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AUScULAR FEATS-Three strong men have
just bad . notable muscular contest in Chicago.
Dr. WinshiP liited nine kegs Of nails, weighing
1000 lbs. Next with harness on his shoulders,
he raised l SIT lbs. William Thompson, Of the
Chicago gymnasium, did the same. The latter
then went on adding weightA and lifting with
harness on shoulders and hips, until the mum
bers stood successvely $50, 1886, 1886, $780,
1885, 2,OS6, 2,lO6-A very remarkable liz, the
latter, to be sure. Then Thompson swung III,
100 lb. dumb bell, and Curtis did the same, and
Dr. Winship hited himself with his little finger; .;
then Thompson experimental with an l65 ID.
dumb bell, and Winship shOuldered a 229 lb.
barrel Of -four, and putt down carefully; and
Curtis "pushed" $50 lbs. in each hand with the
pulley, and then 100 lbs in each hand, and then,
laying down on his back, put up ITO lbs. in each
hand. But the feat Of the evening was the greal
liz Of Thompson, and the judges so considered
il in the award Of the 5000 prize to him.
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faa HALD can be found In San Francisco At the depot Of
w. Sullivan, adjoining the Post once the Once Of
cur Agent, HI Washington street. At the Merchants
kEehAHge Apa The principal Hotels; and also at the
leading HOtsAa In The Atlantic cities.
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The best purifier Of the blood, Halls SaFsa
pariila, yellow Dock and Ioliie of Potsss.
, 1861-05-09

AcKSowLEDauExn-HOn. E D. Baker, U. S.
Senator from Oregon, has our thanks for public
documents frum Washington; also Capt. ricm
ing. of The sisamer Ella AadsrOn, lor the usual
courtesies
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6EEF EATERS

WILL TAKE NOTICE THAT FROM AND
w asr the si n April there ui be reduction of retail
rats carrpapnpng Nltl he ce ~ kl and that pains
W be .red 70 furnish ~ very besi ne country aaSrds
Psraas v.hias shscs suis IN Sunday v have 10 appy
prgTidua 20 halfplEl SAN
~ Positively erriit.
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We hAn he pleased 20 furnish Of vessels and others
Outward bound, uth les Of the Imam, Application
atthh Olace.
, 1861-05-09
NEW STORE!
P. LARSON

ID EsPECTFULLY INVITES THE ATTEN-
Of the public Of strlacOom the fact that he las
opened at Philip Keachs old stand where he will keep
OH hand every kind Of
GROCERIES,,
from sardne to glass Of Swedish Puneh TOdiy Give
him q call, 8;52-sm
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L p. EISHER,

IsIH WashIngton 81, San FraReiseO,
q auosissa he Agent Of iris paper In receiving I'd
Vuaanenls and subscriptions San Francisco and else
uhae, and collecting and feceptlng for the same.
s4+.sita CHAS. PROSCH.
, 1861-05-09
THE PUoET SOUND HERALp

pubIhed every THURSDAY EVENING, At o. per annum,
In adVAneei II paid within SIX months, e.; AFTER the
expiration Of SIX months, Is; - for six months, In
advance; single eePies, 19H cents. Advertisements,
% insure insertion without delay, should be handed in
On o. before Wednesday Of each week.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
SECRET" AND "UNCoNsTITU.
TIONAL."

The Baltimore Sun of yesterday has
column Of lamentations and complaints upon
the subject Of the expedition from New York.
1t denounces the expedition as secret " one,
undertaken for nobody knows what, and there.
fore unbecoming a republican Government
The Sun evidently regrets that the time no
longer exists, when a Secretary of the Int.
rior will give information by telegraph to the
public enemy, of enterprises resolved upon in
the Cabinet, SO that they may be prepared for
and defeated.
Bnt although the objects of this expedition
are secret" and mysterious,' and "perpler.
ing" the Sun is altogether certain, that what.
ever they are, they are unconstitutional"
Even the defence Of our remote frontier Of
the Rio Grande, would be unacceptable, if un.
dertaken under the auspices of Black Re.
publican President.
The temper Of the Sun will not be that OF
the great mass of the people, North or South
They will first wait to know what the Presden,
is doing, before they condemn it, and they will
not pronounce in advance, that the Chief Magis
trate of the nation intends to violate the Con
stitution, to transcend his own powers, or t
invade the rights Of others.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

justify the assertion that the Southern Confede
rscy would not and could not be in existence
at this hour, but for the action Of tho late Sec.
retary OF War. The plan invented b. General
Scott to stop secession was, like all cam paigns
devised BY him, very able in It's details, and
nearly certain Of general success. The south.
ern States are full of arsenals aud forts, CON-
manding their rivers and strategic points Gen.
eral Scott desired to transfer the army of the
United States to these forts as speedily and as
quietly as possible. Had he succeeded in doing
so, revolution would have been paralyzed in
the whole South, and the submissionist party
would have been organized on very different
footing from what we now know. The South
ern States could not have cut off communica
tion between the Government and the fortresses
without great feet, which they cannot build
for years; or take them by land, without one
hundred thousand men, many hundred millions
Of dollars, several campaigns, and many a
bloody siege. Had Scott been enabled to get
those forts in the conditions he desired them to
be, the Southern Confederacy would not now
exist"
These secessionists wish to complete, in
peace, the work begun by Mr.. Floyd, and, to
that end, demand the surrender Of Fort Pick.
ems: All the factions at the North, opposed to
the present Administration, support this extra
ordinary demand. Judge Douglas led off in it
in the Senate, and the opposition Of oil shades
are seconding him.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
HENRY CLAY UPON THE CRITTEN.
DEN PROPOSITIONS

"And now, sir, coming from slave State, as
do, owe it to myself, owe it to truth, owe
it to the subject, to state that no earthly power
could induce me to vote for a specific measure
for the introduction Of slavery where it had not
before existed, either South or North of that
line. Coming as do from a slave State, it is
my solemn, deliberate, and well matured deter.
mination, that no power-no earthly power
shall compel me to vote for the positive in.
PRODUCTION of slavery either South or North of
that line. Sir, while you reproach, and Justly
too, our British ancestors, for the introduction
of this institution upon the continent of Ameri-
CO, am, for one, unwilling that the posterity
of the present inhabitants of California and
New Mexico shall reproach us for doing lust
what we reproach Great Britain for doing to us.
If the citizens of those Territories choose to
establish slavery, am for admitting them with
such provisions in their Constitutions; but then
it will be their own work, and not ours, and
their poserity will have to reproach them, and
not us, for forming Constitutions allowing the
institution OF slavery to exist among them."-
Henry Clay's speech in The Senate, Jan. 29, 1850.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
DRAWING THE LINE.

The recent dispatch of military forces by the
Government from New York, is having the ef
feet of drawing the line between the friends of
the country, and the friends Of the rebellion by
which its existence is menaced.
1t is noticeable that the persons who are so
indignant because few United States troops
have gone on shipboard for destination, or
destinations, not known, are the same persons
who have been not only not indignant, but
absolutely complacent, while JEFF Davis was
collecting and moving large bodies Of troops,
and for a destination which was well known to
be an attack upon an American fort command.
ing the only American naval station on the
Gulf Of Mexico. When it was announced that
fifteen hundred Mississippians were in Mobile,
en- route for Pensacola; that regiment Of
Zouaves had lett New Orleans, and that one
thousand Georgans were being concentrated
at Macon, both for the same point not lisp
Of censure was heard from the men and the
presses now so much exercised because some
American troops have embarked on board
American ships at New York. We have not
hehru py teieetaPh, VI py any private connu'
ncaton, that any agitation was produced in
the Virginia Convention, by the notorious and
avowed preparations for an attack upon Fort
Pickens. No committees were raised to remon-
strate with President Davis about it, and no
offers were made Of the military strength of
Virginia to sustain the country to which she
belongs. But, upon the first instant Of the
manifestation of a purpose by President Lin.
coin to perform his sworn duty, and to defend
the rights and property and military positions
of the United States, the same persons, so
quiescent and uncomplaining under the war
policy of jeff, Davis, become frantic and inco.
herent with passion.
One good effect, then, is already accomplish.
ed by the expedition from New York. The
line is drapn between the friends and the
enemies Of the country.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
COTTON BANKING.

Thompsons Bank Mole Reporter gives the
figures, according to the latest returns, of
the specie, circulation, and deposits, of the
Charleston Is. c. banks. The exhibition is
beggarly enough.
The Bank of the State, which is an official
concern, returns as follows:
Deposits SSO1 So
2,+4j,353
With this aggregate Of immediate liabilities,
It has in specie only $86,784:
The two banks at Columbia, the capital OF
the State, return as follows:
Deposits. Circulatn. Specie Specie per
Exchange Bank. sl9lG2 sleS 3i9 S4,G4S / cent.
Commercial Bank 2le,25s 3o7 ,iss 47,ls3 cents,
These banks have been obliged to carry a
good part Of the load of the State loans, but
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

seem to be pretty thoroughly exhausted Their
circulation, which rests upon nothing but
rotten discount line, spreads over three or four
States adjoining on the South, and is very large.
Nothing can await it but an explosion, as the
debtors of these banks must go down with the
general depreciation of property in the seeded
region. The "chiralry" were never remark.
able for paying debts, even in the best of times,
and in these revolutionary times, will pay
nothing. The history Of cotton banks has al
ways been history of bubbles, following each
other in beautiful succession.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
PRoLoNG1NG THE SUSPENSE.

The people Of Virginia, who are suffering in
their business affairs from the present political
suspense quite as much as the people Of any
part Of the country, cannot but see that their
own politicians are pre- eminently responsible
for the prolougation Of this suspense. 1t was
because Hunter and Mason promised the early
cooperation of Virginia, that the secessionists
were originally emboldened to act, and the
secession has been kept alive only because the
conditional Union men of Virginia have, by
their votes and declarations, countenanced the
belief that this cooperation, temporarily with.
held, would finally be given. Indeed, these
conditional Union men, which is another
phraseology for conditional traitors, have given
present aid and comfort to treason, by threat
ening war, if the United States should even
presume to reinforce their own forts.
The people Of Virginia, as we believe, are
for the Union as it is, and we know that they
are perfectly Indifferent to the subject.matter
Of the slavery agitation kept up at Richmond.
This division of Territories into which slavery
cannot 60 under any circumstances, is an alb.
straction, interminably spun out by Mr.. Sum.
mers and rhetorically worked up by Mr.. Rives,
but it really interests nobody in Virginia, and
will control nobody's vote and nobody's action.
1t is an affair of the demsgogues and of poll.
ticians who are constructing platforms upon
which to run for the Legislatureiand for Con-
gress in May.
But the people..o of Virginia ought to see how
much they are losing, by permitting the poll
proposing ultimatums to the North, by getting
up border.State Hartford Conventions, and by
keeping the whole public attention concentra.
ted upon the negro. The necessary effect is,
not merely to divert Virginia from its great
duty Of loyalty.at this crisis, but to encourage
the revolted States to look for eventual aid
from Virginia.
If that portion of the public men Of that
State, who really wish to preserve the Union,
had behaved with common sense and common
courage, the present political crisis would have
been ended long ago. If they had taken the
ground of Senator johnson of Tennessee, we
should now have peace, instead of confusion.
But instead of condemning the revolt Of the
Gulf States, as being without justification as
they know it is, they have been weak enough
to insist, even for themselves, that they cannot
remain in the Union without impossible and
unattainable guarantees, and have involved
themselves in mesh Of ultimatums and prop.
ositions, which leave no alternative but the
secession of Virginia, or their own personal
disgrace.
But in spite of all these follies of its public
men, Virginia is, today, sound to the core,
and if the rebels will only commit some such
folly as an attack upon Fort Pickens, the pa.
triotism of the old mother of States and states.
men will be manifested with an energy which
will end all hopes of secession in that quarter.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
THE POLICY OF SURRENDER.

lEa) Dispatch of April |, shows that the Sc.
cessiouists perfectly understand that they owe
all their past success to the cowardly, retreat.
ing, and Surrcndermg policy of the late Ad.
mnistration
"All who have attended TO the developments
Of the last three months, and know aught Of
the movements Of the Buchanan Administra.
ton up to the time of Floyd's resignation, will
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
OFFICIAL.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

April 0, 1851.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
this Department, until ten o'clock on Thursday
morning, the 18th instant, for four million nine
hundred aud one thousand dollars in Treasury
notes, any part thereof, bearing interest st six
per cent per annum, payable semi-aunually, re-
deemable in two years, receivable for public
dues, or, at the option Of thu b der, convertible
into six per cent bonds of the United States.
Said notes to be issued under the authority Of
the acts Of Congress approved February 8, 1891,
and March 2, 1861. q.
Proposals must state the rate bid for each ono
hundred dollars, one per centum thereof to bs
deposited with an Assistant Treasurer Of the
United States, and certificates thereof to accom-.
pany each bid, and the whole amount in coin,
must be deposited with an Assistant Treasurer,
in equal instalments, at Eve, ten and fifteen days,
respectively, or the whole amount within Eve
days after the acceptance of bid, at the option Of
bidder. No proposal at less than par will be con-
sidered.
Proposals to be endorsed {" Proposals for Treas
ury Notes."
8. P. CHASE,
apr 9-2tif Secretary of the Treasury.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
DEPARTMENTAL.

APPorYTED.-R. o. Dormer of Indiana, w
Throckmorton of Virginia, and James Fish
back of Illinois, have been appointed to tenn.
pory clerkships in the Patent Office.
Simeon Whiteley, of Wisconsin, has been ap'
pointed to second.class Isl ,40O) clerksbip in
the Bureau Of Subsistence, War Department.
RExovED.-W. A. johnson, New Jersey, q
third class Isl, 5000 clerk in the Pension Office,
has been removed.
REsIoYEp.-John A. Wilcox, q second.class
clerk in the War Department, has resigned.
RESIGNATION OF AN Army OFFIcER.-Major
T. II. Holmes, seventh infantry, (of Virginia.
has resigned.
ARSENAL KEEPER APPoINTED.-Milton Crane
has been appointed keeper Of the arsenal at
Vergennes, Vermont.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
NOTICE.

A PPLICATION will be made TO the Commits
II sioner of the Land Office Of the United
States for the issuing of scrip, in lieu of dupli-
cate Virginia Military Land Warrant No. $3.50,
for 447 acres, issued on the 9th day of July,
1860, to George Bagby, assignee of the heirs Of
Peter Moore, captain in the Virginia State line
in the war of the Revolution. The original war;
rant has been misplaced, and cannot be found.
mar l6-law3m GEORGE BAGBY,
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

CASH.
WE would respectfully call the attention of
w customers who buy for cash to our New
System " of giving off a discount of Eve per cent
for the cash"
Having but one price," customers will see at
glance the great saving in our new system. We
invite all TO examine for themsel
W. M. SHUSTER b CO.,
No. 3s, opposite Centre Market,
between Seventh and Eighth streets.
mar 30-dl0if Star
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
COLONEL BENTON ON THE SLAVERY
AGITATION.

From vol II of Thirty Years in the Senate"
"The regular Inauguration of this slavery
agitation dates from the year 1885 but 1t had
commenced two years before, and in this way {:
notification and disunion had commenced In
1880 upon complaint against protective tariff.
That, being put down in 1888 under President
Jackson's proclamation and energetic meas
ures, was Immediately substituted by the slavery
agitation. Mr.. Calhoun, when he went home
from Congress in the spring Of that year. told
bis friends that the South could neper be uni.
ted against the North on the tariff question
that the sugar interest Of Louisiana soould Keep
her out-dnd that the basis Of Southern union
must be shifted to the slare question: Then oil
the papers in his interest, and especially the
one at Washington, published by Mr. Duff
Green, dropped tariff agitation, and commenced
upon slavery, and in two years had the agi-
tation ripe for inaug on the slavery ques.
ton. And, in tracing this agitation to its pres.
ent stage, and to comprehend its rationale, it is
not to be FORGOTTEN that it Is mere continuation
of old tariff disunion, and preferred because
more available"
GEN. JACKSON ON MULTIPLICATION.
WASHINGTON, May /, 1888.
have had laborious task here,
but notification is dead, and its actors and
courtiers will only be remembered by the peo.
pie to be execrated for their wicked designs to
sever and destroy the only good Government on
the globe, and that prosperity and happiness We
enjoy over every other portion Of the world.
Haman's gallows ought to be the fate Of all such
ambitious men, who would involve their coun.
try in civil war, and all the evils in its train,
that they might reign and ride on its whirl.
winds, and direct the storm. The free people
of these United States have spoken, and con.
signed these wicked demagogues to their proper
doom. Take care of your nullifers you have
them among you; let them meet with the in.
dignant frowns Of every man who loves his
country. The tariff; it is noU known, was q
mere pretext. Therefore, the tariff
was only the pretext, and disunion and South.
ern Confederacy the real object. The next
pretext will be the negro or slavery ques.
ton. ANDREW JACKSON.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

~I is said that the Secretary Of State
yesterday Monday replied to the note Of the
Confederate State Commissioners, declining to
receive them in their official capacity.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

NATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE,
Medical Department Of Columbian College,)
WASHINGTON, D. @.
NNHE Fortieth Annual Course Of Lectures In
l. this Institu ion will commence on Monday,
October 81, 1851, and end on the lst Of March,
1862.
FACULTY.
THOMAS MILLER, M. D.,
Emeritus Professor Of Anatomy and Physiolo.
gy, and President of the Faculty.
JAMES j. WARING, NJ. D.,
Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
and Children.
JOHN G. f. HOLSTON, NJ. D.,
Professor of Principles and Practice of Sur
gerry, and Clinical Surgery.
JOHN G. RILEY, NJ. D.,
Professor of Msteria Medics, Therapeutics, and
Hygiene.
NATHAN SMITH LINCOLN, M. D.,
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.
A. Y. P. GARNETT, M. D.,
Professor of Clinical Medicines
GEORGE NJ. DOVE, NJ. D.,
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medi-
cine.
GEORGE G. sCHAEFFER, M. D.,
Professor of Chemistry.
WILLIAM E. WATERS, MD,
Demonstration of Anatomy.
FREDERICK SCHAFHIRT,
Naturalist, Janitor, and Curator of Museum.
Daily Clinical Lectures will be delivered by
the Professors of Clinical Medicine and Surgery,
in the wards OF the Hospital, under the same
roof with the College.
FEES.
The entire expense for full course of Lectures
by all the Professors, is.."..............."$9
single uckets.'...... 10
Practical Anatomy, by the Demonstrator.... 10
Matriculating fee, payable only once ........
Graduating expenses ........................... 20
No charge made for Clinical Lectures.
For circulars or fuller information, address
JNO. @. RILEY, NJ. D., Dean,
No. 453 l4th street. Washington, D. @.
mar 22-
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE,
A PAIR of Black, Thoroug ghbred, Four-year-
n old MARES, sound and kind, work single
or double, and good under the saddle. Can be
seen at the subscribers stables, at Union Hotel,
Georgetown, D. @. HIRAM WRIGHT.
apr
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
NEW GOODS.

NEW GOODS.
W7E are now adding TO our stock large and
w desirable lot OF New Goods, comprising
everything that is new and desirable, which we
propose to sell at small price. All persons in
want of Dry Goods will always find our stock
complete in all its branches, and at the lowest
prices. We would impress upon those of our cit
zens who have recently taken up their residence
with us, that we have but one price, marked in
plain figures on each article, and offer a discount
of five per cent. off for all sales for cash.
We ask an examination of prices, so that Gus
toners can satisfy themselves in regard to the
saving by purchasing for cash.
W. NJ. SHUSTER 4 CO.,
No. 3s, opposite Centre Market, between
Seventh and Eighth streets.
apr 6--l0tif Star
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

p6r The members of Company A, Union Reg
iment, are hereby notified that there will be q
dress drill Of the corps on Tuesday evening,
April 9. 1t is hoped that every member will be
punctual at y o'clock.
By order Of the Captain.
W. N. WooD, Acting Secretary. apr s-lt#
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

TIE VESSEL FIRED ISTo.-The vessel fired
upon last week in Charleston harbor, proves to
have been Boston vessel, the B. H. Shannon,
Capt. Mentz, bound to Savannah, where she
has safely arrived. The Savannah Republican
says:
"On Wednesday, she was shrouded for many
hours in dense fog, during which she drifted
through mistake over Charleston bar. Soon
after the fog lifted, the captain, not knowing
his whereabouts, found himself nearly abreast
of the fort on Morris's Island, and while cogi.
tating over his latitude and longitude, he was
greeted with salute from the fort. He imme.
diately ran up his colors-the stars and stripes
but that demonstration seemed an unsatisfac.
tory answer to their summons. Several shots
(thirty.twos) were fred into his rigging, one Of
which passed through his mainsail and another
through his topsail. In the midst Of his dem.
ma, not knowing where he was or the object of
this hostile demonstration, a boat from Fort
Sumter came to his relief, and being made ac
quainted with the facts, he lost no time in put.
ting to sea. The schooner suffered no material
damage from the shots, though one of them
came most uncomfortatNy near the head of one
of the crew."
The national Republican., 1861-04-09
Tuesday, April 9, 1851.

A WORD TO BUSINESS MEN.
This paper has now circulation in this city
larger than all the city papers combined, with
the exception of one, and therefore affords a
most excellent advertising medium.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

THE Crossed Path. By wilkie Collins, author
i of the Woman In White
Darley's Dickens. Darley's Cooper.
Appleton's New American Cyclopedis. Vol.
IL now ready.
And many other New Books received this day,
and for sale at our usual low prices.
FRENCH L RICHSTEIN,
National Bookstore,
mar 30 278 Pennsylvania avenue.
LOUISE FOR RENT AND FURNITURE FOR
IL SALE.-House aad Furniture nearly new.
Inquire at No. 1874 street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth, after o'clock. apr At [Star1
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

"a Alexander Duvall has been appointed
collector for Richmond, Va.
The national Republican., 1861-04-09

D~A list Of the rebel companies arriving
at Pensacola, from the 2sth to the 30th Of
March, inclusive, is published footing up as