RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Four lines or less constitute half a maitre. Ten flail
or more than four, constitute a square.
Ilelfsq.,oneday— $0.26 One sq,, one day—...... 30.00
one 'sees.— 1.00 " one week. —. 1.26
ate month.. 2.00 " one month. 3. 00
Li three months. 3.00 " three =lithe. 4.00
.{ six months 4.00 a eix months.— B.OP
I one year.— COO a one year...—. 10,00
117 Business notices inserted in the Loom. COLUN, Or
Wafers marrisgee sod deaths, Firs ounrs pea LINE fa r each
inSertion. •ro merchants
others advertisingby time'?
bberalteL as will be offered.
The numberofinsertione must be ffesigruttedon the
Isertiseat
rri ent.
V. maa ges and Matto will be inserted at the same
egail regular sdrertionameiste.
•
Book, Stationcrg, &c.
Q.CHOOL BOOKS.—School Directors,
Ly Teachers, Parents, Scholars, and others, in want of
School Books, School Stationery, &0., Will lind a complete
M ark et at N. Id. POLLOCK Sc SOWS BOOK STOltit,
Market Square, Harrisburg, comprising in part the follow
itiADEßS.—ldeGuffers, Parker's, Cobb's Angell%
HOClES.—McGulfers, Cobb's, Webster%
Town's, Byerly's. Combry's.
NNGLISH GRAMMARS —Bullion's, Smith's, Wood
bridge's, Menteith,s, Tuthill's, Hart% Wells'.
IRSTORlES.—Grinschaw% Davenport's,Froetls, Wil
son's,Willard% Qoodricit's, Pinnock's, oldemith% and
Clark's.
ABITHIENTIC'S.--Greenlears, Stoddard% Emerson's,
Pike's, Rose's, Colburn%, Smith and Duke's, Davie%.
ALGNDRAS—Greenleaf% Davie's, Day's, Bars,
Bridgo's.
DICTIONAKTS.—WaIIcer's Scheel ' Cobb's, Walker,
Worcester's Comprehensive, Woreester's Primary, Web
ster% Primary, Webster's High School, Webster's Quarto,
Madenna.
treilISAL PRIELOSOPHIBB.—CoIaIWiII Parker's,
Swift's. The above with a great variety of others can at
any time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort
'nest of School Stationery, embracing in the win le a com
plete outfit for school purposes. Any book not in the store.
procured it one days notice.
Er Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates.
ALMANACS.—John Baer and Son's Almanac for sale al
I. M. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STOBB, Harrisburg.
Kr Wholesale and Retail. myl
JUST RECEIVED
SCHEFFER'S BOOKSTORE,
ADAMANTINE
CM VARIOUS BIZIS AND MOW,
Which, for beauty and nee, cannot be excelled.
REMEMBEIL THE PLACE,
SCHEFFER , S BOOXSTORE,
No, MI MARKET STREET
BOOKS!
N "
JUST REORITPD
"SEAL AND SAY," by the author of Wide, Wide
World" " Dollars end. Cents," Sce.
"HISTORY OP MRTHODISM,"byA. Stevens, LL.D.
For sale at fiSCRIPINEW BOOKSTORE,
sp9 No. 111 Harks it.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OP
RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS
PAPER BLINDS,
Of various Designs and Colors, for 8 cents,
TISSUE PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER,
At [my24] SGEMPIPER , S BOOKSTORE.
WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER I I
Juit reeehred, our spring Stock of WALL PAYNE,
BOBDBBS, PISS 80ABENS, &.c., Itie the largest
and best selected assortment in the city, ranging in price
from six (6) cents up to one dollar and aquarter (61.25.)
As we purchase very low for cash, we are prepared to
Sell at as low rate*, if not low(* than can be had else
where. If purchasers will call and examine, wo feel
confident that we can please them in respect to price
and quality. N. M POLLOCK & SON,
ap3 Below Jones , Renee, Marget Square.
T. ETTER, CAP, NOTE PAPERS,
T
Pens, Holders, Panelis t Burblopes, Sealing Wanyet
the best quality, at low prices, direct from the manu
factories, at
marBo
SCHREYER'S CHEAP BOOKSTORE
LAW BOOKS 1 LAW BOOKS I-A
general assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State
Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many of
the old English Reports, scarce and rare, together with
a large assortment of aeennd-hand Law Books, •t My
low prices, at the one price Bookstore of
R. M POLLOCK & SON,
Market Square, Harrisburg.
tug
,Misteltatteous.
IN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
BILK LINEN PAPER
FANS! PANS!! 7 N !! !
ANOTHSII AND SPLENDID LOT OP
SPLICED FISHING - RODS!
Trout Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk
and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of
FISHING TACKLE!
A GROAT PARIETT OP
WALKING CANE 51
Which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest!
Silver Head Loaded Sword Hickory Fancy
Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes! Canes!,
KILLER'S DBI7O AND NANCY STOKE,
NO. 91 NAMES? STREET,
South side, one door east of Fourth street je9.
B.
J. HARRIS ;
.
WORKER IN TIN,
SHEET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING,
8000nd Street, below Chestnut,
HARRISBUR(I, PA.
le prepared. to dli orders for any article in his branch of
business; and if not en hand, he will make to order on
short notice.
METALLIC ROOFING, of Tin or Galvanised Iron,
constantly on hand.
Also, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, Spouting, Ice.
He hopes, by strict attention to the wants of his custo
mers, to merit and receive a generous share of public pat-
I
Strery premise strictly fulfilled.
B. J. HARRIS,
jan7-dly) Second Street, below Chestnut.
FISIIII
iIstACKBILEL, (Nos. 1, 2 and 3.)
SALMON, (very superior.)
SHAD, (Mesa and very film)
JOBBING, (extra large.)
COD FISH.
SMOKED HERRING, (extra Digby.)
)SCOTCH KERBING.
SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES.
Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter
and eighth Ibis. Herring in whole and half bbls.
The entire lot new—Bracer ram ran nenasiss, and
Hill sell them at the lowest market rates.
sepl4 WM. DOCK, Ta., /c CO.
CHAMPAGNE WINESI
MO DR MONTEBELLO,
HELDSIBOIC & CO.,
CHARLES HEIDHIECK,
GLEBLER & CO.,
ANCHOR—HILLERY MOIIHHEUX,
SPARKLING mrsce.TEL,
MUNN & 00.%
VERBENA.;
CABINET.
In store and for sale by
JOHN H. ZIEGLER,
93 Market street.
de2O
MCICORY WOOD 1-A SUPERIOR LOT
ust received, and for sale in quantities to snit pox
*morn, 1 1 JAMSB M. WHEELER.
Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand at the
%west prices. dace
FAMILY BIBLES, from 1$ to 1110,
strong and handsomely bound, printed on good paper,
with elegant clear new tyPo, sold at
meldscamiews Cheap Bookwhre.
CRANBERRIES I I !--A SPLENDID LOT
wield received by
WIC
FOR a superior and cheap TABLE or
SALAD OIL go to
KELLER'S DRUG STORE.
THE Fruit Growers' Handbook—by
W AlLlNG—wholesale and retail at
asch3l. BCHBFFBWEJ Bookstore.
SPERM CANDLES.—A large supply
just received by
seplB
WM. DOCK, Js., & CO.
"WELLER'S DRIJO STORE is the place
Ilk
to fled the Imst anortment of Porte Komplex.
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Union.
VOL. 3.
4goal.
TO THE PUBLIC!
JOHN TILL'S
COAL Y A 11 D 3
SOUTH SHOOND STREET,
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where he has constantly on hand
LYKENS VALLEY BROKEN, EGG, STOVE AND
NUT COAL
WILKESBARRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE
AND NIIT COAL,
ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY.
It will be delivered to consumers clean, and full
weight warranted
Irr CONSUMERS GIVE ME A CALL FOR TOUR
WII'ITEB StrrrLy.
mr Orders left at my house, in Walnut street, near
Fifth; or at Brubaker's, North street; J. L. Sped%
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of Second and
South streets, and john Lingle's, Second and Mulberry
streets, will receive prompt attention.
jyl3-dam
COAL! COAL!!
ONLY YARD IN TOWN THAT DELIVERS
COAL BY THE
PATENT WEIGH CARTS
NOW IS THE TIME
Per 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
the, Wet* get out of order, as is frequently the case of
the Platform Scales; besides, the consumer has the
satisfaction of proving the weight of his Coal at his
own house.
I have a large supply of Coal on band, eo^.= - . 4 0g of
S. M. CO.'S LUKENS VALLEY COAI. all sizes,
LYKENS VALLEY d o u Is
WILHESDARRE 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, single, half or third of tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, September 24, 1860.—5ep25
'U P
T 0 W N!
PATENT WEIGH CARTS.
Fos the gogyenimice of my numerous 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 LYRENS VALLEY and WILKESBARRE, all sizes.
Er Waling to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to be undersold by any parties.
13:7"All Coal forked up and delivered clean and free
from all impuritiol, and the beet article mined.
Orders received at either Yard will he yromptiyAlled,
nd all Coal delivered by the Patent Weigh Carts.
Coal sold by Boat, Car load, single, half or third of
tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
liarriaburg, Octobet. 15, 1860.—0et15
LYKENS VALLEY NUT COAL-
For Sale AT TWO DOLLAES Prat TON.
irrAii Cosi ofairoorolby PATENT WEIGH CARTS
GAMES M. WIIItELER
MP" Coaldelivered from both yards. nol7
,ffictlical.
HE L MBOILIPS HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELM BOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
HELM:IOI4D% HELMBOLD'S
HELMBOLD' lIELMBOLDIs
Extract Bean, Extract Bimii,
Extralt Buchn, Extract Ifirchn,
Extract Baohn Extract Briehn,
Extract Buchn, Extract Duch%
Ext-act Buchn, Extract Baena,
Extract Bnotan, Extract Machu,
Extract Dacha, Extract Bucher,
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
MR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE D ISOR.ORRS.
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 Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
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, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WRIKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
And all Diseases of Sexiest Organr,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Semis/ Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
ARISING FROM
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, 11xpoeurio, and Insprndeneiss in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures , and Imprudencies in Life.
From whotoyer ono, ongipating,and whether existing in
MALE OR 7.IIIMALE.
Females, take no more Pills ! They are of no avail for
Complaints incident to the sex. Use
EXTRACT BUctili.
Helmbold's Extract Ducks is a Medicine which is per
fectly pleasant in its
TASTE AND ODOR,
Bnt immediate in its action, giving Health and Vigor to
the Frame ; Bloom to the Pallid Cheek, and restoring the
patient to a perhict etato of
HEALTH AND PURITY.
Mambo Xxtract Dacha is prepared according to
Pharmacy and Chemistry and IN prescribed and wad by
THE MOST EMINENT PHYSICIANS.
Delay no longer, femme the remedy at once.
Price $1 per bottle, or six for W.
Depot 10a South Tenth street, Philadelphia.
REWIRE OF UNPRINCIPLED DEALERS
Trying to palm or their own or ether osticiee of BI:TORII
on the reputation attained by
RELKSOLD , S EXTRACT BUORU,
The MOW and only Genuine.
We desire to run on the
MERIT OE OUR ARTICLE!
molests worthless —is sold at much bus rates and com
missions, consequently paying a much better profit.
WA DEFY 00XPRTITION !
Ask for
KELMBOLDI3 EXTRACT BIJOHII.
Talc. sto other.
Bold by JOHN WYETH, Druggist, corner of Market and
Second streets, Harrisburg,
AND ALL DRUGGISTS RTERYWIISR E.
44w310-
EXTRACTS! EXTRACTS!
WOODBWOI TH & BUNNIALIS
SUPERIOR FLAVORING' EXTRACTS
BITTER ALMOND
NECTARINE,
PINE APPLE,
STRAWBERRY,
ROSE,
LEMON AND
Just received and for sale by VANILLA,
020 WM. DOOR, 7H., &
ALSO,
JOHN TILL
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1861.
Ctt Vairiat
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 15, 1861
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
. It is stated that the Hon. Reverdy Johnson's
resolution, amended in the following form,
has, in this Conference, been carried by 10 to 9,
lowa and Massachusetts not being present ;
"Congress shall have no power to legislate
upon the subject of servitude anywhere, ex
cept to perform its duties under the Constitu
tion in respect to fugitives from service or
labor, and to suppress the foreign slave trade ;
nor hall any Territorial Government have
power to sanction or protect involuntary ser
vitude in any Territory north of the southern
boundary of Kansas, and the northern boun
dary of New Mexico, nor to prohibit, or im
pair, or affect the holding of persons to service
or labor in any Territory south of said line, in
the same manner as such persons were so held
and protected under.the laws of the State or
Territory from which they were. removed."
This vote was mixed, and only signified a
preference for the pending proposition over
others which had been presented. Several
who voted negatively, expressed their willing
noes to accept it as a finality, if nothing better
could be done. Mr. Johnson's resolution is in
tended to be added to a portion of the Guthrie
plan.
THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERATION—VIEWS Or
THE PRESS
The press of the seceding States generally
profess. to be pleased at the result of the delib
erations of the Southern Congress at Mont
gomery. The ohoice of Messrs. Davis and
Stephens as President and Vice-President of
the "Confederated States of North America,"
is warmly commended. The Savannah Repub
liean, which at first opposed secession, says:
The idea that we have destroyed the govern
ment of our fathers can no longer obtain We
have resurrected it from the ruins of time and
political passions, and placed it once more on
the high way to greatness and renown. It had
been abused, debauched and destroyed by
others, and for the South has been reserved the
honor of restoring it to its pristine purity and
vigor. All else is a dead carcass and a mock
ery—let those adhere to it who will.
We hope the convention will now do another
act in keeping with what has already come
from their hands. They have revived the
government and constitution of their fathers;
let them rear aloft over that government the
dishonored flag of the heroei of other days—
the Stars and Stripes—and call upon the friends
of justice and equal rights to rally around it.
It is ours by right., and it should not be left to
desecration by vandal hands. Those glorious
old tunes,:too, "Hail Columbia" and the "Star
Spangled Banner," are ours, and we should
wrest - theft frets tongues that- dishonns - andr
pollute their soul-stirring strains. All these
come from the South, and we have never seen
the day when we were not willing to fight for
our property in them, if need` be at the can.
non's mouth.
The new confederacy thus formed by the
South, on the principles that entered into the
old confederation, let us call on our brethren of
every State, both north and south, who are
willing to subscribe to those principles and
preserve them in their purity, to join us, and
become, each, a luminary in the grand constel
lation of 1861. On this latter point, though,
we would annex a qualification, and press it
upon the convention now in session, with the
hope that it will be made a feature of the new
constitution. No State should be admitted into
the Union except by a vote of two thirds of both
branches of the Congress. At a future day we
may enlarge on this suggestion, and show its
necessity.
The Charleston Courier, speaking of the elec
tion of Mr. Davis, remarks :
His claims and qualitzations marked him for
the Presidency without regard to geographical
position, but the choice is commended to in
creased approval by the fact that it bestows a
merited honor on a citizen of Mississippi, a
State that will maintain a central and leading
place in the "Confederated States of America."
Georgia had strong claims for a high place
of representation in the new government, and
that honor has been given in the person of a
citizen, who more than any other prominent
representative of the South, commands the
confidence of all parties, and the affectionate
admiration of friends. Alexander H. Stephens
is a statesman of whom any State or people
might well be proud, and to whom any one
could safely trust any power or responsibilities.
We congratulate our Southern Representa
tives, at Montgomery, on the eminent proprie
ty and: acceptableness of their choice for the
highest offices of the Provisional Government,
that must be charged with the common destiny
and defense of the Confederated States, and we
receive this election as an omen for good. We
hope to hear soon of the complete organization
and inauguration of the Provisional Govern
ment, charged with all the powers needed for
asserting practically the rights and interests of
the Southern league, and claiming the recogni
tion of other powers.
AFFAIRS IN CHARLESTON
Lieut. Hall, bearer of dispatches from and
for Major Anderson, reached the city on Sat
urday on his return from Washington. He
proceeded to Fort Sumpter, accompanied by
Cole. F. J. Moses, Jr., and M. A. Moore, of the
executive staff.
A photographist, by special permisssion of
the Governor, visited Fort Sumpter on Friday,
and succeeded in taking several lifelike like
nesses of Major Anderson and a group of the
officers under his command. He offers to "take"
Fort Sumpter at the shortest notice.
The Mercury announces that at an early day
it is expected that the South Carolina State
Convention will be summoned together again,
with a view to the action of the Montgomery
Convention or Congress, and without any re
ference to Fort Sumpter.
William Henry Trescott, Esq., has been ap
pointed commissioner to Tennessee on the part
of South Carolina.
The Marion Artillery, Capt. King, number
ing 55 men, were transferred from Castle
Pinckney to Fort Johnson on Sunday. Major
Wagener's command at Castle Pinckney now
consists of Company A, German Artillery,
numbering 60 men. Three companies were
ordered On special service on Saturday and
Sunday along the coast.
A salute was fired in Charleston on Saturday
in honor of the adoption of the constitution of
the Southern Confederacy.
FLAG or LOUISIANA—ORIGIN OP THE PELICAN.
In the Louisiana Convention on the 4111 inst.
Mr. Elgee offered a resolution that a committee
of three be appointed to report upon the adop
tion of a flag for the State of Louisiana.
Mr. Elgee stated that the Pelican flag at pre
sent in Inc to r epresent the State, and adopted
by the Governor in 1818, had no legal orlegis
lative sanction, and that, in fact, Louisiana
never had a flag of her own. He had read that
the meaning of the symbol, when adopted by
the Governor who designed it, was this : That
the mother pelican represented Cie maternal
care and fostering aid of the United States Gov
ernment, whilst the little pelicans represented
the S ates. It was true that Louisiana made
the symbol good, by the ample manner in
v•hi.th he had always fed her young; but if it
were true, as he had read, that the big pelican
represented the United States Government, the
sooner we abolish the pelican the better. The
resolution was adopted unanimously.
A 'MAMIE SCENE
A strange scene will be presented at Wash
ington on the 4th of March—a scene never con
templated and never before witnessed. The
paid troops of the Federal Government will be
collected together, not to protect and defend
the wintry from an invasion by a foreign
enemy, but to secure the inauguration of an
Abolition President against a real or supposed
opposition from citizens of the common coun
try, 'over which he is to preside. Hitherto,
patriotic volunteers from all sections have
been proud to honor such occasions with their
presence. Now, the President elect is to ride
into power, not with the volunteer eclat of
national patriotism, but as the conquering hero
of a military despotism with a national army at
hie bidding, to protect him from the imagined
possible attack of an enraged populace, or the
interference of unwilling and estranged coun
trymen.
We do not say that this Military arrangement
is unnecessary to secure the proper inaugura
tion of Mr. Lincoln, but everybody will join
with us in saying that it is wrong—that it is
strangely discordant in a land of republican
freedom. If there is necessity, that necessity
should be first removed. To assume the re
sponsibilities of a high civil office with the
fixed bayonets of an approving volunteer force
pointing towards an enemy in time of war,
might well be the ambition of any man ; but
to enter upon those duties with a paid soldiery
pointing their deadly weapons against a por
tion of the very citizens that hired them, is
degrading.—Eaaton Arra.
FAILI7RES /N NEW YORK
It is stated that the New fork merchants are
just beginning, apparently, to experience,
practically, the influences of the paralysis of
trade, resulting from the sectional controversy.
Since the commencement of the month, scarcely
a day has passed without suspensions of a
greater or less magnitude, not only- in the dry
goods trade, but in other departments of busi
ness. The names only occasionally find their
way into the newspapers. On Tuesday a firm
largely engaged as hide and leather dealers,
and another as grocery and commission mer
chants, failed, with heavy liabilities in both
cases. Hitherto the credit of houses in the
Southern trade only bas been impaired; but
now some of the Western firma are beginning
to bend before the blast. A firm which failed
on Saturday have extensive connections with
that quarter of the country.
THE SECEDED STATES-WHEN ADMITTED.
Only two of the seceded States—South Car
ona& and
. Cie.orgia--were original members of
the Confederacy: The others came in in the
following order: Louisiana, April Bth, 1812;
Mississippi, December 10, 1817; Alabama, De
cember 14, 1819; Florida, March 3, 1845 ;
Texan, December 29, 1845.
ABOUT DIAMONDS, AND THE PLEA
SURE OF POSSESSING THEM
The most profound adamantologist in the
world is the Duke of Brunswick. He has in
his possession three millions of dollars worth
of diamonds. He has just published a cata
logue of his diamonds, and in the appendix
there is a notice of the most celebrated dia
monds in the world. This catalogue numbers
not less than 268 quarto pages. It gives, with
great detail, a list of his white transparcnt,
first-white, second-white, steel-white, blue
white, light-blue, black-blue, light-yellow,
bright-yellow, amber-yellow, straw, cham
pagne, deep-rose, rosy, light-rose, opalescent,
pomegranate, violet, greenish, green, sea
green, brown, light-brown, deep-brown, dusk
black, opaque-black, London-fog, sandy, fros
ty, black-spotted, cracked, split, scratched, ill
cut, uncut, square, round, oval, oblong, octa
gon, pointed, pigeon-eyed, almond, Chinese
eyed diamonds. It relates bow this adorned a
Turkish sabre, that a royal diadem, another an
Imperial collar, a third a Grand Electoral hat;
this black diamond was an idol's eye, that
brilliant rosy diamond was taken from the Em
peror Baber, at Agra, in 1526, (it weighs 41
carats, and is worth $69,000) those were the
waistcoat buttons of the Emperor Don Pedro ;
this diamond ring, with the Stuart coat of arms
and the cypher "M. S." belonged to Mary
Queen of Scots; that pair of ear-rings hung
once on Marie Antoinette. The Duke of Bruns
wick has in his possession fifteen of the ninety
known diamonds, weighing thirty-six carats,
but he has not a diamond worth $200,000.
He has plenty of diamonds worth $20,000,
$30,00Q, and $45,000 apiece ; he has two worth
$60,000 each, one worth $70,000, and one
worth $80,000; bat he hasn't one worth $2OO
- He is in treaty now for two diamonds,
one of which is worth $232,000, and the other
$650,000, and which rank in the order of pre
cedence established by adamantologists, in the
sixth rank, which is next after the Regent's
diamond, and the former in the eighth rank,
that is, next after the Orloff diamond of Russia.
In his list of celebratred diamonds he places in
the front rank a brilliant white diamond,
weighing 250 carats, and belonging to some
East Indian prince, and worth $2,500,000 ;
next comes the Koh-i-noor, which weighs 186
carats, and which he sets down as worth
$1,383,000; next comes the Rajah of Matara's
(Borneo) diamond; it is of the most beautiful
water conceivable; the Governor of Batavia
offered the Rajah $150,000, two brigs of war,
armed, equipped and provisioned for sin months,
and a large quantity of cannon balls, powder
and congreve rockets; the Rajah refused them
all, and preferred keeping his diamond, which
passes for a talisman; it is worth $1,839,455.
Next comes_ the great Mogul, which is of a beau
tiful rose color, and of the shape and size of
half a hen's egg; it is worth $784,000, accor
ding to the Duke of Brunswick's valuation,
though Tavernier, the traveler, sets it down as
being worth $2,344,665 ; the Regent's diamond
of France (and which, by the way, belonged to
Lord Chatham's grandfather, who brought it
from India, concealed in the h eel: of his shoe,)
comes only in the fifth rank ; it weighs 134
carats—it is worth $739,840; it is the purest
diamond known ; it required two years to cut it;
before it was cut it weighed 410 carats : the
chippings of it were sold for $410,000.
The Duke of Brunswick says the Orloff
Diamond of Russia is worth only $344,360,
and not $18,516,680, as some persons have
pretended ; and he says the Saney diamond,
which Prince Paul Demidoff purchased at the
price of $400,000, is worth only $29,160 ; but
then the Duke of Brunswick reckons its histori
cal value as nothing, although it once adorned
the sword of Charles the Bold, was found after
his death on the battle field of Nancy, was sold
in Switzerland, carried to Portugal and there
sold, belonging to King Antonia, to Henry 111,
was swallawed by a noble to whom he confided
it—swallowed by the faithful noble rather than
deliver it to robbers, and was found in his body,
which was disinterred for the purpose of dis
covering it. The Duke of Brunswick dares not
leave Paris, at any period of the year ; his
diamonds keep him chained there. He dares
not sleep from home (some people reckon this
liberty of pillow one of the great franchises of
Paris) a single night. Then, he lives in a
house constructed not so much for comfort as
security. kis burglar proof, surrounded on
every side by a high wall ; the wall itself is
surmounted by a lofty iron railing, defended
by innumerable sharp spear-heads, which are
so contrived that if any person touches any one
of them, a chime of bells begins instantly to
ring an alarm ; this iron railing cost him $14,-
127. He keeps his diamonds in a safe, built
in a thick wall ; his bed is placed against it,
that no burglar may break into it without
killing, or at least waking him, and that he
may amuse himself with them without leaving
his bed. This safe is lined with granite and
iron ; the locks have a secret which must be
known before they can be opened; if they are
opened by violence, a discharge of firearms
takes place, which will inevitably kill the burg
lar, and at the same time a chime of bells in
every room in his house are set ringing. He
has but one window in his bed-room ; the sash
is of the stoutest iron ; the shutters are of thick
sheet iron. The ceiling of his room is plated
with iron several inches thick, and SO is the
floor. The door opening into it is of solid
sheet iron, and cannot be entered unless one
be master of the secret combination of the lock.
A case of a dozen six-barrelled revolvers, loa
ded and capped, lies open upon a table within
reach ofhis bed. Would you like to be in his
place ? asks the Paris correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayune, after supplying all this in
formation.
My FIRST FIGHT WITH .THI TWER.-1 was
only twenty when I first went to St. Louis.—
St. Louis is, and was, even then. a large town.
It had a good many people in it of all sorts,
especially of bad ones. Mind you, that was
long ago. Well, I went there. I thought I
knew a "few." I wasn't green. I never was,
as I know of. But—. However, the reader
may judge for himself. I put up at the "first
hotel." I don't choose to say which it
was, for fear of consequences. I had money ;
that is, I had six hundred dollars, confided to
me by an indulgent parent for mercantile pur
poses. The first day I spent in "looking
round" and "taking drinks." The second day
I "took drinks" and didn't "look round" so
much. The third day— Ah ! thereby hangs
a tale I Ahem !
The third day, I made the acquaintance of
Elverly ! Elverly was a splendid fellow, and
boarded at my hotel. Elverly was introduced
to me by a mutual friend whom I did not know
—much—but believed in a great deal.
The day wore on, (I believe that is the proper
expression for saying, "It got later.") Sup
per was ready. It is, perhaps, needless to
say that we had " taken drinks" before sup
per.
Elverly, in the course of cold ducks, said
"Champagne." We did it. When we arose
from supper we were in just the state of mind
to welcome "secession" and a "bloody time"
generally. Then we "took a drink" again.
Then Elverly proposed " going somewhere."
And we uproariously consented to " go some
where." When we say we, we speak in an edi
torial sense,because the crowd was soon reduced
to Elverly and the subscriber (who don't sub
scribe.)
Well, we went " somewhere."
Somewhere where there was a long table—and
slot of cards pasted on a green cloth.
Elverly told me he was going to bet. I said,
"All right." Elverly bet. I watched Elverly,
but didn't see anything further resulting from
it than the fact that a man, who had a boa full
of cards, scraped up a lot of ivory things with
figures on them, and chucked down other simi
lar ivory things. Well, after a while Elverly
said, " Lend me ten dollars." I had faith in
Elverly—l lent him ten. Then, after another
while, he said, " Why don't you go in ?" I had
faith in Elverly ; so I went in. I got twenty
dollars (by Elverly's advice) changed into ivory
things that Elverly called chips. Then I put
them down on cards, and between cards, as El
verly told me. And sometimes I took them up
again, with some mere ivory things on them.
But, generally, I didn't.
Then Elverly said :
" Let's go and take supper."
And we went and took Supper. Such—a
supper. A—a—a—everything good to eat,
and to drink! That's the best description I
can give.
Then Elverly said
" Are you going home already ?"
And I (influenced by the supper, &0.,) said,
"Of course not." So we went up to the table
with the cards pasted on it again. And I bet
—that is, Elverly bet for me. And I got fifty
dollars changed into ivory things and lost 'em.
And I got a hundred changed into ditto; and
lost 'em. And then another; and lost it. Oh !
I lost it all gradually. But I lost it I Yes, sir,
I lost it, as it were, insensibly, sometimes get
ting a streak ahead, sometimes behind. But I
lost it ! Then I counted my money. I pretended
I wanted to go—out, because I was too proud
to count it before the crowd.
And I counted it. And I had three hundred
dollars left. And small change.
And says I to myself, I've got enough of this.
And I made a motion to go.
But Elverly overhauled me, and, says he—
You ain't going so early 1"
" Early !" says I ; " well you're right ; it is
early; but I've got enough,
" Well," says he, " I'm 'sorry if you've been
unlucky ; but ' such is life.' Let's take a part
ing drink,"
And I took a—parting drink.
And that drink knocked me !
I pledge you my word that I don't recollect
a thing after that drink. I don't say it was
drugged. I wouldn't say it.
But I awoke the next morning in my own
hotel—in my own chamber—with all my usual
Clothes on the accustomed floor—but without a
cent of the six hundred dollars confided to me
by an indulgent parent—and so forth. Some
persons might draw a moral from this true
sketch. Let them ! I don't prevent them. But
I—or we—as you please—prefer to leave it
fiat ar it IS.
ARMY IrrrazdauratOS.—Brevet Major J. Set-
den, eighth infantry, is directed to report at
Fort Columbus for such duty as his health will
permit him to perform. Lieutenants Edward
McK. Hudson, fourth artillery, and R. 0. 'Tay
lor, third artillery, are assigned to duty on the
general recruiting service at Fort Columbus.
Assistant Surgeon E. W. Johns is ordered to
report for duty at Pert Monroe, Va. Lieuten
ants A. C. M. ennington, second artillery ;
W. W. McCreery and S. D. Ranssuer, third
artillery, are ordered to proceed to Washington
city. Lieutenants S. M. Cooper, first artillery,
and G. L. Hartsuff, second artillery, are direc
ted to proceed to Washington city and join
their respective companies. Capt. J. C. Bon
nycastle, quartermaster's departm ent , is
order•
ed to Washington city for duty in his depart
ment.
SUNDAYS EXOEPTED )
BY O. BARRETT & CJO
INK DAILY PATRIOT AND 'UNION will be "mined to RR b
soribers residing in the Borough for era CENTS MI TM!
payable to the Carrier. Mail subscribers, woos DOI.
LARS PRE ANNUM.
fax Wiwur win be published ria heretofore, tend
weekly dulling the Cession of the Legislature, and ones a
week the remainder of the year, for two do llars in ad-
Vance, or three deglars at the expiration of the year.
Connected with this establishment is an exterudee
JOB containing a variety of plain and fame,
typ*, olninitialled by any establishment in the interior of State, for which the patronage of the pliblio is au.
Belted.
NO. 141.
PENN'A LEGISLATURE.
The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock
a. in. by the SPEAKER. Prayer by Rey. Father
Maher.
Mr. KETCHAM, an act to extend the equity
powers of courts.
Mr. SMITH, an act relative to the Philadel
phia, Norristown and Germantown railroad
company.
Also, an act exempting from taxation the real
estate of the 'Union temporary home for chil
dren.
Mr. ROBINSON, an act to change the place of
holding the election in Allegheny township.
Venango county.
Mr, LAWRENCE offered the following :
Resolved, That the secretary of the Com
monwealth be requested to furnish the Senate
a table of the population of the 'different coun
ties of this Commonwealth, as appears by the
tables in his office; which was agreed to.
Mr. BENSON asked for and obtained leave
to present a remonstrance from . citizens of
M'Kean county against the repeal of their pre
sent road laws.
Mr. WHARTON asked for and obtained lean
to present the petition of citizens of Shirley
township, Huntingdon county, praying fora
liberal appropriation to the starving poor of
Kansas.
Mr. KETCHAM presented the proceeding,
of a Black Republican meeting, held in Wayne
county ; which were read and laid on the table.
Mr. HALL called up House bill, entitled "A
supplement, to the act incorporating the Beaver
Dam plank road company ;" which was passed
finally.
Mr. SMITH called up bill, entitled "An Act to
extend the provisions of the general manufac
turing laws of this Commonwealth to rnanufao,
turers of brushes;" which, on second reading,
was defeated—yeas 10 nays 11.
Mr. PENNEY called up the bill incorporating
the Petroleum oil company of -Allegheny
county.
Pending which, Mr. HALL presented a re
monstrance against the incorporation of such
companies, as prejudicial to individual ester
prise.
Mr. IMBRIE moved as an amendment to the
first section, that the operations of the company
be confined to Allegheny county.
Mr. IMBRIE subsequently withdrew his
amendment.
The committee of the whole negatived the
bill, whereupon a poit►t of order arose. The
report of the committee was not agreed to,
whereupon, on motion of Mr. HALL, the bill
was postponed for the present..
Mr. Meredith, for the SPEAKER, called up
the act to prevent the catching of trout in
Schuylkill county during certain seasons of
the year; which wait piteeed finally.
Mr. CONNELL called up House bill, entitled
"An Act to incorporate the American submarine
and salvage company;" which was passed.
On motion of Mr. SERRILL and Mr. MER.
EDITH, the act Wending provisions of gen
eral manufacturing laws to brush manufactur
ers was re-considered, and laid over.
Mr. HALL called up House bill s entitled "An
Act relative to the claim of the heirs of Samuel
Rhoades, deceased, late of Blair county, Joseph
G. Barr, and Michael Maxwell;" which was
passed finally.
Mr. SMITH called up the act to pay W. B.
Turner, clerk of the committee in the contested
election ease in the First district; which will
passed finally. Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TnunsDAY, Feb. 14, 1861
The House met it 10 o'clook. The SPEAKER
in the Chair. Prayer was offered by Rev Mr.
Shoemaker.
Petitions, memorials, 84c., were then received
and appropriately referred. Reports of stand
ing commiteees were also received.
Mr. HUHN offered a resolution appointing
a session for this afternoon, for the considera
tion of bills upon the Public Calendar. Agreed
Mr. Smith (Berks) offered a resolution ap
pointing sessions for Friday afternoon and eve
ning and Saturday morning next. On pro
ceeding to the second reading of this, the ayes
and noes were required, and it was agreed to
by a vote of 65 ayes to 20 noes.
Mr, WILSON moved to strike out the ses
sions of Friday evening and Saturday morning.
Mr. HILL opposed all of the sessions. The
House was fully up to its business. Mi. WIL
SON took the same view.
Mr. ABBOTT said that it was likely that the
future proceedings would be broken in upon by
various things. It was advisable to transact
as much as possible at present.
A running debate ensued, which wee partici
pated in by Mr. BLISS, Mr. SMITH (Berke,)
Mr. WILSON, Mr. HOFIUS, Mr. ABBOTT - ,
Mr. BYRNE, Mr. TELLER, Mr. LEISEN•
RING, Mr. BARTHOLOMEW, and Mr. AUS
TIN.
The ayes and nays were called on the amend
ment of Mr. WILSON, and It was lost by the
following vote :
Toss—Messrs. Barnsley, Bliss, Bressler, Brod
head, Byrne, Clark, Pismant, Donley, Elliott /
_Fra
sier, Goehring, Mapper, Hill, iteed, Kline, Myer" )
Reiff, Schrock, Williams and Wilson-20.
Nars—Messrs. Abbott, Acker, Alexander, Anderson,
Austin, Ball, Bartholomew, Biaelßlair, Boyer, Browder,
Burns, Butler, ( Carbon,) Butler, ( Crawford ,) Caldwe ll ,
Cope, Cowan, &mg, Douglass, Duffield, Dunlap, Rilenber
ger, Gaskill, Gibboney, Graham, Hayes , . Heck, Hillman,
moans, Huhn, Koch, Lawrence, Leisennng, Licbtenwall
aer, Lowther, Wilonongh atiGenigid, Manifold, Mar
shall, Moore, Morrison, Mullen; Ober, Osterhout, Pres
ton, P ughe, Randall, Reily, Rhoads, Ridgway, Robin
son, Roller, Seltzer . , Shafer, Sheppard, Smith (lierks,)
Smith, (Phi ladelpha.) Stehmao, Taylor, Teller, Thomas,
Walker, Wildey, Davis, Speaker—et
So the question was determined in the nega3
ive.
Mr. FRAZIER moved to strike out the session
of Friday evening. On this the ayes and noes
were called, and were—ayes 20. noes 69.
Mr. BRODHEAD moved that the further
consideration of the resolutions be postponed ;
for the present. On this the ayes and Ave;
were called, and were—ayes2o, noes 60.
Mr. BYRNE moved to postpone the consid
eration of the resolutions indefinitely. On thin
the ayes and noes were required, and were ad
follows—ayes 17, noes 68.
Wr. WILLIAMS offered an amendment pro
viding that the consideration of Mile upon the
Private Calendar only, should constitute the
business of the special sessional
Mr. SMITH (Berko) moved to amend the
amendment by striking out "Private," and in
serting "Public" Calendar.
On this the ayes and noes were called, and
it was agreed to by a vote of 69 ayes to 21
noes.
The question then recurring on the amend,
meat as amended, the ayes and. SON were
called, and it was agreed to by a vote of 69
ayes to 18 goes.
Mr. ELLIOTT moved that the House do no*
adjourn. On this the ayes and noes were
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING,
SENATE.
THUBBDAT, Feb. 14, 1861.
BILLS IN PLACE
ORIGINAL RESOLUTION.
PETITIONS, &O
BILLS CONSIDEBAD
ORIGINAL RESOLUTIONS.