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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1860,
FORNEY'S, - CALIFORNIA PRESS
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Fran Peau.LThe Final Search for Franklin;
Letter from: New York ; Personal and Political ;
The Frauds of Trade ; The. South vs. The North.
FOURTH Farm—The Masons and Mount Vernon ;
The Republican Candidate for Speaker; Marine
Intelligence
The Reio of Terror in Washington.
The scefarivhich took place in the national
Rouse of Representatives on Tuesday after
noon, only partially reported in the tele
graphic despatches, adds another to the many
evidences recently presented to the country,
that there is little or no freedom of debate in
the Congress of the United States, and that
any Northern man who attempts to take is
sue with the Administratbn, or the secession
leaders, must determine to do so with his life
in his hands. The proscription of indepen
dent men began more than two years ago,
when the unprecedented spectacle was ex
hibited_of a man elected by Democratic votes
turning all , his official influence and all the
cultivated malignities of his nature, not
against those who had opposed his elevation to
that high place, but against his personal
friends, and others who, in the performance of
a conscientious duty, conceived it to be right
to oppose a portion of his policy. From this
example we date all the subsequent calamities
that have befallen the Democratic party and the
country. The wrong he espoused was so
gross and, indefensible, that for a time it was
believed the Southern people would them
;wives revolt against it, although the Presi
dent attempted to shelter himself behind a
declaration in favor of their rights. But as he
proceeded in his cruel persecution, the South
ern politicians gathered around him; and
these, aided by his mercenaries in the free
States, and those who expected to be paid for
. their support of his treason, soon constituted
a party strong enough to attempt the punish
ment of every Democrat who did not fall in
and sustain him.
Never, in the history of this country, has
such a crusade upon honest opinion been wit
nessed—never have men been removed from
place so wantonly, for . a mere difference of
opinion with the powers that be—never have
profligate politicians been so brazenly re
warded for their prostitution at the feet of
power. The organization of the Democracy
- was tiezed in nearly every free State by the
adherents of the Administration, and its can
didatei committed to the grossest political
heresies, and compelled to go before the peo
ple certain of defeat. Toleration was retbsed
to those who solicited it, and no choice was
left to a courageous man but to take his stand
In opposition to a precedent and an example
without parallel in civilization. The fruits of
this policy are now being gathered. The Ad
ministration of the Federal Government,
bound, hand and foot, to the disunion senti
ment of the South, stands revealed before the
country as the enemy of every Democrat who
does not pursue the same course. That Ad.
ministration, as a first consideration, will assist
in the defeat of Judge DOUGLAS at Charles
ton, as it has participated in every attempt
to disgrace him in the Senate, and to over
throw him before his own people in Illinois.
It was for opposing its scandalous and war..
alleled proscriptions and treacheries, and
Willing subserviency to Southern dissensions,
that Dsvto C. BRODERICK lost his life in Cali
fornia. But other sacrifices are demanded.
~ The appetite for vengeance on the part of the
secessionists has not been appeased. There
are still left those who stand forth the unap
palled enemies of the frightful detnoralization
of the Democratic party. These men must be
put: out of the way. There are not many of
. - - -
resolute, and they routine crushed. Of flieso
men, Joint Ificanam, of Pennsylvania, may
be called the first. He has never belonged to
by rainy, he has continued to the last to
maintain the principles of the party as
they have always been understood by the
masses of the party. He sustained JANES
Buonarras in 1856 upon the principles still
maintained by Ilioxnes, although early and
basely deserted by BUCHANAN ; and when the
turpitude of the latter was followed by a re.
morseless warfare upon all who did not sanc
tion it, nioniax, like BRODERYCK, MoKrnms,
HAMS, SCHWARTZ, and thousands of other
Democrats, refused to stultify himself. At
once he became the target of the envenomed
assaults of the Administration and the Bocce
sionista.
The debate on Tuesday last, a part of which
appears in THE PRESS of this morning, tells
its own story; and proves what we have as
serted, that there is really no freedom of
speech in Congress, and that any Northern
man who does not consent to become the boun
den slave of the enemies of this Confederacy,
must legislate, or give utterance to his opin
ions, with his life in his hand. Who doubts
that the spirit which inspires and instigates
the dissensions in the House of Representa
tives is the spirit of Southern secession ?
Who doubts that these Southern secessionists
are to-day almost the sole managers of the
Democratic organization? And who can
deny that every Northern man who follows
their lead is, to all intents and purposes, an en
dorser of their sentiments, and an adherent of
the Administration, which stands like a wall
behind them, supplying them with arms and
ammunition? No one who looks at the facts of
the case. The Republicans and the anti-Le
compton Democrats hold the power of the
House. They have an admitted plurality; but if
they, had amajority, the Southern secessionists,
aided by the Administration, would not allow
that majority to act and thus effect an organi
zation. And why? Is it because of JOHN
Snows at Harper's - Ferry No; for the Re
publican candidate for Speaker, Mr. SHEE
HAN' has disavowed and denounced that out
rage. Is it because of the Helper book ? No;
for the same individual has repudiated the
odious sentiments of that book. Is it because
there le any sincere apprehension of disloyalty
on the part of the Northern people to their
brethren in the South 7 - No ; because the
free States ring with repeated demonstrations
in favor of the Union and of the rights of the
States; and all parties, with a few individual
exceptions, have combined to declare that
these rights shall be respected and enforced at
every, hazard. The undoubted purpose for
maintaining the disorganization of the House
is that those at the bottom of this disorganiza
tion have resolved to break up the plum of these
Slates.
In proof of this, is it necessary that we
should refer to the manner in which they ern
treating all citizens of the free States who are
found in the South lathe pursuit of business or
pleasure; to the system of non-intercourse laws
established and increased against the free
States; to the military preparations in Virginia,
Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama; to
the expulsion of peaceful citizens from Ken
tucky, for entertaining certain opinions on the
subject of slavery; and to the advice of a
large majority of the Southern politicians and
press, that Southern men should refuse to
visit the North, and should treat all the
Northern people as so many enemies, because
'theriii to •be found in our midst an occasional
fanatic, who threatens that which the fire
eaters of the South profess and practice—
namely, hostility to the existence of the Union 7
These are facts, patent and notorious.
In Mr. Iliontsx's short speech he locates
the reeponsibility of this disorganization upon
the Administration mon in the House of Rep
resentatives, North and South; and for doing
so he has been called to account in a manner
which fully confirms our assertion that the
"Reign of terror" is established in Wash.
itigtOn; and that any Representative who dares
to differ from the Administration and the se
- 'oessionititseannot speak his sentiments Without
• putting his life in the scale. We have not
copied the remarks of Mr. MCCII.ERNAND, of
assailing Mr., , ,lficsnmes political cha
meter, because iheYreCtuire a very short an
swer. Mr. Ilieintin has always been a Demo
erg. gis first vote was thrown for ANDREW
AMON In 1882, just after he came of age ;
he was the opponent of JOSEPII RITNER for
Governor in 183.3 and 1,838; the advocate
of MARTIN VAN BUREN in 1836; the opponent
of Illnarson, in 1840; sat in the Demo
cratie Natiostal Convention at Baltimore, in
184-1, as a delegate from his district; was no
minated by the Democrats for Congress In
that year, and defeated; was elected district
attorney fbr his county as a Democrat, in 1845;
ably supported Jelin K. Polar., in 1844, as
ho had formerly advocated MARTIN VAN BUREN
and General JAcKsos ; was the earnest and ac
tive friend of General CASs in 1848, of PIERCE
in 1852, and of BECRANAN' 311 1856; having
controlled more influence in the Democratic
party, by the purity: of his private and the
integrity of his public life, his eloquence and
his disinterestedness, than any other man in
the county of Chester. There has scarcely
been a Democratic State Convention held in
Pennsylvania for twenty years in which Mr.
HICKMAN has not represented his county, and
in which he has not assumed the strongest
Democratic ground, beginning with the most
earnest devotion to the rights of the Southern
people.
We regret that a friend of Judge DOrOLAS,
like Mr. 711COLNIINAND, should have put him
self Ihrward for the purpose of misstating the
political character of Mr. HICKMAN, who has
been as we have said, a Democrat without re
proach and stain up to the present moment.
If Mr. HICKMAN differs from the Administra-
Lion of tho Federal Government, ho does not
differ from the Democratic party; and if he
has fallen from grace in the organization to
which Mr. McCtsnwAsn, of Illinois, has
so willingly attached himself, it is be
cause ho has stood by the very princi
ples upon which Judge . DOCOLAR—the fa
vorite Presidential candidate of the gentle
man from Illinois—has repeatedly placed
himself, and upon which be has only
lately so powerfully maintained his position in
the Senate: Mr. litmatArt prefers to follow the
principles of the Democractie party wherever
they lead. -Mr. MOCLERNAND,if we understand
his attack upon Mr. Meagan, prefers to follow
the k organization, leaving the principles to pe
rish, and we regret to say, leaving them to
perish in the hands of the enemies of the
Union. We put it to him, whether in the at
tack ho make upon JOHN HICKMAN he did not,
at the same time, pronounce an unconscious
assault upon Judge DOUGLAS; for if it had
not been for the revolt of the independent
men in Pennsylvania against the very Adminis
tration which Mr. DICCLEENAND is now indi
rectly supporting, the movement which re
sulted in the triumph of STErdEN A. Dor-
Glatt might have been a fella'? At any
rate, this much is true: that the very
revolt which Mr. McCLEuNAND denounced
in his attack upon Mr. inexatAx was recom
mended by Judge DOUGLAS, after ho had car
ried Illinois in 1858, on the ground that
independent men like HICKMAN, IlAssrx,
SCHWARTZ, and others, could do nothing less
than to rebuke the proscriptions of Mr. Be-
CIIANAN by an appeal to the ballot-box. We
ask Mr. MCCLEENAND whether proscription has
not been persisted in by the Administration 7
Whether he has not seen JAMES BUCIIANAN
and his myrmidons carrying lire and sword
in the ranks of the Democracy of the free
States 7 Whether they have not invaded his
own Congresalopardistriet, disgraced and dis
honored some of the host Democrats in Illinois,
and whether to.day they are not standing
out before the country pledged to op.
pose not only the nomination of . DoeoLA*
at Charleston, but in the event of his nomina
tion, to oppose his election? When this Ad
ministration, controlled by tile
_secession
spirit of the South, seeks to maintain the dis
organization of the House, and to add to its
list of slaughtered victims, and an Illinois De
mocratyoluntarily coming forward to join in
the halloo against the ablest and purest Re
presentative of the Democratic principle left
in Pennsylvania, have we not a rlight, to feel
surprised 7
But we leave Mr. IlleknAll's record to his
tory. Well will it bo for Mr. MeCLERNAND,
and those for whom he speaks, if, when this
record comes to be investigated, they will he
found •as consistent and courageous as JOHN
HICKMAN.
To have said that the "Reign of Terror"
exists in Washington. Do not - the facts prove
we are right 1 Need we add to the shameful
and shameless catalogue 7 We do not desire
Ibut if this ealamitotitc - drin.., IV A a'....troulite,
if crimination and recrimination are to rule
and ruin the Democratic party in the Na
tional Legislature; if Northern men, repre
senting peculiar constituencies, sensitively
opposed to a resort to the tribunal of the
docile, are to remain paisive as coward's
slaves; or when they speak, to do so with the
consciousness that they are to be Insulted, or
to be shot down like brute beasts in the street ;
then the day is at hand when no citizen of the
free States will dare to visit the city of Wash
ington ; when It will be treason to tile local au
thorities for a white freeman to speak the
truth ; when the Administration will have
tilled every avenue with its spies ; and when,
probably, the thoroughfares to the Federal
City will be made as impassable to our people
as most of the thoroughfares leading to more
distinctively defined Southern capitals are to
Northern men at the present time.
Such is the pitiable condition of things now
existing In the political metropolis of free
America. Such is the offspring of JAMES Be-
CHANAN'S violation of faith, and of his subse
quent proscription of those who would not
sustain him in his course.
We leave the subject to the consideration of
men of all parties in the free States. Tire do
not despair of the Republic—far from it.
For the moment, the turbulent, gladiatorial,
blood-shedding, bullying spirit of secession in
timidates the Union spirit of the South. For
the time being, the lips of patriotic, con
servative men in that quarter of the Union
are sealed. To-day and to-morrow their
voices will be dumb, and their protests un
heard, in the rush and roar of the fanaticism
which now seeks to withdraw the SOuth from
the Union. But a better day is surely coming;
and when that day arrives, those who new seek
to convert the capital of the United States into
a sort of political slaughter house, and to bold
both branches of Congress in their own hands,
will be driven back to the obscurity which
they merit.
Harper's Magazine for February.
Peterson & Brothers have sent us the above. It
is espeoially rich, this month, in illustrations. hfea
gher's " Holidays in Costa Itioa'' is here conoluded,
and is orowded with fine engravings from original
drawings. The opening article, "Coos and the
Magalloway," a northeastern tour, is also wel
written and well illustrated, end the paper on
"Coins and Coinage," with fifty-seven engravings,
is full of interest. Bat the Magazine reader
passing over most of the papers hero, will doubtles
pounce upon the commencement of a new novel by
Thackeray, called "Level the Widower," with
the original publications, which has been begun in
the Conzhill Magazine, the new London periodi
cal, conducted by the novelist. It will be complete
in eight monthly parts, and, by arrangement with
the author, will be published in Harper also. Mr.
Anthony Trollops, author of that capital novel
"Doctor Thorne," here begins a series Of stories
under the general title of " Tales of Many Lands,"
written expressly for Harper. The first, entitled
"Relies of general Chassb—a Tale of Antworp,"
is smart, but not better than the usual run of ma
gazine articles. The Editor's Drawer is very racy,
this month.
The Girard House.
Thte well-knewn firet-class caravansary, nblob
is now capable of comfortably accommodating four
hundred persons, has recently undergone a com
plete renovation, redecoration, and entire rotor
nishing. Expense has not been spared, and good
taste Is - very evident in all that has been done.
The improvements are very marked, and will give
tho house even a yet higher character than it has
long enjoyed. They extend over every depart
ment, and include all the refinements and ele
gancies, as well as comforts, which a hotel of its
standing, character, and pretensions should enjoy.
The parlors have been largely benefited by these
changes, and the now and certainly more sociable
arrangements of the dining-rooms are unquestion
ably great improvements. In a word, Presbury,
Sykes, d• Chadwick have done their beet to deserve
a continuance of the public favor which has long
rewarded their exertions.
EXHIBITION OF 01,. PAINTINOM.—There id now
arranged for examination at the salesroom of B.
Scott, Jr., auctioneer, 431 Chestnut street. a
choice collection of Oil Paintings, recently so
looted in Europe, and comprising pleasing land
&sipe, marine, and coast scones, figure pieces, fan
o sketches, dte., &0., to ho sold to-morrow (Fri
day) morning, at 10} o'oldok. Catalogues k now
ready.
E:vomsn PICTORIAL9,—Wo have received the
Illustrated News of the World and the Illnstra
led London News of December 31, from Callen
dar l Co., Bouth Third and Walnut atreeta.
Letter from “Oceasional."
aorreopondenee of The Press.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. IS, IS
Fortunate 0 en.ral He has brought
his wares to a good market. He was yesterday
°looted printer to tho United States tionate, in the
face of the most serious charges implicating him
in certain alleged dishonest transactions, and can
now look forward to a handsome competency.
I must congratulate the General. Ile is probably
the best paid of all Mr. Buchanan's old foes.
But it must be recollected that ho is not only
rewarded for this, but because, to use the re
mark of Jefferson Davis on Tuesday, the Con
ststraton behaved so nobly on the Territorial ques
tion. In other words, ho is to be paid not only
for opposing Mr. Buchanan, and for his indiffer
ent support of his election, but because ho has
allowed himself to be used as an instrument to
force the slave-code policy upon the Democracy of
the country. I repeat, lucky General lionnian!
You have obtained a substantial recognition
. • .
for distinguished services. You have earned
your laurels, and may you live long to wear
them. Of course, our dismal Senator Bigler
appeared as the defender of General Bow.
man. It was the speech of the day, and no
an olla podrula of Buchanan, Black, Browne,
and Bigler, was a treat. When you recollect that
Bigler was the dispenser of the patronage out of
the printing fund to certain starveling newspapers.
the appositeness of ble championship of Bowman
may be appreciated. Senator Brown ought to
have interrogated Biglor, but he did not. It
would have made a good laugh Übe had done so. But
that Senator is too much impressed by the pro-
slavery feeling of the Administration to do any
thing very secure against its course on other sub
'eels.
In Mr. Pryor'e speech on Tuesday, ho called
upon the Republicans to withdraw Mr. Sherman
and put up Mr. Corwin or Pennington. This was
an Ingenious expedient, for I have no doubt that
if the Republicans should agree to do this the Ad
ministration would interpose as usual to prevent
an organization ; for it is certain that neither of
these gentlemen referred to could be snore conserve•
tive then Mr. Sherman. After 'all the proles
sionsof tbe Administration that the Territorial ques
tion is settled, late events go to show that it cannot
be settled and that the secessionists, wherever
they can do so, will insist upon keeping it open.
Thus Mr. Brown, of liiissigaippi,lntrodueed a series
of resolutions into the Senate this morning, which
lie over under the rules, in which, after stating
that slavery goes into all territory of the United
States tinder the Constitution, it Is declared to be
the duty of Congress to protect it in such territory,
and the Committee on Torritoriee is instructed to
incorporate into the next bill organizing a Terri
tory a prevision making it the duty of the first Ter
ritorial Legislature to pees all needful laws and
regulations for the proteotion of slave property.
On the other hand, Gov. Block, of Nebraska, an
appointment of the present disunion Administra-
tion, has vetoed a bill which passed the Territorial
Legislature of Nebraska abolishing slavery, so the'
the great question will come full handed before the
present Congress, and we shall be compelled every
whore in the free States to meet it.
In the meanwhile your Collector Baker, and the
agents of the Administration inPeansylvanie, have
been instructed to go to Reading in February, to
Insist upon such a platform as will respond to the
declarations in favor of a slave code, and as will
show the determination of the Administration to
resist the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas at
Charleston, and hie election if nominated. If the
Democratic Convention of your State could be Coll•
trolled by the wise men of the party at Reading, and
could lay down the Ohio platform, or, if you'please,
the Illinois platform, or the platform of the Indiana
Demooraey, and then select good candidates, the
success of the party in October, prior to the Presi
dential election, would be assured. But Mr. Bu
chanan is determined that this course shall not be
taken. He will yield everything to the South.
lie thinks he has frightened the mercantile and
manufacturing interests of the North, who suppose
that they aro entirely dOpendent upon Southern
trade, so much that any candidate of his making at
Charleston will secure the undivided support of
the South, and by ty division In the general opposi
tion will get a sutheient number of electoral votes
outside to secure hie triumph. You must agree,
therefore, in Pennsylvania, if you desire to bo W
eide of the Administration party, to write upon
your banners " the protection of Slavery in the
Territories.''
The Republicans must amend their platfertu so
as to come up to the popular sentiment on title
question. There cannot any longer be any evasion
on their part. While we are insisting that the
Admirgstiction shall not dictate to the Charleston
Convention, publio ,opinion will demand of the
Republican leaders that they !hall, on their part,
recognise the principle of popular soyereign ty in
tho 'Territories. It is an impracticable alimrdity
that they should clamor for the Congressional pro
hibition of slavery while the extreme South Is
Restoring for the Congressional protection of slavery
in the Territories. The Republican Chicago Con
vention will be called µpen by many conservative
men in that organization to pa two things--namely,
to denounce the invasion of Virginia by .john
Tar •- -i-
ToriitoaT i f _ that th! que6thm of siavery in il w a e
they are wise, they will do both ; and if the Pone•
crabs party is wise at Charleston, It will precede
the Republicans at Chicago by setting them a good
a:ample. OCCASIONAL.
Things Theatrical
The theatres in this City ountinne to ho extremely
well attended. At the Arch, If everybody's
Friend," followed by " Peter,Wilkins," have una
bated attraetibna for the many. They are well got
up In every respect, and remarkably well eotod.
" Lesbia" has now been performed at Walnut
street Theatre three times—last night there being
the most crowded house. It will ho plairod again
this evening. lilies Heron, the author, bee judi
ciously pat Miss Heron, the actress, a little In the
background in this play, for Its best character is
that so powerfully sustained by young James Wal
lack. Miss Heron's benefit taken place tomorrow
evening. She appears, in this play of " Imsbia,"
at the Winter Theatre, Now York, on Monday
evening. Mr. Wallack is also to play.
This is the anniversary of Mr. John Mello.
nough's opening of hie " Gaieties," in Race street,
and there will bo a gala performance this evening.
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
The Lawrence CulaunlV.
CONTINUATION Op THE CORONER'S INqUitit -rur
IRO! , i PILLARS Inf.l'ECT/ VI:
LAWRENCE, Mass., Jon, 18.—At the inquest to
day, Mr. Charles 11. Bigelow, who constructed the
Pemberton Mill, was . the most important witness.
Ile testified as follows: I am a civil engineer ; was
formerly in the army with the rank of captain, and
constructed Port Independence ; graduated at West
Point in 1835; the nature of the arrangement be
tween the Essex Company and Pemberton Com
pany was such as to leave the parties free, so that
the Pemberton Company could make contracts and
employ forces ; they did so in repented instances,
such as making a contract for the glass, for all the
shafting and gearing of the mill, and for the
iron columns; they also added forces to the
carpentering and other departments; I never
saw any disposition on the part of Mr. Putnam to
sacrifice the strength of a building to cheapness;
on the other hand, we tried to make the strongest
structure we could with duo regard to economy ; I
was mush burdened with responsibility at the
time, having to construct the Pacific and Pember
ton Mills simultaneously, and placed Benjamin
Coolidge in immediate charge of the latter: ho
superintended the work with a diligence and fidelity
that wasuntiring ; the contractors were Wm. Sulli
van for earthwork, Tease Pletcher for stonework and
foundations, Dodio A Knowles for carpentering and
woodwork, and Tuttle A. Co. for masonwork ;
think there was not a better foundation In Law
rence, so far no Foil was concerned ; It was a water-
bearing soil ; there was a head on all the time,
except in warm weather, when It dried up, as is
usual in such soil ; the foundations were stones of
the largest character our quarries over produced,
and I know them to have been put together well ;
they were large, square stones of stratified granite,
amply wide at the bottom, (nine feet, I think;)
examined the plane, and found the south wall eight
feet, and the north six foot thick at the bottom ;
the brink walls have been stated as two walla, with
a hollow space; this is an error; it was ono wall,
with air tubes in it, less than two feat by four
inches in horizontal area ; there were four of these
flues in every ten feet from centre to centre of the
windows; there were eight inches of solid brick
externally, then four inches, taking a cross section
of the air flue, and then eight inches of interior
wall—so that where there were no films the walls
were twenty inches of solid brick.
•
f think part of the walls was solid, without air•tlibes,
but don't remember what part; the thickness of the
walls was amply sufficient to bear any vertical pressure
which could be brought upon them In this null: the
floors were constructed with beams. each beam being
made of two posts, varying a little from sixteen incline
end leaking them, when put in. sixteen inches square ;
the timber wan very gone: no rudection th a t t a n i aware
of, was ever made when the mill was Muth ; they were
Put together in the best manner; the pillars were
telrifold stronger than was required to custom the
weight which they hold ; I have nn doubt they were
bought in absolute good faith br Mr. Putnam •
the only error I can tee is in buying them tw
go much per column instead of per pound ; in regard
to these pillars.we accidentally lobelia fall, and it broke ;
the cola test usually applied to castings is to find them
externally perfect; we never mistrusted them to lie in
such a condition that a blow from a nail hammer would
have sunk through them I the Funtennens which I bar a
seen indicate the moat oFirelese manipulation in the
eluding ; I have tin doubt that the developments of this
accident have shown that there were defects in the
pd
are, but these were not vielble when they, Dame from
the foundry; thereto one cireunist•ince which p•ents to
the detente In the pillars us. the cause of the accident;
wooden pillars would have given we) more gradually ;
had the defet.t . been in the walls or foundatione, they
would have given away more gradually ; lint the east
ings give out suddenly. giving no warning. Mr. BIi,PIOW
concluded his testimony by describing themill riga model
one.
Elbridge Joslyn, a founder for thirty-eight years, les
tified that he had examined the pillars et the Pember
ton Mill; the iron Appeared good. but the ending was
had' I considered thin pintle no roll able support ; should
think the core wwi not properly seemed 111 the middle
of these pillars before the casting: knew Albert Fuller
of the Eagle Iron Works. where hese wore oast ; they
were always underbidding others; t o ld him th ey were
ma k ing th e m too cheap; they used to fail esery sear,
but Fuller was always the foreman.
John 0. Medlar, superintendent of the Lawrence
maehine shop for seven years, testified that he had seen
three of the pillars st the ruins which, if they bad !igen
properly inspected. should have been rejected. Wit
ness was struck with the look of stability in the lutes of
support at the Pemberton Mill. Tr one pillar broke. it
seemed that the whole must go down. The far of the
machinery would Act like repeated blows.
'1 lie inquest was adjourned till morning.
Fan of a Building at Richmond, Va.
R/C/MOND, inn. Pi —Tho walls of a building on
Governor street fell but night, burying en Irish
girl under the ruins. The moans of the unfortu
nate person nro distinctly heard, end every effort
is being mode to rescue her.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, TIIUItBDAY, JANUARY 19, 1860.
XXXVITII CONGRESS.--FIRST SESSION.
U. S. CAPITOL, WASIIINOTON, Jan. 18, 1160.
SENATE.
Mr. llama, of Virginia, offered a resoluthn to
print five thousand coplee of the Becretary tf the
Traneury's report. Referred.
Mr. Go IN, of California, introduced a bill to fa
cilitate the communication between the Mantle
and Paola° by electric telegraph. Referred.
Mr. Buowa, of Mississippi, introduced nimbi.
lions to the effect that the Territories aro the com
mon property of all the States; that the cline's
of all had the right to enter into them witi the
property recognised by the Constitution ; ant that
it is the duty of the law-making power. whotbsr ex
°poised by Congress or the Territorial Legialinures,
to pan laws for the protection of such proierty,
and instructing the Committee en Territofts, In
reporting bibs for the organization of Tertiorles,
to insert a clause requiring ROI protection. In
nose a Territoi int Legislature fails to comply,
Congress shall apply the remedy. Lies over, miler
the rules.
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Mr. BrN.TANII:t. of I.olllSillDa, reported ft It❑ to
amend the law relative to the compeneation or die-
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Wet attorneys. tuunkhals, and clerks of tho o.reuit
courts of tho United States.
Mr. HALF, of New Hampshire, desired to put a
private bill from the Navul Committee on itt pas.
sage.
Mr. MASON, of Virginia, contended that, en the
House has not organized, there was no Congress,
and there could he no legislation.
Messrs HUNTER, of Virginia, and FESCE4DEN,
of Maine, thought that there was an existing Con
gress. Mr. Hunter, however, said that as the Pease
seemed todiallko the orlginationof an appropriation
bill in the Senate, be did not think it desirable to
make Issue with it.
Mr. BENJAMIN', of Louisiana, contended thtt this
was a Congress.
Mr. HALE mod the. Constitution said the befd
dent should make communications, from time to
time, to Congress. lle hail sent in his message. and
of course recognised an existing Congress. If the
bill could be rend once or twice, why not the third
time?
Mr. IfirwrEß, of Virginia, thought it bettei;to go
on with the calendar. Lot us do our portion of
business. Nothing would be consummate' until the
Ifouao acted.
Mr. CRITTENDEN. of Kentucky, EAU • It WAS
dangerous thing to admit that tlaSenate wee para
lyzed because the House was without a Speaker.
It Is as much a House when balloting for Speaker
as when legislating.
Mr. TRVIIDULI.. of Illinois, argued that we hod
no notification that a single Representative was
eleoted. The Senate, therefore, could not act, as
the members of the House ware not sworn.
Mr. FERRENI)F.II thought that the Senate could
find out the existence of the House without waiting
for a formal communiention.
Mr. Tritinnuta, asked if the Senator would eon
sent to pass a bill coming from the House in its
present condition.
Mr. FRSHENDRN said he would hesitate about
doing that.
After further debate, Mr. llatdt withdrew his
motion to put the bill on its passage.
Mr. BAYARD offered a resolution, that CO final
action shall bo taken in the Senate on any bill or
joint resolution till notice has been received of the
organization of the House. Laid over.
Mr. SEBASTIAN, of Arkansas, introduced a bill
to provide a superintendent of Indian affairs for
Washington Territory.
Mr. HALF: objected to the reodingof the bill, but
the Chair overruled the objection, and it was read
twice and referred.
After nn execul i re session, the Senate adjourned
Mr. Matan, of 'Mississippi, was entitled to the
floor, but yielded it to
Mr. CLOPTOX, of Alabama, who was about to ad
dress the house, when
Mr. WASIOURN. of Maine, Interrupted by calling
for a vote on Mr. Hutchins' resolution for iho adop
tion of the plurality rule. Ile Insisted that they
were obliged bylaw to proceed ton vote for Speaker,
without debate or delay.
Mr. CRAIGE. of North Carolina, raised n point of
order on Mr. Washburn, when the latter repeated
that a motion for tho adoption of the plurality rule
had been herctoforo aotod nn at all tunas, no mat.
ter'what propositions wore before tho House. It
wan a question of high privilege.
Mr. MOUE said ;dr. Washburn had usurped the
floor.
Mr. WASIIIMIN. If the gentleman will wait—
Mr. Mcßae. r will not wait.
Mr. Wviiiiittflar. I suppotio that I hare the
floor.
Mr. Melt Air,. You have no right to It.
Mr. WASIIBURY. No gentleman has it right to
debate a point of order or anything elm, because
the Constitution and parliamentary law xcgaire
the House to proceed to nn election without debate
or delay.
Tho Clerk decided that Mr. Washburn could not
deprive Mr. Clopton of the floor.
The point of order was further iliQussek k Mr.
Wasnnonsr insisting that the Clerk should ea ante
the law, and put the question.
Mr. Itnuarii, of Alabama, proteatel against
Mr. Weehburn's interference and interruptions.
The Clerk said be know of no parliamentary
practice which nould warrant Mr. Washburn
in taking the floor from Mr °lepton.
Mr. Wasniainsi replied that lie did not take the
floor from him.
Mr. Mooitioun, of Vennsylvanla, appealed from
the Clerk's dull6loll.
There was mush confusion throughout these pro
ceedings.
Mr. l'unixa, of Missouri, t itprirseil hi 3 totontelp
went at the factious conduct on the Itepetilican
side, and asked whether their conduct was ixiur•
teoue.
Ifr WActiarrot end others ro s e to speak.
paator, of North Carolina, called them to
order,
Mr. Ifeasresr, of Hontuoky, insisted that the
Clerk should enforce his decamp.
Mr lilebt.ouo, of Michigan, suggested that Mr
Clopton proceed with his :emeriti, end that whea
he shell have concluded the House proemd to a
vote for Speaker. 'Cries of Gond—there rigid,"
on the Democratic 'Adel The House should votes
oca3Lu ,
n . n,—pass lair ptaYettry
'jute. It enti'Cbe obtaiped.
Weeinwex would do In? ouch 0 4 i 4 g. - HP
hed the right--lie wanted to undeFaland—
ITltese leerp the only wprds heard, as he was fre
quently interrepled by calls of order from the
Deumeratic shim(
Mr. MoonitS4D. Mr. Clerk, cap't yeu pqt th,Q
question to tho Housel
Cries of order from the Democratio side
Mr CRAM:. of North Carolina, participated in
this rtmaln4 debate. He, In turn, was loudly
called to oilier by the Republican side.
The Clerk suggested that as a queation hed been
relsen as to fl e a sight of Mr. Clopton to the floor,
the point bo submitted p the House.
Many on the Demearatio aide objeeted to this
Finally, after more noisy proceedings any p i fgto
of order,
Mr. Ct.ontoN commenced his remark's. He said
the Eolith was the victim, to be led to the slaugh
ter. There yip bet little, if any, disagreement in
his district, that tire South should accede in the
event of the election of a helm: Mean President.
The people would not submit to that 1 447, An
imperious necessity exists for the South to propa , ra
to defend her rights. rt is folly to say that the
Union is not in danger. The ligaments which
bound it aro ono by rate being broken. We stand
on tit° verge ern volcano. and tie trembling move•
mettle portend the eruption Union meeting.f earn
not bring the sense of security to the Soutlinin
people, whilst ill the North Southern rights are
trampled upon and disregarded. The people of
the South do not want rewires but action. Pot
coneervetive men in Oleo, and then theca would
be some oubstantiol evidence Oa returning justloc
In the event of the elution to the Preetdency of
a Black Republican the Union oanuot and ought
not to be maintained. Ho contended that the Re
publicans Ignore a State sovereignty, and that If
they succeed in abolishing slavery in the Torrite
riee they would then follow out their policy In the
Southern States. Ile asserted that slave as well as
all other property of the South in the Territories
should be protected by Congressional law.
He ndyeaated tr i o policy of epepssion as a pre.
ventivo remedy against snjuidice, nect ecsetended
that the States have a right to resume the: poweere
which they delegated to Om Federal Government.
These views, instead of being radios', were, fu his
opinion, conservative. Threats of civil war could
Pot intiseldele the South. Her policy would be for
peruse, but when the Hovernment fails of the ends
for which It was inaOtuted, the South would frame
a new Government, laying its foundatinns on such
principles and in such 11)1111118111.M14 Watt liAby
etfect their safety and happiness.
Mr. °stows, of Now York, thought It necessary
to melee a few remarks!, no his course had been
commented on by the papers of New York. lie
did not vote for Mr. Sherman because he identified
himself' with that party, but because, muter exist
ing eircumstenemi, he thought the Republicans
ought to have the preeldlng nilicer. In so voting,
he did not endorse theblelpee bogie. He approved
ft no more than some of the Deinecrats endorse the
disunion sentiments which have been expressed. If
he believed the Republicans would Improperly in-
terfere with the rights of States he would have
nothing to do with them. This Strife which hod
been earned on here had inflicted wounds on self-
government wide!! It would Tr
pert ire a life of penance
to atone for. The se•ealied emeeratio pe , wee
a party for the protection of ayary ea eliattele and
property. It did not hold say principles pertaln•
leg to bentooraoy. He found Some of the priori
pies of Democracy in the Republican party, but
none in the smealled Democratio party. lie did
not belong to either of the parties as they were now
organized. He club] not vote for an Administra
tion man without violating the principles on which
ho was elected. He could not veto for a South
American, treatise that party Is in favor of a slave
code in the Territorlev. If it not se, let any one
of them deny it.
Mr. liattnituAN, of Georgia, said he was in favor
of smolt a code, and intended to demand every
Southern right.
Mr. Quenuts, of Tennessee, was for equality.
Ile believed that Tennessee has the right to carry
slaves into the common territories, and the right
to claim every arts of the Government to protect it.
Mr. Eritetneste, of Tennessee, said : So help him
God, ho would never gis o a vote to put slavery
the Territerier while the Nobeaska-haness bill, am
cording to the conetruotion put upon it nt the thee
of Ito primp, retuning In force, for It giros Is,
the people the right, while in a Territorial condi
tion, to regulate slavery in their own way.
Mr. Ilsitstbeit, of Virginia, (in response to the
question put by Mr Carter), and Mr. Mounts, of
Kentucky, both said that they were In favor of
protecting slave property In the Territories, and
the former said no Territory can Interfere with
these rights,
Mr. Remits, of New York, explained that he
never believed the necessity existed for legislating
elavery beyond what is chimed by the Constitm
Lion. Its approved of the principle of non-Inter
vention in Territories and a kind of squatter so
vereigaty.
Mr. CARTER understood the Southern Opposi
tion to be in favor of the clove Code. He coked
whether the North, West, and other Democrats
were in favor of such a code
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Mr. Monitzs, of Illinois, anti ho was not.
Mr. MeltAu asked : Why dkl you not ask the
uostion of Mr Gilmer
Mr. CARTER replied that ho had. at n former atage
of tho proteetlings, given all the Southern (lipoid.
lion an opportunity to answer.
Mr. Britantr claimed that Mr. Carter had yield•
ed the floor to Mr. Mcßae.
Mr. CARTER earnestly denied this, amid a peal
of laughter and much confusion.
Mr. Melt el repeated t Why did you not put the
question to Mr. (Motor ?
Mr. CenTra. Mr. (Maier la of ago, and lean
answer for himself. (Laughter.'
Mr. McltAr. You have voted for Mr. (E'iner,
and now wont lot him answer.
Mr. CARTER fig/lifi EIDICRit whether tie leoribern
Democrats wero In favor of the sleveeede.,
Mr. Witte said he would answer, I mt after that
Its would ask Mr. Winter the question.
Mr. CARTER. No, sir. Ihaughtor.l
tt
Mr. Itruarr wanted Jr. Clatter to finith his
speech or yield the.tloor altogether. lie under.
atiKal that Iklr. !Wet was entitled to
The Clerk said Mr. Carter had a right to yield
to Mr. Mcßae.
Mr. MeRAE answered the question by sending up
an oxtraot from a letter written by Lim in Juno
last, from whleh it appears he does not adr for a
COOgresslonal slavo male or legislation in advance
of the necessity which may require it. lie does not
ask intervention to prohibit or establish slavery.
Ito claims that when slavery is established and a
Territory shall fall or refuse to pass laws for its
security or peas laws unfriendly to slavery, then it
becomes the duty of Con4ress to provide law for
its protection, in event of non-action by the Terri
torial Legislature on the application of slaveholders.
He maintained that elevery is bustalned by ttio
Bible and Christianity, and understood that the
Northwest Democracy regarded this as a judicial
question.
Mr. CAirrnit inquired whether the Democratic
party would vote for the erbuission of Kansas into
the Union under such a Constitution as the people
may choose to adopt.
Mr. McltArt, before answering that question,
wished to know whether the Republicans believed
in the right of properly in the black, by the white
men?
Mr. CARTER said he bed distinctly Mated that
he belonged to no party. Its bed spoken for him
self. Under our form or government, and the
spirit by which it was established, he denied the
feet that it acknowledged property iu any human
being.
Cries from the Democratic side "That is the
bleier law."
Mr. McitAn replied that he wanted to know of
ono gentleman who took the proposition, that our
Government, under the Constitution, does not re
cdin-
uonftnisiest s a l n a: ie r a y n .
u ll na ti on. s t a i i t tl nt l i tr. o Ct m ir a te n r w ‘ a y s . a .
the
fugitive•Blave law constitutional
Mr. CARTER called attention to the intention of
the Government, and said that while a State tins
the right to establish slavery if it choose it could
not extend slavery one inch beyond its line.
The colloquy was further continued by these
gentlemen, and nt times was very spirited.
Mr. Cox. of Ohio, In response to the question of
Mr. Carter as to the views of the Western Demo
erney on the subject of the slave code, sent up the
resolutions M . the late Ohio State Convention an a
crystalization of the expression of the Democracy
of that State, in which non-Intervention on the sub
ject of slavery is declared.
Mr. HARDEHAN sold be affiliated with the Geor
gia Democracy, and therefore differed from the
gentleman from Ohio.
Mr. Cox replied that he spoke the sentiments of
the Ohlo Democracy.
Mr. lIAREEIIAN said, with much earnestness, the
South would stand by her rights, and would main
-.ale them.
Mr. STOUT Stahl Mr. Cox did not speak
(SIOUVO sentiments.
Mr. Cox, in the course of hie remark'', anid if
there wereilifferenoes among the Democrat , ' which
could not bo reconciled in their own way, they
would submit to the arbitrament of the National
Convention. He did not want it sent out by the
Republicans that the Northern Democrats sit hero
undor the Inch of the Southern Democrat?, and
dare not speak the sentiments of their conatituenta
and their own hearts. There wore no insuperable
differences among the Democrats that would pre
vent them from coming together on the Baum plat•
form.
Mr. McCotnsiase briefly expressed his end the
views of the Illinois Democracy, believing that the
people of the Territories have the right to form and
regulate their institutions in their own way, sub
ject to the Constitution. The Domeerate should
%video their differancee, and form a united front
egeinst the enemies of the Constitution.
Mr. Ifobtraw, of Indiana, explained the position
of the Democrats of Indiana on the subject of
slavery in the Territories—namely, pen-inter
ference and the interpretation given by Mr. Bu
chanan in hle letter of accordance of the nomination
for the Presidency.
Mr. Mosrnowenv, of Pennsylvania, said the
question propounded by Mr. Carter was an abstrac
tion. There was not a single member on the floor
who proposed or Intended to propose it measure for
' the protection of slave property in the Territories.
There was not a single Territory where such a law
would become necessary. Therefore, the uestion
was a mere lire-brand thrown In here for the pur
pose of dish , hog ord dividing the Democratic
party. The-, F 11141,1. b, n' law, either to prohibit
or establish et core Tit it should be left to the
people theme's es. Ile said that sixteen of his
colleagues bad voted for Mr. Gilmer, who was not
only a large alaveholder but was an advocate of
the slave code. Go borne to your constituents now !
Mr. MOORIIIMAD, of Pennsylvania, said that be
had voted for Mr. garner, because the latter was
in fitsor of the protection of American industry.
If he thought that his constituents would meet
him with jhe same scorn and indignation they
would meet Mr. Montgomery, ho 'Would not go
home. [Laughter.] His colleague had eaten dirt
to obtain the votes of the Republicans, and crawl
ed to them for their support.
Mr. Mesmerists- replied that he was elected by
3,200 majority. As to his eating dirt, it was false
in every particular. Ills colleague had crawled
into the caves and collars of Know-Nothinglim,
and then crone out and betrayed the party he had
morn to support, end become a Republican, and
all within three or four years. Ills colleague woe
the last man to talk about inconsistency. (Applause
front the Donmeretio side 1
Mr Coy , ust, of Pennsylvania, wanted to say
something that he could prove, but Mr Montgo
mery refused to yield the door. After the latter
lied finished, Mr Covodo rose to refresh Mr Mont
pinery's memory. Ile said that he wrote a letter,
at Mr Montgomery's request, to leading Republi-
Daps, 'lrking them to atlppert Mr Montgomery,
which they did. This letter was written on certain
pledges made by his nelleague. ( Anima(' from the
Republiean side.l
Mr. Monennen Rohl his former rematki wore
Glue sebstantiated The Republienns expected
Mr. Montgomery would be acting with them Ile
defended himself from the charge of Mr. Montgo
mery, that be had boxed the political compass lie
had been a Democrat the greater part of his life,
and left that party when he found them slipping
stay t;hu the principles of Democracy. As to
who elvated, he' left that question to the House
niter Mr CCYCte'll elp69ltiCA
. Mr. Mosirnowenr replied to Mr. Comte, who,
Repulilieena orrtundirre.nan e „et
here voted for Mr. (Illnier, a large slniahHel,
en advocate of the slave rods If the shoe
pinened, it WWI the fault of Mr. Covode who put it
en. It was nequestionably true that Mr Covode
did write such a letter as bad been deedribeit, but
It was addressed to some (dbl.; bitterest opponents,
who did not fall to vole against him. Ma sand Mr.
Noqrhert I had, in Affect, admitted the truth of
010 ho (Mr. Muntgomery) hail uttered. That
colleague hiid spoken In terms of commendation of
Senator Mason and Governer Smith for 'wearing
homeopun but why did not his colleague follow
the example, instead of wearing Prone!' boots,
coat, and vest. and Irish linen, and a Swiss watch,
and, as had been suggested, an Australian under
shirt. I Laughter.
Mr COmODE said those who refused to Vole for
Mr bSl . ,Voinery were the latter's neighbors, and
know his ifolleagot Letter than he Jul. Ile (Mr
Coviele) never knew that Mr 1; il flier was in fever
of h slave coda.
Mr. MO \ TGOMERY said they anted egalnst him
beieiuse they know he woe a Democrat. Would
his colleague !twilit vote for Mr Gilmer'
/314,a yO the Republican aide of " Call the roll."
Adjourood.
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PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE
tipIATP.
The Judiciary Committez, reported favorably
upon the further supplement to the act er,nrolida
ting the city of Philadelphia ; ids°, the supple
ment to the art equalizing the taxation on corpora
tions: also, the hill relative to writs of error.
A largo number of other hills were reported
from the beveral committeca, and among them ilia
bill to incorporate the Friends' Asylum for the In-
Salle.
Tho bill supplementary to the act incorporating
the Delaware Mutual Inturanco Company was
taken up, and palled finally; alAp, the bill to au
thorize the clerk of the Board of Health of Phila.
dolphin to adminktor oaths in certain cases.
A resolution was offered and adopted, that when
the senate It djourus on Thursday, it will adjourn to
nieez o t , tlantlay afternoon nut
A resaluLum was alto adopted appointing Win.
P. Brady librarian of the Biniite.
Mr. Ilect, presented the resins of too piembeis
of the Senate for their votes Against the Twin
tiong relative to the organization of Congress,
passed on Friday lest. They were read, and or
dered to be placed ou the journal of the Senate and
',rioted
The hill r,latlye to the borough of Now (lope,
hea d county, w copiaoto4 and putted
A djou coed
A re, , dtition was offered to print five thousand
Copies in Englbh. and two thousand copies in Ger
man, of 1111, report of the Auditor General on rail
roads, which, after considerable discussion, was
adopted; but it wassiabscluently rooonsidere fur
ther debated at much length, and then postponed
indetlnitely.
Mr. Moonx moyed that two thOUStalit copies of
the report of the Commininnet, of the Sinking
Fund be printed. Not agreed to.
Mr. DriTyr! lanced that coming events
would chit before," (having re•
ferance to the r, t eTpected to be made
to-morrow, declaring Br. Wile duly elected as
the Representative from the Sixteenth district of
Philadelphia.; Ile, therefore, asked the indul
gence of the Muse to 'talcs up the bill incorpora
ttng the Pox Chase end Frankfort' Passenger Rail
way Company.
Mr. flux•it.t.rl ohjuuted to the consfderation of
the bill, hut lho llottso suspended the rule by a
voto of yeas 15, nays 30, and the bill was read,eou•
sidered, and pa-red Beenntl reading. A motion to
suspend further thu rule and pas., the same finally,
woo disagreed to.
Tho reaolutionq in regard to n protective tariff
worn the special ardor for to-day. and Mr.GORDOV,
nC Cloarfield, moved that an afternoon Boaaion be
held for their conoi.jurolion. Tho motion real not
agreed to.
Adjourned until to-morrow morning.
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Maryland begimlature.
THE I'IDF./1111tOUND ItAILIIO
. .
It , ILTIMOItE, Jan Id —ln the Legislature, to
day, a regclution tra• introduced authorizing a re•
card In I/3 1411111 1 for the nrrevt of Thomas Gar
reit, of Wilmington, Delawate, (who, In a recent
tiateeh at an Abolition meeting In Phllathophia,
confektqed Linutelf to Lo an agent of the on ler
ground railway.) it, color to lint ~, hint tried on the
charge et atettlin,r ,dive; from the eitlreur of Ma.
The re,lutlca w. 1.1 di,entscil, and re
lerre.l to the Committee tat the .Itlietary. Varione
propovitioni have been tondo to lix the reward at
Irani Aflotail lu :-.5,1100.
A. Body of Armed American , . en Ante
for 31exico.
WAstoun roN, Jan Is --Within tho mock, from
fly to rkly men fl on till.; city and Baltimore
nye gone South, abundantly pros ided with arm.‘.
hey loon a portion of ft largo party whooe deni•
atlon i+ Fabd to be 3lexico, to Milst the Liberal
lovernment.
Birthday of Franklin.
800 TON, Jan. IS --The birthday of Franklin arm
iiiininetnerateil het evening by the Franklin Typo
;r ihienl tbkoiety Mr hiernett'a aililreee opened
with n heautlitil and (aching nllu4ion to the Law
rence disaster. and also to the death 9f Mitralilay.
titompen.iong in Montrenl.
Movrnum„ Jan IR —Memrs. Milk, Dlallese, &
C o ., and Comm 4 Crew, ;loth °TWA o wholorele
grocer,, Lava suvrntleJ.
South Carolina and Virginia.
Hiru~wsu, Jnn. b 3 —Mr. notninger, the corn•
iluaioner from South Caroline, will ekklres the
eAislaturo at noon to.norrow.
,
Death or Rev. John C. Thomas.
Pa., Jun 18 —Roy. John Ch , n ,
Thmittot, 0! !ho M. E. Church, Mod hare n oto
u'cloch to•tloy
Cunt motion of Manalracturere at Meri
den, Connecticut.
atantonN, Connecticut, Jan -- The C;fa,
lion of manufacturers of the State of Connecticut,
held for the purpose. of taking into rtindilitruli'm
the state of the Union at the potent crisis In tin
national affairs, have adopted resolutions condemn.
lag the spirit which impelled a sovereign limits, in
183?,, to threaten civil war fur no greater grit:nig:o
than its opposition to a law of Congress I , ttildisit•
ing duties un imports ; condemning the spirit of
disunion, if this or that candidate for Presidnot nr
Speaker be elected, condemning the spirit which
drove Mr. flow', from Charleston ; condemning the
spirit which struck down Summer, condemning the
spirit which overrun Renate, and the spirit whirl,
invaded Virginia by a body of armed toendignp
proving or the misrepresentation and falseitoral of
a portion of the public press w'slch represents tiny
considerable number of the people of the free
States us Abolitionists; and, finally, renewing the
professions of fidelity to the Union and the Con.
stitution.
The resolutions were adopted. There were
about ono hundred delegates present—a minority,
numbering about fifty, having left after a fruitless
effort to defeat the majority. Adjourned
WA9IIINOTON, Jan. 18.—There were indications
today on the part of the Republicans to hove a
night session, with the view, if possible, of bring
ing the contest for the Speakership to a termina•
tion but a sufficient number of them 'sere not
united on that purpose. The galleries were
crowded to their utmost capacity by persons of
both sexes
Tho Senate has confirmed the nomination of
Mr. Iltighes, of Indiana, to supply the vacancy in
the Court of Claims. Action on the Mexican
treaty has been delayed, owing to the voluminous
documents not being printed. The order for the
latter purpose was made to-day.
Several Senators are preparing speeches to be
delivered next week on the slavery question. Some
of the most Intimate friends of Senator Seward
any he has no idea of making any during the pre
sent feverish political excitement.
Now YORK, Jan. 18 —Tho steam , hip Arabia
sailed at moil for Liverpool, with nearly $200,000
in specie.
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Sou-Arrival of the Steamer Anglo
Ponn...txn, Jan. 18—. Midnight.—There are no
pisni of the eteam3hip Atuilo Saxon, now duo with
Ltverpool dates to the 9th instant
DEBATE in the HOUSE OF REPRE
SENTATIYES,
.1 all nary 17th, 14(3 0 .
!dr HICKMAN. Mr. Clerk, we have now reliohed
n point that I have been anticipating for Sometime
We kayo nowcome to a dead lock—a point we:might
just as well have reached some four weeks ego. an
to reach it at thin time. We have now the feet
expressed, plainly and distinctly, that a minority
upon this tiros. have resolved that no Speaker Abell
be elected ; for but one mode has been suggested
by any gentleman by which an election can be
had, and that is the plurality rule, which has be•
coma a precedent in Congress, under difficulties
similar to those which exist at this time, and
which we aro told shell he resisted to the
Mr. BURNETT. If the gentleman', from Ponn•
sylvanis will permit me, I say he misstates our
position.
Mr. lIICKNIAN. Tho gentleman can answer
tno when I get thronoh.
Mr. BURNETT. I only want to set the gentle
man rizht.
Mr. HICKMAN. I make It a general rule never
to Interrupt any gentleman in debate, unless I
form the subject of his remarks; and I do not pro-
pose to be interrupted myself by any gentleman,
unless he forma the subject of my remarks. This
is, I think, a good rule.
Mr. BURNETT. The reason why I Interrupted
the gentleman was, that I am among the number
of those whose position he wee attempting to state,
and he misdated It
Mr. HICKMAN. I do not know that. I do not say
that in the position of the gentleman front Kentucky.
I most sincerely hope it is not, and that whit 1 stite i , a
misstatement of his position.
Now, sir, there his been art en presSlOn of this kind
made open this floor—and It is not now here—that this
pluraliti role. the only hod shall
which. appearances.
an election can be hod. shall never be submitted to a
vote of this House. The plaituni now occumeil by the
other eide is, that a mrionty of this House, if they wish
to adept this role. shell not lie perinittei to adopt it, NI
reuse n minority upon the Southern side say they will
not permit that vote tote. had.
Mr. BAR KSDALY. Tim centkruati nustales our
position. Our position is, that it minority shall net or
view this House.
Mr. HICKMAN. I(1 mien ite the position of an.
Man, then I will be interrupted If I mutate the posi
tion of any hod , of torn. then they can have the floor
after I have 0,31101111011/ NOW / sir, I do state it again,
and [wish to state it so distinctly that it ton! not tie
nosapprehended here or elsewhere: and if I am meta'
hen in the statement which I shall tnake, it in then
open for correction. I do not &ctn. sa I do not desire,
uutin any mmitsion to misstate the position of en• en
!lntim I say that the deelaration has been made hero
more than mice. 1,1 more than one Southern siontlamtn.
that they or. determined to resist, hr ell patliamentall
itienne—nod, n. the declaration went forth this morn
ing, by all other menns—the solimianen of a plurality
resolution to a vote of the NOW..
Mr. WINRI OW. The gentleman has now brought
hons•lf within the enter°, in which he will allow
himself to he inierrupt d•• for I presume he alludes to
remirks made hp myself I wish to explain my pir.ition.
I believe the plurality role to lie niterly unoonstltution
al. and I shell oppose tic adoption tin ell the legitimat•
means in ni• poser: hot I rim not disposed to make a
Ca ,- ,tious oppostlum to the takinz or of that question
when the proper time arrives. Whit I said for
wady—rind I now repeat it —in, that ii Sou attempt
to approach it in the indirect manner you are it
wonting to-day, I Lilian onto, it tiv ell the Means
in nip power ; but when the resolution comes up
ii a proper shape I shall offer to it no land ons
oppositton. though I shall vote against it. But,
when you attempt to bring it In indirect], I will
resort to other means than Oman t Would resort to when
it is brought on in an open. fair. and leritinotte war.
And Isar this • that so fir $4 1 know. it is the feeling
upon this nee of the Domain that ion cannot reach the
plurality role in nor shape or form, until you Mite lip
fairly, like Mire and courageous men. and meet the
resolution of the gentleman from Mtsson ri, (Mr.
ft.ssta.) Whenvolt have ilisprued of that, hong for
a aril your plurality role if yoOen do it, and I shall op.
ports it with an lAOIII3III spirit. though I shall use all
Pll.ll l 7A t trniAT."4l; o ee d i t ,Vnt mistake the
iture t' mitne - Wroirn,Ocun North Carolina. The only
loose, wh ens oily
ich he has already iiflrrubliltreson to the
,~ and Ido nil think it %%%% yto repeat it. -
Mr.
Mr. HICKMAN. Inndeestand the gentleman from
North Carolina lust now to repeat. as the plurality rale
now presented Itself, he would resist it by all the means
in his power.
Mr. WINSLOW. I mean all the parbamantary mesas
to which gentlemen resort on this Honr. Mr friend
eanlit not slipper. that I woold resort to env other,
Mr. HICKMAN. I alit perfectly witlint to take the
gentleman's explanation, with the limitation. and -
stvietion. imposed upon it. Its ell parliamentary mutes
of resistance I understand toe sentlemin to niece sit
dilatyry motions which coin he put to rhos
as calls of the House, motions to ad}corn, motions to
ailioura Ovilr tlntilpart:o4W di> • c.: rind in this
erne (erelong tee endless chain of sathanteat iry Lac
tic. nail expedients.
it all conies to lip Paula thin; ideutiesnr. that the
Southern side of the !loose. end Northern Denmerats
Intereitneled s sit tact Southern side of the Bout.—
yes, Northern Vemonrats. representing here Northern
einist , teenries, honest ninstitoeucies. have Conte un
Here, and now stand tio'dly upon the ground iwion:d
hr mirtitin gentlemen of the Smith. that tinder no eit i
emnstanees will they pernilt thin plurtht• rule to
rated up... I repeat it, the deLliration a the: th
althmid, at ,n) moment it mar be mad,' periemly tiot.
nilest that a Intro otalortlV Of this bosky sill rote fir the
litltti , tion of the plurality rule. yet that the wu,:e of c,it
.verwhelininK .1131011 t• not. under an, Cll,Olll-
311111133. I. hoard. That 13 it. 111.11111331151 13 called
pemocrney bore.
Well, suppose certain gentleman di, believe the plera
lity rele,onconstitutional whet does that ninolint to • Ant
I to PCIMit the condemn from North Carotin.' [or the
the gentleman from lit meta, Cr ant other gee lemin•
to inatruct me as to ohs% the Consttintiou mento
to not under hie indoctrinatam ! in ti n t Democracy'
Woe I not the right. and tins not any other gentlemen
mon this door thy nett. to interprot the Constitution
as he under/3[lmb+ it. and to Kit it force and elect at
he Iwo understand it?
.Mr. Mitt PON Mr. Clerk--
Mr. UK MAN. 40. :lr ; flint is the Issition of the
great Ortnerr ' , to teolP •
Mr. MI ',LYON. Mr. Clerk---
Mr. 111Cli MAN. I will not permit 'sitarist ptionn un
less I minstate—
Mr. lIILLSON. 1 net. the gentleman if Ile refers to
what I said this ntorning and to me'
Mr. 1-11CIIMAN. I do not. sir.
Mr. I.HAH}! ti you refer to me I spoke on the
subject en Friday Net.
Mr. HICKMAN. I do not. I refer to the remarks
made some tiny. Rowe by Mr. bawl yr, of Virginia.
Plug, then, in thn point to cardinal Oenaterary tent we
are to toaelb A Democratic nutterits chooses to dim's
rent Ilia will of a ins:mitt, and to gar to them that they
will not, under env mem:lV:mem allot.' then, to nom
test or declare that will. Why. sir. thisall means lest
one thing. Even thine that has transpired here for the
last six weeks Pleat,. but one thing, and will bear bat
Ono interpret:, i .n. rit is that this House shall net be or
ganised, but that the reign of terror his already com
menced. and that tilalnilog is budding and lilnegouung
and in soon to bear its !Nits. IDertSiVe laughter from
the Denawrabe honchos.]
Gentleiliee.sn•P ye.e about propositions being illegiti
mate, brims. oils, nit out Ot 1.11110, nn;) not of senson.
w by. sir. no 1, .iihoinn Ibis been tutored herd, and no
mlention ii raised here, that has been in order at
any time. tweiwiliro, in the opinions of certain genii.,
men on line lin e r; and et cryproposition made to die
polio of the itucatoins nowstyndins on the liternal of the
House has been refused on the other side. linters any
gentleman here who presumes to say that the motion
which I stilele some three or four weak; hack, to correct
the mutual of she Itow,n, wan not a Meet question on
which to Vat) it Vote i f It to Admitted to b,. a proper
question. demanding a tote ill the Dome., then tri
lobite the ui9utrt Wily it in that ue hate net been
lewittittsil hi Teat b that rim' I can colt unerrntand
I to be a plot of NO prayrnion.• of artlnn nettled matn
--that no vote shall ho had here, and tent the or:p.m
ration of the House shit not Poen ha appronmated.
hate oftered to throw everything that t have
mired on the burial away from it. I hive offered
that a straight vote shoold be taken on the
. nropo.
stilton introduced be the gentleman from Allesonfl.
[Mr. Cr.titiO and then that we should en on to the
coosideratton of the plurntity rule, followmg the dis
posal of that
they
on. Whenever I hese pi t pl e thorn
sroPositions. they hat., t'l , l4lr..pild.a.od. ror strain
ed, therefore. to entertain the op soon which I now es.
dreg,. that there rem solemn iletormina.ton o• that r i le
of the Hoot,. li t Bontherts Democrats land—what I More
regret trim far—by Note he •11 Dent , terate, who eye never
eXedlin lit e, 111 III) Nilpotent to the satisfaction of
'sorties constituencies, that this House shall not be
kIAIIIIISLWRG, Jan. 1R
ganmeo.
DAHL One moment. If the eentlenian please:
Let me ea) to toe gentleman from Pennsylvania I hnt
the Northern Deinoerale will, is hen the tone comes,
ryes), for themselves. It is not for those Northern De
mocrats to speak fur those who h too run awls fr the
Dimmers to play fora mew of potters nod Ince not
gar it. [l.loghter Irmo the lieoloctstie benches.]
Mr. HICKMAN. No. sirs I gehapt Oat,
hif intro he
any serolemen ot that kind u ho hate tun to this note of
the House for pottage, the, will find stronger cruel than
that found on the other side. I Laughter I Dot I shall
permit no remark of that hind toaloea me from the oh
met which I have In view. and thnt 12, to tusks fluent
rest. it I eon. the rent condition of thing• now existing
here. The force of the rernerl. \glitch I mate, if it in
groundless. man he e.isils disposed of without personal
remarks I
And f aln ale recoil sentleman &Deo to
hard shifts when he looter the emollient ni his ad) er
gsry teeming., in words ore net•oull charneter.
f repeat it, th it the Northern Democgaes were on Oil
•10.1 r, are as fir eontrolled h) southern gentlemen here.
Is to lend their rn pi petition to prevent an orgnni route
of the H
the roloption of any title tint et•
}Laren tip
feel it.
A i r. BARR. I must sly to the tont!emnn thnt • n,t
4 (mlletn gentletelli hl2ll es or llnslerlaken eoetrel nny
No,llolll nun wi tills side, and n, Of could control
Mr. 111 7K MAN. fl I am mistaken, inn gentlemln
.111 ata 111111151.1 AV, 4111(.111111A! At I prop., rune ,tn.l
In 1111101111 If I 4111 rattled to the floor. I with
to have it I make ro pers,t,ty gp t ow- t t, on Of .
iparl, to the gentleman. I do not ko.oe that they all:
I tch to all ilia Northern DemocrarY. hate no idea
thnt lira) wail.
Mr. HARR. One 'content The gentleman stilt that
the Southern teenil4,rl of tie Itentoeratie uart , are
ontmlling the Norteern members of that party. 1 Par
that he pin , .., nip, a. n NOrlhOril t h em ,o(t., 111 a lake
inflation before the Ifinote and before the oodntrt • No
s,othern man has ilnilortn ken to control in. vote
Neither a houthern nor :a Northern rift. cool l do lt
acamat my Y. igliett, and 3411110 rho reqlll.lllrll l .3 a the
, :0111 , t1t1111011arrt the Interest.nr the Demo,ratio party.
Mi HUI( MA N. lat oul.l not foi nor corolideration.
do Injustice to an) omileinan ; liltthink I Will prove
that et en the gentleman himself la rontrt , ll.,l lost as 1
tat.
Mr. HAIM. Plen•e Attu am tol. in wl"di l lArn
eon controlled. Let the leentlemln nut till the time
nod till th‘t eontrel 141r...141J to hour.
Mr. HICKMAN. Toe I.entlennn 40. r. 11 - .1 undaritAnd
Mr. II ARIL vet. RI( ti1114,R:1111 ton s err eleinlr.
Von went to mat me ,n a I 11..• bolitip•o.
Mr. HICKMAN. There Ism. oontrox e,l bete een the
4entletnan andt, Pielt 110 mmunderetande the cont of
111) , remark. I e,r tint men on that Indent the Hell Are
controlled tit gentlemen .if the Sonth. 1 'lt ao for the
, aaa . ot that there moat he gentlemen there who Ire
inatelli to reach n tom tun the blltrallt) rule. and y et
the members of their tiler! patty will not biat i lit them
)4o So.
Mr. HARR. Nave I mon an) vote kt t,twt It '
till t hy? t im e eonlen bebl l e ran !flake tilt rh 1(01.
Mr, HICKMAN. A few till) ngo, when n ah , n 1.A.1
',W.. to Pro •eeil to a ballot. Ind when the pre, lone
, t neation wla eall:d. an the gentl..men tram North C tro
1111 , 11 Mr. Wiautnk% I n‘owepl. for the ptrt ono of pre
voniinc an Amendment to hr nacre,' in the Shape .11
itroiVllll,f.r the pluralttt lute. et et, gentle min on that
ends 01 the Homo toted t so,l tin the pr.% ,„n a
atie/111• 1 1), inorder to pre :ern that ernet.dment I.e.ng
!Platte. rot that mesa., air, I air that the, are
ettntin.O.d In thou, amen ben., and they nand corn
mitten 1001.61110 1.1 flume V. tio are tint) 1111,1 ea thin
tuna of 10,161110 t the organiZ ithpo of the Houle and
preventing a tme on an) quette,n ai atilt n. onth. Joni
nnl of .the Ronne. In thete nn) noconsity kit Wong
From Wanhington.
Sailing of the Arabia.
another ballot I Are we to epen.te day after day in tlim
no'l wort, than HMl:idol:4.lo,oe of
hen we all know 1.,..1eirt!, well that the em,-two o
r M a
ienriff we stand now: I. Mr 000, say
that will never sort another ballot for Ppealmr until
/Oa'. he satisfied that a chanse has taken pL, e m th.
Minds of gentleman mailer on one side of the Whom or
On other unto we hat aflopt the rtutnlity flute. nt
some oilier rule that a .1•31040114 hi It fl It. operation.
I undsmiand. I think. the oisp,ntina which I. here
Manifested to take a bailor. It in ma because It is sup
.•d for ft 111,11aWit thief su Oloi•Lian run result rfoni it.
rho ii"t It. It is fir the purpon n( ii , liotino the De
inoeratin alms in Ihn Nom]. Tim. 14 t he olijeet; for
tell you. sus, that lo M int Wadi- in all
the Sri lion, or the N,,,,!, rn country. Is by do Vat not
lei's a Stomi.er or Dr orm House And we Me to tome a
I.af pit
now, and it Will at tlffiOfiniiilY proposed to do
the rune Dims nn to morrow, and the" next dlr. for
tea Nit pore IlliliOatift. It Will 141 OfiicaMoil flint we
.0.0 ham if n 1,11101, in order that it may no forth to the
Northernll,ll . llpl{l4l . B, that the Democratic
ntty in tlio Hemp, of Hopr•sonrattres ere Join[ all
flins emi t lot lb. tinrix..• at effecting an orranizatiiin.
I will not nehilvt ?ham fillhor in till. wont of deception:
I will ti,,t Sheol further. end I state now. In the
pra.rl,l6t Xr 011.110,1 on the other ails of the Untie,
that the !lets Itoonation must Ise Inane, flooner or liter,
rem,fa the orrifilof•t•fit
I trust 'bet we will .rant by the Voss - lotion that has
been maile by the genihnuan from Ohio and meet the
fight sin, re , y unlit a dispoeit ion ghat' be manifested on
the other ode or the (loose to take up the questions as
their present I lino...lyre Iseinnist•ly upon the lodine!.
end wheat the plurality rut...hell have teen reached in
tbe proper war, to loin upon it. I do notare stout
coming hare day otter day, anal citing for four or fire
hours. (or the torpoee of listen-rig to gentlemen rill
glower national qn.qtlony and defining their positions
noon the exiiit• nee of Olio I.nion. l earn nothing about
'lint. coin enroll man While they are doing that. for I
know they are doing teal ; know thee are tearing the
the(rem the etc. of those whoa, noting with them at
the North, and that ma what, of all things. I most desire,
I wish the liotrin Wan/erne, 141117trete In whew hand,
they are, by w ist doctrine-4 they are to be bound, anal
to whet heresies they will hereafter NI lentli red to sal.-
erribe. I any, l can sit hit. pleasantly to been to this
discussion. becalm it is profitah'e 1 but when they ask
me to sit here and raid fruition, t - Otel day after dsy I
shall terns* it, until I think a change has taken Place in
the diapontions of In • Hones. I wail absent myself
before I will do it. I will not engage in this ridiculous
scene. I think the country has leen auffimently amused
by it. end that we aught to he satisfied.
Mr. Pal'Obl. Beans one or thy number, s.r, whom
lie gentleman from Pennsyluanie I Mr. Ho cafe Isat
lerred.na ',of, ed to employ a l l leuinhate own. to
defeat the adoption of the pluralbi rule, I feel called
upon to make some arty brief and. I flatter myself. very
satirfactory reasons. why I am determined to adopt and
patrols that course. The honorable member from Penn
sylvania, witn n disinrenurimmers which f (antes,
amazed me, even from Mtn. undertook In say that those
of its who were resietins thy adoption of the plurality
role were II miserable minority. eg te r se ..h ey „ emit t h e
legitimate role of Ilan maionty. Sir, he asserts that
which the records distinctlY contradict, and which
every intelligent gentlemen on thin floor knows to be
false
\llf LSON. I rwe to a point of order.
Mr PRYOR. I bog my milestone's pardon.
Mr. MILLSON. I rim to a mint of order. It Ise,
mate nnetwimit. (hooch with less reluctance whets
one of nib colleagues is concerned, though I have men
narasinn one, or twice to remit' A point of order to the
Hon, for th•, bream of Area ending reNnlta which re
rent event, admonish us RR hem. very likely to occur.
1 aubmit. then. to my eaelsue. that it is within his
constouttonAl whit. km It is certaiely within his totellec
wet pow or, to be Is severe ea the nature of the case
mac demand without being unparl , nmentary. I call him
ti, order for the expression he has used.
Mr. vRYOR. do not know • hat the resources or toy
'lest - Atte, are. but I am satisfied I know no tantalum
but the I'm shah. a-tt that is the plain Anglo-Saxon
longue; and, therefore. notwithstanding the mint of
order the gen leman has raised on me. I repeat that the
statement of the gentleman Iron, Pennsylvania is
false,
m i ., at 11,1,R,iN. Then I raise the point of order. and
demand a vide of the House norm it.
Mr. KEITT. Then I shall discuss it.
Mr. PRYOR. And so I shall go on and diecniie it and
prove that I liaßit the justifiable parliamentary word. I
toll eve I have the
The CI,F RK. The gentlemen from Vireinia will
pardon the Clerk for elating that when the point of
order
Mr. PRYOR. Allow me one word. I have said
'AIM I have said, and do not leveed to repent v, I
raid it twice, and am going on. if you will al OW ma to
en on.
Mr. MILLRON. I supposed my colleague wou l d an-
Preciate readily my motile.
\lr. PRYOR. Ido appreciate the motive of nip ho
norable colleen,. and procutie to unit that branch of
the few remarks I intend to submit.
The honorable aentlemen from Pennsylvania has
undertaken to represent the minority, as tie calls us.
urmn this Omar. and especially that branch. the ;silent
members of the minority. the 'Democracy of the North
SO operating with tie in the attitude of a factious, con-
Inn famous. And illegitimate resistance to the res o les
and warrantable rule of the majority. I may that be
has mistaken the fact, and has misstated oar portion.
We. sir, are the majority; he is the minority. underta
king' tom:moms his objects through means I/legitimate,
sii t osoal paparllTToßataly tarns Isilsm•ut• nneon
*taut tonal. That being the state of the ease. we stand
for therights and interests of the majority ho work
ing in the interests and objects of the minority. and
that, ton. by insidious, clandesitme. and Pestilent
means. We feel ourselves not only leivinnted tint
compelled to resist him by all the means which %mi
nor tr. In parliamentary bodies, can employ, to d feat
to nefarious an enterprise.
Now. Mr, Cork. I invoke the aid of the record to rus
min me in MY Position. Weal dote it exhibit.' It ex
hibit. four parties upon this ham who pane nominated
candidates, 1 lie Democrat e party came forward with a
candidate—a gentleman exempt in his character. in his
career.and in his recent. from any legit ralte objection;
a cOnilerVatita man, a high-toned eentlernan.a patriot,
livery inch a patriot. We presented him to this Fout* •
tut after a few ballots aro discovered he could not be
elected. What then! Did we obstinately end stit,na-
nuele insist ups., his candidacy ? No.sir ; in a bunt
of concession and compromise, whiche,
you had r
right to demand or expect of no. we ri ll. di—n hi.
myname, and presented you with y rat.'• and
worthy colleasue from the Stateof Virginia. (Mr.
M0t...0wl who, upon one permeate.? sienna,.. was
thought to be more acceptable to you then so, re.
gula• CROCUS nominee. You refuted to rote far him.
We superseded his conditions hr the gestlernan from
California. I Mr. Scott Von wont) not r. to for him.
Then we took the gentleman from Texas. (Mr. hfl WIT -
10% Iwho belonged to no political organisaPon, nod
aytie woo opposed to the Lezompson bill. thereb• doing
violence to our own feelings and with an ex rern • So
holltlite to Wert en orgero gallon of this Ranee, hoping
he might possibly' be elected
Now. I appeal to you and to the erniertr if that
factions Vol disorganizing course ? What has been the
emirs* of this self-ststed splinted, mallard!' upon Ova
floor I In the first instance they nominate smart who
ie
.shnumous to us. not only because he express.,
and mtvros•tes the ntinrip'e• of the Repent can part,.
but who is exceedinilg repugnant to our feelings be-
Calla/ of his coinehrit, with a moat treasonsble and in
lemon, publioation. We make a protest against hie
elootton. In the name nt the country and of oar cost
ntituency. and we record that remonstrance against
the elf, toil sal the Black Repieblicon nominee for
Speaker
What shy rondo? You who are now affettino to he en
101 ritOtls for the organization of this House. in tee in
terpose of the Confederany, what do you do: Po yogi
nresant us with the name of another candidate
sod have On. amens a our tanks who I undertake to
sal. small faminants witrt the total, MAO Of
the coontry, era equally
lees
of that high honor
as is the gentleman tram Ohs , . psis* Is the sent,e.
mana honorable colossus. I Mr CnewIll•1 • man or
historical reputation. one who has served In high
and important functions of the COrernm•at with
credit to himself and ilistnehon to h:a State• bat
who chnories to he &nine w hat consiervatire on tie great
reams that now convulse the country. WhT liot pre
sent him? Then. MVO a. there le the hionorah e gentle.
mon from New Jersey. Mr Postai, iron who ad
dressed the II sassthe other day—a gentleman of
trays dignified, and decorous dometnor--one whew*
personal eheracter comes with the halm, attestation:
whose honesty is 'ruble in she imprese anat.:lt On ha
(ass, hot to*, Is a little SOISNISVIttIre, why not
o
r. hIrRA r. Hai flierienfle7ntn .
the floor'
The CLERK. no Clerk rerasnited the gentle Men
from Peniissilvansa.
Mr. Mc RAE Then f y ; for I never Internet
Ana Poly
Mr. HICKMAN, If II hat hail tit, e o ony to sit
down and consider what the pr if able elect of t o, re
marli• would be on the other sole of the Douse. I should
prointls pare route to the concha nn that the: you'd
yardarm precisely the pßert which tiler hay,. produced.
(he rentlernen (rani S urrinia, who ha., just taken his
a vat, has see.' proper to raise a li t vencay
with Trio
Mr PR 'OR. Allow me ire. n wit I iassinte,shed
e n d stigmatized the statement of the gentleman as
false These I stand.
:Mr. HICKMAN. I dirt roily so on torstand it. He
lies chasm, to rums 14 of terse t y "soh Ise I
wish basal t., trim geetleman.orico tor n 1 to coh
ere who !nag thirA as does. that I shall ro; 'art w i th
m• mown of ;Inane!, nor sever mtge . ( from ray
respect;ti nor will I (,WAL the giod lit ininn of mg
plc—if I now pow's, it—hi' toining An tun , with him
Inv the determinationof that quegsion the court
wh iii lie Mar prefer. leo not mr. reroprosa that as
trittinal of the country. I has mite a ueolarvion,o.l
it will email And if there tie a duibt is to the I rum
fulnega of it, that is to be determined ht a tribunal of
more general hirailirtion thin that rut 10,1 the gems!,
Itiln proles., to bring his acres, .t will be dete Mined by
the ion") „
Mr. PR YON. Will the gentlern in phase SA:test
a hat trilioßal UP to el ro'errlnfl telt !
Mr II al N. d VI el. I Undi !Stipat ots we'!
Mr. PRYOR o no!
Mr. HICKMAN I understand precise!, Shit kind of
is to tnis it Apo , siti to bring me t here.
Mc, PRYOR. Will the gentleman allow me' I cannot
understand. I ran assure him and the House that
nothing was further from ing purpose than to throw oat
to ere: any overture. int Ration. oar nanace to personal
combat. or any thing of the kind. He is mistaken. His
sire t imagination has created perils which aster ex
isted Nn. sir. IPI yrrs•ly in-tinted by what tribunal
I would haa e that ism,e of a eramrty determined; I said
lie tribunal of the record ; sad on that I now
Mn, HICKMAN. Then the gentlemen Dom Virginia
than Id he more etiolated and strolosißpost in his lan
guage. I repeat that * hen n S.Authetn 'gentleman of all
others, makes use of lansuaye of tniii knit, it can be
sinderstsk al but in one way ; and I wish to ray row. once
for all, that the gentleman cannot try any question wish
me in hit mutt I prefer to select my own tribunal Inc
the final lit nir corn causes. I will not rept• at any i in,
hereafter. if I Pan avoid it, to sac remarks of toe
kind I have been expecting they rook! come. I *Lt
millsurprised that they hate not come at an earl.er day.
Int worst excuse Imo I siren for them?
ailr. BARKSDALE. Yon fait that 'undeserved them.
Ijangliter from nen...rata!
W. HICKMAN. Yes sir I deserred their, boron',
I doses to argue the question pending before the House
without personal reference to an , gentleman who ruin.
mitered •einarks in any thin: °Tonsil... I tare attic
and Abundant opportunity for interruption to Any gen
tleman who conrdered that he •as to any extent
invola ed in in> remark , ISORaI/SO discuss the eties•
Don az it conies before the House. and do It In my
own any. tint rospectfulls ; and the gent email (coin
I Sly. revolt] hos dlowan to n.e the I intuntli
he hne used kir. I repeat that I will rr.t try that slues.
lino of verteity in hie court- It is not the tritons] of
the North; it le not olio lost I will rerntnise : and I
trust that yen a lierealter. rf the, chcoae to res o rt
to langua:e of ins 'lt. sa ill remember it. If tor posiiions
ea., re answered ihr n I think gent'emen sh o uld reo g
ith a roil manse ; It la not nenestary to resort to persotal
insult. ins active, or
biLZ ny PPM FVRA Tlll9 MOINIIO.—B. Stitt
Jr , auctioneer, .1.11 Chestnut street, will sell this
mottling, at half past On o'clock, an attractive
assortment of line furs, consisting of mink, mar
ten, and squirrel sets, very fine mink sable care•,
high cost, and fine mink sable muff*: gents' coat.,
glove , , mufflers, fancy wolf and bear robes. lined
buffalo robes, ,to
Tn.: I , [ - Nn 1 -, .R rim Lt ITRENCF. St - rfEarn4.
—We hare received from King.ley's Ecrreat, the
following list of tho amounts received at that c.fsce,
in xi 1 of the sufferers by the dreadful olta.ltrophe
at Lawrence • ti tl. Evens, Rat , SI,OOO ; Ii F
Palmer, , slot , ; in behalf of the operators of
Maxwell A. Son'a factory, SlOo; a member of St
P,.ter's Chureh, 5` , 0, cash. SI, oath, : 5 ; "'h.
$ : enah, =l ; humanity. $3; Patton it Co ~F 3;
CILII3, ;RI ; Mr. Houton, SI ; Mr Tack. SI ,
a total $1,274 00. Wo understand that a number
of boy] hare rolled at the office, and contr:bated
sum] from 25 to 50 cents to aid the sufferers We
. .
havo already untied a eub , cription of 3115 lent.
to bo forwarded by Mayor Iluary, by the work
men of Code, Hopper t ticttr, and a contribution
of 11100. by Warner. Mkkey, t Nferrill's hand!.
Wo may also menti.m that Mr Daniel II Drown.
gentleman null known to the re.sidenu of the Eigh
teenth oard, 1113 kindly forwarded, free of acv
!hart t Mate% er, a large quantity of hit remedy
for burnt or wound.,
ilrtm t TRoupn This company, p
to second to none in the Unten, w .1 ennx
t the Wslmst strent.Thestre on Nlc,n,:ay
to Init. We ore rtt,afteJ. (tern tint xro hat
oard of theta. that nt.t .701 t.e10.0111,1:11.1..)
1.0114,t,.,1 Lt [air; In h , rtr them.
A "Situ SPINCLED YiNktes Oet
NlO OP 1. PIMLT/At r,ut T• 11 chock, t rim.
rout, t Over, and a laud 01 spi!in'! Words. spoke
oral, es;steslars. or otherwise. don't hint wa'an :sr
ruws of llPtde trees of meetta' the cue Et I had t:
umaxa or a.
.1.3 wises'. and war a tinklin .
s.)unilin' Liss. 'tittle. I couldn't dew it' Mr feelin's :
onerprossit'n, an' psst findiri' rout. F.eh a rush o
eel Birl or en, country, me i 4..111—%
1 1 lee rice us all yer rrot. et , en re yer tl,l testhc
str,r, t eree!f nwek.nn,l then 1.11 me the 11r.t.sh I
thlt I le•ty for ink. Iwo!. Net,
==Mtl=l
10 tit'Ar. Chestnat stteat Brother Jot:v . 11:1
wa tot %LA,/
FACre tan MCT tulit , ll —A tn•klel advertitettleat.
v. neer en9l the sets-nu IVt I.lne ••
of lot e and chli.ty.” let Y. hereeller sites!, of i n .
cooltint tnnce t.n it a. the warm hearted trunlster to
typet,te Ir 4 litentiner 1, of t.,e Nduerrwtt t pa App.
PIZ n rt , '1.3 tqltht 11,w1 relie,t,r Of 14.. tut) IC t worth.
nil of the carn,nts mid, it the Brown ettone Clothlat
Hall of &flt and 6ubches•ont
street. nbot, ! 4 ,11 11. ail 00 ire .t promote, er
nml mit. to in Clint , n eat er,r.
Tun MIN for sub , nibing to the Cosmopolitan
Art J ..roorafinn Is rtpnE) drArrring In a C;o3n. we 31.1
• , 111 rOsjers who 'Ave not already done so to a.. t 1
• ~ ,t0 At nn J. The terina are only three II Irate 3
eir. for whion 111 X t rim the 41a• of tout
I. ,, ner.i.o.Jites having t etyinze to the award of sows
1 , 1,11111111119. )1.111(1 I. H 11Jr.i . Path and
Chestnut streets, are the Philadelphia 'teats.
FINANCIAL AND CO.ILMERCIAL.
The Moiler Market.
PHILADELPLUA, JIM. 13.
The board to-day again suspended for sixty days
the penalties against such of its members as may
be guilty of dealing in puts" and " calls. — In
this the Stook Exchange have made a sad mietake
Their action !s calculated to cast still more
on stocks as a medium of speculation for it is im
possible to perceive any real dtCerense between an
operator risking his one or Eve dollars a;airst the
market price of any stock and the ordinary opera
tions of a faro hank. In reply to thi, it nay be
urged that all speculative operations in stocks are
gambling. This is no more true than that nearly
all the operations of commerce deserve the
name of gambling, for they are all, to a
snore or less degree, based on indisiduel
judgment as to future value and rrttrpc•ndirg
risk of loins, and though they may not be !Able
to such extensive rlottuations as Reading •1 r Long
Long Island, they still contain the elements
speculation, and differ only in degree. There is no
real difference between stocks as a legitimate tests
of speculation, and flour. whiskey, real estate. ar-t
dry-goods. By legitimate speendatkn in he
we do not mean the operations of the outside VAC M,
to which eighteen months ago. and now by the r_s
pee•ion of this rule, the board of brviters bare
abandoned their speculative lnKnes. Of the spa
rations of this rum, general:y known as the
"slaughter-house." we think the public hare mff.-
eient knowledge to ear. the necessity of any Er. it]
descriptions
The transactions there are a'reHt entirely bpi,
either directly or indireetly, on '• puts ati
• calls, — and are COn in7t6.l without order or reri.7.-
larity, and sometimes in a spirit that makes the
rule of might the sole arbitrator.
When such is the p;licr Coi cur ruck
can it he wondered at that the hulk ct operations
in speottlatire stixks are executed in New Turk'
At the hoard meetings to-day, e-mni
were firmly held. excepting Pennsylvania I:silt:al
stoa, which declined • fraction. witi:e the lyric
were a Made better. A sale tit CITAI k
was made at r
We read of the New York exoher-ge L'lrk%!
that it opened on Monday fist and %bin Ind
benkera got thrc ugh a largo emcnnt of sterling. at
ii a fli, and some at E.:. but in the afterr.‹, a tie
rates ware put up to ..,i and nr, and axe sa:es then
took plaee at the former rate. To-day ,Tuesday •
considerable has been done at fil, and the =ark i f
has closed rery firm at this rate. A. Beltcont 1
Co drew largely yesterlity on London. et QL a .1
per cent , and francs% per ,nt :on Paris at 3 177
net. Commercial bile hire been soli In pr:.por.
finite d;fferert:cs, and today hare tarticirated
in the rise. th.ugh as regard; the fret., T....9,f
there are still meaty of cheap bills. wide 1!r:...y tz,
come forward-
Before the great Victoria Bridge at MTrt:! , l
wit accepted of the eontreetors. it was. rut t.., t1..._
a,,, , •re test of a loaded trsin weigh;ng the et,r
moos load of one ton to the Nutt -e face. whirl I:
WSJ difficult for three powerful Ifieoneorirci to .irrg
along. While in the first tithe on , y. the deferti - n
of that tube was seven-eighths of an inch, the ad
joining empty tube being liftel in the taill,e
three-eighths. The load being Sized half ever
both tubes, the deflection was the came in eszh
three-fourth+ of an inch; and when ran w!....!"
upon the secand tube, the reset was the tete tic ed
that in the first. The final test we, the I , n; ter,
test span, (32 feet.) where the defection was inly
one inch and three-eighths In no ir.VtiNTe was the
deflection greater than fire-eighths what it was e. x
petted. PM
It is eutheritatirely elated that the gap Letween
Charlotterrille end Lynebbnig. Virginia, wee
opened to travel on the 9th last , ant the ;:n
-nection of the two cub of the III.ordt:11.1 ern
trsl toil complete-4 on the lOth. It taw ric0...4
for the ei , mloined.c. , napanies conapwing thta nuts
to carry cut their pledges in shortening the time
between Washington and Neer to:lea= to three ar.l
a half Jaye.
The twenty•eflh annual report tf the Western
(lleteachwette) Railroad tbows natiree v 1,4-
tows .
From pandits/in__
•• trete ht. ......
& c
Total .
The expeue. for the year mere VIS "n 74
leaving A net beislx , s cf inccate c.( 113
The gr , )is receipts cf the ICU u e•:::4 , 171.1 er:tS
the re.!eipto cf stand thas
Yesrr. Pia - WM tfl- FIIP'gZt. C45:17 Sair!ell.
I iSS . is DC SU Fa ad. 7.43
LSSt. 671.111 IA 141 7:7 NI
note sAir . I. f a.: — 5
tHILADELPHLA !STOCK EXCHANGE
hour/ 3, IMP,
RSFOIYID IT 21. E. Et-arr WallottEcrte:.
7113 T 111/111D.
Ws) City 4a. N 12.413301.4. Rol mt.; . 4.7%
fV C.ty . .
1:00 2' Leitch. Txt .-4
4 4.." I dr .. t 3
1•31) C:n.! 64, 2 Lilies 'gar
NO , 7,45. .b00n C 7, .
1747 do. .14 ; ? east - r l / 2
4450 Catz _ .¶ 5
AV do . I We,: m*3
lay Wilminett 941 I lima Mei k .T.Vo
135 de 4.1
BE-TWEE." sexing.
IWO fteadmi R II less i . is
SECC.IIID HOARD.
MOB Reritog R4'.1.91 ' 7 ii.rard. SY ass
I B. .V.4.f.r.,....c5" 61. -
I d r , . . as 4 di, -
1.4 R. _.. t. r.s• ai I._ }:-‘•
1,..4 J, I.l.sik,si pd 3$
Ir2SECJEM=MI
riN N
New- tc"; " 2120 !4
Pram* Fe _ s - boa
.. it 22
Raaaut IV! g:11" 1 :".1.":'
morn 11/04e 2C ff N h
" do
••
2d is r. . Catterass R
Mem/ ..!saa.l Coo 4. , ", sr ' d. 1,, mc
met 121 11P, R
Sail! Nem de 'U.
Philadelphia Markets.
3 A AAA r If—teet - it
Th• =Wier es-ht.:vies C.:: ‘.24 t e
reported is at, L.eia choice extra.ulseh solist 8t
the trade are rults t. to 4taltssi eV:Att. It t ,
t• Se 363:7-Z for suet early std s. ,
:I,lu/tits: there It aa cdprsta laaa ff -!a? . I.ae
F cur sot CCore Meal are ofered at rre - -r •
rates say 8133 hr the former. asi 031:1
od - ored spar.es It. tot tralrd t
I:anted. and 37 , 11 at.a.t 1 3..13 rsa.- whet - me r •
/34e136r t., 136r se to a mil Ins att I (la e
,s Me '
tar at lid lot Pee- .s ra:l•:
the adrante a:.1:3/I.V try tt.crs., et--,
au 7ia77e it 1:-.1 eats 3.M.1 c,re. Oats Ire l•• a •
decr.sed. std lAL hut Pa sold at lie_ :a store Ba•
• a Ile of I it) bee Nev Yuri vie r ide I I_e
Rut is sews and ataatte. and 23 7,1
ettrrsa adLi at Jr to too. Cottee—Terre a rt:ttr, e. :••
eel:used. aid at.out ZIO tsars !tare ern soli at fm
3titst G•• - vel,ea—Tha rtaAst 13 Itlllft 311.141. cILa -
'say r• Col's* eras resit stn.'', serisone Cabe
IS on t ese. Pronsiots—Ttere •ery .r r
. - • - • ,- • ..
d: ,, in:. end no eelsee , I: ;71ett. beede--1 - tc - 4 .• •
cf.h demAnd for Corea-red; aboc.; ee, 1.•., e ..! x:
from IJ-.!s co eem.tne eczer fore, -.•.,.. '.....e• Ire r , l - ,
ranee Fixx•fted is sorts St-f.± t , fne. We 'lre , - .7.
tlnnei dull sr' onset•lel; 1) :.Ss Pees s• 4 et :v, - .
Weetern.Z.:Z!..e: dn.) ft. :"...'‘ez ; and h 12.4 !:,,, .e ,
4111 on.
Markels by Telegraph.
8 0-T!‘" 1 .• .11". V;t 9i ft 3 , / tr; =
RA at 1..0,ae9 ; •11;le.1.1).11ec ;
•
Mtn. 74473 e ; ye-Low. 73 EN:,. Pro , t.,.e • at...
Whatil 41114 t it 2r..e. ills es NCI' rott
SPECIAL NOTICES
TER (:RCA I' FIRE IN' BETCILIC Sr2EF.7
Favz Dal• or TSI, F-11
—Nast: Yoat..l.souxr, IS. iko —bees:,
Hate Yell,t, I rareoksed Iron too Lee
had in use in ins o±,e. N, Si Ann i:reet.st t - (
the recent crest Ore in Beekr,, A a n stree;,...,
teste,l by are. an.l prwrce.t a:1 my blyerr_
pret - ,01.s notes. alter reotsLerng :a the turtsr_e v - J.t%
r e4lll fire days. You ail passe send ne. en :her b
taxer rre. to ran preorbt &Sr.. No. 111 Nsman r • •! .. T,
andobllge, your troll, JOHN F. SIMON.
1 1 .itoona
FARRELL, EERSINO, A CO
I ayna'a Flt,laie'ph-s, a:a Ott alera •
:kta re of litaata,'s .1: $. •f
M. FINIL}I . 3 SIMIX6 MACIIINES ART. T.i%
ranted the heat fora': ILla4a cf fan, :y ,-
acluriag rtirr,rea. If they do Lilt t et
to eschsecNi or tat price ref tr. J.-? Pr ,
varda. 'ell CHFaTNI:T Stree, rt.
OKs Paws CT-OTTIMG car nre tra.:•l
Srrtzt. mail., in tnn rant manner. Aronteely :7:4. For_
TA It, SALM LOWEST eellsg woe, m ,l ti
Film Els - arse. All good.. made to oven r
fAct,ry. Orr ONE-PRICE System rtnetly rrt
o. As we bAlleve ttle to to the catty Slur way of
All Are thereby treaUd Alrks. ONE& .
Id MARKET Screl..
Gxocu 1 BLURS'S
Cti 1191.1111.2.31 FAILLT
•T IILDITCYD PISCI3.
r CHESTNUT STEER,.
PHILADILTHIA.
Sly .xn's Sr.wwa 11 \CHINVS.
No. 2 ;4222 Msehatea.---• -•
Na. I Seem( . • • --
The Parutly
I. M. I , INteS.St k CO , .
No. GO CH ESTNUT • e
SALMIAMDER Flan-PllOO7 SA, —A very
Lute taw, tizent 9ALAII A-N1.4; RS lot st
Ltva Prlz4... No. VW cIiEs:NUT Serest. 1 . 1•1,3.5.e:4 •
ta43 tf EVAN 3 J.
Borpots SEWING 3licumr.
hierwrED DOUBLE THREAD
FIRST FRENIUM AT )VERY
46 Sal MARCH St Mitts wt,
Sanso Frma—lSinos.u. Siyrrr
0, .—Caartsred by t Nati rewal'lv Lt.s.
I. Money Is re...wrsd sTvry asy, sa4 rx ai•
aria or mall.
I FIVE PER Wil%T.tatezeu uo ps-4
the d.sy tt is pat to.
o.Twsmone7 061-ra
It a fog. Inthout
4. Many u raer. red Loa ErlfS.Nor. .4
fiflciftitall. sal Cat( Trvtr.",cip i 4 r..t war,
to lamas. a limy or elort
a. Tha mosey neolvad traa Depantors a r:* fr.! -I
Raal EMAIL Malian*. 6reas.l latli, sai ors:: Im
am aazartea.
4. thtes open oviry day —vreiztrr !Lima. toad vett
tow Mini amt. rt e-te..eak] a. 4411
BBAYNX s S.4IrINGI FrrD--NOSTBII
- VILA 81COXII Mkt WALN CT Strvota. — .Dep.mlla -
e•t•ed smia sad lane I noctzts. frmi t:sarai z.l
tLe ealleinlauty .144 Win, ,Lis Nal to tla rite iwtr
erns. per azzan.
Moan MAY de draws b Watt IR itUal I kaa ►S la
twat.
04,)4 0,. 4.4i10 ritual twall
dir 144 nrarlty until f ts the
FIiANKLIN FELL. I , :saaw az.d Sureu..l. CiLis
U. MOIL&
9 clan 2'
5215 V
i 241 5.9