I do not riletin ttt eity that he Vtt a suit
at .le man to be a itkimp. I •tlyink he or
trot. Thu it wag not heeanse of any thing
Fr :ally uneleriatl about the gentel man that
4701.S.eSehldell. Thetpeople who excluded
'him did not !talent° to appoint men obnox
ious to more scrims charges than Sydney
smith. But, then. whatever these men
1.01"03 or were not, they wern all dull. Tiles
tr rote moth. some of them: but noltorly ever
r,-ad what they wr.lo. But- Sydney Smith
-.vas interesting. Von tottliti read his wri
tings with pleasure. .144. venot •wroptestion
sltly tl u reverse of (laid and thereftre eel
tisittly rh, rever , ti of tli reified. Thronj!
of his latter dill: .the • SaYkt suspicion
let*, with onitiototttf safe-Ming Mit. thrown
shall.tw on 'Lorfl tioughltasn• ll° was too
lively. What he wrote was toe interesting.
Solid old gentlemen lamed for his good sense.
;rimy tliouglit +key never could be sure what
ate would. do next. liven Lord St. Leonavds
lost staniing with many when he published
iris idangiy Book on Property Law. A lord- /
whaxoellur writing a book sold at rxilway
vrations, and read.( with interest too) in rail-
vay-carringe,.! But it was quite becoming
in the great man to produce tlmt elaborate
and authoritative work on Vol(kw.; and Pur
4.'iasers, of which I have often beheld the
outside, but never the inside. And where
fore did. the book besectu a chaneeld
Wherefore but because to the ordinary read
er it was heavy as lead? Rave not yen, my
reader, often heard like critkism if lard
eamplell%s interesting volumes of the bioa
ropily of his predecessors? 4•Very interest
ing,: very well arias:: much curious
infor
mation; Ina not quite the thing for the first
man on the judicial bench of Britain to
write." Nov upon what is this cririism
founded, but upon the grand principle that
liveliness and interest do not become the
,ompositions of a man in important office: in
brief, that that is nut dignified Which is nut
dull.— Frazer'r Magazine.
61,yr entumbia gpg.
COLUM
SATURDAY, JAN. 2G 1861
lI:Iar"SEF, Nrw ADVEICTII:4:WINT . ; 01" A. M.
nAstuo's, ODD FELLOWS' I! ‘l,l, IN TO-DAC:.
ESE
1-20 . .Set! Fendrich 4.• Eros' inlet 1 iiCP7llf7lt in
in-day's paper. Theirs is the turgest IVhoirsole
and it• tail Mina), Seger rind Snnil
tory in the Slate.
tack Numbers Wanted
We want copies of the Spy of Nov. f , th
and Dec. 3rd, 18:i9, to complete a file of that
}ear. Any one having these old numbers
will confer a favor by leaving them at this
office.
-Senator Hies:end wilt plertao accept
nur thanks fur a copy of tiro Report of the
State Treasurer
Nortre.—There will be preaching in the
tdd Fellows' Hall, by the Baptist Minister.
,n !Sabbath morning, at In u'cloek A. M.;
his°, at G I'. M. The Rev. A. J. Kirkpat-
rick and Rev. G. W. Scott are expected to
be prevent. The public arc charitably in
cited to attend
• (Irv. Tou Tuntn.—Our reader- , will not
t.egleet the opportunity of seeing the
41 , eneral, this and Monday afternoons an 1
evenings. The two days will be all the
distinguished visitor cal') spend in Columbia
and his levees should be crowded. Ile is
"1113 of the greatest of living wonders, and
about the only one that dues not inspire as
much disgust as astonishment. The gen
.rars exhibitions are always interesting.
Tut. Wt. rn continuing our meteor
tdoz,ical observations we have to state that
since our last issue. unt,id Thursday morning
the weather has been delightful 'y agreeable.
The greatest degree of cold during the past
week was 17' above zero, or 15' below the
freezing point, where the mercury stood
howevet for only a part of two day.. Sat
urday was like a day in Spring. the ther
mometer about midday, showing 55' in the
shade. On Thursday we had a regular
...ulna of rain and sleet hich, freezing, as
it fell, rendered walking on our pavements
somewhat precarious; but, from past expe
rience, we are hopeful for the future, and
are perfectly willing ta taste the sour occa
sionally, so that we may fully appreciate the
sweet. During the past week the thermom
eter stood thus:—Saturday I Jth, '2B" above
zero, Sunday, SU', Monday, Tuesday,
17^, Wednesday, 17', Thursday. 27'. and
1 . I [day, :;:2-
Cot e.arti t A %11 tnt t.t.o LINI! It %it.m..tr:
--The annual election for President and
Jllrectors of the Columbia and Maryland
Line Railroad was hell at Cooper's 'led
Lion Hotel in Lancaster, on tde I nth
end the following gentlemen elected ft.tTieers
for the emoting year: President —jeremial:
H. Haines. Ditectors—Gen. Bartraut A.
Shaeffer, J. li. Shuman. John A. Slicaff, C.
Kauffman, John C. Walton, James Mc
Sparren, John L mg, Jeremiah Brown. Jo
seph B3IIIIIICC, Wyatt W. Miller and Them.
as IL Ned, of Lancaster county, and Cul.
.1. •1. Heckart. of Port Hoposit, M.l.
At a meeting of the Board. immediately
niter the election. Joseph Ilallance was re
elected Treasurer, and Jeremiah horn,
:4ecretarv.
Triter. firms Looct EvrviNc.—The L•nt
n re of thin week. by Mr. Mr. Essick. occur
ring on•Fridny evening me are unable to
report it in this week's .C"py. We hope
htore interest will be shown in thee
Lectures by our citizens generally. As a
elief from the monotony of our winter, if
for no beeter reason, they should command
geoPral attendance. But when we consider
the rt.mding of the lecturers nod the char
acter of their respective addresses—our best
lii.nto talent and eloquent, interesting and
inatrtietive discourses it becomes a duly to
enc.ititage.tlie."Evenings." We know that
good speakers hare been soeured for the
entire course. and we earnestly urge a more
spirited turn •nrr "in the part or our people.
hereafter.
PRONE:4[OI)E Celer.RT."- 7 2:20 enter-
tainment fur the benefit of the poor, adver
tised under the above head came of on last
Fr Way evenicsg, to the mingled •Entisfnetion
and dieguat of the participants. Of course,
in slim of the deceptite title, everybody
knelt the affair was nothing snore nor less
than a. ball, (and we hereby declare thte. we
strenuously advocated the advertisingof the
entertainment under that unambiguous
name, being in no wise ashamed of partici
pating in the "nutty" when so disposed,)
but many purchased tickets ad* the under
! standing that pretims to the commencement
of the horrid, wicked saltation a modicum
i of unworldly music should be served situ by
r •
kel er s d e l i ghtful orchestra, fir the enter
tainment of the anti- (and ante ) dancers.—
This was tiro programme settled by the
managers. 12ancing was not to commence
before ten o'clock. We had our crht clothes
furbished rip in honor of the occasion and
repaired to the Hall :thaw nine of the clock,
anticipating some pleasant, innocent music.
Who can describe our outraged feelings on
finding the floor in possession of redellers.
and on.: of the sinful hitg,ling dances in full
twirl. The promenaders bad departed bias
phetning, and the Terpsichore:ins had un
limited swing. They *cm swinging with
out stint. How it ha, period is more than
we Can tell. Whether there was a revolt of
the dancers, or whether the susceptible organ
of the Master of Ceremonies was not proof
against the combined entreaties of the im
patient fair, or whether that elastic youth
couldn't wait himself, is not now to be dis
covered. It is sufficient to know the outrage
was perpetrated. We hare sympathy with
our fellow sufferers, and fur their satisfaction
can only record all the satisfaction ire re
ceived on remonstrating with the authorities:
"Shut up: take your partner fur the next
cotillion." We felt snubbed, but took our
partner nevertheless. Somehow or other
our indignation oored out during the ensuing
severe course of exercise wo were put
through, and we forgive the culpable par
ties, whoever they may be. We advise all
others disc pp unto Ito do the same. Their
money went for a good cause, that's some
thing.
The pecuniary glleeeSB of the "Concert"
(oh!) was good, considering the times.—
Seventy-tiro dollars will do something to.
ward , the relief of our poor.
Im:.—Our river has yielded her usual
winter _crop of clear, pure ice, to all who
chose to harvest. The Columbia Ice Com
pany is the heaviest reaper and garnerer.—
The large houses of the Company have been
tilled to overflowing with the most solid and
beautifuTice, and our town will therefore
h 9 certain of a full and cheap supply of
lid, luxurious necessary or necessary luxury
whichever you choose. The stock laid in is
large enough to supply Columbia and• Lan
caster. 'fhe heavy stock of last year was
readily disposed of, hero and abroad, and
we have no doubt of the sale next season of
every pound now under cover. Our ice bus
iness is n decided success.
.I . NCENDIAIIISII tN 3101INTTILLE—WITIFER ' S
STORE AGAIN FIRED.—OIIT readers will rev
ollect that on the 9th inst., the store of E.
11. Witmer, at Mountville, was burglarious
ly entered, and between two and three hun
dred dollars' worth of goods carried MT, and
a large quantity of goods were destroyed or
damaged. This morning, about 4 o'clock,
the store was again tired, and the entire
stock of grocerie4 was destroyed, while the
dry goods were more or leis damaged by
the tiro and smoke. The timely discovery
of the lire, and the promptness of the chi.
zens, saved the building and contryt:z from
complete destruction.
This is the third time that this place has
been tired. fn March, ISSS, the store was
set on fire and its entire contents destroyed,
the loss =mounting to over $3,60().
hope the miscreants, who have thus far
been so sig•:ally successful in their efforts,
will be al•prehended and receivelbe r just
deserts.—E.•yress, 183 t inst.
otmat's MacdziNE.--Harper for Febru
ary opens with the concluding chapters of
Ross Browne's very amusing sketch of
"Washoe," profusely illttsitratcd. "To Red
River and Beyond" is another illustrated
article, and yet snottier is devoted to the
peculiarities of "Spiders." The tales of
the number are not quite so good as usual,
but the opening chapters of Thackeray's
new serial, —Philip," more than compensate.
The promise of the new story is first rate.
Captious critics snarl at Mr. Tkackeray's
re-introduction of his old characters. To us
this is one of the most attractive peculiari
ties of the greatest of all the great English
writers of fiction. Our old friends are not
made to play principal parts in his new
creation.% but are pleasantly referred to, or
incidentally introduced, as here we find
"Pendennis," and "the Major," and a few
CM
I•'r.l\c !.1:q1.11: . 13 :IfoNTtnn•.—The rel./M
-ary number of this lively magazine is as
brilliant as usual. We get in it some of the
very best short tales published. The pres
ent number gives the conclusion of a delight
ful piece of satire, 'Divorce a Vinculo,"
illustrated to the life by John Leech. This
runs through three numbers, and has enough
fun in it to repay a year's subscription.—
' The fashion department, supplementary, is
complete and handsomely gotten up, and•re
commends itself strongly to the lad:es.
A Tr. INTIC MON Tin .v.-- February num
ber of the "Atlantic" is ono of its thoroughly
readable numbers. It is good from the
opening article to the closing review, com
prising as it dues contributions from such
writers as John 6. Whittier, Jas. Russell
Lowell, Oliver Wendell 'U tiles, Harriet
Martineau, Miss Prescut, E. P. Whipple,
Paul Akers, and others. The corps of Atlan
tic writers is equal to that of any other
magazine published, and of course its
contents pre of the very highest literary
character.
gigi..The mother of Achilles showed her
maternal regard fur him by taking him out
at a very early age and applying the Styx
It) him
Daseeit's VAatartas.—This is a neat
monSfily issued jit Philadelphia ' , varied in
contente, as its name indicates, and toll of
entertainment. It is furnished at Abe ridi
culously low rate of Ely cents a year.—
Each subscriber also receives at dozen of
"Bestor's Gulden Pens." :We have tried -a
sample of these pens, (good metallic pens
coated with gold to prevent corrosion) for
warded its,ntol pronounce them a capital
article. Either the paper or the pens are
amply worth the subscription.
PenceEniNcs or COUNCII..—CoLummA,
Jan. IR, IS6l.—Council me: Mr. Welsh
was called to the chair, after which the new
members wore sworn in.
On motion, Council went into the nomi•
nation and election for officers for the ensil
ing •ear, with the following result:
President-..—Thomas Welsh.
Clerk—Wm. P. Lloyd.
Supervisor—D. S. Chalfont
Markel Clerk —Samuel Waites
Lamy Ligkder— , C A. nook..
Sireel Regulator—Wesley Upp.
A petition was read from Messrs. Shrei
ner and North i asking permission to build
a frame stable on their vacant lot on Com
merce street, nearly opposite the stable of
Mrs. Mallison.
Mr. Hershey anoved that it be referred to
a Special goinntittee of fivo, to report at a
special meeting to be held to morrow eve
ning, the I.9th inst., which was agreed to,
and the President appointed Messrs. Ap
paid, Brinier, Ebcrlein, McChesney, and
Shuman said committee.
O.i motion of Mr. Hershey, the rules
passed fur the ,iovernment of Cuuneil last
year were a.lupted fur this year.
Mr. Hershey moved that the salary of the
Clerk be $: 1 50 for the ensuing year.
Mr. Droner moved to amend by striking
out $3O and inserting $4O, upon which the
yeas and n.tys wore demanded, and agreed
to, as follows:
]:ens, Messrs. Bruner, Ilippey, MJClies•
ney, Appold and Shuman, 5.
Nays, Messrs. lireneman, Hershey, and
Eberlein, 3.
On in tion, the salaries of the other offi
cers were fixed the same as last year, as
follows: Clerk of Market, $32; High Con
stable, $25; Lamp Lightel, $5O; Supervi
sor, $1,25 for all days employed; Liburers
10 cents per hour, and high Constable, for
locking up and feeding prisoners, 20 cents
each. _
Mr. Bruner mired that Win. Cowden be
exonerated from the payment of the claim
against him fir damages sustained by the
breaking of a lamp post. Nsagreed to by
the following vote:
Yeas —None.
.Nays—Messrs. 'Bruner, Ereneman, Her
shey, Ifinpey, Eberle'''. Shuman and Welsh.
On trintion of Mr. Breneman, the claim
was handed to the Chief Burgess fur collet
tion.
On motion, a Committee of three consist
ing; of 'Messrs. Shuman, ]ironer and Mc-
Chesney, was appointed to view the Lmk
Up and see what change: are necessary to
be made.
The following hills were ordered to be
paid:
Samuel Waiter, $7,60; Jiro. A. Hook S.:
Co., S3PS; Haldeman, $7,50; P. S.
Chalfant, $1,02; Samuel Waiteq, $6,30.
On motion, Council adjourned.
Wu. I'. 1..r.0rn, Clerk.
C,,Ly3tro t, Jan. 19, 1561.--Council met
Members all present.
The . Comtnittee to whom was referred the
petition of Messrs. Shreiner and North, in
relation to the erection of a frame stable on
Commerce street, made the following re
ports:
The undersigned Committee. appointed
to examine the premises on which Messrs.
Shreiner and North ask leave to erect a
frame stable, report that we have examined
said premises and would respectfully sub
mit the following resolution:
Revolved. That the above namel parties
have the privilege asked granted.
M. S. Sucuav,
13. 1' A PPOLD,
S. F.
We, the undersigned Committee appoint
ed to view the property of Messrs. Shreiner
and North, on which they desire to erect a
frame fltable, do report that we have exam
ined the same and find that we cannot
grant the privilege, no it interferes with an
Ordinance prohibiting the, erection of sta
bles within -lb feet of any public street.
A. BRIT NEI:,
Wn. 3.lcencssEr
Mr. Hershey morel that the resolution
accompanying the majority report be ac
cepted; upon which the yeas and nays were
railed. and agreed to as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Breneman, Hershey, Eb
erlein, Shuman, Appold and Welsh.
Nays—Messrs. 'Bruner, Hippey and Mc-
Chesney.
Mr. McChesney moved that the Ordinance
prohibiting the erection of stables within 40
feet of any public street be repealed. Dis
agreed to.
Yeas—Messrs. Bruner, Hippey, McChes
ney and Welsh.
Nays—Messrs. Breneman, Hershey, Eb
erlein, Shuman and Appold.
Mr. 'Bruner moved that the lower room
of the Town Hall be granted to Her. Mr.
Scott for religious purposes. Not agreed to.
Yeas—Messrs. Ilippey nod Welsh.
Nays—Messrs. Bruner. Brenernan, Her
shey, !McChesney, Appold, Shuman and
Eberlein.
Mr. Appold moved that a special commit
tee of three be appointed to settle with 11.
M. Will for the grading of fourth street.
Agreed to, and the President appointed
Messrs. Appold, Breneman and Eberlein,
the Committee. On motion, the Committee
was instructed to act in conjunction with
the Chief Burgess.
On motion, Council adjourned.
Attest: Wit. I'. LLOYD. Clerk.
• READY TOE ANY SACRIFICE. -IL i said that
a,certain Southern gentleman having been
asked if he should want a supply of ice du.
ring the coming Summer season, replied in
dignantly in the negative, declaring that the
men of the South would drink boiling hot
water upon the Fourth of Jnly,.before they
would receive or use any of the Free ice
..f the State, of the
CongressionaL .
TIICISDAY. JAN. 17111. 7 .--In the Senate,
Hen. Ti. M. Morrill wok ids seat as Senator
from Maine in the plaoe
Mr. Cameron endeavored to get the floor to
move a' reconsideration of. the Tote on Mr.
Crittenden i s resolutions, but mr.. Hunter
pressed the consideration of the 'Deficiency
bill. That was amended, passed, nod the
Pacific Railroad bill taken up. 'Without ac
tion, the Senate went into executive session.
The (louse, with the Army bill nominally
before it, continued the general debate on
the National crisis. Speeches were made
on both sides, some fur conciliation, others
for war.
FRIDAY', ISTII.—In the Senate, Mr. Cain
emu's motlon for the reconsideration of the
vote by which the resolutions of Mr. Clark
were substituted for the Crittenden Compro
mise was taken up. The motion to recon
sider prevailed—eyes 27, na7s 25. On the
call of the roll Messrs. Cameron and Dixon,
Republicans, voted for the reconsideration,
but afterwards changed their votes. Mr.
Wigfall, of Teams, voted with the Republi
cans against the reconsideration. Mr. Crit
tenden's resolutions were then postponed
until Monday nest. The bill for the admis
sion of Kansas was next taken up. Mr.
Green proposed an amendment, which
would have sent the bill back to the House,
but the Senate rejected it—ayes 23, nays 31.
After an executive session, lasting about
three hours, the Senate adjourned until
Monday.
The debate on federal affairs was contin
ued in the House on Friday. The import.
ant feature of the debate was a speech from
Mr, Sherman, the Republican leader in the
House. He expressed a willingness to set
tle the Territorial question by the admission
of New Mexico as a Slave State, bat could
not consent to the Crittenden amendment
because slavery was to be protected in all
territory hereafter acquired south of 3G° 30'.
He was willing to vote fur an amendment
of the Constitution prohibiting interference
with slavery in the States where it exists,
and also fur Mr. Seward's proposition to
guard against the invasion of States. The
Army bill was amended so as to increase the
appropriation for Government armories from
$2.C.J,000 to $406,000, and passed.
SATUPDAY, 19rn.—In the Senate, Mr.
Mason introduced resolutions suspending all
the laws of the Uoited States that interfere
with secession in South Carolina or other
seceding States. The bill for the admission
of Kansas was taken up and various amend
ments ;ejected, but before reaching a final
vote /he Senate adjourned.
The Muse was engaged with the private
calendar.
itlotenav, 21,v.—1n the Senate, Senators
littlee and Mallory, cf Florida, Clay of Ala
bama, and Davis, of Mississippi, announced
the secession of their respective States and
withdrew front the Senate. The bill for the
admission of Kansas was then taken up,
and after the adoption of an unimportant
amendment was passed by a vote of ayes
36, nays 13. Senators Crittenden and
Johnson of Tennessee, voted fur the bill.—
S mator Kennedy, of Maryland, voted
against it. Senator Pearce did not vote at
all. The resolutions of Mr. Crittenden were
then taken up an 1 earnestly advocated by
Senator Bigler. Senator Cameron, Repub
lican, said he was ready to do anything,to
prevent a separation of the Union,• and
would sustain Mr. Iligler's amendment of
the Crittenden resolutions. Senators Iver
son and Mason endeavored to blunt the ef
fect of this patriotic declaration from the
Pennsylvania Senator, but succeeded only
in drawing from him still stronger avowals
of a conservative character. No vote was
taken on the resolutions, and they come up
again to-day as unfinished business. Sena
tor Hunter resigned the Chairmanship of
the Committee on Finance.
In the II Inge of Representatives the Ala
bama delegation presented a communica
tion announcing the secession of the State
and their own withdrawal. The letter is
tl.a. signed Mr. Cobb, one of the delegation.
The Itepert of the Committee of Thirty
three came up as the order of the day, and
Mr. Corwin, Chairman of the Committee,
addressed the Muse. Ile expressed a mod
ified disapproval of coercion as a remedy for
secession, and declared a willingness to ad
mit New Mexico as a Slave State, or if the
Siuth wanted the old .line of 3G' 30' he
would grant that, and to adjust slavery now
and forever on a basis that could not be al
tered except with the consent of all the
States. Mr. Millison, of Virginia, opposed
coercion, but deprecated the action of the
seceding States as unjustifiable.
Tuesnar, 22xe.—In the Senate an inci
dental debate arose upon the effect of the
withdrawal of the Senators from the sece
ding States. Mr. Benjamin sought to have
entered upon the journal a statement that
the Senators had withdrawn because their
States had resumed the powers which they
delegated to the General Government. The
resolutions was finally laid on the table—
ayes 32, nays 22. By general acquiescence,
however, it was agreed to regard the with
' drawal of the Senators as tantamount to
their resignations, and the Vice President
was authorized ,to fill the vacancies in the
Committees occasioned thereby. The Crit
tenden resolutions were then taken up and
debate ensued, of a criminative character,
in which several Senator: participated.
In the House, Mr. Harris, of Maryland,
presented a petition signed by seventeen
thousand persons from all parts of Maryland,
in favor of the adoption of the Barder State
Compromise. -Mr. Colfax, from the Post
Office Committee, reported a bill auth rizing
the President to suspend the mail service in
the seceding States. Mr. Branch submitted
a substitute suspending until 1852 all laws
in those States which have or may adopt
Ordinances of Secession. Mr. Stevens
offered a subtitute suspending the revenue
and postal laws in the seceding States, au
thorizing the capture and confiscation of
any vessel not belonging to the United
States attempting to enter or leave ports in
said States, and empowering the President
to use the Army and Navy for the execution
of the laws. The debate on the report of
the Committee of Thirty three was resumed.
Mr T:ingli-tm, , •f I 'Phi,. advocating erwrritm.
and Ur. k>l.eimens, of Virginia, tkircencing
secession.
---
MoseAY,23o.—The Senate tas engaged
with the Pacific' Railroad bill. An effort to
take up Mr. Ltrittendon's resolutions was
Qnsuccessfull.
The House, during the morning hour,
acted on the amendments to the Post Route
bill. The - amendment reducing the rate of
compensation to railroad companies for
mail transportation was rejected. An
amendment authorizing the issue of one Cent
stamped wrappers and envelopes was con
curred in. The report of the Committee of
Thirty three heing under consideration,
Mr. Clemens, of Virginia, made a personal
explanation in reference to insulting re
marks apdressed to him on the preceding
day by one of his colleagues. Mr. Etheridge,
of Tennessee, made an earnest end eloquent
speech for the preservation of the Union.—
His remarks excited great enthusiasm and
wore warmly applauded.. The Oeorght
delegation presented a letter nuncmneing
the secession of their State and withdrawing
from the House. Mr. Hill, one of the dele
gation, presented a second letter, simply
resigning because he believed it the desire of
his State that he should do so.
The News
The Military Committee of the South Car
olina Legislature have reported in favor of
raising four additional artillery companies
and another regiment of infantry. It pro
posed to connect Fort Moultrie and the other
fortifications in the harbor with Charleston
by submarine telegraph.
The ship Morning Star arrived in IFump•
ton Roads on Friday, 18th, having on board
the officers, crew, and one hundreu and fifty
nine passengers rescued from the ship
Globus, burned at sea.
The United States Senate in executive
session onlhe 13th confirmed the nernina
tion of Mr. Holt as Secretary of War by a
vote of thirty-eight against thirteen. This
is, of course, an endorsement of the Presi
dent's policy.
Florida has appointed delegates to the
Convention which is to meet at Montgom
ery, Alabama, to organizea Siuthern Con
federacy.
The foreign Ministers at Washington have
requested the Government 'to inform them
whether clearances of vessels issued by South
Carolina will be recognized as sufficient,
and whether foreign vessels could properly
pay duties to South Carolina officials. It is
reported that the answer was in the nega
tive.
The Arkansas Legislature have finally
passed the bill submitting the Convention
question to the people. The vote will take
place on the ISth of February.
The Georgia State Convention on Satur
day passed the Ordinance of Secession by a
vote of ayes 20S, nays SO. On a previous
vote to postpone secession until the 3d of
March the majority for immediate secession
was but thirty. Ilun. A. IL Stephens,
lion. 11. V. Johnson, and Judge Linton
Stephens, aro among those who voted
against the ordinance. Immediately after
passing the ordinance the Convention re
solved to continue the present postal and
revenue system until otherwise ordered.—
Practically, therefore, Georgia, like Missis
sippi, has only gone out of the Union on
paper.
The Georgia CJinvention hare adopted an
explanatory preamble to their Ordinance of
Secession, and thus amended it has been
signed by nearly all the members, including
llon. A. 11. Stephens, Ex•(iovernor Johnson
and others. The Georgia delegation are es
pected to withdraw from Congress to-day.
The Alabama Convention has appointed
delegates to the Southern Congress. Mr.
Yancey declined election as a delegate.—
The Convention has passed an ordinance ap
propriating three million of dollars fur the
defence of the State.
It lochs at present as it the seat of appre
hended hostilities is to be transferred from
Charleston harbor to Pensacola bay. The
United States forces there, under command
of Commandant Armstrong, after giving up
the Navy Yard and Fort Barrancas, Mere
concentrated in Forte Pickens and Ml.t.ae,
both very strong works, situated nearly op.
posite each other and commanding the Bay
and ship Chanel. The store ship Belief
is anchored between the Forts, and the
United States steamer Wyandotte also
there with officers and crew en board.—
Some twelve hundred State troops are there
and the Governor of Florida. has telegraphed
to New Orleans for a further force to aid in
taking the forts. Two hundred men were
preparing to leave there. The position held
by the United States forces is described by
the Mobile papers as a very strong and de.
feasible one, and it Seeing hardly probable
that they can be dislodged by the revolu
tionis
Lieutenant Talbot, Major Andorstin's
bearer of despatches, returned to Fort Sum
ter on Friday, and on Saturday another
message passed between Major Anderson
and Governor Pickens, under a. flag of truce.
The news from Washington is regarded as
gloomy at Charleston. Alajor Anderson
however, is now allowed to get fresh pro
visions front the city, which shows that the
counsel sent from Washington has not been
without its influences.
We learn by our exchanges that Fort
Taylor, at Key West, is now garrisened by
a company of United States Artillery, in
co.n mend of Capt. J. M. Brannan. Capt.
E. B. Hunt, United States Corps of
Engi
noors, is still in command of the fort, and is
actively engaged in completing the work
designed to be done with the present appro
priation. The fort is so far completed as to
be made available in case of foreign invasion.
The armament mounted is sufficient to en
able the Federal officers to act en the defen
sive if necessary.
A considerable amount of shot, shell, and
powder were sent from Richmond on Satur
day to Charleston.
The bids for $5,000,000 of treasury notes
opined at Washington on Saturday show
that the credit of the government has mater
ially imrrovod in tile last few weeks. For
t h e .r.,(Pleostit 3.4 0 , 1 for a month .ince only
X 3,500,000 was offered, at rates raging from
gto 36 per cent. The bids on Saturday
amount to over $12,000,000 very feet of
which were above 12 per cent., and the
wheto loan will be taken nt from ten to
•
eleven per cent, interest.
The Tennessee State Conrenticm is to be
elected on the 9th, and will meet on the
25th of February.
The Florida authorities taring interfered
with the delivery of the mails to the United
States officers at Pensacola, the Postmaster-
Gencral has promptly abolished the Post
office at that point, and giren notice that all
letters directed to Pensacola are to be re
turned to the dead-letter office.
Wendell Phillips, the Abolitionist, deliv
ered a speech at Boston on Sunday, in which
he denounced Senatot` SeWard, declared
himself for disunion, and expressed the hope
that all the Slave States would leave the
Union. 1114 chief argument was that dis•
union was desirable because it would abol
islvslavery.
The monotony nt Charleston has been
varied by an incide, t. A boat supposed to
be from Fart Sumter approached one of the
South Carolina batteries, was fired on andone
man, it is believed, was wouuded. There,
however, appears to be no evidence that the
boat was from the Fort, and nothing where•
on to form a judgment as to its errand,
The Senate of South Carolina on Wednes-
day, passed a tax bill increasing the taxes
twenty per cent, over last year,to meet the
issue of Treasury notes and bills for war
purposes.
Captain Armstrong who was in command
of the Pensacola Navy Yard at the time of
its surrender to the Secessionists has arrived
at Washington and gives the particulars of
the circumstances under which he was forced
to abandon his post. Of a small force un
der his command, the majority were Seces
sionists, officers in the United States Navy
taking part in the demand for the surrender
of the Yard and ono of them actually haul
ing down the National flag. Lieutenant
Simmer, who has command of Fart Pickens,
has only about eighty men under him. Ile
is however in a position where he can be re
inforced and hLs the assistance cf the
United States steamer Wyandotte. Instead
of being cut off fronr communications with
the outside he has the 'power to prevent the
revolutionists from receiving supplies by
The Georgia State Convention on 'Wednes
day determined to elect ten delegates to rep
resent the State in the Southern Congress
to meat at Milledgeville on the 4th of Feb
ruary. The African slave trade ordinance
was passed, substituting imprisonment in
the penitentiary for the death penalty, and
declaring the offence not to be piracy. An
ordinance was introduced to continuo the
present postal and revenue laws, so that
Georgia does not resist the Federal laws.
Toombs and Secretary Cobb will be among
the delegates to the Southern Congress.
The Lmisiana State Convention met on
Wednesday.
The North Carolina Legislature is still
debating the Convention bill with little
present prospect of agreement.
The Secretary of the Treasury estimate
that in addition to the accruing revenue the
Federal Government will need Z 20,000,00)
prior to the Ist of July next.
A large number of muskets, and other
munitions of war, were seized by the pelice
at Now York yesterday, an board a ,teamer
about to sail fur Savannah. The seizure
was probably made under Judge Smalley's
recent decision that it is treaqvitable to fur
nish arms to a seceding State.
A plan of compromise has been started in
Washington which proposes the resignation
of the members of Congress, to take effect
on the 21st of February, and the election in
the meantime of n new Congress to meet
February 22nd, which will, as coming imme
diately from the people, represent their
wishes in the
_present crisis. When the
members agree to resign it will ho worth
while considering the plan.
The steamer North Briton, arrived at
Portland; brings Liverpool dates to the 12th j
inst. The weather continued very severe
in England, occasioning much distress
among the laboring classes, and fears of
bread riots were entertained. In Liverpool
quite a panic had boon caused by these ap
prehensions. The American crisis contin
ued to attract great attention in England.—
Lord Palmerston had expressed the hope
that if the Union was dissolved it might be
by an amicable arrangement and the world
spared the horrible spectacle of brother's
warring on brothers, The general intern
genet) is not important.
A PERFECT 3.ltrucne.—Old Parson Blim,
noted for his pious simplicity, managc3 to
live in a parish in New Hampshire on n
salary, payable in prnluce, that would
barely keep body and soul together. He
had a nag that was as ill fed as its owner,
on which lie was accustomed to ride over
his extended parish. Stopping at Deacon
Wilson's one day, he alighted, and careless
ly throwing the reins over a tie-post, through
the top of which there was a hole, he called
in on his Deacon. The nag, in rubbing
against the post, slipped the bridle.' off its
head, and commenced to quietly feed by the
wayside. • A spa of the Deacon drew the
bridle through the post hole above the bri
dle rein, and then catching the nag, led her
up. and put on the bridle all correct, Ind
waited for the parson, who was not long in
appearing, and who immediately commen
ced the hopeless task of "unloosing the
Least." After a vain attempt, be was heard
to say, solos:
"We read of the camel going through the
eye of a noedie, and believe it, for 'tis in the
Bible; but how upon earth my old mare
ever got through that post hole is metre than
I can understand. She's gone and done
it, but how beats all nature. Jt must bo a
miracle."
*®`Oaring to its swamps and everlasting
chimes. Flanders is found by travelers to be
ringing wet.
war The Seat far Schoolmasters--Cane
linttokn chairs.
A MAT.% :MALT. OF AVOIIEN ' S MITL—Tho
Stockton (California) Republican learns
that Mr. Connelly, who has jest arrived
front rapt Smith, Arkansas, via Salt Lake,
reports having seen a Texan purchase a
riata one hundred feet in length from an In
dian, for which he paid M. The hair of
which it Was :nada was shorn from the headq
of the women who were slain at the ever-to
be-remembered massacre of the Mountain
Meadows. This gentleman states that.tlie
riata was one of the most beautiful speci
mens be ever beheld, even while the scene
of the cold-lloodr,d slangbtet rose to his
view as he looked upon his trophy of the
savages and their Mormon talks, worse
than savages.
Loris TUE SILENT.—The Emperor ques
tions, it is true; and sometimes, when it is
his interest ,to do so, questions lengthily,
but he seldom answers and never •narrates.
The only siteet nen in the whole country,
he has managed to bind with strong claims
the vain and foolish talkers of whom its pop
ulation is composed. To his taciturnity ho
owes his power, exactly as Lord Palmer
ston, the only talker amongst the silcnt En
glish people. manages to ciaezlo the sight
and benumb the faculties of the nation.—
The law of contrast is of rid - tonal applica. ,
tion, and holds good in the moral as well as
the physical world. The one has power to
enslave, the other to befool.—Paris Cor.
Boston Post.
rei-ono of the small States of Germany,
having on account of the unsettled appear
ance of the European horizon, determined to
put its army upon a war footing, resolved
as a means towards that end, to purchase
the most improved weapons of war, and ac
cordingly' procured an Armstrong gun upon
trial. Having got the gun, a great
diffi
culty arose—they had no place to put up
the target. Their own space of territory was
not large enough, and as none of the neigh
boring States were willing to allow it to ho
put up in theirs, the trial had to be fore
gone.
.About these days, when the collectors
are 'round there is considerable billing, but
not much cooing
IDS-Prentize styles the leaning towar of
Pisa tho great—ltalic in the literature of
architecture
ggrEmulatc the habit of the homely
yeast, which, though it is working night
and day, neter fails to rise the moment it is
stirred.
ttgl.."Confound all opposition," as the
owner of a watering machine said when a
heavy shower of rain came on.
155=1
first with Samba, next with Culice, we still bother our
brains,
Till a voice from public plituderer*re*pond*:
And we fend out, whilst we're weeping occr•'negro
lEZE
There'. a fellow f•rling, too, for ...radian bonds'
—N. Y. Sunday Times.
gtErWhen you dispute with a fool, ho i
very cert:.in to be similarly employed.
i 1 Only great minds can bear greatness,
it make, small eeoc giddy.
L' - 's°' - iperidthrifts economize in what they
give. the oh trit.t4le in what thoy .perd.
e ht.,t cnd n net ullsreitniane pug in
children bee whsle 111 their illuther ' s arms--
1% emus
9e"^Why bare compositors more reason
to grumble than anybody else? Because
th ~.• business is always al a stand.
lawyer is never so mischievous as
when he has but little practice; nor a physi
cian a..; when he h.ls a good deal.
4 1 . - ;'ArA wet. skin is a good thing to hare
in winter—if you only t. ke care to get it in
the'Ohape of a whiogy ,kin.
A SIniKING llntlits..—"You have a very
striking countenance," as the donkey slid
to the elephant when he hit him over the
back with his trunk.
LEO. L DEctslos.--A London court has
decided that an actor is not a "laborer."—
Of course not; he's "no work and all play."
Columbia Lumber Market
Panel Boards and Plank, W. Pine, $34.01}
Ist Comm. " ~ so.co
2nd "
Culling
gi
Inferior ‘ 1 .i. 9.00
Bill Scantling, a 15.00
Joists and Scantling, Hemlock $9 a 10.00
Boards, 4. J a 10.1 0
Bill Scantlings sr 12.00
Ash Plank, 20.00 a 25.00
Siding s $l2 a 15.00
Long Shingles, 9 a 16.00
Cypress 1, 10.00
Plastering Lath, 2.25 a 2.t'.0
Arrival and Departure of Trains.
PERNSYSTLITA NIA RAILROAD.
Eastward
Marietta Accommodation arrives, 8.20 A. M
Lancaster Train leaves 8.20 ~
Harrisburg •• •• 2.40 •i
Mail, •t 6.42 ..
Emigrant, 11.00 •,
Westward
Emigrant arrives
Mail leaves
Harrisburg , c leaves
Lancaster Train arrives
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ARRIVES. P.,1% . ES.
Morning Train, 6.30 A. M. 6.55 A. M.
Noon rr 12.15 P. M. 12.30 P. M
Evening 6 , 5.00 " 6.10 4r
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