Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-05-10

on this side of the Potomac, in accord
ance with the long current reports,which
prompted the speedy concentration Of
troops at the Capital by President Lin
coin"
Missouri NOT LIKELY TO SEoEDE.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
publishes the subjoined extract from a
private letter from ST. Louis, dated April
27:
"Missouri will probably NOT secede
The Governor is now in the city, and ex-
presses his opinion that it will be mad.
ness for Missouri to attempt secession.
This morning there is a decidedly better
feeling here. 1t is thought that the real
cause of this sudden change is the en-
rolling of about 5000 men who have vol
unteered from among our citizens, and
have been accepted by the United States
government. They are all thoroughly
armed and equipped with United States
arms and cannon, and occupy the nights
near the city, which they are forGfying
under United States engineers. They
have all been sworn into the service Of
the United States government Others
are offering themselves daily. Our Con-
gresham, Hon. F, p. Blair, is Colonel
of one of these regiments. Besides
these, we have about 1000 United States
troops in and around the arsenal. l do
not see how, under such circumstances
Missouri can well get out of the Union.
With Kansas on the west ready to re-
venge old wrongs, Iowa on the north ris-
ing like young Hercules ready for the
/ fight, Illinois on the east determined that
no arms or munitions of war shall cross
that state for Missouri, Cairo occupied
by United States troops, permitting no
war material to pass up and down the
river, and majority of the citizens Of
the state disposed to stand by the stars
and stripes, you see we are bound to
keep the peace"
ca The Southern press is beginning
to realize the true condition of affairs at
the the North, and manifest a very diff
ferent tone in commenting upon the com
ing struggle. In fact, they begin to ex-
press alarm at the military uprising which
they have evoked by their folly. The
Mobile (Ala.) Mercury of the 28th ulr.
one of the more violent promoters Of Sc
dition, says
" The last few days has amazed the
government of the Confederate States,
we imagine, no less than the people. The
public mind in the North is in a Juror,
and unit on the present practical ques-
ton. Our Northern friends, it is re-
membered, were always Union men.
| The Union men Of the North are now
practically our enemies as much AS the
abolitionsts Having failed to seduce
US to stay in, or return to the Union with
their barney about peace-to maintain
the integrity Of the Union by moral sua-
sion-they are as much inclined to try
what virtue there is in stones as the rab-
idest abolitionists that ever wore a lock
Of negro's hair in golden locket. Their
voice is for war--their money is for war
they offer their bodies to go to the
field to slaughter US.
With all the imagined peace sentiment
which was hoped to exist to control the
war spirit, we scarcely dared to hope to
see southern spirit aroused to so high a
pitch to resist it as the northern spirit is
to subjugate and force US back into a
hateful Union. The power that is mar
shaling with men and money to an amount
beyond anything it is possible for the
confederated states to command, must be
met, not with braggart threats of carry
ing our hagItriumphant over their capitol
and through their country but with
strong arms and stout hearts upon our
own soil whenever and wherever invad-
ed. Upon our own soil we can be con-
querors."
RUMoRED PLoT TO BURN New
YORK, PHILADELPHIA, AND BosToN. .
New York, May 4. Superintendent
Kennedy has received a letter which states
that there is thoroughly organized plan
to burn New York, Philadelphia, and
Boston, by cutting off supplies of water
and then setting fire at various points
The letter states that men have been sta
toned at both Boston and Philadelphia
for weeks, and that 125 of the gang
have been sent to New York to carry out
their hellish designs also, that although
at first jeff Davis disapproved of such
proceeding, since the Presidents procla-