Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-11
The Troubles mt the South.

General Harvey, the st. Louis Democrat
states, is decided Union man, and will
never fight under any flag but the stars
and stripes.
A wealthy planter in Alabama writes
as follows to merchant in New York
% q = ." AS to ourselves, Union men, we
dare not utter word-though | do and
have been repeatedly told that nothing
but my gray head saves me- Life is worth
nothing, and can only compare our sit
uation to the reign Of terror of the revo-
luton. My wife and children are almost
crazy from fright at the hourly prospect
of negro rising, which some of the ere
cuted men negroes and whites) have con-
fessed would take place about Christmas
If we could get our families to the North,
we would do it; but even this movement
would excite suspicion. And now to our
imbecile government. Speaking as they
do of wishing to avoid bleodshed why,
there is not bread enough here to last
sixty days, and the shortest way to put
stop to all our suferings would be to block
up the ports and break up the mail COM
munication, which would stop the supply
of bread and salt, and then the very
leaders of this secession movement would
be fried in their own fat.
A Washington correspondent says:
1--WE have reports from Charleston by
Travellers which indicate the existence of
much distress there. The troops who
have volunteered and presented themselves
for service are camped in unhealthy loca-
tons, and, in consequence of rain, swamps
and miasma, are suffering from disease
No vessels loading, no business doing
women weeping, and men overcome by
sickness, and the city in the hands of
mob is the bulletin travellers present of
the condition of things at the present time
in Charleston"
The statement from Washington that
the United States armes lately sent South
were for the purpose equalization only"
is but an apology for Floyd's treason.
The States had received their quotas of
arms, and there is neither law nor prece-
dent for equalizing the number of arms
stored in the various States. The arms in
the North arsenals are in the hands of the
government, and will remain so, and Floyd
knew equally well that all he sent South
would be likely to be seized by conspira-
tors and used againgt the government
The Springfield Republican says that
10000 guns still remain in the armory
there, and a better description of weapon
than those sent away. The guns of the
latest model, with Maynard primers, are
taken up for the militia of the several
States, North and South, as fast as they
can be made.
Hon. John Bell has received from the
" Fassils' Guard" of New Orleans, the
banner carried by them during the cam
paign, and he is to be its future custodian.
In his letter Of acknowledgement he
says:
But sympathizing with them as / do
in all their misgivings as to the future of
our country, | do not dispair of the
Republic or of the Union Through the
thick gloom which envelopes the present,
! can still dcscry many encouraging signs
of a clearing up of the political heavens
at no very distant day. Then, despite tie
devices of the fomenters of discord and
disunion, North and South, without the
sacrifice or surrender of any right or
interest of either section, the whole coun-
try may once more find repose. One or
more of the States may, under the dis
turbing influence which now exist madly
shoot from the sphere assigned them in
our system, but they will be recalled by
the peaceful application of the prcserva-
tive powers and influences inherent in its
construction"
New Hampshire.
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