Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-25
UNION SPEECH BY sHERRAD CLEMENS.
4 BOMB SHELL AMONG THE
sSECESSIONISTS.
Fort Pickens Not to be Reinforced.
THE TREASON COMMITTEE.

IhE lhEASON COMmlI lE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The Georgia
delegation will probably leave on Thurs
day of this week. -.r PSI
Virginia and Kentucky will probably
not secede before the assembling of the
Southern Convention, which will meet at
Montgomery. This being the case, Meth
er Hunter nor Breckenridge can be Presi-
dent of the Southern Confederacy, and
Jeff. Davis will probably be chosen.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1911 am reliably
informed that Charleston matters will be
amicably arranged with the President
until the conservative element of the coun-
try can have time to make itself felt at
Washington. a21da
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-Senator Sc
ward expresses confidence that the difficult
ties will be adjusted before many days
have passed.
The secessonists are frightened by the
cessation of hostilities ct Charleston and
the preparation to defend the capital.
PETERSBURG, Va. Jan. 20-One thous-
and kegs Of powder and twenty thousand
pounds of shot and shell from Tredegar
works in Richmond, left this morning in
a special train en- rout for Charleston, to
the order of Governor Pickens. ?
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. ola battery
of l6 thirty two Founders has been erected
here. A mandatory of cannon shells is
being established. am.
BATON ROUGE, Jan. 2l.--The men,
bers of the convention are assembling.
A secession sentiment prevails Various
reports are in circulation that troops are
coming from the North.
ST.. LOUIS Jan. 2l.-A special dispatch
from Springfield, ILL.,, says it is believed
that the Republicans, under Mr.. Lincoln's
will propose National Conven-
ton and restoration of the old Missouri
Compromise line to California.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.
The speech of Sherrad Clemens, made today in
the House. fell like bomb-shel among the Sc
cessionists from the Border States. The friends
of the Union are greatly encouraged.
Lieut.. Simmer was refused provisions from the
crowded government stores when he went to oc-
cupy Fort Pickens. M ....a
He has only small force, but the Cabinet de-
clines to reinforce him.
The House Treason Committee have decided as
to the course which shall be pursued, and will
commence the examination of witnesses at once
Senator Slidell is entertaining Col. Hayne and
other secessionists at dinner this evening a..,
MoNTGoMERY. Ala, Jan. %. The Convention
to-day adopted resolutions recalling the Repre-
sentatives in Congress, and authorizing the Gov
ernor to appoint Commissioners to Washington
RALEIGH, N. c., Jan. %. The call for Con,
disagreement as to the time One party Is for
haste, and the other for deliberate action. The
Senate has agreed upon the 2lst of February as
the day for electng delegates which date is likely
to kill the bill. ,,,, s.4 ,4lt. 49,
The House debated the Convention bill, but
North Carolina will prove conservative, butt not
submissive. Everybody is for secession if it be-
comes necessary. ~ ~ ~ AFa--~
RIcHMoND, Va. Jan %. The Governor has
communicated to the Legislature the coercion res
olutions of the Ohio Legislature, with message,
in which he says such resolutions sent to slave
holding States will have no other effect than to ex
cite resentment, infame prejudices, increase diff
culties and embarrass If not defeat all efforts to
adjust the controversy. He suggests the propri-
ETY. of rebuke to the Governor of Ohio for not
surrendering Owen Brown and Francis Marian,
upon demand by the Commonwealth, as fugtives
from justice. Laid on the table by a small ma.
'0F''y siislaOIb q q Il, -. i, 10
The house convention bill was slightly amend
ed by the senate yesterday, in which the house
concurred, and the bill finally passed The amend
ment reads thus y" No act, ordinance, or resolu-
ton shall be valid to charge dissolve the poit
ical relations Of the state to the government of
the Uuited States, or any other state, while a
majority of the qualified votes Of the state shall
ratify the same. T" re ,tly30
New York, Jan. 22. Thirty-eight cases
of muskets containing two dozen each, and
a quantity Of balls and gunpowder, were
seized by the police to-day on board the
steamship Monticello, about to sail for
Savannah. s4
Fifty soldiers were brought from West
Point to Fort Hamilton to-day. ~ ~
A son Of Mr.. Lincoln, the President
elect, visited the Brokers Board to-day.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, Jan. 20. The New
Mexican mail of Dec. 81 has arrived. Ma
ior Crittenden's command had battle
ill ~ InJ;ans mar g;r.on gor;ngo In