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itijmgo SCrifctnte.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19, 1860.
IVHAT SHALL BE BONES
There is not a day in which we do not
receive letters from well meaning but timid
friends as king *\Vhat Shall be Done? We
have cmir«vored, once or twice, to answer
this frequently propounded inquiry; but
as it still continues we reply again, as be
fore, Nothing 1 What can be done by the
Republicans ? wc ask in turn.' They do not
want to secede and break up the govern
ment They do not want any amendments
to the Constitution; or if in their opinion'
any are necessary for the maintenance of
the rights of citizens of the North, when
In the South, they do not ask for them now.
They have no concessions 1 to offer—no
bargains to make. They propose to sub
mit to the Constitution as it is, to abide by
ite compromises, to execute the laws in all
sections of the country, and to protect all
citizens in their constitutional rights. They
stand on safe, sound, conservative, and
eminently national ground. Will any one
tell us where, if that be abandoned, we
shall find refuge—where the country ran
bo rallied for the support of the Union,
if not on the platform that the people
have approved? The nation lias just
repudiated Douglnsism by a majority that
tells its own stoiy, and the dogmas' of the
Breckinridge men, by majorities twice or
thrice as g real. Do wc believe that the
people of this Republic arc fools and do
not know whal they want— vote
to-day, and before the ballots are counted
oat, repent of their act because South Car
olina blusters or Alabama fumes? If they
are sane and earnest men, why insult them
in the hour of triumph, by insisting that
they shall, under a threat, adopt and incor
porate into the Constitutions either of the
two political systems that they have voted
dewn ?
No, friends, nothing is to be done except
to stand firm, to use conciliatory but deci
ded language to all who arc dissatisfied
with the result at which the people have
arrived; to insist upon the preservation of
the Constitution and the Union at all haz
ards; and to encourage in each other the
cultivation of the sentiment and idea of
liberty, in obedience to the reslralnts and
limitations of law. That's all; and if we
do that with an united and declared pur
pose, this secession blast will soon blow
out, not without having redounded greatly
to the glory of the Republican cause, and
the progress of freedom in the land.
Thai’s the ground on which we stand,
and where wc intend to remain. It is that
which the Republican party occupies to
day; and as sure as God is just, it cannot
abandon U without being demoralized and
destroyed. \Vc beg all compromisers who
have set about neutralizing the people's
verdict, cither by agreement among par
ties, by acts of Congress, or tinkering the
Constitution, to count us out of their ar
rangements.
EXPECTED EFFECTS.
It is proposed by Mr. John Cochrane of
• New York, among others, to restore the
Missouri Compromise line and extend it to
the eastern boundary of California, and to
amend the Constitution in such a way that
all tcrriioiy south of that line shall, not
tTwy, he slave territory. This proposition
is now most earnestly advocated by those
who were the fiercest for the Nebraska bill
in 1854, whereby the Compromise of 1820,
was overthrown. Our Washington corres
pondent points out, so clearly that all may
eee the difference between the scheme which
lias just been hatched,and the Compromise
which the Democratic party destroyed. We
refer the reader to his letter printed here
with, while we state an objection which
will come home to all men of peace, with
great force.
The South is essentially and, her states
men say, necessarily, aggressive. She de
mands what her politicians call expansion.
Slavery is wasteful and ruinous. It curses
the soil that it occupies and makes
It as barren as if sowed withsalt. Hence it
must have, if the system is to be maintained
and enlarged in accordance with the ideas
of those who sustain it, room to spread.
Draw a Hue, then, across this continent,
south of which freedom can make no con
test for the possession of the soil, and the
struggle for the acquisition of
more tcrriioiy would instantly begin. All
former raids into Cuba, Central America,
Sonora and Mexico would be chad’s play
compared with what a single year would
develop. The temptation to increase the
political power of the South, in the Senate,
by the conquest and organization of new
States, and the alluring prospect of more
profitable lauds to be overrun and worked
out, would be irresistible; and the North
would not be able to say Nay: The threats
of dissolving the Union now held over
Northern constituencies, would be renewed
with the assurance, if we now give way, of
unbounded success. Is the prospect allur
ing to any in the North \
TVHAT NEXT!
After secession, what next? Suppose
Booth Carolina (her delegates weathering
the small-pox panic), declares herself out
of the Union to-morrow. Suppose Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi
ana and Texas follow her bad example as
last as possible, and all vote themselves in
dependent before the adjournment of Con
gress. Suppose the Federal government
commits the incredible crime of
ing and tolerating the treasonable step.
■What next?
We have expressed In no doubtful terms
the opinion that war would be the next
thing in order. We have advised our read
ers that “peaceable secession” is a contra
diction of terms—as contradictoiy as
peaceable fighting, or amiable bloodshed
Entertaining this view it is not unpleasant,
to find like opinions gaining ground among
our Democratic contemporaries. Here is
the dearly pronounced belief of the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, the most influential Dem
ocratic organ in the Northwest, taken from
its issue of the 16th inat4
“In the wake of disunion, not far in the die
tance,may be seen civil war.lusttircction, foreign In-„
terfcrencc and conquest, anarchy and strife, culml"
sating at last in military and political despotism,
behave all the elements existing among na of
these terrible national Ills, and it only needs the
lolthdraical tf Federative Union from the icene to
hasten thorn irdofM and dreadful activity. The
dangers of collision arc to be follnd In thatallena
t!on of feeling which can alone overthrow the Gov.
eminent, In the questions whichwill arise as to the
disposition to be made of the common Territories
and property belonging to the Union, acquired by
Sta blood and treasure, in the navigation of lit riv
ers and lakes, and in the treatment of its slave
population. If the Cotton States withdraw from
the Union, will they abandon their claim to the
Territories, the persisting In which has been one of
the great causes of dissolution, and relinquish all
their right and title to the immense domain ? Will
they assume their part of the national debt t How
will they treat the persons and property of those
who remain in the old Confederation ? How will
our people, so long accustomed to free trade be-'
tween the States, submit to the annoyances, vexa
tions and expenses of restrictive tariffs, which will
meet thorn, on every hand, wherever they'got
“ These subject B, In their nature and character,
would be difficult to be disposed of by negotiation
and would, wo fear, U submitted to the feU aridtta
snent cf the sxcord."
What next ? The fell arbitrament of the
sword having interposed, wliat is to be the
end ? The superior strength ofthe North
in men, money, ships, provisions, and mu
nitions of war, must finally tell in fitvor of
tho North, however long the conflict might
be maintained. Both parties would
ho more or less exhausted and im.
poverished; each would have orphans
and cripples enough to employ- its
chanties dating one generation—and
the end would he just what tho begin
ning should have been, or something much
worse. Either the geography ofthe Union
would be fully restored, or the Booth would
he a despoiled and conquered province.—
"We arc not prepared to say that slavery
would not he utterly abolished in the tu
mult that the horrors of insurrection
would not be added to tho horrors of war.
It would not be our duty to keepdown the
slave population while the masters were
fighting us.
Does not every: consideration which
should influence men pqlnt to a firm main*
tcnancc of the supremacy of the Constitu
tion at the outset? If war is to follow dis
union why not crush disunion at the start?
It is sometimes I 'an adWmtago-tu. hold a
man at bo close quarters that ho cannot
strike you. It is most manifestly an advan
tage to so treat the secession movement
that it cannot risefrom the impotence of
rebellion to the dignity of war.
IS IT A MONARCHY?
In one of oar Washington letters, we are
told that the real purpose of fiie Secession-,
ists is to set up a monarchy in the seceding
States. A correspondent of the Philadel
phia Pros reiterates the assertion, and gives
in advance a few of the titles of nobility
which will be assumed by thcKeltts, Chest
nuts and Wigfalls of that region. lie says
Now, South Carolina, as the newspapers and
tier representatives inform us, is about to re
cede. The chief abettors of that movement
talk openly of forming out of the present re
publican State a vtonarcJiieal kingdom or gov
ernment, or, at least, an aristocratic oligarchy,
out-toryiug in oppressive and illiberal meas
ures even the British aristocracy. Their elec
tion law, recently introduced into the Legisla
ture at Columbia, prescribes that only per
sons owning fifty acres of land, or In value
corresponding town lots, shall be entitled to
vote. If this election law should be adopted,
there will hardly bo 10 t ooopcr&ons in the whole
State entitled to vote, and popular suffrage
will be less universal than in England.
-They also talk of electing a Governor and
Senators for LTeTand members of the Legisla
ture for no less than .seven : ycart. Others ad
vocate openly the formation of a monarchy,
and it is not improbable that some of the lead
ing fire-eaters are dreaming already now of be
ing hereafter kings or princes of the great
kingdom of South Carolina, whilst the smaller
ones perhaps enjoy. In advance, the honors
which will be conferred upon them, by titles
of* Marquis of Bonbon, or Count of Sugar
Cone, Dukcof Cotton and Lemonade, or Baron
of Turpentine. Why should not South Caro 2
hua follow the example of Hayti, after bavin*-
cast away republican institutions ? °
The fact is that these leadlnglire eaters de
sire to destroy the rights and liberties of the
people of their own State,, because tiny are
ofnud that, If the people of South Carolina
come to realize the frnits of secession, and arc
still possessed of.tbc freedom which they now
enjoy, they will throw these schemers and en
emies of republican liberty and friends of des
potism into the Atlantic.
Tlie Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle of the Bth
inst, in discussing t .e form of government
tliat will be set up in the South when the
Union is dissolved, talks out thus:
“ Some of the wisest and best citizens propose
A HEBEDITAnr CONSTITUTIONAL MANAJtCIIV
buf however good that maybe in itself the
most-important point to discover is wheth
er or not the people are prepared lor it It
is thought, again, by others, that we shall
be able to go on for a generation or two In a
new Confederacy, with- additional safe
ruards—such, for instance, as an Executive
for life, a vastly restricted suffrage , Sena
tors elected for life, or for along period , say
(toadgone years, and the most popular branch
of the assembly elected for seven yeare, the Ju
diciary absolutely independent for life, or good
behavior. The frequency of elections, and the
universality of suffrage, with the attendant
rousing of ihe people's passions, and the neces
sary sequence of demagogues being elevated
to high station, are tboarht by many to be the
great causes of trouble among us.
“We throw out these suggestions that the
people may think of them, and act as their in
terests require. Our own opinion is that the
South might be the greatest nation on the
earth, and might maintain, on the basis of Af
rican slavery, not only a splendid Government
but a secure Republican Government But
siiil our fears are that thro ugh anarchy,wc shall
reach the despotism of military chieftains, and
dually be raised again to monarchy.”
Eveiy day opens new evidences of the j
insanity, folly and criminality of the men I
who are plotting against the government. I
MODEST PROPOSITION.
Northern men who imagine that the re-
peal of Personal Liberty Laws and a little
miscellaneous dirt eating will tom back the
secession tide, are invited to digest the fol
lowing from the Charleston Mercury, in
which the demands of the propagandists
arc stated:
“And what guarantees should satisfy the
doutli? Iu my estimation, nothing short of
amendments to the Constitution, that would make
ttsgro davery legal and perpetual in eterg State of
the UnU>n y a*d upon, every foot of territory that
note belongs, or ever ■ shall bdong, to the United
Stales, It is not only possible, but probable,
that such a reaction may take place in the pub
lic mind.” e
This, from a correspondent, is endorsed
>y the Mercury as sound -doctrine. The
vorld does move—backward.
WHAT A RAILROAD DID.
A few years ago, when the land grant
was made to the Illinois Central Railroad
the Company set forth that their grant
covered nearly as much ground as the State
of Connecticut In reply to this, the op
ponents of the scheme said the lands had
no value unless they were peopled. The
census just taken shows 814,831 souls in the
forty-nine counties through which the Tilt
nois Central Railroad runs; and of this
number 479,293 have come in since 1850,
being somewhat more than the entire
population of good old Connecticut, which
State, according to the late enumeration of
its people, has hut 400,000.
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LETTER FHOm WASHINGTON.
Dnnn’i Back-down Be«olntlOD*—lts
Kffecl—Tlie Compromise Schemes—
Cass’s BeileaaUoa and Bachanan’s
Treason*
rTYomOorOwn Correspondent]
WAiHINOTON. Dec. 14.
The “Crisis Committee” of Thirty-three
have held four sittings. All sorts of projects
have been submitted to them, and various
propositions have been presented and dis
cussed, emanating from the committee it
self. The Northern members are disposed to
adopt any basis of accommodation that docs
not require a surrender of vital principles, or
a betrayal of the rights of their constituents.
But the filavcholding members will listen to
nothing short of the Breckinridge platform,
’with ada’iHonV to it They say the Union can
only be saved by the Republicans and Douglas
their platforms. The
one must giro ’up their popular sovereignty,
and tbo other, 'congressional protection- of
slavery. ’ But a slave code for the Territories
is only one of their demands. They insist
upon the right of taking their slaves into the
Tree States, when on* business or pleasure,
and making the State in which any of them
may escape liable in damages for tho loss.
They also ask for a more vigorous Fugitive
Slave law, with money indemnity for the slaves
which arc not returned. And they particular
ly insist—making It, in fact, a tine qua non—
that tho North shall concede that slaves are
recognized as property by the Constitution;
that property in man docs exist by virtue of
that Instrument They will not even bo satis
fied that the foregoing exactions shall be enact
ed by Congress as laws and joint resolutions,
but that they must be incorporated into tho
Constitution as a part of tho fundamental law
of the land.
The symptoms of-wavering manifested by
public meetings in the Eastern States and
cities, have greatly emboldened the secession
ists during the last few days. They now firm,
ly believe that the North is giving way under
fie financial pressure. A few more turns of
the screw; a little more fuel added to panic
flames, they fully believe will bring the Free
States to their knees, and cause them to sur
render at discretion. Hence, they are growing
bolder, and to-day are putting on airs of the
most supercilious kind. The political atmos
phere of Washington city is of the most pesti
lential description. Northern members, after
breathing it awhile, are liable to Imagine, from
their own state of feelings that a change of
public sentiment is going on among their con
stituents. To this source may be traced seve
ral humiliating compromises made in the past,
in which Northern rights were sacrificed to
alaveholdiug rapacity. And at every session
individual members fall victims to this same
disease.
A singularly worded resolution passed the
Crisis Committee of Thirty-three yesterday,
with only half a dozen dissentin'* rotes. It is
difficult to tell exactly what it means, as it is
susceptible of two or three constructions; but
to my mind it Indicates a purpose on the part
of a majority of the Republicans of the com
mittee to back down! I am reluctantly
obliged to express this opinion. Those with
whom I hare conversed say that “it will do
“no harm; that it to passed for the purpose
“ of gaining time, of giving the Southern con
“ servatives a foothold, to enable them to stem
“the tide sweeping over the South; and that
“noaction under it is contemplated which
“will yield vital principles.” The history of
the resolution is thus related: The commit
tee had been in session for several hours with
out coming to any conclusion, when Rust of
Arkansas, who is a pretended Unionist, stated
that a dispatch had been drawn up in the
House, aud was being privately signed by a
large number of Southern members, setting
forth that the Crisis Committee would do no
thing, would agree on no measure of adjust
ment; that they evinced no disposition to
agree, and only met to gain time—to procras
tinate, and keep the Cotton States from going
out until after Lincoln's inauguration, when it
would be too late. This dispatch, Rust repre
scutcd, would be immediately sent to all the
principal Southern cities, and he besought the
committee to prepare some resolution that
would head it off, and show to the Cotton
States that the committee were really desirous
of adopting some plan of settlement and con
ciliation.
Rust presented a resolution couched in
general terms, embracing this idea. Morrill
of Vermont and Feny of Connecticut offered
substitutes, and Dunn of Indiana also offered
a substitute. Tho three former were rejected
by the Committee, and Dunn's was then adopt
ed by the following vote:
Yeas—Mcser*. Convin, Wilson, Winslow. Camo.
bell. Love. Davis fMd.), Stratton. Bristow, NeUorT
Dana. Kellogg, Houston. Phelps, Rust, Howard’
Hamilton, CnrUa,Barcb, Wlndom. Stoat 20.
_Xays—Messrs. Adams, Humphrey. Robinson.
Tappan, Morrill, 'Morse, "Washbume, Ferry— B.
It reads as follows:
DUNN’S RESOLUTION.
Htfoitfd, That In the opinion of this Committee
the existing discontent among the Southern peo
ple. and the growing hostility among them to the
Ltdcral Government, are greatly to be regretted
and that, whether such discontent and hostility
arc without jnstomec or not, any reasonable and
conptitntional remedies, and additional and more
**podflc and effectual guaranties of their peculiar
rights and interests as recognized by the Constitu
tion, necessary to preserve the peace of the coun
try and the perpetuation of the Union, should be
promptly and cheerfully granted.
Most of tho border Slave State members
profess to bo satisfied with this resolution.
They claim that It concedes that they are tha
aggrieved party, and that the North is in the
wrong, and willing to pass such laws or make
such amendments to the Constitution as will
guarantee them pretty much all they have
asked. They also look upon it as an entering
wedge, which, If skillfully driven home, will
split the Republican party in twain, and pre
vent anything like a united North, which they
greatly dread. They have been fearful that the
Douglas Democrats and Republicans were go
ing to unite against the secessionists, and re
sist a severance of the Union at the point of
(he bayonet But if they can by any trick or
method demoralize the Republicans, and di
vide them into discontented (actions, their old
chances of unity of Northern action arc de
stroyed ; and the slaveholders may exact their
own terms; and if they choose to remain in
the Union, can reduce the free States to the
condition of conquered provinces, humbled
aud subdued.
There arc two compromise projects hatch
ing. The one requires an amendment of the
Constitution, the other simply an act of Con
gress. The first one is the favorite in what is
called conservative (which means pro-slavciy)
circles. The other wonldbe preferred by all
the Douglas Democrats, and' most of the Re*
publicans, if obliged to make choice, as tho
lesser of two evils, in its practical workings.
Tho first of the plans proposes to divide tho
Territories on tho line of GO deg. SO min., giv
ing all south of that line to slavery. Senator
Johnson of Tennessee proposes it in this lan
guage
Resdttd, That the select committee he Instruct
ed to inquire into the expediency of establishing
by constitutional provision, a line runnimr
through the Territory of the United States, not in.
c:udea within the States, malring an equitable and
just division of said Territory, south of which line
slavery shall be recognized and protected as pro
perty by ample and full constitutional guaranties
and north of which line it shall be prohibited.
John Cochrane’s proposition fixes the line
of division on latitude 36 deg. 30 min., as also
docs Nelson’s, of Tennessee, and others. If
this compromise should bo adopted, the Free
Labor States will lose the Indian Territory*
New Mexico, Arizona, and ere long, the south
half of California. And all future acquisitions
of territory from Mexico will fall, into the
hands of the slaveholders. I am told that there
arc a few Republicans base enough to stand
ready to vote for this infamous scheme. The
old Missouri Compromise declared all territo
ry north of SO dg. 80 min. free, and left
below it an open question, to be determined
by the inhabitants thereof; bnt this scheme
makes it slave territory, absolutely and irrevo
cably.
The second and less objectionable project is
for Congress to delegate fuU power to the peo
ple of the Territories to admit, exclude, or
abolish slavery whQe in a territorial condition.
It proposes that when any Territory th*n
contain 10,000 inhabitants, tho people «htll be
endowed with the privilege of electing their
own Governor, Judges, and all other local offi
cers, and to be left perfectly free to settle the
question of slavery for themselves; and to ad
mit them as States, with or without slavery,
os their Constitution shall provide. 'This is
called tho “pure Popular Sovereignty plan.”
And It Is argued that under Us operation, aided
by the Homestead bill, and the pursuit of gold
in tho Pike’s Peak country, ail the Territories*
would come into the Union aa free States
The slaveholders withhold their sanction
from this proposition from fear, that such
would be the result. Their demand is the ad*
.mission of slavery into all the Territories, pro
tected by a slave code. But they will craftily
compromise on the first named plan, which se
cures every Inch of territory of any value
to them, and gives them a monopoly of all fu
ture acquisitions from Mexico. There area
score of other projects, but the foregoing ore
Ihe'only ones that bare arrested any attention
or are likely to be seriously considered by
either branch of Congress.
'■ We are enjoying an addition to the panic by
the resignation this afternoon of Gen. Caas of
his seat in the Cabinet as Secretary of State.
It is now generally believed that Buchanan is
one of the conspirator* In the plot to dissolve
lha Union or force the North to ignominious*
ly surrender Its rights to tho slaveholders.
The commander of Fort Moultrie, (which
commands the Charleston harbor,) is Colonel
Anderson, a native of Kentucky, and as bravo
a man as ever lived- He applied to tho Pres
ident for a reinforcement of 500 men- He
has only CC men lit for duty. There are plenty
of troops at old Point Comfort who are not
needed, and could be spared to reinforce Fort
Moultrie. Gen. Scott has urged Buchanan to
dispatch them thither, but without effect
Old Buck wants to leave the Fort and all its
government property in a condition to become
an easy prey to tho South Carolina tories on
the day they declare themselves out of the
Union.
The wife of CoL Anderson presented herself
In person to the President, and plead as only
woman can plead, for a reinforcement. She
'plainly declared that her husband and all his
men were going to be sacrificed wilfully and
wickedly, aa CoL Anderson was a man who
would never surrender the Fort to the Dis
unlonists while life remained in hla body. But
the old dotard was obdurate. She then laid
the matter before different members of the
Cabinet, and plead in behalf of her bravo hus
band. Gen. Cass went to Buchanan and told
him that if he did not send a reinforcement
able to protect the Fort, he would resign, and
gave him three days to consider on it Bu
chanan returned a flat negative, and Casa Im
mediately tendered his resignation. He la
now engaged in writing his reasons for the
step. This event is calculated to produce a
profound sensation throughout the country.
Every loyal citizen will iriaiantly declare that
Cass acted rightly, and that Buchanan deserves
instant impeachment, and should be broke of
his office. It Is possible that this act may
hasten the crisis, by arousing the sleeping
North to a due sense of its wrongs and duty.
Chicago.
SECOSIt LETTER.
The New York Plan of Surrender—A
Base Betrayal of the North—Action
of the Printing Committee—Par*
chase of Wendell’s Office.
. Washington, Dec. 15, 1860.
The six pro-elavery doughface members rep
resenting the city of New York hare ad
dressed a letter to Mr. Humphrey, (Rep.) one
of the Crisis Committee of Thirtythreo, urg
ing him to advocate certain amendments to
the Constitution in order to save the Union,
and bribe the slaveholders to remain In it,
those amendments, wjiich areas follows,to
be submitted to the State Legislatures for rati
fication within the next two months: Ist A
climatic partition of the Territories on the
latitude of 36 30—all South of that line to be
surrendered to slavery; North of it to remain
free. 2d. Slavery to be maintained in the Dis
trict of Columbia, in all the Forts, Arsenals,
and other Federal property within slave States;
also guaranteeing the inter-state slave trade.
3d. The single electoral district system for the
election of the Presidential electors to be
adopted, with two electors at large for each
State, as at present, provision being made for
a second election between the two highest
candidates, in the event of no candidate hav
ing received the requisite majority on the first
vote. 4th. Non-cllgibility of the President for I
re-election. sth. A fugitive slave when arrest- I
ed, to be delivered over to the Marshal of the I
district from which it is claimed he may have
fied, and there to stand a trial as to his being
a free man or slave. 6th. Payment by States
for slaves escaping into them. 7th. All liberty
bills to be repealed or declared null and void.
Signed by Cochrane, Briggs, Maclay, Parr,
Sickles, and Horace F. Clark. It is not likely
that Humphrey or the Committee will pay any
attention to the plans of Mr. Sickles and his
compeers.
The House and Senate Printing Committees
have purchased Wendell’s printing establish
ment, paying therefor the sum of $135,000. It
is alleged that Wendell offered it last year fur
180,000, though the price paid is some SIO,OOO
less than the original cost It is proposed to
discharge the present Senate and House print
ers—Bowman of the Constitution and Ford of
Ohio—and have oil the government printing
executed in thepriotciy just purchased. Bow
man has cleared out of his contract by sub
letting it, $43,000 during the past year, and
Ford & Co. have cleared $12,000. But these
fat takes arc about played out Chicago.
FB«a KANSAS.
Return of tbe Troops—Great Scare—
Visit to Jennlsonand Montgomery
—Dueling, Ac,
{Special Correepondeqco of the Chicago Tribune.!
Leaven wonTH, Kansas, Dec. 14,1860.
The troops returned night before last from
Fort Scott to Forth Leavenworth, not by any
means with the pomp and circumstance of
glorious war, but rather with the chagrin and
scorn of an Inglorious humbug. They feci
somewhat in the condition of the celebrated
King of Franco who performed the feat of
marching up the hill {and down again. The
same scene, though not on so grand a scale,
has often been performed before in this Terri
tory for the amusement of the people. Like
the clown in the circus, the U. S. soldiery
might well exclaim, as they go through their
periodical acrobatic performances here, “How
do you do ? Here we arc again! Like a bad
penny, always returning!” and so on through
the usual stock phrases of the melancholy jes
ters of the ring and sawdust
Jesting aside, a largo proportion of Harney’s
command, with the General himself, have re
turned. They report all quiet. Two compa
nies of infantry are quartered at Mound City
and two at Fort Scott The inhabitants feel
exceedingly indignant at this encroachment
upon them.
Let me venture a remark here, to the effect
that the post history of Southern
shows that the readiest way to provoke a dis
turbansc, is to quarter U. S. troops in that
section. The pro-slavery clement grows inso
lent under its wings, and some outrages are
sure to be committed. In ’SB, when dragoons
were stationed at Fort Scott, three or four
murders were committed on peaceable citizens
in less than a week, and the troops were used
illegally to bunt down the men who were de
fending the people, until Montgomery at the
Yellowstone Creek llrcd upon and defeated
them. There is more danger of a disturbance
to-day, than there has been since the first day
of Judge Williams’s scare.
Lieut. Belger, of the artillery, gave a friend
on amusing account of the visit of the troops
to the houses of Dr. Jennison and Captain
Montgomery. He .was detailed, with a force,
as a posse for U. 8. Deputy-Marshal Camp
-bell of Fort Scott They first visited afaonse
on the outskirts of Mound City, which was
pointed out to them as Jcnnison’s. After sur
rounding it with the greatest precaution, they
entered and found a candle burning and a bed
arranged for an occupant, but the bird was
flown.
They then went to the house of Captain.
Montgomery. This is about six miles from
Mound City, on the north side of Little Sugar
Creek. About half a mile from the tana a
party was deployed to environ the west side of
the cabin. They thiea approached. No war
like sound greeted their march except what
themselves created. The little log cabin
wherein the man lives whose name is a stench
In Missouri nostrils, seemed entirely peaceful.
A boy stood near the door chopping away at a
knot In a log—evidently for a purpose, and
that not to ent wood for nse. He looked at
them with a stolid air, but gave no ftnther
signs of noting their appearance.
Tha Deputy-Marshal and three of his party
entered and found Mrs. Montgomery, an old
lady, her mother, with several boys and girls,
to welcome them with smiling frr?s. Mrs.
Montgomery greeted them pleasantly, and la
response to their questions, replied the
last she had heard of the Captain wa» a state
ment in the papers that he was in Lawrence
two weeks before. This is all the Information
they obtained, except a shrill salutation from
the old lady, w that they might have been in
better business, she’d hare thought.”
The boy was as stated still chopping at the
knot. In response to the request of the offi
cers, he led them down to a fortification built
by Capt. John Brown, Stevens and Kagi, in
the winter of *SS-9, for their defence. It Is a
log and earthen breastwork, in the edge of the
timber, some six. hundred yards from the
house. This was the only sign of a fortifica
tion, and that was of no use for defending the
Captain’s dwelling. It was the general im
pression that Captain Montgomery was no
further from the scene than his cornfield or
the neighboring timber. So ended ye great
war of re border.
1 shall be on the ground in three or four
days and will write further particulars. R. H.
Rumored Hanging or Three Zaa Salle
Men la Texas*
[From the La Salle (111.) Prats.}
A rumor ha* been circulating in town for
a few days post, that three men who formerly
resided in La Salle, and who emigrated from
this place to Texas last spring, have recently
been hung In that State for no.other pflfence
than that of having been citizens of a Northern
State, and that State the home of the President
elect. We do not know what foundation there
ia for this report; wo only give It as we have
heard it repeated, a dozen times at least. It is
true that several men did leave hero for Texas
last spring, all good, honest, quiet citizens, but
we do not think it advisable to ***ll names un
til the troth of the above rumor shall be ascer
tained.
The President Elect from an
Stand-Point.
(From the London Times, Nor. 23.]
The race of life 1b so interesting a soWect,
both to those who have succeeded in it and
those who hare been disappointed in It, that
the adventurous career of the President elect
of the United States, as the New York press
describes It, Is sure to attract much notice. It
la put forward as a remarkable instance ol
whatamin can do “under the Influence of
American IniiUutione,” and so undoubtedly it
is. We will only alter the phrase a little, and
say that it Is a remarkable instance of what a
man cab do in America In the abtence of all in
stitutions to check him. The fivorable pecu
liarity of American Institutions In Mr. Lin
coln's case has .been that they , did not exist,
that It has been the great institution of Ameri
ca not to have institutions in the sense in
which we of the Old World have them. It is
plain that onr institutions, if they are a great
assistance to society, are at the same time a
great check to Individuals. Our strongly and
clearly marked professions entirely put it out
of anybody's head that he should enter Into
them after a certain limo : of life and without
a certain education.
The barrier is almost insuperable which an
adventurer who approaches by a short ent has
to cross. In America it U quite different
Mr. Lincoln was first a firmer, then a trader
down the Mississippi, then a surveyor, then a
lawyer, upon which last platform has risen
the statesman and the President of the United
States. Now, take a man of Mr. Lincoln’s
versatile and fertile mind, and this liberty of
professional ascent is an enormous gain. It is
every thing to him. In Mr. Lincoln we have
not your man of one talent Your man of one
talent may possess it to perfection, but he
may spare himself the labors of ambition, he
may be sure that he is bom to be a drudge
Mr. Lincoln can do anything he sets his mind
to, partly from natural pliability, partly by
an immense power of fixing hla attention on
whatever Is before him. He starts without
even the common edneation of a. village school
boy ; six weeks in a log-house school, when he
was 16, was his first and last experience of a
schoolmaster, but he is seen afterwards givin"
fifty minutes of fixed and absorbed attention
out of hla midday hour of relaxation, after
some hastily swallowed monthfuls, to his
book. The consciousness of this power gives
him confidence. He knows he can get up
anything he likes. « The 1 bovs' catch him bv
the arm” and make him a militia captain out
ofm momentary freak, because he Is the most
popular and pleasant fellow in the “ New Sa
lem;” an ordinary man would beg to be ex
cused a campaign against the “ Black Hawks
but the storekeeper in an instant accepts the
command. It Is with the same self-confidence
that when his storehouse, owiog to a fraudu
lent partner, fails him, and leaves him eleven
hundred dollars in debt, he follows the hint
which an accidental look into a book on sur
veying gives him. He knows ho ean make
himself a surveyor in no time. Again, he
knows he can make himself a lawyer, and ac
cordingly a lawyer he becomes. We must add
to this a striking countenance, a commandin''
pereon, a good manner, properly combining
self-possession and heartiness, and we see at
once a man who has prodigious powers ol
making his way.
Now, as we say, It is obvious what a clear
gala “American institutions” arc to a man ol
this aspiring mould of mind joined to such an
tecedents. Such antecedents must have been
a fatal drag upon Mr. Lincoln in any country
of the Old World, at least in its normal condi
tion, and without a revolution to disturb it—
Would the profession of the law, for example,
ex-bargeman, ex-etorehonsekeeper, ex-land
surveyor in their country? It would not have
Jeen. The idea would never have entered into
Mr. Lincoln’s head. The venerable looks of
the sages of the law, their wigs, their ermine
the divinity which hedges in a judge, the
proud traditions of the profession, would have
forbidden the aspiration. At a certain time it
is too litc to begin.
A man does not leap into practice at once
with ns, however clever he may be. Tradition
dictates the patronage of solicitors, and vetoes
experiments. In a country, however, where a
successful professional ascent is open to a mau
after trying ever so many previous lines, where
there is no barrier to keep out sudden visitors,
where It is not necessary to make your choice
before you arc twenty' but where you have
the option of turning experience and growth
of intellect, through whatever previous chan
nels derived, at once, when you like, into the
most dignified and elevating channel, where
all this is sanctioned and encouraged by public
opinion, and a man creates no prejudice against
himself as a pushing and presumptons aspi
rant by snch a course, but rather a fcclingin his
favor as a man of proper spirit, who is turning
to account the advantages of the state of soc£
ety in which he lives—where this is the order
of things in a country, a powerful and extraor
dinary btimulous to exertion is offered to one
class of men which is not offered elsewhere—
we mean to that class which is conscious of
great powers, but has tho drawback of an un
lavorable start and a bad introduction to life.
These men do not hear the words ** Too late ”
sounding In their ears; within a moderate
compass it is never “toolate” forthem. They
are in time long after the clock of older insti
tutions has struck. Time and tide wait for
them. They have their chance when It would
have gone under another sun. The prospect,
then, i$ an enormous impulse to them,because,
if it la never too late to succeed, ills never too
late to exert themselves.
This, indeed, produces a restlessness in the
activity of American society which we have
not in onr own. Society with ns is active, but
with the consciousness at*the same time of
. certain bounds which cannot be passed. There
is a tendency to men resting on their oars in
all professions, In this way—that, inasmuch as
there la no way out of a profession when a mail
' is once In, he coitteots himself with jpi advance
m the arts and facilities of that one profession.
It is hard work, at first, because every new
material is difflult, as being new; but as soon
as aptitude is acquired, the professional man
f* tolerably straight sailing, and then comes
the disposition to repose In the pleasant exer
cise and command of arts and knowledge al
ready acquired. The real activity of mind is
more on the surface than below, because
the main struggle with the obstructive
matter Is over. But American active life is
restless, because, os new material to be mas
tered comes in with every new profession,
where a man can go on changing from one pro
fession to another he multiplies the necessity
■ far conquest, and keeps up the strusrrie for
life, and the most arduous part of that strug
gle far longer. In fact, the American never lew
himself rest There is no harbor of refuge
which receives the accomplished professional
man at a certain time of life, where he simply
occupies himself in the use of tools which he
has already mastered; no, be must migrate
from fats professional home to another untried
soil. Everybody migrates in America, and the
early removals of the Lincoln family from
Kentucky to Spencer Conuty, from Spencer
County to Illinois, from Coles County to Ma
con County, only typify the transplantations
of American intellect, the constant breaking
of new professional ground, and the uninter
rupted succession of new positions and oppor
tunities which convey tbe Mississippi boatman
to tbe dignity of the white House. If theuew
system has it advantage*, however, the old one
bas its points ofsupcnority-too. It would re
quire a long disquisition to enter into them
all, but it may be mentioned as one advantage
that life should not consist wholly of motion*
but that there should be a little rest in it as
welL Such a modified system may uotproduce
the most prominent instances of individual
elevation, but it produces a large amount of
moderate distinction, time and rest to enjoy it,
whereas the American plan, for one great rest
less intellect which attains its complete object,
•has thousands which go through the whole cH
rcer of restlessness and never reach the goal
Items for the Chicago Times.
The Cincinnati GazetU says;
Captain Kounlz, of the steamer City of
Memphis, running between St. Louis and
New Orleans, has been ordered away from the
latter port because he voted for Lincoln, and
we sec cards in the New Orleans papers in
which various captains and clerks humbly pro
test that they did not, as reported, cast their
ballots for the tabooed candidate.
In confirmation of the above, we give the
following extract from the Memphis Appeal:
If wc may rely on rumors that occasionally
reach as, and on statements occasionally ap
pearing in papers published along the river,
there exists a strong tendency to make open
war unonsome of the steamboats. The Vicks
burg IHifiy of Saturday last says: A number
of our citizens assembled on'the wLarf-boat
on Saturday morning, in anticipation of the
arrival of the City of Memphis, whose cap
tain it U said, boasted of being a Lincoln man.
Fortunately for his bacon, the boat passed up
the day before. It would be well for all Black
Republican tubs not to land here in tbc future
—or something might happen.”
Louisiana.— Bernard Smith, whom the New
Orleans Ddta styles, “ a tine built, determined,
good-looking fellow,” a ship carpenter by
trade, has been arraignednnd committed with
out bail In New Orleans, for saying, lam an
Abolitionist to the backbone,” and in case of
revolt he would “ fly to the banner of Lincoln
and fight for him.”
More op It.—The Lafayette (Ind.) Courier
says;
A well-known citizen of this county, who
has removed to Texas for his health, writes
under date of Gd Inst; “I wrote yon some
lime ago, but presume the letter was miscar
ried. Tor God’s sake stop the Courier. It U
worth a man’s life to take it from the post of
fice. A gentleman of my acquaintance in this
neighborhood has got into serious trouble on
account of his subscribing lor the N. Y. Inde
jKndenL I send yon a copy of the Galveston
-Vcw, with a paragraph marked for your peru
ral.”
The name and post office location we for ob
vious reasons withhold. The paragraph Urns
referred to is marked eigniflcanUy-with red
ink, snd reads as follows:
“ Two men were bang In Corpcll county on
the 7th for voting for Lincoln and Hamlin.”
Northebs Homes Not Wasted.—'Ths
Connenvnie (Ind.) Tim** says:
We understand that Mr. Jo. Shawhan of
Rush county, recently went to New Orleans
with a lot of fine horses, which be bad to sell,
bnt has been informed since his arrival in that
city that no horses from an Abolition or free
State can find purchasers among the patriotic
'denizens of New Orleans. Mr. Shawhan is a
Democrat—a Breckinridge Democrat at
—and during Ms temporary sojourn In the
Crescent City has worn the “lone star ” as an
act of respect for thb cause of the South; hot
although this course has secured him from
personal violence, it has not enabled Mm to
accomplish the object of his mission, and we
are informed that Ms father, John Shawhan,
Esq., has written to him to return with tho
hones. In Ms letter to Ms lather, Jo. gives a
gloomy picture ot the state of affairs in New
Orleans; says he has seen men shot becanso
they wore no “star,”and thinks it rather too
“warm” a climate for Northern men to visit,
evsn In winter.
Fbocxess or Ddcocsact.—Gov. Gist, of
South Carolina, has thi« sentiment in Ms last
message:
“The idea that a majority must always
govern, wMch has taken possession of the
Northern mind, is as mischievous as it is fal
lacious.”
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
dzci«iojt or the the svteexb court or
or itLDfou. rxspectiso raojoiioar votes.
RATABLE WITH EXCIUXOX.
We have at length been able to procure a copy
of uid recent dcaiilon of tho Bnpreme Court of
this State upon ths subject, which we publish at
length:,
Supreme Court-State of IRlnoU. Dotid 2T.
Z<nc#, Plaintiff In Error, ts. Georg* Slit* et
at., Defendant* in Error. Opinion of th«
Court.
Tbeqacstionli then presented; whether this In
strument was admissible under the common counts
Without .proving a conildcratlonf I‘romli.oiT
i?* - * ® exchange and scaled
all i mport a consideration, and when they form the
oasis or an action a consideration need neither
po averred or proved, bat It Is not so with other
instruments. This Instrument is not under wsl,
nor is It a bill of exchange. Was it a promissory
note? That la defined to be **a promise or agree
ment In writing to pay a specified sum at a time
incrcin limited, or on demand, or at sfeht, to a
person therein named, or to bis order, or to tho
hearer.” Chit, on Bills, 51C, Bayley on Bills, p. 1.
defines apromlssory note to be a written promise
to pay money absolutely and at all events. And In
the application of the raid, the doctrine seems to
oe adhered to with entire unanimity, that a note or
pul mug? t>e for a specific • am, or at least for a sum
mat may be ascertained by compntation. indepen
dent of all other evidence. If an Instrument be for
a specified sum of money, and also for the payment
P\ S0l aethlng else, the value of which is not ascer
tained. bnt depends upon extrinsic evidence, it
would not bea bill ornote. Had this promise been
for the stun of money named, and furthevaiaeof
roar days' labor, no one wonld have supposed it to
be a promissory note, beesose proof would have to
be resorted to for the purpose of ascertaining the
valne of the labor, vnu consequently It would not
be for a specified sum of tuonev. Such a promise
leaves the sum agreed to be paid wholly uncertain.
«»e know that current rates of exchange between
commercial points is fluctuating, and cabject to
constant change, depending upon tho balance of
trade and other causes Incident thereto. It is sub
ject to fiuct nation as tbe valne of labor, or the price
of grain, cattle or other articles of property. And
It has never been held that a court may judicially
ux the price of any of these commodities Independ
ent of proof, and yet to do go would be no more un
reasonable than to take judicial notice of tho rate
of exchange between different commercial places.
** c are aware of no decision that has ever held that
a court may take notice of each facts, nor has any
decision been referred to which holds such an In
strument to be a promissory note. Nor can it be
successfully urged that custom has changed tne
law, and rendered such instruments valid promU
notes. These instruments owe their negotia
bility and evidence of tbe receipt of a considera
tion, to the operation of a statute and not to tbe
common law. Prior to the adoption of the statute
ofAnne In Great Britain, andour statute reeulatln~
negotiable instruments, they, neither in that coun
try or in this State, p ssessed such qualities; and
under the Brit**b statute thev must be for tbe pay
ment of a certain specified mm of monev. and to
under our statute, and not mere Immaterial a-rec
ments or covenants to have thas effect. *
Unless the Instrument declared upon possesses
?1 of a bill or note, or be under seal,
if declared upon, specially a consideration most
averred and proved, or if offered under the common
courts. This instrument being a elmple contract,
not under seal, and neither a note or bill is sub
ject to all tbe roles which are applied to other
simple contracts. When it was offered under the
common counts, as it imports no consideration to
authorise* a recovery, a sufficient consideration
should have been proved. When offered under the
Common counts, it dispensed with no proof that
wonld been required under a properly framed spe
cial count. It, unlike a note or bill, afforded no
evidence of money lent, advanced, or had and re
ceived to tbe nsc of the plaintiff.
Bnt It Is Insisted that no objection was made
when It was offered in evidence on the trial below
under tbe common courts, and all objection mu«t
be considered as waived. When the defendant
icrmltteil it to be read without objection, be mutt
be held to have admitted that It was evidence, and
that It was duly executed, but not that I: was suf
ficient evidence to warrant a recoverv. It certain
ly was evidence, and bad there been further evi
dence of the consideration upon which It was
based, then a recovery wonld have been proper
but for the want of such additional proof, the de
fendant may be heard to Insist that the evidence
although legitimate, is iurnfllcienl. The bill of
exceptions embodied In the record, states that it
contains all the evidence, and we cannot presume
that there was any ptpof of a consideration, and
In Its absence the court erred In renderin'- a judg
ment In favor of the plaintiff below.
The rate of current exchange on New York was
fixed by agreement of the parries, and proof as to
that fact was thereby rendered unnecessary. The
judgment of the court below is reversed, and the
cause remanded.
Wbat tlie Cotton State* bare Coat tbc
Union,
[From the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Some people arc credulous enough to sup
pose that the seceding States, having first got
out of the Union, can make a settlement with
the remaining States which shall leave a suffi
cient balance on the side of the seceders to
entitle them toclaira asharoof the Territories.
Let us see. The following is a table of the
tual expenditures of Che Government for and
on account of the cotton States. The Mexican
war expenses are properly counted in, since
that war would never have been undertaken
»>-it for the claims of the extreme Southern
States:
Louisiana (purchased of France) $15,000,000
Interest paid F.JUT.SM
Florida (purchased of Spain) 5.001000
Interest paid l.mt-CO
Texas (for boundary) 10.DJ0.000
Texas (for indemnity) 10.0ui.a)0
Texas (for creditors last Congress).... 7 700 000
Indian expenditures, all kind* S.O'JOOuO
Mexican war 217.113.373
Soldier*’ pensions and bounty land*... 13.000 000
Florida war CS.OOOtKW
Sohllora’ pensions 7*OOO*COO
To remore Indians 6000*000
I‘aid by treaty to New Mexico isiuuojm)
Paid to extinguish Indian titles 1W.000.0i0
Paid toGeorjia n.np^ouj
Total
To this U to be added some hundreds of mil-
lions more, on account of the cost of the Pont
Ofiiec service hi those States, over and above
the revenue, for seventy years: on account of
the enormous extra expenses la that section
for river and harbor Improvements, military
defences, Ac.; and on account of extra protec
tion to Southern sugar, paid by (he people of
the North, in the shape of aSO per cent taritT,
which amounted to ficJw million* of dollar* lu
the single year of 1807.
Now, let any one contemplate the Cotton
States a* fairly outside the Union, amlattcmpt
ing to negotiate with their late partners for
their share in the TcrrHorial domain and other
Federal property. Here is a debit of upwards
of five hundred millions against them, to com
mence with. Is it likely that thenon-secedlng
State? would view with much favor a demand
from the scceders who bud successfully con
spired against the common weal, to divide with
them the Territories * And if not, what pos
sible umpire could be either agreed upon or
obtained, to decide the difference, wide and
irreconcilable as it would be? Mn«t it be de
termined, at last, by an appeal to the bloody
arbitrament of tbe sword? And if so, which
section is most likely to hold iho Territories
against the other?
May nut the South find, at last, that In rush
ing out of the Union to secure the abstraction
of the right to hold slave* in the Territories,
have lost all claim to anv Territories in
which to hold them ? Would It not do well to
lay to heart wise old .zEsop’s £xblc of the dog
and the shadow?
North Carolina*
The Xetcbcm Pinpra* of December 12th, says:
“From oil that wc could see and loom do*
ring our flying trip to Statesville and back we
ore convinced that a large majority of the peo
ple arc opposed to secession at tills time, for
existin': causes. There was a large meeting at
Statesville on Saturday, which, bv invitation
we addressed briefly. The care left before the
resolutions were reported, but wc were assur
ed by men of all parties that Iredell was unan
imously opposed to going out fur existing
evils. Some six or eight hundred men were
present at the meeting, a large number oftlicm
old men, and the anxiety manifested by every
one showed how deeply they felt fur the sta
bility of tbc Union. Iredell is a large slave
holding county, and should ever the state de
viand the services of her citizens they will be
found as ready to march In her defence as those
of any other county,
“Not a single cockade was visible in Iredell,
At Salisbury we saw a few; one of them be
ing worn by a northern man who has been bnt
a few years In the State, and who has but a
little interest anywhere. There is some acces
sion feeling about Salisbury, but we were as
sured by well-informed gentlemen that tho
Union sentiment was largely ia the ascendant
in the county. Business in both counties is
flat, and the Sheriff of one of them told ns that
unless the Legislature i>assed a stay-law simi
lar to that jnissed in Georgia large quantities of
property would have to be sacriiiceiL Cumin"
cowo. we passed Sunday at Raleigh. In Wake
county the Union men arc said to count at
least lime to one, and in tbc Legislature well
informed gentlemen say that there will be a
decided majority against goimr out because
other States do so. Judge Ruffin left Raleigh
on Monday morning. Wc learned from relia
ble authority that, being appealed to, he ad
. vised bis friends to hold on to the Union ss
long as they could do so with safety and honor,
and only to embrace secession as a last re
sort.”
Not Even the Cobb Left.
[Special Dispatch to the New York Tribune.]
The condition of the Treasury is far 'worse
than is understood by the public, or disclosed
in the weekly statements. It has no: been so
bad at any time since 1811, when Treasure
notes were sold at 25 per cent, discount Over
draft* amounting: to $250,000 have been made
on New York, ami orders bare been dispatched
to St Louis to transfer SOOO,OOO sent there to
pay army and other demands, to New York to
satisfy these drafts. There are onlv a few
hundred thousand dollars in ail the iieposito
rics, scattered In small sum*, and thus ren
dered unavailable at any particular point Tbo
Mint fond, which is rarely touched for anv
other purpose, Is exhausted, and there are
warrants amounting to $2,000,000 on the Sec*
rebuy’s table, wMch arc not signed, because
they cannot be paid. Mr. Thomas will take
immediate steps to secure the payment of in
terest on the public debt, due on the Ist of
Jannary, if all other demands hare to be tem
porarily postponed.
Boon alter Mr. Cobb came into office be re
deemed the Government loan at a premium of
16 per cent, to relieve the plethoric Treasury,
and tbs day he went out it was sold at 13 per
cent, discount. So much for Democratic abil
ity and economy.
Quite TJysECESsinT.—lt is proposed In one
of the Charleston papers that, in order to keep
unpleasant news away from that State, the
State Government shall take the control of the
telegraph lines, and appoint as operators “men
of sterling character and well known, who
would sec that nothing detrimental to thepnb
lie welfare is transmitted over the wires.” It
is also suggested that the Southern press
should unite and have their own reporter at
the North, who shall send them only such
news as Is suited to that market. “The South
Carolinians would do well” says' the Spring
field Jtepublican, “to send a commission to
Austria to learn how to do these things, or
maybe the late King of Naples could be se
cured to take the management of their depart
ment of surveillance. He Is used to the frail
ness, and would know by Instinct whatever is
dangerous to the peace of 4 the peculiar insti
tution.*”
This, for present protection, is quite unneo
•ssffy. It is now well understood in all tele
graphic circles that no operator nor agent at
Charleston dare send & dfcpafch speaking in
derogation of ths secession movement. An
exchange says that if one should do so, there
would be a funeral from that office on tke next
day.
A Letter from Florida,
We are permitted to publish tho following
letter written by a gentleman residing in ono
of the leading cities of Florida to his friend la
thUclty: -
'■ 41 Your panic is groundless. The Union is
safe. FvenSouth Carolina wUlbcllnallvcoaxed
back or forced back into the Confederacy.
There is every where at bottom a strong con
servative feeling, content to let well alone, and
dreading the hazards of a troublesome experi
ment. The speeches and manifestoes you see
(a la Chinese) do notrepresent public sentiment.
They are: bnt the vaporing* of wounded self
love under tbe coronets of defeat, or the
devices of. capitalists and demagogue»_for.
political and commercial ends.
“Florida has already commenced to sicken of
Its disunion frenzy, It has had time to realize
the difficulty and lolly of the position in which
certain designing knaves had near?/ placed
her. Tbe leading politicians and place hold
ers of this little State are South Carolinians,
by birth and breeding, and they have only
seized the favorable occasion, presented by
Linco'n’s election, to effect their old and
cherished project of making Charleston and
Feruandino, great commercial and Importing
centres, by making them free ports. Through
their means. Disunion meetings have been
gotten np here, and the people so well manag
ed that fora while and daring a brief reign oj
terror, none but secession sentiments were
openly expressed. Few, however, beside tho
leaders, seriously desired secession, and tho
sober second thought of the generality now
seems averse to a separation, provided a
decent excuse cun be found for staving in tbe
Union, without their being obliged to eat too
much dirt. Probably ‘‘Old Biick.” will im
mortalize himself by Issuing a strongUnlon
message, a Southern Convention will be
held, and they will conclude to stay in the
Union and not cry out utUU they are hurt.
“ I have lately talked with a hundred per
sons probably from Georgia. Tennesse and
Kentucky, and have not found ono who
thought the election of a Republican President
was good cause of separation.”
The Lose of Life upon the Lakes in
IB6o*
[From the Detroit Tribune.}
We publish below a statement showing the
nnmberof lives lost upon the lakes of those
engaged in, and while navigating LViil and
steam passenger and freurhc vessels, and of
travelling as passengers. We have relied upon
our files for the items, and believe the list
accurate, and certainly, at least within fhe
bounds of facts. The probabilities, indeed,
are rather in favor of a belief that our aggre
gate falls short of the real sum total, for many
vessels of the smaller class trading between
oat of tbc way ports, and being-wrecked at
points far removed from places of publication
of marine news, might loose men singly, or
by the small crew*, and tbc casualties be noted
by no papers finding their way into the offices
of the papers of the larger ports. The omis
sions, it is therefore not unreasonable to be
lieve, will overbalance anv errors foundbelow
if any Inaccuracies, Indeed, exist.
The aggregate is fearfully large, and larger,
wo believe, than that of any previous season,
if not of any *Urcc seasons. ' AltvAuadm? and?
tixlypcrton* met their death between the 23d
of .March and the 2oth of November, a period
of eight months, by water, stc&m and cold,
and the casualties incident to working sail
vessels.
The loss by one catastrophe alone, rizf that
of the stcamcrLady Elgin, was according to
the estimate* of the reporters in Chicago end
Milwaukee, full four hundred, and all were
drowned.
Seventy-eight lives, chiefly, if no entirely
those of sea-faring men, were sacrificed to the
demon of the waters, and to the frost and
»now in the terrifle gale that swept the lakes
on the 23d and 24th days of the last month.
Twenty seamen, on nearly as many difl'erent
vessels, while in the performance of their duty,
were swept overboard during the season, and
drowned.
Thirty-five persons mefc their death by be
ingscaldcd, by violent concussions, or by .be
ing drowned, in consequence of explosions of
boilers. Six entire crews were lost, not ono
being left to tell the talc.
Sir, Cobb Inscribed,
The meanest and most malignant production
of a Secession politician, is the address to the
)eopl« of Georgia by the Hon. Howell Cot*b.
t abounds in tho grossest pervereions of hlv
tory, the most vindictive falsifications, and tho
vilest insinuations against the men who arc
coming into the power, that he and his kind
have so shamefully abused. If thero is one
man in the United States now hated and des
pised by the great mass of shc people more
thoroughly and heartily than anyotuerman,
that man is Mr. Cobb. He is responsible for
the imbecility and disgrace of the Administra
tion with which he has been connected, and
which he has deserted in the hour of iu great
est tribulation, and bo has iattened in tho
national treasury to leave it bankrupt and dis
credited ; and disappointed iu bis aspirations
to succeed Mr. Buchanan; and having made
the mistake of supposing that the disuuionUts
would rule the Union, he turns traitor and re
tires from the Federal Capitol to use his in
licence in the disruption of the Federal Union.
Ifhe should physically escape the gallows he
will be duly gibbeted in history. —Cincinnati
Commercial.
POR THE HOLIDAYS.
VTe have Just reeelTod a superb assortment of
POINT GAUZE SETTS.
POINT VENICE SETTS. PARIS EMBRODIRES.
Oa Collar*. Sleeves Ilandkorctloft, Ac.
Itleli Cobes, DressCoocL-, Paris Cloaks,
Gentlemen's Famishing Goods. Ac.. Ac.
a ..-.—.a . VTM. R OSS * CO..
dulSdflettJairt 1 Stand 10J Lake street.
.sljy,77i,lr«
jpOR HOLIDAY GIFTS.
SOW Plecr* American Print Work* and Philip Allea
Print* for Light Genu, regular price one *MlUag.
S,fXX) Piece* New Merrimack Prints for tea cent?.
500 Pieces VTyvc ValcctUi for one shilling.
New Silks for twoand-elxpcace s yards.
J>rc»s Ciondii, Shawls, Cloaks,
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS AND DRT
GOODS OF EVSRV DESCRIPTION,
At Panic Price* for the Uolidaj?.
Wm’ M. ROSS ft CO,
driMJCRJanI IC7 and 1&) Lake ‘
73 I. AK K _jS Txi !•: FT.
ZEPHYU AVOBSTUDi
A T
lOODS, COSTESI GAPES, SLEEVES,
Gaiters, SSincm,
JACKETS, SHATI2VG- CAPS,
Talmas*, &©., &©., Sen.
All of oar own BZanafacluro.
ADDISON GRAVES,
JpiBROIDERIES AXD LACES.
We hare just received a
large and Very Fine Assortment
Of these Good*, It eluding many
KKlfr STYLES COLLARS, SETS, A.,
These flood* bare been oelected ■with mu
aadwmbawddatasaallproflt
. ADDISON* GRAVE*.
BOSKUn-lm :a La-,. , x i eefi>
7§ LAK E ST R F.E T.
Tinder Garments,
HOStEUY ASD CLOVES.
Oor stock of the shove Goods'* u
Extremely X>eairsO>le One.
We hare JCST the joodi required for a FIRST
CLi §S. T F, AI>2 * -ADDISON* GTJAVKS,
. 73 Lake direct.
JQRESS ASD CLOAK
iKinaiitcs,
OF EVERY STYLE AND COLOR,
Ip eluding
WjJP*} Plat Braid*, all widths t
x nnsesi, Silk aud Crochet ; But* 9
ton* la Mik and Velvet, Bella
and Belt lUbboun, all
Gilt aud SUk.
TA5281.3, TASSOS, TASSELS,
CrirtUes, Corde, «Sce.
•or prices are reaeecable end awwtment
AD I’ls OX ORAVT.S,
13 Iju« street.
BO2C«3SOMni
FOR THE HOLIDATS!
tVe hare Jest received another larje lot ofthose
BALMORAL SKIRTS,
EXTRA SIZE.
Cull Ladles before they are all gene*
Also, recslved this day by express
AUCTION EMBROIDERIES.
Tie cheapest ever offered!- thl« msrkct, of the newest
and latest designs.
MERRIM&C AKD COCHECO PRiHTS,
10 Cents only per yard.
Best Brin tod Be Xainee,
Only 1G Cents.
HEAVY BROWX COTTONS,
Only 7 Cents.
LOJSDILE SOFT FLVISH BLUCHED DO.,
Only 12 1«3 Cents.
Hoop Skirts at Prime Cost I : *
A very rich asaortaeat of
PARIS CLOAKS,
Of tho very latest dealson. AT A GREAT EEOUC
TIOX IS PRICE.
Gloves, Hosiery, laces, Ribbons and K*>rif y
CHEAPER THAN EVER.
STH.YKBH. cbOOOf. f
deIMCM-lw HI LAKE STWwt
call at
GALE BROTHERS
No. 302 Banc olpla Street,
EEW STOCK OP ELEGAHT GOOBS,
Suitable for
holiday gklpts
rjJFTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
Pinny BABBLE. TEERA COTTA, CHEfA
AXD BDirE’IU.V OBSJOIESTS.
EILTEK-VLATED TEA 6KTVS. CAKE BASKETS.
GASTORS, SPwO.'iS, f O&KS, AC.
Ivory Handle and. other Cntlery.
Looking Classes and China Tea Setts.
With a Tery larjo and eoi aplota aaaortmaat of
IIOR-BTDRE CHIIA. SI ASS WARE, AS.,
Which I •will teU at Terr low prices to clear out the
conaienroent. JOuX KAXKIN,
mylß-lm 177 Randolph ftreet.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!
parLor ornaments.
FANCY GOODS.
RICH GIFTS FOR LADIES.
Rich Gins fox Gentlemen.
BRIDASt. GIFTS.
Largo Aaeortment, Pleas* Examine.
J. H. RBKD & CO..
14-1 and 146 Xako Street,
T. B. CARTER
HAS JUST RECEIVED A
CONIIGXMKXT OB’
DRESS GOODS,
TVMch ha will offer oa MONDAY, Deo. 37th, at
PANIC PRICES.
136 take Street 185
BAGS.
50,000 STARK BILLS
30,000 LEWISTON’S 3XILLS... 31.50.
P. PALMER,
11-<L and IXO Ldu Street.
THE MOST USEFUL
HOLIDAY PRESENTS
Can be fbnnd at tha
Optical Zfltablishnent of
ions MAVS9,
Ha. 79 South Clark Street So, 79
YU i—Cold, SUrer and Steel Speetaeles,
OPERA CLASSES, TELESCOPES. MICROBCOPE&.
MAGIC LANTERN. POLTOR»vay 0>
COSMORAMAS. At. *cT^
Pleaie call at 79 Sooth Clark •tree*. the »f«» of the
and mako yoor election*.
THE MOST ITS E FEE,
Beantifnl and Acceptable Present j
FOB
CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEARS,
IS A
GROVER i BAKER
Sowing SXaoliliie.
teiett dipteeext styles.
Prom S4O *0 SIOO.
Sold at 115 laia Street, Chicago, th
notG-00-ljUtp 0 ’
Q'.OtrXTKY MERCHANTS
•trrPLcso with
BLiXK ISOOEV,
ENVELOPES
m
WRITING PAPERS,
AT .MANUFACTURERS' PRICES.
r. Brunson,
Blank Book Manufacturer,
ael'&ly
1U LAKE STREET. CHICAGO.
MALT!
3ARLEY MALT!
A BTO9K OF
PRIME RARLEI Jf AFT
For Brewers’ and Oilfillers’ Use
CONSTANLY ON HAND,
A S9
ORDERS PROJIPLT FILLED.
iL«a.
SUPERIOR YEAST MALT
i
ETBAJUtSLa. j
itDDIJESS, d. C. .fIOItEY, ,
12 South Water Street, Chicago, I
. . . ic IMJCn f
CHRISTMAS!
CHRISTMAS!!
COUNTRY MERCHANTS,
intend tsstn
TOYS,
l-tonld not delay bnt lend In
THEIR ORDERS AT OXCE,
®lt CALL .A.T
PEUGEOT'S
GREAT VARIETY STORE,
No. 11l Randolph Street,
BT ORDER TO AVOID THE CROWD.
I DARxnars great variety
; stone.
{ No, 158 Labe Street.
I s ABNTJ3I Bf( O’S.,
; Direct Importer* ot and Wboletala Dealer* la
TOYS AND FANCY GOODS,
i BERLIN WORSTEDS,
« XI VARW,
BaakeU, Bird C« £ rs,
XANKBU NOTIONS, fca,
Tbt KlraHos of U nopoctfUlr
ammißEß THE NCMBS2.
••• UKE STREET. |] (
. [•uUW.lj] -
II - - La Salle Street • • 41
NEW WORSTED GOODS,
Ska tins Basques, Skating Caps,
GENTS’ SCOTCH CAPS,
PALE3UIO SLEEVES, ESQUQIAUX PASTS,
80RTAB8, lEBBIRS, HITTERS, SCARFS
HOODS, hoods,
IlllilMd Hosiery of tie Best QuUty.
X larze wortmeat of
COJU.VE.YCED SLIPPERS,
Zephyr Worsteds and WoHea Yams.
S-O-TTON Sc BBKKITT.
(Late k »uxij
41
deSdflOfrSa
■La Salle Street.
PLAX SEED WANTED.
Batlsc conmroced the maanAetara tt
LINSEED OIL AT CHICAGO,
I-“ ® rwi * to .«■ *• “ew Barksa prtet L
flax seed.
OH Ceio Pot Solo at all thaos.
JEWELRY, WATCHES AXq
Silver Ware,
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
Geo. W. Stevens & Co.,
77 LAKE STREET,
Offer lor sale the largest and best selected u*ortmnt
of gooda over brought to the oonaUth. i-,
partot su
DIAMONDS, PEARLS, CARBUNCLES,
LAVA SETS, CAMEO SETS, STONE
CAMEO SETS. CORAL SETS. MALACHITE 9ET9
JET SETS. MOSAIC SETS. GARNET SETS,
CHAIN BRACELETS,
PLAIN BRACELETS. ETRUSCAN BRACELET*
CORAL BRACELETS.
CHATJtLAINH CHAINS, <*U
CENTS’ CDIUJ CHAINS.
BCAB7 PI27S,
KECKIACE9| (ilirisaMcßniuit,)
BL2EVS BUTTONS AN'D STUDS,
GOLD SPHCTACtEiv
SILVER WAKE.
pis rnzvt*
TEA, TATLK. SUGAR. *
SALT, DESSERT, RERRT. AND ICE STOO'N
(rarlou* pattern*.}
INDIVIDUAL SALTS,
NAPKIN RINGS.
GOBLETS.
FANCY GOODS,
In the Greatest 'Variety, » u «h. a*
PANS. OPERA CLASSES,
COMBS, CARO CASES. PORTE MONNAIES. AC.
GED. W. STETCYS & CO, (
77 Lake Street 77
$25,00.
daclMGTOtlaal
FORTUE
CIULDEES.
Call and examine, betoro imre!>a*ins «U*wh»re rmr
lar*e and **ll »c lected su>c : of ’
W
Xew Styles of Paper Dolls an<l
Paper Furniture,
GAMES OF ALL DESCRIPTION'S,
WPJTCCG • ESKS.
PORTFOLIOS, Cheap and Pine.
BACKGAMMON* BOARDS,
CHESSMEN*. OF ALL PRICES,
r«r br
W. B. KEE\\ Bookseller,
Va US. .LAKK BTHZZT.
STOP!
Itsatl and Consider::
Wbj to It aeeeuary to eat and drink poor thlnps vbeo
70a can set much better for tUe money, tt
BTAXTOPS,
Ko. 48 - • • - Clark Street Ho. 48
NEXT TO SDER3IAN ROCSE,
Everything la the way of
PRESERVED FRUITS,
Tbe beat and fioeet
PlCKl.ES—Foroljfn & Domestic,
UNEXCELLED
COFFEES AND TEAS.
Every variety of
Saneea, Condiment. and Spices,
Green Tnrlle Soup, Spliced Salmon,
Lobster, P>k>d Salman and.Hackerel.
THB BEST
SHERRY, MADEHIA AND PORT WINES,
©ld Bourbon and Old R, a
w XX X S DEE X 33 S .
SUPERIOR BRANDIES,
BEIT AND CHEAPEST HAVASA SEBARI,
ttoSSiJSSJ™ tJ • TO,rt ° c « l otu ‘*
Q.IFTS ORGIFTS.—
J. A. COLBY,
118 Randoliih Street.
Hm «oo .rtt. HEOE9T .nil UE3T u»mmu 01
BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS,
Tlal»nl» bud to ft. ell,-. 11. oC.rt uy buk
fr.ni Ui e.toloCT,, anicb contain, upword. or
1,200 BlCTerent Kinds,
Of Ao«t«at ud Mal.ro Author*. ,t too
WHOLESALE PRICES WITHOUT GIFTS,
<T .« ft. rrcular retoll price, .ift s ifu lnclo.l
I oil p.rußolljr or wnd fcr . ciutocue. DoVdKMni
A3IERICAJT
uo
Hudson Bay Co.'i
FURS.
UOIES' AID CHIIOSER'S FAICT FURS.
r ?* r . r . ,a « >‘oh,«, Buffalo
Cottar,,
« "r», Olovcn, Ac., *«. ’
Tjro.ir.ts n. .izonuis a co.,
lOT Bamlnlpli street, Chicago, 111,
wwudni coy SnSS S
CASS PAID FOU SIIIPPI.VC FOBS
, Idel-dyMm;
TT ERRI XG • s SAFES
NEVER FAIL.
88 HOURS IX THE FIRE,
***t> TUX TOttOWtXO
From (be Fire on Franklin Street.
* coT^:~^ «*■
•II on? IkS.ki. iw.!. V ••l , ' r '‘"B.« »• Oort
®St^®RwSrs£®
U. i\ FLTLJSJ; * CO,
i J"«M It on from tba
rinr. In front ofonr «orc..hcro tho Inrneal awn.
a of’FireandDur|lar.rro..f S:\l-t h Uin Went, can
' HEiaaxa * co,
tcuenndw, « sum ..met.
JpACTS WORTH KNOWING.
®R. PU'^iLmcn’s
PLASTHB
wm euro all oml every klud of Lameaes*
fatten., Uw/SsSunt»Vifl I '{• s " ,n « l
Chronic Affcctl n* Inrt i*..rW». , a * a ‘ l Nervous *id
It U woiiUerfallr «»m!*»rt»n?* u,e
•« Sprain? amt Bri Bum * CufD * aUt i <-nu, a* wsfl
a,TSsysi-«™
T. pixiuaoii. r.L
I*olU> dc SaTIITU,
street. Chicago, n.
daMBUa
JpUTE SILVER-PLATED
Gooda :
“SIT*?? ° f P-r»ns wrt.
b*«a DeWcr Utaoba* provtovfr
cat’. : T r ?"' nt " f sotts. <Ol.
*«• Oir oVSBsiJiS} • Ss ‘' til *•«.
WARBAHTEO AS REPRESEITED.
fbr T P’rsi?„ a t^t r "“'-"X-'Mr than rrtall
We aSTlat«*r£? «'*nt oorsel?ek
Cmom.’Dalton,t«l£?u'* i f nd r °» M S P°«M. Potto.
„ *“ A - nuißiEa ic co..
aorPSSS 4 B *" aroora - X «S«*OJO ftate.twt,
—■ Up-itiia.
B 1 N 1 K - S E R >S
OZiS
LONDON DOCK
Gr IHST.
THIS DELICIOUS TONIC STIMULANT,
EspedaDy disced
••••41
Tor the XTm of the SXodieal X*ro&«toa
and the} family,
sSls*f yopereeded the tolled -Gin*." “Aroruda*
Jor»d to ofttemoet
“U, and ConnoU*€orx as poaecMnc All of tb«e ta.
wile medicinal qualities (tonic and diuretic)
»wpns to ta out a*o rens oi*. Put up la (ioafOo*.
hM tod sold by all Druggist*. Grocers. *c. f
A* M. BININGEB A CO.,
(EstabiUhed la 1773 L) Sou Paor«i*iote|
50. 19 Broad Street. :5 Y.
l>* For tain. who!?**>e. In Chicago. &T. 55*
Tierce. J. U. Heed * Co. .tad J. I*- d. t aH« * C*
tociciSlwai
CASE AND CARD BASKETS.
WINS STANDS,
TEA SST3.AI
imxjßs.
ALSO,
so.iu
AND RIB