The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1860, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8867. MORNING ES)ITION—TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1860. PRICE TWO CENTS. Governor J. H. Anaws, was called to thevbelr, T.Z/ | howover, the importarst, post of of the fonth accepted what they could get from the Sthnons was appointed temporary secretary. St, Petersburg, whera bearing republicans present. afternoon that he could not yiekt to the demands made ‘The Cuammay addressed the Conventiod, after which | He was a special favorite with the Gen. Seowt's presence tg galutary and may lead to | in the Committee upon the South, and asked to be ex- they proceeded to ballot for President. Mr. Jamigon was | he received many inarks of attention, good results, Ho regards) ‘at this moment as | cused, and the House excused him, elected on the fifth ballot, Messrs. Orr, Chesnut and | the United Sta’.em at the Muscovite Oourt for the | madness, tie believes that 1e6 that distraét the | Senators Cameron and Bigeler and twenty-three demo- Gist were tho opponents, Mr. Gist withdrew after the | ft '¥O years, aud was recalled ouly at bis own Fe | country may be amicably arranged; and be is ready, | cratic and republican members composed the movting of “4 quest, arrivity :’ in this country a few weeks An 5 ’ third ballot. cident ia i | with all good patriote and conservativer, to unite in sin- related as having occurred the Pennsylvania Deloyation to-night. ‘The Presivent made a speech expressive of the honor ministerial career which he of | cere efforts to bring about so blessed a consummation. ‘The House to-day adopted resolutions endorsing the ‘ * | Fanatics in and out of Congress affect to treat the constitution of the United States, which every member where there outrages prevail Were | regan government. and if they were really authorizol by the constituted authorities everybody knows, if it were the strongest go- yernment in the world, we would declare war in one day. But what has caused this great excitement? 1 will tell you what I suppose it is, Ido not so much blame the people of the routh, because I think they have been led to believe that we, to-day the dominant party, who are about to take the reins of government, mortal foes, and stand reaty to trampl) their instil under foot. They have been told so by our enemies at the North, and they would not hear us at all, Now, I wish to OUR NATIONAL TROUBLES. Organization of the ‘South Carolina Conventior, conferred upon him He also raid we are engaged on a | with plea J bs. reed 2 great subject and a most important matter. God knows | about Aix? y:five 7 2 seg a TO ae old jee | excitement with contempt, and advise republicans to | tock an oath to support at the commencernent of the Con Heqvize "candidly, honestiy’ and fairy,” whether T TO CHARLESTON. what the result may be. That ® may turn out to the dines confidant and a friend more than that of a slave. | keep a stiff upper lip. gress, the Declaration of Independence and Washingtou's ) have any -cile arenite Yor ttiat ADJOURNMEN + | glory of South Carotina is my ferven: wish and last | Sfeny.jmnel Pickens received his appointment, the news | “ \ dogpatch was received here to-day from Springtiold, | Farewell Address; and, it is Delieved, would have em | when they are really informed ag to our positions, ‘Tho dorsed the Ten Commandments had nota large number ‘of members been known to be opposed to the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tent commandments. ‘The Mlinois House delegation bad a meeting to-night on the state of the nation. Lovejoy and Morris were avecnt, athe latter accidentally 80. ‘A resolution was agreed upon informally, that Minois is in favor of the Constitution and the Union, and that the lat prayer, May God he'p the State. I fecl unaccustomed | with ‘che intel to the duties of presiding over a body like this. Ihave | Si to his f old eervant:— ‘Now, Tow, I have been appointed as Minister jong since left deliberative bodios. I must ask your in- | Fewwia, It ig avery cold, a yery bad climate for you. dulgence for what 1 may be wanting. I said Thad ooh way there PU have to ig) jothing to say. I can’t anything. t "| New York amd also through England, where you'h bea says aig kee T can't expree® | free man, a if you bayo a deeire fo leave me you will |;have an ¢@pertunity to do so. If you would rather go to A debate on the question to adjcurn to Charleston en- |” Russia, "fom, oy cae ge, bul is appears Lo me 70 woud, better mued, Mr. Miles speaking strongly against and Messrs. | nioy ¥ you stay athome, But you ca Northern democrats have aid we ha) iy Dills in some few of the Northern States, someLow trench upon your rghte to fecaptare: plaves—a poeition that in uot more than two or es has the least foundation in fact. But if these laws really reprguant to the constitution, they are utterly void, and the courts would declare them #0 at any mo- ment. Therefore Tam glad to hear Senators on the other ride say they do uot complain of these bills. Your men have given vp this bone of coatention, this matter of complaint, which Northern men haye set forth ag a griev- of Attorney General under Linooln, It is understood that ‘he would accept, Judge Slosson and Mr, Van Allen loft here this after- noon for Springfield, it is supposed with a view of getting an expression from Lincoln of some conservative opinions in regard to the present crisis, It is clearly manifest to all who participated last its confirmation ty the Senate, he | stating that Judge Bates had been tendered the position to INTERESTING PROCREDINGS IN CONGRESS. Violent Sectional Speach of Senator Wade, of Ohis. J do as ” ‘A Keitt and Inglis in favor. Me ? ” eveni in the caucus of the New York dolega® | ter must and shall be preserved. ance more than any one else. eee eee ‘The Convention vote! to adjourn to-night and meet in Pe. is Bo cers,” st se Site Pee tion ne? there is mo hope of accomplishing Another meeting will bo called, when an effort will be Mr. M ook said’ that he said he yonse) ab these laws & PROCE) E, Charleston at four P. i. to-morrow. died {tn my arms, on the banks of the Mississippi; I took | anything. There did tot seem any uniformi | made to have a full delegation present, including Senators et eet ee, io Pee nan aa PALLIATIV EDINGS IN THE HOUS! ‘A resolution was efered to supply a vacancy in St. Mie | HQT A, BS pockel hicteon hundred dollars insmeney and | yy of opinion, or wiidency to compromiso | ‘Trumbull and Douglas in order that the rarlution way D8 | not hooves hey Bid been injured by them. ‘Those charls district. Adopted. for@ through Uke woods and brought it safely to you in | Conflicting opinions relating to the avowed grievances | formally and unanimously adopted, as itis believed it > pata _penendiad i Laseie te Foyt sqnso yas , Ex<overnor Ad@mns offered a resolution, inviting Mr. | €' @clina—you know master: and if you die in Rusa, you | of the South or their redress, Attachment to the Union | will be—Mr. Douglas and all his friends being strongly | 1co/e ithtas awn neinat ein Dolly are a Se ae The PersonaZ Liberty Bills De- |v». of Georgia; tmoro, of Alabama, and Hooker, of Sinai de in my arma, like your father” wag tke hond | ¥8S strongly expressed, but the methods of preserving it | against secession. Common law itself. 1 elicve the State of Vi ‘ Mississippi, to address the Convention at seven o'clock | nan at the door on all state occasions, and acquitted bim- | were widely opposite, Many were decidedly for cocr- ‘Yhe entire delegation of New Hampshire, Senators and | one to-day as stringent in its provisions ae any of those of which you complain, And here subject occurs to me, that th ins not 80 mueh to point out any North ern people have done are injurious to SAY enator trom Virginia tie acts that the clared Wneonstitutional. al), beld a meeting, and unanimously came to the deter- Carri cq’ this evening. ied. ‘self with all the Senity due to his position. When Col. mination that the true course to be pursued is to protect a Pickens was about leavi &. Petersb he said to his The Convention took a recess from half-past tive io { Tgertne® Salt xe am pone seri y Bet cion, others denounced it. This delegation, in’ truth, seems te present in-epitome the conflict of opinion which seven. ‘want to senda courier with very important \ thes | at this precise point divides the country. the public property and enforce the revenue laws at all . oe ae oer, 'S Thurlow Weed’s Organ on EVENING SESSION, $0 gue frtioter, Mr. Dallas, in. ’ ‘Now, ‘Tom, 1 | hero is little hope of unanimity among them. hozards, This morning a number of republi | rn PTS aegrodation. f think T feel a8 sensi- . Tho Convesition reassembled at seven o'tock P.M, | Mall make you courier; you shull go with my despate ‘The President seut to the Senato to-day the nomination | can Senators and representatives called upon General } tive on that subject as any other man, if I know imy- the Crisis with Hon, De®. Jamigon, President, in the chair, ‘Tom eeceted the mission, and wo do bim but justice | of Attorney General Black to the Secretaryehip of State, | Cass, and congratulated im upon his lato | felt. I would bo tho Ina v.” stho would aocate any Mr. Ixcuisintroduced (he following:— when we say that he discharged his duty with prompt- | which was confirmed, about one-third of the Senators | course. The venerable statesman seemed much af | oO°0 0 or this country, or any individual in ft; but, on Resolved, ‘That a committee of — momipers be np- | Bes Correct css and fidelity to his master. pointed to draft an Grape etiogge al bby m3 be nie wo may pinta hat Colonel Pickens is a this Convention, in order to accomplish tue parjose o niedium height, of peculiarly prepessessing man- secession. © pasvess ©) ners, and, as his election at this particular time proves, Resolved, That the individual members 2r'this Couven- | 4 €¥ceedmgly popular in his native State, boa = of Being for the consideration of tho ——— Convention any draft or schema, be requesyed to hand th: sumo in-without delay to the vada committe of-— OOR DESPATCHES FROM WASHINGTON. Resolved, That the acts of the@eneral #asembly of this fected at their visit and conversation, aud the interview in many respects was most pleasant and friendly. More than twenty of the clerks under Secretary Thomp gon are said to be on leave of absence, and are in the South, actively engaged with th eosionists, It is expected that the South Carolina Commissioners will arrive here on Thursday, headed by Laurence M. the other hand, let me tell these gentiemen I am exceed- ingly sensitive on that fame poiut, whatever they L | think, and bad rather enstain an ‘injury than an ingult or dishonor, and T would be as uawilling to inflict it upon others as T wonld be to submit to it myself. never do either the one or the other, if I know it. Bot 1 beve already said those gentlemen who make these cotnplaints have for a long series of years had this goverpment in their own hands. T may aay voting against the appointnent. No other nominations ‘were transmitted, ‘The House select committee was in session four hours today. Ibis represented that they have goue eatnestly to work, end the proepest of something acceptable to the country has improved, Caleb Cushing, whos presence was requested in Wash- Judge Han dy, the Kissimsippi Commissioner to Marytend, in Baltimore, ee, &e., &. wales y these THE, SOUT CAROLINA CONVENTION, State, providing for the assombling of <nis Convention, Waanrverow, Dec.17, 1860. | ington, wae is conewiation with the President thia | Koitt, to negotiate with government for Fort Moultrie | gentlemen whe havo raised upon this fooe their ill ‘Organization of the Convention, and Swb- | ihe Merk then named a clerk, messenger ant ceor- | PeOPle and the world. Secretary Thompean left this morning fer North Caro- | gel! in South Carolina. thing in the legislation ‘of tho federal government of whi 2. 4 that is not right, you, and not we, are bie for it. sequent Adjournment to Charleston on | \eoper Senator Wade's speech, of which the Hiraup has cl- | jing, tis understhed that, though he favors the seces: ‘Twenty-two members.of the Obio delogation, including | hat a not rai. You, tid ot wat with power io contro? ready had a brie? synopsis, and of which it will immodi- ately have a full report, is received as tha text of repub- Nica faith and fidelity. It is denounced by the Sovth, including many Union men, at the head of whom is the ‘Vice President of the United States, as the gloomiest pro- Auction that has yet appeared from the republican perty. It closes forever any hope of pacification, aud, as was de- clared to-night by one of the most prominent of the Southern representative men, it will unite the South within twenty days. The threat of colonizing Mexico and Central America with free blacks is deemed ¢o insulting to Southern pride | and repulsive to Southern feeling in all grades of gociety, ” that they will, with one voice, unite in indignant denun- ciation of the sentiment and appeal to arms rather than submit to it. The tone of dissatisfaction among them ts Senator Pugh, assembled to-night to deliberate upon the present state of affairs. Mr. Corwin in the cbair. With two or three exceptions the delegation were ready to unite with Governor Corwin in a resolution that there exist no real cause for secession. This resolution was supported by Mr. Howard, demo- crat, He was mot by Scnator Pugh and Mr. Vallandig- bam, who took opposite grounds. Their opposition de- feated the object of the meeting so far as harmony was concerned, and itedjourned without accomplishing any result. sion of the Cotton States, he is friendly to the resumption of te relations with the others when the non-slavehold- ing States consent to give such constitutioval guarantecs as may be satifaetory. It is not appréhended here that there'will be blood- fied. Should the ready men of South Carolina demand s surrender of Fort Moultrie, Maj. Anderson’s instrud- *Lions are deented to be such as will eneble him to retain an honorable position. the legislition of the country for an hour. IT know the charges have been made and rung in our ears that we have been unfaithful to your Fugitive Slave bill. The law is exceedingly od/ous to apy free people, and deprives us of all the old guarantees of liberty that the Saxon race bave considered more sacred than any' else. Mr. Greew said phase the action on this law bad not injured anybody, but he complained of the public senti- ment. He knew that it was impossible to asiave in nine cases out of ten, and they risked their lives if they made the attempt. He thought the law no more obnoxious than any in case of scoundrels who rob steal. (Applause in the galleries, The Cua said the aileries must be cleared if the applause again was ra. Mr. Wape—Never mind; let them cheer the Fugitive Slave law if they please. Mr. Mason said he should insist on ordef if the indigni- ties to the Senate did not cease, a Mr, Wavr—This would be a poor remedy for a free man Account ‘of the Prevelence of Smallpox at Colum bia--Inaugaratio® of Governor Pickens, déc., de. ‘OUR OBLARLESTON ‘DES? ATOH. Quixteston, Deo. 17, 1860. Preparations ara in progress to receive the members of the Convention, which kas udjoursed to meet here at four o'clock to-morrow afternonn. ‘he Convention will mcet in Institute Hall, now called Becesstox Hall. It te thought the ogdinance of secession will be passed on Wednesday or Thursday. ‘There will be iNuminations ‘wmd great public rejpiciugs when the act is corsummated. ‘The reports of Sutended demonstrations against the Worte’are utterly falke. No batteries of ary sort have ‘been erected in tee neighboriiood. The gereral disposi- Exioverntr Adams here dtreduced to the Convention the commissioners from AMbama’ and Mississippi, who were greeted with great applause. ‘The commissioner from Alaba:ne spok»jfirst, ani the comraissioner from Missistippi next. Both speeches were mod-rate in tone, and principally went to show that they (uke commissioners) acted by the authority of the Governors of their respective States, and in accordance wih the desires of a majority of the people of their ‘St. tes. The first resolution was thea adopted by ayes 150; nv ys, none, In the second resokttion Mr, Capescry moved to fill the blank with twenty-one. Mr. Ruerr moved to amend by inserting “other mat- ters for the consideration ef the Committee, or which ‘Wasirsoroy, Dee. 17, 1860. ‘The Senate of the United States presented an intorest- ing scene to-day during the delivery of Senator Wade's ‘speech, whch occupied two hours and a quarter, An witentive throng in the galleries aove bim, a listening ‘Senate arownd him, and the members of the Fourth estate, THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, BECOND SESSION. Senate. Wasurserow, Deo. 17, 1800. “tion people chaus' gotin: > * more decided, and more compact, general, and reyolu largely represented, catching every word and committing Mr. Wav is id be a ' ee Sy specie carting the fected nes Sahat ee tionary if porsible, than heretofo ' St to therwinged lightuing for tho great public in every cuias’s, (Gop.) of 8. H., resolution of inquiry, ro- | My beimble cireumatanecs vo be taken, undee the proviaion “making any movemont to obtain possession of the forts | ir, Banswx1s—The Committee will ¥ if porsible, than heretofore. i E Mr. + (rep Of this bill to be carried wh Where he came from. ir. BARNWELL—The Committee will have the right to The speech will produce vehement excitement in the | Part of the country, were-among tio features of the oo- | questing the President to inform the Senate what oa } Then he tight be carried into the ey a me ber of men Were stationed at Forts Moultrie and Sara where in a slave State, and whats@hance has he? report the whole subject. Everything should firet be . re ae Southern States, and at Columbia, §. C., where the Mr. Inque—The object will be accomplished without amendment. casion. Many of the wblest men in the nation, of all partios, Senators, representatives and others, from tye North and South, who listened to Senator Wado, agree 1 dat while he uttered some of his idess in some language, ae style peculiarly bis owa, that as a whole his speech ®ase iinently conservative, strictly within the constitu. tion, and exactly sucha speceh as the times demands, ‘Wade represents the ‘honest feeling of the North. The rowing opinion fe thatthe North ehould speak ont first wie) it means—ebould withold nothing, but present beld- Dlynad manfully, yot kindly, fhe real position they intend ‘to sume in the event ct scvession by one or more States "from the Union. Senater Wade's reference to the record of his father, who galiently fougl’ tho battles of the country and sustaiwed the flag, and his eplendid perora- thon and pledge to follow the example of his father in up- holding tbat fag with bis life, met only won applause from the galleries Lut drew tears.from mauy eyes. Mr. Johnsom of ‘Tennessee, hes the floor to-morrow, end will make» Vaiow speech. The House bas asuigned Weed ede y abd Thurelay pext for Territorial business, when Mr. Grow from the Com- mittee on Territories, tll bring ferward four bills to or- ganize Idaho, Nevada, Dacotah aad Arizona Territories, The anti-slavery proviso will be inverted in each bl!, but if the slave power of the House whch predpminates, is strong enough to sirfke it out, the repeblicans will nevertheleas vote for the bills without the nigger in Liem. By this move the members North and South w ll bo ale to preserve their political record, and thon unite their forees This man may be kidnapped and carried inv ever- lasting slavery; and dees any man who has a a for the sovervign rights of the States rise here and complain that a State could not make a law to protect her own people against invasion and eeigure? believe ef ati men these who have made the most of hese complaints are the last who would rise bere and deny the power of a sovereign State lo protect her own citizens against uny federal loriehitere whatever, Then Hberty Wills have been made, not with a view to degrade the South, bet with an honest view to guard the rights of ther own citizens from zimlawini research amd seta- ures. [was cxeeeJingly xlad to hear Senators on the t the repeal of theso bills wiilnot re- a the diffleuttie tthe people faithivl io & ng the Fugitive slave law. [ft haa been faid, under such circumstances hore, that, although I was sure as to my OWN State, yet L could not believe a rd of what they 1 nover did and never coul), until our enenies here rise in theig places, With a magnaninity Loommend, have said this was note, My colleague (Mr. Pugh), with a imity for which I give him my t » has forth to testify that, in the State Lin part repreaes republican {8 end juries, have fnltiilod repulsive t falthivlneut, and #0 eid the > De jas, and 80 1 uuderstoo! the na (Mr, Fitch) to have said. There- alumpy ie removed from ve, 89 farar the state- onr politieal enemies can do it. Iknow our courts feel themacly es bound to administer the laws just we they find them. Let me sey to gentiomen of the Senate ‘on the other side, where you have lost one slave by the unfaithfolnces of legislative tribanals, we have had ten men murdered by your mobs Jaw, Toannot take »p a Southern paper but Tread of men who travel for sinew, but you wait upon them by some committee and tell them to return. And what is cause? Why, Sir, you come from Obio, and they don’t inquire what Some days ago the commending officerset Fort Sumter ‘ aquired of the lavorers lately brought from Baltimore, 4 they would defend tho place In case €° attack’ They answered unanimously thet they came to work, unt to fight, and rather than oppese the South they would im. + mediately return to Baltixaore. OUR COLUMBIA DESPATCH. Coreen, S. C., Dec. 17, 1880. ‘A heavy and almost obscuring fog hangs like a pall + over Columbia, creating « gener: it gloom. ‘The smallpox penic is inter se among citizens and strangers, Maay members of (dhe Legislature have gone ter; whether in his opinion the number was suificiout wo defend those forts against any attack or domes lence; whether additional men had been ordered + of said forts, or any ateps teken to put them in position to resist any attack; in whos eustody the areenal a! Charleston is placed; what arms and property are there kept, or, if removed, by whom; why said arms are not put in possession of officers of the United States, upon a requisition, or if this has ever been refused; and further, what instruc tionshave been given to the oiler of Suid forts, in eas of a demand to surrender them by aay person or author ty made upon them; also, the copies of gny cerrespond ence-between the Commander-in Chief of the American army, relative to the necessity of supplying the eificers of said forts with protection, was tiken up, Mr. Brows objected to its cousideration, and it wae laid over. Fifteen thousand additional copies of whe Presicont's ‘Message and socompany ing documents were ordered. Mr. Wusow, (rep.) of Mass. introduced « jolat resola- tion for the repeal of the resolution of June 5, for the re- Nef of Wm. Fl. De Groot, which wus referred to the Com- mittes an Claims. Mr. Grexx, Copp.) of Mo., moved that Wednesday and Tharaday of nexteveek be set apart for Territorial by ness. cod to. ‘The Dill to curry out the existing treaties betweon the United States and Mexico was taken op. Mr. Ivmwox, Copp.) of explained that the object was to pay the clatns age the Mexican government seceding Convention is being held, It will not only fire ‘the hearts of the delegates, but, it is feared, plurgo Mr. Ru ‘That Commi ‘them inte rash measures of retaliation, = y wert ommittee can originate anytbing Mr, Wado bas been boiling over with this speech for itself. For inst: 5 : Duc of thie wart: feel have tultemacomer, from any | several days, ever since Senator Wigfall delivered his Mr. CuEXVER—I%> great aim and object i# to avoid | speech on behalf of tho South. It has beew with the ut- side of the maestion iy whi a " . y Ne Dave hued proot this erccisn taster shiek most difliculty Wade was restrained from making a more single voice within the State of South Ceolina. Businasg | VMlent explosion than he has. is expedited by eonining ourselves to secession. Our While there is but one voice famong republicans in firet aim is to break the chain of the Union, ve c Pind ail ba Chedy the direction: ‘Tue next | favor of the speech, there Is but one among the South- Mr. Hayxw—The proposition, as [ understand it, te, tae | *wers And democrats generally in condemmation of it. 2 committee of twent » should be appointed to take Senator Wade expects to be the Cromwell of th North- into consideration the various measures that inight rn reytntionar; i. no totvedaced for'ti consideration of “Gna Ganteapiont HAE wransbewtee an ment for the extisotien of sinvo they ehould reogive all such schemes, from-whatever | "? inaugurate it by planting on the Mexi- quarter they way come, and they should bave the privi- | C®2 borders of the rep.-ii¢ colonies of free blacks for lego to do whatever pertains to the business of the Con- | the purpose of inciting murderus+ingurreotions among vention, with aview of recommending to this Conveution thern States: whatsoever action they might think proper for considera. - wg tes bok oe mama pct fugi- tion, or proposition for discussion among them. Secemion | tives who may escape. Bennte pecenlggns is « matter simply of the secession of South Carolina from | would aid the North in this diabolical movement. Is this. the it ment. I take it there has been suffl- aa posed nny cor ters las beon suf. } note fit matter for the investigation ed the government, guide that coumnittce, Secession is a ewbject upon which | !f We have a government? The Senate in executives Sauer Gee Let the committee be composed } session con‘irmed the nomination of Judge Black as Se~ age mylee of State, and also sundry minor appointments, ‘ir. Brapy: te the work for eeparate commit | "OY » ue.” Lot there be a soparate comiuiiéce for the cana. | The attempt in the House to adjourn over for the hol deration of the question, «What is executive authority | days signally failed. There is very little for the Amort- and what is citizenship?” It is necessary:to bave the | can people to rejoice about in these days, and still loss of the ition acti vel; % ' ye, coueee pou pere each com | when we take the sentiment prevailing at the seat of Mr. Carmtovs—The committee itself must be divide¢ in | government as the standard of public feeltng. opinion. The convention will have enongh to do toput | ‘The meeting of the Pennsylvania delegation at the Avo- home. The Convention aesombled at. noon, General Jemicon was temporary chairman. ‘The call ig now progressing fo r the Jologates from the » @atricts and parishes > enroll | heir uemes. A written invitation from the Legislature to the Con- vention to participate at the ins wguretion of Governer at ‘two o'clock, was laid onthe table (ill the Conyen:ion organiaed. ‘The enrolling of the vames w ts ther eoritinned. ‘The outside attendance at the Convention is smal! Some of the members of the Canvention are young ia appearance, but generally midd le aged. So farthey are fall calm and unimpassioned. , In the Legislature nothing 1s transpiring in ether Dranch. The inauguration cere: pomies take place et two o’elock. ‘There is hardly a doabt about. the smallpox being an | things in proper shape. By referring different subjects Terr om re. | ov 7 c y Men here. fore prevails at eae A Gaetan to different committees there would be clashing. ue Hotel wag sicnificant for several roasons:—Pirst | ip organiaing the epee wan are ee poet a yaks amebiades: 5, 5od Aae party you belorg to, Many of these acts have been done epidemic 3 . Mr. Mnprevow—In Charleston it will be more diffiealt | that the propositien for the enforcement of all laws, fede- | ®°Bt controlled by mob law, Mr. Hawux, (rep.) of Mo., objected to the bill, because | under circumstances that would disgrace a savaze. Wo stampede from Columbia may De articipated, and thea | io vet the majority of a large committee to than | raland local, should emanate from Mr. Campbell, the | _S0meof the Indiana vultures who.ennoyed Lincoln at | \. would jcad bo revision of all the Geobsions,’ He was | have no security. te travelling, near! ‘one-half of this ‘the disease may spread over the State. Oe oat Some, i trust the ame d - er of the © of Thirty-three, ‘Chicago are here, selling what they call, their infleenee | willing to have a. ne commission to examine the claims. | cy the ‘Statos, I don't care Fourteen cases of smallpox were reported on Bunday | ™¢nt Vill NOS be aeroed fo. aanondmen cz Wd anti pectin tetaineas should adopt the re. | With Mr. Lincoln to obtain offlee under bis adtninistra- | i moved to am ; wah 2 eas, asenee eh ian aanere vie- and to-day. Casee only ‘ere reported where the ri r 7a voy ae ar Ap h the re Mr. Bayan, yected to the entire | lated any law under heayen; but ‘if he comes from the seven . ° Mr. Cimvs moved to lay that motion on the . commendation of Benator Bigler, democmn:, and agree to | “oD. One of these vultures, who has before a tempted | 4 i), North, and especially if he has exercised his political symptoms and develgpamcnts ch arly ‘dicate the disease. ‘The Legislature has adjourned | ‘0 mect in Charleston on ‘At one o'clock, Dr. Powell's, (opp.) of Ky.,reeolution | rights and voted for Lincoln instead of ly olse, it is an offence punishable by indignity, by stripes, and by death. And you, whose constituents are guilty of to bribe the republican party’ by his. infamous offers, is better adapted f¢ . |. | Strike out the werds that their enforeement should be etter adi for one part than another. The agricul. nid to have cbtntned 0 GRAIN GUY fice. 0 pr oultoabt orist will not do to examine commercial statistics and | ®ecured at all hagards; third,-that the said Mr. Campbell aid—At « time like thie, * Tharsday. ings, and vice versa. The Convention hax met | should the restoration of the Missoari Com) citizen, with a promiaa to reward the letter with a par wal excitement, I have | all thi 4 toconsider the pulling dowa of ono end angceripnnerengpoapaypee ore aid po ee are Ea ete at ony ergualent, tes | Ate ae ee ee eee PROCEEDINGS OF THE’ CONVENTION. — | ling up another; @ determine cur and o- | Mise te; and-focrth, that the enlject of dividing | tou Sppolaiment from Linen. Tne Wes pune very enka etre welt: | Lek Lan Ea Se Ee te The House delegation from New York «iil caucus #gain on Wednesday evening. ‘This evening Attorney General Black wea conirm of by the Senate as Secretary of State, and there seems to Do a fair proepect that Edwin Stanton, of thie city (forn wrly nestic relations aud matters about changing the constitu. | the Territories ieto States should not have been ion of the State. Is it certain the committee, no matter | introduced at all. « All these propositions were presented, w able, cam consider all and everythi hether Wine ceseenell itler’ pars : t ls prudent to submit to the ‘cgneas a ay ‘com. | ond they rg Bae b> oe some mittee? tion and consideratjon. Moesrs. Bigier and Hickman Mr. Gunoe gaid the committees wore appointed to ex- | proposed verbal amendments to the resviations as finally all raised our hands to heaven and took an oath that stain (he constitution of the United States, by many Senator that wo are upon the lution? ef this Uvion, and that your con to be trampled under foot, silewoe under akin to treason itself, Covemat |, 8..C., Deo, 17, 1860. ‘The Convention bad four balfote for a permanent President. ‘On the third ballot Governor Gist received 38 vates; ee oer oo ikoied ooo OF a people where a ltw 80 repugnant general was ev executed with the same faithfulness as thas ben this moet repugnant Fugitive Slave law. You have a law in South Carolina by which you take the free citizens of Maaearhueectts or any other maritime State and lock them etitution ach cirenmatances seems te ex-Senator Chesnut, 17; ex-Spoaker Orr, 02; Mr, Jamison, | pecite business. They arc necessary to prevent the Con ri - parsed nnanimously. of Obio), will be named as Attorney General, and ( vlev | We have Hetened to ovnplainte on the oth reife of | up in jail under a penalty. If the maa cannot G4, with some tow eruttoring. rrontion from beootaing & debating niciety. ilo advocated | Paxred craw Pompano ition, inas. | Cuebing, who has survived tho Natick Gc»bler's ay ‘fal | tbit chamber patient) y,and with an ardent desire to ae the jail fcen, eternal slavery inthe face fis Ou the fourth ballot Mr. Jamison received 118 votes, . ey os tc erwin “geven.”” ohject propos! J ‘a talked of forth “ certain what ibey wete. But Loonfess Iam wu to | @ monetrour law, revolting to the beat of humans. ex-Speaker Orr, 20; soattering, 8 r. W. twenty-one.” much as it gavean undue representation in the Senate, | charge, the vacapey upon tho fupr: wr Jermiand what itis of» lich they complain. The par- | ty, and in conflict with the conetitntion of tho United ar, Jamaow, on taking thochair,-eaid be hadnot ien- | Mr. Ward's motke wae enteled, andthe resolution | £7 With a. population of half » million tho Territories | bench. The opponents of Cushing argue that New iis ¢-r] ty which Ind iately olocul (he Urwaldeut, and pros | states. don't say this by way of reerimioation. I know guage to express his thanks for the honor conferred upan would have the same representation as lif a dozen of | land ought not to have two Judges upon that vench wer thistgrverumeat, tor ouy lndividanl ofhaas, There. [te nada eiele eal to laemaae MRE te him in making bim the preciding offiecr over the delfis- imealise oat oe oe ; Thave the highest authority for aevorting that Mr. Li0- | fre jt wfmaviess this ths party bas as yot-eriam. ced | the-whole truth teappear: ‘Thon, WHat BCT Fon kee gations of thie Convention. tio considered that the Opn- ied, Messrs: Grow, Blair, Covode and Hickman were tho | 0oln has not offered Judge Bates, of Missouri, tho position fone ret of whieh uv body ceo cooplin TE nay on as the whole legislation of the omat 5 you own the fears ae towwbataeay herea ter ensue, they aro mere ay Prebevsions-otbiag, vise. A bare suspicion, a fear, aay sorcdudices. 1 wish to ascor: of Secretary of the Interior. If Mr. Bates goes inio the Cabinet he will be Attorney Genoral. Tho sentiment of Cobinet and the Senate, and 1 tay add you own the Pro eident of the United States, as mtich aa You own the ser- Tors moved a vole of thanks to the Baptist denor!- | Princtpal speakers in the caucus, while Senator Biglor, ns . Carried. vants on your own plantations, But I caa’t see why a 5 it dety— vention was engage’ in a most important dety—the most O yy wane wait» be 1 hom ‘mportnat that had over develved upon South Carolina. he ence, and thea the people—whieh Mr. Lincoln wil! consult in mating hie XN tain we are right, for I nile : hat will bo th uh of ot echt: ye epread on the minutes. 80g! and to-aave what he could for the Seush bs ‘fi Southern sen rise up and ‘of the of this Pathe par fiapue ‘ods ipectson 14 tno eae Mr. Kuerr moved to adjourn, and st twenty-two minutes | from the preponderating influence of the republicans in } Cabinet—pojnta to a Pennsylvanian for tho Inter orehip. wey port ar priscinte that is nod warranted 1 fine Pipe yr are enc KS hee ings Arad : past leu the Can: entioa adjourned. the caucus. J learn by private letter from Springfield, WI.chet Mr. [ ygtution under which we Tivo, or trenches 09 the: Se any acta of iy has A resolution was then offered thet when the Conven. ‘tion adjourn, it be to meet in Charleston, at four o'clock to-morrow afternoon. “n guilty. of ‘whieh veletlieed’ tes ah af this government—who would break up and resolve it inte its original elemente—do it on a more suspicion that Lincoln will not come here before the 24 or 34 of March they nett me: ack ms to compromian, f following the example of Mr. Buchanan and othere, a» he ’ en their righ's myself whom Tam wrong. No THE NEW GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Wasurveros, Dee. 17, 1860 threat that the © SKETCH OF COLONEL FRANCIS W. PLOKENS. Senator Wade's speoch was listened to by an isimense apprench ‘mae with “ would be beset by the offlcesecking vultures before the F hope This resolution caused considerable debate. Colonel Francis W. Pickens, who has just been elected | eudience, and was interrapted twice by applause from | heads of hia jade were aot paugurated and Ut. t wee that ll ow “joltrioa Oo. ‘re bose Gotan i Mr. iss sppesiod to tho Convention net to adjourn to Ay Governor of South Carolina, ts a native of that State, und | the galleries; once shen Scuator Green put ina favorable | ready to assume their respective reapousibltities. 1 I rhall be roaty to | Are we the setters forth of any new ote te Charleston, but to remain here, regardless of the small. Bis about fifty yours of age. Ho bas been in public life for | Southern interrogatory, apd again when Wade epoke of | republican friends suatain him in this determination, and stn yo hf | constitution? 1 tell. you my. There is no principle Box or other physical or moral causes, and discharge the Bebo last twenty yeors, and represented his native Ptate in | the national capital failing info the hands of Northerners | none but impracticables, who with to involve him in new ‘ong tain, chases tpn Be Bagg one pan Be BO duties required by South Carolina, He urged that other States would jecr at their timidity jn the presont crisis, ‘end that the mors ‘Of the prevent movement would be wfiecta! In other sympathiziag States if we atjoarnod to CLariestou. Mr. Cocunare, of Abbeville, end be would never con- atert, and a artanions ¢ had Been complications or who have axes of their own to grind Delieve or suggest otherwise The statement that there i¢ a republican movement on foot in this city to induce Mr. Lineoln to announce his views before the 4th of March is not trac. The repnibli- cans are opposed to any such policy, believing that what ngress from 188! to 1845, during which period he on- | aut the fiag of °76 flying from the dome. Tho epecch yoyed the entire confidence of his constituents, and was | precindes all possibilty of adjustment. eogarded ag one Of the leading spirite in the mational | 5% said the South have had the reigne-of government Jecislature, The povition to which he har been just ele- | for years, and why should they complain of » government vated has naturally attracted towards him the ees of | of which they have bad the control. With the verdict of the whole country, for there is no disguising the fact | the people im their pockets, said Mt. Wade, the repo enty years. You lave ehanged your opinions; wo stand here we Used ta stabi, We stand on the savory ques lace formerty ocompied by the most revorod { ths netiem, every one of them, Wash- ereon, Monroe, Adame, Jackson and Polk in. And that revered statesman, Henry Clay, of mory, With his dying broath, asserted the doe olay. Why, then, are we held up before ured , SY new fact in ‘public mind. 1 is very te Be thant the t ‘0! Ht the ord 5 of » * arg ‘ Baste ire Cotenbia’ woh the crthaas of secesston that upon his acte deveng ton greatexteuttho peace, and, | cans have no compromise to offer o to mako—the day of | over he may ray In the futare will be garbiot am! mis cenorganized ever | the community an Gioktors Of sae righie ee Ae eee _ orneteran - , mig ol | oo r" “ve it may be, the perpetuity of the republic. Colonel Pick- | compoomiees ceased when the Missouri Compromise bill | represented, just as what he bas ani in the past has try poh 1 of harboring there opinions. Thon, oo work. eh ake he. tune tT ns 9 @ man Of no oreinary ability, and no one has ever | wus repealed, He charged the South with entertaining a | been. His views are before the country. Iam as certain any matt might ot A oe 4 You Sto, Kine doit be wes ud 000 bievatinhs ta jabiaiaien questioned bis Courage OF resolution Ho was a particu | blind prejudice agninet the North; that where one fugi- | that Mr. Lincoln will do nothing In administering tt ed in the eam swt Sammy ach ae aretenty [Wt adueodael eeediaas Caeded re Calkioun, and enjuyed the confiience and | tiwe slave had been rescued by the North, ten Northern. | government to destroy OF in any Way to impair the terri tering grows oe aa ‘the to Fou. The Senator from Georgia (Mr. catil (helt sation wen complete, vet eaged. ptpperning te Eee ee South Carolipa’s greatest son. Ho | ere had been tarred, feathered, scourged and mar- | torial policy laid down in the Chicago platform ax I an of @ present aasitement ia the VAY ped 50 9 webonsion Mr. ‘Lincola Charleston. He said he never would consent wo hurry [) T™* Mons the most ardent advocates of nullifeation,ané | dered, under circumstances of crucity that would | anything exciting. This fact might as well be knows try. Now that is complaining? Is it said he hed aid no weeh thing. through the proceedings of the Coovention, and gave no- fp ' = Almost neediens te say that he is at present an on- | disgrace m savage, by Southerners, for even dur- | firsts last, if there ia the slightest donbt anywhere or suaaetiy (eat vey have wabjected to sa td he understood Wn donstes To.eny oo, cad sare ent ne cedtnance chontd be trosed wit tie eensone f compromising Slater rights man, Ananecdote is related | ing to gay they voted for Lineols. The republicans, | the subject. Tapeak what Tkuow, if I kaow what « poms that ¢ Covert rate with the pose ence, Wo be that the Chiat Magn. until every polnt was duly considered in all ft boarings, f °% BM a& Baving ovcurred during the aullification excite- | he maldy would administer the government ns it waa ad- | clarations men. f that glowour Revouation met i ton veara, Covernment, could do away with afters full aed fair investigation and discussion. He f [>t Which, as it ls particularly illustrative of his cha- | ministered by Washington, Joflerson, Madison, Jackson | The Perilous Committee of thirty-three had a long eos todeaw up a bill of indictment aga and his ministers, they had been at a las ald set forth asthe canae of their complaints. Rut they hod .wo difflenity tm setting them forth, and so mperebment will go dow ia. 1 said they were engaged in» high and patriotic duty, and | PCF, desorvee to be told hore. Ata mocting the ro- | and Polk, and in the epirit advocated by Henry Cay of demanded that Ure mombere should be ina location whore | mark Was Rade that the evoasion was ope that mirht ex- | blessed memory. Seccasioniam was denounced aa treason, Chéte mints contd fuirly grapple with tho important lasues » fears awd apprebonsion, when Colonel Pckone ieal- | end it must inevitably result in bloodshed, Then the sion to-day, but there wns very little done for the sal tion of the Unten. Some of the gentlemen comprisiny that commiitee whom the people have put here to traneact tution, when he could, with impunity, Mr. Warm—it is of no e Senator said. 1 say the Linegtant chamasten trons s tnvotved, and not be agitated by a fearful, loatbeome, | Wesed to have replied as fllown:— North would assume @ protectorate over Mexico und Cen- | the public business of the country, devoted most o eed too’ been ts havtr a pouth we, ben Dees coun, nt Zo eve So seme pentitonce, when no pressing necessity required It “Fear! fear! Mr. President, Twas borp insensible to | trol America, and colonize them with free blacks. the time of the session in denowneing the New York re of the British Parliar right of any than, ant i you barbor any giker = . Others engaged in she discase.on pro and con fear.”* ‘he speech has much exasperated the Southerners, | HaRaup correspondent, stationed kere for net allow up ed oa iritaln for virty | tion it ‘el eonmequente of unwarranted ico, ‘Tho motion (> adjourn to CLovestom was Gnatly carried | Svch Wome of tho traitada tho character of the mun | and Western democrats declare that before Wade and his | their deitherations to be private. Some of tho mem Lard cages Srey red ane oe aT, aa erences for dy a large majority who hie been elected me the present critieal Junoture so | army enn reach the South it will have to pass throngh | bers, in view of the Instructions they received wo-diy un tralecra? ‘nek what right Wave you, | very keris doawm, and I do not have wire fonmoe me Resolutions ware adopted iuviting the Commissioners control far good or ill the desti fees of South Carolina Southern Chio, where it will receive # baptism of biood, | are terror stricken to-night, and aro very close mouth=! t theta dnp aban thy Be @ ot all Ie there enything in our platform detrimental to from Alstima aed Mieeiaeiyy! to veets on the floor, and ‘The name of Pickens is one ef the mostgcefebrated in | The city is much excited, ko that they address the Convention tonight at seven | [ Revolutionary history of the country. General Pick- In tho House a resolution declaring Personal Liberty o'clock, eps, the grandfather of the salject of the presenteketch, | bille mneonstitutional, and condemning all acts calculated A motion was mado to jnvite Hon, Fowell Cobb toa | rendered most efficient service i the war of indepon- | 10 interfere with the execution of United States laws, ent on the floor, Some members ohjseted and thought | dence. He commanded at the important tattle of Cow. | was adopted by a large majority. Mr. Morris’ (Iilinois) it would be Oxpressing complimentary (arms to Mr. Cobb ] pens—a battle which, lite that of Trenton, ix regarded | fesolution, that no cause existed for dissolution, was vonr rights, onlors that in modern times Toren cont vetion of the comatitetion fot OE folcw im the beaten track, bot PLS Sig See pehaban ‘The fact is, that besides the Jong debate wasted in ia- | Gono, toot wp bere that you have been terforing with the Hemayp's regular business, the Com. agarieves by the netion of that very qnremeent'N mittee did nothing but wrangle wbout the order of ave been an net of treason, and nothing les. usinem, They Mually voted to tako up 1. Winter | Now. thoy nho mt here, uke leaders, OF thie me ihe | “Me Tommi, \orp jor k rs revotat , are a eo ir ‘ML, (Opp. g Davis's proposiiyon toquiring Marshals to deiver | action of this poverament (ce: yearm post” Wh, they | tin. 10. tho Ci of Goveetae Beaalooe, Get nabs ht to fogitives to the district Judge im tho district | have bad more than two-thirds of the Senate for many | justified it. if. 0 that wore not eccred ited 19 the Commissioners. ‘as the turning point in the fortane af the coniict, and | adopted, > of the State escaped from, and gnarantooing a jory | Peer yoy oy represent but jlitte more” Mr, Wane entd that differ, than one quarter tl ited thoup’ ti Tho motion to woorer Bina seat yevvaied, with a few | both of which were fooght about the sume time. No | The Pequeytvanta, Ohio and Tinote delegations met to. | trial of Mdentity. Thiw’ to bo ia iad of | trau..om® Wuarter of the free poopie oF (in, Ciuled | We Real Garstiee 4 4 Cinsenting Tolece. purer or more diginterested patriot lived than Genoral | ight. Personal Liberty bills, and to guard against kidnapping, | past in the _ i < the ‘President, and Li 4 4 jaro caver * ration of the 7 f eme Court Vnited Stater, 104 nearly ever; ol Mr, Downe wanted at the Inauguration Covernor to-day, tha gallery | Pickens, and none deserved better of his country. No At thé Penneytvania canoum, held in Avenne Hotel, Mr, | Some of the extreme Southern men consider this propos) wane the Uni we eho vous PRE ¥ yy ection. tion to be a demand for concession that they could not of tho Represontotives tl! was crowded with many la males mg hell tm for hin, and when | Bigler, chairman, Mr. McKnight, Secretary, a resolution dids. Mr. Pickens read the inaugural. The sentimqeate offered to pay the expenses he had jnourred in | was adopted in effet that the people of Pennsylvania | concede, the¥ preferred the pommary kidknapping that theae who occupy thie position come here Mr, Powss: said he Woro dhoktsily fre for seoometon, and were warmly ay» | {BEARS Of 2 COTY re tcnerwlen, Col. Pakens, | Were in favor of sostaining end protecting the constitu. | style at prevent provided for in the Fugitive Slave law ing Uae thei ries Bove boon strieeny vowry? | want 0 haw it the sebaioe wasn fuer of wright ene Placed. In tho roar of Me. Plokene, a Uhe Speaker's | the father of the presout Coversor of socth Garoliwn, tai | tonal rights of all sections; that all the laws should be | to 8Jury trial ia © Southern State, wbero tho Jurymen | PN what is the cause of Whi Erie! clritatint wie | fantom of te Ee oe ake wna win i ttand, were Lowell Geb and Messrs Elmore and Hooker, eee the war of 1812, but was never engaged in —_ Promptiy executed; that the Union of the | would be all tlavebolders, tee fd or eon pong BS a ——_ fis tad ie, Commiesioners froma ALivor 3 and Mietewippi, ‘We hav ‘ one venvesentet tates, the constitution and the laws of tho United States, No yote was taken the adoption of thorerclations, | Of terror in the cities = My. Pow. said resolution pa si pened ot yearen ons roprerttct ft | ‘sa be malutaoed asd etoreed nol thtr uvegrep. ” | 2d after coumemiag foc boars In doing sothing te com, | inet ous very mach, tke, Ge feign of trvar tm Furie | ir, Wane. dualioed 10 gira Wey Ua eta ay : _ Coremma, &. ©., Deo, 17, 2960 at fata Te ‘The meeting was quite full; Thad. Stovensand Dimmick | mittes adjourned. The trouble about the committee is | men berg sent back, or rcomrmed aud tarred and W: Powny enld he thou not have enlled for specif. llitidaeaeun cs menee Conv enion. aememabled Wh | oat of i eer My only were absent. ‘Tho eeatimonts on the part of tho | tbat it does not posmeee the athesive 4ualitien nocoowary | feathered, ax! oo Imuey male regard to | cations if he didn’ want to be extern. be a lined; and he aleo declined an a. Penrsyivania republicans, a expressed in cancun, were | to rave the Union, Spaubling’s glue would be sbundantly | promt. in tl of excitement like thie, tn real We. wane beer oven that the dave ‘After s prayer, Gen. D. 7, Jamison, on motion of ex- not at ali galculated 10 barmonize matvers; but thefrisad | pueteradie, gpone bie for ‘hee outbrenke of poesiom, if the tended bio 4