Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-28

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S. G. be authorized and required to take
Immediate possession Of Forts Mou!trie
aud Sumpter.. when be was Informed
that a motion for secret session had the
precedence-and the Convention went into
secret session.
MORE CRIME.-Tle le National Treasury
has been robbed of a sum, estimated be-
tween 100000 and $4,000, 600. They
were securities for Indian payments. \
South Carolinian, named Bailey, gave them
to one of the notorious Kansas and Utah
contractors, MYjor., Russell & Waddell,
who used them in their speeulations, prom
ising to replace them. John B. Floyd,
Secretary at War, is badly implicated in
the transaction. Bailey aud Russell are
under arrest, and it is hoped the securi-
ties may (some or alp be identified aud
recovered. 1t looks to many as an attempt
10 rob the Treasury outright, as we'll as to
dissolve the Union.
Jacob Thompson, Secretary Of the It.
terror, recently left his post to 60 to North
Carolina and preach Disunion as the Agent
Of Mississippi. Why does not Buchanan
turn cut and punish such traitors, instead
Of calling upon honest people to pray for
them "put your shoulders to the wheel.
aud not call upon Jove," was a fable Of
old, applicable to our weak President.
IG-We Sc, intimations of wide
Awakes," as such, attending the inaugu-
ration of Gov. Curtin and Pres. Lincoln.
We believe it is the custom-and very
proper custom, too-when the contest is
decided, to inaugurate those officers as
representatives, of the whole People, and
not of Party. We think it would tend
20 allay excitement and prejudice, and in-
crease the interest ard numbcr Of spec.a-
tors, to make them general and not par
tial obseryances. We doubt not Gov.
Packer would be as polite to bis successor,
as Gov. Pollock was to him.
UTFriday Of next week is the day recon-
mended by Pres. Buchanan for National HUI
initiation, Fasting and Prayer. The terms of
the request are unobjecJionable, and the
means TO seek the end desired proper al all
times. Bu; we do not see that those who are
creating the disturbance, and threatening the
Union, or aiiording laid and comfort to
them, pay any heed TO this advice. And the
thought must arise with all, that if the Presi-
dent had acted Justly with Kansas, had diScar-
ded the traitors 10 his country and 10 their
oalhs who he put and kept in posts of power
to do the mischief, or if he woud now man
fully perform his duty and protect the public
property, the danger would be averied.-The
5Sh chapter of Isaiah is worthy Of consulta-
ton in connection with the general subject
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Benz. L. Wade, of Ohio, Republican,
and Andrew Johnson, Of Tenn, Demo-
crat, have made speeches in the L. S.
Senate, against the Secessionists, full Of
the most powerful logic and patriotic de-
yotiou to the Union of our fathers. With
all its faults and d ficulties, it is better
than anarchy or a multiplicity Of little Da-
lions.
The Kansas Admission Bill is to be
taken up in Congress, Monday nezt.
The House passed Pacific Railroad
Bill, aud one or two small appropriations.
Gen. Scott expresses himself emphati-
cally in favor of preserving the Union, BY
defending the for,lfcations, aud by insu-
ring the Inauguration Of Lincoln, when be
will be ready, if necessary, to take COM
mand.
Some of the South Carolinians tore off
their cockades, in anger, when the Sece-
ders returned from fear of little small
pox, and FASTENED away to Charleston
from their Capital.
Postmaster General Holt has adopted a
short aud sensible policy toward the few
disuuiou pos'masters who propose to re-
sign their Offices. He informs them that
if they name successors who will give the
usual securities to the Department, they
will be accepted, and business permitted to
90 on as Before. Otherwise, the Offices
will be discontinued.
Of7Sl patriotic, fire-eating South Car,
olinians drawing money from the United
States, only nine have resignei-and these
only take effect at the expi
ration Of Buchanan term.
The Georgia Senate vo,ed-56 to Oh
oystast separate secession.