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I'o44invo, nitroi; (innimixe wzomprzs )
brpterfi 140. 4W 0 ITEHTNUT SUM
PRESS,
Wint, Payable to the ilaitior
Mallon to polonoribore out of the City at SIR DOLLARP
PRYL :ATRTirt DOLLARN TOR EIGHT MONTHS;
TRRTT 104 LITS: iron Eitx rtiorvis—invariably in id
iranoe-tiii the time. ordered:
: :PET.WEEKLE PRESS,
dW led to attbooribero out of the City at Tgass Dor,
advance: , '
OtimmismoN i ttinrsES:
SHEPLRY - , HAZARD, & HIITCHTNSON,
NO. Ile MESTA UT ST
COMMISSION MERCHANTS '
FOR TNT 84 . p OF
PAILADELPI - 41A-MADE
GOODS.
GROCERIES.
SHAEE ft SWEET OORN.
WINSLOW'S GREEN CORN,
FRENCH TOMATOES, PEACHES.
GREEN PEAS, &c..
ALBERT O. ROBERTS. I
DEALER IN
VINE GROCERIES.'
Jarr-tt, Comer BLEVENTa end WMlijigreetf
FAMILY FLOI7/1,
MADE Fjord ciforaß WHITE WHEAV
O. H. MATTISON.
E. W. eon ANGIE sof TENTH 'freaks.
SEWING MACHINES
WHEELER 6a WITAtiON.
rocie •Reatice6, Nov. fa, moo. ,
tiEwniG MA6HiNES.
59 8 ORENTNUT STREET.)2IECOND MAO'
not-ft '
HARRIS' BOUDOIR
. SEWING MA OVINE.
leo.l—FOS FAMILUIBg.
o. 11—A lEW MACHINE,
HEAVY -WORK.
flottijpser from twoools without the tronble of re
tuditn4 wi th little or no noise: ._
Yor ewe at No. 700 ARCH, Street. Philadelphia. and
No. 73 HALTINIORX Ht.. Baltimore, Mth 0 latil-ko.
LOOKING GLA.StiEili
LOOKINEI-GL ASSES,
PORTRAIT AND PIOPURE FRAMED,
ENGRAVINGS.
OIL PAINTINGS, tco., /co,
JAMES S.EARLE & SON,
IMPORTERS, MANDFACTURERS, WROLE
SALE AND RETAIL DEALERS.
EARLES' GALLERIES,
416 CHESTNUT
FURS.
FURS! FURS!
GEORGE F. WOMRATH,
NOB. 4111 AND 417 ARCH EITSBET.
Hee now Open
A FULL ASSORTMENT
. 07
LADIES'_ Fti A - 6C
to taint' the attention of the Mho is Invited. enaitei
WATCHES .TEWELRY,
MBE BEST CiOto —3loittißY—TßE
A Buz obLD lratmLity.
...iNciTHE a
'ANOTHICR
LAME CONSIGNMENT R
FOFOM GOLD AND ILATED
GOODS.
A BROKEN-UP RROXEN-11P
A - ERORXN-UP ' &BROKEN-17e
MAWACTURiCR.
No Galvanized, Gator Gift Jewelry sold in our Fatah
tietantit.lll 17 Is
ALL: 1313NUINE GOLD .A.ND PLATEDG OODS,
DEAN CO.lit DEAN & C
DEAN .k 00.43 ORAN &. p 0.%
ORIGINAL BI STORi3, •
N 0.333 ORIOTAUT Street,'hird store below Fourth,
Wisladf . - L
NEW
•76,000
ALL AND LOOK IC AT SOMETHING riEW
A GRE JEWELRYF
$75,060 WORTH OF CHAINS, fic.
ALL FOR 111 EACH.
Aisne and splendid assortment of Jewelry to be sold
without regard to cost.
YOUR CHOICE FOB ail RAWL
The following list fo r some ol the artlelas sold
at this estibltisment for SI each. it baits unposinifie to
enumerate them all in alronlar form. Call and egamlne
for yourselves:
Large Size and Splendid COMM Sets, General Retai l rnoes , E ..... ........ .. —.48 to An
do, do. Viiii — I; —lO to 20
do. do. Carbnuole sets.— .0 to 20
.Ladies' Enameled and Coral do— 7to 30
. do, do, and Carbanole do.— 7to 30
do. do and Ruby dog 7to 10
Do .
Gold ender Gnmit Setting Sets 10 to 30
ao, do. Veils do., do -—lO to 80
o'. " 01. do. ' Jet Bet do. d 0—....., ato 12
.•
do. Zs* Mosaic io. do_ ato 12
o.- do:Go d.eltine blow° o. d 0...—. 6to It
. - do. sooSets , o. d 0......... a to. IS
o. gibbon Twurtirlwith brilliant' do.-- 6to 15
. mossiest B e te, newetyle do. d 0........ s to' 20
leseielled tiniest do, _ flo,, lo—.llo !....,. 30
rm l 2 4
Om um 0, u ti,
",,,en_ u it l: pr.... L i rz a d . .._
~ KG . Telt arettritti Wirsfttir rinr 'imot
Wm., o ensue Gold Thimblov- dMe ...or
are, Illseve hefts. ease eirrar,e,or, aro.* Laval
Clatneo:ud Band Bralailatit; Geste' Veit Mamie. Mar
noted to wear for ten Team 'without eheniont. color,
sad will stand the acid. her are usually sold by
jewellers gasohol gold abates. Alluade In Paris. Yon
can take your choice for all eaah. Ladies' and Gents'
Guard Chalet/ 8 I each . usually sold by It:manors at front
Si to OM each ; Ladles' and Children • Neck Chains,
beautiful patterns ; Armlets, brilliant, enamelled, sod
rlsbY settings Crosses, tiLsin and enamelled, for II
*ask. midi o ti ose from as to 520 each, k. very *Ole
and variety o Jewelry end desirable goods for $1 each
7 hie were. St the above prices, will ooptinne long
enz i llo sell off our immense stook. which was Sar
ah Alit a great sacrifice from te&Dabotarero who
have led. .
Call and See 'behest 'stook of goods In PhiladelPlua.
Tering auk. Takeyour thinottfor S 1 each.
Zia Wee to Mead one dozen of any one kind of goods
at the stove prices, noises at our option
DEAN et. CO.
No. 335 C H ESTNUT Street, Philade l phia.
To those who Order goods by mail, Inlet Dodd 15 cents
:TAantlrilfjeJMlrafr th tgrto SILtt •
de3l-100
FINE WATCH REPAIRiNC. I
pERSONB HAVING -FINN WATOHE9
JD.
that ham! hitherto, given naAtaction to the
wares are invited to bring them to our store. where
all definite , -eap be remedied by thoronyhlyActlful ott&
11015410 erPrleten, and the watch warranted to um
enure natisiaetion.
Mantel Cloche, Magical Bones. &0., carefully put in
complete order.
. -
- FARR & BROTHER.
importers °Matches. Humid Boxes. Manic &O. -
nAso
ih 3P# WilblifTNUT rum, below Fourth.
BUSINESS CARDS.
ZAN COOKZ.,
:FAY POOKE
BANKI4II2:
ilk 150IITK TitIRD fITRBET. •
north-pf uir_a_rd
• PHILADNIPHIL
FlAwaoti - & NlOllOll3O1 4 1, _ •
BOOKBINDERS
- itOr; 619 Jac mrtioi sheet, •
Bl. l cre•Flpmc and Ohostatat -drools,
jlll"Ei g in i NI ` °LSO -
fall PAWS N. - AB. GE N.
FITGFUET At ; SONS,
• IMPORTABB.OI. VANA 016ABLI.
. • fi10..91111 Booth FRONT Btrost.
jtipterre` togolosly a roll amoortntent of doohilitt O.
ihilAiwitiOtt they offetAt Winds,. for , oath or 6} Vete( malt. . •• - - htle-ty
NEW ORLIttINS - .(LA : ) PIOAIIINt.t-
' SOY. 'OOE. - & ciii:: ~ . .
rbal&A 41031nefor Solo ignite In Pig n =iiii rcir
esteFrie r circulating. pager. ogo 1211,&o.
nee. Den men ere saverueleg in the ei&vt
opLO_Ts o city sod COMM etioticooee,ol
& AdOortioti UWE. FL gam 0
innate rd il adehoug: wintnine tuldtutei 17774
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES.
JOHN O. BICKEL is this day admitted
ae riarr i lVark, ar. i%
- 409 Aleltscra Sttmt.
Philadelplas:Jan. I, MI. • jel•lan an
IWAHIMOUNT MACHINE WORKS,
A: WOOD St.: between Twenty-first and Twentr
seco^d. hatablished 1539.
The undenrigned, ancaescor to the late fain of J. & T.
WOOD, contuse the bnsineu in all ite branches se
heretofore. rower Looms and eh Machines connected
with them; Embossing Callender*. Lard P/BMI.
Obaftingi and *leading Work in Metal.
Thant fel for past favors. he WOUlit reneeotfully
a oontinuanee of the patronage so liberally bestowed on
the late firm - • • • .TROMAD WOOD.
Phdadelphia. Jan. MI , . • - Jane4rn
Al Ulintir-WIIEPPLO ifON 'BRIDET.
Lug. , STONE ' 210LiT &ALLWPON.
No. 333 - a sT.Art..,
0 PHIA, • . -
other,
Big Iwo to tgerut Broarl ij eckurgleir,td
c klitinlit li ti 44 14:F tta ig I C
VA ''Ali t 43/3[411-11r,
Gira t ot ° gy(itUt r4d,dlAVentorOt th eiabove Ire -
halm aikci pun tridgo.,) Ind eir, Pre_pars4 to ea ate
?Ant from' y tr ti l a r •riillub /Min MI a4m
. 711 1.1"ul ynift to - Om' and eisthratesdhOuld by
.da t o w. NOM P 0 y, CIVII ....n neer,_
UOlll4lll for TONE, QUIOLNY, & ATOM
REMOVALS.
111, REMOVAL.—PASOBALL MORRIS,
itt i ni e rsTgth h ltiVigl i t t erft4e i tt g el e glTlC;
ad,,-,llete: MARKS Moon. opeeereto names'
kat. •., ,
very deiatistion of unproved Agilenliwral and Roi
rsend Imatemettorwananted. Plate, Emden, and
eser Seeds repalied ,at reasonable prices 20 her
*renal yrkotelato anA retail, - PABORALI, MORAL&
AirbeaMEM fekd Ond Warehotisep, 1120 MARKET
atrusti 0000200 'Armen? hlttket. , - MAR KET
jPOWLADZIAPHIA : TERRA QOTTA MA
JL NIMAOTottLAXYBMTE end GkitittailTlV .
E ase lin° ir tr2 Ftterfica' " Fri Ird
azisitZ, R a l re r vo, Itoftei to aa se
* I
0 7 ) ,1117 etritigKiraddiritZl::
~,,,, vaitereitratinna. !Wait! na-* aritaargal
so Ins hos e: wrens? ir t t e 4l &Mut
aal • e mutant our i
Asj ity;atipt ir WAS 111- 9_ al
- ,s , stnnsinsml Mummy - :rapt an t ea,
, 9011116 4 ': , :t ~ , , , log-
& QUAYLE'S
LTA°Y 9 °9°B
17,1114113 :WALNUT aTitET,
. 1414 w "I""i'ktheDniara.
VOL.' 4.-NO. 154.
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
NO PANIO ! ! !
There Ii no panic at the
N. E. Corner EIGHTH and BP/UNG GARDEfi Ste
• " Full etoak. •
Fresh goals Daily,
it g:Fl l in n eZt e thewp, and
Buying Goode Cheap,
AU Wool Flannels.
Good Large Blankets.
Beautiful Mareelhas
Piano-Table e nd Stand covers. •
Power-Loom Table Linens,
Bent Bawling,. Linens,
tlnsetins, and Pillow-Linens,
Damask Table• Linens.
Crash Diapers, Towels, &o
Great Bsdootion ,
CLOAKS SHAIVLS. AND SILKS,
Fanny Dress Goods, Poplins, &0., &0.,
At THOHNLEY & 0018Piltlg,
J
A. E. Corner EIGHTH & SPKINCi GARDEB Bar,
an 3
LAST MONTH OF WINTER!
Last Month of Wintor.
Loot Month of Winter.
Last Month of. Winter.
Last Month of Winter.
WINTER DREbS GOOnS BELOW COST!
' Winter Drees Goods Below Comt..
Winter Dress Goods Below Cost
Winter Dress. Goods Below Cost.
Winter Dress Goods Below Coat.
WE ARE DETERMINED TO REM= OUR
STOCK!
We are Determined to Redone our Stook.
We are Determined to Reduce our Stook.
We are Determined to Reduce our Stook.
We are Determined to Deduce our Stook.
ADAMS & SON, EIGHTH AND ARGIL!
Adam.& Son. Eighth and Aroh.
& Son, Eighth and Arch.
Mains to Pon. Eighth and Arch.
Adams & Son. Eighth and Arch. leSitt
GRicIAT REDUCTION IN DRY 000 PS!
WINTER DRESS GOODS CLOSING OUT !
Oreat_Sargaius in Winter Goods.
'PlaidTa'enoiaa 20 Ma.. formerly UM.
Delaines and Cashmeres very chasm.
plosing out all Dark Goods, at
JOHN R. STOKED'.
.1a26-tf
709 ARCH Street.
LINEN AND COTTON MEETINGS.-
A full Stook
Of Furnishing Goods,
Linen Sheetnigh
Pillow Lumens,
Wide and narrow Muslin,
Linen Damasks,
Towels and Ilaptine,
Roam Crash Diapers,
Crumb Clothe, Stair emit]
Large - Blanket Quilts, Woo llen Woollen Druggets. Table Covers.
Curtain Materials,
Furniture Reps,
,;rich Shirting Linens,
Piano Covers, and Worsted Thimeske.
SHAAPLkisti BRQTHERB,
lase CELESTNCT and EIGHTH Streets.
TIALMORAL PETTICOATS Genteel
Colors.
Balmoral. full size.
BsMunats, .
•
Balmoral', wholesale.
Haltom% $176 to e".
tf BYRE do LAB WILL, FOURTH and ARCH.
LARGE BLANKETS, STRUT SHUT..
MOB, &o. "T•
fesuithes supplittd with 'trod Goods;
PAM' he+ anvil ed with useful Goods;
Enmities supplied with ample Goods;
Families supplied on the best terms. tf
nOROAS SOODSTIES SUPPLIED WITH
Jo-J. GOODS AT COST:
• GOOD CANTON FLA'NNEL%
GoO WOO LLRN FLANNEL%
GOODWARRING OALICOES.
STOUT hiftslol%
GOOD WARN SHAWLS,
tf • EYRE dc LANDoLIt, FOURTH and ARCM
MM=l
CLOAKS.—The greatest bargains in the
oft, at
OLOAKIL—The largest 'took, the beet assortment,
the ohoreent colors, thefinestenalities, the most superb
trimmings, the newest etjlee, the best work, and dent
dedlilbe lowest prices in the city. at IVENS'. 23
South NINTH Street. nolekm
CLOAKS.—.The CITY' CLOAK STORE,
148 North EIGHTH. Every* one ie talking of
.the great bargains anifiinperior quality' of the CLOAKS
•t the new CLOAK STORE, 140 North EIGHTH
Street. . noligam
ICLOAKS.- 1 --It you want the best value
for TOW mosey, Co to the City Cloak atom 149
North Street, above Cherry. ' nolaSat
'efLOABB.—The CITY CLOAK STORE,
ae2 North EIGHTH, Is said to be the but and
cheapest store in the oily. note-Sin
'CI.LOAKS.—A magnificent assortment 'of
1..." en the newest styles imported tide sesion, with
every new Material, mode up and trimmed in the um/
beet manner. at muses that defy all competition. at the
Part; Cloak Store, northeast corner of Elena% and
WALNUT Streets. nold4m
LISTENS, SHIRTINGS, SHEETINGS
Fronting. Shirting. and Pillow 'Linens.
Material for fine Marrs.
Linen and Muslim by the piece,
fiord rtattnela and Tiakinga.
TABLE DAMASKS.'
Superb stook Table Cloths wed Dameeke•
Good Napkin, Large Damutc Towels,
Doylies. extra lamp and fine Table Clothe,
All at the loweat prom, at retail or
BY TR& QUANTITY:oheap for yeah.
COOPER to CONARD,_
Jag Southeagt corner DINTH and MARKET.
SBAWLS, CLOAKS, DRESS GOODS,
AND EMBROIDSRED COL.LAREI AND BETEL
iN g Large dialing or Woollen Shawls, Bolling cheap,
Cloak. closing out lit ?lost and lees.
Entire stook of Drees Goode at nominal prices.
Some Winter_Oood7fieat marle&
EdirECIAO GAINS
To be had time eur Wise mamma Stook. as wp are
DETERMINED TO REDUCE IT
o Scaring setisfeptor7 inducements.
COQ_P ER CONARD, _
Jag . , to¢tilesit weer NINTH. iuut MARKBT.
CAlfl!l` FUUNITURE.
Fve-touci 7.47 A-1, ' •
W. & J. ALLEN & BitO,;
Respectfully Inform their friends and °Montero that
. they have removed from No. 9eo tenth
PLECOND Street to their
• NEW STORE, '
1209 6RI STNUT STREET,
Where they Will have always on hand a fine aseartnient
of
ROSEWOOD, WALNUT, AND OAR
- FURNITURE;
Which they will tell at less than their former-p rince, in
commence of having greater facilities foranness,
and being under less &SWU],
elaser
They
eee, respeotfully *ellen a will before nuroh se raelming
CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL-
N. , - LIAR') TABLED.
MOORE .'& CAMPION,
I No, 1361. SOUTH SECOND STREET•
b ootittitotroalrittr their eatenavo Cabinet Brabemi
are LOW moncfaimanoo atiperior 'article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
tiTlarreoligrairilignArDihjelahoflls,,
W h , s itts.'Prouottimed, by all who base used them, so
• superior to ultothers.
F octiot baby sad Stash of these Tables the raecit
feeleljers refer to their tonterone patrons thrOughout
the w bionorh oars - romillor with the ottentet ereizi of their
Work. Om
. .
PORTLAND KEROSENE OIL;
forln order to Meet the eonatantly-Moreaaing demand
thudnatly
CIPIAMATED 011 AS AN ILLUMINATOR,
the anger, bare now' doubted their. rormer.oapaoi
",4tgisle,o2ll,eirgiiirartetZPArtis'nn'd
orilerto' /AM, for hirstult eappy, adeileate
told* demam.they hase lovely senzet meets blish
any 120 W alettoiee, or orea air new au to lot It What
rfint We 'olefin YorPils Oil is, .
ITS unvocouTy INtlymix,jankrapsiu
unr-povE VLI&
rft Olitireb , tee from t e °amigo odor peculiar to
other umi (Witt the market, and for .brillianoT AB
ight,04611h2119616 Ch 8112114.0. sad Saletr. MIMS no
eitPldtree Drop:Minh is, we may isonfulently say,
THE ONLY am a yht s u c cif o kir.fi GEIG 1 AL
Wbermr hie been introduced oensumere will use
;to Other. - • -
All there are many inferior Odi Bold at Keroeeps, We
Nationitrate rtioolar aireinit mins this trail
aitc tzlerat,...r.ree
lo us foilwatoz
=Of itte the at
W. G. KODIErIaD
CO M ! I,4)WEST• PRICE,
and&ll dntwir to to by soil owerwiss
win
moot with prom"
A !M
ormion
la"Aggts
n 2. ok rso
I tt ocor
T n al4 Nd. 1 0 1 hati
elll
s.
NOTICE,—Was LOST' from the mail, a
Certificate for Elsien Shires Of BloOk in
.the Union
Dank, of J'lllladelahla; in' the 'name of Mrs. Mary
Brewster, no, ts, dsted'Aaril 19. Med
' The adwarlbergives notioe hereby that an applied
%ion has been ma de to the said Bank for a new aettiA
oats, 'and cis"' on all persona w Obttso•why
should not Issued. M ARYBREWS u. it
R. SHOEMAKER as Clo..
GLASS, PAINTS,
OILS, AND VARNISHES,
Northeast Corner FOURTH and RACE Streets,
de 4-tm
H 0 Y T'B
'HIAWATHA HAIR RESTORATIVE
warranted EMT) instamae to
RESITO.RE ORAY HAIR
• TO ITN ORIGINAL COLOR.
At ii_as boon applied
IN THOUS/UO/3 OF OASES_
n the night
i tt i le4l4 l :/ a ezatti e g a ltalor4 MS NOT
. , alithat no (g ift ed for it.
• No Bair is a eg . Orey orr il lint ithe
j ;HIAWATTIA r ill
edytditzt,, d. dye whioh
end, mves a dead black polar to the hair,the pettent
banns to submit to sesame: wishing. and riacipmes of
the hair °Tory time it is applied ; norm it a preparation
of sulphur, sugar of lead, ero.; nor of any ingrmliento de
leterious to the hair or skin. It is an article requiring
no preparation, no wahine' before or after piing; it nu
a e p s plie y d in five minutes time, and with has little trouble
Xaoyle who o: l ;:s f att e . tVrl::;.ration deo'. it is
Minieutoult in itseFecits, end tkat it will perform all that
it pretends to d0.7--(Ball — [Bailors Fietorial. •
"Hi Maass Is wouderful, and we can only_tay we en
dorse MI the proprietor sage in regard to it."—Doston
Journal.
i• e °beery., by a notice in a Becton paper, that a
Wmittioo,was awarded by the Maseaohnsetts aleohruilas
Chanute le at their late, Fair, Boston, to
r. Joseph Hoyt, of this gay, for his celebrated • Hia
watha Hair Restorative,' an article which richlyment
id this fatter. It was for its supedor ments in this re
spect that the'conimittee, after gulb"oient evidence pre
sented to themselves,' awarded to Mr. Hoyt, tills flatter
tn.ktistimmual."—Rfrovidotros Evening Frees. •
Yoe sale by the 'prinoipal Druggists in Philadelphia,
and thii)...tuttiont Ham country. JOSEPH. HOYT. .Pro
twister, No. 4 MATHEWSON Bt.. Providence, R. I.
hal-Ini •
NIA010111", EIZREING, BEAD, UL-
M& MON; - &0,-8,001:1bble, Mess NO/. 1,1, gad II Mack
erel. IMO, medium. and , small. in assorted packages
of chci7 g r i si•oan_ght fat HA.
.I , SOD.b .Tteer gialutti, Eastport/lid Labradorlaer
rlege...3 0 OJOS analftiffc
-4°n°
binnnn
entrn
new rivaled Herrings.
$
SOO sorest, anew 0.1 amass.
"nn
%et mlvtin° H.Trilim
*a b. . fie nao itd Filth,
, 10 1 16.1111 V F 4191101111 Men Shad,
illibingf. asiellahfax Salem
1,000 quintals Onted•Seutk Codfish,
-- 100,boieu liferkfmar-coangs Chea"6
da atom and landing, got nisei
MU PRY & KOONS,
sag . Me . ICS OW= WRARYES.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1861
New Publications.
A volume, by Benjamin Bausman, of
Chambersburg, entitled c( Sinai and Zion ; or
a Pilgrimage through the Wilderness to the
Land of Promise," has just been published
by Lindsay & Blakiaton. The materials wore
collected in a tour made by the anther, through
Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria, in 1857.
Mr. Baustnan evidently is well acquainted
with the Bible, has judiciously used his op
portunities of observation, and has produced a
book which will reward perusal. Butwe must
confess that we cannot see any necessity for
such a work, inferior as it is, in all respects,
to "The Land and the Book," by the Rev.
Dr. W. M. Thompson, long a resident in the
Holy Land, to which Mr. Bausman paid only
a flying visit. Dr.. Thompson's work appear
ed in 1859, but Is brought up to a later date
than Mr. Bausman's. Moreover, we find only
half a dozen weed-cuts in the latter, whereas
Dr. Thompson gives several large maps and
plans, and about two hundred and fifty wood
engravings, executed in the best style of the
art, mostly from original drawings. There is
no comparison between these two works, writ
ten with similar purpose. Mr, Bahaman's
reads like an abridgement, not over-well exe
cuted, of Dr. Thompson's cc The Land and
the Book." The literary merit of Mr. Bails
man's production is inferior. We repeat Our
conviction that "Sinai and Zion" was not
required, after a The Land and the Book."
A now and neat edition of Mr. Furman
Sheppard's "First Book of the Constitu
tion," has . been published by Lippincott.
It is a text-book in the Girard College and the
Public Schools, Firstdistdct of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Sheppard, who has the rare art of telling
a great deal in the fewest words, has abridged
this, with a view to educational purposes, from
hit larger work, g€ The Constitutional Text-
Book." We are glad to notice that both
books are well indexed.
The Sanitary number of Blackwood's Maga
lane, (New York republication, supplied by
W, B. Zieber, the agent here,)ts better than
usual, but by no means as good as Maga
was in the palmy days when Wilson's buoyant
genius, Maginn's learning and fun, and Lock
hart's biting satire, combined to make it a
Power in periodical literature. The really
first-rate articles this month are "The Politi
cal Year," a closely-argued and statistically
well-supported criticism of Mr. Gladstone's
numerous financial blunders in 1860; "English
Embassies to China," full of curious detail ;
" W hat's a Grilse ?" a discussion whether a
certain fish, in Scottish rivers, be a salmon
trout or-a young salmon ;" A Merry Christ
mas," in which a great many gift-books for
children are genially noticed ; and the first
of a series entitled "The Indian Civil Ser
vice—lts Rise and Fall." This concluding
paper is full of curious details, extremely in
teresting.
The January number of the London Art
'Union (also received from Mr. Zieber) has
three line engravings on steel, viz : Drum
mond's War, Turner's Caligula's Palace, and
Landseer's The Friends. AMong the articles
illustrated with wood engravings are, Mr. Daf
tbrne'a notice of Jacob Thompson and his
paintings, the review of McClise's drawings
for Tennyson's "Princess," and Benson J.
Lossing's pictorial, tour on the Hudson, from
'the Wilderness to the Sea. The ...Hrt Journal
fully maintains its high reputation among
artists and general readers.
The University Quarterly, Vol. lII,* No. I,
has reached us. Published at New Haven
Connecticut, it is conducted by an Associa
tion of collegiate and professional students, in
the United States and Europe. Commenced
early in 1860, as " The Under-graduate," it
speedily changed its title, which is morn ap
propriate. There are eleven articles hero, on
general literature ; fifteen giving specific in
formation from ad maritcollegeS and universi
ties, and one on the Association which pro
duces the work. The boat-written of these
contributions—at least, the most, readable—
are those upon the Dangers of the Student,
Scottish Song Writing, Cambridge University
(England), the Use of Books, Music in Col
lege, and the full and most valuable article on
the Law School—Columbia College, New
York. The last-named is eminently clear,
full, and practical. This is the first number
of the University Quarterly that has reached
us; we heartily wish it success, according to
its undeniable vigor, ability, and freshness.
Great complaints have been made, gravely as
well as humorously,—by Mrs. Trollops as well
as by " Mrs. Mary Clavers,"—of the free arid
easy familiarity of that portion of petticoated
humanity, out in the West, called a helps."
It appears, however, from a work recently
published in England,—Mrs. Meredith's " 0 ver
the Straits; a Visit to Victoria,"—that Aus
tralia beats all the rest of the world in the
freedom of servantgallsm. Here is a scone
which she states actually occurred at Mel.
'bourne
A lady is in want of a servant, and a damsel ap•
pears as an applloant for the situation dressed in
everything that oan be put on at once, in the shape
of finery and appendages. Entering the lady's
drawing•room, she saws the most tempting eau.
suss, and seats herself. The lady looks her as
tonishment.
" What are you staring at? Because I'm sitting
down? Why, you don't suppose I'mgoing to stand
all the while I'm talking to you? Couldn't think
of gush a thing. Oh ! I tell yon, yon don't need to
be surprised—its quote Colonial." The question
of. wages Is brought forward. "Wages? Oh!
suppose you 'mein rny'salary. Well, I'll take
IN/ a year, it the work's light "
The lady walks slowl up and down.
Ido wish you'd s it down. I hate talking to
folks when they're walking about. And now I've
took the troubled coming to speak about business,
I must beg you'll At still."
• " Very well—perhaps I mayn't object to the alt.
nation. And you'll understand I like to have my
friends to tea and supper, and sometimes I. dinner;
and when I've company I can't, be running after
you., And then I always have two days to myself
every week !'sides Sunday."
" , Two entire days !" exolaimed the amazed mis-
tress ; and " who's to do the work ?"
" Who's to do the work? Why you, tole sure!
who else is likely to do it? Oh! you needn't look
that way—l assure you its quite Colonial. Then,
I suppose, you're clever with your needle ? Most
folks is, from the old country."
"Me !” replies the lady. "Me, olever with my
needle! Why, what can that possibly signify to
you?"
4, Signify ? Oh ! all in the world : bedtime you'll
have to help me to make my dresses. Couldn't
think of engaging with anybody as isn't able to do
gat. It's quite Colonial."—
And go on—through as whimsical a series of ser
vantwaltsm airs as the inimitable Leech ever
illustrated. The English lady decides that the
candidate is not exactly the kind of hand-maiden
she requires; whereupon the rejeoted fair one
gives her a cordial invitation to "our place, up in
the Bush—and maybe, you'll find some things there
you mayn't quite like ; but you'll find also, that
kindness of heart and generous hospitality are uni
versal and quote Colonsal."
The Burns' Oration.
128 Booze SIXTH STREET, Jan. 28, 1881
Bra : I observe that in the notice of the "Burns
Anniversary," published in The Press of this
morning, you represent me as having spoken of
Barns as an " histrionic man of the highest type."
If the use of this word had been attributed to me
in a cursory or careless report of the proceedings
on that occasion, I should not have thought it worth
while to notice the mistake, but the article. I refer
to is of a different character and from a higher
source. The word that I used was historic. You
veil do me the favor of correcting the mistake.
I have no objections to :your oritioirms upon my
rhetoric, espeoially as snob masters of style as
Milton, Taylor, Macaulay, and Choate, are very
often guilty of using sentences quite as long as one of
mine, but I have a deoided objeotion to you report
ing me as using a meaningless and absurd epithet
as applied to Burns. Very respectfully yours,
J. HURLEY AMITON
[We should be very sorry to misrepresent
Mr. Ashton. Our criticism was founded
upon an advance copy of his Oration, sup
plied to us by the courtesy of the Editor of
the City Item. In that copy we found the
following sentence :. tf He is the revealed, en:-
bodied possibility of his time—an bistronie
man of the highest typo." The word re
vealed, in this sentence, originally misprinted
reveled, had been corrected, with a pencil, In
eur copy, but the word histranic, in the neat
line, was left untouched. The error, then, is
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1861.
in the original, and not with us, who thought
that histronic was intended, not for historic,
but for histrionic, which it more closely re
sembles. Mr. Ashton, who has gathered a
great many facts about books and authors into
his Oration, erroneously said: "The appear
ance of Cowpor's Task,' in the year 1785,
heralded in England the dawn of the new era;
but if we are right In including Burns among
the English poets, ho precedes even the me
lancholy bard of Olney in the history of this
revival, for tho first edition, called the Kil
marnock edition, of the Scottish poems, was
published in the year 1776—nine years before
th 'Task.' "—The Kilmarnock edition of
Burns' poems was published, not In 1776, but
in 1786—that is, not nine years before Cow
per's " Task," but one year later; as " The
Task" appeared in 1785.—En. PRESS.]
Our New York Letter
YOUNG AMERICA TRAIN AND 1118 MAMMOTH HOTEL
IN LONDON: MARK LEMON AND BA3I SLICK—
CHURCHES IN NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA—
SALE OF THE NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD
FOR S22O,OOO—DEATn OF EDWARD CORNING
—HIGH CHARACTER OF DELEGATES TO THE
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION—MADAME AN
NA EISHOP—THE MURDERER DucHANAN—A
NEFARIOUS INDIVIDUAL RODS A PRINTER.
(Correspondence of The rums.]
NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 1861.
' Letters were received here on Saturday,
from Europe, stating that Young America
Train, in connection with Mark Lemon.
(Punchy)Judge Haliburton, (Sam Slick,) and
others, had organized an Associated Com
pany with a capital of $8,000,000, fbr the pur
pose of building a great American Hotel in
London. They had obtained possession of
three acres of ground in the Strand, and were
going ahead famously. It is intimated that
Hiram Cranston, of the cc New York Hotel,"
one of the most popular and successful hotel.
keepers in America, will be tempted with an
immense pecuniary consideration to take
charge of this mammoth enterprise. Ent as
Cranston is now making $66,000 par annum,
it is to be hoped he will remain content with
his present c , eligible situation."
An industrious monger for items of a reli
gious character has discovered that church
edifices and church property in New York are
far more costly, compared to the extent of the
accommodation and the number of the church.
es, than in any of the other large cities of the
Union.
The following table may not be uninterest
ing :
•
1859.
Value of Extent of Ao-
Cities. Churches. Church Property. ocnemeclatlona
New Writ... 214 89 093 700 219 093
Phlbsdelphfit,24B 4,779 050 185 5114
Balt= re.— 99 2011 B'o 80155
Charleston... SI 1,037 700 29.0110
New Orleans. 30 1,153 500 IT 260
Ist. Louie— . 50 1,1){3 900 31.435
Cincinnati... 71 1 477.900 81 847
Boston-....... 94 8,152,390 77,016
This shows that churches in this city cost
about twice as much as in Philadelphia, and
the only city in which the cost of church pro
perty—numbers and accommodations consi
dered—approaches those in New York is Bos
ton, though our churches cost full one-fourth
more than those in Boston. Those figures
simply demonstrate the fact that New Yorkers
conduct their public worship with more pomp,
circumstance, and extravagance than any
other people on the footstool.
At noon to-day the New York and Erie
Railroad Company ceased to exist. At the
Merchants' Exchange the road, with its appur
tenances, was knocked down to Dudley S.
Gregory and E. Bancroft Davis, the trustees
of the new company. The only bid was
$220,000, which is the amount of interest ac
creed on the filth mortgage, under which the
road Is foreclosed and handed over to the now
organization, It appears, from the documents
produced at the sale, that the new company,
will have to pay off about $796,000 back in
terest on the fourth and fifth mortgage Vends.
The trustees will, no doubt, assess the hold
ers of, the fifth-mortgage, bonds and the pre
ferred and common stockholders sufficient to
aefray the arrears of interest on Ott bonds and
`the incidental coat of the reorganization, which
assessment will be reimbursable, pro rata, to
holders. of securities so assessed, out of the
net earnings of the road, after the regular pay
ment of the mortgage Interest, and before any
dividend is paid on the preferred stock.
The creditors of the old company have six
months in which to assent to • the new organi
zation, or else their claims will be wiped out.
Oyt of the 110,000 shares of the stock 70,000
have assumed the assented form.
Every hardware merchant in the country
has heard the name of Edward Corning, of
this city, one of the oldest and moat reputable
men now engaged in that trade in New York.
lie deceased on Saturday last. Outside the,
trade he was known as the promoter of many
petirlio and private charities, and fbremost in
movements for promoting the general good.
At the time of his death ho was president of
the Hardware Trade Association.
The Democratic State Convention to assem
ble at Albany on the 81st, will bo composed of
a larger number of gentlemen of distinction
than were ever gathered into a political body
in this State. The Convention will be com
posed of four times the number of delegates
usually elected to State nominating Conven
tions; land the fact that no personal axes aro
to bo ground, and no ofilces put up for com
petition, will call together men who under or
dinary circumstances could not be induced to
attend such an assembly. From Erie county
will coma ex-President Fillmore, Judge Ver
plauck, and Judge Clinton; from Genesee,
Heman J. Redfield and Dean Richmond;
from Monroe, General Gould, and Isaac Butts,
of the Union; from Wyoming, John B. Skin
ner and General McElwalne; from Orleans,
Sanford E. Church; from Albany, Erastus
Corning and Judge Parker; from Oswego,
William Duer ; and the same class of men
from all parts of the State. It will be a me
morable Convention.
Madame Anna Bishop has- organized an
English opera company, embracing herself,
Annie Kemp, Cook, and Bowler, with Carl
Anschutz as leader, and in two or three weeks,
as soon as the Zouaves can be got out of the
way, will give "Linda," and Macfarren's new
opera of "Robin Hood."
Young Buchanan, who cm - matted that hor
rible murder of a lady in Twelfth street, has
been pronounced, after medical investigation,
to be insane, and accordingly has been placed
in the lunatic asylum. For several years past
he has exhibited an unaccountable proclivi
ty for killing things.
When enterprising pickpockets get into
circumstances so straitened and desperate
that they take to robbing printers, times must
be hard indeed. On Saturday evening our old
friend, Caspar 0. Childs, who has been en
gaged in as many newspaper speculations as
any man in the universe, took it into his head
that ho would go to the show, and consequent.
ly wended his way to Wailack's. He had in
hie pocket a wallet containing a check for $6OO,
and $3 in money ; and just as he was entering
some person seized him from behind, and ab
stracted the wallet aforesaid, and " put." A
policeman promptly came at the cry of help,
but the nefarious diddler had erupted with such
rapidity that he could not be found. I record
the occurrence from the extraordinary cir
cumstance that the printer man had $503.
Important Letter from Major Anderson.
[From the Cato/naafi Commercial.]
The following letter from Major Robert Ander
son, written in Fort, Sumpter, to n friend in this
oity, two days after the South Carolinians tired
upon the Star of the West, is a plain, soldiei , like
statement of hts position when that outrage took
place, and will give groat satisfaction to the ad
mirers of the Major and the friends of the Union.
It clears up at once a cloud of conjectures, and
gives information that will be gratefully received
by the country. It embodies the first authentic
intelligence that has reached the public concerning
the reasons for the fact that the batteries of Fort
Sumpter were not opened upon the South Caroli
nians on the 11th fuel. :
FORT SUMPTER, JOIL 11, 18G1
" Whether a bloodless reparation eon now be
effected, after her [South Oarolinaj fooliably firing
upon a vessel bearing our flag, tho other day, I
think very doubtful.' I was sorely tempted to open
my battery, but, perhaps fortunately. for the
chance of having matters settled without blood
shed, I could not have touched the battery that
°Polled upon her, and my defenses were just then
in such a condition that I could not have opened
the war. I am now nearly ready, The people
have supposed that this work was ready to be de
fended when I came in it. It was far from it—
end it would take me, even now, one week's hard
work to have it In a complete state. My command
Is only about one-eighth of what it should he in
time of war; but, though small in number, I feel
strong in the confidence that Providence will guard
and guide me safely through any danger that may
threaten *
" Yours sincerely, ROBERT ANDERBOII.I3
No UNION EXCEPT OUT OF TUE URION.—Tho
young Mica of Burka county, ea , have offered a
very strong inducement for young mon to
smith." At a large and enthusiastic meeting
on the 29th ult., the following resolution was
adopted, it is to be hoped not unanimously :
" Resolved, That we, the young ladies of Berko
county, do henceforth rejeot, with a haughty morn
and proud disdain, all oivilities from any gentle
man who refuses or neglects to join the ranks of
any Southern State that shall, in her sovereign
capacity, withdraw her allegiance from this un
constitutional Confederacy, holding it to be self
evident that a dastard's gloio can never win a
Woman's love or defend her honor."
=he Petersburg (Va.) Daily Bulletsn has
been disoontinued.
LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH.
Our Special Charleston Coryespoudenoe
LOOKING OUT FOR A STEAMER—THE MYSTERIOUS
ROW-BOAT FROM FORT SHIIPTER—SUSPEOTED
REINFORCEMENTS —WHEN ANDERSON WILL
BE ATTACKED—GOVERNOR PICKENS DISTRUST
ED AND UNPOPULAR—LOUISIANA CONVENTION
—THE FUTURE STATE CAPITAL OF THE SOUTH
—FREE TRADE VERSUS PROTECTIVE TARIFF--
REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE—GREAT BRI
TAIN WILL NOT RECOGNIZE A SLAVE CONFEDE
RATION—MR. DODGE, TUE NEWSPAPER SPY—
A PHILADELPHIA LETTER-WRITER SENT DAM,
[Special Correepondenoe of The Prom)
CHARLESTON, Jan. 26, 1961,,
There is great excitement in the city In con
sequence of the report brought in by fisher
men, that a steamer had been cruising off the
Carolina coast, during the past three days.
Several reconnoitering craft have left the bay
this moraing,t6 discover, if possible, her Mime
and intentions. A rot-boat, with muffled
oars, was also seen last night; by the sentries
on Morris Island, endeavoring to approach
the shore, with a view to reconnoitre the
works at that point. This boat was traced
back to Fort Sumpter, and these two facts
taken together, have produced a general
impression on the public mind, that the
Government, are reinforcing Fort Sumpter
by stealth. If this prove to be the case,
the batteries which now surround Major
Anderson will open their fire forthwith; no
inducements or orders of Gov. Pickens could
restrain them. Indeed, his refusal to allow
the volunteers, ere this, to attempt the cap
ture, has Produced great indignation against
him amongSt all classes of the community.
Some go so far as to contend openly for his
removal. Others think he merely desires to
shift the responsibility of making war against
the Federal Government on to the shoulders
of the officials to be appointed at the Conven
tion called for the 4th of February, at At
lanta.
he politicians are looking eagerly for the
result of the Louisiana Convention, although
wrdoubt id s eipressed about her declaring for
the Southern Confederation. Texan affairs
are looked at and talked of in a more gloomy
manner; some of the papers already admitting
that if she should declare for coalition with
her slater:cotton States, It will be "by a bare
majority, und that influences are at work which
bring it within the range of probability that
she will set up for herself.
• It appqais to be generally conceded by the
five States already oitt of the Union that At
lanta, Georgia, minim the most desirable lo
cality ibithWseat of Government, and capital
of Cottotiocracy, though Montgomery, Alaba
ma, is the preference of some. Breakers are
discovered ahead by some of tho politicians,
who look beyond their nose on queations of a
far more important nature thawihis. Even
"the chivalry" themselves are already quar
reling as to the policy of the immediate esta
blishment of free trade. There Is quite a
strong party In the cities of Charleston and
Columbia in favor of a fixed duty of fifteen per
cent. The country districts declare that they
are a unit, and will stand firm for free trade.
But the question of the revival of the slave
trade is the rock on which, as far as I can ga.
thor, the Southern Confederation will split.
Georgia has declared against it; South Cani
nes may be considered as almost unanimous
against it;" indeed, it is on the ground that
they will continue the United States policy on
this question, that these two States confidently
expect the sympathy and support of the British
Government. They argue that this course of
conduct, taken together with's free trade sys
tem, will almost compel the cotton inte
rests of England to make an immediate
and cordial alliance with them. What do they
imagine that Mississippi and Arkansas will
say 'to thin little arrangement? The great
loadstene which is drawing them from the
Unibp, Is the prospect, not of free trade with
Europe, but of free trade with Africa. ti Nig.
gers," cheap and plenty, is the great deside
ratum of the Southwest. This, too, will be
only the beginning of troubles. The expense
of postal and military establishments will fol.
low rapidly after each other; audit requires
neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet,
.to foretell that not six months will elapse, and
possibly not six weeks, before every ono of
these renegade sovereignties will wish their
institutions safely guarded, and their property
frithfully protected, by the strong arm of
United Stater! law.
I presume tho folks up in Uncle Sam'sterrl
tory are anxiously looking for some now sen
sation, to be produced by the South. They
will not have to wait long. The Press will
probably in a day or two contain disclosures
startling enough to give either pleasure or
pain to all its readers.
Several consignments of provisions have
been sent from the North to private fami
lies here, but were not needed : plenty reigns
around. There is ono class here to whom
such donations would Indeed he welcome.
The free colored population of Charleston are
struggling against many difficulties ; the want
of employment has of course caused much
distress amongst them, though it hardly meets
the public gaze. This, together with the sus
picion with which they are regarded,•makes
their lot indeed a hard one. I ought, in jus.
tic° to them, to add that I believe all sus
picions against them are entirely groundless,
and that they bear their privations with a
Christian forbearance and resignation which
wonlr be a pattern in many cases to their
bettors.
Great and general regret is expressed by the
public that the Tribune reporter should have
been allowed to get oil so easily. A few days
previous to his departure, a Philadelphian,
who was employed as a compositor in the office
of the Charleston Mercury, had to follow the
North Star! Ho was foolish enough to let
whisky obtain the ascendency over him ono
evening, and, in the exuberance of his spirits,
called for three cheers for Major Anderson. I
trust he has arrived safely in the City of
Brotherly Love. For one of the most insig
nificant sheets there he used to correspond.
IS THERE DISTRESS IN CHARLESTON 7-THE LA
BORING CLASSES HARD UP FOR WANT OF
WORK-THEY WON'T ENLIST IN THE SOUTH CA
ROLINA ARMY-THE PALMETTO UNIFORM AT A
DISCOUNT-TWO DOLLARS BOUNTY AND ELEVEN
DOLLARS A MONTH-WRY FORT SUMPTER HAS
NOT BEEN ATTACKED-SUBSTITUTES AT A PRE.
MICH-REGRETS FOR SECESSION-TROUBLE ON
ALL SIDES A CHILD'S LETTER -RUMORS
AFLOAT-ANDERSON'S RETURN HOME -DRI.
van WAR-STEAMER-ROW BETWEEN • COLONEL
JAMESON AND GOVERNOR PIOKENS-WATCHING
FOR THE BROOKLYN NO DISAFFECTION IN
FORT SUMPTER---.MR• WESTON IMPORTS AN
ARMSTRONG GUN AND ARMS A VOLUNTEER
CORPS AT HIS OWN EXPENSE-MR. DODGE'S
LUCKY ESCAPE-THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
CHARLESTON, January 26, 1861.
The reports as to the distress existing In
the city of Charleston must appear to your
readers as very conflicting, and in truth they
are so. As I have told you before, .‘ plenty
reigns around:" There is .no lack of provi
sions, and the prices are not highet than
usual at this season of the year. The aris
tocracy and the commercial part of the com
munity, therefore, feed as well as usual, and
I had hoped that what distress existed was
confined to the free colored population who
had been discharged from employment on
political grounds. I am sorry to he obliged
to admit that such Is not the case, and that
although great pains have been taken to deny
It, there aro really hundreds of industri
ous stevedores, mechanics, and laborers
who know not whore to obtain the next
meal. .Every possible influence has been
brought to bear to induce them to enlist
in the South Carolina army. Two dollars
bounty and eleven dollars a month is a groat
temptation to men when hunger is gnawing at
their vitals, and it has been the cause of many
poor, honest men (who have really no sympa•
thy with treason) donning the Palmetto uni
form ; but then the married mon, who have
wives and little children looking to them for
proteetion and support in future years—they
cannot afford to make targets of themselves
even for eleven dollars a month; and it Is
amongst them that great and appalling distress
will soon be visible. I have taken great inte
rest in probing this subject to the bottom, in
consequence of the contradiction given to all
statements regarding distress, a'nd these may bo
relied upon as the real facts of the case.
In connection with this subject, I may just
mention, that ono of the arguments which have
induced the chivalry to delay so long the at
tack on Fort Sumpter has been their inability
to fill the ranks of what they call the "regular
army" of South Carolina with plebeians ; of
course, they do not wish to waste patrician
blood In the encounter; and there aro doubt
less hundreds who will cheerfully pay eleven
dollars a month, if by so doing each ono can
find a reliable substitute, to fill his place at
the ci touch-hole" or de the trigger." I do
not moan you to Infer by this that the South
Carolinians lack courage ; there aro many
bravo, but mistaken, mon from the country
districts, who will fearlessly die in support of
what they believe to be their rights and liber
ties; but is it not natural, that amongst the
inhabitants of the cities there should be 'found
many willing to preserve their lives, in order
that they may enjoy the millennial peace and
happiness, and perhaps profit, with which the
Southern Confederation is to surround them ?-
I told you in previous letters that the people
are a unit for secession; and, also, there is
scarcely a reasonable thinking man in Charles
ton (of course I do not include the politicians))
who does not regret the occurrences of- the
pact three months, and would willingly recall
them. I believe both of these statements; in
congruous as they may appear, are strictly
true—they cannot go back without disgrace; ,
they cannot go forward without bloodshed and
rpin.' Many of the legislators from the north
ern part of the State have not hesitated to
expretis privately their indignation at the ex
treme peril in which every interest of the
State bee been placed by conniving politi
cians. Many, sick and tired of the whole mat
ter, have hurried home to their families, and,
though the Legislature has not 'yet adjourned,
there are not more than one-third now in at
tendanCe at the sittings. One gentleman, ti
friend of my own; Who lives on the borders of
rea4 me •a' letter from his little
daughter, which said, Dear papa, 'dr. -come'
away from that beastly Charleston, for God's
sake, before they kill you ;" and home he went,
telling me, as he said "farewell," that, had he
known that the interests of South Carolina were
to 'be "gambled for by heartless and artful
pCliticiane, he would never have engaged in a
secession, enterprise."
Rumors of all sorts are rife in Charleston
to-day, - - which I give you, in brief, for what
they. are worth. Ono says that Major Ander
son went North this morning to see his wife,
who, is sick, leaving Captain Doubleday in
charge. Another says that since yesterday
morning a British war-steamer has been crui
sing along the coast, between Charleston and
Georgetown. Another, that a quarrel took
place-last evening bettimen Gov. Pickens and
Col. - Jamison, which necessitated the inter
vention of friends. The two first of these
may be false, the last is probably true.
There are several watching parties outside
the bar waiting for the Brooklyn; for, although
It has been telegraphed that Pensacola is her
destination, it is thought by, many that some
"foal play" is intended by the President.
The reports, which I notice in the Northern
papers of 'Thursday, respecting insubordina
tion of the tit:l(qm in Fort Sumpter, or their
attempted. desertion, or that any boat belong
ing to that fort has been fired upon, aro all
entirely devoid of truth. Nothing of' that kind
shall -occur without your having full and mi
nute particulars.
An Armstrong gun of large calibre arrived
here to-day from Europe via Savannah. Its
destination is Georgetown, and it comes to
the order of Mr. Weston, a wealthy planter,
whp, resides in that locality. Be has also im
ported- one hundred and fifty muskets, at his
own 'expense, for a volunteer corps in Isis own
noigkborhood..
Yen will haVe noticed that the Charleston
papers have been quiet about Mr. Dodge,
ex-secretary of the Minute Men, and ex-re
porter of the Tribune. They cannot bear to
admit the egregious sell which was pras
tised upon them. He' had a narrow and
lucky escape,
The Courier, of this morning, has quota
tions from two or three of your correspond
ent's letters, and for their kind circulation of
the truth contained in them, with regard to
his: native State of Georgia, he returns them
his warm thanks. V/NDEX.
Maryland did not ask for the Enact
ment of the 95th and 96th Sections of
the Revised Penal Code of Pennsyl
vania.
[For The Prue.] _ .
PErrancr,rrtre, January 14, 1861.
Hox..E. F. GneimEns—Dear Sir : As chair
man of a committee appointed at a meeting of
a number of our citizens, to prepare a memo
rial for the signatures of the citizens of Phila
delphia to the Legislature of Pennsylvania,
praying for the repeal of such portions of our
penal code as obstruct the rendition of slaves
to their owners—l send you a copy of a part
of the 95th and 96th sections—the only portions
the committee deem objectionable. From tho
fact that many of our people think those sec
tions were enacted at the instance of Maryland,
which, if so, you would moat likely know, hav
ing; it my recollection serves me, been com
missioned by the State of Maryland, with the
late' R. H. Goldsborough, many years since, to
obtain legislation from this and other States to
facilitate the recovery of your slaves.
Any information you can give mo on the
subject, to bo used as the committee may ad
vise, will greatly oblige
Yours respectfully,
S. W. DE COSIILSEY.
CuzAranTorrx, Md., January 16, 1861
S. M. Ds Cousszy,Esq.—Dear Sir : Yours
of the instant, received this morning, is
before me, in, my sick room, to which I have
been confined for ten daya'past.',
Without access to my office 'or papers, I
hasten to roply from my best recollection of
the facts.
In the winter of 1625-26 the late R. H.
Goldthorougla, and the late Archibald Lee, on
the part of the House of Delegates, and my.
self, on the part of the Senate of Maryland,
of which we were respectively members. were.
sent to the several States of Delaware, Penn
sylvania, and New Jersey, to obtain such le
gislation as would better secure to 'the slave
holders of Maryland the means of recapturing
their slaves escaping into those States.
In the execution of our duty wo visited
Harrisburg, and were received with the utmost
courtesy by the members of the Legislature
generally, and, indeed, by all with whom wo
came in contact, excepting only an insignifi
cant number of persons.
We were invited to make known to the Le
gislature, in addresses to them, the peculiar
provisions we deemed necessary and the - rea
son, for them, which we did. Amongst others,
in whom interest in the matter had bean ex
cited by the well known fact of our mission,
was quite a largo and most highly respectable
delegation from the Society of Friends, with
whom we freely exchanged views, and who
fully concurred in the propriety of the enact
ment we asked for, only stipulating for such
provisions for the security of the free people
of color of Pennsylvania as they deemed ne
cessary, and which wo were free to introduce.
My recollection is, wo assented to any provi
sions they suggested.
The law was passed as wo desired, and while
in force was more effectual for our purposes
than any system before or since. More fugi
tive slaves were arrested, and with lest trouble
and risk.
VINDER
Some ten years after the passage of this law
the case of Mrs. Ashmore's woman occurred.
The woman ran away, and had a child or
children in Pennsylvania; Prigg, the agent of
Mrs. Ashmore, seized the woman and children,
and, without complying with the act of 1826,
removed them to Maryland.
He was indicted, and feared, as did also his
friends, that ho was to be sent to the peniten
tiary. This, of course, produced great excite
ment; no one doubted or denied that the
woman was the slave of Mrs. Ashmore, or that
Prigg was the authorized agent of Mrs. A.
The result was, the Legislature of Maryland
authorized the employment of counsel to
defend the case, which, after passing through
the courts in Pennsylvania, was taken to the
Supreme Court of the united States. The
counsel thought the safest and surest way to
secure the safety of Prigg was to contest
the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania law.
The court declared it unconstitutional, and
Prigg escaped.
It bad been, in my judgment, infinitely more
to the interest of our State if the effort had
not been made. Now, my recollection is, that,
after that decision, (which was, I think, in 1841
or 1842,) the Legislature of your State re•
pealed the law of 1826, and enacted the law
restricting State oMsers from acting, creating
penalties, &c. But it Is rather an odd notion
that; because we were willing to have the
strongest guarantees to your free negroes,
when you gave us the power and the means to
distinguish between them and our slaves, with
ample means and power to recapture our
slaves when identified, therefore you are now
justified In refusing to repeal the penal provi
sions, when long since the corresponding ad
vantages have been lost to us.
I am happy to believe your people are wak
ing pp to a full sense of our rights, and of the
consequences of the repeated injuries we have
suffered, not in our property only, but in our
reputation and feelings, and in some few in
stances in the lives of our citizens.
With my very best wishes that the efforts of
your committee, and others who can estimate
tho value of this glorious Union, as far above
the falso philanthropy and fanaticism of the
day, may havo the effect to restore harmony
to our distracted country, is my most ardent
prayer, and has made me give you this crude
and hastily-written statement.
Yours, E. F. UmitinErts.
PIIILADIMPIILL, January 29, 1861
S. W. DE COUIISEY, Esq.—Dear Sir : In
your letter you ask me to state whether tho
95th and 96th sections of the revised penal
code (part of which are now sought to bo re
pealed) wore introduced into the code after
consultation with the Governor, or other pub
lic authorities of the State of Maryland, and
you add that this impression exists. My an
swer is, that the revisors never had any com
munication, directly or indirectly, with the
Governor or other public authority of the
State of Maryland, or with any other person,
on the subject of the introduction of those
sections into the code. The revisors were ap
pointed, among other things, gg to collect all
acts and statutes relating to the penal laws of
the Commonwealth, and to arrange the same
systematically, under proper titles, divisions,
and sections." They found the acts of 17th
April, 1827, and of the 3d of March, 1847, on
the statute book, and they arranged them sys-
TWO CENTS.
tomatically uttder proper cctitles, divisions,
and sections," as they, did hundreds of other,
laws of the Commonwealth. They conse
quently reappear in the provisions 'of th'e sqt.h,
and 96th Sectiorie of the existing code. • •
The notion that the authoritieS of Idarylind
had anylconnection with these. sections, and
thdt -they were passed with: their concurrence,
has no douht,had its origin in the history of
the passage of the excellent law of 25th of
March, 1826; repealed by the act of 1847. The
act 0f1826 was passed after a conference with'
commissioners , appointed by the State 'of
Maryland fpr that purpose; and in ten well
considered sections, secured to the slave
owner his clear constitutional rights Oyer' his'
!Uglily° servant, and at the Bann° time protect-'
ed , the:free black man from unjust arreate
authorized 'a justice of the peace or alderman;
to issue his warrant to arrest an alleged fugi
tive on the oath of the claimant; bat made
such warrant returnable before a judge of the
proper county, who was required to hear and
decide the case, and who alone eould !sine- re
certificate, authorizing the fugitive to be re
moved to the State from whence he fled. The
9tlt section of the act, in order that this im
portant power should not be exercised by the
subordinate magistracy, who might litiVer
abused itAlinited the authority of the justices
and alderman over thenaholo'slabject, te the
iisinng of ia warrant to arrest ,the. fugitive;,
the final actipn on the respectlve_rights Qf the.
claimant, and . fugitive being reserved .to' the
higher' judiciary.' The author of the - act rif
1847, in• the 8d section of that act which for
bids Pennsylvania judges, justices, and alder
men, from exercising jurisdiction in the eis.e,e ;
of any fugitive from labor, has, indeed almost
transcribed the 9th section of the act of 1826;
and hence I understand it to be argned, - thrit
inasmuch as the 3d section of the act of 1847-
id nearly a transcript of the 9th section of the
act of 1826, to which last act Maryland assent-,
ed, she should be considered as assenting to
the provisiobs of the 3d section of thelict'of .
1847. This reasoning is certainly most nii
candid and disingenuous.
The 9th section of the act of .1823, was,part'
of a system which provided a complete remedy•
to a : claimant seeking the recovery of his ab.
sconding slave, and although it'refuried final
jurisdiction to justices of the peace and ma.
gisirates, it made it the duty of the judges to:
exercise such jurisdiction.- The act of 1847,
on the contrary, expressly takes this jurisdic
diction from the judges. Surely, no reason
able man would say, that, because part of the
phraseology of the act of 1826,10 Which Mary
land assented, has beeh 'employed in the act
of 1847, in the destruction of this entire law,
that therefore Maryland mutt-be considered
as assenting to the sot of 1847. This would
be about as reasonable as it one party to a
written contract should strike Out of it every':
thing that 'binds himself, and then claim the
execution of those parts of It which operate in
his favor. •
In conclusion, I will say, that notwithstand
ing the objectionable provisions of the' 95th
and 90th sections are found in the code, they
were introduced there simply because they
were part of the then existing law, and never
would have been originally recommended by
the commissioners.
I remain, respectfully, your obedient ser.
vent, EDWARD KING.
THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH
Newspaper Facts and Gossip.
MARYLAND
a6v. lIICKB TO TRH COMIIIIISIOITZR 01? ALAI:a:MA
Under date of January 8, Gov. Hicks, of Mary
land, responds to a letter written him by Don. J.
L. Curry, Commissioner from Alabama. Co ope
ration between the slave States he regards as an
infraotion of the Constitution, whioti he, as - the
Governor of Maryland, • More to support. The
people of that State ore firm in theirfriendahlp far
the Union and will never swerve from it; they
halm Seen with mortification and regret, the course
taken by South Carolina,,for in their opinion it Is
better to use the Union for the enforcement of
their rights than to break it up beatiries of appre
hensions that the provisions of the Constitution will
be disregarded and they will cling to it until ft
shall actually become the instrument of destruc
tion to their rights, and peace, and safety. - Dis
union would be ruin to Maryland, and in the pro
posed Southern flonfoderacy'sho sees no rattle
from the ills she must antler in such an event
"Lpt no," says Gov. Dicta, " Have our rights in
the Union, and through and by the Constitution."
TENNESBEE.
•HON. JOHN BELL ON TNN, OHMS
The Eon.' John BeThiddressed a very large as
semblage of ladies and gentlemen at Nashville, on
the= , upon the ail-absorbing question of
the 'day. - The 'Nashville Patriot, in an editorial
reference tolhosiddseeksnlal
"Mr. Bell was listened to throngiteutirith the
most'profound and respectful attentiOlOeing in :
terrnpted only by the earnest epplatise which fre
quently greeted the utterance of, :spine : great and
patriotic sentiment., Hie speech was' one of -AA
most eloquent and powerful of his - life: It *Ad
oharaoteriscd by the loftiest patriotism? aid:Made
a deep and lasting impression upon - his hearers.
Mr. Bell still has hopes of the Republic,. -Be does
not believe that the time has yet come for the de
struction of the Union. Be does not believe that
the tree of our liberties, planted in the dark days
of the Revolution, and watered by some of the best
blood of our country, is yet to fall before the axe
which is uplifted for its destruction."
TOE FIRST SECESSION FLAG RAISED IN FEMME
Among the many noticeable incidents in the en
thusiastic' display of sympathy with the secession
movement, was the raising yesterday afternoon of
the secession flag, over their house of business, by
Messrs Chrisp4 Renoir. They were assisted by
Colonel S. Woodson, whose heart and band is like
wise given to the cease. The flag consists of five
stars upon a field of red. The middle, and Jarger
star represents the independent Republic of South
Carolina, whose rays •shine brightly upon the na
tional palmetto, with its sword-like leaves spring
ing up beneath, and the other four placed in the
form of a square around it, likewise represent the
gallant seceding States of Florida,ississippi,
Alabama, and Georgia_ The flag is ' waive feet by
5C4012 in size, and Is the work, we understand - of
a number of ladies in our city, who, in common
with, all of our Southern ladies, only need the oc
casion ta display the patriotism of our Revolution
ary women.—Memphis Avalanche, fan. 23.
MIMING SOCIVTY—SLAVIII LABOR.
The fearful ordeal through which the South is
passing will have a tendency. to make slavery
stronger and more deeply rooted. The discussion
now going on shown that Southern slavery Is infi
nitely preferable to the free labor of the North.
The country is suffering (tom . a general stagnation
of buoiness. Notwithstanding these embarrasa
meats, the Islay° to as sleek, ssuoyonod fat WI ever.
He knows nothing and cares nothing about these
troubles. How different is the mane among the
laboring classes of the North! We see it stated that
very recently sin hundred starving whites took
shelter ow a station house in a single - ntght
the city of New York. As much diatresa as that
cannot be found among the 4 500,000 blacks in the
Southern States in an entire sear. At this moment
there is not a slave in the State of Tennesoce who
is not better off than either of those six hundred
miserable white persons to whom we have alluded:
Alimphis Enquirer.
MISSOURI.
TEE POSITION OF CONGRESSMAN NOM, OF MISSOURI
The spurious despatch telegraphed from Wash
ington to St. Louis, immediately_ on the temporary
rejection of the Crittenden proposition, and stating
that " the Missouri delegation in-Congress recom
mend immediate seoession,!' baacelled forth the fol
lowing response from the Hon. John W. Noell, a
Representative from that State:
I not only am not for immediate secession, but
I utterly repudiate the doctrine of secession, and
deny that any such right exists under the Consti
tution. I hope Miasma will be the last State to
reseal.; this extreme revolutionary measure, and
I will be one of the last men in the State to give
up the If the people, the honest yeomanry
of the lard, would take the destinies of the country
in their own hands, and trample under .foot
Northern abolitionists and Southern dieunionists
alike. all might yet be well. If the 'country Is to
be ruined, and the Government destroyed, it will
be because the people have trusted too mush, North
and South, to reckless political leaders."
SOUTH CAROLINA
A COTTON EMBARGO.
The Charleston Mercury of the 25th instant io
commends a voluntary embargo on the cotton ex
port, for the purpose of scouring a foreign recog
nition of the independence of the seceding States.
To this effect it says: •
" Let the patriots and planters of the South keep
back their cottoll. - In March Europe will need
supplies. If our ports aro blookaded,'Europe wilt
find a way to open them. We can live—our South
'ern people—for we only send a surplus crop to
markot. The cotton States have only need to
agree, in confederation, and, as an independent
Power, demand the recognition of Europe. Texas
alone was gladly acknowledged as such, and Great
Britain, through her diplomats, tried her beet to
keep her from entering the United States Con
federaoy. With all the cotton States united, we
can bind the world to pledges of recognition, and
even alliance. Wo can declare our ports create
the trade of all the world, Now England excepted ;
discriminate between Southern and Northern bot
toms; issue letters of marque and reprisal, and
play such a game with our blockading gentry as
will cure them very soon of their warlike passions.
Only be firm, trust no business politicians, and let
the Colt's and the cannon be ready."
GEORGIA.
A PROPOSITION TO OBIZII TIIN lIINT
The Milledgeville (Ga.) correspondent of the Sa
vannah Republican writes: "There is an autho
ritative omelet rumor here, that a well.known gen
tiethan of Lumkin county inte:uts to hold the mint
at Dahlonega for the General Government.' The
Governor has been requested to send troops to pre.
vent this gentleman carrying his determination
into execution. The Governor detainee to send
troops or to call out the militia. The Convention
will, no doubt, in a day or so, pass an ordinance,
defining treason, and then our ultra Union men
had batter stand from under.' It is also reported
here, on undoubted authority, that the reception
of the news of the passage of the ordinance of aeoes
sion was greeted In Pickens county by throwing to
the breeze the etar•apangled banner. All such de
monstrations now are imprudent, to say the least
of them, and but illy calonlated to promote harmo
ny In the Stato and the South,"
THE WEEKEiIt- PEEW.
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MISSISSIPPI.
CANNON FOUNDP.B IN VICKSBURG.
„The Niairelrarg Sun • mays that Mizell : , A. B.
heading &Brother. proprietors' of tlio fou ndry In
thit city that bears their name, are perfecting eg
,rdngements which will enable them to out cannon
an 4 ball equal in eeery_reepeot to those out in the
bolt foundries in the United Stites. They .have
tendered this'brandl of their foundry to Governor
Pettus, giving him a carte blandte to use Win SO
manner that may be deemed essential to thtigood
of the State and the - interests of the South..
ALABAMA.
TIM POSITION OF KR. tIarCET
• In.thif redone State Convention of Alabama,Mr...:
Yaimey !aid
hir Prealdent, I avow myself as utterly, anal.
terably opposed to any and all plans of recon
etritettng .a , Union with the Blaok Republioan
173 tatei of the North No new enarartties—matitherk.i. ,
unintiitif the cc titrition—ito,peacefuly resolarlons
-no repeal of offensive laws clan offer to me any,
the least. inducement to consider, oven, upon a pro.
posttiontiireconstrilciVotir relations with the none
elaveholding States. This opinion is not reunited: •
en any objection to a - Confederation with 'States,
north of Mason and Dixon's line, on nrlnalPlell
agreeablelo them ; • but it is founded on. the
Conviction that the dieeaae wb,leh preys, an theyitalS ,
of the Federal Union does not emanate fronianY do'
foot in the ConstitutiOn, but from a'deeper ionrissi-L 7
the' hearts, heads, and consoiences of the Northern -
peoPle.• Theyaraidtmated - to belktrealarery tabs's- .
religions as well as ppli tidal wrong, and iionsettnent
ly lo t hate the slaveholder. Mr: Sewards - 4a right
wh desilared that there was " atilrrepfellsiblit
con tot," which would not cocoa until slavery was
exteiminited." But; air, the elements of that lion=
fifer aro not'to'be -found Ire - STOVonstitution; bet
between the Northern and Southern people., No
guerantees—no amendments to the conatltution—
comprordires patched up to secure the North' the
heneffits of -Union yet a little longer, min rai elf*
elate, the people . on the slavery tae, so as to In.
dude them, having the majority, to withhold"the
ne'lts 'power- In aid - of that irrepreaßble. _
conflict.!' • TO accept of suehreonnatrnotion would,
du iny, opinion. be but salving over the irritated
surto° Of the de - e - p rooted dancer, which has been'
eating into -the • vitals of -
theottnion, effeotinglitiv '
s an apperent,_a deeeltfuroute,whge WI the'
lo,athionie and,inenrable diseasii keeps on its fatal
prdkresS; and daily it.alcenn the boa, politic, until
Sniffy:it breaks forth lagain.,tetitit renewed,•be•P
outset temporarily represeadVger i and the. victim
sink? iii death.
FLORIDA.
ARRESTED 1002 i. SPY
• ;The Mobile Advertiser says i . i , We learn frcpw a
letter front one of Captain_ollara'a company. now
at ixie/Malt, to bie wife, in Ibil oily, that bhp Wife
of Oaptain &hamar, emernandel-at Fort tokens;
had bean arrested at Fort Baraneasaa semi •Ethi
Tont_ to Fprt Baroness wi th out any ostensible but
ne , arid-the reasonable aupposition was, that ihs'
ha 'come , there to take notes iff 'theridtion of
thi t
nand report than& to hat ,titOaad, . .
TELS COMM ANDER OF FORT Pt 01113 5 .8. •
Lieutenant Stemmer, now in command of Fort"
Pickard, comes of good Revolutionary stook ' Both
Lie, grandfathers were soldiers in _the Revolutioa,
and did goad service- in Jersey: /limy were
natives of Philadelphia. Lieutenant ulenimer is a
Waite of Montgomery county; Pennsylvania , - His•
graduated at {Peet Point, in 1850, and was naval.
,to duty in the First Artillery. and ordered to
Florida to bold the Seminole Iridium in cheek . ;
was there promoted, add ordered to Ban Liege,
California, and from.thenee sent to Fort Yuma, a
sandy, barren, and one of tit e most undesirable posits
in the country. Being again promoted, be wag Or
dered to Fort Moultrie, Charleston barber. After
bang there a 090 time,- helves invited by Mr.
Bache, Superintendent of the COOSt Survey, to enter
that service, 'which was accepted, and duty es.
Signed. Misname was, therefore; gent: by the su-
perintendent to the, proper bureau, the Secretary
of which being absent at the time; it was laid upon
the desk Beforb his return - , boweStor, - the-super
intendent of the Weat Point Academymade appli
cation, to the Secretary of War for the appointment
of Lieut. Stemmer as a teaelier id that institution;
which dirty was aesigned him. , Having served the
,regular, term (four years) in- the; capacity, the
grehter part of the time as teacher of mathematics,
he Was again crdered to Fort Moultrie, and sabre.
quently transferred to the - Peri - sedate station, and
put in command of that post, which consists of the
barracks, Fort Harems, Fort Mcßae, and Fort
Pickens At the commencement' of, the.difkoulties
be occupied the barracks, and taking the same pro.
caution as Major Anderson, he sought the strong - 4dt
fort, and removed his command to k`ort Pickens,
where he is now invested by the Florida and other
troops.
"%.I WILL NOT FIRE A 43117 N ON NY COITNTIMEISN."
,The steamer Oregon, on Wednesday, brought
over from Pensacola that gallant oldvateran, Com
modore Armstrong, D. S. N., late commander of
the Pensacola navy-yard; Mrs. Armstrong te n t
maid ; Dr. Bishop, chaplain 11. B. N., and lady;
Captain Watsonand family; the Rev. C. W. Tho
se, chaplain 11. S. N., and family, to all of Wheat -
Captain Hopkins. of the Oregon, courteously-ten
dered a free patesge, and insisted upon it. The
party tarried at the Battle House until yesterday
afternoon. when they-embarked' in a river boat en
route for Washington, to report themselves at head.-
uaiters, During his sojourn in ibis oily, the gallant
old Commodore, the man who said, "I
-will not Are
a gun upon my countrymen," as well at his com
pany, was the recipient of every' sot of polite.
needand honor whiqh could be tendered him by
°Miens and military. He was Waited upon by ,
pro meat gentlemen of theolty, - and the " 'Wash
ington Dight,lnfantry .tutned out in a splazhlity,
sterna of rain, with a full band, as a special esoort
txtlei . Ploulgomery stesiner. With' a nice MAURO
eltinty to the GOverhlifetit -which he had.*Served
so lbngg , anti froubeshfolt he still held stemmtniesioni
-the plelCommodore„howeveir, declines{ the:honor
intended,lbough ekprestarig - hid full appreedafles:
,antil feeling - acknowledgment,. He coved hotprilz
-ven , thengh, another honor which the people paid'
him, nolens
_for as he embarked on_ dm
steamer in the presence of an Immense- orostd; X
Ones of artillery, which had been taken down tn
tl2e ieharf for the purpose. with its brazen -throat
proclaimed the - respect and esteem in which he is
held by the South, in' a -thundering salute All
honor to the,man who said, "I will not fire a gun
upon my countrymen," and surrendered his post
and braved the censure of his Government and the,
abuie of the whole North rather than do it. This
is Moral courage, and it is well that it be honored!
Thid is the morel, courage that Anderson and
SleMmer lank.—Arobile Advertiser, fan.lB.
LOUISIANA.
PIRACY AGAIN RECOIESIENDID
The New Orleans Crescent says : What con
stitutes an American vessel? There is no United
States of America at this time, as the registers of
these vessels read It is suggested that the New
York and Now England shipowners had better
keep very quiet As for Moses 11 llrinnell, the
great Black Republican ship-owner in New York,
andl Captain Charley A. "Marslcall, they bad beet
keep -very calm, and not be talking so fast about
advinoing money to sebdue the death. Tao or
three fleet privateers off Long Island would soon
make quick work of some of their vessels, without
Interference from any armed vessels, particularly
the .present dull and incifloient steasa marine be
longing to our late venerable Uncle,"
TEXAS.
THE TEXAS ELECT/ON
The New • 0 rioaris• deinatches, announoing that
the 'Pass *leaden shows an Overwhelming imme
diate • secession tlilnaPh. convey a wraag in*riet .
elms. It should be. remembered-that the Conven
tion has no obnitititiensibt leiel existence, having
been ealled by* band Of fiteeelnierilits for their own
purPoses. The Texas Legielstiire authorised the
Governor to cell a Convention if he considered. it
neoissary. lie hasnot exorcised the 'authority,
and Hos Union men absented themselves - from, the
polio at the bogus election In order to avoid any
action which can be con strued into the counte
nancing of the Irresponsible canvass for delegates.
The Legislature recently called tossapeeLt
ses
sion iby Gov Houston's proolarnatiounr 'ambler
the present political crisis, and, tii.previdenteilms
for protesting their frontier ageleit theCiMainihell_
will probably soon give us an indlealltin iif,tofuri
state of publio sentiment in Texas,
TEM POSITION OP APPAIII9..-
A gentleman just returned from. Texae:states
that the vote oast for the Convention,' whiah was
called by members of the Legislature over - Gov.
Houtton'e head, will probably not exceed one
third of the aggregate vote of the State. The
movement was not regarded with favor. An at
tempt will be made to get thin Convention ratified,
but it will fail, and the Legislature will doubtless
order another regularly. The old settlers, who
bad one trial of separate government, are not
anxious for another.
—Regent events tend to initiate the barbarians
' into the mysteries of Oriental living. Of the
Chinese Emperor, every one, even thoie of hie
own chamber, stand in the greatest imaginable
awe,, and on no pretext does any one ever address
him,lsave with the use of ell his grand and glori
ous titles. It is the etiquette in the Chinese Court
for the Emperor's physician to apply the same
tltle4 to his disesies as to himself, and accordingly
they: talk of "His High and Mighty Stomach
ache;" "His Imperial and Godlike Dyspepsia,"
and "Ilia Eternal and flover.ending Diptheria."
--.Mr. Delavan and other leading temperance
men are engaged in a new move. Finding they
cannot prohibit the use of peer liquor, they are now
making an effort to prevent 10 introdaotion into
the country, and have forwarded a petition to Mr.
Seward, asking Congress to appoint officers at
every port of •entry, to prevent the importation of
deleterious liquor. • The home manufacturers ; of
course, will favor this project.
Daniel B. Dickinson says that the destruction
of the American Union would be a aeoond fall to
man:—more sinful than the first, because without
temptation, and more fatal, because beyond the
prospect of redemption.
—Rev. A. G. Palmer has resigned the pastorate
the Baptist church, in Wakefield, and has tie
d a call from the Baptist church in Stoning
ton. He remains at his present post until April.
Mr. Palmer has rendered good service to South
Ringstowts, not only by his clerical labors, but also
by his connection with the Narragansett Times.
—The New Orleans Picayune of the 18th says
Dennis Clary was arrested yesterday, at 5 o'clock
at the corner of Richard and St. Thomas street!,
for using incendiary language with slaves, and
telling them, among other foolish things, that our
military companies sent to Eaton Rouge had been
driven away from that place by the Abolitionists.
—Ton thousand copies of Clemens' patriotic
speech have been taken for :circulation in Mary
land; seventy-five thousand in the South, and
fifteen thouthind* in the Northern States. More
than one hundred thousand copies have been Bab.
aoribed for already.