RATES OF ADVERTIS
sour fines or less constitute half a square. Ten Does
o r wore than four, constitute a square.
Evan ,0naday.....11..,150. One eq., one 00.6 t,
cue week.. 1.00 4 . oue weak_ 1.26
one month-- 2.00 ' one month .. 8.00
three months. 3.00 4., three months. 6.00
Eli mouths— . 4.00 u eix months. B.O"ti one year-- . 3.00 ac
year.— 10.00
v- oaamess notices inserted in the Wen. ciOLUICN I Or
be fore marriages and deaths, stirs elilirS PER LOP foe each
itootion Co merchanteand others advertisingby theyeas
be offered. ,
noicherofinsertions must be designatedon the
dverffema nt..
marnages and Deaths will be inserted at the dame
,tee as regular advertisements.
Books, Eitationerp, &t.
420i100L BOOKS.—School Directors
Teachers Parents, Scholars, and others, in want of
Scheel Books: School Stationery, itc" will find a complete
assortment at R. nt.rOLLOCK fr. S ONS BOOR STORM!,
ugr agt square, Harrisburg, comprising in part Ike follow
inßßg—.
ADMlD3.—Mclinffera, Parker's, Cobb's, Angell's
SPILLING BOOKS .—lteGitrifers, Cobb's, Webster's,
TOini'S,Byerles. Oornbrylit.
INGLISEI GRAMMARS.—Bullion's, Smith's, Wood
b r idge's, Monteith a , Tuthill's, Hart's ,
fiI,STORIES.--(4lmahaw's, Davenport's, Prost% Wil
eon% Wi ll ard's, Goodrich's, Pinnock's, Goldsmith's and
WTHhLSTIC'S.— Greenleaf ' ,, Stcddard's, Kmersotesi
pikes Rose 001burnhi, Smith and Duke's, Davie's.
ALUBBRAS.--Greenlears, Davie's, Day's, Rays,
Bridge's.
DICTIONARYS.—Wakeee School, Cobb's Walke ,r
Woroester's C om prehensiee, Worcest er's Trinity, Web
ster's Primary, Webster's High School, Webster Quarto,
Academic.
NATURAL PIIILOSOPHIRS.—Oontstoek's, Parker's,
Swift's. The shore with a great variety of others can sit.
any time be Mend at my store. Also, a complete assort.
meat of School Stationery, embracing in the win le a com
plete outfit for school purposes. Any book not in the store.
procured t one days notice.
LET Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates.
ALMANACS --John Baer and Bon's Almanac for sale et
S. M. POLLOOR d SON'S BOOR STORM, Harrisburg.
err wholesale and Retail. mil
JUST RECEIVED
r
SCHEFFER'S BOOKSTORE,
ADAMANTINE SL"../ITES
OP VARIOUS SIZES AND PRICE%
Which, for beauty and use, cannot be excelled.
REMEMBER THE PLACE,
SCHRFFER'S BOOKSTORE,
NO_ 18 MARKET snorer. mare
NEW BOOKS!
J1:1131 RBOICIVBD
"133/11. AND BAY," by the author of "Wide, Wide
World? I , Dollars and Oente,” &e.
"HISTORY 01 DIZTHODISM,I , by A.atevene,
For eale at BOHEFIMIS , BOOKSTORE,
&p 9 No.lB Marko et.
t i - lIST RECEIVED,
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OP
RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER, BLINDS,
Of Tariono Designs and Odors, for 8 canto,
MOOR PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER,
At • [my24l SOURPFER'S BOOKSTORE.
WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER 1
Just received, our Spring Stock of WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, FIRE SCREENS, &c., &c. 'Rio the largest
and beet selected assortment in the city, ranging in price
premed: (8) cents up to one dollar and squatter ($1.25.)
As we purchase very low for oast, 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
confident that we can please them in respect to price
and quality. E. M POLLOCK & SON,
ap3
Below Jones' House, Market Square.
LETTER, UAr i , NOTE' PA. pR,Rg_
Pens, Holders, Pencils ; Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of
the best quality, at low proms, direct from the manu
factories, at
marSo SOKEPEER , B CHEAP BOOKSTORE
TAW BOOKS 1 LAW BOOKS ! 1-A
-Li general assortment or LAW BOOKS, all the State .
Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many of
the old English Reports, scarce and rare, together with
a large assortment Of second-hand Law Books, at very
low prides, at the one prim Bookstore of
E. M. POLLOCK & SON,
Market Square, Harrisburg.
myB
,Illiscellancous.
AN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILK LINEN PAPER
PANS! PANS!! PANS!!!
AIROTITIR AND TPLJNDID LOT Of
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
Trout Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk
and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of
FISHING TACKLE!
GREAT VARIETY OP
WALKING CANES!
Which we Will sell as cheap as the cheapest!
Silver Head Loaded Sword Rickety Fancy
Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes!
ItELLERIS Dl% AND FANCY STORE,
TO- 91 WARM STREW,
South side, one door east of Fourth street je9.
HARRIS
WORKER IN TIN,
SHEET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING,
& on set Street, below Chestnut,
HARRISBURG, PA.
le prepared to on orders for any article in hie branch of
business ;. and if not on hand, he will mate to order on
short notice.
METALLIC ROOFING, of Tin or Cialvanised Iron,
eonstantly on hand.
Also, Tin and gkeet-Iron Ware, Spouting, duo.
Re hopes, by strict attention to the wants of his nata
nt's, tl merit and receive generous share et public pat.
oilage.
Svery promise strictly fulfilled.
B. J. HARRIS,
jain7-o.ly] Second Street, bolo.. Cheat:nat.
B
F
MACKEREL, (Nos.l, 2 and 3.)
SALDION, (very superior.)
SHAD, (Mess and very /Ws.)
HERRING - , (extra large.)
IiOD FISH.
SMOKED HERRING. (extra Digby.)
SCOTCH HERRING_
SAUDINNS AND ANCHOVIES.
Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter
and eighth bbis. Herring in whole and half Ms.
The entire lot new—DIREOT FROM ?HS efintsaiss, and
will sell them at the lowest market rates.
seple WM. DOCK, Ix., & CO.
CHAMPAGNE WINESI
DUO DE MONTEBELLO,
ILEIDSLECK & CO.
elieutus nerlisucg,
GIESLER & CO ,
ANCHOR-SILLERV MOUSSEUX,
SPARKLING MUSCATEL,
MUMS & CO 2 8,
VERZENAY,
CABINET.
In store and for sale by
AMIN H. ZIEGLER,
73 Market street
i e2O
HICKORY WOOD ! 1-A SUPERIOR LOT
just roottrod, and for sale in quantities to snit per-
Obaslerg• b y JAMES M. WHEELER.
Also, OLE, AND PINE col:tab:tatty on hand at the
knrest prices. dna
• .131.131A8, from 10 to 461 U,
string and Ittndoomel7 b°"; printed Qn PO PT",
with elegant abwar new type, sou w
SOHEIPPER'S cheap 800t...tw0.
ORANBERRIES ! I I-A SPLENDID LOT
%/just received by _ _
eau
FOR a superior and .oheap TA.BLE or
SALAD OIL go to
KELLER'S DRUG STORD.
frELVATait -Growers', Handbook by
WMllBUl—oholesale and retail at,
seta SOHIFIBIPB Bookstore.
PBRM
leceive4 b OANDLNS large 511PP17
pust y
mess WM. DOCK. & 0 0: •
ELLER% DRUG STORE ie the ow
to find th• beet anhortment of Porto Konnsfoo.
F - I S Ii 1 1 !
waif_ DOCK. lit., & CO
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toal.
T O
THE PUBLIC!
JOHN TILL'S
coAL YARD,
SOUTH SECOND STREET,'?
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where he has constantly on hand
LYKENS VALLEY BROKEN, EQH, STOVE AND
NUT COAL
♦LBO,
WILKESBARRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE
AND NUT COAL,
ALL OP THE BEST QUALITY.
It will be delivered to consumers clean, and full
weight warranted
fEr CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL FOR YOUR
WINTER SUPPLY.
1D Orders left at my house, in Walnut 'treat, near
Fifth; or at Brubaker's, North street; J. L. Sped's,
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
South streets, and John Lingle's, Second and Mulberry
streets, will receive prompt attention.
jy13416m
COAL! COAL!!
ONLY YARD IN TOWN THAT DELIVERS
COAL BY THE
P A TENT W SIGH CARTS!
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 accuracy of these Carts no one disputes, and
thee never got out of order, as is frequently the ewe of
the Platform Scaler; besides, the consumer has the
satisfaction of proving the weight of his Coal at his
own hone
I have a large supply of Coal on hand, co-.zat;ag of
S. M. CO.'S LYKENS VALLEY COAL all oisseo,
LYKENS VALLEY do " "
WILKESBARRE do. •
BITUMINOUS BROAD TOP do.
All Coal of the best quality mined, and delivered free
from all impurities, at the lowest rates, by the boatv
ear 16d, single, half or third of tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, September 24, 18130.—5ep25
PATENT WEIGH CARTS
T O W NI
For the convenience of my numerous up town custom
ers, I have established, in connection with my old yard,
a Branch Coal Yard opposite North street, in a line with
the Pennsylvania canal, having the office formerly °cut.
pied by Mr. R. Harris, where consumers of Coal in that
vicinity and Verbeketewn can receive their Coal by the
PATENT WEIGH CARTS
WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE FOR HAULING-,
And in any quantity they may desire, as low an can be
purchased anywhere.
FIVE THOUSAND TONS COAL ON.HAND,
Of LYHENB VALLEY and WILHESBABRE, all sizes.
jl7" Willing to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to be undersold by any parties.
fErAll Coal forked t
re up and dell ieroi clean and free
mined
Orders received at either y a OM promptly tHleol,
an4l-tia r tr
nd all Coal delivered bytne Patent Weigh Carts.
Coal sold by Boat, Car load, single, hair or third of
tons, and-by the bushel
JAMES M, WHEELER
Harrisburg, October 13, 1880.—octlb
LYKENS VALLEY NUT COAL-
Per Sale AT TWO DOLLARS PER TON.
irr AU Coca doUvered by PATENT WEIGH CARTE
JAMES M. WLIBXL ER
Coaldelirvered from both.yards. null
,iJUeMcal.
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
H ELMBoLD'S HELMBOLD'S
REINHOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELM Ho ID'S
HELMBOLD'S EL MHOLLPS
HELMBOLD'S HELM HOI • D'S
HELMBOLD'S H EL MBOLIPB
Extract &whit, Extract Bimini,
ROMA &mint, Rztroct Bud
Extract Bimini., Extract titiehtt,
Extract Bustin, Extract Boutin,
Extract Bnchn, Extract Brichn,
Extract liaein, Extract Bacilli,
Extract Bachn, Extract Bacilli.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATEiiIsCERERs.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
Rat SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
A Positive and Specifie Howdy,
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A fit 4 Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
FOR DISEASES OP THE
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GO AVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, D
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DRO PSY•
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
ORGANII WEAKNESS,
ORGASM WE OCNiNIII,
ORGANIC WEAKNESd,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGA.NIO WEAKNESS,
And all Diseases of Sex sew Organ'
And all Diseases of Sexual irgaus,
And allD._ is
eases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
ARISING FROM
Excesses, Exposures, end Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Inzatudencien in Life.
Exceesesi Eiglidettre-, and /mpstidsnolos in Life,
Excesses, Exposures, and Imorudencire in Life,
Excstises, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprnuencies in Life.
From whatever Cl. se originating, .nti whether eliding in
111AL,4 OR FB ALB.
}females, take no mote Pills l They are of no avail for
Complaints incident to the sex. Use
EX ['RAM BUOIIII„
Helinboldis Extract Buchw is a Medicine which is per-
fectly pleasant in its •
TASTE AND ODOR,
Bat immediate in its action. giving Health and Vigor to
the Fume, Bloom to the Pallid Cheek, and restoring the
patient to a perfect state of
lINALTH AND PURITY.
Helmbeld'a Extract Enema is prepared according to
Mammy apt Chemistry, and iI pripribed and used by
THE MOST EMINENT PHYSICIANS
Delay no longer. Proeure the remedy at onee
Price $1 par sottle, or. six for 83.
D..pot 104 South Tenth street. Philadelphia.
BERTAOS OP UNPRINtIIPLIID DRILLERS
Trying to palm off their own or-other siticleatif BrORTI
on the reputation attained by -
RELMHOLD , B EXTRACT BCOHO,
The Original and only Genuine.
We gesire to run on the
ottit ARTICLE
Yhair's is worthless —is sold at much lees rates and oom
missions, consequently paying a much better profit.
WE DEFY COMPETITION 1•
An for
HELNDOLVE EXTRACT BIICEIII.
Take no other.
Sold by JOHN WYETH, Druggist, corner of Market and
Second streets, Harrisburg,
AND ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
not 4 &swain.
E XTRACTS! EZTRAOTS!!
WOODSWORTH hr. BIINNZWEI
SUPERIOR FLAVORING' EXTRACTS
01
DITTNIt ALMOND,
NEOPARINN
PIN& AIiPLIE
ITRAWbBANY,
NODD t _ _
LMMON Amp
Just seedeed and f or VANILLA,
liftY sale by
WM. DO(7E, Ja.,&00.
HA.RRISRURG,. PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1861.
Ett Vatriot Rion.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 30, 1861.
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
THE STORY OF PURITANISM-REAL ORIGIN OP
SOUTUERN SECRESLON.
In another part of this day's Herald we pub
lish what. we have no doubt most of our readers
will regard as an interesting history of Puri
tanism, very appropriate to the present time,
and bearing directly on the fierce controversy
which has sprung from the propagandism of
the Puritan sect of New England, - forming a
combination with desperate politicians who
caught up the pious cry against " the :slave
power" as a means of bringing them to office
at the risk of breaking up the goverment by
revolution_ The chief value of the historical
sketch which we publish consists in its truth
and impartiality, having but little in common
with the Fourth of July orations and Pilgrim
celebrations, at which even such men as Daniel
Webster have been so long in the habit of
glorifying New England and its Puritans at the
expense of the rest of the people of the con
federacy, and glossing over the indubitable
facts of history which tell a very different tale.
Our historian goes back for the origin of the
Puritans to the time of Edward the Sixth of
England, who brought with him some German
fanatics to that country. But he might have
gone back nineteen centuries, to the time when
the first of the sect, the Pharisees, were
rebuked by the founder of Christianity, who
observed them praying apart by themselves,
and "thanking God they were
.not like other
men." " Stand by thyself, lam holier than
thou," is still their motto, as the very name
Puritan imports. The one idea that penetrates
and pervades them is that, they have "II right to
regulate the political, •moral and religions
world, and that God has appointed: them as
supervisors over the, conduct of their fellow
men, to control even their doniestie affairs.—
Hence the revolutionary resistance now being
organized at the South.
JOHN TILL.
The root of the evil underlying the anti
slavery agitation in- the North is to be found
in an impudent assumption of a superior in
telligence and a higher purity, fostered by self
complacent divines in the pulpit, and flattering
orators at mutual admiration anniversaries, .
where Plymouth Rock, the blarney-stone of
New England, is set up as an idol for public
worship. It is impossible tor a genuine . de
scendant of the Pilgrims of the Mayflower to
divest himself of the notion .tbat he is one of a
superior race, and that he is born to rule over
all other races by force or fraud, notwithstand
ing the assertion of the Declaration of hide-.
pendenee that "all man are created equal."
It is this innate feeling which prompts the New
Englander to deny the Southern States their
rights in this confederacy as co-equal partners,
and to insist upon forcing his ideas of negro
servitude down the throats of all men, North
and South, at the point of the bayonet. This
has led to the present 'disastrous conditiOn of
the Union, and what else it .may lead to
,_. t ime
*rut e:141111/ 444)veioper.,-- , -
The sincerity of the Puritan politiefaiiis
touching the slavery question is on a par with
their sincerity touching religious persecution
in days of old. If we believe their harrowing
tale, their ancestors fled to America from per
secution in England by the Established Church
and government, and these enemies of perse
etttion fur Conscience sake brought into the
New World the principles of civil and religious
liberty, on which the federal and State govern
ments are constructed.
So far from the truth is this claim that history
shows the - Bennet of religious 'persecutors in
England and Scotland were the Puritans—so
intolerant were they of other men's political
and religious opinions and social habits that
they toot up arms against them, and involved
the country in the horrors of civil war, as they
are now laboring hard to do at this side of the
Atlantic. If they were afterwards persecuted
it Was becatise when they had the power they
were persecutors themselves. A party of them
seceded to Holland. which they left in disgust
after a sojourn of eleven years, because the
people there were not sufficiently pious for
them, would not adopt their doctrines or their
practices, and were far too numerous to be
persecuted. Again they seceded against the
will of the good natured Dutch, and after re
turning to England to take with them some
more of Am party, proceeded to America in
the Mayflower in 1620. They had intended to
settle in the rich lands of Virginia or New York,
but Providence or the cunning Dutch captain,
who did not want to bring them in contact
with his fellow countrymen, who had already
established settlements southward, landed
them on the Rock of Plymouth, when they took
possession of the most barren spot on the whole
continent, and which, but for them, would have
remained uninhabited by white men till this
day. Had they settled in Virginia they would
have been slave holders to the present hour,
nor would they have had the same chance of
propagating their fanatical opinions through
the country, for it is the poverty of New
England which compels its inhabitants to mi
grate West and South_ They formed themselves
into a politico-religious aristocracy, in which
only "the converted" had votes, and established
a government in which church and State were
united—which was the ground of their corn
y:4.la against the Eagan government. They
persecuted all who differed with them, and
drove out even their own brethren because they
claimed toleration for other sects—fur instance,
Roger Williams, who fled to Rhode Island; and
another clergyman "(131ackstoue,) who said,
"I fled from England to escape the Weeny
of my Lord Bishops, but I w4s glad enough
to get back to escape the tyranny of my lord
brethren."
They denounced toleration as "a harlot" and
'the brat born of all abominations;" and their
Governor (Winthrop) “determined to extermi
nate all opinions of which he did not approve."
Quakers, Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopali
ans and Catholics were all presecuted, with more
or less severity ; and innocent men and women
of the beet character were pat to death as i
witches by this intolerable fanatical despotism.
Had the ideas of the Puritans prevailed, or had
they predominated in numbers, ill .would have
feared the land but as the population of New
England at the time of the adoption of the
constitution was only one-fourth of that of all
the colonies, and as even that fourth contained
many other elements besides Puritanism, it may
be easily inferred how little the fanatical sect
had to do with the formation of the government
under which we live. While the Puritans of
Massachusetts persecuted everybody, the Bap
tiste of Rhode Island, the Dutch Reformed of
New York, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the
Catholics of Maryland, and the Episcopalians
of Virginia, gave toleration to the other sects,
and afforded asylums the persecuted of the
Old World and the New. How the Puritans
dealt with the Indians, in consideration for
whose future convention and kindly treatment
they ebtalued front the English, government a
eharter of the land on which they settled, their
own historians baie told the , world.
As long as slavery was profitable they not
only enslaved both the Indians and the negroes,
making them " taxable property," but carried
on a brisk traffic in their flesh, selling them in
the best markets to the highest bidder. From
them the severest of the " slave codes" of the
Southern States have been borrowed. It was at
their instance that the abolition of the slave
trade was postponed from the time the coned
tution was adopted till 1808, in order that they
might retain the traffic as long as possible.—
They sold their own slaves to the South, and it
was their ship; that afterwards supplied the
Southern labor market with importations of
negroes from Africa. The slave trade is now
abolished, their vocation is gone, and they are
seized with a holy horror even of domestic sla
very, which means that they want a monopoly
of the spoils of office, and of the public lands,
as theyjormerly claimed an exclusive patent
from Maven for religious persecution—a Di
...
vp:te right to do wrong. Ot" secession, treason
and rebellion they also claim a . thiniottoly. In
the.
.second war with England, 1812-15, they
refused to allow their militia to be used against
the enemy, and gave him all the aid and com
fort they could. They claimed they were sov
ereign States and had a right so to act. It was
by. tile troops of the South that the honor of
the country was then redeemed. When Louisi•
analias about to be admitted, Massachusetts,
by her Legislature, declared she would secede;
and when Texas was about being admitted Pu
ritan-Massachusetts again voted herself out of
the 'Union prospectively, but never carried out
the act. She is now very loyal to the Union,
very ardent in her desire to coerce the seceding
States, and very forward in sending her militia
to the South to inaugurate a war, under
the pretext of enforcing the Jaws, while of
Southern secession and revolution s heds her
self 'the ohief source and origin.—Y. Y. Herald.
RASI3ACRUSETTS-GOl7. ANDREW SNUBBED
Governor Andrew, the Republican executive
of Massachusetts, had hardly been dubbed corn
nander-in-chief of the military forces of his
State before he, to , show fidelity to the party
that elevated him to office, issued an order in
teuded- as a menace to the South, to re•organize
the militia of the State.. To this Capt. Charles
H. Manning, of the Salem Light Artillery, has
responded as follows :
They, .the Salem . Light Artillery, are now
filled with . aatortishment at the alacrity with ,
which Massachusetts - offers her services in
. the
work of war against her bretbren. That she
who '
swept on by political rancor, proposed to
shut up her arsenal and . her store-houses, and
bury every military, ensign in the dusty seclu
sion of deserted armories, 'while a foreign foe
was sweeping, our , seas, destroying our towns,
and, devastating our fields—that she . shodld now
rush to arms against those of, her. fellow-citi
zens who ask for a position equal with her own
under the . confederation, is as strange and un
natural as that national madness which vents
itself in the horrors of civil strife. That she
who denounced, and defied the Union, while it
was in the hands of her politianl opponents,
should now be eager to fight for its preserva
tion, is somewhat significant. .*
It is impossible that the great industrial in
terests of Maesachusetts can be benefitted by
active hoStilities. Her commerce depends upon
amicable relations throughout our land. Her
manufactures cannot flourish while a c l ivil a war
journey
--T-b&-thcnds ol
and man ama
now anxiously - watungborers
&ace cannot endure the additional distress
with which prolonged collision would oppress
them. To them a fraternal Union alone; con
tinned and sustained by a just recognition of
constitutional right everywhere, can bring
plenty and prosperity. These blessings cannot
be secured by force of arms. And while our
intelligence remains to us, shall we not, as a
free people, guided by the wisest counsels, and
impelled by the broadest impulses, appeal to
that spirit of concession which animated our
fathers in their great work of establishing a
republic of constitutional liberty on this con
tinent ?
~i C 1 . i ~
To the Senate and .House of Representatives of the
United States :
I deem it my duty to submit to Congress a
series of resolutions adopted by the Legislature
of Virginia on the 19th instant, having in view
a peaceful settlement of the existing questions
which now threaten the Union. They were
delivered to me on Thursday, the 24th instant.,
by Ex-President Tyler, who has left his digni
fied and honored retirement in 'the hope thab
he may render some service to his country in
this its hour of need.
These resolutions, it will be perceived, extend
an invitation to all suCh States, whether slave
holding or non- slaveholding, as are - willing to
unite with each other in an earnest effort to
adjust the present Unhappy difficulties in the
spirit in 'which the Constitution was originally
formed, and consistently with its principles, so
as to afford the people 'of the slaveholding
States adequate guarantees for the security of
their rights, to appoint commissioners to meet
on the fourth day of February next, in the city
of Washington, similar commissioners appointed
by Virginia, to consider, and if practicable,
agree upon some sort of adjustment.
I confess I hail this movement on the part
of Virginia with great satisfaction. From the
past history of this ancient.and renowned
Commonwealth. we have the fullest` assurance
that. what she has undertaken she will accom
plish, if it. can be done by able, enlightened
and persevering efforts. It is highly gratitying
to know that, other patriotic States have ap
pointed commissioners to meet those of Virginia
in council. When assembled, they will consti
tute a body entitled in imminent degree to the
confidence of the country.
The Federal Assembly of Virg inia have also
resolved "that EX-PreSident Tyler is hereby
appointed by the concurrent vole of each
branch of the General Assembly a' commissioner
to the President of the United States, and
Judge John Robertson is hereby appointed by
a like vote a commissioner to the State of South
Carolina and all other seceding States that
have seceded, or shall secede, with instructions
to respectfully request the President of the
United States, and the authorities of such States
to agree to abstain, pending the proceedings
contemplated by the action of this General
Assembly, from any and all acts calculated to
'produce a gellision of arms between the States
and the Government of the United States."
However strong may be my desire to enter
into such an agreement, I am couvinced that I
do not possess the power. Congress, and Con
gress alone, under the war-making power, can
exercise the discretion of agreeing :o abstain
from any and all acts calculated to produce a
collision of arms between this and any other
Government, /4 Would therefore be a usurpation
for the Executive, to attempt to restrain their
hands by an agreement in regard to matters
over which he has no constitutional control.
If he were thus to act, they might pass laws
which he would be foreed to obey, though in
conflict with his agreement.
Under existing circumstances my present
actual power is confined within narrow limits.
It is my duty at sit times to defend and protect
the Federal property within the seceding
States, so far as this may be practicable, and
especially to employ the constitutional means
to protect the property of. the United States,
and topreserve the public peace of this the
seat of the F.ederal Government. If the deco-
ding States abstain from any and all acts cal
culated to produce a collision of arms, then
the danger so much to be deprecated will no
longer exist. Defence and not aggression has
been the policy of the Administration from the
beginning.
But whilst I can eater into no engagement
such as that proposed, I cordially commend to
Congress, with much confidence, that it will
meet their approbation, to abstain from passing
any law calculated to produce a collision of
arms, pending the proceedings contemplated by
the action of the General Assembly of Virginia.
I am one of those who will never despair of
the Republic. I yet cherish the belief that the
American people will perpetuate the union of
the States on some terms just and honorable to
all sections of the country.
I trust that the mediation of Virginia may
be the destined means, under Providence, of
accomplishing this inestimable benefit.
Glorious as are the 'memories of her past
history, such an achievement, both in relation
to her own fame and the welfare of the whole
country, would surpass them all.
JAMES BITCHANAN
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 28, 1861.
TIIR NORTR- CAROLINA FORTS.
Governor Ellis, of North Carolina, in a letter
to the President informing him that the United
States forts in that State, lately seized by the
citizens, had, by his orders, been given up again
to the federal authorities, remarks•:
Your Excellency will pardon me for asking
whether the United States forts will be garri
soned with United States troops during your
administration ? This question I ask with
perfect respect, and with an earnest desire to
pre - fent consequences which Tf know would be
regretted by your Excellency as much as
myself. Should I receive assurances that no
troops will be sent to this State prior to the
4th of Mareh next, then all will be peace and
quiet here, and the property of the United
States will be fully protected as heretofore.—
If, however, I am unable to get such assuran
ces, I will not undertake_ to answer for the
consequences.
The forts in this State have long been unoc
cupied, end their being garrisoned• at this time
will unquostionibly be loeked upon as n hos
tile demonstration, and will, in my opinion,
certainly be resisted.
To the letter. Secretary. Holt responded as
follows : .
In reply to your inquiry, whether it is the
purpose of the President to garrison the forts
of North Carolina during his administration,
I am directed to say that they, in common with
the other forte, arsenals• and public property
of the United States, are in the charge of the
President, and that if assailed, no matter from
what quarter or under what pretext, it is his
duty to protect them by all the means which
the law has placed at his disposal. It is not
his purpose to garrison the forts to which you
-refer -at present, because he considers them•
entirely safe, as heretofore, under the shelter.
of the law abiding sentiment for which the
people of North Carolina have ever been dis
tinguished. ' Should they, however, be attack
ed or menaced with danger of being seized and
taken from the poosession.off. the United States,
be mulct_ mot eecape from bia
ontiganon - to 1 1'
very satisfactory and patriotic assurances
given by your excellency, justify him, however,
in entertaining the confident expectation that
no such contingency will arise.
REPEAL OF THE RHODE ISLAND PERSONAL
=MM3
The vote in the Senate of Rhode Island on
the repeal of the personal liberty bill was ayes
21, nays 9; and in the House of Representa
tives, ayes 49, nays 18. The following are the
sections repealed
'Sec. 18. No judge, justiet, magistrate or
court whatsoever of this State, shall grant any
certificate or warrant to, or otherwise in any
manner officially aid any persons claiming or
pursuing another as a fugitive slave, either
under the act of Congress approved February
12th, 1793, entitled 'an act respecting fugitives
from justice and persons escaping from the ser
vice of their masters,' or under the act of Con
gress approved September 18th, 1850, entitled
'an act to amend and Supplementary to said
act.'
"Bea. 19. No sheriff; deputy sheriff, town
sergeant, constable or other officer of this State,
shall arrest or detain, or aid in the arrest or
detention of any person claimed as a fugitive
slave, for or by reason thereof, or imprison
such fugitive, as snob, in any jail, or other
building belonging to this State, or to any city,
town, or village thereof."
•See, 20. Any justice of the peace, sheriff,
deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constable, jailor,
or keeper of a jail, who shall violate any- pro
vision of the two- sections next proceeding,
shall for every such offence be fined five hun
dred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding six
months.
The Providence Post, in noticing the repeal
of the bill, says: •
The large majority by which the odious law
was repealed is not without meaning. We are
certainly satisfied with the verdict. The peo
ple demanded that the work shoal] not be
done by halves, and their voice has- been re
spected. They will heartily endorse and sup
port the 'tenon of their repreSentatives. And
now we cell upon Maine and Massachusetts,
and the other nullifying States, to meet this
question as we have met it. Let the whole
North put itself right. Let every, law which has
been conceived in hostility to any section of
the country be blotted out. Let us stand upon
national ground.
SPREAD OF THE TELEGRAM—A letter from
Syria says that Fuad Pasha has inaugurated a
new era m Syrian civilization, by the introduc
tion of the magnetic telegraph. The wires have
been landed in Beirut which are to connect that
city with Damascus. The same Pasha has also
provided himself with a printing-press and a
supply of French type.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT.—Hon.
grastus Corning, president of the Central rail
road, has directed that a special car shall be
in readiness to convey Hon. Abraham Lincoln
from Buffalo to Albany, when he goes to Wash
ington.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATITRE.—In the Senate of
Virginia, qt bill has been reported, providing
for the payment of two and a half per tent. upon
the iIIVOiCe value of all goods imported by
steamers from Europe to any port in Virginia,
NEW HAMPHSEIRS Po.r f rrics.—The Concord
Democrat states that the Bell -Everett party of
New Hampshire are once more in the field.—
Levi Bartlett, of Warner, is their man for nov
ernor.
Gov. Mum AT CUICAOO.--(310V. 'flanks ar
rived at Chicago on Tuesday, and will enter
upon his duties as vice-president and resident
director of the Illinois Central railroad imme
diately.
LISAVV InagActr,s.—Authur Choppin, who lost
one of his legs in.a collision on the Carrolton
(L 9 railroad, has obtained a verdict of $25,000
against the company.
The English llswepapers teem with melan
choly narratives of death' amongst tllo Oat
from exposure to the cold,
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, •
SUNDAYS MIECEPTSD,
BY 0. BARRETT & CO •
•
Tit toiTHIOT AVID 17mox will be nerved to in b
a oriberu residing in She Borough for gm GENTS PIE WIRE •
pv44,4 4 ) to the Carrier. Mail rubscribers, sous DOE
1. UM PIE LINUX.
Tax Wilms will be published se heretofore, rend
weekly during the session of the Legislature, and once a
week the remainder of the year, for two dollars in ad
vance, Or three dollars at the expiration of the year,
Connected with this establishment is an extensive
JOB OFFICR, containing a variety of plain and fancy
type, unequalled by any establidusent in the interior of
the State, for which the patronage of the public is so
licited. •
NO. 127.
PENAPA LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, Jan. 29, 1861.
The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock
by the SPEAKER. Prayer by the Re*. Mr.
Feltwell.
Messrs. LAWRENCE, FINNEY, IRISH,
FULLER and CRAWFORD severally asked
and obtained leave to record their votes on the
tariff resolution adopted yesterday. They all
voted aye.
PETITIONS, REMONSTRANCES, &C.
Messrs. SMITH, CLYMER, CRAWFORD and
WELSH severally presented petitions from vs
rious sections of the State praying for the re.
peal of the 95th and 96th sections of the Penal
Code, and the restoration of the law of 1780.
Mr. SERRILL, a petition from councils of
the borough of Chester, praying for an atm.
tion in their charter so far as relates to taxes,
and one from citizens of like import.
Also, a remonstrance from citizens of Dela
ware county against the appointment of a
cattle inspector in Philadelphia.
Also, a petition of the directors of the, poor
for authority to sell certain real estate.
Mr. YARDLEY, a petition from the Society
of Friends of Richland township, Bucks
county, to sell a portion of their real estate.
Mr. SCHINDEL, a petition from citizens of
Bethlehem, praying for an alteratiOn In be
charter of their water company.
Mr. CLYMER, a petition from citizens , of
Berke county, praying for a yearly pension to
be paid to Michael Louden, a disabled veteran.
The SPEAKER, a petition from citizens of
West Penn township, Saul kill county, praying
for the repeal of a certain act in relation to
township officers.
Mr. LANDON, petitions from citizens of
Bradford and Wyoming, praying for further
legislation for the assessment of damages on
the North Branch canaL
Mr. BENSON, six rem onstrancettagniust the
erection of a boom at Jersey Shore.
Several petitions were also presentedin favor
of the erection of said boom.
Mr. GREGG, a remonstrance from citizens
of Clinton county against the repeal' of the
tonnage tax, and opposing any relief to rail
roads.
Mr. BOUND, from citizens of Clinton county,
praying for the erection of a boom in the Spa
quebanna, at a point between Surrre creek
and Pine creek.
Mr. HIESTAND, from the members of the,
bar of Lancaster to extend certain-laws to that
county.
Mr. HAMILTON, for the protection id-pro
perty of married women.
Mr. WELSH, two from , citizens ell York
praying for the repeal - of the actin relation to
fishing.
Mr. PENNEY, from citizens praying for the
passage of an act to•prevent cattle, - sheep and
swine from running at large.
Mr. IRISH, one of similar import.
Also, a petition from , citizens of Beaver
county, praying for a law to enable married
women to collect and enjoy the prom:via of
their own labor.
Also, from same, praying for the•passage of
a law protecting all persons not guilty of crime,
in the enjoyment of their liberty.
- Mr. COB .51. Lai; c %lux
Tellftrub-crtr renakinnmpilln7s
of Philadelphia, which was- taken. up and
passed.
Mr. SMITH, from the select committee, re
ported the bill providing for compensation to
owners of fugitive slaves' &a., with amend
ments.
Mr. FINNEY, from (lie Committee on Fede
ral Relations, reported the bill relative to the
appointment of commissioners- to.. attend the
Convention of States at Washington on.the 4th
of February, with amendments.
On a motion to have the bill printed and
made the special order of the day fonto-morrow
a debate sprung up, participated in .by, Messrs.
SMITH, FINNEY, LAWRENCE,. SCHIN.DEL
and BOUND. The motion to postpone was
lost—yeas 8, nays 20.
The question recurring on the second
and consideration, the first. resolution was
read, and on motion of Mr. FINNEY,.the num
ber of commissioners was increased to seven.
The first resolution was adopted.
Mr. WELSH moved that the hour of adjourn
ment be extended• until, the resolutions are
disposed of, which was agreed. to-r?-yttee 19,
nays 9.
The second resolution being under consider
ation, Mr. WELSH offered an amendment ;
whielLwas not agreed to.
The question recurring on the, original reso
lution, it was opposed by Messrs.. PENNEY,
LANDON and IRISH, and supported Messrs.
FINNEY and SMITH.
Mr. ROBINSON. offered'an. amon.dinent in
structing the Commissioners not to, accede to.
any proposition to establish slavery in any
State or territory where it does-not exist; which
was not agreed to—yeas 10,.neya 18.
The question recurring on the original reso
lution, it was adopted—yeas 20, nays 8.
Mi. WELSH moved• to amend that part of
the preamble which states that no cause for
excitement exists in the South; which wee
lost—yeas 5, nays 22.
The yeas and nays were called on the pre
amble, and resulted as follows—yeas 21, nays
7.
The title was read, and on motion of Mr.
FINNEY,_ the rule was suspended. and the res
olutions passed finally—yeas 22, nays 6.
The SPEAKER laid before the Senate the
report of tho Auditor Gowan', State Treasurer
and Attorney General, relative to unadjusted
claims against the State on the main line ;
which was read. Adjourned:
TUESDAY, Jan. 29th, 10361.
The Huse Tao called to order at 11 o'clock
a. m., the SVNAKER•
The following bills upon the Private Calender
were then read, and passed finally.
" An Act for laying out and constructing a
State road in Jefferson and Indiana eonediefl."
" An Act to incorporate the Masonic Hall
association of East Liberty, in the county or
Allegheny."
"An Act to incorporate the Chesnut Hill •
academy."
" An Act to incorporate the Sinking Spring,
cemetery company of Sinhing Spring,. 13tplo
county.
"An Act to change the nameof Hanna:
nia Sacred Music society of Philadelphia." '' •
" An Act to revive certain acta of - Assembly
relative to the Diligent fire engine compan y of
Philadelphia."
" A supplement, to the act Incorporating the
borough of Chambersburg, approved March 21,
A. D. 1803." •
" An Act r to fin the benuderies of the borough
of Mealtexicaburg, in the county of Cumber,.
land."
"AB Act relating to the collection of taxes
le .the Amity of 44wrencei
ig n.
s 4pp l emem t t o li p act to tucorporate Grove
cemetery of Now Brighton, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania." - • "
.A.et approptatiug nrea ofround in
rhi4411114114 ke Mt open public place for the
SENATE.
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