BEDFORD MQTJIRER. j
BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday Morning. March 29. IS6I.
"FEARLESS AND FREE,"
l>. OVER—Editor and Proprietor.
Fort Sumter,
The Gazette, last week, has sn article in j
which it admits that Mr. Lincoln does right in '
evaouatiug Fort Sumter. But it charges him
w\th being weak in ths knees for so doing, and
states that the Republicans were in favor of
Buchanan's administration reioforsing that
fort. This is true. The Republicans were in
favor of reinforcing Fort Sumter, and would
be now, if the matter was feasible. Ilad Mr.
Buchanan, aecording to the advice of Gen.
Sco't, and others of the best men in the coun
try. sent reinforcements there, we would not
now be iu the condition that we are in. It was
thea an easy matter, and secession would have
been nipped in the bud. But how have mat
ters changed within the last two or three
mouths of his administration, at Charleston!
Forts have been built, batteries erected, and
everything is iu the most formidable condi
tion, and defended by some four thousand
soldiers. Gen. Scott advises the evacuation,
and says that Fort Sumter, could net be rein
forced with less tbaD 20.000 men. In the
mean time, there ore not .that many soldiers in
the service of the eountry, and of the few that
arr, that traitorous administration took care
to have them at great distances away. Congress
ia not in session, and it would take months to
raise an army sufficiently powerful for that pur
pose, and to crown all, Maj. Anderson report
ed that he had only about fifteen days provis
ions on baud!
The people can see to what a pretty pass the
last administration has brought us, and they ,
will lay lbs blame of this new humiliation,
to that most infamous administration.
The Gazette of last week has an article in
which it charges that the Republicans intend
to remove tho "widow Statler," at Scbellsburg. j
Now, we can't say that we arc in favor of re- j
moving this lady, who, it is said, makes an
exoellcut Prst M:stiess,but that paper's luggiog
this matter before the public, is not calculated
to aeenre her continuance in that office. But
the Gazette's statement that she is a " widow,"
is not true. Iler husband is living, and in
California, and, wc hear, has occasionally 6ent
ker remittances. Neither is she, we under
stand, in very needy condition, and her friends
are in quite able circumstances. Nor should
the Locofccos tnako a fuss, even wcro she a
widow, if she should be removed, for four y ears
ago, in this place, they removed a lady who
was the widow of a Democrat.
Post Master? Appointed.
The following appointments have been made
in Bedford County.
Bedford—Wo. Kiser.
Alum Bank—Nathan H. Wright.
Hopewell—John B. Oantosr.
Bloody Run—Eli B. Ramsey.
Rays Hill—John Nyeum, Sr.
St. Clairsville—Geo. B. Arnick.
David Welch, has bceu appointed at Burnt
Cabins, and Obeduego Edwards, at New Gre
nada, Fulton County.
We are requested to that by an act of As
sembly of last mission, Township Auditors, are
required to take security from Supervisors, in
double the amount of the money supposed to come
into their bands-
SPUING ELECTIONS. —So far as wo hare been able
to ascertain, the elections in Bedford County, for
local candidates this spring, have resulted qnite
favorably lor the Republican*.
A bill has passed the Legislature, and been signed
by tb Governor, changing, the time of holding
the municipal election in Philadelphia from May to
tMober.
SubscHwra changing their residence, and Post
effice, will pk-ase inform us of the faat.
What is the difference between par au.l ttyrmf
hinds, on a note of s7l 7 Is it $1,75, GaztUt 7
The order for the evacuation of Fort Sumter
has not y t been sent.
Senator Hale's reference to 11, Sam., chap
ter 15, verse 4, as applicable to tho deatrgog.
ueryof Douglas,and his affectation of sincerity
in supporting the Admmistiation of Mr. Lin
coln, was very sharp. The verse reads as fol
lows :
"Absalom said, moreover, oh, thet 1 were
made Judge in the land, tbat any man which
bath any suit or eauee, might come unto me,
.and I wculd do birn justice."
At tbat memetit Absalom, tho prince of hyp
ocritical demagogues, was endeavoring to se
duce tho people from King David, bis father,
to make-lust king in bis stead.
Tax NEW CONSTITUTION. —The Constitution
adopted by the Congress of the Southern Confed
eracy is reported to contain the following clause :
The Presidential tena is extended to six years.
Offices are to be held during good behavior, and
officer* to be removed only for cause, and on a
written eoiuplaiat being preferred against them.
The slave trade is prohibited. Members of the
Cabinet rrva o" O be excluded fVom eats in Con
gress
The following appointment* have been made
by the M. E. Conference:
Juniata District—Rev. Mr. Chenowitb, P. E.
Hollidayaburg, P. B. Snyder.
Altoona, W. L. Spottswood.
Woodbury, J. A. Melick, J. B. Mann.
Scbellsburg, k N. W. Colbnrn, W. Evans.
Bedford Station, Samuel Kepler.
Bedford Circuit, C. Cleaver, J. G. Moore.
New Granada, A. Smith, 0. 11. Kitoheu.
Cassville, C. Graham, Thos. Greenly.
Huntingdon, S. L. M. Conser.
Manor Hill, A. M. Barnitx.J.C. Clarke.
Williamsburg, E. W. Kirby.
Birmingham, J. A. Coleman, W. Houck.
Philipsburg, S. CroightoD, J. Olwine.
Curwenaville it Clear T. D. Gotwalt.
New Washington, A. Bender, D. M'Claaey.
Glen Hope, J. S. Lee, L. D. Wataon.
Bust Baltimore—Rev, Samuel Barnes.
A TRAITOR SHOT IN FORT SCMTEU.— A
Charleston correspondent writing under data of
the 12th of March, relates the following, aa an
illustration of Maj. Anderson's loyalty to his
country in dealing with traitors :
"There is HD Irish ruffirn who loafs upon tho
wharves, who bus, as an irouical tribute; of his
extreme ugliness, been dubbed 'HAndsoino
Charlie.' This vagabond is to Charleston what
Billy Mulligan was to New York—as notorious
a scamp as ever went unhung. The brotfaer-iu -
law ot Charlie was a soldier attached to the
garrison at Fort Sumter, and ws often sent
by Maj. Anderson, with others, for provisions.
These two villians, brothers in 'ctinie' as well
as in 'law,' had, it seems, been plotting treasou
against the Government of the United States.
One of their plana was to smuggle iu files for
tho purpose of spiking the gnaa of Foit Sum
tci. How they expected to accomplish this
rascality is another question; but certaiu it is
that dies were introduced ioto the fortress con
cealed in loaves of bread. The files and the
traitor were both discovered. A messenger
was dispatched to Charleston for a priest. The
cause assigned tor requiring his preseuce was
the premature eon Quo mem, and oousequeut
danger, of a soldier's wife. The real need for
him was to shrive a dastardly wroleh fur the
next world, who was utterly unfit to live iu
this. The brother-in-law of 'Handsome Char
lie' w.s shor, a fitting doom for a traitor."
THE SKIiLUISU BETWEEJY DOUGLAS
AJi'D FESS E.YDE.Y.
The passage whioh lately occurred in the
United States Senate between Douglas and
Fesaendeo, is thus graphically described by the
Times' correspondent:
Douglas and Fessenden bad a sharp
verbal pasatge of arms iu the Senate to-day, iu
which "Douglas suffered severely. lie made a
set speech attacking Republicans, for not de
clining their policy, and Senator Wilson re
plied to hiuo. Douglas rejoined, and was un
derstood to say "th Senator from Maine,"
which Mr. Feeseuden oorreeted. Mr. Douglas
denied that ho usod tho language attributed to
him; and on Mr. Fessendeu persisting, Mr.
Douglas prououueed it -'false," and that Mr.
Fessenden "knew it to be false."
Mr. Fesseodeu replied iu a keen, cool, and
perfectly scathing speocb, as seveie a piece of
polished invective as I ever beard, lie said
be would concede to Mr. Douglas everything
he claimed, except that he was a gentlemen,
whioh he couJd nut acknowledge, because be
had used language which so gentleman, with
out greater provocation, ever used.
Mr. Douglas rejoined, saying as Mr. Fessen
den proposed to settle the mutter elsewhere, he
had no more to say.
Mr. Ftsaeudeu replied, denying tbt lie had
said so, and souurgiDg Douglas again on the
Code. The skirmish was very sharp. Douglas
was angry and in the wrong, and he committed
the great fault of refusing to aokuowledge it.
He lost ground decidedly.
John AJ. Daniel of the Richmond Examiner,
fairly boils over with wrath because Virginia
will uot secede. iiis paper reeks with the
foulest billingsgate, aimed at every one who
adheres to the Union. He says of Virginia.
"ller timidity anil indecision are wakiug her
the buit of Yankee boot blacks, truckmen,
hack dtivers, short boys, red necks, dead rab
bits. What the shivering Submissionists here
tall "the Conservatism ot Virginia" is looked
upon by the North as an exhibition of "white
feathers." Even the brutal and illiterate dan
gerous classes u: toe North, the wretches with
broken noses, uioutbs iike bull terriers—the
fellows whose brains are located in the back
settlements of their thick skulls—have cor
rectly gauged the Convention at Mechanic's
Halt."
A WasLiugton correspondent, says :
\Y e learn that Fort Sumter will soon be a
bandoued by Maj. Anderson. If no, it will he
simply the result of a military necessity. He
has bread for but two or tnree weeks. We
have uo army to send him supplies. All the
men-of-war at command could not relieve him
—says the highest military authorities here.—
James Buchanan would not allow Scott and
Holt to do it whan the thing was possible—
now it is impossible. So at least our military
authorities here assert. Wbut can be done,
the Administration will do to uphold the honor
of the Government, but such was the infamous
conduct of the late Administration, that some
of is blunders and crimes are beyond an im
mediate remedy.
A TERRIBLE COMPANY'.— They aio organ
izing a new millitary company in Memphis,
Tenn., to be callad "The Difttints:" The'
jivafanch says of theui—"Their uniform i*
to be black homespun, with red plumes.—
Their banner is black—the arms of the State
of Tennessee beiog inscriot'd on oua aide, in
ttiimsoo; on the other side will be represented
a right hand grasping an unsheathed sword,
with the name of the ooiupany—the De&ants
wiittcn iu red letters above—the whole out
fit will be emblematic of death and defiance,
and will cost forty dollars."
MOVEMENTS.IN XUE NAVY* AND ARMT.—
All the naval ships now on the Pacific and in
the-Mediterranean have been ordered homo to
enter Northern ports. The troops that were
under Twigg's command iu Texas, 2,500 in
number, havo been ordered to take up their
line of march for the North forthwith. Some
of them will come to Washington. Others
have been ordered to other poets. All the
troops new io New Mexico Lave been recalled.
BBDFORD MMMM.
From the -V. F. Tribune.
Cobb's Contingencies.
Everything relating to the personal habits
and official life of so distinguished a financier
and statesman as the late Seoretaty of the Trea
sury, Mr. Howell Cobb, must be interesting to
the people whom be fleeced, and of these bis
account of Contingent Expenses for the last
year of his stewardship contains some pleasing
bints. We learn, for instance, that the chief
newspapers aud periodicals which the Govern
ment supplied to bim were The Richmond En
quirer, The Washington Constitution, and De
Bow's Review —a discovery which sheds light
on the oblique and stupid oourse of this re
spectable person; we And that his luerary stu
dies were principally confined to lexicons of
the Greek and Latin languages, copies of these
valuable though not exoiting works being
charged iu the account; from the flowery fields
of literature, thus represented, he seems to
have strayed into the realms of art, for we se
that he bought a statuette of Gen. Jackson and
an engraving called "The First Blow for Free
dom," though it is not easy to couceive why he
could want a butt of Old liiokorv, unless to
wreak his spite on it After the manner of Quilp,
who thrust gimlets into the wooden effigy he
imagined to resemble his enemy. Kit Nubbles;
may uot one fauey the Ex-Secretary chipping
tLs classic uose of the plaster General, or goug*
ing his eye, &t the same time taunting him with
the war-cry of Secession?
The modest sum of $255 50 was expended
for peuknives duriug the year—and this only
for the chief man himself. Caleb Curbing, for
"professional servioes, * received SSOO. Is it
possible that the brilliant Mexican General's
peculiar abilities wero called forth in the pre
paration of the wonderful Treasury reports
which annually mystified the eouutry? Or was
this amount intended to remunerate him for his
&*sir:UtjQe iu breaking up the Democratic party
at Charleston?
A horse figures largely iu the account under
consideration. We have first the absolute cost
of the horse, $200; -then other items, as fol
lows: Livery of horse, $ LOG 20; hire of horse,
SIIG 87; dootoriug of horse, $22; shoeing of
horse, $126 02 ; harness of horse, SSO 41
pasturing of horse, $22 75; fly net for horse,
$3 75; making the total disbursement for the
quadruped, S7OB 60. This < xperieiica of .Mr.
Cobb may aceount for the small display of cav
alry in the Southern army, for no treasury,
even aided by an export duty on cotton, cue
of Howell's most luminous ideas oould sustain
the draught of many ruoh horses.
In the midst of so much extra vagHtice it is
refreshing to coma upon a bit of economy,
though in this case it was not judicious; we
learn that the charge for whitewashing was
only five dollars! Surely this was uot wise;
surely it would have been brtter to have bought
fewer penknives and to ha'e used more white
wash, it certainly was needed. Two huudreJ
ID J fifty dollars for penknives, seven hundred
dollars for a siugle borse, and only five dollars
for whitewash! The esse is worse than that of
Jack Falstaff's saek and biesd.
But the most astonishing item of all is this,
which the reader will look at, then rub bis eyes,
aud lock again;
i "Vaini.'hing Mr. Bushman $6,50.'^
Varuishiug Mr. Buchanan! Consider the
work! Three dollars and fifty oenis! Consid
er the pay! As we revolve this bewildering
and fruitful topic in our tortured miuJ, what a
picture rises before u! The OU Public Func
tiouary presents himself iu the Treasury De
partment for bis coat of varnish— it may be his
secoud coat: percbauoe his third. The Se6lld
hands of the tiage of WbeatLud waodsr aim
lessiy about in search of something to grasp,
while the puffy Georgian applies the brush;
perhaps they fall on the ponderous lexicons
charged among the contingencies, perhaps they
steady themselves by the Constitution aud the
laws—bouud in sheep. With piteous accents
implores his friend not to "lay it on so thick."
The job done, tue Secretary picks his teeth
with one of his peukn : .7es, whilo the President
outs a "chew" Iron bis favorite weed with au
otber, aud then goes out to dry. 'i'ho apparent
imbecility of Mr. Buchanan when he should
have acted is now explained; he was was not
allowed to move ; the varnish was harden
ing!
What was the purpose of tha varnishing?
Ws it to preserve the great tnau? Was it to
keep him from orsckiug? Was it to restore his
colors aud biiug back the blush of youth? Why
was tbe natioo asked to pay obly $3 50 for
this important work? After having saved so
much iu whitewash, even though the peukuives
had bled us, aud that horse baa been ridden
rough-shod over us, could we uot have afford
ed more than this poor fraction for such a job?
It must be that the ex-Seoietary made his toil
a labor of love nnAonly charged for the mate
rial.
The publication of this account will do muoh
for the obaraoter of Mr. Cobb. He reduced
I the eouutry almost to bankruptcy; be snarled
end twisted nil the threads in which his elum-j
! hands became enttngled; he turned traitor
j inmself, and sided others to do likewise ; but
i this last deed shall be told to posterity &y the
one bright spot in his dull life.auJ the epitaph
engraven on his monument by a grateful coun
try should be: He varnished Mr. Buchanan !
| David Wilmot, the successor of Simon Cam
eron iu the United Stites Senate, was born at
Bethany, Wayne county, Pa., on the 2<Jth of
January, 1814. Ho was educated at Bethauv
Academy, aud at Aurora, Cayuga county, New
i York; read law aud was admitted to the bar in
1834. He was a member of Oougress from
1845 to 1851, and bus since beeu president
Judge of the thirteenth Judicial District of
Pennsylvania, and resides at Towunda, Brad
ford county, Pa. lie was a prominent member
of tbe recent Peace Conference, and has long
enjoyed a national repuiation, but is chiefl}
distinguished as the author f the celebrated
anti-slavery proviso introduced while a member
of Ooogre&s, aud which boars his uume. He
is a clear headed and decidedly able man.
FOR THK USION. — A traveler VISING through
one of the counties of Tennessee on horseback,
stopped at a modest cottage on tho roadside, and
askod for shelter, as it was quite dark and raining.
The "head of the taini!y" catn to the door and
accosted the traveller with, "what do you want I"
"1 wan't to stay all night," was the reply. "What
are yer 1" This interrogatory was not fully under
stood by the traveler, aud ho asked aii explana
tion. "I mean what's yer politics f" rejoined the
former. "Air yer for this Union or again it?"
This was a poser, as tho traveler was not certain
whether the "man of tho house" was a Union man
or a secessionist, and he was auxin us to tie up for
the night; so he piade up his iniud and said, "My
friend lam for thq Union." Stranger you kin kum
in."
FKO.TI WASHIWTOX.
WASHixarojr, March 24.
Coloue! Lanaon, who will, undoubtedly, bo tho
marshal of the District of Columbia, started for
Richmond, Va., on Friday evening, bearing a mes
sage from tbe President to the Union men, now in
Convention, assembled at that point. He is the
vgry man for so dalicate an errand—secret, prudent,
and bold. The news from Virginia is by no means
favorable. Even Governor Letcher begius to favor
secession, in view of the stubborn opposition of
the ultra Republicans to tho peace policy of tho
Administration.
The iocesaant calls upon the President are terri
ble. He is disturbed early in the morning and late
in the night, and nothing but the persistent etfoits
of his irieuds induced him yesterday to issue an
order to the effect that he would receive no visits,
either of friendship or official, and yet ho was in
truded upon by some who ought to have commis
erated his troubles.
lam disposed to believe that informal ion has
been received Dy several members of the Cabinet
that Jefferson Davis' prophecy, that in twelve
months the Secessionists will be in possession of
the capitoi of the United States, has been repeated
In certain anonymous letters, and that Mr. Lincoln's
Administration is determined to do ail in its power
to prevent tho Border States from going out oi the
Union.
The President has been disposed to hesitate about
removing the Secessionists iu office in the Border
States, hut recent news from Virginia, Kentucky,
and Maryland has induced him to change bis opin
ion, aud wo shall have a number of appointments
to those important places in a few days.
The uumher of resignations of officers in the
army and the navy has by no means alarmed the
Administration. Applicants from the South are
numerous, and every vacancy created by resigna
tion calls forth a dozen applicants from the South
ern States. Tbe Union is still strong.
The distinguished Representative in Congress
from the Second Congressional district in Penn
sylvania is waruiiy presented lor a high diplomatic
position abroad, for which he peculiarly qualified.
The Swiss mission, now filled by Mr. Fay, is gener
ally set apart for Mr. Morris.
Vice President Hamlin vacated the chair, ac
cording to immemorial custom, yesterday after
noon, and was succeeded try the unanimous elec
tion of Senator Foot, of Vermont, one of tho most
popular and agreeable members of that body, llis
speech was a model of good taste and brevity.
The Disunionists in Virginia have a double
trouble. 1 hey may not be able to pass a Secession
ordinance; and if they do, tbey will be deflated
before the people, inasmuch as Mr. Lincoln's Ad
ministration is resolved to do all in their power to
retain the Border States in the Union. It is ut
terly false that Colonel James Barbour, of the
Culpepor district, has declared in -favor of Seces
sion. •
A number of the members of tbo Virginia Con
vention arrived here lrom Richmond on Saturday,
aui they declare the rumor that the Secessionistt
are within three of a major.ty of the Convention
to be entirely without foundation. The Union men
are still in a decide ! and controlling majority, not
withstanding there has beeu some detection from
their ranks, and those that remain cannot be tempted
or forced into the disuuion movement under any
circumstances. If Mr. Seward, ia bis forthcoming
reply to the Commissioner* of the Southern Con.
federacy, recommends, as it is expected he will,
the calliug of a Convention of the States to settle
our national difficulties, tha Virginia Convention
will promptly endorse the plan.
II ex-Governor Pollock, who is from the interi
or, should be appointed collector of the port of
Philadelphia, most of the other leading Federal
offices will be given to the city. Hon. Wm. Mill
ward still continues to be prominent for United
States marshal. There is but little doubt that lien
ry Goggsliai] will be the geueral appraiser. Chailes
M. Neul, Edwin T. Chase, Reed Myers, William
Mo ran, and others, are named for navy agent, and
William Elliott, John 11. Bringhurst, Robert M.
F oust, and C. Walborn for postmaster. Quite a
formidable petition is made for the retention nf J.
It. Snowdon as director of the United States Mint.
The contest among various Applicants prevents the
immediate removal of James 11. Walton as trea
surer of the same institution.
It has been discovered that there is a deep laid
scheme to carry California out of tho Union, and
the appointments for thst State will be made at
cnce, iu order to siipcrs.de the tools of Gwin, who
now hold the Federal offices there, and are all in
the Secession conspiracy. General Johnston, in
command of the western division of the army,
will also be recalled, and a more reliable officer sent
out.
Wm. Jayne, of Illinois, has been nominated for
Governor of Dacotab.
Detective Keose, of this city, has seized, and re
tains by older of court, bogus aud counterfeit
notes oa twenty-seven banks, amounting to $200,-
IMKi, and also platvs and dies for their manutacture.
ihe larger packages contain tho following : S3O,
000 counterfeits on the Bank of Augusta, Maine ; ]
SOO,OOO unsigned counterfeits on tho State Bank of
Ohio ; $30,000 bogus notes on the Columbia Bank
of Washington; $30,000 counterfeits on the Farm
ers & Mechanics' Bank of Virgiuia; $8,600 of
seven denominations, ail counterfeits of the Camden
Bank, New Jersey, and four plates on tho same
bank. There are also dies of the denominations
of teu cents, one dollar, and two dollar and a half
gold pieces.
The Cabinet was in session yesterday, occupied
in prcjuriug nomirations for the action ol the Sen
ate, which body is anxious to close the session as
soon as practicable.
Colonel Sumner.
We perceive with much pleasure that the post cI
Brigador-General, made vacant by the dis uissat of
General Twiggs, has been conferred upon Colonel
Suuiner. This gsllant officer baa seen a great deal
of service. Indeed his whole lite has beeu a very
active one, and the record is as brilliant as it is
long. A recent southern paper undertook to say
that the northern States have not produced ablo
military commanders. It is, therefore, proper to
place prominently before them an officer whose
ability has been signally tested. Colonel Sumner
is oue of the most eneigetic and skilful comman
ders in our service. His arduous and perilous Iu- ■
dlan campaigns lull? prove ihis. In the qualities j
required for a lleld-otiicer Twiggs caunot compare
with him, while as an honest and brave man he is
as far above ths wretched traitor as Olympus is
above a molehill. Sumner has all tho ult-nt and
capacity requisite to command successfully an
army of any size.
Not long since General Harney insulted him, and
refused to light because he was not his equal.— j
They aie both generals now, an Sumner has rather I
more of the confidence of the public and of the '
Administration than Harney, hut we presume that
uuloss Harney makes the offer there will l>e no
fight. Harney is rash, spleuetie, aod harsh in his
conduct, and quite unpopular everywhere. He
has little tegard for the usages of civilized lifo,
where they couie in cot tact with bis policy in the
field. Col. Sumner is a striking contrast to this.
While even more enterprisiug and vigorous than
Harney iu his actions, he never loses sight of tho
duty he owes to humanity, and therefore is better
calculated to succeed.
Scott and Wool are both very old. Twiggs, who
was also quite aged, has been dismissed. Worth
it dead and Riley aiso. The brave old generals
who adorned our service so long will soon have all
disappeared from the service. It is, therefore, a
good thing to see a race of bold, able and chival
rous men,like Sumner,rising up to take their places.
VI hen the vacancies created by tbe resignations and
dismissals in the army shall all have been filled by
the promotion of promising juniors, the service
will be all the better and more vigorous for the
change. Such men as Slemmeraud Hill only need
the opportunity to become distioguiseed on a wider
field than Flor la and Texas, wbero they have ren
dered their names memorable.— North ~lmtr>cau.
COLLECTION OP THE REVENUE- —It is said
that tbe A-ttoruey ueueral, Mr. Bates,has givon
the opinion to President Lincoln, that the rev
enue cannot be collected, exoept under tbe law
of 1809, which rondeis it necessary for col
lectors to reside witbiu their respective districts
and therefore it will b- 1 impossible to execute
the laws with propriety, even it otherwise
feasible, in vessels.
Death of aa Ex-Empress. _
An Ex-Empress died in Philadelphia, last
week. We refer to Madame fluate de Ytur
bide, widow of the former Emperor of Mexico,
whose deoease took place on Thursday last,
at her lodgings in Broad street. This estima
ble lady, who has resided in Philadelphia sinee
the exeoutioo of her husband by the Mexican
Government in 1824, belonged to a distin
guished Spanish family long rcsideot iu Mexico.
Her misfortunes, as well as her good qualities
as a woman, had secured ber the regard of the
aociety in which she moved. A pension from
the Mexiosn Government enabled her to edu
oate her family liberally, and sho has perform
ed her duties as a mother and a member of so
ciety in a faithful and exemplary manner.
One or two of the soos cfMadams Yturbide
have, we boleive, resided iu Mexico of iato
years, aod have held offices under the Govern
ment. Her daughters were unable to be pres
ent at tho funeral, whioh took place on Satur
day morning, at St. Joseph'-! Church. The
service was of the simplest, most unostenta
tious kind. There were none of the kindred
of the uoble lady, who once wore a crown, to
follow ber remains to the grave. A few gen
tlemen of Philadelphia, whoso social position
had hroagbt them into intimate rotations with
the family in past times, attended the funeral;
and scarcely one in ten thousand of the vast
population of the city where sue bad rung re
sided, knew that tho grave had that dsy closed
over one who once held rank as an Empress.
Ihe sad affliotion that has thus befallen the
family of Madame de Yturbide recalls to the
memory tho heroic career of her noble husband.
He WBs the groat mau of the best days of Mex
ico. He was the auther of her seperation from
Spain, and tho Mexican people, in the first
flush of their gratitude, fairly thrust upou him
the crowD, which he had designed, in the fa
mous "Plan of Iguala," for a Spanish prince.
He was proclaimed Emperor with the title of
'•Augustin tho First," on the night of May
18tb, 1822. For a long time he refused tbe
proffered crown, and if was only after tin
Congress bad voted for him by a vote of 77
to 15 that he accepted it. |a the following
month the Congress voted unanimously for
making the crown hereditary ia the fauii.y of
Yturbide, and soju alter he was solemnly
crowned.
But the fickla and faithless Mexican people
did not stand by the monarch they bad clroseu.
lbe military leaders that have been tbe curse
of the oouutry began to conspire agiust the
Government. A civil war arose, ia which
iSanta Anna, soon become a prominent leader
agaiust tbe Emperor. A republic was pro
claimed and on tbe 20lh of March 1823, after
a turbulent reign of Icsy than a year, Ytur
bi'ta abdicated. Permission was granted to
him to leave the eountry, and a pension of
$25,000 a year was allowed "him. He went
with his family to Italy, but returned, in 1824,
to Mexico, where, in tbe meautime, be had beou
proscribed as a traitor, though he did not know
tbe fact. Gen. Gam, tbe Governor of T
maulipas, pretending friendship, betrayed him
to the Congress of that State, aud he w*s imme
diately arrested, aud, without a trial, was sen
tenced to death. Tbe sentence was.carried
iuto < ffect at Padilla, July 19tb, 1824. less
than a week froui tbe time of hia landing on
the coast, and before an appeal could be made
to tbe Government at Mexico. He died like
a hero, addressing Some manly words to the
soldiers, and himself aijistiDg tne baudsge
over his eyes before be was shot. Mexico has
never bad a braver man or a purer patriot iD
ber Government.— Phiia. Bulletin.
TRUE VIEW OF THE SUBJE JT. -
Mr. Lincoln was uot elected to destroy the
Union, either by precipitating its dissolution
or by becoming accessory to it after the fact.
He was elected to preserve both Freedom and
the Union by restoring the Adiuiui.-tration of
the Government to the principle* of the Con
stitution. If now, be should rashly discard
the Union ou the one hand, or on the other '
should attenips to maintain it by precipitate
measures of force, —a war that would not car- j
ry with it the moral sentiment of tjie North. 1
—he would throw bis Administration iu'o the !
power of the eooroies of freedom, who by clam- ;
oring for the Union or aguitist a civil war pro I
voked by rashness, would secure for themselves j
the next Presidential election, and the oun
soquent subjugation of freedom to slavery
We beleive tnat Mr. Seward foresaw ail this,
and that his great speech in the Seuate was frauio
ed in the spirit of wisdom *Dd patriotism to meet
either of these contingencies. Ho sought to
preserve the Union for freedom, by throwing
the responsibility for disruption or for civil
war where it properly belongs— -upon the party
of slavery. One of the most sagacious aiiuds
iu the oountry, long publicly committed to
the abolition of slavery, has given us a view
of that speech, which, though not sent, for
publication, we caunot withhold from our rea
ders. Ueferiug to The Independe it's view of
•Mr. Howard's Truo Position,' this writer 6ajs :
"I waut to sty how much I was gratified by
the appreciative article on Gov. Seward in The
Independent of Febuary 14th. I think his
Ute speech has been most unjustly, most unin
tflligently dealt with. People were looking
to huu in a kind of foolish expectation that he
could settle the nation by a speech! Nobody
else could do it, but oertainly Seward mast be
able. Nonsense! It was not iu tbe power of
a mortal, eveu if he were close upon the rank
of a demigod. He could issue no phitlipio,
make no onslaugh right or left—nothing plain
ly was to be done in that fashion. He could
offer no compounding measure—fire and water
could as easily be quieted by a marriage
What then could he do with a apeeoh! Never
wis an orator in a closer pinch. See, tbeu,
how adroitly and wi.h what masterly skill he
leveled bis aim to the occasion. What be is
after is plain as the "mo, vi*., to smooth away
exasperations and gain time for the work <>f
slvatioo. lhere was never a finer, grander
act of statesmanship in tbe world. I believe
it baa really had more effect than any other
speech delivered in the country. By it, to
gether with Gen. Scon's soldierly arrangements
for a snow of force, ths tide has, 1 think, been
turned, and the sophomore rebellion is getting
rapidly sobered. When it is well over, and
men get reflection enough to view things sober
ly , this great speech of Mr. Seward will bo
celebrated as no of the noblest instances of
moral and morally wise stlfmo luiatiou to pas.*
the straits of a difficult occasion that has ever
been given by human statesmanship."—-V. Y.
independent. *
What Mr. Douglas Wanted.
Day after tomorrow Mr. Lincoln'sadministration
will l>e two weeks ol'l. When it was a week oM
Mr. Douglas introduced a resolution in th Senate
calling on Mr. Lincoln, virtually, for a detailed
and specific account of the means and agencies by
which he proposes to carry out the theories of his
inaugural. Recognizing the vast difficulties that
lie in the way of the enforcement of the rwvetine
laws. Mi. Douglas was evidently anxicsa that the
administration should "put its loot in it" at the
first start, and in a revolutionary period, when
events follow events with unexampled rapidity
to preclude itself from taking any advant.ij/e of
possible changes in the aspect of affairs u r
Douglas virtually said to Mr. Lincoln—"My dear
sir, I have the highest confidence in your states
raanship and patriotism. Fou mean peace. y o ur
message Itears1 tears that construction. Now tell us
you mean peace. Will you do this, that, or the
other ? Make yourself a Procrustean bed fl.
youreelt immovcahly upon it, and then tnyji, r
Mr. Lincoln, I'.l chop you off or stretch you out
as may suit my fancy."
I It is a beautiful sight to see how indignant is
, Mr. Douglas, because Mr. Lincoln will not w|-
I into this trap, so pleasantly baited. But it U after
j all not so very unreasons'>le that the Adminutra.
j lion should take as long to decide upon its u)tj.
! mate policy, as a country Judge would to adjudi
cate the merits of a horse suit .—Buff. Com.
The lUtibinu Cabinet. While remark
ing upou the Cabinet which Mr. Lincoln has
seleotea to assist biro i n his labors, let us pay
cur parting respeots to the gentlemen about to
nt;re, who came to the assistance of Mr. Ku
eiiauan at the crisis of his country's fortune.
When the treachery of former agents, Cobb,
Floyd, and Thoruvon, had almost surrendered
the government into the hands of the rebels,
i Mr. llolf, of Kentucky, Mr. Dix, of New York,
| Kiotr, of Maine, and Mr. Stanton, of Penn
sylvania, stepped in to save the Administration
from destruction and the nation from utter dis
grace. Their efforts since have been arduous
and unwearied to behalf of the Duion. They
succeeded in arresting fbc tendency <c disin
tegration, restored the confidence of the people
in their government, recovered its commercial
; credit, rebuked the traitors OB every side in no
"pa.'iug words, and handed the public power
over to their successor*, iu all its integrity
1 and uiiLout a breach o! the peace. For theio
services luey deserve, a9 they will receive, the
lasting gratitude of ibeir countrymen —AT.
Y. Eve. Post.
Ooe expreifiou of Andrew Johnson's de
serves to be everywhere remembered. In re
ferring to the secediug members of the Cabi
net, he said :
"Uobb remained in the Cabinet until the
treasury w bankrupt and the natioual credit
diagraeed at home and abroad, and theu he
conscieatiou>ly seceded; Thompson stayed in
uutil the poor Indians were robbed out of a
large portion of their patrimony, and then he
eons.icntiousty -needed: arid Floyd, more hon
est tbau tbo rest, w.ited until be and his friends
Lad taken some eight millions of public aod
private money, aod then, he, pious soul, consci
entiously sectded too."
Let the L'ottox States Go A number
of the citizens of Massachusetts have -igneJ a
petition caking the Legislature to pass a reso
lution in favor of allowing the cotton States to
leave the Union, "provided that they declare
freedom of uavigation iu the Mississippi river,
and surrender all right to a district of territory,
of six miles square, bordering on the Missis
sippi and opposite to the city of New Orleans,
aa a port of entry of the United State*, and
farther, ' they resigt ali right and claim to
partioipition in the territories now belonging
to the Uuited States, and in consideration of
which alt forts, custom houses, and other pro
perty of the United States, lying within the
boundaries of the above named States shall be
made over and surrendered to them."
K. J. Walker a Kica Man. —A Wash
ington correspondent says: Uobert J. Walker
Lis suddenly became a millionaire, by the de
cision mode yesterday in tbo Supreme Court,
involving the title to a quicksilver mine iu Cal
ifornia, estimated ro bo worth millions of dol
lars. Mr. Walker is proprietor of one fifth of
this valuable mine and was off-red out long
ago §2 000,000 for it, provided the eourt
should give a favorable decision. That deci
sion has cow been given., aud Mr. Walker, who
was, to uso bis own words, ,: a beggar in the
morning," went home to dinner a millionaire.
Th" disastrous condition of the country, may,
however, prevent bis immediate realization of
his "expectations."
South lb k asd Nortukrx Orncxxa. —It is COM?
plained, aud with some justice that northern mili
tary officers are denied their due shire of public
applause. The heroic achi-vmenta of an Anderson
in the army, and of Ingral.am in tho navy, are duly
blazoned forth and credited to their respective
States of Kentucky and South Carolina. Bui we
hear nothing of the equally heroic acts ot North
ern men. For example, Lieutenant A. J. Slem
mer, of the First Artillery, has kept his post at
Fort Pickens with a small command, and the vast,
ly greater insurgent army before it under Ciiasa
has melted away. Slemmer has only two officer*
to gh<tre with him the fatigue of watching a largo
fort. His merits are not by any means lets than
those of Major Anderson, hutlSlemmer is a north
cm man, and that is reason euougn in tie mind of
an old northern soldier to account for the almost
entire indifference with which he is treated.
An Appropriate Pkbskxt The editor of tho
Norwich (Ot.) Pulletin has sent Jellbrson Davis,
the President of the "Six Nations," a pen-holder,
made from a rafter of the house iu which Benedict"
Arnold w.. bom. In closing his letter of prwvn
tation, the editor sy• —'•! have taken occasion
to present you this penholder, as a relic whose as
sociations arc linked most otosely to the move
ment of which von arc the head. Let it lie upon
your desk for use in your official duties. In thd
eternal fitness ot things, let that be its appropriate
place. It links 1780 with 1861. Through it West
Point speaks to Montgomery. And, if we mif
lielieve that spirits do ever return and haunt this
mandace sphere, we may reekon with what de
light Benedict Arnold's immortal part will follow
this fragment of bis paternal roof-tree to the hands
in which is being cons urn mated the work which ha
begun." " t. j
.'•The Family at toe Whit* Hops* —The fami
ly at the White House consists of the following
persons:
Mr and Mrs, Lincoln and two sons; Mrs. E4-
w-.uds and Miss Edwards, of Spriugllidd ; Mr. a*<|
Mrs. C. H. Krllog, of Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs.
Baker, of Springfield; Mrs. Grunsky, of Spring
field; Mr. Lockwood Todd, of Springfield; Dr.
Long, Springfie d; Mr. Nioolay, Private Sec Mary;
Col. Ward H. Lvuion, formerly Mr. Lincoln's
law p irtner ; Captain John Cook ; Oapf ain Maga't.
of Ohio.
An irishuiau, says the Pittsburgh Po->U
working on the canal, lately walked tuto the
water, and coming across, a large turtle, W-"*
head aud legs extended, retreated under
excitement, boliertog to tits companions "Unit
he had found a box full of sntkea.