Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-01-26
Secession Progressing.
NO HOPE FOR THE coUNTRY-cIvIL WAR
INEVITABLE.

! Congress is doing nothing to save the
Union and the Republican Legislatures
over the country are helping them. They
would rather submit to the humiliation oi
seeing Abe Lincoln take his scat as Pres
dent of half the United States than repea!
their personal Liberty Bills. There i.
no back down in the North and none il
the South. The Republicans are demand
ing war while the President is striving
hard to avoid bloodshed.
Four States have now seeded from the
Union South Carolina, Dec. 90; N isss
sippi, Jan. o; Florida, Jan. 10 and Ala.
bama, Jan. IL. All the other Cotton
States are preparing to follow. Fifteen
States are likely to be out of tho Union by
the 4th of March.
All the United States forts and arsenals
in Louisiana have been seized by the for.
ces of the State. There was no opposition
except at Baton Rouge, where Major Has
kins, in command of two companies of SOL
diers, refused at first to surrender. Six
companies of State troops were displayed
and after conference between the Major
and the Governor the former gave up the
arsenal.
All the Southern Officers in the Army
and Navy, with few exceptions, have re-
signed and rendered their services to their
respective States.
The South Carolina Convention passed
resolutions recommending to all the States
of the South the assemblage of Conven.
ton to form Constitution for a Southern
Confederacy.
The President has made formal order
directing the heads of the various DEPART
ments to withdraw all their advertising
patronage from the Constitution newspa.
per. The immediate cause of this act is
supposed to be the censurcs Of that journal
regarding the sending oftroops to Charles
ton.
The Baltimore Clipper says that the pc.
tition to Congress, urging the adoption of
Mr.. Crittenden's compromise measures,
from that city, had list of names 500
feet long ,containg about 10, 900 signatures.
Over $50, ,OOO, 900 were represented by the
parties signing the petition.
Memorials have been presented in the
Legislature of Pennylvania praying for
the repeal Of the laws which stand in the
way Of tho execution of the Fugitive Slave
law. These memorials have attached to
them 456 feet Of signatures, embracing the
names of over ten thousand persons.
The resolutions of Senator Welsh, in
our State Senate, proposing to repeal the
obnoxious provisions in the act of ls47
and the Penal Code were voted down, all
the Black Republicans voting against them
and the six Democrats of the Senate in
their favor.
Mr.. Mcclure, violently opposed all pro-
position for compromise and advocated CO.
ercion. The speech of Mr.. Mcclure has
the more significance from his recent visit
to Springfield, Ill.
The State of Georgia has captured all
her Forts and Arsenals and thew are now
garrisoued by the State Troops
The steamer star of the West sent to
Charleston with troops was fred upon by
the State batteries. A shot was fred
across her bows to bring her to, but she
still proceeded on her course, until she
was fred upon, and two or three shots
struck her, when she put about and went
to sea. She returned to New York on
Sunday morning last and disembarked her
troops. Her sides show the mark of Can.
non balls.
The sloop.of-war Brooklyn, ordered to
Charleston, was yesterday reported as be-
ing off the bar at that port.
The present Congress is fast diminish.
ing in numbers by the withdrawal of mem.
bers from the seeding States.
Senators Brown and Davis, of Mississip.
pi, will take their leave of the Senate to.
morrow, and the Senators and Represen.
tatives of Alabama and Florida will do
likewise.
Senator TOombs has left Washington,
with his family for Georgia. lie does not
Intend to return. Georgia, he says, will
be out of the Union in less than ten days.
A resolution was introduced into the
Legislature of Massachusetts,, on the 10th
inst, rendering the entire military means
and forces of the State to aid the General
Government.
The Legislature of Virginia passed the
Convention bill with amendments to refer
its action relative to secession back to the
peop'e. The excitement is greater than
ever at Richmond. The Senate also pas.
sed the bill fixing the 9th of February for