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ical affairs. They generally adopt the positions set forth yesterday in the speeches of Vallandigham and McClelland — that the Union cannot be dissolved peaceably, and that the Northwest will under no circumstances consent to be cut off from the Gulf of Mexico and city of New York, and that the Federal Government, whatever may be its faults, is of inestimable value. The leading idea here is a central government, embracing the middle, Western, and border slave States. Lieut, Gen. Winfield Scott will arrive here to-morrow. [Second Dispatch.] Secretary Toucey was to-day requested by the President to act as Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to his duties in the Navy Department, until Hon. Howell Cobb's successor is appointed. Mr. Cobb took formal leave of the President to-day, and will leave the city to-morrow. He has prepared a letter to the people of Georgia, calling on them to arise in all their manhood and be prepared on the 4th of March to announce and
dreary winter, it is sickening to contemplate; in their very faces is already written misery and starvation. This is a part of the fruits of the glorious Republican triumph that was to give increased prosperity to our manufactures. Instead of yells of exultation, they a wear at the very name of Lincoln. "Ten hundred men, with each a pen, Or more, upon my word It is most true, would be too few Their curses to record." Well, it is their own doings, and they'll learn (those who don't starve) to let the nigger institution be. Poor, misguided creatures, let them compare their condition with our sleek, well-fed blacks, and determine which are the best conditioned. There are thousands of others through the State and the whole North in a like condition. Men of all classes seem to realize what is now upon them; the faces you see in the street denote this, and they look as sorrowful and melancholy, as "Scott" says, as a troop of expatriated monkeys. Yours, &c., R. A. T.