AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
JOHN B. BIiATTON. Editor k Proprietor
CARLISLE, PA.. APRIL 4. 1861.
Election of a Pastor. —Tho congregation
of tho Gorman Reformed Church, on, Wed
nesday last elected the Hoc. Phillips, of
Chambersburg, as the Paste? of the eburbh,
to supply the- vacancy occasioned by the res
ignation of tho Rev. A. 11, Kroraer.
Carlisle Barrauks. —Lieut. Col. Andrew
Porter, has boon ordered to Carlisle Barracks,
to relievo the present Commandant, Major
Graham, whoso term of duty expires about
tho first of June.
Death op Judge Wiierrv, —Wo regret to
announce the death of Samuel Wherry, one
of the Associate Judges of this county. lie
died at the Insane Asylum in Philadelphia,
on Tuesday. .
Postmaster at Meuiianicsduro. —Mr. Geo.
Wilson has been'appointed Post-Master at'
Meohnnicsburg.
Post-Master At SmrrENsnußO.— Mr.E. W.
CuRRipEN, editor of tho Shippcnshnrg Kews.
has been appointed Post-Master of that place,
A Tory proper appointment.
Route AoENT.-LAVAfETTE Woods, of Frank
lin county, has been appointed Route Agent
on the' Cumberland Valley Rail-Road. lie
succeeds Mr. Avers, who made an excellent
officer.
JaS. L. McDowell, Esq.; formerly of tin
county; and at present Mayor of Leavenwonth
City, has beep appointed U. S. Marshal for
Kansas. .
®af The Poco Metallic Paint, advertised
in bur columns to-day, claims the attention o(
■builders and painters; and" in fact cveryholy
owning property that can ,bo beautified and
preserved by painting. The cheapness, dura
bility and superiority claimed for this paint
makes ah investigation of its merits a matter
of groat importance, ami wo trust (hat some
of our enterprising business men . will make
the examination, and if so meritorious an ar
ticle, benefit onr community by its immediate
introduction. Mr. lloupt desires an agent in
every town.
Dealers in Straw and Millinery Goods.
—When your object is to purchase the finest,
best and niost varied assortment of goods in
your line, at tho'lowest rates, visit the estab
lishment of Messrs. Lincoln, Wood and Nicu
ols, No. 725 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.—
Wo refer to .their card in our columns to-day,
with pleasure, and do not exaggerate when
WO .say that this is one of the most extensive
houses of its kind in the United States. It
not fail to visit these head quarters of fashion
before purchasing State goods from third-rate
houses, at advanced prices. A name easily to
be remembered, heads the firm. 1
Just keep ft “ thinkin"
. Of Undo Aba Lincoln,
When you want tu know*
Where to gv-adu-ma,!,,.
. P" The Carlisle Volunteer wOnders why it
is, that so many papers are entirely quiet or
indifferent over the passage of the swindling
rail-mail bills. The reason is Very plain to
ns, brother Bratton. They have been led la
to temptation.—Columbia Democrat.
Ko doubt about that. , Wo verily believe
that two-thirds of the papers in the State
have been bought up by the Pennsylvania
Rdil-Road Ooihpany. These papers wore to
remain quiet, or defend, the recreant members
who voted for the repeal of the tonnage tax,
ns circumstances required. Wo think we
can name the amount some editors received,
as Well ns tho amount paid to some members
of Assembly;
Next, Governor.
, Wo name .Hon. Charles 1!. Buckalew, of
Columbia county, as the next Democratic can
didate for Govoritor of Pennsylvania. Who
seconds the motion 7
Prof. Wauqu. —-Prof. Beveri.y R, WAnon,
Principle of the Female College at Harrisburg
died recently.
[C7” Governor Curtin has appointed AVm. P.
I, Painter, of Muncy, Superintendent of Pub
lic Printing. Mr. P; was formerly of the
publishers of the Luminary, and at the time
of his appointment was Justice of the Peace
at Muncy.
Another Fore u;.\ Lit Appointed.—ThoPre
siil(>nt has appointed Frederick 11-assaereck.
A-Uistian, minister to Ecuador. The “ Dutch
plank” in the Chicago platform, was not in
serted for nothing.
, Death or llo.v. Geouoe W. Scranton.—
."'f This gentleman who was a member of the asi
!, and also of the present Congress, from the Lit
■ ' zerne District in this State, died at his resi
dence in Scranton on Sunday week. Ho wa>
regarded ns one of the most energetic, public
spirited* and useful citizens in the State.
An. Printers. —The Vice President of the
United S ales, the last Ppstmns er General,
the present Secretary of the Interior, the
present Secretary of War, wore nil printers.
Is it Possible.— -We see it stated that the
Wide Awake battalion of Wilkosbarro recent
ly burned Lincoln in elfigy, for refusing to
make war pn the Southern States and sacrifi
cing thousands of lives in a foolish attempt to
re-inforce Fort Sumter. We predicted some
months ago that the Democrats would have to
defend old Abe from the crazy people in his
own party, but we did nut expect that time to
come so soon.
Col. Ward 11. Lamon the bearer of dis
■patobiis to Major Anderson has returned, and
IB now-at-tho Capitol. lie reports 'that ho
was kindly treated while i n Charleston by Gov
ernor. Pmkons and every facility tendered
that ho needed, lie brought with him a
large Palmetto tree presented' to him at
Charleston.
JJST Jacob S. Ilaldeman, of York County,!
has been appointed Minister to Stockholm by!
President Lincoln. Mr, Ilnldcman was a
Democrat for a while—then turned Know
Nothing—and then Black Republican. lie
Las his reward.
ITI7* Robert M. Palmer, of Pottsvillo, the
-pfesenrSpoalter of (ho State Senate, it is said
' is to go as Minister to Ecuador, in place ol
(Dbaa. B> BuokaWwi
THE DISSOLUTION OP THE CMOS.
“If tho cotton States remain ou t of tho Union, and
never oonlo buck, much ns wo might deplore the
dismemberment of our proud confederacy, yet there
!a even in this calamity a source of comfort—tho
permanent dissolution of the Union is tho certain
death of locofocoism.”
Wo take tho above paragraph from the last
number of tho Chambersburg Rcpositoly'and
Transcript, a leading and able Republican
journal. The editor appears to rejoice over
the dissolution of tho Union, because it will
secure “the certain death of locofocoism,”—
Well, well—that may be. To' put down tho
Democratic party it is necessary to first put
down our once proud Union. To put down
the'Democratic party, the industrial pursuits
of the country must be paralizod, and thous
ands and tons of thousands of workmen thrown
out of employment. And yet these dire ca
lamities afford a “ source nf comfort” to Black
Republicanism, merely because they insure
“ the aortain death of locofoobisin!” What a
confession is this! Had the Democrats been
successful in the last campaign, our country
would still be a whole, and the American flag
would this day bo found unfurled in every
State. Business of all kinds would bo brisk
icyond former years, and millions of our coun-
tryman who are now starving.'would bo pro
fitably employed. Our whole people would
be happy and our whole country prosperous.
But, bow is it under the rule of LtNOoLN-abo
litionism? Allis gloom. Tho Union is dis
solved—brother is armed against brother—
business is at a stand-still—thousands of bu
siness men are failing—mechanics and work
ing-men are without employment—ruin stares
ns in the face—but yet all this is “a source
of comfort" to our opponents, because it se
cures “tho certain death of iocofocoism 1”
What say the people, to this heartless dec
laration ? Are they willing to witness a dir
vidod Union, bankruptcy and distress, merely
that a malignant abolition sontiinont may bo
gratified 1 Can they afford to starve because
ho principles of a reckless, abandoned and
unprincipled faction makes tho demand?—
We trow not. They will, at tho first opportu
nity, rise in the dignity of their strength, anil
fluid the demagogues out of power who have
brought (iur present calamities upon the coun
try. Abolitionism,has triumphed,once, and
for tho last time, and the people will experi
ence a real “ source of comfort” when this
pistiforous faction shall bo dead and buried.
Hon L. P. Williston. —The friends of the
ex-mcmborlio n Tioga, in Hirr'shurg,are re
joiced to hear of his appointment as Judge
in Dacotah Territory, with a salary of two
thousand dollars per annual. Williston has
boon one of tho moat hard working, faithful
party men in the State, and it was meet that
he should receive some. recognition at the
hands of the Administration.— Forney'stress.
Williston is an insane AbolhiouintA-was
a great admirer of John Brown —is in
favor of negro equality, &o. Last winter, at
tho and of the session of the Legislature, the
negroes of Harrisburg presented him with
a gold-headed cane, in token of their warm
approval of his course as a member of Assem
bly. lie accepted tho gift, and delivered a
speech at the same time, in which ho said
among other things, that ho had “• groat respa i
and love for his colored brethern, and would
cherish'their gift as hing as breath remained I
in his hi dy,” Of course, “ii was meet that
he should receive some recognition at. the
hands of tho administration,”
Another Lrgislntive Outrage!
The LogishffUrcruf Powsylvania has pass
ed.and the Governor signed, a hill providing
that'the'.election in Philadelphia, for mayor
and other officers shall'hereafter ho held in
October, instead of May. The present in
cumbents wilt,'-therefore, remain in office for
nearly six nlpnths longer than the terra fol
d-inch they were chosen.
No greater outrage uplift the rights of the
people was ever conceived, than is perpetrar,
ted by this'hill. , It is an undisguised usurpa
tion of power by the Legislature, and for the
most unworthy purposes, hot only denying
the rights of the people, but inflicting upon
them the grossest wrong. The project has
■no single redeeming feature, and is solely de
signed to perpetuate, at any cost, the Black
llopublican dynasty now holding away in that
city, and to carry out various schemes of ex
travagance, to which the tax-payers of the
city arc known to be opposed.
Mr. Ridgeway one of its advocates, ap
pealed to the Roj üblican members to vote for
this proposition upon the ground that if the
spring elections were not postponed, the Dem
ocrats would carry them by a large majori
ty- • ■
CIRL SdIIURZ.
Ca’ii, Scnunz, tlie foreign atheist, Socialist,
ami Hod Repnldican, linn boon appointed Min
ister to Spain ! Thin is a great outrage, dis
graceful to our-country, and disgraceful to
Lincot.n - . Why is it that American-horn cit
zcns are discarded, and foreign emissaries
appointed to represent us abroad? Will our
neighbor of the American inform us ? Place
none but Americans on guard to night,” whs
rho former motto of the American. How now ?
Is that paper still in favor of this principle, or
is it in favor of foreigners ruling us?
To show what is thought of Scnuuz at his
own home, wo copy the following from the
iMihvnukio News, a leading Republican pa
per :
“ This man Schurz is literally a vagabond
and an adventurer. During the few years in
which ho has claimed to bo a citizen of Wis
consin, ho has engaged in no honest calling
or contributed in any manner to the industri
al resources of the State. Professing to bo a
' lawyer, he has never practiced his profession
to the extent of a single suit in Court. Ho is
a more mercenary politician and itinerant lec
turer, demanding and receiving pay for all
services wdiich liehas done the party. Dur
ing the last campaign ho was employed by
Republican Committees to lecture in several
States at a stipulated price for such services,
and the obligation was cancelled when ho re
ceived his money. lie worked for pay, and he
got his pay in money—ample and remunera
tive for all his services, and he has no further
claims upon our party; henoe his appointment
should now bo only a piiestion of fitness for
the place. lie insults re religions sentiment
of the country by snoerlngly characterizing
Iho Ahnighty’as ’‘that imaginary gentleman
above the stars.” Ho is, in fine, a reckless,
mendacious, impudent, insoidPt adventurer
and vagabond. UVs appointment to (lie posi
tion which ho socks would be a double insilß
—an insult Ip the people of his country, and
to the Government to which lie is sent.”
JDtn)“ The L’nooln Cnbinnt baa not yot. re.
plied to tbo Southern Commissioners. Why
does not the Rennblican press demand tine
they be bung ? Or have they entirely (‘back
fed Own f ”
Important Development.
“Tlio and the short of it is, ho Wits
committed to tho passage of tho billls long bo
foro'thoy wore brought up for notion. Of this
wo arb assured by persona of this place who
wore at Ilarrisdurg for a protrnoteil poriodpn
Logishitivo business, ami in which . opinion
we are confirmed bv the’very fact that within
the last six weeks Sir. Shind.ol himself paid
two-visits to Allentown for the express pur
pose, of influencing tho Press to sustain him
m hia contemplated iniquitous work! Ilia
last errand for this purpose was performed on
tho Sunday before the passage of tho bills.
On this occasion ho ‘sounded’ one of the pub
lishers of this paper on the subject, and mot
with such a rebuke that his heart failed him
in. making the overtures ho had determined
upon, and returned to Harrisburg. Next day
one.of tho hired lacqueys of the Pennsylvania
Rail Hoad Company came on to beset the press
and hold out with an unspalring. hand tho
temptation of lucre. Wo were offered a largo
sura of money to sustain Mr. Shindol j we
took the mon'ev, and concluded to give him
the sustainanoo ho merits, and. ore this we
suspect ho has found that ho got a bad bite
.with good bait He is doubly guilty of iniqui
-tyvdirat—in-givingAiis-votes -against-friends,
against his instructions, against public inter
ests and against his better judgment, and
then seeking to cover up his sins in efforts to
corrupt sentinels upon tho watch towers of
the people! God knows it is bad enough that
Legislators sap the- pillars of the Common
wealth without their seeking to corrupt the
press, whose bounded duty it is to stand I>y
the interests of tho State. When once it
comes to this, tho end must bo ruin, inevita
ble rain to society and government. In view
of all this hypocrisy on the part of tho Rever
end Senator, docs it appear at all as if he had
been led by ispmnuAi, advice. Far from it.
But further. Before leaving this place on
tho Monday before tho passage of tho bills,
be declared that there was a. great pressure
for’ his.vote, that he could command any sain
hi/ r/iviiir/ in In them, even as’ high as S-50,000,
Imi in the same strain asseverated that Ood
should witness him in opposition to the meas-'
lives, as he considered them an outrage upon
flic tax-payor.i of the Commonwealth. Wo
have too little faith in miracles to believe
that’uninspired’men can transform a vice of
to-day into a. ton-fold virtue to-morrow.
Wo take the foregoing extract front an ar
ticle in a late number of the Allentown Dem
ocrat. Tho editor is speaking of tho repeal of
the Tonnage Tax, by ur Legislation -and th ■
y ngto tlic Sunbury and Erie Rail-Road tho
>’,■>oo 010 it owed the State, for both of which,
villainies Senator Siiindf.i. (who.is a.Luthor
nn’clergyman,) voted. It will be seen that
the editor of tho Allentown Democrat was first
approached by Shindei. himself,’and subse
quently by an agent for tho Rail-Road, front
whom he “look the mohei/,” giving a promise
that, in consideration of this money ho would
defend the recreant Senator .when ho should
betray his constituents. lie “took the mon
ey.” but instead of defonding.the corrupt Sen
lator, ho exposes him. Whatever may bo tho
opinion in regard to the mode tho editor adopt
ed to catch Sin.yDED, certain it is, he effected
his object. lie exposes tho Reverend Sena
tor, and also convicts the Rail-Road of using
money for tho purpose of purchasing his sup
port for SIIINDEL.
.■■'Cilia is a.beautiful revelation, truly. It is
the general belief, that tho passage of these
two bills through tho Legislature, .and having
them signed by Gov. Cutmx; cost the Rail-
Road Company a half million of dollars! Is
it not monstrous? And is it not strange that
ino member of Assembly has demanded an
investigation into the wholesale bribery ? Lot
an investigation bo had, by all moans. Lot
us know how much each member who sup
ported tho two bills receivedhow much'
tho>a-wbo' voted against the bills, but worked,
night and day for them, received ; and how
many editors wore purchased, and at what,
price, and, their ’names. If this iuvos ligation
cannot bo had this session, it can bo next
winter, for there is hot a single man who
voted for,these bills who will over have anoth
er,opportunity to betray bis people and his
State. Wo shall if wo live, remind the mem
bers of tho next legislature of tho duty they
owe tho people, and demand an investigation
of the doings, of the present Assembly. If
■this villainy, bribery and corruption is not
exposed, it will,bo no fault of ours.
Repgbmcan Consistencv. —ln the last
Presidential campaign the Republican cry
was, Protective Tariff! Protection to the iron
aiid coal interests of Pennsylvania. This
was the grand hobby by which they managed
to carry the State by such an overwhelming
majority. How well they are carrying out
those vaunted principles to their logical con
clusions is manifested by their electing the
lloii David Wilmot U. S. Senator to fill out
the unexpirod term of Simon Cameron, when
it is known that he is a notorious and avowed
Free Trader. Hero we have an instance of
Republican love for Protection and the inter
ests of the Keystone State. Lot consistency
hang her head in shame.
A Long Petition.—lt is said that the pe
titions sent to the late Congress in favor of
the Cbitteni)En-Bigi,eb Compromise, if passed
together, would, in length, measure seven
miles.
And yet the Republicans in Congress refused
the people the proposed Compromise. That
Compromise would have received a heavy ma
jority in every State, and the Union been'
preserved, but Black Republicanism! preferred
to adhere to the Chicago Platform, and “let
Union sildo.”
JJ@“ Hero is a paragraph from the Ilnrris
|burg Patriot and Union, that Republicans
| will please read often, ponder carefully, and
remember always, because it is true:
Tito Republican journals are very indig
nant because the Convention of Louisiana re
fused to submit the Constitution of the Con
federate States to a vote of the people ; and
! the Tribune holds it up as an exbibtion of ‘ns
; tonishing villainy’ on the part of the secos
! sion leaders. M e are disposed to take this
act as evidence that the Convention feared
■ tbo people of Louisiana would undo their
work if afforded an opportunity, of voting di
rectly. But the Convention -only followed
the vicious example act them by the Republi
cans at the lasts cssion of Congress, when it was
proposed to submit the Crittenden amend
ments to a direct vote of the people. Those
Republicans had no such great reverence for
the popular will, and no such over anxious
desire to ascertain public opinion when it might
interfere with their protects, ns they now ex
hibit with reference to Louisiana. True, this
docs not excuse the Louisiana Convention;
for two wrongs never did make one right
)mt it doea'not lie in the mouths of Republi
cans, just fresh from the work of defying pop
ular opinion, to complain.
' £65“ II u se-flesh is regularly quoted in the
m rkot prices current of several towns in
IJormuuy, not on the hoof, but cut up for
iidad.
-What Will thff iWmiiiisUallon Do?
The Administration scorns-to bo halting
twoon two purposes, and Mr. Lincoln, 'with
tfio facility and impressibility that character
izes him, talks to! Southern men of peace and
conciliation, and to Northern men of the en
forcement of the laws; so that tho course of
the Administration is still doubtful even t'O
itself. It is certain that tho Cabinet is pretty
nearly evenly divided upon the question of
enforcing tho authority of tho government.
. To what extremity, says the Albany Argus,
Mr. Lincoln his assurances of pacific
intentions to tho South, may be gathered from
his Conversation with Hon. T. A. R. Nelson,
late member of Congress from tho first district
of Tennessee. M*. Nelson writes in a letter
to hie constituents:
. Whatever construction the secessionists may
place upon Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural Address,
Mr. Maynard and myself had it from his own
lips, on Tluirsday night, (the Thursday night
'after tho Inaugural,) that ho was for peace, and
would use every exertion in his power to main
tain'ifcTthat:he“was-thon inclined to-the opin
ion that U would be bctic *■ to forego the collec
tion of the revenue for a season, so ns to allow
the people of tho seceding States time for re
flection, and- that, regarding them as children
of a common family, he wcw not disposed to
take away their bread by witholding even their,
mail facilities, lie expressed a strong hope
that, after a little time is allowed for reflec
tion, they will the position they
have taken.
Wo Imd two interviews with the President.
The first wus sought by us on Wednosday; the
second was nt his own-desire, and wiis private,
but I told him that with his permission, I
would tell my constituents, when I got homo,
what he said,.and he replied.that', wo-were at
liberty to repeat it to whom we pleased.
On the other hand, Mr, Lincoln's course in
relation to'the Forts; seems to be not merely
equivocal, and ;Weak, but contradictory and
vacillating, lie does not make the recall of
Major Anderson a concession. And in order
to avoid the appearance of retreat, he falls into
a policy which to the South and to the World
will look like a surrender!
The fact is, ho is hampered by his obliga
tions to the Chicago Platform, which is to
him a higher law than the Constitution, and
which ho declared to be a law before'he took
the Constitutional oath, thus with an inde
fensible casuistry and mental reservation, in-,
incorporating theta in a common obliga-
tion
Tho Republican proas of the North, embar
rassed by this doublo-toue of the Administra
tion, and impelled in one direction by the
sectional hatred that was their motive power
during' the recent contest,-yet conscious, of
the embarrassments of the 'government vibrate
from side to side; This perplexity is indica
ted in thepropqsitions put forward by theN.
Y. Courier & Engtiirer:
Now,; then, our .remedy for existing evils,
is to call nu extra session of Congress with
out .unnecessary delay; and if States are weak
enough to disregard their- constitutional ob
ligations and have not elected their Repro
seiitatives before tho 4th of March, as the
Constitution assumes that they will have
done, lot them remedy the evil as best they
may: And when Congress has assembled we
recommend,- —
i'irst, Itepenl of the Morril Tariff Bill, and
wait for li more auspicious time to revise the
Tariff of 1857. . : ' ’
Secondly,' Give tho President. authority by
1 proclamation, to close any port of entry, when
ever, any obstruction is'* ottered: to the collec
tion of the rovoinje?-‘And
Thirdly, Invest tli'o Executive with discre
tionary power to Call out any number ot mili
tia and volunteers that ho may finU necessary
reenforce tho-jaWs und compel obedience to
tho Constitution,,
Bo this, and all will bo well. It would in
that case, only be necessary to close tho ports
of the rebehSiatcs, to give to the Union men
in those States, who are in a decided majority,
the moral power' necessary to put down the
rebels ami traitors who have usurped the pow
er which justly belongs to tho people, and
forced whole uomhiunities into rebellion
against, the government of their choice.
An extra session from which at this crisis,
tho border States would bo excluded, would
bo nu oxtruordianry one indeed, particulary
if its proposed action should be to close tho
ports of the new Confederacy. What are
those propositions which Democrats are asked
to agree to or dissent from thus categorical
ly. ■ ■ r ■
Ist. To repeal the Morrill Tariff. Tes;
and underbid by. successive reductions the
competition of tub free trade States.
2d. To give the President power to close
the ports of the withdrawn States. No;
Congress has not the power itself; and can
not grant it to tho President. Nor would
foreign nations : respect tho quasi-blockade,
unless maintained by actual fleets. -•
3d. To give the President the right to call
• out the militia to enforce the laws, and com
pel obedience to the Constitution I Let the
President himself declare that ho will obey
the Constitution as declared by the Supremo
Court,: and there. will be no necessity for
' armed force to put down rebellion.
Moving Time. —Monday, the Ist inst., was’
the grand flitting day, and many changes
have doubtless been made, and, in many ca
ses from bettor to worse. Some people seem
to bo affected with a sort of chronic disposi
tion to move, never remaining in one place
longer than twelve months, if that long.
This class generally fail to acquire a compe
tence, upon the principle that “a rolling
stone gathers no moss.” Reader if practica
ble, stick your stakes in one place and stay
there until called to another world—unless,
of course, considerations of expediency or ne
cessity should warrant a change of locality.
O” The Now Jersey poach crop does not
promise a failure, as has keen stated. The
rumor of nipped buds and frosted blossoms
is annually started by peach-growers, that a
panic in the fruit market may be produced
and the prices raised.
Fruit. —We are informed, by persons who
proless to know, that the peaches in this vi
cinity are uninjured, and that the fault gen
erally is in such a condition at this time as to
warrant abundant crops.
Division of tub State. —A number of citi
zens of Lawrence county have petitioned tbe
Legislature in favor of a dovisinuof thoS'.ate,
the Alleghanies to be the dividing lino.
Let us have a re-construction of the
Union, upon the basis of the exact Equality
ot the-Stalest everywhere under the Constitu-
tion-
The small-pox is. prevalent in lorsoy
oily. Fifteen cases have resulted fatally.
(C 7" Go and sw the great Pan-tcorna-theo-a.
m LINCOLN AND UR. BUCIUNNN,
No public man was ever more wuloly at
tacked by the Republican picas, than was
Mr. Buchanan during tbo last few weeks ot
his’ Administration, lie was denounced as a
traitor to his country, and false to his position,
in regard to the course which lie pursued in
reference to tho seceding Statesv
Mr. Lincoln has been President about a
month and the very policy pursued by Mr.
Buchanan., bo has pursued, only more mtcnai
iied.' ’ I,
Mr. Buchanan asked, for power to collect
tile revenue on shipboard, which the Repub
lican' Congress refused him. Mr. Lincoln
and his Attorney General have decided that
the revenue in the Southern ports cannot be
collected on shipboard according to law.
"Who would have thought n month ago that
Abraham Lincoln, Cummandor-in-ohief of
th'o Army and Navy of tho United States,
could have decided to’surrendor Fort Sumter
on the demand of the Southern Confederacy ?
Fort Pickens will go next, and so will nil the
Southern forts which have not already gone.
Mr. Buchanan said he had not tho power to
prevent secession, and the. Republican party
In Congress, refused to give him the power.
Mr. Lincoln, now pleads Jho want of power
to prevent secession and to enforce the laws.
Mr. Buchanan did no more. The difference
is, Mr.' Lincoln promised to do what ho had
no power to do, and Mr. Buchanan did not.
The,present Administration is weak in its
ignorance of its own powers. .
The Republicans had tho power in Con
gress to pass tho necessary laws and. to pro
vide tho necessary means for containing the
government and they did neither.
Mr. Buchanan never had a particle inore
power to rein-fofeo the forts of tho. United
States in the South, or to recover possession
■of them, than Mr. Lincoln has had ever since
the 4th of March and still has.
Mr. Buchanan, under the advice of General
Scott, the same adviser who now counsels Mr.
Lincoln, concentrated all the available fortfe
of the army at Washington Gity, and Mr.
'Lincoln found when he got there all the pow
er of the government ready to his hands.
Mr. Linclon by acts has givcn : an unques
tionable endorsement of Mr, Buohanaan’s
policy in regard to secession. ~
The Democrats long ago declared that the
scctiohalists of the North were the real dis
unionisls. They, warned the country before
the election that the success of a party pledged
to sectional issues would end in the destruc
tion of the government. The policy of Re
publicanism, has dissevered the Union and
destroyed the power of the government. The
administration .will eventually agree’to the
dissolution of the Union. They cannot car
ry out coercion, they will not. compromise,
and what else can they do but. treat with the
Southern Republic ns a separate government.
. Mr. Buclanan treated the Commissioners
from the South merely as private citizens.
Mr. Lincoln, through his Secretary of Stale,
has, at least, treated with them, for an armis
tice, and hnscommuhicated with them by let
ter in an official manner.
Republicans are fast settling down upon
the fatal policy of LETTING THE UNION
SLlDE. —Pittsburg Post.
Proscription Extended to Women.—Post
Office Appointment.^— ll. 11. Fry has been
appointed Postmaster at Columbia, vice Mrs.
M. A. Moderw It, removed.
It-is eminently fitand appropriate that a
party-which wars for negroes should war ag
ainst women. Here is a widow lady, who for
years has been the Postmistress tit Columbia,
turned out of office from no f ult of hers,
from no objection to her politics—for she, of
course, cannot be a partisan—but in mere
wantonness, or to reward some rapacious and,
hungry office-seeker. ' Is it manly and digni
fied in the Admunatrution to carry its doc
trines of prosoription to such lengths ?
The Southern Confederacy do not appear to
understand Mr! Lincoln as the advocate of
peace measures, hot regard his course as very
equivocal, and hence are preparing for the
worst contingency. Large numbers of troops
are being concentrated at Pensacola. Five
hundred recently passed through Tennessee
on their way thither, besides battalions of
Zouaves., .
ijgjg* An immense number of removals and
appointments have been confirmed by the
Senate, and a great deal of dissatisfaction pre
vails at the.partiality manifested. Mr. Lin
coln takes care of the West with a plentiful
hand, and Mr’ Seward provides well for New
York. Amongthe foreign appointments, New
York gets eleven to Pennsylvania two.
The Case of Floyd. —The indictments
against Ex-Secretary Floyd have been quash
ed in the Court at Washington, on the ground
—first, that there was no evidence of fraud on
his part, and second, that the charge of mal
feasance in the matter of the Indian, bonds
was precluded from trial by the act of 1857,
which forbids a prosecution when the party
implicated has testified before a Committee of
Congress touching the matter.
Welsh, an Irishman whollves in
St. Louis, killed his wife a few nights since
by ramming a poker down her throat After
wards he gave his mother, in-law, who is a
deorepid old woman, a severe beating because
she censured him for his outrageous cruel
ty. ’ . ■
Bgy ThoCommisa'onors of the Confederate
States are still at Washington. They have
not yet been seized and hungiis traitors. On
the contrary they appear on the Senate floor
in company with the foreign Ministers. “0
for a President Jackson.”
j£7* Two sudden deaths, within a few days,
are reported in the West Chester (Pa) papers.
Miss Susan Mosely, residing at Coatosvillc,
was found dead, and David Priest, a farmer
at Chester Springs, dropped dead, while ap
parently in good health.
jj@“Mrs. Caroline M. King, of New York,
last week killed herself by taking corrosive
sublimate, because she found a pair of lady’s
gloves in her husband’s pocket. .
JgyHon. Chas. L. Scott, late member of
Congees from California, has determined to
settle in Alabama. So has Senator Pugh, of
Ohio.
*®-The California Senate has adopted res
olutions denouncing coercion, and favoring
the Crittenden resolutions.
oC7“Tiie Charleston correspondent of the
New York Tribune pay* Mai. Anderson caused
a man to ho shot in Fori Sumter the other
day, because he was engaged in a plot to spike
the guns of the Fort.
O* Hon. John Sherman has been elected
by the Legislature of Ohio, United States
Senator in the place of. Mr Chase, resigned.
' C 7” The Spring elections, so far ns has
been ascertained, have generally resulted in
the triumph of the Democrats and conserva
tive Union men- ■
THE PRESS AND FUDLIU SENTIMENTS.
The coolness with whioh the Philadelphia
Press ignores the fact that there exists a deep
and unconcealed aversion to the hills releas
ing the tonnage tax, and postponing the mort
gage hold by the State on the fauubury and
Erie Rrail-road, almost astonishing. Iho
following extract from the issue of that paper
of Tuesday last, will, no doubt, contain infor
mation of which the people of Franklin Coun
ty have heretofore been wholly ignorant :
J “ Public opinion, often excited at the begin
ning ol a great contest, is sure to bo right in
the end. .Many throats wore uttered in anti
cipation of the notion of the legislature in
regard to repeal of the tonnage tax for the
relief of our great thoroughfare, the Pennsyl
vania Central Railroad, and the bill for the
relief of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad;
blit now that both have erystahzed into laws,
it is graiifling to perceive how heartily the
general sentiment of the different counties of
'the Slate has sustained the action of all those
who favored these important measures, gov
ernor Curtin, who'signed both these bills,
did- his duty ns a-Pennsylvanian and as a
statesman, and wo have no doubt the result
will amply justify his conduct in the premi-
SOS*** ■
We are bound to infer, from this extract,
that one of two things is true! Either the
editor of the Press duos not understand the
public sentiment of the State, or ho wilfully
misrepresents that sentiment, tor the purpose
of deceiving his readers into the belief that
the action of the present corrupt Legislature
is universally endorsed, thus bolstering up
the bad cause, which, fur reasons best known
to himself, he has seen tit to espouse. In ei
ther case ho forfeits the position ho endeavors
to assume as a journalist of extensive infor
mation and .great reliability. lie-shall have
the privilegejjf faking either horn of the di
lemma; ' • ■
Wo take great pleasure in informing the
editor that “the general sentiment” of Frank
lin county does wit “sustain the action of
those who favored” these iniquiqiiltious
schemes for defrauding the State of fifteen
million of dollars; but that, on the contrary,
it has universally and bitterly condemned all
who had any part or lot.in the transactions,
himself and his journal included. This sen
timent is not confined to any one party or
portion of the comity, but is universal.. lit
the Democratic Counter Convention it was
echoed with an unanimous voice; remon
strances, numerously and respectably signed
by men of. all parties, were, shortly afterward,
forwarded to Harrisburg; and a letter, re
questing our Senator, and Representatives to
rosigii,„ received the signatures of a largo
numberof prominent and influential Repub
licans. Does this look as if “the general
sentiment of-the different counties of the
State has sustained the action of those who
favored the measures ?”
The editor of the Press makes an important
admission, to the effect that there has been
considerable-excitement in regard to this
matter throughout the counties, which com
pletely overthrows the assertion he afterwards
makes. If such a feeling has existed, -where
is Iho evidence that it has abated? All those
journals which are- not under the control of
Pennsylvania Rail-road, still continue,to op
pose the fraud; and all those communities
which' realize the true magnitude of this
.swindle,: are still muttering their “curses,
not loud but deep,” against the perpetrators
of it; We ask again, where is the evidence,
then; of this change in public sentiment? If
the, people have been violently opposed to
these measures, us the Press admits, they are
opposed to them yet, and neither the Press
nor its hireling coadjutators can prove the
contrary.— Chambersbnrg Times.
The Slavery in the Territories.
The groat bone of contention between the
North and the South for yearn,-ami the most
prolific Bourse of our present difficulties, has
been. tho. of slavey in. the Territor
ies. If the country'Ue finally nnd irretrievn
l)ly separated, it may safely bo. assorted that
this question will have boon the cause of it.
To show tho immense pvactical irnportai.co of
the issue in reference to our Territories we
give, in another Column, an extract from the
returns of tho census of 1850, showing that
there are, by actual count, exactly sixty.three
slaves in alt the Territory of the United States ;
that these are confined to Nebraska, New
Mexico and. Utah, while there is not a single
one' in Colorado, Dacotah, Nevada and Wash
ington , Territories. It will, no doubt, bo re
membered, tliat the Territory of New Mexi
co, before her admission of such into tho
Union, had passed a code for tho protection
of slave property within her limits, which is
still suffered to exist. Yet, with, all this pro
tection, the same as that sought to be thrown
around all the. Territories, and with climate,
soil and every natural advantage in its favor,
it now contains only twenty four slaves* This
is, perhaps, as strong an argument against
making this a question on which to risk the
permanency of the Union as can bo. urged.
If slavery wont go tfi tho Territories if it is
protected, where is the use of clamoring so
strongly either for or against that, protection.
The whole question is a mere abstraction,
raised to rule tho passions of the hour, and
the sooner inen ignore it and look at the prac
tical workings of measures in . reference to
protection; the better it will bo for, us all.—
Chambershurg Times .
The Oinpntdi Wants to Snow.
Wo find tbe following aignifiicant items in
the Pittsburg Dispatch; The Republicans
seems to know how things are working:
. An Exchange says, that Governor Curtin
is one hundred thousand dollars bettor offthan
ho was before the repeal of the tonnage tax.
We think the figure is not quite so high as
that, seventy-five thousand dollars has been
named by Rumor, and some put it a little
lower than that. Could not the extract sum
he ascertained ? .. .
The Ghamboraburg Times informs us that
Mr. A. K, M’Cluro, Senator from Franklin
county, has purchased a splendid farm of
Chambers M’Kibhen, Esq., on the outskirts
of Chambursbnrg, and is making grand im
provemonts. Wo can’t understand it, hut
some office-holders—members of. mir State
Legislature, &c.—have such prudent habits
of.economy, that they soon make a groat for
tune out of a salary of five hundred to seven
hundred dollars, on which other extravagance
people cannot oven live respectably. There
must be some secret in this matter not reveal
ed in the maxims of “ Poor Richard " which
should be given to the world by those sagaci
ous fellows.' Such bright lights as they pos
sess in political and pecuniary economies,
should not he ”hid under a bushel,’’ from the
rest of mortals.
As the Dispatch is a Republican paper
note or comment is unnecessary*.
Tub Austrian Mission. —The Mission to
Austria, now held by the Hon. J. Glancv
Jones, has been given to the lion. Anson
Burlingame, of Massachusetts. Mr. Bur
lingame has just completed his career in
Congress, having been defeated; at the last
election by the Hon. William Appleton, the
Bern .aVaiic-Utihui c.iiiidelate. Wc roino'nlier
very well, that when his predecessor was ap
' pointed, the Republican papers were loud in
their denunciations of Mr. Buchanan, for
having, as they alleged, insulted tho people of
this District, by taking into the public ser
vice one who had been rejected by them.
Now. Mr. Burlingame stands precisely in a
similar position, but wo have yet to hear n
word of remonstrance from those same Re
publican prints against-Old Abe;” for thus
iiikinfr care of a Iricnd, who was so recently
repudiated by the people so tho fifth Congress
mnul District of Massachusetts. What con
politicians the Republicans are, really
Heading Garetit. J
The Burning of the Mail .nnd Buggnge Cars on
’ I the Pennsylvania Railroad.
We learn the following particulars of the
burning of the mail and baggage cars on the
■Pennsylvania Railroad, on Wednesday night,
from Mr. Browne, Postmaster in this city.
The train was about two miles this side of
Huntingdon, when seme cattle were seen on
tho track supposed ,to have fallen from the
cattle train, which had preceded tho mail
train but'the engineer did not see them in
time to stop the-oars, therefore tho locomotive
,oame in collision, with them. The jar threw
the mail car from tho track, and dragged
about 500 yards before the engine Could fe
stopped. The jolting of the car overturned
the mail bags, which .were in piles upon the'
stove, while at tho same time .the spats
in tho stove wore thrown among ! the bags,
causing them to ignite' in,ah inslant. The
baggage master who was in the mail car,,-
had just time to kick six pouches belonging
to Harrisburg outside, when he was driven
out by tho smoke and flames, and to save his
life ho. yyas compelled to hang on to the iron
railing outside. By the time the train was
stopped, tho flames caught to tho baggage car,
and so rapid was the spread of the tiro, that
only two or thrcfc trunks out of nearly one.
hundred- wdfo saved. There were thirty-five:
bags containing lettorsand,papers in the pars,
composed of the. mail, of the I9th, firm
St Louis and Cincinnati,, and, of the mail
from Cleveland nnd Pittsburg, of the, 20th
instant; It is supposed that there .was no
mail from New Orleans or other-points South;
A few half burnt letters were picked up,
among -which was oho containing two Sl(>
bills, to a firm in this city ; the notes with
tho letters wore half destroyed. A consider
able amount of silver was found scattered
upon tho track, supposed to have fallen from
some of the trunks destroyed. An employee
of the company was loft in charge of the
ruins, and yesterday a special mail agent
was sent from this city to the scene of disas
ter to investigate the matter, and save all
that may be worth saving from the wreck.
The following are . the-mails destroyed by
the accident: Nashville mail of the ISth.iu
stant; Louisville, of tho 19th, (destroyed in
part;) Cincinnati, 19th, P. M • Columbus, of
tho 20th ; Chicago, 19th, P. M! Mllwaukie,
19th ; St. Louis, 20th,A. M; Pittsburg, 20lh,
Ilollidnysburg, 20th, P. 51; Altoona, do;
Tyrone, Jo ; Johnstown, do. It is. believed
that there. was no southern mail matter mi
this train from beyond Nashville.— Public
Ledger. ... .: '
fflafkrta.
CARLISLE MARKET.—ApriI 3,1801.
Corrected Weekly bg Woodward di ■ Schmidt.
FlouK, Superfine, per bbl., ■ ’’
do., Extra, do,, - V-(j
-do./, Family, do., (b‘->
do., Hyo, do., - ' , 3,J?
Whits Wheat, per bushel, My
Red Wheat, dp., 1 l,w
Uvk, do,, 65
Cons, do., 45.
Oats, ' do.; 33
Fall Barlbv, do., 55
Si-itiNG Daki.ky, -do;,
CI.OVESSKED, do.,
TiiiothvSeed, do..
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
Philadelphia, April 3; lt>6l.
• Flour and Meal. —Tho Flour market is'remark
ably light—demand limited. There is
a very limited inquiry for shipment; tho sales being
mostly to the homo trade, atss2s@s37lperbarrciror
superfine; $5 50® 5 75 forextra; $5 75® tt 00 for ex
tra family, audJfO 25@0 75 for fancy lots. , Vcrylit
tlo dping in Rye- Flour or Corn Meal. The
former isr .selling, at $3 60®3 02J. The .latter at
$2 814-for Pennsylvania, with very little.doing. .
Grain.— The demand for Wheat continues quite
steady, aiid prices aro’ rather firmer. Small sales
of fair and prime Pennsylvania an.d Western red at
$1 28 ®I 80 ipgr bushel. White is scarce and ran
ges from Rye is selling at 63 cents.'
Corn—Sales of dry'new yellow at 60 coots
and at 58J cents in 'store.: dots are
cents Tor Pennsylvania, and 31 cents for Delaware.
Clovehhkkd is in-good demand. Sales of fair
and prime at $4 60®476 per C-Tlbs. Timothy is
■worth $3 UO. Flaxseed is steady at.sl 50.
Whisky - ■is dull and' lower. Sales ’of Ohio
bbls., at 18 cents; Pennsylvania do. at 17|@18 ct«.
fabds., at 174 cents, and Drudge at 17 cents.
• Llsit of Letters.
"Published in (he (< Volunteer/’ hy authority,
LIST of Letters remaining in the Post Of
fice at Carlisle, Pa., April 1, Persons in
quiring for letters on this list will please say they
are advertised. One cent duo on each letter.
Ackcson B Marson Jno
Brooks John L,Rev . Metz C
Mcsaingor Dan’l
Moore Wm
Morrison Jno
Baker D C
Blake Chus X
Baker Win
Myers B
Mayberry Jonathan
Banson Mr
Beatty Wm C
Bixlcr Benj ‘ Nailor David
Black L Mrs v . . Naylor Einaline
Baker Mary P Nesbit Fleming It
Beach Lizzie Miss Plank J K
Boyer E-Miss'. Parker Mrs •
Barnetz Caroline Hockey Catharine
Barbour Jno D ICosontball S
Butler Louis ” -Russell A. Coy
Chappel,Bruce A M’lntircßbodcß Jacob
Caldwell David Russql Geo A
Criswell G W Roach Surah Jane Mr*
Chores Jno M Shamble S
Devin 8 M SkUes JE . .
Devlin J Banders J W
Dunnian Mrs Smith Chas
Folks Jus Mrs .Shoemaker A B 3
Fuller Edwin T Shugart Mary Mr*
Full John. SwigertWmF
Gunn T M Spinglo Q..C
Gipo Jacob S6horman.-F
Gardner Marla Miss Smith Angelina Mr*
Hoover Christian Stine Sami
Hull Sarah Miss Stine Elizabeth
Hosier Emanuel Btoupcr John
HubbardS Snpleigh Charles*
Hubbard L II , Since Mary Miss'
Hoover Dan'l Snyder Win II
Humes Chas F - Sheldon Wm
Hutton lasao A Son .. Shisler Philip
Hosier Henry . ’ Stabll R 2 ;
Holliday Sara! StbtifferJ.no
Hazel Henry Sodders Emanuel «
Hoisor Mary E - Stall Mary A Miss
Herd Henry C Thompson Robert
Hall J . Trego Mary A
Hall A E M Miss Tripnor Sarah A
Henry Oliver H Trego S
Jones Wesloy. Toakle VE .
Jackson M W Wonamaker Catharine
Kiohl P Wither Alfred
Kline W W Weaver Philip
Watson Bobeooa
Keen G B
.Williams W J
Host David
Weary Jacob •
.Williams ,Wn4-
’ White Jos
Wallace Chas
Wuggoner Mary J
Kobb Viola
Low John ■
Lari .8
Low Michael
Lerow Andrew
Light. WmH. .. WolfNanry
Lyon E Mrs Western WT
Liao G W Whaltor Sami
Lehman Beitf - Washmuth Ann Mrs
Ludt John . . Wilson JaaD
Myers Michael 2 _ Zug S
Martin Levi Zimmerman Geo
Myers Jacob Zimmerman Annlo.B
Mehaffey Franklin Zeigler Abraham
Matohett Geo Zoiglor Wm 2
J. B. BRATTON, P.M*
Land Association*
r PIIE Members will meet on Saturday o**
I ning next, April 6, at 7$ o'clock, in' the y° u .
House, (Arbitration Chamber.) Punctual ottoo
anco is requested. WJ f. BENTZ,
■ Secretary.
April 1. 1861—It
K^tice
Letters testamentary or* the estate of
Keller, deed.. Into of Newton township,
berlund county, Pa., have boen issued by the
later of Cumberland county, to tho subscribe _ '
first residing in tho.township and county a ll *J un ty,*
and tho latter in Chamboraburg. Franklin-
Pa. All persona knowing themselves, »n jj # p'
said estate are hereby requested to roako* t tbe* J
payment, and those having claims will P* 0
for settlement to
GEO. KELLER, 1 gxtcuW* 1
JOS KBLLKR, J
April 4 mi—^ m'