Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-01-24
CURRENT FACTS AND RUMoRs.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH CARO-
LIMA COMMISSIONERS

LIMA COMMISSIONERS.
The President informed Col Hayne, in
his interview last week, that any commun-
ication he had to make must be made in
writing. Col Hayne has therefore been
since engaged in preparing letter to the
President, setting forth the complaints OF
his people, and their demands respecting
Fort Sumter.
As | have repeatedly said, the President
has taken his position in regard to the af-
fair in Charleston, and has deliberatcl y
made up his mind as to the course he in
tends to pursue, aAd under no circn'n-
stances lciU lie Surrender Fort Sumter to
the authorities Of South Cdrolina Unless
the surrender is made, Col Hayne says
oceans Of blood wW be split
The instructions to Major Anderson were
completed to-day. Quite number of
Southern men have called upon the Presi-
dent to know what the nature of the in
structions were, and to urge upon the Pres
| ident to prevent a collision between the
Federal and State authorities The Presi-
dent required no urging to adopt such a
! policy. In no instance, or under no Cir
cumstances, will the government be the ag-
gressor. They will act strictly on the de
fensive. If, however, the authorities re-
peat their offence, as in the case of the
Star of the West, there will be no alterna-
tive left but to open the batteries and ST.
lence them at whatever cost. His instruc-
tions are clear and implicit There is no
ambiguity in them.
Lieut.. Hall has left for New York He
will return on Friday
MAJOR ANDERSON AND THE MAIL SER
VICE.
The Postmaster General has written to
Governor Pickens notifying him that un-
less Major Anderson and his command are
allowed free access to and from the post
office, the mail service will be cut off en-
tirely. While it is pretended that his cor
respondencc will be delivered, no messen-
ger is permitted to land to receive it, The
Postmaster at Charleston says he delivers
the letters as opportunity occurs" which
means when flag Of truce is occasionally
sent to Fort Sumter The Government is
paying nearly Sl50,000 annually, above re-
ceipts, for maintaining mail service in South
Carolina, and yet has not been allowed to
communicate with its own officers.
All the rumors of mutiny or disaffection
among Anderson's command are fabricated,
and without the least color of truth Lieut..
Hall and Talbot, who are just from Fort
Sumter, speak in the highest terms of the
devotion and affection of the garrison to
their commander, and the expressed will
lingnesj and desire of every man to share
his fate, whatever it may be. lie has re-
sorted to no punishments, as charged, but
on the contrary has had every reason to ex-
tend the utmost liberty consistent with the
rules of the service, SO faithful and ready
have the soldiers been in discharging every
duty
TELEGRAPHIC MIsREPREsENTATIONs.
The telegraph is burdened with commu-
nications to the South, warning people
there to abandon all hope of Cancellation.
Virginia and Kentucky have been particu-
larly appealed to. On the other hand, the
Northwest is urged to stand by the Union
now more firmly than ever. Dispatches to
Ohio, Illinois and Iowa, forwarded tonight,
will set the war spirit already aroused into
blaze. Fresh Intelligence from Mississip-
pi Of interruption and indignities to West
ern steamboats, and passengers, add fuel to
the excitement. We have reports that one
steamboat has been stopped, that others
have been subjected to rigid examination,
that worthy citizens have been sent back,
and that cannon have been planted on the
banks of the river to enforce the DEGREES
of the Commonwealth of Mississippi.
Messrs Bragg, Slidell and other extrem-
lists have telegraphed the defeat of Mr..
Crittenden's proposition to the South, for
the purpose of exacerbating feeling and
promoting the revolution.
Iverson and some other cotton State SEN
ators withhold their votes on Mr.. Clark
proposition, for the very purpose of hav-
ing Crittenden's proposition fail, that they
might use it to further excite the South.
HOW THEY RAISE THE WIND.
Among the items Of news from Charles
ton floating around loose in secession cir
cles 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: He was notified that he was
expected to advance forty thousand dollars
to that end, and plead his right to advance
or not, as he might please adding that he
did not have the money. He was then
promptly notified that he had been assessed
that amount and must promptly pay it, un-
der penalty of having it raised by the i'm
mediate eOnfscation and sale of his proper
ty 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 would be
better if he was journeyman carpenter at
the North, showing jack plane at 50 per