The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1860, Page 1

NEW YORK HER WHOLE NO. 8842. MORNING BDITION—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1860. IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH. Progress of the Poittical and Fwancial Revulsion. Ruspension of the Charleston, Norfolk, Ports- mouth, Wheeliog, Distriet of Cotombia, Baltimore and Philadetphia Banks. WRPEBESTING REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON THE CABINET A_ UNIT. centtments of the President on the Secession Question, Ren Re Be, M@VORTANT REPOK(S FROM WASHINGTON, Wasmeton, Nov. 22. 1860. ‘There te no division in the Cabinet on the secession ‘estion. So far from ft, no consultation has yet been had tepen it ; 80 the President himeclf deciares. Ie an interview tt is evening between the President and seme ardent secestionists, Mr. Buchanan took streng grounds ogainst secerrion without resorting frst to oon- Giliatory measures. He could not believe that the mighty ould permit the mouths of the Mississippi to be beta by @ foreign Power, which both Louisiana and Arkansas would become in case ef their withdrawal from tbe Union. “South Carolina,” be said, ‘wishes to eater into @ confilct with me—a confiict with myself—and ‘epon the drawing of the frst drop of blood to drag other Southern States into the secession movement.” The Pre- sient did not intimate what he would do in that event. Be admitted that the South had suffered great wrongs at tbe hands of the Norta; but the federal compact was not be be broken up precipitately, and without reasoning and reBection. He would rst appeal to the North for justice to the South, and if it was denied them, “then,” aid the President, emphatically, “I am with them.” AN the reports recetved by the President from the South are of the gloomiest description. He says:—"I see ne cleam of sunshing yet.” ‘The question of the acceptanse or pon-acceptance of the resignation of the South Carolina cffice holders is still in abeyance, None of tbe resignations have as yet been detnitely acted upon. The resignation of United States htarrhal Hamilten, of South Carolina, was recetved to-day by the President, and placed on file for future considera- ‘Meo Mr Bocbanan is hourly receiving congratulations on scoount of his opposition to the prectpitate action of the sweamiouiste, On the other hand, the freeaters do not Desttste to express their diseatisfaction Ge denies that Mr. Keitt bad authority for declaring that be (Mr, Bu- ebauao) wae committed to the secessionists; and he also @emie* the declaration of Mr. Yancey to the same effect. The President dos pot appear to be mach concerned snout the proceedings of the coming seas.oa of Congress, Me # of opinion that it will pot be so violent as the last. The cnval semi weekly sittings of the Cabinet are botng eld, and no more. Wasivorom, Nov. 22, 1960. che Premident bas required the Attorney General's *ritten #pinion on the questions of iaw arising out of the spprenevied cifflouities between the North and South. Vr opinion har been given, but the contents have oot \rwepirea. If the President's views, and the pian he proposes jo bis Menage for the pettlement of the ques teen at neue be adopted, which requires great conces- sew On ai! #icen, the impending difficulties may be avert- o4 UW motile is almost certain that disunion will follow, a4 our worst fears be realized Ws w often asked, what will President Buchanan do tn ime present crinig? What can be ¢o? After Jackson eued his famous proclamation, in Desember, 1893, it wa borer moc the before an set of Oougress was pamwed to tmeei tne emergency, That act (tbe “ Force act’) ex- pred oy (te own limitation, and it is not probable that itr Busharan can get along witbout such a law any bettor ‘eae Uld Ki kory. Any measures of an uournal he recver, even for the collection of revenue, will require tbe action of Congress; and any measures for the sup prespion of revotution must come from the same source. If ope of more Soutberp Mates abould seeede it will then be the duty of Congress—oot of the President—to deter- mime the great question of policy, whether it te better to wt powlrdge their lodepepdence without s confiiet, or to stvempt by force to compel them to submit. This will be the most important question ever agitated in our jegiriative bails, and ite discussion will probably oocupy (he comiag session to the exclusion of most other busi- aren It ® per’eetly ridion! yas to suppose that the present ro- volot opary movements &s of 90 more significance than the demonstration made by South Carolina tn 1832. Tron the opporition was made by @ single State to the execution of the revence laws. The question was ene /hied concerned but s small portion of country. Now it ta a0 inaue involving the domestic peace of fifteen States, Theo it was s question of dollars. Now it is one of safety ko homes and fireeides ip ope half of oar common country. ‘The reports that the President will recognise the con. Fivtotional right 6f & State to secede at pleasure, have no foundation. Secersion is revolution, and the only ques Mow for the government is, whether 1t in better to attempt \c Fappress ube revolution of to recognise the indepen tence of the seceding States. To carry out coercive mea- reves comes within the war making power, and to recog. u ® tbe independence of @ revolting State is certainly pot ‘wichip ibe province of the President alone. 1 is very clear, then, that all the President can do is cowed to carry out existing laws tp the ordinary way. ‘hb ibe emergency requires extraordinary dleararee— sorb an were adopted ' 1883, of more siringent ones— Ueogres®, and pot the President, will have to provide thew [tis by DO means probable that any such action wil) be take by Congress baatily. The entire coming sme'on will De required for their disoumsion, and the set- Wement of the existing difficulties will be left to the nex eam irtration, to which they legitimately belong. Still, | dave wo doubt that, in the meantime, all the power so* wiluence of Mr. Buchanan wil! be exerted in favor of be preervation of the Union aod the falhtel execution of the exiating lawe The approaching seanion will be exciting and mormy The douthern members will be to @ bad humor to hear Abe ex uling Insoievoe of ube few rabid deciaimers against Abe barbariom of slavery, who will find im the recent Wriumyh of repubiiesowm pew grounds for insalt aod pow #00 Uragement to indulge in tnmolent invective A rupture 00 the Boor of Congres would do more to precipitates gens ral revolution than tbe election of even a Giddings to the Prenideney Congrensional fights next winter will as fome & DOW Importance 4 Httle bloodshed batween representatives oF the o Mereut seetions wili hasten the Orinie and render pownriers We Calm reasoning of conser: vative men Ne may de well enough to state, tn this comneation, that the power given to the Pree vent to call forth the militis of & State, under the act of 1796, to put dows ommbing Mons too powerful to be mnppresed by the ordinary conree of jadicial proceedings, i nttely worthless ins ase where a while Siate bas ama ned & revola. Monary sutitode Berides, the use of the militis ander that act oalt cule be authoriand thr thirty days efter the =omoeting of Onngrem, To ado 4 such « monenre on the ave of the ment tng of that booy would bo an adenrdity, to pay nothing of ‘ep atier inadequacy af ® means of meeting (bo present emergency. Tho pataver indulged im by the black repnbiican papers towards tbe President just pow, especially that by your quadrilateral neighbor, a# to the daty of the President, is pérfeetly well understood bere. There papers, by their silty course tm tarm'ing and insulting the South, bave raised @ storm about their beads which they cannot een trol, and which i@ likely to enguiph them. Tney there. fore call tuetily upon the President, like Imperial Ovsar, “Belp me, Cassius, or I sink.” Mr, Doff Green, who has just arrtved from Georgia, re- porte thas the secrasien sentiment in that State is on the werease. Men heretofore conservative, he gays, are now mos! active im the movement. Letiers from Senator Slidell, recetwed this morcing from New Orieans, tate that nothing can avert a diarup ton, The citizens of Maryland and Virginia compkin bitterly of the precipitancy of the cotton States regard- lug seceenion. They tay if apy partice bave aright to compiain of grievance on sdcount of the non return of fogilives, it is the border Mates. The cotton States do Bet lose ope tiave in » thousand of those that escape. ‘They therevore inrist that if that be their real caase 0 complaiot against the North, the border Sates have right to be consalted before the Union is ret assuader sud commercial and fipapcral interests destroyed. But they suepect that the secessionists Bo great desire to protect the border States. The disruption of the Union, ip order to reopen the slave trade, is the primary object, and protection to border States only the pretext. I! ‘this prove troe, the waiter will demand that the grounds of secession be pat before the people of the South in their trne light, and submitted to vote; and \bey conddently aver that all the border States would de cide fuantmously for Union, and that nearly all the wealthy ovtton planters would vote the same way. Wasmmotox, Nov. $2, 1860. What is al) this nonsense telegraphed from Washington About a rupture iu the Uabinet? Why should there be any rupture? The heads of departments have their own business to attend to, as the President has his. He mast be an inveterate ignoramas who imagines, at this late day \n My, Bucbanan’s public life, that he takes the coloring of bis views from apy quarter, however distinguished, original and self reliant. The President surveys every question with a clear, unclooded judgment, aided by the ighie of experience and observation of half a century, Of course, the members of the Cabinet know this. If any one of them differs from him’ what of ‘what, even if it were 80; and it is likely not to be s0. The President is responsible for the official executive acts of his subcrdinates, the heads of the departments; bat ‘they are ip no way involved in bis action any more than bis private secretary or the members of the household of Ube executtve mansion. Why, then, this humbug talk about explosions in the Cabinet? Ultraists trom opposite sections of the confederacy are arailing the President, as their prototypes at- tacked Washington, for his seeming inertness; bet the spparent repose of President Buchanan ‘* pO more e proof of his inability to act, when be shall be esl ed upon, than the quiet postion of one of our great cational ships would show that it was incapable of action. « naval filcer of the highest Cistinction has suggested to me Ube position of President Buchanan at this crisis. He # like @ great sbip, that might have reposed in perfect “tillness, but cpop a call of patriotiam or of necessity, assuming the likeness of an antmated thing, inetinct with Mfe and motion, he would put forth all the beauty and bravery of the service, collect its ecattered elemeats of otrepgth, apd revive it# dormant thunder, The President, hile apparently passive and motionless, nas quietly con- centrated al! the power which is be wesary to be put forth «hen the occasion occars, But he ferveotly hopes that vbe cocasion may not cocur. Spite of all that happens every Gay tp excited communities, the President has a irm belief that she Union will be preserved, aud that the biceeings of our present situation will be perpetuated. CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN VIRGINIA, Ricutonn, Nov 24, 1860 The position of Mr. Buchanan oo the question of seoes son ie Causing Pome Alarin among the Conservative men cere. The presumption i thas bé will emoly overcioa 1 reference to any Mate tbat way seoede If ne does b “il! most agsurediy be met by resistance, and revolution wost be the inevitable consequence. Every man in the South, Bower would oppose any attempt st coercion to the last extremity It ta in view of such a contivgeney that Virginia is now arming ber citizens, ard that policy meets with universal approval. Men who repudiate the very idea of seovesion, sow themselves ready at any moment to resist the coer ou of apy State by the federal governmest, Such « vurke Would make disunionists of the whole Southern ~ople, and give an impulse to the seorssion movement «Died it Could not recetve from any other agency. South srotpa yearns tor a collision, for abe well knows the eperal sympathy which it would produce, and the extent of the benefit which would accrue to the movement she an (wavgurated Better for the interest of peace and harmony, and the rompecta of @ qaiet adjustment of the pending di ‘ficulties, bat no threat of coercion would be made. The mere inference of such « purpose, from the position assumed to Mr. Buchanan by the Hsnatn's Washington correepond. sot, if not without ite evil influence aiready if the ‘resident wil) reset peaceful secramion, as he intimates ne will, then s collision is inevitable. If South Carolina sawumes & position of independence, her coadition would ‘ye anomalous If she could pot contro! ihe revenues of her ywn ports, and regulate ber commerce Yet there is every probability that she will not be permitted to G0 #0; and herein lies the great daoger of a conflict, which, if it takes place, must precipitate revolution Negotiation, with po threat of coercion beid out, may ef cot much. If it fails, then no hope remaing. A resort ‘0 coercion would involve bloodshed, witnoat scoomplian ing the object in view. ‘The election retarns are still incomplete, and no fins) decision can be made as to the result of the voto A few @ the remote north westers counties are still to be beard ‘rom, and the Governor, fearing that the ro ‘erse «would not be in in sufficicient time to eoable him to issue bis procismation to the electors, despatched speeial messengers for the Mela! returns to the counties ip default. It takes too iaye to go to seme counties in this State and return, “ome of the counties made informal retarna, which sauned additional delays, the polling liste having to be seat back for correction. Nothing bat the official ro ‘orne can now decide the regult of the election, so close Jowe the vote appear. A farmer in this State sent two valuable negroce to Aichmond for eale a few weeks ago, fixing their price at #1800 each, Ho was offeres $3 000 for the two, bat do ohiped to accept it, and believing that he could obtein a vettior price when fewer were offered for sale, he left the grove in charge of @ trader to «waite favorable change © the market, Being hard pressed for money, he wrote to the trader, afier s week oF two, to tipose to them at the current rates. This the trader was unwilling to do, antil he apprised him of the depro- ciated standard to which that description of property nad fallen. The owner, needing money very much, authorized the trader to nell both negroes for $1,800, the price which he gemanded for one but « few weeks befure. Even thie be could wot obtain, and he was, therefore compelled to retain them tile more faroradle period. Thi ea fair indication of the disastrous effects of Lin coln's eleotion open this, as upon other species of pro perty The cotton States wil) benefit largeiy by this con. ¢)tion of things, and they oan well afford to keep up the panic. South Carollo money if 8 & disoount of tan per cen (mn thie city, North Saroline at five, and this, it is appre- bea et, 18 Dot the end of the depreciation. ‘The Hon. Wm. ©. Rives has been sojourning in the city for the past few days. He is decidedly opposed to se comion Ramor connects the name of the Hon A. H. Stewart with @ position in Lincoln's Cabinet. His aoseptance of wach an appointment, eves if tendered to him, is consi. dered don ‘The Braminer of to-day erges strenuously « Union of Virginia with the other Souther States. It eave that she ‘Will be the Gest upon whom Lincoln's great experiment of making thie government ali one thing—of making crane to be haifsiave and helf free—will oe meade in Virginia Gret willbe tried the terribie policy’ho has enun- qtation, of putting slavery im course of altimaie extinetina. The Bouminer, in view of there facts, dooms it incumbent upon Virginia to unite with the South tp devising mearures of surety against the threatened aggression. Bo far there seems to be no dearth of employment amoog oar woite laboring population, There is a large cumber of this alesse among us, and they seem nover to be tp need of the necesrary meann of subsintence, Tho relief afforded to our commercia! community by the suspension of the banks is very marked. Money cir- culates pretsy freely. Trade, considering the character of the times, ie by no means dull. ‘We are in daily expectation of harrowing commercial details from the North. After three or four months of @ rourtng panic, the financial pulse of the black republican patient will probably be low epough to bring him tos sense of the er of attending to the constitution of otbers to the negicot of bis own. REPORTS FROM GEORGIA. MiLLEveRVTLLB, Ga., Nov. Z1, 1960. Governor Brown, in a special message in view of the election of Lincoin and to promote a anion of sentiment ip the State, incidentally advises the Legislature to elect electors on Satarday, which was adopied R. Barnwe) Rhett, E Ruffin aod General Pillow have been invited to seats op tbe floor of the Senate. {Ex Governor McDonald is quite fecble, at Marietta, and sould not go to Milledgeville to vote as a Breckinridge elector, if the Legisiature should select him. It is probable tha: the Legisiatare will a recess after the Lat of December, some think sine die, others to fixed time, apd others subject to » éall of the Governor. There was a Killing frost at Augusia this morning. BANK BUSPENSION IN CHARLESTON. Cnantaeron, Nov 2%, 1860. The Farmers’ and Pxcbange Bank suspenced t-day The moment be New York banks suspend, a! the others here will follow suis; but some are stroug enough to sus- tain any ran, and will only suspend from motives of po- ey. S Bator Toombs to-day telegraphed that illness preven d bs beiog here to address ihe Charivstonians. He @ Georgia is moving steadily and firmly in the right direction. ‘There ie @ large torchlight prosession to night, headed Dy * pecession club, with mottoes, ‘Cotton is King; * We must be brief when traitors brave the f * “No more Compromises,” &o. Llumipations ani Greworks biaze along ‘he route, the ladies waving handkerchiefs trom the windows, while at the same time Messrs. Keitt, Hudson, apd ‘cers, addressed a large crowd in {ront of the Qharieston Hotel. SUSPENSION OF THE BANKS OF THE DIS TRICT OF COLUMBIA. Wasuinatos, Nov. 22, 1860. ‘The Baltimore banks having suspended specie pay meats, the Washington banks immediately followed suit for sell protection, not wishing to be caught in the trap of 1857, when they heid out a week after the Baltimore banks, and tre brokers of that city made a sortie apon ther vaults, and nearly depleted them of specie. The currency here is in s confused and unsettled state; but the city is, ‘oven at this late period, vo dull that the value of money, other than gold and silver, oaanot be readily estimated. SUSPENSION OF THE PHILADELPHIA BANKS. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22, 1960.98 The action of the bank Presidents in suspending specie payments at the present exigency, i@ generally regarded with favor by business mea and the press, it having beeo determined a8 a precautionary measure to enable banks to expand their discounts, and as@ preventive to the scenes of panic of 1857. AD immediate mecting of the Legisiatare is suggested, for the ¢ouble purpose of relieving the banks from the operation o (be banking laws and considering the legis. lation of the Btate on the Fugitive Slave law. ‘The Bank of Chester County suspends specie paymoat to morrow. All the country bauks will probably take the same course Financia! editors expreas the opinion that the condition Of affairs this afternoon is evidence of « beaithy stave of trade and cheerfulness among businees moa. There has been more discoun ing today than for any day during the last two weeks. The banks are manifestiog every Quotations for specie are unsettled, but may be rated at from ‘bree to five per cent, the latter for small pur- } disposition to accommodate. No fatlnres are reported ' | } | Bouth continue te come tn as usual Tho statements of repudiatiee by Seuthere creditors are untae eo far ae tbh ity ie concerned. Should the emergency require i, ibe direoters of al) the Boston banke propose to dimoount to the amount ef @ve millions, whica will speeitty make moucy easy im thie city, VIRGINIA. OUR RICHMOND OORAESPONDENUE. Ricumonp, Va , Nuv. 20, 1860. tar— Apporitencss of Views Presented by Qvoernor Letcher tm Ass Inaugural Address to the Present Siale of Things. 1 furoiam you berewith @ copy of a correspoudence which recently transpired between Governor Letcher and @ Mr. James & Briebin, of Pennsylvania. The tone of ‘he Governor's letter is eminently creditable to him. It @ @ production full of statesmanship and pairiotiusm 1k i* at ence firm and conservative, and bears out faithfully ‘be policy of deliberation, cosines and wisdom which marked bis whole official career. Mr, Brisbin, I imagine, will find he hes caught » tartar ‘The concluding part of the Governor's letter is decidedly frank, and Mr. Brisbin may reat assured thas it faithfully veSects the public sentiment of Virginia as regards super. werviceabie individuals from abroad who trouble them selves unnecessarily respecting matters that do not, or, at least, ought not, concern them, It would be weil that the aiders and abettors of the aggressive policy of tbo biack repadiicans would weigh well the seutiments of a man like Governor Letcher, who has been always recog: Rized as the very impersoaation of conservaiism. Here is the correepondence:— 7 ae CENTRE DamooRat Batusvonrs, Cxstun County, Pa., Nov. Mo 18h0 } Governor Liarranan, of Vi Imax S1k—The preseat position of Soath Carolina and the sympathy manifested for her by many of tne South- erp States is lo ome a matter of ama emevt—to oibers a matter of siarm The disuniom seutiment, which bas been growing gradvay tp (nis country since the auilid cation of 1838, has et length assumed huge pro portions, aud, ip my opinion, tole soirit of re bbould' now be crushed, and effectually crashed are to have disunion let it come now we will never be etter able to grapple with tow The rapid grow:h eas apd sentiments in this country reader dangerous to the stability of our government aid the welfare of our If we wish to crush an ob joctrine wo must do it at onde, or it will grow to jable. apd ultimately distract the peace and barmony of our government. Polygamy is ao example of this fact. Twenty years ago, and the man who dared t mouth disunion #as looted upon askance apd sbanned by 4 men, to gaping multitudes and in cur market plac TY day bowat themselves disunioviats, The ‘ouch will pever be satisfied until she bas attempted w os Abese Matee—seoner or later the test of the sta bility of our government must come, and the soouer the better. 1 would rether this danger in the past than jw the futare. Twenty-eight millions of freemen in the North are ready to meet disunion now, and crush it as Ube strong mao cruebes an egg sbell in biehand. states capnot reserve the right to secede They are the oom mop property of the government. Texas cost us many millions of aobar shall Texas now be permitted to walk out of the with those militons of our money ? Suppose we pay two bundred millions for Cupa one day, +hall we permit her to go out of the Union the next with there two hundred miiwos? Tals doctrine of the re tervee right of States to secede is werous, The of the North will never peaceably submit to the secersion of the South if the worst somes to the worst, let brother go to war with orother, and let She strouger party take possession ef the whole xoverrment We most have uo Southern ooniede recy, bo Nortbern repubiic, but ® Unton of ‘many into ope.” Two buporeo of your Virgioians bave tentered me their command In the jt of disuuton | am at )our servioe— will mazeb moment’s warning, aad, i! pecessary, «ive my life for the ma\r taipance of the con ante I bold that the election of Abrobsm Lipeoin I st cause for secession It ts the resuit of our eystem of government The majority of our peovle bave declared through the ballot box that be is Ube ir choles, ard the minority ebouls acquiesce. your orders. Believing you to be @ pure minted w man and true lover of your country, | am, with seati ments of reapect, truly yours, Ja8 3 BRSBIN REPLY OF GOVERSOR LETCUR = * Ricumonp, Va, Nov 19, 1860. Pr Yerterday morning | received your exuraordinary letter of tbe J6tb instant, [am really at a jose w ander stand what good ena you expected to xccomplieh by ths preparation and Wracrmireion of it to me, The couviry we oveply excited. Sectiona feeling relgus sapreme Tne Union th reriourly threatened with disruption Patriots and conservative men of ali partion, East, West, North ano Soush, are looking to the future with fearful and alara.iig apprebensions. The pradent, coosiderat, re feotting mids of ibe cation are ongaged (on leade dle and vobie cflorts 0 almy toe excitement, Testire sonddeuce And kind feeling, remove al irrivasing causes of 4 {Terex 08, and, if poratbie, eave the Univn from dimoluton. Is ia at thin’ time, and Gnder such circumstances, that you send | me & letter Cenunciatory of the motives and Ovnduct of a [From the Potiadsiphia Bulietin, Nov. 22 ) A meeting of she Prosideuta of the Danke of Pntiadel phe bela tday st the Farmers’ and Meohsnice’ | Ba afver one hour's deiiberation, it war resolved, by a large majority, to suspend epee: FURpension went Into effect at one tion war determine? on a8 & precautionary meature, to able the Denke to expand their ciscounte and thus ald hurioet® men, and to prevent any of the wild scence of 1857 The pavks are strong aad abandanty apie to meet ail their liabilities ‘The present me ‘crise differs essentially from that of 1867 Then there was, owing to the condition of com mercial afi«irs, a real cause for alarm Now the com- Mercia! condition of the Northern cites i# proeperour, eod the alarm which has po affected he money and stock markets is solely caused by the uncertainty of Nitieal foture, arising out of the mad doings snd the reck eexness of deatractives is the North. While we regret that it ehould bave heen (bought necessary for the Danks of PDiladelptia so enn to follow the exampic of those of Baltimore, Washington and Virginia, we trust it may prove advantageous and bring us sooner to & There has been but little ikement | iH H Purpose of preparing for a drain upon them, might oocur at any time eae no teal sousUity of Seury pO real cbange in the vaine of sabstantial securities, yet lia a yea tay to our have bere portion of tbe cvetherp people, and which, tn ite tone and tpirit, i# weil calculated (I Dope it was not 80 tnteoded) to add fuel Wa fame thas is Durning with suificient in lens! y now. Ip yrur beste to aseail your Southern fellow citizens you teem to bave forge ten that your own State is, to tome extent at least, reaponsible for the preset alarm ing crits in public affairs, If am pot greatly mistaken, Petprylvania is ope of the eleven non slavebolding States which bas paseed statutes, now im full force snd effect, derigned Lo orstrnct the execution of the Fogitive slave law This i# one of the grievances of which the Southern people Dave complained for years, and although earnest D6 reepect{ol appeals bave been addremed to you to re move this saute of irritation €ad complaint, those appeals have parsed unheeded ‘Ape Copservativre man, who ardently desires tbe per. petuity of the Union, under tbe constitution, | appeal to you and to the conservative element of the North to rouse yourselves at once and initiate the proper mea. sures 10 secure & repeal of those obuoxious jaws. Such sotien op the part of your Legisiature will have s most hapoy infuence tn relieving the Southern mind and re- Moring peace and quiet throughout our now fearfully ex- cited coun wry The Sonth seke cnly for the fair and faithful execution of the laws a pera ay Protection of ber property—tbat you will cease to embarrase and lend to effeot their execution according to their letier OOF past history, #1) be the necessary reruit It will require praderce, wisdom and patriotism to Avert the evil pow impending over our ovantry. Orim ination and inflammatory Inngusge can have no other effect than to exaeperate apo thus precipitate ® In thie hour of danger to pothing of Un kind, you taant the South with your supe riority of pumbers, and threaten to crush them by your You amare me thet two hundred Virginians heve 4 im the nd nice companies of Infantry, and ove bundred and ten com panies of riflemen, aniformed and well prepared for fervics ‘Rink you, my dear sir, ander there circum fepoes, Wat any “two hundred” men to Virginis would in Jancary last, which have as strong an application to ‘They read as follows — conference may be had detweem the represmmtatives of the people elected for this purpose, and then ascertain whether the questions im controversy caunot be settiot Ratiafactory ty both sections upon some bens ‘bey shall bolding and nen slavebelding Sates are irreovnciiable, it them copnider the quention of » pasoenhio separasion 1d the acjueiment of all questions relating to the dispo- bition of the common preperty between the two seotious If they can be reconciled, let them adjust the terms, and iad them such sanctions as will reader them effective. URKCE, therefore, that you adopt resolations in favor of the cal of sv0a & convention, and appeal to tue Legis: ltures of the several States to unite in tbe application to be mace to Vongreas, in pursuance of the pro- visions of the article aforveaid. If the noo aiavehoiding Sistes sball fail or refuse to unite tm the application, such failure or refusal will furnish conclusive evi dence of ® determmation on their to keep up te agitation, and to continue thelr ageressions upon us, If the convention shail meet, aud the gocstion Canvot be Fatisfactorily acjosted, it will furnish evi dence equally conclusive of their devermination, In eitber event, the people of the South will clearly ander. stand what they are to expect ip the fuive, 1 aiso sug xest that @ commission, to oonsiet of two of oar most tn telitgent, dincreet and experienced statesmen, snail be appointed, whoee duty it anail be to visit tbe Legislatures of these States which have passed laws to obstruct the execution of the Fugitive Siave act, and inet, in the Dame of Virgiwia, upon their unconditional repeal. lo support of the suggestion of the appointment of « com misnion, @ precedent is to be found in the history of our own Stale, in the appointment of the distingaished Ben. Jamin Watkins Leigh, who was commissioned to visit the ‘egisiasure of South Carolina, at the time of the coatro- versy between that State and the federai goveroment The existence of the Un then greatly impertiles, and the action of Virgin ted a most happy infu ence in bringing about asetiiement that averted the danger and restored peace to the country That crisis in oe ae was almost as eerious and alarming as the presen! MARYLAND. SPECIAL SESSION OF THK GENKRAL ASSEMBLY. ‘The following petition is now being carrie! about for signatures in some of the counties of Maryland, request wg the Governor to revive and call together the Geverai Assembly — To His Excellency Tuomas H. Hicks, Governor of Maryland:— The undersigned, citizens of Maryland, would respest. folly suggest to your Exeellency that the Legisiatare of (he State sbould be forth #itb onpvened to cousider of be ous crisis in the affairs of our country, ‘nd to provide, if practicable, some remedy for the threatened danger Already South Carolina may be coo Sidered to have severed the ties which bound ber to the feceral Union, tnd other States are manifestly preparing to follow the lead of South Carolina, so that, without tome restraining cause, the government framed by the wirdom of our fathers, and to which we of Mary laud bave bern bt to took as the paliadivm of our own and the ope of liberty to the world. will have been destroyed before the regular session of our Legislaturs, aad couse quently before Maryland can speak by ber constituted ities upon a subject so vital to her and to her peop! We think that Maryland, by ber Joal position, and by ber friendly relations with uli hor sister States, hag, above all others, all this time, the right \o epeak. abe has'a right to say to her Northera elsters—We are upoo your border, and notwithsianding your nou oheervance of the guarantees of the constitution, and the conseqasnt joes of property by us, we bave been faithful to the ovn- ution, We oould say to them that we fully appre jate the blertings which have flowed from the estaoiinn meptof the Union, and that we understand the evils whieh would follow dinsolution. We have the right to emaud of them that they will each, at once, prociaim their intention forever hereafter to abide by the conatitu- tion; that they will say to their Southern brethren that hereafter they will punish thetr own citizens {or any vi0- lation of the constitutional compact by them; that they wil hereafter compensate their fellow citizens of the otber States for all ‘ty lost by reason of the pon observance by their citizens of the coostitution and laws Of the federal government Whilst Meryiand would bave the right thus to appeal to ber Nortbera sisters, she would have the right to © potentially to her sister States of the ould pay to them, that they shuld remem ds between them and danger; that ‘Ub jut Coosultation with sary lknd and Mates who bave hervtofore stood the jortheru aggression, precipitate @ dissolution of Ibe Upion—that they should remember that tbe secession from the Union of the extreme Southern States wold place the border slave States to the uu of being foreed to choose, withont cons: yond their control, either to remaio in political affinity With the Dou-Plavebowwing States, without the proveecion wbicb their weociation with the whole south aifoy in their steps and breax up the gor Ucited ta ea people of Mary taud f ber Svuthero 1ned— Ail grarwntes 0 each pro Nato Staten. oF other 1 Whether tection from future 2 The abrolute and « fhele potion of the peoulivr property of the South, and al the rignts tn reference thereto guaranteed by the constitution of the Uaned Sates, It most *ppear to your Fxeellenoy that whilst the Legiature or Virginia and ef the other Staten are SLeUL WO aekewbio, ‘bat ibis cob ouly tbe right bat toe Gt) of Mary innd to speak » ber cnet tated authorities tw this calamitous position of our common country, and, tw the opinion of the undersigned, 1t would be derogatory to the honor of Our State i! rhe would alone permis this tour qnestion to be cecided without her voles , sod Without ap effors om ber part wo avert a tly, press: upon your Excelleusy the propriety and, as we think, tne necestity Of calljpg & Rpecial remsion of the Legislature, hEETER FROM GEN. LANE. Wariner: ©., Now. 20, Gurriaxxy—Yours of the 15in jest is received, The embodyipg the views of tbe committee, which y Wie enclowed, bas nek reached me ipetitotwes apd comply. Nothing ts plainer than that ours is @ government of limited powers—formed by Stakes equal ip sovereignty, equal in dignity and equal in rights, This equality, in ‘eepects and in ali things, musi be matptaived. Any act by the péopie, or by auy branch or a ‘tment of the government when it made, than ‘n70n which the people have lately rendered their verdict. Hhall the poopie of he common territory of our common ooun- maprity almost ‘@buious @ Northern sec- bave determined that the psopie of the sball not go into the common terri. Property with them; that no mors Frere 3 caves (a0 did twelve of ‘(he Ubirteen origipas States) shall ever edmitued into the Union. Cap any man whose mind ws capabie of dis roby ay that the is tb the spirit or letter To me it appears piain that the 4) rigbt# Under the oopatitution of thove States recog: fiavery, have been violated by their Nortnera the verdict which they Bave rendered, to ihe effect tbat the States are vot equal, that ine people Siaier ebail not goto ihe territory » that they are inferiors and must y 0 inequality, but degradation. Now, can the Union be held \wgetber apon such terme? If #¢ would preserve the Colon we murt maintain the conatit And tbe equality of the States, and be just fy a ee ens eee la my judgment the Northern people are or jumt ‘unwise in deny ing bo Ube citizens of the southern states the right to \grave 10 and pettie in the Territories with Ubeir aiave ‘They are wrong in bolding tbat no mor be admitted nto the Uutun, for it le ovwariy the people of @ Territory, when ther popu Jee them to acmseion inte the Union, to form ment as may suit them, and, whether slave rope re niave wart the duty of Congress to admit them. And they are #roog io \Mting to remain upow the wtatute books lat obstructive of the farthful execution of the Frgitive Slave correct there Maintained tp the early days of the wbiic, This ® in thelr power, and im no other way » they avert ditolution; for oo who at al! informed ae & the fram © te have been infringed or equality refured, or, if the government had the peer, that \t would be wise or prudent touse is Toe Ui equality refosed, and they find |t necessary and snail’ de. fire to part, tbere ig Bo power tbat can Keep them to gether, of that should attempt it Tam, gentiemen, with moeh respect, your obedient servant, JOSEPH LANE Guetavan W. Smith, Pb: rey. uyen nee }, Pin me, Jomatpan frowor, THE DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO NORTH CAROLIN at | He ti i ki a i | i | t i 3 8 a ALD. PRICE TWO THE GEORGIA CONVENTION BILL The following i# tho bill agreed upon by the joint seien: committee of tho two houses of the Georgia Legieleiure, op federal relations, and sanctioned Dy @ large Bumber of prominent citizens of al! parties, passed both bouses, and is bow « law:— 4 KILL, IMTTYLED AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE THB SOVERROS oF THB STAID OP GnoRalA 9 Ody ‘OonvER- TION OF THE PROFLE OF THB BTATS, AND cain roR- POSS THBKEIN NAMED Whereas, the present orieis tp our national afeire, ip the Judy ment of this General Assembly, demands resie- tance; and whervas, it 18 ihe privilege of the people to determine pom ibe mode, measure and thme of ruch resistance; tberefare, the General Assembly of Georg ia co enact:— Section 4 That pon the passage of (his act, his Exosl- ency the Governer be and be is hereby required to lasu@ Dip prociamation ordering an election to be beid to each aud every county ip this Biate co the Gret Weoneeday ia JacuBry, L561, for delegates to @ con vention of the people f ‘his Siute. to convene at the wat of government on the léth day of January, in the year 1861. Sec. % That the said eb-ction for delegates shail be held Sud conducted tp the same manuer acd at the ame places ae elections for members of the General Arsembly new belo In this Sate and ali returns of eleasion sball be in the saue mauner [orwaried to the Governor of thin tate, who rball furnith ach delegate cbosan with 8 certificate of bis election . 8, That the counties now entities under the last act of spportienment to bw» members of the House of Repre- nialiver be eptitied exch to three delogaten to sald con- Vepticr, and the couDties now tr titled vo one represeata- tive thall elect two delegates to eai1 convention. Sec 4. That said convention, when sssembied, may considcr all grievances impairi: or affeoting the equality ano rights of the State of Georgia sa member of the United Sistem, and determine the measure aad mode and time of redress, Sec 6 That the members of eaid convention of the peo- ple of Georgia rail be entitled to tbe rame mileage and per diem pay recetved by the members of the present Geveral Arsembiy ; abd raid conversion shail, by vote, ax the pay of eli their officers and of any delegate or dele- gates they may appoint to any camvention, congrees, OF cmberty and shall provide for all other expenses tn- curred by raid convention Seo. 6, That said convention sba& bave power to eleot officers necersary to their organization, and t do all things needful to carry out the true intent aod meaning of this act, apd tbe aci# and purpores of said cor vention, ‘We append the names of the distinguished gentiemen who recommend and fully endorse ine bill:— v. Joreph E Brown and Hon Joseph Benry La kin, Char J Jenkice, Richard L. Lyon’ the preset Su. preme Court of Georgia; Hon T RR Cobo, Hon Alfred Iversen, Hon Robert fuombe, Hon Martin J. Crawford, Hon. Fraveie S. Bartow, Hon Henry R Jackson, Hon! Jas. Juckeou, Hon Henry L. Sepning, Wajor John A. Bow= ard, ee H pill, Bon tarvety Andrews, Hon. x H. 08, Hon. Linton Stephens, Hon. Herschel V. Jobneon ‘ . THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘Your despatch from Charleston in yesterday morning’s issue tn reference to the American Sunday Sohooo! Usioa is liable to be misurcerstood. Thi society owns no de- pesitory, por bas acy official representattve im that ‘The mistake doubtless arose frow the text that wevetainec a branch depository in that oity, whieh, bowever, was soid several years since to a bookseller, JH BURT, Arsoc. Sec, Missious Am. 8 4. Onion. Novmnum 20, 1860. News from Havana. ARRIVAL OF THS EMPIRE CITY AND BIENVILLE. ‘The steamat tp Empire City, Oaptain Baxter, from Orleans apd Havana, with dates from the latter port to the 17th inst., arrived here at a late hour on Wednesday bight. ‘The mat) steamship Bienville, J. D. Bulloch, oommand- er, from New Orleans on the 16th ani Havana on the af Yernoon of the 18th inst., arrived yesterday. The Bicn- ‘Ville bid a strong northerly gaie from Hatteras up, and Passed an unusuaily large number of vessels bound Bortbwards, bet none within signal distance. ; Mr. J. L. Wyman, one of the editors of the Ouban Mes senger, died of copsumption at Havana on the 12th tnat, He was formerly proprietor of the Commercial Advertiser, of Apalachicola, Fia, The weather in Havana was pleasant and health good. The rolling of the cane crop wan progressing finely. The steamship Cabawba, hence on the 12th, arrtved at Havana at noon of the 17th. The United States steanter Crus der, Lientenant Oom- manding J. N Maffitt, sailed from Havana a fow days ninoe on a cruise The United States steamer Mohawk, I jeatenant Com- man‘ing T A. Craven, arrived at Havana on the morning of the 17tb, and sailed that evening on a oruine Sugare were onobanged: No 12 at 9 rials, dull and qat- 1 stork 60,000 boxes. No freights offering for American veerels. Fxohange —London, 12}; to 184 premium, 8 wo 3% do; New Orleans, 6 to 64 a0 w York, ‘Trial Trip of the Fire Dart. Another iriumpt of American paval arcbivectare and sclense was witnessed tn the succese of tho trial trip of the wlenmer Fire Dart, commanded by Captain H.W. Jobeeon. This in the fifth veare! built for the Chineso watert by Now York ahipwrights, and forme the pioncer of @ new line to be run between Uanton and Hong Kg, ‘the proprietorship of Messrs. Augustine Hoard & Oo,, of China. Aba carly hour yeelerday # select company of gantle- men assembled on board the vessel, at the foot of Eighth street, Kast river, among whom might be mentioned Meners. Collyer, the builders; Mann, of the Scxentific Ame rican; Belknap, the engineer; Everett, and several others laterested in the fmucoms of American folence. ‘At ten o'clock the order to “let go” ‘was given, and the veesel proceeded around the Battery slowly and carefully, it being the first trial of the machinery, wo the foot of Jay street, where abe received several additions to ber complement. From there, afters short trip up the Hudson, she pro- creded towards Sandy Hook, going at a calculated rate of ‘wenty miles an bour, withoot any of the perceptible jarring oF straining arually attepoant on « bigh rate of The Fire Dart’s dimensions follows — Length, feet; beam 30 feet; depth, 11 feet; iamewe @ganae, 46% wehes, stroke, 12 foot te Capea im Wilson. the subscribers to the fund Resotved, That the estimon ia po Onptain silver sea service, wiih ao inser! y to 4 crew of the Minow ‘enim, te tees a the fund be inverted io United tater securities, tascribed tp the name of Captain Wilson, and oe presented to him. Lacreaas on Brazit.—The Rey J, ©, Fletober, late American Chaplain aod Secretary 0’ the United Mates Le- ation at the Court of Brazil, will deliver a coarse of tve lectures of that country , at the Historical Society's rooms, commencing to night. The lectares w jl be illustrative of he several physical, sgricuitural ard commercial fea- tures of Brazil, and camnot fail to be interesting to the bistorian and general seener after knowledge. Prospm Gome to ExGiasp —The immortal Bloedia, whore wonderful feate in this country in crowing cata- recta and spanning frightful chasme on almost “airy Botbings’’ bave won for him a worldwide repatation, we understand ts aboot to vielt London in April next, where Bo dombt be will astonigh all the folke within tbe svand of Bowbelie, and a good many outside of ft. Although he will find po Niagara to waik over in the British motropo- lie, & Journey on the tight rope, may ‘rom the top of &. Paul's to the Monument, would wot bee bed feat, That Riondip could sccompliah it who doubws, after what be hae done at Niagare and Jones’ Wood! Army Intelligence. ‘The War Nepariment has airect=t that the headquarters Of the First cavalry, Dow stativned at at. Louls, Mo., be removed, temporarily, to Fort Wise, Kansas. Aedg wick '@ amrigned io command, in the absence of other field officers of the regiment. During the absence of the Inepector of Arsenals and Armories (Calovel Ripley) the duties of inepection, &o., will be yay LY the Wer Department, by War Department, to the Jobn fT. Shas tt tenant Joseph # First artillery, Captain Jobo & Lieutenant Thomas Lieutenant Robt.