wile Valttlibl Inatititin. Impartial—but not Neutral." ~/Itaitietict, Ora SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1861 FORT SUMPTER : The anxiety in rela tion to Fort Sumpter begins to revive, in view of the preparations looking to an attack making by . South Carolina.— An officer of the navy, just arrived from the neighborhood of Charleston, declares that an assault will be made on the fort in the next forty-eight hours. A pri vate letter from Sumpter states that Major Anderson is fully prepared to re sist any attack. The columbiads, which were not mounted when he took posses sion of the fort, are now all in readiness to give good report of themselves. One of these guns was discharged the other night, to try it, and all Charleston was immediately in arms the brave, South earolinemilitia believing for a time that Uncle Sam bad opened the ball. NAnnow.EscArk.-:-On Friday morn ing last, a breaksman on a down freight train narrowly escaped being killed near Parksburg, on the Pennsylvania Rail road. In climbing upon the cars; for the purpose of communicating with the engineer, he came in contact with a bridge, and was knocked down between the cars. His head was badly cut, the cap ofone knee was broken, and he was injured internally. Ho was taken to Parksburg, and subsequently to Para dise, where he resides. 'The following gentlemen represent Pennsylvania in the Peace Congress now assembled in Washington City, of which Ex-President Tyler is President ; Hoa. James Pollock, of Northurnber. land ; Hon. David Wilmot, of Bradford ; A. W. Loomis, .of Allegheny; Hon. Thomas White, of Indiana; Hon. T. E. Franklin, of Lancaster; William Mc- Kennon, of Washington; and Hon. Wm. M. Meredith, of Philadelphia. arßobert P. Letcher, Ex-Governor of Ky., died on the 24th, at Frankfort, after a protracted illness. He was one of the Most prominent public men in that State. He had served in Congress several terms, was elected Governor in 1840, and was Minister to Mexico under President Fillinore. In 1853 he sue tnined the first political defeat of his life, being beaten for Congress, in the Ashland district, by John C. Breckin ridge. ifir Colonel Ilayne, the South Caro lina Envoy, sent a communication to the President on Saturday, in whiCh be pro poses to open negotiations for the trans fer of the Federal property in the State, and in case of non-compliance threatens to capture Fort Sumpter. The Presi dent summoned his . Cabinet on the re ceipt of the letter to deliberate upon the subject. Ilar President Lincoln as determined to lance Springfield. on Monday next, and will pass through here on his way to the Federal Capital, which he expects to reach on the 25th inst. Of course our citizens, irrespective of party, will unite with the Legislative Committee in giving the President elect a fitting re ception.—Harrisburg Telegraph. OW Fears are entertained in respect to the continued existance of Dickinson College, Carlisle. That institution loses her charter when the number of stu dents does not • exceed ninety ; and should those from the South secede, as they threaten, the number will be ye duced below this standard. The Massachusetts House cf Rep resentatives went into secret session on Saturday last and passed a bill appro priating SIOA,OOO to the emergency fund. It is supposed that an important com munication has been received, as the bill was passed under a suspension of the rules. lir Hon. Isaac Toucey's name has been mentioned as onelof the candidates for a gubernatorial nonlination by the Democrlitic State convention in Con necticut next week. The fraternal advice of the Provi dence Journal to Kansas is—" Now, Young,;spter State, don't you go and se eede-before we have had a chance to spard,a, few millions on you." • The garrison at Fortress' Monroe is now three-hundred strong, and will be streogtliened . in a few days by two bun ered more men from Governor's Island. ar The Louisville Journal is gallant ly fighting the battles of the Union with immense energy. Its courinfls truely high-toned, powerful and inlitie4ial. iwGovernor Curtin . hair timt=invited to meet Mr. Lincoln in Philadelphia. WASIIINGVON ITEMS : Senator Critten den ie quite overjoyed with the fact that Kentucky has declined to. call a State Convention, and says it is one of the noblest appeals ever made for a compio mise, which he trusts may not ge. un heeded, It is now understood that Mr. Lincoln will make no further announcements in regard to the formation of his Cabinet before he reaches Washington, and he will probably not fully decide whb is to compose it, rptil be has had a free inter change of views with his leading friends and supporters here and in other por tions of the country. An evidence of the strong Union sen timent prevailing in Baltimore, the fact may be worthy of notice that the Amer ican, the leading newspaper of that city whEeb, from the start, has sustained Gov. Hicks and fought the Secessionists, has more than doubled its circulation in the last eight weeks. Tlie President has decided upon send ing into the Senate the name of Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, as Judge of the Su preMe Court of the United States, but it is understood that Senator Douglas, of Illinois, and Senator Latham, of Califor nia, will oppose his confirmation, and their votes, united to those of the Repub lican members, will defeat him. The Pennsylvania Commissioners in the Peace Congress, at Washington, up to last accounts, were making every ef fort to come to terms with the Commis sioners of the Border States, and in this good work we are happy to class Hon. Thomas E. Franklin, of Lancaster ; Hon. Wm. McKennan, of Washington ; and ex-Governor Pollock. The Colfax bar for the breaking off of postal communication with the seceded States, and forbidding the making of nAw contracts, has passed the House.— Should it pass the Senate, and receive the President's signature, the excite ment in the Gulf States will be intense. The artillery company, lately at Au gusta, Ga., have arrived here. They are quartered in the southern wing of the Treasury Building, owing to the dif fiCulty of procuring accommodations elsewhere. General Scott received an anonymous communication the other night, notifying him that an attempt would be made to poison the horses attached to the differ ent; batteries now here, in order to render that arm of the service useless. The Governor of lowa has commis sioned the Senators and Representatives in Congress of that State to act as mem bers of the Peace Congress. The Secretary of the Treasury, Gen eral Dix, is severely condemned for per mitting so large a sum of money to re main in the Mint at New Orleans, with the full knowledge that its seizure by the Disunionists was certain. Washington is thronged with stran gers, and it is said that a larger number of people has visited the city during the week than ever before was drawn hither, by their anxiety to have some immediate action taken to keep the Border States in the Union. A' resolution has been introduced into the House repealing the law creating New Orleans , a port of entry, and provi ding for the collection of the revenue at the mouth of the Mississippi. Robt. M. Magraw, having declined the appointment of consul to Liverpool, in place of Beverly Tucker, removed, the President has nominated to the Sen ate, for that place, Geo. McHenry, of Delaware county, Pa. It is not supposed that the new Sena tors will be elected by the Legislature of Kansas in time to take their places be fore the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln. That eminent statesman, Robert C. 41 inthrop, who has been here for several dais, in company with the Hon. Edward Everett, working for a permanent settle ment of the national troubles, has left for home, having been warmly received by many friends. Joshua R. Giddings is among the la test arrivals here. A committee of New York merchants are in Washington lobbing against the Morrill Tariff bill. The tellers to count the votes for President and Vice President, are Trum bull, of Illinois, of the Senate, and Wash burn°, of Illinois, and Phelps, of Mis souri, from the House. The Washington City Councils have appointed a committee to receive Presi dent Lincoln and Vice President Hamlin. Ninety-font Marines, from Governor's Island, and fifty-five U. S. Dragoons, from Carlisle, fully equipped, arrived here the other morning. The Virginia delegates in the Peace Convention will certainly contend earn estly for`the adoption of the Crittenden Compromise. The influx of politicians is so great that a large number are nightly obliged to seek shelter in sleeping cars. The report in the •New York Times that Fort Sumpter has been reinforced is false.' The militia here were out on drill yes terday morning, and attracted much at tention. A CALIFORNIA beautiful young girl' betrothed to the gallant young fireman, Barrier, recently Tailed at San Francisco, begged to see his re mains before burial ; in the death-cham ber she swallowed poison, but, being ob served,,herlife was saved. THE WEEKLY The Republican members of the Leg islature held a caucus to nominate a can didate for United States Senator in place of Wm. H. Seward, On the tenth bal lot, Ira Harris was nominated. The struggle was between Mr. Harris,. Wm. H. Everts, and Horace Greeley. The Doylestown Democrat says that on Thursday of las&eek a part.y of fish ermen caught, in the 'Delaware river, near Point Pleasant, at a single haul, five thousand five hundred suckers ! as plump, fat and juicy as ever graced a table. The Post Office ,Department has de cided to furnish a cheaper style one-cent stamped envelopes than that now in use for circulars, combining the improve ment of the black lines. Of this quality there will be none without the lines. On the 22nd inst., a new and beautiful flag is to be raised on the dome of . the Capitol, at Harrisburg. It being the anniversary of Washington's birthday, the occasion will be celebrated by a grand military and civil display. The remains of the Hon Charles Huff nagle, who was for a number of years U. S. Consul to Calcutta, and who died a few weeks ago in England, were brought to his home in New Hope, Bucks county, on last Saturday, and interred. The New York Tribune says : We have positive information from Spring 4eld by which we feel ourselves author ized to contradict the rumor that Mr. Cameron has been or is to be reinvited to a seat in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet. The New Orleans Mint and Custom House have been quietly taken posses sion of by the State : authorities. The officials continued in;their positions, hav ing taken the oath prescribed by the ordinance of secession. The Salt Lake correspondence of the Republican says that a memorial is about to be presented to Congress for the ad mission of Utah into the Union. This will be the lasf appeal on the part of the Mormons. The christening of the twenty-sixth child of a couple named Wonters, resi ding in Lierre, in Belgium, took place a short time since. Twenty-two of the children of this happy couple are now living. Mr. Henry Myers, residing in Cumber land township, Adams county, ra., has lost six children by putrid sore throat within a few days. Three died within eight hours, and were buried at one time. Aurora, a town about twenty•five miles from Cincinnati, has been successively illuminated with water gas during the past two weeks. , The town of Malden, Miss., soon to be similarly lighted. The wearers of the Palmetto cockades at Washington, on finding that they were mistaken for the footmen of the foreign ministers, soon dropped them, and they are decidedly at a discount now. A company has been organized in London with a capital of three millions of dollars, to erect a hotel on the Amer ican plan. Three acres of ground have been secured for the building. . ........... ..... ....... Sidney Herbert, the English States. man, has been elevated to the British peerage. He has been twenty-eight years in the House of Commons. The Stars and Stripes still float in Northern Alabama, and the people there defy the secessionists to come and take them down ! t The people of Jamaica have made up a sum of money sufficient to give Gen. Garibaldi a handsome testimonial in sil- There was a silver wedding at Mil waukee last week at which the husband surprised his wife with a present of $lOO,- 000. The Cameron Guards of Harrisburg have much increased in numbers lately. They will be present at the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln. On last Sabbath, Elder A. X. Shoe maker, of the Church of God, baptized twenty persons in the Susquehanna, at Worm/eysburg, opposite Harrisburg. John B. Gough, the world-renowned temperance lecturer, is now in Pittsburg, and discourses nightly to large audiences. ...... Twenty patriots of the Revolution died during, the past year. Eighty-two are all that are now left. It is stated that Mr. J. S. Rarey's profits by his exhibitions in New York, anionnt to over $2OOO per week. or Horace Greeley has returned from the West. Whilst at Springfield he was called upon at his hotel by Mr. Lincoln. The interview lasted several hours:— Greeley urged a strict adherence to an anti-compromise policy, and is said to received gratifying assurance ! His opin ion as to the Cabinet and other appoint ments was freely solicited and given.— He is known to be strongly opposed to Cameron., and very much interested in the appointment of Chase and , Colfax. Col. Fremont, he thinks, should have the mission to France. Although just defeated in Albany, he did not, ask any thing either for himself or friends. NEWS IN BRIEF PRENTICRANA : has Major Anderson contributed his share toward defraying the expenses of South Carolina? Why doesn't Charleston invite him to shell ? The Secessionists not likeing the con dition of the United States at this time are trying to exchange it for the condi tion of Mexico. It is perhaps fortunate for some of the South Carolina leaders that they haven't any brains. Otherwise they might get them knocked out. it is not very pleasant for a man to walk out upon an empty stomach, and South Carolina is a great fool for going out upon an empty treasury. South Carolina complains of the de rangement of the U. G. mails. Why doesn't the pestilent little virago carry her own mails ? Some woman in South Carolina is writing coarse articles in a Charleston paper against the Union. We have nothing to say against that woman, but we shouldn't ask her to lend us here ear if we wished to make "a silk purse." If the Charleston landlords charged their boarders eight dollars per day do ing the session of the National Conven tion in May last, we wonder what they charge now when their beef costs them thirty-five : cents per pound. Mississippi having seceded, we advise her to adopt the pelican flag, for orni thologists describe that bird as having a large, wide, and very much depressed bill. The Charleston Mercury says that "South Carolina's guns are all loaded." Yes, and she herself is loaded—loaded down with debt. When will she be dis charged ? A paragraph of the Cincinnati Com mercial in relation to Gov. Pickens' seizure upon the money in the Charles ton sub-treasury is headed "Pickens and Stealings." A contemporary, speaking of Ex-Sec retary Floyd, thanks God for the Ex.— Certainly that X is worth a hundred thousand bank bill X's to the country. How VERY TRUE : Forney's Press very truthfully says the present month, February, 1861, will be memorable in all future time. During this month many difficulties will be solved, and many doubts removed, by the confirmation or disappointment of many apprehensions. The Peace Congress assembled at Wash ington on the 4th inst. Every boor be tween this and the fourth of March will be filled with interest. The revolting States hold their Convention at Mont gomery, Alabama, on the 24th of Feb ruary—prior to which time Tennessee, North Carolina, and other conservative Southern States, will have decided what course to take in the crisis. It does not often happen that so many import ant events are crowded into so short a space of time. SALE OF THE BURDELL HOUSE.—The dwelling house No. 31 Bond street, New York, the scene of the Burdell murder some years ago, was on Monday sold at public auction. The place where Harvey Burdell was so mysteri ously butchered, where Mrs. Cunning ham, Coroner Connery, the bogus baby, and all the other tragic, comic and far cial actors in that strange, dissolute drama of domestic life played their sev eral parts, was eagerly bid for, and aft er a spirited competion knocked down at $17,050 to Mr. Anthony S. Hope. NOT TRUE.-A rumor has gained ex tensive circulation to the effect that armed patrols or policemen were station ed, by the Maryland authorities, along the roads leading from Pennsylvania in to that State; and that no man could cross the borders 'from Chester county without being hailed and questioned as to the object of his visit, &c. We learn from parties living near the line that no such policeman are on duty, and the highways leading to and from Maryland are open to all without fear or molesta tion—free negroes always excepted, as it is a violation of the laws of that State for a free negro from. another State to enter its lim its.— Village Record. CrUnder the directions of Mrs. Cros by, the accomplished lady manager of the Washington Monument Association, a splendid American flag was some days ago hoisted from the top of that lofty. yet still unfinished, shaft. In the midst of all the storms, and rain, and snow that have lately visited Washington, it floats proudly to the breeze, not a stripe erased and not a star dimmed. GrA cave 2,000 feet deep has recently been explored, near San Domingo, on the Tehuantepec route. It has at some time been inhabited, as several broken jars have been discovered there. rtilyMrs. Norton, the English poetess, is at work on a biography of the famous Sheridan family, of which she is a mem ber. It will be shortly published by MacMillan, of London. digrA diabolical attempt to blow up r Old North Market, St. Louis, was fius tated by a policeman. A keg of powder and a barrel of turpentine were secreted, all ready to be fired. car The case of Mrs. Patterson, the divorced wife of the late Prince Jerome Bonaparte, for a partition of his proper ty, is to be brought before the tribunal of France. erThe Farmer and Gardener, as also the American Bee Journal, for February, are received. The former, in addition to its usual embellishments, contains a finely engraved frontispiece of the cele brated Farmer's Market, of Philadelphia, the finest edifice of its kited in the world. In addition to this it is filled to reple tion with the most useful and seasonable reading. 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