New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-31

No thhe COuld get no eaIt or prOyif-
ions n or cotton out the people would come TO their
senses, ana would rise and put down or hang those
who bad brought this calamity upon them This would
not be coercion, but leaving them the enjoyment of
Their Original Sovereignty"
But there is internal element that at this moment
threatens our destruction. A negro iaSurrccton is
cTpecfed at Christmas! Two white men and several
negroes were hung the other day, and they said that
general rting was to take place all through those
States on Christmas, and the whoe country is turning
7'0te IN tc0r. Ercry torn and plantation is under
patrol night end day. My family are frightened
ont OF their wits. Human life is Of but little value
bere, and 10 one feels safe for a moment. There is
also plot laid to put both Lincoln and Hamln out of
tie way before the 4th of March. Tbs y04 may rey
upon. All this is the fruits of denag 5glisw. The
people are boreet and wish TO do right and voad do
night but they blinded to the truth and follow the
teachings of their leaders, and God Only Eaows what
will be The end. If escape alive l will We you
again. In sorrow am yours, &c,
Alabama Correspondent Cincinnati s-etts.
INCREASE IN TAXES.
The Legislature of Georgia has been in session
eral weeks, putting the State on q war footing, and
the result is the taxes increased so per cent-a
pleasant prospect at the very moment that all the
operations Of trade and business suspended, and
the people by thousands thrown out Of employment.
PROPOSED ATTACK UPON THE CAPITAL.
1t seems that MessGs Lincoln and Hamlin have both
received anonymous letters threatening violent oppos
ton 70 their Inauguration on the 9TH of March, and
Tie Richmond Enquirer very coolly proposes for the
States Of Virginia and Mary land 10 secede and pre-
pare force 10 capture the capital OF tho United States
and not suffer Lincoln to be inaugrated Is any one
30 foolish TO forget that object in locating the
CAP ital of the United States at Washington was that
tie land, being ceded to the United States, and
rounded with States supposed TO be particularly favor
able TO moderation and the Union and central 10 all
parts the Government would be able TO protect itself
from mobs and molestatons Of whatever character.
II there Ii the slightest danger OF disturbances at
Washington, the ultimate result will be, and before
any very distant day, the removal OF the set of Gov
errment. The people of Washington will find, indeed
they well know, that all disturbances of the public
tranquility must pull down the value of real estate
NOE RAP idly than any other But in Washing
ton any such liability would simply lead to the trans
fer Of the capital to place of UNREASONABLE
CURLY. AT this time everything betokens the aug
meDtation OF the power Of the West IL is the West
that will settle this secession controversy. For years
the center of population has been gravitating in thin
direction further and further, and there is doubt
that any such iucendiary attempts as have been in
dcated, would, in the first place, bring down hosts of
armed men from the whole Of the northwest, whose
revenge would lay waste Virginia should they prove
they must, from the sheer force of numbers
eventually successful In the meantime and in case of
any reverse, instant attempts would be made to re-
move the seat Of Government westward.
Tbs would be obvious result, and although most
disastrous to the unity of the country, its immediate
effects would be to render Washington itself, with all
its magnificent public buildings, waste bowling will
derness AS for its becoming the capital OF Southern
Republic, even supposing secession success
fully accomplished and suppcsing 1t to embrace the
whole OF the Slave States that would be impossible
and absurd Situated 80 close 10 the borders of Penn
sylvaa and of the Free States, how long would it be
befoIe dozen John Browns woald capture it, ii the
capital Of a Southern Republic
Tie removal Of the seat OF Government from old
Rome 10 Lew COnstannople resulted in the ultimate
division Of the Empire into Eastern and Western. A
removal of the Capitol from Washington westward
might he attended with similar results eventually aud
therefore, it ought to be opposed and all causes tend
ing TO such result. Nothing will ever do it but the
Qf lratu
pence and ConstitutiCn.- Phil Ledger, Dec. y.
CONFLICT OF TUNES.
AT the fair in Odd Fellows Hail. Newt rlcans on
Friday night the town being quite alive with the
CessOn excitement and the unfuring of the Pelican
flag during the day the orchestra commenced playing
Yankee Doodle" The tune was Kissed by numerous
persons present. while Others drowned their Kisses with
their shouts of approval The excitement great.
The orchestra then played the "Marsellaise' The
hisers and the shouters now snapped positions, and
made more uproar than before. Nothing more disa-
greea6le than this took place. 4 gentleman who was
present informs that the ladies took sides as we'll rs
The men, and clapped their hands and Kissed in oppo-
sion to each other, while the two tunes were being
fi,s-A -
ONE OF THE TOWNS RESISTING ALREADY.
Wheeling grows uneasy at the bare idea of Virginia
seeding. THE IaLeligeRcer Of that city says:
"1he effect would be to depopuate Western Virginia
of Der best and most enterprizing citizens The popu.
ation Of this city in the next decade would retrograde
oHe.tLird. Make us foreign city to Ohio and Penn
syyania, and grass will grow in every street in hi
city next Summer. We VIII Sink, sink, and snk,
til we become a sort of old, dull moneyless Mexican
town that subssts by catching copper once in while
from a traveller, and eking miserable little trade
with tie country Immediately about it. This will be
condition And it will be that OF every town and
hamlet in Western Virginia.
THREATENED FAMINE ~ THE SOUTH.
A Kentucky letter TO The PhiiqdeLPbn Press says:
In the meanwhile starvation thro ghout the South
ern cities starvation in Alabama, starvation in South
Carolina starvation in Mississippi, and even starvation
in Kentucky is threatened Us almost in the neigh
boihood of The residence of the NcsPresdent himself
have in my hand letter from Democrat living in
Lexington, who says a" Times 81 hard here that
/ am compelled to economic so "a to live. We have
held on here until patience Is entirely exhausted, and
now we see no other alternative but secession. The
cry that cotton is king is well enough, but cotton
cannot buy bacon aud grain TO feed the slaves. This
must be procured with bullion, with gold and silver
and while England will undoubtedly send forward her
specie in order TO procure her supply of cotton, this
specie must 70 to the Western cities aud States to save
Tie Southern cities and States from the dirful eatas-
trorle of famine. What comment, this painful fact,
up6n tie favorite theory of establishing nonntercourse
laws between the North and the South and OF taxing
thoe States which are supposed to have passed Per-
soual Liberty bills!