Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-02-21
81 rer annHm In adIance---slsO Of end of six
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LATEST NEWS.

The inaugural address OF Jefferson Da-
Wis as the President Of the new Coufeder-
acy was delivered at Montgomery, Ala
bsma, on Monday 1t contains few or no
new points; and consists chiefly of an in
genious defence Of the manifest absurdity
Of legal right Of secession under the
Constitution, and Of IN appeal to the pow
er Of King Cotton to shield the Gulf
Statcs from the antag0nism Of the North
ern States, and to win friendly alliances
with the commercial countries Of Europe.
The whole Secession movement is referred
70 in such calm and quiet manner that
reader unacquainted with its nature would
suppose it was one Of the most lamb,llke
and pe2ceablc political changes ever made,
and not a desperate revolution.1
Jefferson Davis threatens, in his Mont
gonory speech, to use Southern steclagainst
the Federal Government We thought
that the stealing propensities Of the chiv-
airy had been exhausted in the seizure of
United States revenue cutters. forts, mon
ey, &c, but il seems that the President Of
the new Coafederacy has some more big
lifts in contemplation.
1t appears from the investigation Of the
House Military Committee that ex-Secre-
l.ry Floyd accepted A. r. Bslknap's bid
Tor hundred thousand muskcts, but that
Secretary Holt refuses to recognize the con-
tract. Mr.. Belknap says they were intend
ed for the Sandman Government. 1t is
further shown that Floyd distributed, with
out any order, through the Engineer De
partmcnt, sixty five thousand percussion
muskets, forty thousand altered mu. kets,
and ten thousand rifles, among the arsenals
at Charleston, Augusta, Mount Vernon,
Baton Rouge, and iu North Carolina
With the exception Of those for the last
named place, the arms fell into the posses
siou Of South Carolina, Alabama, Louis
iana and Georgia by their secession move
nent.
The Missouri election has resulted in IA
vor Of the Unionists probably. In St.
Louis the vote shows majority of over
FIVE thousand against the Seccssionsts
Extraordinary efforts have been made to
swerve the people from their allegiance to
the Federal Government, but it is to be
hoped that they have failed.
From itHSdcoia.-We have some re-
cent news, as late as the Tth instant, from
Pensacola. Everything was being made
ready for action, and the Colonel gave or
ders to prevent any rcinforccments, and to
stop any vessel coming in, unless ander d
flag oY truce, The orders brought for
Lieutenant Slemmer by Lieutenant Put
nam were to be prepared for defence, and
not to FIRE until attacked, aud then to CO.
operate with such vessels as may be near
The fighting must come from the side Of
the rebels first, or there will be none.
The Home Squadron at Ptnsacola-
At the mouth Of Pensacola Harbor, on the
9th inst, appeared the Macedonian, Sa-
blue, Brooklyn, St, Louis, and the Pow
hatan. The Wyandotte went up to the
city. On the 9th inst. the Pioneer Guards,
tom Alabama, numbering seventy men,
arrived. 1t is said that FIVE thousand men
could not take Fort Pichcns. It IS sup
posed that it was reinforced in the night.
Lieutenant s,em.1cr admits no strangers
now
Aray Supplies IN Ar}tansas.-The I'll.
my supplies recently seized at Napoleon,
Arkansas, are worth between eight and nine
Thousand dollars, and consist Of one hun
dred and thirty boxes, containing small
arms aud ordnance stores destined for the
troops on the frontiers OF Texas and Ar
kansas, solely for protecting the whites
from Indian incuTsions. There are two
thousand regulars guarding line Of a
thousand miles, bat now there is no safe
route for renewal Of such supplies
The Cincinnati Commercial says during
"Old Abe's" stay in that city his physique
was freely discussed by the crowd, and
they were evidently disappointed in not
finding him as ugly as he had been repre-
sented. 1t seemed to be the general i'm
preston that he had used but not abused
his privilege in that respect.
The Legislature of New Mexico has
passed an act for the election of delegates
TO form State Constitution