The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-03-20

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= At the municipal election in Bangor,
Maine, Isaiah stetson, republican, was re-
elected mayor by $50 majority.
= The Niagara arrived at Boston yes
terday from Liverpool. She reports that
several persons had been banished from
France for political reasons.
- Gen. Dix had public reception at
the New York City Hall, on the l4th
inst. Mayor Wood delivered the address
of welcome.
= IL fire occurred in Cleveland, Friday
night, by which property, valued at $685.
600, was destroyed, upon which there
was but little insurance.
= The Traverse City Herald says
that Hannah, Lay q Co. have already
got logs enough in the Boardmau to
make 100000 feet of lumber.
= The secret ballot system has been
abandoned in Illinois. BY law just
passed in that State, every voter is re-
quired to put his name on the back of his
ballot.
- Tho Charleston Courier, of the
5th, says that Gen. Beauregard expresses
perpect confidence in being able toreduce
Fort Sumpter. 1t is only question of
time.
= We have dates from San Francisco TO
Feb. 10th. No>Senator has been elect
ed, and it is feared none will be this sess-
ion. The 22d of February was to have
been generally celebrated.
- A private letter from an officer Of
the Goth rifles, now in England, to the
editor of the Toronto Leader, states that
that body is coming to Canada in the
spring, and that its headquarters will be
Toronto
- Hon. David Wilmot was elected U
S. Senator from Pennsylvania, in place
of Mr.. Cameron. He received 26 Sen.
atoria and 60 Representative votes
Hon. VIM. II. Welsh received Senate
rial and 20 Representative votes. Scat
tering 2.
- Between Dec. Is, 1860, and Feb.
81, 1961-which included thirty-seven
days skating-there were l,os5,700 Wis
ilors at the Central Park skating ponds,
New York city. In the same time OF
the previous year, the number was 1872
600.
= The Worlds correspondent says
"a dispatch from the South, received 10
night from reliable source, says that a
messenger passed through Raleigh, North
Carolina, bearing dispatches from the gov
eminent TO Major Anderson. Gen. Scott
is reported to have said the garrison Of
Fort Sumpter will be out by Monday"
The democratic and Union State
convention in Rhode Island, met at Prov
idonco on the 9th inst, and agreed upon
the following Stale ticket For Cover
nor, William Sprague; Lieut., Governor
Samuel G.. Arnold; Attorney General
Walter S. Burgess; Sec'y of State, J. r
Bartlett; Treasurer, Samuel A. Parker
- The following is the official DIES
cription Of the flag adopted by the South
ern Confederacy: "Red, white and blue
in the three equal parts horizontally
placed. The white between the red, blu'
union, with seven stars, in the form of ;
circle reaching down to the lower rcd."-
II was formally hoisted over the STATE
House on Monday last.
= The Charleston NewS of Friday
evening says; Early this morning, be
tween six and seven o'clock, while clean
ing out the guns at the iron battery a
Cummings Point, ball contained in on
Of the guns struck near the gate of For
Sumpter. Major Anderson immediatel,
opened his guns on that side; but boa
being dispatched to explain the circum
stance as being unintentional, nothing
further resulted from the accidental dis
charge.
= The Herald's Washington dispatc
says: "Adyices from Montgomery stat
President Davis has received most ON
nous communications from his friends o
Washington respecting the intentions {
the administration to blockade the soutl
ern ports and attempt to collect revenue