The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-02-05
News Items.

News Items.
The Louisiana Convention passed an
ordinance of secession on the Goth, by a
vote of 113 yeas to IL nays.
The Chicago and Milwaukee Boards oil
Trade made visit to Philadelphia, an(
were Hospitality received.
Mr.. Dundas, Second Assistant Post
master General, died on the Gath of Jan
uary.
A young girl, a fugitive slave, was re
Gently arrested in Cleveland, and ha
been returned to her master in Virginia
North Carolina will not probably cal
State Convention. That State is con
sentative, although it is said to be in ia
vor of secession if necessary.
The Georgia Convention has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the African
Slave trade, making the penalty impris
onment in the Penitentiary.
Mexico is now generally quiet and a
peace. JUAREz left Vera Cruz on the
5,,'' for the Capital, to establish the lib
eral gov rnment.
Adyices from different parts of Mis-,
souri, indicate strong Union sentiment
and that the Convention ". oe hi.e'
with conservative men.
The extensive army contracting firm
Of Messrs. Waddell, Major Il Jones, has
made an assignment for the benefit of
their creditors.
Several clerks in the Census Bureau,
at Washington, have been notified that
they could resign or be discharged for
expressing secession sentiments.
Fort Hamilton and Bedloe's Island, in
New York Bay, hitherto deserted, have
been recently garrisoned. Fort Schuy-
Ter at Throgg's Neck is the only fortifi-
cation in the harbor unprotected.
The Legislature Of Minnesota has
changed the name Of Toombs county, in
that State, to Anderson county, compli-
mentary to the gallant Major Of Fort
Sumter.
a bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of New York providing for
an appropriation of $50 600 for the pur-
chase Of arms and equipments for the
use Of the militia Of the State.
Mr.. Holt, before leaving the Post OF
fee department, ordered the discontinue
ance of the Florida through mail serv.
ice, because Of espionage exercised by
the State authorities over the mail mat
ter of United States officers,
The new Custom Iouso at Dubuque,
as we learn from tho Times, is q magnii-
cent structure. and will cost $4,000.
1t is 80 by sc feet, and 60 feet in height,
and is built of a fine Nauyoo stone which
bleachcs by exposure, becoming whittier
from year TO year.
The anthracite coal sent to market
from Pennsylvania, in 1860, was eight
and half million tons, which was more
than eight hundred tons in excess of any
other year. 1t is just forty years since
the first coal was exported from Penn
sylvania, when the total was 365 tons.
Fix Governor Morehead, Of Kentucky,
has written letter to some gentlemen IN
New Orleans, declaring it to be his set
tied conviction that the precipitate disso-
luton of the Union by separate State Sc
cession, would be a severer blow to slav-
cry than all the aboltionists of the North
could infiictin the next twenty years.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed resolutions declaring attachment
to the Union, and that the Constitution
has sufficient power to maintain the in
tegrity OF the Union. The resolutions
were passed by strict party VOTE
Amendments favorable to compromise
were rejected.