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CJjitajjo Ctiimnc,
MONDAY, MARCH 4* 1861,
THE FINAL BEMANB.
The laws ;in the Statutes-at-laige are
those which the Democracy have enacted.
They have been, almost without exception*
approved by Democratic Presidents and
Democratic Cabinets. The Democracy
have a majority in the next Congress—in
twlh Houses; and these laws cannot be
changed without their consent. Where,
then, is the chance for oppression by the
power which a Republican President will
■wield? How can he, alone and unsup
ported by Congress, control the policy of
the nation? How can he touch the institu
tion of Slavery or any of the collateral
matters which influence it? These few
questions disclose the barrenness and base
lessness of the pretensions which the Se
cessionists put forth, and show, to
the satisfaction of all fair-minded
men, that Secession is the outbreak' of
an old plot, and that the election of
Lincoln and the rule of the Republicans
are but the pretence for a crime long ago
matured and now consummated,. What,
we ask, have we to offer to such men in
the way of compromise, which they, up to
their eyes in conspiracy, would be willing
to accept and assume.once more the loyal
ty that they have cast off! They tell us un
equivocally: Change the public senti
ment of the North—call man-selling right,
permit it, as a right, everywhere, and the
South will be content. Again, the inquiry
comes—what Republican desires a settle
ment upon terms like these ?
"LEAVING IT TO THE COURTS.”
" The Republican victory would he incom
plete if it did not promise sooner or later
to reform the United States Supreme
Court That bench-full of Southern law
yers* which gentlemen of a poetical tem
perament call an “ august tribunal*” is the
last entrenchment behind which Despot
ism is sheltered; and until a National Con
vention amends the Constitution so as to
defeat the usurpations of that body, or un
til the Court itself is reconstituted by the
dropping off of a few of its members, and
the appointment of better men in their
places, we have little to hope for by Con
gressional action in the way of restricting
slavery. “ Leave it to the Courts,” is, sine* *•
the Dred Scott decision was announced,
the favorite dodge of the propagandists.
Mr. Franklin seems to have picked it up—
that defunct electioneering trick of Dong'-
las—and incorporated it into His amend
ments to the Guthrie proposition finally
adopted by the Peace Conference. “Wc
u will establish slavery south of 36 deg. 30
11 min.says he, “so that neither Congress
“nor the Territorial Legislature shall have
“ power to drive It out; and finally, after
“ doing this* we will leave it to the Federal
41 Courts—the Supreme Court,” which, mis
interpreting the Constitution as it is, and
disregarding all the legislative and judicial
history of the past, has already decided
that slavery exists in all the Territories!
The duty of the Court, if that "proposition,
were incorporated into the Constitution,
would be easy. Patting out of the way,
the decision already made, and the known
disposition of the majority of the judges
to make any other decision required by the
exigencies of the Slave Power, the Court,
we assert* would have' no latitude of opin
ion. By the express terms of the amend
ment, the condition of the Territory to
which it applies, is fixed; and not even the
men who made the judgment in the case
of Dred Scott would have the audacity to
change it by judicial decree. Yet this Is
the poor trick by which the extension of
slavery is to be justified, and for resisting
which Republicans are branded as fanatics
and disturbers of the public peace. In
Illinois, that dodge was killed off when
Lincoln, who, more effectually than any
other man, has exposed it, received 12,000
majority for President It cannot be re
vived now, even by menace.
WHAT THE? WILL SAT.
The argument urged against the North
is this:, 44 You imported the slaves and sold
“them to ns. They came in ships, fitted
“ out by your capital, manned by your sail
ers, and the money proceeds of the car
“ goes went into your pockets! What arc
“ you making a fuss about slaveiy for ? It
“Is as much your institution as ours. If it
u is a sin, as you say it is, take your share
44 of it and let us alone. Don’t be mean it
“you can’t be just!” This is the Democrt
ic and the Southern position, and though
the deductions from the admitted facts arc
not warranted, they satisfy thousands of
people, who need that or some other ex
cuse to justify their political action.
Suppose that we make a “compromise”
with these slaveholders now, establish
and protect slavery anywhere, if but in a
single township, or a solitary family,—
what will be the cry when the South makes
the next demand ? Why this; “What
“ arc you of the North blathering about
“n£w? Did notyou plant it in the Terri
tories south of 36° 30’? Had you not
“the majority; are not you respon
sible then? Has not the institution
“your endorsement? Dare you say it is
“ wrong, and thereby admit that you have
“ forced a wrong upon others? You arc
“not that kind of men. 41 We accepted
“ 3'our action in good iaith, and thanked
“you for it; and now we hold you to the
im principle upon which it was hosed. If
“slavery is not wrong in New Mexico, it is
41 not wrong in Illinois and the other free
“ States; hence your resistance to what : We
“ n&k—ifie right to have and hold daze
11 property anywhere—is absurd, and
“we will dissolve the Union before we will
44 submit to it!”
Such, we say, would he fair and
strictly logical results of the premises
which the compromisers assume—results
from which the North could not escape.
We ask, who among the Republicans, be
lieving that slavery is a crime against'the
white race and the black—a thing to be en
dured where it is established, but not ex
tended—wants to occupy that degrading
position? Who among them, if willing to
perpetuate slavery anywhere by his vote,
does not sec that it would be far more de
cent, honorable and just to establish it
in the free States, which have Representa
tives in Congress, who may resist the in
fliction, than in a Territory, the people of
which are powerless by their situation?
Who does not see that the one thing
aimed at is a recognition, and endorsement
of slavery in the Federal Constitution; and
that such recognition and endorsement can
not be permitted without a logical surren
der of the whole controversy. Do the Re
publicans wantitclosed in that way !
SIATE EKDOBSESieNTS OF U. S.
. BQMIS,
’ The recent endorsement of the bonds of
the United States by several of the State
Governments, and the actual repayment of
money into the Federal Ticaauiy,by others,
(Illinois being In the. latter category), re
quire a few words of explanation to be
understood by those whose recollection of
public events does not run back to 1836.
In the latter part of that year the United
States Treasury was choked with a surplus
of $42,468,859.88. There being nb ,J3u
ebanans, Floyds or Cohbs at lhe head of
government in those'days, it became a se
’ridus"question how to unlock t.hfe vast
amount of dead capital, and get it back
ihip the channels of .trade. It was;finally
determined to distribute the surplus ip the
various States in the; form of: a deposit in
their respective Treasuries. Accordingly
.an act adopted by Cdngress providing
thtt'&einoney.-which should be in the
un the first day of Janu
ary, 1837, reserving the sumof $5,000,000,
•should be deposited with such of the Stales
(according to their representation in Con
gress) as should,-by law, authorize their
Treasurera to issue certificates, of deposit
therefor, expressing the usual and legal
obligations and pledging the faith of the
State for the repaynient thereof, when
ever the SecfelaVy of the Trcasuiy should
requite the same to meet appropriations of
Congress. The amount to he distributed
■was $37,468,859.88, to be paid over to the
States in four equal instalments on the first
days of January, April* July and October.
The first three to
$28,101,644.01, were paid, but the fourth,
amounting to $0,867,31407* was withheld
—the lederal government then needing the
money. Under the operation of; the act
the following sums were distributed to the
several Stales:
State . ATfibimt State. Amount
distributed. distributed.
Alabama ... $669,086.79 Missouri.... $382,835.80
Arkansas.... 256.751.49 N.HampaV,, fifi9.oSQ.7o
Connecticut.. 764,670,60 New Jersey..- 764 670.00
Delaware— £6,761.40 New
Georgia.., s K. Carolina’. .1,483,767.38
111in0i5.....,* 477,919.14 0hi0. ......2.007t&n34
Indiana..... 800,264.44 £ennsylvama2,667|6l4>rß
Kentucky,.. .1,433,757.89 Rhode Island 888,835.31)
Louisiana.... 477,91914 5,Car01ina...1,051;422.09
Maine....,... SW.S&2s.Tennessee.. .1,483.757.39
Maryland. 955,833,25 .Vermont..... 6^088.79
Massacha'ts .1,888,173.68 Virginia 2.1981427.99
Michigan 286,751.49
Mississippi... 382,835.80 T0ta1.....28,191,644,91
The circular of Secretary Dix, request
ing the various States to endorse the bonds
of the United States to the amount of their
respective deposits, has been heretofore
published in our columns. Nearly all the
Northern States have responded either by
authorizing their' Governors to guarantee
the- bond?, or by issuing their own bonds
for the amounts-in which they stand in
debted to the general government
NOT SATISFIED.
The. Chicago Timet is of the opinion
that the action of the Peace Conference*
proposing to legalize slavery in all territoiy
south of 36 deg. 80 min. does not meet the
case at all* and it hints very broadly that
nothing will suit the exigency which does
not prescribe the same horrid rule for dH
future acquisitions of territory / For the
purpose of reaching a definite un
derstanding, we * would ask the
Timet to state exactly what would
be satisfactory. The Breckinridge
platform in the recent’ campaign was
altogether an anti-slavery document, as
compared with the voracious requirements
of the Times . Everything for the nigger,
provided he is owned and flogged by a
white man, and nothing for the white man
unless he owns and flogs a nigger—seems
to he the animus ot that sheet. We arc
gradually reaching the true issue of na
tional politics, and we should be pleased to
see the Democracy of Illinois take the field
on the sort of platform winch the Times
is now busy in erecting.
Sngar Cane Grower* 9 Convention in
Bureau' County.
Pursuant to & public notice a convention of
the sugar cane growers, of Bureau county
assembled at Bacon & White’s Hall, in Prince
lon, on the 21st nit, Dr. N.Bort, Chairman,
and E. 8. Phelps, Secretary.
Dr. Bort thought that good syrup, kept in a
warmplace, where it will not freeze, will gran
ulate into sugar. He exhibited some thus
kept The Doctor raised considerable syrup
in 1860, and was very confident that its culti
vation would pay the farmer liberally.
Hart N. Morris manufactured 1,000 gallons
of syrup from six acres of cane. He exhibited
some very nice syrup. He cut his cane October
,13th, placed.it in a large pile, underja shed at
the north slde-of his- ham, and kept it dry
He worked it up on, the 15th of,Noveinber.
He feels confident that if cane is cutup before
a hard frost it will keep for months, and will
make excellent syrup, if only kept dry. It
■ should be put in when there is no dew on it.
Mr. Giles said that green cane, cut up In the
middle of September, and kept in a pile, not
covered, mid worked in the middle of No
vember, would make good syrup, and he ex
hibited. samples thus made which were es
: teemed better than that obtained from green
cane just cut.
- Mr. Morris thought cane raised on barrens
made better syrup than from any other land,
and in this Mr. Choate agreed. He thought
coil much better than wood to boil with, as it
produced quicker .evaporation and made
. better syrup. He took the first premium for
syrup at the County Fair in 1860, and he used
coal instead of wood for evaporation.
O. W. Giles manufactured 1,600 gallons of
syrup in 1860. .He was of opinion that much
depended on securing the com before hard
frost, even if cut green.
Jos. H. Brigham exhibited syrup made from
Sorghum, Imphee, and Sugar Millet In his
estimation the last named will prove the best
variety. He thinks large canes not so rich as i
smaller ones. He used four sheet iron pans
. set on an arch, and made a barrel of syrup in
• six hours. He made i,4OG gallons in all in
1860.
John Masters manufactured SOO gallons of
syrup. He exhibited some syrup from So r
ghum, and some from Imphee. The Inf
phee cane was frozen solid. When ground the
juice looked like soap suds; and he did not
suppose it would make anything, hut conclud
ed to try it He bolle? it until he thought it
would do for syrup. When cool, to his utter
astonishment, it proved to be about one-third
. sugar. He was confident sorghum would not
produce sugar in such a state.. He thinks the
only difficulty in making sugar .from Imphee
is in getting it dry.
Various persons estimated the cost of rais
ing, and manufacture of syrup atfrom 20 to 40
cents per gallon.
Those who had seen syrup manufactured by
steam thought that the best and cheapest
mode, as it would make cleaner syrup than
pans.
■ All agreed that the syrup in cooking should
be well cleansed and that made from frozen
cane was apt to bum to the bottom of the
pans, while no difficulty was experienced in
this respect from that not frozen.
Johnßelangec had planted his cane and corn
Eideby side very early. Both came up well;
but hard frosts cut the com down completely,
while it left the cane nninjored.
E. S. Phelps, Jr., .had the same experience
as Mr. Belangee. In 1859 his com, vines, &c.,
were completely killed by the frost, while his
Sorghum was not hurt.
L. C. Field of Galesburg had a friend who
planted his cane in a hot bed, and when about
six inches high transplanted it into a field.
He raised the beet crop of cane he had ever
seen. ■ ~
E. JS. Phelps, Jr., had transplanted consider
able in 1860 with decided success. It was as
easy to transplant as cabbages. He trans
planted in dry, hot weather, when cabbages
.would have died, and most of it grew well.
The necessity of having better machinery
and arrangements for manufacture was dis
cussed at considerable length. And courage
-and perseverance was recommended to all.
O. W. Giles of Wyanet, Hart N.. Morris of
Arispe, and Samuel L. Choate of Indian town,
were appointed a committee to have ihc sub*
ject in charge for the ensuhg year.
In regard to the above ConventionTlhe Bu
reau County jScpxtblican from whose report we
condense the aboveproceedings, says:
There certainly can no longer be any doubt
entertained of the ultimate success of cane
growing in this county. Our farmers, during
the' post four years, have given much atten
.tiohtb this new branch of agricultural indus
try, and the result , has been that within the
last two years nearly, If not quite, one-half the
.syrup consumed In the county has been manu
factured at home. The quality of the syrup
exhibited at the late convention was equal to
the best golden syrup from New Orleans, free
from any unpleasant flavor, and more pleasing
.to ouftastc than any other syrup except the
maple. Mu John Masters of Dover brought
us two gallons, made by himself, which cannot
be surpassed in any market. Mr. Masters
i also made some very handsome sugar. There
; was a large amount of cane lost, owing to the
; scarcity of the mills, Messrs. Miller & Christ
man sold about one hundred, they were
able to manufacture.. We trust .there will bo
mills sufficient for the coining season.
Mr.. Corwin?* Amendment to the Con<
filiation.
The following Is the amendment to the Con
stitution proposed by the majority of the
Committee. of Thirty-Three, together with
Mr. Corwin’s substitute for the same:
jonre .besolutioh to ascend the constitution
, OF TgE UNITED STATES.
Be it llesolvcd, By the Senate and House of Re
presentatives o. 'the. United States of America in
Congress assembled, • two-thirds of both Houses
concurring, That die following article be proposed
to the Legislatures of-the several States as amend
ment to- the ' Constitution of: the United Slates,
which when ratified by three-fourths of said Legis
latures shall-be-vaUd to aIL intents and purposes,
aspartof the'sald Constitution, viz:
-Set. 12, No amendment-of thtg Constitntion
having Tor dts objectnny Interference within the
States with the relation between their citizens and
those described in Second section of the first Arti
cle of thei-Constitution, -as. -“all > other persons”
shall originate "with'any other State that does
not recosnize-that relation.' within its own limits,
or ahall be valid without the assent of every one of
the States composing the Union.
’ Mr. Corwin moved to strike out Article 12,
aadinseft in itastead as follows: .-
‘‘That no amendment shall be made to the Con
stitution which win authorize or give Congress the
IKiwer to abolish or interfere witmn any Sate with
the domestic institution thereof. Including that of
held to.labor or.servitude by the laws of
said Stated* -
*Wc understand that one of onr Iron houses
has been notified by its New Orleans corres
pondent that a duty of 2i percent, willhereaf
ter be collected on Tennessee iron in that city.
S “ the gallant city did not collect a
on.Tennessee muskets In
15l5,—Aa*togZc Jbtrh*.
FROM WISCONSIN.
Democratic Onion Convention-—A.
BUmal Ttmc—CommiMioneni to
Appointed for
T* Repuollcan* Not
Farm Mortgage Bill
m tbe Leglalatnjre.
[Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.]
. . MjLuisok, Wls., Feb. 23, 18G1.
The Union Convention, called w by order of
the Democratic Caucus,” ostensibly to send
Commissioners to the PeacH Congress, met on
Tuesday evening.l thought of sending you
a fall account by the next mail, but concluded
it would hardly pay to devote a whole letter to
the subject, and therefore waited till there
was something else to write about.
Hon. N. H. Virgin, a conservative Republi
can Senator, who has voted constantly to send
Commissioners, was nominated Chairman, but
declined the honor; whereupon Chas. D Rob.
inson of Green Bay was called to the Chair,
end James Armstrong of Janesville chosen
Secretary.
Geo.’ B. Smith,' Attorney General under the
Barstow administration, from a committee of
five Democrats appointed by the legislative
caucus, reported a preamble and resolutions
“ os a basis of action for the Union and con
servative men of the State in the present time
of National danger.” Setting forth that the
country is on the brink of civil war, only to
be averted u by prudent and decisive action
that “ Virginia, which gave Wisconsin to the
Union, had Invited a conferencethat before
entering on a “ contest which must come ii all
efforts at conciliation shonldlail,” it is a “para
mount duty to be certain of the righteonstiess
of our cause, and that in arming against rebel
lion, we should clear our hands of injustice
and disloyalty—if was recommended to re
solve:
1. That five commissioners be appointed to meet
those of Virginia in “an earnest effort to adjust
the present unhappy controversies in the spirit In
which the Constitution was formed and consist
ently with its principles,” and requesting that
said commissioners be admitted;
2. That justice would dictate before resorting to
coercive measures to compel obedience to thelaws
on the part oLany of our sister States, our statute
book? ehould'fce purifiedof “ acts which make obe
dience to a irortion of the Federal laws criminal,”
and requesting repeal of such parts of the Personal
Liberty and Reform Acts as conflict with the Uni
ted States Constitution and Laws.
S.That if bo deplorable a calamity should befall ne,
asthatallthemeasnresof peace and efforts for
conciliation should hopelessly fail, and having done
our whole dnty to avoid fraternal strife and civil
war, we will then array ourselves with all thefriends
Of the government for its preservation, and , with
Vie last defenders of the integrity and flag of the
Union * will fulfill our whole duty as citizens of the
United States.
Hon- H. S. Orton, Circuit Judge and Captain
of the Dane Cavalry—so warm an admirer of
Seward- that because he was not nominated,
he voted for Buchanan in *56 and. for Bell in
’6o—spoke in response to loud calls. Tn» re
marks consisted of severe denunciations of
those who underrated the danger, cried peace
and dared to ridicule gatherings dubbed Union
meetings; the highest eulogy of Senator Sew
ard and his recent speeches, and an appeal to
endorse him, os a common ground on which
all could stand, a proposal which called out a
tremendous aye; and advocacy of the policy
of masterly inactivity toward the seceding
States, where, as the speaker held, Federal
X)roperty had been taken traitorous possession
of, and arms supplied through high treason on
the part of government officers. Regarding
the territorial question as no longer a practical
one, he said he was ready to do or yield any
thing to restore the Union.
E. 6. Ryan, Democrat, of Milwaukee, who
was next called on, had- little hope, mourned,
over the dissolution of the Union, but felt that
tears would do nothing to save it He insisted
that compromise on both sides (as in all the
relations of life) was a necessity. The glori
ous destiny to which all had looked forward
was gambled away. Secession was a iact. Only
one set of the United States laws —the postal
—were executed in several States, and that on
the principle of spoiling the enemy. Other
States would follow if the doctrine of no con
cession was adopted. Coercion could not save
the Union. He had some hope left in Seward,
whose recent speeches were in Wonderfully
good temper and spirit He believed Lincoln
was a manjof great resolution, calmness, pa
tience, firmness and integrity, without a parti
cle of fanaticism or a drop of coward or bitter
blood in a heart full of love to every American
citizen. He did not vote for him, but relied
on his patriotism and was ready to second his
Administration- He wanted Republicans to
refrain from expressing their extreme opinions,
if they had to put a gag in their mouths.
The other speeches were of much lower tone
and ability. Moses M. Strong, famous in Land
Grant times, confessing it was no great sacri
fice for Democrats to do so, since they were
whipped, wanted the Republicans to yield their
principles, and arraigned them for their past
course. He was unwilling even to call Seces
sionists hard names. Like a drowning man he
was ready to catch at the straw of sending
commissioners. He appeared surprised that
Democrats’sincerity was suspected! If Lin
coln took up the policy indicated by Seward,
be was ready to “be a Lincoln man or any
any kind of a man you please.”
Geo. 8.. Smith expressed disappointment
that Republicans had not united in this meet
ing, though he had feared such a result when
it was proposed. Hi* righteous soul bad been
vexed and his sensitive nature hurt at charges
of mercenary and partisan purpose in calling
this meeting. He quoted Jacksou against
coercion, insisted on compromise, though he
would not say what; offered to give his bond
that the Republicans should never be charged
with backing down, if they made concessions
to save the Union; predicted that Lincoln
would recommend non-intervention with se
ceding States, and that after his inaugural
there would oe very few for war, and avowed
his readiness to follow Lincoln and Seward in
saving the Union.
An u old fogy ” Democrat wanted to know
how Lincoln could decline executing the laws
when he swore to do so; hut could not get
any satisfactory answer. Mr. Warner, an un
compromising Republican, desiring to see
what manner of spirit the meeting was of,
when such a readiness was expressed to do
any thing to save the Union, proposed to fill
the blank in the resolution appointing Com
missioners, with the names of Doolittle,
Howe, Washburn, Potter and Hanchett. This
was greeted with storms of hisses , and after
some passages between himself and members
of the Convent ion, was ruled out. Senator
Bean, a radical Republican, mixed in, repelled
the charge that Republicans loved party more
than country, and referred to the recent sup
port by the Northern Democracy of a rank
disunionist, H. V. Johnson, and charged that
their misrepresentation of the principles and
objects of the Republican party bad caused
the existing state of things. They were reap
ing the reward of their own doings. He closed
by repeating the Jacksonian sentiment incor
porated in the Chicago platform, “The Federal
Union—it must and shall be preserved,’’which
was greeted with enthusiastic applause. After
some further talk, a Committee to
nominate Commissioners was appointed,
from each congressional district. About
half of the Committee appointed were
Republicans, but only one or two acted.
They reported Marshal M. Strong, M. C
Darling, J. HL Tweedy, H, L. Douiman and
Nelson Dewey, Commissioners, none of whom
were present at the meeting, and requested
them to proceed to Washington, unless the
Legislature appointed this week! They were
1 requested to go decidedly a day after the fair,
and 1 think I see them “on their winding
way,” now that the Conference has adjourned.
Smith’s resolutions were adopted.
The object of the meeting—to divide and
distract Republicans—despite of much eulogy
of Republican - loaders, much tender entreaty,
many honied words, impassioned gestures and
professions of patriotism, was not accomp
• llshed. The professed purpose of the meeting
was scarcely alluded to and skillfully evaded.
The thing was managed entirely by politicians
like those whose names appear in the proceed
ings—Beriab Brown, Lot Clark, LaDue, Fred.
• Horn, C. K. Lord, A. Hyatt Smith, and others
whose faces are familiar at Democratic Con
ventions. As it is the only meeting of the
kind here this winter, I have endeavored to
give an idea of its spirit.
The Farm Mortgage Relief hill was taken
up in the Assembly yesterday, and occupied
the attention of that body through a session
protracted till the middle of the afternoon,
i A determined effort was made to pass it to a
' final vote, but though it seemed to haveama
• jority, the previous question could not be
■ brought to bear, cutting off amendments and
i choking debate. A substitute was offered by
Mr. Clark, simply providing that the question
• of fraud might be tried before a jury in every
case, and that the books and papers’ of
i railroad companies should ho open to
< inspection. This was finally voted down
; alter a good deal of filibustering. The bill
i was advocated by Messrs. Moore, Johnson,
: Webb, Frisby, and others, Clarke, Cavcrno,
; Bradford, Spooner, Reed, Knapp, Bailey and
i others opposed it in its present shape. It was
i urged that it was legislating for a class, pre
i Burning fraud in every case; admitting the al
- legations of one side and refusing testimony
i ot the other; was a most iniquitous attempt
5 at repudiation, an ungodly abomination, and
would inflict great hardship on widows, or
phans. men of small property, and others whose
means had been invested in these as first-class
-securities. Mr. Bradford showed how many
• had given these-mortgages-with their eyes
• open, and forewarned that they might have to
pay them. The Chicago Tribune and other
authority was read to show what effect such
legislation would have on the credit of the
State.
Many who do not &t all approve the bill,
vote for it because demanded by their constitu
ents, or in the hope that it may bring about an
equitable compromise with the holders of the
mortgages.. . Representatives of- the Farm
Mortgage League and others are here urging
the bul, and there is also a lobby against It.
* The sis regiment war bill was tabled in the
Senate yesterday. Plus.
Visit of Jeff. Davis to HaJ. Anderson*
-A gentleman who arrived here by the steam
er Columbia, and who professed to bo well in
formed on the subject, states that shortly after
the arrival of Hon. JtifC Davis at Charleston, it
was quietly arranged for him to pay a visit to
Fort Sumter, which was accomplished pri
vately. The interview is represented to have
been an earnest and prolonged one, but all not
Immediately in the secret were left wholly to
conjecture os to what took place between him
and Major Anderson: It has, however, been
knowingly given out at Charleston that there
will be «o fight at Fort Sttmter— great stress evi
dently being placed' upon the fact that these
two old acquaintances in the army cannot bo
brought into bloody conflict with each other;
On the other hand, it is believed that if the al
leged visit had elicited any particular comfort
for the great leader of the secession-movement,
such good news wouldhot have been kept for
private consumption merely.—JV. T. Times:
Receipts for Kansas Belief*
Office Gkk’l Shipping Agent >
, Kansas Relief, \
.' Mendota, 111., Feb; 28th, 1861.
SInCQ-iriy I iiavc received iii
money as;follows: •' ‘
Cash, ,I.S. Patterson, Findlay, 0hi0.5127.00 •
‘‘ ; “ “ 78.00
“ , “ • V* 4 “ 222.00
J. F.Schnce, LcmolUc,lU 10.00
Win. Thayer, Chicago. 6.00
Frown &Bro.. Chicago; 2.00
A medical student, Chicago -8.00
J.C. Jones, PawPaw, IU 1.75
.Tames Logan. liondnta 9.00
L. C. Reedy, Mononk 6.00
John IS. Williams, Treasurer New
York Committee 1,000.00
Premiums 57.50
. - = -1,037.50
Cash from LaSalle Lodge L O. O. F. No.
by S. 8.. Carter, Ti-ca-50rcr.......... 5.00
tfrom H. W; McFaddin.Chllllcbthe, in.... - 50.00
From KllboumCity, Wifi....* -.•. 50.00
Check from Lyman Baldwin, Chairman of -
Aurora, 111., Kansas Relief Com.-... 163.16
Cash received premium on money 8.00
I have’recelved.in addition to the sacks pur
chased, 4,000 seapalees sacks from. Hart, Asten
& Co., Chicago, which were paid for and
placed subject to my order by ’ the New York
Kansas Relict Committee.
GRAIN, PROVISIONS, SEED, ETC;, RECEIVED AND
FORWARD Eh.
I'he receipts for grain published in my for
mer reports, as shipped through this agency,
and forwarded across the Mississippi River at
Quincy, amount to ; ; ..1b5.3,974,506
Forwarded from Jan.-21st to Feb. ■ -
16th, 1861, from Ohio, Mlrfitgnn,
Wisconsin, lowa aud RUnoisv as
follows: . ,
Wheat and floilr. .375,831
Com and ideal 809,983
Grain for seed, &c 73,048
Buckwheat flour 3,020
Beans and peas J 44,908
- 1,812,410
Total, lbs .5,286,946
Which at 60 lbs to the bushel, makes eightt-
KIQBT THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
Bushels.
The Rev. C. C. Hutchinson, agent of the
New York Kansas Relief Committee, in his
memorial to the New York State.Legislatnre,
which is endorsed by'the entire New York
Committee, shows that “Jive hundred and
seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and seven
teen bushels will be needed for seed and food,
which must be transported to the interior, and
at least one-third must be carried to those who
cannot haul it* and at a distance from fifty to
two hundred miles, at an average cost of 25
cents perbusheb”
Tho Territorial Legislature of Kansas unani
mously adopted a memorial to Congiess, and
the State Legislatures, from which I quote the
following:
“ Not less than thirty thousand persons are now
and will be dependent for subsistence,upon outside
resources, until oar next harvest, and, in addition
to the need of provisions and clothing, a large
amount of seed wheat, cor i and potatoes will be
required at an early day, or the citizens of Kansas
must, to some extent, remain beneficiaries upon
eastern liberality for the year to come. The snow,
which has fallen in immense quantities all over our
country, burying beneath the reach of our stock
principal source of subsistence which remained for
them—in the dry grass of the prairies—must inev
itably cause the death, by starvation, of a large
portion of our cattle, while, at the same time the
roads are rendered impassible aud the people ex
posed to greatly increased privation and snifering,
from the difficulty of reaching the points where
food is to be obtained; from these causes we have
great reason to apprehend that cor condition In the
spring must be most helpless, and hopeless,-with
out a liberal and prompt response to this appeal. 1 ’
The foregoing estimate and appeal will give
some' idea of the wants of the people of Kan
sas. The estimates which have boen made
are simply for bread and seed. If to this is
added enough to purchase a few groceries and
medicines for the sick and feeble, and shoes
and necessary clothing, we find the amount
required, adding the freights and expenses of
hauling, will not fall short of one million of
dollars. It is a question of life or death with
hundreds of those poor creatures in the dis
tant interior who cannot escape, and to whom
bread must be carried or starvation will be
their terrible fate. All the private contribu
tions, with the legislative aid, that can be ob
tained will be necessary to save the peo
ple. The liberal donations from Wisconsin and
New York Legislatures are being expended
aud forwarded m food and grain for seed and
payment of freights. In behalf of those suffer
ing thousands whose miseries 1 witnessed in
my late trip into the interior of that afflicted
country, I ask for a continuance of the liberal
donations for their relief
Potatoes wiR be required for eating and for
seed. Many persons are threatened with scur
vy. Potatoes, os a diet, arc well adapted to
prevent and cure it. All who can furnish them
are requested to inform the undersigned, and
if they cannot furnish gunnies to ship in, let
me know and we will supply them, and give
directions how to ship. All other seeds should
bs shipped as directed in my last report.
I have been asked if grass seed is needed. I
answer yes. In September I traveled through
Kansas and at various places tested the prai
rie grass, and found it dead, root and off, and
tbe ground perfectly dry for a foot in depth. I
fear the only grass for stock this summer will
be found on the bottoms and in the timber.
Let those who have grass seed to spare, send
it, and please mark the variety so that it can
be known and sent forward to be sown.
W. F. M. Aunt,
General Shipping Agent for Kansas Relief.
Hornby Secedes*
“ Ethan Spike” writes to the Portland Tran
script that Hornby has “seceded,” and that he
consequently resigns his seat in the Maine
Legislature, The following [resolutions were
passed at a public meeting of the new “ sover
eignty ; ”
Resolved , That we are opposed to koertion, ex
cept when exercised by ourselves.
Resolved, That the okupation of tbe Baldwin
ligbtus, by a State keeper, is a irritatin' circum
stance, and onless bo is withdrawn, aour army be
instructed to take possession of tbe same in tbe
name of tbe taoun.
Unsolved, That el aonr reasonable demands is
not complied to, that we will take possession of,
an’ hold for aour own, use, the State's prison and
the insane assylnm.
Resolved, That the hayMns korpns act, taxes an’
the Maine Law be an’ is snspenued. Also an ord
nance relating to weights and measures as used
in the likker trade.. Be it enacted. That henceforth
and forever in this realm, every quart pot th all hold
a gallon.
Ordered, That the foregoing articles shall be the
Constitution of this Savnnty.
Henry Clay on Bhett«
According to the report in the Benton
abridgement of debates, vol. 16, p. 554, Henry
Clay thus spoke, in 1850, respecting a South
Carolinian, now quite notorious:
Mr. President: I said nothing with respect
to the character of Mr. Rhett, lor I might as
well name him. But if he pronounced a sen
timent attributed to him, of raising the stand
ard of disunion and of resistance to the com
mon government, whatever he has been, if he
follows up that declaration by corresponding
overt acts, we will he a traitor, and I hope
HE WILL MEET THE FATE OF A TRAITOR. [Great
applause in the galleries, with difficulty sup
pressed by the chair.]
Mr. Clay resumed:
Mr. President: I have heard with pain and
regret a confirmation of the remark 1 made,
that the sentiment of disunion is becoming
familiar. I hope it is confined to South Caro
lina. Ido not regard as my duty what the
honorable Senator seems to regard as his. If
Kentucky to-morrow unfurls tbe banner of
resistance, I never will fight under that ban
ner. I owe a paramount allegiance to the
whole Union —a subordinate one to my own
State. ■
About Vico Presidents.
A Washington correspondent of the Phila
delphia Press writes:
It is a curious fact that for forty years past
t' c Vice President has either been at enmity
with the President or has been lost sight of
in the distribution of patronage, except where
ha became Chief Magistrate by the death of
the first officer of the Government. Mr. Cal
houn and General Jackson had an early and a
severe difference. Vice President Richard M.
Johnson never wielded much power under
Mr. Van Buren’s Administration. Had Harri
son survived there can be no doubt that John
Tyler would have been utterly ignored, and
the same may be said of Mr. Fillmore who
mounted over the coffin of Gen. Taylor into
the Presidential Chair. In 1814, when Polk and
Dallas were elected, the friends of the latter in
Pennsylvania exulted iu the prospect of con
trolling the patronage of the Federal Govern
ment, because their justly distinguished favor
ite occupied so close a relation to the Presi
dent; but Mr. Buchanan, a shrewd, cautious,
"scheming politician, located, at Lancaster,
checkmated them, and, .before the 4th of
March, 11:15, had not only put himself into.
the Department of State; but had put his rival,
Mr. Dallas, under a shadow. From that day
to the expiration of the term of President
Polk, Mr. Dallas had no influence whatever.
The early death of the venerable William R.
King doubtless saved Aim from a similar mor
tification under the Administration of Presi
dent Pierce. In 1356, when the favorite son
of Pennsylvania was chosen to the high posi
tion he now occupies in company with the
young Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, wo
had a striking exemplification of the fact that
it is almost impossible for the President and
Vice President to agree. - From the moment
that James Buchanan entered the White House,
his besetting infirmity seemed to be suspicion
of all his old friends, and jealousy of the hand
some Vice, President. Iu vain did the
friends of the latter appeal for patronage.
.They were coldly and haughtily excluded.
The framers of the Constitution intended to
• make the Vice-President a counselor of the
President. In fact, his connection with the
Senate, and the vote he receives at the elec
tion, ought to put him before the Cabinet, hut
the reverse has been occupied in England, for
many years, by the heir apparent to the reign
ing monarchy. One characteristic exception
-is furnished to this rule, and that is the man
nerinwhich Old Hickory trustedaud confided
in Vice-President Martin Van Bnren. Jack
son’s friendships were so tenacious,-that,
• whether ho stood by a politician in petticoats
or in pantaloons, he rarely gave up one to
whom.be was attached. Von Bnren was not
only his intimate and confidential friend, but
his daily, counselor; and when themanofiron
nerve mounted the second time to the highest
office in tho world, he caused it to-be under
.stood that Ms suqpessor should be the Yice
: President," andthe flat was carried out, - ’
Tbe Climate at Charleston,
A Charleston letter, writer' says Early
Spring is coming upon us, and the peach blos
soms throw their fragrance in theadjolnlng
gardens. Green peas are also in blossom, and
toe rich strawberry is forming its cones, while
apples of ordinary, quality are worth a half,
•4une, and thc.oranges, usually so aplenty, arc
■worth, ten cents apiece. The Habaacso tseem
afraidof the Palmetto, and slay away. The
noble steamer Isabel still remains at her
wharfi unwilling to nm the risk of running to
Cuba under theFalmetto, and waiting for the
European recognition of the new Southern
Confederacy, ere she slips from her moorings.
THE TEXAS SURRENDER.
Seizure of: Federal Properly.
THE SOLMEBS WIIXIhG, BUT KOT PEK-
MITTED TO DEFESD IT.
Details of the. Treason of Gen,
Twiggs.
Gov. Houston Still J?ttf The Union.
[From the Oairestoh TfeMrs df ite Slst.] 1
Last night the report reached here, via
Houston* In an authentic form, that a body of
State troops* under the command of Gen. Mc-
Culloch, actingby authority,of the Convention,
hod marched into San Antonio and taken pos
session of thearms and other Federal property,
there. ‘ r . .
Gen. McCulloch’s move was hastened in
consequence of it becoming known, that Gen.
Twiggs had been relieved bybider of the Sec
retary of War, and was to be succeededby Col.
Carlos A. Waite, Ist Infantry, stationed at
Camp Verde, in Kerr County, about ninety
miles northwest of San Antonio» Col. Waite
is”a Northern man; his views on the political
crisis were not known. • Those of Gen. Twiggs
were; it was known he wotild not stain ms
sword with the blood of his fellow citizens of
the South. The State Commissioners were ar
ranrfng with him for an amicable transfer of
the Federal property in his charge when the
Secretary’s order arrived. Its cartness gave
offense, adding to the determination of the
Commissioners to act in order to
avoid us far as possible any chanced a conflict
with Cob Waite, and relieve Gen. Twiggs from
the embarrassment of his position.
San Antonio was in a state of intense excite
ment lor some days previous-to the entrance
of the Rangers. ’ Gen. Twiggs received the
Secretary of War’s order on the 15th. Cob
Waite jvas expected to arrive the next day.
It was generally thought he would refuse to
carry out Gen. Twiggs’ agreement, and would
resist by force, .with the 120 United States
troops ofiheU.S.Ai Arsenal. It was determin
cd not to give him a chance.
On Friday evening, the San Antonio K.’s G.
C,, 200 in number—a well armed and equipped
body—marched out to meet the comingtroops
urdefMcGnilocb, from the Salado, four miles
off. At two o’clock on Saturday, 300 of them—
picked men —entered R-*™ Antonio on horse
back as an advance guard. Later, 500 more
marched in. Guards were. at once stationed
around the Arsenal, over the artillery park and
ail the government buildings.
One.lettertoussaystbat after a council of
the State Commissioners with Gen. Twiggs,
the former obtained possession at 11 o’clock
A- it., and the United States soldiers would
march in a day or two for Indlauola.
. Another letter to a gentleman, who has kind
ly' placed it at our disposal, says:
After the city companies took possession of
the Alamo, Gen. Twiggs, accompanied bv
M-ijor Nichols, met Gen. McCulloch In the
Main Plaza. The horsemen piraded around
tuem, and there was a burst of cheers as the
officers met. A demand was made for the sur
render of the Federal property, and the im
mediate evacuation of the place by the United
States soldiers, without their arias. The reply
was, that every soldier would be shot down
ere submitting to that disgrace. It was feared
that a bloody strife would ensue.
• At half-past 13 o’clock, however, terms were
agreed upon. The soldiers leave town im
mediately, taking their side arms and sufficient
supply of stores to enable them to leave the
State. They are getting ready to leave. They
will camp at the San Pedro Springs, awaiting
the arrival of Cob Waite.
$1,785.41
Another letter says;
' Col. Lee, U. S. A., has just arrived, but too
late to effect anything, even if disposed to offer
resistance.
The Rangers will return to tlieir camp on
the Salado, and will at once march to take pos
session of the other U. S. forts and garrisons
on the frontier. It is thought they will be sur
rendered without resistance, so large will be
tbe force brought against them. The Lone
Star flag once more floats from the Alamo.
The Commissioners could have obtained
possession of the battery at Fort Duncan; but
their instructions,from Hon. Mr. Robertson,
were to avoid, if possible, any chance of col
lision with the Federal troops; and General
Twiggs had repeatedly asserted to the Com
missioners and the State Military Command
ers that he would die before he would permit
his men to be disgraced by any surrender of
their arms; the men umober bis command bad
never been dishonored or disgraced; and they
never should be, if he could help it.
This news, we presume, has been sent to
tbe Federal troops on the Rio Grande, where it
would do away with all chances of a collision
with the State force that left this city a few
days ago.
The San Antonio Ledger , whose account
agrees in the main with tnat of the News, adds:
Although the streets and plazas have been
crowded with armed men, not a drunken man
was visible, and everything was peaceable and
quiet; indeed, everything passed off with great
satisfaction, except by the fall of a double
barreled shot gun from a horse amid a group
ofgentlemen, was discharged, wounding seven
men and two horses. None of the gentlemen
are dangerously wounded.
The News of the 23d says: j
The Federal property seized by the Texan
troops at San Antonio, amounted to $55,000 in
specie; 35,000 stand of arms; 2G pieces of
mounted artillery; 44 pieces of dismounted
artillery; any quantity of ammunition, and
•ther munitions of war; and alarge collection
of horses, moles, wagons, forage, etc., etc.
The number of State troops present at the sur
render wa-v 1,100, while Gen. Twiggs’s force
amounted 10160 men. By the terms of sur
render, the Federal troops were permitted to
retain their side arms, two light batteries of
four guns each, camp and garrison equipage,
and the means of transportation to the coast.
The agreement with Gen. Twiggs having been
perfected, the Texas Commissioners issued the
following circular:
San Antonio, Feb. 18.
The undersigned, Commissioners on tiic
part of the State of Texas, fully empowered to
exercise the authority undertaken by them,
have formally and solemnly agreed with Bre
vet Major General David £. Twiggs, United
Stales army, commanding the Department o'
Texas, that the troops of the United States
shall leave the soil of the State, by the way of
the coast; that they shall take with them the
arms of their respective corps, including the
battery of light artillery at Fort Duncan, and
the battery of the same character at Fort
Brown; and shall he allowed the necessary
means for regular and comfortable move
ment, provisions, tents, <&c., &c., and trans
portation.
It is the desire of the Commissioners that
there should he no Infraction of this agree
ment on the part of the people of the State.
It is their wish on the contrary, that every la
cilityshallhe afforded the troopf. They are
our friends. They have heretofore affordedto
our people all the protection in their power.
They have been our protectors, and we owe
them every consideration.
The pnbiic property at the various posts,
other than that above recited for the v uee of the
troops, will be turned over to agents to be ap
pointed by the Commission, who will give due
and ppoper receipts for the whole to the offi
cers of the army, whom, they relieve in their
custody of the public property.
Thomas 8. Devine.
P. N. Luckett.
S. A. Maverick.
Commissioners on behalf of Committee of
Public Saicty.
Headquarters, Department op Texas, )
• San Antonia, Feb. 18,1861. J
[General Orders, No. 5.] ■
The State of Texas having demanded,
through its Commissioners, the delivery of the
military posts and public property within the
limits of this command, and the Commanding
General desiring to avoid even the possibility
ofa collision between the Federal and State
troops, the posts, will be evacuated by their
garrisons, and these will take up, as soon as
the necessary preparations can be made, the
line of march out of Texas, by way of the coast
marching out with their arms, (the light bat
teries with their guns,) clothing, camp and gar
rison equipage, Quartermaster’s stores, subsist
ence, medical, hospital stores, and such means
of transportation of every kind as may be nec
essaryforan efficient and orderly movement of
the troops’, prepared for attack or defense
against aggressions from any source.
The troops will carry with them provisions
•as fiir as the coast. By order of
Brevet Maj. Gen: Twiggs.
PATRIOTIC LETTER FROM GOV. HOUSTON.
The Galveston Civilian of the 21st iust. has
the following:
We understand that Gen. Houston has been
for some dajs.atTiis place on Galveston Bay,
preparing a place of retirement for his old age.
He arrived th&ro last Friday,.but traveled in
the most private way, and avoided all inter
ference with the present political agitation.
He does not, however, we understand, wish by
any means to be considered as oue of those
eleventh-hour converts to secession, so many
of whom are now claiming their reward. The
Austin InUUUjcncer has been permitted to pub
lish the following extract from a letter written
by Gen. Houston to an old friend, wMch de
fines his position, thus :
“ You say It is reported that I am for seces
sion. Ask those who say so to point to a word
of mine authorizing the statement, I have de
clared myself in favor of peace, of harmony, of
compromise; in order to obtain a fair expres
sion of the will of-the people. Dangerous as
may be the precedent inaugurated by the Con
vention, before the majesty of the law, which
recognizes its power to submit the question of
disunion to-the neople, I yield in the shine
spirit that actuated Andrew Jackson, in pay
ing the fine arbitrarily imposed upon him at
New Orleans, lam determined that those who
would overthrow law, shall learn no lessou
from me.- . .. . . £ . .
“ I still believe that Secession ■will brinu ruin
and civil war. Yet if the people will,! can
bear it with; them! ' I would fain not be de
clared an alifcn from nay native home in old
Virginia, to toe scenes of my early toils and
triumphs in noble Tennessee. I wonld not,
of ray own choice, give np the banner beneath
which I have fought, the i .Constitution which
I have revered, or the Union which I have
loved and cherished, as the glorious and price
less heritage bequeathed 'me. by; my fathers.
Sixty-seven years of freedom, the recollection
; of post triumphs and sufferings, the memories
. of heroes whom 1 have seen and known, and
whose venerated shades would haunt my foot
steps, were I to falter now, may, • perhaps,
have made me too devoted to the Constitution
and the' Union,-but be it so. Did 1 believed
that'liberty- and the rights of the South de
manded the sacrifice, I would not hesitate. 1
believe that less concession than was necessary
to frame the Constitution will now preserve
it ’ Thus billeting, I cannot vote for Seces
sion. • i -■ -
“ I have'hesitated to say anything on this
topic, because I desire toe people to act lor
themselves. My views are on-record. -Tetit is
perhaps but right that my old friends should
snow that the charge that I am for secession
is false, -If I err in holding on still to the
skirts of my venerated old mother Virginia,
and the foster-mother which matured me from
boyhood, glorious Tennessee, my countrymen
wifi forgive ine, as they have forgiven me for
many other things ! have done. lam willing
even to -b4 ‘called a submissionist for their
•sake.” •
miiioit*
[From tie Jf. T. Tribime, Fit. 23th.]
In the very heart of the great Talley, Hiichtay
between the Arctic and the Tropic, the Atlan
tic and the Rocky Mountains, Ilea the State of
Illikois, the young Hercules of the West,
touching Lake Michigan on the north and the
lower Ohio on the south, with ihS fnaiestle
Mississippi washing her entire .western border
and the wabash skirting her for more than'
half its length on the east Her growth dar
ing the last decade has been realty more rapid
ana considerable than that of any other State,
.though some of the neweft hare increased in
population by a larger percentage than hers.
We believe her representation in Congress will
be increased under the Census of 1860 by fbur
Members; and we think no other State'-will
gain so many; Her population has all but
doubled during the last decade*, haying risen '
from some 900,000 to about 1,700,000.
. _0 her States have each some peculiarity in
which it may fairly claim precedence. Mich
igan and (Wisconsin are both tar better tim
bered, having an a&undance of Jrfhej whereas
Illinois has not a stick. Pennsylvania, Vir
ginia and Missouri are richer in minerals; lowa
and Kansas have more undulating surfaces,
and are (we think) better watered;; Ohio lies
nearer to the seaboard; Hew England hasher
manufactures, and New York her foreign com-,
merce; but in average depth and richness of
soil—in capacity ip produce groin and grass, ,
meat and vegetables;. Illinois is probably the
first among the States, and surpassed by no
equal area upon the lace of the globd.
Originally, scarcity, and imperfect distribu
tion of timber, with defective facilities for
transportation and travel, were her great draw
backs. Probably three-fourths of her.sni’iaee
were prairie when, settlement commenced;
while her timber was for the most part stunted
and gnarly by reason of the high winds con
stantly wrehchlng tmd. the fierce fires, fre
quently scorching it. She had fio evergreens
of consequence, and very few trees from
which decent boards could be sawed. Many
prairies were ten to twenty miles wide—
some were thirty to forty. The deep, black
muck which formed the soil was powdered into
dost by drouth, or sodden Into mire by rain.
The moment the prairie sod was cut through,
the whtels of eachloadedvehielesankthrough
half of each year nearly to the hub; and thus
not only building materials, salt and groceries,
but fencing and fuel were to be carted for long
distances—a load of wheat being drawn to
Chicago, and the proceeds converted into a
load of. boards for fencing—the journey out
and back often consuming a week. Many a
load of produce thus marketed has seen nearly
or quite its price absorbed in the inevitable ex
pense of the journey out and in. This impelled
the State to engage prematurely in the con
struction of canals, which involvedherhcavily
in debt without very materially improving her
access to markets. Eailroads followed in due
season, aud did her good service, while, being
constructed mainly by private enterprize*
whatever.advantage accrued to the public was
so much clear gam. . Still, extensive areas of
her soil must have remained unimproved, un
inhabited for ages but for the construction of
thc"liliaois Central Railroad. That great
work, munificently endowed with wild lands
by Congress, starts from Chlcnga in tbc
North-cast and Dunleith in the North
west of the State,aud converging to ajuuction
near the centre, runs thence by a single line to
Cairo iu the extreme South, at the junction of
the Ohio with the Mississippi, the work hav
ing thus a total length of over six hundred
miles. And, though not run as the profit of
the stockholders would have dictated, its
course is precisely such as best conduced to
the settlement and growth of the State. Mil
lions of acres, else uninhabitable, are by It
rendered among the most inviting and valua
ble of any wildlands on our Continent: and
though the Federal "rant covered more than-
Two and a Half Minions of acres, we believe
the Public Domain was Increreed not merely
iu value but iu productiveness to the Treasury
by this enlightened liberality. And though
ihe stockholders iu the road have hitherto
reaped no advantage, aud their stock is now
considerably belo«- par, we feel confident that
patience and judicious management will yet
render their investment a good oue. .
Illinois, already the fourth and probably
poun to be the third Slate in the Union—for
Virginia is already behind her in every ele
ment of consequence aud power—is yet in her
infancy. Of her soil, probably less than one
fourth has yet been plowed; and her last crop
—immense as it was, especially of corn—is
but a fraction of what she can and will pro
duce. We believe her product of this staple
already far exceeds that of any other Slate,
while in wheat, beef, and pork she is scarcely
second to any. Her coal is hardly exceeded
la abundance by that of any other State; near
ly every loot of her surface is underlaid with
lime; and her iron, though less abundant, is
good. Her chief mart, though hardly thirty
years old, ranks seventh among American cit
ies; k promises ere long to be the fifth. Illi
nois bids fair to have five millions of inhab
itants in 1880, and to increase the number to
leu millions early in the next century. Her
career is hardly begun.
Interview Between iflr. Lincoln and
Uie City Authorities of Washington*
[From the Nutioual Republican, Feb. 28.]
On leavingthc Executive Mansion, the party
repaired to Willard's Hotel, to extend a for
nu'l welcome to the President elect After a
lew minutes delay, they were invited into the
principal apartment of Mr. Lincoln, where
ihat distinguished gentleman was in readiness
to receive them.
The Mayor then addressed the President
elect in the following language:
Mr. Lincoln: As the President elect under
the Constitution of tbe United States, you are
soon to stand in the august presence of a great
nation of freemen,, amt enter upon tbe dis
charge of the duties of the highest public
trusts known to our form of government, and
under circumstances menacing the peace and
permanency of the Republic, which hare no
parallel in the history of our country. It is
our earnest wish that you may be abic, as wc
have no doubt you will, to perform those du
ties in such a manner as shall restore peace
smd harmony to our now distracted country,
and dually bring the old ship of State into a
harbor of safety and prosperity, thereby de
servedly securing tbe universal plaudits of a
whole world. I avail myself, sir, of this occa
sion to say that the citizens of Washington,
true to the instincts of constitutional liberty,
will ever be found faithful to all the obli
gations of patriotism; and as their Chief
Magistrate, and in accordance with the hon
ored usage, I hid you welcome to the seat of
Government.
MR. LINCOLN’S REPLY.
Mr. Mayor : I thank you, and through you»
the municipal authorities of this city who ac
company you, fur this welcome. And as it is
the first lime in my life, since the present phase
of politics has presented itself in this country,
that I have said anything publicly within a re
gion of country where the institution of slave
ry exists, I will take this occasion to say that
I think very much of the ill feeling that has
existed, and still exists, between the people in
the section from whence I came and the peo
ple hero, is dependent upon a misunderstand
ing of one another. I therefore avail myself
of this opportunity to assure you, Mr. Mayor,-
and all the gentlemen present, that I have not
now, and never have had, any other than as
kindly feelings towards you as the people of
my own section. I have not now, and never
have hud, any disposition to treat you in any
respect otherwise than as my own neighbors.
I have not now any purpose to withhold from
you any of the benefits of the Constitution,
under any circumstances, that I would not
feel myself constrained to withhold from my
own neighbors; aud I hope, in a word, that
when we shall become better acquainted—and
I say it with great confidence—we shall like
each other the more. I thank you for the
kindness of this reception.
The visitors were then severally introduced
to the President elect, and a brief period was
spent in social conversation. Shortly after
wards the company departed, evidently well
pleased with the visit.
Mr. Lincoln** Position.
[From a" Special Correspondent of tlio Eve, Post.]
Washington, Fvb. 26, 1561.
The reports of Lincoln’s inclinations, as
given out in conversation, arc colored by the
personal feelings of the narrators. One of
these reports makes him say that no plan of
compromise yet suggested satisfied him. Gov.
Sprague and 'Judge Ames, the latter a Peace
Commissioner of Rhode Is land, asked a special
interview, which was granted. They are said
to have urged Mr. Lincoln’s assent to the
Guthrie proposition. Mr. Lincoln object
ed, on the ground that it recognized slavery iu
the Territories, aud he was elected to keep
slavery out of the Territories. Judge Ames
then reminded the President elect that the
proposition, as amended by Reverdy Johnson,
only ai?plied to “present” Territory'. Lin
coln insisted that it would, by fair inference,
apply to future acquisition, and asked Ames if
he could get the Southern men iu the confer
ence to adopt an amendment that this recogni
tion of slavery shall not' apply to future acqui
sitions of Territory.
To this Judge Ames is reported to have an
swered, “ Probably not.” Lincoln was then
reminded that. Rhode Island voted for him
chiefly as an old-line. Whig. This, he remark
ed jocosely, was the worst reason he had yet
heard assigned for his election. Rhode Island,
observed one of the gentlemen, is a little be
hind the other eastern States on the slavery
question. Lincoln replied to this assertion of
Rhode Island's political backwardness by an
anecdote of a Sunday School in Connecticut,
where a boy, iu answer to a question respect
ing the attributes of the Deity, answered that
they had three gods in Conn* etient, bntia
Rhode Island, where he came from, they had
no god at all As the Commissioners retired,
Mr.Lincoln said perhaps he had been too un
reserved, aud they might considerthe remarks
as unsaid. “Wc wish we could,’’ was their re
sponse, ns they left the room. This story is a
part of the current anecdotes of “Old Abe,”
and has produced'quite a sensation he»e. I
cannot vonch. for the details of this report, but
believe it to be In the main correct.
A New Agitation in Charleston.
The rebels begin to canvass with an air of
.seriousness the suggestion whether the Fed
eral Government will not embrace in its plan
for reenforcing Fort Sumter, toe landing of
troops on Jarvis Island, with toe view of at
tackmgthe batteries in the rear. This contin
gency, nas not been thought of np to this time.
Military men here do not disguise that in
•pushing the Federal Government to accept
this as actual warfare, in its length andbreadlh,
‘ this method of reenforcing Fort Sumter win
-be rendered an extreme probabditv; and the
operations may so widen as to include the city
. of Charleston, produces estate indicative of a
new idea and the sense of an unpleasant p'ossi
‘bility. Would it not be interesting to see this
•rebellious old city, where there is more actual
despotism than ever at any time existed on
this, continent, the hot-bed of the great crime
of destroying this Union, in toe hands of Gen.
Scott—the rebels scattered—some of them vis
ited with .the doom due to traitors, everywhere
—the miserable rebel flag thatrnbw everywhere
offends toe sight and the light of Heaven pull
ed down, and toe stars and stripes hoisted in
its place—l say, would not this be a sight to
see, to rejoice over,assomething gone to show
that we havea'Govemment ? — Cor. JV. Y.~ Tri
bune: ■ • v
“i— The Albany Journal says Senator Toombs
is a profound egotist. If he were on toe gal
lows, he would continue to speak of himself
until toe sheriff “ dropped toe subject.”
Addins Insult to Injury.
The New Orleans Delia of the 22d nit, says:
From the eagerness to get that bullion fund
, in thd mint of mis city, we infer that Unde
: Sam most be in a very liafd strait for money,
i It has already been drawn upon bv the treas
i ury and post office departments. Day befoi'e
• yesterday Mr. Horatio King, the Postmaster
General at Washington, drew on Mr. Gnlrot,
r ''assistant tredstirer of the State of Louisiana,
for $300,000, in favoi* of the post office depart-
as wo presume he did not specify
■ the particular Service for which the said stun
was required, his draft was treated like that of
the Superintendent of the Mint atPhiladelphia. •
It was not' honored -for this'si tuple reason,
that the said bullion has been taken possess
! ion of by the State of Louisiana, pud will be
- retained for farther settlement with the Umt
■ ed States, and to meet liabilities of that gov
ernment which have been assumed by the
State of Louisiana. This transaction will, of
course, be qualified hy very hard names at toe
North. , .. ~
Butitisnot only a legitimate end equitable
arrangement, which will afford a better secur
ity iotSc holders of claims against the United
States than they how .have, but it has been
rendered aprecatttioh’of common
prudence and ■ self- defence, on tae part ef
Louisiana, by the' violent, irrational, and hos
tile demonstrations of the United States au
thorities against our people.
Having for years past contributed from the
commerce oi this city many millions to the
treasury of the United States, we suddenly
discover a purpose on the part of that govern
ment to remove from our midst every vestige
of United States property, in order to depnye
odr people, of • all share of the partnersmp
pfcfperty.' ’. ,
Not only Is this injustice contemplated
against our States, but the numerous holders
of United States obligations are in danger of
' losing all chance of recovering their claims, it
our States should surrender to Secretary Dix
alt the assets add funds of government ■wnlcn
have been collected in this city*
Business at Cairo.
[From the Cairo City Gazette.]
Last Saturday there were one hundred, and
eighty loaded freight cars on the levee in front
of the city, being the arrivals of the day pre
vious.' Besides this enormous quantity of
freight, the depot was fall, both our
■Wharf-boats were full, and large amounts were
stacked upon the wharfr We are told by a
gentleman lb . the forwarding business that
there were no less than three thousand tons of
freight hero for New Orleans and points inter
mediate. .
Notwithstanding the fact that during the
past ten days the Mississippi has contained
sullicient water to allow the largest class boats
to come out from SL Louis fully loaded, there
has been no perceptible dlmanition in the re
ceipts by railroad. The whole vast interior of
our State seems to be full ot surplus produce
now seeking outlet by the Illinois OntraL As
an evidence of this we need only remark, that
the amount of money collected by the railroad
agent here for freights alone, during the past
thirly days, is $165,000; and that if the busi
ness of the coming thirty days continues as it
has commenced, the roceiptsfrom that source
here will reach over tiro hundred ihmmnd
dollars!
Southern Trade Active in New York.
Southern merchants arc making good use of
the brief time allowed to them for the intro
duction of goods “freeof duty,”, which, un
der the ordinance of the ‘'Confederate States,”
expires during the current week. Tbecf Is
fully the usual number of Southern purchasers
in town, as compared with previous years, at
the corresponding season, and all with the
view of replenishing their exhausted stocks of
merchandise. In Warren, Murray and Cham
bers streets, as well as other business locali
ties, unusual activity was noticed yesterday In
the shipment of goods; carts were observed
with full loads of boxes of dry goods and other
merchandise, on their way to various Southern
steamers, which are loading for Norfolk, Sa
vannah and Charleston.
Upon inquiry among merchants, it appears
that while there are manywishingto purchase
on the “ usual terms,” eomparatively few ob
tain credit, and these are old customers who
have always promptly met their obligations.
Those who have shown a disposition to lay in
heavily, “ upon time,” have found I - difficult
to negotiate in the present “unsatisfactory
state of the country;” while substantial mer
chants who have come with money to pay up
old scores, and buy moderately, have met with
no difficulty. A strong Southern house, with
extensive conuections in all the seceding
States, say they make it a rule to fill orders
uniformly to collect ou delivery by Express.
Another house, largely engaged iu Southern
trade, act toward buyers wholly upon the as
sumption that secession is a fixed fact, and
govern themselves accordingly. Shipments of
cotton and rice continue to New York without
interruption.—A’ Y. Times, Feb. 23.
PERSONAL.
Gov. Tates left Springfield- for Washington
ou Thursday last. Several gentlemen of
Springfield accompanied him.
The Republicans of Rock Island have noml"
nated Elisha P. Reynolds for Mayor, and Sam
uel Bender for Marshal. The Democratic can
didates are Bailey Davenport for Mayor, and
Underwood for Marshal. The election
takes place to-morrow.
J. A. Packard is the Republican nominee
for Mayor of Gilcna.
—L. S. Everett, formerly editor of the Chi
cago Herald , and afterwards mail agent, has
started a new paper at St. Auagar, Mitchell
County, lowa, under the Utle'of St.Anagar
Herald. It looks well and reads well.
DonJoau, the pretended Caban and ac
complished swindler, has turned up in Syra
cuse, N. Y., this time with a woman represent
ed to be his wife, and both ol them u masters
of sixteen different languages.” lie plays the
same old tricks, hires a hall, announces an en
tertainment, and leaves the town and a lot of
unpaid bills behind all at the same time. He
will be recollected as the same impostor who
visited Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and
‘Worcester counties Mass.,several months since
The Oquawka Plain Dealer urges the
claims of Capt. Ben M. Prentiss of Quincy,
for Governor ot Nebraska Territory.
Judge Low, of the Laud Court, St. Louis*
bus decided that a paper published in the in'
terest of a religious sect la not a newspaper’
and that legal notices published such journals
arc null and void. Upon the same principle
we suppose that a paper published in the in
terest of any particular party, Is not a news
paper, and that the legal notices published in
it are null and void.
ARRIVALS OF
SPUING GOODS,
ELEGANT SPUING POPLINS,
CHOICE STYLE SPRING SILK.
NOVEL STYLES SPRING GINGHAMS,
FRENCH PRINTS.
ENGLISH PRINTS,
Extra Qualities Sloop Shirts*
SPRING DRESS GOODS.
Wc have just ouened over 1000 pieces of Linen Goods
Including
PIECE LINENS,
LINEN DAMASK,
LINEN SHEETING,
PILLOW CASK LINENS.
NAPKINS.
TOWEL*.
TABLE CLOTHS. &c.
All ofeztra quality and finish, m>rte* erpreisly to our
order, and which we will sell at
WHOLESALE OH RETAIL
MUCH LESS TKAH CAH BE 3QUCHT ELSEWHERE.
We Bhall hare large dally arrivals of Spring Goods
from this date, and will nlwavs crchlblt Incomparably
the LARGEST. CHOICES I* AND CHEAPEST
STOCK west of New York,
W. JSC. JttOSS A CO.,
Ja3C-d951-6midpff I’m and IG9 Lake street.
JJEAD DRESSES.-
WE ABE CLOSING OUT OCT.
Splendid. Stools, of
HEAD BIiESBES,
Greatly lveduced rrices
A. SHAVES,
.Lake Street.
No. 78
QffILDRE K’S GAK S.
CraißKE-V’S GIGS.
CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES.
EDW. F. PEUGEOT,
Manufacturer aud Jobber of
CBCIXiDRSIs’S CASS.
Send orders or call at
Peageot’s Great Variety Store,
NO. 11l RANDOLPH STREET,
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
fe2s*6oly
yAKD, GILLHORS & CO.,
JAYNE’S TWABBLE BT7ILDIRG,
Nos. 617 Chestnut and 6U Jayne Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
Hare opened their Spring Importation of
SILK AND FANCY DBY GOODS,
Dress Goods in Great Variety,
WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, AC.,
Which they wtH sen at the Lowest Eastern Prices.
fe15.e53-Sm CALL AND SEE.
TOHK P. KELLOGG & CO.,
44 Water Street, New York,
Offer for sale, from United states Bonded Warehouse.
, of thelrown Zmportatioa:
COGNAC BRANDIES—Otard, Dapny & Co, Plnet,
CaatHlon & Co n and other bran's of various
' vintages, dark and pale. In halves, quarters
aud eighths.
BOCHELLE BBANDlE*—Pellevolaln. A. Selgnette,
J.P. KeHoeg& Co., and other brands, dark
and pale, in the usual packages^
: HOLLAND 014— J. P. Kellogg & Co. » Schiedam, and
. Wee Drop. In pipes and three-qr, pipes.
RUM—St Croix and Jamaica.
WHlSKTS—Mchan’i Irish and Ramsey’s Scotch.
WINES—Port, Shery, Madeira, Bordeaux, Hock; and
- . - others, of various grades.
OH —Pine Bordeaux Table, la eases and boskets.
mOO Boxes NEW M. R. and
iUv V LAYER BAISIN3.
BBXMOLOSk ELY ft CO.
jis&
Nervous Headache
SS* *
Headache.
By the use of these Pills the periodic attack* of Nbb
tops os Sick may he prevented and
taken at the commencement of *hT attack Immediate
reDeffrom pain and alcknesa win he obtained.
They seldom fkllln removing the Kausßaand Hxjld
acHß to which females are so robject.
They act gently upon the bowels—removing CoS'
TIVBHBBS.
For Literary Hen, Students, Delicate Females, and
all persons of sedentary habits, they are valuable as a
Lazazcvß, Improving the appjtrixr, giving tohz and
tiqok to the digestive organa, and restoring the na
tural elasticity and strength of the whole system..
The CEPHALIC FILLS are the result ot long Inves
tigation and carefully conducted experiments, having
been In nse many years, during which time they have
prevented and relieved a vast amount of pain and
suffering from Headache, whether originating in the
SZBVOVB system or from a deranged state of the
BTOXACH.
They are entirely vegetable In their composition, and
may he taken at all times with perfect safety without
maklagany change of diet, aan> thk abbbscx or amt
SXSA6BZZABLX TJLBTX XSXDBBS XT BAST TO AZUTLSIa-
BEWARE OF COCSTEEFEITS'.
The genuine have flve signatures of HESBT c.
SPALDING on each Box,
Sold by Druggists and allother Dealers In Medicine#.
A Box will h« sent by man, prepaid, on receipt o
PRICE, 25 CENTS.
AH orders should be addressed to
BBNH7 C. BPALDINQ,
No. 48 Cedar Street, New York.
Xho Following Endorsement of
SPJMMjniJVG’S
CEPHALIC PILLS
Win convince an who suffer from
HEADACHE,
THAT A
SPEEDY AND SURE CURE
15 WITHIN THEIR REACH.
As these Testimonials were unsolicited by Hr.
SPAIDING, they affbrd unquestionable
proof of the efficacy of this truly
scientific discovery.
Hasoxtxzxz, Coon, Feb. Cth, 1&»L
your Cephalic Pills, and I like
tbeai so will that I want yon to send me two dollars
worth more.
Part of these are for the neighbors, to whom I gave
a few out of the lint box 1 got from yon.
Send the Pffla hy malL and oblige
Tour obedient servant.
JAMES KENNEDY.
Hateetobd, Feb. 6th, 186 L
Mb. SPALDUiO. ,
Siß'—l wish you to pend me one more box of your
Cephalic PIUS, I HATB BSCXrVED A OBXAT DEAL OP
BENEFIT FBOXTHXX
Tours respectfully.
MARY ANN STOIKHOUSE.
Spbucz Cbskk. Huntington Co„ Pa.,)
January isth, IS6L >
H. C. SPALDING,* . .
Sib*—TonwUl please send me two boxes of your
Cephalic FUR. So-d them Immediately.
Respectfully yours.
JNO. B. SIMONS.
P. 8 —I HATE rSZD OXX BOX OP TOUB PILLS, AND
FIND THEM EXCELLENT.
Belle Vebnojt, Ohio, Jan. 15th, 1861.
Hexbt C. BPALDISO, Efq„
Please find Inclosed twenty-five cents.forwhlchsend
me another box ot your Cephalic P Ua. They abb
TBULT TUB BEST PILLS I HATE EVES TRIED.
Direct a. STOVKK, P. M,
Belle Vernon, Wyandot County, O.
n Bstkblt, Mass., Bee. 11th, 1860.
13 C. SpAiOD-'O, Esq.
1 wish for some circulars or large show bills, tobrlng
vnor Cephalic Pills more particularly before 107 cus
tomers. If yonhaveanjthmgoftheUncl,pleasesenii
to me.
One of my easterners, who U subject to severe Sick
Headache, (asnsUynßUng two data,) was crazo or
.or attack nr ok* nous bt toub Pills, which 1
sent here. Respecting gjars^
liZTXOLDSDtrBQ, Franklin Comity. Ohio,)
January 9th, ;»L 5
Hetbt C Spalddto,
Xo. 4d Cedar street, N. Y.
Deab SiE:—lncosed And twenty-live cent*, (25. > for
which send box of * Cephalic Plila. Send to address
of Her. Wm. C. Filler, Reynoldsburg, Fran alia Coun
ty. Ohio.
Toce Pills wobk like a chabm—cubs Head
ache ALMOST EIBTASTXB.
Truly yoars,
WM, C. FILLER.
Ypsilastt, Mlchu January 14th, IS6I.
Ms. Spaldiko.
Bibj—Not lone since I sent to yon for a box of Cep
halic Pills for the care of the Nervous Headache and
Coativcncss, and received toe same, and they had so
GOOD AK EFFECT THAT I WAS ESDtTCED TO. SEED FOB
MOBS.
Please send by return malL Direct to
A. R. WHEELER.
Ypallantl, inch.
[From the Elia miner. Norfolk. Va.]
Cephalic PDls accomplish the object for which they
were made, viz: Cure of Headache In all its forms.
[From the Examiner, Norfolk, Va.]
They hare been tested 1* more than a thousand
cases, with entire success.
[From the Democrat, St. Cloud. Minn.]
If yon are, or hare been troubled with the headache,
scud for a box, (Cephalic PlllsJ so that yon may have
them in case of an attack.
[From the Advertiser, Providence, R. LI
The Cephalic Pills are said to be a rem-irkably effec
tive remedy fur the headacoe, end one of ih« very best
tor that very frequent complaint which ha* ever been
discovered.
[From the Western K B. Gazette, Chicago, JILT
We heartily endorse Mr. Spalding, and bla unrivalled
Cephalic PUB.
[From the Kanawha Valley Star, Kanawha, Va]
Ws are sure that persons Buffering with the head
ache. who try them, will stick to them.
[From the Southern Path Finder. New Orleans, La.l
Try them! yon that are afflicted, and wc are sore
that four testimony can be added to the already nnmer
uns ibt that has received benefits that no other medi
cine can produce.
[From the St. Louis Democrat.]
The immense demand for the article (Cephalic Pills)
Is rapidly Increasing.
[From the Gazette, Davenport, lowa,]
Mr. Spalding would not connect Ms name with an
article be did not ecow to possess real mcr.t.
[From the Advertiser, Providence, B. LI
The testimony In their Avor Is strong, from the moet
respectable quarters.
[From tie Dally News, Newport, B. IJ
Cephalic Pills are taking the place of all vfada,
[From the Commercial Bulletin, Boston, Hass.]
Said to be rerr efficacious for the headache.
(From the Commercial, Cincinnati, Ohio.]
Buffering bnmanltj can now be relieved.
.No. 78
EF" A single bottle of SPAULDING'S PREPARED
QLCTE win save ten times Its cost annually. _gi
SPALDING’S PREPARED GLEE I
SPALDING’S PREPARED GLUE!
SPALDING’S PREPARED 6LT3EI
BATE THE PIECES!
ECONOMY-!! DISPATCH!!
“A Stitch a Tot Batts Sot."
As accidents will happen, even In well regulated
ftmifllevtt Is vary desirable to have some cheap and
eonvemSS way for repairing Furniture, Toys, Crock*
ery, Ac.
SPALDING’S PREPARED SLUR
Meets all such emergencies, and no household can at
lord to be without it. It Is slways ready, and up to
the sticking point. ’
•‘USEFUL INEVEBT HOUSE,"
*2T. IL—A Brush accompanies each Bottle.
MICE, 25 CENTS.
Address
HEW BY C. SPAIDING,
No. 48 Cedar Street, New Toik.
CATTTIOIf.
As certain unprincipled persons are attempting to
palm off on thnnnsospecting public, tmtttinqy atmj
PBEPAEED GLUE, 1 woaW csntlon aQ-persons to
examine before purchasing, and Me thelhH name
VT SPALDING’S PREPARED GLUE, rt
Is on the ontdde wrapper; an others tn swindling
wranterMta.' oc^dAtwly
U G ET THE BEST”
z>xuebroit
corn «v c urs.
An article which is unsurpassed toy anything of the
kind now in use; It flows free, dues not become thick,
and wm make
Three Perfect Transfers.
FOB SALE BY
3\d TJ TST & O N ,
.
14:0.Lake Sti'eet,
Where may also he found a greet variety of other
INKS AND WRITING FLUIDS.
nol'6o-ly
"PJ IARIES. DIARIES.
FOB 1861.
POCKET AND OFFICE
DIAEIES
OF EVERY Y'UtiETV,
FOB SALE BY
JONES, PERJJEE A S3IALE,
Mo, 122 Lake Streei.
RODGERS’ KNIVKS
SOISSOHS,
Of Our Oku Importation,
FOB SALE BY
JONHS, F2HDUS & SEIAJ.I*.
WAlili PAPEES.
Xo. SI Randolph Etreot 51
F. E. RIGBY.
JySl-c32J-9m
Q.UKNIES !!! GUXXIES !.! r
A Large Consignment of
IS AG!*,
GUNNY
FOII SALE BY
GILBERT HUBBARD & CO.,
Bos. 205 and 207 South. Water Street, Chicago.
fg27e!2l-Sw
gHOTJLDER KKACES
SHOULDER BRACES.
SHOULDER BRACES.
Tbe*e appliances are used for Improving the Cheat,
and giving fall play to the Lnng-\ Persons who have
acquired a stooping position bv following a Sedentary
occupation will experience great r.-ln-f from trie u-w
of Shoulder Brace*. We have perfected »n article
which answers admirably as a Shoulder Brace a.:d
Suspender Combined. We ul«o k**i»p a full stock «-f
the most approved kinds lor Ladies, Gentlemen.
Misses and Buys.
S7IITH «t DWYER,
APOTHECARIES. W LAKE STREET.
Opposite the Tremor.t House.
-W. H. "WOOD,
153 and 155 Lake Street,
Have Opened within ft few day?, a L-rgc aud elr.lo
ac.se rtmeat of
French. EnglMi u»d American
PRISTS ASD GIXGHAiUji,
In the latest Printings to which they a»k the attention
vf lookers lor t.V-sc goods.
fe!4-eIS-3m
JJOUtiE FXJRXISinXG GOODS.
Wo have a large and complete slock or
Bleached ShlrtinsiiySheetloss and PU<
low Case Cottons,
T .T~N"FI~NT SHEETINGS.
DAMASKS AND TOWELINGS. MARSEILLES
QUILTS. AND HOUSE KURSISIUNG
GOODS GENERALLY.
Which we are selling at the lowest pri;cs.
153 and 155 Lake Street.
W. Ik WOOD * CO.
fell-c 18-Soi
WE HAVE RECEIVED A FIXE
T T oAsortmcct of
BALMORAL SKIRTS,
(Full length and width) 1c medium and One qualities,
at low prices.
Also—Alexander** Kid Glove*.
fei4.e-15.3m W. R. WOOD * CO., ISC >t 135 Lake St
A R L Y T II A I) K .
FIGURED FHE-SCH POPLINS,
A new article Inst received, mcl very liandsonifl.
Also Plain Poplins ana Valencies, adapted to early
spring.
W. R. WOOD & CO.,
Ko#. 12J and 125 Lake f-trcvt.
fell-eSS-am
MERCIIAXiS.
'J'O ILLINOIS
1801 A Card ISOt.
WEBER, WILLIAMS & YALE,
jobbers or
HATS, CAPS, STKAW GOODS, PAUA-
SOJLS AK3> t?IEiIELLAS,
LAKE STREET. CHICAGO.
Invite tb* apodal attention of lUlaot: mearctuats to
their vc.y well averted And unn-nally attractive
Spring -tock for LSSi. which wilt be offered at low pri
ces mol on lavurable ttrms for Cat-h or Approved
Credit.
rer Prompt and careful attention pven to orJcn.
WEUEIt, WILLIAMS A YALE.
vy INTI- R & SPRING TRADE'.
Hating completed the Removal of cur
Dry Goods Jobbing Drjsiirtmrnt
TO SOS, 71 &HO 75 LAKE STSSET,
We are cow making additions of
FRESH AND REASONABLE «•::!!>,
And Invite buyers t»examine tfca earn*. It L* .nr a«;n
to meet the views of
CLOSE GASH AND SHORT TiaE^UTESS,
BOWEN JJROTIIKKS.
Importers ?inil Jobber*.
STANTON’S,
80. 4S - - - - Cli-ii: Stxset.
NEXT TO SHERJUJI UOiSk.
FAMILY
*e73raD2LCi££iXi3£X> li*
QUALITY AND VARIETY.
SOLS AGENT FOS
imelang’s I'elcbrstea iteafilese
HAMS,
Westphalia Coro, Eapcrlcr Quality »<id Flayer.
FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES,
IN CANS,
SWEET CORN,
TOMATOES,
LIMA BEANS,
FRESH PEACHES,
GREEN PEAS,
MUSHROOMS,
STRAWBERRIES,
OLIVES.
PINEAPPLES,
PISH, m CANS.
FRESH SALMON,
TURTLE SOUP,
[«d*MyJdp]
GREAT FIRE IN
JL MILWAUKEE.
$300,000 Saved in Herring's Safes.
T Mu-wats-e, Jan. 22, 1860.
Mb. ItAyscra Bosshu, Agent for Herrtng*s Safes.
Dbab Sib:—ln the recent Are, which -destroyed the
Milwaukee City Offices, were two of Herrings Safes*
one large one In the Utv Clerk’s Ofllcc,located lathe
fourth story, and a smaller one. In the bcuool
noner*9 room. In third story.
we are happy to say, notwithstanding the Safes feH
Bo great a distance, and were mhjocted to such an In
tense heat (thoono forty and the otrter sixty hoars,')
that the books and papers were in a first-rate state of
preservation. The only injury received, was the curl*
Ingof the leather binding of the boota by steam.
we think, if the reputation of Herring's Safes was
not fully established before this tire, that ail must now
boeatlsfled that they are what they claim to be—
“Flßtt PROOF.” ■
The castors on one, and the plates on the other were
netted og,
FRANCIS nUEBSCHMANJf.
Acting Major.
KELSOJT WEBSTER, J
President Board of Coancillora.
GEO. D. ImnSMAX, ■
City GcA.
JONATHAN VOED.
SnpMtatgtAsTtt nf Sc>sAO?K_
“Herrin gVs Patent Champion Baita.** thnwtrH $o
oCentested, Never Fan to save their contents. 6
Only Depot In the West at 40 State street.
.ir,- -- ' HFaBTNG & CO, ■
detmijMpg 40 State street
jpAEKER HOUSE, BOSTON
The addition to this Hotel being completed with so*
potior accommodations for ladles and zentlemen. will
be opened on MON DAY. rebjtth. T&ho*»*«Js com*
£leteinalHtsapoolntmer.v*’^'*»
10 proprietors torn**
80. 4s
LOBBIES,
HERRINS’.