tijt VreSS.
TTUESDAYc JANUARY 22, 1861
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To Anviturrenic-=-The circulation of T.us
Pasith Emceed' that of any other daily paper
in Phihnlelphiaiwith a single exception. Sa
tisfactory proot of - this faet will be eheerffilly
given to sdiertii4Wit.
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poser PAGl.—Lpid_Brongliam on Slavery in
Amatien;',/kiiiintartant Visit; The Baltimore
Oentrfeiltnilroml From the South —the Polltical
Etelilo4; P0'7301381" awl ; General
llewiMformvaPAOS.—Siesoh of Hon. I. N. Mor
ris, of Illinois; Marine Intelllgenoe.
V" A Savannah correSpondent informs us
thaita Was,Abe i other , evening, to the com
panyof gang'who seized•the revenue cut- ,
ter tanager!. They flit:Orly admitted that
thei.liere on a drunken spree at , the time.
All of -the men `were memberti of the Rattle
snake zninb, and may be taken" as a fair sarri
ple of those engaged in most of the violent
and aggressive acts of the Secession move
ment:.: .
Speech,' Oftfie Mon. Isaac N.
. Morris, of
In Ma Pates - of this morning we commence
the publication of the great speech of the Hon.
Is/teeH. linnets; of Illinois, delivered in the
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Houseallepresentativei on the 16th inst.
It will be found to be a graphic and faithful
history of the stirring events of the last three
years; end, as such, worthy alike of careful
perusal And 'careful preservation. Mr. Mon.
RIS will 'be remembered as the single Repre
sentative from Illinois who heartily co-ope.
rated with the Popular-Sovereignty Demo
crats of the Broderick school. He has never
flinched during ; the entire bitter struggle
which began . with Lecompton, and culminated
at Baltimore, in the disruption of the Demo
cratic:party., His overwhelming letter in reply
to the Hon. .Isturs L. Ona, first published in
this paper;some months ago, was copied and
comnientet tPon, by the newspipers in all
parts of the country. His object, in the speech
which we now spread before our, readers, is to
unite and hairpins - public sentiment in support
of the Hoiernment, and, in order to show the
reasons that should operate upon every eiti.
zen in thisemergency, he presents an array of
facts, accurately and historically srranged,
which cannot fait to be responded to by public
sentiment. '
Dr. Dyott.
A corresiendont informs us that our notice
of the varied fortunes of the late Dr. Drorr is
inaccurate In some of Its details, and does not
do full justice to the subject. The writer•was
intimate With the Doctor for many years, and
speaks-bpthe card.
He did not commence busines as a druggist.
When •ht . came to this country he had lint a
few shillings. Observing that very little at
tention-was paid to boot blacking in Philadel
phia—few boots being polished, and no black
ing made:--he rented a cellar and small room
above it,- in. Seeond:or Third street, above
Chestnut, and commenced to manufacture
blacking. It took the greater part of his
money to buy the materials, simple and cheap
as they'were, of which his blacking was made.
He made the blacking at night, with his own
hands, 'and sold it. by day in his little shop
above, brushing the buyer's boots to show
them how; to use it. He soon found sale for
all he could make, and wanting suitable
bottles to put it in, (for it was liquid,) ho
walked up to. the'„glass works, then in Ken
sington, to have them made, and not knowing
the distanCe, or exactly how to get there, he
preferred:walking to getting a horse, for fear
the turnpike toll would take too much of his
money tor at that time he supposed It was as
expensive to ride near Philadelphia, as it was
near London. By this pursuit he made money
rapidly, and soon obtained enough to esta
blish a drug store, of which business he 'had
obtained some knowledge as a druggist's' ap
prentice in 'England, where he learned the art
of making boot blacking.
He soon rose, by the system of newspaper
puffiag, to be the largest manufacturer of pa
tent medicines and drugs in the United
States, and didan immense business„__ALoof
to his elegant
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English coach, with three or four outriders in
livery. few years after this he became
embarrassed; broke up his costly style of
living, and worked through his difficulties by
making his creditors take drugs and medi
cines. After this he enlarged his business,
bought the , glass-works where his blacking
bottles were made, and was, no doubt, at this
time =a T3eh Man. But his business was car
ried ()Oka Somewhat wild manner, and had
gone beyond his knowledge or control, when,
in 1835 or 1836, he added to it that of bank
ing. Ho never bad an act of incorporation.
He bad purely a private bank of issue. Ho
published a statement that he had deeded a
large amount of real estate, for the redemption
of hie notes, to some of the prominent citi.
ems of Philadelphia. In the general de-'I
rangement of the business of the country in
1887, the Doctor and his bank broke down,
and his deed of trust for his bank was found
to be worthless. Ile was then indicted. for
fraud, and :Sentenced to the penitentiary.
Others were also tried for conspiracy with
him, bat acquitted.
Such changes in the life of one man are not
common—making boot-blacking and brushing
boots, at one time ; in a few years, riding in
his own - four-horse carriage, with outriders;
then in the penitentiary; and, after all, dying
calmly, Ste ripe old age, in comfortable cin.
cumstarices.
Our iet;Ospeadent also says " Fishtown"
Is not tne•new name of the locality on the
Delaware river, below Gunner's ran, for it
bore that title a hundred years ago or more.
MR. DRICRRDRITeII "Patina's
anderatao: thit, on next Saturday evening, M.
De Cordol'a will read his poen, on " The Prime's
Visit," in the Mall of the University of Pennsyl-.
Innis, Ninth' Street, for the' benefit of the Folder
nom- are gratuitously rendered,
and this tliabilds' only appearance here. "The
Prince's IS a humorous poem, which Mr.
De Cordo#C Us delivered thrice in Now York,
with effeonind success, and also in varicau places
in the States of NeW Jersey; New Jtork,,Maq
land, Maillechitaotts, do. The press has bestowed
the highest. pr aise , upon this production, for which a
we bespeak 'kind • and opproCiative reception
here. -
A Fetal! .Itifienr.;--Lt got into some of the
newspapers that, Mr. Murphy,, tresisarer of 34 al
ant•street Theatre - , was to take bis benegt /mit
night. Thy event In question *owes eg . next Mon
day evening, we believe.
Ma. BlCen'e CONonay.—The pro
gramme, as &tally arranged, gives Mesdames
Anna Biskap,Xon Barbel, and Bertha Johainsen,
with Cart formes and Signor Stigolli, as chief
vooal perfortitre: Parte of the operas of Martha,
Tancredi, 'p or 14:eyseltutz, and Massansello
will be performed, with a new mallows) tableau of
Washington, in which Anna Bishop, Bertha do
bannsen, Ind Carl' Foimos will sing the solo parts
in " The Star-Spangled Banner." Mr. Theodore
Thomas will be Director of the performances. We
repeat—Mi. ittaal's attentive aad aoarteoue bear
ing, as ait'oMerei , of the Academy of Music, In
which the Voncert comes or, on;Thursday evening,
entitle Win to a full home.
with pluses. that one of the first sots
of Governor Curtin was to commission Colonel P.
C. Ellmaker ae siNotary Public. The worthy 4". a
tones entered,upen the duties of his office under his
new oommission_yeaterdsy. Colontd,llilinaker has
held the position of Not .rablie for - some Ave
years, his last comuili i
iiion having mplipi /I few
days ago; - arid the ability with which be performed
the duties of the dice, and.the confidence reposed
in his oilloialowts by a number of Par banks and the
business community, are the best guarantees that
any bushiest entrusted tobim will be faithfulliand
legally attended to.
Nitytarerinte: The jiiimtrattel
News of:thi'W:ctrld of Yannary btb, remind
-:;-4,,from Oatliade'r Co, Sonth, Third street, 64:m
-1)1:table a bioirmAy, with fine tortratt on steel, of
Prince IngrAysd expressly for this pieta
vial) by PollalsfAM .of Orion Yiotoris, as imps,
stion likeness to that-el the Prises of Wales, pub
lished by lhafjotinial telt year. We also have the
Illustrateii•LostdoesNeirei of mite-date, from Mr.
Callender.
M'% ilimasNi-Irtaiiiiiiins eine Dex:—Thoe.
111144 too, N 0.914 Ohownit Awd, will sell this
a'oloOk, li‘ rariiiiiwieortment of ale-
L 1,12— - Aalerniturw.
Eliotme, Kist Zunis, Ice., 0 n
veateek, stAhc BO Thomas tr, 804 e
PulPhiet !ata/PPO" MlCafivqragime ilft • •
Seat `-:
BOSTON Jan, 81—Sin thousand stud of awe,
have been, Seat &kith from the Waterfowl. *r
and.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
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Letter from " Occasional."
[Correspondence of The Press.]
I . WAsniNGTON, January 21,1861.
Notwithstanding the prospects continue gloomy,
it is easy to read•in the faces of our public, men In
dioations arapieleue of something like an adjust
ment. The Diannioniets having very thoroughly
impressed their own people with the Idea that no
thing which the North may offer will be acceptable
to them, will goon be oalled to account for their
etubbornnese. The brief and bitter experience of
South Carolina is so ow:latently before the eyes of the
Southern buainem men and agrioulturiste—is so pre
sent to large alaveholders, cotton growers, and su
gar planters—that there is a natural hesitation
among these olasses about rushing headlong into
BoOesalon when Its fruits are bankruptcy, dis
trust, and dismal apprehensions of servile insur
rection. How much, as I have said on a former
occasion, the oonduot of the leading Disunion
lets in the Cotton States is like that of the
leaders of the French Revolution, in 1793. Those
eonspinshre refuse all terms of compromise, and,
ap
,to the present moment, have carried their
people with them by means of exaggerated
pictures of Northern_ aggressions, and antioipti
tient; of great wrongs oonteniplated by the Re
publicans. They told their people, months ago,
that the moment South Carolina left the Union the
alarm in the free States would be such as to excite
riots and bloodshed in our great cities; that offers
of treaties of commerce would be instantly made
by the great foreign Powers; and that the whole
Southern section would flow with - milk and honey.
And yet, while these bold, bad men have been
carrying things with a high hand, those whom
they have duped do not realize the fulfilment of a
single one of their prophecies. Bo far from injustice
or wrong. at least so far ce the Republican masses
are ooneerned,,the repeated proffers of kindness and
conolliation, (except upon one or two propositions
pending before Congress, and amounting to little
rutted in themselves) must assure every reason
able observer that the whole population of the free
States is permeated with the firmest and strongest
feeling for the people of the Southern States. If
you look at the reports that have proceeded
from the late House Committee of Thirty. three'
you will find, even in those signed by the
Republicans, a studied effort to exhibit the best
feeling for the elope States. The spirit •that ani
mates the report of liOn. Charles Piano's Adams,
like that which pervades the lengthy paper of Ron.
Thomas Corwin, fe of the most national character,
and it le well known that the majority of the Re
puhlioans on the committee were ready to accept
any plan save that only which insisted upon the
absurd idea of protecting slavery south of 30 deg.
80 min. Most of the Republietin Governore have
rivalled each other in their utterances of devotion
to the rights of the Southern people—Mr. Seward,
Mr. Banks, Mr. Weed, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Bates'
Mr. Ashman, and men of that aohool have signified
their' readiness to abandon all party abstractions
for the general good. Now, when snob men speak
it must be rtmoilooted that their words are things,
and that they will be held to a strict acoountability
by the people should they fall cif when the hour
for motion arrives.
Nor have the expeotations of the conspirators
been consummated ltn regard to distress and tur
bulence in the free States. On the contrary, the
average happiness and comfort of our working
population is as high as it has bean at any time
within live years, These dissonsionists can•see
bat one great result of their felly and their in
sanity, and that the consolidation of the people of
the free States into one great Union party. Bat
will they be impressed by it? Again, their exp.-
rim ent hue not been approved by bene6oent fruit s
in their midst. No aid comes to them from
foreign countries. Scarcely a voice is utter
ed In their commendation by European jour
nals or statesmen: Beggary in the counting'
house, beggary on the plantation, beggary in the
marts of trade ; no commerce, no oonfidenoe, no
ourrenoy—nothing but debt, doubt, and despair•
Snob is the picture presented by the six•weeks
trial of disunion In the State of South Carolina !
Snob is the example set by the anemias of the Con
federacy to those whom they are instigating to
follow, choral Is it not natural, then, that the
Southern masses, like the French masses, should
distrust these hot-headed, uncompromising, and
oracy men ? And am I not right in the prognosti
cation, that a very short time will elapse before
the parallel is completed, and that the patriotic
eitirena who are now consenting to the rash coun
sels of the fitO• eaters will tarn upon their deceiv
ers and betrayers, tear them from the high posi
tions they occupy, put better men in their places,
end OM back into the Union, to use the language
of the ,Obarleaton Mercury, not only sick and
tired of their experiment, lint with a glad hip, hip,
hurrah-
Bat, in order to facilitate phis happy termina
tion of our troubles, the leaders of the party soon
0 be the governing party will be expected to do
something Them leaders *told. rileftetslis -- ,.
I. ed-warren' theY do not avoid the stiff-necked
and arrogant refusal to reoonoile our grievous na
tional vexations Whilst it is certain that the mil
lions ofmen who voted for Linooln, poughts, and Ball
in November last,' pronounced against the wild
theories of the South Carolina fanatics, it is India-
potable that the great minority that elected Mr.
Lincoln, owing to divisions in the Demooratio
party, will never consent to such an adherence to
mere platforms as might be insisted upon if they
were a controlling majority of all the people.
There is an additional reason why the champions
of the Republican party ehould concede a great
deal In order to bring peace to the country. It is
Mr Lincoln's interest that they should do so.
Nearly every step that he has taken since his
election bas been in a conservative direction
Ills appointment of Mr. 'Bates, of Missouri, as a
member of hie Cabinet, which was his first act, was
most significant. Mr. Dates, though a Renalioan,
is an old citizen of a slave State, and in the late
campaign pursued a moderate and conciliatory
course. Then oame his offer to Mr. Seward, who,
after accepting the poet of Seoretary of State; de
livered himself of, a patriotic speech in the Senate,
in which he entiiiiited a temper so moderate and
fair as to have disarmed the criticism of his ene
mies. The tender of a poeitiop in bls Cabinet to
General Cameron was another indication it , the
right direction, for General Cameron has never
been classed with the extreme men of his party,
and has never sympathized in any aggressive war
upon Southern institutions. It is now insisted
that Mr. Chase, of Ohio, has not been called into
Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, and the reason is freely
given that Mr. Lincoln /pea not wish to be held
responsible for the ultra opinions pJ any man.
Henry Winter Davis is generally discussed ne the
forthcoming Attorney General in the new Adml
nietration, and Mr. Davie is known to be in favor of
jot, such' a settlement as would hold the Border
States in the Union. That Mr. Lincoln was ready
to call Alex. H. Stephens into his Cabinet is gladly
adinitted by his Inziediate friends, and I am in
formed by one who professes to speak by the bock,
that an autograph letter has been seen over the
signature of 'the President, In which he ex
presses the highest admiration for the' gal
/ant georgian. Would it not be a monstrous
impetatlon upon Mr, Lincoln's candor and integrity
to suppose that he contemplated such a thing as en
insult to Mr. Stephens; In other words, that he
was ready to take him as one of hie constitutional
advisers while cherishing a design to attack the
truititutions of the South? Now, I think I am
quite as anxious to do the Republican party justice
when I say that Mr. Lincoln's true interest is to
be found in a speedy and lading epttlement of this
question, es if L were to hold up the Obioego plat. •
form as the sam and substance of human genius.
I want the President cleat to govern the whole
country, and aot part of it; and even if, instead of
being a disinterested observer, and an independ
ant thinker, I were a mere partisan, governed
.9nly by motives of policy and expediently, I
Would argue in this wise : "How are wo
ever to secure such protection to.the great Inte
rests of Pennsylvania and the middle States, if we
allow these dissensions to go on end stand by with
folded alms viewing the Republic fait to pieces?
How are the Republicans to carry districts like
those of t3ohnylklll, Montgomery, Lancaster, Blair,
Westmoreland, Centre, not to speak of the three
or four district/3 in the city of Philadelphia—all
these &stride at Ai; moment being represented
in Congress, and in the State 4.egialatnre, by Re
publicans—if we affront the good, conaortattve
vote of October and November, 1880, by setting
our Diem againtit every proposition of compromise?
—for, bait remembered that thousands and tens of
thongs's& of Democrats voted in the late Congres-
Menai and Presidential elections in Pennsylvania
and other States, not because they preferred the
Oblesgo,platforM„but because they had become dis
gusted with the tresmhery and corruptiOn's of the
Adesiebdration of Mr. Buchenan.
These man, Democrats then, are Democrats still,
and if the Republicans desire to hold them, they •
mwtt Joke the path pointed out. alike by erne- ,
rimes apd common sense. Mr. Buchanan has
taught them a great WWII. Ills whole latter life
Is one admonition to them! It was his stubborn
refusal to yield to rigl4, to give up his miserable
individual netione, to surrender to the earnest de
mand of good Teen everywhere on the I‘ecompton ;
and English bills, that brought ruin upon !.he De
mocratic party. If be had been animated by a
t ru ly testriatio spirit he would have acquiesoed in
that which afterwards beoaree irrevocable history,
in the fact that his Kansas policy wap unrellevedly
"hiked, and have thrown it behind him with in
dignant disdain.
Let us proceed a little further, leaving Mr. Bu
°batten's record to tell its own story, to those who
are about entering upon the responsibilities of an
administratibn of the Government, the best part
of which be squandered away by allowing himself
to to guided by sectional politiolans and by making
war upota-tbe plainest prinoiples of constitutional
law.' I know it Is a eormrt argument In these
times that the stronghold of the Republican par
ty is in the North, West, and New finglied ,
and •that those eeetions will never eustain their
Representatives In yieldiug, a jet of the Chicago
CittiOn ; batmen are the same ups, and
same pletives that influenc e me as I wrlte otitl
poiktto,l zaVority of 'voters elsbahere. 'Thld rs
no common calamity impending over our happy
country It is no ordinary panic. It differs from
every peril that has heretofore retarded our pro
gress as a people. Already it has produced in
conceivable diffioulties in almost every conceiva
ble department of business and trade That
which at first affected the cities now extends into
the country villages and towns, and men are be
ginning to ask each other whether this con
dition of things is to go on, and whether poli
tiolans will concede nothing to save the people
and the country ? When large communities are
stricken as with a great palsy, those who compose
them do not stop to consult about giving up po
litical abstractions before they accept the remedy
and the cure. There is nothing clearer to my
mind than that the Republicans could make them
selves a groat Urilon national party, If they pre
ferred to do so, and I am frequently surprised that
they do not, in their calculations for 'continued
asoendoney, consider the points I hove hero pre
sented. They are so plain as to be self-evident.
Some groat party will arise that will 'appreciate
the instincts and the destinies of the country, and
that party, whatever name it may assume, will, I
think, carry the flag of a united Republio, will in
duce the Cotton States to return to their alle
giance, and will hold the Government in its hands
for many years to oome.
The first great step has been taken by Old Vir
ginia in appointing commissioners, who are to
visit certain of the free States. What a contrast
between the conduct of Virginia in extending her
friendly hand to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
other Commonwealths, and that of South Carolina,
which has spaded all concert and companionship
with the Old Dominion, or any of the border slave
States ! Should the commissioner from this ancient
mother of States visit Harrisburg, he ought to be
received with every demonstration of respect and
rejoicing; and I believe that he will not be a day
upon our soil before, by his persuasive counsels, he
wilt awaken such a sentiment for the Union as
will send him book a proud and happy man. Now
Jersey, too, promises to move in the path of peace
and compromise.
Wes I not right in saying that, although the
gloom is thick around us, the horizon is bright
lening? and am I not right in hoping that goon
the darkest aloud will have its silver lining?
Letter from "Kappa."
[Correspondence of Tb a Prose.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 1861
The United States stores taken at Pensacola by
the Seceders, consist of 100,000 lbs. of oannon
powder, and several thousand shot and shells.
The value of the whole is $114,000. It appears,
however, from the best evidences, that the Ameri
can people have more Andersons in their army and
navy. Fort Platens is a second Fort Sampler,
and Commodore Armstrong, the commandant at
Pensacola, seems to have imitated Major Ander
son. Let the Alabama seceders try their luck at
Fort Piokons, which is well provided with all the
necessary things, and also has a United States war
steamer to protect it against assaults by water.
Newspaper articles and telegraphic despatches do
not take forte, manned by brave and courageous
soldiers and officers. The Southern volunteers will
take good care not to lose their lives in behalf of
and for the benefit of ambitious politicians. If
they bad enough money they might succeed in
getting a sufficient number of mercenaries, who
ease just as much about the rights of the South
as the people in the moon. But money is rather a
soaroe article with them, and, even if they should
succeed in forming ouch an army, the latter will
eat, and espeolally drink, but an attack on Forts
Pickens and Sumpter will . hardly be relished by
them.
In view of these sober and sombre foots, which
are well known to our " iiberty.loving " pharles
ton aristocrats, our would-be seceding friende
soma rather to be crest-fallen. Since Commis
sioner Bayne, has not succeeded (as everybody at
Charleston expected) in frightening Mr. Buchanan
into perfect submission, and inducing him to order
Major Anderson to evacuate Fort Sumpter, the
telegraph informs us that the Seceders loo)e
"gloomy," and their authorities feel disap
pointed. they never had soy idea of losing their
precious lives in the God-forsaken Secession cause.
We must not imagine them to be so stupid. The
unfortunate and hardly.to.hemonaealed fact is,
that Major Antic-teen can play soldier longer
than the South Carolina mechanics, laborers,
and business men, who have now already,
for more then seven weeks, neglected their
own affairs, whilst their families are suffer
ing. Besides, the wealthy inhabitants. who
have been compelled to bleed"—as far as
dollars and cents are concerned—more than they
ever expeoted in their whole lives, and cannot yet
see the end of the " battle for freedom," in which,
in fact, more bad brandy and whisky than blood
will flow, have become rather cool and quiet after
the forcible loss of so much of " their blood," Mr.
Buobanan is also known to be firm against the
8000 derllitalx.MEM
'Mara. 411fe — orriers udn't by
the Washington conspirators to all parts of time
South.
A Disunionist, In Florida, telegraphed, the day
before yesterday, to the Florida Senators, that ha
had collected a sufficient number of men, and was
ready to take a certain fort. The Senators imme
diately telegraphed beak that, for God's sake, be
should do no suoh thing, as it would involve Flo
rida in a war with the Malted States.
The Postmaster General has ordered the issue of
new 12, 20, 24, and 30ment stamp envelopes, ;
Mr. Seger, a member of the Virginia Legisia
lature, a Union man, who is now in town, is firmly
convinced that, if Virginia goes out at all, she will
not leave before the fourth of March.
Prominent gentlemen its aryland, who have
been in favor of calling a Convention, state now,
openly, that it is too late to do anything before the
fourth of Merck. That settles the question of se
cession as far as Maryland Is concerned.
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to The Press.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to " The Press,"
WASHINGTON, January
Important Forthcoming Fropogitiontt
from the Ron. Stephen A. Douglas.
At a late moment I am °nettled to send to you
the following propositions, which will be presented
one day thie week, by Senator Dona Las, of DU.
note. His efforts to close the chasm which is eepa•
rating and afflicting the country are unceasing,
end while reluctantly accepting the Crittenden
propositions, and agreeing to abandon certain of
hie dootrinet in order to please the South, and thus
exciting the animosities of the ultra Republicans,
he is now winning tho respect and confidenoe of
the latter by the noble pattlo he has made, and is
making In the Senate, for the admission of *anus
into the Union.
Such la the record of a truly national statesman.
Those who, to-day, differ from him became he will
not follow their exacting demands, to-morrow
praise him because he does right on their aide. Ile
is the true embodiment of the dational spirit of
the country, and the manner in which be is con
quering prejudices is the best proof of it. I dif
fered from him when he took the Crittenden pro
positions to readily, but I waited to see what his
final notion would be. And now we have It.
The following amendments era signally im
portant, and I do not see how they can bo objeoted
to by any man—partioularly by the Republicans.
Should they be refused by the Southern men—pre
ended, as they will be, by Judge DOUGLAS—we
shall then hay) a united North, because I assort
that no statesman and no Intelligent American in
the free States will for a moment refuse to accept
at least that part of the propositions contained In
the first section. This preposition is a 'simple
reaffirmation of the principles laid down in
the Compromise Measures of 1850. In 1850
there was no Depublioan party. The Republicans
of today wore then all Whigs or Demoorats, and
all these men approved the Compromise Measures
of 1850. Now, in the plan as presented by Judge
Down, it Is not proposed to reaffirm the prim:A
pies of the Kansas Nebraska bill, to which they
object, but simply organize the Territories upon
the doctrine of the Compromise Measures of 1850.
Why, then; shall not 'the Republicans and Densio
orats in the free States and' the Union men in the
South accept these propositions as a final fettle'
mont ? If the readers of Tnn Panes will observe
the other branehes of this programme of Judge
Potruksp, ,they will find nothing in there that cap
he fairly objected to, and little that has not
already, directly or indirectly, hem approved b 7
Ab 9 most of the Republican leaders themselves
Tho suggestion that the ?resident of the pulled
kitates shall be elected for els instead of four years,
and that heroafter ell distriot presidential eleee
ors shall bo elected as Representatives in Congress
are, will. be received with almost universal L iavo'r.
The African slave trade is to be forever sup:
pressed ; the elective franchise is pot to
be eaer
cieed by persons of the Airioan rano, in whole or
In part; the colonization of free negroes and mulat
toes is to be encouraged at the expense of the h'o.
dere' Treasury; fugitives from service or labor roe
cued from the hands of the officers aro to be
compensated out of the Federal Treasury, or the
State or county in which they hove an been res
cued It is too late for mere politicians to at
'tempt to defeat a movement like this. Will the
;patriotic) people 'adeept it or not? That is the
•
question. •
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1861.
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY EON. S. A. BOUGLSI, OF
ILLINOIS, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THOSE OFEY.SID
DT ER. CRITTENDEN TO THE CONSTITUTION 0 , THE
Sze. I. Congress shall make no laws in aspect.
to domestic servitude in any Territory of the Inked
States; and all Territorial Governments IND bo
formed on the model and in the terms of tie
or
ganic acts, approved September nine, eigiteen
hundred and fifty, sailed " THE cournourestrEA
amiss ;'! and the validity of all territorial moot.
ments shall be finally determined by the Sarre=
Court of the United States, on, appeal, or w•it of
error, from the territorial courts; but no new Te
rritory shall be organized until it obeli cottain
twenty thousand white inhabitants; nor shall any
new State be admitted into the Union until it ;hall
contain the requisite population for a Represtnta•
tive in Congress, according to the then Fmeral
ratio of representation.
Sm. 2. Congress shall have no power to abdish
or interfere with the relation of persons bell to
service. or labor in any State, under the laws
thereof; nor in ally place under the eaolutive
jurisdiction of Congress, and situate withh the
limits of any State or Territory under whoselaws
persons aro held to service or labor ; nor shall
Congress have power to abolish or limper the
relation of persons held to eervice or labor It the
District of Columbia, under the laws in 'ore°
therein, without the consent of Maryland , and
Virginia, so long as such relation shall exit in
either of those States under tho laws thereof; nor
shall Congress have power to interfere wits or
prevent the removal of persons held to Berrie, or
labor from one State or Territory to another.
Sac. 3. The African slave trade shall be former
suppressed; and It shall be the duty of Ceng'eso
to make such laws as will effectually provontthe
immigration or importation into the United Shtos
of persons held to service or labor for life or fir a
period of years, or of any person intended to la so
held in any State or place within the United Strces,
under any pretense whatever
Sao. 4. The seoond clause of the second sooton
of the fourth article of the Constitution shall be
construed to Include all crimes oetninitted
and against the State or place from which thew•
gltive fled, whether the acts charged were mini
nal or not in the place where the fugitive vas
found.
OCCASIONAL
Sao. 5. The elective franchise and the rightto
hold office, whether Federal, State, Territeriabor
municipal, shall not be exercised by persona of the
African race, in whole or in part.
Sac 6. The United States shall bave - pdlrazto
acquire districts of country in Africa or &Leh
America, for the colonisation, at the expense of he
Federal Treasury, of snob free normal and mi.
letoes as the several States may desire to have re
moved from within their limits, and from the D's
teat of Columbia, and such other planes as may le
under the jurisdiotion of Congress.
Sao 7. Whenever any person held to service tr
labor, es provided in the third clause of the mold
section of tho fourth article of the Constitutim,
shall escape, and the marshal or other offirr,
whose duty it may bo to arrest such fugitive, shall
be prevented from so doing by violence or intini
dation ; or when, after arrest, such fugitive shdi
be reamed by force, Congress shall have power,
and it shall be its duty, to provide by law for the
payment of the full value of such fugitive to tie
party to whom such service or labor may be due;
and in all cases, when the United States shall piz
for molt fugitive, they shall have the right, in the
own name, tome the county in which such violence,
intimidation, or rescue was committed, to rema
the amount paid by them, with it crest ani
damages; and the said county, for its indemnitj,
may sup anal recover from the wrong doers or ree
steers the amount paid to the 'United States, tt
gather with intpre4 sisal damages
BBC. g. The first and second clauses of the fat
section of the second artiolo of the Oonstitutim
shall reed as follows ;
The executive power shall be vested in a Prelideit
of the United States of America. The President aul
Vise President shall hold their (awes for the tern
of six years, and shall be ineligible to the office if
President for the pneulpF a 4 years after hevinc
performed the duties of Preelder4, and shall le
elected as follows ;
Tho Legislature of each State, at its first souks
after any Federal census, shall divide said Step
into as many Congressional districts as it shall le
entitled to Representatives in Congress ; which di-
Was she!! be as copped in torn, and nearly equal
in population, as practicable. In each of said ds
tricts ono elector of President and Vice Presithat
shall be chosen by the rosple thereof having h e
qualifications requisite for electors of Reprosenh
tives in Congress; and, in addition, two clot:las
for the Stale at largo shall Lc Ohucon by the risen.
bore of the Legislature, assembled in joint coo
vention for that purpose, on the day appointed b 3
Congress.
Proposition ret_xl.c. Ponnblrerkfttnareg
gape the following prepositions, to be adopted to
caucus 1)3, the RePtiblican members of Congress, as
likely to be very intiuentiai in arresting the Beast!.
don movement in the border States :
1. That inasmuch as the Chicago platform denies
that the' Republican party have any intention to
interfere with slavery in the States, therefore they
are willing to give any guarantees that may be
satisfactory to the South, for their sineerity in that
declaration of principle.
The Chicago platform ansertethe power of Con.
gress to exclude slavery from the Territories, and
its duty to do so "if necessary." But, inasmuch
as the consul; of 1359 shows that in all the ford
tory of the United Staten, a region three times as
large as the original thirteen States, there were
then only 2d slaves; and, inasmuch as the census
of 1869 shows that while the white population of
the Territories has Increased one hundred fold, the
slaves in all the Territories are now only 173:
therefore, it is unnecessary for Congress to exolude
slavery from the Territories by law, end the Re
publican party pledges itself to leave the settle.
ment of the question to the operation of the laws
of climate, production, and population.
Ifftorfauf:c pt gnu yote.
During the depate on Friday In the Senate, on
the bill admitting Kansas into the Union, a motion
to adjourn from Friday to Monday was made by
tho enemies of the bill, and when Judge Di:manes'
name was called, he happened to be temporarily
out of his seat. The vote was a tie, but before it
was announced the Judge returned, land, of course,
voted with the friends of the bill, against the ad
journment over. A very distinguished Senator,
heretofore an Administration Democrat, and now
heartily sympathiziodwlth the Secossioniedt, came
up to the Senator from Illinois and said, " This la
a party vote. You see the Black Republicans are
all on one aide, and the Democrats on the ether.
Why do you not vote with your friends?" To
which the Little Giant, it is said, quietly re•
sponded by asking, " Will you be good enough to
tell me where my friends are to be found on your
side of the Chamber?"
Bo it turns out, after all, that Duo Las is ortho
dox when his one vete is needed by those who op•
,posed him in the late eleotion.
Attacks of the New York Herald upon
Cetftvg Nenttpre of .air; iluchlinatOn
abinet.
The bitterness of the New York Herald upon
COBB, THOMPSON, FLOYD, and even Governor
THOMAS, to eubjeot to some comment; but all
doubt as to the sincerity of these attacks has been
removed by the intimation that they proceed direct
ly from the White Home itself. It is oharacteristio
of Mr. 13Entmrr to attack those today whom he
idolized yesterday, and ft will not be forgotten
that all the deserting ministers, excepting Mr.
Times, were at one time or another the guests of
the editor of the New York Herald, at hie palace
on Washington Heights—Messrs Tnoursort and
COSS so recently ae last October.
ritharnyral of jhe AlaPaina Delegation
The following le the letteir of the Alabama dele
gation, officially notifying the Rouse of their with
drawal from its further detiberatione. It will be
;men that the name of Hon. W. R. W. COBB is not
Signed to 'the letter. Mr. Conn represents the
Sixth CongresaiOnal dlatrict of Alabama, and he
remained in his seat, and took part in the proceed
ings of the body to-day, as it his State wero still a
member of the Confoderaiy. 'I learn that he is
aeteriainall to secede from per Seceders, and re
present the ;Union sentimen t of his peopla : '
Tho post eine° at Pensacola. Florida, was
abolished today, the mail service discontinued,
and the postmasters throughout the country di
rected by the Post Office Department to send all
letters addressed to Pensacola to the Dead•letter
Office. This course is takentin consequence of the
interruption of the mails by the authorities of
'Florida.
The Capitol pollee force btu; beep doubled by di,
reation of the vice president And the Speaker of
!ho Rouse of Repreeentativea, not because they
thought this ino'reaee neoeseary, but in come.
quenoe, it is said, of groat apprehensions in other
quarters that an attempt may be made to seize the
'Capitol. The force altogether 'oonalsta of only
t- ,
ab at twelvliilleit.,
The bill which passed the House on Saturday,
for the 'payment of the California war debt, apt
propriated $400,000. ' It was incurred in the sup.
iareasion of I.ndtari' hoidilitlea, and tho approprla: ,
Con isti's ma e on the ' reooiniSed as to
Ohm' Stites for lite Handbag.
'ln anticipation of tie rOpipt of oCoial intermit
ticln from Geoligia 'colioeirtind ila Ebbession, a ma.
jority of the Representatives from that State diaire
already signed a letter, to be laid before the House,
nnounsing thfir witildsawal from cgrtlis t :
eliberations of that body. Mews. and
Hardman (South 4nierleans) hayo pat yet Owlet,
od to the eonamunication,
A epoch! Cabinet meeting wee held today to
minder the object of eo , Prosid On t Tyler's mission
on behalf of Virginia, which looks to au agree•
snent, both on the part of the President and the
seceded States, to abstain from all nets calculated
to produce a collision between those States and the
General Government pending the proceedings
initiated by the Virginia General Assembly, having
in view an adjustment of the present diMoultiee.
Ithscollaneous.
Letter of el ttinirawat of the Alabama
Delegation from the House of Re
preseutattves.
WASEINGToN, Jan. 21 —The following is the let
ter of withdrawal received from the Alabama dele
gation, and presented to the Rouse to-day :
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 1881
SIR : Having received information that the
State of Alabama, through a Convention, repre
senting her sovereignty, has adopted and ratified
en ordinance by which she " withdraws from the
Union of the United States of America," and re
sumes the powers heretofore delegated to the
Federal Government, it is proper that we should
communicate the same to you, and through you to
the Reuse of Representatives over whiOh you pre
side, and announce our withdrawal from the fur
ther deliberations of that body.
The onuses which, in the judgment of our State,
rendered snob notion necessary we need not re
late It is sufficient to say that duty requires our
obedience to her sovereign will, and that we shall
return to -our homes to sustain her notion, and
share the fortunes of her people.
We have the honor to be, very respectfully
Your obedient servants,
GEORGE S. HOUSTON,
SyDRNIIASI MOORE,
DAVID CLOPTON,
JAMES L. PUGH,
J. L. M. CURRY,
JAMES A. STALLWORTII
BOIL Wit. PsNNINGTON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The letter was laid on the table, and ordered to
be printed.
Postal Facilities lathe Stveding States.
Wasumarow, Jan. 21.—Numerous applioations
continue to be made by postmasters in the seceding
States for supplies of postage stomps Before the
orders are filled an affirmative response is noses.
eery to the question, whether they do now and will
continue to hold themselves responsible to the Go.
vernment, in conformity to the existing laws, for
all the postal revenues received by them? Orders
have been filled accordingly to the postmasters
following the example of the Charleston !memos.
ter, and thus far the postal communication in the
South has been uninterrupted.
Judge Greenwood still has the tender of the
Secretaryship of the Interior under consideration.
Latest from Charleston
CHARLESTON, Jan. U.—The four Soldiers from
Fort Sumpter, who were in the oity as wiinreses in
a murder case. attempted to escape on Saturday
by !saving from the window of the Grand Jury
room. They were prevented and, an leaving the
court, were snorted to the boat by a file of col
diem, which eurrounded the coach containing
them.
Governor Pickens sent, yesterday, a supply of
froth proylalone to Major Anderson, with his com•
plimeuts. The Major, however, refused to receive
it, but returned thapka for the courtesy, and
st,ted' that he would deelino to mein anything
until he ktow what course the Government at
Washington intended to order.
A salute of five guns was fired on Saturday for
the seceding Staten. The secession of Georgia has
had a happy effeot, but there has been no demon
stration on account of it
The Georgia Convention.
MORE UNANIMITY-THE ORDINANCE OP SRL:MINION
SIGNED BY STEPHENS AND JOHNSON.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Jan 21 —The State Con.
vention to•doy adopted the following preamble
and resolutions, which were drawn up by Hon.
Alex. G. Stephens and Judge Linton Stephens,
and presented by Judge Nisbet. They were
adopted unanimously ;
Whereas, The look of unanimity in the action
of this Convention on the passage of the ordinance
of secession Indicates a difference of opinion
amongst the members of the Convention, not so
much as to the rights which Georgia claims, or the
wrongs of which she complains, as to the remedy
and its applioation before a resort to other means
of redress :
And fohereas, It is desirable to give expression
to that intention, which really exists among all the
members of the Convention, to sustain the State in
the course of notion which she has pronounced to
be proper for the occasion :
Therefore, Resolved, That all the members of
this Convention, inelnding those who voted tigainst
the ordinance as well as tbore who vofed fOr it,
will sign the same as a pledge of the unanimous
determination of this Convention to sustain and
defend the State in this, her course of remedy,
with all its responsibilities and consequenoas, with
out regard to individual approval or disapproval
of its adoption.
The ordinnce has been signed by all, with the
exception of abptit adoien delegates, and it is be
lieved that thoso gentlemen will sign It tomor
row.
Hon. A. B. Stephens, Linton Stephens, Goy.
Johnson, and other Mends of the Vnio'n, bade
signed the ordinance.
A demonstration on a grand is being nade
• , .
tonight.
§IIMILLsnonviLLE, Jan. 20.—The Governor ( f
Georgia, on Saturday, sent to the Convention a
copy of the resolutions passed by the New York
Legislature on the 11th Instant. After they were
road, Mr. Toombs offered tho following resolution :
Resolved, unanimously, as a response to the
threatening resolutions of the Now York Legis
lature, that this Convention highly approves of
the energetic and patriotic conduct of the Gover
nor of Georgia, in taking possession of Fort Pu
l'eder-truov—Cl-11,,,trtirnbir'S—andoterm"surour otn buirultoe con
volition, end that a copy of this resolution be
transmitted to the Goternot 'of Nov York. '
This was adopted 14[101;80mb%
Virginia Legislature.
RICHAIOND, Jan. 21 —ln the Senate today,
the accession ordinance paned by the Alabama
'Convention was received. It woe ordered to be
printed.
Both Bowles adopted a reply to the Alabama
oommlssioners, stating, In effect, that the Legis
lature was unable to make a definite response to
Alabansa until after the aotion of the 6tete Con
vention.
The rest of the prooeedings were unimportant
North Carolina Legislature.
Iteman, N. 0., Tan. 21.2-The Legislature, on
Saturday, was engaged in the consideration of pri•
Vete bills.
Today tho Convention bill woe pond to a ea
oond rending in the House. It will come up
again to•merrow.
Florida
TALLMIAISSEE, Fla., Jan. 21 —The coneepflon
adjourned to-day to oaeot again at eho call of the
Proriduat.
Ron. S. R. Mallory bus been appointed by the
Governor and confirmed by the Senate as Judge
of the Admiralty at Bey West, vice Marion, re.
moved
The Louisiana Slate Convention.
BATON Rotan, Jan. M.—The members of the
State Convention are orowding into town.
The Secession sentimerg, proyailL
There are various reports In oiroulation about
troops coming from the North.
Republican Conference with llir
Lincoln.
ST. Loma, January 21.—A special despatoh from
Springfield to the Republican, of this oily, says
that Mr. Kellogg, member of Congress from Mich
igan, arrived there on Saturday night, and is in
oonfortnots with Mr. Lincoln. His object is sup
posed to be in reference to a compromise in regard
to the national difficulties It is believed that the
Republicans, with Mr. Lincoln's Sanotion, will
propose holding a National Convention, and the
restoration or the Miscount Compromise line to
California,
Secession Demonstrations
AUCIWITA„ Jan. 21.—The eity is illuminated to
night. The hells aro ringing, acd the Washington
Artillery aro firing a salute of four hundred guns
in honor of seeersion. The military and firemen
are parading,
Union Meeting at Trenton, N. J.
TazaroN, Jan. 21 —A groat demonstration was
hold here tonight, at the eity
Mr. Thome J. Stryker, cashier of the Trenton
Bank, presided.
Messrs Philemon Dickinson, Thomas El. Allison,
and E. J. C. Alterbury, were appointed a commit
tee on resolutions.
During the absence of the committee, Capt. J.
A. Yard presented and rend the memorial to the
New York Legislature, which iyaa received with
abeam
The committee returned, and reported a aeries
of resolutions dephding the etate of the country,
And rooommonding, Be a means of settling the dif
ficulties, the' adoption, by the people, of the Crit
tenden resolutions, or some other pacific measures,
svith such modifioations as may be deemed norm
gory. They also reocrmmond , the Legislature cf
New Jersey to pass% law authorizing a vote to be
taken' by the people on the Crittenden retain
tiON. ' - ' '
They approve of the nurse of the Virginia
Legislature in dppointing a podomissioner fo go to
Washington ' add' recommend the Now Jorso7
Legislature to do the game.
'Mr. Belville offered a series of resolutions, reci
ting the 'wrongs against the laws and property of
the United States by the Southern States in their
recent rebellion against the Federal authority, and
commending the I'resident and his Cabinet in their
efforts to put down rebellion, and support the Con
stitution and the laws, concluding with the decla
ration of " No conciliation while the Federal on f
thority is de0 0 (11
choir very , empitatically ruled the resole,•
done opt of order, ap hot ematax under the call.
Mr. Relville then invited all who had voted for
Lincoln, and wore not ashamed of it, to follow him
and organize a meeting in front of the boll,
At this point, a large number left and organized
outtide, where speeches were mode, by Messrs.
Devereux, Osmond, Beiville, and others. '
The inside of the hall was still crowded, and the
meeting proceeded (fiddly to transact bpsims,
The resoldt lons as rephrted were adctpted. Speeches
Were made by Judge Naar, C. W Jay, and others.
Resolutions df thanks to the ebaitman, who to a
nrin Republican, was passed'. Ile acknowledged
the compliment, and spoke in terms of conciliation.
biz. aeon were then given for him, and the
meeting adjourned.
For a time there was mite np owltement, but
thk fortunate eflieololl if a Part bUtheMeethig
prartintekr a row; ,
Erection of q pilltery memphis !
TyitoeYgegt
lannytqs, Jan battery of sixteen 82
pounders is beinu erected here.
manufactory of cannon and Arils is to be es
tablished.
NRvettiValo pf Voir. Uti;tip.
L&qATa4ATlox or TOE DANN sosrENNOrf
Rispurta, Jan. I..—liovoriaor Curtin her
been oalled home to Loolthavem this morning, by
the death of hie mother-in-law. He will return
on Tuesday next.
The Pittsburg Post Is being distributed amen g
members with a leading editorial, favoring the le
galizing of the bank suspension.
36T11 CONGRESS-•-SECOND SESSION.
WASAINGTON, Jan. 21, 1861
SENATE.
HUNTER, of Virginia, from the Committee on
Finamm,_repprted the indts n appropriation bill
Mr. HU rang asked to be excused from further per
:O.:won the 'inane° Committee. He sal., that It Villa
evident - that the party majority rim the Ferrate would
inmate changed, and he thought that justice to himself
and the Renate required him in be excused. fd r. Hun
ter card he had been ohairm.n of the Finance Commit
tee I'm fifteen yearn.
He was. on motion, excu. ed.
Mr. HIGH.F.H. of Pez.nsylvanra. presented potitiona
asktng for the ventage of the Clittenden resolutions.
Laid on the table .
Mr. LATH Ahl~ of California. was excused from ser
vice on the Tern tonal Committee.
• • • • . . .
Mr. POLK, of Miesouri presented the petition of
citizens of Missouri. the signatures occupying fifteen
quires of foolsoap. It was wrapped to the American
nag, and inscribed, "Love to the North. the South,
the hut, and the West," asking the passage of the
Crittenden resolutions. I aid on the table.
r. SLIDELL, of Louisiana, asked to take up the
message of the President to sumer to a resolution of
hie in relation to the appnintment of the acting heote
tary of War He also offered the following resolution:
Resolved. That, •n the opinion of the Senate, the
reasons riven by tho Preeident, in his menage, for not
communicating to the senate at an earlier clay the Mot
of his having appointed Mr. Bolt ae acting Secretary of
War are not eatisinotory.
Also Resolvrd, That the grounds assumed by the
President for making such an appointment dining the
seeslon of the Senate are at variance with the whole
spirit of the Constitution. and vith the true intent and
meaning of the net of 1705. Laid over under toe rule.
Mr. Y CLEF,. of Florida, said, that in consequence of
information authentically communicated. his colleague
and himself deemed proper to announce to the Senate
that their connection with that body had come to an
end
• •
The State of Florida. in Convert' ion duly assembled,
had seen fit hi recall the narcotic delegated to the
house and assume the responsibilities of a separate
goverment
He was sure that the people of Florida would never
be insensible to the blessings end aevantages of the
Union when directed to the purposes of establishing
justice and domestic tranquillity and safety.
he would also hired in grateful memory the earlier his
tory' of the tnion ; but she had decided that invil and
social safety were jeoparded by a longer continuance
in the Union.
1 he recent events had impressed them wathe be
lief that there was no safety except in withd al. He
would remember always the large erray of nob r e spirits
at the North, and their brave efforts to uphold the
right. With grateful emotions and acknowledgments
for the many courtesies he had enjoyed in this body.
and with the most cordial wishes for their personal
welfare. lie retired from their midst in cheerful approv
ing loyalty to lila own State.
Mr. MALLORY. of Florida, emd that he regreVed
the ants which caused the separation. but justified his
State. He deprecated civil war, but said that the South
wait d never submit to the degredatien of a remetramed
existence under a violated Constitution. lie an
knowledged the sots of courtesy from the other side of
the Chamber. and from the true champ ons of right on
this Bid e.
sir. CLAY announced that Alabama had passed the
ordinance of secession. Ile said that Ibis was the act
of the whole people, and justified the act, and charged
the Republican party as being the authors of the trou
ble which caused aecesaion. 'I he Republican platform
was regarded as a declaration of war against the lives
and institutions of the South. The party denied the
mete of equality to the South, and placed them under
the ban of the Government, and held them up to them:min
of the civilized world. The recede of Alabama would
not submit; and as he regarded that the sot of the State
had absolved nun from all &lenience to the Constitution
of the United States, he should return to the bosom of
his own kitate. whatever ;Mould be her lute
Mr. FIT ZPATR ICE. of Alabama, endorsed what was
said by his colleague.
Air. DAVIS, of Miesissippi. said that ho rose to an
nounce that the State of Mississippi bad deolarad in fa
vor of separation from the Union, and of course his
fill:lotions were ter nitrated bei e It is known that for
many )care lie bad advocated the right of secession,
but nullification at d seneasion had been confounded.
He argued against nullification, but claimed that an Late
had ihe right of arcosion. Mr. Calhoun advocated
• nullification from his 'eve to the Uniem bee-use he
wanted some means of a State righting herself in the
Union, And Gen. Jackson only favored - the execution'
i of the law mi. the State whesh remained in the Union. He
centended that the word" equality," intim Deolaration
of Independence. referred to Political °lessee. else why
'Mould the fathers of the Republic arraign George the
, Third for exciting mum ction t In parting he could
say that he telt no hostility to any Senator, end there
was not one but to whom. in the presence of Ged, he
could say," f wish you well." He felt. and wee sure his
people felt, that they hoped the relations between them
might be peaceful, though they mutt part. Be carried I
away no bitterness for any offence. and if he had
attended any one. he was wllling now. in the hour of
parting, to o ff er apology and all the reparation that he
could for any such offence.
As Vie Senators from Florida. A'abtin)a• end Missis
sippi left. all the Demoorato Senators crowded about
them shaking hands. Messrs. Hale and Cameron were
the 0 , ly t. epubl cans that did so.
On motion of Mr. SEWARD, the tall for the admis
sion of Kaneaswas lakes up.
Itle. ORIGEN. of Missouri withdrew his amendment
creative the Territony of Jefferson
I Mir. FITCH of Indiana. on the bill being reported
to the tenet°, again offered his amendment in regard
to the judiciary.
Mr. DOUGLAS, of Minnie, argued araiast any
amendment- •
Mr. 81. WARD said by all fair and Just movements
Kansas ought to be admitted now. He raid that it was
contrary to custom to Introduce this provision into a
bill for the admission of a Staie.
Mr. Fllch's amendment wee agreed to as follows :
Virtra—Mesers. Bayard Benjamin, Bigler, Bragg.
Bright. Caiugnian. Pitch, ta rn en Gwin, Hemphill Hun
, ten, Iverson. Johnson (Al • ),
_Johnson (Tenn.), Benne
-1 ey. Lane, La ham. Mason. Nichoisott. Pea ee, Polk.
Powell. Ptah. Rice, Saulsbury, Sebastian, Thomson.
and Wigfall-29.
Playa Meaner. Anthony, Baker. Bingham Cameron.
Chandler- Clark. Collamer, Crittenden, Dixon. Dewit
t tie. Douglas. i urkee. Fessendeu. Foot. Foster, Grimes.
Hole Harlan, King. hiorrill. toward, Simmons, Sum
ner, Ten hyok. Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson. and a it
son-28
Theibil I was ft en read a third tine and passed as
follows:
' YPAS—Mesars. Anthony, Baker, Dicier. Bingham,
Bright,Ormiemn. Chandler, Clark. Coilerner. Grattan
den. Dixon. Doolittle Douglas, Bathes Fereenden
Fitch. Foot. Foster. Grin es, I ale. Harlan. Johnson
(Tenn.). Vine, Lathath. Morrill Pugh Rice. Seward,
Simmons.. eumnet. Ten byes. Thomson, Trumbull,
Wade, Wt'itinion. and Wilson--86
IsAve—Meagre. Bayard, Benjamin, Cheer - ran. Green,
Pemphill. Hunter, Iverson. Johnson ( Ark.). Kennedy.
Mason, Nicholson, Polk, Powell. Sebastian, Slidell,
and Wigfall-16.
The Crittenden resolutions were then taken up. .
I Mr. BIGIA It, of Pennsylvania, proceeded to 'meek
at length in favor of their pastaite. He claimed th a
' right of the people to amend the Constitution, and re
furred to the rise of the country from thitteen small
States, and its subsequent progress ; to the danger in
',Muth it now stands of disruption and ruin. Recent
events have added exasperation to both leettone till
the South believes that their only safety lies in eternal
. . . .. . . ..
.•• • •
SeParatioe. Ile.referred to the Comprom i se of 1310,
after which there was peace till MO ; then another
compromise aria effected when the nnti slavery party
sprang up and the trouble began. The John Brown
raid followed. end the eedoisemeot of the Bolter
book. the drama of the Irrepressible con ;et. and
, lerralemeet„pie . Ifil.uthern ..... perLylc ..i i._ tal i a p t , Ina[ . ... e._
• Ats barna, Gerfrgiii. amilloridaave iseberiefseel4Fiftt•
the dietraoted eion(tittop of the coUntry. Now our mist
glop to fo reefore peace, lie then proceeded to argue
the necessity and propriety of a convention of the peo
ple to adopt amendments to the Constitution. He
urged the Senators on the others do to consider the us
°malty of paasing these or similar resolutlous. In re
ply to the arguments against them, he woold say these
were extraordinary times. and demand extraordmare
measures Be epperiled to Smith Carolina to consider
if its rig) to could not be obtained in the Union. Be
claimed that the Territories ought to be opened to all
the peeps.
The country must maintain the Constitution and ac
cept the meaning riven to its provisiens by the tribunal
Oar has the right to expound it. It was a fatal day for
the country when a sectional party was formed Dis
guise it an they may, the Republican party has for its
basis a hoeh•ity to slavery. One great difficulty in the
way of an adjustment has been the abuse end insult
-heaned on the eowhern people I - y some of their leaders.
He deolared his opposition to secewion,andyet he be..
'dived that the redress for the alleged grievanceit of the
Routh should be sought ho' at the tiandeof the people.
pie believed that the lawirahould be mnintaineLOn this
point he agreed With the Senator from Illinois( Mr Dou
blas); and yet. how could we coerce a State: it would
e war against fifteen States. Coercion was a delusion.
He referred to the troubles which have attended the
anti-slavery agitation, and which fall mostly on the
Border flutes, and closed by exproming his fidelity to
lu e own r tate.
Mr. CA Alt. RON. of Pennsylvania, said lie would not
make a speech. for though his colleague had eloqueutty
represented the aentiment of his great elate. ardor.
fere shede our°. branolt, yet the Penatore on the other
side not listened nbr reepondeal. But the pectple of
that greet State would On anything to save the Union.
He was Inolinedto vote for the proposition of his col
len_ ffue. and wnuld do all he could to save the Unio n. Par. GREEN, of Missouri, maul: The Senators on this
aids had so much or nfidence in the patriotism and de
votion of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Bi,_'erl
that they the not think it necessary to wateh him. ' But
the other side did notemet to bear words of patriotism
and &wooer'.
Mr. CAM aRON said be woe sorry that the Senators
Who left thls morning had not waded till they heard
from Penesylvanin
Air IVERSON. of Georgia, asked if the Senator ap
proved of his colleague's speech.
Mr CAMERON. Very much; and I say, if it will
save the country I will vote for the proposition of my
colleague.
Mr. SAULSBURY, of Delaware, maid he wished to
hay that the Senator from Pennsylvanm (Mr. Cameron)
ad manifested a spirit of pettiotiem and devotion to
the country and the Union which he thought all might
Imitate.
Mr CAMERON. I say to the Senator from Georgia,
and to ail sentletnen. that it they will take the proposi
tion of my colleague, I will vote for it and we Pill
pass it, _
hlr. IVERSON naked If he approved of the sentiments
of his oollempe against coercion. That is the point.
Mr. CAMERON. Coercion is the last remedy to
which I would resort.
Mr. oil). EN. In it a remedy at all ?
Mr. CAMERON. It is a bad remedy. Ido not know
whether I would ever resort to it. Certainly, it la the
last remedy to which I would resort •
/Mr. IMAbON. of Virginia referred to the fact that the
Senator bed voted against Mr. Crittenden's resolutions,
and for the amendment Senator nator from Nov Hamp
shire (air. Clark). 2he horn Ohio ( e;r Waile)
bed presented the resolutions passed by the Legislature
of InaState,one of which declared agaiest the nerso3a,.. ,
liberty bills; and yet the house of asquably or Vilsib
had refused to reppal 0139 ot Ow laws. lie wanted ro
show tke Dania (it his State und the country the dif
feretitr tAtaken the •Professions and the practice of
theme gent enton
Mr. CAbIERON said the Senator from Virgmlaseem
ed to Le anxious for an excuse to l'aee the Union. Be
has voted as he did, because he saw no
w entdisition tO
compterniso on the other side. unless e
s i to them
on our banded knees and asked forgivenes. tie
A lashou
aqi no forgiveness. because he had done no wrong. o
was suit widing so forgive the harken. mug of the Smith`
and do all he could to preserve the Upien ; bat he wag
not to be dragooned or driver; ' He Wee the peer and
e '
010; the • onatiir front Virsteld.
My,' ASSN said be Wils uneonsolous of having said
Mining to_tirouse the wraih of the Senator from Penn
s, ivania. He d.d not 'slant an excuse for leaving the
Union. If he wanted any excuse it was to know how to
remain in the Union. lie had seen to day am Senators
take formal leave, and he knew the
on
Was dose
solved—absolutely dissolved. The Senators Mill not re
oogr me its diegolu ion, but that does not alter the feet.
These States are gormand the chairs of trier • repre
sentatives are vaoant What la the temedy l Coercion ?
Shall we use the discipline that the pedagogue hathots
on the urchin at eohool?
The Couetttution is against coercion ; humanity and
the civilized world is against it. We entint MAIM was
unless we oherige the laws. PO WO,Pidingt ohenge the .
oho So
A h en?lt a a l4 3•lt ° 4 li N t hands ,, th. f tivirh:irriet;.
.ehe South deplored war because of the consequences.
and not from fear i and if she was forged into war,
then , there. w. old be such a conflict an the world has
never seen. The only excuse he wantelwal hewlo
remain in the t Mon, and would to boil that the Sena
tor from Yennsylvatda could give him molt au erns*,
Mr. CAMERON muddle had not heard of any threats
of war from his Mate; but .f it must come, Pennsylva
nia, will be ready to meet it. 'I he peop eof his state
ware ready to do anything honoratne to save the 'quoin.
They were willing to yield all their prejudices, But
the North has committed no nag reasion maw:one, aed
You can't drive them by Nitwit them lf , you want
the Union presiyrveil, totals knov what.wrong we gay
te l k7.lBlVallillir.l l ,4lVia'ayea a m mo,. remark.
gthe Senator ito perms, Ivania se an corm of mid.
e believed that the Senator wee aincore, and though
frier or five Staten shave left us if the Senators on this
Me niegt the I cans; !Iranian in the same spirit, the
Union will still re upon. lie invoked the eanators all to
hlth, ins spirit of the Senator from Pew si lemma.
Air, CRITt END EN .of Kentucky, urged imrusmiate
aotiOn on this important measure, and spoke against
any p, a ponement He expressed the hope that the
Union might remain for a lung time 3 et, and the States
be reunited.
On motion of Mr. POWELL, of 14ptuoky, the
Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
hlr, LOVEJOY. of Ilhnois. asked leave to present thy
memo tat Iroin certain hlethodist clergymen of wt.
note. . _
Mr. BURNETT. of Rentuohy. I object. Let them
attend to their own businets.
htr. FLOREZW.S., ot kennelleonia. Let us hear what
they have to eay.
hIr.,BURNETT. I think Congress is ennoble of ma
naging the legislation of the Country. and, with d,tp•ro
epeot to the clergy, 1 think they ough'i to attend to the
hotlineoc ithin thety.legitin v.ta sphere.
tElr LOYEJuY. The niernotiafashe protection from
Tetley tie persecution; a M•tnodiot More) man having
beep hanged in. 'helms simply for tog echelons opi
nions.
. . .
Mr. BURNETT. I have no objection that the me
morial be laid on the table,
The I!lefiletlat wee laid on the table
Mr. FLORENCE presnilo,l .311100uoval from Phila
delphia, signed by elticeilsol alt pal tabs maiming some
who lined los Mr: Lim:min, risking the adjustment of the
atonal . dittioulties on the Clittenden compromise,
gaud on the to bid.
'ilia hiPEAKER laid h,efore the House a letter Signed
r the Atalanta iloaaatioin, withdrawing ham lutther
l i
Aka ationil Of Oft B,lise th ecousequenoe of the sem
en that state.
ivr. QW.A - iip. of Alia limn, asked leave to introduce
t rasp Non, to give the select committee on the Presi
dnt's special message leave to timeing the sessions
in the Home, and to report fi omto tune on their
discretion.
Mr. WINSLOW, of North Caroline, objected. .
Mr. COLFAX, el itidiena• introduced a bill relative
to r v2.01,0,,,,,p„c„ f00.w.;
.1 „Ml 4. in OPFerai otat,a of the Union the judges,
the riot attor neys, and marshals. commissioned for the
said States. aye rePlgtied their cflices, and it appears
linpractioah 0. in con.equence of the revolutionary
proceedings therein. to hit the vacancies thus moats° ;
And whereas, the uovernmertt of the United Nimes is
Iliac without any means of collecting or entomine in
such Ftates the Da) ment of the postal revenues front
th e taco• collecting the same, or of punishing vio
lations of the yental laws committed by robber' eg ofVie
mails or otherwise, or of enforcing the verforrhanca of;
man °entracte: Therefore, oe it eneetedostoi, that in.
all Mates Which are ion amyl hereafter be eituateil as
above, the Postmaater General is hereby directed to
dunioutnue the goats' service for such period of time
as. in his judgment tiep übho interests require, ane
shall report hie action to Congress.
Mr. B A NCII of north Carolina, suggested that the
bill be referred to the sclera committee on the Prost
dent's message.
Mr. COUFAX preferred sending it to the Committee
on the Post °Mae and Post Roads. He did not know
what its Lotion v ouid be, lin the gentleman from
larorth Carolina W. old have nn opportunity to be heard.
We nave nothing now to protect the mails which are
I able to be robbed, and no means of eafor.iog the
penalties refer,ed to.
Mr. IiNGLIrH. of Indiana, offered a preamble. set
ting forth hat in the alarming condition of the country
mete differences o opinion should he discarded, and all
causes of sectional difierercrs °moved ; and believ
ing that Mr. C. Wendan's plan of adruetment toroeP
ralse. and an honorabte compromise involving no sa
crifice ; therefore. he it resolved. that the Select Com •
mitiee of '1 hirty- three be infatuated, without delay. to
take the neteasary measures to carry it into prentical
effort.
nir: ENGLISH moved a euepeosion of the roles,
which was negr tived—yeas 67, nays 91.
Mr. I,NGLIfili w shed the country to take notice that
the Repunlioan Bide would not allow a vote thereon.
p G o OW, of Pennsylvania. The Republioan aide
will vote when they choose
On motion of NO MORRIS. of Illinois, the Commit
tee on the Judiciary were instructed to inquire into
the propriety of amending the neutrality laws, so as to
Prevent persons in ono Biate from fitting out military
expeditions to aid persona ie Siete:, which have
ilemilared themselves out of the Union, and occupy a
position outside of the rightful authority and laws of the
United filmier,
Mr. VAN IiEVER, of town, asked leave to offer reso
lutions declaring teat the Federal Government had no
power to Interfere with slavery in the Brutes; and
that whatever 111117 be the power of the Government !e
-lani e to slavery in the 9 errifories. etc , it le no ground
for a diseolutton of the Union; and that it le not expe
dient to amend the Constitu•ion at tine time. the said
that a Govern merit wi bout power to maintain itself is
not wo Thy to he preserved. tie, however, withdrew
tho resolutions in view of the corenderation of the re
port of the Committee of Thirty-three.
The gentlemen on t - e nemocratio side earnestly
asked for a vrite on the resolutions,
Mr. BURNETT s ymg that he was not afraid to
vote.
Ino llone3 proceeded to the conshteration of Mr
Corwin'it report on_ the Orient.
Mr. COR w •N. of Ohio, tood that it was thirty years
since he took a seat here as a representative from Ohio
Then South Carolina had dec ared a certain sot of Con
gress for the collection of the revenue was unconstitu
tional, aria passed an ordinance absolving !terse; from
the remainder Wile Union. And now, near the termina
tion of his natural and political lite. he was again called
upon to act upon measures having apptication to a simi
lar condition of affairs. He said, incidentally. if a State
may withdraw herself from connection with the ether
MA' es Herself of the benefits conferred by the Union.
that every low vital to the existence of the Union and
ntheasary to the carrying out all the aims of the Union ,
may not b- enforced without disturbing the peace of the
State. He proceeded to show that the passage of per
sonal liberty bills cannot possibly have any effect on
the rights of amanern men, and argued that the law C r
the recapture of fugitives aces depends on the courts
or the United States, and as Pooh law has been declared
constitutional, is follows that such law is para
mount to any laws of a State or the Constitution
of a e Late. therefore such State lawn are effete and null.
It le the duty ot every free date to super •es any publi
cation intended to be circulated in the South. with the
intent to create a domestic insurrection. and to punch
the author therer.f. Every sometyhaa the right to protect
Its own life. whether menaced ny dagger or otherwise.
The newspap r press and the ora'ors at tt e South have
magnai-d fifty or one Inwood brags the imag miry dan
gers to be apprehended from a Republican A dtaluustra
tion. It is net, however. front any thing that taat parry
has avowed but they fear a wicked demon in the elec
tion of Mr. Lincoln—as to the amendment of the Con
stitution to the toiury 01 the South relative to slavery.
This was atourd—there were now filteen slave anti
Om teen freer tales, and to have the power to amend
there must be twelve more free States in order to pro
cure the neceortry two-thirds. and besides three
fourths of the States must be aecured. Hence there was
no mono for fear on this point. The Committee propose
an amendment making any change in slavery dependent
on the action of every State, and what more is nee
vary . or can be demanded?
Be deaorthed at length the condition of the Territo
ries, sliawag that n large portion of them were unfitted
for slaves. '1 he North was not to be blamed for the
climate and pasture end caber anventages of free la
bor'. Slavery is already established in New Mexico.
Why rot thou lot that TerritaY, whore there is the only
Probability of establishing. slavery tomtit of 36 deg. 30
Mato coma into the Union as a State, thus taking away
forever this firebraad of slavery in the Territories:
He would trust the people of that Territory to Corm a
State Constitution. As to .the apprehension that the
Republicans intend to Interfere with the Southern In
stitutions, he had already shown that trete was
no cause for alarm. But it was known that
the minds of his Southern brethren were dis
turbed. Therefore, the committee had submitted
such measures as would prevent such a wrong,
even if any bo hereafter contemplated from any source.
In coma's'. n, he alluded to M. Liberal party of Mexico,
whose efforts to establisa constauti nal law are now
likely to be crowned with success. They had followed
our example and imitated our insOtutiona; but, by our
present political condition, we said to them. in effect.
Turn back. you loolah Mexicans. you were wrong."
He had only intimated the motives which governed
him and the committee. 11 these difficulties were not
removed he woo d r et attempt to lia the curia non the
tutu e arylthe consequences which might Wiley tram
the unhappy delusion now ore valeat.
Mr. liIILLItOIv. 01 Vagtata, presumed that an man
wants to discontinue the Union as the Constitution
made it. Perhaps the worst el en of the day is the levity
with which disunion seems to be regarded by many.
The fret thing to be understood, Is what la to be settled.
Is it the election of Linthin in the present state of the
country that is to be wrested ? He had been asked in
Virginia, should the submit to Lincoln Z. lie had re
plied. No. never!lt le Lincoln that must submit to
Virginia, because he must dii4eharge ,he duties imposed
on him by Virginia an the other States, who, in trem
olo the Co, .stitution, hooted the power to be exercised.
Whoever receives a metitrity oft he electoral vote must.
under the Constitution. 'be President. Be maw nothing
in the pereonal-Itivny bills tojusofy a diesolutiou of the
Union. There was a disposition m Northern Legssla
tures now to strike these Irom the statute beaks; but
the Sr nth. awes said, apprehended danger lathe future.
a he a e rotor ial question, however. is already settled
by the existing laws—eettled Or the Constitution and
by the Supreme Court and Fettled in favor of the la.outh.
Ile, therefore. stool:woad that no danger threatens from
this Source. and thorn was no juetification for hurrying
into dieuittom Be would. as a atate-ro hts man, de
fend all the mitts of his Ste , e. She could throw away
her rights and commit alliolda • but he would maintain
her el lan her welliee, her safety, her commeroe. her
industry. her mom, and her consideiation at home and
abroad-3n abort, alithelneatunable 410e8inge and bene
fits secured to her by the Constitution If the combined
aowera 'Mould attempt to take ;Tom Virginia thane right.
he would bare her defend he self to tho last and yet
these are the State tit hits whin!' coma State-righter men
want her to throw away. it oily to show her right to do
so.
As to South Carolina, instead of escaping from the
Union he would have her call a Convention of her con
federate States and make linewri her grievances and
her purpose to withdtaw. But having withdrawn. she is
not to be coerced in any form. Call a Convention of all
the States meeting on equal terms. and lot it determine
what ehall ho done rein.ive to the Seem/lett Wales.
South Carolina, miss mded as he believed 6 ie is. instill
ono of the original authors of the Constitution. Con
areas was out the creature of the Mates. to Gorier te
South Carolina, and may not not on their will in defi
ance of the sovereign mandate emanating from that
State.' Du mg his' reale:rill he
o e d exp resred his
adm ire
,
i N nofhtorpl j aonof g h g wo h ofMro ,
lgggillreglintgeliinghl
said he was opposed le edfit(tne,.of_hie positions He
eons wholly disconnected with the seiiihrffil4 orlea
veiny. She ar/s ~et capable of or cUp6 mg mob a pai-t.
ton.
He could not vote for the bill reported by the cora
mitten relative to the rendition of fugitive slaves with
out some amendment. He favored the amendment to
the Constitution, as the committee tecommended,to
Plane slaver in the States beyond Gengromional con
trol. Re regretted that additional constitutional gua
ranties had not been susgested as the times require
them. If thelleptiblioans will not consent to the set
tlement of tile present difficulties the patriotism of the
Anitrioau people North and South wi.l oomphl them.
not for the benefit of either section but from gammon
interest and general weihare. 'Ho said end expressed
the hope that the Union would yet be presented. and
the seceding btate4 restored le their former position.
Adjourned.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
FlARrasnono, Jan. 21. ISO
SENATE,
- -
The Neuate was called to order at ebveno'e.look by
the Speaker. Brayer by the Nev. Mr. Copier. Theyour
nal of Thursday wee read and arwroved.
The Speaker laid bol t ers the Senate a communica
tion from the Auditor General in relation to the pay
ment of taxes into the State T. easury by the Devawaro
and Hudson Canal t ompany. which was read. By toe
statement. it appears that upwa rile of 81f0.000 was paid
by that company up to 3e07, when it ceased paying, and
retorted to litigation, under the plea that them
law in existence malting it a legal puniest oetaxation.
mot , on of klr. tiallTll, a 1 0:nt resalution from the
House, endorsing the ze.wee if Governor Hicks, wee
taken up and peened—yens 25, nays none.
dsmuty Secretary of the Commonwealth pre
sented a plumage from the Governor, accompanied by
the concurrent reisoluticeir of the Legislature of New
York, tendering aid to the General Govoinnnent in up
holding, the Union, forwarded by ceov. - Morgan. The
resolutions were reed, eel Iwd on the table.
Mr. Wet NEY, au not to extend the provisiona of an
apt for the protection of sheep and the taxing of dogs,
in the county of Blair to the county of CrawfM,
winch wan taken up. and passed finally.
Mr. SMITH, an act to authorize the Governor to ap
point two additional notaries a:pile:to reatde in Phila
delphia, u loch RPS talgeie' up enter a dispensation of
the rule El. luAza.63 - Ad finally.
44. a eupplenient to the act inrorpo
rating the American Stem Plough Alanufecturing
Company of Ls n caster county.
Mr. BENeUN, an act incorporating the Potter.
County Forrest Improvement Company.
Also, a aupplement to the act ineorßoreons the Potter
County .1t mires d Company.
Mr. PAP KEA, an wet relattre to tho enrolment tax
OD certain acts ot Atarrubly.
Mr. :30tIoD, an act let the protection of fruit and
frlit trees'
tut ItOfilfilyv, a supp'ement loan act entitled
cot relstiVe to suits by sheriffs, prothonotartes, and
other officers of Westmoreland. Lveonnne, and Wash
mu it ton counties which was passed
Mr. PENNEY called up the supplement to the act re
lative to hemline certain bridges over the Ale; bony and
Monollgelle , s'll:vera. °Waite Pltleburg, which passed
its severatreadirge.
A:committee fte House be anounced, the
Senators adjoianed rom to ff
the Nall, to ing
go 11 10 84 election
for State Treasurer.
On their ret. rn, Mr. BOUGBTER, teller of the Se
nate, made report.
Mr. ehll.lll sated for end of tarred leav ta present
the petition of the Franklin Institute. relative to the
Purchase of meteorological inst.ner ate
Mr. PAR.K.ER croled ‘4l? Ott ant relative to tho enrol
ment tax omoortaen dots of Assembly , which paned ire
several reedadge, and wan ordered to be sent to the
Bongo for concerto, oe.
On motion of Mr KETCHAhI, adjourned.
The House reassembled at 7 o'oloek. t Mr Acker in
the chair,) for the purpose of comudering the Senate re
solutions relative tothe maintenance of the Union.
Mr. LICIT.PEN WAELNER advocated the repeal of
all nee nicoldtional and otlectionablo statutes.
Mr DAVIS, of Y new (Speaker), said he would t•o,
at far as any other gentleman to carry out eta mai
stone of the Constitut en tee contenledtba. Where we
had violated no °commit. conoess"one Were hnones
sary. If there was anythinc wrong on our statute
books the f tilt wag •fith the Dent paretic party. 'I here
the resoongib.lity rested. and not with the Republican
party. 'lemoeratio comutiszionere had made the sta
tutes that are objected to. Denutoratio members lad
enacted them into laws, and a Dsmooratio Doverbor
had signed them.
The time had arrived when thaso questionsehould be
settled. and he for of e weld not shrink from the re
conned:ditty. It , i had hoed that be Senate resolution!'
wo!,', pots tine House without serious objection, hut
the gtotlemen of the other side had thrown to a brand. aid made the matter a 'artisan question, ` r-
He denied the right of any State to aeo.tht fsngle,the.
C. nfederaey. and would hold no truce 't•ith knottentates
which had raised the flag of reltellitin.
Mr. LhltiErlitlftti followed' in reply to Mr. Ttavia,
denying that the Democratic'earty was responsible for
these objectioliqe htatuteuf but. of they were. or who
ever elab..he wr.bld endeavor to replir the error. A
070111, fearful and terrible is upon us, and the voice of
Penturtivant..a thumb! bo for peace, and not for fratri
cidal war Th. 2 wan not a time to nastder national
treubles. but to m ovum a towed, for Own, and to
mate every effort consistent with honor to cheek the
fury.
De then alluded to the numerous petitions from Phi
ladelphia and other sections of the btate. praying
the repeal of the obnoxious statutes upon our books;
an d acted, what greater boon can we 4esittw uporl'our
children than the perpetuity o f our Union; now so un
fortunately imperilled The gentleman from Alle
gheny (Mr. NI/Jun - MI) hits fold ua. that they are mer
ohlata and manufacturers whose prmouples were go
yarned ill trade.
Mr. WILLIAMS explained that he had mlih ,p 9.
Mr. LFISENRING. continuiu, defended the mer
chants of Phi adelphm tro n a Cuba assaults. They were
industrious intelligent, peace-loving. law-abiding oar
xena, acomateonid to meeting their obligations, and op
gose4 rePuthatiou, and always ready to SUPpOrt Vt)
supreme tribunal of the Commonwealth in metuDit
repudiation. •
lie earneetly advocated the ron}al oitherAth and 96th
seetrons of the penal codiy, and`titoted from Gov. Cur
tin's inaugural addreys tot support of his arrument. He
reviewed the pending resolutiors, and said that unleee
Vlore wat something practical in the action of the Le
gislature all might he lost. The distracted condition of
the country cannot be allayed be a series of resolution4
pasted by a mere ma j ority of the Legislators, and
Which suggest nothing to heal the trouhilS,
Mr. Dll t LER. of Crawlp.ia, foßowea in support of
the resoiutititm.
Mr. made a care inl rpeech in supportof the
zero elientol the Senate. lie had no compforuves
Mak: gle wined Ins po'rtmal Igoe to ilia u'l cag " o -1
her. w Ibl[rlAMltl, of Allegheny .ilefended himself
from attackis In regard tu :iews of the meeting on
lull pendence eimete. the obliga.ions of Allegheny
county. Ile Ma th',t an) Ileng he tittered would not find
Ile way IMO tii e Philadelphia papers. '1 ho mese ehede
carkness instead of lint upon this question. lie spoke
at some -length in vindication 01 his course in Al
legheny county. Ile said the city . of Philadelphia
had made a bad investment in the Sunbury
and rite Railroad, any in attempting to extricate
herself. he ought say, if he felt d spored, that she wee
opt/099ring to plunge her nand Into the public trea
klUrt, hoping thereby to make toed her investment.
lie spoke at some length in. laver of the Senate
ineadments.
I . thtx,t among to a Coto, the senate adjourned
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Aftor prayer the journal wee read.
Mr. LEDIENEING moved, Inconspiponee of the
(Ounce of several members th-it the epeeial order et
the day, the tienate re etnutiova for the maintenance of
ihn Union .he Postponed until to-no rrow.
Mr. It11)0WAX hoped the motion would not prevail.
Now .CV34 no good as any tone to nielie Boucamtda
speeettes. Ile wanted to gat the reeolutiona out of tke
way.
• Mr. GORDON moved en. amendment Oat the speoiet
ordor postponed until Oven u'oluoir thts evening.
Mr LtsIBENRING angeyted ttto amendment, and It
was agreed to.
Mr a. , KER, a bill relative to ar vate banking. It
prey dee for the remodeltin• of the law taxiing
ere. Referred to the Committee on Ranks.
Mr. BIPI LEe. a enpvletnent in act inoorporatlng tho
Routeof Employment of the Poor of Certain ooucty
Retorted.
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Mr. McDONOUGH. an not to incorporate tho rouihem
Pass , nger Railway COMPMDY. t 7 his is the mine bil
which was • obliahed last week.)
.NSI,TH. an act an an lamas the president and di
rectors of the Cttazeres ass.•nser Railway of Phila
delphia to se l and convey ce.tatn roll estate. Re
ferred.
Ml=
Mr. lioF.RlB,lhree frem Mercer county, relative to
the issuing of bank bulls o: a .era denomination than
five dollar,. Referred ,
Mr. WILDEV, a retition preying for the more faith
ful execution of the fugitive Cave uaw. •
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Mr. PR 9 1 , 1 ON, a prtittot. prat inn for the repeal of
the 95th and 96th seettona of the none! cede.
Mr. HOPPER. a joint resolution that the Committee
of Ways and Means inquire whether a more efficient
mode of asoertainine the amount of moneys in the
hands of banks and brokers subject to taxation cannot
be devised.
Twelve o'clock.-1 he membere of the Senate and
Haute met 10 joint convention for. the purpose of
electing a htate Tieceurer. Henry D. !nacre received
65 voter, nun John V. JAIIIO. 20 votes, Mr. Moore wee
declared duly elected, and the convention adjourned.
Mr. I.kIaHNBING read in place a bill to chat the
name of the Harmonic Sacred Music Society to at of
the 'Sermonic musical Pociety.
Mr. SELTZER rose to a personal explanation. He
read from n paper a despatch which states that he had
refused to pres•nt petpions for the repeal of thp 95th
and 95th sectione of the penal code. He denied ener
getically and emphatically dome cot thing of the kind.
There was evideetly come misunderetendirg. He
wanted the House distinctly to understand that he re
cognized the right of petition, and would present one
cent to him. couched in resentful language He would
not, however. vote for the rep, al of the two seottons of
the penal code named. He would rot in hug seat before
he would do it.
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[The reporter would state in explanation. that each
a repo•t. of the r.fusal on the part of Dr. Selmer to pre
sent petitions of the character named, did nrevailemang
some of Dr. Seltzer's mina ituente. They are donhtleez
convinced of their error by the explanation made by
Dr. Seltzer.]
By common eminent a bill was introduced exempting
the Peon Legion from military duty on certain coca
/31008.
The biil was advocated by Messrs. THOMAS and
P ^ ESTON. and vaned finally
Mr. HAYS int,oduced a bill for the appointment of an
additional supreme Judge. Referred to the JudtmaTy
Committee.
Also. a bill to extend the charter of the Short Moun
tain O.ial Company for eleven years.
The latter 101 l was taken up and passed finally.
Mr RANDALL, offered a Jolnt resolution, submitting
to the people of Yoonaylvaota the propriety of oidling a
State Convention to consider the pretest condition of
the eountix r and to take measures for the pteleivation
of harmonY end Union.
Mr. RIDGWAY called up the Senate bill autho
rizing the Governor to appoint two additional nota
ries pubi c for Philadelphia, which passed finally—yeas
46. nays n
Mr. SMITH. called tip the bill incorporating the
Weaver Skating. OW b. and too same plated finally.
I he Rouse then adjourned.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING
WHEATLEY & CLARICE'S ARCH-STREIT THEATZLIS.
Aroh street, above sixth.—.' Oliver Twist"--"
son & CO."
WALNUT-STREET THEATRE. Walnut and N111MA34,-
. °Or AmSsIOSII COUBDII at Borne"_' The Miller of
Whetstone." -
11Ninen BTATEa BUILDINGS. Chestnut etreet, below
Fifth.—Van Amburgh & Co.'s Menagerie.
HAMMED'S OPeRA ROUSE. Eleventh ■trees,
Chestnut.—Conoert nightlj.
THE CRAWFORD HOMICIDE.
TRIAL OF THOMAS J. ARMSTRONG.
The trial of Thomas J. Armstrong, for the mur
der of Robert Crawford, in the Nineteenth ward,
on the 21st of September last, commenced yester
day morning in the Court of Oyer and Terminer,
Judges Thompson and Milton presiding The peen
liar circumstances under which the murder was oom
tatted give unusual interest to the trial. Craw
ford, who was advanced in life, was a manufacturer
of ingrain carpet, and Armstrong, the prisoner,
was employed by his (Armstrong's) brother-helaW e
who was engaged in the same business Crawford
was found murdered in a desolate part of tbe Nine
teenth ward on Marty night, the 21st September.
A pistol had been held to his mouth,' and the:load
I passed up through his head, inflicting a siliehe
tree wound, and causing instant death. -The
body remained unrecognized some fourteen
or fifteen hours. It was then ascertained
that, on the night of the murder, Claw
ford had left home for the avowed purpose ot
buying a lot of cheap yarn, taking with bbl'a
considerable sum of money, n gold, for the pere
pose of paying for it. This money was gene whim
the body was found. There were reassess for gape.
posing that the panel' from whom the yore was.
to be bought was Armstrong, as the latter was in,
the habit of selling the deceased material,
it was ascertained. be had no right to sell. Upon
inquiry, it was found that, on the night of this
murder, the prisoner bad hired a wagon for the,
purpose, as he says, of taking a ride. Ile returned
the vehicle to the stable about 10 o'clock, just after
the time the murder meet have been committed.
The vests and floor of the wagon were wet 'with
blood This blood the prisoner attempted to ace
count for by saying that be bad given anueknoena
man and woman a " lift " in the wagon,
and that
they had freshly-killed obiokens with th em at the
time. It was also in evidence before the coroner's
jury that just before the period of the murder a
wagon Reelecting the description of that hired- by
Armstrong was driven rapidly through seieral
streets in the upper part of the city, and that at'
elderly man who was groaning and attemptici tre
cry out, was banging pertly out of the wagon.
The ground where the body was found. was soft,
unpaved earth, and the soles of the Doge worn bp ,
the deceased were perfectly clean, thawing that:
he could scarcely have walked to Um spot It was,
also in evidence that Armstrong borrowed aleadedi
pistol from a companion on the Friday upon,
which the murder was committed, and upon the.
following day he returned the weapon without As
contents
opposition to this array of oirouraatantial
.e " ° --ea the good oharaoter borne by the as
eased before ene-,..—„,0f the tragedy. He was
mild and inoffensive is ma
-amen, and the last
person who would be suspected et - me rout - .rime
with which he is charged.
A gloat crowd gathered about the (murk. reone
yesterday morning for the purpose of getting s
glimpse of the prisoner. When the doors were
opened there was a general scrambles to, obtain
places, and the doors had to by fo,oibly iSlosedt
again to prevent an exoessivc orowd inside the
court room. Clusters of tgau and boys then bre.
eieged the doors and windows in the hope of th
taining a peep at the accused.
The prisoner was apparently one of the hest in
terested of the throng of persons preamtik Until
the, business of the court was opened he stood up
in the front part of the dock converging easily with
a knot of acquaintances. Ilia fare wore a constant
smile, and at times he itughed with an ease - andt
apparent unconcern, that we should think no per could assume who was placed in the awful posi
tion to whim) he stands. Even the entrance of the
relatives of Crawford in deep, mourning, and the
appearance in the court Nora Of the mother and
sisters or the prisoner, with ease won. and sad
dened faces, did not for a moment diaper the
smile worn upon the face of Armstrong.
The prisoner is about 20 years of age, althomeh
ho looks to he several years elder. Ile is slen
derly built, very genteel in-his appearance, and
has a good-looking face and a mild oonntenmasse.
Hie complexion la dark, and be wears short aide,
whiskers. Hu was dressed this morning la a full
mit of black, and ho certainly presents/ tins sp.
rearanee of a very genteel, intelligent, and amia
ble young man.
TIVIAL
The Commonwealth is represented by District
Attorney Mans. William B. Kelley and Wl!'tam
M. Bull, ?'e s., defend the prisoner.
After the - preliminary business of the court was
disposed of, Mr. Bull moved for a continuance of
the ease, an the ground of the absence of an inv.
portent witness—Sohn D Bilvey. This men hadi
been examined before the coroner's inquest, -ands
the counsel insisted that his testimony was nate—
eel flu the defence. Bat he had left the *its, and,
persons having the subpoena bed bees unable to.
serve it. Some discuesien ensued, and the court:
held that no suMolent ground had been laid to.
warrant a continuanoe, altlloazh the prisoner war&
entitled to an attachment
The case then prooesdod, the clerk, hir George
H. Moore, addresging the prisoner as follows:,
" Thomas 4. Armstrong, you are now sot to the
bar to ho tried, and these good MOB who shall be
called, are to pass between the CommoswealthAnei
you upon your trial. If you would object to any
of them, you will do so as they are called,"and
be
fore they are sworn. you have the right to Mall ,
lenge twenty o( the jurors peremptorily, and as,
many more os you have good cause for cholla:lg.
fug
Then commenced the tedious process of stapes
nelling a jury, each one being called to the stand
and sworn " true spawns to make."
Tho first goalie:nen called, Mr. Goo 0. No
pheya, had ' formed and expressed" no opinion,
and .ad no ccnsolentlous scruples on the sublest
of capital punishment. He was taken as a itirg.
As soon as he entered the box Mr. Mann desleed
that he might be BWelli, but the coon declined au
to do..
fin a 04.5 h, now before the Suprema Court It la
alleged as error that in a murder ease tio jurors
were sworn " you and oaoh of you," instead - of
severalty. No decision 1%49 boon given on the
point j
Another jun:no:liken tkusstioned as to his knowledy
of the we, stated that he bad not read the so
°onto a , F the murder ; that be never read a pollee
report, and that ho conversed with no one, beettgat;
he knew no one with whom he could so or ;Ivo
4 t,
as all his friends were dead
The Meridian juror is about sixty yrgri t a, .1( age..
Be wee ohallenged by the defence
The next juror accepted was. Johiren.
On his examination he stated that he might Mali.
formed an opinion, but ho had no recollection labiett
it wee, and he could morn go according to tine evi l
dance. In answer to a q,untion by Mn. Zdaen, the,
juror seie t he thought he knew the prisoner by /
night, as he lived at Germantown raga and Jellen...
son street
°opted ; John Charlea Dummig, George
Jphn Alexander, the *ex,* jstror,. alto so
b. Blundeft, ,lasob Hoffman, Henry Turut, Taller
Skitints, Rinaldo Scanlan, Samuel ..I,,fadam, w i g(
Itereholomeir Kline followed sAA amiitoaci eyz
JUT
After swearing not 'evict Um court ad:MI:0 0 : up.
to 310'0100k,
A'gTZRNOON BILSSION
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Gip reassembling, Mr. M
the jury Mating the Lott autiuto. daily 85 we have
given them above. Maas 4 Med the,ease to
The first witugat 40.1114 see ex Coroner Younit,
who tntifie, 01.
t 1 at t 'eld the inquest upon the
body of A 0,30 ,1 B '. ford, the inquest being com
menced on the 9' .d of September, and continued
until the 4 th of October; he first saw the body at
tho N lot to " . oth-ward station-house ; searched the
1 1 Q t ivle .. .,, of the deceased and found a watch, some
he e , and some yarn; the right eye was bruised
and also the cheek; the upper lip was slightly
marred or out, and a wound upon the back of the
head near the ear; there was a pistol produced at
the inquest by Mr Garvin, and 1 took it as it was
to Dr Loidy and requested him to make en ETA
mipalion of the marks upon it.
Crosaexamined.—.l got the pistol from a youlg
man named Garvin.
Dr S. P. Brown sworn —I made the postmiir
tens examination of the body of Robert Crawford,
on the 22d of September, at the Nineteenth•ward
istaticn•house; found the body on a settee; saw no
marks on the body; the pants were much torn on
the lee and hip; the right eye was very black
svollan ; the enter covering of the lid wee ant;
She mark of a very heavy blow on the cheek, just
below the eye; there were two contused wounds.
on the outer angle of the right eye ; the right cheek
bane was all °rushed to pieces; the wounds were
mostly contused wounds ; there was a wound off
about five-eighths of an inch in length on the back
of the head, Lear the ear; it was a wound from
which the blood would flow freely ; from the Nu
taro of the wounds there would naturally be a Reed
deal of blood ; it would require a very heavy blow
or blows to melt the bone es I found it; the lower
part of the face was much sprinkled with powder