Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-17

LETTER FROM CONDEMNED FELoN.-The
following letter was addressed TO the San
Francisco Morning Call by Michael Hargain,
who is in the Jail of that city under sentence
of DEATH to be executed on Friday next:
| take the liberty of addressing these few
lines to you, as | have no other medium
Dear sirs, tender my heartfelt gratitude fof
the gentlemanly and Christian feelings you
have exhibited since the melancholy occur
renee happened. Yours is the only paper
that ever gave me justice. l never had any
lenity shown me, which you are aware Of
yourself They were determined to have me
convicted. because | was poor, and almost a
stranger here. What friends | have, they
have done all they could for me. May the
Almighty Goe reward them and You; that is
my iervent prayer, night and day, ard will
be whilst | have breath. There is a good
and just God, and he knows the most secret
thoughts OF our hearts, and he knows the
love and feelings had for my wife and
helpless family. | expect to lie before the
Judge of Judges in Il few days more, and He
knows my torturcs of mind, body and soul
that bore through wicked wretchea thot are
walking the streets, eXulting at my downfall.
But God forgive them all; | forgive them.
May the Almighty God bless you and yours,
for the Justice you lave done men
Yours, MICHAEL uARGAGN,
A poor, heart broken, condemned prisoner.
May God bless You all
The SEcEssIoNIsTs IN DELAwARE-There is
says the Atlas st. Louis correspondent. an
insignificant little faction of Secessionists in
Delaware, led on 10y Senator Bayard and his
friends, who are now in Convention, probably
at Dover, as they called Peace Convention
to meet at that place on the 2Sth ult From
the character of the men engaged in this
movement, it is clear that when they talk
peace they mean war, and it would not hurt
the feelings of any Union man if the whole
! affair were put down by armed force "Oc-
casiopal," writing from Washington to the
Philadelphia Press, seems to have a fear Of
the Convention lou must not forget that |
apprised YOU, two months ago, of the designs
of these Bayarls to seize Fort Delaware,
opposite Delaware City, and now warn YOU
again ,hat this Peace Convention is another
excuse for inaugurating in Delaware the
sanguinary civil war that now RACES in Mis-
souri, | understand that these Delaware Sc
cessionists have induced the Delaware Rail
| road Company to furnish them with twelve
cars, to take their peace men from Whining
ton to Dover, on the 9th. If the General
Government does not send men TO crush out
this incipiant treason let Philadelphia send
the men to do the work because, if the
Bayards can control Delaware, there is an
end to the commerce o. Philadelphia, and in
short time privatecrs will be lowering in
the neighborhood of her wharves. Let those
who think lam writing panic dispatch re-
call the scenes which have plunged Missouri
into bloody 1nternecne conflict Let them
remember James A. Bayards visit to Mont
gomery, Ala. Let them remember the disarm-
ing of the Union men by Governor Burton
of Delaware, and let them look around them
in Philadelphia, and see the secret traitors
ready to shake hands with the sworn foes of
the Republic.
A rNt W hat 10 Q