10 o'clock. The Journal of yesterday was
read.
Mr. DUFFIELD moved that the Committee
on the Judiciary be discharged from the further
Consideration of the bill for the erection of
public buildings in Philadelphia, and that it be
referred to the members from the city. After
a spirited discussion the resolution was agreed
to.
A joint resolution was passed, authorizing
the State treasurer to pay $708.75 to the clerks
of the House, for the erection of the flag-staff
on the dome. This includes the flag and pen
nants purchased, labor done, and everything
appertaining to the full completion of the
work.
Mr. DUNCAN called up Bald-Eagle railroad,
and asked for a suspension of the rules, for
the purpose of considering the bill. Agreed to.
The bill led to an animated discussion, during
which it appeared that it was an attempt to re
galvanize the old Tyrone and Lookharen rail.
road company.
A motion to postpone the bill for the present,
prevailed—yeas 43, nays 41.
The reports of standing committees were
Called for, and a large number presented.
The appropriation bill was reported by Mr.
SHEPPARD, the chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means.
Mr. PIERCE reported a bill to incorporate
the Brandywine railroad.
Mr. TRACEY reported a bill to incorporate
the Allentown railroad company.
A number of other bills of no general inter
est were reported.
A:communication was read from the Secretary
of State, furnishing complete returns of the
census_
Adjourned until the 12th of March.
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The Legislature has passed a bill appropria
ting $30,000 out of the Treasuary for the relief
of the Kansas sufferers. What proportion of
this fund will be applied to the object for which
it is designed, will perhaps never be known ;
but, judging from past operations with refer
ence to Kansas, it is not improbable that much
of it - will never reach the destitute in that
State. Indeed, there has already been a great
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ing Kansas" was at one time the pretext for
relieving the people of much of their surplus
earnings, and now it is starving Kansas. If
the inhabitants of that unhappy region ever
get one-half of the money appropriated by
State Legislatures . and raised by private char
ity for their relief, they will be about the best
fed and clothed population in the country. We
would advise the destitute of our towns and
cities, who are not deemed worthy of consid
eration by the Legislature, to emigrate to Kan
sas, where their wants may be abundantly sup
plied by that charity which does not begain at
home.
Those who suppose that the opposition to the
Karim relief bill, is attributable to any want
of sympathy with suffering in that new State,
entirely misapprehend the views of those mem
bers and others who opposed its passage, as
they also misapprehend the true principles
upon which governments, at least a government
like ours, is founded. Our State Government
is not a missionary society, or a general benev
olent society, organized to extend relief to
suffering wherever it may exist. It is simply
an organization of the people of this State into
a political community, for the purpose of self
government and mutual protection—for the
preservation of order, the protection of pro
perty, the education of our own population,
and similar purposes having strict reference to
our own limits. Our power does not extend
beyond our own boundaries. Our Government
was not instituted to govern—neither to support
or relieve—the people of lowa. The one is as
much beyond its legitimate sphere as the other.
Not a shadow of right exists, on the part of the
State Government, to compel the people of this
State to pay thirty thousand dollars, or any
other sum, by taxation, to relieve the distress
in Syria, or in any other part of the world.—
The object might be a very good one—one to
which our citizens would generously respond
individually—but for the State to assume to
take the money from them by tax, would simply
be picking their pockets.
If thirty thousand dollars can be given to
Kansas by this process, one million can, and as
much more to Syria, Indeed, there is no limit
to its exercise, if the power be once admitted,
and the State may be speedily converted into
a grand benevolent eesociation, levying money
by taxation from its own citizens and distribu
ting it to the undoubted suffering which exists all
over the world. , No—the State Government
had better confine itself to its legitimate sphere
and to the exercise of its legal and constitu
tional powers and duties, and commit to the
generosity of the people, acting in their pri
mary capacity, the relief of suffering in other
communities. If the people wish to convert
the Legislature into a relief society and au
thorize it to pay the bills by taxation, let them
confer the power by a constitutional grant.
NOVA SCOTLLES OPPOSED TO A UNION WITH
Tau Noaru.—The Halifax Journal ridicules the
idea of a union between the British Nolth
American colonies and the Northern States of
the present American Confederacy. "If," says
the editor, "there was ever any desire on the
part of these colonies, and many years ago
there may have been, for annexation to the
17sited States, the present crisis has most effec
tually quashed it. What have we to gain from
annexation with the Northern States, who have
just sacrificed on the altar of 'higher law' their
hitherto prosperous Union? Our interests will
be with the Southern Confederacy,where we
shell look for employment for
fl our shipping, for
a market for our fish; and we may even sup
plant the North in furnishing them with man
nfeetnred articles."
LETTER PROM WASHINGTON:
Correspondence of the Patriot and Union..
WASHINGTON, Februari . 2B, 1861.
All is bustle ,, bustle and_confusion here, and
everybody siehie filled viiCiiixicti and alerm.—
The Peace Congress finally agreed upon a propo
aition yesterday, which is the . Guthrie plan, with
Mr. Franklin's amendment attached. It was re
ported to Congress, and the Senate, on motion of
Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, made it the special
order for 1 o'clock p. m. to-day, when the commit
tee of five to whom it was referred are to report.—
' That committee ecusisto 9f Messrs, Crittenden,
Bigler, Seward, Thompson and Trumbull. When
the question of appointing the above committee
was pending, the ultraists of the Republican school
were very busy drumming up the absent Republi
can Senators, in order, if possible, to defeat a re
ference to a committee.
Prominent among these drummers might be seen
the fiendish, fanatical Sumner, whose soul seems
to revel in perfect delight at the thought of a
disruption of this government and the inaugura
tion of a civil war. This miserable creature cher
ishes the msst implacable hatred to the Southern
people and the institution of slavery, and seems
to gloat over the confusion that now prevails in
the land, because he thinks that if the Union is
dissolved then slavery will cease to exist. The in
sane fanaticism of Sumner, Wade, Hale, Clark,
Fessenden, Doolittle and Wilson, in the Senate,
and their confreres in the other House of Congress,
is of the true Garrison and Wendell Phillips type,
and, like all other species of madness, has de
stroyed their minds for any useful purpose. I
should be remiss indeed if I failed to allot to Messrs.
Chandler and Bingham, of Michigan, a prominent
niche in the same church with the men above
mentioned.
Yesterday morning a circumstance was brought
to light in the Senate, at the instance of Mr. Pow
ell, of Kentucky, which gave unmistakable evi
dence of the stuff of which Messrs. Chandler and
Bingham arc Made. These gentlemen are among
those of the Republicans who consider the success
of the Republican party, according to the formula
of the Chicago platform, of much more transcend.
ent importance than the preservation of the Union
of the States or the Federal Constitution. As a
proof of this, I will cite the fact just alluded to,
A few weeks ego, and after it was pretty well un
derstood here that the Peace Congress were likely
to agree upon a plan of oettlemen t, Messrs. Chand
ler and Bingham both wrote private letters to the
Governor of Michigan, who is also an ultra Re
piablican with decided Abolition proclivities, urging
"the Governor to appoint Commissioners to the
Peace Congress without delay, in order to enable
the ultra Republicans to defeat any measure of
peace that might be offered. Mr. Chandler was
particularly urgent on the subject, and used the
strongest language he could command when he in
voked the co-operation of the Governor of Michi
gan to help the Republicans to destroy the govern
ment, and save the Chicago platform. Ile calls
upon the Governor for God's sake to appoint the
right kind of men as Commissioners without de
lay—men who will defeat the efforts of the Union
savers, and save the Republican party from dis
grace. Mr. Chandler also intimates that ho does
not believe that any good can come of the proceed
ings of the Peace Congress, and is decidedly of the
opinion that we will have no peace until there is
blood spilled. The letter of his colleague is less
violent in language, but equally virulent in tone
and temper, and urges the Governor, in like man
ner as Mr. Chandler, to save the Republican party
from disgrace and the Chicago platform from spo
liation. Both lettere ate publithed in the Detroit
Free Frees, and were read by the Secretary of the
Senate this morning, at the instance of Mr. Powell,
of Kentucky, who took occasion to hold up to the
scorn and contempt of the country the guilty au
thors of such infamous trickery and reckless par
tizanship.
It was amusing to witness the appearance of
those two men, Chandler and Bingham, while their
letters were being read. They looked like con
demned criminals, in the act of listening to the
words of warning and advice which are generally
made by the Judge before he pronounces the dread
sentence of the law upon the convict. All eyes
were riveted upon them, and the low but audible
murmurs of disapprobation that went up from every
breast in the gallery, as the bloody purposes of
these men were unfolded, was truly significant of
the estimation in which such sentiments are held
by the honest masses.
After the letters were read Mr. Chandler got up,
looking as pale as a ghost, and in a quivering tone
of voice, avowed the authorship of the letter with
his name to it, and said that himself and the Re
publican party of this country were willing to stand
up for the Constitution of the country as it is, and
for the doctrines of the Chicago platform, even to
the shedding of blood. Thus we have the avowal
of Messrs. Chandler and Bingham, in their letters
(and it is needless to disguise the fact, that these
gentlemen bat echo the sentiment of thegreat mass
of the Republican party—l mean of course, the
ultraists of that party) that the Republican party
must be saved from disgrace, and the Chicago
platform be maintained in tact, at the expense of
the Union, the Constitution, and the peace pf these
States—that blood must flow to appease the appe
tites of these Dantons, Manta and Robespieres, of
this modern reign of terror, which is the legitimate
result of tub inauguration of Black Republicanism.
Are the peaceful people of Pennsylvania prepared
to endorse such atrocious sentiments as these?
Are they willing to imbrue their hands in the in
nocent blood of their fellow men, in order that fa
naticism shall rule, instead of the wise counsels of
prudence and moderation tempered with those di
vine precepts, taught by the greatest of all Mae
ters—"Do unto others, as ye would that they should
do unto you ?" Can it be, that men who prefer'
party and party platforms to the existence and
perpetuation of the best government ever framed by
the wisdom of man, will be tolerated by the people
of our States? It seems to me that the day of reck
oning is coming with fearful certainty, and that
the party now in power will soon be taught a
lesson that will improve the taste if it does not im
prove the morals of the present generation. •
The tariff bill is passed at last, without the odious
tax on tea and coffee, It will undoubtedly receive
the sanction of Mr. Buchanan to-day and become
a law. It takes effect on the first of April next.
You will doubtless publish the law when it is
signed, for the information of the people, when
each individual can form his own judgment of its
relative merits.
Madam Rumor, with her ten thousand tongues,
is very busy in this city, putting in circulation all
kind of on dire about Old Abe—what he does and
says—what"frs. Lincoln does and says—what Bob
Lincoln does and says, and what everybody and
the rest of mankind are doing and saying. The
old lady—l mean, of course, Madam Rumor—his
her hands full just now, inasmuch as there is a
motley crowd in Washington composed Of all shapes
sizes, and of every shade of opinion on all kinds of
topics. In the political department, we have the
"irrepressible conflict" going on among the Rd
publicans, about Old Abe's Cabinet and the arrange
ment of the Kitchen Cabinet. Horace Greeley is
here, dressed up in a new suit of black, that fits
him about as neatly as a shirt on a pump, with a
broad brimmed black hat, as round as a full moon,
and as large as a good-sized bucket; which eon
trasts strongly (together with the black suit) with
his white hair and bacon face ; altogether render
ing hint an object of curiosity. lie appears very
uneasy in his looks. The impression here is that
Greeley is overslauglied by the superior taut of
Seward, who evidently has placed his foot on the
neck of the fussy philosopher of the Tribune, with
a determination to crush out the "varmint," with
out stop or Mint.
Extensive preparation Is being made for the cer
emony of inauguration, which will take place on
Monday next at 12 o'clock m. Every one is on the
tip toe of expectation to know what Lincoln will
say, and what line of policy he will indicate for his
future guidance.
Never before in the history of this government,
had any one man so much power, for weal or woe,
as this man Lincoln has at this moment. If his
inaugural address should enunciate conservative,
peaceful doctrines—if he takes his stand upon the
high vantage grounds of equal protection under
the Constitution, to all the States and the people
thereof, and refuses to adhere to the ultra doc
trines of the Republican party, then we may look
for peace and re-union. But if he fails to do all
these, then will ensue scenes too horrible to con
template, and rule will be the ultimate conse
quence. Trusting that he will decide for his
country, and not for a mere political party, we will
await the short interval between this and Monday
next, when the problem will be solved which in
volves so much to the people of this nation and
the world.
A CONSPIRACY IN A Poo.—The Barber in a
Slouched Hat.—The Washington correspondent
of the New York World extracts some fun, out
of the rumored conspiracy to assassinate Mr.
Lincoln, and perhaps tells more truth about it
than most of his associates:
As curiosities of the occasion, I can do no
better than to give in detail a record of the
more sanguinary and bloodthirsty of these ru
mors, appending thereto a simple, unadorned
olatemenl, of the facts in the case. It is a pity
to eviscerate the interesting and very readable
dispatches from Harrisburg of your cotempo
raries. It is a melancholy circumstance which
forces me to dispel the picturesque illusion of
the President in a Scotch plaid cap—the mid
night arrival of that extraordinary party, who,
after enjoining secrecy and receiving assurance
thereof, fortified by words of honor, oaths, etc.,
hardly wrung from reluctant correspondents,
proceeded to look everybody in separate rooms,
ought certainly to stand untouched. The epi
sode is too dramatic to be squelched. As to
those rumors
One Mr. Detective Pinkerton, of:Chicago—a
gentleman of Vidocquean repute in the way of
thief-taking—a very Napoleon in the respect
of laying his haftd upon the right man—a per
son who has populated the penal institutions of
the West with elaborate scoundrels, whose
villainy eluded all save the Pinkertonean in
vestigations—was several weeks since sent to
Baltimore for the purpose of working up the
case, i. e., discovering whether any peril
menaced Mr. Lincoln in his passage through
that city. Rumor attributes to Pinkerton the
discovery of secret organizations, the members
of which, sworn upon, thi ir daggers, had taken
oath to assassinate the President. An Italian
barber wanders vaguely through this shadowy
surmise ; a leader of the Baltimore carbonari,
probably, who wears a slouch hat and gives an
easy shave for six cents. This tonsorial per
son was recently summoned before a secret
committee of investigation at Washington; he
resigned his membership upon receiving the
summons, proceeded to Washington, swore
black and blue, returned to Baltimore, and re
sumed his membership of the conspiratory ca
bal.
It is highly probably that Pinkerton made,
according to current rumor, other discoveries
of a similar refreshing sort, but the barber's
slouch hat i in some manner extinguishes him
at this pent, and a squad of New York detec
tives loom mysteriously through the general
fog. They are said to have discovered that an
organised plan to throw the train off an em
bankment, somewhere between the State line
and Baltimore, had been laid. Two of the rail
way flagmen had been suborned, a hundred
armed men were to lie in wait in the vicinity
for the gentle purpose of bayoneting any pos
sible survivors among the occupants of the train.
They discover (still according to Madame Ru
mor) that the police arrangements at Baltimore
are being unaccountably slackened, that not
more than twenty den are to be detailed at the
depot, and that the chief has intimated his ina
bility to guarantee the President's safe conduct
through the tewn.
There are reports concerning certain sharp
shooting desperadoes, animated with the heroic
design of picking off the President from attic
easements; recondite varieties of explosives are
hinted at ; torpedoes are to be thrown beneath
the carriage ; so many desperate and murder
ous things are to be done that if the President
elect had all the lives of a cat he would lose
them all, one after another, before reaching
the Eutaw House.
HELPER AT A DISCOUNT EVEN IN OHIO.—The
Dayton (Ohio) Empire, of the 19th, gives the
author of the ' 4 Impending criaia" the following
" first-rate notice :"
The Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday an
nounced that the author of the " Impending
Crisis," Hinton R. Helper, would lecture in
Dayton last night. The same train which
brought us the information also brought to our
city Mr. Helper and his agent. The former,
we are told, " stopped with an acquaintance
and friend up town," the latter called at our
office and ordered a notice in the paper and a
lot of circulars for general distribution, an
nouncing a lecture on the " United States,"
at Huston Hall, last night. The hall was
lighted up, twenty-three tickets were sold, and
after waiting a reasonable time for more custom
ers, the agent "slipped away" and the gas
was turned off. The proprietor of the hall
was, at a late hour last night, endeavoring to
find the "Author of the Impending Crisis,"
who, it seemed, was endeavoring to escape the
consequences of his own work. We were not
an entirely disinterested observer of the course
of events, as the agent had neglected to meet
an " impending' crisis" at our counter.
Helper had some printing done at the Empire
job rooms, which his agent managed to have
taken from the offLoe by downright lying, in the
temporary absence of the foreman. The bill
was presented at the door of the hall last
evening, when the agent promised to call and
settle it in fifteen minutes. As he has not yet
called, and we learn that a number of our
citizens are yet waiting for the expiration of
the aforesaid fifteen minutes,
we give him the
benefit of this notice, and tender it as our
receipt in full for our claim against Hinton
Rowan Helper, who entered the political world
as the, calumniator and villifier of his own
people, puffed into notoriety by prominent
Republican leaders, and now, as when he left
bis native State, awindles those who trust
him.
P. S.—Just as we were going to press, we
beard a rumor that Helper's agent had been
arrested upon complaint of the gentleman who
rented the hall.
TUE VNITED STATES NAVE.-MO Naval Re
gister for 1861, just published, give the following
list of naval vessels : 10 line-of-battle ships,
10 sailing frigates, 21 sailing aloops-of-war, 3
sailing brigs, 1 schooner and 6 storeships—
total 51 sailing vessels, and 7 first class steam
propellers, 6 second class do; 2 second class
(old and worn) do., 12 steam gunboats, 2 screw
tenders, 3 first class side-wheel steamers, 1
second class do., 3 third class do., 1 side-wheel
steam tender, and 2 steam storeships. Total,
42 steamers--90 ships in all. About 20 of
them are serviceable men-of-war of modern
Stamp.
VERY TALL STORY.—A Bride's Head Set In
Gold.—One of our lively Albany cotemporaries
has scared up a very remarkable story, and for
the sake of our sentimental readers we give an
abstract of it, According to our authority, one
of the hundreds of old bachelors whose exist
ence in Albany is a crying disgrace to the
maidens thereof, fell in love with a very beau
ful young girl of eighteen ; and as he possessed
quite a nice little fortune, she very kindly
agreed to let him call her his wife. The pair
were married some years ago, and entered into
the enjoyment of one of those delicious honey
moons which shine on fields of gold dollars,
and glimmer delightfully through the intervals
of a fashionable tour ; but scarcely was it over,
when the bride fell a victim to one of those in.
sidious diseases that are apt to follow undue
excitement., and was consigned to the grave in
less than a year from the day of her auspicious.
marriage. The husband became frantic under
his cruel bereavement, and made daily visits
to the vault in which his bride was interred for
some time. The beautiful corpse was inclosed
in a metallic, air-tight coffin, its features still
retaining their symmetry of expression, and a
smile appearing to linger about the corners of
her mouth. In the contemplation of his lost
treasure, the mourner found such sad comfort
that he determined to have a part of it before
him. Without acquainting any one with his
intention he went to Philadelphia, and there
consulted an eminent surgeon, whom he finally
induced to accompany him back to Albany.—
This surgeon cut the head of the dead bride
from her body, embalmed it for preservation,
and had it set in an exquisite frame of pure
gold. " The case," says our sympathising co
temporary, "now occupies a prominent posi
tion in the room of the idolatroUs husband, and
he, being a man of nerve, does little else than
muse upon it." We are afraid this story is
what may be familiarly termed a "big thing on
Snyder," though it is not altogether unnatural
for a man to desire to kee ahead of his wife.
THE. PLUNDER AT PEKIN.—SiDCO the arrival
of the Sikh cavalry and infantry in Hong ii4Thig
considerable excitement has been created by
the sale of the "loot" taken by them at the
destruction of the Summer Palace at Pekin;
the items consisting chiefly of rich fur gar
ments, said to have been lately the property of
the Emperor and the ladies of his harem; silks
in the piece, plain, damask, and embroidered
in gold and silver; trinkets of every descrip
tion, &c. Many of the buyers are said to
have obtained great bargains. However, the
tall heroes of the Pttojaub have latterly made
out that they were not wise in their generation
in parting with their stock ixt tirade at such
"ruinous sacrifice," as the shopkeepers have
it, and have accordingly raised their demands,
and the price now asked for an imperial second
hand is an object to any but a long purse. The
Chinese, among whom 'a sensation was created
by the sight of these veritable relics of their
imperial master, eagerly bought up a large
quantity in the first days of the sale, giving in
exchange counterfeit Mexican dollars, of which
there are said to be thousands in circulation at
present in the colony. Thus the spoilers of the
Egyptians are spoiled by the Egyptians, and
the base coins in the pouches of many of our
gallant Sikhs will be so many whetters to the
keenness of their blades, if ever again they
come to blows with the cheating Celestials.—
London and China Telegraph.
A CAREFUL MOTHER.—Punch gives us a little
essence ocoasionally, which is highly savory
and aromatic. Mothers and maternal aunts
will find the following tender epistle from one
of the former to one of the latter, pleasing if
not wholesome, from the moral it conveys:
Dearest Buy :—Plantagenet will come by the
train which arrives at 11 o'clock. Have lunch
eon ready for him at 12. Mutton broth, the
inside of a chop, the thigh of a pheasant : he
dines at 2—,soup y n little fish and a snipe
will do for him. When he goes to, sleep after
dinner, put some worsted gloves on his hands;
we are breaking him of sucking his thumbs.
Warm the drawing room sofa for him, and put
three blankets over him. If he cries when he
wakes (which he probably will do,) buy him
several toys and give him a wax doll or two.—
He pulls them to peices, and they amuse him.
If you have company at dinner, let him have a
large dish of gravy near him, he always puts
both hands in. When he is: a man we will
leave this off. Let a servant set up with him
all night ; if he wakes let her have something
hot for him. Be sure that you grease his nose
for him well before he sleeps—he is given to
snoring—a tallow candle next the lighted end,
is best. Truly yours, Matilda Brown.
PAYMENT OF THE BRITISH DEDT.—The hu
man heart pulsates about seventy or seventy
two times a minute in a yonng person, say
once in a second Now, should a dollar be
coined by every pulsation, what an enormous
pile. the whole would make in the space of a
year! Man will perhaps suppose that the pro
duct would fill a ten-acre lot in the course of a
single year. •No, the amount would not be so
very large. On the contrary, if the process
were kept up from the first day of the life of a
child, both day and night, to the day of his
death at sixty years of age, it wouldnot pay the
public debt of Great Britain ! The coinage of
a dollar a second for six years would produce
only two thousand millions of dollars; whereas
the English debt is double that sum, or about
four thousand millions of dollars! It will not
all be paid this year, that is certain. To do
this will require more than a dollar to be made
at every click of a sewing machine. The debt
might then be paid, though not in less than
some ten years perhaps, provided the machine
never stopped in all that time.—Newark Adver
tiser.
CoLERIDGE'I3 SUlDlDE.—Coleridge's tragedy
of ';Remorse" had just appeared : he was in a
coffee-room in a hotel, when, hearing his own
name coupled with a coroner's inquest, he
asked to see the newspaper, which was handed
to him with the remark that "it was very
extraordinary that Coleridge, the poet, should
have hanged himself just after the success of
his play:•; but he was alwitys - a strange, mad
fellow " "Indeed, sir," said Coleridge, "it
is a most extraordinary thing, as he is at this
moment, speaking to you." The astonished
stranger "hoped that he had said nothing to
hurt his feelings," and was made easy on that
point. The newspaper related that a gentle
man in black had been cut down from a tree
in Hyde Park, without money or papers in his
pockets, his spirit being marked "8. T. Cols
ridge;" and Coleridge was at no loss to under
stand how this might have happened, since he
seldom traveled without losing a shirt or two.
THE NIECE OF GEORGE THE THIRD.—Mrs.
Ryves, the niece of George 111, has obtained a
recognition of her legitimacy from the matri
monial causes court in Londokn, and thereby
oomes into possesion of the revenues of the
Duchy of Lancaster, amounting to £1,004,643
sterling, and also 105,420 as bequests from
the royal family, and is " Princess of Cumber
bend and Duchess of Lancaster, as the grand
daughter and lineal representative, in the
female line, of his late Royal Highness, Henry
Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, who died
intestate in the year 1790." Like the Gaines
and Bonaparte cases, this hinged on a question
of legitimacy.
THE CRY is STILL THEY Cous.—Testerday
the Richmond freight train brought over
another lot of warlike missiles, in the shape of
two large mortars, weighing 11,500 pounds,
also 211 coluEnbiads and 183 mortar; shells.
We are - informed that there is still a few more
left of the same sort at the Tredgar Works now
being finished, which will be dispatched in a
few days to the Palmetto State, and judging
from the' quantity of the deadly agents that
have been and will be sent there, we are ;almost
convinced that the Palmetto boys will certainlY
take "Fort Sumter" if they can get iheir hands
so it. —Petersburg Intetligencer, Fob, 234,
GENERAL NEWS.
FOUR 1'.,,60378 BURNED TO BEATE:I.—The
Doylestown (Pa.) Democrat says :—A house
occupied by a man, his wife and three children,
which stood on the side of the Belvidere and
Deleware railroad, just above the Point
Pleasant bridge, was consumed by fire on Sat
urday night, and the woman and children burnt
to death. The husband made his escape by
jumping out of the second-story window.—
The father of the family is an Irishman and a
laborer on the railroad. The cause of the fire
is not known, but some suppose that he set
the house on fire himself, but whether acci
dentally or not there is no knowledge. The fire
was - first discovered by the people going home
from church at the Point. The man is said to
have been drunk, and some assert that he made
threats that he would burn the house down.
A DARNING - NEEDLE USEFUL ON AN ELOPE
MENT ENTEnraiss.—An extraordinary elope
meet was carried out at Cincinnati on Wed
nesday. A stern father having forbidden his
handsome daughter to entertain her lover's ad
dresses, she left the house in the morning, and
was marreid. Soon afterwards a gentleman
took passage to Memphis, for himself and ne
gro servant, and arrived just as the steamer
was about sailing; the negro at once set to work
to darn a coarse wollen stocking, in which she
was engaged, when, accompanied by a police
man, the suspecting father passed her. After
the steamer got under way, from the ladies'
state-room a beautiful wife emerged, beaming
with joyous hope, and elegantly dressed.—
Burnt cork and
darning - needles are great in
stitutions.
A SOILEMIS OF CIENFiRAY. EMANCIPATION.—
Somebody, stimulated by Lord Brougham's
letter to the Boston John Brown Committee,
sends the Ex-Chancellor a report of a conver
sation with the late Dr. Chalmers, in which
that learned and eloquent divine detailed his
plan for abolishing slavery. It consisted in
buying from the masters one day each week of
the slaves' time and labor, with the proper and
industrious use of which the negro might grad
ually earn enough to buy another day, and so
on until his emancipation should have been
entirely purchased. A questionable assump
tion of the negro's interest—industry—lies at
the foundation of the scheme.
ESCORT TO PRRSIDYNT lIITCHANAR.......The bat
talion of Baltimore . City Guards has tendered
an escort to President Buchanan, on his route
from Washington to Wheatland. On the day
of his leaving Washington, not yet determined
upon, the battalion will leave this city by the
four o'clock morning train for Washington, and
will be joined by the Marine Band of that city.
A special train will be run ever the Northern
Central railway on the occasion, and it is ex
pected -that, with the band, the escort will
number two hundred and twenty men. They
will escort him to Wheatland.—Sun.
A NEW PHASE or THE GEORGIA SEISIIRES.—
It is stated that one of the New York vessels
just seized at Savannah, by order of the Gov
ernor of Georgia, had shipped nine hundred
bales of cotton belonging to an . Englishman,
and that the despoiled shipper has set off post
haste for Washington to lay his grievances be
fore the British Minister_ If this repbrt be
true, the federal government -will be called
upon to interfere, and the contest between New
York and Georgia will take the shape of a goy ,
ernment investigation.
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD QUALITY IN IRON.—A.
Writer in the London Quarterly Review, on the
iron trade, states that the necessity of employ
ing good iron for rails is now so generally ac
knowledged that, in order to insure a superior
quality, one of the greatest railway companies
in England have established works to manu
facture their own iron; and another company,
not less important, are just about to follow their
example. The writer also thinks that the loss
of so many iron ships is to be attributed to the
bad quality •of m etal used in their construction.
ARMY OFFICERS RESIGNED. —Captain Nathan
G. Evans, of S. C., second. cavalry ; Second
Lieutenant George A. Cunningham, of Ga.,
second cavalry ; Captain W. D. De Saussure, of
S. C., first cavalry; First Lieutenant P. Stock
ton, of N, J . ., first cavalry ; Second Lieutenant
Horace Randal, of Tenn.,first dragoons; Sec
ond Lieutenant Samuel . Ferguson, of S. C.,
first dragoons; Captain Crawford Fletcher, of
Tenn., ninth infantry ; First Lieutenant Thomas
M. Jones, of Tenn., eighth infantry—all of the
United States army—have resigned.
Col. Henry Wilson, late an infantry officer
in the United States Army, has forwarded his
resignation to Washington, and offered his ser
vices to the Governor of Louisiana, of which
State he is a citizen. He had been ordered to
report himself at headquarters for actual ser
vice. He was one of the oldest officers in the
army, in rank following after Gen. Hartley.—
The Colonel has seen much active service in
Florida and Mexico. At one time he was
Governor of Vera Cruz.
By a decision of the Paris Court of Cessa
tion, jewellers and all manufacturers of fancy
articles are fully informed that it is unlawful
in France, in virtue of a Napoleonic decree, in
1852, against factious or treasonable emblems,
banners, &c., to introduce the fleur de his on any
jewel, bracelet, cabinet work, tapestry or up
holstery, and accordingly, the tribunal at Riom,
which, on the 28th November last year, gave a
more lenient interpretation to the law, was
wrong, and is rebuked.
Hon. Horatio King, now Postmaster General,
entered the Department over which he now pre
sides, when twenty-five or six years of age,
with an appointment as copying clerk, and a
salary of $l,OOO per annum. He was called
to the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship
on the dhath of Gen. Hobbie. He began his
publio career as conductor of a newspaper at
Paris, Me., having Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, now
Vice President elect, as his partner in the
business.
At a ball recently given in a fashionable
manner in Ilyde Park, London, five ladies had
their dresses burned in consequence of one of
them catching fire as the wearer a as perform
ing on the piano. The room being stripped of
its furniture t) accommodate the dancers, there
was nothing at hand to extinguish the flames.
One of the ladies died of her injuries, another
is expected to die, and the others were badly
burned.
TERRIBLE TRABEDM—We have been informed
of the outlines of a terrible tragedy which oc
curred in Sumter county, near Adamsville, on
the 13th inst. A man by the name of Andrews,
who was, until recently, a Methodist preacher,
killed, on that day, two . persons, - Messrs.
M'Clellan and G. M. Condry, and wounded two
othei;s, Lang and Clyatt. He was immediately
arrested and hung on the following day.—Fer
nandina Floridian. .
The ladies of India, with Lady Canning at
the head of the committee, purpose to erect a
monument over the well at Cawnpore, so well
known from the horrible circumstances attend
ing the mutiny at that place. Mr. Scott, R.
A., has made designs for the work.
Btu CONTRACTS.--R. S. Stephens, of LecoTp
ton, Kansas, has obtained the contract 'for
building two hundred houses for the Sac and
Fox Indians on their reserve in Southern Kan
sas. He is paid $5OO for each house; or $lOO,-
000 for the whole.
There are in England and Wales 39,338
known thieves and depredators; 4,407 receivers
of stelen.goods ; 30,780 fallen women; 37,688
suspected persons; 23,30 Tagrants—all prey
ing on the public and known to the police.
The walnut trees in Great Britain have
become very scarce, having been bought up by
the Government during the Crimean war, to
be made into musket stooks.
The exports of books from England are five
times 'the value of the imports, the former
nearly a million of dollars..
In con Sequence of Gen. Twigga' late condMit
in Texas, his name is to be stricken from'the
army Mb as a coward and a traitor,
ld
ci r ti P ws o aa w sm e bo r un ik isl i t i
i O n e The r a m e a n ' t oOr
country., Water
P a at the oldest edifiegy'
in 1083, about the
time of the landing of William Penn, for a nei, f
mill, and is still in operation, being capable of
making fifteen barrels of flour per day .
All supplies to Fort Sumpter are not Cut Gg ,
A tobacco dealer of New York sent some muo,
king tobacco to Major Anderson and his officers,
for which be has received a letter of thanks.
The delegates to the Georgia State r
, cavre ri .
tion have been summoned to assemble in sa,
vannah on March 7.
Cot Sumner is spoken of as likely to b e p ro ,
rooted to the generalship made vacant by th e
resignation of General Twiggs.
Florence Nightingale is the first comtribcter
to the fund for the proposed "Convalescent
Hospital" at Manchester, England.
An intelligent young Chinaman, clerk in it
tea store at St. Louis, was married last week
to a pretty young American girl.
Col. J. Franklin Reigart, of Lancaster, p a , ,
has been appointed an examiner in the Patent
Office at Washington.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
XXXVIth CONGRESS-SECOND SEMION,
WASHINGTON, March 1.
SENATE.—Mr. Crittenden, (Ky.,) presented
petitions from citizens of several States asking
for the adoption of measures of peace arid the
preservation of the Union. Several private
bills were passed.
House.—Mr. Philips from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported a bill, whi c h was
passed, regulating the value of the new silver
florin of Austria in the Custom House, the
computation being placed at 46.19 cents.
Mr. Washburne (Ill.) moved to postpon e
the report of the committee of thirty-three un-.
til the 4th of July.
The Speaker said the subject would not come
up for an hour,
Mr. Eby (N. Y.) unsuccessfully asked for ac
tion on the bill extending the contract with
Mr. Sibley for the building of the Pacific tele
graph line until December, HO, for the com
pletion of the same.
The House proceeded to the consideration of
Senate's amendment to the army bill.
The Missouri State Convention.
• ST. Lours, March 1,
Dispatches to the Democrat say that the
State Convention met at Jefferson City at eleven
o'clock yesterday morning, Budge Orr called
the Convention to order. Judge Hamilton R.
Gamble, of St. Louis, was elected temporary
chairman, and J. L. Miner, of Cole, temporary
secretary. Committees on credentials and per
manent organization were appointed, when it
being found that only 75 members were pre,
Sent, the Conventien adjourned till ten o'clock
to-day.
After a permanent organization is effected
the Convention will probably adjourn to St.
Louie, the Mercantile Library Hall being ten
dered for that purpose.
The news of the adjournment of the Peace
Conference, and the passage of Mr. Corwin'S
proposition, produced a pleasant effect upon
the members. Ex-Gov. Sterling Price will
probably be the permanent President.
Salutes.
Two salutes, of thirty-four guns each, were
fired by the Wayne Artillerists, Captain Lesher,
and the National Artillery, Captain Schell, of
this borough, this afternoon, in honor of the
passage of the tariff bill by Congress, and the
adoption of the peace propositions by the
Peace Congress.
The ceremonies were participated in by our
citizens without distinction of party. There is
a general rejoicing, and the utmost satisfaction
prevails.
ITOLLIDAYSBIIHO, March 1
The workingmen of this place fired a salute
of one hundred guns in honor of the passage
of the tariff bill by Congress.
The Markets.
PHILADELPHIA, March 1.
Flour firm; extra family at $5.75a6, and $6.37)07 for
fancy lots. Rye flour $3.60a3 62%. Corn meal $2.87,4
for Penna. Wheat—Fauna $1.33x1.35. Rye ad. Coen
68c. new, and 623%. for old. Whisky—Penna. 180.,
hhds. 1734 c.; Drudge 17a1734 o.
Floor dull; 7, "W
500 barrels sold. heat quiet; 10,000
bushels sold ; Milwankie Club $1 23. Corn quietand'an
changed ; 20,000 bushels sold. Provisions quiet and un
changed. Whisky firm at 18c. Iteceipte—Flour, 7,813
barrels ; Wheat, 5,793 bushels ; Corn, 4,000 bushels,
BALTIMORE, March 1.
Flour dull :and heavy; Ohio , and Howard Street are
held at $5.25. Wheat firm ; 'Red $1.25, White $1.60.
Corn active at 58a600. for Yellow and 63a650. for White.
Provisions steady. Mess Pork $l7. Lard 9Xe. Coffee
firm at 12A(a130. Whisky firm at 19%c.
MARRIED.
On the 14th ult., by Rev. Charles A. Hay, Mr. Marry;
ARNOLD and Mrs. JULIA Arm Merznawa, both of this
city.
On the 28th ult., by the same, Mr. Imam YANRY and
Mine MART Awn - WEAVER, both of this city.
New /Overtisements.
WANTED—At the EUROPEANTIO
TEL, a WHITE WOMAN to do house work.—
Apply to [mourol2-d3tit] E. C. WILLIAMS.
NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY.
MIOIMMMEMNI
NOTICE.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
ON AND AFTER FRIDAY, MARCH IsT, 1861, the
Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Railway will
leave Harrisburg as follows :
GOING SOUTH.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave at.. 3,00 a. m,
EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at . 7.40 a. in
MAIL TRAIN will leave at /.00
GOING NORTE
MAIL TRAIN will leave at 1.40 p. m.
EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at 8.60 p. in.
The only Train leaving Harrisburg on Sunday will 10
the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN South. at 3.00 a. in.
For further information apply at the office, in Pent -
aylvania Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent.
Harrisburg, March lst-dtf.
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?THE BIBLE ON DIVORCE.—The fol
-11
lowing words are from Mark a. v. 9, 12 :
not man
"What, therefore, Clod has joined together lat
Pilt.asunder."
"Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another
committetb 'adiatery. And if a woman shall put away
"
her husband and marry nein she committetli adultery.
Legislatbrs and others., the - above is the aid. of the
Supreme Lawgiver, from which there is do appeal. --
"What, therefore, Gild 'has 'joined together let DO man
put asunder." janl2 dtf
NORRISTOWN, March 1
Nsw Pm, March 1."