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THE NEWS.
—ln the House on Saturday Mr.
Thomas, of Tenn, presented the reso
lutions of the Legislature of Tennessee
in response to the resolutions of the
Legislature of New York, concluding
with the following: "Whenever the
authorities of the latter State send a
military force to the South for the pur
'pose of coercion, the people of Tomes
-1300 will unite with the South to resist
such invasion at all hazards."
The Washington Star says :
"It is folly to cheat ourselves with
the idea that any settlement is possible
that will prove satisfactory to extreme
men of either section—utter folly; for
a considerable wing of the North is op
posed to any other arbitrament than
that of the sword, while a larger wing
at the South is opposed to any settle
ment that may defeat its darling
scheme of severing the connection be
tween tho two sections, even though
the North consent to surrender in ad
vance all the territory that can possi
bly be acquired. Those who are finally
to settle the trouble are not the politi
cians of Congress, committed to this or
that extreme view; but the great mass
of the people, North and South, to
whom the continuance of the manifold
blessings of the Union are vastly more
important than the triumph of any
ultra sectional policy conceivable."
—The Chicago Democrat (Republi
can) saysthat a movement is on foot
to Call a monster Republican Conven
tion of one hundred thousand men, to
be held at Cincinnati on the 2d of
March. The delegates to this Conven
tion aro expected to be armed and
equipped for any necessary service,
and will hold themselves in readiness
to go to Washington city on the 4th
of March, or in any other direction
where Generals Scott and Wool may
ordor them to move.
The Louisville Journal of the 21st
says:
"We yesterday saw a highly re
s-pctable Kentuckian, a warm Seces
sionist, direct from Vicksburg._ We
learn from him that it is a fact that a
battery was planted on the shore of
the Mississippi, at Vicksburg, so as to
command the river. He says that a
good many boats passing down were
brought to, especially in night, the
object being to get possession of the
Silver Wave, upon which it was said
that the United States ordnance was
to be transported to the South. A
shot was fired across the bow of one
boat, and then the cannon was aimed
directly at her,
but it flashed without
going off, and the boat rounded to.—
Three of the military companies of
Mississippi were in charge of the bat
tery, and they Withdrew it from the
shore on Tuesday last and seized the
United States Hospital, which they
are now occupying. They are, no
doubt, resolved to seize upon all the
United States property that they can
lay their hands on."
—Homy Stump, of Berks county,
has been appointed Flour Inspector by
Gov. Curtin, for Philadelphia.
—Resolutions in favor of the Qrit
tendon compromise have been passed
by the Railroad Presidents, assembled
in Washington city, D. C., who repre
sent a capital of two lilmdred and fifty
millions of dollars.
—Mr. Dix, Secretary of the Treas
ury, has communicated to Congress a
statement of the actual condition of
the Treasury. He estimates the
amount necessary, prior to the Ist of
July next, in addition to the accruing
revenue, at twenty millions of dollars.
Ile also suggests measures to raise the
money, and, among other means, re
fers to the surplus revenue deposited
in the States in 1836 as a specific fund
which might be pledged or recalled.
—An important meeting took place
last Friday egening, between Messrs.
Douglas, Seward, Crittenden and Dix-,
on. 'The compromise plans were un
der consideration, and it was under
titood that certain modifications of the
Crittenden resolutions were agreed
upon.
—The Southern Justices of the Su-1
promo Court have determined not to I
resign for the present.
—Letters from Charleston, received
at Washington on Friday morning last,
state that the harbor at Charleston is
being rapidly cleared of all obstruc
tions, and that the British consul at
Charleston has been instructed, and
the British consul at New Orleans will
be instructed, to certify to all clearan
ces that may ho issued from the cua
tom houses at both of these ports.—
Also, that vessels carrying goods thus
cleared, will be protected by the Brit
ish ships on the high seas. Very little
doubt is entertained at Washington
now, that the British and French Gov
ernments will recognize a Southern
Confederacy.
—The Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia, on the 25th, presented ex-
Secretary J. B. Floyd for malfeasance
in office, and conspiracy to . defraud the
GoVerument. Thompson, Late Seers.-
tary of the Interior, Drinkard, chief
clerk of the War Department, and
other high Government officials, were
examined before the jury, and upon
their testimony, and facts derived from
the House Committee in regard to the
stolen bonds, that presentment was
made.
The Latest News.
—Louisiana, on Saturday, in con
vention, adopted.tho ordinance of se
cession by a vote of 113 to 17. The
president of the Convention immedi
ately declared Louisiana a free and
sovereign republic. Six States have
now seceded :—South Carolina, Miss
issippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and
Louisiana. Texas will soon follow, as
a large majority of delegates elected
are for immediate secession.
WASUINGTON, Jan 26, ISM—ln
formation was received by the gov
ernment this morning, from the Col
lector at New Orleans, stating that
the barracks about two miles below
New Orleans, now occupied as a Ma
rine Hospital, were taken possession
of on the 11th last, by Capt, Bradford,
of the State Infantry, in the name of
the State of Louisiana.
There were two hundred and six
teen invalids and convalescent pa
tients in the hospital at the time it
was seized. The Collector of Customs
was required to immediately remove
the patients who were confined to
their beds as soon as practicable.
This action on the part of the au
thorities of that State is regarded by
the government as most outrageous
and inhuman. The government have
no authority or means to make pro
vision for these creatures, who are
thus thrown upon the cold charities of
the people of that State. The reason
assigned! for this transaction is, that
the authorities there wanted the
quarters for their own troops.
—Petitions containing the names of
nearly three hundred thousond citizens
from the Northern States alone, have
been received in both branches of Con
gress, urging the passage of a law based
upon the Crittenden propositions.
IVATHINOTON, lan. special
message from the President has been
sent into the Senate. He submits to
the Senate the Virginia plan of settling
the National difficulties, with a favor
able recommendation.
Prominent and well-informed Vir
ginians, who have been pushing their
plan of adjustment of the present diffi
culties, declare that Senator Seward
will be found among the friends of the
plan.
LION. SIMON CAMERON.-011 Monday
of last week, in the course of a debate
in the Senate, Mr. Cameron declared
himself ready to do anything to pre
vent a separation of the Union, and
would vote for the Crittenden resolu
tions with Mr. Bigler's amendment
submitting them to a vote of the peo
ple; and would go further to save this
great country. He was asked whether
he favored coercion. Mr. C. replied
that that was a bad remedy, and he
did not know that he would ever be
willing to resort to it. Since Mr. Cam
eron has taken this conservative stand
to save the Union, the New York Tri
bune has read hint out of the party,
and the Republican leaders generally,
in and out of Congress, denounce his
course. We do not see how our neigh
bors of the Journal th American can
longer advocate Mr. Cameron for a
seat in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet. In their
last issue they come down flat-footed
on the compromises Mr. Cameron has
declared he will support. Hear them :
"No attempt to impose upon the
people 'an insidious fraud, should be
tolerated. We look upon the CRITTEN
DEN resolutions in this light. We be
lieve them to be a fraud—that they
are so intended—no HONEST man would
propose amendments to the Constitu
tion under the present state of .excite
ment."
Thousands of voters of all parties
in every Northern State, and in most
of the Southern States, are petitioning
Congress for the passage of the Crit
tenden compromise resolutions, yet we
are told by the Journal & American
that those resolutions are a fraud, and
that no HONEST. man would propose
them. We hope our neighbors have
not joined bands with the hot-headed
Abolitionists.
DEir All accounts from Washington
show that, were it not for the ultra
abolition and ultra-slavery elements in
the Congressional delegations of the
North and South, there would be nb
difficulty experienced in agreeing to
some scheme of adjustments that would
satisfy Union
. men everywhere, and
place questions of an irritating nature
on the basis of a sound Constitutional
settlement—such as those proposed by
Bigler, Crittenden or Douglas.
The people want a solution of exist
ing difficulties by such a compromise
as will secure the Union of the States.
Let an amendment to the Constitution
be submitted to them, and see how
quickly they will respond to
, it—with
what unanimity they will affirm it !
The men at Washington who vote
clown every proposition for compro
mise, every scheme of conciliation—
who refuse to let such propositions
come before the people of the States
—are not merely the enemies of the
sections they profess to bate, but of
the constituencies they profess to servo.
And when this ruin comes, which their
obstinacy invites, we warn them they
will have to answer for it to an out
raged people smarting under the sense
of a gross betrayal I
SIMON CAMERON SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY.--A despatch dated Harris
burg Tan. 27th, says that the appoint
ment of Gen. Simon Cameron as Secre
tary of the Treasury is certain. The
opposition to his appointment, it is
said, was confined principally fl'om the
free-trades Fepublieans of New York.
Politicians vs. the People
The Lancaster Inquirer bits the nail
on the head in the following truthful
remarks :—."f he people, slow to auger,
generally, are beginning to be terribly
in earnest, and commence to clamor
throughout the count why something
tangible and effective, is not immedi
ately done at the National Capitol.—
The many abstract reasons cited as
difficulties to the settlement of our na
national troubles are not considered as
sufficiently important to interpose any
obstacle to the prosperity and happi
ness of the people of this country. Alit
the people, the people it is the masses,
the mechanic, the workingman, the
farmer, and the manufacturer, in each
section—North, South, East and West
—who are to suffer, bear the burden,
and do the fighting, while the accursed
fanatic, demagogue and politician
skulk in shame, and fear, and dread, to
some hiding place. What do our trou
bles originate from ? Why is the fair
est country that God's light has ever
shone upon to be deluged in fraternal
blood ? We appeal to the honesty,the
justice, the truthfulness and patriotism
of every candid, reflecting and dispas
sionate man, of whatever party or
clique he may be connected, to allow
the God of conscience to answer this
question. Try it by that golden rule,
"Do unto others as ye would that oth
ers should do unto you." The magni
tude, the vital importance of this ques
tion to every man in the land warrants
and appeals to him to consider. We
want everyman to soberly, thoughtfully
and earnestly ask himself the question
of the origin of our troubles, and quiet
ly answer it. Aggression, mutual re
crimination, ambition, pride of opinion,
selfishness. These, unfortunately, arc
too prominently the characteristics of
the men now-a-days who are sent to
act as statesmen ! We want the peo
ple, to look to their rights and see jus
tice is done. We assert, under a rule
ofreciprocal benefits, that there does
not exist any antagonism of interest
between free and slave labor; but
upon the other hand, there are mutual
advantages.
And yet Republicanism, for the
mere success of an impracticable dog
ma, will sacrifice the welfare of millions
in this country, by not conceding one
iota to justice or right!"
The mass of the Republican party,
we, must do them the justice to say,
as we believe, would speedily settle
our difficulties if they had it in their
power, but they have transferred all
power into the hands of the fanatics
and demaguges of their party, and for
a time they must submit to being mis
represented.
TnE PA. LEmsLATuttE,—There has
been no final action by the Legislature
upon any of the propositions to repeal
the enactments complained of by the
South; still the conservative feeling
appears to be strengthening, and per
haps at some day too late to do any
good, a majority of the members may
vote to repeal obnoxious laws. Most
of the speeches delivered in the Senate
and House are made for buncombe,
and are frequently made to empty
chairs, or to members who do not give
the least attention to what is being
said. We were in the House on Thurs
day while Mr. Austin, of Fulton, was
reading a speech on the distracted state
of our ITo ion, awl were not, surprised
to observe, that, althon!7 , l) the House
was full, not a single member was giv
ing the least attention to the speech.
The speeches published are very sel
dom heard in our Legislative Halls—
they are for home consumption.'
Opinions of the Fathers
The following are the opinions of
Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson, on
secession. They are pretty good au
thority.
Mr. Jefferson in a letter to John
Taylor, dated June 1, 1798, says :
" If on the temporary superiority of
the one party the other is to resort to
a secession of the Union, no Federal
Government can ever exist.
Who can say what would be the
evils of a secession, and when and
where they would end ? Better keep
together as we arc; haul off from Eu
rope as soon as we can, and form at
tachments to all portions; and, if they
show their power, just sufficiently to
hoop us together, it will be the happi
est situation in which we can exist.—
If the game were sometimes against
us at home, we must have patience till
luck turns, and then we shall have op
portunity to win back the principles
we have lost."
Mr. Madison, in a paper he drew up
a short time before his death, gives us
this advice
" The advice nearest my heart and
deepest in my conviction is, that the
Union of the States be cherished and
perpetuated. Let the open enemy to
it be regarded as a Pandora with her
box opened, and the disguised one as
the serpent creeping with his deadly
wiles into Paradise."
Gen. Jackson, in his message to Con
gress, January 7th, 1833, thus .disposes
of the question of Secession : .
" The right of the people of -a single
State to absolve themselves at will,
and without the consent of the other
States, from their most solemn obliga
tions, and hazard the liberties and
happiness of the millions composing
this Union, cannot be acknowledged;
such authority is believed utterly re
pugnant both to the principles upon
which , the General Government is con
stituted, and to the objects which it
was expressly formed to attain."
14. Etnier has been appointed
post-master at Mount Union, this coun
ty, rice Benjamin R. Foust.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23d, 1861.
The report of the Committee of thir
ty-three being under consideration,
MR. MONTGOMERY, of Pa., said :
Mr. Speaker, I have a proposal to
make to this House. I think that every
impartial observer, who has witnessed
our deliberation since the commence
ment of the session, will admit that
there isnothing like unity of sentiment
nor coneurrenee of opinion among us.
The votes had on the various proposi
tions of compromise presented to us
from time to time, abundantly prove
that there is not the slightest proba
bility that a constitutional majority
can be obtained for any proposition
which will restore harmony and peace
to our distracted country. Day after
day is spent in the delivery of speeches,
many of which only tend to increase
our troubles, and add fuel to the flame
of public discord. While we are engag
ed in this profitless controversy—for I
doubt whether any speech that has
been made, or that will be made, will
change the opinion or vote of a single
member—State after State is seceding
from this Union, and delegation after
delegation is bidding us farewell, and
vacating the scats around us. While
these things are being done, what are
we doing to avert this dreadful calam
ity ?, Revolution is sweeping over the
land. We can feel the temple of our
country's liberty tremble, yet we stand
here idle.
I think it is obvious to every man of
us that we are more controlled by po
litical prejudice and preconceived opin
ions, than by a proper sense of our
fearful resPonsibility. In devotion to
our. party we seem to forget that we
have a country. We serve the Demo
cratic and Republican organizations,
and forget that we have a Union and
a Constitution in peril of destruction.
While we stand hero idle, the people
weep, and the nations look upon us
with scorn and contempt. I cannot
pick up a paper in which our tardy
action is not denounced as treason to
the cause of human liberty. Convinced,
as I am, that we are not likely to con
centrate on any reasonable proposition
now before us a constitutional major
ity, and bearing in mind that not one
of us was elected in view of the adjust
ment of,,these unforseen troubles, and
impressed with the importance of com
promise, and believing that it is our
duty to refer this question, which we
cannot settle, to the people whom we
represent, I propose that every man of
us agree to resign his place here, to
take effect on the 21st of February
next; and that we immediately pass
a special law to provide for the election
of our successors, who shall meet here
on the 22d day of February, (that day
consecrated and hallowed by the birth
of the Father of his Country,) and that
to these Representatives, fresh from
the hands of the people, amid bearing
the people's instructions, the various
proposals of compromise now pending,
and herafter to be made, shall be re
ferred. In the meantime, between this
and the 22d of February, we can go on
and dispatch the public business de
manding our attention.
This is not a party proposition. I
made it in good fitith, and earnestly
ask its consideration. The man on
this floor who knows he has been mis
representing the wishes of his people
need alone fear it. Those who have
been faithful and true to the people, to
the Union, and the Constitution, will
be indorsed and re-elected. The re
sponsibility will then be with the peo
ple; and I know the result will be
peace, conciliation, and a return to
the Union. We cannot agree; why
then shall we stand in the way of the
expression of the will of the people?
If we are right, our people will sus
tain us; if we are wrong, we owe it to
ourselves and them to give them an
opportunity to select others in our
stead. Adopt this measure, and you
will arrest precipitate action in d lhe
southern States which yet remain
with us. -I believe, if this measure
were adopted, some of those States
which have, already seceded, would
send their Representatives back to
lend their aid in this great work of
compromise. Even if it were for no
other purpose, we should consult our
people on the question of the course
to be pursued against the seceding
States. Before wo begin a bloody ci
vil war, lot us consult the people, and
hear their voice and carry out their
determination. For myself I have
voted uniformly for the consideration
of almost every proposition for com
promise which has been offered. I
am willing my people should pass on
my acts. I love my country, and
am ready to make any sacrifice which
will preserve that glorious Union
which has made us the greatest and
freest nation on the earth. I speak
by the indulgence of my colleague,
and I cannot now elaborate this prop
osition. I submit it for the considera
tion of the 'House, as a peace-offering
which requires Ito sacrifice of princi
ple from any one. I thank the .House
for its attention and my colleague for
his kind indulgence.
Mr. Grow. I ask my colleague
whether his • successor is not already
elected ?
Mr. Montgomery. Certainly; and
be is a good Union man and a con
servative Democrat. But my propo
sition has nothing to do with my suc
cessor; my proposal relates to my own
term.
The following paper, prepared by
Representative Montgomery, of Penn
sylvania, was to-day circulated in the
House, and among others, has been
signed by Messrs. Bocock and Martin
of Virginia, Sickles, Florence, Mont
gonery and Clemens:
" We, the undersigned members of
the. Thirty-sixth Congress, convinced
by the vaTious votes taken on the sev
eral propositions presented for our con
sideration from time to time, that
there is no hope that any measure
which will reconcile the existing (lit=
ferences between the sections of our
country can receive 4 vote of 3 con
stitutional majority, and as none of
the present members were elected in
view of the existing troubles, and be
lieving that M a time of so great a
peril it is proper to refer this question
to the people of our several districts,
propose that the members of this Con
gress shall resign, to take effect on the
`2lst of February next, and that we
immediately provide for the election
of our successors by the people. who
shall assemble hero on the 22c1 day of
February next; and to these Repre
sentatives, bearing the instructions of
the people, the various propositions of
compromise now pending, and hereaf
ter to be proposed, shall be referred—
the said election not to interfere with
the officers and employees of this
House."
IMPORTANT BY TELEGRAPH.
[Special Despatches to The Press.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 1861
Good News from Kentucky.
A letter of a recent date has been
received by a distinguished member of
the House of Representatives, from an
influential member of the Legislature
of Kentucky, in which the important
fact appears that Hon. James Guthrie,
Hon. Joshua F. Bell, Col, Harney of
the Louisville Democrat, Mr. Under
wood, and other Union men, have re
solved to resist the calling of any Con
vention unless it is postponed until a
late day—say the first of August, 1861.
There seems to be little doubt but that
the Legislature will ask upon their ad
vice. A few clays ago a resolution was
introduced into the House to raise the
American flag over the Capitol, Which
carried by a vote of seventy to twenty
three, when it was proposed to fire a
salute of thirty-three ginis in honor of
the ceremony. Governor Mag,oflin re
fused to give them the use of the guns
in the arsenal, upon which the Union
men threatened to break it open. He
finally yielded to their demand, and
the flag was raised and the guns fired.
Action of Pennsylvania
The utmost importance is attached
to the speedy action of Pennsylvania
in regard to the offensive clauses of
her statue of 1847. Let Pennsylvania
not stand in the way of a settlement
The Enforcement of the Laws
' The special committee of the House,
appointed to -take into consideration
the last and most important message
from the President of the United
States, are ready to report, and will
recommend the adoption by Congress,
of a bill giving Mr. Buchanan all the
power necessary to enforce the laws of
the Federal Government, and to block
ade the ports of the seceding States
for that purpose.
Florida.
The Surrender of the Pensacola Navy
Yard Interesting Particulars—Re
port of the Late Commander—Three-
Fourths of His lien and Officers Se
cessionists—A Unionist Stabbed—ln
sult to the Flag—A Bearer of Des
patches Intercepted—Condition of Fort
' Pickens.
WASIHNGTONT, Jan ; 23.—Capt. Arm
strong, late in command of the Pensa
cola navy yard, arrived here to-day.—
He represents to the Navy Depart
ment that of the sixty officers and men
who were in that place with him, about
three-fourths were Secessionists, who
would have revolted had he attempted
a resistance to the four hundred or
more men under Major Chase, who de
manded his surrender. Therefore, any
opposition by him would have been
useless.
The secession feeling was so rife as
to silence the Union men. This was
illustrated by the case of one-who, the
day before, while thus avowing him
self, was stabbed.
Shortly before the surrender, the
Secessionists were by no means domi
nant in Pensacola, but Major Chase,
through a public meeting at which se
cession resolutions were passed, in
flamed the minds of the people and
drew them generally into the move
ment.
'hen, under order of Lieutenant
Renshaw, the American flag was low
ering, it suddenly fell into the dust,
when a loud shout went up from the
exultant multitude, led by an officer
attached to the steamer Wyandotte,
which will proceed to Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Saunders,
who was bear
er of despatches to Captain Armstrong,
had them demanded of him, at his
quarters, by the Secession officers, but
he refused to comply with their request.
Ho was then informed that they would
be taken from him. He replied that
that would be an act of war against
the United States. He was afterward
conducted into the navy yard, and in
the presence of Captain Armstrong,
ho had already surrendered. Per
ceiving the condition of affairs, further
refusal to surrender his dispatches was
unavailing.
At Fort Pickens there was about
eighty men only, to two hundred and
forty guns. Lieutenant Stemmer, com
manding the post, has his family with
hint. After he had abandoned Fort
Mcßae, his wife went thither to pro
cure some of his wearing apparel, and,
it being denied her, she indignantly
left, saying she, herself, on her return
to Fort Pickens, would man one of the
guns.
Senators Mallory and Yulce, and
Representative Hawkins, have been
appointed commissioners for Florida,
whose duty it is to negotiate with the
authorities at Washington for the sur
render to that State of all the navy
yards, forts, magazines, and other pub
lie property within its limits.
Important, from Georgia,
Surrender of the U. S. Arsenal—The
Flag Saluted Before Being Hauled
UM
AUGUSTA, Jan. 24.—A force of seven
hundred State troops assembled here
this morning to make a demonstration
on the United States arsenal.
Governor Brown demanded the sur
render of the arsenal. The demand
was complied with at half-past twelve
o'clock.
The negotiations were commenced
yesterday, and continued this morning.
The United 'States troops in charge
of the arsenal saluted their flag before
hauling it down. They will be sent
hence to New Yolk
The Louisiana Couvention,
Secession Ordinance Deported—Resolu
tions Returning Thanks to the Gover
nor
.for #3e4ing the Forts.
BARTA , Rouen, Jan. 24.—The Com
mittee of Fifteen reported the ordi
nance of secession, and resolutions re=
garcling the navigation of the
rwor.
A- resolution was offered, returning
thanks to the Governor for his prompt
action in seizing the flirts in Louisiana,
stating that we will defend them, hero
and elsewhere, with all the means in
our power:
Virginia.
Address of Virginia Jlentbers of Congress
—Secession Advised
RICHMOND, Jan. 24..--Ten members
of the,Virginia delegation to Congress
have sent hither au address to the peo
ple of Virginia, giving a review of the
proceedings and probable action of
Congress, and•say that it is in vain to
hope for any measure of conciliation
or adjustment from Congress which
the people could accept. Also, that
they are satisfied that the Republican
party designs, by civil war alone, to
coerce the Southern States, under the
pretext of enforcing the laws, unless it
shall become speedily apparent that
the seceding States are so numerous,
determined, and united as to make
such an attempt hopeless. The address
concludes by expressing their solemn
conviction that a prompt and decided
action by the people of Virginia, in
Convention, will afford the surest
means under the providence of God,
of averting the impending civil war,
and preserving the hope of reconstruct
ing a Union already dissolved.
Missouri,
Union Meetings—The Missouri Legisla-
r
ST. AUBERTS, Mo., 3 - an. 23.—Union
flags are going up all over• the country.
A ninety-foot pole was raised at Me
dora yesterday, from which floats the
stars and stripes.
A large and enthusiastic meeting
was held last evening, at which Union
resolutions of the strongest kind were
passed unanimously. At eight o'clock
this morning, a large number of citi
zens from all directions formed in a
line, and fired a salute of thirty-three
guns for the Union.
BOONEVILLE, Mo., Jan. 24.—One of
the largest meetings ever held in
Cooper county, met to-clay at BellAire,
and passed resolutions of a firm and
decided character, asserting the right
of the South, in favor of the Union,
against secession, and in favor of the
Crittenden or Douglas plans of adjust
ment.
Sr. Louis, Jan. 26.—The resolutions
recently passed by the Tennessee Leg
islature, relative to the action of the
Now York Legislature, tendering men
and money to the President to, i coerce
seceding States, came up before the
House yesterday, and were referred to
the Committee on Federal relations.—
Some of the resolutions were made the
special order for to-day in the Senate.
The• Democratic caucus last night
adopted resolutions similar to those of
Mr. Crittenden. Aclviees from differ
ent parts of the State indicate a strong
Union feeling, and that the Convention
will be filled with conservative men.
AN INFANT COMPELLED TO SWALLOW
NEEDLES, PINS, MATCHES, A. WORK
BASKET AND A SIXPENNY NAIL.--A
correspondent of the Richmond (Va.)
Dispatch, writing from Harrisonburg l
Virginia, December 19, reports the fol
lowing singular case of cruelty and
crime :
" A negro girl, in the employ of
Samuel Crickenberger, residing near
Rockland Mills, attempted to destroy
the life of an infant, four months old,
of which she was nurse. She admin
istered in some way, or forced down
its throat, needles, pins, matches, one
sixpenny nail, and fragments of a
sewing basket. Up to the present
time, fourteen pins have conic from the
child—six of which were thrown up
out of its mouth, and eight passed
through its bowels. Eleven needles have
come from the child, nine of which
came through the skin in various
places. Dr. W. D. Ewing was called
in frequently to extract needles, when
any were discovered under the skin.
The four matches, the nail, and pieces
of basket, were each an inch in length,
and were all thrown up out of its
mouth. The child is recovering, and
was cheerful all the time it was under
going the cruelties inflicted by this in
human wretch. The negro girl is
about 13 years old. She has been
sent to Richmond for sale and trans
portation.
&KICKING INILUMANITY.-A revolt
ing ease of barbarity has been brought
to light near Wilkesbarre, Pa. An
old man named Isaac Bisbing, living
in that vicinity, quarreled with • his
son Andrew, and in a fit of rage he
seized a gun and shot the boy in the
back, from the effects of which it is
feared he cannot recover. It seems
that the old man was a perfect demon,
and some of his acts of barbarity to
wards his wife and children, would
have shamed the wildest savage. He
would frequently hang the younger
children up by the neck until life was
almost extinct, and at other times he
would hold their heads under water
until they struggled in the agonies of
death. One of the boys lied to the
house of a neighbor one day, badly
burnt, and stated that his father had
thrown a red-hot poker into the bed
in which the children slept, just to see
the frolic they would have getting out I
At another time, he nearly drowned
his wife by holding her head in a crock
of butter-milk I It would — be a just
retribution if this man sliofild collie to
the gallowsi and he bids fair to end
his career on the scaffold.
RETRIBUTION.—When it shall b,e gen
erally admitted that the American
Union is irrevocably broken up, set
tling day with Northern Abolitionists
will have arrived. Then, the authors
of the stupendous mischief will, have
to meet a storm of indignation before
which they will wither; and incendi
ary lecturers and preachers, of what
ever name, will slink away confounded
and self-condemned, from the gaze of
their outraged countrymen. In Phila
delphia, in Boston, in Ohio the other
day when Abbey Kelley Foster was
mobbed, and in Butialo, Lockport and
Rochester, they have already received
a premonitory rebuke from on expect ;
eel quarters. The arph-agitater, Hin
ton Helper, fared no better in this
trournal of conaperce.
EDUCATION IN PENNSYLVANIA.-- - Mbe
Annual Report of the Superintendent
of Common. Schools in Pelmsylvania,
for the year ending June ,4th, 1800,
shows that there was then in the State,
11,577 schools, containing 0.171 male
and 4,832 female teachers, 314,077 male
and 264,249 female scholars. the aver
age attendance being 30001. The
number of schools required. is 494, awl
the number ofscholar:: learning (4er..
man is 0.753.
Concession! or.Ci,vll - Vier!
There is now no blinking the issn . e.
The alternative now presented to
the triumphant majority of the North,
is, concession, or civil war and the destruct
lion of the Republic!
And what is the concession demand
ed by the South? It is simply their
rights under the constitution of our
common country in the Union. It is,
that they shall be let alone in the en
joyment of their own domestic institu
tions; that their servants. fleeing from
labor .shall be restored ; and that
they shall be permitted an equal en
joyment of the public domain of the
Union.
These are, iu substance, what the
South demands. They are right and
just, and should be conceded. They
are vital to the W'etfltre and very exis
tence of the South. Therefore her
people say, if they cannot be conceded,
we must abandon all political fellow
ship with the North. We must go
out of the -Union.
Now these are the alternatives.—
The events of the past sixty days pro
claim in language not to be misunder
stood, that these are the alternatives,
between which the North must choose.
The selfish and incendiary leaders
whom they have followed, have told
the people of the North that there
was no danger in the moral war, or
war of words, and of votes, which
they were waging against
,the South.
'But, they iIONV see that there is danger,
—real, appalling danger; and that
danger involves the destruction of
their country, civil war, and the deso
lations and horrors of anarchy, culmi
nating at last in military despotism.
The fanatical priest, fulminating
from his supposed safb retreat, the
pulpit, and the political demagogue,
anxious lest that the offices and plun
der within reach may escape his grasp,
say, no concessions; stand to the po
sitions which you have assumed; co
erce the South; fight her back into the
Union. Such is the insane advice
given to the masses of the North, in
terested only in the preseitatiou and
safety of the country. ' Now, the
question ,comes Home .to every man,
woman, and- child of the North. re it
better to make an easy and cheap
concession, and thus save your coun
try and yourselves front the inexpres
sible calamities which must follow a
dissolution of the Union? Or, is it
better to persist in an unjust and
false position, and thus bring' upon
your country those very calamities ?
Even, if you were right in principle,
what would prudence and patriotism
dictate ? Would they not even in that
ease dictate some concession in order
to avert the formidable dahgers which
impend over your country!
We call upon our fellow countrymen
to think of these things—ponder them
seriously and solemnly. Now, has
come the time for serious and solemn
thought. Farty ties, and party tri
umphs are nothing in view of the ter
rible dangers which threaten Us all.—
Our country now is at stake, and we
should do everything—make every
sacrifice which honor will permit, to
save her.
What can men, heretofore,' republi
cans gain, by blindly following their
leaders in their Mad counsels,—to per
sist in their false positions, and to co
erce the South with fire and sword ?
Can they fight the South back into
the Union?
The idea is an absurdity. Ten mil
lions of white people, marshalled and
acting under a confederation of fifteen
States, fighting for their houses and
their homes, can never be subdued.
In the event of civil war the South
will be united. A common interest
and a common destiny will unite all
the States and people of that section,
There is no such tie to bind the North
together. Massachusetts, the pioneer
in this fitnatidal crusade against the
South; will not be the leader' in her
subjugation. Already is Massachu
setts, detested in almost every State
in the Union. The self-righteousness,
egotism, and arrogance of her people,
have disgusted the great majority of
the people even of the free States.
But, a still more formidable fact
will appear to the astonished advo
cates of coercion in the North. Here
our people will be divided. If the
South has the wisdom to plant her
self on just grounds, if she is not too
precipitate; if she fairly states her ulti
matum, and gives the real friends of the
constitution and union in the north, time
to respond through the ballot-boxes,—if
she does all that, she may rest assured
that the Northern Democracy will
not aid her Republican enemies in
their attempts to subjugate her.
If the South shall exhibit such wis
dom and forbearance, (which the pre
cipitancy of South Carolina does not
indicate,) then, if just 'concessions aro
not made, she will not have'the Nor
thern Democracy to meet-as foes upon
the battle-field. And, in that event,
the civil war would bo likely to find
its active theater in the north, while
at the south it would be a war of de
fense uniting all her people. ,
It will be well for the leaders of the
present predominant party here, -in
the north, to fathom the depths of
the future, and forestall a knowledge
of the probable events yet to come, be
thre they irrevocably resolve not to
yield the least concession for the safe
ty and peace of the country,
And another contingency they had
better bear in mind. If disunion and
civil war do come in consequence of
their obstinate adherence to the dog
mas upon which they fought the Into
political battle, the people of the free
States may conclude 'to wrest from
them the reins of power, and commit
them to other 'bands. In such au
event their position would not be de
sirable, if it wore safe. We think, and
we believe, the masses of the people
will think that this Republic, had bet,
ter be saved by bloodless concession
rather than by a bloody civil war.—
Pottsville Standard. '
NQIITIIERN Cipniu;yEa. , --.-Wetinder.
stand that a number of Southerners,
who lntely stopped in Pittsburg and.
passed through its workshops, were
utterly astonished to see our operatives
all at wank happy and contented.—
They had been told that the working
men of the North had, nothing to do,
and were up in open rebellion, crying,
Bread or blood ;" and they, averred
further that, if they told the people at
home the true state of the case, they
would not be believed, so thoi.ough had,
become the conviction, in" the South
that the Northern working -Jaen were
suiferlug the deepest. distress, on ac
count the 4eet..-lon of South Carolina
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