The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-14
lIS Commercial. .
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- berceptibIe thinning out Of popuia'
lion. Hundreds of Office seekers coming
70 The conclusion tha. it won't pay, are
s,;~g their vouchers and lndOrsers in pro-
nsr D,partments; and shaking OH the
dnst of the Federal city from their fee''
depart to regions more cOngenial anu ieSS
expensive. -. .ao nm ,o
hod no communication with Forsythe'
Crawford & Co. He will stick by the IN
.ueural, and negotiate no surrender ol gu
thoriry of the government, until the Pso'
pie instruct him so to do. =.
Abou, three thous,nd applications Tor
office, received at Springfield during the
winter. have been duly fled In re
spective Departments. No such rule
AS frs, come first served, is recognized
Another batch of Cincinnatlans have
arrived. AS the game is blocked here
! for the present they will mostly leave
The Mobile Advertiser states that Ex
Gov Roman Of Louisiana has declined
: the appointment OF Commissioner to TIN
limited States from the Disunted ones.
: The debate 10 the Senate to-day oil
r. Wigfall's expulsion was neither spicy no
70 satisfactory 1t consisted merely o.
~ rehash of old secession dogmas. An I'm
u mense gallery Of spectators were bore'
Is TLo debate was ali on ono side. Maso
1t. Hunter and Clingman speaking Tor wig
g, fall: Foster only making an open etai'
g ment in behalf Of his resolution. Maso
', adopted Wigfall's reasonable expression
o' saving that he too owed no allegiance
i'd any kind except to Virginia. Hunt
he male a pettifoggiug argument nnwortl .rtl
Of his ability, drawing comPar'sSns bdtwe
in expelIing Szns'G7 for an avow'l Of OPT
i5n6, y. in open osIility to the governmc
ard and expehing for proslavery or antislavs
opinions. Wigall was present TAXI
IN. notes. but didn't open his head. thou
r. r. lie had the impudence TO vote aga''
'" Going into executive session. That n
not t;on was carried nevertheless. and
red, short his business.
.ad Seward was in the Senate chamber
1.;. half an hour consulting with SUM
~" y. King. Mason, and Others. lilo looks
'''0' usually grave and careworn' We n n
was had a week of extremely cold Weatl
.atvs Inauguration day brought to Washing
they an iOstalment Of cola .;s"aS u,ad'S svar ~ 81
Is this omnibus?
pose The amount Of patronage IN some
] not the departments is prodigious. BY c
pub fdl examination, that Of the oecrear
lions the Interior amounts TO over seven
49,, dred thousand dollars per annum In
last, .ies alone in Washington, besides
pgard heavy disbursements in PENSIONS
d the census and Indiana agencies, ,&c, thro
ngod, out the country. ,
6on The special pleading of the late S
W. tary Floyd. excites here mingled
IN Inc tions Of admiration at It's audacity
indignation at it's hypocrisy and ta's'
alter. His eaperness to shit off all blame
hrmil Bailey, mere discussing clerk
=, 49,, department of the Interior, while he
i'o "'' orately defends in another part o
forced apology his over-issue o, near a n
osslble dollars of acceptancos, is charac'er'
detected roguery.
Fort Sumter has been fired upo
ial of responded. The Charleston Ne
an ex. Friday evening says; "Early tins
p;I,. inp, between six aud seven o'clock,
.'1, .;, cleaning out the guns at the iron
lmlngs a, Cummings Point, a ball contain
,ed, tho one Of the guns struck near the
10 gate. Fort Sumter. Major Anderson
por the dia'cly opened his battery on 'ha
r0- p. ms M but boat being dispatched TO
''S' '"o the circumstances as unintenional
Ienacl'y ING further resulted from the acc
nd iron, discharge.
was not The war ;alk here continues.
10 hs Southern men abiding at the hot
. clare i, is the fixed purpose OF )
- sH0'S viss Government TO have posses
10 an au' Washington. Any insult TO s
Of diff. Commissioners. they say. will be
O,rv will " and signally redressrd. eth
.;o, could take this Capital in I'VE
'o' IN" hours, and Lincoln will have to
10 Our'' his Iif.." SO goes the gossip at