The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-02-02
cExERAL rSrELLIeEScE.

RFHon. TIxsrnr Oris HowE, Republ''
lean, has been elected Senator from Wiscon-
sio, for six years fpom the 4sh OF Marcel
next, to succeed Mr.. DrRkEE.
The Tribune Almanac for 1851, states the
popular vote for President as follows
Lincoln, l,s57,6l; Douglas l.Se5.9'o
Breckenridge S47,95s; Bell, 59o,ool
Lincoln over Douglas +9l, 6s4.
The President elect leaves Springfield en-
route for Washington, on the llsh inst. lie
has accepted an invitation of the Legisla-
.ure Of Indiana, aud will visit Indianapolis
on the 18th.
The following words in Jsckson's proc
lamation to South Carolina. in 1882. express
the determination Of the people of the Union
to. day: s. My brethren, the disturbers Of
the Union you msy be, but the desiroyefs,
aerer."
The famous Pemberton mill at Lawrence
MASSEY rebuilt On the site Of that terrible
slaughter, has cost nearly half million.
II will commence running this wuek. en-
ploying about one thousand operatives.
Has not the panic reached Lawrence?
JEFF. Davis has written letter to Gov.
Pickens, which is endorsed by Senator Hun
ter, advising him to restore communication
between Maj. Anderson's command and
their friends, and to give them opportunity
of procuring fresh provisions, which has
hitherto been denied them.
Although Mr.. Slidell reports Louisiana as
in haste, and resolved to get out of the
Union, he is a candidate for re-slection to
the Senate for the six years after the 4th Of
March, and is pressed by the very men who
threaten to dissolve Immediately. One fact
furnishes q commentary on the other.
The question now is, Is there any such a
thing as Gorernment Of the United States?
Or must we fall into total anarchy and con-
fusion at the command of South Carolina ?
Just at this moment it looks much as if the
latter were our destiny; but there is no
reason to despair. The night is now dark,
but the dawn cannot be long postponed.
Gov. Pickens of South Carolina, having
balance of SO 900 due him, as late Minis
ter to Russia, sent to Washington for it .
few days ago. The department adjusted his
accounts by sending him a draft on the
Charleston sub-treasury, the m oney in which
has been seized by that State. Pretty cute,
that, for Uncle Sam.
The London Daily News Of the 9th ult.,
in an article discussing the agitation at
Washington, says: "Thers is only one
body Of politicians, Of the multitude assem-
bled there, that shows cheerful steadiness
amidst the fuctuation Of rumor and Of
meas oods; and that is tho stout band of
Republican members from the North
West"
Vanity Fair has capital picture, entitled
the ''Rsing of the Afrite.' Tie idea is
borrowed from the familiar story of the
Arabian Nights. A gigantic negro, bearing
scourges of snakes in each hand, is repre-
sented as rising out Of small bottle mark
ed "Sccession,'' while three fishermen,
whose features are those of Messrs. Yancv,
Keitt, and Toomhs, look in terror at tho
apparition they have invoked. The concep-
ton is admirable; any artist might be
proud Of it.
The Concord Statesmen, says democratic
sha,pers in that vicinity 60 about with
onion tears in their eyes, bawling panic and
total ruin and when they can brighten
credulous farmer, and make him believe the
bottom is going to drop out of the "Old
Granite State" they buy his property at
depressed rate, which they have caused by
their falsehood. One Of these trick.ters is
playing just such wooden nutmeg games
through a Hartford newspaper.
In Virginia the question Of secession i.
to be submitted to vote Of the people, to
be given at the time the delegates to the
State Convention are elected. If a fair !
canvass is allowed, this will give an oppor-
tunity for the manifestation of whatever
conservative and anti revolutionary sen,i-
mcnt there is in the State. But madnes.
seems to rule the hour wherever there is |
Slavery, and it is impossible to say how far
the intelligent and substantial men of Vir.
ginia may be able to overcome the passion
Of the mob, by whom that terrible truth that
Secession is War is regarded with reckless
Indifference.
ey7The Chicago Tribune says a resolu-
ton in the form of an ordinance has been
reported to the Louisiana Treason Conven.
ton, recognizing the free navigation of the
as right to be extended to all
friendly States. Whether Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois. Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota
are embraced in the category of s'friendly
States" does not appear, as this point of
time.
KINDLY EUT NOT SEDUCTIVE.
Wo received a package of the TINES last
night, with this Endorsement:
"Returned from Columbus, Geor1i,.
where the proprietors would be hung were
they to show their heads"
We shall not "show." under such circum.
stances. We would not 20 half that dis. /
tance for the DramisaJ rarorl ~ |