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The people of Virginia must now realize the
humiliating and alarming fact that they are
living under Black Republican ru)e ; the rule
of men who "would as soon see a conflagration
sweep over the land, or an earthquake sink it,"
as to protect the slaveholder in his right of
property.—Richmond Enquirer.
Had the seceded States remained in the Union,
the Republican Executive -would have been
powerless. With both Houses of Congress and
the Judiciary .politically opposed to him, no
measure of .his could have been adopted without
their sanction. War would not have threatened
the cruntry ; -business would not have been
paralyzed-; there would have been no inter
ruption.cf.nommerce ; the cotton States would
not have been burdened with taxes and high
rates of postage with diminished mail facilities ;
neither wouldwe have received the humiliating
sympathies.of foreign .powers.
Southern Poverty!
The little - fmger of a Northern man is 'worth
more than the whole body. ef a master with
whip in hand, and head on his shoulders, which
he seems to use for little else than to hang his
hat upon. These threats.of the South to secede
are like themeeting of paupers in an alms-house,
and resolving to quit the institution if the county
does not feed them better. The South sucks
the Northern bosom and we fill it with milk.—
We work and they .reap &he -fruit .of our toil.—
We invented the means of their prosperity.
Whitney made the cotton .gin that has done so
much for the South, and .he died a poor man,
as they cheated him out-of the reward of his
toil. Chivalry ! chivalry:!—B. Ward Beecher.
To which the Albany Arts replies : The
idea that the South is poor is indulged in with
great gusto by the clergymen of the Beecher
stamp, by friends of labor of the Greeley stamp,
and by members of Women's Rights Conven
tions. They howl at the poverty of the South ;
they exult in. the wealth of the North ; and
they assume to have settled the argument by
the contrast; for who, imbued with the creed
of Mormonism. and Materialism, to which the
Beechers and Greeleys minister, doubt the
right of the richer and more prosperous to
subordinate the poorer and less pewerful ?
And yet never was fallacy greater than that
which asserts that the South is poor, nor false
hood more easily set at rest than those statis
tics upon which the contrast is based,
Whether Whitney's gin was an invention of
any inventiveness or not, or whether the North
ern manufacturers who make them (for the
work is done North) have invaded his rights, is
a question not necessary to discuss, for it is
only a collateral one. If, however, as to the
question of relative productiveness of the two
sections, we take the testimony of the Anti-
Slavery school, and define the wealth of each
to be its surplus of production beyond the cost
of labor, the South must be the richer of the
two. 'What is the gravamen of this charge
against slavery ! Is it not that out of the four
millions of slaves, an amount of productive
labor is exacted which is in a most inconsider
able degree repaid by the food and clothing and
shelter given in return ? No community that
for scores of years exacts from a large class of
laborers immense work at little pay, can fail to
be rich ; and we realize the extent of the profits
of the South, when we measure the exports of
that section with those of the North.
It is in vain to say that the hay crop of the
North is equal to the cotton crop of the South !
The South has a hay crop too, which, though
it does not enter into the statistical tables, is
wealth. Their cattle graze nearly all the year
on pastures which the winters do not blast.—
Kentucky and Tennessee send cattle to the
North; and the droves of Texas will soon be
ample enough to supply the whole Union. Our
hay crop at the North is offset and rendered
almost nothing by our winter. Our mines of
coal keep us warm during the same season, at
the cost of many millions of dollars; but is
this wealth ? and is Southern sunshine pov
erty ?
The South is not poor or dependent. Its
people are agricultural, and have the monopoly
of much of the productions essential to the
world. They concentrate their energies upon
these articles; they leave to us vast fields of
production in agriculture and manufactures,
and the monopoly of commerce. A home mar
ket of twelve millions of prosperous agricultu
ral people offers to the North the most profitable
part of its customers. Of the results of negro
labor by the operation of commerce, it is calcu
lated two-thirds go to the North.
There is mutual dependence in such a rela
tion; mutual profit. But no man, versed in
the analysis of political economy, will venture
to assert that the - North is not as dependent as
the South; and if the artificial system of re
strictive tariffs is adhered to, much more so.
HAED TIMES AT Loutsvu.Lß.—The prospects
for business at Louisville, Ky., are so discoura
ging that many of the leading merchants of
that city have published an appeal to their
landlords to reduce the price of rents. The
Journal says:
Two years ago tenants would have been far
more able to pay dou b le the prices now paid
than they can now afford to pay the present
rates. Every businessman feels the pinch oc
casioned by the present deplorable state of af
fairs; for months they have been hoping daily
that the political horizon would brighten np
and allow sunshine again tore-visit them; but
their expectations have been disappointed, and
the most discouraging uncertainty hangs over
the future.
Captain Hooper, from Utah, urges as a mat
ter of policy to appoint Brigham Young Gov
ern** , of that Territory,
.Who are the President's Real support-
cam
Politcal support, says the journal of Com
merce, at best, is fickle and uncertain. To-day
a public officer may count upon the friendship
of the members of the political party which
elected him-..t0-morrow that support is with
drawn, and his true supporters are found among
those before regarded as his political enemies.
Such is the uncertainty of political friendships.
An unforseen circumstance, a new view of
public .duty under the lights of experience,
often proves quite sufficient •to alienate fair
weather supporters, and to throw the public
man upon the generosity of the •Opposition.
The Washington Correspondent of the Tri
bune, judging others by his own standard of
partizanship, and seeking to find some cause
for accusation against his political opponents,
makes use of the following language, in speak
ing of the probable evacuation of Fort Sumpter
by order of the Lincoln Administration :
"It is supposed in some quarters that the
withdrawal will operate beneficially in concili
ating-the South, but this opinion is not shared
by reflecting observers. The Northern De
mocracy will, of course, assail the Administra
tion, though Mr. Douglas is precommitted to
the very policy which has been adopted by his
recent speech in the Senate."
The above is unquestionably a wrong view
of the subject. Mr. Lincoln is to-day in far
greater danger of being assailed by the mem
bers of his own party, than by "the Northern
Democracy." In fact, the indications of hos
tility in the Republican ranks are already ap
parent, although he has been but little more
than a week in office. While the radicals of
that party were able to interpret the inaugural
message as warlike—as we also interpreted it—
and to believe that the force and influence of
the Administration would be used against the
Southern States, no one could be more loyal
than the Tribune and its sympathetic workers
of mischief. Precisely the reasons which led
them to support the apparent policy of the Pre
sident prompted us to oppose it. But when, from
judgment or necessity—and we do not care to
inquire which—that apparent warlike policy
promises to be changed to one of peace, the
ultraists in the Republican ranks are the first
to open their batteries upon the Chief Magis
trate, or at least to assume a cold and hesita
ting position towards him. Hence, the Tribune
of Tuesday indulges in the following remarks :
"We believe, were a call to be made now, or
had one been made any time since the occupa
tion of Fort Sumpter, for volunteers to reinforce
Major Anderson, thousands and tens of thou
sands, if need be, would spring to the rescue
to carry succor to the brave men who hold that.
forlorn hope, and to assert there the supremacy
of the laws, and the dignity of the Federal
Government.
is not for us to judge of the justification
the Government may have for surrendering—
or abandoning, for there is no difference in the
two acts—a post of so much importance, for
the circumstances by which they are influenced
are not yet fully known to us. But we may, at
least, express the wish that no determination
to take so important and irrevocable a step be
come to throuch any hasty counsel. War and
the consequences of war, are a possible near
future from - which few shrink with more in
stinctive dread than we do ; but there are worse
sacrifices in the conduct of human affairs than
human life."
So with the Abolitionized porton of the Re
publican party whom you meet in the streets
—the public conveyances—everywhere. They
wear long faces, and are exeedingly doubtful
about the wisdom of abandoning Fort Sumpter.
There are others—practical men—who see that
the policy which it is said the President will
adopt, is at least a measure of necessity—a
harbinger of peace. But of one thing the Pre
sident may rest assured, viz : that neither this
nor any other act of conciliation or peace, by
whatever motive prompted, will be made by
Democrats the occasion for assailing the Ad
ministration. That duty—if it be so considered
—will be left to the dissatisfied Republicans,
of whom there will soon be enough to cope with
any other political organization, however for
midable, in the denunciation of any public of
ficer, high or low, who shall stand in the way
of their incendiary purposes.
We do not undertake to speak for the "North
ern Democracy," since we are not their organ,
nor any body's organ in politics, but we profess
to know something of the views of the friends
of the Union and of peace, in the Northern
States, and we assure the President that he is
in no danger of assault from that quarter, if he
stands up to his duty with firmness and cour
age. The determination to abandon Fort
Sumpter, and to forego the use of force in the
seceded States, will be sustained, not in a par
tizan spirit, but as a measure of wisdom and
practical statesmanship. If this policy shall
be adopted as sound and sufficient in principle,
so much the better; if as a measure of neces
sity, still it will elicit the warmest applause for
that practical statesmanship and sagacity which
know how to turn such necessity to account, in
restoring peace, prosperity and happiness, to
the country.
Such are the vicissitudes of politics. The
power and strength of the Republican party
culminated in its triumph at the last Presiden
tial election. The changed condition of the
country will demand new issues and political
relations in the next four years. What these
are to be, is beyond the wisdom of any one at
the present moment. But the two "opposing
forces" in the Republican party will date their
rebound from the inauguration of the President,
on the 4th instant.
NEGRO APPLICANTS FOR ()rms.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Express
in a recent letter to that journal, says :
The number of applicants for minor offices
by colored men is perfectly astounding from
Massachusetts alone. I am informed that for
postmasters' berths there are on file over 210
applications, and the supposition is that there
are several black applicants filed away amongst
the -white ones. In order to save trouble, let
me suggest to each applicant the propriety of
making an affidavit as to the color of his skin,
Sic., and enclose it in his application, while
those whose applications are already on file
should forward it to the department immedi
ately. This plan would undoubtedly facilitate
business, and enable the applicant to obtain
his appointment much sooner than he would if
lie leaves the department to find out his color,
breed, &c., as the department are determined
not to make appointments from the colored
ranks without knowing it, no matter how well
they may be indorsed.
Mormonism has Subsided, but is not extinct.
A letter dated Salt Lake City, Feb. 1511, says
".Mormonism is hastening back to undisputed
sway here, and the present indicates a near
future when there will be hardly a Geniile in
the land." There was increasing dislike to the
presence of the U. S. judicial officers.
PENNA' LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SATURDAY, March 16, 1861.
Speaker DAVIS called the House to order at
10 o'clock.
Mr. SHEPPARD moved to suspend the reg
ular order of the day in order to dispose of the
business on the SPEAKER'S table, and hear
reports from committees. Carried.
A large number of Senate bills were referred
to the various committees.
The House refused to suspend the rules to
take up the joint resolution to furnish each
member of the House with a copy of the Colo
nial Records.
BILLS PASSED
The following bills were taken up and passed
under a suspension of the rules
Mr. ACKER, an act to incorporate the Wo
man's hospital of Philadelphia.
Mr. ABBOT, an act to confirm the revised
grades and locate Till street, in Blockley town
ship.
Mr. BRODHEAD, an act to incorporate the
Farmer's mutual insurance company, of Monroe
county.
Mr. CLARK, a supplement to the act incor
porating the city of Harrisburg.
Mr. BUTLER, of Crawford, to authorize
Elizabeth White to sell real estate.
Mr. HUHN . , relative to mortgages of coal
leases in Schuylkill county.
BULLS 1N PLACE
A large number of bills were read in place,
among them the following :
Mr. HILLMAN, an act to provide for the
erection of a bridge over the Lackawanna river,
in Blakely township, Luzerne county.
Mr. PRESTON, a supplement to the act to
incorporate the Philadelphia and Olney railroad
company.
Mr. WILDEY, a supplement to an act incor
porating the North Second Street market com
pany, of Philadelphia.
Also, to incorporate the Ninth United Pres
byterian Church of Philadelphia.
Mr. HILL, an act authorizing the trustees
of the Upper Dublin Lutheran Evangelical
Church to borrow money. This bill was after
wards taken up and passed.
Also, an act to reduce the State tax on real
and personal property of two and a half mills
to two mills on the dollar.
Also, a supplement to the act incorporating
the Lackawanna and Jonesboro' railroad com
pany.
Mr BRODHEAD, an act to lay out a State
road in Monroe county.
Also, an act to incorporate the Stroudsburg
water and gas company.
Also, an act to prevent fishing in Heeds
creek, in Chesnuthill township, Monroe county.
Also, an act extending the provisions of
certain acts of Assembly relative to selecting
sites for school houses in Clinton and Dela
ware counties to Pike county.
Mr. PIERCE, an act to incorporate the
Chester County saving institution.
Also, an act relating to taxes in the borough
of Downingtown, Chester county.
Mr. RANDALL, a further supplement to the
consolidation of Philadelphia. This is a very
important bill. It provides for the appoint
ment of two inspectors of elections, to be called
return inspectors, whose duties shall be to
count the votes every hour, and publicly an
nounce them. The boxes are to be sealed, with
the names of the inspectors placed thereon in
such a manner, as to destroy them in case the
boxes should he feloniously broken open. The
city commissioners to provide a suitable fire
proof room for the reception of the boxes, and
no one to have access to them except the Mayor
and Recorder of the city.
Mr. HUHN, an act for changing the location
of railroads in certain cases.
Mr. RANDALL, an act supplementary to
the several acts in relation to the Green Ridge
improvement company.
Also, an act to vacate and annul a certain
trust of George M. Rogers.
Also, an act to incorporate the Sanford
Opera House company, of Philadelphia. This
bill extends all the provisions of the act in
corporating the academy of music to Mr. San
ford.
Also, an act to change the name of the First
regiment of artillery, Third brigade, Pennsyl
vania volunteers, to the Philadelphia city
guards.
Also, an act granting further powers to the
inspectors of the Philadelphia county prison.
This bill gives the inspectors power to treat
prisoners sentenced to be hanged, and who are
not executed after an imprisonment of six
months, as other prisoners are, who are sen
tenced to confinement and labor.
Mr. WILDEY, an act relative to costs in the
several criminal courts of this Commonwealth.
This bill provides that whenever a traverse jury
shall find the defendant not guilty, and shall
impose the costs upon the county or the pro
secutor, or shall apportion the costs between
the prosecutor and defendant, in accordance
with existing laws, such verdict shall include
the defendant's bill of costs for witnesses, sub
poenas, and 'serving the same.
Mr. COWAN, an act authorizing the commis
sioners of Warren county to settle with Matthias
Zahlman. [By consent this bill was taken up
and passed.]
. Also, an act to confirm the title to certain
islands in the Allegheny river, in the counties
of Warren and Venango ; also, an act to incor
porate the Tidioute bridge company also, an
act to authorize the borough of Warren, in
South-west township, in Warren county, to
levy an additional tax.
Mr. EILENBERGER, an act to incorporate
the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church, of
Upper Mount Bethel township, Northampton
county.
Mr. BUTLER, of Carbon, an act to provide
for the appointment of an additional commis
sioner to take depositions to be used in the
courts of Philadelphia, with a negative recom
mendation ; also, an act to provide for the col
lection of additional taxes in the . ,township of
Homer, in the cvnty of Potter.
Mr. ARMSTRONG moved that the Jersey
Shore Boom bill be made the special order for
Tuesday evening. Agreed to. Adjourned until
Monday at 3 o'clock p. m.
FALLING OFF IN THE SPRING TRADE.—The
first rush of spring trade in the metropolis is
now over. It has been the mildest kind of a
rush. Very few Southern buyers have ap
peared, and the principal houses have only had
limited orders to fill. The Western trade has
been very light so far, but a revival is expected
in April, when the canal and river navigation
is fairly opened, so that produce can be moved
forward. Our merchants are just beginning to
feel the effects of the secession movement, and
the worst remains behind. That we shall have
a very dull summer and slack autumn trade
appears to be quite certain, and unless the new
Administration takes immediate steps to settle
the pending political troubles one way or the
other, the city of New York will be the scene
of a financial revulsion altogether unpreceden
ted.—N- Y. Herald. .
MONSTER PETITION.—The rival applicants for
a lucrative position in a Northern city, now at
the disposal of the President, were somewhat
astonished at hearing they had an unexpected
competitor, whose claims were set forth in a
Petition to which several thousand names were
appended. The genuineness of the document
was at first doubted, but the signatures were
verified, when the person thus endorsed ad
witted that it was a joke, he having no desire
to obtain the office in question, hut having af
fixed the recommendation of himself to a pe
tition in favor of some local measure, sent in
here some years since to be presented to Con
gress, but never used. The gentlemen whose
hopes had been for a time crushed by this
"monster petition" again took courage, but the
faith of many who enjoyed the joke has been
weakened in the potency of autographic en
dorsements of oandidates.—National Intelli
gencer.
PARISIAN ExTRAvAnANcE.- —The general ex
travagance just now indulged in at Paris is
thus pictured by the correspondent of the Lon
don Review:
"The other night, at a ball-supper, which
was served on massive silver gilt dishes, and
Sevres China, I heard a man say to the lady on
his arm : 'What a waste of truffles it is to stuff
partridges with them !' to which, in that sharp,
thin voice so peculiar to Parisiennes, she an
swered, wish, for my part, they would stuff
them with truffles of gold that would be worth
being squeezed to death for !".Dex truffes d' or I'
I shall not easily forget the tone in which the
wish was expressed. I looked back at the
speaker ; she was a very young woman, ex
tremely fair and gentle•looking, but with, at
the same time, a keen, sordid light in the eye
that would frighten any one who was not fa
miliar with the race. The days of Cleopatra
are gone, and I should like to see any one of
her French descendants dissolving the pearl
we know of. Not one of them all would dis
solve the pearl for the pleasure of waste, but
any of them would squander their own souls
for its possession, if it were a sufficiently fine
one. Meanwhile, gold is the order of the day ;
its acquisition absorbs them morally, and its
display spoils their taste. Furniture—dress,
all is overlaid with gold. What gli; ters is what
is resorted to universally, and the eye has no
where whereon to rest."
A CURIOUS DIVORCE CASE.—A sort of John
Dean case was before the Manchester (Eng.)
Divorce Court a few days ago. The petitioner,
a young lady named Margaret Lea Bevan, the
daughter of Mr. Bevan, a surgeon of some
eminence near Liverpool, but now deceased,
had, in a fit of pique at a disappointment,
contracted a clandestine union with M'Mahon.
the driver of an omnibus in which she was
sometimes in the habit of riding. It was agreed
between the petitioner and the respondent
that the latter should obtain a license of mar
riage, omitting the name of Lea, the petitioner
insisting, by way of condition, that the re
spondent should not claim her as his wife until
two years had expired from the time of the
marriage. The petitioner now entirely repu
diates, on the ground that, although she was an
assenting party, the marriage was null and
void by reason of a fraud and misrepresenta
tion in obtaining the license. Sir Cresswell
Cresswell said that they felt bound to decide
that the marriage was not void, there being no
fraud as to the person to' be married. If they
were to hold otherwise, much misery might
occur where there had been birth of children;
the husband could turn round, and upon a
misdescription, set aside the marriage, and
reduce his wife to the position of mistress.
Public policy as well as the statute justified
their decision ; the prayer for the dissolution
of the marriage would be, therefore, refused.
The other judges concurred. 'Dissolution of
marriage refused.
ENGLISH LORDS.—The roll of the Lords of
Great Britain, spiritual and temporal, has just
been printed. There are 30 spiritual lords and
427 temporal, reckoning Lord Auckland among
the former as Bishop of Bath and Wells. The
spiritual lords are 26 English prelates and four
Irish, the Irish prelates on the roll this session
being the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishops
of Down, o.isory and Cork. Of the temporal
lords three are of the blood royal—the Prince
of, Wales, the Duke of Cumberland (King of
Hanover,) and the Duke of Cambridge. There
follow 20 dukes, 22 marquises, 131 earls, 28
viscounts, and 223 barons. This, however, is
reckoning them technically, according to the
titles by wbieh they sit in the House. For in
stance, the Duke of Buecleuch is placed among
the earls because he sits, not by his Scotch
title, but as Earl of Doncaster in the English
peerage, and the Duke of Argyll is reckoned
only among the barons (Baron Sundridge); the
Earl of Rodon is Lord Clanbrassill; the Mar
quis of Clanricarde, Lord Somerhill ; Lord
Panmure also remains among the barons, his
newly inherited Scotch title of Earl of Dalhousie
having no seat in the House annexed to it.—
Assigning all such peers to the rank and title
by which they are commonly known, and speak
ing popularly, the temporal lords are—a prince,
a king, 27 dukes, 35 marquises, 170 earls, 31
viscounts and 162 barons. The whole number
in the House, therefore, is 457 ; a generation
ago it was not 400.
RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT IN NAPLES.—The ec
clesiastical movement is proceeding rapidly at
Naples, and bids fair to form a prominent fea
ture in the history of the next few months.
While the Caulinal Archbishop is denouncing
and preaching against Padre Gavazzi, the
Padre has opened a room in affectionate prox
imity to the Nuncio, where, on Wednesdays and
Fridays, he gives controversial lectures, and on
Sunday he preaches twice a day. Last Sunday
evening, among a great number of Italians,
there were five priests present, who applau
ded the Padre during a part of his discourse,
the audience joining in the demonstration,
which Gavazzi immediately endeavored to
check. One priest has thrown aside his robes
and declared himself a Protestant. The police
have on several occasions sent to warn the Pa
dre that his life was in danger, but he told them
that it was their duty to protect him, and that
he ehould persist in doing what he considered
his duty. Gavazzi has shown immense moral
courage and great self denial in very straitened
circumstances.
IMPORTANT SEIZURE OF A VESSEL AT NEW
YORK.—The schr. Restless, of Great Egg Har
bor, N J., recently obtained a cargo at Mobile
for Havana. Her captain, as usual, surren
dered his license and applied to the collector at
Mobile for a register. The collector replied
that he had ceased to be a United States officer,
and that he could not furnish a United States
register. The captain entered his protest, had
it countersigned by the Spanish consul at Mo
bile, and sailed for Havana ; whence, after dis
charging and reloading, he sailed for New York,
arriving there on Wednesday. On his arrival
the schooner was immediately seized by Col
lector Schell, under the Bth section of the "Act
for enrolling and licensing ships, &c.," dated
20th February, 1793. This is the first case of
the kind which has arisen at New York since
the secession of the Southern States.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.—The amend
ment to the Constitution, which was passed by
the last Congress, before it can become a part
of that instrument, must be ratified by three
fourths of the Legislatures of the States.—
There are thirty-four States claimed, and three
fourths of this number would be twenty-six.
If North Carolina. and Arkansas secede, there
would be nine States that would not recognize
the Constitution, and would take no action on
any proposed amendment. In that case the
Constitution can never be amended, unless
some of these States be brought peacefully
back, or the independence of the Southern
Confederacy recognize,i.
HEAVY DEFALCATION IN A DRY GOODS ESTAB
LISHMENT. —A young man who has occupied a
responsible position as head clerk in one of the
departments of the large dry goods establish..
went cf Messrs. Hovoy & Co., on Summer
street, Boston, was detected last week in the
act of appropriating to bis own use funds which
belonged to the firm. Subsequent inquiry to
the discovery of the fact that his embezzlements
extended over several years, and amounted in
the aggregate to about $lO,OOO. His employ
ers, overcome by the entreaties of his wife, at
tached what property he had, put permitted
him to go " un whipped of justice."
CITY RAILROADS IN LONDON.—The improve
ment of city railroads having been once started
in England, it is making friends very rapidly.
Nine different companies have lately applied
for grants to build as many railroads in the
city of London. Seven of these roads are to be
tunnels, and two viaducts. Th se schemes are
gigsutio in their conception, and will cost vast
sums to complete.
GENERAL NEWS.
SUICIDE BY A RUINED GAMBLER AT HAMBURG.
A letter from Frankfort of February 19, says :
"The day before yesterday an English lady,
who had resided at Hamburg for some time,
and had been a constant visitor to the gambling
saloons, where by degrees she had lost almost
all her property, left the town and went to the
village of Kirdorf, about three miles distant.
She ascended the tower of the new church
there, and having first tied her legs together,
threw herself from the tower to the earth, a
distance of about 100 feet. When picked up
she was still living, but was conveyed to the
hospital at Homburg in an exceedingly deplo
rable condition.
MURDER IN ITALY.—A murder has recently
occurred at Milan, Italy, resembling in many
respects the murder of Dr. Parkman in Boston
by Professor Webster. Gioja, a rich person,
being missing, attention was drawn to the house
of his friend Carrozi, where he was last seen,
and hie body was found hastily buried in the
garden. The murderer owed his friend various
sums of money which he did not find it conve
nient to pay, and invited him to his house and
deliberately robbed and murdered him, with
the help of a lodger named Gatti. The latter
protests his innocence, but Carrozi has made
full confession of the crime.
COLD BLOODED MURDER IN INDIANA.—The
Vincennes Sun learns from a correspondent at
Carmel, Illinois, that a deliberate murder was
committed in that county, on Thursday evening,
about eight o'clock. Chas. Brines, a citizen of
the county, was seated on a load of hay, with
his boy, a child twelve years of age, and some
one with a rifle, seated in a fence corner, delib
erately fired upon him, sending a ball through
his brain. The murderer has not been identi
fied, and the probabilities are that he never will
be, as there was no witness but the child.
MYSTERICIIS DISAPPEARANCE. —The New
York Express says that a Mr. and Mrs. Copps
landed at one of the - wharves in that city on
Saturday last from Baltimore. Mr. C. left his
wife for a moment to look after their baggage,
and has not since been heard of. He was on
his way to Italy, the land of his nativity, to
join the Piedmontese army. Mr. and Madame
Coppa are well known to many citizens of Bal
timore, they have resided here for some years
and conducted a flourishing dancing academy.
Latterly he was professer of dancing at the U.
S. Naval School at Annapolis.
MELACHONLY EVENT.—We learn that on the
9th instant, in Westminster district, Carroll
county, Md., Mr. Samuel Myers committed sui
cide by hanging. He was aged 42 years and
29 days, and leaves a deeply afflicted widow and
six children. The unhappy man was a quiet,
inoffensive and respected father, neighbor, and
citizen. The cause which lead him to this rash
and precipitate step was a melancholy tempera
ment, acted on lately by religious excitement.
SHOCKING DEATH.—Dr. Vermeule, of New
market, New Jersey, committed suicide on
Saturday, at that place, by throwing himzelf
upon the track of the Central railroad just as
the express train dashed by at a high rate of
speed. He was horribly mutilated, and killed
instantly. He bad been in a state of partial
insanity much of the time during the present
year.
A SHOCKING CATASTROPHE.—The Prairie
(Miss ) News states that on the night of the 2d
instant, a negro woman, a slave to S. P. Gates,
went to a dance in a neighboring house, leav
ing her five litttle children locked up in her
dwelling. During her absence her house got
on fire, and before assistance arrived, the poor
children were all burned to death.
LOVE IN DEATH.—A few days' ago, a young
lady in East Boston, Mass., who had consented
to the last wishes of her lover, sick with con
sumption, named William Ricker, to be united
to him before he died, arrived at the appointed
hour in her bridal robes—only to find that he
had died an hour before.
BROKE JAIL.—John R. Hamilton, who was,
for killing his wife, in August last, convicted
of murder in the second degree, broke jail at
Dover, Del., last week, and escaped. He was
sentenced far life.
SUICIDE FROM JEALOUSY.—Mrs. Caroline M.
King, of New York, last week killed herself by
taking corrosive sublimate, because she found
a pair of lady's gloves in her husband's pocket.
Secretary Chase has issued orders to obtain
the name, age, length of service, occupation
and nativity of each officer in his department,
Secretary Smith has done the same thing.
It has often been remarked that "the talent
to get an office is not the talent to fill it." For
evidence of the truth of this, look at the course
of the men in the last Congress.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
Election in West Chester.
WEST CHESTER, March 16
Hon. Henry S. Evans, the conservative Re
publican candidate, nominated at a town meet
ing on Thursday, for Chief Burgess, was yes
terday elected by over 200 majority over Addi
ron May, the ultra Republican candidate. Re
publican judges were chosen by the usual ma-
j orities.
Secretary of the Peace Congress.
WEST CHESTER, Pa., March 16
Dr. S. H. Pulesten, late Secretary of the
Peace Congress, passed through here to-day on
his way to Washington. He has been classed
with the leading politicans of the State. The
result of his mission over Pennsylvania has
not yet transpired.
Election in Reading.
READING, March 16
The election in this city yesterday resulted
in do election of Joel B. Wanner, the Demo
cratic candidate for Mayor. The Democrats
also elected their Treasurer, Auditors, and 11
out of the 16• Common Councilmen.
Southern Rights Meeting.
LOUISVILLE, March 16.
A large Southern rights meeting was held at
the Court House last night. The proceedings
were attended with much confusion, and the
meeting finally broke up in row.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
LOUISVILLE, March 16.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
calls on the stockholders to take one dollar's
worth of new stock for each share held.
Sailing of Two Steamers.
Z.I . EW YORK, March 16.
The steamships then and City of Manches
ter sailed for Europe to-day with 190 passengers
in all.
DIED.
On Sunday evening, ELLA Ramona youngest daughter
of William Brady, in the fourth year of her age. The
funeral will.take place at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing. from the Brady House.
E W ARRANGEMENT.
CHANGE OF LOCATION.
WALLOWEVS:LINE.
The old stock of ears being disposed of, the under
signed has broke out in a new place, and established a
daily freight line between Philadelphia, New Tel k, Har
risburg and all points on the Northern Central, sunbury
and Erie and Lackawanna and Bloomsburg rai roads,
Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore extended,
he hopes, by promptness in delivery, to retain all his
old customers and patrons. All goods intended for the
line must be delivered at the depot of the Pidladelnbia
and Reading railroad, Broad and Callowb ill streets, Pbil
iladelphia All goods delivered at the depot up to 6
o'clock, P. M., will reach Harrisburg next morning.
J. WALLOWER, Ja.. General agent,
marchl2 Reading Depot, Harrisburg.
W ANTED -A WHITE WOMAN.-
vv- A good COOK can find constant employment and
good wages. Apply to DANIEL WAGNER, atthe Seven
Stars Hotel, corner of Second and Chesnut streets.
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TTASRISON'S HOUSEHOLD SOAP.
.11 50 BOXES OF THIS PERFROT SOAP. For Bale
At Planufactureeo price 4, A. ROBINBOII & CO.
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New 2bDertistirtelits
PUBLIC SALE OF
RT PERSONAL pR o..
PEY.
The supscribers will offer at Public Sale, on Th ur
the 26th day of March at 10 a. in., at the Witre_::3,4Y,
in Harrisburg. (late W e allower J, Sono ml the
con, afr o,'
large amount of PERSONAL PROPERTY, conH'sti n ,' a
Horsesando a raness, Wagons, Carts, Drays, Truck li•a;44
the works Stationary Engine of about six he" , ,
power, Rectifying Apparatus, Coal, tkc. They wi p•
the same time offer a FARM of 1 80 acres of land, ,iN m a i t
in Susquehanna township, adjoining lands of John ii' l
FOX., John Zinn, Jacob Grow and others. Terms of
will be made known on day of sale by ore .
A. 0. MESTER C. F. MIRROR,
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H.
WAR D ,
MANUFACTURER OF AND DEALER !N
0 STRAW GOODB
Nos. 103, 105 and 107 NORTH SECOND 8114;6,
PHILADELPHIA
We are now receiving our srrtruu STOCK, whirl ' w i ll
prise a large and desirable assortment or all lthalder
STRAW AND LACE GOOns.
Also, a large assortment of LADIES' tic, CLIILDRE,va
RATS.
Ourstock of FLOWERS and RUCHES will be anusuall
I.rge this Season. and we would invite your Ric te i a ,
tention to that department. Please call am' xam' at
them before making your purchases. R. WARD.
Nos. 103,105 and 107 Noaru SECOND St., above A r 4,.
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HOUSES TO RENT.—Two convenient
Muses Dewberfp A r li o e u y : b h et a w n e d en e
h C e h e s
tiruryt
ti:re,Cer
nut street. Possession given on the first of A ril next.
Apply to RoIDIFORT
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( IENTR AL NIJRSERIEB, YoRK,
VI EDWARD 7 EVANS & tO. P ROPRIETORS._
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Grapes, Sm .11 Fruits,Rha.
barb, Asparagus, Shrubs, Roses, Bedding &c. in
great variety. Orders left with G. 11. SMALL, at the
State Capital Bank, will receive prompt atton rion. C a t.
alogues gratis on application. nutrl6-Iriblatw
PROCLAMATION. -1V lwrens, the
Honorable JOHN J. PEARSON, President of the Cnurt
of Common Pleas in the Twelfth Judicial District, c on ,
misting of the counties of Lebanon and Dauphin, and the
Hon. A. O. Homan and Hon. FELIX NISSLEY, Also
date Judges in Dauphin county, having issue,' their pre.
cept, bearing date the 16th day of February, 1861, to me
directed, for holding a Court of Oyer and Termin'er and
General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace
at Harrisburg, for the county of Dauphin, and to rim.
mence on the 4th Monday of April next, being the 224
day of April, 1861, and to continue two weeks.
Notice is therefore hereby given to the Curoner.hs.
tices of the Peace, Aldermen, and Constables of theatid
county of Dauphin, that they be then and there in their
proper persons, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said*,
with their records, inquisitions, examinations, and th(ir
own remembrances, to do those things vihich to their
office appertains to be done, and those who are bound in
reeognizances to prosecute against the prisoners that are
or shall be in the Jail of Dauphin county, be then and
there to prosecute against them as shall be just.
Given under my hand, at Harrisburg, the 15th day of
March, in the year of our Lord, 1861, and in the eighty.
third year of the independence of the United States.
J. D. BOAS, Sheriff,
SHERIFF'S OFFICE,
Harrisburg, March 15, 1861.
IJUBLIC .NOTICE.—The uniersigned
lI Commissioners of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania:
hereby inform the public in general that. in consequence
of the approaching completion of the new Court Rouse
of the county, in the city of Harrisburg, a number of
County Loans are solicited, for which coupon bonds pay.
able at from three to thirty years, will be executed to
the lender clear of all taxes, and semi-annual interest
will be paid punctually at the Dauphin County Treasury.
Therefore, persons wishing to make safe investments,
will, it is expected, avail themselves of this opportunity.
JOEIN S. IIIUSEER,
JACOB BERM,
GEORGE GARVERICIL
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restored to health, invalids who bud expended hundreds
of dollar's with Physicians and Patent Medicines. He
can refer to some of the best families in Harrisburg, and
can give the names of person- in the city , and nearly all
parts of the State, whom he has cured of almost every
Chronic Disease.
He does not profess to cure all diseases after the man
ner of some advertising quacks, but will give a candid
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In COMPLAINTS OF FEMALES his success has been
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Terms Moderate.
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put asunder.”
"W hoenever shall put away his wife and marry another
committetb adultery. And if a woman shall put AWAY.
her husband and marry again she committeth adultery."
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