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Haut career will be remembered, and the grandeur
and sublimity of the great principles upon which
it was cronetrnoted will be appreciated, and the
memory el its founders and at their snooessors who
ruled it will be honored, when London, with its
bings fog its N.bles and He Commone,;vill hove
een. like Eigpt'a anolent capital, with its ,noun
meats and its inhabitants, mingled together in no.
distinguishable ashes
It would be profitless for me to indulge at
greater loofah in the reflections to wbioh the two
events I have referred to and your lordehlp's 000-
neotion therewith have given birth. I am un
willing to offer to you, my lord, any Menem for
the loped policy of the political party in America
to which I belong. Nor, on the other hand. will I
make any attack upon that in whose &mess your
lordship seems to feel so deep CO =toren, and
whom canoe you commend 'inch so much zeal. I
do riot recognise in BeglistiMen, or any other
foreigners, the right to interfere in these dOMeatto
questions which concern Amerloans alone, and
which they should be left tree to settle among
themselves. I cannot admit a foreign tribunal to
i„ se betwom es, any more then I would claim for
America the right of interference, under similar
oirotunotanoes, in the internal effeirs of England
Bat, my lord, you have invited a oomperleon by
which I am willing that my country shell be tested.
Too have, by the energy of your assaults upon the
futilitarian of African slavery in America, foci.
ivo ry ehalleneed an examination into the manner
in which eutjugated races have been ruled by
your own country, and you seem to invite sortriny
into your own commotion, as a nation, with the in
antation'of African slavery in the past as well as
in the present era.
I In into challenge an investigation and a oom
parieon, and lam willing to accept " all friends of
the bunion race " as oar umpires. I arn
willing
that boil shall be tries " by the laws of God and
humanity," and that the inquiry shall have for its
objast the determination ut the question—Which
bas so aovetned as to achieve the greatest good
with the least evil to those over whom Providence
or oupidity have called them, respectively, to bear
sway ? Every friend of the Southern States of
America is willing to stand or fall upon the result
of lima an investigation and comparison.
I have a high respect, my lord, for the great
nation in whioh you hold so distinguished a rank_
I em satisfied that many, very many. of its noblest
admits of all classes deplane the (Melon Inter
fermis of British politicians in the contests of po
litioal parties in America Bat my friendly regard
for individual citizens of your country dOes not
blind me to the foot that English influence has
been a principal element in the sectional troubles
which now distract my country Uhler among the
leading journals of England is one which, by the
common consent of all Europa, is the great ex
poneot of English sentiments and English ideas
i
In America, t is equally recognized as the un
rivalled European defamer of the ctouthern States
and their inhabitants. While yon, my lord, in
coojanotien with your emaciates of the same school,
stand at the bead of the pseudo religions section of
the politiosl end- &mamma slavery movement of
England, tbe Times leads that other brim* of this
formidable polinoo-religions organization, whose
moral principle can only be effectually aroused to
a healthy Wien by insane of a thorough perception
of eertain concomitant temporal advantages.
To show to you, my lord, that I do not over eeti
mate the inflame which directly and indirectly
you have exercised in producing the present politi.
cal troubles in America. and that I have not mis
conceived the nature and motive of your action in
regard thereto, I beg to submit to you the follow
ing brief bat pointed extract of a leadaig editorial
article from the London Times:
o Will any one, however, say that it is not viasn.
ly to the ceaseless exertions, to the philanthropic
energy, to the entreaties, to the pereussiou of this
eountg, that the ants slavery party in the States
owes us strtmgth? Blot out England and Eng.
lash sympathies from the map of the world, and
the battle between the North and the Vouch
would be fought on the other aide cf the Atlantic
on very differeat terms. So far, then, as this,
Englishmen are as one with eaoh other on this
question. Slavery shall not be in our own do
minions—could we have gone one step farther and
annihilated the peculiar institution, in all other
countries as welt as in our own, the problem would
in the main have speedily received a satisfactory
solution. This, however. was beyond our power,
and oonseyiently wafted ourselves in this anoma
ly, that we. without a stave population, worst
compete in the ?whets of the world with other
countries whioh have slave population's, and that
with respect to tropical productions "
To these few blolf words, the purport of the lest
four lines of which is a key to Anglo-American,
anti-slavery philanthropy, I may add that the per
einem mierepreereniatione against the Southern
Maarten States, which have emanated from this
British party, have molted unjust and wholly
unfounded prejcatiom against my countrymen
throughout Europe. I cannot hope that is a day,
or a year, these prejudioes can be removed by any
exposure of that narrow and thoroughly selfish po
licy which, decked in the garb of humanity, has
given tone to the enactments of Europe upon Ame
noan affairs. Bat in the confidence that a return
ing sense of justice will induce your lordship to
listen to the defence made by one whom you have
aroused as an enemy to his country anti to the hu
man race. I propose, after the lapse of a few weeks,
which will be necessarily occupied by other en
gagements, to do myself the honer of again ad
dressing you. •
I may not hope that the judge who has already
pronounced against me, in terms so emphatic, will
ever be indueed to reverse his pre determined
judgment; but I will not despair of obtaining
reiereal of your sentence before a tribunal com
posed of the " friends of the human race," until
longer to hope would be fanatieLm.
The small grain of mustard seed, which I throw
upon the ground, may be choked by the foul weeds
amongst whioh it is oast, and never see the sun ;
but it may be that from this little seed may grow
and was a great tr.." and that " the fowls of
the air may lodge in the branches of it," and that
beneath its shade a few, at least, of the noxious
plants from the midst of which it grew may wither
and perish!
gijr Vress.
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Arkansas Betimes to Secede.
The Secession ordinance, introduced into
the Arkansas State Convention, has been de
feated by a small majority, and that State will
therefore probably remain faithful to the
Union. It is a consolation to know that the
force of the Disunion movement has for the
present been exhausted, and that there is no
immediate prospect of any more of the stare
of the Confederacy madly attempting to shoot
from their appropriate sphere. Hereafter, it
is to be hoped, there will be a constant
tendency towards a complete reconstruction of
the Union. So far as legislation is concerned,
the slaveholding States should be fully satis
fied that they have nothing to fear. No new
laws hostile to their favorite institution have
been adopted, and none seriously proposed.
On the contrary, an important new Constitu
tional guarantee for its protection in all the
States where it exists has received the vote
of two-thirds of the members of both Houses
of Congress.
Senator Bayardvs Proposition.
Senator BALLED yesterday announeed in
the United States Senate, that he intended to
introduce a proposition of a somewhat start
ling character, viz that the President should
be authorized to negotiate a treaty with the
seceding States, recognizing their independ
ence, and making arrangements for the adjust
ment of all questions relating to the property
of the two Confederacies. Such a proceeding
would certainly be a somewhat singular exer.
cise of the treaty.making power vested in the
Executive and Senate, which has heretofore
been used only in our negotiations with fo
reign nations and Indian tribea, and not in
arranging questions with States which are
constitutionally an integral portion of the Re
public. Besides, there is no necessity for
undue heats in this matter, and it is by no
means certain that a clear majority of the
people of the Gulf States will permanently
sustain the policy of their revolutionary lead
era.
The Bonaparte-Patterson Case.
Various hints are given in the foreign jour
nals respecting the judgment of the Parisian
court of law upon the Bonaparte-Patterson
claim. The Paris correspondent of the Bras
eels Independance declares that shortly before
the case closed, an interview took place be
tween the Emperor NAPOLEON and young Bo
ri.a.PaarE, grandson of Mrs. PATTEasON, first
wife or the late Prince Jeaoste, and that this
was supposed to indicate the proximity of
some arrangement or accommodation between
the litigants. The Paris correspondent of a
leading London piper declared that Mrs. 80.
NaPARTE-PATTEASON bad consant,-d to the
Judgment against her. But a later intimation
is that Mr. JEROME BONAPAIITE-PANTERSON,
actual claimant against Princess leapoetori
and Princess MATEIEDE, had appealed to the
Imperial Court, with the intention of obtain
ing a much fuller investigation than the
preceding one, and that, if the rearilt
of this second trial should also be ad.
verse, ho would carry the case up
to the Court of Caseation. One thing is
certain--Prince Plon-Plon, and his profligate
sister Itivrammt, are very unpopular in Paris,
and the revelations which have been made are
accepted by the French as blows at the posi
tion of these two. JaitoNE BONApArrpg-PAT
=mow may not be accepted by the Imperial
family as the eldest legitimate son of the late
Prince Jutting, but, in the eyes of the French
nation, the proof of his being so has been as
suredly exhibited. The Emperor is said to be
not displeased at this personal blow at the pc.
sition of his cousin, the renowned Plon-Plon,
whom be greatly dislikes, with the addition of
some distrust. The legal inveatigation of the
Bonaparte-Patterson case has really taken
only one stapes yet—namely, therecent hear.
lug by the Tribunal of the First Instance.
Q?- The letter, published upon our first
page, wee addressed by an American minis
ter, who represents this country abroad, to
Lord Biotionsm, more than a month ago,
and is now printed for the first time, in Tax
Paw.
THE PEACE POLICY OP THE AM
RIB rEATION.
The inaugural Address_of President lax
comc, like all other papers emanating from the
Chief Magistrate of a country like ours, is ma
ceptible of many constructions. Public men
understand It according as they desire it
should read. Extreme partisans, North and
South, accept it as an ingenious declaration of
war upon the seceding States ; the one class,
because they wish to drive all the Southern
people out of the Union in fulfilment of the
grand scheme of secession ; and the other, be
cause they believe that the only way to collect
the revenues ant to execute the 'Mg is to MN
the strong arm of power. Between these two
classes, representing wholly adverse ideas,
yet unconsciously working to the same fatal
conclusion, we find arrayed a vast preponde
rating and overwhelming majority of citizens,
who prefer to give to Mr. Lureour's first
wor d s a plain, practical, patriotic construc
tion. Let us look at the Inaugural Itself, and,
without wresting sentences from the body, in
tentionally to do injustice to the entire argu
ment, select such passages as seem to bear
out the understanding of the message given
to it by the large and controlling portion of our
country. Mr. Luton's says :
First :
cc I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,
to interfere with the institution of slavery in
the States where it exists. I beheve I have no
lawful right to do so, and I have no inellnattan
to do so."
Second, referring to the plainly-written pro
vision of the Federal Constitution in regard
to fugitive slaves, which he quotes, be says;
6 , It is scarcely questioned that this provi
sion was intended by those who made it for
the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves;
and the intention of the law-giver is the law.
AU members of Congress swear their support
to the whole Constitution—to this provision
as mach as any other. To the proposition,
then, that slaves, whose cases come within
the terms of this clause, 'shall be delivered
up,' their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they
would make the effort in goad temper, could
they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame
and pass a law, by means of which to keep
good that unanimous oath I"
Thirdly, he repeats his. determination to
abide by the laws based upon this provision,
and all other laws, until they are repealed, as
follows
cc I take the official oath to day with no mental
reserrattens, with no purpose to construe the
Constitution or laws by any hypercriticalrules;
and while l do not choose now to specify par
flouter acts of Congress as proper to be en
forced, I do suggest, that it will be much safer
for all, both in official and private stations, to
conform to and aide by all those acts whieh
stand unrepealed, than to violate any of them,
trusting to find impunity in having them held
to be unconstitutional."
Fourthly, he discards all purpose of menace,
when he says
cc I consider that, in view of the Constitu
tion and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and,
to the extent of my ability, I shall take care,
as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins
upon me, that the laws of the Union be faith
fully executed in all the States. Doing this I
deem to be only a simple duty on my part;
and I shall perform it, so far as practicable,
unless my rightful masters, the American peo
ple, shall withhold the requisite means, or, in
some authoritative manner, direct the contra
ry. I trust this will not be regarded as a me
nace, but only as the declared purpose of the.
Union that it will constitutionally defend and
maintain itself.
t; In doing this, there need be no bloodshed
or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it
be forced upon the national authority., The
power confided to me will be used to hold, oc
cupy, and possess the property and places be
longing to the Government, and to collect the
duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be
necessary for these objects., there will be no
invasion, no using of force against or among
the people anywhere."
The above expression may be called the
key of the whole message, and is regarded by
extreme men, North. and South, as indicative
of a coercive purpose on the part of the Ex
ecutive. Bat, in the very next paragraph, be
says:
Fifthly, cc Where hostility to the 'Milled
States, in, any interior locality, shall be so
great and universal as to prevent competent
resident citizens from holding the Federal
offices, there wit/ be no attempt to force obnoxious
strangers among the people for, that object.
While the atria legal right may exist in the
Government to enforce the exercise of these
offices, the attempt to do so would be so irri
tating, and so nearly impracticable withal, I
deem it better to forego, for the time, the
uses of such offices.
ct The mails, unless repelled, will continue
to be furnished in all parts of the 11ai0n.53
Ia this paragraph, there is au explicit decla
ration of peace. Now, if the Government,
under Mr. Lutects, is to be so administered
as to yield to the necessities of the times, by
declining to cr force obnoxious strangers"
upon the Southern people, does it not follow,
with logical exactitude, that, if a great prin
ciple is yielded in the one case, it may be
postponed or put aside, for the time being, in
any other that may arise 3 But let us pass on.
Upon the mooted question of the power of
the Supreme Court to decide political ques.
time by an outer dictum ; Mr. LINCOLN ex
presses the opinion of JACKSON, and many
other Southern statesmen, who have refused
to recognize any jurisdiction in that court,
except upon individual cases, specially re
ferred to them. Mr. Toosms himself, now one
of the chiefs of the Secession conspiracy, only
a few years ago denounced all outside expres.
sions of opinions, by the Supreme Court, as
not only unworthy of that tribunal, but un.
worthy of the respect and obedience of the
people. And Mr. Lrxeour but follows the
example of eminent statesmen, when he speaks
as follows: .
Sixthly :
411 do not forget the position assumed by
some, that constitutional questions are to be
decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny
that such decisions must be binding, in any
case, upon the parties to a suit as to the object
of that suit, while they are also entitled to
very high respect and consideration in all
parallel eases by all other departments of the
Government. And, while it is obviously pos
sible that each decision may be erroneous in
any given case, still, the evil effect following it,
being limited to that particular case, with the
chance that it may be overruled, and never
become a precedent for other cases, can better
be borne than could the evils of a different
practice. At the same time, the candid citi
zen must confess that if the policy of the Go
vernment upon vital questions, affecting the
whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by
decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant
they are made in ordinary litigation between
parties in personal actions, the people will
have ceased to be their own rulers, having to
that extent practically resigned their garern
went into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
Throughout the entire Inaugural the reader
will perceive that the President addresses him
self to the discontented people of the United
States. He accepts and enlarges upon the
subject-matter of their complaints, and, while
throwing himself and his Administration upon
those who are wholly reconciled to the Go
verntnent as it stands, pleads with the mino
rity and the protesting class as a father would
plead with rebellions and unreasoning chil
dren. Observe, therefore, the nncommon sig.
nificance and force of the following expres.
slots:
Seventhiy
" My countrymen, and all, think calmly and
well upon this whole subject. Nothing valua
ble can be lost by taking time. if there be an
object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a
step which you would never take deliberately,
that obj :et will be frustrated by taking time;
but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have
the old Constitution uniminired, and, on the
sensitive point, the laws or your own framing
under it; while the new Administration will
have no immedi4tte power, if it would, to
change either. If it were admitted that you
wno are dissatisfied hold the right side in the
dispute, there still is no single good reason for
precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,
Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who
has nitver yet forsaken this favored laHd , are
still competent to adjust, in the best way, all
our present difficulty.
ft in your hands, my dimatisified
countrymen, and not in mine, is the moment
ous issue of civil war. The Government will
not assail you, You can have no conflict
without being yourselves the aggressors. You
have no oath registered in Reaves to *stray ,
the Government, while I shall have the most
solemn one to preserve,proteet, and defend it.'
"I am loth to close. We are not enemies,
but friends. We must not be enemies.
Though passion may have strained, it must
not break our bonds of affection. The mys.
tic chords of memory, stretching from every
battle-field and patriot grave to every living
heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad
land, will yet swell the choral, of the u n i on ,
when again touched, as surely they will be,
by the better angels of our nature.”
If we discard the first-quoted opinions of
the President, all of which lead by logical ac
curacy with close and steady step to the con
clusion, and rest alone upon the last para
graphs last cited, no just mind can fail to de
cide that the whole meaning of this Inaugural
is peace, and not war. How do the President's
subsequent proceedings square with this
opinion ?
i.dr. Luroorat has ceased to be the repro
aentative of a party. When he mounted the
Presidential chair he was compelled to dis
robe himself of all obligations to platforms,
in view of , the higher duty he owed to his
country. Be comes into power in no ordi
nary times. It the Republic had not been
poised, and bad not been trembling upon the
precipice of disunion, he could have adminis
tered the laws, and carried out every provision
of The Constitution in entire accordance with
public opinion, as was promised by his politi
cal friends at Chicago. Alter all, what is the
Chicago platform ? Left to those who con-
structed it, it would be susceptible of as many
meanings as are now given - to the In
augural itself. It is notorious. that the
ultra men in the Chicago Convention
were beaten at every point, alike in their
platform and candidate. it is notorious tba
Mr. GREELEY went to Chicago expressly for
compromise. With his large appreeiation of
existing complications, and with his known
patriotic anxiety to propitiate the Douglas
Democracy, and also to win the battle for the
Republican party, be was ready, not merely
to amend the Republican platform laid down
at Philadelphia in 1856, by a magnanimous
recognition of popular sovereignty in one or
In another shape, but he was even willing to
postpone Mr. SEwaRD tO Mr. BATES, of Min
souri, in order to conciliate the people of the
Border Slave States. Mr. SzwAnn himself—
the architect probably, the exponent certainly,
of the tc irrepressible-conflict" doctrine, the
candidate pushed from his stool at Chicago,
and, therefore, Unquestionably, most entitled
to insist upon adherence to party pledges,
and to avenge his own injuries in the no
minating Convention by denouncing sub
sequent inconsistency on the part of
those who expected to mount to power alike
over himself and his theory—rejects the Chi
cago platform in order to save his country.
The Chicago platform was a declaration of
policy believed under the then existing cir
ennistancen to be the best calculated to pro
mote the welfare of the whole country; and,
if any casuist says the policy is changed, it is
a sufficient answer to say that the circum
stances have changed. The policy is the
same, but the circumstances have required
that policy to be developed by acts which no
One at that time supposed would be necessa
ry. For, as Mr:SEWARD intimated on a re
cent memorable occasion, "There is no hope
for freedom out of the Union; let us save our
country; even if we gine up our platform."
And Mr. SEWean is Secretary of State un
der ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The very appoint
ment of the distinguished New York states
man to the highest place in the new Cabinet
was a distinct recognition of his determina
tion to preserve the peace and perpetuate the
Union at every hazard. There have been al
insteps to anterior arrangements bet Ween the
President and Mr. SawArtis in regard to the
construction of this Cabinet; but the first watt
too powerlifi, and the second too proud, to
carry out any understanding to provide for in
dividuals at the sacrifice of the country ; and,
therefore, when Wm. R. Sewsan became Se
cretary of State, he entered the Administra
tion in the full spirit that pervades and ani
mates the Inaugural Address. Now, as to
Mr. Lorcomr: in calling Mr. Sawann into his
Cabinet, did he thereby surrendet the Chicago
platform ? Not The hest way to give to the
Republican party permanenc# and power, and
carry out the spinet of that platform, is to show
to the civilized world that it has not been, as has
been charged, a sectional party. This has been
the accusation under which that party has
straggled and staggered, ever since the repeal
of the Missouri Uompromise in 1854. 1 here
is a destiny above and beyond the Chicago
platform ; and Mr. Lmootst appreciates it, and
thereby gives a practical evidence ofhis deVo
tion to his own party principles, by relying
upon this destiny, and by proving that free
dom can be nationalized in this Republic by
carryit g out the spirit, while he discs:de the
letter of his party creed.
But what other act of our new President
are we called upon to notice in realization of
the peaceful construction of the Inaugural?
He has, in view of his vast responsibilities,
decided to order the evacuation of Fortress
Sumpter, in Charleston harbor. We antici
pate an instant etplosion of ultra indignation
as a consequence of thin step. Two feast'.
clams, alike dangerous, will hericeorward do
uouuCe him. The Disunion conspirators will
declaim against it, because it offers an olive
branch to the Union people of the Slave
States. The mere Abolitionists, who, after
preaching peace for gerierations, have latterly
come to contemplate war as a desirable alter
native will rail at and ridicule it. But Mr.
Lnsootir must make up his mind to displease,
and dispense with both, if they should strike
hands against his policy.
What are the facts of the case ? Mr. Be.
CRAISAN liaves his Administration and his
country almost without a powerful friend.
Six weeks ago, as the doeuinente will prove,
he might have reinforced Major ANDER.
sox with comparative ease. Six months
ago, while Disunion was in the bud, he could
have nipped it by a single act of wise prepa
ration. Appealed to by the venerable Lieu
tenant General of the United States army, in
voked to the performance of his . duties In the
premises by events which would have inspired
a much more ordinary man to take the initiative,
he allowed Rebellion and Revolution to hatch
their plots under his very eyes, in the very
penetralia of the White House and in every
corner of the Departments of the Government.
Re saw Major ANDERSON, like the ciMan in
the Iron Shroud," environed by enemies who
were constantly contracting their forces around
him, and, though implored to come to his aid,
raised no hand to rescue him ; and when
J&sens Bamrairts left his high office, he left to
Mr. Lugeows a legacy of coreiplicetione and
calamities which compelled the new President
to act upon the stern dictates of immediate
necessity, and without reference to what the
people of the whole country might desire at
his hands.
It will appear alike from the letters of the
members of the Cabinet of Mr. rancour, and
from the councils of the most distingtdahed
officers of the Army and the Navy, all of
which soon will be laid before the public eye,
that the highest obligations, those relating
equally to considerations of humanity and
of the public interest, demanded this step at
the hands of Mr. lintoorsi. Fortunately, or
unfortunately, the heretofore men Of peace
are now for war and the men of war, the
soldiers and seamen battle-soured and cover
ed with honorable trophies in conflict with
their country's enemies, are now for peace,
Major Annzason himself advises, if not eva
cuation, at least such a policy as must lead to
evacuation. General Seery advises it; all the
officers under AftnEnsoft recommend it. Fort
Sumpter, as a single glance at the map will
show, is so situated as even, if fully provi
sioned and manned, to be unable to maintain
herself against the adversaries by which she
is surrounded. Three miles distant from
Charleston, she was intended rather to repel a
foreign invader than to protect the town itself.
And, if it were desirable, which Heaven
forefend, to attack Charleston, the range of
her guns would tall abort of that city. Pro.
positions have beenpresented to the President
from certain energetic seamen to reinforce and
supply Fort Sumpter. But the attempt, if
successful, would only precipitate a bloody
conflict whims would attract to Charleston an
immense military force, and probably open the
way to a civil war without end. General Score
and Major Antesasos both concur in the
opinion that a regular army of from tan to
twenty thousand men, and an immense volun
teer force, with the entire navy, would be ne
cessary to maintain the authority of the Go
vernment in such an event. Mr. Looms,
admonished by the culpable negligence of his
immediate predecessor, and by the formidable
warlike preparations of the Sonthern conspire.
m m , has done what any other Executive would
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1861.
have done under similar circumstances. Lo
cating the responsibility where it justly be
longs, upon JAMES BUOIL&NAN and the guilty
members of his former Cabinet, President
LINCOZN bas avoided the useless effusion of
Inman blood, and bag directed the evacuation
of Fort Sumpter by Major /Jonsson and the
gallant men under his command.
There will be violent and acrimonious com
plaint but, as Mr. Lumorar well says in his
Inaugural Address above quoted, "Nothing
valuable can be lost by taking time," a n d
er there is no single good reason for precipitate
action." Behind this decision of the Ad
ministration come other issues and other
duties. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof. Let ns wait for the operation of this
glorious act of the Administration upon the
Union men of the Slave States. No blow
could be struck at the Secession conspiracy so
direct and terrible as this, and it may be, and
we believe it will be, that before Mr. LmooLN
and his constitutional advisers are called upon
to meet other difficulties, his action in regard
to Fort Sumpter will so awaken the Unien
sentiment in the Slave States as to leave the
enemies of the country without an inch of
ground to stand upon.
THE TF.LEGRAPit announces that foreign
goods, imported free of duty, aro now arriving
at St. Louis, via New Orleans. As Missouri,
however, is not a seceding State, and as Fede
ral officers can there be found willing to per
form their duties, parties engagd in smug..
gling may find it a decidedly hazardous busi
ness-
WASHINGTON CORILESPORDENOE
Letter from isOeeasional.”
tGerreepondenee of The Preare4 •
The appointment of Hon. Green Adams, oelfen
tacky, to an important position under tbe Adel:
histration of President Lincoln, is, unquestionably
intended as the commencement of wise and
emservative polley in reference to the distri.
button of the patronage of the Administration
le the Border Slave States, Mr. Lincoln will
not appoint all Republicans to the offices at
his disposition in any of these States. There
are, in fact, but few influential Republicans
in any of them, with, possibly, the eXcepthin of Mile
semi and Maryland. He will, therefore, throne
himself upon the counsels of the Union menenah,
for Inetanoe as Prentice , John C. Ibsen,- and
Guthrie, in Leuieville ; the editors of the . Balti
more American, Reverdy Johnson, and Governor
Hicks, in Maryland; the editors of the Richmond
Whig, Boteler, Sheffer& Clemens, Summers, the
Barbours, and others in Virginia, and so en in re
gird to the other States. If Mr. Lincoln .can in
this wey orranize a greet Union party in the nor
der States, he will not trap strengthen himself,
but he will enable tbe friends of the country
in that section to operate suonserfully upon
the Cotton States in their revolted and die-
Organized condition If the friends of Don
glee and Bell in the Presidential campaign
thriughont the South could be induced to act to
gether on the basis of supporting the Adininiitea
tion in every honest endeavor to preemie) the
Union and insure domestic tranquillity, the Bede!
Rion paroxysm would not last long ; and while the
Republican, party in the free States would proba
bly be compelled to rally under the Union flag, the
old .Demooratio organisation Would also pass away,
and the Breckenridge lenders would either fall in
With the inoVelnelet or take up their line of march
to the Sotithent Confederacy. Circumstances will
centre] the future and not platforms, and if there
is any vital Union element in the cenniry, it will
assert itself by breaking down every obstacle that
may interpose itself, even if that obstacle should
be the Republican or the Democratic party. I
perceive that some of the Breokinridge papers
in your State charge " The Press" with hav
ing gone squarely over to the Adminiatration,
and one of them bans this socusation upon the fact
th at I hate repeatedly, in this correspondence, re
Commended and applauded the removal of all Dia
holonists, lately or now holding Federal offices.
If there is one thing about winch there can - be no
possible doubt, it is the face that pubfic opinion
in the free Stales, unth2nronsiderable creeptions,.:
will heartily rejoice over the An/nasal of the
platens= under Tames Buchanan; and hence,-
while Mr. Lincoln would, under other drown
-
stances, be °barged with being prescript - het, by in-=
discriminately ejecting snob men from position, ebb
will be expected to do tbii work now, and ifhe does_
it well and thoroughly, and at once, will be praised
for so doing it. It is true that be ought, in all
proper oases, recognize Union Democrats and
Union Americana in his selections; but the math
point to he accomplished is to get rid -of tenwre
men of the country, whether in high or low posi
tions, and partienlarly of all those who have
abused the trust conferred upon them by aseistirs
and sympathiethg with the Southern conspiratoes.
The office-holders in the Border Slave States are
all Secessionists, and those who have not resigned
Will try to hold on, in the hope that Mr. Lincoln may
not exhibit nerve enough to displace them, or that
no proper persona can he toned to follow them
If to suggest Penh apolloy as this is to impport the
Administration of Mr. Lincoln, then write me
down as one of its most fervent advocates. In
feet, as I have repeatedly told the renders of these
letters, the only symbol of the Union left is the
Government in his hands. Let Lim be true to his
responsibilities, up to the measure of his &din,
equal to the expectations of a patriotic people, and
there is no American citizen who loves the flag of
his country, and deeires to see the Union
perpetuated, who will not give him his
hand and hie heart. All the dividing is
sues have been adjusted with the single ex•
emptiest of the new trouble which bee grown out
of the revolution in the South. The Territorial
question has been practically settled, let it be maid
with joy, on the doctrine of non-intervention, and
nothing now is asked for at the bands of Mr. Lin
coln but to let time do the rest of the work. He
cannot expect to please the ultra men of his own
party; in truth, if he desires to secure tee favo
rable verdict of his country, he meet displease
them; and in doing so he will irresistibly become
the head of a Union party. Let us look the fu
ture boldly in the face. Upon any, ultra .
Republican platform, who eupposee that Phi
ladelphia could be held to the Administra
tion or Air. Lincoln? Do not all the municipal
elections teaoh the pregnant sad significant lesson
that, wherever a conservative candidate is opposed
by an ultra Republican, with few exceptions the
former is victorious, or else defeated by a trifling
majority ? Let Mr. Lincoln take the offices and
give them to Republicans, if be prefers. On the
doctrine that " to the victors belong the spoils,"
no fair man will complain of this; but let him do
as I believe he desires to do, and will do-colt!:'
vete the love of the people for the Union—and he
will be rewarded and strengthened from the open-.
lag to the don of his Presidential career.
Mr. Dillon played Louis AL, for the first
time at Aroh-street Theatre, and also in "The
Hard Btruggle," to a very crowded house. We
are unable to notice his brilliant perfinmanoe to-
day.
The French troupe had a comparatively good
audience at Walnut•street Theatre last night. They
will appear in" Le Courier de Lyon," this evening,
and we cordially recommend them to all who love
fine acting.
Mr. Basconibe, of Walnut•streot Theatre, wishes
us to say that be did not wear moustaches when per
sonating Reuben Butler, in the play of "Jeannie
Deans." Crushed up, on a crowded benefit night,
at the back of the parquctte, we received the Im
pression that be did. Of course, his denial settles
the matter In his favor, and to our satisfaction.
hit _Barnum's, Independent of the exhibition of
races, the Lightning catoulator le really one of
t he greatest wonders of the time.
The Stereopticon continues well attended—ditto,
Blitz, Sword, Van Ambnrgh, and " The Seven
Staters" at the Olympic.
PIIBLIOLTION3 RiCIIVED --Attantsc Monthly.
Oodey's Lady's Book. Comae Montidy,
Nem., and Budget of Fun, for April, end the last
number of Harper's - Weekly, Vanuy Fait, and
graver/ey Magazzue, from Mr. Trenwith, news
paper agent, South Third street.
Harper's Magasine for April, from J. B. Lip
&Gott & Go.
The Atlantic Monthly for April, from T. B.
Pugh, Oheatnut street.
New Wain PARICR.—The proprietors of the
Evening Journal, which bee greatly improved
since its resent change of proprietorship and edi.
tors, announce the forthcoming publication, to com
mence early In June, of a weekly bane to be called
"The Dollar Weekly Journal.'!. We wish It all
possible mem—there is room, at all times, for a
good newspaper.
ALLEIRDICE'S NEW YORE LIAM OP STEAMERS.--
It will be seen by reference to our advertising co
kuune that the charge for freights between this
city and New York, by this reliable line of !item.
ere, hue been reduced to summer rates. See ad
verthement.
Aseoßams.—The English Anagram of United
States," alluded to in my yeaterdars communica
tion h trn-tied States. By a misprint, the letters
retained their regular order. Please correct, alto,
another erratum, and read, "csheri sedent," in
stead of astute sectent. Yours,
Fitter Pans —" The Prineem Olive of Cumber.
lanai" From Milwaukee; Letter to Booty Lord
Brouham. Forurra Paso .— The New P.nneyivn
cis& Staple; The Shinto* New Ycar; The Ntir
Election Law; Marine Intelligence.
AUCTION Seim or Boars AND enona.—We would
lull the attention of buyers to the large and attrac
tive sale of 1,000 cases of boots, shoes, brogans,
gaiters, Oxford ties ,to be sold this morning
at ten o'clock preol;ely, by catalogue, at the sales
room of Philip Ford Co., auodoneers, No. 530
Market and &I 1 !Ono: streets.
WAsruneroN, D 0., Mart* /0, 1881
OCCASIONAL
Public Amuseinentis.
0. SzrosasTicicia
Letter front Harrisburg.
[Corregeondenee of The Prom]
Benmeeting, March 20,1851
ABOUT " THE BOON."
A boom is stringers of Umber stretching dime
naliz aoroas the river, eschews/I to niers at inter
vals of, say, three hundred feet. Near the shore
is a sheer boom, which Gan be opened and shut at
pleasure, thee leaving the navigation of the river
free to boats and rafts. The one at Williamsport
Is four miles in length, and Can hold Ave hundred
thousand logs. Last spring it held four-fifths of
that number. There is also one at Look Haven,
which is capable of holding about one-third the
number of that at Williamsport. AU booms are
opposed by the representatives of counties which
contain much wild timber lands, bemanse they
transfer the manufacture of lumber from thtise
counties to points down the rivet. They are really
no obstruction to navigation, as the writer of
this knows from personal observation, but are
public blessings, inasmuch as thaw bring into
market timber lands that could not be reached
without their, aid, and thus cheapen the
price of lumber. The people of jersey Shore,
a town sixteen miles above Williamaport, in Ly
tton/lug county, ask for the privilege of *reefing a
boom, but this is resisted vigorously by the people
of the " everlasting State," who have found the
business so profitable that they want to mocopolize
it. It alone hes raised up Williamsport in the last
ten yearn from a town of two thousand to a
prosperoos town of eight thousand inhabi
tants. The fight on this question was bitter in
the extreme, far exceeding anything seen here
this winter, except, possibly on the proposition to
commute the tonnage tax It is notorto , a that Ly
oPralng boasts more shrewd wire-workers than airy
other county in this Oommonweelth, and they were
on hand working early and late. , Of the two re
oresentativea in that district, Mr. Armstrong
vehemently opposed it, while Mr. Bressler advo
cated its - pissage. The House passed it by a vote
of 60 to 30, and unless there are some better m
oons given than have thus far been elicited, the
Senate wilt undoubtedly concur.
/MUM, INEMBANCS
Mr. 'Connell, an oat to incorporate the Girard
avenue Mutual Insurance Company of the city of
Philadolptda. Corporators: Benjamin Allen, Wil
liam Coleman, Joseph Austin, George Bennett,
Charles Delius, Joseph M. Taylor, William 8.
Themes, James M Austin. Charles Moore, Ste
phen nogen, and William H. Totton.
MICASIIIRING MARTILB AND. STONE
Aise, by Mr.
_Donnell, a supplement to an ant
for the measurement of marble, and the appoint
ment of a marble measurer in Philadelphia, ap
proved April 14. 103 It provides that not only
marble, tolt"...aleo brown atone, Piotou stone, and
other; stone'for dressing, brought to Philadelphia
in the rough, shall be aoanrately measured lie
is to take an oath to perform hie duties faithfully;
to• mark on eaoh Blab the number of feet, and cer
tify to - t,he owner the feet; to keep a book in lobicb
the measurements a a entered, to be kept open to
public inspeetion ; hie compensation to bo ORO cent
oar 'font, to be paid by the party employing
him, Ao.
RELATING TO OERTAIE MORTGAGES.
Mr. 'Mohole, an eat relating to oertain mart
gages. That it sball be lawful for any railroad
company to oonfer upos the bolders of any bonds
thereof, hereafter leaned and lawfully seonred by
mortgages upon its property and franchisee, the
right to vote at all alcotions and corporate meet
ings, upon molt terms and conditions as by ege b
company may be prescribed. It is to be approved
first by a majority of stockholders
ooLoNsx. x'ciarass's orsmou
As an evidence of the esteem In which Colonel
d. K McClure is bold by the members of the Le
gidatures I will mention that upwards of twenty
thousand oopies of hie spelled' on the bill for the
commutation of the tonnage tax on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad have been subsoribed for by mem
bers He is singularly clear and logical In hie ar
gnment on every question, arid IS Is doubtful
whether he has his superior in our State as a ready
and able debater. If be wee as industrious as he
is talented, he would be unequalled in the Senate;
and as it is, be bas certainly no superior. His
speech on the first day that the bill was up wee
publithed in The Press, but the second day'. re•
met he have never appeTred In any netrapwper. I
must be , pelt:dyed to give an extract from hie pe
roration, in which be pays a deserved tribute to
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens:
"Pennsylvania taros to-day with pride to the
men who were in advance of their time. Go to
our national capital and you will see a men who
hats reached the age allotted to mortals, wending
his way to his seat in the Nouse of Repreeenta-
Alves .? _ His eye is undimmed, and his heart still
strong in Ito fidelity to his convictions. Hie race
is well nigh run, and he shall eoen be gathered to
the pity of the silent, unwept it they be by a sin
gle kinsman within our borders He may have
erred in his political Willy, but when all his real
or imaginary errors shall have been forgot
ten, his memory will be cherished, as is that
of Gov. Wolf now,- by every philanthropist
and patriot, for giving .to Pennsylvania, in
advance of her prejudices, a beneficent system of
universal education. Every village or rural aohool,
where the humble and the_opulentetan alike have
trained- the'immortal minds' isomznitted to their
oare,is monument as enduring, as the hills to
wifd9al of Thaddinze Styrene ant his treadle
tors, who braved the prejudices of their day, look
ing to tee intelligence of our people for the safety
and greatneaa of the Government. It may have
east him mom, if you please; it may have driven
him from power, as Boas and other (mantles, from
year to year, reared the banners of Ino free
sehoole,' and protested in these halls against being
compelled 'to -educate their own lona, th• future
etelhanforaurtreelnatitution;.•but to truth be.
long the eternal years of God. and even Berke now
blesses the policy of the frienol•se New England
adveetitrer. Re is to-day the Representative of
toeAstading county of the East, chosen by a mini
- mend vote, standing oonfeseedly at the bead of his
delegation, and Dimond to bat few, if any, in en-
Iziringnational fame. Where are those who fought
the battles against him, and triumphed on the
tide of. widths*? . Forgotten? Certainly
nn
k !eve to hi 'marked as the lingering relics
dfisopahrrignorenoe , l It 18ei? of those who gavb
as public improvements_ They eoet the State
some gold men, and gave it many very bad men ;
and although their •management may be blotted
with infamy, and their history be but an unbroken
record of peculation and wrong yet they have
givin us millions
have given ns hun
dreds of millions of wealth, and opened up for our
greet State its present glory. Is thin not the truth
of history? And has the time not come, in this
noon-tide of the nineteenth century, when a Penn
sylvan/a Senate Gen 'rise Above unfounded preju
dice` and move onward with the liberal progress
of the world around us? If we would do so. we
must make our internal commerce free;
we must
unshackle our own producers ; we moat invite, by
an enlighteeed policy, the rich offerings of the in
dustry of every State that seeks the sea-board, and
let it build up our cities, give new vigor to MT
commerce, and new energy and inoreated prospe
rity to our people." Penn.
LARGE POSITIVE BALE OP DRY Goons —The
early attention of phrobasers is requested to the
urge and valuable assortment of Britieh, French,
German, and American Dry Goods, embracing
about 1,000 packages and iota - of choice and attrac
tive articles in silk, linen, cotton, worsted, and
woolen, (including a large stock of a first-claes
city store, and 17•paokages damaged goods, from
the John, Trucks, to be Hold for cash), to be pe ,
iamptorily sold by catalogue, on six months' ore-
M.; commencing this morning at ten o'clock.
and to be continued all day, and part of the eve
ning, without intermission, by Myers, °inborn, &
Co., auctioneers, in their new store, No. 252 and
234 Market street. In the sale will be found 500
onions rich new spring style Paris bonnet ribbons,
for the hest city sales.
Deplorable Condition of the Army.
ISt DEPART/MIT OF PEW MEXICO-OPFICRIOS BE.
SIGOING-..1121111 OI7AIt.TBRUASTICR WITHOUT TONDO
/ED CREDIT, AND TEE BEITLIES GMEG OIIT
Your /burn, Ark., March 20.-2 he overland
susd, from New Alexis°, arrived thus evening,
with Dr. J. M. Hayden, Assistant Burgeon 11. 8
and Lieutenant It C. Hill, of The Fifth In.
tantr7, as passengers, both of these Moors heeling
resigned.
Isteut H B. Kelly, Tenth Infantry, and Lieuts.
11 0 MoNiel and J Whieter, Jr., of the Mounted
gibe, have also resigned, and are en route
neveral other officers of high rank had tendered
their resignations, and would soon leave for the
Beet.
The Navejoe Indian war has been concluded by
-Colonel Crauby, and another expedition against
the Navrjoes proposed
The troops at Forts Blies, Quitman, Davie, and
Chadbourne (in Texan.) have ceased to do duty, and
are avreitieg transportatlon*AO leave.
At Fort Chadbourne two companies of Texas
Rangers were stationed, and Camp Cooper Was 00-
onped by alike force.
The quartermaster's department in New Mexico
was without funds and credit, and the pay de
partment without money. The troops will peon be
short of supplies of every description, and Will have
to provide for themselves.
Government If ppointments.
HON MBAR? M. PALACES.
HARRISBURG, March 20 —The appointment of
Hon. Robert M Palmer, bpeaker of the Senate, ea
minister to Enuader, gives general satisfaction to
members of all parties in the Legislature. Mr
Palmer is now in Washington. Speaker Davis, of
the Douse, is also in Washington ; be ben appli
cant for a Territorial Governorship, and is strongly ,
nicked. Mr. Ridgway, of the Reuse, goes to
Washington to-night.
'Lin Bartholomew, the young and talented mem
ber. from Schuylkill county, will accompany Mr.
Palmer as secretary of legation.
The ship Pocahontas Ashore near
Key West.
W ORLEANS, Marsh 20.—Tbe ship Po eahonta*,
bound from New Orleans to Liverpool, is ashore on
Ehoal forty miles east of Kap West. She was
bilged, and in danger of being chafed. Vessels
are engaged in saving the cargo.
Municipal Election at Burlington. N. J.
Dorti.raoron, N. J., March 20.—Otir city election
came t.ff yesterday. The whole Democratic ticket
wen +bleated by about one hundred majority. This
is great gain over the Opposition.
Departure of the Steamer Niagara.
Burros, March 20.—The royal mail steamship
IWagara galled at noon today, for Liverpool, via
ilizaex, with thirty-four pameagers. She took ont
no specie. •
Aflalire 3. ciao and Florida'.
Onbsass, March 18.--No recto aro enter
tained In :texas of any collision occurring between
the Bonstonites and the Secessionists
adviaes from Peneacola, dated yesterday, repro•
sent that matters there remain in scam quo.
The Southern Coegrees.
CaaarJurors, March 20 —Speculations are in
druieo IF that the Illonlgtinery Congress will soon
reassemble.
The Bork Ida Ashore*
tioßroLs, March 20.—The bark Ida, from Mes
sina, bound to Baltimore with fruit, went ashore on
Cape Henry on Monday last. A portion of bet
cargo will be saved in a damaged condition, but ft
is not probable th at the vessel will be got off.
The Revenue Question Opening.
Sr. Lours, March 20.—Foreign goode;free of
d u ty, are beginning to arrive in this tatty " Thl New
OrlWill•
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to The Press.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to " The PreetL"
• Wasumerron, Meroh 20, 1881.
Peaceful Policy of the 41.dministration.
Much mice* , is manifested respecting the action
of the Administration relative to affairs in the
South, and various rumors prefail in this eon
neotion ; but information, derived from authentic)
sources, warrants the assertion that, whatever
Movements may be In progress, they involve
nothing of a hostile design. Oa the contrary,
they are in the direction of peace.
It is generally agreed, however, that the mili
tary status of the Gulf forts, now held by the
Federal Government, will be preserved
Nominations and Confirmations.
The Senate to-day oonfornied the following nom
nations
Cuanaas P. Amens, as minister to EllBlaDd.
GROSS'S P. MARSH. as minister to Sardinia-
JANES WATSON WEBB, as minister to Turkey.
IL bANDFOUD, of Connecticut, as minister resi
dent at Belgium.
Wst. 8. Tnorne., of New tork, as coned genera
to Egypt.
PATBICK sT. DEVUTZ, as 001:18Ui to Cork
Stamm CLAY (s nephew of CASSIVEI M. Oikr), as
secretary of the legation to Spain.
FEANCtB Quazn, postmaster at Nilo, Mich.
Mons' Snomo, postmaster at /regnant, Ohio.
The Senate also unanimously oonfirrned the no
mination of Jona' D. DEFILERS as Superintendent
of Publio 'Printing, and his appointment is a popu
lar one. Mr. Durango will immediately take pos
session and oiganize the now Government printing
bureau
Among other nominations sent to the senate to.
day were the following 2
ARSON ItURLINGANN, of MainehtlBOitS, at minis
ter to Austria.
RUPI7B ICING, of Wisoonsin, as minister resident
at Rome.
Tnonse 3. Duran.. of Oregon, as commissioner
to the Hamelin Islands.
& • &
BRADFORD R. WOOD, 01 e
mew La rk , as to ansor
resident at Denmark.
JAMBS P. PUTIIAIS, of New York, as *onset to
Havre.
Bx-Congressmark illizstaa H. Molise, of Maine,
is °email to Idoodon.
J- W. Nrs, of New. York, as Govan:tor of the
Terriktry of Nevada. .
The resignations of Capt. Faur.a, of Mississippi,
and Lieut. Onatinini, of Senth Carolina, of the
army, were reoeived to-day.
The Charges Against Ex.Seeretary
Floyd Dismissed.
The two indlotments against Governornorp, in
the Court here, have been dismissed, as untenable.
The find was for conspiracy to defraud the Go
vernment. The District Attorney stated in open
court that there was no evidence to sustain this
charge, and, with the leave of the court, entered a
nolle proseoul.
The soma was for malfeasance in office in twa
in the acceptances. The act of 1857 prohibits a
prosecution, where the party implicated has testi
fied before a committee of Congress touching the
matter charged. This has been judicially decided
to be not a - privilege of the witness, but a mendate
of the law, and the ease would have come to an
abrupt termination on the fact appearing in the
course of the trial On the fact being submitted
in advance to the court by counsel on both sides,
the Indictment was ordered to be quashed, as It
could not have been maintained.
Southern Commiseioners.
The Commissioners from the Confederate States
will wait leisurely for the within of the Govern
ment. Great efforts are being made by distin
guished gentlemen to effect a peaceful solution of
the Southern complications
The Government at Montgomery have no appro.
hensions of a collision at Fort Pickens. It is said
thiit the enemata published are grout exaggera
tions of the true eondition of affairs in that gime
tar. The Commissioners have information that
the best feeling exisbibetween the Federal antho•
rides and the officers in command of the Conrad..
rate troops, and no danger of a collision is enter
tained.
Texas.
NIIW ORLEANS, March 20 —The Steamship In
dianoln fram Brazos on the Pith, arrived at this
port to-day With the following advice':
It is stated that Lieut. Williams, of the army,
has resigied.
Col. Bonneville, of the Third infantry, late in
command •of Fort Clark, was a passenger by the
Indsanola, en route to Ft. Louis.
Two oompanies of the Federal troop had arrived
*titre:es from San Antonia, and were awaiting
transportation: Other arrivals of troops were ex
pected.
Lieut. WsEllington, of the 11. B. Army, will can
tinas to 'sot u Quartermaster and Commissary
anti/ the Federal troops have - all left the State.
[SWORD DIBPATCII j
Governor, "Jousten to be Deposed.
TELEXAMININO ATTITIIDX OP rita 17D14/111.
GAZMISTON, March 19, via NEW OELEArta,
Marchit—Gov.:nor Bowdon and the Secretary
of State refund to appear on the 16th before the
State Convention, when summoned to take the
oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government.
The other State officers complied with the
summon. -
Lientensat Clark was to amine the Geherea
torte! powers on the 16th. •
It la not kpown what contra General Eonston
will pursue.
The Convention is rapidly maturing defensive
operations for the frontiers.
The Indians are gathering in large numbers on
the western frontiers.
A military force is being organised to proteo
the Rio Grande.
The Convention has passed an ordinates coati
fining in officio the present State and Governmen
officials, who will take the new form of oath
Defeat of the Arkansas secession
Ordinance.
Lotriannts, March 19.—A special detz m ito!
from Little Hoek, Arkansas, states that the
Seces
sion ordinance has been voted down, the nays
being 89, to 36 yeas.
Vett Boat; Ark , Blab* 10.—Tbe people of
this city are firing a saints of thirty-mne gone,
from a cannon which was dug up on the battle.
field of Trenton, in honor of the thirty-nine mem;
hers of the State Convention who vOted against
the ordinance of lamellate secession , tokley.
roar Sinn, March --Thirty-nine guns were
fired in this city last bight, in honor of- the Tote
in the Convention against secession. -
There is great rejoicing among the Union men
over this event.
Nasnvtini, Tenn., Marob 20.—A great polio
went itravails at Little Hook in ocnsequenee of the
rejection of the Secession ordinance.
A compromise was effected by the Convention
to submit the question at eo-operation or secession
to the people of Arkansae, on the drat Monday in
August.
Delegates will be sent to the border latateSoni
vet:titian, to report on the ro•osoombliog of thoMon
veation, on the third Monday in August, to which
day it has adjourned.
Missouri Convention.
Sc. Lotus, March 19.—Mayor Wright concluded
his speech in the Convention this morning, after
which the first and second resolutions of the ma
jgrity repott of the Committee on Federal Rela
tions were passed, the first with only one dimendng
voice, and the second unanimously.
Mr. Hough moved to amend the second resolu
Lion by a declaration that, wishing to restore pesos
to our country, we desire the Federal Government
to withdraw the troops from the torts now occupied
by them In thersecectlng States. This was tabled
and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Bost offered the following as an addition to
the third resolution : " And in the event of a re•
fusel by the Northern States to agree to inch an
adjustment of the slavery question, and our sister
Bolder Slave States shall decide t) change their
relations .with the General Government, Missouri
will not hesitate to take her nand in favor of her
Southern brethren " Lost—ayes Z 2, nay. 68 .
Two or three other amendments were tabled and
ordered to be printed, which will come up after
the resolutions are passed.
The Virginia State Convention.
Ricauoun, fdareh 20.—1 n the Convention to
day, Mr Moleombe, of Albemarle county, de
livered an elcquent speech in favor of the with
drawal of Virginia from the Union.
The resolutions relative to taxation were taken
up. and Mr. Raymond made a speeeh
Pending ■ motion to tilde the reeoluflone, the
Convention. adjourned.
Mr. Carlisle will clfer.an amendment to the re
port of the Committee on Federal Relations, em
bodying the Franklin substitute entire.
The ReUrement of Twiggs.
NEW °aunts, March 20 —Twigge hu declined
the appointment of Brigadier Generalship of the
(kinfederate beaten Arms on account of Me feeble
health.
Kentucky.
SOITTINRI-BIGHTB NANO CONVICTION.
FEIN/FONT, By., hlsroh 20 —The State Loebla.
tore ra-anambled to-day, but immediately ad
journed till to-morrow, to allow the nee ot the le.
ghastly* hall to the Southern-Rights Mass Con
vention, which !snow in session.
From Key Weet.
ALL QUIST-NO WAR Vll/185L8 UP POET
New °AMAMI, March 20.—Advioes from Key
West state that there are DO war womb at that
port. The city was quiet, and the people calmly
awaiting the denouement of events.
The steamer from New York with the arms•
metal, of Ports Taylor and Jefferson is overdue.
Louisiana A ftairs.
New Claimers, March 19 —Mr. Yancey, the
oonintisaioner of the Confederate Sodas, to proceed
to Europa, la now in this city.
Tn. Convention again took up the permantn'
Constitution of the Confederate States, and aher
ovum oppoaltion, Its further conaidenuion erupt:wit
poned.
The Governor has idgned the bill transferring
the troops and arms In the postession of Lonistina
to the Confederate buttes
day.e Legislature will adjourn eine die on Thin*
The
Georgia State. Convention.
Allatririd i Ga., biarob brudness of int.
eortasce has been transacted by the Gaon& Ste e
Convention. It rdU probably adjourn In e dig cr
tWO.
' SPEW, SESSION OF THE SENATE
Waelfilltterorf, March M. 1801.
Mr BUJ?, of Kew RitMelthirtri r &rod a resolution,
wnieh lies over, that the benate adjourn on Saturday at
o'clock, without day,:
This seeate regained the consideration of Mr.Don
alas* resolueon calbuir for information relat ive to the
forte. ike.
Mr. no.Y AHD, of Delaware, said he had at all times
enoesvored so to guard his bumble course that no word
from his lice should have a tendon°, to itlototio end
foster alienation and separation bre ween the different
pertions ot the Con'easonev. The issue which , ne had
long anticipated had now culminated in the withdrawal
. f ,even States Sr wn the Union. Re conceived a re
union to he impreoticable. and there remained but one
of two agar es to pursue, namely—war. with a view to
subjugation. or the acknowledgment et their independ
ence as a separate nationality.
Be r hen indicated the mature+ of a proposition be in
tended to eller, which. in anti . toe. sets forth that
seven Stater hake, by the action of the people thereof.
under the claim of State rights. withdrawn from the
wederai Union, and oreanized, by the acme authority,
a separate GoVeranlebt of UOttlede rate States, and that.
wile- her the right so claimed be among, the reserved
rights of the States, or revolutionary in ita ohmmeter,
the feet of a new separate Government is indisputable ;
that the enforce= n of the Federal laws has neortme
impracticable, and that war cannot restore those States
to the Union. Theroposition minimums with a resolu
tion that the Pteside P nt, try and with the advice of the
Senate. be clothed with the lull power and authority to
Meet the declaration ofthe seceding States. that they
constitute an al en termite. and that he conclude with
them a treaty acknowledging their i. dependence as a
r operate net:on. 0 heti/rise the other alternative will
occur. civil w r. which should be thus avoided
Mr. BAYARD mint tined his remake regarding the
relations between the States and the Federal 4 v.4tt
meet. in the course of w, ath be rata t hey sece.sion to
not among the reserved *late of the States hut it was
a reymution be organized communities and by the au
thority of the people a the tams in whom the power
of a .veretrinty recta. Its effect is the came whether
rein utionart or legal—namely: the suspension. so ar
as they are concerned. of the operation of the lawn of
i
the t. adore! Government. it s. in the old settee of the
w , ird, rebellion. but not in the modern sense. W hat ie
a termini° ? het term of sovernment in which cove
.r. leafy is vested n the great body of sooiety and tee
people at largo and administered by them throagh re
presentatives. holding oft ice during their plemeare, for
shirt and fixed terms. or during good behavior. 'I he
will of toe maj.lity of society en old beam:l4bn ve evi
dent:a ut the consent of the whole. The power or
right to modify and change. estate in all tree govein
ments. The act of secession lea breach of compact bn
the part of tee seceding States, and being a b*-ach of
compact, and against the will of the Federal Govern
m at. is ao nal revolution, and yet a revolution inaugu
rated by Mt , people themselves. ooleotively.
Insurrection and violence m a 8 ate may be put down
by law, but you cannot meet the act of the collective
People. exempt by war or reaceful negntia non. When
a tate withdr awe itself from the Union. the unavoida
Ide result is that th. Federal magistraey is gone. there
being no Federal officers there to carry it into effect It
or tee result of revolution. • wet the same time the act
of an independent community in their collective °Apt.
city. It irlike a treaty broken br one party with.rut
just cause of war. 't he Federal Goverment remains
as to the miler water just as before. but the act of
withdrawal abrogates the coercion of the people by the
Chief et , gistraor. The Altered mindition of affairs is
with the oorsent of the Government *bough revolu
tionary. It was pot descry d by the framers of the
Conentation to substitute the military foe the civil
power When revolution comes it cennitt in•-t with
the law of treason. e Reliance is ino to the &ate as
well as to the Federal Government, and the law of
domicils inner necessarily govern in the case. when a
state has separated itself from the Federal Govern
ment
Tire senate went into executive session, and after
wards adJournent
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
HARRISBURG, March 241861,
8 N aTk,
The Senate wns oared to order at 10 o'cdozk, by Mr.
Speaker pro tern.
Prayer by Rev. Mr Cadet,
A late(' number of Mlle were reported from the dif
ferent standing' comtnate.H.
BILLS IN PLACE.
Mr. FINIYEY. an not relative to bridges in Crawford
minufir. wbioh wan taken up and paned.
Mr. Mc :LUKE. an act to 124 out a :tote road in
Fratttlin County. to .be manila d li e .
Aim. an aot relative to vacancies In boards of certain
Otisporationisi •
?sr. MftttEDITH. an mot to incorporate the Draay'a,
Bend Iron Company.
Mr: ojN—klo., a supplement to the act relative to
meaprirAn•ent of marble.
•
Mr. ROM totilu.N „an act authorielne the banks of 'hie
Commonwealth to mine notes of a leas denommanon
then five dollars-
an act to ley mat and extend Mary
street, in Lancaster.
Mr. Lan tutmleteent to the chatter a the
Bentley Coal Company.
cratoirtab ItAbOiiiTTIONS.
Mr. PARKER offered a resolution that the House be
requested to retuni to.ttre Seoste the sot to regulate
the .ale of atone-coal in the city of rhoadephia, which
Was parsed
Mr ItleCLI RE offered a reso t ritton. that evening
sessions he he d this and to-morrow evecinge. for the
eonsidermion of the Brass bill. tehloh was finally
em rded so as to make tht cession on Monday evening,
which wee agreed to.
A supplement to an aet relating to ate porations
Pawed.
An set for Um suppression of fortime-telling, Panned
—leeta tB, nap'
BILLS CONSIDERED
Mr. CONNELL called up a further supplement to the
sot inaorPors tins he yof hiradembla, Which was
Awned. he object of this bill a toe erection of the
Twenty-fifth wart' 3
Mr Ph PIN Y called up an act in relation to Alle
gheny. which was tressed.
Sir. iMbRIE real ed up Helve bill entitled an not to
extend the time for c. !SWOOPS toe Birlerand Freeport
turnpike road. which was passed limply.
Mr. ROBINSON, an act relative to the elaim of James
fdaKean end NI armaduke Bramble, which was pees .e.
Mr. 8..31/ND -1. called ss nonce Ulf, entitled en act
to l• Corporate 01. ?Ara Evancrlimil Lutheran Church,
is upper Monet Betts% rtortharooton mutate. which
was passed.
Mr. BE h RILL called up an act totems to dog tax in
the township of Thombury, 001111 U of Delaware, which
was. paelled
Mr. PARKER moved to reconsider the bill to Ten
late the sale of stone coal in the any of Philadelphia,
which was not agreed to; bur, on motion of Mr.
W LOD. postponed for the pwsent.
Mr. MEN& L. an sotto anther:2e the Welskrts
ciety to sell and covey certain real estate in west
Philadelphia, sehoeh was passed.
err. TElithIESt.N uadeo up an aot to change the place
Of Militias the election in Frederick township. Mont
gomery_county. which Was plugged.
Mr. BLOOD called up an cot to cheese the plane of
ho ding the Meatiest In Highland township, Elk.oonnty,
which was massed.
Mr. YARD C,Y ;an act in relation to eertain claims,
which was passed.
Mr Lab DON called ttp Rouse bill entitled an act to
authorise the sale of certain real estate. which was
passed
lldr. SOUORTER called up a impalement to the act
incorporating the Barrie Free Cemetery, whteh was
passim .
ter. CONNELL oared up an eau, amend the charter
of th- Union Savings a. d -Building Ateettoiation of West
Philadelphia whim) wait paces&
A rummage was reoeived trim the Governor, trans
mitting a oopy of the Corwin reyoiution.- Referred to
the Cornelius a on teedatat Relations. adjourned.
HOUSE.
Alter the reference of erlons bill" and communion
{ions, the Haase proceeded to the seemed readies end
consideration oft; e collared epp npriation
The whole 04 the morning !sawn NI an eosemped in
dim using the bill. to Nahum a number of immaterial
ednendments were made.
. .
* 'Mout cone uding toe secod reading of the bill, the
Raise sojourned tint I three o 'clock.
arett.tiottlt agitate:l.
The House met at 3 &stook, and proceeded to the
second reeding and a naiderat , on of bill upon the pri
vate caiendar. att to a large number or bill passed.
InalaAing many of a pu , ely Meal and unimpurt,nt eta
raeter. ?Wong the bile passed were the fotiasilse:
TO rake from the Judge of the *lanterns. Court the
power of appoitting menthe's of the Mammal Boards
n Philadelphia; to moorpor.te the Junction Railroad
Company • to eve 4, a ermane...t bridge over the river
Schuylkill at Mattson '.. Ford-
The bil to nmorrorate e Broad street Railroad
company was taken on eenond residing. and the
lineetion being on a subAltate tor
due original ill'. Mr.
1.1 DeWel , called the previous s° in. which was
sustained, and the substitute was egged to—yeas DS,
nays 17
. roe Du having passed second reading. the rule was
trot:trended. and it was taken Up on its final Passage.
- Mr. RIDGW AY again oared the previous duration.
which wee sustained. and the main Question wag or
dered to be put—yeas 71, ma 15.
WI the boat passage of the bill. the following Phila
delphia members voted in the negative viz: Messrs.
Abix•tt Le seeming. BM/MOW. Rheensrd. 'I booms, and
i der.
Mr THOM •8. in recording hie vote. raid: I believe
the peerage of this hitt to be detrimental to the inter
ests of the tatidepa of Phil. deiphia ; and believing the
proposed road is to be a freig ht road, to connect the
ow II o . li and Baltimore mimeos, as the word
" passenger" dots not appear in the bill. vote's no.l
Mr. I, • 181114 RING geld. in voting. that linage nob at
the gag- law had been applied and ail amendments at
of, he would file upon the journal his remoras Tor
vutink ayamst tile bitt,
„ .
The vo e neon the bill was then annonneedeas 73,
13333 17. no the bill valved.
he bill ior.he aro ation •f a boom the West Branch
of the eniquebanna, at steer thole, Lyoommg
oonntT, was then again taken up. and and-r the
operation Or the prevtOtte (Meal= Paned flneliP—Yealt
ea noia2S,
The Bente then adjourned.
Markets by Telegraph.
"Portritt-Mitrob 26 —Pales of Cotton to day 6 (00 hales.
at 11%0111%0 for mitmlings. The mai kat is act.ve, and
pnoee
haw OM LICA , S Aferoh 20.--Cotron steady; male, to
day of 30 000 bate, at 14,012140 for miooltrre. sugar
steady at eXsSfici keine .es Jens at 2801 Whisky. 7031
mele Mess Porn $lB. Fulgoni on Cotton to Liver
pow )id.
8ALT131012.8. Ntallal 29 —Flour dull and heavy ; Now
and street and Ohio flour i 95 11; City 115 ; with
mit sales. Whsat steady ; red 111 Mal 20; whits $1.40
01.60 0 0Th &rat; yellow 530580; yrh•te 61441110. rro
*mice s dull; mes., pork 817; lard 83C0100. Coffee
quiet; prices firm at 1214'013 . Whisk. dull at Yro.
Naw ORL,Aiie melon 11--Belea of Cotton to day
Ow Weil at I ratlxl4 ,- sales for three days. a 9,500
bees' teOetple 4 . 500 bales, agathet 57400 bales for tne
eL , lntAtme Wilt tear; rreetpta loan /sat year.
197,000 'zits ; monde 4.c:ragmen at all rontbern tPonl.
7.4...40 bales. Rio a Coos is +mated at 1114,013 Cotton
freights to Liverpool, Ws. exerting Fs. haulms, We
Bit sdo Bow iork,par3i to 41 0 ' Cent preen 1 _
Galas - Tor, March 20.—Cotton--!.alite to-day or
1450 bales, at prices varying from Bsl/511340. `i he mar
ket has au advancing tendency.
COLORED CONPERRIiCE PROHIBITED lit BAL..
?MORE —For come years past the Airiest" bf B.
Conference bee held its annual meetings in Balti
more, in the month of April. The Sun says :
" The Board of Police deems such an assemblage
unlawful, as it 'Directs a provision of the Code,
which prohibits the assembling in this State of
aen-resident colored people, and have therefore,
given instructions to forbid the metAing. The
members of the African Methodist Rpiecopal Con
ference aredistributed in Virginia, Ohio, Pennsyl
vania, Delaware, and Maryland, and all except
those of the laat•named States are prohibited, un
der the law,
from visiting the city, and those con
nected with the body in Baltimore have been no
tified of the intention of the Board of Pollee to
iporoaeoote all who violate the law. It is not the
intention to interfere with those who reside in the
oily, if they feel disposed to hold their Conference,
but non•recidents will motto permitted. The law
is plain, and the penalties affixed to its violation
are placed beyond the discretion of the court "
THE Faxon Hi Mussmairri.—TbeVioitsburg
Whig says : " We have even a letter from Mr. B.
Hawkins to Witham C. Smedes, president of the
bouthern Railroad Company, dated Peoria, Illi
nois, March 2, in which he states that be has ship
pad thirteen thousand buthele of corn, contributed
from Bpririgileld, to be sent to Brandon, Mono;
Purees, and Lake, for chstributiou to the poor. He
urges the Southern Railroad to forward it as soon
as possible, and be hOpes the people will not fail
promptly to provide the money to pay the river
freight, and not allow any of the corn to be sold at
Vicksburg to raise mane, for that purpose. Re
expects to ship ten or fifteen that:stand bushels more
from Jsoksontrille, and about two thousand from
Peoria, DI. 'I he letter states that corn will be sent
to the following persons for distribution: A. G.
Mayers. Brandon; John Burls, Morton; Col J.
M. Smith, Or Berryville.) Poreet; R. B. Waggo
man, Lake."
THU LAW OP EviDEsen.:--Hon. Randall
Hunt, In eminent lawyer of Loahiana, has intro.
dnced into the Legislature of that State an act re•
moving the common-13w disability sato witneeso. of
parties previously convicted of crime, or interested
in the hone before any court. Husbands and wives
of the parties are also rendered competent and
eomrellable witnesses to testify on behalf of any
party to the suit or other proceedings. Neither
husbands nor wives can, however, be required to
give evidence for or against snob other in any cri
minal proceeding, or tiny suit instituted in conse
quence of adultery. Neither husband nor wife he
tendered eompetent or oompellable by the act to
disclose any communication made by one to the
ether during the marriage.
SHIP ABSORB ON Islastn.—Captain
Hull, of the sum Pacific, nom New York, reports
having Been, on the 7th bast , at 10 A M . a Large
snip, painted black with a white animals. ashore on
the Dtmtni Island. She
,appeared to have Piaot,
ashore two or three days., as. her main and =learn
masts were out, and some fifteen Wreckers were
iplag around her. She wee apparently a vessel of
about 600 tone, but the Pacific did not go near
enough to her to make out her name, or where the
was from, or whither bound.
The Steamship Huntsville,
Nos FOL EC, /lamb 20 —The steamship
from Savannah for New lark; put u t this po rt to:
day for oval. She will leave In the morning,
THF: ClTx.
AI9URENLENTS THIS EVENING
IChTLEY & CLARICE'S
AIICH•STRILST TNact
Aran4.l.oVe DIXBII. --Louie the Eleventh'
Paul Pry."
RB7 Tii. , ,Ytta, Walnut and Ninth
"Le Courrier De Lyon "
McLain:mini 8 OLTNITIII (MS 011 1013111)
taleup Tbird.—" MIAMI Piatere. ,l be. I WO.
AeeZIABLY RooDs. Tenth and Chestnut eneet.._
" Barnum'. Living Wonders."
BeitidßLY BUILDINGS. Tenth and Chestnut streets._
Abel & Leyland'e Stereopticon.
SNFORD'S °PIMA Bones. Eleventh street b.
Cheattint. — Conoert nightly. , a T.
cognonwitatima BALL, Chestnut street— Th e
Ple of Wonders '—dignor Blitz, ern.
UNITED STATE'S BlTlLDlltes.Shestion street, 1.44
F'ifth. — Van Ambush & Cu'.. Menagene,
THE CHARON AGAINST THE OFFICERS OF Tue
EIS/131W!) !SAVING FUND.—Yesterday a f terrioll
the ease of the officer, of the Seamen's g„,,i n .
Fund, who are charged with appropriating th;
money of depositors. was resumed before Alder.
man AteCalten. Mr. Adams, one of the counsel for
the C o mmonwealth, strongly protested spu n ill ,
evidence being received, as the defendants wer e
not present, leave having been granted them tome,
away. Be wished the defendants present in order
that the witnesses might recognize thew The
witnesses that were examined were both Germane
and could not speak plain English. Taey
rieuried great difficulty in expressing their id ou,
. Willie= Lichfeldt was then swore.—l lire
'
Fifth and Franklin streets ; I knew an aSsoei et i on
of men at Second and Watnnt streets, known Li
the Seamen's SavinkFund ; this book (frox, Sea.
men's Saving Funo) is mine ; it contains the Dame
of my wife • we both took money there together
last fall I t ook $3OO in gold there, and at another
time $l,lOO, all in gold; before I took this money to
to them lashed them if 1 could get it back any time
I wanted it ; they said yes, L could get it beck is
gold, the same ail gave it ; Mr. Fell was there, and
Several others ; he said their beak was good ; this
was the time I put the money in ; the amount was
$l.lOO ; they did not count the money ; they said
it was all right; I put my money in, because they
said it was sure ; 1 bad this money at Third and
Walnut streets, but I took it oat of there be
cause people said it was not aired Saving Fund ;
two or three days after thin I called neon them
for money, and got $lOO, and then I called within
a few days for the balance, se I heard the hanks
were breaking up, and saw severed persona in the
office ; Mr. Fell was there ; the clerk offered me
Ave dollars ; I refused it and wanted all ; they
said they could not give all ; they did not glee
any reason for not giving the money ; they said,
wait and you shall have it all.
Christina Liokfeldt sworn —1 am the wife of the
last witness; I was in the Seamen's Saving Fund
before I left any money there; I told them I hid
money, and wiebed to deposit it hero; I was told to
bring it, CI this saving fund was sure, and I awl
not be afraid; I had my money home about three
weeks, having taken it from Third and Walnut
streets, as I heard that fund was not good ; one or
two days after seeing them I took my money and
deposited it ; this is the amount book given me at
the Seamen's Saving Fund at the time 1 and my
husband took the $l,lOO there; after this I drew
1100, and then went back and wanted $7O, for whioh
they gave me a cheek; we went again for money and
Were offered $5 ; we were told to come in a couple
of days and we could have it all; we went again
and found the place closed.
The evidence here closed, and sfzer argument I , y
the counsel, the alderman held Mr. Fell, the presi
dent, in ;1,000 ball to answer the charge of embez
zlement and cheating by false pretence.
CONVENTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL
trams PARTY —ln paraxial:nee of the =lee adept-d,
by the Constitutional Union party yesterday of er
noon was the time appointed for the purpose' of
holding a Convention for the making nomi
nations for local officers to be voted for at the
spring election The recent action of the State
Legislature, however, in abolishing this eleation,
rendered such notion neneoexsary. At three
o'olook the Convention met at the county court
house. Nearly all the wards were represented.
Mr. George C. Conine was called to the chair, and
Mr 8. S. Sunderland appointed amatory. Mr.
Collins stated the object of the meeting to be the
passage of mob resolutions as would render the
members of the Legislature who voted to postpone
the spring election odious and detested in the
community.
The following were appointed a Committee on
Credentials: News. Heston, P Altmn, Wel.
Nee, Butler, and Harris.
Oa motion, all persons were excluded from the
Convention except the delegates, officers of the
meeting. and representatives of the press.
A committee was appointed to report permanent
officers of the meeting. During the interim, the
president took occasion to pay a compliment to
Mayor Henry, but stated that while the latter was
disposed to favor their organization, but few po
licemen were appointed who belonged to their
party.
Mr. Henry Norris was then appointed perma
nent chairman. After thanking the meeting for
the compliment conferred upon him, be meld - that
the recent action of the Legislature rendered It
unnecessary to make any nominations, and there
fore he thought it better to appoint a committee to
draft revelations, and adjourn to meet on Wednes
day next.
Mr. Collins denounced the Legislature in severe
terms, and recommended the appointment of a
committee to procure legal advice on the aubjeot,
is addition to the resolutions. R. coeurldereo the
course of the Legislature a high-handed set for
which they mig ht obtain legal redress.
Mr Robert lowish was in favor of adopting re•
solutions of condemnation to be presented at the
next meeting.
The proposition Of the President was adopted,
and Messrs. Aherne's, Collins, Dean, Wood, Rees,
Wallace and Norris were appointed a committee.
Their duty will be to draft resolutions denuncia.
tory of the Legislator*, and to take =oakum to
have the matter tested before the Supreme Court,
at as early a day as possible. They will report at
the next meeting
A motion was made to make general nomina
tions for city commissioner and oily treasurer.
Mr. Collins did not think it prudent to sake
nominations before the views of the court bad been
ascertained.
The modem to make nominations was withdrawn,
and the meeting adjourned to meet on Wednesday
evening next at the same place.
A VETE/lAN irdeliANT. — YeSterday morns
lag a woman named Margaret Harman, aged tty
years, was found lying on an open lot at Ninth
and Lancaster streets, in the Twentieth Ward. She
was carried to Weaver's rope walk, not far dirtent,
where she died soon after The deceased wan a
good woman, utterly spoiled by indulgence in ram.
tike has long been addicted to habits of intetspe
ranee, and she was as well known to the pollee of
the upper districts se tbeugh she had been a mem*
ber of their own families. When sober, she was a
civil and kind-hearted woman ; but liquor changed
her into a first class virago. When she was in the
fall vigor of her strength, and before intemperatwe
and exposure had destroyed her constitution, eke
was a dangerous character to meddle with; and
many an officer has had his clothes torn to pieces
while attempting to take Margaret into custody.
As a consequence of her exoessee, she fluctuated
between the prison and the station houses, and el.
was a frequent visitor at both. Upon the breaking
out of the cholera, in Moyamensit.g prison, some
years since, she was en inmate of that institutioe,.
aryl she at once devoted herself to the duty of
nursing the sick prisoners She labored assidu
ously for their comfort. end no trouble was toe
great, no =peter, too severe, and, no endurance
too painful. if they tended to relieve the sufferings
of her patients
Margaret received a handsome acknowledgment
of her serviette upon that ooeasion, aid now
queasily, when there were numerous o , Sei of ship
fever at the Lesiretto, she was o. /led upon to sot
as nurse there, and for a time she won golden opin
ions as a sort of Philadelphia F orence Nightin
gale. Not her old appetite returned, and balding
become drank she astonished her newly made
friends at the quarantine by tearing things to
pieces and kicking up a general row Margaret
was disobarged in disgrace, and in a hurry.
For several years glebes been a 001111illiiiiDliate
of the statlon•hou'es in the upper wards, either as
a prisoner or a lodger, and there are many moilse
told of her exploits. Tuesday night she was drunk,
and yesterday morning she was found lying upon a
lot, as we have already Etat d. lfhercareer was a
strange muddle of benignity and vagabondism, her
end was not lees strange. When taken into the
rope walk, where she breathed her last, she com
menced singing Hail Columbia, and the air and
the words only died upon her lips ae the trite
breath left them.
Coroner Conrad held an inquest in thecae,. ail
citixens glanced with mingled curiosity and dis
gust upon the rematna of the 1 . Old Bum
mer," the pollee told in a few words the
closing teens of the life of the woman, a verdict of
" death from intemperance and exposure " was
hurriedly rendered, and the body, ere this desorip
lion of the tootle is read, would have been hurried
to the Potter s held, in Me white-pine ooMn, but
for a relative, who, burying in oblivion the ripool
!ration of Margaret's faults, remembered her vir
tue", and undertook to provide her remains with &-
decent sennleh re.
Nsw 1317LVIRTS.—At it meeting of the
Board of Surveyors, resolutions were paged au
thorizing property owners to combust a onivert
on Mervine street, from Columbia avenue to Mont
gomery street, for the ptupose of draining cellars
and lager- beer vault'. Also, one In Seventh
street, from Reed to Tanker. The surfs°e drain
ing at this point is of but little nee. and this sal
ver t has been authorized an u to relieve Mane
whieh are often filled with water A threerfeet
culvert was also suthorisedito be built In Adams
'street, from Coral to Emerald street. The Board
have also aooepted deeds dedicating to the els, the
bilowing-named streets, In the Twenty fourth
ward : Woodland Terrace, and Sumpter and Moul
trie streets. Improvements are to be shortly eom•
menced on all these streets, a number of howls
having already been erected.
GRAND Junois,—The following are the
Grano Jurors tor the terra COMMeneing April lot:
prank Aahley, batter; Wm. B. Brown, draughts
man; J. B. Campion, merchant; JIMINIII Dards,
ton, storekeeper Jos Bogard, tailor ; O. P. Oleo.
ear, printer ; J. lb Raper, merohint ; Washington
Hiles, umbrella maker; Henry Hill, storekeeper;
Markle Huntley, carpenter ; William Kulp, gantla•
man; Archibald Little, clerk; J. Oakjord, hatter;
George Randolph, merchant T. A. Royal, mer
chant; R. bawyer. coach tr immer; W. H Slo
naker.golerk ; M. Spier, etationer; J. Stalemate,
merchant; Vanborn, upholsterer; O. P. Wearer,
oarpent. r; S. Whitman, wale maker; F. Wolbert,
ice dealer ; E Zeigenfnaa, tobacconist.
ACOlDaNT.—Yesterday morning a horse
attached to a furniture oar slipped on the cubical
block pavement, at Fourth and Chestnut streets,
and fell, causing the driver to fall from the vehicle.
The man reoeived a severe gash in the forehead.
He wee taken into the office of Kineley's ifxeress,
on the corner, where his wound was dressed The
cubical blocks, wherever they are laid, have be
come smooth and slippery, and very unsafe. They
ehould be grooved or maimed in some way to
give horses a foothold.
ACCIDENT. —On Tuesday evening, a boy
named James G. Haman was rim over br a oar on
the Germantown railroad, at a point near Churob
lane, and had his leg b , dly crushed.
AN OFBicaa ABOAULTRD.—Johti McKin
ney was taken Into custody at Nagle ard Salmon
streets, on Tuesday night, upon the eharie of em
u/Ming a violent assault on an cffloar. Ha was
committed to answer
Butuasra —The will of the late CI L.
itadensaaher conteins two bequests -o os of $ 1 000
co the German Goetety for the aid of German a:Di
van% sad $5OO to the Junior Bfonnoreb or, of which
the deeeased was an bosorory member.
Om:roes Iconmamu.r4.--W. W. Keen, of
this Twenty-fourtb ward, bae been 1.4 niinated or
election as a member of the Board of Guardians of
the Poor, in pbusa °thanes N. Marks, resigned*