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NEW SERIES--VOL. XII, WO. 34.

EXCELSIOR STOOK

-Of

HARDWARE!

is oi t'i1

TEN OAR LOADS

ji •. ':t ji jiii'i»J

Of English, German Sf American^

HARDWARE!

Cuttery, Tools, iron,1

OILS, PAINTS,

a And aa endle*» variety of

t-'U AND

HOUSEKEEPERS GOODS

JUST RECEIVED AT

THE EXCELSIOR HARDWARE STORE,

-BY-

25,000 lbs.Best Quality of IRON,

Jut reaclved Mid for sale nt very small udvance'on Manufacturer*' pneos.

500 Kegs Assorted Nails.

Panoni in trade i»l«hing to replenish their itock can 'do so at this House

Jit Cincinnati Prices,

Addlnc fifty csnts per keg for Freight. In

mmro carriage

TRIMMINGS

csn offer rnro inducements tn ontumer*. our rtock hnvinx'buun pitrrhnvd nlmo«t entirely from first htui'lf. UH.I1) buyers especially wiil save !ucuoy by looking llircu^h bolorc buying elsewhere.

Carpenters Tools, Coopers Tools

Will find here stnok to select from that is absolutely uniiirjiMSVil in I'Stent. variety, and chenpuess, by tiy other liouje iu the West, tor

Wagon and Carriage

tVe hav* a larso and well sc'.ectod stock of

nuns, FELLOES, SPOKES, noivs,

pini

Campbell, Galcy & Ilnrter,

N*. 7 •racial B*w,

Crawfordsville, Indiana.

(Barton's.)

Saddlers Tools, Carriage Makers Tools, Blacksmiths Tools,

A full end cociplctA atomic of each at lower jiriccs than ever.

HOUSE KEEPERS

POLES, SHAFTS,

Seat *irms,' Seat. Springs, SEAT STICKS, CARRIAGE SPRINGS,

PATENT AND ENAMELED LEATHER -AJCTX) CLOTH, Silver Bands and mountings,

OF ALL KINDS.

DAMASKS, FRINGES. MOSS and

HAIR,

And io abort everything pertaining to their line will hereafter be fonna hero at all timet and at the lowest pouible prices.

50,000 Feet

PLOW LUMBER & BEAMS

:j .. "W-ajsttieid.,..

Panons wishing to furnish any of the above must aoniult us first in refrnrrt to dimensions and quality we are determined to use none in the manufacture of our Plow* but the very best quality.

Plows

Vs «j ..-r Ah'D OTHER %,

FARMING IMPLEMENTS,

*'Constantly on hand and for salt.

FARMERS, MECHANICS

r-': AND ALL WHO AVANT

A W A E

-, W Sf tka baat quality, at low rriees, here is the place.

liV." CALL. A$P SEES 4

1&m is ..

«^Cvnpbell, Gaby.4 Harter.

4ka*«brfariU*.0rt. u. IMO.

9&T I'JS

«£.

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Fellow Citizens of the United States In compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear beforeyou to address you briefly, and} take in your, presence the oath prescribed 1y the ConstitnUon of the United States', to'be taken' by the President before he enters on the execution of his official duties. I do not consider .it necessary at present for me tb: discuss those- matters- of iadministration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement. The apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a Republican' administration, their peace and personal security are to be endangered but there has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their in spection.

It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I quote now from one of those speeches where I declare I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so Those who nominated me, and elccted me. did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them. And more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptancc, as a law to themselves and me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read

Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgement exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend and we denounce the lawless invasion, by an armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. s.-r#'

I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so, I only press upon the public at tention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible. The properly, peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration. I add to this that all tho protection which consistently with the constitution and the laws can be iven, will be cheerfully given to all the itates, when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another.

Thcro is much controversy about the delivering of fugitives from service or labor the clause I now reua is a3 plainly written in the constitution as any other of its provisions Hjr "No person held to service or labor in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such scrvicc or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."

It is scarce!}' questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves, and the intention of the law giver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution, to this provision as much as to anyother. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within this clause shall be delivered up, their oaths are unanimous. Now if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath There is some differ cnce of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by National or State authority, but surely that difference is not a very ma terial one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little conscqueuce to him or to others by what authority it is done. Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced so that a freeman may never in any case be surrendered as a slave, and might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of the clause in the Constitution which guarantees that the citizcns of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. I take the official oath today, with no mental reservation and no purpose to construe the Constitution and laws by any hypocritical rules, and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in offieial and private stations, to conform to and abide by all these acts which stand unrepealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.

It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that time fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success. Yet with all this scope of precedent I now enter upon the same task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under a great and peculiar difficulty. Disruption of the Federal Government, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.

I hold that in contemplation of universal law, and the Constitution, the Union of the States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all governments. It is not safe to assert that the government proper ever had provisions in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the constitution. Again if the United States be not

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government proper, but an

association of States in the nature of a contract, merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade, unless by all the parties who made it One party to a contract may violate it—break it so to speak butdoes not require all taJswrally rescind

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Descending from these general princi'ples, we find the proposition, that in legal contemplation, the Union is perpjetu&l, is confirmed by.the, history of the ijnion itself. The Union is. much older than the Constitution.., It. jras formed, in fact by the Articles of Association "in 1774. It was matured and continued.by. the Declaration of Independence'in 1776. It was further matured on~ the fai££ of-all the then Thirteen. States, expressly, plighted and engaged that it should be perpetuated by the Articles of Confederation in 1778, and-finally in. 1787. One of,' the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was to form a more perfect Union. If separation by one, or by apart, only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union—that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State, or States, against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.

I therefore consider that in view of the constitution and laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability shall take care, as the constitution itself expressly enjoins on me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. I doing this, I deem it to be only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform it so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, tho American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or iu some authoritative manner direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as a declared purpose of the Union, that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this, there need be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless forced upon the national authority.

The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect duties and imposts but beyond what may be uecessary for these objects, there will be no using of force against or among people auywhere. Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so universal as to prevent competent residents from holding Federal offiees, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people that object. While the strict legal right may exist in the Government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly impracticable withal, that I deem it better for the time to forego tho use of such offices. The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union. So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection.

The course here indicated will be fol-

lowed, unless current events and experience shall show a modification and change to be proper. In every case and exigeucy mv best discretion will be used according to circumstances actually existing, and with a view and a hope'of a peaceful solution of the national troubles, and the restoration of tho national sympathies and affections. That there are persons in one section or another, who seek to destroy the Union, or at all events are glad of any pre text to do it, I will neither affirm or deny but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union, may I speak. Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, memories and hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain previously why we hazard so desperate a step. While there is auy possibility that any of the ills you fly from have no real existence, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake All profess to be content in the Union, if nil constitutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written iu the constitution has been denied I think not. Happily, the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this. Think if you can. of

single instance, in which

a plaiuly written provision of the constitution has* been denied. If, by the mere force of numbers, a majority shall deprive a minority of any cloarly written constitutional right- it might, in amoral point of view, justify a revolution It certainly would if sxich a right were a vital one.— But such is not our case. All the vital rights of minorities, of individuals, are so plainly assured to them by the affirmation and regulations, guarantees and prohibitions in fiie Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them but no organic law can be framed with a provision specifically applicable to any question which may oceur in practical administration, no foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by National or State authority 1 The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories 1 The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If tho minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. There is no other alternative for continuing the Government, but acquiescence on the one side or the other. If a minority in such a case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them—for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such a minority. For instance why may not any portion of a new Confederacy, a year or two" hence, arbitrarily secede again precisely as a portion of the present Union now claim to secede from it All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this. Is there such a perfect identity of interest among the States to^omposc & new Union,

CKAWFORDSVILLE, COUNTY, INDIANA,'' MARCH 9, 1861

renewed secession^ Pldinly' the central idea of secession'ifl the essence of anarchy —-a majority held-' in restraint by. Consti tutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily Vith the deliberate changes,of popular opinion aud.sentiments is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejecta ii, does of a necessity fly toianarchy: or despotism.

Unanimity is. impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent,arrangement, is wholly ihadmissable so. that rejecting the "majority principle anarchy and despo tism in some form is all that is left. I do not-ibrget the' position assumed by -.some that constitutional questions are to be de-. cided by the Supreme Court,

:nor

do I de

ny that such decisions, mnst be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit'as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to. very high respect' and consideration in, all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decisions may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it being limited to that particular ease, with the chance that it may be overruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, it can better be borne than.could the evil'of a different practice: 1

At the same time the candid citizens must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by7 decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people ceased to be their, own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of the tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault on the Court or Judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrinK to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended while the other believe it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute, for the Fugitive, Slave clause of the Constitution, and the laws for the suppression of African Slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any laws can ever be in a community where the moral sense ot the people imperfectly support the law itself. Will the great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligations in both cases, better after 'the separation of the sections than before.

The foreign

slave trade now imperfectly suppressed, reports from the manufacturing would be ultimately revived without re- may give some faint idea o? "fre striction in one section, while fugitive "white slavery slaves now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, wc cannot separate cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an im- extent passable wall between them. Th

band a id wife may be divorced

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fighting, the old identical questions as to land th terms of intercourse are Th to they snail grow weary of the existing go eminent they can exercise their constitutioual right of amending, or their tionary right to dismember or ov I cannot be ignorant of the fact that worthy and patriotic persons are desir having the National Constitution amended bile I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the lawful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself, and I should, uuder existing circumstances favor rather than oppose a fair opportuuity being offered the people to act upon it. I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, inasmuch as it allows the amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead only of permitting them to take or reject a proposition originated by others not especially chosen for the purpose, and..which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either except or refuse. I understand a proposed amendment to the constitution,— which amendment, however I have not seen,—passed Congress, to the effect that the federal.government shall never interfear with the domestic institutions of the States, including that ol persons held to service.'"':

To avoid a misconstruction of what have said, I depart trom my purpose to speak of particular amendments so far mers (American

as they say that, holding such a provision to be now implied as Constitutional law, have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable. The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have conferred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this, also, if they choose but the Exc-

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fidence the ultimate justice

as to produce harmony only, and prevent own hands at very short IbtcrvaJs.

the world? either party without faith in the people or the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth aud justice, will be on our side of the North or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by this great tribunal—the American people. By the framers of the Government under which we livg, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with, equal wisdom, pro-

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no Administration, in any extreme of wickedness'or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short spjice of four years. 3Iy,countrymen one and all, think calmJy an4 well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to: hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you'as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution nnimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it while the new-Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who arc dissatisfied hold the right side in the disput^, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action.. Intelligence, patriotism, Chrisiianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never et forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjnst in the best way all our present difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and.not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy this Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle fir.-ld and patriot grave to every loving heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yeti

swell the chorus of the Union, when again iab^lt

touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Appeal

January 24, as follows: England is in a deplorable condition.— Uer working population are nearly all in starvation .scarcely earning enough to sustain life. There are over two hundred and fifty thousand fed by the alms-houses in London alone. This distress is attribu-1 ted to two causes—the troubles in the) United States and the severe winter. The districts.! loin," of

^e presence and beyond the itauu -v :„fCrea. ot each other, but the different parts of bad olF as the

or more satisfactory after separating that institutions, who can afford no better word8

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majority only

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TIAT.IFAX.—Tho aspect of both American and foreign aflairs is not of an assuring character, nor is the money market in such a state as to give buoyancy to commercial transactions. There is not a very. large number of hand-t out of work: time's are bad.

MANCIIES

is advancing, ket dull domestic In no department any tendency of events likely to States.

NEwe.rcTLElT-PON.TvN^.-Trndod-d!^

The private advices from our best custo- ft0CK'

ders to continue other merchandis

erable suffering among the working classes.

to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his, NprriKGHAM.-Business is more dull confer with the savages. The Indians,!

Why should here not be a patient con-. Machinery is- at a stand, and the lace-icoy.no sooner got these confiding men

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COVENTRY.—Upward of 60.000 ard supported by public subscription here and in the adjoining districts.

BELFAST.—Upward of 100,000 spindles have stopped, and many of the mills are on half time. There is not much real distress, tho poor being provided for. The Troubles in America may prove serious they are our great customers, and all dcrs have been countermanded.

A rector of London sends a report to the

Times

that it required $300,000 per week

to support the people on charity, and that at this season of the year it required $600,000 per week. The average amounts to $15,000,000 per annum for London. Comment is unnecessary. These are facts published to the world, and we believe the distress is much worse than represented.

Let missionaries, Abolitionists, "supply associations," anti-slavery societies, Exeter and Faneuil Hall fanatics, read this chapter.

The number of deaths last week in London amounted to 1,926, exceeding the estimate by 585. 4 deaths from starvation: bronchitis, 471 pathisis, 183, pulmonary complaints, 702.

Births for the week, 939 boys and 920 girls,- in all, 1,859 children. The estimated number, 1,093. The population of London is put down at 3,000,000.

The number of deaths last week in Lon-

I am loth to close arc not enemies, uu '.ll0rta!.it-vIan-\' We must not be enemies- 7°

(the

time

°f, cholera,)

by over 2o0. a The Poor-rates of England is $45,000,000. Add to this the alms-houses and other institutions of charity, with Scotland and Ireland, and you have a sum equal to the expenditure of the United States,

nnn

0!000'000

OfSTRKSS iu great BitiTAiiV—now don are put down at 250,000, besides those „i«!ic Anicriciiii Ciioin is AUV ctiug Tiatlr mid ill private institutions. Manufactures—Pauperism nn.1 Mtnrrntinn. Downtrodeil Ireland is'not as bad as "A Southerner iu Europe" writes to the either England or Scotland. A considcraMcmphis

annually,

England is pauperized, having, on an average, 1,500,000, equal to 20 per cent. ,(of the population. The paupers of Lon-

from London, under date ble cxcitcmcut exists iu Dublin, owins to

the largo export of potatoes to Enghtnd, jand the price had advanced to fid. stone, about $1 50 per 100 pounds,

'fro enlightened and-J NIPOUT.IIM1 FROM ARIZOMA.

aristocratic England. In no country on The telegraph has already made menthe face of the earth can there be found ,• .. such heartrending disfre.^. j1,011

Holland, with her soil inundated to the

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of two hundred squar-i miles—j but the following from a correspondent of

ie hus-'sweeping awav twenty-two villages, and the Missouri Republican, dated Tucaon, and go destroying cattle, grain a-id every thing Arizonia, February 9, will be perused with 2 reach owiieu by its lubabituuls—is not half as

"labor raachincs"

of ling-j

our country cannot-do this thev cannot land. A few extracts from the reports of Our citizens were yesterday kept in but remain face to face, and an intercourse I the leading cities will suffice and pi-ovc S_rGa^ stispense, m-tl filled with apprehcueither amicable or hostile must continue the assertion, and serve as a comparison sious of Indian difficulties, by the uou-ar-between them. Is it possible then, to between the condition of the Southern j1 Overland stage trom the cast, make that intercourse more advantageous States and those who Iraduce her and her

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before? Can aliens make treaties easier i.thau "villaius," "slayers," "murderers," been detained at Apache Pass, 125 than friends'.' Can they make laws? Can "man-stealcrs," "revilcrs nf all law, relig-' m'les

treaties be more faithfully enforced be-'' 'on justice and humanity." jibe ^particulars I copy _lrom the Arizoniau, tween aliens than laws among fricuds.'—J BIRMINGHAM. Trad Suppose }ou go to war, you cannot fight I alyzed. The Auicrican trade is entirely always, and when, after much loss on both suspended. The emplo sides, and no gain on either, you cease their hands three or four days in the week

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The potato crop of England, Scotland, France and Belgium has been very good.^

^he e\cuing an express rider

with intelligence that the sta^e

ea5t

of this point by hostile Indians,

in advance of its regular publication. Ihe

eis completely par- ,,

-Arizonian account is as follow

On Tuesday evening, February 5, the

Overland stage going cast, took from here

eight passengers. Among the number was the agent, Mr. Buckley, Lieutenant Cook,!

United States bat been thrown upon the g0me fiftecu rounds were tired. The ball maiket here. Spinners arc stopping some took effect in his leg and broke it. One of their machinery, aud the reduction of' time has been a weighty blow to the working classes, and 2,061 are now fed by the Bradford Union alone.

mule was killed and another badly wounded but after cutting out the former, they were enabled to reach the station with the remaining mules. It was about one o'clock on Thursday morning when they arrived.

The stage from the east had arrived ahead of time, at four o'clock P. M. ou Wednesday, with several passengers, and in a narrow canon beyond the station bad found the road obstructed with a quantity of hay—probably placed there by the In-

LEEDS.—A good deal of caution is man-! dians to be fired in the. night a3 the stago ifested here, owing to "the signs of the approached, which would have stopped it,

times." We have nearly worked full time. All orders for America Lave been suspended or countermanded.

and enabled them to tire by light upon the passengers. They were thus saved by being ahead of them.

IpaiJOll n- ii United!81.0.0!1

r.0.™,

sranchc, an account of

which will be found in another column.-

000!1"3, llD6

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shipments ot iron and ,, prisoners, intending to to the Southern States,

have been received this week l.v pome firms in the iron trade.' The disturb state of America and the Continent is ac ting very prejudicially. There is consid-

white flac

NORWICH.—The depression in the shoe Charie.sW. CuwX staSi' 1°

ide has created great distress. A town

and

cutive, as such, has nothing to do with it. meeting was called, and £4,000 collected T.,np- W-ii!irr» fliii-pr (i7- lm» fire. I had been- sleeping under a rook Hi, duty to administer and pre*™ ,he for .heUrcr, Oror S^OO-ooe-tbird ^too luoh Government as it came to his hands, and of the population—applied for assistance.!

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the pc-o- makers suffering to a fearful extent, and within their grasp, than they attempted to I

pie? Is there any better or equal hope in great distress among working people gen- seize them. They succeeded in capturing

-1-" In our present differences, is jeraljy. Wallace. Culver escaped, wounded after!

WOLVERHAMPTON.—Advice from Amer-J knocking down two Indiana. Welch also ica arc unfavorable, and some houses have I escaped, and got to the corral oi* tho stastopped which were confined to that trade, tion, when he was shot dead. Tho Dext

Our furnaces are not going half the time, and much distress exists among the working classes.

SHEFFIELD.—Trade is depressed. Advices from America this week are gloomy, and bring more countermands instead of orders. Nearly all-the branches of trade are on half time. The pauperism of this

vided for the return of that Uttle to tbeir'town is within a fraction of 50 per cent. in excess of last vear.

guard, while the soldiers were securing the hap3 enough fire left to warm mc some others Ihenext uay the Indians camc cotfee

large( numbers and hoisted a ,.oidi

the Indians, resolved to go out and

than it- has been for many years past.-1 who frequently use the^white flag as a de^ li.w l^lXi get

day the Indians appeared leading W allaco with his arms bound behind his back and a rope about his neck. On the same day Mr. John A- Ward, the guardian of the boy who had been captured, and a soldier were wounded.

Mr. A- B. Culver, brother of the wounded man, and conductor on th^ stage which arrived at the Paas from the East,

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to give information of the state of affairs. W are indebted to him for all the particulars of this article. An escort of soldiers sent to Fort Buchanan for medical aid and* more soldiers, accompanied him as far as*"*. Dragoon-Springs. He rode the one hundred and twenty.fivc miles in twenty-four hours, changing, horses at every station., or- A- short distance this aids of the station, he found the remains of a wagon train and the bodies of eight men, murdered by the

Indians. Two ot the bodies were chained to tho wagons, and bore the appearance of haviug been burned at the stake. All the animals had been taken away. Tho road was barricaded with rocks for over two miles, but Mr. Culver will return in the next stage and put ou a force of forty men to remove the obstructions. Mr. Buckley was expecting, when ho left, to make an attempt to start with the stago for Mesilla to-day, but we trust he will reconsider his resolution."

The citizens are greatly excitcd, and several hundred dollars have been subscribed toward the furnishing of a ranging cowpany. We must not allow our com* munication with the States to be cutofk

Doi-BLE PARTUTITIOX IN A FORTNIGHT. —The Snn Francisco

Herald says that a

lady iu that city became the mother to fine, healthy female child, on the day after Christmas, and both mother and child did well and progressed in health and strength. But two weeks afterward the same lady was again the mother of a child, a fiuo boy, who is also flourishing well, as well as tho double-taxed mother. This circumstanco, although of extreme rarity, being probably the second well-ascertained case in the United States, is known to mcdical men as having occurod -before, and is accounted for on clearly-asccrtained physical grounds.

PAYMENT OK THE BRITISH DEBT.—The human heart pulsates about seventy or seventy-two times a minute in a young person, say onco in a second. Now should a dollar be coined by every pulsatiou, what au enormous pile the whole would make in the space of a year Many will perhaps, suppose that the product would fill a tonacre lot in the course of a single year.— No the amount would not be so very large. On the contrary if the process were kept up Irom the first day of the life of a child,

England requires 8,000,000 quintals of both day and night to the day of his death, wheat, or au equivalent, to feed her, uutil 'at sixty years of age, it would not pay tho the new crop. At an average price this I public debt of Great Britain The coinwill cost her $110,000,000 She is on' the verge of a commercial crisis. Yet "outsiders" do not seem to see nor care.

JcP"dations

dians on the rouie of tlie

by the In-

Overland Mail,

age of a dollar a second for sixty years would produce only two thousand millions of dollars whereas the English debt is double that sum, or about four thousand millions of dollars It will not all bo paid this year, that is certain. To dothis will require more than a dollar to be made at every click of a sewing machine. Tho debt might then be paid, though not in less than some ten years perhaps, provided the machine never stopped in all that time.—Newark

Advertiser.

THE UNITED STATES NAVY.—Tho Naval Register for 1861, just published, gives the following list of naval vessels 10 line of battle ships, 10 sailing frigates, 21 sailing sloops of war, 3 sailing brigs, 1 schoon-1 er aud 6 store ships—total 51 sailing vessels, and 7 first class steam propellers, 6 second class do 2 second steam propel-." lers, 6 second class do 2 second clasn{ (old and worn) do., 12 steam gunboats, 2screw tenders, 3 first class side wheel

s)tca'»or^

^ass, do., 3 third class

S,de wi,eel steam tendcr and 2 steam

storeships. Total, 42 steamers—99 ships! in all. About 20 of them are serviceable men men-of-war of modern stamp. ""•3

THE Mssstssirri ARMY.—Adjutant Gen-eral-Grifiith reached this city day beforo

day, and were fired upon some two miles yesterday. He has been absent in the dinoffico. We companies into the scrnew military law twenty of infantry, ono of artillery, and one of cavalry. Tho applications aro quite numerous, and befoae long Mississippi will show to tho world that her sons are ready to enter the field in her scrvicc.

—Miss.

25th.

A MIGHT AH»:VO BATTLE8.XAKE8CncontforUtble Itcrf. I had been prospecting all day for minerals, and had found some copper and lead and some curious sulpher springs, of, I believe a unique kind and coming back to my camp had lit my fire, and cooked some deer-meat, then, quite tired out, looked round to sclcct a convenient and sheltered place under a high, crumbly-looking rock, not far from my gre, and loading my rifle, first bandacrinnr the lock and slirniinrr it, into

werc a

'oneent

A oy. .Lieutenant Jiascom, as wo learn, wre

not

faYOra bj .. Or-!,," ... then took the Chief and

six other Indians lold them as bos-!

tages. C'achus, however effected his cs-

I cape, after a desperate rusu through the I

dav's march ahead, looking after

bearrf

to returu tLe

'ad

stol?n

a Lad night for rat8 or

°flomo.

tbing or other kept passing over me and Lait-wakiug nic. About the gray of the morning I roused myself from that sort of torpid paralyzed seusc of endurance that a prolonged nightmare throws vou in, and rose up to my elbow to see if my logs

worc itc Lurnt out

assistant, Mr. Welch with Jlr'!'/ "T "il

n)V r-cht

was induced to rid® an express to Tyson, 'forms f^r tho rolutrwr*.

tUcrc

fur the Q- ht had boea fr0iStr

lookcd.

and

"icht had boea frosty

aacl to mv horror saw a

hc8p.°f

^«tth?rtv rattlesnakes

my fire had drawn them out by iu alluring warmth. It w.as these snakes I bad felt

mov:Ii 0.

on njV

,r ia *v long n-htmarc-

fCet,sure, and as I ran off I bancod

amoof them ius' to -nvo

,„rt of parti--bles'in-/ Bu»

vha-

harm I did to them I never know, for I did not care to go back to that hire of rattlesnakes.—Ml

The Year Round.

•6^ The London Times states that 3Ir" Richard Ccbden had proposed that Swiuerland should act aa mediator in the States of America, and that the Federal Council promptly declined the proposal ss impracticable. a 89* The women throughout the State of Mississippi sra employed in nuking nci-