sylvania. and their representatives in the Legis
lature, the necessity of adopting such a wise
and enlightened policy as 'will insure a speedy
completion of the Sunbury and Erie railway
Every day's procrastination is an immense and
irretrievable loss. Indeed, regarding the ques
tion still pending, and awaiting the final action
of the Legislature, in its fiscal aspect, or its
bearings upon the State revenues, the only
practical view it represents to the statesman,
in its present position, it cannot be difficult to
arrive at the right decision.
The completion of the road will secure, ac
cording to a careful official estimate by the
committee of Ways and Means, an increased
annual revenue of $357,000 to the State trea
sury, with the best prospects of a steady aug
mentation. while the interests on the investment
of $3,500,000 at 5 per cent., would, were the
payment equally certain, yield $175,000 only.
The loss of the difference to the treasury for
one single year, is consequently a more serious
one than the sacrifice would be, (or rather the
apparent sacrifice.) of the entire investment,
provided the construction of the road could
thereby be hastened so as to push it to comple
tion within the time stated.
Considering, however, in connection with
the great and certain increase of the State
revenues, the numerous other important inter
ests involved, and the incalculable benefits to
be derived from the expansion of our internal
and foreign commerce, the development of our
uncultivated lands, the opening of new mines,
and the erection of new smelting and manu
facturing establishments, the mighty impulse
all business and enterprise must receive, not
to overlook the growth of population and of
social and political influence, the doubtful
lebt of $3,500,000 dwindles into utter insig
nificance.
However this may be, something must be
done, and promptly. A thousand vital inter
ests of the people and the State are at stake,
and decisive action is an absolute necessity.
Not a farmer, mechanic, merchant, or man
of business of any kind, not a capitalist or
owner of real estate in Pennsylvania, but would
immediately feel the beneficial effects upon his
business and pecuniary condition of the open
ing of the Sunbury and Erie road. All are
deeply interested and owe it to themselves, in
dividually and collectively, to exert their influ
ence, and induce their Representatives in the
Legislature to remove the last obstacle in the
way of the Centsummation of this most impor
tant Pennsylvania enterprise. If the Sunbury
and Erie road were, this day, but a mere pro
ject; if the ground had not yet been touch' d,
most powerful of all motives, those of self
defence and self preservation, would dictate to
Pennsylvania to commence forthwith, whatever
the difficulties and the sacrifices, financial and
otherwise, for it is in truth the only means to
check the destructive inroads of New York
speculators and enterprise upon the commerce
and business interests of this State, besides
being an absolute requirement., the condltio sine
qua non, of a progressive developement of our
own resources, to meet the necessities and
wants of a growing population, and the legiti
mate pretensions of an advanced state of sod.
ety. But while this great work, which involves
in so many respects the future, and the pros
perity of this Commonwealth, is lying there so
nearly completed tte to ibwit,it, at the word of
the Legislature, but the last finishing labors of
the artisan, nothing short of absolute imprac
ticability could justify or excuse further delay,
and exculpate the parties upon whom rests so
grave a responsibility. < This is a serious time,
demanding serious thoughts and earnest exer
tions. We must discard at once, whatever
there remains of those sterile political abstrac
tions of a half fledged, obsolete liberalism,
which but too long prevailed in our State coun
cils, weighing, incubus-like, upon every great
and comprehensive idea. of progress and im
provement. We can no longer afford t o indulge
in hunting shadows, allowine the vital sub
stance to escape.
for the Legislature, that will
meet in session in January next, to solve .. 1 -
lonir-pendine.. irap.-e----.-q-aesuon; 0
and to erect
to themselves, if they legislate wisely and with
foresight, a lasting monument in the history of
this great Commonwealth, which will commend
and endorse their action.
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Democratic County Convention
At a meeting of the Democratic County Corn.
mittee, held at the Morgan House, February 6,
1861, in pursuance of a call of the Chairman,
it was
Resolved, That the Chairman of the County
Committee be authorized to call a County Con
vention, to assemble at Harrisburg on the 18th
inst , for the purpose of selecting six additional
delegates to act in conjunction with those
elected by the late Democratic County Conven
tion, to represent Dauphin county in the Demo
cratic State Convention called to meet at Har
risburg on the 21st inst.
In pursuance of the above resolution, I here
by notify the Democratic citizens of Dauphin
county to meet in their respective wards and
townships on the 16th inst., at the usual time
and place, and select delegates to the County
Convention, to be held at Harrisburg on the
18th inst. WM. D. BOAS, Chairman.
WIC D. EARNEST. Sec'y.
The " People's Party" of Pennsylvania trans
ferred its forces to the Republicans at the Presi
dential election, and subscribed to the Chicago
platform with all its offensive dogmas, upon
condition that the Republicans would pass a
tariff beneficial to the interests of this State.
By this time some of the "People's Party"
begin to wake up 'to the fact that they have
been sold. The Union is falling to pieces, and
the New York Tribune is laboring with super
human energy to prevent the adoption of such
a compromise as shall preserve it from total
ruin, and to keep the association of factions
which elected Lincoln up to`the work of main
taining the anti-slavery portion of the Chicago
platform; while it has little or nothing to say
in favor of the tariff. The Evening Post, another
leading Republican organ, is openly opposing
the panne of the Morrill bill. These cham
pions of Republicanism direct their whole en
ergies towards enforcing the anti-slavery por
tions of the Chicago platform, and assail every
Pennsylvanian who dares to talk compromise.
They entrapped the " People's Party" into
their toils, and now insist that they shall stand
up to the Abolition work; but these unyield
ing Republicans do not exhibit similar alacrity
in fulfilling their part of the contract to pass
a tariff for Pennsylvania. No wonder that
some of the Pennsylvania Congressmen grow
rebellious at the work assigned them by their
hard task -masters.
Southern Rights and Concessions
Our national difficulties could be settled in
twenty-four hours if the Republicans would
agree to abide by the Constitution of the United
States in all its provisions, as interpreted by
the Supreme Court. The most ultra Southern
States ask nothing more than this. We hear a
great deal of bluster about the exorbitant de
mands of the South. Republicans tell us that
it would be degrading to the North to yield to
them ; and yet, these demands embrace nothing
more than the South is entitled to under a ju
dicial construction of the Constitution.
The first demand of the South is, that the
provision of the Constitution requiring the re
turn of fugitives from labor shall be faithfully
executed, and that all State laws which em
barrass, conflict with, retard, or obstruct the
peaceful enforcement of the fugitive slave law
shall be repealed. There is nothing unreason
able in this demand. The South has a right t o
its runaway slaves, and the North has no right
to protect them from capture. There can be
no appeal in such cases from the Constitution
to public opinion. No matter how deep the
sympathies of Northern men may be in behalf
of fugitives from bondage—no matter how great
their reluctance to witness the return of runa
way negroes, they have no right to array public
sentiment against law. No excuse will avail
to avoid the execution of a direct and plain
provision of the Constitution. Many Northern
States have been grossly culpable in the en
actment of laws which increase the dangers
and difficulties in the way of the capture of
fugitive slaves, or render their return next to
impossible. The South demands that these laws
shall be repealed—that masters ehall meet with
no difficulty in re-taking their fugitive property,
and that the provision of the Constitution, made
in their behalf, shall be executed to the very
letter. Is this an unjust motion? Would it
be a humiliating concession for the North to
acknowledge the binding force of the Constitu
tion and the laws passed in pursuance thereof?
The second demand of the South is in refer
to the territories. The Supreme Court of the
United States having decided that slaves are
property, and that the citizens of the Southern
States have the right to take such property
into the common territories and hold it there
until excluded by the authority of a State Con
stitution, the Southern States, interested in
slave properly, ask that this decision be re
spected and enforced as all other decisions of
the Supreme Court are respected and enforced.
This is the sum and substance of their demands.
They don't require anything more than the
highest judicial authority in the country has
pronounced their right. They only demand
t hat the Constitution, as authoritatively ex
pounded by the Court, shall be respected.--
While that decision stands, it is thefight of the
South to enjoy alt the bon ofas, „„„,a.„
cow nits not power to destroy this right;
and yet, because they insist upon it, the South
ern States are accused of exacting degrading
terms from the North.
If the Northern majority are required to re
cede from the position that Congress may and
should exclude slavery from the territories, it
is their own fault. They had no business to
assume the right to exercise power not war
ranted by the Constitution. If itis humiliating
to abandon an unjust and illegal claim, they
must suffer this mortification ; for the obliga
tions of law are more imperative than the de
crees of party.
But, for the purpose of reconciling difficul
ties, the Southern States now loyal to the Union,
propose to yield the right to take their prop arty
into a portion of the common territory, provi
ded their right to the remainder is recognized_
This is substantially the offer made by the
Crittenden resolutions. They involve conces
cessions on both sides. The South concedes a
portion of what the Supreme Court has deter
mined to be their right. The North yields its
pretensions to exclude slavery south of 36° 30/,
which supreme judicial authority has decided
it has no right to do. And yet, the Republicans
grumble at this proposition as if it sought to
extort enormous concessions from them. The
concessions are principally the other way.
Demand made upon the State by the
General Government.
In the year 1837 Congress passed an act
distributing among the several States a large
surplus of revenue, which had accumalated in
the Treasury, beyond the existing wants of the
government.. The money was apportioned
among the States, and called a deposit. Penn
sylvania received $2,400,000 for her share,
upon giving a certificate to the Secretary of
the Treasury, which pledged the faith of the
State for the safe keeping of the money, and
the repayment of every part thereof, from time to
time, as the same should be required. The act
further provided that when said money or any
part thereof should be wanted by the Secretary
of the Treasury to meet appropriations by law,
the same should be called for from the several
States. Well, the money is required now to
satisfy demands upon the National Treasury,
and Mr. Dix, the Secretary, has notified the
Govern'or that the State will be required to
g uarantee the payment of bonds of the United
States, to the amount of the sum deposited in
the State Treasury, payable after the • expira
tion of twenty years. By this means the State
will lend her credit to the General Government
to sustain it at a time of great embarrassment.
We understand that no portion of the money
is now required by the Secretary of the Trea
sury. The State having pledged her faith for
the safe keeping of this fund and its repayment
upon the requisition of the Secretary of the
Treasury, is now bound to fulfil its obligation.
This $2,400,000 was deposited in the State
Treasury during the Ritner administration, and
expended in the Gettysburg railroad and other
fancy projects.
TUB RIGHT KIND OF IN' ASION.—On Tuesday,
Mr. Benjamin Dutton, of this city, starts for
Virginia, with a. gang of sixteen carpenters, to
get out sets of ship frames, one for himself,
which he will probably put up at.the Southend,
and another for sale. These are the men we
want to send South—men armed with axes to
fell the forests.—Newburypori (Mass.) Berald.
How Mr. Lincoln Comports Himself in the
Crisis.
The most serious matters have sometimes a
ludicrous aspect. Mr. Lincoln, who refuses to
open his mouth to utter a word of peace or
otherwise, is nevertheless putting that inex
pressive orifice on a war footing! He is rais
ing an enormous moustache—is a going to con
front the crisis with whiskers a la militaire!—
The N. Y. Evening Post, itself a bellicose oracle.
chronicles the metemorphosis, and says that!
A vigorous growth of comely whiskers has entirely
changed Mr. Lincoln's facial appearance. The improve
ment is remarkable. The guant, hollow cheeks, and
long, lank irw-bones, are so enveloped as to give fullness
and rotundity to the entire lase, and if he escapee the
barbers, Mr. Lincoln will go to Washington an exceed
ingly presentable man.
The •devotion of Mr. Lincoln to his personal
adornment is, at this moment, a boon to civil
ization ! It is of comparatively little im
pottance whether States are dissevered, or
whether people are rushing into ruin, The
country does not want wisdom or courage
in the Executive, but beauty; and Lincoln
knows it and he is up to the crisis! The oil
that a less wise man would have thrown upon
the troubled waters, he reserves for his nascent
moustaches. What better evidence of fitness
for Empire, than to grow an imperial? Who
knows but that the pillars of the confederation
may be held together by a Sampson that re
fuses to be shorn? Why cannot the Union be
held together t y capillary attraction, which is
known to be strong enough to overcome gravi
tation ?
• We think we see Mr. Lincoln daily studying
before the glass the growing beauties of his
comely face: Nero did so, in the intervals of
fiddling!—Albany Argus
P_ENN'A LEGISLATURE.
SENATE
THURSDAY, Feb. 7, 1861
The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock
by the SPEAKER. Prayer by Rev. Dr. DeWitt.
I=E!
Mr. M'CLITRE, an act relative to turnpikes
in the borough of Chatubereburg ; which was
taken up under a suspension of the rules, and
passed.
Mr. HIESTAND, an act to exempt the Yales
Institute, in the city of Lancaster, from taxa
tion.
Mr. ROBINSON, a supplement to the act re
lating to serving summons in Mercer county.
Mr. CONNELL, an act to incorporate the 01-
ney library company.
Also, a supplement to the not incorporating
the Philadelphia end Olney railroad company.
Mr. CRAWFORD, an act for the relief of the
sureties of James L. M'llvain, of Mifflin county.
Mr. WHARTON, an act to annul the mar
riage contract between David Speck and his
wife Catharine.
ORIGINAL RESOLUTIONS
Mr. IMBRIE offered a resolution that from
and after this day, it shall be the duty of the
SPEAKER to charge all private bills to mem
bers who call them up, and hereafter such bills
are to be called up by Senators in alphabeti
cal order; which was twice read and passed.
Mr. WELSH offered a resolution that the
Committee on Banks be authorized to employ a
clerk ; which was twice read and agreed to.
Mr. MEREDITH offered a resolution that
500 copies of the sixth volume of the Transac
tions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural
Society be printed for the use of the Senate,;
which was twice read and agreed to.
Mr. CONNELL offered a resolution that the
Secretary of the Commonwealth be authorized
to furnish the officers and membeas of the
Senate with the Colonial Recorils and Archives;
winun was rererrea to ine uommutee on AO . -
counts.
BILLS CONSIDERED
Mr. YARDLEY calla up the act incorpora
ting the Danborough live stock insurance com
pany; which was passed.
Mr. BOUND called up the act for the pro
tection of fruit and fruit trees in NorthuMber
land county ; which was passed.
Mr. LANDON called up the act authorizing
the commissioners of Wyoming county to bor
row money; which was passed.
Mr. CLYMER called up the act to ratify and
confirm the title of certain real estate to St.
John's Evangelical Lutheran church, in Read
ing,-; which was passed.
Mr. HALL called up House bill authorizing
the Governor to incorporate a company to build
a bridge over Clearfield creek at Madeira ;
which was passed finally.
Mr. SMITH called up a supplement to the
act incorporating the Gap mining company, of
Lancaster county ; which was amended by Mr.
HIESTAND, and finally, after some debate,
was, on motion of Mr. SMITH, postponed for
the present.
Mr. FULLER called up a further supplement
to the act incorporating the Greensburg gas
and water company ; which was passed.
Mr. HAMILTON called up the supplement
to the act incoporatiug the American steam
plow manufacturing company ; which was
passed.
Mr. BENSON called up the House bill au
thorizing the county of Cameron to borrow
money ; which was passed—yeas 19, nays 2.
Mr. BOUGHTER called up the act requiring
the State Treasurer to refund to U. R. Tracy,
treasurer of the Dauphin and Susquehanna
coal company, certain moneys ; which was
passed.
Mr. lIIESTAND called up the supplement to
the act to incorporate the Marietta and Mount
Joy turnpike company ; which was passed.
Mr. IMBRIE called up the bill changing the
place of holding the election in Moon town
ship, Beaver county ; which was passed finally.
Mr. KETCHAM called up the bill relative to
foreign insurance companies in Wilkesbarre ;
which was passed.
On motion of Mr. GREGG, adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, Feb. 7, 1861
The Rouse met at 10 o'clock, a. m., and was
called to order by the SPEAKER. Prayer was
offered by Rev. Mr. Johnson.
Jointresolutions from the Senate, authorizing
the erection of new lightning rods on the Cap
itol, were taken up and passed.
Petitions, memorials, etc., were then pre
sented, and appropriately referred.
ORIGINAL RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. PATTERSON offered the following:
Resolved, That a commit tee of six be appointed
to accompany President Lincoln from Harris
burg to Washington, to aid in the reception of
the President elect; and that the SPEAKER be
chairman of the said committee.
Mr. SELTZER moved to amend, by making
the committee consist of one hundred.
The matter was finally postponed.
Mr. BLAIR offered a resolution declaring
that, in the opinion of the General Assembly, it
Was advisable for the General Government to
give equal pensions to soldiers of the war of
1812, as to soldiers of the Revolution. Agreed
to.
Mr. MOORE offered a resolution providing
for the appointment of a committee of seven to
make a general apportionment of the State.—
The resolution was postponed for the present.
Reports of standing committees were re
ceived.
BILLS IN PLACE
Mr. WILSON, an act relative to certain
alleys in the town of Beaver.
Mr. Mt TH, an act to incorporate the
company, of the county of Berks.
Mr. BOYER, an act repealing “An Aot
authorizing the appointment or a 'reporter of
the supreme court."
Also, a supplement to the militia law . .
Also, an act relative to the sale of certain
real estate.
Mr. DUNCAN, an act relative to deer in
Clinton county.
Mr. HECK, an act supplementary to "An
Act authorizing the construction of a road from
the end of Clarke's bridge.
Mr. BREWSTER,, an act to incorporate the
Clinton County fire insurance company.
Also, an act relative to the payment of cer
tain moneys to school directors.
Mr. BYRNE, an act to erect a new county
out of parts of Luzerne, to be called Lacka
wanna.
Mr. HILLMAN, an act authorizing the pub
lication of sheriff's sales in Luzerne county.
Mr. ARMSTRONG, an act in reference to
the manufacture of iron with coke or mineral
coal.
Also, an act relative to elections in Lycoming
county.
Also, an act relative to the Clinton County
coal company.
Mr. BRODHEAD, an act authorizing the
county commissioners of Monroe county to
borrow money.
Mr. BISEL, an act to repeal "An Act relative
to hucksters in Northumberland county."
Mr. PRESTON. an act. supplementary to "An
Act incorporating the city of Philadelphia'.'
Also, an act to incorporate the Olney library
company.
Mr. RANDALL, an act relative to the title
of certain real estate in Philadelphia.
Also, an act to change the name of the 2d
Regiment, 2d Brigade, Pennsylvania volunteers.
Also, an act supplementary to "An Act pro
viding for the sales of real estate."
Mr. RIDGWAY, an act to confirm certain
deeds.
Mr. SMITH, an act to incorporate the Ninth
and Seventh Streets passengerrailway company
in Philadelphia.
M. DOUGLASS, an act to establish a ferry
over the Youehiogheny river.
Mr. ABBOTT, a supplement to the act incor
porating the city of Philadelphia.
Also, an act relative to burial places in Phil
adelphia.
Mr. HECK moved that the House proceed to
the consideration of Senate resolution relative
to ventilating the halls. Agreed to; and the
resolution was read. It provides for the ap
pointment of an officer to take charge of the
ventilation, at $2,00 per diem.
After a rambling debate, a motion was made
to postpone indefinitely; which was agreed to.
Mr. SELTZER moved that when this House
adjourn, it do so to meet on Monday afternoon
next. On this the ayes and noes were required,
and were as follows—ayes 9, noes 70.
BILLS PASSED
An act to incorporate the Towanda telegraph
company.
An act relative to appropriations to agricul
tural societies in Greene and Cambria counties.
An act relative to elections in Lycoming
county.
On motion of Mr. BRODHEAD, the rules
were suspended and the following were passed.
An act authorizing the county commissioners
of Monroe county to borrow money.
An act relative to the Clinton County coal
company.
An act vacating Spruce alley in the borough
of Easton.
An act changing the name of the 2d Regiment,
2d Brigade, Pennsylvania volunteers.
An act to perfect the division of Union
township, Fayette county. Adjourned.
A GLIMPON AT Tun LONDON Pooll.—Wherever
a London paper reaches—and it is hard to say
where it does not—there column after column
tells of hopeless destitution, starving masses,
towns beseiged by stern famine, neglected de.
Bert, unrequited industry, starvation and na
kedness at our very doors, and all that we might
expect to hear in the most oppressed region
of the Continent after it had been pillaged by
invaders or tax gatherers. Famine numbers
its thousands. The distress in this metropolis
is becoming a fact of European dimensions; it
...yrulug u 8 Maus, Do br&e Ch.
siege of Gaeta, and occupies a larger place than
the fortunes of several races and empires now
hanging on the die. Crowds appeal to our aid,
and crowds still more importunate proffer their
arms to ourselves, to police magistrates, to
bankers—to almost anybody except the poor
rate collector and the parson, both with better
claims to administer a nation's charity. Who
would not be starving at such a time ? Cer
tainly, as we return home in the dusk, feel the
frost returning, relax at a good fire, and count
the minutes to the dinner bell, it is natural that
we should bestow a spare thought on the poor
creatures who have to do fires, dinners and
everything for selves, wives and familes on 10s.
or 12s. a week. But they are not the objects
in this national calamity, which, somehow seems
to have been got up on the spur of a sharp frost.
There are people with absolutely nothing. Yes,
in this Christian country, it is assumed, appa
rently without contradiction, that there are
thousands—hundreds at this police court, hun
dreds at that, 1,500 at the Thames Police Court
alone—all said to be without a bit of bread,
or of coal, still more necessary just now. It is
impossible not to ask, what has become of our
Poor laws? Where is the relieving officer?
Are there not boards of Guardians? Don't we
pay heavy poor rates? Yes, indeed, we do.—
There is a ring at the bell. "Please, sir, the
collector, for the last quarter's poor rate; and
he says there are two quarters due." "Well,
what is it?" "For the two quarters, £7 18s."
This is no trifle on a rent of £l5O a year; but
as they say others are paying a good deal more,
and there happens to be the wherewithal in this
case, the rate is paid, and this modest residence,
in a street of a hundred houses, pays nearly a
shilling a day to the support of the poor,lthough
we do not happen to know 'a single person in
our vicinity who can be really said to have a
claim for relief —London News, Jan. 11.
A SINGULAR CASs. —The Paris (Ky.) Citizen
relates an incident of a striking chai acter. On
Monday evening last Mr. William T. Redmon,
of Bourbon county, while passing a variant
shanty near the residence of George L. Red
mon, was attracted by groans proceeding from
it. Calling to George L. and George Redmon,
who were near by, they entered the cabin and
found amen lying in the loft in' the last stages
of debility and almost lifeless. With much
difficulty, occasioned by weakness and frequent
faintings of the man, they succeeded in moving
him to the house of George L. Redmon, where,
under medical treatment and kind nursing, he
soon began to revive. The stranger proved to
be a German, who gave his name as Frederick
Wilhelm, a hoemaker by trade, and twenty
nine years old. He says he has a brother in
Louisville: that he was thrown out of employ
ment at Frankfort, where he had been at work;
had sought work in Lexington, Winchester,
Mount Sterling and North Middletown; that
failing to find employment, destitute of means
and hope, tired and hungry, but preferring to
starve rather than beg, he bad gone into the
shanty on the 9th to die. He says the last
meal he had eaten was near North Middletown
on the 9th, in the morning. One of the Mr.
Redmons saw him at the shanty on the 9th,
and there is no reason to doubt the fact that
he had lived without food or fire for twelve
days. lie is described as a decent looking
man, was very well clad, and had with him a
carpet-bag and set of shoemaker's tools. The
only money he had was the sum of twenty-five
cents.
Tun SECESSION QUESTION TO BE TESTED IN
COURT--The St. Louis Democrat has been fur-
nished with an extract from an answer about
to be filed in the Circuit Court of that county
at the suit of a well-known New Orleans hank
against a prominent City banker. of St. Louis,
to recover a large sum. The defendants state
in their answer that the plaintiffs are anoltisso
clarion of persons, citizens of the State of
Louisiana, domiciled and doing business there
in, and acknowledging allegiance thereto, and
have abjured all allegiance to the United
States of America ; that. said State of Louisi 2
:ma has seceded from and revolted against the
United States of America, and is at war with
the same ; that the plaintiffs, and all other
persons who are citizens of said State, and
domiciled therein, and acknowledging allegi
ance (hereto, are alien enemies of the Uni-
States of America, and of the State of Missou
ri, and have no right to maintain any suit in
the courts of the State of Missouri. This de
fence, if persisted in to the last resort., would
carry the question of the right of a State to se
cede to the Supreme Court of the Unites States
for settlement. Its prosecution opens the door
to a variety of legal questions, and will be
watched with interest.
GENERAL NEWS.
A CONVICT ALLOWED TO ATTEND HIS MOTH
ER'S FUNERAL.—Henry Holcomb, now serving
a long sentence in jail for murderously assault
ing his wife, was permitted to attend his moth
er's funeral at Southwick, Mass.,•on Sunday,
in charge of an officer. Holcomb seemed
deeply affected, not having heard of his moth
er's illness, which was brief and terminated
fatally on Saturday. Amasa Holcomb, the
prisoner's father, a gentleman much respected,
obtained from the overseers leave of absence
for his son for the purpose above specified.—
Boston Courier.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—The train of CM
bound from Hanover to Gettysburg, Pa., on
Thursday evening, met with an accident at
McCurdy & Crass' limestone quarries, by
which the locomotive was thrown down an
embankment of four or five feet, and turned
over on its side, thus causing considerable in
jury to the machine, The passenger and
other cars were not damaged, though off the
track. The engineer, Mr. Elliot, and the
fireman, Mr. Reily, were somewhat injured.—
The accident was caused by a switch having
been left open.
PENALTY FOR MARRYING A MINOR.—In April,
1859, George Fairfield and Elizabeth Robinson
were joined in wedlock by Alderman C. W.
Lewis, of Elizabeth, Allegheny county, Pa.,
and have since lived together as man and wife.
Abraham Robinson, father of the lady, recently
sued the Alderman for marrying a minor, sbe
being at the time "just 19 years old." The
jury fouhd a verdict for the plaintiff in the full
amount of the penalty, which is 60 pounds,
Pennsylvania currency, or $133.38
THE DISBANDMENT OF THE IRISH MILITARY
CompAwins.=---The case of Capt. Patrick S.
Procter et al., of the late Jackson Guards, of
Lowell, Mass., va. en-Adjutant General E. W.
Stone, which was heard recently by the Su
preme Court. was decided on Friday. The de
cision woe in favor of the defendant, the
Court ruling the right of the Governor to dis
band military companies, and to take from
their armories the arms loaned by the State.
The Espana Calle attention to the painful
fact that, according to an official return just
published, not fewer than 1,415 homicides
were committed in Spain in the year 1859.
Another official return shows that in that year
there were in the country 15,491 boys' schools
and 6,111 girls', and that the number of pupils
in them was not less than 8,600,000.
SUICIDN OF AN UNFORTUNATE IiVOMAN.—Mrs.
Clara C. Caswell, keeper of a house of ill-fame
in New York, having become jealous of a lover
with whom she was living, and despairing of
winning him back again, committed suicide a
few days since by taking a dose of corrosive
sublimate. She was a very handsome woman,
was 22 years of age, and a native of Vermont.
The case of the liability of George Law and
Gustavus A. Conover, as bondsmen to the Gov
ernment•for Isaac V. Fowler, late postmaster
of New York, was commenced on Tuesday in
the U. S. District Court at New York, before
Judge Betts and a jury.
THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.—Messrs.
Skinner and Childs, the two chief clerks of the
bureaus, will, it is said, act as first and second
assistants of the Postmaster-General in conse
quence of Mr. King's promotion to the head of
'it Department. -
NOMINATED.—The President has made the
following nominations to the Senate, viz : T.
D. Wheaton for U. S. Attorney for New Mexico;
J. R. Howe for marshal of the northern district
of New York, and Henry R. Corbin, assistant
judge of Utah.
Peppermint, as an article of commerce, is
largely grown in Lake county, Ohio. This
year over $4,000 has been paid to the produ
cers of this article, and in Painsville the oil is
worth $12.50 per gallon.
The number of lakes and ponds laid down
in the map of Berkshire county, Mass., is 96.
Some of them are extremely beautiful, and add
much the surrounding scenery.
A Washington correspondent states that there
are 18 Republican Senators opposed to any
kind of compromise whatever.
Ex-Secretary Thompson took formal leave
of the clerks in the Interior Department on
Saturday.
There are 22 savings banks in Rhode Island,
holding $9,163,760, belonging to 35,405 de
positors.
The snow is full five feet deep in the roads
through the White Mountain district, in New
Hampshire.
A. McKinly, who was to have been hung at
Danville, Pa., for murder, on the let inst., has
been respited till the 3d of May.
Thomas Dunn, of Rhode Island, has been ap
pointed Consul to Foo Choo.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
XXXVIth CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION.
SENATE.—[No Senate report has been re
ceived, the storm having occasioned an inter
ruption of telegraphic communication,]
Housz.—The House proceeded to the consid
eration of the bill re-organizing the Patent
Office and amending the Patent Laws.
From Washington.
The artillery company lately at. Augusta,
arrived here ibis morning. Tbey are quar
tered in the south wing of the Treasury build
ingyttwing to the difficulty of procuring ac
commodation elsewhere. They number about
eighty men, commanded by Capt. Elzey.
Governor Leceher, of Virginia, is among the
latest arrivals.
The Post Office Department has authorized a
contradiction of the report, widely circulated
by telegraph, to the effect that the Alabama
Postmasters are not making returns of their
business to the Department.
Information has been received here that the
11. steamer Brooklyn is at Pensacola with
the Macedonian and Wyandotte. Ti,ese -ves
sels are lying off Fort Pickens. All is quiet
there.
Heavy Suspensions at New York.
Naw Yana., Feb. 7.
Messrs. Graydon, McCreedy & Co., and
Strang, Adriance & Co., Dry Goods Jobbers,
have suspended with liabilities amounting to a
$1,000,000 each.
It is expected that large dividends will be de
rived by the creditors, if not full payment.
Heavy Snow in Canada.
MONTREAL, Feb. 7.
Another heavy snow has blocked the rail
roads, and caused a general suspension of trade
and travel. No mails are leaving.
More Troops for Washington
Ninety-four marines from Governor's Island,
and fifty-five U. S. dragoons from Carlisle, fully
equipped, passed through here for' Washington
this morning.
The Ship Leila in Distress
St. Thomas dates' of January, 19ty, say the
ship Leila from Rotterdam, of and for Balti
more, put in there leaky, and would have to
discharge.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7
BALTIMORE, Feb. 7
Nsw YORK. Feb. 7th
SPECIAL NOTIOAk.
Prom the Independent, New York, Ally 29, 1859.
GM:lg.—Our advertising columns contain some tosh
monies to the value of a new article known
ing's Prepared Glue," useful to housekeepers aa
for in e jP 4-
furniture, It is prepared with
formcheicals, by L 10 1 1 1,4
kept in the proper condition immediate t . ,
chemicals evaporating as soon as it is applied, a
la ‘ ,l l / 1
the glue to harden. We can assure our readers th at
adheaivenes
article has the excellent phrenological quality of s3t
s."
For sale by 0. A. BANNTART, No. 2 Jones' noi r
au7-d&wlm
Mothers, read this.
The following is an extract from a letter writteurnnl n b
a pastor of the Baptist. Church to the
_7
Messenger, Cincinnati, Ohio, and speaks vebitnt:74
favor of that world-renowned medicine-11ns. te l 4 °
LOW'S SOOTHING. STROP FOR CHILDREN TEETHING;
We see an advertisement in your ealunnis of g„,
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. New we never said a w
it favor of a patent medicine before in our life, but°,ii;
feel compelled to say to your readers, that this is ,„;
rebus —WE HAVE TRIED IT, AND KNOW IT To as ALL I T
CLAIMS. It is, probably, one of the most successful
medicines of the day, because it is one of the best. A m
those of your readers who have babies can't do better
than to lay in a supply. sep29-ddewlo
WE call the attention of our readers t 0
an article advertised in another column, called 111,00
FOOD. It is an entirely new discovery, and must not
be confounded with any of the numerous patent medi
cines of the day. It is soon on roe ni.oon, alread
prepared for absorption ; pleasant to the taste and nat il
oral in action, and what one gains he retains. Let
those, then, who are suffering from poverty, impurity„,
deficiency of blood, and consequentlywith some chrosi..
disease or ailment, take of this litoon FoOD and he r;
stored to health. We notice that our druggists l il y,
received a supply of this article, and also of the world.
renowned Dr. EATON'S INFANTIFE CORDIAL, which e'er,
mother should have. It contains no paregoric or 444
of any kind whatever, and of course must be invaluatte
for all infantile complaints. It will allay all pain, Al i
soften the gums in process of teething, and at the mane
time regulate the bowels. Let all mothers and nurse,
who have endure and
anxious days and sleepless tight::
procure a supply be at once relieved.
fig- See advertisement. aui Aye
-- - 0 ---
11CF ELM BOLD'S GENUINE PREPARATION Curea G ra .
J-± vel, Bladder, Dropsy, Kidney Affections.
u m o m lioLD'n Genuine Preparation for Nervous Debilitatea Sufferers.
H:ELM HOL uffi Genuine Preparation for Lose of Pow
er,
Limo of Memory.
ELKBOLD'S Genuine Preparation for Ditli f
Ineath General Weakness.
uN,LIIIBoLD 4 B Genuine Preparation Mt Weak Neit:
Horror of Death. Trembling.
ELSIBOLD'S Genuine Preparation for Night Swee A t
Cold Feet, Dimness of Vision.
I,LLMBOL IPS Genuio • kreparation for Latour, Un
versal Lassitude of the Huecolar evotem
ELAIBOLD'B Genuine PrpweUm for Pallid Counter
/ mance and Eruptions.
HEUMBOLD - 8 (}ermine Preparation for Pains In ta t
Bark. Headache, Sick Stomach.
frriilee advertisement headed
HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT &TORII
in another cancan. nol4-d&aliM
PURIFY YOUR BLOOD.—BRANDREIII . 3
PILLS WARRANTED TO CURE FEVER AND Aces —The
effect of purring with BRANDILETIPS PILLS is to IT.
store the health, so matter from what aesee it way te
suffering. They take out all impurities front the sp.
tem; and they have the same power of expulsion over
miasm, poisonous vapor of decayed vegetables, or indeed
any poisonous exhalations breathed by man whiteset
In fact, if the blood is poisoned, it is impure, and is:.
pure blood results in disease.
BRANDRETIVS PILLS,
tbongh ionoeent as bread, yet they ere ortral.le of purl•
fying the blood and curing disease. So, they cure CI
kinds of fevers, all asthma's, catarrhs, cestiveness eel
painful affections of every kind.
Sold, price 25 cents, at No. 294 Cane) vet. New york,
and by all Druggists. Also, by GEC H BELL, comer
of Second and Chestnut streets, Hariliterg, and by all
resreetable dealers in medicines de9-d&oln
New 2atuertizentents.
THE ORIGINAL.
BEN F. FR ENC H
HAS REMOVED RIB
STOOK OF BOOKS TO NO. 15 THIRD ST,
(UNION BUILDINGS,
Where he will continue to sell at his usual LOW PRICES.
Give we eD coil, BO ORS AT LESS THAN ONE.
THIRD THEIR REGULAR PRICES.
febB-2td. B. F. BRENCIL
N ()TICE!!
The undersigned has opened his LUMBER OPFIO2,
Corner of Third Street and Blackberry Alley, near Dm ,
Hotel.
ALSO—Two Rooms, with folding doors, TO LET—
suitable for a Lawyer's Office. Possession immediately.
ALSO—A number one FIRE ENGINE for sale.
W. F. MURRAY
- NW.
112...
Vigo
ALSO—HORSES AND CARRIAGEStohir ,
at the same Office.
febB-dtf. 'MANX A. MURRAY
APPLE WHISKY !-PURE JERSEY AI ,
PLR !—ln store and for sale by
JOHN IL ZIEGLER.
73 Market street.
feb7
LOR RENT--A Three-Story BRICK.
HOUSE, situated front of the Capitol Ground!.
Sleuth street, near Third, containing Five Rooms asi
Kitchen, with Lot and Fruit Trees—from the first of
April next. Rent 8100 a year. Also, a large Two•Stal
BRICK HOUSE in Wormleyaburg, (across the river,}
witn Garden, Fruit Trees and Stable. Rent 180 a year.
Enquire of SUWON OYSTER,
Pine street, near Third
Harrisburg, Feb. 8, 1881-7d3t
STATEMENT•
OF THE
HARRISBURG - BANN.
FEBRUARY 5, 1861•
Assets :
Loans and Discounts
Stock of the Commonwealth...... ...
United States Loan
Specie
Due by other Banks.. $122,001 29
Notes of other Banks... 15,490 00
187,491
Stocks (at present market value)... 28,000 00
Bonds <<
" ..... 5,000 00
Real Estate 14,000 00
Liabilities
Circulation
Deposits .
Due to other Banks
$681,077 7 1
The above statement is correct, to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
J. W. WEIR, Cashier.
Sworn and subscribed before me,
fe b7412t DAVID HARRIS, J. P.
jOTl('E.—Whereas letters testamen
tary on the estate of WILLIAM SHAMINGER. WA Of
the city of Harrisburg. deceased, have been granted by
the Register of Dauphin county to the undersieurili
Therefore, notice is hereby given to all persons
la
debted to the estate of said decedent to make pague°'
as early as practicable ; and those having claims omit
mands against the same will present them without dell•
duly authenticated, for settlement.
CHARLES BUEHLER,
Administrator of said demsed.
Harrisburg, January 1, 1861. jan2-6tdlsW
Is XECUTOR' S N 01 IC F.—Notice Is
Ti hereby given that letters testamentary upon tht
estate of Mrs. MARY HORTER, deceased, tate of the
city of Harrisburg, have been granted to the under
signed by the Register of Dauphin musty i
persons indebted to said estate are requested to rano
immediate payment, and those baying any just claiu 4
therefore, ali
are requested to present them, legally authenticAed, lot
settlement. 11.11. ADAMS,
Esoeutor y said dec'd•
HARRIBBIIRG, Tan. 29, 1861. iso3o-d6toriv.,
T" BIBLE ON P IVOR CE.—The fol
lowing wads are from M
ether let not ark a.
to
"What, therefore, has joined g 10 1
put murder." ClA'
“whos , .ever shall put away hiswife and marry anothesr
eammi ttetb_ adultery. And if a woman shall put as?:
her husband and marry again she comMitteth adultery .
Legislators and °Were. the above is the edict or th
S
upreme Lawglu joi
iver. frem which is do rel - '
"What, ther re, God has ned there
together let app so ts
put a s under. ll ' janr:ltfto
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