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Tun DAILY PATRIOT exn UNION 'rill be furnished to Members of the Legislature during the session at the low price of ONE DOLLAR Members wishing extra copies of the DAILY PATRIOT AND Union, can procure them by leaving their orders at the publication office, Third street, or with our re porters in either Honse,, the evening previous_ The following malicious take-off is from the Louisville Courier : " OLD ABE AS AN ACTOR.—Lincoln appears to be a versatile actor. He began his Admin istration in the character of Hotspur,' in King Renry the Fourth, whose language was as fol lows, with the exception of the substitution of the word forts for that of scot, in the text of Shakespeare. "March 4 " keep them alt. By God, they shall not have a fort of them No, if a fort would save their souls, they shall not I'll keep them, by this hand !, Twentieth of ' March—Lincoln as King Lear ;' (a crowd of young Wide Awakes calling upon the old King to lead on the armies and take the forts) : ''First, let me talk with this philosopher. [Seward] What is the cause of thunder. What will the Administration Do? The Administration seems to be halting be tween two purposes, and Mr. Lincoln, with the facility and impressibility that characterizes him, talks to Southern men of peace and bon ciliation, and to Northern men of the enforce ment of the laws; so that the course of the Administration is still doubtful even to itself. It is certain that the Cabinet is pretty nearly evenly divided upon the question of enfoicing the authority of the government. To what extremity, says the AThany Argus, Mr. Lincoln goes in his assurances of pacific intentions to the South, may be gathered from his conversation with Hon. T. A. R. Nelson, late member of Congress from the first district of Tennessee. Mr. Nelson writes in a letter to his constituents: Whatever construction the secessionists may place upon Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural address, Mr. Maynard and myself had it from his own lips, on Thursday night, (the Thursday night after the, Inaugural,) that he was for peace, and would use every exertion in his power to main tain it; that he was then inclined to the opin ion that it would be better to forego the collection of the revenue for a season, so as to allow the people of the seceding States time for reflection,- and that, regarding.them as children of a com mon family, he was not disposed to take away their bread by witholding even their snail facilities. He expressed a strong hope that, after a little time is allowed for reflection, they will secede from the position they have taken. We had two interviews with the President. The first was sought by us on Wednesday ; the second was at his own desire, and was private. but I told him thatwith his permission, I would tell my constituents, when I got home, what he said. and he replied that we were at liberty to repeat it to whom we pleased. On the other hand, Mr. Lincoln's course in relation to the Forts, seems to be not merely equivocal and weak, but contradictory and vacillating. He does not make the recall of Major Anderson a concession. And in order to avoid the appearance of retreat, he falls into a policy which to the South and to the World will look like a surrender. The fact is he is hampered by his obligation to the Chicago Platform, which is to him a higher law than the Constitution, and which he declared to be a law before he took the Consti- Ilonal oath, thus with an indefensible casuistry and mental reservation, incorporating them in a common obligation. • The Republican press of the North, embar rassed by this double-tone of the Administra tion, and impelled in one direction by. the sectional hatred that was their motive power during the recent contest, yet conscious of the embarrassments of the government, vibrate from side to side. This perplexity is indicated in the propositions put forward by the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer: Now, then, our remedy for existing evils, is to. call an extra session of Congress without unnecessary delay; and if States are weak enough to disreprd their constitutional obliga tions and have not elected their Representatives before the 4th of March, as the Constitution assumes that -they will have done, let them remedy the evil as best they may. And when Congress has assembled, we recommend,— First. Repeal of the Morrill Tariff Bill, and wait for a more auspicious time to revise the Tariff of 1857. Secondly. Give the President authority by proclamation, to close any port of entry, when ever any obstruction is offered to the collection tion of the revenue. And Thirdly. Invest the Executive with discre tionary power to call out any number of militia and volunteers that be may find necessary to enforce the laws and compel obedience to the Constitution. Do this, and all will be well. It would in that ease, only be necessary to close the ports of the rebel States, to gilts to the Union men in those States, who are in a decided majority, the moral power necessary to put down the rebels and traitors who have usurped the power which justly belongs to the people, and forced whole communities into rebellion against the government of their choice. An extra session from which at this crisis the border States would be excluded, would be an extraordinary one indeed, particularly if its proposed action should be to close the ports of the new Confederacy. What are these propo sitions which Democrats are asked to wee to or dissent from thus categorically ? Ist. To repeal the Morrill Tariff. Yes ; and to underbid by successive reductions the com petition of the free trade States. 2d. To give the President power to close the ports of the withdrawn States. No; Congress has not the power itself; and cannot grant it to the President. Nor would foreign nations respect the quasi-blockade, unless maintained by actual fleets. 3d, To give the President the right to call out the militia to enforce the laws, and compel obedience to the Constitution ! Let the Presi dent himself declare that he will obey the Con stitution as declared by the Supreme Court, and there will be no necessity for armed force to pot down rebellion. We do not believe that the Supreme Court has a right to constrain or direct the Executive in his action. in approving or rejecting the laws of Congress. The President is, in that case, a part of the law-making power, and is an inde pendent and co-ordinate branch of government . . But in the execution of the decisions of the Courts he has no such discretion. He is but the Chief Marshal, and he can neither relieve his subordinate nor dispense himself from this duty. If again the decision of the Court, which he questions and defies, were something novel, contradictory to past decisions and constrained, there might be some palliation for his declared opposition to it. If it were even permanent and fatal in its influence, that plea might be strengthened. But it is simply a declaration that during the territorial period, (which lasts but a few years and terminates when a Terri tory has the population of a Congressional District,) the States have a tenancy in common of this public domain, and the people of each State have the right to carry their property (or what is regarded as such) to any part of it.— Let the Administration move in the direction it has indicated. and signify its purpose to keep pace with any reduction the Confederacy of the Gulf may make. • This done, and the President declaring his purpose to execute the laws as declared by the Courts. and not as expounded at Chicago, there will be no necessity for armed coercion. Time will do the rest. GOVERNOR HOUSTON'S PROTTBE—General Houston has issued a lengthy address to the people of Texas, reviewing the proceedings of the State convention, which passed the ordi nance of secession and declared his seat vacant. He refuses to take the oath of allegiance to the new government, or recognize it, because he believes it has derived none of the powers it has assumed either from the people or the Le gislature. The address concludes as follows ; Fellow-citizens, think not that I complain at the lot which Providence has now assigned me. It is perhaps but meet that my career should close thus. I have seen the patriots and states men of my youth one by one gathered to their fathers, and the government which they had reared rent in twain ;. and none like them are left to unite it once again. I stand the last almost of a race who learned from their lips the lessons of human freedom. lam stricken down now because I will not yield those prin ciples which I have fought for and struggled to maintain. The severest pang is that the blow comes in the name of the State of Texas. I deny the power of this convention to speak for Texas. I have received blows for her sake, and.am willing to do so again. protest in the name of the people of Texaa against all the acts and doings of this convention and declare them null and void! I solemnly pro test against the act of its members, who are bound by no oath themselves, in declaring my office vacant because I refuse to appear before it and take the oath prescribed. SPANISH DESIGNS IN THE WEST INDIES.—The announcement that San Domingo has been seized by Spain is said to have created quite a sensation in Washington. The Spanish Min ister there, however, does not credit the story. A letter in the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, dated Havana, March 2.5, says : Spain sent in, this week, a large armament to St. Domingo, to secure the peaceable annexa tion of - the Dominican Republic. The frigate Blanca left on Saturday, with her complement in crew, marines, &c., and a large detachment of soldiers. The Petronilla and Berenguela• are to follow to-day or 40-morrow, bound to Hayti. Spain has been sending emigrants there, for the purpose of revolution, during the past year or two, in order to be called in to Feted. her own citizens, or to assume juris diction. It is a matter accomplished, and Hayti will share the same fate. Spain and France are agreed upon the arrangement and division of the spoils. These republics, recog nized organizations by the civilized world, will be conquered by Fpain, and they will iecognize no free colored people. So much for the first fruits of abolition abroad. It is only the be ginning. Mexico will be attacked as soon as it can be done safely. HEAVY COUNTERFEITING IN NEW ORLEANS.- The New Orleans Bee states that on- Saturday morning an immense quantity of counterfeit twenty-dollar bills on the Bank of New Orleans, so admirably executed that it is almost impos sible to tell them from genuine notes, were received from some of the Western States by an old counterfeiter reeidin g in Jefferson City, near New Orleans, named Raz Shepherd, who is well known to the police to have been in the business of receiving and circulating counterfeit notes, although they could never get legal testimony against him before. The same day he passed these notes to the extent of some 0,000 rela tive value, through his "shovers," who took different districts of the city of New Orleans, and passed them at every store where they could get the requisite change. The police arrested Shepherd, Capt J. F. Morton, Joseph Massey, J. M. Doane and others, who were found passing the counterfeits, and they were committedto await trial. REMARKABLE DISAPPEARANCE AND RE-AP PEARANCE OF AN INSANE WIFE.-T he Fort Wayne (Ind.) Times relates a curious story of an in sane German woman, named Rebus, who some years since jumped from the third story of the Insane Hospital, at Indianapolis, and who, after a long search, was given up for dead.— About two years after the supposed death of his insane wife, Rebus married again, but a few nights ago the first wife entered his resi dence. She was accompanied by a young•child which bad been born after she became insane, and after she escaped from the Asylum. Of her wanderings she had but an indistinct recol lection. She remembered having waded through swamps and woods until she came to a steam boat, upon which she got, and finally found herself in Buffalo, where R physician took charge of her and succeeded in curing her.— What the upshot of the present state of affairs will be, it is difficult to surmise. DOWN THE Mounr.—A letter from Job Sherman, third mate of the ship Mary Ann, of Fair Haven, Conn., gives the particulars of his wonderful escape from death while pursuing a whale. The whale struck the boat and threw him right across the monster's mouth, so that both legs were in his mouth, and then went down with him. Fortunately the whale soon came up, so that the non could breathe. In the meantime he had extricated one of his legs; but the whale immediately went down egain, carrying Mr. Sherman down the second time. Mr. b. then thought of his sheath knife, which be used upon the whale's under jaw, causing it to let go its hold, when Mr. S. rose to the sur face of the water, about a ship's length from the boat, and he was rescued, nearly exhausted, by seizing him by the hair of the head as he was sinking. On examination, he found himself with :hole in one leg large enough to receive an egg. HA` OF A TOWN DESTROYED BY FIRE.-011 the 16th ult. about one half of the town of Madienvilie, Ky., was destroyed by fire. The postoffice was consumed with nearly ell its contents. Mr. James Aikens, wife and two children were burned to death. The father and wife at first esciped, but returning to their burning dwelling to save their children, perished with them. PENN'A LEGISLATUE. SENATE MONDAY, April 1, 1861. The Senate was called to order at 3 °Mick, p. m., by Mr. PENNEY, Speakerpro tent. BILLS IN PLACE Mr. SCHINDEL, an act to incorporate the Bethlehem railroad company. Mr. MEREDITH, an act relative to coroners and sheriffs of the county of Armstrong. Mr. BLOOD, a supplement to the act relative to the judicial' districts of this Commonwealth. Mr. YARDLEY, a supplement to the aet in corporating the Andalusia and Holmesvllle turnpike company: Mr. IRISH, an act to repeal the second sec tion of an act increasing the width of Diamond alley. in Pittsburg. Mr. BOUND, en n ct. to legalize certain ,elec tions for military officers in Montour county. DILLS CONSIDERED. An act relating to the Catawissa reload company. Mr. HIESTAND, an act to exempt the Old Columbia Public Ground company from State taxation. Also, an act to establish two new schoollis tricts in the borough of Columbia. Mr. WELSH, an act to repeal the bounty on muskrat scalps in the county of York. ON BEOOND READING An act to authorize the erection of a .free bridge over the river Schuylkill, at or near South street, Philadelphia; passed the Senate finally. BILLS CONSIDERED ,Mr. MEREDITH called up an act to incorpo rate the North American oil company ; passed —yeas 21, nays 4. Mr. MOTT called up an act. to extend the provisions of "An Act relative to selecting sites for school houses to Pike and other counties ;" passed. "Mr. IMBRIE called up an act relative to the claim of , Samuel R. Richards ; passed. Mr. SCHINDEL called up the act to incorpo rate the Bethlehem railroad company; passed. Mr. ROBINSON, an act to exempt certain church property from taxation. Laid over on third reading. Mr. LAN DON called up an act to repeal cer tain road laws in Liberty township, Susque hanna county; passed. Mr. SERRILL called up an act relative to the courts of Delaware county ; passed. Mr. YARDLEY called up public bill, entitled "An act relative to the Board of Property ;" passed finally. Mr. SMITH, an act to dissolve the Philadel phia Steam Tug company;' passed finally. Mr. THOMPSON called up an act to autho rize the Upper Dublin Lutheran Evangelical Chutch to borrow money; passed. Mr. WELSH calletLup an act repealing an act giving a bounty on muskrat scalps in the county of York ; passed. Mr. WELSH called up an act to change the venue of a certain case from Lancaster to York county ; negatived—yeas 9, nays 13. Mr. ROBINSON called up an act for the relief of T. H. Martin, late treasurer of Ye nango county ; passed. Mr. YARDLEY called up an act for the sale of certain real estate in Bucks county. Mr. BENSON called up a supplement tnthe act to amend and consolidate the road laws of Tioga, Potter, blllean and Elk. counties ; passed. Mr. CONNELL called up supplement to the act incorporating the German hospital of Phil adelphia. Mr. PENNEY called up an act relating to Allegheny city; laid over on third reading. Mr. BOUND called up an not relative to the Catawissa railroad company ; passed. • The SPEAKER laid before the Senate the annual report of the Reading railroad com pany. Also, the annual report of the Lykena Valley coal company. Adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MONDAY * April 1, 1861 The SPEAKER called the House to order at 3 o'clock. The Journal of Saturday was read,. On motion of Mr. HUHN the Nesquehoning railroad bill was re-committed to the Committee on Railroads. The act to incorporate the Brady's Bend iron company, was, on leave, taken up and passed under a suspension of the rules. DEMPRIRLD RAILROAD. The act relative to are bonds of the Hemp field railroad was, on leave, taken up. Mr. ANDERSON made a aneech of an hours length, when the bill was recommitted. A QUONOM NOT VOTING. Mr. BREWSTER offered a resolution that the bill to annex Dublin and Springfield townships, in Huntingdon county, to Fulton county, be made the special order for Wednesday evening next. Thq yeas and nays were ordered, on a suspension of the rules, when it was discovered that a quorum was not present. The Sergeant• at-Arms was instructed to close the doors, and not to permit any member of the House to depart until a call of the House was made. Sixty-four members answered to their names. The yeas and nays were again ordered on the resolution offered by Mr. BREWSTER, and the House agreed to suspend the rules—yeas 44, nays 16, two-thirds voting in' the affirmative. The resolution was read. Mr. BLAIR, moved to amend by making it the Fourth of July. Mr. GORDON enquired whether the gentle man did not know that the Fourth of July had been abolished ? The question was taken on the amendment, and it was lost. The resolution was carried—yeas 35, nays 19. FAHMERS' HIGH SCHOOL Mr. DUNCAN moved that the House hold a special session on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the bill making an ap propriation to the Farmers' High School.— Agreed to. DILLS PASSED Mr. GRAHAM read in place a bill relative to school direct ors in Butler county. The rules were suspended and the bill passed. Mr. BLANCHARD read in place a bill to in corporate the Newcastle gaslight company. Passed under a suspension of the rules. PRICE BANKING LAW Mr. ABBOTT offered a resolution that the House hold a session on Thursday afternoon, to consider the Free Banking bill. Not agreed to. rwrrrnms, This being petition day, a large number were presented, when the House adjourned. A WAITER STABBED.—On Friday afternoon, a min named Thomas Flynn entered Crooks' dining saloon, No. 55, Bowery, New York, and having eaten his dinner, rather coolly informed the waiter, Joseph Jones, that he had no money to pay for what he had obtained. The waiter remonstrated with him, when the latter became very insulting, whereupon Jones attempted to put him out of the place, Flynn seized a knife lying on the table, and, stabbing Jones in the lower part of the abdomen, fled. Jones was conveyed to his residence and lies in a very critical condition. Flynn has been arrested and . comnaitted to await the result of his victim's injuries. WHAT IT COFTS.—We find in the later a statement. that will give some idea of the expense of military preparitious, and go to show how fortunate it is for both divisions that a war between the United and Confederate States has (so far, and we trust in the future,) been avolded. 4 reports that among the'mili. tary appropriations of the Confederate Con gress, not already announced, is one of a little over $1,800,000 for the support, for six months, of three thousand men at Charleston ; and an additional appropriation of $660,000 for the support of two thousand men now at the same place. ADULTERATIONS OF Pool).—Before the So ciety of Arts in London an able paper was re cently read by Mr. Wentworth Lascelles Scott, on the important subject of the adulteration of food, from which we make the following ex: tracts : Bread.—My experience shows that on an ave rage the bread of London is more or loss adul terated to the amount of 87 percent.—by which I mean to say that if I were to buy 100 loaves, at as many, different bakers in various parts of the metropolis, I should get about 13 of gocd and genuine bread. Alum is about the most frequent adulterant of bread, very few samples being uncontaminated with this salt. So it seems that most Englishmen put a quantity of the valuable metal, aluminum, into their stom achs at every meal. Pickles.—lhave here a bottle of pure pick les, and here an adulterated sample ; the dif ference in tint, you see, is very apparent, and if I add to both a little solution of ammonia, the presence of a large quantity of copper in the one case, and its entire absence in the other, will be speedily shown. The properties of dissolved copper, as an active poison and powerful irritant, are very generally known. According to my calculation, about 91 per cent. of the pickles sold in London are more or less adulterated. In relation to pickles, I must say that consumers are open to very great blame, for the too general rule with them is to buy those pickles which are of the deepest green, for no better reason, it would appear, than that. they, are considered prettier. It is quite time all such weaknesses were dissipated, and I hold that he who buys girkins where he can get them greenest is of the same intellectual tint personally, and, whenever he purchases a pickle, deserves to get into one. Fruit.—The question has often been put to me—Can fruit ever be adulterated ? As often my answer has been in the affirmative. With out going into what might be called the natural and accidental adulterations—such as blight, mildew, insects, &a., I may mention that I have seen English apples, of rather inferior quality than otherwise, colored superficially in imitation of the American Newton pippins, and sold as such at the rate of two and three shil lings per dozen ! Although we may admire the artistic genius thus displayed, we must still condemn the fraud. Old and inferior oranges, well boiled, with a little saffron added to assist Nature, when her shortcomings in the matter of external coloring are a little too obvious, may be purchased at many shops, as we all know. Melons and cucumbers, too, when looking pale and dejected from waiting so long to be eaten, have their rusty coats furbished up with a little acetate of copper, so that a green old age" at least is accorded to them. Sugar.—The common practice of selecting the very coarsest and darkest colored sugars (popularly known as fools) for the preparation of cakes, puddings, &c., is one which I cannot too strongly reprehend ; if it be required to "make a cake look rich"—the usual pretext —why not employ a pure white sugar for the purpose of sweetening, and supply the place of the deficient dirt and coloring matter by a lit tle wholesome burnt sugar, which will answer a great deal better. As to the finance part of the question—a delicate point with housekeep ers—it will always be found cheaper to em ploy a fine white, or at least a light-colored sugar, than to use a dark brown variety of a lower price. Colored Confectionery.—l have condensed in a 'table some general information relating to the chief coloring matters used for purposes of (what might be called) ornamental adultera tion, amounting to upwards of sixty in number, of which twelve or thirteen are active and powerful poisons—a like number are harmless, except in special cases of disease or morbid debility—while the reminder are either more or less injurious to health, or we know too lit tle about their effects upon the animal economy to venture a decided opinion either way. TERRIBLE MASSACRES IN THE ARGENTINE ConransaArior.—We have papers from Buenos Ayres to February Ist. The Tribune of that ,date appears in mourning for the shocking massacres in the province of San Juan, the details of which are as revolting and heart sickening as any that have ever disgraced the Spanish-American name. Col. San followed up his victory over Aberastain, by causing that brave but unfortunate gentleman to be wantonly assassinated on the road, after having made him march barefooted and almost naked till he dropped down with fatigue; and because he was unable to walk further, his savage guards murdered him, and chopped his hods into frag ments. San continued his progress to the town of San Juan, which he delivered up to a three days' pillage. He had the three interesting daughters of Aberastain dragged into the street, and publicly violated by the licentious sol diery. Every grown man found in the place he ordered to be shot; declared the town in 'a state of siege for the period of forty days ; and then, in the midst of more than 600 victims, he writes to acquaint the government that "law has triumphed in San Juan." Gov. Mitre, of Buenos Ayres, immed)ately issued a proclama tion to the people of that city, who were per fectly furious with indignation, in which be endeavors to calm them by promising that the actors in that fearful. tragedy shall be punished. Letters published in the Tribune, by eye-wit nesses of the scene we are speaking of, say the battle of Posito only lasted half an hour, and that for three hours subsequently Saa's men were engaged in deliberately murdering their prisoners, most of whom were mere boys.— Upon the receipt of this news in Buenos Ayres, Senor Sarmiente, the recently appointed min ister plenipotentiary to the United States, re signed both his seat in the cabinet and his mission, as be declines to serve a government that could so deliberately murder the people of a sister province. MURDER AND RAPE. —A young woman named Elizabeth Reve, while on her way from Chip pewa to Drummondville, N. Y., was overtaken by three young men named Edward Burns, John Russell and Patrick Calinan, in a wagon. These brutes attacked and ruined her, and then taking her into the wagon, drove to John M'Guanes' tavern, when the three men got out and went in, telling her to remain in her seat. She•got out, and seeing Mrs. M'Guanes in the house ran to her for safety, but was met and stopped in the hall of the house by Pat Cali flan. A young man named Joseph Fleck came to her rescue, when Callum' struck him on the head with one of the legs of a table which he had broken for the purpose. Fleck staggered backwaris and fell across a stove; Calinan continued to strike him after he had fallen, and as soon as he discovered that Fleck was dead, he made his escape. His companions are in custody. Lately a rich Frenchman of Paris ran off with the fascinating wife of an American•gen t Leman to Switzerland. The unfortunate hus band, instead of following up the absconding parties, installed himself immediately in a mag nificent chateau owned by his rival, and wrote him the following letter as an explanation of the extraordinary step be had taken: “You have appropriated my wife, and I have taken possession of your chateau. I hope you will have an agreeable journey in the land of Wil liam Tell, although it is somewhat cold during the winter in the midst of the Helvetian Gla ciers. My wile, I hope, is taking lessons de chant. I have had your favorite hot-house of oranges removed, because it obstructed my view of the beautiful little lake. I think that you will appreciate my position while you are enjoying your own.' k ' Cool! A young married woman in Pelham, pretty and newitChing, passed herself off as a maid. in Northampton, Mass., and gnt a couple of widowers crazy after her. One of them bought her a nice dress for riding through the town with him, and upon finding she was married, had her arrested for stealing the dress. The complaint was dismissed. GENERAL NEWS. THE WHITE SLAVES OF SALT L AME.—A cor respondent says: "History shows that polyga my has never existed in any community for fifty years without woman becoming an article of merchandise. The traffic has already com menced in Utah. I will mention one of the several instances brought to my notice. At Ogden City, about ninety miles north of this place, in July, 1858, a young English woman, was sold to a man for a wagon load of pumpkins to be paid at pumpkin time. When pay day came the fellow took the woman back, and said he didn't want her. Of course the parties rued the bargain and quit. This story may seem very ridiculous, but it was told to me, and its truth vouched for by a lady who crossed the ocean with the woman who was sold, and she has been intimately acquainted with her ever since her arrival in this Territory. I have no reason to doubt its truth, and give it to the world as illustrative of the estimation in which women areleld by the Mormons." ORNAMEETATION OF PAWS. —All the public gardens, squares and boulevards of Paris are being prepared to receive the trees, shrubs and flowers which are grown for that purpose in the immense green-houses and nursery-grounds belonging to the municipality of Paris. Exclu sive of the army of trees and shrubs allotted to the ornamentation of the capital, the number of flowering plants in pole absorbed by Paris amounts to 500,000 yearly • 12,000 per day be ing brought into the capital during the spring, summer and autumn months from the estab lishment in the Bois de Boulogne only. The forcing of white lilacs, roses, bulbous flowers, American primroses, camelias, heathers, etc., so as to make them blossom during the winter, is an extensive and lucrative business, consti tuting a special branch of horticulture in the hands of private gardeners. MODERATE DRINKING IN WASHINGTON'S DAY. G. W. Custis, in his recollections of Washington, gives a copy of a contract in Washington's own hand between George Washington and Philip Barton, his gardener. After the usual clauses, it provides that the said Barton "will not at any time suffer himself to be disguised with liquor, except on terms hereafter mentioned." After enumerating the clothing, &c., to be furnished, it further says. he watt to be allowed "four dol lars at Christmas, with which he may be drunk four days and four nights; also, two dollars at Whitsuntide, to be drunk two days • also, a dram in the morning, and a drink o f ? grog at dinner at noon." CAPT. CUNNINGHAM, 11. S. N.—Among the items of California news, published a few days ago, was the announcement of the death of Cap tain Robert B. Cunningham, 11. S. N., com mander of the navy-yard at Mare Island, San Francisco. Capt. C. was a native of Norfolk, Va., and highly esteemed by all who knew him as a noble-hearted gentleman and most excel lent officer. He had nearly reached his 70th year. He entered the service in 1814, and has continued in it 46 years—eighteen of which were at sea, and fifteen on spore or other ser vice. HOMICIDE.-Mr. George Hikes was shot and killed at the Seven Mile House, on the Bards town road, near Louisville, Ky., Wednesday night., by Wesley Owens, the keeper of the house. An altercation occurred between Hikes and Owens, when the latter drew' his pistol and fired upon Hikes with deadly effect. Owens is the same man who killed John Gatton and Bill Alligator three years ago, at the same place. The deceased was about 27 years of age, and leaves a wife and child in Louisville. TEE JAPANESE TREATY Dom.—The Japan ese treaty boxes were furnished by Samuel Lewis, a jeweler in Washington, at an expense of $2,000, which was charged to the account of contingent expenditures of the Department of State. Some of the boxes were of rilver, and some were silver mounted. The most costly were rosewood, silver mounted. TRAGIC AFFAIR IN MISSISSIPPI.—At Mr. Burns' plantation, in the rear of Commerce; Mississippi, on Tuesday last, the overseer of the plantation was :set upon by four of the negroes. Ile drew a revolver and killed two of them, but was eventually killed himself. The two remaining negroes made their escape. PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY (O. S.) The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States will hold its next meeting in Philadelphia, commencing Thurs day, the 16th of May. The Assembly will be opened with a sermon by Rev. John W. Yeo mans, D. D., Moderator of the last Assembly, Mr. Russell, of the London Times, has been much lionized by the, editorial and literary gang. He is a round, fat, oily looking little man, and leaves just such an impression as one might suppose he would leave after reading his graphic narratives. He has gone to Washing ton. DEATH OF AN ARMY OFFICER.—During the embarkation of companies E and G, 2d cavalry, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, on the night of the 80th ult., First Lieut. James B. Wither ell, 2d cavalry, U. S. A., accidentally fell from the steamer Mustang, and was drowned. MAIL ROBBER ARRESTED.—A man named It F. Bronson was arrested the other day at Newark, Ohio, charged with robbin; the post office at pueyrus, Ohio. A lot of postage stamps and a set of burglar's tools were found in his possession. A man, insensible, with his feet • dangling over the railing of the suspension bridge at Niagara, was discovered on Thursday evening. A bottle of morphine was found in his pocket. He had evidently intended to tumble into the abyss. He lingered a•few hours and died. The Congress of the Confederate States have made foreign coin a legal tender in payment of debts, and has specified the quality and rates at which they shall be current. Of course the coins of the United States are included. Experiments lately made at Pittsburg on the strengh of iron compressed by cold rolling show that the operation imparts to this metal a strength of about 110,000 lbs. per square inch, when before it bore but 65,000 lbs. There his not been for two months past any government mail service between Pensacola and Mobile. Letters and papers are carried by individuals- The post office at Pensacola has been discontinued by the government. A young man, Daniel Robbins, proposed honorable marriage to a girl near Little Rock, Ark., on the 15th ult., and her father hearing of it., shot him dead in the street. Charming country. A journal of New York speaks of a foreign danseuse who arrived penniless in that city, and at the end of two years returned to her own country with an income of four thousand dol lars per annum. A military company in Norfolk, Va., having got jubilant at an evening supper, thoughtlessly fired a field-piece in the street, knocking out over a thousand panes of glass. They are now raising money to foot the bill. Orders have been received at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from the Department at Washington to get the store-ship release ready for sea imme diately. Thus. Ilgenfritz, of York, Pa., who has been missing for several months, has been found drowned in the Codorus. Wright Rives, of Washington, D. C., has not, as was reported, accepted a lieutenancy in the Southern army. The citizens of Hartford, Conn., gave Hon. Isaac Toucey, late Secretary of the Navy, a cordial welcome home on Thursday evening. Col. Hardee, late of the U. S. army, is ordered by the Confederate General to the command of Fort Morgan, near Mobile, REMOVAL. The subscriber has removed his PLUMBING AND BRASS FOUNDRY from Market street to Fourth street above Moket, opposite the Bethel Church Thankful for past patronage, he hopes, by btrict attention to bust nes+. to merit a continuance of it. meal. dtf WM. PARKHILL. LATEST BY TELEGRAP From Washington. WASHINGTON, April I. The Ron. Charles Francis Adams, Minister to England, has left this city for Boston whither his instructions will follow him in a, day or two. Mr. Adams will sail for England in a very short time. The statement that England and France are going to send an armed fleet to the United States, is entirely discredited by the Adminis tration. A number of bankers from New York arrived here to-day. They deposited several large combination bids for the loan of $8,000,000._ The bids will be opened to-morrow. Secretary Chase is hopeful that the loan will be taken at low rates. The War Department is in hourly expectation of the arrival of Lieut. Gilman, with dispatche s from Lieut. Stemmer, at Fort Pickens. ' The Postmaster General has appointed M. D. M. Boyd. of Philadelphia, Stamp agent for the Philadelphia Post-office. • The President to-day summarily settled the California quarrel. He has made the appoint ments in that State which were in dispute. The Cabinet was called together to-day, in "extraordinary session," to consider the ap pointments and the aspect of Southern affairs. This week has opened with a brisk charge of office seekers upon the Presidential avu ls i on. At a very early hour to-day crowds of expect ants were on guard at the White House, all ready to press their claims upon the attention of the jaded Qhief Magistrate. Movements of Steamers • PORTLAND, April 1. The steamship North American, from Liver pool on the 14th ult., arrived this morning.._. Her advices have been anticipated. The steamer Bohemian sailed at 9 o'clock on Saturday evening, for Liverpool. The steamship Teutonia sailed at noon with 112 passengers. She carried out no specie. New 2Zwertisements. NOTICE.—The undersigned offers for sale the largest, greatest and beat collection of FLOWERING PLANTS Ever offered or exhibited in Harrisburg. My stock con sists in part of CAMELIAS, AZALIAS, NEW DAHLIAS, HELIO TROPES, FUSCIIIAS, LAN TANNAS, GERANIUMS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, CARNATION AND ENGLISH MONTHLY PINKS, PANSIES, PETUNIAS, JoC., &O. I have also a Tely large collection of ROSES, such a s GIANT DE DATTELS. . LORD RAG - LAN, HERMOSA, GLORIE DE ROSEMON, AGRLPENA, &0., &O. I have on hand a variety of EVERGREEN "AND OR NAMENTAL TREES, such as . ARBOR VITA, ENGLISH AND IRISH YEW. All of which will be sold at low prices by JOHN M. MICK, ap2•dtswlm Above the Car Factory, Harrisburg. STATEMENT OF THE HARRISBURG BANK. luL 1, 1861_ Assets : Loans and Discounts $754,526 44 Stock of the Commonwealth ...... ... 60,505 00 United States Loan. 19,000 00 Specie' 76,466 05 Due by other Banks.. $211,684 58 Notes of other Banks... 18,624 00 230,308 58 Stocks (at present market value)... 28,000 00 Bonds • 66 66 5,000 00 Real Estate 14,600 00 Liabilities : Circulation Deposits Due to other Banks $840,696 98 The above statement is correct, to the best of my knowledge and, belief. J. W. WEIR, Cashier. Sworn and subscribed before me, ap2-d2t W. ELINs, Alderman. REMOVAL.—The subscriber has re moved his Coal Office to two doors from Fourth and Market streets, near the Post Office, where he will be pleased to supply his old customers with the different kinds of hard and soft coal, at as low prices as any regu lar yard in the city. Full weight guaranteed. HARRISBURG, April 1,1861. DAVIDALTORMICIE. apl-41.60 LOST—Tither on Third street, between Market and Walnut, or Walnut street, between Se cond or Third. or on Walnut, between Third and Fourth, a CAPE to a child's silk dress—colored and figured. By leaving the same at TRU OFFICE the finder will be rewarded liberally. mar3o-4181 v - ANTED-A WHITE WOMAN.- A good COOK can find constant employmentand good wages. Apply to DANIEL WAGNER, atthe Seven Stars Hotel, corner of gecond and Chesnut streets. marl 2 REMOV A L. JOHN W. GLOyER, MERCHANT TAILOR, Ras removed to 60 MARKET STREET, Where he will be pleased to see all his friend . octB-dtf CHAMPAGNE WINESI DITC DE MONTEBELLO, HEIDSIECK & CO. CHABLES HErhsrEoK, eissr.F.R & 00., ANpHOR—SILLERT MOTTSSEUK, SPARKLING MUSCATEL, MIIMM & CO 13, • TERZENAT, CABINET. In store and for sale by JOHN A. ZIEGLER, 73 Market street. de2o DROCLAMATION.—Whereas, the Honorable JOHN J. PEARSON, President of the Court of Common Pleas in the Twelfth Judicial District, con sistingof the counties of Lebanon and Dauphin. and the Hon. A. 0. RIMER and Hon. FEtot Ntsspir, Asso ciate Judges in Dauphin county, hiving issue" their pre cept, bearing date the 16th day of February, 1861, to me directed, for holding a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions of the Peace at flarrisbnrg, for the county of Dauphin, and to com mence on the 4,h Mon , ay of April next, being the 22d day of April, 1861, and to continue two weeks. Notice is there ore hereby given to the Curoner, Jus tices of the Peace, Aldermen, and Constables of thessid county of Dauphin, that they be then and there in their proper persons, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, with their records, inquisitions, examinations, and their own . remembrancee, to do those thin g s At hiell to their olllee appertaine to be done, and those who are bound in recognissnePs to prosecute against the prisoners that are or shall be in the Jail of Dauphin county, be then and there to t rosecute 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 StatiT. J. D. BOAS, Sheriff. SHERIFF'S OFFICE, Harrisburg, March 15, 1801. WALL PAPER, CEILING PAPER, TRANSOM PAPER, BORDERS, FIRE PM TS, WINDOW CURTAINS, TASSELS, AND F IXTURES, AT LOW PRICES, at SCJJEFFE 'S Book-store. ' Near the Harrisburg Bridge. mar2s THE 131.1 - ILE ON PiVuliCE.—Thefol -1 lowing words are from Mark x. v. 0, 12: "What, therefore, God has joined together let not man put asunder." "Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another committeth adultery. And if a woman shall put away her husband and marry again she committeth adultery." Legislators and others. the above is the edict of the Supreme Lawgiver. from which there is do appeal: "What. Thor fore, God has joined together let no maw put asunder." • janl2 dtf MAD KI A `VINE!—WELSH BRO , THEW OLD RESERVE WlNE—full bodied an fruity. In store and for sale by JOHN 11. ZIFGLER, 73 Market street. feblB El $1,178,406 07 • $659,160 00 134,783 70 . 46,753 28 Inarl6-d&wtd
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