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The national Republican., 1861-01-16

despair, eloquent in the genuine and unmis.
taxable tones Of nature, no man who knows
the true condition of the South, can turn deaf
or reluctant ear. IL fraternal counsel and fra
ternal aid can avail anything in presence Of this
great misfortune, never was there q call for
them more urgent, moving, and irresistible
The sun in all his circuit does not shine upon
people, over whose future hangs more por.
tentous and impenetrable gloom, than that
which darkens the destiny Of the South, and
throws ominous shadows even upon its present
life. What seem to be its cries of anger, are,
to the appreciating ear, cries Of distress, wrung
from the tost and distempered fancies of suffer.
ing and disease"
"The South needs outlets. This is most
true. But outlets not merely, or mainly, for
its blacks. If the South could be supposed to
be absolutely pent up, the first and greatest
danger to its peculiar social organization would
come from the side of the whites, upon the great
mass Of whom that organization bear, with
crushing and destructive force. Revolutionary
outbreaks are common, servile wars are rare, in
the history of mankind. The slave is not often
a rebel. Negro slavery has been perfectly Sc.
cure in the West India Islands and in inter.
tropical South America, under ratio of blacks
to whites many fold greater than the present
ratio even in South Carolina. II fell in St.
Domingo not from preponderance of the
blacks, but from the interference of the French
Assembly. The STAKEHOLDER fears everybody,
but Il y the white man, and not the black man,
whom Ne fears and has reason 70 fear as his
first enemy" \
"If the egress Of people, white and black,
from the South, could be supposed to be abso.
lutely prevented, it seems to me impossible that
the stability of the social organization could be
maintained against the accumulating numbers
ofignorant, impoverished, and brutalized whites.
With the courage and spirit of freemen, but
without the training and discipline and reAec.
ton essential to the permanent existence Of
freedom, they have the precise characteristics
to render them fitting and dangerous instru.
ments of revolutionary leaders. In the violent
subjugation of Kansas, this class of people in
Missouri has been used by and for the slave
holders, but under other circumstances it may
be used against them. A brute force like this,
at once savage, blind, and powerful, is a threat.
ening and ominous element in the composition
Of a political community. 1t is a subterranean
fire, whose explosion may at any moment over
turn the whole edifce of society"
The national Republican., 1861-01-16
GRAND DIVISION SONS OF TEMPERANCE

This body will hold its annual session in this
city, on Thursday and Friday of this week. A
public meeting will be held on Thursday even
ing, at the old Trinity Church, Fifth street, and
addresses delivered by the Rev. DR.. McKendree
REILLY, Rev. Mr.. Hero, Rev. Mr.. Brooke, P. M. q.
CAN'T, Rev. DR.. T. H. Monroe, and other distin-
guished speakers. A good band of music will
be in attendance. ian l6-3t
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p6p The New Orleans Crescent gives an &C.
count of the mobbing Of the printing office of
a German newspaper at Galveston, which had
ventured to ridicule the secession Of South Car
olina. The Crescent says that the mob was COM
posed of the most respectable" citizens of
Galveston, and that all other "abolitioniss "
may take warning by the fate Of these German
editors. 1t is by means of this sort Of terror.
ism that secession is rushed through in the cot
ton States.
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LOST,

Between the st. Charles Hotel and the Su-
preme Court Room, at the Capitol, heavy Gold
Watch and Chain and Gold framed Eye-Glass
attached. Whoever may find the same shall be
hoerally rewarded by returning it at the Office of
st. Charles Hotel to Mr.. Lamb.
jan l5--3t (Star)
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

TIE UNION, The CONSTITUTION, AND THE
ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAws.-This famous raj
ly.cry of the BellEverett party, returns to
plague those Of its inventors who are now en-.
gagged in the work of secession.
Mr. Bolts, in letter to the Alexandria Ga
z,tte, Bell paper now blatant for disunion,
presses home several troublesome inquiries,
and among others, "phat Union and ,chat
Constitution it was, that the Bell party pledged
itself to sustain, the Union and Constitution Of
our fathers, or some new thing to be gotten
up by the reconstructionists Of the present day
We subjon part of Mr. Bottss catechism {:
"Question 10. After having prevailed on "A, ,524
voters Of Virginia to stand by you in your
recommendation to uphold the Union, to protect
the Constitution, and to enforce the laws-and
since by their votes the State was carried for
John Bell and Edward Everett, do you think
you are at liberty now to abandon these 74,50O
msn, a very large sjority Of whom are not
shveholders, and tell them that the Union
which our fathers established is not worth con.
tending for-that the Constitution is toy and
plaything for the sport of folly, and passion,
and resentment; and that the laws must not be
enforced upon any Southern State that may
choose to set itself up in defiance of all law
and all constitutional authority?
"QueStiOn IL. Do you think you have a right
now to plunge this State into all the horrors Of
civil war, and involve the people of Virginia in
the crime of treason, by espousing the cause of
South Carolina, that is in state of rebellion
against the General Government, and thereby
transfer the battle. ground from South Carroll
ma to Virginia, and then call upon the non.
saveholding population of the State to do all
the fighting for slaveholding sympathies only,
when their slave property is not endangered ;
and do you not think the experiment is haz.
ardous one to the saveholding interests of this
State?
"Qnestion II. Don't you think, as Sonth
Carolina is the only State that has taken steps
from which war is likely to result, that hers is
the soil upon which the war (if any comes)
should be conducted, and that our women and
children should not be subjected to the horrors
that will attend it, by transferring the scene
from the rice and cotton fields of that State to
the hearthstones of Virginia
Question Is. Finally, do you think you
have right to find fault with and complain of
us, who stood by you in the late contest, in
favor of the Union, the Constitution, and the
enforcement of the laws and still stand faith
full to our professions aud our principles, be.
cause we cannot stutify ourselves as we think
we should, by now declaring we will let the
Union slide, the Constitution be trodden down,
and the laws violated with impunity?"
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILRoAD.-John W.
Garrett Esq, President of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company has addressed print
ed letter to the Chairman of the House Com.
mittee, in reference to bill to authoriz, the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to ex-
tend the Washington branch of their road to
the Potomac river, and across the same, for the
purpose Of connecting with Southern railroads,
and which, originally reported to the Senate,
passed that body in an amended form on the
2lst of December, and is now to be considered
by the House. Mr.. Garrett expresses the will.
lingness of the Company which he directs to
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

g0~ The Reed Rifle corps at Chastertown,
(Md.,) have voted to keep the stars and stripes
constantly waving over their armory, until Sc.
cession is put down.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

IA Judge Smalley, of the United States
Circuit Court at New York, on Monday,
charged the grand jury to present all persons
selling arms to 60 South, to be used in resist
ing the Government Of the country.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

pS~ Judge Greenwood, of Arkansas, now
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, it is reported,
is to be Secretary of the Interior. He has been
understood, all along, to be an out and.out
Union man, and, in other respects, he will
make good Cabinet officer.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

pd- The Montgomery (Ala.) Confederation
publishes tables of returns, showing that the
popular majority was against secession in the
recent election of delegates to the State Con-
yention.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

Dss~ At meeting on the 18th, at Pierce.
land, Anne Arundel county, (Mdy) Union reso-
lutions were adopted by vote of l4O to 5.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

D@~ A gentleman who has been travelling
extensively in the Eastern Shore counties of
Maryland, told us yesterday, that he found the
Union feeling strongly in the ascendant in that
region.
Another Marylander informs us, that he has
letter from the mountain part of Frederick
county, proposing, if necessary, to bring down
a force of thousand men, to assist in the de-
fence of this capital against the nullifers.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

pO- The most plausible conjecture as to the
negotiations at Charleston, and which are now
under consideration by the Cabinet here, is,
that it is proposed that Major Anderson re-
ceive what supplies he needs from Charleston,
upon condition that no reinforcements in men
are sent to him.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

nR JOHN G; F. HoLSTON, Surgeon, Physi-
IL clan, and Accoucheur, No. 1913 K st. nnrtb
between Ninth and Tenth SITS. west, ian 3--am
The national Republican., 1861-01-16
engage in the work ofeompletiug the proposed
extension. SSsk

SrcNIFIoANr.-The following paragraph from
the Charleston s. C.) Courier comedies the al.
legged fact that many Of the best families of the
State are fleeing from 1t as from the plague, in
consequence Of the lawless tyranny now exer.
cised by mob rule there. The Courier of
Saturday, January II, says:
{" The removal Of many excellent families
from the capital is regretted, but nobody pro.
poses to stop them from managing their own
domestic affairs in their own way."-Star.
SECESSION AND COMMERCE.. - On the 7th
and 9Th inst, Immediately preceding the
adoption Of the ordinance of secession, all the
vessels in the port Of Mobile took out their
clearance papers, preferring Uncle Sans war.
rant to that Of the sovereign State of Alabama.
Twenty-Five vessels took out clearances for Lifv-
erpool, seven for Havre, and one for Rotterdam.
PosT OFFICE DEPARrMENT.--The following
figures show what it costs the Government to
maintain postal arrangements in the States and
Territories named:
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~ The South Carolina ordinance of seces.

~ The South Carolina ordinance Of seces.
sion recited many grievances. The Alabama
ordinance recited but one, the election Of Lin.
coin and Hamln. The Mississippi ordinance,
more wisely drawn than either, recites none,
but leaves to the imagination of the reader, an
unrestricted play. We have a curiosity to
see the ordinance Of Florida. 1t may recite
that tyranical Government has robbed them
by taxes, and eaten out their substance, by
quartering soldiers upon them in time of peace.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

b6- Although Mr.. Crittenden has commit.
ted deplorable error of judgment in the propo
sitions he has offered in the Senate, yet his dis
position to sustain the existing Union and Con.
stitution is not doubted. The other day he had
conversation with leading citizen of Mary
land, which is thus reported:
"He was decidedly of the opinion that at
this time Maryland should quietly, firmly, and
bravely, stand by the Constitution and the
Union, and should await future developments
before taking action Of any kind that he could
conceive of no action which Maryland could
take at this moment which could be productive
of favorable results to the peace and quiet of the
nation; and that these would be best promoted
by inaction at present"
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

NAvAL.-The Navy Department has late ad.
vices from flag officer Montgomery, command.
ing Pacific squadron dated at Panama.
The steamers Saranac and Wyoming were
to be dispatched in search of the Levant, which
has not been heard from for some time past.
The Saranac was to cruise along the coasts of
Peru and Chill. The Wyoming, after search.
ing the calm regions in longitude los, is to
proceed to the Sandwich Islands.
The Cyane sailed on the 5th instant, for the
Gulf of California.
The Lancaster is to remain at Panama.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

NATIONAL VoLUNTEERs.-The National Vol
unteers held meeting last night at Burch's
Hall, but, in Difference to their wishes, we with
hold any report of their proceedings Consti-
tuition.
Were the proceedings Of the National Volun-
teers of so incendiary character that it was
deemed unsafe to give them publicity? Or did
they wish it kept secret that an organization
existed in the city of Washington, whose avowed
purpose and object was the disruption of the
Federal Government, the destruction of the pub.
lie buildings, and armed resistan ce to the exc
cuton of the laws of the land?
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

The House YESTERDAY. MIR. Stanton of
Ohio in the House, yesterday, made the first
Republican speech upon the army bill. While
he touched upon points of policy, in respect to
which differences of opinion exist among Re-
publcans, he received praise from all sides
of the House, for his candor, ability, and patriot
ism,
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

VIRcISIA.-The Convention bill, unsatisfac-
tory as it is to the nullifers, was only carried
through the Legislature, as we understand, by
the aid of promises given by the Eastern to the
Western members, that the taxation of slaves
should be raised to meet the views of the latter
This is the beginning of the sacrifices which
secession will impose upon shareholders in Vir-
ginia, and which will only end with the entire
annihilation of their property.
The people of Virginia now have it in their
power, by so deciding when they elect delegates
on the 4th of February, to require any act of
secession which may be adopted to be subse-
quently submitted to themselves. Can it be
possible that they will not choose to retain this
control in their own hands?
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

The Pacific RAILRoAD-This great meas.
ure of peace, and union, and nationality, was
before the Senate yesterday. Gov. Stewards
endorsement of it, in his Saturdays speech,
seemed To have kindled afresh the opposition
of the secessionists. Mr.. Benjamin and Mr..
Bragg led off in the work of attack, with every spe
cies of amendment, down even to one embracing
the extraordinary precaution of denying bank
ing potcers to the companies which should un-
dertake the work. These men are opposed to
any Pacific road, and should not be heard at
all in shaping its details. They intend mis-.
chief in everything they PROPOSE and should
be voted down without ceremony.
The national Republican., 1861-01-16

LoUIsIANA.-The official majority for seces.
8 ion in New Orleans is 1862, which is the mere
d ust of the balance in so large city.
The vote at some other places in that State,
between secession and anti.secession, was as
follows:
Secession. Anti
East Baton Rouge S56 2S0
Clinton $50 so
Jefferson City 472 68
West Baton Rouge is reported nearly unani
nous against secession.
The opponents of secession call themselves
co-operationists, but the great body of them are
Union men.
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MEs AND Provisions PLENTg.-A gentle
man, who came from Manassas Gap-not
Junction-nn Saturday last, gives SEINE decis-
i've Information. He visited the camp at tha.
noint, and says in point Of supply Of provisions,
il is filed like a Cincinnati pork house. Bar
rels Of first class provisions are stored there by
thousands, while eighteen hundred live cattle,
driven over eroin Kentucky, arrived ttere when
he LEFT. Our Informant says that the rebels
bave perfected ample arrangements in Ken
lucky for an uninterrupted supply Of food and
forage. Manassss Gap, be says, IS fortified
into immense strength, and "a be taken only
By great bioodshed.-Phfaasl aiG NORTH fneT-
frrm
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The privzteer S1caaaaA, which sailed out
o. the port OF Charleston, after making cap
ture Of q Northern vessel and sending her in
as a prize, vas captured by the United States
ship Wabash and sent into New York.
This is the first confederate vessel captured
by the Lincoln forces, and it win test the
question whether he United States authorities
intend to allow armed vessels OF the Con-
fedsrste States the rights Of lawful war
There have been wild and furious threats to
treat our priva'esrs as pirates, and execute
al taken whiie engaged in that busines as
pirates. lie question must be now decided.
The manner IN which it sbsll be decided by
Che Northern authorities, win stamp the char
actsr which the war is to bear hereafter. and
in some degree 70 determine political relations
between the two parties. The men at Wash
ingt7n must now meet the direct questions,
whether the conflict .hsy have provoked, in
ali tas proportions 80 has assumed OF warfare,
in whict organized governments are srraying
in The Esll armies Of hundreds Of thousands
Of men, ready to try the issue o. battle, is to
be dealt with as q d.sorderly resurrection, OF
r~esoEn.zsd as public var. Az these men from
the S-ra1nas are treated, so viii their decision
on This subiec, be promulgated Tor the action
OF tbe Crnfedsrate Government, and tbe judg-
msnt Of all other governments. sthey shall
act, will be their responsibility for all the con-
ssqueacss which may follow TO thousands Of
innocent meD, whose lives hereafter may be
tie sacrifice Of a barbaro1s system, and for
tire mul tto5 inous horrors sf such a rsmerseless
sLrife.
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SPEAKING suT.

In e lengthy article, generally condemnatory
OF the policy Of LINCOLN, the Providence (R
J. Post uses the following emphatic language.
We predict that nothiDg-nothins OF good
certainiy-will CONT Of this wholesale seizure
OF private correspondence. Il looks too much
like ar, Austrian measure. It is little ahead Of
Francs. Of course, it is the governmsnt'i
right 70 protect itself. L Right have required
telegraphic operators to take an oath not to
send tTsasoaable dispatches. It might have
placed a government officer in every telegraph
Office. But was it necessary, or profitable, OF
legal, or right, to seize all the correspondence
at al tee Offices, For the last year, not because
anybody in particular was suspected, but be-
cause it was thought likely that the CORE
spondence might furnish grounds for suspect
ing somebody.
Within a short time several citizens Of New
York have been arrested and annoyed BY on.
eials, who charge them with treason or Of ut
tering seditious language. The ssditious Ian
guage has generally amounted to this the
utterer believed the North to be wrong and the
South right, and said 30. This may show a
wrong judgment, and a lack Of patriotism; bu.
in heavens name are We so weak that we
cannot permit freedom Of thought and speech
to this extent? Such interference does not
seem called for in communities where we have
so long boosted Of our exemption from them.
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30 IL lER F0UgTH PEGEs.


VIRGINIA.
Thehour for a decisive battie-one that vii
fully develop the skill OF toe generals and Che
aehHas qualifications Of she men Of the OP-
posing armies-is approaching. The eoneen-
tstian Of troops and munitions OF var on
both sldes has been prosecuted with the great
s est vigor, until it seems that both have
become confident, and each hopeful that
victory would perch upon thsiT respective
bsn2ers.
The lines o. the e0ntending forces are
gradually being advanced, approaching each
other. and skirmishes are daily taking place
between their pickle guards. These are re-
sultiug variously, OF course, and being gener-
ally uniuportant, but ustle publicity is given
them; but It is gratifying to observe that The
reigh OF victory has settled upon the flag OF
the South.
From the best sources of information attain-
able, We have endeavered TO keep our readers
fully advised Of events as they have occurred
True, much Of the preparation made
has been Withheld from The public
for reasons which our military chief
tains have deemed imperative yet enough mas
trauspirsd and been published, to satisfy the
anxious that cur cause is in good condition
The disparity Of numbers between the two
armies is 90 trihirg hat NO person Of intelii-
gsnce who can appreciate the difference be-
tween he mechanical operations Of = hireiing
soldicTy fsb'iBg for tbsir daily r~ations, and
the zeal nrd lar p-rfr7Er-h the gallant band
enlisted in De danss o. tr homes and
be ssuth. c-tsrtsins az Pprenen-
sicns c. tie result. The erisis, howeve seems
to be hand, and we think The public nay
daily anticipate toe announcement e inPoi-
t1nt events. Oar special correspondent at ne
seat q war lie 10 position 70 furnish US the
latest intelligence, which the readers Of The
AFrEAI win have the bsnef. of as early as
n9ssfhTe.
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rho Japaneso Embn..v.

After an infinite deal Of coaxing into thp
formation Of a treaty. the most adulatory at
%tsntion, and the expenditure Of much none,
for their entertainment, and loading them will
presents, the commercial results are expecte,
to be nil. The following is an extract Of a let
ter from an officer on board the Niagara, SINH
lar IN tenor to several others from difsrsn
officers Of that ship:
Instead Of making a market for our manu-.
features, we have taught them how to manu-.
facture fer themselves everything we have tc
sell. The prime minister eVinced the utmos
indifference to The details Of the visit 60 this
country. and excused himself to Mr. Hsrri,
from hearing anything about it on the ground
that "the days were very short, and be haa a
good deal Of business on haRd.n All the cost.
" presents Of chaineTy. carriages, ETC., which
our PEOPLE hesped SO literally upon the embas-
sv, were hsaped together with the utmost care.
lessness and indifference. But the most curi-
ous disclosures awaited the removal Of the
Dahlgren guns.
No less than seventeen Of these s0rmidsbl,
weapons we're discovered in q shed-Whieb bad
been made after the model Of one presented
by Commodore Perry; and one OF the officers
declared that they had over a thousand Of the
same guns mounted upon the forts and in the
a~rgeuals a. Yeddoi These are the simple, IN
tntored people, TO whom we have been volun-
tserinE Instructions in the art Of war.
Our government has expended nearly two
millions Of dollars in this attempt to cultivate
The good will Of the japanese. We shall be
sgreeablv disappointed II it does not cost u.s.
some day, ten ime that sum to avert the re-
suits Of our excessive ciFilIty.
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Ernm RIchmnna.

RICHMOND, June 19.-An ordinance was
offered yesterday in the Virginia convention
speaking Of snnulling all acts formerly passed
c~ommendatory Of Winfield Scott, and ordering
the name Of Scott county to be changed to
Davis, and that OF Buchanan to Stephens.
The convention will probably take a recess
after Monday neXtto November.
An ordinance passed authorizing county
courts to make provision for the support Of
soldiers families.
Reports are ss numerous as ever. One thai
the federalists have evacuated Newport News.
is generally accredited.
Public opinion indicates that battle OF bat
ties will soon occur.