RATES OF ADVERTISING.
POtte lines or lean constitute half & eqtlatt4 Ten lase
OT more than four, (meditate a square.
—. P. 25 010324., oneday
litaffe4.,oneday
one week..-- 1.00 c one week.-- 1.26
.. Qu o month— . 2.00 " one month. 3.00
44 three mouths_ 3.00 three months. 6.04
.4 sin months . 4.00 cc Six months.— 8.00
,g wee year-- . 6.00 cc one year.— 10.00
iv Business notices inserted in the Loom. oottimir, or
boor , milT japp and deaths, FIVE CENTS PER LINE for each
insertion. To merelmateand others advertising bytheyoar
imelal te, is will be offered.
gr . The numberof insertions must be designatedon the
diertieement.
IE7 Marrisgesand Deaths will be inserted at the same
5535 regular advertisements.
aooko, Stationerg, sr/f.
QCHOOL BOOKS.—School Directors ;
Teachers, Parents, Scholars, and others, in want of
School Books, School Stationery, ho., will find a complete
w orkeent M. POLLOCK & SON'S Boos. wroisia,
Market &pare, liarrialburg, comprising in part the Mow
ing--
BBADBllB—bleGulky's, Parker's, Cobb's, Angell'i
SPDLLINO BOOBS.—MeGuffers, Cobb's, Webster's,
Town'll,llyerly'll. Omlbrro-
INGLIBB GEASlPlAllB.—Dallionle, Smith's, Wood
bridge's, Idontelth,s, Tuthill's, Hart's, Wells'.
HISTORDIS.Grimahaw,e, Davenport's, Frost ' s,
eon's, Willard's, Goodrich ' s, Pinnock% roldonaitlee and
Obirkle_
AILITBAUSTIC"S.reenIears, Stoddard% EmorilVii%
Pike's, Base'keollairn's, Smith and
Davie's Duke's, Davie's.
ALOBBBAS.--GreenlesPo, , Day's, Bars,
DICTIDNARTEL—WaIker's School, Cobb's, Walker,
Woreester's CirosiiMidAßlVA, WereesterN Primary, Web.
ster's Primary, Webster's High School, Webster's Quato,
Academic.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHESS.—Comemebte Parker's Swift's. The above with a great variety of otiiers can si
any ti me be fond at my store. Also, a complete assort
ment of School Stationery, embracing in the win to a OM
piste outfit for school purposes. Any book not is the store.
procured it one days notice.
Er Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates.
AL,WACS.--John Baer and Son's Almanac for sale at
g. M. POLLOCK & SON'S BOON STORB, Harrisburg_
KT' Wholesale and Beta. myl
JUST RECEIVED
T
SCHBFFER'S QOKSTOR E,
ADAMAR.TINE SL.RTES
07 VARIOUS SIZES AND rutati,
Which, for beauty and nee, cannot be excelled.
P.NMEMBNII. THE PLAOE,
SCRICFFEIPS BOOKSTORE,
NO. 18 MARKET STREET. inar2
N ' W BOOKS!
JUST RECEIVED
u SEAL AND SAT," by the author of C , Wide, Wide
W0r1d., ,, " Dollars and Oents, ,, ace.
gs IiffSTORY DE METHODISM," by A. Stevens, LL.D.
for ale St RIOHENYBEIF BOOKSTORE,
ap9 Ito. IS Market at.
JUST RECEIVED,
A lAMB AND SPLENDID ASSONTEENT OP
RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER'. BLINDS, -
Of miens Dealgun mad Cohn*, for 8 manta,
TISSUE PAPER AND err PLY PAPER,
st [my24] SCHEIRER'S BOOKSTORE.
WALL PAPER I WALL PAPER ! I
Just received, our Spring Stock of WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, FIRE SCREENS, &c., &a. ft is the largest
and best selected assortment in the city, rangingin price
from sin (6) cents up to one dollar and aquarter (SIM.)
As we purchase very low for omb, we are prepared to
sell at as low rates, if not lower, than can be had else
where. If purchasers will call and examine, we feel
confident that we can please them in respeetto_price
and quality. M POLLOCK &EON
ape Below Jones' House, Market Square.
T. ETTE R, CAP, NOTE PAPERS,
.1.2 Pens, Holders, Pencils, Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of
the best quality, at low prices, direct from the manu
factories, at
mar3o SCHIPPEWS CHEAP BOOM:MOM
LAW BOOKS 1 LAW BOOKS 11-A
.0 general assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State
Reports and Standard Momentary Works, with many of
the old Basil& Reports, scares and rare, together with
a large assortment, of second-hand Law Books, at very
bw prisms, at the OM priceßookstore
POL LOCK & SON,
Market Square, Harrisburg.
EZI3
,filloctUarteous.
AN A - AILIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILK LINEN PAPER
FANS! FANS!! FANS!!!
ANOTHER AND SPLENDID LOT OP
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
'rent Flies, but and Hair Snoods, Gran Linde, OM
and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment or
FISHING TAGIL E!
A GREAT VARIETY OP
WALKING CANES!
Which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest!
Silver Head Loaded Sword Hickory Fancy
Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes!
KRIARRIFI DRUG AND TANGY -STORE,
NO. 91 HAUNT STREET,
South side, one door east of Fourth street je9.
R f. HARRIS ;
WORKER IN TIN,
SHEET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING,
Second Street, below Chestnut,
HARRISBURG, PA.
le prepared to fill orders for any article in his branch of
Waimea ; and if not en hand, he will make to order on
short notice.
METALLIC ROOFING, of Tin or Galvanised Iron,
constantly on band.
Also, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, Spouting, &o.
He hopes, by strict attention to the wants of his custo
mers, to merit and receive a g ezierous share of public pat.
V - livery promise strictly fulfilled.
B. J. HAMM,
duff Second Street. below Chestnut.
F I 8 II 1 !
MACKEREL, (Nos. 1, 2 and 3.)
SALMON, (very superior.)
SHAD, mess and Tory Sue.)
HEROIN% (extra lam-)
COD SOH.
SMOKED HERRING, (extra Dighy.)
SCOTCH HERRING.
SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES.
Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter
and eighth bbla. Herring in whole and hair bbl*.
The entire lot new—masor raou THE rtnizmas, and
will sell them at the lowest market rates.
sepia Wll. DOCK, Ja., & CO.
CHAMPAG-NE WINESI
DUO DE MONTEBBLLO,
UXIDSLEME & CO.,
CHARLES REIDSIECK,
GIISLER & CO.
AMOROB-SiLLERY MOITSSKOX,
SPARKLING MUSCATEL,
MUMM & CO.'S,
TBRZENAY,
CABIN/T.
In Moro sad for sale by
JOHN H. ZINGINR,
73 Market street.
de2o
IIIOKORY WOOD I !—A SUPERIOR LOT
jad received, and for ale in quantities to suit pur
chaser% by JAMES H. WHEELER.
Alac, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand at the
lowest prices. - detb
FAxuaay BIBLES, from 1$ to $lO,
ng awdhandsomely bound, printed on good paper,
with elegant alsar new type fold at
IncbSl SOILEFFEIP B Cheap Bookatve.
CRANBERRIES I I !-A SPLENDID LOT
just receiyed by
oatlo
OR a superior and cheap TABLE or
SALAD OIL go to
KILLER'S DRUG STORE._
I 1
Fruit Growers' Handbwk—by
WAPSNO—whelesale andretail at
sochtl B ORIPPRIVB Bookstore.
PERM , 4 large
supply
.., Just received by
elm
WM. DOCK, an., & CO.
ELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
F I 8 HI II
WM. DOCK. 7a., & CO
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(Coal.
TO THE PUBLIC!
JOHN TILL'S
COAL YARD,
SOUTH SECOND STREET,
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where he has constantly on hand
LYKENS VALLEY BROKEN, EGG, STOVE AND
NUT COAL.
ALSO,
WILKEOBARRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE
AND NUT COAL,
ALL OF TEE BEST QUALITY. • - -
It will be delivered to consumers clean, and full
weight warranted.
131 - CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL FOR YOUR
WINTER SUPPLY.
ID` Orders left at my house, in Walnut street, near
Fifth; or at Brabaterla, North street; J. L. gpeePs,
Market Square;. Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
South streets, and John Lingle's, Second and Mulberry
streets, will receive prompt attention.
jrl34om JOHN TILL.
COAL! 0:0AL11
ONLY YARD IN TOWN...THAT DELIVERS
00AL BY THE
P A TENT WEIGH CARTS!
NOW IS TEN TINS
For every family to get in their ottpply of Coal for the
winter—weighed at their door by the Patent Weigle
Carta. The accuracy of geed Carlene one disputa, and
they never get out of order, as is frequently the case of
the Platform Scales; besides, the consumer has the
satiefitelion 'of proving the weight of his Coal at his
own house.
I have a large supply of Coal on hand, conelsVug of
X- M. CO M LYEF.NS VALLEY COAL all Mem
LYICENS VALLEY do , c c'
WILKESBARRE do. • If
BITUMINOUS BROAD TOP do.
AU Coal of the beet quality mined, and delivered free
from all impurities,.at the lowest rates, by the boat or
ear load, single, half or third of tone, and by the bushel.
JAKOB H. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, September 24. 1860.--sep2s
UP TOWN: •
PATENT WEIGH CARTS.
Por the convenience of my numerous up town custom
ers, I have established, in connection with my old yard,
a Branch Cos/ 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 LYRENS VALLEY and WILRESBAREE, all sizes.
nj- wittin g to maintain par prices, but unwitting
to be undersold by any yartses.
All Coal forked up and delivered clean and free
from all impurities, and the best article mined.
Orders received at either Yard will be promptlyfilled,
nd all Coal delivered by the Patent Weigh Carts.
Coal sold by Boat, Car load, single, hail or third of
tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, Octobef 13, 1860.—octlb
EYKENS VALLEY NUT COAL
FOP BRIO ,LT TWO DOLLARS PIZ TOR.
irr AN Coal doliveredby PATENT WEIGHCARTS
JAMES M. WHEELER
117' Coaldelivered from both yards. nol7
Jliebrical
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 HELMBOLD'ig
Extract Bateau, Extract Bacilli,
Extract Bach% Extract Bach%
Extract Bach% Extract Bach%
Extract Bodin, Extract Bach%
Extract Buchu, Extract Bach%
Extract Bach% Extract Ruch%
Extract Bach% Extract Bach;
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Poaitive and Specific Remedy.
A rennin and Brass Sandy,
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
FOR DISEASES OF THE
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., K/DNATS, DROPSY,
ORGANIC vvRAKNEss,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
And ail Diseases of Sexual Organ',
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Samna/ Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs ?
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
ARISING FROM
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencles in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencias in Life.
Excesses, Reposers', and Impendeneles in Life.
Buenas, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Impradencies in Lite.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudent:des in Life.
Prom whatever cause orielnatinrand whether existing in
MALE "OR FE MALE.
Females, take no more Pills! They are of no avail for
Complaints incident to the sex. Ilse
EXTRACT BUORU.
Helmbeld's Extract !huhu is a Medicine which is per.
feotly pleasant in MS
TASTE AND ODOR
But immediate in its action, giving Health and Vigor to
the Frame, Bloom to the Pallid Cheek, and restoring the
patient to a perfect state of
HEALTH AND PIINITY.
Helmlboldls lixtract Boehm ie prapsred wording to
Pharmacy and Chemistry, and le preecribed and need by
THE MOST EMTiVENT PHYSICIANS.
Delay no longer. Procure the remedy at once.
Price $1 per bottle, or six for 115.
Depot 106 South Tenth street, Phibulelphis.
BEWARE OF lINPRINOIPLED DEALERS
Trying to palm off their own or other articles of MMHG
on the reputation attained by
11.111MBOLDIS XXTRAOT SUOMI,
The Original and only [{ermine.
We desire to rum on the
MERIT OF OUR ARTICLE !
Their's in worthless —in mold at inn& Ws rates and MU
minions, consequentlyWY 00 paying a much better molt.
WI =
Ask for
11XLIABOLD'Il EXTRACT BUCRU.
Take es ether.
Bold by JOHN WYITH, Druggist, earner of Market and
Beeond streets, Hanieburg
AND ALL DRUGGISTS RVBRYWHERR.
nobi &vain.
EXTRACTS! EXTRACTS!
WOODSWORTH & BIINNEL 3 B
SUPERIOR FLAVORING EXTRACTS
01
BITTER ALMOND,
NEOTARINE,
PINE APPLE,
STRAWBERRY,
ROM
LEMON AND
VANILLA,
Just received and for sale b
HARRISBURG, PA:, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1861_
Vie atriot ttfr . 0404.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 13, 1861
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
THE DANGER IMMINENT-THE DITTY OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORE.
Near and more near the dark thunder cloud
approaches, and if we do not take prompt ac
tion it will soon burst over our heads, when it
will be too late to avert the tempest of war.
Events are following each other in such rapid
succession that little time is left for calm re
flection, or to prepare for the inevitable change
in our ..pelitiael ettndition. WIIJEPNAOC4*.
fellow citizens long since of their present
peril; but few were willing to believe there leas
any need for alarm, or any necessity to take
measures to guard against the calamity which
now threatens all classes with instant ruin.—
Apathy and indifference, mingled with inore
dulity, took the place of energy and action,
till now the danger is upon us and almost be
yond our control.
Blinded by a false security, many even now
do not realize the crisis or comprehend its
issues. They talk of sexing the Union when
there is no longer any Union to save ; the day
of its saliation is gone by. The opportunity
has been lost which cannot now be recalled, and
the sonoer that we all recognize the fact that,
a great revolution has been accomplished, the
better will we know how to deal with passing
events and discharge the duties and obligation')
of the hour. We must recognize the fact that
a Southern Confederacy of six States is now an
accomplished fact; that they have adoptad the
Constitution of the late United Stites, with..
some amendments ; have forined a provisional
Government, by the election of the ablest Mil
itary chieftain of the South as President, and,,
therefore, Commander-in-Chief of the Bentham
army; that "a strong and vigorous Goveriment:
will go into immediate operation,:with full
powers and ample funds, and that no prorisi
tion for compromise and re-coristruetion will lie
entertained." Texas is about to join this Con
federacy, and also Arkansas, whose State au
thorities have seized the United States Arsenal
at Little Rock, containing nine thousand stand
of arms, a large amount of ammunition and
forty cannon, including Captain Bragg's cele
brated battery. One of the amendments to the
Constitution adopted by the new • Confederacy,
giving its Congress power to prohibit the in
troduction of slaves from any State not a mem
ber of the Confederacy, will force Virginia and
the other border slavo.States into the new
Southern Union. These are stubborn facts,
which must be recognized ; and also the fact
that the ao called "Peace" Congress promises
to:break up in chaos.
Thus we are now too late to reunite the frag
ments of a broken confederacy, and if we are
not vigilant and active and resolute we will
soon be too late to prevent civil war. There
is an atrocious ennapiracy.to fermi_ the • , -
into a bloody intestine strife, and the over
nor of this State has been aiding and a tting
the design. He has played into the hands of the
fanatics who contemplate servile insurrection
at the South as the result of Northern invasion.
He first offered the militia to subdue Southern
States—an-offer which far exceeds his legisla
tive power. He next endorsed, if he did not
direct, the seizure of the private and public
property of citizens of Georgia ; and the natu
ral consequence was that the Governor of Geor
gia retaliated by seizing our ships. The au
thorities of the State of New York were clear
ly the aggressors. And it -now becomes the
duty of the citizens of New York, and especi
ally of the merchants, to come forward and re
pudiate the outrage that has been committed
in this great commercial city by the authority
of Gov. Morgan—to make him and his party
distinctly understand that they will not be
permitted to trample on the constitution and
the laws—that they cannot make the inhabi
tants of this metropolis the instruments :of
their nefarious plot, or drag them into collis
sion with their Southern brothers. This city
has a greater stake at issue than all the rest
of the State. Its trade and commerce are se
riously injured, several of its commercial
houses are bankrupt, others are about to be
come so, and many thousands of the popula
tion are thrown out of employment. Mr.
Seward, in his place in the Senate a few days
ago, declared that in England, or France, or
Russia, such a petition as that which ho was
requested to present from the merchants of
New York in favor of compromise measures
would be decisive, but not so in the United
States. And has it come to this that under
the government reputed the most free on earth,
in the most commercial country in the -world,
the commercial capital of that country has no
voice ; and are the ignorant fanatics of the
western part of this State to rule and control
the enlightened intelligence of the imperial
city and to force it into a suicidal conflict to
carry out an anti-slavery theory, and to sus
tain the abstractions of a platform at variance
with the constitution of the United States—
that constitution which Garrison and Phillips,
the great founders of the anti-slavery party,
pronounce to be "a covenant with death and
an agreement with hell?" We hope not. We
trust that New York city will make itself be
heard and felt in this pontroversy, and that the
fanatical dogma that negro servitude is "the
sum of all villanies" will be scouted by as
sembled thousands.
The time is come for prompt action, and the
people must now arise in their might, if they
would save themselves and the country from
the horrors of civil war. Armed preparations
are everywhere being made at the North. In
this State a bill appropriating half a million of
dollars for war his passed the Senate by a
strictly republican vote. The whole South is
arming and preparing for the struggle. Not a
moment, therefore, is to be loss by the commer
cial classes of New York in holding a great
public meeting to denounce all appeals to "the
God of battles;" and as a separation of the
States is beyond human control, to pronounce
in favor of the recognition of their indepen
dence, a fair division of the territory and other
public property, a just apportionment of the
public debt, and a treaty of peace and amity
between the two confederacies, regulating
their commerce, and a treaty offensive and de
fensive against all the world. This is the great
question of the hour.—N. Y. Herald.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
The Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Md., is said
to have submitted a plan to the Peace Confer
ence to the following 'effect!
1. That Congress shall not have the power to
legislate in reference to the subject of servitude
everywhere, except to aid in the execution of
the provision of the Constitution in reference
to the return of fugitives from service and to
suppress the foreign slave trade.
2. No Territorial Legislature shall have
power to establish or protect slavery in any
territory north of the southern line of Kansas
and the northern line of New Mexico, or to
impair, hinder, or prevent any person from
carrying into and holding any person held to
service south of said line. .
which is before the committee, embodying sub
stantially the Crittenden plan.
The following resolutions have been offered
in the Peace Congress by the Hon. James
Guthrie :
ARTICLE 1. That all territory of the United
States shall be divided by a line from east to
hest, on the parallel of 86 degrees 30 minutes
north latitude ; and in all territory north of that
line involuntary servitude, except in punish
ment of crime, is prohibited, whilst it shall
belong to the United States or be under a terri
torial government; and in all territory south
of ettid line involuntary nerritada is recognised
as it exists in the Southern States of the Union,
whilst such territory shall belong to the United
States or be under a territorial government ;
and neither Congress nor the territorial gov-
Nernlnent• obsll , l±avaporan.no,binder nr.Prevent
emigrants to said territory from taking with
them persons held to labor or involuntary ser
vice, according to the'laws and usages of the
State from which such persons may be taken,
nor to impair the rights arising out of said re
lations, and be subject to judicial cognizance ;
the United States courts of said Territory shall
have jurisdiction thereof, and those rights shall
be protected• by the courts and all the depart- .
ments of the territorial gOvernment, under or
according to the laws of the State from which
the person bound to such gervice may have been
taken; and when any tetritory north or south
of said line, within such boundary as Congress
may prescribe, shall oontain a population re
quired for a member of Congress, according to
the then federal ratio of representation of the
people of the. United. States, it may, if its form
of government be Republican, be admitted into
the Union on an equal footing with the original
Stetes,.witker without involuntary servitude
or labor, as the Constitution of such new. State
may ,provide.
'Art. 2. That no territory shall hereafter be
Acquired by the United States without the con- .
eurreseo
_el ft majority of the Senators of the
States north of Mason and Dixon's line, and
alp a majority of the Senators south of said
line ; but no treaty by which territory shall be
acquired shallbe ratified without the two-thirde
vote of the Senators, as required by the Con
stitution.
Art. 8. That the Constitution, and no amend
ment thereof, shall be construed to give Con.
gress power to regulate, abolish or control,
within any State or Territory of the United
States, the relation established or recognized
by the laws thereof touching persons bound to
labor or involuntary service therein, nor to
interfere with or abolish involuntary service in
the District of Columbia without the consent of
Maryland and Virginia and the owners, or
without making the owners who do not con
sent, previously, full compensation; nor the
power to interfere with or abolish involuntary
service in places under the exclusive jurisdic
tion of the United States within those States
and Territories where the same is established
or recognized; nor the power to prohibit the
removal or transportation of persons held to
labor or involuntary service in any State or
Te w kitory. of the United States, to any other
State or 'rerritory the viatea Moto., to ... 7
other Slate or Territory thereof, where it is
established or recognized ; nor to authorize a
specific tax or any higher rate of taxes on per
sons bound to labor, than on land in proportion
to value ; nor to authorize any of the African
race or their descendants to become citizens,
or to exercise the right of suffrage in the
choice of federal officers.
Art. 4. That hereafter the paragraph of the
fourth article of the Constitution shall not be
construed to prevent any of the States, by ap
propriate legislation, and through the action of
their judicial and ministerial officers, from en
forcing the delivery of fugitives from labor
from any other State or Territory of the United
States to the person to whom such service or
labor is due.
Art. 5. The emigration or importation of the
African race into any State or any Territory
of the United States, whether for residence or
involuntary service, is forever prohibited, and
Congress shall have the power by appropriate
legislation to enforce the provisions of this arti
cle.
Art. 6. That the first, second, third and fifth
articles of these amendments, and the third
paragraph of the second section of the first ar
ticle of the Constitution, and the third para
graph of the fourth article thereof, shall not be
amended or abolished without the consent of all
the States.
sun QF HON, A. H. STEPHENS VICE PRESI
DENTg
OF THE NEW SOUTHERN obNPEVIIRAOY.
MONTGOMERY, Feb. 9.—ln response to the
serenade given to the Hon. A. H. Stephens, the
Vice President elect of the Southern Confede
racy, as mentioned in a former dispatch,lie
said :
Although we meet as strangers from different
States, we are once more citizens of a common
country. Allow me briefly and sincerely to
return my unfeigned thanks for the compli
ment you have shown me. The state of my
health, my voice, and the night air, apart from
othdt considerations, prevent me doing more.
This is not the time or place to discuss the great
questions now pressing upon the public coun
sels. It is sufficient to say that this day a new
republic has been formed! These confederated
States of America have been ushered into ex
istence to take their place among the nations of
earth—under a tewporary or provisional gov
ernment, 'tie true—but soon to be followed by
one of a permanent character, which, while it
surrenders none of our ancient rights and liber
ties, will secure more perfectly, we trust, peace,
security and domestics tranquility, that ought
to be the object of all government.
What is to be the nature of this new govern
ment—the fate of this new republic, will de
pend on ourselves. Six States only at present
constitute our constellation. The constitution
of our permanent government may have a
greater, number than the original thirteen of
the original Union—more than three times
their population, wealth and power. With
such a beginning our prospect for the future
presents stronger grounds of hope than the
past had for bright prospects in their career.
But what the future shall be depends on our
selves and those to come after us. Our repub
cic, and all republics, to be permanent and
prosperous, must be supported by the virtue,
intelligence, integrity and patriotism of the
people. These are our corner-stones, upon
which the temple of liberty must be constructed,
to stand securely and permanently. Resting
ours upon these, we need fear nothing from
without or within.
With a climate unsurpassed by any on earth,
with staple productions which control the
commerce of the world, with institutions (so
far as regards our organic and social policy)
in strict conformity to nature and the laws of
the Creator, whether read in the Book of In
spiration, or the great book of manifestations
around us, we have all the natural elements
essential to the attainment of the highest
degree of power and glory. These institutions
have been much assailed. It is our mission to
Vindicate the great truth on which they rest,
and wiih them exhibit the highest type of civ
ilization which it is possible for human society
to reach. In doing this our policy should ke
marked by the desire to preserve peace with
the States and people.
our door. While we should inske aggressions
on none, we should be prepared to repel those
made by others, let them come from what quar
ter they may. [Applause.] We ask of others
simply that we be let alone, and permitted to
look after our safety, security and happiness
in our own way without molesting or giving
offence to other people.
Let, then, peace, fraternity-and liberal com
mercial relations with all the world be our
motto. [Cheers.] With these principles—
without envy towards other States in the line
of policy they may mark out for themselves—
we will invite them to general rivalry in all
that develops the highest of every nation.—
[Applause.] And now, with the best wishes
to you, gentlemen, and success to our common
government, this day announced, I bid you
good night.
As the speaker retired, three cheers were
given for "lion. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia,
the first Vice-President of the Confederate
States of North America."
1 1 1'-r Vi/ Ikt /114D11114:QVO °VI
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Macaulay says : " The conduct of the last
Parliament (Elizabeth's) made it clear that one
of those great revolutions which policy may
judge, but cannot stop, was in progress. It
was on the question of monopolies that the
House of Commons gained its first victory over
the Throne. The conduct of the extraordinary
woman who then governed England is an ad
mirable study for politicians, who live in our
quiet times. It showed how thoroughly she
understood the people whom she ruled, and the
crisis in which she was called to act. What
she held, she held firmly. What she gave, she
gave graciously. She said that it was neces
sary to make a concession to the nation; and
she made it, not grudgingly, nor tardly, not
as a matter of bargain and sale, not, in a word,
as Charles the First would have made it, but
promptly and cordially. Before a bill could be
framed, an address presented, she applied a
remedy to the evil of which the nation com
plained. She expressed in the warmest terms
her gratitude to her faithful Commoners for de
tecting abuses which interested persons had
concealed from her. If her successors had in
herited her wisdom with her crown, Charles the
First might have died of old age, and James
the Second would never have seen St. Ger-
Whom do the Republiosn party imitate ?
ElizaLeth ? or Charles the First, who always
made concessions to his people, when it was too
late P
THE NEW souTnER CONFEDERACY—EXTENT OF
ITS TERRITORY—THE NEW PRESIDENT AND
VICE-PRESIDENT—PROVISIONS OF ITS CON
STITUTION, &c.
The dispatches which we published yester
day announced that the Southern Confederacy
Congress, in session at Montgomery, Alabama,
had, by a unanimous vote, adopted a form of
provisional government for the seceded States,
and elected a President and Vice-President.—
The constitution adopted is to continue in
force one year from and after. the inauguration
..
I?rtraldent elected under it,
said constitution being substantially that -of
our United Stakes. It embraces, however, a
section expressly forbidding the African slave
trade, a provision giving to its Congress the
power to prohibit the introduction of slaves
from any State not a member of the confeder
acy, a rigid provision for the reclamation of
fugitive slaves, and a provision for the settle
ment of all matters between the States of the
new confederacy.
TERRITORY 01 THE NEW GtOVERNMENT
At this particular juncture it will also be
interesting to note seine of the statistics of the
several seceding States with reference to their
population, State debt, &c. We find them in
the New York Herald, as follows :
Population in 1860 State Debt.
Free Slave in 1859
South Carolina-308,186 407,185 $6,192,748
Georgia... ...615,836 467,400 2.632,722
Alabama. 620,444 435,473 5,888,134
Mississippi. 407,051 479,607 7,271,707
Louisiana 354,245 312,186 10,703,142
Florida 81,885 63,800 158,000
2,287,147 2,165,651
2,287,147
T0ta1....
This is a population exceeding by 522,926
that of 1790, at the close of the revolutionary
war, in the whole 'United States.
HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS OF MISS., PRESIDENT
Few men have led a life more filled with
stirring or eventful incidents than Jefferson
Davis. A native of Kentucky, born about
1806, he went in early youth with his father
to Mississippi, then a Territory, and was ap
pointed by Frfsident Monroe in 1822 to be a
cadet at West Point. He graduated with the
first honors in 1828 as brevet second lieutenant,
and at his own request was placed in active
service, being assigned to the command of Gen
eral (then Colonel) Zachary Taylor, who was
stationed in the west. In the frontier wars of
the time young Davis distinguished himself in
so marked a manner that when a new regiment
of dragoons was formed he at once obtained
a commission as first lieutenant. During this
time a romantic attachment sprang up between
him and his prisoner, the famous chief Black
Hawk, in whibh the latter forgot his animosity
to the people of the 'United States in his ad
miration for Lieut. Davis, and not until his
death was the bond of amity severed between
the two brave men.
In 1835 he settled quietly down upon a cot
ton plantation, devoting himself to a thorough
and systematic course of political and scientific
education. He was married to a daughter of
Gen. Taylor. In 1843 he took the stump for
Polk, and in 1845, having attracted no little
attention in his State by his vigor and ability,
he was elected to Congress:" Ten days after he
made his maiden speech. Soon the Mexican
war broke out, and a reg iment
. of volunteers
having been formed in MlSSlNiippi, and him
self chosen Colonel, he resigned his post in
Congress, and instantly repaired with his com
mand to join the corps d'armee under General
Taylor. At Monterey and Buena Vista he and
his noble regiment achieved the soldier's high
est fame. Twice by his coolness he saved the
day at Buena Vista. Wherever fire was hot
test or danger to be encountered, there Colonel
Davis and the Mississippi Rifles were to be
found. He was badly wounded in the early
part of the action, but sat his horse steadily till
the day was won, and refused to delegate even
a portion of his duties to his subordinate offi
cers.
In 1848 he was appointed to fill the vacancy
in the Senate of the United States, occasioned
by the death of General Speight, and in 1850
was elected to that body almost unanimously
for the term of Biz years. In 1851 he resigned
his seat in the Senate to become the State rights
candidate for Governor, but was defeated by
Governor Foote. In 1853 he was called to a
seat in the Cabinet of President Pierce, and
was Secretary of War during his administration.
In 1857 he was elected United States Senator
from Mississippi for the term of six years, which
office he held until his resignation on the se
cession of Mississippi from the Union.
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JOB OFFICE, containing a variety of plain sad t
type, unequalled by any establishment in the interior of
the State, for which the patronage of the public is Iwo
Halted_
selected as a "fire-eater." He is a prim,
smooth-looking man, with a precise manner, a
stiff, soldierly carriage, and an austerity that
is at first forbidding. He has naturally, how
ever, a genial temper, companionable qualities,
and a disposition that endears him to all by
whom he may be surrounded. As a speaker het
is clear, forcible and argumentative ; his voice
is clear and firm, without tremor, and he is one
in every way fitted for the distinguished post
to which he has been called,
HON. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, OF GEORGIA
VICE-PRESIDENT
This gentleman is known throughout the
Union as one of the most prominent of Southern
politicians and eloquent orators. His father,
Andrew B. Stephens, was a planter of moderate
means, and his mother (Mirgaret Grier) was a
sister to the famous compiler of Grier's alma.
nacs. She died when he was an infant, leaving
him with four brothers and one sister, of whom
only one brother survives.
Mr. Stephens was born in Georgia on the 11th
of February, 1812. When in his fourteenth
year his father died, and the homestead being
sold, his share of the entire state was about
five hundred dollars, With a commendable
Anglo Saxon lore of his ancestry Mr. Stephens
has since re-purchased the orginal estate, which
comprised about two hundred and fifty acres,
and has added to it about six hundred more.
Assisted by friends he entered the University
of Georgia in 1828, and in 1832 graduated at
the head of his class. In 1834 he commenced
the study of the law, and in less than twelve
months was engaged in one of the most im
portant cases - in the country. His eloquence
has ever had a powerful effect upon juries,
enforcing as it does, arguments of admirable
simplicity and legal weight. From 1837 to 1840
he was a member of the Geprgia Legislature.
In 1842 he was elected to the State Senate, and
in 1843 he was elected to Congress. He was a
member of the Whig party in its palmiest days,
but since its dissolution has acted with the men
of the South, and such has been the upright,
steadfast and patriotic policy he has pursued
that no one in the present era of faction, sel
fishness or suspicion has whispered an accusa
tion of selfish motives or degrading intrigues
against him. In the House he served promi
nently on the most important committees, and
effected the passage , of the Kansaa-Nebraska
bill through the House at a time when its
warmest friends despaired of success. Ile
was subsequently appointed chairman of the
Committee on Territories, and was also chair
man of the special committee to which was
referred the Lecompton constitution. By his
patriotic course on the various measures he
has, from time to time, excited the ire of many
of the Southern people, but he has always suc
ceeded in coming out of the contest with flying
colors, and his recent elevation is a mark of the
profound respect entertained for his qualities
as a man and a statesman.
Mr. Stephens is most distinguished as an
orator, though he does not look like one who
can command the attention of the House at any
time or upon any topic. His health from child•
hood has been very feeble, being afflicted with
four abscesses anda.continued deranzement of
the liver, which gives him a consumptive ap
pearance, zucugn his lunge are bound. He has
never weighed over ninety-six pounds, and to
see his attenuated figure bent over his desk,
the shoulders contracted and the shape of his
slender limbs visible through his garments, a
stranger would never select him as the "John
Randolph" of our time, more dreaded as an
adversary and more prized as an ally in a de
bate than any other member in the House of
Representatives. When speaking he has at
first a shrill sharp voice, but as he warms up
with his subject the clear tones and vigorous
sentences roll out with a sonorousness that
finds its way to every corner of the immense
hall. He is witty, rhetorical and solid, and
has a dash of keen satire that puts an edge
upon every speech. He is a careful student,
but so very careful that no trace of study is
perceptible as he dashes along in a flow of
facts, arguments and language that to common
minds is almost bewildering. Possessing hosts
of warm friends who are proud of his regard,
an enlightened Christian virtue and inflexible
integrity, such is Alexande H. Stephens the
Vice President elect of the Southern Confeder
acy.—N. Y. Herald.
SPEECH OF MIL LINCOLN ON THE QUESTIONS OP
TDB DAY
INDIANAPOLIS, /1141, 9 February 11, The bring
of thirty-three guns this afternoon announced
the approach of the train bearing the President
elect and his party.
Mr. Lincoln was received and welcomed by
Governor Morton, who escorted him to a car
riage drawn by four white horses.
The procession was then formed. It was
composed of the members of both Houses of
the Legislature, the public officials and muni
cipal authorities, the military and firemen.—
Great enthusiasm was manifested along the line
of march.
The President elect stood in the carriage ac
knowledging the welcomes of the people.
On reaching the Bates House, the procession
halted.
Mr. Lincoln was escorted to the balcony, and
responded to the demands of the assemblage
in the following speech :
Mr. Lincoln said he had come here to thank
them for the support that had been given by .
Indiana to a true and just cause.
In relation to the matter of coercion and in
vasion, they are terms now much used with
temper and hot blood. Let us not misunder
gtchteththeinirgmseag from
they
stand their meaning, nor the meaning of those
t w h ho e
m u ert e wh
them. o tt ea us t e
ep
represent by their use.
What is the meaning of these words ? Would
d
the marching of an army into south Carolina
with hostile intent be an invasion. I think it
would; and it would be coercion also if South
Carolina was forced to submit. But if the Uni
ted States should merely hold and retake its
own forts, collect its duties, or withhold its
mails where they were habitually violated,
would any or all of these things be invasion or
coercion.
Do the professional Union limit, who, ere
resolved to resist coercion, understand Such
things on the part of the United States to be
coercion or invasion? If they do, their idea
of the preservation of this Union is exceedingly
thin and airy. In their view, the Union, as a
family relation, would seem to be no regulsr
marriage, but a sort of free-love arrangement,
to be maintained by passional attraction.
In what consists the special sacredness of a
State ? .1 speak not of the position assigned
to a State in the Union by the Constitution;
for that it has by the bond we all recognise.—
That position, however, a State cannot carry
out. If a State and the country possess equal
rights in a Territory and its inhabitants, in
what, as a matter of principle, is a State better
than the country ? There would, in the
exchange of names, be an exchange of rights.
Upon what principle—by what rightful prind
ple—may a State, being not more than one
fiftieth part of the nation, in soil and popula
tion, break up the nation, and then coerce the
larger division of itself ? What mysteriouS
right to play the tyrant is conferred on a dis
trict of the country, with its people, by merely
calling it a State ?
Mr. Lincoln, in conclusion, said he Was not
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