, and nre far more inclined to nontly favorajl" to tho security nnd pros-'compose existing difficulties, than to perky of those cotton States, and Uiiiiin-j drive matters to extremity in nny dircc in thoir restoration to tho Union, under tion. the lead of ii party whose elements now 4. These facts nnd considerations, laken lie scattered, or even as yet totally undo- in detail and laken altogether, are wor vclopod. Hut tho present revolution, in . thy of the highest consideration; mid its veiy n iture, its causes, and its designs whatever tho issue of .vents muy be, they must go deeper, in one direction or tin reveal to the people and to those they other. In which direction, depends in trust, the grounds on which, and the our opinion, in the fiut instance, in a ' manner in which, the country may be great degree, uon those contingencies : : saved : and lhe discloso to posterity Ihe 1 . The conduct of the present ruling fao- j pregnant and enduring truth, that at the tion iu thoso States; its lo: bcarance on utmoit peril of tho country the peopk . peace with them. Under such circum.. ! stances it is easy to see, how grout and' j difficult is the task laid on true state-men, 1 everywhere, and how immense and how I tion at the present moment, with regard to the revolution which has swept over the coton Slates, they tun, , for tho sake of brevity, bo throvn together in develop- j ing the great ideas ve are endeavoring to uiscmsp, v nal llie exact issue will ne in these niao States or whether it will j be similar in them all or in which direc tion the prevailing opinion will settle, if different courses aro taken are ques- lions which it is impossible to determine at this time, l'.ut it is very obvious, that li, - . 1 ! .- . .1 - . . M mo nuciio nine or even ine greater must ultimately aecommadate themselves , to the policy, vvhatt ver it may bo, adopt' eu tv me other and leading Males 12- ste:id of beim; able to force those far more powerful than themselves, to follow blindly and serv.lelv a course disapproved by them, and which rests for its uitimato reason, upon nothinn better than the sud- den caprice of South Carolina, or her chronic lintred of the National Lnion. There are immense considerations, nlto- gelhcr independent of the real merits of cf the great cause which is under trial why the course dictated by South Lai oli , . ... tho other cotton Stales, t-hould le steadfastly rejected. - Amongst these are such ns folloiv : 1. This method by secession f.nnihi lutes the very idea of all force in permanent consti- lltll.m.ll .',... n. nir,miAii ..rt . rt . . ... - n iuuviiih lllljvil, K'l j;im lllHVIIV over sovereign States, and establishes as inherent in all possible future unions, the ide i of anarchy, and deprives liberty for loyal except to loal authorities, which being assumed, condemns this continent to he the everlasting habitation ol every thing feeble factions and extravagant 6. I he adop'.ion ol ordinances ol soces- sion, by conventions culled by ordinary legislatures - without allowing tho peo- pie to determine by a previous sovereign act whether or not t no conviulion s all ' exist, und by a subsequent sovereign act Ahether oi not its proceeding sbul! have, force destroys the very idea of the sov- would have saved it, if Hiey hud been bravely and wisely led. For under fair and truo Matesmanship, the chances aro more than equal, in the Jir.it plce, to rally the immense masses of the nine slave States whose people aro now pondering their course, to such an action as will make thoir position secure in tho Union, and satisfy them: n the second place, to secure such a treatment of the subject ol secession by the Federal Administration, as will at once git e efficacy to the laws, and avoid armed collision", except in re- pelling force by force : in the third place, loseekand rely upon, uch a reaction among the masses of the people in the free Stat enrs will, by a common consent, or if it becomes necessary, by iiirlitig from power those who stand in tho way, mako manifest the determination of those masses to put nn end to the reign of that atheistical and relently fanaticism, which is the original cause of the ruin that stares us all in the face: und in the fourth place to expect and await with confidence, the ' k is in this manner that results eiiu illy ! indispensable and eloiious. are attainable. 1 results oil 1 defeated ; j traced he'i paWi iImi. no doubt, ol being and that vuvs to various to be uv nci c, ' mi vil ocuaicn, ty;i un I...,.. it,., . i. ,(.., .i i. .... never forcet that they w ho defeat tiiem will share in full measure with us, all present evils, and will bear ulone the ex- aerations of ' posterity. And when de- feated, what will remain for this geneni" tion, will bo to realize the calamities of that fiifhtful condition we h.-ive traced . in the conimencement ol this paper ; or, as we liuve attempted to show on a form occasion, to construct even upon the line between the five and the slave States, 0 new and central power competent at once to preserve all our institutions, to develope our national progress, and to di rect the destinies of this continent. A Frozen Ship. A whaling vessel, which sailed from London in the year 1S1D, found in the Tolar seo. a shin imbedded in the ice. with sails furled, and no signs of lifo on board. Tho captain anil some of tho crew descending into tho cabin, found coiled upon the floor a larLO Kewfound- land do 2, apparently nsleep. but when they touched it they found the animal frozo as bard as a stone. In the culnn wns a young lady seated at a table, her eyes open as if ga.ing at the intruders in that desolate place. She was a corpse nd had been frozen in an apparently re- signed.and religious a'.titude. Jlesnlo her was a young man, w ho it appeared was commander of the brig, and brother to tlm hliK' Iln Wns siltitn' ol lint hilJn .....! . . . t 1 . . . C. . u I . i .-w. . 1 .1 I lieilW, illit U'IVI . III. II rtUIIVtl III l'LII'.., on w hich was w ritten, " o;tr cook has en - deavored to strike a light since yesterday morning, but in vain; all is now over." ly .sustained and approved by the l'resi ln another part of the cabin stood the dent nnd his Caoinct. Thus matters stood cook, with the flint ami tinder in hand, j up lo the eoniun'iieeuient of lat A'eek, frozen, in the vain endeavor to strike the; when Gen, Beruregard in t i muled to Mit1 fire that could nlunc suv them. Tho jor Anderson that, if iho demand of the terrors of the seamen led the captain .Confederacy was not complied with, nit ficm tho spot, who took with him tlm ' order would be immediately issued to cut log book us the sole memento of the ill-'oil all further :ominu:;ioutioh between fated ship. It appeared that she also was from London, and had been frozen in that place over lourteen years A LoMi-LosT Son- Discovlmii p. An in- fant boy wns stolen from his lather nnd mother nt St, Louis, nearly til years ngn, ly a l.unter who had lo-t his wile und child and "wanted so thina that woiiid Jove him." He hurried the child into the wilderness, employed u halt-breed woman lo nurse it, and not until recently was its long bereaved mother able to obtain any definite information of her missing son. She li.id become a widow, nnd had lived in Albany, Kochester, Hull'alo, I 'droit, and other places" seeking rest and finding none.' Jty means of a young sporting friend, who fien'iently met Ihe old hun ter and his ward in the far west, nnd ad' roitiy cross questioned himwtho truth was uscei la'iii'd, and the mother and son were hist week reunited tit Detroit, after asepuni'.ion of almost a quarter ofu cen tuiy. Tho poor woinnn's !iuir had grown white witli ago and unxiety, and her son will now gladly adopt civilized habits. Sr.wii uv the old Fi.au. Now that war bus commenced no matter who is nt fault i-is the duly of n-l our eiti.ens, irrespective of pnrty, to stand by the old flag, with its glorious slurs and stripes, and support ihe Government in ull prop er and legitimate efforts to bring tho con test to a successful issue. The first blow was struck b Ihe Sccesdonisuv, und now it becomes the duty of every patriot to lend his aid in sustaining the honor of our romm"!! country. If we have a Gov ernment ti. d is pable of protecting and perpetuating n.-cti, this u the timo to ex ert its strength, und the poople must stnns :ry it no matter who is at the helm. We go lor our counlry, our whole country and nothing but our country. Lanca'cr Intel. Isn.tENfE or NewsrArEBS. Small is the sum that is required to patronize it news paper, and amply rewarded is its patron, I care not how humble and unpretending tho gazette which he takes. Il is next lo impossible to till a sheet with printed mat ter without putting inlo it something that is worth tho subscription price. livery parent whoso son is nny from home al school, nliould supply him with a newspa per. I well remember what a marked dif ference thero was between those of my schoolmates who had, and those who had not access to newspapers. Uiher things being equal, the first were nlway supeiior lo the last in debate, compoMtion and gen eral intelligent:'. Dunicl Wdaer, From the Jln-rishurg Patriot & Union Events Preceding the Assault upon Fort Sumter The real destination nnd object of the fleet sent by the Government to the South, as well as tho nature of the Tiego liations which proceeded the attack cf the Confederate batteries upon Fort Sum ter, is siill involved in doubt and uncer tainty. All we know is that several ves sels crossed the bur und entered the har bor of Charleston, while tho battle was progressing, without striking a blow ot attempting to utlord nssistaneo to the be leaguered garrison. Their instructions may have prevented them from taking any part in Ihe conflict. The following narrative, published in the llaltimor American before tho assault upon Sumter1, fives the most stnight forward nnd pluus ililo account of the events preceding that transaction : Nearly four weeks since the Tresit'lont and Cabinet, on the representation of Gen. Scott, decided to evacuate Fort Sum ter as a military necessity that is to say, the reinforcing and provisioning of it was not deemed cs. eiilial, in view ol the cost of blood und treusuri it would require t acromplish the purpose. This decision of the 1'resident was communicated to Major Anderson by a special messenger, with instructions to open negotiations with the military authorities at Charles tot, to cany the project into execution. These negotiations have been progress ing ever ince, and the numerojsinefsen gers that have been pausing notwoen Charleston and Washington have com municated to Major Anderson the in structions of the Uoverniiient ond to the 1'resident the demands of the authorities of the Southern Confederacy. It is un derstood that Major Anderson refused, under instruction, an unconditional sur render of the fortress to the Confederacy, but propo.-cd to abandon it with his garrU son, leaving the fort in possession of a corporal and two privates, to protect the properly of the (ioronimvnt. and leave it thus to await tuturo events, lie is also understood to have demanded of General Heauregard that a pledge should bo given him that no attempt should bo Hindi to take possession of it after the evacuation of the garrison, and that the ollieei left in ' charge should not bo molested, or his pos. sassion as the nominal representative of the Government '.ntmlored with. Thi'i proposition did net meet the views of Getierul Uauregard, who demanded that, the Hag o' the United Stales should be saluted nr. J lowered, as was done at the iVnsucohi Navy Yard, and that a formal surrender of the fort should be made by the Government of the United Slates to the Government of the Southern Confedet ! oey, and the Confederacy tlagot seven stars 1 rui-cd on the flag Matl'and saluted, I This di maud, which would be a virtual ' v..prc,i il inn In' I ln l're.-it'h'nt Hlld M.lior I 1...) P 1 . . . . , a . . i rt . . F I 1 . n VJ.-. I 1. A ti .-iilliriSlJII IM llie C.l IM:iH V. 'l III'" I'IIICI II .Confederacy, was lirnily refused, und the 'decision of M.ij. Anderson was subsequent the tort and Charleston, and tuat his reg- ulur supplies of marketing would bo stop ped. I ins laci was nrougui 10 asmng i,in bv ('nli)iit.l I.aioon as Gin tilt i 1 1 lilt u til o( ,i,0 Confederacy. A Cabinet meeting W!Vm then culled, nnd il is said that tin 1 ri,(xisn tn niilkc a formal surrender of Hid ; on iulj t(, 1;,,v.m inir of tho fbig was un 1 ,.; ....Jg i i.-niliiniMl Immediate after this decision order were given lor the military and naval preparations thut have since occasioned so much excitement, tlio object being Id use them if necessary in relieving ihd garriion of Major Anderson trout threat ened slai viition, and inaiiitiiiiing ihe dig nity ot ihe Government nnd llu honor of the Hag in Charleston haibjr; or, if not required (here, lo dispatch the expedi tion to Texas to maintain the treaty stipulations of the Government ort the frontier, and drive hack the Indians und Me.xij is who ar j threatening to invadrt iheStute. In the meantime Lieut. Talbot was dis patched by Major Anderson to Washing ton w ill) I'urtlior information m to the condition of affairs, in which rumor says that Major Anderson urged the Govern merit tiol to allow the Hag which he had so long maintained in the face of his be. siegers to be humbled us they required and to compel the gallant men who had stood sa nobly by him, includ.ng the mo eknnics who could have left him if they had desired, to witness the humiliAtiHg sight of any flag bul that of their country floating from its battlements. This account further states that nisooit as information was received at Washing ton lb it lien. ISeatiregiird had cut oil' the supplies from Fort Sumter, the l'rcsidenk dispatched a messenger to Charleston! with instruction to Major Anderson to n itify the Con federate authorities that tho Government proposed immediately td dispatch p. n unarmed Vessel with food for the gunison at Fort Sumter ; and that hd was instructed, if tho vessel should bd tired upon, to return the fire from thd fort. Tho messenger arrived ' at Charles ton, but was denied tho opportunity of communicating with Fort Sumter. Wd know what fol nwci.1. Tho expedition started frora New York, and immediately the secession batteries op-ned upon For Sumter, which, in its almoU defenceless condition, wus compelled to surron- der. This account, which is ooiUiifl plnUst bic and consistent, will, if ft turns oitt lit bo correct, son e to explain the apparorft change of policy nn til part of the AdJ miniir.itioi with icldeuc: It theevacu-
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