tit • 1,-. 1; amluvw 1.10011. 7ii - EDNESDAYMORNM, JAN.I6, 1861. IL. BARRETT Jc-MOMAIL Q biAoDOWSLL, pub ' WM* all*PrOprietors. goluelluthedlouswiltiot be published in the PATazor 111:11 Ono' untemseeesepaided.mith - She , MIMS of the . S. 41111. PET TENGIILL Ale CO., Advertising AgentaillOdimeau street e Now.York, and Whits street, Bootoorese.the Agentslor thee RAIIIOI AlD:llmi, and the most induetitial and largest circa /Wag newspapers:in , the Iledted-EStates And Oesadtat: They are authorised to contraotforus at ouriewastrates FOR SALE. • - - .11. second-hand ADANSitRIISOf piston 39X tryleinches, In good order; ran be.worked either , by hand or steam weer. Terme moderate Inquire at this office. To Members of the Legislature. Tlcll DAILY PATRIOT be.turnished-to Members of the Legislateroduririg the session at the low price of OsititoLLss. it vg alyers wishing extra. &Volta Pisquor AND Union, can procure tkem.by, leaving their orders at tlhe publication office, ,Thittl-street r or with our re port= is salter How% the eweeimuprevioue. The Inaugural Address -of Gov. Curtin. The Inaugural vetddress.of Governor CURTIN is so much more moderate and. conciliatory in its tone than we had reason to acticipate, that it - has occasioned , an agreeable surprise. Not that we can commend many of its utterances, but, considering the ultra position- taken by many of Governor: Curtin's,potitical friends in . the Legislature, and the charaater of the party which elevated him to power, the sentiments embodied in theilnaugural are as conservative as a Republican dare be at this partioular junc ture, The Governor-seems to have appreciated the responsibility of this position—to have re alized that he was no longer speaking for a party, and that. his.recommendations would be jealously scanned-in every quarter of the Union, and.-exercise &great 'influence upon the ,imme dianututure of this .nation—in short, that he was speaking for the great, magnanimous and conservative State of Penneyivania. This spirit We can commend, ;however much. e may differ from some of his opinions. The address deals, to a large extent, in gene ralities. It makes but.fewpositive recommen dations, probably because the Governor, imme diately after taking the oath of office, did not feel called upon to make specific recommenda tiOneto the Legislature, but znerely to use the occasion of his inanguration as an opportunity for expressing Ids general views upon-impor tant question's, both State and NatiOnal. Yet the language usetlin reference to the repeal of any laws upon our.statute books which ob.struct the execution of theYugitive Slave Law is more decided than any that has yet appeared.= the Repitblican side. t clu,this oubjeet 111.41 *aye. that . We ought to exhibits example of magnanimity and of implicit obedience to las "by a prompt “repeal of evtlystatute that may, even im plication, be liable ,to 4easonable objection." This is what Democrats Juwve urged upon the Legislature heretoforewithout effect. We trust that the opinion of rise. CURTIN, which we take, by imp/ice/ion, to he ifavociAle to the re peal of the questionable sections of the act of 1847, may hem due weight with the Legisla ture, and induce the-hawed: ate modideation of Bat. the Inaugural is to be particularly com mended for what it does not seem:amend. It does notrecommend the appropination of money for the purpose of arming theZtate and pre cipitating the evils of civil war. It does not recommend a rigid and uncompromising ad herence to all the dogmas of the Republican party, but, on the contrary, says that will "be our duty to unite with the people of the "States that remain loyal to the Union in any 'tint and honorable measures of conciliation "and fraternal kiadness"—meaning,no doubt, the border Slave :States, which will be inevita- . bly drawn into,the secession movement, unless some conciliatory in4seres are speedily ten dered by the Northern States. Upon the whole, Aluire is so much more in this addreas to commend than we anticipated, that we , refrain ffrom,alluding to passages :that do not meet with ow ap,prehation. 111 r. ISeitvardis 'Speech.- Mr. Seward, in Ws gzeat speech delivered in the Senate .on the 12th inst., professes a most ardent love for the Union "in its integrity and With all its parte' Such is the love of this Re publican Senator for the whole Union that he does not hesitate to intimate that it must be preserved, if necessary, by force of arms. This flowery, honeyed speech, so deprecatory, so seemingly moderate, covers a Arad of e.xter minatlon to the South, just as a bed .of bloom ing roses might screen the coils of the rattle 'snake, ready to strike its intended victlin. The distinguisked Senator from New York is not in the habit, in his public discourses, of coming directly Jo the point. Fully aware that obscu rity is an element of the sublime, and also well adapted to the circumstances of a politician delicately situated, he hovers around his sub ject cased in all the panoply of "glittering generalities," of ambiguity and reservations, mental or expressed, and not nnfrequently of contradictions. In the speech under consideration Mr. Sew ard believes that "the Union cannot be saved by proving thatseoession le illegal or unconsti tutional; because persons bent on that fearful step will not stand long enough on forms of law to be dislodged; and lomat men do no wed such narrow ground to stand upon.” He fears "that ; little more will be gained from discussing ;the right of the Federal Gov ernment to coerce seceding States into obe dience, - If disunion is toga on, Chia question will give place to , the Vlore practical one, whether many seceding ;aifo.7 liftve a right to coerce the remaining members to acquiesce in dissolution !" Mr. Seward says: "I dread, as in my innermost soul I abhor, civil war. I do not know what =the - Union would be worth if saved by the use of the sword. Yet, for alt this, 1 do 'sot - agree with- - those who; with. a desire to avert that great sakm4y, advise' a conventional or unopposed : styaratiors,-' with a crew Iv; what at. - i call a recoastruglots, , It i f enon iA or me, .474 that in this plats destruction gap, Adele reSWllrgAlion and seciinril.kthat the strd , mg(4ofit&epft.min it!hichthe_hivi .the nation are h evsffsktcliiefl:q:inits remaining unbroken."-- What does eitthiel With biakithe determine-2- tion to , coerce, evaßAlko, united- th 4; *ant of the bayonet 1 nAnd byway .4 , adding. horror to this HI disguised threat, Mr. Seward says • "Thirdly, This movement arises, in another view, out of the relation of African slaves to the domestic population of the country. Freedom is to them, as to all mankind, the chief object of desire. Hitherto, under the operation of the Union, they have practical) remained ignorant of the eontroverv, osPecit ly. of its hearintoi themselves. Can we hope that-flagrant meil war shall nage:amen ouritelv.es in their very presence, and yet that they will remain stupid and idle spectators? Does history furnish , us any satisfactory instruction upon the horrors of civil war among a people so brave, so skilled in mins, so earnest in conviction, and so intent in purpose, as we are ? 18 it a mere chimera which suggests - an aggravation of chime horrors be yond endurance, when, on either side, there shall occur the intervention of an uprising, ferocious, African slave population of four, or Biz, perhaps twenty millions? *• * * If dissolution pre vail, •what guarantee shall there be against the full development here of the fearful and ,uncomprising hostility to slavery which elsewhere pervades the world, and of which the recent invasion of Virginia was an illustration ?" Here the eloquent advocate of the "irrepres sible conflict" is Erown off of his guard. • Al though he has only by inference threatened war upon the seceding States, yet when mention is.made of slave insurrection, the flood-gates of his heart are opened, and he cannot with hold the direct threat of an exterminating war of Abolitionism against the elaveholding States! This appears to be hie only remedy against secession and dissolution; for,be says, "eon gresSioual compromises are .not likely to save ,the ilaion." He thinks: "that. there is a pre vailing conviction that legislative compromises, Avkia_sacrifice honestly cherished principles, are less sure to avert imminent evils than they are .certain :to produce ultimately even greater dangers." Haase thinks "it would be wise to discard two prevalent ideas or prejudices, namely : First, 'that the Union is to be saved by some body in particular; (Abraham Lincoln ?) and secondly, that it is to be saved by some cunning and insincere compact of, pacification." We are not aware that there is any such idea or preju dice extant amonpl the people. But we know that the conservative masses did hope and ex peat that Mr. Lincoln , and:his party would, to save the Union, offer timely and adequate con .cessions to the South. In proof of this we need only, refer to the anxious suspense of the public until they should hear ; the voice of Mr. Lincoln's Premier. That voice has been heard, and it has informed thein,- in foreboding tones, that they have indulged. in a mere prejudice, when they.expeoted from his principal or from himself the- magnanimity: and patriotism of statesmen resolved to save them and the Union. Mr . Seward professes a pansionate love for the :Union ; he eipends a great deity of elo .quenee 'to- prove its great blessings, and the disorganizing and. destructive consequences resulting from Separate Confederacies ; but lie has no compact of pacification to offer, either sincere or "insincere," to prevent its dissolution. With one or two reservations, he agrees 'that such liberty bills in the. States as may contra vene the Constitution of the United States emelt to be repealed. Bat, inasmuch as these reservations imply the previous` modifusition by Congress of the Fugitive. Slave law, of course, his political friends in the States will not deem themselfes under any obligations to repeal the obnoxious. laws I OCcondly, Seward tells us that experience in public affairs has .00nfirmed his Opinion. "that demeatio elan mars's., imenner t -re wing ? .aciVATEIIN Constitution. of the United States'exclusiirely to.the care, management and disposition of that State." If in his power, he would not alter the Constitution in that respect, - and if misappre hension of his position needsso strong a rem edy, he is willing to vote for au amendment of the Constitution, declaring that it shall not by any future amendment be so altered as to cone fer on Congress a power to abolish orinterfere with slavery in any State ! New, as the slave States are alrea4y so protected by the -Consti tution, the expensive and tedious process of amending the Constitution is scarcely necessary to guarantee the faith of Mr. Seward in:this respect. Thirdly, Mr. Seward informs the country, that while he , fcertainly shall never, directly or indireetlY, - give his vote to establish or sanction slavery in the Territories, or any Where else 'in the world," yet if Kansas were admitted as a State under the Wyandotte Con stitution, and if the organic laws- of all the other Territories could be repealed, he could vote to authorize the . organization and admis sion of two new States, which should include them, reserving the right to efect subdivisions of them whenever necessary,. "but Ido not FIND that such reservations could be CONSTITUTIONALLY made!" and so. .we MAY infqr that, after all, Mr. Seward, although he could, will not vote for the two new States aforesaid ! He would prefer that when the eccentric movetnents of secession and disunion shall have ended, in whatever form that end may come, and the angry excitements of the hour shall have subsided, and calmness once more shall" have resumed its accustomed sway over , the public mind, then, AND NOT UNTIL THEN—ONE, TWO OR THREE YEARS HENCE—a convention of the people shouldbe assembled in pursuance of the Constitution, to consider and decide whether any :and what amendments of the organic national law ought to be made." That is, after the dissolution of the Won shall have been accomplished, by the secession of the entire South, and after the recusant States shall have been brought to submission, " in whalever form that end may come," two or three years hence, then the agitation of con stitutional amendments among the people may serve a good porpoise to re-elect a sectional President, and Mr: Seward will cheerfully advise such an agitation! Poarthly, Mr. Seward holds himself ready to vote for any properly guarded laws to prevent mutual invaSions , of States by citizens of other States—which m ust : be considered as a great concession on th - e part of a gentleman whose new-born zeal for the in togAlly of the Constitution and the Vaion is a full guarantee of , his sincerity , in this respect. . Lastly, Mr.. Seward, having great faith is the Union-saving efficacy of highways, railroads, rivers and canals, is willing to vote for two Pacific railwayi t connecting , respectively with the: mouths of the Mississitopi and the Northern, ;No one better thin Mr. Go rf i r d un derstands the coheilve virtues of good, fat con, _tract& ;Rut briefly ,to:restune : thelnain points of fifr Sewarrrs 'spescy tOnit,to spLow that the only remedy for sec e ss i on, whether. of one or :Mani Atailesi otbfr yro]ids, war thatlnething asp bii)expeoted , trait tn. reeeurt i to Congressional compromises or constitutional I amendments; that, the blessings of the Willi are so numerous, and the evils of dissolntion . and consequent separate confederacies so great, that the North ,should not hesitate as to' the means, holrever rigorous and cruel, to force back the anti!, inko the Union , if ik-titt equals at least;as prisoners of war. , Mr. Seward ends his speech by empty professions andridiculous propositions which have neither substance nor _ vitality, and seem only intended to eoiait. his inflexible policy of conceding nothing, by a flimsy semblance of moderation and liberality. . Let not the conservatives of the North be de ceived by this lame attempt at mystifieation.— Mr. Lincoln, the father of the irrepressible conflict, and Mr. Seward, the great expounder of his detestable creed, have resolved to con cede nothing for the sake of the Union ; but they are determined to array the North against the South in mortal conflict. Let them beware of the consequences of their heartless and cruel policy I FROM WASHINGTON. Correspondence of the Patriot and Union Mr. Seward's speech, on Saturday last, whilst it abounds in beautiful passe gee and nicely rounded periods, lacks the great essential, at this critical moment, of giving either quiet or confidence to the country. As an evidence of the high state of excitement that pervades the public mind in this city, I will merely in- Aimee the fact, that at no former period of the gelato°, nor indeed of any previous session, were there so many' people in the Capitol. The Senate, at an early hew of the morning, was literally jammed; and before Mr. Sew ard commenced his speech, it became necessary to clear the Senate Aims of the crowd of both sexes who had col lected to listen to the New York Senator's great effort that was thought would bring peace to our troubled anti distracted country. But, alas! for human hopes and ex pectations, and for human frailty also, the premised plah of conciliation did not come. Tim week disappointed both his friends and the country, - and left both in the same bewildered maze Of doubt and uncertainty that has en. veloped us all for the past two months. It is welinnder stood here that Mr. Seward is to be the Premier of the incoming Administration, and that what he said on Sit nrday last was not only the.onunciation of his own opin ions on the crisis, but 61,30 'MOSS) of Mr. Lincoln. It is known to many persons here that Mr. Lincoln saw Mr. Seward's speech before it was delivered; so that he knew beforehand exactly what the Senator from NeW York would say, and, cif course, is understood to endorse the sentiments of the speech. Many of the Republicans, in both branches of. Con gress. Think Mr. Seward' did - not come np to the mark, in the style and manner of 'a first class statesman, and that the speech is cot equal to the occasion ; but that he ought to have submitted:mime definite and well digested ,plan of Compromise, by which the country might have been trunqui/isod and the Union caved. It must be borne in mind, that while - Mr: Seward says many things in this speech that look to a settlement 011ie diftlCulties be tween the two sections of our emintrY, yet hi studiously avoids propesing any Ciefinite plan fur the adjustment of those difficult*. in this particular this speech is la mentably defectiie "It has left the people 'no well grostrided, reason to r-hepe,that the new Administration ' contempletes anything leas tIMn to carry out their gig grassfire policy wain the people of the Sonth, until we either have civil war,, or in entire abandonment by the . people of the. South of their rights under the Constitu tion. The Senators from .11.1o.tienui,VIcrida, Texas and MlS ofeeipPi rofueed,toiday to vote. on any gueetioi until they have instructions front, their respective States, Jeffer son Davis and Diniernorßrown,iof Miesiesinpi,live both I.ft the Senate. = Secessionis Wing 'on' apace, and State after State is dropping eat ofthe,Union t lik° stars: from a constellation.. Meanwhile !Lie* men are laboring with might and main to avert the ` fin al sad Catistroplie--ci.vil war and permeme ,=„ nt separation. Today Senator Bigler, by unanimous _ consent pf the Senate r intx`ode 6 ed a TPVY impprlant 1 )Pli *IM.-Pr L 4g/ 1 under consideration. It is thoight, that it will iame. It makes previsiaa for !Y•bnOtillgtl/ 4 liTikelOmrnis*!.the Constitution,. contained' in thiailLta.,a-frotei.nt+3°.'s .• ...iiry-eirtnis tell, which should be speend.before the people of Xienneylvania.i!ii i 4 : speedily ppositilo. This plan of Senator. Ifigler, mee ts with the hearty approbation of every good man is Cengress.of all parVes, and will commend itself to the sound sense and patriotism of every man in the nation, who desires the speedy and proper settlement of the present unhappy difficulties in which our country is involved, Corrospondenoe of the 'Patriot and Union. Weantmarox, .Tannary 14,1861 DRAR PATRIOT :.--The vote on Monday to suspend the rules on Mr. Etheridge's resolutions,substantially em bracing the Minion?i compromise line, was regarded as an unfavorable indication of any adjustment: Although thereWM 4 Ifiejefifjr 9f the c tie iA itA faYAr, it failed to command the necessary vote of two-thirds; and as a two:thirds vote is. necessary to enable (longings to pro pose aMendments to the Constitution, this vote may be regarded asatest Tote against adjantment: Neverthe less-I look upon 'the vote of the good cild Keysteum kite with's feeling of patriotic pride,' as I senall her Demo: cratic and e Majority . offier . Repithifean members rise aboie the pettitrammels of s ectional :and pirty feelngs, and nobly step into the breach to save their country.— Their fidelity to their eoluitii Will brightly iiiiineonithe page of history in enviable` contrast with those sellish leggin* who baltidat the veriportals Sf pe,triotierm;and who Seem to be lost to those nobler Serdiments Of amor parries, and to he actuated byno higher impair/0 then animal 'passion, partisan preindieo. and Ciecturd ix& malty, and who threaten to 'inaugurate a tiectionaiiiii nority President, with nearly a million majority Of the people against him, at the point of the bayciisit, while they refuse to co-operate with a majority of Congress iii pleoably settle the semidry Seek whleli 114 Wakeleetid to preside. Fortuitously holding its' destiny; in their hands, they have a fearful reckoning and a dreadful re-' sponsibility to meet , before the bar of their country and their Cod: These Abolition Republicans widen to say that they have done nothing winch demands concession, while it is they alone who hare done everything that does demand It. 'They have for years been'fanning the Raines of Northern prejudices . 'against our brethren of the south, and when they have'provoked them to acts of rashness and folly, they have seized upon those act!' as fuel for the flames they , were fanning. They have so poisoned the Northern mind against them and their institutions, that ignorance and credulity have mwged in a united fanaticism that overrides emanational ob . Mations, and regards the stealing of negroes es a virtue instead of a crime. When one of their emissaries goes into the South and there stealthily: gcites the negroes to murder the whites, andlideteeted and panishedvith appropriate severity, they relic the htle and cry that an innocent man has beeri . , cruelly reiniehed for merely ex ercising the sacred right of the liberly of speeelt. This breach of the Republican party was et first but a feeble tricatary, but since its confluence with other 'elements it hag awoollen into an angry ficiod, and drifted troni Ob. genre eddies into place and power:a class'of ephemeral politicieni totally unworthy - of the'trust Confided to them, and who, with paricidal hands, haveplaCed upon the statute books acts in violation of the Constitution they had sworn to support. The StateLegislattires thus constituted of these elements have Pent to the National Legislature kindred spirits, carrying.with theni 'torches of political incendiarism i and from' the stand point of the national invite' they bait!, under the abuse of the frank. ing privilege; freighted the mails with treasonable ' speeches. and 'incendiary document!, to be' scattered broadcast over the land; 'and when the CEov-ernmeiriin terposea to protect the Bouth-agginsi the distribittien of these are-brands amongst theni,.theur ineendiatiesmins the 'hue and cry agalust it as .an infringement ripon the Merl 'of Ike 03.4,g5. Theyfornied a cenfederabe in mu senhurietts undir the specious fie.pie of "The sr ans a c t,„... setts Aid Ouclety," wad itoperted from that State to . Lasses hundredsof fanatics, not'to settle that Territory` : in the natural and peaceable way, but to foree those Who had settled there to abandon their rights ; ; and when they resisted their aggressions - they vierestigroat;sod l rith f the Orittiet or filki4lo# 14114,10, 1 i tbolesuspf Get the Mita John Brown, after having acted a conspicuous part in the robberies and minders perpetrated i n K m " , and' the adjoining' State of 'Missend, 'Sal. being sup, plied with ariiietebbPtitlintOlini halidemf the nekioesi, helh4rideri the Siete of Viiiirda with armed men, seized, open &Ulf entreritio3d'hinnielf r withinthe national armory, drank: turarurpecting cithennot.tho • `rnitilibtitliood ihoir Pedtatn 6 thrilitt and ithriklßo4 theil4 when attatkit bythe Uidted : States troops, he shot down a poor negro for refusing to WASHINGTON, JAL 14, 1861 Use the arms sent for that purpose; and yet they have endeavored to ecreen the bloody malefactor from merited undarpe specious insinuation that he was crazy, but hove sink+ endorsed his insurrection by electing a man Governor of Massachusetts who openly sanctionwhis treason; and yet they don't impute craziness to those under his command, nor to those Who. secretly supplied hi m *IV A arms for himself and Mai and the fifteen hub• dred spears for the negroes, nor to iltioe4whe Shield 4tinin legal intinishment those of his banditti 'who made their escape. Although Virginia, a idaire State, generalist' , gave to the Union the great Northwestern territory, now becothe populous States, the very people who have set tled in them and are fed by its fertile soil are Virginia's worst enemies ; and notwithstanding the services of Southern men, the adxancement of Southern money and the saCriiice of Southern liven have equally contributed to the acquisition'of all the other Territories, yet they meanly refuse to allow them equal privileges in the oc cupation of them as joint owners. An honorable North ern man, on meeting a Southern man as a settler in one of those territories, would say to My friend, I have a prejudice against your slavery institutions ; but as you have done as much as I have in acquiring this territory, I cannot in justice to you object to your bring ing with you such kind of chattel property as yon owned in the State you came from, especially as you are willing to have slavery excluded if We have a' majority against you on our admission as a State." And with a view to the ultimate extinction of slaveryeverywhere, they have threatened that when they get the power in their own hands to re-organize the Supreme Court and to remove from it "the nine old grannies," as they irreverently call the present distinguished and eminent Judges of that Court, and to supply their places with others, who will not recognize property in slaves. New inventions are sought out to keep up this anti-slavery excitement, and among the latest is the assumption that the words in the Declaration of Independence,' that, "all men are created equal? was intended to embrace the negm—free or slave—as well as the white man when it is palpably evident that it related solely to and was intended to pro scribe such distinctions as existed between the nobility and others in Nngland. All the thirteen Staten except Massachusetts were at that time slaveholding States, and some of the members who framed it were slaveholders; and following up this idea in the Constitution, fc titles of nobility" are expressly prohibited from being granted. either by the United States or by the States. After driving the Southern States to the verge of dinolution by constant and aggravated aggressions, they new raise the hue and cry against them airdiimnionists, and threaten to coerce them into submission, when buts ahort time' since their lee/lora threatened disunion themselves, and even displayed disunion flags at the places of their Po lineal meetings. They denounced the Constitation;. which is the bond of our-union, as a "league With hellfi They were willing, in the language of thy: Banks, of Massachusetts, to "let the Union slide." I cella fare volume with evidences of their disloyaltylo the Union, up to the secession of South Carolina, but I would 'only be repeating what is notoriously known to everybody. This sudden devotion to the Onion Would be better sir. predated if coupled with a piorisition •to remove the causes that have enderipred it, and which, without their co-operation; cannot be removed:' SOLON. THE NATIONAL CRISIS. MR." BIGLER'S. PROPOSITIONS On Monday last, Mr: Bigler, of Pennsylva nia; introduced, by unanimous .consent, the following. bill. The §enate has it under eon sideisition ; hating refused to refer it to a com mittee. It is thought it will pass: AN ACT to provide for taking - the lane of the people of the oeve'ral States'on certain ilsoneffed amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Wass:ass, The Union is in imminent danger of final dissolution, the consequence, of a pre treated strife - and:agitation about the institution of African slavery ; And whereas, it is believed that legislative remedies are insufficient to meet and remove the cause of this impending disater; and as atnendmente to the Constitution can only be submitted by :-a vote of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and owing to the unhappy divisions existing in "those houses - at present it is not beiieved that the assent-of two-thirds 'of the members of either• can be 'had'to such amendments to the Constitution .as would me oonoile the differences between-:the North: nd the:South : And Where* It is A cardinal tin" - elPitr - .r _esettamve 111 tem..tee e representative s all obey thelvill of the people, Ris deemed proper and necessary to ask the Opinion -andjUdgment of the peoplenf the sev eral r Staies on proposed aniendments to the Constitution, with the view to their submission by a vote of two•thirds of'eaoh branch of Con. great for the ratification of .the States, "as pre; vided in the Constitution, thereby restoring our distracted country to its accustomed peace and prosperity ; therefore. • Re it enacted by the Senate. and Muse of Representatives, &0., That the citizens of. the several States qualified to vote for members of Congress, are hereby requested to= hold an election on Tuesday, the 12th day of February next, for the purpose Of deoiding for or against' the annexed proposed amendments of the Con- ' stiution - of the United Stateti. Section 2. :Be it 'further enacted, That'those . who are for Ati proposed' amendments to the Constitution shall :vote a :ballot bearing' the words— , a For the- autendinents," and • these opposed to the atheitametits, shall vote a ballot bearing the wordS—" 'Against the amend mente."! ' " ' ' • Section 3. Said eleetion' shall be held at the same places, in the same manner, and under the same 1.9.W8 as the last election for President and Vib e-President of the United Stated, And be eendneted-by , the same judges,' inspectors and other officere. Section 4. The return judges of the several election districts for each county shall meet at the County seat on the Thursday:following the 'day of • the Riad election, and - count;:-up - the: returns for said connty, setting forth the Whole . number of votes cast for the amendments, and . the whole number of votes against thnamend ments ; one copy of which shall be forwarded by mail to the Secretary of the Senate of the United States, and another to the Goverzior , Of the State; and that sent to the Governor shall contain a statement of the actual and neces nary expenses of holding said election. Section 5. That the compensation of the offi cers holding said electioo and.the other expen ses thereof, shall be the same as the compensa tion and expenses of holding the last election for President and Vice President of the United' States, and Ann be paid out of the United States Treasury in the manner herein after provided. Section'. That the Governors of the several States are hereby respectfully requested to cause to be made out and forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior a . t abular Statement'of • the amount of the expenses of holding'said election in their respective States, exhibiting the amount due each county, attested under the seal of the State by, the proper officers, and the -Secretary of the Interior shall draw drafts on the United States Treasury in favor of the Gov ernors of the respective States for the amounts due to the several countlet to b 6 paid to the parties in each county entitled to receive, the same ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay the amount of said drafts out of any money in the' Treasury. • Section 7. That it shall be the_ duty of the Secretary of the Senate to cause said election returns to be opened, econtedandfded as fast as received, and:oause.tabular statements to be made, exhibiting the result i n each State, one copy of which will be delivered: to the Presi dent-of the Senate, ,for the use of • that body, and , mother to the. Speaker of the, _gouge of Representatives, for the - use of that body ; and it is lereby made' the duty of cach'and all of the clerks now in the employment of the senate,, ‘in addition to their other duties, to assist the Secretary in the perforniance of the duties hereby imposed upon him., SectiOtt 8, That the . President, of, the United States is hereby auth orized to issue t#,We - GOVernois and till others in civil aUtAoiity l ,. and - 4 _the' peiikts. of the' several Sates, antiouniiing to'.thein:the;day fixed for sad~i el lien , iernventlnil''gcheral 'objf,icts, and ,'4•9oeatintthicniffitsl;ell - 10 1 , tr°ll in a piojno, ankf,l4o of this t‘cf.' Section 9. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause accurate copies of the same to t e printed and forwarded by mail to the Sheriffs of the several counties of each State ; and the said Sheriffs Are hereby re quested to make proclamation, in notmore than two newspapers in each county, of the day of said eleciiou, and setting forth the proposed amendments to:be voted on'; and the expenses incurred under the provisions of this section shall be paid as hereinafter provided for other expenses of said election. That the following articles be, and they are hereby, proposed and submitted as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of said Constitution, when ratified by the Conventions of three-fourths of the States held for that • Article - 1. That the territory now held, or that may hereafter, be acquired by the United States, shall be divided by a line from the east to the west on the parallel of 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude.. _. Article 2. That in all the territory north of said line of latitude, involuntary servitude, 'except as a punishment for crime; is prohibited ; and in all the territory south Of said line involun tary servitude, as it now exists in the States south of Mason and Dixon's line, is hereby recognized, and shall be sustained and pro tected by all the departments of the territorial governments ; and -when' any territory; north Cr south of said iine,•within such boundaries as Congress may prescribe, shall : contain the population requisite for a member of Congress according to the then Federal ratio of represen tation of the people of the United' Stateif,' it' ahall then be the duty - of Congress "to admit such territory into the Union on terms of equality with the original States. Article 3. Congress shall not have power to abolish slavery'inthe places under its exeln sive jurisdiction and situate within "the of States that permit the holding of slaves,nor •shall Congress . have the power to abolish slavery in. the istrict of Columbia so, long as it exists in the States of Maryland and : Vir ginia, or- either of them, nor without just Cola pensation being first made to the owners of such slaVeit. Article 4. That in addition to the provisions of :.the 3d paragraph of the '2d : section of : the 4th article of the Constitution of, the United States, emigres's 'shall' have 'power' to provide bylaw, and it shall be He' duty so toi provide;. that The United States shall pay to the ownerf who, shall apply, for it, the full value of , his fugitive slave. in all eases when : the Marshal or other officer, whose - duty it was la arreet the said' fngitive, was prevented from so doing t'y violence or'intimidation, or when; after - arrest, said fugitive was rescued by force, and the owner thereby prevented and obstructed in_the pursuit of his remedy for the recovery of his fugitive slave under the said clause - of the and the laws made in - puriiitufee thereof, and in all such cases when the .United States shall pay for such fugitive,_they shall have the right, in their own name, to sue the &linty in which said violence, intimidation' or reisatibltatt eatlimitted, and recover from it, with interest and damages, the amount paid by them for said fugitive slave ' • and the said • county, after it has paid said amount to the United States, may, for its indemnity,, one and recover from the wroug-doers or res cuers, by whom the owner was prevented from the recos ety of his, fugitive manner as,.. owner himself might. hive sued and recovered. Article 5., QOM* have no.: power ProUbiebi.liindisAoo , _oo,oPPrixAcin of Oa* from OnaState to another, or to .B territery.in . wiAqhlooo. bylawliorinittid.: beheld. whether tra nsportation he ; Iao; iinvlgl46e rivers, or by sea ; lout the African. Slave trade shall never' bp revived, - exCept.'l,3r the **a fnoliS.O9ixent of both branches Article 6. That hereafter .the. President. of the United• States _shall held hie drib* 'during the ; ertko six yeaii, liiiotiVaglilet eligible to re=election = '- • - - -bc hereafter Amendediso to to Aestrey the effect of the third paragraph :of the second section of thefirst article of the Constitution, nor the third parigraPh of the section of the fourth article of the Constitution, nor so 'so to authorize.ooii gress to interfere with, or destroy any of the flOiriestio institutiond'of the States, withott the 'Consent of all thi State's. REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE OP THIRTY-THREE. - WAMINGTON, Jan.. 14,—The majority of the committee of thirty-three, in their report made to-day; propose an amendment to the Consti tution 'in:Vvidirig that an amendment thereto interfering ivith slavery shall not:originate in any ether than 4 slaveholding State i teat made altd, shall be ratified by! tidy' Alike in the - ' ' ' They also submit an enabling bill for the ad- . mission of -New McKie° as :a State r on an equal , footing with. the original State') ;• and a fugitive: slave bill . Whieli.giveti the right of trial by jury: to a slave claiming his liberty is the State, Whenee escipes - 3 and releases any citizen from asiste(hig the marshal in the' capture or= detection: of =a fugitive, except when forCe for his rescue is eMploytid or apprehended :' " The 'coMmittebAto submit a joint resolution deprecating Personal Liberty bills, (bit not by that name,) and keiretting the Northern States to cause their statute books to be revised, in order that all hindrances to Oust exeeution ok the laws May be removed, and requesting the President to s oomniunicatethis resolution to the several Stites. They also report a series, of resettitions, -.re cognizing go - intalkrity of the people of one State to; interfere with slivery in another tTis cintitenancing al; . mobi - and hindradoeg to' the rendition of fugitive slaves.; • that they Tem*, nize no such conflicting elements in its compo sition, or sufficient cause from any source for a dissolution of the gettertonent; that they were not sent here to destroy tato sustain and har monize the_ institutiens of the, country and see that equal justice b 'done to all parts of the same, and finally, to' perpetiate its existence on terms Ofjbetice and equality to all the States. As no propositions for Interference with sla very in the. District of Columbia, dock-yards, arsenals,'etz, hare reached the committee, they say Itiey.have not deeined it necessary to take action on the subject. Another set of resolutions is with reference to the - duties of the States and the federal gov ernment enf orcing the duty of all eonstitti tional obligatione, asserting that the federal government should`enfercethe laws and. pre serve the Union of the Statee, concluding , with a recammaxidatian for the rendition of fugitives chniged with 'treason, folonY dr other crinfee. The proposition introduced by Senator Bic ler proposes to sUbMit, to the people, in addt tion to the Crittenden compromise, amendthents to. the Constitution, to_ interdict fOnver the African ‘slave trade, and to extend the Presi dential term to sii years, making the President ineligible for re-election. PE.Vite.,4 .LEGISLATURE: SENATE. TUESDAY, Jan. 15, 1861. The Senate wassailed to order" by the Speaker. Prayer by the:Rev. Mr, flay:. PETITIONS Mr. WHARTON presented' the petition of citizens of HuntingdonT county . in .relation to the fugitive slave law.' Also, from citizens of Bedford county-for the re-establialur.ent of the Missouri ComPromitie Line. Mr: IMBRIE, frem• citizens of :thiergiitliwii; Beaver county, praying that their boroughintiy be erected' into. a separiite.ete4o l 4: diAt#o., BILLS IN PLACE. Mr. IMBRIE, an act r t i weriidt thei borough of Georgetown into district: - On motion - ofilifi.:P - MWEY, the Senate took", a recess„,pgl 4 llVW minutes of 12 o'clock, and thelarj44l - 141jourument was extended. 'At 12 o'clock the Benete - apjennipttnxitneB4.. iiiini&ititiiefeeremoniee in fronts of the _ _ and; on the return of the members, o o motion of Mr. PENNEY, it wiks ordered that 5,000 in English and 3,000 coyotes iu g reetmu o f the Inaugural Address of Gov. Curtin b e printed for the use of the Senate. On motion, adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TUESDA.T, Jan. 15, 1861, The House was called to order at 11 o'clock, by the SPEAKER, and prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Cattell. Mr. WILSON moved to dispense with th e reading of the Journal ; which was agreed to, Mr. BREWSTER moved that the order be suspended to allow the reading of bills in place whibli was agreed to. BILLS IN PLACE. Mr. PATTERSON.read an act reducing th e State tax on real and personal estate. Mr. BREWSTER, an act relative to the borough of Chambersburg. Mr. LICHTENWALLNER offered joint reso. lutions relative.to arming the State—oppo s i ng any such action, and witholding any resolutions in reference to the matter until after the Pre. aident of the United States shall call upon the State for aid. Mr. LICHTENWALLNER asked that the rules might be suspended for the con sideration of the resolutions. Not agreed to. Mr. SHEPPARD offered joint resolutions relative to paying Mr. M'Calla for services. Mr. PRESTON, an act incorporating the Chesnut Hill academy. Mr. HAYES, an sot changing the districts of the supreme court. The House then took a recess, and on re assembling adjourned. • LATEST BY TELEGRAPH XXXVIth: CONGREBB.7-SECOND . : SESSION, Housn.—Among other preliminary business, Mr. Harris (Md.) presented a memorial Signed by 12,000 citizens of Baltimore, irrespective of party, praying for the adoption of the Critters. den compromise. He said if it was the desire to tranquilize the public mind it could not be done more effectually than by-the - adoption of that measure. Laid on the table. The Muse:went into . Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union on the army appro. priation bill, Mr. Reagan said he had come hither with the hope oat.tP l 94 mOsures.might he brought forward by those w hoo have the power to con trol the question as ,wonlal assure. the South of its future security. The Republicans have held sullenly back and declare that they had no terms of peace to ffer in view of Such facts.— Four States have already gope out of the Union and 'others are rapidly following them. Unless something• is done before the 4th of March to arrest this movement, we will see but few Southern Stateti in the - Unicin. The'irrepressible conflict had'ulminated too soon for its guthore,.end beheld result:!-- They meant humiliation and deed - idea to the South dissolution' of Unioh,vend they have :reached that , logical end. lie .: proceeded to show the condition of theriegroes.: NnPor tion of the. world could oowpare as favorably in its M 4104480: ef - bur OWn:: would the North, if they were freed, accept them as free . tog mould fight the South, with alLYoue,.enenit Polver against enali an-in flux, and yet you demand thatlhe South shall liberate four millions:of slaves, brealcupotheir social order' nd commercial and political pros pects, and yet retabilthe negro element among Us: Yon never consider the..relitive position of the two races and_ - What is to be the end of yeur c.ondtiot, lie spoke of the deetroction to manufactures and commerce, whieh would be produced by the abolition of slavery: The 'cry of treason had been raised: against certain States and the blockade of their,ports threatened, but if this be attemptedi, theca concerned will, like famous rueral, find a fire in front as well as . . He knew of no Southern State that had asked more_ than its constitutional 'rights; and so far as Texas-itkoonoernea she is unalterably deter• mined never to submit to less. And if she cannot get her rights in the Union she will out of it: TUO'Nfirthern States have _done nothing- to show the Sonthern States that. they Shall 'hare seentity in the Union, because to give South erners theircomititutional rights would be to disband:the Republican party ; but by a viola tion Otthe - Constitution they 'are enabled to make war on the South, From WashiOgton. WASHINGTON, J 831.-15. It:is inderetood that the. Agents of South Untolina-now- here, demand; the unconditional surrendek.of. Fort Sumpter,;nritha vie* to avoid the shedding of blood . " The. Administration has not yet -considered the pro - position. It hi teported thel,itiVate advideit have been received.from..Biton- Rouge, 'stating that the election of delegates to the convention has re sulted in a majority against secession. - The speech _of Mr. McCternand, of Illinois, in its geographical, eonainercial - and national significance, - is:prodUcing quite - a sensation here. It is rallying the Union feeling. The Maikote. • . riIILARELPRIAi Jan 1/.. Flour has ‘undergone no nhange t The market is firm ; sales.SePerkie - at 55,503 'extra at $5.75, and extra fancy at ' 55.873(a6;12%. Rye Flour has advancal •t0458.87K. Corn Mearheld at s3i - The demandfor. : Wheat contin ues:4l°B44.l'nd further eptlee of b,OOO bushels ~ f rere _made at. $1.801L82. for_ lteraisylvinia Stab for mixed; and Sontlierri 2.63. at $ll4O, and s t ie for Wkltc , 1,500 :bus. Rye sOld'At 76c, Corn in good request r 5,000 bushels Yellow sold at 71c. foe old, 850. for.new. Oats activeat 850. for Penna.-, and a$ ; for Toslaware. Provisions ad vancing -200 bbls. Mess Pork mild at $17.75a18. • Now tom, Jan. lb. Zlerrir hall advanced be. Closed quiet ;..7,000 TAIL aold; 5tat0.55.30a5.35, Ohio $5.75a5.85, Southern $5.85a6.10. Wheat dull,12 ; 500 bushels sold ; Bed Westerwsl.B6 Corn 4eclinin; $O,OOO bushels sold at 70a710. Pork steady; mess pork $17.12%17.25, prime $18a18,60. Whis ky dull at 193 l .a_ Receipt; of flour 4,230 bbls. Wheat 2,956 bushels,. Corn 2,967 bushels. Flour firm; Howard Street and Ohio areheld at $5,62,4i City Mills $5.50. Wheat firm, at $1.130a1.88 for Bed, and $1.45a1.65 for White. Corn advanced Se.; Mixed 97c. Provisions firm. Coffee steady, at 12ga13. Whisky steady at 190. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., by Rev. James Colder Mr., HURT M. .IDNGLE and Mies ELIZABETH MOBSER, i bOtn: Of. the . Ticinity of , hisriotto. On the 18th inst., by the same, Mr. atitOiL PER and Mini MARY J. MIME, both .of Ntw abuertisemento. TO RENT?---The well known BUSINESS STAND at the corner of Front and Market 'streets, Enquire of Lianl6-d3tfl• • E. J. BUCHER. EN. D.OLLAIM TtnwAxim—LOST, a T Mkt. 13kBLit .between Halbaelet and the Marhet.l3lLnare f ,.on , Monday evening, 14th.. -The under will receive the abiiiro reward by leaving Mathis office or at:the stare [janl6-113t*] lITTLA. VEOTARINES 1.1 invoice of imEnee.doliaitollruit—in package& of, two DB. each— just recolveili The quality Groovy superior.... • jaul2 , - • - • •= • WM, DOCK, Ja:, & CO. . RE BIBLE - ON DIITORPE.,The lowing words tire from Nark a. v. 9, 12: . . "What, theiefore, Giod has joined together let not ai pat asander.” . „yenother "Whosoever shall pit:away his wife and ma, Nit 44401., Miltorb_ And if a wiamaa If"' he l E ati llii r An itio 4 ri f l n an a d rn, e li th rrY er agi a the ins haboe c°lllemeirweeittilitie.djk:ritptiviaihtetr_Yt.h_.: Supreme Lawg i ver, from w hic h the6lo6e, Qod has joined toge th er t under _ ITTMO_,R,siCkivED—A largo 6;4 of SCOTHEVitik BROWN STOITT and LONDON r•CIBTFAIP:,Eir. mate at the lowest rates by JOHN H. mot*, janll 73 Nark ! ! street. RPIsIT—A, desirable Thiee•Story I. n ..ottigia,=• rod. Cordei--434a-and *rite tiaturee complete. Rnquire at ARMSTRONG'S DRUGATORE, qAeondlieldiaTillialetreet. feaß4lor ;11rELIMBVPAIINAMPRE Ali''w e ' ix: slum! /wigs* , . • • _ Waanumon, Jan. 16 B.Avrimoas i lan. 15
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