Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-04

TuF REIGN OF TERROR BEeUN.-The
Albany Evening Jounalhas the following;
at has been noticed and wondered at
that the South Carolina Legislature and
Convention have as yet devised no means
to raise the money Indispensable to carry
on a separate national existence, with the
exception of the Loan of $400 900, and
that nothing is published in regard to the
takers of that But there is phase of
this matter, which is sedulously concealed
from Northern ears and eyes. 1t is be-
ginning to leak out now, through private
but reliable information, that merchants
: and other men of property are compelled
by threats of personal violence to become
subscribers to the State Loan. Some who
were told that unless they paid $1,000
each their houses would be torn down
over their heads have paid it and then
fed for their own safety and that of their
families, to cities further North. 1t is
also reported, and there is no reason to
doubt the truth of that report, that tax
has been privately levied on Shareholders,
of SIG per head for each slave owned by
them-a tax so onerous that, in some
cases. the slaves will be confscatcd and
sold in order to meet it. OF course all
this is kept carefully out of the published
news and official proceedings. Those
Secret Sessions which the Convention
is daily holding doubtless take cognizance
of these and similar matters. 1t shows
to what straits the Secessionists have al
ready reduced themselves, and how they
are sowing the seed of discomfort among
their own adherents.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times confirms the above:
81 learn from Charleston that the pro-
posed State Loan Of 100000 is already
parceled out among the wealthiest men of
the State, mainly in Charleston and that
each one is expected to furnish his share
under the penalty of being considered
disafected 1t will be force loan as
thoroughly as was ever any loan during
the French revolution or during the chronic
revolutions of Mexico The truth is, the
secession movement is in the hands of the
moi, and the planters, merchants, and
other men of substance are powerless
against them"
REVERSING THE EycISE-Some of the
Southern leaders, who have been so reck-
lcssly and falsely charging the Republicans
with being an abolition party, now begin
to see the sad consequences of the mistake
and trying to undo it. The following
from late copy of a Mississippi paper is
striking instance in point:
we wish to suggest the propricty Of
all slave-owners taking some pains to cor
rect very false impression now prevailing
among the negroes about the election of
Lincoln. 1t is generally believed by our
slaves that they were to be free if Liacoln
was elected, or at least they think some
how or other they arc to be benefited by
his election. We do not recommend it,
but suggest for the consideration Of the
better judgment of our fellow-citizens
whether it would not be best to tell them
that tie election of Lincoln had nothing IN
the acorM to do ,oith them or their freedom,
but has reference to the question of max
ing new slave States; that nothing has been
or toai be dome to change their condition By
Mr.. Lincoln or anybody else, and that al
the talk they hear about the slavery ques-
ten cannot, in any way, free them"
g4y STRANGE AND TRUE.--A western pa
per records the marriage of Mr.. Timothy
Strange to Miss Rebecca True. Well, this
seems strange, but nevertheless It's true ::
1t seems true. but nevertheless tbs strange.
AcoIDENT-We learn that little girl
five years old, daughter of Mr. James
Roberts of West Haven, had her hand
cut off near the wrist few days since,
by patent straw cutter.-RMlaud Her
aid.