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A New YORK TRAGEDY.-In New York on W ed
day, a coal dealer named Ward, residing in Pearl
street, attempted to commit murder and suicide at
the residence of his wife. He had been separated
from his wife for time, but visited her. in the
hope of obtaining $780, which she had in her pos
session. Failing to obtain the money, he shot at
her twice with a revolver, without effect. Then
pleading penitence, he solicited private interview
with her, and while in an act of endearment stab
bed her three times. He then fed, and on reach
ing the foot of the stairs shot himself in the abdo-
men.
The New York Day Book interprets the Lincoln
Indianapolis speech as can open declaration of war
against the South" and says will be SO regarded.
Land has recently been sold In Fleet street, Lon.
don, At the rate Of "a, 800, 900 per acre.
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MASSACHUSETTS AID FOR CHARLESTON late
Legislature, to send provisions to Charleston, was
only in recognition of the old amity between South
Carolina and Massachusetts,
The Boston Port bill came into force June l,
IVA. The object of this bill was to beggar-com-
merciay to nuify--the town of Boston, by shut
ting the port, and cutting off all import and ex-
port by sea. On the oath of June-24 days after
this bill went into operation-we had no telegraph
then-a public meeting was held at Charleston, s.
e.: The moving spirits were the Trapiers, and the
Elliots, the Horries and the Clarksons, the Gads.
dens and the PinckneYs of that day; and resolu-
tions were passed, full of brotherly love and SYM
pathy for the inhabitants of Boston.
New YORK, Aug. Is, 1774.-Saturday last, Capt.
Dickerson arrived here, and brought 376 barrels of
rye from South Carolina, to be sold, and proceeds
to be remitted to Boston, present to the sufferers;
still larger cargo to be shipped for the like be-
nevoent purpose.
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BALTIMORE, Feb, IA, 1851.
The Stock market here to-day active and
rather frmer in than yesterday, and the tele
graphic report from New York shows a frmer market
there and advance in Of the leading Securities
The transactions here to day, the bulk OF which in
City 6s, and Railroad bonds amount in value to about
500 000 There however inquiry for Railroad
stocks and sales made of Al shares Baltimore and
Ohio at s59G59% cash but this stock left OF $59R bid
s59x asked regular way and $50 bid SCI buyer 60
days There was movement in Northern Central Rail
way, nor were there any quotations for it to-day For
Railroad bonds there good inquiry and sales
made Of $4,000 Baltimore and Ohio 1855 So and
81 900 Northern Central 1855 at 49K There also
good demand for City 6s and we note sales of SLIP
1865 at 95 $1,000 1s75s at 954 and $500 1905 e6
City 6's closed at 954 bid 95 asked 1s75s; and 96
bid 964 asked for 1905 and Railroad bonds left off at
81 bid for Baltimore and Ohio 1S75s; So! bid, 81
asked for do 10SOs; so bid sOA asked do. 1855
30 bid 49x asked for Northern Central 1885, and SIX
bid 63 asked for Central Ohio first mortgage bonds In
the Mining stocks there but little done at the Board
to-day. Gardner Hill lower, but for most of the
others prices were pretty well maintained The
cude 100 shares Gardner Hill s275 this figure being
decline of 20 cts this last sale 400 shares Springfield
at s. and 800 shares North State at so Sprngfe
left off at 81 bid So asked Guford at 70 cts bid rs
cts asked Rudsel at 80 cts bid but Gardner Hill closed
at only $40 bid, $275 asked regular way.
The rates for foreign Exchange to-day follows,
viz London, bankers bills, 1051!Gl06 do. commercial
DO 104105; Paris 60 day bills 25 short sight do
6f 2o Antwerp ST. 30 Bremen. Amsterdam AnGOAnH5
Hamburg 35A GS6; Cologne, ~ Frankfort on. the Main,
Al.
In New York to-day Missouri 6s improved x; North
Carolina bonds Il; Erie N New York Central X! Read
ing n Harlem Il and Galena Chicago Z; but Cleve-
land and Toledo declined y; Michigan Southern u and
Michigan Southern guaranteed II Virginia 6 Tennessee
bonds Canton and Rock Island all closed yesterdays
figures
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
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CRUEL HoAx.-Yesterday the Washington
public were to considerable extent deceived by a
handblll posted upon tree boxes, &C., announcing
the surrender of Fort Sumter, after a desperate
struggle, and stating where the particulars might
be found in the afternoon. AS the officers and
men garrisoning Sumter have many close con-
nections here the handbill caused intense distress
in this community for some hours. 1t turned ou t,
however, that to advertise drinking house was
the ostensible cause of inflicting much pain on
innocent persons. The popular Indignation against
all concerned in the trick is not more general than
deserved Wash. Star, FEB. IA.
The San Antonia Ledger mentions the discovery
of an excellent ford across the Rio Grande, by
which route can be established to chihuahua, at
saving OF 379 miles. 1t is an air line from San
Antonia to Chihuahua and Guayamas Shall we
all live to see railroad built upon the line?
Mr.. Joseph Conrad, an old defender of Boston,
died at frederick city on Tuesday last He was II
years old.
Col. Fremont is now Ii Albany, New York.
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The METHODIST CHURCH MovEMENT.-At meet
ing of the lay members of ST. Peters NJ. e. Church,
Princess Anne, Somerset county, convened Tuesday
evening Jan. 20, 1861 for the purpose of consider
ing the state of the church in reference to the New
Chapter, the following resolution was adopted:
delphia Conference at its next Session to divide hr
state lines, and form new conference embracing
the State of Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Mary.
land, and that part of Virginia now occupied by
said conference, and that we affectionstely invite
those of its members who sympathise with u.s. to
stand by us in the division; and that we will take
our position with the Border conference in the
event of their separation from the General confer
on the subject of slavery in this excited state OF the
nation.
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RESIGNATION OF SOUTHERN CLERKS IN THE In ..
TERROR DEPARTMENT.-J. W. Mosely and Col s.
Percy Ellis, of Louisiana; A. B. Jordan, of Yir-
lima, clerks in the Census Bureau; and W. ].
Showers, j. A. Barksdale, j. w. Pullian, III. c.
Worthington and H. A. Kincannon, of Mississippi;
II. Allen and {. NJ. Harold, of Georgia, clerks in
the General Land Office, have, in consequence of
the action of their respective States, rendered
their designations, and in most cases departed for
their homes. Others from the South, have an
nounced their intention to resign during the latter
part of this, or the first of next week. Washing
ton Star
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The Philadelphia Inquirer says:-We have infor-
nation that at early day it is expected that the
State Convention will be summoned together again
with view to the action Cf the Montgomery Con-
vention or Congress, and without any reference to
Fort Sumter.
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The Pasha of Egypt is establishing a magnificent
palace, built of French cast iron, for museum for
antiquities to be filled with relics of antiquity found
in Egypt, in the execution of which twenty five
thousand men are now employed, under the direc-
ton Of Mariette, the French archmnlorist
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CosT OF BoMBARDING.-A letter from Charleston
to the New Orleans Delta gives the following item
of the expense to be incurred in the siege of Sum-
ter
"Every gun fired from Fort Sumter costs, on an
average, thirteen dollars. Every gun fired by the
State will be an average expenditure of nine dol
lars. prominent officer of Fort Moutrie informs
Inc that, by close calculation, it has been ascer-
tanned that when its batteries open, the cost per
Sl5,OOO Pretty heavy, that But this is the sur
est way of mastering the fort, and we had better
spend money than lives in its acauistiOn.,
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The three Oregon Presidential electors could not
consent to appoint messenger to bring their vote
to Washington, as the mileage (over SIS, ,000) was
too nice plum to give away, so they all three
came
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BoNAPARTE ON THE RUPTURE OF THE AMERICAN
UNoN.-At Easter, 1903, when Bonaparte, then
First Consul, had determined suddenly to offer
Louisiana to the United States, rather than have
that colony fall into the hands of the English, who,
as he sad would be to take it during the war,
already imminent, he said to Barbe de Marbois,
whom he directed to negotiate On the subject with
the American Minister, Mr.. Livingstone, already
at Paris, and Mr.. Monroe, expected very soon
"Perhaps people will object to the cession OF
Louisiana, that the Americans may get to be too
strong for Europe in the course of two or three
centuries. But my forecast does not deal with
such remote dangers. Besides, we may look for
rivalships in the heart of the Union ITSELF These
COME erations, which are called perpetual, only
last until it is for the interest of one of the contract
ing parties to break them up"
Barbe de Marbois reports this conversation him
self in his Historic de la Louisiana, Paris, 1929, D.
30O-Boston Courier
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SPECIE. The supply of coin and bullion to the
as II has been racentfv Tbe besvv eynorts Sof
breadsufs make of the causes of this; but
potent cause is the demand for specie, created
by the commercial disturbances arising out of our
political troubles. The combined causes have led
to an abundance of coin which has not been known
in this country before. The statistics of the port
of New York, where most of this expectation and
importation of specie takes place, furnish with
facts on the subject.
The imports of specie at New York from foreign
ports, from July lst, 1860, to Feb. 1st, 1861,
Sl5,427722. The exports of specie during the same
period were S2O,670,3l3 net exports S5,242, ,59I.
The receipts of California gold for the same time
amounted to S2l, ,l00,l9 The country, therefore,
contained the lst of February, 1861, S57 6O7
more specie that it did on the 1st of July, 1860
The result can be better shown as follows
" Europe, &c.. Is 427 1872
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In the San Francisco papers we notice the death,
on the 18th of January, of Mr.. Chas. Jefferson
George. native of Four Corners, Baltimore
counfy MARYLAND.
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Mr.. ANcEY ON THE SLAVE TRADE.-ln the Ala
bama State Convention the Goth ut., Hon. W.
L. Iancey made speech on the Slave-trade ques-
ton, which is characterized as one cf the ablest
efforts of his life. He now, however, yielding to
the necessities of the moment, concurs in the i'm
policy of restoring that trade at present and de-
clared it to be 'unwise and inexpedient to reopen
it. In his remarks, Mr. Yancey said he ''addressed
his feow-ctizens for the last time certainly for
many years to come, and that he retired to private
life with the intention again to leave it." His
motives for doing not stated
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They have bill before the Massachusetts Legis-
lature providing for Metropolitan police force
for Boston city.
William Henry Trescott. Esq.,, has been ap.
pointed Commissioner to Tennessee from South
Carolina,
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EFFECTS OF THE CRIsIs-Friday and Saturday
last were two of the most calamtous days ever
known in the commercial history of New York
1t is said that not less than ninety firms forced
to succumb to the pressure, and among them many
heretofore deemed opulent-such houses as Free
land, Squires Co., which has been in existence
for quarter of century.
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More than halt the convicts in the Massachusetts,
State prison are under twenty-six years old. The
youngest prisoner is fifteen, and the Oldest seventy
wears old
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The CHINESE OPPOSED TO lMPRovEMENT.-Du During
the destruction of Yeun ming Yeun, the soldiers
came upon two presents that had been sent to the
Emperor of China by Lord Mccartney from George
lila state coach and two twelve pound howitzers
complete in every way, and in very good condi-
tiOn and repair; they have never made any en-
deavor to improve their own field artillery car
riages. Shot and shell were even piled close to
the guns in the coach house in which they were
found.
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PRICE TWO CENTS.

Coal OIL IN MARYLAND The Cumberland Cipi-
liam believes that the coal oil which has created
such on excitement in Western Pennsylvania and
Virginia, may be found in Allegheny county,
Maryland. The Cirilian says:
In favor of the presence of oil basins in all coal
regions, we have the fact that all coal has been
formed of the material and subject to the
same laws Anthracite is but bituminous coal with
its volatile matter driven off, or extracted, and not
of a different nature was formerly supposed. As
it is found where the rocks are very much frac
tured, ats oil may hare escaped in gas. In regions
however where the rocks are less broken, we have
the bituminous and sem-btuminous coal, and there
not evaporated but gathered in basins Hence we
think 1t highly probable, that the oil once con-
tanned in our own coal beds, may yet be found
somewhere in the neighborhood silently waiting
the hand of capital and enterprise to bring it
forth. 1t may yet become an important staple of
our country.
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The SEIZURE OF AMMUNITION IN New YoRK.-The
ammunition seized by the police in New York, on
Wednesday, was not for Savannah, as reported by
telegraph, but for Charleston. The Herald SAYS:
The metropolitan police distinguished themselves
again, yesterday, by sezing lot of cartridges des
tined for Charleston, S. c. Sergeant Geist, it ap
pears, received information that an attempt would
be made to ship $4,000 cartridges on board the
Huntsville, and made extensive preparations to
seize the property soon as it arrived on the
pier. Upon investigation, however, the num-
Der of the cartridges dwindled down to some
thing less than 5000. The boxes containing
the ammunition in question were marked
S. II. on one side and on the other II. A. Atcher,
Charleston S. c. 1t was the intention of the ship
pers to have them reshipped at Savannah, but
whether by railroad or steamboat does not appear.
The freight was lying on the pier when the police
seized it, and was promptly carted off to the arsenal
in The Saynnth auannn-
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TRADE WITH JAPAN.-The ship Phantom, Captain
Sargent, which arrived at New York last week
from Shanghae, brought one of the most valuable
cargoes ever imported into this country from Chi
ma, its value reaching between eight and nine hun
dred thousand dollars-conssting of teas, cassia,
and raw silk. Of the latter there were $50 bales
and of these 144 contained the Japanese raw silk
brought from Japan to China for shipment to New
York. AS each bale of the japanese silk is worth
about $500, and as this is but the commencement
of the shipments, some idea may be formed of the
trade likely to grown between the two countries,
indirect at present, but which will doubtless soon
be direct
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STRAPPING UP THE HEAD FOR SNoozE.-The latest
invention is a sleeping car cap. 1t consists of
small velvet or cloth skull cap, ornamented accord
ing to the taste of the wearer, with a couple of
long straps attached to each side of the cap When
the traveller becomes weared or sleepy, he or she
puts on the cap and attaches the straps, by means
of brass hooks to the back of the seat next forward
Of the traveller, and then leans back composedly,
the head supported by the cap and braces, and
sleeps as comfortably as if reposng in bed.
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As proof of the intense severity of the winter
in England, fine jack snipe lately few into a
warehouse in the heart of Manchester, utterly ex-
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On Thursday night last large unfinished brick
house, near Frederick city, was blown down. 1t
was the property of Mr.. Cooper Cline, whose loss
is very heavy.
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At Knoxville, Frederick county, Nd, on the 4th
inst, man named Coins killed another named
Pool by striking him with a stone on the head,
which crushed in the skull.
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The Herald says the New York Commissioners
of Emigration have considerable difficulty in send
ing emigrants to South Carolina and Georgia, even
when they have wealthy relatives in those States
owing to the disturbed political condition of the
country. The railroad and steamboat lines refuse
to take emigrants to Southern cities, lest they
might be obliged to bring them back again.
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ANOTHER ROYAL VIsIT-lt is confidently asserted
that the visit with which the Empress Eugene
honored England in 1860, will be repeated in 1861.
In anticipation of this felictous event, the linen
drapers of England are organizing subscription
with view to the presentation of testimonial to
her Imperial Majesty, together with appropriate
address, setting forth the gratitude entertained by
the trade towards the Empress of the French and
the Fashions, for having ordained the wearing Of
dresses which require, to make them, three times
as many yards as could possibly be allowed, by any
regard to comfort, economy and elegance. united
with any sense of the ridiculous.
THE TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RALRoAD.-The
Texas and New Orleans Railroad will, in all proba
bility, within thirty days be running through from
Houston to Sabine Bay. This will place Houston
within twenty-four hours run of New Orleans Civ
ing passengers the advantage of eighteen hours in
time, and a saving of SIS over the route BY way oi
Galveston, besides diminishing the sea travel eight
or ten hours,
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e SOUTHERN CONFEDERACT CON-
GRESS

TENTH DAY.
MONTGOMERY, Feb. A.-In Congress to-day six
model flags were presented and severally referred
to the committee on the subject. The remainder of
the day has been spent in secret session.
LOUISIANA CONVENTION.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 13.-The State Convention
adjourned yesterday to meet on the 4th of March,
to await the action of the Southern Congress.
THE PRESIDENT ELECT OF THE SOUTHERN C0NFED-
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Total receipts. $50, ,527 ,92O
Specie exported. Observation-Disclosures. 2O,676,3l3
Net gain in seven months. ......$l5, ,S57 ,6Oi

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The gain in specie was all made in the months of
December and January, but the tables we consult
do not give the separate months 1t is safe to say
that there are fully twenty-five millions spe-
Gle now in the country than there were in Novem-
Der last. Prior to December 1st the shipments to
Europe had exceeded the receipts from California;
but in December and January the receipts from
Europe were about fifteen millions, and those from
California over seven millions, while the shipments
to foreign ports were little or nothing.
At the present time importing so moder-
ately of foreign goods and articles of luxury that
Europe will for some time be obliged to pay us in
coin for the large supplies of breadsuffs and pro-
visions, to say nothing of cotton, that she is COM
PEELED to take from us. So that there will proba-
bly, be, unless worse condition of commercial and
political affairs occurs in France, continual tion of
the flow of gold and silver to this country, though
in more moderate Philadelphia Bulletin.
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A North Carolina correspondent writes to the
National Lntsllige, follows:
l notice that you have men toned Fort Macon as
having been taken by the troops of this State, and
as now held by them. This is mistake. Fort Ma
con has not at all been disturbed, and l am rea
bly, informed that the town of Beaufort, in its vi
ciniy is largely opposed to dissolution of Union
for existing causes.
In a late number of your paper Fort Caswell is
also placed among those Notifications which have
been taken from the Federal Government. 1t was
once occupied by small party of "Minute Men,"
but they left it by order of the Governor and it is
now occupied by the officers of the United States.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The following extract of a letter is published in
the New York Journal Of Commerce.:
CHARLESTON, S. c., Feb. 1861.
am surprised to hear you censure us for our
precipitate action in seeding unceremoniously
from the Union. Violent diseases require violent
remedies; and our people had become SO thorough
ly disgusted with the poitico fanaticism of our
Northern brethren (?), that they determined to
sever the political ties which bound US together,
o. speedily az possible. Besides, you must see,
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AMERICAN SKATERS IN PARIs.-A Paris letter des-
cribng the gatherings ofthe elite of Paris the ice
says:-By far the best skaters the Americans
Mrs Ronalds Reynolds of Boston, carries off the
palm among the ladies' Many and nigh flown are
the complimentary remarks made about her by the
male portion of the Court, as she gdes by grace
fully, her animated and beautiful face flushed with
the agreeable exercise. Among the gentlemen,
Mr.. Cammack, young Phiadelphian, is the cham
pion.
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BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Feb. I4.-CAr.Ls-
Tas Escspu Of Beef CATTLE have T tho last week OF two
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SUIT FOR RECOVERY OF TWO SERM0Ns.-In Perry,
Wyoming county, N. Y, minister, Rev. j. r.
Page sued a clerical brother of another denemina-
ton, the Rev. j. B. Wentworth. for the recovery
of two sermons, which he (Page), the plaintiff,
possession of the defendant who would not surren-
der them on demand. Both clergymen reside in
Perry, and their quarrel, which has been waged
with great bitterness, apparently has stirred up
much feeling between their respective partisans.
Last summer the case was put in the hands of
referee, and after long hearing of arguments,
and the expenditure of enough legal research and
effort upon it to determine an International ques-
tion, has just been decided in an elaborate report
of the referee. The plaintiff obtains Judgment for
the restoration of the sermons, which was what he
sought by the suit and the sermons are Judged to
have pecuniary value of at least $5O-a sum suffi-
cient to impose the entire costs upon the defendant
The costs of the suit are said to amount to about
5000.
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THE PREVAILING SKATING COSTUME FOR New York
LADGEs.-The latest style of dress worn by New
York lady skaters is described as the Polish cos
tune, with short, blue skirts fur trimmed basques
and hats, and tight fitting ancle boots, trimmed
with short skirt of bright red and pantalets OF
the ruddy hue, fastened tightly around the
ancle; the basque and hat both trimmed with fur,
and neatly fitting skating boots. These are consid-
cred picturesque and comfortable.