RATES OF ADVERTISING-.
Bens Huai Or less constitute half a opera. Ten lines
or more than fonr, constitute a square.
o one
Ilalfsq.,oneday— $0.26 One sq., one $0.50
‘c wees. 00 one week.-- 1.26
ti n month., • 1.2.00 one month. «. 8.00
uthree months, e h-,
S.OO ig three mouths. 6.00
" sismonths— . 4.00 it Az mouth's.— 4.01)
et one pear...-• 6.00 if one year.— 10.00
Er. tininess notices issei.ted. in the bOOLL COMMIE, or
before
To merchantsand other!' adireltilliEgby the year
iihenate, sa will oe , 0 /re red •
lir me nuintierothisertionil Met he ieli tedon the
gua
ivertisernen t.
At .rnegea apa Death. will be inserted et the same
e mu, rt-s..ur_ulrerlise mente.
. _
tiooko, Stationer% &r.
_ .
CHOOL BOOKS.—School Directors,
Teachers, Parents, Scholars 3 Ind QUM, in want of
School Books, School Stationery, &c., will find a complete
sasortment at S. M. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STORE,
Market Square, Harrisburg, comprising in part the follow
ing--
ANADlP3.—MeGulrey'e, Parker's, Cobb's, Angell's
SPELLING BOOKS.—McGufferS, Cobb's, Webster's,
Town's, Byerles. Combry's,
GRAXXABS.—BuIIion,s, Smith% Wood
brilldge's,M Monteith ' s, Tuthill's, Mattis, WOO'.
ITORIMS.-- Grimshaw's, Davenrt FroStie, Wil
son's, Willsxd% Goodrich's, Pinnock' po s, 's doldilMith's and
Markle.
ABITHMSTICIS.--Gree nears , Stoddard:la, imerSon's)
Pike's, Bose's, Colburn's, Smith and Duke's, Davis's.
ALUBBlLAS.—Greenleaea, Davies, Day's, Bay's,
Bries.
DICTIONARYS.—WaIker's School, Cobb's, Walker,
Worcester's Comprehensive, Worcester's Primary, Web
ster's Primary, Webster's High School, Webster's Quarto,
Leadowue.
NATURAL PUlLOsorittllS.--Cowudoeltia,
Swift's. The above with a great variety of others can at
any time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort
ment of School Stationery, embracing in the edit is
a ctore_om
plete outfit for school purpose. An book mot in the s
procured At one days notice.
ICountry Merchants supplied at wholesale rates.
ALMANACS—John Baer and Son's Almanac tar sale ai
X, POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STORK, Harrisburg. l
tEr "Wholeaals and Retail. my
JUST RECEIVED
AT
SCHEEFER'S BOOKSTORE,
ADAMAN IRE SI. - 1 1 TE S
OP VARIOUS SIZES AND PRICES,
Which, for beauty and use, cannot be excelled.
REMEISIDEII TUE PLACE,
SCHBFFERI3 BOOKSTORE,
NO. 18 MARKET STREET. mart
NEW BOOKS!
JOST RECEIVED
" 08A.1 4 ANTI BAY," by the author of Wide, Wide
World," "Dollars and Cents, 77 &Q.
"HISTORY OF HET HODISIK,"by A. Stevens,l.L.D.
Eor sale at SCHEFFERS , BOOKSTORE,
/TB No. IS Marke at.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LABOR AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER BLINDS,
Of various Designs and Oolong, for 8 cents,
TISSUE PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER,
013,241 SCREEFERIS BOOKSTORE,
WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER 1 1
suit received, our Spring Stock or WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, iniq SCREENS &C., &c. Itis thelargest
and best selected i
assortment n the city, ranging in price
from six (6) cents up to one dollar and aquarter ($1.25.)
As we purchase very low for cash, we are prepaed to
sell at as low rates, if not lovfer, than can be had r
els_
where. If purchasers will call and examine, we feel
Confident that we can please them in respect to price
wad quality. B. M POLLOCK & SON,
Below Jones' Rouse, Market Square.
T ETT E R, CAP, NOTE PAPERS,
AA Pens, Holders, Pencils, issivelopes, Sealing Wax,
manu
of
the beet quality , at lOW prices, direct from the
factories, at
mar3o SCHEFETWS CHEAP BOOWSTOILB
LAW BOOKS ! LAW BOOKS ! !-A
general assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State
Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many or
the old English Reports, scarce and rare, together with
a large assortment Of second-hand Law Books, at very
low prices, at the ono price R. o
R. H. st
POLL f OCK. fr. SON,
Market Square, Harrisburg.
myS
,Illigtellancone.
AN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILK LINEN PAPER
FANS! FANS!! A N 8 ! ! !
ANOTIISR AND SPLISNDID LOT OF
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
Trout Files, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk
and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of
FISHING TACKLE!
A GICTAT TAAIHTT OF
WALKING CANES!
Which me will sell as cheap as the cheapest!
Oliver Acad. Loaded Sword Hickory Nancy
Canes! Canes ! Canes! 01111.08 t eands!
KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
NO. 91 MARKET STREET,
South side. one door east of Fourth street jet).
N U T C 0 ALI!!
-ONLY $1 .7 5 PER TON!!! -Eli
TREVERTON NUT COAL for rale at $1.75 per ton,
delivered by Patent Weigh Carta.
PINEGItOVZ COAL, just received by cars, for rale by
feb2l TAMES M. WHEELER.
(2_ARDEN SEEDS !!!--A FRESEI AND
Ul COMPLETE assortment, just received and for sale by
feb2l WM. DOOR, JR., it CO.
- PST RECEIVED—A large Stock of
PJ SCOTCH ALES, BROWN STOUT and LONDON
!PORTER. For sale at the lowest rates by
JOHN IL ZIEGLER,
73 Market street.
EMI
F ISIIII F I HIII
ILLOKERDL, (Noll. 1, 2 and s.)
SALMON, (very superior.)
BRAD, (Mess and very fine.)
HERRING, (extra large.)
OOD FISH
SMOKED (extra. Dileby.)
SCOTCH HERRING.
SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES.
of the above we We Maekerel in wh9l', half, quarter
sad eighth Ws. Herring in whole and halt bbla.
The entire lot new—DIRECT IRON TUB fIORBRIES, and
will sell them at the lowest market rates.
sepl4 Wld. KIPS, JR., & CO.
CHAMPAGNE WINESI
DUO DE MONTI/M .1 .L0,
HEIDSIECK & Co.,
CHARLES HEID3IECK,
GINSGER & Co.,
ANCHOR—siLLERT mouSSEUX,
EFANKLItio - MUSCATEL,
MUMM &
YEBncriAT,
CABINET.
In store and for sale by
JOUN H. ZIMMER,
T Market street
de2A
ITIOKORY WOOD! !-A SUPERIOR LOT
just received, and for sale in quantities to snit put.
dissers, by i'AUNS M. WHEELER.
Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand et the
hpirest prieee. deed
FAMIGT BIBLES, from 1$ to 110,
Among and handsomely bound, printed on good paper,
with elegant clear new type, gold at
=hal 80HEFFER'S °heap Book-tire.
CRANBERRIES !I 7 .-A SPLENDID LOT
Villa molted by
octlo
VOR a superior and cheap TABLE or
SALAD OIL go to
IFICLLERT DRUG STORE.
THEFruit Growers' Handbook—by
WARlNG—wholesale and teto at
akehSl SCHIFFER'S Bookstore.
SPERM CANDLES.—A large supply
k; received by
2.08 WM. DOCK. & CO.
YELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
to Had tiLd b t emorbitent of Pees Komadad.
WM_ DOCK, ie., & CO.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
WINTER TIME TABLE
MINEM.
FIVE TRAINS DAILY TO & FROM PHILADELPHIA
ON AND AFTER.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26nr, 1860,
The Passenger Trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will depart from and arrive at Harrisburg aid
Philadelphia as follows :
• EASTWARD.
THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Harrisburg •
2.40 a. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 6.50 a. m
FAST LINE leaves Harrisburg at 12.55 p. m., and
arrives at West Philadelphia at 5.00. p. in.
MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg at 5.15 p. in., and ar
rills at West Philadelphia at 30.20 p. m.
These Trains mate close connection at Philadelphia
with the New York Lines. - -
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, No.l, leaves Harrisburg
at 7.80 a. m., runs via Mount Joy, site arrives at West
Philadelphia. at 12.30 p. m.
HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION leaves Harris
burg at 115 p. at., and arrives at West Philadelphia at
0.40 p. 111.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, No.; leaves Harrisburg
at 5.25 p. in., runs via Mount Joy, connecting at Diller-
villa with MAIL TRAIN East for Phil/de/phi&
WESTWARD.
THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Philadelphia
10.50 p. and arrives at Harrisburg at 3.10 a. at.
MAIL TRAIN leaves Philadelphia at 8.00 a. m., an
arrives at Harrisburg at 1.20 p. m.
LOCAL MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg for Pittablir
at 7.00 a. m.
FAST LINE leaves Philadelphia at 12.00 noon, and ar
rives at Harristirg . it 4.10 p. m.
HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves'
Philadelphia at 2.00 p. m., and arrives at Harrisburg of
7.85 p. at.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves 'Philadelphia
4.00 p. m., and arrives at Harrisburg at 9.45 p. m.
Attention i 8 called to the fact, that passengers leaving
Philadelphia at 4 p. m. connect at Lancaster with
MOUNT JOY ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, and arrive
Harrisburg at 0,45 p. m.
SAMUEL D. YOUNG,
n023-dtf. : Supt. Fast. Die. ranee; Railroad.
NEW. AIR LINE ROUTE
NEW ITORK•
•asiffei - Tr - -
Shortest in bistanee and quickest in Time
BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES OE
NEW YORK AND HARRISBURG,
VIA
READING, ALLENTOWN AND EASTON
MORNING EXPRESS, West, leaves New York at 0
a. in., arriving at Harrisburg at 1 p. m., only ex hours
between the two cities.
MAIL LINE leaves New York at 12.00 noon, and ar
rives at Harrisburg at . 5.15 p. m.
MORNING MAIL LINE, East, leaves Harrisburg
8,90 a, ID, , arriving at New York at 5.20 p. m.
AFTERNOON EXPRESS LINE, East, leaves rtarris
burg at 1.15 p. m., arriving at New York at 9.45 p. m.
Connections are made at Harrisburg at I.oop. in. with
the Passenger Trains in each direction on the Pennaylva
nia, Cumberland Valley and Northern Central Retiree&
All Trains connect at Reading with Trains for Potts.
vine and Philadelphia, and at Allentown for Manch
Chunk, Easton, &c.
No change of Passenger Cars or Baggage between New
SSA and Harrisburg, by the 0.00 5, M. Line from New
York or the 1.16 p. m. from Harrisburg.
For beauty of scenery and speed, comfort and acoom
modation, this Route presents superior inducements to
the traveling public.
Pare between New York and Harrisburg, 1/ Ivo Dom.ass
For Tickets and other information apply to
J. J. CLYDE, General Agent,
dels Harrisburg.
.I)HILADELPHIA
AND
READING RAILROAD
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ON AND AFTER DEC. 12, 1860,
TWO PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE HARRISBURG
DAILY, (Sundays excepted,) at 8.00 A. H., and 1.16 P.
M., for Philadelphia, arrivingthere at 1.25 P. M., and 6.15
P. M.
REMIXING, LEAVE PHILADELPHIA at 8.00 A .M.
and 3,55 P.M., arriving at Harrisburg at 1 P. M. and 8.16
P. M.
FARES :—To Philadelphia, No. 1 Cue, $8.26; No. 2,
(ia slime train) $2.75.
FARES:--To Beadior, $l.OO and $1.55.
At Beading, connect with trains for Pottsville, Itiners
villa, Tamaqua, Catawba., Zee.
FOUR TRAINS LEAVE READING FOR PHILADEL
PHIA DAILY, at 6A. M., 10.45 A. M., 12.80 noon and
8.42 P. M.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA FOB READING- at S A.
M.,1.00 P. M. 23.80 P. M., and 5.00 P. IC
FARES:—Reading to Philadelphia, $1.75 and $1.45.
THE MORNING TRAM FROM HARRISBURG CON
NECTS AT READING with up train for Wilkeebarre
Pittston and Scranton.
For through tickets and other information apply to
I. I. CLYDE,
dels -dtf General Agent.
PHILADELPHIA
AND
READING RAILROAD.
REDUCTION OF PASSENGER EARED,
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1860
COMMUTATION TICKETS,
With 28 Coupons, will be issued between any points
desired,. good for the holder and any member of his
family, in any Passenger train, and at any time—at 26
per cent. below the regular fares.
Parties haying gnomon to use the Hoed frequently on
business or pleasure, will find the chore arrangement
convenient and erenomical; as Four Passenger train.
run daily each wry between Beading and Philadelphia,
end Two Trani Ott', beta Ben Reading, Potteirille and
Harrisburg. Oe . So edam only one morning train Down,
and one afterr err train Up, rune between Pottsville and
Philadelphir and no Passenger train on the Lebanon
Valley Brenai Railroad.
For the above Tickets, or any information relating
thereto apply to 8. Bradford, Esq., Treasurer,Philadeb
phis., • the respective Ticket Agents on the line, or to
e. A. !MOLLS, General Supt.
Hazen 27, 18181.—mar2e-ett
NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY.
MiggPSNAPREARIN
NOTICE.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
ON AND AFTER FRIDAY, MARCH lee, 1881, the
Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Railway' will
leave Harrisburg ae follows :
GOING gOUTIL
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave at.. 3.00 a. m.
EXPRE9B TRAIN will leave at . 7.40 a. m
MAIL TRAIN will /gam% ...... LOO Poo"
GOING' NORTH
MAIL TRAIN will leave at 1.40 p. m.
Expßog TRAIN will leave at -8.50 p. m.
The only Train leaving Harrisburg on Sunday will
the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN lionth. at 3.00 a. Ft.
For further uzforatietien apply at the office, in Penn
vivant& Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent.
Harrisburg, March lst-dtf.
APPLE WHISKY !-Pui BitStY AP.
PLE!—In store and for sale by.
.701 IN IL ZIEGLER,
febT Markat street,
nRIND BEEF—An extra lot of DRIED
If BEEP just rectebred by
nob WM. DOCK, TR., & CO.
U.HLINGTON HERRING . I
Just received by WM. DOCK, /a., .dc CO
oe/
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1861,
, 1i ceilancou~.
TAKE NOTIOEI
That we have recently added to our already full stock
OF SFICiABIS
LA NORMATIS,
HARI KARI,
EL MONO,
LA BANANA.
OF PERFUMERY
FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF:
TURKISH ESSENCE,
ODOR QF MUSK,
LUBIN'S ESSENCE BOUQUET,
FOR THE HAIR:
EAU LUST RADA
CRYSTALIZED POMATUM,
MYRTLE AND VIOLET POMITIIM.
FOR THE COMPLEXION:
TALC OF VENICE,
ROSE LEAF POWDER,
NEW MOWN HAT POWDER,
BLANC DE PEALE&
- •
OF SOAPS
•
MIN'S FINBOT
MOSS ROSE,
BENZOIN,
UPPER TEN,
VIOLET,
NEW MOWN HAY,
JOCKEY CLUn.
Having the largest stock and beat assortment of Toilet
Articles, we fancy that we are better able than our com
petitors to get up a complete Toilet Set at any price de
sired. Call and see.
Always on hand, a FRESH Stock of DRUGS, MEDI
CINES, CHEMICALS, &c , consequent of our re
ceiving almost daily additions thereto.
KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
91 Market Street, two doors East of Fourth Street,
eerie South side. •
JACKSON & 007'S
SHOE 'S T ORE,
DlO. 90X AtARE.ET STREET,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where they intend to devote their entire time to the
manufacture of
BOOTS AND SHOES
Of all kinds and varletiet, in the neatest and most fash
ionable styles, and at satisfactory prices.
Their stock will consist„ impart, of Gentlemen's Fine
Wand Patent Leather Boots and Shoe; latest styles;
Ladies ) and Misses' Gaiters, and other Shoes In great
variety; and in fact everything connected with the
Shoe buslni.da.
CUSTOMER WORK will be particularly attended to,
and in all eases will satisfaction be warranted. Lasts
fitted etp by one of the bent makers in She ;ornery.
The long practical experience of the undersigned, and
their thorough knowledge of the business will, they
trust, be sufficient guarahtda to the public that they
will do them justice, and furnish them an article tha
will recommend itself for utility, cheapness and dull/.
telly. [jani] JACKSON & CO.
JUST RECEIVED!
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
HUMPHBEY'S HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS
TO WHICH WE INVITE THE
ATTENTION OF THE AFFLICTED!:
For oak' at
SCIIEFFERI BOOKSTORE,
ap9_ No.lB Market st,
WE OFgEIL TO
CUSTOMERS
A New Lot of
LADIES' PURSE:S,
01 Bsnutifnl Styles, substantially made
A Splendid Assortment of
GENTLEMEN'S WALLETS.
A Now eadgElegant Perfume,
KNIGHTS TEMP,LARS' L BOQII;ET,
Put up in Cut Glass Engraved Bottles.
A Complete Assortment of!
;HANDKERCHIEF PERFUMES,
Of the beet Manufacture.
A very Handsome Variety of
POWDER PIIPP BOXES.
KELLER'S DRUG STORE,
,lySl et Market street
REMOV L.
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TA:ILON,
K. removed to
60 MARKET STREET,
Where he will be pleased to see all his friend .
octB-dtf
CANDLES!!!
PARAFFIN CANDLES,
SPERM CANDLES,
STEARINE CANDLES,
ADAMANTINE CANDLES,
CHEMICAL SPERM CANDLES,
STAR (sumuiou) CANDLES,
TALLOW CANDLES.
A largt till'Olee of the above in store, and for sale at
unusually low rates, by
WM. DOCK, 7a., & CO.,
jaul Opposite the Court House
GUN AND BLASTING POWDER.
JAMES M. WHEELER,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
AGENT FOR ALL
POWDER AND FUSE
MANTIFASTURBD DT
L E. DT.TPONT DE NEMOURS Si CO.,
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
Er A large supply always on band. For sate at manu
facturer's prices. Magazine two miles below town.
irj Orders received at Warehouse. nol7
SCOTCH WHISKY.—One Puncheon
of Pune 89014311 WHISKY Just received and for
sate by JOHN H. ZIEGLER;
jan2 73 Market street.
EMPTY BOTTLES !—Of all sizes
and descriptions, for gale low by
decd WM. DOCK, Js., & CO.
HATCH & CO•1
SHIP AGENTS
JUID
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
US WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
DIALIRB IN
FLOUR, GRAIN, ritoDucE, COTTON,
WINES AND LIQUORS,
TODAOOO Allll CIGARS.
nova-418m
D YOTTVILLE GLASS WORKS,
PHILADRLPFII4,
MAnorAOTOSII
CARBOYS, DEMIJOHNS,
WINB, PORTER, MINERAL WATER, PICKLE AND
PRESERVE BOTTLES
Or 88888 D3180alr?1011.
H. B. ft 0. W. BENNER/3,
oel9-dly 27 &nth Front ateret, PhilaOelp#l s.
BT C O S TIII
OTTLED WINES, BRANDIES,
A N D
LIQUORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION!
Together with a complete assortment , (wholesale and
retail,) embracing everything in the line, will be sold at
coat, without reserve
jani WM. DOCK. 7a., & CO.
ITAVANA CTGARS.—A Fine Assort
ment, comprising Figaro Zalagozons, La Suiza,
Bird, Fire Fly, kleivina, La Beriuto, Capitolio of ail
sizes and qualities, in quarter, one-S f th and one-tenth
boxes, just received, and for sale low by
JOHN H. ZIEGLER;
*3l, 73 Market Street.
TELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
to buy Domestic Medicines
Cke Vatriot tt anion.
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 8, 1861.
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL !MESSAGE
From the Journal of Cloomorou.
The transfer of the reins of government
from the outgoing to the incoming Administra
tion, is accompanied with a declaration on the
part of the latter of the principles and policy
which it pl oposes to make the basis of its
official action. Ordinarily this would not be
deemed a matter of vital moment; but in the
present distracted state of the country this
announcement is regarded as the turning point
of our national destiny.
We publish the Inaugural in this day's issue,
and are sure that we have never given to our
readers an official document upon which the
mingled hopes and tears of the people rested
with deeper interest. While we desire all to
read and reflect upon its language—to weigh
its doctrines and estimate at their true value
its principles—we are compelled to avow our
belief that it will fail to accomplish that great
wish of every patriotic heart—the restoration
of peace and harmony and union between all
the States. The President puts forth earnest
professions of love for the Union, and places
justly and properly much stress upon his duty
to preserve it and to execute the laws. But he
commits the practical error of setting up the
theory of an unbroken Union, against the stub
born fact of a divided and dissevered one. He
proceeds upon this false assumption—false in
practical fact, however correct in mere theo
retical reasoning—to speak of enforcing the
laws and collecting the revenue in all the States
—a measure which, in . the existing relations of
the seceded States to the Union, is nothing less
than a declaration of war.
The principal points in the message are the
follolving :—l. That legally there is no right
of secession, and therefore the withdrawal of
the States now comprising the Southern Con
federacy, is without authority and void, 2.
The Union being theoretically unbroken, it is
the duty of the President to execute the laws
in all the thirty-four States, 3, No war need
ensue unless the people of the seceded States
resist the execution of these laws ; and no force
will be used on the part of the government,
except to hold and possess the public property
and to collect the revenue in all the States.
4. In communities where the popular voice is
so strong that residents will not accept the
Federal offices, they will remain vacant.
We apprehend that the President, before he
shall have been long in office, will discover that
there is an essential difference between the
working out of a problem in theory, and carry
ing the conclusion to which it leads into prac
tical effect. He will discover that while the
positions which be has enunciated were sound
enough as expositions of Executive duty so
long as the Union remained intact, the case is
essentially different, now that a separation has
taken place. He will find, ae a question of
fact, that in attempting to carry out his policy,
he wilt have to encounter an organized, earnest
and determined resistance, from a large and
powerful portion of the late Union, and that
the question of jurisdiction, so easily disposed
of in theory in the inaugural address, is in fact
to be determined only by force. The case then
is resolved into the simple, practical, and yet
momentous question, will the government of
the United States attempt, by force, to retake
the Forts, to collect the revenue, and to exer
cise jurisdiction in the territory covered by the
"Confederate States ?" If the reply is in the
affirmative, we are on the eve of a disastrous,
bloody and desolating war.
We have not deemed it necessary to discuss
the minor points of the message. It is sufficient
to look at the great issues involved in the Pres
ident's declaration of principles on the great
questions now before the country, and to await
the result, if he shall attempt to carry those
principles into practical execution. We do not
believe he has adequately considered the diffi
culties which the Government has to encounter,
or that he has any clear conception of the dis
astrous and overwhelming ruin in which a lit
eral carrying out of his policy will involve the
country. He cannot have fully apprehended
the evils which will be entailed upon the peo
ple by a war between two such powerful forces
as will be opposed to each other, if the differ
ences between the North and the South are to
be decided by force of arms.
Of the remedies proposed by the President
for the difficulties in which we are involved, it
is scarcely necessary to speak. They are of a
character so dilatory, involving so much delay,
and affording so little hope of any auspicious
result, that we regard them as no remedies at
all. The best that he offers us—and in this he
is treading in the path indicated by Mr. Seward
and other party leaders in- the Senate—is a
National Convention, one, two, or three years
hence, to revise the Constitution. Even this
poor relief is offered grudgingly and hesita
tingly, with the declaration that no wrong has
been done, and no injustice suffered in one sec
tion, at the hands of the other, and the inference
is left to be drawn from the language of the
message that there are no wrongs to be righted
—no just complaints to be listened to.
The effect of the President's policy upon the
slave States 'which have not yet seceded, re
mains to be seen. If these could all continue
in the Union. animated by the spirit which once
existed, and co-operating vigorously with the
free States, the preponderance of force would be
decidedly against the new Southern Confeder
acy. But if, as seems probab'e, Virginia and
other border States shall join those already out
of the Union, the two powers will be more
nearly equalized, and the struggle which must
ensue, under the policy indicated by the Presi
dent, will be protracted and fearful.
What a spectacle do we contemplate? Three
months ago, Congress assembled for public
business, and the eyes of the eonntry turned to
that body, in the hope that some plan of relief
would be devised anti offered to the country.—
Two months later a Conference of Commission
ers from a majority of the States was convened,
in the hope that the counsels of men selected
as peace makers, might produce auspicious re
sults. Both have adjourned without any bene
ficial action, and the new Administration, rep
resenting the sectional party of the North,
which succeeded in achieving a victory at the
last election, is installed, in the face of the moat
alarming evidences that the Governnent cannot
be administered upon the basis of that party
platform, without producing speedy and final
dissolution.
We will not enlarge. Others may see more
cheering omens, and we hope with a more cor
rect vision than ours. We await the develop
ment of the policy now inaugurated, with the
deepest concern for the future of our country.
Time, to which the President refers with so
much emphasis, will settle the question—if not
in the manner he anticipates, nevertheless et.
feetuallv and irrevocably.
MR. LINCOLN ON COERc lON—HAS THE NEM AD.
MINISTRAIION ANY UNE OF POLICY.
From the New York Herald..
The Republican journals were very fierce in
their denunciations of Mr. Buchanan's last
message to Congress, charging the ex-President
with vacillation and inconsistency altogether
unbecoming his responsible poSitieu. The Tri
bune was especially gratified in being able to
say that when Mr. Lincoln succeeded to power
a new order of men will be called to sail the
ship of State, and that she would pursue a per
fectly straight course, without backing or fill
lug or manoeuvring in any eccentric manner.
How far this promise has been kept may be
understood from Mr. Lincoln's inaugural ad
dress—a very carefully drawn anti elaborately
finished State paper with the finger-marks of
Mr. Seward from the exordium to the poetical
peroration, This address was looked for with
the most intense anxiety, as it was presumed that
it would indicate the policy of the new admin
istration upon a very delicate I obit—no less a
question than that of coercion, about which so
much nonsense has been written and spoken
ever since last November. " Coercion," ac
cording to the idea of some people, m eans actual
invasion of the seceding States and the recap
ture of the federal property by force of arms.
This is impracticable, if not impossible. It is
a matter of doubt whether the regular troops
would suffice for any such purpose ; and, as we
have hitherto shown, the President cannot call
for additional forces without special power
from Congress. But, we are told, he intends
to collect the revenues, and use all the force
at his command to enforce the laws. Herein
is the whole pith of the address. We quote
the paragraphs:
"In doing this (executing the laws of the
Union in all the States) there need he no blood
shed or violence, and there shall be none, un
less it is forced upon the national authority.
The power confided to me will be used to hold,
occupy and possess the property and places
belonging to the government, and collect the
duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be
necessary for these objects there will be no in
vasion—no using of force against or among the
people anywhere.
"Where hostility to the United States shall be
so great and so universal as to prevent compe
tent resident citizens from holding the federal
offices, there will be no attempt to force stran
gers among the people for that object. While the
strict legal right may exist of the government
to enforce the exercise of these offices, the at
tempt to do so would be so irriating and so
nearly impracticable withal that I deem it bet
ter to forego for the time the uses of such offices.
"The mails, unless repelled, will continue to
be furnished in all parts of the Union."
It will be noticed that in the paragraph pre
ceding those which we have quoted, Mr. Lin
coln declares that no State can lawfully get
out of the Union; that, therefore, the Union
remains unbroken, and that he will execute the
laws to the extent of his ability. Then he pro
ceeds to state that there need be no bloodshed,
but that the federal government will "hold,
occupy and possess," (does that mean retain or
take ?) "the property and places" belonging
to it. Furthermore, that the revenue is to be
collected, but obnoxious officers are not to be
forced upon the people of any State. Here is
a clear and positive contradiction. It may
be held by some politicians of the Mincio
school that the President means to collect the
revenue at sea; but this is impossible. We will
suppose, for example, that the ship Alliance
arrives at Charleston from Havre, with a full
cargo of silks, laces, fancy goods, manufac
tured articles, &c., in all, say five hundred
packages, consigned to fifty or more persons.
Io entering the harbor the Alliance is over
hauled by a ship-of-war, with a collector on
board. The master has nothing to show but
his manifest, which does not particularize the
quality of the articles shipped. It is for the
consignees to produce their invoices and bills
of lading, pay the duties and receive the goods.
When the consignees fail to appear, the pack
ages are to be sent to the public store, and, in
case they remain unclaimed during a stipulated
period, they are sold at auction on account of
the government. According to maritime law,
all duties must be collected within one marine
league of the port, and bulk cannot be broken
until the vessel has been regularly entered
within the harbor. Should the Executive over
ride all these provisions, and declare that, in
case the duties are not paid according to the
new regulations, cargoes will be forfeited, a
fresh obstacle arises. The machinery for the
collection of the revenue is not alone executive.
The judiciary has something to do with it. The
Secretary of the Treasury cannot forfeit a pair
of gloves without legal process to be had before
a district judge and a jury of citizens to be em
pannelled from the district where the con
signees reside. Where would the government
find judge or jury in Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile or New Orleans.
Difficulties no less insurmountable will arise
in the Judiciary Department and the postal
service. The Constitution and laws are so
framed that the President, when the question
of arbitrary authority arises, has no power
whatsoever. Mr. Seward, the chief adviser of
the President, is a clear headed man and a
thoroughly well read lawyer. He sees all the
obstacles which surround the government. It
is Only such stupid people as the Chevalier
Webb and blind fanatics like Greeley, who shut
their eyes to the fact that without the confer
ring by Congress of plenary power upon the
President he can do nothing. The regular army
is too small for the service requ'red of it al.
ready, and the President cannot increase it.—
Many of the best officers in the united service
have resigned, and their entire disorganization
is by no means improbable. From these cir
cumstances, we can understand why the Presi
dent is so confident that there need be no blood
shed.
It is not, therefore, Mr. Lincoln's fault that
he is compelled to retract in one sentence what
he has said in another. lie takes office at a
juncture, to the exigencies of which this Gov
ernment, as it stands, is not equal. The laws
guard State rights jealously, and although the
statute books do not of course recognize seces
sion, yet they fail to provide any very strong
remedy against it, or any punishment for it.
The only resource that Mr. Lincoln has is in an
extra session of Congress, and it is by no means
probable that the representatives of the people
would, in the present state of public opinion,
vote to place despotic power in the hands of the
Executive. Such an act would only be justifia
ble in case of foreign invasion. The upshot of
the whole matter is that the new Administration
cannot coerce the South if they would. They
may override the law, and provoke a civil war,
but that course is equivalent to suicide. As we
said some time ago, Mr. Lincoln is seated upon
thorns and wields only a barren sceptre. lie
rules a northern minority, through the coheelvd
power of the public plunder, but has no place
in the affections of the people at large. No
President or other constitutional ruler ever
occupied a position so pitiable. It is not re
markable, then, that his inaugural is weak,
vascillating, unsatisfactory and contradictory.
If we were disposed to be severe, we might
compare the President to the Celebrated animal
who hesitated between the two bundles of hay,
and got neither of them. Even Presidents,
however, are entittled to some mercy, and so
we rest the case before it has been half opened.
VIEWS OF THE I AND TOWNS. GUILAL IN DISTANT CITIES
By telegraph we have the following accounts
of the views said to be entertained of the inau
gural in distant cities
PUBLISHED EVERY MORMISV,
SUNDAYS ZECZPTZD,
BY O. BARRETT & CO
Iris DAILY PATRIOT AND 'UNION will be served to ea 11
oribers reel:dins in the Borough for ening PER WERE
payable to the Carrier. Mail tubeeribere,revi DOS.
Ling PER ANNUM.
The WEEKLY will be published as heretofore, semi
weekly during the 'session of the Legislature, and once •
week the remainder of the year, for two do/tore in ad
vance, or three dollars at the expibitiaa of the yeas.
Connected with this establishment is an extensive
JOB OFFICB, containing a variety of plain and fancy
te, unequalled by thestlihM in the interior of
the State, for whichpatronage of the public in co.
'Sated.
NO. 159.
ST. Louis, March s.—The President's in
augural was published in extras yesterday af
ternoon, and sought after with great avidity
by persons of all parties. The Republican
(Douglas Democrat) newspaper says: " We fail
to see in it any disposition to sweep party
platforms and party politics away ; but its
guarded words and studied sentences seem to
have been prompted by some idea of meeting
the expectations of the Repu!tlicanS, wh o elected
him. We hoped for a more conservative, more
conciliatory expression of sentiment. Much
will depend upon putting into practice the
ideas advanced that will test the question, be it
one of expediency or right, whether the forts
can be held or retaken and the revenues col
lected without bloodshed."
The Democrat (Republican) says "We Can
only say this morning that it meets the highest
expectations of the country, both in point
of statesmanship and patriotism, and that its
effect on fhb public mind cannot be other than
salutary in the highest degree."
The News (Bell and Everett) defers making
any comment.
CHARLESTON, S. C., March s.—This commu
nity has not been disappointed, and have ex
hibited very little feeling in regard to the
Inaugural. They are content to leave President
Lincoln and his inaugural in the hands of Presi
dent Davis and the Cengress of the Confederate
States.
GoLnenonorron, N. C., March s.—The Inau
gural is received in this place, and throughout
this section, with perfect indignation.
RALBIGH, N. C., March s.—The Inaugural is
favorably received by the tipionista. They
think it does very well for Lincoln, though they
do not approve of all of it. The disunioniets
are dissatisfied with it.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March B.—The opinions
in relation to the inaugural, at Nashville, are
unfavorable. It is believed that the President
is determined to retake the forts forcibly, and
collect the revenue. Opinions are unsettled by
the manner it was received at Washington,
and the people are awaiting the document in
full.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March s.—President
Lincoln's inaugural is universally condemned,
and, if correctly reported, will induce TenneS
ace to fight him to the bitter end,
LOUISVILLE, March s.—The Union men are
rather favorably impressed by the language of
the inaugural, while the sympathizers with the
Southern Confederacy think it a declaration of
war.
At Jackson and Columbus, 111138., altdTiMum
bia, Ala., the people consider it to be a declara
tion of war. At Vicksburg, Mies., it is re
garded unfavorably, and generally considered
a silly production.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 5. —The Republican
press are highly pleased with the inaugural,
while the Democratic papers consider it cer
tain to cause the secession of the border
States,
NEW ORLEANS, March 6.—Mr. Lincoln'9
inaugural was received here yesterday, in three
hours from Washington. It is regarded as
incongruous and contradictory relative to eon.
stitutionol rights. The assertion that the
ordinances of the seceded States, are void, and
their acts insurreetionlry, coupled with the
determination to hold, occupy and possess the
government property, and to collect revenue,
are received as an open declaration of war.
The assertion that no blood will be shed, and
no invasion made unless the South resist, is
ridiculed.
Dispatches to-day from Montgomery univer
sally concede war to be inevitable. The South
ern Congress was engaged in organizing a
standing army of 10,000 men. Eight thousand
men can at once be placed on a moveable war
footing,
The Picayune of to-day states that a prece
dent exists for the South to regard any attempt
at coercion as a declaration of war, by the act
of Congress, in 1845, declaring in preamble that
" war exists by the act of Mexico."
WILLS OF REVOLUTIONARY CHARACTERS.—Ia
antiquarian, who has been looking over the
records at Albany, brings to light the wills of
some of the revolutionary veterans. Among
them is the will of Baron Steuben, dated Feb.
12, 1804. After the usual covenant ha says :
"Sufficient reasons having determired me to
exclude my relatives in Europe from any par
ticipation of my estates in America, and to
adopt my friends and former aides-de-tamp,
Benjamin Walker and William North, as my
children, and make them sole devisees . , except
to my servants one year's wages, and to my
valet-de-chamber all my wearing appearel; but
I do hereby declare that these legacies to my
servants are to be on the following conditions:
that on my decease they do not permit any
person to touch my body, not even to change
the shirt in which I shall die, but that they
wrap me up in my old military cloak, and in
twenty-four hours after my decease bury in 9
in such spot as I shall, before my decease, point
out to them, and that they never acquaint any
person with the place where I am buried."
Whether the place of his burial has ever been
made known, the antiquarian could not ascer
tain. But his request savors of the mysterious.
General Herkimer's will is dated February 7,
1777. He says:—"Further, it is my express
will awl order that if by the providence of God,
my present beloved wife and future widow,
after my decease, should lawfully marry one of
my brother's sons, that. they shall have and enjoy
the interests and rents of all my lauds, &c.—
But in case she, my said wife, marry with one
of my sister's sons, then the said rents and in
terests shall appertain to them and their heirs."
The old General was.determined to keep the
property in the family, or. 4145. H. remain a
widow.
MIGRATION OF THE BUFFALO‘44fie.re iS a fea
ture in the migratory ohernet4S-of the Buffalo
not generally known, except to hunters, and
that is, that the vast body of the herd is never
found in the same district of country two sea
sons in succession: The- buffalo of North
America form an immense army, marching in
one continuous circuit, but perhaps three
fourths of the entire number of whieh are found
within a range of from two to three-hundred
miles. Thus, when buffaloes are abundant one
year, they are fewer the next, until the great
body, having completed its circuit, again makes
its appearance. This circuit is completed in
about four years. Its western limit is the east
ern basisof the Rocky Mountains, and its
eastern is bounded by a marginal outline of
civilization, extending from the British. settle
ment on the north to northern Texas on the
sou th. The range of latitide traversed has
for many years been about twenty-three de
grees, extending from the Cross Timbers of
Texas to the tributaries of Lake Winnepeg on
the north. The band travel southward on the
eastern line and northward on the western,
never crossing the Rocky Mountains. The
comparative proximity of these lines, being at
some points not over five hundred miles, ac
counts for the presence of buffaloes, in rela
tively small numbers, throughout the entire
area embraced within the lines of travel.
Garibaldi having stated that he cannot at
present visit England, Mr. Richardson has with
drawn the notice he gave of a motion for con
ferring the freedom of the city of London upon
the distinguished General.
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