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The sudden flight of Mr. Lincoln from Har
risburg was a very remarkable commentary
upon the opinions expressed at Columbus that
there was "nothing the matter," "nothing giv
ing wrong," "nobody hurt." If nobody was
hurt, it is now very evident tbat semebody was
terribl • scared.
THE' action of General Twiggs, in surrender
ing the entire military property confided to him
by the Government of the United States to the
Southern Confederacy, is not only a breach of
trust disgraceful to him as a man, but is also
an act of treason against the Government
whose commission he held, -which deserves the
punishment due to such an offence.
WE are enabled to lay before our readers,
this morning, the speech of the Rev. Dr. NEVIN,
made at the Democratic Convention, which at
tracted so much attention at the time of its
delivery because of its remarkable ability end
the breadth and depth of the views expressed.
It loses nothing when transferred to paper, and
Will be eagerly read as an evidence of the opin
ions of one of the leading minds of the country
upon the causes of our National troubles.
The Boston Post remarks that it must be a
relief, not only to the political friends of the
President elect, but to the whole country, that
he is at length in Washington and in communi
cation with those persons whom he has selected
as his constitutional advisers, rendering more
speech-making at present unnecessary. The
ridiculous telegrams about assassination, &c.,
may not unreasonably be accounted for by sup
posing that something startling was necessary
in order to divert the public mind from Mr.
Lincoln's crude speeches.
Encouraging Signs.
The indications from Washington all favor
the idea that Mr. LINCOLN has determined to
cut loose from the radical Republicans, and to
throw the weight of his administration in the
Boale of compromise. The latest reports as to
the construction of the Cabinet all point in
this direction. Although Mr. Seward's speech
in the Senate was non-committal, it is under-
Stood that he favors compromise ; and for that
reason he has been assailed by the Tribune and
that clique. The efforts to displace him as
Secretary of State have failed. Mr. Bates, of
Missouri, as Attorney General, cannot be ex
treme in his views. Gen. Cameron, who took
the most open and bold stand in the Senate in
favor of some compromise which should arrest
the progress of secession and restore peace to
the country, is firmly established in the Secre
taryship of the Treasury, notwithstanding the
war made upon him by the Tribune, and the re
ported declarations of that paper, that he was
out. Joan A. GILMORE, of North Carolina, is
named as Secretary of the Navy, and he surely
would not have been invited to a place in the
Cabinet if the policy of the new administration
was not to be in harmony with the wishes of the
border States. We also have the well-founded
rumor that Mr. Lincoln, accompanied by Mr.
Seward and Gen. Cameron, called upon Ex-Pre
sident Tyler,Preeident of the Peace Conference,
andanured him that Mr. Lincoln's administra
tion would favor a settlenent upon the basis of
the Border State proposition. All these indica
tion' are cheering and auspicious of a speedy
termination of' our national difficulties, as well
as of the overthrow of the radical Republicans
under the lead of Greeley_ If Mr. Lincoln
turns his back upon this vile crew, and deter
mines to pursue a conservative policy, and ap
peals to the protection of the country for sup.
port, he will not be suffered to sink.
The N. Y. Tribune thus states the position of
the ultra Republicans:
Here is precisely our point of disagreement
with Mr. Seward. We are not willing to make
" every sacrifice" for the preservation of the
Union, because we value Liberty and Right more
than we do the Union.
This is precisely the language of the South
ern secessionists. They have gone out of the
- Union because they profess to value Liberty
and Right more than the Union. The Tribune
and its followers are for sticking to the Chicago
platform, "though a hundred 'Unions perish"
in the experiment; while Democrats and con
servative Republicans think that the Union and
th e - Vonstitution are werth a hundred plat
forms. The question is narrowed down to the
relative value of the Union and the Chicago
platform Those who think that the latter is
better worth preserving than the former, and
that the Chicago Convention was composed of
wiser men than the Convention that framed the
Constitution, are opposed to any and every com
promise or soneession to preserve the Union;
for the simple reason that. they have learned to
set a very low value upon the Union, and a
very high one upon the platform. But those
who think the Union is above all price indig
nantly kick the Chicago platform out of the
way when it is attempted to be set up as su
.perior to the Union. They are in favor * of ma
king every sacrifice for the Union, Which is
worth a thousand platforms.
The Liberty and Right, which the Tribune
,salnes above the Union, is the liberty to defame
and abuse every man who lives South of Ma
lta and Dixon's line, and the right to carry
this sort of war into the Southern States,
Where it may promote slave insurrections, and
place masters in hourly peril of their lives.—.
And for the unrestrained exercise of this
privilege of vituperation, the Tribune and its
followers are ready to sacrifice the Union with
all its glorious memories and rich blessings !
PENNA' LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
_ TOVIIDAY, Feb. 26, 1861.
The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock
by the SPgAKEIt. Prayer by the Rev. Ur.
Bishop.
PETITIONS, REMONSTRANCES, ibC.
The SPEAKER laid before the Senate a com
munication from the Secretary of the State,
accompanied by a table of the population of
the State by counties.
Also, a communication from the secretary of
Girard College, accompanied by the annual
statement.
Also, the annual statement of the Mount
Carbon coal company.
Also, a petition from citizens of East Bruns
wick township, Schuylkill county, for the re•
peal of a certain road law.
Also, from same, for a change in place of
holding their elections.
Mr. NICHOLS, a petition from citizens pray
ing for the passage of an act taking from the
supreme court the power of making certain
appointments.
Also, a remonstrance against the passage of
the Lombard and South Street passenger rail
way bill without the omnibus clause.
Messrs. SMITH, THOMPSON, GREGG,
HALL and others, petitions from various sec
tions praying for the passage of the law grant
ing compensation for fugitive slaves rescued by
violence.
A number of petitions for the passage of the
public building bi.l in Philadelphia were pre
sented. Also, remonstrances against the same.
Mr. CONNELL, four petitions from citizens
of Frankford praying for passage of a law to
use steam power on the Southwark passenger
railway above Berks street.
Mr. GREGG presented six petitions from
Lycoming county, praying for the passage of
the Sunbury and Erie railroad bill.
Petitions from Mercer and Huntingdon coun
ties were presented in favor o f the passage of
a stay law.
A number of petitions in favor of the passage
of the bill for the commutation of the tonnage
tax were presented.
Also, remonstrances against the same.
Mr. KETCHAM presented 25 remonstrances
against the formation of a new county to be
called Lackawanna.
BEPOBT OF COMMITTEE
Mr. BENSON, from the Committee on Fi
nance, reported the bill to change the name of
the Sunbury and Erie railroad, and facilitate
the completion of the same, as committed,
Mr. SMITH, from the same, reported the
bill for the commutation of the tonnage tax, as
committed. •
DILLS IN PLACE
Mr. WELSH, an act relating to the poor of
this Commonwealth.
Mr. SCHINDEL, an act to incorporate the
Fairview cemetery association of Kutztown,
Berks county.
Mr. THOMPSON, a supplement to the act
relative to banks.
Mr. HAMILTON, an act for the relief of
Ruth M'Coy, widow of a Revolutionary soldier.
Mr. BOUGHTER, an act to authorize ;be
commissioners of Lebanon county to pay $3OO
toward the erection of a bridge over Quitapa
hilla creek.
Also, an an act to change the place of hold
ing the elections in the Fifth ward of Harris
burg.
ORIGINAL RESOLUTION
Mr. SMITH offered a resolution that the
Senate hold a special session this afternoon and
evening, for the purpose of considering the
bill for the commutation of the tonnage tax,
and the bill changing the name of the Sunbury
and Erie railroad.
Mr. PENNEY moved to amend go as to have
an afternoon session only, and that for the
consideration of private bills ; which was not
agreed to.
Mr. WELSH moved to amend that the after
noon session should end at 5 o'clock, and the
evening session at 10; which was not agreed to.
Mr. IRISH moved that the consideration of
the bills be postponed until to-morrow; which
was not agreed to.
The question recurring on the original reso
lution, it was adopted—yeas 18, nays 13.
Mr. M'CLURE offered a resolution that a
select committee of seven be appointed to ap
portion the State into oongreasional dietriets ;
which was passed.
SECOND READING.
An act to incorporate the Allegheny oil
company came up on the orders; and after
some debate and amendments, pending which,
the Senate adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate met at 3 o'clock.
The Senate resolved itself into committee of
the whole, Mr. LAWRENCE in the chair, on
the bill for the commutation of the tonnage tax.
The first section was read. Mr. PENNEY
offered an amendment authorizing the Gov
ernor to re-impose the tax in certain emergen
cies; which was not agreed to.
The second section passed, after several
amendments, offered by Mr. PENNEY, were
voted down.
The third section was passed.
The fourth section, providing for giving aid
to certain railroad companies, was read.
Mr. WELSH offered an amendment that the
money due for tonnage be appropriated to the
Sinking Fund for the payment of the State
debt; which was not agreed to.
Mr. YARDLEY moved to amend so as to in
clude the Attleborough railroad. Not agreed
to.
Mr. PENNEY moved to amend so as to in
clude the Allegheny Valley railroad between
Kittanning and Brookville; which was not
agreed to.
Mr. ROBINSON moved to amend by including
the Pittsburg and Erie, and Union railroads;
Which was Pet agreed to.
The question recurring, the section was
adopted.
The fifth and last section was adopted.
Mr. PENNEY offered an additional section
that the Legislature shall reserve the right to
amend or alter the charter of the company;
which was not agreed to, and the bill passed
committee of the whole.
THE BUNBURY AND ERIE RAILROAD
The bill to change the name of the Sunbury
and Erie railroad company, and to facilitate its
completion, came up in order in committee of
the whole, Mr. SMITH in the chair, and passed
withnt amendment; whereupon the Senate
adjourned until 7 o'clock this evening.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, Feb. 26, 1861.
The House was called to order at 10 o'clock
a. m., by the SPEAKER, and was opened with
prayer.
On mollea of Mr. BALL, the governor was
requested to return to the House the bill rela
tive to the Commonwealth insurance company
of Harrisburg.
The House then took up the bills on the
Private Calander, and prepared a large number
for scowl reading.
BILLS PASSED
The following bills on the Private Calender
were taken up and passed finally :
A supplement to an act, to establish high and
low water lines in Monongahela, Allegheny and
Ohio rivers, in the vicinity of Pittsburg.
Supplement to the act to incorporate the
Marietta and Mount Joy turnpike road com
pany, approved the 2d day of April, 1860.
An act to incorporate the Maxatawney cem
in the county of Barks.
etery company,
Adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The following bills on the Private Calendar
were taken up and posed finally :
An act to incorporate the Sonora improve
ment company.
An act to incorporate the Olney library com
pany.
An act to establish a public ferry on the Alle
gheny river, at the village of Tidioute, in the
county of Warren.
An act to incorporate the - Rescue hook and
ladder company, of the Twenty-third ward, in
the city of Philadelphia
An act to establish a boundary line between
Westmoreland and Fayette counties, lying be
tween the Youghiogheny and Monongahela
rivers.
An act to incorporate the Towanda coal and
iron company.
An act regulating the fees of justices and con
stables of Cumberland county.
An act to change the place of holding the
elections in Perry township, Snyder bounty.
An act to change the place of residence of
Cyrus J. Anderson.
An act authorizing the executor of the will
of Jacob M. Root to sell certain real estate.
A further supplement to an act to incorporate
the city of Philadelphia.
An act relative to certain military companies
in the Washington county brigade.
An act to incorporate the Bethlehem railway
and mining company.
A further supplement to the act to incorporate
the West Philadelphia Passenger railway com
pany.
An act to decimalize the fee bill of the pro
thonotaries, excepting the counties of Alle
gheny, Lancaster and the city of Philadelphia.
An act to incorporate the Penn gas coal com
pany.
A supplement to an act, entitled " An act to
incorporate the Big Bleak Creek improvement
company," approved April 12, A. D. 1856.
Supplement to the act of incorporation of the
Harris free cemetery, approved February 16,
1857.
An act providing for the election of tax col
lectors in the county of Cumberland.
An act to change the venue in a eertain_ease
from Delaware county to Chester county.
An act relative to the administration of jus
tice in Lancaster county.
An act relating to dog tax in the township
of Thornbury, Delaware county.
An act to establish the place of holding elec
tions in the township of Springfield, in Greene
county.
An act revising the charter of the municipal
corporation of the city of Reading.
A supplement to an act, entitled "An act
erecting parte of Clinton, Elk, M'Kean and
Potter counties into a new county, to be called
Cameron, approved the 29th day of March, A.
D. 1860. Adjourned.
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
THE SECESSION OF TEXAS..DEOLARATION Or
CAUSES WHIOH IMPEL HER TO LEAVE THE
UNION
The Texas ordinance of secession was signed
on the night of the Ist inst., by all the mem
bers of the convention who voted for it, and by
the member from Williamson, Mr. Hughes,
who voted against it. The following « decla
ration of the causes which impel the State of
Texas to secede from the federal Union" was
adopted by the convention, by a unanimous
vote, on the 2d lust, and signed by the presi
dent and delegates. Ten thousand copie 3 were
ordered to be printed for distribution-6,000 in
English, 2,000 in German, and 2,000 in Span
ish :
The Government of the United States, by
certain joint resolutions, bearing date on the
first day of March, in the year A. D. 1845, pro
posed to the republic of Texas, then a free
sovereign and independent nation, the annexation
of the latter to the former, as one of the co
equal States thereof.
The people of Texas, by deputies in conven
tion assembled, on the fourth day of July of
the same year, assented to and accepted said
proposals, and formed a Constitution for the
proposed State, upon which, on the 29th day
of December, of thg same year, said State was
formally received into the confederated Union.
Texas abandoned her separate national exist
ence and consented to become one of the con
federated States to promote her welfare, insure
domestic tranquility and secure more substan
tially the blessings of liberty and peace to her
people. She was received into the confederacy,
with her own. Constitution, under the guaran
tees of the federal Constitution and the com
pact of annexation, that she should enjoy these
blessings. She was received as a common
wealth, holding, maintaining and protecting
the institution known as negro slavery—the
servitude of the African to the white race within
her limits—a relation that had existed from
the first settlement of her wilderness by the
white race, and which her people intended
should continue to exist in all future time. Her
institutions and geographical position estab
lished the strongest ties between her and the
other slaveholding States of the confederacy.
Those ties have been strengthened by the as
sociation. But what has been the course of the
Government of the United States, and of the
people and authorities of the non-slaveholding
States, since our connection with them ?
The controlling majority of the Federal
Government under various pretenses and dis
guises, has so administered the same as to
exclude the citizens of the Southern States,
unless under odious and unconstitutional re
strictions, from all the immense Territory owned
in common by all the States on the Pacific
ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring
sufficient power in the common Government to
use it as a means of destroying the institutions
of Texas and her sister slaveholding States.
By the disloyalty of the Northern States and
their citizens, and the imbecility of the Federal
Government, infamous combinations of incen
diaries and outlaws have been permitted in those
States and the common Territory of Kansas
to trample upon the Federal laws, to war upon
the lives and property of Southern citizens in
that Territory, and finally, by violence and
Web laW, to ueltrp the possession of tie same,
as exclveively the property of the Northern
States. .
The Federal Government, while but partially
under the control of these our unnatural and
sectional enemies, has, for years, almost en
tirely failed to protect the lives and property
of the people of Texas against the Indian
savages- on our borders; and, more recently,
against the murderous forays of banditti from
the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when
our State Government has expended large
amounts for such purposes, the Federal Gov
ernment has refused reimbursement therefor—
thus rendering our condition more insecure and
harassing than it was during the exijtence of
the Republic of Texas.
These and other wrongs we have patiently
borne, in the vain hope that a returning sense
of justice and humanity would induce a differ
ent course of administration. When we advert
to the course of individual non- staveholding
States and that of a majority of their citizens,
our grievances assume far greater magnitude.
The States of Maine, Vermont, New Ramp•
shire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachu
setts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin,
Michigan and lowa, by solemn legislative
enactments, have deliberately, directly or in
directly, violated the third clause of the second
section of the fourth clause of the federal
Constitution, and laws passed in pursuance
thereof; thereby annulling a material provision
of the compact, designed by its framers to
perpetuate amity between the members of the
confederacy, and to secure the rights of the
slaveholding States in their domestic institu
tions—a provision founded in justice and wis
dom, and without the enforcement of which
the compact fails to accomplish the objeet of its
creation. Some of those States have imposed
high fines and degrading penalties upon any
of their citizens or officers who may carry out in
good faith the provisions of the compact, or
the federal laws enacted in accordance there
with.
In all the non-slaveholding States, in viola
tion of that good faith and comity which should
exist even between entirely distinct nations,
the people have formed themselves into a great
Sectional party, now strong enough in numbers
to control the affairs of each of those States,
based upon the unnatural feeling of hostility
to these Southern States and their beneficent
and patriarchal system of African slavery—
proclaiming the debasing doctrine of the
equality of all men, irrespective of race or
color—a doctrine at war with nature, in oppo
sition to the experience of mankind, and in
violation of the plainest revelations of the
divine law. They demand the abolition of ne
gro slavery throughout the confederacy—the
recognition of political equality between the
white and negro races—and avow their deter
mination to press on their crusade against us,
so long as a negro slave remains in these
States.
For years past this abolition organization
has been actively sowing the seeds of discord
through the Union, and has rendered the Fed
eral Congress the arena for spreading fire
brands and hatred between the slaveholding
and non-slaveholding States. By consolida
Ling their strength they have placed the slave
holding States in a hopeless minority in the
Federal Congress, and rendered representation
of no avail in protecting Southern rights
against their exactions and encroachments.—
They have proclaimed, and at the ballot-box
sustained, the revolutionary doctine that there
is a "higher law" than the constitution and
laws of our Federal Union, and virtually that
they will disregard their oaths and trample
upon our rights, They have, for years past,
encouraged and sustained lawless organizations
to steal our slaves and prevent their recapture,
and have repeatedly murdered Southern citi
zens while lawfully seeking their rendition.
They have invaded Southern soil and mur
dered unoffending citizens, and through the
press, their leading men and a fanatical pulpit,
have bestowed praise upon the actors and as
sassins in these crimes—while the Governors
of several of their States have refused to deliver
parties implicated and indicted for participation
in such• offences, upon the legal demands of
the States aggrieved. They have, through the
mails and hired emissaries, sent seditious
pamphlets and papers amongst us to stir up
servile insurrection and bring blood and carnage
to our firesides. They have sent hired emissa
ries among us to burn our towns and distribute
arms and poison to our slaves for the same
purpose. They have impoverished the slave
holding States by unequal and partial legisla
tion, thereby enriching themselves by draining
our substance. They have refused to 'vote
appropriations for protecting Texas against
ruthless savages, for the sole reason that she is a
slaveholding State.
And finally, by the combined sectional vote
of the seventeen non-slaveholding States, they
have elected as President and Vice President
of the whole confederacy two men whose chief
claims to such high positions are their approval
of_ these long continued wrongs, and their
pledges to continue them to the final consum
mation of these schemes for the ruin of the
slaveholding States.
In view of these and many other facts, it is
meet that our own views should be distinctly
proclaimed. We hold, as undeniable truths,
that the governments of the various States, and
of the Confederacy itself, were established ex
clusively by the white race, for themselves
and their posterity; that the African race had
no agency in their establishment; that they
were rightfully held and regarded as an infe
rior and dependent race, and in that condition
only could their existence in this country be
rendered beneficial or tolerable; that, itt this
free government, all white men are, and of right
ought to be, entitled to equal civil and political
rights ; that the servitude of the African race,
as existing in these States, is mutually bane&
cal to both bond and free, and is abundantly
authorized and justified by the experience of
mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty
Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations,
while the destruction of the existing relations
between the two races, as advocated by our
sectional enemies, would bring inevitable ca
lamities upon both, and desolation upon the
fifteen slaveholding States.
By the secession of six of the slaveholding
States, and the certainty that others will spee
dily do likewise, Texas has no other alter
native but to remain in isolated connection
with the North, or unite her destiny with the
South.
For these and other reasons—solemnly as
serting that the federal Constitution has been
violated and virtually abrogated by the several
States named—seeing that the federal Govern
ment is now passing under the control of our
sectional enemies, to be diverted from the ex
alted objects of its creation to those of oppres
sion and wrong ; and realizing that our State
can no longer look for protection but to God
and her own sons—we, the delegates of the
people of Texas, in convention assembled, have
passed an ordinance dissolving all political
connection with the Government of the United
States of America, and the people thereof, and
confidently appeal to the intelligence and pa
triotism of the freemen of Texas to ratify the
same at the ballot-box on the 23d day of the
present month.
THE NEW FORCE BILL
Readers who have followed the debate on
Mr. Stanton's so-called "force bill" in the
House of Representatives may desire to know
the provisions of the proposed act. Here is
the bill in full :
si Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica, in Congress assembled, that the provisions
of an act approved the 28th day of February,
in the year 1795, entitled 'an act to provide for
calling forth the militia to execute the laws of
the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel
invasions, and .to repeal the act now in force
for those purposes,' and of the act approved
the 3d day of March_ in the year 1807, entitled
'an act authorizing the employment of the land
and naval forces of the United States in cases
of insurrections against the authority of the
United States.
SEC. 2. “And be it further enacted, that the
President, in any case in which it may be law
ful to use either the militia, or the military
and naval force of the United States, for the
purpose aforesaid, may accept the services of
such volunteers as may offer their services, as
cavalry, infantry, or artillery, organized in
companies of the maximum standard, squad
rons and regiments respectively, according to
the mode prescribed for the organization of the
respective arms in the military establishment
of the United States; and it shall be lawful
for the President to commission the officers of
such companies, battalions, squadrons, and
regiments in their respective grades, to con
tinue till discharged from the service of the
United States ; and such volunteers, while in
the service of the United States, shall be sub
ject to the rules and articles of 'war, and shall
be.entitled to the same pay and emoluments,
as officers and soldiers of the same grade in
the regular service."
TICE PEACE CONFERENCE, acci
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The Peace Confer
ence are in session to-night, but no important
action is anticipated. Several amendments
proposing changes of phraseology are pending,
and unless things are much improved there
may be protracted discussion upon immaterial
matters. To-day nothing has been done worth
mentioning, because speech making has mo
nopolized the precious hours.
The adoption of an amendment to the third
section of the proposition of the committee
quite exasperated Mr. Guthrie, who said that
he believed that there was little prospect of a
harmonious result if there was to be persisting
in factious opposition to what the border slave
States desired. He proposed to retire from the
Co nven ti on , but upon being convinced by hie
friends that the amendment was- misunderstood
by him, and was, in fact, frivolous, he
his determination of leaving, and made
a speech which was received with applause,
and may have the effect of inciting action in
the Convention, and an abatement of that com
mon nuisance—much talking.
New York and Massachusetts are most con
spicuous in opposing compromise. Other
Northern States which are less injured pecuni
arily than they will interpose in suerL factious
opposition as contemplates a denial to the
people of an opportunity to amend the Con
stitution. The ultra Republicans fear this and
are talking about adjourning the Convention
until April, to see, as they say, whether we shall
have a Government or not after the 4th of
March.
Mr. Chase, who is to make the motion, has
not latterly so carried himself in the Conven
tion as to gain credit with the conservatives
in his own party. He and other ultra Republi
cans are now keeping aloof from Mr. Lincoln,
and are expecting to bring him into submission
to their dictatorial programme, which "calls for
the proscription of Gen. Cameron, if not of Mr.
Seward.
APPAIRS AT CHARLESTON
The Hon. Jeff. Davis is reported to have ar
rived at Charleston, with the view to effect
arrangements to guard against the possibility
of an attack on Fort Sumpter, at least until the
character of Mr. Lincoln's inaugural shall be
known. If its tone be pacific, there will be no
attack on Fort Sumpter. If otherwise, they say
au attack will be immediately made, in which
ease Mr. Davis would take command of the
army in person, and Gen. Twiggs take com
mend at Charleston. Dispatches from Major
Anderson report everything quiet. He was
allowed to receive marketing and other neces
saries from Charleston, and had all the inter
course with the city he desired. The Charles
ton correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch,
writing on the 21st inst., says :
have been down to and around all the forts
here, as near as I could prudently go, and they
are quite numerous and formidable, and there
is surely to be some astonishing shooting here
soon. The Morris Island batteries are going
to take the black out of Fort Sumpter. It is a
little more than the Major can do, I take it, to
shoot through three layer, of railroad iron,
presented to his balls at an angle of 45 degrees,
supported, too, as these rails are, by a wooden
structure of great strength. They will pass
on, glancing upwards, and may go to thtl moon
for all the men on the island will care. The
wings of these batteries are supported by great
sand banks. Fort Moultrie will have the
horniest part of Sumpter to contend with, but
Moultrie's guns are of a heavy calibre, and are
well ranged. All these forts are ably manned ;
and only think of six or seven great batteries
frowning on Sumpter at the same time, and
ready for action ; and next week is to tell the
tale."
Washington's birthday was celebrated at
Charleston with unusual enthusiasm. Major
Anderson also fired a salute of thirty-four guns
from Fort Sumpter.
GENERAL NEWS.
ANOTHER MERMAID IN NEW YORK.-A mer
maid is said to have been recently brought to
New York. A description sent us says ; "This
beautiful creature, a genuine mermaid, is said
to have been caught on the Northeast side of
the Bay of Yeddo, on the coast of Japan, about
twenty-three and a half miles from the capital,
and brought in by some poor fishermen who
had it finely preserved." It is about a foot
and a half long, with a face and breast some
what resembling those of a woman, but the
lower part of the body is fishlike; the extremi
ty is turned up in the manner represented in
most pictures of the tnormsid.—.llr. Y. Express.
A NECESSARY OF LIFE.—In the Unified States
Senate the other day, while the tariff was un
der consideration, Mr. Collamer proposed to
raise the duties on Havana cigars as luxuries.
Whereupon Mr. Seward remarked: " I desire
to know of the Senator from Vermont if I cor
rectly understand him that he regards 6igetria
as luxuries ; because I have come to regard
them as a necessary of life 1" Mr. Seward is
an inveterate smoker.
BYRIA.—The Paris papers publish a tele
graphic dispatch from Marseilles, announcing
that letters had been received from Beyrout
stating that, the agitation was inereasing.—.
Twelve hundred Druses were assembled at
Moktara, and intended to prevent the execution
of those who had been condemned to death for
taking part in the massacre. Fuad Pacha had
returned from Moktara.
SAVMS IN Naw Y92tic,—The superintendent
of the New York Banking'Department reports
the amount of deposits in all the savings banks
of the State, on the first of JanUary, 1861, as
$67,440,379; an increase of nearly $10,000,-
000 over the amount of deposits January 1,
1860. Every thirtieth inhabitant in the State
is a depositor, and the average to each in 1860
was $224 28.
BANDITTI IN TENNESSEE.—The Memphis Argus
states that there is a gang of horse theives,
burglars and murderers in Tennessee, who, like
the thieves in Gil Blas, live in a cave, from
which they issue on their maurauding excur
sions. Their leader, Roffman, who has just
been sentenced to fifteen years in the peniten
tiary for horse stealing, has made a full con
fession.
Mr. D. C. Scudder will be ordained as a
Missionary, on Monday the 25th instant, at
the Essex street chnrch, Boston. Mr. Scud
der sails for the Madura Mission on the 10th
of March, and will be accompanied by a son of
the missionary, Mr. Scudder, who is also jnst
entering upon the same work in which his fa
ther was so successful.
The French Government has determined to
take the entire business of manufacturing
friction matches into its own hands, expecting
to realize 20,000,000 francs a year from the
chips. The danger of fires and the poisoning
of children are the popular pleas which the
French financial chief offers for the change.
MOTTO FOR THE DAY.—"AII, too, will bear in
mind this sacred principle, that though the will
of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that
will, to be rightful must be reasonable; that
the minority possess their equal rights, which
equal laws must protect., and to violate which
would be oppressive."—Nos. Teffersou.
Mortimer Thompson, ("Doesticks,") will, it
is said, soon lead to the altar a beautiful
daghter of Mrs. Parton, who has attained a
world-wide celebrity by the nom de plume of
"Fanny Fern." Mr. Thompson is at present
a widower.
A New England women declares in print
that "Fanny Fern" has done more to injure her
sex, and make men disrespect them, than any
female writer since the world began.
The United States Grand Jury of the district
of New York adjourned on Friday without
finding bills of indictment for treason or mis
prision of treason against any one.
F"SALE.-A fresh MILCEI COW
AND CALF for sale at the
fe2s-3t EAGLE WORKS.
ELECTION.
OFFICE NORTHERN CENTRAL 'RAILWAY CO.,
BALTIMORE, Feb. 11, 1861. 5
•
A general meeting of the Stockholders of this COM_
pany will be held at CALVERT STATION, on THURS
DAY, THE 28TH OF FEBILVAItY NEXT, between the hourt
of 12 and 2 &clock, P. RI., for the eleetion of Twelve
Directors for the ensuing year.
The Transfer Books wilt be closed on the 16th of Feb
ruary until after the election. By order.
febl2-dte ROBT. S. HOLLINS, Secretary.
T HE BIBLE ON DIVORCE.—The fol
. lowing words are from Mark x. v. 9, 12:
”What; therefore, God has joined together let not man
put asunder."
"'Whosoever shall put away hie wife and marry another
committeth adultery. And if a woman shall put away
h9r husband and marry again she committeth adultery."
Legislators and others, the. above is the edict of the
Supreme Lawgiver, from which there ie. do - appeal.—
“What, therefore, God has joined together let no man
put asunder.” jean dtf
LATEST BY TELEGRA
XIXVIth CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION
WASHINGTON, pet ) , 26
SENATE.—The annual report of the Smith
sonian Institution was received and ordered t 5.
be printed.
Mr. Johnson (N. J.) prenented a petition 1 11
favor of the Crittenden resolutions.
Mr. Dixon (Conn.) presented a poitl on
favor of the border State resolutions. Th„
joint resolution to repeal the resolution fa ' .
vor of George Fisher, was taken up and pun.
sed.
The Oregon war debt bill was taken up 44
on motion of Mr. Lane, a committe e of conf er _ l
ence was appointed on the amendments of th e
House.
The bill for the organization of the Territory
of Colorado was taken up.
Mr. Green (Mo.) moved that the Senate eon.
cur in the amendment of the House.
Mr. Douglas (Ill.) opposed the amendment
of the House.
The House amenement was agreed to—ye as
24, nays 18.
The bill to organize the Teritorial Govern.
ment of Nevada, was taken up and passed.
The bill to organize the Territory of Decotalt
was also taken up and passed.
A committee of conference was appointed on
the tariff bill on the disagreeing vote of the
two Houses on the amendment placing a d u t y
on tea and coffee. The post route bill iv a , s
taken up.
HOUSE.—The Speaker presented the proceed,
ings and resolutions of the Pennsylvania Dem.
ocratic convention.
Laid on the table.
The House then took up the volunteer
" From Washington.
Among the rumors here to-day is one, ap,
parently well founded, that Eon. John Bell, of
Tennessee,tas been tendered and accepted A
seat in President Lincoln's Cabinet.
The new tariff bill will be passed to-morrow]
The only important point of disagreement i 3
the amendment laying a tax on tea and coffee,
Upon thie the Senate will insist, and the Con'.
mittee of Conference on the part of the House
will either recede or compromise, The ware.
housing feature stands as under the present
law.
The Peace Conferencce was in session until
or 2 o'clock this morning. The spirited de
bate previously commenced was continued, and
during the night proceedings many, if not all
of the amendments, were voted down, leaving
substantially Mr. Guthrie's proposition with
modified verbiage. This was in committee of
the whale, but it will be voted on definitely to
day.
Mr. Lincoln yesterday afternoon 'visited both
Chambers of Congress, accompanied by Mr.
Seward. His appearance in each occasioned
considerable stir, and many members crowded
around to welcome him. Especially was this
the case in the House, where he remained but
a few minutes. The galleries partook of the
common curiosity and excitement.
While at the Capitol, Mr. Lincoln paid his
respects to the Justices of the Supreme Court,
at their consultation room.
The dispatch received yesterday by the See
retary of War, informing him that Gen. Twigge
had surrendered the military property in Texas,
was from the Commissary of Substinence, dated
at New Orleans. He added that as a boon the
nse of Government means of transportation was
allowed to the Federal troops to the seaboard,
and they were permitted to take with them
three or four cannon and their side arms. The
Secretary received, this morning, documents
from Texas showing that as early as the 7th of
February Twigge was entering into negotiations
with the Texans for the surrender of the mili
tary property. Col. Waite was, several weeks
ago, appointed to succeed Twigge, as Chief of
the Military Department of Texas, but it ap
pears that he had not reached there at the time
of Twiggs' surrender,- which is considered by
the Government authorities here as one of the
most disgraceful acts yet committed by the
secessionists.
Virginia State Convention.
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 26
A strong speech was made in the State Con
vention yesterday by Mr. Moore, of Rockbridge,
(Gov. Letchet's distriet,) the substance of
which was that the secession movement was
inimical to the rights of Virginia, the whole
south generally, and the people of Illelamond
particularly. It was decidedly of a Union
tendency, and strongly against the action of
South Carolina.
North Carolina.
RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 26.
The Legislature adjourned yesterday morn•
ing. There is some talk of an extra session, if
the events of the next few weeks are unfavora
ble to compromise.
The Markets.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 26.
Flour firm but quiet; superfine ecarce at $5 25—sales
triA6 6.4 $5.2515.62 for common and extra; 115.7504
for extra family, and $6.3736a7 for fancy. Wheat is
drooping; sales of 20.000 bushels at $1 29a1.32 for red s
and $1.40a1.50 for white. Corn dull at 58e60c. for nor
yellow. Pales of Rio coffee at 12a13c. Whisky sells at
1.73ic
NEw YORK, Feb. 26.
Flour quiet; 7,000 bbla. sold. Wheat study but
quiet ;• Milwaukie Club wheat $1.25. Corn quiet at 69c.
LSrd 9uloe. Whisky steady at 18c. Stocks active
and better. •
BALTIMORE, Feb. ,1.8.
Flour deal; Ohio and Howard $5 37. Wheat firm
Corn deelining and lower; mixed 65abEti yellow 51a62
BkOvidiotia dull. and unchanged. Qoffee flrm at /2,P10
Whiskey higher. Sales at I9e.
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of the county, in the city of Harrisburg, a number of
completion of tbe new Court Nouse_
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