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THE 8 r. CLOUD DEMOCRAT JANE G. 3WISSHELM. EDITOR Thursday, February 21st, 186L WOOD.—We want wood, end as there WANTEl^Inpaymentof subscriptions, wood, flour, meal, meat, butter, or anything else good to eat espeemlly wood 1 mmi ORDERS Foa advise my friends to consent to any oonoes •ion or compromise which looks like buying 0 "Let the People Speak." "Let the people speak LET the peo pie speak I" is now the cry of some of the defeated party in last fall's issue, and of those who find themselves by mistake on the winning side. It is very generous, this intercession on behalf cf the dear people and one cannot help wondering what monster it can be that is so persistently denying to them the dearest of all feminine rights—i. e. the right of speaking. It is too bad that the masculine portion of the people should have been deprived of the use of their small share of the "gift of gab," so that champions—disinterested champions, must thus arise to do battle for these silent suf ferers. The champions are obeying the scripture in thus opening their mouths for the dunb and ono is agaim com pelled to wonder at the "thing of evil," be it "bird, or man, or devil," which has ta ken away the right of speech from the people. The creature should be caught and caged forthwith but whilo the champions are attending to this, it may be well to enquire what the people are expec ted to say when they get leave to speak. Are they to speak as did the Apostles that which shall be given them in that hour, or have their sayings been prepared, written out, printed and stereotyped by those who arb so anxious to have them spoken The question answers itself. The people, in the last election, have spoken. They have expressed their will, upon the point at issue, in clear, emphatic, unmistakable language but they did not say what their championsintended they should do, hence, the anxiety to have them speak again.— This reminds us of the old tales of crimin al trials where the accused was bound to the rack and requested to speak. Should he declare his innocence, the jury gave the wheel a turn, and the judge interce ded in his behalf with this very exhorta tion are a number of our subscriber, who were *£TT**K^^?™tn* on the thumb-screw of secession, aud every to paj in wood, and the season for getting time they give it a turn they exhort some in crops is over, we hope they will make it one to "let the people speak!» That is, convenient to bring along our wood justas you of the people whose thumbs are not at soon as possible. sensitive, must not say a word to en „r courage the other prisoners at the bar to SHE IT THIS OFFICE. to for he a Let the people speak! Yea, verily, let the people speak as often as they desire to I win suffer death before I will consent or "Let the prisoner speak V* Should the person persist in hisfirstas-nurse sertion, there was another turn to the wheel and again the forbearance of those who were his masters, manifested itself in the renewal of the petition "Lot tho prisoner speak!" So they kept turning the wheel, and in terceding for the right of speeoh, until the no revel. It does not even amount to victim said what was required of lively romp. They have nothing to eat, him, when ho received the full measure of nothing to drink but water and move punishment for the crime he had confess ed. Or, it still more closely resembles pigeons on a perch. those scenes of the good old times when ——, the argument of the thumb-screw. Tho people have spoken, have constitu heretics and dissenters from the popular time of life, we have just now been for faith were exhorted to recantation, under the first time at a death bed, or seriously ill, that these facts should Suddenly change our matured opinions on so important shall not be extended into territory now free—that the territory of the United Sutes shah be for 8peak a the privilege of taking possession of the Gov- the Inquisitors head over heels into the eminent to which we have a Constitutional right because, whatever I might think of the jr O guarantie for the permanence of vested rights it is not mine to oppose.—[ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Inauguration first adjustment afterward. —[SALMON P. CHASC. I owe it to myself, I owe it to truth, I ove it to the subject, to state that no earthly power could induce me to vote for a specific measure for the introduction Slavery where it had not before existed, either south or north of that line. Sir, while you reproach, and justly, too, our British ancestors for the introduction of this institution upon the continent of America, I am, for one, unwilling that the posterity of the present inhabitants of California and New Mexico shall reproach us for doing just what we reproach Great Britain for doing to us. If the citizens of those Territories choose to es tablish Slavery, I am for admitting them with such provisions in their Constitutions but then, it will be their own work, and not ours, and their posterity will have to reproach them, and not us, for forming Constitutions allowing the institution of Slavery to exist among them.—[HENRY CLAY. men, »nd free labor. Those who claim to be the and free labor TIM rrl n1* ti atura 8ttPeriora th 8 a fost in common herd re 8 8 8 6 um"dexiort I is QeMml a ^eca,ltati0,1 trom th 0 more but we suggest that before thev do 6S 8P«ec» in Mexico. But this thingof willehereafter be, much as they nave a mind and had bet" as it is now, in the hands th people and if they desire to call a Convention to remove —v~ anJy grievance- complained o.f or to giv-e ne-w change their minds every time they open guaranties for the permanence of vested' rights. ti_:„ „^„i.u-. UWMW eucy uu more talking they had better knock S a Din W merit of the various propositions before Con- little speaking themselves, in the eloquent greas, I should regard any concession in the .. .7 ,, face of menace as the destruction of the Gov- exclamation "outch. While the mquisi erament itself, and a consent on all hands that tors are thus exercising their inalienable «ur system shall be brought down to a level _!_!,«, »v with the existing disorganized state of affairs S" 6 strong inducements to io a the people can talk as ter convince the world that they do not change their their mouths Dancin and Dying The following communication is "to the point:" Mas. SwissHXLMf:—I understand your col umns are open to the discussion* of all ques tions of public Interest. Will you permit me their use to discuss the propriety of the editor of the St. Cloud DIMOCBAT making her appear ance in a dancing hall. I learn she did not dance but her presence there was a renewed sanction of that device of Satan, by which he entraps unwary feet. It is but a few weeks since many of us heard her speaking words of most solemn import at a dying bed and even since that she herself, has appeared to stand with her feet in the waves of Jordan. Christians who have been waiting and weeping for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, in this place, had reason to hope that, after these solemn events, her influence would have been exerted on the side of Relig ion. No wonder there has been DO revival of God's work in St. Cloud, while other places have been blessed with the outpouring of tho Spirit. I say no wonder, when professors lend their presence to countenance the midnightrev el instead of the prayer meeting! No wonder that God's people go mourning all the day.— No wonder that He has afflicted this place with sore afflictions when His house is deserted—the dancing hall filled, not only by the young and thoughtless, but by those who form public opin ion, and profess to believe in Religion It is in sorrow, not in anger I write thus and if you refuse to print it I, at least, have done my duty. MABTHA. St. Cloud, Feb. 14th. In the first place we hasten to assure "Martha" that she need not have had a fear about our publishing her letter.— There is no one whose conduct is more open to criticism, in our columns, than "the editor," when any one feels a call in that direction. From onr knowledge of that individual, we doubt if any one else can more frequently require public censure, and fear that good people often neglect their duty in this matter. So we are obliged to "Martha" for rapping "the edi tor's" knuckles, although we think her mistaken about the magnitude of the sin in question. "Martha" assumes that, in asmuch as we have recently been present at a death bed, and said and did what oc curred to us at the time and because we have since been ill, we ought to change our life-long convictions on dancing. She knows that, at least, ever since we assumed the conduct of tho St. Cloud paper, we have advocated dancing, not as a lesser evil, but as a good, as being just as proper as eating or praying. The word of God says, "There is a time to dance," as well as "a time to die." No one assumes that we ought to be dancing when it is timo for dying or that we should feel, or think, or act at a death bed as we would in a danc ing hall and we insist that it is just as sinful to be always dying as it would be to be always dancing. No one could and keep up the feeling appropriate at a death bed, without becoming in a great measure, if not altogether, a cumber cr of the ground. "Martha" is mistaken about the St. Cloud dancing school being a "midnight revel." The hours are trom seven until eleven o'clock and they have about, or sit about as prim and polite as Does "Martha" suppose that, at our r...... tionally expressed their convictions that subject as the amusement of the people Slavery is a loeal institution, and cannot We, who have stood by the open graves exist beyond the limits of those States of nearly all our kith and kin Few of whose local Jaws ^sanction and proteet it.— our age, not a prufessoa physician or nurse, They have eaiU tjiat ft-if an evil and has seen more of sickness, and sorrow ._ and death but this is no reason why good music and the sight of graceful motion should not tranquilise our mental faculties, improve health, and so give strength for the duty of living. The business of dy ing will be time enough when it comes and if we are all careful to do the Lord's work, i. e. our duty, until we come to the brink of the River, no fear but He will see us safely over. We have never met an instance of a person whom we could think dancing had unfitted for dying: have no thing in our experience to show that it takes us further away from the contempla tion of sacred things than docs singing or sailing, running or laughing. Once when two hours ride from home, we had a summons to go to a neighbor's house, at whieh we had never visited.— Their eldest son, a young man of 28, bad died suddenly and with the messenger came a note requesting that we should or der or get whatever was suitable for the funeral ceremonies. Although not unac customed to render such services to inti mate friends, or to those who had no friends, this surprised us, as the family were ot ample means and large connections. The surprise was not lessened on hearing it was by special request of the decased. We eould not remember ever having spoken with him, save once, more than a year previous, a few casual words, at a dancing party. Soon after this he had told his mother that if he should die sud denly, so that he could not talk with her at last, he wanted her to send for us im mediately, as no one else would sympathize with her so deeply, or could comfort her so well. Again and again ho had recalled this request to her mind, adding that she should leave every arrangement to us.— His request had been so minute and so earnest that his family felt we had only entered into the spirit of it when our hand was the last te clasp his, as it lay cold and still upon his breast, and our lips placed the latest kiss upon the brow so soon to be dust. As we stood by his cof fin for that last look, and tried to recall him on the only evening we had ever met him, its light and music, and innocent mirth did not appear at all incougruous with the light, which the hope of a blessed immortality had left upon his face and the music and glad motion which then employed his freed spirit. And surely, the scenes of that evening could not hsvo been to him the antipodes of all solemnity, or he could not have thought of us as his mother's comforter and that one of all others whom he wished to look upon and touch his inanimate olay. Years before, his physicians had informed him that he had heart disease, and might die at any moment and he spent his life in silent meditation, and reading books of devotion. He dare not risk so much exercise as danc ing and if the practice appeared sinful and frivolous to all devotional minds, he could not have thought of us as he did. We look back now, to" the still face as we last saw it, to the quiet grave under the tall oaks, and to the evening when his seri ous, sorrowful thought connected the mov ing figure in a quadrille, with the human comforter he wished .4© sustain him as he put off this mortal for immortality, and to lessen the crushing blow to his bereaved mother and in it all we trace one link in our memory, connecting the amusement of dancing and the necessity of dying as two parts of one great whole—a harmonious human existence. About this "Holy Spirit," whose way wo are supposed to bar, we shall have something to say next week, for we have no objection to render a reason for any thing we do. COLLEGE FOB WOMEN —Matthew Vas- sar, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has donated 9400,000 to establish a college "to pro mote the education of young women in lit erature, science and the arts," and has ta. ken out a charter. The institution is to be called the "Vassar Female College," which we hope will be changed to the Vassar College for Women. We never could learn how a college could be male or female, or how the sex of the pupil could be transferred to a school. The college will bo situated in Duchess Co., N. Y.— The buildings are under contract, and are to be "spacious and splendid," so says that blessed old herald of good tidings, the New York Tribune. The world used to "move," but lately it has got aboard a rail oar, and is making quick time. Let Matthew Vassar be set down with Howard, for he comes to set free the prisoners of ignorance and superstition. MINNESOTA PORK.—Thirty teams loa- ded with Pork came into La Crosse from Faribault, Minn., a day or two since.— The entire lot was purchased in this city. The total value of this lot exceeded 64,000. It belonged to one man.—La Crosse Re publican. —»,^. The fugitive slave, Lucy, was tried last week in Cleveland, and was returned to Virginia. a a on Savers. The Penna, Telegraph of the 1st inst. says "The Democratic State Committee met here yesterday, and called a State Conven tion, to be held at Harrisburg on the 21st of February. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the Confederation is dis solved, and that it must be re-constructed on Democratic principles." Well, if that aint pure impudence '.we should like to know what is. "Recon struction on Democratic principles," to be sure. Let us look at a few examples of Democratic adhesion. The State Con vention whieh formed this same Commitee fought, like cats and dogs, and the delega iton sent by said body to the National Convention, aided most efficiently both at Charleston and Baltimore, in dissolving the Union. The Committee itself fatten ed on contention throughout the entire campaign, and imposed silence upon its gubernatorial candidate, whilst the gal lant Curtin everywhere proclaimed the principles of the Chicago platform, and buried these bogus Union-savers in wreck aud ruin. First, "reconstruct" and re unite your own party, gentlemen. You are demoralised if not defuuet, both as a National and State organization, and until you prove that there is a Democratic party and that there is vitality in democratic principles, other than fraud, corruption and treason, "we will none of it." "Phy sician? heal thyself." COSMOPOLITAN ART ASSOCIATION.— The time for the general drawing has been postponed by the managers until the 18th day of April. Many of our citizens will be prepared by that time to avail themselves of the opportunity offered for procuring a beautiful engraving at a very small cost. For three dollars, every subscriberis entitled to, and receives, a copy of the superb en graving "Fabtaff.Mustering his Recruits," a copy of the Cosmopolitan Art Journal, a beautiful quarterly, for one year, and, also, a certificate of membership which en titles the person to four admissions to the great Gallery of Paintings on Broadway New York, and to a chance in the general drawing, when several hundreds of first class oil paintings, Btatuary, bronzes, etc., are given to the members. Three dollars could not be better invested. A copy of the engraving and Journal can be seen, at this office. Those who do not desire "Fabtaff" ean for the same price secure any of the other engravings of the associa tion. Win. B. Mitchell is agent for St. Cloud, and S. A. Heard for Clearwater, where subscriptions will be received.— Subscribe by all means. fci THE PRESIDENTIAL JOURNEY.—Mr. Lincoln left Springfield on the llth for Washington, visiting some of the princi pal cities. He has been received with the greatest enthusiasm and delight during the whole route, as far as heard from. At Pittsburg, on the 15th, notwithstanding a heavy rain, he was received by an immense crowd, and the enthusiasm is said to have exceeded anything ever before witnessed in that city. He arrived at Cleveland on the same day amid tho roar of artillery and cheers of the multitude. Protection of Game The Press of the 14th, publishes offic ially an "Act for the Preservation of Elk, Deer, Birds and Fish See. 1. Forbids the killing of elk or deer, from February 1st to September 1st, and tho having in possession or the sale of fresh venison from February 15th to Sep tember 1st. Penalty $15 for each offence. See. 2. Protects woodcock from Janu ary 1st to July 4th prairie fowl or penna ted grouse from Feb. 15th to Aug. 1st partridge or ruffled grouse trom Jan. 15th to Sept. 1st quail are protected at all sea sons, from the passage of this aot until Sept. 1st, 1864, and thereafter between Jan. 1st, and Sept. 1st. Penalty $2 for each bird killed or exposed for sale. Sec. 3. Protects absolutely all robins, bobolinks, doves, catbirds, &c, all harm less birds, except aquatic fowl of every species, and wild pigeons. Fine one dol lar for every such bird killed, caged or trapped. Offender to be committed until fine is paid. Sec. 4. Protects speckled and river trout at all seasons from being taken except with hook and line. Penalty fifty cents for ev ery fish. Sec. 6. Prosecutions to be commenced within one year from the offence, to be before Justice of the Peace. Fines to be pain into County Treasury for use of Com mon Schools. Sec. 7. Makes it the duty of town Su perirtendents of schools, Sheriff and Con stables to make complaint of violations of this law. The act takes effect from and after March 1st, 1861. [We have given a synopsis of this law, as it will interest a large number of our readers.] 19" Some queer fellow who had tried 'em says: "There are two sorts of wine in Stuttgard to drink one is like swallowing an angry oat the other like pulling the animal back again by the tail." 1 l^p T-T"- TELEGRAPHIC WASHINGTON, Fob. 11. Captain Morrison, of the revenue cutter Lewis Cass, has sent his resignation to the Treasury Department at Washington, and acknowledges that he has surrendered his vesseb to the State authorities of Alabama, It will be seen by the following orders that no resignation under such circumstances will be accepted. Captain•Brushwood will no doubt be disposed of in the same way: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Feb. 11.—J. J. Morrison, of Georgia, a captain in the revenue department in charge of a revenue cutter in the service of the United States, late in command of tho Lewis Cass, having, in violation of his official oath and of his duty to his government, surrendered his vessel to the State of Alabama, it is hereby directed that his name be stricken off from the rolls of the said service, by order of the President of the United States. [Signed] JOHN A. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury. Some Postmasters recently appointed in the seceding States, decline to make the oath to support the Constitution of the U. S., andvjf course the offices will have to be discontinued, if persons cannot be-found to take them according to law. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Government has official intelligence from the Colleotor of New Orleans, notifying that duties on goods passing up the river will be collected at New Orleans in behalf of the Treasury of Louisiana. Another detachment of troops left Brooklyn Barracks yesterday for Washing ton, to reinforce the Navy Yard there. CINCINNATI, Feb. 11.—About twelve o'clock last night, a German named Anto ny Kiltenstern was stabbed to the heart by Charles Kilinger, and instantly killed. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Superintendent Kennedy reiterates that the arms have not been given up. It appears that they were sold by the Stste bank of Hartford to the State of Georgia. On the contrary, Crom well & Co., owners of the steamer Monti cello arid others, say that the order for the release has been received. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 10.—The conven- tion has adopted a State flag. It consists of a red field with a single pale yellow star and thirteen stripes, red white and blue. The ordinance was passed making it a penal offence for pilots at Balize to bring over the bar any United States war vessel. An ordinance to accept the criminal laws of the United States District Court was adopted. *.' DETROIT, Feb. 11.—John McKinney, late State Treasurer, charged with embez zlement of money of the State was arrested at Lansing to-day, and held to $25,000 recognizance to appear for examination. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11.—Thesteamer Charmer, from Vicksburg to New Orleans with 3800 bales of cotton, was burned to the water's edge to-day, ten miles below Donaldsonville five lives supposed to be lost. The fire originated about the wheel house. PITTSBURG, Feb. 11.—A diabolical at- tempt to destroy the family of Augustus Hoeveler, a well-known citizen of Law renceville, by an infernal machine, was made on Saturday night. The machine was placed on the window-sill and fired by means of a fuse. The whole front of the building was shattered by the explosion. It was as loud as a discharge of ordnance. Several bullets struck in different parte of the room in which Hoeveler's family were sleeping, but all mirraculously escaped.— There is no clue to the perpetrators of the fiendish act. ALBANY, Feb. 13.—The ice commenced moving in the river about 3 o'clock this morniug, opposite the city. The breakup was sudden, and attended by a noise like thunder. Within twenty minutes after the start the water rose four feet, and has been rising ever since until at present—10:30 A. M.—the rise is about seven or eight feet. The destruction of property is large.— The damage in the basins is roughly esti mated at 960,000. Boats, propellors and other crafts were driven up by the force of the ice. A heavy tow boat, and other boats were driven through the first story of the frame freight depot of the New Y. Central Railroad, the whole front being knocked out, and the building, which is very long, and two stories high, is very much damaged. Two machine shops, ownedby Mr. Bun chen. were destroyed in a similar manner. At the foot Of Hamilton Street, a propeller was driven through the wall of the Dudley House. The damage whieh was done to produce and provisions in store is eompar tively small, as the dockmen had a strong force of hands during the night in antici pation of the danger. The water in some places is up to Broadway, and in Maiden Lane the flood already reaches to Stanwix Ha'l ce.lars. At present there is but little prospect of the abatement ot the flood. State street and Columbia street bridges have been broken to pieces and partially swept away. Along the river, ruin« of bridges, propellers, tow boats, barges and other crafts lay smashed together in heaps. It is impossible at. present to give any ade quate idea of the damage done. The de-150 struction has been more sudden and rapid than in 1889, though the water has not yet reached nearly so high a stage. No intel ligence from Greenbush, but the flood on the Hudson Railroad tide of the river must be heavy. BALDWINSVILLE, Feb. 13.—Afireattor 10 o'clock last night destroyed the flouring mill owned by Johnson, Cook & Co., and contents. Loss $100,000 on the mill and $40,000 on grain insured for $18,000. The fire is supposed to have originated by frietion of the machinery. The distillery adjoining was saved. PORTLAND, Feb. 13.—Block 33 arid 37 commercial street, occupied by Sherman Hall and others, with a large stock of teas, tobacco &c, were' destroyed by fire this morning. Loss not estimated: :i'/ 9ai* SB9-9 1 1 TENNESSEE GOES LARGELY FOB THB UNION, NASHVILLE, Feb. 12.—The returns «f the election for delegates to the State con vention are meagre, but the indication* are that the Union candidates will hariaa aggregate majority of .oVex 60,000. Tho Convention is defeated by pipb-bl£20,vt)w. As far as heard from only two ^M^pntea are elected.',' T*''•. ME. LINCOLN'S CABINET. We have information, from a. most Tell able source, that the Hon. Salmon Chase has been tendered, by Mr. Lincoln, the position of Secretary of the Treasury, whioh offer he holds under advisement We are further advised that Mr. Chase will proba bly accept, WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The genate notified the House to have the eleotexal votes counted. The Senate entered. fh tellers and other officials took their.sta tioha, and after a short address by Mr. Breckinridge, he opened the differentjeer tificates, which were read, the.Secretary ot the Senate taking notes of them. The readirg of the vote of South Carolina, caus ed good humored excitement. The read ing of all the electoral votes were comple ted, the tellers reported the result, where upon the Vice President rising said Abra ham Lincoln of Illinois, having received a majority of the whole number of votes, is duly elected President of the United States for the four years commencing on the 4th of March, 1-861, and that Hannibal Ham lin of Maine, having received a majority of the electoral votes, is duly elected Vice President for the same term. WASIIINGTON, Feb. 14.—Secretary Dix sent another letter to Mr Sherman to-day, saying it was indispensable that he should to-day give notice of a loan of $8,000,000, in order that the Government may be in funds to meet indispensable payments on the first prox. More than $5,000,000 Treasury notes have been redeemed,out of current revenue, and about $8,000,000 needed to meet public wants before that day. More than one-third of the revenue derived from customs, is paid in Treasury notes due at a future day, and the present embarrassment of the Treasury arises from the operating of a paper system, whieh compels the Government to anticipate the payment of its debts out of its current funds. As he has decided to issue notice of a public loan, he asks that the bill re ported yesterday shall not be acted on. Owing to apprehensions'of a conspiracy for the purpose of seizing the public build ings they have been privately guarded, but not in large force for some weeks. Blowing up the Capitol wasregarded as notJimprob able, and hence every night a thorough ex amination of its cellars and vaults was made by the Capital police. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13.—Yesterday morn- ing the steamer Sunshine picked up a snag at Kaskaskia Bend, which passing through her guard, burst the stearapipe, and sever al persons in the vicinity were severely scalded. Two deck hands have since died. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb., 13.—Mr. Lin coln received a dispatch at 5 p. M. from Washington, saying:—"Votes counted peaceably. You are elected." He received it with his usual equanimity. It causes much rejoicing among his iriends. Gov. Dennison's reception was a brilliant affair. Tho President aud suite will leave here at half past seven to-morrow morning. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 13.—The river is still rapidly rising. Tho water in some parrs of the city, is several feet high., and many families have been forced tea hasty retreat. In a number of instances, fami lies have been obliged at last to remove by means of boats, from second, story windows. South Broadway from near the Atlas and Argus office, down to the steamboat land ing, is navigable by boats. Tne Mansion House, late Commercial Hotel, is entirely surrounded by water. No description can convey a correct idea of the extent of dis aster. ALBANY, Feb. 14.—The water in the river is rapidly falling to-night. NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Three boxes of ammunition—one containing 2,000- boxes percussion caps, the other 5,000 cartridges with ball attached, designed for minnie ri fles, were seized by the police on board tho steamer Huntsville destined for Savannah. Hugh Ward attempted to murder his wife on avenue A. this, morning, arid then shot himself. Both wilr probably die. NEW YORK, Feb. io.—The Wine* Washington correspondent says it is re ported that ex-Secretary Floyd, before leav in Washington, sent to his home'in* Vir ginia, remittances in specie amounting to $120,000.- NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—The Journal of Commerce states that the steamer Daniel Webster will sail from this port to-day with troops and munitions designed as re inforcement* for-Fort Pickens, Florida.— She is chartered by the United States Government for Brazos, Santiago. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15,—A fracas, oc- curred to-night at the National Hotel, be tween Kellogg, of Illinois, and Medill. ed of the Chicago Tribune. Medill waa knocked down, when the bystanders sepa rated the belligerents. ]l Private advices from Montgomery statu that arrangements have been made for a loan of $14,000,000 by the first of March, at which time the confederacy will have fifty regiments of troops'in the field for the purpose of resisting coercion, invasion, or a blockade. •.':•-• --rr ., Mr.' Hemphill Jones, who went South as special agent of the "treasury depai ment, returhed'to^fah^^s^rtpaVl --." 5S. r»* ?v Lieut. Gilman, one of the officers in com mand of Fort Pickens, arrived here this evening with dispatches from Lieut. Slem mer to the Government. He left Pensaoo la on Saturday evening, having received a passport from Major Chase, who is in com mand of the Florida troops. He says the following vessels are of the harbor:—tho Brooklyn, Sabine, St. Louis, Macedonian and Wyandotte. ri A & •tfnoMMMM)