horrible man’s head, and I come to the conclu sion that it was not bald at all, but sleavnl.” " Good,” said 1. “1m [ll‘Bth sure, mylad, you’re right : and, in that case, he musn have been an escaped lunatic. This gives us a clue”——— ' .1 Please, sir,” interrupted the maid with a. eourlesy, “ Mr. John Stokes, at, No. 23, ’av ’ml ’is ’ead shaved lately fox- scarlet fever. “For scarlet fever,” cried I ; “Eurcka, Eure r':a J” and l clapped my hat on= and rushed (IE :0 So. 22'. like a. lunatic myself. Mr. John Stokes was still grievously ill, and new to be seen by anybody but his lawyer, said his servant. "And am 1 not his lawyer. my good man? Can‘t you see 1'” _ So 1 went. up, as‘] had conjectured Would be Ihe case, to‘the third story; the same in which was our own sitting room in No. 1!). Poor Mr. John Stokes was lying in bed, and, luckily, fast asleep, with the identical shaved head and scarlet face that. had been so impressed upon our memories. ‘ “1e has been deliriQnsfordays, poor fellow,” aid his nurse; :‘and 1:. would be a pity to wake him for any bpsmess matter, would it not?” J said that it. would be a. great. pity, and that. it was not. tube thought of; and then asked whether the sick man was ever left. alone. “Never, sir.” » “Are you quite sure 01111511?” said I severely “Wel!,-sir, I may say ‘never ;’rthat is, except inst for my going down stairs for his break- fast.” - “And when} iime does he breakfitst?" “Well, sir, about ten o’lock.” "Between ten and a quarter past, I suppose.” “Yes, sir," replied the astonished nurse ; ‘ ‘just so.” The window nearest to mn- house was, I found, unbolted. It was clear that Mr. John Stokes—who afterwards got- well of his fever, and, I hope, recovered his hair~was the up parition that had so spoiled our breakfast a fortnight, ago, and 52}. our digestions wrong ever unce. The only mystery remaining was how, even in delirium, human feet could have gone so swiftly and surely upon that. narrow ledge, along «he fronts of three broad houses, and how they could have remained invisible to any eyes save ours. @lgt 33am & r‘(iEl'nimm ”_._,” ~_ SATURDAY MOB-SING, DEC. 8, 1860 a. imamwifirfidiiswc: mcDOWELL. Pub- fishers and Proprietors Gommuuh—gL-n; will not I» Published in the PllllOl AID U 310! unless accompanied with the name of the lather. s. M. PETTENGILL 8: (10., Advertising Agents, 119 Nassau street New York, and to State street, Boston, are-the Agents for the PATRIOT an final, and the most influential and largest circu hting newspapers in the United states And annulus. they are authorized to contract for 115-314 our Must rates FOR SALE. 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Single copy one year, in advance 'l‘en copies to one addre55............ Subscriptions may commence at any time. Pay al ways in. advance. Any imeraon'sending us 31:11:!) of fifty lubscn'bers to the Weekly will be entitled to a copy for his services. The price is so low that we cannot on‘er greater inducements than this. Additions may be made at any time to a. club of subscribers by remitting $1 for can]: additional name. It is not necessary to send us the names of those constituting a club, as we cannot undertake to addrlßSS each paper to club subscribers Beyarate‘ty. Specimen cupiefi of the Week]: will be sent to all who desire it O. BARRETT &» 00.,11an-isburg, Pa Deception. > The Republicans ascribe the inflamed slate of feeling at. the South to the misrepresenta tions of the aims and purposes of the Repub lican party by the Democrats of the North. They allege that the South has derived distorted and exaggerated notions of the designs of the Republican pal-£37 through the agency of the Democratic party; and that consequently the Democrats are responsible for the secession ‘ feeling kindled and fanned into a consuming 5“ by means of this system of dcception.- This feeble attempt, at recrimination will not 2 enable the Ilepuhlieans‘to shift u“. responsi ! hility for the impending dissolution of the Union from their own shoulders. The South ern people derived their impressions as to the ‘ purposeswf the Republican party, not, from the representations of Democrats, hut directly from the speeches of the leaders of that party: i and from the tone of the presses high in its ‘ confidence. Theyu‘end the public addresses of Seward, of Sumner, of Giddings, of Low-joy and other recognized captains of the advancing host. of Republicans, and ascertained directly from them what were the principles of the party they marshalled. The worst things that. the Democrats of the North said against the Republican party were furnished by the public declarations of their acknowledged leaders. It was not the duty of Democrats to palliate or gloss over the ultraisms of the Republican leaders, or to undertake the task of explaining Mr. Sewn-J's “irrepressible conflict,” and Sumner’s poisoned rat simile, as mere figures of rhetoric which really meant no hostility to the institutions of the South; But it was the duty of Democrats to show how such insane and wicked violence would impel-ii the existence of the Union; and if by doing so the semi :uent of resistance to Repuhlimn ”‘3l-‘7’35550” was deepened and strengthened among the Southern people, Whose fault. was it? That. of the men and the partywho i'ulminhtcd their analhemas against the South, or that. of the men and the party whodenounced such vio lence, and besouglit. the people not. to doom the counuy to certain destruction by entrusting these mad seclionalists With the direction and control of the Government? We fling back the charge of deception into the teeth of the Republican party.- We charge them with the guilt. of dish-acting this confed eracy. if their purposes were constitutional and conservative, and it. was slanderous to ac cuse them of A‘bolitimfism, then they were guilty of promoting, exciting and inflam‘mg hostility to the South—warmin g into life every grade of anti- slavery radicalism for no higher 01' deeper purpose than to secure a party tri— umph with the spoils of chine—encouraging men whose affections should comprehend the whole country, to hate and despise the South ——-all for nothing more enduring and exalted than a brief repast. at the public flesh pots. And now that. the South has taken them 1t their word, by accepting the declarations of their acknowledged leaders as the true exposi tion of the purposes of the Republican party, they say that it. is a. sad mistake for the South to believe that iheymeanl, what was said. The devil is not as black as he is painted. The Republican party is conservative, constitu— tional, national; and they rave and cry out. “ deception” because the South believe that Republicanism is the hostile aggressive thing I that its recognized cxpoeitorshave represented it. to bc. - Yes—there has been deception, gross, damn ing deception, practiced upon the people of Pennsylvania. The Republican leaders never allowed their party to see the true issue- They prattled about. Tarifi's and llomesieads and re trenchment, and covered orerthc month of the yawning gulf. When Democrats told the peo ple that. the issue was Union or disunion—that the election of Lincoln by a sectional party would precipitate the calamity which has threatened this country ever since Abolitionism has gained a footingin the North, they laughed in derision. This Union could not be dissolved, said they. The election of Lincoln would ce ment and make it more enduring. Disunion was a. Democratic bugbcar to frighten the peo~ ple from exercising their free choice. There was no: the slightest danger. The trouble would all blow over in a- few weeks after the election, and then (the good times would come —Taritl', Homestead, freedom and a universal jubilee. The people were blinded and deceived by such assurancesas these. They did not believe in the reality of danger; they did not think that there was lightning in the cloud above them, and that. it could descend to shiver and blast. their den-rest interests. The majority of the citizens of Pennsylvania voted for Lin~ coln under the false impression that his elec tion would not endanger the Union; and this false impreseion was produced and encouraged by the Republican party. Had the people seen the true issue as they now see it, Lincoln would not have received the vote of this State. They were deceived, cheated, betrayed. And now the guilty authors of this fraud, who should hide their faces in shame, have the brazen impudenee to resort. to recrimination by charging the Democratic Ila-fly with producing the excitement at. the South. They cannot, es cape the fearful responsibility of their criminal proceedings by “ facing it. through,” butfmust ever stand accountable to an outraged people for the disasters that have overtaken this once peaceful, prosperous and happy Union. Fugitive Slaves 9.! the North. The Baltimore American says it is estimated that in the last fifty years the number of slaves who have eschpetl from the South is fifteen hundred annually, and the total lose about forty millions of dollars. The result can be deter— mined with accuracy by the difi‘erence between the actual increase of the black population of the North from one census to another, and what the increase would hav'e been had it been con fined to natural causes. There are other in. teresting feels connected with this subject.— The slave population of the South doubles once in thirty years, the free negroes of the South double once in twenty-five; the free negroes of the North anti West double once in forty years from the untuml increase alone. The free negroes of the South are the most stable and least migratory of any class of population in the United States, leaving out of question their migration to other slave States. Many more free negroes migrate from the free States to the slave States than from the slave States to the free States. Forly-nine-fiftieths of all native negroes of the slave States who are found in the free Stat-es were fugitive slaves when they left the slave States. These are significant facts. They exhibit at a glance the immense losses which the South has sustained from unfaithfulness in the North to the federal compacts. What do the Aboliv tionists make of the fact that more free negroes migrate from the free States to slave States than from the slave States to the free '3 This does not show that their condition in the North is favorable to their material or moral elevation. $4OO ”$2 00 ..10 00 LETTER FROM WASJIINGTON. __,. .. _._“.- Currcspontieuce of the Patriot and Union There is as ye! nobusineas done in Congress,» except the hills which were passed through yester day in the House, without either dehato or exami nation. In the Senate there is no disposition to do business, and I do not think that body will do any of the ordinary business of a session of Congress- Everybody is itaiking about the revolution that is now going on, and of the certainty of the secon §iolx of the Southern States. There 55 no other tepid diseaseed anywhere but secession or disma tion. It is fully and madness longer to den! ”13*- the dissolution of thil Union will take place before the 4th of March next. the] Southern States have all the preliminary steps arranged for the fatal plunge, and. no power can Prevent it. MII. Buchatlmu :hows in his message that this goverumeni Is weak, etTete, powerless, in a jug. tun like the present. 116 proves thaw: possesses no inherent strength of self-preservation, and that it merely hangs upon the uncertain Manure of tho whims and onpricel of a‘most capricious mop”... If, then, more be no power in the government to prevent the States now about to sever their connec. tion with nut. government, the work of destruction is already commenced, and the terrible deed will be golgummuted whenever they have the muchi. nery Indy to form a. new repoblio. No concession that. oould be proposed by me North to the South now would be iisiened to for a; .WAsmnc'wx, Den. 0, 1360. moment The only question now left is one of re construction. What the programme will be, either North or South, I am at 9.1055 to divine, but I am persuaded that, inaémuch us separation is inevitable, the sooner it takes place the better, if it can only take place peaceably; but at this point I confess my ut ter inability to see how such a thingies peaceable secession can be accomplished. A collision must take place at some stage of the proceeding, and the country will be precipitant! into a. blood, revo intion before the people are either aware of it, or prepared for it. I venture the assertion here that the revolution will burst upon the people of this country like a clap of thunder. Why is it, in view of all the awful consequences that surround us, the Governors of the Northern States do not at once call their respective State Legisla tures together, in order to arrest th is dreadful state of things? Why does not Governor Packer issue his proclamation at once,.end submit the state of the country to that body for its prompt and decisive action? Why not make the effort at least to do something to stop the progress of a. catastrophe which must and in horrid scenes of suffering and blood? It will not be I suflicient answer to those questions that but three weeks have to elapse be fore the Legislature of Pennsylunin will meet in pursuance of the Constitution and lane of the Commonwealth,- because before that time expires we may have nought but the ruins of a once proud and glorious republic to look upon. I repeat it, that before the first of January next, the first fatal act in the dreadful drama may indeed, I think will, be enacted. ’ - . I confess I shudder as I write this, but my duty to the public, and my duty to myself, forbid that the truth should be longer suppressed. There is no more hope, except, perhaps, in a last effort being mlde by the Northern States, through their Legis latures, to efi‘ect a pause for a. few weeks in the movements of the Southern States 5 in an earnest appeal and a sincere, patriotic efl’ort being made to stay the tide of revolution that throntens our country’s overthrow. It must be borne in mind that the step between revolution and despotism is a. short one. The sun of this country’n prosperity cannot go down except in blood, if it must go down by a. rash, precipitate and reckless revolution, such as seems to be hurry ing us into the very vertex of. ruin and shame.— This Union is of too much value to be sundered at the mere bidding of those who have lost all regard for the memories that cluster around a. Confederacy that was pure-hosed and baptized with blood. Can it he that there is-no way of averting the terrible alternative that has been presented by the South -—that of severing the bonds that have held these States together for upwards of eighty-four years? Is it possible that. the people of the North willnot arouse themselves from their fatal slumber, and by every species of concession and compromise en deavor to save the Union from dissolution ? The issue is before them, it. is for them to choose ; for with them will rest the most terrible consequences in the future. The Putnam Phlanx, a. military company from Hartford, Connecticut, arrived herein the 6 o’clock train from Boltimore, and were escorted to the National Hotel in this city by the Washington City Guards. ThetCompany numbers 160, and are all dressed in the Continental uniform—cooked hats, with plume; yellow—top boots; blue coats— shad—bellies, of course-trimmad with bnfi'; large Waistcoats of buff or yellow color, with large lapel pockets, and ruffled shirts; in fact the uniform is identical with that worn by Washington and his compeers of the Revolution. They excited consid erable interest by the quaintnoss of their uniforms and soldier-liko appearance. They were entertained by the Secretory of the Navy, Governor Tunney, off: their own State, last night. 1 - The Senate has adjourned, 111 l Monday next. Census of Penn SylvaniawComplete. f z = u '2l s z I a = I 135 ' ‘3 ~ g: ID‘ E an 2‘ B‘ I m w I 345. . =7- cous'rms. - g I : I ': 5'3 I o‘3 FF I : I 2 Ig: I -m . g I 3 1 . <5 1I ' ' a I - E z Ia? i 1 a -‘ I 3 : I .7“ , ‘ M _ '———'-——:--'——‘ _'_l_:_ | ; me...........l 27,997' 4941 2.] 2E ’ ‘ A11egheny.......: 180,074 2,117 4153 M 1333 23%; Armstrong .....I as 114 240' 2300: 'lOB 'o’3lg 8eux:er........._.' 29,321 264' 2252‘ 319 5’453 gadt0rd......... 20,303 MI 230601 155 3’01,- Bgiks .-.-.- 91.943 1,204 5;531' 047 10115; B uri'li”""'” 27,485 317 1 001 132 4’877 Br '01.......1 50,040 2941 0007 230 0’31“ 8uck5........... 03,803 713 53780 576 14’983 outxer:.....-..-.. 33,753 3521 4:000 79 6’5 7 cumbgrmu .... . .. 29,313 300 1435 314 5’323 out n 21,239 236 ’409 91 o’s- ' .0211 3......” 27,087 127 1.061 129 2’73: 0191'? r......... 74,749 334 5123 666 13’7" 4 10n........_. 25,575 98 23031 112 ' ’l6 mgmemuuuu 15,925 1441 1'56; 114 3’3: C1xnt0nz......... 17,722 103 ’734' 1 ’ Columbm... ... . . 24,603 207 2 023 139 3’140 Crawford. .... . . . 49,041 294 5:507 20" 4’549 aumbgrlana.....l 40,402 533 21132. 10 9’31?) mupmn .. ..1. . . I 48,010 463 £l2B £2: 7’2” Delaware ... ... . . 30,614 373 1,629 12:67 8,226 $1111...." ... 5.843 55 lin 40 I’ggg 1' gig......... 00,097 21.4 4,174 363 9’7'9 aye, 40,166 MI 20ml 151 7' a Fora;t._.... ...I 859 13: I 9‘" I ’2Ol Eranklm ..... . . . I 42.242 4471 0 434: 111 3&5 1u1t0n..........,1 ‘ 9,140 69 I’och 3:3 7""5 Greeqe 24,400 221‘ 2’lll 'll 1,031 Hugtmgdon . . 23,204 278 2’09: 0712 4’2“ Indiana- .. .... . . . 33,869 36‘3- 31410 14" 4‘19“ $091301... .. .. . 18,4141 180 ram: 117 g’lfi Lunulta. .. ...1.. . . 10,3001 194 ’607 154 3‘3 Imm“ 110,021; 1,259 0 721 or 7 ’939 .awrence........ 23,213 163 1’837 9") ‘o’s'l gebgn0n......,.. 30.030 310 £783 ‘ :33 3’231 I elugh .... . . . 43,932 665 2’7341 ”54 at?“ 1020:1190” ... . . 91,089 868 3,3871 359 7’ ‘3B {11), commg .. ... . . 31,560 323 2'0391 209 13,032 3.153“ .. . . ... . . "9,000 491 3150‘ 53 1’30? 111-111' rl. 07,104 .379, 3 4731 37 6’35?) Ml 1n.......... 10,378 188; 1i043' . “HI “1931 Monica... .... . . . 16,805 1641 '9701 31 3‘ 09 lon gomery .. . . 70,4941 706 5.303? (3011 198:0 Nlontour .... . . . . 13,1101 15%| 'san 6 33301 forthampten.... 47,775 3301 207351 051 "3531 horthumberlaudl 29,0571 294 2116' E 54, 8’92? . . ... ~ o , ' ,097 1' 9 I I £110...........,1 7,3001 01 ’3l:, 4319' 893% 50tter._......... 11,467; 106 1221 351 3501' qchuylklll...nu 90,173: 971 2’237 513‘ "20g Egydef,......._.. 15,1241 1021 I'ooll- §1113724fi Suinpmt........ 26,9201 197: 230391 y” ”376 Sll 11V111....... ..I 4,140, 51' '66B' if; ‘I 4’ . qsquehanna .. . . 36,665! 453 3 7751 2-0 1:00: €0;......,...... 31,213! MI, 2’350 05'; 7’olo x'm0u.........:. 14,2221 103 ’92:; ‘5O! I”9-7 Wemmgu.........l 25,1891 152‘ 2 350 09! 2‘33 ngn..... ...... 19,299 167 I’4ol' 2 6 4’ 44 W:;l;;Qngtou.....l 47,319‘ 431 3:770 JLI 3’33; ......... 3‘ 2 I 9 “ I“ Westm-oreland...l 52,520 . :22 2,;38 236 71,12; {Yyopung .... . . . 12,644 84: 1,274 3359 971:5 0rL............1 08,083 8201 51130 0?: i 373 ‘ _._—_.— .____ I T0ta1.........12 " a "'I "‘ I .. ' 1111850 ..-....- :QJglgigééldg’fiu 109:3?3 201151514547 I.—.' I 1336’216 -Incrcas€-.......1 ’I I I - 801,250 128.031 Tm: SPANISH NA\'Y.——-The C'orrcspondmvia, of Madrid, gives the following as the naval force of Spain, as fixed fort-he coming year: A soil ing ship of 84 guns; n frigate of 42 ; two 1:01~~ vettes, carrying together 60 guns; two brigfla with 32 guns between them, and two transports of 2,784 tons. Screw steamers—three frigates. mounting in all 115 guns, and with machinery of the force of 1,460 horse-power; four schoon— -8:5, with 10 guns and 3-10 horse-power; and Six transports, 01" 7,300 tons and 1,310 horse-power. Six paddle steamers, carrying together 40 311113, and moved by machinery of 1,930 horse-power. In addition, the Coastguard service of the Peninsula includes two screw steamers with four guns, and of 764 horse-power; two idis pnteh boats, with four guns ;'two loggers, with a gun each; 25 felu‘ccns and 73 other craft. The total force of Spain, then, colonies not in cluded, may be taken at. 25 armed vessels, carry— ing 393 guns, 10 transports, together of 10,000 tons burdens and 97 auxiliaries. The number of men to be provided for the navy and naval stations is given as follows:—-4,919 marines, {>7l guards for the arsenals, and 7,176 sailors-7- :u a 1112,661. E THE SEOESSION TR 0 ÜBLES. ‘ —_._.__.__ A LETTER FROM A MEMBER OF THE CABINET The Pittsburgh Chronicle put lishes the lowing letter, which, it says, “a prominent. clergyman of Pittaburgh has just received from a member of President. Buchanan’s Cabinet—a. truly Christian man, anda tried pan-itch” WASHINGTON, November 30, 1860.—My Dear Sir : lam in receipt of yours of 27th inst., and thank you for your kindly allusion to my self, in connection with the fearful agitation that now threatens the dismemberment of our government. Ithink the President’s message will meet your approbation, but I have little hope that it will accomplish anything in mode rating the madness that rules the hour. The indications are that the movement has passed beyond the reach of human control. God alone ‘ can disarm the cloud of its lightnings. South ‘ Carolina‘will be out of the Union, and in the ‘ armed assertion of a distinct nationality, pro~ bably before Christmas. This is certain, un less the course of events is arrested by some prompt and decided action on the part of the people and Legislatures ot' the Northern States. The other Slaves States will follow South Carolina in a. few weeks, or months. The Bor der Slates, now so devoted to the Union, - will linger a little while, but they will soon unite their fortunes with those of their Southern sisters. Conservative men have now no ground to stand upon—no weapon to battle with. All has been swept from them by the guilty agita tions and infamous legislation of the North. I do not. anticipate, with any confidence, that the North will act up to the solemn responsi bilities of the crisis, by retracing those fatal steps which have conducted us to the very brink of pei‘dition, politically, morally, and financially. There is a feeling growing in the Free States which says, “Let the South go !” and this feel ing threatens rapidly to increase. It is in part the fruit of complete estrangement, and in part a Weariness of this perpetual conflict between North and South, which has now-lasted, with increasing :bitterness, for thirty years. The country wants repose, and.is willing to pur chase it at any sacrifice. Alas, for the delusion of the belief that repose will follow the over throw of the government. I doubt not, from the temper of the public mind, that the Southern States will be allowed to withdraw peacefully; but when the work of dismemberment begins, we shall break up the fragments from month to month with the non ehalnnoe with which we break the bread upon our breaqust tables. If all the grave and vital questions Which will at once arise among these frgments of the ruptured ‘ republic can be ad justcd without a. resort to arms, then we have made vestiprogress since the history of our race was written. But the tragic events of the hour show that we have made no progress at all. We shall soon grow up a race of chieftsins, ‘ who will rival the political bandits of South ‘ America and Mexico, and who will carve out i to nsdour miserable heritage with their bloody swor s.- . , ' The muslin". of the people dream not of these things. They suppose the republic can be de stroyed to-dny, and peace will smile over its ruins to-morrow. 'They know nothing of civil war. This March in the desert of the pilgrim age of nations has, happily, ‘been for them a. sealed fountain. They know not, as others do, of its bitterness, and that civil war is a scourge that darkens every fireside, and wrings every heart with 'anguish. They are to be commisera ted, for they know not what they do. Whence is all this? It has come because the pulpit and the press. and the cowering, unscrupulous politicians of the North have taught the people that they ere responsible for the domestic in stitutions of the South, and that they can be faithful to'God only by being unfaithful to the compact which they have made with their fel low men. Ilence those “liberty hills," which degrade the Statute Books of some ten of the free State's, and ore ooiil‘csscdly a shameless violation of the Federal Constitution, in a. point vital to the material interests of the South, and yet more vital to her honor. We have here presented, from year to year, the humiliating spectacle of free and sovereign States, by a. solemn not of legislation. legalizing tlzt' theft of their neighbor’s property. I say theft, since it issnot the less so because the subject of the despicable crime chances to be a slave, instead of a. horseor cabale of goods. From this same teachinghns come the per petual agitation of the Slavery question, which has recalled the mind of the slave population of the South, and has rendered every home in that distracted land insecure. This is the feature of the “irrepressible conflict” with which the Northern {people are not familiar. In almost every part of the South miscreant fanatics have been found, and poisoning and conflagrntion have marked their footsteps. Mothers there lay down at night, trembling, beside their children, ,and wives cling to‘ their‘husbnnds as they leave their homes in the morning. I have a brotheriresiding in Mississippi who is a. law yer by prhfession, and a cotton planter, but has never had any connection with politics- Know ing the éulm and conservative tone of his character} I wrote him, o. few weeks since, and implored him to exert his influence in alloying the frenzy of the popular mind around him. He has replied to me at much length, and after depicting. the machingtions of the wretches to whom I [have alluded, and the consternation which reigns in the homes of the South, he says it is the unalterable determination of the Southerngpcople to overthrow the government, as the only refuge which is left to them from these inshpp‘ortuble wrongs; and he adds: “on the success of this movement depends my every earthly interest—the safety of my roof from the firebrand, and of my wife and children 1': om the poison and the dagger.” I givel you his language, because it truth fully expresses the Southern mind. which at this moment glows as a. furnace in its hatred of the North, because of these infernal agita lions. Think you that any people can endure this condition of things ‘2 When the Northern prencheriinfuses into his audience the spirit of assassins} and incendiaries, in his crusade against slavery, does he think, as he lies down quietly at night, of the Southern homes he has robbed of sleep, and of the helpless women and children he has exposed to all the nameless horrors of servile insurrection? I am still for the Union, because I have yetu faint, hesitating hope that the North will do justice to‘ the South, and save the republic be fore its wreck is complete. llut action, to be available, must be prompt. If the Free States will sweep-the “ liberty bills” from their codes, propose a convention of the States, and offer guarantees which will afford the some repose and safety to Southern homes and property enjoyed by those of the North, the impending tragedy may yet be averted. but not otherwise. I feel apositive personal humiliation, as a mem ber of the human family, in the events now prc~ paring. If the republic is to be oli‘cred us a. sacrifice ‘on the altar of African servitude, then the question of man’s capacity for self-govern ment is forever settled. The derision of tho world will henceforth justly treat the preten sion as a force, and the blessed hope, which for five thousand years our race— amid storms and battlcsfhas been hugging to its bosom, will be demonstrated to be a phantom and a dream. Pardon these hurried and disjointed words. They have been pressed out. of my heart by the sorrows that are weighing upon it. Sincerely your friend, "-1' 9: * llmvi FALL or ROCK AT NIAGARA Fume—7 A correspondent of the Toronto Globe writes as follows :1 “ I want. to inform you that on Sutur~ day. thegoh inst" at half past. 1 o‘clock,'there was a tremendous 'fall of rock a little sooth of ths old Staircase, completely filling up the path: way longing to the new staircase. But a few minutesgbefore this‘fall, a party was being con~ ducted from {he museum to the sheet of voter. Had it Happened at the time the: were passing all must“ have been crushed to pieces. I sup pose some thousands of tons fell.” GARIBALDI’S hymns—Mr. Adams Smith, the amusing correspondent of "the Scotsman at the scene of strife in southern Italy, introduces us to one or two of the ministering angels of Garibaldi’s camp and hospitals: “ There is a, Princess who is indefatigable in her exertions daily at the hospital. Then there is the Countess Marni della Torre, a very ex traordinary personage, revolver and dagger in one hand, and physio bottles and plasters in the other. She is good looking, as far as deli- ‘ cate features can make her, a nose chiselled on the best Grecian model, but she fails in com plexion. ller figure is slight, and not inela gant, and upright as a. dart. Such her phym— “p.ll” moral may be partly collected from a short conversation I had with berm a cast she gave me one evening in her carriage. I was returning on foot from St. Angelo after the battle on the let October. I met her dn ving at a gallop. I respectfully saluted her as she passed. She stopped and kindly told me to get into the carriage. I did so, and asked her where she was going at such a. rate. ‘To the camp-_to the wounded—but I have no ban dages—no nothing—no anything for dent.”— ‘Then what is the use of going there? had you not better return to the hospital at Santa Maria, whither the wounded will be carried.’ ‘Vell, I must sec.’ She stopped everybody on the road, boy and man, to ask their advice. All this while the bullets were flying across the road, and she standing up in the carriage, an excellent mark, cool as acucumber. “For nearly twenty minutes did we remain ‘on the road lightly conversing. ‘Don’t you ‘ tick my uniform very pretty, Mr. Smit’——but . tons all down in the front ?’ 'Yes,’ said I, ‘and j unless you want some more button holes to match not made by the regular tailor, I think i we had better start, more especially as than more holes than buttons.’ ngozzo assented; but after all she is kind-hearted as well as spirited. Then last, but not least, there is a Mrs. White, of the Chiaja, of more modest pretensions, but not less energetic, equally use ful. She is one of Garibaldi’s pets; and by his salutes you may always know where his affec tions are deepest—he has a gradual scale. This lady he impresses afl'ectionotely and fervently upon the cheek. “Then there is a very patriotic woman, Whose cognomen is Santa, Joanna, who has spent half her fortune in the cause, with the noblest soul enclosed in a mass of most smutty flesh and gorgeous ribbons, for whom he has the most unbounded regard; he salutes her on the top of the head. There are many other steps in the scale of his infections, but I have merely taken the. top and bottom ones. It is to the second lady‘ mentioned that I would re— commend all the subscriptions for the sick and wounded to he sent.” 12,11 Streams Case or Poxsomxc BY A Born—A remarkable ease of attempted murder by poison has occurred lately, as we learn from the Bur lington Free Press, at Montpelier, Vt. A little child of Hon. C. W. Willard, while drinking his milk, was seized with violent vomiting—— The milk was examined and found to contain corrosive sublimatc enough to kill a dozen men. The poison had evidently been put into the milk after it had been poured into the child’s cup, and the sudden, violent reaction of the child’s stomach was all that saved its life. The wonder was, who could have done it—«for the servants, a girl and an Irish boy named John Roakes, were considered trusty, and were both exceedingly fond of the child. Finally suspi cion fell upon Roakes, who confessed that, he put the poison in the child’s cup, not from any ill will to Mr. and Mrs. W., who had always treated him kindly, or to the baby, but simply from hatred to the servant girl, with whom he had some trivial quarrel. and on whom he hoped the suspicion of committing the crime would fall. he owned also to having taken, and de stroyed by burning them, some valuable articles of clothing, which had disappeared from time to time._ expecting that the girl would be charged with the theft. He was immediately arraigned before the Court in session at the time, plead guilty, and was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment, Judge Poland very pro perly adding to the sentence alecture upon the inconcrevable heartlessnegs and depravity which could induce so wicked a deed. Tm: Eur-snort NAPOLEON 11m me Porn.— The Paris correspondence of the Daily News, writing on the 14th, says: A pamphlet, cer— tainly not ofiieial, but still significant, has ap peared to-day at Dentu’s with the singular title of “Pope et Empereur.” The author (under stood to be ,M. Gayle) proposes the suppression of all relations between the French clergy and Rome, that bishops and priests should be elec ted by the people as in the primitive days of the church, and that the Emperor should con centrate in his own person political and reli gious supremacy. I have often heard it sug gested, in a. half joking way, that the Emperor would solve the Roman question by making himself Pope; the appearance of the above pamphlet at Dentu’s, at the present juncture, calls to mind the proverb that there is many a true word spoken in jest. It is rumored that M. de la Guerronniere is at work upon 8. pam phlet on the religious question. Meapwhile, ”moderation” being a quality which the gov ernment especially cultivates, a private inti mation has been given to the press that. they would do well to abstain from such very strong articles against the clergy as the Opinione No !z‘onale has been publishing lotel¥ It appears certain that the question of the ope’s depart ure from Rome was warmly discussed at the last council of Cardinals, presided over by His Holiness, but that the council broke up with out coming to any decision. ANOTHER RAILROAD I’noJrze'r.-—The great yield of oil at the Mecca. oil wells, and the rapid increase of business consequent there from, has developed a. project for completing the Clinton Air Line Railroad from Jamestown, in Mercer county, to that Point. The work will he completed under a, difi‘erent company from that of the Clinton Air Line Company. It is thought that the road can he bought. from the original owners, or those who own it. at present, for a mere trifle, and that the road can be com pleted at a comparatively small expense, as the grading on the entire length of this division of the road is already completed, and the stone necessary for the building of culverts, bridges, &c., all quarried and on the ground ready for putting up. THE NEW YORK Cmm‘m Emonoxa.~—on Tuesday an election took place in New York city for uldermen, councilman, and other local officers. Very little interest seems to have been taken in the results, as not half as many votes were cast as on the day of the Presiden tial contest. The “ Japanese _aldermen” were nearly all successful. Politically, the Mdormen stand 13 democrats and .4 republicans, but only 5 democrats and 4 republicans were elected on Tuesday, the rest holding over. The republi cans lost. two members. It is supposed the democrats have a. majority of the councilman. A KENTUCKY mennmn.—About a year ago, it. will be remembered, Mr. Talbot, :1. hotel keeper at Bardstown, Ky., was shot and killed by T. H. Slaughter. Slaughter was tried at the recent term of the Bullit Court (having obtained a change of venue from Nelson county), and admitted to bail, jury failing to agree. On the 10th ult., a. son of the murdered mun, mech ing Slaughter in the streets of Bardstown, shot him dead on the-spot. ‘ GUN AND BLASTING POWDER. JAMES M. WHEELER, HARRISBURG, PA., ' AGENT FOR ALL POWDER AND FUSE uununnun u I. E. DUPONT DE-NEMOURS uh 00.. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. 117 A large supply always on land. For sale at unnu fac‘mr’s prices. Mlgazine two mm: below town. flowers received at Wnrohouee. 11017 LATEST fiav TELEGRAPH The Panic, Special Dispat‘bh to the Patriot and Union PHILADELPHIA, Dy: 7 Stocks and breadstufl‘s are still depreesed. Reading fell two dollars per share. Thug.“ banks have reduced their discounts, instead or expanding them, as was agreed upon. '1’!“ merchants are, consequently, dissatisfied. ' :J. -- ~r— F- From Washington, ‘ WAsmnamox, he. 7. Neither Houses of Congress is in 525336.]: In» day, having adjourned over till Monday. Mr. Dundas, the Second. Assistant Postmas ter General, has been ill for five months pan. and is still lying at. home in a. criticai candi tion. ‘ _Au editorial in the National Intelligent-n or this morning recommending a. Convention or the slave-holding States, for the purpose of mu tual consultation, in respect alike to the dan gers believed to be impending, and the remedv gee'mgt'i D‘itlst agequalte to avert. them, is said tic, olnlcnlveo It annowm ‘ar . ~ efi'eet this object. 11 nturmc ht” t The commercial houses of New York and other cities have already ordered of the Poi-I Office department, in advance of their distribu tion nmong'the Poet. Ofiices, over one million of the new ruled letter envelopes about to in: issued, probably on Monday, with the on;: cent stamps attached. This has been done win. the View of taking advantage of the prestige o: the new invention, and the general curiosity respecting it, by enclosing their circulars ml. dressed to the trade in this envelope. The Putnam Phalanx, under a miiizary es— cort, visited the White House this morning—— The President was addressed‘by Judge Advo— cate Stark, and cordially responded to the Union sentiments enunciated. He said it was fl].- first time he had had. the gratification of sec,»- ing so full 3 corps in the Continental uniform. though during the period of the Revolution many of the soldiers were but poorly clad and without this distinctive .costume. A large crowd, including the Executive officers, mul many laiies, Were present. , The Markets. - Pmunnmu. Dv-n. 7 Flour tiniet; superfine 35, extra. fumilytéfi'lgu, up! fancy 55.751165). Rye Flour 53.62%, and omm Men! $3 25. Wheat; red $1.20 and $1 3231.27, and white 31.3“: 31.87. Rye 76c. Corn; old yellow 65.670. Ind new do. 599.5%. Oats 32c. and 3321340. Cloveraeei $5.25 and $5.50a5.75 per 64 lbs. Whisky 199.193“. New Yogg, Dec. 7. Flour heavy; sales or 4.000 barrels ; State is 101:. lower, being quoted at s4-.40M.50, Ohio sells at 54.8035, Southern $43035. Wheat very dull; quotations nomi nal ; no sales. Com dull and nominal; sales of 15,000 bushels, at 60n610. Whisky dull and nominal at 17),;15r. BALTXMOZE, Dec. 7. Flour dull and heavy; Howard street and Ohio are held 11.-$5, City Mills $4,75. Wheat dull and nominal Com steady : New White and Yellow 6011510. Profi sions nominal; Mess Pork $7317.50. Lard loge. Gofi'm dull at 1321140. Whisky lower; sales at 189 MARRIED. 0n the 3th of November, by the John Agnew, M I'. Ammuu WILLIAMS, of Cumberland county, to Mm MARY A., second daughter of 001. Henry Logan, 111-ac Dillaburg, York oeunty, Pa. ‘sz flhnmisnnmts. EMPTY ~l’7O'l7l‘LES I I I—~Of all :Iva and descriptions, for sale low by dad} WM. DOoX,'Ja‘. «\- 00. HICKORY “700 D! Z—A SUPERIOR LOT just received, and for sale in quantities to wit pur— chasers, by - JAMES M. WHEELER. Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand at 1t» lowest prices. - dcc’i COTTAGE FURNITURE, 1:: Chamber Suits, containing DRESSING BUREA U. 31?)”- STEAD, WASII-STAND, TABLE, FOUR CHAIRS. and a. ROCKING CHAIR, from $23 to $44) 9 suit. BUREAUS AND BEDBTEADS from $4.60 to $10.50. and other articles at equally low figures, It the Wan- Rooms of JAMES BIZBOYD & SON, - now-(11m 29 South Second street. C A B-IN E T WAREHOUSE. JAMES-R. BOYD 85 8'95, '29'SOUTII SECOND STREETg CABINET MAKERS AND UNDERTAKERS. A large variety of TETE—A—TETE SOFAS, 1R)! AND PARL OR CHAIRS, fiTARBLE'TOP TABLES, B UREA US, BEDSTEADS 2 WASII-STANDS, 11.-17' RACKS, kc. Call and examme our steak and prices. a 4 we calm? fill a; low as can be bought in the State. no - m BOOTS AND SHOES‘ JAc K s o N do a 0; Have- opened 9. Boot and Shoe Store at No. 90); M.\ i: ~ KET STREET, corner of Fourth, where they keep mn atant-ly on hand a. full and varied assortment of' the BE'ST CITY MADE SHOES. Having been engaged in the SHOE UPPER BUSI NESS in this city for more than “year, Vaey are .prc« pared to make ALL KINDS 01" FANCY SHOES 1d order, at short notice, of the best materials, and. war reuted to give satisfaction every way . WPleue call and examine my assorgmeut before. purchasing elsewhere. {B‘Bemember the place—9o).; Market street, sign 0 file [noiT—daw] GOLDER BOOT. otele. UNITED STATES HOTEL 7 scum msr comma or 11m nu) mam-r eflmrfirs. ADJ DINING THE PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD DEPOT, PHILADELPHIA. The undersigned would respectfully inform the Public that he has taken the above Hotel, formerly known as ‘-' THE MANSION HOUSE,” which he has refitted and newly furnished throughout. ' The Room: #39 spacious and commodious, And furnish ml whith etvery convenience to be found in the best Hotels in t a ci y. The “UNITED STATES” is admirably located for the convenience of travelers, being under the some roofwitb the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, and thus saving both hack hire and porterage of baggage. No pains will be spared to render the “ UNITED STATES” a. pleasant and a-greesbla residence to [ill who may favor it with their Patronage. Chas-fies moderate. Bum—d3mwly 11. W~ KANAG A, Proprietor. BUEHLER HOUSE MARKET SQUARE, HARRISBURG, PA.‘ GEO. J. BOLTON, Paarnun-cx _ CARI). The above well known and long established Hotel in now undergoing A thorough renovation, and being in . great degree newly furnished, under the proprietorship of Mr. Gianna]: J. Ban-ox, who has been an inmate of the house {or the last, three years, and is well known to its guests. ‘ Thankful for the liberal patronage which it has on joyod, I cheerfully commend Mt. Bolton to the p‘ublie favor. je‘l-dkwy WILLIAM BUEKLERM Manama. INSURANCE AGENCY. THE DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANX. OF PHILADELPHIA. ‘ INCORPORATED 1835. CAPITAL AND ASSETS...... .. . . . .. “$904107“ THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA. 01‘ PHILADELPHIAr INCORPORATED 1794. CAPITAL AND A55ET5............-$l-m9.‘?5-11‘- The undersigned, us 1372:501- the above well known Compmiéa, will make Insurance against 10“ 0! 5315 M!“ by fire, either perpetually or 321111311508 Ingmar?! in either townjor country. . Maine and Inland transportation Rinks 3150 {Mint Apply personally or by letter to WILLIAM BUEHLER: seal-mm Harrisburg, 9“- EXTRA 'm CURED RAMS—«- Jun received by 9016 w. noon, la., a 00‘
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