THE WATTHRAN, J. S BARNHART, EDITOR. | BELLEFONTE, PENN'A. YRURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1551. Col. W. W. Brown. The Harrisburg Telegraph states that there is a strong probability that Col. Srown, of the Centre Democrat, will be ten - dered a responsible and lucrative appoint tment from the present administration. - Now, while we abhor Col. Brown's political principles as much as it is possible for us to abhor anything, we can say, in all sincerity, that we hope the ramor may turn out to be well Toanded. If there can be such a thing as deserving an office by political services, anflaging zeal and watiring devotion to a political party, by doing its drudgery when others feared to soil their dainty fingers ; ind always “standing up to the rack fodder or no fodder,” then Col. Brown is entitled 10 something handsome from (he powers that be. We predict that ‘our cotemporary will be taken to “Abraham's besom.” Why fot 7 Carl Schurz, whe has not been a cit- szen ‘of this country leng encugh to wear out a decent pair of boots, has received a first class missien at = salary of §7 500 per year, while Col. Brown is “to the manor born.” — Comment is unnecessary. We hope in a week or two at most to head a lscal item thas: “An Editor in fuck.” Stig Pass Him Round. Mr. Jon's. E. Potter, of 617 Sansom st. Philadelphia, ert us an advertisement Some time ago, with the réquest that wo should publish the same six months, payable in books at catalogue prices. Not knowing anything about the raseality of Potter, we inserted the advertisement ‘in the Lope that we should find no difficulty in getting ott pay. After continuing the same about nine months, we vent ineur order with a friend, and thet friend was politely informed that we'had wot fulfilled the contract. After considerable negotiating, Potter concluded that the best he could do would be to send «8 a Bible worth (twelve dollars. Having shewn our friend one at that price, he un- ‘doubtedly packed up another and forwarded it, with the intention of defrauding us. — We have compared the Biblo sent, with hose kept for sale by Mr. Livingston, and Hind that it is just such a one as he 1s offer- ing for sale, at four dollars and a half, In addition to the foregoing the book sent us was ina damaged condition, This is the anner in which John E. Potter paid us tweaty dollars for advertising. We would say do the putiic, beware of Lim. Thesnan who will cheat the printer, will cheat any person else, and is unworthy of public con- fidence. The bible in question can be seen by call- sng upon the editor of this paper. A Tribute fer an Lippenont. The follewing just tribute te the sterling “merits ef a faithful and patrictic public ser- ¥ant, is frem the Philadelphia. Inquirer, an able organ of the Republican party : Wo deem it to be but an act of justice to Senator Bigler, who has just completed his Senatorial term, to respond to the marked “tribute of respect paid him by Senator Crit- *tenden, on one of the last daysof the late ‘session of Congress. The venerable Ken. ‘tuckiar, ‘according to tie telegraphic report, devoted a portion of hisfinal speech on com promise resokutions to a high compliment to ‘Governor Bigler’s untiring zeal in the cause “of the Union. This was well deserved. — Senator Bigler has shown all through the “secestion controversey, that he is a states- ‘man who can rise superior to party when ‘the country is in peril. But there is annth- «r point upon which he is entitled to the spe- «cial acknowlegements of the people of Penn- “sylvania. ‘fhroughout the long struggle for “the present tariff, commencing mare then a ‘a year age, he proved himself to be not only ‘a faithful, but an able and intelligent guar- “dian of theinterests of his State. To his “assidious and patient labors the success of the measure in the Senate is largely due.— "Differing from him, as we do on many of his party ‘doctrines, we yet feel it to be an act of justice to extend to him, on Uis retirement Arom office, that meed of praise to which he is entitled. AWC ‘Arras begin téhave a warlike aspect. — The Admmistration hes determined to reine force Fort Pickens at-ell hazards, and troops * Republican Peace Policy. | The Administration at Washington pro- | fesses an anxiety to concitiate and satisfy i the South, and thus save the Union from to- [ tal destruction. It has, however, a queer way of showing its peaceful intentions. — Let us see : It refuses to say whether it means war or peace. ft declares that it intends to enforce the laws, except “in the interior.’’ It makes arrangements to reinforce Fort Pickens, and keeps up a standing army at Washington. [t declares that if Sumter is evacuated, it will be from necessity, not choice, and pro- poses, if rumor may be credited, to send the troops now at Sumter to reinforce Fortress Monroe, in Virginia. It sends a Minster to Austria, a man, of all men, most odious: to the South, Anson Burlingame, who in behalf of his party, de- mands “an anti-slaver+ Constitution, an anti slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God’'— a man who in the last Presidential campaign | addressed a promiscuons concourse of ne- groes and whites, offering them as a reward for their votes participation ia one hundred millions of dollars of spoils. It sends to Spain, as Minister, Carl Schurz, that blaspheming infidel who spuke of the Saviour as *<that imaginary gentleman above the stars’—thus shocking the feel- ings of all Christian men and women—and who declared thav if the Declaration of In- dependence was not intended to include ne- groes, it was “a cheat, a wooden nutmeg, a Yankee trick,” &e., and who is looked upon by all Southern men as one of the boldest and most dangerous of all the Aboli:ionists. It sens Joshua R. Giddings, the father of Abolitionism, as Consul General to Canada, who, it is understood, is to reside at Chat- ham, “forthe purpose of superintending the runquay negroes, and looking after the un- deraround railroad.” Tt sends to Russia as Minister Cessius M. Clay, who has done mugre to give Abolition- ism a footheld in the South than any other score of Abolitionists in the whole North— for he has courage and will. These are some of the conciliatory acts of the Administration. Verily the South ought to fall on its knees and worship so kind, thoughtful ‘and considerate a President, — Pennsylvanian. reo i Hegro Applicants for Office, Says the Washington correspondent of the N.Y. Express: *The number of applicants for minor offi- ces by colored men is perfectly astounding from Massachusetts alone. I am informed that for Postmasters’ berths. there are on file over 200 applications, and the SUPPOSi= tion is that there are several black applicants filed away among the white ones.” As Mr. Lincoln is wont to say “this is as it should be,” Itis but natural that the negroes of the Northern States, especially of Massachusetts, should have an itching palm” for the spoils. Did not many of them contribute money towards Lincoln’s elec. tion ? Were they not led te believe that his success would be their success, and that Slack Republican ascendancy would make them & power in the State Did not Bur- lingawe, the applicant for a foreign mission, invoke their support in the Presidential campaign, and excite their cupidity and lustof office by parading before their expand- ed eyes the ravishing prospect of a partici- pation in “one hundred millions of spoils 2 Did not Carl Schurz, also an applicant for a foreign mission, deelare that if the Declara- tion of Independence was not, intended to’ include negroes as well as whites, that it was ‘‘a cheat, a wooden nutmeg, and a Yan- kee trick 2” Did not Mr. Lincoln denounce the Dred Scott decision, and thereby pro- claim to the world that negroes are cit zENS ¢ And if citizens, have they not the right to vote and to demand office ? Then «cease (0 blame the negroes for their suppos- ed presumption, and reserve your censure for those reckless demagogues who have taught them to aspire to an equality with the whites. Who is surprised to find ne- groes applying for office at the hands of this Administration ¢ Who will be surprised should the negro Government of Hayti be allowed a representative gt the American Court 2 ———.e oe Massacurserrs PREPARING FOR WAR. — We perceive, by a report presented to the House of Representatives, that Massachu- setts has been preparing for civil war ona large scale. The contracts made for the equipment of troops Yor active service include two thousand knapsacks and two hundred thousand ball cartridges, and an appropri- ation of 825 000 has been made by the Com- monwealth to defray the expenses of putting the State troops on a war footing. It would have been well for the country if Massachu- setts had been as ready with her troops dur- ing the war of 1812-14 —when she refused to allow them to leave the State—as she has shown herself in the present instance.—N. Y. Herald. + ez woe | some decisive step be taken in the matter, respondent of the New York 7imes, under Adjournment of the U. S. Senate. The Senate adjourned sine die at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th ultimo. There was a prospect, at one time, of a formal ex- | pression of sentiment on the question of en- forcing the laws and holding the Federal property in the seceded States. 4 motion recommending that course of procedure, was made by Mr. Trumbull, (Repub.,) of Tilineis, and on that motion he desired that a vote might be taken. The Demgerats unanimously concurred in desiring that a vote might be taken, but the Republicans fought shy, and finally, with only two ey- ceptions, (Trambull and Wade,) refused to allow the vote to be taken, They preferred to maintain their non committal policy—un- willing to disavow a purpose which, if car» ried into effect, would be sure to inaugurate a bloody war, and also unwilling distinctly to recommend it. Thug the nation, or what was the nation, is left to drift where it may ; for, without a special session of Congress, no more legislation can take place upon the subject untii next December. Without such legislation, the President can make no ar- rangement with the seceded States for the adjustment of differences. He is left to be alike applicable to the seceded and the ad- hering States. Bat he can ekcuse himself from their enforcement, if’ he so elects, on the ground that Congress has provided no means to enable him to enforce them ; or, if has, which is just enough to get ths nation into a war, without the possibility of bring- ing it to & successful issue. Whether the Confederate, or even the border States, will be able to keep quiet, in such a state of un- certainty, until next December, remains to be scon. We hope they will. il eed Playing Jackson, We suppose that Mr. f.incoin has found out ere this, as a cotemporary pungently observes, that playing Jackson is a‘kind of atausement more pleasant to contemplate than take a vart in, and less difficult in Slavery How ang Then. the first term of his administration, the gen- we Eg Letter From Hen. John J. Critienden In the days of Washington, and during | Explaining the «Crittenden Compromise.” Frangronz, Friday, Magch 25. sus returns, certified by Thomas Jeficrson, | Lary Anderson, Esy., Cincinnati : Secretary of State, exhibit the following enumeration of siayes : 5 Vermont, New Hampshire, 158 Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, B. W. Territory, 21,324 12,430 8887 after acquire 20'104 | Peace and union. I observe that ane of your respectabie newgpapers in Cincinnati has misstated my 16 | motives and my course in relation to the Foypintiony ali 1 Inbuiied on the Si 1 04x | of December last to the Senate of the Unite Rhode Island, : ion States, It represents me as having “repu- 1 55; | diated” them, and as having 12/455 | €d” with them, after, | t 5737 | had been Jase to embrace all territory here- a by the United States, as well 103.036 | 3 that which they now possessed. A sim- 192.627 ple statement will correct theso errors. a These resolutions were proposed in the 100.572 | Pure spirit of compromise, and with the hope 107.104 of preserving or restoring to the country , They were the result of 3 407 | the joirt labors of, and” consultations with, “=! | friends having the same subject in view, and This was twenty five years before the | I believe if those measures thus offered had Missouri Compromise, and yet the people in | been, at a suitable time, promptly all sections were contented and happy. But fathers in the time of Washington, of course | io mast be spurned in this day and generation, mists. Since the Missouri Compromise has by the Congress of the United fi i i would have checked the progress of the the condition of things which satisfied our rebellion and revolution £nd saved the Un- n. For myself, 1 had no objection to inclnd- : fh ee te _| ing in their scope all "after acquired territo- by the fanatics and crazy political econo ry, ‘because that made a final settlement of been *‘disgust- by an amendment they States, it “w vane Gen. Houston's Protest Against Secession. The hero of San Jacinto coneludes his ad- dress against Secegsion to the people of Tex- as, as follows : : Fellow citizens, in the nance of your rights and liberties, which [ believe ‘have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath.— In the nam: of the nationality’ ¢f Texas which has been betrayed by this Convention, [ refuse to take this oath. ~ In the ngme of the Constitution of Texas, which has bepn trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of my own conscience and my manhood, which this Convention would de- grade by dragging before it, to pander to the malice of my enemies, when by the Con- stitution the privilege is accorded me which belongs to the humblest officer, to take my oath of office before any competent anthori- ty, [refuse to take this oath. I am ready to be ostracised sooner than submit to usurpation. Office has no charms for me, that it must be purchased at the sacrifice of my conscience, and the loss of my self respect. ie I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. To avert this ca- lamity I shall make no endeavor to maintain my authority as Chief Executive of this State, except by the peaceful exercise of my functions. ~ When I can no longer do this I re ite cerned ETE been repeale | President. | acted, State voluntarily, officious inte d, the slavery question remains guided by the existing laws ; and these are | PTeCi#ely as it was when Washington was Before the Compromise was en- after State abolished slavery and without the treats and tference of the Beechers, Park- crs, Greeleys, and others of that stamp.— he so elects, he can use what little power ho | When the Meeibowrathy began ‘tn Bgitate, provision, by prohibiting slavery in all after 30 min. of north latitude, and allowing it in Southern States would not be inclined to in- al! south of that line, would have the effect | to take this oath. of preventing any further acquisition of ter- ed vacated, ] ritory, as the Northern States would be un- | be but as true to the interests of Texas as 1 willing to make any Southern acquisitions, | have endeavored to be, my prayers will at- in which slavery was to be allowed, and the | tend them. : the distracting question of slayey in all time shall calmly withdraw from the scene, leay- to come,” and because I hoped that such a | ing the government in the hands of those}who have ysurped its authority, but still claim- acquired territory rorth of the line of 26 deg. | ing that I am its Chief Executive. I expect the consequences of my refusal My office will be declar- If those who ostracise me will Fellow citizens, think not that T complain emancipation ceased. . crease the preponderance of the North by During the administration of Washington, | N invoking its interposition to interdiet the slave trade, and submitting the interrogation | te how far the powers of Congress could be | should be made. ] These were my reasons for submitting the | again. proposition in relation to future acquired m s és territory, But my great object was compro- The subject was referred to a committee mise—compromise on terms satisfactory, as exercised toward the amelioration and aboli- tion of slavery in the States and Territories. | orthern acquisitions. rritory, and I did not desire that any more | er at the lot which Providence has now assign. uis And thus I hoped | ed me. the Society of friends memorialized Congress, | that the provision respecting future territory | career should close thus. : would prevent any further acquisitions of it. Our troubles had arisen from acquisitions of It is perhaps but mcet that my I have seen the patriots and statesmen of my youth, one by one, gathered to their fathers, and the Goy- nment which they had reared rent in twain; and none like them are left to unite it once [ stand the last, almost, of a race who learned from their lips the lessons of human freedom. because [ will not yield those principles, I am stricken down now composed of men perfectly conversant with | far as possible, to all parties and all sections: | which I have fought for and struggled to the weaning of the Constitution, for they | 80d when I found that this provision in my had made it. They reported —¢ The Coa-|'° gress, by a fair construction of the Consti- [11 tation, are restrained from interfering in the fo speculation than in action. In the quict of a rural residence, it was doubtless sweat to ruminate upon coming glorles—sweet to | hear the buzz of approving courtiers, to seo! the bowing multitude, and to feel the com- forts of snug quarters and a heavy salary — sweet to anticipate the pleasure of being President. But distance leads an enchant- ment to the view, which in the Executive mansion, very decideqly fades on a near ap- proach. Mr. Lincoln's chapier of sweets was doubtless as soothing as that in Don Juan. But Mr. fsincoln’s realization of sweets is bitter as gall. “1 am utterly dis- gusted,’” said he to a confidential friend the other day, ‘and am mighty sick and tired of the whole thing.” We don’t doubt he 15. It is a very hard matter to play President, much harder to play Jackson. But if Mr. Lincoln has made up his mind to go through with it, that he first and straightway make | up his mind to cast from him his own party | | | by saving the country. — Hollidaysburg Stan- dard. —————— eo Nor Yer Evacvaten.—Major Anderson and his command still remain at Fort Sum- ter, notwithstanding all the reports about the order having been issued by the Presi- dent for its evacuation. The Administration are evidently undetermined what to do, and would doabtiess be rejeiced it the command- ing officer would assume the responsibility of abandoning the Fort without orders from the War Department. But delays are dangerous, and Mr. Lincoln ought to do one thing or the other without farther procrastination. Either let him send reinforcements and supplies to the little band ot soldiers in Charleston harbor, and thus redeem his own and his party’s pledges | before his mauguration ; or else back down | at once, surrender the fort, draw off the command, and acknowledge his inability to prevent it falling into the hands of the Se- cessionists. This temporizing policy of the Administration will not do ; it will neither gatisly the people and save the country from | distraction and disunion. By all means let and let us know the worst. asa SomermiNGg IN THE WIND ! —The Paris cor- date of March 10th, says that the French and English Governments are fitting out a powerful fleet of war steamers for the coast of the United States. The precise object of this naval demonstration it will bo impossi- ble to ascertain, the writer says, as the fleet will probably sail with sealed orders. It no doubt grows.out of our troubles, and is in-| tended to protect the rights of French and English subjects in the event of a civil war here. It is also said that Spain is preparing to send to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico a emancipation of slaves, §c.’’ but that «Con. | Ul gress have authority to interdict the slave trade.” view, the peace and union of the country, T And when Congress was about putting an { would, rather than have witnessed their to- | of abrupt termination to the siave trade, af off perfiet storm of remonstances caiae from | > Massachusetts and other holy States of the Lac present day, demanding that the trade should | in out. maintain. The severest pang is, that the solutions was’ much and par ticularly ob- | blow comes in the name of the State of Tex. jected to, and might prove an obstacle to | as. y eir adoption, 1 determined, in my anxiety speak for Texas. ha 3 A her sake, and am willing to do so again. ra compromise, that [ would not insist on, but would consent to have it stricken To accomphsh the great object I had in| th I failure, have yielded to any modifications | th my resolutions, that would not. in my be dgwent, have destroyed the essential char- | Lis ler and their pacifying effect. Indeed, I tended, if the opportunity had been afford- chief object has been fulfilled. I deny the power of this Convention to I have received blows for I protest, in the nama of the people of Texas, against all the ‘acts and doings of is Convention, and declare them null and void, [solemnly protest agamst the acts its members, who are’bound by no oath 1<tlves, in declaring my ofiice vacant, cause I refuse to appear before it and take © oath prescribed.’ It has accomplished its mission, and its It to drive be prolonged eight years beyond the time | ¢d me of making several amendments in the | me from office and defeat the will of the proposed ; so that they be enabled to fulfil os the lucrative contracts in transporting the possible. thousands of poor Africans agreed upon from their native country to the Southern plan. [ta ters. Some were “building expensive ves. sels,” others had “just purcnased and fitted | wag accomplished. out sleve ships,” with a view to the profit of the trade, and if it were suddenly abolished, Conference or Convention, that met at Wash y ington upon the invitation of the State of | days are gone. Virginia, made a report to Congress of the | th resolutions or measures recommended by | se they would be crippled, if not ruined specu- lators in human flesh. The journals of Con- gress show that the South were in favor of | th the immediate termination of the inhuman | I at once determined to support their meas- ures, rather than those I had before propos- | pe ed. Idd this, not only because their prog- | in trafic, and that the States now under the whose resolutions or by whose measures it > € was brought about, so “that the great end | he claimed his pound of flesh. ] Lion prescribed that time as the limit, but under their language as little offensive as | ve phraseology of those resolutions, in order to | people is an honor, it may wear it. To pre- ut wy having an opportunity to send a message to the Legislature, which meets on I wish to see reconciliation and union es- | Monday, March 18, I am required to appear blished. It was of no importance by | at its bar to day and take the test oath.— Even Shylock granted the full three days ere The Couven- It was in'that spirit that when the Pence | its President has been léss gracious than em for the restoration of peace and union, | of Wear TUE both in the S thirty in the of fanaticism for a party of principle and | spiritual guidance of the sanctified Beecher, patriotism, who will help him play Jackson | Parker, Gzecity, Seward, and Garrison, were unanimously against it. a Late CoNcress Dip.—The last session of the Thirty Sixth Congress began on the 3d of December, 1860, and closed on the 4th of March, 1861. cember thirty three States were represented On the 3d of De- cnate and the House of Repre- sentatives ; on the 4th of March, twelve members were absent in the Senate and House—six States having de- ositions contained, as 1 thought, the sub- stance of my own, but because they came twenty-one States, and would, therefore, be more likely to be acceptable to Congress certained to my satisfaction that the resolu- tions I had offered would not be adopted in the Senate. will discover the met s of my conduct in the above recited transactions. and that I !scientious convictions. did not so act, either because I was *‘dis- | that the Republican platform was not right gusted”” with, or had ever “repudiated” the | so far as an abstract truth was concerned ; Shylock, and clamors for the bond ere two If I am thus deprived of ¢ poor privilege of putting upon record my ntiments, through the refusal on the part the Legislature to receive my message, 1 will lay the same before the people and ap- al to them, as I[ declared I would do in my augural. Sax. Houston. ——— 4 BP me A SexsisLe RepusricaN.—The St. Louis with the high sanction of a Convention of Republican states that the Hon. W. B. Og- den, of Chicago, member of the Illinois State and the country. Besides that, I felt myself | Seuate, and a very popular gentleman with- somewhat bound to act with this deference | 21, was called upon by a number of gentle- to a Convention so distinguished. I had as- men in that city a few days since. In a speech, he made use of the following lan. guage in reference to his own {the Republi- From this hastily written statement you | can) party :— ‘He could rot be untrue to his own con- le wou!d not say clared themselves out.of the Union, and re- called their delegates in Congress. at Nearly all of the session was consumed in discussion relating to the crisis, and but ninety seven acts were passed by Congress and approved by the President. Of these, one in the House. EA resolutions wlugh I submitted to the Sen- e. 1 am, very respectfully, yours, &ec. J. J. CRITTENDEN. The New Government Loan. ! yo is 4 : Waeninaron, April 2, P. M.—The bids sixteen originated in the Senate, and eighty for the new $8,000,000 loan have just been opened this afternoon. There were in all one hundred and eighty War News. —The Baltimore papers pub- | bids, amounting to $30.000,000. lish a letter from a young Baltimorean now at Castle Pinckney, «Charleston, who has oh m become disgusted with soldiering. Ile says: Wo don’t get enough to eat, and what we | bi do get is of the coarsest and most common | Bank of Commerce, description.” Drexel & Co, 231 2 A good many young gentlemen who now | Whitehouse, Son & Morrison, g Frog g James Gallatin, > Bank of America, disgusted when they are brought down to a | ()s0an Bank, Second joints and tenderloins are | Bank of North America, talk glibly of fighting, will become equally war fare. scarce in camp, and not over soft is the bed | M the soldier has to stretch his legs upon; that is, if he can find them after battle. i GEN. Lewis Cass.—The official career of Gen. Lewis Cass commenced when he was elected a member of the first State Legisla- ture of Ohio, in 1803, and he has been in high public position ever since —a period of | ligved that this heavy bidding was mainly in Within that time | consequence of assurances from high quar- policy on tho part of the nearly fifty-eight years! he has been merhber of the Legislature, Gov- ernor of a Territory, Indian Superintendent, Secretary of War, Minister to France, United hundred. The average of the bids was aximum $95. The highest bids, of course. take the loan. “We are treated worse than negroes here. | The following are the principal successful dders : 5 for one The minimum was $83, and the, $2.500,000 but he would say that the Republican party had made a mistake. The doctrine of that platform, that there should be no more slave States, could not be carried out.” The at- tempt to carry it out would put an end to this Government. He saw the mistake they had made before the eleétion, and had anti- cipated the result. When, on the evening after the election, he stood in the hous? of a friend on Beacon street, in the city of Bos- ton, and saw the long procession of * Wide Awakes’ go by, with torches and banners and shouts of triumph, a lady standing near him remarked, ¢Mr. Ogden, you do not seem to enjoy it.” ¢ Madam,’ was the reply, ‘1 am ever merry at a funeral.” With some surprise she inquired what he meant. His reply was that he FEARED THE PRO- Bliss, Williams & Co., John A Dix, i Sweeny, Rittenhouse, Fant & Co., 500.006 100,000 250,000 | re 180,000 | yy 100,000 arie & Kants, W. Wolcott & Co., Boston, Washington, 150,000 | St No bid below 93.18 will be successful, 1.000.000 | GESSION THEN DP ASSIN Si 400,000 | PRUYE 10 BE THE FUNERAL PROCES. 150,000 | LOX OF THE NATION. THEN PASSING WOULD timo Tra Secepep Stares.—Referring to the sources of the seceded States in order to eet the burdens of their Government, Vice 25.000 | President Stephens, in his recent speech at 300.000 Savannah, held tho following language: — «The taxable property of the Confederate ates cannot be less than $22,000,000,000. ters of a pacific administration. — Se ED re A Fayiny Porsoyep By Mistake—Two A considerable amount will be awarded between 94 and par. About $27,000,000 were bid for. This, T think, L.venture but little in saying, may be considered as five times more than the colonies possessed at the time they ac- chieved their independence. Georgia alone possessed last y ear, according to the report of our Comptroller General, §682,000,000 of taxable property. The debts of the seven Confederate States sum up in the aggregate less than $18 000,000; while the existing debts of the other of the late United States The Spring Elections if ti Maine. Porrraxn, Me., April 2. as, Republican, was to-da of this city. 1 Wm. W. The elected M Connecticut, 4 { Hartromn, April 2, 1 A. M. ~The Re | publicans have elected their State tioket.. They have carried both branches of the LL gislature, and carried the First and Thi Congressional districts. They have ,. it the Second, with the Fourth nit fully heard from. ? New York. Eryira, April 2. —The Democrats to day elected their candidate for Mayor, and al; | the minor offices, with one exception. Ohio. CLEVELAND, April 2.—At the Municipal Election at Sandusky, yesterday, the Dem. ocratic candidate for Mayor was elected by 155. The Democratic candidates for Treas urer, and Solicitor, and the Republican Clerk and Marshal were elected. The Board of Councilmen stands two Republicans to three Democrats. Toreno, April 2.—At the City Eiection, held yesterday, the Democrats elected their candidates for Mayor and Treasurer, and seven out of ter; of the Councilmen. Cixcrsyary, April 2.--Fall returns of the City Election yesterday, show a Democratic Union average majority of 2800, the highes majority being 4196, and the lowest 2077. - The Democratic-Union party elect 26 Coun cilmen, and the Republicans only 8 mem bers. The total vote polled was 23,000. Kansas. Kaxsas City, Mo., April 2.—R. T+ Var horn, the Union vandidate, was elected Ma; or of Kansas City, yesterday, by a larg majority. i —_——eep Our National Affairs, THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. De feat af the Repuplicans—Re-clection Gov. Sprague—rioss of two Republica Congressmen. Provibexce, R. 1., April 3, Midnight. — The State election was held to day with th following result : The Republican ticket, headed by James Y. Smith, for Governor, is defeated. Gov. Spregue, the Unign candidate, is re clected by a large majority. The Legislature is of the same politica. character. . The Union eandidates for Congress, Wm P. 8hefficld, from the Eastern, and Geo. If Browne, from the Wesfern District, ar elected over the late Republican ‘members Messrs. Robinson and Brayton. MUNICIPAL ELBCTION. 1 Unica, April 3.—At the village electior held at Rome yesterday, the Democrat. elected all the village officers, and two third of the ward officers. The majorities aver age 350. George Barnard is chosen Presi. dent. ; 3 _— — ta 4 Death of Judge McLean. CixcrvNar, April 4.—The venerable Judge John McLean, of the United States Supreme Court, died this ‘morning. —— eave EvroreaNy DeMasp FoR BREADSTUFFS. — The New York Markets Active.—The Ey; lish news by the City of Baltimore, to th 14th instant, {published yesterday) is favor able to all American interests. Cotton i better ; breadstuffs in good demand at a advance, and a full business in Agerica produce of ali kinds. The private advice received at New York concerning brea stuffs are said to be very encouraging. Tb Erpress of Thursday evening says : There was considerable activity and ex- citement on the Corn Exchange to day, con- sequent upon the receipt of favorable Euro pean advices by the City of Baltimore. There was a very heavy business transactec in breadstufls, chiefly for export, and price: show a decided improvement, the advance being 10a20 cents per barrel on flour, 2a: per bushel on wheat and 1a2 cents per bushe. oncorn. The azaregate business is unusally large, and in fact there has not been so muck: animation and buoyancy exhibited on any one day for a very long time past. Reference to the official tables of Britis! imports shows that of the increased pur- chases of breadstuffs a very large proportio:. is received from the United States, and unti another crop is gathered in Europe, nothing can prevent a continuance of this advantage Agricultural authoritizs are by no mean: sanguine of the crop prospects of the King- dom for 1861, and argue that, by reason o the severity of the winter, which has impe- ded the planting of wheat, there must, with: an averge yield upon the breadth of lan planted, be a serivus deficiency in bread stuffs, to be made up from American source: in a great measure. At this moment th crop prospects of the United States are good and it is proper to assume, no casuality io- tervening, that a large export will be mads to the great advantage of the grain section ¢. the country. In less than ninety days nev wheat from (Georgia and other Souther: States will be in market, and in large quan: tities, judging from the erop reports recent- ly made. (mee Tue New Territories. —Three new Ter- ritories have been lately created by a vot. of Congress ang the approval of the Presi dent. Of these Colorado is made from par of Kansas, Nebraska, and Eastern Utah.- It has been known as Pike's Peak, and ws called, at first, in the Organic Act, Idaho.— It extends from thé 57th degree of Nort Latitude to the 41st, and lies between the 102d and 109th parallels of West Longitude It contains 100,000 square miles, with a pop 1t is chiefly valuable a: pr . 7 ir . o 3 3 A : 9 are being concentrated-at New York prepa aes States Senator for twelve years, candidate | Deatns.—Gn Saturday morning a family re- | Sum up in the aggregate the enormous sum | ulation of 25,000. g edrat. New 3 TR lo The Rocky atory to a descent upon’ the €£outh. Tho ¥outherd Government is algo, preparing for ithe .gontlict, having collected an army of at ‘least four thousand men at Pensacala, which -is being daily augmented, to repel any as- “suult that may be made, or, possitly, to at- SuarL tur UN1oN Dik ?—Tacitus said «it is much casier to praise, than tp establish, a republican government, and when it is es- tablished it cannot be of long duration.” — When Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, in the Convention to frame the United States Con- formidable force in men, ships and material ; and an attempt has already been made, anf partially successful to annex the Island of St. Domingo to Spein ; and this, if entirely successful, is to be fullowed by the gnnexa- tion of Hayti, with the consent of France. for the Presidency, and Secretary of State. | Siding in a portion of a house, Germantown | of $174 000,000. : road and Washington street, Philadelphia, | 10 g 2 tion debts, and railroad debts, which press, He is the patriarch of American Statesmen, - so far as length of official service is concern- | yr ed, and has now retired to private life at the | paper contaming what she sa posed to be lay : P a Tying in one of the : iy The | debts, added to others, make a sum total not advanced age of 79. oved away, and after they had gone Mrs. This is without taking to account the heavy city debts, corpora- ‘Gee, the tenant ‘who rémained, found a |and will continue to press, a heavy incubus upon the resources of those States. rere powder was taken and put into bread, which | m These uch under $500,000,000. With such an present for its mines of gold. | Mountains divide the Territory, and furnis!. the water shed for branches of the Souther Colorado on one side, and those of the Ar- ‘kansas and Platt on tke other. Its, capito! is Denver City. : Nevada includes parts of Utah and Cali- Its boundaries are irregular, and if ws . (6 i 6 ea of territory, with such an amount of | fornia. r PriLApeLpiiis MerRODIST CONFERENCE. nti Sarons Woman ar wim, & climate and soil unsur- | extends South to New Mexico. > It include: The Philadelphia Methodist Conference last | diately taken ill, and a physician who was | Passed by any on the face of the earth, with | Carson's Valley and the newly Fistoresos weds adopled the report of the Committee! called in discovered that arsenic had been | Such resovtoes already .at ll She Binoy bin 16 Joud es ig : 03) hg 8f8te of 48 church repesling he nee aps fhe i 3 0 r Br Ti gs i Ce is ER agricultural os chapter on slavery, inserted in the Discipline bla i dat sbi ihe prehensions as to our success, whether oth- | es, besides béing rich inl ndinerals. 4 y one 1 “ Weare on the eve of stirring events. “tack the fort in case an attempt is made to Stitution; olgjected to the ratio of represen- —_———essoe— “reinfores.it. Charleston was thrown into a | tation, beceusein.a hundred years the House | Ax Inquiry.—Our Legislature is so intent - great state ef excitement on Thursday by | would become an uninanageable multitude ; | upon passing measures in defiance of the ' the appearaize.a® 2 schooner off the harbor, | “who,” said Mr. Graham, of Massachusetts, | will.of the people, that it scems to have {ore <and her attempt iopeass the batteries. She | is so extravagant as to suppose that this | gotten the fact that the people have demand. ‘was firéd into, and turned «bout ang disap- peared. It is supposed that she contained sreinforecments for Fort Sumpter. While the administration hesitate-concern- sing the evacuation of Sumpter, the Charles- “tonians are becoszing impatient, and rumors were current that an attack would be made upon it from the fortifications in case the wtrocps.were pot.writhdrawn, The suspicion begins to prevail that .the Administration have d¢iayed the evacuation:for the purpose of inciting the Southern Government tomake an attack upon the fort, and thus to throw upon it the responsibility of commencing & war which the Lineoln Administration has Jetermined upen. ro a iLowaas the grave is, you cannot elimb aigh enough to soe Leyond jt : Union will last a bundred years 2’ This was a strange question then. Shall it die in «its 4th? is now the question. eto The Southern Confereracy has established ports of entry on ll the railroads and navi- gable rivers, leading to the loyal States of the Union, as well as at the old ports of the sea coast. Collectors have been duly ap- pointed to .collect .dpties upon goods and wares, agreeably to the tariff Jaws of the Confederacy. Officers will alse examine closely all boxes and trunks carried by pas- sepgers, with a view to prevent smugghng. eee The Ghio Journal boasts that the country has endorsed the principles of the ‘Republi- can party.~dizchange. i And like most “endorsers” of-bad pereons {it.has got into trouble by doing go ed the repeal of so much of the Revised Pen al Code as interferes with the execution of the constitutional provisions for the capture of fugitive slaves. The Judiciary Commit- tee of the Senate has failed to report the b.ll repealing the objectionable portion of the (05th section. Why this delay? Why is this bill not permitted to see the light? Is it to be smothered in comsittee and defeat- ed by indirection 2 Is it possible that the valiant Republicans, who a short time ago were ready to vote men and money for the this question openly, lest.it may disclose the diggord in their ranks.?- ~Harrisburg Patri of. some kind. Delusions are as necessary .to | our happiness as realites be A subjugation of the South, are afraid to meet re the passage of the secession ordinance; inion b At the last Conference, leaving future Con- | Gee died. The other members of.the farpily | €rs join us or not ¥”’ ferences to make their own regulations on|are in a critical condition. the subject ; concurring in the resolutjons of | Were both over 70 years of age. the last Baltimore Conference, and request- ing. the General Conference at its next 5esg- | publican party prevailed in November, the The deceased ——— re C nee tl QA neem. Soyenony 1s Hurr.—Even the New York ommercial continnes to learn.!—but how Cosy or ‘REPUBLICANISM. —When_ the Re- costly the education of these Republcan ion to repeal the chapter on slavery, and | federal stocks were above par. Since that |JOURAIS : instead thereof empower each annual con. time three loans have been made to carry on ference within whose boundary slavery ex- | the Government, with this result : - - . . ag . sts to make their own regulations ja regard | Dec. 28--6 per cent. extra intorest = to;it. eee GPP wanting in the Virginia Convention, to se- | 2nd that the Union men in the Convention are inclined to follow the example of Arkan. sag, adopt the secession ordinance and sub- is evidently gaining ground in the .0ld Do- Jan. 20—44 per cent. extra mterest Fh " on’ $5,000,000, : At is said that there are but three yotes| pop. 2393 narter premium! The public debt has in. bron . pips : ed SO nics yy ii . . | creased, is increasing, and ‘bids fair more No man is happy without a delusion of it it to the people. The secession feeling end more to ‘increase. ’ X Beautiful —The Weather to-day is on £5,000,000, $300,000 $225,000 | ™ per cent. discount on £.000,000, fad Total, : ; iv fu On eighteen million, over 2 million and a tu tr ee otter are emphatically “**haid times." current. curtail ‘their credit. 760,000, | of incurring further indebtedness. The {7 | commiinity reduce expenses and hoard their $1,285 000 carnings, each man apprehensive of yet “The times are out.of joint—indeed, they Business paralyzed. The stream of commerce is agnant or flows with a feeble and unequal Csdpitalists fear to employ their oney in ordinary enterprises. Merchants Storekeepers are chary rther financial troubles.’ meee $A bre een = G. W. Lane, recently confirmed as dge for the Northern and Southern Dig. ict of Alabama, will, it is said, endeavor ' to hold his court at Athens, in the Union i part of the State’ ’ “-Dacotah lies betivetn tha parallels of 42! and 49. It reaches British America on the north, anfl is'surrounded by Iowa, Minnoso- ta aid Nebraska. It contains 70,000 square niles. Tt has many valuable mgvérs, but the land is mostly prairie. Itis u3w mostiy valuable for its furs. It is very sparsely settled. i 0 A spreran dispatch to the N.Y. Evening Post, of Saturday, says: The official census of the United States has just been comple- ted, and it shows a tatal of thirty-one ‘mil: dons, four hundred andl twenty nine thous and, eight hundred #&nd ninety-one. (31 429, 891.) Of these, three millions nine hundred a fifty-one thousand cight hundred and © are slaves. 4 een a & 177 The President déelines farmstidy o &e., from Mf Anderson, deeming ‘the present time, Senate: with degpatph [ i ient to do's
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