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The News
The troubled and threatening aspect of
political affairs overshadows everything else
at Washington. The House Committee of
thirty-three will be called together at an early
day, and a like committee is contemplated in
the Senate. The Southern Senators were in
conference on Saturday, and among other
matters discussed was the call of a Conven
tion.of all the Southern States ; but nothing
was decided upon. Meantime the accounts
from the South show a condition of feeling
much averse to any compromise.
—A mass Union meeting, irrespective of
party, is to be held in Philadelphia this
week.
The Chicago Tribune .reports that a lad
named Wm. 11. Hudson, eighteen years of
age, a news-boy and water carrier on the
night express train of the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy Railroad, has been detected
in extensively robbing the mails which are
carried on that train. On searching his
trunks, a large amount of mail matter was
found, embracing letters containing valuable
property, drafts, notes, and land warrants,all
of which had been opened and carefully en
veloped in a cotton pocket handkerchief.—
The total amount in drafts and notes was
$11,324. The value of the land warrants is
not stated. Hudson has been arrested, and
confesses his guilt.
Letters from Syria present a sad picture
of the condition of affairs in that unhappy
country. The Commissioner of the Anglo-
American Relief Committee, has been on a
visit through the regions of the late massa
cre for the purpose of distributing alms
among the Christians and making inquiry
into their condition and wants. The number
of villages plundered and burnt was 26;
number plundered and not burnt 10; number
of Christians reduced to beggary and want
8,955. These outrages were not committed
by Druses, but Moslems,and Mr. Lyon thinks
that there was a wide-spread conspiracy
among them and their allies, the Metawa
leas, to root out the Christian population.—
The people are now in a state of great des
titution. They have no crops to gather, no
seed to sow, no food to eat. The vast grain
country in Syria remains unsown, and if this
continues until after the rainy season passes,
the famine, sufering, and death in the year
to come will be beyond all calculation.
Gov. Sam Houston of Texas, in a letter
to some friends, takes strong grounds against
the disunionists.
President Buchanan on Thursday last
announced to a gentleman of high standing,
that he would collect the revenues at all haz
ards, if any Southern seceding State attemp
ted to assume the power of the Federal Gov
ernment in this respect. He complained bit
terly of the ingratitude of South Carolina in
rushing out of the Union, but avowed his de
termination to obey the laws. When asked
if he would use force, be answered, " I will
obey the laws. lam no warrior—l am a man
of peace—but I will obey laws."
—Every effort is being made by the Dis
unionists to induce the border Slave States to
go out with them, and Senator Powell's reso
lutions in the. Senate, and Senator Hunter's
letter, are both intended to produce this re
sult. They calculate that if Maryland can
be carried out they will then be able to cap
ture Washington and make it the capital of
the Southern Confederacy!
All the leading Hotels in Washington
have unfurled the stars and stripes.
—The fools are not all dead yet. In the
Georgia Legislature on the 7th inst., Mr. Ful-
ton offered a resolution in the Legislature to
day, directing the Senators and requesting
the Representatives from Georgia in the U.
States Congress to propose to Congress to ap
point commissioners on the part of the North
and South to provide for a peaceable dissolu
tion of the Union, and the equitable distribu
tion of the property of both sections.
The South Carolina House of Represen
tatives has passed, without opposition, a bill
to provide an armed force of ten thousand
men.
—Wesurscrolq,anc. 10.—The President has
just been assured, from an authentic source,
that the authorities of South Carolina will
make no resistance either to the collection of
duties or to the Federal possession of the
forts guarding the Charleston harbor, during
the. remainder of his administration.
FROM WASHINGTON.
[Correspondence of the Press.]
The announcement of the Committee of Thir
ty-three by Mr. Speaker Pennington yester
day afternoon produced a salutary impression
upon the public mind. The members of the
committee from the Gulf States were ready to
resign, and - will probably not serve ; but the
House, on motion of Mr. Millson, of Virginia,
adjourned, thus, in effect, refusing to excuse
Mr. Hawkins, of Florida, and preventing
others from withdrawing their names from
the list. These remarks do not apply to Hon.
Miles Taylor, of Louisiana, and Hon. George
S. Houston, of Alabama. They are both con
servative men, and, like Mr. Millson of Vir
ginia, Mr. Winslow of North Carolina, Mr.
Nelson of Tennessee, Mr. Bristow of Ken
tucky, and Mr. Phelps of Missouri, will make
every exertion to adjust the difficulties under
which the country is groaning, upon fair and
constitutional grounds. The action of the
Committee of Thirty-three will either precip
itate dissolution, or dispose of it forever.—
All parties who favor the Union are now con
vinced that South Carolina will certainly se
cede, and that she may be followed by three
or four of the other Gulf States. Georgia
would hold back, but Mr. Cobb is determined
to force her out, and will leave for that State
in a day or two to begin this labor of love.
The opinion is also general that the only way
to keep the border slave States in the Union
is for the free States to needed to all the rea
sonable demands of the people of the border
States. If this is done, it will not only re
tain Maryland, 'Virginia, Kentucky, Missou
ri, Tennessee, and North Carolina, where
they now are, but will possibly induce the
Cotton States themselves to pause, and so
lay the groundwork for a restoration of peace
upon a lasting principle for all time to come.
This is no occasion for mincing words, or
hiding facts, or postponing imperative duties.
During the present session of Congress the
question is to be decided whether Mr. Lin
coln shall preside over the whole country or
only a part of it. The Republican members
of the House Committee of Thirty-three have,
therefore, a most delicate and novel duty to
perform. They are called upon to act not as
partizans, but as patriots. They will have
some sacrifices to submit to, and some con- '
cessions to make. They will be met in the
kindliest spirit by the Southern conservative
members on that committee. On the other
hand, they will be appealed to by the ex
treme organs and leaders of their own party
to yield nothing, to adhere stubbornly to
what is called the Chicago platform, and,
above all, to stand unshaken before what is
flippantly denominated the threats of the
fire-eaters.
Should these counsels influence and con
trol them, nothing can arrest the downward
tendency of things, and prevent the sunder
ing of those bonds which have so long held
our political family together. A leading Re
publican, whose name I am not permitted to
mention, but to whom I confidently look for
such an example as will teach others how to
lose sight of self for the good of all, remarked
to me yesterday : " This is no time for part
ies, no time for platforms, no time for crimi
natien and recrimination ; we must join
hands to save the fabric of our freedom, or
basely yield it to the spoilers." I recognize
among the Republican members of the com
mittee only three or four who may refuse to
act in the spirit of this distinguished states
man. But why should any Republican hes
itate in such ala hour as this? Shall the fear
of not being re-elected stifle independent
thought, and fetter patriotic effort? Let
those who tolerate such a fear remember
that the Union sentiment of this nation once
roused will dissolve all organizations that op
pose it, and revolutionize majorities hereto
fore believed to be impregnable. Shall the
apprehension of disaster to Mr. Line dn's Ad
ministration be held up to intimidate men
who desire to do right? Let the answer be,
that the onl-y way to make that Administra
tion strong is to make those strong who are
fighting the foes of the country. Shall the
idea of submission to the pro-slavery leaders
be made the text of appeals against a right
eous adjustment? Let the answer be, that
in such an adjustment we put weapons in
the hands of our friends in the South to fight
down these leaders, and to destroy their
plans. Shall the belief that the Gulf or Cot
ton States are gone past redemption induce
the Republican members of the committee to
stand upon their own party creed, and to re
fuse all favorable answers to the- cries of the
people ? Let the snswer be, that we owe a
first duty to ourselves, and that this duty is
better discharged'by honestly laboring to keep
the border States in the Union. And, be
lieve me, that there is among the Republi
cans in the present Congress an increasing
conservative sentiment. Many Republicans
are intimidated by the allegation that, if they
exhibit moderation, they will exhibit cowar
dice. " You are scared "is the patent par-'
rot cry of those who stand in the way of tran
quility, and this argument, if so it may be
called, from its constant iteration works in
calulable harm. It belongs to the class of
reasoning that has fur its motto, "No more
compromises." Pray where is the American
who does not tremble when the American
Union is paralyzed? Where is the Republi
can or the Democrat whose heart does not
bleed when his country is suffering? There
is one thing that I am not ashamed to con
fess, one thing that I fear, one thing that
would make me a coward, and that is to as
sume the fearful responsibility of refusing to
give up everything to prevent this Union
from falling to pieces. Yes, I freely admit
that I have not sternness enough to stand by
and assist to drive the dagger to her heart.
Had I the nerve of the Nemean Lion I do
not think I should be strong enough to par
ticipate in her overthrow. Surrender !
What is there that the patriot would not sur
render to save his country ? Platform ?
What platform does not sink into utter insig
nificance when compared with the solid
Union, and an unbroken Constitution? Cow
ards are made by threats and taunts, and
men frequently decline to do right, lest they
may be. rated for leaving their party : but I
would rather leave toy party than my coun
try—rather bear the taunts and sneers of the
fire-eaters on the one hand, and the ultra an
ti-slavery humanitarians 00 the other, than
stand accursed by posterity, and wither and
die under the reproaches of a betrayed, divi
ded and infuriated people.
If disunion is to come, however, let it come.
No one has less to fear, because few have so
little to lose in the universal wreck, as he
Who pens these lines. No State can better
survive that which will destroy so many than
Pennsyivania, where I was born. The men
with whom " Occasional " has acted, and for
whom he has written during nearly four
years, have no apologies to make fur their
course, no opinions to withdraw, to propiti
ate faction, no favors to ask of any Adminis
tration. Surrounded as they have been "By
a wild and many-weaponed throng," hunted
by the mercenaries because they have dared
to denounce their proscriptions, and still mis
represented and misunderstood, each one can
proudly say, as they contemplate the gloomy
future,
"Shake not thy gory locks at me;
==MEEMI
But believing that the crisis is upon us, I
think it becomes all to combine upon the com
mon ground, upon letting the " dead past
bury its dead," and of making a final and a
disinterested effort to rescue the nation from
the abyss upon the brink of which it is con
fessedly trembling.
And what would be the effect of this upon
the Republican party ? It would nationalize
it. It would• extinguish those prejudices
which are doing it injustice in every part of
the country, and would make it a great Union
party from henceforward. Mr. Lincoln's Ad
ministration would accordingly become con
servative, and future political contests would
be conducted not upon the slavery question,
but upon those other issues which in days
gone by served to elevate and to unite, rather
than to degrade and to divide our people.
OCCASIONAL.
AVAsErnrcToN, Dec. 9, 1860
A mournful feeling pervades all classes.—
Thus far there is not the slightest gleam vis
ible on the dark and clouded horizon. Our
citizens despair, and it is better that your
people should know that great danger threa
tens us, ere it is too late. Many of them may
perhaps not realize, or not believe, that things
have come to such a pass, that even the tru
est and best men now give up all hope ! I
have noticed partizan papers in the North
ridiculing the excitement in this city and in
the South, in order to dupe their readers and
make them believe that the whole disunion
trouble is a humbug; but theirs 1611 be a
fearful responsibility. Let the people of the
North understand " that the whole country
is not only in the greatest danger, but that
our statesman, friends of the Union, despair
of being able to find a remedy to save it !
Little or nothing is hoped from the action of
the House Committee. Its composition does
not give general satisfaction.
Judge Douglas' whole time is occupied in
devising means to extricate the country from
the calamity which his enemies have pre
pared for the same. lie will, however, make
no speech at present, waiting until the other
Senators have expressed themselves.
A Letter from Georgia
The following leter was received by a mer
cantile firm in Philadelphia, from a resident
in the section of which he writes :
BlAntsow, Ga., Nov. 28, 1860.
I take this opportunity of informing you of
the true state of affairs in the South, of which
you see in the papers vague and unreliable
rumors. To say that we are on the verge of
a revolution, and it may be of civil war,
would be repeating a fact too generally con
ceded, and one which can be averted in but
one way. It is folly to say that " Honest
Abe Lincoln" is the cause of these troubles;
his election is but a pretext.
The South has looked upon the steady and
onward march of Republicanism?' ; she has al
ways known its intentions ; she has contem
plated the nullifying acts of Northern Legis
latures with misgivings, and resolved that,
whenever the Northern people should place
in the Presidential chair a man holding such
principles and swearing to the Constitution,
she would not submit.
It is not the political demagogues at the
South who have raised this storm. It is the
people rising in their sovereign power. Men
of the brightest intellects and best hearts,
who have never before this appeared upon the
stump, have now come out and declared for
equality 21/ the Union, or independence out of
it. This spirit of secession is progressing,
and unless the North does something the
South will be speedily swept out of the Union.
The conservative men of the North are not
unrecognized, We wish that we could take
them from among you and place them with
ourselves. The Union men of the North we
love as we do a brother, and we lament that
their lots are cast with the Republicans, and
that they must suffer with them. ..The Abo
litionists will see the error of their blind fa
naticism and crusade against slavery, but I
fear it will be too late. The news comes to
us that South Carolina, as soon as her Con
vention shall meet, will declare herself out of
the Union. I would advise the North and
the General Government to let her go out, for
if one gun is fired at South Carolina, the
whole South will be in arms. The South is
arming fast, and in twelve months will be
able to call into the field, at a moment's warn
ing, five hundred thousand well drilled, well
armed, and well-officered. men. Counties that
twelve months ago did not dream of having a
military company have now two or three.—
The South is in a tumult and uproar. Every
thing is excited, and the longer the North
delays to retrace her steps concerning the fu
gitive-slave law the worse it will be. The
South is now, as it has always been, loyal to
the Union. All people are resolved to main
tain their rights at every hazard. There is
a difference of opinion—the greatest boon of
a Republic—as to the time, mode and means.
From present appearances I think that each
and
,every State of the South will meet in
Convention, and then meet in a general Con
gress of all the Southern States, and propose
to the North an ultimatum, and thereby, if
possible, secure their Constitutional rights as
interpreted by. the Supreme Court ; but if
these are not granted, they will (Gulf or Cot
ton, or Border States,) sever the bonds of
Union.
There are some and I fear many, in the
South, who are opposed to any reconciliation
with the North. They say that our interests
are diverse and inimical, and that today
there is more hostile feeling between the
two nations on earth, and that generations
must pass before this bulwark of hatred and
contempt can be broken down.
The work of reconciliation must begin soon
at North, or it will be too late. The South
is determined, and I believe that Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and
Arkansas, and may be Tennessee, will retire
if they have to quit their other sisters ; but I
do not anticipate any such result, for there is
a coalmen interest that binds them together.
TilE FELL ELECTORSL VOTE.-WO present
herewith the resnit in the electoral colleges:
Electoral Votes.
For Lincoln and Hamlin, 180
For Breckinridge and Lane, 72
For 13e11 and Everett, 39
For Douglas, 12
Whole electoral vote, 303
Lincoln's majority over all, 57
Abstract of the Report of the Secretary of the
Navy. -
This document commences with the report
of a board of officers appointed to examine
into the expediency of converting the sailing
ships of the Navy into efficient war steamers.
The board considered it inexpedient to intro
duce steam power into any except ships of
the line, all of which it is proposed to alter
thus except the Delaware, now too defective
to permit it. These ships are to be razeed
and converted into first class steam frigates.
Steamers like the Minnesota cost $725,000
each, whereas the proposed alteration would
cost but $383,000 for each. Of the sailing
frigates, the United States is not worth re
pairing. The Constitution has been repaired,
and the remaining six should be converted
into sloops of war, and finally into storeships.
The sloops of war built prior to 1840, and the
brigs Bainbridge,Perry and Dolphin, are not
large enough for storeships, and will soon
have to be replaced with new vessels. Of
the six new first class 'sloops of war, five are
at sea, and their performance have been sat
isfactory. The sixth, the Pensacola, will
soon be completed.
The first class side wheel steamers Susque
hanna, Saranac, and Powlmtan may, by in
troducing screw propulsion, he made effectual
and economical war steamers. The Secretary
recommends the gradual, substantial, and
permanent increase of the navy, accompanied
by the universal introduction into it of steam
as a motive power, as a policy essential to
the protection of our coasts and commerce.
Ile also advocates the resumption of the poli
cy of appropriations for repairs, as well as
maintaining the navy yards in a state of effi
ciency. lie speaks of various reforms in the
latter in the employment of operatives. That
they were sadly needed the congressional ex
posures proved beyond the shadow of a doubt.
The remainder of the report is intesting to
the miscellaneous reader, but not of general
importance.
Abstract of the Report of the Secretary of
The report of the War Department fur
nishes a cursory view of the operations of the
army during the year. The Secretary says,
that whilst appropriations have been made
to sustain the army upon a peace footing, it
has been obliged to prosecute active and san
guinary war from the thirty-fifth to the forty
sixth parallel of north latitude, with very nu
merous tribes of hardy and warlike Indians,
in the wildest and most remote regions of our
mountainous territories. Fur these, move
ments the sum of half a million of dollars was
required, the necessity for which was not and
could not be foreseen in the War Department.
In view of this embarrassment the Secretary
again urges Congress to restore to the War
Department the superintendence and control
of the Indians, as it is quite impossible to im
press on these savages the idea of obedience
by any other means than military power.—
Ile urges, alsn, that a large annual sum of
money might be saved to the Treasury by
using the officers of the army in discharging
many of the duties now performed by civili
inns at high salaries. -
The opening of the military road from Fort
Benton, on the head of the Missouri river, to
Fort Walla Walk, on the Oregon river, is
dwelt upon as a step which ought to followed
up, as this line can be made available fur
moving large bodies of men from the Ailan
tic to the Pacific, and will constitute the
means by which we can defend our Pacific
possessions,
KAPPA
The experiments with ordnance have great
ly improved, if they have not perfected, the
fabrication of seacoast and garrison gun car
riages of iron, the models and mode of cast
ing of heavy cannon, and the quality of metal
for the same ; the manufacture of cannon
powder, rifling of cannon, &c.
Abstrat of the Report of the Postmasto
This prodigious document abounds so much
in statistics, that it is exceedingly difficult to
condense its substance into an abstract. On
the 30th of Juno last, there were in operation
8502 mail routos,estimated at 240,594 miles
in length, of which miles 27,129 were by rail
road, 14,076 by steamboat, 51,577 by coach,
and 143,912 by inferior modes. The number
of contractors was 7445. There has been a
decrease of 19,458 miles in the length of the
mail routes, but this is made up of a reduc
tion of 8,464 miles in the length of coach
routes, and 4233 in the steamboat routes,
while the length of railroad routes has in
creased 1119 miles. There are in the service
40 local agents, 1,649 mail messengers, and
68 railroad baggage masters. The number
of postmasters appointed during the year is
6,555, of which 1,140 were by the establish
ment of new postuffices. 'Whole number of
postoffices in the Union 28,552.
As usual, there is an enormous deficiency
in this departmeat, reaching $5,656,705.49 as
the 'excess of expenditures over the revenue
for 1860, and for the ensuing year a deficien
cy of $4,556,600 is figured out by the Post
master General, which, in all probability,
will be far below the real fact. The revenues
increase very gradually, while the expendi
tures go up much more rapidly.
The Postmaster General has much to say
about his experiments with the penny post,
and he recommends the repeal of the provi
sion of the act of last session, and that the
Department shall have authority to collect
such postage on letters delivered by carriers
as shall be deemed necessary to compensate
them for the service, provided that it shall
not exceed two cents per letter. lie thinks
the results of the experiment, under all the
difficulties encountered, very gratifying, and
advocates the support of the private expresses.
As WE ExrEcrEn.—The Republican party,
as now organized, must blow up. The ex
treme leaders—Abolitionists—are now, by
their disunion sentiments, digging the grave
in which will be buried before three months,
the party that lately swept over the country
like a whirlwind. A majority of the Repub
lican leaders are fanatical Abolitionists, as
great a curse to the country as the fire-eating
disunionists of the South. To save the Union,
the conservative people, North, South, East
and West, must cut loose from such leaders.
That they will dissolve their convention with
men who have brought the country to the
verge of ruin we have not the least doubt.—
If the Union is saved it will be saved by the
dissolution of disunion factions North and
South.
LIE
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, has refused to
convene an extra session of the Legislature.
He is unwilling to "place Maryland in a po
sition appearing to join in any treasonable
designs against the Union."
The Departments.
War.
General.
The Spirit of the Republican Papers.
The moderate tone of the Repuclican pa
pers a few days ago seems to have all at once
been changed. Here are some of the latest
utterances:
[From the N. Y. Tribune.]
Then " let the winds howl on," until it
shall be settled that the North prizes equali
ty,freedont, and self respect at least equally
with the Union—that the Free States will
not surrender their convictions nor their prin
ciples even to a threat that the Union shall
be dissolved if they do not. Let it be settled
now that the North recoils before a menace of
disunion, and the retreat thus begun will
not end till she is landed at the bottom of tile
valley of humiliation. No matter what may
he the shape or the terms of the forthcoming
compromise, the South and the world will
understand that the North has placed herself
on the stool of repentance and promised not
to do so again. Better ten defeats than one
such result of a victory.
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There is but one permanent ground of
Union. It is to divorce the Federal Govern
ment from all connection or complicity with
the peculiar institution. The existence of
slavery in the States must be treated as a
question of purely domestic concern. Under
purely National jurisdiction, it must be prohib
ited, as repugnant to the sentiments of the
North and unnecessary to the peace and wel
fare of the South. Instead of the present
Fugitive act, so stringent in its provisions,
yet so abortive in its effects, we must substi
tute a legal provision for a pecuniary recom
pense to the slaveholder instead of the per
sonal rendition of the fugitive. If the South
is wise, it will favor the proposed change. In
the present state of public opinion, it is sim
ply conceding to the North the right to be
honest. Nine-tenths of the people of the Free
States believe in the absolute equality of Hu
man Rights, irrespective of race or condition.
[From the N. Y. Evenilig Post.]
Our counsel to Republicans is therefore—
FIRST—To entertain no project of compro
mise, so long as we are menaced ; second,
when the menace has ceased and concessions
are talked about, to insist that the Fugitive
Slave act shall be so amended as to provide
a permanent and impartial judge, a jar?/ of
the vicinage, and the testimony of
,witnesses
without discrimination between the pursuer
and the fugitive ; thirdly, that Northern citi
zens entering the South shall be as much the
object of federal solicitude as Southern slaves
entering the North; and fourthly, that the
Supreme Court shall be reorganized, so as to
give aa. judge to an equal number of persons,
whether those persons be freemen or slaves,
the owners of farms or the owners of planta
tions. Let us have no more compromises of
the jug-handle sort, all on one side.
What a Slaveholder Thinks
One of the largest slaveholders in Alabama
dares to speak his sentiments, through the
Mobile Advertiser, the leading conservative
paper in the Cotton States. He justly con
siders secession to be treason, and is not afraid
to say so boldly.
" The Constitution has not provided for its
own destruction. It was formed by the peo
ple of the States in Convention, not by the
States as governments, and when formed, it
was referred back to the same people in con
corition for ratification. and they ratified it.—
And these United States became one govern
ment, with as much power as the people saw
fit to give it ; and, all that laid down in the
Constitution is the supreme law of the land;
and secession or forcible opposition to it is
treason. Nullification is not so bad—that
simply refers to a law, and may be adjudica
ted by the courts. But secession strikes•at
the Constitution and is treason. Now I have
lived under this Constitution ever since its
first formation, and have never felt oppression,
and I venture to say, that in this whole broad
Union there is not an honest man will say he
has. The Union and the Constitution are
our protection, and still we are firing hot shot
and shells into them. For what? Because
Massachusetts, Vermont and other States
have passed unconstitutional laws, have nul
lified or tried to nullify a law of Congress,
which the Courts have, or will declare null
and void. "rhe fool rageth and is confident,'
and by following his advice, we will jeupard
the hest interests of our country and of the
world."
THE HORRORS OF OVERLAND EMIORATION.--.
A short time ago we printed a paragraph
from California, referring to an attack made
upon an emigrant train on its distant way to
Oregon, the carrying off of all the stock,
goods, provisions, and the murdering of the
whole or a part of the persons composing
it. By the last arrival from Oregon, we
have some of the particulars of the melan
choly occurrence, contained in a letter from
C. C. Hascum, who was one of the company,
under the command of Captain Dent, sent to
Walla Walla, to seek out any survivors; and
published in the Portland (Oregon) Adverti
ser of the 7th ultimo.
Brennet River, Oct. 26.—We are homeward
bound, after a succeesful tramp, and have
been as far as Owykee,and rescued twelve em
igrants, and can now account for all that
were in the train. Mr. Myers, the brother
of the Mr. Myers rescued, started to meet his
brother and family this morning. A supply
train and ambulance were sent out from the
fort, with blankets, clothing, fresh vegetables,
beef and other necessaries, which will meet
them near Grande road, about the 3d or 4th
inst. The details are of the most heart-rend
ing character. The survivors were in a per
fect state of nudity, having been stripped by
Indians and left to perish. For ten days
previono to their discovery they bad subsisted
on human flesh from the bodies of those who
had perished. Mrs. Chase had feed upon
the dead body of her husband.
A private letter says that on the evening
of the 27th October an officer, with a detach
ment, in advance of the main body, found
near a small stream the women and children,
naked and in a state of starvation, and great
ly emaciated—so much so that their bones
almost protruded through the skin. The
women and children, on seeing their rescuers,
fell upon their knees, and, by the most pite
ous wails, implored food. The stout hearts
of the sAliers wore softened to the most
touching emotions of pity, which was imme
diately followed by threats of revenge to
wards the red-skins. On receiving the intel
ligence at the fort the sensation felt was such
as humanity alone can experience. The con
duct of Major Stein, the officer in command,
was prompt, and every comfort of the fort
which could be transported was quickly dis
patched to the scene of suffering. The wives
of the officers purchased every - ilescription of
clothing requisite for the women and children
of the train. A physician, with medicines,
ikc., accompanied the supply train.
THE COMMITTEE OF THIRTY-THREE. —The.
following is the Committee of one member
from each State, appointed by Speaker Pen
nington, on Thursday, to consider the state
of the Union and report measures looking to
its perpetuation and future peace :
Ohio, Thomas Corwin, Republican.
Virginia, John S. Millson, Democrat.
Massachusetts, C. F. Adams, Rep.
North Carolina, Warren Winslow, Dem,
New York, James Humphrey, Rep.
South Carolina, W. W. Boyce, Dem.
Pennsylvania, James H. Campbell, Rep..
Georgia, Peter E. Love, Dem.
Connecticut, Orris S. Ferry, Rep.
Maryland, IL Winter Davis, Amer..
Rhode Island, C. Robison, Rep..
Delaware, W. G. Whiteley, Deer.
New Hampshire, Mason W. Tappan, Rep:.
New Jersey. J. L. N. Ttratton, Rep.
Kentucky, Francis M. Bristow, Dean.
Vermont, Justin S. Morril, Rep.
Tennessee, T. A. R. Nelson, Amer.
Indiana, W. McKee Dunn, Rep.
Louisiana, Miles Taylor, Dem.
Mississippi, Reuben Davis, Dem.
Illinois, Wm. Kellogg, Rep.
Alabama, Geo. S. Houston, Dem.
Maine, Freeman H. Morse, Rep.
Missouri, John S. Phelps, Dem.
Arkansas, Albert Rust, Dem.
Michigan, Wm. A. Howard, Rep,
Florida, - Geo. S. Hawkins, Dem.
Texas, A. J. Hamilton, Dena.
Wisconsin, C. C. Washburn, Rep.
lowa, Samuel R. Curtin, Rep.
California, John C: Burch, Dem.
Minnesota, Wm. Windom, Rep.
Oregon, Lansing Stout, Dern.
THE WHIPPING POST AND PILLORY IN DEL'•
AWARE.—We take the following from the re
port of the proceedings of New Castle County
(De.l.)Court, for the present week
John Dopman plead guilty to stealing a
mare from George Faseitt, and was sentenced
to pay $l5O, the value of the mare ; pay a
fine of $l5O to the State, and on Saturday to
stand in the pillOry one hour and be whipped
with twenty lashes.
Thomas Stewart, for stealing wood sent
enced to pay $2 restitution money and costs
of prosecution ; to be whipped on Saturday
with twenty-one lashes ; to be imprisoned
three months, and wear a convict jacket six
months after his release.
William 11. Potter, for stealing a coat, sen
tenced to pay as restitution $5, the costs of
prosecution ; to be whipped with fifteen lash
es; to be imprisoned three months, and to
wear a convict jacket for six months after
his discharge.
Joseph Tindale, for stealing a cow, sent
enced to pay $36 restitution and the costs of
prosecution ; to be whipped on Saturday, Dec.
lst,with twenty lashes ; to be imprisoned
four months, and to wear a convict jacket fur
six months after his discharge.
lIIARItIED,
Oh the Ilth inst,. by Rev. S. IL Reid, Mr. Levi WEIR and
Miss LAVINA D. ITINGIEtt, both of Morris township, Mint.
Co., Pa.
DIED,
In this place on the Sth lost., MICnAEL GREEN, upwardo
of 70 years of age.
PIiabADELPHIA 111 &MECO TS.
Monday Dec. 11.—There is very little demand for Flour,
and prices are nominally unchanged, the sales being only
to supply the trade, at $4,71"@5 for superfine, $fq.5,50
for extras. Eye Flour is held at $3,75 bbl., and Corn
Meal at $30;3.35 vb . !.
Grain—The offerings are light ; 4000 bu. red sold at $l2O
(q.. 1.23 for fair Penna. and Western reds. $1.27 for good
Southern do. and $1.3011.37 for a Into, the latter for prime.
Rye is held at 75C - a7t.le fo Penna. Corn is sold a 65(ii.Gtic
for old Southern : tide for old and new mixed. and 58@einc
for new, as to quality. Oats are selling at 33c for prime
Delaware, and 34e for retina. Barley and Malt are quiet.
Seeds—There is more Cloverseed offering, with a limited
demand. The market is dull at $5.23@5.75 t bo. Timo
thy and Flaxssed continue as last quoted.
'UV OODNESS, GRACIOUS !
THE GREAT ORIGINAL,
COMICAL, INIMITABLE,
CHEAP JOHN,
From Market Street, Philadelphia,
ILAS OPENED OUT
BRICKER'S STORE, HILL STREET,
Where he sells every night at 7 o'clock,
Boots, Shoes, Caps, Notions,Jewelry, Cutlery,
Hoisery, - &c.,
And in fact every thing from a
CRADLE TO A MEETING HOUSE
Lots of F2/21. and Great Bargains,
.may Doors open all the time.
Huntingdon, Dec.l2, 1860
QTRAY COW.-
77 Came to the residence of the subscriber.in
Fanklin township, a black and white spotted . "' 1
COW, with one horn. The owner is requested 410 ""
to prove property, pay charges, and take her away.
GEO. B. PORTER.
Franklin tp., Dec. 12, 1560.-3t.*
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.-
A public meeting of teachers and friends of educa
tion will be held in the Court House, in this place, on
Thursday Dec. 27th, to continue two days. The object or
this meeting will be the re-organization of a County Asso
ciation for the further promotion of usefulness and success
hi the teacher's profession and the advancement and effi
ciency- of our public schools. The exercises will consist
of lectures. discussions, essays, &c., in which all are invi
ted to participate. A number of our most prominent
teachers and educationists have consented to attend and
take part in the exercises. The election of officers to serve
the coming year will take place upon this occasion.
McDIVITT.
Co. Supt.
Duntingdon, Dec. 12, 1860
QyRPHANS' COURT SALE.-
ESTATE OF DAVID MOUNTAIN, DEC'D.
virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Hunting
don county, the undersigned. administrator of the estato
of David Mountain, late of Hopewell township, deed., will
expose to Public Sale, on the premises, on
Thin sday, the 10th day of January, 1861,
at 10 o'clock, A. M., the following described real estate,
viz :
The Mansion Tract of said deceased, con
taining about SO Acres; all cleared but about seven acres.
The improvements are a good two story dwelling house,
with basement, double log barn and other outbuildings,
together with a hue lot of fruit trees. The land is in a
good state of cultivation. This farm is one of the best in
this locality, being partly river bottom. It is boundet, on
the east by the Juniata Elver, on the south by John and
George Box itstresser, and on the north and west by Jacob
Weaver.
ALso—ln connection with and as part of
the Mansion Farm. one other tract of Timber Land, con
taining SG Acres, more or less, adjoining Juniata River
on the cast, Jacob Weaver on the south, J. T. Shirley 6:
Bro. on•the west, and Patterson on the north. This land
lies within one mile of the Mansion Tract, and is well
timbered and the two parcels make a desirable property.
TEll3lS.—One-third of the purchase money to be paid
on confirmation of the sale, and the balance in two equal
annual paymonts, with interest, to besecured by the bonds
and mortgage of the purchaser.
December, 12, 1860.
NATHAN. WHITE,
Administrator