Litchfield enquirer., 1861-01-31

of the seeding States at sll events. Kansas IS at last member of the Union. After.a struggle without precedent in ifs character she has at length been admitted into the Confederacy. The House yesterday conctrred in the amendment oi the Senate and the bill became law. If this had been done two years ago we might have been saved from the embarrassments and perils that now involve the country. Kansas has been kept out of the Union because she was not Q slave state. Every expedient which reckless ingenui- ty could devise has been resorted to from time to time to prevent her admission unless she would availing, and she is at last member of The Fed eral Union.--N. r. Times.
 WE HAVE at last received some definite infor- nation relative to the mission of Col. Hayne to Washington. He was instructed by Gov. Pick ems, it seems, to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter to the State authorities of South Caroli- na, but at the instance of Southern Congressman delayed doing so until he could receive further instructions. It transpired in Executive session of the South Carolina Legislature, that he vii: be again instructed peremptorily to demand the surrender of the Fort--the alternative being an immediate attack upon it.
 PaTRIoTIsa IN GEoRGIA.-THe Mountain Men Stand by the Stars and Str;pes.-A dispatch from Richmond, Virginia, says that information has been received there from Milledgeville, Georgia, to this effect
 Previous to the passage of the secession ordi- nance Tn the Georgia Convention, Harrison W. Riley, prominent citizen of the mountain re- zion, proclaimed that if the State seeded, he would raise party to take possession of the U. s. Mint at Dahlonega, and hold it in the name of the Federal Government
 This caused great excitementat Milledgeville, and the Governor was urged to send military force to Dahlonega, but had not done so at the last accounts.
 The same authority states that the mountain region of Georgia is strongly for the Union. Anti-Secession meetings were held in Pickens County when the news arrived of the passage of the secession ordinance, and the American flag was hoisted and emphatic demonstrations made of resistance to secession.
 NOBLE OLD KENTUCKY has decided against se- cession. The Legislature of the State last week, by large majority, voted adversely to calling 6 convention which has been urged only by seces- sionists The Union men from Kentucky and other border states, especially from Maryland, are congratulating each other at the noble stand taken by Kentucky, while the disunionists ap- pear very much chagrincd.
 A letter received from Frankfort Ky, says that the Legislature passed a resolution author izing the display of the national flag upon the State House, and the firing of thirty-three guns in honor of the Union. The flag was run up, and Committee was appointed to call upon Gov Magoffn to obtain his authority for using can- non. He refused. The Union men then notified him that if he refused the use of the cannon they would take it. TheGovernor then assented, and the salute was fired amid the greatest enthusiasm of the people.
 WASHINGTON correspondent says of the in- auguration of MT. Lincoln: There are two com panies of United States troops, besides the sap pcrs and miners, here now, five at Fort McHenry, and the number will be increased as fast as DOS sible. The militia of the district, who are vari- ousiy estimated from three to ten thousand, ere supposed to be trustworthy There is alsA -~- publican association or club i'll Washington, of six hundred members, together with sundry Wide Awake and German associations, which havo military drill, so that, with the military rIo ;rit fha p.f al N, is likely to enjoy his inauguration in pcace- General Scott is too lame too mount his horse in the procession but, as the head of the army he will sit with Commodore Stewart, the oldest off, cer in the navy, and ride to the Capitol in an open carriage. Mr. Buchanan also declares his purpose to accompany "Old Abe'' in his tri- umphal march, and see him safely inducted as his successor. They will all be present at the grand ball, in the evening, we'll as General Cass, who now says he has wholly laid aside party for the sake of his country, and whose hos tility to all tolerance of treason has increased every day since he vacated his seat in the Cabinet.
 SATURDAY, the 18th, was January 1st, accord ing to the Old Style reckoning of the Greek church, and on that holiday all the bondmen of Russia, twenty millions, were wholly emancipa- ted by the humane Czar, Alexander! That bless ed New Year shall be a White Day through all History-for the transformation of 10000, 900 chattels into frecmen of God, is an event worthy of everlasting remembrance in the progress of the world. Shall there ever come Happy New Year or First of August to Republican Americae
 HE MOST unfeeling outrage which has yet been perpetrated by the Disunionists was con- mitted at New Orleans on the llth inst. A par ty of Louisiana State troops under command of Capt. Bradford, took possession of the United States Marine Hospital about two miles below the city. The patients in the Hospital, number ing two hundred and sixteen, were ordered to be removed-those who were convalescent, immedi- ately, and those who were confined to their beds, soon as possible. The reason assigned for this inhuman action was that the authorities wanted the quarter for their own troops.
 GREAT EXCITEMENT was occasioned in Danbu- " the other day, by reliable report that prom inent Republican firm in New York had ship ped several cargoes of material for balls' to the secessionists. The excitement took differ ent turn on learning that the material was cod .dsh