The national Republican., 1861-02-09
NEWS ITEMS.

A meeting of the board of directors of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal was held here on
Wednesday, when the following resolution was
adopted by vote of ayes A, noes 8:
Resolued, That in the judgment Of this board
any advance on the present rates Of tolls would
be inexpedient and unwise.
The Kentucky Colonization Society, in order
to relieve the free people of color in that State
from the embarrassing position in which they
have been placed by its free.negro law, which
went into operation on tn. first of January,
1861, offer to such of them as are willing 10
emigrate to Liberia free passage thither and
support for six months after their arrival.
Those having families are offered in addition,
ten acres of land as free gift, upon condition
that they will settle on it. Five acres are offer.
ed upon the same terms to every unmarried
adult male aud female.
Major John P. Heiss, formerly of Tennessee,
has returned to Nicaragua to settle there per-
manenuy. So satisfied is he with the cotton.
raising experiments made upon the high and
healthy interior lands of that region, that it
was his purpose Immediately to put hundred
acres under cultivation for that staple. There
is no longer. any doubt that large districts of
Central America are we'll adapted to the cul-
ture of cotton by white labor, as the table lands,
away from the coasts and river bottoms, are as
healthy and salubrious as they are rich and
fertile.
The snow in Northern Vermont is deeper
than has been known for ten years past, and
has seriously deranged the mails. The train
from Montreal, which left on Tuesday morning
of last week, reached Rouses Point on Friday
evening-!our days for what is commonly run
of four hours
Cotton freights to Liverpool from New Or.
leans, fell suddenly on the 9th Instant, from
one penny to fve-eghths.
Governor Morgan has, it is stated, replied to
the letter of Governor Brown, of Georgia, re.
specting the recent seizure of arms by the police
Of this city. 1t is understood that Governor
Morgan assumes that the arms were intended
to be used against the Federal Government,
which he is bound by his official oath to sustain,
and that, therefore, he could not permit arms
to leave the State which might be turned
against our own citizens. Consequently, it
seems that the police were acting under the
orders of the Governor, and not under the re.
sponsibility af the Superintendent of Police as
has hitherto been supposed.-M T. paper
The opening of the Bergen, IN. J.) tunnel
formally took place on Wednesday. This tun.
mel is through Bergen hil 4,3OO feet. The to.
tai cost of the tunnel, approaches, and long
dock was $l,7OO,OOO. 1t is the eastern termi
nus of the New York and Erie railroad.
Brevet Second Lieutenant Samuel H. Lock
EFT, Of the U. s. corps of engineers, has resign
ed. Also, Second Lieut.. St Clair Dearing, o
Ga, of I'd artillery, U. S. A.
A QUALIFICATION FOR CITIzENsHIP.-Judge
Lord, Of the Land Court, has adopted the fol
lowing custom when about to administer the
oath Of citizenship. After satisfying himself
that the applicant has taken the proper initia
tory steps, he asks: Are youin favor of Unior
or Disunion ?" If the applicant is for Union
he receives the oath no one has been found
as yet, among the applicants, to express disunior
preferences.-iSt. Louis Republican.