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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
Garrlsonlns the Forts at San FrunoIscO.

1eFfiaonlHg the EOrta at San Francisco.
The San Francisco correspondent of the
New York Herald writes on the 2lst ult:
In accordance with instructions received
from Gen. Scott BY last mail, General John
son, commander Of the Pacific division, has
placed Capt. Ledrum's company Of Third
ARTILLERY, which has occupied the Preside
for some time, in charge OF Fort Point. This
extensive fertilization just been completed,
and, It is believed, should be in the hands Of
the federal forces. FOR this reason the com
munity is much pleased with the action Of
Gen. Scott. Whatever may be the sentiment
elsewhere, I speak confidently when l say
that in San Francisco the people are in favor
of the Union, and against all violent mea-
sures. Fort Alcatraz, just opposite the
city, is built on an island, and is powerful
work. It is at present gaTrisOned by two
companies, (l2O men) under command Of
Capt: Stewart, Sixth Infantry. We expect in
q few days three companies Of troops (250
men) from Oregon, to strengthen still further
the defense Of San Francisco. Orders have
been issued to this effect by General johnson.
I take from the Alta the following descrip-
tons Of the works, which will be read with
interest at this time:
"EOrt Point, ct the entrance toe1he harbor,
about four miles from the cit, was commenced
in 1851, under the superiutendenes Of Brevet
Lieutenant Mason. This scientific officer
and accomplished gentleman died soon after
his arrival. Thenceforward, until last year,
when the vigorous prosecution of the work
was carried on under the supervision OF
Msior Bernard, Col. De Russey, Major
Tower, and Lieutenants Lee and Elliott, We
believe, also were engaged upon the work.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26

"A merchant in New York who had be-
come badly involved, concluded to convey
real estate and stocks 70 one of his clerks
who had solicited is daughters hand in mar
rlsge some months before and whose suit he
had lhen Indignantly refused. His resolution
having been taken, he explained matters'
to the astonished clerk, who readily fell in with
his employers plans. The property was soon
transferredi the merchant failed closing every
thing but his honor" and the clerk immedi-
ately sold the real estate and stocks for what
cash he could get and fed to Cuba, leaving
the merchant to mourn over the dspravity of
human nature.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
Interesting from CharIeston--aIaIor Andsr-
sons Loyalty.

A ACharlestOn correspondent of the Phila-
dslphia Inquirer writes.
] cannot refrain from telling you what
came tony knowledge in a very direct way,
respecting Anderson; It is q well known fact
that jefferson Davis and Gov. Pickens have
been continually corresponding with him,
and happen to know, from one of the aids of
Gov. Pickens. that the last proposition made
to him was to resign bis command in the
United States Army, and accept the position
Of Brigadier-General in the Southern Army
Ny informant who is a man with very high
sense Of honor, and one who very much de-
spisss the late conduct of General TWiggs,
tells ne that Major Anderson Immediately
and Indignantly rejected the ofe and gave
his correspondent to understand that he had
hoped that their former knowledge of his
character as a soldier would have prevented
any such propositions from being presented
to him. The people here we're very anxious,
when they discovered that there was s'no back
down" in the Major, to stop bis marketing
supplies, and to commence starving him out !;
but they have continued by the express de-
sife Of left Davis, who was always on terms
Of personal friendship with the Major-and
80 lately as this morning his boat brought a
good supply Of poultry, vegetables, and other
Of the good things Of life.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
OOLUMBIADs REGARDED WITH DIsFAvOR.
TEE STAR OF TIE WEST.

This fighting was a sober sad subject and
yet at times it took turn toward the ludi-
crous. A genuemsR told me that be was
present when the steamer Marion was seized
with the intention of using her in pursuing
the Star of the Wes. A vehement dispute
arose as to the fitness of the vessel for mill
tary service.
Fill her with men, and put two or three
eighteen-pounders in her" said the advocates
1f the measure.
"Where will you put your eighteen
loundersr Z" demanded the opposition.
"On the promenade deck, to be sure"
" Yes, and the moment you fire one, you'll
see it go through the bottom Of the ship, and
then you'll have to 60 after it."
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26

SHAMEFUL PLoT.-The -Amdgama-
ton laws passed by the Ohio Legislature,
declares that if any white man be found CO.
habiting with woman of African descent, it
shall be eonsiderd prima teeis evidence that
he belongs to the same race, and he shall IL SO
thereby his right Of citizenship. We consider
this shameful and malicious plot on the
part of the Black Republicans of that State to
disfranchiss their Southern brethren, especially y
those in the slsve-brseding States. We cal
the attention of the F. F. VS. to this outrage
Gus attempt to deprive them of their consti-
tutional rights.-Anglo African.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26

"A rough old captain, in a storm, VII 0,
when the terrified passengers persuaded him
to petition Heaven for cessation Of the tenn
pest preferred the following brief request;
ooh Lord haven't been in the habit Of
calIingupOn Thee often and if you'll shin the
wind from SOU west to little more SOU, l
won't trouble you again"
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26

LARGEST HoRsE IN THE WoRLD-A'gentle-
man named Potter, recently exhibited horse
at Newcastle, Pa, that weighs ], IN pounds.
he is bright bay horse OF the Glydesale
heed, and was bred in Cumberland, England,
By 8 farmer named Reed. In 1854 be took a
prize Of $3.50 at Glasgow, IN Scotland, and
since his importation, he has had 10 less than
twenty-six prizes conferred upon him here.
The farmers of the region round Newcastle
desire to rttain him in their region to breed
from.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
The state Fair.

The people Of Dayton have fled in the
Office Of the State Board of Agriculture their
contract for the expenses OF the next State
Fair, so that it is now a fixed fact that the
Miami Valley has the Fair again.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26

in reply to an advertisement headed "Use
Oooper's Tooth Brush" a Western edito
says; "We'1 see Cooper hanged frst, the
dirty fellow How would be like to seours?'
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
DIED.

In this city, wM. KENNEDY, in the s9th year of
his age.
Funeral will take place to-day CTuesday)at three
O'Clock P NJ, from his late residence on Lorain st.,
West Side Friends Of the family are invited to at
tend.
In this city, on the 2lst inst, of Group, ANNA
CORA aged years and months, daughter Of
Steward and Mary Snyder.
In Wsrrensyille, March 2lst, Of Consumption,
Mrs. SARAH n. ARREN, wife OF Mos Warren,
Esq, in the 56th year of her age.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
NO ? RI N q = II s.

PRINTING OFFICE FOB SALE.
For Sale-A lot Of BREWER and Non rarisl TypL
Imposing Stones, Gases, Gha5ea, and ever thin
complete Tor printing daily and Hee KY ue1apapa
with tie exoepticn o. pressl which win be sold
an el ltra0rdinary bsrgain.
ika5-FOr particulars cali 90 The iLelisr'f Count
ing Room. fsb2I-RII
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26

THE HOUSE AND L. ON
Il Pittsburgh street, known Is the hc0ck
property, being lot One 70 Gases addition ssyt-
land and lot 46s in Kelley and WalWorth.s 3D.
vision said property having one hundred feet lrou
ON Pittsburgh street aud extending back ten rods
an alley. The house is large well built and couve-
nient. For terms apply 70
RKNNEY, BACEUs NOBLE.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
ansMfatlfR.

DIVIDEND.-THE HOME IN
IL SURANCE COMPANY, Of New Haven, have
nade dividend in Scrip to Policy Holders Of n
Ff PER CENT. Dealers in Cleveland are request
I'd to call at the Office Of the unersq qned and get the
Scrip. u f. BKAYTON,
f-nI
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
DOUSE & JENNINGS,
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE AGENI2
No. 2lI Superior st., (Ep stars
MARBLE BLOCK.
TO LET
Store, Offices and Dwellings.

eIO00 FOR SALE-AN OEF
DlOOOs Ten per cent. Mortgage for sl,O0o.-
Secured first class City Property. Also an9tt e.
Martgngo for S4,UOo ROUSE JENNIAGs.
fahu 2II superior street.
FOR SALE oB ExCH4NGE.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-26
TIE QUESTION OF FORT SUMTER.

And here, unable to express himself in
words, Jim flung his arms wildly about
ground his tobacco with excitement, spat on
all sides, and walked away, shaking bis head,
I thought, in real grief of spirit.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
ssNothing Going ON wrong,

Mr.. Lincoln will persist in the notion that ''no-
thing is going on wrong" and that the ruin that
is devasting the land is merely artificial In the
speech delivered Thursday, in Philadelphia,
he reiterated this extraordinary statement in these
words: Il deem it happy circumstance that this
dissatisfied portion of our fellow citizens do not
point US to anything in which they are being in
jured, for which reason / have felt all the while
justified in concluding that the crisis, the panic,
the anxiety of the country at this time Is aTtif
ciaI;" and the New York Times of yesterday
saws that Mr.. Lincoln was right in stating that
the crisis is artificial. 1t has been gotten up by
demagogues who have been driven from power
BY the indignant voice Of an injured and outraged
people" 1mpudence IS often admired in proper
ton to its snblimty In that light the phrases oi
the President and the Endorsement of the Times
are entitled to our highest admiration. But the
reports that emanate from the Office of those his
torians of misfortune, Dun, Boyd & Co., present
an array of facts that scatter TO the winds the
cheerful prospect contemplated by Ancient Abe
and his ancient of the Times.
In the month of Januar, last, there occurred in
the United States eight hundred and fifty mine
failures of mercantile houses larger number
than were swept by the board in the January fol
lowing the great financial revolution in 1857; anC
we learn from what deem to be reliabl,
source, that thus far during the present month
there has been no abatement of the calamity
Firms that for twenty and thirty years have
successfully breasted every commercial crisis arr
now toppling about Us. Country dealers bu,
fltie, sell less, and pay nothing. Business o
I'll sorts remains stagnant, and yet, the Presiden
elect, on his triumphal progress to Washington
repeats the monstrOus statement that 'the crisis
the panic, the anxiety of the country at this tim'
is artificial" If commercial distress, existing Il
an infinitely greater extent than has ever befor
been known TO the country, is artificial, perhap
some statesman of Mr. Lincoln's party will b
able to furnish satisfactory definition of wha
constitutes real panic.-N. Y. Nelcs.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
The Abolition victory.

The star of Abolitionism is the Lord of the As
cendant in the political horoscope of the present
hour. The American Anti Slavery Society DOM
mates the nation, and Garrison is the dictator of
the Republic. 1t is about fifteen years ago since
the American Anti Slavery Society accepted the
doctrine of its pioneer that the Constitution of the
United States was Covenant with Death and an
Agreement with Hell, and that the dissolution of
the existing Union was the essential preliminary
to the deiverance of the slaves for which every
true Abolitionist should devote the labOrs of his
life We then believed that it would take the
abors of long life to accomplish this end. Thirty
years was the term for which We generally believ-
ed we were doomed to toll before we should be-
hold the dawn of this salvation. But it has been
in this as in all the rest of anti-savery pro-
phecy-differing thus from prophecy in general
that the event we had seen in vision as certain to
arrive, has come upon US long before we had
looked for it, .
For the last ten years, yea, eleven next 9TH of
March, the Hunkerlom of the North has been
engaged in constant effort to save the Union. The
Aboltionism of the North has been all the time
busy in the opposite direction, trying to break it
up. Well, we have beaten. The Union is dis
solved, in spite of the Hunkers 1t is nothing odd
that they should rage and imagine strange things
Nobody likes to be licked That is Just what they
are. Let us be patient with them and let them
expend their froth and fury. Better times are at
hand, and all the nearer the worse they behave.
One thing is certain, the Union is dissolved. Even
if the seeding States could be cajoled into com
ing back again by any quantity of dirt kneaded
into humble pie by the amateur Congress OF Cooks
assembled this week at Washington, of what use
would such Union be? And how long could
it stand the fury of the passions kndled into ten
fold rage on either side the line that untes them,
No reader of history, no observer of events, nc
student of mankind, can believe that such q re
union would be anything but hollow and treach
erous truce, preliminary to a more embittered anC
utterly irreparable rupture.-Nerc York Anti
/ SLapeTu Standard
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
The Terrible Plot TO Assassinate the
President Elect ON his Way from
Harris burg to Washington.

History records many terrible ccnspiracies to
assassnate the rulers of great nations but we
have it on the highest authority-the Black Re
publican organs-that the plot to cut off the
President elect on his way from Harrisburg to
Washington exceeds them all in atrocity. Ac-
cordng to some of the Republican journals,
which we suppose ought to know
The list Of the names of conspirators presented
astonishing array Of persons high in Southern conf
dence and whose fame not confined to this
try alone. Statesmen laid the plan, bankers Endorsed it,
and advcnturcrs were to carry IL into effect.
We are told that the idea was
To throw the cars from the road at some point where
they would rush down a steep embankment and destroy
in the lives Of all board. In case Of the
failure of this project their plan o surround the
carriage ON the way from depot TO depot in Baltimore
and assasSinate him with dagger or pistol shot.
We learn from another Republic organ that
at least hundred desperate secessionists had
severaly threatened to take his life and nothing
therefore, could have saved him from the knife
the pistol or the hand grenades of the bravo. ex-
ccpt his sudden flight incog. from the capital OF
/ Pennsylvania to the Federal capital, envelOpel
in the Scotch cap of the Camerons and that mill
tary cloak-that very long military cloak-which
as Abe Lincoln is very tall and Colonel Sumner
somewhat short, must have been sent on for the
occasion from Washington by General Scott; for
what but the mantle of the old hero of Queens
town and Lundy's Lane could serve as an agis
ofprotection to the lengthy proportions of Abra-
ham lincoln in this direful peril?
a traitorous conspiracy set on foot to
make away with Alexander the Great in the hey.
day of his conquests, at least his adhcrent:
thought there was; plot was successfully carried
out to the death against Julius Caesar; there were
several plots to assassinate the first Napoleon anC
King James and his whole Parliament were 90
ing to be blown to heaven, or somewhere else, by
that terrible old secessionist Guy Fawkes: hut al
these conspracies were nothing compared to tho
plot of these bloody bankers, these awful person:
"high in Southern confidence" and these san
culinary secessionists, to murder Mr. Lincoln OF
his journey through Maryland. Some peopl,
laugh at this affair, and think it all joke. In
deed. there are even those who think it was q
practical joke of Old Abe himself, who has beer
all his life engaged in joking; but there is NJ
question about the fact that it is no joke at all
but very serious reality; for have we not the au
thority OF the Republican journals for its verac
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
LincOin,s Adventures.

We record this morning such variations of the
Don Quxote exploits of the President elect as
we believe to be authentic and authorized by the
generally accurated reports of the Associated
Press, rejecting with incredulOus contempt the
thousand one exaggerations and inventions of
those unscrupulous reporters who filled this city
on Saturday with ridiculous and improved asser-
tions.
We regard the assertions of the sensation re-
porter of the Times as untrue on their face; espe-
cially in reference to the stetement that Mr.. Lin
coin skulked off himself and left his family to
come in the train which would be sure to carry
them to destruction. In fact, from the evidence
before us, we see nothing to justify the opinion
that there was any thing like conspiracy for the
assassination of Mr.. Lincoln; as Howard the
correspondent of the Times, alleges and if the
names of the Southern conspration in his pos
session, why did he not make them pl Dlic?
In truth, there is much in all the cir ,umstances
here narrated calculated to suggest he thought
that the whole affair was designed rs a coup d
etat to avoid apprehended difficulties in Baltimore
but we would prefer to take a more charitable
view and assume that Mr. Lincoln's presence was
suddenly required pending important action, in
the Peace Conference at Washington. Certain
it is, that unless the President elect possessed ev
dence very satisfactory to his mind that some evil
design against his person was conte mplated, his
action as finally resolved upon conveyed a very
ungenerous imputation on the Loyalty and patri
otsm of the good citizens of Baltimore, than from
whose minds nothing was more rem ote than in
suit personal injury to the President elect, OF
any member of his family or his accompanyin
suite. Some allowance should, there ore, be made
for the natural indignation of the Inhabitants o.
the Monumental City,
Should it prove thatany such diabolical schem,
was really entertainments certain newspaper cor
respondents allege-the whole country and South
ern men more than all, would deplore such al
atrocous demonstration of partisan malignity.-
Nelc York Journal of Commerce.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
Missouri State Convention.

A private dispatch from Washington, dated the
10Th, at night, says:
"The telegram announcing the triumph of the
unconditional Union men in St. Louis, has had
bad effect on the Peace Congress"
We anticipated that this would be the result
We knew that the election here would be re-
garded as a Black Republican victory in a slave
State, and warned our people against it, but they
did not heed it. Now they see the result. But
it would have been well, before condemning Mis-
souri, out and out to have waited for returns from
the whole State. Such returns put very differ
ent complexion on the matter. Whatever may
be the views of the conglomerate delegation from
st. Louis county, to be assembled next Thursday
at Jefferson City, it is certain that they will have
very little outside company. Eighty out of the
ninety nine delegates will stand upon the platform
adopted by the Constitutional Union Convention
in this city, and they men who have the intel
hgence, the patriotism and the backbone to do
what is right, no matter who stands at the door.
They are for the Union in the Union, but at the
same time they are for asserting the rights of the
slave States, and for demanding full and fair
adjustment of all the matters at issue between
them and the free States, now, when it is pro-
posed by Virginia and Kentucky, Tennessee and
Maryland, to settle them. They are firmly and
unalterably opposed to the use of military force
to eOerce Mississippi. or Louisiana, or any of the
seeding States, back into the Union. We hazard
little in saying, that the Convention will not be
in session forty eight hours before it declares
itself opposed to any attempt to bring back the
seeding States by military force, and on this
point they will "stand frm," even though Con.
gress should clothe Mr.. Lincoln with full power
to cover the revolving States with troops. Mis-
souri, is not going to do anything hastily, but she
will do her duty at all hazards, and without con-
sulting her enemies. OF this all parties, at home
and abroad, may be assured.-St Louis Repubi
i
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
A Marvellous sumersauIl

The New York Tribune cvrries at the head of
its editorial columns, in bigblack type, the words:
"No Compromise; No Concessions o Traitors" :"
1t is for furnishing traitors at the cannon's mouth
now, but here is what it said few weeks ago:
Briefly, we know no right inhering in any
State, as State, to secede from the Federal
Union; we do not think single State can well
get out fthe Union; but if the people of seven
or eight contiguous States shall pretty unani-
mousy resolve to secede and set up for themselves,
we think they should do so, and that would be
most unwise to undertake to resist such secession
bv Federal force. Why is it that those who
want to confute this doctrine always make their
attack on something else?
On another occasion the Tribune not only re-
peated its advice let seeding traitors go, but
proceeded to justify secession itself by the fol-
lowing argument:
We have repeatedly asked those who dissent
from our view of this matter (the right of seces
siOn) to tell us frankly whether thev do or do not
assent to Mr. Jeferson's statement in the Decla-
ration of Independence that Governments ode
rive their Just powers from the consent of the
governed; and that, whenever any form of gov
ernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and
to institute n new Government, &c, &c. We do
heartily accept this doctrine, believing it ntrins
cally sound, benefcent, and one that, universally
accepted, is calculated to prevent the shedding of
seas of human blood. And, if it justified the Sc
cession from the British Empire of the three mil
lions of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it
would not justify the secession of five millions
of Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861.
IL this was good doctrine in November and
and December, we do not see why it is not equally
good now. Can any hair-splitting coercionist
tell us?-N A. Ledoer