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The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-08

l'beftSto go. l was treated very kindly,
and never mot more gentlomanly officers
tEsu thoy were.
A Cincinnati paper publishes the above
statement, andefomarkst
IIo [Capt, Colherl did not know thcn,
nor when he wrote tho letter wo have print
cd, that whom ho "wont on" an attempt was
mado to fire into his helpless boat, a hoentS.
four pouader loaded ,Dih chdm.shot ! But
such was tho fact, as coolly declared in
many Southern papers, including the Vicks.
burg Whg. Tho twenty -four poundcr,
Orammed with ohain.shot, was directed at
tho boat and tho match applied! Fortn-
natcly. owing to the awkwardness of tho
Mississippi urtilerymen. the priming was
wot, and tho gun missed fire. BY tho time
tho prming had been renewed, the boat has
passed out of tho range, and wss poaceably,
all hands utterly unconscious OF olt1nso or
danger, landing at the Wharf.bOat, whoro
she was vallantly boarded by the Mississippi
troops. takon back to tho battery, and the
Captain escorted by forty soldiers TO tho
presence of tho august commander OF the
detachment, to DO intorrogatod, pronounced
perfect gentoman and dismissed. Sup
pOso tho twenty-tOur pOunder had been
lcFDlCu uCCuGutCIY at luO DOdt, anu hdu
boon discharged, the effect would havo boon
murdorous. 1t would havo boon wonderful
! if some of tho missiles had not penetrated
! tho boilers, when the sonldng steam would
havo destroyed those spared by tho chain
shot. Tho battery was thrco hundred yards
above tho wharf boat, tho object being to
supervise dorm boats. Why was IL not Mt
4 tho wharf boat or below: Wo can see no
reason why not, unless there was design
to mako All opportunity of firing into some
boat proceeding in ignorance of tho rcgula
} tions, Tho whole transaction would have
been disgrace to the Algerinos forty years
ago. Wo don't bolicto there is II king or a
! tribo of Cunnihals in the South Sea lsands
or in Africa. who would contriyo sohcmC
of piracy or murder moro essentially bar
5arous than this, for which the Governor oI
Mississippi must be held responsible.
J This crimo Of tho Governor of Mississippi
has all tho clements of treason and piracy
combined. No civilized nation would be
guilty of such an outrage, II requires no
gift of prophecy to know that the millions
of tho Great West, in navigating the Father
Wsters, will not long consent to pass under
tho guns of the piratical Kingdom of Mis-
sissippi, or that, if such things are 20 con
tinue, all civilized nations will finally unite
to oxtormnato tho perpetrators from th'
faco of tho Garth.
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Propositions for Adjustment.

Thoro are three prominent propositions
that of the majority of the Coumittoo OF
Thirty-Thrce
/. There is Mr.. Adams proposition.
This proposes to furnish constitutional
guaranty that the Federal Government
will never hereafter interfere with slavery
d in the States. and to pass legislative act
allowing all territory south OF 36 deg, 30
min TO come in as State, with or With
out Slavery, as the Territory may choose.
IL. What is known as the Border
State proposition. This is TO prohibit
slavery north of SO deg. 30 min; and,
below that line, TO stipulate that neither
Congress nor the Territorial authorities
shall ever introduce or exclude slavery,
but leave it to fight its own way, under
the protection OF the Federal CourtsI or,
on the other hand, to be discouraged by
the Executive Government, or encouraged,
Just according to the procIivitics of the
Executive for the time being. This plan
also favors incidental points in aid Of
slavery.
III. The main proposition Of the slave
holders, supported by Mr.. Crittenden,
and which covers all their claims. This
is to establish slavery by constitutional
guaranty in all the existing territory
south of 80 deg. 80 min, and all tha! may
be hereafter acquired, Also, to allow
the transit OF slaves through the Free
States, and to distinctly recognize them
as property by the Constitution.
Senator Wado makes a proposition, OF
tho nature Of compromise, which large
majority of tho people will consider por-
fectly Just, aud whioh tho Government may
be compelled to adopt, when all othcrs have
failod, 1t is thus stated by the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune:
81 am of the opinion, as a Christian
"man," said old Ben. Wade, "that two
''hundred Of the leaders OF this conspiracy
"should be hung as traitors. If the
"South thinks that number too great, anc
"will give up one hundred and fifty,
"will compromise on that, so that thC
"Union may be saved !"
Every intelligent reader must obSorv
that oil these propositions, except Senator
Wado's, are nero concessions to tho Slav,
Power, differing only in magnitude. Tho.
cannot properly be called compromises. n
tho rebellious party, for whose benefit the
are made, yield nothing-not oven th
vaunted right to withdraw from tho Union
whonover thcy may desire to do 30, whic
will be as often as their selfish and unprin
cipled demands fail to be granted. The
policy of concession has always rulcd til
country. and tho result may be seen In tn
present Inmontabc condition of affairs. I
pursuo that policy now, would, in our opir
ion, BIO but offering bounty on traitors.
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Kansas.

The following are The State officers OF
Kansas eleted under the WyanGotte Con-
stitu,ion, and who will administer the new
State government:
Govsrnor Charles Robinson, formerly
OF Massachusetts,.
Lieutenant GoUernor-J. p. Root, for
merly OF Connecticut. ..-s .......
Secretary of State-J. w. Robinson,
formerly OF Maine. H.r
TreaSurer-Wiliam Tholen, formerly
of New York. ..f .s,. ''a.
Aaditor--GeOrge W. Hillyer, formerly
OF Ohio.
Superintendent Of Public Instruction :
w. r.. Griffith. formerly Of Illinois. ,.,-.
Chief Justics-Thomas Ewing, Jr,,
formerly Of Ohio. -. I..-a--. i.r..
Associate Juiices---Samuel d. Kingman
formerly of Of Kentucky, and Lawrence
Bailey, formerly Of New Hampshire. '
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John A, Dix All Right.

Our new Secretary Of the Treasury is
sound upon the treason question. In our
dispatches this morning will be found the
dispatch which he sent relative TO the
seizure of the revenue cutter McClelland.
lie tells the special agent OF the Treasury
at New Orleans 10 direct the Lieutenant
to take charge Of the cutter, and if Cap
tain Brushwood undertakes to interfere,
to treat him MS common mutineer-that
is hang him at the yard-arm. II he at
tempts 10 haul down the National flag.
Lieut.. Caldwell is told TO shoot him ON
tic spot! That is the kind of talk VIC
want from Washington. Unfortunately
the dispatch did not reach its destination
being arrested upon its way by Ala6amG
rebels, but one such sentence is worth {
dozen compromises" Had we had suct
spirit in The Presidential chair. The
Southern rebellion would be to-day
thing OF the past, and It's leaders, insteaC
Of boldly visiting Washington and do
manding the evacuation OF Fort Sumter
would not dare TO show themselves within
twenty miles of a Federal officer. Their,
is ring of the old Jackson spirit in tn
last line Of that dispatcb--a spirit whicl
would hang up a traitor as il would dog
be that traitor common sailor, rebellinj
against authority, or a Yancey, Hayne
or Brushwood. - Cleveland Leader.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

IN HE following persons have filed their ae-
i. counts in ,he Probate Office Of Geauga Cos
Ohio, for settlement, viz;
Charles Goodrich, administrator Of David B.
Deweys estate; 2. Hitchcock, executor OF the
estate of Abigail Merriman, deceased; Rufus u,
Risley, administrator of the estate OF yehiel VIII
cox deceased; and Laura Turner and J. e. Ste
phenson, executors of Austin Turner, dcceased.--
Said accounts will stand for hearing il the Pro-
in Chardon on the 23d day of February, A. ID.
1861, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, until which Time oil
interested may except.
NJ. c. CANFIELD, Probate Judge.
Chardon, Feb. LIST 1861. 5I7wsy
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Correspondence ofihe Jc6ersonian Democrat
Letter from a Geauga Boy in Missouri
Tho "Irrepressible Conflict"
IRoNroN, IRoN Co.. Mo-,

lRONTON, lWON OO.s NlOs,
January 30, 1861.
Error DEMOCRAT While the great
political cauldron is boiling ovor with SO.
cossion" and "Dsuuion," l thought 1t well
to eivo you an itom from Missouri, as she,
occupying tho position sho docs IN TINS
onco. united Republic, is looked upon with
interest by all tho States. You arc aware,
orc this, that, with some difficulty, our Leg
islature has called State Conventiou to
take into consideration tho pcrilous state OF
tho Union. This Convention meets on tho
2sth of February next, aud. thank God,
they have power only to recommend meas
ures If they recommend Secession, IL
will DO referred TO The people. and It IS my
candid opinion that the honest yoomanry OF
tho State will trample it beneath their feet
and pledge Missouri to tho Union. Al
though six States havo already passed the
Ordnance of Secession, declaring tber IN
dependence, Missouri knows that long and
bloody war must ensue to gam or lose that
Independence, and she is not prepared to
procipitato herself into inevitable rum
Besides. if she socodes, sho wishes to know
to what she is going to attach hefselt'-
What is this Southern Contedoraoy TO he =;
Is it to bo Kingdom or an Empire VINO
is TO bo King or Emperor Ihese are
grave questions, aud tho rustics OF Missouri
are not TO be "gutted' into Secession.
Your issue Of Jan. oath is before mo, aud
am astonished (Oat tho ire-eating charge
OF your Georgia correspondent Mr.. Rose
Ho certainly must DO policy man, not &c
DO classed among those who
"KGow their rights.
Aud, knowing. dare TantaiD.
a \ Ia, lnvn
are among Shareholders, and can tell yor
who arc making this much ado about notn
ine." They arc, principally, non .sIavohold
ers, transient mon, who never owned I
"ngger." and who are not even able to hir'
one. TEey arc tho onos, and, oftentimes
arc Northern men, who DO it for policy
sake. who are creating all this disturbance
and making all this fuss about sour niggers.
Vigilance Committees are all around US
and occasionally we hear of an 'insurrection
For theso uprisings of negroes stakeholder
| themselves arc responsible. Before th'
election, they rrpected that Lincoln woul'
bo elected, aud told thoir slaves so. The
told them, also, if he was elected, he ,com
sci them all free, and whore does the ours
fall q! Voriy, upon their own heads an,
at night they lio in fear of being assassiDate
by their own "propsrty." Such are tn
blessings of Slavery
Before the election, tho Constitution wa
good enough for euery party Why is
not vet (: Why must tho Constitution b
altered Only to crafty the whins an
imagined wrongs of Southern political dem
agogues. Let us cling firmly to tho ol
Ship of State, over which float the 'broa
stripes and bright stars" and God wi
"spoed tho Right {!
- Yours, for tho Union.
A GEAUGA BOY.
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New YoRK, Feb. 9th.--A special Albany dis.
patch 10 the Herald says that Gov. Morgan re-.
ceiyed dispatch from Gov Brown, OF Louisiana,
demanding the immediate restoration OF mus
kets seized on board the steamer Monticello. The
Governor has not yet replied.
ToRoNro, Feb. 5th I'm the Anderson case,
precedence has been given to the Canadian over
the English writ oi hobeas corpus, The case will
be argued on Friday, before the Court Of Common
Pleas. .t.rI ..5. t.rH10 a 4.
New YoRB, Feb. 5.-The results from Virginia
show probable triumph ofthe Union candidates
iof the Convention,
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-08

EVTbe assistant Treasurer at New
Orleans refuses to give up the coin
and bullion in the branch mint, TO
the amount of some $3.50 900, 10 The
order OF Secretary Dix, on the ground
thai the branch mist has been taken pos
session OF by the State of Louisiana. I'M
mediately on receipt Of this news the
President called an extraordinary session
Of the Cabinet, and.ihe whole subject was
considered. !, is understood that Sena-
tors Benjamin and Slidell were sent for to
know il they were aware Of this transac'
tiop. l.| ..
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-08

1s> Tho Dorder.Stato Convention is now
in session at Washington, Ex.Prosidcnt
Tyler presiding. A resolution has been
adopr cd to sit tho ontire session, ,gwitlI closed
doors. A Convention of the Seeding States
is also In session at Montgomery, Alabama,
Ex Secretary Cobb acting as President.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-08

OK tho 3lst ult Mr.. Seward presented a
petition in the United S;ates Senate, from
citizens Of New York. for the passage of
resolutions substantially the same as the
Border State resolutions. Tho petition was
signed by $4,000 people. and is twelve hun
dred foet lepg.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-08

Rg-The Times Washington cores
pondent intimates that Fort Sumter has
been reinforced by the Steamer Brooklyn,
which landed upwards Of 800 troops at the
Fort by means Of row boats with mufiied
oars. $50 -.|' .-.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-08

1>J-A dispatch from Pensacola snysi "A truce
has been concluded, The Mississippans return
Oh Monday, and the Alabama troops emain until
relieved" The traitors don't exactly like the up.
pearanoe Of things about Fort Pickons.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-08

Egvirginia Convention meets febru'
airy l3. North Carolina Convention,
February 10. Arkansas. February 25.
Tennessee, February 28. Mary land,
Delaware and Kentucky refuse TO cal
Conventions. February 18Th, the votes
for President and Vice President will be
counted and declared officially in .hi
u. S. Senate.
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SlIEERnEF,S SALE.

TN obedience to the requirements OF aH<()rdr,d
J. SAFE issued ont OF the O4iI;e Ol the Clerk OF tho
Court of Com. Pleas Of Geouga County and Sine
of Ohio wherein George w. Garfield is plaintiff,
and james Merritipd and others are delenda nts,
to me directed and delivered, have eaused TO be
appraised aud shall offer for sale at Public Aro.
ton, attae. door Of the Court House in Chardon,
in SAID County,
On the Ilih day Of March. Il d. 1861.
at O'Clock of said day, the following described
real estate and premises TO wit; Situate in the
township OF Auburn, being number six in tho
eighth range OF townships in the Connecticut
Western Reserve. i'll the State O Ohio, and which
is also in tie County Of Geauga, and sknown by
being bounded follows. commencing in tho
c,nter OF the State road leading from Chaldon 10
Ravenna at the south west corner oi lands owned
by Atvrus Snow; thence east by lands OF Alvirus
Snow to land owned by Alvirus Snow on the east;
Scudder 10 the center Ol the east and west Ct N er
road: thence west in the center OF said County
road to the center Of the State road; thence south
in the center of SAID road TO the place OF Begin
ming, containing one hundred and iity.two neTes
OF land. Also. ono other piece oi land, bounded
and described as follows: commencing M the
center of the State Road, at the south. east COR
ner OF a piece or land ownel by Jonathan Bur-
nett; thence south deg. west 10 chains and IA
links; thence west in center OF road BE chains SO
| links; thence north u deg, west 10 chains and
| &c links; thence east 80 chaius aud SO links to
the place Of beginning, containing "a and 33-loo
! acres of land, be the same more or less but sub
! ect 10 all legal highways. Said piece first above
/ described appraised at Si5G0. Said piece last
ubove described appraised at Sl045
| TERMS OF SALE-Cash in hand.
| f.. G. WHITE, Sheriff.
Sheriff>s Office Geauga:
Coutny, Feb Slh, 1861. oIew'
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TBE SoutherneVs threaten to con6scate Doug
las plantation and negroes OF the South, unless
he keeps still at Washington. or stands by them
in their Secession movements. This explains the
Judges position against coercion,
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NErNMRG

LNROM the premises Of the subscriber, about i've
Il weeks since, -Four Ileifer Calyes,-two
of them entirely red one line back and one s2cs-
ted Any information OF the whereabouts OF the
above will be gladly received, and all reasonable
expenses paid. S. JOHNSON;
Little Mountain, Dec. 10Th, 1860 '2ws74
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NOTARY PUBLIC.

~ w. MUNSELL, having been appointed
~. and qualified Notary Public for Geauga
Counry2is prepared to luke Deposilions, admin
lister oalhs, and take ncknowledgmenls OF deeds,
&c, at all times. , G. w. MUNSELL:
Chardon, Jan 25th, 1861. 5I6h
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NOTICE.

ENHE Undersigned been appointed and
L qualified as Executor ol the estate 0fFaui
Hnnnnm' ecensed. late ol Bainbridge, Geauga
County Ohio HORACE COWLES.
Bainbridge, Jan. 25th, 1861, E s16ws
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TNuE bes, assortment of CUTLERY keP! in
town is at WILKINS u KELLEYS'
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-02-19

EDMUND RANDoLPH.-The Shasta Courier,
in speaking Of the Senatorial aspirants, says
that Edmund Randolph supported and vo-
ted for Bell and Everett. We think the
Courier Is mistaken. Randolph took but
little part in the late canvass-in fact he
could not, for the reason that he was en-
gagged at the time as counsel in the most
important suit ever tried in the State; but
he authorized the announcement to be made
that he would speak at the Douglas barbe-
cue in Nevada if the argument in the Al
maiden case was concluded in time. We
have other reasons to believe that Randolph
supported aud voted for Douglas, and none
whatever to suppose that he was in favor OF
Bell and Everett.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-02-19

THE RESOLUTIONS which passed the As
sembly, endorsing the Crittonden cOmpro-
mise aud the position Of Douglas and Breck-
inridge, were discussed In the Senate on
Saturday. A motion 30 strike out all ex-
cept the simple endorsement of the Critten-
den compromise was lost by q tie vote. II
is stated that the resolution cannot pass the
Senate in it's present form. We notice that
Messrs. Chase and Watt, Of this county, vo-
ted TO endorse the Crlttenden plan, pure
and simple.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-02-19

vETO.-Gov. Downey has vetoed bill
passed by the Legislature, increasing the
salary Of the Judge Of Calaveras county
The Constitution of the State says that the
compensation of County Judges shall nei-
Their be increased nor diminished during the
term for which they are elected, aud the
Governor Is Of the opinion that the prOpOs-
ed increase Of the salary Of the Judge of
Calaveras comes within the spirit and mean
ing Of this clause. The veto was unani-
mously sustained.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-02-19
worth Thinking About.

An old officer of the French army, who
"saw the fall of the Empire in 1874" and
who "wears the St. Helena medal" has ad-
dressed communication to the French or
gan in New York-the Courier des Etats
Unis--in which he predicts the following
results from the dismemberment of the
Union:
The United States, as they now stand, are
respected by all the nations of the earth; but
if they were to divide themselves into two or
three considerations, then would begin recla-
nations from all the powers which might think
themselves entitled to make them.
As | sawthe fall Of the French Empire In
1914 and 1915, and that each power regalned
often more than it had lost, / can tell you what
would happen in America if the United States
should separate and find themselves reduced to
civil war. In the first place, France would re-
take Louisiana, according to ancient treaties;
Spain would reclaim Florida; England would
appropriate Oregon and several other States;
Mexico, under English protection, wouldretak
the territory Of New Mexico, Texas and Cali
fornia; and England might perhaps keep Cali
fornia as an indemnity for the subsidies iur-
nished to the Mexican Government in this war
against the former United States.
Now you will ask me how all these resump-
tions could take place, and by what right; that
is very easy to explain. 1t is Louis Napoleon
who would begin by very simple and logical
process Of reasoning; for every one knows that
Napoleon III aims at consolidating all that Ma
poeon had in view, with regard to foreign
policy. Now, Napoleon /, in 1903, ceded Lou
isiana to the United States for the sum of five
millions Of dollars, which the Government Of
the United States engaged to pay to American
merchants whose goods and ships had been
seized during the wars of the French Republic,
from 1892 to 1901. But as the United States
have not paid the aforesaid five millions, and
as, for more than forty years, we have seen
brought before Congress, session after session.
a French Spoliation bill, which has never been
passed, therefore, as soon as the Union shall
be dissolved, those who claim this sum will ad-
dress themselves to Louis Napoleon, and | have
no doubt, considering his character, that he will
pay their demands and retake louisiana Eng
land who suspects some such thing has al
ready ordered several ships Of war to the Gulf
of Mexico. See how Providence, having such
an instrument as Louis Napoleon to work with
can bring everybody back to harmony.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-02-19
TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 10, 1861.

THE HARBoR DEFENsEs.-The Pony Ex-
press which arrived on Saturday last,
brought telegraphic dispatch from Gen.
Scott to the commanding officer Of the Pa
ci6c Division, directing the immediate oc-
cupation by U. S. soldiers of the San Fran
cisco harbor defenses. Within two hours
after the receipt Of the dispatch Fort Point
was garrisOned by one hundred soldiers,
and AIcatraz Island is also strongly garrl-
soned. AS o precautionary measure, the
order was very proper, and the officers in
command Of the forts have no doubt been
instructed to be on their guard against a
surprise. The placing of the harbor defeu-
ses in condition to resist any sudden at
tack may be considered by some as an overt
act of coercion, but it is menace only to
those who may be plotting to seize the Gov
ernment property for the purpose OF help
ing on the work of secession.