Ely Vrtss, .MONDAY; JANUARY 28, 1861 TO Airixamass.—The circulation of Tim Pans exceeds that of any other daily paper in Philadelphia, with a single exception. Sa tisfactory proof of thie tact will be cheerfully given to advertisers. FIRST Pena.—The Comedy of Politics ; Two Oreittrnionifeeteed of One ; The Burns' Dinner; New York oorrespondenoe; Personal and Politi cal; Mass Meeting of Workingmen in Independ enoe &Owe; The Revolution in the South. Foam Plol.—The Fortifications of Louisiana; General.-News; List of Letters; Marine intent genoe. Tire ; miens of the United States are being taught a fearful lesson. Every day gives birth to some new development. One enor mity treads upon another's heels, so fast they follow. Not only are they contemplating the rapid decay of the Government, the overthrow of all .restraints of law, the utter repudiation of every moral , obligation on the part of the States claiming to be sovereign, but they be hold With agorfy and humiliation their highest officials convicted of peculations so stupendous as to be without a parallel in the history of civilitation. As the Government seems about to sunder through the cracks produced by that winch may be believed to be a vast earthquake, they witness a mass of turpitude and crime which is so real as to baffle all that imagine. tion has depicted of human infamy and do graditiOn: It la now indubitable that the conspiracy which began at Charleston, and was consum mated at Baltimore in the ; overthrow of the Democratic party, was based upon the motive of destroying 'the . Republic at. the same time. The instruments in this transaction having ac complished the first part of the tragedy, evi dently proceeded to fill the fabrics of our free dom with every element of rottenness. In other Swords, like a gang of pirates, they seize upon-the Ship of State, carry her upon a rock bound coast, and, first making sure of their own infamous lives, scuttle her, and leave her to her fate. It is a source to ns of proud and inexpressible satisfac,- tiori that, in this monstrous and inconceivable catastrophe, no true friend of the Union has participated. The menopoiy of the shame belongs to those who have hereto fore claimed to be the chivalry of the land, and who now go out of the Confederacy with the scandalous lie upon their lips that they are :retreating from a Union in which they have been injured and degraded. What a spectacle this for the nations of the world I What a fUlfilment of the prophecy that no government based upon public opinion could endure! What a shock to the hunted and oppressed peoples who have looked hither ward ; for rescue and for refuge! And are these : the men who have the audacity to call upon the people of the United States to yield to their arrogant demands for a reconstruc tion? Are these the men who are now de nouncing and domineering over Congress and the Executive ? Let us be understood. The Southern States contain hundreds of thou sands true and tried Americans; but will these patriotic citizens be contented under the lead ership of the conspirators who have plunged our country into bankruptcy and despair? Will they not rather join hands with their brethren in the free States, who stand ready to otter them every honorable and constitutional guarantee ? The Coining Cloud over England At, this moment a canal observer may think that England ought to be a happy King dom. At home, there is no disaffection, for the new Repeal movement in Ireland seems to have ruffled the waters of Agitation only for a moment, and, as Paddy himself would say, "left nothing stirring but stagnation." In China, "the - war boa ended—for the present. The Wilco in South Africa are quiet. The New Zealand insurrection has been put down. Li India there may be discontent, but it rests with the powers that be to convert this into loyalty, or let it run into seed, ere long, as Insurrection. On the whole, reviewing British relatioio at home and abroad, they may be de saribed as undeniably pacific. No disaffection in England—but a good deal of discontent. 'ages hr e.l. o .s4..fiattlttdififilftt - h week all the year round ($2.50 to $8), thereto discontent at the high price of food. In the manufaCturing districts wages are higher, but the recipients live up to them, and starve whenever a cessation of work takes place. Only the other day, in Liverpool, when the bakers (who had been selling at a loss) raised the price of bread, there was a tumult, which "the authorities" fortunately pat down without bloodshed. Let the supply of cotton, from the United States, once be checked, so that the Lancashire mill-owners will have to stop work, and there may be a social war in the districts around Manchester. The China war is over, and England is to receive about $7,500,000, in inataiments spread over a considerable time, for the expenses. This is a mere per centage on the outlay, for up to the beginning of October, as much as $50,000,000 had been expended on the Obi neSe'war, and John Bull may reckon himself fortunate if. by the time the last ship, soldier, and Armstrong gun have been brought back to him, the additional cost be less than $25,- 000,000. -We aro extremely simple-minded, (as our readers well know,) but an outlay of $76,000,000 to be made good by a promised indemnity ,of $7,500,000, "does not pay." Ten per cent. return on any outlay has a de cided tendency to bankruptcy. . When, Wawa( BSOEFORD, during a great storm at Fonthlil, which he watched from an adjacent hill, saw the that great tower of his Abbey topple over to the ground, In an *wild crash of rains, he made the philosophical re mark, as he gazed at the main edifiCe, unin jured by the ruin, 'C It must have been a strong jaw to stand the wrenching out of such a tooth as that We may apply this anecdote to the conditiOn'et •England, and say that it must be tv peat tax -productive country which can bear each s Waste'ef money—to say nothiZg of hn men life;:4o the Chinese war, so entirely unpro veked, - has caused. But there is a limit to national, as .to' hnman, , forbearance, and Mr. Wal:aorta will certainly, experience this fact ere he be three months older, when he will have to propose a renewalof the Income and Property w tax. Last Session that impost was re-imposed, and , doubled, for only another _ 7he whole net revenue of England, for the year ending December 81, 1860, amounted to £71,967,495-about equal, in round numbers, to $360,000,000. This is but the net amount. The cost of collection, estimated an average of 8 per cent., would make the gross amount of &ebb taxation £77,700,000 for the year just ended. 'Surely an immense sum Is $888,600,- 000 to be paid by a population smaller than our own—a population, too, the great ma jority of which is much poorer than our own. Ills raised thus o by Customs, 28 millions sterling ; 16y Excise, 19 millions ; by Stamps, 2} millions; by Taxes, 8 millions; by the Post office, 8i millions; by Crown Lands, a quarter million; by Miscellaneous payments, nearly 2 millions; and by Property and Income Tax, dose upon 8 million pounds sterling. Yet, immense, as Is this , amount, It Is Inadequate, by nearly 3 millions sterling, to meet the - -year's expenditure. - Out of the year's revenue the interest on `the ihnded and unfunded Debt of the country 'has tO be - paid. It amounts to £28,000,000 per_ annum. That is, the mere interest of the National Debt of England is $40,000,000 a year: 'The present rapid rate of borrowing by ,our • Treasury shows, an approximation to BritistottrAvagance. , 2 - 10. , _4ransrona's trouble will be to humbug - Parliament, without minding the popular dis ,'iontent, into' renewing the Income and Pro : party tar, yielding some $18,000,000 a year; having Solemnly pledged hiniseniire country that this oppressive tar, which falls ; .-heaviest on the middle classes, should finally 14 1881. He may do this—for the Bri tish Parliament has no real independence—but i,w►e predict thakterribly excited times will fol. .•• low.: John - Ball cannot always be led by the 3 'l3oisol'and Pave his 'pothet picked . without at ' ll ,isat turning restive. Pegg Binf-TAHtlell litet 9 R 1 1..-40-M0170119 698- lidet, for the benefit of the poor,- Park Benjamin will lecture on Fact and Notion, in Musical Band 11au. , . As this gentleman devotes hil great talenti to se is:dollen! a'purposo; as he mien disappoints an audience; and, especially as he never =slum offensive politiesl observations, wholly alien to his subject, we hops he may have as crowded a home as he always attracts. The Secession of Louisiana. The telegraph very briefly tells us that, on Saturday," at ten minutes past one o'clock," the Convention of Louisiana passed an ordi nance declaring that State to be no longer a member of the American Confederacy. The vote on the passage of the ordinance is larger than wo had reason to expect from Louisiana, although there is nothing in the result to cre ate surprise. The conservative masses of that State, headed by such men as Prnann SOULE, Mr. MOOLXONY, MMES TAYLOR, and others, and represented by such papers as the Picayune and True Delta, have made a noble tight for Union and constitutional rights, and they haVe our sympathy in their defeat. Louisiana is the sixth State which has been hurried out of the Confederacy by the Intrigues Of desperate politicians, and the tem porary excitement of a partisan mob. Bound to the Union vitally by every interest of com merce—her great metropolis drawing every element of its strength and prosperity from the Union and its resources--no State of the six will gain so little and lose so much by this wild act of separation. Controlling the month of the Mississippi, and almost intercept ing the line of the Pacific Railroad, with the certain prospect of commanding the vast trade which, in a few years, must come flowing from China, Japan, and the undeveloped empires of the East, Louisiana has contented herself with political and commercial suicide for a mere abstraction, and New Orleans, which might have become the metropolis of the Western continent, bids fair to sink into the position of a fifth-class city, dependent for its support upon a weak and fluctuating trade with Mexico, Central America, and the agri cultural States of the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. The people of Texas have also decided, as we see, in favor of secession, although the formal act of separation remains to be con summated. The chronological order of the secession movements may be thus ranked : December 20, South Carolina; January 9, Mississippi; January 11, Florida and Ala bama; January 19, Georgia, and January 26, Louisiana. Texas may be expected spee dily to follow. In the meantime, along the Border States the friends of the Union and the Constitution are making a wonderful and gallant fight. Madness seems to rule the hour, but we have a faith in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri—believing that they will stand by the Union as it is, and eventually lead our truant and angry brethren of the extreme South back into the American fold. Savings Bank Institutions It is to be feared that there is a good deal of smuggling in State Legislatures. The latest instance within our knowledge is a bill, which has already passed some stages, where by Savings Bank Institutions are to be allowed to retain moneys deposited with them for a term of three months atter the owners have given notice of intention to withdraw part or the whole thereof. So far from this being permitted, the law should bo that, at the fur thest, not more than twenty-tour hours should elapse between the demand, by the depositor, for the cash, and the payment, in coin or cur rent notes, bythe Bank. We recommend our city members, If they are desirous of re election, to do all they can to prevent the pro posed law passing through the Legislature. The really respectable, well.managed, and solvent Savings Banks do not demand or re quire inignitous legislation like this. Public Amusements The dramatis event of the present week, beyond all doubt, as the prodnetion, at McDonough's Olympic) Theatre, Race street, of the very peculiar burlesque of "The Seven Sisters," which has already ran sixty•six nights at Laura llcene's Theatre, New York. The private rehearsal (" far a select few ") took place on Friday evening. What was a sort of public dress rehearsal came off on Saturday evening, and the actual launch of the pima may be looked for to-night. Mr. Randall, who came from London to get up the piece for Laura Keene, has been engaged on it for Mr. Mo- Donough, for weeks past, and the result is said to be even more brilliant and successful than in New York. The Sunday Dispatch says: "The great feature of the play, however, is the last scene, and to produce this in perfection every thing else ie subordinate. This remarkable ape cimee of display is called the bower of ferns and the birth of p a butterfly,' It has been specially designed by Mr. Randall, who produced it at hag f ntrminnsul trnrinnn " We have had Along experience In showpieces, as represented at our theatres, and have seen the . last scenes' of all the *endue which have boon exhibited here, from the Ulna of May wood & Co to the present. We can say, without any exagge, ration, that we never saw a scene in any theatre that oan be compared to this fiord scene of tho Scion Sisters for splendid ell - tote, gorgeous coloring, or romantic, iMptoBBiVODe69. The gigan. tic ferns attbe opening droop over a crystal basin. By an ingenious mechanical arrangement the leaves graoefully rise, disclosing a lily, whloh seems 'l3 float upon the water. The forms of the Seven Sisters, in gorgeous oostutne, now become visible. Some rise above the lake, the figures of others are reflected upon the water, being thrown there by an ingenious apparatus, which gives to the images an &feet never attained in emoted° before the pre sent time. The accessories aro beautiful and unique. By new combinations of light, a bril liance Is attained which brings out the gorgeous coloring in radiance so dazzling' /Is to almost fatigue the eye. The opening of the lily, the birth of the butterfly, and•the finale, are worthy of the romantio fancy which originated tableaux having so ranch of novelty and splendor." The pubis are assured that the present id cer• tainty the last week of Miss Cushman's petform *nee in this city. We hear that ehe will realize $30,000 by this, probably her oloaing campaign in her native land. She will return, in the spring, to her villa near Etc me—exactly as if she were an Italian singer or elanteuse, who had merely come hither for our money! To•night, she appears as Hamlet. If she ploy it as well as we have seen her play Romeo, the performance will he vary flee. • In male characters, at any rate, Miss Cush• man eschews that exaggeration which gives a Meg Manillas' tint to her serious female personations. Yn "The Merchant of Vordoe," "The Eonoy moan," and snob pieces, where she has to repre- sent youth and beauty, Miss Cushman never ought to appear. Engagements elsewhere, which it wits impossible to forego without a broach of faith, wbiab he never yet has made, have compelled Mr. Sothern to make his final appearance as Lord Dundreary for the present. This le a disappointment to the ma nagement as well es to the public, for Mr So• thorn's remarkable emcees was rapidly retrieving the loaned of the management during the previous dull part of the season. The theatre was no crowded on Saturday evening (Mr. Sothern's last appearance) as it usually is upon a first-aloes bene fit. By, the .way, tine present will be a benefit week• at Walnut-street Theatre. To•night Mr. Murphy, the lessee's business-agent, has his bene fit, the programme being " The Victims," a play by Tom Taylor, never before played in this city ; a nigger burlesque on " Tho Babes in the Woods," and the splendid bunkum piece entitled " The Lone Star." Mr. Murphy, whatever his pro gramme, San commend a full home for his benefit; still, in his own memorable quotation, we wish him a bumper at parting." Dr. Ormnington bee a benefit on Wednesday, when, in addition to a great deal of vocal and instrumental music, Mr. Adams will appear as Don Cesar de Bazan. There will be performances for the benefit of the poor on Thursday. Mr. Chapman, stago-mana• ger, and an old favorite with the public, who now too seldom see hint, has his benefit on Friday. This orttehingfou benefits into one week does not strike us an particularly likely to be exoessively remunerative to the beneficiaires—especially to any who some in at the close. "Uncle Tom'a Cabin" (the Southern version) continues to draw great audiences to Sanford's. Signor Blitz opens a new Temple of Magic, at the Commonwealth Buildings, (Chestnut, above Sixth) next Wednesday evening. The Continental Theatre (Walnut street) will be re-opened this evening, with a double company, equestrian and dramatic, by Mr. James Pilgrim, with a new sensation-piece, by himself, called " The Merchant Steed of Genes, or the Innkeeper and the Robbers." sVan Amburgh's Zoological Institute, United States Buildings, Chestnut street, oontinues open three times a day—the performanoes, including those of the elephant Tippoo Bab, introduoed by "Professor" Nash, taking place every afternoon ad evening. Abel and Leyland, we understand, will exhibit their :Stereopticon, at Assembly Buildings, next week. T • Union Meeting at Portland, Maine. Pennant), Jan. 27.—An immense Union meet ing was held here last night, Judge Shepley pre siding. Speeches were made by the lending mem bers of all parties. Resolutions wore adopted tutoring the repeal of the personal-liberty bills; denying the right of any State to secede ; stating that the duty of the Government is to protect the publio property; that forcible opposition o f . the constitutiona l laws to criminal, and will meet our resistance; and that Maine will aid in the enforcement of the revenue laws, though in favor of a jest compromise. The Appointment of Gen. Cameron. HARRISBURG, Jan. 27—Mr. P. Passel!, one of the committee from the Republican Club, of Phila delphia, to Springfield, baa juat returned to thin place. Re sap; that the appointment of General Simon Cameron $8 Secretary of the Treasury is 'dertaitt. The' opposition to his appointment, he abaci, was confined to a very small circle in this State, it being principally from the free traders of New York. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE Letter from " Occasional." f OorreaDondanoe of The Pres3,l WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21, DM The President of the United Statue, in hie apaeoh in reply to the presidents of the different railroads of the country, while taking strong_groinill in favor of the Crittenden propositions, and pleading ear nestly for a peaceful adjustment, slated that any attack on Fort Sumpter would, with his convictions of duty, be resisted or defended. - This is knt a repetition of the sentiments of his annual message, and of his special message. Virginia, foreseeing the magnitude of the danger that surrounds the whole oomplioation, has thrown herself Into the breach and will send commissioners to South Caro lina, urging patlenoo and forbearance. Rio has appointed, or will appoint, commissioners to meet other commissioners from Pennsylvania, Now York, Ohio, Indiana, and other Northern and Northwestern States. Ex-President Tyler is, I believe, still in Washington, doing his beat to har monize matters. In the meantime events are rushing into a crisis, if not a catastrophe, at the mouth of the Mississippi, and /fey West and Pen sacola. In the State of Florida, and before patriotic counsels can operate either upon Northern fanati- Meth or Southern treason, we may be in the midst of a conflict which no human power can arrest. Should the executive, after the pnblio buildings and public treasure in the city of New Orleans fall into the hands of the Disunionists, refuse to station a fleet at the mouth of the Mississippi, to collect the revenues, he will then practically and inconsistently recognize the secession move' moist, and prepare the way for the establishment of a Government de fads, to be composed of the seceding States. If he fails to blookade all the porta which are or may be opened for foreign trade, in violation of the lawn of Congress, by this act ho will invite other countries to open commer dial relations at these porta, and cannot, according to the laws of nations, capture the vessels engaged in this commerce. In the open sea Should the blookado be established, however, then tho attempt to force it by foreign ships would be a declaration of war upon the United Staten. A mere paper blockade, or more order of council, such as England issued against France, and such as Napoleon re taliated upon England, will not be regarded by other nations. Thus we have readied a point in the game where the President will be constrained to choose be tweon a virtual recognition of the revolution in the South or the blockading of the ports of the seceding States. In hie speech to the railroad commissioners, on Friday evening, he seems to look to Congress to supply the remedy by the en actment of the Crittenden propositions, but he did not repeat his demand for authority in the matter of defending Fort Sumpter from attack, and, per oonsevenee, In the coming reaponeibility which will unquestionably devolve upon him, should New Orleans be declared a free port by the Con vention of Louisiana, or the authorities of that State. You will perceive from these facts how closely we are verging upon a bloody struggle. What would be the aloud the adoption of the Crittenden propositions by Congress? is a question frequently propounded to me. My answer is, it would oertainly retain the Border States in the Union, and strengthen the Union men in the Cot ton States; and I believe it would induce the abandonment of all offensive measures on the part of the seceders. At any rate, the passage of some act by the present Congress would put the Dieu nionists in such a dilemma as to unite not only the entire people of the free States, but those of the Border States, in a determined opposition to the fearful conspiracy that is now coming to a head. General Cameron receives daily a large number of lettere congratulating him on his eneeoh in favor of the Crittenden propositions. Pennsylva nia and New Jersey have bailed his fearless de monstration with mach satisfaction; and yet that the grant body of the Republicans in Congress are steadily opposed to it on account of the demand that slavery then be protected south of 36 degrees 30 minutes, is made manifest every day. Mr. Cassius M. Clay, who addresead the Republican Association hero last night, took ground in favor of the scheme of Charles Frannie Adams, of Massa chusetts, and even announced his willingness to take the resolutions of the Border States But what are we to do when Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, Maryland, end Delaware present the Crittenden proposi- Gone as their ultimatum'{ What will the do -1 minnnt party do with tbo resolutions of the Now Jersey Legislature in favor of th Is propealtion ? I I am told that from the free beaten alone petitions containing the names of nearly three hundred thousand citizens have been received in both branches of Congress, urging the National .Legisla• taro to pass elan based upon the programme of the venerable Senator from Kentucky. At this wri ting, I have little or no hope that a sufficient num ber of the friends of Lincoln In both Houses can be found to make up a constitutional majority of two-thirds, so as to send the subject to the people of the States to be ratified or rejected by theta. Snob, in a few words, aro the ernbareaeamenta that environ our beloved eee.l.l. ..ar.va of stratum and etnrlll.....l , --- • ._ ad -i st i nfteirom ttus celebrated Professor Longstreet, of South Carolina, in which the peahen is taken that, locums° the names of the seceding Senators and Representatives have not been stricken from the rolls of Congress, and are called daily, there fore upon every question requiring a two-thirds vote, these names must bo counted, and, if not fainted, such question is decided by only a two third vote of those aotually present, and is, there fere, clearly unconstitutional; and, also, that if Congress gods en legislating while most of the Cotton States are unrepresented, without taking steps to have them represented, the legislation of Congress is void, or, if not void, the President should veto the whole, on socount of gross irregularity. The came authority insists that the revenues cannot be col heated by the President against the sovereign seood ing States of t math Carolina, Florida, or Louisiana. " Suppose," he says, " when your collector comes, appointed by the President, the Governor has him put In jail, is this a cause of war ?" "No," he answers, "he must, as in every other conceivable case, seek hirredress in a court of justice against the Governor's agents, who most be awed or tried in tho State." In the acme category comes the theory of the correspondent of the Baltimore SIM, in yesterday's number of that paper. This writer says that it boa not yet entered into the minds of the friends of the tariff bill that there will be little more than half of the States upon which that bill can possibly operate, and asks who aro to pay the duties imposed. Meanwhile, both Douses are ra pidly passing into the hands of the Republicans, and all these theories will probably demand ae riona and speedy consideration. All true friends of the 'Union deny the right of secession. This is not only the ground of the President and Judge Douglas, but of neatly every Demo cratic conservative Southern member of Con grass, and of the entire Ropublioan party. Row shall we dispose of the argument of Loagetreot, and his school, compelled as wo are to deny that Senators and Represeutativeshave a right to secede, with the additional foot before us that not ono of these men in going out, with, I be lieve, tho single exception of Mr. 11111, of Georgia, has resigned ? They have simply withdrawn, and expect, no doubt, in the event of a readjustment or reoonstruotion, to come back into the pieties they have vacated. I am making no argument, hut simply stating a mice so as to present a fair view of alt the vexations and contradictions, and—l may use the word—the ottlamities of our divided and distracted condition. Never before, in the history of the world, has so wicked a coerce boon carried to such an extreme as this Southern revolution. Unless arrested, it will presently become stronger than the Govern ment itself, and if the confident declarations of the British editor of the Washington COnSiitlat On are confirmed, foreign nations may do that which up to within a late moment I did not believe they would attempt, viz recognize the Southern Con federaoy as a government do facto. Tho delegates to establish this Confederacy aro to meet about the middle of February at Montgomery, and the Disunionists exultingly rely upon foreign aid and comfort, the moment they unfurl the flag of their despotism. I put out of sight the fact that while leaving the protection of tho Federal Government and declaring their independence, they at the same time accept the protection of distant monar chies and become, in a large cease, their vassals or their provinces. I am dealing with things as they are, and stating the case as it is argued by these conspirators themselves. Tboy allege that they have oil received distinct offers of assist- rum from Franco and England, and I have every roam to believe that their agents have been in treaty with these Governments for some weeks past, in order to bring about such an understand ing as will insure them efficient and powerful allies. They allege also, that when Mexico revolt- ed from Spain, although the latter country never recognized until within a few years past the not of her robelliona subjeots, yet England accepted her government as de facto ; and that when Mexico on her part refused until after the war to recognize the independence of her revolting State of Texas, the United States gave to the Government of Texas the seal of her approbation, and England and other nations followed the exempla. Renee, that if they can make their experiment a success, and triumph antly defy and ignore and put down the authority of the Executive and of Congress, they can laugh to scorn the refusal of our regular Government to recognize them. I repeat, never was so wicked, and profligate, and unprovoked a revolution so ar rogantly maintained and PO offensively defended. OCCASIONAL. Weanmorosr, January 26.—Fifty artillerymen from New York arrived here this morning, and Immediately left for Port Washington, to relieve the marines there temporarily on duty. It isnot true that Mr. King, the First Assistant Postmaster General, refaced to bold any comma nioation with ex Senator Taboo. Ile elroply de clined to shoe- him the papers he asked to are rola tive to the abolition of the poet office and disson tinuanoe of the mails to Pensacola. The interview was respeotful on both etdos. The Liverpool Consulship. NEW YOEK, January 211.—The Leader says that Charles F Brigga, of NOl7 York oity, has been tendered the Consulship to Liverpool, and has sig. nified his willingness to aosept the post. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1861. Letter from "Kappa." Correspondenoe of The Preen] WASHINGTON, January 27, 1861 Tho dark clouds which have been overhangin our political skies for the last throe or four month, and eo ominously threitened to extinguish the ligt of Liberty, whiotilmayent forth Its beneficial ray for the last eighty yearn on this continent, are no• gradually giving way to lighter and more hopeft ones. Loading conservative men, of all parties assembled on Friday night in a private meeting A free interchange of opinion was had, and a con oert of action determined on, which may material], Improve the aspect of affairs. Messrs. Crittenden Douglas, Seward, Dixon, and other prominent gen tlemon, have boon consulting for several days. 1 seems that all are working in earnest to save th, country. It would be unjust if I should omit to place, is tho category of those who exert their abilities It behalf of our Union, the names of the two Senators from Pennsylvania. The willingness evinced or the part of General Cameron to vote for the into 'Mine of his colleague, or anything else which will save the Union, deserves not only the appro. bation, but the gratitude, of the people of his country. Often has it been regretted that Repub lican members of Congress, under the existing state of affairs, whore the country is on the verge of ruin, should have exhibited so much partisan ship end subservience to party drill and ma chinery, though theirs is the party, having just now elected their President, which will derive the most immediate benefits from the preservation of the Union. Taking their wisdom from the New York Tribune, these gentlemen have been nar row-minded enough not to see that the destruction of the Union is the destruction of the Republican party ; for with the Union disappears our great nets, happiness, and propority ; and the mph will then care little about Republicanism or Democracy. General Cameron, enlightened, practical, and patrlotio as ho is, has sacrificed his partisan feelings on the altar of the Union ; ho has nobly come forth and shown to his less experienced colleagues that the true interest of the Republican party lies In the salvation of the country from its present danger, and not in the strict adherence to a party platform. Though the New York Tribune has read him out of tbe Republican party, because he bee thus nobly advocated the Union, he may rest assured that the American people, including four-fifth e of the Republican party, will not think the less of him. It is a small honor to he a party leader ; but to be a patriot, who elevates hisnsoll far above the sordid advantages aimed at by the partisan, and loves his country more than himself and his own self-interest, is a position upon which, with pride, future generations will glory. Thrown out of the Republican party, the American people will take him to their bosoms, gratefully remem bering his services for the common country. The Post Ogles Department has sent an agent to Milwaukee to take possession of the poet office, the postmaster having become a defaulter. This is one of Mr. Buchanan's anti-Dangles men. The Department has also written letters to the promi nent post offices in the sanding States, asking the postmasters whether they will held themeolvos re sponsible to the General Government. In ease they refuse to answer in the affirmative, their °M ons will be discontinued. Messrs. Severna and Hope, both well known in Philadelphia, are about to issue a new penny daily, called the Confederation ; in this city. The news from Virginia is very cheering. Let ters were received yesterday by prominent ()Hi tens which state that the Virginians are fully aroused. Though the Secessionists ore very aotive, yet it will be impossible for them to earry the old Commonwealth into tho disunion camp. The speeches of Ilona. Sherrard Clemons and lifillsyn will not fall to leave their impression on the %minds of the people of George Washington's home. KAPPA. The Opera in Havana Correspondence of The Press.] Although business of almost every description is dull hero, the Opera hoe lied a brilliant success up to this time. The company at the Tason is the best that we have over had in Havana. Madame Lotti is very much liked here, as also is the tenor, Pancani; but the pet of the opera-goers here is 'your young townswoman, Agnes Na tali (Ines Cita, or Little Agnes, as she is called hero). You have no idea in Philadel phia of the sensation aba creates. In every opera in which she appears die makes a per feet furore. Her last groat triumph oho achieved in Cored° d'Altemora. Her sister Fermi bad a good part in this opera, and made quite a hit in it, as also did the new tenor, Panned. Testa, the husband of Fannl Natoli, is also a favorite. His voice is exceedingly aweet, and he is a good notor. This evening, Agnes appears as Elvira, in Er maul," with Pancani as the here. I had the plea 's/we of hoaring them at rehearsal, and know that Ines will create another great sensation. Parton ni, as Eill47li is really groat. Ile has appeared in the part in all the groat opera houses in Earope with success. There le quite a rivalry here be !ant the Van i stligo,usleig, l nacrae the beet friend, in the world, and only laugh at the fun, which it really is to them, ns it crowds the Tacon every night. All the youth of Havana are on the side of Natall, and the old ones go for Lott!. Tho sisters Natal' are engaged at a high salary, after their engagement hero, by a well known impresario. OVIIA2I, LATEST NEWS By Telegraph to The Press. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to " The Press: Virginia to be flooded with Union Do cuments-111r. Lincoln not to Leave Rome until atter the Official An nouncement of his Election—The War Department and Old Arms. At a mooting of the clerks of the various depart ments, which was held at the rooms of the Inte rior Department, last night. it was resolved to mail fifty thousand copies of Mr. CLEMENS' groat Union speech, at once, to different parts of Vir ginia. The motive is a hope that its circulation will operate favorably in the election for delegates to the coming Convention. The clorke aro now engaged in sending copies to all voters in the State of Virginia whose names oan be procured from the COUSINS Bureau. There is no truth in the statement of the New York Herald, that Mr. LINCOLN has notified Pre sident BUCIIANAN of an intention to mune hero this week. Ho will not leave his home in Spring field, Illinois, until the elootoral votes are counted by Congress, and the result is °facially announced. It is now old that valuable improved fire. arms aro being sold at Harper's Perry for a mere trifle, in obedience to an order which was given by Secretary FLOYD, several months ago, ostensi bly to sell a lot of old and unserviceable arms. An agent of the War Department has been de spatched to inquire into the matter. DeMulling Officers. It has been discovered by the Treasury Depart ment that a distinguished polltioian, who lately held an important Federal Oleo in New York city, is a defaulter to a heavy amount, Admission of Kansas. Kansas will most likely be admitted to morrow. Mr. RIIERIUN made an effort in the House yester day to have the morning hour extended, In order to take up the bill, but abjection was made. The Senate amendment, creating a now judicial dis trict, will bo concurred in ; the friends of Kansas yielding it because they are afraid that if the bill went back to the Senate its enemies might post pone action on it until the final adjournment, and they, therefore, prefer to have the State immedi ately admitted, mid take the chances of defeating the confirmation of Judge PETTIT, if tho Presi dent should nominate him to the Senate. A salute of one hundred guns will be fired in this oily as soon as Koneas takes her place is the Union as the thirty-fourth State of the Confederacy. Conservative Speech of Cases we M. Vint', Notwithstanding the very unpleasant atate of the weather, Odd Follows' Ball was peeked last night to listen to tho speech of CARAIIIII M. CLAY. Many ladles, and quite a number of benators and Representatives, wore in the audienoe. The ad dress of the distinguished Kentuckian was very attentively listened to, the silence being only in terrupted at times by applause of the sentiments uttered. At the close of Mr. OLAY'iI speech, which strongly sustained the Adams proposition, Judge ADAMS—the Representative in Congress of Mr. Char's dialled—was loudly sailed for, and made a very effective appeal to the Republicans to do something to cave the Union. Tho audience than gave three hearty cheers for the Union, the Constitution, and the laws; the hand played "Ball Columbia" and the "Star Spangled Banner," and the meeting adjourned. Senators Simmons and Brat Art, of the Select Committee on the Tariff, were engaged together nearly all day yesterday on that subjeot. Message from the President. The President wall probably to-morrow transmit to °engraft the plume resolutions of Virginia In connection With ex. President Tyznn's visit, and commend them to a favorable eonsiderattoa• Ex•Presidont TYLEIT loaves Washington to•mor row to return by the 4th of February. Efforts for an Adjustment. There has been mnoh private consultation yes terday and to-day among prominent gentlemen relative to the adjustment, and a vigorous outside influence is being brought to bear in the same di reetion. Ile Axe, January 20, 1801 WASHINGTON, Jen. 27, 1881 The Tariff. Sigoatorem to the Montgomery.Propo- The following-named Representatives have signed MT. MONTGOMERY'S proposition, that the members of Congress resign, and arrangements be made for the election of their enooessora, to meet on the 221 of February, in order that they, being fresh from the people, may adjust the present political (tiff:n.- 011008 : Memo. Montgomery and Plorence, of Penneyl vania, Messrs. Clemons, Booook, Martin, Garnett, Jen kins, Edmondson, and Do Jarnotto, of Virginia. Mauro. Wright and Avery, of Tennessee, Mr. Riggs, of Nov Jersey. Mr. Taylor, of Louisiana. Messrs. Davis, Niblook, Holman, and English, of Indiana. Messrs. Peyton, Burnett, Simms, Brown, and Stevenson, of Kentucky. Mr. Smith, of North Carolina. Mr. Whiteley, of Delaware. Mr. Larrabee, of Wisconsin. Mr. Soott, of California. Mr. Sickles, of New York. Mee3ra. Craig and Anderson, of Missouri. Messrs. Hughes and Kunkel, of Maryland. Messrs Fouko, Logan, and MoClernaud, of Illi nois ; the last-named adding " because it will faci litate a just settlement." It is ascertained, from a reliable solute, that the Government has no information loading to the be. lief that England will recognize the Southern Con. federaoy. THE SECESSION OF LOUISIANA. TEE °ENHANCE PASSED DT AN IMMENSE MAJORITY —ADJMIEIIMENT OP TEE CONVENTION TO NEW OBLEANS—GENERAL ESJOICINDS—THE PELICAN FLAG. BATIN Ronan, Jan. N.—The delay ordinance, moved to be substituted for the secession ordinance reporbd by the Committee of Fifteen, was voted down yesterday by an immense majority. Comniesionera Manning, of South Carolina, and Winstm, of Alabama, made elequent addresses in favor rf immediate secession. Thom was an animated debate last night on the resoluton for submitting the secession ordinance for ratiloation to the people. The advocates of immodate secession abstained from all debate. There was no extreme opposition to the ordinance. The vote on submitting the ordinance to the people was taken this morning—ayes 45, nays 84. Jobs Perkins addreered the Convention on the passage of the accession ordinance. The tebate closed, and a vote was ordered. The galleries and lobbies were intensely crowd ed, .ant a deathlike silence prevailed. On the call ofthe roll many members were in tears. The clerk announced the vote—ayes 113, nays 17— rad the president declared Louisiana a free and sovereign republic. Capt Allen then entered the Convention with a Polices flog, accompanied by Gov. Moore and staff, and pit the flag in the hands of the president, amid tremendous excitement. A solemn prayer was then offered, and ahundred guns were fired. The Convention adjourned to meet in Now Or leans oil the 29th inst. Before the Convention adjourned the resoln- Ben accompanying the ordinance, declaring the right of free navigation of the Mississippi river asd tributaries to all friendly States, and the right ol ogress and ingress to boats of the Mississippi by all friendly States and Powers, petalled min& mealy. A gold pen was given each member with which to sign the ordinance of secession. NEW Onnnasts, JED. 26.--The passage of the secession ordinance by the Convention is bailed with the greatest joy here. The Pelican flag displayed everywhere throughout the oily, and Ia lutes aro being fired in honor of the event. Texts for Secession NEW ORLEANS, Jan 2G —The return° from Texas Nine far indicate an overwhelmini mejortty for im mediate senession From Charleston ULIABLESTON, Jan. S. —Tho Legislature has agreed on the sovereign flag of South Carolina. It lea) be of a blue ground, with a white oval centre plice, and a gelatin palmetto tree therein The Senate adopted a resolution to day authoriz ing the Governor to send volunteers to the assist area of Florida if needed, in ease of a threatened Invasion. The number of men is unlimited The steamer Calrenancr, went ashore on Sullivan's Wand besoh, yesterday morning, while going out The weather has been tempestuous for a week past. neittucky Legislature. FRAIIEFDAT ‘ ICy., Jan. 27.—Tho Legislature yes terday appointed this following oommissioners, to meet the commissioners of Virginia on the 4th of February : James B. Clay, Joshua F. Bell, GOV. Moorhead, Win. 0. Batter, James Guthrie, and Chas. A. Wickliffe. The Missouri Legislature. sirds r i ll E f Is e s . viz .x. T u NS ER VarlYn 8 passim by tee action of the New York Legislature (tendering men and money to the President to coerce the seceding S'ities,) came before the Bence yesterday. DIMS referred to the Corumitteo on Federal Relations The some resolutions were made the special order for lo.clny In the Senate. A Democratic ce.uens, held test night, adopted resolutions similar to those of Mr, Crittenden. Advioeii from different parts of the State indloate a strong Union feeling, and that the State Conven tion will ho filled with conservative mon. Xaginia Legislature• iticunonn, Jan. 26 —The gouge to-day paned the Senate bill to relieve the banks of the State from the penaltien incurred by their envonsion of speole payments. The other proceedings of the Legislators to-day were unimportant North Carolina legtsln.ture. RALEIGH, Jan. 213 —The House to•da:y passed a resolution sending commissioner' to Washington, and to meet tho Southern Convention at Montgo. mery, Alabama. It will peas the Senate. The proceeding, othorwiae, woro of an uninte• eating character. The Alabama Uonventien. Monraosteny, Ala., Jan. 28 —Tho State Con vention will adjourn on Tuesday till the dtb of March. Massachusetts Legislature. BOSTON, January 27.—The State Senate yester day instruoted the Judiolary Committee to report a toll authorizing the endorsement by the State of national treasury notes to the amount of the ear plus revenue deposited with her in 1836-7, amount• mg to $1,300 000 Four inches of snow fell last night, and the sleighing is splendid In this vicinity. Appointments by the Governor. liesnissmin, Jan. 26.—Qovornor (loran has made about twenty additional appointments for various posts of the State. Among them is the appointment of Mr. Stamp, of Berke county, Flour Inspector at Philadelphia. The Steamer Nashville - • - - NEW Tonic, January 23 —The Steamer Nash• wile, for Charleston, was detained from sailing on Wednesday, in oonaequeoce of the discovery that eight steerage passengers were aboard, and because the owners were notlfled that the steamship Cohan eia was ashore in Charleston harbor. Sinking or the Western Steamer Melrose. 13'5'101E1,MS, Ind , Jan. 20.—The steamer Mel rose, hound from Oinoinnatite Nashville, was sunk near Uniontown, Kentnoky, yesterday. The loss on the boat amounted to $15,000, and on the serge to $40,000 ; mostly Insured. The Japanese Embassy at flame. ARRIVAL OF THE SAreatroan EMBIBBY AT JEDDII-- lIMALTII AND If SERE CITY - -LANDING—PfIIIEISIAIq FLEET, RTC [Coereepondencq of the New York Herald.' UNITED STATES STEADIER NiAGARA, Jeddo, Nov. 12. 1860. I send, by the first opportunity, the announce ment of the safe arrival of the Japanese Embassy at this port, ono hundred and thirty-three days from New York. The entire party have enjoyed the most perfect health, and have returned, IR a most presentable condition. For almost the only time since their departure from our shores, when they came in eight of Fusl.jammi, the " Blessed Mountain," their countenances displayed some thing analogous to wonder and satisfaction ; and, indeed, it was a joyous sight. even to the mariner, whose ties of kindred and affection were in other and distant lands. The immense hay was studded with myriad of sails, whose white canvas glittered in the sun beams, and whose graceful forms skimmed the waters as if instinct with life- modern marine ar chiteeture oan boast no 'greater triumph than these beautiful boats For miles under slow steam we proceeded up the bay, the shore developing new and pleturelque scenes as we advanoed, until suddenly we opened the immense and won derful oily, which ho that has not seen has not seen a wonder et least equal •to the renowned and fair city of Seville. Our anchorage is seven miles diets nt from the shore—a very material ob mention either to safe or frequent visits, as the weather is very cold, and the winds are very fresh.. On the 10th, the ambassadors and the whole septuagint—kamis, no•kamte, (moire and porters— were landed in their own boats, the yards were manned, the howitzers were fired, and the band playing in the best style of Herr ltimbaoh, the leader our own Amerioan air, " Home, Sweet Home," and thus ended the last aot in this event ful drama. In the evening many presents were sent aboard, consisting of costa de omen y beber, among whioh predominated the favorite tipple of the facetious and jovial Falstaff, and here called sakes. Those who have visited the shore to-day all agree its the vastness of the city, and desoribe it as built on lofty bills, ascended by many steps, and traversel by noble rivers, spanned by elegant bridges. The style of architecture Is not Imposing; the palatial residences are surrounded by high walls, enclosing vast areas of highly cultivated gardens, fish-ponds, and ornamental trees. The residence of our able and excellent minister, Mr Harris, is one of the ancient temple; which he has made finite comfortable by the addition of many American notions. For the officers of this ship a temple •has boon prepared. horses, nori• mono, and guides bays also been placed at their disposal, and thus far there has been evinced a disposition to reciprocate tbo civilities extended to the Japanese ambassadors while on their visit to the United States. A Prueriun fleet is now at anchor In the bay of Jeddc, having aboard a minister charged with the negotiation of a treaty of amity and commerce. Thus far but little progretis has been made, the Japanese oaring but little to extend the eirolo of their commercial acguaintanoes. It is presumed, however, that they will again become the victims of noeeeity. The Niagara will remain hero ten days. 36111 CONGRESS---SECOND SESSION. WAgIIINGTON, Jan. 23.1961. The Renate le not in sermon to-day, having adjourned over till Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. GROW, of Pennsylvania. offered a resolution that the 9eleet Committee of Five, appointed on the 7th instant,be fnotruoted to inquire whether any seemt organ' gal ion, hostile to thd Government of the United States, existsn the District of Colurhtna. and, , f Be, whether any & i hoer or employees of the city of Wash ington, or officer or employee of the Federal GOVerli ment, in the Daeoutive or Judicial Department, are members thereof. . . Mr: lillß^ , Ett, of Kentucky. I desire to know, and It ie certainly due to the House to blow, whether any reason or fact exists for putting on foot any ennh in vindication. It is a re fl ection on the city of Washing ton and the Federal Government, and ought net to tie entertained, unless the gentleman front Pennsylvania states, on his responsibility, that there is such a Con spiracy. As for myself, I don't believe in any such con spiracy. I don't believe that any purpose is contem plated, either by the citizens of this District, or the ad joining State, of making any foray or raid en this city, cm interfering with the peaceful inauguration of the ?resident of the gentleman's choice. It doeo Berm to MO right and proper that such a statement should be mane br the gentleman from Pennsylvania before we iiaugurate proceedings directly reflecting on the patri otism and faithfulness of the people of the District to tho Federal Government. A more miserable, con. temptibie mode of engendering. bail feeling. and making the exeiiensent worse than it in now. could not be in troduced, Mr. 0 NOW. I would MA have offered the resolution - unless I tied supposed there was something to base it on. Mr. COX, of Ohio. Is debate in order The RPEA ERR. ( did not understand the gentleman from Kentucky as objecting to the resolution. if ha did, then (lobate is not in Meet, Mr. BRANCH. of North Carollha. I Will otjeet to the resolution until 1 see the Chairman of the Belem Committee ( Mr. Howard, of Mishigan ,/ in hie seat. Mr. ORO W. Isp ke to the Chairman yesterday re garding this resolution, and it met aoh bin sanction. I have reason to believe that there was anal %dawn en tertained by some persons in the employ of the Govern. merit. To What trztont it bee gone I don't know, and tor-that reason I dieted the rdsolution. If gentlemen on the other aide dOn't want to investigate the huNadt hey an ()bleat, and that would afford better cvtdenoty that there is w meth ng in it. Mr. BURNETT. I have not (Naito' , to the resolu lion. It the member says tit. re is reason for the inves tigation, he that have It as thorough as he desiaes. Therefore there etas no neeessity for the remar Its being objected to w o o d afford evidence of the exis t- eane of goat aeons weep - . Mr OKO W. I deinand the previous question. Mr. hie YNARD. of renneesec, lelairn the right to nay a word persona to myself Mr. GROW I plight to have avid that the gentlBman Ciotti Tennessee ( M r, Ma. nerd I yeah:oda,. afternoon ob jested teo the resolutions, bewared of the fewness of rh i e l 7l l 4:A e k. git r" The question is nowon the adoption of the resoletton, Mr. KUNKEL. of hlaryland. f object to the regolu lion. [Cries from the Repuo loan side. oo late.'] I announced m. intention to object to it long since. As the gentleman from Pennaylvanta indulted in some re marks reflections on this side of the MOURN and as he desired tomb Ono to take the reeponsibility of objecting to this miserable imposition, which se a reflection on the people of Maryland. I will tell him that there is one hero to ahem, end I am he! Mr. GROW. I o nlled the prtvioue queetion. Mr. BRANCH. I said I would objeot until the Chair man of the Committee came in, hut I have sice been informed that the resolution was agreeable to ` but. Mr KUAKEL. I have trey iigt to on this floor. and they (sonnet be taken away from mo to any marl I have the nt ht to object to the w solpticn under the roles Os anon as I could, get the rev- guttion of the Opesker. will never relinquish any right. I repeat my objection The -Pe AREo said he would not attempt to deprive the gentleman of anv right; hut the gentleman ftdm Pennsylvania demanded the previoua re c og nized by the mmtlemat from Mar) land wan recognized by the ahem. - • - r KUNKEL. I was on tho The BPh AKER. But the Ontleman was not teoog nizedi Mr. KGNK FL. lam aware that the gentleman who i oocusies the chair s not well disposed toward me at any time )Caes on the Republican side of '• Oreer Mr. CRC GB, of North Carolina, wanted to offer an amendmen Mr. CY KV W. I have demanded outhe previs question. Mr. CR. SIG R. amid much Conmum lamented his amendment as follow t And that the oommatee !?'ir trier inquire by what authority troo_pa are atatlone on the southern sire of the Capitol. W lie it to control the proceedings here at the point of the bayonet and mouth of the cannon C. Mr. Grow's resolution wae then adopted. Mr. THOMAS. of Ternessee. Prearnted reaolehelle of the Les islature of 9 ensessee, in response to the re seiluPons or the Legislature of hew York, concluding with the follow ing t Whenever the authorities of the latter State fiend a military force the -oath for the purpoee of coercion, the people of Tennessee will tante with the South to resist snob invest nat all hasards." The resolutions sere laid on the table and ordered be printed. K The SPEAER laid before the House a nietenge from the President. thinning with his objections the bid for the relief of Hockaday and Leggett. Amon, other things the P. csident says that the bill whin!' passed the last session of Congress which he had hot time to examine before the adjournment, came -1 "mated 340 feu and that the bill now vetoed appropri ates 821)100 additional, or in all 869 076 The loth in volves important prmoiples, which, if recognized, will take largo sums out of the treasury. Mr. BURNS I T advocatedthe bill. He did not care how much was required Mr the payment of a claim, if it Wail right. Mr. ALL, h I', of Massachusetts, mid this bill wae in relation to the mail service, and no subject ever ex oi ed more discussion or indignation than this one. The veto wen a m et extraordinary_ proceeding on the part of the President though the President had exor cised an linguae toned constitutional right. if be thought the hill wag wrong : but there were strong leyal Maim foe the amount proposed to be appropriated —the veto should not be sustained. Alr. B 4ANCH. sustained the Prealdent'in thus per forming his duty. Mr. LitgAll3.B. of Mireouri, and other gentlemen. made remarks on the cubical. The question was then taken on the missare of the bill, notwithstanding the objections of the President. The motion was negatived, 'yeas et, nays 67—not two• thirds, as required by the Conatitution in such cages. The Rouse resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee of Thirty-three. Mr. (ILA RK, of Miegouti set ont by declaring that wo a ein the midst of a revolution. He traced the history of the a every agitation, which commended at the turns Motour/ was Admitted into the Union, and referred to the several compromises 'which had temporarily re storedpeace. But since the Reptiblioan party nos been formed the country hail been disquieted. The emis resulting from the agitation of the question have cul minated, and now it depends on that partyto nay whe ther the Government shall endure, and the Union he preserved. State after State has withdrawn from the Confederacy, and these vacant seats speak with an eloquence oommandins the attention of nil Parties. The eolith, never attempted to late from the North any constitutional right in the Territorleo, or affiliating the property nr personal liberty of their Gib zene. Ho Defied the proof. Be stoke of the aggres sions of the North on the South. including the poisone.l- liberty bills. and of the organizations to steal Mares rind prevent their recapture. Southern coil, too, hail been invaded, anti efforts made to create a servile in surrection, with all its attendant horrors. Besides, Mr. Lincoln was opposed to the °actuator' of negroes from the polls, and had expressed the opinion the.. the Union could not stana half slave and halt tree. Mr. FARNSWORTH. of Illinois, said Mr. Lincoln was not in favor of disunion., Mr. CLARK said it Woo found in the remarks he had quoted. MY afilliniiMPuTagoiMUK/0410-Xell.Peman was his remarks. He expressed the beiief that the Critten den compromise Would give peace to the country. Why will not the Republicans submit this to the people ? Mr. HO. RD, of how York, inquired if the 'Rates did Dot agree to that proposition would Moreton remain in the Union. Mr. CLARK replied that he would submit it as a basis of compromise. Mionouri was to favor of remaining so the Union us long as they could remain with honor and safety; but he would tell him We must have our cons itutiOnal rights on terms of equalit in all the de nartreenis of the Gnvernmont. willremain with no people. nor in any Government, so inferiors. Mr. HOARD. Then you'll seem your constitutional rights in a constitutional way ? Mr. CLARK replied that lie would first exhaust all constitutional means; but he wend tell the Republi cans that. unless something bee eedily done to mature ponce, and give the Border 'states Minim:it, Oa of their const Mooned rights, the Union cannot be ,preserved, and they will go where they eon better find their inter este protected. Rat he hoped they would be Spared from such a necetniity. Mr. GIL NI bit' , of North Carolina, did not think It too late yet to do something by which this Government one be preserved, and peace and harmony teetored to the grommet natiAn and people on the earth. At firet,scoes mon vas anvoonted as peaceful • but now, ft wee coins alt it could to break up the Government by means of violence. The Reoesaioniets are not willing to give time for reflection. They had nent telegraphic dempatehee hence, still further to Inflame the • outh ern mind and heart, and run them into minimise and inconsiderate oonaiderate notion. orth Carolina and Virginia nro about to call Conventions. What Is the comes of the men pow professing to desire to Dteterve the Union? lie referred to the manifesto signed b ten Virginia Longressmen, in which, they nay there is no none Inc any measure from Congress that the South can sootier. rho conclusions from this paper were. Brat, that Virginia's only safety is in leaving the Union, had the second propoction. which is equally deceptive, is that this is the our way to procure a reoonatr not on of the Union. eo, arnestiy appealed to the . epuolioar e. who 1 eve the power. to sot at onott. Bedtime extreme Southerners think nothing will be done by the Republi eons, they hose to keep their asetten inflamed and break up the Government. th, something, end nationalise ourselvee, mid sou will receive the b timings of all good people for pyenerving th e country. Give us the C , menden proposition, or the renollitiOns of the Border State Committee; but he preferred the former. If not this, give us the propositions to the report of the Com mittee of . hiity-Three ; but whatever was eons, let all men so together on the terr.torial qeestion. He alluded to the misrairesentaii es of the North and Southosnich o tendid to inflame the minds of the people. He discussed the proposition that the slavery question, though enveloped in difficulty, could easily be 'witted if gentlemen would amount it in a fair, honatt, and calm spirit. name need not be a serious diffioulty on this point. In conoluelon, he eloquently appealed to the Republi cans and others to mute heart and It ind in the settle ment of the questione which now distract the (wintry, Mr. A LI, r. , of Maaimehusette, said be had alwaye believed until now that this Governor •nt would never be overthrown the faith in the wiedom of man are a uded the lima that a Union of such inestimable value— espeoiaity to that section which threatened is dawn°. tion—whose interests, above all others, thle Union alone could proteot and preserve. could ne ohmovered, ms. tory turn thee no parallel to mill political suicide. tint we must deal with facts as are—investtgate and act in the tp,rit of patriotism and wise statesmanship—look ing to the fume as well as ho present He portrayed the evils or oieunion to boat Erato= a• d wh la it would be serious to nth. the North bee much to hope in the future, and but .title to fear is the pretreat. while the South had ever. thieg to love and nothing to gain b. d minion Pile North, in the end, would be no worse MT, for her vast resources and mighty power would malts her toe matter of this ooetment. .he trade of tee sou 11, he said, /Via been over estimates. and he proved by statistics that. commerelall. and finanoially, the oorth would he better oil with the eenesolon of the slave States than it would be in the Union with them, unless tneir interests could harmonize. The additional trade from Csnada, and from Coutral America and Maxtor., would more than oompensate four old the loss we should sustain by diminished trade with the booth. lie would not compromae nor give any more gu irantoec to slavery. let the coneequences be what they might. Nothing would tend to preserve the Union so much to firronees and adherence to 'pimple on the pat of the North The North stood where the great men of toe South line alway s stood upon the question of slavery until a very recent perior. That because the South had °bawd, was no reason whir the North should abandon its deep-rooted convictions. The North had beep forbearing and forgiving, while the South hsd,been aggressive to proscription. o lie North had no power nor no desire to interfere with slavery in the States but they would be degenerate sons of meet worthy mires if they consented to too extension of slavery into the Ter ritories. 'I he South, he said, had had Perseemon of the National Governmen , for more than half a century and her eons had monopolized a large ohne of the offices and emoluments and received the lion's share of the appropriations He said the North had paid for tune, rears more than three-fourths of the revenue. and most of it had been spent for the benefit of the booth. fie loud the booth to its arbitrary exeredee of power, RAtI its propagendiam, had a parable in the reign et James tne second, who was a propagandist of the Roman Catholics religion, and to servo that intermit he sowed Ina power and violated the Constitution, and wee driven into exile as a reward for Me tyranny, So lt wee with the stave poWei—it had been driven into exile, he taunted so returniess as that of James. Re vindicated hlassmilinsetts, and :said she weld be true t i?n i l l o i n h W r s I t t er ' e n o a o i r ° d b o l I l i Ve " r ° 4 l l ' s to ry' e . vindicated licelier Governor, and crud that Massachusetts bad had twenty one Governors since l7eU. all of them able and dietinguielied—meet el them eminent, ano mime of them ilitietrious—and in'every kiting that coneltutes true greatimell or mind anti character, not one among them all was the Bllparior of John A. Andrew. He hod faith in the wisdom and patriotism of the American people, and if they wore true to their convictione, they had a future most hopeful, a mission most important, and a deettny meet 'donee.. Mr. Sn YOH, of Virginia, obtained the floor and the Renee adlourned. Markets by Telegraph CIZIOINNATI. Jan. 26.—Flour.tinehensed: there was not much doing to•da77 Wtazoty •eelle at 140. Bogs hrmer at 5 . 6 4006.C0. Mess Pork in better demand at 817. Bulk Meats hold 3.0 higher. Lard dull at 9.!;o. None, market quiet. Exotumge on New York, 3d Pot' gent. CHICAGO. lan. 20.—Flour quiet. Wheat firm at 800 8014. c. for No. 1, and 71'S )713;o for N 0.2. Corn quiet; sales of 10,000 bushels At WO for N 0.2 in store. unit. aqnuiet. 48.000 bus Receip helsof C ts 2,900 t o bia Flour, 8.000 bushels Mist, d Itqw OuLsaxs. January 25.—NVelther very wet. Cot ton sales to day 8 000 befell at 10110113 be for middling salon of the week 62500 bales, tfeempte of the week bales against 62500 to corresponding period halt year. Experts of the week 247 000 bales. Total to date this season 1 140 600 bales. Deoreased receipts at this pert to date 161 800 bales Do. at all the ports 630000 bales. Stook in pert 217.681 bales Coffee firm at Wits 123.40. A took 49 000 bags against 49,200 at same time last F, o ,ghts—one penny asked on C , tton to Liver pool. but only Nee29 32d hoe rat been paid. NEW Oar BANS. Jan. 26 —Cotton 6 1 eady ; sales tmder of 0 60e bales at 101,1011%"e. Mutat steady at 405 e. Mo lasses 21a230. Flour quiet at 86 60 corn—Yellow. 600. Mere Perk 821 60. Freights en Coven to Liverpool 110. Exchange en London 2%40 per tent. prem.; on New York ,'Bali per cant discount. MOBILR, January 21.—Cotton—sales to-day of 4 000 b Ace at 110 for middling Sales of the week 24 OKI bale ei Cement 29.000 again t 32 00, last year. Decrease in the re OP ipts nt this port 106 300 bale. 3 Sparta of the week SAO bales Stock in port 84 000 bales. Freishm on Cot ton to Liverpool Id. Sterling exohange 33605 Der Cent prelnlUM. BAL T mint. January 26.—Flour dull and heavy; How ard-street and Ohio 86 EO. City Mills 8625• no Pales. Wheat dull at 81 25 ol 30 for white. and el tool 60 for old. Corn dull and heavy at E 110620 for ) e I low and 670 680 for white. Provisions sotivo at ;)1025 for mess. Lard 103f0. Coffee steady at 11 0-16 re 1234 o. Whisky nominal at Me. THE CITY. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING W A LNIIT-9TIMET TITIOLTILL Walnut and Ninth at '' — '. The Vlatime"—"The Lone Star; or, The Texan Bravo." NVYIBATLET & CLABRIC'EI 412.011-STRIIRT Tit/CITRIC. Aroh at*eet, above Bath.—"Aamlet, The Prime of Denmark." McDoriovarre OLYMPIC (late Galatia), Race etreet, below Third.—" The hieven hietere." CONTINIttiVa. TIMATHE ALM CIIICIS. Walnut Street. above Mr hth." The Merchant E teed of Genoa, or The Innkeeper and the Robbers." UNITED STATES BUILDINGS, Chestnut street. below Fifth.—Van Aitiburgh & Co.'s Menagerie. SANFORD's OPERA. 110118 X. Eleventh street. ebovf Chestnut.—Concert Kinds. THE CRAWFORD HOMICIDE It was supposed that the testimony in this case had closed on Friday, but on Saturday, while Mr. Hanna was opening the argument on behalf of the Commonwealth, Mr. Bull annduneed to the court the arrival of Robert Furlough, the witness of whose absence So mach complaint has been made. As he was of importance to the prisoner, it was de sirable that he should_ be examined. Mr. Mann said he would interpose no objections; but, if the case was opened, ho wished to examine a witneas as to a fact which bad cometo his know ledge but the evening before, after he had reached his home. Messrs. Bull and Kelley said they would object to the Commonwealth offering any additional testi mony, except as rebuttal to anything that might be said by Furlough. The Court allowed both parties to offer testi mony. Robert Furlough then testified that he worked for Mr. Crawford; recolleoted Friday, the 21st of September last ; he was at work that day from six o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock in the evening, excepting about half an hour for dinner; be did not ace the prisoner there that day; ha recollected the lady calling about oar , pet. On oross.examination he said that lie was at work all the week between the same hours, and did not tee Armstrong at the shop. (Armstrong admits that he was there on Thursday.) Mr Robinson, the boolmakor ' was now malted for the Commonwealth, and he testified that when Armstrong bought the boots be left a pair of gait ers to be mended, and after the arrest he examined them and found a rod stein in the inside of the Congress webbing. He further testified that when he ordered the boots ho inquired the price of a trunk, stating that he would soon go to Pittsburg, and he would need one The argument was then prcoeoded with, and will be concluded today. A DAY OF SlumffiliG.—Yeaterday was the Drat day of winter whereon the sleigh-bells were called into service. The few insignificant snows that had previously broken the reign of slush and filth found no permanent bottom, so that they melted away, Bat on Saturday, at an early hour, the Lineal:lakes began to fail—tiny, but with great velocity and thickly clustering. The air woe filled with them. They sometimes whirled in online eddies, and again drove smartly into the pedestrian's face, as if barbed and pointed They grappled the cobble-stones, and made fast to the ice on suburban ponds, so that when Sunday morning emerged from the darkness with a bright and ruddy fate, be looked down up o n a city veiled with white, and paler than a bride. All the roofs were white, and the granite pavements of Chest nut street. Some little boys went about with a fragment of "hunting a j3b;" and the church - belle chimed vary sweetly in the clear air, over a world of snow. fhe elolgh-bells that had 1 grown rusty after a twelvemonth were again in requisition, and the ancient basket that bad slum bered in the loft was pegged to the painted run nera ; robes which grinned curiously through eyes of buttons and bead were stuffed in the jumper that curved like a swan, kith runners that arched over Wilke a neck, and, while folk of devout in clination hazarded a bruised body for a secure soul over the slippery curbs, the merry men were mounted on a seat, with taut reins and a jaunty whip, behind a pair of equines, whose manes were streaming in the wind. They passed out the Ridge to the Wissahickon ; the creek glittered, half roofed with ice, under the hills. blades were hanging from fissures in the rocks, like great congealed tears from the eyes of the wretched in the Inferno. The trees were bare, save the cedars and a few pines, whose clus tering boughs were bent under masses of snow. The turnpike, that hugs the stream, was trodden by a hundred boots. Far up in the steeps, rifts of rook pointed out, heaped with white; and tbo slelghbells jingled among the hills, almost as mu sically as the rivulets that ran in cascades, with a pleasant tune, toward the creek. The fences were growing old and silvered ; on every curving hill a ribbon of white lay thin against the sky, and some 505 w birds hopped in the road to be frighten ed away by the swift-footed teams. In the afternoon, it seemed all the livery stables wore removed to the "flail," the "Log Cabin" or the "Valley Green." "Roughs" by scores, with soaped locks and a ferocity of feature, ran races upon the "pike," with hired nags, and shouts that made the air tremulous. "flay hays!" said these gentlemen; "whop. oop ! Go in, ole boss!"—said " boss " implying themselves, rather than the tugging quadruped whose bide was wet and smoking, Behind them pressed ladies and children, red-eheeked and half frightened, sturdy arms of fathom and sweethearts holding the reins. In the evening, the "roughs" Caine back, drunken and profane, the ponies goaded into an agony of fright and boat,—through the bridge, down the hill, over the ridge, and home. Some there were of a quiet eye, who drove peacefully and temperately, taking in at every point the beauties of the winter. To snob, there may have been some fannies, not unlike the rhymes : When the weary week of winter • Wasteth away its snow. And the entitles air is laden with prayer, and the be , ls In the spires strike They love to leave the city, Ls memories mn.d2.14. RAILWAY COLLISION—NARROW ESCAPE. —On Saturday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a serious collision took place on the Second street railway at Dock street, A passenger ear belonging to Second and lbird-etreet line was golog down Second street, and a freight train be longing to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was immediately in the rear of it. At the came moment another mule train was coming up.Dook street, cross Second, and the progress of the pan t:longer-oar being thus cut off. it was of course com pelled to atop. The driver jerked his horses sud denly aronndy and the tongue broke. The animals. tamped In this way. In the meantime the freight train, which was going down Second street ; bad each an impetus that ita speed could not be checked, and the passenger car was jammed between the oars passing down Second street and those that were coming up Deck etreet. • The passenger oar WOO badly crushed, tho plat forms being carried away, the roof mashed, and the oar generally wrecked. The driver and con ductor saved themselves by jumping, and several passengers who were in the oar escaped unhurt, but they were much frightened. The mules attached to the freight train, on Second street, were thrown into great confusion, and two of them were crushed to death by the coca they were draw ing. The accident caused much excitement for a time. A HOUSE OF CORRECTION WANTED.— All persona convicted of felony in this State are sentenced by law to separate or solitary confine ment, but that cannot be carried out so far as re lates to the county prison. In the male convict de partment of that inetitution there are one hundred and ninety six oells, and two hundred and eighty eight convicts ; consequently, there are in some of the cells two, and in °there three persons. In some cases it is impossible to separate those con victed of the highest offense, because of the want of room The Germans recently sentenced to long terms of impri,onment for the commission of bur glaries in the Twenty-third ward are not all con• fined separately, as the law contemplates. But this does not apply alone to the male department. In the female department the same state of things exists. There are but ninety six cells for the two hundred prisoners now confined in them, and in some there are as high se four prisoners. Under this mate of things it is diffioelt to maintain disci pline in the institution. If a louse of Correction is not soon built, it will be necessary to furnish ad ditional accommodations for the prisoners in those departments of the county prison now devoted to misdemeanors and breach of the peace notes COTTON COMING OYER THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD —Since the commencement of active secession movements in the South, a great change has taken place in some of the channels of trade between the North and the South. The people of South Carolina have virtually destroyed Charles- ton as a shipping port, and the trade that has hitherto found Its way there now seeks new outlet!. Heretofore large quantities of cotton was sent from Memphis to Charleston by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. and from Charleston it was rent North by sea. This cotton now goes up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Pittsburg. Foam Pittsburg it is brought east on the oars of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company The supplies for New Eegland are sent from Philadelphia to Providence, R. I. Trade that is dammed up at one outlet will find new channels for itself The Charlestonians, in putting an embargo upon their port, are damaging themselves badly in all re spects, and in the item of the shipment of cotton they are not only hurting themselves, but they are helping Northern railroad companies. INTERESTING lIIEETING AT ST. PAUL'S PRO TESTANT EPISCOPAL Cannen.—The pastoral and society conncoted with this church held their se end anniversary last evening. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Potter presided. A very interesting report was read by the secretary, showing the work which had engaged their labors, from which it appeared that various prayer•meetings bad been inaugura ted, visiting the sick, distributing tracts, and other works of benevolence intended to relieve the pastor. Eloquent addresses were delivered by the Rev. Bent Watson, Wm. Welsh, Esq., who woe exceed ingly happy in his remarks Marks E. Lex, 179 followed in a few pertinent remarks intended to show the neeeesity of working Christians.. Bishop Potter, in a short address, heartily commended the work, and said the °ample of this _parish was being imitated by those around them. Tun bit AND NAVIGATION.—The ice in the Delaware Is annually a source of great loss to vessel-owners. We have heard of acme twenty Philadelphia vessels lost this season by the driving ice, nearly half of which went down In the Chesa peake bay. The sloop Ellen was out through at Reedy Island on Thursday last. A large cake of ice struck her on the flood, and carried her ashore. The boat filled, and in consequence all of the goods were damaged, and some of the groceries were partially lost. Through the assistance of the crew of the Spray, which was close at band, the Ellen. was suflielently repaired to proceed on her way to Bridgeton, whore she is now lying at tho wharves. BARROW Isom' .—On Saturday evening about 3 °gook, a aleigh containing a lady and gen tleman, whose names we could net ascertain, was upset by running over a dirt heap, at Obriatian and Tenth streets, whieh has been suffered to stand in the middle of the street for neatly a month past. The lady was thrown out in the enow, and the home, in his fall, rolled over upon her, appa rently injuring her severely. The gentleman es caped untnjared. Two or three men came to the reecue, and after extricating the lady she wee put into the sleigh, and the gentleman drove off. AN EXPRIterVa SLEIGH RIDE.—On Satur day afternoon, a gentleman loft a horse attached to a sleigh Mending at Eleventh and Shippen etreete, while ho went Into hie home to bring his wife and daughter. While in the house, Boma per con jumped into the sleigh and drove off. Infor mation was left at the Seventh-ward station-houee, and a man named Thomas Brown was arrested, at Fifteenth and Pine attests, with the sleigh, con taining himself and two young girls. Thomas was taken before Alderman Potshot and committed, In default of bail, to answer at court. SZSBNADEI TD SENATOR. o.2o4}llollc.—Mr. Cameron arrived in this city on Saturday afternoon and took quarters at the Girard House. 4. large number of his friends tendered him the compli meat of a serenade and proceeded to his hotel at a late hour. After several patriotic airs by the band, Mr. Cameron made his appearance and spoke as follows : " Fellow citizens of Philadelphia thank ydit for this demonstration. lam not vain enough td believe that it is because of any personal merit in myself. I know it' arises from the deep interest you take in the unfortunate condition of publics alt. fairs Philadelphia is the metropolis of our State',. in which every Pennsylvanian takes d The labor of her.working men and mediae:cm bast not only built up and embellished this gfeitelty,- but sae developed the resources and power tie our Commonwealth. You believe that, in all thing, 1 have sympathized and aetod with you, and there fore yon honor me by your presence. It has, in deed, been ever my pride to have at heart, and to promote to the extent of my feeble ability, the in terest of the laboring classes. My own early life was employed in manual labor, snd in after life, in every nubile station which I have occupied, my mind and energies have been devoted to the ink,. rests of the working man and the development of the resources of the country. Your appearance here convinces me that my course is appresie.tisdi and approved by you. "Bat you ask rue to speak of the Union. It is fti danger Misguided man in the South, eating under' imaginary wrongs, have controlled publio opinions there against the Union. The calm, seneible. and patriotic mon there are - prevented from exereiaing the influence whiob is due to their positions for the public welfare. The mob spirit reigns triumphant. six States have declared themselves out of the Union, and in several of them armies have been organized and put in the attitude of war. Our *ate and our arsenals have been seized and the prehlth property of the country has been forcibly takom possession of by men who act the, Constitution met laws of the country nt defiance. "To stay the progress of this rebellion, and to preserve the integrity of the Border Slave States, which have, as yet, maintained their fidelity to the Union eometking is required to be done on our part to etreng'hen the power and the Influence of the Union-loving men of those States. In Mary land, non men as the heroic Hicks, the leaflets; Davis, and the learned and pltnotfe Reverdy Johnson; In Virginia, such spirits as Wm. EJ. Rives, Sherrard Clemens John M. Botts, Jame." Barbour, and others; in Kentucky, such patrioteea Crittenden, Guthrie, Powell, Prentice, and their like; in Tennessee, the lion-hearted Andrew John eon, John Bell, Ethridge, Nelson ' and a hoot of others; in North Carolina, ouch as Morehead, Gra ham, Badger, Gilmer, and many others like them in ell the Southern States, deserve and commend., themselves to our kindliest sympathies. The , conduct of theca noble spirits appeals to us for emulation of their own relf-racrifieing spirit. Shall , we, ray fallow citizens, be lees generous than titter prove themtolves to be? Unless the border slave , state_ aihore in their integrity, the union will be at an'end If we but afford those met! ground to' stand I upon, to maintain themselves RV reefs:RV the mad spirit of eecession wont therm:tars them, the ' integrity of those Staten will be maiglethedt and the Union be preserved. Shall Pennsylvarlits. ht lull a border State, hesitate in this emergent:7 r to extend to them her sympathy and her Support in their efforts to save the Union ? " I am ono of those who 'supported the election, and mean to sustain the administration of Mr Lin coln, cordially and faithfully, upon the prinoiplee laid down in the Chicago platform. Bat lam wil ling to make any reasonable conceseion, not invol ving a vital principle, to rave this great country from anarchy and bloodshed, and to preserve the proud position which it occupies before the world. We may have material prosperity in a Northern Republic, but a aeparation brings with it the loss of all influence upon the destinies of the world. It is not necessary to take a step baokwarda in sup porting the reeoinHonsof Mr. Crittendea, whist' seem to meet the full approbation of the people of this city, if it be amended so as not to extend to territory hereafter to be acavli-ad, and to remove from It the feature which proposes to incorporate into the Constitution the doctrine of the Bred Scott deolsion. „I prefer to leave the Constitution on that sub jest as made by our fathers, until reason shall have again assumed her proper sway over the pub lic mind, In other words, lam ready and wil ling that the Missouri Compromise shall be re stored. The repeal of that measure led to the or ganization of the Itepublioan party. Upon that question it gained its strength and secured its vte tory If now our Union-loving brethren of the slave border Eqates shall be willing to unite with us in its restoration, and accept that as the basis of settlement of existing difficulties, why should we hesitate thus to meet them? " There sentiments I took °cession to express A. few days eines, in my place in the Senate of the United States. In doing so, I did not mean to en dorse ail the sentiments expressed by, my ool league, Mr. Bigler, but only meant cordially, to express my approbation of the spirit and senti ment in favor of the Union which he expressed. I did, however, express my willingness to support and vote for his proposition, if that would satisfy the violent men of the South, and bring them bank to their duty. His proposition is simply to submit the Crittenden amendments to a vote of the people of the States for their adoption or rejection As s. last resort, when Congress shall prove itself incom petent to adjust existing diffionities, and when the disruption of the Union into two Confederacies shall bee,ome inevitable, I shall hold it to bo my duty to job" in an appeal to the people to take the ma tt er t u t t e.their own Minds, and determine It in their own way ; as they may deem best. "F or a m e w°, I have never yet seen public opinion wrong, fm„.med after fall deliberation and reflection. This Is a Government not of States, but of the people of the St.atae, and they will not stiffer this glorious Confedera ey to be destroyed at the dlotation of selfish agitatsyrs.whe may be governed by personal ambition. .. 14.01 thg in all efforts, either to Congress, or by ,action on the part of the people themselves, to re...."r"ne°ll and harmony. and civil strife must come upon no, I shall be found among the eons of cennsYlvania, in defence of her soil, her principles. and her late rests," At-the conclusion of his speech, wlichthe s. was and congratulated " tire course he has pursued since the open,:ng of Congress. Tnz I.lll,tratcr. l : 2 4he Infantry Regiment; Second Brigade, Colonel Conroy, will - paraae On the 22d of February, and also on St. Fatriek's day. A company of lads, milled the "National Guard Owlets," is about being formed, with the intention of co-operating with the National Guard Regiment. Colonel Lyle, it is und oratood, gives the movement his encouragement, and has offered them the use of the Guards' armory, fox two evenings in the week, for drill. The parties in it are young man, from 1$ to 20 years of age. They have been hold ing their meetings at the Southwark engine house. If it should prove successful, the Cadets will prst bably parade with the National Guard Regiment some time during the ensuing rummer. -- --- A number of young men are forming a military company in the southwestern part of this city, They hold their meetings every Wednesday aVit , ning, at Nineteenth and South streets. The emu. Pau will be attached to Colonel Dare's Battalion, Third Brigade, and will probably constitute the second company of Continental Guards. A new company hos recently been started, call ed the Philadelphia Guards. Their armory is on Broad Street, above Pine, and they have been un der the instruction of Capt. Bekendorif, an expert. eared and capable officer. The company is said to Oompriso come good material, and will be attached to the Artillery Regiment, First Brigade. A corps of about twenty lade, called the Shields' Cadets, in honor of Captain Shields, of the United Guards, has been formed, and will hold a drill on boat Thursday afternoon at the State Arsenal budding. Oa Saturday evening, Major Richards, of the Washington Artillerists of Pottsville, was surprised by a handsome testimonial made to him by his friends at the•6irard Rouse. A number or speeches wore made, and a fine time generally in dulged In. TEE BURNS OHLEBRATIOII AT GERMAN- Tows —Besides the celebration in this city, on Fri day evening, of the anniversary of Bootland's great peat, the Burns Club of Germantown also Observed the event. Four large tables were set, and about one hundred and fifty couples Bat down. Mr. Hobart Hamilton, president of the °lob, pre sided. Mr. Oassiday of Germantown, delivered the address to the Haggis, " which was well re ceived. Songs were sung and speeches delivered by Messrs. A. T. Smith, A. Goyim George and William Hogg, of Philadelphia, Messrs. Burns, Taylor, MaCeeohin, of Germantown, and others which were rapturously applauded. After "Auld Lang Syne" was given the floor was cleared, and the whole company went into dancing in fine style, which was kept up with spirit till an early hoar on Saturday morning. MRETINO OP IiELIMOKIaNS.-011 &AUT. day evening, In pursuanee of a published call, a nnm ; bor of Kentuckians, resident in this city, assem bled at the American House. The objeot of the meeting was to express their fidelity to the Union, and urge the Legislature and Governor of Kentucky to pursue snob a course of polio) , as will best promote the perpetuity of the Union. There wore but twelve persons present. Dr. Gress pre sided, and Jesse E. Peyton, Esq., acted as semi tory. Mark Mundy offered a series ot resolutions, pledging the Kentuckians of Pennsylvania to sus tain every effort of Governor Mageffin to keep Ken tucky within the Union. The resolutions were postponed for consideration at another meeting. After a debate of a conversational ohmmeter, the meeting adjourned until Tuesday evening, when the Kentuckians will convene at the same place.® ANOTHER OP VIE GANG.—In THE PRESS of Saturday we noticed the arrest of five of the no torious gang of " Spiokets " who infest the lo cality of Twenty third and Callowhill streets, and keep the whole neighborhood in terror. Another of the same gang of outlaws, known as William Loughlin, alias Yank, has been arrested upon the charge of committing an assault and battery and breaking in the door of a shop at Twenty third and Callowhill streets lie was held in $l,OOO bail by Alderman Hutchinson, to answer at court. We arc pleased to see that the police of the Fif• tenth division, under Lieut. Barons, are deter mined to break up this gang of outlaws, and we have no doubt but that in a very short time they will be considerably tamed down, THE CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE!! VIiITOBS. —On Saturday morning, at eleven o'clook, the delegations from Chicago and Milwaukee left this city for Washington. They will return tomorrow, and start from Philadelphia for their Western homes 6n Wednes• day afternoon. The strangers express themselves much gratified with their reception and entertain. ment hare I Before starting South, on Saturday morning, the strangers 'Jetted the room of the Corn Exchange, at Second and Gold streets, where they were hand somely entertained by the members of the Corn Exchange Association. A collation was partaken of there. THRtTY•SEVENTH GRADUATING CLASS OF T.SIZ 0. 8.. S.—At a meeting of the next graduating class of the Central High School for the purpose of forming a literary soCiety, to banned the Thirty seventh Graduating Class Reunion, the following ofilaers were eleeted : President—Thomas J. Ma gill ; Vice President—Adam Keller, Jr. ; Corte. spending Secretary—Geo. Rershleg, Jr. ; Record ing secretary—Frederick Sehober ; Treasurer-3 Oliver Winchester; Editor—Edwin Laertee Alt hea. Robt. Peter Deohert was ohoeen to septa sent the class in the Alumni. Tao Sounilvass SOUP FOCIMY have dis tributed the past week 3 500 loaves of bread, and 6,5 0 gonna of soup. The demands on the society are constantly increasing, now reaching nearly sla hundred families, averaging tour persons, who are supplied daily. They appeal most earnestly to the charitable for areistaaeo. RIDIOSEID Viev OF NEW OBLEANS MAE- Etna —lt is said that a battalion of firemen from New Orleans, oompoEed of one engine, one hose, and ono trunk company, intend to visit the prin cipal cities of the North and West, in the craning summer. Among the planes they contemplate visiting we may mention New York, Albany, Troy, Heal°, Philadelphia, end Harrisburg.
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