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Atoniress-first Session.
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.iiVistiraoros, 'Dee. sth.
- . Sugars.—The Senate was called to order
at noon by Vice President - Breekinridge;and
opened with prayer by the Rev. Pr. Gurley.
On the roll being !called, 48 Senators an
swered to their names.
• Mr. Maxon of Virginia, stibmitted Creso
lution'for the appointment of a Committee
10 inquire Into the facts of the Ilarpees Ferry
-invasion, and whether. - other parties, not
Present during the affair; are not unplicated ;
also, what legislation' is necessary on • the
*Object.
Gwin gave.notics that be would call
:up - the Pacific Railroad bill.•
The usual resolution was pasigd informing
the President and the House that the Senate
had: organized. Adjourned.
Hotrisa OF RIPRESENTATIVES.:=The inter
est telt in the organization of the House, is
if possible, on the increase.
tong. before noon, the . hour of meeting,
the - galleries were "densely filled: Numbers
were unable to obtairiagtnittance. Notwith
standing the inclemency of the weather,
there was the wsnarattendaitte of ladies on
thalloor of the House. .
'The customary, salutations among mem.
hers and others - were exchanged, and a pleas
kit excitement prevailed : ever y where.
' At nool4 Mr. Allen, the Clerk, called the
House to order.: ' '
The din of voices immeJtately ceased, the
apectators were excluded from the floor, and
:the members took their seats. •
' The roll was then,. called. 231 members
answered to their names.
Ab :e n i es:. —Messrs. Stalworth atfd Clop.
ton, of Alabama, Brown and • Adams of
Kentucky, Hindman and - Rust, of Arkansas;
and Hamilton, of TVXItB-7.
On motion of Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, the
le
Hou agreed to the election of a speaker ,
i sita vote.
' . Houston, of Alabama, nominated Mr.
Phelps, of Missouri.
Mr. Corwin; of Ohio, nominated Mr. Sher.
maniot Ohio. ..
• M ,Adrian, of New Jersey, nominated
Mr.via, of Indiana.
Mt. Pa Haskin of New York, nominated Mr.
Hiclivan ' Of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, nominated
Mr. Grow; of-Pennsylvania.
Mr.' Briggs dominated Mr. Buteler, of
Virginia.
Numerous voices,; impatiently, " Call the
roll!" . __
The Clerk appointed Messrs. Houston,
Coiwin, Adrian, and Briegs, tellers. •
Mr. Florence, of Penns) 1% ania; in lieiening
to the call of the roll, said-•=1 notice that acv
eral members are absent. In order to ena
ble them to participate in the .election, I
move to-adjourn till tomorrow.
John Cochrane, of New York—l hope the
gentleman will Withdraw his motion.
• Mr. Col - tb, of Alabama—Oh ! let as have
one vote. [Laughter.]
• The Housoook a vote on Mr. Florence" ,
motion, by acclamation, amid which, and
much laughter, Mr. Florence withdrew hi,
Motion.,
The House then proceeded to vote for
Speaker.. , „
The First Ballot.—The first ballot result
ed as follows:
Sherman, 0.. 6G; Bocock, Vs., SR; Grow.
Pa., 43Boteler, Va., 14 ; Davis, Ind., ;
Phelps,lllo., ; Giliner, N. C., 3 ; Nelson.
Tenn ~5; Corwin, 0. 1 Adrain, N. J. -,2 . ;
Hill, Ga.; 1 ; Hickman, Pa., 1 • Penningqm.
N. J., 1;_, Haskin, N. Y.; lcQiieen,.S. C.
1; H. F. Clark, N. Y., 1.
No one hiiiing recieved a majority of
votes, Mr. Grow said, "as I desire in no was
to. retard the organization of the House, !-
withdraw my name is a eandidate. I asQure
those gentlemen who, in. kindness, have bast
their votes for -riT,; that: I shall treasure.
through life so diatitukuished,a mark of friend
ship and regard."
Mr. Burnett then Moved an adjournment,
on which a vote by yeas and nays was or
. dered.
The motion was. negatived—yeas 100,
nays 130.
Mr. Clarke, of. Idisanuri, submitted a res.
olution, declaring that no member who had
approved and contributed to the circulation
of Mr. Helper's bOolc, , was - fit to beconie
Speaker of. the House:
A - spicy debate ensued, interspersed with
points of order, which was finally . cut short
by an adjournment.;
W Asanzwro-s t Dec. 6th
, Sloe.—The Sedate met at noon.
._ lir. Meson's - resolution, offered yeaterday ,
came up.-
Mr. iipmbull said it would receive his
cordial support. Whenever a murder has
been committed, let lux ascertain who are the
guilty:,' and bold ,them. responsible. 'Be
hoped the ityvestigation would be thorough
and complete. -lid believed it would d,',
good-by disabusinglthe public-mind, espe
cially in the South, of the ides that-such a
,
movement receives n',y countenance-or sup
port from any considerable number' of our
_ citizens.- . , , _ .
. ; • No - man who was not prepared to destroy
the Constitution, subvert the Government,
:and resolve society into its original elements.
could justify it. No Matter what evils, ei
ther- imaginary or - .real, may exist in the
body p_tlitic, no one individual, or twenty
-, 'ont of 'twenty millions, could be permitted
in hiM own way, and to defiance of the laws
_of the land, to undertake-to correct them.—
No Government on earth could subsist if
. .that were allowed. Anarchy- would be the
consequence. s
As foi the misguided man who led on the
insurgints, be bad already expiated on the
. ;pillows his errors, and gone - before the final
tribunal. Let this investigation be impar-.,
1181 and tlu N wough, and the effect in the coun
. try would be most salutary; .
The Arsenal ,at Liberty,-,10., wa s then
: bro'lcen
-Be
and public property taken
away. -He briefly recapitulated the facts of
• that occurrence, as stated by Copt Leonard,
in charge there. That, however was for the 1
.purpose fit forcing slavery into Kiinras, while
at Ilatper'i Ferry the efrort, was to abolish
alairy. •
...• a then f•frered an amendment td the yes
+ ola on, este / riding the inquiry to the former
case.
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Mr. Mason- replied, saying the Commit.
tee could not examine both affairs at once,
and therefore time and expense would be
"lost by the - adoption of the amendment.— '
Be•.want-d to ascertain Whence the resources .
• were obtained fir the Harper's Ferry inva. ,
aion•Lwbo Supplied money, munitions, and
~ counsel. ' - • ' •, . . ,
._ - • Congress \ Could .not act on the'subject
without official .
cial information, and if f,'. should
turn' ou t, that Congress :bad no' racer -to
tat
present such transactions, it is the duty, not
of the Elouthern States alone, but of all the
States, to - take proper tneasuies for protec
tion. . '
He alluded to the remark of Mr. Truro- .
bull respecting the shrieks froto Kansas riot
being heard in 'Virginia. Had a similar
investigation been instituted when a similar
transaction occurred in 1855, it would have
been better.
Mr. Mason sale that he Would• not
iWid ID the way of ;tha icquiry sorpattd,
15=1E
,_
but the'reryilOcumept read antaltied all
, •
~
the facts officially set forth.. - i
It iheSenator wanted to "prevent he re •
currence of such , transaction' = he wou'd not:
stand in the Way of applying . the pro ' r leg:
Nation. .But now, when -four yeah had
elapsed, and neither that Senator Do those
_I
who acted 'witlihim have' asked iitn nvesti•
gation, it as b° little . strange he -should. be
•to anxious to..4liiplb these transactions, say. ,
ing that no shrieks Would be heard froM,Vir.
egirtia, happen whit `may, in'theirpulit cal re.
-titiMis wilit others. lie did not know What
a man's.ipolitidal - ediication could be to lead
him to Ilse such expressions in reference - to
the recent evehl. • • 1
Mr, Trumbhil answered:that nothing the
Senator Might ;'ay could drive him tbl speak
disrespectfuliY: • of. V:irgiuia, or any l other
&atoll) the Uhion. ''; He spolce . of thei term' '
"shrieks," as tiled: in regard to the people of
Kansas, but n4tivith a view of eastinridi.' rid.: , ,,
cule on any pottion of the country.
Mr. Jl.fasonliaid_his inipression vi aat
that
the term•canfrom the
. political assOciatei
orhlr. Trumbilll—at first it was shrilks for
freedom. .11 ' ~ , • • •N .
Mr. Male hollowed, denouncing
,the Su=
preme Court ill, the United Statei for ;its de b'
vision in the Died Scott ca%e, and d i efining
his positien gehbrally ,, in regard to thel Slav
ery question . : j i. , , 1 - _
1
~The debate syls continued at great length,.
and was partiCypated in by Messrs. Renter,
of Va., Davis„tif Miss., Green, of Mel, Crit
tenden, of Ky.,i Wilson, of Mass., 'Clark, of
N. IL, Brown'!izif Miss., Pugh, Ohio ; add-,Ma.
son, of Ga. 'ii , r.
Without tahlpg action-on the questibn be
fore it, the SeMite adjourned.- I
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Iloesk OF ItA .,„.3 PRESENTATIVEB.—The House
reassembled atioon; -- - ~ t •
Itir: Clark's4selution, that no one who
endorsed Ilel[ier's book; "The Impending
Crisis of the SOUth," is fit to . be Spe+er of
the Muse, cot ing up.'l ,•
1 .
Mr. CrawfoN made tin.ineftectual Metiori
lo submit a reililution fur the•adoptioU of the
hour-rule, it big evident, he said, that litter
Mr. Clark shaiiihavadoncluded his reknarks;
a reply will be2expected from the other side.
It would be . reiiemb,ered that-at the meeting
of the thirty-Oa -th"Congre,ss one gentli.man
occupied ,the Ifibr for two. days,- ben'ee his
proposition. [i: I , .
A .resolutic4was adopted, that the daily
hour for the ni4ting of the [louse bei lit o'
clock.. 1.--.; ' -
Mr. Clark eitised - .:to• he read
. a list cif those
who recommended the circulation of Helper's
book.•
•Mr. Clark bkiftly reviewed - the propinem
reeemmetidatiOh to Helper's book, strungl)
condemning 11444 e who signed the ctrcutar,
and insisting tttnT, if they were carried out,
the Union Coulli not exist. Don't-put broth-,
er against btotlicir i , father against sun !! Don't
'destroy thoc er i vatii.le sentiment !of the
country.
Mr. Gilmer ;ifl'ored a ,substitute for Mr..
Clark's resoltigUrt, looking to , the union uy
national And 44ervatire men on the bads d
the deelitratitaisi herdtuforta tootle by thn:
'Whigs.atid DtiliperatS against the turther ag-,
dation of_the 41a;very question. -
Mr. Curtis itited the previOus.question.
Mr. Washbditie,•ot !nal 4, moved to ley,
the whole suitjtiit on the table-7nega4ved ha,)
atie vote.
Mr. Giliner,g; N. C., offered a su'ostituta
for Mr. Clark'iOtlotion, in substantereiterat-.
log the declatratl i ons heretofore madd ;by tht
Whig and Ddrit.4..ratie . parties, restricting a ll
attempts- at chirenewal-tif the slaverY agita:
titan, in whatev.tr!shapc or color it diay bt
Made. .
Mr. Shermati replied that he was opposed
to any interferitrice by_the people of tho t . 'rere
states with the •
a t ., e f latton of master and . slaves
in Slave States. [Applause.]
Mr.-Curtis, fOr - tiro, diSavowed anything
like an intent tin the part of the North to in
rertere with th&. relation of master and slave
in 'the-Sou th. , . I ,l' n-' every speech be Made
his Disirict, heoaid it was 'the purpose and
design 'of the Republican party inbt to . ; inter,
fere with'Slavety - - where it exists. i .
• Mr. Keitt conceded that there were mem.
hers from, and4si t rsons in the North - Who arc
kiyel to the Cont.titutiiin, bin this ,was nut
the point' hefor ihe, Ilouse. - Ile thJ,n ...prti
seeded to readie4tracis from speeches delis' ,
Bred - in Ohio 1)Y .tit'. Sewed in '4B, l and : in
Rochester in 'so,i who. had maintained that
Slavery must tie 'abolished. Sitch Was the;
fruit urthe seed sown, by that .distitlizuishede , and,it had been on y wii ,
Republican lwith. t i•
m the' let; two . * urs that some of the Re:
publicanS here )aid liitind, out the dUctrine;
were infamies. j lie would see the fabric of
the Government tumble from turret afound !
ation-stone 6efi':,r4 he would take one tittle
less Of the rights'. to which the south Waa.eni
titled. [Applause.] We of the South are
on the defensive. We mean to dettaid ow l '
selves. - Let eavh party-fight out the issue:
' .
Mr. StevetiaThe discussion had' already
convinced evert body th;it his point cif ordet
was.currect and-prioper, namely, that.antit the
House' was urgimized it was not cortipetem
to entertain any question except the election
of Speaker or lb adjourn. Ile.didn'tl blame
gentlemen froth :tile. South fur .taking. the
-course they did, alt ho' wedeethed it ntititriei
ly to withhold .frdm the public' credit Ors the
means which 'slineld le given them speedily,
He did not tilaine them fur the langtiage uf,
intimidation ufiren.ding.God's creatiub front,
t urret
.t.o . .fou tide ion. [Laughter..] ?it' wa
right in them,fori we recreants of thel North
. were not till;-credlby it. Ile gave thetncredi
it for it; fur their'retharks- were to operate un,
timid men.. Si
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10. Crawford prose excitedly, arid inter,
rupiing . Mr..Stevens i said. , liiiinethingi about
Union meetings in Cust4, - (sarden and, in they
_ North. Ile Wikg loudly ciilled.tii ordr,while '
uthere applauded. His Terparks veernearlyi
'unintelligible, Owing to _the 1 disfening 1 coniiii
[Sion which pret.',iiied. '. Members un all tide-{
rose to their :feet and crowned the era near
''Messrs. Steveiii and Crawford.. The great.
es t excitement
r prevailed, and at one time a
collisionwas.f44.d. . '1 • • ' • 1
:.
Mr. Crawtond. continuing his r4marke
said : Don't 'sing 'psalms to 'the Unilen and
Constitution till We get quitt. . He 101 S lupin,
applauded, atitke4ttinued speaking *mild vall4,
of order:. il . ; I ' - I
Mr. Morris, Alin - called pon. the clerk to,
maintain thilorlind dig ity Ofthe 'House.'
° The Clerk saidti
hat be h -no power, ' end'
i ii
threw . himself ii . pitti the - gnertisity of the.
m
House to *e - to:order.. 1
Mr: Morris, (110—The time i for gneyosi
ty has pa-,seti:' i i:Prdes must.be enforued. ,
After a TeW initiates the - "members i seated.(
themselves. -, Seteralgentlemen 'prop:ma : l
adjournment.'- ;' ,1 - 1 . '1 • •
Mr. Stevens fepeated that he had el l ado's',
point of order;lhat khe:oul Motions tin or-11
der were for ele'etion-and t b •adioum' t ' . He i
.moiled the preqoint quet4itin..- . 1 '
Mr M Garnett This disluuSsion shall i rbt bel
stopped, and - thert - is no . power in the House',
to stop. it. I . 4plause.y, Adjoun3ed.l• • i
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• , Wasnisclron; Dee.l7th.
• .
.StnATE.—Mr. 0!y, of A l hibama, give na•
tiee, of his. intention to itttroduce . a %ill to
repeal the fishing bfninties. Is • - • -
Poikeil,',pflientoc43s' , gave notice of,
his bitention'to,;.•l4trocluee a bill to,abOlieh!
the franking prcteilege.
Mr. Mason:Wyjolution was taken
SIMMOUN fie‘red irmende,
r •
5
ment. We are too apt to overlook= lawless'
depretlited the attempt UT' render
one political paity•reponsible for such out,
rages; as., a ciao - germ's, pt oceeding . and one.
not Citleulitted•ttquieC the, pecip.le.' ; it - 'w a it
the duty dr:titti!Federal governnie7
tend protection to till partiiot thiMulon.
Mr.:.lidallory, — of.Fa....,tuild that since the, .
'resolution . liiitPbeen ahem of till ittilMoral eff'.
feet, he'was inclitTerent to its fate. The-cause
of Virginia was . . the cause of the South ; they
are proud of the. Bigh tone she has
.taken in
this matter,and expect•to stand by her. He
'was tot surprised that Senators 'denied a
knowledge Of Brown's pinny ; but the spit
pathy universally • expressed - the. North
showed that the irrepressible„conflict had ,in;
deed 'commented: He referred:to ; Helper's
book in severe condemnation and'said the
Only safetyfor the-country was to ba found
in the Democraticparty..
Mr: Iverson, of ,Ga., said the Republican
diselaimers of sympathy for Biown were nut
worth the paper they were written upon.- 7 .
Actions speak louder than. words. Ho be
lieved that the Northern portion of the Dem
ocratic party .was as roller!, as the Republi
cans. There was no diPrence between Sew
ator-Douglas and his supporters, on'this vi
tat question,
and the Blaek : Republicans them
.selves. The SoUtb - stands on a volcano, 'and
unless they take timely action, what will be.
the . consequepee ? lie presumed -that Mr.
Sherman would be 'elected Speaker, for,
doubtless, traltors . emiugh would he found in '
'the ranks of the anti•Leeompton Dentocrats.
But if such' should . be the case, he would'
counsel the Sauthern memberi of Congress
to retire from these halls, and let the 'Union
he'dissOlved. He alluded to Mr.. Helper's
hook; as counselling the slaves to put the
knives to their masters' throats.
- Ma.. HALE had never
-seem such language
in'the i hook. . .• .
MR. CLINC:UN' said that the language was
fully as strong as that quoted,
Ma. FESSENDEN remarked that no one ob•
jected .to a:thorough, investigation of this
question. There was no inducement. for Sen
ator to express their opinions, if newspaper
statements were •to be considered as higher
Authority. le - is the trade of Democratic
newspapers to misrepresent. It is . ins,ultitte
to :charge Senators -with: complicity.. He
would as sooti.ttlink of charging the Senator
from Virginia with complicity with the Ari l .
can 'slave trade. •
Ma.l3nows .(.Miss.l alluded to the-privet
meetings in New England for Brown,.. and
:aid, if sympathy was not generally felt for
- him, let Republicalts call meetings and' disa
vow it. _
. --Ma. CHANDLER (MA.) would at Me .fu
turetime discuss the "-irrepressible conflict,"
and show that for the hist 3000 y ears' there
halfbeen no cessation of that conflict. Ih•
ens in favor ofthe resolution, for reasons of
hot own. This was the :.first execution for!
treasonlo the United States, and he wanted'.
it to golorth tis a tkarnitig 'to . all traitor:,!
whether Garrisonian abolitionists or South,
ern Governors; who declare that under cei.:
•ain contingencies they will raise their . hands
.gatnst the. Omstltut ion and the Union. Let .
all traitors - hang. 4 Threuts .had :been mad..
tor thirty years. that in certain events th. •
Union. would he dissolved. It stnal
matter to dissolve the Union. It means
bloody revolution, or it . means a halter.—
Who taught old John Brown If either Po
itical party, the •Denmeracy. alone. • The
occurrence tit Harper's , Ferry was a-very Fe.
markahle , one. Had twenty-two Virginia -
Generals
. undertaken. to seize the Armory at
Springfield, Mass., the Women Money' would
have bound. them in thirty minutes, and
would not - Thave , asked for an lovestigatinp:
Coinmittee, or expected any particular sym
pathy. The Senator from Virginia
.wanted
tolnow where -the matey for the Harper's
Ferry - .affair came Iroie.. The 60,000 fugi
tive slaves in Canada, contributitig,2o
.cents
each', *unlit raise the arilount. . As -to, the
statements of the Democratic papers,. it is tk
villainous press, hired to do dirty work, and
it does it faithfully.., .•
Mr Doolittle (Wis.) challenged Senators,
to prodoce one, Republican paperithroughow
the Northwest that ever justified oy sympa
thized with theact of ,John Brown at Ilar
per's Ferryt. • They might, sympathiie with
him an individual, as any' man under sen
tence of death might receive sympathy' fat
personal qualities. Where did aN this sin.
lence antljdl9 - egard of the laws begin ? Wh..
enchained the tiger and opened up the civil
war in this country Let .rthe inquiry be
searching and thorough, and 'see who is res t
ponsible. Ile g4Ve the. history of the Nan
sas agitakionas the fiiundatiot‘of this. trouble,
The design of the Republicans. MU i() pHt
down la;itless violence, whether from Canada:
into Vir'ginin, from the Southern States into
Nicaragua, or,from Missouri int o Kansas.--
The RePubfican-party stand pledged to • sus
, rain the Constitution and the rights of alrthe
States, both in the North end•Soutli, and - will
:land by then . ' even to : the bitter end, he the
eonse4nences what they may.- They -do not
believe that there exists such insanity in the
South that they would attempt to break . up
- he Government because a Republican Pies.
• tile= might he elected. The Republican
_Party stand pledged to maintain. the 'Union
against all enemies, whether from Canada or
the Southern Stater. They will arrest them
for tre 'eSori; Indict them; and, -.unless a jury
acquit on the ground of insanity, - bung them
for treason, tut sure as there is a God' . it.
(leaven.
Ma. CnEsystrr (S. C.) hoped the amend- J
merit wouldbe withdraim, read ex
/meta from a speech of Senator Seward; in '
1858; when he'spoke of fr'ee- labor invading
Delaware,' Maryland, and Virginia.
agnificant the, language! Though be doubt-
less meant a moral and intellectual' iniasion,
unlettered minds might underbtarid it - .differ.
ently.
Mr. Pugh (Ohio,' appealed to . Bir.- Trum
bull, to withdraw his amendment.
Mr. Trumbull could not consent to with
draw it, aft,r 'What bid been. said. The as
sumed -object of the .resolution was to learn
the avowed sentiment of the North. Hp al
so wanted to 16int the avowed : sentiment lbf
the &nth, which was equally important.:;--
lie believed sincerely that the outbreak at
'flarpei's „Ferry arose from the teachings and
.acts of the Democratic party in Kansas,
Without concluding, be giVe way; and the
Senate adjourned. • - • • .
"Houss -or RERREAZIVTATTVES —Mr; KO:
logg (1114 rose to It privileged question, 'and•
read u dispatch in- the N. Y. Triune, re
garding •his motion to; adjourn, on the - sth.
Mr. Kellogg wished to show the falseposition
in which Mr, Greeley stood to the Republi
can party. . Greeley 4voied the re-election
of. Senator Douglas, andin Dc).lglas's parlor
at - Washington, plotted to self Illinois and
*Missouri t 00... -
Mr McClernand (III.) kepliesi; if such' a
private conversation iouil:ilace, how did his
colleague know it? j It was strange
. that
such a eharks should' he made 'after' it was
known that ; ,qtr, Greeley- tried - = do defeat
'DOuglas'a A:election-I', Illinois .11d, always
.Isen 'Democratic. .j- N, •
•Air. Garnett (Va.) spoke'of the - sympathy.
&Utile North for Biosvu.' If you - want \to
preserve the Union, 'ton mast go home to
the North, and put.down Abolitioniarn,,
Mr. Lamarthlies.)•eirgued
. - thist the Con,
stitutiOn protected , ' *tatters,- and, - made-it-a
part of_thst federal-government, as it, is an.
laportent_element 44.',thp-GOoral pawn..
. .
He believed theintention was to drive. the
South distiniOn. He was not a disunion.
ist per se ;' but we will not permit any per
sistent-violation of the terms of the Constitu
bat. will fightfor them.
Mr.-Nelson (Tenn.) favored Mr. Gilnier's ,
Subitituta, proposing to ignore the agitation
of the Slavery: question. Ilk agreed not
with'the extremists either . *Of - Ilki l North or
the South, and proceeded to show the prog
ress of nullification in South; Carolina• and
abolitionism in the North. =in conclusion he
appealed - to the-patriotism of members, .to
make sacrificewon the altar of their country.
Mr. Pryor (Val- replied to Mr. Nelson.
He' thought the latter was, after his remarks
and' his 'declarations that ho was a•slavehold•
er, likely to lose Abe respeet of sistreholders.
He bad misrepresented public sentiment at
the South, and thrown himself into the - arms
of the Biaa.Republicans.- The . Representa:
tives of .the South will never - consent that
that creature tad champion of the Republi
cans (meaning Sherman) .shall take posses
'sion of the Speaker's chair.. Mr. Pryor in
quired.of Mr.-Nelson whether he, as a rep
resentative of a Southern constituency, in
.the event of the election of a Republican
;President, would vote to remain in the Un
'ion.
M. Nelson, much as be deprecated such
&a result, did not believe that the election of
la Republican ["resident would, of itself be a
icatt,e for dissolution, for they. ought to , wail
and see whetherhe would do anything -.inju
riotts to the rights of the- South.
I , The Ilousi proceeded to.vote-f,ir Speaker,
with the following result: Sherman, 107.; -
*mock, 88; Gilmer, 22; scattering,, 1.4.
Adjo9rped till 5 o'cicick.
L." SEsits,. Dec . b.—Mr. Slidell gav notice
of a billmaking •an appropriation to Neill.
irate negothitions for the acquisition of ba
Mr. Johnson al,to gave-notice of a nomest ad
bill: Mr. Mason's Harper's Ferry resole
i l scion was Then taken'up again. and speeChe-
Imade, when the Senate adjourned to Mon.
I - TousE. Dec. B.—The discussion on the
illelper Book I was reatime'd and continued
'throughout the 'session. and the Douse id
''l.3ttrted without taking a vote on Speaker.
.
SE , N . Arg, Pee._9. ....Not.jki Session.
_ .
y. iiot - ss, Dec.9.- - -the. time of the jlouse
% , ,.ai4 mostly occupied by a discussion b! Mi.
minis politics - by. Messrs. Icyllo4. (Rep.) and
'Lwell atidln e;cpos;tion and defence ut Dem
,. es ~ , . • • -
, ; glas Democracy - by the latter. At one time
'eluring thedebate there was a Kospect of
? -
persutial rencounter betvieen these .two, WI
anthers interposed. Another 'vote was takes.
feir speaker,* farogs ; IShernian,'llo ; 1.10
iiidek, SS ; Gitnier i 20 ; Scattering, 13. Ir.
l k itickman Moved an •adoption of the plu I
ity rule, hilt ,the motion was declared out 01
Ii order. I,lonse adjourned. . .
I=
. . . Kansas Elaction.
, ..The entire nepublican ticket has, been
elected in Kansas, under •the new (.',onAitn.
;p131), by majorities . averaging over:3000. The
t.,llowing are the officers ptected: Governor,
;;Charles Robinson ....Lieut. Governor, "Jos.. P.
; Seeretary..of State, John W. 'Robin
wk.; Auditor. George S. Itiiiyer ; Treasurer
iiliam 'Tholim ;- tlorneyi General, Beni. F
nti , on ;.Supt. Instruction, .Wm. R. Grit
'.fish ; :Chief Justice, Thomas Ewing, jr.; As
ociate JustiveA,,S. A., libiaman; L. D. Ba
ey ; Member of Congxes:l, Cot way.
Gov . . Wise eoMplains of General
; SympathY, and is reported-to have , said hi: .
.]
; would have preferred his execution . to that
jtf 7t4in Brown.. The sentiment, or one sim
ilar to.it; has been- re•eehoed: in Congresfi,—
ifhe Southern men profess astonishment and
`.indignatifirt that the execution ofJoini Brown
ithould excite sympathy in the. North. Even
t iter professional. Union-savers are excited. to
'rattle' their dry bones at the spectacle,. and
.propose Girton meetings to enndemti : it.
But, what is there remarkable in the exht-
itionl :John Brown has been pronounned
tt3r Guy. Wiie,•a man, " honeA, truthful, and
ssucere." •Is it not an astonishing., fact that
!;.,tieb a citizen should be condemned to 4eath.
end executed by hanging Rally- wonder
„that such a fate; for such a men, should ex
site sympathy 2 Straightfin.ward, • simple.
people, are at a t . loss to comprehend
hnw it is that the. gallows should be the doorit
~f the "honest, truthful, and Sincere2.'-They
:have a stubborn belief that an awful .engine
i o t :death was intended for another add verb
''',llfr...lrent sort of persons. ln G0t...• Wise=
twn \volunteered indorseinent o (John BriiWn's
'i'etiuraeter is to be finmkumple reason for all
:;the sympathy shown toward that, brave but
'iiiisguided Joan: "Honest, truthful, find sin
,!ere '—Gov. Wise understands the, force o
mitvlanguage. • And.wien he thus char
icietizes a man, ought he to expect. ought
iany with a heart in his bosom to expect
to repress thu sympathy that is naturally ex
"cited Lx the hanging of such a citizen !
10 norneed to tell Gov. Wise or tinybod)
- ;else, that the thing islutpossible. That sym
Isithy i , as Widespread its htimanity itatlf. .
..Gov. 'Wise would hay.. to belie his own as
hire to_ deny that he himself feels it.
Irere, then, is tho rub,/ It lies in !because
;that exact! nrif-yntr,finatal necessitates,
hanging of " hunnst,aircere, and truthful"
itnan., All rigrea that . that cause is Slavery.
„Hut. thence conies a. diversity - . of feelaig.—
;00,,.. Wir and _other supporters of Slavery,
14 this point,•divirgelrom the sympathies of
'many ethers.. That k all. The Governor
'.lOd'his coadjutors believe in hanging `• honest
: sincere, and truthful” men, for the benefit of
Slavery. .But humanity. and civilization re
,vOlt at the spectacle: Y Y Tribeine.
rir. The inquisition esiablistreclby Gov.
;Wise over the public highways ofthis State,
Must, we
_fear, tell 'disastrously upon the,
Trade such of them ruf-have, competing
'fumes to contend with. We apprehend that
'such will he the case with the Baltimore and
phio, judging from the npecimens of public
temper.recorded elsewhere in our paper to.
pay.• The Eastern and. Western people of
the Free States will - dever stadd such a thing.
They would be poor, pitiable creventi if they
did. They wil! say, we doUbt not, that if
Gov_Witie's subjects are abject enough to
`submit to-.such a humiliating. gauntlet; if
iticv are willing to have their steps dogged
by p a id spies; and travel under the continual
dread of our being dragged-out rieiheirseats
Eye their berths—we are not.. That will be
their temper,•we doubt -not, and while
_we
Cannot blame them, yet we cannot but de'p
lcate such a state Of the public mind, be
use it is detrimental to the interest of those
who hid no agency in such tyrannienl.enapt
inents.i Its effeets -not he so immediate
I as they will be lasting : \ Northern people,
iuleae called especially by businessalong the
line of the road, will probably for months
4nd years cherish sinful prejudice as will ex-
Bite theni against the. route when traveling
6t and west. We trust that such will not
be the case, but we greatly fear that it will
be so.- Wheeling Intelligineer. -
1- Irgr.4 man, who gave - his name as Tho.
,Leary, and said he was from Ireland and had
heen in America twelve years, was recently
,tirmstecl In Illinois and held -as a fugitive
itlavei Seeing,the determination of those
itrl*), had arrested him to-run him off, some
thn 4eitiserisapplied , for a. - habeas, corpus,
rrbiob-ittne last amount* bad not been dacid•
\
• Eigh t .of 1* -Speech.
The following Pat vieiti from the Albany
!Evening JettOnFWere. / elecited. .by the fact,
;reported iii Our
,cOlumhs a s t_thhiiine,that Dr:
,Bried irad..bee held.tolbaßlittarO Justice*
!it ibe Peace io:WasbirgiOn,City,, , for freely'
leipeessirg_ his.,.views: iir'Conversationi and
whip provoked :to - it, .on,,the subject,.cf also. I
; ery: • - ,'. i , -
"It was a common inncs l, aion that white'
men, at least,.:were eniitleii. to free speech
lender the - laws of . thesetuited-States. • But,
fit seems, Such is not th e . case;-: ;While -dot:
tens of arms for opini4tes - - : saik have been.
made in Virginia 'during the.Aittat kw Weeks,
iwe have abstained front any. protest. Vir
cinia is , a . sovereign _ Site, - and*lty, if she .
hodsee, imitate the es image andMespotiom
/ practiced at Naples. and Vienna,l But, the
District of Columbia dOes . oot• Wing to Vir:
l iiiitt. It is the"-comMen -proWt,t of the.
whole Union, of free States as 0/1 sit slave
fi 0
nites. All authority eitercised . Cengress
is derived from the.CotiatitutionWho ate
•I'ustices Donn and Gitiersoa who , thus . !s
-ame to lord it over the libertiei Of frOemen?
Why, creations of Congress, both of Ahem.
ncr what is Congress, that it &to grant such
Jespotic ;tearer I Why, a':ereation• of the
'tihstitution. And what says-the' iCotistitti
tiortion its very first page? It Hays:-" Con
gress shall make no lawi abridging . .the free.
limn of:speech.”—LA,rtilesl, siection Ist] . .
" We should like to know who set up Jus.
ices Dunn end . GibersM• above the Qonsn
hution, t hat:made them. 1 The individual opin
ions or expressions,of ar.liceeil inay. - be id
I trifling importance, butttlk point ;involved,
tin this case is' of the gra in eit conseoence.' Ii
..ean hardly be oyerrated The question's'. of
uempremise, of the ad4gsion ofi new States,
lind of the regulation ' taf territorial affairs,.
life all insignificant compared with the right
1)1 tree speech. It -is the, foundailori of rill our
±liberties. • Oncegag'diseusSion, and we cease
..to be a-republic, and Become a despotism.
ilt matters not what, thelopinions are, wigise"
'utterance is forbidden, ' whether pro ; ,slavery
jar anti-slavery, whether! concurred-in by the
Ivjority or concurred t i by nobody: Right
tor-wrong, wised!. foolis , every matt, what
oyer his'politi, has the tight to expres bib
pipions freely; trsal!. that belongs to the
Federal Government. We claim the sante- -
elk fir the slave trader as for the'free soil
or, in this respea—for iitn .With whom we
idler, as fur him with %hoin-we agree. ~ We
should equally regard i. as-a deadly blow •ai
he liberties of the 'country,' were. even
I fcionabs, Stephens,. or oh) , other pro-slavery
ainatic, denied -the libeity of discussion al
Washington. We knew nothing of Dr.
'Breed's opinions, and it is. iittite probable we
'to not agree. in them on many cattle!
ipuints. But that makes no di ff erence tip
tos right to titter them., This tight
. all citi
tens of the Union, without distinction,. mast
ithive, or they Will soon cease to have. any.
„ ~'i, . r The .Colunibia Auth. Carolinian,. of
the 1t21 . 11 inst., says: ” The premium oftred
iby Col. A. M. Hunt, Pr a .specintem .01 <]- tra-
Ifeve African; to be 'exhibited at. the State
agricultural Fair, waS' taken yeaterAny" by
or. Bland, of .I , ;dgefield, who brought ' two'
n the grounds: Their arri@al created
,quite
A sensation with the large crowd' assembled
n the amphitheatre. rhe premium was ti
eautiftil silver . goblet.' • . .._ i •
Suppose some Old Brown should have ei
iihtted at Our State Fir two slaves res' ued
'rum Virginia or SoUth Carolina. mas ers,'
.hat would the South -, say l Yet twofid
rapped Africans, brought from. Africa in pion
tion of all ktw, are eihibited in the South,
quitsta premium given l
,These things ar . al.'
lowedsin a civilized an Christi - oi', land, and
custaitietd - here, end no Democratic press is
. eitrd , r4:isingite voice pgaiOst,lt, fur . fun
. r of
Hulangering the "'Union.." We don't' see
t i imv a decent man can 'any longer belong to
he IYOnoFratie part.t..--://athsburg • rek
;papa'. :
~ . , -• . ,
!
A P-- . •-• 1854. '.ht
. sig
_ ettot.nEcv-Vvist "LED.—In 1, to the
bill to annul the Miss uri Compromise, by
hiving Slavery:a ehane to enter the propos.
d- Territories of •Ka - n and Nebraska, Hon.
Galuslia A. Grow made the Cilowing re.
inarkage and sweepin prildictiou: _ _ _
" , A.satrearnest and
Democratic • patty, to
y given my best ener_
.optical 'action, I cfesii
3111; for its passage ut
tonal organization,: a
#reck.iii.every l!orthe l
lady in history."
Hoc lite:any this. p
been fulfilled, let. the p
1=
runipet-taugued ! A
nleas it abjures its 1").
. . .
rgr Two stragglin printers, named Dal
y and Dunn, 'were su peete ?id dangerous
einiinents at Kingteet; , S. C., and rode out
of town on a rail;on N'YjedrieZday morning.--:
the . Kin tree Star say it -i4 - the intention t
T xterminate all sue'h,.nind sills from. the so.
1
.iety which they disgr ce by their plebeian
•ad Niwthern - presenc They were' ridden
• bout the village, bone by twgroes, and
(impelled to • mug -w ile .traveling in this
Manner. They were hon turned loose.—
'hey *WA the noon tr in for.Chirlrstoil, but
-he other passengers fu.'ing to _ride with
?
pem they were put ou of the train at St.
tet.ihen's station, and allied to Charleston,
inhere they i Were sent
persone.
.
' ar.As some of the "Opposition" appear'
.to-be somewhat, exerci: ed in regard to the.
s;onvention.:to which If e Senatorial delegates
co be eho,en by the St to Convention - which
•ateet4 on.the 22d-of F bruary next,, „tire to
be-seitt, we' will state . r`the information of
" I
the
concernedmee
meeting
of
n t that
the
u
the . t p at m te m r
itut-ense
which' distuesl
t
ord . the call, and it was fully - understood by
everyone, that they were to be sent 'to the
- Convention which will he called' during this
ilootitO by the Republican National il'Ammit
ee. 'We think this_ statbment- is duealike to
;publicans and those 9
ny such ther:o,be, why
izing such National ,
j•wn (Pa.) lierald. • I
MExico: 7 -The who e country between*
uadubijara and•Tepic.is a. perfect .waste ;
the ranchosJ haciendas, and ,villages are an •
t'rely deserted, and th: only sign of 'life you
tteet with en the road .s an occasional , band
- i •
c i ' / f mounted i robbers, who descend from the
npuittains to--atteCk some solitary traveler,
oryisit the deserted villages, in hopes that
the inbabitanis, in theii flight, may have left
beiaind..some forgotten 'adtlle, rope, or . som
brero. The doors of the hquies have been
eaten down by the axe, or. 11 Alley proved
f 100 tough*material for the . lazy "landlord"
'destroy them by suCti means in a few min-
Les, they have been
and
by heaping before
iherrrpiles of straw and driedieaves, so as to .
:lye an. easy adinittatiist to
.the robber,—.--
ashville Union and 4merican.
.
I nif Law is eXpente, as'
, well as vexa.
ta:ous and uncertain. 1 a recent case In Mit.
Daukie, it came out that the income .of one
wyer in that eity.forione year was 00,000
+-not so - -oertaii t • •
fl'far cow floated
own the Mississippi On api of ice, and
caught such coil the she bee yielded nosh !
ipg but ioe animus ever vial*. ; -
.1 ' -
• The merican Board of Commission
mil for Foltigrtkiludons, it their late session
in Philadelphia, on . 'motion 'or Dr. Patton,
voted.to discontinue the Cherokee 'and Choc.
taw laissienst, for the reason that the Mission-
Aries there lutie churches., cotrtposed in '•part
Of Indians who hold slaves..
Lard MacAulay has two more vol.
umes of his "Ilistofy of England" .nearly
ready fir ihe,preit but it is believed that
they will not be published thia season. The
erlAt care ;which he bestows on the work be
fore it finally leaves his- hands, necessitates
some delay. • ;
.. The Rey. Dr, Cox gives ,his ideas of
the" 13roail Church" as_followel : The Broad
Church !. Yes ! make God's Ohnich broad
enough to 'take in Simon Magee, and Judas,
.and Satan! - -Out upon it ! It is all pious slut
tiloquy—=and not so pious either.
. A lgood , joke 0%14 Hsrper's -Ferry
is laid to the. door of:Thaddeus Stephens.
He was talking of the" invasiim" v at a Wail'.
ingto hetet, the other evening, with a South.
ern friend.; Southern waxed hot, and deelar.
ed,that John Brown, " d—dn tiim, deserved a
dozen hangings. "Yes," said'{ Thaddeus, .in
his sulemn; drawling style, " You are right ;
he deserved hanging. Me only • brought IT
'mid , : if: be- had brought thirty '.he would
have sealed the Slavery Question foie% er.'
Tbe reported death pf. Kit Carson 1s
contradicted. . JJ
Mr. Haurrfun; latefor the Allentown
. ,
PenioCrat,lha4 purcha t sed the luzerne Union
.ind will take possesion with the new Volume.-
11l health coniptiled General Goodrich to re
linquish hie edittAial labors.'
• 4 ?- tin
P s aster-General 1164, has recent
ly decided lan interesting and novel q - tiestion.
A- husband, who :'had bee'n separated from
his wile, daniancied that his village Postmas.
,
ter should :deliver her letters to him, and he
threateneci!a snit of la* if Mal demand was
not complied with. The wife,lon the other
, .
hand, fortindethf delivery of her letters to
the husband:,- -In Uwe circumstances, the'P.
M. appealed to Mr. Hult for_ instruetions-.
.
Nit tinker 'pronounces the claim advanced
by the husband too prepsterdus to be seri
ou'alf.re44(l.• Indeed, he atiya it is abhor.
rent as his to the . Christian. civil z 4
tiun of thii'age, and he direeta the Postmaster
to deliver the letters to'the
I
Asa A. Pore, of rreston,
in that town on theist inst, a the age of 81
years-and five months. He wan the Inst
visor of the . Wyoming .massacre, hating
heen . ,,carried away when a child, in his moth.
tiems. His lather and all 'of his relt`itions
Slut tnntnother were killed.
.1
Several of the Virginia officers wl u
corninimded at CbarlestoWn are in Washing
ton, ok their return to Richmond,where they
say the . marching and countermarching of the
troops under order of Cul. SMith. while Old
Brown stood with the halter round his neck,
excited a feeling of horror and indignation
among those troops. _
A r Republican ha 3 heeii chosen tricot
ber of the National Committee of the' Cheri)
kee Nation over a stanch Southern". man.
Thus the Native Americans" are coming,
, /'
right. • ......, „ .
.- .. Charles Stimner has,ieen ch'osetr• a
foreign associate member of the French So
ciety of Political Econoniy at; Paris. He _is
the first American oh,Whom this honor has
been conferred.
.... The FirsVlSnitarian Society, and the
Free Will Baptist Society of Manchester, 11. -
H., have swapped•churehes,',the first paying
1t.3,500 "to boot.'" I
. • .Cnotorious kidnapper! named Myers
hasbeeit convicted in Cumberland 'county foi
taking, two' blacks said to be ftlee, and carry
ing'thern to Maryland. l. l -
.... The Muscatine Journal slearns that
,the mother of Edwin and Barclay Voppie,
who. resides,in Splingdale, Cedar county, la.,
-has received a letter from the latter, who is
now in Canada, Stating that he and eleven of
his companions have arrived' tsafely in Fier
Britannic j Majesty's dotniiions. Four of
them were wounded—one of them so severe
ly, that hid comrades were obliged to carry
bun most ( f the time for the first four days
of their fliviht. _Barclay C.ippie is one of the
number fot whose arrest Gov.l Wise offered
a reward of stoo .
•The. Charleston, (5..-C.l) News tidy°.
cares the expenditure of - $lOO,OOO by the
State in the purchase of' cannon, rifles, and .
revi L lvers. The excuse-is that no one can
know what. a twelvennoitth may bring forth."
'.... An Indiana paper hash turned from
Do - tights to Gen. Lane. The editor says he
cannot close eyes to the reset -"That
chance for the Charleslon 'y niination are on
ihe.wano,_ and every day decreases the prob- ,
ability of his becoming the 'choice of the
Democratic party." ' •
.
M'res, the man who was, charged.
with kidnapping three colored men 'and car
rying theta , off to Maryland tin! his own pm
vate account, was tried a few:AA:is ,since at
Carlisle, Pa., endlound will eo
to the Penitentiary for not less than' five,
nor more than ten years, atiti4iy_ a fine of
not' less than $l,OOO.
• • The Richmond Whig cordially-`,ap
proves a suggestion "fur the., forniation of
voluntary
_'associattotis throughout Virginia
and the South, bound , together'bi a_ common
pledge among themselves, never !ta eat,drink,
wear, buy, •or use any article ;whatsoever
manufactured at or imported from tlie North."
' We learn from a priVate letter from
Italy; that Mre.:Doar.e, wife oOthe late Bish
op Diane, Of this State, died in' Florence on
-Thursday evening. Nov. :10th;:l at the rail:
dence of het aon, Mr, Edwitdl N. Perkins,
aged- upwards of .70 year It appears that
her mind-n . e . ver recovered the,shoek it re
ceived during the•memoiable sick' at Peru
gia,: in which she: and her party narrowly es
caped a ertiel death. , She Ind been quits an'
imbecile for months. previSus .to her death.
Theluneral vies appointed to take place on
IfOnday, the 14th ult., in the Chapel of the
Protestant Rural Cernetery.—Newark Daily
Advertesir.l - - ' •
•
Ai -Frenchman who lately visited
Holland saYs-that there all- thelfish taken are
killed, and 'rendered, in OonSequence,- much
supertorin fineness.and flavor. The,
et s say that allowing the fish slowly • "-to ex
pire in toritter.t tiets upon theta' as a disease
would. act; j softening the flesh and infecting
them with the pi Inc, plea of dissolution. They . ,
are killed in Holland by making an incision
under the tail, or by thrusting a sharp needle
in the head; '
.. We learn the Richmond En.
'gyirer dust* Yankee School miitress was're•
cently
_discharged and , banished from the
city, for eapressitig a favorable opinion of
old John Brown. - • .j, •
A bachelor frietd of cora, who' went
fora week Ito Newport,' left a boarding house
in which. there Was a nutrther, of old maids,
on account lathe miserable :fair set before
him at the table. '
. . . . A burglar entered a house in Brook.
lyn one phtht, and went from room to room
gathering t)ooty,'when-be entered one where
a mother Was watching over , the dead body
of her child. Bighing deepry, he dro - pped Pia
plods, enitbe fleor c itud left the bee*
.elouted friend of the
'bieh I ha-Rte cheerful
lea from- my earliest
the defeat of this
11 blot - it out as.a Nu=
d, - leaving it but
n State, it will Hit.
opheiic warning has
o.trate condition of
them States• testify,
d the ‘vOrst Is not yet,
Slavery inesures.
to jail as stispeizted
•f the Opposition,, if
are opposed to'recog
nveation.a—Norris.
gjtioctuateoug Rm.
1.
Legislature 'of -nrgan.•
ized on gonday oflist week: Gov. Wise's
message reviews the . llarpePti - Ferry affair at -
great lepgth, it speaks of fanaticism and one'
-idea of.oe Abolitionists which has seemed to
maddeniwholemassei of one entire section ;
of the country, which enters into their_ relig,
_-
ion, edLCittion. politics,prayers,'Couris of J us- _ ,
Lice, andiLegislatures ;, which has trained up
ttiree,gedierations in moral and social habits
of hal e tai the masters of African _slaves . in
the \L'ni, 'd
States,-but turns not u pot - slave
try elsewihere which would have sent a res.
cue to assassins,' robbers, murderers, and trai
tors whom it has sent to felons' graves,
.Unless the numerical majority shall cease to •
violate the confederate faith, and cease to de,
stroy peace, . to destroy our lives and
propertY, and to.deprive us of all the pro. — -
- tection and redress under the perverted forms, ,
and distorted workings of the . Union, : we
must mire up arms. The blade is too essen
tial to bp compromised - any More. We can-
not stand such insulti and outrages as those . ,
of iferpr's Ferry, without suffering worse
than death as citizen's, and without suffering
in dishaor the death:of a State.. It is not to
be deni4tha ‘ tiore have many sound and sin.
cerp fri4nds in the non.slive holding States,
but the"; conservative elements, 'are pa-site,
whilst the fanatical are•active,and the I.
er are rust diminishing, whilst Itre latter is
inereasg.g-in numbers and force.
•
.. ;Kentucky is 'first in the field with
delegatits 4or the *Republican Natinnal_ Com.
tiention.d, Cassius M. Clay and. George _
Blakely! were appointed• as delegates at a
State COvetation held in Covington, on the
Bth inst 4 . • .
Mudge Terry bait been indicted' by
the. Graild Jury 44' Sun Frunci%co,. - for
sing Senior Broderick ; he %yeti placed • un.
der $10; i 000• bondte.. • • • •
Mormon tr3verti4 meat read+ ai
'lows "To be let—roOms for t. %VD * gentle,.
. .
men alto fou,waes, or rooms for onegentle
man anNix wives.'t
. •• .
Virginia a newpanic has been cre
ated by the alleged disoivery of infernal ma.
chines; vhich, according to the Riehiiiond,Ba-
Oiter, Isre_to he addres..ed wall the leading . ,
eitizensiof the State, with the immediate and
diabolical design' of blowing them
7Wo suspicioud characters have been
apprehePded in Petersburgh, VEL Tliey ere -
named John Hasting and Henry- King. Thil.
only su.sPicious circumstance yet orOven- ott •
them isfthat a few Moments before they, were
apprebehded, King told a negro to go and
tell Haltings he wanted to see him !.-
he
recipts of the New York Trit.
one for- Weekly and Semi-Weekly ,subscrip.,
tions mei:, during the month of Novein-
Iser, itirp, were $11.164, against $7,679, in -
the_ same month of 1858—being. an ilic,rease
of nedli fifty per cent for the present season.
This trtly be taken as a fair indication of the
progreSi of the Anti-Slavery sentiment—as
well mil& the steady prosperity of thatbrave
ly'inthldendent and reliable journal.
. The tegiSlature of Virginia hme
unanimously:passed- resolutions approving the
sentensi of Cook and the other prisoners,and
refusinl,l all interference hi their, behalf. ' ,
.... Fernando Wood is eleCted May& of
New l'qrk. Wood •reeeiVed • 30,309 votes;
airenly er 26,813 ;. Opdy ke, (Rep.)-22,716:
• .. Postmaster• General Holt, in reply
to a letter from -the , Postmaster at Falls
Church,iVa.,isking whether' he shall obey
the lad{ -which kirbids die delivery from
-any Posit Office ofany-book or periodical in.•
culcating resistance to the right of .property
in slaves',"-tells him to-obey the law by •all
means, and that he, the- said, Virginia Post- "-
master, crust determine for himself whether -
thetimiis,newspapers, etc., are incendiary,
atoll( he' believes they are such, must sup
press them..^• 1 •
.... We. see it stated that', the Bilehigan
Central -Aailread has now been running thir
teen yea's under itapresent I inanagetn'ent.--
In the tone not a single paiseriger car has
been 144 ken up by amide - it on the track.
The brakeman, John Gray, spoken
°Cleat ,Week as, being dangerously injured,,tit
the tiine:of the railroad accident at,Linesbo
ro',diedi4 last Friday night...tVorthirn , Peati-
,
ay/ea:imp. - •
The House of Representatives of the
GeorgiaNislature has passed .-a bill. inflict
ing the ienalty of death upon any white per
son whit shall procure a slave to commit an
, ffence +hich by law forfeits thp lite,or such
. ...
slave. - 1 - . -
.. or da
and Louisina have a less el- .
. - . i •
evation above the seathito any other States 0
t. he' Cniqn. - A consicirabte port ion •of toll- .'
'Nana iii les,' than a htindred feet above tide
waterothd no part of the State has an eleya-r
tion of itiore than five hundred feet above the.
C 23
According to the London papers the
annual demand
. for penny postage' stamps in
- Great - Britian is a little short nffive hundred
million, In order to‘, supply' the demand,
'the daily Manufacture must avenge about
I,6olXooo—no very easy taslt,and only leasi.
ble ihruogh the aid - of - Steam . and • mat-bine ry.
. - The - Charleston Convention will be
.held on the qpd of next April..
, - 771 e Evening Prhtee 'currespohdent
gives the following sketch of the scene of
Tuesday in Congress. • "At last, - steady,
but determined , Thaddeus Stephens pressed
his petint,,olerder,that but two motions were
or: mild be in order—the motion to proceed
to Jett a Speaker, and the foothill to adjourn'.
% lie said bat little, but even this little was
most shamefully interrupted ,by Crawford of
.Georgia, who approached -defiantly, swing
lug his Fist in his face. A fight . was immi
nent.; and probably, with almost any othef
memberi,iii Stephens's place, would have ix , . -
curred. j,Keitt, who was.. now on . the watch,
now came up close by the lido of Crawford,
and placed his right hand on a revolver be.
heath hip coat, ready, .doubtless, for any
emergency." Thiit' is a foretaste of what .
may be expected. - •
• Some one having written to • Mrs. ,
Swisshelm about Minnesota, she recounts
some of the bad featurtia of the State /18101-
lows ;First and foremost, the moccasin . poi.
iticians; isecond, niisquitoes, which bleed' the
settlers'three mouths hi the Year; thtrd„the
water is lto hard, one must bt:eak it with
es belorti it will wash clothes; fourth, the
men hal,fit taken to chewing tobacco, - and.they .
nearly all chew or smoke; fifth, apple' are
) t•
scarce p sixth, weeds grow very fat; aerenth -
sometimps the frost kills the squash vines be ,
foie the; aeetis are ripe ; Ind these aro all i'he
txto-thittli of. except •theri is So coal—that
the wall does not grow hi stove length,:buti•
has to ft 4 chopped. -
tipeaking of the arrest of Pr: Breed,
in -Washington City, for otating in Conyerss
fion with one Van Caino that in spite of, the
threats intade, he WAS -11 . 0 t afraid to d'ilend
4ohn Brown, one of the most conservative
,rnembere of the Senate, who is now in Wash.
Ington e sys that if there is fait here against
free speeich; then a,Movement must be made
at once ip Congress for Its repeal, 'or a rein°.
val of thkgovernment from Washington.
'he Chirleston Mercury publiihes a
'commurfication, five columns- king, in eight
parts, aOting forth the advantages (la Gulf
Confederacy, with New. btleans or Mobile
as the capital. %
, „ ; 4 Appede polo p 1 walla is Vine*