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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
Attempts on the x.ife of mr.. Lincoln.

Attempts on the Life of mr.. Lincoln.
We have already quoted from the Lafay-
cite (lndana) Journal an account of the time
ly discovery of an obstruction placed on an
Indiana railroad. with the evident design Of
throwing Of the special train which conveyed
Mr.. Lincoln's party. The Syracuse Journal
Of Saturday evening has another development
Of similar character. It SAYS:
~We have been informed by gentlemen con
nected with the party Of MIR. Lincoln since he
left home for Washington, that there were
several attempts TO take his life made during
the Journey through Indiana and Ohio. The
one which threatened the most serious cOnse-
quences took place on the Presidential train
leaving Cincinnati, when a grenade Of the
most destructive character was discovered in
the car occupied by MIR. Lincoln, his family
and personal friends. 1t was found in small
carpet bag, which had been deposited in a
seat Of the car by some unknown person At
tention was drawn TO IL from the fact that no
baggage Vas allowed in the ears. On exami-
nation the grenade concealed in the carpet
bag was discovered 10 be ignited, and so ar.
ranged that within fifteen minutes it would
have exploded with force sufficient 10 have
demolished the car and destr Dyed the lives o
all persons IN it. OF course, the internal ma
chine was speedily removed and properly dis
posed Of"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
The true state Of the rebellion.

The Charleston correspondent of the New
York Evening Post, in his last letter, speaks
Of the general impression at the North as to
the true state of the rebellion, the feeling be-
ing expressed by the following heads:
/. That South Carolina rcpcnts her precip-
itancy, and is heartily sick Of secession.
2. That she will not attack Fort Sumter, in
tho event of her failing 10 obtain it by diplo-
macy and negotiation.
3. That she has played a game of brag,
hitherto uniuckiy successful, but lnLy fiuall y
be induced or compelled TO use US IA suggestive
vulgarism,) to back doIrh, to reccde from her
position, to recognize Lincoln and re-enter the
Union
f. That the other seeded States will not
stand by her.
The writer then takes up these heads and
argues their fallacy. lie says South Carolina
has so long contemplatedthis step that it cannot
termed "precipitate." As far back as 1854,
it was freely talked of Us an experiment" by
wealthy and influential men in Alabama, Mis-
sissiphi and Louisiana.
As 10 being sick of secession, the community
lns gone too far to retreat. 1t has risked all
itllad to risk, and must 20 forward. 1t has
everything to gain and nothing 10 lose, and
hence, whether sick of secession or not, will
go on.
The troops are for assaulting Fort Sumter
ut once but the Governor and more intelligent
classcs Of revoutionists still cling TO the hope
that it may be obtained by negotiation. The
opinion is expressed that the Fort will be at
tackled as soon US the floating battery is COM
pleted.
As to the third proposition, it is said that
South Carolina may return to the Union after
many years of bitter experience, but not till
then. The other States will stand by her.
Such are the opinions of CharleStOnian.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

The Huntsville (AIabama) Indepem-
dent of February 10th, contains the
following
TENNESSEE. With deep sorrow,
and the most sad forcbOdings for her
future, we are forced to announce that
our sister State Tennessee has rcsolv-
ed not to call even a Convention of
her people iE the present crisis. Her
Legislature must now see the folly of
submitting the question of Convention
or no Convention to the popular vote.
Thousands upon thousands of her
people, and we speak with no disre-
Bpect of the intelligence of the State,
did not and could not know whether
there Was necessity for calling a
Convention or not.
In this paragraph is seen the spirit
of the secession movement. lis that
the people don't and can't know
The master-class of politicians must
know" that is to say. must think for
the people, and therefore act for them.
The people make good taxpayers
and soldiers for the government, but
have no right to have anything to dc
In governing.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

Kansas Meeting in Kingston.


At u meeting of the citizens of Kingston
township on the 9TH inst, in the Presbyte
rian church of Kingston, a society was formed
TO solicit and procure aid for the sufferers in
ansas. 4 committee of four were appoint
ed to canvass the township and vicinity for
donations, which committee consisted of
Messrs John Potter, Ohm McCammon, Geo.
w. Emerson and James G.. Eadie. Friday
the 22d inst, at . O'Clock vas appointed for
Il general Kansas meeting, and 1T which time
and place the committee was to report their
progress and success.
Feb. 22d-Thc society met according to
adjournment, which meeting plainly showed
the feelings Of the ladies and gentlemen in
times of distress and want, and that humanity
and benevolcnce had not altogether forsaken
old Kingston.
The meeting was organized by calling HAIR
vEY HEAsIETT TO the chair, and ID. MAX
WELL. Secretary. The committee was called
on to report, which showed cash collection
of S93, in which ladies and gentlemen joined
hand in hand donating for the sufferers in
Kansas, and besides this the ladies came in
with their tender feelings and sympathy,
for the naked and destitute in that region. A
committee of three ladies', Mrs. Emerson,
Mrs. McCammon and Mrs. Haslett were APP
pointed to value the clothing, and reported
twenty-one dollars and forty cents WORTH which
was arranged and boxed for transportation.
After which the following resolutions were
offered and adopted:
1st. Resoired, That we approve and highly
recommend the energetic labors and efforts
of the committee of the Kingston Kansas
aid society in securing donations for the suf-
fercrs i'll Kansas.
I'd. Resolred That we highly appreciate
the benevolent sympathetic feelings and ac-
tions of the ladies of this society in donating
money and clothing for the suffering and des-
titute inhabitants in the region of Kansas.
Adjourned sine die.
ID: maxwell, Secry.
Kingston, Feb %, 1861.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

8 APFAIRs IN TExAs.-Tcxas has Sc
aceded, so far as the vote Of the Con-
vention can get it out of the Union,
but this action has to be ratified by
the people on the I'd of March. Only
about forty-six counties in the State
voted at the recent election for Con
yention, and only One-eighth, instead
Of one-third, of the usual popular vote
was cast. Under the law referring
the secession Ordinance to the people
the election comes off on twenty days
notice, and the returns are ordered to
be received for only seven DAYS there
after, so that the result may be de-
clared in time to get the State out Of
the Union on the I'd of March, before
LiHcoln's Inauguration. Texans say
that in seven days it will he impossi-
BILE to get returns from more than
forty counties in the State If this is
so, Gov. Houston, whose bravery and
firmness in support Of an honest in
stinct no man questions, will be COM
PEELED to refuse to consider anything
on the election which brings him re-
turns only from fragment of the pco-
pie.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

The late Hon. Alexander TT. Ste
phens, of Georgia, is perhaps in the
most pitable position of all men on
this continent. Beginning as a Chi
valrous champion of the Union, in the
debauch of frenzy and terrorism call
ed an election" lately held in Geor~
gia, the most fiattering efforts were
made by the cOnspiratOrs, after their
triumph, not only to seduce him from
allegiance to the Union, but to identi-
fy him with their ncfarious cause, by
the bribe of the first Office in their
gift.
They got him cheaper. For the
empty honor of the vice-presidcncy of
provisional usrpatien" Alegander
III. Stephens has set his name on the
roll of treason and infamv. For
others there may be some mitigating
considerations of misguided earnest
ness, Or at least some such respect as
sttends upon undisguised and auda-
cious ambition. But for Stephens not
'one poor excuse can be devised. He
is self-degraded and self condemned
man, judged out of his own mouth
His brave words were swallowed be-
fore they were cold.-N Y. Sun.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

NORTHERN BOYS IN THE SECESSION ARMY.-The
Charleston correspondent of the New York
Times writes:
saw in Broad street, this afternoon sad
spectacle, and as the individual has a North
ern home, must perforce allude to it. The
young man, or man boy, of 10, was parading
in full epaulets and an outfit representing
some 800, made for him by leading tailor
in Broadway, New York. He had just ar
rived here, the 'auant courier of a party of
Miny-sir, who intend TO steal away one by
one from their Northern fresides, and fight to
the death against the flag on which they have
been nursed.
The same writer denies that the obstruc-
tions at the mouth of Charleston harbor have
been removed.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

A dreadful tragedy was committed
in Baldwin county, Alabama Will
liam English who went to Mobile,
with a draft for 100000, which he
failed to get, returned home is a state
OF dependency, supPosing the money
was lost, and That his family would be
impoverished. On the first evening
after his return home, he ordered the
nurse to assemble the children in the
parlor, which she did, not suspecting
his murderous intentions. As soon
as the nurse had left the room, he ap-
preached the cradle in which lay his
youngest child, an infant, nine months
old, and cut his throat from car to ear
The nurse ran to tell Mrs. English
who was in the garden, who entered
the parlor just as he had cut the throat
of the third child, and was in the act
of cutting his own. Rushing forward
she seized him by the arm, and cast
ing a wOeful look at the bleeding and
mangled forms of his children, de-
nanded his reason for killing them.
He gently pushed her away, saying
at the time it was all for the best. Be
fore she could get to him again he
made cut at his throat, completely
severing the jugular vein, and falling
into chair gave way by degrees and
fell dead upon the floor, surrounded
by the bleeding forms of his innocent
children.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

The Augusta (Gn.) Chronicle of January
26th has long editorial upon the compara-
ative merits of monarchical and republican
Governments in America. 1t gives a most
flattering picture of the stability, prosperity
and success of constitutional monarchy in
Brazil and in Canada which it contrasts with
the miserable condition of Mexico, Peru,
Buenos Ayrcs, &C. and warns its readers to
profit by the lessons of experience Our own
republican Government, it says, "has failed
mid,eay in its trial, and with it have nearly
vanished the hopes of those philanthropists
who, believing in mans capacity for selEgov-
ernment, believed, therefore, in spite of so
many failures, in the practica5ility of re-
public" "T this Government goes dotrn"
asks the editor, "tohat shall be its s.tbstit,a
and he answers by saying that, as to the pres
ent generation, "IT SEEMS THEIR ONLY RESORT
MUST BE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
aaoannion From Texas.

F. A core pondent of the St. Louis
Democrat, under date of Red River
Valley, Feb. 9th, saws
Yesterday, in conversation with
gentleman from the town of McKin-
ney, Texas, l learned that the recent
crazy action of that State has already
created a panic in most portions Of
the State. Thousands of families are
anxious to sell off their property and
emigrate to California. Many of the
most enterprising farmers, formerly
from the Northern States, have deter
mined to go back to their old homes
%Yaluable farms and town lots" said
my informant, "can now be bought
for a mere song. Negroes will
scarcely sell for half as much as they
would eight months ago. And / will
venture the prediction" continued he,
that not more than year will elapse
before whole sections in Texas, now
sesmingIy prosperous and hOurishing,
will be entirely dePopulated, unless
this mad attempt at secession is speed,
lily stopped.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

Yesterdays dispat ches from Washington
announce that the Peace Conference had
agreed upon plan of adjustment, consisting
of modification of the Guthrie proposition,
which had been communicated to Congress
with request that it be submitted to the Leg
islatures of the several States. In the Senate,
on motion of Mr.. Crittenden, it was ordered
TO be printed, and referred to select commit
tee, with Instructions to report at l O'Clock to-
morrow.
ArEs-Messrs. Anthony, Baker, Bayard,
Bigler Bragg, Bright, Clingman, Crittcnden,
Dixon, Douglas, Fitch, Foster, Gwin, Hunter,
johnson Of Tennessee. Kennedy, Lane, Latham,
Mason, Nicholson, Pierce. Polk, Powell, Rice,
Sebaston and Thompson-26.
NAYs-Messrs. Bingham, Chandler, Clark,
Collamar Doolittle, Durkee, Fessenden, Foote,
Green, Grimes, Hale. Harlan, King, Morrill,,
Seward, S immons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trum-
bull, Wade, Wilson-21.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

Another act Of late Secretary Floyd
has just come to light, which does not
reflect much credit upon him as 10y
salist to the Government he was pro-
Tossing to serve, and whose treasury
he was feasting upon. 1t appears that
last summer he ordered five compan-
les of United States troops to Fort
Randall, on the upper Missouri, and
then ordered all the wagons and
horses and mules sold, SO that the mo-
ment winter set in they could ueither
leave by the river, whicn is usually
6.Ozen up as early as November, nor
overland, in consequence of not hav-
ing sufficient transportation material
TO convey a single cOmpany.-L Wash.
Cor. N. Y. Herald.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
Queen Victoria and the United States

Qucen Victoria, in her speech delivered
in person in the British Parliament, on the
9TH inst, thus alludcs to affairs in this coun-
try:
SERIOUS differences have arisen among the
States of the North American Union. II is
impossible Cor me to look without great con-
Germ upon any events which can effect the hap
pincss and welfare Of people nearly allied TO
my subjects by descent, and closely connected
with them by the most intimate and friendly
relations My heartfelt wish is that these DIFF
ferenccs may be susceptible Of satisfactory I'D
iustmcnt. The interest which take in the
welI-bcing Of the people of the United States
cannot but be increased by the kind and cor
dial reception given by them to the Prince Of
Wales during his recent visit TO the Continent
of America. am glad to take this opportu-
nifty Of expressing my warm appreciation of
the loyalty and attachment TO my person and
throne manifested by my Canadian and other
North American subjects OH the occasion oi
the residence of the Prince Of Wales among
them"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

WHAT Texas LosEs.-The ingratitude Of
Texas seems likely to prove very costly lux
ury 10 her. Her secession arrests the passage
of the bill in Congress for a mounted regiment
to protect her frontier it deprivcs her of the
postal service which has been performed for
her at the yearly expense of half million of
dollars above the receipts and it cuts her off
from the thirty six millions of dollars which
Congress has been determined TO appropriate
for the construction of u railroad throughout
her whole length Of seven or eight hundred
miles to connect her with the Pacific States
and the Pacific ocean. She has acted under
the influence of atrocious misapprehensions
and insane cOunsels, and her long day of bit
ter regret is not far Off Louisville Journal.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
The Texas surrender-An Infamous
Traitor


Traitor
II seems that Twigg's iraitorous conduct in
surrcndering the Government property in Tex
as. W as based on private revenge against the
Government for supplanting him, in the Gp
pointmcnt of Col. Waite. when it became
known that Twiggs intended to have confer
ence with the Texas commissioners on the dis
position of the property Of the Federal Gov
ernment. Twiggs gave orders to every officer
in command of post in the military Depart
ment of Texas, seventeen in number, including
San Antonio, the headquarters, to surrender
to the agents Of the revolutionary State Con
vention without single man being in arms
TO cuf'rrce the States demands. Every parti-
Gle Of the military property there, amounting
in the aggregate 10 millions Of dollars, includ-
ing arms, accoutremcnts, provisions, horses,
cattle, wagons, &c.
Advices received yesterday represent that
among the terms was a stipulation reserving
officers their side arms, and another saying
that the disarmed troops were to be permitted
to be carried to the coast for shipment out Of
Texas in Government wagons which were sub
sequenily to be accounted for to the revOlu-
tionisis. The whole number Of enlisted troops
under Twiggs command in Texas was 1900,
and they were scattered about for the most
part, over Il frontier of fifteen hundred miles.
There are nearly all the officers belonging to
four regiments, all the Third Infantry. all the
Eighth Infantry all the Second Cavalry, five
companies of First Artillery, five of First In
fantry, making forty companies in alien
bracing 2O6 commissioned officers and 1000
enlisted men, being more than are in any other
one department in the service.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
Democratic" Economy.

When the present Administration came in
to power, there were S24OOO,00O in the Ma
tionnl Treasury; all Of that has been spent;
the Government is $6O,OOO,OOO in debt besides
and we now receive the pleasantR information
that $22eOO,OOO will be needed to carry on
the Government until the close of the fiscal
year, ending June next Here we have the
stupendous sum of $l6,OO0OOO spent by the
Administration and its Southern friends, in
addition to the amount annually realized by
the Government from revenues, sc.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
Soldier Life at Charleston.

The Washington Republic makes abstracts
from two letters, written by soldiers at
Charleston, to their friends in the interior of
the State of South Carolina. One is dated.
First Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers
Sullivans Island Charleston, S. c., JAN 26,
1861 from which we quote as follows
"My dear mother, tell you my teeth are
quite worn out eating old sri-crackcrs and
bread, that has been baked about a year, and
old, tough beef, about twenty or thirty years
old, and my hips have got great big corns on
them. We have 10 sleep on the floor and
cover with our blankets, and have TO drink
water that has got wiggle-tails in it as big as
my finger"
The other is from man who writes an ele-
giant hand, addressed TO his wife, in the inte-
rior of the State From some direction in
it in regard to farming operations, stock, &c,
it would seem that he is man of some sub
stonce, as well as intelligence. He says
SUNDAY is not Fnown here, the head men
make no distinction. We are held here worse
than negroes, our liberty has been taken away,
and We are not allowed to even visit out of
the lines without a written pass from three
persons and they are grabbed, and seem to
look upon us as negroes. Our fare is badly
cooked, and we suffer many harlships.
hope may live out my six months, then you
may find me, always after, avoiding the error
of binding myself TO serve under despotic
tyranny"
This letter closes with the following words
keep the little dear ones reminded of me,
and do not let them forget their father. Your
affectionate husband" &C.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

1t is getting to be too late to speculate on
the probable policy Mr. Lincoln will pursue
on taking charge of public affairs in the pres
emf anomalous condition of the country. lie
viii speak for himself, through his inaugural,
on Monday next. That his linc of policy will
meet the appreciation of ALL is not to be ex-
pectcd that it will be such as will check re-
beIlion, produce return of the frate rnal feel
ings which formerly existed between the
various sections of the confcderacy, maintain
the integrity of the country and at the same
time do no injustice to any section, is devOutly
to be hoped The difficulties by which he is
surrounded, all will apprcciate-and by just
and honest men his actions will be Judged in
view Of the magnitude of those difficulties -
Through imbecility and want of proper action
on the part of his predecessor, he will find the
country in depIorAble condtion-it is like
patient who is turned over TO the physician
with the hope and expectation that his skill
can save him after he has been reduced TO the
very verge of death by a disease which if prop
erly treated in the start could have been easily
checked and prevented from becoming deep
seated and alarming. There is a blre posi-
bility that the patient may be saved but the
chances are clearly against it. SO with the
Union-thcre is possibility that it may yet be
saved, but the chances are decidedly the other
way. Mr. Lincoln did not get charge Of the
patient in time to be held responsible for hi,
death, should it unfortunately occur though
he succeeds in saving him, his superior skill
mast be universally conceded.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

THE CHARLESTON CUsTOM HOUsE.-By the
statistics accompanying the last report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, it appears that the
custom house at Charleston S. c., has already
cost the National Government more than $2,-
600, 900, although it is still unfinished, and
more than s5OO,OOO would be required to
complete it. This is one ofthe building which
the Seceders seized upon at the outset of their
movement, and the Palmetto flag now waves
over il in triumph.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

A FRENCH VIEw OF TIE SOUTHERN Con-
FEpERAcY.-The Journal des Debdfs, the most
influential paper in the French Empire, reflects
the national sentiment in relation to the pro-
posed Southern Confoderacy, when it says of
it, as il does in late number
"Let it pursue its own way, but once more
it must be pronounced that there is not a cor
ner upon earth phers ii iciH find sympathy and
assistance"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01

A SECULAR CASE IN GEoRGTA-Since the
secession Of Georgia, one Of the prisoners in
that State, confined for an offence against the
General Government, has applied for release,
on the ground that secession had severed the
ties of judicial jurisdiction. The decision of
the court is elaborate, and, while it admits the
fact of secession refuses the application, on the
ground that Georgia, Notwithstanding her de-
parture from the Confcderacy, had assumed its
commercial and judicial responsibilities.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-01
lumber, Salt, Fish, Iron,
Mails. Glass.

TIHE Tadersigned having opsned a Lumber
n 1drh ana Ware House Winter Street. tween
th iiSPcIs"u Bldg an It,Irr,ad Icpt are prepared
30 oil r great in ucrm nts L. purrlnErS We are re-
of
Pine, Poplar Anh. Walnut, and other Lumber,
Joic tnti'ns itftrrs Shact;g shingles Iath FeEce
,''T Is ana i"StS-wlirh htviug nurC $ Il from nraS
nan Is, u'y are enabled tp III at the lowest Cash rate
AlsI,
Iron, Nails. Window Glass, Fish, Salt, Grind
Stones. Water Lime &C.. &C.
We sell Merchants AMI ,.tH.r. ., the most f.,
V1rdbic terms. CIIlI'E.Nt;LR 3 a.,
Delaware, Nay 10, 1856 5i.-ttf.