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**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
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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. &thorn 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