Fond Du Lac Weekly Commonwealth (Newspaper) - February 13, 1861, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin V T WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY NUMBER 19 WEDNESDAY EVENING 111 Darling's Bloc It St Two Dollar und ir of Advr v 00 tich 4 00 r 4 00 in length of colM year IS 00 one i JO Orie n line of 50 after the rents not by written and charged desired S WRIGHT TO J W MAT be the Old Stand No 2 Block prepared to makeup the tbc Wintlow Oils AND ALSO IN BOOKS S X ATIO I Particular attention w be given to the SCHOOL Dealer in FANCY GOODS White Wash and and American duLac.Wis Ana nil other Goods usually i A ain Court HonsK Lac la fcept ott hand mndo to ns as any and work with J Flint f F Attorney at Law Office of the da Vis gt door of Lewis dxi E L till Cm t X Stone Block up J ITI Gf Attorney at dn Office first door south Host's and Shoe Store at Law E WOOD tf DaV C iu Block K J O mid First corner of Lac Fire RISKS taken at the lowest by Asent tho NIAGARA INSURANCE COMPANY Of New York City and Insurance Co Brooklyn N Y L Fire and Proof Safes For sale at prices Tho Safe made T S ABSTRACTS ABSTRACTS A Title tato bo promptly nnd accurately mode at times at the Thope p 31 in Office over the old stand It Main Street Jj E County Purvey at residence on M iff tho south west the is also u Notary nnd Orl evilly responsible Tor errors by the bf Blanks to execute i- ground or Groceries Crockery etc Fond du B Patty t 70 well furnished and convenient to to the travel and trustworthy ance with IT A oa fe trout thrue door west of H ist Dealers in at oiu Street Fond pot will he found at all Can of the artiest urn with find Oys in the Shell CHARLES Silver York No This Company continues to ships in and household and property or hy fire on terms equitably adjusted promptly paid 7 50S X 0 0 T S A ffD SHOES AT THK STAND OF H IOCS MAIN Mil purchased the the hoot and would the ci t i a ire cUi and flint ho is to them with Or T RE SHORTEST NOTICE -i article will tho nt this tho lift that do ttr bv any than any in City 4Sv'3tf Co XI and in Suction and Force FOR Wetts and Cisterns This the best nnd only pump flint will work in OF I ij SOT TO And wil work lor without ii property the country trill tannin and Western factory Lau Wis 35 Lake Street fi e w T E s S PLATE Avenue Chicago out of Level So All friction on Balls AND RESPONSIBLE of their Land tor tlie of sell by Office e to by the Are Evidence in Court inft certified to to Lands iu A 11 orders for SOLOX G DODGE tiu 859 13 U Proprietors Tjep Icnve I ami the that ENGINES CAST FOR SAW MILLS additions to their Iron j fly all They fully to execute in their line The IP tlu direction nnd firm and known best and Makers in the State Patterns cannot he in and boon with reference to of tbe North and promise to dn as good UP at anj in tbc CASH ID TOR f an A Pond fin PEACOCK buy n in he town of du Lac 00 acres ance timber Vour buy a of in City Dwelling nt and on any time thu may want Tho will bo fohl for part nnd h'M on if or for nny Hnd in or in pa it or will of tlie price in pood property and the secured by bond it nd J Fond du Lac Oct FOUNDRY SCOTT STREET FOND DU LAO ARRANGEMENT GILBERT firm having r their prcm and a Concession We want concession We want tlie Southern States which are concession and compromise to that a Government proper and not a States We want them this Government has to enforce its Laws and protect its property even if necessary to shoot or harig every traitor in tha Uni- ted to do it We want them to concede that it is the duty of this j to retake from the Southern Traitors Its stolen forts arsenals We them to concede that Abraham having been constitutionally elected the United States of America i has a right to take his without any I opposition from any quarter whatever I and opposition is offered is the duty of the Government to down or overcome such opposition at ry hazard We want thn Snuth to concede that after Abraham has taken an j oath to tho of tin j it i duty Wo them to that Sintes the they in against the Federal Government aud that it is duty of this Government to put re- bellion We want them to concede that taking of Federal forts and firing upon the of the West that should be atoned for We ask them to concede that Northern creditors have a right to sue for and collect their demands in Southern courts We ask them to concede that Slavery is tho creature of local law In all this we do not ask tho South to concede a single thing that is not by tho Constitution of the United 1 States Until do all this j they ought not to expect that tho Korth has any concessions to make The flag of our country the stars and stripes hns been insulted la rs have been set at forts and arsenals have been by traitors our vessels have boen fired free navigation of the has been to-day a large j army of traitors lies in wait to take Fort I We are in hourly ex fetation of the sad news that some brave ers of the American flag of been struck down in death in the effort to uphold it on can Tho telegraph tells us to-day that South Carolina has determined to at- i tack the noble Anderson if tho ment does not surrender Fort to j the Away with compromises at nn hour like this Let us first establish the fact that have a Government able to protect and j punish treason We should nnt talk about j compromise while the flug of the traitors i over an American fort and flag of our country trails The flag I that a and soldiery kept flying at that Jasper placed on tlie walls of Pert Moultrie at the cost of his that our heroic carried triumphantly through the war for flag that is honored the wido world over hiis been torn from forts arsenals and navy yards at been trampled under foot by traitors in our own land on American soil Until that flag is unfurled over and every other fort house and navy i tho laws of this Government j are aud its authority recognized j us talk about compromise Cnn we concession 1 nsk no man yield up his conscience his j nor his honor The Still cs us that they are to I he j Union and the We ask them then to that the one and the other bo obeyed We are to concede that slavery shall go in- to tne Territories by authority of thin Government talk about such a thing we want it that we have a Government a compromise of ony kind is made or even talked tbe subject of slavery TTC want to fee the rightful authority of this Government and respected Let the stolen furts arsenals and navy yards be restored to the rightful down the and the Pelican and run up glorious Stars and perse mobs and lot every man return to his duty Then come us your list of grievances and ever honor or patriotism cnn yield shall bo fully Journal Early a The of Yale College two years in advance of was tho finest body of young that saw in College Prominent in it were Elijah H of Daniel Webster's diate predecessor in the United States facile but dying very young Henry A Boardman D seph Eldridge Edwin R Gilbert James D Daniel Francis Gillette flate Senator in Adam Spence in and many other meh of mark There was one of the class name cannot be found on the list of graduates or oh any catalogue after Ho was and still is a haiiUsome little low looking very his class who with few exceptions full manly growth This youth hailed from a State of tha sunny bright-eyed and ar- dent as a southern sun could him In the part of there was a in that seals jack-knives etc etc and lastly sundry money lying around in students disappeared unaccountably The losers gloomily at each other and suspiciously at others be dune They finally constituted themselves a volunteer detective set their with thirty-five dollars in good bank notes and soon caught the thief He confessed On opening his trunk in his presence they found it nearly full of missing valuables pocket cutlery and enough to stuck a Catham street lie begged pitifully not to be exposed they looked at his handsome face and relented at the thought of blasting his opening lifo IJn had been tho universal his class so they agreed nut to inform the oily magistrate or the Faculty of the sity but ordered him tu clear out at and He went instantly to pood Professor n certificate of honorable dismission and vanished The little thief is nowa in Con- gress advocating and justifying and threatening the robbery of forts and the stealing of the military and ware generally of tho Federal ment without any or shadow of pretext than he had for like operations on his just years ago A third of a has nut made and can nuver make any change in such an originally boru rascal Had been a mere thoughtless escapade a moment- ary temptation while in want they would not deserve now but they wore systematized then long accumulated and from trusted friends Had tiie follow nut at length reproduced his private morality iu I have allowed the secret of his early crimes to remain in the hearts of the few who then and now remember N Y Independent D ns bits just her Spring Slyles of Millinery Consisting of Huts Flowers he also call tober CLOAK DEPART M E N T ins the of Spring from Vork nnd Boston cull nnd cJd In Lac THOS S v Successor to Jt J Fond clu Lac Wisconsin To other facilities to Cast Iron Work for Steam Engines inid Saw Milis Work anU Trimmings Also n r A T R T x o- nnd nil other o nnd and I inp to ion on paid Tor old and Copper HIM A G 1 RT A A V I IS S A O O TV South BROWN'S Lvt flye not who And those who s Uye no But uFe onr the latest nnd for o We the world vo show its equal in the by I twill original color It will P op hair from coining out cure all of the will restore the hair on by disease and ted not to tarnish jewelry it Wl preparation all the that lifts fide Call nnd see for yc at Maiu Street T M J W Lac IfCO lOtt s RiOes Tackle SHOT AND V FOR SALE for a entire t ana c and of miles south of city ac Per acre -o pay to a purchaser for tne same proportion lor a less number of acres wagon or in f nwa NEW OP Hats Paps ladies furs B Eobes Kits and Gloves HEADS MAKE ETC Garibaldi 1 and Boys fur siad wool all C A No I Sutra Silk Glazed Sill Silk ond Boys Superior Stone Martin Capes anil So apw and Jo and tin Capos Water trom three to ono dollars a sett OVERCOATS Hair and ready made clothing pants Collars Otter Bearer and HaSt and dren's hats all fresh did where you find a little tetter Xo for force Mr is RS tmd to employ forte in was bki bnt that at present there was no sion for Of not South Carolina lifts seized Pinckney and he and lias opened a U S troops and and threatens to j is DO for and linve seized S Forts Alabama isj preparing lo suize Fort and sippi has blockaded the Mississippi River is no occasion for And when the Southern troops demand its surrender Mr Crittenden will his compromise and say is no occasion for If the honorable private ice comports with his public precepts with what glorious freedom jould a burglar sack his premises and steal bis There would be no occasion for you know Leader OUT ON A New Orleans letter in The Boston eller a large majority in Convention the Secessionists after a and strong opposition from the finally carried through their Secession ordinance paper at out of the Union Bnt thousands of her citizens ridiculing tlie action of thu Convention openly and publicly call selves American citizens of eracy our forefathers Grave and sober took and more all the secession of their be- loved nient -on part our substantial citizens are curse the traitors who out any just ground of have precipitated Louisiana into a Aud yet notwithstanding all these marks of discontent par papers still to say t bat the people of this section the secession question were unanimous for its adoption Tho following is an extract from tho Boston of the Springfield Republican How many skulking compromising creatures there are a truce flip a little a to live three or years longer in peace men are willing to on their children a severer than or on their all tho evils of a tism Men toil and moil poor in run iit I ho pole or in the insure their lives for thf benefit-el hut sake of for u day or two will submit to the most infamous bargains with sin and with treason Shame in them I What have they thus to make posterity their If the Southern Whigs had stood firm the Nebraska iu we should have been spared 1661 if had stood firm against thu compromise of 1850 we should have been spared the braska if the men of had ted on the prohibition in ri's CUSP we should have the concessions of 1850 and to go further back if of the had carried Tut the purposes stipulated in the made such would ensure the of liberty to all men in the country wo should have had no trouble iu And if we are true uow and refuse to to the com- promises that are showered upon Congress every day by thu Hunters WH the men of 1370 a more grievous than this They enslave their children make compromises with sin This is a question of pluck and rance If the Smith aru determined to go out they will go in spite of us If arft so tlr will oa iu Id the iid if it is to do right Wo shall in this way win victory of endurance horn Our members of Congress who stand firm deserve the highest commendation und the people should stand by and en- courage them I will lift my hat to every man of them who comes home iu March seen Abraham Lincoln ted on the Capitol steps and the people not betrayed hy wicked THE PALMETTO FLAG AT first attempt of a sel to a foreign port under the flag of he Independent Republic of South was made at Havana a antine Irom Charleston She sailed in past the with her Palmetto flag flying aloft Bat immediately by order of the officer in command of the fortress brought to anchor under its guns nnd kept there until the flag of the United States was displayed at her mast head when she was permitted to proceed up the harbor We wonder what they are going to do in about this outrage upon their flag in a foreign port This insult ought to be avenged forthwith A newborn ity cannot afford to permit its ensign to be thus dishonored The Chicago Tribune says that the Northwestern brought that year 1860 barrels of and bushels of wheat Being several thousand barrels of flour more than any other road and about half the amount of wheat received by road of Secession A who unveil fiom Fionda called at tho office and lied u with some of news the accounts that we have from time published in regard to public opinion at tlie South Secession in Florida was by the vote of the people on the every effort was made to honest vote being taken Tlie Legislature directed vention should be allowed five days to intervene the notice nnd the lection The consequence was that the country people who were opposed sion hail no opportunity to vote and she people of QIC towns it all their own wav Xo one in Florida entertains a a majority of are Uniori and conservative for a proposition made in Convention to allow only to vote was not entertained for a moment The Florida are those who have everything to and and tlie present they rule As an instance of tue thar a ibu last the nnd him four times without any provocation whatever out into street the dripping weapon in his hand This is blood ofa let all so For tins brutal murder the trator was elected to the Out though himself an owner ot and an of tlie institution of Slavery was twice at for wearing a Union cockade A man in professes to the Union is an Abolitionist and is lucky if be capes being lynched Tne legitimate of secession have already made their appearance in Florida Poor people are begining to Pork is a barrel Hour corn Establishments which a few weeks ago had cl now one towns were thriving have been suddenly checked in their have a depilate All can are makini to comu North Of course no Northern burn people will ingly remain at aher secession for loyalty is still to word of is nothing in the thai every one with property to save should be eager to reach some place life property can be secured to them In Flor have already taxed pur fur property and negroes sold for eauli six months ago would nol now luft there in State ury and is every probability that secession will ultimately Florida back into a and tlie Slam a suitable Y Tunes Tine at lUe of tlac Oc iu Y 21 At midday tiie of Court Satiate and tho Speaker of the en tered in august touk their places to witness I lie sign ing of the ordinance The operas ion occupied till and became decidedly tedious long end Tins scene at was rat her the gullene were crowded lo lion yet tlie stillness pre- ceded tlie earliest signatures was broken only by ibo scratching of lue pens of the But the Lad peen worn away and the relaxed was the usual buzz dent to large gatherings It a deal of the pens on wore by crn geese 1 may have been wrong but tins aid not seeru to me a idea Tlie observer could extract some ment from remarking the manner of the various down thei it ed fur around ol applause at tiie conclusion doing deed in a business style and others many signed firmly compressed evidently powerfully impressed the importance of their acl and not a few whose literary been yery limited in extent squared their laces lo the sheet wilh painful the mouth bled along through the signature bearing away from the table on their fingers as ink as they on ihi When thu whole ceremony hail been concluded tile cannons outside the tidings to an expectant world and thu crowd rushed anew to whiskey IL is saiu tnat all but dozen signed Ilie ordinance it ia not probable inat these long holdout It they do they may well convert their iulo goiri emigrate to some State where freedom of opinion is This evening while I there is a uni- no end lo cheap works and whiskey and there will shortly be a torchlight procession and a riety of the wildest oratory From what I have heard here I am con- that the of Georgia might have been postponed till ihu of March bad it not lo the Governor's in taking tile forts It must be that the leading traitors their in this State with great shrewdness The ure of the forts was made the nose of committing Georgia to Having been done tiie act wis nude die basis of an agreement has proved ful in whipping the ami siendy opponents The transmission York resolutions to the Convention was another move in the swells witb triumph as he sees the State in a position she would never have assumed A SINGULAR who would clearly and fully the of J well of his race paper gives a gular in the case of mail who visited a large iron He stood a large and watched with great interest its perfectly regular At it was immense lumps of crimson metal into thick black sheets but the supply being exhausted at length it only descended on- the anvil Still tbe young man on its motion then lie followed its stroke with a corresponding motion of his head then his left arm the same lie placed the ina minute it was ten to a jelly The only expl be conid afford that he Mt an impulse to do 115 that lie knew that lie savr ail the consequences in a misty kind of a manner bat that he still felt the power within above sense and morbid in fact to which he and by which he lost a right Charleston Tho correspondent of the Baltimore American writing from Charleston ou the ult WILL few and the ble to a surrender of- Fort have brought about a settled: that iwo have warm to is not now Will Fort Sumter bo but the attack 3 of warlike preparations not ceased during the progresa of the parley tiie two the of the over flag floats have brought to a of action s- PREPARATIONS AT Fort under tion of Major his black ade has of N Y 1861 As the Rebellion gresses are daily to the tlie blindest of to nee t hat it is a demonstration have knowledge are eminently true character of the game i An of Hie a resigning tbe earnest To witli was and given to underst and the r was in- t ended to ope political of at aa to be mass which all thes they will vork of a- parly tit pieces severe of the fort they bold after the a warlike The their point in the ns nr cannon are rf are the come a verV early succeed iti for hot si ut is like your steam up at any moment and uli tho equipments for up the gun carriages The magazine has been buried ern of and is believed to be ond the reach of shot or shell Every made not only for the of the men but for ing the balls of Sumter with the least possible danger ANXIOUS FOR A FIGHT The military are anxious for to commence as to ton to fight they are to go home witli smelling are most impatient at the delay and tho my and unpleasant has rendered their military duties very severe and some At Morris Island three large Cor have boon ched in a 42 pounder and tt s mortar Fort Johnson ure The batteries at ming quite und it is intended to keep up a fire on from those three for 24 hours an attempt is made to sault the of Uncle is that a breach can be tho walls Major garrison will he so by the severe labors of working the guns for long a time that the storing ing party on rafts be able to tin escalade without much difficulty or loss of lifo There is no doubt of the fact that rafts are being constructed for the I have one of them in progress it is a portion of the secret work of the cannot be too quired into Thoy of palmetto logs and cotton protection of tho assaulting party while approaching tho fort There is no ging on the of tho military in view of the havoc of life that must be the suit of the assault and the anxiety from clay to operations is in- temporizing policy of the Governor uid his Council much harsh criticism by the inconsiderate but it is that should the tack bu far us the delay is concerned South Carolina has obtained more than Anderson WHAT CAS MAJOR ANDERSON DO In all the conversations nnd tions on tho subject of the attack of ter I hear but few thoughts expressed as to the amount of damage Major Anderson will be do on the military defences to seize Capital but they hope gut the open to the extension of Slavery of tlie the i present movement is a palpable of the American Civil war is tolerably plentiful would be a commercial of of suspected persons in But no if hot indifferent care The free stand alone and w li i le people talk of h and South seem to forgtt than both is a with its the North and ion nro Re- public so vast be by neglect will of but probably no co OUT answer to this question says the question propounded in other in h er status When answered by the yes Tennessee Ja certain to go out we take the ty lo say that Tennessee will not igb out anil further that not one secessionist can be elected to convention out of tho thirty counties of east Mark this But if there should be enough of disunion ists chosen in west Tennessee rush the State madly the enst from the ern confuduiacy and organize ent mountain i public midille must remove bones Jackson i o this end of- as liis and are Should go out his assailants TLe impression is that he will take them seriatim commencing with Moultrie are considered a for granite The question to he can silence the guns never broached though if is suid that he c dismount all tho guns in a few hours and then turn his attention to the weaker teries on Morris Island and Port Johnson Should he be able to thus silence all their heavy guns before any serious impression is mado ou his walls which he deems pregnable what will become of assault and The nor and his Cabinet doubtless anxiously discuss those matter-of-fact eventualities but the military think of nothing but cess and victory in circulation as to the ar- by Major U his position but of course not as he his nnd there is little or no now with Tho d landing blow up grenade lino v on tin r t ed thi n hum in n bio realized the of the be -o party and bind MI 1 in gre it to i r om the ramp It i- i J i t Hint if r is itt ick I K i of n most of our citizens be Journal ty li t i highly cit izen of Jt ffi rion quite a lira eatt r c tin into this city to maki mi fir visiting the South on Hi to the Mayor and oh lined fi mi lhat with i he lives in Ji son that he i- i slaveowner and that he is a fi n nd or Jhe South As a why he n ished h a passport and cei he that Home of his neighbors who visited the South wire so annoyed and bedeviled with Vigilance Committees that he not venture to go without first against trouble taking precautions THE RIGHT SIDE M C from Tennessee made a felicitous bit the day in his speech when asked whether he was speaking for die North or the South He Bail I am speaking on tbat side which baa few rep on this floor I am speaking oa the aide of my country if will repair to and keep watch bones of the herb will bu to the rude and consummation Dow the unholy spectre of treason before the eye and of the stern old and in the.eiercise of his authority as mag istrate he throttled monster ia South OF FB Tlie cf of the vine pathy valid fro in France bears nlie emphatic v -i 1 not is sentiment of pf of the of it exists day in to vole jn France whether in case slavery could bu abolished ill t should an to the cotton factories of till the supply could be again obtained upon a basis or sorne a of the eight in Empire would vote in The feeling is subject on the ii disunion I iki strong t seiti ion but foi them si nu in the and and R is a tin i to hi hi ion I their of admit the question n it that of duty even iris not gieat Hi public shouia prefer to such a conin on the All the their and 01 Dein Snift one tuna solicited to pi each a sermon foi the benefit of the When the prei wnre tin ugh lie and selected the He lint the poor lendi th to tlie Loi d the witty pastor closing the book If 5 on liki security down with dust An Arabian having brought a blush to A cheek of said to her My looks bare planted in your checks forbid me gether them t Tbe him who sows to reap the harvest If j A young man advertises pretty and doesn't know it ed one who is not and it le would find no trouble ed r The mother of Achilles showed ternal regard for him by taking hn a very early age and applying him
