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W. D. EARNEST. Sec'y. W. D. BOAS.
HARRISBURG, January 81, 1861.
The following named gentlemen compose the
Committee
Chairman County Committee—WlLLlAM D.
BOAS.
Harrisburg—let Ward—G. A. C. Seiler, C. D
Hineline.
2d Ward—Jacob Ilaehnlen, Fred. Trace.
3d " John L. Speel, W. D. Earnest.
4th 44 Michael Muller, W. M'Fadden.
bth " Robert Fry, Jesse Vandever.
6'h 4 4 George Hammon, V. Grainger.
Middletown—North Ward—Fred. Lauman,
Jos. Lescure.
Middle Ward—James Wilson, Wm. M'Clure_
South Ward—John Suavely, Benj. Whitman.
Gratz—Jacob Buffington.
Lyhens —George K.-pler.
Wioonisco—John Hair.
Washington—Lewis Keifer.
Lower Paxton—John J. Crum.
West Hanover—E. IL. Umberger.
South " J. W. CasseL
Swatara —Adam Hoffman_
Lower Swatara—Lewis Claimer.
Derry—Daniel Hummel.
Londonderry—James Dougherty.
West Londonderry—A. J. Clare.
Mifllin—J. V. Bressler.
Jefferson—A. M:Glauchlin.
Jackson—Daniel Miller.
Millersburg —Wm. M'Kissiek.
Halifax—Henry Spies.
Reed—Joseph Smith.
Middle Paxton—Tobias Garman.
Dauphin—J,B. Crouse.
Susquehanna—David Reel.
Pennsylvania Commissioners.
Gov. CURTIN has appointed the following
persons Commissioners, to represent Pennsyl
vomit' in the Convention which meets at Wash
ington. on Monday next, the 4th inst.
WILLIAM M. MRRADITH. of Philadelphia.
Jamas Par.lno - ir nf_Northumberland.
DAVID WILMOT, or Bradford.
A. W. Loomis, of Allegheny.
WILLIAM MollssmAN, of Washington.
THOMAS WHITE, of Indiana.
THOMAS E. FRANKLIN, of 1.41101143 T.
The moderate men, belonging to Gov. CUR-
Tiles own party, will be surprised and mortified
that be has chosen the Commissioners exclu
sively from the Republican party. It was ex
pected that at least one Democrat would have
been offered a place on this commission. If
ever there was an occasion when propriety
demanded that the Governor should have di
veited himself, as far as possible, of partisan
prejudices and predilections, it was when he
came to select persons to represent the State in .
National Convention, the conclusions of which
May determine the fate of the Union. This
immediately concerns the whole people of
Pennsylvania, without distinction as to party.
The questions that will come before the Conven
tion are far above and beyond party. And
yet Gov. CURTIN has selected men most of
whom are decided partisans, and some of whom
have rendered themselves peculiarly obnoxious,
by their intemperate violence against the South.
With the exception of Mr_ Menirarn and Ex-
Gov. Potatoes, these Commissioners are very
little known in the State, and entirely unknown
out of it, if we exclude DAVID WILMOT, who is
too well known. After his rejettion, by his
own party, as a candidate for United States
Senator, propriety should have induced the
Governor to permit him to remain in private
life. fie is dragged out of retirement, as if for
the special purpose of nreventing any good
results from the contemplated genvention.
Tux Telegraph of yesterday contains a very
long article in relation to the cause and the
remedy of the existing difficulties in our coun
try, which favors a settlement by compromise
according to the terms proposed by the border
States. After hiving so long labored to con
vince the people that there should be no com
promise involving concessions to the Southern
States, we cannot refrain from congratulating
the Telegraph on its change of position. One
paragraph from the article, in favor of the re
storation of the Missouri Compromise, will
seem to indicate its general tenor :
The question at issue, as presented by the
Border States do not offer irreconeileable an
tagonisms, viewed by the light of the purposes
of the Republican party in Pennsylvania. And
we are very sure if, during the last canvass, an
issue could then properly have been made, sub
stantially, for the re-enactment of the Missouri
Compromise as a mode of settlement of the
question of slavery, as far as it was implicated
in that election, that it would have been sup
ported by an overwhelming majority of the
people of Pennsylvania, and it would not have
needed the troubles already experienced, and
the apprehension of the impending calamity of
civil war, to have determined their suffrages in
its favor."
Having thus admitted that a settlement of
the slavery question by the re enactment of
the Missouri Compromise would command an
overwhelming majority of the people of Penn
sylvania; we trust that the Telegraph will con
tinue to advocate in adjust mons upon this basis.
A party of Germans has sailed from New
Orleans to establish a , colony in Nicaragua,
where Mr. Audieburg,n wealthy German, has
bought 160 square miles of territory.,,
The Unyielding Policy Illustrated.
No wise statesman would treat disaffection
pervading one-half of a country as he would a
local revolt. When the people of a township,
county, district, or even a State, attempt to re
sist the authority of the government, itis com
paratively an easy mat ter to put them down by
force of arms, if necessary. But when a whole
section of the country is in open revolt against
the government, the question as to how revo
lution should be dealt. with becomes one of far
greater magnitude than when It concerns only
a local abl - partial insurrection. Necessity
has compelled those who have administered gov
ernment, in all ages, to compromise difficulties
threatening revolution. Men who have obsti
nately placed themselves against. compromise
have themselves been overtaken by revolution.
Governments have lost theirfairest possessions
because they maintained an unyielding spirit.
Charles the First was executed on the scaffold
because he refused to accede to the just demands
of his subjects. Ilis son, James the Second,
was compelled to abdicate the crown and spend
the remnant of his days in exile, because he
was too firm to give way. He was one of the
stand-fast characters, gifted with en unusual
amount of what certain men now call back-bone
—and it brought him to a pitiful ‘ end. En
gland alienated the affections of the people of
these States, and finally had them wrested from
her by, the power of revolution, because her
statesmen were too proud and self willed to
heed or understand the significance of the deep
murmurs that came from her would-be loyal
subjects on this side of the Atlantic. And after
the Colonies took the first step in revolution,
the English statesmen determined to teach us
that there seas a government—a government to
which allegiance was due, and which was capa
ble of compelling loyalty from those rebellious
subjects who denied its authority. The En
glish statesmen of that day who controlled the
government disdained to listen to overtures for
concession or compromise. " What," said they,
after the manner of their modern imitators,
" compromise with traitors 7—grant coucessions
to revolutionists who have seized the property
"belonging to the government, and set up an
"independent government of their own ?—never.
" When they lay down the arms of their re
" hellion and recognize the authority of the
"government, then, and not till then, we will
"consider the propriety of granting cermet.-
" sions." This sounded very well—it was a
beautiful theory—it comported admirably with
the idea of a strong government, requiring
implicit obedience—and it was carried out with
what results the world is familiar. England
maintained her dignity, but lost her Colonies.
She refused to make coneessions, and sundered
her empire. Her statesmen were incapable of
understanding the significance of revolution.
They reasoned just as some men now reason
with regard to the revolution steadily pro
gressing in our own country. The Colonies
had no just causes of complaint against the
mother country—their demands were unrea
sonable and extortionate—to give way in the
face of their threats of resistance would impair
the moral strength of the government—they
would not carry their threats into execution—
and more than that, they could not. What
were thirteen sparsely-settled, poor, dependent,
wilderneea
power - tii England ? Where was their army and
navy ? How could they raise funds to meet
the expenses of a single campaign ? The re
bellion appeared almost contemptible. These
wise statesmen were sure that they could crush
it out in a year, and dictate terms to the Colo
nies, instead of permitting the insolent Colo
nies to dictate terms to the government. Well,
they tried force, and failed, shamefully and
ignominiously failed. The controversy with
these Colonies, which might have been settled
by a wise spirit of concession and compromise,
and they retained to the mother country, com
menced in discontent, ripened into revolution,
and ended in independence—all because British
statesmen undertook the fatal experiment of
treating the discontents of a whole people as
they were accustomed to treat local insurrec
tions in a county or district.
Now it is not necessary to multiply illustra
tions of what disasters have resulted from
pride and obstinacy in the administration of
governments. When discontent pervades the
people of an entire section of any country, it
is unwise and impolitic to waste time in alter
nate threats of subjugation on the one hand
or arguments on the other, to convince them
that their complaints are groundless. The
grand object should be to remove the disaffection
and by use of the means requisite to that end.
What is demanded, above all things, is that the
difficulties should be treated practically. When
revolution comes, what is the use of ignoring
it ?—of arguing that it cannot be, when it is ?--of
attempting to assert the authority of the gov
ernment by force, when such a step must result
in showing its impotency to coerce ten millions
of people
How much more rational it would be for the
people of the North to conclude that such
events as the secession of States from the
Union must be produced by causes which the
people of those States deem just and justifiable;
and if they wish to preserve the Union, make
such compromises as shall remove the causes
of alarm which have fired the Southern heart ;
or, if they do not desire to preserve the Union,
allow the Southern States to depart in peace.
This revolution is not to be stopped by force of
arms. The Union can only be preserved by
peaceful means. Coercion means civil war,
and civil war permanent disunion_
DISTRESSING SUICIDE IN WASHINGTON.—The
Star of the 28th says :—. O The greatest conster
nation was excited in the northern part of the
city yesterday, by a suicidal act of a nature
more than ordinarily distressing. A. young wife
and mother, whose remarkable charms of per
son and manner are within the recollection of
a large circle of acquaintances, in a fit of tem
porary derangement, cut her throat with a
razor, dying almost immediately. She had
been married about fifteen months, and at the
time of her death was residing with her father
and her husband (both Department clerks.) on
Tenth street between G. and H. After her
confinement she was very ill, and yesterday
about 11 p. m., while the family were at dinner,
she managed to make her way unobserved to an
upper room, where she obtained a razor and
drew it across her throat with so much determi
nation of purpose as to put an almost immediate
end to her existence "
A girl was upset from a sleigh, at Newbury,
N. Y., on Tuesday, acid fell against a tree; she
did not appear to be much hurt at the time,
but on reaching home vomited blood; before
the doctor arrived she was:dead.
[Communicated.]
That debased sheet, the New York -Tribune, in
its issue of the 29th inst., sums up in a f w words
its view of the present crisis in our national affairs,
and the result to be obtained, as follows :
"Slavery is either now to receive its death
wound, or it is to spring into now life and vigor."
The battle that has been waging by the Aboli
tionists for years against Southern institutions Ma
indeed reached a fearful complication; and the
floods of ink that have blackened the pages of the
Northern press, as it poured out its daily encour
agement to the maudlin MioWera of a false hu
tbanity, are now about to be turned into the mini
son torrent of a nation's blood ! And the philoso
pher of Gotham looks coolly on and gloats at the
idea "that slavery is now to receive its eath
wound." Here at last, after years of persistent
labor to transform this heritage of our fathers into
au Aceldama, and the field of carnage is just before
ua, we are to be consoled with the thought that
slavery is to be extinguished! Yes, and with it
our liberties, and the just hopes and prospects of a
united country.
And why all this Does the madcap negro-wer
shipper, or negro-hater, (Abolitionism is made up
of the two extremes,) carry his monomaniaeism eo
far as to disregard all consequences, all constitu
tional right, all practical knowledge ?
A disinterested observer might think there was
a wisdom in the ways of Providence that one not
cased in egotism could readily perceive; and that,
probably, at least, the dispensation that landed on
our shores, although mainly through New England
superintendence, the stupid, starving, lazy and fe
rocious barbarian of Africa, was, to him, one of
mercy and eminent usefulness. By it the degradeu
inhabitant of a foreign clime has been brought
into juxtaposition with a higher civilization, and a
means of advance unknown to his native home.—
By it, he and you, ye false humanitarians, may
learn a lesson of God's teaching; that, in the
struggle up wards, the lower conditions and classes
of men must be brought in contact with the higher;
and, therefore, as a necessary corollary, that these
diverse conditions are natural and legitimate.
The time may come when inequalities may no
longer exist among men; when society, by the
ameliorating influence of science, of education and
a high morality, may culminate in perfection, as,
if you please, in the millenium daye, when the
relation of master and slave would be in opposition
to reason, and of course sinful. But until that
period comes, even the straightjacket philosopher,
the immortal Greeley and his motley crew, must be
content to take things as they are, and learn, if
they would be teachers, to accommodate their les
ions to the condition of the field in which they
labor, and to the temper of the times.
For, suppose slavery to be extinguished, what
shall be done with the negro ? Will the Abolition
ists take them in their charge ? Will they provide
them with work ? Do they want them in their
families? Or, do they merely desire to set them
free, that they may enjoy the sight of their hap
pines!, as in African or West Indian fashion they
throw themselves in the hottest place they can find,
right under the glare of a torrid sun, to lose them
selves in glorious sleep, or dance to the strings of
the banjo in the same ecstatic locality ? Perhaps
this might not exactly accord with the views of
these eclectic philanthropiate.
What then ? Has their pseudo-morality reached
a higher gradation ? Does the fierce nature of their
impulses gloat on the higher joy of conflict, mur
der, internecine war, when master and servant and
dishonored matron and deflowered maid shall be
piled on the same mound, to be visited yearly by
the pious pilgrim; who, as the Indian of old, will
cast upon it his blessing and his conserated Aboli
tion
L t.f lu fr a om ye th b e li n n e d ie l h e r d r e i r n s c ott nine ?
Do
he blind, what
you want to do with the slave. Do you want to
run him off to Canada, because you so delight in
stealing, and find you can exercise yourself in this
without fear of punishment? Come now, be va
lorous. Try your hand at some violation that will
imply courage to meet the consequences. Steal a
horse, or run away with your neighbor's cow. The
excitement arising from apprehended detection and
punishment, and the consciousness that you had
established a claim to some bravery, would be such
a novelty as vastly to increase your self-satisfac
tion. How paltry in comparison the undangerous
boast, heard at every meeting of the faithful, of
the troops they have carried off by the underground
railroad.
But, indeed, is our country to be made a waste,
and our people slaughtered, to gratify Greeley and
his coadjutors. God, in his infinite mercy, pre
vent it.
PENN'A LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
FRIDAY, Feb. 1, 1861.
The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock by
the SPEAKER.
PETITIONS, &C.
Mr. CONNELL presented the memorial and
resolutions brought here by a committee of
thirty-three workingmen, appointed by a mass
meeting held in Independence Square, in Phil
adelphia. Mr. CONNELL prefaced the pre
sentation in a feW eloquent remarks, and moved
the reading of both ' • which motion carried.—
After a few remarks from Mr. WELSH on the
high character and integrity of the petitioners,
the memorial and resolutions were read, the
committee occupying seats in the gallery du
ring the reading.
Mr. SMITH presented remonstrances from
the city of Philadelphia against the incorpora
tion of the Continental brush company.
Mr. SERRILL, a memorial from the yearly
meeting of Progressive Friends, of Chester
county, praying that the right of suffrage may
be extended to women.
The SPEAKER, Senators CLYMER, CRAW
FORD, ILIE3TAND, BLOOD and MOTT, pre
sented petitions from various sections of the
State, praying for a repeal or moditeation of
the 95th and 96th sections of the Penal Code.
Mr. CLYMER, a petition from citizens of
Barks and Lebanon counties, praying for the
laying out of a State road in said counties.
The SPEAKER, a petition for a State road
in Schuylkill and Columbia counties.
Mr. GREGG presented the memorial of S.
G. Morrison, of Lycoming county, praying that
tho tonnage tax be appropriated to common
school purposes.
Mr. LAWRENCE, a petition from citizens of
Washington county, praying for the repeal of
the law against the issue of small notes by the
banks.
Mr. IRISH, a remonstrance from certain citi
zens against the repeal of any laws for the
protection of colored people.
Also, for the passage of an act to secure cer
tain rights to married women.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
A large number of bills were reported by the
different committees, as committed.
BILLS IN PLACIE
Mr. MOTT read in place an act granting
discretion to courts in passing sentences under
the first and second sections.of the act of As
sembly appproved May 8,1854.
Mr. PENNEY, an act relating to the county
of Allegheny.
Mr. BLOOD., an act to exempt the Presby
terian church of Concord, Clarion county, from
taxation.
Mr. CONNELL, millet for the relief of debt
ors.
Also. an act in relation to certain surveys in
West Philadelphia.
ORIGINAL RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. SERRILL offered a resolution that when
the Senate adjourns to-day, it adjourns to meet
on Monday next, at 3 o'clock; which was
agreed to.
Mr. FINNEY offered the following:
Resolved, That the Committee on Banks be
instructed to inquire and report what tanks,
if any, in this Commonwealth have forfeited
their charter by a violation of the laws regula
ting banks and banking institutions, and that
the committee have power to send for persons
and papers,
Mr. FINNEY subsequently modified his
resolution, which did not materially alter it.
Mr. SMITH offered an amendment that the
committee be aufhorizvd to inquire into the
causes of the Suspension, 6114 whether justifi
able, &c.
On motion, the subject was postponed for the
present.
A report from the Auditor General in rela
tion to money received from officers for colla
teral inheritance tax, and tax on certain fees,
was read.
Mr. LILESTAND read in place supplement to
the act incorpo , atii.g the Marietta and Mount
Joy turnpike company.
Also, au act for the better preservation of
game.
BILLS CONSIDERED
On motion of Mr. IRISH, a supplement to
the act for the better preservation of game.
was taken up and past-ed.
On motion of Mr. MOTT, the bill for the
better preservation of speckled trout in the
lakes, streams and ponds of Pike county, was
taken up and passed.
Mr. Cooper, one of the transcribing clerks,
appeared, and was sworn in. Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
PRUDAT, Fvb 1, 1861
The House met at 11 o'clock. The SPEAKER
in the Chair. Prayer was offered by Rev Mr.
Johnson.
SPECIAL ORDER.
The special order being the consideration of
bills upon the Public Calender, the House pro
ceeded co their consideration.
The House then went into committee of the
whole, Mr. BYRNE iu the Chair, on an act, en
titled •'Au Act rela'ive to tendering the services
of the military of the State to the General Gov
ernment. On motion the committee rose.
The SPEAKER having resumed the Chair,
the question arose, shall the committee have
leave to sit again? This was refused by a vote
of 41 tlyes,to 41 noes. The bill then came up
for second rending.
Mr.SHEPPARD moved to postpone the reso
lutions for the present. Other motions were
made to postpone to different limes.
Mr. WILLIAMS urged the passage of the
resolutions, declaring th'tt Pennsylvania was
lying idle while a grand conspiracy was in
progress against the Federal Capital.
Mr. BYRNE declared that his voice was sill
for peace. The time had not yet come to place
the State on a war footing, but it was rather
advisable to bold out the olive branch.
Mr. HILL was opposed to the resolutions, at
this time, altogether. He ridiculed the idea of
intimidating the South and driving them into
measures, by arming the State. Such a course
would destroy the effect of the appointment of
Commissioners to Washington Not one peti
tion had been presented in favor of such arming.
Mr. WILLIAMS inquired whether any peti
tion had been presented in favor of the apoint
merit of Commissioners.
Mr. HILL declared that the opinion of the
people of Pennsylvania was in favor of that
measure without petition.
Mr. PATTERSON opposed the resolutions.
Mr. HOFIUS favored the establishment of a
military protection to the people of the Key
stone State.
Mr. SHEPPARt was opposed to the resolu
tions as entirely unnecessary.
Mr. ELLIOTT advocated the postponement
for as short a time as possible. •
Mr. SELTZER held that the resolution
simply provided for the arming of the military,
}1 pusipottettien. tor rue present.
Mr. BUTLER (Crawford) was opposed to
Swing any day for the consideration if the
resolutions. The true .policy, in his opinion,
was to allow them to go to third reading, so
as to be railed up at any time.
Mr. BURNS thought that the present time
was the proper one for arming.
Mr. GORDON wished to know who the armed
men were expected to fight.
Re was in favor of increasing the number of
arms in the State, hut the resolutions under
consideration were not practical in their char
acter.
Mr. BARTHOLOMEW delivered a lenghty
speech declaring that. if Pennsylvania desired
to sustain the Union. and preserve the Federal
Capital, she must arm.
Mr. RANDALL, Mr. HILL, Mr. BARTHOL
OMEW, Mr. ABBOTT, Mr. WILLIAMS, and
Mr. BRESSLER, furl her debated the question.
On a motion to postpose until Monday next
at 3 p m., the ayes were 36, and the noes were.
38.
A motion was also made to postpone until
12 o'clock on Wednesday next. Agreed to.
Mr. GORDON moved that the House bold a
special session on Tut.!-day evening next to con
sider public bills. Adjourned.
G_ENERAL I.VEWS.
ABOLITION AT SYRACUSE.-A duplicate Of the
wild scenes in Tremont Temple, Boston, last
week, was produced on Wednesday in Conven
tion Hall, Syracuse. On the previous day
Miss Susan B. Anthony made an attempt, to de
liver a speech, but was prevented, On Wed
nesday again, however, the Abolitionists a:
sembled in force, determined to have their say
out. Various attempts were made by excited
Abolitionists to harangue the crowd ; but the
crowd preferred not tote harangued by them,
and kept up a scene of - wild excitement, till
finally the Abolitionists were completely routed,
and their opponents took possession of the
Hall, when Union speeches were made, and the
people finally formed in procession,
and marched
through the streets of the Salt City, bearing
transparencies with effigies of Rev. Mr. May,
Miss Anthony, and other noted Abolition agi
tators.
LAW SUTT BETWEEN HORSE TAMER.—An ac
tion for $lOO,OOO damages has been commenced
in the Supreine Court in New York by Denton .
Offutt, of New Orleans, against J. S Rarey, the
famous horse tamer, for an alleged violation of
a contract. Mr. Offutt claims that he is the
originator of this system of horse taming, and
that in the year 1850 be taught it to Rarey,
who bound himself in the penalty of $5O in
each case in which he should impart the secret
to any other person ; that he gave Rarey a
book of the system, which he (Rarey) has
since re-published, and has further violated the
contract by imparting the secret of the system
to divers persons in Europe and the United
States.
THE BALTIMORE Botrapeneres.—Should the
great suit now paneling in the courts in Paris
be in favor of Mme. Bonaparte and her son,
the results will be momentous. Prince Napo
leon and Princess Ma.thilde, the children of
Jerome's second marriage, will be declared
illegitimate. Mr. Jerome Bonaparte, of Balti
more, will bec ,, rne the next heir to the impe
rial crown, after the young Prince Imperial,
who is now only four years old. Who knows
but that an American may yet sit on the throne
of Napoleon ?
CAPITAL CRIMES IN NEW YORlL—Fourteen
men are now confined in the "Tombs" in New
York city, awaiting trial for capital 'offences.—
Three are charged with arson, and the remain
der with murd..r. One of the Fortner, James
Shepherd, has been in prison since Sept. 22d,
1857, has had two trials, and is now awaiting
a third.
A • woinan iecently applied to the Duchess
county, N. :Y „courts fora divorce from her hus
band,
,on the grent,d that he habitually chewed
tobacco.
=MI
A Philadelphia firm has received a letter
from an attorney in North Corolina remitting
$B5, as the proceeds of a debt of $9O. The
lawyer failing to collect the debt in the regular
way had "hoarded it out." In winding up his
letter to the firm he says: "I have retained $5
for my services, though the commission is hut
$4.50 I have only to say, that if you knew
the abdominal anguish I have suffered while
boarding out your bill, you wouldn't begrubge
the extra half dollart"
EFFECT OF THE CRUM ON THE Slur TRADE.—
A circular of Messrs. Arles Dufour & Co., of
Lyons, mentions that although the United
States take annually about £1,000,000 worth
of silk goods from Europe, the fall in the prices
since the outbreak of the disunion crisis has
not been more than between 2 and 3 per cent.
on the superior descriptions, owing to the lim
ited supply in the market. In the common
descriptions there has been a reduction of be
tween 6 and 12 per cent,
Dr. George Bennett, a naturalist who has
lately published an account of his twenty-two
years' resilience in Astralia, gives a description
of the grandest of all Australian birds, the
Jabirn, or gigantic crane. It grows to be five
feet high. and is so rare that the Doctor had
seen but four skins of the bird during his resi
dence there. It is very graceful, has large and
briliant eyes. a beautiful metallic brilliancy
of plumage, and is easily domesticated.
Four street robbers at Galveston, Texas,
made a raid on the citizens a few nights since•
They garroted three gentlemen, and got $166
from one, $250 from another, and a gold watch
and chain from the third.
Monday night last an attempt was made to
blow up an old market-house in St. Louis. A
keg of powder bad been placed in a position
where the explosion would destroy the whole
fabric.
The city council of Halifax, N. S., have sent
the Mayor end one Alderman to the United
States, commissioned to buy three steam fire
engines, in consequence of the late destructive
fire.
Mrs. Castetter, of South Bend, Indiana, was
killed on Monday by a female se , vant, who
struck her with her fiet in the breast while
she was seated in a chair with an infant in her
arms.
The numher.of etudents inscribed at the
Medical School of Paris at the commencement
of this year was only 1.196.
Only thirty-five men were killed last year in
duele in the United States_
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
MVlth CONGRENS -• SECOND SESSION.
SENATE.-Mr. Ten Eyck (N. J.) presented
the joint resolutions of the Legislature of New
Jersey, expressing their willingness to accept
the Crittenden resolutions, advising a Conven
tion of the States, appointing Commissioners to
meet the other States, and instructing their
Senators and requesting the representatives
from the State to act in accordance with these
resolutions.
Mr. Ten Eyck said the resolutions commanded
his p•spect, but were not to control his action
or manacle his limbs. A Senator, though
bound to guard the interests of his State, is
also bound to guard the weal of all the States.
He regarded the Constitution of the United
States to he the supreme law; and if his State
demanded unconstitutional action he would still
feel bound to obey the Constitution of the
United States. If a Senator is bound to obey
the instructions of his State, then apiece of
mechanism would do as well as a man for Sen
ator. He referred to a former occasion when
the Senators from New Jersey declined to obey
instructions, and said he should hesitate to
obey these instructions, because he did not
believe that they represented the feeling of the
people of New Jersey.
Horav •-•*11/17.
question oz privutge, reaa toe resolution in
troduced by Mr. Hindman yesterday, instruct
ing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire
whether he was constitutionally and legally
elected a Representative from the State of Kan
sas. As this was the first time his right to a
seat had ever been questioned, and as he yes
terday took the oath from the Speaker without
any objection being made, he thought Mr.
Hindman should inform the House of the rea
son which prompted him to take so extraordi
nary a position.
Mr. Hindman (Ark.) said that it afforded him
much pleasure to do so. It was without any
intention to assail the gentleman, and out of no
hostility to him or his State. It occurred to
him that the question should be settled as to
what time a.State becomes entitled to repre
sentation in Congress. Having been informed,
and believing, that the election under which the
gentleman claims his seat took place long ante
rior to the admission of 'Kansas into the Union,
it seemed to him evident that the right of rep
resentation does not rest under that election.
It seemed to him quite evident that Kansas only
became entitled to a member of the House at
the time when duly admitted into the Union.
It seemed to him, for the reasons stated, that
the election was a mere nullity. He, therefore,
wanted the question to be decided whether the
people of a Territory may proceed to the
election of a representative in Congress. That
was his sole object.
He was aware that in numerous instances
R• presentatives, and even Senators, were cho
sen by the people of a Territory before admis
sion as a State, and allowed to take their seats
immediately. after admission ; but the fact
that such cases have occurred does not settle
the question of right. It was a had custom and
ought not to be followed. The question simply
is, has a Territory the right under the Con
stitution to elect Representatives to Congress ;
for at the time the gentleman from Kansas was
elected Kansas was a Territory only.
Mr. G.-ow (Pa.) called the attention of Mr.
Hindman to the case of his own State, (Arkan
sas,) and recited the opinion of Attorney Gen
eral Butler, under General Jackson's Adminis
tration, to show that the machinery of a State
government may be erected before the new
government goes into operation ; and it has
been held from the beginning of this govern
ment !bat all the necessary machinery may be
provided to commence operation on the day
that Congress legalizes the action or the people
organizing it.
Mr. Hindman did not controvert the facts
mentioned by the gentleman. He was aware
of the case of Arkansas as well as those of Cal
ifornia, Minnesota, Oregon, and divers other
State Senators and Representatives elected prior
to the act of admission, having been allowed to
take seats immediately on the passage of the
act of admission.
New York Democratic Convention.
ALBANY, Feb. 1
The committee on resolutions of the Demo
cratic State Convention, have agreed to report,
to-day, a series of resolutions entirely free from
anything of a partizan character, opposing
coercion, and favoring the Crittenden oompro ,
mine ; exhorting all men to unite with them in
submitting that. compromise to the vote of the
people of the State; exhorting the seceding
States to refrain from acts of aggression, or any
course calculated to plunge the nation into
civil war, and the non-seceding slave States to
use their influence with their breihern of the
South to that end. The Convention re-assem
bled nt noon to-day. Speeches were delivered
by Lyman Tremsin and James J. Thayer,
against coercion and civil war.
The committee on resolutions made a report
in addition to the foregoing summary. These
resolutions declare that it. is a monstrous doc
trine to refuse to settle controversies with onr
own people. with compromises. They favor
the adoplion of the policy that. will give saris
faction to the border States, and favor the ap
pointment of a committee to .memorialize the
Legislature urging thoeubmiasion of the Crit
tenden compromise •to the vote of the electors
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1
provide early 41;
of the State at the earliest practi l.
They urge Congress to at a cable d a
for constitutional amendments, or in th«.
ent
of the failure of Congre ss to take action, th e :.
urge the Legislature to take the initiatory 4
ate
for summoning a general conventio n t o
pose amendments to the Constitution oft
the
United States. They favor a response to th e
Virginia resolutions for a cocommissioners
at w ash.
ington, and name as commissionersonere N at till..
Stale, Hon. Millard Fillmore, Addison G,,,, d !
ner, Green Bronson, Erastus Corning, H ortiti ,,
Seymour, Amos J. Parker, Chaeles (I , o„, itie ;
and Samuel G. Tilden. The resolution s fur entt.
misty oppose civil war, end urge the. t3 ' ctl
and non seceding Southern States to Join .11, 4 ing
in staying the progress of dissolution.
From Washington.
WASHINGTOII, Fel, 1,
Orders have just been issued for thl. enroll•
ment of atl citizens subject to militia duty in
the District of Columbia.
The President has recognized .1. D. Bryn fiat,
as Vice Consul of the Netherlands for North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to resist
at Charleston.
Fire in Alton, Illinois
ALTON, 111., Feb. 1.
A fire, this evening, destroyed the building
occupied by Wm. M. Hart. drilogikt, and the
grain warehouse of L. J. Clauson St Co, Loss
$26,000. Fully insured,
The Ohio Commissioners,
COLUNBI7S, Ohio, Feb, 1,
The Commissioners from Ohio win be ill
strucied to procure an adjournment till April
fourth, if possible.
The Markets.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb .29.
Flour dull ; superfine $6.254.31M per 1r.1.; extra fain.
ily $5.754.12)6, and fancy lota a , $6 25a6.75. Rye Boar
$3.75. Penna. corn meal $3.00. Wheat 2e61,29
bushel for red Penna.; $1 35E61.46 for white Rye n i t
cte. Corn 80c. for new yellow. Oats 34e Wh , sky.....
Penny 17,;i0. in bbls.; 1751 e. in hhd.., and Drudge at 17
cts.
Flour quiet; sales of 9,000 bbls. N ; p i c es
r e f: , 1
r. e
F ae
shade
firmer; State $5 15a5 25; Ohio $ .70n5 15; Southern
unchanged. Wheat quiet and unchanged Corn quiet ,•
10.000 bushels sold at unchanged prices ; a lot of old
Yellow Southern was sold at 70,5 c. Pork dull Lard
Mill at 1044110%c. Whisky steady at Mc.
BALTUKORS, Frio. 1,
Flour active, w7th large eaten of tioward Street at
$• 25 , a decline of 6 cents. Wheat dull; red, $1 2ks
$1 33; white ; $1.40a51.65. orn steady; yellow, 60a62
cents. Provisions firm, coffee stea ty. Whiskey uom
imal at 18a183/ 1 cents.
New 2ttwatistments.
F°TND,—A sum of MONEY was found
in the Cars of Mail Train west from Philadelphia,
that arrived at 1.20, p. m., on the let of February; and
is now in the possession of the undersigned.
BAMII.LL D. YOUNG.,
Sup't. East Div. Penna. R R.
feb2-d3t
A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY !
•T
No. 12, Ararth-western side of lifarket Square, next to
Felix's Confectionery.
Owing to Other engagements, I will sell out my stock
of erocerien, China, Glass and Quo nsware, Pr , 'slalom,
Liquors, &c , at a bargain. There is a gout ran of Coun
try and City trwie, and any pe. son wisbinr to engage in
the business will do well to call soon, as I intend closing
it out. The store-room can be leased for the business.
W. L. TREWIO/E.
February 2, 1861.-2td
OTlCE.—Whereas I etters testamen
tary on the estate of WILLIAM SHAW/MBE, late of
the city of Harrisburg, deceased, have been granted by
the Register of Dauphin county to the undersigned:
Therefore, notice is hereby given to all persons in.
debted to the estate of said decedent to make payment
as early as practicable ; and those having claims or de
mends against the same will present them without delay,
duly authenticated, for settlement.
CHARLES 13VEHLER,
Administrator (.f said deceased.
Harrisburg, January 1,1861. jan2.6tdlaw
TO LET.—Tho DWELL I G Part of
. the House st the north-west oo ner of M.rket and
Fourth streets, from the first f April next. for one or
more years. Inquire of THOMAS J. HERRES.
jan3l.-std*
I n t.AV g AN Ing -
sizes and qualities, in quarter, one-8 'A~Ff~~telvina La th and
boxes, just received, and fur sale low by
JOIN 11 ZI F GLEN,
jan31.73 Market Street.
N ORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY.
NOTICE TO TRAVELERS.
The Exprem Train South at 7.40 A. M., and the Hs
press Train North at 8.15 P. If., will be discontinued
from this date until further notice.
jan3l.-d3t JOHN N. HALL, A.: ent.
L 011 SALE—One first-rate 111 GGLEB
CARD PREM In excellent order—works from SOO
to MO Carde an hour.
One small CARD AND CIRCULAR PRESS, in good
order—Platen Bxlo.
Both Presses will be sold at very moderate prices.
THEO. P, SOLIEFFBR,
Harrisburg.
jangl-at
IVELY the last chance to buy
ii BOORS at your own prices BEN F. FEENCH
will only sell on TI-ILTRSDA FR WAY 41ND SATUR
DAY EV EN TNGS, at No.ll. Market atrert jan3l46t
N ORTHERN u.ENT.KAL itAILWAY.
IMMI,MIMMNIAPOR
N 0 7 I E'.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Wm,
1861 the Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Rail
wa3 will leave Harrisburg as follows :
GOING SOUTH.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave at.. 8.00 a. in
MAIL TRAIN will leave at 1.00 g.
GOING NORTH
MAIL TRAIN will leave at ...-.... ... 1.40 p. at
The only Train leaving HatilSbiirg on Sunday i •
the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN South. at 8.00 a. m.
For further information apply at the once, in Penn
sylvania Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent.
Harrisburg, January 30, 1861.—jan31.
'l
HE BIBLE ON I )IVORCE.—The fal
lowing words are from Mark x. v. 9,12:
"What, therefore, God has joined together let not man
put asunder.”
"Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another
committeth adultery. And if a woman put away
her husband and marry again she committeth adultery.) ,
Legislators and others, the above is the edict of the
Supreme Lawgiver, from which there is do appeal.—
"What, then fore, God has joined together let no man
put asunder." janl2-dtf
HP.EI.OLSTERING.
C. F. VOLLMER
Is prepared to do all kinds of work In the
UPHOLSTERING BUSINESS,
Pays particular attention to MAXING AND FLITTING
DOWN CARPETS MAKING AND REPAIRING MAT
TRABSES, REPAIRING FURNITURE, &0., &o. He
eon be found at all times at hie residence, in the react
the William Tell House r corner of Raspberry and Black
berry alleys 118P29-417
4otele.
B UEHLER SOUSE,
MARKET SQUARE,
HARRISBURG, PA.
ONO. J. BOLTON, Titoranms.
This old established House having changed hands
during the present season, has undergone extensive im
provements and been thoroughly RENOVATED AND
REFITTED. We feel confident that it is now not
second to any in the State for the comforts and conve
niences which pertain to a First Class Not eljanl2-t.
UNITED STATES HOTEL,
SOWN BAST CORNIER OF 11111 AND MARKET STREETS.
ADJOINING THE PENNSYLVANIA RAIL-
ROAD DEPOT,
WirrXia-Z1.1:7381,EX2X311L.
The undersigned would respectfully inform the Paine
that be has taken the above Hotel, formerly known at
" THE MANSION HOUSE," which he bee refitted and
newly furnished throughout.
The Rooms are spacious and commodious, and furniahed
with every convenience to be found in the beet Hotels in
the city
The "UNITED STATES" in admireblyboted for the
convenience of travelers, being under the same roof with
the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, and thus saving both
hack hire and porterage of baggage. No pains will be
spared to render the UNITED STATES" & pleasant and
agreeable residence to all who may favor it with their
patronmeCharge& moderate.
oaWd,laxiwly H. W. NANAGA, Proprietor.