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ble, the missing papers, and give them to the
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Being of a kindly disposition, we trust that
the Republican members of the Legislature now
on a visit to Washington, for the purpose of
laying their claims to office before the incoming
Administration, may be successful, and that
not a single applicant may have occasion to
utter the wail of bitter disappointment. If
"Old Abe" don't look with favor upon the reams
of recommendations taken from this place, we
shall be compelled to regard him as a hardened
old wretch, utterly insensible to true merit.
Common gratitude should induce him to appoint
every member of the Legislature applying for
office, because this is their last chance. Many
of them will never get office from the people
again.
Big Promises.
To judge from Republican newspapers, the
country is to enjoy a perfect elysium under the
new Administration. One of them says :
"Under a government where gigantic frauds
upon the Treasury and a profligate wasteful
ness of expenditure will be unknown, and un
der a government that will direct all its ener
gies to the promotion of the national prosperity,
our progress will still be rapid, and our burden
of taxation decrease."
This prospect is delightful. No "gigantic
frauds"—no " profligate expenditure." But
alas for human frailty ! We fear that hereafter
as heretofore, rogues will sometimes get into
office. Even among the Democrats, this pes
tiferous class have made their appearance now
and then.
The Apportionment
The official returns of the population of
Pennsylvania having been transmitted to the
- Legislature, the duty of apportioning the State
into Congressional districts will devolve upon
it at this session. Select committees for that
purpose have already been appointed. As the
Republicans have undisputed control of the
Legislature, they will, of course, make an ap
portionment to snit themselves. Fortunately,
this power is to be exercised at a time when
the politics of the State are in an unsettled
condition, and no amount of forecast can de
termine what may be the position of particular
districts when the next election occurs. We
don't profess to speak prophetically, but we
have a presentiment that the days of the Re
publican party are numbered, and that an in
genious gerrymander will avail them nothing.
The Old and 4he New.
On this fourth day of March, James Bu
chanan will retire from the office of President
of the United States, and Abraham Lincoln
will assume the duties of that high and respon
sible position. The outgoing of one adminis
tration and the incoming of another, usually
attended with so little popular commotion, and
usually causing no strain upon our political
system, is on this occasion an event which
creates the most anxious solicitude for the wel
fare of the country. For the first time in the
history of our Union a President is to be in
augurated who was elected by one section of
the nation, and whose principles are totally
inimical to the rights and interests of the in
habitants of another section. The sentiment
of hostility to the South which elevated Mr.
Lincoln to the position which he is about to
assume, has already produced the most direful
results. Seven States have solemnly deter
mined that their rights are no longer secure
within the Union, and have declared themselves
no len ger members of the Confederacy, andfree d
from its jurisdiction. Other States participate
in this feeling of apprehension, and are calmly
awaiting the course of events, and preparing
to remain in the Union in case their rights are
acknowledged, but to join the seceding States
if their rights are denied. This is the position
of the country when Mr. Lincoln is called upon
to take the oath of allegiance to the Constitu
tion, and to assume the responsibility of pre
siding over the Union. He is no longer per
mitted to doubt that the sectional principles
which his party embraced, have caused the
disruption of the Confederacy. He cannot
deny that the country is in the midst of a
revolution created by sectional hatred and party
animosity. A great responsibility rests upon
him. It is for him to determine whether the
work of his party shall be finished, and the
whole South shall be divided front the North
in fact, as the Chicago platform divides them
in principle ; or 'whether the progress of dis
integration shall be checked, and comparative
harmony and confidence restored by a timely
recession from a position which has already
produced enough of min. H e stands at the
forks of the road. In his hands the destinies
of the country are placed. Upon his indi
vidual will hinge great results. He must de
cide between his country and his party. If he
adheres rigidly, uncompromisingly to his party
platform, it must be at the expense of the
Union. If be looks first to the preservation Of
the Union, and elevates himself above party,
he may repair some of the evils already accom
plished, and prevent much that is fearfully anti.
cipated.
While the people are waiting in breathless
suspense for the first words from the new Pre
sident indicative of the policy that he intends
to pursue in the administration of the Govern
ment, let us not forget the President who to
day completes his official term and retires into
the congenial quiet of private life. Although
secession has occurred under his administra
tion, it was not of his producing or of the
party that he represents. Had the national
principles animating and controlling him been
perpetuated in the new administration the
country would not now be convulsed, and we
would not now have to lament over the fact of
secession. It was because of the apprehension
that the new adminstration would inaugurate
a different policy that certain States cut loose
from their ancient moorings.
Although secession occurred under the ad
ministration of Mr. Buchanan he retires from
office with the proud consciousness that his
pacific policy has averted the impending ca
lamity of civil war—that so far no blood has
been shed, and not a single life lost in the
midst of commotions which excited the very
deepest and the most wide spread excitement.
A single hasty or imprudent step would at
almost any moment within the past three months
have been the signal for a war the extent of
which no man can forsee and the horrors of
which imagination can hardly conjecture. In
the face of calumny which no other man has
been compelled to submit to, and which was
unparalelled in malignity and ferocity, Mr.
Buchanan has steadily directed all his official
movements so as to preserve the peace of the
country, and to interpose no bloody obstacle to
a pacific settlement of our national troubles.
This was a wise course for which the people
will some day do him justice.
To THS EDITORS OF THE PATRIOT AND UNION :
—Gentlemen—On the retirement of President
Washington from office, the following article
appeared in the noted paper the Aurora:
"'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart
in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation,'
was the pious ejaculation of a man who beheld
a flood of happiness rushing in upon mankind.
If there ever was a time that would license the
reiteration of the exclamation, that time is now
arrived. For the man who is the source of all
the misfortunes of our country is this day reduced
to a level with his fellow-citizens—is no longer
possessed of power to multiply evils upon the Uni
ted States. If ever there was a period for rejoi
cing, this is the moment. Every heart in unison
with the freedom and happiness of the people
ought to beat high with exultation that the
name of Washington from this day ceases to
give currency to political iniquity, and to
legalize corruption ! A new era is now opening
upon us, and an era that promises much to the
people. For public measures now stand upon
their own merits, and nefarious projects can no
longer be supported by a name. When a
retrospect is taken of the Washington Admin
istration for eight years, it is a subject of the
greatest astonishment that a single individual
could have cankered the principles of Republi
canism in an enlightened people, and should
have carried his designs against the public
liberty so far as to have put in jeopardy its very
existence. Such, however, are the facts, and
with these staring us in the face, this day ought
to be a. jubilee in the United States."
The Aurora 'was published under the eye of
Jefferson by Bache. I believe neither of them
deserted either their party or their political
principles. To aid John W. 'Forney in getting
up something of the kind against Mr. Buchanan,
please have the above inserted in your valuable
paper. No TRAITOR.
OPINION. OP 'A 0-201IGIAIV ON THE PRESENT
STATE OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Correspondence of the Patriot and Union
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, February 25, 1861.
Mr. EDITOR :—There is a great deal being said
at the North against the southern people in regard
to the secession movement; but if New England
with New York and Ohio find it to their best in
terest to form a government for themselves, who
on earth could prevent them as Sovereign States ?
Surely not we of the South would raise the least
obstruction to their departure. God speed them in
peace and harmony ! Pat the South in that posi
tion and you threaten it with war and bloodshed.
The right of secession is based upon the fact
that a free people can by no aot of theirs enslave
or dispossess themselves of the right of adjusting
their freedom and happiness—the right of frater
nity and co-partnership admit the right of dissol
ving and repealing the same—and certainly the
terms conceding, acceding, assenting, imply their
counterpart seceding and dissenting. And when
the southerners can no longer for their safety live
in a government that looks to their final overthrow,
it becomes vital to them to separate and take along
with them (what was originally theirs) that domain
and territory contributed as a common fund. This
is the spirit and common sense understanding of
the original federation, or else our fathers stulti
fied themselves by dissolving connection with one
dominant power to place themselves in a far worse
condition, a condition none the better than a Rus
sian despotism.
The northerners know these facts and have con
stantly avowed them ; but new visions have lately
come over their dreams; the idea of consolidation
takes foothold with a party just sprung into power,
whose will is above the Constitution—ignores the
sovereignty of the States, and stands out in bold
relief for coercing disaffected States right cr wrong.
If the States are not sovereign, whence is their
well organized governments preceding the federa
tion and continuing thus to this day; for surely
never since or before the Declaration of Indepen
dence has any satrap, potentate, supreme ruler or
king dispensed and appointed to office our Gover
nors, Legislatures, due. Indeed the government at
Washington has never been anything else than the
creature of the sovereign States, and held together
by their sufferance. It is the most consummate
amount or arrogance, hambuggery and impudence,
and nothing less, that this creature (the govern
ment) should threaten our peace and happiness
with violence and invasion—and the assumed pro
tection of property in our midst is a mere pretext
to this end. The South formed an integral part of
this government concern when these forts were
sold or conceded to the United States; they were
built for her protection exclusively, aye, and with
our money too ; and to hold them new that wo are
out of the old concern is, to say the least of such
an act, high-handed and tyrannical. Not slaves
and vassals are we to the North, but with original,
inalienable right of establishing at home our hap.
piness as best we can.
The agents of the Washington government are
but suppliapt tools of Black Republicans, and play
ing into their hands. The South has a share in the
assets of the dissolved co -partnership, but unjustly
denied the same. I tell you, air, that these ruffian
disorganisers will rue the day that they succeed in
.Afrieanising these Southern States and convert
them into another Jamaica, St. Domingo or Mexico.
Let us alone. Let us depart in peace. We en
tertain now no hostility to the North; we have
ever been loyal and faithful servants to the Con
stitution. With this honesty of purpose, our see.
tion, with its sound conservatism, is destined to
preserve the right of white men on this continent
whilst the North with its consolidation will be held
together by military dictation. Northerners are par.
titularly hostile to South Carolina; but ignore
that element of manly resistance in a people and
you strike from under them all that is dear to man.
Noble little State ! She has always been as a
faithful watchman upon the walls of the temple of
liberty. She it was that checked that wanton
greed of plunder on a former occasion; and by
taking the initiative in our present troubles and
throwing herself in the breach, she emphatically
becomes the Saviour of the South—if anything can
stave away the black cloud of fanaticism and eman
cipation that forbode us.
There is now not a shadow of excuse against us;
our Southern Confederate Statcs having ignored
the exclusive navigation of the Mississippi and its
mouth.
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
A SOUTHERN VIEW OF THE CRISIS IN NEW YORK
The New York correspondent of the Charles
ton Tifercury writes as follows:
The accumulation of specie in New York
banks ($34,000,000) is deceptive. It, with the
deposits, is proof of an awful stagnation in bu
siness. People are afraid to move their money,
to invest it in anything, and above all, to en
gage in any new business enterprise. There is
a heavy strain upon the importing and jobbing
merchants, Several large and extensive dry
goods firms have failed for heavy sums, within
the past fortnight ; others are shaking in the
wind. And if the present condition of trade
continues sixty days longer, they will fall by
scores. In the mean time manufacturers are
suffering on every hand. Fancy storekeepers
are idle; cabinet-makers, piano-forte builders,
house-carpenters, brick-layers, ship-builders,
are all suffering, and thousands of persons are
out of employment. The Soeiety for the Relief
of the Poor report that there are 18,000 desti
tute poor on their hands, to relieve the press
ing wants of whom their means are wholly in
adequate. All the charitable institutions are
full and overflowing. The Black Republican
papers labor daily to prove to the misguided
people of the North that the Southern States,
and South Carolina in particular, are the cause
of all the change in prosperity, when all the
world should know—and history will so record
the fact—that the whole calamity has been
caused by the villainous anti-slavery sectional
crusade of the Northern Abolitionists against
the rights and property of the South.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND ENGLISH
SYMPATHY.
The London Times, of February 7, in a lead
ing article, makes a more extraordinary display
of sympathy for American troubles and dangers
than any that has yet emanated from the En
glish press. After administering a natural
rebuke to the inflated national pride which hasp
characterised much of the conversation and
speech making, and many of the written ful
minations of Americans, it proceeds to vindi
cate England from the charge of indifference
to our present misfortunes. It refers to the
Queen's speech, to the address of both Houses
of Parliament, in answer to it, and proclaims
that they "put on record five national regrets
of the British people at the troubles that have
befallen America." It states that in the aris
tocratic assemblies that legislate for the British
people there was but one wish that the States
should compose their difficulties. It declares
even that the attitude of England is most un
favorable to the Secessionists ; it recites with
approbation the different steps Caked by Union
ists, and trusts that the sentiments expressed
in England may induce the Southerners to
moderate their passions, and the free tates to
maks every concession which is consistent with
honor and self respect. The article certainly
indicates that England will be far from doing
any thing to aggravate our perplexities, and•
that none will be more ready to hail the pros
pect of their disappearance.
VIRGINIA CONVENTION
Itionuonn, March I.—ln the convention to
day a resolution was offered and referred that
an ordinance be passed submitting to the voters
of the State the question whether Virginia
should remain with the North or secede and
join the South.
Another resolution was offered that Virginia
should use her best efforts to procure a vote
of all the States on the question of Union or
disunion on the basis of the Peace Conference
propositions, and will co-operate with the
States agreeing with her.
Mr. Baylor finished his Union speech, and
endorsed the Peace Conference propositions.
He said he was opposed to the right of seces
sion, and also to coercion.
Mr. Turner, of Warren, made a speech, in
which he said he meant to use all his efforts
for an adjustment, and if they failed, Virginia
ought to unite with the South.
Mr. Goode, of Mecklenburg, denounced the
peace propositions.
A long debate on a resolution inviting the
Peace Commission ers to address the convention
took place, and finally a substitute merely in
viting them to seats was adopted. The debate
indicated that the peace propositions are accept
able to the Union men. The secessionists
denounce them. Some are undecided.
NORTHERN PATRIOTISM
Commodore Stockton is reported to have said
in the Peace Congress, that for every regiment
raised in the North for coercion,
two would be
raised to defend it at home. He even goes
further and says, unless the Abolitionists offer
conciliation and compromise before conflict, he
will head one of the home regiments in New
Jersey, and stand pledged that no foreign regi
ments shall pass over her consecrated soil—
Princeton and Trenton Dattle-fields—to fight
the countrymen of Washington, who stood upon
them and there bled for Jerseymen.
WARLIKE PREPARATIONS AT THE SOUTH
The Southern papers are full of items con
cerning the warlike preparations in the Con
federated States. There are three powder mills
in Pickens District, S. C., turning out some
fifty kegs a day. A firm in Savannah has
contracted for 3,000 shot and shell for South
Carolina, and another firm in Mobile is casting
cannon balls, grape, &c. A company of seventy
recruits, for the South Carolinian army, passed
through Augusta, Ga., on the 23d inst., from
Tennessee. For the regular army of Georgia
recruiting is going on all over that State. In
Athens a company of forty had been enlisted up
to the close of last week. The volunteers in
Fort Pulaski are to be discharged and the new
regulars substituted for them. The Columbia
Times publishes a letter from a delegate to the
Southern Congress, in which he says :
We intend to put the strongest force in the
field which can be raised, and the President will
accept from the States all the men that may be
tendered. They will be received with their
own officers, but the President must settle all
questions of rank and position under the au
thority of Congress. My information is, that
Davis will endeavor to secure for the officers of
the United States Army, who have resigned,
the best positions first, upon the ground that
they are experienced and capable. There has
as yet been nothing done by the Congress as
to the raising of troops, except possibly, in
committee. We are delaying much time over
the most trivial matters. We have a set of new
men, uninformed upon the laws of the United
States, and all anxious to speak.
THE NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE HOPEFUL
The New Orleans Picayune of Monday last
has an article under the caption of "The Sober
Second Thought," which concludes as follows:
In view of the recent and daily occurring
manifestations of public opinion at the North,
it would be useless and absurd for Black Re
publican writers to assert now ? as they did
some time ago, that Lincoln will never consent
to administer the government upon any other
principles than those announced in the Chicago
platform. The fiat has gone forth. Parties
and platforms must give way when they endan
ger the safety of the country. The people of
the North, misguided for a time, cannot now be
made to believe that they must give to party
the allegiance which is due alone to Country.
We said some time ago that the issue being
fairly presented to the people of the North,
and the selfishness of Black Republicanism
being made manifest, they would not prefor
party to country ; that they would tear down
the platform based on injustice, and consign
its constructors and prominent supporters to a
long and dreary exile from public favor and
public station. The signs point unmistakably
to such a result, and are among the most grati
fying, as they are most conclusive, of the many
indications of the good time coming.
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE.—It was once
the custom to read Spenser and Shakspeare,
and Fletcher and Addison, and Jeremy Taylor
and Hooker. This was at a time when the
circulating library was filled exclusively with
fictions of the Minerva school, or with poetry
such as Hayley wrote. There was no great
temptation in that time of dearth to confine
one's reading to the contemporary literature.
But times are changed. The shelves of our
great reading clubs and libraries are crowded
with the novels of Thackeray, Dickens, Lytton,
Bronte, Kingsly ; with the histories of Carlyle,
Fronde, Macaulay; with the poetry of Tenny
son and Ruskin; with the theology of Maurice,
JowAt, and Robertson, with a host of authori
ties on science and travel. Such a literature
as this is more than sufficient for the time and
capacity of an ordinary student, and we need
not wonder that the number of readers who
limit their reading to the publications of the
twelvemonth should increase every day. Yet
we may be sure that such a limitation has an
essentially narrowing influence, and produces
a very injurious effect on the mind. All the
writers of an age, however diversified their
styles, and however peculiar their mental habits,
are en rapport. They breathe the same air,
they handle the same topics, they are acted
upon by the same influences. So that a critic
can tell, not more (ruin the occurrences in their
works of direct allusion to cotemporary events,
than from some trick of manner, some habit of
thought, or some trait or feeling of character,
whether an author belongs to the age of Eliza
beth, or of Charles, or of Anne. or of the
Georges. Every nation has a iipersonality" of
its own. Now, the reader who reads the wri
tings of his cotemporaries only cannot escape
their influence. He bows slavishly to their
authority; their taste becomes his taste, their
prejudices his prejudices. The intense pres
sure which writers near to us exercise upon
our feelings and convictions requires, if we
should preserve intellectual manliness and
moderation, to be staved off ; and this can only
be done by making ourselves acquainted with
the modifications of taste and opinion which
have obtained in different ages of literature.—
Frazer's Magazine.
THE Clans AND TIIII HOTELS.—The famous
"Girard House," in Philadelphia, as announced
a few days ago, has been compelled to close
cause, the panic, and the effects of rivalry in
the business. In New York, some of the public
houses have suffered severely in their receipts;
others have had as much business as they could
well attend to. The Metropolitan and St. Nich
olas miss a considerable portion of their South
ern customers. In January and early in the
present month, there was a large decrease of
patronage compared with last year ; but now,
there are signs of returning favor from the
South and Southwest; and the falling off from
those quarters is partially made up by an in
crease from the West and Northwest, where
trade was uncommonly depressed last year at
this time. The Fifth Avenue Thuuse has had
200 steady high priced boarders through the
winter, and an average of 200 transient. Last
week, in consequence of the military display
and other temporary attractions in the city, this
House and the Metropolitan were both taxed
for accommodations to their full capacity, which
was a welcome change. The Brevoort House
has been full, but it accommodates only a few
more than 100. The Albemarle, opposite Mad
ison square, has fared very well, and the Eve
rett House has also been well sustained, in
large part from steady boarders. The large
down town houses, including the Astor, have
not averaged more than half the extent of their
accommodations. Thus it appears that politics
don't help hotels—the recognized Republican
headquarters suffering in common with Union
sstablishments.—New York Journal of Com
merce.
HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A GIRL BURNING TO
DEATH.-At a coroner's inquest held on the
body of a young girl who was recently burned
to death in New York city, the physician who
attended the deceased testified that before she
died she told him that a young man named
George Spader, who resided in the house, on
hearing her screams, came down stairs, when
she begged him to save her from burning to
death. Instead of attempting to extinguish the
flames, he ordered her out of the house ; but
as she did not obey him at once, he immedi
ately seized her and roughly ejected her into
the yard, when she lay upon the grass plot until
her clothes were almost entirely burned off of
her. Another of the servants came down stairs,
and not seeing her, went into the yard, where
she found the poor girl trying to screen her
nakednes behind the cistern. Ultras also stated
that the girl had called the attention of her
mistress to the unsafe condition of the lamp.
RAILWAY WHEELS .-A constant traveler writes
to the London Times :
It ought, I think, to be publicly made known
that the London and South-western railway com
pany have long since taken such precautions with
respect to the wheels of their carriages as that the
breaking of a tyre does not in the least degree af
fect the safety of passengers. This morning I was
informed by the best authority that one of their
wagons had traveled more than one thousand miles
with a tyre of one of its wheels broken. What
that company have done for the safety of passen
gers, other railway ootapauies might do, and ought
to do.
SUITS Pon LlBEl.—Jerome Foster, known as
" Whiplash," of the United States (Philadel
phia) Police Gazette, has been arrested in Chi
cago on a charge of libels, perpetrated upon
many respectable citizens. When arrested he
attempted to cut his throat with a razor, and
subsequently, during his examination, sent to
a drug store for prussic acid. The druggist
suspecting something wrong dispensed colored
water instead, which, upon receiving, the pris
oner swallowed. He was held to bail to answer
the charge of malicious libel.
Dr. tallier states that he has cured a baker,
horribly bdrned by the fire of an oven, by
keeping him in a bath of cold water, in the
open air, during eighteen hours consecutively.
The temperature of.the bath was kept very low
by the frequent addition of water from a well.
The patient felt no pain from the time of his
immersion; when removed from the bath all
trace of the burns had disappeared, and he was
able to be at work again in five day s after the
occurrence of the accident.
In the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, an
action was brought by a jeweler to recover the
sum of £64 from the late Lord Mayor of that
city, Alderman Carroll, for the use of plate,
&e., at his lordship's inaugural dinner. The
jury awarded a portion of the claim only.--
During the hearing of the case, it transpired
that it takes two men for six weeks to clean the
things after a banquet of this character.
The editor of the Western (Va.) Guard says:
"lie who asserts that we are an Abolitionist
or a Black Republican, is a liar to all intents
and purposes." Over this paragraph is a wood
cut of a pistol.
GENERAL NEWS.
SAD CASE.—A little over two weeks since, a
young lady, member of the Bowdoin Square
Baptist Choir, in Boston, died of diptheria.—
Her sister, also a member of the choir, started
with the body on Monday morning of week be
fore last for the home of the parents, in a rural
town in Maine. She had hardly reached home
when she also was attacked by the same disease
and carried off, and the sisters were buried side
by side in the same cemetery.
AMERICAN HORSES IN ENGLAND.—MT. Ten
Broeck, the American turfman, has entered
Umpire, Satellite and Maggiore in a free han
dicap of $l5O each, $lOO forfeit, to be run on
the Tuesday of the Newmarket Craven Meeting.
Their are 8G entries, so that the stake must
necessarily be a large one, for if they all paid
forfeit the money would amount to the sum of
$8,600.
THE LATE MAJOR GWYNN.—Major T. P.
Gwynn, of the United States army, who died
at Norfolk on Wednesday last, entered the
service over forty years ago, and served with
destinction in the Black Hawk and Seminole
wars, and was second in command in the seige
of Puebla, Mexico. He was a native of Prince
Edward county, Va. He lost his sight in Mex
ico, and has been blind ever since.
A SEA SICK INAUGURATION PARTY.—A party
of gentlemen started in a pilot•boat from New
York on Wednesday last to be present at the
inauguration ceremonies at Washington; but
being overtaken with sea sickness off Barnegat,
they employed a tug to tow the vessel back, on
Thursday. They were all placed in the quar
antine hospital.
The Avenir Commercial gives some details
respecting the new coinage to be issued in
France. All the pieces are to bear the impres
sion of the Emperor's head, crowned with lau•
rels, in token of his Italian victories. On the
gold and some of the silver coins the present
reverse ie to be replaced by the imperial arms,
mantle, sceptre, &o.
A company has been organized for the pur
pose of constructing a railroad from the Cata
ract House, Niagara Falls, to the Clifton House,
on the Canada side, the Mrs to be propelled by
a stationary engine. The line will be laid
along the track of the New York Central to
the suspension bridge, thence across the river
and up the Canada side.
A party started from New York on Wednesday
for Washington, to be present at the inaugura
tion ceremonies, but being overtaken with sea
sickness off Barnegat, they employed a tug to
tow the vessel back to New York, arriving on
ThUrsday. They were all placed in the Qua
rantine Hospital.
The Corliss Steam Engine company of Pro
vidence, R. 1.. have just completed an engine of
120 horse power for Messrs. Pink & Son, Aber
deen, Scotland. The fact is very gratifying to
our national pride, as the most celebrated
manufactories of steam engines in Europe are
located in Scotland.
Jesse Hare, lately deceased in Lynchburg,
Va., was one of the oldest and wealthiest citi
zens of the place, and leaves a very large estate,
probably but little if any short of two millions
of dollars in value, as the fruits of a long life
of toil, perseverance, economy, and far-sighted
judgment.
The United States take annually about
$40,000,000 worth of silk from Europe. In
France the price of silk undergoes great
fluctuations. The first and second classes of
silk, which were at 105 and 107 francs in 1851,
fell to 84 and 99 francs in 1854, and rose last
year to 134 and 135 francs.
RESIOINED.—Major and Assistant Quarter
master General George M. Dees, (of Pa.,) U.
S. A., has resigned, to become Adjutant Gen
eral of Louisiana. Mr. Theodore Lewis, mili
tary storekeeper, ordnance department, now a
citizen of Louisiana, has also resigned.
The Miocrouri Legislature recently adopted a
resolution that the public printing be done by
convicts; but the resolution fell still-born
from the table, because it was ascertained that
of all the criminals in the penitentiary not one
was a printer.
Mrs. R. A. Lockwood, of Lafayette, Indiana,
recently received a letter from Col. Fremont at
New York, informing her that he was ready to
pay over a fee of $lOO,OOO, due her husband,upcti
the determination in his favor of the celebrated
Mariposa Claim suit.
An English writer in Blackwood's Magazine,
on iron-clad ships of war, says to the British
Government: " Call in the mechanical and
engineering skill of Great Britain and America
openly in the face of all nations, and let others
match us if they can."
The State Treasurer of South Carolina
acknowledges, in the Charleston papers of
Thursday, the receipt of $1,600 as donations
to the State from six of its citizens.
Gen. Cass passed through Wheeling, Va., on
Wednesday, en route for home, accompanied by
his - widowed daughter and her children.
It is stated that five printers occupy the pul
pits of five churches in Portsmouth, Va.
The Old Eagle gold mine in Virginia lately
yielded $1,020 in one week.
The stay law before the North Carolina Le
gislature has been defeated.
Radishes, dandelions and fresh shad have
made their appearancein the Boston market
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
ninth CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
WASHINGTON, March 2
Howsn.—The Speaker laid before the House
a letter from Thomas H. Ford, resigning his
office as printer.
The occasional struggle for a recognition by
the Speaker, occasioned the greatest possible
confusion among the members, twenty or more
sometimes vigorously springing to their feet,
holding in their outstretched hands the propo
sitions they severally strove to offer. The
chorus, gt Mr. Speaker," was deafening, but
that officer bore this infliction with becoming
resignation.
Mr. Haskin (N. Y.) from the Committee on
Printing, reported resolutions, which were
passed, to print 20,000 copies of the Committee
on Investigation in the abstracted bonds case ;
the same number of Mordecia's and Delafield's
report on military operations in the Crimea ;
and 20,000 copies of the Morrill tariff WU, as
amended on its passage.
The House then proceeded to the considera
tion of the Senate's amendments to the Post
Office appropriation bill.
The President sent a message to the House,
in compliance with the resolution heretofore
adopted, as to the reasons which induced him
to assemble so large a number of troops in
Washington. He submits that the number is
not so large as the resolution presupposes, its
total amount being 653, exclusive of the ma
rines, who are of course at the Navy Yard as
their appropriate station. These troops were
ordered here to act as aposse commitatus in strict
subordination to the civil authority, for the
purpose of preserving peace and order in Wash
ington, should this become necessary before
or at the inauguration of the President elect.
What was the duty of the President ai the time
the troops were ordered to the city ? Ought he
to have waited before this precautionary mea
sure was adopted until he could obtain proof
that a secret conspiracy existed to seize the
Capitol ? In the language of the select commit
tee, " this was a time of high excitement con
sequent upon revolutionary events trans
piring around us ; the very air was filled
with rumors,
and individuals were indulging
in the most extravagant expressions of fear
and threats. " Under these and other cir
cumstances, which I need not detail but
which appear in the testimony before the
Select Committee, I was convinced, he says,
that I ought to act. The safety of the im
mense amount of publie property in thin city,
and that of the archives of government
which all the States, and especially th e tie
States, it 3 which the public lands are Ota n i:
have a deep interest—the peace andOr u a
er of
the city itself, and the security of the tun k %
ration of the President elect, are object`af
such vast importance to the whole country
that I could not hesitate to adopt precautionar
defensive measures.
At the present moment, when all is qui et i ,
is difficult to realize the state of alarm which
prevailed when the troops were first ordered ta
this city. This almost instantly subsided after
the arrival of the first company, and a f edi __
of comparative peace and security has si nce g
isted, both in the House and throughout th e
country. Had I refused to adopt this plu m
tionary measure, and the evil consequ eneo
which many good men at the time apprehended.
had followed, I should never have forgi m
myself.
SEaarE.—The galleries are crowded.
Mr. Pearce (Ind.) made a report from th e
Committee of Conference on the Lidice bill.
The report was agreed to.
A communication from the President iva .
received, transmitting the papers in relation to
the Anderson extradition case. Ordered to b e
printed.
A number of reports from the Committee on
Printing were adopted.
The report in favor of printing si tiipsws
survey of a wagon road was laid over.
A number of private bills Were passed.
Mr. Sumner made a motion to amend or cor
rect the journal where it said, "the resolutions
from the House, of Mr. Corwin, were read the,
first and second time by unanimous consent."
Ile contended that the resolutions were not
read a second time. He himself had obje c t e d ,
as well as others who were near Lim.
Mr. Douglas (Ill.) claimed that it was ?ear l
twice and was made the special order. The
discussion was continued for some time.
Mr. Foote (Vt.) presented credentials from
Jacob Collamer, re-elected United States Sen
ator from Vermont.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, March, 2.
The Secretary of War has published an offi
cial order dismissing Gen. Twiggs from the
army for treachery to the flag of his country,
in having surrendered, on the demand of the
authorities of Texas, the military posts and
other property of the United States in his de
partment and under hie charge.
Forty-three army officers have resigned their
eemeatesions slice the passage of the South
Carolina ordinance of secession. Several of
them, however, without reference to that oub•
ject.
The formation of President Lincoln's cabinet
excites, if possible, more intense interest than
heretofore, there tieing no conclusion as to sev
eral gentlemen who have been prominently
named in that connection. Their respective
friends are still vigorously engaged to secure
their appointment. The President elect was
engaged till 2 o'clock this morning in hearing
what the ardent politicians had to say on this
subject.
The Post Route bill recently passed contains
a section requiring ten cents to be prepaid as
the letter postage to and from the Pacific coast,
without regard to distance. All drop letters
are hereafter to be prepaid with stamps.
North Carolina Election. •
raLIEGII, March 2.
The mails and telegraph furnish reports
from thirty-seven counties. There are twenty
one for compromise and thirteen for secession,
while three are divided. It is probable that
the State has decided against a Convention by
a small majority. Malay of the Union counties
have given majorities for the Convention.
From Texas.
NEW ORLEANS, March 2
Galveston advioes state that Captain Hill, in
his reply to the Texas Commissioners, refused
to evacuate Fort Brown, or to surrender the
government property. It is also stated that
Captain Hill has ordered reinforcements from
Ringgold barracks, to enable him to maintain
his post, and retake the property on Brazos
Island. A collision is imminent between the
Federal troops and State forces.
Rhode Wand Legislature.
PROVIDENCE, March 2
The House this morning refused, by a tie
xote, to instruct the Senators and Representa
tives in Congress to vote for the propositions
recommended by the Peace Conference.
The Tariff Bill Passed.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2.
A private dispatch from Washington says
that the President has signed the tariff
Nero abertiormento.
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NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY.
NOTICE.
• CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
ON AND AFTER FRIDAY, MARCH Ism, 1881, the
Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Railway will
leave Harrisburg as follows :
GOING SOUTH.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave at.. 2.00 a. ra
EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at...... •• - . 7,40 a. m
MAIL TRAIN will leave at 1.00 p.m.
GOING NORTH
MAIL TRAIN will leave at 1.40 p. m.
EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at 8.50 p. m.
The only Train leaving Harrisburg on Sunday will le
the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN Smith. at 3.00 a. nth
For further information apply at the office, in Pam
eylvania Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent.
Harrisburg, March lat-dtf.
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THE 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 his wife and marry another
committeth adultery. And if a woman shall put away
her husband and marry again she committeth adultery."
Legislators and others, the above is the edict of the
Supreme Lawgiver, from which there is do appeal.—
"What, therefore, God has joined together let no mark
put asunder." janl2 dtf
PUBLIC NOTICE.—The undersigned,
Commissioners of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania,
hereby inform the public in general that, in consequence
of the approaching completion of the new Court House
of the county, in the city of Harrisburg, a number of
County Loans are solicited, for which
be
bonds pay
able at from three to thirty years, will be executed to
the lender clear of all taxes, arid semi-annual interest
will be paid punctually at the Dauphin County Treasury.
Therefore, persons wishing to make safe investments,
will, it is expected, avail themselv N es ß. of this ll opportunityßEßß, .
JOH M
JACOB BERM,
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