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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
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