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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25
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AmOug the items of news from
Charleston floating around loose IN
secession circles here, is a story that
the Honorable Vim. Aiken has been
made TO "disgorge in aid of the cause
much against his will, as follows -
lie was notified that he was expected
to advance forty thousand dollars to
that end, and plead his right to ad-
vance or not, as he might please ad-
ding that he did not have the money.
He was then promptly notified that he
had been assessed that amount and
must promptly pay it, under the PEN
atty of having it raised by the imme-
diate con6scation and sale efhis prop
efty in Charleston, worth many times
as much. To save that from utter
destruction, he did raise the amount
demanded. and in paying it remarked
that his lot wonld be better if he was
journeyman carpenter at the North
showing a jack plane at 81 per day
wages, than the South Carolina mil
honaire he was before it was essayed
to reduce the South under a military
despotism. He is now '.one of the
suspected" his course in refusing to
seem to be pleased with paying the
forced loan having earned him the
dangerous reputation of being disaf
fected to the eause.- Washington Star
Jan. Is. sd uss gaEat
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25
The VIRGINIA state Convention.

The Legislature of Virginia has prescribed
the call cf a Convention, the people being in
structed to signify in voting for delegates
whether they want the action of the Conven-
tion referred back to them. The Richmond
enquirer, the Secession organ, suys Of the re-
ference clause:
at meets our unqualified disapproval. We
believe that, if unamended, at the polls it will
be full of danger--the danger of inducing the
delerates set to work with trammeled hands,
to resort to desperate expedients in order to
obtain State action at all--the danger of "pre-
cfpitating" revolution an our midst and clvH
1ear among the citizens Of Virginia themselves
finally the last, worst danger of all, that of
disgrace to the State, by delaying action at
the very moment when prompt action can a.
lone vindicate her honor and assure her safe
ty."
The danger of civil war in Virginia thus
threatened-is the danger that the Minute Men
and knights of the Golden Circle will attempt
to coerce the people into revolution if they do
not go willingly.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

The latest intelligence from Washington
gives no satisfactory information as to the
present position or designs Of the Adninistra-
ton in regard to secession movements. One
thing however is certain, that is, no decisive
steps have yet been taken to reclaim the pub
lie property and vindicate the honor of the
flag of the country and there are no reliable
indications that any preparations are making
with view to such action, though there arc
occasional rumors that something of the kind
is contemplated. One dayss reports repre-
sent the President as firm in his determine
ton to discharge his duty in enforcing the
laws the next represents him as wavering
and uttering sentiments calculated to encour-
age the plotters of treason. Actions speak
louder than professions, and until his policy is
developed by acts the publiciwil probably have
no further light than they possess at present
upon which to form an opinion. The present
construction Of the Cabinet, and the evident
confidence reposed by the Administration in
that true friend of the Union, Gen. Scott, are
indications warranting the hope that all will
come out right in the end.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

4 lad connected with Company E., Sec
ond Artillery, in letter to sister in New
York, dated january 2. gives full account
Of the march Of his company under orders,
from Fort LcaYcnworth, in Kansas to Fort
Smith, and thence by q forced march Of four
hundred miles in nineteen days 10 Augusta
Ca, where he is still in garrison, and from
where he writes. A portion Of this letter we
find of public interest. He says:
ave have very good quarters, but very
hard duty every third day on guard and two
nights in bed. There is great excitement
here in consequence Of the election Of Lincoln.
We have issued to US iortj sround of rife ball
cartridge and over 10000 rounds of gangrene
gFspe canister, round Nod tin case shot, so. if
the citizens of Georgia should think of taking
the. Arsenal, think they~wiIl have q hard
time of~it. for We have two IL pound howit-
zers, aud two pound carrouades II is
glorious sight to see our little garrison enter
a saly-port, the grinning muzzle of howit-
zer staring you in the face and in the centre
of the parade, timber boxes, caSsion and am
munition wagons. So we are ready at any
moment when the tocsin sounds the dread
alarm of war. We are expecting the Min
ute Men to attack us every moment, but if
they do come, good many will never go
back, for there will be desperate struggle
before the garrison win surrender we are go
ing to dig trenches outside the garrison the
citizens are forming in companies of Minute
Men, and are getting arms and ammunition.
l hope when Lincoln takes his seat that he
will send about 10000 troops into South
tha TTpfo
They have a rumor started in town that they
will attack the garrison on Monday next; SO
good bye"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

The Democracy of Ohio. in pursuance Of a
call Of the Chairman Of the State Central
Committee, met in Convention at Co
lumbusa on Tuesday, for the purpose Of
considering the present condition of the coun-
try. Rasolutions were adopted avOwing idel-
ity to tbe Union, the Constitution aud the
Iaws-szpressing willingness to accept as
basis for the settlement Of existing difficulties
the Crittenden, Douglas, Bigler, or the Bor-
der State propositions, but declaring it as the
opinion of the Convention that ''the quest ions
that disturb the country are of such charac-
ter and have existed for so long a period that
the time has arrived for calling a National
Convention in accordance with the manner
pointed out in the ffth article Of the Constl-
tuition Of the United States-aBd calling up
on our Legislature to take the action neeessa-
~ to secure the assent of Ohio to the call fHr
such Convention. The FIFTH and last resolu-
ton of the series, which was so ambiguous as tc
be somewhat difficult OF comprehension, gave
rise to considerable discussion, and after hay
ing been revised and rendered more explicit
was adopted in the following form:
Resolued, That the two hundred thousand
Democrats of Ohio send to the people Of the
United States, both North and South, greet
ing and when the people of the North shall
have fulfilled their duties to the Constitution
and the South then, and not till then, will
it be proper for them to take into considera
tien the questions Of the right ard propriety
of coercion.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

One Of the most notable instances on re-
cord of large promises with small perform
ance, is that of Maj. Bosworth, late in CON-
mand of Fort Pike, Louisiana. On the 5th
Jan lie wrote letter iu view of threatened
hostile demonstrations against the fort, in
which he avowed his determination to defend
it while a man remained to apply match to
the guns or spring mine !" and as a last re-
sort declaring he "would blow up the fort and
perish with the star spangled banner in its
ruins" trusting to posterity to do his memory
Justice. This was decidedly brave talk, and
action to correspond when the occasion for it
arrived, would of course be expected. On the
9th an expedition set out from New Orleans
to take the fort. They arrived about 4
o'clock in the morning, and found Maj. .Bos-
worth up and apparently expecting them
The manner in which he defended his position
and made good the threats contained in his
letter written four days before, may be infer
red from the following account of the result
of the expedition: Capt. Clark, the officer
in charge of the expedition, demanded the
surrender of the fort in the name Of the State
of Louisiana. Major Bosworth asked on
what authority, and on being certified that it
was by order of the Governor, he ordered the
gates to be opened, and thus simply Louisiana
has become possessed of what cost the Gov.
ernment $65O,0OO."
This and similar instances of surrender in
cases where forts and arsenals that have been
taken by the secessionists were garrisoned
would seem to indicate that those in command
of them acted IN accordance with Instructions
for it seems almost incredible that they should
surrender withouat any show OF resistance es
pecialIy in view Of the consideration that thu
secessionists if opposed would not probably
have dared to inaugurate civil war by an at
tack on Federal troops while defending the
government forts and arsenaIs they were
bound to guard and protect.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

AT the conclusion of his speech in the Sen
ate, yesterday, Mr.. Hunter of Virginia was
asked by Mr.. Baker Of Oregon whether, if a
constitutional majority of both Houses of
Congress should pass amendments to the Con-
stitution such as would meet the views Of
Southern Senators, he (Mr. Hunter) wonld
support the Government, the Constitution, and
the laws, until the people could decide upon
accepting or rejecting such amendments p
Mr.. Hunter replied THAT is a question /
cannot answer. | am not authorized to an
swer for Virginia" On being reminded by
Mr. Baker that he had not been asked about
Virginia, but about his own readiness to sup
port the Government and the laws, Mr.. Hun
ter declined to reply. saying, "If the gentle
man is not tatisfed, cannot satisfy him. =
The evasion on the part Of the Virginia Sen
ator strikingly illustrates the spirit that now
governs the shareholders. They are determin-
ed on rebellion, and no concessions, not even
amendments to the Constitution dictated by
themselves, will satisfy them What is the
use Of talking about compromises with such
traitors ? N. Y. Tribune.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25
Gov . DennisOn.

Our readers will probably remember that
the inaugural address of Gov. Dennison, year
ago, was good deal sneered at because it was
said that be went ont Of his way to foreshadow
events which nobody believed would ever take
place Ho spoke of "Ieagne" whose nmif-
cations penetrated all the slave States, and
which contemplated reb,iiious action. But
the plan was to leave the border States in the
Union for time to prevent the invasion of a
northern force, while the gulf States seeded
an formed southern, sIave-h"ld ng gIy-
crnmrnt The Governor was good deal a
bused for this BLACK Republican" idea, bnt
now it has become history ana makes him il
prophet.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25
Rovoltiug Assassination IN Kentucky.
Three Persons Murdered in Gold Blood.

Rovoltiug Assassination IN Kentucky.
Three Persons Murdered in Gold Blood.
From the Louisville papers of Wednesday
we learu The particulars of three horrible muir
drrs perpetratcd in the vicinity Of that city,
Monday night, which are scarcely paralleled
in the history of the Dark AID Bloody
Ground" The Journal says:
Three persons, Jesse, William and Russell
Hil were assassinated at their homes, in the
vicinity OF Lost Island six or seven miles from
this city, on Monday night last. The assas-
sins, supposed to have been five or six in num-
Der, committed the first deed Of murder ut the
residence of VIM. Hill, the first attack having
been made upon jesse Hill, whose body wal
literally riddlcd with bullets; and to make the
assurance Of the murder doubly sure, the corpse
was horribly cut and muiilated with knife.
An attack was then made upon VIM. Hill,
who was in bed at the time with an iIaEald
wife, and he, too was mcrciIessly murdered at
his wilcs side. The party then repaired to the
residence of Russell Hill, in the same vicinity,
and succeeded, after consfdera bic rrfau oeuvcr-
ing, in getting him into their power. and he,
too, was sacrificed TO the rapaciOus appetite
for blood. VIM. Hill was thirty-three years
! of age, and left family; Russell Hill, broth
er Of VIM. Hill was about twenty-five years
of age, and also left a wife and child Jesse
Hill, the first victim, was single man, about
twenty-five years old, and cousin to William
and Russell HILL
1t is generally known that feud has exist
ed for some time between the Hills and GER
tain other persons in the neighborhood and
that there had been more than one hostile
meeting recently between the parties. It is
presumed that the terrible tradegy of Monday
night is the sequeal to former troubles, and in
dividuals connected with the recent affrays in
the vicinity are supposed to have been active
participants in the horrid tragedy detailed a
bove Last evening Jefferson Rogers and
Hercules Walker, the latter a city policeman,
were taken into custody, on the charge of com
plicity in the murders. Others are implicat-
ed in the affair, and will no doubt be arrested
Many of our readers will remember that
occurrences of similar character took place
in Garrard county, KY, about eight years ago,
between the Hill and Evans families, in which
the latter family was very nearly, if not quite,
exterminated. We are informed that the vic
tins to the assassination OF Monday night
were of the same family Of Hills who were
rendered so famous in the warfare against the
Evanscs, in Garrard county.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

bGFlorida may be put down as the
first seeding State to seize a man-of-
war. The e. s. Steamer Fulton is
in her hands. The Crusader. had left,
and the Wyandottc was also, ! be
licve, out of harms way. It would
fake more time, and cost more money,
70 reit the Fulton, whose miraculous
escape from destruction off the coast
Will be remembered by all, than she
would be worth. The marines, sail
ors, and artillery soldiers, at Pensaco-
la, have telegraphed for instructions
and it is supposed that they will 60
to Washington.
Commodore Armstrong ought to
be a Union man. He was born in
Kentucky, appointed from Mississippi
and is citizen of massachusetts,
Watson is Columbian. So the end
Of this affair is, that Pensacola and
Barrancos are gone, and that the
South has stolen the first of its navy
= Washington Letter.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25
DeLaiuare Wazeffe.
a. rH oMsoM. Edltor.



Washington letter writer's continue to speak
of the prevalence of reports that the seces-
sionists will attempt to seize and hold pos
session of that city on or before the 4th of
March. Gen. Scott, who is intrusted with
the defence of the Capital and what military
arrangements are necessary in connection with
the Inauguration, is taking every possible
precaution TO head OF the traitors, and should
they attempt to carry out that part of their
programme they viii find it a very serious IN
dertaking. Gen. 5. has intimated his inten-
ton TO prohibit the attendance at the inaugu-
rntion of armed forces from abroad, except of
course such U. s. troops as he may deem ne
cessary for the peace and safety of the city.
It is strongly suspected that some of the
volunteer companies raised in the city
are in the interest of the secessionists, and
they will require some attention. The ser
vices Of two thousand young men from
| Baltimore have been rendered to preserve the
peace of the city, but it is not likely they will
be called upon unless occasion should make it
necessary. The arrangements made and max
ing to prevent the success OF a demonstration
such as is threatened will probably deter the
conspirators from undertaking it, but that it
formed prominent feature of their original
plan of action and that considerable prepara-
ton has been made to carry it out, there is no
room for doubt. During his inhammatory
barrangue in the House last week, Pryor, oi
Va, alluding to the few .. S. troops eOncen-
trated in the city and neighborhood, called
them "mereenaries" brought there "for tht
purpose of inaugural inga Presidentin in blood
OF course there can be no blood shed unless
himself or other desperate secessionists occa
sion it by attempts to execute their oft re
Peated threats of violence.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

The New York Independent says !:
The four principal savings banks of
this city have deposits amounting to
$33, ,294 ,995-an increase of nearly
eleven millions since the beginning of
1858. Other sat'ings-institutions in
the city hold nearly ten millions more.
The sayings-banks Of Massachusetts
have in hand 45,054, 235-an increase
Of eleven millions III two, years.
Nearly all of these immense amounts
are made up literally Of the Savings
of the white slaves of our factories,
and the laboring population of our
large towns.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

Georgia, the largest and by far the most
powerful and prosperous of the cotton States,
following the example Of South Carolina,
Florida, Mississippi and Alabama. has by a
vote of her State Convention resolved herself
out of the Union. About one-third of the
members of the Convention voted against the
ordinance Of secession, bnt after its passage
most of them, including A. H. stephens and
H. V. johnson, attached their signatures
having previously avowed their determination
to acquiesce in the final action of the Con
vention whatever it might be. Like the 9th
er seeding States, Georgia has decided SO far
to recognize the authority of the U. S. Gov
ernment within her territory as to accept
mail facilities at her hands.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

There has been fugitive slave case on the
tapis at Cleveland the present week, causing
considerable excitement. The claimant resides
in Wheeling, Va, and the fugitive, girl, ad-
mits being his slave. The final decision was
to have bren rendered yesterday, and there
seemed to be no doubt of her being remanded
to the custody of the owner. Thus the gen
tlemen in the South who profess regard for "thC
Union, the Constitution and the enforcement
of the laws" while their practices belle theiI
professions, will discover that even the odiou'
fugitive slave law is enforced on the Western
Reserve where they insist nothing but vile and
IawIess AboiitiOnists reside.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

In Boston on the 9th inst, Miss
Mary p. Townsend, a daughter of DR..
Townsend, died at her residence in
Hawkins street, where she was born,
and had lived for sixtyrfive years.
She was reputed to be worth 100000
YET she was never known to minglc
in society, or to receive any of her rel
atives at her house since the death of
her sister, who also preferred a single
life to married one. The only at
tendant which was permitted in the
house was a woman, Since the death
of the doctor, the carriage house has
remained closed, with carriage and
harness just as he left them, and no
one was allowed to enter it. When
Miss Townsend was frst taken i'll, she
was advised to consult a physician,
but she refused, and continued obdu-
rate to the last. Neither would she
allow a single person. in, her room
while sick and dying, except; her 70
male servant. lake her sister, she is
supposed to have left all her wealth
for charitable purposes
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

LOUISIANA is not out of the Union, and
don't pretend to be. Yet we find the New
Orleans papers publishing, as coolly as it there
Was nothing rmarkable in the faci, an invcnto-
ry of the spoils Of war seized by the State
tronps at Baton Rouge arsenal. There was
stolen at that place. by order Of the Governor
of Louisiana, fifty Thousand stand of small
arms four howitzers, twenty heavy pcces oi
ordnance three hundred barrels Of gunpow-
der, two field batteries, and large amount 4
fixed ammunition. This was simply an act oi
robbery. According to the laws of the Uni
ted States every man engaged in it should
suffer death. Yet there is not II newspa-
per published in New Orleans that has the
cournge to object to this astounding proceed
ing.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

Hon. II. S. LANE. recently elected Governor
of Indiana, has been chosen U. S. Senator by
the Legislature of that State to succeed Fitch
whose term of service expires on the 4th oi
March next, at which time also Pugh of Ohio
and Bigler of Pennsylvania, will retire to
give place to Republican succcssors-leaving
from the free States only the following Demo-
cratic Senators: Gwinn and Latham of Cali
fornia, Nesmith of Oregon. Douglas of ILL
nois, Bright of Indiana, Rice of Minnesota,
and Thomson of New Jersey.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25


The failure of Maj. Anderson to open FIRE
upon the South Caralina batteries that at
tackled the Star of the West, has been the
subject of much comment, and upon the sup
position that be was aware of the approach
of the steamer and Of the nature of her mis-
sion, he has been considerably censured. The
latest and most reliable intelligence, however
seems to settle the point that he was not
informed as to her approach and object
while it is affirmed by those who were in the
fort at the time, that he at once opened the
portfolios and run out the guns bearing upon
Fort MouItrie and Morris Island, that the
gunners stood ready with lighted matches
awaiting the command to FIRE, and that
the turning about of the steamer at the mo-
ment she did alone prevented the commence
ment of a response to the FIRE of the rebels,
which, had it commenced and resulted in the
battering down of the forts in their posses
sion and even in the bombardment of Charles
ton, would have been justified by the public
rentiment not only of this country but of the
civilized world.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

BRowxLow ON ANDY JoHNsoN.-Parson
Brownow, through the Knoxville (Tenn)
Wing says:
We can tell the villiiers of johnson, on ac
count of his late speech in TIM Senate, if
they are ignorunt of the fact, that the people
of Tennessee are with him, and, by an over
whelmning majority, will sustain him in his
position. Nay, while the town meetings and
village cliques are uttering loud swelling
words of condemnation against him, the
real people Of Tennessee, irrespective of par
ties, are responding, "Well done good and
faithful servant !" And upon the Issues
raised in his speech, he can beat any Sc
cessionist in Tennessee of any party, in a
race for Governor, forty th housand votesI
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-25

Fort Pulaski, in Georgia, was seized at the sug,
gestion of Toombs, who telegraphed from
ashingtoA,a advising its capture. The State
not having seeded rendered the proceeding
doubly reasonable, and the act was disap-
proved of and denounced by most of the con-
servative men of the State, who by doing so
censured Foombs. By skilful manoeuver be
has managed to have his reasonable course
endorsed by unanimous vote of the Conv en-
tion. When the New York resolutions were
read in Convention be moved as an answer
the adoption Of resolutions approving the
seizure Of fort Pulaski by the State authori-
ties, and under the excitement of the mo-
ment they were adopted by unanimous vote.