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TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES.


Numerous appeals have been made TO me
by piOus and patriotic associations and cit-
zens in view Of The present distracted and
dangerous condition OF our country, to recon-.
mend that a day be set apart Tor HUMILiA.
TloN, Fasting, AND PRAYER throughout the
Union. In compliance with their request,
and my own sense Of duty, designate
FRIDAY, the 4th day of January, 1861,
for this purpose, and recommend that the peo-
pie assemble on that day, according t. their
several forms OF worship, TO keep it as solemn
Fast.
The Union Of the states is at the present
moment threatened with alarming and immc
diale danger-panic and distress OF fearful
character prevail throughout the land-our
laboring population are without employ ment,
and consequently deprived of ale means of
earning their brend--indeed, hope seems to
have deserted the minds OF men. All classes
are in a state of confusion and dismay and
the wisest counsels of our best and purest men
are wholly disregarded
In this, the hour Of our calamity and peril,
to whom shall we resort for relief but to the
God of our Fathers His Omnipotent Arm
only can save us from the awtu effects Of our
own crimes and follies--.0ur own ingrautude
and guilt towards our Heavenly Father.
Let us, then. with deep contriiion and peni.
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tent sorrow, unite in humbling ourselves be-
fore the Most High, in conitssing our indvid-
III and national sins, and in acknowledging
the business Of our punishment. Let us i'm
plor,. Him 10 remove IRON our hearts that false
pride of opinion which would impel us to per
severe in wrong for the sake of consistency,
rather than yield just submission to the I'M
foreseen exigencies by which we are now SIR
rounded, Let us, with deep reverence, be-
seech him to restore the friendship and good
will which prevailed, in former days, among
the people Of the several states and, above
all, to save us from the horrors of civil war
and blood outlines" Let our fervent pray.
ers ascend to His throne that He would not
desert us in this hour ofextreme peril but re-
member us as He did our fathers in the dark
est days of the revolution, and preserve our
constitution and our Union, the work of their
hands, for ages yet to come. An Omnipotent
Providence may overrule existing evils for
permanent good He can make tine wrath of
man to praise HIM, and the remainder of
wrath He can restrain. Let me invoke every
individual, in whatever sphere of life he may
be placed to feel a personal responsibility TO
God and his country for keeping this day holy,
and for contributing all in his power to re-
move our actual and impending calamilies.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Washington, Dec. IA, 1860.
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THE PRESIDENTS FAST.

The president has issued a recommendation
for national fast and has designated the 4th
of January next for that purpose Two
months from that date his administration will
expire, and the old public functionary, con-
scious of the depravity of its life, has been
thoughtful enough to bring around its death
bed the consultations of religion. Regarding
the golden opportunity which he had, four
years ago, of naugurating an administration
which should be as illustrious as any that had
preceded, and of leaving the government upon
broader and more secure foundations than he
found it, and then rejecting on the miserable
condition in which he will be compelled to
abandon it, he ought to travel the depths OF
the ley of humiliation. AT the time when
Mr. Buchanan assumed the presidential char,
it was possible for statesman OF generous I'M
pulses and honest purposes to have serv-
ed his country, as Jew men have serV-
ed it before, and to have achieved
place by the side of the worlds civic heroes
Mr. Buchanan had neither generous impulses
nor honest aims. He did not appreciate the
great questions upon which he would be call
ell to act-the great events by which his ad
ministration might have been signazed' de
placed his influence from the beginning on
the side of the traitors to his country. He
used honest men through misrepresenta.
ton, and betrayed them for his advan
tage. His administration, from its lnaus-
picous beginning to the present time, while
questions have been agitated of magnitude
sufficient to excite the pride and patriotism of
the most stolid of men, shows only conlinu-
GUS record of deception, of treachery, of usur-
patton of powers, of doubtful justification, and
equivocatng apology, practiced in the interest
of that atrocous oppression which for the
last thirty years has ruled the republic. Look
over the dreary and monotonous waste Of mis-
deeds with which his term has been distin-
guished, it is BETTING and proper that they
should seek through some yet untried instru-
mentality to avert the wreck and the crash
with which the whole country is threatened,
For himself however, the humiliation comes too
late. History has made up its verdict.
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PerIIOus Condition of Fort MOuItrie.
The following letter, from the wife of an
officer stationed at Fort Moultre, is calculated
to send a thrill through the heart of every
American. We have no time to comment
upon it, but we fear President Buchanan and
his Secretary of War are storing up terrible
retribution tor themselves and those whose
reasonable conduct they encouraged
Fort MoULrRIE, Dec. IL, 1860.
Dear l feel too indignant | can
hardly stand the way in which the weak little
garrison is treated by the heads OF the gov.
ernmeDt Troops and proper accommodation
are positively refused, and yet the command
er has orders to hold and defend the fort.
Was ever such a sacrifice ian intentional One)
known? The secretary has sent several Off
GERS at different times to inspect here, as ii
that helped. 1t is u mere sham, to make be-
lieye ne will do something In the meantime
a crisis is very near am to go to Charles
ton the first Of the week. will not 20 far
ther 1t can help it,
Within a few days we hear--and from so
many sources that we cannot doubt it-that
the Charlestonians are erecting two batteries,
one just opposite US, at a little village, Mount
Pleasant, and another ON the end OF this island !;
and they dare the commander to interfere
while they are getting ready to tight sirty men,
In this weak little tort | suppose President
Buchanan and Secretary Floyd intend the
southern cOniederacy to b. cenIented with the
blood VI this brave little garrison. These
names should be handed down to the end Of
time.
When the last man is shot down, / pre-
sumo they will think Of sending troops The
soldiers here deserve great credit--though
they know what an unequal number is coming
TO massacre them, yet they are in good spirits
and will fight desperately. Our commander
says he never saw such a brave little band
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CRIMINAL PASSION FOR RUM.-Some time
since young man, well known for his intern
pcrate habits, hired horse and wagon of a
person residing on the edge of Barre, for the
purpose of making short journey, .aking his
family with him. The owner of the horse
provided a supply of oats for the occasion, but
on the return Of the parties, the horse died
from starvation on the following morning.
Upon investigation of the affair it was found
that The oats were bartered for rum
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SATcHEL esterday afternoon,
lady from West Boylston, accidentally drop
ped her satcheI near the Central Exchange,
just as she was starting for home. 1t contain
ed several purchases which she had made,
and S12 to SIS in money. The finders who
were seen 70 pick it up and carry it away soon
afterwards, will relieve the anxiety of the los
er and save further trouble, by returning it to
this office. See notice in another column.
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case of Sarah A. Halves VS.. John F. Gustin,
which has been tried once before and the yer.
dict set aside by the supreme court. 1t was
this time decided by 4 verdict for the plain
tiff, and it goes up again 10 the supreme
court on exceptions. Bacon & Aldrich and
Dadmun for plaintiff, and Dewey & Williams
for defendant
The following cases are next in order =
6SS, 7O2, 7O3, 7O6, 7O9. 715, 728, 742, 757, 76O,
761, 776, 7S9, 79l, SO2, SO4, sos. Sl1.
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Mrs. MAcREADY's reading in Washburn
Hall this evening, will include among other
selections Anthony S orations from the tragedy
of Julius C@zar, 'fBabie Bel, "Ihe Stocks,
a satire on Wall street doings, "The charge at
Balaklava," Skipper Ireson's Ride, "The
Polish Boy" &c.
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To COnsHmptIvCs.-Tht advertiser, having been
restored to health in weeks by very simple reme-
dv after having suffered years with severe lung
Affection and that dread disease CunsumptiOn-is an&.
iouS to make known to his fellow sufferers the OF
cure.
10 all who desire it he will send copy of the prescrip-
ton used Gree Of charged with the directions for pepHr
ing AID using the same, which they will find ri CT In
object of the advertiser in sending the prescription
benefit the afflicted. ami spread Information which lie
cOnctivcs to be invaluable, and he hopes every sufferer
will try his remedy, as il will cost them nothing and may
prove blessing. Parties wishing the prescription will
please address REV. EDWABD \. WILSON,
OIL div Williamsbdreh Kings Co., New York
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q. ~. Jencks, Dentist, 239 Main street. nearly
opposite Flu street, DIT o6

Friend in Need.-Try it--Dr. Sweets Infalli.
pie Linent ia prepared from the recipe of Dr. Sephen
sweet, " CONNECTICUT, The great bone setter and has
been used IN his practice for the last twenty tears with
me most astonishing success Asan external remedy il
Is without rival ana will alleviate pain more sppedilv
than any other prepHrati For all Rheumatic and Merry.
Gus Disorders Is truly nialllbc and curative lor
sores, Wounds, Nprains Bruises, &e., lis sooihinp
healing and powerful sirens thcninp properties lie
Inst wonder and astonshnel Of all who have given ia
trial Oyerour hundred certificates Of cures
performed by itwlthn the last two years attest this fact
mv22 d3awAwcOwly
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The Book of All others that should be read by
men with damaged and brukeu-duMn constitutions Is
"HUMAN FRAlLlY or HTSI ILLOGICAL RE
SEARCHES 1t is beautifully illustrated and treats
nindtelY OF all the symptoms resulting from the trates
and viii ng habits eaily youth, incupacitating the
victim from sharing the rution the matrimonial state.
aud il not checked in time degengratiug all the func
tons Of manhood, and bringing him step by step to
lingering and unmty death Price % cents Sent free
everywhere receipt Of postage stamps the amount
Sold by tie author, DR. H. A. BARRON, 1874 Blocker ST.
-four doors below McDuugal slreet,) G. A. p. MASON
l6l Broad street, Providence. r. L., General Agent.
"a Dis
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LARGE SALE OF CoINs-There was sold at
auction in New York, last week, large and
attractive collection of coins and medals
which realized considerably more than their
money value, These are some OF the most
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SUPERIOR CoURT-CIvIL TERM.-Case
No. SOL, Henry Taft, VS.. Horace Daniels, was
commenced Monday morning. This was an
action to recover balance due Tor services. In
December 1858, the plaintiff was employed
by the defendant in Paxton to perform some
carpenters work, and no contract was made
to how much should be paid. The labor
occupied four days and plaintiff told defend
ant it would come to Sc So Mr.. Daniels
thought it was large price, but not wishing
to have any argument with Mr.. Taft at that
time, there being several persons present, he
handed him $500 and told him he would see
him again about the balance. Mr.. Daniels
said he was never asked for the 81 so balance,
but suit was brought against him for that
amount with rs cents additional for that and
other work. The only amount claimed by
plaintiff at the trial was 81 so. The jury
found for the plaintiff for that amount. The
case is of importance only as governing the
price Of labor when no contract is made.
ThayeI for plaintiff, and Very for defendant.
The noxt case tried was No 525 bastardy
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d0lortester 0uesoan Nlurnno, 9nembr Is, 1880

Free ExhibItIon-OPEN IN THE EVENING
UNION ART GALLERY will be open FREE TO TEE
PUBLIC Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings
til further notice. All invited to call and examine
the mammoth collection Of the various styles pictures
bition Orders for Pictures taken in the evening
a well as in the daytime. DAN ROWLAND,
do DIFF Proprietor
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Dialogue between smith ana Jones.

Smlth-Mr. Jones, do not see what keeps you poor
yOi seem to work steady, and yet 81 n day.
Jones Yes Mr.. smith, il is you say, The reason
am poor IS, IL costs me every thing to furnish my house
with nice carpets oil cloths, c., and should like 10
know how you have money in the bank and yet such
nice carpets crockery and glass ware cutlery &C. and
what wages you get.
Mr. SmthWell, Mr.. Jones | will tell You In private
get 81 70 per day and the way manage IL is buy my
goods OF ursOd n. Heath, In the Bay state Block and
save great deal OF money and get the best Of goods
Moral II YUu wOuld have money In the bank live
temperate be Industrious and you will get good nav for
your wuOk and BY trading at The Ioeticnl
Exchange OkSON n HEATH, PROPRIETOR
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TEMPERANCE MEETING.-We would call at
tention to the temperance meeting this even
ing in the City Hall, at seven o'clock, 1t is
the first of series of meetings. under the di-
rection of that new and vigorous organization,
the Worcester Temperance League. Hon W.
W. Rice, president of the League, will give
an address. Rev. Messrs. James, Moss, and
Richardson will also make speeches The
Mendelssohn Choral Clnb will be present, and
give some of their choice music on the occa-
sions. Let this be a ratification meeting of the
Temperance League, which shall glow with
the temperance fire of other days.
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THE CENTER CHURCH fair and tea party
will be held in the church veStry, this day and
evening. There was crowd at the Old South
tea party last night.
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Have you a Diseased Liverf-The question,
though startling is sufficiently suggestive when the fact
is taken into consideration that diseases of the Liver
have become most alarmingy frequent in the United
states Indeed there few formidable diseases that
not in some way acable TO deranged state of that
important organ Many of the complaints usually class
ed under the head of Consumption have their origin in
the liver Any remedy that would insure regularity and
heahful action Of the liver would be blessing TO
kind!' has been the exclamation of thousands That
remedy has been found; it safe and When fair
trial has been afforded it, it has been known TO
fail
Reader, have you disease of the liver disease
which you believe proceeds from hepatic arrangement?
Lose not moment but purchase box OF DR. NJ Lane s
Pills prepared by Fleming Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa, and
they Will restore you to health 1t is the only remedy
yet discovered, in which implicit confidence may be
placed.
Purchasers will be careful to ask for Dr. N'LANE'S
CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS manufactured by FLEM
ING BROS, PITrsBr RON PA. There are other Pills
purporns TO be Liver Pills, now before the public DR.
Lanes genuine Liver Pills also his celebrated vern
ge can be had at all respectable drug stores Non,
genuine without the signature Of FLEMING BROS.
dl4 d6t&wIt Il4I
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POLICE CoURT-On Monday, Thomas
McDermott, Of Auburn, and Patrick Gourley,
o. Leicester, for disturbing the peace, were
each fined So and costs
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LONG PoND.-The skating on Long Pond
is reported to be faultless, Several gentlemen
were on the ice, yesterday, and probably there
will be more to-day. To morrow, if encourage
ment enough is given, and the day should be
fair, we presume tie obgng agent Of the
Boston and Worcester road will run an eXcur-
sion train to the pond.
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l feel desperate myself Our only hope is in
God. My love to father and all. Your affec-
tionate sister,
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The soldiers at Fortress Munroe tOld Point
Comfort Va, have become interested IN the
temperance movement, and 80 of them have
recently signed the total abstinence pledge.
Gov Stewart OF Missouri has recalled Gen
Frost aud his brigade, whom he sent on
Tom-ioors eTrand to the borders of the state
to fight Monigomery's shallow.
The Chicago Tribune says gentleman
from Wisconsin bad narrow escape with Ms
lie RON the brutality Of a vigilance commit
tee in Mississippi recently.
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GENERAL NEWS sU MMARY.
MIppLEsEX COUNTY.

On Friday night a colOfed woman, appar
entity thirty years old applied for lodgings at
the station house i'll Lowell. She represented
that she came FROM Alabama with her master,
last summer aud while stopping at watering
place, concluded to move for herself She
was properly cared for, and the next morn
ing sent ON her way.
Still another fire occurred in Medford, Sat.
urday night, destroying TWO barns on the Is
tate of Caleb Willis. The fire department is
in poor condition, and there is talk OF procur-
ing Il steamer
On Saturday night vigorous but unsuc
cesstul attempt was made TO rob the bank in
South Reading. Three persons, who stopped
at a farmers house, the next morning, at a
short distance from the bank, to warm them
selves are supposed to have been the robbers.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Two young couftezans Of New Bedford,
named Nancy Ellis and Catharine Fuller, had
a stabbing affair in that city, on Friday ven
ing, last, growing ou Of old jeal0ustS Nancy
was the aSsalant, and was subsequently arrest
ed and held for trial.
NANTUCKET.
The Nantucket shoe mandatory is about
to suspend operations for the present, and Il
considerable number of hands will titus be
thrown out of employment.
Mrs Phebe Fuller died in Nantucket on
Thursday, from the injuries received few
weeks since by the assault upon her by Il col
ored woman who is in Jail.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Henry lIolcOmb of Soutnwlck, who com
mtted a strange and murderous assault on his
wife, several months ago had his trial, last
week, and the jury were unable TO agree
whether there was intent to murder. The
prisoner then pleaded guilty to assault and was
sentenced to eighteen months i'll the house OF
correction
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THE POLICE AT Mr.. BEEcHER's CHURCH
IN BRooKLYN.-C Considerable apprehension
had been excited, Saturday, by the circulation
of unfounded reports that Mr.. Beecher's church
in Brooklyn was to be mobbed on the day
following. The morning session passed quiet
ly, though the attendance was as usual, very
large The pastor preached sermon on the
mission Of suffering. Referring to the
South in the course of his remarks he
said, "if the Lord designed to save
them, it would be through martyrdom, and a
baptism of blood" The congregation, at the
close, contributed 500 for the relief Of Kansas.
In the evening the crowd was more immense,
and one hundred policemen were stationed in
the church. Mr.. Beecher referred to their
presence, and thought it was fortunate that
they had had am inducement to attend church.
He spoke OF his hatred 0. slavery, but he did
not wish to aggrayate the present excited
feeling. There was no disturbance. beyond
the throwing of a stone, which did no other
damage than to break pane OF glass and to
create momentary alarm.
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BROKERS' BoAKD-MoNDAY, Dec H.
20 Ftchburg Railroad, 80
u Connecticut River Railroad, y
FUrhein Railroad, "A
Manchester and awrence Railroad IS
Eastern Railroad, 723
Portland ~acn aud Portsmouth Railroad, IS
! Old COLONY and Fall Xiv r Railroad I03
Michigan Central Railroad 46
do asa
Z Metropolitan Horse Railroad SD
MiddicSeN Horse Railroad. q3
Bates Manufsct iring COMPANY 100
Is Isle RIvale Mining Company e
10 Pewabie Mining Company 30t
Is do 30
so Hancock Mining COMPANY, il
Minnesota Mining Com ANY e.
$3.50 MeSnard Mining Company, p
200 Huron Mining Company, S
200 do b6O 81
| fremont Bank, Ilg
$1,000 cStcn Railroad Bonds flsT5l lUO}
600 Western Railroad ii, es, QST4l go
5000 OGdensburg First MORTGAGE 7's, 65
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Ladies. please the deduction at Bryants in Silks
advertised to-day. d6t dis
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WARRANTED,-Ilill'sL Liquid Amaniine, for the cure
chapped hands, roushness Of the skin &c. Prepared
and sold by JOHN Q. HILL Apothecary, Mechanics
Hall Building diff %
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Herbert, son oi n. G.. Bowen of Nor Sich,
lad Of sixteen years was drowned, Saturday
afternoon while skating. He chung To the ice
as long as he could, while his companions
tried to save him, when losing his hold, he
cried, good bye, boys, Lor, bless me Tell
my mother -, and with the sentence nm
finished he sank into the water, and was Tar
ried away by the current.
Deacon Henry a. Sykes of Slffield died at
his residence, Thursday, OF diptheria. Mr..
Sykes was geuteman of culture and rtfiue
ment and was highly esteemed by all who
knew him.
The golden wedding of Mr.. Clarke II. Rob-
ertS Of Robertsvlle, (near llitchcockvilie, was
celebrated at his residence by numerous
company of guests, on Monday evening, the
10Th inst
Several of the citizens OF Norwich were
vclmized, last week. by a young fellow who
went about the streets with bogus Geographic
dispatches, on which he collected Is to 80
cents each. Similar tricks were performed in
New Haven several months since, aud the
swinder was arrested and sent to jail
MISCELLANEOUS.
Several citizens OF Pittsburgh, Pa, includ-
ing Bell Everett man, have recently been
driven from New Orleans by mobs.
DIR. llambeton's black mail paper, the At
lanta, (Ga) Southern COntedtracy has die d
an ign0ble death, in the hands OF the sheriff
The contributions of the New York merchants
did not save il,
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In this city, Dec II, Frank NJ son of Alvin and Anna
\ Brimhall. VI m1s DAYS; Frances daughter of
James NJ and Sarah brennan, days.
In New York, Dec A. of apupleXv Hannah Carroll &c.
She was once a cook in the family of Washington.
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, All OF DR.. Humphrey d. Co.'S SPECIFIC Home
Op0ic R-mediesr al up expressly for family use, With
ok of tuil directions sold in Worcester by DAVID
SCOTT loSMain street. and Druggists and Stores gen
erally. d&wly 80
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NJ Az KIER.

In East Boston, Dec l6, Nathan p Morse formerly of
Gloucester TO Jane Hooper OF Charlestown-both deaf
mutcs.
In Augusta, Ga. Dec G, Rev John Todd, pastor of
Winter Street Church in Boston, to Lizzie H. daughter
Of Edward homas, Esq, OF Augusta.