The national Republican., 1861-03-02
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1t is stated that ono of the New York yes.
sells just seized at Savannah, by order Of the
Governor Of Georgia, had shipped nine hun.
dred bales Of cotton belonging to an English.
man, and that the despoiled shipper has set of
post haste for Washington to lay his grievances
before the British Minister.
Memphis, Tennessee, shipped 81 900 bales
Of cotton to the Ohio river between the lst Of
September and the 26th of January last.
The Senate was in Executive session Thurs.
day, and confirmed A. W. Russell, Of the Dis.
triot Of Columbia, paymaster Of the navy.
In consequence of General Twiggs's late con.
duct in Texas, his name is to be stricken from
the army roll as coward and traitor.
The select committee on the alleged abstrao.
ton Of books by members of Congress, report
that they regard the entire charge as ground.
less, and characterize it as fine specimen, of
the many sensation Especially dispatches sent
from Washington. They say the remedy for
newspaper proprietors, or the more cautious
selection of correspondents.
The select committee Of five, on the Prcsi.
dents special message, made report on Thurs.
day on the general subject referred to them.
They therein argue against the doctrine of Sc.
cession, assert the duty Of the Government to
enforce the laws over every part of the Union
with the aid Of the military, should the civil
authorities prove insufficient for the porpose,
ct cetera.
Mr.. John Cochrane and Mr.. Branch dissent
from the majorty's doctrines and conclusions,
and they have liberty to file q statement Of
their views.
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napolis, Baltimore, and Washington, is now
consummated. The connection was completed
on Wednesday, and messages sent and receiv.
ed. The "ancient city" therefore, is In instant
communication with all the world and the
crest of mankind"
Tho schooner NJ. A. Jones sailed from Bos.
ton on Tuesday, for San Domingo, with fifty
colored passengers, who go to Hayi to settle,
under the direction of James Redpath.
The City Council Of Cincinnati has adopted
a resolution unanimously, inviting Mr.. Critten.
den and Andrew johnson to accept the hospi.
tslities of the city on their return home, and to
address the citizens.
The New Orleans True Delta, in the face Of
the secession of Louisiana, manfully stands out
for the Union, and commends the course of the
border States.
The valorous denizens Of the Chapel, Talbot
county, Maryland, satisfied their warliks pro.
pensities on Saturday night last, by ceremo.
niously burning an efigy of Governor Hicks.
The effect Of this terrible denunciation upon
his Excellency has not yet been ascsrtained.
We learn from the Alabama papers that the
Governor Of that State has appointed the Hon.
Jere. Clemens Major General of tho army OF
Alabama.
SAD CAsE.-A few days since, Daniel Mora,
OF Sing Sing, buried his wife, by whose bed.
side he had watched more than two weeks. His
only child was left at the house of a neiphbor.
while MIR. Mora was absent at the funeral, but
on his return, he took it home with him. About
one o'clock the next morning, the house was
discovered to be On fire, and was totally de.
stroyed. The charred remains Of Mr.. Mora
were found in the ruins, but the body Of the
child had been entirely consumed. Mr.. Mora
had doubtless slept so soundly that when
awakened by the fire escape was impossible.
Mr.. Richard Taylor, the only son of the i'm.
mortal Zach, voted in the Louisiana Conven.
ton in favor Of substituting the pelican flag for
the Star.Spangled banner.
Some wag at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, sent to
the Louisville Courier in whose columns it was
first published, a long account of a secession
meeting in the former place. Amont other
things related, was the zeal with which Major
Oscar Latham denounced the worn.out and
brokendown party hacks who refused the peo.
pie OF Kentucky the privilege of calling q
Convention. The reader will understand the
joke when informed that Major Latham is a re.
spectacle colored hack driver of Hopkinsville.
1t is announced that Doesticks " Mortimer
NJ. Thompson, of the 7ribune) is shortly to be
married to daughter Of Mrs. Fanny Fern
Parton.
Thomas Winans, of Baltimore, inventor of
the cigar.shape steamer, rejoices in fortune of
$20,00O,00O, mainly realized from Russian
railroad contracts.
Not long since, the South Carolina papers
announced, with due Difference to the import.
ance Of the communication that the Catawba
Indians had nobly rendered their whole force
of warriors and braves to the State Govern.
ment 1t may be interesting to know, in this
connection, that according to the last census
there was grand total OF two hundred Cstaw.
bas-men, women, and pappooses. Mills, in
his statistics OF South Carolina, describes the
Catawba tribe as utterly degenerated and de.
graded, and, moreover, $50 generally addicted
to habits of Incidence and intoxication, that
they are fast sinking into oblivion" They
possess body of lands on the Catawbs river,
which they have leased to white settlers for 80
years, at the rate Of $40 per annum for each
plantation of 800 acres; and yet, says Mills,
these wretched Indians live in state of alb
Ject poverty, in consequence Of their Incidence
and disspated habits. They dun for their rent
before ii is due, and the ten or twenty dollars
they receive are spent in debauch-poverty,
beggary, and misery, then follow for year.
7 OF FOR SALE.-Lot Five, in Square l0s3,
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