The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-03-21

Bfa- The President has appointed Thomas
Corwin, of Ohio, Minister to Mexico
ney- Wm B. Taylor has been appointed
Post Master of New York city
Esa. Fort Brown has been surrendered by
Capt Hill, its commandant, to the Texan au-
thorties.
sea. The report that the ''Slanghter Pen"
had sunk immediately upon being launched.
at Charleston: Is mistake.
gg.~ Mr. Holloway. of indiana, has been ap-
pointed to the important Office of Commis SION
er of Patents at Washington.
PEE Gen. Spinner's nomination as Treasu-
rer of the United States, was confirmed on
Saturday.
sGJ~ The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
are about to remove their shops from Parks
burg to Harrisburg.
kgr Cassius H. Clay, of Kentucky, has been
appointed Minister to Spain, and his appoint
:nent confirmed by the Senate
Ea~ The Afountaineer thinks that Caubri1
county must be redeemed. Nonsense!-lt IS
redeemed Last fall did the business.
Esa. The Cotton Confederacy of Jefferson
Davis will not be recognized, no matter under
what circumstances it may claim acknowl-
edgement, by the European Powers.
EGS~ 4 White House has been rented at
Montgomery, Ala, for the use of the Presi-
dent OF the Cotton Confederacy, at S5,00Oper
year.
BE- The celebrated case Of Mrs. Gaines vs..
the cities of New Orleans and Baltimore,
which has been pending for about thirty
v
a unanimous Judgment of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
gsa- Some twenty light or thirty years ago
Horatio King, the late Postmaster General,
and Hannibal Hamln, the present Vice Pres
ident, were engaged in publishing weekly
newspaper in the small, obscure town of Paris
Maine.
E~.@ Col. Edwin Y. Sumner, of the First
Cavalry, has been promoted to the rank of
Brgadier General, and takes the place Of
david e twiggs, who has been disgraeed and
stricken off the army roll for trcachery to the
flag of his country.
ssn, Returns from the State election in New
Jersey, which came off on Wednesday, show
a decided Republican victory. They have
elected all their Congressman, and likewise
their candidate for Governor, Nathaniel S.
Berry, by over goo majority. Hoo-rah J
ssS;- just think! In the South there are
5000, 900 of free people-of these but 341 900
people have an interest in slaves, and the bal
ance, over 1000, 900. having no institution are
driven by the few nabobs to be quiet and to
submit to rebellion-apd to be forced to fight
for bondagei
Hsn Governor Curtin has signed the bills
committing the tonnage tax the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad and changing the name of the
Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and to assist in the
completion of a railroad to Erie. Both these
acts. at a meeting of their boards, have been
accepted by the companies.
geA The Administration has no intention
of abandoning Fort Pickens, whatever may be
the necessity in regard to Fort Sumter. On
the contrary, since the recent military prepa-
rations blythe revolutionists, orders have been
sent to land the troops from the Brooklyn and
other sloops of war to reinforce Lieut.. Stem
mers command.
Gea. The Charleston Mercury walks into
Mr. Holt late Secretary of War, as follows
'.Holt does not deserve the honor of an as
sassination. But he is marked man. If
ever he ventures within the confines of the
Confederate States, he viii never return to
practice coercion again. The breed of such
traitors cannot be perpctuated among u.s.
That Mercury is evidently up to blood heat.
gca Gen. Beauregard, now in command Of
the rebel forces at Charleston, has much fame
as q tactician. 1t is said that when Gen.
SCOTS council differed in opinion as to the
plan for attacking Mexico, after others had
spoken, Gen Scott called on Lieutenat Beau
regard, whose conduct at Vera Cruz, Cerro
Gordo and Contreras had strongly attracted
his attention. The young officer observed
that, inasmuch he differed in toto with his
brother engineers, he felt great diffidence in
expressing his views but he finally agreed
with the plan of Gen. Scott, which was acted
upon and the city taken.
Egg John George Nicolai, the private Sec
retary of President Lincoln, is German, and
was born in ls32 in the village of Essingen,
in the Palatimate. In 1887 he came to this
country with his parents, who settled in Gin
cinnati. In 1912, his mother having died, his
father removed to Pike county, Illinois, where
youns Nicolai was apprenticed to the printing
business. lie subsequently published paper
at the county seat, Pittsvillc, called the Pike
County Advertiser, from which he was called
to position in the State Treasurer's office,
where be took an active part in ferreting out