The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1850, Page 1

' THE NEW YORK HERALD. a a a pages an pn me — ~ ~ . a ae c WHOLE NO. 6024. =: - MORNING EDITION----TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1850. (ANOTHER GREAT UNION DEMONSTRATION, | Strngemente have toes made for bringing outcuu: question's soiccrued. Mele determined to stand Sy Sinitapplr yet once sake the Woon oF eens | NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, didates tor every lapenin the l nd recommends no alterations in its -_ hundreds of thousands Anes THE RUCHEPTION that in every courty iu the State, of Mississippl the the Union is safe; I will mot detain you any longer, | roch danger in future.” Wi INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON, or U cause triamph, and speedily triumph. WS but I feel bound to remark on the pi of the ‘4 jence—we always had confidence in anne “i pepo amemag ou teeck teaitettnate i othictio ee, berger td us on ‘aig estate see uehaee, | ogy 9 pr ihe. pone pyph hy Oks SENATORS FOOTE AND DOWNS | Merersiense™ or nose. .) has referred to the action ae ket cone r BY THE not be saiely Ee met brilliant rospect: fe tee, ‘and not having been one ef that committee. we of ite ul . . Who Coa ed Is 5 : i —e in Sempe of commendation of not «fact, without m ing names, minen' * labors. ‘tlemen who composed that com- WNION SAFETY COMMITTEE. | champions of patriotism in the North have siresdy mittee did rite above party influences they did fo meee Suen, fe See aes oe. ferene psd my ae y were > pai as — 2 nO inue ¢ agitation whic! at c country's welfare and honor 08; INTERESTING SPEECHES. hea national councils’? “As soon as it was known that Senator Foote, of Mis- | leading nm ‘sissippi, and Senator Downs, of Louisiana, had arrived pea pipe: in this city, on Saturday last, in the steamship from agitation’ Charleston, en route to Washington, it was proposed | fidently, that agitation in “that they should be welcomed to this metropelis by the | And is the condition of heretofore distracted the count: (Good ) published in the cities of the ‘Sis iee ane ey party policy a littl then it me x! continue s more Is there not good reason for believing A we I will give you an anecdote illustrative of the spirit in whieh these men acted. It was said, on @ certain occasion, to my old friend, Gen. Cass, by come gentie- man (three cheers for Gen. Cass) who was consuiting the interests of the | country, that if the of adjustment was the North carried out. Henry Clay might become President. ublic feeling in tho Now, Gen, Cass had nominated Mr Clay as chair- and our Is it true South? Why, Maryland unanimourly sustains the man of that committe, and what was the “Union Safety Committee, appointed at the great meet- | Union, Bo does Delaware. In | of the old patriot’ I ‘will state the rep - ing held a short time ago at Castle Garden. Those | eae toe renee = q Se os I md peeeees, « sat Bese 5 a, mi ie el distinguished gentlemen were applied to on the sub- bye A lonry, and host of other patriot ie rej iat honest tace is becam s the revolution, the language of secession has neveryet | refulgent with the true spirit of trict. He ject, and we are happy to say that they at once ex: | been heard, and never will, be heard. (remem: | femstked, “Then, eo be it if Clay's noble conduct, Pressed the gratification which it would afford them to | dous applaure) The people ot Kentucky are | at the head of our committee, in resouing his country meet the committee, of whom they had heard so much. | ¢avally unanimous people of Missouri are from present dan; id conduct him to the pre- These distinguished champions of the Union were Teceived yesterday, at one o'clock, at the Governor's “Room, in the City Hall, where the Mayor of the city “introduced them to the vast concourse of people which thronged the building in every part. Mr. Kingsland the Union. There is but equally unapimous—the people of Tennessee, whi, Sip acmscente ave we looms 4 ie ger, shoul eidency, in the ratify outburst of ap, 4s unsnimous for it one voice in that State which : pot has been raised in support of the plan of secession walls of the Go room dance a T chau concested in South Carvlina mi boy yo jig) lenge pa) in action recently by a gen! not delicate to mention. twelve months ago, and you to point out to such another instance of pat- iotic devotion and self sacrifice. Aad that was the opinion among the friends of the adjustment in beth whose mame it 1¢ voice of the Hon. Hop- kins Turney, I learn, was the only one that was raised houses of Congress. I will not speak of those who held a rem Erne DES | Support oi the plan of secssslon concosted in South suburdinste position but I will ray that the three 1 ‘of the proceedings. Among the Ls em pre- | Cerolina. North ina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiena, ing Senators who supported that scheme of settlement sent we observed George Law, proprietor of the South- | Texas and Geo: the proceedipge of whose patriotic Clay, Cass, and Webster, proved themselves pure- ern line of United States mail steamers; E.K. Collins | conventions havealready reached you, have al! declared minded. disinterested, self saorificing patriots, regard- gopelehon of the Mas of United. States mail sien im unequivocal ge, their determination to ad- less ofeverything like individual advance: when ‘proprietor ine mu mers | here to the Union, and to put down factionists tbe country which they loved was in danger. (Ap- to England; F. 8. Lathrop, Hiram Ketcham, R. C. | and factionism. I understand the intelligence com- plause, loud and long-continued.) Yes, in my judg- Wetmore, 8. L. Mitchill, @. B. Butler, &e., Kc. municated from South Carolina by te! h is that ment, their conduct surpasses that of any men in any ~~ ‘d eid will await the action of the State of which I have in the page of authentic history. Aristides aod As scon asthe introductory ceremony wasconcluded | the honor, in part, to represemt—the patriotic State of | Themirtocles lived aud died rivals. ‘Cesar drove Cato ‘His Honor the Mayor said to the mags of people in | Mississippi. This is much what I res ong fortwoor | from Keme, and he was compelled to soue attendance:— three months past. I am glad that they will postpone himeelf from the tyrant by committing suicide Cicero final action until then, of Fellow Citizens.—Mr. Foote, Senator in Congress trom Mississippi, and Mr. Downs, Senator in Congress >from Louiriana, will now be addressed by Ogden Hoil- nen, Esq. of this city, and, when he has concluded, ‘there gentlemen will, probably, favor us with a reply. Mr. Horrmax then addressed Messrs. “Downs, as follows :— Union than even to som nd may mn time w! our country was con- and that this glorious nation exists on the face @ globe, that the people of the State of Mississi; pease autumn, more o Three cheers for Mississippi, and three more Pe eal, ) Foote and | speak of what I know; and yet this may x explanation. T! easily offered. True, th: for I am ascertain as God too had to become the victim of the tyrant who called Rory Bam neg Pitt Fox were rivals in England throughout their whole live: never became reconciled up to the moment ot ‘h of the latter. Burke and Fox had a quar- rel which terminated th hip of many years; but Clay, Cass, and Webster ltar of their country ‘a hoppincer, sacrificed everything like personal rivalry, e malevolence of ppl VOr ously declare the State of G pear stra: Xplanatio: I ai 9 Governor of Mississippi hae | disregarded everything like party ascendancy and the idered declared himself in favor of prompt secession—true it | success of faction, uniting themselves band of serrata ei ce ager from the spirit of disunion | i, ‘he is sustained at the precent time by nearly allthe | brothers, standiug aboulder by should ing. without respect to party, was called at Castle Gar- official influence of the State, including t! wohouses of their common country, and imi den, in this city, The objects of that meeting were | {the Legislature, # majority of whom have decided in | themselves as the unequalled of Americ deciared to be to foster favor of the Governor's policy of secemion—that isall | (Here three cheers for Clay and Webster were give a revive that spirit of union id ad a. true, but I can assure you; that in the county in which | d will.) I will detain you no lon; Sere oe eenainiion we peeing Hen the capitol is located, there is an overwhelming majo- | tienes and I regret that I have’ bape you ee poms Sgery Aero hy auualanet to canes out rity of the Loe guy beaay parties in favor of preserving | long. But this is @ subject on which I have much onjeet caine mas are maehén ts kite one the Union. and in favor of defeating any scheme of se- feeling. It is a subject in which I know every patriot Dled to meet you. an cession that may be proposed. (Applaure.) With- as 0 Sesp Mating. Let me close; then, by pledging Bae co bid o in the last seven weeks, fellow citizens, I have | myself to you. before the country, and before Him bor ertiade ion the gene, through nearly every populous cousty in | who reigns in Heaven; that as far as my humble ser- ee om- rendered on the floor of Co! in de- iesissippi, and although I felt my own feeble- | vices are nese, I will stand faithfully by the com- Ps ey 2 . ae Genk oo poate . | ness, yet, buoyed up and sustained by the | pact of our l nion—by the plan of zation which nag f “a cathe focutaln heed oreait tke | inspiring cause in support of which I engag; originated in Castle Gardn, and which is now rapidly es eutlony which, is the. fountain head of (sil the | i'ald, inevery county which I visited, challenge con: | extending itself over the whole confederacy, watt the parce a om (Cheeze) That meeting | 'oversy; and in is pust—until the republic is rescued from dan- Wad COmpoted. te thin coumistes is Compored at mes | verses did occur, im the presence of hun ger, and our constitution established more firmly than aA ret ¢ volt ese yee bad bat. | thousands of people, And what was the conseque: it was originally establi Fellow. citizens, I bid professing different political creeds, and w! . Why, at the very first meeting, two thousand ns | you all an affectionate farewell. tled against cach other under different banners, in our comsurted fu the Dille at Political conficts ; bat as men, imitation, rt ort of the Union. Senator Downs, of Louisiana, then came forward example which you set on the floor ‘they forgot try, esoeeahina tug bear the voices cf more plauee) In every other cot sult almost precisely similar occurred. Never did I amidst loud enthusiastic cheering and said: — Fellow Citizens—I cannot express the gratification I than six secessionists in the ‘to preserve that yy Usion which is the source of " feelin meeti jou upon this occasion. | am come trom aliour blessings “Ebe example which. they sct was | State of Missle seen cunty Dat ener nae | a Union State; and though a Southern planter, and a j ead in Boston, Philadelphis, and other | (4p eine et me felate an anecdote to you, | baving most of my worldly interests invested in that incetings have been | Iq Talabatchie county a large mecting was convened. | Species of [Se Mey Bepwrebneabier ey gee bag (ese pirit. and all directed to | Soeice was given that would address my fellow citi. | of dispute for the last twelve months, am now, asl hope did hope that that meeting | ions on that day. It being the first day ot court,» | 1 ever sball be,aUnion man. (Cheers) I have been hope that at the North it | Jie meeting cf people took place, ‘and on that day | more fortunate than my friend Mr. Foote in being iris of fanaticism and fol- | Notice was given that dis union resolutions would be | &teeted on my return home, though he was well re- neo to the laws to bea | Cered for the adoption of the arssembled people, by a | evived by the people, in despite of the disaifec- Wedidhope that atthe | vost prominent man in that section of ‘central Miscas. | tion of leaders. was greeted” everywhere by ney, to remove the error | sippi. Those resolutions were offered by a nephew of leaders with the same feelings that ac. willing to tram: the late distin ple on the a bE ae of the Bouth. We did hope ished John C. Calaoun, of Bout na Well, what was the result ' Caro- on this occasion, and with ex reesions of In my own feeble q decided approbation in favor of the strongest proots that could be giv I addressed the people, and was, to a cer- tri something, no matter how | 8) i \veweal, is, that without any concert, tain extent, responded to—the disunion resolu- d 7 d te rength to the arm. 8 to the | ti, Neere’ feted down, end in lisa of them, | amd though separated by thowsands of miles, the sen Veena oneness aes Union resolutions were adopted by an extraor. | timents ot the people, both im the South and in tl against secession, an: dinary majority, there being but three yotes | North, have be gare od xpressed for the poe a i rg eae) fer ths disunion’ resolutions, one of which was cest constitution Sonne’ teadteas tr be by the represent of the’ coun other by his he evaben te nate ton Mhopetaud Ong destiny common ton ar both. | 'rother, and the other by the movir of the resolu | State is divided by party fee eS 7 ans 4 (Waeughter and applause) Io | man mypelt. Yet partiza " we were ol same household, an 0 had the honor of ad iations of party warfare t & house divided against itself must fall, (Applause) on It |s not for me to how far hopes have been r of all sides united together as the: er ne ‘“demonstretions of confidence, weleomed me wit! realized; and while I cennothelp indulging in exprser- try, Gea. sympathy and support everywhere. and in every Ungthe jey which I experienced, when, from the lips ee Feet dation, eadeeied tha mene wey that they could. (Loud “eheers) Bat, while of a distinguished gentleman from Georgis, the Speak. rf erful ‘manner, in support ot | this was the general voice, some told us that w er of the House of Bepeepen tativse— (ripe seers for feans ee jon to the plan of adjustment | ¥*T¢ going gee deat | nes “ meee seen 3 ~~. Hegel, Cob to wead, we wore gracited with the | aftxduponatthe iastecsalon of Consrest, The Judge | 0, Osmo vaaity in er thet, im fast, tho. Fal ~~ "I man, fe nt os u 4 acqurance that that meeting hed socomplished some pon to speak ip favor of the constitution which he Slave Bill wi fee hl a pene hi hn taas eee" (applouse) Tou, geatles Are per. | bad s¥orm to support, He made speech of no very | Tec lteagioted these misgivings inadvance. I did wot whic! e pu 1. od what r " sonal, to the most of ‘us, but weare mot | fren [entity ae happened since I leit hat part wapaper from the North’ but I thought ceamgera gallan' to t efforts. the disti ona setae devotion with which the Senate, you advocated those measur which we ‘Delieved were necessary to the preservation of this down by a majority of m cause to which we strangers the promotion of t! ‘nion and to hav devoted ourselves. (Applause) You are the governor of the ofthe country. The vote was ta these States vas sustained, and secession was ¥; Mi , loudand long continued) I have addressed Uiher ineetings. one af which was in Natshex, where I knew your people. I knew your distinguished Sena- the union of | tor, Dickinson; (Oheert:) Ik (ap. | Masenebusetts; I knew t the Senater from illinois, | States. I had conversed | they assured me that ore then seven to one. State bas resided for’ the people of their seve- but when we saw all of the station twenty years. I spoke freely in condemnation States ‘© sound upon this question, and in h devoti | loom Swenty vents, T pueke Sant J S°teeaseauie | my, own State I pledged | sayself to the truth of | Qocument. (Applause, and three eheers for Foote.) | their statements; and it is Be sedinary satisfac | itis fiends ‘were present, his relatives were pre- | {ion that I witness to, om - honored | *ent—gentle: accomplished, intellectual, and | % et remtimens o pa. <0 Tho See, ae ee friotio--his partner in the practiee of the law for | Won. entertained, for hich you partued. ponaibili, | mere than tw five years was prevent and sat | qcudt. of ite es ‘ to ‘on the stand which I ocoupied on tho oom , sion Ses preosaton | im, gMawsan ow ery rian, Math | Srfance lst Na uly iit tae . sr yer ineeting I called for the seceders to show ‘trom your Beate, im the adroossy of those insaeures on er ie Sen is was like calling spirits from, the | mente L mate some meniee oP, iis cnahis © om the success uf which peace and happiness of the | 111) Guep—(laughter)—they did not e There | tingul = ae ae - yy age D 9 Pagan country hung suspended. You dared to differ from | 144 to¢ one man im that meeting who bad the eGront- | CommMtce of Thirteen and he has stated that he was Jous dieting sises celeron ea cioquence,ane with ns | (27.02 arte, nd sey he would support the Governor | Orie, be was its creator (cheers), nad bat tor Bie moxt ures , ; - “ , auansagtncaent jem atrelna aren raet ey | iy gnu” engl Seibel | rae cn stn cam aaa of. (Cl nd, sir, in in the | “ Reet ihe Sordial weloome with whioh, om your re- ot tates Fenich oto amemble there; ena. | oll quarte tne appointment of the committee would turn, you were greeted by your trusting#4 ting | Seg of you. to note what I ay, that while | Dever bave been accomplished, and wien it nP- constituents—a welcome which must have been S | (eorgia Bad only three counties represented by seoe- pointed, bors wou! tleas ing to you unit was a just reward for your pat- | {Cork ™ Wee oe vention, oes bors. (Cheers) And you Mr —— fro chotic Mississippi—you, who as I stated—(T' ) J h! ah’) —who. Senator Foote. Harrah! Murra! leer s C forgetting party Brace and the unien will, notnithata t have one county thus r plause,) I know that all the o1 Mirsiesippi, amd that Btate will nobl. 4 i will | persevered and persevered. dues repegsmnted. "(atees, ap. | sures parsed the committee, « dicial influence of the | of it only because he w ‘are agvinst union, bat, teking the honers. (Cher ding that, be triumphant io committee war greater. ps, than you are a: vindicate hereelt Up to that time, in the Senate, we were divided. alee, dares to dicahange Joe Petr ova désteagsinet | 0m the faspiston of treason, which Das ariaen 1a | vhs only im te committes thet thegrest men te whoa bane men’s minds in conseq’ gross misrepresenta- ade their hearts toge- Joe— With the legislature of your State (90 matte tion on the subjeot, (Tremendous applause.) And how | ther, and torge ny owe ee dpe nl hether they represented truly or not the feelings ofthe | IP itn Routh Carol aes soste tte toen Here a eee codtenesd for those muasures | of the wnlon s country Smyregatimately which were essential to the Laion; with the same ter- | of the most con- on ama of which the Committee ‘same devotion which hed characterized | te ich ir See ae cana hese af the Senate. (Appionse) A throu tot y voneation there. Lately, air. | of Thirteen constitnted so prominent # pact, was may Lngh ad EB Hamilton have spoken ont on the | friend who has just addressed you. | (Cheers) oud to learn that the time hae | subject of the U Gan you ‘doubt that those | 1 sm happy to say with him, that, the 4 ehentre hen reflection in Mississippi will per. | Voters, raised in support of the Institutions of our fa- | get, in, m reat measure, le past The lodios. Ne ee eet alapel the prejudice which, for | (bers, will azvuse a patriotie Lnfl A og bt, end ultimately Missieeippi and all the other a o a a Jour constieency-when Mississippi would echo the | which oocursed im the Patt was identified’ A cow | Scuth Carolina; but even in her ease there’ are ’ Geo! 4 unite with the commen voles of the count "fn hat hen, distingwished ee ator and distinguished son. (Three cheers ) pen, not to detain you any longer, in the name of thet Union Safety Committee—a committee of noim portance except #0 far as it been comserrate the holy objects of their appointment —in the m shat Committee, I bid you weleome to our city i flag—the fF che naine of all who know that by Southern as w: j ne fs bara a by Northern blood our indepoudence wa: bon _, who know that our Union was formed in in a spirit of compromise it was - ise and tha reoe jred-—in the name of all who appreciate the bless. | Ul rine bite. ings we evjoy ® ing to transmit them to their pointing, In dren who ehall com’ the fieg of them from the etripes: great city; loome to ‘Sil these, [ bid you weleom he dates 4 may God speed you and prepare yo chat may yet lie before you cars ago, when he represented thie country in Mexico, is house was surrounded by a m ob was calmed by bie silently pointing to pes of his country. Thus the moral e Union was felt in the centre of semi civi- 4 put down factioniats and factionism. | © he centreof South Carolina, has the | & part towards men who have banded themselves against the Institutions of their country — (applause)—who have declared war against the will be the same as it was next convention assembles 1 | step she has threatened. Probably you ware ‘s be vane ont ‘of the extent she har dent of Phat wen the of the late Congress. » separate from the Union ® twelvemonth Governor has declared it. The greatest | Btate have declared it the ablest pamphlet that t isened from her nting prestes hog not only jared it, but taken the ground that there ought be a reparation between the North and the uth, from the Incompatibility of the interests of two great sections of the eo v pt quiet, and sim tars and striper. to Bo what is he doting withia theie view, to | tempt euch peril jure We have esoaped it through it with equal attrition wears away the 7 Constant the last feather breaks the camel's back; Mexico; for, before the im Missiesippi, I yenture | solid roe Mr. Hoffman then eat down amid great cheering | th Carelina will tedeom herself, | $7 oe aay) Ty hh whioh lasted for some moment | e on omntre wrens be: Let me,in all free ma and jenndor, tel r 4 that d, and spoke - if there agitations are revired— jeFugitive Biave aaa aecncieen ar | dang inane ets! ret Isropenie on naevshiy mode vend send \ red as tot ‘This letter by are! oar Gentlemen of the Committee, and Fellow Citizens of | lietle srouraajuctmcat, which you bave heard to elo- | free States, and if siavery ould be abolished in the the city and county of New York.— uently eulogized, will se- | District of Oelumbia, you may My vod ore} this day. to witness as I do dare the permanene fully | 00 will, but when you do it; you may rest aseu > ay aa eae eke fdhered to, North, South, East Bat the | it lethe abolition of the Union, (Lead cheers) I» genet tet ost had witnessed the proceed: | question ie, will you adhers to It! [Volees, “we will,” | leve, however, that the existing laws will be sarrin ngs ln Cantin- Garden whioh have toquentiy | MR OA ee Stitution will’ be wearried out, and, therefore. It referred to. I have bad an cpportanity in my own | confidently believe it will, It 1 om thie gro | of the South, let State and elsewhere, of ascertaining that the pro ceedings of that meeting had prodaced the effect of cbeering up the friends of the Union, of snstaintn ibem In the struggle in bebal! of our institutions, f paralysing the arm of factioni«m wherever int oft bad resched the different settlen Southweat before I reached my orn hom my own opinion, since the foundation of this ment, has any public meeting eccurred which as #0 daily produced consequences so important ro the jie well and satety, a¢ that moeting at + Castle Carden. Lat yhed 3 and aie ‘sul teemetienenr it that your noble example was immediately aowee out the North; and Caesure you that in the Btate that the remain the law of Capulets, atempt shall be made proceeded jin ail the public meetings, m which I come. | ¢ Blave bill, at parsed by Congress, be forced; that the Wilmot prov which, I trast, has been cons) shall not be revive very in the District of Columbia; it you agree thet no at- | tempt shall be made by Go trade of slaves between the dit agres that no A i Fea wa oF 10 0 carry out the compact of our was that I mid to peop! orth in advance. If to the compact, then it will enovgh for us to renew the agitation for sé Bat, if the contract should be violated again, y expect the mort disastrous consequences. I say it by way of boasting of the prowess of the but when you consider the fortuitous ciroum- hich the menaced danger was averted, and the f If you agree wi 4, and be faithfully e igo, that mc netrous thit ed to the Tomb of tl if you gree that no the | Congress to abolish sla ess to interfere inthe rent Stat, if you will | revented from coming her having slavery; abundant cause for ot it rhe will ono = i P " will do her p faithfally, in , eroured, themselves #0 ongly, that this question would, 4 » bs eh Ty perbaps, never have "boom, settled but for the ‘nt thet changed the administration of | eaten! from the hands ot one man to those of another. a ry q * siadjuctment I believe the North a9 | The Compromise bills had parsed the Bemate ; bat in ot whie Iki Bouth will be, to this comp: faow Gam fluential and patristic he Th of Ri sentatives hung the important one open whieh was hinged the fate of all--the fate of the Union iteelf, [f the Texas bill had been rejected act, because men north of ‘nion, and on the side of the 0) ‘acon & Dixon's line Heave civil war it as sure as there is # God in Heaven a and bie eranent, peer ane | Zould have beg waged in this now happy land. ot ‘astmont. 1 believe the law will | The forces of Texas were marthalled. every pre- enforced ‘éfficiency of the law has been paration was made for hostilities, - extra oo of 4 tested, and that the north of Macon < Dixon's | the Legislatare was called by the Governor, and no- k.-K J My propane’ se Tethem suse | thing Wae wanting bat the application of the matoh = « Why look ot the of Me. Pill Wor. | to the train laid im order to produce the explo- om . ty the yest men of tepublie—ot a Jem tsa, of \ sion, But, ray she would have gone alone into the Senators, | North have never manifested any indisposition to do justice to the South, let me say, that in matters you were a little slow doing justice. Not only is it imcumbent upon every men to act from patriotic motives himself, but to exert bimeelt to make others follow his ¢: ple. Your city has a pentien: of over halfs million, anda more intelligent, virtueusand erderly people never existed. But even in this great and virtuous community, fifty or one hundred men not restrained by the laws and the police. might lay your vast city in ashes. 8o is it with those raise the toroh of discord. Let me pane: | suggest that pot oy ought you to conduct yor es with propriety, at compel those among you todo so likewise. (Cries of bravo) We do not expect anything that is unreasonable from you. We do not desire tba ‘ou should silence the clamors of fanaticism abolition ; but we do expect that you will restraint upon them. (Cheers) Let th litionists talk as much as they will, but let them not creep into your high yes and speak for the country (Vehement cheer- ing) It was not so much the fanaticiem of the North that we cared for. would have passed us by as the i your legislatures, im so- lemn conclav. d resolutions, and it furthe: ws, thus violating tl prince’ constitution as we interpreted it, and taking the local power cf the central government imto their own hands, you will agree with me that there was some cause for apprehension, We en- treat you, therefore, to control there men, and not to permit them to misrepresent you. ‘By you, following this course the country will soon attain to uch # degree ot prosperity as it bas never yet reached. But if you have not the boldness and the courage to put down fanaticism, we must eonclude that you. the people of the North, are not the people that your an- cestors were; and we sball have to agree b South Carolina, that the awfuljword “separation” must be pronounced (Cries ot ~ I do not anticipate such a catastro; fou to decide whether it aball be pronoa! ne great cause of the dificulties between the two sections is mutual understanding ofeach other. It has been a rettled purpose in certain quart 0 keep the peopieof the South » knowi e real state of thy North. Perbaps, intelligent as are, there is not one yoter in ten that knows anything about it, and the majority of them think, at this very moment, that you are egainst them because their press ad them astray. One ot the most remarkable instaaces of the sagacity of t Union Satety Committee of this city is, that it has measures to diffuse correct information in t! as wellasthe North Let usoaly understand eac: other as brothers, and we shall qvarrel Ivis by misapprehension and perverseness that such unhappy differeoces arise. One of the it decided statements [ ever made on this point, was in my own State. in Baton t Bout Rouge. I pointed to the example of an u: ht judge! at 0) wee. Le to the «example of Cass, and Webster, and the President of the United States, (Loud cheering.) I told them that I had faith, and that they ought to have faith, in the North. Yet I was told by the press- es on the other side, at New Orleans, that I nved not there what I had said ten days before. [did it in their teeth, and glad I am this day to see erything I the: id On your bebelf, was correct lings that actuate you will actuate others, and ‘pressed will be endorsed by city of New York is pos- \d intelligence beyond any other city Never were both used more appre priately ‘bappily, than inreference to this ai! important At a critical period in the lave Congress, ust reeollect, with gratitude, that a pettiion, signed by 400,000 of the citizens of New York, came to relieve and cheer us. @ , with the gocd wor flectually than you. None can be more inte- it. My honereble frie that Cass was taunted with contributing to make Clay s President. I, ssa member of the Vommittes of Thir- teen, was also taunted. But I scorned the taunt. Nobedy on that committee cared for results, when the safety of the country was at stake, I have been taunted with the same thing since. (A voice -' Yes, and jouwill be tagnted again”) Strenuous efforte were made to prevent me sttending the mass meeting at New Orleans, I was toldthat it would tojure me | with my party to attend @ mixet meeting of demo- crate and whigs. [ replied that a good act never ia- jureda Man OF a good cause; but suppose it did destroy me, or that it destroyed my party if I or my party were down to-day, another would arise to- | a as ee on, thi more therefore, that the Union should \° t cheering followed the onclusion of this address, which was spoktn with much feeling and ¢yi- dent sincerity. ‘Three cheers were then proposed for the Committee of Thirteen, which were enthusiastically responded to. ‘The mectivg then retired, each perron being tatre- duced to Senators Footand Downs a+ he passed, aad cordielly shaking there gentlemen by the hand. ded one of the most enthusiastic deme our most We never saw greater enthusiasm a? partment, for the past year. The printing of the papers Question in the House. THE ONE MINUTE RULE ADOPTED BUSINESS MEASURES PROPOSED, FIRES AND LOSS OF LIVES, &eo., Ke., de. From the Capita: THE TREASURY REPORT—GOOD WOR: INDIAN INCURSIONS TPON NULLIFICATION, ETC. Wasnixaton, December 9, 1350. ‘The Treasury report will be furnished to-merrow. It is an able document. of their adhesion to the Fugitive Slave law. The Mexican Minister's appeal, relative to the In dian incursions, will be foll line of the United States and Mexico. Affaires to Bruseels, in place of Mr, Clemsoa, resigned was sent into the Senate to day. The Tehuantepec treaty with Mexice has been com. to the eity of the Montexumas. earnest. Senator Soule’s son denies in the Repudlic, this morn. asrocistion with them. The Repubiic denounces the late Vermont law as nul: Congressional delegation. Governor Williams, for approving ot the law. The election of Scudder, from the tenth Congrostion being neither a whig nor a friead of the President WHIRTX-FINRST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION. BY MORSE’S MAGNETIC TELPORAPH. Senate. Wasnivaron, Dec. 9, 1360. Mesers. Yulee, of Florida; Borland, of Arkansas; aad Gwin, of California, appeared to-day, and took their seats, PAPERS FROM THE MOME DEPARTMENT The Chair laid before the Senate s communication from the Home Department, enclosing the annual re- port of the Commissioners of the Land Office and Per sions; also, the report ot the second Comproiler, of the priations for and@expenditures of the Home De- was ordered, and they wers appropriately reterred to committees. NEW Discoveny Mr Usnenwoon presented a memorial from the clti- sens of Kentucky, setting forth a discovery relative to the culture of live stock, and asking government to purchase it. Referred to the Ageiodsese Co mites, THY PREMDENT'S MESeAGF AND THR NAVY, On motion of Mr. Youre. allie the President's Mes rege relating to Baval affairs was referred to the Naval Committee LNLRMNIFICATION FON ADYANE RS 1 Mr Burien people ot Bow general gove ™ RTH FLORIDA wan ¢ anotice ofa bill to tademaity the Caroli of the Florida war, BL10 LADO. Mr. Bexten introduced bill to Missouri the The Mll for the reliet of York, was taken up and passed. MLL YOR THE BENEFIT OF TH “D ‘The dill gramting lands for the beneft of the indi- PNT reare. gent ins: reported on the memorial of Miss Dix, was made the special order for Wednesday week. DECISIONS OF THE ST PREMH COURT ore unilinching determination ¢ main ty of the Union against every open toe it enem: The Western Coast of America. ‘THE REROKT OF PROF. A. DP. BACHE, SUre U. S. COAST SURVEY, TO [HE SECRETAR TREASURY, CONTAINING SAILING DIRKUT ENTERING COLUMBIA RIVER, ORN@ON, Coast Bunvey Bratton, Nov, 29, 1860, fin:-T have the honor to communicate the firstol a seria of hyérographie notives of the western coast, from Lieut, Comg. W. P. MeArthur, U8. N , arsistant in the coust onsvey, and would respectfully request authority to publish it. The chart of Columbia river entrance, from aprelimioary survey. bus been reeelved and is reducing jor the engtaver, and wil! be published | speedily. This notice contains railing directions for entering the river. Very respectfuily youre. A or Tus | or TH Ne F } j (Signed) D BACLE Supt 18 Coast Burvey | Hon, Twoxas Conwin, See. ot the Treasury | sanixe oe | ARECTIONS POR THE WESTERN OAST THE UNITED STA) FROM MONTE To conum | WIA KIVER, BY LIEUT. Cop anrarr, | U. 8. Noy ASSISTANT IN THE COAST SURVE | Previous to giving selling directions for this part cf ropoes tO notice the character of the t seasons, with thelr efect upon the 2 Ww. winds, a ‘itteren! currents, ; Merch to October, the prevalling wind along the const, and for many miles to the westward is treen trom the northwert, belag freshest from 10 A M., te P.M. and not unfreqnently talitng light doring the | night. During this season of the year, the northwest wind biows with almost the regularity of trode wind During the months of August and September, fogs pre vail toa grent extent, and impede and endanger navi gation materially. During the part of the yrar above are no heavy gales of wind. ‘These winds cause & current of about h hour along the coast setting to the rout a From October to March the wind is variable, both | there | mentioned. const, ‘The currert during this season sets generally to th wks ir and to the northward from Mon- | perthward, varying wind In velocity with the st These facts being known, it I now to be co | ce are nearly the same ax those ecumittees on Territories and E The f The dill to cistribute the decisions of the Supreme ourt among the several States and territorivs, was taken up, Mr. D\vros explained and supported the bill Mr. Yours opposed the bill, and, on his motion, it Was jald on the table—yeas 24, nays 19. canine Mr. Gwis moved to take cor up the Catifornia vills, at 1 VATE arLbs ‘The calendar was taken up, aud two private ville were paceed The Chair laid before + moeneage fromthe President, enclosing a cow tion from the Mext cen Minister in relation to the incurrions of [ndiaas located within the territory belonging to the United States, upon Mesican ¢ wud asking thet the of the treaty of Gam d out by the United States ge and enclosed communicn- MEXICO P t Galupe Hidalgo be c On motion, the Attempt to Revive the Slavery THE HOUSE— MEXICO—CHARGE TO BRUSSELS—THE TEHUANTEPEC TREATY—VERMONT ‘The Houre, to-day, have given evidence eonclusively id by a bill, establishing dragoons and military stations along the boundary ‘The name ot Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, as Charge de pleted, and an express messenger despatohed with it It will no dcubt be speedily ratified, and the work commenced in good ing, the etatement of the Chronorype, that he was pre- sent at the abolitionist meeting in Boston, or held any lification, which came with surprise upon its entire | It is especially severe upon al district of Manrachusetts, is also argued against, he nees of moury to che PRICE TWO d execrate this law, and the public indignation wilt p it of existe! uu aLP MOviMent. Mr. Bru that thie was a rhort eer: time for business; if this discussion should continue tBere was no telling |. For the p of terminating e he moved that the com ealttoe Flag, with @ view of offering a resolution to stop debate. The Committee rose, when a res olution to Listtt dis- cussion to one minute was passed, and the House sgaiu went into Committee. A BUSINESS-LIKE INDICATION, Mr. Weerwonrtn,(dem.)of Ill. .¢xprersed the hope that no rpeech would be more than one minute in duration. When this subject hall have been disposed of he would osil up the River and Harbor bill, aud then the Cheap Postage bill, which the people expect will bé peesed this week, after which they would proceed to other necessary business. A BROADSIDE FIRED INTO THE AMOLITIONISTS. Mr. McC. ensayo, (dem ) of Ill., eald, in offering am iment, that as a citizen of w free State he dis- avowed, for himevif and tho: represented the whole state of Illinois, t! volu sed! and he might say, treasonable sentim Mr Giddings, who objected to the fugitive slave act. It is @ fraud on the constitution and ou common how- to proters adherence to the constitation at the same time to object to the law for an objec- tion to the law is an objection to the constitution, the law being in excout ot the constitution. If it had pot been for those with whom the gentlemen there would beve beem no occasion for thislew. Wou! he tell us that, wichout this clanee, the constitution could have been adopted’ The act of ‘3, to carry oat this provision, was eluned by Washington. Is the gentleman more pure, benevolent, and patriotic, tham the Father of his Country? That act was yi iv the framers of the constitution, They did mot com- ceive that they were trampling on the rights of humem nature. They considered that they were observing good faith ut in the courre of time, voluntary asse- ciations were organized; waderground raijroads con- structed, and the law wae illegally arrested; the com- duct of certaim individuals became a grievance, and Congress, at the last session actuated by @ sense of justice, remedied the grievance by passing the Pugi- tive Blave law. For one, he would be willing to use alll the force of the government to carryitout The issue is between the unionists and the disunionists. it ie not 4 speculative question of philanthropy, It is em issue of the supremacy of the constitution and power of the government, and the subversion of the laws of the country. ‘The amendment of Mr. Giddings was voted down. of Mr. Bayly, at's mes- wonty!’s ras. y THE & After the committee rose Mr. Bonen x, (whig) of Obio, again ineffectually em- $. SHIP PENNSYLVANIA AND THE dearored to effer a resolution directing the Committee of Weys and Means to report a bill spproprieting money to fit out the ship Penneylvanta, fer the pur- ose Of conveying American prodacts to the “ondom Vorla’s Fair Without transacting any other business, the House adjourned, fs Destructive Fire—Los, $200,000; Boston, Dee, 9, 1850. The large broadoloth and delaine mills of the Ham- ilton Woollen Co, at Southbridge. Mass , were entirely destroyed by fire at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. The loss is estimated at from $175,100 to $100 000, Insure ed fer $122000 About seven bundred persons are The in- ri | surance was 4: Ly turned out cf employment by this calamity. $5 tolloas — Kem |, Merchant's Bu $10,000; Philagelphia, American, Boston, $10,000; Nept Boylston, Hoston, $10 000; Merchant Firemen s Boston, $10.000 $21 O09. Fire and Lows of Three Lives. Cantre, Pa., Deo. 9, 1850. Late on Saturday night our citizens were startled by the ery of fre, occasioned by the burning of a ameli two story briek dwelling in the southern part of the town, The wind at the time was blowing cold an@ strong from the northwest. and before the destructive eles career, the houre and its helpless Inmates were consumed. We Pee the fire was co d by accident. The bo- med Manufacturer's, Bostou, | dering rrin gether in one German, named has thrown a deep sorr ur quiet town w over the lababl- Election for Mayor of Boston, Boston, Dec. 9, 1840. The vote for Mayor of this city, to-day, was aa tel lows:— Bigelow, regular whi Amory Goodgic oe Mussey. free soll, s Scattering... ‘The whig ticket for aldermen and whig ticket for council, were carried at te all the wards in the city | Fisst Concert of Jenny Lind at Baltimore, Bacrione, Deo. 9, 1860. The fret concert of Jemny Lind came off to night, and Ubronged to excess by « brilliant audiences, ‘The third tler, at $0 00 per tic! was completely over- jowrd. The receipts were a! $15,000. There is = great demand for tickets for Wednenday night, Postmaster Caught Robbing the Mall, ae. Uren (NYE 9, 1969, Thos, Mitchell. postmaster at West Kewler, 6t. Law- rene» county, was yesterday ‘brought to this place im custody of a epecisl agent of the department, under arrest for robbing the United Btates mail. It appeare for several iaonths, packages passing over the route between Watertown and Canada, directed te New York, Philadelphia. Xe. have been abstracted, tonwere referred to the Committee on Military and upon foquiry it was clearly a fairs | Mitobell wae the guilty person The Srnate then went into executive session, amd | Commissioner Boyce this morning, who, aft brie€ shortly a1 ter adjourred hearing, required the prisoner to give ball fa the emouat of si Ho Use of Re preventativ The weather evening and today has been the w math te tome coldest of the season, cans! navigation at this pcimt BY BAIN'S BL§CTRO CHEMICAL TRLEORATH in gurpended, and there having Leen considerable of @ sewers ¥, Deo. 9, 1969. fall of snow, the sleighing is quite good, TwE COMMIT TERS. The standimz com mittees unaouneed by the Speaker & &re some of the chances Woys and Means —Measts Stephens of 0 Brooks of New York, instead of Mesars. Toombs and Duer Cicims. —Mr, Johnston ¢ ad of Mr. MeLean Commerce. — Menara, Featherston. Wallace, and King, ot New Jersey, and Conrad. Neptucky, inet with regard to velocity and direction. Dating this Distr rston instead of teason Beavy gales oeeut from the southea-t, south, | Mz Brown of Missive! ppt a ally accompanied by protracted | Jwlic’eiry.—Mr, Breck, instead of Mr. Morehead @ very heavy sea ond swell alopg (he SEW HEPRESENTATIVE FROM LOUIAANA Mr. Henry A, Bollard, trom the second district of Louisiana, elected in the place of Secretary Conrad, | was introduced and | ualified. ACKION ON THte PRESIDENT On motion of Mr, Bayiy, (dem ae Ilouse Went Into Committe of the Whole on the State of the oMre of Va. more northern port during the summer | pnion frason, 14 stand well ¢iT shore, not too clore hauled Mr. B n (Ky, tm the chat until about 200 miles from the land. when they will be t. Boy, (dem.) of Ky, tn the obatr beyond the influence of the southerly current, and im | a rituation to take advantage of a rlant of wind. which frequently occurs from the west-northwest They 40 well not to approach the land, unless farored by the wind so asto enable them to lay cither their course, or nearly 80, until up with the laticude of the destined port. } Steamers should follow the coast from joint to point | sible, always keeping within fitteen They will by this means eh i frequently arcid the strong no 8 often they will find it quite calm close in with the shore, where there le a strong wind to sea. | | | M ARTHUR a Const Burvey. Movements of Dis wd People. a Oba io, New Ort @ Bishop, Wash. | Charles Lee, Ban Tranciseo; Wim. Novleedo.; | J, Hunter do, were among the arrivals yesterday } at the Clinton Hotel. 7.8 Garland, 0 James Owner Warhington. | AR | rt vals | reom, Albany; | deiphie, J.B. | arrivals yeoterday at | apie. ipringfield ©. , Binghamton: | ee Dillon, a ree eet Vag eg mith, Harttord; Gen TU juene raneda; Pranciseo Hurbrech, Ponama, were among the arrivals yesterday at the Astor House. W. Obi beartily appro | Ther Mr. Baysy, offered resolutions referring the severni parts of the President's Message to the appropriate IN 4—THE Morton Mr. Groors + (free poll) of Ohio, ofered an amend went that so much of the message as relates to our ouestic policy, be referred to the Judiciary Commit- There were some things in the message which he ved, and others which he condemned. deception or uncertainty in MLACK PALL AGarN Is dwellings te chase fugitives put irons on thetr lim’ nd return them to their tormentors. The d Z.cannot commend and enforce the oar rying out ot the law. The gen vernment has no ower to uphold slavery Tt ti institution of the ates. The people of his district would die \efore they would assist in executing the Fugitive Siave lew siavecatcher was r: ed ne worre than a pirate ots murderer, and the moment cennon are yo against Northern freemen, that moment the \- nell of the repablic 1s sounded. From this time for- Ward we will know whore the President ls Ie t# im tavot of the Fugitive Sinrs law, aod by it the adminis. tration must stand or fell. 7 el re im posable gui! net more than four or fire een captor out of ten of the whig newevepers herve ny part of ines of freedom aad f that parties Virginia and the Boston Slave Case, de. Barrivonn, Deo. 9, 1850. A meeting, held at Richmond om Saturday night, | to condemn the Presdent for not queiling the Bostom | riot, sndin favor of non-intercourse was a complete failure The Washington Seuhera Prove re tlection of Semater Mason, of \irginia ‘There is no mail south of Richmond, Virginia, to- night joes in She re- Boston, Dec. %, 1859 This morning, a* Jos, P. Wheeler, of thie city, @ iby ee on wee standing on board his owm | | | ' | Wheeler, lying at Davis's whert, ek by woark of nails which was being | boleted ond knocked into the bold, and iastantly ie _ The Fine Arts. | New Buses wy Ganvriice.—There ts no one who cam piseter am artist, musical or dramatic, with more effeet | than Garbeille, To has just produced two specimens ot his genius, in two different styles, One representa Ferdinand Edouard Doctor, the celebrated pianist and ecmposer, in his very babi he lives—the other re- i ty bold and ingenious caricature, on a pianoforte, from which poritions like w cataract. The folds re curiously Iabell of musical titles. It Is one of Garbeill —Trotrise.—On Thure- day next. © match for $500, three mile heate, to 250 Ib. wagons. will come off over this track, between two young stallions In the country—one ® and the other an Andrew Jackson; alr purse for horses that never won over Dest in five, in harness, A great day's anticipated. Breokly| A Baxo ord City Court, fou we 8 #7 was bu Tt ie alleged that : then recess 3 ken jnto and robbed several bears 33 ef considerable extent, prinolpally tak! ily other articles of vide, ‘Meredith, the witeuss | mentioned, lately gave evidence im thie city, at Court ot Bestions, against one McKee, charged with celving atelen goods, ‘Tre Lare Arrewet ro Boot Ma. J. Anureotow Bew~ | ser Mr. Griewet), for ap of J hae. of the above outrage, and « farther sun of 0 o@ conviction, sf , United States Distetet Conrt. Before J) Betts. Dee 9. ~The Court wpened to-do". After h few motions, hie Honor d to to-morrow, e motning,) at which time 6 Oraea Jury will be empa- aelied and ao Indictment against Reed, for the ay f ¥: | om board the Bre ese gems Oar teen, br