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Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12
FROM wEsTERN VIRGINIA.

WHEELING, Dec. ll.-In the Legislature, to-
day, resolutions were introduced to prohibit
any person engaged in the rebellion from ever
holding Office in this state. A resolution was
also introduced modifying those parts of the
code which prohibit writing or speaking
against slavery, so as to make il conform to the
spirit and genius of our institutions.
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12

Pom ROYAL, bee 6.-The stone.Aeet.
numbering twenty five or more vessels, which
recently sailed from the north, has been of
Tyb Island tor the last two days, The YES
sells composing it appear to he gathering there
as though it were place OF RENDEZVOUS.
An entire change in the programme OF the
eXpeduionary corps appears to have been
made within day or two An expedition tor
which extensive preparations have been made,
and which was expected to sail this week, has
been postponed.
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12
rrsONT TxENruCIkY.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. 1l.-Gens Rosseau, Neg
ley and Johmsons federal brigades crossed last
Tuesday to the southern bank of the Green
river, near Mumlordsyille.
The kentucky provisional government have
passed an act taxing brokers { enty five dol
lars per week who charge discount on Tenn.
essee and southern money
Gen Zolicoher, with a large force, is at
BarkpsVilIp
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12

New YORK, Dee. IA private letter from
Martinique, dated Nov. 23d, says, the Iro-
quois is at this port waiting for the Sumter"
Another dated the 25th says, "the Iroquois ar.
rived here again last night, but the Sumter has
escaDed
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12

BosToN, Dec. 1l.-Fiye vessels OF the stone
fleet sailed to day, but anchored in the roads.
The ships Green and Bullion, of Buffers ex-
petition, sailed today.
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12
M LSSENGERS NOTICE.-ColTNoY.

A'A WEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. - Worcester ss -
December 10, 1851. Hon. HENRY CIIAPlN. judge of
tine Court of Insolvency in and for the County of Wor
cester has TINS day issued warrant against the estate
OF JOHN A FklNk, JR, Of Spencer in said county,
farmer, an nslyent debtor; and the payment of any
aeDS ana the delivery of any property belonging TO said
msoven debtor TO him FIR his use and the transfer
OF any property by him, are forbidden by law.
The first meeting OF the creditors of the said nsolvent
debtor viii be held Court of Insolvency at Woces
ter on the wenty-onrhdayo December current at two
O'Clock in the afternoon for the proof OF debts and the
choice OF an Assignee Assiemees
~, FRANCIS ADAMS, Deputy Sheriff.
dill Aiassauoor
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12
NEESSENEEklS N0TIEE--C Co,InnN-

A'A WEALTH OF Mass ACHUsETTs. - Worcester, S. 49,
december TO- lS6l.-HON. HENNY CHAPIN, Judge Of
the Court OF Insolvency in and for the County Of Wor
cester, has this day issued against the estate
OF MAENlALL L. DRURY, OF Worcester, in said CouB-
~ painter an insovent debtors and the payment of any
debts ara the delivery of any property belonging said
sOlvent debtor TO him for his use and the transfer
OF any property by him, forbidden b. law.
The first meeting of the creditors said msolventdebt-
orWl be heiu at the Court of Insolvency Worcester
IN SAID county, On the twenty fourth day Of December
cur en AZ two O'Clock in the afternoon for the proof
OF debts and the choice ofan Assines or Assirnees
j. DAY, Deputy sheriff.
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12
EICE STER ACADEMY.

Leicester Academy will again be opened to the public
on TUESDAY, Jan I, 1862, under the charge Of
WILLIAM j. PHILLIPS. \. NJ, PTincipa and
i. NJ. JOHNSON, A. b., Assistant Preceptor
Instruction will be given to pupils OF both sexes in the
Classics in the French German and spanish Languages
and in the common and higher English branches
The male portion of the school will be formed into
MILITARY PARTNIENT,
and enjoy the advantages Of daily scientific drilling
with aims provided by the institution
Particular attention will be the higher Mail
ematics, especially, connected with Civil Engineering
aad Military Science.
Board may be obtained the Academy with the teach
and in private families prices not exceeding So
per week, anG in the club at cost.
Tuition in the Languages 81, Higher English Sc Com
NOR English branches IS, for the regular term Of four
teen weeks and for the winter which will continue
ten weeks, in the proportion Extra charge tor
Music.
The summer Term VIII commence April l, 1862. For
particulars address either OF the undersigned.
JOHN NELSON, Prest
A. H. COOLIDGE, Secy.
Leicester Dec g. 1861. d&wGw d6
Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-12
Qrn GOODS.

25 ps CASHMERE rLAIDS, l23c a yard.
IS ps GOOD STYLE PRINTS, from 81 to Sc per yard,
asst colors.
80 ps GOOD STYLE DE LANES best goods at 2Oc
, 1861-11-14

to persons about visiting foreign countries. The
order directs that every passenger found outside
the country be examined by the police, who are
to see that all have passports.
We are officially informed that the great
naval expedition sailed without written orders.
BOsToN, Oct. 3Tst
The steamer State of Maine arrived, and
landed the State prisoners at Fort Warren, to-
day.
, 1861-11-14
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIc AUCTION ON
w sATtRDAY ne a.rund DAY Of November, between the
hours n 10 0,k And the setting of The the Donaton
Calm Of Mnisn p Gait. deceas sitnate In Fierce Cnaniy
". T., and lying taai % MccaWs farm, containing 10
coodanf saie 10 per cent. At time of sale, and
half when sae eounned BY Probate Court and deed exc
n"ss saA msftFasr. -
, 1861-11-14
cARPENTERING.
Window SASHHS. BLINDS. ETE..
MADE TO ORDER.

THE sUDscRIBEII, HAVING COMPLETED
the furnishing 9f his establishment with the requisite
chneFy prepared with dispatch, the
Norkmanlke manner al orders In his line The machinery
IN my establishment gives facilities for executing work
such - are possessed by else the Found Parties
desiring Doors window Sashes nd Brachtts Scroll work.
etc. can obtain them short notice al reasonable rates
Contracts VIII be entered into for the erection Of budngs
done.
Orders from an parts Of the sound respectfully solicited
and entire satisfaction guaranteed.
R0RERr GOODBuRS,
SisN EteilaeOou. W. =.
, 1861-11-14

Cen Fremont and staff arrived here yesterday
with BentOn's cadets. Col. Carr's cavalry, Maj.
Holman's sbarp-shOoters and Gen. Sigel's COM
mand arrived the same day, and were received
with delight. .-
The loss Of Fremonts body guard, in their
desperate charge Of Friday last was fifteen killed.
twenty three wounded and twenty missing
Three Of the wounded have since died The
rebel loss is sixty killed and four hundred wound
cd. They were commanded by Col. A. S. John.
son, Frazer, Price aud Turner, the latter two Of
whom are said to have been killed.
, 1861-11-14

~ he Mission woplsn Mus We wHkELER awIIeo1l
Sewing NaeIBes IN making up Ovsrhrl couia au|, ~
they lrom forty 70 at oouIanfv, nnd a. I1nl
out he fhest goods m ne uiaihol tl.I
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@Proscription and persecution have

@Proscription and persecution have
had the same effect in Maryland which
they have had in other countries and in
other ages. They have made few hypo-
critics who will desert the Government the
very moment it is their interest to do so,
or as soon as they can do it with safety to
themselves One thing is patent to all
honest and intelligent minds, and that is,
that Lincoln has neither strengthened his
friends nor weakened his opponents by
his Strafford-like course of action in this
State. On the contrary, he has alienated
from the Union party many men who
were honestly favorable to the Govern
ment in the beginning of the war, but
who have now become, in consequence of
his oppressive and illegal conduct towards
their peace friends and neighbors, aud
particularly for his Cromwellian outra ge
upon the Legislature of Maryland and the
freedom of the Independent Press, the
most bitter and daring of his enemies
But while accessions to the great Peace
movement in Maryland from the war or
Union party are to be enumerated by hun
dreds, it has loss little or nothing of its
original strength by assertions to the enc
my. Since the war began, it would be
difficult to name single man of distinc-
ton or influence in the State that was in
favor of peace, who is now in favor of war.
Indeed, the friends of peace and constitu-
tional Government in Maryland have ev-
cry incentive and encouragement to labor
for the success of their ticket in the COM
ing election. They have cause to labor
for which is we'll worthy their best exer,
tions. Its success depends upon them
selves. One-half the energy, which is
exerted to carry an ordinary partizan elec-
ton, will now be sufficient to place Mary.
land permanently on the side of peace
Will it be withheld? We are confident
that it will not. On the contrary, we be-
lieve that it will be redoubled, and that nc
honorable effort will be spared to make the
victory which awaits the Peace Party in
November next decisive of the true posi-
ton of Maryland on the war question fol
all time to come.
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OTE THE PEACE TICKET !.
Peace and War.

"There has been so much said of late
in contempt of peace men and in favor
of war, that the ideas of some people on
the subject Gf they ever had any distinct
ones) have become decidedly muddled.-
They seem actually to think WAR is
something to be desired, not deplored, and
that Peace is to be avoided, not sought
for and prayed for. To be in favor of
War is to be 'all right even with most of
the clergy, while to be Peace man is
to be so odious with certain warlike class
(not over stocked with courage Or brains)
that they would do something dreadful if
they dared. At least one would think so,
to hear them talk. In short, the whole
subject is turned wrong side up in their
minds. They have forgotten that Peace is
the great boon of nations-War the great
curse that Peace is the friend, the foster
mother of science, art, civilization, indus
try-War the stern foe of than all that
Peace brings posperity, happiness, content
ment to the homes of the masses, while
War stalks into them with poverty and
desolation. Peace therefore, is always to be
desired 80 long as it can be done with
honor-War always to be avoided, except
as an alternative to dishonor. Peace is an
end to be desired, yea, coveted, in and of
itself. War is not an end, but means,
hateful in every aspect, end to be sustained
only to avoid still greater calamity.
"These are the true relations of Peace
and War. Only narrow fanatical minds
could by any possibility reverse or con-
found them" ....
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THE UNION SAVERS.

These patriots exclaim, when told that
this war will produce heavy taxation, that
they would spend their last dollar in the
cause. But when the last dollar is gone
what will they do then? The war will not
be over. Suppose after spending their
last dollar, the South will not acknowledge
herself conquered; what then will be done.
There is nothing left but to make peace,
and separate. Would it not be better to
make the peace before the last dollar is
spent? The spending of this last dollar
ruins us and all the loyal States.
Why put the ruin of the country on the
chances of copquering the South. If the
war continue any length Of time, we are
utterly ruined, whether We conquer Or not.
But there are no grounds for hope of con-
qnest, and that last dollar will soon be
spent. The Government is now borrowing
at the rate of interest which makes it
equal to shave of twenty per cent, and
if they pay twenty per cent. now, what
will they pay next summer, when the debt
will be doubled? ........ ...s.
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UNION MEN MEANS WAR MEN.

And what is to grow out of this war but
Disunion and taxation. Free born Amer
lean citizens can't be whipped into SUBJ
mission. Six months ago this war began;
there was only seven States in rebellion,
now there is thirteen. The expenses of
the Government is a million and half a
day. At this rate, we shall owe eight hun
dred millions by next May, and this debt
will bear interest of 7 $40 per cent, max
ing it equal to thousand millions at six
per cent. This debt cannot end the war.
The South have now half million of
soldiers under arms to fight as they believe
for the dearest rights of freemen; no mat
ter what we think of it, they think they
are fighting for civil liberty against mil
tary despotism, and no man has ever heard
of people being conquered as brave as
the South: who are fighting for their fire.
sides and for their liberties
Next summer the war if continued will
stand about as it does now; both parties
will have large armies in the field, and
the Government debt will be thousand
millions. The proportion of the interest
of that debt, which this State would have
to pay, amounts to two millions q year.
Do the Union men or the war men want
to tax us to this amount? If the war con-
tinues the taxes must come, and besides, if
the war continues, Maryland must furnish
her quota of soldiers, and if these will
not volunteer they must be drafted. Ev-
cry man who is in favor of this war,
must be in favor of furnishing the men
and money for carrying on the war; it can
not be carried on without them. If the
Union war men are elected, Maryland is
pledged to furnish her share of men and
money.
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wants, claiming royal prerogatives and ex-
ercising unlimited power, and in the name
and under the flag of the Union, ruthless
ly destroying the Constitution by which
alone the Union was created and exists
They are in fact the greatest enemies of
the Union, and liable to Impeachment for
their violations of the Constitution they
have sworn to support. And yet there
are men in Maryland so debased-so dead
to every principle of liberty, that they are
not only willing to bend their necks and
put on the collar of "loyalty," but would
also plunge the State into war, and take
up arms to establish the power of these
tyrants and destroy their own rights.
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T H E SOUTHERN GIS.

and eft they aoant to keep slaves IN MIS-
souri, they must Keep Lanes brigade out"
By way of killing, instead of scotching the
snake - rebellion, The comprehensively
plumbers and burns all kinds of property,
not distinguishing nicely between friends
and foes.
The Secretary of War instructs General
Fremont that he '<has been informed that
the troops of General Lanes command are
committing depredations on our friends in
western Missouri" and is "in expectation
that the proper corrective (what p will be
applied?
These Generals are still doing the coun,
try good service, "entorci,g tile la,cs, "
teaching the people to respect them and tc
maintain the Government"
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Sound Doctrine -!

@-" Any people, anywhere, being inclined,
and having the power, have right to raise up
and shake off the existing form Of Government
and form new one which suits them better -
This is most sacred Right-a Right which,
we hope and believe, is to Gberate the world
Nor is this right confined to cases where the
whole people of an existing government may
choose to exercise it. Any portion of such
people that can, may revolutionize, and make
their own of so much Of the territory as they in-
habit. More than this, a majority of any such
people may revolutionize, putting down a mi
nority interminged WITH or near about them,
who may oppose their movements. 1t is quail
ty of revolution not to go by old lines or old
laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. !"
Abraham hncoln's Speech in Congress Janua-
w II, 1913.
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MIR. BUCHANAN's LETTER.

We publish, in another column, says
the New York Caucasian, the brief letter
of ex-President Buchanan, fully endorsing
the war policy of Mr.. Lincoln, and calling
on the volunteers of Pennsylvania to rally
to the support of the Administration
We will not presume to say that Mr.. Blu.
chanan is wrong in this course, and his
patriotism and love of country, after forty
years of service in its behalf, cannot be
questioned. But if right now he certainly
was wrong six months ago, when he ut
terly refused to employ force of any kind
against the secessionists. His message,
at the last session of Congress, was be-
lieved by his friends and warmest supper
tiers to be unanswerable, and it was, we
believe, then designed that this message
should be his defense before the bar of
posterity for his course on an occasion so
entirely unprecedented in the annals of
mankind. Seven of the States that were
denied any participation in the election
of Mr.. Lincoln seeded and withdrew from
the Union, and Mr.. Buchanan was clam
orously called on by portion of the peo-
pie to coerce them back into the position
they had abandoned. He refused to do
this-to strengthen the posts still in pos
session of the Federal Government, or to
do anything whatever, except to order
sufficient force to Washington to insure
the peaceful Inauguration of Mr.. Lincoln.
On the meeting of Congress, he gave his
reasons for this "polcy of peace" He
declared "that the men who formed the
government made no provision for such
state of things-neither for secession nor
coercion-for the peaceful separation of
the States nor the .torci6le union of the
States; but, on the contrary, that they left
both of these things to the future, with
the confident assurance that the "Union"
would prove such benefit to all the States
that none would be willing to give up
these benefits, and should it ever prove
otherwise, should the government ever be
perverted into an instrument of mischief
to any Of the States, that then by making.
no provision for their coercion or forcible
retention in the Union, they believed they
were doing posterity an almost equal ben.
eht to the former.
Such was the reasoning and such the
position of Mr. Buchanan's message at the
last Congress- position then universally
endorsed by all except the radical portion
of Mr. Lincoln's own party, but now,
strangely indeed, repudiated by Mr.. Buch-
anan himself! His petty pretence about
I the attack on Fort Sumter is not worth
moments consideration. If coercion
was ever right or justifable, it was, as-the
Republicans declare, right at ti- beginning
OF the secession movemeut-indeed, was
not only right then if it be so now, but it
was an imperative and sacred duty on the
part of Mr.. Buchanan to crush" it out
at the start, and if his present views are
correct, posterity will hold him to terrible
responsibility.
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-10-26
ENFORCING THE LAWS.

Congress at its late session enacted hat
whenever " during the present insurrec-
ton " the owner of slaves permitted or re-
quired them to take up arms against the
United States," or to work or to be en-
ployed in or upon any fort, navy yard,
dock, armory, ship, intrenchment, or in
any military Or naval service whatsoever
against the Government" &c., then the
owners right to such slaves shall be for
feited. Language could not more precisely
describe and define the slaves to be freed
under the terms of this law; no common
maq could mistake the specifications.
But Major General Fremont is not q COM
mon man. Called into the field to enforce
the tasos of the United States, he proclaims
that all the slaves of all the "rebels in
his district shall have their "artifcial bur-
dens" removed, and sets to work energeti-
, cally to execute deeds of manumission.
The north and west were in perfect
ecstacy at this free reading, and lest the
General should monopolise all the glory,
the press took pains to inform us that he
was acting under special orders from WASH
ington.
The subservient Legislature of Kentucky
was staggered in its loyalty; it was neces-
sary to straighten it up. So the President
wrote polite note to the General limiting
that he had been little over-zealous.-
Whereupon, according to Col. Frank Blair,
he contented himself by sending abroad
more of the original proclamations, being,
as the Col. says, the best thing he had done
since he assumed command, and undoubted-
ly too good to be lost. 5.ss. .
This path to fame was too popular and
easy not be travelled, and General Lane,
of Kansas, determined on it to out-strip his
illustrious predecessor. His version is that
| all slaucs whatsoever are to be set free,
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From the London Post, (Ssmi-o6cial.)
The Recognition of the Southern Confed-
eracy Not Remote.

Up to the present time the Confeder-
ates have succeeded in every field-at
Bull Run, Springfield and Lexington
How is the question of secession to be de-
cided? According to the modern theory
of European nations, as exhibited in the
cases of tn" revolted American colonies,
of Spain, Greece, and Belgium, de facto
independence must be recognized. The
time, perhaps, has not arrived when this
question can be put to any foreign State,
but the fact of virtual independence new
ertheless exists, and the period of decision
cannot be long postponed. But why are
the American people to continue an uu-
necessary and fratricidal war, which all
experience, up to the present time, shows
is unlikely to be accompanied by any last
ing triumphs? On the plainest grounds
of humanity, compromise would be inf,
nitely preferable to a continuance of hos
tilities.
The North now hopes by its successful
naval expeditions, to seize the cotton crops
of the South, and to provide for the ne
cessities of European manufacture. But
we are at loss to know by what process
the free-traders of the South can be recon-
ciled to the prohibitory and exclusive tar
ifs Of the North. We lament the un-
happy differences which now appears to
be almost irreconcilable; we admit the
impossibility of expecting the South to
contribute to the expenses of war waged
for its conquest and subjugation; but we
still have CLEAN of hope, when, consider
ing the protracted and mutual hesitation
and delay of the belligerents, we see in
the not distant horizon the acknowledge
ment of that principle of separation and
of individual State sovereignty which is
now equally valid and true as it was when
the United States first achieved their in
dependence. Foreign nations have only
to keep aloof from the contest. Preml-
ture recognition would be both unjust and
inexpedient; but the course of events ap-
pears to be forcing some action in this d.
rection upon foreign Governments. Wise
and timely compromise, accompanied by
the amicable renewal of political and COM
mercial relations, ought to be the policy
of the Federal Government; but whether
this lesson has been taught, is problem
which must be left to future history; at
present, it is speculation not sufficiently
illustrated by the small skirmishes which
for some time past have marked the pro-
gress of the American civil war; e.j b.
-$+e-s--- isi ~
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u.s." If such struggle is once begun, and the
in arms against those of the other in doubtful
conflict, let the battle result as it may there will
be an end of the union and with it an end of the
hope of freedom. The victory of the injured
would not secure to them the blessings of lber-
ty; it would avenge their wrongs, but they
would themselves share in the common ruin
The constitution can not be maintained, nor
the union preserved, in opposition to public feel
ing, by the mere coercive powers confded to the
Government" .-Andrew jackson, in his Fare
aceU address,