The national Republican., 1861-04-03
A WORD TO BUSINESS MEN.

A WORD TO BUSINESS MEN.
This paper has now circulation in this city
larger than all the city papers combined, with
the exception Of one, and therefore affords
most excellent advertising medium.
~ The Government eight million loan
yesterday was taken at An average of about
s32 cents in the dollar. Over thirty millions
were bid for. The lowest accepted bid was for
SO l7.l00 cents. The bids ranged from 80
cents to par The weight Of the loan will be
awarded to New York, Boston, and Phiadel-
phia houses. Messrs. Sweeny, Rittenhouse,
Fant, & Co., of this city, bid for and obtained
$4,000, at 90 l7.lOO cents.
p6r The howlings of the British press over
the Morrill, tariff induced great many fools
to imagine that England would proceed
straightway to acknowledge the Southern Con.
federacy, by way of showing their resentment.
But they are now bowling upon different
topic, the export duty upon cotton, which
seems to be quite as distasteful as the Morrill,
tariff. They denounce it, in the language of
the London Post, as "a tar tohich must fall
upon the English manufacturer and consu.
mer."
n6- By the return of last Monday, the New
York city banks had in specie the unprece-
dented sum Of Sal, ,4OS,30S.
b8- The March number of De Bo,o's Reriep,
which is the literary organ of the oligarchy,
lays down the following political principles:
"AA government begins ioih usurpation and
is continued by force. Nature puts the ruling
elements uppermost, and the masses below are
subject to those elements. Less than this is
not government. The right to govern resides
with very small minority; and the duty to
obey is inherent in the great mass Of mankind"
R1- The Baltimore correspondent of the N.
Y. Tribune, writing under date of March 30,
says:
81 learn from reliable sources that the un.
conditional Union feeling in Virginia is strong
er by 10000 to-day than on the 4th Of February
last, and the true friends of the Union were
anxious that the Convention should pass an ordi
nance of secession, and let it go before the peo-
pie. The result would have buried the rebels
60 deeply, that no political resurrection trump
could have ever awakened them. But the rebels
were too cunning They will adopt the ma jor-
ity report which, you will observe, is more OF.
fensive than the JEFF. Davis Constitution"
nds. The Charleston correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Inquirer says of Gov. Pickens
81 really believe there is some good in old
Pickens. ! think he is heartily ashamed of the
course pursued by his State, and would will.
ingly get out of it if he could do it consistently
with those false notions Of honor which are so
prevalent in the hot climates"
NORTH CARoLINA.-The telegraph gave US,
q few days ago, wonderful accounts of a seces.
sion State Convention at Goldsborough, but the
following, from the Fayetteville Observer, puts
different face upon it:
Considering that G Goldsborough is the centre
of railroads from the four quarters of the State
north, south, east, and west; that passenger,
were transported over them all at half price;
that the season is comparatively an idle one,
and the weather good and considering the
prodigious fuss which the Secessionists keep
up, we are greatly surprised that this wonder.
full mass meeting, this outpouring of the peo.
pie, that filed the streets of Goldsborough-so
the papers told us-amounted to only PIG per.
sons from outside of Wayne county. There are
81 counties that have direct railroad connec.
ton with Goldsborough, and of these, only lS
were represented. We are glad to see that so
little encouragement was extended to this at.
tempt to overrule the decision of the people,
through the insulting pretence that the people
did not understand what they were doing"
KENTUCKY. following resolutions have
been introduced into the Legislature:
"Whereas this General Assembly is inform.
ed that certain persons acting as a Congress Of
the seeding States have assumed power to
obstruct and regulate the free navigation OF the
Mississippi river by the citizens of this Union
therefore, be it
"Resolred Jy the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth Of Kentucky, That Kentucky
having as much right to the Mississippi river,
to its free, unobstructed navigation, as Louis.
lana, or any other State and that right being
Of vital importance to her people, feels it her
duty to herself and her sister States, at the ear.
liest day. to make this her most solemn protest
against any assumption Of such power to con-
troll the navigation of that river, as utterly with.
out right or proper authority, and as what she |
cannot and will not submit to.
"Resolred, further, That the States in the |
valley Of the Mississippi be earnestly requested
to unite with Kentucky in this protest against
the violation OF mutual right so vitally i'm. |
portant to them all, and which their permanent
interests forbid should ever rest in the discre.
ton of any Government save that under which
they live"
South CARoLINA.-Gov. Pickens states the
total military expenses thus far, as reported by
the State Treasurer, at S64O,3l7. This does
not include the expenses incurred by individ.
uals, and there are heavy arrears of pay due to
the troops. The expenses have been dimin
ished, by stealing arms and military stores
from the United States. The military loans |