BY S. B. SOW, CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1861. YOL. 7.-N0. 22. i i i I GOOD NEWS TEOM HOME. Good news from home, good news for mo, Hare come across the deep bine sea. From friends that I have left in tears, From friends that I've not seen for years : , Oood news f And since we've parted long ago, My life has been a scene of woe Hut now a joyful hour has come, For I have heard good news from home : Good news " No father near to gnide me now; 'o mother's tear to soothe my brow ; .. , 'o sister's voice falls on my ear ; 2o brother smiles to give me cheer : . Good news ! But though I wander far away, My heart is full of joy to-day. Fur friends across the ocean's foam. Have sent to me good news from home : Good news ! "When shall I see that cottage door, . Where I've spent years of joy before ; 'Twas there I knew no grief nor care, My heart was always happy there : ... Good news ! Though I may never see it more Nor stand upon my native shore ; . Where e'er on earth I chance to roam; My heart will be with those at home : Good news ! A STAB Iff THE DARK. Some years ago in the city of New Orleans, Gastonliolt.a money-broker of reputed wealth, aat in his private office, awaiting the presence of his young cashier, Charles Lewis, air Holt had told Charles that he wished to see him at eight o'clock in the evening ; and the clock was striking that hoar when Charles entered the office. "You wished to see me, Mr. Holt 7" remark ed Charles a manly and handsome youth of twenty-three and speaking with a coldness that would have startled the proud broker at any other time. "Tike a seat sir," said Gaston Holt ; "I have something ot great importance to say to you." - . It cannot be of more importance than what I have to say to him." thought Charles, as he sat down facing his employer, who was a tall, hard-featured man ot over fifty years of age- Gaston Holt gazed at the young man for some time in stern silence, and was evidently puzzled how to begin his conversation. At length he said : "Mr. Lewis, yon have been in my employ nearly three months, I think?" - . "Yon are right sir,' replied Charles. If you were discharged, Mr. Lewis, yon would find it very difficult to be engaged else where." Very true, Mr. Holt; New Orleans is crowded with applicants for all kinds of em ployment." l'ou are also' largely indebted to me, Mr. Lewis, for mney advanced." I am indebted to you, Mr. Holt. I was much indebted to others when I entered your office ; but at your earnest solicitation I allow ed you to assume those debts debts I Incur red by becoming security for those whom I thought, not only honest, but personal friends. I am very grateful to you for your kindness." l'ou admit that yon are very grateful?" said Ga? ton Holt, quickly. Certainly." "Prove that gratitude, Mr. Lewis. To give you a chance to prove it, I have desired this interview," continued Holt. I trust my industry and ability," began Charles, much astonished at the sudden pale ness that swept over Mr. Holt's dark counte nance. "I know I know, of course," cried Mr. Holt, springing up, and pacing the floor. But I demand a stronger proof; I demand a sacrifice. Young man I am informed that you are about to marry." Charles flushed crimson, but remained si lent; while Mr. Holt, having worked himself Into a passion, resumed : "At least I know that yon and Olivia San cini the Italian's daughter, have plighted your vows!" "That is true, Mr. nolt. The matter is wholly her's and mine," said Charles rising, in his turn, and drawing himself very erect. "I see no reason lor its introduction here.sir!" "I will give you a reason, Charles Lewis," said Mr. Holt, in a slow, deep tone. "1 love Olivia Sancini.'' "You f What !" cried Cbarles.starting back. I was not aware that yon had ever seen her." "1 on know it now, CbarJes Lewis! And now I demand that yon shall immediately re linquish, and forever, all pursuit of her band. Come, she is only a frnitman's daughter ; and a young man of appearance and fine prospects can surely make a higher match, than to wed tbe daughter of Jerome Sancini." "I might make the same remark to Mr. Gaston Holt," retorted Charles, with stinging contempt, and speaking falsely; 5for Olivia Sancini is worthy of the noblest. You de mand too much, Mr. Holt.'. You insult me by making such a proposal !" "I tell you, young man, my heart is set up on making her my wife," exclaimed Mr. Holt. "Beware how you stand in my way ! I am a "itter enemy, Mr. Lewis. I saved yonr repu tation in assuming your debts: remember that!' "I havo not forgotten it, Mr. Holt my rep utation as a business man, but not as an honest "Jan. Were I to live a thousand years, I would never place my honesty in jeopardy." "l'ou refuse 7 Yon assume a high crest to Mr. Lewis 1" cried Gaston Holt, bitterly, al clenching his hand. "I will discharge 0; I will strip you and your mother of ev '7 dollar yon have. I will crush you to the n" with a load of debt. Young man, tbe flotor is a slave a soul-tIave to his creditor." "I owe you, Mr. Holt, this amount," said paries, drawing forth a pocket-book, and punting out upon the table a roll of bank- iiis. "There is what I owe you! Give me receipt in lull and take . IlOW came von with thin tnnnov ? r-T. . . -WMlUt, II - -icu .ur. uoit, as lie summed up the a- --, ana gave the desired receipt. - tooth na11 ,egacy left to me Dv mv mother's cin " 1,6 remarlted, as he seenred the re rPt. "And now, Mr. Holt, I am out of your Graf t n1 T0,aDtari,yf out f yuf service. Mode is not due to a man who pretends tuerositv tn a;n .oin.t. cried v" ,ra,t Jour name, Charles Lewjsj" od 1Io,t" ra dangerous sneiny ; Wr, i,my life ! henceI"rth and foreyer I am IwJ,"? warned in time," replied Charles Jon n J?g hU COAt OTr bl broad breast. "Had "not desired an interview with me this evening, I would have demanded it of you Gaston Holt. 1 meant to place certain papers accidently in my possession, in your hands but since you are to be mv enemy, 1 would be a simpleton to throw away the weapons chance has given me." "What do you mean, young man 7" "I mean Gaston Holt," replied Charles "that I bare discovered that I have been toil ing for a ftfrger. This day I discovered it I intended to give you the only proofs of your guilt, that you might destroy them ; and so having proved my gratitude lor supposed kindness, would have ceased to be your debtor and cashier at the same moment. I shall re tain those proofs ; I have them in my pocket now, I will not use them against you uuless Shall have cause to suspect you are determined to continue the dishonorable practice, or unless " "Unless what 7" said Mr. Holt, livid and fierce.. . "Unless yon presume to think of Olivia Sancini," replied Charles, as he turned to leave' the office. "Take this with you !" cried Gaston Holt springing at him, and striving to plunge a dirk into bis.bosoin. But Charles was strong and vigilant, ne caught the descending hand of tbe infuriated man, and with a powerful wrench, hurled him upon tbe floor. "Assassin arid forger i ran shall hear from me to'-rriofrow," Said Charles, as the disarm ed vilJian glared at him from the floor. Then turning, he slowly departed. "If he lives till daylight, I shall be ruined!' exclaimed Gaston Holt, springing up in dia may, and rapidly following Charles. He soon overtook him In the street, and, as Charles faced him, whispered : "Be merciful, young man ! Give mo three days to close up my affairs, and then I will leave New Orleans forever." ne begged so pitifully ,and seemed so heart crushing, that Charles consented, only stipula ting that the rascal should leave the country "I will! I swear I will !" said Holt. They parted Charles going toward his home, in the upper part of the city, while Holt hurried elsewhere in search of Jerome Sancini, the father of Olivia. He soon found him in his favorite drinking saloon and taking him aside, said : "You have work to do, Jerome." . "Yes! What is it, senor?" asked Jerome -a swarthy, evil-browed fellow, whom no one would suspect to be the father of so lovely and amiable a girl as the fair Olivia. You are about to lose a large sum of mon ey, my friend Jerome. I promised you a cer tain amount in case I became the husband of Olivia. You know Olivia is not your child 7" "You and I know only it, senor," replied Jerome. , "Why else 7 She does not suspect. She cannot. She was so young when I stole her from her parents in Italy, that she knows noth ing of her origin." "Her father is in New Orleans." "Ah ! can he suspect 7" "Not yet Jerome. But 1 wish her to be my wile before the rich Italian leaves for Cuba You sold me the secret of her birth for a good round sum, and you shall have thrice as much when I am her husband. Suppose you should go to her father and tell him 7" "Tell him!" cried Jerome. "The old man woum uirK me on the spot, lie is a magazine of gunpowder, that old man. He wronged me yonder in Italy, and I've had a good long revengeof him. Tell him! my wife might, if she met him. for she has grown very pious of late." 'Well there is work to be done in haste Yon know Charles Lewis 7" "Of course Olivia's love." "Unless you put him out of tbe waVj I shall never have a chance to give you any more money, Jerome." "So-so I I understand," said Jerome. setting his teeth hard. "So you know, Senor Holt ? Last night I had occasion to stop Olivia ; she was very impertinent, you see, and Charles Lewis saw it saw me slap her ears ; not hard ; oh, no! and he threatened to pound me if I ever dared to touch her again. You see he suspects Olivia is not my child. My wife has a tongue entirely too lone, and she esteems that young fellow." I have said enough, Jerome," continued Holt, placing a roll of bills in the desperado's hand. "If he lives three days I must leave America, and you " "You shall not leave, Senor. I will attend to this little business." After much more villainous discourse, the pair separated, and Gaston nolt returned to his oflice. It was after midnight when he stole forth into the street, muttering : I must secure those papers; he said he had them with him. He never lies. I know the room in which he sleeps ; it is easy of ac cess. He will keep those papers on his per son, or conceal them in his room. In either case, if Jerome does for him, the pnpers may be found and so ruin me; and I think I had better trust my own hand rather than Jerome's. At all events, I will try for the papers at least look about for I am in agonies of dread." He hdrried on until he paused before the modest residence of Charles Lewis. The darkness and stillness of the hour, and tho open window of the young man's room, tempted him. He easily scaled the little fence before the house, and gained a noiseless en trance into the room. It was by no means the first time Gaston Holt had found himself in so dangerous a situation ; and having taken off his shoes before he scaled tbe fence, he began to advance step by step into the apart ment, with which he was quite familiar from former visits of feigned friendship. He paus ed and listened very intently, but heard no breathing, and knowing the position of the desk in which Charles kept his private papers, slowly groped bis way thither. He reached it, when a slight noise attracted his attention toward tbe window and as he glanced that way he saw that some dark body had dropped into tbe room as noiselessly as a cat. Filled with terror, he sank to the floor and glided be hind the bed, so that he stood between it and the wall. The next five minutes was a eriod of-horror to him, for he could neither ee nor hear anything. He wondered that he could not bear tbe breathing of tbe sleeping Charles ; and suddenly conceiving that the bed was vacant, he swept his hand softly over it. The bed was vacant. "No doubt he or some one. saw roe enter,and is after me," tbonght he, as aa icy sweat be gan to pour from bis face and bosom. lie waited and listened. The suspense was a horror. Again he heard a slight noise ; and by its nearness, he knew tbe intruder was not far from him. Gaston Holt unscathed a heavy knife, acd cautiously retreated, hoping to pass around tbe head of the bed.and thence to the window, whence to escape. When he reached thtv.head of the bed, he found it close to the wall, he could retreat no farther!' Listening intently, he detected a soft, gliding noise, as if a mass of clothing was being pushed toward him by hair-breadths. Pausing no longer, he sprang over tbe bed, and rushed for the "window. His hand and foot were upon the sill, when the intruder sprang upon him, and plunged a blade at bis tbroat, but merely wounded him in the shoulder. Gaston Holt turned upon his unknown ene my with a savage curse, and struck back swift and fierce. There was a deep groan ; and Gaston Holt bounded into the yard, leaped over the fence not forgetting to secure his shoes ere he fled like the wind. At the nest corner he paused and listened, ne heard no disturbance. He is finished !" he muttered, after a few minutes of contemplation ; and then, congrat ulating himself that he had escaped so well, hurried to bis home, entered unperceived by bis servants, and went to sleep, muttering : "If I had tbe papers now, I should be per fectly happy. . But.I shall be summoned there early in the morning, and will have excellent opportunities for search. On the whole, I think I will go there early unsummoned, and be the first to see it." He bad been asleep less than an hour when his door was broken into by a squad of police, and an officer Slapped him on the shoulder, saying : "I arrest you for the murder of Je rome Sancini, in the house of Charles Lewis !" Ah! then it was Jerome!" cried Holt in dismay, and swooned with terror. It appeared that Charles had been detained downtown nntil almost morning ; and when he entered the room; he found Jerome lying on the floor, nearly dead from a terrible gasb on his breast. Knowing he was dying, Jerome confessed all, and that he had stolen there to assassinate Charles, although he had agreed with Holt to defer the deed till next night. II is confession restored Olivia to the bosom of her happy father, whence she was afterwards taken for life by Charles Lewis. Jerome Sancini died where he fell; and Gaston Holt is still serving under the inexo able decree of law, having been condemned to bard labor. New Lake Discovered ih Minnesota.. A private ltter from the venerable chaplain at Fort liipley, Rev. E. G. Gear, to C. W. Wool eyj Esq., gives the particulars of the discovery of a beautiful lake, hitherto entirely unknown to white men, although only six miles distant from the Fort, We are permitted to make the following extracts from tbe letter: "The first time the existence of the lake was an nounced in the . fort, was in the early part of the fall, or the latter part of summer, by a man in the vicinity who goes by, the name of Lying Jack, but nobody believed him. The hike is from two to three miles in width, and more than twelve miles long, and has a margin of rare beauty, of fine sand and pebbles, and broad enongh, from the position I occupied, as far as tbe view extended, to accommodate a carriage, it is surroundea witti aarR, aenso forest of pines and other timber, with high land opposite to the position from which I Raw it. From that point, only a part of the lake is seen ; for it turns around . a headland, and glances off in another direction. It is said that there is another lake about half the size, below it, and connected with it by a strait ; and that both of them discharge their water into Long Prairie river, and thence into the Crow Wing. The solitude and beauty of tho scenery, and the dense dark forest that environ it, I will leave you to imagine, for I have no time to describe them. The indiaus call it Big Fish Lake. It, no doubt, contains a great abundance and variety of fish, and Lying Jack affirms from personal knowledge, that White Fish are among the number. Dr. Wall found the skeleton of aMuskalonge on the shore, that indicated the largest size of that prince of fishes. If the United States hold together, the Colonel intends to build a large boat in the spring, on his own plan, and rig it with sails ; and it will be a famous place for resort for the inmates of the garrison, for picnics and fish ing." St. Paul Pioneer.' FRicirrrri. Oppression in Mississippi. The Secessionists of South Carolina and Missis sippi are particularly anxious to keep the world from knowing some things that are going on in those States, lesterday, a gentleman, for merly a member of the Kentucky Legislature, stated that be was just starting for Mississippi to endeavor to.relieve his brotherin thatState. The brother had written him that a tax was imposed upon every slave owner in the State of twelve dollars for each negro ; that, unless the tax should be paid witmn a few days, the negro property was to be confiscated to the public use ; mat his own negro tax amounted to 51,- 500, which he had no means whatever of paying, and that hundreds of slave proprietors were hur rying their slaves out of the State to escape the intolerable oppression. He moreover wrote that this was known to be only the beginning of a terrible system of taxation, and added the expression of his perfect conviction that the people would not stand it that within thirty days they would rise up in their wrath and their strength and crush the oppressors be neath their feet. Louisville Journal, Jan. 7. Expensive Patriotism. non.' Wm. Aiken, of South Carolina, must have a lively appre ciation of the beauties of secession. He is a wealthv man, one of the most wealthy in the State. All his interests are lor peace ; but he has been compelled to contribute tbe neat sum of $40,000 toward the cest of the revolution in Carolina, under pain of the confiscation of his estate, should be refuse. This system of forced loans has been extensively carried out in the rebel Stafe, not only by large assess ments upon men of wealth, but by actual seiz ure of goods and provisions, private property, &e., for the maintenance of the troops. When we add tp this the constant drunken violence of the. rabble militia,. their insults to citizens, andithe degradations. tiiese "gallant defenders"' oonuJi, we can saTefy anticipate a reactionary movement at an early day. fr?"A bill forbidding the. publication in the newspapers of fortune-telling advertisements has been reported in our Mate Legislature. SECESSION ITS EFFECTS-ITS OBJECT. SPEECH OF A SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT. On the 22d Jan., the Report of the Commit tee oi mirty-three being under consideration in me u. s. House of Representatives, Mr. Clemens. rDemocrat.i nf Vinrinta he thanked God that he was permitted, after a long sickness, to take his stand upon that floor in renovated health, at a time when his servi ces might prove most valuable to his constit uents. He would not now speak in passion it would not befit the solemn and portentous issues of the hour. We are in the midst of great .events. It miitht be that we are in the dying days of the Republic, and he would not mereiore utter, even in a whisper, one word which might tend to bring down the impend ing avaiancne upon the quiet homes of the people. He would, at the same time, speak as a Southern man, identified with all the inter ests of the South. He would speak as a West ern Virginian, and as the custodian of those who were not old enough to know the nerils to which they were exposed, by those who were. now naing on tne crest ot the popular wave, but who were, nevertheless, destined to sink into the very trough of the sea to a depth so unfathomable that not a bubble would ever rise to mark the spot where they went so ignomini- ousiy aown. Well might those who had inau gurated the revolution which is now stalking over the land, cry out with uplifted hands for peace, and deprecate the effusion of blood. It was the inventor of the guillotine who was the first victim, and the day was not far off when they would find among their own people those who would have to rely upon the magnanimity of that population whom they. had most cruel ly outraged and deceived. He had not tho heart to enter into a detail of the arguments, or to express the indignant emotions, which rose to his lips for utterance. But before God. and in bis inmost conscience, he believed that Slavery would be crucified should this unhap py controversy end m a dismemberment of tbe Union. If not crucified, it will carry the death rattle in its throat. It remained to be seen whether treason could be carried out with the same facility with which it had been plotted. There is a holy courage among the minority of every iatate, that might for a time be over whelmed. Lazarus was not dead, but slept ; and ere long the stone would be rolled away from the month of the tomb, and they would witness all the glories of a resurrection. It would not be forgotten that among the clans of Scotland beacon fires nsed to be lit by con certed signals from crag to crag, in living vol umes of flame, yet expiring even in its own fierceness and sinking into ashes as the faggots which fed them were consumed. To such a picture as that might be likened a rebellion sucb as political leaders sometimes excite for a brief hour; but the. fires of rebellion burnt out with the faggots, and all was cold and dark again. I here was a striking contrast between such a movement, between ucb a rebellion as he alluded to, and the uprising of the masses of the people in vindication of violated rights as great a difference as there was between Snug, tbe joiner, and Bottom, the weaver, who 'could roar you as fierce as a lion, or coo you as gv;ntlT as a sucking dove." One was the stage trick of a political harlequin, the other was a living reality the one was a livid and fitful flame, the other was a prairie on fire, finding in every step of its progress food for its all-ravening maw. In the preyent emergen cy, before this political conspiracy, it might bo that he would stand alone with his col league (Mr.Milson.) Let it be so. He sought no office. His political race was nearlv volun tarily run. History would record the proceed ings of this turbulent period, and time the gentle but infallible arbiter of all things earth ly would decide the truth'. Upon that be would take his stand. We live in an age of political paradoxes. Broad, expansive love of country has become a diseased sentimentality. Patriotism has bcome a starving birdling, clinging with unfledged wings around the nest of twigs where it was born. A statesman must now not only narrow his mind and give up to party what was meant for mankind, but he must recede as submissively as a blind horse in a bark-mill to every perverted opinion that sits, whip in hand, on the revolving shalt, at the end of which he is harnessed. To be a diamond of the first water be must stand in'tbe Senate nouse of his country, and in the face of a forbearing people, glory like Toombs in being a traitor and a rebel, lie must solemn ly proclaim the death of the nation to which he had sworn allegiance, and with the grave stolidity of an undertaker invite its citizens to their own funeral. He must dwarf and pro vincialize, his patriotism to the State oft whose local passions he thrives, to the county where he practices at court, or to the city where he flaunts in all the meretricious dignity of a Doge of Venice. He can not only take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, but he can enter with honor into a con spiracy to overthrow it. He can, under the sanctity of the same oath, advise the seizure of forts and arsenals, dockyards and ships, and money, belonging to the Union, whose officer he is, and find a most loyal and convenient re treat in State authority and State allegiance. He was ready to laugh in their faces if they only told him that, before the time when he was "muling and puking in his nurse's arms," there lived a very obscure person named George Washington who, before ho died, be came eminent by perpetrating the immortal joke of advising the people of the United States that it was of infinite moment that they should properly estimate the immense value of their national Union that they should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it that they should watch its preservation with jealous anxiety, discountenance whatever might suggest a suspicion that it con Id in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frown down the first dawning attempt to alienate any portion of the country from the rest, or to en feeble the sacred ties which linked together its various parts. Washington saw into the fu ture, and discovered that disastrous period in our history against which be warned his coun trymen when he told them to "beware of geo graphical parties.". Theso extreme parties North and South have at last met. Their dif ferences have been created and carried on by systematic perversions of each others aims and bjects. : In the North it bad been repre sented that the Sonth desired and intended to monopolize with slave labor all the public lancU, and, to- djrlve therefrom, freelabojr; to convert every Free State into common ground for the recapture of colored persons as slaves wbo were free, and to put the Federal Gov ernment, in all its departments, under the con trol of a slave oligarchy. These and all other stratagems that could be resorted to to arouse antagonistic feelings, were wielded with tuibu lent passions. As they planted, so they reap ed. Now that victory bad been won by the Re publican party, ard Government must be ad ministered upon a national policy, tbe fissures in the ground occupied by them became apparent, and hence there would necessarily be a large defection in its ranks among the more ultra of its adherents, who were as a general thing, ideal, speculative and not prac tical men. Out of actual power a party was apt to be radical. Vest it. with power, and it became conservative. This was the ordeal through which the Republican, like all other parties, was now passing, and he hoped for the peace of the country, and the triumph of practical rather than ideal policy and meas ures. ' Herein consisted the almost insupera ble difficulties of coming to any feasible ad justment upon the existing discontents. Tbe bulk of politicians, North and South, were bound by a past record and past professions. They were, in fact, thinking all the while "what Mrs. Grundy would say." The people themselves understood tbe cause of tbe diffi culty, and if they but once interfered, the country would bu saved. What was the diffi culty now 7 He appealed whether It was not that in the hands of ultras North and South thejslareholderhai been used as a shuttledore, who, for purposes utterly dissimilar, had been banded from South Carolina to Massachusetts, and from Massachusetts back again to South Carolina, until now the last point of endu ranc had been reached. Every violent word uttered North had been sent South, and the South had responded in the same spirit. After describing the exultation of the ultra Abolitionists over a dissolution of the Union. Mr. Clemens gave statistics of population and Slavery in the Border States and the Gulf States, foi the purpose of showing, as he said, that there was an irreversible law of popula tion governing the question, and that the South wanted population and capital rather than territory. If secession were allowed to be carried out, he would show them a South em Confederacy from which every man would turn back afinchted and pale, because it would be on tbe bloody haud that his rights of property would have to depend. Slavery cannot expand rapid! v, either within the U- nion or without the L nion, so long as slaves remained at their present high prices. Tbe only mode by which Slavery could ever ex pand was to reduce the price, and have a new source of supply. That was, in fact, the real design of the coast .Slates. Mr. Clemens, in proof of this, referred to all the Southern Conventions of late years, and cited the admis sions ot Messrs. Miles, Bonham, McRay, and Crawford, in the House to show that tbe ob ject was the reopening of tho slave-trade. Suppose, said he, that they do not get, out of the U nion, this equality which they now claim 7 That is a little problem in tbe rule of three which will be ciphered out if these events are much longer pending. Tho border Slave States might as well be prepared first as last for the realization of the truth. But where was Slavery to expand 7 If the South left the Union' she would never get as much of the pesent territory as he could grasp in his hand. A war of thirty years would never get it back, nor could there ever be extorted from the North a treaty civincr the same guarantees to Slavery that it now had. Where was Slavery o expand 7 Not the Central America, for England exercised sovereignty over half of her domain. Not to Mexico, lor England had caused the abolition of Shivery there also. Their retiring confederates ought not to for get the event of 1834, when George Thomp son, the English Abolitionist, was sent to en lighten tbe dead conscience of the American people. In this connection he cited a letter from Thompson to Murrell of Tennessee, in which was this sentence : "The dissolution of the Union is the object to be kept steadily in view." In the event of a Southern Con federacy there will be, beside the African slave-trade, other elements of discord and ag itation. Slavery was tbe great ruling interest i ot the extreme Mates, while the other States had other interests which could not bo light ly abandoned. It would be for lbe interest of the Coast States to have free trade in manu factured goods ; but how would that operate on the mechanical and manufacturing indus try of Missouri, Kentucky Virginia, Mary land, and Delaware? There would be, there fore, in the proposed Union, an antagonism quite as great as there ever has been in this. But if manufactories were to be protected and encouragad in the border Slave States, their white population would increase so fast that they would be but nominally Slave States, and would finally become Free States. He appealed, to the North to guarantee by con stitutional enactments the principle secured by the decision of the Supremo Court in the Dred Scott case. Let us feel, be said, that we have a country to save instead of a geograph ical section to represent. Let us act as men and not as partisans, and the old Constitution, now in the very trough of the sea, with bat tered masts and sails, will weather the storm. Mr. Lucas (Dem., III.) made some retort to this, and there were appearances of some ang ry feeling, which, however, did not eventuate in anything serious. . Mr. Martin (Dem.,Va.) during Mr. Clemens' remarks, excitedly expressed the hope that the member would not be allowed to continue his traitorous remarks. Calls for "Order" were loudly made, . and there was much conf usion, but it soon subsided. Georgia Commerce. The Savannah Repub lican, of tbe 16th, says : Savannah is present ing a busy appearance at this particular time, at least so far as the carrying trade is con cerned, having to do the work of both Charles ton and herself. The arrivals of vessels ex ceed those of almost any former period, and we are informed that 26 were cleared at the Cus tom House yesterday. Tbe business of the Cen traf Railroad is also pressing upon the Com pany, and taxing every wheel that can be put in motion. Tbe present high price of cotton, and the uncertainties of tbe future have induced planters and merchants to throw every bale into market, and convert it into cash forthwith. A well-informed corrspondent of tbe Louis ville Journal writes from Frankfort, Kentucky, giving warning that there are in existence through the State a large number of secret so- ciotieSjWhose avowed object it is to precipitate tne Mate into secession. Mr. Breckinridge, tbe writer affirms, is known to be in favor of Kentucky's seceding from the Union before the 4tb of March next.: - WHAT THE. SECESSIONISTS SAY. The present dissatisfaction and discontent in the South does not arise from the fact that the North has passed personal liberty bills, or that the Fugitive Slave Iww is not faithfully executed ; neither does is arise from an ap prehension that the North proposes to inter fere with slavery in the States where it exists. The treasonable purposes of Sonth Carolina are not of recent origin, fit tbe recent Con vention of that State, leadhrg. members mads use of tbe following language- in tbe debate on the passage ot the ordinance f secession : Mr. Parker "Mr. President : It appears to me with great deference to- the opinion that have been expressed, that tbe pnblio mind is fully made up to the great occasion that now awaits us. It it no spasmodic effort that has come tuddenly upon us : but it has been gradually culminating for a long strit of years, until, at last, it has come to that point uhen ir may say the matter is entirely right. Mr. Ijtglis "Mr.President : If there is any gentleman present who wishes to debate thin matter, ol course, .this body will hear him ; but, as to delay, for tbe purpose of a discus sion, I, for one, am opposed to it. As my friend (Mr. Parkor) has said 'Most of us her had this matter under consideration for the last twenty years, and, J presume, we had by this time, arrived at a decision upon the subject.' " Mr. Keitt Sir, we are performing a great act, which involves not only the stirring pres ent, but embraces the whole great future for. ages to come. I have been engaged in this great movement ever since I entered political life. 1 am content with what has been done to-day, and content with what will take place to-morrow. We have carried the body cf this Union to Its last resting place, and now we drop the flag over its grave. After that is done, I am ready to adjourn and leave-the remaining cer emonies for to-morrow.- "Mr. Rhett. The setttssion dp South Caro lina is not an event of a day. It irnot anything produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by non execution of the Fugitive Slave law. It ha been a matter which has been gathering head for thirty years. Tho election of Lincoln and Hamlin was the last straw on the back of the camel. But it was not the onfy one. The back was nearly broken before. Tbe point upon which I now differ from my friend is this : He says he thought it expedient for us to put this great question before the world upon this bimple matter of wrongs on the question of slavery, and that Question turned upon tbe Fugitive Slave law. Now, in re gard to the Fugitive Slave law, I myself doubt its unconstitutionality, and 1 doubted it on the floor of the Senate, when I was a member of that body. Tbe States acting tn their sov ereign capacity should be responsible for tbe rendition ot fugitive slaves. This was our best security.' Such sentiments, expressing the opinions of leading representative men in the Sxuth Caro lina movement, ought to satisfy, it seems to us any reasonable man of tbe motives and pur poses of the traitors who are now doing all they can to break up the Uniou. Gen. Wool and JIr. Lincoln. According to a correspondent of The Newark Merenry, who writes from Springfield, Mr. Lincoln re ceived a letter from Gen. Wool a few days ago, saying to him that he (Gon. Woof? was com mander ol the eastern division of the United States army, and as the times were threatening, he desired Mr. Lincoln to say what forces he desired at the Capital on the 4th of March. and they should be on hand. Mr. Lincoln (adds this correspondent) said to me, "I never saw Gen. Wool, but it was a most comforting letter and Iwrote to him in reply : As you and Gon. Scott are as well and better acquainted with the nature and extent of the dangers, and the necessary means to meet them, I take pleasure in committing all that to your discretion,' and so the matter rests." During the debate on tho nomirtafion of Mr. Holt, Mr. Crittenden is said to have taken tbe ground that as Kentncky is now a Central State, enjoying all the prosperity Consequent upon the present Union and form of Govern ment, she would never consent to its breaking np and the formation of a Southern Confeder acy, of which she would be a Border State, exposed to all tbe dangers and fosses of such a position. He took the position that the U nion must be preserved at all hazards, either by peaceable means or by force, and that force used against the lawless citizens of a Government is not coercion of a State. The speech, being entirely unexpected, created great sensation among the Senators. A Warning to Eccher Platers. A young man of Milwaukie, who is very fond of the daughter of a "pillar," in one of the popular churches, was taking tea at tbe house of bis adored a few evenings ' since, and bad some fruit-cake offered him. Being somewhat con fused on account of his situation, as the cake was held out, he cried out, "I pass." The father hearing him, and having pfayed some in his younger days, was horror struck at the young man's infatuation of the game, and thought be would teach him a lesson, and spoke bluntly. "You pass, do yon 7 Then 1 order you up, and there's the door." Tbe young man sloped instanter. - Jcdge Smallet. The Jtrdge Smalley, of New York, wbo bas with true devotion to tba Constitution, charged the Grand Jury that any one who now sells arms or ammunition to the South is guilty ot treason, iff not, as some sup pose.a "Black Republican" Judge, but a Judge of the U. S. District Court, and a Democrat. He was chairman of the Detffocratic National Committee from 1856 tol860 and chairman of the Committee of Arrangeme'itfs at the Demo cratic National Convention? which met at Charleston in 1860. A fellow, one evening recently, went into store at Troy, N. Y., and requested to have his cap filled with molasses, as it was for s wagor; when the full cap was banded to him, he complained that it was musty ; when the gro cer went to smelt it, the thief dashed it in his face rendering him blind, and then robbed the till of six dollars. The singular manner in which Georgia ha seceded preserving the postal and revenue laws, and retaining the officers of the United States is thought to be inspired by an in genious calculation that trade will be drawn from Charleston to Savannah, between which cities strong jealousy and rivalry have always existed. r T
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