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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring, 1861. (search)
From Washington. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Jan. 3, 1861. Although the papers of this morning smell strongly of gunpowder, there are indications the other way. Baker and the Abolition Governors of New York and Pennsylvania talk largely of coercion; but at the same time advocate the repeal of all Personal Liberty bills, and Packer goes so far as to urge the right of the slave-owner to retain his property during a temporary sojourn in or while passing through the State. This is what New Jersey has always permitted, and shows a return of the right spirit. Again, the Northern Democrats, who were supposed to be warping round to the coercion views of Lincoln, exhibited yesterday in the House a kinder disposition than at any time during the session; declaring their earnest desire to fight for the rights of the South, if Southern members would give them just ground to fight upon. Moreover, General Lane has received hundreds of letters from Iowa and other
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The finances of Pennsylvania. (search)
The finances of Pennsylvania. --The message of Governor Packer, of Pennsylvania, shows the finances of the State to be in a good condition. During the last fiscal year its receipts have been $3,479,257; the expenditures for all purposes $3,637,147. The available balance in the Treasury is $681,433, being $153,526 more than in 1857. The public debt has been diminished $2,236,882 in the past three years. The Governor, singularly enough, considering the importance attached to it, made no allusion to the Bank suspensions.