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10 INTERESTING FROM ET.ROPE. RRIVAL OF THE CANA’ 4 AT HALIFAX, THREE Diys LATER, Movements of the Abolitionists ‘im England, WHAT LGPB BROUGHAM WANTS TO KNOW. Fhe Nigger amd the Supply of Cotton. FINANCIAL PANIC SN AUSTRALIA. Zhe Ztalieu Question the Bugbear ‘of Burope, Be, Haurax, Feb. 10, 1860, ‘The stetmship Canada, which left Liverpool at ten “Welack onthe morning of the 28th ult., arrived kere at me o’clotk this afternoon. ‘Mhe steamship Etna was to leave for Now York sbortly ‘BBer the Canada. ‘The steamship Kengaroo, from New York, arrived at Liverpool on the morning of the 27th. Bey ae. * GREAT BRITAIN. Ym the House of Lords on the 26th ult., Lord Brougham «ave notice thet he would, at an carly day, move fersome “wetarms respecting slavery, and would bring the whole ~qpemtion before the House. He would also move for re- “ftuarns of the cotton imported into England from America. ‘We made his motion on the following evening. ‘The Duke of Newcastle in response eaid the returns ould be produced, and the government would do all in ‘Me power to suppress the slave trade. The Marquis of Normanby asked the gevernment ‘Whetber they had received any information ef nogotia- ‘Mons said to be progressing between France and Sardinia ‘Sor the annexation of Savoy to France? Bari Granville said the government had no information of any negotiations of the kind, and the French government Read wot been made acquainted with their opinion as to @uch an arrangement. @m the 27th, in the Commons, Mr. Griffith called atten- ‘téon to a rumor that thirty thousand French troops were + @xpected at Leghorn, and inquired whether there was any “ Feason to suppose that the object of such a movement ‘was to prevent the annexation of Central Italy to Sardi- ‘aia? Lord John Russell said there was no truth in the state ~ gent, and he had no reason whatever to believe that the * Breach government contemplated any such step with the * ‘view imputed to it in the question: Lord John Russell also stated, in reply to a question by ‘Mr. Monckton Milnes, that in compliance with the address @f the House on the cruelties practised on board American @hips, he had communicated with the American govern- ‘ment, and power had been given by it to Mr. Dallas to enter into negotiations to put an end to the atrocities 0 @iagraceful to humanity; a convention was being drawn ‘wp with this object in view. (Cheers.) ‘The Attorney General gave notice of a bill for the con- solidation and amendment of the bankruptcy laws. ‘The remains of Captain Harrison were removed from Southampton on the 26th, amidst every demonstration of wespect. The bells were tolled, minute guns were fired, and the ahops were closed. ‘The commercial treaty between England and France at- ‘‘wacted much attention. Some of its provisions had been published. Laker advices had been received from Australia. There ‘was a panic at Melbourne, and numerous failures bad @ccurred. THE LATEST NEWS. Lino, Jan. 26, 1860. ‘The Cortes have been opened to-day. The King’s speech mentions the friendly relations of Portugal with all mations. Maprm, Jan. 27, 1860, ‘There is nothing new from the seat of war. Paris, Jan. 29, 1860. ‘The Univers publishes a letter of the Pope to the Arch Dishops and Bishops, stating the motives of his refusal to movept the advice of the Emperor to give up the Romagna. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MONEY MARKET. Money was in good demand at unchanged rates. Qonsols closed on the 27th ult. at 942, a 9434 for both money and account. ‘The balance in the Bank of England had declined £326,000. Barings’ Circular quotes bar silver 58. 2),d.; dollars, 66. 244. ; eagles, 768. 83g. AMERICAN STOCKS. ‘Meesrs. Baring Brothers report the business in Ameri- an seourities limited, at previous rates. Dnited States 6's, bonds, *68. Massachusetts 6's, bonds, * lyapia b's, bonds, 18' R way bonds were heavy Messrs. Bell & Co. report the market quiet and slightly @heaper. United States 6's, bonds, 186! “4 Be. 3 > 3 ¥. s88sze esQruseessees » mt 3} @ 102 The London Times of the 27th reports sales of Ilineis @entral, free land, 1860, at 78 s 91:4; do. sevens, 79; Kew York Central Railroad, sinking fund, 84%; Erie _RMadiroad, sevens, second mortgage, 8034; do, third mort- Brae 08s. pil LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. ‘The . sales of cotton-tn the Liverpool market added up “Jor tho week £3,000 bales, of which 16,000 were an speca- ‘@tion.and 11,600 for export. Cotton active. The market 4 @ened.active, with an improvement upon the fair and nm Wédling. qualities of 1-164. a 3¢d., particularly in up- Ia: We «The sales on Friday were 10,000 bales, of which 8,0 were to speculators.and exporters, the market eboai ‘g firm. The following are the authorized quota- were Ameri SZ. gr, \TK OF TRADE IX MANCHESTER. ‘The advices from Manchester were favorabie. Goods ‘and yarns were selling at full prices. LIVER: °OOL BREADOFUFFS MARKET. ‘Messrs. Richard. wom, Spence & Co. report flour dull, with & declining tendenc, V: sales at 280. s 268. 4d. Wheat dull, ‘with a downward te: ency, and previous quetations bare- Jy maintained. Corn weady, with rather more enquiry: sales of yellow at 200. @A 0 82. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKER. # Messrs. Richardson, Sp W* &Co., and Bigiaad, Athyn & Go. report beef steady ; boi. tans offered treaty, bat showed ne disposition to prees sales. Park quiet but steady. Bacon steady: Camberiand 460., mid as 488. 0 Sle. Lard, af O7s. 004s. 64. Tallow firm Putchere’ 50s. Cheese wary firm for geod. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MAREEF. ‘Tue Brokers’ Cireular reports ash quiet at Sie. 4d. a and 80s. for pears. tNegar heavy. Cote quiet. ‘Balumone, f0. 34. Clover seed in specutative demand at ‘Bia o8is Gad ail, £98 o 294. Linseed oll, Ms. 64. 0 Sus. Resin steady; common, és. 44.0 4s. Od; modiom to fine, as. 94. 020. Spirits turpentine firm af 30s. 0 300, ¢4. Ses Srm and tending upwards. ‘LONDON MABEETS. ‘Barings’ Circular reports dresdetai quiet, but sendy. a e485 lie. for beth rails aad bars. “ higher: Comma, Je, bd. @ 18, 5}40., closing quieter. Spi- rite turpentine steady at 368. Tallow stoady at 50s. Cof- fee quiet. Oils steady: sperm advanced to £06; linseed, Me. 6d. Rice heavy. HAVRE MARKET. (For the week ending Jan. 24, inclusive.) Ootton—The fales of the week foo’ up 5,000 bales. New Orleans tres ordinaire 109f.; do. bag 90f. The market closed dull, and With there qvctations barely maintained. The stock in port was 102,500 bales. Flour was declining; pot and pearl ashes were dull, and quotations barely maintained. Coffee buoyant, Oils were slow of sale and prices un altered. Rice firm, Sugar heavy. Lard dail, and quo- tations nominal, Whalebone—Sales unimportant. THE LATEST MARKETS. Tivervoot, Jan. 29—P. M. Cotton—The sales of yeste:day were 12,000 bales, in- cluding 3,000 om rpeculation and for export. The market closed firm, aud the previous advance was fully main- tained. Breadstufis were quiet at Friday’s rates, Provisions quiet, with unimportant transactions. Loypoy, Jan. 28—P. 4. ‘The chosing price of consols is 943; a 9434 for money, and 96% 2 943 for account, On the arrival of the America at Halifax an attempt ‘was made to rend ber news direct te Boston, Which un- fortunately failed, in consequence of the line breaking east of Lewiston, Maine. The news was ther started to Montreal via Quebec, and the foregoing had been received fa that way when @ break occurred in ‘the line between Woodstock and 8t. John. The break “had not yet been repaired. ENEWS FROM WASHINGTON. The Post Office Appropriation Bill in the House. Probable Defeat of the Senate’s Frank- ing Privilege Amendment, Speech of Mr. Ferry on the Slave- ry Question. Almost a Fight Between Mr. Edmundson, of Va., and Mr. Hickman, of Penn., &e., &e., &e. Our Special Washington Despatch. Wastunaron, Feb. 10, 1860. ‘THR POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL. The Post Office bill was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means to-day, and it will be taken up at their meeting to-morrow morning, and the amendment abolish- ing the franking privilege stricken out. The House will undoubtedly concur with the committee. The Senate will, it is paid, recede, and allow the bill to pass. If they insist, the bill will certainly be lost. Senator Brown’s amendment, reducing the ox- pense of printing the Post Office blanks, will un- doubtedly pass the House. The same proposition passed beth houses last Congress, but was lost with the Post Office bill. ALMOST A FIGHT BRTWEEN MESSRS. KDMUNDSON AND HICKMAN. It has been apprehended for some days that the libel- Jous animadversions upon Virginia and the South, and the groes personalities indulged in by republican partisans’ would produce personal collisions. Such apprehensions here were partially realized to day, when Mr. Edmund- son, of Virginia, overtaking Mr. Hickman, of Pennsylva- nia, in the Capitol grounds, sharply upbraided him forthe calumnies contained in his (Hickman’s) speech, and at. tempted such a personal chastisement that had it not ‘been for Vice President Breckinridge, and Senator Cling- man of North Carolina, and Mr. Keitt of South Carolina, ‘who happened to be passing, it is supposed that Mr. Hick- man would have suffered serious bodily harm. These gentlemen restrained Mr. Edmundson, and thus the mat- ter ended. Whether this is the end, or the beginning of the end, remains to be seen. THE HOUSE DOING ITS WORK. The supposition that the House would take a recess of ten days after organization is abandoned. The House even refused to-day to adjourn over to Monday, which, it is the opinion, would haye been but an act of justice to the committees. The attempt to-day to authorize committees to appoint clerks was laid over till to-morrow, which is another an. noyance to the progress of business, a8 only two com- mittees—the Ways and Means and Claims—are authorized by general law to have clerks the year round. The other committees cannot employ clerks without a special order of the Hotse. THE SENATE PRINTING INVRSTIGATION. ‘The Senate Printing Investigating Committeo met again this morning, and examined Collector Baker and Mr. Me- gargee, of Philadelphia. Their testimony was unimpor- tant, and no new facts were elicited. None of the wit- nesses thus far examined, except Wendell, and Rice of the Pennsylvanian, seem to know anything about the corrup- tions charged, and the committee find it very difficult to get at the facts in regard to the matter. DOUGLAS AND THE PRESIDENCY. An agent of the Illinois Douglasites is here, with sixty thousand dollars, said to have been raised mostly in Illi- nois, to be expended in securing the nomination of Judgo Douglas at Charleston. The agent will proceed to Charles- ton in a fow days to make his arrangements. Reportsays that two million copies of Douglas’ recent Senate speech are being circulated. One hundred thousand copies will be printed in superior style. A large central committee is actively employed in this city in preparing the way for securing the nomination of Douglas. ‘THE HARPER'S FERRY INVESTIGATION. The Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee con- tinues its sessions from day to day, and are ex- amining witnesses. They are making but little progress. No new developements have been made. The committee are considering the propriety of subpenaing Governor Wise, with the view of getting al facts in his possession in regard to the matter, and also the documents and evidence in his possession going to show that various schemes were started for the rescue of Jobn Brown. If the committee determine to bring the Governer before them the evidence will undoubtedly take ‘& wide range, and there is no telling when and where it will end. ‘The committee have not yet decided to subporna Gerrit Smith. They are informed that his mind is not entirely restored, but be is gradually recovering. Governor Robinson, of Kansas, testified to-day before the committee, to the effect that Brown did not go to ‘Kansas to settle, but on account of the difficulties, which be expected would extend until the country generally should become involved, and slavery be abolished. His object was not peace, but revolution, and differed in this reapect from the free State men generally. The only other person who avowed to the witness a similar object was James Redpath. After be had lost all hope of accomplishing his object, he related to the wit- Bess the designs of himseif and some others who were operating with him. He said but few were in their secret, although many were operating with them. The reason of his opposition to taking possession of the Territorial and Lecompton State government at the ballot box was be- cause he saw in such a policy an end to the disturbances, and consequently to his hopes of a revolution. Hence he and those with him, who were chiefly reporters of the press, made war upon all who were likely to aid in . socuring quiet in order to destroy their influence with tho People. He said they acted on the principle that the end Justified the means, and they hesitated at no falsehood or ibe] against any man who stood in their way, provided it promised to further their object. This, he said, accounted for the slanders of tho reportere, who were in the acheme, against those who opposed them. Witness knew of but one attempt to eet on foot a revolution. This was led by Colonel Lane, who, Mr. Redpath said, was under a strong pledge to act as their leader in fighting. Soon after the creation of the Military Board, witness Dy these men, Phillips and Redyath, us well es many other papers, aud they clesmed that by means of the prees, to which they had access ag correspondents, they Could make or destroy apy man, It caine out in evidente that Realf, Hinton and Kagi were algo correspondents, and that all of them, including Phillips and Redpath, were foreigners. Mr. Conway, elected to Congress from Kansas under the Wyandott, vonstitution,gis here, and will ftestify to- morrow. GOLD DISCOVERIES IN ARIZONA, Private letters reovived bere from Mes‘fa, Arizona, state that new gold mimes have been discovered one mile and a ball from Brownsville. The diggers tarn out from three to five cents to the panful of dirt, over a space of four buraired yards, in soft or surface diggings. The opinion prevails that the whole country west of Browns. ‘ville is rich in gold. ATFASRS AT HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA, Rrecent advices from our Minister wt Honduras and Gua- temala repreeent the condition of affairs in the latter go- verpment es in an unsatisfactory aspect towards this go- verpment. It appears that Guatemala has made large concessions of territory to Great Britain, which is im direct violation of stipulations of agreements with this country, and in which England also violates her agreements with the United States. All the particulars in regard to this matter have not yet been received at the department, Our Minister bas, it is understood, entered his protest against these proceedings. ‘The administration will take no action until further advised. OUR RELATIONS WITH PERU. ‘The Prerident bas not yet decided what course he will pursue in regard to our Peruvian affairs. The insulting Attitude of this little republic cannot be allowed to pase without being called to rigid account. It is very probable he will submit the whole subject to Congress, and let them take such action as they may deem proper. OUR TREATY WITH MEXICO. Minister McLane had a protracted interview with the President and Secretary of State to-day, in regard to Mexican affairs. He will, it ig understood, confer with the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on Monday next upon the same subject. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. ‘The aggregate amount reported by the Commissioners for expenses incurred in the Indian war in Oregon and ‘Washington Territories is over $6,000,000, but the third Auditor of the Treasury has reduced it to $2,760,000, on the basis of instructions adopted by the last House of Representatives. It is the intention of Mr. Grow to introduce a bill es- tablishing a territorial government in Dakotah and one in the western portion of Kansas. Mr. Florence to-day gave notice {that be will introduce a French spoliation bill and ® bill to equalize the army, navy and marine pensions. The War Department bas orderedfthe ro-advertisement of proposals for the transportation of army supplies on the routes to and from New Mexico. Sixty days notice is given, which must secure general competition, as many parties in the Weat possess large means of transportation. ‘The receipts in December were from the customs nearly $11,000,000; treasury notes under act of December, 1857, $4,000,000—the aggregate being, with receipts from other sources, fifteen and a» half millions. The expenditures were over sixteen millions Our Washington Correspondence. Wasmcroy, Feb. 7, 1860. The Revolution in the Republican Party om the Speaker- ship—The New Coalition Programme of the Spoils. No event, since the expulsion of Captain Tyler from the whig party, bas produced a more powerful revolutionary reaction than the result of the late contest for Speaker. The defeat of Sherman was a democratic mistake—per- haps, a fatal one—for the election of Pennington bas shown the republicans the way to win the Presidency itgelf—the good old way of union for the sake of the ‘Thus, with the defeat of Sherman, Helper disappears, Brown ceases to be a name of terror, and Seward becomes a harmless, speculative politician; for Helper, Brown and Seward were all set aside with Sherman. The “nigger’’ gives way to the spoils—philanthropy to expediency; for the “one idea’ of the ‘“‘irrepreasible conflict” has failed, while “‘the cohesive power of the public plunder” has suceceded. It is a change of front. Itisa new itis a revolution. The intractable anti Lecomptopites have found their * affinity’’—the odds and ends of old line whig- ery and Americanism have been wooed and won ; and 80, from this contest for the Speaker, the late dividea opposi- tion elements emerge a practically organized coalition for the Presidency. But there will be an independent Constitutional Union party. Oh! yes! It will nominate a ticket for the Presi- dency a month in advance of the Convention—so we understand—eay about the 7th of May, with a good Union platform. Yes. What, then, can the republicans do’ Do! They can accept this Constitutional Union ticket, or enough of it to make a bargain, and so the two parties, each with its own name, will run @ common ticket, an ron it in, This is the plan—the common platform—the Union and the epoils—the nigger to be ignored where expedient, and to be used where available, at discretion. But there are to to be no more Philadelphia resolutions—no more ammunition for Southern fire-eaters ; and ticket suggested for that work is Bates, a Southern man, @ Missouri man, an old line whig supporter of Fillmore in 1856; and Cameron, an American republican of demo- cratic old line whig antecedents. Francis P. Blair—the right hand man of old Oliver Cromwell Jackson, and the chief engineer of the repub lican party—he and all the Missouri family of the Blairs, are moving heaven and earth for Bates. The thing looks already like a trade, and Seward is to be postponed, like Donglas, til] 1864, ‘The opposition State Convention meets in Richmond on the m2 instant. 1 Tue late etter, of Mr. Botts, polnting strongly at a fusion o} ¢ opposition forces, will fe the guide of that convention. On the same day a similar convention will meot in ReJeigh, and in the meantime the special mission of Gen. ir, of South Carolina, to Richmond, in behalf of » Southern Rights Convention of all the Southern states, being sure to fail, the idea of a general opposition carnival, like that of 1840, is gaining believers on every side. acious democrats say that the election of Pennington has destroyed the republican programme of anti-slavery, only to br: ‘upon usan Irresistible coalition upon the platform of the spoils. ‘Wasmnaron, Feb. 8, 1860. The Charleston Convention—Mr. Douglas and the Confidence Game of his Engineers—Back Ground Policy of his gates—Limitations of the Party in Congress, and their Plans upon Legislative Measures—The Administration, dc, de. ‘What of the Charleston Convention, its platform and its candidate? The oracles here are dumb, and the politi cians are waiting the moving of the waters. The friends of Mr. Douglas adhere to their policy of 1852 and 1856. They keep him in the foreground. His organs and advo- cates proclaim, from day to day, the inevitable alterna. tive of his nomination—they proclaim that he will com- mand a majority of the Convention ; that thus, being able to dictate its platform, they will have but little difficulty in putting their man upon it; that the late terrible excite: ment in the South is simmering down; that the Southern democracy are beginning to appreciate the necessities of their situation, the difference between barren abstractions and the votes that make Presidents and cabinets; that Douglas, ecured in the confidence of the North, is gain- ing strength in the South, amd that the way is clear be- fore him, inasmuch as be is the only man under whom the democracy can beat the opposition holy alliance now forming upon the basis of the spoils and plunder. suppose, from ail that we thus hear, that every democra- tic rival had declined in favor of Mr. Douglas, and that be will walk over the course at Charleston. But this is all a mistake. There are many Richmonds in the field. Their friends are all be i H i H Lert Halt I pi k j ‘They tre wa'ting the election of the unele” le foCharieston, Meanthne, the platform ef", Selecates States that have elested their de'ogetes may be found posted carefully in the text bo ¢ of every aemocratic member of Copgrees, togeter with the rod Seo de, cirion and the Onevinath platform. We are assured, too, that in comparing. all these thi ther, our most ale Southern men are eatisfed that "acl compromige pete made up from them at Chari ) Vestiny ew slavery controversy upon the Supreme Court policy a ¥he scmiaieralant 4 te Tue Mmocratic Southern leaders of the Senate, how- ever, propore, in season for CharRston ©: tion, the Poseage of's ‘string of abstractions” for the guidances of the green members of that body. Hence the resolu- tions introduced by Gov. Brown and Jefferson Davis u the question of squatter sove) - ‘They to old the South to the line, eps ih eee The specific proceedings of the democratic minority of the Hovge snd the democratic ‘ity of the Senate, touching the Presidential contest, wil be comprehended the legislative meagures that may be broached this ses- sion, At pepe! the democratic of the House are Waiting the anrouncement of the standing committees Mr. Speaker Penpington. When declared a pended caucus will be called to consult upon an party work in the committees, &c., in the House. tbe fame plan will be adopted in the Senate. policy of the party in each house will be to advi Measures which may advance the cause of the party be- fore the people, and to keep back or defeat those measures or movements calculated to damage the party on stump. Thus, between the House and the Senate we may predict the defeat of apy protective tariff bill; democrats in Congress have given up Pennsylvania, are counting for their Northern support upon the We Statee. The Homestead bill project of Mr. Grow will be suffocated 8 quietly as possible, and we shal) surprised if the admigsion of Kansas is made so exclude her vote from the Presidential election. things, however, will depend vi much Charleston Convention. Some of our Southern dict ap unsatiefactor, with Douglas, or the lion of the party; an esy that when the ig reducec to @ mere squabble for the spoils, it is time for the South to haul off and put her house in order. Ina word, while Mr. Douglas stands in the of the Northern master of the democratic » rod of correction over the heads of the ‘leston Conven- aspirants for the White House B. F Hater seftcettee i tion, and while all bis rival are keeping themselves under cover, and while the South- hesitating 3 the adminietration of Mr. mon ark of safety to al] the sections and factions of the democratic party. And while they all, more or less, would ignore the administration they are all compell- ed more and more to {t; amd to look to it for support. And here lies the secret which will defeat Mr. Douglas at Charleston. He hag mate no peace, he seeks no peace, with Mr. Buchanan, the official chief of the party; and should he thus go down to Charleston, the “Little Giant” will return shorn of his locke, his preatige and his invincibility. A few days more, and we shall know more distinctly the drift of the wind. Wastinetoy, Feb. 9, 1860. The Committees of the House—Mr. Sherman’s Schedule— Sherman the Oock of the Walk—-The Spoils Coalition Pro- gramme Followed Up—The Franking Privilege in the Senate—Mr. Hunter's Motion a Free Trade Movement— Louis Napoleon Helping the Cause—Louis Napolem and the Pope—The Break Down of the Bargain and Sale on the House Printing—Mutiny in the Camp, d-. “Just the same as if Sherman had been elected. They are Sherman’s committees. Pennington is but the instru- ment of the republicans, while Sherman is their master.”” Such is the general opinion among the democrats. We 80, 100, from the appointment of Sherman as the Chair- man on Ways and Means; Washburne, of Illinois, on Com- merce; Colfax, of Indiana, on Post Offices, &c.; Hickman, of Pennsylvania, on the Judiciary; Adams, of Massachu- sett#, on Manufactures; Etheridge, of Tennessee, on Indian Affairs; Grow, of Pennsylvania, on Territories; and Has. kin, of New York, on Public Expenditures, that the new republican programme of an accommodation Holy Alli- ance of all the opposition elements is to be followed up in the legislatiou of this Congress. The democrats do not com- plain that they are placed on the taj) ends of the commit- tees; for it is the rule which they have quite as rigidly applied to the republicans in the Senate. It is only neces- sary, however, to place the two sets of committees vis-a-vis to perceive that there will be much clashing be- tween the two houses, and very little done om any of the important party measures of the day on either side. ‘The effort of Mr. Senator Hunter to saddle the Post Office bill with the abolition of the franking privilege com- prehends a very important stroke of Southern policy. During this year of the Presidential campaign the actual savings to the government, from the abolition of this franking privilege, would, perhaps, be not less than two millions of dollars. To raise this amount from a change of the tariffschedules it would be necessary to increase the duties upon mapy articles of Southern consumption. This ie what the Sou! free traders desire to avoid. The Post Office bill was the only chance for Mr. Hunter’s experiment; and, having failed in it, we may safely pre- dict that the franking privilege will not be disturbed during the present eatlon of Congress. Nor will the Southern controlling influence of the Senate conrent to any positive concessions to the doctrine of ariff protection to win back to the democracy the State f Pennsylvania. On the contrary, the Southern free rade men believe that an antl. pect re pat. will do more to reconquer the State of New York seventy- = per pom ieee pn oo to Uhh Pennsylvania. ie free trade pol of Louis Napoleon is strengthenin; this idea in the South. ‘We are thus scoured that the democratic Lady 1 upon the doctrine of a low tariff, has already recejved & powerful auxiliary in Louis Napo.eon; that he comes in as hp peony! now as did Sir Robert Peel, with his repeal of the corn laws, to the assistance of Robert J. Watkins’ low tariff of 1846. On the other band, it is claimed that the bold and dash ing policy of Louis Napoleon touching the Holy Father at Rome is operating to remove the last remaining which divide the American party of the United States from the republicans. The Americans eay they can now leave the subject of Popery with the Emperor of France, and devote themeelves for ascagon exclusively to the Great object of a coalition for the spoils. The failure ef the caucus nej of the repub’icans of the lact two days and nights, and the instantancous manifestations of mutiny in the camp when Mr. Sherman moved to proceed to tag election of a printer, are the town talk. It is said, too—and the charge is made’in very plain and specific terme—that Mr. Defrees, of Indiana, the cau- cus nomince by one vote, was thus nominated upon a pledge or condition precedent, that, if elected Touse inter be would turn over ove half the profits to the pul Congressional Executive Presidential Com- mittee, for the uses of the cam; Hence the mutiny in the camp on the direct charge of corruption, for there are among the repup/icans some simaple-minded men who really believe that this out the public P gs ae for party purposes is nothing but corrup- tion. Sherman's motion to printer was withdrawn, and motion, to THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, House of Representatives. ‘Wasninaron, Feb. 10, 1860. Mr. Reagan, (dem.) of Texas, was appointed a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in place of Mr. Farns- worth, excused, Mr. Thomas, (dem.) of Tenn., was appointed a member of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, in place of Mr. Reagan, excused. Mr. Hindman, (dem.) of Ark., was appointed « mem. ber of the Committee on Private Land Claims, in place of Mr. Hamilton, excused. Mr. Mosm, (rep.) of Me., offered a resorution, which Nes over, calling on the President to communicate copies of all communications which have been recetved from the British government and other officers on the subject of the African slave trade since February, 1858, and copies of all the correspondence between the British and United States governments on the subject of the slave trade. On motion of Mr. Moras, (rep.) of Me., the Committee on Commerce were directed to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting by law all American vessels en; in the coolio trade fork Spprentioes toe W ij He #6? if i i i! NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1860—T<IPLE SHEET. object to serve with the South, for I'am tired of the sec- | their glorious legacy of freedom to us—for what? Was '! ticnal watchwords which have so long distracted the | for the owners of capital and the owners country, and therefore I will not permit myself to be led astray by party, by leoal or by geographical distinctions, im dealing with the questions now bef the committee. must say, however, that my controversy shall for a time be with the acts and policy of the democratic party, 08 the organization is found at this day. In the conduct of that democratic organization do we find the sources of all the evils which have shaken and agitated the coun. | try for some time past. When I speak of the democratic party, 1 mean the organization now called by that name. There was, indeod, s democratic party once, of a very different character from the present, ‘aud of which I would speak with very different feelings than euch as must actaate me in speaking 0! the party as at preeent known. There was a democratic ‘ty once, sir, which was ingpired by the spirit of true democracy, which recognized Tights of man, and from whose plat- form all mention of the inherent and inalienable rights of Wan were not erased. That party iso more. | speak not now of it—] speak of a it meg of an existent or- ganization, of a y in this use. For eight long ‘weary weeks of the session the democratic party ovevpied the altention, not only of this House, but of the country, interrupting 5 age of busi- ness within, and agitating the pub! mind with- ‘ont, upon the sla question. The President devotes oi SA leseage to the rame topic, and the Vice President lately, travelling through his own State of Kentucky, addressed the people there on several occasions upon the same subject. Added to this, a democratic Se- nator from Ohio introduced lately into the Senate a resola- tion opening anew this vexed question of slavery. In fine, what with the digcussion of the question within these walls, and at the other end of the €apitol, no effort has Deen spared to agitate the country, to disturb ita peace, ‘and to overthrow the tranquillity and good order of £0- ciety, and in their piace to introduce agitation, disorder and upiverral anarchy. The — = copllggrint a jvestion has to a great extent, upbappily, brougbt abou! there results, With a few honorable exceptions, the coudnct and manner of gentlemen on the other side, throvghout the whole of the late discussions, ‘were well calculated to bring about these pernicious re- sults, for and sectional prejudices usurped the calm course of legislative debate. Threats place of argument, and unseemly epithets that of facts. Ishall not follow such @ course as that, and if I capnot preserve the courtesies of debate 1 had better hold my peace. But, sir, the republican members of this body, who have been go grossly aseailed throughout the courge of the debates, would at of the duty = ¢ owe themselves, and the duty they owe to the true and loyal men who sent them here, if they did not reply to some extent, and at the Atting time, to the un- assaults made upon them. It is, sir, honorable gentlemen will agree with me in saying that we peed no lon; berg tg time has come when it may be fairly and impartially dis- It is pow said that slavery is to some extent a neceseary evil, that it is an evil through which great good is effected. I tay that ae ig Mid apureaiypag slavery, a8 estal |. Opi was more de- perpen M thon ‘ever in the present day. Such an institution, in the first days of this infant republic, ‘was juitly considered a great moral wrong, @ curse against humanity, as well as repugnant to the prin- ciples upon which our glorious constitution was founded. Such, 1 contend, was the general view of the great men of this country of the last generation. 1 shall not weary the House with stale quotations in sup- port of my argument tn this connection. The democratic party of the present day denounce these sentiments as falee. It holds as an abetract pré ‘ition that under cer- tain circumstances it was designei tbat man sbould hold property in man, and that a traffic and merchandise in man ie no more to be condemned in morals or deprecated in public than that in any other kind of property or arti- cle of merchandise, and they seek for protection in that traffic and for that property in the same way as men seek cor protection in thelr demesticinetimtions. Notonly do they slaim this protection for elavery where it exists, but they fay that it is calculated to effect great good for society by allowing it to expand into those places where they assert the climate is favorable for its establishment. The demo- cratic party, moreover, insist that this property in man is distinetly pe, gece by the constitution of the United Statee—that wherever the term “property” is used in that instrument it applies to the ownership of slaves, and that the enly conclusion that can be taken from the lan- Hsin of the constitution is that the spirit of itis equally spplieable to slavery as to avy other kind of property or merchandise, 1 am aware that there ® a section of the democratic party who do not concur in all the as views. Ishall have occasion to consider the position that eection inthe course of my remarks, but the in- fluence of it. is comparatively in all the departments of State, while the number of democrats with ultra views are in an overwhelming majority, as they are in both houses of ‘These men all entertain the view of the question that I now submit. We have beard thore doctrines repeatedly set forth on this floor as the creed of the democratic party, and they have been announced and received almost without a word of disap- robation from apy one member of that organizat.on. ese doctrines must be met by a stern resistance on the part of the republican party, or they will be carried out to their lo results by all the its of the fede- ral government. It will be proper, therefore, to indicate what these results would be. In the first place, if these principles be correct, there could be no just grounds of paliiation for the law of the United States against the African slave trade. SO vi oye! in man as merchandise has existence as a right— if it could be re ized as a just necessity of the national order of things—if the constitution applies to it the same universal guarantees ag to all other kinds of property— then human beings may be considered as proper articles of commerce, and will stand in the same category as all other kinds of merchandise. Again, assuming the correct- ness of the Principle enunciated, it would be the impera- tive duty of Congress to provide protection for slave pro- perty by legislation in the Territories of the Unim. But in whatever light it may be regarded by the democratic body in this hour, slavery is in allits aspects, especially in its “expapsive one, obnoxious and repugnant to the great body of the people. Emgration to the Territo- ries is compoeed of men who clearly and unmistakably bold these views of the question. This is seen from the fact that there is no security for ownership in slaves when it is once removed by he the protection of those States where it is protected by the sovereign laws of those States. To say that the constitution guarantees protection tothe owners of slave ph oy it protects al] other kinds of property, and then refuse them a remedy for the viola- tion of their rights, is asolemn mockery. This is not all. The same reasoning necessarily imposes a limitation to the constitution as against the people of a Territory who abolish slavery and insert aciause in their congsitution to that effect. In fact, every State of the Union which has emerged from a Territorial condition since 1789, in framing its constitution incorporated in it a clause which I may cail the anti slavery clause, and that has hitherto, in all cases, been held as sacred. Whence comes the power by which the people of aTerritory in fc their constitution to abolish slavery, and do Is it from an inherent it inthe people of Coogren.expremiy’ afordod? “Congress fives" 30m grees expre! gress gives No su =. power then? The itleman from ‘xas (Mr. Reagan) said, in his speech a few weeks ago, that it was a revolutionary law, toalllaw all government authority, which, according mocratic theory, is not order, but disorder and anarchy. A psopfreted Lng Eee cor inten ‘and such are results. The pri repu party on thie point are, that they affirm that im man does not and cannot exist asa natural right. It is certainly with upspeakable and mortifcation that I feel compelled, in this Chrit age and country, and in this great republic, to go back to demonstrate prima- ry views with regard to common morality; but it is ne- cestary to do 20 from the position taken by the democra- tio party in this house. The democratic of the present day, existing as it does, under the common flag of the republic and this confederacy, has become de- beuched in morals with respect to this whole subject of slavery. Its leaders Broperty in slaves is a national right, and the masses people everywhere are peing gradually led by their jownward in morals backward in civilization; and when the to be Jooked upon in this light bj ee eee Treedom. will om the 1 Tepest, then, of the ) a8 an article of their loce not on every page of which is di Pinees, and slay worse every man in the exists the life and 3 ? all Tt i SB. Ba it i li if i tel i | : fi cil ae PS ‘of propert alone? Notatall. The love of freedom which A which embraces all claseea and all ranks of men within ite glorious folds, the principle which animated the men of the Revolutionary war, was that hee ogy which recog- vizes the title of ali men to civil liberty. How different Was the character ofall other wars in other times history Would tell; and from it one thing was clear, that it was rot for the liberty of the masses that these wars were uD- certaken, but rather for the glory and aggrandisement of rulers and princes, The solemn document which our fathers put forth on (tw ly arms shows hag based everything on the right of man, by virtue of his humanity, to political and civil liberty. The very idea of slavery is antagonistic to the principles ofthe Declaration of Independence, for the principles of freedom and equality there laid down are intended to be 4s universal as the race of man. In all ages and in all pations the masees of the people have been, as it is natu- ral they should be, composed of those who live by the labor of their bands. For these masses servitude is the tafe and fitting condition; but the theory of the men of 1776 js the theory of the repubbcan party to-day, and that ‘theory, which they have ever endeavored to carry out into practice, is aleo right and best for the mastes, the great workmen who have built up the country. 1 appreciate the difficulty which surrounds the application of the theory in a society where slavery bas existed for centuries, Dut I at the same time recognize no political duty which eays that no such theoretical apptication should be made new communities are being established. It has been seen in the conduct of States and nations as weil as in the con- duct of individuals, tbat po violations of the principles of moral rectitude can ever be attended with other than bad results, and such violations can only work out evil. Sach ig the copeurrent tespmony of the ablest statesmen and the wisest citizens of all countries. The evidence of Jef- ferson bimeelf, and his ablest contem| jes, all South- ‘rp gentlemen and eye witnesses of facts they speak of, oct to show that slavery is the of ignorance und vice, destructive of the essential elements <f wealth’ and progress, the foe of all Nberty, freedom of 8 and an patil Goreme ihe happin aad ad ey ostile comfort, Iberty of free men. Ihave po personal rehension for the ‘app! eafety of the Union, notwithstanding that I have heard gentlemen on this floor threaten disunion apd a forcible disruption of the ties which bind all the States together in one great common confederacy. But this I every sentiment, every movement that may bar motest tendency to weaken the ties which bind federacy together. ought and must be sternly opposed ; and I say bere, that I know of no one thing the tendent of which is more obviously directed to disunion than echeme for the extension and expansion of slavery. Mr. Ferr: Ruch anted:sume exizatntrons 69 of Mr. McDowell, of Virgivia, in 1892, at a convention held in that State, and in which the evils of slavery were ey represented. The man from whose prophetic lipe these words fell bad the discernment to perceive, and the manliness to declare, that if danger to the Union was to be apprehended at all, the cause of to be found, not in nema to slavery, itself. But to give this existing cause greater greater facilities to work out its evils, by permitting its ex- Panslon, as is claimed for i, would be fo the of madmen, by apply: torch to your own One of the pe syent croma Misaiosifp, ia the course of hie spercb, some weeks ago, asked whether, in at further celonization and empire, they the righte or interests of a single argument sought to be sustained msn from his standpoint was fallacious. be tbat, whatever extended colonization, it must be carried on under a common flag, and for the interests of @ ccmmon country, and that ali were responsible alike for the cbaracter of thatexpansion. But in our colonization and in our expansion we carry with us no system of social or political economy hateful or unjust to any class. You de- sire to extend ala’ , and you demand the the government for (4 to whom we as well as you are re- sponsible. We are both acting, not for the present, but for the future, which lies before us; and our children, as well as yours, will remember that it was their fathers who entailed upon them an institution rife with tendencies. It is our concern as well as yours, and as we most look to it. Having now attempted to show that the democratic party as an crganisation contends that slavery exists in accordance with national rights expressly zed guaraziteed to them by the constitution of United States, and that there is super- added to these the authorities of positive law—that in ad- dition to their natural rights theory they have positive Jaw which explains and jurtifies it—and having ehown that thie d ‘unsound ip theory, wrong in morals, and bad in its tendencies, I w:)) go to another part that ganization. Isuppose I may with propriety look at led more recently ores by fe, ane epgrafted upon that class of politicians of whom Bo is the bead If I fairly understand them, to my mind they are even more detestable in morals trines I have already alluded to. The pointof di of democrats is f | g [ between there two classes found in thie: that the Douglas men say that the law can and it to establish slavery for them. and his are profoundly indifferent to opinions but those they bold, and for aught that Douglas himself cares, slavery is in his eyes justas and freedom just ag ‘bad as slavery, one neither no nor worse than the other, A more vicious on morals, or more de- structive of the principles of |, Was mever enter- Dene eS Sinn ae who have rh Such doctrines oan only be put forward under the miserable plea of diency, and can only be sustained by ebicarvy Any and the miserable humbuggery which proceeds the source of eilly tottering ambition, ww inconsistency and brazen assurance. It can only proceed from one who bas been faithless to everything but ambi- tion, from one who has gone to all parties and to all sec- tiop® and who cannot and is not trusted by any beyond tho contracted ecale of selfish interests, but whose principles sre destined to be crusbed out in the struggle ag &) ‘be- tween the two great parties who are earnest cir be- half and animated by a conviction of right and duty. My own principles I have already declared. With respect to seems I would clearly forbid all federal mterference wil end as a citizen of the republic I look upon m hed bound to respect local as well as federal rights. I do nat bold myself prepared to encourage underground railway tchemes, or to march to the violation of local rights. 1 look upon myself as solemnly bound not to interfere with the institutions of slavery, for no yee «ould paint the horrors which attend upon the steps a servile ipsurrection. For this reason, among others, I pray for the good time when we shall ‘be altogether re leaged from evils of slavery; but in hoping for its re- moval from among us, I yet upon the man who, in the full on of bis mental faculties would go into asiave State and with force or fraud incite the slaves to insurrection, at the sacrifice of human life—however ur- selfish migh: conduct man as @ murderer, and stern judgment of the nim. 1 do not believe it necessary that Congress should en- deavor, by prohibitory legislation, to exclude slavery from the ‘itories which may already possess it. I have no doubt but Congress bas power to do so, but ft is not always ni to exercise an acknowledged power. ‘The time may come Sider apron the power of the Legislature may be called requi but at present there is no to exercise it. The greater por- is already those it : ¥ é § ! : & A E g 3 tanicmane in foe hig fidel fonally enfot for more the formation of the government which Tid abe dation of civil liberty and civilization throughout all Territories, Isay I have no ee rebellion, or convuisions of any kind. I eeeet fie the peop] No, sir, these meaningless fall only from the lips of honorable gentlemen who in excitement of the moment may indeed mean what fay, and from those only who in reality are the Politicians of the democratic with sober argement, and correct them with the of the subject demands. who utter these threats are However th! i ial Hilal : [ lower 5 buoyant, and advanced ier date srt ae Saas ic. ioe 4c. Bat 9c. 0c. Mess pork buoyant at 2318 76. pregha and exchange unchanged bite Cotton and easier, bot quotations unchanged aged: salee to-day a fio bales: middling, 1 S 810XKc. Sy LEE bekeat anes of ‘of same time 18,000 bales, recetpta ed 108 a 1083 ; on New York unchanged. 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