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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1860,
.
Ftusr PAGIE.--Perpnal Postiora Letter
from Washington; Lettor from liarrisbargirjhe
Lawrence; Calamity., FOURTH .PA.618.-4_,L2r
Paoicer en 'Special Legislation; The Cousfi • lie
rine Intelligence.
Th . e Disaster at Lawrence.
The recent disaster at Lawrence is the most
terrible sodded of the kind that ever occurred
in ,this or, perhaps, any other • country, and a
profound 'sensation is created wherever the
sorrowful details are read. It is a striking
proof of the perils to which the Masses of men
are subjected, even in the common employ
ments of life, while engaged in avocations of a
peaceful character,' , particularly ',in' this go
ahead country, where, in the ardor of our pur
suit for wealth, the eareful safeguards for the
'protection of hUman life, which iu older or
more cautious countries aro systeMatically
eetabllithecl; receive but little attention. We
rarely- appreciate, notwithstanding the daily
"admonitions we receive, the dangers to which
the masses are subjected in their daily strug
gles 'for the acquisition of e livelihood, and
our- attention is but momentarily drawn to
their habitual Perils when we read accounts of
hapless sailors swept into the sea by the vio
lence of a great storm; of engineers, brakes
men, or conductors of 'trains of cars 'crashed
and mangled by, terrible accidents; of gangs
pf miners buried in the earth; of laborers
killed while making excavations, by falling
walls; of men mangled, in a neglectful mo
ment, by the cogs of ponderous wheels ; or of
;mechanics paying the penalty of their lives
' for attempts to discharge dangerous duties
Connected with their bluffness tasks.
- The late occurrence, while it has been pre
ceded in some Instances by the sudden-demo
lition of buildings on account of the extreme
weight placed„upen their floors, has no paral
lel in the sacrifice of human life it caused.
The buildings which have heretofore fallen
down have generally been warehouses, in
which too large a quantity of goods was stored,
and but few lives were destroyed by their
ruin. It is a fearful warning to all concerned
in the management of extensive factories, of
the responsibility which rests upon them to
secure strength and architectural completeness
in these great industrial edifices. We believe
that the Pemberton Mills, at the time of their
erection, were constructed in great haste, be.
cause a lire had destroyed a building in which
manufacturing operations had been previously
conducted by its original owners, and they
were anxious to resume business as speedily
as possible. Even when, in the progress of its
erection, its imperfections were nutde - evident
by its tottering walls, the builders would not
spare the time and money-necessary to erect a
substantial edifice. The sequel of this reck
less haste is now seen in a frightful sacrifice of
human life—in the anguish of hundreds of be
reaved families—in an amount of physical and
mental suffering which no .pen can depict.
In the vicinity ,of. Philadelphia there are
many eetablishmente emPloylng a, large num
ber of operatives. New factories are: also
constantly being erected. The Lawrence dis
aster should therefore impress us with the im
portance of closely 'fieratihizing the architec
tural Structure of the great bee. hives of indus
try in our vicinity. • We do not doubt that
they are nearly 'all well built, but it is proba
ble some of them will be fbund In a condition
not much superior to that of . the' PembCrton
Mills; and, if this be the case, the recent ca
lamity shpuld teach all concerned in such
establishments, employers and employees, the
vital importance of remedying these defects at
. once, and the wicked folly of longer permit
ting valuable human lives to be jeopardized in
fatal man-traps.
We belieYo that in the matter of building,
the legislation applicable to our city is some
what In advance of that- of many other ; por
tions of the country; amid that wise precautions
have been taken to insure the solidity of new
buildings constructed, and to guard against the
danger of the occupancy of unsafe old. ones.
Still, it is to be feared that feint. emirate in
vestigation were made of alb' ; he great;esta-,
ofehr citY_andileinlly...eameitPlen
them would be found in a conditionlvldch -en
dangers the lives of the ocennants." 'Wherever
suck establishments exist, those responsible for
their present condition should 'be haunted in
their daily thoughts and nightly dreams by the
victims of the Lawrence disaster. They should
hear the groans of the dying, the shrieks of
the wounded, and the wailing of the bereaved
widows and orphans of the victims, and keenly
feel that upon their heads rests the daily danger
of being the' authors of similar calamities.
In this country men are entirely too reck
less:of
. hunian life, When a small item of
expenie is placed in the scale, on the one
band. and entire immunity from danger for
those who are - to inhabit buildings, travel in
cars, steamships, sailing vessels, or steam
boats, is placed in the other, the money aide
of the balance ;too often kicks the beam, and
a temporary saving of a few dollars is made,
although, in the sequel, for every dollar thus
obtained human lives are sacrificed. In no
other element of character are the American
people subject to so much legitimate censure.
In our earnest and untiring struggles for the
rapid accumulation of wealth, of which each
new census affords astonishing proofs of our
success, wo can well spare from our vast re
sources means enough to increase our safe
guards for the lives of our -citizens, and par
ticularly those , td• the laboring masses, upon
whose hard struggle and daily toil the pyra
mid of Americrinimaterial greatness is based.
,Nearly a thousand parlous have been thrown
out of employment at an inclement season,
and several hundred have been killed or terri
bly wounded by the late calamity. Those of
our citizens; who have superfluous means at
their, command, could find no better direction
for their charities than the extension of relief
to the sufferers at Lawrence.
We trust, too, that our legislator's will care
fully examine the tenor of the existing statutes
of our State which guard against the 'oceu
pancyof insecure buildings, and if they do not
find them sufficiently stringent to prevent the
possibility of such disasters, that they will enact
such new laws as aro appropriate and neces
sary. While men are intent upon their eager
chase for fortune, if their own minds and
hearts do not furnish sufficient motives to
prompt them to secure the lives of those in
their employ or •in the occupancy of their
buildings, governments, having for one of
their primary °ldeas the preservation of
Inman life, can find no subject more worthy
-of. careful and earnest attention than a close
supervision of this all-important subject.
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AIt 6I 3.OTREIET.TLIEATRE.-At this theatre, ufive
"rybody's Friend" continues to fill the house. We
looked in task evening, and found the crowd so
large 'that there was barely standing room to be
found in the - ortdiestra, while 'the upper circles
nom still more deruiely :packed. This comedy is
destined to draw, and lie prediot for it tt sauces
keel to that of the celehisted."‘,Amerioan Cousin,"
laose.sneoess was an avent:tn the dramatic history
- Of tide country. :
lirennow Encers or Mn. Ann lidos. Ft.enancn.—
' Thee° popular emitediane went out with a skating
pgrly 4t "Lpuisvino' 4 few days ohm, when Mrs.
= Rhirenoe through an air-hole in the' feet, DIY
and another gentiontan Went to her rescue, and
they also rell through; and, together with the Jodi,
ninrrnWly opapod &owning. Mr. and Mrs. Flo
' "ritioe are atMnitfittle, Tenn.; rind
-and
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AoiLlt j s at 141-anTo,
Death of the 11ev. James Ryder, D. D.
Another distinguished divine in the Catho
lic Church has gone. Before the Catholic
community has had time to recover from the
shock received in the midden death of Bishop
NEUMANN, we are called upon to record the
scarcely less sudden - summons of another of
their most oniinent ministers. The Rev.
bolts RYDER, D. D., died at the parsonage of
St. Joseph's Church yesterday morning, after
a brief illness, which, until a short time before
'pap, although severe, was not regarded
eilaiartning by his ; friends. His disease was
inflammation of the bowels._ Few men, in the
Church or out of it, have lett a purer record
than Dr. Rime. By the people of his do.
nomination in this community, and in fact
throughout the Union, he was greatly esteemed_
both for his eminent services in the Church and
the honorable relations ho sustained, at diffe
rent periods of his life, to sonic of our first
institutions of learning. More than this: by
those who knew him intimately he was as
much beloved for his suavity of manlier as ho
was respected for his commanding ability.
Ho was at once a thorough scholar, an urbane
geittleman, and a devoted and zealous Chris
tian. In his death the Church has lost one of
her most eloquent and learned Doctors of Divi
nity, the people of his charge a faithful pas
tor, and the society in which he moved an or
nament hard to be replaced. In the Order of
which he was a distinguished member, (the
Society of Jesus,) ho occupied a prominent
position,
When we published the sketch of Dr. Br
uen, biographic, personal, and pulpitorial—if
we may coin a phrase—whick appeared in
these columns, in our series of Pulpit Por
traits, on the 2lth of November last, we little
expected that the materials it contained would
come so soon in use for his obituary.
The body will lie in state during to-day in
St. Joseph's Church, where an appropriate ser
vice will be held at nine o'clock this morning.
The funeral will take place at nine o'clock on
Saturday morning. The body will be interred
in a vault on the south range of the yard at
tilchedlo St. John's Church, the same, we
understand, which was intended for the recep
tion of the remains of Bishop NEUMANN.
The Rev. Dr. Woon, bishop of the diocese,
will officiate at the
At the request of friends of the deceased, we
publish below, in a modified form, a few ex
tracts from the sketch above referred to. , The
following lines, from a note addressejl to the
writer, on the 3d instant—probably the last he
ever wrote—we insert here as exprelisive of
Dr. RYDER'S estimate of the correctness of the
article in question. As none of the biographic
details were objected to in this note, their ac
curacy may be relied upon :
My DEAR SIR
* ,
The 'portrait" you kindly drew of me has
greatly pleased my friends, and although I must
confess that I feel it a highly-colored and flatter
ing picture, I am not the less grateful for the com
plement. It teaches me also what I should en
deavor to acquire in order to equal the por
traiture.
Believe me, my dear sir,
Yours very gratefully,
JAllag HYPER, S. J.
St. Joseph's Church, Jab. 3,1860.
THE SKETCH.
The Roy. James Ryder, D. D„ was born in Dub
lin in October, 1800. He came to America a youth,
and soon after entered Gebrgetown College, an in•
etitution with which he was at intervals officially
connected during a large portion of his life. In
1815 he entered among the Jesuits as a novice of
the order, and during the ensuing five years prose-
Gated his philosophical studies in the college above
referred to. In 1820 his went to Rome, where, for
five years,
.ho was occupied in the study of the
ology. It was during this period that he made his
Isfence of all theology in the Roman College;
Aftor hie ordination, in 1025. he was appointed a
teacher of Theology and Sacred Scripture in the
College of Spoleto, where the present Popo was
then Archbishop. At the close of three years he
resigned this position, and returned to America.
The ripened attainments which he had acquired
during his absentia rendered his presence at Geor g e.
town desirable, and he accordingly entered tho
college a second time, not es a pupil, but as a
teacher of theology and philosophy.
Ile was soon after appointed to the vice-presi
dency of the college, which position he held for
several years, having twice visited Philadelphia
during the Interval, and twist some time hero in a
pastoral relation. It was upon one of these coca.
stone that ho attended the laying of the corner
atone of St. John's Church, Thirteenth street,
above Chestnut.
With regard to rather Ryder's claim to the title
of D. D., it may not bo generally known that all
Professed Jesuits aro acknowledged on the conti
nent of Europe as Doctors of Divinity ; and that
one of the requisites of becoming a Professed Je
suit is, that he shall be able to teach theology and
philosophy in any university; another is, that be
sides taking the three ordinary vows of Poverty,
Chastity, and Obedience, he must vow obedience to
the Sovereign Pontiff to go to any foreign mission,
and to refuse all ecclesiastical honors.
In 1839, during the erection of St. Joseph's
Church, in Willing's alloy, Dr. Ryder was pastor
of that congregation, as he had in fact, boon for
a short period while they yet worshipped in the
old building on the site of their present large and
comfortable edifice. The corner-stone of this
church, it may be added, was laid by Dr. Ryder,
who preached in St. Mary's on the occasion. The
orottession to the church on that day, and the so.
'opacities attending it. aro well remembered by
many of our citizens. Toward the close of 10 be
assumed the pastoral charge of St. John's Church,
in Frederick, Maryland.
In 1840, hie eminent qualifications for the post,
no legs than his long and honorable connection with
the institution Dolt', pointed to Dr. Ryder as the
most imitable person to fill the president's chair of
the college, which ho did for six years. During
this period, extending from 1810 to 1846, as the
chief governing officer of Georgetown College, he
•had ;many young men under hie charge, who have
since risen to honorable eminence in professional
life, and the sons of not a few of the first men in
the nation.
Dr. Ryder • thrice visited Europe on buslnese
for the order of which lie is so distinguished a
member. It was after his return from Europe the
second time that he was elected to the presidency
of the Holy Cross, the Roman Catholic College
located at Worcester,. Massachusetts. Subic:pont
to this, lie was re-elected to the presidential chair
of Georgetown College, in which capacity he con
tinued for three years more.
In 1853 he want to California on business for the
Church. While there his health gave wily, and ho
sailed for Havana, where ho remained a short pe
riod, and after spending a few months in the South
ern States, where ho delivered a popular course of
lectures, Matted to Philadelphia, and, four years
ago, was mode pester of St. John's Church, in this
city, where he continued for about two years, at the
close of which he went to Alexandria, where, for
nearly two years more, he occupied the position of
assistant pastor. Returning again to this city, ho
has, for the pest few months, acted as assistant
pastor of the church at which he expired yesterday
morning.
As already indicated, Dr. Ryder was in his six
tieth year at his death. He was of medium heiTlit,
and rather corpulent. Ilia hair, which wee thin
and quite white, was combed behind his care,
giving his features, in repose, en air of peculiar
docility. His complexion was florid. His face,
'which was not unlike the portraits of John Quincy
Adams. though full, and indicative of a marked
preponderance of the vital forces, was delicate in
outline, as it was also youthful In appearance, and
redolent with good nature, though he bad a laugh
ing dark eye, not Incapable of flashing &wear
things than the unadulterated milk of human
kindness.
Ms address in the pulpit Was at once that of
gentleman and a scholar : eminently dignified, yet
not haughty pr overbearing. He was graceful, and
apparently as fastidious in his testes as a woman.
Culture and refinement always marked his di,
comae; elan, tho strictest conformity to the phi,
losophteal rules of rhetorical propriety. This pa
ouliarity is probably attributable to tits long con
emotion with Ohl) of our first institutions of Wm-
Jug. Ho was a most methodical thinker. Re
scarcely ever uttered a sentence without a purpose.
For an extempore speaker, he was really remarka
ble In this particular. Without manifesting any
great anxiousness to make his hearers believe that
what he preached was true, he usually disposed of
the various points of hie argument in such a man
ner as to render the oonelusion he desired IrresisU.
bits. Re laid down a proposition with so much
gentleness, that, however unpalatable it might at
first seem In the bands of another, ho secured a
hearing, and then proceeded with tho most insinu
ating arguments to establish his point. In this
perettastve rower ho wee a model of a pulpit
orator.
He had a soft, mild way of pronouncing his words,
quite in keeping with his benevolent expression of
face. In hie gesticulation he was no lees exact and
prestos than he was in framing his sentences and
arranging his arguments. In the former, his right
arm was mainly employed ; the lett coeasionallv i
although the pulpit use of neither was such as might
not be employed with propriety in animated private
dletiourso. It was not necessary to hear him long
to ascertain that it was sense, not sound, by which
he sought to impress his listeners. His style of
speaking, upon the whole, may be described as con
versational, though so far as it regards ability
to present 'dime in the most fitting terms to be
Clearly understood, ho was truly eloquent. As a
word painter he was more successful in moving the
heart than in exciting the imagination. In his
delivery he varied from the slow—bordering en
the monotonous—to the warm and more rapid, but
was never so precipitate as to interfere with dis
tinot articulation. Ills sermons were by no means
devoid of ornament, but those flowed naturally
from the toul and ardor of hie subject, and not
from a design to please the ear.
Mies ANNIE PENT'S SClloOr..—rt gives us =oh
pleasure to recommend to our readers the seminary
for young ladles and children recently opened by
Mist B. Annie Frost, at No. 216 South Fifteenth
street. Miss Frost is the accomplished youngest
daughter of the late lamented Professor Frost, and
inherits in a large degree the talents and tho
marked ability of her lather as a writer and a
teacher of youth,
SERMON NY TUE REV. 11. GRATTAN lIINNER3.
We will publish, to•morrow, a sketch of a roma),
preached. by this popular young pulpit orator, on
Wednesday evening, at tho church of which the
F4ev, George Chandler is pastor, Franklin avenue,
above Hamilton street. Subject, " The Blood of
Christ."
SALE OP PunsTrnualte.—A large sale of now
and second-hand household furniture, ailver.plated
ware, steresoopio slides, he., will take place this
mornleg, at 10 o'clook, at T. Birch ,1 Bon's, No.
914 01lostuilt duet.
Letter front 64 OCCIV4O/1111.4'
(Correspondence of The Pmed
ArASIIINGTON, J4tiunry 12, MOO
Your last demonstration upon Bennett, of the
Now York Herald, is the talk and the laugh of
the town. it is making old Satan breakfast upon
Ms own fire and brimstone. There is a poetic
justice in turning Bennett's own words upon hint
self and the President, that has rarely been
equalled. It is like Acton devoured by his own
dogs. The President was startled to see bow fear
fully ho had been slandered by his present favo
rite, and more than ono of his friends never be
lieved that Bennett had gone so far. And the
worst of the joke is, that morn of these monstrous
missives are threatened. Send them on—" The
more the merrier." You have had ample and
persistent provocation. Every means has been re
sorted to to crush you and The Press, and thie only
because you have dared to stand by the right Mr.
Buchanan forgot twenty years of devotion to his
interests and his ambition, the moment you refused
to sanction his treason to principle. The friend
was at once changed into the fiend—the flatterer into
the despot—the sycophant into the slanderer.
You were denied every attribute of intellect or of
character; your paper was proscribed by
the hirelings of the Administration, and all
men in office wore ostracised who would not
agree to ostracise you. But all these amiable
efforts would not avail. You kept on—and The
Press won its way into the hearts of the people,
until it bee become a power in the land. What
next did your "former friend" essay? Neither
more nor less than to call upon Bennett, of the
Herald, to revive upon you the very slanders
against which he had most effectively defended
you! If you doubt this, I have only to refer you to
it late number of the Constitution. here, contain
ing an article attacking you for the Forrest letter,
written by Attorney General Black, who has re
peatedly, in my presence, justified you in the
writing of that celebreted epistle. Of course, no
such paragraph would ever have appeared hut by
command of the President. And this also proves
that It was a similar command that induced Ben
nett to resume hie attacks. I leave to your own
judgment the decision of the question, how far
James Buchanan deserves himself to be protected
against the revelation of his own private letters,
when he basely sinks to tho level of Bennett in
making a boast over the exposure of your corre
spondence. I know how yonbave forborne in this
respect. Yet, as to the retribution you are inflict
ing upon the whole of these men by showing how
they have traduced each other, this is fair game,
and I hope you will not tire in the good work.
Senator Iverson, of Georgia, in his speech of
Monday, denounced Judge Douglas, and declared
his determination not to support him if nominated
at Charleston. It is believed that Mr. I. will be
easily re-elected to the Senate, and that his attack
on Douglas was meant to intimidate Toombs, who
Is disposed to sustain Douglas, and who declared,
some time ago, that he would vote for him if nomi
nated at Charleston. Mr. Toombs is not a man
easily scared.
The President paid his compliments to Judge
Douglas on Monday, by nominating as United States
marshal of Illinois Sidney 'Breese, at present a
Judge of the Supreme Court of that State' This
is promoting downwards. But Judge Breese want
ed a money office, probably, and . as he war ono of
the bitterest anemia Mr. Buchanan ever hail a few
years ago, and one of the later foes of Judge
Douglas, he had double claims upon the gratitude
of his Majesty. OCCASIONAL.
Letter from Harrisburg.
[ Correspondence or The Press.]
Ifenniannan, January 12, 1860
Mr. Abbott road in place " further suppletnent
to an act to provide for the better regulation of
buildings In the city of Philadelphia." The board
of inspectors is to consist of three persons, elected
by Councils, two of whom shall be practical brick
layers, to receive a salary of $2,000 each. and a
clerk chosen by the board, who shall receive $7OO
per annum. ' For inspecting the, first-class named
they are to receive from $1 to $1.50 ; second class
$2 to $2.50; third class S 1 to $1; fourth class
$4 to $5; fifth class $5 to $4, and ten cents for
each one hundred square feet additional this
class of buildings are to cover at least fifteen hun
dred square feet. The inspectors are to pay into
the city treasury, monthly, all the receipts, and the
City Solicitor is to audit their accounts annually.
Each inspector is to give security in the suns of
$5,000 to faithfully perform his duties.
Mr. Strong, " a supplement to the Southwestern
Market Company." It provides that this compa
ny shall bo permitted to locate their market at
sash a point as they may deem expedient, provided
the same shall be south of Market and west of
Eighth street.
Also, by the same gentleman, " a supplement to
the, Howard Fire and Marino Insurance Company,
of 1855." - It permits the reduction of the .mapital
stook from $OOO,OOO to 5200,000, to consist of nix
thousand shares of $13.3 each. This company
has met, during the post year, with severe losses,
and the object of this move is to reduce the capital
from the nominal to the actual amount paid in. It
MB also read in Senate, and an attempt made to
put it through, but meeting with objection, the
Subject wee postponed until to-morrow.
A hill is now in the hands of the local Judiciary
Committee, whose provisions are intended to re
model the police department of Philadelphia. ft
puts the whole matter In the hands of a board of
five persons, composed of tho Mayor, the two im•
mediately preceding ex-Mayors, and two others
appointed by the City Councils. They are to have
the appointing and removing power, to fix the
standard of moral and physical qualifications of
the police, and to do such other work as may he
necessary to put that branch of the municipal go
vernment on a thorough'footing.
Mr. Dunlap read in place an ant to incorporate
the Penrose Ferry and Island Road Plank•rond
Company. It is either to boa plank or shell road,
to commence at Penrose ferry on the Schuylkill,
continuing along Lazaretto road to the Island road,
thence along the Island road to the Darby road, in
the Twenty-fourth ward. Subject to all the restric
tions of the act of 1849. Capital stock to consist
of 1,000 shares of $2O each, with the privilege of
increasing as much as may be necessary to com
plete the road.
Petitions in great number are pouring in from
all directions in favor of an appropriation of $lO,OOO
per annum to the Training School for Idiotic and
Feebleminded Children, located at Media, Dela
ware county. It has been in operation for a
number of years, and found to effect wonders for
that unfortunate class of htimanity. Petitions of
themselves ought not, nelthcr do they, carry much
weight with auy man familiar with the easy man
ner of obtaining signatures for any purpose what
ever ; but this school la an object of true charity,
and when Its claims sbnll be duly presented to the
Legislatu to there can be no dodbt of the response.
The committee to consider the claim of Julius
Cassar Allen, who contests the seat of James Don
nelly, was drawn to-day, and consists of the fol
lowing named gentlemen, viz: Messrs. Abbott,
Acker, Barnsley, Coulter, FAlmaker, Green, Me.
Curdy, Parnell, and Wilson—all Itepublleans but
Mr. Coulter, of Westmoreland. Mr. Allen thinks
there are miscounts and frauds', hence this move.
If the committee find him to be mistaken in his
belief, they should make short work of their inves
tigation, for this business of contesting seats is get
ting to be too common by half.
A notice is posted on the doors of the Senate and
House giving notice that the Republican caucus
wfil meet on Friday evening to select a candidate
for Strap 'Treasurer. There is said to be " a great
contest gobs on," " IMmense excitement " among
the polltreians, dc., but sty own impression is that
the present treasurer, whohns been tried and found
to be an excellent officer, will be renominated with
out trouble. All the other heads of departrdent
hold their places for a term of three years, and
unless there arc good reasons given, Mr. Slifer
tdusUld not bo made an exception,
The spools.) election to fill the vacancy In the
House caused by the ital.!) ("Nitrous D. Whilman,
of Dauphin, takes place on Saturday. Wm. Clark,
Esti., of Millersburg, has been nominated by the
Republicans, and George J. Shoemaker, Eni., by
the Democrats.
The Democratic Convinticin instructed Its dole•
gates for honest Jacob Pry, whose prospeets loom
up largely. The Republican delegates are first for
Levi Kline, of Lebanon, and then aro said to be for
Col. Andrew G. Curtin, of Centre. Mr Curtin's
great personal popularity, and his unrivalled
powers of oratory, would make him a dangerous
man for oven Mr. Fry to run Spina.
Further from Montevideo.
Bat:Hunan, Jan. 12,—8y the arrival of the
bark John C. Bonne, Monte idea dates to Nov. 21
are furnished.
The British merchants and residents of Buenos
Ayres had addressed a congratulatory letter to the
President of the Republic', and also to rwitliza, on
the conclusion of peace between Buenos Ayres and
the Confederacy.
Can. Lopez was also made the recipient of public
gratulation at 13ttenos Ayres.
For the better regulation of the country die
trictr, the Government had abolished the pre
features and commissaries, returning to the old
system of de Paz.
. It ,tune understood that most of the appoint
ments made by Unpin will be recognised nnd con
firmed.
The Government had reoeived warning of a
threatened invngion of the Indians.
- . .
MmitNe.—Left in port, barks Tidal Wave, for
New York, loading; Selo, In distress; P. Pendle
ton' front New York for Buenos Ayres. Arrived,
on the 23d, Cheshire, from Boston.
The U. S. storeship Release arrived at Montevi
deo on the 16th.
Brig New Era, of Now York, arrived off the
port on the 22d. She bad been ordered to Ronan°.
Huntingdon Democratic Convention
HUNTINGDON ' Jan. 12,—The Democratic Count
Convention met hero last night. Jacob Cresswid
Administration Democrat, was elected State delo
gate, and instructed to support the choice o
Dreckinridge delegates to the Charleston Con
vention. A resolution in favor of the nonilnittioi
of Jacob Fry for Governor was lost. The Hon.
W. P. Scholl, of Bedford, was , chosen Senatoria
delegate.
Union Meeting at Albany, New York.
ALBANY, Jan. 12 —A Union meeting was held at
the Capitol grounds tonight, and was attended by
over 4,000 persons.
Hen. Garret Y. Lansing presided, and all parties
were represented in the list el vice presidents.
Mr. Lansing and the lion. Henry .1. Raymond
addrosped the meeting.
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XXXVITII CONMS.--VIRST SESSION
U. 8. CAPITOL, WAsnianTo; Jan. 12
SENATE.
A communication was received from the &ere
tory of the Treatary, in reply to a resolution of the
Senate calling for information us to tho unex
pended balance of the amount appropriated under
the treaty of (1 uadalupo,Uidalgo to pay the claims
of Amorloanoilizens. The halal:ma is stated at some
thing over $211,000. Ordered to bo printed.
Mr. DAVIS, of Mississippi, introduced a bill fur
the better organization of the army. Referred.
Mr. M'S boor, of Massachusetts, presented a peti
tion from Sampson & Tappan, and several mer
chants of Boston, respecting, the drawback to be
allowed on Manila cordage.
Mr. Somn, of .Ma&aohnsotto, preoentoU a po
lion in favor of tho houtostoad bill.
Ile also introduced a resolution calling upon the
President to communicate information relative to
the outrage on American citizens at Perugia, in
the Pontifical States, and what measures had been
adopted to procure redress. Adopted.
Mr. CHESNUT, of South Carolina, presented me
morials front South Caroline, asking for the reim
bursement of money expended during the Revolu
tionary and Mexican wars. Referred.
Mr. SLIDICLL, of Louisiana, moved that when
the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet on Monday
next.
Mr. SEBASTIAN, of Arkansas, introduced a reso•
lution to supply the Choctaw and Cherokee In
diens with each lawn and journals as are furnished
to the States and Territories. The resolution lies
over, under the rules.
Mr. Pugh's resolutions were then taken up.
Mr. Pratt, of Obio, resumed his remarks, Ile
explained the meaning of the hinneas-Nebraske
bill, which ho regarded as a surrender of the pow
er of Congress over the Territories. Ile denied
that the Dred Feett decision was susceptible of
the President's Interpretation. The President
seemed to think that the frequent assertion of the
some thing is finally to be accepted as fact. It
might be accepted by placemen and personal ad—
mirers, but the claim that there was any vested
right to hold slaves in the Territories by virtue
of - that decision is not sustained by feels. Ile re
viewed the Dred Scottdeeision at length.
Having road en abstract of the Dred Scott ante,
he denied that the Supreme Court bad therein
settled the question of slave property in the Ter
ritories. Congress could not make laws to violate
the Constitution.
Mr. GREEN, of Missouri, said that h 3 had dis
tinctly stated that the question did not arise before
the court whether a Territory could prohibit
slavery by its own powers, but the question was
whether Congress could prohibit slavery in the
Territories. On that the court gave an opinion,
and decided that a Territory could not exercise
any power beyond that of Congress.
Mr. Pratt read Judge entron s dissenting opin
ion, and in the course of his remarks denied that
to legislate rested In the Governor and judges of
the Territory.
Mr. GREEN roused a portion of the spevh of
Mr. Douglas to be rend, in which he admitted that
such legislation had been exercised.
Mr. Pl7Oll objected to bringing in third parties.
The policy of the goverment towards the Territo
ries had been more liberal ns the subject wan dis
cussed. He denounced the ordinance of 1757 ns
tyrannical and odious, as it imposed a property
qualification on voters. lie further dented that
the Freeport speech of Mr. Douglas was the first
enunciation of the doctrine of populor sove
reignty. It bail been asserted when he first earns
here by a gentleman now in Mr. Beehanan's pobi•
not. Mr. Pugh then road from a speech mode in
Portland, in which it was in reply to a
charge that the South wanted to force slavery Into
the Territories, tbnt a Territorial Legislature, by
failing to pass protecting laws, might virtually ex
clude slavery.
Mr DAVIS denied that the speech was poseepti
ble of such a construction.
Mr. Pilau. I don't know whether you have
vised your epeeeh or not.
Mr. DAWN. You do know, for I hare told you
Mr. Pron. I did not know when I spoke. Ido
know now.
Mr. DAVIS. I will say that was my impression.
The speech was addressed to the people of tha
Northern States in reply to the oft.repeated charge
of forging slavery upon n community. Ile could
put no other interpretation on It than that it was,
in the language of tho. Senator front Missouri, sug
geeting to the people or the Territories to keep out
slavery.
Mr DAVIS would ray that he addressed an
nudienee more intelligent than the Senator, if that
was his construction, 'They perfectly understood
him and put no.sueh interpretation on it. Ile raid
that no sort of property could be held tinder the
laws if Juries were opposed. flu had cited a parth
eular erre in Utah.
Mr. Pcou raid be did not know what the au
dience understood. The Senator's language was in
print to go forth to the country to bo judged.
Mr. DAvis said the Senator put in what he
could net find. Nothing wee raid about legisla
tion, but something .was raid about the power of
the people when eppaad to a particular kind or
property.
Mr Puen read over Mr. Davis' speech to rue-
Min his construction, and raid that it the Territo
rial Legislature was in cession looking fur ways.
and means to prevent slavery in the Territory,
they could do no bettor titan to follow the Senator's
advtca.
Mr. DAVI. n 9 you Any there 13 Mirk°
in my speech to the Territorial Legislature to
pass laws to embarrass the right to property ill
sla vet?
Mr. Peon. No; but you suggest the passage 0
nn laws. Ito explained that what ho meant was
that Mr. Davis' specials wan es much ads ice as Mr
Douglas' speeell at Preeport.
Mr. DAVIu denied Mr. Pugh'n right to say eve:
that much. lie hod said nothing about leglala
don.
Mr. Ptron said that the language was not alt
plied to Congress, but to the people of the Terri
torles.
Mr. DAVIS replied that everybody knew wilt'
he meant. Territorial JegiFialinn wan tbe ores
turn or Congresa, and Congrees indirectly legielatet
for the Territories.
Mr. Pivot said that did not alter H. lie read the
language, and it had gone to the country.
Mr. DAvis replied Olathe had sent it to the coun
try himself, to meet Just such perversions es tied
been undo by-the Senator.
Mr. Penn denied having made any perversion.
lie bad only read the Senator's remarks. Ile was
willing to leave the country to judge. it was idle
to have any further controversy.
Mr. Ports. Quito so.
Mr. Pvoo than commented upon Mr Douglas'
removal' from the chairmanship of the Committee
on Territories beeause of the Freeport speech.
Mr. LincEN said that he had nes or said that he
was removed in consequence of that. Ile was op
posed to that removal, and if he could restore liar.
loony he was willing to resign his place on that
committee or in the Senate; but the Senator had
repeated that sentiment Lime rind again in hie
triumphal march through the Southern Staten, and
lie supposed that it woo in consequence of these
repeated assertions that ho had been removed.
Mr. DocurAa, of Illinqis, explained that he had
said in his speeches that slavery might be excluded
by non-action or unfriendly legislation. Every
Senator knew that that had been his opinion
while chairman of the Committee on Territories.
Mr. 11fAsoN, of Virginia, had not no understood
the former position of the Senator from Illinois.
Mr. DORMAN said that no ono in the Senate had
an excuse for not knowing it. Ile had repeated it;
as often as the question came up.
Mr. GREEN contended that nil had agreed to
abide by the Drod Scott decision, and since then'
_ .
the Senator from Illinois had raised the question.
Mr. Be; to thought that, about the period of the
passage of the Llapsas..Nebraska art. the Senator
from Illinois was sounder than at any other time,
Mr. Doorn„ss said, nt tho proper time, ashen
the Kaneas•lstebraska net, on the very night of Its
passage, ho held and expressed the opinion which
he now entertained as to the power of the people of
the 'fartherlea.
Iktr. Davia said he war, not then a member of this
body, and did not therefore have the happinesq to
hear the Senator.
Mr. Dot GbAQ. Thou, you should nuCexpress nn
opinion no to my soundness, if you did not know
toy views.
Mr. DAVIS continued, and expressed the opinion
that Mr. Douglas had properly been deposed tram
the ehairtnapship of the Committee on Territories.
as his views wore nut in accordance with those of
the majority.
tlr.l ouot,ao believed throo.fourtha of the Done.
craoy of the country egreod with him Ile would
show by record, that a majority had understood the
terms of the Nebraska act as he did. Mr. Rich.
unison, who was nominee for Speaker of the Haute,
wrote a letter in which lie recognised the power:of
the people in the Torritoilea, and after that tot
every Southern Democratic vote except three.
Mr. IlAvta reiterated that Mr. Douglas was so
posed because hie views were not in accordance
with five of the majority.
Mr. Douhr.§, fold ho had no complaint to make
of that deposition, and never Intended to refer to
It. For eleven years he had noted as ehalr4an
of that committee, all the time holdlnK the sante
lime as lie now held. At the end of that period
ho was removed, though he had not changed his
sentiments. Thleonly showed that °theta changed,
while ho adhered with fidelity to bin 'prim:triter.
Mr. tigensi said the Senator from Nino's: In
105 d, accepted Rile ep a judicial question, nd
agreed to abide by the pullets! decision. During
the eleven yearn ho had referred to, the Scimitar
from Illinois never had asserted that tr Territorial
Legislature ponionsod a power which Congress did
net.
Mr. Doraz,s, admitted that he regarded thin to
a judieial /potion, and did Pe now Thu Drell
Scott decision did not nettle it. It woo not
geed before the court. It would have been
graceful if the court h a d decided upon what was
not before It. When a Territorial Legislature
passed en °without prohibiting Hal cry, the Flu.
promo Court could decide the question, eno he
would respect the decision and help to carry it
out in good faith. That wan the understaniiing
when the Nebraska bill was passed. Ile did n o t
believe the decision of the court would be tgainst
Lis views,
Mr. Olt KES stated his viCIAVS as to the unfirr
stivaling at tho tirno of the inissago of the Knish.,
Nebraska bill, and Fflifl the Senstor how Illinois
would not dare to dispute hie propositions.
Mr. DOcul.t.tl replied that tho word " dare",war
unnecessary, and It was unnecosiary to handy
words. 110 dared to assort tho truth. Ile thought
ho knew what his owrropiniona had bean at sell 111 ,
the Senator from Missouri. lie would vindicate
every word ho had said, and when the Senator,.
had all gotten through with their bills of indict
meat against him, be would fire at thew in the
lump.
Mr. (inn:a, (excitedly.) The Senator 01111 fire
away whenever it suits his convenience, either al
us in a lump, or Individually. There h one.indi•
viduel who is ready to meet hint at Philippi 1
know and assert that no man ever elnimed that the
Territories possessed more power than Congress
until the Freeport speech.
Mr. hull resumed. It was easy to thrust per
sonal feeling and personal assaults into a cootie
versy. It had been done by the Senator from
Mississippi, and imitated by the Sennter from
Missouri. HO contended that the question of the
power of the people of the Territories was still no
open question. When It was decided by the courts
ho was ready to obey. The whole controversy bad
been forced on the Senator from Illinois and him
self under eireutnstanees of outrage and Indignity
which had to be loot. If it continued to be pregcti
in this manner the fate of the Demosratie party
sealed. The- subject had bean thrust forward by
the President in his message, by the Vice Presi
dent in his address to tho Legislature, and on thh
floor. Ile referred to the Exeoutive dictation, end
attempt to course free man by cutting of their head,
as postmasters and custom-house officers. The Sena
for from lieorgin now wanted a law Passed to Coll
his slaves to be held in 'territories in defiance of
all law, and insisted on the Charleston Convent lot,
sustaining this despond. If that was the senti.
men! of the Southern delegn tee, ho hoped thPy
would say so on the ilrat day of the Convontion.
e trod nothing for the threats of opposition to a
Northern nominee made by the Senator from
Georgia. Ile conoludecl by &Airing his detoriui
nation, as a delegate to the Charleston Convention
to support his front views, and imbdol that the
proscription against his Moinoh of the party must
sense.
Mr,DountAS said the state of his health would
not fermit blot to engage iu a lengthy debate.
When his assailants had gotten through, ho would
reply to them in a heap.
Mr. D.tvls thought the Sender from Illinois
exalted himself above his level when ho supposed
it necessary to have a combination formed against
him. As t 3 his going at them in the lump, he had
bettor try to got through with one of them.
Mr. Vouot,se would Institute no compariamr
between himself and the Senator as to the modesty
of their bearing. He had boon assailed while ly
ing on a sicie.bcd, EIS rotten, by 0710 who had con.
fussed to a rottenness at heart twelve years ago.
No assaults would lie snake 6n any one. lie had
no fondness for controversy, and his. tosition was
purely defensive,
Mr. Cr, iv, of Alabama, said he would show that
the Senator had changed his views, In Itiso he
voted for the Wilmot proviso. lie would not have
extended the right hand of fellowship as a Demo
orat if he had not believed that be had changed
his views. The complaints of assaults and oom
binatton looked like seeking popular sympatitv,
witiohte abhorred as the net of a demagogue. Ile
feared that the Senator was like Olson. who rushed
into the market•placo exhibiting self-inflicted
wounds to exoito sympathy and secure protection
Mr. DOUGLAS denied seeking popular sympathy.
He' never would bare alluded to his deposition
from the chairmanship of the Committee on Terri•
toilet; if It had not been thrown in his fuse. Ile
denied the right of the Senator from Alabama to
criticise hie Democracy. Ile did not think the Se.
eater's opposition would affect his vote in Ala
bama. Ile never bad made speeches to bolt the
nomination of the Convention unless his man was
selected. Tho Senator, by Ida pronunciamientos,
heel put himself outside of the Democratic patty.
If the Senator did not extend the right hand of
political fellowship he would survive the stroke.
file happened to be nominated nt Charleston, ho
vpould consider the Senator from Alabama es much
honored by his accepting his vote to he himself would
be in receiving it. lie (Mr. Douglas) did not
tam% the nomination at Charleston. lie would not
accept it except upon a platform conforming to his
alms. Ile would never commit the meanness of
being elected on a platform and kick it over after
wards lie believed that two-thirds of the Demo.
Orany of the country were with him. Ilia removal
from the Committee on Territories must hove
boon meant as a proclamation to the world that no
one holding his opinions was fit to bo chairman.
if such proscriptive teats aro to be applied, what
chance was there to elect a Demtanatic candidate
De would not say he was unwilling to support a
Demooratie nominee who differed with him.
Mr. DAVIS said he had no objection to Mr. Doug
las as a Democrat, except on this particular point.
lle was willing to give bins the chairmanship of his
committee.
, Mr. Guam So am I.
Mr. DOUGLAS said ha could net, under the oir-
Unmet:times, take any other committee. For e avon
years hie opinions were no disqualification. Ito
did not see why they were so now.
Mr. DAVIS said ho wished to know wh ther the
Senator wanted to mks nn isum with .he Demo•
erotic Senators on thie question, or on all t
DOVOTAS replied that he wished to make
lame with Senators on neither side 101 the
mouse. Proscription had everywhere been exer
cised against all holding his TiOWE'. Was any man
prepared to accept the Charleston nomination,
pledged to proscribe them, and then so moan co to
ark tho votes of those proaeribed It was certain
that ono third of a party could not :subdue two•
thirds. lie yielded to no tnau in the soundness of
his •Demooratic and State•rights principles. and
upon the slavery question. Ho wenn' make no
abandonment of prineiploom recantation. If the
Senators wets satisfied with their ono records,
and would leave hie alone, all would go well. If
they assailed him, a controversy must ensue.
Mr. DAVIS disavowed any desire to assail the
Senator, and defended the Administation from the
charge of prescription
Mr. CLAY made some explanatory remarks. Ito
preferred principles to party, and Lad therefore
declared that he would not support any objection
aide man.
Mr. Dor. ocke said he Toted for the Wilmot pro
viso under instructions from the Illinois Legiela•
taro.
Mr. Dooming, of Wiroonrin, ...bed if the Sent•
tor front Illinois believed now that Cong,re.s had
power to legislate upon slavery in the Territoriex '
Mr. llornbam raid he believed Congress had no
power over slavery in the Territories
Mr. Pireire resolution to eleot a printer on
Tueadey next was adopted.
-. The &nate then adjourned till Monday.
110USB OF REPIIKSENTATIVFS.
. .
.Thoro was but a slim attorulanto of member , (11
he opening of tho House.
A °all of the llouse woo ordered.
Fitrdotatt, of Ohio, debited to mill attention
to the remark a of Mr. Ifouston, of Alabama, yes
terday, reported in the (Node, to the following el
pet- •• I do net mean to say that those g e ntle m en
'(Mesars Adroit' and Clarke) will tote for the Do.
mocrasie candidate, but I have no doubt that they
will. They will, 1 treat. return to their that love,
and calm the egitat ion of the country, !missive the
House !Rn the burning, withering curse and
'theme of putting in the Speaker's chair the gentle-
Asa., from. Ohio. Mr. Sherman illuired whether
Mr. Houston designed to reflect upon bins horse
wide or politically?
• Mr. Meant( replied that ho meal hate sup
posed the gentleman would not really have pro.
pounded 'hie question to hint, for there could Ise no
doubt. as to the proper cOnstruetion of the Inn.
gunge. Ito did not suppose that any gentleman
thought lie meant or intended apersonal appilea•
bout. The gentleman had been charged with hay.
lug endorsed the sentiments of the Helper book,
and bad never disavowed Its doctrines. The gen.
[Leman from Ohio 11 , 1(1 endorsed doctrines of a most
ireasonehlo and infamous character, and while he
hied made it statement which some of his friends
said was a divot - mad yet Ito (Mr. Houston) eon•
tended that it we not a fair aril candid disavowal
nf the doctrines contained in the Helper book. In
stead of saying that be did not know what was in
that hook. be ought to have disavowed its treaseip
able and infamous doctrines. Thhl (MI not relieve
the gentleman from hating emiersed the doctrines
of the book, and until he shall relieve himself in a
manly outliner, which ho line been railed upon to
Jo, ho (Mr Houston) would say to Mr. Sherman
that be wait subject, politically, to the remarks ho
(Mr. Houston) hail mode.
Mr. SHERMAN said that every ono ought to be
satisfied with Mr. Houston's personal disclaimer.
All would bear him witness that he had listened to
the character of the debate here without olio: Lion
Ale had not been disposed to regard the remarks at
personal. So fur as his disclaimer of the doctrines
of the Helper book was cencerneil, ovary man who
had any sense of feeling knew that his lips, in a
great measure, had been scaled from the first day
of the session by what he must regard at an cdfinss
sire resolution, throat on the House at an improper
limo and timelier, and insisted on in a way without
precedent in parliamentary history. That deck
ration was snails on this floor. If the explanation
which he lied made to the honorable gentleman
from Virginia (Mr. Million), in tha preBClloo of the
House, wits not satisfactory to the gentlemen on
the other side, they should insist. as a point of man
hood and jnstlee, that the offensive resolution
should be withdrawn lie hail said to his friends,
anti new acid to others, that he would consent to
hare the Helper book read, page by page, and then
he would avow or disavow every sentiment therein
contained Ito had never concealed his opinions,
and If the toffensive resolution (that of Mr Clark,
of Missouri) should be withdrawn, he would be
prepared to :peak further upon the subject. lentil
the resolution woe withdrawn. he appealed to every
man to say whether ho could say any more.
Mr. Horan,: asked Mr. Sherman whether that
sue a fair PPORTIO from the responsibility' 'The
gsntleman had said that ho was willing to have the
Helper book read, page by page. and would avow
or dissvon , the sentiments therein. But the resa
lotion did not contain the gentlemen's name. It
says nothing about the gentleman from Ohio, and
ho COlll , l not so construe it unless he feels that it
bears upon him
Mr Stumm iv wished to lie allowed to say that
when the tesolution was °Tend ho woe tho only
person whose name appeared appended to the list
who Rao a candidate before the House. There
fore the resolution was just as much a personal
rePrenee no If his name had appeared therein
Mr Ilouarosi replied that that did not relieve
the gentleman from the troubles around him He
threw himself beck en his insulted dignity, and
emidd not be permitted by the country to shelter
himself behind the resolution.
• • •
Mr CLARK, or Missouri, diwlaiined any personal
hostility to Mr. Sherman, but he had coneeived it
his ditty to offer the resolution in condemnation of
thme who hod endorsed treason Iblo and iMirrec
tlonary doctrines lie stood by the declaration
that no man wag ill to be dpe her who endorsed
Helper's book, lie never would withdraw it
Mr. Umtata, of Maryland. said this resolution
RAH the block in the way of on orgonitation, and
Proposed that the House adapt a cdotitute which
was moral dove ago agreed upon by a committee
representing the Demoerate, Americans, and anti
Lecomptonites
Mr. CLARK, of Missouri, repeated that ho never
would withdraw his resolution, or agree to tho too
lie was not resronsilde for what had
occurred concerning the proposed solAtituto
Mr. HAIMIR cold the Substiiilie wad a Mere rt.
mesti , m of opinion agaln4 any member of the
House who endorses the Hell or book or iv wtlhu
to promulgate its traliormis dootrinot. Its s•ii,l
this snbatitnte had found fig trny into the .V, •
Yon( Herald, nn.l repented that the suktitute
Noe the fe 4 itit of the rommnlll o i4.eolfOrs1101)
Afr. Gong i , xiirermi his astonishment that nny
or his friends kayo thus noted on his reqoht•
lion without conisilting him, lie hod no bond in
this propo4tion 11 0 had noN er before hoard of it,
except from the !braid, Ito would not say that
ho held it itt contempt, but that he cored Milo
for it,
Mr. Ileum en ,posed It 88,1 18r8idlie,{ to th
140'8 by the member,: who drafted the rehdut
Mr. Not:IL of Missouri, ui. , lted to know ho
the committee was formed
Mr thnoint. of North Canolinn, said ho ha
handed the paper to Mr. II aria There hero to
gentlemen who tont to e msult, mode up of a
opinions, except thug° of th r Itepubli , anpariy
mooting woo held for n pne. , fill purpo+e The
name to a unanimous %ll' on the i.ohnitoto, whin
woo not binding on anyho ly.
Mr. CLAIM wonted tA know who tondo tho 8,
rangements. Ile inten led to ley hare all attempts
to dodge the duration, owl bring the gentlemen up
Nay and squarely on his rt,ohttion.
;qr. 11 mune said if Mr. Clark intimated that by
this substitute the it -Igo ruin up any
thing, or any party, he did low gro : . ', w ok e , an d
indulged itt a deltisi
Mr. Illoont.ow, of North Carolina, reworked that
It would be rooollea'ed that llPlind proposed oc.ni-
Mittee to he coin Dosed of the enrioun parties in
opposition to the It .publicans lie h o d n , lool conic
Ms ussoelatett w'tether this had their consent
rho Democrats were tepreowled by 11101 ,, fri. 10,
hi neon, of Rhode inlnud, M•lten. of Missis.dppi,
mil himself; the Southern Opposition by Messrs
dill, of Georgia, Mallory, of liontucky. Etheridge,
it Tennessee, and tinnier, of North Carolina, and
the antlimeomptminot by Messrs Clark, of New
York, and Itiggs, of New Jersey. Mr. eland]) was
irked to attend, but did not do so, being unwell,
bat saying he wo ill tnoot the committee on Mon
day morning. 'I here nos but ono copy ..f the reso
'ution, and all pre;ent agreed to Gomel'. their re
meetly° friends in order to FCOIII3 their .prort
It Was untlerstt , d that the proceedings were not
o be made public
lie did not know how they got out. lie knew
then:INTRA no place where a block tart" could
he concealed. !Laughter I Ile know that doting a
animus, there were tactil3 ing down in the golletle,
listening to and then publishing the proceeding',
hut there were mom in the remit is hero the meet
-Ing was held, except the ottothers of the cwonnt
tee. Ito was astunidied the next day to sec the
proceedings nublielool in the 11.,0h/
The Ellbatilak, which had boon the pubject of
debate, won then read a, follows.
11 7 / 1 /roe, The agitation of the slat ery queetioa
s pronto:Ake of no 11g,b , h1, but of obit to the whole
muntry, not its furthor discussion ought to bo dls•
•ountenam ed by all parties• therefore,
nrrolvol, That no man who has recommended,
and still twists on, and does not disown, the doe•
rtnet expressed in the extracts which have been
road from Helper's Impending Crisis to the South,
,nti who it not oppoed to the fat Eller agitation of
the ilevery question, is fit to be Speaker of this
%House.
Mr. COA" FOOD. of fleorgit, briefly explained
his motives for attending the committee, and Paid
he wanted Mr. Clark's resolution voted on.
Mr. CI of New York, said that, although
'he committee was self-constituted, every men
there was prepared to pronounce his condemnation
tf the atrocity, intolerance, and proscriptive char
toter of the Ildper book.
Mr. ADIIAIN, in reply, remarked that the gentle
man had said he represented himself there, This
was strictly true.
Mr. CLARK remarked, that ho never stated any
'king but the truth.
Mr. ADDAIN said Mr. Clark did show him the
resolution, and he gave hid assent to it.
Mr. CLARK replied that he would not Lave said
sq fur the Capitol full of gold, for it was a confi
lentkleonversation which drew suoh a 'statement
front tho gentleman from New Jersey. [Laughter
and applati4e.]
Mr. ADRAIN rejoined that he would scorn to
violate the confidence reposed in him by his friend
from Now York.
Mr. (LARK said every gentleman knew it was
not necessary to :how the resolution to the Republi
cans, for. 03 a party, they had not sense enough to
vote for It.
AN uNriruug.vr
Mr. Men tn, of Mississippi, as one of the -
gultation committee, was speaking on the subject,
when he was interrupted by
Mr. IfAsulN, of New York, who asked whether
bin colleague (Mr. Clark) had agreed to support
the proposition to vote down Mr. Hickrusn's mo
tion to correct the journal '
There was so much confusion at this period, that
the language used could not be correctly noted, but
it was something like the following :
Mr. McliAn could not answer now, but would
when he got through. Wires way for the que3-
tion
Mr. iiPIFZIN repeated his interrogatory, when
Mr. CLARK excitedly said to Mr. Mcßae, that's
none of my colleague's business. (Great confu
sion I
Mr. IIAsKiN, still on the floor, spoko In a loud
tone, saying ho wanted to show in what position
colleagno had stood. His colleague claimed to be
an antl•Lerompton Demount, but hod been eirau3-
There were loud and repeated eriee of'' Order!"
" Take your seat "'
At the disorder was increasing. a member ner
vously called for the Sergeant-at-Arms. _
Many members rose to their feet. and some rose
to the main aisle near which Mr Harkin was
standirm.
KEITT'S voice tram heard amid the calls for
on - Ftr and the nolo of the Clerk's hammer, saying—
" Whenever there are personal grievancem they
should be mottled out of the Ileum
Cries of Order' Order'
Mr Hann's, of Maryland. who was near the
side of Mr. Heckle, claimed hie right to the floor
et the Clerk's hand.
The excitement..constantly in....reamed, until every
one seemed to be apprehensive of personal colli
sion!.
Mr Rem advanced to the main aißle, continn•
lag to talk, as did Mr. Conn, of Alabama, and
other.?
A numberof members were speaking at the Fame
time the Clerk in the meanwhile smartly rapping
with the gavel, while the hisses from the floor and
galleries, and cries of ' 4 Order "' from all sides of
the Rouse, added to the general tumult.
Cries of Take your seats "' hissing. and the
Clerk's rapping, were frequently repeated.
Soon the Sergeant-at-Arms advanced, displaying
his mace of office and commanding the peace
Quiet was finally partially restored
Mr. Bonnie, of Maryland, claimed the floor
Mr. MORP.I9, of Pennsylvania, objected to all
proceedings till order was secured.
The Clerk requested the gentleman to take their
seats, with which invitation they complied.
Mr, bAN IDADV, of Louisiana, wished to say that
when ho next came to the House he would bring
hie double-barrel shot gun with him !Laughter.]
Mr. HARRIS, of Maryland, wee astonished at his
friend from Louisiana. It seemed the gentleman
woe , liSPOlted to make go ?Iv of the Rouse. !Laugh
ter.) The very best evidence that gentlemen could
give of their own self-respect and dignified de
meanor wee to organize the body, and show that
these temporary excitements can be quieted 11.9
rapidly as they Ark; and can net er again be re
newed on this floor. I Applau , e I They should
conduct themselves as dignified Representatives of
a dignified people. I Renewed lipid/m.0.!
Mr. Ct,EMEN4, of Virginia. Will the gentleman
give way
Mr. II clinic. I trill nut. Mr Harris then asked
a question of Mr. Hickman, who replied that lie
wee willing to dispose of all the pending proposi
tions without debate, or he was willing to with
draw his proposition if gentlemen thought an or
ganisation could thereby be advanced.
',Mr. Hums asked whether - Mr. Stevens, of
Pennsylvania, would withdraw his periling point
of order
Mr STEVEN': replied that he war willing, to cote
On it instnntly, end on all the pending propAtiono,
without further debate.
Mr IVTN.Low moved that tho Duple rrocee,l
vote for Speaker
Mr. PLAr.li : of Miv-uri.exclaimed : Never ; t
the 'louse Vote on cur resolution.
Mr. HARRIS, of Maryland, remarked that be
would hereafter present the subditute agreed on
by the committee for Mr. Clark's resolution.
Mr. CLViENS, as a member of the Virginia
delegation, said lie hoped he would never again
witness seek a scene no that of today, whether in
public or private life. lie was standing four feet
from Mr. Raskin, and when the latter addressed
his colleague, Mr. Clark, who bed said it was none
of his business, lie sale ,l/r. Ilaelire put his hand
+o his hrea oath thoefrow j'ell rt sersltyr '
There were immediately loud cries for "Order !"
Mr. Ileums, of Maryland, said that he did not
yield the. floor to Mr Clemens.
Mr. 1111. r., of tleorgia, claimed the floor.
Mr. Muncie, of Illinois, knew all the circum
stanees attending the disturbance, and hoped that
Mr. Clemens would not add fuel to the flame
Numerous gentlemen sprang to their fee o'3l.
ling out. " Mr. Clerk," wishing to be recognised
as entitled to the floor.
Mr. CLEMENS, of y iohled to An appeal
from Mr. MUNI°, saying., 119 ho took his acct, that
Mr. Raskin should bu held politically responAblo
for his conduct.
Mr. HILL explained his agency in the ennutittee
which prepared the substitute.
Mr. JIASKIN rose saying that he regretted the
scene which had taken place.
Mi' Itrrourrr, of Kentucky, would object to the
gentleman proceeding unless he would say that he
would not indulge in personal reflections.
Mr. nasals replied that he dirt not so intend.
The gentleman from Virginia had alluded to the
fact that a firearm had fallen on the flor. It was
due to truth to say that, about the time he WAS
talking somewhat excitedly in refelence to the
harsh and unjust remark by his colleague, a
pistol in his breast-packet accidentally fell
to the door. NO man WHO knew him belierml
that be would use a pistol except in an honors.
ble way. Ile regretted that thin accident had
occurred. lle put the pistol in his pocket
last night about twelve o'clock, to'orotect himself
if necessary, fur he resided to the neighb‘rheed
of English Hill, where outrages have been com
mitted, and wanted to feel secure in going home
l'ntil he edele to Washington he had never
thought It necessary to he sinned. He did not
carry a pistol for tiny nu-n?so here. but for his
protection while passing ;urouglt. this sometimes
violent city. Ile bad seen occasions when, to
protect one's self from insult. it was necessary to
carry firearms. When the 110490 should become
organized. he would ask n pledge of honor to the
country that no firearms he brought here.
Mr. Prongs:re, of Pennsylvania, an/ others,
exclaimed - Why not now'
Mr. MASON returned. Ile could assure gentle
men that the falling of the pistol vies accidental :
therefore, when it wee said that be either drew.
or attempted to draw a pistol. they Ph:to what Is
not within the pale of truth Ile would never use
a pistol unless he woe unjustly.assailod.
Mr. CLARE. of New York, being satisfied that
the rernaries made by him wore diteourtecur, and
led to this excitement, desired simply to say that
ho ought not to hero used the language: that the
queotton which his colleague addressed to Mr.
Melina we. on a subject about which it et AS none
of hie burin to inquire
Ile wee I to make the remark because he
. . .
understood colleague to tvk for further revela
tions of the cfinlorenee committee th 911 eiritlemon
wore dispo. Ito Fite ; m u d ho intended Pimply to
suggeat to Into colleague the idea that hn WWI
Wandering lok ) ond tho w•ope of the subjem matter
before the lloune. Be regretted the error, and
apologlyed to the !louse and hie
Itonts+oN, et It member of the committee,
enpre+•ed hi. RUT pr4f. that iti yreeeed
were cluelgund to be prittto, thou!! fled their way
into the Tatblle gins•
Mr I:rtit uteor in A •Tint, alto led to the
rtclUna s. reel t kln. lle •Ibl •ateh thing+
would sometimes ',Yet. and prort.,,l, now that
general rent." u t e l ailed, that the llon•e •honld
rellourn.
Mr V kI,LANDIk.II% , 4, 01 111,‘o Fold that, holier.
Ing Mr. .shortnati to In. , a mon ‘.l fairnr•+ mid
candor, he interpreted hi• reply to Mr Milken,
eaverftl weeks ago no n toll and dl , tinot n. °Hai of
the sentlteenla of Ilelper's book, nod had •tare I ,
but If hot Vallandighatoi had tet , utoderoo,,l
and if Mr Sherman had intended to day that our
doubt rhould Hi to the Moira: tor and event
of that dianvywnd he did not hue to ho
bound by hie (N'allendighatn'.o ti element
Mourned.
Washington Annus
Ni \4111\4.13n. 12 - 'rho President sit It Med
the meetingi, of tho 1 S Agricultural Soctoiy to
teceho hts diploma n on Ininordry member 'rho
proli , lent of tho society, in (kilt crin,r it, 5.1,1 it
%%114 a strange coincidence that every Proolont
the United Statea hod either lkooti eallad front the
plough, like Cineinnalus, of olso retired to it at the
e‘piatttion of his term of office
President Iltroltatin. In hi, replyFpOke hi,
to-to tor agricultural purgult•+, though s he had had
but little opportunity to indulge in them Id. ' , rid
a high tribute to thr raitinti.l worth of the tilleir
of the and atilkipated with plva.itre return
to Wheatland, in It than eighteen mouth+, to en
ply the indepelltlelloo and 11161 of ft runt if, The
specrtu wa4 treriuontly interrupted by opphwe,
.11rOn tun I)enmet atm Stitte Com entuon
A 13.. Jllll. '1 o'clock P :VI -
nu the Itetitoerntie State Cunt putout re a.embi l o g
thli at ening, the Committee on ftrg.nipui,,n rc
coulinvinhnl the - , (let ion of F S I.el uua•
nent president, Ileum , It Smith and other; he
pre.idento, and Mr. ‘'an Howe and other.; sere.
tarles. the nomination; being eonlirmed by the
Convention, :%Ir. Lyon, on taking the chair, toad()
II strong Southern flights speech.
Ex-Senator Yancey 1111111 C o tremendous r •Lerch
beton, the Committee on Credential , and it iq he•
lieved that the Southern Right., wing of the De•
inocraey controls the Cent e• bon Megsrs.
and Scott followed in similar , peeehes, and the
Contention still retnalns in session.
Union Meeting at llntigor.
I.l‘Noott, Jun. 12 —The Union meeting in
city yesterday wai largely attended, the iralieliei
of the hall being et owded with Lilies, 'I he Hen.
.1. W. Hathaway pre-idol. SperolicH wore iam ,
by the 111. n. Hem ge Evaim. and loth , ' r Toad in
unison with the ohieela of the meeting from the
lion }Award Everett, Frani,ltn l iernr, 'lll.l.oller
diitingui4led geltlletuen• slrong Union o u t
sorvntive resolutions were
Indian(' Delegate 4 to the tharle.tou
('olive 1111 Olt.
AVASIIINA:T o N, Jan. 12 --A pm ate ileapatch
Entlianapoli., received hero to night, city+ that the
State Convention by n large majority, iiiiitrocted
its delegate+ to the Charleston Convention to vo'e
for Dough'. The deFpatch conic+ from a credible
eettree,
THE LAWRENCE MASSACRE.
SYMPATHY FOR THE SUFFERERS
$20,000 sUBSCIIIBED FOR THEIR
RELIEI'. •
usrvc, Jan. 12.—The sympathy for the suffer
era by the Lawrence Mae-sets i- all-pervading, and
hem a-summa an active Torso. The private sub
scriptions for their relief already reach f 20,000.
Lau never:, January 12.—Most of the dead at
the City Hall have been recognised end removed.
Others, in which almost all resemblance to hu
manity has been obliterated, has a been placed in
Lulea to await recognition if possible.
Letters and despatches are being constantly re
ceived trout the friends of those recently employed
iu the mills, inquiring after their fate.
Expressions of the deepest sympathy and gene
rous tokens of compassion are plentiful.
Bes - ros, January 12 —At the meeting, yester
day, of the New England Society of Manufactures
end the Mechanic Art!, it was voted to dispense
A jth the annual dinner, and to appropriate the
money to the relief of the Lawrence sufferers.
I The members also made up on the spot an addi
tional purso of $5,000
ColtONSIt'S rfut - Est.
LawneNce, January 12.—Yeeterday afternoon
Mr. J. E. Wiley Edmonds, treasurer of the Pacific
Manufacturing Company, placed in the hands of
Mayor Saunders the SUM of $2,000 to be expended
in providing the necessary comforts for the euffer
era by the recent calamity, and at the sem, time
giving verbal essaranees of material aid from ether
gentlemen in Boston.
A large number of physicians are actively en
gaged in attending to the wounded.
The coroner's inquest commenced this morning
Mr. Hew, the treasurer of the mills, testified as
followe• In the safe there was a pay-roll, ending
in September, which will probably give some idea
or the names of the persons employed at that time,
but nothing accurate of those employed at the time
of the disaster ; I have never beard of the founda
tion of the mill 'settling, nor did r experience as
much of the jostling in this mill as in some others;
I did not hear any noise previous to that which I
thought resembled a fire; did not look up the
broker lying about, as I did not apprehend fire.
Jesse Glover, overseer of the repair shop of the
Pemberton Manufacturing Company, testified that
ho ha , ' at times seen cracks in the walls of the
building, but nothing that he considered as seri
ous he had never strengthened the walls with
iron -work, but had heard that it had been co
strengthened • he thought tho building was weak,
but apprehended no trouble ; did not think it was
as strong as such buildings usually are ; had beard
that the timbers were not bolted to the walls; iron
trusses had been put Into the building before be
went to work there ; the holler appeared perfectly
sound; it was in a separate building; have exa
mined the building since the accident.
Mr. Chase, agent of the mill, testified as to his
escape; he sail there we, less weight at the end
which fell than at the other; four fly frames in the
fourth story were move•l that day from the part
which fell to another place ; they weighed a ton
and a half; there were probably eight buadred
persons in the building; he did not know how the
fire caught; the 1.-sex Company built the mill;
he did not know bow it was constructed; there
were cracks on each side of the chimney in the
buitliog, caused by the swaying of the chim
ney'; the chimney had broken away from the
building, and iron had been placed around it to
strengthen it, but not from any fear of the built•
ing itself; there have been no new cracks near
the chimney for two years; know of no other
creeks in the building; there was less motion in
the building than in others, and he had cot:lettered
it safe, especially as it had stood for Nix years
John Patterson, el - eraser in the weaving-room,
testified as to his escape lie had heard state
ments that the hailding was =sale, int never
noticed anything about the building In make him
think an ; Mr Curless, who put in the shafting,
had told Mr. Wines, an overseer, that he did not
consider the building safe ; he also understood
that he sail that two uptight 'Marti would in time
:hake the cud of the building out : don't think
ever forty persons employed in his room were
kills l ; there were :let persons employed there
on lost Monday.
John Pinder, a woollen manufacturer in the
Washington mill, testified that he with other, had
helped what they could. We got the roof off and
took out machinery, uood. and bodies; there were
smto men near me with lanterns, and as they were
not doing any good. he said, k• For God's, sake
take care of th , •se lanterns, there is cotton all
around hero ,' sow Lour men going to a hole with
two lantern+ end shortly afterwards saw them come
oat with only one lantern ; a moment after he saw
the llamas; the men ran into the crowd. and be
after them, but he mild not catch thew ; the
lanterns were guarded ones, and he thinks they
we-e filled with oil ; the fire took front the loose
cotton hanging about the carding rnechino
Richard II Plummer teatilied that a STIOUM men
went to work to t tear away with aces ryld bats,
and two men held lanterns to throw light on th ,,
work By some ac,ident one of the lantern! broke
or fell, and when the flames struck the cotton, the
fire at once mining up.
BosTor, Jan l2.—Mayor Saundeng, of Law
rence, Fends u deepiteh, saying that he sees no
rea.,on t o change hlh opinion as to the number of
dead and missing
Mann 1.1 the deed title been claimed by their
frieinl4, but tunny are sorer pail blendtPatieu thet
it !nun , ' absolutely neoe , Fary tv hale them in•
terrenl.
Arrangement+ will ;eon be made fur a pular
funeral of the dead.
intiinnn Democratic Convention.
l'int.i.clPOLPl, Jan. 12 —The Democratic. State
Convention met at nine o'clock this morning.
The Jackson county contestants, casting six
votes on the Dough,' Aide, asked learedo withdraw
from the contest, which was granted.
The liancock ,county contestants, casting four
votes for the Administration Aide, also obtained
leave to withdraw.
The committee on credential.' reported favorably
ott the Donets claimants frntu Law:C/100 county.
after explanations made by the claimant; on each
tilde, and the Convention adopted the report.
The Randolph county contest ie compromised
by allowing: the .leleAation toe t two Dvnglas and
two Admintatration votes.
James ligivin moved to raise a committee, to be
appointed by the chair, to report the names of the
electors and delegates to the National Convention
for the State nt large,
John L. Robineun moved, no an amendment,
that sueh selection be made by votes and by coon
tiel, claiming that, for one, he would not give the
rower to the chair to select a committee to rersirt.
Dong,las delagates
S If. Bn'kirk said that the popular ezpreoai•.n
of Indiana was largely for Douglas, and that to=
friends ought to be eeleete 1 to go to Charleston ;
and the surest way to do that was to pursue the
old usage. by raising n committee to select.
W. 11. Harrington contended that, no the Don.
gifts men had the power, they ought to exercise it
in the way indicated by the first motion. The
tables were turned now from what they 'acre two
years ago. and Mr. Robinson's motion was the last
retort of the minority to confuse the majority.
Governer 'Willard defended his course no presi
dent of the Convention of 1658, and advocated the
amendments. Let a fair vote be now taken here.
If Mr. Douglas should be nominated at Charles
ton he would sustain him, and Liked the friend!
of Mr Douglas to do likewise if another be the
nominee
Locate Wallace replied, saying, that Governor
M Marti hail a Imitted that the wage had been for
thecotomittee toselect, and not in the way pinkeed
by Mr Robinson Ile denied that in the COrtVetl
tioa of 1831, Governor Willard. as president, bad
constructed the committee on resolutions so that it
1 , 749 composed of a majority of anti-Lecompten men.
The reverse seas true; notone of that stamp was on
the cmmtnttteo. if, as Governor Willard admits,
there is a majority here of Douglas men, and should
the result be to send his enemies to the Charleston
Convention, what will the people at home say to
such a A iolalion of their will.
Governor Willard replied, explaining the his
tory of the Convention over which be presided
Ex-Governor Dunning sail that all appeals
made for fairness are perhaps made in goad faith,
but they wcro outside issues. The report of the
committee would no' be final, but subject to the
VIACITI Ginn en repetien by theyoteief the CmYet
rion The principle of old usage was right Be
wanted the Douglas men to show plack here If
we are his frienu•, let us to Rs General Jaekaon
did at New ICIPtI9., when he said '• By the Eter•
mil. we will d.dit them "
tine Willard nithdretr the name of Cyrus L.
Dunham. who had been nominated for timernor.
Mr Dunham, in ruponro toe ell!, addresses!
the Coneontion. Ilia remarks were r ecited with
much applsnse. oonoltmon he put in nomina.
tion Mr Thomas A liendriehs
A resolotion was ndopted by a vote of tot2o,
to tho rff,t • that white we rtedzo our fultro•t to
the rani inee at the Clpirltnvu Convention, inbutugo•
e% or ho tiny be, the delegate* from this State are
instructed to oast their Totes in a u n it for Douglas,
nil in uota alt honorable menus to secure his no•
iniostion."
The Convention eh vied Ihn fcalocein4 .lelevito!
It , the Charle.tnn Convention. viz EM. Hunt
inizton, 11 Laihirk . J B. Folloy, end Robert
Lorry
ThZ , ma. A ll,•u.lneie wa, nominated for 00
vernor by amlanaation and mid much enthn
Mr Urniii:lo expro.‘til u flank' , in a brief
area
I=l
Dunn,: the ..perch , f Mr Dunham, th..i morning,
he 11 - N+ intorrtiptea by Colonel Alien MIT who
iineotioneil him in wn imperlion. manner. After the
ti,ijournment of the l'omention, May met Dunham
in the street, find caked for an expiwnation Dan.
hotti tail ho hot none to make, whereupon Mr
Nifty .truek him in the Noe, which blow Mr IWr
ham by cutting Mayo foot to the bone.
They IN ere, however, soorteeparatea, nithout more
soriou4
The .%Inha ma Democratic Com ention.
Kill Ale lan '22 —TI,3 IleMs;.TAtie
SiO COM ,!rttion progre...
The report of the committee on contested seats
way fats rable to the delegation from lent
gotnety county The report it thatained by :NI
tutee aLtnitr , t Ito
Mr Stilt pt Monroe, introduced I% Ferlea =f r oo.
lotions ai , erting the right Of eltteery in the Terri
lode., under legi.lniive and CongreFsionst piotre
lion and intlla 'ling the delegates to the Chlrlet
111 Com cation to insird on Una. If the Cherle:3ton
Convention !elute, then the eight Alabama delz
gate4 hsil withdraw and cell thi. convention to
gether to col.,itter what further eouve of action to
put-ite.
The reeolutiour were referred to the committee
on preparing n platform
'Flte Case of Mrs. ilartung.
MAIM, N V , Jiirl 12 --A writ of error hi'
Leen grouted io the en4e of „Mrs. Ilutung, whieh
otirriei her Noe to the Coral of Appal,
State Tren.urer.
II ttott.in in., Jan 12 —The eaueu3 of the Opp,
sition member+ to nominate a candidate (or Mate
Trt , tolllet I+ to 1 ,, e, held to-ITOTTOW.
- -
Front PiLeN Peak.
1. , Nti oaf 11. K. T Jan. 12.—The Pell: kx
pre, rum eil this ahornoon at ith siilnen in gold.
w.ts rattler dull ,t Denser City.
1111ns miners Were returning to resmue operationa, in
wen, of the madnrw of the weather.
Sot, e erif, had been made.
.iiianiitiet reads for ciushiaz.
Their tt gr. it der, err , ill prover tnraslanert for the
l'y lila of !walla-I tarn Grand to a ,reat extent, and
on 1.0,1, I,t a d Pnn ed .1.31,10 of ytehling a hue Pro
t nrtwlt of
th e v ett,ll h , lllll aus coot
'l'n" , t it Lae un,l oi boo !At 11
tin Expreftv 1 hero in no Jells imp, I in, a,
.la is , rear. on the Nr., to \Wash melon
nit, asst I 1 C011,P,11 for the retoznitton of the
ti (;,aerhnient afiattersonTerritorf •
me....,a;ze of the Governor of ii - igeon•in.
~,, Lt. noon%) ze 01 Gm el urn
Panel ,11,01 Wi,ohqin, t, as dent ered t•• the I.eql‘.ture
The Cl 01 the Snare are shown RI he la
ca ynarporoas een.l,tinn. Toe clleslloll to dm.
nited at eonenterable length,
• : , vivp CWai,cti in* WPM
KIHUISIVUTG. TIM 12,
SENATE.
Mr. YAEDLEr read in niece a bill relative ti the
borough of New Hope, Bucks ciitinty: also. a b;11
to charge the time of holding the annual meeting
and eleiition of the Ilartiville and Centres Pis
Turnpike Road Company.
Mr. PARKER read in places bill to inzorporsta
the Rome Insurance Company of Philadelphia.
Mr. SMtni. a bill to incorporate the America and
India Commercial Company; also, supplement
to the act incorporating the Howard Eire and Ma
rine Insurance Company.
Tho rules were. on motion, suspended. and the
last-mentioned bill taken up. The bill gave rise
I to considerable diszussion, and was finally referred :t
to the Committee on Corporations.
Mr. KETCHUM intriAfteed a bill to enable the
Goldsboro' Leather Manufactnrino. Company ED
bold lands in this State: and, the roles being sus
pended. the bill was taken up and passed.
The Home bill allowing the managers of the
Continental Hotel Company of Philadelphia ti
issue bonds was considered and mimed
The resolutions relative to the organization of
Congress. as reported from the Judici ar y Commit
tee, were then again taken up. They read as fol
lows :
Resolved, By tile Sonata and House of Repe
,vett zit t es. dr., That the firm and dignified eouree
pursued by the Representatives in Congress from
Pennsylvania, who hare opposed the present
faithless and corrupt Natienal Adminigratio n , i n
the protracted contest In reference to the election
of a Sneaker: their patriotic and steadfast deter
mination to perform their duty, as Enanite3l6l in
their continued efforis to secure an organization of
the Rowe without delay. and in such a manner as
to expose the nialpracticec of the-Administration.
protect the industrial intereets of the country, and
guard the freedom of the Territories, and the
rights and Union of the States ; and the wine ter
bearanea with which they have refrained front en
gaging in exellina and angry iniCILSSIOII , , while the
pledgee of the Government remain unredeemed,
and her honest creditors are suffering, merits the
meet cordial approval of this General Assembly
and the people of this Commonwealth.
Rf rata, That Pennsylvania remains, as ever,
faithful and true to the Constitution and Union.
and determined that they ,hall be maintained;
that the treasonable threats of disunion tittered by
the adherents of the present National Administra
tion, on the firor of Congress, will not deter her
peeple from the expression of their politica views..
and the proper protection of her interest!, but will
be treated with the utmost contempt and nom,
while any attempt to carry such threats into exe
cution will be met by her most determined reeie-
Vince.
The subject gave tine to an animated debate,
which was participated in by Alters. Ifeh„ fm
brie, Schaffer. and others in Purport of the res.--
%Gone, and Meurs. Wel,h, Bell, atd Torte..., in
opposition
The Senate finally ad:ourned a half last three
o'clock, without a vote
na niercher4 frrta Philadelphia presented
eighteen pe•itincr, &Acme. for an extra appropria
ti.,n to the Training .S:hool for Idiotic and Feehle•
Minded Chriiren
Me!.ll- STRONG and RIDGWAY presented pea
tinns fqr a law to regulate the ease:ament of faze!,
and municipal claim!
:Cameron' other petition; of a fecal enars.:ter
were prerentei.
Mr. O'Nett.t.. intro rued a. reao'u'ot f)r its
printing cf all import:tat bilL relatin; t the city
of Philadelphia.
The matter gave rise to considerahle diranicn.
and was then agreed to.
The boar of 12 o'clock har:n; wired. the R;zse
proceeded to the selection of a connnittee en try
the conteded mat of James Donnedy. Representa
tive from the reetteenth district, of Philadelphia
The committee WB3 drawn in the farm prescribed
by the act of Anerubly, and emit:3 of the
caw
ing member': ADIOS S. I; reta. of Laxicainet. Opp
Win D Pennell. of Delaware. Opp ; John Mse ee .
dy, of Cumberland. Opp.; lasae Acker, Cherer.
Opp ; Joieph H. Wilson. of Lawrence, Opp .
T. Abbott. of Philadelphia. Opp : Nathaniel Ell..
maker. cf hawaster, opp , Jthe fi C o ,th er. o f
I'Ve.stmorelatld, Dem ; Joseph Barnsley. of Roth..
Opp.
Mr. STIIJING read in Place a bill supplementary
to the act incorporating the Southwestern Market
Company.
Mr A BEOTT. a further inpplement to the art
provide for the better regulation of buildings in
the city of Philadelphia also. a bill to treorp
rite the Colon 110.4.9 Company of Philadelphia
Mr. O'Naitl., a bill to amend the elealpti.ok
law: , of the Cemunonatealtb.
Mr. Sritoe.., a Lill to redcee the capital ft.vt
cf the Howard lasararee Company cf Phila
delphia.
Hne or two, unimportatt !oral bills ware :.a.
i lere.l arid pa*sed, and the Hone adjoarzed
Fram
Nebraska.
LILL TO dECLIS/1 TLATERT PASIED IT TIM LE.::S
8r 1...4r at. Jan I? —A bill abolithtnai f array
RN; pemvi by the Nehraaka "ferrite:id - LegitLe
'Lure. on the 7,1 int It at. eirealtd that list crr.::
Black would vet, it.
A bill proriling fur a Conititutkatil Cuate=tl:a
paaae.l the Howe oa the alma day.
Letter trona Monterjaeo.
Nen V.aa, Jan. 12—Ads - ices from .61...aterilr •
t.) NO% eUlLtr Inch confirm the intelligence prlTl
c.fly re. icel of the treaty if retro between
Buenos Ayre; gat the Argentine eudixitratiya
The treaty had been ratified by the Berme Ayrean
tiorernment, and s steamer (Scratched from Moe
terideo to notify the contesting leas of the cems
tion of hoatilittee.
John Brown's Secretary of State en
route for Washington.
CHIRLESTGV. S. C.. Jan. 11—The CJ"":"1*
special
_New Orleans tletpstch ssys that adriu,t
from Ankin, Tessa, state that Richard It eatf,
John Brown's Secretary of Stets. !eft for Wash
ingttn on the ath inn, to charge of an edicer of the
Unl:ted States Senate.
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Nomination for the Presidency.
Lout. ytt.t.e., Jan. 12 —The fitwitiots =erthert
of the Teoorsvee Leg:stature have Bomb:tat ed the
Hm John Ben al the Union raioliJate fcr the
Proideney.
fhe Funeral of Judge Blackford
POW:AMUR, Ind., Jan. I.—The remain.. tf
Jiff Blackford arrire..l here last eight and were
taken to the Senate chamber, where they be in
sta , c until to-morrow. when the faneril will take
pi dire.
The Georgia Race:.
54.1 AN \ SII, Jan 11 —The nee! , f r.
unimpr.rtent rheracter Fanny NYashingt....a
vied off the punt for the two-mfie read to-day.
there wai no opposition.
:3.0" vor in, Jan 12 --The tint nice 0-lee
won by Nichols-+. without oppositi m.
Etecution of Patrirk Maude at Neuark
`Yesterday.
(From the Neer York EXPrtI3 everrni.)
Today. I Thursday,/ Patrzck ,Indle. med, cons,ts.f
nod sentenced to death for the deiterste and
blooded ruusder of hn sister. on 1 , ,a .li•th of Mt; las ,
Iraa exeented at NeirarV. Eispx county. Ney !erne}.
On Wednesday afterucon. the Rev Path:m.l4,-; !I
ter used to VIM Maude. and au dearored to Xe: Fu - d
receive ri .1. , , 0Us tint ha a'as:od.e i r.
(died. ear mg that pries:craft ws, rulther the meats
and when the reverend eenctemin really pen .txt.
Mande deliberately picked tip a ca; of water sal throw
it in the p-ieat'a face.
Father Doane, not espec I.og so cold a reception. i • 771 -
madiately left; others apphed to the prisoner rat ni
concern for Me future. hat he spurned them • a
nountrne. at the same time. Dopary. is the an, a: a. ,
vr!a , n.es, and the most earful mine erer inF,crrt, n ee
World.
At about 9 ' , etc.:A on Wegilf“tilf !TT11351. P 57.,
1.1., Ana of the al.er437g proceci,i t.,
tore intended to keep the bystar..ieta from eom-ot t
elc.:e Ca the ea mar.
Maude hal been corfited on the traced
the tnstruznent of Jest, bct ,± or d , d not a- w
th e. and proceeded to fasten tee rapeto h•s r•. he eonr:ct sullenly scram: up. end grss,siss s ci
eotstbst tnO4 le Et* soom. thtPV the COeteete •n, `.*
officer's flee, sas m c. "Con woult et.ote s tram to
would one Toe d-4 a.-oatl rel. Tate that:
The officer would eat have e . teinete4 to Isatet ts*
rope on the telt d bad he term-a area the rczacat ,
of the place was; tot Maude's ecednet c'& se:l , f! •
show what a cruel, *.ndlctne stint he Irma pcs e*le
of.
Oftonv sitars hive beam mini:tea W hen tn. J DI. 741 e e
tented Rhythms. arid it I. tiescj hecs h‘h ey kiss,
the strictest sirstch orat foe rear t,s
somechm.; to Injure those wha vowed nes.r No.:.
THY N,••111'.
Maud. riaa•d the n tilt eomfortabtr, gt•ett n.
d.‘ Leta. tied er,ceing to fear ea he erpr,d: -
the end or a terrible earee•.
. .
He woke up nt rat'.ut 6 n'e'ock. when he Wan I
utY•n hr some eit• Jens. who •Ntf• red hats h t
CO hoes In. hot hs refnsed t., aCetert t•• • k
ott•r, Inn that be was Tanyhrohi to d. , h Is. •
clothes anith.t tt made nn..hr - erynce G.d ,
wen hyled la t.ron,kloth or (until,.
Ile see he wrnld to out te.re she Peal'''. T -1• •
n,l as ithhhh.i . shl •h. .171; le:.
'born. He Yes told tlott he m ,ht have this e••=-3.
PEI sod then probated to leave h's ,e .• 3
WlJOnntr-rnOin. In 111 , 01 bear,, t•th,nuhl
•2•••ivgi“ sna •V,•
When Veen cent nut t. With, the - I. --
tuner of t! . .•rn. • e,, in,l2.•ed to r • •••2y,•11.212...,• - •. •••••
Of course he s - ol the nlnerrod oft. , 4 • ' -
they hitt sll cnac . u.lot! is ear •IlLtt,nze. set we., it..
to to footed up. he retorted she cur .--e Ft• - .2 •
few s - n•di to them.. The sheret at t ,
s ism or, It Win srlntr.i. , , - .1 13.h'•11
1011 , mi
" You rteeOn't to sirsid or me. for colt can't
rue Omen hr the itchy n 1 t ,t5 .. . - or, 1 prefer In I, el, -
1.1.. I hit • .4Lirimred every ttt n I tut .3est`, its,
cell 1 hrie awl - a
- pi 111,4 02121 desth. t , rea.7h n.
tstiiil). :MILL Tia a IcosrtllS. When I •sc
I shret welt 14.111113112 - 1 4.14 IP• s-re. •to •-
•.it throuth witott - r.ft. JescisChnst ws• 1•2,•-•. •• 2
In 11., Jews, the Gentiles to PhArto,. and I ••• T
heti •rt hi. wife and shit who , tsys it Vie S e.
meet NVllenTurhett tattle to th , BroCC:ry
ratsed hi, rite hoe roonths.nat 'th•st -"
her P , P•rt and 579 1 from t.'n , t1 . 1.1 Ps:ter. s,
mikes 9.1.:V57.tn condemn me. for mrh,ch I Ito_ to 1 , e.s,
rnr°• " • ' dif • The oft Periure,l:htecseis es: s. ,
3 , 1,1 the/ hate rohhed me I.ltolub r
it:' , cis 6 . Throe tars hiur - .•os
11Nrel•ltt.1 . 12 12 hen I returned with thy t - ,••• •' I -
r. for I ,hin't know it t',en. ;Ai,.
. •
i•s hIrIJ, 1,1 ti rt I, tn s o
1114.10 b. 'lnd lit... .t to ..k of
Tio mirk, were on r•
t?eir 1 is:se
111,th 1.• d nr. - 41;h J , . Cs, s• ; s ,••
tlisisiith d—d .111
I.: it • -1'
hrd that .1,11 , •ii, is +.l XV, I,
Vr 1111 , 312%1 , 11t10.. alt (Mt C 1 It;
to. It hss t,elt ,•,1 n , s.
vr.eeeded in :hie Melt, tor t,me,
LIS anvil of tei'. the it tn., ot Lta
cal.n.: upon Ciogl for 1 r
At eleo en ,l • er.le
e.ero mto the 1.11 itti3 tette con,
a-te. He recoied that he mss.rrerArvdo 'thd
hem ro. t vel.+s treed. ur511......1 the fesc erei W•
bon to the place ot delorn hinude 11 1 1.
in in Wit I.:rok sdit. and Wore 3 Coo
He hltr sea not•er-tered.,cd s ror mtevms s,rtir
heir oroered the srlio!eiolrer utrt of his fret, the
nesrance es, the inrsrermon that tie had
ere much from A. 5 confinement; the cheeks Nr.r.:
quite sunken, and the er t u wel,". „ e
general demeanor "els hid and determ , rea ins^e ex
treme. end. ea he stood order the !miles's. 55 '
fisted nooat About ios neck. It Wad evident mit he
determined to die reme:'
RE 0 , 1 Si: OF TEE TiTATH WißirtNT
When !deride hod taken his Cowe urrer tie fcnl
beam, Sheriff Miller. apparently erectly Affected step
ped up beside the prisoner. and read the death warr.r t.
couched in the usual termed all such in.tri yier.•s. I
spectators were Vera quiet darns the recdint. ard t,
onsoner rest hie eye nrcur.d nron the crowd. 13 to .1.. h
he were figurine in his mind how ninny nett pa :;ct n
wlnegg his death
When the .Fend hid 1. ne resd..nr ti edeoth
the prisoner ' , ode a ranitsinsspeech, r ri
winch may be inferred from the fol'ouin4 I rater di
tered at its olose• " Almighty God, lz.alfation w:•'.
titts ,• but, ltad !owe pentennee ur , n tor -
May TM curse them the core. It •
Jesus Christ.. who died (or an, curse thorn. R. • e
th,s d macho:nit. 6'1,1 here wh..re •
G n d d o , tors ass.st them. It is worse thee 1 , ,•• h.
omorrah here, and it will Or cerf Molt tr rres:ro%. o "
He then commenced to speck cum, sa/.ne. ti'at
oceinst h m . end'eus at.
Ile Inset by sa.)ini, ".An.l nor. God hare v
rn , soul."
THR
At the conclusion of his epee-h. Maude td - red armed
to the attend and told him to .• ahead." Mr. NI, !e r
fastenud the rope over the enlprtt's head, and i j ustea
the allude tieing tot the least fn a
moment the spring was leached. and the AtialltV'ts
up to the e.ms beam. commz. down With a force tern
(' ing to many.
The sat): was three feet and the riot m's rest most
hnre hems immediately brokeb. }:or a mourn a hr ceptible tremor 'rent over Maude a frame, the harms
came convulsively together, the hatcht hiseitt-el 4
death seemed to Mao done Its work.