RATES OF ADVERTISING•
'f.rttr. Hues or less constitute half a squa re. 'reu 116"
-- more than fonr, constitute a square.
a ;1in.,0 $0.25 One se ~ OUP day ---. $0.60
one day
• iler Weak_ 1.00 One week.-- 1.21
One 'Matt 2.00 is o ne month... 8.00
three months. 5.00 g , thre e months. 6.00
hs _ 4.0 0 «six months... 8.00
aimmont
ar_ 5.00 ODe year-- 10.00
o ne y e
Business notices insertel in the Loom. commas, or
FITE C. 125175 PER LEM for each
Before marriages and deaths,
insertion, To merebantsand others advertising by the year
liseraltel 13 will be offered.
neme.rofinsertiOnS must be aesignatedon the
dvertisement.
i rr Marriages and Deaths will be inserted at the same
s pas regular advertisements.
Boob, Stationtrp, &;C.
efIOUL BOOKS.—Sehool Directors,.
Teachers, Parente, Scholars, and others, in want Of
.2:,tool Books, School Stationery, &c., will find a complete
assortment at B. M . POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STORK,
g a zket SVEN, Harrisburg, comprising in part the follow
iliADEßS.—lleGuffere, Parker's, Cobb's, Angeil's
SPBLLING BOOKS.—Mcataffey's, Cobb's, Webster's,
Town% Byerles. Combry's.
.BNEILISH GRAMMARS.—BuIIion% Smith's, Wood
Monteith 6,TathilPs, Hart's, Wells'.
HlSTOBlRS.—Onmshaw's, Davenport's Frost Wil-
ion's, Willard% GOOdrich l e, Pinnock% tiddandalea 's,
and
cisrk's-
ARlTElMlTlC'S.—Cfreerdears, Stoddard's, Bmerson's,
Pike's, Bose's, Colburn's, Smith and Duke's, Davie's.
ALIABBAS.--Greenleaf's, Davies, Dars, Bay's,
Bridge's.
DIOTIONARYS.—WaIkeee School, Cobb's, Walker,
Worcester's Comprehensive, Worcester's Primary, Web
s:dee Primary, Webster's High School, Webster's Quarto,
Acade TUß mie.
NAAL PRILOSOPHIRS.—CornstoekIe, Parker's,
Swift's. The above with a great variety of other* CM at
L ey time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort.
vent of School Stationery, embracing in the win le a com
plete outfit for school purposes. Any book not in the store.
procured 0 one days notice.
V" country Merchants sapplied at wholeeale rates.
ALMANACS.—John Baer and Son's Almanac for sale al
M. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STORE, Harrisburg.
ta - Wholesale and Retail. myl
TUST RECEIVED
AT
Sc JIEFFER'S BOOKSTORE,
ADAMANTINE SLATES
OF VARIOUS SIZES AND PRIORS,
Which, for beauty and use, cannot be excelled.
SWIMMER THE PLACE,
SGHEFFER'S BOOKSTORE,
NO. 18 MARKET STREET. mart
NEW BOOKS!
JUST RECEIVED
SEAL &N 7) SAY," by the author of ti Wide, Wide
World'" "Dollars and Ceuta," &c. . .
"HISTORY OF METHODISM," by A. Stevens, 'LL.D.
For sale at BOHEFFERS' BOOKSTORE,
apt) ' No.lB Marko et:
JUST RECEIVED,
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OP
EMILY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW 'CURTAINS,
PAPER BLINDS,
Of various Designs and Colors, for S cents,
TISSUE TA.P.ER AND CUT OSPER,
At ruky24] SOHEFFER'S OTORE.
WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER 1
Just reggived, our Spring Stock of WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, FIR E SCREENS, Ace., Ace. Itis the ' arm le
and best selected assortment In the city, ranging in price t
from six (6) cents up to one dollar and &quarter ($1.25.)
As we purchase very low for cash, we are prepared to
sell at as low rates, if not lower, than can be had else
where. If purchasers - will call and &Taming, we feel
eonfident that we can please them in respect to price
and qaelity. Z. M POLLOCK Ac SON,
ap3 Below Jones' House, Market Square.
T TTE R, CAR, NOTE' PAPERS,
IA Pens, Holders, Pencils, Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of
the best finality, at low prices, direct from the manu
factories, at
marSo SOREPPER'S CHEAP BOOKSTORE
LAW BOOKS ! LAW BOOKS !!-A
general assortment of LAW BOORS, 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 Vail ,
low prices, at the ens price Bookstore of
E. M. POLLOCK & SON,
Market Square, Harrisburg.
myS
litiottUatteoug.
AN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILKLINN PAPER
Plf FA E NO!! FANS!!!
ANOTESE AND SPLENDID LOT OT
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
Trout Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk
and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of
FISHING T A.ORLE!
A MINAS TARIETT OP .
WALKING CANE S!
which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest!
Silver Head Loaded Sword trickery Pixie?
Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes!
HELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
O. 91 NABSZT STEEN;
South side, one door east of Fourth street 3e9.
B L. HARRIS,
WORKER IN TIN,
BURET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING,
Second Street, below Ckeetwut,
HARRISBURG, PA.
Is preps - roil to ill orders for any article in bin branch of
business; and if not en hand, he will make to order on
short notice.
METALLIC RO OFING, of Tin or clay/wised Iron,
constantly on band.
Also, Tin and flaunt-Iron Ware, Spouting, ?0;1.
Ile hopes, by strict attention to the wants of his custo
mers, to twit and receive a generous share of public pat
range.
115 livery promise strictly fulfilled.
B. J. HARRIS,
idiel-41/11 Second Stmt. Now %wait
FISH!! FISHIII
biALCSEENL, (Nos. 1, 2 and 3.)
13ALMQN, (very superior.)
SHAD, (Mess and yery
HIBBING, (extra large.)
CODFISH.
SMOKED KERBING, (extra Digby.)
NOT= ILEBUNG
smittINZEI AND ANDHoviEs.
Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter
sad eighth bbls. Herring in whole and half bbli.
The entire lot new—DIRECT FROM :as maims, and
110111,11 them at the lowest market rates.
"WM_ DOM, 414 4 & 00.
CHAMPAGNE WINESI
DUO DS MONTREELLO,
NEMIROW & CO..
CHARLES REDMSIECK,
OTKELER & CO.,
ANCROX,ZILLNRY MOUSSEUX,
SPARKLG/ MUSCT
M IN RACK & C O ED M
TBRZENAIY,
CABINET,
In store and for sale by
JOHN H. ZINGILME,
73 Market street.
WO
UICKORY WOOD I I-A SUPERIOR LOT
I/ just received, and for sale in quantities to snit pur
chasere,:by JAMES M. WHEELER.
Also, OAK PIS PINK constantly on band at the
lowest prices. deed
VAMILY BIBLES, from 1$ to $lO,
LL string and kandeomeb , boundiprinted on geed paper ,
With elegant elm, now tram at
mots' so 1.11103 Cheap Bootova.
CRANBERRIES I I I-A SPLENDID LOT
oq received by
IKtlci
OR a superior and cheap TABLE or
BAUD OIL go to
1: I:se ; s:
'PmYruit Growon? Handbook—by
WAB l NO—wholesale and retail at
=hal BOHEFFBIPEI Bookstore.
SPERM CANDLES. —A large supply
NM received, by
seplB
WM. DOCK. Ea., & CO.
VELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
it to fig Ma boot assortment of Porte Normals!.
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T O THE PUBLIC!
JOHN TILL'S
COAL Y A R D,
SOUTH SECOND STREET,
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where he has constantly on hand
LYKENS VALLEY BROKEN, EGG, STOVE AND
NUT COAL.
•Lao,
WILKESBARRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE
AND NUT COAL,
ALM OF THE BEST QUALITY.
It will be delivered to consumers clean, and full
weight warranted.
ID" CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL TOR YOUR
WINTER SUPPLY.
,/ Orders left at my house, in Walnut street, near
Fifth; or at Brubaker's, North street; J. L. Speel's,
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
South streets, and John Lingle'e, Second and Mulberry
streets, will receive prompt attention.
jyl3-dem JOHN TILL.
COAL!. 0:0 A 14 ! I
ONLY YARD IN TOWN_THAT DELIVERS
00AL"BY THE
PATENT WEIGH 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
they never get out of order, as Is frequently the case of
the Platforni Scales; besides, the contemner has the .
satisfaction of proving the weight of his Coal at his
own house.
I have a large eupply of Coal on hand, congeng of
B. M. CO.'S LYRBNB VALLEY COAL all Ekes.
LIKENS VALLEY do a "
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 boat or
car load, singlS, half or third of tons, and by the bushel.
• JAMES' M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, September 24, 1860.-1,0
TWN!P O
UPATENT WEIGH CARTS.
For the convenience of my unmeroili 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 occu
pied by Mr. R. Harris, where consumers of Coal in that
vicinity and Verbeketown can receive their Coal by the
PATENT WEIGH CARTS,
WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE FOR HAULING,
And in any quantity they may desire, as low as can be
purchased anywhere.
FIVE THOUSAND TONS COAL ON HAND,
Of LYKENS VALLEY and WILKESBARRE, all sizes.
.n:r Willing to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to be undersold by any pursue .
All Coal forked up and delivered clean and free
from an iinpurnieu f eeedlue bast nretoteradmea: ,--
Orders received at either Yard will be promptly filled,
nd all Coal delivered by the Patent Weigh Carts.
Coal sold by Bost, Car load, single, half or third . of
tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, October IS 3 .I.Boo.—ectlb
LYKENS VALLEY NUT COAL
POT Sale AT TWO DOLLARS PRR TON,
dll Coal delivered by PATENT WE IGH CARTS
&MSS M. WHEELER
Coaldelivered from both yards. non
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Pharmacy and Chemistry, and is prescribed and used by
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Price $1 per Pottle t or six for $5.
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BEWARE OF UNPRINCIPLED DEALERS
. _
Trying to palm off their own or ether articles et =VW
on the reputation attained by
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The ()Agin' and only (lamina.
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missions, consequently paying a much better profit.
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AND ALL DRUSTS EVERYWHERE.
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ON
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ion WM. DOOR, Ja., & CO
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1861.
c patriot &Union.
SATURDAY MORNING, .FEB. 9, 1801
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
THE 'VIRGINIA ELECTION
The Virginia press, as far as received, all
join in undeceiving the Republicans in their
belief that the election in Virginia, on Monday,
was an expression of a desire to preserve the
Union under alicircumstanceri. The issue was
between those who are now secessionists and
those who will become so if, the Crittenden
propositions, or some others equally honorable
in intent towards the South, be not speedily
adopted. We make the following extracts from
'heading Virginia journals :• '
[From the Richmond Despatch.]
The. Virginia Convention, - whatever be the
party names applied to its membets, will insist
on a settlement of our difficulties at this time
in a proper manner ; and the only question of
difference among its members will be as to the
length of time to be employed in efforts at the
restoration of the Union. On this point events
will assist the body in coming to a proper
conclusion, and when that is reached everybody
will no doubt concur and co-operate.
We believe the Virginia Convention will be
indeed a Convention of Virginians—that they
will .accept the condition of the country as the
guide for their action—that they will be reedy
to vindicate Virginia—and that they will be
true to the unity of Southern interest and -the
integrity of Southern feeling. All this - we
believe,' and what is a logical deduction from
the premises, we believe that Virginia will be
content with no settlement that does not restore
the whole Union. If that cannot be accom
plished, she will, of choice, as well as from the
necessity of her position, go • with a Setithern
Confederacy.
(FroM the Richmond Enquirer.)
The secessionists; per se, the uncompromising,
unconditional eceessioniste will nuniber about
thirty—the remaining delegates are 'men who
will promptly adopt a secession ordinanCe when
satisfied that proper guarantees cannot and
will not be given in the present Union. The
conditien upon which the Convention will
consent for Virginia to remain in the Union,
will be the adoption of such guarantees as will
secure her rights, and bring back the weeding
States. While Virginia cannot remain in the
Union without the seceded States, she will, be
fcire seceding, exhaust every effort to bring
back the seceded States upon proper guaran
tees of their rights. .
• [From the Norfolk Day Book.] •
Long beim the vote on the secession ordi
nance is taken the attitude of the North will
be such.that even the Union men will find
themselves compelled to take the very steps
that were urged- by the secessionists. And
even if they' then hesitate the secession party
in that convention will be sufficiently strong to
pass the ordinance, and old Virginia - will come
out all right-- . • _
[Prom the. Lynehburg VtgintanA
Let no man be deceived. Let not the North
ern people be misled. For one, we wish to
deal candidly with them. Virginia is neither
for precipitation nor submission. She is op
posed to both. She declared by her Tote on
Monday, that she wants her rights in the Union.
Nothing more, nothing less. We dare clay it
will be alleged; indeed, we know it is already
said by the Precipitators, who are smarting
under their defeat-that " Virginia will submit
to anything." Well, we hope not.. We are
rejoiced, however, that she would not submit
to their dictation. It , was said here on yester
day, that we "mould vote for Lincoln ;" but
those who thus attempted to cast odium upon
the men who reject their mad policy, know
better. They are true men—men who love
Viiginia, and whose interests are identified
with hers. But we let this,pass, as unworthy
of a moment's consideration. .We
,pray the
Northern people and Northern members of
Congress not to deceive themselves; for a ma
jority, aye, 'a -very large majority of the people
of Virginia Will meat every effort to maintain
any Union that puts the badge of inferiority
upon them. They must be regarded and treated
as equals. They will consent to nothing less.
Let the Northern men then hasten to' cement
such a Union as Virginia will maintain and
stand by forever.
LETTER FROM. EDWARD EVERETT ON THE CU-
The following letter Was received at the
Union meeting at Boston on Tuesday afternoon
from Hon. Edward Everett :
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2,1861
My Dear Sir.—l much regret that it is not in
my power to be present at the meeting to be
held at Faneuil Hall next Tuesday. I have
yielded, at the saorifice of personal convenience,
to the advice and request. that I would prolong
my sty at Washington, with a view to confer
ence with the members of Congress and other
persons from various parts of the Union, who
are uniting their counsels and efforts for its
preservation.
The aisle is one of greater danger and
portanoe than has ever before existed. Six
States have declared their separation from the
Union, and the withdrawal of the seventh is a
probable event. The course of the remaining
Southern States will be decided in a few days.
They are under opposing influences. A strong
conservative sentiment binds them to the Union;
a natural sympathy with the seceding States
draws them in an opposite direction.
If they adhere to the Union there will be no
insuperable difficulty in winning back the sis
ter States, villa have temporarily withdrawn
from us, but if the border States are drawn into
the Southern Confederacy the fate of the coun
try is sealed. Instead of that palmy prosperity
which has made us for two generations the
envy of the civilized world, we shall plunge
into the road to ruin. We must look forward
to collisions at home—fierce, bloody, deadly
collisions not igen betWeefi the two great
sections of the country, but between neighbor
ing States—town and country, and embittered
parties in the same city—and abroad we must
submit to the loss of the rank we hare hitherto
sustained among the family of nations. Hu
man nature is the 'same in all ages; 'and the
future, now impending over our once happy
country, may be read in the mournful history
of the Grecian and Italian republics, and in the
terrific annals of the French revolution. To
expect to hold fifteen States in the Union by
force is preposterous. The idea of a civil war,
accompanied, as it would be, by a servile in
surrection, is too monstrous to be entertained
for a moment. If our 0% ter States must leave
us, in the name of Heaven let them go in peace.
I agree in the sentiment that the people alone
can avert these dire calamities. Politioallead
ers, however well disposed, are hampered by
previous committals and controlled by their
associates. The action of Congress, unless ac
celerated by an urgent impulse from the ulti
mate source of power, is too much impeded by
the forms of legislation and tediousness of de
bate. There is no hope from the political par
ties of the country—agencies unhappily too
potent for mischief, but, in the present extrem
ity, powerless for good, except by a generous
sacrifice of all party views, interest and ambi
tion to the public weal.
No ; it is only by the loud, emphatic, unani
mous utterance of the voice of the people, that
gait danger can be averted. Let the cry go forth
from Fanueil Hall, and ring through the land,
that the Union must and shall be preserved r
(Great cheering.) Your friend and fellow cit
iseD~F.DWARD EiEFLETT.
COMPROMISE OR A PEACEABLE SEPARATION.
The AemOeracy of the free States, together
with all other conservative men. have firmly re
solved that, if the Republicans Will destroy - the
Union by refuiling any fair compromise, they
shall not increase our calamity by driving us into
civil war. The Detroit Free Press thus speaks
for Michigan
"We can tell the. Republican Legislature,
And the Republican adiniinitrationof Michigan,
and the Republican. party Atte
thing : that if the refilsal to' repeal the 'per
sonal liberty laws shall be persisted in, and it
there shall not be a change in the 'present
seeming purpose to yield to no accommodation
of the national difficulties, and if troops shall
be raised in the* North to march against the
people of the Sbuth,a fire in the rear will be
opened upon such troops which will either stop their
marchaltogether, or wonderfully accelerate it.
other; words, if, in the' present posttre of the
Republican Party toward the national difficul=
ties, war shall be waged, that war will be fought
in the North,. We warn that the eOntliet width
it is . prec ipitating walla be 'With the South,
but With tens of thousands of people in the North
When civil war shall come; it will be war here
in Michigan, and' iere in Detroit, and in every
Ncirthern' State.'
The Bangor (Maine) Union : says:
"The diffieulties between theNoith and South
must be compromised, or the separation of the
Statei Sthieit ss PiliagAßLE. If the Republi
can_party refusesio,go' the full length of the
OrittedieW4tmendindllt; 'Which is The verY •lecist
the SouthnaWor ought to take, then here in
Maine net a Democrat will be found ;wlio
raise r ani arm gainst hig brethren , of the South.
It is enough that the Itepublittans havnrobbed
us of Our - glorious Union. !They shall net. Wow
precipitate us into an unjustifiable and-druel
civil war. From One' end of thb State to' the
other let the cry of the Democracy be,- con-
PROMISE, OR.PBACIL&BiE SEPARATION. • ••••
A SCOTCH VIEW OF THE AMERICAN TROUBLES
It can be.no longer denied that the 'United
. .
States are .9n:the very verge of disruption.—
Divesting the question of slavery of special ar
guments as (owage/it with the- moral law, on
Which much difference of opinion exists, it mist
be conceded hielf unprejudiced politicianti that
the Southern slave States stand superior to
the Nertneen on ,this question.
In, many reapects the interests of the North-,
ern ,and Seuthern l States are diametrically
Tosite4 alimates.are also widely different.
Tlia„Naith agilitiultnril, and would be man
ufacturing... To foster manufaCtUrers, a heavy
impexttariff is , laid on- '
operating; be it. marked,
to an extent almaist,bey end belief, againet.the,
non-manuraeturing Souihmit States, who heiee
thus, in the last thirty years, been mulcted of
a sum in shape of import duties positively
amounting to some thousands of millions of
dollars I Again, without settling the question
of slavery in assembled Congress, unjust at
tempts have been made to plunge the Southern
States into a servile war, as witness the liar-
per's Ferry raid. The Northern States have
no more right to do this than we would have to
interfere in the domestc concerns of France or
Belgium. The Southern States, on the other
hand, raising cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco,
desire free trade with the rest of the world,
and vindicate slavery as a wise institution, by
which these valuable products can be raised by
African labor, alone equal to the heat of the
climate. There is much, therefore, in the ques
tion which does not at once meet the eye, and
which 'cannot be answered by every shallow
declaimer against slavery.
The Southerners are of the best English blood
—are in many respects, a superior race to the
Northerners or Yankees—and, high-spirited as
they are, will not, in our opinion, quietly recede
from their present position. . There remains
but to be added that this country would gain
vastly by direct trade with the South, while
the fearful calamities likely to arise from the
cessation of even one year's supply of cotton
cannot be estimated. At this moment we have
only eleven or twelve week's supply of cotton
in LiverpooL —Glasgow Courier.
THE DISUNION MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED
STATES—REMARKABLE ARTICLE FROM THE
LONDON TIMES.
A lengthy article in the London Times of
January 18, on the domestic troubles of the
United States, concludes as follows:
If South Carolina secedes; if Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Lou
isiana follow ; if a Southern Federation be
formed, and take its place among the Powers of
the earth, there can be no hope of keeping the bet
der slave States. These will be drawn by a
natural affinity to detach themselves from the
North and join the slaveholding Federation.
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mis
souri, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, will then
be dissociated from the free States. Such an
event cannot be regarded without dismay by the
most staunch Abolitionist. It would, &fact, make
the Southern Federation the real United States, as
far as territory present and prospective is con
cerned, and reduce the North to what our an
cestors would have called a " Rump." The
people of Boston or Philadelphia might be
distinguished for their ability and enterprise,
but they would belong to a country with hardly
a greater future than Canada. Every nature
advantage would be on the side of the slave States.
Look. at the map, and you will see what a
narrow slip of country composes the free soil
of the American Federation. Only the sea
coast from the. British frontier to the Dela
ware—a few hundred miles—belongs to it; all
the rest, stretching far away down the Atlantic
and along the Gulf of Mexico, is in the hands
of the slaveowners. The mouth of the Missis
sippi is theirs ; the Missouri and Arkansas, the
great arteries of the extreme West, are theirs.
Virginia pushes a spur of territory to within
less than a hundred miles of Lake Erie, and
thus divides the Atlantic free States from the
West in a manner highly dangerous to their
future union. Indeed, it is doubtful whether
the connection between New York and New
England on the one hand, and Illinois and the
neighboring States on the other, could long
survive the total separation of the South. The
North would have a territory as straggling as
that of Prussia, and the Western region would
soon find it advantageous to dissolve its union
with the Eastern.
In the meantime, all the riches of the New
World would be in the grasp of the Southerners.
Instead of exploring the inhospitable regions
in the neighborhood of the British fronteir,
h
t w he i c o t
v wd b
e o o u ff l n
er e s all
wouldt ha t
carry remained ih t ei o r the , N or t
undeni
able property" into lands blessed with every
advantage of climate, soil and mineral wealth.
Texas has territory enough to make three or
four great States. New Mexico is about to be
admitted with slave institutions. Arizona will
follow. Mexico must in a few years be conquered,
and the Southerners, lords of the most magnificent
domain in the world, would control the passage
between the two oceans.
In short, if the Union lets South Carolina go,
there is no saying what may go with it. It is
very well to speculate on theTeturn of an erring
sister, but experience shows that secessions,
when once made, are not. easily recalled. It is
the nature of cracks to widen, and both at the
North and West there are masses of people so
earnest in the advocacy of strong measures to
prevent a disruption that the President may be
forced into active measures. Poiotir own part,
whatever opinions Americans may have of
English policy, we beg to assure them that in
this country there is only one wish—that the
Union may survive this terrible trial. Should
Providence' decree it otherwise, we earnestly
pray the separation may be an amicable one.
Civil war in a flourishing country, and among
a kindred people can never be contemplated
roiiiiitimit.heiPaer44l6llll!AlLLlAßAUXS, ARCL - We
trust that neither the violence of the people note
the weakness of their leaders will bring this
calamity on the Anierican Union.
A MORE PACIFIC REELING AT WASHINGTON
The correspondent of the Philadelphia -Ga
zette writes as follows : •
With thirteen or fourteen States seceded the
revolution will have assumed 'so imposing' a
character that it cannot be treated as if one or
more States had defied the executive authority
and resisted the execution of the laws. The
day that Maryland joins the secession standard,
the revolution - will be an accomplished fact,
and Must be treated as such. Our relations
afterwards will either, be settled by the sword
or the pen—by war or by treaty. -
It is useless to talk. of enforcing, the laws
oiler one half of the Union, Whieh by the act
of Secession denies their, obligation ; and to
attempt the subjugation, of twenty millions of
people would only, intensify animosity, and
provoke such a conflict as the history of the
world has not recorded. If that dismal day
should ever come, as no* seems to be threat ,
ened, unless men can rise up to the, occasion
and yield something of prejudice fur pacifica
tion, 'let us not .stain the civilization of the age
With an appeal to &Ins to adjust the differen
ces which secession; bite made inevitable. If
we cannot live together let us separate in
peace., _ •
This feeling is,growing here, especially since
the border States have' manifested so little dis
position to recede from -exhorbitant demands. .
The cotton States, or course, desire peaceable
secession, and some of the most
.radical of their
representatives express a willingness to give
up' all the present territory Of the United States
in order to accomplish that object.
IMPORTANT ACTION OE THE KENTUCKY LEGIS
LATURE. ,
The Kentucky Ucu,ee of KepreSentativef on
the. sth instant adopted the Senate. resolutions
011 Federal relations, ao far-,as,to defer action
until the - results of the Washington Peace Con
vention are known, but has refused to , adjourn
until April, as provided in the resolutions.—
The following is the most important resolution.
It was adopted by a vote of' 54'te 40. It had
previously passed the enate trsr4l - 20;lia - ye
11: .
Resolved; That as this General Assembly has
made an application to Congress to call a Na
tional Convention to amend the Constitution of
the United States, and requested the Legisla
tures - of all the other States to make similar
applications, and has appointed commissioners
to meet those which have been appointed by
the State of Virginiit, and such as. may be ap
pointed by other States, at a designated time
and place, to consider, and, if practicable,
agree upon some suitable adjustment of the
present unhappy controversies, it is unnecessary
and inexpedient for this' Legislature to take any
further action on this subject at the present time.
As an evidence of the sincerity and good faith
of our propositions for an adjustment, and an
expression of devotion to the Union, and desire
for its preservation, Kentucky awaits with deep
solicitude the response from her sister States."
The proposition to meet in April was "to take
into consideration the responses of our sister
States, and the then condition of the nation,
and to adopt such measures as may be proper,
and the interests of Kentucky may require."
This, as before stated, was voted down,
INTERESTING FROM FORT SUMPTER
The steamer Marion, Capt. Adkins, arrived
at New York on Wednesday, from Charleston,
with the women and children from Fort Sump
ter. She brought sixty passengers in all, and of
these twenty-five are children. On their arri
val at New York they were taken to Fort Ham
ilton, where they will remain for the present.
The women and children, the Times says,
were embarked by order of Major Anderson,
for the double purpose of relieving the garri
son and placing them out of danger in case an
attack ghoul.' be made. They all appeared in
good health, and gave no indications of having
suffered by their six weeks' residence at the
fort. They were all respectably and comforta
bly clad, and appear to have been well pre
pared for coming from a comparatively mild to
a cold climate in mid-winter. With few excepr
tions they appeared in good spirits, and some
of them even in cheerful humor, and. were not
at all inclined to put a bad face upon affairs-in
Sumpter. The ,more intelligent and thoughtful
among them, however, appeared anxious and
care-worn. They had taken leave, of their
husbands with heavy hearts, and might never
see them again. The sight of so many women,
many of them intelligent and lady-like, with
little families of helpless children clinging to
them for support and protection, was calculated
to excite deep commiseration.
There had been no reinforcement of Major
Anderson up to the time of their leaving, on
Friday last. Seventv-nine persons, including
the officers and ban,doind exclusive of a work
ing corps of some twenty men, under Captain
Foster, constitute the whole garrison—a force
generallyy felt to be insufficient for a rigorims
or prolonged defense of the place. "It i s a
shame," said one the most intelligent of the
party, "that they should be left there to be de
stroyed; if the government cannot send them
help, they ought to let them come away."—
When Lieut. Talbot returned from Washington
the command.were assembled, aid the decision
of the President communicated to them. The
expressions of confidence reposed in them by
the authorities at Washington gave them new
heart, and every man declared he would fight
to the last, and die rather than surrender.
A great many guns have been mounted on
the second and third tiers, and they are now
in aa good condition to defend the fort as they
will ever be, excepting that they are short
handed. A light is kept burning throughout
the night in each of the casemates, and every
thing ready for instant action. There is no
lack of ammuniton, and any quantity of gre
nades of a destructive character have been pre
pared for use at close quarters. There have
been no desertions, no disaffections exist, and
the entire command entertain the highest re
spect and even admiration for Major Anderson,
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Connected IMth We, eitittillahment ie an extend"'
108 anact, Containing a weiriefy of plain and fano,'
fyloe, unequalled by any establishment . in the interior of.
Cie State, for Vlach the patronage' of the pablio ea
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NO. 136.
with whom. they are ready to stand or fall-in
their country's - defences
Par the first Virile during their stay'at
fort, they received - a quantity of fresh been:hi"
Thursday last ; but they cuuldnot tell where it
came from, or wbether'arrangenrentshad been
made to obtain a continued supply:, The ra- •
tions have consisted of salt provisions, with
beans and a moderate• qurilitity of vegetables.
The flour is reduced to - a twenty days' supply,
and hard bread is dispensed twice . a wee 4
eke it out. Of sugar and coffee, e- ee, a half bared
of each is believed to be sit there is left.
oil is also getting low, anti . the greatest Soon
omy 151.4cti:ted In the int ef thetie latter
cies. There is a good supply of 'pork and reef,
which must constitute the main reliance of the
garrison, unless they are soon sulaplied.
As the Marion passed Port Saiiipter - on her
way out the whole garrison assembled on the
ramparts and gave them three parting cheers,
which were tearfully responded to by the de
parting women and children. ,Oretet anxiety
Nacev,inced,4,themtn knorrthe ,aouras events.
were likely to take, and the most earnestwishes
were expressed that affairs might be pesciffibtir,
settled, and without bloodshed.
ELECTION OD DELEGATES IN TENNESSEE.
This day the people of Tennessee willl vote a
for delegates to the State Convention, and that: r
they will go largely for the Union there is little
doubt. As the northern abolition' journals*.
really appear not to comprehend what 'the ,
South means by the " Union," we give an ex
tract of a letter from a merchant of Nashville o•
and a warm friendof the Union, addressed to
a northern merchant. After speaking of the • .
probable success of the Uniolticket, he stiyil:
" But if we succeed in staying for the pre
sent the tide of refolition, : whit:then is to be
done ? Tennessee, with some other States, will
represent in firm and friend 4 terms Irlmt!
needed to settle the troubles forever. 11the
border slave States are not heard, or your;peo-•
ple refuse to adopt . aomething 'like the Tenneil
sea reaolutions, you may depend upon it that
they will finally go out. %01
"Your people think that we are sensitive.
Perhaps too much so. L would; say to that, ,
that if you were Situated (la we Eire yon*,qubi: )
be so. too. Our people are all the time ou the..
lookout, having lived in a stateof political
eitement so long that they can't help it, espe7 a
cially as there is always the:confounded neKin
question mixed up with it. All that our pee-, "*,
ple want is that we may . have: our property, in
slaves unmoiested, either in the States or Ter- .
ritories, and. to be returned to us when they ;
are fggitires, not guaranteed by law, but, by ,
the constitution, and in such a manner as;ric ;-
longer to be a bone of contention between' the, ;
two sections. This, is nothing but what isdne,: i
to both parties, and nothing less will do our,
people." ' f ' 1 r.l
A HIRT Nazi WORTH COPYINA . II:IIi/Pir
for the 'working classes in England—cheap l ist
cursions—is. thus spoken of in a London j 6 1 .61111
"Among, all. the new aids to 'popular edn'eatihrt:,.'
which hoe come into general use during the t
present century, by far the most potent in'
results has been the railway. Much as the.,
penny postage and penny journalism.may have
dtine to awaken and enlighten the intellect of
the millions, they will never compare with rail
way traveling, as an- educational agency, in its
tendency to stimulate the.dormant imagination
into activity. Compare the working, men and -
.
women in the rural districts of Lancashire and
Yorkshire thirty or forty years ago with ther
same class at the present day, and:you see at
once what a difference - there in in the intelli
gent expression of , countenance, .no less than in
that general improvement in manners, which is
gradually bringing the lower stratum of society
much nearer, in outward demeanor, at least, to
the one immediately above it, than one would
have deemed possible half a century ago. In ,
promoting these objects the cheap excursion
system, though much abused in some quarters,
by careless or avaricious directors, has been of
great service. By taking advantage of the
associative principle, the dwellers- in the re
motest nooks and corners of the manufacturing
districts are enabled, at a very trifling cost, to
visit Manchenter Leeds, and Liverpool; or,
what will be a still greaten luxury to many of
them, to feast their imaginations with a view
of the German Ocean or the Irish Sea, according
as their habitat happens to be on the east or the
west side of the island. It is- impossible to
over-estimate the Irumaniainginfluences which
excursions• of this kind are calculated to pro
duce, if accompanied by wise teaching. That,
hewever, although it may seem a separate
question, is a subject. which well deserves the
attention of all who seek to improve the condi
tion of the working classes."
FIRST SHIPMENT OF GAS TO LONDON.—We
saw yesterday at . the passenger station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at, Eleventh and Mar
ket, a number of wrought iron cylindrical yes- -
Bela, which we were informed oontained com
pressed gas. Upon further inquiry we learned .
that Mr. Williams, who had fitted up the cars
on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad for burn-'
ing gas,
had also take% a eontreat from Hath.
away & Leach of this city,. for fitting out a
number of cars to be used on the street rail
ways in London. These cylinders had been
sent to the railroad work shops- In Altoona, to
be filled with gas by means of - the company's
apparatus there ;
so that, before , long we may
expect to hear of street railway-ears
in London, lighted with gas made at the foot
of the Allegheny mountains.—Phila. Gaz e tte,
Feb. s ' .
TIME FOR AN OLD DARREN TO BE MOVING::
it is reported that the recent ptompt oboyanee
of the law at Cleveland- has caused quite a
scattering among the runaway slaves, both in
that and n.ehboring cities .. A darkey hack
driver in T oledo showed great 'firebomb of Mind
the other day. Coming up from the depot with
his hack, one evening, he jumped from the
box as soon as he reached the Collins Hormel,
where he - was employed, not stopping to ,let
out his passengers. He called the proprietor
of the house aside, and requested payment of
his wages, giving therefor a very good reason,
as t- "It's time for die fella to be gout'
—l'se got my ole masse in de carriage,"
REMARKABLE CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM.—A
story rather difficult of belief is told by dm Al
bany papers• A lady from Troy went to thot
city a few days since; and failing to reach, the
stage in amen to return, was compelled to;stay
over night. She retired to rest at the usual
hour, but her friends were surprised ta find, her
missing in the morning. Their astonishment
was not diminished the pat day at learning
that some time during the night she had t got up
in her sleep, wrapped a cloak around her, and
walked all the way to her residence ia.Albany,
without awakening.
FIEND 311 PETTICOATS. --It » sald of Mrs.
Mitchell, now under arrest at Newport; U. 1.,
for murdering her husband, that a. few dais
before the murder she Scared; a, man with a
bottle, and she told the olgcer who arrested
her for the murder, if would give her time
to kill two more meat M Might ha% km: to tha
nearest tree.
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