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NEW SERIES--VOL. XII, WO. 37.

EXCELSIOR STOOK

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HARDWARE!

...JTEN OAR LOADS

Of English, German 4* American

HARDWARE!

Cutlery, Tools, Iron,

O I S A I N S

And endlen variety of

AND

HOUSEKEEPERS GOODS

JUST RECEIVED AT

THE EXCELSIOR HARDWARE STORE,

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Campbell, Galey & Barter,

T, ClMUHhl K«w,

Orawfordsville, Indiana.

25,000 lbs. Best Quality of

Jn*t received and for sale at very small advanco oil Manufacturers' price*.

500 Kegs Assorted Nails.

Ferrous in trade wishinc to replenish their stock can do so at this House

Cincinnati Prite»j

Adding fifty oonts per keg for Freight. In

8ADDIBRV 4 CARRIAliB

TRIMMINGS

We can off«r rare inducement* to consumers, our plork having been purchased almost entirely from first hnmls, cash buyer* especially will save money by lookitiK through before buying elsewhere.

Carpenters Tools, Coopers Tools

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PATENT AND ENAMELED LEATHER

JsJ&JD CLOTH,

Silver Bands and Mountings,

OF ALL KINDS.

DAMASKS, FRINGES,

Kobile,

(Barton's.)

Saddlers Tools, Carriage Makers Tools, Blacksmiths Tools,

fall aud complete stock of each

lower prices

than ever.

HOUSE KEEPERS

Will find here a stock to select from that is absolutely umiirpftHsed in extent, variety# nnu cheapncis, by any other House in the est. for

Wagon and Carriage

We have a Urge and well selected stock of -v

nuns, FELLOES, SPOKES,

BOWS, POLES,

p: SHAFTS,

Seat Arms, Seat Spring#, SEAT STICKS, CARRIAGE SPRINGS,

MOSS and HAIR,

And in short everything pertaining to their lino will hereafter be found here at all times and at the lowest pvniible price*.

50,000 Feet

MIMK&imAMg

"WAITTED.

Per*)ni wishing to furnish any of the above must eonsult us first in regard to dimensions and Quality, we are determined to use none in the manufacture of our Plow* bat the very best quality.

Plows

AND OTHER

FARMING IMPLEMENTS,

y- Constantly OH hand and far sale.

FARMERS, MECHANICS

AKD JLLI. WHO WANT

A W A E

Of the best quality, at low price*, ben i* the place.

CALL AND SEE.'

Campbell, Osley ft Harter.

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WHAT RBA1L •«—W« fM A BIT There sic some difficulties attending the eollection of the revenue in the seceding States which it will be well to look at attentively.

That either the revenue from duties most be collected in the ports of the rebel States, or the ports mnst be closed to importation! from abroad, is generally admitted. If neither of these things oe done, our revenue laws are substantially repealed the sources whieh supply our treasury will be dried up we shut have no money to carry on the government the nation will become bankrupt before the next crop of corn is ripe. There will be nothing to furnish means of subsistence to the army nothing to keep our navy afloat nothing to pay the salaries of the publio officers the present order of things must come to a dead stop. Allow railroad iron to be entered at Savannah with the low duty of ten per cent., which is all the Southern Confederacy think of laying on imported goods, and not an ounce more would be imrted at New York the railroads would supplied from the Southern ports. Let cotton goods, let woolen fabrics, let the various manufactures of iron and steel be entered freely at Galveston, at the great

of the mouth of the Mississippi, at at Savannah and Charleston, and they would be immediately sent up the rivers and carried on the railways to the remotest parts of the Union. Nay, they would be sent directly from these ports by sea to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Shopkeepers would be supplied with their silks and laces from the same quarter. The shoe shops would be furnished with their assortments from the French stalls, and the hatters' shops would be filled with the work of French artisans which have never paid a penny to the government. When these and other kinds of merchandise were once in the country there would be no way to prevent the free circulation and sale in every part of the United States. The mighty Mississippi, and its great tributaries, the long railway reaching from one extremity of the Union to the other, the active fleet of merchant vessels employed in our coasting trade, would rapidly convey the untaxed merchandise to the most distant neighborhoods of our great domain. The government without special authorization from Congress, will have no power to create a line of custom houseB along the North Carolina and Tennessee frontier, or to cover the Arkansas border with stations of revenue officers to intercept the contrabandists.— The whole country would be given up to an immense system of smuggling, which on near two thousand miles of coast would meet with no obstacle, no interruption or discouragement. What would Mr. Woodscrew Simmons, the Rhode Island Senator, who caused a prohibitory duty on wooden-screws to be inserted iu tho tariff which had just been passed by Congress, iu order that a single scrcw-mill might make all the wooden screws used in the United States, and that its fortunate owners might grow rich beyond the dream of avarice"—what would this patriotic and most disinterested legislator say, if cargoes of untaxed wooden screws were to be brought from the Southern coast by our rivers and railways and on board of our coasting vessels, and dispersed all over the country, and his hopes of gain disappointed Mr. Simmons would weep tears of hickory.

To protect the interests of Mr. Simmons in the first place, and those of the federal treasury in the next, something must be done. The general expectation seems to be that the duties will be collected on board of armed vessels at the different ports of entry in the seceding States.— Are our readers aware what a fleet this would require There are seven collection districts in the little State of Florida alone there are four in Alabama. At every port there must be a collector, with his army of apprisers, clerks, examiners, inspectors, weighers, gaugcrs, measurers, &e.. there must be a naval officer, and his staff of entry clerks. The Morrill tariff law, which we have just cnacted, will make a larger number of all these necessary than would have been required a month ago. Where twenty men would have then answered the purpose thirty will now be needed. If we collect the revenue in this manner, with a fleet at every port, and a core of custom house officers on board, it will cost us a great deal more than all we shall get

But can the revenues be thus collected? The importers arriving at the southern harbors will know how to address the Custom House officers. We have a cargo," they will naturally say, on which we do not care to poy duties just at present we must deposit it in the warehouses for the term during which we are permitted to do •o by law." What will the officers of the customs do in that ease The government has no longer any wharehouses in the seceding ports. The hold of an armed vessel would neither be a proper or a sufficiently spacious repository for the goods. Tho duties in that case cannot be collected and the collector will be puzxled to know whether to let the ship proceed to her port or to detain her.

We happen to know that there are importing houses at this moment preparing to take advantage of this opening for an unencumbered trade. They are getting ready to convey their cargoes to Charleston or Savannah the goods will be landed there, and then brought coastwise to New York, whtre, being importations from a port within the Union, they will be subject to no duty. The new tariff, with its strange formalities and ingeniously devised delays, forms an additional inducement with them to take this course.

What is then left for our government Shall we let the seceding States repeal the revenue laws for the whole Union in this msnntr Or will the government choose to eonsider all foreign commerce destined for those ports where we have no custom how ana no collectors, as oontraband, and stop it when offering to enter theoollection districts from which our authorities have been expelled Or will the President call special session of Congress to do what the last unwisely failed to do—to abolish all ports of entry in the seceding 8tetsi?

From the 5ew Tork Poet. EUpublican.

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(•MMhlttHiraM Hon. A. H. Stephens of Georgia, Viee President of the Southern Confederacy, visited Atlanta, Georgia, on the 11th, and made a speech, which is reported in the Atlanta Confederacy. We make the extract

With marked emphasis, Mr. Stephens said that in all the public bodies in which he had ever served the country, and in his experience they had not been few, he ne ver met as many men combining the same exalted talent with as much of devoted, unselfish patriotism. Their whole aim seemed to be to see the right and to pursue it. This was his opinion, but very soon we would have the opportunity of seeing what had been done, and passing upon it ourselves. He ventured to say that the history of the world did not present such another social phenomenon as the existing revolution in the Cotton States. A vast empire was divided, a Government thrown off, anew system inaugurated in juxtaposition to the old and without a drop of blood, the slightest social disorder or physical suffering. All we had to do, said the speaker, to perpetuate this ba^py state of things, was to be true to our own honor and fame. We were once Unionists, but were now all Secessionists and if we continued to display to all the world the prop er union of hearts and purpose, there could be no such word as fail for us. But in most eloquent tones he declared, if dissensions, springing from venal and selfish ambitions, if unreasoning and captious fault-finding, should distract and discourage the true friends of Southern liberty, he could prophecy no good for us." Mr. Stephens said that he had once venerated the old Constitution under which he had been born, and did still feel a great respect for it. But, upon a dispassionate comparison of the two Constitutions, he did not hesitate to declare that the new was an improvement on the old. He went on to state that he thought the mode of appropriating money, when brought into the treasury by taxation, as provided for by the Constitution of the Confederate States a decided improvement on that of any Government whatever. The labor, he said was not so much to get money into the public chest as to protect it from misappropriation after it was raised. By the new Constitution, not a dollar could be drawn from the puhlic treasury unless by a two-thirds vote of Congress. An exception to this rule was only made when the President should report to Congress that pressing public necessity and exigency called for it. Another grand difference between the old and the new Constitution was this, said Mr. Stephens iu the old Constitution the fathers looked upon tiie fallacy of the equality of races as underlying the foundations of republican liberty. Jefferson, Madison, and Washington and many others were tender of the word slave in the organic law, and all looked forward to the time when the institution of slavery should bo removed from our midst as a trouble and a stumbling block. This delusion could not be traced in any of the component parts of the Southern Constitution. In that instrument we solemnly discarded the pestilent heresy of fancy politicians, that all men of all races were equal, and we had made African inequality and subordination, and the equality of white men, the chief corner stone of the Southern Republic.

With an honest administration of a Government so founded, Mr. Stephens said the world was yet to sec in us the model nation of history. Restore peace, set our people quietly to work out their destiny from this point of departure, and we would goon from one step of glorious development to another. Wc would expand Southward and Westward, to the East and to the North (God forbid said a gallant Secessionist) until there would be no complaint about territory. Even now our galaxy numbered seven stars," and like that well known cluster wo would soon have the admiring gaze of the world to follow us. Mr. S. said before he closed he would make a prediction that some might take in the way of good news if they wished. He gave it as his opinion that before Saturday night wc would hear of the surrender of Fort Sumter. What tho labors and science of Gen. Beauregard had done in convincing Maj. Anderson that his position was not impregnable he would not undertake to say. But let this prediction turn out as it may, of one thing wc might rest assured that the forts would be given up or they would be taken away.

Mr. Stephens seemed to be satisfied that wo should have a peaceable separation from the North, but he said our general preparation and readiness to meet a different result might have had a great deal to do with such a consumation. He said we all desired peace none of us felt that war and its sufferings and distractions were light things, but yet we were prepared for 1VLIU .we

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While said to the North, go in peace, be prosperous and happy as you may, while we will do the same, yet having once said to the North, you must not trample on us, and interfere with us, we now said you shan't! After invoking a fraternal and cordial union of all hearts in defense and support of the honor and freedom of our people, iu most touching language, Mr. Stephens, closed by proposing three cheers for the Confederate States.

ARTILLERY GUNS IN THE FRENCH ARjtT. The light artillery guns in the French army are four-pounders, and one of them can be easily carried by six soldiers. They are all rifled the balls are conical shells, instead of solid shot, are more commonly used, and have rigs of lead around them, percussion with them. They not only kill when they strike, but also scatter destruction around when they burst.

A WISE PRECAUTION.—By the Constitution of the new Confederacy, not a dollar can be drawn from the publio treasury unless by a two-thirds vote of Congress.

WTlw majority for Fremont in New Hampshire in 1856, was 5,134. In 1859 the Republican majority was 5,545. In 1860, at the spring oleotkm, it was about 4,600. The majority in 1861 is about 4,500.

una •Adie-vn HKCA.PIFsal mm MtaMi J)r aa Buun

I was a student of medicine in Paris in 1856 and 1859, and in company 'with other Americans, tired of the hum-drum monotonous life of the Quartier Latin, I frequently roamed through tho new city, on the west bank of the Seine. Concerts and operas, gardens and singing cafes, bazaar* and boutiques were all visited by us. One evening, at early dusk, a party of us were strolling through the Rue Richelieu, and when near the Boulevards, our attention was drawn to a flaming poster of an Eastern juggler, who was performing at some hall on the Boulevard du'Temple.— Among the things very wonderful thiB man would cut off the head of a living man, and defy any one to surprise him in the trick. Being considerably accustomed to manipulating with the knife in the dead, and being thoroughly hardened to all sights of horror, we determined to go and see this wonderful necromancer. At the hour appointed we repaired to the hall, and obtained a seat near the stage. After performing wonderful tricks, the magician came forward, and announced as his last feat for the evening the actual decapitation of a living man, apparently. To prevent feelings of horror among the la dies, he assured the audience it was a trick of legerdemain, mere slight of hand—that he did not, in reality, cut the man's head off. With this explanation he invited any one in the audience desirous of capital punishment to step forward, promising speedy satisfaction. For some moments no one a^eared anxious for the honor.— At length a soldier, a private in the infantry, stepped forward and signified his readiness to be decapitated. There could have been, it was very plain, no connivance between the men. No man dare assume the martial bearing of France without authority.

Directing the man to divest himself of his coat and neck tie, or stock, the magician brought out the instruments of death. It was an enormous knife, resembling a ponderous cleaver. He cast it down to show its weight, and-itleft a large impress in the boards. There was no deception in the weight of the knife. He then made the man lie down, and placing the soldiers neck far in the block, the magician fixed a long handle to his enormous knife, and proceeded very leisurely, and with heavy, tvell directed strokes, to chop the man's head off. During this he merely lowered the footlights, without obscuring the view at all. Cries of horror and amazement burst from the terror stricken audience, as with every descending blow of the huge cleaver the blood spurted away. The man who was undergoing the operation simply quivered through his lower limbs. Soon the dismembered head rolled on the floor, the blood issued by jets from the cut arteries, and the jaws dropped, while the eyes turned up in death." It was a horrible sight. The magician then took the bleeding head by the hair and passed it not more than three feet from our party. It seemed to me a dreadful reality. I almost expected to see a fierce gendarme seize and arrest the murderer. Suddenly but only for an instant, the room was darkened. In a second all was light again.— And we saw the magician busy at work, coaptating the head to the bleeding trunk. Diligently he worked, and for some moments, apparently, to no purpose. All at once, however, he slapped the dead soldier smartly on the back, immediately the man arose, felt anxiously around his neck, looked foolishly around, and descended amid the audience.

THE SLIBJUOATIOIR^V THK SOUTH. The Mcrcury of the 19th has what it calls a chuckle" over the Northern Crisis. After referring to the thousands

of workmen thrown out of employment in the North, the large and hitherto affluent business houses daily going by the board, the destruction of credit, well founded uneasiness in stocks of all sorts, distrust ruling in all transactions, and the prospect of a tremendous crash before long," it concludes as follows:

Men of the North the day of retribution for violated faith, grasping avarice, unholy ambition, and vulgar jealousy and fanatical hatred is close upon you

To talk of attempting to subjugate" the Southern States, we regard as the very wildest gibberings of insanity. And wc presume that every intelligent man upon the continent is aware of the fact, whatever loose talk may emanate from political desperadoes, enraged fanatics, and silly ignoramuses. Two hundred thousand men, and all the money that could by a mortgage upon the entire real estate of the North, could not effect it. Blood and desolation it might make a plent}', and a plenty of it would be Northern blood and Northern desolation. And it would begin not far from Washington, anc? not stop short of Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Nor would it be confined to the land. For Northern commerce has been lucrative and the spoils of naval adventure are rich and tempting. Thousands of desperate men would be induced by patriotism, hate and interest combined, to it under the seal of the Confederate —letters of marque and reprisal.

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In the meantime, however, we must be allowed to indulge iu our little chuckle over the vastly changed tone of expression at the North—their former silly vauntings their present confusion and anxious dreads. The contrast is inexpressible ludicrous—sufficiently so to be our excuse for a faint smile.

tSf The London Times denounces the MORRILL Tariff in the strongest terms, as an absolute prohibition upon European imports into the United States.

DKATH OF A SENATOR.—Dr. Richard Robbiason, State Senator from Decatur oounty, died at his residence in Greensburg, on Thursday evening, lesion 4iin

CBAWFORDSYILLE, MOJITGOMERX COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 30, 1861. •..»* WHOLE NUMBER 981.

THK raw SKI6LISH WAS STIAMEB '•Wanlsi,)-llw Her Ina Plakt w«e JHa4e.

The London Engineer gives the following interesting account of the pro by whieh the iron plates of the new English war steamer Warrior were constructed:

The tests which were applied to the plates furnished by the builders of the Warrior were of the most trying character. Some plates were fired at with six-ty-eight pounders, at two hundred yards range, and were literally cut in halves by balls, fired one after another, on a line drawn on the surface, each ball striking immediately below its predecessor, Upon some other plates the balls made a circular indentation upon the surface nearly as deep as the plates, exactly of the form of the projectile, and as though a mould had been taken of it in soms soft and yielding substance. It was only after repeated trials that it was decided that the plates should be of annealed scrap iron. The labor involved in building up these plates is enormous. In the first instance, small scraps of iron are thrown into the fires, and when in the state of read heat are subjected to severe hammering, uuder the steam hammer, until the whole is heated and amalgamated into a solid mass of about half a tun weight. The lump is then placed on the top of a similar mass, the whole made red-hot and hammered and welded together. Repeated additions of this kind arc made until about five tuns of metal are thus welded together in one huge, shapeless body. This is then brought to a glowing white heat, and placed under the huge hammer, the thundering blows of which gradually reduce it into shape.— Again and again the enormous slab is put into the furnace and hammered into one piece, fifteen feet long, three feet wide, and four and a half inches thick.

From ten to a dozen men are engaged in the work of moving these ponderous masses of iron, which are moved about apparently with the most perfect ease. Powerful cranes swing the molten mass from the furnaces to the hammer, a nicely adjusted balance is provided by a massive iron lever., one of which is wielded into and forms part of the metal, and this is provided with a dozen or more of horns or handles, by which the iron can be turned in any direction for the plates are not only hammered on the broad surface, but at the sides and at the top and bottom. The plates, after having been roughly formed into shape, are completely planed and squared. Planing machines of enormous size hug these plates in their resistless arms and bear them slowly and silently under the sharp cutting edges of the tools, aud thin shavings of the metal, which, as they are cut off, coil up in the long, bright ringlets of iron, attest the tremedous power of these noiseless and all but omnipotent machines. When the edges and surfaces are made perfectly smooth, like the finest work of the cabinet maker, the jlates, arc placed on an end, gripped firmby a mortising machine, and as they travel slowly bakward and forward in the frame-work against a small tongue of steel, a groove of about one inch in width and depth is formed, into which the corresponding projections formed, on the side of another plate will fit with the utmost accuracy, the plates all being made to dovetail on each of the four sides.

FROM WASTHINOTON. ASHINUTON, March 25. What will Virginia do is again the great question. The Administration takes great interest in the movements of her Convention, as is evidenced by its sending Mr. Lamon to Richmond. It is stated that on Friday, a distinguished delegate of the Virginia Convention telegraphed Mr. Lincoln to the following import: That the tide of secession sentiment was surging over the locality of Richmond, reaching even to some of the sternest advocates of Union that to retain Virginia an extra session of Congress must be convened, and the Crittenden or Peace Conference Resolutions adopted.

The story goes that Mr. Lincoln at once dispatched his friend Lamon to Richmond to strengthen the nerves and stiffen the vertebras of the Union men. I hear on all sides the story of the strengthening of the Secessionists. It is believed that mon has gone further South than mond, and that since his departure the Ad-

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to be conditional. Colonel L. is to exam-

me the stock of provisions on hand, and if I

Dispatches to-day from Fort Pickens state that the garrison there is short of provisions, and cau hold out but a short time longer. None but official comin'mi-

would the nations of Europe deny them-1 will be in possession of the Capital of the bled, and iu convention resumed their so\-

THK DOTE A1TD TDK ANOET..

The roses and stars'were in blossom: *f She leant by,the lattice alone,. And a pet dove, white as a lily.

Flew out of the nigfat'with:a moan,

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ministration l,». chnngcd if. j" Thia i. England, not Napta,. I.

regard to the evacuation of Port Sumter.,

It is even reported that the evacuation iis

will be in possession of the Capital of the bled, and iu convention resumed their sov-

selves the priviiege'of taking our producc United States, has been repeated in cer- creignty, which had been vested in the at fair prices, to please the pretensions of tain anonymous letters, and that Mr. Lin- State of Tennessee.^ Here are the resoan «.rrnr*Tit «nd nresumDtuous neople.: coin's Administration is determined to do lutions an arrogant and presumptuous people,: coin

is rivalry with these very tall in its power to prevent the Border Resolved, That we earnestly petition foreign nations. Blockade is ridiculous. States from going out of the Union. the Legislatures of Alabama and JenncsAnd the idea of coercing the South is folly.

And nestled down clo3o in her bosom. Tobidefrora the wound inits own.

Tears rained on tho snow of ita plumsge. -4 Tears rained on the golden, moonshine "Ah! beautiful, tremulous darlfagr."

She murmured, "my iife is like thine— Only I have no bosom to fly to, My bird, as you fly into mine."

This south-moon dropped under the shadow, Yet she stayed to remember and weep. Till—wbtt was the wonderful l'rosence, j.

So quiet and holy and deep, That stole through the dreams of the roses. Till they shook out their sweetness in sleep?

Ah! an Angel that once was a mortal, Flew out of the glories unknown. And like the white dove from the darkness,

That came to her love with ita raoan. She nestled down close in his bosom, And hid from tho wound in her own.

THE CR1IHB OF POVERTY—HOW Priiwrni for Debt nrc Treated in Englaad.

A most extraordianary letter, signed "A Debtor in the City Jail," appeared in the Manchester (England) Guardian, which shows that the system of prison discipline ih that enlightened country is scarcely less barbarous than that practiced in the dungeon sof Naples. In referring to the letter, theGuardiansays:

The writer avers that the prisoners for debt-are treated like the vilest and most depraved felous." They are not allowed to "sing, whistle or laugh," and arc liable to solitary confinement for several days, with bread and water diet, for the slightest offense against the regulations. When a debtor arrives at the jail, "he is asked his religion, and told to sign a book, which he does, under the supposition that he is merely registering his religious belief but if afterward he declines to attend chapel, he is told that signing the book was an undertaking to attend, and that he must be punished for refusing to do so. No matter that lie alleges he is a Nonconformist and objects as a matter of concience." At this time of the year tho chapel (which is the same attended by the felons in the jail) is intensely cold, but no excuse for nonattendance is permitted. "An old gentleman, during the present intense frost, begged in a beseeching manner, to be allowed to stay away from chapel, stating that he was seventy-four years of age, and that the cold current that he was exposed to was too much for a man of his years and infirmity. He was taken before the Governor, who told him to hold his hands by his sides while in his presence. The Governor told him that, although he stated upon entering the prison that he was a Presbyterian, still, as lie had signed tho book, he should sentence him to twentyfour hours solitary confinement for refusing to attend chapel. On being taken to his intesely cold cell, he found that he was only allowed a small piece of bread three time a day with cold water."

The solitary cell is quite dark, and debtors arc sometimes confined there for twen-ty-four hours, for not getting out of bed till a quarter of an hour after the regular time (seven o'clock,) though it was quite dark, and no clock is allowed. One poor gentleman, who suffered terribly from rheumatism, and was frequently compelled to use crutches, begged that he might be permitted, while thus imprisoned, to purchase, with his own money, such food and warm drinks, as his health required. This was refused, and nothing but bread and cold water allowed. One prisoner passed three days in this fearful cell for giving his wife a small piece of bread, in order that his children at home might see the quality of the prison food. Another, on county allowance, took and ate an onion beyond his share, for which he had solitary confinement and bread and water for three days.

Such arc the allegations made by the writer of this startling letter, beside other complaints of most arbitrary regulation as to visitors, by which not only relatives, but

even solicitors, arc to a great extent de-1 —d]

barred from necessary communication with

the poor debtors. quote these statc-,

ments as we find them in print

think for a moment of the terrible cold ot

the last few weeks, and then ask whether,

I have the power of committing persons to ^fcr at: La-junwarmcd, unlighted cells, without proper. j0J|f,cr

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Secretary Seward states that the North !iCe, through them and by ourselves, and ia*•j

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cation is permitted at Pcnsacola, and the not, by any possibility, continue to squadron can furnish the su cate that before also be compelled ens to the Secessionists. awhile—a weariness not imposed upon the

I have heard it said that information has good citizens of the seceded States, 'ihey prey upon been received by several members of the are now troubled a little about the manage- 'i rate States Cabinet, that Jefferson Davis' prophecy, incut of the government So, a few days on„ruached I isal. Nor that in twelve months tho Secessionists ago, the citizens of Franklin county asscin- ''11

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has generally become satisfied of the sin-j all other authorities that can give us any M" .•

cerity of the South in desiring to close the aid in the matter, to change the line bepending partnership, and that there can tween the States, so as to transfer the I f^l'00 be no sense or good judgment evinced by attempts to enforce a continuation of it.— If those views are in accordance with the Secretary's sentiments we may look for a compulsory peaceful policy in the Cabinet. The Senate very wisely declined to take up the resolutions relative to the appointment of ita officers. The Republicans knew that if it was forced upon them the Democrats would leave them without a groan, and thus greatly embarrass the Administration. It is stated that the President has determined to send H. inter Davis, of Maryland, to Russia.

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THK CfPrrti'sf Ih* Peer fat* tbe B»k mf RaflBa*. The Bank of England must be seen on the inside as well as out, and to go iutothe interior of this remarkable building, to observe the operations of an iustitutiou that exerts more mora) and political power than any sovereign in Earope, you must have an order from the Governor of the Bank. The building occupies an irregu-Jar-arca of eight acres ground—an edifice of no architectural beauty, with not ono window toward the street, being lighted altogether from the roof of the inclosed area.

I was led, on presenting my card of admision, into a private room, where after a delay of a few moments, a mcssengea came and condrctcd me thpougb the mighty and mysterious building. Dowu wc went into a room where the notes of the bank, received the day before were now examined, compared with the entries in the book and stowed away. The Bank of England never issues the same note a second time.— Tt receives, in the ordinary course of business, abont j£800,000, or $4,000,000, daily in notes these are put up into parcels according to their denominations, boxed up with the date of their reception, and are kept ten years at the expiration of which period they are »ken out and ground lip in the mill which I saw running and made again into paper. If, iu the course of these ten years, any dispute in business, or law suit, should arise, concerning the payment of any note, tho bauk can produce the identical bill.

To meet the demand for notes so constantly used up, the bank has its own paper makers, its own printers, its own engravers, all at work under the same roof, and it even makc6 the machinery by which the most of its own work is done. A complicated but beautiful operation is a register, extending from the printing office to the banking offices, which marks every sheet of paper that is struck off from the press, so that the printers cau not manufacture a single sheet of bank no.tes that is not recorded in the bank. Ou the samo principle of neatnes*, a shaft is made to pass from one apartment to another, connecting a clock in sixteen business wings of the establishment, and regulating them with such precision that the whole of them are always pointing the same second of time. In another room was a machine, exceedingly simple for detecting light gold coin. A row of them i* dropped one by one upon a spring scale. If the piece of gold was of the standard weight, tho small scale rose to a certain bight, and the coin slid off upon one side of the box if less than the standard, it rose a little higher and the coin slid off upon the other side.

I asked the weigher what was the average number of light coins that came into his hands, and strange enough he said it was a question lie was not allowed to answer.

The next room I entered was that in which the notes are deposited which are ready for issue. "We have thirty-two millions of pounds sterling iu this room," the officer remarked to mc, will you tako a little of it?" I told him it would be vastly agreeable, and he handed me a million sterling, which I received with many thanks for his liberality, but he insisfed on my depositing with him again, as it would hardly bo safe to carry so much money in the street. I very much fear that 1 shall never sec that money again. In tho vault beneath the door were a director and cashier, counting bags of gold which men were pitching down to them, each bag containing a thousand pounds sterling just from the mint. This world of money seemed to realize the fables of ICastern wealth, and gave me new and strong impressions of the magnitude of the business done here, and the extent of the relations of this one institution to the commcrce of the world.

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state that was carricd by the disunionists. The neoblc thereof, exasperated at not being Su^ot llic Union, have rosolvcj to withdraw from the Abolition Statc of Ten

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