Year: 1861

we have at last received the Telegraph


of the 18th inst. Why it should tax,


SO long for letter or paper to pass from


this city to Pomeroy, and the reverse


we cannot tell. Passengers can leav'


here in the morning, reach Athens tht


same night, and Pomeroy the next day


and the same in return; but letters ant


papers take from four to six days. Blu


such is the fact; and being the fact, VI


fear our letters will be rather stale be


fore they reach our readers.


We perceive that only two Of our let


ters, and they written before we lief


home, have been published in the paper


received. We wrote one on the boat or


our way to Cihcianati, and one from


that city, which We hoped would have


reached you in time for the paper now


before US. We have written every day
since leaving home; but if it takes sc


long to receive them, we presume ou1


readers would not care to have them


published, cold as they become by the


long delay. If no Improvement is made


in this respect, we shall probably cease


in great measure, this correspondence


Perhaps our readers would be the
gamers, and it would certainly relieve


US of some labor.


Again the ''inevitable" negro has
been up, and the whole day spent upon
him. A bill was introduced under the
plea of preventing amalgah alton, but
which simply illegitimated the children
of marriages between the races; thus
furnishing the children for the offense
of their parents An amendment was
offered from the Republican side, pun
ishing amalgamation between the races,
rchether married or not This would
reach the real evil, and punish the
guilty parties. But it was bitterly op-
posed. Every Republican in the House,
and two or three Democrats, voted for
this provision; but the orators, and most
Of the other Democrats, opposed, to the
bitter end, all penalties against the
proniiscuous amalgamotion of the races,
so long as they did not marry! But the
moment they should cover their inter
course by the ceremony of marriage,
then the penalties Of the law was to be
brought to bear hpon them, and their
children bastardized! And upon this
miserable humbug whole day was
spent, in speeches which We do not care
to characterize


It is understood that such is to be the
game for the rest Of the session. No
Republican has, nUr will, introduce the
question of slavery or the negro, in any
form, and it has been the general Under
among them, that the discus
sion of such subjects should be left
mainly to their opponents. But to-day
the thing became so intolerably often
sive that silence ceased to be virtue,
and there was some sharp shooting be-
fore the close, and the premise of a stern
meeting Of the slang, if again employed.
We earnestly hope the negro may be al
10 we'd to rest awhile. but the probabili-
ties are, that, in some shape, the ques-
ton will be brought up from day to day.
Such is said to be the determination of
the caucus. There will be some skin
ming done if such should be the CASE
The Republicans will not sit silent any
longer under the taunts and insults daily
flung cut. Due notice of this fact has
been given.


The progress Of the revolution in the
South is the all-absorbing theme here.
For few days it was supposed that the
Admin istration would stand firm, and
that the worst was over When the
Star Of the Vest was dispatched with
troops and supplies to reinforce Major
every patriot in the Union
felt thrill Of JOY at what seemed re-
turning loyalty to the Constitution on
the part of the Administration. But
when they saw the traitors fire upon the
vessel bearing the flag Of the Union, and
saw the vessel driven out of the harbor
Of Charleston with cannon belonging to
The United States, but in the hands of
traitors, and no step taken to punish
5he guilty parties, or maintain the power
md dignity of the Government, gloom
mas again settled over the public mind.
From indications of the last day or two,
t is now understood that the Admins
ration do not intend to maintain the in
;egrlty of the Union. The plan seems
@ be to let the secessionists seize and
lold all the forts, arsenals and arms of
he Union in the Southern States, and
prepare for a final stroke ON the 4th
If March, when Buchanan goes out of
,fice. The conduct Of the Administra-
ion is utterly inexplicable on any other
heory than determination and an un-
lerstanding with the traitors that they
ire to be prepared to prevent the inau-
5uration of Lincoln, and to seize the
forts and property of, the Union. We
confess our hopes, as expressed few
lays ago, have measurably vanished.


BY the time this Administration ex-
9ires, the disruption will be complete,
md the very means provided by the
for its own protection, will