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HILLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
NO 91 MARINT MONTI
South side, one door east of Fourth street jeo.
B J. HARRIS,
WORKER IN TIN,
SHEET IRON, MID
METALLIC ROOFING,
Second Street, below Chestnut,
HARRISBURG, PA.
Is mimed, to'' fill orders for any article in his branch of
bashnd If not on hand, he nil make 14 order on
short notice.
METALLIC ROOFING, of Tin or Cialvanized Iron,
orostantly on band.
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nom, to merit and ratilibin a generous share of Waist pat
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HERRING, (extra large.)
COD FISH.
SMOKED HERRING, (extra Rigby.)
SCOTCH HE s hlt G,
BARDINEB AND ANCHOVIES. ,
Of the above we have Mackerel whole, half, quarter
and eighth bbls. Herring in whole and half bble.
The entire lot new—otasar snow Tun runtsnms, and
will aeU Moen at the /west narket rates.
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TO TH E PUBLIC!
11
JOHN TILL'S
COAL YARD,
BOUTS SECOND STRBET,"
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING_MILL,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where be has Constantly , on hand
LIKENS VALLEY BROKEN, EGG, STOVE AND
NUT COAL.
ALSO,
WILKESBARRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE
AND NUT COAL,
ALL OR THE BEST QUALITY
It will be delivered to consumers clean, and full
weight warranted.
Er CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL FOR YOUR
WINTER SUPPLY.
Er Orders left at my house, in Walnut street, near
Fifth; or at Brubaker% •Wirth ot;oet; 7. L. Speers,'
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
Sonth-atreete, and John Lingle's, Second and. Mulberry
street*, will receive prompt attention.
3r12-denk
C OA L! 00fAL!! .
ONLY YARD IN TOWN THAT DELIVERS
COAL BY TUB
PATENT WEIGH CART'S!
NOW IS TEE TIME
Nor every family to get in their supply of Coal for the
vtinter..weighed at their door by the Patent Weigh
Carts. The accuracy of these Carts no one disputes, and
they never get out of order, as is frequently the case of
the Platform Scales; besides, the consumer has the
satisfaction of proving the weight of hit Coal at hie
own house.
I hawks large ropily of Coal on hand s co...As:log of
00.1 LYEEltli VALLEY (Wilt all alm a
LYXENB VALLEY do " "
WILKESBARRE . do. • 61
BITUMINOUS BROAD TOP do.
All Oeal id the beet qualltraud delivered tree .
,
from all impuritiee„ atthe lowee t mtge., by the boat or
oar load, single, Judi' or third, of sad by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg September 24, 1860.-40p21
T 0 W N!
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P'A T r .R IV:TWEIfiH T'S.. '
For the convenience nf raytannerous uptown Gusto m
eres i have eittoloo6/1 An connection W th My rad yard,
aßranch Coal Yard opposite North street, in aline with
the ReansYlvania nasal, , boving the office formarly occu-.
pied-by Mr. IL Harris, where consumers of Coal in that
vicinity and Terbeketown can receive their Coal by the
PATENT IVIIIHEI'OA.RTS,
WITHOUT RXTRA CHARGE FOR HAULING,
And in any guurtity they Tony .desire, as , low as can be
purchased anywhere.
FIVE THOUSAND TONE COAL ON HAND,
Of Iltlf.EN/3 VALLEY and. WLLKBBBARRE, all sizes.
IV- Willing to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to be undeivoid by any partus.
irjj-nu Coal forlied up and. delivered clean and free
from all impurities, and the but article mined.
Orders received at either Yard will be promptly filed,
nd all Coal delivered by the Patent Weigh Carts.
Coal sold by Boat, Car load, single, half or third of
tine, and by the bushel.
JAMES It.
Harrisburg, October 13, 1860.—0ct15
T.YIKENS VALLEY NUT COAL-*--
.A.A For Sale AT TWO DOLLARS PER TON.
UT' Ali Cool do/iveredby PATENT WEIGH CARTS
JAMES M. WHEELER
[a' CoaldeliTered from both yards. • nen
,ftlebirat.
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RELMBOLDIS HELMi3O-LDIS
HELMBO.LIPS HELAIBOLDPS
HELMBOLDPS IiCELMOROLD 9 S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOWS
Extract Bacha, Extract Ductile,
Extract Baclin, Extract Bachu,
Extract Bantu, Extract Bach%
Extract "Raclin, Itctract. Bactoi r
Extract , Dacha, Etattact Bactiu,
Extrict .11401. ti, Extaaet lectatirr,
• Extratt Ifitchu, -Extract Itactut t ;
FOR SECRET AND: DELICATE DISORDERS:
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE_DISORDERS.
FOR SEC WET:AND DELMATR'InsoRDERS,
-FoR:SICRST AND DELICATRAINORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND D.6LICATE
FOR SECRET-AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
A Positive and Specific Remedy
A Positive and . Specific Remedy
A Poeitive and Specific Remedy
A Positive and Specific Remedy
A Positive and Specific Remedy
A Positive and Specific Remedy
A Positive and Specific Remedy
FOR DISEASES OF THE .
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS; DROPSY,
BLAPrA, GAA.T.E.p, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLAD ER, GRAVE L, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY ,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
01212-ANIC WO *INNS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
And an Diseases of Sexual ()twang,
And all Diseases of Sexing °mash
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And. all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual :Organs,
-And ail Diseases of Sexual Organs,
.ARISING PEON
m im osa, ms.peanres, and Imprndeneies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudeneies in Life.
EXCellaee, Exposure'! and, Imprudeneies in Lire.
ExceN , e 6 3 Exposures, awl Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudeneies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures,and Impnideneiea in Life.
p r o m whatever meg oe:mating and whether existing in
MALE - OR Miami.
Pernalee, take no more Pills ! They are of no avail for
Complaints incident to the sex. Use
BXTB.ALOy Blialill
Relmbeld's Extract &Win is a Medicine which is per
feetly pleasant in ita . .
. - TASTE AND, ODOR'
Bnt immediate in its action, giving Health and Vigor to
the Frame, Bloom to the Pallid Cheek, and restoring the
patient to a perfect state of . -
HEALTH AND PURITY.
Heirabold'e Batt:act Bean is prapared according to
pb a p i agy 0 144 gliemistry , and preseritied struimulti by
_ _
"_MOST
Delay no foikier7 i;jctre the remedy at once.
Price $1 per bottle, or mix for $6.
ll o pot 104 Fioubti Tepth strcet,
VNPSINCIPLED DEALPItiI
Trying to palm off their own or other articles of BMW
on the reputation attained by
ILILMBOLIVI3 .EXTRAOT . BITOHU,
The Original and only genuine..
We
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We desire to rim on the
, MERIT 01+ Grit ARTICL-S I
Thafrie le trarthkee —is Mid it much lel rated and com
missions, condestiently Dating a smash better prat.
WB DIFY COMPETITION!
Ask for ,
MITAISOLDIA AXTRACT =ORM
Takes* other.
15014 by JOHN WYETH; Orvaixt, Ixorner of Market and
Beam' alreibi L ltarrietiorp. „
AND ALL DR VVOISTN, NTHRYWATHR.E.
nol4. detwBm: :
E xT A A.oTsi EXTRA:O I I I Sn
WOODBWORTU & BIINNDL'EI
SOPER/OA FL - 41 VORING EXTRACTS
BITTER ALMOND or
NEoTARINE •
PINE AiiPLII
BTEAWII=I4,
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URI DOOR, Jt., k CO,
HARRISBURG, PA,, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1861.
Ctt Vatript Won.
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 17, 1861
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
MESSRS. EDITORS :—While the debate upon
coercion is in progress in our Legislative Halls,
it may be interesting to hear from some of the
Satithern people who are not politicians ; and,
if we will, be advised from a source so reliable.
I say reliable, for the information herein pre
sented was not designed for so conspicuous a
place as the public journals, and impositions
of untruth would scarcely be practiced in the
interchange of friendly correspondence; espe
cially upon one who, to the writer's knowledge,
has so little to do with public affairs; and again,
-worthy of credit from every eyidenoe thst..a,
good and worthy character can stand upon,
The letter, dated "November 27, 1860," is
from a gentleman living in Middle Mississippi,
a practicing physician, who, in the rounds of
his profession, must become acquainted with
the views of a large neighborhood. Besides,
in the memorable struggle between Governor
Foote and Gen. Davis, during the campaign of
1850, Dr. C. was selected to run on the Union
ticket against Barry. But his language is the
best defence of his loyalty to the Union.:
"You wish to know what I think of the pros
pects of ,the 'Union. I confess I feel greatly
- discouraged. I apprehend that the animosity
and strife which have so unfortunately pre
vailed for many years past• between the two
great sections of the country are about to result
in a dissolution. I know we have many friends
at the North who are no!de and true,"bat the
dominant party there, although perhaps not
actually bent upon our destruction, have pur
sued a course of policy whose tendency is, to
say the least of it, to reduce the Southern States
to a • subordinate podition in the Union. To
this according to present indications, the South
will no longer- submit. The prevailing senti
ment amongst he now is, -that we have practiced
forbearance until it has ceased to "be .a virtue;
and this sentiment is growing daily stronger
and more universal. I believe that the South,
or at least several of the Southern States, are
about-to Unite in demanding a repeal .of those
laws forbidding the execution of the Fugitive
'Slave Law, and a pledge to cease the agitation
of the subject of slavery in the halls at 'Von
'grew; Will the Abolitien and Black Ropubli
can:parties make this coma:dens th'ey will
thus exhibit a returning sense of justice, or at '
least a desire to-avert the evils of dissolution,
all may yet be . well ; if not, there can be no
doubt the Union is at an end. As to my own
views and feelings on this subject, Ihave only
to say that no clan can deprecate a dissolution
of the Union more than I, provided we can re
main in the Union On UMW of equality ; but if
we are still to be harrassed, traduced and in
suited, and if there is to be no end to the ag-
gression upon our rights, 'then there is no alter
native left 'but ' to acquiesce , in the necessity:
that im pale us to separation . * The
future 'is dark, and confess I -can only' look
to 'Him who is the source of all justice, wisdom,
goodness and truth, whose omnipotent power
controls the destiny of nations, and pray that
He will so governand control the affairs of this
nation that peace may be preserved, His own
glory advanced and the best interests of the
people promoted."
The following letter, of more recent date, is
from the pen of a Cotton Broker, a young man
educated. at the North—his wife a native of
Chicago, and his business, as he says, growing
or decaying with peace or war :
"BASVANNAU Jan. 2, 1861.
* * * * "We all of us desire peace.
We think each State has a right to secede, but
call it which you please secession or rebellion
or revolution, owl wha t Will the Federal Gov
ernment Or the North gain by coercion? Our
ports may be blockaded and commerce and all
kinds of businese prostrated—granted. Our
sufferings will be great ; but the South is self
eustaining, so far as provident, arc concerned,
and she can hold her cotton longer than the world
can do without'it. If we are unreasonable now,
(in your opinion,) are we likely to be lees so
after a blockade and its consequent blood-shed
and suffering have exasperated and embittered
our feelings? But, a collision having once
taken place, we may be invaded, overrun by
federal troops—in a word, we may be con
quered, as Carolina was during the Revolution.
But do you think, judging from that same
revolution or imagining your State in our posi
tion, that an armed occupation would quiet,
pacify or satisfy the Southern people ? No !
War once commenced and the result may be
foretold by any one who has read the history
of civil wars wherever they have occurred. In
all this I have looked at the worst contingencies
to the South. The movement in Georgia is in
the hands of men of property and the highest
intelligence. Two, if not all three, of the dele
gates from Chatham are sincere and much re
spected Christians; all are men of known con
servatism, and having the entire confidence of
the community."
Is the course of the Republican party an
swering these demands in a way to allay ex
citement and restore peace to our distracted
country ? If this be a true expression of South
ern conservatism, is coercion likely to restore
the good feeling which once prevailed ? Let
the uncompromising war party answer the
JOHN TIL
• ' QUESTION.
OPINION OF HAMILTONIIPON THE USE OF FORCE
Brom the Journal of Commerce. •
It remains to inquire, how far BO OdiOne an
engine of government, in its application to us,
would even be capable of answering its ends.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions
of men observe no bounds of moderation. The
suggestions of wounded pride, the 'Obligation-a
of irritated resentment, would . be apt to carry
the States against which the arms of the Union
were eierted, to any extreme necessary to re
venge the affront, or to avoid the disgrace of
submission.
The first war of the kind would probably
terminate in a dissolution of the Union.
Whoever considers the pOPUlentinesa and
strength of several of these States singly at
the present juncture, and looks forward to what
they will become, even at the distance of half
a century, will at once dismiss as idle and vie-'
'Query any scheme aims at regulating ,
their• movements by laws to operate upon them
in their collective capacities, and to be execu
ted by , a coercion applibable to them in the same
eapaoitiea. A project.of this kind is a little less
eetUfintle than the Monster-taming spirit; attri
bitted tothe fabutous heroes and demi'-gods 'of
antiquity:' :, . , ..::: ,':... •
Even those confederacies whioi have been
composed of members smaller than many of our
SOUTHERS VIEWS
counties, the principle of legislation for sove
reign States, supported by military coercion,
has never been found effectual. It has rarely
been attempted to be employed, but against the
weaker members; and -in most instances at
tempts to coerce the refractory and disobedient,
have been the signals of bloody wars, in which
one-half the confederacy has displayed its ban
ners against the other.
• *
If opposition to the national government
should arise from the disorderly conduct of
refractory or seditious individuals, it could
be overcome by the same means which are
daily employed agaimt the same evil, under
State governments. The magistracy being
equally the ministers of the law of the land,
from whatever source it might emanate, would
doubtless be as ready to guard the national as
the local regUlations from the inroads of pri
vate licentiousness. :
As to those partial commotions and insurrec
tions which sometimes disquiet society from
the intrigues of an inconsiderable faction, or
from sudden or occasional ill-humors, that do
not a f fect the great body of the community, the
geneval government•eould 7 eonumand =mere -4x
teneive resources, for the suppression of dig.
turbances of that kind, than would be in the
power of any single member. And as to those
mortal feuds which, in certain conjectures,
spread a conflagration through the whole na
tion, or through a very large proportion of it,
proceeding either from weighty causes of dis
content given by the government, or from the
contagion of some violent paroxysm, they do
not fall within any ordinary rules of calcula
tion. When they happen they commonly
amount to revolutions; and dismemberments of
empire.. NO FORM OF GOVERNMENT can
always either avoid or CONTROL them. It is
in vain to hope to guard against events too
mighty for human foresight or precaution, and
it would be idle to object to a government
because it could not perform impossibilities."
Federalist, No. XVI.
Masses. EDITORE :—The main points in Mr.
Hamilton's:arguments are, perhaps:
Ist. The danger of using force.
2d. The impossibility of coercing States.
Bd. That the attempt would be followed by
tg bloody .war."
4th. That' magistrates can punish individuals,
—that the. government can. suppress partial
commotions,—but that this government [no
government] could avoid or control a revolution
by force. YOurs, . • 0. G. C.
New York, ,Jan... 1 1; 1801.
SOUTH 04110141NA 7 -THEI MISSION OF 00L.11/iTNE.
[Speeial dispatolfto.the New York Herald.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16,1861.-=The object and
purpose of Col. Haine'S mission to the govern
ment is entirely misunderstood. The people of
South Carolina; regarding as they do the occu
pation of Fort Sumpter by the 174ited States
troops as '
,a standing menace in their midst,
sometime since notified Maier Anderson that
they intended to take it, cost what it would.
Again on Friday last, through their Minister of
War, they notified Major Anderson of their in
tention to take the fort
Major Anderson informed them that he had
no authority to act oiherwise than to defend
himself. He , was willing; hoWever, to refer the
subject to the government., and that the Presi
dent could take such , action as he deemed pro
per.
Colonel Hayne was accordingly dispatched
Aut_theauthorities of South Carolina to demand
• the .imm`e'd kte surrender of Fort Sumpter, as
the only means of - preventing w.ar„and all its
long train of calamities.
They are determined to take it at all hazards,
and have so informed the government. They
believing that they can take it, but it will incur
great loss of life. This they are desirous of .
preventing.
I do not believe the President will entertain
suchh a proposition for one moment. He has
taken his position, and will not swerve from it
one iota. He is anxious, as is Major Ander
son, to avoid bloodshed, and will do everything
in his power, except , surrendering up the fort,
to prevent such a calamity.
Col. Rayne had a private interview with the
President at four o'clock this afternoon. What
transpired of course is not known.
Col. Hayne's mission is one of peace. He is
authorized to negotiate for the purchase of the
public property in South Carolina, and is wil
ling to pay the government its full value for
the same, but , if the President refuses to enter
into negotiation, and declines to give it up to
the State, then they are, determined to take it,
let, what will come. This course has been fully
decided upon by South Carolina. They hold
.that of right it belongs to them, and they do
not mean that the United States shall hold pos
session of it much longer. The flag that waves
over Fort Sumpter must come down—peaeably
if they can, forcibly if she must. This is the
whole story, and of this the President has been
informed. What will the President do ? Nous
Ver7o9lB.
I have.had an interesting conversation to-day
with Lieutenant Hall, bearer of dispatches from
Major Anderson to the President. He repre
sents the condition of affairs at Fort Sumpter
to be healthy and satisfactory. The reports
that Major Anderson is short of supplies, and
that his men are on short allowance, is untrue.
He has provisions and supplies for three or
four months, and by economy, should it be
necessary, they can be extended considerably
beyond that time.
His description of the scene in the fort when
the firing at the Star of the West • was pro
gressing, is exceedingly interesting. He says
that the next day after the Star of the West
left, two or three large brigs, which had been
purchased in Savannah, were sunk in the
channel. lie says he hee li4 doubt that exten
sive preparations have been and still are being
made to defend the city. For some time back
immense cargoes of cotton have passed into the
harbor to be used in defence of the city, in
what manner ho does not know_ It may be in
floating batteries. He says that Governor
Pickens informed him that he had tendered to
him upwards of twenty thousand volunteers,
but that he had declined them. He notified
them, however, to bold titctuselves in readiness_
He says that in all his intercourse with the
authorities they have treated him and the offt
oers of the fort with great kindness. Should
it become necessary, he says, they can shell the
city with perfect ease with their heavy guns,
1 and all the batteries in Morris Island.
The presence of the new South Carolina
Commissioner creates not the least talk or sur
prise out of his own circle. There was, how
ever, a flush of indignation among members of
Congress when it was rumored at the Capitol
this morning that he came here to demand the
withdrawal of Major Anderson and his forces
from Fort Sumpter, and their return to Fort
Moultrie.
General Hamilton, of Texas, is constantly
receiving encouraging letters from his section
Of the State in relation -to 'Union sentiments.
They state that the stars and stripes still float
there, cud that the Union feeling is spreading.
-Letters from Louisiana report that Baton
Rouge and West Feliciano pronounce against
seaeasion.
Peeptolps received in Southern circles to
day say.that Georgia will scowls front the IT ntoit
by: Saturday.- On the happening of this event
the,delegates from South Carolina, Alibams.
Florida, Mississippi and Georgia, will repair
to Milledgeirille to institute a provisional gov
ernment and elect a President and Vice-Presi
dent pro tempore, besides providing for a federal
army and other defensive measures. Ministers
will at once be dispatched to foreign Powers
to negotiate treaties.
Since the withdrawal of the secession mem
bers of Congress, and the docile attitude of
those who remain, the -disunion sentiment is
not near so rampant in Washington as it was a
short time ago • and Governor Seward's speech,
after being read and carefully digested, is be
ginning to have a beneficial effect upon those
who, upon hearsay evidence of its import,
thought disparagingly of it at first.
The President transmitted to the Senate to
day, in response to Senator Slidell's resolution
asking upon what, authority he appointed act
ing members of the Cabinet, a communication,
in which he quoted both law and precedent in
support of his action. As to his motives, he
suggests that as he had the law on his side
they need not be explained.
The conduct of Captain Armstrong in sur
rendering the Pensacola Navy Yard is strongly
disapproved of by the administration. For
severatmonths the workmen there have not
'been paid, siclkaii been-ernment rations.
It is not true, as stated, that the sloop-of-war
Macedonian sailed with sealed orders. She was
more than six weeks ago ordered to the Gulf
squadron, and is on her way thither.
PROPOSITIONS OF VIRGINIA TO PRESERVE THE
UNION
The committee of the Virginia House of Dele
gates on federal relations reported the follow
ing preamble and resolutions on Monday:
Whereas, It is the deliberate opinion of the
General Assembly of Virginia, that unless the
unhappy controversy which now divides the
States of this Confederacy shall be satisfacto
rily adjusted, a dissolution of the Union is in
evitable, and the General Assembly, repre
senting the wishes of the people of the Com
monwealth, is desirous of employing every
reasonable means to avert so dire a calamity,
and determined to make a final effort to restore
the Union and the Constitution in the spirit in
which they were established by the fathers of
the republic ; therefore,
Resolved, That on behalf of the Common
wealth of Virginia, an invitation is hereby ex
tended to all such States, whether slaveholding
or non-slaveholding, as arc willing to , unite
with Virginia in an earnest effort to adjust the
present unhappy Controversies in the spirit in
which the Constitution was originally formed,
and consistently with its principles, so as to
afford to the people of the slaveholding States
adequate guarantees for the security of their
rights, to appoint commissioners to meet on the
4th of February next, in the city of Washing
ton, similar commissioners appointed by Vir
ginia, to consider, and , if practicable, agree
upon some suitable adjustment.
Resolved, That five commissioners be ap
pointed by the General Assembly, whose duty
it shall be to repair to tbs,eity of Washington
on the , day designated in the foregoing resolu
tion, to 'meet such commissioners as may be
appointed by any of the States, in accordance
with the foregoing invitation.
Resolved, That if such, commissioners cannot
agree on such adjustment, or, if agreeing, Con
gress shall refuse to submit for ratification such
amendments as may be proposed, then the
Commissioners Of this State shall immediately
communicate the result to the Executive of
this commonwealth, to be by him laid before
I.ll""ztventius of the People of Virginia and
the General Assembly.
Resolved, That in the opinion of the General
Assembly of Virginia, the propositions em
braced is the resolutions , presented to the Sen
ate of the United States by the Hon. John J.
Crittenden, constitute the basis of such an ad
justment as would be accepted by the people
of this commonwealth.
THE FLORIDA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION.
• Our Southern exchanges come to us filled
with secession and military movements, exci
ting rumors, and all the attendant circum
stances of incipient war. . The telegraph, how
ever, has already given the main points of ac
tual occurrences, and disposed of many of the
rumors. We subjoin such details as are deemed
necessary to a connected record of the history
of the times.
The ordinance of secession passed by the
Florida Convention is very brief, and is se fol
lows :
"We, the people of the State of Florida, in con
vention assembled, solemnly ordain, publish and
declare, That the State of Florida hereby with
draws herself from the confederacy of States
existing under the name of the United States
of America, and from the existing government
of said States, and that all political connection
between her and the government of said States
ought to he and the same is hereby totally an
nulled, and said union of States dissolved, and
the State of Florida is hereby declared a sov
ereign and independent nation; and that all
ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they
create or recognize said Union, are rescinded,
and all laws or parts of laws, in force in this
State, in so far as they recognize or assent to
said Union, be and they are hereby repealed."
THE MISSISSIPPI ORDINAHOE OP SECESSION.
The scene in the Mississippi Convention
when the vote was about to be taken on the
secession ordinance, is described as having
been of a most impressive character. When
the words were propounded by the President,
"Gentlemen of the Convention, are you ready
for the question?" Colonel Walter Brook, of
Warren, arose and addressed the. Convention
in a dignified and eloquent speech, setting
forth the reasons why he was not prepared to
vote for immediate and separate secession,
but declaring that the causes justified the act!,
and that whatever cOurge his State might take,
he would cordially acquiesce in the decision,
and give his all to the maintenance of her honor
and rights.
Mr. Alcorn, and other gentlemen of the co
operation party, followed tv the like effect. Not
a word was said by the friends of the ordinance.
The yeas and nays were ordered. Slowly the
secretary called the roll, and each member
responded in a tone indicating deep, intense
emotion, but a firm and earnest purpose.—
Tears gathered in the eyes of nearly every actor
and spectator of the solemn ceremony. When
the call was completed, and the President
announced the result—yeas eighty-four, nays
fifteen—a profound silence for some time pre
vailed. The President proclaimed the ordinance
adopted, and the Convention adjourned.
The ordinance, as adopted, is as follows :
The People of Mississippi, in Convention Assem
bled, do Ordain and Declare, and it is liereby
Ordained and Declared, as follows, to :wit!
SECTION 1. That all,the laws and ordinances
by which the said State of Mississippi became
a member of the Federal Union of the United
States of America, be and the same are hereby
repealed, and that , all obligations on the part of
the said State, or the people thereof, be with
drawn, and that the said State doth hereby re-
Immo all the rights, functions and Powers
ivideb r 41,ny of said laws and ordinaneei
were .coneeypd to the government of. the said
.trnited States, and is-absolved from all the ob ! '
ligation, restraints and duties incurred to the
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• Val Musty Will be published as heretofore, wiol . -
weekly during the session of the Legislature, and Wee%
week the remainder of the year. for two dollars in ad
vance, or three dollars at the exidretionof the jeak..
Connected with this establishment is an •extendwe
JOB °Films, containing sk wariotY of plain itet *ff
type, unequalled by any establishment inthe interfo o r of
the State, for which the patronage of the public is
so
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NO. 116.
said Federal Union, and, shall , henceforth.be a
free, sovereign mid bidpefident'
SEC. 2. That so much of the first section of
the seventh article of the Constitution or this
State as requires members of the Logisititere
and all officers, both legislative and judicial, to
take an oath to support the Constitution of the
United States ? be and the same is hereby abro
gated and annulled.
SEc. 3. That all rights acquired and vested
under the Constitution of the United States, or
under any act of Congress passedin pursuance
thereof, or under any law of this State, and not
incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain
in force, and have the same effect as if the or
dinance had not been passed.
SECI. 4. That the people of the State of Ills
sissippi hereby consent to form a Federal Union
with such of the States as have seceded, or
may secede from the Union of the United Stated
of America, upon the basis of the present Con
stitution of the United States, except such parts
thereof as embrace other portions than such se
ceding rotates.
THE CHARGE OF JUDGE SMALLEY-WHAT CON
STITUTER TREASON;
The most extraordinary sensation. of these
4a,ye of _ammation is the charge from Judge
Smalley, in ibe t r ate r Vaire's' Ditatiat 001nty
at New York, on Monday, .upon the law of
treason—extraordinary, because if his assump
tions and rulings are correct, there are• thou
sands and thousands of traitors walking the
streets, not only in New York but elsewhere,
who may as well prepare their jugulars for the
halter. . •
The judge. set out: with , declaring . that, •the
South Carolinians, and the • people of all other
seceding States, are traitors. On that point he
has no manner of doubt, 'although he admits
that the Southern States have just cause to
complain of Northern legislation, which is
clearly. unconstitutional_ He then defines what
treason is. He says the crime is not 'confined
to giving aid and comfort to the enemy bYthr
nishing them with arms and munitions of war,
but, (quoting Chief Justice Marshall,) if a body
of men be actually assembled for the purpose
of effecting by force a treasonable purpose,, ell
those who perform any part, however minute,
or however remote from the scene of action, sire
to be considered as traitors. Consequently 3 hill
Honor goes on to say, all who countenance
them, or give them aid and comfork.witether it
be in South Carolina or in New York, are guilty
of treason, and the grand jury are ac'ebrdlogly
instructed to proCeed against them, 'Upon proper
evidence as such.
This ruling inculpates several well-known
mercantile establishments of New York city,
Who have been, for some time past, quite freely
supplying munitions of war as merchandise
to Charleston, Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile
and Galveston account.' It also incriminates
most of the manufacturers of fare-arms; -and
a prominent shipping house of Now York,' who
sold a Louisiana party, as late as Saturday,
last, a couple of fine clipper barks, which will
probably figure as the flag ships in the Gulf of
Mexico, of the Southern confederacy, in. leas
than sixty days from date. . •
The folloiting has been received in. N. York:
CHARLESTON, Jan. 14, 1861.
G. B. Lamar, President Bank of the Reitibl . lo,
New York—Sir : Please have it authoritatively
published that no flag and no vessel will be
disturbed or prevented from entering our har
bor unless bearing hostile troops or munitions
of war for Fort Sumpter. All trade is desked,
and all vessels in commerce only will be glad
ly received. F. W. PICKENS:
PENN'A LEGISLATURN,
Senate was called to order by the Clerk, who
announced the deputing of G. R. SMITH as
Speakerpro teen., for a few days, by the SPEAX
ER.
Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Hay
The SPEAKER laid before the Senate the
report of the Auditor General on - the railroad
companies of the Commonwealth.
Mr. NICHOLS, a further supplement to The
act consolidating the city of Philadelphia:
Mr. SERILILL, a supplement to the act in
corporating the Delaware turnpike company.
Mr. GREGG, an act to , erect a boom in the
Suntlehanna.river at Jersey Shore.
Mr. OLYMER offered a resolution that the
Auditor General be, and is hereby, requested
to furnish a statement of the amount of taxes
paid by the Delaware and Hudson canal Om
party, ac,- which was twice read and passed.
Mr. M'AURE offered a resolution appointing
an additional page; which was not agreed to.
Mr. IRISH asked and obtained leave to read
in place an act for the relief of W. R. M'Clin
tick.
. The supplement to the act incorporating. the
borough of Birmingham was taken up and
passed finally.
Mr. YARDLEY moved the Senate proceed to
the consideration of joint resolution relative
the purchase of a flag for the dome 'of the
Capitol; which was agreed to, and the resolu
tion, as amended, was passed finally.
Mr, IMBUE called up the bill erecting the
borough of Georgetown into a separate election
district; which was postponed for the present.
Mr. LANDON called up the act to
_incorporate
the Towanda telegraph company ; which pirsed
finally.
Mr. KETCHAM called up the supplement to
the act incorporating the Wilkesbarre ; and
Scranton railroad company ; which was passed
finally.
Mr. BENSON called up joint rosoluilion rela
tive to pay D. F. llemperley for services'; which
passed finally. ,
Mr. BOUND asked for and obtained leave to
present petitions from CoIntl& county, pray
ing for the repeal of the 95th and 96th sections
of the amended Penal Code.
On motion of Mr. BLOOD, adjourned.
The House met at 11 o'clock and was called
to order by the SPEAKER. Prayer was of
fered by Rev. Mr. Robinson.
The special order of the morning was the
resolutions from the Senate, relative to the
maintenance of the Union.
These resolutions had t eert amended by
Messrs. DUFFIELD and WILLIAMS. Mr.
WILLIAMS, however, withdrew Ma amend
ment, thus leaving but , two sets of reioliitions
in the field, viz: those which had been passed
by the Republicans in'the Sulfate, and those of
the Democrats of the Hones. •
The splus.irsvat announced the timid order,
and the ; floor was taken by Mr. SitarAßD.
He argued in favor of the 'original Senate l reso
lutions, without amendment. In the oonise of
his speech, he defended the Philadelphia mer
distaff from an attack which bed rbealt, Made
upon them on Monday last, by Mr. W*LIIMB
of. Allegheny. Mr. W, at that tin** d eo ,
neunced'what he called the " Comnierdifides,"
wliioh had inetigated the PluladelPhin Union
Meeting in De - crowbar ;Itisf.. 'Mr. WILLIAMS'
denied that it.had been ,his intention, tO oast
any reflection on the merchants of Philadelphia.
A LETTER FROM GOT. PICRENS
SENATE
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16, 1861
BILLS IN PLACN.
ORIGINAL RESOLUTIONS
DILLS CONIFIDIRED
HOUSE OF REPRESBNTATITES.
WEDtmEtUalr, January 16,1861.
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