, 1860-12-28
EXCITEMENT AT PITTSBURGH.
Attempt Of the Government to Supply
tho SeCeS4ionist1.

l
/ (From tbs Pittsburgh, Gazette. 2sth.J
| The heart Of this people was stirred to thc
u;inoet Indignation, yesterday. upon learning
| tifat Secretary Floyd. of the War Department,
hul ordered most Of the cannon at the u. S.
! Arsenal, here, to the extent Of 100 or more, to
b: shipped to New Orleans md Galveston.
Tho people could hardly believes 70 nstouudin.
/! 'i!:n-d tho report. There Is nn doubt Of ils
truth. There is tho utmost activity Mt the Ar
| stnal; md the steamboat Silver Wave, VIC
| itsf1l, 'has been chartered TO convey tho guns
| rom hence tn their Southern destination.
/ Wc hear, also, that large quantities of the
s!sall aims At the Arsenal have also been ship
! p.d South, lately, !,y r,lruad-
! These factsgo to ehow ,nclusivcly tic tTca-
I sonable ruEpore Of this administration. Every
Northern Arsenal has been stripped Of arms
AID ordnance, and every Southern Arsenal
| c'a1n'ned full, and left III eucl i condition Is
/. IL give the SeccssioDists 4 chance to capturu
! them, aud SO provide themselves thoroughly
with the Announcements OF war. at the expense
/ III the Government ILe one hundred and
/! old cannon to bc stnt from here to Ship Island
| and Galveston arc, without doubt, to be
+! placed wlere they can be captured without
I: blow.
While the tr:4itors Of the South are thus
/; being furnished ly a government in league
!. with tn m with oil the munitions Of war, the
| North and Northwest is lett without arms, tx
c. Pt such a5 individual citizens may 1,ossess.
| Should war bryak out, the North will thus be,
Fur the time, lcienct less and it Is undoubted-
| y thn purpose If the Government to put thu
+; two sections In just that rosition-the South
i a3undantly supplied, the Sor.h unar1ned.
| Against this a:rocity, what shall VT opposee
! In the temper uf tho people, yesterday, 1sle+e
! arms could not haze been taken through our
streets by h: G. veEnmt1.t, and VIC shall mar
+; .Hl lnufis it their indignation does not grow
.;%,1, FT
/ ton 10 bc decided is: Shall they tame1y stand
!: hy aud sec the treason co., animated before
j; their eyes? We counsel No ri0lcuce; the
J! temptation is strong, and hard to be resisted: :
!! iat let the people be calm and cuutIulss and
/; 1T them come together at the 1irst opTo7ttp:
+; moment, a:'d dettr1n'ns what they VIII 10.
! The Government has 10000 etaud of ar1us in
! t:lIat1ceton, III the laEhs uf volunteer roru-
i'atr, which it dare not touch uur attempt IL
call it, own and We know there ID not South
crn tity from which these cannon cOula bc re-
moved by 1t. 1t rem1fns to he seen whether
onr people will prove 'norc f"7:,caring.
I T. P.S.-We have inst learned BY Information
/: direct from the Areeual, That the ordcr Of the
+; Secretary Of War Is to move 1l Su:le-.S to
+, Galveston and 4G to Ship Island. Vic lc:rn.
1:so. tina, all the small arms have been *Eiltptd
T, Sonth but 10000.
Lcttl,c people assemble to-t1ay or tc. morrow,
I; ;'ad utter their emphatic No! 10 thu order Of
/ The Secretary of War.
! I'd T, S.-'Fc hear that the Government,
:i;ar1neG ut t!.c public feeling, will attemp! to
!, remove the guns today.
! 4 call UPON the Mayor to sscmh1c the citi-
':clls in public meeting, signed hy Jndgc Sha-
: 1.r, Judge Shannon, Judge Wilkins. and otl,t-
7: leading Democrats, w.L- in circulation Last
F: ni.ht, and was llrI3:ly signed. Thc meeting
+. will probably assemble to-nnurEow.
| From The Philadelphia rrcss, =lst.]
| The Southern politicians, having s s>ized pos
session Of the Southern Legislatures, have, for
!! more t'mn year Issf, been preparing. Tor the
PRESENT state Of things, and i'll this they have
! hecn assisted by The present Administration.
! Enormous quantities If arms ltasc b,en fur.
ni=hcl 10 fi:c diff rent United S:ates areclials
/; in the leading Southern ctics, seventy thuu-
!: nand stand ;l0ne being at th: time fu the pos
session Of the Charleston 1nob. One hundred
and ti!ty thousand are concentrated at Au:su%-
III, Gcorsa. and an equal proportion. no 1uns,t,
At Mobile ard New Orleans. Wien ,hestar
population IT nsoet Of tie Southern citi"s 10
considered, the vote of Charleston ut the }.tc
!. election Tor members Of the Convcntinn when
the excitement preEa'lin. called unt tu;1 pull,
EtinT only .s2D, il j. t,is!rIt that the Admir-
ietrtion loukc1 forward 10 his state q: hings,
/; and placed arms and ammunition al tac iis-
}n,-At oil 1lc Uisuu;o:lis,, in order That til. If
, hired troo!s nil 2ht have thr Ni7;cr:al with
which lo rcs:st tic authority ot Tic Federal
. Government. Guy. Wise has announced, that
Az LIE chElst y! tuEICiolss lsIl!Itb MQE!tE AHtl
i l!le United Statcs Arn1ufy ut 1inrpet'5 Ferry
(: will be captured and held Tor the purposc vi
; ";'l'osius tic i"rccr Of 1he upiled S.a:c-.
! Tho Voice Of Reason.
! Hon. JOHN 4. Giluler, of North Carolina, III
It recent lettc. to Dr. Conycrs, Of CosinStou
!: Georgia, says:
i Whenever it is reasonably settled, that our
: +,onor can no longcr he maintained a,.si our
rights i,u logger H. safe iu the Cniuu, Lave
too tnuch confidence in the spirit sud c.,lIa:.t
or our Southern people, IL doubt their uui,cI
ltc!g. a,:d att;un IL ll,a:otain anil preserve
lhc:u uut tt it. When Wt have rxi!:iusits-ail
reasonable and },iE for uur constitution
III rights III the unlrl, ult!ayc failed, do liot
i!.Ei-l that VIC tlould be tt;c:rrd from i SCI
:lratOIl from tho 1rcc S.Atff, because thereby
We luse Ill the sy1rl'a'nes W. ,uw haze with
thc conservative millions III sLe free Stats,
:lli l,akc Them li to Us alien G:rgsuniaIl-!tip-
otiun cnciuic>, 1tc< lr.a I'LL liz: rcs;r:;i..ls
:;'uw.ny ont Of community ol Interest, laws
::nd Constitution. Dl; tl,is consideration, will,
1le probabilities OF ,.4lny l'luody battles Will,
the millions Of the -S..law: It, sc;,lcd Oh the
trihutaric ics Of the N:e' ir.':Ii, growing out oil
the navigation Vi tia: re-: tiytr. runnit.,,
frr:a the extreme North :.,i.,,:,:l and 1u The
extreme South; aud lit rcce-sily : u; increased
ilt:.'.s to meet lruuliS as::! successfully thu
| multiplied friends oi John Brown, IhunIu in
tlace US to wr:gh carefully the cau,cs Tor Il hcll
; VIZ 50 separsttc and t, bc certain that iheS are
satisfactory, now aud III the future, 1t least to
the l.aa>scs in The slave:.blciHg Sta:s:.
Al tic risk uf much criticism, venture to
, express the hope tllat fou,c calm, lirtl aud
I wrllcous:drreu line VI policy may yet be de
yslopcd by wi-cr he,2s, which may save III.
Gllon, nnu sccurc the constitutional tG:uaiit.
Ut tlir slave States therein.
| The eyes Of the South arc now auX:ousl1
tnsued 10 Georgia, the Empire S.atc Ut III.
! South. We trust thas her citizens in ever,
! nsiyhhorAood at this peyilous time, will Gives:
themselves Of a!l pa*eiun calmly coa.cr, AM
give lis at once the summing If wise conclu
sens.
Robert H. Smith, ESP, nominated rs DELE
gate to tho Alabama State Convention, ..e
c!iucs the honor in letter to Hon. Joh, For
syth mud othcns, from which letter We take til
following:
Should Alabama 60 ont Of the Union alone
aud en remain out for one month, She Mus:
80 long, solely bear tho burdens OF nntiona
cxissenc"; must raise and Sustain luili,ar,
t tuEce; must Increase her police expensts
| nult 10 sonnet ing tur the regulation tl con-
| 1ntrcc; 1aust prop, ns hest she can, !, 1erAngct
currency Must regulate md liz 1lr value y
coin aud Of weights and measures. and mus
provide some postal arrangement for the lcu
ilc; aud ehc must raise the money for these
cuds.
The experiment fer one short month would
l srl fcariul, so oprrcas our people aa Ia giy
the cause = serious drawback, aud dav by tia
incline the public to submit to present evils
Beside these and many mtre ills, that canuo
! ruun,erate i'll one short letter, We shall iuau
/ r1;r:'te a condition Of successive Ch:n.c~ u
government that will find u parallel iu tic :. =
! olution Of Mexico. No 0nr, suppose. vii
: expect Alabal1ln to remain separate ratiQII