, 1861-04-12

licans have so gerrymandered the State, as
to require but 5000 Republicans to elect
q Representative, and $4,000 to elect a
Senator; while they require nearly $1,000
Democrats to elect a Representative, and
92, 900 to elect n Senator. 1t is such an
apportionment bill which the Legislature
is asked to pass, and which the Democrats
have determined to defeat by absenting
themselves from the Legislative session.
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Albany Argas says "The cosrs 3 G1es.
not want wisdom or courage in the t5yeea.
tive, but beauty; and Lincoln knows H. and
he is up to the crisis The oil that a less
wise man would have thrown upon the
troubled waters, be reserves for his nascent
moustaches
Streetsboro, Portage county, Ohio, is a
healthy place. 1t has about /, 100 inhab-
itants, yet but one person died there during
the last year.
Philip Clayton, ex-Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States, has
been appointed TO a similar position under
the Southern Confederacy.
The exports of the United States within
the last year amount to the enormous sun
Of $40o. 600, 900, and the imports to S372,-
100000. Balance of trade in our favor,
$3s, 100000.
Three branking houses in Boston sold
bills of exchange, during the year 1860, for
$3l0,040 to Irish working people, to be
remitted to their relatives in the "ould
country" Probably half million Of dol
lars was sent from Boston in this way.
A photographic, by special permission
Of the Governor, visited For. Sumter, and
succeeded in taking several life-like like
nesses of Major Anderson and q group of
the officers under his command lie offers
to take" Fort Sumter at the shortest no.
tice
Col. v K. Stephenson, President Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, has
arrived in Washington. Before be left
Paris he made preliminary arrangements
for building the road, but the contract can
not be closed during the present troubles Of
the country.
The mai contractors in the Seeding
States are continually asking whether they
will be- paid as herctcfore, 10. which the
Post Onice Department responds ailrma-
lively, stating that drafts viii be issued to
them on the Posipasiers, 10 be paid from
the postal revenue collected within the
State.
Judge Williams, Of the U. S. District
Court Of Michigan, in a recent charge to
the Grand Jury, said The shipbulder
who furnishes vessels to a febellious por-
ton of the Union, or the artisan or manu-.
iaclurer who delivers cannon and muskeis
pursnants to contract, or the merchant who
transmits to order the clothing for a rebel
lious soldiery, thus gives practical aid and
comfort, aud is amendable to the penalty
Of the law.
A letter from Charleston to the New
Orleans Della gives the following items Of
the expense to be incurred in the siege Of
Sumter: Every gun fred from Fort Sam
ter costs. on an average, Sl3. Every gun
fred by the State will be an average ex-
penditure Of SO. A prominent officer Of
Fort Moaltrie informs me that BY close
calculation, il has been ascertained that
when its batteries open the cost per diem
to the State, at the Fort alone, viii cx-
ceed $4,000. Pretty heavy, that But
this Is the surest way Of mastering the
Fort. and we had better spend money than
lives in its acquisition.