11.6.TES OF ADVERTIS rear lines or less constitute half a square. Ten litres or wore than four, constitute a square. Erilfsq ,oueday— --- 50.25 One sq., one day ....---so.bli ~ wee wee s.---• 1.00 " one week.--. 1.25 ~ OUB 111011th ••• • 2.00 " one month.._. 3.00 three months. 3.00 three mouths. 5.00 , g '' six months— . 4.00 ,' six months.— B.or isone year.— . 5.00 lc one year... 10.00 E r Business notices inserted in the Loom. ooLoatrr, or before marriages and deaths, FIVE worn PER LlNEbythe for each insertion. 2o merohautsand others advertising year liberalte, is will be offered. 113' The numberofinsertions must be aesignatedon the ivertisement.. ] Marriages :rid 'Deaths will be inserted at the game esas regular advertisements. -- . 13 00 k5, Otattotterp, Sz,c. SCHOOL BOOKS.--School Directors, Teachers, Parents, Scholars, and others, in want of School Books, School Stationery, &c., will find a complete sesortment at B. M. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOK STORE, Market Square, Harrisburg, comprising in part the follow in ANADSBB.—MeGuffey's, Parker's, Cobb's, Angell's SPELLING BOOKS.—McGuffey's, Cobb's, Webster's, Ton's, Brides. Combry's. NNGLI3II GLIAMMARS.--Bullion'sf_limith% Wood b r idge's, Sionteith,s „ , nart's, wells'. HISTORIES.--Gnmshaw% Davenport's Prost% Wil pips, Willard% Goodrich's, Pinnock's, (lioldsosith'S and Mark's. ABITHIdETIO'S.--Greenlest's, Stoddard's, Emerson's, Pike's, Bose's, Colburn's, Smith and Duke's, Davie's. JiLliGlßßAS.—.Greenleat's, Davies, Days, Bay's, Bridge's. DICTIONARTS.—WaIIter's School, Cobb's Walker, Worcester's Comprehensive, Worcester's Pri4, miter's Primary, Webster's High School, Webster s Quarto, ACSdeune. NATURAL PHILOSOPHDIS.—CoIIifitOdeII, Parker's, Swift's. The above with a great variety of others can at sny time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort ment of School Stationery, embradng in the Ida le a com plete outfit for school purposes. iny book not in the store. procured it one days notice. Er Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates. ALMANACS_—John Baer and Son's Almanac for sale ai B. M. POLLOCKBOOK STORE, Harrisburg. Kr Wholesale and Detail. myl JIIST RECEIVED AT SCIIEFFER'S BOOKSTORE, ADAMANTINE SLJTES OF VARIOUS SIZES AND PRICES, Which, for beauty and use, cannot be excelled. REMEMBER THE PLACE, SCHEFFER'S BOOKSTORE, KO. 18 MARKET STREET. mart N E W B 0 0 K S I JUST REOEIVED "SEAL AND SAY," by the author of " Wide, Wide World," "Dollars and Cents," ate. "HISTORY OF NET ROMEO," by A. Stevens. LL .D. For sale at SCLIEFFERS, BOOKSTORE, ap9 No.lB Marks st. JUST RECEIVED, A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OP RICHLY GILT AND ORNAMENTAL WINDOW CURTAINS, PAPER BLINDS, Of -various Designs and Colors, for S cents, TISSUE PAPER AND CUT BO OK S , At Emy24l SORE/PEWS TORE. WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER 1 I iniit received, our Spring Stock of WAIL PAPER, BORDKRS, FIRE SCREENS, &c., &c. Itis the largest and best selectedissortment =the city, rangingin price from six (6) cents up to one dollar and &quarter ($1.25.) All we purchase very low for cash, we are prepared to sell at as low rates, if not lower, than can be had else where. if purchasers will call and examine, we feel confident that we can please them in respect to price and quality. 8.111 POLLOCK & SON, ap3 Below Jones' House, Market Square. TY. T T R, CAP, NOTE PAPERS, Ai Peas, Holders, Pencils, Envelopes, Sealing W/IX, of the beet quality, at low prices, direct from the manu factories, at mar3o SCHEPPER 2 S CHEAP BOOKSTORE LAW BOOKS ! LAW BOOKS !!-A general assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many of the old English Reporta, scarce and rare together with a large assortment of second-hand Law 'Books, at Tory low price's, at she one price Bookstore of E. M. POLLOCK dr, SON, tu • Market Square, Harrisburg. Illistellancoug. AN ARRIVAL OF NEW GOODS APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON! SILK LINEN PAPER VANE! "PANS!! PANS!!! ANOTHER AND OPL&NDIO LOT OF SPLICED FISHING R ODS! Trout Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of FISHING TACKLE! • GRILLS VARIETY OP WALKING CANES! Which we wiU sell as cheap as the cheapest! Silver Head Loaded Sword Hickory Prioey Cows! Castes! (lanes! Canes! Canes! SELLER'S BRIM AND FANCY STORE, No. 91 JURE= STP.BBT, South side, one door east of Fourth street je9. NUT COAL!!! irr ONL Y $1.75 PER TON!!!..L11 TRKVEBTON NUT COAL for sale at $1.75 per ton, delivered by Patent Weigh Carte. PINEGROVB COAL, just received by ears, for sale by feb2l LANES WHEELER. ("ARDEN SEEDS I I !-A FRESH AND %A commas% assortment, just received and for sale by feb2l WM. DOCK, Ja., & CO. TIIST RECEDED—A large Stock of ti SCOTCH ALES, BROWN STOUT and LONDON PORTER. For sale at the lowest rates by JOHN H. ZIEGLER, 73 Market street. janll FlBlllt FISH!!! idACHERZL, (Non.l, 2 and 3.) SALMON, (very ruperior.) SHAD, (Mess and very fine.) HERRING, (extra large.) COD FISH. SMOKED KEBRINO, (extra Dlgby.) SCOTCH HERRING_ SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES. Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter and eighth bble. Herring in whole and half bbls. The entire lot 1118W-DIREOT vsox THE Maims, and will sell them at the lowest market rates. saplA WM. DOCK, Is., do CO` CiIb.biPAGNE WINES! BIM DE I.IOIqTERBLLO, HEIDSIRCE. & co. CHARLES wErinty.cx, GIBBLT.It /C. CO ANCHOR—BILLERT morssEux, SPARKLING 14IIBC&TEL i NUMB & CO.'S TBRZENAY, CABINET. In store and for gale by JOHN H. ZIEGLXR, 73 Market street dean mOKORY WOOD ! 1--A SUPERIOR LOT Al just received, and for sale in quantities to suit our elSlsBlll. by .TAHES H. WHEELER. Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand at the lowest prices. del* .011 LY BIBLES, from 1$ to ea, F strong and handsomely bound, printed on good paper, with elegant clear nen t7Pe___ L lidd at main Chesp Boolitire. CRANBERRIES I!! A --___ SPLENDID LOT just received by octlo ' FOR a superior and cheap TABLE or SALAD OIL go to SELLER'S DRUG STORE. TAE Fruit Growers' Handbook—by W".lX4—wholesale asuiretail at mdtgil SCREFFBWS Bookstore. SPERM. OANDLES.—A large supply ig 18 ILI just received by Wht. DOCK. JR., & Co. ELLER'S DRUG ST I RE is the place _ to AM the tart aloortomat of Porte Wombs. WM. DOCK. JS., & CO. _7_,= - 7A r tr • . ~, --=--,, .-.- ._,_.--- ' .;:'•,;- - -c , - - --•• --- - ' 4- i ,,4 :: - ' • -- r-- ... _,. • _. _.. _ ______ • * :7„ : -.'v 7 -- -- = '; i Z g 5 ;. 1, 11_.-z; - .41. - (1 , ..1- I: I . 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THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Harrisburg a 2.40 a. m , and arrives at West Philadelphia at 6.60 a. in FAST LINE leaves Harrisburg at 12.55 p. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 5.00 p. m. MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg at 5.15 p. m., and ar rives at West Philadelphia at 10.20 p. m. These Trains make close connection at Philadelphia with the New York Lines. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, No. 1, leaves Harrisburg at 7.30 a. in., runs via Mount Joy, and arrives at West Philadelphia at 12.80 p. m. HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION leaves Harria burg at 1.15 p. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 6.40 p. m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, N 0.2, leaves Harrisburg at 5.26 p. in., runs via Mount Toy, connecting at Dille - vile with MAIL TRAIN East for Philadelphia. WESTWARD. THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 10.50 p. m., and arrives at Harrisburg at 3.10 a. m. MAIL TRAIN leaves Philadelphia at 8.00 a. in., an arrives at Harrisburg at 1.20 p. M. LOCAL MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg for Pitisbur at 7.00 a. in. FAST LINE leaves Philadelphia at 12.00 noon, and ar rives at Harrisburg at 4.10 p. In. HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Philadelphia at 2.00 p. In., and arrives at Harrisburg at 7.85 p. m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 4.00 p. m., and arrives at Harrisburg at 9.46 p. in. Attention is called to the fact, that passengers leaving Philadelphia at 4 p. m. connect at Lancaster with MOUNT JOY ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, and arrive Harrisburg at 9.45 p. M. SAMUEL D. YOUNG, n023-dtf Sant. East. Div. Pennks Railroad. NEW AIR LINE ROUTE NEW YORK. , - ' • - .; g- , •-;,; _ i Shortest in Distance and quickest in Time BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES O.IP NEW YORK AND HARRISBURG, VIA READING, ALLENTOWN AND EASTON MORNING EXPRESS, West, leaves New York at 6 a. in., arriving at Harrisburg at 1 p. in., only 6% hours between the two cities. MAIL LINE leaves New York at 12.00 noon, and ar rives at Harrisburg at 8.15 p. m. HORNING MAIL LINE, East, leaves Harrisburg 8.00 a. in., arriving at New York at 6.20 p. m. AFTERNOON EXPRESS LINE, East, leaves Harris burg at 1.15 p. m., arriving at New York at 9.46 p. in. Connections are made at Harrisburg at 1.00 p. m. with the Passenger Trains in each direction on the Pennsylva• ilia, Cumberland Valley and Northern Central Railroads All Trains connect at Reading with Trains for Potts. villa and Philadelphia, and. •at Allentcrin for Mauch Chunk, Easton, &o. No change of Passenger Oars or Baggage between New York and Harrisburg, by the 6.00 a. in. Line from New York or the 1.15 p. m. from Harrisburg. For beauty of scenery and speed, comfort and accom modation, this Route presents superior inducements to the traveling public. Fare betwe en N ew York and Harrisburg, Fry's DOLLARS For Tickets and other information apply to J. J. CLYDE, lieneral Agent, dels Harrisburg. p Ii.T.LADELPHIA tiND READING RAILROAO WINTER ARRANGEMENT. ON AND AFTER DEC. 12, 1860, TWO PASSENGBR TRAINS LEAVE HARRISBURG DAILY, (Sundays excepted,) at 8.00 A. M., and 1.15 P. M., for Philadelphia, arrivingthere at 1.25 P.M., and 6.15 P. M. RETURNING, LEAVE PHILADELPHIA at 8.00A.M. and 8.80 P. M., arriving at Harris' barg at 1 P. M. and SAO P. M. FARES s—To Philadelphia, No. 1 Cara, $3.25 ; No. 9, (in same train) $2_75. FARE.B:—To Reading $1.60 and $l.BO. At Reading, connect with trains for Pottsvi2e, Miners villa, Tamaqua, Catawissa, &o. FOUR TRAINS LEAVE READING FOR PHILADEL PHIA DAILY, at 6A. M., 10.45 A. M., 12.30 noon and 8.43 P. M. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA FOR READING at 8 A. M.,1.00 P. M., 3.80 P. M., and 5.00 P. FARES:—Reading to Philadelphia, $1.75 and $1.45. THE MORNING TRAIN FROM HARRISBURG CON. NECTS AT READING with up train for Wilkesbarre Pittston and Scranton. For through tickets and other information apply to CLYDE, dels -dif General Agent. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD. REDUCTION OF PASSENGER FARES, ON AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1860 COMMUTATION TICKETS, With 20 Coupons will be issued between any points desired, good for tile holder and any member of his family, in any Passenger train, and at any time—at 26 per cent. below the regular fares. Parties having occasion to use the Road frequently on business or pleasure, will find the above arrangement convenient and erenomical; as Four Passenger train. run daily each wry between Reading and Philadelphia, and Two Train , est‘v between Reading, Pottsville and Harrisburg. O. Sundays, only one morning train Down, and one afterr err train Up, runs betweenPottsville and Pbiladelphlr and no Passenger train on the Lebanon Valley Brinell Railroad_ For thr above Tickets, or any information relating thereto apply to S. Bradford, Esq., Treasurer, Philadel • phis, it the respective Ticket Agents on the line, or to H. A. NICOLLS, General Slain. Mare 2T, 1860.—mar28.dtf NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY. ffiIIIMMILMMINMES NOTICE. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SPRING ARRANGEMENT, ON AND AFTER FRIDAY, MARCH ler, ~1881. the Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Midway will leave Harrisburg as follows : GOING SOUTH. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave at-3.00 a. ro. EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at.......•« . 7.40 a. 11l MAIL TRAIN will leave at .. 1.00 p.m. GOING NORTE 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 the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN South, at 3.00 a. m. For further information apply at the office, in Penn sylvania Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent. Harrisburg, March Ist-dtf. DRIED BEEF—An extra lot of DRIED BEEP just received by nog WM. DOCK, JS., & Co. BURLINGTON HERRING ! Just received by WM. DOCK, ds., & CO ocl EMPTY BOTTLES !—Of all sizes and descriptions, for sale low by deo° WU. DOCK, 75., & 00. HA_RRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1861. ltiterellantoup. TAKE NOTICE! That we have recently added to our already full stock OF SEGARS LA NORMATIS, HARI KARI, EL MONO, LA BANANA. OF PERFUMERY FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF : TURKISH ESSENCE, ODOR OF MUSK, LUBIN'S ESSENCE BOUQUET, NOR THE HATE: EAU LUSTRALE, ORYSTALIZED POMATUM, • MYRTLE AND VIOLET POMATUDI. FOR THE COMPLEXION : TALC OF VENICE, ROSE LEAF POWDER, NEW MOWN HAY POWDER, BLANC DE PERLF,S. OF SOAPS: Bazix's FINEST MOSS ROSE, BENZOIN, UPPER TEN, VIOLET, NEW MOWN HAY, JOCKEY CLUB. Having the largest stock and best 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 DR MS, MEDI CINES, CHEMICALS, ite consequent of our re ceiving almost daily additions thereto. KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE, 91 Market Street, two doors East of Fourth Street, sepB South side. JACKSON & CO.'S SHOE STORE, NO. 90X hiARKET STREET, HARRISBURG, PA., Where they intend to devote their entire time to the manufacture of BOOTS AND SHOES Of all kinds and varieties, in the neatest and most fash ionable styles, and at satisfactory prices. Their stock will consist, in part, of Gentlemen's Fine Calf and Patent Leather Boots and Shoes, latest styles; Ladies' and Misses' Gaiters, and other Shoes in great variety; and in fact everything connected with the Shoe business. CUSTOMER WORK will be particularly attended to, and in all cases will satisfaction be warranted. Lasts fitted up by one of the best makers in the country. The long practical experience of the undersigned, and their thorough knowledge of the business will, they trust, be sufficient guarantee to the public that they will do them justice, and furnish them an article the will recommend itself for utility, cheapness and dura bility. [jan9] JACKSON & CO. JUST RECEIVED! A PULL ASSORTMENT OF HUMPHREY'S HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS TO WHICH WE MITE THE ATTENTION OF THE AFFLICTED!: For eats at SOMMER'S BOOKSTORE, sp9 . No.lB Market et, WE OFFER TO CUSTOMERS A New Lot of LADIES. , PURSE:S, Of Beautiful Styles, substantially made A Splendid Assortment of GENTLEMEN'S WALLETS. A New andjElegant Perfume, KNIGHTS TEMPILARS' LBOQUET, Put up in Qat Glass Engraved Bottles. A Complete Assortment ofil ;HANDKERCHIEF PERFUMES, Of the best Manufacture. A very Handsome Variety of POWDER PUPS' BOXES. KELLER'S DRUG STORE, JO/ 91 Market street REMOVAL. JOHN W. GLOVER, MERCHANT TAILOR!, Rae removed to 60 MARKET STREET, Where he will be pleased to see all his friend . oetB.4ltf CANDLES!!! PARAFFIN CANDLES, SPERM CANDLES, STEARINE CANDLES, ADAMANTINE CANDLES, CHEMICAL SPERM CANDLES, STAR (surzatoa) CANDLES, TALLOW CANDLES. A large invoice of the above in store, and for sale at unusually low rates, by WM. DOOR, Ja., & CO., janl Opposite the Court House GUN AND BLASTING YOWDER. JAMES M. WHEELER, HARRISBURG. PA., AGENT FOR ALL POWDER AND FUSE MANIIPAHTURED BY L E. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO., WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. trzr A large supply always on hand. For sale at mann facturerhs prices. Magazine two miles below town. Kr Orders received at Warehouse. non SCOTCH WHISKY.—One Puncheon of PUNE SCOTCH WHISKY just received and for solo by JOHN H. ZIEGLER, jan2 73 Market street. HATCH & C 0., SHIP AGENTS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 138 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, DEALERS IN FLOUR, GRAIN, PRODUCE, COTTON, WINES AND LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS. nocB-418m D YOTTVILLE GLASS WORKS, PHILADELPHIA, NANIFFROTURE CARBOYS, DEMIJOHNS, WINE, PORTER, MINEB.A.L . ,WA.TER, PICKLE AND .PRESERVE BOTTLES Or EVERY DESCRIPTION. U. B. & O. W. BENNERS, oel2.dry 27 South Front steret, Philadelphia. T C 0 S Tl!! BOTTLED WINES, BRANDIES, AND LIQUORS OFEVERY DESCRIPTION! Together with a complete assortment, (wholesale and retail,) embracing everything in the line, will be sold at cost, without reserve. janl WM. DOOM la., fr. CO. HAVANA CIGARS.—A Fine Assort ment, comprising Figaro, Zaitagozona, La Buiza, Bird, Fire-Fly, Etelvina, La Berluto, Cepa°lio of ail sizes and qualities, in quarter, one-B!th and one-tenth boxes, just received, and for Sale low by TORN 11. ZIEGLER, jan3l. 78 Market Street. ELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place 11 1 ,.. to buy Domestic Medicines CRANBERRIES—A very Superior lot at ease.] WM. DOCK, 7a. & 0013. Ely Vatriot & Union. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1861. SLAVE TRADE AND COOLIE LABOR (From the London Times, March I.] The public sentiment upon the subject of slavery and the slave trade seems at last to have entered upon its rational and, as we may hope, its permanent state. A hundred and fifty years ago, we were fighting for the privilege of conveying negroes over sea. Having obtained all we desired on that score, we then apatheti cally pocketed the profits, and positively re fused to think of how those profits 'were ob tained. A generation later, and we grew uncomfortable in our gains, and our ears tingled and our consciences grew uneasy as the wails and groans of the stifled negroes came home to us with perpetual and importunate repetition. We were some years awakening, and Wilber force and Clarkson, and all the fellow laborers of these men, had much to do thoroughly to arouse us out of that uneasy state of somno lence. But at last we did awake, and we awoke in a frenzy. The state of this country when the full guilt of slavery came upon it was nothing less than a frenzy of remorse. Before that passion, everything went down. Many men yet living can remember when George Canning failed to obtain as a concession the abolition of the power to flog female slaves, and young men can remember when it was thought little less than blasphemy to suggest that even a black man might very reasonably be expected to do some labor. Between these two extremes the public sentiment has violently vibrated. In the paroxysm of the first remorse the guilty Englishman saw slavery in everything black. The phantom of that complaining negro was ever before him, and he would shut his eyes and scream if you did but talk to him of a negro at work. He sacrificed everything to his sore, quivering conscience. He was ever upon the watch to find out something more to sacrifice. He sacrificed his great West Indian interest not only recklessly, but with an osten tatious eagerness. He cast his own twenty millions down to rid himself of the remaining evidences of his crimes as penitently as Judas offered the thirty pieces of silver to the Jewish authorities. He poured forth not only his own money- and the money of those over whom he held influence, but he lavished the life of his own kith and cin to appease that accusing con science. On the coast of Africa, in the per fidous sunshine of "the white man's grave," amid the beautiful and deadly luxuriance of a tropical vegetation, he placed his own country men to pine and die that he might comfort himself with the satisfaction that he had atoned for the great sin he had committed against the black man. For a full generation there was nothing he would not pay, and nothing he would not vicariously endure. Every great excitement has its recoil. The generation of crime had been followed by the generation of remorse ; the generation of re morse is followed by the generation of reflec tion. We who now occupy the earth are less affected by the crimes of grandfathers or the remorse of our fathers. We begin to feel less affright at this spectre of the writhing negro. We have purged ourselves completely of the guilt of his abduction and his other wrongs, and we can feel ourselves entitled to look upon any other man who has succeeded to the com mon obligation of eating bread by the sweat of his brow. The flood tide which had flowed upward, roaring and foaming like the "bore" of some bell-shaped fish, retained its power of flowing after the great impulse had ceased ; but years ago there were some who ventured to say that, after all, the earth must be tilled, and that the great law of Nature which doomed man to labor must apply to the black man as well as to the white. Their voices, however, had little chance of being heard, for there was enough of vehemence in our old conviction to urge us not only to persuade but to coerce all the rest of the world to feel as we felt and to be penitent as we were penitent. We lavished our money, we concentrated our efforts, we exerted all our influence, we compromised our political relations, we coerced the weak, and we went to the verge of making war upon the strong, in order to bring the rest of the world to join with us in our crusade against the traf fic in mankind. Never was there in the his tory of our race so magnificent and so disin terested an enthusiasm, When the great book of history shall become so vast that far-off generations shall be unable to seize any other than the tallest events in the great vista from which they emerge, this work of England must stand out and challenge ad miration, as something to which the story of past ages has no parallel. We English alone have been hearty in the cause. We have shamed some by our example. We have bought others by our largesses, and we have deterred others by our power; but of all the people of the - earth we alone have labored, with gold and with arms, for no other object than for that point of conscience which is to us our "idea"— to put down slavery and the slave trade. Yet we have not succeeded. While we have been starving our own colonists, and suffering our West Indian possessions to return to jungle in very fanaticism, suspecting that slavery must lurk under every contract for labor, other countries have eluded their engagements, or have openly resented our interference. Por tugal has required all our attention to keep her at all up to the mark; Spain has impudently repudiated all her promises; France has changed the name but not the substance; and Amer ica has continued the odious traffic at sea, under the pretext of a jealousy of her national honor, and has, to her misfortune, nursed sla very at home and acknowledged it as a domes tic institution. After all our sacrifices and all our efforts, the most zealous opponents of sla very were fain to come down to the House of Commons on Tuesday night, and to propose a resolution, ~T hat the means hitherto employed by this country for the suppression of the African slave trade have failed to accomplish that object." Now that we can calmly review all that has been done, we find that we have been led away by our generous impulses and have wasted our strength uselessly. Like the charge at Bala klava, "C'ese tnagnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre," it was wonderful, but it was altogether unpractical. Great as we are, we are not pow erful enough to coerce the world. Strong as we are, we must submit to the laws which uni versally influence human conduct. After all our vain efforts we are reduced at last to admit that we must be content to attract mankind by their interests, and not pretend to govern them by fear. France claps her hand upon her sword if we presume to ask whether she has slaves or free laborers in the hold off the Charles et-Georges. Spain laughs at us if we pretend to prevent her from importing as many slaves as she may want in Cuba. America threatens war if we attempt to liberate the live cargo of a vessel covered with the. stars and stripes.— We have discovered at last that commercial competition will do what fleets and armies are utterly incompetent to perform. Not very long ago, when ve, from time to time, urged the claims of our West Indian colonies to some substituted free labor for the slave labor they had lost, we were met by the indignation of our Anti-Slavery Societies. Perhaps there are some remnants of that superstition, which is a great religion degenerated, wherein the same dogmas are still repeated; but on Tuesday night the modern Anti-Slavery men came down to ask the House of Commons to believe that "the true remedy is to be found, not in countenan cing immigration into countries where slavery exists, but in augmenting the working popula tion in countries in which slavery has been abolished;" and "that the failure has mainly arisen from our having endeavored almost exclusively to prevent the supply of slaves, instead of to check the demand for them." At last we are condescending to reason upon slavery and the slave trade as we reason upon other human affairs. At last we are coming down from our high notions of destroying any thing we do not like by the sword and the can non shot—although there are some fanatics, as the debate showed, who still lean upon these means—and are intent upon humbling ourselves to the commonplace notion that the best way of destroying an objectionacle system of labor is to undersell it. Africa; populous as it is, is not so populous as China, nor is it so populous as the coast of India. Africa, necessitous as the people may be, is not so necessitous as the far East. There we have a hungry civilization which may be moulded to our purposes by good treatment more cheaply than the savagery of Africa can be oppressed by coercion. Both in India and in China we have the materials for a competition which may render the slave trade an extinct, because an unprofitable traffic. The old anti-slavery party will probably for some time still oppose all white emigration, unless it should compel their free black proteges to work by the competition that emigration must create in the labor market; but we are happily getting beyond this stage of folly, and are learning to look upon this subject with the eyes of common sense. We have a treaty with China which enables us to carry to the West not only Chinamen but their families. We have behaved so well to them that we have gained their confidence. While other nations may kidnap them by tons, we can obtain volunteers by thousands; and if our laws are observed, and our shipowners and planters are honest, we are not far from the period when we may see the prosperity of our West Indian colonies re stored, and the slave trade extinguished without a cruiser or a fort on the coast of Africa, and without the sacrifice of even another million from the British Treasury. THE NATIONAL CRISIS. We clip the following extracts from an arti cle in the last number of the London Athenaeum. The writer is reviewing the "History of the Constitution," by Curtis ; "A memoir of Abra ham Lincoln ; " and Helper's " Impending Crisis :" The manner in which intelligence of a rup ture of friendly relations between the States composing the American Union was received in this country ought to silence those politicians who represent us to the people of the States as cherishing a malignant antipathy to them and their institutions. That intelligence came upon us as an overwhelming personal disaster. It was received by us with consternation and profound sorrow. The threat of secession had been so frequently thrown out that we had learnt to look upon it as an empty menace.— Secession seemed so suicidal to the one and destructive to the other side, that spectators felt secure the South would endure any provo cation rather than secede—felt secure the North would hesitate to convert a troublesome friend into an open enemy. Nor in the present posi tion of affairs has this view been altogether given up. We confess that we cling to it still, believing that the importance of union, mani fest to none more than the inhabitants of the States themselves, will even yet lead the way, as in previous cases of internal conflict, to compromise and arrangement. There are signs that North and South would gladly extricate themselves from a position into which they have peen hurried by intolerance on the one hand and resentment on the other. They see that with the sacrifice of the Union they surrender their eminence amongst the nations of the earth—that their prosperity, unprecedented in all the annals of the past, is incompatible with hostile tariffs and hostile laws. The suggestion that two Unions can exist side by side, ii mutual amity and confi dence, can find defenders only among those who are ignorant alike of history and human nature. Only let this unhappy struggle be prolonged, till two confederacies have definitely taken form, power, and national existence, and two more hostile neighbors will not be found on the face of the globe. Every day some new diversity of interest,some fresh point of collision will arise to embroil the kindred powers, and each question of dispute will be argued with that bitterness of animosity which proverbially characterizes family quarrels. Suspicion, jealousy, and rivalry will produce constant strife, and, with such antagonists, the sword will be more in favor than arbitration. To maintain their independence and enforce their rights, each Union will have to maintain a standing army, and, a necessary consequence of the institution, an increasing army. Ere a generation has passed away, such republics will in this respect approximate to the condition of France and Austria. And in a republic the existence of a large permanent military force leads, sooner or later, as surely as day closes in night, to the overthrow of freedom, and the establishment of an armed despot. More than once in the life of the United States of Amer ica, their federal constitution and individual institutions have been preserved to them by the absence of a large standing army. These con siderations must have full weight with all the honest and enlightened citizens of North and South. The fanatics of the Free States and the penniless incendiaries of the Carolinas may persevere in howling for bloodshed and devas tation ; but the thoughtful and trustworthy members of both parties will, we confidently believe, agree, in the name of humanity, to make all objects secondary to the preservation of the Union. By the determination with which both sides continue, under great temptation, to abstain from acts that would render reconcilement im possible, they declare, in the most forcible man ner, their anxiety to be once more friends. The men of the North say, in effect: "We are sorry yov've left us." The men of the South reply : "Give us security, and we'll soon be with you again." Still the game is a perilous one. An attitude of defiance must sometimes be main tained out of a sense of dignity, though it was first taken up in haste, and has been repented of with sincerity. And nothing is more likely to goad the South into an obstinate perseverance in their present position than a reiteration of the charge that they are mere wordy brag garts. A more foolish calumny than this was never uttered in the heat of political warfare. That which is grandest in the history of the American Confederacy is to be fuuud in the biographies of .Southern men. The South has her faults, but cowardice and trickery are not amongst them. The author of "A Memoir of Abraham Lincoln," whose scanty and barren pages have no strength save that of acrimoni ous partizanship, sneers at the "bluster" of the hot blooded South. He may be assured that BY 0. BARRETT & CO (R 5 DAILY PATRIOT AND 'UNION will be served to sub Scribers residing in the Borough for SIX CENTS PER WENL payable to the Carrier. Mail rabecribere, YOUR DOL LA.RS PER ANNUM. THE WEEKLY will be published se heretofore, semi weekly during the session of the 'Legislature, and once week the remainder of the year, for two dollars in ad vance, or three dollars at the expirationof the year. Connected with this establishment is an extensive JOB OFFICE, containing a variety of plain and fancy type, unequalled by any establishment in the interior of the State, for which the patronage of the public is so. [jolted. NO. 171. the English, to whom he especially addresses himself, by no means attribute a preponderance of trans-Atlantic "bluster" to the South. Of Mr. Lincoln, we read : "Not by birth, not by the sword, not by the influence of wealth, not by intrigue, not by the clamor of the mob, not even by remarkable superi ority of talent, of eloquence, or of learning —but by untiring energy, by unswerving integrity, by uncompromising courage, by kindness of heart, by genial humor, by strong common sense, by respectable talent, and by moderate eloquence, has Abraham Lincoln commended himself to his countrymen and won himself a place among the Princes of the earth." The eulogist tells us a few other important particulars about "honest old Abe." Twelve months' schooling constituted his entire education. He stands six feet four inches in his stockings. 'When a young man, living with his family in Macon county, he "with the help of John Hawks, a relation of his mother, in one day split three thousand rails." He is also "reported to be a regular attendant on religious worship, and to be a pew-holder, though not a communicant, of the Presbyterian Church in Springfield, to which Mrs. Lincoln belongs !" To split three thousand rails in twenty-four hours ; to be a pew-holder in a Presbyterian church What qualifications for an American President !—What a change from the opening years of the Republic ! The early Presidents were all gentlemen of culture. Indeed Wash ington, - whose mother made the ordinary error of a common place woman in saving the money I that ought to have been expended on his edu cation, was singular amongst those contempo rary statesmen in not enjoying the attainments of scholarship. And Washington bad higher claim on his country's regard than that of hav ing, with the help of a maternal relative, split three thousand rails in an incredibly short space of time ! We do not say that pew-holding and rail splitting are pursuits that would unfit a man for the Presidency. What we complain of is that nothing more is known about Mr. Lincoln. Whatever he does, or leaves undone, whether hi policy be of arms or peace, the world will be grateful for it if it results in the preserva tion of the Union. But our reliance is rather in the good sense of the people than in the le gal knowledge displayed by the new President. Mr. Lincoln is reported to have said at Tsai anapol s : "By the way, in what consists the special sacredness of a State? I speak not of the po sition assigned to a State in the Union by the Constitution, for that is the bond we all recog nize. That position, however, a State cannot carry out of the Union with it. I speak of that assumed primary right of a State to rule all which is less than itself and to ruin all that is larger than itself. If a State or a county, in a given case, should be equal in extent of terri tory anti equal in number of inhabitants, in what, as a matter of principle, is a State better than a county? Would an exchange of names be an exchange of rights? Upon what prin ciple, on what rightful principle, may a State, being no more than one-fiftieth part of the nation in soil and population, break up the nation ; and then coerce a proportionably larger sub-division of itself in the most arbitrary way ?" We must express our astonishment at the use of such language by a lawyer. The Ame rican Union is a combination of independent States, leagued for the accomplishment of definite objects, and free to retire on the con ditions of their union being violated. Whit right can a State have to secede ? Why, the same right the colonies had to revolt; and a much stronger right—that enjoyed by every partner in ajoint stock company. What, asks the President of the United States, is the differ ence between a State and county? Surely no one who needs to be informed ought to be in Mr. Lincoln's place. What is the difference between the relation of a State to the Union, and that of a county to its State? Why, just this—a county has no existence whatever apart from its State. The State was the primary institution, and the county acquired from it only a conditional individuality. Whereas the Union, instead of giving birth to the States, was their creation. Far from being the parent power, it is their offspring. Apart from them it. ceases to be; - whereas apart from • it the States continue to be separate communities with distinct constitutions, as they were long before they created that impersonal power— the Union. Indeed, the analogy breaks down at every point. Mr. Helper—whose "Impending Crisis" ha's been largely circulated in the North—proposes to abolish slavery from the Statesby compelling Southern proprietors to transport their slaves to Liberia, award them their freedom, and out of their own purses pay down for their ad vancement a sum of ready money. "Their masters," says our Abolitionist, "if unwilling, ought, in our judgment, to be compelled to grant them their freedom, and pay each and every one of them at least sixty dollars cash in hand." If Mr. Lincoln indorses Mr. Helper's views, his right to the title of "Honest Old Abe" will rest on disputable grounds. THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF NrcraoEs.—The four millions of negroes at the South are the most civilized and most christianized of any four million of negroes ever known to exist upon the face of this earth ; and any rational person must know, if he knows anything about the negro, that if the supremacy of the white man over him were abolished, he would soon relapse into his original condition of savagery. The Educational Journal of Forsyth, Georgia, gives the following as the number of negro ' 6 slaves" connected with the different churches South ; Connected wi th the Methodist Church South are.. 200,000 Methodist North in Virginia and Maryland 15,000 Missionary and Hard Shell Baptista. . .... ...157,000 Old School P resbyterians 12,000 New School Presbyterians, 5upp05ed............(1,000 Cumberland Presbyterians 20,000 Protestant Episcopalians 7,000 Campbelites or Christian Churches 10,000 All other sects combined . , 20,000 Total colored membership South 46,5,000 If is a safe calculation, remarks the same journal, to say that three for every one con nected with churches attend divine service. on Sunday. lathe extreme Southern States there are more, for the owners and overseers require them, in many instances, to turn out to preach ing. Then, 465,000 multiplied by 8, gives us 1,395,000 slaves in attendance on divine ser vice in . the South every Sabbath. Millions of dollars have been spent, and hundreds of valuable lives lost, in the attempt to Christianize Africa, and yet slavery—;4b honed, cursed, and reviled institution of isla v ery—h as brought us five times the number of negroes into the church that all the missionary organizations of the world combined. These nets are food for reflection. Self righteous and abOve the way of humblo godli ness, as political preachers generally are, one would suppose such practical results would stagger their self-conceit and overweening con fidence, that they arc right iu denouncing sla very and God wrong in permitting it.; Ripe Strawberries were on sale at New Or leans on the Ist instant. At Raleigh, N. C., on the 7th, the peach trees were in bloom, garden peas in flower, and cabbage plants quite large enough to transplant. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,
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