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AUCTION SALES.
By J. C. MoGUTREACD Ir,,ion-

By J. G. Mo6UIRE a. CD, Aueiiono~r,.
RUTIEk, BUTTER, BUTTER "a .0s0 NJ.
ivEsbxY mH sSI1 os,Os.TT A. g SscSt
ont rossrys four thousand Eve hundTed penps, az
enoios MOL utter. put mp IN hrkins Just receiyed
eos J. c. MCGUIRE a CO, AvO,s.
BJ GREEN Il WILLIAMS, Auct,oneS,.
ITO TIE INTEREST OF FaRMEes
II Fxr.NsTvn shLE AsRIcrLTuIII 1seIr
nFss TSc MsHIsssT HSIEEDs ESRIiIztls As
ISL, we shall cell ct the ksncultnr,i SysT.hnn,n.,
OF MT Edward z. Simpson, No. SIC Seventh
street north Of Pennsylvanls avenue, oommsaoiTs
ss sns &c, e "a,
Ressins .nd Moving Machines. snin Drill.
Horss fower asd Threshing MsohIne., Grsio
Spring ToOih Horse Rste., Plov.. RarrOv.. cul-
$efs., Bows ss., sslt E 'f rS H' s, Ss
vesetsSis Cutters, Sugar Mills, Meat cu,..r..ao..
Sand Screens, eeiyss, ladders a Ire loses, Com
Boot Fuller: Hsr srd ctSes!t K1iss., rr.e., Iot,
Forks Hoe, Rskes, Picts, soyths and snstse.,
holoS Ware and kettses, Horse Scoops,
Pru5ins KNIVES, Vans. Gram scsles, Piov
wei Surbs, flov Csstinsn, Bolts &o, large
E WsSi GA S.dId sP::s and Flower seeds:
Patent Fire Proofs fe, with counting room funI-
The attention Of Farmer, g srdener, and Bo,.e-
Ispsrs 10 pa tcularly iRvIted TO the above q 9 az
enoraink an opportunity bu: dom met with Tor
oSaning sueh goo a. Prices 20 tuii the tim g.
sse posIsve, no reserve, AID for cash only in
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WASHINGTON ARSENAL,

WASHINGTON ARSENAL,
~ SEPTEMBKR n, 1851
LOT Coal" vii be received at the ofhos of the com
handing ofcer OF this Arsenal until 10 a. m OF the
lvth OF October next for furnishing a5a tons az
Cumberland Coal, best quality Run Of the mIIe'"
suitable for blscksmiths and steam sneine sse And
Mhloh yilI be shown OF application The Whols
% pc delivered and stored away in the coal-house
pense of the contractor, "
GEORGE ID. RAMSAY.
&c 20 1t Col. COMMANDING.
= and CAPS-At SMITHS, No. 40 Seyenth
sHees &C l-lm
A TMOORE'S WEST END DRUG STORE.
"A lls Pa ay.. can be bad: Osgood's India Chol'
M5ore's Akns Cure and Antldots; Sha lenburrer's
fins and large supply of the most popular nj cd
seq 20
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The POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
IL seems that the administration of the postaI
affairs by the Postmaster General Reagan dos.
not give satisfaction. The papers are com plain
Ing OF the irregularity Of the mails. and charge
the Efficiency Of the system to the head of the
department, and demand his removal The Fav-
etteville (Tenn.) Observer says:
The conviction seems to be fixing itself upon
the minds Of the people that Hon John II REAGAN
Postmaster General Of the Confederate States, IL
NOT the man for the station he is attemptinp Ia
M. He has been In office for months, but has
done nothing known to the public, we hear II
said, to commend him to Its favorn
The Charleston Courier remarks:
'tWill Mr.. Postmaster General REAGAN n. a
obliging AZ TO pay some attention to the mail,
Having very industriously warned of all ey n,e..
managers from doing what they would ha We done
to supply the failures of mails the Postm,ster
General should endeavor to do something's sivs
place TO iCho could aud tcoxld
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THE ARMoRY.

This institution, says the Enquirer, L. now I'm
fuLl blast In making, repairing, and altering mus
In these useful operations 70 chiefly that VIII we
% proyidentially recovered at Hsrper's Ferrv.
About IS Of the old fint-lock musket are beipo
daily altered into serviceable percussion puns al
these works. About 900 Of these weanons ye.
remain on hand, and ten thousand or more h.
longing TO the COMMENSURATE, prohahiv
scattered throughout the State. : - .
s CALL FROM BEN M'cuLLoeH
4 The Memphis Avalanche Of last ontiav b..
NE following special dispatch: NO.
Z Fort Snssk, ssPt. ga regiment q Missouri
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OUR MILITARY BUDGET.
A MISTAKE.


The New York TribHns, in Its efforts to palliate
Fremonts purchase Of the Halls carbnes sold by
the Government long since, as being worthless, at
from 81 10 Sc each-at a cost Of SO each to the
Treasury-says that the Ordnance Department
here sold lot of Enfield rifles at $40.
This Is not true. The Ordnance Department
exchanged 10, 600 ord mary rifles of the calibre Of
5i1OO, originally costing 81 each,l at $40 piece
taking the pay for them In Colts pistols at the
usual contract price, with guarantee that the
rifles should be reamed up to the standard calibre
IS 100-htted with sword bayonets, and be re-
turned as soon as possible back into the service
thus improved. The de mabds upon the Spring
field armory are such that 1t would have cost the
Government four times much to have under
taken to alter these rifles there at this time will
be the entire cost Of the alteration made in the
private factory Of the party who has undertaken
the work.
This explanation sets the TIibHns's story CON-
pletely at rest.
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The balloon that sailed over Washington yes
terday afternoon was doubtless the Saratoga, of
Mr.. La Mountain. He made an ascension in 1t
last evening from near General Rearney's camp
lin the vicinity Of the Theological Seminary
while that officers brigade was receiving a stand
of colors, on parade, President Lincoln, General
Mcclellan and staff, and other notables, being
present BY some accident the balloon slipped
Its moorings, and was waited over the Potomac,
to descend, we hear, about six miles northeast Of
the city. Various absurd rumors concerning 1t
were ahoat-one alleging that the President and
Gen. Mcclellan were passengers with La Menu
tain; another that the balloon had escaped from
Beauregad's army, &c, &c.
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The small ur-pound cannon, made of VIrp,ni
Iron, that have been 90 long at the State armorv
are being rsbored and rifed, after the Payfo,
plan Some Of these guns were tested yesterday
imenting upon one, indiscriminately selected
stood charge Of 4 pounds OF powder, with
shot OF ~ pounds, without injury. Az. thre
quarters OF a pound Of powder and AZ poun
shot Is the service charge for The field, ther. "a
now be no doubt about the strength OF tbss
guns.-Dispoteh.
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TO MILITARY OFFICERS AND OTHERS.
BA1CHELoRS GENUINE HAIR DYE.
The Best In the World,
The Only Reliable AID Harmless Hair Dive Kao,ss.
s9ia ~ ~ Qruggists; also. ct BRsRKToS's Patent
Meaiclne store. p. Patent Off, 3d. COR = i'm :,
and &C s I'd - 2
6iBsss H4ir Store, 242 Penn'a ayeuua WHARF
- Lacles can have IL applied, If desired. =
Foc - Barclay ct (late SIS Broadway N. Y,
HEApQUARTERsFOR CLOTHING, aATa
Pot s1sseoo ArS-No 100 Seventh st., opposits
The PE0PhE,e CLOTHING eTORE-No.
ESQ seventh q. oVIosits fos1 0dIes. oci.i%
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MARSHAL'S SALE.-In virtue of A writ on
w hen fsclas issued from the Clerf's Oroe ~
the Circuit Court Of the District Of Columhis' And
n me 6li eoted, will expose TO pubic sale, n
IuEsDAf, the 18th Of October, commepcirs NJ
10 O'CLOCK q. m, for ossh. az the store room Of
Shanes Wslrms situated on 7th STREET No as,
In the city OF Washington, the E,ljos,Is
tooos end chatteis, TO wit; LOT Il ad es mis- ses
snd chi fTen. hoes Lot Of Draws, lot Glsss
nloa as the goods and ohstteIs Of Charles WI.r-
maa, and Wild be sold 20 ,stIsiy iudicisls No a. 10
rent due Y. & hobbins
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From Washin gton.

Washington, Jan. 20.-The minority re-
port of the Committee of Thirty. three,
signed by Taylor OF Louisiana. Phelps OF
Missouri. Rusk Of Arkansas, Whitelcy of
Delaware, and Winslow of North Carroll
ma, embraces, in substance, the following:
The report says the present difficulties
can only be remedied by amendments to
the Constitution, and suggest that the
amendments proposed in the Crittenden
resolutions, if adopted, would restore
tranquility to the country and place the
Union on such a foundation that it could
never be shaken. These amendments,
the report asserts, would not in reality
change the Constitution. They would
only have the effect of restoring it, by
the added provisions, to what it was, in
point OF fact, on the day of its adoption.
The indications now are that if Con-
stitutional majority cannot be united in
supporter the Crittenden resolutions or
the substance of them, dissolution of
the Union is inevitable. The report re-
commends that steps be taken for callinga
convention Of the States with a view for
peaceable separation by providing for a
division OF the property of the United
States, settling terms by which the COM
mercial intercourse of the separate States
shall be conducted, and making per-
manent arrangement with respect to the
navigation of the Mississippi river
The report gives what the signers of it
consider a full account of the rise and
progress of the slavery agitation, which
has produced the existing difficulties.
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The Report of the Committee of
Thirtv-Three


The majority of the Committee of
Thirty-threc, in their report, propose an
amendment to the Constitution provi-
ding that no amendment thereto inter-
ferring with Slavery. shall originate in
any other State than a slave holding
State, and to be valid shall be ratified by
every State in the Union.
They also submit an enabling bill for
the admission of New Mexico as State,
on an equal footing with the original
States, and fugitive slave bill, which
gives the right of trial by jury to the
slave claiming liberty in the State whence
he escaped. and releases any citizen from
assisting the United States Marshalls in
tho capture or detection of the fugitive,
except where force is employed or APP
pretended for the release of the fugitive.
The committee submit joint resolu-
ton deprecating personal liberty bills,
but not by that name,) and requesting
the Northern States to cause stleir sta.
tutes TO be revised, in order that all him
ORANGES to the just execution of the laws
may be removed. The President is re-
quested to communicate this resolution to
the several States.
They also report series of resolutions
recognizing no authority on the part Of
the people of one State to interfere with
the institutions of another, and dscoun-
tenaoing all mobs and hindronces to the
rendition of fugitive slaves. They recos.
nize no such conflicting elements in its
composition, or sufficient cause from any
source for dissolution of the Govern
ment. They were not sent here to dcs-
troy, bu. to sustain and harmonic the
institutions of the country, and see that
equal justice is done to all parts of the
same, and finally to perpetuate its exis-
tence on terms of equality and justice
to all the States.
As no propositions for interference with
slavery in the District Of Columbia, Uni
ted States dock yards, arsenals, etc., have
reached the committee, they have not
deemed it necessary to take action on the
subject.
Another set of resolutions is with refer
ence to the duties Of the States and the
Federal Government, referring to the
duty of all constitutional obligations, and
asserting that the Federal Government
should enforce the laws and preserve tn,
Union of the States, concluding with q
Recommendation of law providing for
the rendition of fugtiyes charged with
treason, felony or other crimes.
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Virginia Legislature,

~.
1.an"ono e. -, ""n. iy-.oh E Ut ne
ai.ien'''''en. VI tne lepoSg on re',erai re-
!a'ioi'' o'n'en'I'%''iG 80 N"'ioii'i Coi''eh-
,;or' wa1 lNSu,ie a. ne sseoIu , resolu-
noint;ns .Iohn TvIor w." Wm r. ~ Hir "p
John " Prock enhoro,,,h Genrcs w
Somers. ard James A. Sedon, Commits.
sioners 70 Woshinoton on Tho lin of Feb.
ruorv TO meet tho Commissioner from
other Sto,s. The fnh re.olutions was
anendeI bv tnoIifying Mr. rr;,tnn1a,S,
pronosi,ion 40 as to 1--WE additional nro.
lection and. security TO slave uroncrtv =
The sixth resolution was amended NV
Amounting John Tylcra commissioner n
Washington to wait on the President of
the United States, and John Robertson a
Commissioner to south Corolino ond ,ho
otho, socod;no Stotos 70 rao,ost H., -
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Alabama Legislature,

Montgomery, Jan. 10 House
passed bill to provide against the inva-
sion of the State by sea p;!2tts, bringing
foreign vessels into Mobile, liable to fine
and imprisonment in the Penitentiary,
and authorizing the commander of Fort
Morgan to destroy the beacons and land
marks at his discretion, and to contract
for the construction of a telegraph line
to Point Clear, in order to have more
speedy communicating with Fort Morgan.
1t is understood that Hooper of the Mail
will be the candidate for Clerk of the
Southern Congress, and will be warmly
supported by the secessionists.
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Georgia State Convention.

MeigcriNc, JAN l9.-Thc ordinance
Of secession was adopted by the conven-
ton to-day Mt two o'clock, by vote of
two hundred and eight yeas, to eighty
nine nays. The majority was one hum
dred and nineteen.
The following is tho ordinance of Sc
cession by which the State of Georgia
was taken out of the Uninn:
An ordinance to dissolve the Union be-
tween the State of Georgia, and the
other States united with her, under the
compact Government entitled the Con-
stitution of the United States:
We, the people of the State of Geor-
gia, in convention assembled, do declare
and ordain, and it is hereby declared and
ordained, that The ordinance adopted by
the poople OF thoState of Georgia, in the
convention Of 1888, whereby the Consti-
tuition OF the United States was ratified
and adopted, and also all act9 and parts
Of acts of the General Assembly, ratify-
ing and adopting amendments to the
said Constitution, are hereby repealed,
Iescinded, AMI abrogated.
We do further declare and or6lain that
the Union now subsisting between the
State of Georgia and the other States, I'M
der the title of the United States Of
America, is hereby dissolved, and that
the State Of Georgia is in the full posses
sion and exercise OF all those rights of
sovereignty which belong and appertain
to a free and independent State.
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A Nice Pronosition.

A proposition has been introduced in
our Legislature to prohibit the introduce
ton of goods of Northern manufacture,
The craftsmanship and wisdom of this
generation are wonderful! We 60 to
Nashville-we legislators-to initiate a
preliminary step to bring about an adjust
ment and reconciliation of the troubles
and disturbances of the country. We are
patriotic, and we arc in earnest-we leg
islators, of oourse--and in our earnest
ness, sincerity and patriotism. we pro-
pose measure, which of all others is cal
culated to defeat every proposition for adj
justment that may be offered. We should
like to sec the bill in print in full, with
the portrait Of the author prefxed; and
if it should pass both houses, we hope the
guns "at the foot of Broad-street" will
speak out as they have never spoken be-
fore.
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Arming the State,

A proposition has been offered in the
Legislature TO appropriate a million of
dollars to arm and equip the State
There is no necessity for any such outlay
at present, and the "congrega;ed wisdom"
had better be moderate in their expendi-
lures. In East Tennessee, more or less
firearms are to be found in almost every
family. Even we, who belong 10 the peace
party, though we once toted musket for
an entire day in the service Of South Caro-
lima, ordered arms, presented arms"
"shouldered arms" grounded arms"
and took drink"-the last the most
interesting part of the exercise-) even
we have a double-barrelled shotgun, n
beautiful pair Of Colts, and pocket-pis
toll which holds about pint. Our neigh
bors-with the exception of the preach.
er, who deals not with carnal weapons
we presume, are as well armed for defence
as ourself--and if they are not, let them
procure them at their own expense. We
are, therefore, opposed TO the "millon
bill" We are willing to spend hundred
thousand or two in buying arms and mu-
nitions from the Yankee Doodlcs, provid-
ed the Legislature don't pass that prohibi-
tory bill. But we can't stand million.
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What's UP {?

The Nashville Banner, of the 22d, has
the following paragraph under its edito-
rial head:
Let every true, honest citizen of the
South beware. The vilest, most damna-
BILE, deep-laid, and treacherous conspiracy
that was ever concocted in the busy brain
of the most designing knave, is being
Matched to destroy his rights and lber-
ties by breaking up this government. II
the PEorLE do not rise in their strength
and put back meddling politicians, the
latter will ehloroform them with sectional
prejudice" and then ride over them
rough-shod before they can recover from
the narcotic. The political tricksters
who see their poVT slipping from their
grasp, are playing desperate game and
will not "lose trick" if they can help it.
Let the honest man see that the double.
dealers do not stock the cards." That's
all
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-01-25

DA- Some of the editors down South
are exceedingly jolly over the Secession
OF their States. 1t is, no doubt, jolly
business, witha great many provoking
results yet undeveloped. Whatever may
have been the causes impelling Secession,
to our mind the breaking up govern
ment Which was formed by our fathers,
whose memories we should at least re-
spect, affords subject for any thing else but
exultation. When the Lunatic Asylum
of Kentucky, few months ago. was on
fire and the flames making rapid progress,
it is said one of the unfortunate inmates
made his appearance at window, shout
ing. clapping his hands and manifesting
other demonstrations of JOY and gladness.
The gentlemen who are Jolly" over the
destruction of the edifice erected by their
fathers for tho shelter and protection of
their children, can make the application.
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Polk County.

While at Benton. in the early part of
the week, we heard II suggested that, in
selecting delegates, equity would seem to
demand that each county in the Senate
rial District should have candidate
Monroe and McMinn each being entitled
to one. il would seem that the Senatorial
delegate and the Joint Representative
should be taken rom Polk and Meigs.-
We presume no one would object to such
an arrangement, provided those counties
furnish good, substantial, and conserva-
tive men, which we have no doubt they
will do. We heard the name of Col.
VIM. NJ. Biggs, of Polk, and that of Col.
A. Cox, of Meigs, suggested as candidates.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-01-25

ATHENS. Tenn, Jan. I'd, 1851.
Tsliow- Citizens Of McIUirn County: ] take
this opportunity of announcing my name
MS a candidate for Delegate to the State
Convention, which meets on tho 25tl day
of February, 1861, at the city of Nash
vile. Hitherto, in attending Conven-
tons at Nashville, have went as dele
gate from the democratic party; but now,
should be so fortunate as to secure your
confidence and be chosen as your dele
gate, it will be to represent the Union
loving men of all parties. The heart of
the patriot is made TO sink within him
while contemplating the condition of
this once peaceful, but now distracted
country Can | say the Union is in
dangerg Is it not already dissolved this
glorious Union, purchased by the best
blood TINY ever coursed through the
veins of mortal men? Have not some of
the States already torn from the staff of
our time-honored banner the stars and
stripes? From the bottom of my heart
am sorry that such is the case. re-
greet that a sister Southern State should
assist in breaking up this the grandest
scheme oil selt-government the world
has ever known. The question comes up,
what is to be done for the veal of our
chlllulOU CtuIlTy DHdIl We ylelu Ouf
rights in this Union of our Fathers with
out struggle? No, sirs, no! Let us
have national Convention of the dele
gates fresh from the honest masses of the
people, and representing their true sem
tments, and then and there in such Con-
vention assembled let us, as a Southern
people, under that compact, sealed with
the blood OF our foreiathers Consti-
tuition of the United States-demand our
rights. If the North agrees that we shall
have our guaranteed rights under the
Constitution, then will "dove eyed" peace
again return among as, and we be joyful
in the hope of transmitting to future
generations the untold blessings of our
Constitutional Union: but il our rights
are refused us it will then be time
| enough to say what position Tennessee
should take. But let not Tenncsseans
tear down, with sacrcligious hands, the
greatest fabric of human liberty that
was ever erected and 20 out of the Union
and give up those most sacred rights be-
queathed to them by their forefathers,
without a mighty effort to maintain them.
Let the home of jackson cling to the
Union, i'll the language OF Senator John
son, "As the shipwrecked mariner clings
to the last plank, when night and the
tempest close around him."
This is the first position | have ever
asked of my fellow-citizons, and / feel
that it is one of Importance, but should
you elect me will try to net as should
become an American citizen-a Southern
! citizen, and citizen of Tennessee; but
should you prefer another to myself. to
your decision | will most respectfully
bow without mu,mur. -,a.
Your friend and fellow citizen,
FRANK S. HALE.
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New York LEGISLATURE.

1Do,v, Jan. l9.-The committee pm
Federal relations reported reprobating
dissolution; denying theright ofsecession,
and declaring that the State will exert
her strength to maintain the laws, ex-
pressing at the same time the desire to
avoid war by every means consistent with
honor. They are willing to meet their
sister States in a conciliatory manner, and
remove the causes of complaint. After
the admission Of Kansas they are willing
to form two States out of the remaining
Territory, under the Missouri restriction
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-01-25

pa" Nashville seems to be wasting a
good deal of powder and notherexplosive
article, in jubilating over the secession of
the Cotton States. We are not one OF
those who raise the voice for Union, un-
conditionally, right or wrong. At the
same time, we cannot see any particular
cause for exultation at the destruction and
downfall of government and the ami
hilation of institutions which were be-
lieved, until very recently, to be the best,
and fraught with more blessings than any
other devised by mans wisdom. We sus-
pect the men who assemble at the ''foot
of Broad street" so frequently, are not the
men to whom the interests of the State
can be safely entrusted. Nor can the
people of Tennessee be moved into hasty
and precipitate action by the gunpowder
orgies of a cabal at the Capital City of the
State. a.'is
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Congressional.

Washington, Jan. l9.-Sumner's resolu-
ton for information relative to cores.
pondence with foreign authorities in ref
erence to clearances from Charleston was
adopted
Mr.. Mason introduced resolution,
looking to q suspension of the exercise
OF the Federal functions in the seeding
States, and to announce their secession
by proclamation, was passed to a second
reading, and ordered to be printed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-01-25
The Stay Law.

This "Relief Measure" as some wag
styles it, passed the House in an amend
ed form, and at last accounts was on its
winding way to tho Senate for concur
renee, We believe the measure is entire
ly unnecessary, as we have learned within
the last three weeks, to our complete dis
satisfaction, that the collection of debts is
already suspended.