RATES OF ADVERTISING
r o ar lines or lees constitute half a s quare. Ten li me
or =ore than four, constitute a square
i
0,11-44...onedny.err—f0.21, ono mg., one day---$0.50
one
mouth .:..- i.ol;t ti one weak i rsi- 1.21
, one —. 2.00 " one month. 8.00
.i three months. 3.00 it three months. 6.00
sizmontbs.:. . 4.00 g g six months.... 3.00
+I one year.. Eon cc one sear..- .10.00
Irr Saimaa notices inserted ID the Leda. OOLMIIIi Or
before marriages and deaths, run oc rth Yza LINE for each
insertion. to merchants end others advertisingby therms
liberal te, is will be offered.
cr ma nunthOrof insertions must be designatedon the
trertisement.
Marriages and Deaths will be Inserted at the same
ea as regular advertisements.
fleas, Otationerp, s4f.
scHOOL BOOK.S."—School Directors
Tambora, tweak Belden, and ethos, in Met Of
school Books, School Stationery, &a" Will BOOK complete
ogortmeat at B. lt. POLLOCK & SON'S STUB,
market Square, Harrisburg, comprising in part the follow
iSADAllo.—Mactebert, Parlor's, Cobleis,lall's
SPBLLINO Gob% ewer%
Do ves, Byerly's. Combry's.
INGLISH ORAMBLUS3.—Ballionle, Smith's, Wood
RiAllesteith,st Bort% Wells%
—Ormahawis, DavenporVeg iron%
on e s ,Willard% ikoodrich's, Pinnook's, Goldsmitho and
C ark's.
ABITIMITTIO'S.--ereenlesPe, Stoddard's, Amason%
pi'ke's ()
els, Rosa's, ()album's, Smith Smith arid Doke , o, Davie's.
ALOBBBAB.—Greenleaf's, Davies,Darti Erg's,
p d fo 3 T l i ' ONABTlL—Walker's School, Cobb's, Welke_ I r
Woreester's Omprehensive, Woraester's Primary, Web
west Primary, Webster's High School, Welister's .Quarle,
Oadeima
NATIIIIAIA rarraol3orEUXl.--Closisteaskle' Parker%
swift's. The above with a great variety of ethers can at
c cy time be found at mystore. Also, &complete mort
iced of School Stationery, embracing in the mirk le a com
plete outfit for school porpoise. Anybook Mt in the store.
r oared d one day. Min,
ur G a mut Iterablintsmapplied at -wholesale
Awiksikog.....lolin . Bow and - Bon's Almanac tor lan al
11. POLLOOK & SONWBOOK ROBB, Harrisburg
vcr Wholesale and Retail. myl
LUST RECEIVED
47
SCHEFFER'S BOOKSTORE,
ADA N tiiVE SLATES
ON ITA,RIOUS BUBB AND PRICES,
Bet beauty and nee, cannot be Welled.
REMEMBER THE PLACE,
SCHRIP7IIII. I B BOOKSTOSS,
NO. 18 MARKET STREET. end
NEW 800 K 3 I
7178 T RDONIVIID
"SEAL AND SAY,” by the author of c , Wide, Wide
World? it Dollars and Omits " &o.
ti BESTOW 01 liirrii9DlS2[,,,b7 A-Stevens, LL.D.
for ego at BOHNYINDS' BOOSTORE,
sp9 No.lB Marko 4.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT Or
RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER BLINDS,
Of various 'Designs and Colors, for 8 cents,
TISSUE PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER,
At (ml24] 8011.11YFZWEI BOOKBTOB.E.
WALL PAPEI 1 WALL PAYER
. -
Just received, our Spring Stock of WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, FMB SCREENS, he., le. Itia thelargest
end best seloc r tea assortment lathe city, rangingin price
frontal: (6) cents'rip to one dollar and .quarter MM.)
As we purchase very low fOr cash, we are prepared to
Nell at as low rates, if not lower than can be had else
where. If purchasers will ca ll and ennunine we feel
snidest that we can please them in respeeetcr price
and guilty.
lona HoLOCK. ft SON,
ap3 Below se , Market Square.
LETTER, CAP, NOTE PAPERS,
Pens, Holders, Pencils Zneelopes, Sealing Wax, of
the beet Ivudity, at heir prices, direct iron the mann
larlaries, at • . •
utaridi 1101117PR11 7 3 OHIXA2 BOOKSTOM
T AW BOOKS LAW BOOKS ! !—A
AA general assortment of LAW BOORS; at the State
Reports and Standard BlementatT Worki, With many of
the old English Reports, scares and ram, together with
a large assortment of second-hand Law Books, at very
ow prices, at the on. pries Bookstore of
B. M. POLLCHNC. & SON,
ntyg Market Senors, Banishing.
Slim Mittens.
AN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILK LINEN PAPER
PAWS! PANS!! • FANS!!!
ANOTHER AND liIPLIRDID LOT OP
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
Trout Tiles, (hit and Hat Snoods, grass Lines ! Silk
sod Hair Plaited Lines, and a generva assortment of
ITCHING TAOKLE!
A ORRAT TAIHRTT oP
WALKING CANES!
Which we will Nell as cheap as the cheapest!
Silver Read Loaded Sword - Hickory Fancy
Canes! Canes: Canes! Canes! Canes!
SELLKWEI DR - 011 AND TAROT STORE,
zo. 91 Juarez
South side, one door east of Fourth street je9.
D D R
J. HA .
WORKRR IN TIN,
ONSET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING, •
Seemed Street, below Chestnut,
HARRISBURG, PA.
le prepared to 1111 orders for any article in his branch of
melees; ~M if not en hand, he will make to order on
IllOrt notice.
METALLIC KOONING, of Tin or Galvanised Iron,
eemstently on hand.
Also, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, Spouting, Ace.
He hopes, by strict attention to the wants of his ovate
mere, to merit and receive a pinworm share of public pat.
VA
leery wombs Aridly
B. J. mums,'
jewebtily] Seem& *Street. below Cheetnat.,
F 1. 8 1111 FI s Hlli
MACKEREL, (Nos. 1,2 and 3.)
SALMON, (very superior.)
d very am)
MAD, Me" $ll • • HERRING, (estia large.)
COD FISH.
SMOKED HERRlNO,:(extraßigby.)
SCOTCH HERRING. -
SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES.
Of the shove we Use Msekerel in whole, half, quarter
mad eighth able. Herring in whole and bait bble.
The entire lot new—DUNN' /ROY me risazaica, and
will sell them at the lowest market rates.
stipl4 WM. DOCK, Js, do CO.
CHAMPAGNE WINES!
DUO DE MONTEBELLO.
HEIDSIZOII & CO.
CHARLES lIEIbSIECK,
GIESLER & CO.
ANCHOR.SILLERY MOUSSEDE.
SPARKLING MUSCATEL,
MUMM & CO. , S
TERZENAT,
CAB/NET,
IA store siol for sole by
MO
ITICIKORY :WOOD! !-A SUPEBIOII LOT
.1.. L just readied, and fat dale In quantittea to snit Pur
chasers. by . . JASLEB M WHEELER- - '
Also, OA.E. AND PINE constantly on hand at the
lowed priest.' ' deed
'Pan! - BIBLES, from 1S to In%
strong and ha6diolle7 innindr Printed on Pend Miry
Pith elegant deaf mw
i rsi Bold at
metal mi FIER% Camp Bookqt•sro.
CRABBER= 11 SPLENDID LOT
Jut receives! by
.ctIO WM. DOCK. h., & CO.
FOR a superior and cheap TABLE or
MKS OIL go to
KELLER'S DRUG STORE.
THE Fruit Growers' Handbook—by
WA RlNG—wholesle =dread! at
110HIPIPIRIS Boaster'.
_ .
PERM CANDLES..—A large supply
I just received by
sepia
WM, POOR, 4.1 & 00.
ELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
to And the beet asaorboont of Porte Dionnsien.
TO THE PUBLIC!
It will be delivered to comma clean, orid full
weight warranted.
CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL FOB YOUR
WINTER SUPPLY.
tu- onion left at my house, initainut street, near
Fifth; or at Bruhaker's, North street; J. L. Speel's,
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
Bola strode, and John Lingle% Second aM MUlberr7
streets, will receive prompt attention.
fyl3-dem
poAL! C_ :0 A L !
PATENT WEIGH CARTS!
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, u is frequently the ease of
the Platform Neale' besides, the consunier bug the
satisfaction of proving the weight of his Coal at hie
own house.
AU Coal of the best quality mined, and delivered free
from all impurities, at the lowest rates, by the boat or
car load, single, half or third of tons, and by the bushel.
JAMBS M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, September 24, 1660.—aep25
P T O W N!
PATENT WEIGH CARTS.
Par the convenience of my numerous np town custom
ers, I have estsbliehed, in connection with my old yard,
a Branch Coal Yard opposite North Street, in a line with
the Pennsylvania canal, haying the Wilco 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 aa can be
purchased anywhere.
FIVE THOUSAND TONS COAL ON HAND,
Of LYKENS VALLEY and WILKESEARRE, all sizes.
frr Willing to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to be undersold by any parties.
irreu OW forked np and delivered clean and free
from allimpnritien, /ad the best article mined.
Orders received at either Yard will be promptly'filled,
nd all Coal delivered by the Patent Weigh Carts.
•
Coal .sold by Bost ; Oar load, single, half or third of
tons, awl by the bushel. '
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, October 111, 1860.—0et16
T.YKENS VALLEY NUT C9AL-
Ad /or sale AT TWO DOLLARS na TON.
__
irr AS Coal &inlayed by PATENT WE IGHCARTS
lAMBS M..WHICBLER
Kr Coaldelivered from both yards. nolT
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S . HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELM:IOW's
Extract Bacilli, Extract Bash%
Extract Bache', Extract
Extract linchn, Extract Berlin,
Edna BoCha p Extract Huhn,
Ext-act inugm, - Motraot Rocha,
Extract linchn, Extract Bach%
Extract Machu, Extract Dacha,
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECR ET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
A Poeitive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
FOR DISEASES OF THE
JOHN H. MOLAR,
78 Market street.
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dual.
JoHN TILL'S
COAL YARD,
80IITII SECOND STREET,
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where he has constantly on hand
LYKENS VALLEY BROKEN, ROG, STOVE AND
NITT COAL.
ALSO,
WILEESDAIMS STEAMBOAT, DIMES, STOVE
AND NUT COAL,
ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ONLY YARD IN TOWN THAT DELIVERS
COAL BY THE
NOW IS THE TIME
I hero a large supply of Coal on hand, co-1,40 4 . n of
O. M. CO.'S LYKENS VALLEY COAL all elm.
LYEENS VALLEY 4C C 4
WILKESBARRE
131TTI3{IN0118 88OLD TOP do.
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BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY'
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, .D.KOPSYI
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WE aIENBSS,
• ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
dud all DiMUSS of Sanwa Organ',
dud all Diseases elf Sexual Organs,
dud all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And aii Difilliff Qf fif4l l l4 ()fowl,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And, all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
ARISING PROM •
Excesses, Exposition, and Impradelmies in Lift.
Racemes, Uptowns, and ImPradencies in Life.
Knesses, lexpeemasx, *pi leepeadmaeies M. Life.
Exsesnii, Riposues, and Impradeuciei in Life.
`Known, Exposures, and Impradencies In Life.
Excesses, Exposares,i andl Impradeneies in Life:
Prom whatever canes orMinating,and whether
,existinerin
* MALI 1)11 FEMALE.
Females, %late no inotiPillel They an of no avail far
Complaints •incidentle the:sex. Use
, EXTRACT RUCK. •
Rehxdoeld's Extract . Rimini is a Medicine which hi per
planed Mite •
•
:TASTE AND ODOR,
Bat inpnediale In Ita; action. giTing .Heilith and Vigor to.
the Pram, Bloom tO • the Pallid Cheek, and restoring the
patien; to a perfect state of
IiDALTN AND PURITY.
Helmbcdra ratract , ,Snotta prepared, 11030rding to
Pharmacy and Chemistry, and le wafted and and by
THE MOST EMINENT 'PHYSICIANS.
Delay no longer.. Procureithereliedy at one.. "
Price Si persottleow NM , *
DuPot 104 Beath Tenth Ocelot, Rhiladelphia. ,
SWAMI OP lIDIPItINOIPLZD • DiALIBiI
Trying to palm of their own or Other artielseof BMW
on the reputation attained by
imaanotaktaTßAOT BUctIV, ••
The Otlginal aid only liestune. ; .
WO dente to ma ou the •
MERIT. OE OUR ARTICLE !
Their's le wurthleee —bead at much ten rates and omit
mbrione; consequently paying a much better grab:
WB PXV.T COUPBT/TION
E3ELMBOLD'I3 EXTRACT 111JOIll7.
LA for
Take no other. •
80Mby JOHN WYRTH, Druggiat, corner of Market and
Second streets, Harriaburg t
AND ALL DRVGGISTS EIVIRRYWHERE.
Mt=l
E XTBA.CTS! EXTRACTS!
WOODSWORTII ec BIINNEWS
SUPERIOR FLAVORING EXTRACTS
BITTER ALMOND •
NROT/RAR L
• PINE APPLE,
STRAWBERRY,
ROBB,
LEMON AND
VANILLA,
Jost received end for mile by
jab WM. DOCK, Js., & CO.
tie tie tt.
COERCION IN NEW YORR—EXCITING SCENE IN
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION:-.A.Ir-
FECTING RE M OF THE VENERAOLI OHO
CELLOR WALWORTH, HON. bANIEL CARROLL
AND OTHERS.
In the Democratic and Union State Conven
tion of New York, which met in Albany on the
let instant, and which was composed of more
than seven hundred members, an exciting scene
()mired upon the adoption of the second reso
lution, which read as follows:
2. Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Con
vention, the worst and the most ineffective' ar
gument than can be addrests,ed by the Confed
eracy or its adhering members to the seceding
States is civil war. Civil , war will not restore
the Un,ion, but will defeat forever its recon
struction.
On the reading of the.resolution, Chancellor
Walworth appeared upon the - platform. Hie ven
erable looks claimed instant attention from the
Convention, and he was received with an out
burst of enthusiastic applause. •He said :
Gentlemen of the Convention.: I am far ad
vanced in years, and not in the habit of at
tending conventions of this character, but I
could not resist coming here to enter-my pro
test against civil war. I have senile Myron'
of such a conflict. In the war of 1812 my
house, in Platteburg, was naked by the Bri
tish. A battle was fought opposite my very
door and the bullets that were fired fell like
hailstones . around my dwelling.
In the' casement of my door remains to this
day imbedded one of those bullets, a moment°
of the fight. In that struggle I saw my fellow
citizens shot down by my side. I know, then,
the horrors of a foreign war, and they are
nothing as compared with the horrors of a civil
war. A civil war is a war among brethren.
We are all brethren in this Confederacy of
States ; the people of the South are our breth--
ren, not only nominally, but actually our breth
ren. In Georgia alone ' I have the names of one
thousand citizens, whose ancestors were near
relatives of my own. In the same State alone
are over one hundred relatives of the family of
Hillhouse, whose name is known as that of , one
of the patriots of the Revolution, and whose
descendant now occupies a seat in our State
Senate ; and so, scattered all over the Southern
States are the near relatives of the men of the
North, and perhaps there is scarcely a member
of this Convention who has not some such ties
in the States of the South. It would be as
brutal, in my opinion, to send men to butcher
our own brothers of the Southern States as it
would be" to massacre them in the Northern
States. We are told, however, that it is our
duty to, and we must, means the laws. But
why ? and what laws are to be enforcedl—
were laws that were to be - enforced in the
time of the American Revolution, and the
British Parliament and Lord North sent armies
here to enforce. them.
But what did Washington say in regard to
the enforcement of those laws ! That man—
honored at home and abroad more than any
other man on earth ever was ' honored—did he
go for enforcing the laws ? No, he went to re
sist laws that were oppressive against a free
people. and against the injustice of which they
rebelled.
Did Lord Chatham go for enforcing the laws ?
No, he gloried in defence of the liberties of
America. He made that memorable declara
tion in the 'British 'Parliament, If I was an
American citizen instead of as I am, an En
glishman, I never would submit to such laws—
never, never, never !"
Such is the spirit that animates our Southern
brethren, and shall we war upon them for it ?
No ! We must avert civil war if possible, and
I close by exhorting my brethren to do all in
their power to avert civil war. Concession,
conciliation—anything but that—and no man
among us, in his dying hour, will regret that
his conscience is clear, and that he can lay his
hand upon his heart and say, 4•I did all in my
power to turn from the bosom of my country
the horrible blow of a civil war."
Immense' sensation followed the remarks of
the venerable Chancellor, and the deep silence
that had attended his remarks was followed by
an enthusiastic outburst of applause.
Mr. George,
of Orange, said that the words
they had just heard had gone to his heart more
than anything that had been said in the Con
vention. He had the fortune to have been born
in a Southern State—in the State of good old
Virginia. His father still resided there, and it
was only the other day that he had received a
letter from his father—who was older in years
than the gentleman who had just spoken to
them in words So• affecting—in which he had
said : My son, why can not the great and the
good men of the State of New York, such men
as Chancellor' Walworth for instance. make
their voices heard- at this time for our beloved
country ?" [Much sensation and deep feeling
was here• manifested by the Convention and the
audience.] He had not risen to make a speech,
but only, impelled by the remarks to which he
had listened, to bear testimony to the opinion
entertained by our Southern brethren of the
venerable gentleman whose words-had touched
every heart in that -assemblage. •
Mr. G. T. Souter, of Queens, said that, after
the words that had been spoken by the venera
ble gentleman from Saratoga, and the response
that had been made, he could not refrain from
raising his voice, as a son of Viiginia 46 pay
tribute to the noble sentiments that been ut
tered.- He would to God that he could only
give utterance to the feelings which, .stirred
within his heart. at this moment—that he could
exhort them with a tongue •of eloquence to
Raoul° the words of warning spoken by one :
whose character ,we, must all revere. But -he
could not—he . was.unequal to the. diOrt,
and he could only appeal to them as a son of
Virginia to adopt that resolution with such
unanimity that the vote would bring joy to the
hearts of all men who dean to pr,lieTfa • and
perpetuate this Union. •
Enthusiastic cheers followed these remarks,
and the Convention gave three hearty cheers
for Virginia. When the excitement had some.
what subsided,
Mr. Charles H. Carroll appeared on the
stand, and the enthusiasm of •the Convention
burst forth anew.
Mr. Carroll said : As one who bore the name
of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, could he stand
back at this time 1' Could he refrain from
raising his voice in response to the sentiments
to which they had listened, and to exhort his
fellow-citizens to give heed to them, and to
save the country so dear to them all, from the
horrors of civil war,
when all the lies of ances
try bound him to the Union—when the very
National Capital was built upon the Planer ce
ded by his own grandfather to the Government,
and owned for years by his ancestors ? He
JOHN TILL
do
do. b
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1861.
MONDAY MORNING, FEB. 11,1861.
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
appealed to his brethren of the Convention to
avoid, as his venerable friend had said, the
horrors of civil war. Let them treat Virginia
as a brother:-let them treat all men of the
South as brothers, and rely on it that if they
gave a hearty expression to their feelings in
this resolution, they would retire from the Con
vention with the satisfaction of knowing that
its harmonious and patriotic proceedings may
serve to revive feelings of fraternal regard
between the different sections of the country.
and bring us back to the days when we could
fight for the old Stars and Stripes in the South
as well as in the North.
As Mr. Carroll concluded his remarks, the
excitement of the Convention was unhounded,
and several voices called for the question on
the resolution. As the affirmative was put,
the Convention rose to a man and answered
"Aye." When the negative was put a voice
from the liiwer end of the' hall reopened." No."
Much excitement followed, and some cries' of
"Put him out—''he's not a delegate !" were
heard.
Th 9 Albany Ai7,10 Won to thioontle edito
rially as follows :
When the resolutions were read deprecating
civil - wir, the venerable Chancellor Walworth
rose upon the platform, and told how, in his
youth, at the threshold of his' home, he heard
the bullets pattering on doors and casements,
and saw'his companions fall in death at his
side. This was in foreign war; bat the horrors
of a fraticidal civil - war were'tenfold more ter
rible.. '
Judge Carroll, (of the family of Charles Car
roll, of Carrollton,) a hale, grey-haired man,
asked how could'he fight in this fratricidal war,
whose ancestors owned the fields on which the
National Capital was built, and who: had kin
dred, flowing in the reins of those men against
whoin he was , called to turn his arms ? Choked
by his own emotions, the Judge was compelled
to desist, when a young man rose on one of the
back benches, and in a voles of deep sensibility,
told how, though he lived in New York, and
his destiny was here—"he had a father , in Vir
ginia, an Old meit, like tbe venerable Chancel
lor, and he had sisters there"—wlieri he broke
down with his• emotions. An audience of
bearded men listened to this in tears, and there.
was a moment of silence. It was broken by a
voice crying out: 'IL Threicheers for Virginia,"
and they were given with. a will.
Words like these do' not do justice to the
scene, Those only *ho were witnesses of it
could appreciate its charaOter. '
IMPORTANT LETTER PROM SENATOR DOUGLAS.
The following is the letter of Senator Doug
las to the editor of the Memphis Appeal, of
which mention has been made by telegraph,
contradicting the statemeat in that paper that
he was in.favor of the immediate withdrawal
of the border slave States from the Union:
Messrs. Editors; I have this moment read
with amazement an editorial in your paper of
the 80th ult.,in which you assume that I am
"favoring th immediate withdrawal of the re
maining- States from the Confederacy, as a
peace measure, to avert the horrors of civil
war, and with the view of reconstruction on a
conctitutional basis." 'I implore you by all,
those kind relations which have - Saint:lg existed
between us, and which I still blietla'with - SO
much pleasure and gratitmie, to do . me 'the
justice promptly to correct the unaccountable
error into which you have been led. In regard
to secession, whether viewed as a governmen
tal theory or as a matter of politiCal expedi
ency, I have never had but one opinion, nor
uttered but one language—that of unqualified
opposition. Nothing can be so fatal to the
peace of the country, so destructive of the
Union, and of all hopes of reconstruction, as
the secession of Tennessee and the border
States under existing circumstances,
Yon must remember that there are disunion
ists among the party leaders at the North as
well as at the South—men whose hostility to
slavery is stronger than their fidelity to the
Constitution, and who believe that the disrup
tion of the Inion would draw after it, as an
inevitable consequence civil war, servile insur
rection, and, finally, the utter extermination of
slavery in all the Southern States. They are
bold, daring, determined men ; and believing,
as they do, that the Constituti on of the United
States is the great bulwark of slavery on this
continent, and that the disruption of the Ame
rican Union involves the inevitable destruction
of slavery, and is an indispensable necessity
to the attainment of that end, they are deter
mined to accomplish their paramount object by
any means within their power.
For these reasons, the Northern disunionists,
like the disunionists of tile South, are violently
opposed to all compromises or constitutional
amendments, or efforts at conciliation, whereby
peace should be restored and the Union pre
served. They are striving to break up the
Union, under the pretence of unbounded devo
tion to it. They are struggling to overthrow
the Constitution while professing undying at
tachment to it, and a willingness to make any
sacrifice to maintain it. They; are trying to
plunge the country into civil war as the surest
means of destroying the. Union, uptin the plea
of enforcing the laws, aid firdtecting the public
property. If they can'defeat every kind of ad
justment or compromise by which the points at
issue may be satisfactorily settled, and keep up
the irritation, so as to induCe the bordir States
to follow the cotton . States, they will feel cer
tain of the 'accomplishment of their ultimate
designs. • •
Nothing will gratify' theni'so intich, or con
tribute so effectually, 'to-. success, as the
secession of Tennesse' 'old Me 'border. States.
Every State that withcliaWs *gni' Ihe Union
increases the relative pOWer of NOrthern 'Aboli
tionists to defeat a satisfatAl italualin4t and
to bring on a waewlidoh sootier 'or lacermust
end in final septitbatio,eand reeeinitiim 'Of the
independence of the two contending 'sections.
If, on the contrary, Te - nnesseeTNorth Carolina
'and the border , States will iemainin the Union.
and will unite with the conservative and Union
loving mint of all parties in the North in the .
adoption' of snob necanprotnise its will be alike
honorable, safe and just to the people of all the
•Btates, peace 'and fraternal feeling will soon
return and the cotton States come back, and
the Union be'rendered perpetual: '
Pardon the repetition, big I,tltiri not be 'too
strongly impreased uponlplithcfloia Our
try, that secession and war' will' the destrito:
tion not only of the present Union, but '1;411
blast all hopes of reconstruction tipoirdit l edestl;
tutional basis. I trust you will do,itre thejug =
tice to publish this note in your - next issue.•'
I am, very truly, your friend,
S. A. DoUG VA'S. •
DRPINSIVE MP/RATIONS. '
If any one donbts that the South is ia earn
nest, in her present attitude, a visit to the Tra
degar Works, in this city, will 'diaperthii delit
sion. Even the "eminent Seward" migh t learn
something from a survey of operations there Ai
the present time. We bare heretapie notiaed
the shipment of formidable implements of war
to the seceding States, and there axe more of
the same sort in preparation. Two ten-inoh
Columbiads, destined for Alabama, one nearly
completed ? and two fierce-looking mortars for
South Carolina, will shortly be ready for the
troops of that Republic. In the casting of one
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2
mortar and one gun, last week, 23,000 pounds
of metal were used. Shell and cannon shot lay
about promiscuously and in heaps, and a large
number of men are engaged in the manufac
ture of these destructive messengers. Several
cannon, of large and small calibre, are in pro
cess of manufacture, or already completed, and
in another department the gun carriages are
getting ready, under the hands of competent
workmen. The whole place has a. warlike as- ,
peot, which looks strange to us who have so
long lived in "piping times of peace."—Rich
mo4d P4Patch,
RHODE ISLAND AND VERMONT
Rhode Island has nobly won the honor of
being first to show a disposition to make sacri
fices for the Union, and for the restoration of
fraternal feeling between the different sections,
by the repeal of her unfriendly laws, but Ver
mont does not appear to be inclined to follow
the magnanimous example of her little sister
—little; in extent .of territory—but great of
heart.
If, therefore, more prudent action in other
States should avert the calamities which now
impend. over - .us; Vermont,. it , her Chicago del
egates have fairly represented her people, by
protesting against any plan of compromise,
can claim no credit for having aided, or even
designed, the good work. In the days of the
Revolution; "The Green Mountain Boys" had
a full share of the honor of achieving our in
dependence, but now their State neglects—
nay rejeets—the opportunity of placing her
name upon the scroll of fame, with those who
will be instrumental in saving for posterity,
what was •won for us by ,our fathers. That
vast and populous section of our country which
we call'",the North," should feel conscious of
her strength, and in that consciousness she
Should feel that it if great and noble to bear
with patience even the madness and folly of a
portion of the weaker section. •
The North should first determine to be just,
and then she need not fear to be generous.
•
THE ATTACH UPON WASHINGTON_
The Virginia Legislature has adopted the
following resolution :
Whttema, It hie been extensively reported
through the public prints, in different parts of
the Union, that certain rash and ill advised
citizens of Virginia meditate, if they have not
already set on foot, a conspiracy to seize the
fortifications and other property of the United
States within the limits of Virginia, and to in
vatic the District of Columbia, on or before the
4th of March next, and by 'violence and force
of arms to take possession of the public build
ings 'and other property of the United States
within said District for the purposes of obstruct
ing the operations of the Federal Government:
Be it therefore
Resolved, Thatin the opinion of the General
Assembly theie is no just ground for believing
that any such attacks are meditated by the
citizens of Virginia, and that, therefore, all
preparations intended to resist the same are
unnecessary so far as this State is concerned.
THE FIRE SHIPS IN THE SCHELDT.
(From Motley's History of the Netherlands.]
In the hold of each vessel, along the whole
length, was laid down a solid flooring of brick
and mortar, one foot, thick, and five feet wide.
Upon this was built . a chamber of marble ma.'
son-work, forty feet long, three and a half feef
broad, as many high, and with side-walls five
feet in thickness. This was the crater. It was
filled with seven thousand pounds of gunpow
der, of a kind superior to anything known, and
prepared by Gianibelli himself. It was cov
ered with a roof six feet in thickness, formed
of blue tombstones, placed edgwise. Over
this crater, rose a hollow cone, or pyramid,
made of heavy marble slabs, and filled with
mill-stone, cannon balls, blocks of marble,
chain-shot, iron hooks, plough-coulters and
every dangerous missile that could be imagined.
The spaces between the mine and the sides of
each ship were likewise filled with paving
stones, iron-bound stakes, harpoons and other
projectiles. The whole fabric was then covered
by a smooth, light flooring of planks and brick
work, upon which was a pile of wood. This
was to be lighted at the proper time, in order
that the two vessels might present the appea
rance of simple fire-ships, intended only to ex
cite a conflagration of the bridge. On the
"Fortune" a Slew match, very carefully pre
pared, communicated with the submergedmine,
which was to explode 'at a nicely-calculated
moment. The eruption of the other floating
volcano was to be regulated by an ingenious
piece of clock work, by which, at the appointed
time, fire, struck from a flint, was to inflame
the hidden mass of gunpowder below.
In addition to these two infernal machines,
or "hell-burners," as they were called, a fleet
of thirty-two smaller vessels was prepared.—
Covered with tar, turpentine, rosin, and filled
with intlamable and combustible materials,
these barks were to be sent from Antwerp down
the river in detachments of eight every half
hour with the ebb tide. The object was to clear
the way, if possible, of, the raft, and to occupy
the attention of the Spaniards, until the For
tune and the Hope should come down upon the
bridges.
It was a dark, mild evening of early spring.
As the fleet of vessels dropped slowly down the
river, they suddenly became luminous, each
ship flaming out of the darkness, a phantom of
living fire. The very waves of the Scheldt
seemed glowing with the , conflagration, while
its banks were lighted up with a preternatural
glare. It was a wild, pompous, theatrical
spectaCle: The 'array of soldiers on both
sides the river, along the dykes and upon the
bridge, with banners waving, and , spear and
cuirass glancing in the lurid light ; 'the demon
fleet, guided by no human hand, - *rapped in
flames, and flittingthrough the darkness, with
irregular movement, but, portentous. aspect. at
the caprice , wind and tide ;. the death-like
silence of expectation; which had succeeded
the sound of trumpet and" the shouts of the
soldiers; and 'the weird'` glow *hich had sup- .
planted the darkness—=all' combined with the
sense of, imminent, and - mysterious danger to
excite and Oppresisthe imagination.
Presently, the Spaniards, as they, gazed from
thebiidge ' began to' take heart again. One
'after another, many of the lesser Tassels drifted
blindly against the raft, where they entangled
themselves among the hooks gigantic spear
'heads, and burned slowly out without Causing
any extensive conflagration. Others grounded
on the banks of the river, before reaching their .
:;destination. Some sank in the stream.
Last of all came--the two infernal ships,
'swaying unsteadily with the current; the pilots,
of course, as they neared the bridge, having
noiselessly effected their' escape in the skiffs.
'.The slight fire upon the deck scarcely illumi
'nated the dark, phantom-like hulls. Both were
carried by the current cleat of the raft, which,
by a great error of judgment, as it now sp
. peered, on 'the part of the builders, had only
been made toprotect the floating portion of the
bridge. The Fortune came first, "staggering
blade the raft, and then lurching - clumsily
against the , dyke, and grounding near Halloo,
without toughing the bridge.'.. There was a mo
ment's pause of expectation. At last the slow
match upon the deck burned out, and there was
a faint and partial explosion, by which little or
no damage was produced.
Parma instantly called for volunteers to
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board the mysterious vessel. , The de sperate
expedition was headed by the bold Tiowland
Yorke, a Londoner, of whom one day there . ,
was more to be heard in Netherland hiktiiiy.'
The party now sprang i i p the deeerted 10:14 :z
now harmless volcano, extinguishing the slight
fires that were smouldering on the deck, and .
thrusting spears and poles into the hidden re=
ceases et* the hold, There was;however, little
time to pursue these perilous Investigations,
and the party soon made their escape to the
bridge.
The troops of Parma, crowding on the pall.
Bade, and looking over the parapets, now began
to greet the exhibition with peals of derisire
laughter. It was but child's play they thought
to threaten a Spanish army, and a General like .
Alexander Farnese, with such paltry fire works
as these. Nevertheless all eyes were anxiously
fixed upon the remaining fire-ship, or " hell
burner, ' the Hope, whisfi bad now drifted very
near the place of its destination. Tearing her
way between the raft and the shore, she struck
heavily against the bridge on the Kano° side,
close to the block-house at the oemmenecrimit
of the floating portioi of the bridge, A thin
wreath of smoke was seen .eurling over it alight
and smouldering fire upon her deck.
Al the same moment a certain ensign De
Vega, who stood near the Prince of /WWI,
Close to the block-house, approached him with )
vehement entreaties that he should retire. Al- .
exander refused to stir from the spot, being
anxious to learn the result of these investiga4
tions. •Vega, moved by some instinctive and
irresistible apprehension, fell upon his knees,
and plucking the General earnestly by the cloak,
implored him with such passionate words and
gestures to leave the place, that the-Prince .
reluctantly yielded.
It was not a moment too soon. The clock
work in the Hope had been better adjnitted
than the slow match in the Fortune. ficartiely
had Alexander reached the entrance of. St;
Mary's Fort at the end of the bridge, when 'a
horrible explosion was heard. The Hopo,dli
appeared, together with the men who, had '
boarded her; and the block-house against which
she had struck, with all its garrison, while es .
large portion 'of the bridge, with all the troops
upon it, had vanished into the air. It was the
work of a single instant. ' The Scheldt yawned
to its lowest depth, and then cast its waters
across the dykes, deep into the forts, and far
over the land. The earth shook as with, the
throb of a volcano. A wild glare lighted up
the scene for one moment, and was then suc
ceeded by pitchy darkness. Houses were top-:
pled down miles away, and not a living thing,
even in remote places, could keep its feet. The
air was filled with a rain of ploughsharea,-
gravestones and marble balls, intermixed with
the beads, limbs and bodies of what bad
human beings. Slabs of granite, vomited by
the flaming ship, were found afterwards at a
leaguels•distance, and buried deep in the earth.
A thousand soldiers were destroyed in a second
of time—many of them being torn in shreds,
beyond even the semblance of humanity.
Richebourg disappeared, and was 'not found
until several days later, when his body was
discovered, doubled around an iron chain,
which hung from one of the bridge boats in
the centre of the river. The veteran Robles -
Seigneur de Billy, a Portugese' officer - Weir'
neat service and high- military rank, w as aso
ftlestroyed. Months aftetwards,adirbudy:Wge, --
discovered adhering to the timber-work-on the
bridge, upon the ultimate removal of that
structure, and was only recognised by ,a pecu
liar gold chain which he habitually wore.—
Parma, himself was thrown to the ground,
stunned by a blow on the shoulder from a Hy
ing stake. The page, who was behind him,
carrying his helmet, fell dead without a wound,
killed by the eoneussion of the air.
THE PRESENTIMENT OF A MIIRDIRKR,-A
man named McHugh was hanged a few days . '
ago, in Cincinnati, for the murder of his wife;
and the day before his execution he told Mr.
Shockley, an officer of the prison, that he had
had a presentiment of the murder and his own
death on the gallows for thirty years. His
remarkable hallucination is related as follows:
One day he was ascending a dark stairway
to his room. He was sober and in good health.
Suddenly, it seemed to him as if his right arm
had been infused with a Samsonian strength.
Just then he reached the door, and he was
tempted to test the •newly possessed strength
upon it. He gave the door what he supposed
was a slight rap, for he scarcely felt the blow
upon his knuckles. The door, however, qui
vered under its force, and part of the plaster
ing on the wall fell down. lie, 1040 to his_
arm to see if it had increased , in sAze. Jast
then his head became transfixed, and he could
move it neither one way or the other.
While he was it that position, a strange
voice spoke terrible words to him. When the
voice died away his head became moveable.
lie looked up and around, but no one was near.
him. Again he glanced at his arm, again his
head became transfixed, and again were the
terrible words spoken. As soon as he regained
power to move, he fled to his room, and tried
in vain to forget what had passed, but the
voice continued to ring in his ears. Often in
after years, he hears it.
"I'll not tell you what the words were,"
said he to Mr. Shockley, "for they are to go
with me to' my grave. You know what I have
done, and what is my fate. Put the two
together and you oan conjecture the nature of
the words."
Such was the vision,that haunted , this unfor
tunate man through his, whole manhood.
pressed with the idea that fate had deeteed'
that he must kill ' his wffeand die for the crime,
he perpetrated the atrocious deed, and willingly
surrendered himself to the gallows.
The Honorable Mrs. Horton hen written a
paper to the editor -of Ifcift 7/tnt's Magazine, in
which she bravely defends the memory.of her
brilliant ancestor, Richard Brinsley . Sheridan ,
from the attacks recently made upon it, in Oros
works written by ""Grace and Philip Whalen:"
The gifted grand-daughter of this man offisp
nine proclaims her oWn Intention to P/Bilif 4 . -
fitting history of him, seine whefi 3 O i ntobjell
traits she inherits ; and shc *ill doubiliia - per-,
form the task in a manner , that will dd Itotriff
-to _herself and to her theme. .She,virither*lfti
honest indignation,of the aoandalp.andgopeipitO r .
often retailed by . biogripheis nf men 0!
.she shows how, especially in the age of Sheri.:
dan, those scandals wore-baseless; hoW Mcklio
was wickedly. careless' .in 'retailing thin:kind .
these recent dealers Ina ntock so chnaply l gottash
have , adulterated What was base , infers y an,
admixture of their own comments an 'ores
tions. If some• of these•pestilent4riterti;'who
seem, like crows, to fatten :upon Liar carrion
filth of literature, could be, ,frightened frepk,
their ignoble game, by such out7spokeniall
that of Mrs. Norten, the world Woulirbe boAtir
off, and the craft, of whinit they eFe tin*,criht
members, rid of one of Remora& stales.
,
REMAND .ANti Ri.R44.7.-Tho
English papers claim a right to Davigate the
Mississippi, .wbicirthey, say secession cannot
abrogate., By - the- treaty of Psris.o4l;o on
the 30th of November, 1782, it was stipulated
that the navigation of the Mississippi, from
its source to the ocean, shall forever remain
free and open to the
subjects of Great Britain
and the citizens of the united States._