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An Inquiry.
Oar Legislature is so intent upon pasiing
measures in defiance of the will of, the people
that it seems to have forgotten the fact that the
people have demanded the repeal of so much
of the Revised Penal Code as interferes with
the execution of the constitutional provisions
for the capture of fugitive slaves. The Judi
ciary Committee of. the Senate has failed to re
port the bill repealing the objectionable portion
of the 95th section. Why this delay ? Why
is this bill not permitted to see the light ? • Is
it to be smothered in committee and defeated
by indirection ? Is it possible that the valliant
Republicans, who a short time ago were ready
to vote men and money for the subjugation of
the South, are afraid to meet this question
openly, least it may disclose the descord in
their ranks?
The Peace and War Factions of the Repub.
Ilea n Party.
The administration of Mr. LixcoLs is now
subjected to two opposite forces, the one satis
fled that the mischief is accomplished beyond
repair, and advising the abandonment of all
attempts to hold the Southern forts; and the
other counselling aggressive measures to com
pel a submission of the questions at issue to the
arbitrament of the sword, and thereby to test
the strength of the Government. The former
class are disposed to give up the controversy
and ultimately to recognize the independence of
the seceded States; while the latter favor war
as the means, we suspect, of insuring perma
nent alienation, and increasing the antagonism
between the North and South to such a degree
as to exclude the probability of re-construction
for several generations at least.
The New York Tribune, the leading represen
tative of the war party, is in favor of a fight
at Fort Pickens. Its plan is to make that the
Sebastopol of the Union; to concentrate large
bodies- of soldiers around the fortification, and
there to beat the army of the Southern Confed
eracy. It calculates that if tee Southern army
fight, it must be whipped—and then the Union
is maintained_ But if it retreats, the people
will rise on them and expel them from power,
and still the Union is maintained. The possi
sibility of defeat does not enter into this cal
culation—and the impossibility of the border
States remaining passive spectators of the
struggle does. But the maintenance of the
Union by war is a mere pretence with the Tri
bune. It wants war for a different purpose.—
It does not rest easy with the border States in
the Union, and desires war for the purpose of
driving them out, together with the cotton
States which have already seceded. That is
the true motive disguised under pretended at
tachment for the Union. So imperiously is
this war demanded of Mr. LINCOLN, that the
Tribune would, in the event of the abandonment
of Fort Pickens, regard him as disgracefully
betraying the country as did Buchanan ; a
threat that may soon be put to the test.
On the other side we find the Washington
correspondent of the North American arriving
at the conclusion that "the Administration is
"powerless to enforce the laws in the seceding
"States"—a discovery that was not made until
after Mr. Lincoln assumed the responsibility
of office; for the Republicans were unani
mously of the opinion, a short time ago, that
Mr. Buchanan was an imbecile old traitor, be
cause he did not do what it is now admitted the
President has no power to do. But circum
stances alter cases vastly.- Let us quote a por
tion of this correspondent's letter to show the
direction in which the moderate wing of the
Republican party is rapidly drifting:
" The fact is not to be disguised that the
Administration is powerless to enforce the laws
in the seceding States. An extra session of
Congress, to obtain authority for-that purpose,
would only aggravate and intensify the crisis
through which the country is now laboring like
a giant in a morass. People may well begin
to ask themselves, when the government is in
a great measure demoralized, and after an
experience of four months of active and ener
getic revolution in one section, and almost
passive speculation in the other, what is the
remedy for this evil ? If coercion be attempted
the South would be compacted in twenty-four
hours after the first gun was Ered. And, even
if there were abundant resources of men and
money to carry out such a policy, it is not
recommended by any inspiration of statesman
ship, unless permanent separation of the free
and slave States be desired. That would be the
inevitable effect of an effort to compel submis
sion on the part of the cotton States. They
might possibly be conquered, but they could
never be subjugated.
The border States desire to adhere to the old
Union, and will not sever the present ties.
unless driven to that extremity by the pressure
of stern events, or a supposed necessity of their
condition as slaveholding communities. They
have thus far patriotically resisted all the ap
peals, impdrtnnities and appliances - which have
been so unfortunately successful elsewhere.
They cannot be driven off but by an attempt to
enforce the federal authority in the States where
it is now repudiated and renounced. Is it
wise to try such an experiment, and thus pre
cipitate civil war and its calamities ? There
are narrow and warped minds which regard
every proposition to deal with imposing facts as
they exist according to any other rule than that
prescribed by a party platform, as surrendering
principle, compromisin g dignity and submitting
to rebellion. This has been the temper of
partizanship in all times. It cost England the
American colonies, the Bourbons their throne
in France, and has now expelled the last of
that race, which learnt nothing and forgot
nothing, from the throne of Italy. Let us
profit by these lessons of experience."
There is a great deal of sound practical
sense in this view, forming as it does a striking
contrast with what emanated from the same
quarter during the late Administration. In
continuing the subject the same writer advises
that the seceded States be allowed to work out
the problem of separate government in their
own way. "Let them keep and maintain the
"forts and arsenals which are now needed for
"the protection of national commerce." Gays
he—and it may possibly be an intimation to
prepare the public mind for the abandonment
of Fort Pickens and the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy.
These two Republican authorities are wide
apart—as far asunder as peace and war—as
diverse as the elements of the irrepressible
conflict.
The Northern and Southern Tariffs.
Pennsylvania, of all the States that voted
for Li'wow", was probably least influenced by
the anti-Southern, Abolition sentiments that
swept over the North. The Chicago platform
and the enunciations of the Northern and West
ern leaders of the Republican party were not
entirely palatable to a large section of the party
in this State which carried its electoral vote for
Lincoln. So evident was this that it does not
admit of doubt that had the issue been confined
to the sectionalism and anti-slaveryism of the
Republican party, on the one hand, and the
comprehensive nationalism of the Democratic
party on the other, the people of Pennsylvania
would not have endorsed Lincoln upon the Chi
cago platform. But this paramount issue was
artfully obscured by another question appeal
ing directly to the interests of Pennsylvania—
that of a Tariff. The people were persuaded
that we required protection, and that protec
tion could only be procured by voting for the
candidate of the Republican party. This was
made the main issue in many quarters of the
Commonwealth, to the total exclusion or par
tial obscuration of the vital questions affecting
the very existence of the Union, which should
have been met and decided independent of con
siderations of domestic policy.
Pennsylvania must now face the results of
her reckless disregard of her own highest in
terests. By neglecting the cause of the Union
to run after a protective tariff, she has won
results that must cover her with confusion and
shame. She has procured the shadow, the
merest mockery; of protection, at the cost of the
Union. She has a tariff adapted to her inte
rests, but what is 4 worth ? How much better
off are we now, with a protective tariff and a
dissolved Union, than we were before with a
perfect Union without adequate protection?—
Let those who voted for Lutuotor as the means
of ensuring protection - figure up the result.
We were told that a modification of the tariff
was necessary for two reasons • First, to in
crease the the revenue and replenish an ex
hausted Treasury; second, to afford adequate
protection to domestic industry. These results
might possibly have both been attained had the
policy of the Republican party not caused the
destruction of the Union. But having broken
the Union, the tariff is as worthless, for both
purposes, as the paper upon which it is writ
ten. The schedule of the tariff adopted by the
Confederate States exhibits about one-half the
duties imposed by the Morrill tariff. Pig iron,
for instance, which under our tariff pays a
specific duty of from six to fifteen dollars per
ton, is charged but five per cent. ad valorem by
the Southern rates ; and how are we to prevent
the importation of foreign iron at the South,
and its unrestricted transportation Northward,
under the free intercourse prevailing between
the States ? So with iron of every description,
and every article of commerce imported from
foreign countries. Entering Southern ports at
one-half the rate they would be compelled to
pay at the North, it will be impossible to pre
vent their spread over the country. The gov
ernment would find it a huge undertakiqg to
guard the line separating the Confederate
States from the Union ; and even if practicable,
the cost would almost exceed the benefit. It
would be equally difficult to prevent the entry
of vessels into Southern ports by a rigorous
blockade; and the other remedy proposed—the
abolition of these ports of entry—could not
long bind foreign nations, whose immediate in
terests would compel them to recognize the de
facto government established at the
. South,
when they would claim and enforce free and
unobstructed intercourse.
This conflict between the two tariffs must
result in diminishing the revenue of our gov
ernment, and in subjecting manufacturers to a
flood of foreign competition, in comparison
with which the old tariff, in a compact Union,
was as nothing. Pennsylvania may thus com
prehendatle fearful retribution she has brought
upon herself by neglecting the cause of the
Union when assailed by its enemies, to clutch
at the unreal, unsubstantial good of a protec
tive tariff. She has purchased a worthless tariff
at the expense of the Union.
THE PROSPECT BRIGHTENING.--The Adminis
tration is actively engaged in sending out of the
country many of the most noted agitators who
have afflicted this Republic for a long time
past. Having no public duties demanding
their attention, most of these have have bad
little to do besides making speeches and circu
lating documents. When once fairly packed
up and gone off, we may reasonably hope for a
period of comparative repose. There still re
mains quite a number of editors who should be
disposed of in like manner. Several of some
prominence in this city are itching for a foreign
appointment, and it is a public misfortune that
there should be so much delay in gratifying
their wishes. Can nothing be done for Wendell
Phillips, or Mr. Garrison, or Mr. Greeley ?
IV. Y. Journal of Commerce.
HORRIBLE DEATH —ln Cleveland, Ohio, a few
days since, some children playing in front of a
small house on Canal street., discovered smoke
issuing from the crevices about the door. An
alarm was raised, and neighbors entering the
house found the occupant, an old Irish woman
named Mary Hickey, sitting in her chair, with
her clothing nearly burned from her body. She
lived but a few minutes, her body being burned
so that the vitals were exposed. It is sup
posed Hickey, while intcxieated, sat down to
smoke, and her pipe falling into herlap, com
municated the fire. She was about 50 years
of age, and has one - or two daugthers, but no
husband.
A - writer in the Ilistorieal Magazine for the
current month gives an early—perhaps the
earliest--authentic notice of the land in En
gland from which the name of Washington is
derived. In the first volume of the "Chronicon
Monaeterii de Abingdon," published in illustra
tion of mediaeval British History, under the
direction of the Master of the Roll by the Brit
ish Government, at page 337, we find a grant
of land from King Edgar, the Anglo-Saxon
King, to " Athelunold Washingatune." The
document bears date A. D. 963, about nine cen
turies ago.
FLOATING CUSTOM HOUSES.
From the Journal of Commerce
. . .
Those determined politicians who have de
claimed so loudly against any concessions, and
have insisted "upon collecting the revenue at
all hazards," either in or outside of the ports
of seceding States, have had very little experi
ence, probably, in the importing business, and
know very little of the legal process by which
the duty is ascertained and received. Fancy
a first class packet ship, with a full cargo of
French goods, stopped by a revenue cutter or
small steamer, outside of port, for the purpose
of collecting the duties. She has ten thousand
packages of dry goods and fancy articles, sub
ject to different rates of duty, all to be ex
amined, entered, appraised and delivered.—
Where is the owner or consignee whose oath is
required? The goods belong to five hundred
different people, each of whom must attest his
invoice. But there are no invoices on board.
The ship has only her general manifest, the
invoices having been sent by mail. Suppose,
however, that the owners are found, present
their invoices, make out their entries in due
form, and the examination of the goods begins.
But the cargo is mixed, and packed below in
the densest order, and the vessel must be dis
charged before the goods can be examined and
appraised. A floating warehouse securely an
chored, might furnish room for such a purpose,
but anchorage ground is within reach of can
non shot, and this work must all be done out
side. Eight or ten ships' decks might give
room to display the outside of the packages of
one ship's cargo; when these were all arranged,
then comes the opening of the cases for exami
nation. Silks, ribbons, fans, artificial flowers,
&c.,are not especially benefitted by sea air,—
and by the time a few hundred or thousand
cases were opened, it it should happen to blow
or be a little stormy, umbrellas and oil cloth
coverings would probably be at a premium !
The beauties of the new tariff would shine out
with most resplendent lustre at such a moment.
A dozen different rates of duty on as many
packages of cotton or woolen fabrics, each to
be determined by counting the threads to the
square inch, ascertaining the square yards,
and determining both the weight and export
value. All goods valued by weight and mea
sure are to haven weigh-master's or measurer's
certificate to the exact contents. It would be
easy on ship board to rig a line on which to
hang the steelyards, but the dip of the vessel,
if there was much of a sea on, might make the
beam go up in the wrong place.
The talk of collecting duties according to any
legally recognized standard, upon the cargo of
a vessel while the latter is at sea,
is too ridicu
lous for sober consideration. The thing is
practically impossible. If there were no viola
tion of the statute in such tt measure, the work
could not be done by any skill or strength of
human agency. The vessel might be brought
to, under the guns of a man-of-war, and made
to pay toll, or a certain sum for the right of
way ; and the amount might be graduated ac
cording to the supposed or estimated value of
her cargo ; but this would be piracy in fact, if
not in name, and would not come within the
sanction of any revenue code. The whole
difficulty might be avoided by compelling a
vessel bound to a port thus, in fact., outside of
the Federal jurisdiction, to discharge at another
port for collection purposes, and then reload
the goods for their proper delivery; but this
happens to be expressly forbidden by the Con
stitution, in these words : "Nor shall vessels
bound to, or from one State, be obliged to
enter, clear, or pay duties in another:" There
is, therefore, no way, either with or without
the consent of Congress, by which the Presi
dent can collect the revenue upon cargoes
bound for the seceding States, unless he can
establish and maintain permanent warehouses
upon, or near to, the land where the goods
may be discharged for examination. The oft
repeated assertion that "the Revenue will be
collected at all hazards," even though the Fed
eral authorities were driven from the seceding
States, we have regarded from the beginning
as an empty boast which could never be exe
cuted. The proper officers must be within the
State, and acting according to legal regulations,
in order to collect the duty upon imports. If
such a location cannot be maintained, the
revenue cannot be collected. If it is deemed
desirable to attempt the maintenance of a po
sition at the ports for this purpose, at the cost
of war and its attendant horrors, then the
assertion of a determination to collect the
revenue has a terrible force and significance.
But the proposition to enforce the revenue laws
without a collision, by collecting the duties at
sea, is too ridiculous for sober argument.
Neither do we see by. what right a revenue
cutter or a national man-of-war could stop a
vessel bound into such a port, even if a block
ade were attempted. A ship coming out might
be stopped for want of a clearance in a proper
form, but such an interruption of the commerce
with a foreign port, would probably be resented
by other nations, and lead to fresh complica
tions. We see but two ways out of our present
difficulties. Either bring the seceding States
back by an amicable settlement of our political
differences; or let them go in peace upon the
path they have chosen. In either case, an
armed enforcement of the revenue laws would
be unwise, as well as impracticable. If we are
to come together again, strife and bloodshed
will not strengthen brotherly ties; and if we
are to live apart, let us try to preserve the
peace, both before and after our formal sepa
ration. It does not follow that the smuggling
of European goods across the border need be
a serious evil to the North, even without a very
watchful line of sentinels. If the tariffs of the
two sections were nearly equal, the goods would
have paid about the same tax, whether landed
at the North or South; and there would proba
bly be quite as many goods entered at Northern
ports and flowing Southward over the borders,
as would meet them in a reverse course. The
border war which we should fear most, would
have another origin, and lead to a more hostile
feeling than any revenue question, is likely to
provoke; but sufficient unto the day is . the evil
thereof. The question of floating Custom
Houses will therefore set itself at rest without
the aid of legislation, as no wit of man could
devise a method of ascertaining and collecting
the duties on imports by such an agency.
BUSINESS PROSPECTS IN NEW YORK—De
creased Importations.—There appears to be very
poor prospects in New York, as elsewhere, for
anything like activity in business. The New
York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger,
after speaking of a falling off of $2,557,429 in
foreign imports, last week, adds:
These figures tell their own story. And if it
needs any additional illustration, it may be
had by a walk :town Liberty street, and most
other thoroughfares in that neighborhood,
where the wholesale dry goods trade is trans
acted. On almost every warehouse may be
seen a little placard, announcing "lofts" to let,
at low rents, and not unfrequently, the entire
house. The marble faced stores which were
erecter' in Liberty street, between Broadway
and Greenwich streets, during the flushed times,
a few years ago, have proved a melancholy in
vestment. To-day, there is scarcely one of
them, I am told, that could not be purchased
for cash at about one-half the original cost A
little further up town—in Murray, Warren and
Chambers streets—there is more business
doing, add real estate is suffering less depre
ciation—yet, even there, the vast falling off in
business is, in a variety of ways, painfully
visible. It is idle to deny that the foreign im
porters are greatly earthed lest this state of
things, bad as it now is, is to be aggravated by
the Morrill tariff and the anticipated competi
tion from the seceding States. It is also true
that not a few of them are making arrange
ments to transfer their business to the South.
Politicians, for partisan purposes, may pooh
pooh these things, but they are facts never
theless.
B. It. Wood, the new minister to Denmark,
succeeds James M. Buchanan, of Baltimore.
THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS
The Nord says : "Our correspondent at St.
Petersburg sends us to-day an account of the
closing sitting of the Council of the Empire,
held on the 25th ult., upon the question of the
serfs. It was decided that the latter should
receive their personal liberty, and that all the
relations between them and their proprietors
should cease at one stroke; that the peasants
on each property shall receive the enclosure,
that is, the house they inhabit and the kitchen
garden attached to it ; that there shall be allot
ted them at a price fixed by the Government
the fourth of the quantity of ground which
was fired in the plan elaborated by the com
missions, that is, from one to two hectares,
according to the provinces. This allocation is
obligatory, the other territorial arrangements
are optional. The Imperial manifesto which
will publish these decisions is already printed
at St. Petersburg ; but it will not appear in
the present week, which is that of the Russian
carnival. The publication will take place in
Lent, in about fifteen days perhaps, at a time
of meditation and Sobriety for the Russian
people, the opportuneness of which for the
proclamation of emancipation there is no need
to point out."
An article in the London Post, based upon
the statements of its correspondent in St.
Petersburg, gives the following statistics :
The number of serfs, or, as they are called
in Russia, souls, amounts to no less than
forty-four millions of men. Some of these are
crown peasants ; but it should be remarked
that the peasants on the principal crown lands
had already some measure of freedom bestowed
on them by Alexander I. . The owners of serfs
in Russia, according to the latest statistical
account, are one hundred and sixteen thousand in
number, and they hold among them twenty-two
millions of serfs. Two thousand five hundred
landed proprietors possess from one thousand
to two thousand serfs, while twenty thousand
possess only from a hundred to a thousand ;
fifty thousand small proprietors hold less than
twenty-one serfs, or souls, each; and probably
there may be more difficulty in settling the
social status of these fifty thousand persons
than in any arrangement connected with the
actual question of serf emancipation. -
The crown peasants, including both men and
women, amounted in 1860, in round numbers,
to fourteen millions four hundred and thirty
six thousand souls, in a gross population of
sixty five millions. It cannot be denied that
in a country in which there is no middle, or at
least an infinitely small middle class, and in a
country in which there is little accumulated
capital, the throwing of such a mass of men
on their own resources is a hazardous experi
ment; but of twenty-two millions of serfs, at
least eleven millions can work at handicraft or
household trades ; and there is scarcely one of
these who has not saved some money. This
capital, great or small, will assuredly be
invested in land or in commerce, for the Russian
is a shrewd speculator, and has always a keen
eye to the main chance.
Many men born serfs, resident in Russian
titles dr towns, are worth from £5,000 to
£20,000 and £30,000 ; and these dealers and
speculators will now enlarge the sphere of
their industuy by engaging in manufactures or
by speculating in land. This latter course
must be very beneficial to a country imperfectly
cultivated, and but half developed. The Rus
sian is docile, laborious and easily manageable,
and not likely to abuse his recently acquired
liberty. No one is fonder of peafflful pursuits,
or has more aversion to a soldier's life. Yet
habit and training, more powerful far than
nature, have made the Russians excellent
soldiers. No doubt the new system of serf
emancipation may work awkwardly and oper
osely for some years. It will require, like
everything else, time for its development ; but,
as the Russian peasant is obedient and well
disposed, there is little danger of refractoriness
or riot.
GENERAL NEWS.
ACQUITTAL OF A WIFE FOR THE POISONING OF
HER liusnasn.—The trial of a young wife for
poisoning an old husband, has just been con
cluded in Delaware county, N. Y., and resulted
in a verdict of acquittal. Mrs. Herrington •is
handsome, and was married to Jamed Herring
ton in July, 1859, when under sixteen years of
age, while her husband was thirty-six. She
claimed that she was deceived by Herrington,
he having represented himself as rich, which
proved to be false. She bought a tablespoon
ful of arsenic, as she said to poison rats, and
soon after her husband was taken sick and
died. A poet mortem exathinittion proved that
arsenic enough was found in his viscera to kill
two men. But then it was shown that he had
been in the habit of taking arsenic. She had
corresponded with a young man named Hall,
calling him "dear friend," and asking him to
lend her money. Her case excited much sym
pathy, and her acquittal was applauded and
cheered in the wildest and most excited man
ner, by an immense crowd of spectators.
MASSACHUSETTS PREPARING FOR WAR.—We
perceive, by a report presented to the House of
Representatives, that Massachusetts has been
actually preparing for civil war on a large
scale. The contracts made for the equipment
of troops for active service include two
thousand knapsacks and two hundred thousand
ball cartridges, and an appropriation of $25,-
000 has been made by the commonwealth to
defray the expenses of putting the State troops
on a war footing. It would have been well
for the country if Massachusetts had been as
ready with her troops during the war of 1812-
14—when she refused to allow them to leave
the State—as she has shown herself in the
Present instance.—N. Y. Herald.
Stamm ACCOUNTED Fox.—The New York
papers of Thursday recorded the mysterious
suicide of a gentleman named “Henry," at No.
48 Lispenard street_ All that was known was,
that he died from poison administered by him
self. A friend of the deceased, who.knew him
well, thus accounts for the sad affair : About
two years ago he married a young lady who
was living at Chicago. Ile took her to New
York about a year ago. She had been there
but a short time when she left her husband
and went with. a certain Wall street broker,
who opened a house of prostitution for her.—
This so preyed upon his mind that he several
times threatened to commit suicide, and at last
he has done it.
At Tucson, California, a ball is not considered
a "success" unless it terminates in a general
fight with knives and revolvers. A few weeks
ago a man by the name of Elam commenced a
spirited little difficulty at a Mexican fandango
in that place, which concluded in a "beautiful"
fight. He killed a musician, to properly in
augurate the melee, and then began an indis
criminate slaughter. He was pretty badly
cut up himself, but had the satisfaction of
shooting another musician through the leg and
a senorita through the arm before he was ar
rested.
A GHOST STRIPPED OF EIS TERRORS.—A ghost
rushed upon a party of both sexes, one night
recently. near the La Fayette, La., cemetery,
frightening them into a rapid flight. One
strong armed and strong minded feminine stood
her ground and gave the ghost such a taste of
her quality that he begged for quarters, and
owned to the cheat, and she carried him back,
a captive of her fists and nails. In answer to
the eager inquiries urged upon her she said :
di pelt I—can't fool me. I can tell a man, no
matter what he has on, I'll het."
MOVEMENTS IN FLORIDA.—By private dis
patches from Tanabe sae, th e Charleston Mercury
learns that Gov. Perry is concentrating troops
ai Pensacola with the utmost activity.
Nearly all the workmen have been discharged
from the Philadelphia navy yard—cause, noth
ing to do.
The Delaware Republican reports the peach
crop in that state greatly damaged by the
" cold snap."
In Philadelphia, on Tuesday evening, a phy
sician entered a car on Market street. There
were eight or nine passengers in it already,
and just as he seated himself he snuffed the
stagnant atmosphere within the vehicle, and
exclaimed, " small pox in this car, I smell it."
He retired, and all the passengers. save one,
were taken with a leaving, without any further
ceremony. The person who remained behind
was a female, habited in deep black, her face
being covered Niith - a veil. It was ascetained
that she had the small pox about as severely as
any one could have that loathsome disease.—
The physician, whose sands of life have just be
gun to run, must have' an acute olfactory to
detect the disease by merely smelling it.
BOLD ATTEMPT AT BANE ROBBERY.—The
New York Exchange Bank, at the corner of
Greenwich and Dye streets, was entered by
burglars after the building was closed on Sat
urday night. The robbers hired a cellar ad
joining the bank about a month since, for which
they paid $l,lOO rent. They dug down and
went under ground about seventy feet until they
came under the vault of the bank. They then
dug up and took away the foundation of the
vault, which was constructed of stone and iron,
and succeeded in getting into the outer portion,
but they failed in breaking through the inside
iron chest, and hence failed to get any plun
der.
APPROPRIATIONS BY THE SOUTHERN CONGRESS.
The Montgomery Congress has passed an act
appropriating the sum of $5,000 for preserving
the unfinished work upon the Charleston Cus
tom House, during the year ending February
4th, 1862—likewise appropriating $lO,OOO for
roofing and preserving the unfinished work of
the New Orleans Custom House, and $15,000
to fitting up suitable rooms for the accommo
dation of the Courts and Clerk's office at New
Orleans.
THE PAwxnnom . a BUSINESS.—There are
fifty-four pawnbrokers' shops in full blast in
New York. The largest amount of money kept
on loan in any one of them is $150,000. From
ninety to ninety-five per cent. of the pledges
are redeemed. Most of the shops charge 25
per cent. on all loans. The loans of one con
cern amount to $360,000 per annum.
A prominent merchant of Memphis, Tenn.,
states that since the secession movement began
to affect the channels of trade, the business
at Memphis has fully doubled, and that the
Memphis and Charleston railroad has been
actually choked up by the pressure of cotton
coming into Memphis, and supplies going over
the toad to Charleston.
An English traveler writing home from Rus
sia, says of it, that its "civilization is small,
bribery and corruption are deemed only
finesse, religion is a superstition and morality
a myth."
The large increase of the number of lunatics
in England is attributed by eminent phyeiolo
gist.s of that country to the deleterous subatan
ces mixed with food.
The Pawtucket (R. I.) Gazette says there is
in that town a singe house which contains
seventy children, sixty of whom are too young
to labor.
Handsome velvet pile carpets are now sold
in England at seveniy- five cents per yard (our
money,) about half what is asked for them in
New York.
The city of Providence, R. 1.. is about to
introduce gymnastics in the public schools,
having made an appropriation to that effect.
The Union party of Tennessee have called a
convention for nominating a Governor, to meet
at Nashville, on Thursday, May 2d.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, March 26
The vexed question of who shall be Commis
sioner of .Patents is at last settled. Mr. Hol
loway will remain in possesion of the office.
The Administration will make no more ap
pointments in the States of Vermont, Virginia,
Connecticut and Rhode Island, until after their
State elections are held.
The President has expressed his disapproval
of the appointment of objectionable route
agents by the Post Office Department, in the
State of Virginia. Some of the present route
agents have been removed. The Hon. Sher
rard Clemens has written from Virginia that it
"will not do" for special agent Hall to visit
Virginia.
The Cabinet will await the return of Col.
Eamon, from Fort Sumpter, before anything is
done in reference to giving the order to evacu
ate Fort Sumpter.
There are no discrepancies or inconsistencies
in Major Anderson's dispatches to the War
Department, as has been recklessly alleged.
The President and Cabinet have positively
decided not to call an extra session of Congress
at present.
Senator Nesmith will conclude his speech in
Executive Session to-day, and will urge prompt
action on the part of the Government in refer
ence to the - San Juan troubles.
Later from Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS, March 25.
The steamship Tennessee has arrived from
Vera Cruz with dates to the 21st inst.
The 11. S. steamship Macedonian was at
Sacrificios. '
The principal roadto the Capital is swarm
ing with bands of rob bers. Captain Aidham,
of H. B. M. ship Valorous, was severely
wounded by the robbers while returning to
Vera Cruz from the city of Mexico.
The Constitutional Government is making
progress slowly.
Gov. Lamora is dead
Rumors have reached the capital that a party
of filibusters have invaded Lower California ;
and it is also reported that a movement is pro
gressing for the secession of a number of the
border Mexican States, and their erection into
the Sierra Madre Republic.
M. Saligny, the French Minister, has pre
sented his credentials to the Constitutional
Government, and been formally received.
Later from the Rio Grande—s276,ooo in
Specie.
NEW ORLEANS, March 26
The steamship Arizona, from Brazos, is be
low. She brings $276,000 in specie. Mr.
Owens, the Governor of. Arizona, in his reply
to the Commissioners appointed by Texas, to
confer with New Mexico and Arizona, in rela
tion to the formation of a new Confederacy,
invites them to be present at a Convention to
be held in Mesilla on the 15th of March to con
sider the crisis.
New York Legislature.
The House of Assembly to-day passed to third .
reading a bill to provide for the submission to
the people the question of calling a Convention
to amend the Constitution. .
The Markets.
PHILADELPHIA, March 26.
Flour quiet at $5a5.12% for superfine ; 26a6 for ex
tra; $5.6216 for extra family, and $6.12,43 75 for fancy.
Wheat in good demand; red $1 281,1.30, and white at
$1 35a1.50 Corn active; new Southern yellow 60 cents
afloat, and old at 623/c. Lard held at 10c. in bbls., and
119.113‘0, in tierces. Whisky sells at 18a183ic.
New YoR; March 26.
Flour advanced 5c.; sales 14,000 bbls. at $5.20 for
state,.ss.6oas 65 for Ohio, and $5 40a5 75 for Southern.
Wheat advance I ; white Western $1.50 Northwestern
club $1.26%. Corn advanced ; mixed 68a69c., and 713/
eta. for white Southern. Provisions steady but un
changed. Whisky dull at 17,ife17)ic.
BALTIMORE, March 26.
Flour dull ; Howard Street and Ohio $5.12X, and City
Mills $5.00, without sales; wheat active and firm at
$1 27a1.30 for red, and $1.40a1 65 for white. Corn steady
—mixed 53a55c. Pork dull at $l7 for mess, and $l4 for
prime. Coffee firm at 11)01830. Whisky dull at 17
cents.
DIED.
On Sunday evening. Rev. B. R. Wilma, aged 26 years.
[The friends and acquaintances of the deceased, and
the pupils of the Pennsylvania Female College and his
Sabbath School class, are cordially invited to attend the
funeral on Thursday afternoon next, at 2 o'clock - , from
his late residence on Pront street.]
ALBANY, March 26
SPECIAL NOTICE
1:17. WARRANTED IN ALL CASES
DR.. HARVEY'S "`"4'
OHRONO THERMAL FEMALE PILL
F or the prevention and Cure of all those difficulties to a , 4
the female system is peculiarly liable. arising fro m -
STOPPAGE OF NATURE OR OBs ritUCTION,
These Pills have never Ulm knmon to fail when the
directions have been streetly follmocil, and th, v
0,7 e
perfectly sof- to take by the most deticars.
To MARRIED LADIES they are partieular!y rem m.
mended, as they prevent difficulties, and restore nature
no matter from what cense the obstruction may arise
few days in most eases will p orduce the desired effi s t r and
although to powerful, yet no injury will ever res ult f
their use. But those who are pregnant should not rocil ru se
them, as they have an effect contrary to Datum. Painphiets
detailing timir virtues, with numerous certificates from Well
known physicians and apothecaries, can be had on aerate,
Li on to the agent, who will send the Pinlolev,2i:ildedgiale:l,sl:-
mail, post-paid, to any address, on receipt of th e mo 4 r Y
Sold in boxes containing sixty pills—price One Dollar,-1
by all the principal druggists and dealers, and by WWI,
CO., wholesale agents, Korth Second sir. et. Philmel.
phia.
A NEW REMEDY.
Superseding CUSSES, COPAIBA, CAPSULES, or any compoim
that has ever been before the people. It has been used
ONE HUNDRED PHYSICIANS, b,
In their private praace, with entire success, in all CERA
B ELL'S SPECIFIC PILLS,
For diseases of a private nature en's is frequently p m
formed= a wftie, and entire confidence may be placed is
them. This remedy is a newly discovered specific, m o re
active and speedy in its effects than Cubebs or Copa b 4
alone. The pills are half the size of Capsules, and n evo
nauseate the stomach, or impregnate the breath. Six dozes
pills in a box—price One
onodllar, and willmsbve2ieonattbiz.vd:
pot-paid, by the agent, receipt of the money.
Sold by all the principal druggists and dealers, and by
DYOTT & CO., wholesale agents, North Second street,
Philadelphia.
PURIFY YOUR, BLOOD.—BRANDILETH'S
PILLS WARRANTED TO CURE FEVER AND AGUE,—The
effect of purging with BRANDRETWS PILLS is to re.
store the health, no matter from what cause it may be
suffering. They take out all impurities from the ey e _
tern; and they have the same power of espulsioa
over
miasm, poisonous vapor of decayed vegetables, or indeed
any fact,
ifh
poisonous te d
blood is
poisoned,
breathed et
i by
impure,
whatever,
In
add n
pure blood results in disease.
BRANDRETIPS PILLS,
though innocent as bread, yet they are caratle of purl.
Eying the blood and curing disease. So, they cure al/
kinds of fevers, all asthmas, catarrhs, Cestiveness aai
painful affections of every kind.
Sold, price 25 cents, at No. 294 Canal eet, Newyork,
and by all Druggists. Also, by GEO H DELL, corner
of Second and Chestnut streets, Harrieterg, and by ail
respectable dealers in medicines deg-dicsbn
Cristadoro's Hair Dye
I 8
THE ONLY DYE..
THE ONLY DYE..
THE ONLY DYE..
THE ONLY DYE..
THE ONLY DYE..
THE ONLY DYE..
and the
ONLY DYE
- -
For all who desire to have the color of their hair changed
with safety, certainty and rapidity, to any shade they
may desire. Manufactured by J CRISTADORO, 8 Asto?
House, New York. Sold everywhere, and applied by all
Hair Dressers. marl9-dawlm
THE GREAT ENGLISH It.I,MEDT.—Sir
James Clarke's Celebrated Female Pi 11.., prepared. from a
preacrip. ion of Sir J. Clarke, M. D., Physician Eatraord;.
nary to the Queen.
Thin invaluable medicine is unfailing in the cute of ail
those painful and dangerous diseases to which the female
constitution is subject. It moderates all excess and re•
moves all obstructions. and a speedy cure may be relied in.
TO MARRIED LADIES
it is peculiarly suited. It will in a short time bring on
the monthly period with regularity.
Each bottle, price One Dollar, bears the Government
Stamp of Great Britain, to prevent counterfeits.
- THESE PILLS SHOULD NOT BB TAXER BY FEMALES DURING
THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF PREGNANCY, AS THEY ARE
SURE TO BRING ON MISCARRIAGE, BET AT ANY OMER TIME
THEY dliE SAFE.
In all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections, Pain in the
Back and Limbs, Fatigue on slight exertion, Palpitationof
the heart, Hysterics and Whites, these Pills will effect a
cure when all other means have failed, and although &pow
erful remedy, do not contain Ton, calomel, antimony, o:
anything hurtful to the constitution.
Full directions in the pamphlet around each package,
which should be carefully preserved.
N. 8.--$4OO and 8 postage stamps enclosed to any at!.
thorized Agent, will insure a bottle, containing over 50
pills, by return mail.
For sale by C. A. BaarivAßT, Harrisburg. j77-dawly
Mothers, read this.
The following is an extract from a letter written by
a pastor of the Baptist Church to the Journal and
Messenger, Cincinnati, Ohio, and speaks volumes in
favor of that world-renowned medicine—Mus. WING
LOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHING:
" We see an advertisement in your columns of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. New we never said a word
in favor of a patent medicine before in our life, but we
feel compelled to say to your readers, that this is no
brmbt.g —WE HAVE TRIED IT, AND KNOW IT TO BB ALL IT
°Lanus. It is, probably, one of the most successful
medicines of the day, because it is one of the beet. And
those of your readers who have babies can't do better
than to lay in a supply. sep.29-d&wly
MANHOOD.
-HOW LOST HOW RESTOLRED.
JUST PUBIFISHED ON THE NATITEF, TREAT
MENT AND RADICAL CURE OF STEHHATORRHEA,
or Seminal Weakness, Sexual Debility, Nervousness,
Involuntary Emissions and Impotency, resulting from
Self-abuse, &c. By Robt. J. Culverwell, M. D. Sent
under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, post
paid, on receipt of two stamps, by Dr. CHARLES J. C.
KLINE, 127 Bowery, New York. Post Office Box. No.
4,586. march2o-d&w3m.
New abuertioements.
REMOVAL.
The subscriber has removed his PLUMBING AND
DRABS FOUNDRY from Marketstreet to Fourth street
above Market, opposite the Bethel. Church Thankful
for past patronage, he hopes, by strict attention to busi•
was, to merit a continuance of it.
mar27•dtf WM PARKHILL.
VOR RENT:—A COTTAGE on Pine
street. Inquire of DIRS. MURRAY,
mar27-dtf Corner of Second and Pine Ste.
REMOVAL.
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Has removed to
60 MARKET STREET,
Where he will be pleased to see all his friend .
octB-dtf
WARRANTED TWELVE MONTHS:
ANOTHER LOT OF
MORTON'S UNRIVALLED GOLD PENS!]
PERSONS in want of a superior and really good clout
PEN wi ll find with me a large assortment to select from,
and have the privilege to exchange the Pens until their
hand is perfectly suited. And if by fair means the Dia
mond points break off during twelve months, the pur
chaser shall have the privilege to select a new one,
without any charge.
I have very good Gold Pens, in strong silver-plata
Cases, for $l, $1.25, $ l5O, $2.00 -
For sale at SCHREIER'S BOOKSTORE,
mar 26 No. 18 Market Street, Harrisburg, pi.
WANTED—SI,OOO City or County
Bonds. Enquire at this office. mar22-dtf
82.000 TO LOANI 821000
Inquire of TORN SHANNON, Agent.
roar2s.2td North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
WALL PAPER,
CEILING PAPER,
TRANSOM PAPER,
BORDERS, FIRE
PRTN TS., WINDOW
CURTAINS, TASSELS,
AND FIXTURES,
AT LOW PRICES, at
SCBEFFEWS Book-store.
Near the Harrisburg Bridge.
mar2s
H . W A R D,
MANUFACTURER OF AND DEALER IN
STRAW GOODS,
Nos. 103, 105 and 107 NORTH SECOND STREET ,
PHILADELP HIA.
We are now receiving our SPRING STOCK., which will com
prise a large and desirable assortment of all kinds of
STRAW AND LACE GOODS.
Also, a large assortment of LADIES' & CHILDREN' S
HATS
Our stock of FLOWERS and RUCHES will be unusually
large this Season, and we would invite your special st
tention to that department. Please call and examine
them before making your purchases. H. WARD,
N 06.103, 105 and 107 NORTH iiICOO-ND M .l above Arch.
marlB-2awlMd.
Ever analyzed
Sworn to be poisonleg3
...Fo r a living brown
....For a perfect black
..That defies detection
...Thatis instantaneous