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NEWS X>Er>-A.R,T3VrE3SrT. 
ROCHESTER, X. Y„ FEBRUARY 23, 1861. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
A On i re nl "Washington. 
Tub Government lias official information from 
Congressional Proceedings. 
Senate. — Mr. Foote offered a resolution that a 
committee of three Senators be appointed to make 
arrangements for the inauguration of the President 
elect. Adopted. 
The Naval Appropriation bill was then taken up. 
Mr. Hale offered an amendment, to build 7 steam 
sloops of war. Carried. Year*, 30; nays, 18. Seve¬ 
ral appropriations for the Pensacola Yard were struck 
out 
Mr. Holt offered an amendment repealing the act 
preventing the purchase of patented articles. 
Mr. Pierce proposed to amend—“except arms.” 
Agreed to, and amendment carried. 
Vice President Breckinridge being sick on the 
10th, the Secretary called the Senate to order. On 
motion of Mr. Powell, Mr. Foot® took the chair. 
Mr. Hale said that he had been asked by the unani¬ 
mous request of the naval committee, that the vote 
excusing Mr. Thompson from serving on the naval 
committee he re-considered. The vote was re-con¬ 
sidered, and Mr. Thompson was not excused. 
The resolution for printing 25,000 additional copies 
of the agricultural report from the patent office was 
Gov. Morgan, in communicating the letter, stated 
that Mr. Lincoln would be in Albany next Monday, 
and he had delegated a portion of his Staff to meet 
him at Buffalo and escort him to the Capital. 
Mr. Ball moved the appointment of a Joint-Com¬ 
mittee of five from the House, and three from the 
Senate, to make preparations for the reception of the 
Presidentelect. Carried. 
Messrs. Ball, Ferry, Pendergast, Bergen, and Pro¬ 
vost, were appointed on the part of the House. 
The bili appropriating $50,000 to the relief of the 
suffering in Kansas was passed — ayes 88. nays 22. 
Concurrent resolutions appointing Francis Gran¬ 
ger, Commissioner to Washington, in place of Thur- 
low Weed, declined, were called up and adopted. 
The Senate hill to enable the United States Gov¬ 
ernment to raise money on tlieir bonds, was reported 
favorably. On motion of Mr. Robinson, the hill was 
read a third time and passed — hi) pj 3. Adjourned. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The Secession Movement. 
the Collector at New Orleans, notifying that duties passed. 
on goods passing up the river will he collected at Hie bill providing no extra numbers of any docu- 
New Orleans in behalf of the Treasury of Louisiana, ment to he printed without a joint resolution of both 
The President received a telegram from Mobile, Houses was passed, 
announcing the rnaltrcutmcut of the British Consul The bill to carry out the treaty with New Grenada 
there. Lord Lyons has called at the State Depart- waa passed. 
ment for facts. The Tariff bill was taken up, the question being on 
The report of the Select Committee, of which Mr. 
Morris, of 111., was chairman, gives detailed facts 
relative to the abstraction of the Indian trust bonds. 
Thirty or forty witnesses were examined, including 
Ex-Secretarica Floyd and Thompson. The latter is 
exonerated from any complicity in the theft; but he 
as well as former Secretaries of the Interior, arc cen¬ 
sured for the insufficient manner in which the bonds 
have been held in that Department, there being no 
adequate responsibility attached to the custodian. 
According to Russell’s own evidence, he did not know 
at first, where the bonds of which he obtained posses¬ 
sion, came from. Bailey was an agent for the nego¬ 
tiation or sale of the bonds, and Lea was an interme¬ 
diate party between ltussell and Bailey. It was also 
ascertained that Mr. Floyd gave acceptances to the 
amount of nearly $7,000,000, or from $2,000,000 to 
$3,000,000 more than Russell, Majors & Co, ever 
loaned, while these contractors received all the 
money that was due them. 
The President has issued a proclamation declaring 
that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate to 
Mr. Seward’s amendment extending the time when 
duties shall he paid to three years. The effect is to 
leave the system as it is now, and was, after some dis¬ 
cussion, agreed to—yeas, 25; nays, 18. Mr. Seward 
moved to strike out all in the hi 1) relating to the 
warehousing system. Agreed to. Adjourned. 
House. — Mr. McClemaad introduced a resolution 
which was adopted, reciting that by the seizure of 
the Mint, Money6, Custom House, &c., by the revolu¬ 
tionary authorities of Louisiana, the United States are 
put at defiance; and calling on the President, if not 
incompatible with the public interest, for all the facts 
in the case, and what steps, if any, have been taken 
or contemplated, to recover property. 
Mr. Sickles offered a resolution recommending the 
celebration of the 22d as a National Holiday. 
Adopted. 
On the 13th Inst., the House opened with prayer 
by Chaplain Stockton, in which he said; 
“ Bless the outgoing Administration; may it close 
its labors in peace, without further violence and 
without any stain of blood, and we pray for the 
Louisiana. —The State Convention adjourned on 
the Pith, until the 4th of March, to await the action 
of the Southern Congress. 
Tennessee. —As far as heard from, all the Union 
candidates are elected by overwhelming majorities. 
The Convention is defeated by a very large vote. 
Alabama. —Standing Committees were announced 
on the 12th, in the Congress of the Southern Con¬ 
federacy. 
A dispatch was received from the Louisiana Con¬ 
vention, opposing the election of Davis and Stephens. 
A resolution was referred continuing Custom House 
officers in office. 
A resolution that, as soon as the President is in¬ 
augurated, Commissioners be sent to the Government 
of the United States, was referred. 
During the secret Regsion, resolutions were passed 
taking charge of all questions or difficulties now ex¬ 
isting between Sovereign States and the Southern 
Confederacy and the United States, relating to the 
occupation of forts, arsenals, navy yards, and other 
public establishments, and the President waa directed 
to communicate this resolution to the Governors of 
States. 
Congress appointed a committee of six to make 
arrangements for the inauguration, which was to 
come off on the 18th inst. 
An official copy of the Texan ordinance was pre- 
Great Britain. —Lord John Russell, in a letter, 
tendered to the Cotton manufacturers, through the I 
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the services of 
British Consuls in cotton producing districts, to 
assist in determining the possibility of obtaining 
from other sources such supplies as may compensate 
for the possible falling off under the present crisis. 
It is rumored that England, France and Russia are 
on the point of coming to an understanding fora 
peaceable solution of the Danish question. 
The American crisis is the leading topic in the 
journals, and among the business community. Mr. 
Seward’s speech is published at length, and its merits 
freely discussed. The London Times applauds his 
argument that South Carolina is guilty of rebellion, 
and says they are the principles which should have 
emanated from the President. 
Queen Victoria opens Parliament in person on the I 
5th, and Napoleon the French le gislature on the 4th. 
France. —France has intimated to other govern¬ 
ments the necessity of a Conference of their respec¬ 
tive. representatives, on or before the !5tli of February, 
to consider the Syrian question, as the French occu¬ 
pation ceasefe in March. There is a vague report in 
circulation that orders for two hundred gun-boats 
have been given to private builders. 
It is asserted that the Pope insists on the execution 
of the Paris Convention on the subject of the occupa¬ 
tion of Syria. 
It is reported that France has demanded explana¬ 
tions of recent warlike speeches of the King of Prussia. 
This is denied at Berlin. 
Business in France is very dull. 
The Army and Navy Gazette says the Emperor has 
resolved to construct, with all dispatch, ten iron 
cased frigates of the La Glorie class. This is no mere 
idle rumor, hut a stubborn fact. 
The Patrie says it is not true, as some journals 
have said, that the French Government has encour¬ 
aged Denmark to resist the demands of Germany. 
Neither is it true that France is organizing a squadron 
to he sent to the Baltic. 
Austria. —Austria is raising a loan of 30,000,000 
florins, in anticipation of taxes becoming due. 
It is again asserted that a treaty exists between 
Prussia, Austria and Russia, guaranteeing Venetia 
to Austria. 
It is said that, the Emperor of Austria has decided 
£I)C Xcwe Conimiscr. 
— The debt of Virginia now exceeds $32,000,000. 
— The French distillers are making hrandy out of coal. 
— Judge Whitney of Bingbanrpton, Y. Y.. died on the 14th. 
— Hydraulic, engines are being used to blow church organs 
with. 
— No less than $1,560,000 are invested in bee culture in 
Ohio. 
— Several printers have recently been driven- from South 
Carolina. 
— John McManus died of starvation in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
last Sunday. 
Rented, with the credentials of the delegates, one of 1,0 grant a constitution to Venetia, which will leave 
whom has arrived. Objection was made to its recep- the government to the Italians, 
tion, on the ground of its not being ratified. Mr. 11 is asserted that Metternich notified Thouvenel 
convene for the transaction of business on the 4th of incoming Administration — that Thy blessing may ( *rigg, of Texas, was invited to take a seat. 
March at noon that, day, viz: to receive and act upon 
such communications as may he made to it by the 
Executive. The proclamation is in accordance with 
usage, and to enable the incoming President to 
nominate for confirmation the members of his 
Cabinet 
The Secretary of the Treasury says in a letter to Mr. 
Sherman, the liabilities due, and to fall due before 
rest on the Presidentelect in his journey hitherward; 
that Thy good Providence may he around him day 
and night, guarding him at cWrystep; and we pray 
that he may he peacefully and happily inaugurated, 
and afterward by pnre, wise and good counsels, that 
lie may administer the government, in such a manner 
as that Tliy name may he glorified and the welfare of 
the peoplo, in all their relations, he advanced, ami 
the 4th March next, are nearly SI 0,000, Of Ml. The ac- that an example of civil and religious liberty he fol- 
cruing revenue will, it is estimated, net about $2,- lowed in all the world.” 
000,000, leaving $8,000,000 to he borrowed. There is 
in the Treasury, subject lu draft and letter, more than 
$5,000,000, while drafts to about $2,000,000 are un¬ 
answered. The short time to elapse before the close 
of the present session renders It. indispensable for the 
Secretary tn advertise for n loan. Am appropriation 
of $200,000 is asked for to replace the ordnance, 
ammunition, &c. f which has been seized at various 
Southern port*. 
The session of the Rub-Committee of the Peace 
Conference lasted till midnight on the 14th, and was 
at times stormy, Guthrie’s proposition was substan¬ 
tially that of the Kentucky Legislature, and was 
finally carried with the proviso, that no territory 
shall he hereafter acquired without the approval of 
three-fourths of the Senate. 
Investigations of fraud upon the Congressional 
library, reveal most extraordinary peculations on the 
part of the seceding members. They have gono off 
loaded down with valuable hooks, the property of the 
United States, in utter disregard of the commonest 
rules of decency. 
Letters received on the loth from the South give 
assurances of a vacation in the secession excitement, 
and state that hopes of an amicable ad justment of the 
difficulties are strengthened. The exertions of the 
officers of the Provisional Government are expected 
to be given in favor of a settlement. The announce¬ 
ment is made from sources entitled to such confidence 
that apprehensions of trouble at Washington are 
removed. 
Some Postmasters recently appointed in the seced¬ 
ing States, decline to take the oath to support the 
Constitution of the United States. Of course the 
offices will have to he discontinued, if persons cannot 
he found to take and hold them according to law. 
Advices from Colville Depot, Dee. 23, represent 
the English and American Northwestern boundary 
commissioners as progressing satisfactorily. The 
first stone of the final monument of the boundary was 
laid October 25th. The chief commissioner lias 
started for home. 
Special Agent Jones, dispatched l»y Secretary Dix 
tc New Orleans, has satisfied himself that the revenue 
cutter McClelland was surrendered to the authorities 
of Louisiana through complicity between Collector 
Hatch and Capt. Brushwood, before the ordinance of 
The Senate was notified of the readiness of the 
House to have the Electoral votes counted. The 
Seuate entered with tellers and other officials, and 
took stations: and after a short address from Mr. 
Breckinridge, he opened the different Certificates, 
which were read by the Secretary of the Senate. 
The reading of all the Electoral votes having been 
completed, the tellers reported the result, whereupon 
the Vice President, rising, Raid: 
“Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, having received a 
majority of the whole number of Electoral votes, is 
duly elected President of the United States for four 
years, commencing on March 4th, 1801; and Hanni¬ 
bal Hamlin, of Maine, having received a majority of 
tho whole number of Electoral votes, is duly elected 
Vice President of the United States, for the same 
time.” 
A committee was appointed in conjunction with 
the Senate, to wait on and notify the President eleet 
of his election. 
A debate took place on the amendment to the 
postal hill, increasing the pay of route agents $1,000 
per annum. Passed. 
The amendment to the deficiency hill in contro¬ 
versy between the two Houses having been settled 
through the Committee of Conference, the Senate 
receded from the appropriation of $300,000 for carry¬ 
ing into effect the contract of the Navy Department 
with A. W. Thompson, for certain harbor and coal 
privileges on the Chiriqul Isthmus. 
The House adopted the report of the Committee of 
Conference on the disagreeing amendments ol" the 
Legislative and Executive and Judicial appropriation 
bill. By this tho Secretary of the Treasury is author¬ 
ized to discontinue refining at the Mint whenever 
considered expedient, hut loaves the place for coin¬ 
ing as it is now. These passed the Seriate. Adjourned. 
An act was passed in secret session continuing 
Custom House officers in office until the first of 
April, and requiring them to take an oath of fealty 
to the Provisional Government. 
The Secretary of tho Treasury was instructed to 
report a plan for reducing the expenses of collecting 
tho reveuue 2u per cent 
Tax as.—T he Texas Convention passed an ordi¬ 
nance favoring the speedy foundation of a Southern 
Confederacy. It elected seven delegates to the South¬ 
ern Congress. 
Virginia.— The returns from twenty counties in 
Virginia, show a much larger vote in favor of the 
Union, than the entire vote for secession in all the 
State. 
A joint rerfjlution will he offered in the Virginia 
Oonveuti'-C.a^^-ip.tvrtiMaw**-*. Hunter uud Mason to 
resign their teats in the United States Senate, on the 
ground that their secession sentiments do not repre¬ 
sent the voice of Virginia, 
The State Convention met at Richmond on the 13th 
inst. John Jenney, of Loudon, was elected President, 
and made a Union speech, hut said Virginia would 
insist on her rights as the condition of remaining in 
the Confederacy. 
It is asserted that Metternich notified Thouvenel 
that Austria will consider an attack by Garibaldi, on 
any part of the Austrian territory, as casus belli. 
Austria is making full preparations to suppress the 
recent Hungarian outbreak. 
Italy. —The seige of Gaeta continued suspended, a dollar and a half for each inhabitant. 
Movement* of the President Elect. 
Abraham Lincoln, the President elect, left bin 
home in Springfield, III., on the 11 tb inst., en route 
for Washington. Large crowds, made up of all par¬ 
ties, gathered at the various railroad stations along 
his course of travel, eager to see and hear the man 
who is to preside over the destinies of our country 
for four years from the 4th of March, and to do him 
honor, and whenever time lias permitted, he has ad¬ 
dressed the Sovereigns. Mr. Lincoln has not allow¬ 
ed politicians or letter-writers to draw out his line of 
policy, and it was thought that a development would 
inevitably he made in his addresses. Weure inclined 
to the belief, however, that not much satisfaction ha* 
been obtained thus far by those who are most anxious 
to read his secrets. We give bis speech at Buflklo, 
N. \ ., the fir?" in this State, where he remained more 
than twenty-four hours, and where it was hoped a 
leak might be discovered. 
Mr. Manor am: SWvw Citizens i,f Buffalo, and the State of 
Vttio York 1 am litre to thank ) ou briefly for this grand re 
secession. 
it is understood that, delegations from Virginia, 
North Carolina and Missouri, will vote against the 
report of the Peace Conference. Maryland, Kentucky, 
and Tennessee will go for it. It will probably be 
adopted by a majority of the States represented jn 
the Conference. The telegraph this (Monday) morn¬ 
ing says that those who were most hopeful of bene¬ 
ficial results from the Peace Conference are beginning 
to despair, and some of the Commissioners have ad¬ 
vised their distant friends accordingly. 
Lieutenant Gilman, one of the officers in command 
of Fort Pickens, arrived at Washington ou the 13th 
inst., with dispatches from Lieutenant Slemmer and 
Legislature of New York. 
Senate.— The hill to authorize the State indorse¬ 
ment to United States bonds, came up for a third 
reading. Mr. Spinola moved to recommit, and 
advanced an opinion that as at present drawn, it 
was in conflict with the Constitution. After some 
debate, the hill was passed — 17 ayes, 7 nays. 
The bill to appropriate $50,000 for the relief of the 
people of Kansas, came up from the Assembly. After 
some discussion flic hill was read a third time and 
passed — 22 ayes, 5 nays. 
The Senate concurred in the joint-resolution ap¬ 
pointing a Committee to meet President Lincoln; 
when a communication from the Governor was 
received, announcing the declension of Mr. Weed to 
serve as Commissioner. The resolution of the As¬ 
sembly appointing Francis Granger Commissioner to 
Washington in place of Thurlow Weed, was called 
up. On motion of Mr. Truman, it was laid on the 
table — 15 to 13. 
Mr. Conolly moved to request a report from the 
Long Island Railroad Company, of all its business, 
ception given to me, not personally, put its tlm representative 
of our great and beloved country. (Cheers.) Your worthy 
Mayor tuts been pleased to mention in hi* address to me the 
fortunate and itp/emlilo journey which I have had from home, 
on mv rather cir uitnus route tn tho Federal Capital. I am 
very happy that he was enabled in n oth to congratulate my¬ 
self and company on that fact It i» true, we have had noth¬ 
ing to mar the lih.osure of the trip. Wo have not been met 
alone by those vho assisted in giving the election to me— 1 
say not alone, »ut by the whole population of the country 
through Which • e have passed This is a* it should be Had 
the election fall u to any uUjvr of tho distinguished candi¬ 
dates iusic-ad of.oyself, under the peculiar circumstances, to 
say the least, it would have be-.o proper for all citizens to 
greet him as you now greet me. It as evidence of the devo 
tion or th, whtib people to the Constitution the Union, and 
the perpetuity ol tho liberties of this country. (Cheers I 
1 _I I I ^ .! Al.tt _v. .... % i « 
The cause assigned is insufficient means to carry it 
on. It is reported, via. Rome, that the first firing 
re-commenced with vigor on both sides. 
It is said that Francis II received a letter from 
Napoleon, counselling the King to cease resistance. 
The King’s reply was not known. 
Out of 380 elections kDown, in South Italy, 290 
favor moderate policy. 
The latest from Gaeta says a flag of truce was sent 
from the fortress to t he fleet, and the firing was soon 
suspended on both sides. 
King Franpis had sent a fresh circular to the Min¬ 
ister, staling that he was resolved to meet all the 
perils of his position to the end. 
Returns from Southern Italy are favorable to the 
Government. 
It is said that Prince Cnrignan has gone to Gaeta to 
negotiate for the surrender of the fortress. 
Italian troops, in pursuing the reactionists, had 
entered the Roman States. Sardinia demanded a 
restoration of the soldiers made prisoners by the 
Papal Zouaves, and seized Bishop Sabine as a hostage. 
Debats says the Italian Parliament proclaimed 
Emanuel King of Italy, immediately on assembling. 
Nothing was known relative to Garibaldi’s reported 
departure from Caprera. It is thought by some that 
lie had gone t,o Dalmatia, lu a letter to an English 
friend, he expressed an anxious wish to make a 
journey to England, but was unable to fix the time, 
lie thanked the people for their moral and material 
aid, 
Spain.— The Spanish infant Don Juan has decided 
to relinquish his pretensions to the crown, reserving 
only the eventuality of being elected by universal 
suffrage. 
Denmark.— A ministerial ordinance has been ad¬ 
dressed to all the functionaries whose duties are in 
any way connected with the calling outof the soliders 
for the army, ordering them to take such step;- as will 
enable them to execute as speedily as possible the 
orders for the military convocation already pro¬ 
claimed, or for any other which may be made. 
It is said that the Great Powers urgently requested 
Denmark to grant concessions to .Schleswig. 
India.— Tho India mail has arrived with Calcutta 
dates to Dec. 22d. The Times’ correspondent at Cal¬ 
cutta says there is not a contented miml nor tranquil 
tongue in all the Province, by the mismanagement of 
Mr. Grant. The $2,000,(KUI annuity spent in the in¬ 
digo manufacture, have been this year withdrawn 
from circulation, and in a poor country like Calcutta, 
the consequences are naturally those of discontent. 
China. —The China intelligence is to December 
15th, from Hong Kong. Lord Elgin was at Shanghai 
on the 8th of December, and is expected at Hong 
Kin unwilling oti aov occasion that I should b»* pq iw'imjy & 
thought of a- to have i< supposed for a moment that these Kong immediately, 
demongtrat(Mi& ire tenderml to nn- personally They are At Shanghi great alarm existed from reports 
tendered to the country, to the institutions of the country. , e 
und to the perjetuity of the liberties uf the country, for brought lit Ot the IUOVemeUtS of the rebels. 
which these limitation* were made and created. Your Foo Choo was quiet. Disturbances had broken out 
worthy Mayor lif- thought lit to express the hope that I may . .. .. 
he able to reliev the country tn<n the present, nr 1 should 111 ‘" e northeast part of the Province, and one or two 
say the threatcuLl, difficulties I-mi sure 1 bring sheart true walled places had been taken. The John Adams, 
To the work. ( reuiOhiloii* applause.) For the ability to „ .. , 
perform it. I mint trust iu the Supreme Being who ba* never Niagara, Hartford, and guu-hoat Saginaw, were at 
forsukun this fWorcd land, through the. Instrumentality of Hong Kong. 
this great and idielligouc people Without that juudatnnce, I „ . T „ 
shall surely fail. With it. 1 cannot fail. When wo speak Commercial Lsrm.u^itCK.—Breadsluffs .—Flour quiet at 
of threatened dill ulties to the country, it ig natural that it hoc quotations—28s6d(ii 31*. Wheat in moderate demand at 
should he ex pec lad that something should be said by mrself Red Western ll*5d@12s4d ; Southern 12s6d@ 
with regard to particular measures. Upon more mature re- A' white Western 13sal3s3d ; Southern 14^a;15s. Corn 
flection, however, cithers w ill agree with me that when it is gugntly dearer, but difficult to sell. Some quote (3d cheaper, 
considered that these difliculties are without precedent, and f *« raa 8' c fo * «*«*d arid yellow is 37s@3&s3d ; white 38»6d 
inst., with dispatches from Lieutenant Slemmer and stoekholders, Ac., stating as the reason for the reso- considered that th«c difficulties are without precedent and 
Ihe commaafler of the vessel, off Pehaoeota, to the lotion that the offic er, of the road had refused to 
government. He left Pensacola on Saturday eve- Bhow their stock hooks to the shareholders. Adopted ami get all the light possible, so that when 1 do speak author- 
hi»g, having received a passport from Major Chut, The Preside,* appointed *•»«.,„ Fen?. Ketch™,. i *1j?Sj'r^S3 l r 
who is in commaud of the 1-lorida troops. He says and Conolly a Select Committee on the part of the inconsistent with the constitution, the Union, the rights of 
«,efolio.ihg v e»el. ,ro <,fr the harbor: ,h. BrooHjh, Se M ,e. to make arrangement, for the reception of r»5v“o &.“«£ 
Sabine, . t. Louis, Mueeuuman and 5\ yamlotte. The the President. Adjourned. (ided to me their rates, lu this connection allow me to aav 
Foo Choo was quiet. Disturbances had broken out 
in the northeast part of the Province, and one or two 
walled places had been taken. The John Adams, 
Niagara, Hartford, and guu-hoat Saganaw, were at 
Hong Kong. 
Commercial I.vtki.ugkn c k .— Breadsluffs. —Flour quiet at 
lute quotations—28sCd(«-31e. Wheat in moderate demand at 
40b. 
Provisions .—Fork dull anil unaltered, 
tide for good anil really choice. 
Lard quiet at 57@ 
Brooklyn did not land her supplies for Fort Pickens, Assembly. —Mr Doty, Private Secretary to Gov- 
Lieut. Slemmer having notified them that he had ernor Morgan, presented a communication from the 
ample supplies for three months. There are 1,200 Governor, transmitting a letter from President Lin- 
troops at Pensacola, and it is all that Maj. Chase and coin, as follows: 
others in command can do to restrain them. Lieut. 
Gilman says he would not he surprised if an attack 
was made at any moment. The health of the officers 
and men on.txwud the vessels Is good. 
The Supreme Court of the United States, recently. 
Stringkiei.d, Feb. 4, 18G1. 
Sin:—Your letter of the 30th ult., inviting me, on 
behalf of the Legislature of New York, to pass 
through that State m route to Washington, and ten¬ 
dering me the hospitalities of her people, has been 
duly received. With feelings of deep gratitude to 
you and them for this testimonial of regard and 
that you, as a of tin- groat American people, need unly 
to maintain your einipomirc, (-tain! up to yout sober convic¬ 
tions of right, to ycli r obligations to the constitution, and to 
act in accordance iuththe.se sober convictions, and the clouds 
which now arise in the horizon will be dispelled and we shall 
have a bright and glorious future, and when this generation 
has passed away, tens of thousand* will inhabit this country 
where only thousands inhabit it now, 
in the California laud case, established an important esteem, I bog you to notify them that I accept the 
principle as to that Rtate, in effect that when a claim- invitation so kindly extended. 
ant has obtained a confirmation of title and a pat nt, „ 0 1 our obedient servant, A. Lincoln. 
. . P. S.— Please let ceremonies be only such as to 
thcadverse party in possesoion cannot in an action occupy as little time as possible. a. l. 
resist the title of the patentee. To HiB Excellency 7 , E. D. Morgan. Governor of New York. 
The English papers claim a right to navigate the 
Mississippi, which they say secession cannot abro¬ 
gate. By the treaty of Paris, signed on the 30th 
of November. 1732, it was stipulated that “ the navi¬ 
gation of the Mississippi, from its source to the 
ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the sub¬ 
jects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United 
States.” 
The London Times on Disunion.— The London 
Times of the 10th ult., alluding to Lord Palmerston’s 
6peech at the recent Southampton banquet, says:— 
“ The third topic dwelt upon by Lord Palmerston is 
the future, if, indeed, we may not say the actual dis¬ 
ruption of the American Union. While Italy is con¬ 
solidating, America is disintegrating. That privilege 
of a single entire nationality which Italy ib shedding 
tears of blood to obtain, America is flinging reckless¬ 
ly away. The Southern States expected sympathy for 
their undertaking, from the public opinion of this 
country. The tone of the press has already done 
much to undeceive them, and if anything more is re¬ 
quired, they have the assurance of our disapprobation 
from the person whose public station gives him the 
right, and whose intuitive sympathy with the feelings 
of the nation gives him the power, better than any 
one, to express its opinions.” 
— It is reiterated that a National Convention will probably 
bo the mean* of settling our difficulties. 
— The Grand Haven (Mich.) Clarion says that several cases 
of diptheria, have appeared in that place. 
— .Samuel H. Black was arrested on Friday, ip New York, 
on a charge of counterfeiting copper cents. 
— Judge Lord, of the Land Court, St. Louis, has declared 
that religious journal* are not “ newspapers.” 
— Eighty-seven arrests were made on Sunday week in New 
York, for violations of the Sunday liquor law. 
— A lady swallowed a cambric needle at New Albany, Ind., 
last week, and suffers acptely in consequence. 
— There arc in England and Wales 300,000 Sunday sekeol 
teacher*, and 2,500.000 Sunday school scholars. 
— The estimated number of persons indirectly dependent 
on cotton manufactures in England is 1,000,000. 
— A horrid Indian nnu-sacre of seven emigrants in Car*on 
Valley, is reported in the news from Pike's Peak. 
— King Victor Emanuel has granted 200,000 franc* in aid 
of the public schools to be established in Naples. 
— John A. Rockwell, formerly Member of Congress from 
Connecticut, died on the 11th inst., of apoplexy. 
— In the year 1850, a* appear* by the census, the number 
of slaves that escaped from the South wu» 1.011 
— The total number of new buildings erected last year in 
Boston is 984, CoBting in the aggregate ?5,978,161. 
— A writer tn the Medical Time* recommends sulphur as 
highly efficacioUH in the treatment of rheumatism. 
— Dispatches received by di*tinguished secession leaders 
indicate that an export duty will he laid on cotton. 
— At the late Presidential election San Francisco polled 
nearly four thousand more votes than New Orleans. 
— The New York Times says the sentiment in favor of 
enforcing tiie law* grows stronger in Congress daily. 
— Rocky Mountain News nays that coal oil has been dis¬ 
covered in the mountains, five miles from Cannon City. 
— The attempts hitherto made in Australia, with the view 
to the introduction of tho salmon, have proved failures. 
— It is said that nearly $1,000 was cleared at the Concert, 
in Troy, Monday night, in aid of the Kansas Belief Fund. 
— There is a great deal more feeling of animosity now than 
ever, in France, between the clergy and the government. 
— By letters from Liberia, December 15th, it appears that 
the Liberian Republic had captured two slave schooners. 
— In St. Louis last week thorn were eighty four deaths, 
sixty-one of which were children live yeais old and under. 
— The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided tho “ Liquor 
Law " of that State to be constitutional iu every particular. 
— Fifty shiploads of cotton, valued at between live and six 
millions of dollars, cleared from New Orleaus Monday week. 
— There is a house in Union, Conn., tenanted by three 
families, where three births happened in one night last week. 
— The depreciation in the value of slave property in Mis¬ 
souri, consequent upon the secession movement, is forty per 
cent.. 
— The measles are prevailing extensively at Baldwinsville, 
Onondaga county. Some 260 cases are reported within the 
village. 
— The citizens of Cortland, N. Y., are making an effort to 
establish telegraphic communication between that place and 
Ithaca. 
— A {line tree was lately cut in the lumbering region near 
Eau Claire, Mich., which yielded over six thousand feet of 
lumber. 
— A drayman of New Orleans deliberately rolled a hogs¬ 
head of sugar over the head of a little child recently, and 
killed it. 
— From one thousand hills of hops planted one year ago, 
in California, one thousand pounds of hops were gathered 
last tall. 
— Tile quantity of Anthracite coal sent from Pennsylvania 
in the year 1860, was 8,500,000 tuns; increuse over 1859, 613,- 
717 tuns. 
— Garibaldi continues to call for his million of armed 
Italians, who shall effect the redemption of the whole 
Peninsula. 
— A little girl named Buckley, of South Adams, Mass., aged 
about 12 years, slid down a hill into the river on Monday, and 
was drowned. 
— Dr. Foster, who tore down and trampled upon the Ameri¬ 
can flag at Covington, Ky., a few days since, has been fined 
$20 for that offence. 
— Coal now produces to the State of Pennsylvania $30,006,- 
000 per annum. 
— In the tongue of the right whale there are from 300 to 
800 gallons of oil I 
— A score-and-a-half of Sioux Indians ask to be made citi¬ 
zens of Minnesota. 
— The receipts of U. S. Colonization Society last year, from 
all source*, was $14,363. 
— Cambridge. Md., was lighted with gas, for the first time, 
on Saturday night week. 
— The levy of French soldiers is to be 50.000 greater this 
year than it was in 1860. 
— There are nearly seventeen thousand deaf and dumb 
persons in Great Britain, 
— A subscription is being raised in Virginia to purchase tho 
birth-place of Gen. Scott. 
— There are eonfined in Auburn prison at the present time 
no less than 804 criminals. 
— Snow fell to the depth of eight feet in the vicinity of 
Montreal, Wednesday week. 
— Peru has just sent 15,000 bales of her cotton across the 
Isthmus, most of It to Europe. 
— The South Carolina postmasters are still ordering post¬ 
age stamps from Washington. 
— It is a singular fact that no divorce has ever been granted 
in the State of South Carolina. 
— No less than 1,500 lives were lost by nautical disasters in 
the Gulf of Venice during 1860. 
— The total number of bauds employed in the English cot¬ 
ton factories in 1800 was 397,190. 
— The deaths in New York last week numbered 367, a de¬ 
crease of 36 from the week previous. 
— Congress has voted to make the 22d of February, Wash¬ 
ington’s birthday, a national holiday. 
— The number of lakes and ponds laid down in the map of 
Berkshire county, Mass., is ninety-six. 
— England obtained from other sources than the United 
•States in 1860, 860,000 bales of cotton. 
— In some place* on the mountains in Williamstown, Mass., 
the snow is nix feet, deep on the level. 
— A nuus of copper, weighing 13,000 pounds, was recently 
taken from the mines near Ontonagon. 
— The national debt of the United States amounts to about 
— Russia is rapidly extending her telegraphs into the 
Amoor country, intending to reach the Pacific and the vast 
country of Siberia. 
— The census of Missouri shows that State, to have 1,407 - 
536 whites, 113,188 slaves, and 3,902 free negroes,—in the 
aggregate 1,524,626. 
— The Amherst, (Mass.,) Railroad is again open for public 
travel after nearly three weeks’ suspension, and a monstrous 
amount of hard labor iu clearing away snow and ice. 
