fiATFIS OF ADVERTISING.
our loses or Joss constitute half a square. Ten floes
re than four, constitute a agnate.
de Jae
gjf94 ,oseday— --80.2 5 One sq., 0neday.—.....50.65,
oriewooir- .1.00 " One creel[....- 1.8
one month— . 2.00 ig one month._ BAG
taro diontbs. 3.0 u " thrOOMOnttigis 0.00
4.00 " six months._ B.er
s, year • 6.00 fi one year.....
pe r gasineep notice/inserted is the toOAL cam, or
ports am ylase; aila deaths, MINTS tee lain for nob
W or tiou Co uvreaanniand others tdvertlaingby theyear
Aborsae. ig win bel odered.
I t ono tarot insertions mast be designated on the
irertioho ut.
or ." gta a nd Deaths Will be behellied at the lane
sits as nrgniar .deattblednente.
Souls, Stational),
net ioui, BOOKS.—School Directors,
Teachers, Parents, dcholius, and others in want of
ope' s ty oo Stationery, &0., will find a complete
oserseentl4, POLLOCK & WMI BOOK ISTORK,
sate% l nsre,darrisburs, canprising in part the follow.
iDg"*" .
RitsOntio.—Blantby's, Parker's, Oobb's AngelPe
SPiMUSD BOOKS.--hfrenffey's, Cobb's, Webster's,
f 01113% krerirll._?2,l!g:s.
aummAna....galtionv, Smith's, 'Wood
br idge's, Denteith,s, Hart's, Wells'.
gisTollllB —4ltimshaw's, Davenport's, [frost's, Wit
orillard's, Goodrich's, Pinnoek's, Goldsmith's and
putt's.
ALGTHXDTICII.--Eireenleere, Stoddard's, Emerson's,
pits's, !kw's, Colboro , a, Smith and Duke's, Davie's.
aLGllßßAlL—Greenlears, Davie% Dare, Rae.,
Jed"
DlOTlrtNAßYS.—Walker's Cobb
hool, Cobb'., Walker
ifercester's Oasprehensive, We W or ceste r ' Primary, Web
,
gees Primary, Webater's High School, Webster% Quarto,
academic.
NATURAL PHIbOSOPHIRS.--Oonotock'e, Parker's,
Swift's The above with a great variety of others can al
any time be found at my store. Also, • complete assort,
m pl e te at of School Stationery, embracing in tbe win le a curt
ost.dt, §ellool parPolo4, An book not in the store.
pergarei it one days notice.
Er Country 'Werchante supplied at wholesale rates.
ALacisAcs —robin Baer and don's Almanac tor sale al
1.111. POLLOCK A. SON'S SOON STORY, Harrisburg.
In- Wholesale and Retail. myl
JUST RECEIVED
AT
SCHEFFS E.' 8 BOOKSTORE,
A DAMANTINE SLATES
OF VARIOUS SIZES AND PRICES,
lfbleb., for beauty and use, cannot be excelled.
REMEMBER Tint PLACE,
SCHEFFEE'S BOOKSTORE,
NO. IS MARKET STREET. visa
BOOKS!
N EW
7IIST REOEIVIID
"SRAM AND SAY," by the anther of "Wide, Wide
World" .‘ Dollars and Cents," &c.
"HISTORY OF HETHODISAI,"by A.Stevens, LL.D.
For sale at SOHETTNRS , BOOKSTORE,
No. IS Marko et.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OE
mcjay GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER BLINDS,
Of various Designs and Odors, for 8 cents,
TISSUE PAPER AND COT PLY PAPER,
Al pny24l WHET/PERM BOOKSTOBS.
WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER !!
Ines received, our Spring Stook of WALL PAPER,
BOIDIMS, 11$8 SURXENS, &c., &o. Itis the largest
and best selected assortment in the city, rengicgin price
iron six (6) cents op to one dollar end squatter (=i t.)
As we purchase very low for cash, we are prepared to
sell at as low rates, if not lower, than can be had else
where. If purchasers will call and examine, we feel
roundest that we can please them in respect to price
and quality. B. 61 POLLOCK & BON,
apt Below Jones' Houma, Market Square.
TETTE R, CAP, NOTE PAPERS.
J-1 Penn, Holders, Pencils, goaelera, Sealing Wan, of
au. bem quality, at low prom, direct from the mane
iactonaa,
roared KWlEFFiratm -
.141Vir BOOKS ! LAW BOOKS
general assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State
Reports and Standard Nlementary Works, with many of
the old Snglish [lmports, scarce and rare, together with
a large assortment of second-hand Law Books, at eery
low prices, at the OM price Sookdre of
B si
POL LOCK & SON,
to 8 ilarket Square, Harrisburg.
Miscellaneous.
Av AREIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILK. 'LINEN PAPER
FANS! FANS!! VANS!!!
ANOTEEI9 AND 9PLAIDID LOS OW
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
Trout Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Linea, Silk
and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general niusortment Or
/LORING TACKLE!
A OSSA? VANIZTT 0/1
WALKING CANES!
Which we will call ad cheap se the cseapeet:
Silver Head Leaded Sword Hickory Fancy
Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes! Canoe!
KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
co. 91 MAR 9.99 STRUT,
90119 k aide, one door east of Fourth street jet.
R J. HARRIS,
WORKER IN TIN,
SHEET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING,
Second Street, below Chestnut,
lIARRISBURG, PA.
preparol to fill orders for any article in his branch of
business; and if not on band, he will make to ruder on
*host notice.
METALLIC ROOFING, of Tin or it alvanised iron,
constantly on hand.
able, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, Spouting, &c.
fie hopes, by strict attention to the ironic of his Gusto.
mere, t • merit and receive a generous share of public mt.
sonage.
Er livery premise strictly fulfilled.
B. J. HARM,
&seen& Street. below Ohestriat.
jaul-a I 7J
F ISH!!
lIAOKEREL, (Nos. 1, 2 anSAd 3.)
LMON, (very superior.)
Enid% (Mess and very tine.)
HERRING, (extra large.)
COD FISH.
SMOKED HERRING. (extra Digby.)
EVYroli. HERRING.
SARDINES AND ANGELOYLES.
Of the above we have Mackerel In whole. half. quarter
and eighth bbl Herring in who'e and half
The entire lot new—DIRECT ir WOE THE VISUBRISS, end
will Anil them at the lowest market rates.
Fepl4 WM_ DOCK. la.. & CO.
C A AIPAGNE WINE 61
DUG DE MONTEIVELLO,
KRIM KOK & Co.,
CHARLES II LDSIECK,
GISSLER & CO
ANCHOR—SILLERP MOrrSSIIIIX,
SPARKLING AILISCATEL,
DlGldat & - Co 'S,
IirSRZENAY,
CABINET.
In store and for sale by
de2o
lIICAO RY WOOD! I-A SUPERIOR LOT
ju4 renewed, and for Rain in quantities to snit pur
&Niers. by JAMES M. WHEELER
Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on band at the
lowest prices.
VA.MILY, BIBLES, from 1.40 to i6iV
X etring and handsomely bound, printed on good paper,
with elegant clear new type, opld at
meh3l 800111 1 7 BUIS Obese Book tve.
CRANBERRIES!! !-A SPLENDID .Lox
N , hit received by.
ecru
08.. a superior and cheap TABLE or
d) on,
KELLER'S DRUG STORE.
TUFAVrnit Growers ' Handbook—by
WAR UNG—wholesale sad retail at
Rich= 81210 BNIFERM Boolkstore.
SPERM. CANDLES.—A suPPly
jut ...4,114
peplB
WM. DOCK. Js.. k CO.
EAR'S DRUG STORE is the place
to Lad the beat amortment of Penile likenaiss.
FISH!!!
JOHN H. ZIEGLER,
73 Market street
Wil. DOCK, 7a.,
. .
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VOL. 3.
(goal.
TO THE PUBLIC!
JOHN TILL'S
COAL YARD,
SOUTH SECOND STREET, '
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where he has contently on hand
LYHENS VALLEY BROKEN, EGG, STOVE AND
NUT COAL.
♦LSO,
WILKESBA.RRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STONE
AND NUT COAL,
ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY.
It will be delivered to eonstuners dean, and full
weight warranted.
117 - CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL FOR YOUR
WINTSB SUPPLY.
117' Orders left at my house, in Walnut street, near
Fifth; or at Brubaker's, North street; J. L. Speel's,
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
South streets, and John Lingle's, Second and Mulberry
streets, will receive prompt attention,
,618-416 m JOHN TILL.
COAL! COAL!!
ONLY YARD IN TOWN THAT DELIVERS
COAL BY TUB
PA TENT WEIGH bARTSI
NOW IS THE TIME
For every family to get in their supply of Coal for the
winter—weighed at their door by the Patent Weigh
Carts_ The neeetraeg 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 his Coal at his
own house.
I have a large supply of Coal on hand, conzlztteg of
B. M. CO.'S VELEM VALLEY 00/.1. all sizes,
MIENS VALLEY do
WILKESBARRE do.
BITUMINOUS BROAD TOP do.
All Coal of the beet gislity mined, and delivered free
from all impurities, at the lowest rates, by the boat or
car load, single, half or third of tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisbarg, September 24. 11360...5ep2b
P T 0 W N!
PATENT WEIGH CARTS
Per the convenience of my numerous uptown °natant
era, I have establiehed, In connection w.th my old yard,
a Branch Coal Yard opposite North street, in a line with
the Pennsylvania canal, having the office formerly occu
pied by Mr R. Harris. where consumers of Coal in that
vicinity and Verbeketewn can receive their Coal by the
PATANT WEIGH CARTS,_
WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE FOR HAULING,
And in any quantity they may desire, as low as can be
purchased anywhere.
FIVE THOUSAND TONS COAL ON HAND,
Of LUKENS VALLEY and WILBEdBILIIII,B, all Maea.
117 - Trilling to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to as undersold by any parties.
'All Coal forked up and delivered clean and free
from all impurities, and the best article mined.
Orders received at either Yard will be promptly filled,
onton_Cmtiolser.-edar - a ik - in
Cooo.lj - °to,
else bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, October 13.186.P.—0ct15
YK KNS VA L LEY NUT COAL
forSale AT TWO DOLLARS PRA TON.
erAS Coal delivered by PATENT WEIGHCAErs
JAMES H. WHESLSR
117 Coaldelivered from both yards. norf
illebical.
HELMItaL BPS HELMBOLD'S
HELMBt'LD'S
MELMBOLO , S IIELMBOLD , S
11ELMBOLDIS MELMBIO LB'S
lIELMEBILIPS H BUMMED'S
lIELMBOLD'S HELM 801. D'S
HELM/SOLD , * RELMBOLD'S
BMW, Bach% Extract Hoehn,
Mural Emetic, Extract Burin,
Extract Hamm, Extract itarlin,
Extract Buclatt, Extract Bach%
Eat-act Elacha, Mama. Dacha,
Extract Scala, Extract lixotat,
Extract Dacha. Extract Bacha,
FOR SECRET-AND DELICATE J.ISORDERS.
FUR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
SEcRFT AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FIR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR sEeRET AND D ItLWATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET A 'D DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND o ELicATE .DISORDERS.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and specific Remedy.
A Positive and Spec lt.medy
A Poeitiie and Sipeeide Remedy_
A Positive.and Specific Remedy.
A Posi ive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
FOR OTSEASES i? TOR
BLADDER, GRAVEL : KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DRnPsY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNI , YS, Dnop-y,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYs, DROPSY•
BLADDER. GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
OROANIP WNAKNEiSS,
ORGANIC WE tENE4B,
0E 4 4 AMO WEAKNESS,
ORGANIO WEAN NESS,
ORUAN C W nAKNEsc,
onitiANlC WnAiiNESS.
And_all Diseases Or 'seams/ Organs,
And oq Des ost3 of Sexual ~ r gans,
And all n111443t11 of Sexual (means,
dad all Osseases of Sezual o , 4mas,
And all Diseases qI &algal Organs,
Aisii all Dis.ares of B..eleal Organs,
ARISING feliuld
Excoeees, Exposures, onl Amenrienoies in Life.
Exeekoss Exposures. and ImorUdenroeS in Life.
Exmoines, Exposure-. end impradowee in Lire.
Exackarn,Ez: o•nrea, and linntudeneira in Life.
Envinea, Exposures, and Impradeneies in Life.
Excesses, Exposure, and Imprwienciee in Life.
From whatever e;0 .. a0 orkinating,:nd whether uxietiog in
MALE OR Fesl MAR
Fenish-o, take no more Pale ! They are of no reran for
Oomphdota inoidont to +be Des. Ups
EX. rueur BUCHU.
Holmbold , s Extract &whir is a Medicine which is per
feetly pleasant in Ma
TASTE AND ODOR,
lint immediate in its action. giving Ilmatti mad Vigor to
tllr Pr.e.aue, Bloom to Ihe Pallid Cheek, and restoring the
patient to a perlPvt state of
HEALTH AND PURITY.
Holmboldvs Extract Buobu is prepared according to
m um my and chemistry, and is prt orribed and Used by
TILE MOST EMLVENT PHYSICIANS.
Delay no longer. Procure the remedy at once.
Pries $1 p-r female, or Mx for 85.
D..pot 1O South. Tenth etrret Philadelphia.
EIRWALRE OF triIPRINOIPLED DRALARSI
Trying to palm off their own or other Winton of BUM,
on the roputa , ion attained by .
lIELMSOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU,
The Osteinal eed only altnnine.
We desire to run on the
MERIT OF OUR ARTICLE!''
Th'ir'sts w,rthless —la sold At mach ion rateiland oom
taild 0 1111 1 ) ConsequentlY paving a mach better profit.
WE DEFY 00 lIPETITION
•
Ask for
RRLMBOLDE EXTRACT BIICHII.
Ticks no other.
Bold by JOHN WYNTH, Druggist, corner of Market and
Second streets, Harrisburg,
AND ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
not" dermam.
EXTRACTS! EXTRACTS!!
WOODPIWORTH & BIINNIIILIS
817PERIOX FLAVORING- RXTRACTS
BITTNIt. ALMOND,
NNOTARINN
PINK APPLE
ATAAWNBRBY,
NOON,
LIMON Asa
Jest melted and for solo by VANILLA,
1029 it. HOOK, /a., & CO.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 26. 1861.
Ott 1 1,1 atriat & `anion
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 26, 1861
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
THREATS AND THEIR EFFECTS
A very esteemed friend, who writes to us on
business matters from one of the free States,
intro , tuces some remarks on the present crisis,
and referring to the South, says :
"I am afraid of nothing in that direction but
precipitancy in secession, nor in the opposite
direction, but the danger of a colder and less
easily moved blood being warmed up and
aroused into action, finder the idea of it being
supposed it can be influenced by threats. These
two matters, if compounded, do causeme to
be afraid of their consequences, a civil war;
and if brought about, such an one es history
tells us not of, and probably the earth never
bore witness to. This result may well make 48
all afield—not of the consequences to our
selves, particularly, for we are of small account
in the scale, but to hundreds 'of millions now
in existence, and thousands of millions yet
to be."
We cordially reciprocate the conservative
sentiments which actuate our correspondent,
and insist upon the common duty of the gov
ernment, the people and the press to exert all
their influences for the preservation of peace
in any and every,event. But we do not con
cur with our friend in the entirely gratuitous
imputation of threats from the South against
the North. We do not think that any preju
dices against Republicanism, or prepossessions
the other way, have blinded us to faults on the
part of the South. We are certainly willing
to see them, though not disposed to magnify
them, as is the practice with some of our co
temporaries ; but we shall not affect to see
faults in the South which do not exist.
We maintain that our present national diffi
culties are the consequences of a spirit of ag
gression ; and at the same time we assert,
without fear of successful contradiction, that
this spirit of aggression is not in the South.
We challenge our correspondent, or any press
of the . North, to prove a spirit of aggression
in the South. The fact is precisely the same
with fegard'to threats. The South utters no
threats against: the North. In the act of arm
ing their several States, and putting them
upon a war footing, they imply only a well
grounded apprehension that their soil may be
invaded. But you , look in .vain for an ex
pression of purpose, or the slightest intima
tion of a design to use the munitions of war
against the North. if you perceive on the
part of any of the Southern people the decla
ration of their purpose to maintain their rights
at all hazards,. it is always upon their own
soil. 'lf there is anything that seems boastful
or menacing, it 12 MA with respect to a pur
pose to go forth on a' Quixotic expedition to
air their chivalry in a Northern climate; they
confine their martial aspirations to an honest
but resolute defense of their own rights and
territory.
But suppose the Southern States had all re
mailed in the Untoo, and had provided them
in voillt-avy
pose to maintain their rights against Ali: Lin
coln and his administration by a war with
those who inaugurate an "irrepressible con
flict" with them, titere would then be some
ground upon which to impute a threatening
attitude on the part of the South. And this
suppositious case induces us to direct the at
tention of our friend, and any who may think
with him, to the real one.
The election of Mr. Lincoln is an event
which of itself constiutes an exposition of a
purpose to pursue au " irrepessible conflict"
with the institution of slavery, as it exists in
fifteen independent sovereignties of this re
public. We ask any reasonable man if this is
not a most offensive threat against the rights,
and property, and prosperity of the South?
In the process of the campaign, we learned
from authentic—from undeniable sources, that
vast masses of men were 'organiied under the
name of "Wide Awakes;" for the maintenance
of the party which originated this threat;
and that these organizations were of a semi
military character. The design implied was,
in the contingency anticipated as the natural
result of the first grievous wrongthe inauga
ration of the "irrepressible conflict,"—to
pursue it even to the extent of a war with the
South. Mr. Lincoln and his policy, it was be
lieved, would provoke resistance, and the
"Wide Awake" organizations were designed
to overcome such resistance.
But what has our more recent experience
brought home to us? Since certain Southern
States have determined to escape from a Ceder
al Union in which they were thus put under
the threat and ban of Republicanism, coercion
has become the theme of the North—the mad
dest device that fanaticism :could possibly en
tertain. Coercion! Coerce into union! The
terms ere preposterous. But we shall not dis
cuss a proposition so monstrous. Our pur
pose is to point to what this intolerant and
despotic spirit of coercion has elicited in the
North. And our correspondent, who imegini s
threats from the South, has surely failed to al
preciate the quality of the threats implied in
the service volunteered to the Governors of
the Northern States, and through those Gov
ernors alike to the President and President elect.
of the United States. Are not these threats?
What necessity has New York or Pennsylva
nia, or any other free State, to put herself
upon a war footing? There has not been a
word nor is there a thought, in the South. of
wr..ng towards any Northern State. And
there is not a Governor or Legislature of any
free State wbo are not perfectly aware that if
the seceding States are left-to pursue their
own welfare in their own way, on their own
territory, that. there will be peace in the land,
and in the end the most hopeful tendencies
towards a reconstruction of the federal Union,
whenever the North desires it under the Constitu
tion—EvEN A 8 IT 18 I—Baltimore Sun.
HORRORS OP CIVIL WAR.
Yesterday, on board of one of the Brooklyn
ferry-boats, two Republicans were talking in
very bombastic style on the necessity of sub
duing the Southern States, &0., whereupon a
stranger of stalwart form confronted them in
a manner. somewhat excited, and disclosing the
marks of what was once a terrible wound in
his breast, said that was received while bat
tling for liberty in Italy; and"that if the gen
tlemen whom he then addressed bad bad any
actual experience in civil war, they would speak
less flippantly of plunging the United States
into horrors of this description. There was
truth in the remark. It were well if the peo
ple of the countrycould better understand
what civil war is, without learning it by their
own bitter experience. They would stand ap
palled before doing one act which might pre
cipitate it. Something may be learned by turn
ing to the history of the American war of in ,
dependence. From beginning to end, the con
flicts of the whigs and tories were , marked by
acts of surpassing atrocity. t he Mo
hawkthe siege of Fort Stanwix , on the Mo
hawk river, in the year 1777, it is recorded that
Gen. Herkimer raised the militia in the neigh
borhood to relieve the fort, but fell into an am
buscade of tories and Indians, and "neighbor
met neighbor in deadly conflict." The encoun
ter was
exceedingly desperate; quarter was
neither given nor asked. " There were in
stances," says the historian, "when all was
over, when the death-grasp still held the knife
plunged into a neighbor's heart. • It seems as
if the fight had been presided over by demons."
Another instance showing the ,intense ani
mosity which actuated men in those trying
times, occurred at• the capture of Fort Gris
wold, near New London, G l enn. After an ob
stinate reisstance, the Americans laid down
their arms to their assailants; but the massacre
continued, led on by :14.1aj; Bromfield, a New
Jersey tory. As the story goes, when he en
tered the fort he inquired who commanded.
Col. Ledyard came forward, saying: "I did,
sir, but you do now," at the sable time deliver
ing up his sword. Thereupon, Bromfield
: plunged the instrument into Ledyard's breast.
Sixty of the yeomanry cif :
_Cenneeil : cut wham
he '
ni
had lately comatifled, .were at once
slaughtered in cold blood. -
Again, at, the massacre of 'Wyoming, in the
valley of the Susquehanna, the tories took ad
vantage of the absence of nearly all the able
bodied met, who were then in the army under
Washington, and led on a party of 1,100 white
men and savages. The whole valley was des
olated; and the few women and children who
escaped to the mountains, afterwards perished
under incredible suffering.
On another occasion, when the British were
in possession of Long Island,Washington being
anxious to learn the designs of the enemy, Na
than Hale (a graduate of Yale College, who
had previously contemplated studying or the
ministry,) undertook the perilous job of pro
curing the desired information. While return
ing from this duty, he was "recognized by a
tory relative," taken to Howe's headquarters,
and unceremoniously ordered to be executed
the next morning.
Four years later, in 1790, the battle of King's
Mountain took place in North Carolina. Col.
Ferguson, who commanded one of Cornwallis'
divisions was attacked and surrounded by a
formidable body of backwoodsmen, many of
them from Kentucky and Tennessee, and after
a severe struggle they were utterly defeated,
after three hundred had been slain. Ten of
the tories noted for their cruelty to their coun
trymen "
,were hanged upon the spot."
Many other soul-harrowing tales character
istic of those "days which tried men's souls"
might be collated; but they would faintly de
pict the horrors of a fratricidal war taking
place at this more advanced stage of his•
tory, with a population ten timts more numer
ous, and acting under the influence of passions
engendered by protracted sectional controversy.
—Journal of Commerce.
WHO 18 THE AUTHOR OF THE CRITTENDEN COM
PROMISE ?
A correspondent of the Herald, writing from
Lexington, Kentucky, under date of January
16, makes this disclosure :
I have seen some complaint in certain news
papers charging the Vice President with su
pineness at this time. This is unjust. Mr.
Breckinridge is among that gallant band who
are striving to
. srcure peaceably our rights,
and are making one last final effort, in the
Crittenden amendment, before an appeal to
OifirproPsia.ic...optg , .l , tic o's
the best personal authority, what is generally
known here. that the Crittenden amendment,
so called, was drawn up by Mr. fireckinridgr
and M. C. Johnson, Esq., of this city, prior io
the departure of the former for Washington,
and by him taken on and entrusted to Mr. Crit
tenden. This you may rely on as authentic
beyond a question.
PROPOSED ANNEXATION OP FLORIDA TO GEOR
GIA.
The GeOrgine ere already discussing the an
nexation of Florida. The propo,ition is to di
vide the State of Florida by the Apalachicola
river, the western division then to be annexed
to the State of Alabama, and all east of the line,
including the islands. to be incorporated with
the State of Georgia. The Savannah Republi-
can says
"While such a division would straighten the
line of Alabama and give symmetry to her pro
portions, besides giving her one of the best
seaports in the Union, furnished with a navy
yard and well fortified, the acoeesion to Geor
gia would make her imperial in her domain, and
with a climate affording nearly every produc
tion of the world. We should raise ice in our
northern and tropical fruits in our southern
section. The country annexed, too, under the
new order of things, would settle up rapidly and
soon become one of the most prolific sections
of the continent."
The same paper adds that the independent
position of the States interested is such that no
power may rightfully " say nay," and that the
public debt of Florida should be no hindrance
to the equitable absorption of the State by
Georgia and Altibama.
GOV. PICKENS AND MAJOR ANDERSON.
Gov. Pickens has replied to the Postmaster
Generanpletter, inquiring whether Major An
derson and his command would be allowed free
communication with the Post Office at Charles
ton. He states that an arrangement is now
existing by which the correspondence for Fort
Sumpter is regularly delivered, and access is
given to supplies, which is entirely sat ',factory ,
to . Maj. Anderson; that no espion .ge is exer
cised over the correspondence, and that on only
two occasions were his °ILA .1 letters detained,
and then without any violation I f their pi ivaey;
that Major Anderson'hati not had free com
munication with the Post Office because his
pr settee, or that of any part of his command,
might, involve a collision, in the excited state
of public feeling in the city. He takes high
ground for maintaining the rights of South
Carolina in her independent attitude, but pro
tests a very earnest desire for peace.
It is somewhat remarkable, if this satisfac
tory arrangement has been made, that Maj.
Anderson should not have notified the Govern
ment. No letters have been received from him
or any of his officers since the 17th inst., When
Capt. Foster informed the War Department of
the offer by the State authorities to send the
mails to Fort Johnson, midway between
Charleston and Fort bumpier. An official in
quiry has been addressed to Maj. Anderson,
with a view of ascertaining the exact facts.
Messrs. Rayne and Gourdin have informed
the President and others that free communica
tion between the city and Fort Sumpter now
existed, but no official confirmation of the tact
has come from those most immediately con
cerned, which naturally provokes comment.
THE SEIZIERT
The si
summit
nah, by
rise to a
"State"
latter cm. that these
taken possession of at all, it
the United States marshal and
.distriot attorney to move in
police, in stopping the la
it is held, stepped beyond the line of their duty,
and must be held to their responsibility there
for.
The police commissioners, in answer, allege
that the United States marshal is an avowed
secessionist, and is doing everything in his
power to give aid and comfort to the disunion
rats, and that, therefore, it is considered expe
dient that the police take the business into
their own hands. The police department, at
the same time, is a. republican institution—so
that the movements on bath sides have an
aspect more partisan than patriotic.
The muskets seized on board the Savannah
steamer Monticello on Tuesday, still remain at
the arsenal, in Seventh avenue, and General
Superintendent Kennedy says that no claimant.
has appeared with a view of recovering the
same. The United States district attorney
was notified that a large quantity of powder
and cartridges were shipped on board the
Charleston steamer on Wednesday, but no
steps were taken to prevent the departure of
the alleged contraband goods to their destina
tion.
The police, on Wednesday, by direction of
Superintendent Kennedy, seized twenty-five
cases, containing five hundred muskets, •on
board the schooner Caspian. These arms were
intended for some point at the South, and were
seized as contraband merchandise, They were
consigned to Savannah.
• a t e ~ ~~. t
The dissatisfaction growing out of General
Sanford'e offer of the services of the military
to the Governor, to be used against the South,
continues unabated in New York city. Capt.
Lovell, of the City Guard, has thrown up his
commission, and thus assigns his reasons :
" While I yield to none in my readiness to
uphold and defend the constitution of my
country, lam inflexibly opposed to the doetrime
that the stronger section of the Union may place a
new and unauthorized interpretation on that consti
tution which, in the judgment of the weaker section,
denies them complete security for their property,
and then compel its unwilling recognition at the
point of the bayonet. I believe it is possible to
adjust and settle our national difficulties in a
peaceable manner, and must therefore decline
to be made an instrument by the civil and mil
itary authorities of this State, under the spe
cious and untenable plea of enforcing the laws,
for inaugurating a policy which can only result
in a sanguinary and protracted civil war, ano
a permanent dissolution of our beloved Union."
Gen. Sanford, now seemingly aware that he
has been too hasty and indiscreet, has made an
" explanationY lie says the meaning of the
offer was to garrison the harbor forts with
militia, if the government should have occasion
to withdraw the regular troops to other parts.
In such Sn event the services of those willing
to volunteer would be accepted.
THE BLOCKADE OF THE MISSISSIPPI WITH
DRAWN-LOAN OF ABMS.
The Governor of Mississippi, in a special
message, dated at the capital of the State on
the 15th, alludes to the battery at Vicksburg
in the following terms :
"Being advised by tho Governor of Louisi
ana that he had reason to believe that an expe
dition would be sent down the Mississippi river
to reinforce the garrisons of the forts and ar
sennla of that State, I sent Capt. _Kerr, with
'WW2 01,3171414,arjaelmja Artillery Company,
volunteer companies of Vibirstotrrg-04...............1„
such position as would enable him to prevent
any hostile expedition from the Northern States
descending the river. Learning that the forts
and arsenals were fully garrisoned by Louisi
ana, I have directed Captain H. H. Miller to
withdraw his forces from the position they had
taken.
" As soon as I was informed that the Gov
ernor of Louisiana had taken the arsenal at
Baton Rouge, I sent Col. C. G. Armistead with
a letter to Governor Moore, requesting him to
furnish Mississippi with ten thousand stand of
arms, on such terms as he might deem just.—
Col. Armistead informs me that his Excellency
has responded to my request by ordering eight
thousand muskets, one thousand riles, and six
twenty-four pound guns, with carriages, and
a considerable amount of ammunition, to be
delivered to him, which will be shipped to
Mississippi as soon as possible."
CASSIUS M. CLAY
Cassius M. Clay has arrived at Washington,
and has been in conference with leading Re
publicans. He is urging the Republicans in
both Houses to change their policy of adherence
to the Chicago p attorm, and says they must
make proper concessions if they desire to keep
Kentucky, or any of the border States, from
joining the cotton States in their secession
movements. He says Kentucky will be a unit
on the question of secession unless some plan
of adjUdtaiSol is adopted, but it is idle to talk
of coercing Southern States.
ADDRESS OP THE VIRGINIA CONGRESSMEN TO
THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
RICUMOND, Jan. 24.—Thu Virginia Congress
men have sent out an address to the people of
Virginia, giving a review of the Congressional
proceedings in reference to the great question
of the day, and the probable action of Congress,
saying that it. is vain to hope for auy measures
of conciliation, or adjustment from Congress
which the people of the Soul h could accept.—
Also saying they are satisfied that the Repub•
lieun party designs, by civil war alone, to
coerce the Soul hem States wider the pretext or
enforcing the laws, unless it shall become
speedily apparent that the seceding States are
so numerous, determined and united, as to make
such en attempt hopeless. The address con
cludes by expressing the solemn conviction that
prompt and decided action by the peopl.• of
Virginia in Convention, will afford the surest
means, under the Providence of God, in avert
ing the impending civil war and preserving a
hope of reconstructing a Union already dis
solved.
TILAT BATTERT OP TIIIRTY-TWO POUNDERS IT
BIEUPIIS.
We find the following full particulars of the
battery of thirty-two pounders at Memphis, in
the Avalanche, of that city on Mondry:
The Minute Men have had tendered to them
sixteen thirty-two pound cannon by Major A.
H. Boneless, who became the purchaser when
the federal government disposed of the navy
yard of the city. Theie guns are, we learn, in
good c ondition, and will immediately be put in
working order. A committee, consisting of
Capt. Tames Hamilton, Col. Wm. B. Hunt, D.
B. Malloy, Anthony Street, and C. Deloach,
have been appointed to take the business in
charge, ac proceed at once to carry out the
purposes the association.
It lose of the cor
to • ''y council
_su'phis does, to weal
means to repel the attack, ou
.7, should actual hostilities, of II
ire seems little doubt, occur. Let
wii
means strengthen ourselves in every.,
manner, so as to be prepared. Willy al li v eyb il
contingency.
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TIM Weset.y will be published as heretofore, sem&
wwAly during the seedol2 of the Legielatnre, and ones a
week the remainder of the year,.for two dollars in at:
Vance, or three dollars at the expiration of the year.
Connected with thia establishment is an extensive
JOB OFFIGB, containing a variety of plain and fancy
type, unequalled by any establiehrnent in the interior et
the State, for which the patronage of the publiele ma.
Halted.
NO. 124.
PENN' A LEGISLATURE.
FRIDAY, Jan. 25, 1881.
The Rouse was called to order at 1 o'clock
a. m., and prayer was delivered hi Rev. M.
Colder.
Reports of committees were received.
The committee of Ways and Means reported
as committed an act to pay George V. Wean;
two hundred dollars for services rendered in
winding the capitol eloek and the crocks in the
Halls for 1860. On motion of Mr. Sfik..PPARD,
the bill was considered and passed.
Mr. MARSHALL, an act to incorporate the ,
North American oil company.
Mr. 'WILLIAMS, an act to incorporate as
oil company.
Mr. ASHCOM,, en act to incorporate the
Lewis bituminous coal company.
Mr. SMITII, (Berks.) an act relative to pur
chase money due the Commonwealth on certain
land in Berke county.
Mr. DEVINS, an act relative to judicial
districts in the State.
Mr. LAWRENCE, an act declaring the West
forks of Clarion river above Buena -Vista,
public highway.
Mr. GORDON, an act appointing commis
sioners to lay out a State road in the counties
of McKean, Eik, Forest, and Clarion.
Mr. ARMSTRONG, an act relative to un
seated lends.
Mr. LAWRENCE, an act relative to a Stitis
road in the counties of McKean and Elk. v .
Mr. EILENBERGER, an act relating"
school directors and school treasurers.
.4 1
Mr. GORDON moved that when the
adjourn, it do so to meet on Monday afternot
nest at 3 o'clock. The ayes and noes being.
required, it was agreed to by a vote of 49 ayes
to 28 noes.
On motion of Mr. BRODHEAD, the House
considered the act relating to sheriffs authori
sing deputy sheriffs to appear in court in the
absence of the sheriff, through sickness or
otberwise. Mr. BRODHEAD having mo've& to
suspend the rules, the bill passed, and wits sent
to the Senate for concurrence.
An act, relating to sheep in Chester county.
A supplement to an act to incorporate the
*lestown and Danborongh turnpike road
company.
An act relative to the construction of certain
bridges over the Monongahela and Allegheny
rivers at Pittsburg.
On motion of Mr. HILL, the House proosede4
to the consideration of an act to incorporate
the Hatborough monument association; which
was passed.
An eel relating to billiard rooms, bowling
saloons, etc., in Centre county.
Mr. CLARK moved that the House proems&
to the consideration of the act authorizing the
county of Dauphin to borrow money. The act
provides that $20,000 be borrowed to complete
the court house. The bonds to bear 8 percent.
interest, and to be payable within five years.
The act passed.
An act relative to road commissioners in
Forrest county.
An act relative to a State road in Butler
county.
On motion of Mr. SMITH. (Berko.) the
Hou-c considered an act relative to laying out
x° - ..r.r..4....to.be_oponties of Bodo and
passed. Adjourne ,. .td.
In the House, January 21
entitled "Joint resolutions ro
tennnee or the Union," bein
ti n I Mr . SMITH, of Philt
follows
Mr. SMITH (Philadelph,
to detain the House with an.
upon the reeelutions now pc
feel as though I would not
the constituency which I hl
represent, did I not make an
their almost unanimous op
upon he present unhappy co
tofore peaceful but now trcui
country. I am directed bl
to place upon the record o)
protest against the methodofar
laid down by the gentlemi
and others of the Republi
House. Such a course wog
Southern States now warm
ante, while concession and
in my opinion, conciliate
bond which now so feebly
let us act toward our Southern brethren inthis
the darkest /Mir of our country's history in a
spirit which is gent le and easy. Kindness, the
Christian principle of action, may induce them
to discard their present attitude of rebellion,
while severity, the lieathen one, would drive
them the further on to madness.
It has been well and truly said, that, "of
valor discretion is the better part." Is it discreet
that when the better promptings of the heart
have been blunted; when the worst passions of
our nature have hem aroused; when so blinded
by partisan feelings, that it is impossible to
arrive at just couelusions—conclustons on
which hang the unity of these states{ the peace
and hapi iness of thirty millions of people—
without due reflection and most cautious and
guarded aztion.
Are we so pure and free from blame or re
flection in all our acts, as a State, that we can
be allowed to censure and dictate terms to our
Aster States and equals in the Confederacy t
Have we done nought of which they can com
plain ? Wq are told day after day; since these
resolutions have been introduced that we have
n either law or shadow of law on our statute
hooks that conflicts with or abrogates any law
of Congress. If that be so, if they are only
wordy and useless enactments, why not strike
them off ? Why have the finger of reproach
pint ed at us, and our nobl? and patriotic State
classed with the other nultifiers of Congressional
enactments in the Northern States, when we
can so easily and without injustice to ourselves,
stand like Caesar's wife—Labove reproacht.
Whether those laws be a wrong inflicted, or
an injustice imposed upon the people of this
State by the legislative enactments of the past,
ere the present alarming and exciting develop
ments, that are shaking our Government in the
last throes of dissolution had transpired—it
matters not to us—whether the laws on our
statute books are costitutional or unconstitu
tional ( as we know the best legal minds of our
State conflict on that subject) it - it not mine
the wish, much less the abitify, to discuss. But,
Sir, as has been said, we can judge of the fu
ture only by the past—cue whole history as a
natif lenteut , as a separate
ittee, we team,
'Ea, Was been one of
sec The only cord
Ls one nation, great,
great anchor- chain
ou which are eels
tei- hopes of all "lovers of liberty and
egosr ro world, was forged in
4110 compromising and ext debates , of over
-Pito ' ion that oultainatiiti at the rati
:Staati. year
.4r rticles of confederation, July
e and tempered through 'the ies of °nary struggle, perfected at
lite ado e Federal Centantlen, in
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