Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 2, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 May 1861 — Page 1

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Frumtbe Dailj State Sentinel. UNION FOREVER. BT MRS. SARAH T. ROLTOX. Fair banner of our native land, Shall thy proud atar and stripes be riTen By faction's voice and treason's hand i No, no, forbid it heaven ! Forbid it ye wao bravely hurled Defiance at the oppressor's ban. And won for this broad Western world Freedom, the rights of man. Forbid it ye who proudly reap The harvest sown by patriot, age ; Show to all time that ye can keep Unstained, your glorious heritage. Speak, children of the braTe and free. Speak out, and let your watchword be, Union forever ! By every pall'd face that turned From burdens it could bear no more ! By every weary heart that yearns To find a home on Freedom's shere ! By evorj high and hoary, throne, Where tyranay's red banner waves ! By every bitter tear and groan Of Europe's fair browed slaves ! By common interests, kindred ties, By every altar, home and health, By all yu cherish, all you prize, The hope of heaven, the peace of earth, Bpeak, children of the brave and free, Speak out, and let jour watchword be, Union forever ! Now is the time for action tread The path our country's fathers trod ; Guard well the shrine to which it led, .And leave the rest to God; Trusting that hia almighty power Will stay the rage of faction's might, Roll back the clouds that round us lower, And say, let there be light I Now is the time for action strike ! Not in hot wrath, with flashing sword, But be your warfare Christian-like Your weapons, soothing words ; Let every land and eTery sea, Echo the watchword of the free, Union forever ! Shall old despotic throne and crown, Rejoicing, see the accursed hour That dims forever the renown Of fair Columbia's power ? Shall the mute suffering, voiceless woe, Appeal to you in vain ? No ! by their memories proud and grand, By all that makes by all that mars The growing greatness of eur laud, Part not the stripes and stars ! But speak, speak out, till land and sea Repeat the witchword of the free. Union fo-ever ! IHÖ STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. I. O aav.can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripe3 and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the rampai ta we watched, were 90 gallaatly etreanrng ; And the rockeu' red glare, the bombs bursting in air. Gave proof through the niht that our flag was still there; ijO iiy.'daes that Star-Spangled Ponneryet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. ii. On that shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foes haughty host in dread s'lence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the toweriig steep, As it fitfully b'ows.now conceal., now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam In full glory rejected row fhines on the 6tream: T5s the Star-Spangled Banner, O long may it wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the biave ! 1M. And where are the foes who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war, and the battle'. confusion. A home and a country should leave us m more: Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution; NereMige could eave the hireling and slac From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave; And the Star-Spanjled Banner hi triumph doth wave, O'er the laud of the free and the home of the brave ! IV. O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation; E!est with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Traise the power töat hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it i3 just, And thübe ourraotto, "IuGod isocr trust;" And the otar-Spanjlci Banner in triumph shall wave. O'er the land ef the free and the home of the brave! New York, Apid 23. G?ntiemea fi:n Washington report that Baltimore ins h;ive telegraphed to H irper's Ferry for Virginia troeps to come to their support. The home of II. Winter Da via was entered by a mob, but ho having left, his faaily was not molested. The 1111 of the German Turners was Racked. The citizens of Cockeysvillo were holding a Uo on meeting. When t-vo omnibus loads of Baltimore poliee soldiers came up to burn the bridges to the Pennsylvania liae,they were attacked and dispersed by the Union men, who formed guards and protected the bridge until the arrival of the PeLnsylvania troops. Annapolis, Md., April 21. It is said that Gov. Hicks pjotested to Gen. Butler and the Massachusetts regiment artist landing troop. here. T.iey were consequently landing at the Naval Academy, which is the evclusive property of the Government. ToleJo, 25th. A regiment of volunteers left here for Cleveland this morning. Business was almost entirely usperded: The Citizen turned out en masse to te them off.

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VOL. 2. Correspondence of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier. Explosion of an Oil Well. Tidioute, Penn., Thursday. April 18. On the Buchanan Farm, Wan en county. Penn.. seventeen milea fiom Tidioute, where a large number of oil wells have beec sunk, within the past two months with great success, on Wednesday last occurred ine of the most frightful accidents that it has ever been the province of a newspaper to record. The telegraph has furnished a skeleton of the accident, but the details have not yet been made public. A well which has been drilled over two hundred feet by Hawley dc Merrick, had struck oil, but tho yield being less than expected, the pumping was abandoned and drilling recommenced. Over one hundred further were drilled, when at half-past five on Wednesday evening, a 6iidden rush of oil through the five ineh and a half tubing threw out the drills and gushed up in the air forty feet above the surface of the ground. At the least computation h was throwing from seventv to one hundred barrels an hour. Above this mass of ol. the gas of benzine rose in a cloud, for fif ty or sixty feet. As soon as the oil commenced gushing forth, all the fires of engines in the neighborhood were immediately extinguished. At about half past seven, as a large number of boys and men were around the well engaged in saving the oil, the gas from the well which had spread in every direction took fire from the engine of a well over four hundred rods distant, when in a second the whola air was in a flame, with a crash and a roar like discbarg es from a park of artillery. As soon as the gas took fire, the head of the jet of oil was in a furious blaze, and falling like water from a fountain over a space one hundred feet in diameter; each drop came down a blazing globe of biii'ig oil. Instantly the ground was a flame, constantly increased and augmented by the falling oil at once a scene of indescribable horror took place. Scores were thrown flat, aod for a distance of twenty feet, and numbers horribly burned, rushing blazing from the hell of misfortune, shrieking and screaming in their anguish. Just within the circle of the flame could be seei. four bodies boiling in the seething oil, and one man who had been digging at a flitch to convey the oil to a low.r part of the ground wa9 killed as he dug, and nould be seen, as be Jell over the handle of the spade, roasting in tl e fierce ele ment. Mr. II. R. Rouse, of the firm of ol Rouse, Ritchell & Brown, of the vil lage of Enterprise, Warren county, a gentleman largely interested in wells in this locality, aud whose income from them amounted to 81,000 a day, was standing near the pit and was blown twenty feet by the explosion. He got up and ran about ten or fifteen feet further, and was dragged out" by two men, and conveyed to a shanty some distance from the well. When he arrived not a vestige of clothing was left upon him except his stockings and boots. His hair was burned off as well as his finger nails his ears and his eyelids, while the balls of his eyes were crisped to nothingness. In this condition he lived nine hours made his will, leaving $100,000 to the poor of Warren county ; the same amount to repair the roads of Warren county, to be disbursed by the County Commissioners ; and 500 a year to his father his ouly living relation for life. IIa died, however, without signing the will. His body was taken on Friday to Westfield, Chatv uque County, and buried, as he requested, by the sida of his mother. In addition to Mr. House, the following were taken out of the flames dead: Two Messrs. Walker, brothers, of Clarion county, Penn. Wesley Skinner, engineer of Dobb'a well, from Wattsburg, Pa. A man named Stevtns, from Cattaraugus county, N. Y. A Mr. Judd Mason residence unknown. A boy named Albert Oardner, f:oin Michigan. Tho above were reoognized. In addition, there are the skeletons of five others visible within the circle of flame, and as many are missingstrangers who came to witness the operation of the wells. Jt is supposed that a number of others have been burned to a powder, closa by the mouth of the well. Some 34 were wounded. At the time of the explosion, everything in the neighboihood sixty or seventy rods took fire, and shanties, derricks, engine-houses, dwellings, were at once involved in flames. The boiler of Dubb's well, eighty rods from the original fire, blew up with a tremendous explosion, VilUng instantly tho engineer, Wesley Skinner, adding another intensity to the evening' horrors. At this time" the air was on fire. The jet of oil rushing up ioi ty leet was Almost a pillar of livid flame, while the gas above it, to the distance of a hundred feet, was flashing, exploding, dashing toward the heavens, and apparently licking tho clouds with its furious tongues of heat. All this time, durincr thia tremenduoua combustion, the sounds of the explosions and burnings were so tremendous and continuous, that they could be compared to nothing but the rushing of a huriioane or tornado through a forest. The fiie was so intense that no one could stand within 150 feet without scorching their skin or garments. It was the most frightful, and yet the grandest pyrotechnical display ever vouchsafed to a human be in sr. On Friday morning the oil was still rushing up, on fire, with tho same regularity and speed, throwing, it was calculated, at least 100 barrels an hour, covering an immense space with flaming oila loss to the proprietors of the well of from $20,000 to 825,000 daily. No human power can extinguish the flames, and the oil must

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burn on until the well is exhausted. No pen can describe its fierceness no tongue describe the magnitude of its horrors. The following wells, with machinery, were burned, with the accompanying estimated loss of oil: Wadsworth'8 well, 300 barrels daily. Dobb's well, 250 barrels daily. Van Andon's well, 100 barrels daily. T. Morland's well, 250 barrels daily. Hawlej & Merrick's well, about 2,500 barrels daily. To this, awful as it is to believe, the Cleveland Plain Dealer adds the following confirmation: We yesterday met a gentleman direct from the Buchanan Farm, Pennsylvania. He says telegraph has not. nor can not, exaggerate the accounts of the burning wells on that farm. When he left, which was Friday last, they were still in a blaze, the flames from some of them reaching fifty feet in hight. The gas explosion was tenible, killing fifteen and fatally wounding many more. Thousands of spectators visit the scene every day. It seems that the earth is really on fire, and its elements about to melt with fervent heat. As Impromptu Account or the Siege of Scmter. While the reporters were seated at a table busily engaged in transcribing the various statements received from the officers of Major Anderson's commana, on tneir arrival ai iew i oik, an officer who had previously stood quietly in the back gtound, suddenly addressed them in the most emphatic manner, substantially as follows: " Gentlemen of the press, 1 earnestly entreat that you will clearly set before our countrymen at the North the fact that Fort Sumter was not evacuated while there was a cartridge to fire, or powder enough to make one with. Never did famishing men work more bravely than those who defended that foi tress, knowing, as they did, that if successfully defended and held by them, theie was not even a biscuit left to divide among them. They never would have left it while a protecting wall stoonaround them, had they been provided with piovision and ammunition. Every man wa3 true and Hthful to his post, and the public may be assured that hunger and want of ammunition alone caused us to leave Fort Sumter. We were exposed to a most teriible fire from all quarters, and it was only by exercising the utmost care that the officers were enae bled to preserve the men from a terrible slaughter. You may further state, gentlemen, that Fort S'imter is hardly worth the holding ; had there been the full fight ing complement of men within its walls, the fort would not have afforded suitable protection for one of them. The enemy's shot rained in upon and about us like hail, and more men in Sumter would only have had made more havoc. As it was, we are fortunate in having escaped without the lo6g of one of those brave men who were wiii'ng to die for the flair which waved over them. It was a panful sight to all to see tho Str.rs and Stripes finally hauled down, but we all fe't that we had done our duty, pnd must submit. Tho fort was not surrendered, but evacuated almost upon our own terms." Foreign Appointments. William L. Dayton, of N. Jersey, Minister Plenipotentiary to Fiance. Charles Fiancis Adams, of Mass., Minister Plenipotentiary to England. Anson Burlingame, of Mass., Minister Plenipotentiary to Austiia. Norman B. Judd, of Illinois, Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia. Cüssius M. Clay, of Ky., Envoy Ex!raordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. S. to Spain. Jacob S. Ilaldeman, of Pennsvlvania, Minister Resident of tho United States at Stockholm. Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin, Minister to Portugal. George P. Marsh, of Vermont, Minister to Sardinia. James Wateon Webb, of New York, Resident Minister to Turkey. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, Minister to Mexico. Henry S. Sanford, of Connecticut, Minister Kesident to Belgium. Bradford R. Wood, of New York, Minister Resident to Denmark. liufus King, of Wisconsin, to be Minister Resident at Rome. Thomas J. Dryer, of Oregon, to bo Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands. I. 0. Putnam, of New York, Consul at Havre. Rufus P. Anderson, of Ohio, Minister at Hamburgh. DeWitt C. Littlejohn. of New Yoik, Consul of the U. S. at Liverpool. Kufus Hosmer, of Michigan, Consul General of the U. S. at Frank for t-on-the-Main. William W. Vesey, of New York, Cousul ot the (Iniled States at Aix-la-Cha-pelle. Elijah L. Hamlin, of Maine, Commissioner under the Reciprocity Treaty between the United Slates and Her Brittanio Majesty, concluded 5th of January, 1854. Joshua R. Giddings, Consul-General to Brill Ii North America. II. S. Sanford, of Connecticut, Minister Resident t Belgium. Wm. i3. Thayer, of New York, ConsulGeneral to Egypt. Patrick J. Devine, Consul to Cork. Green Clay, nephew of Cassias M. Clay. Secretary of Legation to Spain. Ex-Congressman Freeman H. Morse, of Maine, Consul to London. Is the part of wisdom to do great things without a fuss. When Solomon, the wiseet of men, built hia wondrous Temple, no sound of saw or hrmmer was beared therein.

The New Policy. j "Ion" writes from Washington to the Baltimore Sun: But we have a new reading of the inaugural in the President's leply to the committee of the Virginia Convention. The places and property belonging to the United States, and which have been taken by the Confederates, are to be repossessed, that is, recaptured, provided that it shall be in Mr. Lincoln's power to do it. So troops are to be landed for the "relief of any fort on the border of the country." But for this rt an'festo of the President, which no one can misinterpret, it might be supposed that we should have such a calm in the public mind as would be favorable to the consideration of the best mode for either a reorganization of the Union, or for its peaceful division into separate Confederacies But the interests of the Republican party are, unfortunately, adverse to any pacific policy, and the party is to be preserved though the Union perish in seas of fire and blood. It is avowed by Republican organs that peace would lend to reorganization and the consequent demoralization of the Ptepublican party, and the disintegration of the Northern States. Therefore, means for creating and keeping alive a war epi.'t in the North will be found. We shall now watch with deep anxiety the progress of the naval and military expedition which goes ftouih to repossess the forts and places and property belong ing to the Government. Tort Pickens is still in possession of the Government, but it may be one of the objects of the expedition to recapture the other forts at Pensacola rnd the navy-yard. The time has probably arrived when it will be incumbent upon Mr. Lincoln to issue a proclamation upon the state of the countrv. frü Our Naval Power. The total nutfi.her of vessels on the Navy Register for 1 80 1 , is 9 1 . They rank as follows: Ten liners, rated at nearly 3,000 tons each, carrying 872 guns. Ten frigates, averaging 1,800 tons, 500 guns. Twenty sloops of war, averaging 900 tons, 3G0 gnns. Three brigs of 2S0 tons and six guns each. 0:e schooner, C5 tons, 3 guns. Eight first-cla3 propellers, averaging 25,000 tons, carrying 23 guns but rated at 40 each. Six second clas propellers, averaging 2,000 tons and 14 guns each. Seven navy-built steam gun-boats, averaging 900 tons and 5 guns each ; all in commission. Four first-class side-wheel steamers averaging 2,000 tons and 10 guns each. Two third-class wheel 6teamers ; one steam tender, and eight harbor and steam going ships, and seven purchased steam gun boats. Nobody Hurt." The Democracy ihould take heart at the result of the late elections. The totals of the last month's voting has been about as follows: Connecticut Democratic gain of two Congressmen. Rhode Island ditto, and a complete Union Slate ticket. St. Louis elects a Union ticket. Cincinnati elects a Union ticket, Cleveland elects a Union ticket. Columbus elecl8a Union ticket. Ashtabula elects a Union ticket. Hartford elects a Union ticket. Brooklvn elects a Union ticket. Louisville elects a Union ticket. Burlington, N. J., elects a Union ticket. Albany el ?cts a Union ticket. llme, N. Y., elects a Union ticket. Utica elects a Union ticket. Troy elect3 a Union ticket. Geneva elects a Union ticket. Milwaukee elects a Union ticket. Uacine elects a Union ticket. Madison elects a Union ticket. Janesville elects a Union ticket. Beloit elects a Union ticket. St. Paul elects a Union ticket. Winona elects a Union ticket. Red Wing electa a Union ticket. Chatfield elects a Union ticket. Joliet elects a Union ticket. Springfield clect3 a Union ticket. Morris elects a Union ticket. Elgin elects a Union ticket. Rock Inland elects a Union ticket. Affairs at Fort Pickens Suspicions of Lieut. Sj.emmeh. A Washington correspondent of the New York Herald telegraphed under dito of the lGlh: A collision is anticipated at any moment at Fort Pickens. The Administration have no means of ascertaining the movements of the vessels off the haibor, or the troops in that fort. If reinforcements have been landed, the present commander, Captain Slemmer, has been Bupertded. The Ad ministration U not entirely satisfied with that officer's loyalty. They have no definite information ou thr.t subject, but they strongly suspect, hince ho re fused to oby orders which were 6ent to him, to a'dow supplies and men to bo landed, that he is not the proper man to command that important position. The statement has already been published lhat, since the large reinforcement of Fort Pickeps,- the command has been transferred tc Capt. Vodges. A man in Bridgeport has sold Barnum a Tom Thumb dog that weighs but three ounces. It was an English terrier, and sold for 8100. Such a deg is good for nothing. He isn't big enough to do barking for himselt let alone barking at any one else.

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MAY 2, 1861. Latent War JYeics. BY TELEGRAPH. PREPARATIONS FOR IHE WAR. New York, 25. The Associated Press have reliable information just received that the New York Gtb, 7ih, 12th and 71st Regiments have safely arrived at Washington, and are now quartered at the Navy Yard in that city. General Wool has received information that two private steamers were fitted out fct Norfolk before Virginia seceded. One has a single rifled gun, and the other four large guns. Col. May has tendered his sen-ices to Gov. Morgan. Col. Stevens, a millionaire of N. Jersey has signified his intention to equip a regiment for service. Leslie Coombs has telegraphed from Frankfort, Kentucky, saying that Crittenden is absent, and a.skinir: "Can we jret arms and money for se'f-defence ia the Union? " Gen. Wool sent the dispateh to the President. It is stated that 70,000 stand of arms were captured by the secessionists in taking Fayetteville (N. C.) Arsenal. The Adjutant General of North Carolina ca Is for 30,000. The gunboat Pocahontas arrived at Washington on Monday night, with 120 marines and 250 soldiers. Among the recent resignations are Commander McBiair, Lieutenants Bennett and Windei, of the National Observatory ; Lieutenants Brooke, Powell, Lewis and Linnus, of the Navy, and Colonel Johnson, Quarter-Master General of the Army. The Empire City arrived to day from Texas, bringing 316 infantry, and 277 cavalry, under command of Mai. Shepherd The irunboat Mohawk was at Ha vana for sunnlies. to sail in a dav or two lor Ae-a3' Ilarrisburg, 25. Passengers arrived here by the Northern Central road say all is quiet in Baltimoae. All the wholesale houses are closed. AH clerks over 14 years were re quired to enlist. Many were leaving the r.ity in consequence. Five cars arrived at Chambersburgh filled with families flying from Baltimoie. Baltimore money is ten per cent below par there, and Pennsylvania money is b9ing exchanged for gold and siler. Election progressed quietly yesterday, and there was no opposition to the South -ein Rights ticket. New Yoik, 25. A gentleman from Washington via the Relay House and Wheeling, reports that the secessionists have planted a battery of four t;uns at Harper's Ferry, commanding tho bridge. Trains are stopped and examined, and the road for a mi.'e was lined with soldieis. At Wheeling a strong Union feeling prevails and 2,500 men were under arras. Philadelphia, 25. The schooner Lucas was fired into in Chesapeake Bay by two schooners, but escaped. A gentleman who passed through Wil mington, N. C, on Saturday, learned fiom the railroad conductor that arrangements were being made to convey troops from Charleston to Richmond ; 2,000 were then on the way. Wheeling, Va., April 25. The Bell-Everett men of this Congress ional District met in Convention to-day aud accepted the nominee of the Douglas Democrats for Congress. A resolution was adopted approving Harrison & Co.'s preamble and resolution, which condemns the course of Eastern Virginia, and recommends all Northwestern counties to send delegates to a Convention to be held at Wheeling ou the 13ih of Mav next. Everything was transacted with perfect unanimity. The prevalent feeling here is that there will bo a division of the Stato. Philadelphia, 25. There is a probability of re-opening travel to and from Washington by order of Gen. Scott. It is reported that over 2,000 Southern troops arrived at Norfolk on Tuesday. Destination secret. Everv endeavor has been used with the authorities of Baltimore to permit the re-opening of telegraphic communication, but unsuccessfully. The rumor in regard to tho ordeiing away of Union men is untrue. If they keep very quiet they will not be interfered with. Philadelphia, April 23. Beauregard was in Richmond yesterday. He sent a note to President Lincoln, recommending the removal of women and children from Washington before Saturday. The Commissary Department t Wash ington is now fully prepared to Usuo 30,000 cooked rations dailyHarrisburgh, April 5. Two Massachusetts men. Hying from Thomasville, N. C, arrived here this morning via Carlisle. Las l Sunday morning 500 South Carolinians passed Thomasville, on their way North. All along their route northward troops were getting in tlu enrs, and they heard them talk fieely, sa)ing tlu'ir des. lination was a Southern camp, 25 miles south of Washington, on A quia Creek. The men left Baltimoio via the Baltimore and Ohio R. R., and could not get out any other way. They passed Harper's Ferry ond 6aw n number of troops there they" judge 3.000. New York, April 25. Captain Andrew Talcott, of the United Slates Topographical Engineers, a native of Connecticut, has gono to Richmond to superintend tho manufacture of arms to be used by the government. The Union Committee have purchased

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sixteen rifled cannon of West Point for the use of our volunteers. Engraved plate3 for bonds and bank notes for the Confederate Slates have been seized in two bank note engraving estabJishments in Wall street to-dav. The Cunard steamship Kedar has been

chartered by government ; also, the steamer ; sbip with her neighbors north of the Ohio. Cbampien. j May it remain perpetual! Cincinnati A correspondent of the Commercial Evq, Advertiser arrived from Charleston Saturday. Genera! Beauregard had not then The Government Will he Sustained.--started, but it was rumored 500 troops ! The indications throughout the North are would leave that night to march on the that the people intend to suslaia the govcapital. ! eminent in the position they have taken The citizens of Wilmington, N. C, had :for maintaining the integrity of the Union, seized the steamer Georgia. j Whatever difference may have originally The Baltic, Columbia, Harriet Lane and e:.isted, it id now the manifest dutvof very Cuvler were seen in the Chesapeake. jciiizen to do all he can to maintain the He stated that the sloop Sunshine was ; honor of his country. Its flag is our flag, fird into off York town, and in carrying and by it the people will stand so long as sail to escape capsized. a state of war exists, and till an honorable The schooner Alice Ellis was seized. peace can be procured. The way to bring Advice from Norfolk states that Captain j pace soonest, and prevent the unnecessary Rogers and White were prisoners in the j shedding of blood, is to uphold the hands hands of the authorities. f the Government, and make the contest The Delaware, Columbus Plymouth, tas short as possible. We have strong and United States, were only partially ' hopes that these imposing demonstration burned. Of these however, the Plymouth , of the Northern people will of themselves

is the only one tlut can b? of service to the rebels, and to get to ea she will have to pass the guns of Fort Monroe, running the risk of ueir.g sunk. Springfield, 111., April 25. Sen-ttor

Douglas addressed both houses in Repro- ; tributions of provisions to the Indiana volssntatives' Hall to-night and was ei.thusi- iunteer. in camp or on the march, are leastically received. He said : ! quested to do so, and il :eir donations will

A war of extermination and oppression is new bjiing waged against the Govern-j ment. Walker boasts ahat on the 1st of May the Confederate flag will wave from the dome of the Capitol, and on the 4th of July the Confederate army will occupy independence nau. Äiteauy tneir pirati - cal flajris unfurled against our commerce and the navigation of the Mississippi is obstructed, aud we are required to pay tribute at its mouth. The question is, shall we allow this to proceed or meet the - OTT - !.!- - oppression : lie said, mere was no cause for this rebellion ; that no evidence had been presented that their institutions were insecme ; that the fugitive 6lave laws were never executed with more firmness than recently at Chicago. Are we to inaugurate the Mexican system in the Uni;eJ States. Had the candidate of the Disun-

'lI1itude with which the former not only acof the North rebelled, I would have used knowledges but carries out the rights of my best efforts to crush the :i. The first j the South, is instanced in .the fact th-U h duty of American citizens is obedience to j ueTO ran awav from ths State to Indiana

courts and laws. In my opinion it is your duty to lay aside all pa(ty creeds and plat forms until ycu have rescued the country from her assailants. If the attempt is made to incite servile insurrection among

mem, 1 woiua ue tue urst to rnsn tollieery spoilauoM, and murder. Louisellle

I T t 1 1 . 1 . . 1 . . rescue, yet they must distinctly understand that I will never acquiesca in their inva sion of our Constitutional rights. It is a crime against Constitutional free

dorn to attempt to pluck the United States i hatil'ng- tobacco from Louisville to our deout of the mao of chistendom. He ap-! Pot' anJ "early all driven by negro slaves, pealed to men fall parties not to allow Xo one thought of interring uith them, passion to get tha belter of their juJg. i and if they had, the community would ment, and not to attempt to manufacture ; Iiave rented such lnterferecce cn masse. partizan capital out of miseiics and strug- j' Lcdyer gles of their country. To Democrats he I " would sny, don't allow party considerations! A Catcu of Tit bits. A pious old to make you tiaitors. The most stupend- deacon used to inspire um with so much

ousand ununimous preparations for War is tho shortest way to peace ; the greater the unanamity, the least blood will be ßhed. Every friend of iibeily must feel that this cause is his own. The 6eceded .States have proceeded to obstiuct our inalienable right of navigation of the Mississippi. The people the valley of the Mississippi can nevereonscnt to beexclddei free access to the Gulf of Mexico. I will never cease to urge my countrymen to take up arms and fight to the death in defence of these rights. It i3 a war of self-defence. I believe it a duty we owe to ourselves, onr children and to our God, to protect and sustain our Government and flaj from everv assailanr H Wim ftf.nnAr.tlv infprrimfofi -iib n. plause. Mi. Douglas lomains here aboal one week, and then goes to Chicago. The First Fight Many of our citir.ens are speculating as to the probable result of the first light in the war of sections. Admitting equal numbers om both sides, we think the lesult cannot be doubtful. The first con flirt ill evidently come on" in Mai viand or Yirrini.i, and a moments calculation of tho character of the forces to be engaged wi'l dissipate all appiebhnsion. Tho States of Virginia and Maryland may have brave men, but they have but few trained volunteers and no regulars. Any considerably army from those JStates would necessaiial'v be composed in greater part cf raw mifitia, without organization or discipline Oil ihe o;hei- li.md, tho Government of the Union will be surrounded with men equally biave, a large number of whom will be legulars, and a st:ll lariror number of them well drilled and splendidly equipped volunteers. That a MiÜtia of Viiginia and Mvy'and, and a few volunteer companies, can contend on equal terms with such men as will form our first army, we d not believe for a moment. Such splendid reiriinents as the Seventh of New York would alvva)si be equal lo twice their number of undis- j ciplined troops. Wo have therefore no fears of the result of tho first battle. Wo are in as little doubt as lo the result of the last battle. We have ever believed, and believe still, that we can and will defeat them. Wo ought to whip them, and can do it. Our numbers are as two to one : our money is as two to one, and tho soa is under our complete control. -The only question for us to decide is as to how long and how mplacably wo shall use the power which we undoubtedly possess, by our numbers, our money and our courage. This will bo tho question after our pride and honor have been fullj satisfied. ChU eago Times.

Kentucky Her Position. We judge from the stand taken by prominent citizens of the two parties in Kentucky that the position the State will occupy in the war tow going on between the Federal Government and the seceded Slates wiil be that of an armed neutrality." That is, the Commonwealth will bj placed on a war-footing, taking part with neither side, not allowing troops to be raised within her borders for either, and if either party

shall invade the State, that her arms shall be turned against the iuvaders. Whether the position can be maintained, time alone will determine. Circsmstances, more irrestible lan intentions, may compel bor to abandon it. In the meantime, we hail the determination not to fee-cede as a sibut treaty of amity, peace and good-fellow do much toward bringing about a speedy ; adjustment of our national differences.- - Xeic Albany Ledger. Appeal to Patriotic Citizens of Ixd- ; IVXA. All those who wMi to mako con- . be faithfully distributed to the soldiers, All donations fi-om a distance should b I carefully packed and plainly directed to me. j at Indianapolis, se as to avoid wastage and ; l0$s. Anv of the following articles will be t accepted : 1 Salt beef or pork, flour, sugar and rice, in h.irrols hit Im., and ilril annlp and peaches, in barrels of sacks ; crackers I in barrels ; hard soap, or afar candles, in j boxes : bacon eiihar haras, shoulder or i sides, bariels, casks or boxe. - ISA ii Manslr, CommissH-y General Indiana Militia. Indianapolis, April 20, 10GI. All patriotic editors in the State are requested to copy. An instance of the good feeling between Indiana and Kenturkev. and the nromnti- , lbe otijer daJf but W?1S lakeil al Charlestown by two citizens of that place and brought home. When Ken.uc!Iy secedes all such rights will be lost, and fr amity and mutual protection we may expect ihievI I w I ' Democrat We may mention another instance. Yesterday we observed fifteen or twenty dravs aWö ü u, "city ol ins manner, that vv dare not sav our soul was (ur ovu whil in church. Deacon I, came t California, and was tempted aft.?r sinful iiains. A friend and a member of tho same church found him one night "bucking at monte." With holy horor he nudged the absorbed player into a knowledge of his presence. "Deacon, do I find you gambling?" With ready wit to relieve him from his embarrassment, he chuckled, "No. no, fii'iiul S , not gambling!--You see, this is a commit iti itul'on, and lam dowg my lest to break it tf" The Armv Oath. The following is the i jam which au t oiunifcrti hiiu regulars ! metered into the service of the United I - ... 1- ... I. ! .1. .11 1 . 1 1 States are required to take b'fore llu ir fi- ; n u enrollment: I. , do solomnlv swear that I will bear ti-ue al.egi.iuce lo th United 8 ates of Amerca ; that I will eerve them I honestly ami faithfullv against all enemies loropposers whatsoever ; that 1 will obey ' the orders of the President of the United j States and of ihe officers appointed over i m. according to the rules of tho armies of the United States , so help me (led." Ai'ita, Me., 21th. The Legislature will adjourn tomorrow, after parsing an ac t to rae ten regiments of voliM-teers and appropriating a mil'ion liot'ar! ; nn net torride for a coast guard, and a-propi i ting $.'0 l.ODO ; an act inak.ng the entire militia of ti e St.-.te avait!blo by draft ; msoivc amhoriing a h,ai of $1,. OO.OOO, and an not u:(1ioriuiS the c:m!o mcut of females as nurses in the arm-. Sx tus.in.l j raen W?H liavo been enlisted by S-.tunhr. The tree use oi railroads and stcariiboaiar boui offered for the conveyance f troops, ni-d cVcs an i towns are voting money ty thousand o ei,u'p the soldiers, and make prov;ievs for tl'il" 1:t'!'cs. New Yo.k, ?Ci!. Wilson's regiment of Zouaves took a fo'otu oath to support d c fl.i-and in:uv!i through Haiti - more. The steamer Empire City, from Te::as, an ivod here this morning Colt s and fcharpe's armov'cs a:-e hotli working night and day for Connecticut, the ic.ie.ai Cov eminent, Oh;o and other Kouhe i in.cs. Net an arm is sold to a.iy one without the l;!'et assurance that ihev are for the loyal S ates. It would he impossible to arm die rr 'mrnts row fo;m" w'thout sending tw Europe, were it no: fo these armorioF. They arc ti-rnipgout son'e 400 ar.v.? per d.iy. The steamer Kill Van Hull, chartered by the Government, has a fuU cargo of provision, liftv horses, rail-oad pikes, cron bars, ic., for repairing railroads. The eel :ooucr Commerce, from York River, brought the cren-s of scrcral fc.aU craft fei:. j bv th rebels.