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FIRST OF APRIL Cammas.—Those of odr
subscribers who intend changing their places
drrabout-- -- the - -first- of--April
are desired to give us timely notice, always
being °snail to state the place from, and,
tßildihelo7. which- they :remove. , _,Early
attentiorlothis.matter will save , trouble and
preventailyinterraption in the regular receipt
of their'Patiers. l- ,
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4.IIIOVIIES , OUTRAGE 1 •
The,Repiblicans Legislature have again
shOwn . , their. regard for popular opinion, by
changing the time of holding the municipal
electiOn in Philadelphia from May to Octo
ber, apd authorizing the. prevent Republican
incumbents; who were •elected for One and
two Years' respectively, and whose terms
would - have - expired on the First Tuesday of
' May:toho over until the Second Tuesday
in OciCh g
er—thus lengthening their tenure of
office over five:months! It is scarcely neces
eary to add that the G overnor , in hot haste,
signed the bill, and it is therefore a law.
It is 'apparent that the bill was passed with
the objeetionable featpre in it, for the purpose
of avoiding ati overwhelming defeat which
was in store for the Republican party, had
the election taken place at the usual time, in
the month of May. This result, they well
knew; would have been a terrible blow to the
administration at Washington at its com
mencement—hence they' were willing to
trample on the rights of the people, and
prevent them from expressing their opinion
through the ballot boxes, as also to keep their
hold of the municipal government a few
months longer. If these were not the reasons
which actuated them, why did they not make
the law prospective in its operation, and add
the extended time to the end of the next
term? ' Had they done so, there would have
been show of fairness, because then the
people would have settled the matter for
themselves, and elected their officers with a
view to the extension of their terms. Bat
the trouble is, the Republican leaders are
afraid' to trust this matter in the hands of the
people, and are determined to use their tem
porary power at Harrisburg to commit all
sorts of wrongs upon the rights and interests
of our good old Commonwealth.
WHAT IS THE HATT.ERT.
Why don't the Administration do one thing
or the other—either evacuate the - Southern
forts and acknowledge their inability to arrest
secession and enforce the laws of the General
Government, or show their determination, by
prompt and appropriate action, in the opposite
direction ? The Administration has now been
in power for over three weeks, and yet nothing
is done. The work of secession is still going
on, and the new Southern Government is
rapidly consolidated and strengthened—and
(after all the bluster and bravado of the Re
publicans before the inauguration of Mr.
LINCOLN) the Government at Washington still
maintainsits attitude of "masterly inactivity."
Why is this? Something ought to he done—
some line of policy should be indicated, by which
the country would be relieved of the terrible
suspense which is pressing down and prostra
ting to the earth, all its industrial energies. The
people earnestly desire to know the worst, and
if the "powers that be" are incompetent to
the discharge of the high duties devolved upon
them, as many are beginning to suspect, let
the country be advised of it without farther
delay. If disunion is to be permanent, let us
by all means know it from an official source.
BECOMING DISSATISFIED!
Much dissatisfaction is said to prevail
among the Republican Senators from New
England, at the number of Western politicians
appointed to lucrative positions, and they
have been endeavoring to induce the President
to withdraw some of the nominations sent to
the Senate. So says the New York World,
a Republican paper.
We hope the President will do no such
thing. We, give him credit for taking care
of his western friends, and especially those
in his own State. The Good Book says, that
he who eareth not for his own household is
worse than ••an infidel, and we are pleased to
know that *he President is a believer in the
Bible. We attach no blame to any President
for taking good tare of his personal friends ;
because, in that event, they will always take
care of him. A contrary course always
produces its legitimate fruit.
A Lap Y -P. 411. ARA MOVED I
The President has appointed H. H. Fay,
Esq. Postmaster at Columbia, in this county,
vice Mrs. A. S. Moderwell, removed. We
had thought that 'this estimable lady, who
had conducted the P. 0. with such entire
satisfaction to the community interested, and,
besides, has no other means of support for
herself and family, would have been spared
the infliction of the guillotine ; but it appears
she, too, had to be sacrificed, in order to
appease the bloody Moloch of Republicanism !
Well, be it so. There will be a day of
reckoning for this wholesale proscription in
the future, and the widow's cause will be
avenged. We-find no fault with the Admin
istration for 'removing men from office, but
we did suppose that Mr. LINCOLN had too
much gallantry to take the head off a woman !
Surely, the President must have been imposed
on in some' way, or the deed would not have
been committed.
jttoßE TRIIIIMPHS
The Demoorate of Carlisle, at the recent
municipal election, elected six of the nine
Councilmen, Assessor and Assistant Assessors,
and nearly all the other town officers, by an
average majority of about 100 1
And in the Borough of Lebanon the same
thing occurred—the Democrats electing their
candidates for Burgess, Town Council, Con
stables, Sphool Directors, &0., by majorities
ranging firm 18 up to 941 Well done for
Lebanon....
The Democrats also carried the Borough of
Norristown .
ciktm'sntritz AGAIN:
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CARL wanted the mission to Sardinia, but
couldn't get it, Mr. &wenn not coneideiing
him the tight man for that place. Next, he
was tendeFed in ,succession the missions to
Brazil, Peril, and Chili, bat thesefie wouldn't
have. The latest intelligence is, that he has
been apPeinted Minister to Portugal, which
appointment he has graciously , been pleased
to accept. guußz is a trump, and no mistake.
The adminiatitition were forced to knock
under,.'or CARL would • have kicked up a
regular iow—thaeli certain.
EVAOTbiLTION OF FORT FURTER.
Thtg.te, :3 it is said, issued an order
to Major j Anderson, on . Fr,iday, to intt his
comma' hrTelifitoOto to evacuate Fort Sum.
t ar , u pon : the Atival at that, place ; of the war
etesaterldiepatohed. by the Beorettu7 of the
Navy; to t0k0.410tt011.*41.4
NO LONGER WARLIKE. ACT • AIMED By in. NO
I'' A TRIBUTE TO BR. BUCHANAN. '
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Btiomirtelf from the National IntollAgencor of the
tenor of the Republican journals, says the -
4th of March. It merits more than &panting notice, by Congress ' .
Lebanon Advertiser, that as soon as ~,Mr• skm' gas it does from an old and stead w iko t to. An sot for the admission of Kansas into the
Lincoln was at the head of affairs; the Whole eltversary, which wWli all its proverbial diWsW• U , I'7 -
deeereet, is
yet net or its peraident and I,6s ta ., * I li act to provide - Sir a Superintendeitk of,
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South would be overrun with dltachments of ,
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_,,, 4 - Indian Affairs for W t n at ir d b . erritorj*A;
Zoriaires, 'regiments of 04 fish tuen and lots bi t ° PP reetwn t° ',
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• . Ole: frillsi it'leadine4positZT.. ,is As.,
of the - hardy- sonskif to il from Pennsylvania . -- . • :-it An act 6 provide for ",.. pa Kin . of out
'= - -;-- fess imaZz dbrtinatl actol is d uo* . 1 5....a .... _ , ,_ . : r . 4 ' " Branding Treasury notes, auth a Iln,i
and-New Yeti. Butinstead of a grand Wide -
'''"' w . ' tYI ...1 , ; 4 to regulate and fix the da on' Ma, d!
Awake turnout and gowns military display, / F L ~ ,: - s imkr. a a Sunni . ,-1 r,4 ` -.... ;
, ~ .-1,, V, .. er purposes. E.. \ ~..:,.....
'' 'l l ll act to refund to '
a ,TiVilas Peace movenwit is iniiiBal ; ... --- t
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Lincoln don't allow a single A . 'ftom the ' on br eGo ant . 4 "'
the xpenses incurred in suppressing Indian
gun to be fire- , United States has lived in eventful times arutuer
he prefers the evacuation of Fort Sumter, to formed a conspicuous part on the stage of palsy) h. 'Mies in the year 1853.
events. No incumbent of the highest office in the An act to extend the right of appeal from
the honor of leading on the United States i gift of the people has been more honored and none decisions of Circuit Courts to the Supreme
-troopf r oladin.a.Sca and:long military.] nese_ rves to Joe_i_leld in Jiterci_inget. ~.• ... , .., 0
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-- -for she r beematithelutraolltalty - sonferred - upozr •
1 munLr y) f°L4ll- impales he '/'ll &LW. . I .* •°gE
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eroe and manufaenirekTor the tram
he hears aggressions von our ri ti_gAt l iat_
.ehga-iiitions, - and-fe
often doentaogliad, the.w&hAff . difftoulties,lit .Wridt
our aloiatetio affahi Ur been uivalitarb, t,lab ilre e
I of parties and the tonflidtirof tuitions with - ascii
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Mr. Buchanan has united the advantages of ticker
and vigorous understandingnad thorough informs-
Lion with'il large women), acquired in eminent'
and responsible positions, both at home and abroad. ,
His purpose have been tunformly pacific . and liheral,_
embracing• the interests of the , whole country . In
one of the earliest speeches which
he made in the
Bosun of Representatives, the subjecturider wield- -
oration being the tariff on imparts, he said:
~i f i know myself, I am a pslitician neither of
the East nor of the West, of the North nor the -South.
I therefore shall forever avoid ,any expressions,
the direct tendency of which must be to create sec
tional jealousies, sectional dimions, and at length
disunion, that worst and last of all political calami
ties."
He supported a revenue tariff; revenue being, as
he said, the rule and protection the , incident. .He
fought against a bankrupt law as equally -demoral
ising and unconstitutional. He was, at the oom
meneement of his Congressional career, and always
has been, in favor of the acquisition of Cuba. He
advocated. in 1828 Gen. Jaelkson's election to the
Prosidenoy, and sustained most of his measures.--
Dariog his administration he was placed at the head
of the Judiciary Committee in the House of Repre
sentatives; and, being appointed one of the mana
gers to conduct the prosecution of Judge Peek, made
in that case a most able and eloquent argument. In
1831 Gen. Jackson appointed him Envoy Extraordi
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to St. Peters
burgh, where he negotiated a treaty of great value
to our commerce and naiigation in theihiltio . and
Black Seas. On his return from Russia, in 1833, he
was elected to a seat in the United States Senate.—
In 1835 the reception of abolition petitions had be
come a subject of angry controversy between the
North and South. Hie idea was that the petitions
should be received, but there should be a distinct
and positive declaration on the part of Congress,
that it had no power to legislate on the subject of
slavery. Ile desired to leave it, he said, where the
Constitution had left it, to the States themselves.—
On this subject his course has been uniform, and he
has ever manifested an unflinching determination to
maintain the rights and institutions of the South
against all opposition. He was amonethe earliest
of the Senators to urge the recognition of the inde
pendence of Texas and her admission into the Union.
He maintained the justice of the claims of Americtui
citizens for indemnity against the French Govern
ment, reviewing the whole subject with masterly
ability.
On Mr. Van Buren's accession to the Presidency
he supported his great measure of an Independent
Treasury, During Mr. Tyler's administration he
successfully advocated the veto power of' the Presi
dent under the Constitution against Mr. Clay's ef
forts to abolish it. When Mr. Polk wall elected to
the highest office in the country, he invited Mr. Bu- .
chanan to the most honorable seat in his Cabinet,
that of Secretary of State. Occupying this high po- i
sition, Mr. Buyhanan entered into a negotiation with
Mr. Pakenham, Her British Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the American Government, for
the settlement of the claims of the two Governments
to the North-western Territory, each claiming the
entirety. Mr. Buchanan proposed the compromise
line of 49 degrees north, previously offered by Mr.
Tyler, and it was ultimately adopted.*
In the prosecution of the Mexican war Mr. Buch
anan was the adviser of the President, and at its
conclusion aided him with his counsels in adjusting
the difficult question of boundaries between the two
countries. While in Mr. Polk's Cabinet he wrote
his Harvest Home letter, recommending the exten
sion of the Missouri Compromise line of 36 deg., 30
min., north to the Pacific Ocean,..with a view to quiet
the agitations of the slavery question ' ' but the propo
sition was voted down when offered toCongress. The
compromise measures of 1850 received his approval
and advocacy. When Mr. Pierce succeeded to the
Presidency, he appointed Mr. Buchanan Ambassador
to the Court of St. James, and entrusted him with
the settlement of the complicated Central American
question. In 1856 he returned home, and, in the
month of June of that year, was- unani
mously nominated, by the Democratic Convention,
for the Presidency of the United States, and was sub
sequently elected.
The recent administration of Mr. Buchanan has
been, and will continue to be, a sabjeot of much
comment. His position, amidst the quarrels of par
ties and the struggles of sections has been of pecu
liar difficulty. In souse quarters his conffilot of
affairs has provoked censure, in others it has awa
kened admiration and excited applause, and these
diversities of opinion are attributable to the different
political stand-points from which his acts have
been contemplated.. Time and cool reflection must
intervene before men are prepared to pronounce a
deliberate and impartial judgment upon the conduct
of functionaries who have occupied public stations of
great eminence. In respect to some measures that
have illustrated his administration, the whole coun
try, even now, is prepared to render an unchange
able verdict. In the settlement of the Mormon
troubles, the Central American imbroglio, the right
of search question, and other nine problems that
have arisen during the period in which he has held
the reins of government, bearing particularly on our
commercial relations with foreign countries, and our
troubles with them, he has manifested a degree of
statesmanship unsurpassed by that of any of his pre
decessors; and if all his measures have not been
crowned with success, the reason of their failure will
probably be found to exist, not in any want of energy
and sagacity on his part, but in the fact that some
of his most important recommendations have failed
to secure the concurrence of a collateral branch of
the Government.
History will do justice to his name and his admin
istration ; and to its faithful records, free from the
biases of inordinate friendship the lights of
partisan rancor and of sectional prejudice, he
may triumphantly appeal for the purity of his
motives and the energy and benifesenoe that have
marked his entire career .
cloak. It is a known fact that persona are
differently constituted, but who would havi
believed, - after the exhibitioA—of - -baok bone
Lincoln made in his speeches, that he would
suddenly take the back track and chew his
own words ? Instead of nobody -being hurt ) .
everybody is ailing; instead of nothing going
wrong, this Government and everything else
seems to be ready for a general smash np.—
Instead of putting his foot down firmly and
"Jackson like," "circumstances" require
that he should raise it pretty high. Even
Republican editors, whose fighting propensi-
ties have been at the highest pitch, at once
subside, become docile, and take to the reading
of the New Testament. They have lost all
desire for pitched battles and hostile camps,
and have connected themselves with the
nearest Peace Society, where they strongly
urge the turning of swords into pruning
hooks. After all the "soft expressions" and
"mild expletives" hurled at the late admin
istration for not engaging in a war with the
O. S. A., we must admit to considerable
surprise upon hearing of the Opposition's
late fall* from a decidedly warlike elevation.
But we are prepared for more startling
transitions than any that have yet taken
place.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS
Cuestas F. &netts, of Massachusetts, to be Min.
inter to England.
Wanes L. DAYTON, of New Jersey, Minister to
France.
GEORGE P. Messes, of Vermont, Minister to. Sar
dinia.
JAMES WATSON WEBS, of the Courier & Enquirer,
N. Y..rk, Minister to Turkey.
WE. S. Thelma, of New York, Consul General
to Egypt.
GREEN Alums, of Kentucky, Sixth Auditor of the
Treasury.
Dr. Ems LOCKE, of Indiana, Chief of Agricultural
Bureau in Patent Office.
B. M TRUMBULL, Receiver of Public Monies at
Omaha, Nebraska Territory,
JOHN D. DEFREES, of Indiana, Superintendent of
Public Printing Office.
ROBERT M. PALMER, of Penna., ((Speaker of the
State Senate,) Minister Resident to &ender, South
Amerioa.
R. S. SANDFORD, of Connecticut, Minister Resi
dent at Belgium.
PATRICE. J. DEVINE, Consul to Cork.
ANso BURLINGAME, of Massachusetts, Minister to
Austria.
RUFUS KING, of Wisconsin, Minister Resident at
Rome.
'Nimes J. DRYER, of Oregon, Commissioner to
the liawaiin lolanda.
BRADFORD R. WOOD, of New York, Minister Res
ident at Copenhagen.
JAMES P. PUTNAM, of New York, Consul to Havre
FREEMAN H MORSE, of Maine, Consul to London
J. W. NYE, of New York. Governor of Nevada.
WILLIAEGILPIN, Governor of Colorado
MAas E. DINS BEL, of Maine, Consul to Vera
Cruz
Joanne R. GIDDINGS, of Ohio, Consul General to
the Bri , ish Provinces.
JOSHUA. H. ANDERSON, of Ohio, Consul to Ham
burg.
JOHN J. COCHRAN, (Editor of the Union,) to be
Postmaster for Lancaster city.
GEORGE BERGNER, (Editor of the Telegraph,) to
be Postmaster in the City of Harrisburg.
ROBERT IMEDELL, (Editor of the Free Press,) Post
master at Norristown, Pa.
J. CAMPBELL. Postmaster at Wheeling, Virginia.
W. H. HOWARD, Postmaster at Detroit, Michigan.
FRANCIS QUEEN. Postmaster at Niles, Michigan.
HENRY SHOMO, Postmaster at Fremont, Ohio.
ARNOLD C. LEWIS, (Editor of the Herald,) Post.
master at Catasauqua, Lehigh county.
JOHN LOCKWOOD, Postmaster at Milwaukie.
SIDNEY J. VAN BONHURST, Postmaster at Pitts
burg.
WILLIAM A. (lamas, Postmaster at Frankfort, Ky.
And numerous other appointments which we have
not room to notice. The Democratic heads are made
to fly thick and fast.
POOR LINCOLN 1
"GOD SAVE THE PRESIDENT," cries the N.Y.
Commercial letter, "from falling a victim, as
did Harrison and Taylor, to the importunities
of office seekers." From early morn "till dewy
eve" does the Chief Magistrate, graciously
listen, (he is a splendid listener,) to the
`army of occupation,' generally recruited
from the Northwest, which sends storming
parties into his private office, and 'never sur—
renders.
The Cabinet, which is composed of expo
rienced politicans, have witnessed this ab
sorption of the President's time with some
anxiety, as he can take no exercise, and
even his robust constitution begins to give
way.
They have intimated to him that "papers"
referred to their departments will be examin
ed, and that the "briefs" made of each case
will be referred to the Cabinet, that the claims
of rival candidates may be compared. For a
few hours Mr. Lincoln will follow this advice,
and sternly decline to hear personal appeals,
but then some old friend or legal associate
will present himself, and straightway he will
sit down to listen to the usual story of parti
san claims, often decayed fortunes, and gener.
ally real or supposed intrigues of rivals in
the contest for some two penny place.
ROUTE AGENTS APPOINTED
R. R. FRANKS, of this City, to be Mail Agent
between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, vice
W. A. Rankin, removed.
E. MCDONALD and W. H. LILSSIG, of Schuyl,
kill county, to be Mail Agents on the Reading
Railroad, vice H. J. Hendler, and P. S.
Higgins, removed. r
EDWIN A. JONES, of Tamaqua, Mail Agent
on the Catawiesa Railroad, vice Samuel B.
Graeff, removed.
The salary of these officers is, we believe,
$BOO a year.
OPENING OP THE CANALS.
The navigation has been open for several
days on the Western Division of the Main
Line of the Pennsylvania Canal. The water
is now being let in on the Eastern Division,
and the canal will be in operation today, when
the whole line of canals along the Susquehan
na, from Havre de Grace to Wilkesbarre, will
be open. The Juniata Canals, owing to im_
portant repairs being made, are not yet open,
but will be about the Ist of April. So says
the Harrisburg Patriot of Friday last.
IT OUGHT TO BE DONE.
Many of the newspapers in the Southern
Confederacy are insisting that the Permanent
Constitution be submitted 'to the people for
adoption or rejection, as they may decide.—
They deny the right of the Conventions chosen
in the several States to act upon the question,
of Secession, to decide upon the Constitution.
For a Convention (says the New Orleans Bul
letin,) "to attempt to perform acts and exercise
authority that were never contemplated by the
electors at the time, would be neither more
nor less than an unwarrantable assumption of
arbitrary . power foreign to the genius of our
institutions and repugnant to the will of the
people."
THEM NAME IS LEGION!
A Washington letter writer of the .19th
inst., states that up to that day there had
been not less than ten thousand applications
for Postmasterships filed in the Poet Office
Department, and still they' come'
hundred every day. What patriots theee
Republicans are 1
onsixtlys ammuitais.
The entire population of Penneylvaniai
undei the C'elleitli of 1880, ,is . ;p00,37.9. At .
the omens 1850 it, was
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ItWe think the editor of the National Intelligencer
is slightly mistaken. We believe the record will
show that Mr. Bucas.Nex, as Secretary of State,
wrote a powerful and unanswerable argument in
favor of our right to the territory as high up as 54
degrees and 40 minutes of North latitude, and was
in favor of enforcing the claim ; but former admin•
istrations having proposed to compromise on the 49th
parallel of latitude, President POLK did not feel at
liberty to involve the country in a serious difficulty
with England—especially as he had the Mexican
trouble on hand at the time—and therefore submit
ted the whole matter to the Senate for their consid
eration and advice. After dae deliberation the
Senate advised the President to conclude the treaty
on the 49th parallel, which was accordingly done by
Mr. BUCHANAN under the direction of President
Pour and by the advice of the Senate. This, we
believe, is the true state of the case—at least such
was the understanding at the time the treaty . was
made.—Eds. Luellfgencer.
PROTECTION.
The Morrill tariff act, passed by the late
Republican Congress under the spur of proteo.
tion to domestic manufactures, and the prom,
ise of better times for the laboring man, goes
into operation on the first of April nest. As
an earnest of the great and glorious benefits
that tariff promises, we notice that the Phce.
nix Iron Company, doing busihess at Phoenix.
vine, and one of the largest iron manufactories
in the United States, have given notice to their
employees, numbering from 1,200 to 1,500
men, that their wages would be reduced from
ten to twenty five per cent., on the day the
tariff goes into effect.
COIN IN THE COUNTRY
The Banks and Sub-Treasarere of New
York, Philadelphia and Boston now hold the
enormous amount of fifty five millions in coin,
of which $40,000,000 iS held in New York,
and the current of coin from Europe, now
amounting to about $20,000,000 since the
middle of December last, is likely to continue
for some time to come.
mr, sunipTiorit OF SPECW. m'ENTIk
All the „Banks ,of Philadelphia resumed
specie payments, in full, on Tuesday.last. The
Other Banks Throughout the State will now
have to follow suit, we presume, or abide by
the consequences of an open violation of the
law—unless, which is. not improbable, the
Republican Legislature will throw a shield
around them.
U. S. SENATOR.—WaIdo H. Johnson has been
elected by the Legislature of Missouri, U. S.
Senator, in place of Mr. Green. Mr. J. is a
Union Democrat; and said to
.be -a' man of
ability.
U. S. SENATOR.—Ttie Legislature of Ohio
has elected Hon". Jogrr SHERMANIO the U. S.
Senate, to, fill the vacancy created by the
transfer of Mr. Clue to the Cabinet.
MBAR IT IN MIND.-TPCITBO - 118 . 01.ENIted Justiais
sif.he Peace at the last election must signify
4heir aoceptaffoito the Prothenota4 in wri
ct4ig 5y4444 , 41ry , tetg tk) election,
miss' wiirnOt be issue
An aq.xpeking.cipprop4itiopll-fot the -FAY-,
i iniiiiVotiiivifia - int`other 'tienieicihe'ef the
I lilted -S tae.for..the -raiz- ending-Juio -30
I ;61.
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xltn anti authorize - tbkissue Txeastir"
notes atilt for bther purposes.
Ait4totaaakiags.pnapriatkeut for the.
Tarsi; executive, and i pnliMal expenses of the
Government for the , Yelik . ending June 30,
,18P. .
An act making appropriations for the naval
services, for the :yew' endingJane3o, 1862.
An act to itinBDd Act suppl ementary to
an sot; approved March .3,1855, •to organize
an institOion: - for the insane of the army .and
navy and of the District of Columbia.- in the.
said District, approved. February 7,1857.
An act to provide for the payment of ex.
pease& incurred by the :Territories of Wash
ington and Oregon in the suppressing of Indian
hostilities therein in the years 1855 and 1856:
' Axcaot to:amend the fourth section of the
act for the admission of Oregon into the Union,
so as to extend the time for selecting salt
springs and "contiguous lands of Oregon.
An ant making appropriations to supply a
deficiency in the appropriations for' the oom-
Pletion of the geological survey of Oregon and
Washingthn Territories:
:Anfict to continue in force an act therein
Mentioned relatinkto the pert of Baltimore. . ,
An act to 'carry into. effect conventions be.
tweet' the United States and the Republic of
New Granada and Costa Rica.
An act to provide a temporary kovernment
fOr the Territory of Dacotah, and to create
the office of surveyor general therein.
An act to organize the Territory of Nevada.
An net for the payment of expenses incurred
in the suppression of Indian hostilities in the
State of California. •
An act making_appropriationa for the sup
port of the army for the year ending June 30,
1862.
An ant making ippropriations for the cur
rent and contingent expenses of the Indiari
Department, and fulfilling treat/ stiptilations
with various-Indian tribes forilie year ending
June 30, 1861.
Ail sot to provide for the completion of the
military road from Fort Union• to Santa Fe,
'New Mexico. •
An act to remove the United States arsenal
from the city of St. Louis, and to provide for
the sale of lands on which the same is located.•
An act donating to the State of Minnesota
and Oregon certain lands reserved by Congress
for university purposes.
An act supplementary to the act entitled
"An act to authorize protection to be : given to
citizens of the United States who may dis
cover deposits of guano," approved August
18,1856.
An act to amend the provisions of the fifty:
sixth section of " An aot to regulate the col
lection of duties on imports and tonnage,"
approved the 2d day of March, 1799.
An act creating a Tariff upon •various im—
ports.
THE FRAUD ADDLITTED.
It is not often that the perpetrators of a
fraud upon the public admit their criminality ;
bat the New York Tribune now acknowledges
that the North was misled as to the real sit
nation and temper of the
_Southern States.
E,istetk to the following admissions from a
recent number of the Tribune :
" Before last November, threats of disunion
were common enough, but no one supposed
they were anything more than electioneering
tricks. Indeed, eo frequently had these threats
been made before, that no one Bad any reason
to regard them as of tiny practical importance.
They were accordingly received either with
indifference, or with mirthful remarks ; and
the general opinion seemed to be that the
South could not be forced out of the Union.—
It was argued by those who oared to argue at
all about it, that the very existence of slavery
depended upon the Union ; that no slave State
would dare to have Canada carried down to
its borders; that slave insurrections would
occur as soon as the heavy hand of the Fed=
eral Government was withdrawn from the
institution ; and that the dread of John Brown
raids would alone prove sufficient to keep the
slave States in the Union. -It would scent now
that great ignorance prevailed at the North as
to the real situation, of the slave. States„
events, we reckoned too rapidly and accepted
possible ultimate results as immediate effects,
Phe slave States which lie most remote from
the free, have certainly, boldly, successfully
seceded, and established a Confederacy found
ed upon slavery. They have framed a Con.
stitution, established a de facto government,
assumed an attitude of armed hostility toward
the United States, and are at this moment
making demands more befitting conquerors
than rebels. Two tiers of slave States lie
"between them and the free States, and those
intermediate States are disaffected towards
the Union, and act as allies to the seceded
States."
It is not true, says the. Harrisburg Patriot,
that no one suspected previous to last Novem
ber that threats of disunion were anything
more than electioneering tricks. Democrats
generally suspected and believed that the
South was in dead earnest, and gave the
people fair warning that the election of a
sectional President, pledged to principles hos
tile to the rights and interests of the Southern
States, would cause 'a dissolution of the Union.
There was no concealment of the truth here.
The Democratic party refused to blink the
impending future, and preferred to face it, at
the risk of being denounced as disunionista.
It was the Republicans who misled the people.
It was the Republicans who received the signs
of the coming disruption " either with indiffer
" ence or with mirthful remarks." It was
such journals as the Tribune that labored to
produce the general opinion " that the South
could nut " be forced out of the Union."
PoEsti:owl , IN 11364.—The name of Hon.
Jew& A. lota, of New York, has been suggetit.
ed for the Presidency in 1864, and.. the
suggestion has been received witli much favor.
Mr. Dix's - patriotic course while Secretary of
the Treasury hag endeared him is the patriotic
American people, and rewards and honors are
certainly in store for him. If we had more
such statesmen the Republic would not now
be tottering on the brink of destruetion.
ARKANSAS FOB. THE UNION
."The Arkansas Convention has voted down
the Secegisiori Ordinance, after a bitter and
protracted struggle—the nays being 39, to 35
yeas. It is supposed that this result in
Arkansas will strengthen the hands of Gov
ernor Houston and the Union men of Texas,
and enable them to bring back that State to
her allegiance to the General Government.
PARDONED.—GOV. Curtin has. pardoned
Richard Jones, convicted , of murder in the
second degree for killing hie wife under
exciting circumstances, and sentenced to a
long imprisonment in the Western Peniten
tiary. The application for his pardon was
signed, it is said, by many of the moat
respectable and influential citizens of Pitts.
burg, and by the entire legislative dblegation
from Allegheny county.
LATE ELECTIONS IN. THIS coipwrit:
The returns of the elections held' in the
various townships and boroughs of this comp
ty, on Friday last convey most gratifying
intelligence, indeed. The democracy, roused
to activity by . the ruinous profligacy of•the
State administration, and
. the sadoct4ition,of
our national affairs produced by the triumph
of a sectional party, have come nobly hp to
the work. W e . have gained almost gratify ing
victory, The result of Fridal is Orily:thp,
harbinger of a idorfreoo34-,1-01#51:11flet:
par itett.'•:=--TrcishingionrlZteatiiimr.
"CRARaCTER"—MR. tfATLIVON'II LECTURE
=PORE nu HOWLED Associmon.—A theme on Character
most jnegatilils. Aso „&s&e subject's lectured
,••••• sod as threare woas Kam suppose it to be,
I still noir Ideas are brought =forth, and wholesome truths
RAtoloced, d• eve_ •I L IIAMIddI id id press for,
•
we - • • -TIP UM Maid
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41103 "3* Reims thydell." :lbw, UMW, are. to
.i . p ' s a a t _ • O. itiei know ihezMultdikslotil calihm
d • doll* appliea4il of affront Wads.
• d &strict a UMW thoughts roan of ottminit
t t eV 6 : r ntaiisb — utirrel D ry aktu bu tiV iSt de lr oj e oWs •
p miner b ag Into p la y the er and no ler
Impulses of our being. AL= has no Ides of his mental
ptsme..anh any subject, or capacities for any particular
avocation, until he has thoroughly tested both mind and
mien.
We have been le to the above remarks by the truly able
sleettros Of. ft, 8 . - . ll 4 l 7iTtlf o ll:"eintran"-
tr'Mh e Howard Association, on Tneeday evening
As* lies.:JLievilwer andi-writer is so
well known in this community that a good le - tore. and
• • nephatestitll4.bonots that would beef ntilitylu_efery.
j • ifferwararpettEd,7ind the which was tante,
.Intekagent andAPEOOLting. were so* disappointed. Mr.
=teo kneiwn asa thoroughly oberect„busineas man and
Mc, midi we take it that iutl tilepereon who
should discourse to his fellows on so Important somitect.
_illeflemettitit lune aVottenattitelligent , busineis men
and mechanics can be prevailed upon to lectoie before the
Howard. We have enough etch to thie city, whose Ideas
on practical enhjeeta would be of utility to the rest of their
fellow-cithrens.
•
Tba.discussion was participated is by MaJ. Ditmars,Mr.
Dr.• }Rahman, Piet Wise, Mr. a: a: Swartz and:
Mr. Ransacker.
HeHmki's
.Jairenlle. Band furnished the made fee the
occasion.
•. . .
The lecture this evening will be delivered by Ctot. Ma
zza Fiteiratia.. Subject: “Military Orgehhation: What is
•its Best Form in this Country ?^ - The subject is a novel
and Interesting One, and in the hand" of the right person.
isIiCTURN ON SPIRITUALISN."—Mr.' lIaIAH
Cunt, editor of The Spiritunk Clara,' , Auburn. New York:
lectured before a large and intelligent audience, at Eiteuben
Hall, South Queen, street; on Tuesday evening last, on •
"Spiritualism." The lecturer presented his remarks In a
tether able and forcible manner, bat whether he madeany
converts to his peculiar view' we have not been able to
learn: He le a very pleasant and interesting speaker. At
the dose of-the lecture, he made a trance examination of
two gentlemen, and' read their, .characters very well, and
also related Some. Ancidents connected with their early
career in • life. One of the gentlemen remarked that he
was not 'correct as to his earlier' life, but partially so in
reference to some of his prevailing characteristics. He was
a little more stmesafol, however, with the other gentle
man. We understand the new doctrine ot "Spiritualism"
has a number of believers and mediums In thin city.
HANDSOME MONIIMENT.—We have had the
pleasure of looking . at a very fine monument jest finished
at the Marble Works of Maj. QUALM M. Howse, North
Queen street, and to be erected over the remains of the late
Joan F. Slams, of the United States Navy, now resting in
the graveyard attached to the Leacock Church. The mon
ument is about eight feet blob, of Italian marble, being •
square pedestal, surmounted with a broken Doric column,
over which hangs a heavy wreath of roses and lilies The
inscription is as follows: "John F. Steele, U. S. N., born in
Philadelphia, Oct. 290E18—died at Harmony, Lancaster
county, July 20,1860!' Following this is an appropriate
poetical sentiment: Ithmediately over the inscription there
is an anchor and cannon in bat relief. The monument Is
neat, chaste and plain, and reflects much.credit upon the
mechtualcal skill of Lancaster.
POSTMASTERS APPOINTED.—The work of
decapitation has fairly, commenced in Lancaster county.—
The following Poet Office appointments, are announced:
Jame J. Cocaneest, at Lancaster, vice H. 11. Swarr, removed.
. H. H. Far. at Columbia, vice Elm. A. 8. Moderwell, do.
ABRAHAM CARREL, at Marietta, vice Charles Kelly, do:
Jaooa H. BARB, at Millersvilleolce. Peter K. Lynea, do.
N. 8. Wouta, at MHz. vice Daniel Kreider, do.
J. S. BOMB% at Strasburg, Viiithrlstlan Rowe, do.
LevL IL Kraara, at Weet Earl, - vioe Istadß. Browd; 'do.
SMALL SPECIMEN OF A MULE.—The smallest
specimen of a mule we ever saw wap attached to a small
wagon, and driven down Duke street, on Saturday last, by
Master WILLTAM BORDNER.. ale Muleehip is about three
feet high, five feet in length, and is well and substantially
built-being, what can be called, is perfect Mule in minia
ture. He belongs to Col. WILLIAM B. Fostoria, who has
him at his country seat near the city. The male attracted
great attention, and his young master dreiee him with all
the gracefulness of a skilful Jehu.- •
PARKESBURG SHOPS.—The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is mow engaged taking dovnt the ma.
chinery in the shops if Parkesburg, preparatory to removal
to Harrisburg. The ground on which the shops are erected
was originally presented to the State by George Parke, to
hold as long as tt should be occupied for the repair of loco.
motives, &c., and when abandoned for Inch purpose, to
revert to the original owner.or his heirs. When the State
sold the Railroad to the Pennsylvania Company, the shops
passed into their hands. Since the contemplated abandon
ment of the shops, the question as to the ownership of the
machinery therein has arisen. The heirs maintain that
the machinery reverts to the estate with the ground and
buildings. The machinery is valued at some $15,000 or
$20,000.
A WELL•MERITED OOMPLIMENT.—The able
and graphic correspondent of the Harrisburg Patriot, in
his letter of Saturday, pays the following feeling and
handsome complimen t to the M. B. Church Conference, now
in session in the "City of Brotherly Love:"
The Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church is now in session in this city. To look at them as
a body, you are irresistibly forced to the conclusion that
you are in the presence of superior intelligence and earnest
piety. What a wonderful history could be written of the
lives of these holy men of God—what change, what sor
row, what joys, what conflicts, what triumphs have been
developed in the life of each In the Itinerancy. How many
friendship: they have cultivated, and what a wonderful
store of private history becomes implanted in their recol
lections as they journey from city to city on their QOlll4Oll
of peace. Aye! and how many graves do they remember
here and there as containing the ashes of those to whom
they w. re warmly endeared by the intimate associations of
pastor and flock. The Itinerancy was, in the early history
of this Church, a necessity; bat I think the time has come
when this institution should bees altered ae to extend the
period of ministerial residence to at least mix • ears. be
lieve many years will not expire before this essential
change in the polity of Methodism is made. A committee
has been appointed to report on "the state of the Church,"
which involves, of course, the delicate subject of slavery.
The report of the committee and the discussion thereon
will claim marked attention from all classes of citizens.
and considerable anxiety is expressed that conciliation and
conservatism may rule the hearts of all theae good men is
the consideration of this question.
NEW HOUSE OF THE EMPIRE HOOK AND
Lemma COMPANY.—The new house of the Empire Hook and
Ladder Company, corner of Duke street and the Railroad,
in lust receiving the finishing touches, and when com
pleted, and the rubbish incidental to a new building re
moved, it will prove quite a handsome improvement to
that section of the city. The building is a neat one in
every respect. It is sixty by twenty five feet, two storiee,
or forty feet in height, with fourteen inrh walls. The front.
which has two large double doors ou first story and two
windowa on the second, is a fine a admen of ornamental
brick Work, both doors and windows being arched. The
.brat floor conveniently houses the apparatus and leaves
ample room for an engine or hose carriage. with a good
steed meeting room in the rear, with a double door, which,
when thrown open, will allow the apparatus to be run in
at either of the front doors. „ The second story is thrown
Into a single room, with nine windows, and is seventeen
feet from floor to ceiling. It Redesigned for a lecture ball
or society room, for which It is vimirably adapted. Thin
room le reached by a spiral stairway, either from the first
floor or by means of a side entrance through a vestibule.
The entire building is well aranged for the purposes for
which it is intended, and we learn gives. general satisfaa,
Lion to the members. The cost . of the building is about
four thousand dollars, independent of the ground, which
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, .with its accustomed
liberality donated to the company.
The hall on the second-story has already been rented by
the Jackson Rifles for an armory, and will be fitted up by
them for that purpose next week. The Military Cadets have
also engaged the hall for one - night during each week, for
the purpose of drill, for which it is well fitted.
The "Empire" numbers about forty active members,
and now that they have everything in order to case of fire,
will prove a useful auxiliary to the fire depattment of the
city.
—We neglected to men , ion in the proper place that the
brick work of the Minding wee done under the impervialon
of Mr. John P.. Webie„ the carpenter work by Mr. Wm.
Hensel,.thiplastering by Mr. J. Drackemiller, the painting
by. Mr. E. Carter, and the plumbing and gas fitting by
Pdesera.gendrick & Flinn, all of which has been performed
in a satisfactory manner.—Saturday's Express.
. JACK REMICK IN A NEW .ROLE.—It Will be
recollected that this noted thief when arrested in December
last, and committed to prison by Alderman Wiley on a
charge of larceny, had in. bin possession two elegant copies
of the Psalms and Linens arranged for the use of the Pres
byterian Church, The following interact from a letter, re
ceived by the Mayor on Wednesday, from the Rev. John,
Elliott, Pastor of the Sinking Valley, Presbyterian Church,
at Spruce Creek Station Huntingdon county, shows 'that
Jaok has turned his attention to plundering churches: •
‘, I have seen it stated, in one of your city papers, that
you have In your possession two Hymn books, one large
one designed for pulpit use, the other small, batwing the
name ofJohn H. Morrow. These books, with sundry other
articles, were taken from Sinking Valley Presbyterian
Church, about the first of December, 1860. The thieves
did much damage to the furniture of our church."
We would state to the authorities of Huntingdon county,
that Remick is now serving oats term of imprisonment in
the Lancaster County Prison, and, If wanted, he can be
easily obtained, as he will soon be at liberty.—Thursday's
E.Vmfr.
PETIT JURORS to Serve in the Court of Com
mon Pleas, commencing Monday. April 22d:
Samuel L. Brubaker, Rapho; Daniel Breneman, Manor;
James Bonghen, Columbia Bor.; John Baker, City; Amos
K. Bowers, City; E. H. Coover, Ephrata; Joeeph Clinton,
Elizabethtown Bor.; William Clark, .Strasburg Bor4 John
S. Dellinger, West Hempfleld; Samuel Ewing, Drumore;
Jesse H. Erb, Conestoga; Daniel W. Erb, Penn; Jacob G.
Garman, East Cocalico; Abraham - flood, Martiq Davis
Qyger, Strasburg; Israel Hoover, Washington Bor; Michael
r. Hoover, Lancaster Twp 4 Christian B. Herr, Manor;
Christian 0. Herr. Manor Michael lioover. Rapho; Joseph
Jamison, Little Britain; E. M Kline, City; Emanuel Keller,
Manhelm; Henry Lipp, City; John B. Lutz, East Coo:Oleo;
Jacob Lutz, Rest Cocalico; Jacob Mellinger. East Hempfleld;
Samuel Plank, 'Jr., Salisbury; John L Patterson, Little
Britain; J. M. Park, Drumore• Thomas Robinson, Provi
dence; John Stober, West COCAIN , : Jacob H. Strickler. West
Hempfleld; Daniel Sensenig, Brecknock; Calvin A. Shaffner,
Marietta Bor.; Jacob B. Tahndy, Warwick.
For The Intelllgencer.
UMBEL Itorroas : lam not one of those who are' con
Gamily writing communications for public, journals, nor
should I attempt to say anything at present were it not
that my conscience would check me hereafter. Now
to the ppint. White men most and shall role America.
But such is not the case at the present time in the lower
end of Lancaster county. The constable of Sadabury, Mr.
Pancyfoot, had' in his nossesaion a State warrant for a
respectable young roan in Colerain, for an tumult com
mitted by him on a negro in Bart, who attends to every
person's business but Mecum; his name is King' Charles
the 10th. Now Mr. Saucyfoot deputizes King Charles' son
and another "nigger,". whose name I do not know, to
assist In arresting Mr. Samuel ld., of Colerain They ptce
ceeded on their journey, until they arrived at the reiddentie
of Samuel M. He gave leg bail, and made ;reeks for a
. hill nearat hand,covered heavily with sprouts and bushes,
with Mr. Sancyfoot's assistants at hie heels. By this time
several of the neighbors, hearing a. peculiar sound, pro.
needed immediately to the place, and the first object they
discovered was a negro with a revolver in his band in pur
suit at a white man, using the language d—n. you stop
or I. will blow your hnsins out" The Murders of Mis.
Garber and Mtn. Ream, and the late Mash, of Chester, who
were • all . murdered by negroee, alarmed them at ones,
..thinkingperhaps them might be another by the weapons
be was carrying and the language he was using. So they
• were determined.to etop it. Women and men from the
Age of 70 down to 20 arming themselves with clubs and
stones, they having no guns, made chase after:the "nigger"
constable. , His heels being too light, they could not over
take him, and perhaps it was as well. I would therefore
suggest, as a friend, to the constable of Sadebury, 'Mould
•he attempt between tbis and the third Monday la April,
When his successor will take the field, owing to:ths ineon•
alstency of hl predecessor deputising a colored friend, to
depittize'white men and citizens, and there will .ho. no
dredetance. Colerain ie as she ever has been—tette te the
laws pt the land.: But we never will submit, no: never!
for any neo to arrest any of nor citizens, unless it is kw;
murder. • wbiro white 'men: have the ruling power in
America, our motto Is, white men most and shall rule
ANDREW JACKSON, Js. '
POPULATION OF THE U. sireTras.
The official innaanaof the United States is
and 4.9"4 1 OR* of :31,429,891—,
f which 3,951,801 are slaves. = S •
" asutrurriis, Mara - NFLTIE
Mr. Cowan presented the credentials of
David Wihno elected a Senator from Penn—
sylvania Asp I,y I , 4.ltiiiiimoy caused , by the.
resignationvof . _ 'Cameron.
Mr. Wilmot 'was sworn in and took his
:-.---,
•tr -4 1H.- he'Viee PriUlaeiii-buil before the Senate,
!irletitlzfrom thttgoinifioi of Indiana, enolos
' 4' s th - *oint reucliation of the General As—
.kmbl , f' the§tats,irquesting Congress. to,
.',Oll •,. nve. Rir;4‘ amendment of the
` - Cons fution. - -.
It was laid on the tablerand ordered to be
printed.
The Senate then took up the resolution
- Mr. - 713 - re - cleirkridge - fiiicieeded - to addiess - the
Senate. He had been a silent spectator of a
4 ... drummairLthe orbPs history,-Efe- • •
been one of number of Senators who earnest
ly strove to bring about the adoption by Con
gress of some measures which would allay the
,storm reew
He regarded the inaugural as being gener
ally expressive -of peace,-but if ,itwas carried
out to its strict letter, bloodshed would
inevitably ensue. The` Willing idea of the
inaugural was that: the President did not
recognise the existence of a new . government
in the South, and that he intended-to execute
the laws in all--the States, including those
which bad gone out of the Union.-
That he would lold all the forte and public
property by'lforce of arms if required,n
a d
would eollect the revenue its in the past. In
a whole, he construed the inaugural to mean
that the President was determined to hold all
the property of the United Stites at all haz
ards, and if Fort Strinter was to be vacated it
was not to be done as a measure of peace, but
as a policy which a military general would
pursue to gain a more important advantage
elsewhere.
•• He saw 'no broad and practical palioy
among Republicans which could promote
peace. The simple question was, should the
power of the United States be maintained
over a separate Government of five millions of
people with all the machinery of. the Govern—
ment? If it was, why hesitate and talk of
peace? If not, why were Federal troops still
retaining possession of the forts? The Senate
should have advised, by resolution, the Presi—
dent of the United States to withdraw the
forces from the South and to have' sought by
negotiations alone the preservation of the
Government.
He should vote for the resolution introduced
by the Senator from Illinois, but he hoped
that a resolution would be brought before the
Senate to get the sense of that body, authoriz—
ing the President to withdraw the troops from
the Confederate States. With regard to the
revenue he had but little to say. That ques—
tion has already been settled, and the remarks
of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Douglas)
were a good exponent of his sentiments upon
that subject..
THE SOUTHERN FORTS.
The Southern forts that now remain to be
maintained are but few. The forts in Texas,
we believe, are now all in possession of the
State troops; while those of Louisiana and
other seceding States, with a few exceptions,
are also in possession' of the authorities.' of
those States. Those still remaining in posses—
sion of the United States are very important to
the Government in a strategic point of view,
and equally important to the safety of the
Southern Confederacy. They are as follows :
Fort Sumter, Fort Pickens,' and the fortresses
on the Dry Tortugas and at Key West. The
first of these the Government of the United
States has resolsied to abandon as untenable.
Whether this is the true reason or not, re—
mains to be' seen. Fort Pickens is a most
important fort, in the event of a hostile colli—
sion, to both the seceding. States and the
Government. It is situated on a small island
at the mouth of the harbor or bay of Pensaco
la, and as completely • commands its entrance
as does Fort Sumter. that of Charleston. The
size, equipment and insulated position of the
works render them a most formidable defense,
and one which it must require immense labor,
money and loss of life to capture. It is, how—
ever, subject somewhat to the same' difficulty
as is Fort Sumter. Fort Mcßea, which is now
in the hands of the Secessionists, is still further
out seaward, and has pretty effectual and
prior command of the harbor. It is asserted,
also, that the Secessionists are forming addi—
tional breastworks and batteries to more
effectually command. the harbor. Should the
attempt to control the harbor be successful.
and all further reinforcement or provisioning
of Fort Pickens be thus cut off, the fall of the
fort would only be a matter of time. From
present appearances, Lieat. Slemmer, who
now commands the fort, will be able to defy
any force which is likely to be sent against
him.
The defences of Key West are also well nigh
impregnable. They are situated on an island,
also, off the extreme southern end of Florida,
and cannot be attacked without a naval force
which the Secessionists do not possess and can
not procure for years to come. The Dry Tor
togas is situated still farther out in the gulf
on a barren limestone rook, and is beyond all
chance of capture. These two latter points,
in a large measure, command the commerce
of the Gulf of Mexico, and would doubtless be
retained by our government, in any and every
contingency, as naval depots and Military
points. They are now garrisoned sufficiently
for defense against any force which can be
sent against them, and well supplied with
provisions and military stores for a long siege.
Thus it will appear that, after the abandon
ment of Fort Sumter, we shall have but three
Southern forts to look after ; and that two of
these are beyond all chance of danger from the
Confederate States. The whole public interest
will therefore concentrate on Fort Pickens.
What are the intentions of our government in
regard to that fortress have not yet transpired ;
but there are many reasons to believe that an
attempt will be made to reinforce it. And
even should snob an attempt not be made, it
is expected that the troops now surrounding
it will very soon attempt its capture. Thus,
expected or probable'. collision seems to have
been transferred from. Charleston, South Car
olina, Co Pensacola, Florida. Whether any
collision at all takes place depends upon Abra.
ham Lincoln:— Chicago nnes.
SENATOR wiLunow.
The Carlisle Democrat thus daguerreotypes
the newly elected Senator from Pennsylvania:
Mr. Wilmot held a seat in Congress during
the six years from 1845 to 1851, and distin-
guished himself chiefly by his determined and
violent contribution to the antislavery agita
tion which has produced the bitter-fruita the
country is now reaping, in the dissolution of
its national government, and the pain, sorrow,
distress and ruin of thousands of its people.
He is, unquestionably, a man of some intel—
lectual ability ; but his strong abolition
proclivities, and his well known free trade
notions, make him rather the representative
of the New-York Yankee inhabitants of the
extreme northern section of the State, than
what our United States Senators should be, a
true type of the strong conservative sentiment
that so largely, prevails• among the people of
Pennsylvania. His election, "at this time, is a
misfortune, to say the least. He will have
just two years to serve to complete Gen.
Cameron's unexpired term, which ends on the
4th of March, 1863.
GEN. WEBB DECLINE'S I
Gen. JAMES WATSON WEBB it is said indig
nantly declines the appointmentef Minister .
to Turkey, tendered him by the President.—
The New York Courier and Enquirer, of
Wednesday last, says:
"We chronicled, yesterday, in our des—
patehea from Washington, the :nomination of
General Webb, the Senior Editor of this
paper. as Minister to Constantinople., Gen.
"Webb is ,now laboring under an attack of
sickness which confines him to his residence,
near Tarrytown; but we are informed, that
on seeing the announcement of his nomina—
tion in the morning papers of yesterday, he
immediately telegraphed to Washington, that
in no event, would"he' accept of such an ap—
pointment if tendered to him!'
The italics are the Courier's own, and no
one can read them without construing them
to mean emphatically that it was considered
an insult to Gen. Webb for President Lincoln
to offer hini appointMent I"
These noisy and blustering Republicans
are hard to please.''
mar We wodhleall the attention of th ose .
suffering: from GoneuMption, 'Bronchitis, &o.;
to an advertisement in another column of this
paper, of iii . impiSrtant-disoove ,ry for the , aura
of thosi diseasee, .444 4tili4iMed Oa-first
timeto ihe Ameriosii.publio ty. Meaara;
Gilmore, k Co., or NitirTitili.".- ." •-•
The following letter we clip from 'the Balti
more Clipper of Wednesday last. It will be
found to be, higklyiptateiting
~. Z.W.44giNGTON, March 19, 1861.
Much anxiety is entertained to know what is to be
the popsy orthe Administration, but it has not yet
een,disecnrered. Complaints are made even In high
*alai - that this policy has. - not been disclosed. lie
,spublliam Senators, in' the confidence of-the Presi.
• dentZend Cabinet, are - ,interrogated, but answer
nothing; awl - their Canal is construed into =will
lignese to tiidt,•wheatbcy are supposed to know. The
'foot hytheMon't kiWnv- - ;- - :No one knows. The Ad
ministration itself does riet - yet know exactly what
polierk to be adopted. That it is to be conservative
has been determined; and nothing further. Row to
make it conservative is the great difficulty, Mr. Lin
coin and his Cabinet have already found their high,
and honorable position no sinecure. Never before,
In ill Ere . history of - the country, was a Federal
Administration so beset with difficulties and dangers.
The preservation of the public peace, the avoid
-• • civil waraithoutau.sopromistoohttinationat
honor, the restoration of the integrity of the Uuion,
and even the retention of me.,nutnern Border States,
are all questions that may. not easily be , solved.
They require time and careful consideration, such
, • ••• • • ...fresit - hasbeen-impossibte for-the-Presi
, dent and his -confidential advisers to• bestow upon
them,' while their doors are besieged by an army of
hungry and clamorous Lollice-sekers. These have
come like a swarm of ; gnats. •They are everywhere.
They fill all the hotels. They Crowd the sidewalks.
They throng the corridors of the public buildings.—
They block up the approaches to -the. Departments,
and they keep up a continual stream in the direction
of the , private residences of the Ministers of the
.oovernment: The like was never seen.
This hose is Sompase,l of men of all sorts, sizes, ages
and conditions, and from almost all parts of the
habitable- globe, except the Confederate States of
America. The office seeking patriots of that region .
are all congregated about Montgomery, where they
have no competition from the North and West. Here
the mass of the assembled pa riots who are anxious
to serve their coautry by holding an oboe, are from
New England and the West. For a while Illinois
and Indiana furnished the principal part of the
throng, and turn. where' one might , there was to be
found some serious gentleman from Suckerdom wait
ing to be rewarded by the great rail-splitter fur hav
ing voted for him. It seemed actually, as if every
man in Mr. Lincoln's State expected for the simple
fact of his residence there to get an office. But
Illinois has been -already crammed with appoint
ments. The Republicans elsewhere swear in their
wrath that it has already_ received more than its
share, and Illinois and Indiana have been turned
down.
Now 'comes New England. Her granite bills are
pouring &lin upon the. Capital an avalanche of
hungry humanity . demanding a portion of the spoil.
It seems that she too has been already well provided.
Vice President Hamlin, of Maine ; Secretary of the
Navy; Welles, of Connecticut; Hon. Charles Francis
Adams, of Massachusetts, Envoy bxtraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain; Hon.
(leo. P. Marsh, of Vermont, Minister to Sardinia;
Hon. Anson Burlingame, Minister to Austria, and Mr.
Thayer, of Massachusetts, Consul General to Egypt
This is a very fair beginning for the little territory
comprised in the New England States. • There are
not many big crumbs left. General James Watson
Webb, of the New York Courier and Enquirer, goes
to Constantinople, and Carl Schurz is. put off with
the mission to Brazil. There is some talk of offer.
ing the mission to St. Petersburg to Hon. Henry
Winter. Davis, and as that is not inoluded in the
batch of appointments agreed upon yesterday, there
seems to be much truth in the rumor.
The territorial appointments are to be next dis
posed of. They will be taken up to-day and then we
are have a little resting spell to attend to graver
business than filling offices—the settlement of the
policy of the administration in reference to seceded
States, and the way " to raise the wind " to carry on
the government. Serious alarm is entertained that
under the Moriill tariff bill the revenues will be re
duced to almost nothing.. ihe Southern Confederacy
tariff is said to be sixty per cent. lower than the
Morrill bill in favor of the importer This is ample
inducement to carry the great bulk of importations
to the Southern ports; and to inaugurate an exten
sive system of smuggling which will change the our
rent of trade and commerce altogether' and alter
their character. These reasons render it certain that
there will be an extra session of Congress milled as
soon as the elections can be conveniently held.
STATE ASYLUDI
From the annual report of the Superinten—
dent of the- Lunatic Asylum we glean the
following items of general' interest: At the
date of the last report there were two hundred
and seventy four patients in the Institution.
Since that time; One year ago, there have
been one hundred and forty four admitted,
and one hundred and twenty-seven discharged
or died, leaving two hundred and ninety one
under care at the close of the year 1860.
The entire number of patients under treat—
ment during the year, has been four hundred
and eighteen. Of' those remaining in the
Hospital, one hundred and fifty six are sup—
ported by the public authorities, and one
hundred and thirty five by their friends. Of
those discharged during the year, thirty one
were restored to health, forty were more or
less improved in their mental condition, forty
eight were regarded as stationary, and but
eight died. Fi.om the opening of the Insti—
tution to the end of 1860, thirteen hundred
and thirty six patients have been under its
care; and while two hundred and ninety one
remain under treatment, two hundred and
thirty six have been discharged restored to
health; two hundred and sixty three in vari
ous states of improvement; three hundred
and fifty-eight have been taken out without
material improvement, and one hundred and
seventy eight have died."
OFFICE SEEKING AT WASHINGTON.
The extent to which office seeking is carried
by the Republican patriots, has not its par
allel in all our past history. It is absolutely
frightful and shows that politics is as much
a trade as any of the handicrafts—as mach a
pursuit as any of the professions.
A Republican writes from Washington:
"Applications for office continue to poor
in. Already at the Treasury the clerks have
noted and filed away for future - reference,
thirty two bushels of well endorsed documents.
At the Post Office Department fifteen th,eis
and applications for office have already been
filed. The War Department employs three
clerks to note and file away the applications.
The worst 'disappointed men who come to
Washington are the little town and ward
politicians, who, having " stumped " their
own localities, fancy the whole world, includ
ing Mr. Lincoln, must be fully satisfied that
but for each of these the Republican party
would have been defunct.
AFFAIRS IN TEXAS
NEW ORLEANS, March 20.
Governor Houston and the Secretary of
State refused to appear on the 16th, before
the State Convention,, when summoned to
take theroath of allegiance to the. Provisional
Government.
The other State officers complied with the
81119M01:18.
Lieut. Clark was to assume the Guberna—
torial powers on the I6th.
It is well known what course Gen. Houston
will pursue.
The Convention is rapidly maturing defen—
sive operations for the frontiers.
The Indiana are gathering in large numbers
on the western frontiers.
A military force is being organized to
protect the Rio Grande.
• The Convention has passed an ordinance
continuing in office the present State and
Government officials, who will take the new
form of oath,
(Correspondence of the Patriot and Union.]
LETTER FROM WA.SRINGTON
Waseneetex, March 23, 1864.
There is not anything to be seen here now, except
the crowd of hungry office seekers, who block up the
streets, public offices and the Senate gallery each
day It is,not within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant in Washington to recollect the time when
the city was so completely crammed with those who
cry, "give, give," like horse-leeches.
The President is worn down with fatigue. His
position is a pitiable one indeed. It is said by those
who have seen him lately, (I have not had that
honor since Inauguration day, when I saw him in
the Senate Chamber previous to his takinethettath
of office.) that he is actually as thin as a rail, and
pretty well split up at that, and that his fund of
coarse jokes and hackneyed anecdotes have run out;
so that the pe,r man looks like a respectable looking
ghost in broadcloth, who stands and stares at the
persons who are introduced to him without uttering
sword. lie begins to show visible signs of disgust
of his position, and all things connected with it ;
and I have little doubt that if be could only trans
plant himself from the White House to, his home in
Sprit gfield once more he would be a much happier
man than he is. Poor old Abe ! he has a bard road
to travel, and has made bat little progress on his
journey yet.
EX-SECRETARY FLOYD.
In the Criminal Court, at Washington City,
the two indictments against Governor FLuyD,
late Secretary of War, for conspirady to
defraud the Government, and malfeasanoe in
office in issuing the acceptances, have been
dismissed, as:'untenable. Of course he goes
seott free.
TIDE TWO TARIFFS.
The New Yorkers are down upon the. new
tariff of the North and in favor of the South
ern tariff. TheHerald says
"The tariff of the Washington Congress is
the moat ignorant, useless, blundering and
pernicious enactment that ever was conpocted
for the avowed purpose of bettering the inter—
ests of the country. On the contrary, the, tariff
of, the' Montgomery Congress is a sound,: prat:-
tical , erid intelligible meanie, and .a 8 such. it
will command the admiration of the stateal-.
inelv{Sof England; -,-gr an ce t iq u id„ 7 - a irr jthe
commercial nations of Europe."