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Letter from Wm. P. Samford.
Sunny Slope, Near Auburn, Ala., I
Jan. r, 1861. j
Col. rorttr Ingram :
My Old Friend—l have to thank you
for an acceptable “ New Year’s gift,” in
the shape of your “Co-operation” cir
cular, containing your able speech of
15th Dec., 1860, your “John Hancock”
articles published in the Sun newspaper,
the proceedings of the co-operation meet
ing of the members of your General As
sembly “ opposed to immediate separate
Statesecsssion,” and their “Address to
the people of South Carolina, Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida,” &c.
Your attentions are grateful to me.—
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, we
started life together at the bar in Hamil
ton, Harris co., Ga., and from the first
day of our acquaintance to this day, we
have been friends. Ido not now remem
ber a single unfriendly passage at arms
during the time we competed for the
prizes of our profession, and I am sure
that at no time did I regard you with any
other sentiments than those Qf real esteem.
We were democrats together. When I
visited New York in 1839, I enjoyed the
kind attention of your relatives, and I
always accepted you, as I do to day—a
friend of truth and justice—a gentleman
of marked integrity and sound principles
—of great industry—excellent common
sense and a patriot.
My old friend “ Hal Benning” made
a noble, resistless speech before the leg
islature in Milledgeville. His facts and
arguments are unanswerable, exempt as
to the matters in issue —immediate separ
ate State secession. He made Ihe first
part of his argument so superabundantly
rich in demonstration of our wrongs and
the necessity for some adequate remedy,
that he could afford to draw upon it, for
whatever of deficiency there might bo in
the demonstration of the necessity of
separate and immediate secession as the
proper remody.
I will not insinuate that the figures of
his speech are figures of speech, or. as
McCawley’s critic says of his History,
that it is his-story. The speech as a
whole, is a magnificent product of genius
—the very ablest I have seen, from any
quarter, or any side of this many-sided
question.
But, as I intirntaed, his conclusions do
not follow from his premises, I adopt his
argument, all except his remedy , in the
same little misgivings as to his authorities.
“X- ‘/c vc -K- vr
The fault of Mr. Stephens’ plan, is,
that it provides for submission to Lincoln's
Administration. I care not how tempora
rily or with whatever conditions, sub
mission to his reign of terror for a single
day is not to be thought of. If it might
otherwise bo tolerated, depend on it, it is
vain to imagine it for an hour. His very
oath of office pronounced in the Capitol
under the protection of Federal bayonets,
would sound in the ears of the South,
like the blasphemy of the hell of des
potism ! No, sir. The South will not
submit to Lincoln! Even now I believe
that if any man of character and will
would preach the Crusade, we could re
claim the Capitol—dethrone and behead
him. lam not sure that Virginia and
Maryland will not do it yet before the
fourth of March.
According to my capacity I did as
much as any living man to create the issue
of the protection of slave property in
the common territories by the common gov
ernment. More than two years ago, when
nobody thought of it, as a real living
issue (as the columns of the Times of your
city will attest) I “ put this ball in mo
tion.”
I claim to have been in advance of the
world in making this an issue. My
“Signal” newspaper, and letter to Gov.
Wise, establish my claim to priority over
all men in this work.
I say so, for no living man can dis
pute it, and I can prove it. I am enti
tled to this distinction, and I claim it.
God would have it so, that by the hand
of an humble a man, as I am, this issue
was thrust forward exaotly at the right
time to shiver the pillars and rend the
foundation stones of parties and the old
despotism. I applied the match which
exploded the train that blew the temple
of a corrupt Nationalism into atoms. —
God be praised that I was inspired to see
the end from the beginning, and that I in
tended the results, which have eventuat
ed. I feared we should not get our right
to protection, and felt sure that its de
nial would sever the bonds which made
us subject to a fanaticism which unites
the extremes of a cold blooded cunning,
despotic, conservatism, with the reck
lessness of a bloody and anarchical revo
lutionism.
All this is to me, as if I had had no
agency in it. Indeed, I could have done
nothing, but for the aid of my noble and
gifted friends, Gov. Wise, Wm. L. Yan
cey and other distinguished men un
known to me personally, believe I they all
intended to save the Union. I would have
been glad to do so ; but the mighty spirit
who make worlds and dispenses powers,
dignities, and dissolutions and dust—
whispered in my inner heart —in my hermit’s
cell, at my “Eyrie” Home—“ Do this,
and the everlasting Union shall sit dozen,
among the grim old sphinxes of the Nile.
In 1859, I did all in my power to unite
the people of Alabama, upon this issue
of protection, and although defeated in
what was my ostensible design I achieved
the real object of my independent candi
dacy for the Governorship— Alabama was
united, and every body knows the part
she played in Charleston and Baltimore
and the late campaign. The name of
Wm. L. Yancey will be remembered as
long as the old or new Confederacy. The
new Confederacy ought to be called
Alabama.
Well now, I need not say that I never
intended to submit to Lincoln, or to re
main in a Union, a day longer than I
could help it, which refuses to protect
Southern property.
Like you, I have been willing to test
all plans and give every man his mode
of resistance, in order to unite the South,
and go out peaceably if we might.
Like you, if we could get justice I
would be content with the old Constitu
tution and Union, though frankly, I do
not like the old Constitution. I hope it
will be essentially modified for the new
Confederacy.
1 want no President. The constant ex
citement consequent upon his election
its corrupting and demoralizing effects,
have in fact dissolved the old, and will
destroy any future government. The
patronage of the Executive, under the
old Constitution, irresistibly leads to cor
ruption, despotism, anarchy, and revolu
tion.
I would substitute an Executive Coun- |
cil of three Tribunes, and abolish alto- i
gether the monarchical feature of the old ‘
Government. This Council should be
chosen—one by the Senate, one by the
House of Representatives, and one by the
Governors of the States—vacancies to be
filled by the Senate and House in joint
session. The term of office of each Tri
bune should be three years, and one to be
chosen each year—a majority should act
—their duties be strictly executive, and
they should have no patronage at all.
Then I would preserve the equality of
the States in the House of Representa
tives as well as the Senate, and elect
Senators and Representatives alike by
the people, for a term of five years, at
3. I would have absolute free trade
free port* —no tariffs.
and. There should be no paper money
but Bills of Exchange and Certificates of
specie deposits,- or else Banking should
be free to everybody.
•5. 1 would abolish all Postal arrange
meats by the Government, aud leave the
system to private hands.
6. I would leave the slave trade to
each State, to do respecting it as it might
deem proper.
7. 1 would declare the status of all new
territory which might be acquired.
I have all along been in favor of the
co operation of the Southern Stateß, in
whatever remedial measures might be
adopted. I am still convinced that it
would be better, but recent events ren
der it impossible. Let us get together
by any road, if it be even separate seces
sion, and perfect our Union, and have a
common purse, a common army, and a
common navy.
I believe in the right of Secession, and
feel that we cannot abandon it with
safety.
The course of South Carqjina has had
the good effect to present the issue in a
practical shape, and we must sustain her
to the death.
I trust we shall be too wise to persist
in war. Imminent as it is, I yet hope we
shall avert its greatest calamities, by
< rapid movements towards a united and
armed South.
Alabama will go out; so I suppose will
Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and Tex
as. Now, then, let re-organization begin,
before Revolution begius to take on gan
grene and death.
1 hope soon to hail you a fellow-citizen
and friend in a happy Southern Confede
racy. Truly, your obliged friend,
WM. F. SAMFORD.
Message of tUe President.
The following is the message of Presi
dent Buchanan sent in to Congress on
Wednesday last:
: To the Senate and House of Representatives :
At the opening of your present session,
j I called your attention to the dangers
I which threatened the existence of the
| Union. I expressed my opinion freely
: concerning the original causes of these
dangers, and recommended such meas-
I ures as I believed would have the effect
! of tranquilizing the country, and save it
| from the peril in which it had been
needlessly and most unfortunately in
! volved. Those opinions and recommen
dations Ido not propose now to repeat.
My own convictions upon the whole sub
ject remain unchanged.
The fact that a great calamity was im
pending over the nation was even at that
time acknowledged by every intelligent
citizen. It had already made itself felt
throughout the length and breadth of the
land. The necessary consequences of the
alarm thus produced were most deplora
ble. The imports fell off with a rapidity
never known before, except in time of
war, in the history of our foreign com
merce; the Treasury was unexpectedly
left without the means which it had rea
sonably counted upon to meet the pub
lic engagements ; trade was paralized ;
manufactures were stoped, the bestpublic
lie securities suddenly sunk in the market;
every species of property depreciated
more or less ; and thousands of poor men,
who depended upon their daily labor for
their daily bread, were turned out of
employment.
I deeply regret that I am not able to
give you any information upon the state
of the Union which is more satisfactory
than what I was then obliged to commu
nmnicate. On the contrary, matters are
still worse at present than they then
were. When Congress met, a strong
hope pervaded the whole public mind
that some amicable adjustment of the
■subject would speedily be made by the
Representatives of the States and of the
people which might restore peace between
the conflicting sections of the country.
That hope has been diminished by every
hour of delay ; and ns the prospect of a
bloodless settlement fades away, the pub
lic distress becomes more and more ag
gravated. As evidence of this, it is only
necessary to say that the Treasury notes
authorized by the act of 17th December
last were advertised according to the law,
and that no responsible bidder offered to
take any considerable sum at par at a
lower rate of interest than twelve per
cent. From these facts it appears that,
in a Government organized like ouTs, do
mestic strife, or even a well grounded
fear of civil hostilities, is more destruc
tive to our public and private interests
than the most formidable foreign war.
In my annual message I expressed the
conviction, which I have long deliberate
ly held, and which recent reflection has
only tended to deepen and confirm, that
no State has a right, by its own act, to
secede from the Union, or throw off its
Federal obligations at present. I also
declared my opinion to be, that even if
that right existed, and should be exer
cised by any Stato of the Confederacy,
the Executive department of this Govern
ment had no authority, under the Con
stitution, to recognize its validity by ac
knowledging the independence of such
State. This left me no alternative, as the
Chief Executive officer ander the Consti
tution of the United States, but to collect
the public revenue and to protect the
public property, so far as this might be
practicable, under existing laws This
is still my purpose. My province is to
execute, and not to makethe laws.
It belongs to Congress exclusively to
repeal, to modify, or to enlarge their
provisions, to meet exigencies as they
may occur. I possess no dispensing
power. I certainly had no right to make
aggressive war upon any State; and I
am perfectly satisfied that the Constitu
tion has wisely withheld that power even
from Congress. But the right and duty
to use military force defensively against
those who resist the Federal Forces in
the execution of their legal functions,
and against those who assail the property
of the Federal Government, is clear and
undeniable.
But the dangerous and hostile attitude
of the States towards each other has al
ready far transcended and cast in the
shade the ordinary Executive duties al
reready provided for by law, and has
assumed such vast and alarming propor
tions as to place the subject entirely
above and beyond Executive control. The
fact cannot be disguised, that we are in
the midst of a great revolution. In all
its various bearings, therefore, I com
mend the question to Congress, as the
only human tribunal, under Providence,
possessing the power to meet the existing
emergency. To them exclusively belongs
the power to declare war or to authorize
the employment of military force in all
cases contemplated by the Constitution:
and they alone possess the power to re
move grievances which might lead to war,
and to secure peace and Union to this
distracted country. On them, and on them
alone, rests the responsibility.
The Union is a sacred trust left by our
revolutionary fathers to their descend
ants, and never did any other people in
herit so rich a legacy It has rendered
us prosperous in peace and triumphant
in war. The national flag has floated in
glory over every sea. Under its shadow
American citizens have found protection
and respect in all lands beneath the sun. !
If we descend to considerations of purely
material interest, when, in the history of
all time, has a Confederacy been bound
together by such strong ties of mutual
interest ? Each portion of it is dependent
on all, and all on each portion, for pros
perity and domestic security. Free trade
throughout the whole supplies the wants
of one portion from the productions of
another, and scatters wealth everywhere.
The great planting and farming States !
require the aid of the commercial and
navigating to send their productions to j
domestic and foreign markets, and to
furnish the naval power to render their
transportation secure against all hostile
attacks.
Should the Union perish in the midst
of the present excitement, we have al
ready had a sad foretaste of the universal
suffering which would result from its de
struction. The calamity would be severe
in every portion of the Union, and would
be quite as great, to say the least, in the
Southern as in the Northern States.
The greatest aggravation of the evil,
and that which would place us in the
most unfavorable light both before the
world and posterity, is, I am firmly con
vinced, that the secession movement has
been chiefly based upon a misapprehen-
sion at the South of the sentiments of a
majority in several of the Northeru States.
Let the question he transfered from
political assemblies to the ballot box. and
the people themselves would speedily re
dress the serious grieva - cos whie.h the
South have suffered But. in heaven’s
na’me, let the trial be made before we
plunge into armed conflict upon the mere
assumption that there is no other alter
native. Time is a great conservative
power. Let us pause at this momentous
point and afford the people, both North
and South, an opportunity for reflection.
Would that South Cartdina had been con
vinced of this truth before her precipi
tate actioD. I, therefore, appeal through
you to the people of the country to declare
in their might that the Union must and
shall be preserved by all constitufional
means. I most earnestly recommend that
you devote yourselves exclusively to the
question how this can be accomplished in
peace. All other questions when com
pared with this sink in f o insignificance.
The present is no time for palliations.
Action, prompt action, is required. A de
lay in Congress to prescribe or to recom
mend a distinct and practical proposition
for conciliation may drive us to*a point
from which it will be almost impossible
to recede.
A common ground on which conciliation
and harmony can be produced is surely
not unattainable. The proposition to
compromise by letting the North have
exclusive control of the Territory above
a certain line, and to give Southern in
stitutions protection below that line,
ought to receive universal approbation.
In itself, indeed, it may not be entirely
satisfactory; but when the alternative is
between a reasonable concession on both
sides and a destruction of the Union, it
is an imputation upon the patriotism of
Congress to assert that its members will
hesitate for a moment.
Even now the danger is upon us. In
several of the States which have not yet
seceded, the forts, arsenalsjand magazines
of the United States have been seized.
This is by far the most serious step
which has been taken since the com
mencement of the troubles. This public
property has long been left without gar
risons and troops for its protection, be
cause no person doubted its security un
der the flag of the country in any State
in the Union.
Besides, our small army has scarcely
been sufficient to guard our remote fron
tiers against Indian incursions. The
seizure of this property', from all ap
pearances, has been purely aggressive
and not in resistance to any attempt to
coerce a State or States to remainJn the
Union.
At the of these unhappy
troubles. I determined that no actof mine
should increase the excitement in either
section of the country. If the political
conflict were to end in a civil war, it was
my determined purpose not to commence
it, nor even to furnish an excuse for it by
any act of this Government. My opin
ion lemains unchanged, that justice as
well as sound policy requires us still to
seek a peaceful solution of the questions
at issue between the North and the South.
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained
even from sending reinforcements to Ma
jor Anderson, who commanded the forts
iu Charleston harbor, uutil an absolute
necessity for doing so should make itself
apparent, lest it might be regarded as a
menace of military coercion, aud thus
furnish, if not a provocation, at least a
pretext for an outbreak on the part of
South Carolina. No necessity for these
reinforcements seemed to exist. I was
assured by distinguished and upright
gentlemen of South Carolina that no at
tack upon Major Anderson was intended,
but that, on the contrary, it was the de
sire of the State authorities, as much as
it was my own, to avoid the fatal conse
quences which must eventually follow a
military collision.
And here I deem it proper to submit
for your information copies of a commu
nication dated 28th Dec. 1860, addressed
to me by R. W. Barnwell, J. H. Adams,
and James, L. Orr, “commissioners”
from South Carolina, and the accompany
ing documents and copies of my answer
thereto, dated 21st December.
Iu further explanation of Major Ander
son’s removal from Fort Moultrie to Fort
Sumter, it is proper to state that after
my answer to the South Carolina Com
missioners, the War Department received
a letter from that gallant officer, dated
on the 27th Dec., 1860, the day after
this movement, from which the following
is an extract:
“I will add, as my opinion, that many
things convinced me that the authorities
of the State designed to proceed to a hos
tile act, (evidently referring to the or
ders dated Dec. 11, of the late Secretary
of War,) Under this impression, I could
not hesitate that it was my solemn duty
to move my command from a fort which
I probably could not have held longer
than 48 or GO hours, to this one, where
my power of resistance is increased to a
very great degree.”
It will be recollected that the conclud
ing part of these orders was in the fol
lowing terms:
“The smallness of your force will not
permit you, perhaps, to occupy more
than one or the other forts, but an at
tack or attempt to take possession of
either one of them will be regarded as an
act of hostility, as you may then put your
command into either of them which you
may deem most proper to increase its
power of resistance. You are also au
thorized to take similar defensive steps
whenever you have tangible evidence of
a design to proceed to a hostile act.”
It is said that serious apprehensions
are, to some extent, entertained—in
which I do not share—that the peace of
this District may be disturbed before the
4th of March next. In any event, it will
become my duty to preserve it, and this
duty shall be performed.
In conclusion, it may be permitted me
to remark, I have often warned my coun
trymen cf the dangers which now sur
round us. This may be the last time I
shall refer to the subject officially. I
feel that my duty has been faithfully,
though it may be imperfectly performed;
and whatever the result may be, I shall
carry to my grave the concionsness that
I at least meant well .for my country.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Washington, Jan. 8, 1861.
[The enclosures were the correspon
dence between the Commissioners and
the President, with the exception of the
final reply to the Commissioners.]
♦
Melancholy and Fatal Accident on
the Memphis and Charleston Rail
Road—A Man and Horse run over
by the Cars.
We learn from passengers an the train
over the Memphis and Charleston Rail
lload, which arrived here Monday night,
says the Memphis Avalanche of the 9th,
that a fatal accident occurred about six
miles west of Tuscumbia, on the morning
of that day. Mr. David Greenbill, a
farmer living near Tuscumbia, was riding
a spirited horse over a road running par
allel with the rail road, when the cars
came along and the animal became fright
ened and started to run. All the efforts
put forth by the rider to check his mad
career were unavailing. The horse got
upon the track; the engineer gave the
alarm ; tire brakes were put on, but all
without avail. As the horse was cross
ing the road for the second time the cow
catcher struck it, hurling Mr. Greenbill
with violence to the earth, dashing out bis
brains, and horribly maiming the animal.
The train was at once, stopped, and the
dead man (whose brother was upon the
train) picked up. He was perfectly life
less when the conductor of the train
reached him. The horse, that still sur
vived, with its legs broken and mangled,
was shot, in order that his agonies might
be ended.
♦
A New Element In Cheese.
We learn from the Cincinnati Commer
cial that a Cincinnati dealer in cheese
has had returned to him several bowlders
weighing on an average about three
pounds which had been severally found
inside of cheeses made in Northern Ohio.
Some varieties of cheese are pretty hard
of digestion, but the three pound pebbles
would not go through, and were conse
quently returned to the dealer, who will
only have reclamation on the first ship
per, whilst the “ honest ” farmer will have
the pleasure of knowing that he sold, for
once, stones at the same price as cheese.
Commissioner from Georgia to
V. urspe.
A letter in the Nov York I! ■■ ahi t.leg
os that tli; 1 Smti* •:t'Georgia ts-.;- appointed
t •• muiiasiouer to proceed abroad to ob
tain from foreign powers the recognition
of the seceding States ns governments de
facto. He will also be charged with the
duty of negotiating a basis of credit and
exchange, by which the cotton crop can
be hypothecated iu Europe and moved
for joint account. But the mo9t impor-
I tant duty of the commissioner will be in
! regard to the question of revenue. If the
federal government shall make arrange
ments to collect the revenue off Southern
seaports, it is arranged that the cotton
States will pronounce for free trade and
direct taxation. They will proceed to
raise the revenue for the South by direct
taxation, giving notice to foreign gov
ernments that Southern ports are open to
the importation of their merchandise
free of duty, and that the imposition of
duties by the United States government
is unlawful and unauthorized. The ques
tion would, therefore, beceme a foreign
one, and England and France will be left
to decide between aNorthern alliance and
free trade with the South.
A Grateful Queen.
It is said of the late visit of the Amer
ican Minister to her Majesty the Queen,
at Windsor, that he was received most
graciously, and that the Queen constant
ly displayed, in her conversation with
him, the highest appreciation of the
manner in which the Prince of Wales had
been received in the States. She was
exceedingly courteous, and devoted her
self with zeal to the entertainment of her
guests, walking with Mrs. Dallas in the
castle grounds, and driving them about
in the park. She has received great
pleasure from the kindly feeling dis
played towards the Prince in America,
and she testifies it by this act of friendly
politeness, for it is not customary for any
who are not personally intimate with
some member of the royal family to be
invited to Windsor; and since Mr. Steven
son was there, twenty years ago, this
privilege has never been extended to any
American Minister.
TUe Roll of Honor.
The following is a list of revolutionary
soldiers on the rolls of the State of
Georgia and Alabama, who aye regularly
receiving their pensions, and their ages
in 1859 :
Micajah Brooks, Polk county, Ga., 98
years of age.
Wm. Goggin, Gordon county, Ga., 104
years of age.
John Ilames, sr., Murray county, Ga ,
107 years of age.
John McMillen, Habersham county,
Ga , 99 years of age.
John Nicholson, Union county, Ga., 96
years of age.
Reuben Stevens, Chambers county,
Ala., 97 years of age.
An Underground Rail Road Sell.
Deacon Chase, of Holyoke, Massachu
setts, enjoys that species of enlargement
of the heart which finds relief in enlarge
ing the distance between the sunny South
and the flying slave. A week ago his
‘‘speciality” had a chance to operate.—
negro called upon him and asked his
assistance to reach free and happy Cana
da A ticket for Montreal and some
money were soon forthcoming. At Bel
lows Falls the darkey sold his ticket for
half price, declaring that, he “never had
no notion of gwine to Canada, to be friz
to death.” It was not the first time he
had visited Keene. Three years ago he
was there on a similar mission, and was
put through to Marlow upon the strength
of a letter from Horace Greely, which he
exhibited.— Providence [R. 1.) Post.
Moved oil.
Christian King and his wife have been
dispatched from Warrenton, N. C., for
the North for admitting negroes to their
parlor and table, and being generally
suspicious characters. The News says:
King is upwards of sixty years of age,
possessing some property in the neigh
borhood of Philadelphia, and also owning
, two houses in Alexandria, Ya. As he ex
pressed an intention of returning there,
or proceeding to Wilmington, N. C., we
deem it our duty to state that the invet
erate habits of King and his wife, in
trading aud associating with negroes on
terms of equality render them most un
desirable members of a slaveholding com
munity.
Arkansas Relegation in Congress.
The following dispatch, dated Wash
ington City, December 21, 1860, has been
published at Little Rock :
It is now manifested that the other
cotton States will secede. North Caroli
na moves toward the same end. The
people of the border States are taking
steps to call Conventions. The spirit of
the present Congress forbids a reasonable
hope of any adequate remedy. We be
lieve it to be our public duty to state our
present conviction, which is, that it is the
imperative interest of the State to pass
an act calling together a convention of
the people of Arkansas to join in the
common councils of the South for her
protection and further safety.
R. W. JOHNSON,
T. C. HINDMAN.
From the Charlotte (N. C.) Bulletin.
Ciiesterville, S. C., Jan. ll.—The
joyful news received, that Alabama has
seceded, was greeted by a salute of
twenty-five guns.
The gallantry of Senator Toombs, in
his difficulty with Gen. Scott, when re
ported, was received with many cheers.
Anew military company will make its
first appearance to-morrow.
The oldest citizens are uow forming
another company. It will be composed
principally of aged men, the oldest citi
zens of Chester. Captain John A. Brad
ley is to take the command.
Oiling Leather.
Oils should not be applied to dry leath
er, as they invariably injure it. If you
wish to oil a harness, wet it over night,
cover it with a blanket, and in the morn
ing it will be dry and supple; then apply
neat’s-foot oil in small quantities, with
so much elbow grease as will ensure its
disseminating itself throughout the leath
er. A soft, pliant harness is easy to
handle, and lasts longer than a neglected
one. Never use vegetable oils on leather,
and among animal oils neat’s foot is the
best.
From the Union Springs Gazette.
Macon Minute Grays.
At a meeting of the above Company.—
Capt. T. V. Rutherford in the Chair
Lieut. D. B. Coleman, who had been ap
pointed Commissioner to purchase a
Uniform, Swords Belts, &c., reported
that he had visited Columbus and
Charleston, and had obtained every thing
of southern manufacture. The company
will now very soon be able to appear in
public and to fly to the defence of their
native South if needed.
The January “Crisis” in Memphis
The Memphis Argus, of the 4th inst.,
says:
Business men were generally success
ful in meeting their obligations in bank
yesterday. are informed that the
paper maturing to-day, and which had
to be met yesterday, amounted to nearly
$750,000, and that, coutrary to all ex
pectatioD, the greater portion of it went
“ through” with little difficulty. The
majority of protests was on outside paper,
calling for small amounts, but nearly all
the regular business paper was promptly
met. The “crisis” being now past, there
is nothing to prevent fair sailing in busi
ness in future.
Not Very Particular.
We yesterday heard, says the Boston
Courier, a couple of politicians sighing
over the affairs of the nation. “ I wish,”
said one of them. “Old Jackson was in
old Buchanan’s place.” “I ain’t so par
ticular about that,” retorted the other,
“ I’d be satisfied if old Buchanan was in
old Jackson’s place.”
The Baltimore Sun is edited by an En
glishman, the Washington Constitution
by an Irishman, and the New York Her
ald by a Scotchman. The rose, sham
rock, and thistle. —Mempnis Avalanche.
j The Religion of Paying Debt*,
The following remarks from two con
temporary papers, contain a lesson wor
: tby of serious consideration :
“Men may sophisticate as they please.
They can never make it right, and all \
the bankrupt laws in the universe can
i not make it right for them not to pay j
I their debts. There is a sin in this neg-
I lect as clear and deserving Church dis-
I cipline as is stealing or false swearing.
■ He who violates his promise to pay, or
withholds payment of a debt when it is j
in his power to meet bis engagement,
ought to be made to feel that in the sight
of all honest men he is a swindler. Re
ligion may be a very comfortable cloak
under which to bide ; but it religion does
not make a man deal justly, it is not ;
woatb having.”
Good ! every word. So if you owe any !
body a cent, and have a cent in your
possession, go and pay it. If you have j
none, go work, dig, ditch, plow, work j
; any honest work, until you get it and
pay it out. You will breathe freer, sleep
easier, eat and digest better. You will
honor aud love all men and yourself
more. Do you owe your merchant ? Pay
him or stop buying. Don’t eat your
bread without paying for it. or knowing
that you can whenever it is wanted.—
Otherwise it won’t fatten you, and will
bring on physical and moral dyspepsia.
Do not forget that little subscription for
your editor and preacher. Have you
j paid up to both ? It is a small amount,
but their income is made up of tittles. —
Ho that is unjust in the least is uDjust
also in much. You will enjoy your pa
per a thousand times more : the sejmons
you hear will seem infinitely better if
you know you are not in debt to either
your printer or pastor. Charleston Advo
cate.
A Mice little Trick.
A gentleman of Montgomery came to
the conclusion the other day that a little
thrashing would do ouc of his negro men
good, aud so wrote a note to the police
office requesting that thirty nine lashes
be administered the bearer, and gave the
note to the victim for delivery, saying
nothing of its purport. But somehow or
other the boy did not like the errand,
and on his way meeting a colored friend
he requested him to leave the note at the
guardhouse as he was in a hurry to go in
another direction. The too amiable un
fortunate duly delivered the note, preg
nant with painful fate, and was duly
triced up and treated to “what it oalled
for,” much to his consternation and mis
ery. _
Counting tire Presidential Vote.
The second Wednesday in February is
the day fixed by law for counting the
electoral vote in Congress, and declaring
the election of President and Vice Presi
dent of the United States. It is asserted
by some of the Black Republican Wash
ington correspondents, that a plan is
under consideration to defeat, if it may
be, the action of the law, by the refusal
of the Senate to meet the House of Rep
resentatives, and participate in counting
and declaring the vote. Another scheme,
said to be meditated by Southern dipd, is
to prevent the counting of votes for Pres
ident by leaving the Senate without a
quorum.— N. O. Com. Bulletin.
A Good Newspaper.
The reading of a good and well con
ducted newspaper, even for the short
space of one quarter of a year, brings
more sound instruction, and leaves a
deeper impression, than would be ac
quired probably at the best school in
twelve months. Talk to the members of
a family who read the papers, and com
pare their information aud intelligence
with those who do not. The difference
is beyond comparison.
A Beautiful Thought.
Every morning we enter upon anew
day, carrying still an unknown future in
its bosom. Thoughts may be born to
day, which may never be extinguished.
Hopes may be excited to-day, which
may never expire. Acts may be per
formed to day, the consequence of which
may not be realized till eternity.
- .■■ —-
Probable Loss of a Government
Vessel.
SerioDS apprehensions are felt in the
Naval department for the probable losa
of the Levant, which, at last accounts had
left the Sandwich Islands for Panama.
She is nearly two months behind her
time, and it is feared she has gone down
with all on board. We hope not. — Sa
vannah Republican.
“Sea Going Collins.
A writer in the London Shipping Gaz
ette styles the iron screw steamships, now
extensively employed in navigating the
waters of Northern Europe as “sea going
coffins.” No less than six or seven of
them were lost (five foundered) in a gale,
October 3d and 4th, the loss of life
amounting to about two hundred per
sons.
Ignorance is Bliss.
Rev. Dr. Lacey, President of Davidson
College, North Carolina, declined to serve
on a committee on Chaplains, at the late
meeting of his Synod, and gave as a rea
son, that he had not read a political
newspaper for several years past, and
did not know that the Union of the States
was in danger, until he reached the place
of meeting of the Synod, and heard that
such was the fact from some of the mem
bers of the Synod.
—*—
Special to the Montgomery Advertiser.
Tennessee to go With the South*
The following inportant dispatch was
received from the Commissioner to Ten
nessee by the Governor yesterday:
Huntsville, Ala., Jan. 12.
To Gov. A. B. Moore: —l will leave for
Montgomery to-day. It is absolutely
certain that Tennessee will go with the
South. L. P. WALKER.
Washington, January 9.—Agents for
Southern States have arrived in this cityT
to purchase arms and munitions of war.
The Government refuses to sell to any
one. The agents of the State of Missis
sippi left for the North yesterday to pur
chase arms. It is said the supply iu that
direction is not abundant.
Washington, Jan. 9 —lt has been as
certained that all the Southern States
have drawn their full quota of arms.
Detroit, Jan. 7.—John R. McClelland,
ex-Secretary of the Interior, publishes a
letter advising the withdrawal of the
slavery question from Congress and local
Government until Territories become
States. He thicks disunion is destructive
to the interests of both sections, and
entreats the people of the North to
strengthen conservative Southerners by
yielding to the just demands of the
South.
Knoxville, Jan. 9. Johnson was
burned in effigy here last night. A large
crowd was present. Violence was threat
ened, but none offered.
Punch defends on “classical” grounds
the alleged fact that a woman is more ob
stinate than a mule. If its reasons appear
far-fetched, it must be remembered that |
they are imported from ancient Rome. \
That a mule is positive will be admitted
by all; of this mulier, the latin word for
I woman, is the proper comparative. Any
; one, by careful meditation, will see the
I point of the argument, and be able to
1 judge of its soundness.
■
Virginia Holds a Convention.
Richmond, Jan. 13. — The Senate last
night, passed the House Convention bill,
with an amendment fixing the 13th Feb
ruary as the day for the assembling of j
the Convention.
Gov. Packer, of Pennsylvania, Chief j
Justice Lewis, and both United States
Senators from that State, Hon. Wm. Big
ler and Hon. Simon Cameron, were all
raised printers, receiving their education
in a printing establishment, the two for
| mer in the same office.
The following note, says the Marion
(Ala.) Commonwealth, was lately re
ceived by a gentleman in this plaoe, from
his overseer:
Bear Doctor :—Please send me by the
boy a pair of trace chains, and two door
hinges, Jane had twins last night—also
two padlocks.
Yours, &c.
Interesting from Washington.
Social Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.
Washington, January 12, 1 P. M -
It is said that Major Anderson has re
i ported to the War Department that he
needs no reinforcements at tort Sumter
until an attack is made.
I The Star of the West is announced to
have arrived in New \ork. She has been
visited by an immense concourse et peo
ple, though nothing is said of the extent
of damage done her by the shots from
’ Morris’ Island llattery.
One of the largest crowds ever assent
; bled in the Federal Capitol is now gath
ered to hear Mr. Seward upon the great
issues of the hour. No compromise has
; yet been made.
Later. —The Mississippi Delegation
have withdrawn from the House ut ltep
resentatives. Mr. Barksdale presented
the letter of withdrawal, signed by his
colleagues and himself.
I Mr. Seward spoke one hour, and ad
vertised the soothing hope that war wouid
be averted. He made no compromise
upon the questions at issue, aud it is be
lieved will make none. The Administra
tion is getting calmer upon the matter of
coercing seceding States. Mr. Seward
opposed coercion strongly in his speech.
Washington, January 12, 5 P. M.—
Seward closed his address with somewhat
pacific remarks, lie favored the propo
sition of Mr. llice, Senator from Minne
sota, to admit all territory as two new
States, aud have au end of Territorial
questions. He urged a repeal of the
Personal Liberty Bills, the enforcement
of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the pre
vention of armed invasion by people of
one State into that of another.
He declared his principles to be “The
Union before Republicanism,” and that
every sacrifice should be made for the
preservation of peace and of the Union.
Washington, January 13, 9.45 P. M.—
The Administration is still undecided as
to what course it will pursue with regard
to the recent difficulties with South Car
olina arising out of the visit of the Star
of the West.
It is dow asserted that the Star of the
West will not be ordered back to Charles
ton, but sent to where, it is believed, she
was originally destined, fortress Monroe,
on the Chesapeake Bay, Virgiuia. But
no movement will be made for the pres
ent, in view of intimations in official
quarters that Major Anderson has sent
further dispatches, and that the Cabinet
is soon to be put in communication with
the authorities of South Carolina with
special reference to this difficulty.
Publications have been made through
the newspapers, purporting to give the
details of Lieut. Talbot’s dispatches from
Major Anderson, but the principal jour
nals flatly contradict each other. It is
only reliably known that Major Ander
son has stated that he needs no reinforce
ments at present.
The Senators from the Gulf States are
greatly displeased at Mr. Seward’s
speech. Mr. Crittenden and others,
however, think that it promises the olive
branch for a future settlement. The
radical Republicans denounce it. Sev
eral Senators of position now assert that
the Republicans will eventually vote for
Mr. Crittenden’s resolutions. But it is
thought that they v. ill not do so until
Secession has run the gauntlet of the
Southern States. It is the opinion of
others that this action will come too late
to effect any thing.
About 200 United States troops arrived
in the city this morning aud were quar-.
tered at the Armory Barracks. The ob
ject is to make a military display calcu
lated to intimidate any attempt at inva
sion.
The Departments are strictly guarded
by special watchmen, well armed, and no
one is allowed entrance into the build
ings before or after the usual business
hours. *
The President will send into the Senate
the nomination for Secretary of the Inte
rior to-morrow.
It is considered doubtful whether the
President will remove Mr. Holt from the
War Department, as he has not yet made
choice of a successor.
The Constitution newspaper (late Ad
ministration organ) comments with great
severity on General Scott’s present as
sumption of power. It considers him as
playing tho dictator in the full sense of
the term, as he is directing the whole
army movements and maintaining a co
ercive and ruinous policy.
Washington, Jan. 12—3 \ p. m.—Hon.
PhilHp Clayton, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, leaves on Monday, to re
turn to his home in Georgia.
The Mississippi delegation have just
retired in a body from the Hall of the
House of Representatives.
The Cabinet held quite a protracted
session last night over tho report of
Lieut. Talbot. The present disposition
of the Administration is to leave matters
at Charleston in their present condition,
and to sustain Anderson in his position.
It is now absolutely certain that the
most vigorous measures have been re
solved upon by the War Department, un
der the advice es Gen. Scott. The Fulton
and other vessels of war are ordered to
get ready for active service. The Cabinet
has firmly resolved upon enforcing the
laws, and at any cost.
Tho President and Cabinet being now
a unit, great precautions will be taken to
prevent their action from transpiring,
particularly as to the movements of troops
and vessels of war, and the nature of the
instructions furnished to Lieutenant Tal
bot for Major Anderson. It is reported
that the President will cause the arrest of
any correspondent sending information
of Government movements to the South.
There is now no member of the Cabinet
who admits the right of secession. Holt
will be confirmed as Secretary of War.
The Interior and Postoffice Departments
are still vacant.
It is stated that uuder directions of the
Navy Department the Brooklyn is not to
cross the bar at Charleston.
Washington, Jan. 13, 8 p. m.—Sew
ard’s speech of yesterday is pronounced
by all parties to have been a sad failure.
The Republicans now admit that there
is no further hope of compromise, and
Gen. Scott declares that if the South is
united, war would bo absurd. That the
South will be a unit, no one here any
longer doubts.
The Northern Democratic Senators,
with two exceptions, heartily approve of
the secession movement, but think it
imprudent at this time.
Ex Secretary Thompson’s rejoinder to
the President is withheld by the latter
from the public. Mr. Thompson may
determine to publish iL but will wait a
few days longer before doing so. His
reply, I understand, clearly convicts
Buchanan of falsehood, on the testimony
of the other members of the Cabinet.
On the evening that the Star of the
West left New York, the President posi
tively denied to Mr. Thompson that any
troops had been ordered to Charleston.
Senator Toombs and family left this
morning for Georgia.
The Alabama Senators and members
will leave Tuesday, if the Ordinance of
Secession is ratified to-morrow, as antic
ipated. The Florida Senators and mem
bers will leave at the same time. This
leaves Ligler, of Pennsylvania, Chairman
of the Committee of Commerce, and en
sures the confirmation of Mclntyre as
Collector of Charleston.
A despatch from Col. Todd, command
ing Fort Morgan, at Mobile, says be Las j
plenty of men and ammunition to prevent j
any Federal force from entering Mobile !
Bay. The State has fifteen hundred bar
rels of powder.
Senators Green and Polk, of Missouri,
addressed a note, yesterday, to Secretary i
Holt, inquiring why the Sub Treasury at
i St. Louis was in the possession of United
I States soldiers. Holt answered that if
! Senators would call in person on him
I * ie wou ld explain the matter, but not
I otherwise.
The telegraphic despatch announcing
the departure of the Attorney-General
Ilayne and Lieutenant Hall from Charles
ton for Washington, has puzzled the
President greatly.
All deliberations have been suspended
among the members of the Cabinet until
the arrival of Messrs. Ilayne and Hall.
Washington, Jan. 14—Senator Jas. S.
Green, of Missouri, made a formal de
mand for an explanation from Secretary
Holt, with regard to the quartering of
! United States troops at the public build- !
ings iu St. Louis. Mr. Holt has refused
to comply with the demand, and it is un- 1
derstood that Mr. ftreeu will make the
matter thesubject of a strong speech in
the Senate. He has telegraphed Gov
Jacksou, of Missouri, to take decisive
measures for ousting the Government
troops.
Mr. ‘lioombs, of Georgia, left this city
for home last night. There was a start
: ling rumor prevailing, though not cred
ited, that troops would be ordered to de
feud him from a mob. Bail will be
: promptly furnished, in case an order is
issued for his an est for treason against
the Government.
The remaining Senators from the se
ceding States will hold a conference to
determine what is bFst to do in the pres
ent posture of affairs. It is believed by
many that they will determine not to quit
their seats, but remain and prevent the
encroachments of the Administration.
On Saturday the account of Gov. F. W. i
Pickens as United Slates Minister to Rus
| sia, was finally adjusted at the office of
the First Comptroller. There was a bal
ance due him by the Government of
$1,700. The Comptroller has passed the
account and directed it to be paid. A
draft for the amount has been sent to the
United States Treasurer at Charlestou,
who, it is presumed, has funds enough to
meet it.
A resolution was offered iu the House j
this morning, but laid over, calling upon j
j the Secretary of tne Interior for copies of
all deeds made by the Southern States
; ceding the lands for the forts, arsenals,
etc., to the Government of the United
| States.
Washington, Jan. 14.—Several addi
tional officers cf the Federal Navy have
tendered their resignations, which will
be accepted in the event of the revenue
! cutter or ships of war to which they are
attached or statioued being ordered upon
j any coercive mission.
j Speaker Pennington, of the House of
S Representatives, lias announced himself |
in favor of a National Convention of the
people of the United States to settle ex
isting difficulties.
Mclntyre’s nomination to the Collect
| orship of the port of Charleston will now
jbe confirmed, it is thought. So long as
Senators Clay and Toombs remained in
| the Senate they were members of the
; Committee. One of them was Chairman,
and a report to the Senate has been de
layed for this reason. Mr. Bigler, of
Pennsylvania, having succeeded to the
Chairmanship, it is right to suppose he
will, iu a short time, submit a report up
on the nomination of the President.
Lincoln has thus far failed to obtain
the consent r s a single Southern man so
serve in his Ca’ iuet. Mr. Scott, of Vir
giuia, to whom an appointment was ten
dered, has declined to serve in the Black
Republican Administration. Ilia letter
upon the subject is quite patriotic.
Dudley Mann, Esq., leaves here to-day
at two o’clock for Europe, entrusted with
the business of South Carolina. Mr.
Mann is on a mission to secure direct
trade between South Carolina and Eu
rope. He is said to go out provided with
letters from the Governor of South Caio
lina and Georgia.
Col. Isaac W. Hayna hopes to obtain
an interview with the President to mor
row.
Lieutenant Hall is quartered at Wil
lard’s Hotel. He laid the ultimatum of
Major Anderson before the President to
day—immediately after arriving in the
city. A Cabinet meeting is called to
consider the documents he brings.
The administration has, for the present,
rescinded all orders directing war steam
ers to proceed to Charleston as was at
first telegraphed to the Courier.
The acting Secretary of the Interior,
to-day, instituted an investigation for the
purpose of ascertaining and removing
every Clerk favoring secession.
Mr. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, introduced
a Bill for holding a general election of the
people of the United States, on the twelfth
of February, upon amendments to the
Constitution.
Special to the Charleston Mercury.
Washington, Jan. 14.—Some Southern
men here are now canvassing the propri
ety of the Convention of -the seceding
States at Montgomery adopting the form
of the present Federal Government, as a
whole. It is urged by the advocates of
this policy that when all the Southern
j States are out, the united South may
claim to be the United States, and demand
of the European powers recognition as
such. In this event, Washington, of
course, would belong to the South. The
object of this move is to patch up, as
soon as practicable, the old Union, and
defeat a Southern Confederacy. Wash
ington politicians cannot give up their
present status.
Washington, Jan. 14—8 pm.—Messrs.
Ilayne aud Hall arrived at 4 o’clock this
afternoon, but have, as yet, had no inter
view with the President. The Cabinet
was in session till a late honr waiting
their attendance. I understand that the
consideration of the Charleston embrogilo
is postponed until to-morrow, as all the
members of the Cabinet profess ignorance
as to the object of this visit.
The President is evidently alarmed at
the serious aspect of affairs, and the Abo
litionists express fears that the President
is giving way.
The report of the select “Crisis” Com
mittee of Thirty-three, which was pre
sented to the House to-day, is ridiculed
by Southern men. The Committee made
the report by a bare majority, nearly all
the Southern men voting against it.
They have hitherto regarded Maryland
as the break-water of the secession move
ment. But Senator Kennedy told them
to-day that this was the last chance, aud
that if the resolutions were voted down,
Maryland wouid be ready, with her
Southei a sisters, to meet the issue pre
sented by the Abolitionists. This aston
ished them. Preston King, of New York,
approached Kennedy after the adjourn
ment and asked him “what he meant.”
Kennedy replied that he meant what he
I said—that if the Abolitionists voted down
Crittenden’s resolutions, Maryland was
ready for civil war. A Black Republican
Senatorial causus was immediately called
for to-night.
Washington, Jan. 13.—Thb Republi
cans in the Senate to-day refused to con
sider the compromise resolutions of Mr.
Crittenden, of Kentucky, by a majoritv
of seven. There is great excitement
among the Southern conservatives in
consequence. Many declare that this
action of the Republicans has banished
now and forever all hope of compromise.
Still, hopes are entertained of a reconsid
eration to morrow. There is no blinking
the fact, however, that the vote to-day
ot the Republicans indicates a determi
nation on their part to refuse all propo
sitions looking to a compromise, that
would be satisfactory even to the border
slave States.
Mr. Holt remains at the head of the
War Department. There is scarcely any
probability of his removal.
Mr. Greenwood, the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, will be appointed Secre
tary of the Interior.
General Scott continues his military
preparations, and Washington has more
the appearauce of a martial camp than a
great metropolis.
Mr. Seward’s speech is still the theme
of conversation. Even Mr. Crittenden,
conservative as he is, declares that Sew
ard offers no proposition worthy of being
entertained, but does not wholly close
the door againss conciliation.
Washington, Jan. 15—10 p. m.—Col.
I. W. Ilayne, Commissioner from South
Carolina, called upon the President pre
cisely at four o’clock this afternoon, and
had a very pleasant personal interview
with Mr. Buchanan, which lasted about
twenty minutes. The President declined
to receive any official communication from
him, or entertain any verbal suggestion
or proposition. The inference from this
is, that the Administration intends to
transact no business whatever with any
one but the Federal authorities with ref
erence to affairs at Charleston.
Two or three Cabinet sessions have
already been held, but no positive deci
sion has yet been arrived at. Outside of
government circles it is considered a fixed
fact that Major Anderson will be re-in
forced, and that this has been agreed
upon. It is generally believed here that
the demand of the South Carolina authori
! ties, could the Commissioner get an on
portunity to make it known, is that the
1 fortifications of the Charleston harbor
shall be restored to their original status;
I when all hostilities shall cease, with the
understanding that the State troops shall
: be promptly withdrawn from Castle l’im%-
ney, Fort Moultrie and Fort Johnson, and
i Anderson would then go back to Moultrie.
Neither Col. Ilayne nor Lieut. Hall
: Lave thus far deemed the result of their
j mission definite enough to send one word
j to their respective superiors.
The Cabinet is a unit aginst interfer
ing with Major Anderson in any manner.
The Committee on Commerce of the
House will not present a report on Mr.
McKean’s Bill, repealing the Act making
South Carolina ports ports of entry, as it
throws impediments in the way to the
; passage of such a Bill.
Special Dispatch to the Charleston Mercury.
Washington. Jad. 15. — 0n the arrival
of liayueand Hall yesterday, the latter
| called immediately on Gen. Scott and Je-
I livered his despatches, the purport of
which has not yet transpired.
Attorney-General Hayue is the centre
of public attention. It is generally sup.
posed here that be desires either the re
occupation of Fort Moultrie and Pickney,
or the total withdrawal of the Federal
i troops from Charleston.
It is currently rumored in reliable cir
j cles to-day, that the Administration will
! withdaaw the troops from Fort Sumter
j and Pickens before the close of the pres
ent week.
The Cabinet is now in session, discus
sing the proposed return to the peace
policy. Senator Bigler, of Pennsylvania,
the President’s confidential friend, pre
dicts firmness on the part of the Admin
istration in future.
All the Northern Democratic Senators,
except Thompson and Douglas, justify the
secession movement.
The Southern Senators will all with
draw, but will not resign, in consequence
of the embarrassment that would ensue
I in filling the vacancies upon the commit
tees. No such vacancies now exist, us
the Senate does not recognize the mere
withdrawal.
Washington, Jan. 15—8, p. m.—Mr.
Ilayne has, as yet, had no communication
with the President. lie received the calls
of friends ail the forenoon, and dines
with Commodore Shubrick this evening.
Mr. Gourdjn’s room was full of visit ors
to-night, anxiously inquiring about
Charleston matters. Col. Aldeu, lute of
the United States Army, is here, and will
tender his services to South Carolina.
The Navy Department received to-day
the following dispatch from Flag Officer
Armstrong at Pensacola.
“Armed bodies of Florida and Ala
bama troops appeared before the gate of
the Navy Yard yesterday, and demanded
possession. Having no means to resist,
I at once surrendered and hauled down
my flag. They (the State troops) are
now in possession.”
Capt. Farran, the commandant at the
Pensacola Navy Yard, has notified tho
Government of his resignation. A pri
vate dispatch to the Florida Senators to
day, says : “We repaired down to Pensa
cola, captured Fort Barrancas and the
Navy Y'ard, set the officers at liberty on
parole, and are now in full possession.
The move was in consequence of the oc
cupancy of Fort Pickens by the govern
ment troops.”
It is urged upon the Administration to
follow out the statu quo ante helium pol
icy. The impression is growing more
general that the withdrawal of the Fed
eral troops from Fort Sumter will take
place this week.
The Pensacola Navy Yard has $150,000
worth of ordnance stores.
I am authorized to say that Douglas,
Crittenden, and a number of the Border
State leaders, are maturing anew “cri
sis” programme to patch up the exiting
difficulties. The gist of this new scheme
will be made known in a day or two.
The Republicans hope to have full con
trol of Congress by the first of February.
They say among themselves that they
will then press through force measures
so as to involve the land in civil war be
fore Lincoln comes in, and he says that
“he will work the machine as he finds
it.”
Congressional.
Washington, Jan. 14.— Senate. —Iu the
Senate to-day, Mr. Bigler of Pennsylvan
ia, introduced a series of resolutions look
ing to a preservation of the Union.
Resolutions of inquiry were introduced
relative to the action of the State of Mis
sissippi in searching steamers on the
Mississippi river, and also relative to or
dering troops to Charlestou and other
Southern points.
Mr. Polk, of Missouri, made a speech
on Senator Hunter’s resolutions relative
to withdrawing the Federal troops from
Charleston harbor.
House —In tho House resolutions were
introduced by Mr. Garnett, of Virginia,
to suspend the Federal laws, in the so
ceding States; by Mr. Harris, of Virgin
ia, for the revival of the Tariff of 1846;
by Mr. McKean, of New York, for the
non-collection of the revenue in South
Carolina; by Mr. Maynard, of Tennes
see, which were adopted, instructing the
select Committee on the President’s Spe
cial Message to consider and report upon
the recommendation to submit existing
difficulties to the people for settlement;
by Mr Holman, of Pennsylvania, in fa
vor of coercion ; by Mr. English, of In
diana, to obtain an expression of opinion
on Senator Crittenden’s resolution.
A bill to reorganize the military in the
District ofColnmbia was debated.
Messrs. McClernand, of Illinois, and
Cox, of Ohio, made anti-secession speech
es on the army bill
Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, from the Com
mittee of Thirty-three, announced that
the Committee was ready to report,
whereupon the report was made the spe
cial order for Monday next.
[later.]
In the Senate, to day, Mr. Brown, of
Mississippi, said: “Mr. President, when
the record shall be completed, which the
Senate is about to make, it will show the
absence of Senators from the States of
Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. I rise
to say a few words why this will be so.
These States have taken steps to with
draw from the Union, of which fact we
are not so well and officially informed as
to justify our filing a formal notice with
the Senate.
“But we think that our duty to our
State and to ourselves no longer permits
us to take an active part in the proceed
ings of this body, either by speaking or
voting. My colleague, (Senator Davis) is
confined to his room by sickness, but I
am sure that he concurs in what I say.
Mr. Crittenden’s resolutions were made
the special order for to morrow over all
other special orders.
Washington, Jan. 15.—Senate. —The
Hon. J. J. Crittenden’s union resolutions
were taken up, aud a conversational de
bate ensued, when they were laid aside
for the Pacific railway bid. Mr. Critten
den, in thrilling accents and words, en
deavored to obtain action on his resolu
tions, but they fell unheeded.
The Pacific bill was amended, and
continued over.
House. —The army bill was debated.
The Hon. J. 11. Reagan, of Texas, and
Hon. Thomas L. Anderson, of Missouri,
took the side of the South—the latter dis
approved of the precipitancy of the Gulf
States, and favored a convention of the
border States. .
The Hon. Benjamin Stanton, of Ohio,
repudiated the impression that it was a
part of the Republican principles to in
terfere with slavery in the States, and
said that be was willing to amend the
Constitution so as to guard against any
interference, except with the consent of
all the States, and to admit New Mexico.
Mr. Adrain, of New Jersey, in a con
ciliatory speech, said that he would make
concessions and compromises, but would
not permit secession.
Ohio Endorses the President—Offers Aid!
Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 14.—The Legis
lature of this State endorses the Presi
dent’s course relative to South Carolina,
and pledges the purse and entire re
sources of the State to maintain the Con
stitution and laws.