Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1861 — Page 4

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A Happy Xcw Year. We present the Sentinel to its readers this morning in an entire new dress, and the proprietors flatter tbemadves that no paper in the West pro oats a neater type graphical appearance. We take this occasion to express our acknowledg ments for the many favors we have received from the public, and we trust that our enterprize and efforts to serve them will place us under not only continued, but increased obligations. We commence a New Year with dark clouds upon the political horizon. The future looks gloomy. A spirit of anarchy and disloyalty to the Government pervades the land. A natioa int its youth, with the elements of power and weilth unequalled by any other, seems tottering to its downfall. We know not what Providence may have in store for us, but we trust the lowering clouds which now hang like a pall over the country, may ioon yield to bright and hopeful skies. May fraternity and unity again animate the hearts of the people of all sections. These sentiments will prevail, if the patriotism of the fathers has descended to their sons. The task of healing the discord and dissension which now is light in comparison with the conflicts of and interests which were ree incited by the framere of the Republic. Let us bury partisan asperities and party strifes, and in the spirit of conciliation and accommodation, by which it was established, renew and strenghten the foundations which this beautiful fabric of government To allav sectional animosities and oblit erate geographical divisions are the first steps towards reunion. Can wc not tolerate the institutions that our Fathers conceded or established, or are We wiser, better and purer than they ? Their patriotism was severely tested. They proved their love of country by the pledge of their lives, their fortunes and their s htc-1 honors. And after they had achieved independence by great personal sacrifice s to gain an united Government the representatives of tbe North and the South yielded their preconceived opinions, theories and prejudices. To preserve the Union the same spirit must prevail now. Whatever may be the termination of the political difficulties of the country, and it is our first with that we may remain untied States, we sincerely hope that individual happiness and prosperity may attend our readers during the year we this day enter upon. The Crittenden Compromise. The most careless observer of current events can not fail to be impressed with the fact that the country Ls rapidly. drifting toward Disunion, and that unless this tendency is soon arrested we shall in a shcrt time be divided into two, if not more, separ.-.tc . ml antagonistic confederacies. It is a crisis in our public affairs which demands of every patriotic citizen prompt and decided efforts to prevent the threatened overthrow of the Government and to give it permanency in the future. And here the inquiry naturally arises what can be done to preserve ths Union? How can the troubles which threaten the disruption of the Confederacy be hetled? We know of no way but to return to the policy of the Fathers of the Republic. At the time the Constitution was formed, there were as many conflicting opinions as now, as to the principles and policies upon which it should be based. The contest then looked as irreconcilable as at present. It was found that the only hope of union was in concession and conciliation. Extreme opinions were modified or yielded, and in the spirit of compromise ami accommodation, the political fabric was reared which we have regarded as the most perfect ever devised by the wisdom of man. Shall extreme opinions be per mittel to destroy this Government? Are we better or wiser than the men who framed it? We have not a doubt but that tbe conservative senti ment of the country will rally to preserve the Union, when some feasible plan for adjusting our troubles i proposed. And no plan will be acceptable which is not based upon concession and compromise. There can be no hope of reconciliation as long as the extremists of the North or the extremists of the South demand as an ultimatum the adoption of their peculiar theories. We publish this morning the compromise by Mr. I'ltiTTVM f v. which, to make permanent, he suggest as amendments to the Constitution. We also publish the able speech of Senator Pi gh, advocating the adoption of this measure of reconciliation, with the resolutions of a large meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati cordially endorsing it. We commend them all to the careful attention of the reader. Mr. CaiTTExnEN's plan of adjustment presents a basis upon which to concentrate the confen ative sentiment of the country. Some of its features may be objectionable to one shade of public sentiment, while others may be equally so to another. It does not vield to all the de mands of the Fire Eater, nor to those of the ;

Abolitktt st. It restores tue policy of Territorial , reason to complain of being misrepresented by partition which was adopted in the Mis- the Democracy; that such a charge is without soiuri Compromise, and, as Mr. Ceittexdex j foundation, and that the success of the Republisaid in his speech, upon a line that would ; can party upon the issues it presente 1 to the probably be agreed upon if there should be a di ! country is the cause of the political difficulties vision of the conntry into Northern and Southern j which threaten the overthrow of this Govern Confederacies. The Republican party could ac ment. The Journal represents that such is the cepf h, for upon the repeal of the Missouri com- condition of the country the irreconcilable hospromise.in 1H54, they announced they would take tility between the North and the South that, in issue a to the policy of its abrogation and de- its view, u division into separate confederacies is mand its restoration,. So far as slavery in the ' the wisest awl the only practicable solution of the Territories are concerned, the compromise of Mr. j coutroversv. We need no better vindic.vion of

Ckittk.xdex prohibits it north of a certain line and admit it south, leaving the determination finally to the people when they form a State Gov eminent whether slavery shall lx admitted or prohibited. We do not believe that the Government can be maintained without the conflicting sentiments of the country can be compro mised. The plan suggested bv Mr. Cbitten dex we have no doubt will be acceptable to the border stave States and to the conservative men in the Gulf States. It is a remedy within the Union by which the rights of the slave States will receive additional guarantees. Its prompt acceptance by the Northern States would at once take the wind out of the secession movement. As a compromise, for without concessions we can not expect conciliation . we hope it will meet the approval of the conservative citizens of Indiana. A permanent Mttkumil of our political difficulties would at once give an impulse to enterprize and prosperity to all industrial pursuits. There is not an occupation or pursuit in Indiana but would immediately be benefitted thereby. Is this not an inducement, in addition to the impulses of patriot ism, to make every effort to restore peace to the country and stability to the government. Important Carresasndrare. The Washington States, of Mondav, contains the following important correspondence, showing that efforts are making to check the disunion sentiment in Georgia: An. AXT. , December 26. ISSn. To Hon. S. A. Douglas or Hon J. J. Critten den. Toombs' dispatch of the 22nd unsettled conservatives here. Is there any hope for South ern rights in the Union? We are for the Union of our fathers if Southern rights can be preserved in it. If not, we are for secession. Can we yet hope the Union will be preserved on this principle? You are looked to in this emergency. Give us your views bv dispatch and oblige. Signed, Wm. Ezzard. Robert W Sims, Jas. P. Hanil '. ton, Thou. S. Powell, S. G. Howell. J Hat den, G. W. Adare, R. C. Hcnhtoa asrLY. W.uunjHfm. Deceml-er 2. In reply to your inquiry, we have hope - that the rights of the South, and of every Si it. and- sec tion, may be protected within the Unioji. Don't give up the ship. Don't dispair of the RsfnbwC Signed, J. J. Canrana, S. A. Dorm... Eoimix Whiat. We shown, on Tuesday, a head of Egyptian wheat, raised near Hanover, Jefferson county, by Wm. H. Duncan. It must be extraordinarily prolific. The head in was as large as a medium sized nubbin of lj and was filled with grains. The grain is smaller titan our ordinary Mediterranean wheat, and differently shaped. Mr. Duncan's father had the specimen we speak of, and he intends to z into the cultivation of it, starting from the head he showed us.

Peareable Disunion or Cirll War. The Journal, the central orjran of the Republican partv of Indiana, zealously ami ably oppose the policy of coercion and favors a peaceable dissulution or division of the Government, rather than yield to the demand made by the slave States for the protection of slavery in the Territories. In discussing these subjects in its issue of Saturday last, the Journal decidedly reiterates the views it has heretofore expressed and presents as an additional argument to maintain its position, that the issues uow before the country and the state of public sentiment , have had no pur

allel in the put. As an illustration of this view of the case it refers to the condition of affairs in 1832, when disunion was threatened, to show that the policy then adopted would not suit the present altered circumstances of the country and the widely different issue presented. Upon thin point ; it remarks: If South Carolina had Mood entirely Ion at the beginning of the difficulty which threaten the division of this ! .: :r . k. s a I l .,,.( ni. I,.., ... ,.t I n.iitoii. ii sue 11:111 uau lit p i k j turn ii" ... in the other State, the Jacksonian policy would no doubt have been aa wife and effective in 1S60 n in NL'. Ilm "circumstance alter cases." South Carolina resistin:, the whole strength, awl the almost united ympathy, of tbc other State, aa was the rax' in 1S3S, is a very different problem fur the statesman' solution from South Carolina supported by the active co-operation of all the Gulf States, nd the sympathy, mure or less generally manifested, of all the other slave States. In KB disunion in South Carolina had but a few factious supporters outside of her borders, and only a doubtful majority within them. Rebellion then was simply soliciting a ruin in which she could have little sympathy and but a remote hope of recovery. In 19on South Carolina i assured that seven other States will make common cause with her. and that if all the rest do not, volunteers from them will pour down to her assistance and leave the States to follow as toon as their wrath gets warm enough to move them. In 132 a province, of little benefit to the I'nion, ami constantly disturbing the nation with unreasonable petulance, was to be subdued. In ls60 one-half of the Confederacy is to be subdued by the other half. The rase are too terribly different to admit an application of the same policy with the same results. What was judicious firmness in 1S32 may be ruinous obstinacy in I860. What was a wise assertion of national pt.wer in 1S32 may become a disastrous and useless civil war in tSOO. Those who urge so earnestly the "Jacksonian" policy should show the nation that this U a "Jacksonian" case. The Journal then states that "the contest now is not merely between the two halves of the Confederacy, but it is between two utterly irreconcil able principle.! of government, of social orjrani cation and material prosperity," and proceeding to portray the results which will attend coercion, it says : We have, then, not only a dangerous physical resistance to encounter in mainUining our Constitution over thoa unwilling States, but a moral resistance equally as strong. If we should conquer the physical resistance, aa we might, with double the wealth and population, in a few years, we leave the moral hostility as strong as ever, nay. a thousand times stronger. Let us look whether it is worth while to ficht fifteen States to keep up a Union which will be no (' h-"i the fight is over. 1 not that rational r Is it not prudent ? Is it uot the policy of a wise devotion to freedom ? Atter ret Mate clear utul tee starery irrerer, in all ..rM and all conneU'm,than i rrU us rjrH NMM in our free (ocemiHont an tlemeut of trould. In addition to this the Journal represents that the feeling is spre:iilin"; all the time in the slave St.ttes in favor of "the protection of slavery out side of the slave States, wherever slaveholders choose to go." We again fjMti from tint print, so that it may speak for itself, in its own Ian guage : It pervade Kentucky. It Is already predominant in Tennessee. It has long been master in Virginia. Maryland. Delaware and Missouri are the only slave States in which this demand would not be supported by a large majority to-day, and even there the result would be doubtful Therefore, in our opinion, the movement for the submission of the Constitution to slavery, or disunion, could not have been prevented by any display of force, judicious or otherwise. We have held "fondly to the belief that the border States, assured of kind and faithful protection to slavery in the place it is entitled to, might stay with us, and in time be weaned of slavery, and grow into a free union, as free as the rest, and hence have yielded where we " k vcr would have stirred one jot to appease the Gulf Statei. But we believe that no yielding short of absolute submission will retain those Stales with u, and are prepared to see them go with the rest, for the North never will submit this free Government to slavery to save it. J there is no other salvation fc it its ruin will be welcome. We have thus referred to and quoted the sentiments of the central organ of the Republican nrty of Indiana for two objects, one of which is todis prove the charge made by m any Republican orators and presses, that the Democracy have misrepresented the position of the Republican organization upon the issues involved in the last presidential canvass; and the other, to show that the conservative element of the Republican party has no hesitation in declaring that disunion is a less evil than civil war, and is to be preferred. The Democracy predicted that disunion would follow the success of a political party which proclaimed that there was an irrepressible conflict between the two sections of the country, or, in the language of its leader, "that a house divided against itself can not stand, and that the Stitc of the Union must be all slave or all free." Tins prediction we fear is about being realized, but not in the way Republicans prophecied. There is a prospect that the Union will be divided and the States may be all "free" in one division and they may be all "slave" in the other. The Democracy took theconverse of the proposition. They contended that as the States with different domestic institututions had existed in peace and prosperity for three quarters of a century, by the exercise of the same forbearance towards each other and by continuing mutual the respect for the constitu tional rights of each and all which had controlled the sentiment of the country and which was really the basis of union, the Government could be perpetuated with th continuance of all the blessings it had conferred. The Journal candidl v conce les bv its argument that the Republican nartv has no the principles and policy of the Democratic party than is furnished by the Republican central organ Coli.ibiox on the Centkal Road. A collision between two hog trains occurred before daylight yesterday morning at Lewisville, on the Central Road. A way train left here an hour in advance Of the through hog train tho evening before. At Lewisville the way train stopped on the bridge east of the towr. and run the locomotive on the switch to bring up some cars already loaded to attach them to the train. The bridge is a hih one say thirty or forty feet above the water. The engineer of the through train saw the rear light of the stationary train some distance off, but supposed for a time that it w;i in motion. Discovering that it was stationery when he reaehe 1 the down grade leading to the bridge a long descent however he whistled down brakes ami reversed his engine. The brakemen were all unlocsj and made no response, and the train slid along at a rapid rate on the frosted rails. The fireman started back to put the brakes down but he was only in time to get caught by one of his legs between two cars when the collision took place. The locomotive was badly wrecked and thrown over on the timbers of the bridge, and it is a marvel she did not go through. A number of i cars were broken up and knocked crossways and ' everyway, and the track was torn up and spread in places for a considerable distance. But the worst accident was to the fireman whose M was shockingly mangled in his efforts to save the train. It was found necessary to cut away the timbers of the cars to extricate him. The amount of damage we have not learned. But few of the hogs we understand were killed. The car in which the owners of the hogs and the drov-v breakman were sleeping had both ends stove in, but no one was hurt in it. The passengers yes tcrday had to pass under the bridge from train to train, hnt we presume the wreck will be cleared away to-day. tjgT'The man Butler, who accidental! v set him self on fire and communicate I the 11 imes to a house on Wed n Saturday night, was up before the Mayor yesterday. He is an utterly ' worthless vagabond, and it would have tieen an' act of charity to let him burn up where he had made his nest, if it could have !een done without destroying the property. H was discharged, as he could only be held as a vagrant, and the citydid not feel disposed to feed him. HP"' The .lone., Hou-e in (ireeni astle is one of the best bote's in Indiana, and the landlord is an obliging and intelligent gentlemin. Our friendvisiting (Jreencastle will do themselves a kindness 1 by inquiring for the . I ones Hou-e and nuking it their stopping place.

The Crittenden Compromise. We have had an imperfect abstract of the propositions submitted by Senator Crittenden to the Senate. As there is much interest felt in this compromise we print it complete as it appears in the Globe : A joint resolution (S. No. 50) proposing certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Wherkas, Serious mid alarming dissensions ha e arisen between the Northern and Southern States, concerning the rights and security of the rights of slaveholding States, and especially their rights in the common territory of the United States; and whereas it is eminently desirable and projer that these dissensions, which now threaten

the very existence ot this L niou, should le permanently quieted and settled by constitutional provisions, which shall do equal justice to all sections, and thereby restoie to the people that peice and good will which ought to prevail letween all the citizens of the United States: therefore Resolred by the Senate and Honte of Represen tat ire of the I'nited States of America in Congress assembled, ( two-thirds of both houses concurring.) That the following articles be, and arc hereby proposed and submitted as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to II intents and purposes, as part ot' said Constitution, when ratifie I bv conventions of three fourths of the several St.it''ABI. I. in all llic territory ot me l nucu .-states now held, or hereafter acfpuired, situate north of

latitude . lb deg. .Wnun., slavery or involuntary submit to be governed by such a Line! Jlagisservitude, except as a punishment for crime, is truto ? prohibited while such territory shall remain under Suppose that the South, having a majority of territorial government. In all the territory south the electoral votes, should declare that they would of said line of latitude, slavery of the African i onlv have slaveholders for President and Vice race is hereby recognized as existing, ami shall I President, and should select such by their exclunot be interfere! with by Congress, but shall be sjVe suffrages to rule over us at the North. Do protected as property by all the departments of the i you think we would submit to it No, not for a territorial government during its continuance, j moment. And when any territory, north or south of said . And do you believe that your Southern brethren line, within such boundaries as Congress may pre- ! arc less sensitive on this subject than you are, or scrilie. shall contain the population requisite for a less jealous of their right? If you do, let me tell member of Congress acconling to the then federal 1 vou that vou are mistaken! And, therefore, you ratio of representation of the people of the United Should ioc that, if this sectional party ueeeeds, it States, it shall, if its form of government be re j leads inevitably to the destruction of this beautipublican, be admitted into the Union, on nn equal fu( fabric, reared bv our forefathers, cemented by footing with the original States, with or without their blood, and bequeathed to us as a precious in slavery, as the constitution of such new State ; hcritance. may provide. I tell you, my friends, that I feel deeply, and, At. 2. Congress shall have no power to abol- therefore, I speak eirne-tlv, on this subject, cries ish slavery in places under its exclusive jurisdic-1 of "You're right, for I feel that you arc in dantion, and situate within the limits of States that per. I am determined to make a clean breast of permit the holding of slaves. it. I will wash my hands of the consequences, Art. 3. Congress shall have no power to abol- whatever thev may be; and I tell you that we are ish slavery within the District of Columbia, so treading on the brink of a volcano that is liable lonp as it exists in the ndjoining States of Vir- ilt anv moment to burst forth and overwhelm the

ginia and Maryland, or cither, nor without the ! consent of the inhabitants, nor without just com i . . . , - i m tsm t ... t m aIn t . , aiisili , , w i , . . , t all i - , ' C 1 f - ti .sti" i I ill 3V 1 1 I 1 i i ' ivr .-it'll v v" uvi o wa. -- w w i do not consent to such abolishment. Nor shall i Congress at anv time prohibit officers of the Fed eral Government, or members of Congress, whose duties require them to be in said District, from timnrrinrr witli tln-m r!ie:r slnvpj mill lloMov tliem as suchduring the time their duties may require ! them to rcmaiu there, and afterwards taking tlicin from the District. Art. 4. Congress shall have no power to pro-L-i i- i I? f 1 . rl hibit or hinder the transportation ot slaves from i one State to another, or to a Territory, in which slaves are permitted to be held, whether that transportation be by land, navigable rivers, or by I sea. Art. ft. That in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the ' fourth article of the Constitution of the United Stttes Congress shall have power to provide by law, and it shall be its duty so to provide, that the Uiiitel States shall pay to the owner who shall apply for it, the full value of his fugitive slave in all case? when the Marshal or other nfti cer whose duty it was to arrest said fugitive was ; prevented from so doing by violence, or when, after arrest, said fugitive was rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of his fugitive slave under the said clause ot the Constitution and the laws made in pursuance j thereof And in all such cases when the United State shall pav for such fugitive, thev shall have the right, in their own name, to sue the count v in which said violence, intimidation, or rescue was committe 1. antl 4o recover from it. with interest ! and damages, the amount paid bv them for said j fugitive slave. And the said countv, after it has paid said amount to the United States, mav, for its indemnitv, sue and recover from the wivug i doers or rescuers, 1 whom the ! owner was pre ! vented from the recoverv of his fugitive slave, in like manner as the owuei sued and recovered. himself might liac Art. 6. No future amendment to the Constitu tion shall affect the five predceing articles; nor the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the Constitution: and no amendment shall be made to the Constitution which shall authorize or give t"Congress any power to abolish or interfere with slavery in any of the States by whose law it is, or may be, allowed or permitted. And whereas, also, beside those causes of dissension embraced in the foregoing amendments proposed to the Constitution of the United States, there are others which come within the jurisdiction of Congress, antl may be remedied by its legfeI.44s- j. , ami wlrciCo it la iln iK;.-iiv Congress, as far as its power will extend, to remove all just cause for the popular discontent and agitation which now disturb the peace of the country, and threaten the stability of its institu tir ii-: Therefore, 1. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the laws now in force for the recoverv of fugitives are in strict pursuance of the plain and mandatory provisions of the Con-I stitution, and have been sanctioned as valid and constitutional by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States: that the slaveholding States are entitled to the faithful observance and execution of those laws, and that they ought not to be reiie.tled, or so modified or changed as to impair their efficiency; and that laws ought to be made for the punishment of those who attempt byrescue of the slave, or other illegal means, to hinder or defeat the due execution of said laws. 2. That all State laws which conflict with the ugitive slave acts of Congress, or any other conAitutional acts of Congress, or which in their operation impede, hinder or delay the free (MM and due execution of anv of said acts, arc null and void by the plain provisions of the Constitu tion of the United Suites; vet those State laws, void as thev are, have given color to practices, and led to consequences, which have obstucted the due administration and execution of acts of Congress, antl especially the acts for the delivery of fugitive slaves, and have thereby contributed much to the discord and commotion now prevailing. Congress, therefore, in the present perilous juncture, does not deem it improper respectfully and earnestly to recommend the repeal of those laws to the several States which have enacted them, or such legislative corrections and explanations of them as may prevent their being used or perverted to such mischievous puqKises. 3. That the act of the 18th of September, 1850, commonly called the fugitive slave law, ought to be so so amended as to make the fee of the commissioner, mentioned in the eighth section of the act. equal in amount, in the cases decided by him, whether hid decision be in favor of or against the claimant. And to avoid misconstruction, the last clause of the fifth section of said act .which author izej the person holding the warrant for the arrest or deteution of a fugitive slave, to summon to his aid the posse comitatus, and which de lures it to lie the duty of all good citizens to assist him in its execution, ought to be amended so as to expressiv limit the authority and duty to cases in which there shall be resistance or danger of resistance or rescue. 4. 1 hat the laws for the suppression of the African slave trade, and especially those prohibiting the importation of slaves in the United States ought to be made effectual, and ought to be thoroughly executed, and all further enactments necessary to those ends ought to be promptly made. The Sentiment of Missouri. A good many MMN of the LegMfctwe, from various jiarts of the State, have been in the city within a day or two. So far as we have been able to see them, we are gratified to heir that thev are entirely conservative in all their views in regard to the present troubles between the North and the South; that they are disjxised to tight for the rights of the slave States in the Union, rather than out of the Union; that they will unite, if needs be, in any convention of the slave States which shall preseut, in a distinct manner, the grievances of which they have a right to complain, and which are neitheir few nor unimportant; and that if the free States, so long pursuing an aggressive course toward them, should refuse to do justice to them, that thev will then consider the mode and measure of redress. But they are not disposed to break up this Union hastily, or without sufficient reason. They have prospered under it until they have at tainrd a position second to only one other slave State in the Confederacy, and they are not disposed to be put in a false position by the acts of South Carolina giving about as many votes in the whole State as the county of St. Louis alone or any other State whatever. They think it far more prudent and patriotic to follow the lead of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky. Tennessee and North Carolina, antl with them to deliberate carefully antl patriotically before they engage in the work of destroying the Union. St. Isouis Republican. C?y" Would he irt of man once think it!" Yet the whole press of the (reit West" confesses that indigestion prevails more extensively among its farming jtopulation than anywhere else in the world. They say it conies from citing too much pork too much salt rk too much saleratus bread, Indting their food always in a hurry, taking only fifteen minutes to a med, and then rushing away to the tieM to laborious work on a hastilv cramuie I stomach. Wliat queer commentary on life! Once we thought indigestion onlv the gourmand's and idle millionaire's punishment ; now it seems it is the curse of that frantic American resolution t i do too much, to get rich in a vesir msteid of fifty, as our lorelathe;-s mil. and plagues the stomach of the sturdy West as ninHi as if it were the place and sub e -t of diabolical oses si -n.

The Revolution Begun. To the I'titnr of the Detroit Free Press ; The deplorable political consequences of the success of the Republican party are comiug us in all their dread reality. South Carolina one of the old thirteen States has, by the unanimous voice of her people, dissolved, as far us her own will and act can do, her connection with the Union! This result was foretold, by most of the old and distinguished Whig statesmen, at the organization of the Republican party, if it should, unhappily for the country, succeed in getting control of the General Government. See what some of these old Whig statesmen prophetically said of the Republican party at the beginning of its disorganizing career. In 136 ex President Fillmore, in nn elaborate speech ut Albany, s.tid . We sec a political party presenting candidates for the Preudcncv and Vice PresidaOCT selected,

for the first time, f rom the free States alone, with I the avowed purpose of electing those candidates by the suffrage'! of one part Of the Union only, to rule over the whole United States. Can it be possible that those who are engaged in such a measure can have seriousTv retle-ted upon the (Mii-e.;iiPiK ps which must uievitaitlv loilow m . I case of success ? Can thev have the madness or (.!-- full v to suppose that our Southern brethren would nation. Such was the warning voice of ex-President . Fillmore, nearly five years ago, against the sue cess of the Republican party. The country will remember the eloquent and cvcr-to-be-rcmcmbered words of that distinguished Whig Senator, and statesman, Rurcs Choate, of Massachusetts, when he said, in 156, that he would h tve no connection with the Republicans; ... ,,... , . j . for said he. " trui loin no party that does not 3 u ' carry the flag and keep step to the music of the i;,inn." ,n thp aame ,cUer that contain3 the,e immortal 1-, words, he said: The basis of the Republican organization is reciprocal sectional hate. This is the sentiment at bottom this and nothing else. To form and heighten this; to fortify and justify it; to show that it is moral and necessary, the whole vast en ginery of party tactics is to be put in request. If the ingenuity of hell were tasked for a device to alienate and rend asunder our immature and arti ficial nationality, it could devise nothing so effect ual. I take my stand here! How prophetic were these words! About the same time Governor Hi nt, of New York, an ex Whig Senator, wrote I letter refu . tQ join the Repuhlicans in which he said: J r . ... r . . Believing that a sectional combination of this 'nd is fraught wdh danger and m.sch.et, it does ut accord with mv views of duty to enlist under "anner. If a Northen! ant! s a very party is desirable, it must be desired that all the people ot he free States should enter into it. I he very Isition implies that wc are to l.c met by the people the Southern states in sonn arr.u . e can not close our eyes to the practical tendencies of such a conflict. Its effect must be to exasperate one part of the nation toward the other part, and to weiken, if not to banish, those sentiments of friendship and brotherhood which gave birth to the Constitution. In such a warfare both sections will be roused to fierce resentment by inu tual insult and denunciation, until either side will see in the other aliens and enemies instead of friends and fellow-citizens; and, in a word, we shall cease to be one people. The Hon. D. D. Barnard, once a leading Whig in New York, a member of Congress from the Albany district, and Minister to Prussia under Gen. Harrison, also, in refusing to join tbe Rethe following pointed and most truthful denuncia tion of it as a disunion party." Heir him: This Republican party is as certainly a party of disunion, if successful, as though that purpose was written in letters of light on every fold of its banner. Every conceivable prejudice is appealed to; j every conceivable abuse, all conceivable terms ot reproach and obloquy, are heaped on the men and the country of the South. If the Southern States of this Union were as alien to us as though they had a separate existence at tne remotest ex tremity of the earth or the sea, and had been our hereditary and implacable enemies from the beginning of time, they could not be more an object of the fanatic rage, hate and defiance of tho-e journals. Can any rational man suppose that the Union can stand the ass nil!- of a party like this, if once it is allowed to gain head enough to bring on the desperate fraternal war on which ii is m tdh bent'.' For me, I do not. If the new party of se?tionali.m shall rise, oris likfl- to rif to the ilicmitv of resoeetable strength. I -. . . . i . - 1 : . .1 a i it necomes an men who inuiK n tue urstanu nigii e-t dutv of patriotism to defend their country against all deadly assaults aim an imminent nanMi to unite on a broad basis of national politics against it. It is not to be denied or doubted that this new party is having some success enough, at least, to demand the serious observation and attention of the country; and, so far as it lias or can bane vitality and success, I am bouud to say that iTbink it deserves nothing but execration as a bold men ace to the integrity of the Union, such as can not be justified or excused, unless treason can be jus tified or excused. Such are some of the forewaniings of the old Whig leaders and statesmen who followed the lead of Clav and Wkbstkh, against the Republican party. The same warnings have been given for a quarter of a century by all Democratic statesmen against Northern, sectional anti-slavery parties. 1 he inspiration that dictate 1 (MM pro phetic declarations was from the words of Wash ington, who, in his Farewell Address, warned the American people against parties founded on geo graphical discriminations, and taught that true patriotism and love of the Union should "indig nantlv frown upon the first dnwnings of am at tempt like that of the anti-slavery Republican organization to alienate one portion of our coun trv from thereat." HAMTRAMCK. ZW The New York correspondent of the Utica Morning Herald has paid a visit to the Central Bark skating pond; from his last letter we clip the following: There was one large matron wearing a thin. doaMe -kirted silk di e.-s, in which the wind plaved fantastic antics who wore on her lie.nl a yellow "rigglctte," and could not stand upon her skates an instant; who would fall down, dragging with her everv available man and bov. and who would have looked better off the ice, but she was the only one. There were others, swift as birds, graceful as iwua. There was one lady most appropriately dressed in a fur-bound basque, who .MM' us the very poetry of motion. There was pei dect harmony in her long drawn curves; something melodious as a dream in her swift gliding grace. There was another young creature who darted hither and thither, as if she had always lived on the ice. There was a perfect abandon in her sport; she was hilarious yet utterly graceful in her glee. Slender and dainty footed as u fawn, her soft blue dress loped from a gay bal moral, wearing a black basquine and black velvet hat, with a pink rose in her hair, she flew over the ice, now circling in a waltz now following her papa at the end of a shawl, "now flying awav with another in her arms, who could skate as well; wherever she went she was followed bv hundreds of admiring eye- the women praised her and the gentlemen fell in love with her. How eves brightened with new beams, how the cheeks of our j.iponicas bloomed with roses. 1 can hanllv tell. What a pastime for metrosilitan bell.--' what a pastime for the weary people? "The drive was full of carriages, the ramble was thronged with people husbands and wives lead ing their children; young men and maidens; gentlemen and ladies mounted on horseback, their plumes floating out into the blue air, added to the picturesque beiuty of the scene. So much for our winter skating carnival. BmattM in Nmv Ai.iiany. The Ifdqcr says that dull times have set in for the winter, and a great many mechanics and laborers have been thrown out of employment in that eitv jus; at a time when the need money the most. The Pho?nix Foundery, which has iployetl a large force of workmen for ne.ulx the entire vetr.i loaed on S iturday. There is but little work being done atthesliip .uds or pork house, and none on pub lie works. (Juite a number of men have been dis .h.irc I from tbc nilroid machine shop alo.

yir. Lincoln Cabinet. The New York Herald asserts, confidently, that ft portion of the Cabinet appointments of Mr. Lincoln have been definitely agreed upon. It names three Edw ard Bates, of Missouri, for Attorney General; David Wilmot, of Pennsyl vania, for Secretary of the Interior; and John C. Fremont, of California, for Secretary of War. The telegraph, this morning, coutradicts this ar rangement, by giviic to Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, the position of Secretary of the Treasury. The Herald also says that Mr. Slwaud will have the mission to England; Wm. C. Bbvant, editor of the New York Post, the mission to the new Kingdom of Italy, and G. Koebxer, of Illinois, the mission to Berlin. The last appointment will upset the calculations of Hon. J . D. Dkfrees and

Hon. Jonathan W. Gordon, the rival leaders of the two wings of the Republican party of this State, both of whom are calculating to succeed Gov. Wright. Our private advices from Springfield indicate the selection of Hon. Caleb R. Smith for a Cabinet appointment either the In terior or Post Office Department. At all events, Mr. Smith's name is on Mr. Lincoln's slate, and the friends of our distinguished townsman are "wide awake." We understand that Mr. Smith donned a new beaver a few days ago, and was among the missing long enough for a pilgrimage to the Republican Mecca Springfield. If so, only the faithful are advised of the result. The Illinois Democracy. The home organ of Mr. Lincoln gives the Illinois Democracy "due credit for patriotism and devotion to the Union," and suggests they should sustain him "in the discharge of his constitutional duties." The Springfield Register thus responds to these sentiments: Mr. Lincoln, while calling on the Democracy to sustain him, must do something himself towards preserving the Union. He must recognize that L'uion ns endurable as it was originallv framed "part slave and part free." He must direct his denunciation at that nullification at the North which has led to secession nt the South He must remember that though he secured a ma joritv of the electoral vote, he had hut little more ! than a third of the popular vote that in proclaiming his undying adherence to his own peculiar dogmas, he flies in the face of two-thirds of the people of the country, and that however confirmed he may be as to the correctness of his own position, his policy can not become law until enacted !v the people's representatives. Hence, in the present excited state of the country, there can be neither good sense or patriotism in flaunting his creed in the face of the popular majority against it. The Illinois Democracy are for the Union, for the Constitution as it is, and for the enforcement of the laws under it. But they believe, with Jackson, that the Union can not be maintained by "the mere coercive powers confided to the General Government," but that "the foundation must be laid in the affections of the jeople." Let Mr. Lincoln go to work, as a patriot and not as a partisan, to restore that lost affection, that fraternal feeling, which ouce made us one people, and he will find the Illinois Democracy strong in maintenance of his good work. Let him keep his eye on and heed the farewell message of Jackson, and "Jackson men" will not be loth to render their earnest backing. For the Daily St.ste Sentinel. W tvli Migton Correspondence. Washington, Tuesday, January 1, 1S61. "Not a drum was heard, or a funeral note." I have not the heart to wish any one a happy New Year, because in the present state of affairs, it would seem to be a desecration of an old custom hallowed by family ties and associations. This is the first New Years day that ever I witnessed during the whole course of my life that was not ushered in by some signs of rejoicing. But even the boys are silent here. Not a cracker even was exploded, and save the rumbling of a few carts over the stony pavements, gloomy quiet reigned in the streets. Desolation broods over the city, as if the Angel of Death had breathed upon it, or tbe plague struck terror into the hearts of its inhabitants. All that is nceled to parallel W i-hington with Jcruselcm in the days of her last tribulation is the presence of the Prophet crying, "Wo! Wo! to Washington aLd the inhabitants thereof." Why do the conservatite masses of the North remain silent ? Where arc the stalwart guards of the Democracy ? There is no time to be iost. The clanging notes of civil war are resounding from every side. The Black Republicans in the E i-t are arming for coercion, and their motley hosts will be down here on the 4th of March. Under the rallying cries of "disunion is treason," "the laws must be enforced," "the Union must and shall be preserved," they are marshaling their IV. I Iv . C. ..äl , mj Ji mm m 4lio fair land in blood. Deluded victims, can they not see that coercion is itself disunion, and defeats the very object they pretend to have most at heart, the union of the States? What is a Union based on force worth? Nothing, worse than nothing. I say to the Democracy of Indiana the danger is imminent the peril is great. Let the masses rouse up to the importance of this question. Disunion is bad enough; civil war is total and irretrievable ruin to every portion of our country. Ii ! useless to talk now of preventing the secession of the Sooth: that is a foregone conclusion. The Black Republican representatives here will yield nothing for peace and union. The great effort of every patriot ought now to be directed to the prevention of bloodshed. Peaceable se cession will insure the reconstruction of the Government in a few years. Civil war will be productive of nothing but disunion and utter ruin. Let the people be warned in time, and gathering in their majesty and power, let them demand peace of the Government. I repeat, there i: no time to lose. Whatever is to be done must be done quickly. B. rtleawurcs of Parifiration. Mr. Crittenden's proposition to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific, though rejected in the Congressional committee of the Senate, finds a great deal of favor with the public. The people of the country are sick of the negro slavery discussion in Congress and ii the partisan newspapers. They would gladly get rid of the whole subject at almost any compromise which would forever take it out of Congress and leave it to the natural laws, which eventually must decide the question of slavery or no slavery in new Territories. Nothing less than the total withdrawal of this subject from Congress will ever restore peace to the country, no nutter what present conpromise may be made. It must be placed beyond any one's power to revive the subject in our National Councils, or Ml it tor partisan purposes in Presidential campaigns. The peace and prosperity of more than thirty millions of people are now in jeopardy on account of an abstraction which, when it COM! to be a practical reality, will be decided by the people themselves according to the existing wants of the times and the requirements of the country. At present, these Territories are barren wastes, and it will le many years before they will become occupied. If civil war takes place among us, the day will be still more remote. With peace and continued prosperity, they will be settled according to the natural laws which regulate the emigration and the industry of the country, and, settled in this way, they will be disposed of to the best advantage of the country. Mr. Crittenden's proposition to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific, or the other proposition, to divide all the Territories into two great States, one North and one South, would take the subject out of Congress, especially if the coming into the Union of any new State was mull dependent upon the proclamation of the Incident merely, on proof of po-- --ing the required ?pulation, and not ujwn any action of OoagMM. he people are looking anxiously for some peaceful remedy for the present dangers which threiten the country. They are firmly attached to the Union, as the best safeguard of their political rights, but are not disposed to allow their patriotic feelings to Ih used for the purpose of jierjietuating injustice to any of the Stat- of the Union. Fair and honorable compromise is what is demanded by them nothing more nothing less. Those who obstruct this should consider the responsibility they incur. The interests of more than thirty millions of people are not to be trifled with for any mere partisan or sectional purpose. Some pacific measure like Mr. Crittenden's would render powerless any attempt at seres-ion for the sole MTfttM of breaking up the Union, which is the avowed purpose of at least one of the States. If such a measure can not receive the required majority in Congressional Committee, why should not a majority of both Houses of Congress pass it at once into a law for the present ami send it to the people of the various States, to be ratified or rejected by them as a constitutional amendment, on some specified day fixed by Congress? This would unite all the friends of the Union over the whole country, into one great co operating jiart v, antl having so noble an object in view to animate their work, as the perpetuation of the Union rind the permanence of our present lxditic il in.-titii tions, we believe it would be irrc-i-tible. The extreme Republicans would have to yield or else lose their hold upon jxjwer. There is no other principle upon which they could Im' half so sueccsfully combatted as this. The ieople are now aware of the mischiefs of the slavonr agitation, and would settle it by their votes, if it is ever to le settled by public opinion and fair compromise. The South would Ik? protected in its e piahty while the measure existed us a Im of Congie . and if it should fail with the people, it would give the Southern States so much more time t i con cert proper measures of resist nice, iicdetd of sending them in a burned and unpre;i ire f st tte out of the I'nion, and for IV MM wlrch will not justify them before the word I'ltiladelphia 7T. i Nevlml )

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The new Armstrong guns cost the English Government $lt),nOU each. Vanity Fair says that the three ages of a Senator are mile age, post-age and patron age. Gov. Brown, of Georgia, is reported as a man of strong religious feeling. Gov. Gist, of South Carolina, is one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal Church in his State, and immensely wealthy. Cpwards of $20,000 will be realized in Keokuk county, Iowa, from the quail trade alone. They cost sixty five cents per dozen. The number of slaves in Maryland is found to have lieen diminished more than 15,000 since lr9. The whole number now is about 75,000. Thurlow Weed, on his r;tuni from Springfield. Illinois, says such pretty things of the President e!e -t that' it is thought "old Abe" rather snubbe I him. A Paris correspondent writes of a billiard table invented there, which may be used as a dinner ti.blc, a chest of drawers. a bed, a bathing tub and a stove. Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, has written a letter that he is in favor of the repeal of the ! : -onal libe-tv law of that State, though unconstitutional in spirit only, and he expresses the opinion that it will be done by the Legislature at its next session. Florida Next. A letter recently received by us from a prominent and influential citizen of Florida savs: "Florida will breakfast in the Union on the morning of January 3d, Mttf and will dine out of it the same dav." New Orleans Delta. A newly elected deacon of a church not a thousand miles from Boston, at a recent evening meeting over which he presided, remarked that he was always pleased with Paul's epistles and would on this occasion read from his epistle to the Acts. The Democratic Standard savs, with truth, to the Republicans "You have now to choose j between your party policv and vour country. If j our country is destroyed, you and your party policy are destroyed with it." The Cities of the Union According to the recent census the ten principal cities of the Union rank in population as follows: New York, 1st; Philadelphia, 2d; Brooklyn, 3d; Baltimore, 4th; Boston, 5th; New Orleans, 6th; St. Louis, 7th; Cincinnati, 6th; Chicago, 9th; Buffalo, 10th. The New York Tribune rejoices over the fact that Charleston surrendered to the British in the Revolution. Well, were New York and Philadelphia any better off? If the people of the small city of Charleston were cowards, because they yielded to a superior force of the enemy, what were the people of the large cities of New York and Philadelphia, which did the same thing? "Harmony," the New York correspondent of the Mobile Register, has the following curious item relative to the Federal officials in that city: "The Federal officers here meet several nights in every month. They are consulting eminent lawyers and are advising with each other in reference to a dissolution of the Union. Mr. Schell, the Collector, has corresponded with Attorney General Black. The latter has written to the Collector that, if South Carolina secedes, it is a virtual dissolution of the Union, and that the Collector of the port of New York and his Federal assistants are relieved from all further account i bilitv, and have a right to collect and retain the - - . 1. a revenues accruing here, and keep them until the Legislature of New York or the city authorities attach the same." If a single State goes out of the Union, Mr. Schell regards it as broken up, and says "Lincoln is not President, and neither he nor any of the Federal officers will resign or surrentier their power and the public money to any except to the citv treasury. Mr. John J. Cisco, the Sub-Treasurer, takes the same view. He has several millions at his disposal. A large portion is in bars of gold, valued at $1 ,000 e ich. These are being painted irhitc so as not to attract attention in case of be ing removed from the Sub -Treasury vaults in case of a riot or of Lincoln claiming to be the President. Mr. Bnchanan approves of all the proceedings. His nephew and late Private Secretary, Henry, attends all the Federal caucuses at the residences of the Collector, Sub Treasurer and other officials who are in the conspiracy, to prevent a surrender of the Custom-house and of the public treasure to the Black Republicans next March. Of course all the people are anxious for the Southern States to go out, in order to give them an excuse for seizing upon the public treasure at this point. The Reason Why: "And so ye have accepted Pat," Said Brklfjet to her sister: "Ye saved before ve wud do that To hoped your tongue wud Ml.-ier." Then Kose replied hut first she sighed, As pensively t.he sat "How cud I sav to Patrick nav T My heart said, Titty-Pat: " Xeicark (X. J.) Adrestiser. A scene occurred in the Senate after the delivery of Waoe's speech, which we have not seen reported. After Wade had taken his seat, Sena tor Benjamin, of Louisiana, approached him and congratulated him upon the ante and eloquent speech he had just made; "but," said Benjamin, "you would not coerce Louisiana, would you 1" Wade raised his arm and brought it down heavily upon his desk, with the remark, "Yes, by G d, we purchased your State a desert, and, if you secede, by G d, we will make it a desert again." Springfield Republican. It is stated that Mr. Marcy's diary contains a prophetic prediction of Mr. Buchanan's failure to administer the Government successfully, from his want of directness, fidelity and courage. Among Mr. Polk's papers there is even a stronger te-t'iiiony against him, derived from association in his Cabinet. Gen. Jackson's last injunction to Mr. Polk, when starting for Washington, was not to take Mr. Buchanan into his Cabinet; but he was surrounded by politicians and overruled after reaching there, much to his regret afterward. The Soith Carolina Commissioners. The Hon. R. Barnewell, the Hon. .1. H. Adams, and the Hon. .James L. Orr. Commissioners from South Carolina, appointed to negotiate with the Fe letal Government in relation to matters arising out of the ordinance of secession, recently adopted bv a convention of that State, have arrived in this city and gave taken a house in Franklin Row. These distinguished gentlemen are well known to every American as men of the highest character and ability, who have filled offices of the M honorable trust, both in their native State and in the councils of the Republic. Constitution, De amber :ir-th. Another Itemed) . The New York Ilcralti suggests the following remedies as certain cures for the pre -out condition of affairs: It is the combined action of coercion and con ciliation. Congress should, without an hour's hesitation, jiass an act empowering the President to order ten thousand of the militia frorr. co li of HM ix border State slave and free from Mai land, Yirginia and Kentucky; from Ohio, l'enn svlvania anil New York to proceed to Washing tön put these sixty thousand men under comMiaiid of General Scott, to protect the departments anil see that Mr. Lincoln be peacefully inaugurated on the 4th of March. The fourteenth article of the eighth section of the Constitution gives Con-grc-s tint power, in defining its authority, in these words: "To provide for calling out the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrection, and repel invasion." Antl in the same act which give- this power of coercion, Congress should enact this conciliatory measure by promising an amendment to the Constitution, placing the social institution of African shiverv on precisely the same footing with the religious opinions of the whole people or Con icss should at least evince a disposition friendly to such a measure. This was the spirit which animated the convention when the Constitution was adopted. AJ1 the States recognized slavery then, and the owners of slaves could take them into any and eerv State with perfect safety. No restriction of this kind of servitude was provided for or thought of in the Constitution. It is only within the last thirty years that slavery has Income a great moral and religious question, and the ngitation of it a religious projmgandism. Asuch, it must be settled in the same way as the great religious wars of Kune w ere finally adjusted after a calamitous experiment of three centuries; that is. bv mutual compromise and conciliation. And it is the present Cotigre-- which must do this. Bv embracing the double policy of coercion ami conciliation, emlxxlied in the same incisure, as we h ive suggested, they w ill satisfy the North that the new President will be permitted to assume the rein of government in peice, antl thev will satisfy the South that the institut'on of slaverv will be put upon a just anil stvure footing, never here i ft cr to be disturbed. Nor w ill such a course change the MtMoa of slavery at all. It will remain and probably extend its limits in the South ; but Hod and nature have set an unalter able barrier to it- extension in the North. There can be no doubt that if the pre-ent do nothin policv is to continue in Washington, the S mtheni States will lie drawn, and rapidly tot, into the vortex with S uitli Cirolina, and tint an attempt will be made to prevent the iiiaucur.itioii of L:ncoln and pull down the whole fibre of roveni ment. But with liO.lKHI arme I militia in Wash intitoii. under the orders of (iener.il Scott, no such attemttt will b: m nie ; und w ith such a concilia torv meisurc propose I by Congrc, the S uth im Lave Iii cause for nut her exasj erat ion. and no pretext fur hostility. This is thciemcly fur the pre cut ti astrous condition of nflairs. and if it is not ailo- te I nothing c m :t ei t IW M ' v. hich i- le ng pie 'pit ite 1 MM u .

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SPK'KS of mm kind, ground and unground. strictly pure. fMrjIM0 10 ,CH Alts and Snuff. affJa Lest quality IT I.TR A -MARINE. Prussian blue. Chromes and Color J of all kind-. VARNISHES Copal. Coach. Damar. Japan and Black liest quality. llTIMi til.VSS, nil -ie.. I UauefMn ami V? fr.n.1, RAZIN'S PERFVMERY, a large a-ortmeiit ZINC PAINT. French, dry and ground In oil and Var-ni-h. M.I. ARTICLES nualt found In a Hrug Houe. ajk I , ,r ,ae .,i n tigiir.-- AIJ article- warranted aa represented, and to winch c invite II before purrh.iing el-cwhere. ROBERT BROWING, ma' C 'fin dAweowlv Ti tet Washington street. STENCIL TOOLS. t"..- WILL BtTTTHR BCKI H AMU-MAM s( -'9 'IL T- 1. 1.000 per ni baa bet Wftli Mb MilL r-. Pork Packer- and Di-iiller' Stria- I cut for five cetit per letter and co-l milenal. Old Coin lloiichl nnd BSMa Seisl for inr Cin"ilr. dlre K L NI'IIE At; A CO.. dr. 7 nA" in Bos nw.Cmcitmatf. Ol. .

MEDICAL.

Moffat's Life Pills PHaVMX BETTER, m rilHESE MFIW1NKS 1UVK NOW BEENREFORt tbe public for a period of thirty years, and dnfMr thai time have maintained a high character in i evenr part of the globe for their extraordinary mediate power of r.toring Der feet health to per feting nearly ever- kind of disease to which tbc I irame i naMe. The following are among the dirtresaing variety of human diseases In which the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDICINES ARE W EU. KNOW! TO BE INFALLIBLE. DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing tbe flrtt and second stomachs, and creating a flow of pure, bealthr biU instead of the stale and acrid kind: Flatulency, Lom of Ap petite, neanoum. llrjoatne. llestiev-i,. l'.l-t. Anxiety. Langor and Melancholy, which are the i symptoms of Dyspepsia, will vanish as a natural c qnenoe of its cure. COST1VEXESS, by cleansing tbe w hole length mt the intestines with a solvent process, and without vi alette , all viokut purges leave the bowel costive within two days. FE VERS of aft kinds, by restoring the blood to a regular circulation tnrougn tne process of p case and the thorough solution of all tion in others. The Ijfe Medicines have been known to cure tism permanently in three weeks, and Goot in time, by removing local inuammatiou from the and ligaments of the joints. DROPSIES of all kinds bv freeing! kidneys and bladder: they operate the these important organs, and hence have ever been found a certain remedv for tbe worst cases if Gravel. Also, WORMS, by dislodging from the turning of the bowels tbe limv matter to which these creatures adhere. 8LTBVT. CLCERS and INVETERATE SORES, bv tbe perfect purity which these Life Medicines give the blood and all the humoea. SCORBITK' ERCPTIONS and bad complexion, by their alternate effect upon the fluids that feed the skin, and tm mortua state ot wnicn occasion" all eruptive comp saiiow , riouay. nl other dwarreeab The use of these Pill for a very short an entire cure of Salt Rheum, and a striking im in tbe clearness of the skin. Common Colds enza will alway he cured by one dose, or by two in tbc wort cases. PILES. The originator of thee uiedk Ine was cures! of Piles of ttiirty.fi ve years' standing, by tbe use of tbe Life Medicines alone. I'KVEk AND AGl'E. For this coiirge of the Westen country, these medicines will be fniinii a certain and aafc remedy. Other medicines bjact to a return of the disease a cure by these medicines r permanent. Try thca, be satisfied and be cured. BILLIOCS FEVERS AXD LIVER COMPLAINTS, General Debility. Loa of Appetite, and disease of Fe-r-.ales. The medicines have been used with the most beneficial results in ca?s of this description: King Evil and Scrofula in its worst forms, yield to tbe mild yet poweifal a i -n of these remarkable remedies; Night Sweats, Nervo Debility, Nervous Complaints of all kinds. Palpitation of the Heart, Painter's Colic are speedily cared. MEBCCRIAL DISEASES. Persons whose constitution bare become impaired by the mjodiciows use of Mercury, infinitely sooner than the most powerful preparation! of Sarsaparilla. Prepared and sold by W. B. MOFFAT, 335 Broadway, New Tor. For sale by all Dragglsta. aqglH M darwly CHALYBEATE RESTORATIVE PILLS OF IKOV AN APERIENT AND STOM ACHIC PREPARATION OF Iron, punned of Oxygen aod Carbon by combustion of Hydrogen sanctioned by tbe highest mtdk inal au tocrines, no in in t.urope and the l mica scriiH-d in tneir practice. The experience of thousands daily pro-res that no pre aration of Iron can be compared with It. ImpurtUesW t blood, depression of vttal energt , pale sickly complexions indicate Ks MOMMy hl conceivable case. Innoxious in 11 malad. .n which it has been tried, it ha proved absolutely curative in each of the following complaints, rli: Jh Debility, Xerrnt 4f returns. Emaciation, Dyspepsia, ihnMipation. fHarrhea, Pvm-nery. Bicipient Conum,ion. .S-royViow. Tubercidnti, Sa MAsmm, JfVammstrnaticm, Wsites Chlorotis, Lirer Complaints, Chronic Headacb,; fiheumatism. Intermittent Aim, PimjiU on the Face, de. In cases of General Debility, whether the result of acute diseases or of the continued diminution of nervous and muscular energy from chrome complaints, one trial of this restorative has proved saeceasful to aa extent which no description or written attestation would reader infill Invalids so long bed -ridden as to hare very nearlr be come rtitireh forgotten in their own neighborhoods, have suddenly re-appeared in the busy world, as ifjust i irom protracted travel in a di-tant land. nal instances of this kind are attested of I emanated victims ot apparent niarama. sanguineous exhaustion, critical changes, ami their complication of nervous and dyspeptic aversion to air and MM far which the physician has no name. In Nervous Affection of all kinds, and for reasons familiar to medical men. the operation of this pre' .aration of iron must necessarily be aatrtary, for, aaok tbe old oxides, it s vigorously tonic, without being e .citing or over-beating; and gently, regulativ aperient, eren in the most otistinate cases of ostivenc. without ever being a gastric purgative, or inflicting a disagreeable aeaoaUon. It is this latter property, among others, which makes It so remarkably effectual and permanent a remedy for Piles, upon which it also appears to exert s distinct and specific action, by dispersing the local tenrncy which forms tbem. In Dyspepsia, innumerable as are Ks cause , a ataaie box ot these thalvhcate Pills has often for - he most habitual cases, including the attendant In unchecked Diarrhea, even when adveaona to 1 tary, confirmed, emaciating, and apparently Wo mmm nave been equally decisive and i In the local pains, loss of fleh and strength, i coufth, and remittent hectic, which renerallv ii eipient consumption, this remedy has allayed the alarm of friends and physicians in several very f-rattfrnif and Interesting instance. In Scrofulous Tuberculosis, this medicated iron ha had far more than tbe good effect of the moat cautiously balanced preparation of Iodine, without any of their wallknown liabilities. The attention of female can not be too confidently invited to thi remedy and restorative, in the casei peculiarly affecting tbem. In Rheumatism, both chronic and inflammatory hi the latter, however, more decidedly it ha been itivanaUy welt reported, both as alleviating pain and reducing the swellings and stiffness of the Joints and murin. In Intermittent Fever it must nece warily be a great remedy and energetic restoratl e, and its p-ogres in the new settlements of the West, will probably be saw of high renown and usefulness. No remedy ha ever been disrovered in the wh-le history of medicine, which esetts such prompt, happy and fuliy restorative effects. Goad appetite, complete digestion, rapid acquisition of strength, with an unusual disposition for active and cheerful exercise, immediately follows its use. Put up in neat flat metal boxes containing fifty pills, price M cents per box; for sale by drajorksts and de sie r. Will be tent free to any address on receipt of the prsM. All letters, orders, 4c, should be addressed to It. 33. LOCKE Sc 00, .rs'rs:i Amenta, arp7 '60 dawly W CK DAR STREET, 5ew Tora.. AFFLICTED READ. IS COSSEQCEXCE OF THE GREAT IMPOSITIOWS that i constantly teine practiced upon the unsupertmjt. by irnorant empiric and venders of so-called curative instrument aad nostrums. I have determined to dovote a portion of my time to the treatment of seminal - weakness and all those deplorable cases caused by a secret and solitarv practice which ruins toth fit tine the unfortunate individual for either society. All letters jri vine an accurate description of the and inrlosinc a no's.r -rump, will receive ; tion. Medicines fiinnbed. when desired, at prices, and forwarded secure f rttn observations, and car fruaranteed. Address, L. HALL, M. D., North side of Jefferson, four doors above Third -t . aprlS wly Lxmfcrrllle. Kentocky. Ce C G-AJRT5rS COUGH CJUirCE; OR. PK TOKAL TROCHES FOR THE IMMIHIMI KF.UEF A XI) CERT ACT cure of Couch-, Colli, hiftin nia. Aibma. Hosrsene,n hoopine Cmigb, Catarrh. Brocuitir, Difficult BreathIna, höre Throat. c. Relief warranted in ten minute, eor Minister, PuWlc Speakers and Sinarers. thee Tat.lets are indispensable for eteanataK and erenatbenina; the voice, removing barv-neaa, Ac. The rate wük which they are taken beta easily carried in the pocket, reo airing no preparation, atway ready for use aa all nr r , not liable to change in anv climate, containing nothing injurious to the moat delicate constitution should be a sufficient recommendation to all to give them a trial 25 cent per box. For sale by all druggists. deelS '60 ! LICHTNINC RODS. HALL'S PATENT COPPER LIGHTNING ROD. OFFICE AND MANCFACTOMT: " r i Ii - s i (rnrr mt 1 . ririmn and 'in rj. I ii mi fctreetw. IN ELLIOTT'S Bl lLDING. lADIANAPOUS, INDIANA A C.ESTS WANTEIi IN EVERT COCN'I'T I3T THE J Mate, to whom the moat liberal terms are offered This is tbe very beat rod in use, and ran not be improved a conductor. Call at the office and get circular. EIJHC nox, novWao-dawlv Sole Manufacturer for ladtaata. WRITINC INKS. J. J. HI TLER' KICBLSiM FLl ID INKs KR' A NTUyE FOR GENERAL I'l üniKL RECORD jJM. f"r I'slger- and Rc ni- COPYING for Letter Pre.. C RMINE of brilliant hue 1st. Intense Mack color, (at first of a i 2d Ea-v flo from the ism. 3d. Pennanenry. (will never fade by esneauwr.) 4th. Economy. l.lrto Tloss TKrte .'. (., ttimaettn-ilp i r. j',, t i( .... ,. i r - in a or ffntir f.. thi t for we. antl are ßt nnlf tn be air, ii lieore hall ctuumme. The (arminr sttit litaesed tat tin Artian of Ihr iru t haul Ist Ja ry . ruT" eosnaais. Tits, aanv ut iutks Ii The e Writing Hurts ,r- now tn general use I. I .-.! s ,;. a , ,, ,ereed deaia:.l 2d. They hat e lieen analysed by Dr. Chilton, the reiehratcd Chemi-r 'A New York City, in 1 1 I mount i ll "euaal in qnahrt and darabilitv to tbe hrt imported Englfh I Iiii!- Kor .Je lay J. i. HTTLh, Agent, No. St Vine street. Cincinnati Ohio HOW EN, ""TAW ART A VIK l'i li.uiaplis. Indiana, -nd LIVE A WTLMIM. no 1 1 - uW-dl t -i. Lafayette. Agent .

half that