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Tempest In A Tea-pot

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
January
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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A trorueridous excitement wns kicked up íq tbe rural cines of New York and Brooklyn, on M nday afternoon, from a report gaiuing curroncy tbat a mob in sympttthy witb the Charleston eeoessioniíts bud irranged to sci.e upod the BrooklyM Navy Yrd, for the purpo80,.e j icfurne, 1 taking itbodily out of the Uuin. The guarda nt tbe yard wuiu doublé, odo buudred marines placed on duty, the reoeiving ship Nor'th Carolina reinfnrced, the en tire pólice forca of Broiiklya HtntioDsd ata l.'all riear Lbo navy yard g;it, the 5ih brigü'lo ciillüij out, put ander arms and marching ordeiv, the 13t.h, Ikh and ÜStli regiment rendezvoused at tho Chy Arraory, and the iumoue 7tb regiment at tho State Arsenal. Tho barbor police boat8 wero manned and ordered to the vijinity,and ferry boats ühurtered for the occasion. I3ut night cama on. the honr of suspectod daoger püssud by, no nnob gatbered, thd conoeotrated pólice found themsel.es somowhat in the predteameDt 1 iha noled kiug, who, " Wilh lwice Iíti tbouflODd m n M-.ri'iu'i up liit hiii mil Umi nurchcd down flgain!' and ihcir m:ching orders wei e countermandüd. L2L" O'1 Friday the ilouso passod a bilí extendí rg the time for the colloction of taxcs th rougliout tlie State until the irst of March. A had uiove we think. fl@ Tha Ilouso has passed a bilí to transfer the charge of the Agricaltural College from the Board of Education to i State Board of Agricultura

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Old News
Michigan Argus