**DIiSiDAY, JANUARY 23. 1881 ,To A.ovNtypisas. 7 - he wren hoe of Tux PnEse exCias,di„that of any other daily paper in Philadelphia; With a single exception. Sa tisfactory proof of this fact will be cheerfully given to advertisers. BLEST Rm.—lmportant Oorrespondenoo—Let. tore from the Fouth; A Patriotic, Letter; The Sonata Chamber; Parson Brownlow for the Union; The, Emperor Napoleon and the United States; Tik4nierioan Miniator in Paris; A Commotion in New York; The Crawford Bomioide—Trial of Thomas J. Armstrong; General News; eto , ete• FOt7RTIT Peon —Speeoh of Ron. I. N. Morrie, of Illinola ; Marine Intelligenoe. A Check to Special Legislation. One of the moat important laws upon the statute-book for the protection of the people of the State from the establishment of unne cessary and injurious corporations was adopt ed at the last session of the Legislature. It provides that no bill or proposed law for the creation of a new corporation shall be pro. sonted in either branch, if it is not preceded by a public notice in one or two newspapers in the city or county in which it is to be eats blished, of the intended application, and of the names of the commissioners or corporators. A rule of a similar character, but much more stringent, has,, for a long period, been en forced in regard to the incorporation of bank ing institutions, and it has thus, with much propriety, been extended to other associations which seek special privileges. It has repeat edly happened that important and injurious companies have been chartered and endowed with extensive powers when the people most affected by them were profoundly ignorant of any design or intention to establish thorn; and surely such an evil should be sedulously guarded against. Some intimations have been thrown out, wo understand, that parties who intend to apply to the present Legislature for various acts of incorporation, and who have not complied with the provisions of the law to which we have relbrred, design to evade it in a summary way, by inserting in their charters a clause repealing the restrictions which have been im posed. But this scheme can hardly be success ful, for the Legislature will scarcely attempt to undermine, try such an insidious and illegal process, the defences which have been thrown up to protect the people. It has happened in thousands of instances that incorporations have exerted a pernicious influence. It has rarely occurred that a few. months' delay in creating them has done any harm. Those who wish to obtain meritorious and useful legislation need not be afraid or ashamed to announce to the public in advance their desire to procure it; and those who Beek privileges of a different character should not obtain them. The law wolave alluded to is as follows: AN ACT RELATING TO TEEN PUBLIOA.TION Or PRO PORED ACTS or INCORPORATION OF THIS CON. NONWITALTH. aitCTION 1. Be it enacted., ho,That, from and after. the passage of this act, i t be required that every application to the Legislature, for any art of tivt:potwration, shall be preceded by a public make, ox advertisement of the same an two newspapers in the city or county for which the legislation is demanded, or in which the parties applying for it reside, if two newspapers are pub lished in sai i city or county, and if there be not two nowspap . ars published therein , then tn. one newspaper, newspaper, tf one is published therein; which said public notice or advertisement shall set forth the names of the commissioners or oorporators to the bill or prop sed legislation, and its title ; and the same libel. be Published or advertised in said papers before the bill or proposed law shall be pre sented to et titer branch of the Legislature JOHN ht. TiAumpsore. SySidter of the House of Re_ptementataves pro ton. wlll. Itt. FRAN 118. Speaker of the Senate. ADproved the second day of April. 1800. PACKER. Monetary Pressure in Europe. The great drain of gold into this country— slo,ooo,ooo within a few months—and the position of the Bank of France have made the Bank of England raise its rate of discount to 7 per cent., which Is unusually high. The Bank of France had taken a similar step. This restrictive measure, which was unexpected, immediately affected the money markets in London and Paris, and would inevitably cause great depression in the prices of public secu rities. Already it had depressed not only the prices of consols in London, but American railway stock,_together with, fig; • • duce, and cotton. The recent news from the United States bas bad a depressing effect, no doubt. For whatever cotton, breadstuffs, and tobacco England and France must got from us, the principal payment will be in specie, While OLIT troubles last—whereby our two great customers will not only be at a loss for gold, but also be minus the profits upon the manu factures with which their obligations would otherwise be met. Outside Barbarians In the Summer Palace, near Pekin, Lord Ems found an autograph of the fugitive Emperor of China, relating to the question of the presentation of Mr. Main, the American Minister. It seems that Mr. WARD offered to pay to his Celestial Majesty the same marks of respect as he would pay to his own Presi dent. lho Emperor's memorandum runs thus: "It elitlwe that in the manner of their pre, sentatiotritAourt nothing more min be done to bring them to reason. Besides, these barbarians, by their averment that their respect for hill Melee!, the Emperor is the same as that they feel for theta. piiill4l-tien-tih (President), just places Ohina on a par with the barbarians - of the south and east, an arrogation of greatness which is simply tidiest. loos " Considering that exactly a year after this haughty assumption was penned, the Imperial writer had run away from a handful of Eng lish and French troops, who captured his capital and might have burned it, as they did burn his Summer Palace, the impertinence of the refusal to receive Mr. WA.nn may very adequately be estimated., The Emperor's arrogation of greatness is simply ridicu lous." Nay)* and Army News. As some interest Is now attached to the move ments or the Home Etittadron, we append a correct statement of its strength, inelaffing officers, men, • Vessels Pleganip eam frigate Pownatan— Stearn corvette brooklyn---..... Stearn gunboat Pawnee— .. . Eleam gene at M0hawk._......... . 8 ea,,, gunboat Crusader.-- Steam gobbet Pooahontae--. bteau, gunboat Wyandotte.. eluting f taste . Bailing corvette et. i orve tie Macedonian—. Steamer Water Witch..—. 360 90 410 )90 4 , 1 776 3413 60 -. 1 700 1160 70 1 3.1 330 84 ati /00 k Total— ow 2 700 IV The departure of the United States storeehip Relief from New York, for the ooast of Africa, la delayed, that urea others and man, to All vaesa• oleo for the &paten, may be aecommodated pith a passage. She will mil in a few days,' . The small•pox exists to a fearful extent on board the corvette Cumberland, of the llama fleet, al though sho has been only a abort time in servioe. Communication with the ship has been prohibited for the present by the flag officer. She is at Vora Cruz The Water Witch and Pawnee aro not now in oommieelon, but it is understood that they are ander orders to join the fleet. Governor's Dia nd, New York, bee been again reinforced by recruits. On Friday night detaoh m mat, consisting of drafts from Buffalo arid Roches ter, arrived, bet, owing to the stringent rules in force at the barge office, were obliged to lodge in the city till Saturday morning, when they reported themeelves to Major Holmes. There are now 730 men, all told, on the island, and if many more batches arrive a considerable number of bands must be detaohed. The Weir Department has received the report of the board of officers which convened at Frank ford, Fa., on the 10th [net, for the purpose of ex amining Gallaher's breech-loading guns. An tat omelet authority says the weapon has not been re. commended for adoption. - The busbiese of one of the thief seen:Ring offs. care is New York was, yesterday, temporarily suspended, an order from its director having been, received to refuse applicants, as there is no money to pay them, The Chatham street and branch es tablishment are doing well. At the office for dra goons, preparations are making to send a draft to Carlisle, which will leave this week. The hoax about the Brooklyn navy yard, which yon'haire doubtless laughed at, will end in the de- capitation of Capt. Foot. Me outetepped alto gether the, privileges of his position in appealing for aid to local anthorltles, when nearly one thou ; sand Federal troops were on Governor's island. , :; - "-jttst imagine . the Long Island troops garrisoning Brooklyinayy yard, and the Floridians that '':,l Peneseola! Would not the Federal Govern. `;.inSt be strong then? Commodore Breese knew Wont the communications made to Mayor Akonnownenomitar.‘--Frons. Mr. Trenwith, South Third street, we have received the latest numbere of Norpers Weekly, the New York Illustrated News, Frank Leslie's paper,YNzek•Nax, and the Illustrated London News. Quite a good days good reading, with plenty of engravings, by way of relief. A Plan for Permanent Peace on the Slavery Question. The plan of Hon. E. for litmus for a per manent settlement of the slavery question de serves consideration for its simplicity, com prehensiveness, and practical efficiency. The history of Congressional legislation on the subject of slavery has clearly demonstrated that no permanent adjustment of this vexed question can be made by the Federal Legis lature. The repeal of the Missouri Compro mise, and the failure of the Compromise Measures of 1850, show the utter futility of Congressional action. Compromises made for lasting duration serve only as a tem porary truce between contending sections, and are observed just so long as it suits the interest of the contracting parties. With their repeal, sectional strife is rekindled, to rage with tenfold fury and intensity. Con gress 'is agitated anew with the vain attempt to regulate what is beyond its power to regulate—its attention is engrossed with the discussion of the slavery question to the neglect of all others, and the country is con vulsed lay sectional passions, destructive alike to its peace and material interests, while the Union itself is put in jeopardy. In view (Athos° facts, Mr. Mortals proposes to remove the question of slavery altogether from Congress, and to leave its final settle ment to the people of the new States, to be carved out of the Territories. His reme dy for existing and future troubles is a single amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as follows : ARTICLE XIII OF AIIIINDIOINTS TO TIM CONSTITU TION. " Neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature shp.ll make any law respecting slavery or involnn bay servitude, except as a punishment for crime; but Congress may pass laws for the suppression of the African slave trade, and the rendition of fugi. lives from labor or service in the States " If such an amendment to the Constitution were adopted, all apprehensions on the part of the South of an interference by Congress with slavery in the States, the slave trade be tween the States, in the District of Columbia, and in the Territories, would be allayed. We could acquire territory to an indefinite ex tent without the risk of imperilling tho peace of the nation by a struggle for its partition into free and slave States. If the Dred Scott decision has determined the right of slavehold ers to carry slaves into the Territories, they cannot be deprived of that right, and they must enjoy it until an adverse decision is made. Be there a decision on this point or not, tho status of freedom or slavery would be fixed, in any event, in the State Constitution, and the right would only exist ad interior during the Territorial stage of existence. The state of parties is such now, and will ever be such, that there must be a continual strife between those who seek to prohibit, and those who seek to protect, slavery—a strife in •which neither party has the power to succeed. If we are to have pease, the Republicans must waive their right to prohibit slavery by Fede ral legislation, the friends of Batemeneson to protect in the same way, and the friends of Douenas must give up their doctrine of Popu lar Sovereignty in the Territories. In other words, three political platforms must be sacri ficed for lasting tranquillity and the preserva tion of the Union. The question of slavery will thus be left in abeyance, to be settled by the people of the new States, whose interests are more imme diately affected by it. All these wholesome re sults Mr. Moan's' plan of compromise will cer tainly accomplish. Comprising in ono amend ment all that is embraced in the six or seven amendments proposed by others, it seems to us to commend itself to the favorable conside ration of all who desire a settlement of the slavery gdestion, both for tho present and the future, and its entire withdrawal front Con gress, where it has ever been a source of mis chief', and the cause of the present disruption of the Union Pennsylvania and Maryland. The following important correspondence ex plains itself; and, while it sets at rest some misrepresentations which have appeared in regard to the manner in which the commis. stoners from this State were received by Gover nor RICKS,it affords a gratifying proof of his devotion to the Union, and teaches, in the most impressive manner, the propriety of wiping from our statute-books all the enact ments which are considered offensive by the patriots of the South; MY DEda Site : I have justiu - r - t irrem the ceremony of my inauguration, and, as the first eat of my Oficial career, I write to express to you my profound admiration of the patriotic resolution yea have displayed in assisting to maintain the Union of our beloved oountry, in the present peril ous oriels In common with all the °Rims of Pennsylvania, I have regarded, with the deepest respect and gratitude, your firm and manly resist ens. of the efforts whiott have been made to swerve you from the path of duty which you had wisely resolved to follow; and in behalf of those citizens I tender to you assurances of all the aid that an ear neat sympathy, and an active co-operation in what ever measures of just conciliation may be proposed, can give to you. In order that I may learn by what means we can beet sustain you anti your Union4oving coad jutors in the accomplishment of the noble purpose you tumefy. view, I have informally comintesioned the Hon. It. M. Palmer, Speaker of eur State Fe. natal. the Hon. Gideon J Ball, a leading and in fluential member of our House of Representatives, and Morton Moldiehael, Req., a distinguished citi zen of this Commonwealth, to wait upon you, for me and in my stead, to convey to you personally the opinions I entertain, and to oonfpr with you generally on all such topics as may be necessary to a full mutual yuaderstanding of our respective wishes and objects. These gentlfmen are amply authorized to speak to you in my Immo, to spread before you my views. to receive from you any eug gettions you may feel inclined to make; and they are, ales, amply qualified to explain to you the feelings and opinions of the people of tbie State on the questions which now agitate and disturb the public! mind. With assurances of the moat cordial esteem, I am, any dear air, yours, very to A. CURTIN. ffie Excellency, Tnotrae H. Timm Governor of Maryland. ExECUTIVB ATAISWiIiI3/1 January 100861. Mr Data Stn : I avail myself of the first lei- sure moment to assure you that I am not insensi ble to the obligation under wh:oh you have placed me by your patriotio, kind, and friendly letter of the 15th inst., handed me on Thursday by Messrs Palmer, Bali, and MoMiohael, the gentleman charged by you trith its custody and delivery. With Clete gentlemen X had a frank, free, and foil conversation. I told them that while I could only meet them informally, and had no power to pledge Maryland to adept any particular Mea sures of eo.oporation or conciliation, I would hear with pleasure any 'suggestions they could make, with a view to a satisfactory adjustment of our national difficulties. I also, during tke Interview, inquired of them as to the rumored intention of a . military display in Washington on or about the 4th of March, and was gratiEed to learn that the people of Pennsylvania entertained no such design. I told them, and I take pleasure in repeating it to you now, that the people of Maryland are Union-loving and lavr.abidnag, and, with some few exceptions, decided in feeling and notion for the preservation of the Union, and will not desert it until the necessity shall bo more ap parent than at present. Strongly opposed an they were to the election of Mr. Irincoln, the people of Maryland intend to make no opposition to, but if necessary will aid in securing the peaceable inau guration of the President elected wording to the forme of the Constitution. osrra and Tone. Men. Gtll7o 1,726 'SW 24 2 410 3.2) 10 2 000 .1. , 0 14 10W /6(1 8 460 IW 4 400 22:1 8 I thank you most sincerely for the kind manner in which you tarsier the cooperation of the people of Pennsylvania "in whatever pet measures of conciliation may be proposed." Trusting in God, and confiding in the good sense of the American people, I still look to Congress for a satisfactory adjustment of our difficulties; and I earnestly hope that you, and those acting with you, may be suocessful in your patriotic en deavors to secure measures of conciliation. I am aware that conch of the ill feeling between the notions is attributed to the personal-liberty lowa of some of the Northern States ; and though there have been decided by the courts to be un constitutional. yet they are *inhere to us, and should be, ac I do not doubt they will be, repealed. I believe the great. body of the people, North and South, are still sound in their attsehment to the Union, and that the nitrates alone, North and South, by their unholy ambition, political and pa. ouniary, have brought our great country to its present deplorable condition. Thtugh my sympathies are with the South, I feel no undue prejudice against oar Northern bre. thorn, believing, as I do, that there le little differ ence between the extremists of either section as to the effect produced upon the country. I look, therefore, to the prudent action of the patriotic men now in council, and to the people themselves, to save the country and restore those fraternal re. latione that made ue the admiration of the world. Though the dreadful cries now upon us threat ene the destruction of the Unton, I trust in the same Providence that guided our patriot fathers, and hope, through Bin interposition, wise counsels may yet prevail, and stay the hands now raised to strike the fatal blow. I am a native of Maryland, the owner of a num ber of slaves. and my feelings and aympathiea are naturally with the South ; bat, above and beyond all there, I am for the Union, and, forgottiog all but honor, am ready to aaorifme life and fortune to gave and perpetuato the Union of the States form• ed by our fathers under the providence of tied. With sineere regard. am, very truth THOMAS your frien H d, . HICH.I4, Ilia Excellency, Governor TIN. of Pennsylvania. MISS AM& WILKB.—WO aro glad to perceive, by the bills of the day, that Miss Wilke has re sumed her position at Walnut-street Theatre. In her own line, she is a pleasant and good-humored rotthrette, able to sing a ballad suffielently well to please her audience. As an established member of the troupe, she Is welcome book, after a long and severe Illness THOMAS & Boma' SALES TO.DAY—Filtnitnre at en o'clock, at 719 Pine Street. The " Trevorton Coal and Railroad " et twelve o'olock, at the Ex change. Extensive and Valuable Library.—They oom• menoe the sale, this evening, of a library of very valuable and elegant books. Bee catalogues and advertleetnente of the three sales. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE Letter from " Occasional." iorrespondenoo of The Emma WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 1861. Results of inoaloulable magnitude will be cer tain tofiew from the retirement or withdrawal of the Secessionists from the Senate of the United States. Ten have already gone, which reduces the number of members of the body from sixty-six to fifty-six, and when the amended bill, admitting Kansas, shall pass the Rouse, as it certainly will, and the two Senators from Louisiana retire, as they will, the Republicans will have r. clear majority, or ra ther twenty-eight of fifty-four. That they will soon proceed to the reorganization of the Senate there is little reason to doubt. Senator Hunter, in anticipation of the change, resigned his place as chairman of the Committee on Finance, and this example will doubtless be followed by others of his sobool. There is now every prospect of the passage of the Morrill tariff bill, the homestead bill, end the Pacific Railroad bill. In proportion as the Republicans obtain possession of the Se nate, by the retirement of the Seeessioniats, so do they obtain complete possession of the Rouse. Thus, in advance of the Administratirn of Mr. tincoln the entire Government is pat in their hands. President Buchanan co-operates with them in most of their present policy. We can now account for the extreme bitterness of Mr. Slidell against Mr. Molt, Secretary of War, and his un disguised hostility to Mr. Buchanan himself. The loss of the power of the present Administration to the Secessionists was a calamity upon which they had not calculated. Baying laid their plans as far back as 1857, when they induced the President to abandon his liberal pledges in regard to Kansas, and having carried him along with them in their succeeding aggressions, they believed he was com pletely in their hands. -Yielding to them in the re moval of honest Democrats from ofiloe; surren dering to their exactions in regard to judge Dou glas; supporting Mr. Brockinridge, their own re volutionary nominee; and turning the entire ma chinery of his Administration against the regular organization of the Democratic party, they re lied triumphantly upon the belief that when their conspiracy was ready to be develop ed in all of its monstrous proportions, they would have his assistance in the grand scheme of Greattng up the Government, and thus this scheme would be certain to succeed How could it be otherwise, when those in possession of the power of the Government, which power extends from roe to sea—penetrates into almost every household—ral lies to Its support hundreds of thousands of mon directly and indirectly interested in its patron• age, and holding, as the custodian of the country, the invaluable public property and public revenues of that country—were regarded as solemnly com• milted to the destruction of the Republic? But, fortunately for the human race, and fortunately for tee Union, the conscience of the President awoke within him, ut the last hour—the perils of a violated oath stared him in the foes—and, at the very moment when those who had previously con trolled bim, believed that he was their most pas sive instrument, he turned his back upon them, and placed himself under the stars and stripes. It is impossible to describe the bitterness which his recent betray ors and pent& friends display in regard to him now. And welt may they do so; for, in proportion as the foss of hie support restores him to somo of the confidenoo he bad forfeited ? it terribly embarrasses them Mid ho adhered to them, they would have had the existing Govern ment to wield against the Government itself; but now they must inaugurate an attack upon the laws and do Constautian Now, not only to the Executiro, not only io the Lieutenant General of the United States, Winfield Scott, and tho army and navy, and every department of the publio service, civil, judicial, and legislative, arrayed against them, but that irresistible Union senti ment vsbiob, in spite of Secession and Abolition fanaticism, exists in ail true American hearts, sustains, and inspires, and invigorated the Go vernment. Seated in the Senate yesterday, when Jefferson DaPig, Clement C. Clay, R. H. Mallory, David 'Wee, and others gave notice of their intention to withdraw, it was easy to perceive, in the accent and manner of every one of these gentlemen, that they felt the tearful responsibility they were as suming There was no air of triumph in their farewell speeches; no defiance, no threats. Me. Clay spoke with quivering voice and trembling hands, and that gallant soldier, Jefferson Davis, who had faced death on the most desperate battle field in our recent history, seemed overwhelmed by the task before him. The same scene was re enacted in the Rouse, when Alabama reluctantly retired, and when George S. Houston went out from the deliberations in which ho had so long shone, a conspicuous character, grieving in his heart that ho was compelled to follow the example of men be is known to despise, and probably by the time this letter reaches you you will have an account of another performance when the Georgia Representatives conic to surrender up their scale. They go out leaving a Government complete in all Ito details, undisturbed in all its operations, which denies their right to interfere with its legitimate f iti u n n r ct ra o n s 'p a eorhose they insanely regard us their enemies, but by a cloud of regrets, and by volumes of argument which will bo preserved on the im perishable pages of history, proving that they have gone out without a reasonable provocation or pro text. And when they return to their homes, what answer wilt they make with all these feels in the recollection of their constituents? They have cla mored against coercion. None has been at tempted upon them. They will be compelled, if they tell the truth, to bear witness to the forbearance of the friends of the Union ; and when they see their fellow citizens surrounded with bankruptcy, staggering under taxation, toned to do military duty, and the whole framework of Southern society dislocated by the most fearful apprehensions, soul they then advice art attack upon the Government? Will they provoke the power, and the majesty, and the functions of that republic which oven in their wildest moments has treated them like erring children? Will they, following the forlorn example of South Carolina, passively sit down and deprive themselves of all the advantages of the Union; shut out foreign trade, in order to prevent the Government from collecting its revenues; close up thole poet offload and attempt a system of non-intercourse with those great States upon which they are so dependent for the nooessarles of life? Such is the dilemma of ,E . ..k:ptITIVI3 CHAMBER the Disunionists, and such is the attitude of the goverproont of tho United litotes they have Jett behind thew. 4But, while such are the embarrassments wbicb Arround them misguided men, the Republioan party will have its oven troubles. Now, more than ever is that party called upon to not with sagnoity, and with patriotism. The very folly and madness of the conspirators will oreate such a Union feeling in tho South, as the Republicrns, if they aro led by statesmen and patriots, should se lobusly, and on the instant, proceed to cultivate. The Demo. °ratio party in the free States is cull in existence. That party can either capture New York, Penntyl vania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, 'lintels, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, from the Republioans, should they refuse to conduct themseivea like men who appreciate their destiny and their duty, or assist the friends of the Union in the formation of a great Union party, which will not be, confined to any section, but will extend Itself ink) every slave State, Border and Cotton, and inolude the Corn mortwealths on the Paola°, and thus nationalise and oryetalioe an irresistible governing organira. Mon And 'abet else will follow euob a combination of patriotic mon? The return of all the seceding States to the Union at an early day ! It is in vain for humanitarian politicians to attempt what is popularly called ti free republic, to be composed of the non nlaveholding States alone. There are too many social and commercial ties binding the people of the free and slave States together; too many party prejudice.; existing in the minds of hundreds of thousands of men to render such an experiment anything else but a failure. I repeat that, whilst the sets of the Secessionists have planed the Government almost in the hands of the Re• publicans, the obligation of establishing a policy alike conservative and national is stronger now than it has ever been. What a melancholy sight It was to sea Jefferson Davis and his confederates deserting their North ern allies, and leaving them to the tender mercies of the very party which the Seoessionists denounc ed as the worst anemias of the country ! What a compensation for the sacrifices of snob men as Bigler, and Pugh, and Thomson, and Bright, and Fitch ! OCCASIONAL. FORT KBARNS)C, Jan. 22.—1 t was ;very cold here yesterday, the thermometer indicating 14 degrees below zero. There are about Ave inches of snow on the ground The central overland express passed here, for St. Joseph, at half past three o'clock yesterday after noon, with four passengera Dimply., Jan 19.—A quartz mitt has been earn. monced on Cigar creek, to run a hundred stamps by water power. Hurlbut ,k Co.'s six stamp mill, at the Sold Dirt diggings, took out, within a few days over two months, $ll 52.5 9f. Doe sluice on the same lead, in seventeen days, took out $2,236. The times aro said to bo improving in the mines. People are daily starling for San Juan, and as many, or more, returning dtseouraged. INDEPENDENCE, 10 ,Jfirl 22 —The New Mexico mail, in charge of Conductor Benham, with dates to 31st December, arrived hero this evening, bring ing all the book mails duo here up to last Tuesday. The news from the plains is important. About eighteen days ego Mejor Crittenden, with his com mand from Fort Union, cams asra - a a largo band of Kiowa Indians, near the Simrob Springs, and a battle ensued, during which fifty Indians were killed, and among them their notorious chief, Santuek. They burnt up ono hundred of their lodges, and took all their ponles•. and provisions, /n o. None of Mejor Crittenden's command were oven wounded. The 'Weather was pleasant along tho route, until the mall party reached Council Grove, from which point thoy encountered very deep snow. WAMIAUTON, Jan. 22.—The story that Mr. Lin. coin is coming to Washington about tho commence ment of February, anti will be the guest of Senator Trumbull, is not well founded. THE PRESS-PHILADELPHIA, PNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1861. From Plke's Peak From New Mexico. The Yrestdent Elect LAT EST NE W de Island u l i t i ezn y lle t t i g il iter Personal- By Telegraph to The Press, overmans, It I , Jan 22.—The Senate to repealed the " perronal liberty bill" of this i, by a vote of 2i yeaa to A nays. e aubjeat was eternity dimmed in the House, the further consideration of the bill waspost- Oil Thursday. PROM WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to ''The Press." North Carolina. No Attack to be made on Fort Pickens, atmau, Jon. 22.—The prospects of calling a Colonel Cussa, commanding tho Alabama an, e. Convention by the Legislature wore rendered t other Secession troops, who have been threatenin e doubtful to day on account of a disagreement an attack upon Fort Pickens, telegraphed to thl ng the members as to the time of holding it party being for hasty and the other for &Rho- city last night that no atteok would be made ° notion. The Senate has agreed to the 21st of This suspension of hostilities, I learn, was advise by Southern Senators, who telegraphed Colon( r wary ill day for electing delegates, which Crusts to that effect The Inves ru tigating Committee on tio ding. a b c e likely to kill the bill on the third ho bill was debated in the Rouse to-day, but no Stolen Bonds. ion was taken upon it Notwithstanding the great care of the commitTorth Carolina will prove conservative, but not tee appointed to Investigate the stolen bonds of ttubmisaive Everybody will be for seceseion, wen Indian trust fund, some important foots will ootranuy brooms necessary atonally leak cot. It is believed that RuesELL, in • Virginia Legislature. the course of hle examination, (edified that the tainmen, Jan. 22 —The Governor to day ana• first lime he met GODARD BAILEY he woe re , r quested by him to assist him In the negotirronol°oDittatitio to tl i e s e l i at ie u eNs Q lni a rf o the wi coercion am . a r e z z . olt i r u • tion of the bomb of tho celebrated Fornandinu o a he B ays thatg ouch resolutions sent to the stare- Railroad Company of Florida, of which Senatedding States have no other effect than to excite Yut,no, whoyesterday seceded from the Union, foeuim eutm t the principal manager. Secretary THOMPSON w pa int arc w embarrass, Inflame prede n te d s o , fe in a o t re a ar t Ce et d ro a rt ri being madeto adjust the controversy. repeatedly urged by Senator Yue.sz to chase these bonds for the Indian trust fund, tnake to the Governor of Ohio for his refusal to pub suggests the propriety of administering a re always declined. It is not known whether Murrendor Owen Brown and Franois Merriman Bett,ny was the agent of the railread company of the Florida Senator when be made the onweallis, as legatees from justice. The mes ellen demanded hy . the anthonitiee of this Clan. PT D P°! n ago was tabled by a small majority. tion to Mr. Samna, It is said that the teatieu The Senate debated the bill appropriating a ny of RUSSELL. was intended to implicate the lanitlion dollars for the defense of the State, pond- Seoretary of the Interior in the matter of Inwhioh they adjourned, missing bonds, but that gentleman was yesterch Kentucky Legishtture. before the committee, and no doubt aleared hit Loursahhe, Jan. 22.—The House of Repres self of any suspicion as to any complicity wirentativea peered yesterday. by a vote of ST pees ' BAILEY. He will have some trouble, however, to 6 neye, n series of resolutions offered by Mr satisfying the public that he wee not culpabEwingt of Logan county, doclarhsg that, in view of negligent in planing such an important trust the men and money tendered to the General Go• the hands of an irresponsible O %torm ffiStr. people ent by several Northern States, that the of Kentucky, uniting with their brethren Kansas. of the Louth, will resist such an invasion df the Tho amendment to the hill admitting Koos soil of the South at all hazards, and to the last ex which was piaood on it in the Senate, providing ;tromity. • the establlehment of a judicial district. woe effeot Massachusetts Legislature. through the incessant efforts of Senator PITCH, BOSTON, Jan. 31.—The Legislature has inatruct• Indiana, with the aid of Senators BraLan, Puc ad the Committee on Federal Relations to inquire JOHN K. Tnomeon, and Lerneat. The object oft nto the alleged rate of munitions of war in thin amendment in said to be the anxiety of t State, to rebels against the authority of the Fade- Senators from Indiana to induce Mr. BUCHANAN appoint the celebrated Jane PETTIT United Ste e ß o p n e t a a i l a rt i i p o g o m l4 ,,i o i o t fi t committee, a h t o u w r e i s i 1 , Judge for life in the new State of Kentae, prior leave for Washington to•day. the close of his Administration. Judge Donor, i r s a tA i n the nion l Government.P a t o i o f n a resiated this amendment steadily, believlcg lb Seizure or ATMS, Ball, and Powder on the bill should bo put through as it mane from t a Southern Steamier at New ] ark. House. Whether the House will immediately pa muNsiffv Yarn, January 22 —Thirty-eight ewes of muskets, containing two dozen each, together with the amended bill when it comes before them r a quantity of bail and gunpowder. were seized by mains to be seen, bat I should not bo astonished the police on the steamer Illunticellu, which was by the time Messrs Finn and BRIGHT aeked R eboot to sail for Savannah. appointment of PETTIT, the "0. P. F." thou Fifty troopsarrived at Port Hamilton from West have changed his mind, or if, when, his name w Point today` sent to the Senate, a majority ref - treed to onnfie Union Demonstration at Indianapolis. that distinguished jurist Izsmarienoms, Jun. 22 —The hoisting of the Fair Prospect for the Tarim fig from ca 8 the o n dome o ti g o l of tnhde Union Capitol d trwtatlon madein I am disposed to believe nt this moment lb which the entire military and fire departments of our friends may put the Morrill tariff bill throui the oily participated. There ates also a large are to-morrow. They are in high hopes q„ , I sew ., , w eemblage of ladaienszt prominentkerellleilriniomnestr oefolga. ' ' were made by et l• In this dospatelt. liana. The Baty of Helitraylvetnin. Miss Caroline Richiegs sting the " Star Spaogled Banner" with rant effect, and was enthusiast ' Great rejoicing is manifested by the Union tel gaily applauded. in this city this morning, that a conlinission Salutes were fired during the proceedings. about to be appointed by Pennsylvania to meet t Virginia commissioners In title city, 61141 that i Governor PACKaIt has consented to sot as ti Before this commission starts for Washiegton is absolutely essential that the Legislature Pennsylvania should comply with that portion Gov. CURTIN'S meesago, and that part of 0 PACKER'S valedictory, in which the repeal oft laws which, by implication, may be construed interfere with the fugitive•slave law is roan Mended Maryland will Gleet delegates to her State Cr vantion in a few days, and Virginia on Mr.ndt February 4th, and the Union men will be ovt thrown in'beth of these States unless Penneyit nia takes the lead, and carries out the suggestie of CURTIN and Pacuan, and the wishes of great mass of her population. Railroad Officers in Council. There anomie full or pity presidents and ottr officers of various railroad companies of the Soh and West now here, at WILLARD'S, for the purpe of arranging the rate of height, ko., for the a. rent year. These gentlemen aro not politleirs, and, though differing in their political opinics, are, without an exception, for the Union, and foe settlement of existing diffmulties upon a fair and notable basis, being willing to take either the Ct.- tendon propositions or those of the Border State. They declare that this is the sentiment of the pc. pie of their different sections, and representing, A they do, immense interests, their declaration entitled to great weight. I learn from one of their number, who has corresponded with the presi dents of all the roads in the country, that, with the exception of South Carolina, the railroad Tan and diterMiliod-e1;"471f7A Atratiati," the lj"'"' Thomas F. Bayard, Esq., of Deltnittirm The president tendered to this gentleman, the gifted son of'Benatorlisvenn, the - important post of assistant Secretary of State, lately vacated by Mr. TRRSCOTT, of South Carolina, ritilch he de.- alined with thanks. A Now System of Removals from Office, At last the right test is to be applied to men holding °Mae under the 'Administration. Bente. fore they were compelled to do wrong, and many a good fellow lost his hoed because he would not atp port Lecompton, the English bill, or oppose Julge Doutmss ; but now, Under the bold load of Sox. TON and .11ovr, every 'oface•holder of the Fedwal Government who negate the Disualonlsts will live an opportunity of walking out with his head miler his arm. The terror of the placeman in this city, who believed that the 0. I'. F. intended standing by the Secessionists, is inexpressible, aud it is as. toniehing how much they are becoming attamed to the Union as it is. Like the suspected atti-Le oompton Democrats, two years ago, they mein the habit, every morning when they awake, of slrivg to see if their heath aro atilt on their shedders. Troops in Washington. We will have Plenty of potted States troop hero on the fourth of March. General Soon; a pro. riding for all emergencies that may posaiby turn up. There will be here three companion et - light Artillery; two companies of light drcgoorr ; and aounianica of infantry ; melange total 1 about eight hundred men. Other troops are statitted in the vicinity; EOl3lO are in Fort Washington, below Alexandria, others in Fort McHenry, near Balti more. Thus it will be seen that there is no sores. ally for any Northern company or emulation coming hero on the fourth of March withorms. Our citizens would be exceedingly sorry f trou bles, through a foolish display of courage or, in some saxes, of fear, should subject them and their property to the horrors of a sectional kit, and make their quiet city the theatre of bloofted nod rapine. Ae Virginia and Maryland will not go out of the Tinton, at least not before the foarth of March, nothing of any hind Vflit occur tint will mar the peaceful inauguration of Mr. Lxconx. Therefore, keep your inatrumonts of war st home. Without them, you will ho welcome to out Wash ington ()Bisons, provided you bring a good supply of the'" needful " with you. Miscellaneous. The Navy Department has revoked theteaigna• tion of Commander KiItUAND, who was attached to the Pensacola navy yard, and among those who, in the name of Florida, demanded its au:sender; and also that of Lieutenant Itatonaw, Silo gave orders to haul down the flag of the linter. Them resignations were accepted before it woe known to the department what part they had acted in this prmeßding. Lieutenant liaaratereit, %rho k ae attopled to the United Bfates steamer Wyandotte, which io in that vicinity, bas oleo forwarded his relignation, which has boon accepted. The Georgia Conventior Mthr,xnetavtrAm, Go , Jan. 22.—A number of resolutions were dieted and adopted isiho eon• 'Motion to-day ; one appointing a committb of six teen to report on the power of the Convention to reduce the number of members of the Legislature; another declaring that Georgia will demand her chore of the pablio property; another pledging the State to pay the carriers for the transportation of the mails in future; and another instructing a committee to report an ordinance authorizing a copnoll of Safety. Six dottgaths entered their protest against the ordinance of secessiept, but pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their aaored honor, in defence of Georgia againat coercion or invasion, An ordinance was Introduced declaring all white persons In the State at the time of the adopticp of the ordinance of scoeccion citisons of the State, without regard to their nativity or the length of their residence in the State. It was referred to the appropriate committee. A Long letter was presented from the postmaster at Savannah, detailing the evils that will roault from a change in the present condition of postal affairs. Referred. An ordinance was adopted providing for the exe cution of sit sentences panned by the Federal courts, and the execution of all prcoetses itaned by tho same courts, and for the preservation of the indictments. An ordinance was introduced continuing in loran all Federal laws in reference to the African slave tradp. was made tho special order for to morrow, and will be almost'unanimously passed. Wm. J. Vanco was appointed commissioner to LUClißialn, and General Sandford commissioner to Texas. The proceedings to day were interesting. The gallery was open to visitors. Ala banut Convention. MONTGOMERY, Ala , Jan. 22.—The State Con vention today adopted resolutions recalling the representatives of Alabama in Congress, and au thorizing the Governor to appoint commissioners to Washington. Boqonptiolt Memorial. Bostroir, Jan. 22 —The following Is the commit• tee chosen to bear the Union petition to thmgress : Edward Everett, chairman; Robert C. Winthrop, Lemuel Chow, Edward S Tolley, Amos A. Law. ranee, and Charles L Woodbury. The committee will start for Washington to-morrow. The Condition of the United States TienliliTy. IMPORTANT REPORT OF SECRETARY OIX--TWENTY MILLIONS MORE WANTED PRIOR TO JULY 1 \Vietnam:l, Jan. 22.—Sooretary Llg today communicated to the noun of Representatives an important document, lb reply to the resolution of Mr. Sherman, chairman of the "Committee on Ways and Means. It gives, first, the amount of the publio debt end a detailed description of the different kinds of debt Second. The amount of the floating debt and a detailed desoriptalt thereof, and • the unpaid balances and 01,11Ittre Third. The amount of the acceptances and other acknowledgments of debit by the different de.. partmonte of the Government: Fourth. The Dab oonnepte4 pith the regent Bala of Treasury nowt: , Fifth. The amount rtquired to pay the public dues, accruing prior to the first of July next, and in this connection the estimated amount of the revenue, from dutita on imports, public, lands, and miscellaneous sourcee, up to that date. He estimates the amount necessary, prior to July lat next, in addition to the accruing revenue, at twenty million dollars slue then enggests IIIetiBUICEI to raise this money, and, among other ways, refers to the surplus re venuee deposited with the States in 1836 as a spa tido fund, 17111011 might bo pledged or recalled. The communioation shows the precise condittin z 'vetsury at this lime. 'imports from , ersissflold. Comae° caa. deat of the Tribune says rits'iPlieht_correspen inerober of Congress from the Fourth district of this State, arrived at Springfield yesterday. Itc-! mar &algae to hfe crash:in 'three odjeCts. that be has bomb to urge upon Mr. Lincoln his im• mediatedeparture for Washington ; another, that he is commissioned by the Republitian delegation to Congress to present to the State Legislature the necessity cf endorsing the Border State resolution ; and the third, that Ire has come to make a joint effort to prevent 4r Judd's appointment to the Cabinet Borate Greeley, Governor Banks, and Mr. Bates are expeeted at Springfield this week. Gentlemen who arrived hero this morning from Springfield state that there is but little doubt that the .l,eg'claturo will break up tomorrow, by the resignation of the Dcmoeratio member The Con. rention bill has parsed the Senate, and will prob ably pass the House tomorrow. Tho Trial of Jacka low. TIMNTON, Jan. 22 —Eleven witnesses were ex amined in the JElCkislOW ones to-day on the part at the prosecution. They proved the foots connected with the running into the Spray by the Lucinda; the prisoner's refusal to let any ono on deck, threatening to out them with a hatchet ; the pink ing up of Jukelow by Captain Webb; the tracing of tho prisoner to New York, where he applied for lodgings, and secreted himself in a cellar; that he gave two ditforent names; when at Egg Harbor, the I riaoner told the same story as to the where abouts of Captain Leet and his brother ; that ho bought In Brooklyn a barrel of flour, soap, match es, end brooms, and in New York two coils of rope. The Uorernment has thus far examined seventeen witnesses, one-half the number 'eubpemaed, The jury is under the direction of officers, and the members aro boarded and lodged at a hotel. Accident at the Capitol. FALLING O} A DERRICK-SEVERAL ESN INJURED WesnlNo•rov, Jan 22.—While a derrick was in use, this morning, on the dome of the Capitol, the main shaft broke, and the falling timber install ally damaged a portion of the cornice of the iron dome Several workmen wore lejured, and one of thole severely. Accident on the Rutland (Vt.) Railroad A BRIDGE BROKEN-FIVE CATTLE CARS IN THE BCbLOWS FALLS, Vt , Jan 22 —Tho cattle train on the Rutland Railroad broke through the bridge near this place to day, and Ove pf the oars were thrown' into 'the river. Many Oattio and sheep were killed. No person was glut. Expected Imtnigration to Ct;ui;da. ''PRONTO, Jan. --:lllayor Powers, in his speed' to the City Councils, stated that large accesaions to the population might soon be exneoted, on rio count of the present trouble in the Dotted States. lie recommended the policy of especially favoring ouch emigration. Convle,tion of Express Robbers. Barnaxponr, Conn., Jan. 22,—The three rob ber!' of Adams' Express were sentenced to day eaoh to undergo an imprisonment of five yoara In State penitentiary—betng the full extent of the law. Marine Disaster Donor, Jen 22 —Tho ship Hartley, from New Orleans, for 13oeton, whibh wont' ishereon the loth tilt. at iSandY flay, wee 'burned un the lad. Fif teen hundred bales of aotton were saved. Walnut-street Theatre The career of Mr. Charles Gayler's new piece, "The American Cousin at Rome," continues to bo brilliently successful. We use the phrase in its modern and MOM approved acceptation, viz : that of attracting crowded audiences, tilling pockets Managerial and artistic, and convulsing the audi• tors with laughter, from the rise of the curtain, on the first act, to its fall, on tho third We were about to call this production a comedy, but it is not; for in ouch works there must be a ,reservation of unities and propriety of style of composition, to bring them strictly within the nommmlature ; but " Our American Cousin at Roma " is a three•aot farce of• the broadest and irresistibly mirth•pro soking description, setting all rules and prece dents at detlanoe—a piece comparatively without a plot, yet with materials °rough for the making of half a dozen comedies, and jokes good, bad, and indifferent sufficient for a acorn of faroos. Mr. Sothern's double porsonation of Lord Dun dreary and his younger brother, Sam, is convin cing proof of his being, to our thinking, the best eccentric light-comedian on the American stage, and le is evidently bent on becoming to it what Mr. Robson is to that of England—an incompre hensible mixture of broad humor, keen satire, and simple pathos. Mr. Gaylor is as much in debted to him in this piece as was Mr. Tom Taylor in the original "American Cousin;" for in that Lord Dundreary was a mare sketchy outline of corns sixteen Hues, which be filled up, bit by bit, until it stood out in bold roller a fluishod portrait—grotesque, if you please—but still ono that attraoted the attention of everybody, and rivalled—nay, excelled—that of the hero of the play Mr. þ has adopted the same course with the new Lord Dundreary, which is his own creation, and with it given as a companion picture, in the younger brother, his direct opposite in every respsot, and yot equally a family portrait. Thoro to no doubt but that, if managerial arrangements will permit, this piece will run for a month or Ell; weeks to come, and continuo to fill the house. Mrs. Cowoll plays Susan Trenchard admirably, and Miss Price Is not only pleasing, but very excellent, as her friend and school-fellow, while Kemple is immense as the pompous butler, Binney. Mr. CO' • AX replied in the affirmative. Mr I) e WeS thongat the bet wee of so much im por,ance that it Mooted not be thus forced through the House. Mr. JOHN COOP RAN E, Or New York. rased tne War itixemoN, Jan, 22, 1681. questron as to whether the laws can be thus oonstau SENATE. ttenelly eu•pended r hi• was a g as.° Inquiry. Wan it, Mr SEWARD. of New York, presented the petition as Mr. Colt .x rod stated, amno ao of peace or the of F. C. De seen of Albeit". auegestine the appoint- piece of a Inmeure. (Leo seer 3 meet of .unsays in mote of edtrl to prevent the nu- Mr. COLE A X repeated that. i view of a revolution, portalion of deleteriorie liquors the medal time cured nut co executed No coercion Also, the memorial of 746 citizens of New York dry, wee proposed. on the state of the country. 111 r SIM V e NS. of : ennsylvinia proposed a subset- Also. another memorial. signed be 18,000 citizens of tute, authormene the President. when he may deem in New York. on the earn- subleet Laid on the mete. near teary. to su•petes ail leers and arts of laws eatab- Mle SA 111 SHUR V• of I climate. ;lamented the reek- licking ports of entry and colection districts in eouili lutions of the Leg 'stature. enrollee ite Representatives Carolina Flonde. Alah sma, and m Mesh ppi. or any am senators to use their best ideate for the paboare of other State that hay now or new hereafter secede, or the Crittenden resolutrons,. r semi , other meers for the be in rebellion against the United ewe,. preservation of the Union. Ordered to be printed Teo bill turtle, requites that the President shell con- Mr. BIGLER, of Permselvania. presented petitions time such sespeneion of lawn, tie mac h z , tetee eha il ee , asking for the passage of the Crittenden resolutions; torn to their my nee to the United States. 'I he President also, the proceed tugs of Certain meetings in Penned- shall give notioe of this suspension by proclamation to Yam commence ten days otter the deuethereof bonne this Mr. Fl Toll ,of Indiana, moved that the Vice Pron. Iserpension it shell not be tawful her any vessel except dent be authorized to fill the vacancies in the comma- such as may belong to the United • totes, to en er or tees. I l eav e any such prate of the United States for foreign The VICE, PRESIDF NT said that there was no re-', ports or coastwise II any vessel shall be Mond vu,- oord on the journal of the absence of tiny !senators. and : Wine this act such vessel or cargo shell be forfetted— he had no anticipation of the feet. and their names one-half to the captors and the other to the United were etill oared on the roll. He would like the Senate I States—to be tried before any admiralty curt having to instruct hint as to whether he should recognize their jurisdiction. absence. The President shall also suspend all lams eetablightne Mr. FITCH 'suggested that there were vacancies on , post offices and poet route, re the seceding States, and the committees, and the chasm en of the committees ' the merle shell be carried only to the lines of mush might report their absence so far as the committees are States, except where it is necessary to pass through coreerned. thorn to' reach a loyal State ; and the mare shall net be Mr. HALE, of New Hampshire, thought that was the l opened in a rebellious State ;and further, that the Pre prove r Ware I ardent have power to use the army and navy for the ex- Mr. DOUGLAS. of Illinois, said that there seemed to edition of the lawn. be no trouble about it. We have been notified that sea- , The consideration of the bill wee postponed till Tture tale Senators have retired, and do not intend to be here , day week scan this session, • 0000. there era vac:motes Their 1 The Bongo resumed the consideration of the report takine leave has nothing to do with the question rehe- I °Mho Committee ot 'Celery three. tb a r the States are out of the Union or not. . Mr. BINGHAM of Ohio, mud he would not withheld Mr. TRUMBUL I . of Illinois, thought nix colleague 1 his support from env Just legislation lateral looks to the was rieht, tut he thought their names should be stricken : euvreeraoy 01 the lawn, but It would be in men to an from the toll, and they should be considered eenaiors I cleaver to trove the• onsteution by a sacrifice of its no logger. principles wbiele underlie and constant e its vitality Mr. w I LFON. of Massachusetts, said that he did not We. with trallteee, hove stood by the Constitution as it to de rstand these remote to have resigned. but the Se- I is. with its blessed mho , meat of the present, and the Ireton. from south Carolina had metered. He mould te- cherished hoses of the retiree. With upiifted hand he cognize the fact heat these Senaterrewere temporarily stood here to deny that any elate ran by any applies - co absent. but considered them as members of the Senate rightfully separate one portion of the country from the yet. rest. or sever the mirious ties which bind t gether t, e hie. SA ULSI3 URY, of Delaware, asked if the Pena-' Republic. We have but one Constitution, and he de tore should come back, could any terser prevent their , n ed that any 1 . tateo eon strike down the Unity of the voting? (love. nment which constitutes ne one People. He de- Mr. Be NJ rille IN, of Louisiana, thought it strange Fried, to the name of the r merictu parade, that nor th rt there should be any question as to the fact. It was Stare can let loess the demon of d ermine, to breathe a fart that the States had seceded, He thoaght that at 1 discord and death and tot olio's our hearths and altars mast the journal should record the fact that the rend- . with fratracidal blood In view of the Immures ot the tors had declared that their States had seceded, and had ' forts and arsenals, and oilier lawless in ease res. It ii 3 the withdrawn.duty of Co. cress tO strengthen me Executive arm. to Mr. fr re SENDEN. of Maine. asked if Senators could I enable him to summon ate people to the medic awn of remain alter their States had seceded ? the °allayed Constitution end laws. Mr. BEINjAw IN. Clearly not, in my opinion. Mr. Bingham refuted the idea of a conatausional Me SEWARD said it would be doing a discourtesy . right of secession or revolution. and eddied at the If we put the feet ou the record without putting the I assertion of Memnon as no peaceful remedy, the exer • reasons of the Senators , . But he was entirely opposed cite ol which destror a the milts of thirty-one millions. to making any entry of this transaction, and thought ,er could net be peaceable when it blots a great nation that the lead said the soonest 'needed. f bin for May- ; trien tire may ol nations You might as well talk to him ing these Bette for those Senators or other Senators oi a peaceable earthquake, welch envelopes cares in a from the Buttes to resume them in their own good time. common ruin; you might an well talk of a peaceful I hope the time will not be long before they will be t re- storm. which filled. heavera with darkness, desolation, awned. If the records are only for the instruction of i and death. He ermolueed by arguing that ewes have posterity, the failing to record this transaction will he 1 ne OonatitetiOnal rieht to secede. nee said that they pp,- a breach or Olnlitlioll more I onored than the ob- • Brae no inherent rights at all The people treys nor:muse servants. . throw snorer OS Which jus , illes a revolution, and rim neer- Mr PESSENDEN said that be held most deurdedie 1 thr''"'f she Constitution ns the Entirei, o iaw i 0 the land. Our duty is not to amend Ila to maretam and me that no. tate has the right to secede; consequently, these 1 hold the Conctitution ; and on this bests he would state atees of withdrawal have 110 constitutional right ; butthe • fact re they did rearms, no matter whether we consider I !het lie opposed the measures recommended by the tee the reneons valet or not. sorely of, the committee. aril would Lot vote for the ad 51r. HUNTER said he did not understand they had mime on nto the Union of new Mexico until she reveres resieted. and did not belie , . e that resignewes coma be I the mmieteleee code, whielt omelet bring the Muth to merle unless in writing. He thou,ght these Senators 1 the cheek of Cahoots. Be , "nid not old in leaking this sub,ect to the call of the Senate and the process of the . a slave Government He wished to ventral Were on an i Sergeant-at-Arms; and the only reasons he could give j to re eepture the forts and other public property, and r e for excusing them was because their steal had with• 1 a p ee m e d t o th e people to uphold the Coestiteriou. &awe • but the Ssenate could fitl the emanate.. and of I Par. CL eioNS. of Virginia, would speak ae West. thought th e qu e s t ion w o uld gow n up on a q u es ti on o f ern al weiniamidentified by terth. etematrott. romeenee, quorum.. and allestron, with the email Slimy of those who In- Mr BENJAMIN moved that the journal be correct I augurated the present revolution my eat wan upuftell ed, and record the feet Mat the Senators from Ali:Warne, ' horde against the effusion of blood It was the inven- Florida, and Mississippi announced that their Staten ' tor of the guillotine who was its first violin, and the had seceded, and 'rammed the powers delegated to the 1 day is not distant when they will rely en the magna- General Government, and withdrew. . ninear of the people they dave outraged. Before God. Mr. DOUGLAS moved to amend the motion, and in- . he believed that AIM) will 1.0 credited it this on ion that Meseta Yulee, Mallory. and ethers au- • 1"M e ntroversy ends in dissolution of the Unica.. trounced that they were no longer members of the body, I if not crucified, it will carry the death rattle in its and wahniew, and that their names be stricken from . throat. Ile might be a timid man, and afraid to take up the eel . i arms in his own defence. but it remained to be teen s Mr HUNTER was opposed to this. He thouget that . however. whether treason can be eerriea On. 'I here striking the names Hem the roll would be recognizing , WAS stilt a toliVeand holy minority in te,e grave !shawl; that the States had weeded j Lazarus is not dead but eleepeth." tl he atone may Air. SEWARD reeved to lay the whole subbed, on the I be rolled away, end we hate ail the Atones of a new table. Withdrawn temperate,. resurrection We live in an ace of political Mr. BENJ AMIN argued that, as the entering Senators paradoxes, Oar breed. expansive lands have had stated the foot that their States had seceded, t ,necialee. a dmease• Patraotron is a poor starve , elloUld be put on the journal. The arnouncement wag Mag, or the stroesineu of the oeuntry moat be officially made and the Hsnatore withdrew,Those ere like. the blind horse in the bark-mill, obeying the Wrap two foots, and they should go On the recor , . They did of perverted pubeo opinion. He lama stand in the Se ries resign formally, but withdrew in consequence of nate and glory in beings rebel and a traitor. He meat ermeaelen. declare the death of the Union, and. like en undertakes. ' Mr. DOUGLAS said that the fact was that several invite the people to the funeral. Re can take en earls Senators 'withdrew, slid gave eel teen teatime Some of to au evert the nonatitutiou. bet ai the same time enter the rearms he thought not true, and it wee not proper mica convents'y . to eve. threw the Government Ile to put all the reasons on the record . We could recce- onn advise the aereure of forts. ersenals, navy yards, urea the fact of withdrawal without endorsing the rea- eteetera. earthen find a convenient retreat in State sons. aushoray. It has beer ea - d. before we were ' muting Mr. H LINTER sod that nothing should he put upon and talking in our mother's arms, r that there lived en the journals, lea what wee pre/exited for the mitten , f &eon re 'Delve) eel by the name ot George Waeoneton, the resume, and there was no aetionthed en this wale who became eminent by perpetrating a Jobe of 'Pena.. travel, ' t inetnent, to the effect that "we should properly spore ' MrellEft.l AMIN read from am Globe to show that the crate and cherlah an attachment to the I mon, and in- Senators hid stated ea them tension thetehe t tame had dienentle frowndreens any attempt .-..) alienate one not withdrawn from the Union. That was the only r e a t ern Lion Dom the ree and raParate the ties whieh bind given, and bethought the mot ehould be reeereed o n t he them tort ether" lie referred to the ultras, North and journals of the Senate. eolith, who have cordially shaken hat de in their Me ier pl' WARD renewed file motion, and thought that union nlevemer to Like the ox. decorated with the the question Would come up at the proper time He had garlands of sacrifice. the Lemon was to be led te the DU wish to etit 01:1 the debate. Aerate to—yeas 33, nays death. They wore knights of a now crowds—the Con_ 22—Mer ere. Gwinn, Latham. Saulsbury, Bigler, and Mara= is the s .notified Jerusalem egaiust which the Johns n, of Tennessee, voting with tne Republe colior ware arrayed These are Stale right. forsooth! cans. While . outh Carolina declare.] for State rights. to pre -Ihe Chair announced as the unfiniehed business the serve slavery. the Northern mate-tights men—the ra- Crittenden reso 'aeons • toil I , boliliouists—declare for State riebte to overthroW Sir. POW b LL, of Kentucky, proceeded so speak at • altivarT• length. 110 alluded to the Mot that he had advocated He asked no favors for the South, lut dein traded that every measure (Inoculated to remove the difficult es and justice On 7 winch enrolee from honest magnamemty. argued that a thereon of the Territories, es'ipme_osed lie North Carolina. where first prectatmed inde.panaence, hie colleague. Was Just and equitable to all The ter- and Virginia. which gave birth to it, We both slued to tames were acquired by all the States, and ey the Mai Erichuse tts..Fle believed there ts et engem a patriot proposed uivisi on the North would get nearly four tines ism which wilt rave a coentry whose clery belongs to the quantity that the eolith would, and ten times the us all. Wel sail be appealed to to step forward and value. He thought it eminently proper that the sett e- meet us in a writ which made sour fathers inmate:are meat should apply to all future acquisition, so as to take and not shut Mit every acoese to sympathy ? the qu stion forever from the hal sof Congress. He Mr. element' proceeded so show that the irreversible oonteude a that it wt ti din noway encourage fit buster- Inv of population goven s the etiesiton. It was pope ine, for tersitory could not to immured in see n a way. ),'ion and capital, that the e inten verve. not tertitory. He said that the objection that it erase:tilted slavery He could chow that there most be an are preamble con eras not well taken. (het In a -outbern Confederacy. for there will be a recognize claimed that the Constitution did reeogzs I horned head to map the terns of power. He showed slavers'. and at the trme of the formation of the G- 0 _ 1 that the object of much an 00tanination we, to reopen verhumnt slaver} Was recognized everywbere in the' the African slave tea e. for s negro could be purchssed civilized world He claimed else, that Congress, op loon ibe coast of e Inca ter one hundred dollen. and be m a n y remai n ne, recognized th e i t editeti ne o f s e em " linked into shape by the blessinse of Christian eivmlmza-I the wording of [mark% end id various other ways. lion while to buy a slave in slims country in tee slave south le tnoweet tratee wag netriee,l of nil/omen the duty of inert ens a sixteen bundled dollars. Supp see the Olf-p Meehan. It was the plain duty of every hover.- does nuts et the equality she claims in a Southern Con atent The Mouth claimed to were than her right. For iedereey• whet thera the gee- of peace, and to atomic the institutions of Thre is a problem to b' ciphered out hereafter. He our father• to oar posterity. we were twilling to yield showed that the South, out of the 'Union, WOlll4 never far More than was rtsht, and Yet this peruse offset, g be able to serum any terr tory. not Orel{ go notch no he seemed to be spurned. He was in favor of the amend- could hold in time hand. and alluded re tome of remota- Ment to suppress the slave trade forever, and the iron o the outh sending commute! ere to It crepe to amendment requiting the See es to thieves up teethesea ettect ottenatve and defensive altrances teeniest their from justice. and was also in favor of Preventing all brothers. me lane sage and lineage Bet, in the midraeof invasions of Mates, all these troubles he trusted that we were hrotherrein If tho s e thinge are fair. why not put them in the affection still. I- e rend from a l•iter of John Menthe Cosetautton so that they m.y be bey end the reach of i the land }irate. dated in int. o a now Borth cable to tee all sectional' mojorities ? He referred briefly to the In ma noire subs.ance of which wee the atiranc up of other proposed emeenmenta, especially to the one de- the Macke to incur ection, well heepti g a dessolutron et ny nig the eight of mallerge to colored persons. It eerie- the Union steadily in va w. tore are evilest negro equality, why are they not will 1 Mr. AVE le, of Tennessee. interruptine said that Morals hod served out his time in floe penitentiary for ing to pat this amendment in the Constitution 1 He 1 be :Geed that this was a Government specially deepened I ste alin g • • for the white seen He said the eensaor from Ohio 1 Mr CL LAMM; resumed, and in a further &seas- Sinn of the I with, hire s Crestederacy si. th rt. il I Mr. Wade) had asked what the charges of the' South South should take the Constitution of the Emoted States were. lie would repeat a few of them. One Was, let ' es a proviSioneal form cr Otiverniner t, the Cotton bends are organized in the free Staten to steal the P 0-1 pertyto. the South. . • • elates will hays the leetalative pow- r over the border 'M ' r. WADE mod for proof. He said he did not bo- I et aces. w bear will be bound hand and font to a policy hems a word ofit. ' , lal °penitent, iia they ever wore tnder our Coestaution. j 'Mr. PuW ELL said the feet of, the exiteenoe of the I ithelet 4 ed fifty "Ines tdrlicrerwastrellwili 'Farewell )(Moms. He read 5 les- ! Sea mai gentlemen moved that Mr. Clemens have I ha se Melt he Meeker of the e'rem- Euft_OPio,( ler. Cox.) . leave to continue Ma regimes beyond the one hour al- had three earned all into hie State. If these etereesteat, tek u .E'2 l Inc dehata ' end taken pinee in a foreign country. they would have rem tam,A,4•44,_ ofVirginia. excitedly expressed a eaused Immediate war. The pereonaleiberty bille were tine° his trattorouitefielfeehl sac he arlowed to M elee anotner cause for camerae:a. Such belle were in . Loud calla te order were made anrd - museeme...—_:—._ clear mola ton of the Constitution. 1 which, honever soon subsided. Mr. WADE emu he wanted some epenifin charge I Ste. WASHBURN, of Wimmesin. of the minority Committee of 'I htrty three, Advocated the adoption of Against Ohio, so he could answer it. He was tired of 1 hearing stroll eeneral allergist. 1 the r e port medo lay himself, that the Constitution is Mr. P .ELT.itV said the Governor of Ohio had refused t ample (oh tnd ereieroatron of the Union. and the pm to &liver up a fugitive from Justice. He aleo reierree 1 teetlon of all the material Interests. of the country, and 0 the ape eh .1 the colleague (Mr. Pugh / otethe Sense • that it nerds to be obeyed rather than amended. He ter. The Republioans elected their candidate on a 1 nave reasone why he ellon!' host Into the South. and bad elected a p rem . I the majority as hot being c Isposed to subject the empire dont who had depleted that he would not vote to edmmt I of the DWI th to further contempt. He said the plain quest -5 slave State, notwithatandeng the defers= of the tu- i ten was, and it Would have to ben et, whether they ammo Court. I s all give a slavery guarantee in the Coneritntion. Ho Sir TRUMBULL said that was directly the reverse I was opposed to the admission of New Memee. and of what err. Lincoln bed said. would not oonsent to bring two more slave-r tate Pena- Mr POWEeL said lie would examine, and. if his Wee I Wm into Congress. He wooer' noevote for the admission wrong. wood strike out that portion alias speech. Ile , cf a slave etas.e. If Now Mexico was even to present had no delete to do injurstiee. ! Sousse with &floe-State Constitution, stellar would be Air. BIGLER, of renneylvania, said Mr. Li m men I amples not remoras. she haa nonhe necessary popula had said that he would vote against ati o w leg ee e tte e ee e i , t ion—he ability t.. smartie ovenn the Territortee. j But (me thing he desired to Dumas on the minis of Mr. PoW HIT, That arnour ted to the same thing. . all, and that woe, that a the Unman was once dissolved fir retvennuta, reed. in answer to these ()bargee, I they ;night look in vain fir as recoastruction on any the sentare of Mr. Lineoln. " Ido not now, nor neverl seen tome se a now manes upeit. If reconstructed the did stand pledged against the admission of slave States . North will fix the terms of recoestruotion, and will in- Into the Union." . net that temp who now remade shall collie into a new Mr. POWELL thought that if we would not let s e a - '!plop. if tire) , come at dll, on terms of equality with us. very go into the Territorial, we could have pa more But, said he. if disunion come whether it c' the . 'l,,y .1,, mete .. He said, it there ,. to b e anyt h ing " es peaceable ISPC.B.IOII or through fire and blood met coed to save the Union,a must come frem the Republican war, we shall have this ounsolation. that when tie con flict is over, those who mimeo it will be what they eh e. Ho woula net discuss the tight of stecession, for 1 WO are Burt (mailed with Mote, and a is with them that try neve n r have been—namely, tee iehabitants of a free cou. we meet deal lie did not believe ureter the Comeau- I Gun we had any right to make war on a seceding •tate. 1 In conclumen, yo said that whatever may come of the present event§ he had an abiding faith that Prom t was madness to attempt to ;reserve the Union by 1 force, for war ware dissolution. er e thought these ream. dance would overrule it toe the good and welfare of lutione just and satisfactory, but he would not speak foe naives a id l 'e m° ° l-1 evenrw her°' Kentucky . . She would meet the reds, and, 'whatever era' Rouen then adjourned her decision, he, Its a loyal son weuel dee her bigit behests. t Mr. WADE, of Oleo, roue that the Senator from Vir meld i Me. Mason) had n stated that Ohio had refused to repeal her personal-liberty law. He (Mr. Wade/ did not believe that Ohio had any law which wan eneenati tutional. He thousla that the Senator from Virginia was mistaken. A law was framed last yesr to give further security to fee people, and when acms up this year was postponed. That was a mretake of the Senator. 'the law Was (testate opposite to what ho SUS peeled. Mr. MASON said that he saw a report that the House of Representatives of Ohio had refused to repeal the law under wheat the Untied States meraliale had been imprieened. air. WADE mud that the only law in Ohio was copied almost entirely frosu this law in Virginia. and tomb Maw ought not to be repealed He said tont he saw no loam to compromise with any body. There ierno organization In Oleo to interline with the laws. He did not doubt that there were enrages of slaves but he dented that there wan an. rganizett company for such werpOses. Mr. MASON said that tiro Governor of Virginia made a demand on the Governor ol• Ohio to surrender a fugi tive whothed committed murder and erten In Virginia, and the Governor of Oldie reflood to deliver lino.' 116 woe ono of John Brown e onmeatiy. •Mr. WADE said thee Mathes yefesal was not toothier to tilde. It was a termed mention everywhere. In re • ler (Mee to the cage inßenter:lkm the Governor , f Ohio time ills pleentletit front the b taverner of Kentucky. Mt. tedei Els,e tare that he wee not aware of such a mop in Keutuoky. The Governor could not have re fused on the ground that kidnapping wait not an offerors m RentuolT si if the Governor did refuse lie did wrong. Mr. DOC LA said that he had traced mine of these OS tee. and o mil them common to ad Mate. 'I ke first one was in 1791. when the Governor of Vireinia refused to delivers up a fugitive to Poems termite 'I he Governor of eenesylvaniasent the pap-re to General Wadunesee, then President and he sent them LI) the berate Since than there find horn various eases be he did not think that they coulJ form the • übjeot or complaint now Mr. MASON said that the case in Virginia ocourred before the promise of the laws respecting the delivery of tux i twee by Congress. But If Senators think that the eon tutnely. Injury, and insult heaped on the slavehold • ins States for the last twenty seers ere to be appeesed by a claim to go book to the ft et wrong, let theta Dave the benefit of the tenement, but It sill sot affect time present bill of indictment. St he history of the bonnier showd the wrongs that the slaveholding States hoe received and they will demo - nine for theineelf es whether there Interest and Befell' 'Will reata t t tbent to remain In the Union fdreDOUGLAS reed that he simply wielied to show that the eonstruotion of the law referred to was not a clear oasis of violation by the Northern Mateo. Mr. WA US said teat all the complaints age rest Ohio came back to one thing. 1 hey say that all attempts to save the Union must COMO [tom us. You, Who seek to overturn the Constaution—who gay you are re trout to rebel and wage war, should give some specification wherein we have offended. Mr. MASON explained that the case in Virginia oc curred before there was any law of the United elates on the ruteeet. and the opinion of the Ate may Gene ral of Virginia wee based on the feet that there was no law authorizing the arrest of a fugitive, Adjourned, 36T11 CONGRESS----SECOND SESSION• HOWIE OF REPREBENTATIM Mr. WHITELEY, of Delaware, presented the reso lutions of the Delaware Legiala ure, urging the adop tion of the Crittenden corderomme. r. HARRIS. of Maryland, enve notice that hewould movie the resiguliy no from the Homer Mate Comm nee as en amendment to the proposition reported from the Committee on tarty-three. fie then presented memo rials from 1700 citizens of Merit nd, vePtesenflpg every district and maims, in favor of Hie flordcr Mato resolutions. Mr riL,FAX of Indienn, from 11 , 10 Committee on f. it Offices aid Donde reed ti b. ok the bit . au thorizing the Vostrpaster deneral to suspend the ninth e iage i n n s . t a n s s e e c eVr i a n l g on t i e e E k The;en gill go n n a tg l i o o w n s the Mu, es district attorneys, and marshals, OoMMlvelen ed y the United Crater. have 'resigned their offices, and it appears impmeticable in oonsequence of the re vole bribery proceedings therm, to fi.l the vacancies thee created And. IV her efis, The Government of the United Statee is thus without any means at cidlootiog or onforoolg in tutee the payment of the postal revenuer; troM the offices collecting the same, or of punishing v i ola tons of the postal laws. committed by robberies of the mail or other% ise. or of enforcing the verformance of mail contracts Therefore. Be it enacted, etc., That in all F rates which are, or may hereafter be, stunted as above, the Pestmastee General is hereby direoted to cl , econttnue the postal amours for such period of time as in his Judgment the public, interests require, and shall report nie notion to Congress. r. COLFAX said ho Would not have introduced this bill if the pectoral co a rts had remained intact I but now persons may open th emails and rifle them, and t ere is no means by t may be Nought to Justice. If the postmasters reface to pay the drafts given to the contractm the latter can hole Congress respenrible. Ther °lore it becomes the imperative out, of the tio vernment to discontinue the mail service Where there IS no memo , of protecting it. Mr. BRANCH, of North Ca•O ltd, wished to offer a substitute covering snore ground than is proposed by tie bid before the House. The President has oomph nioated to Congress that owing to the • xistma o. Sill two of a Miura the lave cannot be enforced in South Ca rolina. That message IS 110V1 before the voted Com mittee, and some notion Will have to be taken in retard tort. Mr. Brandeis substitute 'y read. It provides,. namely t To the end, pi' SeITIOVIDIS all can o for el`Dg force, and preventing the brealcing out of civil war, pending the deliberations of Congress in the existing oriels of Feline affairs. that all laws of the United States be. and aro hereby suspended until the let of January. 1662, in and over these Slides , which have heietolol'o, or May WOVIOOFI to the Bald time, adopt the ordinance of sc.:lemon. Mr. COLFAX, of Indiana, could not accept the Bob etude. Mr. DAWES, offtlassachrgetta, inqutiod whether it was the intention of Me. tinder to move the Passage of she bill UMW the operation of thy previous queetlon, PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE Jan, 2i ,1001. SENATE. 'rho Senate was called to order at Ti o'clock by the Spense r.. Prayer y Rey. Mr. Calder. Mr. PARKER, jetitiors from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Legisla.ive cistrictm_pray tug for the =e eat of the 93 h and 96th sections of the penal code. Peti tions of like import, from %Parlous sections of the State, were presented by Senators tornado', Crawford, Yard- Iv,. and the omfatter. The EPS—A - KKR presented the pe.ition of cilium:is of Rase towrishlp, tenusllfill enmity, prams f r the re peal of a certain road law. Mr. YARDLEY, a remonstrance from the Burke County As rioultuial Society, St:Mast the pa.IIBFLIZO of the bill f Psointiog a oattlo inspector in Philadelphia Mr. 1.8 AND. two remmstranees of like import from outguns of Lancaster. . BOUND, a petition to repeal an aot relative to roads a d r ,ad views in Northumberland count, The Sri-34KP R. it petition front citizens of °miss burg. praying for the grunge of a late to eh moo e time and place of holding thew municipal election. Mr. W 1P.1.811. a petition from otuz-ns..f York county, Praying for the repeal of the not 'Motive to fialung in the streams of naPd counts , Mr. WHARTON, a petition from members of the le gal pretessmn, relative to the Slate Library. Mr. LAWRENCIP , a total n from citizens r Wash ington county, praying for the passage of a law taxing sheep. Mr. I RISB. C peht;ou from the Female Ant-Slavery Brea!! of Philadelphia. pro, mg for such leg islatton as Will protOrit every one in the enjoyment of nberty, eX cept When forfeited by ormolu. Alto, a petition, from W R. McClintock, playing far the rcs.itution of certain money's from t.,0 tf tate 'I rea surer. _ ..BOBINSON. petitions from citizens of Mercer and wrence oountlee, Wa) 100 for tha takeolot the law prontbitroe banks trout Issutng Wolof a less danu. nonatioa than fora dadal. Mr. PENNEY, an net to incorcorate the Otito and Mississippi /Aeon Packet Company Also. a suppientent to the act umorporating the Ger- Ann it canon Catholic Et. Joseph's Olphan Asylum. Also, a supplement to the RO , incorporating St. Mary's Cemetery to Allochsnr county Mr. SMITH, a supplement to an act entitled en net to promee for the erection oh cubitn cuOdings in the city of Phihidelphta. Er. CUPtlitEl., a supple,nent to the not regulating Lama fur KETCHAM , an act to declare Bear creek, Lu ?erne counts, a public highway. Mr. 'V 1.11.4.. Yan act to incorporate the Denbo • rough Live-Stock'Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. W.H.crt supplement to the act inoorpo. rating the Johnstown anu Ashtula hafiroaa and Tram road Company. Mr. LAND Nina not to confirm thn title of certain real estate h 1 tthliadelphia to the Wesleyan hemele U liege. in 'Wilmington Delaware. fir NIUBOLCION laid h , fora the Senate the annual report ot the receipts and ex.Renses of tha Girard ne gate. BILLS CONSIDEHEB. Mr. CLYMER called tin the Rouse bill in relation to changing the time of holding the borough election in Tamasua, Celery bull county, which gave rise to con siderable debate, but was finally passee—yeas 19, nays rec ur HALL made a motion that the fifth joint rule be aboludisd, wh,oli was . 01 acre. d to. My. CLY MER called up the Milt changing the time of holinug the boriaign election in Auburn, Rhuyiliill county. tt.r. PENNEY raised anoint of order as to the passage of this bill, under the fifth Joint rule. The NP.-AKEtt ruled the pain notnnli tiien,whetat upon the bill passed. Mr. 1M8E.116 issued up the bill erecting the borough of Oeorgetown wo aenet' to aleotion tintriat, watch was passed—yeas iayd 1. Ad/durned. MOUSE. A Mar prayer, the journal woe read. The committee haVing reunited the resolution or Mr. Butler, of Warren, to print 3 OW copies of tht4 Auditor General's report on railroads, for the hanetit of the M LICHTENWALLN dR moved on amendment by adding w e e opies in tee Berman language. The yeas and nays er nailed ca toe amendment and it was agreed to—to to fa Mr..tilißtaT moved alurther anent went, providing for paper novena a greed tn. The question was then taken on the resolution, and it was timed to. Mr. Hun U 3 moved to take up the Senate bill, No. 40. in regard to Mercer cooing. Not agreed to. The Mouse then proaceded to the isontideratt at of the resolutions of Mr Armationg • introduced some days meet and which have neon already nubliehod. Mr. litaFlLle moved the reso unions la postponed na tal the enate resolutions were disposed of. Mr. Pall'EfteON hoped the motion of Mr. Bofius would not prevail. the Armstrong resolutions Meant Me llin g . and even 40 , 4 Vole phrtuian in tam °ba rite, RT. tie Wan react t ..pte for them ho cueytton 9708 taken on the amendment of Dlr. Moittist' rind it was decided in the negative—yeas 26, nays 09. the House then took up the resolutions of M r. Arm strong, of LI coining. Ito offered a substitute, which was actoupted slightly altering the Plit.e olo 49 0 1 the original resolutions. Mr. ABM.CTRONG, having the door, advottated his resolutions with zeal anti acuity. The Senate resole. toms met his hearty conoUrtenen, but they do not ex vapid, to that uniniatakable lan press the Sentiments 01 this House, end tlie people of the State of kerma' , guage Ro neeessar'y at this time. But he believed that „ is , e olutioei t fairly met the question, all they expressed the supremacy of the Constitution of the United mates. Whilst he did not recognize the doctrine . that the Con stitution earned slavery into the Tetritories, he ao- Anowledged the importance of such no equitable Ballad meat, and in such manner as shall forever settle the question of siaVerr Naturg had provided a by.rrter against the introduc tion of slavery into the territory of New fdextoo. d:d not know whether slavery could exist in t but that Territory was not larger thin the *tate of Pennsylvania, and It was no serious matter whether it went there or not. He was heartily °pinged to the ex t‘o sion of slavery Be at mutely to, iewed the qua tion. and exhibited a map to bear out his argument. showing that there w-a to one little spot where slavery could extend, and an immense ;tremor territory where it eau d not go Tne frienos of free OM had as ad van-age ov-r the South. He denied that the day of compromise is past: ail lezialatitio is a contpromjse. Be contended that the Republic n party. in this emet end), was not nouns by the locago Watform. He was a Republican. but his constituents would end° se his con se On this question he was above ill platforms, all p illy conside rations He had tho love of hi* country al iris at hen t. Mr. ARMS I' R 01413 spore upon the resolutions until I &cloak, when the House adjourned till evening-. EVENING SESSION. The House reassembled at 7 o'clock, and resumed the consideration of the Senate resolutions relative Lo the maintenance of the Union The auo won was taken on the amendment proposed by Mr. Duffield, substituting the iesolutions &eted be Mr. Welsh in the Nenate, end it was rejected by a striat parts vote—yen...lZ na)e M. - Mr. eMITII, of Philadelphia,then proceeded to speak against the , seats resolutions He deplored the pre capitate action of our douthern brethren. and said that our whole history aa a nation had been one of canoes eion end compromise. Let us now exhaust all honora ble means to bong about a reconciliation. Our duty oounse a mnderatio Mr. MASS, of Bradford, wiled at some length in favor of the resolutions The question was then taken on the re olutions as they came from the Renate. Tile first passed unanimously. the second was agreed to—yeas 88, nays 1, (Mr. But ler, of Carbon.) The third was agreed to—yeas 67. nays 1, (Mr. Ban ded, of Philatielphia ) The foil , th was aereed to—yeas 61, cave 20 ha vote on the fifth resolution was—yeas 67, cats 191 on the sixts—yeas 63, nays 23 The question on the final passage of the resolutions w as decided to the affirmative by a strict party vote. The House then, at 9% o'clock. adjourned. Important from Harrisburg. CAUCUS OF REPUBLICANS OPPOSED TO PERSONAL LIBERTY BILLS-TWENTY PuUR IN FAVOR OP RE PEALING THE OBNOXIOUS LAWS HARRISBURG, Jan. 22.-1 he Republicans of the iltuse of Assembly favorable to the repeal of the obnoxious provisiom of the penal code relative to the renditicn of fugitive slaves held a caucus to day. Twenty.four members wera present. It is belietei that, combire I with tha Demo cratic vote, they will be able to carry the repeal through the House. LATER NEWS FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP MARATHON. Bank Rates Advanced to 7 per Cent. in England and France. DECLINE IN CONSOLS. CONSOLS 91ffa91-; NEW YORK, Jan. 22 —The steamer Marathon has arrived, with Liverpool dates to the Bth inst. The ship Saratoga, from Mobile, bound to Liverpool. had been ashore if Crookhaveu, but was got t•ff otter cutting away her masts fIRBA.T B ITMN. The pehtical and general news is of no interest, but in a financial soma it is of =mit importance. On the 7th inst. (Monday) the directors of the Bank of England suddenly and unexpeotedly ad vanced their minimum rate of discount from d to 7 per cant onset of this advance upon the funds was severe, causing a fall in Consols of Inl per cent the closing quotations on the 7th being 911, for au count Railway steaks, both British and Ameri can, were al:a much prejaadiced, the average fall being per cent. In the disnettut market, on the 7th, there was an absence of pressure, and :rust before the Wien of the bank directors wee published good bills were negotiable at a ftaition below &Per cent. After wards, however, the range was 7e7/ per cent. The applioations for disown/ at the bank, at the advanced rate, were not nuinerows. Thu Datly News. in enumerating tie reasons assigned for the action of the Rank of England, lye.. " The Bank of Franee is in an unsatisfeetory position, the effect of the American panto baying relatively been quite as mach felt in France as 112 England There is also the fact that the reserve of notes in the Bank of England, by last ret•ens, showed a falling off of upwards of a mildon pounds The news from Amoeba is supposed to have had the chief influence in the bank parlor on Monday—the impression being that fortheb• gold shipments would be made to New York do t . ring the week." The Times says the bank movement orealed-m,, dimalisfaction, and there was tot the alightota.: symptom of internal pressure or disoredit Come mercial men are disposed to believe in the pre matrons course of business later in the year. The Daily News says that while there ie not the slightest appearance of panto, a feeling of discou ragement and uneasiness is becoming now plainly observable. It is feared further strong action may be necessary on the part of the bank. Some ap prehension is felt as to the effect, even in the pre , sent sound condition of trade, occasioned by the struggle for bullion between the three groateat money markets in the world—those of England, France, and America. The weather in England continues very severe. The London Times on the Secession of South Carolina. (From the London Times of January 1.) The State of South Carolina has needed Som tae- Union, by an unanimous vote of her Le4is'attire, and it now remains to be seen whether any of the other Southern States will follow her ex ample, and what course the Federal authorities will pursue under the circumstances. While we wait for further information on these points, it may bo well to consider once again the canto of• quarrel, which has thus began to rend asunder. tan mightiest confederation which the world bit& yet behold. One of the prevalent delusions ot the age in whloh we liv. -h to regard demw eracy as equivalent to liberty, and the mull kfttian of newer to the poorest and worst educated etersee.---etc The State as a certain way to promote the purest liberality of thought, and the most beneficial course of aotioa. Let those who hold this- opinion examine the quarrel at present raging in the United States, and they will bo aware that democracy, like other forms of government, may coexist with any course of action or any sot of principles. Between North and South there is at this moment raging a con troversy which goes as deep as any controversy eon into the elementary principles of human na ture, and the sympathies and antipathies which in so many men supply the place of reason and re fleotion The North is for freedom, the South is for slavery The North is fur freedom of discus- icon, the south reprosses freedom of disonasionvith the tax-brush and the pine faggot Yet North and South are both domooraoies—nay, possess almost exactly similar institutions, with this euorinotta divergenoo in theory and practise. It 13 not democracy that has made the Nortta the advooste of freedom, or the South am, advocate of shivery. Democracy is a quaatity which appears on both sides, and may, therefore,, be rejected as having no influence ever the result. From the sketch of the history of slavery tebieta was furnished us by our corrmpondent from Nets York last week, we learn that at the time of the, American Revolution slavery existed in every State of the Union, except in Masaaohnsettn but we also learn that the great men who direcKd that Revolution—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry, and Hamilton, were unanitemeis in execrating the practice of elavery, and looked for ward to the time when it would cease to contami nate the coil, of free Amerloa. The abolition of the slave trade, which subsequently folloWed, was regarded by its warmest advocates as not only beneffcial in itself, but an a long step towards the extinotion of slavery altogether. It was not foreseen that certain free and democratic com munities would arise which would apply themes vex to the honorable office of breeding slaves, to be consumed on the free and democratic plantaikma of the South, said of thus replacing the Algoma slave trade by an internal traffic in human Seth, (tarried on under circumstances of absost equab atrocity through the heart of a free and demooratie nation Democracy has, verily, a strong digestion, and ono not to be interfered with by trifles. But the moat melancholy part of the matter la, that, during the reventy years for which the Ame rican Confederacy has existed, the whole tone of sentiment with regard to slavery has, in the Soud an States • t least, undergone a remarkable change. Slavery used to be treated as a thoroughly excep tional fnatitution—ste the evil legacy of evil times, as a disgrace to a Constitution founded on the natural freedom and independence of mankind. There was hardly a political leader of any note who hld not some plan for ita alto/Rion. Jefferson him self, the greatest chief of the Democracy, had he the early mat of this century speculated deeply on the subject; bat the United States Madame pos.. sessed of Louisiana and Florida, they have con quered Texas, they have made rkansaa and Mils, sour' into Suttee, and these StMeesalva aoquiettionsa hove altered entirely the view with which slavery is regarded. Perhaps, as mush as anything, Prone the long license enjoyed by the editors of the South of writing what they pleased in favor of slavery, with the absolute certainty that no one would be found bold enough to write anything on the other aide, and thug make himself a mark for popular vengeance, the eubjeet has come em ho written On in a tone of lerooious and cynical extravagance which is to an European er, e ab solutely appalling The South has become ena mored of her shame Free labor is denounced as degrading and disgraceful; the haneot tri umphs of the poor man whn works his way to independence are treated with Morn and con tempt It is asserted that what we are in the habit of regarding as the honorable pursuits of in dustry incapacitate a nation for civilization and refinement, and that no institutions eon be really? free and democratic which do not rest, like those of Athens and of Rome, on a broad substratum of slavery. So far from treating slavery as an excep tional institution, it is regarded by these demo oratio philosophers as the natural vale of a great portion of the human race; and so far from admit ting that America ought to look forward to its eas t nation, it is anti:swami that the property in human oreatures ought to be as universal as the property in land or in tame animals. Nor have these principles been merely inert or speculative. For the lest ton or twelve years sla very has altered her tactics, and from a defensive she has become an aggressive power. Every coin promise which the moderation of former times had erected to stem the course of this monster evil, has teen swept away, and that not by the encroach ments of the North, but by the aggressive ambi tion of the South. With a majori'y in Congress, and in the Supreme Court of the United States,. the advocates of slavery have onteted on a, career, the abject of which would seem to be to mite their favorite institution conterminous, with the limits of the republio They have swept away the Missouri Compromise, which limited slavery to Site treat south of thirty-six degrees of north latitude. They have forced upon the North, in the fugitive-slave bill, a measure which compels them to lend their assistance to the South in the recovery of their esoaped bondman. In the case el Kansas they have sought by fore, of arms to assort the right of bringing slaveall,,,, a free territory, and in tbo .Drod Scott os:a t h ey obtained an exttejudielal opinion from 'the Su. promo Court, which would have plae.,d all the Territories at their disposal. All em s w hil e t h e North has been resisting, feebly " ' I ineffectually, this succession of Southern aggrer ston. All that was desired was pesos, end that Vssee could not boob. talned. While these tbiny the ,,tnt continued violently to were done, the Smith d tinloraid the Abolition. t o sho S u w b e o l r e f es the Norte .4.cscnt a l:fi l di el v , O:f a s e t' a s S e o o t lout of all h a e ll Carolinat hebrutall assailant of MC. Sumner In MO the North endeavored to elect a President who, though Sully reeogniaP og the right of the South to its slave property, WP.B opposed to its extension in the Ter. :Morita, The North were defeated, and submdtte
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