THE PRESS. USLINED DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,) BY JOHN W. FORNICY, OITICE NO 417 CHESTNUT STRUT. DAILY PRESS, i}v f• VI CitsTA ?SR WM, parable to the Carrier • Msiled to Elutooribors out of the City at Rix DoLLiais es , worm, Foua DOLLARS Vol EIOHT MONTHS, iffgolt DOnAlt4 TOM Six Momme—invariably in 1111- We for the tittle ordered. TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, g y iled to Sabaoribera out of the City at Times Dol.- Fig ANNOY. in advarase. WHIM BROWN AND BLEAMED .TIN TABLV, DAMASK, CALLED 8-4, 9.4, AND 10.4 WIDE. vo id ray to the Dry Goods Marohants that. after mu ream experiment, I have minces/A in opodualnit za sitiole of WHITEY BROWN TABLE DAMASK, that will m every respeat compere in WIDTH. STYLE, FINISH, AND DURABILITY with the imported, and at fifteen cants per yard leu. A samoia of those goods can be seen at Wm. Watson J.: Co.'s, things lc Maxwell's, Stuart & Brew, Philadel phia, or at my Place, Frankforl. Any person can have 200 DOLLARS, or a case of ..V•ds +without cost, who on calling - at the above places, will show that he can import, in the regular way, such or sonde that will 130111DMe With thorn, for leas lEsn fina on omits per yard more than these are offered for. t would July to the trade that this is the first 1188/1011 base bad &Leh ROOds. JOHN CLENDF,NNING, MILLINERY GOODS. SYRING OPENING- CHILDREN'S GOODS. THURSDAY, APRIL 11. LINCOLN, WOOD, & NICHOLS, No. 72S CHESTNUT STREET. SPRillth 1861. ROSENHETIVI, BROOKS, & CO., NO. 431 MARKET STREET, North side, near Fifth. invite the attention of buyers to their LANG"' AND EANDSOVII TARII2IIIII or RIBBONS, FLOWERS, STRAW AND FANCY BONNETS, iSSES' AND CHILDREN'S HATS AND FLATS, SHA.KER HOODS, RUCHES, END ALL ARTICLES APPERTAINING TO !IRE MILLINERY LINE. uill2o-2ni FRENCH FRAMES, FRENCH FLOWERS, STRAW GOODS. THE LATEST STYLES CONSTANTLY RE CEIVING. THOS. KENNEDY & BRO. NO. T 29 ciltarli UT Street, below 111011711. apg-Sm BEDDING. BEDDING STORE- No. 44 North TENTH Street, below Arab. BEDS, FEATHERS, MATTRESSES, BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES, QUILTS, CUSBIONS, SACKINGS, hod all other Articles belonging to the Mfitg-SM AMOK EILLBORN. CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL LIARD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION. No. 261 SOUTH SECOND STREET, :n connection with their extensive Cabinet Thulium, us now manufacturing a Rumba, article of 81LL1.6.11.D 'FABLES, And have now on /And ci full suppty. finished with ceaviriosns IPOY HOPED CUSHIONS, Winch ere pronounced, by all who have used them, to anpenor mall others. for the quality and finish of these Tables the menu- Income's refer to their numerous 'patrons Throughout toe Union. who are familiar with theoharecter e3641m of their sort. f REMOVAL_ W. & ,T, ALLEN & BRO.; lesseetfulls inform their friends and customers that they have removed from lie. 2 , 40 South SE(XI4D street to their NEW STORE. itto9 CHESTNUT STEERS, W here they will have always on hand a fine assortment ROODWOOD, WALNUT, AND OAK FURNITURE; Which they will sell at less than their former prices, in aonsesuenee of having greater facilities for business, nd being under lees expenee. They respectfully solicit * cell Wore purchasing elsewhere. iris-am LOOKING GLASSES. LOOKING GT, A SSES. No w daily exhibiting and completing new and elegant styles of LOOKING-GLASSES, all the latent ittiPTOTentellte and Dignities in asondaotere. Great novelties In Walnut and Gold and Rosewood and Gold Frames for MIRRORS. The most extensive and varied assortment in the country, JAMBS 8. SABLE & SON, EARLES' GALLERIES, u.h7-tt 816 CHESTNUT STREET. PAPER HANGINGS. PAPER HANGINGS. HOWELL eic BOURKE, E corner of FOURTH and MARKET Streets, MANDITACTITRNRS OW PAPER HANGINGS, BORDERS, FIRE SCREENS, wIITDOW-OORTAIN o. AlWltin on hand. a large and ELEGANT STOOK of GOODS, from the FINEST GOLD PAYER. to the LOWEST PRICED ARTICLE& In our RETAIL DEPARTMENT will Le found THE NEWEST STYLES OF TEE REASON. teh2-2m SEWING MACHINES. WHEELER & WILSON . SEWING MACHINES. PRICES REDUCED, NavinTull WM. Me. ien lm Gtltt CKESTN tre UT Set. Second Floor. COAL OIL. SUBTERRANEAN COAL OIL, LEe an edled for Illo.mirustirki and LUBRICATING PURPOSES. This ois a beautifully white, entirely free rem aef rrrietutant odor, is Eon-explosive, and burns with a Imartifitl bright and white flame. Warreotea in all oases to give siatiataction. A r i xnufactured and for sale by SEO. W. WOOTTEN. isme-lm 38 South SECOND Street. Philadelphia. WRITING AND LEDGER PAPKRS.— , We herre now on hand, and ore suercrtsotuntis to order, at the Mount molly Paper Mills, every de stnytion of WRITING . AID LEDGER PAPERS, whiehfor color and quality, are not excelled by any other 51ins le the United States. We scald call attention to a new article of Paper i saamaatered by us, and now for sale, milled Business i ' at er,Whiall has been gotten 10 to meet the Wants of pastes men and others. w h o object to Commeroiat - P ta as being" too narrow. and do not wish to nse part e. Meal letter sheet. Tho, overcomes both the abjns ; a - fect ehe --e '• Pate wove plate finish; ruled on one side; stamped a n centre near the top ; m ade from bait ma terial, free from adulteration , and mit up in neat boxes. av i renierit for use. alla hays a. yaps called Bonk Letter, &Under to um above, except it bas r but half the number of lines on. so as to allow a printed bleat or ttestlipmtboire. KEIMPTON dt muLLIN Mount Holly Splines, Cumberland Co., et a. r-Ne he aboire a bßers eau be had of Messrs. J. B. 14P_- orz p,. 3 sad aaailatAllt eeG BAER BROTILEKB. VOL. 4.-NO. 221. D_ltY-GOODS JOBBERS. 1861 SPRING. 1861 RLEGEL, 13AIRD, & CO. e. IMPORTERS AND JOSUIRS OF DRY GOODS, NQ). 6 7 NORTH THIRD STREET. PIULAMILPIIII. Morobante 'visiting this city to purchase Day GOODS will find our' Stock large and admirably assorted, and at Low Ravens. In certain classes of Goods we offer induceikents to purchasers unequalled by any other house in Phila,delphia. mhl3-2m FRANKFOB_D. JAMES, RENT, SANTEE, & CO ., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS o 7 DRY GOODS, 1408. 239 AND 241 NORTH TRIED STREET, ABOVE RACE, Respectfully invite the attention of CASH AND SHORT-TIME BUYERS, To their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE-STOCK FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS, Among which will be found full lines of • BATES' MILLS AND YORK COMPANY'S COT 'MEADE& Allah a LARGE VARIETY 07 11W AND. COMM= ITTLIS 07 PRINTS, • IPIERRIMACK - SECONDS, @. zuhlv-is CHAFFEES,STOUT & Co., JOBBER!! IN FOREIGN ♦ND DOMESTIC We are enalltad to offer extra inducements to ~t 1,~1 ~ , . t K ler Stook kept up throughout the season, and geeing atteatiOn riven to orders. mb2o-2m SPRING OPENING 0 F owns, OADEIMERE9, ITEgTINOS, LADLES' CLOAKI - NerS, And all goods milted to MEN_ AND BOYS' WEAR, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL> • LT C. SOMERS & SOWS, 6 2* CHESTNUT street, under JAYNE'S HALL. whd-Sin SPRING. 1861. BENIAMIN V. MARSH, HENRY HENDERSON, LEWIS W. HAYWARD, RICKARD WOOD* .EDW'D Y. TOWNSEND, ALFRED E. POSTER, R. WOOD, MOW, it HAYWARD, Importers and Wholesale Dealers in DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING. mh23-1m No. 309 MARKET Street, Phileilelehte• SPRING-. 1861; F. T. WAY Ea 00,i ' NU. 4f5 NORTE THIRD STREET, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS or DRY GOODS. OUR STUCK 1 UNUSUALLY &ARISE AND falS4ra COMPLETE. 1861. DALE, ROSS, & CO., LILTS DALE. ROW. ,14 WITRERS, NO. 521 MARKET STREET, Have now open ihetr fun SPRING IMPORTATIONS FANCY DRESS GOODS. Thevited attention of OAR BUYERS is espeolativ in . inh29-em RAIGUEL, M.OOIIE, & Co., NO. 220 & 222 NORTH THIRD STREET, Are now opening their usual large senortment of FRENCH, BRITISH, GERMAN., k DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, .• To which Dm etiolation of CASH AND SHORT-TIME BUYERS IC PARTICULARLY INVITRD. mh26-I.m. SPRING GOODS. 18031. ArziBOTT. JOFINES & 00. AND 6114 GOMMERCE STREET, Here now open their NEW IMPORTATION SILKS AND FANOY DRY GOODS;-. 'Z'o whiok they invite the attention of the wade, YARD, GrILEMORE, & CO. Ate now in their New store, JAYSEII MARBLE BUILDING. . Non 817 CithIsTRUT AND 614 JAYNE STREET. PHILADELPHIA, and havo evened their SPRING IMPORTATIC)N OF S 1.1 . 1 C AND FANOY DRY GOODS. &L.*, DRESS GOODS. IN 'GREAT VAXIETY. MAMA MITTS, RIBBONS, An, With a splendid Stook of . WRITE 800.118, LINENS. EMBROIDERIES, Ao. feis-sm SPRING, 1.881, WIIRTS, AIISTIE, & TioVEIGH, IMPORTER/5 MID JOBBERS DRY GODS. No. 311 MARKET EIREEN. • Above Third, PRELADIUMHIA. Heats =rim IL MoVeigh, - John 5. Weimer, Joaloph Boma. follFAut • • _ ~... 4. • _ (17.• , , / r ........ 10..... ~ _ ~ _ . .i.,.• i . .! - 1,. ......__ . 11,-'!.1.,..,1:'......„1iii„z.....:.;_"'''\ , .!:,/....... / :::________ i __" : ' 4."' 7 .- Y ' -.:*,--':,,,!.:.:•::: - - , i' ; ' ; ' ,/ i...: , - o* ... ~* ll4 "7 , ,' -:ft 5_,:,....„.. i.... IP) • ) • • ...,. ..,,.- , • i ~ t.l.- .. . .... 1 r • ..- --.1 . , "I - - I. SI I - 1 NI 1 , .. .....f.......... . . . .... 4 , 11 ,_,......... \ ....... . _-.•....3-, • -- -7;...- -. ..-.1 --....... ~.; 1 0 1 l ,„,.. z. , ~ :-. __ - _ - _- -- ---7,_.,---,„ ~,,orAi--....• •-••---.- .. - , - ..... , ------... . . ._ . . ... I ...--... ant . . ..,..,. , ... _...... • ..... ...... __...... , . . ..._ . . , . No. 623 MARKET !STREET. DRY GOODS. Our stook - tying IREON AND COMPLETE. SILKS 627 MARKET ,STREET, COMMISSION HOUSES %V ELT /IN Gr. COFFIN et Ca_, 114. VW CHESTNUT STREET, AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF DUNNELL MFG. CO.'S PRINTS AND LAWNS. GREENE MPG. CO.'l 'PURIM RIM AND STAPLR PRINTS. Fine Bleached Cottons. LONSDALE , HOPE, BLACKSTONE, EL ATERS VILL E, J.IMESTOWN. RED BANK, GREENE, UNION. AND BIthViDNIIN. Brown Cottons. ETHAN ALLEN, MT. HOPE. FREDONIA-N. ET TRICK. OHIO. GROTON. VIRGINIA FAMILY AND MECHANICS' AND FARMERS'. GRAFTON. SLAT EREIVILLE, AND JEWETT CITY DENIMS AND STRIPES. LoNsDALE CO.'S NANKEENS AND SILESIA& GLASGOW CORSET JEANS. BoTTOEILEY'S BLACK AND OLRNEIAM CO.'S FANCY MIXED CLOTHS. STEARNS AND SAXTON'S RIVER CASSIMERES. GREENFIELD CO.'S BLACK DOESKINS. RODMAN'S PINE I EA_NB,IIOI3BI, NAND TWISTED CAG4INIERES, NEGRO CLOTHS, Ac. MING'S, BASS RIVER, CRYSTAL SPRINGS:CHE SHIRE, BRIDGEWATER, AN D BRISTOL SATINETS. fel9-tf Ski 'PIXY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, NO. 112 CHESTNUT ST., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOR THE 31LLE OF PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. mh2l.6in RETAIL DRY GOODS, APRIL, 1861. LARGE CARE PURCHASE OF BILKS. THE CHEAPEST SILKS IN PHILADELPHIA; THORNLFY & cifunin have font bought FOR NET CASH. S lota of Mash Silk., of superior anality, and very oh esp. 3 lota of Rich Chene E ilk., in Stripes and Plaids. for M omits. Importers' price for whioh has been *1.10! 1 lot Heavy Pole de Soles. solid colors, in Browns, Blues. Greens, Modes, Purples, at 011. importers' price SLI6: 1 lot of Double-faced Black Brocade Silks, very dent rabic. Rich Barone Robes, lt and 9 Flounces, at 80 Dente on the dollar. 1 lot Challis De Leine, for 160, worth 26. Beautiful Dress Goode, in great variety. SHAWLS AND CLOAKS! Linen Goode ofonr own importation. Power-Loom Table Linens, Damasks, Table Cloths, &c., Spring Cloths, Onmanneree. Ventins,to: &o. At THORNLEY & CH ISM'S, 11. E. Corner KILGHTII & SPRING GA SASH Sta. N. B.—Will open in a few dare Silk -Mantles, and Prenoh Lace Goods. INA) T.*.c. GOOD NEWS FOR THE • LADIES.-- New arrivals of the cheapest staple and: Fanoy TRIMMINGS at the Store N 0.103 North EIGHTH Street, only second aoor above Arch. Kid Glovses,2s cents a pair, worth SO cents Mohair Nets. l B ciente apiece, worth 26 cents; Tarlebtns two yards wide, 13 seats a yard, worth 26 cents; In dia Rubber Combe.6 °onto apiece, worth 12 oente ; White Curtain Fringes, !roma cents up tolsoente,worth double the price is ire of Silk and Mohair Mitts, extremely oheap; Drees, Wrapper, and Mantilla Trimmings. of the latest flub ions, at astonishingly low prices; the beet variety of Dress and Wrapper Buttons. Paris and London styles; Shawl Borden, of all witithe, at lon than half price; Hoop Mirror. of the best meter cheaper than else where ; the finest emsortmont of 'Belt Ribbons; Hair Nets, of the last improvements. Ladies, our stook is too numerous to be specified; it will be to your inter- Et to visit this place of bargains. No. 103 North IGHTH street, only geoond door above Aroh, and convince youreelvee of the hot: • The Proprietor being manufacturer of Ladies , Trimmings. is .enabled .U 1 oiler you more inducements than any other store In this city. WM. L,ONNHRSTADTER, mh3o-1m 103 North EIGRTII st... 2d door ah. Arch, CHARLES ADAMS SON—EIGHTH AND &KOH tIVIEBTI3 Will offer. this - morning, a fine amortment of STELLA SHAWLS. purchased at auction, and for sale a U t a very small advance, ranging in price from 84 to S A leo, a fine assortment of DRESS GOODS. Chant Delslam,. every variety, from 14Mo. to 26c. Chen, Mohetrs. neat style', from 19e. to 26e. Ottoman. litlrteline. and Diagonal Poplins. Silk. )embroidered, and Embroidered Diagonal POP- Neapolitan Silk Check Mohair, 750. and 67c. IS' CLOAK'S GS, in stripes and plain colore. The latest Shape of HOOP Sift RTS 'tor Ladies and Misses, of the best quality, both tied, and wide and w riti v i ta G P Et COLLARS AT HALF PRICE. A small lot just purchased, which we will guarantee to be gel at one-half the usual price. Grenadine Veils,all colors and qualities. Veil Mirages. all colors, inoluding Solferine and drab. Particular attention is requested to our Houle Fur aishin4 Goods. Shirting Linen!, the best article for Mo, ever offered, and better qualities in proportion. Ballard Vale Flannels, _a full line. I case 4-4 on blesohed fine. 20. 1 case 4 4 unbleached Muslin, heavy, 100. 1. bleached Muslin, 6.Wa. I case 4-4 bleached Muslin, 9o.—splendid. I. case 4-4 C. Adams & Son, 10e. 1 ease 4-4 C. Adam' & Son, 12%e. 5.4 Boott Mills. Ansoakeag and Dodgeville._ I ease 10.4 bleached Sheanng, we, usually arms. ease 12-4 bleached Sheeting, 30e, usually 400. P E N ING OF SPRING MANTLES AND CO.ATS, • - ' IL STEEL S . BON, No. 713 North TENTH. Street, above Octatta, Revel now AND CLOTH assortment of BILK AND MANTLES AND COATS, OF TEE IfICWILET AND LATEST STFLBS. Black Stik Chesterfields, Black Bilk Cassaquea. - Black Silk &canes, Black Mk Walking-Coate. Black Silk Mantles. Also, all the above et lea in LIGHT-COLORED SUMMER C LOTRS, At such tow prices that DEFT ALL coairsTlFloN. CHEAP SILKS AND DBMS GOODS. ael3 EYRE AND LANDELL, • rottivra AND ARCH STRERTS, Will have all their Anotlon Goods open and dinkier/3d early thie morni ng. Blaok breve Bangs& High Colored Booster.. Blatt Crape de Bungee, High Colored do. nno Black Temartinee. High Colored .Tamartines. Dark Gray Gnsaillee. Extra Blaolc Challis& Merino Shawls. Silk Fringe. High Colored Thibet Shawls. Black Thibet Lone Btormle. Sewed Border Altana. Black Catheters Welles. Colored combiners Stelae. Black Steles, all grades. N. B.—The above are all auction bought. and well adapted to PENISSYLVANIA TRADE. apl2 SHARPLESS BROTHERS Have placed in a Department, Separate from their Swine Stock, A collection of JOB LOTS Of Spring and Summer Dress Goods, Comprising Organdies, Savages, Lawns, cheap Silks. Chintzes, ' Lawn and Organdy Robes Barge Rolm. Flonnoen. 'and /UV/ ; Ali to which will be sold At nearly half of usual prices, So as to show only fresh. Goods In the other pa 1413 CHESTNUT and EIGHTH STS. pßontt AUCTION. One Lot of Mozambique' at M. worth s77f, - One Lotof double-width Oinghsms at 1234. One Lot of Table Linens at 400., worth 00. 00 Doz. Towels at 511.25 per dosen. 00 f)oz. Lad' Ble a kda. at 81.150 par dozen., _ true Lot of Lace Vella et 87)i, w..orta The Above Goods will be moaned Me menages at 6p77 - JOHN EL OTOREO'. 702 ARCH Arrest. NEW DRESS GOODS. • Guy Wide Broohe FAured Poplins. Gray Wide BO and Wool Goode. Fine Mozambique,. Perineum. Travelling Goode. Mohair Cheat.. Beet B lack /bike. Bombazines. Lupin'. Mack Wool Delainee. Lamle, Clear) OW Good. , Gindlame• WHITE QOM of every deneuption. COOPER & CONARD, southeast corner NINTH and MARKET. sa PRIN G. CLOAKS, Daily adding new style/. i Silk Mantles n a few days. Daily taking orders tor Cloaks and Mantles COOPER. & CONARD, ald Southeast corner istINTR and MARIC,ET HARD WARE. MOORE, HENSZ EY, & CO. ARE NOW OPENING TRE/B OFRINCI STOCK or HARDWARE, 457 MARKET, and 416 COMMERCE STREET. GROCERIES. EXCELSIOR HAMS. J. H. MICRENER & CO., GENERAL PROVISION DEALERS. AND CORERS OP TUE CELEBRATED "EXCELSIOR" SUGAR-CURES HAMS, NO3. 142 AND 144 NORTH FRONT STREET, (Between Arch and Race Streets.) PHILADELPHIA. The justly-celebrated Excelsior Rams are cured by J. H. M. A Co. (in a style peculiar to themselves), ex pressly forfismiiy ose i are of Oehoious Savor,free from thellnDleaSant Mena of Wu and We aranannacil by ON °urea manor to any now °Send for sale✓. NM am NEW BURLINGTON HERRING. FLEET Of THE SEASON. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, DEALER IN FIRE GROCERIES. tiVl2 CORNER ELEVENTH AND WPM BRANDIES. -Just arrived, per Rich mond. 2315 Pima Pelleoohin Rochelle Brandy, Tale an d 4 dark. in 3: Joanna, _and}n - (make. lN BUBB 1:1) W &HERO Un, Plant. Castilian. & CO. Coollo.ov vale and dark. In 3i D i pex , 3a and ,ia" Dame; Biagi/B. Durouohe, it Co. pale and dark, in 3: pleas. # and 3i make. and o the r fine Cognacs, Bra n dy, dark, in mooned aka, Barton & Gnarlier in % mew and .% outs; Hived Pellevoinia Rochelle, X: ppm. and 3L Dash, pale and dark. Imp° rte m ipe t i r ar ß e t t la 141 & Co., amd.3.6t 991 and 223 Seam EQutTli Bireet. STATIONERY AND JEWELRY Seekaies furnished to Agents and Deal_ ,ers atvery redeem! rates. Cali, (or send stantsOLSO2 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia, Pa. FARK&K & CO, PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL - 16,, 1861. ILLINOIS LAND.. HOMES FOR THE IN DUSTRIOUS. .111 THE @ASHEN STATE OF THE WHET. THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY Rave Tor sale 1,200,000 ACRES OF RICH FARMING LANDS TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARD, ON LONO OaEDIT AND AT LOW PRICE& MECITANICS. FARMERS. AND WORKING MEN The attention of the enterprising and industrious portion of the community le direoted to the following statement's and liberal indtteemente offered them by the ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY. Whioh, ea they will perceive, will enable them . , by Proper energy. Perseveranee, and industiT, to provide comfortable and permanent homes for themselves and families, with, comparatively speaking, very little cart ; _ _ LANDS OF ILLINOIS. No State in the Palley of the Minitel:pot offers so great an inducement to the settler as the State of lli noia. There is no portion of the world where all of the conditions of climate and soil so admirably combine to Produife thasetifgrest staplee, Pima iiiintellift; as 116 prairies of Illinois. RION ROLLINS PRAIRIE LANDS. The deep rich loam of the prairies to cultivated with uoh wonderful facility that the farmers of the East ern God Middle Otani' are moving to Illinois in great Unbars. The area of Illinois is about equal to that of England, and the soil is so rich that it will support twenty millions of people. BASTE RN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS, These lands are oonbsuons to a railroad seven hun dred miles in length, which aonneate with other roads and navigable lakes and rivers. thus af f ording an un broken communication with the Eastern and Southern markets. APPLICATION OF CAPITAL Thum far capital and labor have been applied to de veloping the soil; the great J . 0,4111 1 .008 of the -State in coal and iron are almost untouched. The invariable rule that the mechanic arts flourish best where food and fuel are cheapest, will follow at an early day in Il linois, and in the nouns of the next ten 784111 the natu ral laws and nemeasitira of the 0418 warrant the belief that at leeat fiye hundred thouland people will be en gaged in the State of Illinois in the various manufac turing employments. RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS. Over 41100,000,000 of pnvate capital have been ex /ended on the railroad system of Illinois. liissmium as part of the.inoome from several of those works!. with a valuable publio fund in lands. KO to diminish the State expenses, the taxes are light, and must oonsequently every day deoreaee. THE STATE DEBT. .The litate debt is only 510,1054E18 14, and within the last three Years bail ;been reduced 412,959,746 80; and we may reasonably expect that in ten years it will be come extinct. PRESENT POPULATION The dtate is rapidly tiling np with population ; 861.026 persona having been added sine UM, making the pre sent populationl,7l9,496—a ratio of 1Q per oast. to ten Tears. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. The agneultural produots of Illinois are greater than those of any other State. The products sent out dur ing the put year exceeded IMAM tons. The wheat crop of 1860 approaches 66,000,000 bushels, while the corn crop yields not less than 140,00000 bushels. FERTILITY OF BOIL Nowhere can the industrious farmer secure such im mediate results for hie labor as upon them) prairie soils, they being composed of a deep, nob loam, the fertility . of which is unsurpassed by any on the globe. TO ACTUAL ouvrivaToßs. Since 18e4 the Company haVe sad 1.300.000 acres. They sell only to claws/ cultivators, and every contract contains an agrennent to cultivate. The road has been constructed through these lands at an expense of 880.- 000,000. In 1850, the population of the forty-nine coun ties through which it Paeses was only 334.698, since which 479,293 hate keen added, making the whole popit lation'Bll,B9l—a gain of la par sent. EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY. Ae an of the thrift of the people, it may be stated that eOO,OOO tone of freight, including 8,600,000 Dulles of grain and 260,060 barrels of flour, were for warded over the lice leat year. EDUCATION Meohanies and workingmen will find the free-school system encouraged by the Etate end endowed with a large revenue for the sniper' of school". Their chil dren 01111 live in eight of the chum& and school house, and grow RD with the 'proeperity of the leadie6 elate in the Great Western Empire. PRIORS AND TERMS OF PAYMENT. The prises of these lands vary from 86 to 1125 per acre, according to location, quality, tco. First-ohms farming lands sell for about 810 or 411.2 per acre ; and the relative expense' of subduing prairie land, as com pared with wood land, is in the ratio of one to ten in" fa vor of the former. The terms of sale for the bulk of these lands w ill be ONE YEAR'S INTEREST IN ADVANCE. at aix pee eant. nee annum, and six intermit notes at iii per cent. payable respective IT In orie, two, three; fedi, five, and six years from date of sale: and four notes for principal, Parable in four,. five, six, and seven years from date of stale ; the contract *bents fin that one-tenth of the tract purchased shall be fenced and - oulnyated, eaph and eirery year for live Tears from the date of sate, so , that at the end of five years one-tualfshall be fenced and tinder onitivation. T'WENT f PERCENT. WILL BE DEDUCTED from the valuation for cash, except the same should be at six dollara per sore, when the each price will be five dollars. Pamphlets descriptive of the lands, soil, climate, productions, prices. and terms of payment,can be had on am/limit - ion to .L W. PosTEIt, Land Commissioner, Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Illinois. For the names of the towns, villages, and Mlles tam atedmeoa the Illinois Central RailtoLl. see oases let, IN, and 190 Ansleton's It enemy Guide. fel-tutti&dm CA_RPETINGS. NOTICE. The pertnerehip heretofore existing between 6AMILI EL L. DAILY and WILLIAM L. BAILY, under the firm of HAILY & BROTHER, wee diseolved, on the Mth ultimo, by.the decease of WILLIAM L. BALLY. The busineer of the late Finn 'Will be settled by the surviving partner. CARPET STOCK, SELLING OUT, NO. 920 CHESTNUT STREET. in order to MORO PP the bedlam of the late Firm of DAILY & BROTHER; THEIR LARGE AND FRESH STOCK OF FINE CARPETINGs, OIL CLOTHS, &a., WILL BE OFFKRED FOR SALE AT REDUCED PRICES. Housekeepers and Storekeepers will find it to thei letereek W call, as every article will be offered low. aper-etaildm. FOURTH - STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE, No. 47, ABOVE CHESTNUT. lam now opening an entirely new and carefully Mt lamed stook of IMPORTED AND AMERICAN CARPETINGS, embracing all descriptions, and some superb designs and patterns. all of whieh, being purohased at present depressed prices for CASE I I am prepared la sell VERY LOW.. and respectfully solicit an examination - before Stir chasing elsewhere. J. T. DEL.A.CROIX__ mhl-tu th sat-gm FRESH CANTON MATTING. J. F. slo E. B. ORNE, OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE, Have now open their SPRING IMPORTATIONS OF DOUBLE EXTRA IMPERIAL WHITE, PURPLE, and RED CHECKED CANTON MATTING. IN ALL THE DIFFERENT WIDTHS, AT MODERATE PRICES. J. F. & E. 8. , ORNE, witilS4m OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE• RSTREET CARPE T WARE ROUSE. OLDEN & RICKN'Ert, 832 ARCH STRP:ET, 2 Doors below NINTH Rave now In Store a splendid stook OF ENOWen AND AMERICAN CARDETINGS, Of alt deeerrettone, Bought at PANIC PRIG hB. and will be sold VERY LOW FOR CASH. tar Carpettngs 10 per cent. cheaper than any house ut the trade. aplO-Ini FLOOR OIL■CLOTHS. AUSTIN BROWN. WHOLERALE DEALER IN FLOOR OLT_POLOTHS, The Inmost stook by three times in Philedelehfee PRICES LOW. At No. 164 North TRIED NTNEET. (up stairs•} mhiS3m• it Vr,tsZ. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, IE6I The Duty of American Citizens. [For The Preasa PruranzzruzA, April 15, 1861. The time has arrived when every citizen must declare for or against the Government. I therefore make no apology for placing my ideas before the public, .1 ohall make no clap-trap allusions to party, nor indulge in Fourth-of-July rhodomontade or bombast. I shall not prate about constitutional oldiga- Liens to rebels and traitors. I shall grapple, to the best of my ability, with facts as they exist, and indicate what I believe to be the duty of every good citizen 'in the present crisis. In the first place, this Government must not (if it can be prevented) be overthrown. A vacillating policy now on the part of the Go vernment is criminal. Every min who op poses strengthening the hands of the Prima- . dent must be treated as an enemy to the United. States. This ie no time for any one to manifest„..bettancy upon this point. The motto • for every pitt:l4ltheeight to be, cg That the country is in danger, and tea. the Federal Union must and shall be preserved." All po litical partisanship should sink into utter insignificance in presence of the dangers that threaten us. War has been inaugurated by traitors and rebels. The whole force of the Union -men must be put forth, for the more rapidly and the more strongly the force of the Government is brought to bear upon the rebels, the shorter and the more humane will be the struggle. I have briefly stated what I deem the policy that ought to be pursued by the President. 1 further state that there ought to bo no further permission granted to traitors to board the Government, whether arriving in Washington under the guise of spies, or ruder the more pompous title of commissioners. No Go vernment upon earth but our own would have tolerated rebels in its capital. It is high time that this farce was over ; it is time that we should know if we have a Government ; if we have, let it call upon the people to sustain it. Those who know me know that I am a pro slavery Democrat; that I have no sympathy with the Republican party; that I believe a more unscrupulous set of knaves, or a mere corrupt gang of usurpers, was never assembled together than that which now composes the Republican majorities of the two houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature; but when Go vernor Curtin asked for half a million of dollars to commence placing the State upon a war footing, it was the duty of every member of the Legislature to have voted for it. How ever, lam not at all astonished at the conduct of the Democratic members, because it is a his toric ihct that many of them were known abet tors.of the Breckinridge.secession ticket last fall. Bad they been wise and patriotic, could they have risen above the miserable trammels of partisanship, they ought to have offered an amendment to the bill by making it five or ten millions of dollars. Had they read history, they could have seen that the country is in danger—that, no matter who is Chief Magis trate, he must be supported. They ought to have looked to their own political future and be able to read that, in giving a partisan opposition to the bill, upon themselves they were perpetrating political suicide. The flag of our country was attacked, foul rebellion had raisedits treaaouable banner, traitors were plotting secretly and waging war openly upon our troops, and yet, with these facts before them, the Democrats in the Legislature refuse to strengthen the bands of the Governor, and through him the President of the United States, so that this unnatural war might be the more speedily terminated. But retributive justice will overtake them. In an appeal to their constituents they. will discover that no explanation will, in the least, avail to blot from the record the infamy of their votes. There oughtlo be one exception made, and an ho norable one. I allude to Mr. Smith, of the House, who changed his vote upon the receipt of the news of the attack upon Major Ander son. In connection with this portion of my let ' ter, let me allude to the platform of the last Remocrailo convention that met' in • Harris burg. Upon such ,a platform I spit. And let me say here,jtl advance; that - imless the Democratic party of Philadelphia, next fall, will repudiate it, and do not squarely come up to the exigencies of the times and denounce Northern fanatics and Southern traitors, and. keep Breckinridge Secessionists and Knights of the Golden Circle off their tickets, a defeat, even more disastrous than that of last fall, awaits them. For my own part, although I am a candidate for Register of Wills before the Democratic party, I will vote for no man 'unless he is openly and avowedly for the Federal Union, and for supporting the Govern ment to crush out, without hope and without mercy, rebels and traitors. All classes, every profession, each depart ment of labor, aswell as religion and civiliza tion, demand that this lJnion shall. be inte grally maintained. Our national progress has been astounding. We have travelled so far and so fast that we have forgotten God. We set up an immense and monstrous idol for worship. We adored ourselves. To have lis tened to 4th of July orators, with their vapid nonsense or florid bombast, one would have been led to believe that each one of us was a demi-god, or at least a hero. We were to endure, as a people; to the remotest syllable of recorded time, and, perhaps, a little longer. Our vanity must be taught a lesson. A nation like ours—a mixture of the different white races—Celtic, Saxon, and Relavie—has not been sufficiently fused to make us a ho. mogeneons people. We have no old tradi tions-so migratory and restless are we; we have not a national religion like the French or Spanish, Prussian or Turk, or Jew, to hold us together. We have not the basis of a sole race—Celtic like the French, Tartaric like the Hungarians, Sclavic like the Russ, or Teu tonic like the Prussians. There are only two principles that can, for any long period of time, make ns one people. These two 'prin. ciples are public - virtue and Revolutionary memories. The latter are fast fading away. The cruelties of the English to our ancestry have been nearly forgotten. The former is extremely lax. Two more infamous expres sions cannot enter a political lexicon than the following; Firstly, that to the victors belong the spoils, and secondly, that all is fair in politics. By adopting the first, thousands and scores of thousands of otherwise indue trioue men have been ruined in seeking - or ob taining small offices upon the , change of suc cessive Administrations, while the second is utterly abhorrent to the minds•of honest men.- I have, for upwards, of thirty years, been ac tively engaged in. political life, and never, dn• ring that time, have countenanced so infa mous a doctrine. The man who will cheat in politics, or steal from the public, is not to be trusted in the private walks of life. A man cannot be a political thief and a mercantile honed, man; his ideae of eczneum " and gg tunm" are too indefinite. Bat may it not be an instructive lesion to ascend to the causes of our present troubles, and if we can trace them to their source, will not the knowledge acquired be of use tOiena ble us to prevent another national catas trophe ? For thirty years Exeter Rail has been endeavoring to foment oar present diffi culties. Its orators and pseudo philanthro pist; have been endeavoring to undo the work of Almighty God; they have been trying to make a public opinion that the negro race ought to be placed upon an equality with the white. The Government of Great Britain, She ruling class, cod pOiOd in a great memoirs, If not entirely, of the descendants of the Norman conquerors—of that race whoin Ma caulay calls cc the hereditary aristocrats of the world"—have covertly or openly encouraged this false humanitarianism. Is it to be sup posed that this aristocracy—the wisest, the bravest, and the most unprincipled class that has ever existed—care for the negro ? Such a supposition is ridiculous. This class does not reason alone for the passing time but, with ahnoit intuitive foresight, leeks into the far future. Let us see the present position of England. She holds the keys that unlock the Mediterranean sea; from.the mouths of her Gibraltar cannon, she permits or forbids such vessels as she e,hoosen from passing. She owns Malta, which is only sixty-two miles from the Coast of Italy, and one hundred and ninety-seven from the. Coast of Africa; from this island ahe can land troops in Sicily in the short space of five or six hours. She is mis tress of Zante and Cephalonia, and thus com mands the entrance to the Gulfs of Patras and Lepanto. From these islands she can easily send troeps into either Greece or Turkey. She had quite recently seized upon the Isle of Perim, in the straits of Babel Mandeb, the door that opens and closes at her wish upon the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, enabling her to grasp Egypt and Abyssi ilia on the west and Arabia on the mat. A thousand miles away to the southeast from the mouths of the Indus she can dictate terms to Persia across the Arabian sea in the Gulf of Orme. Another thousand miles from ` the Indus river in a southeasterly direction, separated from the Carnatie by the Gulf of Mannar and Paik'a Strait, lies the Island of Ceylon, which gives her immense power overes Indian Ocean. Proceeding northerly fronil'Oeylon we arrive at the mouth Of the Ganges, and already has commenced a. transgangetc absorption of portions of the continent of Asia into the British dominions. Bootan, to the north of the Ganges, and Bur nish, to the east. may now be only considered as outposts of the English-Asfatic empire, Singapore, at the end of the Malay Peninsula, commands Malacca Straits, between the Indian Ocean and Chinese sea. Hong Kong, within about a degree of Canton, places the empire .of the Celestials at the mercy of the cc Outer Barbarians." Sarawak, on the western coast of Borneo, is also. in the possession of the British. They can, therefore, at any time me nace the Isles of Sumatra and Java, and con quer them from the Dutch. I need not refer to their possessions of Australia, &c., as in that far part of the globe she has no competi tors. From the Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, and from Cape Colony, she can descend upon the Isle of Madagascar, and if necessary, with ten or a dozen war steamers, she could sweep the whole eastern coast of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope, through Mo zambique channel, up to Cape Gardafni. On the west coast of the same continent she has seised upon just so much as she desired, the general unhealthiness of the coast making it unprofitable or worthless for European settlements. The power of England is para mount in the Sandwich Islands, notwithstand ing - our self-complacency in imagining that American influence was in the ascendant. Her territorial possessions on the north of this continent enable her to cross the Atlantic in a few days. Her war steamers have no difficulty in running from St. Jalm'.• to the Bahamas, the latter of which partly command' the commerce of the Gulf of Mexico. • I haVe been a little diffuse in exhibiting the stand -points of the world that 'England has griaped during the pad one hundred and Wry , years. lam free to acknowledge that I neither like her commercial greatness nor her military prowess, but I am not fool enough to deny that.to-day she is the commercial mistress of the world to a greater extent than any other nation—the arbitress of the -destinies of mankind. I have directed attention to the rapaaity of Great Britain because, as I stated above, her ruling class looks a century ahead for her supremacy. The present Emperor of the French only exists by her sufferance. She could bunt him from bis throne in a week. He carried her policeman's staff in London in 1848. He went to war with Russia when she willed it, and bad to make peace when it suited her, because it was better to fight Russia in her own waters than in the far East. She allows Napoleon to keep troops in Syria for two reasons—fast, that it tends to attract the attention of the Czar, and, second, because he is carrying out her policy in Italy. He must do her bidding, and dare not - refuse. -Her present policy is to make, if possible, an Italian 'monarchy strong enough to give, upon future occasion, trouble to France, so that the Mediterranean may not become a FRENCH The only people that England really feared, or had cause to fear, was our own. We had grown rapidly in numbers and wealth. There was a strong probability of a successful solu tion of the problem of the fitness of the people for self-government. We were competing with her successfully in several articles of commerce, and driving her out of what she considered to, be her ownmarkets. She there.' fore dreaded us, lest our enterprise would ulti mately rain her trade, and that the example of the free institutions of the great republic might cause revolution at home. Her Nor man aristocracy, to save her commerce, to prevent revolution at home, reasoning far into the future, spread wide-cast among us the seeds of Abolition agitation, it being the only vulnerable spot in our political system. Fanaticism was fomented against the institu tion of slavery ; Northern agitators afforded the weapons to Southern traitors to dismem ber the , country of their birth, thus carrying out the designs of the British aristocracy. There is a stand-point that Great Britain wants. That is the Florida Keys. These once in her grasp, she will control the whole of the commerce of thq. Caribbean Sea and Mexican gulf. For this ihe has labored, and, if Southern treason shall be successful, not in vain. I would now address myself to my native countrymen, Irish adopted citizens. We have taken an oath to support the Govern ment of the United States--not an oath to support this, that, or the other paitical party, but an oath, registered by the recording angel before the Throne of. God, to support and maintain the. Government of our adopted country. Let, us be careful, not to perjure ourselves by conniving , at Southern treason. Should this Union be destroyed, there is not a spot upon the surface of the. globe to which an -Irishman can flee. The claws of the British Lion can and will tear him from his asylum. Should any one whisper treason in our ears, let us see if he be not a British emissary, a Knight of the Golden Circle, or a spy of.the Southern traitors. The man who now talks of not supporting the Government, lot the brand of Gain be marked upon his forehead. I have pointed out to you the power of Eng land, as well as her grasping ambition. I have shown to you that the only rival she feared was America; hence the necessity of destroying our Government. This is the only country to which Irishmen could flee with safety, and where the roar of the British Lion, if I may so say, was noiseless. Let us be rent in twain, then, indeed, will the time have coma when there will be no place of rest for that old Celtic Irish race. It will then, under the tender mercies of the English Government, be surely exterminated. I feel that I am performing my duty in warning my countrymen against the wiles of those knaves who would counsel them to commit perjury and treason. No matter whether the Presi dent be a Republican, Whig, or Democrat, it is our duty, as sworn citizens, to rally to his support when, in the name of the constituted authorities, he calls upon us to render him assistance. JOHN autrnEnt. F. S.—No time should be loot in calling a meeting to sustain the Government. Let Mayor Henry do it at onee. Letter from the Pacific. Worrespondenoe of She Pram] UNITED STATES STEAMER " SARANAC." BAY or PANAMA, April 3, 1881 The U. S. steamer Saranac, commanded by Capt. Robert Ritchie, salted from VA!parole°, March sth, for Panama, via Coquimbo, Caldera, Arica, Canoe, and Guayaquil. While at the Lat ter port, Capt. Ribald., received orders, by mail, to atop in at the port of Buenaventura, and adjust a difficulty in regard to property taken from .an American citizen, by the authorities of the now Grenadian Government. As soon as we anchored the Captain landed and arranged all in short no tice, with ;Col. AL E. Pedrosa, who had possession of Buenaventura, by restoring ell the property to the American—Mr. Bloom. The town had been deserted by its inhabitants the day before our arrtval, and is now occupied by Col. Pedrosa and 125 soldiers, or whom some 20 to 30 are badly wounded. From what I could glean, it appears that the Conservative party had been expecting an attack by the Liberals. The Conservatives made prepara tions, by mooring two small achooners•of.war, (Me and Salamancla) oft the town, they also for. tifying the Cuartel—a building about one hundred feet square, situated on a very high piece of ground —the lower story was barricaded with large loge of heavy timber, and the front of the piazza of the twoonil floor severed with *desk plates of boiler iron, and garrisoned with upwards of one hundred men, under command of the Captain of the port, I. I. Hoyoo. On the morning of Ranh 26th, a detachment from Gen. Morquero's army of four hundred men, under Col. Pedrosa, made an attack on the town. The Liberals, cove ring all retreat to the interior, advanced slowly, keeping up a brisk fire; driving men, women, and children before them, many es caping down the river in canoes, the schooneri keeping up a fire from their batteries, which, in a measure, afforded a safe retreat to numbers. The Liberals now attacked the Cuartel with their whole force. Born is keeping up a brisk fire from the Coastal, killing many of the Liberele. The Liberals, now finding the fire so deadly, that many of them began retreating; but, unfortunately for Boyce and his party, the captains of the sohoonera, thinking that the Liberals had possession of the town, sad that al/ their party bad fled, commons:ad firing rockets in the town in order to . destroy it. The Cuartel was soon on fire, with many buildings. The Liberals, on discavering — this, rallied . again, and surrounded the Mantel in mass, and bayoneted all who attempted to escape. Iloyos and thirty. five of his men were consumed In the building, after a hard fight of eight hours. The less of the Go. vernment party is forty.tiva killed and fifteen wounded; of the Liberals, thirty-two killed and twenty-five wounded. On our departure from Buenaventura we saw many of the inhabitants along the shores et the river, pound the Clio and Salamander, heading for Panama. The vessels in port are the United States steamer Lancaster, and United States steamer Saranac. The United States sloop St. Marys sailed yesterday for San Francisco. You oan safely say there has been no news re ceived by the squadron in regard to the alifety of the United Eltatea Sloop Levant up to this date. The amount in the Philadelphia Ledger, of Match 20, seems improbable.-`. Very rem?othffi,y, TWO CENTS. THE WAR EXCITEMENT. WM IS THOUGHT. OF THE ADNIINIS • TRATION POLICY. Opinions of the Newspsper Press. A SPEECH OF, ROGER A, PRYOR. TAB 4216VERNIE2M. Mug" n [my/motion [From the New York Herald.] Civil war having at length broken.out, the mar • eantile community have begun to. examine Re pro bable bearings on trade and the future of the country. On one point, so far as we have been able to ascertain, perfeot unanimity exists among our moneyed. men ?:.the Government must be ens- Wised. Every one deplores the terrible calamity which has befallen the republic But there is no desire_ among the merchants or capitalists of New Yorkth shirk the issue, or to evade the responsi bilities of the contest. Upon 'New York will de volve the chief burden of providing ways ant means for the war; our financial , community ao• oept the duty and will pectoral it: Tbis view we And to be 11121Venlid among our moneyed men, in- Muffing many whose' Byinpatbles hero heretofore been with the South. If the Government prove true to the country, it need not feel any, uneasiness about money. In the opioion of onr leading bank ers, a hundred millions over and above the re ceipts of the Government, from customs and laud salmi, if necessary to defray the expenses of the war fora year from this date, Geoid be reedily borrowed in Wall street at a rate. of interest oar taiply pot exceeding that which France and Eng land paid for the money they borrowed for the naindan war. If, for the purpose of bringing the war. o an end and settling tide controversy of ours hriiver, a farthee•sum!be requisite, it will be forth oomitig. Wall street; 80 far as we can judge, is ready to sustain the Govereifire. t heartily and liberally. An idea of tee.interid Of the natio *an Wh!lch perradeelka--et *Oita. the fad that yesterday - morning 4 — te - iiiiitn-L, meMber of the Steak Exchange, who offered some, - United States sixes on sellers' option. was in stantly biased down by the members of the board, and three resonant ohm, were called for and given for MejorAnderson. It is of course impossible to foresee, at the present time, what ehape the war will take. In a com mercial point of view, much depends on the course of the Border States. If Virginia , secedes, and the other Border Slave States follow, the war will probably be long and disastrous. All the Western banks. whose circulation is secured by no wise de posits of Border Slave State stooks, must go to pieces, for these stocks, after secession,.will hardly he worth twenty-five cents on the doll/tr. In this event, the contest being.one between slave States on one aide and free States on the other, it would in all probability involve accidents which could not but interfere with the regale.r production of cotton, rice, tobacco, and• the other Southern eteplee. Again, the direcultiee which meet aria*, In any ease, with regard to , the navigation of the Mississippi, will be greatly aggravated if Tennessee and Kentucky made. Indeed, at the present moment, it Imams difficult to °Deceive any arrange ment by which the free navigation of the river by the Northwestern Staten could, under thee* closure staneee, be satiotaotorily aeoured. The internal trade of the Border Slave States would, in any event, be gravely dietureed, and their usual pro duct of wheat, tobacco, &a., placed in jeopardy. If, on the other hand, the Border Slave States should remain faithful to the Union, the prospect, in the opinion of our moneyed men, is that the war would be short. The Gulf States, they them to think, could not trameesfully contend against the power of the North, backed by Virginia, Kee- May, Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas. Want of means would speedily compel a peace. In this event, therefore, our mercantile community do not think that trade would be ei• tally injured. A severe blow would he inflicted upon the seaport towns of the Gulf States, which would 6f course be blockaded by the fleete of the United States ; but the planters would find an out let for their cotton through Northern ports, and would not suffer very materially It is not under stood that an invasion of the Gulf States by North ern troops IS contemplated in any quarter, and there is, therefore, no ream to apprehend that the culture of cotton would in this oath be impeded or disturbed. So far as the city of New York is concerned, the outbreak of civil war must be regarded as can ceiling the debts due by people in the seceding States to our citizens. No acourate guess oau' be formed as to the amount of this indebtedness. It may amount to thirty—lt may amount to sizty millions of dollars. No data exist upon which a plausible estimate oan be based.. The aggregate sum certainly very large, and its repntliation— which war is sure to involve—must lead to serious embarrassment in mercantile circles, and to a large number of failures among houses in the Southern trade. This toes of money will, moreover, be fol lowed by a lose of trade. Pending the war, no safe trade can be carried on between New York and the aeoeded States. Even after the establishment of peace, the poverty of the South, and probable though futile efforts to establish a direct trade with Europe will delay, for some years, the restora tion of old earemeroiel relations. The first vie time of the war will thus be the men and the firms which have been most conspicuous in upholding the rights of the South. It must not be supposed, however, that the failure and obliteration of our greet Southern houses will Involve the ruin of the otty of New York: This great metropolis is the natural and inevitable outlet for two vast produc tive regions—the cotton-producing region of the South and the food-producing region of the West. When one fails the other almost invariably comes to our rescue. New York prospers most when— as was the case in 1856 and 1860—both regions pour their products freely into its harbor. But New York continued to increase and multiply in years when the cotton orop failed ; it did not decline in 1558 and 1859, when the West had no food to send us, and could not afford to buy any goods. Now the South fails us, but the West is supplying this city with an unprecedented amount of business. Our receipts and exports of food are doable the average at this season, and while houses in the Southern trade—which, owing to the poverty of the West since DM, are the leading bosses in the city—complain of utter stagnation, our Western jobbers are doing a better business than they ever did before. There is reason to suppose that the West will, throughout the war, continue to have a largo surplus of food to export through New York, and will need enough goods to give employment to our imparters and jobbers. Whatever shape the war may take, the united States are pretty sure to retain command of the sea; so long as that is safe the beet harbor in America cannot well infer for want of trade. New points crowd upon the mind in connection with the unprecedented events which are 000ur ring. We shall take them up from time to time. Meanwhile it may be well to notice that the actual outbreak of hostilities at Charleston gives a living import to the commentary on the law of treason delivered some months Dino° by Judge braalley in this city. It is well that our merohants should understand the subjeot. From this time forward any citizen of the United States who supplies acme, Or munitions of war, or food, or coal, or in telligence, or money to the communities which are at war with this country renders himself liable to the pains and penalties of treason. Any attempt to negotiate bonds of the Confederate States would he regarded as treason by the United Btatee, and would be punished accordingly. if, as rumor states, faotories in Conneotlout are engaged in sup plying arms to the Confederate Government, the companies and their agents are all guilty of treason. Express companies and other carriers who Garry such arms or other articles constituting " aid and oomfort," are similarly liable to prose cution. Merchants in the West sending food down the Mississippi fall into the same category, and incur the penalties of the act. It is understood that an example will shortly be made by one of the new district attorneys with a view to afford our mercantile community a fair warning. CHARLESTON BLOC/LAMM From the New York Tunes.] The port of Charleston, we learn by way of Montgomery, is blockaded. Every venal entering or leaving it is to pans the sures-Mattes of a chip of-war. 110 wonder that "the Charlestonians re garded with execration the fleet that refined to come to the rescue of the gallant Anderson." It was not the plan of the Administration that they should go to his rescue at too great a peril. It was from the start destined to an entirely different field and mode of action. Neither the retention or surrender of Fort Sumpter could have any bear ing on the policy the Government bad marked out (fir itself. This was on isolated case, that stood solely on its own merits. Government could not allow its flag to be disgraced by retreat. It as stremgthened io every part by the surrender of the fort. It may not attempt, at present, ate re capture, but will notify the Confederated States that, till it is restored, the commerce of Charles ton must pass over the deck of a ship-of-war. fag 4LLISM. 1110171321). From the New York World.] The giant is aroused. The millions of the loyal, Union-loving North have stretched and snapped asunder, as one man ' the flimsy wlthes that held bound their patrietiese under the protonos of being fraternal bonds. Have we a country to be saved, and shall we save it? asks Mr. Lincoln; and be fore the words of his proclamation have been read, the patriot's fire kindles in every heart, and from cities, towns, and villages, the country ever, the lightning flies to bear the ir clear and quick re sponse, The North has boon long-suffering and tolerant even to its traitors, but when rumpter was attacked, and thellag which has never known dishonor was amok, there was an and to patience and tolerance and puce. The stab at hie heart has but aroused the giant It will be fatal only to the puny arms which dealt the traitorous blow. BUMPTICR LOST, BUT THE REPUBLIC BATED. [From the New York Tribune.] Democrat as well as Republican, Conservative and Radical, instinctively feel that theguns fired at Sumpter were aimed at the heart of the Ameri can Republic. Not oven in the lowest groggery of tar pity would it he safe to propose oheera for Betturegard and Governor Plokens. The Tories of the Revolution wore relatively ten times se numerous here as are the open sympathisers with the Palmetto rebels. The manifestations at the Stook Exchange on Saturday were symptomatic) of the feeling everywhere. It is hard to Iwo Sump ter ; it is a consolatioirto 'know that In losing it we have gained a united people. henceforth, the loyal States are a unit le uncompromising hostility to treason, wherever plotted, however justified. FortSumpter is temporarily lost, but the 001112 try is saved.. Live the Republic! Orlt DUTY [From the New York Loader.] In this boar of trial it becomes the duty of every patriotic! (Miceli to sustain the General Go vernment in vindioatiag our-flag and asserting the permanence of the Union. Mr. Lincoln is not the Preaideut of our choice; but, ap ooriptitutiono president of tho fruited States, he is entitled to our ailegiataa, and Shall have our kupport to the present stitiggle—the fate of Mexico being ever preen' before us as in exemplar of the rain in evitably following the peaceful toleratiorior bloody , mows of national disintegration. THE WEEKLY PRESS. !as WOMELY Passe will bs lent I. subscribers mail leer swum in straiireo 12.00 Three Copies, "-- SAM Five " .. .. SAO Ten " .." l%OO Twenty " " " (te one oddrom) 90100 Twenty Copies. or over (to madam, of each snbsoriber,) esek.—.—..--. 1.90 For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send an extra Copy to the getter-av of the Chtb• air Postmasters are requested to set am Agents for WHO WOOLLY PRIM, cAtaroierriA 'Airs% lamed throe times a Month, in time for Ito CaWor ms Steamers. ' ' THE COUNTRY CALLS. [From the Boston Journal.] That, however, and all other untoward results, we shall not anticipate. The whole patriotism of the country. Is fixed with breathless interest upon the fate of our [l i ghting berme in the harbor of Charleston. If they can conquer, more than the glory of Marathon will be theirs. If they can bold out, legions will rush to their aid; If they must yield, far worse will it be for the treacherous foes, for every life will have its avenger and the cause which is buried in apparent defea t will rise in overepheiming4letory. Al[ past issues, all paa. laical differences, are now thrown to, the winds. The country calls, and millions spring to obey her. RAND AND HEART AGAINST TREASON. t From the Boston Berate, Douglas Dem.) It now behooves every man to lay aside hie party bias and rally to the support of the Government in lee Gibes to protect the stare and striper, and to maintain the integrity of the nation. No more concession to traitors, but award to them a traitor's doom. It is time to stop, talking about oompro mites until those who are in open rebellion desire peace, and will lay down their arms and consent to obey the laws of the land."' Tbe.ime is now to be met. The good people of New- England, whose fathers fought fcir and established - American liber• ty, will defend that 'liberty to the last, and` will respond to any call :atria may bo .made upon her for men and money. It is of no use -now to fling at the Government Let us give up em tll preju dices 'and go in,.heart and band, to put down trea son and traitors—,swe from what quarter. they may. Those Who, fford comfort and aid to , the enemy by eroaking orby sympathy, aro as gnilty as those who ado in open arms against the conatl-!- - toted authorities of the land. • . , . The , Defence of Washingtone The following -items, - relative -to : the atonement in Washiniten, are furl:abed hyiheoorrospohdoiate of the various journals : • ' ' PREPAIIATIONS POE ITS DEFENCE. * • 4 OPIAIiiROAO EIfgEENEEig INfluirlosivesirittlyal -14 .1:47 te lfrdtfictro jAO NOWICIVIZIt , ad', 110 w I be mustorettinto ger vioe, Virginia also is ready*Lfgrufekt-ber *gots: The flifferrinillEttafiterte bring a force of volun teers to, this pity not only strong enough to defend it - against all corners, but 'to render an attack on it improbable. Several additional oompaniea of Aim lare are alto ordered hare. It is not improbable that this point will be made a grand rendezvous from which troops eau readily be sent wherever re quired. VIGOROUS MEASURES OP ran EXECUTIVE. The prompt aotion of the Preeldentinissaing his proclamation calling upon the loyal States to fur. nish an armylor the defence of the' nation, meets with decided expressions of approval. The quota of sew York will be about fifteen thousand men; that of Pennsylvania, thirteen thousand Ave hun dred. The law passed by the Legislature of Penn- sylvania gives the Governor unconditional power to select men and °timers from such portions of the State as he may think proper. LINANLIWIT OP PRE 0A11111.22 The Cabinet is a unit on these measures, and no man among them was more decided and active in their support than Mr. Seward, who urged oonelli ation and forbearance until the Diatinionists were put clearly and thoroughly in the wrong. THE QUOTA DP TROOPS FROM EACH STATZ The War Department is engaged tonight in cal• oulating the number of troops whloh each State is entitled to furnish. Now York will be entitled, probably, to ten regiments. Pennsylvania and Massaohusette to a few loss. The estimates are based upon the Federal representation of the States. STRENT PINUTB IN -WASIIINCtiON To-day's excitement has betrayed many Seem!. sionista who bold public omee, and who could not oortoottl their joy at the reduction of Port Sumpter: Several Sghte occurred, and decided knock down& Gen. Nye, among others; hat knocked down a couple of Secessionists within the last day or two. The faot it, Northern men have got tired of having treason crammed attentively down their throatt, and are learning to resent it by force, the only ar gument the chivalry seem to appreciate. Port Pickens. [From the Vow York Timm] Now that the public" attention has ceased to be so excitedly fixed on Charieron, Pensacola Bay, and the siege probably there, takes the first pleoe of interest. In regard to this, as concerning all like events of the last silt months, it is di ffi ottlt to form even a general Idea, as' to what are the real intentions of our Executive, and whether it acts with regard to political. or military plane, or vibrates as thaw two influanoes may in ecooession most powerfully attraot. Political oonsiderations and the mild determi nation not to Commence the attack, and to regard nothing as an attack but the discharge of hostile cannon, might allow.the same cords to be wound around Pickens as have just netted Sumpter. If batteries arranged in pestle and quiet can be pieced, some within breaching distance of the fort, others able to drive off all war vessels, and to re pel all attempts at landing reinforcements in launches or boats, without opposition from any quarter, then the surrender of the one fort is as certain in the future as that of the other is in the past. - The approaches all lost, the fort is loot, as we have no force to raise the siege, and an open sur render in name would be preferable to a delusive defence: A man .who quietly allows his enemy to take, load, cock, and aim a pistol at hie head, and waits to insist till the discharge has taken place, would not pursue a madder course than is thia net firing-the-first-shot style of defending a fort. The attack really commences when the first act is done whioh interferes with the permanent holding of the work. On the hypothesis, however, that the defence will henceforth be oonduotedon a purely military basis, and from the plans and advice of competent and professional advisers, we can, within certainlimits, anticipate results. The field of operations at Pickens is essentially As follows, and may be traced upon the map whin we publish on our first page. The harbor ot Parma cola is an indenture on the Gulf gout, shut in by the long narrow island of Banta Rosa, which con tinues the line of coast, running nearly east and west. On the west side of the entrance to the har bor is Fort Mcßae and a water battery ; opposite, and ahont a mile distant, on the west point of Ran taßoss., stands Fort Pickens. Taking this last as a centre, the line of the main land sweeps round from Mcßae a quarter of a circle, where, a little back from the water, is Fort Barranoas. ' It then continues, nearly parallel to the island, about two miles' to the naoy-yard, where it rens off to the north, making a epaoious bay, at the bead of which is Pensacola. Piokene is thus exposed to the fire of the Bar rancas and Mcßae, and such batteries as may be erected on all the stretch of shore between them, 'and on the snore distant line towards the navy yard. This fire is all remote, too muoh so to effect any breach, which would be impracticable if the fort is fully garrisoned. The besiegers will then be compelled either to deliver an assault at once, success in which would be nearly impossible with their present resources, or go through with a regular siege, and its conse quent delay and expense in men and money. Their parallels must be made on, and their at tack delivered from, the Island of Santa Bess itself ; while the for ts on the main land can render no very effective aseletanee. One important ele ment in a siege is, that the attacking force should more or less encircle the point attacked, take the enemy's batteries in flank, and deliver a converg ing fire. This, on account of the narrowness of the island, is not prieticable till the fort is nearly reached, and the besieged and besiegers will each deliver on the other a direct fire. Again, the Southern forces will be exposed to a flank attack rom the men-of-war, which can take positions am ply near for that purpose, and this fire from them will be far worse on their shifting positions, espe cially during their elementary movements, than any aid they will receive from the batteries on the main land bearing on the guns of Pickens facing them. Their communleations with the mainland will always be threatened, and may be out off; all these many circumstances, caused by the presence of a deist, and the pectillar pail.% of the fort, will cause great delay, aid the defence, end ren der the siege, even without reinforcements, pro tracted and difficult. Fresh troops at any time before the assault will enable the garriaon to erect out-works, and, if suf. tieingy strengthened, they, in their turn, may, beoome the attacking party. If the garrison is now suftioient, or should become so before parallels are opened, out-works of venom; kinds—as redeye, or bastioned lines—oan be oonstruoted, advanced even as far as opposite to the navy yard, and esob line of those will have to be token in anooession in the same general way, and with the same expense of time, as before indicated. Between these out works and the fort, batteries faring the main shore could be constructed, of any power neeeesary. It is thus of the greatest importance that a re- Hering foree should at ones arrive, sufficiently strong for these movements, for their accomplish ment would give ample time to prepare a thorough and effective relief for Pickens and the recapture of all the Government works in the harbor. In captain Vogdes, the officer now probably in oom mend, the country can plain every confidence as be la a man of high ability and honor, and proba bly excelled by no One in our army in military erudition. TEE Faris Conslittdionnet, of March 27, con tains a letter from a correspondent at Buenos Ayres, who tells the extraordinary story of a Frenchman having beoome King of Araucania, in the southern part of Chile, a province wholly in habited by a hardy, intelligent race of Indians, who have remained unconquered .to this day. This Frenchman. if auth a person really exists, calls himself Orelie Antoine 1., Constittitional King of Araucania. Hie ministers are also appa rently Frenchmen; at least they call themselves by French names. We shall have to Wait a li t tl e while before we can be thoroughly satbilled whether AblePtall can bout another erewned bud, or whether it is the distingnished Baron lam ohausen himself that has turned up in Araucania. Bin Pon CLEVNLAZD Warm:cr.—ln a liquor exit recently tried in a western comity of Penney!. Verde, the defendant's attorney urged that a consignment of whisky had been made to his client from Cleveland, for sale. The judge,ln delivering the charge of the court, remarked that "It Will notorious that Cleveland whisky was bed whisky, and to deal in that kind of an articl e could not eommand the olemeney of the eourt. G. W. P. Calais, in his Itecolleotions of Weish ington, Rivet's oopy of a contract written in Wash ington's gwp band, between George Washington and Philip Barton, his gardetser. After the usual °biases, it provides that the said Barton " will not at any time suffer himself to be -disguised with liquor, ezeept on terms hereafter mentisned." Atter onnmerating the clothing, ito., to be tar nished, it further says, be was to be allowed four dollars at Chrietuses, with which he may bo drunk four days and four nights.. Also, two dollars at Whitsuntide, to be drunk two days; also, a dram in the morning, and a drink of grog at dinner, at soon."