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New York Tribune.

EB- See the advertisement Of this, the
best of all the journals of the country.
Do yourself and your family the justice
to subscribe for it.
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Old Postage Stamis.

will receive Old Style Postage Stamps
in exchange for new until Wednesday,
November 18th, after which the Old
Stamps will not be received for postage
at this office.
j. RICH. p. NJ.
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Soldiers Aid Society.

AT the second regular meeting Of this
Society, held on Thursday, Nov. 9Th. the
following named persons were appointed
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Thanksgiving.

EB- Gov. LAKEWOOD has appointed
Monday, the 28lh inst, as a day Of
Thanksgiving and Prayer.
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Census Matters.

NCHSUS WUtICTbe
EB- Three babies were born in this
village on Saturday night, and it wasn't
much Of a night for babies, either.
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LOST.

THERE was taken from the Pest Office. Ly
L some one, a BUNDLE, sent by Frank No
bic to j. ID. Noble, in the goods sent to this Of
fee by members Of Capt. Lees company, and
was by mistake delivered TO the wrong person
If the person who received it will return the
same to the Post Office they will confer a favor
upon us.
The bundle was half a seamless sack, con
tanning a brown coat, a bi5!.,l Al several 9th
articles.
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NEW ENGLAND
FIRE & NlRINE INSURANCE CO.
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Incorporated 1857. Charter Perpetual.
CHARTERED CAPITAL. s50O.O0O
Cash Capital and Surplus. January /, 1861,
$2A6, 4CS IS.

This Company will negotiate Risks Mt as
Low Rates as any Sound Company, and par
ties desiring Insurance will find it to their ad-
vantage to Insure with them, as a Company
entirely reliable. aud meeting with prompt
tude, and adjusting equitnlly, all losses.
Il. ID. BULLENE, Agent.
independence, Feb. IL, 1851.
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INDEPENDENCE INSURANCE co.
OFFICE IN WILCOXS BLOCK,
Main Street, independence Iowa

Ah~OpShuO1SVs 4O"a
The Directors of this Company take pleas.
IRE In announcing to the public that they are
now fully organized in compliance with the
Laws of Iowa, and are prepared to receive
Applications for Insurance.
To FARMERS and those having isolated
Town property to insure, we submit the fol-
lowing facts, which are worthy of your careful
consideration, and then solicit your patronage
and influence in building up an Institution
that will be an honor to our young and grow
ing State.
1st, 1t is e Home Institution, and controlled
by the members insuring,
2d, They insure upon the Stock, as meH as the
mutuai ptan, giCing their patrons tie choicc in tie
tno systems.
Sd, They insure nothing but Farm and iso-
lated Town Property, in the farmers Depart
ment.
All, They coqfne Their business to this State.
5th, Not more than 80, 900 insured in one
risk, or within q circle Of Eight rods.
9Th, This Conpdny viii pay losses or DAMAGE
accustomed by Lightning, uhcticr the proU,yty is
burned or not, Provided, the a~g5liccni ~apglics for
such insurance, amt pays the additional rate fired
for such insurance.
It'll, 1t being a Home Company, with honor
able intentions should he entitled to a prefer
ence over foreign Companies.
These few reasons why citizens Of Iowa
should patronize the Independence Insurance
Company are checrtully submitted TO an inter
tercsted public.
Directors:
A. B. CLARK, p. G. WILCOX.
w. G. DOMAIN, HEMAN MORSE.
J. ID. MYERS, O. NJ. POND.
j. S. WOODWARD, ]. H. CAMPBELL,
L.. l.. MUM, c. l.. PATRICK.
ALBERT CLARK, A. d. BARNUM.
OFFICERS
p. c. WILCOX, Pres. HEMAH MoRsE. I. Pres.
j. II. CAMPBELL, Treas. o. NJ. PoNp, Secrtfary.
Independence, May &, 1851.
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Wheat.

Wheat.
ES- Wheat has advanced slightly, and
is now selling at 47@5o cents.
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DONATED TO THE SOCIETY

By Mrs. p. c. Wilcox, ~ pounds woollcn
yarn, and material for one Quilt.
BY Mrs. Jordan, Material for one quilt.
by Lorenzo Moore, % cents.
BY Liberal Christian Sunday School, 81 81.
by Mrs. Trcxler, one guilt.
By W: ? Brown. yarn and knitting needles.
BY }. Rich, 81.
A. WILCOX, Pres.
n. 7. BEMIs, Sec.
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OFFICERS

p. G. WILCOX, Pres. HEMAN MoRsE. !. Pres
j. II. CAMPBELL, Treas. o. NJ. PoNp, Secreiary.
Independence, May 8, 1861.
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The Directors of this Company take pleas
IRE in announcing to the public that they are
now fully organized in compliance with the
Laws of iowa, and are prepared to receive
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
VIRGINIA..

The passenger traffic on the lines between
here and Richmond has fallen off one-half, as
compared with the winter of 1860. On other
lines in Virginia, the collapse is even greater.
Lands and negroes are unsaleabe, the banks
have suspended, and there is a complete pros.
tra,ion of trade. And this is only the premon.
itory pinching of secession.
Virginians begin to see that they have some
thing more serious in hand than to be quarrel.
ing here about running Critenden lines through
the mountains and the Navajo and Apache In
dams of New Mexico, on neither side of which
will it ever be possible to work the negro. That
sort of thing is for hair.splitting demagogues,
who wish to keep place, or to oust others from
place. But the question for the people of Vir.
gnia is, whether they will ruin their State by
carrying it into revolution, and this involves all
the questions of the safety of person and prop.
erty.
The Union is to be saved, not here in Wash
ington, but by the States remaining in it, and
that, in the end, is what Virginia will determine
to do. II six States on the Gulf have cut them
selves off from the blessings of strong ma.
tional protection, it furnishes no reason why
Virginia should do the same foolish thing, nor
does the experience Of those States present any
temptation to followingin their footsteps. There
is not man in one of them who is not worse
off by secession. Instead Of getting new rights,
they have lost old ones, not excepting the es,
sental ones, of the safety Of life and fortune.
The question for Virginia is, not whether this
or that concession shall be insisted upon, but
whether she will plunge into revolution with all
the ruin it involves, and of which the existing
distress there is only o foretaste.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
That is precisely what Northwestern Virginia

That is precisely what Northwestern Virginia
has already resolved upon.
OF course, if Maryland adheres to the Union,
the United States will never permit such Sc.
cession of Virginia by State lines, as will put
the thirty one millions of dollars invested in the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at the mercy Of a
foreign power. Maryland may rely upon it.
that no settlement, so unjust and injurious to
her, will ever be submitted to.
With the addition of Northwestern Virginia,
and of the Virginia counties of Acconac and
Northampton upon the Eastern shore. giving
her one of the capes of the Chesapeake, Mary
land would acquire territories which would fix
her position for all time as n irst.cass State.
OF course, we do not for moment entertain
the thought that Virginia will desert a Govern
ment, almost of her own framing, but should
such deplorable event occur, the interests of
Maryland are sacred, and will never be aban.
doned.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
CONGRESS YESTERDAY.

In the Senate, Messrs. SGdell and Benjamin
withdrew, in characteristic valedictories. Sill.
dell was malignant, and Benjamin was plausi.
BILE. This is the last Of that class of perform.
ances.
Mr.. Clingman having been reelected for an
other term, felt it to be necessary to repel the
suspicion that he is in favor of the Union, but
he hardly succeeded in doing so, although he
made very labored secession speech.
He was followed by Mr.. Hale, in one OF that
gentleman's happiest efforts.
The bill to give a Territorial Government to
the Pixies Peak region, under name changed
to Colorado, was finally passed.
The House was occupied all the session upon
the deficiency bill, which was finally reported
from the Committee of the Whole. The CHR
iqui appropriation was voted out by the Com,
mittee.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
FORCED CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Baltimore Sun says:

Hc 'o"H
"James Bolan, of Grahamville, s. c., has
sent donation Of 81 900 to Governor Pickens,
for the wants ofthe State. The Mercury states
that Williamsburg, in that State, has gratui.
tously contributed no less than two hundred and
twenty three slaves to labor at the works on
Sullivaus island"
OF course it will be said that these contribu.
tions are voluntary. But even if they are not
only voluntary, but cheerful, the exigency of
affairs which makes men willing to part with
their substance, is not very desirable one.
But, in truth, these contributions are made,
as we'll by those who were and are opposed to
secession, as by those jealous in that cause.
Where the patriotic" are summoned to pay
over, nobody dares to Decline under the penalty
of being marked as disa6ected.
Robert E. Scott, Of Virginia, said here, not
long ago, that the report of his having been
called into Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet, had exposed
him to the danger of having his buildings burnt.
If this is true of comparatively sober Virginia,
the reign of terror in South Carolina may be
imagined.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
JUDGE DOUGLAS.

In a letter to the Memphis appeal, from this
Senator, we find reiterated the same groundess
slander, of which he delivered himself lhe other
day in the Senate, viz; that Republicans in
Congress resist certain pretended measures of
compromise, because they desire a dissolution
of the Union. Having fastened that charge
upon himself by notorious completely with se-
cessionists and by assuring their safety by re.
sisting the enforcement of the laws, he wishes
to drag others down to his own level. Before
this thing is through with, Judge Douglas and
his Southern allies will find out whether the
Republicans are in favor of the Union or not.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
DEFENDING THE CAPITAL.

The presence Of United States troops in this
capital, is vehemently objected to in certain
quarters.
The country has been supporting an army
at an average annual cost, since its increase in
1855, of seventeen millions Of dollars. This is
large sum, and is so much money thrown away,
If it is not allowable to the army for the de.
fence of the country. And what part of the
country is it more vitality necessary to defend,
than the capital ofit2
The men who dislike to see troops here, are
those who perceive that those troops may de.
feat their designs of seizing upon the city of
Washington. Here is where the shoe pinches,
and there can be no better ear.mark of trail
tor, than clamoring against the measures which
can possibly produce no evil, but which insure
the safety of the Government. If the troops
are not needed, they may, at least, as well be
here as anywhere else.
But it is said by some weak minded people,
that the presence of these troops produces ex.
ctement. 1t produces no excitement except
among those already dsaffected, and can of.
fend nobody else. Undoubtedly, it enrages the
seditious, but sediton is never repressed with.
out causing rage.
We have had about enough of this nonsense
of yielding everything to rebellion, for fear Of
the anger Of rebels. The forts at Charleston
were left without reinforcements, when they
might have been reinforced without difficulty,
under the miserable plea that to reinforce them
would excite South Carolina. And it is only
the other day that ex Senator Mallory had the
impudence to telegraph the President, that the
dispatch of the Brooklyn to the succor of Fort
Pickens, would necessitate an attack upon that
position.
There is not man in this District who is
well affected to the Government, who does not
rejoice at the presence of national military
force, who does not wish this force to be in.
creased, or who would not deprecate its with.
drawal as the signal of an ignominious capitu-
lation to the public enemy.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
NORTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.

The Baltimore Clipper is graphing vigor.
ously with the great and only question present.
ed to Maryland at this crisis, which is, whether
she will leave the Union, if Virginia leaves it.
There is no other question, as even ex, Govern.
or Lowe would be willing to remain in it, if
Virginia does.
To the suggestion that Maryland will lose
her railroad access 10 the Ohio river, unless
che joins Virginia in secession, the Clipper re-
plies:
"The scarecrows constantly paraded before
the people by the secessionists are scarcely
worthy moments serious attention. If Vir-
ginia should secede, which we very much doubt,
she will not undertake to close the Chesapeake
Bay to our merchant vessels, or to seize upon
our Baltimore and Ohio railroad. We expect
the people of Northwestern Virginia will have
something to say about this. The abundance
of coal and iron ore to be found in their ranges
of mountains, shows that their interests are
more identified with the manu- tdcturing than
the exclusive agricultural sections of our coun
try, and that their prosperity will be as much
retarded by submission to the free.trade pol.
icy of the far South as that of Maryland. We
invoke our friends in that part Of Virginia to
take the necessary steps at once for separation
from the Old Dominion, and annexation to
Maryland, rather than have all their prospects
blghted by being dragged into a Freetrade
Confederacy.' Many Of those counties belong
to Maryland of right, and as this State has
done so much for them by laying down four
hundred miles of railroad within their borders,
it becomes them to return to their proper ale
glance, and bring the other portions OF North
western Virginia with them
And again the Clipper says:
Northwestern Virginia belongs more prop.
erly to the West than to the South. Those
counties can boast Of more enterprisng and
thrifty race of producers than those of Eastern
and Southern Virginia, and if they will cut
themselves loose from the free trade and un.
progressive policy of the Southern seceders,
and form an early union with Maryland-look.
ing to the North for examples to follow-in a
lew short years their population and wealth
will be largely increased"
The Clipper addresses willing ears, when it
urges Northwestern Virginia to cut loose from
her present connection if the demagogues OF
Eastern Virginia succeed, by excitement, ter
for and precipitation, in drawing Virginia into
the meshes of the South Carolina politicians.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
WHO WANTS IT.?

A NY person desiring to exchange property in
n Washington, for improved or unimproved
town and country property-includinga fine new
house, with all the modern improvements, fine
garden, fruit, shrubbery, &c.-in thriving and
central location in one OF the most healthiul and
prosperous of the Northwestern States, can hear
of nm opportunity by inquiring at this office i'm
mediately. A place of FIVE or ten acres, with
good improvements, in the immediate vicinity
would be preferred but would exchange for u
residence in the city. One with yard and gar
den preferred feb 5-lw
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
2,2S7,647 2,265,72l 4,543,36'
From the Miners (Pa.) Journal.
HON. JAMES COOPER.

This gentleman, formerly citizen Of Penn.
sylvania, for years prominent member Of the
Legislature, and subsequently United States
Senator, elected by the Wing party, is now
resident of Frederick, Maryland, in the prac.
tice OF the law. We observe in late number
of the Examiner, Of that city, letter from Mr..
Cooper, approving the course of the paper in
upholdng the Union, and censurng the trea
sonable course of portion of the Southern peo.
pie. The letter breathes the true spirit of pa
triotism, and will be read with pleasure by Mr..
Cooper's former friends and admirers in this
State. He concludes as follows:
In this con uncture, when treason has been
bold enough to seize the property of the Union,
to excuse it is to abet it, and become pdrticeps
criminis with the traitors. You have denounc-
ed it. thank you for it. thank you for it
in the name of the past ! thank you for it by
our hopes of the future, which must consist in
strangling the monster now, or yielding, at
once and for ALL to whim and caprce-when.
ever whim and caprice may lead disappointed
and bad men to raise their hands against our
Union and our liberties-for liberty and Union
| consider inseparabe. If all otter journals,
instead of equiyocating or lending aid and
comfort to treason had acted as the Examiner
has done, treason would not dare, as it now
does, to walk abroad, undisguised in open day,
Haunting the ensigns of its crime and folly in
the faces of good men and patriots. Again
thank you for your bold, national, and conserv.
ative course, and subscribe myself
Sincerely and truly yours,
"JAMEs COOPER.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.

The amendments Of the Senate to the House
bill upon this subject, in addition to the leading
one which provides for a third road at the
North, cover a great variety of particulars.
The most prominent are the following:
|. That before the grants of land and money
shall become vested, the charters expected to be
obtained from States and Territories for the
construction Of the several roads, shall be sub.
mitted to, and approved by Congress.
2. That thirty per cent. of the moneys stipu.
lated to be advanced by the Government shall
be retained until the completion Of the roads.
3. That no second mortgage shall be made
upon either road, until the company construct.
ing it have expended thirty millions of dollars
of their own means, to be raised by stock sub
scriptions.
4. That to the extent Of all power necessary
to correct abuses, the privileges of the several
companies shall be subject to such modifca.
tions as Congress may hereafter, and from time
to time, prescribe.
Some of these conditions are onerous, but
the Senate seemed to be determined to err on
the side Of caution, in guarding the bill There
was scarcely anything which the inventive &C.
tivity of the enemies of the whole project of
railroad connection with the Pacific could sug
gest, in the way Of restrictions, which the Sen.
ate did not sustain. The policy of many Sen.
ators, undoubtedly was, to have bill of such
character, as to anticipate and provide for all
reasonable objections.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
GLORIOUS VIRGINIA.

The reports leave no doubt that Virginia
voted yesterday by heavy majority, estimated
by good judges at thirty thousand, in favor of
having any ordinance referred back to the peo'
pie, before it shall be operative. This was the
question of yesterday.
1t is believed that the secessionists per Sc
will be in minority Of forty in the Conven.
ton.
Culpepper, Fairfax, and Alexandria, have
been carried by the Union men, Alexandria
by q reported vote of four to one.
This is the beginning Of the end. The Sc.
cession ball is stopped.
The effect of this vote will be decisive
everywhere north Of the cotton line.
The conspirators here are in despair.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
A LITTLE FAST.

In connection with the surrender of the cut
ter, McClelland, we notice the following tele-
gram, which was intercepted by the Governor
of Alabama, and found its way into the New
Orleans papers:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.
William HemphM Jones, New Orleans:
"Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain
Breshwood, assume command of the cutter,
1.-THE McClelland, and obey the order / gave
through you. If Captain Breshwood, after ar.
rest, undertakes to interfere with the command
OF the cutter, Lieutenant Caldwell to consider
him as mutineer, and treat him accordingly.
If any one attempt to haul down the American
flag, shoot him on the spot.
John A. DIX,
Secretary fthe 7reasu,v"
Bravery is good thing, but not bravery with
the lives of others. 1t is a great responsibility
for a superior to issue an order, the execution
of which must cost the life Of an inferior. 1t
may be justified by great object, but in this
case, nothing would have been gained by it.
The cutter was in the midst of enemies, and
hopelessly lost, at all events. II the order was
issued for admiration, it is all very well, and
possibly no such order was ever issued at all.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
BOARDING.,

By the Day, Week, or Month, DiM or pithou
Rooms.
M RS. NJ. A. MILLS, having taken and fitted
lVl' up, in handsome style, that large and
pleasant house, No. 504 Pennsylvania avenue
third door east of Third street, between the ST.
Charles Hotel and Adamss Express Office, neal
the Capitol and railroad depot, is now prepared
with pleasant rooms, with or without Board.
nov 26
The national Republican., 1861-02-05

DD We continue to have newspaper reports
from New York, fixing the time when Fort
Sumter is to be attacked. The papers in New
York live upon sensation paragraphs of that
kind. For ourselves, we have steadily believed
that the South Carolinians will attack the fort,
when they get ready and feel like it, and not
before. Precisely when that will be, remains
To be seen
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
THE CONFERENCE.

The sittings ofthe Conference yesterday we're
private. There is no truth in the report that
the Commissioners from any State demanded
the removal of the troops from this capital, as
the condition upon which they would confer.
No such demand was made, and no such spirit
yas manifested
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
"F. iSchley, Editor Examiner"
ASSOCIATION OF THE
FIFTH WARD.

OFFICERS.
Foster Henshaw, President.
j. H. Wise, First Vice President.
Jesse Apler, Second Vice President.
C. F. Crump, Recording Secretary.
A. Denmead, SEN, Corresponding Secretary.
r. A. M,lstead, Financial Secretary.
John Grinder, Treasurer.
Meets every Wednesday evening, at Joseph
Smiths, corner of Second street east and
street south.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05

ATTENTION, UNION RIFLES.
regular meeting of the corps will be held at
Steuben House on Tuesday evening, at I o'clock
By order of the Captain.
feb At WIN. P. BROWN, Sec'y.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05

p4- The vote in the Kentucky Senate, for
an adjournment to April "a, to consider ma
tional affairs, was rs to II.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05

KEYTucKY.-The Senate of this State has re.
newed the proposition, made by it some three
weeks since, of National Convention as pro-
vided for in the Constitution. 1t has also pro.
posed to the House, that when the Legislature
adjourns, it be to the oath of April, with q view
to deferring all action upon national matters
until that time, when the policy of the new Ad,
ministration will have developed ITSELF This
indication of a discreet course on the part OF
Kentucky, is reassuring to patriots everywhere.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05

MARYLANp.-There was a large Union rally
at Annapolis last week.
At the meeting last week Of the precinct
delegates of St. Mary's county, delegates to a
State Convention were appointed, but they
we're instructed to withdraw, if any attempt
was made to pass an ordinance Of secession
without submitting it to the people. A leadiug
member took ground against any secession
ut all.
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
A FINE PARLOR, on the first floor, and thre
n Chambers on the floor above, at No. 27t
Pennsylvania avenue, two doors east of Kirk
wood House." dec l-u
The national Republican., 1861-02-05
4 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 a
most excellent advertising medium.