The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-03-01

country ever saw so much blood split as
there will be if they try to prevent it. The
democracy have ruled SO long that they care
hut little whether the country is ruined or
not. they have stolen all that is worth steal
mo You never saw such times as we are
having now. Men cannot get work, and
have nothing to live upon. 1t is truly dis
trpss;no. You cannot get dollar in money
for ANYTHING. Men who were rich aiew weeks
ago are not worth anything now. Fifteen or
twenty deeds of trust are making daily and
without great change, and that soon' there
will be sale for nothing but provisions and
munitions of war;"
The Union feeling in North Carolina is in
creasing. A letter from Raleigh, dated the
2lst, says:
"North Carolina will follow the example OF
Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri on the 18th
inst, and cast her vote Overwhelmingly IN ia
yor of the preservation of the Union. The
seccssionists are growing desperate. They
see the Handwriting on the WALL which fore
tells their doom. In order, however, to avert
the blow which they know will betheir death
blow, they resort to every stratagem which
their wicked hearts can devise in order to ex-
cite the minds and inAame the passions of
the friends of the Union. They are hourly
starting and circulating the most improbable
stories to this end, and before the friends OF
the Union can refute one of them, half-a-doz-
en- others more startling than the first are
started on their heels. But the friends of
the Union have found them out, and they
now discredit everything emanating from Sc
cessionists. Notwithstanding the desperate
game they are playing, l assure you we shall
whip them out in this state, two to one, and,
very probably, four to one"
The Savannah KepuDncan states that the
three New York vessels seized by Gov Brown
"are of sufficient value to make DIP the loss
ION the guns seized in New York; and We
presume the governor will forthwith adver-
tise them for sale at the expiration of thirty
days, unless the arms shall be laid down in
Savannah in the meantime" The governor
of New York has informed the owners of the
vessels he can do nothing for them. They
must appeal to the courts of Georgia and Of
the United States, and failing there, he does
Iol oouot luS SeIlel di SONtIHIleIll III ScCutc
for them tull reparaton.
u Horace Maynard of Tennessee Geliv-
cred an address before the order of United
Americans in New York, Friday, and read
the following extract from patriotic letter
of a Southern naval officer:
SHOULD l command a ship-Southern man
that AMI tell you now and beforehand,
that | will return her, with the blessing of
God, to the authorities of that government
which honored and entrusted me with her
command at every risk and peril, if am to
decide it. sword in hard on my quarterback.
will tell you more than that-that l will
stand by the old stars and stripes whilst
there is Il single star in the square union OF
it, which | think is pretty common senti-
ment among all of US. We have too long
reveled in the delicious pride of unfurling
this glorious banner in foreign waters, at s
clock, to the tune of the Star-Spangled Ban
ner, with full band of music, to turn upon
It now, in this day of peril, and strike il
down. No. sir, don't do it. | pray God |
may be buried in its folds. love every col.
OF, every star, every stripe of it."