fir) Vress.
SiIIURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1861
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CALIFORNIA CIRCULATION.
amd contains a complete summary of what has trim
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Rear ' P+on.—New Pablioations ; Publieitions
deceived ; The Rev. Dr. Storrs' Lecture; Our New
York Lbtfer ; Personal and Political ; General
News; Religions Intelligence; Weekly Review of
the 'Philadelphia Markets. FOURTH PACs —The
National Srists—Extrants floor the Great Speeches,
or lion, ,lohn A. WClernand, of Illinois, and Ron.
s: , Cox, of Ohio, (Deuglas Democrats,) in the
licisteea Representatives, January 141, 1861; Mil
' the Intelligence.
Which As Which T
TIM blunders in the English journals, when
American topics are discussed, are frequent
and amusing. At one time English editors
declare tbatthe President of the United States
is
,eleete4 by the rowdies of New York ; at
another, they acknowledge Mr. Bennett's -
Ifeifild to be reliable and respectable ; anoa,
they Oise:outgo of Ohio as margined by the
'4,llantie, and so on. We bay° now to notice
their lateat and moat amusing error.
, A London periodical, entitled cc Ours a
Week," commenced eighteen months ago, to
, tivallfickens' ct all the Year Round," bas an
article; in its number for December 29,
ic Abritexa Lincoln, President Elect of
the United States." It commences thus,
biographically : ,
. .
"'Honest Old Abe,' as the Americana oall
Linimln, was originally a farm•laborer in Illinois.
; Frederick Douglas, the Little Giant,' his defeated
...antagonist, was a cabinet maker."
Here be two pieces of exclusive news—that
Frederick. Douglass, the negro, was the pont!-
' Cal antagonist of Mr. Lincoln, anti that the
said Frederick bears the sobriquet of the
, Little Giant." In the innocence of our heart,
we always thought that, not Frederick Don
' Masi, but Stephen A. Douglas, stood in that
position, and bore that familiar sobriquet.
Moreover, -We were certain—until corrected
in our belief by " Once a Week,"—that Ste.
phen A. Douglas is a white man, instead of a
black.
The English editor cannot plead, In extenua
tion, that Frederick was a slip of the pen, for
a dozen lines lower down, be describes what
Friderick Douglas said of Mr. Lincoln "in
, one of his stump speeches, when lately nine
, - rating the northwest provinces." He adds
that in 1858 this self-same "Frederick" was
elected Senator for Illinois, and that the Now
York Tribune is a "religions" paper. No
.
thing can be said to excuse the ignorance of
a writer, who confounds black and white in
this eidd manner—who supposes a negro eligi
ble for the Presidency—and who * speaks of the
States of the Union as provinces. To carry
on the joke, this very facetious and accurate
English writer brags of his personal knowledge
of America, its institutions, its people, its
politics. it I," he Says,' "who have stood for
hours and days watching the boatmen of these
'rivers [the Wabash and the Mississippi] know
hoir laborious is their life:' he alludes to the
boatmen, and so on. All this conies from
people writing boldly about matters with
" which they are almost unacquainted. Not
- otherwise could any person here blundered so
palpably is to confound the Jinni Si A. Don
. miss, the patriotic and. eloquent' Senator -for
- Illinois, with Frederick Douglass, the negro.
The Voyage of the Brooklyn.
_-, - It is now asserted that the object of the Go
' verntnent in sending the Brooklyn to Charleston
. Was not to help the Star of the West to de
liver reinforcements and supplies to Major
'Aasnansofr, but to direct her to return to Ramp
ton Roads, and there await further orders. A
correspondent of the New York Times says
' that her officers werecommanded cc to proceed
direct-to'Charlestnn harbor, but not to go over
the bar, nor come to anchor, but lay under
_L ,„,..as- ....1.,......4.1 n if the Star of the
~.._, . ,
.landed her troops ; if not, to coun
t, , , , ___,g Indere, and order her, with the
~,tit.
, Oilliniipton Roads: an& ..s.t.-------
sing iarni.a - 64 - tr,i - n .
r thaiiiddr - Qt to the - existing
'.', State of oll;tirs there, and theme return imme-
Affffely iolliimpton Roads." .
Ifinttn she arrived off Oharlestonliarbor-she
perceived a small ,schooner coming out of the
'pert, the captain of Which, in reply to the re.
quest of the officers of , the Brooklyn for in
formation, made the following statement:
"The name of this schooner is the latth, of .
- Harwioh, Mesa. ; the Star of the West attempted
'to enter the barber on the 10th, for the purpose of
landing her troops, but she was fired into—fu all,
mato nineteen shots. We think, some, of them
struck her near the wheel - bones . After this de
monstration on the part of the authorities bete, she
put to sea again, without landing her troops, and
weeuppose she has sunk at sea, with all on board
PiVe , vessels hare been sunk on the bar to obstruct
the passage of inbound vessels; pilots are forbid
den to go on poord armed vessels; all lights are
:Vitt and• there are batteries all *long the
beach, Ityrou are the steamer Brooklyn, you bad
better take a are of yourself, for they on shore are
ready for you. We expect to be seised for robin
• tearing this infOrmation."
The captain, immediately after hearing this
statement, condituled_ that his mission at
Charleston WAS virtually at an end, and there
fore returned ; brtt,'es may be well imagined,
'there_was no little regret and indignation
amonglhe crew that, at a time when the gal
: :lattt' commander of Fort Sumpter was in a
particularly Unpleasant and restrained position,
Abpy - could'do so little to relieve him:
one of the most serious ceases of cm-
, bsyriutement in - the present crisis that the
hands of the officers of the National Govern
'meat are in a great measure necessarily bound,
• atid:ffiat they are compelled to act purely, on
• th'e - gefensiio, even when the teen 01 the Union
'are moat active and belligerent.-
The r Now, King of Prussia.
:' The official newspaper of Prussia, published
Bernit,'aturunces'that the Prince of Prim.'
Lila, on succeeding to the throne, has assumed
i;:the title of Flatonaton V. That eminent au
"theta's; Wackford Squeers, when
— dicing Nicholas Niekleby to the• miserable
phial() which he bad given the pretentious
title of DOtheboys Ball, declared that "amen
. May , call his house an island, if he likes;
there's no Act of Parliament against that, r
believe." 80, no doubt, the new King . of
Prussia might call himself Nebuchadnezzar
tbeTilteentb; if it so pleased 14m. But no
...cording to the custom of Europe — , ho„ is not
Frederick the fifth, but the third. The first
that name, who founded the Praisian mo
narchy, reigned from 1701 to 1718 ; the se.
cond, 'commonly called The Great, reigned
Item 1740, to 1786; the thiid ie the presont
Monarch. The other Kings of Prussia have
— bean rasnarnon, Mutsu I to IV.' It Is
" true that the firstof all the Prussian monarchs
Wag Fasnsatorr. 111., of Brandonberg, who
eleyated that Margraviate and the Prussian
, Duchy into a Kingdom,—but the Prince of
Prussia whose name, the 4lmanach de Gotha
informs us, is F !LEDER must
be, not WILLIAM V. nor Fazimatow V:, but
Wimisis•Fitensincw. V. The matter, at best,
is of no great importance, but a wrong title
_would create noamall amount of animadversion
and discussion in Germany, where great par
,,ticularity is observed in whatever relates to
princely - etiquette.
Major,Alideri!.on.
- The high esteem in Which this gallant 'officer
was held by military men, even before his re
cent conduct in Charleston, is shoWn by the
factthat he was detailed by a special order of
-the Pre'sident, Mined in July last, to visit Wert
pbtnt ,cg examine into the. organization,
-vide& of discipline; and course of instruction
of the United States Military Academy." '
yho Charleston Custom House.
By the statistics accompanying the last re
port of the Secretary of the Treasury, it ap
pears that the custom house at Charleston, S.
has already cost the National Government
more. than $2,000,000, although it is still un
andrmore than $500,000 would be
f:re4inired , to 'Complete it, This is one of the
buildings which, the Seceders seized upon at
$. -, Lthe outset of their movement, and the Pal
-4hetto-frag'nOrevraves over triumph. • '
• -
elemus eon.
occupied; u at prompt, by political and
'lmmoral 'uows.cf imiiertsmee Ltd orsiesm- -
not expect to make 11.10 M for political oontrliwaloas.
"Bali abtob. We ?cadre ore ,lisfel,* cared for, 10 /
ooroiptod 'aPpear ,fu due time. in each
S 3 the writer &Milli apped his rams Rad ad.
14canitecitoattable .'us, in many butte* . le cessiu-
Moots directly sibilt him, and lave delay and es
pouse.
It would appear, by the latest news from
Italy, that if France should relinquish its
quasi•protectorate of the ex-King of Naples,
Russia will send a fleet to (}iota; to succor the
beleaguered Bourbon, if needs be. On New
Year's Day, however, at his usual State and Dl
ploreatiq levee, NAPOLEON publicly told Lord
Courtur, the British Ambassador, that he en
tertained every hope of continued peace in
Europe. This, however, was before the re
cent _demonstration of Russian ships being
sent to - claeta—a procedure which would
undoubtedly have a tendency to cause hostile
relationt between VICTOR ENIIANDEV and the
Czar. The interference of the latter in Ita
lian politica would be ill received by Europe,
and especially by France.
Cannata:4, being now at Caprera, literally
without money—for he, never drew any pay
daring his campaign in Sicily and Naples—
France, England, and Italy are about getting
up national subscriptions to raise sufficient
money to insure him a respectable and settled
income for the remainder of his life.
WE deeply regret that a remark in one of
our Washington letters, a few days ago, re
flecting upon Hon. JenEs M. MASON, United
States Senator from Virginia, should have ap
peared in our columns. Differing wholly
from Mr. Ems as we do, we have no wish,
especially in the present crisis, to give civet
lation to any remark that may be personally
offensive to political opponents, and if we bad
seen the passage in the letter in the proof, wo
should certainly have erased it.
rir The following letter from the gallant Maier
Anderson in reply to one addressed to him by C.
G. Childs, Esq., communicating to him, SIB chair
man, a resolution unanimously adopted at a meet
ing of prominent citizens of Philadelphia, without
distinction of party, held at the ball of the Board
of Trade, on the 3d Instant, will be read with in
terest:
FORT SUMPTER, S. 0.. {
JAW:M.Ia 19,1861. S
Sin : I thank you for the oomplimentary terms
in which you were pleased to communicate the
resolution unantrnougy adopted at a meeting of the
oitizens of all political parties, held in the hall of
the Board of Trade, in your city, on Thursday,
Jan. 3, 1861.
Such an endorsement, from soh a source, is a
compliment which I feel most deeply—a compli- -
Leant, I know, not lightly bestowed, and therefore
more highly to be prized. Would that I could
express to each of my fellow-countrymen who
have thus honored me and my little band, the
feeling' which now fill my heart !
Our beloved country ie, I fear, rapidly drifting
towards a dangerous reef. I pray God that Re
may be pleaied to bestow understanding and wis
dom on our rulers, and that Be will safely guide
no through the stormy sea in which we aro now
adrift.
I sinoir. very reslMtraggilltdrigON.,
C. G. Calmat, Eta.. Chairman, tea. Philadelphia
The following letter is in answer to a resolution
passed at the eame meeting, approving of the course
of Governor flicks, of Maryland :
EXECIIT/VI Cseusas, Annapolis. Janad, lB6l.
Nun but : The Governor directs me to acknow
ledge the receipt of the resolutions adopted by the
Masons of Philadelphia, without diatinotion of
party, on the 3d instant, and to express to you his
gratiftoation at the approval of his course by the
people of Philadelp hia.
ery reeve° ,
OEU. tI O. Y 3.3.I , FERsoft,
Private Secretary.
C. G. CRILDB,
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
Letter from " Occasional."
tiorreepondenoe of The rreemi
WASHIEGTON, JATIURTY 18, 1861
Although the Republicans, with few exceptions,
admit that the personal-liberty bills should be re
pealed, up to this writing nothing definitive has
been done beyond the passage of a resolution
through one of the branches of the Ohio Legisla
ture. - Gov. Curtin's inaugural address demands
the repeal of any law on the etatute-books of Penn
sylvania ait may, a even hy IMpahlathifi, biliable
te reallOnable objection;" but bit party friends
have not yet moved to carry out his suggestions.
deed, they are on the record against the resolutions
of Mr. Welsh, providing for the repeal of the sections
of the sot of 1847. The motive that should
inspire patriots at this time should be to do every.
thing in kindness for the Sofa. We can afford
to be magnanimous. There is no surrender in
treating our brethren, now so misguided and in
fatuated. indulgently. The hallucination of the
Southern people is widespread, and in some
States unanimous. They seem to be possessed
of a sort of judicial madness, and while they re
fuse to limo, and express themselves passionately,
let WI maintain the attitude of forbearance
and of affection, that has marked our whole
course from the beginning, And who so en
titled 'to * lead In this cause as yerinsylvania ?
She ought to be the leader in proffers of peace and
• ugrerdcribo would violently object to the repeal
of ~lithe penional.liberty Mlle, even among thoao
who refine to act while the South continues to re
peat its threats. And at thin moment, when every
other plan of adjustment has failed, and when the
friends of Mr. Crittenden's proposition almost de.
seals of carrying it through Congress, nothing
could be more wholesome in its 'effects than the
Immediate repealof all obstructive legislation In the
free, States. In the far-CIF Cotton States, there le
a large Union party, that would be encouraged by
such, an, evidenee of good feeling. Yon will per
ceive that Alabama, which was supposed to be
unanimous, for secession, is halting, and that the
members of the Convention from the northern part
of that State refuse to sign the ordinance of seoes
don maims that act is postponed until the 4th of I
Mandl. Virginia herself, In one branch of her Legis
lature, has adopted resolution. in favor of the Crit
tenden propositions, and Arkansas has followed up
her refusal to favor immediate disunion by sub.
mining the question of a Convention to the people.
AU these indications providing for delay are so -I
many appeals to the people of the free States to, do
something in order to inspirit the Union men of the
South. There are very few sincere Diannioniste
in Congress. I believe, if we could get at
the truth in every man's heart, there are
not six who are put down as Disnnionists who.
would not quietly rejoice if the question could
be settled. They are daily taught by unexpected
events that their experiment is bound to be a orally,
dangerous, and possibly fatal one The change for
them would be terrible. Not only will they be -
Wig upon to construot a new Government, and
to encumber their States with onerous taxation to
maintain heavy military and naval establishments,
but they, will be forced to meet and to answer the
awakening sentiment of their people when all
these „evils banal" praotioal, and when the con.
traetje - run betw,Sen what they have unwisely and
Madly - tbroWn sway and that they have substituted-
At Ant, the voice of the people in the South was
derided by their leaders in Washington, and even
new these leaders are generally BO fearful of com
mitting 'the question of Disunion to the ballot-box,
that they adopt every expedient in order to -ac
complish their ends withoht, referring their action
to the mules. In North Carolina, the Legislature;
although representing the people directly, were
afraid to' take the responsibility of calling a
Convention, and referred the whole matter to
the delegation ,in both houses of Congress
trout that State, asking of them whether,
in' their opinion, snob a Convention was
neoessarY. - At last, however, the Southern
people .are beginning ,to speak out. The large
vote liiroWn against secession in Louisiana; the
late proceedings, of , the Alabama Convention ; the
delay and factions in the:Oeorgia Convention ; the
appeals of the Union men in Virginia, in and out
of the Legislature ; the determined action of the
friends of the country in Tonneasee—all are only so
many proofs that the dank of the leaders hag been
"turned by the masses, and that if the people of
the North and Northweit will now come up in good
faith, and repeal the personal-liberty bills; • the
oatstetropheWlll be staggered, if it is not crashed.
Both artlons of the Union may now be mild to
he fully PrePared either for peaceful or a violent
conclusion to our troubles. The bouth has spent, and
is spending, pnormona some to put herself in a
warlike 'attitude, and the North and Northwest are
now,'as they have always been, ready to defend
their rights in the tented sold. Thne arrayed
against each other, the time has come to decide
whether there shall be peace or war. I am for
peace, if It can be honorably maintained, and this
is the feeling of ninetyqiine Americans out of every
hundred.
The brave and modest letter of Major Anderson,
written from Fortress Sumpter, it reply to the vene
rable Wm. D Lewis, president of the great Union
meeting held at National Hall, in your city, ex
presses the hope that our troubles may be recon
ciled without bloodshed. This has been the poli
cy, from the beginning, of Lteutenant-General
Scott, and I know that the veteran sailor, Commo
dore Stewart, who in approaching his ninetieth
Year, and who reached Washington. by the last
evening train, is free in declarations to the same
Met. Now, here are three man of war who are
ail for an malleable arrangement of oar prorent
difliotaltise. Why, then, should not statesmen, le
gislators, politicians, and newspaper editors ahem.
don their records for the , general good, and thus
avoid a oollisiOnV OCOASIORAT.
Letter tram "Kappa."
Correspondence of The Pressd
Weermteviorr, Jan. 18, 1881
Mr. greenwood, of Arkansas, Commissioner of
Indian Maim hu sepepted the position of Beare
tati of the Interior, snd will enter upon the duties
Of hie new officio . on Monday. HO would have dome
eo sooner hid it not been his intention to leave in
the Indian ffitirein everything In the best order,'
solhat hit sucoesior, whoever he may be, will find
no great 'difficulties and embarrassments to oVer
-0011111. Me is now bard at work at bit deck.
Thimembers of Congress from the Northwest
are daily In receipt of letters from some of pheir
prominent nonstiMents, urging upon them the Me.
sanity of settling our difficulties by the adoption
of Mr. Crittenden's oompropries nausares, or some
similar resolutions, wig* will # lye peace to the
now distraotod country. A member from Illinois
told me to-day that it was his firm oonviction that,
if the Crittenden resolutions were to be voted on
by the people of his State, they would be adopted
by at least 40.000 majority. The business men in
the Koptiblioan party, who feel vary little interest
ID the apple of discord—the barren and unproflta
ble Territories of Kansas and New Mexico—are
tired of the eonstant agitation based upon a fruit
less, mere theoretical dogma, which, without bene
fiting the country at large in the smallest degree, has
caused to the people of the various States losses
amounting to millions of dollars. If we continue
this agitation, the whole country will be ruined. To
talk about those Territories, the people of ,whioh
wish nothing more seriously than to be loft alone,
and at the same time to neglect the affairs of your
'own State, and become thereby impoverished, re
minds one of those pious ladies, who, overflowing
'with human kindness and Christian spirit, spend
their time in knitting woollen stockings for the•
heathen in Africa and ether tropical countriee,
while at the earns time they let their own children
go barefooted. One of the chief ingredients of
sound statesmanship, and the fundamental basis
of the existent,e and welfare of a nation, is to be
praotioal.
General Scott was burnt in effigy on Saturday
night by the students of the University of Vir
ginia. This notice is eagerly copied by the Seces
sion papers as a proof of the intense excitement
against him in Virginia Are we not living in
strange times? Men who, half a century ego, led
the American eoldiors to triumph and victory
against the enemies of their country ; whose blood
has flowed on many a battlefield for the honor of
the stare and stripes, and who now, taught by ex
perience and animated by true patriotism, aro using
their last strength in defence of their country
against internal traitors, and throwing themselves
in the breach to save the Union, the great inheri
tance which they directly received from the
founders of the some, from an early and untimely
destruction—they are insulted and burnt in effigy
by beardless schoolboy
Is it possible that the,present generation in Vir
ginia has descended so low as to glory in the
childish cottons of boys sent to college to learn
something useful, but not to play in polities, par.
tioularly when their doings are directed against
one, a Virginian by birth, whose name hail not a
little assisted his native State in earning the fair
and proud reputation which until now it has en
joyed ? I sincerely hope that there aro yet Vir
ginians enough who will feel ashamed of using
nob means to further the Secession cause, and will
take each steps as will vindicate the tarnished
honor of the old Commonwealth.
There is no one more active in his efforts to in
duos all the Southern States to secede than Sena
tor Lane, of Oregon. If he represented a Southern
State, no notice would be taken of him; but he
represents, or rather misrepresents, a free State,
the people of which have told him already, in
unmistakable words, that his actions are not ap
proved by them. Ile is now writing lettere to
some Seceders, which are published by Secession
papers, urging upon the people of tho South
the necessity of seceding, In order to be a unit,
and make it impossible for the Union-loving
people to talk of rebels" and " coercion." I
cannot believe that Southern people will ever
honor Northern traitors. KACCA.
MiorU.B.A.
Our New York Letter.
MB GUN TRADE WITH THE SOUTH AND JUDGE NMAL
- LEY'S CHARGE—DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEN
TION TO DE CALLED—ANNUAL CONSUMPTION OP
BEEF IN NEW YORK—RAREY AND PHILADBL•
PER—JOHN MORRISSEY BUTS $lOO,OOO WORTH
or HOUSES—EXCITEMENT AMONG TON MILITARY
OF NEW YORK—RADICAL CHANGE IN NEW YORK
JURISPRUDENCE.
(Clorreepondenoe of The Press.)
Notwithstanding Judge Smalley's mnoh•talked
of treason charge, the eelo of fire-arms by our
wholesale houses proceeds as heretofore. Ship
ments continue to be made to Southern States, and
will go on until the business is judicially proclaimed
to be criminal. The Southern demand, it is true,
half materially fallen off, but all orders are filled
that are accompanied with oath or satisfactory se
curities.
The Democratic State Committee of New York,
following the example of the Democratic State
Committee of Connecticut, contemplate calling a
state Convention, on the 30th inst., for the pur
pose of giving expression to the sentiment of the
Democracy of the F tate on the present oriels.
The beef-eaters or New York have scarcely an
idea of the hecatombs of beeves that are annually
consumed to satisfy the hunger of this oily.
During the year 1860, as I learn from a reporter
of the cattle market, 150,000,000 pounds of beef
were consumed, at a coat to the butcher of at least
$12,000,000. The number of beef cattle received
during the year was 267,747 head; the average
price $8.15 per hundred weight, which is about one
'cent per pound cheaper than In 1850, and one cent
and a half less than in 1858. The total number of
live stook slaughtered last year in the oity was
1,107,882 head. If they were pieced together com,
petty on a road of fifteen feet in width 0 -- '----
"Itarey tells mo that he will be in Philadelphia in
about two weeks.
John Morrissey, the pugilist and faroist, must be
doing a thrifty business. Ho has just purohased
a biook of brown-stone-front 9ve•story limes In
nth street, at a cast of one hundred thousand dol.
lars.
The talk of the hour in New York is the pro
nanolandente of General Sanford and the Board of
Officers of the First divielon, tendering to Go
vernor Morgan the services of the division "at
an bone's notice" for any duty he might require
of them. The rank and file are dimming and
"cussing " this proceeding with a freedom that In
dicates that General S. has spoken without a
thorough understanding of their sentiments.
The Herald, of this morning, contains a column
of eommunioations from members of the division,
protesting against this summary way of handling
five thousand of the best man of the city; and the
Journal of Commerce has a note from a whole
sale merchant, belonging to the Seventh Regiment,
which is understood to softest substantially the
sentiment of the regiment. He save : "Observing
in the paper your tender of the services of the
Fleet division to aid In supporting a set of politioal
principles wbioh are not the principles of a ma
jority of the men under your command, and be
lieving that neither juetimnor policy warrants
such a tender, I protest as a member of the Seventh
Regiment, and in behalf of others aeeoolated with
mo as officers and in the ranks, against being pre
sented to the country as ready and willing to take
ap arms against any portion of our countrymen.
You will not be sustained should you be called upon
to act, and you would rather receive and merit the
thanks of your command were you as indefatigable
in restoring the peace, which you have assisted in
destroying, of our distracted country, as you arp
in promoting disoord and heralding ,041* name to
the world. I do not advent° disobedience o f
orders, but resignation will decimate the ranks,
and you will be powerless to aecomplisti Your
purpose. The military of New York otty will
never advocate your cause, though General San
ford should 'command." The officers of the
Seventh' Regiment are consulting on this subject
with great 'gravity. They are beginning to com
prehend the fact that even a tacit silent to the
recommendation of General Sanford would deci
mate and break sip the finest regiment in the
world.
It was recently mentioned by the subscriber,
that a bill bad been introduced into the Legisla
ture that would revolutionise our criminal juris
prudence. It confers upon juries the power to
judge of the law as well as the fast. This bill'has
pawed the Senate, and will probably pass the
House. It is one of the most radical changes that
ever 000urred'in our jurisprudence. Honor.
'rho Virginia Movement--Watchman,
What of the Night?
Virginia is promptly inaugurating the move
ment which, it is no longer to be doubted, bide
fair to bring the troubles of the times to a peace.'
ful and happy termination, without the destruotion
of the Union. It is the plan of inducing both the
seceding States and the General Government to
abstain from hostilities until the border slave
holding States can demand in a fraternal spirit of
all the authorities of all the rest of the States that
they will. in a National Convention, consider the
existing condition of the Union, and remedy the
evils, by the adoption of the Crittenden',repeti
tion, or whatever else that may prove satisfactory
to those who simply seek to secure, for all time to
mime, within the Union, the institution of Southern
slavery against unconstitutional encroachments on
the part of the General Government
The news fr.om the booth, received within the
last week, proves—
let. That South Carolina is already heartily sick
and tired of the position in whiob she stands;
2d. That the popular vote of Georgia and Ala
bama is largely against following South Carolina's
example ;
3d. Teat Arkansas refuses to hold a Convention
even, until after the 4th of March ;
4th. That Tennessee has determined to refer
whatever her Convention may do to the people,
which cannot be done before the 4th of March ;
Bth, That North Carolina is by no means likely
to act precipitately in the matter, and that her
authorities, repudiating Mr. W. S. Ash's sots of
rebellion, have offered to restore to the United
States the forts he caused to be seized;
6th. That Virginia has accorded to her people
the right to sit in judgment upon whatever her
Convention way do, and is also engaged in urging
a plan under which the whelp trouble may easily
be accommodated without the destruotion pf the
Union •
7th. That Maryland continues firmly to snout
the intrigues of the Diennioniste per so to involve
her lathe Disunion movement
Bth. That Iffteeopri has avoided that whatever
her Convention may do, shall also be duly submit
ted for poplar ratification or rejection.
In proving these, now so very important, facts,
the news in question proves unmistakably that the
consummation of the scheme of the conspiratora
to drag 'the whole South out of the Union before
the4th of March is, already, a dead failure; and
that a wholesome reaotion has certainly set in
in all quarters of the South, that, beyond question,
diseipites the probability of the dean:lotion of
the Union, and promises a speedy settlement of
I the troubles by action of all the States In National
Convention, represented not by their Congress
man, principally solicitous each of strengthening
his hold on position in public life, but by eitisene
without embarrassing records as public mon, who
see before them Him dliainie to come into public
We., only through earnest exertions to repair the
mischief which Congress has for twenty-five years
past been gladdeny heaping uplut the head of an
abused oetintry.—Trashtngton .for, Jon.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELYMA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1861.
Nsw YORK, January 18,1861
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to The Press,
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to " The Press."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 1861. ,
President Buelianan , s Opinion of the
Chivalry
I have it from good authority that at the late in
terview. between the President and Mr. HAlens,
Commissioner from South Carolina, the former,
after listening to all the latter had to say, answered
him In the following marked language: "Well,
air, I have been so misrepresented by 'gentlemen
from your State that I decline holding any 0011Ver
aation with any man from South Carolina. Re
turn to your lodgings, write out your propositions,
whatever they are, and I will answer them in
writing. I bid good day, sir."
Mr. HAYNIE has been considerably toned down
sinoe he left home, and does not now threaten, as
he did at first, that if Fort Sumpter was not sur
rendered, South Carolina would blow it out of her
harbor.
The Abstracted Bonds.
The seloot committee of the House, engaged in
investigating the enormone fraud committed by
the abstraction, from the Interior Department, of
the bonds belonging to the Indian trust fund, are
busily at work, and will probably bo ready to re
port early nest week. The examination of Wm
H. Itnaant,L, who has been before the committee
several times within the paet week, was concluded
today. This investigation will dovelop a chapter
of crime in the history of this AduAnistrat;on, be
fore which other startling frauds committed by it,
and already made public, will sink into utter in.
eignilloance. I predict that even Secession and
threatened civil war will be lost eight of in the
universal astonishment and indignation with
which the report and evidence taken before this
committee will be received.
:The Alabama Delegation
This delegation will likely formally withdraw
fkom Congress to morrow, or on Monday. I am
informed by one of them that there is no doubt of
immediate secession of the State, the sentiment of
the people being united and determined in favor
of that dome.
GEORGIA CONVENTION
Resolutions adopted declaring the
Duty of Georgia to Secede.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO REPORT THE 0111 -
NANCE OF SECESSION
MILLEDGEVILLE, Jan. 16.—Tae Convention was
in genre session all day, and at .1 o'clock this after•
noon resolutions were adopted, deolaring, first, the
right and duty of Georgia to secede, end second,
the appointment of a committee of seventeen to
report an ordinance of secession. The vote on
the adoption stood, yeas 165, nays NO.
SECESSION IN LOUISIANA
The Programme Arranged.
Naw ORLEANS, Jan. la—The programme for
the Louisiana Secession has been agreed upon by
the leading members of the Convention Arrange
ments are making with the seceding States to
hold a General 'Convention at Montgomery, on
the 20th of February, fur the purpose of dOirlaiug
a plan for the new Confederacy, adopt the Federal
Constitution, claim the title of a Republio, and ask
recognition by the European Powers. The United
States forts at the mouth of the Mississippi will be
largely reinforced, and it is contemplated to fit out
privateers, if coercion is attempted by the North.
Arkansas Legislature.
TRH CONVENTION QUESTION SUBMITTED TO .TILE
AUGUSTA, Jan. N.—lntelligence has been re
oelvei bore that the Arkeneae Legislature bas
unanimously passed a bill submitting the Conven
tioner question to the people, who era to decide at
an election to bo held on the 18th of February. In
case of a majority favoring it, the Governor is to
appoint the day for the Convention to assemble.
The Joint Resolutions of the Ohio
Legislature.
Wasuntavort, Jan. 18 —The following ts a synop
sis of the joint resolutions of the Legislature of
Ohio, passed on the 12th inst., which were pre.
sented in the Senate to•day by Mr. Wade :
First. The people of Ohio believe that the pre
servatlon of this unity of Government, which
constitutes the American people as one people,
essential to the support of tranquillity at home,
peace abroad,. and Oa safety and prosperity so
highly prized, is the reason to empress attachment
to the Constitution, and the Union of the States.
Second. That the General Government cannot
permit the secession of any ... l3tp.e, without 00."
tiP itatt ° Vilietti474er &" (7f the Na tional - u ovenc.
ment must bo maintained, and the lawn of Con•
gress enforced in the Territoriea and &etre, until
repealed by Congress or adjudged unconstitutional
by the proper tribunal ; and all attempts of State
authority to nullify the Constitution and laws of
Congress, or to resist their execution, would be
destructive of the wisest Government in the world.
Fourth. That the people of Ohio are Opposed to
meddling with the internal affairs cf other States.
Fifth They will falai in good faith all their ob•
ligations under the Constitution of the United
States, according to its spirit:
Siath. Certain offensive laws of acme States are
rendered inefficient by unconstitutional laws,
though the Federal Constitution guarantees to the
citizens of each State certain privileges and immtt.
Jollies which the several State Governments meet
restore to renew the confidence between the States.
Seventh. All Uniemloving citizens condemn the
secession ordinances.
Eighth. The power and resources of Ohio are
pledged to the maintenance of the oiril authority
of the Constitution and laws of the General Govern
ment, as judioially adminiatere 1.
Ninth. Copies of the resolutions to be presented
to the United States Senators and members of the
Houle of
p epresentatives, to ho presented in both
Houses of Congress.
Virginia Legislature.
EICUUOND, Jan. 18 —The State Senate debated
the resolutions passed in the House yesterday, con
templating a National Convention.
Amendments Ivor° proposed for the more certain
protection of the South in the proposed basis of
adjustment. No notion wee taken.
The Reuse passed a bill appropriating one mil
lion dollars for the defence of the State, and au
thorizing the issue of treasury notes to that amount,
bearing six par cent. interest.
Florida Appointments of
,Delegates to
the Southern Con gress.
Taman/mann, Jen. 18 —The Governor has ap•
pointed, and the Convention oonthmed, General
Jackson Morton, Colonel J. gatten Anderson, and
James Powers, as delegates to the Southern 'Coo l
gross, to meet at Montgomery, Alabama.
4fistiopri Legislature.
TILE REPORTED SEIZURE or POWDER' LY LOUI
SIAIVI UNTRUE. ,
ST. Louis, January 18.—In the House, yoster•
day, Mr. Stevenson's substitute to the Conven•
tion bill, asking Congress to salt a National
Convention, was lost by a vote of 104 nays to 12
yeas.
Mr. Laoay's amendment to the original bill,
submitting the action of the Convention to the
people, wall adopted, and the bill passed—yeas 105,
nays - IT—all the ltepublioan delegation from 81.
Louis, exeept ono, voting In the negative.
The reported seizure of powder by the authori•
ties of Louisiana at New Orleans, belonging to a
St. Louis merohant, is untrue. The powder boo
not yet reached New Orleans. It is understood
that the Governor of Louisiana hoe proposed to
purchase the powder on its arrival at New Orleans.
The Maryland Commaismop.
TAM rnibArmiTnlA SCHOOL BOARD.
liannisnuno. Jan. 18,—Speaker Palmer, of the
Senate, and lien. Gideon J. Ball, of the Douse, re
cently sent to Maryland by'Governor Curtin, re
turned last night from Annapolis. They expresa
themselves highly gratified with their interview
with Governor hicks.
A bill will soon be introduced abolishing the
Board of &hod Controllers of Philadelphia, and
organizing a new system.
North Carolina. Legislature.
Remain, N. C., Jan. 17.—The aspeot of the de•
bate on the eubjoot of the Federal rolations has
not varied to-day. No vote was taken, exoept on
one unimportant amendment In the Senate. The ,
times perhaps look a little more squally.
Messrs. Outlaw and Morehead spoke in the
Senate in favor of a general Convention. Many
strong speephes were made for epeosaion.
The House is holding night sessions.
Commodore Shatirick in Washington
ERRONEOUS REPORT OF RIO DEATH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The papers in the South
and hereabout publlsh a statement that Commo
dore Bhubriok, of the U. B. Navy died recently at
Pendleton, South Carolina. This is not true, no
the Commodore is in Washington to-day, attending
to business, and is perfectly well.
The naval racers at the Pensacola navy yard
have been formally detached, and are now await
ing orders from the department.
Arrival of the Steamer Marion from
Charleston.
THIS TIIOOra AT ?POSIT SUMPTER IN GOOD SPIRITS
PROVISIONB PLENTY. .
NEw YOP.K, Jan. 18.—The steamer Marion has
arrived from Charleston. She has thirty free
colored poisons, and several laborers who had
been employed on Fort Sumpter, as pasiengers.
The latter report that the troops at Fort Sumpter
wars in good spirits. They bad plenty of provi.
alone ; but, of course, were deprived of vegatobles
and other articles of marketing.
Confirmation of Mi. Holt as Secretary
of War.
WAHIIINGYON, Jan. 18 —The Senate wee nearly
four hours in executive session to-day, on the
nomination of Mr. Nolt as Secretary of War.
It wag finally confirmed by a vote of 38 yeas
against 13 nays, after unexciting debate, in which
the Seoessionists ardently participated.
The bill introduced by Mr MoKean, of New
York, in the house last Monday, is to repeal the
law making Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort,
in South Carolina, parts of entry. Even in time
of peace, it costa much more to oolleot the revenue
at these ports than it amonnta to. Mr. McKeou'e
desire is to atop the foreign trade, and send tut
fioient force to blookede the harbors, and in this
view he Is not alone.
Union Meeting at Boston.
Boma, Jan. 18.—A great Union demonstration
le to tape plane here. The Mayor and leading
entrains are taking part in the prelitainary ar
rctiagements.
36111 CONGRESS----SECOND SESSION.
WASIIINGITON, Jan , 18 . IBUI
SIiNATE;
Two ontninunlostiorui wero . recelved from the War
Department One wee refeyrad to the Military and the
tither to the Committee on Finance.
A communication was also received from the Navy
D e partment, relative to information on various subjects
conneet-d with the navy. Referred to the Committee
on Naval strum.
Mr. CHANDLER, of blichi.an, said that he dashed
to present the memorial of Robert W. Davis. aolleotor
of the port of Detroit, and thirty others. mostly Demo
°ratio office•hoiders. of that city. asking the passage of
toe Crittenden resolutions. Laid on the table.
Mr. Gni 11" ND EN, of Kentucky, presented the pe
tition of eitisene of Monongahela county. Virginia,
praying the adoption of the compromise measures
proposed by Mr. Crittenden. Laid on the table.
Bills from the flouee were than considered.
Mr. WADE. of Ohio, presented a series of joint re.o
lotions passed by the Lestelature of Ohm, expressing
the Union attachment of that State, and its readiness to
give its support to the ! , erieral Government.
Mr. MASON, of Virginia. from the Committee on
Foreign !relations, reported a bill to authorize Lieut.
T. A. Craven to receive certain =tyke of distinction
from t he Spanish Government
Mr. KENNEDY, of Maryland, presented a memorial
from the odisone or. Wasnington d oovity, Maryland,
r lYr i . n lll f att n o d i P P e a p7s3 f l glit t i e . l 4ge s ot e e i r i fi u f t t ' A n n ' in a
models from theeiti zone of Pennsylvania, praying for
the adoption Of the Crittenden resoictione.
Mr. SUMNER, of Massachuestte. introdueed a reso
lution that the President of the United States he re
quested. if.not incompatible w'th the public interests,
io furnish the Senate with a copy of all recent corres
pondence that has passed between the Department of
State and any Minister from a foreign Power. at Wash
ington. with reference to loreign vessels in the port of
Charleston. •
Mr. TEN EYCK, of New Jersey, presented the peti
tion of 11. J. Ward praying for the passage of a law for
holding a National Convention to promote the general
welfare of the country, atPhiladelphia.
ceincron'n motion to reeonsiderthe vote by
• . •
.71.1101! the Crittenden sesolutions were telred was then
oonsidered.
The motion to reconsider was passed.
The following is the vote on the motion of Mr. Came
ron io reconsider the vote on Mr. Clark's anienilmente
io the Joint, resolution of Mr. Pritienden. Mr. Cancans
( Mass )1100 , illg called 'or the yens and nags:
YRAS—Messrs. Bayard, Bigler. Bragg, Bright, Cling
man, Crittendrn, Douglas, Fitch, limn, Gym Romp
hill, Bunter. Johnson ( Ark.). Johnson (Tenn), Ken
nedy. Lane. - Latham. Mason, Nicholson, resroe. Volk,
"owoll, Pugh Rico, Vanishers, Estimation. and Slidell
-27.
Nays—Messrs. Anthony, Baker, Bingham. Cameron,
Chandler, Clerk, Co lamer, Dixon. Doolittle Person
don Foot. Foster, Grimes, Wale. Harlan. King, Seward,
Simmons, Stunner. Ten Eyck, Wade, Wlitfall, Wilkin
eon. rind Wilron-91
Mr. Crittenden's resolution was then postponed, on
motion of Mr. BIGLER, till one o'clock on Monday.,
Iter the consideration of private
Mr. GREEN, of Missour i, presented a joint resolu
ion. that for the purpose of 'protecting the rights of all
the people and all the States. as far ns it devolves upon
the Federal authority. and to maintain the Union in
its purity and excel' nee, or, failing In that, to provide
for a peaceable reparation. be it hereby reeommer ded
that the several States take immediate stops, by Con
vention or otherwise. to inakinithe proposition of the
several states each to the others, or by a Convention of
the States as may beet conduce to the restoration of
the harmony consistent with the principle of Justin
and equality to all.
Mr. CSI PTENDEN, of Kentuoky. raid that he did
not like the I-oks of any thing :hat appeared to favor a
sepraon
R
td a r. GREEN raid that be designed voting for mr.
Crittenden's resolution. but lie desired at another time
te call the public attention more directly to Om sub
Jeot. -
mlno Pacific, Railroad next come up, but Nrna post
ied and made the special order tor 1 o'cloc k on
uoaday.
A bill to authorine a loan, fix the rate of duty, and iu
relation to the outstanding treasury notes. was made
the epeeist order for 1 o'clock on Wednesday next.
The Kansas bill then oatno up on the npepiel order.
Mr DOUGLAS, of Illinoio, said that we ought to ad
mit Kansas. Two. thiro aof the new States i» the Limon
have been admitted with less population than Kansas
now has. I will do nothing to oppose the bill or pro
orastinate its passage
Mr. SEWARD, of Now York, said that ho had visit e d
Kansas, and found the society there far in advance.
and espeoially its agneu , ture. The people bad framed
mvii government against which be hoard not one
word of objection in the whole Territory.
Mr. GREEN moved to amend the Kama bill. In the
first !cation be proposed to strike out the words "
ginn inn at et point on the western boundary of the elate
of Miesoun. where the , 37th parallel of north latitude
crosses the same • thence west on said parallel to the
26th meridian of longitude' west from Washington
thence north on said meridian to the 40th parallel of
latitude; thence east on sad paraltel to the western
boundary of the State of btis ouei ; thence south with
the western boundary of said State to the place of ha
ginning ;" and in lieu thereof insert the following be
ginning in the main channel of the north fork of the
Platte river, eta point where the 25th meridian of km
ditude, west from Washington, orossesthe same; thence
own and along the main channel of tne Mite to the
issoun river ; thence south along the said river and
the western boundary of the State of M iasoun to the
northern boundary of the Cherokee neutral lands;
thence west along the said northern boundary to the
northern boundary of the Osage lands and the prolonga
tion o , the same to the 26th meridian of longitude. week
from Washington; thence north on said meridian to the
place of loiginning.
Mr. DOUGLAS said that. so far as the people of
Kansas were coneerned. there was no inconvenience or
impropriety in the present boundaries of Kansas, but
there may be in regard to the boundary of Nebraska
Territors,
Mr. COLLAMER. of Vermont, said Kansas had now
a population beyond what is required for the ado union
of a State, but this amendment ie a proposition for the
d Ismembennent of N elo asks.
Mr. GREEN o Aled for a vote, when the amendment
war rejected—yeas 23 nays 31—ea follows:
YNAesers.. Bayard, Benjamin, Bragg, Bright,
Fitch, Green. Germ. Hemphill. Ranter, Iverson. John
son ( Ark ), Johnson (Tenn.), Kennedy, Lane, Mason.
Niaboleon. Pea es, Polk. Powell, Rice. Saulsbury.
Slidell, and Wlgfall-23.
Nays Meesre. Anthony, Baker,,Bigler, Bingham
Cameron, Chandler, Clark , Collemer, Crittenden,
BlAont rcrwricion, Fr.tOkt
Foster, Grimes, tittle. Harlan, Ring. Latham. Morrill.
rimmons, Sumner, Ton EPA
IIU . Trum
bull, ndo. Wilkinson. nod Wilson-31.
Mr. rircii. of Indiana, proposed an amendment.
but
Mr. BIGLER called the attention of the Senate that 2
o'clock hod arrived, the hour fixed by the Benate y es•
teroay to go into exeoution session.
Mr. FOSTER. of Conneetlent, in the chair. directed
the galleries and lobbies to be cleared, and the doors
Were closed.
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. MOORE, of Kentucky, rising to a personal ex
elanatien, said that if Mr Adrain's resolution hereto.
fore adopted, had simply endorsed toe conduct of Major
Arderson. he would have weed for it. but he could not
receive the permisston of his mind to vote for the re
d cinder of the resolution. aid to say. by so doing, that
he would endorse every not which the President mieht
regard ns bra constitutional duty in carrying out the
laws and preserving the Union. While he was for the
Union, end believing that he thus rep , esented the peo
ple of Ren ueky. he 'bought that onty required no to
rause before we imperil the wnole Union. and brie
on a general confliet and intestine war. Ha did
1.13. va3.34.- 0, 010 ris.soo.
regarded this as the greatest h e terodox ever advo
cated he any Party. But, while he said thiae all must
recogrize the rig'' , of revolution for the resistance to
'oppression on one aide to secure freedom on the other.
r e did not believe that the time has arrived to resort
to this means of redress, and mem pitate to dreadful a
catastrophe.lie did not believe that thepresent was
the proper time to Fend reinforcements to South Caro
line and other Southern States. We aliculd hesitate
and endeavor to get by peace what It might be mines
gam to secure by force.
De would not have made this explanation, if it were
not for the fact that he had received lettere Clentimi.
tag or disapproving of his course in voting againt.t. M r
Adrain'e resolution. Ho repeated that he tully.er domed
Major Anderson's oonduot. but wasbawilling madvance
to endorse ill", ooiiduot of ibe adminicration.
Alr SCOTT,
that alifornia. rising to a ,question of
privilege, Bald Capt. Darling, the assistant door
keeper, had ejected from the floor a visiting entleman.
who wag admitted there on the Democratic aide of the
Donee. roes eating him to leave, on the ground that it
wan contrary to the rules.
1 ooking to the Republ can aide, he (Mr Hoeft) saw
there ono who was not a: Member, yet bo was allowed
to remain. This (Mows a disgusting partiality and
_pre
judice. unit unless this oonduet ehould be reformed, he
should JIOOV6 for the expulsion of Mr. Darling aefaroist
doorkeeper. De woe not worthy of the place he
held&
hnno SPEAKER said that the doorkeeper should en•
t•reci the rules without partiality, no fa t . no the
C lair was ooneerned, lie cheeld insist upon that.
Ilan Donee spent some time in the consideration of
Private bills.
-The Sousa went Into Committee of the Whole on the
state of the Union on the army appropriation
Mr. PEN DLETIIN, of Ohio, said at a fortnerooried
of the day. ho ineffectually soueht to obtain the deer to
present a petition front ten thousand citizens of Cin-
Menet, graying that Congress pars the Crittenden
Compromise resolutions. He could not hive a better
introduction, and one more grateful to himself, than
this evidence of the sincere desire and determined
purpose of those who honored him with a neat hero to
nettle the pending troubles by cone; dation and compro
mho, eo as to obtain peace. The Heine now bee under
consideration the army bill. Pertinent to this was
another subjeet.namely. the bill introduced by ler. 'hog -
taw, for the Cl Ileotion of revenue +n Charleston harbor.
Ho referred to the vestment+ of thit bill authorizing the
President. In hie diserotion, to collect the revenue by
establishing a custom house on ship-board. the collector
to seize and detain any vessel until the duties on her
enrgo aro paid ; and, in order to execute thin duty, that
the urine and navy be employed, &u. lie aomn anted
on the extraozdinary and dangoroue power conferred
oil a au bordieato officer of the customs, it being given
without limitution and control. The to lwan not un -
versal in its application, but wee intended only to apply
io South Carolina in the disoretion of the President. It
plainly and palpably contravened the Coeistitution,whieli
Provides that no preference shall bepeon to the ports
of one dints over thole of another. lie would not de
bate whether there wee any legator etelficient cause for
the tecessien of certain Southern States. They have
committed tee act with a unanimity witnout parallel in
the-Inatory of revolution. He said that if tam bill be
paned, not a dollar would be collected at Charleston;
and II an aura could maintain the Union. half a million
of 111011W01.1311 spring up in a night. If money would
keep it together. the soil would leap with joy to produce
its golden harvest ; if blood. the old and young men of
the country would yield it like the streamu which water
their coil But an witty. Wood and money, will not 1)10-
ea rt..) the Union. though Justice. reason, and Peace nutty.
What force can compel a State to do what to required to
be done by legislation ? The whole scheme of coercion
311 impracticable earl oontrary to the genius and spirit
of the Constitution. be Southern States are prepared
to resist, and when armed Tan come together there In
War•
The enforcement of laws against sounding States is
eon-Glom and cooroioh is war. If the South say they
have grievances, redress them. If fears for their safety,
remove theta, and ealm their mutation and irritation.
Remember these men pho thus come to yen are bone
of your bone. They are your brethren and felloweeitt
zees. You may grant what they desire without losing
your oharsoter and aelf-respect. Re bogged them, in
Men's name, to do it. Give peace instead of demon].
aintain the Government, and preserve this great
Coniederated }Amore. His vow to day wee. for
conciliation, complete compromise, and in this
he echoed the voice of those whom ho represents. If
you will nut grunt this, in God's name lot the affected
States derma in peace, If southern States cannot be
conciliated ; if we cannot grant them what they desire
if may must leave the paternal mension, be woulti
ze their departure with mite Of kindness. II in this
vietesitude of national existence Helmut(' prove neces
sary for no to again mime together, there should be no
pride to be humbled, and he would welcome them back
tokhre. place
l ehould
istened with attention to
the eloquent speech of my colietigne, and I cordially
approve of.hirt appeal for rearm, harmony, and coming':
bon ; but, in my judgment, he threats Ins remarks to
the wrong aide of the Douse. Be begs us not to attempt
to otheree a sovereign State, Ile deplores the nee of
the army and the navy in coercing a State. If be this
he means that the army will be ueed to cot goer estate,
Co u r ts pl her to be iepreoented here, to maintain the
cor or pout offices within her limits, to. burn
her cities or desolate her fielder. he OM dismiss his
fears. No ennui pulley will be ad mled by any Admin
istration. livery State is avert of this Union of States,
and it is the duty of the()overwrit:l t to protect each
Mato, But it line a higher duty. and that is to protect
itaelf, people of the United States form a Govern
-3111(9113 mimeo' a within the powers delegated tort, and it
ia provided With ample authority to protect itsolfagatest
foreign or (lemmata, enemies. It htia the exolusive
right to collectduties on imPorls. 1111 the exclusive
owner of the forts, arsenals. nary•yards, vessel°, and
munitions of war. It has a flag. the symbol of ita na
tionality, the emblem of ire power and determination
to protect all those who may ot right gather under its
folds, then,standa the ? DIM the United States
sacked a city. Invaded a State, assumed the port cad ma
jesty of a conqueror towards a sutuugated State? Has any
community boon overawed by military power? Gag
any n an'a rig hts 130011 Invaded ? Who asserts it ? The
only people who have been oppressed by military or
civil
over are thr se of a distant Territory. vv hy.
then, on you fear that a State will be coerced? lof us
tee. The people of the State of South Carolina have
nelZed too custoni house in the city of Charleston and
closed that port, thus preventing the United States from
+meaning its conceded and exaiusive power to collect
the revenue fruit imports. hey have taken by foray
mot ey in the, Treasury of the united States, and
applied it to their own use. They have noised the arms
tnil munitions of war of the United Stateredeposited in
he arsenals within the conceded exclusive pariediotion
of the United States, and turned them againat the army
Of the United Staten. They have gamed a revenue cutter,
the property of the United states. They have seized a
loyal oilmen orate United Staten, while intro rinsed:large
of Ms coneeded duty sod have imprisoned Jinn, aLd
lareaten his life for discharging his plain duty, calling
it lemon to the Mate of :eolith Carollr a, They take
the citizens of different States, rightfully and
teaoefulie .attending to their business in South
Satollna,. insult them, and inflict the most de
grading mgeittioje upon them, and then forcibly
eigeol them They raise a military !ores of artillery,
otvalry, and infantry, with the avowed purpose of ex
pelling.orao use their chosen word.cooreing the 'United
Mates frotn the forts. arsenals , and other proerty still
ipp thin poesession Of the Patel) Slates. Then Major Mr
for the safety of Ins small lone, moved it from
iciTktoultrie, to Fort sampler. They seized Fort
t. Fort Pthoknee. and other propert.. More recently
they hred upon a vogue( the employ of the United
Mates, conveying rein oreements end proviaions to our
troops Lt this net of war tney need the cannon and
munitione ot over paid tor out of our 1 reasure. The
feria coded South Carolina to the Untied States Were
Wed to expel a vessel ot the United States, in the pur
suit of Its lawful commerce. Then the Star +mangled
Benner was hoisted to thq roast-head, as a sign of um-
Unapt'', appealing to all the patriotic rooolleotione
that cluster around it—your flag. niy flag, the Sag of
Virginia. Ohio, Kai lucky. Pd-ssachusetts—the flag of
every Strite, ono 01 the whole Union; the rustle of
whoae Mlle has no often exalted the pride and nett - lone
aMor of smarmier; in every van of the habitable
glebe; that fl tg invoked for the protection of an
unarmed vessel. vela fired upon tutu dishonored by ulti
mo of the United Staten. An not of war by citizens
of the United `tutee. and. therefore, an act of treason,
was applauded by the others and citizens of the State
of south Carolina, and. portions, by thous of t Dior
States. the Paine lawless violence has broken out in
ether portions df the country. Forte, ampule, navy
yards, and vessels of war have, upon one pretext or
another, been metl, and are now held v lawless
force. Upon the recommendation of members of Con
gress, Fort Pulaski was seized by troops, under an or-
der from the Governor of Georgia. The other day the
Secretary of the Navy was notified that the navy yard
at Pensaeolit woe taken by an armed form commanded
by the Governor of Florida. Here to the despatch
The commissioners appointed Dy the Governor of
Florida, with a regiment of armed men at the pate,
demanded the surrender of fide navy yard, having yre•
viousiy taken possess on of one of the malaninee. I
surropdered my . piace and siruok my flag at . half-past
one o'otoisk P. M. this day, January 12th, "
He ynentioned other o +sea of seizures, and said. 8110•
pose that Great Britain. France, or eh the Powers of.
tins world combined, had arrested a captain of the
navy, would not every one of us have demanded men
and money to repel the moult at all hazards I He was
also inf 'ruled that ca -non had been planted on the
banks of the Mississippi river, at Vicksburg. and ves
eels compelled to stop there and give an account of
themselves. He did not knnw but what they would be
°vied on to pay tribute to the State of Mississippi. He
agreed with a colleague. that the Mississippi river bust
go to the ocean free and uncontrolled.
Mr. BRANCH, of North Carolina, inquired whence
air. Sherman obtained the information that cannon had
been planted on the Mississippi river.
Mr. IMBHM AN repl,ed that he sow it in the newspa-
Oers. He knew from private source that citizens of
hio, engaged in lawful commerce, were detained in
Louisiana until they could prove that they did not vote
for Lincoln.
. . . .
Mr. uItaNCH begged to say that many things in
newspapers were not true The gentlemen from M.a
sondem are not here, but gentlemen around him gay
that the report is without foundation.
Mr. tiIISRMAN hoped Awns.
r. C HAWFORD presemecithat the whole statement
grew out of the foot that Nome apprehension was felt.
along the Mississippi and in Louisiana, that General
Scott woe preparing to send a large force to the river
for the purposo of invading the Sonthern States. He
didnot entertain a doubt that eannorrhad been pMnted.
He did not knew whether for protection or defence. He
would have done the seine thing.
Mr. SHP AM AN replied that it was certain that our
flag hail been fired into. The roma - lon was not ehail we
nneme a State. but shell we defend the property of the
Unit. d States against all enemies, at home and abroad,
wherever our flag floats. His,idea was, not that South
riarolina is coerced, hut „she is goercing the Border
States. ' •
Mr CLEMENS. of Virginia, said that the course of
South Carolina towards Vire ink wan, that the latter
must be dispensed with, because she is true to the
Union and the Constitution.
Mr. SHER hI AN. returning, said that freedom will
die with the fall of this Republic, and there w. old arise
a military despotism north and cow h. end the country
will be worse than Mexico, because our petiole are
braver and stronger than the people of that Republic.
He earnestly appealed to the border slave Stares to
arrest the progress of existing wrongs. Let us see
whether there is no hope foepeao• and conciliation. If
we cannot ogres, let Uri fight. If we can agree, let
as do it like men, and not hurry on to destruction, if
we do not reconcile the dilfereneet, he saw nothing be
fore us but civil war, at which all men shuddered.
Should we allow Fort Sumpter to lie surrendered
at discretion ? Ile said, never. To morrow, if he
could, he would give Routh Carolina a limonite" to
leave the Confederacy ; yet where the flag floats Um
our bounden duty to see that the Government protect
it against all enemies, at all hazards, and for this Pur
pose the army should lie employed.
He proceeded to show what can be done for concilia
tion and peace. He did not believe that some of the
Routitern btates would listen to conciliation. They are
bent on disunion. In the course of his rem r rice he said
that when the Missouri Comoromme was repeated the
Republicans then declared that slavery would never
derive any benefit by that repeal. The position then
taken they now °coupe. He maintoined that the Chi
cago platform did not propose to infringe any Southern
rig i.ts. Give Mr. Lincoln's Administration a fur trial,
and it will be found just toward allsections. He proposed
a modification of the fugitive-slave law, which wee now
nejuat and harsh,
tte loaner reo.arked. that the territorial is the only
real ouestion of disturbance. Slavery cannot. by ant
rule or law. extend north of the nine of thirty-six thir
ty. he oonteat between fisedoin and slavery was
fought in Kamm two years ago lie send, admit Han
ce. and New Mexico as a, State, and gave rean - ns why
he ootilfl not vote for Mr. Crittenden's oompromitii, In
conolosion lie said, give the Republican Administra
tion a fair chance 11 it should not do right, millions
of the North will stand by you.
Mr. CRAWFORD, of Georgia, roomed PerMisaion
to make a few remarks explanatory. and in vindication
of the Course of South Carolina. whiolt, he maintained,
acted I good faith. and could have taken the forts and
hail not. like the President, violated plighted faith.
Believing. as they did. that it was the purpose of the
Government to commence hostile measures against the
South, the Governor of Georgia ordered the seizure of
the forte at the mouth of the Savannah river ne n peace
measure , If Georgia does not secede she will return
them The South asks to resume her sovereignty. and
part in peace. "We will," he added, " die in defence
of our rights, which we olann. and ought to enjoy."
Mr. HILL. of Georgia, in noticing the remarks of
Mr. Sherman, expressed the belief that the tooth is
approaolialio with reason, and earnestly appealed for
eoriethatiOn. Let the people have time to speak. Be
would await the result with confidence and hope. He
hoped. if Georgia resolved to secede, it would do ao
prospootivelY, in order to give time to save the Shertb
structure of the Government. He wished it borne in
mind that he belonged not to the ohm of men who
would dismember the Confederacy. tie would as sons
take a glass vessel and mush it no pieties, to make it a
better one, than to attempt to make a better Govern
ment by crushing the present into atoms. If Georgia
shall plot:nod to the extremity of secession, he would
ask her, for her own sake, to have the manliness, after
the net is done, to refute a reconstrucition of the Go
vernment. and to stand out as an isolated nation. There
with" ho dignity, if not safety, in such a course.
Mr. DAW E 9, of Massaohusetts. Will you take the
Platform of the Constitutional Union party which de
clares for the Union, the Constitution, and the enforce
ment of the lawn?
Mr. HILL. I linden:kind that platform well. I was
one of the committee appointed to frame iL
Mr. rrAWSA. ISUPPOIO lOU will bola ouraelf to it ?
Mr. L. Do you reepeot that platform ?
Mr. DpWeti. I respect, regard. end uphold every
obligation of the Constitution. and every law passed
ur.der it.
• • -
Mr. HILL. I am glad to hoar you say so, and I hope
you will administer a severe rebuke to the new Geyer
nor of hlarsaohusetts fur not concurring in your views,
[Laughter.]
Mr. DA',V Eft No man is more true to the Constitu
tion and Union than that Governor.
Mr. HILL. I say tie out-going Governor, Mr.
Banks. is a better observer of the Constitution than
Me predecessor. In conclusion, he appealed to gentle
men to take Mr. Crittenden's compromise as the basis
of settlement He had Itetened with pleasure to Mr.
coward's speech, Lemmas It was a modification of his
fdriLor donna La IgthltP
t hea ta work and me
tt ni,teeh the flame nosy Caging nu country.
Mr. lieJtabhlttri. of Ueorgia, would take the
Union and Constitutional Percy platform as it is.
A voice to Mr, Damao. Go you agree to that
Mr. DAWES. 1 agree to every part of it. I want ne,
better platform.
Mr. HARD e MAN said that the platform recognizes
the decision of the dupremo Court, and that the South
have the right to carry their slaves Into the common
Territories. AS one of the discharged soldiers, he was
willing to take the Bell and Everett platform as a baste
of the settlement of the difficulties.
. . . . . .
APer further proceedings, Mr. BURNETT, of Ken•
May, offered an amendment, that no forces authorized
in the bill shall be men to subjugate any of the seceding
States. Be wanted the country to understand whether
tt was the intention to tnake war oh talent or not.
Yn r. STANTON, of Ohio. said that there could be no
war, flutes!' the argreselon comes from the seceding
States
Mr. Bumett'a amoudthent woe rejected.
The committee then rose. The army bill was barged
Adjourned.
PENNSYLVANIA' . LEGISLATUILE
ThtER23l39llO. Jan. le, 1361.
Neither House Is in nesslon to day, having yesterday
adjourned over till Monday.
In the House. yester, ay. Mr. LEIBENRING read in
Place a bill to authorize the German Reformed Congre
gation. of Philadelphia, to call certain srouad rents
Mr. DUNLAP, a bill to inaorproato the Philadelphia
Turner Bomety. It authorizes the eatabliahment of a
library and sohcol for instruction in gymnastic o'er-
OHM.
. .
r. BKITZER, a bill to Incorporate the Chattel Loan
Company ; a hill to incorporate the Pennsylvania and
New Jersey Bridge Company. and a hill to incorporate
the Guarantee Insurance Company.
Mr. ABBOT c moves that the committee en the con
tested-election ease, in the First District of Philadel
phia he allowed to sit in Philade•phia to take evidence,
which was agreed to,
Mr. eBL I Z ER. ref used to present to the House peti
tions for the moat of the objectionable seotione of the
Penal Code. lie We a large majority of Ms consti
tuents a.e ()netted to it.
The goneral impression is, howover, that the Sidtli and
66th sections of tbe,ponal Code will ho repealed before
the adjournment.
The Philadelphia Appointments.
Hanntsuorto, Jan- 18 —The appointments for
Philadelphia hero mostly been ;riado as armounced
on Wed ;lead ay.
Hiram holler has been appointed Scaler of
Weights and Measures for tho upper district.
Thomas J. Tyrol, who was an applioant for the po
sition, DI appointed Tonnage Agent
Dr Trenobard i of the Nineteenth ward, will
probably bo appointed Port Physician
William Read is appointed Heulth Officer, and
Chorine S Wayne, Master Warden.
Grain Measurer.—Chriatian Myers, of Clarion
county.
Lazaretto Physician.—Dr. D K. Shoemaker, of
Carbon county.
Quarantine Master —Robert Garstride, of Bola
ware county.
Whisky Inspeotors.—Csl William Butler, of
Mifflin ; Richard Elite, of Philadelphia.
Harbor Master.—George T. Thorn, of Phlla
dolphin
The Flour Enspeotorship is still n adeolded
The illauland Couunission.
rns PILILADELPIIIA 1303004. pen).
MARRISOURG, Jan. 18.—Speaker raimer, of the
Senate, and Hon Gideon .1 .Ball, of the House, re
cently sent to Maryland by Gov. Curtin„ returned
last night from Annapolis. They express them
selves highly gratified with their interview with
Gov. Bloke
A bill will soon be introduced, aboliziiing the
Board of School Controllers of Philadelphia, and
organizing a new system.
Dr Seltzer refuses to present to the House pelt.
lions for the repeal of the objeotionable Haien! of
the penal code. Ho eaya &large majority of his
constituents are opposed to it.
The general impression is, however, that the
95th and OEth sections of the penal node will be
repealed before the adjournment.
A fierce war is being waged between the Come
ronitos and anti•Cameronitee.
Rumored gencontreT-General homey
Vhallehged.
WasniaavoN,Jan.lB —A story bas been bruited
about this evening of a personal reneontre said to
have taken place,' while the Senate was in exam.
tivo tossion, between Senators Wade and lien.jamin.
It is a sheer invention.
General Ramey bee been ohallengod by a late
officer of the army. Both gentlemen are now in
this oity.
Letter from the Ron. Mr. Outer.
OBIIRGO, Jan. DI—A letter from the Hon. Mr.
Duer &Wares that the treason in tho bouth most
be put down. There must be no dimmed= to ir
responsible demands. The secession of the dorth
must be guarded against, for New England is
worth more to the Union than South Carolina or
Georgia. He recommends: First, the enforcement
of the lows; second, j .atioe to the Beath ; third,
the refusal of the extreme demands of the South ;
fourth, permission to the Southern States to retire
from the Union, if such is their deliberate wish,
by moans of en amendment of the Constitution,
obedience to the laws being striotly enforced until
then.
Arrival of the Asia.
Nsw YORK, Jan. 18.—The Cunard eteauallip
Asia has anchored at quarantine. Tho doctor
cannot board her on account of the ico, and ahe
pr.bably will not teach the city to night. lior
dates are to the sth, and have bcon anticipated
Union Meeting in New York.
ADOPTION ON THE BORDER STATES' PROPOSITION
1 , 11:w YORK, Jan. 18 —At a meeting of tho pro
minent merchants of this pity this afternoon, a
memorial was adopted recommending the adoption
by Oongrers of the compromise plan proposed by
the Border-State Representatives.
Sate of - 11411 roast.
AticAvAugme, Jan. 18 —The Milwaukee and Mis
sissippi Railroad was sold today by the teurshall,
on the order of the U. S. INstricl Court, and Wfla
purohased by the trustees of the creditors and
assenting stockholders.
LOSS of the Brig Quickstep.
.Nuiv YORK Jan. 18.—The British brig Quick
step, from Trinidad for London, was abandoned at
sea. The captain and four of the crew were
brought here by the ship 17ora, Southard. The
rest of the orew, four in number, were washed
overboard and drowned.
Now York Democratic Convention, 7,
Avner . , Jan 18 —A Domooratio State Conven
tion has been nailed to meet January 31st, to take
name notion in relation to the national oriels.
New York Volunteers
SACKETT'S If tnnon, Jan. 18.—The Sackett's
Harbor col unteera have offered their rervicca to the
Governor of the Ste to.
Markets by Tolograph
BALTIMORR, Jan. 18.—Flour dull ,• Howard and Ohio
Ott 61 'Wheat dull' rod 01.26a1 33; whtto r#1,6001,05,
corn firm • white P.Sts7o,; yellow 640670. Provisions
active and buoyant • sales of Mee° York at 8,114,_ Lard
[tattoo at 10310. Collect gently, Jim 12,0130. WhirkY
stonily at 16, o.
.610 BILE. Jan. 17 —Sales of Cotton today 2,00) bake,
at llot sales for three days 8.64 e bales; reoeipte for
three days 15400 bales. Cotton freight to Liverpool I , i;
to Hayti. 114. Sterling exchange 3to 43-it bills on Styx
York S6er3;," discount
LATER FROM SAN FRANCISCO
My Pony Express.]
81,265,000 in Specie for New York
FORT Knenasiv, Jan. n.—The pony express
arrived here on the afternoon of the 16th, but the
news could not be trin , tnitted till now, in conse
quence of the telegraph being proaratcd by a
heavy snowstorm.
BAN FRANCIBCo Jan 2 —Sailed, yesterday, the
steamer Golden Age, with 215 passengers. and
$1,205,000 in treasure. Among her passengers are
Governor Weller, who is on his way to Mexico to
take the position of Amerloan minister, and Sena
tor Nesmith.
PASSENGER LIST—COI. John C. Pregnant Cot. J. D.
Fry, Gov. Weller, secretary, and son CM. Nesmith,
U. N. Benatori Col, Emery, Frederiok Geo.
Gibbs, 0. L. Ross, Allred Pell, Jr. R. B. Woodward,
Rev. Mr. Blank, L. Hams, W. Simms, Mrs. Fraser,
Mrs. Brett and d sughter Mrs. G. L. Jacobs, Mrs.
Greenwood Dr, J L. McLean, George W. Wight. C. C.
Cooper, J. J. Taggart, Dr. E. White, r,. Miokle,
Master Killela, J. P. Bane, Dr. Gunn, Cnarles
Rooms. D. W Cheessman, E. Wood, Thorns
t it a k B j p . e!O . er, ,, d l ld . ' l3. Ca lfi t inoc j i, B ,Hdr e y nn4 Pas?tiliAT,
Samuel Crill. %Mules sturgeon John Hough, Mrs.
Brown, F W. Calder, S. Trion, Wino OraGe3, W. E.
Packer, Wm. McHenry, F MoGregers. L. 4. Baker,
Mrs. R. B. Broxman. Miss Maria WZIASOMMI, Mrs, M.
A. Ward. (Met Cook, James Gibson. D. F Baldw n,
Charles Newton, J. G. . a. F. ateinhart. J. Gold
smith. N. Bachman. a. Allman, E. C. Koha, J. M.
Oldenhetiner. Mier Kohn, J. M. Eakereld. G. K..Wh
ington. W. Hendrickson, Geo. M. Hanson. J Galt.
W. 0. Patch, A r liman. L. J. Cummings. J. D. Cart
wright, Robert Cartwright. J. E. parks, A. Collins, A.
son,, aa Bayley,vans, Geo Kappiltz. Edward hump-
J Mre. Raiment. John Woif, August
Crandon. 0. Taylor. Mrs Deanna, John Caruthers. A.
Mayer Dr. Safely, C. B. ri oeler. B. D. Forsyth, and
Mrs. Clampelt.
COM.MERCIAL
There has been no trade worth reporting this week.
An unexpeoted stringency in the money market forms
the principal topic of conversation In businesscirclet,
and is thus accounted for by 'lie Rumors Bulletin of
to-day. Towards the close of banking hours on Mon
dor the demand for money for steamers.
fliers the wires
report Yittsbur o b tainedut and the
eoncluelon of the cannot be ]
Alassachusetts Legislature
.1308 TON, Jan. 18 —The Legislature has unani
mously passed resolutions lending she Proaident
suob aid in men and money as ha may need to
maintain the authority of the General Govern
meat. 'The preamble deviates that booth Carolina
has committed an ant of war.
MO Senate hits passed a bill authorizing an in•
crease of the volunteer' military of the state It
will doubtless pass the House to-morrow by a largo
if not a unanimous vote.
A bill was introduced in the House for the enrol.
moot and equipment of 20,000 men, to be styled
the Maniaohusetts volunteer militia, to continue
one year, and authorizes the Governor to tender
their services to the President
The Union demonstration here is to be a meeting
in Faneull Hall. The lion Edward Everett is to
be invited to speak A memorial is to be submitted
to Congress for the paoification of the existing dith•
culties by Bush a - compromise as may be expedient.
Mr. Redpath is here, and denies that It is his in
tention to run off slaves
Burning of the Ship Globus.
HAMPTON ROADS, Jan. 18 —The ship Morutug
Star, Captain Campbell, of Windsor, Nova Bootie,
from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt and iron,
bound to City Point, has arrived with 149 passen
gers and the crew from the ship Globus, Captain
Blanks, bound to New York, which was burned on
the afternoon of the 12th All were saved but
one, who jumped overboard.
T2O Globus was enveloped in flames in half an
hour, affording scarcely time sufficient lo save the
passengers The general cargo, luggage, and
clothing were all lost. A heavy sea was running.
Captain Blanks) wee the loot to leave the burning
ship 0 wing to the gallant exertions of the two
captains and crews, the whole were saved. The
captain of the Morning Star, and his wife and
daughter, as well as the crew, paid every attention
to the destitute passengers, among whom were
sixty females and a number of children.
The ship Morning Star was short of provi
sions, which, however, was supplied by the British
ship Boomerang - , Captain Young, of Newcastle,
bound to New ' York, though ho was likewise short
of provisions ' Every attention was paid to the
passengers here by Col. Myers, the British con
sul. They will be sent to New York by the Art.
atelaMOr
New York Legislature.
ALBANY, Jan. 18 —ln the Range of Assembly,
the Committee on Federal Relations made a report,
The committee decline to inquire who is respone
Bible for the present troubles, nut declare that New i
York, while standing firmly n support of the Unitn
and the laws, both by moral and material aid, will
recognize the importance of doing all in its power
to conciliate the disaffected States. Resolutions
accompany the report, repudiating the attempt of
some' of the alaveholding States to destroy the
Union, and denying the,right of any State to se
cede. Also, declaring that the State will put forth
all its power and resources to maintain the Govern
mentand nil itlattferein the Mott Met Mler Took
etnoerety deetrets to ...Erin civil war by every means
consistent with honor, and meet her Gates btatea in
a conciliatory artint, to sontider the differences of
opinion atniaabiy, remove all just ceases of dem
plaint, and by mutual concessions restore peaoa and
harmony.
Annexed to the report are the resolutions origi
nally introduced by Mr. Robinson, for the forma
tion into two States of all the territory after the
admission of Kansas, with an amendment reserving
the right of division with proper restrictions, or to
divide the territory after the manner of the Mis
souri Compri:Maim
A resolution was also introduced inquiring
whether any agent of Smith Garonne bee negotiated
at Troy for the purchase of comen, and what citi
zens of Tray are implicated in the negotiatico.
A bill was introduced in the Assembly provi
ding for a gradual compensated emancipation of
the slaves in the border States within forty years
and the colonization of the blacks in Liberia. Re
ferred to the Committee on Federal Relations
A bill was also introduced making it a felony to
sell stores, munitions of war, eta., to any body pi
presenting a State that bas seceded from or is in
rebellion to the United States, or to loan money to
suoh States or their agents, or to hire himself or
other persons to aid such States, and the orime to
be punishable by from two to ten years' imprieon
meat. Refer;ed to the Committee on Public De
fence.
The Trial of Jacka
TIIIINTON, Jan. IS —A jury was empanelled on
the Jackalow case. The indiotment for robbery
on the high seas was road, and Col. Cannon opened
the case on the part of the Government, setting
forth tho facts which ho intended to prove. The
first indictment is for robbery, in support of
which the Government has the greatest amount of
testimony. If convicted on this, the other Indict
ments will probably not bo tried. The case has
been adjourned till Monday.
The Recent Cruise of the Brooklyn.
[Front Um Norfolk Day (look.)
IL 13 well known that the Brooklyn went down
the coast to Charleston harbor, and would have
gone in, or, at leant, would have attempted it, but
for the foot that just as she got cff the mouth of the
river she mot and spoke a email, rough-looking
schooner coming out, said schooner carrying no
flag. '
" Where are you bound?" was asked by one of
the officers of the Brooklyn.
" Philadelphia," answered the schooner. The
schooner than imparted the intelligence that the
Star of the West had attempted to enter the her•
bor, and had eighteen or twenty shots fuel into
hor, and she thought it imprudent for the Brooklyn
to enter.
The Brooklyn rounded to, and was surprised to
roe that the schooner did not proceed to sea. It
wee oleo observed that a steamer MOO out of tho
harbor and talked with the schooner, 'and then
took her in taw until the was some distance from
the Broonlyn. The steamer finally went back,
end the schooner leisurely made her way into the
harbor. It now occurred to those on board the
Brooklyn that the sailors on the schooner wore
black silk hate, standing collars, store clothes, 4e ,
and the impression sooh prevailed that the sohoonor
was one of the guard vessels that had boon sent
out to intercept the Brooklyn
The Brooklyn made no attempt to enter the
harbor, but remained outside until she started
homeward. She arrived In Hampton Bonds about
dark on Monday nigh_t and came to anchor under
the guns of Fortress Monroe, in or near the spot
occupied by the Great Bastern, when she was off
Old Point.
It is a little remarkable that none of the guns
on the Brooklyn were loaded, or even unlashed for
the purpose, nor was the slightest preparation for
action made on board during the whole ornino.
The sailors that were on board were divided in
sentiment, some being Southern men in sentiment ;
while others wereinfluencesj.by Northern feelings.
As for the affusers, nothing could be gained from
them; they were perfectly mum on all the various
subjects connected with the ship or the cruise, and
if they disoussed the subjeot at all, did so privately.
The two officers who sent in their resignation
the day before the Brooklyn sailed were on board
during the whole cruise. The acceptance of their
resignations had not been received up to the sail
ing of the Brooklyn, and they were compelled to
remain on board until they were absolved from
their oath of office.
The destination of the Brooklyn ia unknown.
She is, at this time, in the Roads, and it is be
lieved that she will proceed to New York; but
there is nothing certain about her future move
ments.
SINGULAR SUICIDE DT AN EMINENT CLER,
QTRAN.—There was a singular enfold° at the Spen
cer Douro, somewhere between the middle of Sun
day afternoon and midnight. The circumstances
are those : 9n Saturday evening, the Rev. Robert
C. Rise, one of the most eminent ministers of the
Ohristain or Reformed Baptist Church, arrived at
the Spencer Rouse, on his way from Philadelphia
to his home at Eminence, Ey. He immediately
wont to his room, and le not known ever to hare
left it During the forenoon of Sunday, the obagi•
barmaid desired to arrange his apartment, but be
declined to have her do so, alleging that he was
unwell
A similar application, in the afternoon, mot with
the same excuse. About midnight the clerk's at.
tuition was sailed to the matter by the statement
of the boot-black, that the boots hod remained
outside of the door all day. Upon enterlag the
room, (the door was unlocked), Mr. Rice woe
found upon the bed, dead Ile bad shot himself
in the head with a small pistol, which was still
grasped in his hand About half-past five o'clock
in the evening one of the chambermaids had heard
a report as of a pistol or fire cracker, in that por.
tion of the hotel, but, as It was not very loud, she
did not pay particular atteollort to it,
On the table lay an open Bible, and a sealed note
addressed to Mayor Bishop, of which the following
is a copy :
Please have my poor body put in a genteel case, and
sent, without molestation. to Eminence. Ky.. where, I
hop-, tt will se laid beside my dear Eliza. My Chris
tian character is impeaohed, and, by misfortune• the
means of vindication are out of. I have been a true
man; have lived for the gi od of mankind and the glory
ef God. I never 'Oared a human being intentionally.
I have preached faithfully the true Gospel of Christ,
and to the Cross of Christ 1 have ever clung, as the
ground of my hopes Take charge of my trunk money,
and o'othes here, to pay all char , es. Out all is lost—
frantio—nly heart crushed. It. C. Rica.
The allusion "my dear Eliza," is to his first
wife. The deceased stood high in his church as a
man eminent for piety and learning No other
cause is assigned for the act by his friends than a
settled melancholy induced by the separation of
his second wife from him. It is but recently that
ho married the last time, and his wife parted from
him a few days after their nuptials.—Cinclnnuti
Commercial.
To SENATOR WierAU••
Sinco Cotton is icing, will it seem very Sinister
To nominate limp as a useful Prime Minister ?
GOOD ROM NAZAR/LTD.
To accept one's fate, the Christians ra,y,
Is a very groat virtue eery visa,
And rare in people of lofty ;Callon;
Our ministers, then, should carry the day
In pow cif virtue, far surely they
Ary distinguished for Resignation !
(Vanity Fair,
THE CITY.
'4 W.F.:VI KNTS TAIB HITENINO
W wt.our-orA•Sra THIL2II2. Walnut and Muth ins.—
" Our American Causal at Homo"—•. The Ganinaket
of Moscow." •
WHUATLET CLARAS'A ARCH -STREET TIIIILTZIS•
Arch 'trash Abovo bush.-" Oliver Twist'—' A Les
son of the Heart."
UNITED STATES }WILD/SW. Chestnut street, beim
P,lll).—Van Amburgh & Co.'s Menagerie.
BANFoRD's °suns HOUSE. Eleventt, street. above Ch eßev, t.—Conoert nisktly.
Mirsio<UND MALL, Lo:ust street. above Eighth.—
Germania. °reheats& -
Special :Iltecting of Common Council.
Common Connell considered the appropriation
bills in special meeting yesterday afternoon. -
Mr. HACKER called up the ordlaannemsking an
appropriation to the Water Department for 1001
Item eight was amended so as to recluse the Imm
of $1 700. for stationary, advertising, .4.0 ,1051,500
Mr HACKER and Mr. STERR Objset.Ort
The item appropriating $l6O for carriage tire
was moved to be reduced to $lOO •
Mr Breen stated that the sum total appropriated
to the department was bat 'Me more than it was
last year.
A motion was made to strike out the item alto
gether ; parties interested could make visits to the
water works in the passenger railways -
Mr. POTTER thought 'committees of Mucci*
working without compensation, should at beat be
entitled to carriage hire.
Mr HARPER said that strangers from other cities
frequently wished to visit water works. It would
not be courtesy to take them in 1)016;1 oars,
Councils reduced the item to $lOO
Mr GEIB2. moved to make Item 26 (0250), for
wcud, five hundred dollars, On account of the con
struction of two new water-wheels.
Mr A. MILLER opposed, upon the principle that
BO moneys should be voted until it was meaning
the wheels were not actually running.
Several members also opposed the appropriation
of seven hundred and fitly dollars for tallow oil
and gas, for Fairmount works. The item was re
ducted to five hundred dollars.
Mr. A MILLER moved to reduce the surd of
$1,500 for small stores to $1,200. Carried. The
sum of $3,000 for repairs at Fairmount Works was
not reduced by motion of Mr. Miller to $2600.
Toe sumof $65,000 for the_purehase of pipes, fire
plugs, stop cocks, etc . was moved to teduCed
Mr. QUINN spoke at length of the disgraceful
manner in which the city proceeded to lay pipes
More men welq employed at all ditches, at
digging, than there was occasion for Some mem
ber of the People's party would do himself great
credit, if he moved to restore the old method of
laying the pipes by contract
Mr. CREBBWELL stated that the northeastern
section of the city was sadly destitute of the facili
ties for obtaining water.
Mr Qatnx said that Mr Cresswell seldom got
to the correct point of matters. Me proceeded to
put him in the right.
Mr Cassawect, said that snob sarcasm
came a legislator Ile cited the case of I. P. Mor
ris ‘4. Co., iron founders, who were at thsesdristi•
lute of water.
Mr. Hellenic said that the item was not for laying
pipes, but for the purchase of them.
A long debate ensued in relation to the relative
appropriations of 1860 and 1861. It was mated
that water pipe mislaid far into the rural dittrietr,
past cabbage fields, etc , merely to Enbeeree the
interests of some suburban mannfaetory. It wet
moved to reduce the item to $50,000. Not estrth4.
The item was finally reduced to $30,000 -
Mr. A Miami moved to strike out item 3il,
($6,000 ) It hod been previously provided for M
item 30
Mr. Hamm Nought that it would be moat in
advisable to strike out the appropriation for keep
ing the reservoirs Olean The water for the paiiplis
should be kept cure. The item was amended so
as to read $5 000. The item for keeping plugs,
pipes, stop-cocks. etc , in order, was moved to be
reduced from $7.500 to $5.000 Not carried
Mr POTTRK moved to amend $27,000, the awe
priation for laying pipes, plugs, etc , to $23.000.
Carried
Mr A ilfm,nri also MO7ed to eta* ant $1,500
for planting trees in lot north of Fairmount.
Mr FEBEIIMS opposed
Mr. Taxa° thought that trees sufficient 111114. Si•
ready Phoned
... •
Mr. QUINN, in reply to Mr. Thaeinan,-proceeded
to denonnee New l'ork as the modern Babylon.
Be thought that Mr; Freeman bad an aptitude fos
procuring Mane.
Mr. Lynn defended New York systems or sating
parka.
Mr. McLamt denominated the Ceemoil a Aba
ting society. The eject of members seemed to be
to outtalk eaohother
Tim item wee stricken out
Mr A. Mums moved to strike out $l,OOO for
railing on the hill at rainDoupt.
Mr. 131AP21; mentioned cues of parties who bad
fallen into the forebay and down the high bill at
Fairmmint. A railing was necessary.
The item was not attiken out. It wee moved to
etrika Gut the earn ot 92.11a8 f6t titodgitg
mono! dam . A owcut..‘..t members dbomiesent the
regimen of Mats in dame and ricers. The &tena
nt= ocenpled an holn. Tie stems was atriltken
out.
Mr. Macias presented tiro extra items for wa
ter exPormsa dize to Go:wanton; Water .Comptlay.
They amount to $b00; voted. The nun of POO
was appropriated to pave Poplar atreat east of
Third street.
The atove Miriam was tranmoted in oommittee
of the whole. The me total of the ppronriation
to the Water Department was thus tedneed t 4
$180,900
The committee then role, the bill Fowl round
reading, and was carrieidasamended. Ad/downed,.
,
DEATH OF DB. Di'OTT.--TIDe demise Of
the venerable Dr. Dyott, which occurred on Thurs.
day evening, was announced in the daily Rapers
of yesterday. A number of carious faots ne his
long and singular career tau auggested by= kia
death He came to this country frets Buglapt tA .
early life. He commenced berthas iltAkis City at
a druggist and pharmaceutist: Hie , ittentkut to
-
trade ; bit great,budneas aotteityi , end' , Awes all,
the tact and oopiottsaeteci his advirefeethasnts, set
eared him an early ettrioess.• Ile liesiUne,proprietor
of the exteusive glass works du the present float
of the Eighteenth ward, which was long known se
Dyottrlite—now (profanely). •• Fleittown." Herr
he employed, at one time, from sixty to eighty
lads Dr. D volt had laid up a due fortune in 2&Tr.
Ile published a tri.weekly paper about this time,
called the Democrats's , Herald; and advertised hie
drug business by means of a monthly cheat.
At this time he chartered a beak, in oonneetion
with some moneyed individuate. It was known
us the " Manual Labor Bank," and ciroalated Its
notes iu the form of " shinplasters," or motel' of
small denomination Owing to bad management,
the Manual Labor corporation was obliged to sues
pond operations during the great panto of DM,
The bank was located at Second and liaoe senate,
At the time of the failure the - excitement wen
intense The directors of the inatitutten, in acmes
manner, managed to throw the blame of the fail
ure upon Dr Dyott Ile was arrested and put on
trial for swindling. The scones at the trial ware
of a siegularly interesting character. Ha wee
convicted and sentenced to two years' imprison.
merit but was pardoned a short time hefore the ex,
p(ration of his tor m. In the wreck of that memo,
rabic year Dr. Dyott's large tartans •was last,
After his release, he again engaged in the drip
business, and, we believe, had attained a new for.
tune at the time of his decease. Hls career has
been unexampled, since his great misfortune, for
uprightness and energy. In person, Dr. Dyott
was very large. Ilia dross and manner was*
unique, and his long white looks and large, well•
knit frame will long be remembered in Philadsl
- Ile was more than ninety years old at the
time of his deoess.o. He was widely known
throughout the United Sates.
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QUSER DEVELOP-W*7TE —Yesterday, Offi
cer Boyd Adams arrested an old man, named
Matthew Daily, who goes about the streets on
crutches, having only one leg, upon the charge of
begging. The accused was brought to the Central
Station, and had a hearing before Alderman Batt
ler. He was there recognised by the detective
officers as a men who once went bail for two of his
children, who wore arrested upon the charge of
Woking pockets. He, at that time, entered
heavy security, and brought deeds to the alder
man's office, showing that he had property worth
$2.200. He resides in Combs alley, between Mar
ket and Arch, and Front and Second streets Be
has two daughters who are professional pick-
pockets, their photographs being in the Rogues'
Gallery. It is said that two of his cone also follow
the same occupation; and the old man, notwith
standing he has a considerable fortune, goes about
the streets begging. Ha was committed for thirty
days, as a vagrant. Daily offered the oilloir who
arrested him $5 if he would release him.
LODGBRB.—Two hundred and morauty
persons were accommodated with lodgings la the
different station houses during Thursday. might.
Of these forty-eight ware lodged at the Cherry
street station, and forty-one at the Vnion.street
station. The proposition of Mr. Benton of beleat
Connell, to use the old Moyamenslng Bali as a
lodging place, was a good one. The etatioa
houses are not oapable of lodging all who seek
admission Some of them cannot accommodate
all tools prisoners.
PRESENTATION —On Thursday evening,
Captain Snag Born was presented with two band
come silver pitchers by the police of the Eleventh
district, for his kindnesa in assisting them in their
drills. The presentation took place at the Cap
tsM's residence at Frankford road and Pelmet
street, Eighteenth ward, and was made by Lint.
Whitoraft on behalf of the men of his dildatem
The usual collation was set, and a happy Way was
passed.
ARICHSTED AT LAST.—A yovids. nainea
Patrick Milian, who is churned with having
stabbed John Toner, on the night of the election,.
at Twenty-fourth and Pine streets, was arrested on
Thursday, by the Seventh-ward polloe. lam
not been seen since the oecurrenoe until /time
captured. The accused was taken before Alder.
man Patchett and committed to answer.
DEADLY ASSAULT.—On Thursday, a Ger
man baker was assaulted by three ruffians on
"Pluck Nineteenth ward, without any
cause whatever. It is supposed their intention
was to rob him. One of the assailants was arrest.
ed. Ho gave the name of James White, and was
committed by Alderman Clouds to answer.
MALICIOUS Misomp.—Two young men,
named Daniel kloCiooldriok and Thomas litellonnel),
were arrested, on Thursday, while indulging in
the sport of heaving stones through a church will
d3w, in the upper part of the Nineteenth ward.
They were taken before, Alderman Clouds, and
both committed to answer.
STABBING ANFAlB.—Yesterday rooming,
about four o'clock, during a ball at the 'a l - m e wl
Mrs. Hurray, at Third and Monroe striate, a free
.fight occurred among the disorderlim Mrs. Cur
ray, in attempting to quell the dl,r,twom ma, was
badly out in the hand, and a pang man, named
Hugh Sweeney, was also stabbed in the abdomen.
The assailant made hia escape.
BiIWABD 1/10.V.HASED. Messrs. Mamie
have increased the rewasd offered by them for the
detention of the person or persons whe set fire to
their lumber yard, from two hundred and fifty to
deo hundred dollars. It is to be hoped that the
offer of this liberal sum will have the tact of
bringing the guilty tojuatioe.
" Paonssoa .Powymy' will have a
bearing in Camden, le.tore Justice Duffel, this af
ternoon, at two o'clock The office of the justloe
is at .1 ) .05 Federal street. AU persons who may
have suffered through the advertisements and.re.
presentations ot this man would do well to be pie ,
sent.
hiii'IIOVEMENTS —A block of six brick
dvietting houses, with bask buildings. hairs been
erected en Twentysecoad street, below eStatets,
and are rapidly approaching complation. nog.
will add Inuch to the appearance of this inlet
borhood
WE ABP INpOEXED that the Rev. Werry
Burnham trill baptise a number of persona
morning at Rational Hall, in a now toot greparea
for tat purpose,