East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-06-06
ITEMS,
I From the Louisville Journal May 2al

which, we are told, they are circulating
by thousands in the Southern portion o.
Kentucky. 1t is their intention to in
flame and exasperate the public mind IL
that section by scraping together all the
worst paragraphs that they can find IN
the incendiary sheets of the North. Yes
the Southern fire-eaters, holy fire-eater'
as well as prolane ones, are constantly
gathering ap all the Northern inhammablt
material to infuriate the South, and the
! Northern abolitionists are equally indus
trious in gathering up all the Southern
innammable material-to infuriatc the
! North. The Southern, incendiaries anC
the Northern incendianes, like pair O.
confederate black-legs, are playing al
the time into each others hands, winking
at each other over the table, and touch
ing each others toes under it, The in
cendiaries of the one section would, with
out the corresponding incendaries Of the
other, be mere hook without an eve, q
pen without an inkstand, cork without
a bottle, button without buttonhole
EE The Virginia State Convention
passed an ordinance defining treason
The ordinance declares: s.a.
That to say anything against the Gov
ernment of Virginia or the authorities
thereof, or against the Government oi
the Confederate States, or the authori.
ties thereof; or against the Government
Of any member of the Confederate States,
is trca son, and Of course punishable as
such 'ae"' ' '''-' '' ,- l4'
Such the atrocious tyranny under
which the disunionsts are willing to draw
their wretched breaths. The Constitution
Of the United States provides that no
spoken words shall be sufficient to con-
stitute treason, that only overt acts shall
be punishable as treason--only actual at
tempts to avert the Government or give
aid and comfort to its enemies; but the
Virginia secessionists, miserable little
despots that they are, have made provis,
ions to hang free-born citizens for the
utterance of word unfavorable to the
authorities of Virginia or the authorities
of any secceding State whatever. Men
who will voluntarily submit to such ty-
ranny are not worth the few feet of cord
age that would be required to strangle
them.
What say yc, o Kentuckians, to throw
ing off the Constitution of the United
States, the glorious old charter of free
dom, aud living un Ter an ordinance like
that of the Virginia Convention, keeping
perpetual watch and guard upon your
lips and tongues, lest, by the ntterance
of light alusion to the Governor or
some other functionary of kentucky or
the Governor or some other functionary
Of some other seeding State, you should
have all the breath, from which disre-
spectful words are coined, chokcd out oil
you by moose at the end Of a halter! d.
We have little doubt that the long
contemplated attack upon Fort Pickcns
will be made very soon. We expect il
this week. The fall of the Fort seems
to us inevitable. The batteries bearing
upon it extend along the shore for two
or three miles and consist of an immense
number of big guns and mortars of tre-
mendous power. Bomb-shells, those arti-
fetal thunderbolts, will probably explode
within the fortress during the battle at
the rate of thirty or forty per minute.
We can't understand the wisdom OF
the U. S. policy, in state of actual and
active war, of letting the enemy in all
cases choose the time Of, conflict. Why
didn't Picliens open upon Bragg's batter.
les with shot and she'll several weeks ago
instead ofwaitng for his position to be
strengthened by the completion of his
deienees! .yas4oir 1aJio Do iaso
EE-The Charleston Courier says that
we of Kentucky may yet find that we
have buried the dragons teeth. Ii we
havn't buried them, we intend to. 1t is
our settled purpose to bury the dragon
of disunionism, teeth and all.
The Richmond papers swear fercely
that all the adhercnts of Western Vir
ginia to the old Union are traitors and
must be promptly punished as such. -
We will try to let our readers know when
the hanging is to begin.
Some of our young fellows seem trying
to drown all thoughts of the hard times.
They get tighter than than the money
market,
~ secession paper charges the Uniou
men of Kentucky with being "underhand,
ed" Our friends arc not underhanded
at ali; they have the uppcr-hand, aud
they mean to keep it. .saaoaaa ao so,f
We understand that tho U. s. Gov.
eminent extends its embargo to all sorts
Of printing paper and writing paper 90
ing to the South That's what we cal
a paper blockade. "
EE-A heavy thunderstorm, accom-
panied with rain, in the first place, anc
afterwards with hal, came on here al
about IL o'clock, on the evening Of the
Queens Birthday. Some of the hail
stones, or rather, irregular Jumps of ice
which fell were as large as walnuts.-
Godsrid Sgnak
EAThe weather continues cold and
ungeual, and the rain and snow which
continue to fall every second or third day
keeps the ground in an uniavorable stat,
for yrorkiny. vhile N larue uuantitvt o.