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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
From the South.

CHARrEsTox, s. c., Thurs, Dec 81.
The Governor has been, to-day. ten
dered the services of troops from Geor-
gia. Alabama. and different portions of
Carolina, alpls many companies may be
expected here Tomorrow.
December %.
The Palmetto flag was raised early
yesterday afternoon over the Custom
House and Postoffice. At five o'cIock
last evening the Palmetto flag as raised
at Castle Pinckmey. A large military
force went ever last night to take pos.
session Of Fort Monl'rie.
LATER.
Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie
were taken possession Of by the South
Carolina military last night.
Captain Humphreys still holds pos
session Of the arsenal. t
Castle Pinckney and Fort Moaltric
are occupied by the State troops under
the instruc ions of the Governor Of the
State, to hold peaceable possession of
Of these forts and for the purpose Of pro.
tecting the government property.
Castle Pinckney and fort Moultire
were held by about twelve men, who
surrendered peaceably. There was no
collision and none expected when the
troops left the city to garrison these
forts. The excitement is Subsiding.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
Secession Chronology

1890 Dec 17--The South Carolina
Secession Convention met ia CoIum-
bia. 5s
Dec. 18.-Said Convention removed
to Charles,on on account of the small
pox. which was raging at Columbia.
Dec. 20.-The Convention passed an
ordinance OF session from the Confele-
racy Of the United States of North
America.
Dec. 24--The members of the South
Carolina delegation remaining in Con-
greSs. formally withdrew from that
body.
Dec. 26--The South Carolina Con-
vention passed an ordinance to make
provisional arrangements for the con-
tinuance of the commercial relations Of
that State or Republic.
On the same day, Major ANDERSON
seeded from Fort Monltrie near Char
lesion, and took a stronger position in
Fort Sumter, and the Commissioners
accredited from South Carolina to the
Government OF the United States, arriv-
ed at Washington city. as ol-5 9sa.
1861. Jan. 3.--Florida holds a State
Convention, 5aI.i oi ..s8 Tear
Jan. 7.--AlabamA and MiSsis sippi
hold State Conventions; Virginia holds
a special session, and North Carolina an
adjourned session Other Legislature.
Jan. 9.---Georgia holds State Con-
vention. as.l ...a. a-r
Jan IT, Kentucky holds an extra
session OF her Legislature. s.- Ina
Jan. 20.-Louisiana holds a State
Convention, a. H
Jan. 2l-Texas holds special sess-
ion of her Legislature. s.. ars.
Jan. 28.-'Cexas holds State Con-
vention called by the seoessionists.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
FACTORY GOODS!

MADE by MOORE RANB0 Co, rty miles
ll East OF Delaware. Let every man ccmg aud get
a pair of pants ready made, for rs. We propose
sell really de pants this low TO get the goods nitro
ducAl. Conn right along aud leave your measure,
il have thtt will o. you. We will furnish the
pants and trimmed for 81 so, aud your wives
make them up Yes, for 81 so il tho is too
Largo. 4 small stock Will be kept at drst, 70 save
heavy rent, tlll the goods are introduced.
An 1rtment OF tcsc goods VIII be kept constant
ly ON hanl the store room oocupied by Mr..
Rho les IN the stone Block Remember these goods
honest domestic products consisting of Satuots, Gas
simcrcs Fannols, Blankets, and Jeans and remember
they made To appear heavy by covering up the
chain with anek and mixing the hlling with old
and cotton These goods have not passed through tha
AInts Of the wholesale manufacturer and wholesale
morchant, aud retail merchant All these mems pronts
and the shipping expenses have 10 BE- added TO the
Eastern goods. Now you easily that by huytOg
Eastern goods you have 10 support four or FIVE persons,
and by doing, you also get counterfeit article BUY
your goods OF tho domestic manufacturer and you sup
port only one and get good article of goods.
Moore and Rambo's goods are made expressly for
farmers
The highest price paId for Wool and Sheep Pclts.
u. NJ. MOORE.
December IS 80. SIN ]. s. MOORE Agent.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

When the Mexicans set TO work to get up
a revolution one of the first steps taken is a
forced loan either from the clergy or the mer-
chants. The same game is being played by
the reVolutionists of South Carolina. They
need money and TO raise it the Legislature au-
thorized loan of four hundred thousand dol
lars. A portion of it is taken by their sus-
pended banks, and the balance, it is stated,
has been parcelIed ont among the wealthy
p!auters, who are compelled to fork over the
amount allotted to them on penalty of being
considered disafected. As another means oil
raising money, tax Of sixteen dollars per
head has been assessed on saves-a measure
which will draw large sums from the same
class, many of whom number their slaves by
the hundred.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
9fLafuart Mazefft.
a. rHoMsoN, Editor.


a large and enthusiastic Union meeting
was held at Parkersburg, Va, on the Ist inst.
Resolutions were Pasped expressing devotion 10
the Union as it is, denouncing accession, and
opposing the calling of State Convention in
Virginia as it would give countenance to
South Carolina. The following are portion
OF the Resolutions adopted:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meet
ing, the proposed call of Convention by the
Legislature, for the purpose of considering
what position Virginia shall assume in the rev.
oluiionary movements OF South Carolina, is
at the instig;Ition of the enemies OF the Union,
anil intended as the means of prccipiiating the
State in5o connection fatal to her credit, her
prosperity and to the happiness of her people.
That we believe the General Assembly has
70 Constitutional power to call Convention
for the purpose of changing the relation Of
the State to the Federal Government but in
the event of the call of such Convention by
the Legislature, the delegates should be cho-
sen on the basis of the free white inhabitants
OF the commonwealth
That we will be bound by the acts of no
Convention, no matter how called or organ
lied, the purpose of which is to alter, or in
any manner change the relation Virginia bears
to the Government Of the Union, Mess the
pIOpcsrd alteration or change is first submitted
TO the votes of the people, aud ample time for
consideration.
That any Convention which may be called
should take such action to amend the COnsti-
! tuition Of Virginia rs to base representation in
the General Assembly upon the free white pop
ulation OF The State, and unalt erably estab
lish the ad UaLorem principle of taxation a:
well for slave as for other property.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

Some few Of the Northern Democratic pa
pcrs. permitting their partizan feelings to get
the better of their patriotism, seem disposed
to act the part of ap0logists for the South
Carolina traitors and defenders of their trea-
son. The Clereland Plain Dealer, the princi-
pal Democratic Journal of Northern Ohio,
does not belong to this class. In late num-
Der it discourscs as follows:
TIE CouxrRY SoID.-Thc South Carolina
commissioners" as they are called, but, in fact
emiSsaries and conspirators against the Gov
ernment, are at Washington, and in secret
consultation with the President and his Cabi-
net What pity there was not Il ton of Haz-
zar6's powder under the White House with old
Hickory at the outer end of the train
Wouldn't he blow them higher than the to-
ries OF the Revolution ever saw?
But this "parlying with the enemy" is not
all the insult tue Nation is subjected to by
these banditii These rebel disunionists de-
mand of the President TO know ''if he order
ed Col Anderson to evacuate Fort Muultrie. "
The trembling Old dotartl replies meekly that
nut 1Dcu tHC
that Anderson be ordered back to Fort
Moultrie.' and the dispatch says, "the Cabi-
net were considering the last Propos ton"
Now. if this is to be the tone of the Sece-
dcrs and such insolent demands are to bc toll
Grated by the South. then the North and
West will become unit Of resistance, and a
war Of the sections is inevitable Our IA
theirs fought through one revolution against
tyrunts more noble than these, and it only
needs few more Southern demonstrations
like those now enacting at Charleston and
Washington to FIRE the whele northern mind up
to the fighting pitch. 1t will then become a
question of patriotism and not of party. IT
will not be who shall rule the country blt
whether we shall have country to rule. We
warn the South against further provocation
This Governments with all its defects, is the
best on earth. We and our posterity have an
interest in its preservation, and We are de-
termincd to defend it with our lives ifinccd be
South Carolina has always been state ot
| insuborilination. Before the slavery question
disturbed the country, she rebelled against the
laws of the country. In National Conveu
tions Of political parties unlike all the other
Ssates, she has committed acts of treason and
must be snbdusd or iriped out. No other pol
| icy can be tolerated for moment consistently
with the well being of the other States ant
| the honor of the Nation.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
Message of Gov. Parkor, Of Sennsvl-
U1nian

HARRIsBURG, Jan. 2.-The Governors
message was delivered to the Legislature to-
day. f
He declares the doctrine ef secession erro-
Moons. The Constitution is something more
than mere compact. Organized resistance
to the Federal Government is rebcllioni if
successful it may be purged by the crime of
revelation; Il unsuccessful the persoGs may
be executed as traitors. But while denying
the right OF State to absolve its citizens
from allegiance 10 the Federal Government
nevertheless it is proper that we carefully ex-
anime the reasons alleged, and if they are
well founded they should be unheSitRiingly
removed, and reparation for the past and Sc
CURLY for the future for a Governmen crea-
ted by the people, should never do injustice to
any of its citizens
Pennsylvania being included in the States
alleged to have refused compliance with the
Fugitive Slave Law, he unhesitatingly an
swcrs that the State has been almost invaria-
by Influenced by high regard for the rights
of her sister aSiates. After examining the
present State laws, he says there is nothing to
prevent the removal of the act of 1920, lcav-
ing TO the claimant right to seek for rem
edv under -the State or federal laws. He
rpcommels that the consent of the State be
given to the master, while passing or sojourn-
ing in Pennsylvania, to retain the services of
his slave. He suggests the re-enactment of
the Missouri Compromise and that the line be
extended to California thereby amending the
Constitution.
lie recommends the Legislature to instruct
our Representatives in Congress to support
such an amendment, to he submitted to the
tate Convention for ratification and if Con
gress fails to propose it. let it en.anate fron,
the people. He closed by declaring that
PENNSYLVANIA is devoted to the Union and
will follow the stars aud stripes through exc
ey peril.
lie adds but before assuming the respon-
s;bilitics that are foreshadowed, it is the sol
emu duty Of Pennsylvania to remove every
Just cause OF complaint. so that she can stand
before high heaven without fear and without
reproaeh and then she is ready to devote her
lives and fortunes 10 the best form of govern
meRt even devised By the wisdom of war.
Though a dark eloHd now rests upon the
Union, mo hopes aud affections still cling to
it. My prayer is. that lie who orders the
destnies of nations, when lie shall leave us
for our sins, will again have mercy upon US,
and bind us in tighter, in stronger, in more
hallowed bonds OF fra tc1nity, so that the I'm
ion may remain unbrt ken throughout all fu-
ture TING.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

1t is manifest that affairs in South Carolina
are rapidly approaching crisis, and indeed
have already reached point which makes it
necessary that the Cover nment shall as
sert aud maintain its rights OF basely surren-
der to the. disuniouists. The authorities OF
that State have possession of two of the U.
S. Forts, one Of iier Revenue Cutters, and her
Arsenal over all which floats the Palmetto
flag, the emblem of revolt and defiance
They have also taken possession of the
Charleston Post Office and Custom House,
and propose appropriating the revenues to
their own use. II this is not aggression
against the United States Government it is
hard telling what would be; and if Mr. Bn-
chanan intends making good his assertion
tina, he will cnfsrce the revenue laws and pro-
tect the public property, action on his part
cannot be longer deferred. The seceders are
determined not to permit him to stand simply
on the defensive. They have set his authority
at defiance, aud be must either maintain it or
sUrsnder,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
From Charleston.

CHARLESTON, Jan. 1.-The President of
the convention received a communication from
the Commissioners at Washington, and the
Convention Immediately went into secret scs-
sion.
Commander Pettigrew, of Castle Pinck-
ney, has issued orders against the approach of
boats to the wharf under serious penalty.
The city and river forts are carefully guard
ell.
The ladies have rendered their services at
the forts.
The City Vigilant Rifles are despatched on
secret service to Morris Island.
The Zouaves and German rifles have pro-
ceeded down the harbor.
The Palmetto Guards have charge of the
arsenal where the palmetto flag valves
Several Interior banks agree tie take re-
spective portions of the State Loan.
Collector Colcock advertises that all the
vessels from ports outside of South Carolina
must enter and clear at Charleston.
The President nf the Convention has ap-
pointed commissioners to Ala bama, Florida
Mississippi, Arkansas and Geo rgia but not t
Texas
In secret session yesterday an ordinance
was passed defining furnishing treason. 1t
declares that in addition to former definitions
treason shall consist in bearing war against a
State, adhering and giving aid to enemies, aud
is to be punished with death, without the
benefit Of the clergy.
An ordnance was also passed providing,
that all judicial power delegated to the Courts
of the United States shall be exercised by the
State Couis; and another, that all power
heretofore delegated to Congress shall be vest
ed in the General Assembly, excepting that
during the existence of the Convention the
power shall not extend to dnties or imports,
pOstofice, declaring war, treaties with other
countries, the rights of citizenship, and trea-
son.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
Special Dispatch to N. Y. Post,
which was the Sectional canadidaso


Mr.. Breckenridge was regarded as the rep
rcscntative Of extreme Southern views, in the
recent Presidential contest. and his vote in the
nothern States may be taken as fair state
ncnt of the political strength of the Conces-
sionists in this section of the country. His
vote in the free States, iRclHding California
AMI Oregon. was lO7 PA. The total vote Of
the free States was 3,425,9 ,9O3 from which
it appears that his ticket obtained the sup
port Of but one out Of every thirty-two votes.
Mr.. Lincoln obtained 57,O32 votes in the
Southern States The total vote Of these
States was ,2S3.645--fr6n which it appears
TINT MIR. Lincoln received one ont of every
fOrty-Sevcn votes cast in th, slave States.
1t must be borne in mini that r publican
electoral ticket was never run in u Save State
before; and, also, that there was nna in nomi-
nation Only in five slave States The total
vote of those five States Mr.. Lincoln received
one ont of every trcenty-itro votes.
u When we take intn consideration. on the
one hand, the difficulties against which the
lsepabcnns in the slave States had to con-
tend that freedom of spccch and of the press
are denied them and on the other hand. the
fact that the prO-slavery men in the North
not only eniaycd the widest freedom Of speech
but the whole patronage of the Federal
Government, we shall easily see that the r.
publican principles are moro popular in the
South than the Brrckiuridsc principles arc in
| the North.
We have not taken info account the fusion
vote of this state, for there was no Breckin-
/ ridge party in this State sufficiently devoted
to its principles not TO sell out their can Ii la es
at u very small price. Fusion WAS tlIl grave
Of the three Political parties but had the
ticket succeeded, BY far the smallest share Of
glory would have bern the portion of the
Breckenridge party.-N. Y. Post.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

One of the " Southern institutions" of
which but little is heard in the North, is an
armed patrol or police force, organized cspe-
ciully for the purpose of keeping a watch over
the negroes. The position of patrol is one of
exposure and toil-and to sustain the force
occasions serious drain upon the most active
and efficient portion of the male population,
and is attended with heavy expense. A Mr..
Henry Frellson. a Louisiana Sugar Planter,
in communication published in the New Or
leans True Delta, complains that one of these
patrol parties on the night of the 22d ult.
came upon one of his most valuable negroes,
while engaged as watchman on his own prem
scs and shot him down, killing hin, instantly
AN act which he justly denounees as a cold
hlooded murder.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

EUROPEAN AID FOR THE SEcEssIoNITs.
The Richmond Enquirer of Saturday
says. In reference to European aid to the
cause Of secession:
The hope of European aid to the South
is an ntter lallacy. Let Us be heartily
thankful that it is so. IL IS much better
for ms and ours that zoe can and must do
our oa0n fighting. Thank Godl we are
not so weak that we have cause to take
shelter beneath the DANCE rous protection
cf European monarchy. If we were
weak enough to need it, God forbid that
we should be craven enough to seek it.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
Guardian's 9 Sale.

TN - l1o1 Of an order Of ths Probate Court
%. J'.t - CoHnty, OiI.o. SILL uucr nj pub.iG
al, tn lojf OF tbs CuIft Room iii delaware, uh,,,
SATURDAY. JANrAKy Sc, 1861,
at oar ,:ol p. m til rpilnwing premises situate
the Tw or DrlIw nnty of Delaware aui Statr tf
Ohio, .ics- b ID a. follows: viz:
In Lots Ms i1Gl, ll62, llt5 an 1164 appraised
$l5a, 30 each.
Ia Lots Nys l1s3 l1si ami 1855, appraised s1c'.-
o. cacA.
90 g .ch.
In Int -. q, oil a1mb r, Ia syIth 1c.awarc. ns-
Trai-,:i al 5 ) I'D.
Oa, acre in O, - AMI 'ntsrn in lot OK
ia Ring -, Township 5, Section 4, appraised at S.uo,
an S34aH, rcslIr, tvrly.
Terms vI =a.-- third OF thu purchase money il
honi Il n lay of and the residue thereof. in
An ~, -rS lIo-alitsr with interest pryab annually
from the Cay sale to be secured by mortgage tho
prem ser. GEG. W HIT r, Guar.iau. Sc.
By " ..7sE. < ,IALL, his Atts'-l IS. dcc-k, q"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

York independent says
The present crisis is unlike that of
81, Then there was no money in
the country and no crops from which
te realize anything to pax debts. Now
there is in reality plenty of money
i.e currency, and plentyol everything
with which to get money. The crops
were large, and business, up to a very
recent date. never was better. Mer-
chants and business men generally,
therefore, never were in a better con-
dition to pass through trial of their
soundness than now. and they never
were payiug better. Very few fail
ures have occurred thus far, and very
few, it is believed. will occur. On
all sides We find fixed determination
to pay, let the sacrifice be what it
may.
With regard 10 the cost Of Seees-
sion to South Carolina, the Independ-
ent says;
Tie Eeeiei,sy Post should, day by
day. be in the hands of every Seces-
sionist. Ii Howell Cobb is not
already subscriber he should send
on his name without delay, not for
getting the cash in advance. THE
Post is doing good service to South
Carolina by showing, among other
things, what d small item in the Be
cession programme will cost. Ad-
mitting as a basis that a military
force of 5000 men only will be able
to whip three times that number of
our regular army Tie Post goes
on to cipher out the cost of such an
invineible host. The figures are just
$337. .407 for the first month and only
$2,38I 1914 for a wear. 1t Will require
all this money for the bare necessities
of equipment and feeding. In adli-
tion 10 this expenditure, we suppose a
million or two more would be re
quired for Dupont's (quickesD pow
der and balls 10 match, q few bar
racks for the soldiers to sleep in, two
or three mud Notifications, and al
old steamboat or two to defend the
Charleston harbor. A million or two
more also would be wanted for sup
porting the new Emperor, King, ol
President, carrying the mails, firing
saIutes in honor Of Columbia" etc
The debt Of South Carolina is al
ready over $40O0,GO0, with contin
gent liability besides for railroads O
$3,0O0.O0O more. Now in the face an'
eyes Of such a debt, how is it posi-
be by any hocus-pocus fnancierin!
that four or five millions more none,
could he obtained? /? We rather thinl
we should see specimens of SHINING
under such government which woult
put into the shade all Western raj
road dodging. The new Palmett
bonds would go rather hard in Wal
street. Give oar bears one growl a
them, and they would touch ger
short meter.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

A Southern writer denies that "Cotton is
X ing and insist that sCorn is King" lie
says: "A man can live without a shirt, but
what can he do without Nhiskey?" That
whiskey has much TO do in keeping the scces-
sion feeling up to fever heat, there is no room
for doubt A Mississippi fre=eater,. writing
to a Kentucky friend in cxultatf6n over the
election of secession candidates to the Con
vcntion in his county. closes his epistle as fol-
lows
1t is now eleven O'Clock. They have just
fired the last of the fifteen guns, (one for
each Southern State the musketry is now
rattling. drums beating, ard everybody on a
"big drunk, ;" yellingand shouting like Indians,
and suppose will continue so all night as
"bust-hcad' is now flowing freely, and every
man has open house, with plenty of red eye,
warranted to kill at 90 yards, off hand. I'm
sleepy. Let me bear from you as soon as
possible, Your friend, J. W. B.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04


SALE OF u. 5. a RMS IN BATuS RnUGE.-In-
cidcatally VIC learn that a Telegram came here
the other day lf0li The Secretary of War to
allow Gov PettuS. of Mississippi, to have
lot Of $500 Of nele Sans guns at the Ar
srnal for 81 30 4 peioe, cash. The order was
filed before patiiioa could be circulated for
signatures. calling the Board Of Sslectmcn to
prevent the shipment. There are, we loarn,
some $4,000 or > co more of the same sort
Baton R 1age Gaz1tte AMI COmst, 22d
The above seems almost incred;ble, at first
view, yet the con iJct of Secretary FLOYD has
been such that eau hardly doubt the truth
Of this report, which comes direct from the
scene Of the transaction. We hope these va
rious shipments and other strange meve-
ments of IioveruH2nt arms, will be duly in
quired into by Congress. If they admit of
any fair explanation, lel be known to the
country. i -il..