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Virginia Agenst the Union.
There is no longer reason to doubt that the
Virginia Convention passed the ordinance of
secession declaring that State out of the Union,
several days ago, - and that-she is arming against
the Government. The act of secession was
carried in secret session, and in order to ac
complish certain military movements, all infor
mation as to what bad transpired was suppres
sed. The news comes from the South, where
there was the greatest rejoicing at the defec
tion of the mother of States. Governor Letcher
refuses to respond to the President's procla
mation, and defies the Government of the Uni
ted States. It is rumored that the Government
at Washington has received reliable intelligence
•that a large force, under command of Governor
Wise, was about to start for Washington. While
Virginia is thus movingwith alarming celerity,
we have information of a murderous attack
made upon the Massachusetts regiment while
passing through the city of Baltimore. In
view of these facts it is impossible to suppress
-the deepest solicitude for the safety of Wash
ington. The city is vulnerable from nearly
-every direction, surrounded as it is by Virginia
and Maryland. Within a few days the Admin.
istration will .concentrate as many troops at
Washington as are necessary for Its defence.
Armed Neutrality.
:Some of the newspapers in the Border States,
which have always stood •by the Union, now
advise that these States maintain an armed
neutrality betweenthe Government and the se
ceded States. This term seems to imply a sort
of .compromise between duty on the one hand
and inclination on the other—that is, the sym
pathy for the rebel States is too strong to admit
of furnishing the Government of the United
States assistance in-forcing them to respect its
authority and obey its laws 4. while respect for
the power of the Union and disinclination to
take part with the Southern Confederacy for
bid armed resistance to the Federal Govern
ment. The Border States propose to take care
of themselves, protect their own soil from
"invasion," and to resist the marching of
troops by the Government through their ter
ritory with the object of "coercing" the sece
ders. They seem to think that their immediate
safety demands this course, which is little less
than absolute secession. Neutrality in this
contest amounts to a denial of obligation to
the Government. The position of the Border
States is extremely trying. They are between
two destructive fires. On the one side, the
unconditionally loyal States are thoroughly
united in support of the Government. On the
other side; the seceded States are apparently
unanimous for . rebellion. These opposing
forces are about to come in conflict. The
Border States alone exhibit signs of division
and hesitation—and while thousands of sym
pathizers with rebellion are actually arming
against the Government, the best that the
friends of the Union can propose is that the
Border States maintain a position of armed
neutrality. But what is their exact under
standing of that term? If they refuse to fur
nish the levies called for by the President, and
prohibit the marching of troops through their
territory, will they at the same time undertake
to prevent the enlistment of men and the fur
nishing of supplies to the Confederate States ?
Neutrality certainly implies this. But do they
construe this term to mean armed resistance
to the operations of the Government, and im
punity and encouragement to sympathizers with
rebellion ? If so, armed neutrality is only
another name for armed resistance.
We fear that the apprehensions so long en
tertained, that the Border States would take
part against the Government in this conflict,
are about to be realized. Gov. Hicks, of Ma
ryland, is the only Southern Governor who
has announced his unqualified adherence to the
Union, and the Baltimore American positively
asserts that he has not yet determined whether
he will respond affirmatively to the requisition
of the President. The American further states
that if the militia are called out in Maryland it
will be under the written pledge of the Govern
ment at Washington that they are to be held
for the special preservation of the peace and
quiet of the State of Maryland, and are not in
any event to be employed beyond its borders,
except in defence of the National Capital.—
Gov. Hicks has reserved for "future considera
tion" the decision of the question as to 'whether
he will give a favorable or unfavorable response
to the requisition of the War Department.—
This hesitation of the Union Governor of Ma
ryland is one of the very worst signs of the
times. If Maryland falters, what State can be
counted upon as loyal?
Turning to North Carolina, the people of
which State determined that they would not
even hold a Convention to consider the ques
tion of secession, we Simi the Raleigh Standard,
a Union paper that has fought disunion with
unexampled courage, using this language: "Mr.
"Lincoln may call, • but North Carolina will
"extend no aid to him in any effort to coerce
"the Confederate States." "The soil of
"North Carolina, must not be polluted by
"tread of armed men, sent to make war on the
"Confederate States." "The mission of the
"Border States now is to command the peace,
"if possible, and to maintain their nights in
" the Union."
The position which these States have taken
is not only embarrassing, but little less defiant
than the open ho'btility of the Confederate
government. Where they may eventually
land, time alone can determine; but in their
solicitude to protect themselves, and to inter
pose between the law and its violators, they
should beware of incurring the terrible curse
of anarchy.
Destination of the Army,
Where does the President propose to employ
the army of 75,000 men, called out by his
proclamation ? He returns a partial answer
to this question in the document itself, where
he deems it proper to state that one of the first
objects will probably be to re• take the places
and property , violently seized from the Govern
ment; but this determination is open to modi
fication or alteration, as the exigencies of the
case may demand. Some of the newspapers
are amusing themselves by mapping out the
plan of an extensive campaign for the invasion
and subjugation of the South, as if this was
the settled. determination of the Administration.
The _National Intelligencer takes a very cool and
sensible view of affairs, and inclines to the
opinion that no important blow will be struck
until after the assembling of Congress. The
following extract is deserving of attention :
The policy-propounded, for instance, by the
President in respect to the re-capture of the
forts seized from the Union in the seceded
States, is one which may well afford room foi
-doubt and discussion on the part of the people's
Representatives, when, in compliance with the
call of the recent proclamation, they shall be
assembled in extraordinary session. As the
Executive has discreetly refrained from pledg
ing himself to any definitive purpose of this
kind, it is obvious that the whole subject will
remain open to discussion and modification, ac
cording to the drift of opinion and the emer
gencies of the future. And when to this con
sideration is added the fact, that, according to
the terms of the law under which the Execu
tive has called forth the militia of the States,
no officer or private can be compelled to serve
more than three months after his arrival at the
place of rendezvous, in any one year, it is
equally obvious that the President does not con
templatts anything like a concerted campaign,
for which such temporary contingents would
be wholly inadequate.
Again, the same paper says :
After the several levies of the respective
States shall have been raised and mustered
into the service of the United States, it may be
that no occasion v ll arise for such operations
as to call for their active employment. They
will simply be in readiness to obey the summons
of the Government in case of any attack, actual
or meditated, upon the Fede . ral Capital or other
property of the Union. The idea that they
are to be employed for the "subjugation of the
South," is simply preposterous, for no such
"subjugation" is possible by any number of
troops, a•nd the purpose of "invasion" is ex
pressly disclaimed by the Administration. The
very fact, therefore, that no existing emergency
can demand the intervention of 75,000 men,
especially when taken in connexion with the
short period for which they are enlisted,
(three months,) serves to show that they have
been summoned in prospect of contingent
eventualities, which may never arise, if only
the people of the Border Slaveholding States
shall determine to exert their potential influ
ence in favor of the Union and of the preserva
tion of the public peace.
THE OBJECT OF THE ATTACH ON FORT SUMP
TER.—The Hon. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia,
made a speech in Charleston on Thursday night
last in which he said:
"As sure as to-morrow's sun will rise upon
us, just so sure will old Virginia be a member
of this Southern Confederation. [Applause.]
And I will tell you, gentlemen, what will put
her in the Southern Confederation in less than
an hour by Shrewsberry clock. Strike a blow!"
Yes, " strike a blow"—commence the war, and
Virginia will then join you. The object was to
"precipitate" Virginia and the border States,
through blood, into the " Confederate States."
But the border States have interests and a will
of their own. They will do what they believe
to be right, without regard to the Black Repub
licans of the North or the disunionists of the
South.—Raleigh Standard.
One of the dispatches from Charleston says
" It is not to be wondered at, under the cir
cumetances, that Fort Sumpter surrendered.
The men were on duty thirty-six hours, with
balls or shells striking the casemates and guns
of the fort constantly. Competent military
men state that the" intense vibration or shock
produced on the brain and nervous system of
those in the vicinity is terribly exhausting.
"At the siege of Sebastopol the men who
worked the guns were relieved every twenty
minutes, and groomed with whisky and flannel
to enable them to endure the concussion pro
duced by the firing of their own guns and the
shock of the enemy's balls and shells striking
the fortification. The concussion attending the
firing of the columbiad in the enclosed casemate
of a, fort is said to be terrible."
ROUTE AGENCY AND PENNSYLVANIA FOSTOF-
Flee APPOINTMENTS.—S. A. Nichols, postmas
ter at Conneautvitle, Crawford county, vice
Ransom H. Sargent, resigned; Matthias S.
Harr, postmaster at Ebensburg, Cambria
county, vice Mrs. Harriet M'Cague, resigned;
George Gallagher. postmaster at New Alexan•
dria, Westmoreland co., vice John M. Stewart,
removed; George Harlan, postmaster at New
burg, Cumberland county, vice John A. Rea,
removed; D. S. Elliott, postmaster at Shaver's
Creek, Huntingdon county, vice John Creswell,
removed; David Devinney, postmaster at
Allen, Cumberland county, vice Ross Anderson,
removed; J. A. Kaufman, postmaster at Boil
ing Spring, Cumberland county, vice Emanuel
Holler, removed; Daniel D. Hursh, postmaster
at Oakville, Cumberland county, vice J. C.
Fosnaught, removed ; on the railroad line from
Bri-tol, Tenn., to Knoxville, John E. Helms is
appointed route agent in place of A. J. Blair,
resigned, at same pay, $BOO per annum. 'John
H. Washington, one of the book-keepers in the
office of the sixth auditor, resigned yesterday..
W. Blaine, of Maine, a clerk in the same office,
was promoted to a second class clerkship.
THE TUNNEL OF THE ALPS.—The engineers
employed in boring the eight mile tunnel under
Mt. Cenis, in Savoy, have put into operation
an ingenious device for supplying the tunnel
with air, which dispenses wish any necessity
for the construction of vertical shafts. They
work the boring machines in the tunnel by
means of compressed air furnished by station
on the outside. Thus there is no
s a m ry ok e e ngi a ns
"heat in the tunnel, and the air forced
in keeps up an adequate circulation, without
which the labor kvs would soon suffocate. There
was Considerable di fficulty
at first in
the
ad
justment of pipes iitt*.l valves, but they have
been at work since the first of January with
great success.
A letter from a prominent citizen of Prince
Edward county, Va.. to a gentleman in Rich
mond, says a large number of slaveholders in
that section are preparing to emigrate with
their negroes to Texas and other States farther
South, and declares that "if this state of thinp.B
continues, the slaveholding portion of Virginia
will soon be impoverished."
A NEW PROTESTANT CHURCH IN GERMANY—
Its Curious Architecture.—A German correspon
dent of the London Star thus describes a fan
ciful ecclesiastical edifice of recent construc
tion : .
44 The Protestant Cathedral of Wiesbaden is
meant to be a church like any other church,
and is built of brick like any other brick build
ing. You cannot help, therefore, being astott
tonished at seeing such an ordinary problem
of the architectural art solved in a way which,
at all events, fascinates your eye in spite of
yourself, while you are as yet undecided whether
you are to find it very beautiful or very ugly.
Imagine a cathedral in whose construction the
well known elements of Gothic art are exclu
sively applied, and which, nevertheless, in out
line, color, and character of composition, bears
no resemblance to any Gothic cathedral you as
yet have seen. For you never have seen such
an extraordinary height of nave and choir, as
well as of the spires, in a cathedral of so small
length and breadth.
,1 The main spires, next, are five in lumber,
three in a row, of which the middle one is the
highest, rising from the front wall without
projecting from it, while the remaining two
stand on the side walls, where the nave ends
and the curve of the choir begins. To this add
the color, a glaring red, and yet no artificial
color, but the natural red of the bricks, which
are exquisitely made, and, as is said, more du
rable than any bricks yet used, and which
color covers the whole building, even the steep
roofs of the five larger, as well as of the nu
merous smaller spires.
"For all these roofs are constructed of the
same red brick as the whole building, and are
adorned with nothing but figures tormed by
projecting bricks, somewhat in the style of an
Intian pagoda roof. And so the whole build
ing is adorned with nothing but figures formed
by projecting bricks, and the pillars and col
umns of the doors and windows consist like
wise of the same glaring red brick, while the
habitude of your eyesight in seeing a Gothic
cathedral makes you refuse to believe that all
this is really mere brick of a color to which
you are not accustomed, and creates the im
pression on you that you have a cathedral of
white stone before you, and which, in some
inexplicable manner, a red light, not of terres
tial nature, is falling, or which is built of red
hot metal; in fact, you may fancy you have a
dream of Dante's before you—a church belong
ing to a region where churches are least to be
expected.
"The name of the architeht who has staked
hie name on this really bold and altogether new
conception is Boos. The church-building zeal
of the Protestant community in the town, could
not fail to stir up that of the Catholics, who,
however, as in every region where the Teutonic
race prevails, are not so well off in Nassau, in
point of worldly riches, as their Protestant
brethren. They are now likewise engaged in
erecting a cathedral, which is completed, save
the spires, and where service is already per
formed. It is a very chaste and fine composi
tion in the late Roman style, with some vari
eties borrowed from Gothic construction, and
does as much honor to the modesty and learn
ing of its architect as the Protestant temple
does to the boldness of Herr Boos."
LOVE, JEALOUSY AND RUlN.—There have
lately been developed in Buffalo the particulars
of one of the saddest histories of love and suf
fering which' has ever come under our notice.
The story is briefly as follows:
A young lady, resident of the southwestern
portion of New York State, became betrothed
to a young villager. The engagement had
lasted through two years of unbroken affec
tion, when a new visitor to the place—a middle
aged man—agent of an eastern agricultural
firm, became introduced to the lady f and won
her esteem by his dignified and intelligent
conversation so as to finally become acknow
ledged as a perManent acquaintance. 'His
attentions became disagreeable to the lover of
the lady, who requested her to discourage them,
which she mildly, though firmly refused to do,
addlicing the superior age and courteous deport
ment of the stranger as her excuse. Finally,
the young man, meeting his mistress in a car
riage with the agent, asked her to alight and
walk with him, a discourtesy to ber present
cavalier which she would not submit to, and
proceeded on her ride.
The young man, in a fit of disappointment
and desperation, returned home, accumulated
a few necessaries, and left the same day for
Buffalo, vowing never to return. In the mean
time his betrothed, hearing of his absence, on
her return, was almost mac'dened by regret'and
remorse. On the same night she fled from her
home, and followed the track of hei lover.—
She reached the city on the ensuing morning,
almost destitute of means, ignoront of her
course, and without a single acquaintance in
the river of faces which surged on every side.
She spent—poor, tender hearted, persevering
soul—nearly three days in constant but hope
less pursuit of her lost idol, wandering, in her
search through the streets, into offices, and
even extending her simple, fruitless inquiries
to the doors of dwelling houses • never finding
a single trace of him she sough t, yet perseve
ring even in despair. The end of all this was
terrible. She was ensnared by the Maelstrom
that has drawn so many waifs like her into its
awful vortex, and lost, like her myriad sisters,
in its depths. Her parents in time searched
for their love as she had searched for hers,
found her in helpless wickedness, and took her
back, and home. And this, very . lately. A
letter had come to the village soon after she left,
from• her lover, saying that he had gone west
from Buffalo ; which accounts for all. He
knows the sequel now, reproaches himself for
all, but will not, dare not, as he says, though
he loves her still, go back to gaze upon the
ruin which he aseribes to his own wild temper.
ABOUT ROCK OlL.—The following is an ex
tract from an article by Professor E. B. An
drews, of Marietta College, who has given
much attention to the geology of Southern Ohio,
and was contributed by him to the Marietta
Intelligencer :
But it should be borne in mind that no well
is inexhaustible. No fissure can endure the
drain of a steam pump for a very long time.
There must, of necessity, be a diminution of
supply. There are no great reservoirs of oil,
no subterranean lakes which may afford an
almost indefinite supply of the precious fluid.
There is no evidence that the oil is found any
where except in crevices, which are mere or
less vertical. Where several wells
unusual
the
same neighborhood, it would be to
them "striking oil" at the same depth, bele&
the surface. I know of a productive well
twenty three feet deep near another pro(' uctive
one which is over two hundred feet deep. Of
course, then, there can be no such a thing as a
special rock oil or stratum. The oil is in fis
sures which may be found in every ),in' of
rock. We sometimes hear men who have bored
wells in the Northern Pennsylvania oil region,
speak very positively of our rocks, and declare
the exact depth, and in what peculiar kind of
rock, we may find the oil here in the Coal
Measures. All such claims are idle, because
it is impossible to reason analogically between
two entirely distinct groups of rocks, which
lie fifteen hundred feet apart in vertical dis
tance. There is with us, in this region, no oil
rock. You may "strike oil" thirty feet down,
or at three hundred feet down. Nor, again,
can any thing he determined beforehand from
the form or proximity of the hills. Some
would bore at the entrance of a side valley,
others at the point of a bold, high hill. Both
are right if they happen to strike an oil fis
sure, and wrong if they do not. Some, ; again,
having found a fissure ,from which oil exudes,
would begin to bore in the top of the fissure.
This is a doubtful policy, for all cracks deviate
more or less from a perpendicular line, and a
well bored perpendicularly would be sure to
lose the fissure.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
Riot at Baltimore—The Federal Forces
Attacked by a Mob—The Killed and
Wounded.
The detachment of Gen. Small's First Penn
sylvania regiment and the Massachuseets regi
ment have arrived and are now marching
through the city on their route to the Balti
more depot.
SECOND DISPATCH
A terribe scene is now occurring in Pratt
street, the track having been torn up by the se
cessionists. The troops from Philadelphia and
New York attemtpted to march through, and
were attacked by the mob with bricks and
stones.
The military fired upon their assailants, who
returned the fire.
Two members of the Seventh Massachusetts
regiment were killed, and several were woun
ded.
The - fight is still going on. Ten of the mob
are said to be wounded.
THIRD DISPATCH
M the Washington depot an immense crowd
has assembled. The rioters attacked them at
the depot. The military fired on the mob,and
several persons were wounded; some fatally.
There is said to be four of the military and
four rioters killed.
the city is in great excitement. Martial law
has been proclaimed.
The city military are rushing to ther armo
ries.
Civil war has commenced. The railroad
track is said to be torn up outside of the city.
Certain parties threaten to destroy the Pratt
street bridge.
As the soldiers paved along Pratt street a
perfect shower of paving stones rained on their
heads.
• The cars have left for Washington, being
stoned as they left. It was the Massachusetts
men that were attacked. Three of the mob are
known to be dead, and three soldiers were
killed. Many were wounded.
The stores are being closed.
Our military are rapidly forming.
The Minute Men are turning out.
It is not ascertained what portion of the
troops were attacked. They bore a white flag
as they marched along Pratt street and were
greeted with showers of stones. The Mayor
went ahead of them with the police.
An immense crowd blocked up the streets,
and after enduring various insults, the soldiers
finally turned and fired on the mob, several of
whom were wounded.
[A Subsequent dispatch states that order had
been restored.]
Movements in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, April 19
A special meeting of the Councils of Phila
delphia held to-day. The following is the
substance of the various resolutions and ordi
nances which were passed unanimously :
No. 1. Provides for requesting the citizens to
form companies of 100 each for home service.
No. 2. Committee on Finance to report an
ordinance for a loan of $1,000,000 for the pur
pose of providing a fund for the relief of fami
lies of volunteers who leave the city in the
service of the country, and for other purposes
connected with the distracted condition of the
country.
No. 3. Commissioner of city property to
place unoccupied public halls at the disposal of
drilling parties.
No. 4. Applauds the course of Baltimore and
Gov. Hicks in opposing the secession move
ment.
No. 5. An appropriation of 550,000 for the
purchase of arms for Home Guard, or other
defensive purposes. A committee of five to
aid the Major in carrying out the ordinance.
No. 6. An ordinance appropriating $125,000
for relief of famil;es of volunteers.
No. 7. Resolutions approving of the prompt
and determined steps of the General govern
ment, in putting down rebellion, commending
the conduct of Major Anderson, and determin
ing to tender him a sword.
No. 8. An Ordinance appropriating $5,000
to be employed by the Mayor in such a manner
as he may deem necessary for the preservation
of the peace of the city, for the detection of
all persons engaged in treasonable designs, and
for the detection of persons engaged in molest
ing the property of citizens of Philadelphia.
From Washington.
The President's Mounted Guard, a cavalry
company, sixty strong, was sworn in this morn
ing, not a single man declining to take the
oath.
The troops from Pennsylvania, that arrived
yesterday, breakfasted to-day in the Capitol.
They will parade during the day.
It is rumored that the Alexandrians intend to
fire on the vessel bearing the Rhode Island
troops as she comes up the river.
The War Department is reported to have re
quested the Baltimore and Ohio railroad com
pany to refuse to carry troops for the seces
sionists.
The city is comparatively quiet this morning.
Those who feared an attack on Washington
during the past night, were not even alarmed
by any extraordinary notes of warning or pre
caution.
On inquiry at the Post Office Department, it
is ascertained that no measures are in progress
for discontinuing any of the Southern• mails.
On the contrary, contractors from that section
were recently here, and have arranged for facil
itating the transportation. The Postmaster
General has discretion to suspend them only in
cases of obstructions.
Capt. Paulding. Commander Emmons and
Lieut. Woodhull, constitute the Board of Detail,
through whom all the naval preparations are
made. The Chief Clerk's room is the only one
in the Navy Department accessible at these
times to the public.
Patriotism in Old Montgomery.
NowtisrowN, April i 9, 1861.
The excitement here is unabated. All kinds
of business is suspended, and every one is
doing their utmost to assist the departure of
the volunteers. Seven companies will leave
here to morrow morning at 8 o'clock, for Har
ris-burg, via Reading. Seven thousand dollars
have been subscribed by the citizens of this
town alone, and it is thought that the contribu
tions throughout the county will increase the
fund to $20,000. Shirts, blankets, stockings,
etc., etc., have been purchased by the fund
committee, for the comfort and convenience of
the men.
Montgomery county will furnish a full regi
ment. The Adjutancy of the regiment has
been tendered to Col. A. H. 'pippin, of Phila
delphia, but formerly of Montgomery county,
and who was with Gen. Scott in Mexico, from
his landing at Vera Cruz, to the capture of the
city of Mexico.
Norristown challenges the whole Union to
produce a town of its population, that will
contribute an equal number of men to sustain
the stars and stripes, and as large a sum of
money for the support of the families of the
absent.
Military Movements.
NEW YORK, April 19.--The Eighth Regiment
of MasFachusetts Volunteers, Col. Monroe,
arrived at 7 o'clock, and have been quartered
at the Astor House, and other hotels. Their
reception was marked with the most unbounded
demonstrations of welcome all along the route
to their quarters. They leave here at noon.
The famous Seventh New York Regiment
have nearly completed their arrangements, and
will leave here at 4 o'clock P. M.
The Secession of Virginia
WAsiuNoToN, April 19.
It is reliably stated by parties direct from
Richmond, that the Ordinance of Secession was
publicly proclaimed yesterday. The vote on
its passage bad been kept secret.
BALTIMORE, April 19
WASHINGTON, April 19
Philadelphia Appointments.
WASHMTON. April 19.
The President has made the following ap
pointments for Philadelphia, viz :
Collector—W. B. Thomas.
Director of the Mint—James Pollock.
Treasurer of the Mint—Jay Cook.
Surveyor—B. Ree 3 Mayer.
Naval Officer—Dr. B. Wallace.
Navy Agent—James S. Chambers.
General Appraiser—B. Rush Plumly.
Postmaster—C. A. Walborn.
District Attorney—George A. Coffey.
Marshal—William Milward.
Appraiser—Joseph M. Cowell.
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Massachusetts.
The rumors that the Fifth regiment is to be
called into service, causes an intensely patri
otic excitement in Charlestown, and around
Bunker Hill, where are the headquarters of the
regiment. Every able-bodied man is anxious
to shoulder his musket.
The City Council has appropriated $lOO,OOO
for the benefit of the Boston volunteers enlisted
for the war. Lowell has appropriated $B,OOO,
and Cambridge $5,000, for the families of the
soldiers. There 'are also large private sub
scriptions.
Meeting at York, Pa.
YORK, Pa., April 19.
The largest meeting ever held in the Court
Houseassembled here last night. $6,000 were
appropriated for the benefit of volunteers and
committees were appointed to collect from the
citizens. The military companies will leave
for Harrisburg on Saturday or Monday.
The Southern Confederate Loan.
It is well ascertained that the subscription of
South Carolina to the Confederate Loan will
be $3,000.000. of which $2,262,000 have al
ready been taken in this city. New Orleans
took $2,700,000, and the subscriptions in other
plabes are in proportion. All is quiet here.
Se: ..e Poe, !mites
The U. S. Steamer Pocahontas has arrived
from Charleston. Her officers report that she
did not arrive off Charleston bar until only an
hour previous to the evacuation of Sumpter.
Volunteers from Canada.
It is stated that five hundred men from Que
bec and Montreal are coming here to enlist in
the United States Army.
Chester Alive.
We have a company of young men, of about
one hundred, ready to start out at a moment's
notice, and another, of old men, ready.
Vermont.
ST. JOHNSIVIIRG, April 19.
Gov. Fairbanks has been tendered a. loan of
$50,000 by the banks for military purposes.
The Steamer Pawnee at Washington.
WASHINGTON. April 19.
The United States steamer Pawnee has ar
rived at the Navy Yard.
Consul to Malaga.
WASHINGTON, April 19.
A. M. Hancock, of Kentucky, has been ap
pointed Consul to Malaga.
GENERAL NEWS.
SINKING OF THE PITTSBURG AQUEDUCT.—OR
Sunday night, the aqueduct 'which carries the
water of the Pennsylvania canal from the north
side of the. Allegheny river into Pittsburg,
sunk some twelve or fifteen feet between the
second and third piers from the : Allegheny side.
It had been " sagging" at this point three or
four feet for some months past, and although
there was very little water in the dock at the
tinie, it went down during the night as above
stated, and is now utterly useless so far as navi
gating it with boats is concerned.
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.—In the Irish Gardener
Magazine it is stated not only that a decoction of
the leaves of the camomile will destroy insects,
but that nothing contributes so much to the
health of a garden as a number of the plants
dispersed through it . . No green-house or hot
house should be without it in a green or dried
state; either the stalks or flowers will answer.
It is a singular fact that if a plant is drooping,
and apparently dying, in nine cases out of ten
it will recover if you place a plant of camomile
near it.
TENNESSEE.—Another of the champions of
the Union from this gallant State has been em
phatically endorsed by his constituents. At a
Union Convention in the counties of his dis
trict on the lst instant, the people unanimously
endorsed the course of their able and patriotic
representative in Congress, the Hon. Robert
Hatton, and requested him to be a candidate
for re-clection, which every man who served
with him in Congress will be glad to see him
consent to.
• RESITRPOTING TELEGRAPHIC OPERATIONS.
The telegraph offices of New Orleans have, in
compliance with the request of the State au
thorities, declined to transmit any dispatches
in cypher. It is stated also that no dispatches
whatever in reference to military operations in
the Confederate States will be transmitted ex
cept by order of the proper authorities.
At the examination of a boy of nine years
of age, for admission to one of the public
schools in a suburban town of Massachusetts,
the teacher, after a satisfactory result in read
ing and spelling, asked, "What do you know
about the United States ?" The youngster
promptly replied, "Don't know nothing, nor
nobody does—all gone to smash."
The Mobile Tribune says the anticipated
blockade of that port has lately led to a very
brisk business in loading vessels with cotton
and other freights intended for foreign ports.
Cotton was being loading at the rate of 376
bales a day, about 126 bales over the ordinary
daily rate.
GEN. SCOTT AND MAJOR ANDERSON —General
Scott has no hesitation in endorsing Major An
derson over all slurs, slanders and suspicions.
Such an endorsement from such a man, is worth
whole acres of political suspicions, insinuations
and charges against the gallant and injured
major.—N. Y. Express.
A Russian serf and criminal who passed him
self off as a Polish nobleman, married a Not
tingham (England) clergyman's daughter, and
robbed him of $2OOO. The clergyman had him
before a police magistrate in hopes of recover
ing his money—his daughter's disgrace seem
ing to trouble him but little.
An extensive lead mine has been discovered
on the farm of Mr. D. Aekerson, in Lafayette
township, Suffolk county, N. J. Six hundred
and sixty pounds of lead are extracted from
2.000 pounds of ore, the lead being valued at
$52 per ton
There is more scandal afloat in Ltindon.
The Earl of Wilton has been charged' with re
viewing his regiment with a prostitute on his
arm, and introducing her at mess and her
Majesty's balls. A court of inquiry is or
dered.
According to the late United States census it
takes 730 paper mills and 2,000 steam engines
to supply book publishers and newspaper estab
lishments with printing paper, at a cost of
$27,000,000 per annum.
Mrs. Gurney, the lady who has lately been
divorced from her husband, has, it is stated,
purchased Harpt . ree Court, Somersetshire, the
seat of Lord Waldegrave, which she intends for
her future residence.
The wife and mother of an humble family in
Great Barrington, Mass., all of whom were em
ployed in the factory there, has lately come
in possession of an English legacy of $600,000.
Bentley: the London book publisher, has
induced Mrs. Yelverton—the unloved one—to
write a book. What a bright thoughtin Bent
ley! Bow it will sell !
BOSTON April 19.
CHARLESTON, April 19
NEW Yong, April 19
BOSTON, April 19
CHESTER. April 19
The Prince of Wales is a good-hearted boy.
He thinks..of the poor old ladies, while he flirts
with the pretty young ones. Mrs. Laura se_
cord, widow of a brave Canadian soldier, and
Mrs. Hatt, daughter of another soldier, have
each received £lOO from Albert Edward.--
Their needy condition was brought to his
notice during the tour he made in the provin,,,
ces last summer.
A grave Senator from Wisconsin recently
received a letter from a constituent, asking for
some office. The letter contained a one dollar
Wisconsin bill, "to bait the hook with," as the
writer wrote.
By the Episcopal clergy of Philadelphia, the
Collect prepared for reading in time of war was
generally introduced into the morning oerVioes
on Sunday.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PURIFY YOUR BLOOD. — BRANDRETR'S
PILLS WARRANTED TO OMB FEVER AND AGITE.—Tb e
effect of purging with BILANDRETIPS PILLS is to re
store the health, no matter from wbat cause it may be
suffering. They take out all impurities from the sys
tem ; and they have the same lower of expulsion over
miasm, poisonous vapor of decayed vegetables, or indeed
any poisonous exhalations breathed by man whatever.
In fact, if the blood is poisoned, it is impure, and im
pure blood results in disease.
BRANDRETHI PILLS,
though innocent as bread, yet they are capstle of puri
fying the blood and curing disease. So, they cure all
kinds of fevers, all asthma; catarrhs, ccstiveness and
painful affections of every kind.
Sold, price 25 cents, at N 0.294 Canal eet, New York,
and by all Druggists. Also, by GEC H BELL, corner
of Second and Chestnut streets, Harrietv rg, and by all
respectable dealers in medicine. de9-d&wbu
MANHOOD.
HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED.
JUST PUBLISHED ON THE NATURE, TREAT
MENT AND RADICAL CURE OF SPERMAT ORRHEA;
or Seminal Weakness, Sexual Debility, Nervousness,
Involuntary Emissions and Impotency, resulting from
Self-abuse, &c. By Robt. J. Culverwell, M. D. Sent
undei 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 Boa. No.
4,586. march2o•d&w3m.
MRS. WINSLOW,
An experienced nurse and female physician, bass Booth.
ing Syrup for children teething, which greatly facilitate
the process of teething by softening the gums, reducing as
inflamnation—will allay all pain, and is sure to regulate
the bowels. Depend upon it mothers, it will give rest to
yourselves, and relief and health to your infants. Per
ectly safe in all cases. See advertisemer.: in another col.
umn. si e1d,1889-d&wly
Dr. Brunon's Concentrated Remedies.
No. I. THE GREAT REVIVER, speedily eradicates all
the evil. effects of SELF-A/WA S, an LOW of Memory,
Shortness of Breath, Giddiness, Palpitafien of the newt,
Dimness of Vision, or any constitutional derangements of
the system, brought on by the unrestrained indulgence of
the passions. Acts alike on either sex. Price One Dollar.
No. 2. THE BALM will cure in from two to eight days,
any case of GONORRHCOA, is without taste or smell, and
-equires no restriction of action or dies. For either sex.
Price One Dollar.
No. 3. THE THREE will cure in the shortest possible
ime, any ease of GLEKT, even after all other Remedies
nave failed to produce the desired effect. No taste or smell.
Price One Dollar.
No. 4. THE PUNITER is the only Remedy that will
really cure Strictures of the Urethra. No matter of how
long standing or neglected the case may be. Price One
Dollar.
No. 5. THE SOLUTOR will cure any case of GRAVEL,
permanently and speedily remove all afflictions of the
Bladder and Kidneys. Price One Dollar.
No. 6. FOR PARTICULARS BEE CIRCULAR.
No. 7. THE AMARIN will cure the Whites radically,
and in a much shorter time than they can be removed by
any other treatment. In fact, is the only remedy that will
really correct this disorder. Pleasant to take. Price One
Dollar.
No. 8. THE ORIENTAL PASTILS are certain, safe and
speedy in producing MENSTRUATION, or correcting any
Irregularities of the monthly periods. Price Two Dollars.
No 9. FOR PARTICULARS SEE CIRCULAR.
Either Remedy sent free by mail on receipt of the price
annexed. Enclose postage stamp and get a Circular.
General Depot North—East corner of York Avenue and
Callowhill Street. , Private Office 401 York Avenue, Phila
delphia, Pa
For sale in Harrisburg only by C. A. BANNVART, wbere
Circulars containing valuable inforrnat en., with full de
scriptions of each case, will be delivered gratis. en appli
cation. Address DR. FFLIX BRUNON,
tnyl-dIY v. 0. Box 99. Philadelphia. Pa.
New I.6vertisentents.
TO INVENTORS AND PATENTEES
The undersigned, for fifteen years an Officer of the
United States Patent Office, and for the last six years a
Principal Examiner, and Member or the Board of Ap
peal, has
OPENED AN
OFFICE IN WASINGTON CITY,
AT NO. 452 SEVENTH STREET,
OPPOSITE THE EAST PORTICO OP THE PATENT OFFICE,
Where he is ready to transact any business Inventors or
others may confide to his charge. Be wilt pay particu
lar attention to the prosecution of Claims to Patents
before the Board of Appeal, (Examiners in Chief.) the
Commissioner of Patents on appeal from the Board, and
the Judges of the Circuit Court of the D strict of Co
lumbia on appeal from the Board or the Commissioner.
A. B. LITTLE.
REFERENCES.—Hon. Chas. Mason, Hon. Joe. Holt,
Hon. W. D. Bishop, Hon. P. F. Thomas. apl9 dly
WAR! WAR!! WAR!!!
TO ARMS! TO ARMS!!
POWDER! POWDER!!
DUPONT'S CELEBRATED
GUN AND RIFLE POWDER
AND ALL OTHER
POWDEJ? AND FUSE
MANUFACTURED BY
I. E. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO.,
WILMINGTON, DEL.
For sale at manufacturers• prices by their Agent,
TAMES M. WHEELER,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Er Orders received at Warehouse, to any extent, for
supplying the State, Regiments, Companies, &c. aplB
p YOU WANT CHEAP SHOES,
GO TO THE PHILADELPHIA SHOE STORE,
Do you want a BOOT or SHOE that will fit,
Go to the Philadelphia Shoe Store.
For LADIES' GAITERS, very Cheap,
Go to the Philadelphia Shoe Store.
For MISSES' SHOES of all kinds,
Go to Hims.eLL's No. NM Market Street.
For BOYS' sum of all kinde,
Go to ICimeaLL's, No. 38% Market Street
For CHILDEENS' SHOES for 25 cents,
Go to the Philadelphia Shoe Store
In fact for all kinds of BOOTS and SHOES,
Go to the Philadelphia Shoe Store
Remember the place,
THE PHILADELPHIA CHEAP SHOE STORE,
No. 88% Market Street ; "eign of the American Flags."
aplB-MBt J. C. KIMBALL.
WALL PAPER,
CEILING PAPER,
TRANSOM PAPER,
BORDERS, FIRE
PRINTS, WINDOW
CURTAINS, TA FSELS,
AND FIXTURES,
AT LOW PRICFS, at
SCHEFFERIS Book-store.
Near the Harrisburg Bridge•
mar2s
REMOVAL
The subscriber has removed big PLUMBING AND
BRASS FOUNDRY from Market street to Fourth street
above Market,, opposite the Bethel Church Thankful
for past patronage, be hopes, by strict attention to bust
nes4, to merit a continuance of lt.
mar 27 dtf WM PARKHILL.
RENT.—A COTTAGE on Pine,
v street. Also, a HOUSE next to the Steam Flour
Mill. Inquire of MRS. MURRAY,
apl6-dtf Corner of Second and Pine Ste.