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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

A PLEASANT AFFAIR Lieut. Sam. Owens Of
the Presidents Mounted Guards, las stated In the
Star alrsady,) was, on Thursday evening last,
duly elected captain Of that corps, vice Peck pro-
NOTED to a coloDelcy In the Reorganization Of the
militia Of the District. After the election Of Capt
Owens, a large number Of the members of the
corps, accompanied by Major Watt, Councilman
Powell, and other guests repaired to Fields
Hotel, where they enjoyed a capital impromptu
supper, prepared in Major Fields we'll known
capital style, which was duly washed down with
basket Of the Majors famous ''green seal"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

METROPOLITAN RIFLES order having
been given for the equipment Of this new corps
under command Of Capt A. r. Allen, the ARM
will be obtained to-day, and the future drills OF
the company will BE- In the manual Of arms, a
well a. the company evolutions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11
THE LATEST NEWS.
The Tennessee Election.
Ell G r APHIO.

In this (Dsvidson) county. The secessionisss
are beaten here at leas, six 10 one.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 100 q. m.-Edito-
FashiHgfon Sfa': Davidson county has voted
about 5000 for the Union, and not more than
700, IL 90 many, for secession. The returns from
adjoining counties, 90 far as received, indicate
that they have all followed the example q
Davidson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

Ex.SEcxrrAaY FLOYD 1t IL announced that
ex-secretary Floyd win be here IN q couple OF
weeks 10 demand an immediate Trial OF the In
allotment which has been found against him BY
che Grand Jury,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11
TO TIL MILITARY!

We are offering great inducements to Military
Companies who wish outfits. Being largely engaged
In army and navy work, we can give every facility
In style and prices. Orders from the country
promptly executed.
322 Penn. avenue.
MILITARY OvERCOATS as low as So.
Ia Sl-2w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

RowpYIsx AND ROBBERY -Thursday night, be.
tween IL and ~ O'Clock, Mr.. John Davis, master
painter at the Capitol, was knocked down while
on his wayshome on Four-and- half street, neal
Maryland avenue, and robbed Of a small amount
Of money and a gold ring. The blow which
felled him was 80 severe as to knock him sense,
less, and he laid long time in the street before
he recovered sufficiently to find his way home
Since that time he has been confined to his house
In consequence Of the injuries he received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

THERE WAS Fuss yesterday afternoon In Al
avenue hotel, between several attaches Of foreign
Minister on one side, and a few Washington
bruisers on the other which attracted quite
crowd thereabout The affair grew out Of a small
dog fight, and resulting in general breaking o
the heads Of the participants, one of whom,
hostlsr, was compelled TO visit a neigh boring
apothecary shop and have his wounds dressed
before he could 20 home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

NoN-coMMIssIoNKp OFFICERS OF COMPANY c,
w. L. Recently, the following non-comms-
stoned officers were elected In this corps :-Or-
DERBY Sergeant, r. C. Lewis; ID do, ]. A. McDer.
mott; 3D. DO, William Ferguson; lth do, G. T
Bassett; Third Corporal, J. F. Stallings; 4th do.
E. H. Sire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

A RARE CHANCE For bargains in School
"A Books, Blank Books; Miscellaneous Books
&c. st SHEPHERD'S, corner Seventh and b sts.
selling out to reduce stock. ia Ie-lm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

MILITARY AFFAIRS IN GEoReErowN -Maior
General eightman's general orders No. S organ
ling the volunteer companies there into the LIST
Georgetown Volunteer Battalion, and assigning
the command thereof 70 Lieut. Col Hollingsworth
have given great satisfaction to the compani e con-
cerned. The Colonel (Coxe) and the Lieut.. Colo
mel are very popular with the forces already or
CANNED We understand that the Anderson
Rides, Scott Rifles and Home Guards will prob
ably receive their arms to-day. The Gags Of the
Potomac Light Infantry and the Anderson Rife
company A, were at half-mast on Friday and Sat
urday a. a mark Of respect to the late VIM. 6.
Ridgely who was an honorary member Of the nrst
named company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

WE UNDERSTAND that the Good Samaritan soup
house, recently established under the auspices Of
the English Lutheran Church, and which has
hitherto been opened on three days every week,
will In future be opened every day at the usual
hour until further notice. On Saturday last the
committee relieved 275 applicants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11
JUsr ppcvv NEW BOOKS.
FRENCH & RICHSTEIN'S,

No 27e PENN. AVENUE,
The Shadow In the House, q new novel, BY John
Saunders, l2mO., cloth; 8 by mail.
Inc Dutch DOMINIC OF the Catskils, BY the Rev.
David M urdoch, ID. d., l2mO. cloth; 81 q by mail.
The Romance of an Irish Girl, limo, cloth; SI.OO
by mail.
published. ia1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

GENERAL Scorr, In a letter to the ofacers Of the
Scott Life Guard, Of New York, who rendered
their services for the defence Of the Capitol states
That the government does not contemplate calling
any troops to Washington other than the militia
Of the District, and some detachmene Of regular
tfoopS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11
GEORGETOWN ADvERTMTS

W L L N e =!
v VAL NESg
large and beautiful assortment Of Sentimental
and ONO Valentines, new styles. Also q fr va
nety OF Lace: Fancy. Note Paper and Envelopes
for sale At half price at
MISS THOMAs's,
lie III HiRh atreet. near Eirat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

John CROWLEY About the busiest man we
see in these dull times 10 Crowley, the card
writer, whose facile fingers turn of the most
beautiful and intricate specimens Of caligraphy
a. II by magic. All styles Of penmanship seem
equally at his command, but some pen and ink
execution Of his upon Bristol board we lately
witnessed, certainly surpassed In elegance any
thing Of the kind we have ever seen. We saw
him busy too, engrossing in superb style, some
college di plcmas and similar documents. In fact,
where beautiful ornamental penmanshiP Of any
kind IL required, Crowleys services are apt to be
called into reQuisition. He may be found al
Rrownis Hotel or the National.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11

v HNnk kE9 e A LOT OF cLoIHlNG,
SMITHS, No. go Seventh ct, fes-6w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-11
GEORGETOWN.

To,en Meeting at Forrest HaH-A Mixture
"Blaek spirits and tchitc, red spirits and
s sas y5 f C:s tr.sndS present. also
Square Pearson tn the chair-Mayor Craic-
ford speaks The Nominating Conren-
ton "mo ichar"-Mr. Crawford aonpi-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28
NUMBER 9.

windows and portico of the Capitol, and
spread over the ground in front, when the
Inauguration ceremony began, as arranged
on the front steps. The President occupied
seat on the portico, with the Vice -Presi-
dent seated at his right, and Hon. Howell
Cobb on his left, Gov. Moore occupied
seat on the platform Immediately below;
where were also seated the members of Con-
gress, facing the Presidents stand. The
ceremony was opened with an impressive
prayer from the venerable Rev. DR.. Manley.
The Hon. Howell Cobb, President of the
Congress, administered the oath of Office,
and the President delivered his inaugural
address, in calm and forcible manner
the immense concourse now and then mani
Testing their appreciation by vociferouse ap-
plause, as be would strike the key.notes of
Southern independence.
The ladies wreathed him with flowers,
and ten thousand hearts beat high with joy,
admiration and hope for the administration
of the new President No man, not even
Gen. Washington, was ever called to pre-.
side over people with more general accla.
nation and confidence than Gen. Davis
His past services and spotless private and
public character, are the surest guarantee
that he will not disappoint the just expec.
tations of the country.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

5. Slavery is protection from pauper-
ism, the bane for which the wisdom of civ.
ilized man has not yet prepared au autidote.
In America, afliction, old age and idleness
are the only sources of pauperism. Where
the laborers are slaves, the master is COM
PEELED by law to provide against the former,
and is authorized to protect himself against
the latter. In slavehol.ling communities,
therefore, the poor Louise receives but little
patronage, and from the slave population
absolutely none, and slave beggar is un-
known.
6. The contribution made by slavery to
the commercial advantage of the world,
may, also, be reckoned as one of its bene-
fits. The results of negro slavery in the
South are such as no system of labor yet
known upon earth could have accomplished.
1t has explored regions under whose mias-
matte influences the white man sickcned
aud died. 1t has drained swamps and made
habitable the pcstiferous marsh. 1t has
conquered the pestilence and opened to a
growing world garden of hitherto uu-
known comforts and luxuries. The staple
productions of the South, rice, sugar, cotton
and tobacco, could not possibly be success
fully cultivated by other than slave and
negro labor. Climate and disease which
bring no detriment to the negro, because of
the physical popularity already named,
Danish the white man from the low lands
where these articles, essential to the CON-
merce of the world, grow, and any system
of labor subject to strikes aud caprices
would be disastrous tothese staples. Hence,
the commercial argument for slavery is in
strength, proportionate to the value of the
products of it to the world, and this none
can deny to be almost paramount to every
other object, contributing more to the ma
terial wealth of the world than all else be-
sides Such are the benefits of slavery as
furnishing an argument for it to
PHILEMON.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28
The Inauguration of President Davis


The Inauguration Of President Davis
The Montgomery advertiser gives the
following graphic description of the inaugu
ration of the first President of the Confed
crate States:
The proceedings of yesterday will form
an ever memorable epoch in the history o.
the Confederate States of America. Or
that day, Gen. Jefferson Davis, the 6rs
Chief Magistrate of these States, was inVes
ted with the robes of Office, and in ascend
ing to the highest position in the gift oi
his countrymen, indicated in his inaugural
address, which we publish elsewhere, the
line of policy which he will pursue in the
administration of the Government.
Never did Montgomery present such an
appearance as on yesterday. Although no
tice that the Inauguration would certainly
take place on Monday, had gone forth
through the press only the Saturday before,
the streets, dwellings and Capitol Hill were
literally thronged with visitors, who had
come far and near from this and neighbor.
ing States to witness the imposing ceremony
of the natal era of the Confederacy. All
ages, sizes, sexes, and conditions were out
to give variety and spice to the OCCASION
The ladies seemed to be present in larger
numbers than the men in honor of their
gallant President. The assemblage could
not have numbered less than ten thousand
persons, all animated by common desire
tc maintain the dignity, honor and iudepen-
d zee to the Confederate States. Great
God what man, or set Of men, however
powerful, could stem the popular current in
the great States of the cotton belt! For
years the dead bodies of time.serving politi.
clans had damned up the mighty depths
of Southern patriotism, until at last the
voice of the people has swollen to an ire.
sistable volume, and borne men and par
ties before it as drift.wood upon the bosom
of the majestic ocean.
The procession formed on montgomery
street, where Gen. Davis took his seat in a
magnificent carriage of Col. Tenant Lo-
max, drawn by six beautiful greys. On the
same seat in the carriage sat ice.President
Stephens, and opposite them were Captain
George Jones, of Alabama, and Rev. Basil
Manley, of this city. Then followed sue
cessively in carriages, the Congressional,
State and City Committees. The citizens
on foot and military escort formed no in
considerable portion of the procession.
As the procession moved up Market st.,
amid the roar of cannon, the inspiring
strains of martial music, and the cheers Of
the multitude, the scene was grand beyond
description.
The vast crowd had soon filled the doors,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

NApoLEoN's ToMB.-With permission
of England, the French Government has
repaired the tomb of Napoleon at St. Hele-
na The tomb has been completely restored
to the condition in which it was at the period
of the deposed Emperor's interment; and
Longwood, the house in which he died, has
been put into q state of substantial repair.
Longwood is unoccupied and unfurnished,
and the premises have been allowed to fall
into decay; but the wall and roof have now
been restored, and will, in all probability,
stand for many years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

CASTING A MONSTER GUN.--Another
monster gun was cast in the Fort Pitt
Works, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, last week.
The '"Floyd," the heaviest piece of ord
nance, we believe, that the world has ever
seen, was 6fteen.inch bore and forty-nine
inches in diameter, at the breach. It's
weight in rough was $4,000 pounds, and
when finished about 400 The gun cast
has twelve.inch bore, the same exterior
diameter of the "Floyd," while it is six
inches longer, and will weigh, when finish
ed, twenty-five tons. The furnaces wen
tapped at 124 o'clock, and twenty-fout
minutes later the mould was filled, and the
casting complete. The total amount Of me-
tai used in the "run" was 78, 100 pounds.
The new gun will be named "Union," and
will, it is believed, throw ball over six
miles.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

We LEARN that Mr.. Stroup, who is the
proprietor of the Iron Furnace in Bibb
County, Alabama, has gone to Montgomery
with proposals to cast cannon for the State
of Alabama. Thus, in every department
of manufactures, very soon, We shall prove
ourselves independent of the North. Who
will go into the manufacture of coal oil in
the Warrior and Cahaba coal fields? AL.
though these things cannot be done in a
day, it is we'll enough to think Of them
Tuscaloosa Observer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28
Columbia.

1t occurs to US that there will be mucf
fitness in selecting Columbia in our State al
the Capital of the Confederate States of A
merica. Far be it from South Carolinians
to claim any especial honor on account O
the course unitedly pursued by our people
against dominant hostile party at the
North, in the late step of Secession. The
position of our State is no higher, no lower
than of the other States with which she i:
acting. Not on this account then do We
claim the seat of Government.
But there is policy in locating our Capt.
tai on point of observation Gas it we're
towards the great Atlantic Coast, yet moi
near enough exposedto depredations at any
time from that quarter, as to render the
spot in the least insecure. Such place is
Columbia, in far higher degree even than
Washington City.
The situation of Columbia, again, is one
Of extreme beauty and salubrity; and it is
certainly important that such characters.
tics should attach to place where all sea-
sons must be used for purposes Of Govern.
ment, and where the genius of the South,
and perhaps of all countries, will some day
seek to educe and adorn its capabilities
There are few locations superior to Colum-
bia on these scores.
Then at Columbia, which is something,
we have truly noble structure which would
be no inapt beginning Of a Capitol for the
South,-a Capitol of granite, simple but
everlasting.
Aud, still more, there is something in
the name of Columbia, which would be, to
ourselves as we'll as to the world, embracive
of high memories and broad suggestions
and the very sound of the "Government at
Columbia" would soon ring to the skies
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

"MERELY. Lincoln asks at Indianapo-
| |lis-"But if the United States should mere.
ly hold and retake its own forts and other
property" would that be coer-
cion or invsion?
Let Lincoln, for example, "merely" retake
the Augusta Arsenal without invasion-or
coercion-or both! It's small matter
"merely," but he will have lively time of
it, whether done by invasion or coercion, or
uot.-Macom Telegraph.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

with as clear an intonation as ever that Of
earthly court.
Such are few views in favor of Colum.
bia, South Carolina, as the Seat of Govern.
ment of the South. AS to accessibility, in
this age of Railroads it is scarcely ques.
ton to be considered.-EdgefeM Aduer.
tiser.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28
The Military Act.

The Military Act.
The Charleston Mercury calls attention
to the subjoiued order, showing the con-
struction put by the Secretary of War up
on an "act to provide an armed military
force," and suggests that State exchanges
should publish it for information:
DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
january II, 1861.
To ADJUTANT GENERAL GIsT: =
You will proceed forthwith, so soon as
eight companies Of Infantry and the Rife
companies thereto attached, in the Infantry
brigade, shall have been reported to you, to
organize the same into regiments, to be
numbered in the order of the date of organi-
zation and you will divide each regiment
into two battalions, having reference, as far
as may be, to territorial neighborhood Of
the companies. One rifle company, howev-
ever, to be attached to each battalion
You will further order, in each regiment,
an election for Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel
and Major, to be held within ten days from
the acceptance of the last company CON-
posing said regiment. The election to be
held under the provisions of the "acs to
provide an armed military force" and each
company to vote for three field officers
When more than ten companies are report
ed to you in any brigade, you will attach
said companies to others in similar posi-.
tious in other brigades and organize them
into appropriate bat,allions and regiments
as hereinbefore directed.
D. F. JAMISON.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

A Boys COMPOSITION ON THE SEASONS.
There are four seasons; spring, summer,
autumn and winter. They are all pleasant.
Some people like the spring best; but as
for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Finis-the end"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

ONE ABsALoM W. WOODRUFF, "lead.
ing Republican lawyer" in Patterson, New
Jersey, got off the following sentiment in
a speech at Republican meeting, on Fri
day night:
"He only wished to his God to have con-
troll of hell for three days, in order that he
might rain fire and birthstone on South
Carolina"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-28

REFUSED TO HONOR THE PRESIDENT
ELEcr.-The Duquesne Greys, leading
military company of Pittsburg, held meet
ing on the evening prior to the arrival of
Mr.. Lincoln at that city, and unanimously
refused to take part in the formal reception
accorded him. The Greys, it will be re-
memdered, acted as guard Of honor to the
Prince of Wales on his passage through
Pittsburg.
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Weeks Magic Compound
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