The national Republican., 1861-02-27

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
Wednesday, February 81, 1881.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE FOURTH OF
MARcH.-we are continually receiving letters
from parties who propose visiting this city, to
attend the Inauguration ceremonies, inquirng
as to how and where they can procure accom-.
modations. We propose, therefore, to devote
. column in our paper to the furnishing of such
information. All persons, therefore, having
rooms to rent, either furnished or unfurnishs',
or who can furnish meals to parties, will thus
have most excellent medium of reaching the
numerous strangers coming to the city.
Five.line notices in this column will be in.
sertsd from now until the 4th of March, at the
low rate of one dollar.
Ma. VAN wYcr.-The Confederation of last
evening has the following paragraph:
"No one attempted to dssassinate Mr.. Van
desperate rufiaps for the sake of plunder
Politics had nothing to do with it. 1t is little
strange that Mr.. Van Wyck is the only person
who knows anything Of this wicked outrage
When Mr.. Sumner was attacked here five
years ago, the same class Of politicians denied
that he had received any serious injury. They
have improved upon that since, and now doubt
If Mr.. Van Wyck was attacked at all.
TIE TARIFF-The action of the House re-,
ducing the sugar tax one half, and rejecting
the tea and coffee tax, is universally regarded
a. reckless. If the House had imposed di.
rect tax, to meet the public necessities, its con
duet would have been logical. But to act upon
the assumption that the people are not intell-
gent and patriotic enough to submit to neces.
sary taxation in some FORM is to treat them as
incapable of selfgovernment. In this emer
sency, the country looks to the Senate.
PEACE CoSoREss.-This body adjourned last
evening before nine o'clock, without reaching
any final conclusion. The friends of the pend
ing territorial proposition, which is that of Mr..
Franklin, Of Pennsylvania, successfully resisted
during yesterday the various attempts which
were made to amend it.
An IRREsPoNsIBLE DEsPoTIsM.-The follow.
ing dispatch is published in the Augusta Chron.
icLe:
Montgomery, Feb. l9.-The acts of the
Provisional Government are not to be submit
ted to the State Convention. The plan Of the
Permanent Government will not be binding
until ratified by the State Convention.
"ALEx. b. STEPHENS"
The conspirators uow holding their sessions
at Montgomery, generally with closed doors,
were not chosen by the people, but by State
Conventions. Instead of con6ning themselves
to preparing plan of government, to be sub.
mitted to the States, they have themselves in.
stituted government, with President and
Cabinet, and are legislating upon all possible
subjects Of legislation. 1t is true, that they
promise that they will hereafter submit to the
States a plan of permanent government, bu.
that is a promise which may or may not be re-
deemed. And it will certainly not be redeem
ed, until, by the machinery and appliances of
(so called) Provisional Government, they
have obtained such foothold that they cannot
be dislodgei from power without revolution.
The SEAPoRrs TO BE SAcRIFIcED.-Mr. Mem
minger, the Secretary Of the Treasury Of the
Southern Confederacy, thus explains an i'm
portant provision of the tariff adopted by the
Congress at Montgomery:
Goods imported from any of the United
States, which are now not of this Confederacy,
are exempt from duty, without relation to the
time Of import, If the goods were really pur-
chased on or before the 2sth instant, (Febru.
Gy.)"
The duties to be paid are for the present the
same as those now exacted by the Federal Gov
erpment.
The effect must be, that Northern goods will
be distributed at the South by inland routes, on
which the duties can be evaded. The business
Of the seeding seaports must be greatly in.
ursd. The merchants of Charleston foresee
what must happen, and are greatly incensed at
the tariff system devised at Montgomery.
~ Hon. John Bell arrived here on Mon.
day, and called ON Mr.. Lincoln the same day.
~ 1t will be seen by our telegraphic dis.
patches that the reign of terror was attempted
ON Monday, at Richmond, in the shape of an
"indignation" outbreak at the Union senti.
msnts Of . member of the sitting Convention.
The consprators will not carry Virginia in that
way.
"a The dispatch to the War Department,
from the commissary at New Orleans, &C
quainting the Government of the act of Gen.
Twiggs in turning over the public military
property to the authorities of Texas, states, in
addition, that the use of the Government con.
veysnce to take the Federal troops to the sea.
board was granted as boon," and that they
ware permitted tn take with them three or iour