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The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-06-08
AIISCEI4I.ANEO
Proclamation of Judge Thompson.


]. George5W Thompson. Que DC The Judges
Nj tho CirclIit Court, ACTING under lle Con-
.titlttion and the laws of l4inia and under
lhe Constitution Of the United States; and
1y mv oath Of office. i1usoscl "a me ly he
STATE. e.of Virginia. III virtue Il the Obligation
voluntarily and selannIly assumed bx the
~ta+e i Ter rati4jSa5;,nof 81 thc Constitution IF
the IFrion Is declare The Constitution of TIL
,-n;ted states. Ana fne laNs made in 15,lrst,
a,,.e. tharanf fhe s,u.se,,ia aw of Tie land.
limo = tha Constitution III laws of ang
Stafa Us tla contrary nofw;t h~ran.E;na .'t
~ ~ zosna 4 "a an.l ha;na I4r fha laws
af tba state. > ca,,-a,..a-8,. &c tie peace. and
las;raus and in5enais,u tal#aintsin 10th Con
t;t,,t;..as .od H. lss- mad@ IS ,,,rs;l:.5,9a
+l.roaf T.. tba t:,;s1fil y. bars-a X III d,,-
,;. bar.I.v N tha rs,.e Vi flse~e eonstifn-
,;.n4and III lavs made HI pursuance there
of H times n pe:sse an.l lHasi arisy. and
wish tAe consent III 81, tGa GOOD teune of tile
fa,,,,,.n,ye.,lrl, a. necessary f,,r tina r1nter
.;... i;4a l;Io,sr nfa,3eFsv and the )sH3lgl
,.tt.,,it. Of banlsii5ess. do call oil The aeed
ei4izan. - obey those wise and s:tlutary laws .
and s. al me ia their fiian and s3la.arv er-
f,,.a,aant IL ehe3;enca themselves. ansl for
III .bment of lie lawless.
i+:-anlv in.oI,aslieaes te Constitutions that
Families NO s,{a "a ji.a. lilortr or property !:
.n1 III ,,aiorties ealal- gao},s. however ntl-
,.eraus they NAV be. or lgv whatever motive
th4v may Le aet,IatesI. are above tllase exalted
80. a,,.r,ls ofh,unan welfare and prosperity.
,nl nndar these individuals and minorities
ara enfiflea "a protection. # naierities.
aet;eg lawIes~]x are above them. then major
;t;as - states. REGARDLESS ii tie Consttution
p;Il ,ul. buf thi- may ps+ i5e llnril the reien
ae la4l..4,..sS anI x;alefs..a IL i,saof;I~tal.
,,.dIs.ll n,,ap sll citizens n yirJue ef those
z,,,~n,nn laws of tha land to stand bv the
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The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-06-08

BALTIMORE, June l.-Ex- Governor Pratt
was arrested last evening at Annapolis BY or
der Of the Government and taken to the
Washington Navy Yard. Il IS rumored that
Ex-Goy. Lowe has also been arrested
Mr.. McLane, late Minister to Mexico, WIS
nominated By the Secessionists il the 4th
Congressional District. tonight.
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and freside relations in the name Of that
peace, the skirts of whose robe will be dabbled
II blood, if YOU remain in arms in virtue of
the holy ties Of relationship and for the pres
eryation Of whatever Of constitutions and the
laws are left, while yet the ruin has not
reached you and US; while the vengeance Of
civil war has not broken up all domestic ties
and the sword Of private revenge has not
crossed Your own thresholds and sprinklel it
with blood. and left your homes and your
households in ruin by all the solemn memo
rles Of the past and the Obligations Of the
present to recognize the wishes Of the people
Of West Virginia to seek theiro happiness
and welfare III d lawful manner ia the
solemn majesty Of those laws and in higher
appeal Of justice and the cry depart, depart
in peace; and give not up West Virginia,
which otherwise viii remain n safety if not
renase to the horrors Of . terrible war
With such large majority neither Eastern
Virginia nor he South will he disposed to CO.
cree Is e their own local and peculiar policy
With such position Is West Virginia occu-
pies SaIafated ~ vast mountain ranges from
Cd Virginia, accessible to the whole West
and the whole North, the whole will be unit
IN our defence. West Virginia never can be
coeleed q conquered Her streams may run
hi9aa ahd hef households may be desolated,
and # this shall he 50, It viii Be the work Of
those ii West Virginia. who remain il arms
60 oppose nld resist ti'e wishes OF the majorl-
q y her people ketna, dishand and let 'is
alone N peace under the constitutions and the
laws and 10 not require those laws and con-
stltutIons 70 he maintained here vt this
mighty saciliee-
,s~y5 ~ el
loving extracts from 9 le''ef Written py ~.
l4eallE, Of the British Navy, give some inter-
esting particulars oi 4 dreadful earthquake.
i, Mil ,g,s .;f,. ot sfaaaaza y Cb;]; ~
., wv, WA II
sS7.4 So 'i4 '''N iii n ''''
sAlAs'- ssise NJ l'fl sA'a ss' 4iseSA aae aise'
the .hoek occurred
top .,na sn+,,.,;ng y ,yN;sb words can aive
10 description. Before reaching be town, i
distance Of some leagues, the roads were vel
nish inpa-safie on account " the iisSures
and deep ie!es opened n the ground hy the
Ill ,i,t,ra,,tI,- .,aa ,rs+t,- ta,vn Will orlq
sar Il has been complete: there not being 4
-in4le house Standing and the streets being
tilted ~ ~lth therulnols remainsoi buildings
rs 7''i, lNoFs . la'iliiies = mere mean
pa.as:a paaaa. sa SD q, a1sa Il,
The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-06-08

TIE WAysIDE ilEARER how great
ara the devices-the depths Of Satan -
He has been studying that heart Of man, with
hi beaten pathways, 60oo years Every
year IL Is proiting BY past experience. How
terrible to think that hc makes the very
house Of God his whispering gallery, that in
to it, sacred precncts-the very holy Of holies
-or into the secret chamber Of devotion
sweep his accursed leeions to rob the soul Of
that salvation So dearly purchased and 50
freely offered Be not ignorant Of his dcvi-
ccS He employs thoughts; wandering,
thghty winged fancies, al his birds Of prey
in themselves apparently harmless, but po-
tent enough to piage the heart Of its best
instrunentality Il, if he only succeed ii
abstractine the mind from grandcr realities
if the thought Of eternity be only kept in
allegiance Bcwareof wandering heart IN
the sanctuary, leaving the seed 10 fall neglect
ed and uneared for IF Israel Of old left the
mama ungathcrcd when it fell, il melted
away il was shriyced in the sun's rays
the day supply was forfeited, and nothing
could compensate for the loss. Seek 10 re-
member Sabbath after Sabbath, - you take
y1ilr places in the courts Of the Lord, that
you cannot retire az you entered thdt the
gospel then preached must be either the
.sayour Of life unto life Or Of death unto
death r Be ethcrefore docrs Of the word
and not hearers only. deceiving yonr own
selves for If any be hcarcr Of the word,
and not doer, he il Ike unto a man behold
inr his natural face in glass, for he behold
eth himself and goeth his way, and straight
way forgetteth what manner Of man he was. :
This, then, Is he who received seed BY tho
wa.s:sle.
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Il.0. 3. NNIIi.TfaN-
Maj General I =. y
Commanding the Department VI the Ohio
HEADQUARTERS. DEPARTMENT W
THE DllIO. Nav Nv. 1861

~ N,4 Insan llfea NJ Il.stera I',rg1,4a
NIRGiNIANs The General Government
has lone enough endured the Vaccinations Of
a frw factiolt> rebels II ynnr midst Armed
traitors haze il vain eaJeavorei to deter you
from expressing year loss!ss Y tic polls
Having failed IL this infamous attempt to de
priye you of the exercise of your dearest
rights they now sock to nauguratea 4 reign Of
terror, ami thus force YOU to yield to their
schemes and submit to the yoke Of the trai-
torous conspiracy digriaed liz IT, name Of the
Southern Confsderac. They arc destroying
the property q citizens Of your State and
running yoHr magnliieeut railways The Gen
efal Government has heretofore carefully ab-
stained from sending troops across The Ohio,
.or even ffpin posting them along us bank
although frequently urged to 10 " bg many
prominent citizens. 1t determined to await
the result Of the late election, lesirous that no
effort had been made from thS side e inhn-
ence The fi.se expression II your opinions
although tie many agencies brought " bear
upon you ~ the rebels were well known
circumstances that The greafInass ot tho pco
rle of Western Virginia are true and loyal
I'd that Lenelicent government under which
we and oar fathers have lived 50 long As
soon a. the result oi the election Vas known
the traitors commenced their work of destruc-
tion The General Government cannot close
its ear II the demand you have made for a.
sistanee have ordered troops To cross the
Ohio river They come u your friends and
brothers. AZ enemies only to the armed rebels
who are TTeging upon yoll- loar homes,
your families, and your property are safe IN
der our protection All your rights shall b
religiousIy respected. notwithstanding all that
has been said b. the traitors to induce you to
believe that our advent among you will be
sgnalIzel by interference with your slaves.
Understand one thing clearly Not only will
we abstain from all such interference, but We
will Oh the contrary with an iron hand crush
any attempt at insurrectinn On their part, now
that we are IN your midst call upon you
to Is TO arms and support the General Gov
ernment, sever the connection that binds you
to traitors, proclaim to the world that the
faith and loyalty 20 long boasted By the Old
Dominion are stin preserved in Western Vn-
ginia, and that you viii remain true to the
Stars and Stripes.
GEO. B. MCCLELLAN,
Mai General. u. s. A., commanding de-
partment Of the Ohio
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SUNDAY READING.
Bible Description.

Ii any one word can express the merit Of
the natural descriptions in JOB, it is the word
gusto. You do something more than see his
hehemotf, his war horse, and his leviathan;
You touch, SMELL hear and handle them too.
It IS 10 shadow Of the object he sets before
you. but the object itself, in its length, bredth,
heighth and thickness. In this point, he IS
the Landseer otancient poetry, aud something
more. That great painter seems, rs every
one knows, to become the animal he is paint
lng-to intermingle his soul for season with
that of the stag, the horse, or the blood
hound. So Job, with the war-horse, swal4
lows the ground with ferceness and rage
with the behemoth, moves his tail like cG
dar-with the eagle, smells the slain afar Of
and screams with shrill and far heard joy i
LII the presence of Ian l~ecr's figures you Be =
come inspired hy the prevailing spirit of the
picture YOU start back lest his sleeping blood
hound awake-you feel giddy beside his sta
OIL the brow ct the mountsin-yoa look 9
his gray hound 5 beauty with all the admire
ton which be might be supposed to feel
glaacing at his own figure, during his lean
across the stream Jobs animals seem al{z
most higher than Natures You hear Cod
describing and panegyrizing his own work.
and arc not ashamed to feel yourselves paving
and snorting with his charger away
your wild scorn and untamable freedom, with
the ostrich. into the Nilaerness--or, with the
hchemoth drawing IN Jordan into your
mouth 1t may hc questioned II I4andseer
has the very highest imagination-if he be
not rather literal than All ideal painter--if
he could or burst, 10 down after Jonah into
the whale, OF exchange souls with the mann
moth OF meeatherum Job unformy y tran
sends while >yStcmatizing with his subjects
lasts un them a light not their own, as from
the eyelltls Of thesmornng, and the great
g the subject i, he occupies and fills it with
the more ease he dandles his lcviathan like
akid Landsser We have CHARGED elsewhere,
with almost an lnhuman sympathy with
hrates and moral or religious lesson cap
with difficulty be gathered from his pictures
his dying deer would tempt you, by their
beauty, to renew the tragedy; but God is
/ the mind Of the beast, hangs suspended over
/ Job ! colossal doorway, and aS in fable, all
lis animals utter moral while passing on
before you.
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Gen. McCIallan's Procsamations.
Head QUARTERS oF. THE DEPARTMENT OF

Head QUARTERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
THE ONO, May Goth, 1851 ]
SOLDIERS lon arc ordered to cross the
frontier and enter the Soil III Virginia leur
mission IA 70 restore peace and confidence
70 protect the majesty II The law and rescue
orr Ilethcfn from tie grasp VI armed trai-
tors lou are to act In concert with Virgin
Il troops and 10 support their advance.
place under the safeguard ST your honor the
persons and property OF the Nlr4lnlans- !
know that YOU viii respect their feelings and
all their rights and preserve tlle strIesast dis
cipline Remember that each one Ut you
hold III his keeping the honor 1T Ohio and
Of the Union Ii YOU are called unan te
overcome armed opposition know that your
courage II equal to tha task. bat remember
that your only foes are armed traitors and
show mercy even to them whom they are IN
.yaur poser, for naly of' them are MISGUIDED
When under Noar protection tha loyal men ol
Western Virginia will be enabled ~ organize
and arm, they oan protect themselves and
yan can return to Your homes With the salts
faction nf having preserved i proud and pa
trlotle people from ulShonor.
Gro. 3, MCCLELLAN,
Maj General u = Y
Commanding the Department of tile Ohio
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one day be pointed to as wise counsels, and
the regret will Be general that they were not
Needed
True, our young men. and their parents,
are encouraged, b. our practical Preachers,
who never expect To do any fighting them
selves, to helieue that God is On our side
that our cause is just, and that We are bound
70 succeed We have been studying the
character of God, for the last forty years
past. and that too Ill the sacred Biography Of
his own writing, ana We confess that We have
not come TIP with any point Ill his character,
OF nature which warrants the belief that he
Will identify himself with the Southern Con-
ttaelacy. III this conflict The war has been
brought about without any adequate cause.
t has been lnsugufated by men whose NOR
ais and piety, afford - evidence Of their hay
ms had any intercourse with God Of his word
And tie spirit displayed, il every movement,
thus far, torhiels tbs idea Of God pitching III
on either side. We say this i'll 10 irreyerent
spirit, but with i view to advise the parties
not to look ior help from 4 quarter whence it
is not likely 10 come Fighting without any
Just cause, and upon their own hook let them
fall back upon their own resources
i1aing The past week W. have - frequent
II been asked FIJI \ copy of Gen Mcclellan $
pfoclamatians, that Ne have been induced to
repubilsh them ED.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-30
Coed News from Texas.

We have reports fron Aus ic. Texas,
that several young gentlemen drove through
the city with att nal flags displayed from
their carriages. This struck the chord in
favor of the star sTangled banner, and they
were vocifercusly cheered. The Spirit
once awakened. received volume. and on
the night Of the 18th ult.. Governor Hous-
ton and F. NJ. W. White Commissioner of
the General Land Office. were ~serenaded
by a procession of FIVE hundred people
They both responded in enthusiastic Un-
ion speeches. On the 23d ult.. the largest
meeting ever held at the capital assembled;
a pole ninety feet high was raised. from
which streamed the stars and stripes
The masses came up from the hills aud
mountains; men, women and children
marched in procession to the Capitol. where
they were elOquently addressed by Judges
Townes and Handbook. and the old Hero Of
San ] cinto. Patriotic resolutions were
passed amidst enthusiastic cheers for the
Union. Hail Columbia" the Star
Spaneled Banner" and other patriotic airs
were PLAYED by the German band, and sung
by the ladies. The crowd would not dis
perse. but at night formed a torch light
procession. and marched through the prin-
streets. Letters received by Texans
in Washington City say that the reign of
terror is over. and that the seccssionists
have thrown aside their cockades.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-30
HOW the seeeders Went Ont.

The Washington correspondent of the
y. Y. Evening Post thus describes the
leaving of the outhern Senators:
The admission of a free State must
have been an excellent anodyne to IT, feel
ings of those southern Senators who shed
tears so profusely at the valedictOries of
Jeff. Davis and his associates. when. for the
second time, hey made their positively
last appearance" The Republicans stood
the narrowing scene with the fortitude Of
st,ics. Mr.. Seward. as is his wont on great
emergencies, took a pinch of snuff, looking
on with most saturnine tranquility. and
uhen 'hc demonstration was over. called
the bill for the admission of Kansas as if
nothin unusual had happened. This was
very cruel. for the expectation evidently
was that. at least the senate would adj
journ, if it did not resolve to wear Grape
thirty days, in honor of the departed. ST.
Wade who does not share in the pblegma
tic philosophy of the New York Senator.
walked into the cloak room with an *
preston of whimsical disgust. feeling.
doubtless, very much like Sam Weller at
the lachrymouse illusions of Job Trott r.
For his part he couldn't see what those
fellows we're crying for; they'd be all to-
gether again, down South, in a few days"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-30
Oppression in Mississippi

krlgltful oppression IN mississippi.
The Scccssionists of South Carolina and
Mississippi are particularly anxious to
keep the world from knowing som things
that are going gu in those Suites. Icster-
day a gentleman. formerly Of the Kentucky
legislature. stated that he was just start
ing for Mississippi to endeavor to relieve
his brother in that State. The brother had
written him that a tax was imposed upon
every slave owner in that State of twelve
dollars for each negro; that. unless the tax
should be paid within a very few days. the
negro property was to be cOnf>cated to the
public Use; that his own negro tax amount
cd to $1,000 which be- had no means what
ever Of paying; aud that hundreds Of slave
proprietors were hurrying their slaves out
of the State to escape the intJlerablc OPP
preston. He moreover wrote that this
was known to be OLly the beginning Of a
terrible system of taxation. and added the
expression of his perfect conviction that
the PEOPLE would not stand it-that within
thirty. days they would rise up in their
strength and crush oppression and oPpres-
sors alike beneath their feet.
In South Carolina, as we all know. a
tax of sixteen dollars per head for slaves
was very recently levied on all slave
owners; and there. as in Mississippi. a
stampede of slavr-owncrs with their slaves
has been going on. What Alabama and
Florida have done or are contemplating IN
regard to slave taxation, we are not inform
ed. but uuquestionably they will find
themselves, if they have not already found
themselves. forced to the odiOus and desper
ate expedients resorted to in South Caro-
lima and Mississippi. And now we ask
our Kentucky friends. in view Of these
things, to reflect well upon their " con.
dition, their prospects. and their duty tC
themselves and their families 1T State:
in the far South fad themselves driven,
even in the very first stage Of preparation
for the maintenance of their independence
to levy a negro tax of twelve and slzteeI
dollars per head. what monStrous taxe'
and what frequent taxes Kentucky, IN
state of Secession would be compelled t.
levy upon her people for the support 0
that long and horrible border warfar,
which every man of even the commones
sagacity knows would be ~incvitable?-
: Where is the Kentuckian. not blinded by
passion; who will not earnestly appeal t
all around him to take so.emn warnin.
from the fantastic tricks now played betor
high heaven in the SOuth?-LO1asUiH
Journal.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-30

= rEAcEABLE SECEssToX.-fhe following
is tie progress CT "Pcaceable Secession"
n South Carolina:
lst Castle Pirckney taken ~ Storm
ID. Fort Moultrie captured.
Sd. The United States Arsenal II
Charleston seized.
zth. TIE United States Custom house.
and Posi- Office in Charleston seized.
5th. The United States Revenue Gut
ter Brig Aiken taken
9th. New Notifications raised on Sui
liyan's Island and Johnson's Island.
7th. MAJ. Anderson besicged in Fort
Sumptcr.
sth One thousand nagro slaves brOught
into services raising Publications to captu c
Mai. Anderson
9,h. The commander of the SLAYER
Bonita taken violently from the custody
o the authorities Of the United States.
asloth. An American vessel. the Star OF
the West, fired on BY order Of the Govern
or if South Caroliaa. while attempting to
enter Charleston barber.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-30
Virginia IS q Mediator.

Tho Legislature Of Virginia passed a
series of resolutions for the purpose of
bringing about a peaceful settlement be-
tween the Federal Government and the re.
bellious Suites. Ex-frcsidcut Tyler wac
appointed Commissioner to bear them to
Washington, and Hon. John Roberts a
Commissioner to South Carolina and the
other seeding States Mr.. Buchanan has
Submitted the matter to Congress, accOmpa-
ming it with a special message of the usual
milk and water kind
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-30
RngitiYe slave case IL clevelsad.

a female fugitive slave named Lucy,
claimed as the property Of Wm. Goshorn,
CT Wheeling, was arrested in Cleveland on
the 9Th inst. by the Z. s. Marshal, Mr..
johnson, and his deputies, and lodged in
jail. A writ of haasas corpus was sued
out before Judge Tilden Of the Probate
Court and q hearing had, on Moaday.-
Judge Tadea ie:ided thu. NJ authority
was given to the Sheriff by the laws Of
Ohio, Er the confinement Of fugitive slaves
in the county Jail, and sic was taken before
the Z. S. Commissioner for examination.
by Whca she was gwen into the custody Of
the Marshall to Be taken back to Virginia
Some disturbance occurred when she was
being taken from the Commissioned Office,
and several negroes we're knocked down by
the deputy MARSHALL and police.
Whea the train which bore back tho
wonan TO tn tea4.r m,rcies Of slavery
was approaching Lima, a large concourse o.
people, principally negroes, were seen to b,
cOngregated. Mr.. Cleland, the conductor
fearing seme attempt at a rescue might b
made, had arranged that III: engineer ant
brakesmen, sLould pay no atteRtiOn to th'
whistle, but should obey a motion Of hi
hand. As the train neared Lima, and i
was evident that here would come tie tut
Of war, the whistlcd sounded, au1 tzl
train Stacked, (apparcntly With the intcn
ton of coming to a full stop jut when j
had almost reached the st2don, Conducto.
Cleland waived MS hand. g full head o
steam was suddenly let On, and the trail
thundered past, before the astonishcI
crowd had time to place any obstruction
on the track. The N reached Wheel
ing the same night