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In the name and by the authority
s
S'',4 the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania:
ANDREW G. CURTIN.
A PROCLAMATION.
WnwagAs, An armed rebellion exists in a
portion of the States of this Union, threaten
lug the destruction of the National Govern
ment, periling puhlic and private property,
endangering the peace and security of this
Commonwealth, and inviting systematic piracy
upon our commerce:
And whereas, Adequate provision does not
exist by law to enable the Executive to make
the military power of the State as available and
efficient as it should be for the common defence
of the. State and the General Government: •
And whereas, An occasion so extraordinary
requires a prompt exercise of the Legislative
power of the State; therefore
1,, ANDREW G. Cmaritm, Governor of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, by virtue of the
powers vested in me by the Constitution, do
hereby convene the ,General Assembly of this
Commonwealth, and require the members of
the Senate and House of Representatives to
meet in their respective Houses. in the Capitol
at Harrisburg. on TUESDAY, THE THIRTI
ETH DAY OP APRIL, A. D. one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, at twelve o'clock noon
of that day, then and there to take into con
sideration and adopt such measures in the pre
mises as the exigency may seem to them in
their wisdom to demand.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Great Seal of the Com
monwealth to be affixed at Harrisburg, this
twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thoussnd eight hundred and sixty-one, and
of the Independence of the United States the
eighty-sixth. By the Governor.
ELI SLIFER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Speech of John A. Dix.
We print this morning the speech of Joint
A. Dix, tate Secretary of the Treasury, delivered
at the great Union meeting in New York, where
prominent men of all political parties United
in pledging their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honors in defence of the Government.
Let every man read it. Gen. Dix discloses a
part of the correspondence of the late Admin
istration with the commissioners from South
Carolina, which shows that the authorities of
that State were repeatedly warned that if they
assailed Fort Sumpter it would be the com- S
meneement of a civil war, and they would be
responsible for the consequences. As long ago
as the 6th of February Mr. Holt, then Secre
tary of War, gave full and fair warning to the
commissioners, in the following words : "If
"with &lithe multiplied proofs which exist of
"the Presidents anxiety for peace, and of the
"earnestness with-which he has pursued it,
"the authorities of that State shall assault
" Fort Sumpter, and peril the lives of the
" handfull of brave and loyal men shut up
"within its walls, and thus plunge our country
"into the horrors of civil war, then upon them
"and those they represent must rest the re
" sponsibility." Mr. Dix says this reply had
the cordial approval of the late President and
all his constitutional advisers—and further
more he affirms that " if South Carolina had
" tendered war to the late Administration as
" she has to this, if would hove been unaninuntely
" accepted." This is history, uttered by one of
the constitutional advisers of the late Presi
dent—and if confirmation of its truth is neces
sary we have only to point to the fact that the
moment Mr. Buchanan heard of the attack
upon Fort Sumpter he declared that the Ad
ministration had exhausted forbearance and
that the Government must be sustained. Here
after let no man suspect the ficlelity of those
who forbore with the delusive hope of re-es
tablishing peace, until the guns of the rebels
were turned upon Fort Sumpter. The late
Administration was prepared to do precisely
what the present Administration has done, had
the same circumstances denianded the asser
tion of the power and authority of the Govern
ment by arms,
Bravery and Discipline.
Discipline makes the effective soldier. Indi
vidual bravery abounds in the ranks of our
volunteers—but this quality, important as it is,
would be inefficient without proper org ,nizi
tion and discipline. The great majority of the
men who have volunteered in defence of their
country, are entirely unacquainted with mar
tial exercises ; and their courage as men would
avail them little on the battle field in conflict
with troops inferior in personal bravery, but
superior iu military discipline. We all k now
how efficient our regular army has proved i n
time of war, and we always feel confident that
they will do all that can . be expected of men;
but we also know that the material of which
the rank and file of the army is made up, is
immensely inferior to the material composing
our volunteer companies. With equal discipline,
and under the direction of competent officers,
volunteer soldiers are capatde of excelling
regular troops, for the obviousreason that they
have a cause to fight for, and do not perform
military duty for rations and pay—they do not
make war a trade, but a duty.
Isis always bad policy to underrate an enemy.
An army will have no ordinary foe to conte n d
against. We_should not forget that the South
ern army is officered by eminent mi itary men
—and that there has been a mustering and
drilling of troops for this conflict in nearly all
the Southern States ever since the secession of
South Carolina. In many of these States the
military art has been made a study, and money
appropriated for the support of military schools
where young men were trained for active duty ;
while in the Northern States long continued
peace has caused the military system to fall
into disuse and decay. Jeff. Davis has a mil
itary education, and experience in the Mexican
war. Beanregard and Hardee were among the
most eminent military men in the army—and the
confederate troops are officered to a large extent
by men who were educated by the Government
at West Point and deserted in the hour of need.
In order to meet the Southern army on the
battle field, and whip it, we must have well
disciplined soldiers; and our volunteers should
not be slow in appreciating this necessity and
in acquiring that thorough discipline that will
enable them to come out of the war with honor
and victory.
The Administration will no doubt act with
caution and not send raw levies into the field
to be sacrificed_ By the time the army is
concentrated at Washington, and proper dis
cipline transforms our volunteers into an effec
tive army, capable of taking the field against
any troops in the world, their term of service
may expire just when their capacity for useful
ness commences. But we have no doubt the
peat mass would consent to remain in service
longer if required. At the same time it would
be well for those who are not required to march
immediately, to prepare for future emergencies
by proper organization and di,cipline, so that
in ease of necessity the State would be able
to tender the Federal Government an army of
effective volunteers.
Patriotism.
Persons who have been accustomed to in
dulge in doleful lamentations at the supposed
dearth of patriotism in this country, and who
have supposed that the men of this day have
degenerated so far as to be 'destitute of the
patriotic emotions which animated their ances
tors in the days of the Revolution, have lived
long enough to have their painful apprehen
sions dissipated. The events of the past ten
days demonstrate beyond question the intense
love of country, which, in peaceful times, ap
pears latent in the breast of American free
men; but when the cause of country calls to
arms is ardent and irrepressible. Where on
the face of the earth can another nation be
found to present the same spectacle as the
American people at this eventful period of
history ? Men who have contended wiih fierce
rivalry concerning the policy of the Govern
ment—men who have met as enemies in the
halls of Congress, and in the forums of free
discussion, now meet as friends and brethren
in the camp, standing shoulder to shoulder in
defence of a common Government and an im
perilled Union. Our people appreciate the
blessings of the Union. They know theimmea
surable value of a good Government. They have
too long enjoyed the blessings of peace and pros
perity to submit to the inauguration of the
reign of anarchy without a struggle. In quiet
times they may display unnecessary animosity
in political contests involving questions of
policy and administration; but when their
Government, their beloved Union, is attacked
by a foreign or domestic foe, the same inten
sity of action is concentrated into one mighty
current of patriotism,' which sweeps away
every intervening obstacle, and knows no al
legiance but that due from the citizen to the
Government which protects and defends his
dearest rights.
This unanimous uprising of the people of
the loyal States did not enter into the calcula
tions of the conspirators now in arms against
the Federal Government. They falsely im
agined that because a very large element of
the Northern people deprecated an appeal to
arms, and forebore with unexampled patience
to meet force with force, that they might pro
seed to any extremity against the Government
of the Union, without having to confront its
vast power. They supposed that we were so
absorbed in money-getting that patriotism was
extinguished, and the commencement of war
upon the Government would rend us into hos
tile factions. Fatal error! Never did a de
luded people commit a more egregious blunder.
Reverence for the Union, respect for the laws,
detestation of those who would tear the country
into fragments, is paramount to every other
sentiment in the breasts of the,Ameeican peo
ple—and they care not who are at the head of
affairs, they will fly to' arms at the call of the
Government whether the Administration is
conducted by friend or foe. Patriotism is the
ruling passion of all true Americans—not
money, or party or power. We know this to
be true now, and knowing it we are certain that
a Government cannot be overthrown which is
founded upon the love of the people.
SAVE THE CAPITAL.—We have received infor
mation, from sources deemed very reliable, that
by Wednesday the Virginians anti other seces
sionists engaged in the plots against Washington
will attempt the execution of a plan by which
they will throw a strong column of troops upon
the eastern shore of Maryland and another
upon the western shore, so as to guard all the
avenues leading into or from the Chesapeake
bay, thus isolating the Cat ital from approach
by that direction. Shou'd this be attempted
in any great force it will give the Government
infinite trouble, as we have only a single regi
ment at Anapolis and another at Anapolis
junctions No immediate attack on the Capital
is contemplated so far as we can learn, the plan
of operations being rather to cut it off from
the North completely and then gather a strung
army to lay siege. About six thousand fire
hundred volunteers left New York city on Sun
day, consisting of New York, Rhode Island,
brad Massachusetts regiments.
These are destined either for Washington,
Fort Monroe or Fort Meßenry. In and about
Wasijit gran city, as we further learn from well
informed parties, there are about ten thousand
men under arms. All the heights around the
oily are strongly guarded by regulars, as well
as the bridges, common molds and railroads.—
' The city is provisioned fur a siege, all the de
partutent cellars being filled with barrels of
pork, beef, bread, etc. Every man elpable of
bearing arms is compelled to 110 duty, or is
closely watched. At night no one is allowed to
walk the streets unles known. Even by day
light any three pers.ons stopping in the street
to talk are ordered to disperse_ Same of Twiggs'
trotting from Tesa- arc there. Th•y have seen
hard service on the frontier, and are brawny
fellows with long beards and faded uniforms,
butt well mounted, anti may be seen carefully
sharpening their sabres with wl , etstones till
the edges are as keen as a razor.—North
American.
At Charlreton, they pronounce the rumored
call for Peventy-ti se t housatol MPH a "ht.ify
game." What will they wiy, now that the
Government "goes a hundred thousand better."
SPEECH OF
HON. JOHN A. DIX,
LATE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
AT THE UNION MEETING IN NEW YORK.
RE VINDICATES T : LATE ADMINISTRATION
Mr. Dix, on tak ag the Chair, spoke as fol
lows :
FELLOW Crrizmes :—We have come together
to express our determination to uphold the au
thority of the Government, and to maintain in
violate the honor of the country. The circum-
Stances, under which we are assembled, are
calculated to fill any patriotic heart with the
deepest concern. For the first time in our day
civil str fe has broken out. in the bo.otn of our
prosperous and happy country, and has been
pushed by unscrupulous m-n to the extremity
of war and bloodshed. With no provocation
whatever, from the Federal Government, they
turned their arms in fraternal hatred against
it, even when it was administered by those
who were actuated by the most friendly dispo
sitions toward them. But I do not doubt, when
the present excitement shall have passed away,
when those who have thus arrayed themselves
against the Government of the country shall
have learned from a disastrous experience that
their true interest lies in peace, all will concede,
on a review of the past in a spirit of fairness
and moderation, that there was no just ground
for -lienation. (Cheers.) But, 'ellow-citizens,
I feel that all such considerations are inappro
priate to the hour. The time foraction has come.
Practical issues are upon us. to be dealt with
under a just sense of the responsibilities they
have brought with them. The Constitution of
the United States has been spurned and repu
diated. The authority of the Government has
been resisted by military force. The flag of
the Union has been insulted, in more than one
instance torn down, and even trampled under
foot. Most of us were born, and all of us have
lived, in prosperity and peace under the pro
tection of the Constitution ; we have regarded
our allegiance to the Union as second only to
our religion in the sancti•y of its obligations ;
and we have venerated the national standard,
under which Washington and Jackson and the
host of gallant men who were their companions
in arms, or who followed in their footsteps,
achieved undying honors for themselves and
their country. (Enthusiastic applause.) We
should be more or less men if we could look
with indifference on these outrages on all we
hold most dear. There is no justification for
the cause of the Confederate States in over-.
turning within their limits the authority of the
Federal Government. They have no excuse
for it. This is no time for elaborate argument.
Let me say in a word that no respectable de
fence of the right of secession has ever fallen
under my notice. No man contends that there
is any warrant for it in the Constitution.
There is but one way for a State to go out 'of
the Union—the way in which all came in—by
the concurrence of the common authority: In
no other manner can the terms of separation
be agreed on. (We don't want to separate.)
Whatever preliminary action there may be, it
must come to this conclusion at last. It is an
omitted case in our political compact.
The framers of the Constituion did not con
template the dissolution of the Union. They
framed the government for themselves and their
posterity. The repudiation of the authority
by one of its members was not for seen or pro
vided for. It is a case which cannot be reached
by its powers vested in Congress or in the Ex
ecutive; and the States are necessarily remitted
the exercise of their united sovereignty,for the to
solution of a problem which concerns the exis
tence of all. It was for this reason that a com
mittee, of which I was chairman, in an address
to our Southern brethren adopted at a meeting
in Pine street, in December last, recommended
that the States should meet together for consul
tation, and if they could not set tle their difficul
ties amicably and preserve the Union, that they
should arrange the terms of separation and save
the country from the horrors of civil war.—
We implored them to .pause; in order to give us
time for an effort to restore harmony and fra
ternal feeling. We appealed to . them in lan
guage of entreaty, which would have been hu
miliating if it had not been addressed to brethren
of the same political family To this appeal
enforced by the concurrence of eminent citxens
of this State, who had always been the most
strenuous advocates of Southern rights, the
States to which it was addreetted responded by
setting the authority of the Union at. defiance,
by seizing the public forts and arsenals, by se
ducing Federal officers from their allegiance,
and in one instance by confiscating the treasure
of the Government. For months these outrages
were submitted to with no effort on the part of
the Government to resent or punish them, in the
hope that under the guidance of better coun
sels,those who committed them would return to
their allegiance. This forbearance, unexam
pled in the history of nations, and falsely in
terpreted into a pusillanimous surrender of its
authority by the Federal Government, had only
the effect of invigorating the spirit of resistance,
until at last the slender force in Fort Sumpter
was attacked—some 6,000 or 7,000 men against
100—and compelled, atter a heroic resistance,
to evacuate it. (Cheers for Fort Sumpter.)
The pliant commander of that handful of loyal
men who sustained this unequal contest. is be
fore you. (Tremendous cheers for Major An
derson.) There hanks the flag under which
they upheld the honor of their country; and
its tattered condition shows the desperate de
fence they made. (Enthusiastic cheering.)
It is under these circumstances that the
General Government has appealed to the coun
try to come to its eupport. (We wilt, we will.)
It would have been treacherous to its trust if
it had not determined to uphold the authorities
confided to it.
And here, fellow citizens, it is important
that we should clearly understand the position
of the la - e Administration on this question. It
is due to this Administration, as well as the
last., that we should all understand it. I shall
be very briet, but I must ask your close atten
tion for the few moments that, will he needed.
On the 3d of December last, in his annual
Message to Congress, the late President made
a strong and unanswerable argument mainst
the right of secession. He also indicated his
purpose to collect the revenue and eefend the
torts in South Carolina. In a special message
to Congress on the Bth of January he d , Oared
(I use the language of the Message,) "The
right and the duty to use military force defen
sleety against those who resist the Federal
officers in the execution of their legal functions
and against those who assail the property of
the Federal Government, is clear and undeni
able. (Cries t f "Good for him 1" and loud
cheering.) The authorities bf South Carolina
were repeatedly warned that if they assailed
Fort Sumpter it wou:d be the commencement
of a civil war, and they would be responsible
for the consequences. (Cheers.) The last
and most emphatic of these warnings is con
tained in the admirable answer of Mr. Holt,
Secretary of War, to Mr. Bayne, the Commie-
Sicher from South Carolina, on the 6th of Feb
ruary. It is these words: "If, with all the
multiplied proofs which exist of the Presitlewl
anxiety for peace, and of the earnestness
which he has pursued it. the authorities of that
State shall assault Fort Sumpter and peril the
lives of the handful of brave and loyal men
shut up within its walls, and thus plunge our
cout.try into the horrors of civil war, then upon
them and those they represent must rest the
responsibility." (Enthusiastic applau-e, and
waving of hats ) I believe the letter from
which I have read this extract has never been
puhl shed. for I, as a member of the Adminis
tration at the time it. was written, have aright
to say that it had the cordial approval of the
Este President and all his ennsiitut•onal ad.
visers. (Cheer fur General Dix ) And this
brings me to the point I wish to make. I vio
late no confidence in making it. It is this:—
If South Carolina had tendered war 'o the late
Administration its she has to this—l mean by a
hostile and deadly assault—it would have been
unanimously accepted. (Prolonged cheering.)
I repeat, then, that this Administration has
done no more than its duty. Nay, I believe
that self-preservation rendered necessary what
it has done. I have no doubt that the Confed
erate leaders at Montgomery have entertained,
and still entertain the design of marching upon
Washington to overthrow the Government,
taking its place and presenting itself to the
nations of the world as the true representative
of the people of the United States. (Cries of
“Never, never; they can't do it.") Against
this usurpation and fraud, if it shall be at
tempted, I trust we shall contend with all the
strength God has given us. (Cries of "we
will.") lam for supporting the Government.
I do not ask who administers it It is the
Government of my country, end as such
I shall give it in this extremity all the sup
port in my power. I regard the pending
contest with the secessionist s as a death-strug
gle for constitutional liberty and law—a con
test which, if successful on their part. could
only end in the establishment of a despotic
government, and blot out, wherever they were
in the ascendant, every ve•tige of national
freedom. You know, fellow-citizens, that I
have always been in favor of adjusting con
troversies between. the States by conciliation,
by compromise, by mutual concession—in a
word, in the spirit in which the Constitution
was formed. Whenever the times shall be
propitious for calm consultation, they will find
me so still. But, until then, let us remember
that nothing could be so disastrous, so humil
iating and so disreputable to us all as to see
the common Government overthrown, or its
legitimate authority successfully resisted. Let
us, then, rally, with one heart, to its support.
I believe it will act with all the moderation
and forbe trance consistent with the preserva
tion of the great interests confided to it. There
is no choice left but to acquiesce in its surren
der to revolutionary leaders, or to give it the
means it needs for defence, for self preservation,
and for the assertion of its authority, holding
it responsible for their legitimate use. Fellow
citizens, we stand before tie statue of the
Father of his Country. The Flag of the
Union, which floats over it, hung above him
when he presided over the Convention by
which the Constitution was framed. The great.
work of his life has been rejected, and the
banner by which his labors were consecrated
has been trampled• in the dust. If the inani
mate bronze in which the sculptor has '
shaped
his image could be changed to the living form
which led the armies of the Revolution to vic
tory, he would command us, in the name of the
hosts of patriots and political martyrs who
have gone before, to strike for the defence of
the Union and the Constitution.
Mr. Dix closed his remarks amid the most
enthusiastic applause.
MANUFACTURING IWTERESTS OF NEWARK,N. J.
The Newark Daily Advertiser gives a complete
list of the manufacturing establishments of
Newark. It appears that the annual produc
tion amounts to $23,264,313. The Advertiser
says:
"Of this, the largest item is included in the
various branches of the leather manufacture,
which amounts to over six millions and a half.
The next largest is clothing, &c.—nearly three
millions and a half. Then come metals and
machinery. Nearly two-thirds of this whole
amount of twenty-three millions is probably
manufactured for the Southern"market. This es
timate includes. the leather, trunks, harness,
carriages, shoes, hats, clothing and jewelry,
which amount to nearly sixteen millions, but
some deduction should be made for a small
part which finds a rather inconsiderable market
in the West. It is probably safe, however, to
estimate the proportion of our products de
pendent on the Southern States for their de
mand at nearly or quite two-thirds of our
whole manufacture. This will give some clue
to an estimate of the damage our manufacturers
are receiving from the secession movements."
UNINTENTIONAL JONES —One day, at the ta
ble of the late Dr. Pearce, just as the cloth was
being removed, the subject of discourse hap
pened to be that. of an extraordinary mortality
among the lawyers. "We have 105 t.," said one
gentleman, "not less than six eminent barris
ters in as many months." At this moment the
doctor (who was quite deaf) rose and gave the
company grace, "For this and every other mercy,
the Lord's name be praised," This ludicrous
combination was not intended by the doctor,
and the more ludicrous on that account, because
the objects to be connected were all the farther
removed. We have many such freaks of nal ure.
We see her occasionally blowing off the hat of
some solemn man, as he turns a corner, and
sending him a zigzag chase along the road after
it; or we see her make a modest. man give an
involuntary sneeze during an impressive pause
in a choral song; or making a donkey bray
outside the window just as some country min
ister has opened his mouth to speak.
Dreadful revelations (says the Press) are still
being brought before the public as to what oc
curs in the religious houses in France. Within
the last three days proceedings have been taken
against another community of Christian Bro
thers in the department of Charente Inferieure.
The police of Salutes are busily tracing a cure,
wbo, a month since, eloped with a young lady.
Intelligence has arrived from Lyons of the
Sisterhood of St. Foy being suppressed on ac
count of the gay character of their young chap
lain; and the, village of Chateroux has been
thrown into the greatest excitement by the trial
of a Christian Brother, who has been con
demned to a lifelong imprisonment.
We learn from the North China Herald of
February 2d that the Earl of Elgin has issued
a notification that the English minister pleni
potentiary, Mr. Bruce, and the Prince of Kong
have concluded an arrangement for opening to
Briti , h trade, at the earliest practicable period,
two ports on the Yangtsze river above Chin-
Kiang. Tonnage dues and duties will be paya
ble at Shanghae or Chin-Kiang, and traffic in
arms and ammunition will be prohibited under
severe penalties. We suppose that, under the
regulations agreed upon, the trade at these
ports will also be open to the commerce of all
nations, including the United States.
Tfl WAB. - It has been said that " a war is
always popular." and the present war is no ex
ception to the rule. The war spirit seems to
pervade every heart all over the North. A
nation is rising in arms to defend its flag and
maintain the integrity orbs Government against
usurpers. Money, "the sinews" of war, is
offered in profusion from all quarters. The
courageous heart of the country is ready to
risk its life in the fight, and the patriotic capi
talists of the country are ready to open their
purse strings and furnish the means to sustain
the war.—Pltisburg Post.
The French Consul at Mosul recently sent
home an account of a discovery so astounding
as to render the photographic views and vouch
ers that accompanied it necessary as confirma
tions of its truth. The discovery was that of
the ruins of the Tower of Babel, and the l ho
togrepha exhibited the remaining two stories
of this once marvelous structure ; the bricks
contented with bitumen and bearing invcrpt ions
upon them, which, whet' deciphered, are ex
pected to confirm the arcoonts of Scripture.
OMINOUS, VERY. -••Ott the nights of the 12th
and l3tb, the noon rhowed the silver eresent,
which stands on the flag of the tt-tate. A gen
tleman also informs us, on the morning of the
13th, as an omen of victory, that he saw a
genie cock mount the tomb of Calhoun, on
Church street, flip his wines and craw, The
superstitious will make a note on't , " We he
lieve a cock crew when Peter denied his Mas
ter.
The eitiapns of Detroit have pledged them
selves to raise $50.000, and hope the balance
of the State will raise an equal sum fur mili
tary purposes.
A BRAUTIFICL COUNTRY —From tourists we
have often had glowing descriptions of the cele
brated valley of the &Ink River, which empties
into the Mississippi just above St. Cloud. Mrs.
Swisshelm says of this region :
Take its combined advantage of lake, wood
land and prairie, it is certainly the Most ad
vantageous for settlement of any we have ever
seen or heard described. The road to Red River
lies for some thirty miles up this valley and
the country, at one point for many miles has
the river with its belt of timber and low meadows
adjoining, rising to a strip of prairie half a mile
wide, skirted again by timber. Persons of taste
who have traveled there describe it ns a beau
tiful terraced garden twenty miles long. There
is a great surplus of timber land, on the west
and north-west of St. Cloud, until on arrival
at Alexandria—the land of lakes and fairy
beauty which lies seventy miles back and mid
way between this and Red River. From thence
to Breekinridge, at the head of Red River.
which is formed by the junction of the Otter
Tail and the Bole de Sioux, it is generally high
prairie. From the exceeding richness of the
b?nd in Sauk Valley, the abundance of water
and timber, and location on the great interna
tional thoroughf .re between England,the East
ern States and the Hudson Bay Settlements, it
must be one of the wealthiest portions of the
United Slates. The right kind have begun its
settlement and every thing promises a prosper
ous future.
An extraordinary affair is related in the Cro
nes Journals. The wits of a sm,ll farmer went
to the police of Morlaix, and stating that she
had murdered her three young child, en, hegeed
to be taken into custody. She said that she and
her husband had long lived on bad terms, and
that he bad frequently beaten her, and even ex
pressed a wish to see her dead. Fearing that
be would murder her, and that her chthiren
would be reduced to misery, she resolved to
kill the latter. Accordingly, on that day the
had taken the two elder, a girl aged seven and
a boy aged four years, in a deep rivulet at some
distance, and, in spite of their cries, thrown
them in. Whilst they were struggling in the
water, she went home, and put her youngest
child, a girl aged three months, into a tub of
hot water. Then she returned to the ritluet
and finding both children dead got out the bo
dies, and placed 'hem on the bank; next went
borne, and finding the youngest child dead in
the tub. placed it on a bed; after which she
locked the door, and carried the key to her
husband, who was working in a field at no
great distance ; and then entered the town
and gave herself into custody. The story
proved to be correct.
SILAXSPEARE'S house . at Stratford-on-
Avon remarkable changes have taken place.
The birthplace has been finished as regards
the plan of Mr. Barry for the exterior works
The gardens are newly laid out. The well
known bust has been taken down from the niche
in the wall of Trinity Church, scraped, painted
red and black, and put back again It is ru
mored that a real genuine portrait of Shak
speare, taken from life and attributed to Bur
bag?, has been found at Stratford. A corre
spondent of the London Atheneettm, relating
these facts, declares that the bust is spoiled by
the renovating process. The expression of the
face had been modelled from a cast taken after
death; ik is now as hideous and idiotic as any
bust can be made to look wish that round mass
of brain.
THE NEGRO POPLIIATION.—From a table of
population of Virginia, according to the eighth
census, recently furni shed to the State Conven
tion, and printed for the use of that body, it ap
pears that there are neither slave nor free ne
groes in M'Doweil county, in the southwestern
portion of the State. There is one free negro
in each of the following counties: Boone,
Buchanan, Calhoun, Dodderidge, Hancock,
Roane, and Logan. There are two in Marion,
Nicholas and Wetzel, and three in Braxton.
There are only two slaves in Hancock, one of
the g•Pan Handle" counties, and three in Web
ster. In no other county except M'Dowell, are
there less than ten slaves.
IF there is anything meaner in the history of
this earth, than the so-called taking of Fort
Sumpter by the contemptible thieves and cow
ards at Charleston, we have never heard of it.
Ten thousand men and 19 batteries against one
seedy fort, with less than one hundred men in
it. without provisions for two days.—New Bed
ford Mercury.
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Destruction of the Norfolk Navy-Yard.
NEW YORK, April 23.
The schooner Bedine has arrived from Nor
folk, which she left on Sunday morning. The
Government naval authorities had set fire to
the Navy Yard and also to the line-of-battle
ship Pennsylvania and the new frigate.on the
stocks, and destroyed all their armament by
breaking them up and throwing them into &he
river.
The report that Norfolk was on fire is incor
rect.
The people of Norfolk had seized and sunk
the schooner Commander-in-Chief, of Staten
Island.
Further from Key West.
NEW YORK, April 23
Advices from Key West state that the steamer
Atlantic receive 1 arms and ammunition on
board from Fort Taylor, and sailed on the
morning of the 14th inst. The U. S. steamer
Po whatan passed on the 14th the Transport
steamer Illinois, which was expected to arrive
at Key West• on the 15th with stores for the
garrison.
_
Major French, the new postmaster at Key
West city, was dispatching and receiving the
mails via Havana.
Arrival of Fugitives from Virginia.
NEW YORK, April 23.
The schooner, 0. H. Lee, from York river,
Virginia. has arrived. bile brings as passen
gees T. W. Evans, lady and family, G. P. South
well and lady, Jas. Cross and family, and
several others who bad been compelled to leave
Williamsburg, Va., for expressing themselves
In favor of the Union. The feehug was very
bitter against them.
Seizure of Vessels carrying Contraband
Goods.
Nzw YORK, April 23.
The schooner Hannah Martin, from Boston
for Baltimore, and the three masted Schooner
E. R. Beunei t, for Nortolk, with beef and pork,
whiskey and clouhing, etc., has been seizei by
the orders of the Government by the steamer
Mercury. The steatner Viper is on a similar
duty at the mouth of Long Island Sound.
Important from Maryland
A private dispatch to Messrs. Sprague &
Co., says that the Govt rumen' bas released the
charter of ihe steamer Phineas Sprague, to con
vey troops to Washington, in canpequence of
the Maryland stuborbies guaranteeing the safe
transit of 5000 troops through Baltimore
Military Moveineato In New York.
ALBANY. April 23
The State authorities will unn-ter ittio mime
dial° service the whole of the 89,000 volunteers
authorized by the Legislature.
Fourteen Thoura.id Troops at Washington
NEW YORK, April. 23
Private adviees from Wm-Langton rtate that
there were 14,U1,0 creeps there yesterday, in
cluding 5,000 regulate.
Arrival of the Steam .Tug Yankee.
NEW Yoas, April 28.
The vtearn tug Yankee, tha.rieted by the
Government, hue returned to purl.
News from Galveston—Transports wpoken.
Nsw YORK, April 23.
The schooner 0. P. Wheeler from Galveston
has arrived. She left on the Bth inst. All
was then quiet at Galveston.
The captain reports passing, yesterday, 20
miles south of Absecom, three transport steam
ers with troops, and the same Jay of! Barnegat
two others.
VERBEKE RIFLES.—The Roll can be
signed at the Each , nge day. Every member of
the Co' puny will be provined wilh a Revolver and Bowie
Knife, in addition ti hl4 Ride. The Cowpony will
meet for diill at 7 o'clock this evening.
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FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY !
W. 3
M. I. FRANKLIN,
SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL OPTICIAN.
(Store and Factory - 11'2 South Fourth St 3 beiout Ches.nut,
• Philculephia )
Has arrived in the City and oproed an office fora short
time for the sale of his c lebrated
IMPROVED BPECTACLES P
with the finest Per'scepic.llliptic Lenses, forming the
Concavo-Convex surface, in aceordance with the phi
losophy of Nature, surpassing in purity and t,ansparency
any other glasses offered before to the Public. producing
a cl• ar and distinct sight, rendering ease and comfort in
reading the most minute print ? affording altogether the
Oast he p for the impaired vision, imprqving, strength
ening and sectoring the eyesight. These glasses are
carefully suited for every age.
Also, for sale his world renowned MIIMOSCOPES,
TEL MILITARY- P YGL A s'S Es , MA
THE 111 A TleAf INSTR UM ENTS, et the lowest city
prices. M. I. FRANKLIN, Optician,
Office Third street, between Walnut and Market.
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A". GNEES" SALE OF REAL ES-
T PE —The SUIOCRIBERS will sell by public
outcry, at the Court House, at Harri-burg, on Saturday,
the 15th day of June next, ti °Mock p. m ,
The farm or John W.Power, con.isting of 186
acres, situated in Susquehanna townrbip, about three
miles from Har isburg, adjoining lands of John H. Fos,
John Zinn and others.
There are erected on the farm afar Twn-Story Stone
Helve, a Bank Barn, Tenant Houses, St bleu, &c
Thera is also a ]verge orchard of apple, pear, peach and
charry trees of choice varieties in excalent bearing
order
Also, several veins of good Time Stone, which have
been and can he worked to advantage.
The property will be so!d in a body, or in parcels, to
suit purchasers; and the sale e peremptory.
CONDITIONB.—One-fourth the purchase money to be
paid within one week of the d of • ale. when re ssession
will be given, subject to a lease running to the let of
April next. The purchaser to be entitled to one.half
the crops; one fourth on the Is - day of October, the
residue on the Ist of April. The two last payments to
carry interest from the day of sale, and to be satisfacto
rily secured.
There will also be offered for sale at the mime time
and place, the undivided ha f interest of 150 acres of
Coal Lands. situated on the Short Mountain, Lykens
Valley, Dauphin County.
BOSTON, April 28.
At this tteanon of year. when an much aickneen prevails,
every owe shmild • proVide hime , •lP with DR. DWI-
P DRAY'S 110 n 010PAT1.11 0 MEDIC/NES, and prevent
dilleBBB in int l.rginnins.
A are& supply lawsys en hand at
SOIEFFEk'S BOOK-STORE,
Harrisburg.
New "Abuertisements.
smr I
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CONSTITUTION WAT ER.
VIE ONLY KNOWN hEMEDY FOR DIABETES
THE CURATIVE.
Properties of this Medicine direct thenicelses entirely
to the °mans or secretion, and by so altering the condi
tion of the stomach and liver, that the starchy princi
ple of the FOOD is not converted into anger so long as
the nYSTEM la under the influence of the
CONSTITUTION WATER;
which give those organs time to recover their healthy
tone and vigor.. We are able to state that the CONSTI
TUTION WATER has cured every case or DIABETES
in which it has been given.
IBRITArION OF THE NEI - IC OF THE BLADDER.
INFLAMATION OF THE KIDNkYS,
AND
CATARRH OF THE BLADDER, STRANGUARY, AND
BURNING OR PAINFUL URINATING.
For these diseases it is truly a sovereign remedy, and
too much cannot be said in its praise. A single dose
has been known to relieve the most urgent symptoms ;
IRY IT, WB BEG OF von; in these cases, end you will give
yo.ir p aise to CONSTITUTION WATER.
UL. ERATION OR THE KIDNEYS, BLADDER AND
URINARY PASSAGES. RETENTION OF URINE,
DTSEASEA OF THE PROSTATE GLAND,
STONE IN THE El ADDER, OA LC:ULLA
GRAVEL. BRICKDUST DEPOSITS
LAND MEWS OR MI LK EY DIS
CHARGES AFTER
EMMA ING.
Di‘easea all oceuring from one and the same cause will
be ent rely cured by the CONSTITUTION W4TPIL.
There is no class f die ,ses that produce such ex
hausting effects upon the humeri cons ti u thin es Diabetes
and Diseases of the Kidney=, Bladder and Urinary Pas
sages, and through a false modesty. they are neglected
until they *lrv° far advanced as to be beyond the con
trol of ordinary remedies. and in a majo ity of ca•es,
little can be done by the phy.icians, and we present the
CONSTITUTION WATER
To the public with the conviction 'hat it has no egos' in
r lieringtheclassofdiseasesf.arwhichitha- been found
SO eminently successful in curing; and we trust that we
shall be rewarded for our efforts in placi. g so valuable a
remedy in a form to meet the renui remeuts of patient
and physician. For sale by all Druggists.
WM. H. GREGoi & cO., Proprietors.
MORGAN & ALLEN. General Avents,
N 0.416 Cliff Street, N.vr York.
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' 0 INVENTORS AND PATEN TEES
The nwiersUmed, for ditet n rani an Office' of the
United &Ives Patent OflicP, and for the last six years
Prineip4l Examiner : aid Member of the Board of Ap
peal, has
OPENED AN
OFFICE IN WASINOTON CITY,
AT NO 452 SEVENTH STREET,
OPPOSITE THE EAST PORTICO OF THE PATENT OFFICE,
Where he is ready to tr •neact any business Inventors or
others may confide to his ch.rge. He wil pay intrticti-
Ixr attention to the pr sec tion of Claims. to P.tents
before the Board o Appeal, (a varniners in ('hief.) the
iesioner of Patents on apneal from the Bawd, and
the Judge- of the Circuit, Court of the D strict of Co
lumbia on appeal from the Board or the Coo n issioner.
A B. L'TTLB
REFERENOES.—Hon. Chas. Mason, Ron. JoP. Bolt,
Pon. WD. Bishop. Hon. P. F. Thomas. apl9 dly
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