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And «a MdleuTtriaty «f

AND

HOUSEKEEPERS GOODS

JUST RECEIVED AT

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Campbdl, Galcy & Harlcr,

So. 7, Commercial Row,

Cra\vfordsville, Indiana.

25,000 lbs. Best Quality of

I3Ft0 3XT,

Ja»t received and for sale at very imall ftdraneo on Manufacturers' prieea.

509 Kegs Assorted Nails.

Pernon? ic Lrido Trialiing to replenish their itock can do 3o at this House

Cincinnati Priccs,

A'Uing fifty ecnla pc.- keg for Freight,

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Wo cim nT.-r mre iuJucemrnts tn ermsutners. our having bnen purchased almojt entirely from hr«t h»iid.. c.i'ti Uiiyt rs c."pecifiliy Kill save money by looJiiiiK Uir^u b:i\ro buying clstwhtrt-.

Carpenters Tools, Coopers Tools

(Barton's.)

Saddlers Tools, Carriage Makers Tools, Blacksmiths Tools,

A full ac\t e.-.mplt« stock of cach at !owv limn ever.

HOUSE KEEPERS

Will fcn.l here a «tnck to select from that is absolutely unsurpassed in ^xtenf..variety. and cheapness, by any oilier llou.se in the West, lor

Wagon and Carriage

urns. FELLOES, SPOKES, no irs,

Wc have a Inrg* and well jo'.ecteJ stock of

POLES, SHAFTS,

Seat -Irins'j Heat Springs, SEAT STICKS, CARRIAGE SPRINGS,

PATENT AND ENAMELED LEATHER CLOTH, Silver Bands and Mountings,

OF ALL KINDS.

DAMASKS, FRINGES, MOSS aud

HAIR,

And in short everything pertaining to their line will hereafter bo found hero at all times and at the lowest ronsibln prices.

50,000 Feet

LUMBER & MMS

WAITED.

Persons wishing to furnish any of the above must eonsult u* first in reeard to dimensions aud quality,

s«55m?4i!reRAsr

:Plows

AND OTHER

FARMING IMPLEMENTS,

v.i Constantly on hand and for sale.

FARMERS, MECHANICS

AND ALL WUO WANT

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•f tkfl but quality, at low prices, here ii the ptaoo.

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MMJiEWr VCBTR. |gand

Present Condition of the Fortresses at 'rise

Pensacola Bay and Key West—Sketch' es of Lieut. SJemmer, Gen. Bragg, and Major Chase—The Florida Forts to be Reinforced and Supplied. Now that the United States Government has concluded to evacuate Port Sumter, public attention will next be directed to Fort Pickens, the next point threatened by the secession forces. From the latest information from that quarter, the troops of the Confederate States were concentrating at Pensacola in large numbers, and everything being prepared to give Fort Pickens a protracted seige. The following descriptions of the various fortresses on the Florida coast, which we take from the New York Herald, will therefore prove unusually ioteresting at this time: PENSACOLA AND ITS FORTIFICA

TIONS.

PENSACOLA BAT.

Pensacola Bay has rare properties as a harbor. It is now accessible to frigates. The bar is near the coast, and the channel across it short and easily passed. The harbor is perfectly land-locked, and the roadstead very capacious. There are excellent positions within for repairing, building and launching vessels, and for docks and dockyards, in healthy situations. The supply of good water is abundant. These properties, in connection with the position of the harbor as regards the coast, have induced the Government to select it as a naval station, and a place of rendezvous and repair. The upper arms of Pensacola Bay receive the Yellow Waters or Pea River, Middle River and Escambia River, eleven miles from the Gulf. Although there is nothing about Pensacola to tempt the cupidity of an enemy, still its harbor is one of military importance for national purposes. Pcnsacola Bay, fortified as it now is, with all its ordnance in position and properly garrisoned, is impregnable, except by a long and hazardous scige by an ovewhelming and well-appointed land forcc, and it could defy all the navies of the world combined, till it filled the harbor's mouth with the carcasses of sunken ships.

SANTA ROSA ISLAND.

Santa Rosa Island, on the cast point of which is Fort Pickcns is situated cast by northwest by south fourteen leagues, and completely shuts out Pensacola from the sea. It is so low that the sea in a gale washes its top. It is not more than onefourth of a mile wide. The west point of this island is at the mouth of Pensacola Bay. The latter is not over one aud a quarter miles wide. The island is separated from the mainland one and a quarter miles, there being two channels for the passage of vessels, one on the side of the mainland and the other on the island side. rORT PICKENS.

The principal means of defense to the mouth of Pensacola Bay is Fort Pickens. It is a first class pentagonal bastioncd work, built of stone, brick and bitumen, with eovcrt ways, dry ditch, glacis and outworks complete. Its walls are forty feet in liight by twelve feet in thickncss it is cmbrasured for two tiers of guns in bombproof 'rices casements, and one tier of guns open'or en barbette. The guns from this work radiate to every point of the horizon, with flank and enfilading fire in the ditches and and at every angle of approach. The work was commenced in 1829, and finished in 1S53. It cost the Federal^ Government nearly one million of dollars. When on a war footing its garrison consists of 1,200 soldiers. It3 present armament consists of—in bastion, 26 twenty-four pound howitzers casemate, 2 forty-two pounders, 64 thirty two pounders, 59 twenty-four pound ers cn barbette, 2-4 eight inch howitzers, 6 cighteen-poundcrs, 12 twelve-pounders, 1 ten-inch columbiad, mounted, and -4 teuinch mortars, in bad order.

The possession of this work, therefore, by the secessionists is, of course, of the first importance for unless it is occupied by them it will secure to the United States troops abase of operations along the whole Gulf coast, and keep open a road right into the heart of the South, which caunot be obstructed by any fixed fortifications Once within the gates of the harbor and an army could be disembarked at-any point on the wide bay which it might select. It could run up beyond the Escambia River and land many hours ahead of any opposing force which which might be at Pcnsacola, besides placing a wide river between it and the latter—or even two rivers, the Escambia and Blackwater—by going far enough up. Hence, with a start of at least fortyeight hours, it could march into interior Alabama. An enemy holding Fort Pickcns could rendezvous a naval force there and keep up a blockade of all the ports of the Gulf, unless it could be met on the sea. The fort is only approachable by land on one side. Owing to the openness of the country, which is but a barren bed of sand, a part}* attacking from that quarter would be very much exposed.

The Federal forcc now in garrison at Fort Pickens consists of about two hundred and fifty men under the command of Lieutenant Slemmer. They have provisions for six months, and ammunition to resist a seige of equal length. If the work be attacked it must be by a sudden assault from a heavy force concentrated on the island to the eastward, which will take it with a Zouave-like rush in double-quick time—pouring into it such numbers as at once to overpower every chance of resistance on the part of the garrison. Thougli done in the night, and with the quickest'

^VWtprir.«n^

tb.ou=b escaping

FORT'M'RE'A.'"

This work is in the possession of the Florid* troops. I is a powerful and'castlelike. asMosry structure, built on a low

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•pit of the mainland, and

out of the water.

entering must needs run the gauntlet of

FORT BARRANCAS.

Fort Barrancas is on the North of Pensacola Bay, and directly fronting the entrance to its mouth. The work is erected on the site of an old Spanish fort. The fort is a bastioned work, built of heavy masonry, and mounts forty-nine guns, and in time of war requires a garrison of two hundred and fifty men. The armament of the work is fully mounted, and its maga

biads, 8 twenty-four pounders, 5 eighteen-

pounders, 2 twelve-pounders. 8 twelve-j lgl9

pound howitzers flank defence, 2 eighteen-1

inch mortars.

Fort Barrancas is now command of

Captain O'llara, formerly of thc United jof

States Army It has a garrison of three

placed this fort in a proper state of defence.,

The guns are aU mounted and the troops

well drilled as eannoniers. ago, Captain O'Hara warned the comman der of the United States steamer IVyandot to the effect that in future, as his vessel makes her trips under a flag of truco to and from thc Pensacola Navy-yard, I10 must keep further off from Fort Barrancas.

FORT MARION, AT ST. AUGl'STINli. Fort Marion is an old Spanish work, built of petrified shell or coral, and is supposed to be thc oldest fort fort cn the Continent. It is about forty feet high, and is surrounded by a ditch twenty feet wide, which once, at high tide, was filled with

water, but now with weeds and dirt. Thc were four watch-towcrs on thc fort, two of

loss from Secretary War for thc appointment of Lieutenant Slenm,Cr /tLher in thai in-

riixisnn Urn busmcss if the stitution, which duty was assigned him.— garrison liavo a mmd to make it so If *1 1 te Fort Pickens be taken by the secessionists T- 'T 1 -n ".essionists, years that capacity, the greater part of Pensacola will be the great naval depot of the Southern Confederacy, from which, no doubt, privateers will be fitted oat for the purpose of preying upon the commerce in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean

the time as teacher of mathematics, he was again ordered to Fort Moultrie, and subsequently transferred to the Pensacola station, and put in command of that post, which consists of the barracks, For Barrancas, Fort McRak and" Forf Pickens.— At the commencement of the difficulties be occupied the barracks, and taking the same precaution as Major Anderson. he sought the •troDgent fort, and rumored his ,!TKIP:nr

appears to command to Fort

is further sea-

ward than Fort Pickens, of which it is the vis-a-vis across the channel, and a

its

guns before approaching the latter, which, however, of itself, effectually closes the harbor against the admission of an enemy of even veryheavy force.

fortification is situated on Foster's

Bank, and guards the west side of the mouth of Pensacolsi Bay. It is a bastioned fort, built of brick masonry, with walls twelve feet in thickness. It is embrasured for two

tiers of guns, under bombproof

casemates,

and has

present

one tier ex barbette. Its

armament consists

en barbette,

of—lower tier,

22 forty-two pounders second tier, 12 eight-inch columbiads, 18 thirty-two pounders

62 twenty-four pounders,

3 ten-inch columbiads and in time of war requires a garrison of six hundred and fifty men. The work cost the Federal Government about $400,000. Its guns radiate at every point of the horizon. It is a very effective work. The full armament of the fort is not complete, but a sufficient number of guns are in battery to make a very good opposition to Fort Pickens. Below this fort is a water battery, which mounts some eight or ten guns. The interior of Fort McRae is provided with the necessary shot furnaces, officers' and soldiers' quarters, magazinos, &c.

Pickcns,

invested

the

vessel

Florida«id

THE NEW MILITARY COMKA5DE8 OF PEN'-

iACOLA.

Braxton Brag#,

been ordered to |#oceed1o Pensacola and take command of^kll

the

public there

First

zincs are in good order. In the rear of Prac^'cal judgment won tor him many new the fort is a redoubt, which is auxilliary to "id gained the applause of the Fort Barrancas. Some extensive repairs I Publie at lar^e. As a soldier and gentlehave recently been completed on this rc-

doubt and the flanking howitzers of scarp\et

8 twenty-four pound The powder had all been all been removed. The fort contained 288 cight-inch 511611.%, 993 twenty-four pound balls, 539 eighteen pound balls, and all the implements for working the cannon. Its present armament consists of 11 thirty-two pounders, 3 cight-inch Paixhans, 2 eight-inch colum-

man

an(] datc res{Jfctivel 3J co

ai lf

,2H5

and

Board of

where be is now under the command of Copt. J.

j^fv

1 rccfs &c on thc

Tev au

ber of thc Board of 1 neers fl ra March

hundred regularly enlisted men of tho ar-j 13 1348. to September, 1848. He rc-i™"1 express their fears and belief, from my of the (confederate States. Captain 18j„ned his position in t'hc Fcdcr-d arm*- thcir kuowledsre of Southern sentiment, I O'Hara has, by the most untiring efforts,

0 tobcr

indomitable perseverance and courage,

and rankg |igh ag a military cnginccr

A few days strategist, lie is about sixty-four years of

ift comm.in-1

which are partially destroyed. It is now' in a very dilapidated condition, Upon the THE UNITED STATES in id a a a a a

man's head. Its walls are twelve f«et thick at thc base, tapering until reduccd to six feet at the top of the parapet. The eastern front of thc work faccs thc bar to the eutrancc of St. Angnstinc, and other portions of the work in thc harbor. It is now in possession of Florida troops.

THE COMMANDER OF FXKENS. Lieutenant Sleinmcr, who has command of Fort Tickcns, Florida, about which so much interest is felt at the present moment, is a native of Montgomery County, Penn., and is about thirty-one years of age. His grand father was a soldier of thc Revolution, and wa6 among the skirmishers who assailed thc British on their retreat thro' Now Jersey, after their evacuation of Philadelphia. His grandfather on the maternal side was also a soldier of thc Revolution, belonging to the army under Washington that took thc Hessians at Treuton, and was one of those whose bloody footprints marked each step on thcir return from the battle field. They were both natives of Philadelplia. Lieutenant Slimmer graduated at West Point in 1S50, and was assigned to duty in thc First Artillery, and ordered to Florida to hold thc Seminole Indians in check was there premoted and ordered to San Diego, California, and from thence sent to Fort Yuma, a sandy barren, and one of the most undesirable posts in the country. Being again promoted, he was ordered to Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor. After being their a short time, he was invited by Mr. Bachc, Superintendent of thc Coast Survey, to enter that service, which was accepted and duty assigned.— His name was therefore sent by thtTSuperintendant to the proper bureau, the Secretary of which being absent at thc time, it was laid upon thc desk. Before his return, however, thc Superintendent of the West Point Accademy made application to the

any strategical movements,

FORT TAYLOR, KEY WEST.

This is also a new, first class bastioned fort, the work of which was commenced in 1845. Like Fort Jefferson, it is a brick fort, built upon a granite foundation. It is nearly finished, the barracks and a few platforms for barbette guns being alone incompleted. In shape the work is an irregular quadrangle, having three channel curtains of equal length, aud a gauge or shore curtain of much greater length. It is situated at the south-west part of the island, at thc entrance of the harbor of Key

three hundred yards. The scarp walls arc

eight feet in thickness and rise abrubtly I

from the water toa bight of forty-one feet,

The work is pierced for three tiers of guns

—two under casemated bomb-proofs and

thc other open or

en barbette.

L---ls

other troops nan, of the First United States

Louisiana, formerly

an officer of the BnitediStatea Army, has been appointed

Brigadier

armyof the

General of the

Confederate'States,

and has

impression upon it

tooops of the Re

assembled,

and conduct the

operations againsllFort

Pickens.

General Brag^- iS native of North Carolina, from whieh State he was appointed, in 1832, to a^fodetship in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1837 with high honors. In July'of the same year he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Third Regiment of Artillery.

His subsequent promotions are as follows: Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, November^ 1837 Adjutant, December, 1837

Lieutenant, July 18-

39 Brevet Captain, for gallant conduct in defense of Fort Brown, May 9, 1846, full Captain, June, 1846 Brevet Major, for gallant conduct in several desperate con flicts at Monterey, Mexico. September 23. 1846 Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, for gallant conduct in the battle of Buena Vista, Mexico resigned his commission in the army in January, 1856. General Bragg's deeds, and his valor in the war with Mexico as an artillery officer, belong to the history of the country. No name shines out with fairer luster. He is about fortythree years of age. He removed to Louisiana about six years ago, where he has a large plantation in the parish of Lafourche. Two years ago he was elected a member of the Board of Public Works, in which capacity his clear head and unquestioned

be stands before the world

sans

rtprochc.

and counterscarp can be mounted with THE LATE COMMANDER OF THE TROOPS AT very little labor. When the Florida troops seized the fort there were in it 6 eighteenpounders, 20 twenty-four pounders, 2 twelve pounders, 4 ei four

sans pear

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PENSACOLA.

It mounts

one hundred and twenty ten-inch colum-

on the channel front.

and

fn"

full war

fort i's well supplied with provisions fuel, the^ur

„..v, force the forts, or retake them, than Lin- ^V"J

has had and now li.is?

7 1838

j344 ],e was a member of the Special

tra

M. BranArtiilery, Corps o"

enemy would

quire a large force and the

sacrifice

iture of a large amount of" treasure

TOST JEFFERSON, TORTCGAS.

This work was commenced in la46, and

is now nearly finished. In a strategical

point of view it is designed to commandh^ral

the admirable harbor

this group of keys. The forts is an immense bastioned work, the walls of which are built of brick with a granite foundation. Thus far it has cost the Government over one million of dollars.. ..The work, covers an area of betwceti thirteen and fourteen acres. Although not fully armed, it is completely closed and impregnable against an escalding party. The work-is pierced

for three tiers ^f-grnlsrtwoundcr' bomb- Lf

proof casemates, and one open or

bettc.

munitiou, artillery, and hospital stores. It!

Major William II Chase formerly of «:VE8Tio:*s

is deficient, however, in armament, having

only 10 guns in battery but this is being

Tor

thc United States Corps of Engineers, has How did the last Administration, by its found conv.ction of thcir o\yn wisdom, and

of secession?

and received the appointment as cadet of accession? Have thc Republicans done

3. 1815. He was appoinfed brevet second power to prevent secession? Did the lie-

lieutenant in theJCorps of Engineers the publican party, in power in Congress, give

same month, and promoted to a full lieutenancy April 15, 1818. His subsequent promotions to first lieutenancy, captain

Did not he aud Gouer.il Scott coneen- |011

Engineers for examination of I Government at and near Washington, and

fjl, 1S50. Major Chase is a man that, if thc '(Government should fall into

d"*AIissi^sippi lie was a mem- Did not Mr. Buchanan and the Demo- be restrained by that blessed principle Jli1'

|cratic party for years warn the country

tIlc liancls of a

possesses a large private fortune. I Government destroyed lie was recently appointed Major-General What reason have wc for thinking that, by the Governor of Florida, and is now in bad Luchanan concentrated troops iu command of the besiegers of Fort Pickcns. Southern forts to prevent secession, it No man living is so familiar with the forti-1

FORTS AT

KEY" WEST.

Recent events indicate the determination of thc United States Government to retain full, entire and complete possession of the fortifications on thc Florida reefs, near Key West. To put these works, therefore, in a complete condition of defense, they have been recently reinforced by United States troops, fully provisioned for along seige, and a supplj' of ammunition furnished enough to sink a half a dozed respectable-sized navies. Key West is celebrated as a naval station it is the headland of the Southern coast, situated on the north-west end of an island of the same name, otherwise called Thompson's Island it is four miles long and one mile wide. It has a fine harbor, admiting ve sels drawing twenty-seven feet of water, and is well defended, as we shall hereafter describe. It is the key to thc northern passage of the Gulf of Mexico, as the passage here is safer and ninety miles nearer than around Tortugas. The thermometer at this place rages from fifty to ninety degrees of Fahrenheit. The whole island lies on a bed of limestone, about one foot beneath thc surface.

Parti* pledged to thc section-

®ld al issues of Republicanism, the Union

woul1

dissevered and the powers of the

uld not

ficatiou at Pensacola as General Chase.— the revolution upon us

Most of them he planned and built while in thc United States service, and, if necessary, he knows just where and how to take them. General Chase has taken precautionary measures against any contingency of a blockade of Pensacola, by providing a six months supply of provisions for the State troops. He purposes to still continue as an advisory engineer in the execution

'.iave sooner precipitated

Was not Buchanan warned, just as much and as effectually as Lincoln is, that an attempt to awe and coerce tho South iuto submission would lead to civil war?

Do you think it was thc duty of Congress to pass a law giving thc power to enforce submission and preserve the Union by forcc, and provide the means for so doing?

Did not the Republicans have the power, in Congress, to pass the necessary laws uecessarv means, and did

3nd

provide th

they do either? Answers to these queries are respectfully desired from thc Abolition leaders.

S«ar"There is said to be a great deal of opposition among Republicans to thc proposed appointment of thc notorious Carl Schurz to a mission at some one of the European courts. Whatever may be the cause of this opposition whether the Know Nothing proclivities of a portion of

the Republican leader, or from a real de -, sire to preserve thc good name of the couu-

no means voluntary. He did not come here like millions of other immigrants, from choice, but from necessity, and to save his ncck.

HEAVY I'KOST IN NORTH ALABAMA—|

THE PEACH CROP DESTKOVES.—The Ev-lt

Wo ftre jnforn)ed

haa just returned from

anJ that on

tho

barracks for the troops. Its present 4&"'Shtouds have so pooketa"—a capital

that 3CCtion

considcra

weather sud

SiX HAVE PEACE.

and Capt. E. B. Hunt, of-tho !Engineer.". ti. Fort Taylor is considered the kry of the Gulf. The only vulnerable point is facing the land sidej4huteven-to make any they, bjauie the folly of past ages, aud as- Vv'hat hot

bilitv of humaa affairs. Men take to

immense number of lives, and the expend- ied superiority is much more full of pre- familiaritytension sciences we are superior to our immediate rr,. ,! forefathers in everything else our claims

arcvc doubtfuI c|i]dreD fit by

tho expericll

f.c"

1e"fSc

Ihe casemated icrs are capable of ,0 the South neither will yield, and bcmounting 3o0 guns. A wide ditch..com-

municatcd wi the sea. surrounds tho en-ju

tire work, and this is protected by a cot.n-

lu!5nml

wrkt

cn bar-

scn( i]j tbc

.dissensions for

!,. r^ckYs'diLern^ ahead" A

wi]1 the slji to tho north of it

twcen tliem they wrcck noblc craf

erscarp of great length. The guns^of perversity, might have.passed in perfect safetv.

this fort command the inner harbor. The outer harbor is beyond the reach of tho heaviest guns. Fort .Jefferson when it will have been completed and put on a war footing, will require a total armament of 450 guns and 1,000 troops. The present

which the have venture(1 thcir a]]f

jon this rocbf which but for thejr mutual

Now, just such wicked folly has been perpetrated again and again, and there is ]ie

reason to fear that the world will witness

its re-cnactmcnt. A few years ago. a body

garnson now consists of about 2o0 men. l10-f0rmcJ themselves into a Peace Con-

under the command of Brevet Major Lew- ],nnr,rn(„i tWMmi-n owned a l.-ir^e is G. Arnold, of the first regiment of Uni- j° ted States Artillery, assisted by first Lieutenant Henry Benson, First Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Matthew M. Blunt and Surgeon Adam N.. McLaren The fort is well provided with provisions, fuel, am-

.gree^ to 9eek some more worthv ca]lin£r.

They even ri

warr ors tbn E0

remedied with all possible Jiaste. thc harlequin of thc nineteenth ccntnrv. P°

ijsnoma

from that State to the Military Academy anything more? •. members ot the Peace Congress assumed off to him io. fit tec cents It was a square at West Point, where he graduated March Did not Buchanan say that he had not what neither history nor philosophy gave

th.eni

him thc power? and these have to be suppressed before we !111 length. Un the top was a horizontal Had he at any time more- power to rein-1

can bo for a rci of

w.'

t])cy

bcforn thc

cart 10

tho available forces of the «'C have the cvidenco ot

l»si°ry, sacred^ and_ prof me to prove to

f10Ilti0r leave them there ready for Mr. Lincoln? us that but a small minority of men will 1 J-» of time it came to bo

rhc Peaco baJ lbo

ity to believe that theii wisdom could ef-i

knd

No sooner did he get here

which he so delighted in at home. A full belief in the equality of the race3, he has labored with unceasing assiduity to instil this abominable doctrine into thc midst of our people. Wc say then bc is no fit representative of American sentiment, and his appointment to a miasiou in Europe or anywhere else would bc disgraceful to Mr Lincolns administration and an the country.—Xeic Albany Laigir

becn lcft t0 lllG

ru or

West, in from six to twelve feet of jansville Journal says: -, mind, it is of evil aogury to aee in argnaients before this august tribunal water, and distant from thc shore about

bv a gentleman who I

man3*

Fridav night last

-of country "uPPort°d

tirelv cut off The trees were in

ful bi00UJ T),

ble rain, ?nd in the" evenin- the Pe0PIc'

denly became very cold and

WHOLE NUMBER 980.

re-j81,1110 themselves to bo much wiser than

an tljeir

which side is victory, ruin will be on bpth sides horrors there will be in abundance,

a a I a a

.P. 9.

I but as to honors, what honors can there be-

selves credit for profiting bv the l.nrd-! ?0l,f Mother, in sending dom v* ,i |gra\-haired parents, or ii is heart brokearnetl experience Oi the.r predecessors |cn Jif£

to fo

1 an

predecessors but their self-assum-

],U ,0 ,i,c *aVc

onoT in making his children orph-

3, arid throwing them upon the charity' a world more than ever hardened by

!of

ce of their parents? As'a

ruie

thev do cot. Thcv have to

learu all thc o]J lessons a.new

rld

•. ... -amiliariry. with deeds of blood and with than of merit- In the physical.

luuc

-th

cach

rising generation. Nations we fear arc not much wiser than children. Thev re-1

cur to war to redress grievances infinitely

less afflicting than the war itself aud iu

spite of all the lessons of history, they

lh FC

„nrntedi

trim! differences of opimon. A «nd neighboring and friendly nations, which

Perpetual peace.— wliecl, with an iron spindle attached to it.

supprcssc-d Not an outiandish alla:r. and it might,

millenium. I here is no power :™r all v.o know, have come out ol the ark,

suPPress them hut a power oi been applwd to antediluvian uses.,

itl

behold, since their rising, all Europe has 1 lower court decided against honest David, becu bristling with bayonets furious wars

have desolated its eitic3 and plains, and at, came up yesterday, and it occasioned much thc present day, in Europe and Asia, the merriment. 'sword is the umpire in all great difficulties The case was argued by Ffcndrick B. nay, even in small or feigned difficulties.'

In our own country, besides perennial war Esq., for the estate of Harris. with the savago denizens of our frontiers,: -^r- Wright contended that David waa wc have marchcd our thousands upon thou- I guilty of 110 fraud or misrepresentation, sands of armed men iuto the territories of,

a neighboring nation, which wc conquered bought—log, spindle and money. He cibut did not reclaim. ted divers old eases, such as that of the And now, among us, with the enlighten-: bedstead of Richard III, which many cd nineteenth century 011 the wane, what years after the Battle of Bosworth Field, arc thc tokens Throughout thc length was sold, and the buyer found the frame and breadth of the land, we sec armed

discretion of thc

try abroad—we do not care to enquire.—! parties most conccrned.. During thc rev- v,d purchased that which lie di The truth is, thi3 man Schurz is no fit re»-1 olutionary war. every State iu the Con- for nor pay for Lota of other "wise saws rc-entativc of American sentiment. He federacy. with the single exception of Mas-

is not only a Black but a Red Republican sachusetts, was encumbered with African Dana from Plutarch down to Story^ Ho of thc most offensive sort—an atheist in slaves, a legacy from Britain, but gradual- gavo the following lrom the life of colon: religion and an agrarian in politics. T11 ly.and quietly the process of emancipation 1

Europe he belonged to thc most miscbiev-! went on State after State passing laws to!once were drawing a net, some strangers ous class of revolutionist, constantly Ptir-:bc relieved from it, without any foreign of Miletus oougnt the draught unseen and ring up strife merely for the love of strife. pressure, until finally Maryland,^ irginia His presence in the United States is by

revolution.

wben re

th* tW,*

tb?

night there was freeze.

and

It is not to give vent to any criminations camc thc owner of thc subjeel matter of that we say that outside pressure has un- '.lhc controversy. paired the cause of the slave, and has Mr. V, right nsult to I brought the Northern and Southern States trade any advice upon the into the unhappy antagonism now existing they found David's case a knotty one, they between them. We only state a fact that could make short worK ot it by following is woll known and deeply lamented by thc example of t!.e ar.cior.t tribunal. many thousands of true mm of bc'.h ECC- It is needless to say tfjat. there was moro

Northern Alabama f'T- were engaged in a foreign war thc qucs-.ou iDv.lvcd t.-

!t WOUl,J

te gratifying to find our country

many defcaders but I

contingent

inSmanTdfd"^1!j

ammunition, hospital and artillery stores, as^^in. jof military glory, and it diverts them from and has first-rate quarters for its officers =.»

w/r-

not

suffering? K0t civil war is

war of hotior,

it is

only a war of

mutual

ruin. We pray to God that our people mayba too wise and good to draw thoir swords upon cacli other under any pretext, and that all divisions may be healed among us$ but if we will, of one, becomc many poopic, casting awav forever that talisman of

greatness and power, E Pluribus Un

UIn.

that stili ail things may be done de

centjy aml in crdcr

and that we

may

livo

in pe

oldiers of high and Jow de- household furniture, Ac. According to

cust0,n

THE UENHMCAMT. These gentlemen had evidently a pro- wlierc, and old chests and bureaus proba-

t0.

ssum War

acc, as becomes

FT 'P understand that their mutual interests arc

subscrvc(1

b-v

Pcacc

aaJ

destroyed by war.

A ClItEOl S CASIJ FOB

case am

,hl,s rcbtcd

rillMOKI.*

l»liin l.mvrirs—A iiuisiuu Hrrnn In the Prill*nylrntiia Mii)rrme Court. A case whieh afforded a good deal of fun, and which involved a knotty point of law under its comical exterior, came up in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia last Tuesday. Tho history of thc sccncs in thc Court aro

tI,c

'of philanthropists assembled in London, seems that away up .'ti Luzerne (,'oun-

ves into a reace Lon

ress. It happened at the time that there was no great war going on, and these gentlemen very gravely assumed that "the world had grown too wise. After their session, at least, that evil wa st-o be banished from thc earth. Thev were ajoin^ to

Harris. I lo

inn and was supposed to

have saveil considerable monov. Fie was an eccentric and closc-list?d individual, and he lived entirely secluded and alone. In July, liSyl', lie died. His administrators eouldjfind ho properly but thc ordinary

''"d a vendue, which was well

diculed the abashed race of Intended, it being inferred that the money,

Ui in his uniform was I "bich it was supposed the deceased died

essed of, had beeu concealed some-

before sol,! 80 wcH at au

oe ne more cakes ana ale. 'L De nondescript article of furniture was struck

p-.

oi-

I'1"0

°'P

Well, one David M. Ii uthmacher, an honest Dutchman, went to thc sale, and a

ood hout ll oc {cct

grows out «»PPOrtcd^

J™?*" Prions and nun,an ambition, ^e aoout foot and a half

Pa"! hib df een cents, hauled In.-i

ldia

i^ine and threw on tne wood-

1 0

sbal!»w

F» for lu^wood, when, lo. it was

var, '»'nd to ,n,,

vcr c0 i1

1'be

gravely assumed that wars among civilized result was, a su was entered to dctormino. nations, at least, had conic to an end and

,1 :,o ,u gold and srl-

a"d

feet what Christianity had not been able though poor, was honest, and he informed to -effect in eighteen cc-nt .iries. Thoy

promissory notes. David,

administrators of his discovery. Tbe^

vdiom thc treasure should belong. Thc

and

men springing as it were from thc earth, I

be appealed.- Such is the case that

r'Sbt,

aud

ease

ripe for war. With whom—and for what? New Orleans, the owner Lading iu its craw To settle a question that should have been some valuable diamonds^Were these left to the arbitrament of time, and to tlic" jewels sold with thc bird"! wisdom and humanity of those who are the Chief Justice Lowrie suggested that ho masters of human beings bv inheritance, bad forgotten one ease—that of thc man It is a fearful thing to attempt to break up height "a pig in a poke." Mr. W. long established institutions by violence replied that waa an Irish case, and might the attempt will, almost in all cases, bring'"ot be considered authority in our court?, to all parties more of devas:ation, misery, ^r. Dana contended that log and spiDdlo and ruin, than of prosperity and happiness. were all tint David bought or that the adWc have constantly expressed thc belief, ministralors intended to sell, and that D«whicb is not peculiar to us, that at this day

yid

the cause of freedom to thc African bond- paradox that the administrators sold that man would have been much more advanced which they did^ not assent to the salo of, that Dnnot bid

Esq for David, and E. L. Dana,

l'iat

was

entitled to have all that

had not offered for sale, and

and

and Kentucky, took thcjnaiter in hands a!--j a golden tripod, which Helen at her return so, and began to devise means for the grad- from Troy on thc remembrance of an old ual change necessary to relieve them, with-! prophecy, had thrown out eutailing upon thcir citizens either

than he set to work to renew among our templation. it happened, unfortunately for rel so far as to cnga own people those strifes and commotions the slave, and perhaps for the master, that end the controversy, men of other States began those pod be presented to the wisest man. Alter sirations which finally led to the breach— passsmg around in fruitless search from wc fear a fatal hreneh between the States one to another, it eventually came back to already free and those in which slavery the temple of Apollo, and too Court, by vet had the sanction of 'he iuw. reason ol inability to decide th• case, b-:-

posts filled^ with gold coins and tho

of a tropical bird sold recently in

could not have any more, except on tho

modern instances" were cited by Mr.

rait. Lives,

p. 20o—'"W hen some Leans

a venture. There chanced to come up

thcir citizens either (.ers contesting with the fishers about tbe Yi hen thi3 was in con-i tripod, and the cities espousing the quar* in war, A polio, to advised thai the tri-

Bo Ll

us, or dares attack us, while wc are one market bouse, it was a

a ll,at thia

SCDC'ral

mast

of domestic 3trife, it 13 Even if the great evil

erievous indeed.

°PC°8

Fc*for« tb°P

tbc

prospects

the more beautiful and glorious triumphs

frrr» ronais^s cf about *wo hundred men, aermcn to misers, f?ur ,Terds if wsr com?"' amoag us,, matter 02

of peace.

there. The stran-

not wish to irCourt, hut if

laughter ir: the Co rt Room than is usual

arming throughout the couu-1 The judges will decide, at

their leisure, case.

reflect that no foreigner attacks pic or ^h.j arv-t.e je?..rui) at tho o.-l

{".r

roll

of about ten

p0nnd:U:C UtS:Je beins ab Rt W

inch of but'.er, and the insido was curdled milk, divested of tho hqiid properties. It is an ingenicui swindle. snJ our grcceis would do well to test tW^r icie before purchasing.—DaytOK

Sqarnj.1

eSTOnoof tho lately r.anued companies at Charleston is ooRim*Bdod by »a Epi^'op*l niioister. and has iu 1 to rink# ter. u.v._!tv students.