The national Republican., 1861-02-11
NEWS ITEMS,

The prospectus has been issued Of an India
Cotton Company. 1t is proposed TO establish
agencies in Guzerat, and purchase cotton Of the
growers direct, and 10 endeavor to improve the
process Of picking and cleaning by machinery.
The President has signed the resolution to
extend the time for taking testimony in the
Mccormick reapng- ng-inachine case.
The amount of gold shipped from Victoria
during the last two and half years is stated
At 81, 2,S5O,O00.
On the 29th December the largest fire ever
known at Honolulu destroyed steam Touring
mill valued at $4,000, and thirteen other
buildings, among them storehouses, machine
shops, iron foundry, &c. Total loss $55,O0O.
In the caucus of the Republican members Of
the Maine Legislature held on Wednesday
evening, it was resolved that the members OF
Congress be authorized to act in the National
Convention.
Considerable excitement existed in Chile, at
latest dates, on the subject Of personal liabili'
ty bill, which makes revolutionists and dis.
turbers Of the public peace responsible in money
for the damages they do.
Mr.. Memminger, one of the South Carolina
seceders, is German by birth. The Hon.
T. c. Reynolds, (Reinhod,) the present Lieu.
tenant Governor of that State, is also German
by birth. He was born in Prague, his parents
having emigrated early to this country. He is
Jew.
A wealthy planter in Southern Louisiana
writes to gentleman in Boston as follows, un-
der date Of January 26:
ain our section, the excitement is confined
to the politicians, the people generally being
borne along with the current, and feeling the
natural disposition of sustaining their section.
think ninety nine out Of every hundred Of the
people sincerely hope that some plan will yet
be devised to heal up the dissensions, and to
settle our difficulties to the satisfaction Of both
the North and the South
Captain W. Il. G. Whiting, of the United
States engineers, has sent in his resignation,
with the intention Of becoming a citizen Of
Georgia. Lieutenants James l.. Corley and
Boggs, Of the army, and Lieutenant Charles
Morris, Of the navy, have also rendered their
designations.
Commodore Laurent Rousseau, a native res.
ident of New Orleans, has sent his resignation
to Washington, with the intention Of offering
his services to his State. L.
Daniel Ullmann having presented one of the
Clay bronze medals to Mr.. Lincoln, on the
ground that the latter was the first President
elect of the Uuited States who represented Mr..
Clay's opinions, Mr.. Lincoln has replied as fol-
lows:
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. l, 1861.
My Dear Sir: Your kind letter of the 25th
ult., and the express package containing the
bronze medal of Mr.. Clay, both come safely to
hand this morning.
Permit me, in the first place, to return you
my heartfelt thanks for your goodness in send
ing me this valuable present, and secondly, to
express the extreme qualification feel in pos
sessing so beautiful a memento Of him whom
during my whole political life l have loved
and revered as teacher and q leader.
Your ob't servant, A. LINCOLN.
CosT OF MAILS FOR THE SECEssIoNIsTs.-A
paragraph is going the rounds to the effect that
the mails in the seeding States cost the Gov
ernment "three thousand dollars per week.
| This is much like the back-woods orator who
astonshed his audience by the announcement
that the public debt of England reached the
enormous sum Of "nine thousand dollars, and
the interest running on all the time"
The truth is that the excess Of postal expen,
ses over receipts in South Carolina alone, ex-
ceed four thousand dollars week. while in the
six States which have now seeded, the def
cheney is nearer thirty thousand dollars week
than three thousand, being in fact $26, ,25G
Boston Advertiser.