RATES OF ADVERTISING.
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inser ti on, I !, merc hantsand others sAvertiaing - bytheyear
htery- Tbe ilte, se
nura will be offered. .
fr berofinsertione must he designated on the
trestileuien t.
f p,. m„ rr iages and Deaths will be inserted st thcsanne
ease regales advertisements. . .
Books, Matiotterp,
SCHOOL BOOKS.—School Directors ;
Teachers Parents, Scholars, and others in want of
Schoollkaks, '
S c hool Stationery, dati., will finda complete
s seortepent at B. M . POLLOCK & SOWS BOOK STORE,
Starke% Square, Harrisburg, comprising in part the follow-
U lan
11111.—NeGuffey's, Parker's, Cobb's, Angell's
SPELLING BOONS.--McGulfers, Cobb's, Webster's,
Town's,Byerles. Combres.
ENGLISH GRAMMA RFl,Pullien's, Smith's, Wood
lienteitke, Tuthill's, Hart's, WeßO_
STOBINS.--Grizoshaw's, Davenport's Frost's, Wil
son's, Willard's, Goodrich's, Pinnock's, doldsmith's and
(nark's. •
AILITIIKETICIEL—GmenIearfi, Stoddard's, Nmersonls i
Pike's, Bose's, Colbant's, Smith and Duke's, Davie's.
judißßßAB,_—ereenleaf's, Davie's, Dars, Bay's,
's.
BrlidiVTlONAßYS.—Walker's School, Cobb's, Walker,
Worcester's Comprehensive, Worcester's Primary, Web
ster's Primary, Webster's ugh liotroMl, Webster ' s Quarto,
Acadenue.
NATURAL PRILOSOPHIRS.—Cionistoek T s, Parker's,
Rein's. The above with a great variety of others can at
goy time to found at my store. Also, a complete assort
ment of School Stationery, embritelng in the win le a com
plete outfit for school purposes. Any book not in the store.
procured one days notice.
fp" Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates.
ALNANACA.--lobn Baer and Son's Almanac for sale ai
B. M. POLLOCK de SOWS BOON STUN, garrisbnrc.
Kr Wholesale and Retail. myl
JUST RECEIVED
AT
SCREFFER'S BOOKSTORE,
ADAMANTINE SL.,ITES
ON 'AUTO= SIZES ANB PENES,
Which, for beauty and nee, cannot be excelled,
• ' REMEMBER THE rams,
IT.c.FTEFFE'R'S .13001ISTOR.E,
NO. 1 MARKET STREET. mart
NEW BOOKS!
JUT ItBOEIVRD
"SEAL AND SAY," by the author of "Wide, Wide
World," ‘‘ Dollars and Cents," &o.
"HISTORY OR ALETTIODISM,"byA. Stevens, LL.D.
for gale at 80-IlEfirar BOOKSTORE,
ap p No. 18 Mark," at.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LARGE AND-BiIIaNDID ASSORTMENT Olt
RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER BLINDS,
Of various Designs and Colors, for S cents,
TISSUE PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER,
At inty24) . SCHEFFER'S BOOKSTORE.
WALL PAPER ! WALL PAPER I 1
suet received, oar Spring Stock of WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, NMI SCREENS, &c., &e. Itis the largest
and best selected assortment inthe city, ranging in price
from six (6) Onto np to one dollar and aquarter ($1.25.)
As we purchase very low for cash, we are prepared to
sell at as low rates, if not lower, than can be had else
where. If purchasers will call and examine, we feel
confident that we can please them in respect to price
sad quality, B. Id POLLOCK 4c SON,
spa Below Zones' Mouse, Market livare.
LETTER, CAP, .NOTE PAPERS,
Pens, Holders, Pencils, Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of
the bast quality, lit iqw prices ? direct from the manu
factories, at
mar3o WHETTER'S CHEAP BOOKSTORE
TAW BOOKS I LAW BOOKS ! I-A
JJ general assortment of LAW BOOKS, all tho State
Reports and Standard Elementary Worka, with many of
the old English Reports, scarce and rare, together with
a large assortment of second-hand Law Books, at very
/ow prices, at the one price _Bookstore of
M. M. POLLINIK & BON )
mpg Market Square, Harriaburg.
,/,'Uisallaiteono.
AN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILL LINEN PAPER
PANS! BANG!! FANS!!!
ANOTHER AND SYLBEDIS LOT OP
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
Trout Plies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk
and Flair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of
R/lIILING TACKLE!
A GREAT VARIETY Or
WALKING CANES!
Willa we will sell as gimp OH the cheapest!
ver
Sil Head Load Sword kory Fancy
Canes! Canes ed !
Canes! Ca ns! Canes!
KZ L. LE WS DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
so. Al minium messy,
South aide, one door east of Fourth street je9.
B J. HARRIS,
WORKER IN TIN,
SHEET IRON, AND
METALLIC ROOFING},
! Second Street, below Ateeinut,
HARR MSC' 80, '4,
Is papered to fill orders for any article in his branch of
business and if not on hand, he will make to order on
short notice.
METALLIC ROOFING - , of Tin or Galvanized Iron,
eonstantly on bawl.
Also, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, Spouting, are.
He hopes, by strict attention to the wants of his auto.
mere, to merit and receive a generous share of public pat.
pump.
flvery presidia etrietly fulfilled.
B. I. HARM,
jon7-41y] Second Street, below Chestnut.
F " 11 FISH!!!
MACKEREL, (Nos. 1, 2 and 3.)
SALMON, (very superior.)
WAD, (Mess and very fuse.)
HERRING, (extra large.)
COD FISH.
SMOKED HERMNG - , (82.tte. Dishy.)
SCOTCH HERRING.
SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES.
Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter
$Dd eighth Ws. Herring in whole and half We.
The entire let new—inasOf Peen sue runtasni2, and
will sell them at the lowest market rates.
sepl4
oIIit.MPAGNE WINESI
DUO DE MONTEBELLO,
HEIDSIECK & CO.
CHARLES HEIbSIECK,
GIEMER & CO.,
ANCHOR--BILLEBT MOVSSEUX,
SPARKLING MUSCATEL,
MUMM &
YERZENAT,
CABINET.
In store and for sale by
JOHN H. ZIEGLER,
73 Market street,
deZI
HICKORY WOOD 1-A SUPERIOR LOT
just received, and for sale in quantities to suit pur
chasers, by JAMES M. WHEELER.
Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand at the
lowest prices. dce6
FAMILY BIBLES, from I.s to $lO,
'strong and handsomely bound, printed on good paper,
with elegant clear new typo, sold at
mobil SOLIEFF REVS Cheap Book-t-me.
ANBERRIES 1 I-A SPLENDID LOT
(1R
•-; just received by
oetlo
FOR a superior and cheap TABILE or
SALAD OIL go to
KELLER'S DRUG STORE.
TEE Fruit GTQWerS 1
WARRING and retaU at
Handbook—by
nieUl 801111FIPERIS Bookstore.
SPERM CANDLES. —A large supply
wJ jwit remised by
vieple WM. COOS, 75., do CO.
VELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
ja i to had the bast entertmont of Porte Monnaioe.
WM. DOCK, Ja., & CO
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T o THE PUBLIC!
JOHN TILL'S
- COAL Y A IL D,
SOUTU SECOND STREET,
BELOW PRATT'S ROLLING MILL,
. HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where he has constantly on hand
MIENS VALLEY BROKEN, EGG, STOVE AND
NUT COAL.
WILKESBARRE STEAMBOAT, BROKEN, STOVE
AND NUT COAL,
ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY.
It will be delivered to consumers clean, and full
weight warranted.
Ur CONSUMERS (JIVE ME A CALL FOR YOUR
WINTER SUPPLY.
11:7" Orders left at my house, in Walnut street, near
Fifth; or at Brubskei's, North street; J. L. Speel's,
Market Square; Wm. Bostick's, corner of &wand and
South streets, and John Lingle's, Second and Mulberry
streets, will receive prompt attention.
jy3.3.4idm JOHN TILL.
COAL! 0:0ALII
ONLY YARD IN TOWN_THAT DELIVERS
COAL BY TSB -
PATENT WEIGH CA.RTSI
NOW IS THE rzzius
Tor every family to get in their supply of Coal for the
winter—weighed at their door by the Patent Weigh.
Carts. The swamp of these Carts no one disputes, and
they never get out of order, as is frequently the case of
the Platform Scales; besides, the consumer has , the
satisfaction of proving the weight of hie COal at his
own house.
I have a large supply of Coal on hand, co•n:;;;', 4 ng of
B. M. C 0,13 LYIEBNI3 VALLEY COAI , all sizes.
!AMENS VALLEY do at a a
WILKE/MABEE do. • I '
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
eer load, Ilea% half or third of tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WIINELEIt.
Harrisburg, September 24, 1860.—5ep25
P T 0 W NI
PATENT WEIGH CARTS.
For the convenience of my numerous up town custom
ers, I have established, in connection wtthmy old yard,
a Branah Coal Yard opposite North street, in a line with
the Pennsylvania canal, having the office formerly neat
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 anyu Ave.
FIVE THOUSAND TONS COAL ON HAND,
Of LYKENS VALLEY and WILHESBARRE, all sizes.
11:7"
Witting to maintain fair prices, but unwilling
to be undhrsold by any parties,
icr All Coal forked up and delivered Olean and free
from all impniitiee, and_the icest article mined- ---,-
Orders received at either Yard will be promptly filled,
rid all Coal delivered by the Patent Weigh Carts. .
Coal sold by Beaty Oaf lead, single, half or third of
tons, and by the bushel.
JAMES M. WHEELER.
Harrisburg, October 13, 1860.—0ct15
T YKENS VALLEY NUT COAL-
For Sale AT TWO DOLLARS PER TON.
1.17" All Coal dolivered by PATENT WEIG.H . CAR TS
JAMES M. WHEELER
Coaldelivered from both yards. nol7
1t ical.
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HELMBOLD'S liNLIViItOLTYS
HELMBOLD'S HELMBOLD'S
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Extract Bache, Extract Rachn,
Extract Ilactin, Extract Rueter,
Extract Bacilli, Extract Bach%
Extract Daehtt i Extract Raclin,
Extract Duct=, Extract Roam,
Extract Busies; Extract Backe -
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FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
105 SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
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FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS,
FOR SECRET AND DELICATE DISORDERS.
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A Pealtive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Remedy.
A Positive and Specific Rein'edy.
A PcaltiVe and Specific Remedy.
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BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, QR4VEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRA VEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY'
BLADDER, GRAVEL, KIDNEYS, DROPSY,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WE AKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
ORGANIC WEAKNESS, •
And 44 Diseases of Scalene Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
And all Diseases of Sexual Organs,
ARISING FROM
Excesses, Exposures, and Impradenctes in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, bud Imprudencies in Life.
Excesses, Exposures, and Imprudencies in Life.
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BULB OE FEMALE
Females, take no more Pills They are of no avail for
Complakto incident to the Bea. Use
=TRACT 81701117.
FialmboliPs Extract Machu is a Medicine which is per
fectly pleasant in its
TASTE AND ODOR,
But immediate in its action, giving Stealth and Vigor to
the Frame, Bloom to the Pallid Cheek, told restoring the
patient to a perfect state of
HEALTH AND PURITY.
lielmbo Extract Bruhn M prapared according to
rhatTe.b.C.,7 andphemiatstondja preoerilx4aoa used py
TAE MOST RMMENTPHYSICIANS,
Delay no longer. Procure the remedy at once
Price $1 per bottle, or six for $5.
Depot 1.04 South Tenth street, Philadelphia.
weeen.,—
BEWARE OF UNPRINCIPLED DEALERiI
Trying to palm off their own or other artiolea of B1701:113
on the reputation attained by
RELMIIOLD'S .EXTRACT BUCIII7,
The Original and only Genuine.
We denim to run on the
MERIT OP OUR ARTICLE !
Thaws is worthless —is sold at much lees rates and corn
missiona, consequently paying a mach better profit.
WS DEFY 0011PSTITION:
Ask for
HELMBOLIVE EXTRACT BUCHII.
Take no other.
Bold by JOHN WYETH, Druggist, corner of Market and
Second otreets, rfarrisborg,
AND ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
nol4 dkw3m.
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WOODSWORTH & BITNNEL , B
SUPERIOR FLAVORING EXTRACTS
or
SITTER ALMOND,
NECTARINE,
PINE APPLE,
ETRAWRERY,
ROBE
LEMON AID
VANILLA,
.Tuat, received and for ode by
ion WM. DOCK, Ja., &
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1861.
C4t Vatriot (ibion
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 16,1861.
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
WHAT.ARE WE COMING TO
From the Journal of Commerce
The telegraph informs us that six °Pour
sister States have not only withdrawn from the
Union, but founded a 'new confederated gov
ernment—that, without any of the throes usu
ally attending the parturtition of empitos, 11•
nation has been born I A nation in.ainor ;
and over whose infant head are, extended the
shields of nine States more !
Six States have left us 1 A thousand =flee
of our sea coast gone!.One hundred and fifty'
millions of annual exports lost to the Union ;-
and our means of paying 'for imports dimin-;
ished one half I One half of our foreign trade
and commerce gone forever I—for the loss of
one half of our means of payment, necessarily
includes this. And, darkly looming in the.
future of the nett Bitty days, is the almost.:
certain withdrawal of the other nine slave
States, unless such concessions shall be made
to them as they require.
The United - States are now in debt to the
amount of about sixty-five millions of dollars,.
independent of a floating debt of balances,
now due, to an amount exceeding all the money
in the treasury ; all of which has been created
during a period of peace, and while the country
has enjoyed unexampled prosperity. In &Mi.
lion to that a loan of twenty-five million is
now authorized ; and the passage of the Pacific
railroad bill will create an obligation against
the Government to the amount of one hundred
millions more. The estimates for the coming
year exceed- seventy millions, and the expen- .
ditures will dciubtless amount AG eighty mil
lions, even if we have peace . ; and, in case we
shall be so insane as to make war upon the'
South, much more than that.
And what are our resources ? No revenue
will be derived from sales of public lands—the
Homestead bill will prevent that. Nothing
will be left, then, but the duties upon imports.
Those imports, even if there is no change in
Tariff, must be greatly reduced in amount, and
still more , if the proposed bill now before Cori
gross shall be pasded. In neither ease can the
revenue from customs exceed fifty millions of
dollars; and it is quite probable it will not'
reach forty. This will leave a deficiency of
from twenty to forty millions of dollars—and
that, too, upon the supposition that we are to
remain at peace with all the world ; that no
steps are to be taken to coerce the Southern
seceding States into submission; and that no
more Southern States shall withdraw from
their Union with the North.
Still, supposing that peace is to be main
tained, and that the present position of all the
States is to be continued, bow is that deficiency
to be made good in future years ? Will the
people submit to direct taxation to supply it ?
Unless they do new loans must be made to
meet it; and those loans will grow larger from
year in year: We' have -no - other.---e-eali
--aft,-4.-zie - ututticE - bir - fire - reitSid; un
der any circumstances, without hazarding the
trade of the North Western States, and ever
our Union with them. Per, it is doubtless the
purpose, as it certainly is the true policy, of
the Southern Confederation, to open their ports
to imports for all nations, free of duties, and
to support their government by duties upon ex
ports, to be paid by the consumers of their
cotton, rice, tobacco and naval stores. This
will enable the merchants and importers who
will establish themselves there for that purpose,
to -furnish the North-West with goods, both
such as are manufactured in the Eastern States,
and as are now imported, at efich wiles, when
compared with their purchases in North-East
ern cities, as will render it necessary for the
North=Western States to insist upon free trade
in imports, or, failing in that, to withdraw
from the Northern Union. Certainly there can
be no expectation that the North-West will
consent to an increase of duties in the case
supposed. They already pay for the support
of a general government some twenty millions
of dollars annually ; and in profits upon duties
and in the enhanced cost of Eastern titan
factures which are protected by the tariff, at
least twenty millions more. Not only, there
for% cannot the deficiency be made up b). an
increase of duties on imports, but no prulent
banker can fail to see that it is by no mians
certain that the present or any tariff of deties
upon imports can be sustained.
What next? Can the deficiency be supplied
from direct taxation ? It is absurd to suppose
it. It would increase the taxes of our people
at least four fold. Where, then, shall ws turn
for means to meet the deficiency, even in peace,
and under the most favorable circumstaices ?
We have no other resource.
But., more than this. Let us suppost that
the significant questions put by Mr. Lhcoln
at Indianapolis, recently, may be takes as a
declaration of the intention of the goverment
of which he is to be the head, "to hold did re
take its own forts and other property, and , collect
the duties on foreign importations ;"—or, other
words, that it is to be taken as a declaration of
war, not only against the seceding Stais, but
all the others who have, by legislative'mact
ments, solemnly expressed their determuation
to resist, by force of arms, any attempt it coer
cion:—bow will the account stand Oen ?
What will be the expenditures of the remain
ing States, in a war in which eight aillions
will be united as one Inn; against aiiivided
North ?
The first attempt on the part of the i*oming
Administration to enforce the collectia of du
ties, or to retake the forte of which thipeople
of the South have obtained the pod:mien,
will be followed by the immediate wittdrawal
of all the slaveholding States from tht'North
ern Union, and their conneetion Iftlt the
Southern Confederacy. Two hundredmillions
of annual exports will by that movMent, be
lost to the North, and, with them tl¢ means
of paying for more than two-thirds c; our im
ports. The privateers of the Southitoo, will
1
swarm in every sea. Where will our im
ports, then; and what the amount duties ?
And what will be the annual expo itures of
the Northern Union in such a war? I
NORTHERN WRONGS AND SOUTHER WRONGS
CONTRASTED.
From the N. Y. Journal of Commie°.
1
During the recent Presidential(' test, there
was a great deal of elimination an ecrimina
tion between the two sections of ou en united
and common country. Each clai that the
other had done it, was doing it, an as going
to do it great wrong. During th Contest, I
would meet now and then with a publican,
brimfull of wrath at the outrages o milted by
the South against the North, at evidently
bent upon redressing some great ngs which
he seemed fully convinced that t South had
done the North. And I would e to him—
"My friend, when you say the No has been
wronged by the South, what do yp mean by
'the North R' Don't you mean theleopie of the
North?" “Certainly," he would rily. "Well,
then," said L "you ate One of the ople of the
North. Now tell me what wro you have
Buffered at the hands of the Sou Has the
South interfered in any way with your domes
tic peace, tranquility or happiness? Has the
South done anything to impair the security of
your life or the lives of your wives and fam
ilies Has the South done anything to dimin
ish the value of your property 4 Has not the
South, on the contrary, contributed in a great
degree to its steady increase in value ?" • "I
have not any individual wrongs, perhaps, to
complain of," my Republican friend would be
obliged to confess; and yet he would hold as
firmly as ever to the vague idea he had so long
fostered, that the Smith had ElOweliow or other
outrageously wronged the North, and that the
wrongs must be avenged. And from this Re
publican I would pass on to another, and an
6theitosith Substantially the mane little dialogue
lhave given above. Every one was, very in
dignant at the thought of the "great wrongs"
done to the North by the South;. and yet, not
one of them , but was obliged to confess that so
far as he was concerned, he did not 'know that
he could allege any particular wrongs that
affected him, directly and individually; while
the very digging for them was sure to bring up
to view some . direct and individual • benefit
derived from our Union with the South:
"How strange is this!" I would think to
myself: The North is abominably wronged
by- the South, and this same "North" is made
up of individuals, not one of whom has been -
WrOnged at all by the South, and most of whom
must own that they have been decidedly bene
fitted by its immense contributions to the ma
teral wealth and prosperity of the North !
Republican reader, I address you, as a com
ponent part of the North. Pli3atie answer as
an individual, wherein had the South wronged
you when you gave your vote against her last
November?
But let us now turn to the South, and put
.the same questions to Southern men. "How,
sir, has the North wronged you? Has the North
interfered in any way with your domestic peace,
'tranquility or ,happiness ?' And- he answers,
truthfully, "It has." Has the North . done
,anything to impair the security of your life or
the lives of your wives and families? And he
answers, truthfully, "It has ; much, very
much." Has the North done anything to
diminish the value of your proyerty ? And he
answers, truthfully, "The North encourages
those who rob us of our property. Some of
mine has been stolen, and the North will not
give it back; and by iee acts of bad faith it has
materially diminished the value of what 'remains
to me.
When the Southern man speaks of the wrongs
done the. South by the North, he is ready to
put his finger upon the direct wrongs the
North has done him; as an individual. When
the Northern sectionalist speaks of the wronge
of the South against the North, he speaks in
general terms about what he seems to know
-nothing personally and practically. In the
former ease, the "wrongs" complained of are
real ; in the latter, they are chiefly if not en
tirely ficticious, and invented by politicians to
subserve their purpose of sectional agitation,
and to set the North against the South. And
the North, thus goaded on by a sense of sup
posed wrongs having no real existence, has
been led on to give its endorsement to such an
extreme and aggressive sectionalism as by its
- Wriptis - 17reCW"fratiriciy. stireeiitsiblay
destroyed the happy union between the two
sections. What need was there of raising sec-
Uvula issues at Chicago—most dangerous
sectional issues, and making the. Presidential
contest (what it never was before) a purely sec
tional contest,—a fight between the North and
the South? What need was there for this?—
None whatever. The thing was done by selfish
scheming politicians, for mere party ends, and
was a wicked and most heinous deed. Out of
it flow all our present troubles.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
The telegraph has announced that the com
mittee of one from each State, appointed by
the Peace Conference to report a plan of ad
justment of our unfortunate national troubles,
had, after a protracted session, lasting up
nearly to 12 o'clock on Wednesday night,
adopted, by a decisive vote, the main features
of the plan introduced by the Hon. James
Guthrie, of Kentucky.
This plan enbraces the principal features of
the Crittenden resolutions. It has, however,
been amended in some particulars by the com
mittee, and requires a vote of three-fourths of
all the Senators for the future acquisition of
territory. Whether the report of the commit
tee will be adopted by the conference, and, if
adopted by them, whether it can receive the
sanction of both branches of Congress, are
questions yet to be determined.
The following is the plan as originally sub
mitted by Mr. Guthrie:
Art. 1. That all Territory of the United States
shall be divided by a line from east to west, on
the parallel of 36 degrees 30 minutes north
latitude ; and in all Territory north of that line
involuntary servitude,_ except in punishment
of crime, is prohibited whilst it shall belong
to the United States or be under a Territorial
Government; and in all territory south of said
line involuntary servitude is recognized, 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
ernment shall have power to hinder or prevent
emigrants to said Territory from taking with
them persons held to labor or involuntary
service, according to the laws and usages of the
State from which such persons may be taken,
nor to impair the right 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 pi otected by the courts and all the de
partments of the Territorial Government, under
or according to the laws of the State from which
the person bound to such service may have
been taken; and when any Territory north or
south of said line, within such boundary as
Congress may prescribe, shall contain a popu
lation required for a member of Congress,
according to the then federal ratio of represen
tation 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 States, with or without invol
untary 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
currence of a majority of the Senators of the
States north of Mason and Dixon's line, and
also a majority of the Senators south , of said
line ; but no treaty by which Territory shall be
acquired shall be ratified without the two
thirds vote of the Senators, as required by the
Constitution.
Art, 3. 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 persona bound to
labor or involuntary service therein, nor to in
terfere 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 consent,
previously., full compensation ; nor the power
to interfere with or abolish involuntary service
in places' under the exclusive jurisdiction of
the United States within those States and Ter
ritories where the same is established or Teem
nized ; nor the power to prohibit the removal,
or transportation of persons held to labor or
involuntary service in any State or Territory
of the United States, to any other State or
Territory thereof, where it is established or
recognized; nor to authorize a specific tax or
any higher rate of taxes on persons bound to
labor, than on land in proportion to value ; nor
to'authcirize any of the African race or their
`deseendants 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 Stateor 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 previgiene of this
article.
Art. 6. That the first, second, third and fifth
articles of these amendments, and the third
paragraph of the mond notion of the first
article 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.
LINCOLN AND HIS WAYSIDE unman.
From the reports of Mr. Lincoln's wayside
speeches, which reach us per telegraph, we
begin to wonder, with little prospect of relief,
what manner of man he is. It is not possible
to realize ouch a man as the President elect of
.a great nation ; and much-less the executive to,
whose hands is about to be confided that great
nation in the very throes of dissolution. He
approaches the capital of the country more in
the character of a harlequin, dealing with the
great issues which agitate and agonize the
minds of thoughtful and rational men as if
they were only the absurdities of a pantomime
Which would all be ' to rights" by a touch
of his magic wand. There is that about his
speechification which, if it were not for the
gravity , of the occasion, would be ludicrous to
the destruction of buttons. Indeed, we heard
his Columbus speech read yesterday amidst ir
resistible bursts of laughter. And it was sug
gested, in the language of Dr. Holmes, that Mr.
Lincoln is a man who never ought to be as funny
as he can. We begin to realize his qualifications
as a bar-room " Phunny-Phellow."
"Imagine this President elect with his face at
half-mask, going through the harlequinade of
the occasion, and telling the people of Colum
bus that there " has fallen upon him a task
such as did not rest upon the Father of his
COuntry," and iu the next breath lightly as
serting that "it is a good thing there is no more
than anxiety, for there is nothing going wrong."
t 1 --Lat-,- of the sentiment is only equalled
by its apparent wilful self-stultification.
Again he says : "It is a consoling circum
stance that when we look out there is nothing
that really hurts anyboby. We entertain dif.
ferent views upon political questions, but nobody
is su f fering anything 1"
We have always imagined the anecdote of
the old fishwoman skinning eels was a table,
and that professional apathy could never have
attained to the belief that it didn't hurt them
because they were need to it. But the thing
now wears quite a respectable air of proba
bility. Surely the telegraph must have been
playing sad pranks with the oratory of the
President elect.—Baltimore Sun,
IMPORTANT FROM FORT PICKENS-THREAT
ENED ATTACK BY TWELVE HUNDRED MEN.
Lieut. Gilman, 934 of the officers in com
mand of Fort Pickens, arrived at Washington
on Wednesday evening with dispatches from
Lieut. Slemmer and the commander of vessels
off Pensacola to the government. He left Pen
sacola on Saturday evening, having received a
passport from Major Chase, who is in command
of the Florida troops. He says the following
vessels are off the harbor The Brooklyn, Sit.
bine, St. Louis, Macedonian and the Wyan
dotte. The Brooklyn did not land her sup
plies for Fort Pickens, Lieut. Slemmer having
notified them that he had ample supplies for
three months.
There are twelve hundred troops at Pensacola,
and they are threatening every .hour to make
an attack on Fort Pickens, It is all that Maj.
Chase and others in command can do to restrain
then),
Lieut. Gilman says he would not be surptieed
if an attack was made at any moment, and it
is very probable, owing to the limited number in
the fort, that they would take it before the
Brooklyn could throw her troops into the fort,
If they take it at all, he says, they can take it
in thirty or forty minutes ; but there will be
fearful loss of life even at that. The health
of the officers and men on board of the vessels
is good. Lieuts. Gilman and Slemmer are the
only officers who are now in command of Fort
Pickens.
THE VIRGINIA STATE CONVENTION
This important body, which assembled at
Richmond on Wednesday, was called to order
by It. E. Scott, Esq., of Fauquier, who nomi
nated James 11. Cos, Esq., of Chesterfield, for
temporary chairman. Mr. Cox, on taking the
chair, reminded the convention that they held
in their hands the destinies of this great nation;
upon their action, he belived, depended the
salvation of the republic.
Of the 152 members of which the convention
is composed, about 130 were found to be pre
sent. Ex-President Tyler and Es-Gov. Wise
were not present, the former being detained in
Washington, and the latter at home on account
of sickness in his family. It is stated that a
finer looking body of men have never assem
bled in Virginia. It contains many of the
brightest intellects in the State —men who have
occupied prominent positions and filled im
portant posts in both the State and national
councils. There are, comparatively, but few
, young men in the convention, the people '
gen
erally having selected experience with ability.
John Janney, Esq., of Loudoun, an old-lino
Whig, was elected permanent president over V.
W. Southall, Esq., of Albemarle, by.lo majority,
and John L. Eubank, of Richmond city, per
manent secretary. The Richmond Whig says
that Mr. Janney is distinguished for his ability
and conservatism, " but at the same time ready
to insist upon our equal rights in the Union at
all hazaras and to the last extremity." Mr.
Janney, in his speech on taking the chair,
after referring to the circumstances under
which the national Constitution was ratified
seventy-three years ago, said:
"The responsibility resting upon us is tremen
dous. It cannot be that a Government thus
founded can now be permitted to fail without
reproach to the wisdom of its founders, as well
as our • own patriotism and intelligence. The
old flag of the Union which has triumphantly
waved for nearly a century, in battle and in
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110ribenrelliding in the Borough tor six °RIM PBR W=EN
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Tux WESZLIC will be published as heretofore, semi
weekly during the cession of the Legielature, and once 4
week the remainder of the year, for two dollars in *d
unce, or chrct dollars at the expirationof the year.
Connected with this eatablidliment is 64 Eatetidlfil
JOB OFFIOB, containing a variety of plain and tiny
type, unequalled by any estsblishment in the interior of
the State ; for which the patronage of The public 10 so
licited.
NO. 142.
peace, now floats above this capitol with one
star which represents this ancient Common
wealth. God grant that it may remain there
forever. But I know I speak the sentiment of
every member of this body, when I say that it
must remain with its original lustre, undimmed
and untarnished. (Applause.)
"We shall demand full and equal rights with
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and noth
ing more. We would scorn to ask more than
would be conceded to the little States of. Dela
ware and Rhode Island. Rhode Island! . God
bless her ! A little State, but with a heart big
enough for all. She was the first to repeal her
personal liberty laws, and it is hoped that the
others will follow her example.
"I repeat that the responsibility resting upon
this body is awful. I consented to be a candi
date for a seat here with fear and trembling.—
The people will revise our action, and I trust
that our measures will be broug ht to such $
conclusion as that some of our sisters of the
South, who, from what they believe to be just
causes, have wandered from their orbit, may
be brought back to this their old sister. I hope
that even Massachusetts will remember the
land whence Washington came to struggle for
her liberties, and, awakened by our example,
expunge from her statute book that which her
wisest and best men say is a disgrace to it."
THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY AWAITING MR:
LINCOLN'S COURSE—OPPOSITION TO THE NEW
CONSTITIFTION4
A correspondent of the Savannah News, - whe
is attending the "Southern Congress," at Mont
gomery, writes as follows as to the probable
policy of the New Southern Confederacy
"From what I can gather, it will be the
uolicy of the new Government to preserve the
- status quo of affairs until the 4th of Marsh, wfien
the inauguration of Lincoln will enable him
to indicate the course his administration will
pursue towards the Southern Confederaey..—
The hope is not yet entirely relinquished that
more rational councils may prevail at Washing
ton, and that, "making a virtue of necessity,"
the Black Republicans will abandon their idea
of coercion, and by a peaceful and conciliatory
polio.) , endeavor to preserve all that their fa
natical folly has not entirely lost to them—
commercial relations with the South. It ill
probable that one of the first acts. of the new
Government will be to send a commission to
Washington to treat for a peaceable and.equi
table arrangement of matters between the two
republics—the acknowledgment of our
.inde
pendence, the surrender of the forts, a fair di
vitien 9f the public property and of the public
debt.
"Until we learn how our commisioners will
be received, and whether the Federal Govern
ment le willing to treat for the peaceable and
equitable adjustment of these matters, it would
be unwise for us to take any steps that would
be likely to precipitate hostilities. We should
prepare for the worst while we hope for the
best. As the moral sense of a very large portion
of the North is en our side, we should do nothing
rashly to forfeit our just claim to the fair judg
meat of that portion of our late confederates
who are bin meless•for the causes which led to
the disruption of the Union, and forced the
South to assume her present attitude towards
the Federal Government, now in the hands of
the Black Republicans. The cause of the South
stands justified before the world ; prudence and
forbearance will give her still higher claims to
the respect and good will of all true men. /set
us exhaust every honorable means for a peace
able settlement of the terms of our political
separation with the free States—it will be time
eneugh then to resort to the argument of arms,
when God defend the right."
The Charleston Mercury takes ground against
the constitution adopted by the Southern Cour
federacy. It states its objections as follows:
"We regret that any provisional government
was formed at all, and in one or two ilnportant
particulars confess to disappointment and sur
prise at the government and laws enacted. It
seems that the United States protective tariff
of '57 has beta adopted, and that a positive
condemnation of the institution of slavery,
through the slave trade, has been inserted into
the constitution itself. Neither of these did we
expect. We did not suppose that any Southern
government, whether for a month or a year,
would sanction the policy of protective tariffs.
The tariff of '57 as odious and oppressive in its
discriminations. It was made to favor Northern
enterprise at the expense of the people of the
South—a huge free list fok them—the burden
of taxation for us to bear, and we maintain is
adverse to revenue, unjust in principle an op-
pressive in practice. Whether this is brought
about by a partial remission of duties or a par
tial imposition, it is still the same in effect.—
We enter our protest against the scheme and
policy, both as regards ourselves and in the
results so far as foreign nations are concerned,
and their friendship, at this time, valuable to
us. In each respect free trade is the title pol
icy of the Confederate States.
" We deem it also unfortunate and zwifil up-e
-pos that the stigma of illegititnary and illegality
should be placed upon the institution of slavery
by a fundamental law against the slave trade.
in our opinion it is a matter of policy, and not
of principle, to be decided now and hereafter,
from sound views of the necessities and safety
of our peoples. We think it a proper subject
of legislation. We are willing to prohibit it by
legal enactment, like any other topic of legis
lation. But while England imports her thou
sands of Coolie slaves, and France hers, under
the farcical appellation of ofapprentices"--
while they are striving by these means to com
pete with us and supersede us in producing the
tropical productions of slave labor—while we
have within our reach a large scope of fertile
territory uncultivated in Texas, and may have,
ere long, the silver mines of Arizona and the
teeming States of Mexico to populate and re
duce to agricultural productiveness —it 5001155
to us short-sighted, weak and sentimental to
preclude forever, by fundamental enactment,
the adoption of a policy that may become es
sential to our appropriate growth and tartan.,
sion, and to our successful competition with
the hypocritical notions of Europe.
66 But the Constitution as adopted, is only
provisional and temporary, and may, therefore,
be excusable on that account. We hope the
permanent government will be made - and es
tablished speedily, and without reference to
anything going on outside of the confederate
States. These have complete success within
their grasp if they will only act fearleeily and
with the confidence of men who are compe
tent to control their destinies. Too great a
deference and delay for the border States still
in the Union will only encourage their dilato
riness and prolong their stay. Let the con.
federate States but perform their duty, and
their whole duty, to themselves, irrespective of
the others, and we will answer for. the result
in a anal confederacy of all the slav_e ittion.lllA
James Edmunds, Esq., of New York, for years
identified with the American Bible Union, died,
in Louisville last Saturday.
- • •
The Southern papers are urging the farmerS
and planters to plant more grain and lass cotton
this year.
Rev. David H. Barron has hetiii elided Pro.;
fessor of Latin in Jefferson College; Cannonk
burg, Pa.