The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU in aubvance, Money sent hy mail will be ¢ vid None but Bank bills current in New taker THE DOILY HER. THE V REKLY Ub y part « : newt, loth tir include jrotago; the Mth ind Bot of each nionth, at LD, on Wednesday, at four cents per AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. OF MUSIC, AMENTO. Fourteenth street.—Irattay Ore pIATOR, ER GAR Buores—SHoekn Broadway, opposite Bond street.— EVEN TS, | ERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tirroo Sais, on tHe OF SKRINGAPATAM, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Lavy ov St. Trores LAURA KEENEF’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.— SEVEN SistEas. * NEW BOWERY THEAT Bowery.—MysreRixs Anp Misrwies ov New YORK—StaGe SirveK R—HOLK 1N Tun Wate. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and gE sing Jose AND Vis Brrries—Lavina Cuitiost vies, &. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Borcesqums, Sonus, Dancxs, &c.—Soinex D’Eruiors. 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The authorities of Florida have decided to take possession of Fort Pickens, at Pensacola, peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must; and in order to carry out this design, the Floridians telegraphed to New Orleans for two thousand volunteers. The Mayor of New Orleans responded that the troops could be raised in 48 hours if Florida would equip them. The Governor of Florida sent word for them to be despatched immediately, and the needful supplies would be forthcoming. New Orleans was there- upon thrown into great excitement, and meetings were called for the enrollment of volunteer ‘Three hundred men are on their way from Missis- sippi for Pensacola. If Fort Pickens is not sur- rendered, a great carnage will ensue. Such is the prediction of our correspondent. Col. Hayne, the Commissioner from South Caro- lina, yesterday sent to the President 1 communica- tion containing the propositions of his State with According to our in- doe: reference to Fort Sumter. formation, while South Carol not recede from her demand for the surrender of the Fort, yet she is disposed, in view of the embarrassments of the administration, to postpone final action upon that point until after the 4th of March, when the respousibility involved in the question, including the preservation of peace or the inauguration of civil war, will be t upon the Lincoln adminis- tration. On the receipt of Col. Hayne’s commu- nication the President summoned his Cabinet, and they were in council on the subject until a late hour, The President will in due time communicate the correspondence to Congress, and will inform the authorities of South Carolina that he has no power to entertain the propositions submitted to him on her behalf. The State Convention of Georgia passed an ordinance of secession yesterday. The vote stood 208 th 89. Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson were among those who voted in the negative. The federal postal and revenue sys- tems, and all the civil federal officers are to be continued. A detachment of United States marines left the Brooklyn Marine Barracks yesterday morning for Washington. They consist of the old guard of the United States ship St. Marys. The force of ma- rines now concentrated at Washington amounts to nearly two hundred men, and can be augmented to twice that number in a few weeks. Lieutenant Sayre, late of the United States ship St. Marys, has been ordered to report for duty at Washington. In € sé yesterday a number of petitions, numerously signed, in favor of the adoption of the Crittenden adjustment, w presented. The Senate was engaged upon the bill to admit Kansas into the Union, bat final action was staved off throngh the efforts of Mr. Green, of Missouri. The will be taken on Monday, and the bill will no doubt paxs. The House passed the Army Appro- priation bili and the California War Debt bill. The first involves expenditures to the amount of ten million dollars, and the latter four millions. The Missouri Legislature have paased a bill call- ing a State Convention, with a proviso that none of its acts shall be valid unless ratified by the people. A secret mecting of the Union League was held last night, at their rooms, No. 765 Broadway, for the purpose of devising means to effect a compro- mise between the North and the South. The pro- ceedings were not allowed to transpire. The State Senate was not in session yeaterday. Inthe Assembly a bill, prepared by the State Military Association, providing for a complete en- rollment and discipline of the militia, was iutro- duced; also @ bill tolling railroads. The first city railroad bill of the session was also introduced. It is described as an act to authorize a new company to run their cars over the tracks of the roads al ready in operation. A motion to lay iton the table was carried. Gov. Morgan has reappointed Dr. Gunn Health Officer of New York, and Dr. Jerome physician to the Marine Hospital. They have yet, however, to pass the ordeal of the Senate, The new award of the $5,000,000 government treasury notes was made at Washington yeater- day, the entire amount eing token, mostly by New York subscribers, at on average of nearly eleven per cent. The amount bid was $21,000.- 000. A list of the names of the bidders, the rantine on Friday evening, but owing to quanti- ties of ice in the bay was compelled to anchor. She reached her dock at an early hour yesterday morning. The Asia brings $1,690,000 in specie. The political and commercial news by this a rival is important. The Russian organ, le Nord, contradicta the rumor that Russia would protect Gaeta in the event of the withdrawal of the French fleet, and says that Russia will not in any event interfere. At last advices the French fleet had not been withdrawn, and the seige was progressing slowly. It is stated that the garrison could only be starved out, and that the French were throwing provisions into the city. The diplomatic correspondence between France and England relative to the siege of Gaeta is said to have been unsatisfactory. The Venetian question continues to be the ab- sorbing topic on the Continent. Reactions in favor of the Magyars have taken place in Tran- sylvapia, and our latest advices from the Austrian empire present a gloomy financial and political picture. It is highly probable that Garibaldi's en trance into Venetia will be the signal for a general rising throughout Hungary and Transylvania, al- though it is stated that in the event of insurrection in either of those provinces Russia will enter the Principalities with an army sufficient to overawe the rebellious subjects of Austria. We have received advices from Jamaica to the Sth inst. Beyond another dispute between the Governor and the Assembly, in which the former comes off second best, and a talk about establish- ing steam communication with Cuba, the intelli- gence is quite uninteresting. In our marine columns will be found farther particulars of the loss of the ships Bostonian, Gut- tenburg and Golden Star, with a number of lives. Owing to some telegraph reports afloat from the Gulf ports, regarding real or apparehended difficulties about clearing cargoes of cotton to foreign countries, combin amount bid by each, with the percentage, may be | found in to-day'’s money article. By a letter in another column from the Attorne General of North Carolina, addressed to th: surer of that State, it will be seen that the cial agent of North Carolina in this city has been officially instructed to pay the coupons to the hold. ere of the bonds of that State, which were recont- ly stolen from the Interior Department, whoever they may be. The Attorney Genera] regards the tequest of the Secretary of the Interior to with- hold payment of the coupons, as an unreasonable one, and as calculated, if complied with, to seri- ous sae the credit of the State. mship Asia, from Liverpool on the 5th, astowh Om the Oth inst., arrived at Q: y con ed with the Asia’s news, the market yesterday advanced about 4j to *{ cent per pound, while the sales reached about 4,000 bales. Flour was firm and tolerably active, and closed about 5c. better for some grades, while the demand for export and from the trade was good Wheat was held above the views of purchasers, which tended to check sales, while the market closed at about the quotations of the previous day. Corn was held with more show of firmness, while prices were without change of importance. The sales included Western mixed, in store and delivered, at 70c. a Tle Pork was firmer, and closed at higher prices. The sales embraced new mess at $17 £0 at the opening, and closed at $17 6244 a $17 75, and new prime at $13 25a $13 50. Sugars were steady and tolerably active, with sles of 1,150 hhds. Cubas and a small lot of boxes. Cof- fee was steaay; the sales comprised a carge of 2,500 bags Rio at 12',¢., and 1,100 do. at Lie. a 13e. Freigits were firmer, with engagements of wheat to Liverpool, in ship's bags, at 1144d., with flour at &s. 6d.; and to London wheat was taken at 12id, in ship's bags; and flour at 3s. 7igd. a Ss. 9d., and 500 bbls. do. at 4s. The Question of a Comprom Mr. Sena- tor Bigler’s Proposition for “Taking the Sense of the People.” With the closing proceedings last week in the Senate at Washington the cause of the Union brightened up a little. Mr. Clark’s reso- lution, declaring the constitution as it stands sufficient for all the necessities of the country, present or prospective, had been adopted asa substitute for Mr. Crittenden’s propositions of compromise, and thus it was supposed there was an end to all compromising in the Senate. But on Friday this vote was reconsidered (although the republicans were a unit against a reconsideration), and thus the door of com- promise is thrown wide open again. Accordingly, the appointed regular order of the Senate for to-morrow is the Crittenden reso- lutions, proposing certain amendments to the constitution, and the various substitutes or amendments which have been or which may be proposed. Among these substitute propositions which will come up is the bill introduced the other day by Mr. Senator Bigler, “to provide for taking the sense of the people of the several States, on certain proposed amendments to the constitution of the United States.” But before explaining this bill, let us see what the constitution decrees on this sub- ject. It decrees that “the Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it neces- sary, shall propose amendments to this consti- tution, or, on the application of the Legisla- tures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all in- tents and purposes as part of this constitu- tion, when ratified by the Legislatures of three- fourths of the several States, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by Con- gress.” With this provision of the constitution be- fore him, the reader will fully comprehend the preamble and the first section of Mr. Senator Bigler’s bill, to wit: Whereas, the Union is in imminent danger of final dis solution, the consequence of a protracted strife and agi tation t the institution of African slavery; and whereas, it is believed that legislative remedies are in- suflicient to meet and remove the cause of this impen ing disaster; and as amendments to the constitution can only be submitted by a vote of two-thirds of both houses of Congress. and owing to the unhappy division existing in those houses at present, it is not believed that the as- sent of two-thirds of the members of either can be had to such amendments to the constitution as would re concile the differences between the North aud the South, and whereas, it is a cardinal principle of our representa- tive system that the representative shail obey the will of the people, it is deemed proper and neccessagy to ask the opinion and judgment of the people of the several States ob proposed amendments to the constitution, with the view to their submission by @ vote of two-thirds of each branch of Congress for the ratification of the States, as provided in the constitution, thereby restoring our dis. tracted country to its accustomed peace and prosperity: therefore, Be it enacted, &., That the citizens of the several States qualified to vote for members of Congress are hereby requested to bold an election on Tuesday, the twelfth day of February next, for the purpose of deciding for or again tthe annexed proposed amendments to the constitution of the United States. The proposed amendments to the constita- tion which are thus to be submitted to the popular vote, should this bill become a law, are— 1. That the Territories now held, or which may hereafter be acquired by the United States, shall be divided between the North and the South, anti-slavery and slavery, by the line of 36 30—the Missouri compromise line. 2. A denial to Congress of the power to abolish slavery in the federal navy yards, ar- senals, &c., und also with certain conditions in the District of Columbia. 3. Providing indemnity to masters whose slaves may be spirited away by Northern un- derground railroads or rescued by abolition mobs. 4. Providing free transit throughout the Union for slaveholders with their slaves by land and water; but requiring the unanimous con- sent of both branches of Congress to reopen the African slave trade. 5. Extending the term of the President to six years, and declaring him ineligible for a re-election. 6. Requiring the consent of all the States for Congressional intervention in the domestic in- stitutions of any of the States, There is every reason to believe that a com: promise embracing those concessions to the South would be satisfactory to the South, and would prevent war and restore har- mony to the Union. But, as Mr. Big. ler has indicated, the regnlar conastitu- lioual progesses for reaghing the people weld _ NEW YORK. HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1861 <> reculre more time than the ex'gencies of this ers's will allow. In an informal way, therefore—in a way which may be se- cured by a mere majority vote of each House-—Mr. Bigler submits his plaa “for taking the sense of the people” on the abowe propositions of compromise on the 12th of February, His object is to get a vote from the people which will enable the two houses before the 4th of March, when this Congress expires, to act intelligently regarding the pub- lic opinion of the country. He thinks that the people, North and South, would vote for the compromise proposed; and we think so too. Nay, more, we believe that while the clection would turn back the attention of the people of the South from a revolutionary Southern con- federacy to the Union, the general result in favor of a compromise would be so decisive as to leave the republican party in Congress no alternative except that of aiding in the two- thirds vote of each house necessary to carry constitutional amendments out of Congress for the direct ratification of the several States. Let “the sense of the people,” az proposed by Mr. Senator Bigler, be tried. Let the ques- tion be brought to the vote of the Senate, at all events, and the result, one way or the other, will relieve us of our suspense. If the bill shall be passed, with the aid of the republi- cans, the whole country will be alive with hope, and ready for action to make peace and save the Union; and if the bill be rejected we shall know that our choice is reduced to the recognition of a Southern confederacy, or to the calamities of a general civil war. The re- publican par Congress hold the power in their hands. Let them be put to the test, and let us see whether they are ready or afraid to “take the sense of the people.” Ave the Forts in New York Harbor Safe? Th Revolutionary Element in th Countr The depredations upon the government pro- perty by some of the Southern States which have not yet declared themselves out of the Union is an example which, if we are correctly informed, finds imitators in certain parties in the Northern States. Prone as is our erring human nature to imitate, the imitation of is quite as predominant a trait as the imitations of rioters. It is idle to talk of the follies of the South, urged as it is by what it deems the strongest provocation to the committal of acts which we, who have suffered no such provoca- tion, condemn, when we stand ready to com- mit acts of folly quite as egregious, without a similar show of excuse or justification. It would appear that the information de- rived by us from a correspondent at Washing- ton some two weeks ago, to the effect that an organization was forming in this city to take forcible possession of the governmént defences and fortifications in the bay and harbor of New York, on the occurrence of certain contingen- cies, was not wholly destitute of foundation. There is in every city a large floating mass of society, holding on to its skirts by the slightest ties, that is ever ready to take advantage of any sudden change in the affairs of government, to excite the elements already distracted, and under the ever ready plea of patriotism, to secure resulta beneficial to itself only when they are detrimental to the established order of things. In this great fo- cus of enterprise, misdirected or well directed, of restlessness that may be turned to the «ac- complishment of good or evil ends, as chance may determine, we have thousands of beings of this class, foreign adventurers and home- made explorers of short roads to fortune, who stand ready to engage in any en‘erprise, how- ever desperate, that promises large and quick returns. The filibustering expeditions which, during recent years, have been put on foot by Walker and others for purposes wholly illegal, and in violation of the good faith of the coun- try, furnish ample evidence of the fact to which, we call attention. In some instances these ex- peditions have been organized and have left the country in spite of the vigilance of the government at Washington and of the police of the localities where they were fitted out, and we have been stigmatized among foreign na- tions as a “weak government”—for such has been the language of foreign diplomats—una- ble to restrain the unruly portion of our people from the violation of treaty engagements and stipulations. It is now well known that at one time Walker had over a thousand men engaged in this city and surrounding districts for an invasion of Nicaragua. After the explosion of the plan its extent and character became somewhat known to the public; but the breaking up of the plot did not proceed from the want of men ready to engage it. No stronger proof need be given of the fact that revolutionary material is always on hand among us, which, under skilful organization, may be productive of the most disastrous consequences, than was furnished by the history of this organization. The fact is forced upon us that, in despite of the vigilance of government or of the city authorities, trea- son to the government and defiance to its laws can go undetected and unpunished when under the management of skilful leaders. Incredulous as we were at first to the truth of the rumor from Washington, there are many in this city who are convinced that an organi- zation of the most formidable character exists among us, threatening to the peace of the country, and which may lead to consequences most fatal in their results. The plan, as under- stood, is the seizure of our forts and harbor de- fences the instant that collision ensues between the general government and the Southern States, by this means calling the military power of the State into requisition for the protection of our peace, thus preventing the govergqment from availing itself of its assistance in the course it may be called to pursue towards the South That such an understanding exists between the leading conspirators in this city and prominent disunionists in the Souttr has been openly de- clared. Should this plan prove successful, so far as this city is concerned, how shall we set bounds to its movements, or how far shall we be compelled to confine ourselves to the laws of self-protection in our immediate homes ? Nearly the whole of the harbor garrisons of this city are without sufficient force to protect themselves in the event of a formidable attack under circumstances ev ch as we have described, It has been asserted, and the assertion has come from thoxe who. from (heir an- tecedents, are persons not uawilling to engage in enterprises of the nature have described, that a thousand men, once securing the cocupation of our several harbor forts, will be able successfully to resist any force that could be spared from other services to be brought against them. Jt is added that the object of securing the forts aad garrisqus cage we atta ned, it is the intention of these conspirators to declare the city and surrounding counties of New York an independent State; to make it a free port and unite its interests with those of the South politically and commercially. All these plans and arrangements seem extravagant enough, and to us no doubt they will prove to be, ifour people and our city go- vernment are on the alert to meet the first movement. But when we have seen in other States, besides South Carolina, the spectacle of the seizure of forts by mobs (for such are all tumultuous assemblages in opposition to the laws), the possibility of the occurrence of similar events in our own city is not to be denied by any who understand the materials of which our population is formed. A sympathy with the wrongs, real or imaginary, of South Carolina, if restrained within due bounds, may be productive of good instead of evil; but if allowed to gather material strength and to be perverted to bad purposes by unprincipled men, may be productive of results most disastrous to the peace and com- fort,and perhaps the lives of our citizens. The times are pregnant with extraordinary events. We are living in an age of revolution, and it is neitber the part of wisdom nor of patriotism to remain unwatchful while even vague rumors are in circulation of organizations such as we have referred to, which, undetected and unpro- vided against, may bring upon us scenes more fearful than we wish to describe. A due pre- paration to meet any apprehended dangers of the kind may avert their occurrence. Tue Sin or Covenant Breakinc.—The Puri- tan clergy are very animated in their denun- tions of the sin of negro slavery, which is really no sin at all, but tie very contrary. The reason of their holy fervor is that negro servitude is at a distance, and those for whom their sermons and lectures are intended never hear them, and if they did would not be much edified thereby 80 long as their own clergy (just as good authority as the Puritans) preach to them doctrines the very opposite. This at- tacking of Southern men in Northern pulpits is laying the flattering unction to the souls of the Puritan congregations that they are not like other men, for which they piously thank God in the pride of their hearts. But never do these congregations hear one word about the sin of covenant breaking, just because they need some wholesome instruction on that point. Their fathers made a covenant with the fathers of the inhabitants of the Southern States, bind- ing on the posterity of both. The descendants of the Puritans break this covenant and trample it under foot, and the secessionists of the South, adopting the maxim of Webster that “a bar- gain broken on one side is broken on all sides,” declare their own obligations at an end, all which is likely to lead to civil war. Now, if the Puritan clergy, instead of talking non- nse about the sin of negro servitude, had cried aloud and spared not, even “lifting up their voice like a trumpet” against the sin of covenant breaking which gods and men abhor, there would be no secession to-day, no peril of the glorious Union and no danger of civil war. The Puritan clergy are to blame. Let them repent and do justice, and tell their flocks their sins against their brethren of the South. Activity axp Cause or Purrran AytI- Sravery Proraganvisy.-—By their activity and their union among themselves, while through party corruption and demoralization the con- servatives have been divided into factions war- ring upon each other, the Puritans have ob- tained the temporary control of the govern- ment in several of the Northern States in which they are only a minority, and yet propose to drag the majority with them in a bloody war of propagandism. While the other clergy have been sleeping at their post, the Puritan parsons have been actively sowing tares among the wheat, and the very Sunday school even in this city has been turned into an anti-slavery conventicle to poison the youthful mind. With fanatical zeal the sect has propagated its prin- ciples through the Northwest, till that section of the country is leavened with its perverse in- doctrination. Its avowed object and its confi- dent hope is “the ultimate extinction of slavery” in every Southern State. And why? Is it because negro servitude, as they teach, is asin, a crime, “the sam of all villany?” Not at all; but because the institution does not suit them any longer, and they are intolerant of the prosperity which it gives the South, and jealous of the independent position of the planters, whom they are in the habit of calling the slave aristocracy. But in their blind fanaticism they overlook the many benefits they too derive from the Southern institution which they once cherished themselves. Besypopres tx Oraer Men's Marrens.—The Puritans of Massachusetts are very pious in their zeal against the sin of slavery, as they call it; but they seem to forget that, while servitude is nowhere mentioned as a sin in the Bible, St. Paul denounces backbiters, slanderers and busybodies in other men’s matters, which last is the besetting peculiar sin of the Puritans. If the anti-slavery crusade of New England should result in the final breaking up of the Confederacy, in the desolation of happy homes by civil war, and in the utter prostration of every interest in the country, North and South, “all this.” as has been well observed by ex- President Tyler, in his letter published recently in the Heras, “will have had its origin in a busybodiness, an interference with other peo- ple’s affairs, which in private or public life never fails to prodnce disturbance and ill-will. If,” he continues, “Virginia undertook to regu- late and control the domestic affairs of Mass: chusetts, a day would not pass before the thun- ders, as in days of yore, would begin to roll and the lightnings to flash from Faneuil Hall Can Massachusetts expect anything lees from Virginia *” Conprrios or Borvrk Stave Sra It is not to be disguised that the warlike prepa- tions which are now being made in the North ‘have produced a very bad feeling in the border Slave States. In Maryland there is a sharp contest going on between the Union party and the secessionists—the latter desiring thut a State Convention shall be called as a preliminary to the seizure of Washington by a coup d'etat. The same feeling is manifested in Vir where the party in favor of Governor W plan to prevent the inauguration of Lincoln is daily increasing in strength. The Governors of Kentucky and Virginia, both Union mon, have declared solemnly that the passage of troops, intended to coerce the seceding States, across the border will not be permitted. And yet, in spite of all this, the republi- can leaders are arming their followers. This is worse than folly. Lt is absolute suicide, A Contrast. —While the people in the Gulf States are busily engaged in furbishing up their muskets and ;»reparing for bloodshed, the politicians in New Yowk and Pennsylvania are busily engaged in get*ing ready their paper batteries, petitions, applications for office and certificates of services rendered, and are bring- ing them to bear upon Lingoln with as much sang froid as if the country was not threatened with civil war. This wild hunting for office has been the curse of this country, and it seems that nothing can arrest it. If the Union should be violently torn asunder, the country ruined and laid a deserted waste, the last man left will be an office seeker. Ee THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. The Scramble at Springfield for the Spo: Sraincrinp, Dl., Jan. 19,1861. A. H. Conner, Wm. T. Oito and R. K. Coffin, of Indiana, came here this morning to counteract the pressure of IL linois politicians to supplant Smith by Judd. Evforts to undermine Chase and substitute Robert D. Schenck or D. H. Carter, are still being made; but Mr. Chase, or no one else will represent Ohio in the Cabinet. Hon. Lawrence Weldon will be United States District Attorney for theSouthern District of Hlinois, S.A. Hurl bert and Col, Collamer are “prominent applicants for the same position in the Northern district. J. Russell Jones, of Galena, and Dr. Back, of Aurera, are iu for the Mar- ’ shalsbip. Horace Greeley is expected here next week. Wasuincto, Jan, 19, 1861. A fresh storm has arisen about the construction of Mr. Lincoln's Cabiact, and especially with reference to Mr. Cameron's nomination and withdrawal, and Springfleld is about to suffer a terrible avalanche in consequence. Thurlow Weed left Albany last evening, en rout: to Springfield, expecting to be joined at Crestline, Ohio, by Leonard Swett, who was bearer of the Illinois elector vote to this city, and who loft here yesterday morning. ‘The latter was accompanied by James K, Morehead, M. C. of Pennsylvania, and others. One of the party con- yeysa letter from Mr. Seward to Mr. Lincolu, advising the latter to insist upou Mr. Cameron's taking a place in his Cabinet. Others left here to see Mr. Lincotn and urge him not to make an appointment from Ilinois to a place in his Cabinet, and thus sacrifice Indiana, NEW YORK LEGISLATUBE. Assembly. Aunany, Jan. 19, 1861. Mr. Cozans presented a communication froma working: men on national affairs, and called for its reading. The communication assailed the doctrine of the republican Party. Mr. Fist moved tosuspend the further reading ried—43 to 25, Car. ILLS ENFRODUCED, By Mr. Purrce—To provide for the more complete enrol- ment and discipline of the militia of the State. The bill provides for a complete enrolment of all the mili- tary by the colonels of regiments, the same as the Census Marshals; that uncollected commuta- tion be reassessed on delinquent towns. The pre- sent organization shall be called the volunteer militia ; the Governor may employ them at the requisition of the President; gives the Governor a large power in the case of an emergency. Long details are given about drafting, but the bill does not propose to invrease the present force. The bill is the one recommended by the Military Associatien and ed by Colonell Pratt. Mr. Bexevicr introduced a bill to amend the license law ‘by allowing jail limits to persons confined fof fines. Mr. Fic introduced a bill tolling railroad freights. Referred to the Committee on Canals. Mr. Suaw introduced a bill topunish frauds in the use of stamps or brands for trade marks. Mr. Fortxrton introduced a bill to exempt unmarried females and widows from taxation to the amount of two thousand dollars. Mr. Comstock introduced a bill to provide for the traus- fer of causes from the Brooklyu City Court to the Supreme rt. Mr. Warernery called up the resolution to inquire into the rumors of cannon being made in Troy for the State of South Carolina. Mr. Kxorxaw opposed the resolution that sensation le- gislation was injurious; that the laws of the United States punighed treason; that the United States ofticers were the proper parties to investigate the matter, and that the Legislature of this State was not required to investi- gate into every idle rumor current at this time. Mr. Prence spoke in support of the resolution, stating that a military officer of the State had investigated the matter and found the rumor to be well founded. ‘The resolution was by 59 to 18. All the democratic members present yoted no. Burt, republican, also voted no. Mr. Bexkoict moved that the committee to investigate the subject have power to send for persons aud papers. Mr. News from Havan: New Onveans, Jan. 18, 1961. The steamer Habana, from Havana on the 15th, bas arrived. Business was dull, and there were a number of sus- pensions. Sugars were wuchanged; the new crop was rapidly coming in. News from Pike's Peak. e Fort Kearssy, Jan. 18, 1861 ‘The weather is mild and it is snowing fast. The Western stage with passengers and the mail, and Hinok ley & Co.'s messenger, with $6,000, passed at half past ton P. M. last night. Denver City daies are to the Lith instaut. Assevere snow storm will delay the movements of many San Juan adventurers who were about leaving for that point. About thirty quartz mills are still running in the Moun. tain City neighborhood, and they are doing weil. The water guiches are failing steady; only those can run that hae mills, Several sluices have been started in the Platte dig gings, eight miles above this city. They are supplied with woter from the Hydraulic Company's diteh, and miners cay they can make wages where heretofore work would not pay. A pottery manufactory will commence operations ina eh thie 7T Centra Overland Express, Fort Keansey, Jan, 18, 1861 The Central California Overland Express coach passed here at one P. BM. for St. Joseph with five paasengers and four thousand dollars in tcoasure. The telegraphic nows published here yesterday created a goSd deal of excite ment. A Fugitive Slave Case in Cleveland, Curvetayp, Ohio, Jan, 19, 1860. A colored woman cliimod as a fugitive slave from Wheeling, Virginia, was arrested here today. Sho wit! be examined on Monday Judge Tilden has issued a of habeus corpus, which \s returnable on Moaday moruing What little excitemeut there is, is conficed entirely to tae colored population, The womaa admits herself that sie belongs to the claimant. The Steamship Nova Scotian. Porriaxn, Jan. 19, 1861, The steamship Nova Scotian, for Liverpool, was de tained here until midnight for the Canada mails. Southern Ocean Stcamer Movements Cranrmerow, Jan, 19, 1891 The steamship Columbia from New York arrived hore at nine o'clock this (Saturday) morning, The Great Western Railway. Hasuerom, ©. W., Jan, 19, 1961 The Great Wostern Raiiway tratfis for the wook o yesterday is $45,600—be og an increase of $11,500 ov the corr. sponding week last year 3 Jan. 17, 1861 Cotton quiet: sales today, 2500 halesat Lye. for mut Hing. Sugar quiet, at 40964. tor fair t fal Molasses 22¢ a 240. Fiour ° at Bd 5 superfine. Corn 60¢, a T0c, Pork tigst: mes $1) Tard, in bble., 11%%¢. Whiskey, fc. a 176, Freight oa cotton to Liverpool, a New On-xans, Jan, 18, 1961 Cotton declining: ealee to-day 16,000 bale wdlisut 10} ,¢. a 11j,0.; sues of tho week, 62 ot the wetk, #9,600 bwies, against” 72,000 in sume ag ok ef yeor: decreased rer < 180,990 bale to at all the port 0600 bale; total ‘¢ 11 port. 266 000 bales ue, at 10%e. a 10), 1.600 bags. ayainet cotton to Liver remiim, wight ¢ a., Jan. 18, 1861 iting, 194 nd the market (vor t a good There is ; i 10, 1881 Tour active at a dee x (rect aud Objo at , $1 95, white at $1 45a 81 66 ¢ tor white and yellow, Ue prime $13. Tard 10}se, Cot Pont jan 10, Us8t our wichonged: quoted at& ng Wom steady. red, @180: ‘white, $1 O14 $1 12 fem new yellow, O8c.; old, Tle. a 720, Whiskey stouly at Ls. C ew SERENE ee nel OoBrxvvaRrr. Death of Lola Mont. 2, the Actress, Dan- seuse and Secturer. This remarkable woman close! her earthly earcer 10 this city on Pikersday inst, after a long and severe illness, and was quietly buried yesterday. But few womeu have seen wo mua” UPS and downs in life as she, or been eliged to battfe ywith human nature in so many forms as % has fallen ty ber lot. She bas known society in all ite varied forty «ne time greeted with applause from a multitude of votm™ie, aud (hea again being obliged to flew’ in disgwive from the curaged populace. Lola Montez was of Irish aad Moorish:Spanis b descent, and was born iu the city of Simerick, Ire/and, in 1424 Hor father was a captain in the Forty-fourth: wegh nent of the English army, and a son of Sir Edward’ Gilert, Hor mother was an Oliver, and a deseendant from Cou t do Montalvo, who at one time pofsesved immense emtata 3 in Spain. The Montalvos were of Moor'sh origin, aid ensign, U- ed to Spain during the reign of Fordinand anit ’ the Catholic, Her father was only about twenty aad mother fifteen when they were married; and Lela weet born during the second year of their marriage, At her baptism she was christened Marie Dolores Biiza Ro. sanna Gilbert, sho was afterwards culled’ Déloras, fromm which she derived her name Lola. But a short time after her birth the forty-fourth’ rogi- ment, in which her father was captain, was ordered! tw India. After a long and tedious voyage they landed at Calcutta and remained there nearly three years; whem the army was ordered to Dinapore, some distance in the interior, by the Governor General, Lord Hastings." They had not been on the Ganges but a short time before’ the cholera broke out in theif ranks with terrible viblence, and the father of Lola was one of its first victims. The widow Gilbert, being young and handsome, soom found herself the centre of attraction. She however re: mained in widowhood but a short time, and was led to the altar the second time by Captain Craigie, of the same’ regiment as young Gilbert and a warm friend of the lat ter. Her husband had committed her and little Lola his charge on his death bed. Soon after the marriage Craigie was advanced to the rank of major. At the age of six Lola was sent to Europe and placed in the charge of Major Craigic’s father, residing at Mon trose, in Scotland. ‘The latter had been Provost of Mon- trose for nearly a quarter of a century, and every event connected with his household was a matter of public note. ‘The arrival of Lola was, therefore, soon knowa to all Montrose. For some cause or other her pareuts obtained the idea that she was being petted too much, consequently ais was removed to London and placed in the family of the Commander in-Chief of the Bengal forces, Sif Jasper Nichols. With the daughters of Sir Jasper Nichols abo was sent to Paris to school, and after spending several years there Miss Fanny Nichols and young Lola were sent to Bath to finish their education. She remained there about eighteen months, at the expiration of which time her mother returned from India, Lola was then about fourteen years of age. She was informed by her mother that she had come home to take her back toIndia. The enormous amount of dressmaking caused suspicion in young Lola’s mind, and upon furthor in- quiries she was informed by Captain James that her mo. ther had promised her in marriage to Sir Abraham Lum ly, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of India, aut about sixty years old. ‘This ptece of intelligence atoused her anger, and in a defiant tone she informed her mother that she would never consent. A family quarrel follow ed, and in her despair she appeatod to Captain James for assistance. On the next day the latter eloped with hee to Ireland, where Captain James’ family resided. After a great deal of trouble they were finally married They had been married but about eight months whea Captain James left for India to join the army, Spending a season at Calcutta the army was ordered to Kurwal, in the interior, where, but a few months after their arrival, her husband eloped with a Mrs. Lomor, leaving her, as she termed herself, little grass widow” at the mercy of her friends Lola was immediately sent back to Calcutta, where her mother resided. Her reception and treatment there wa somewhat cruel, She was locked up in ber chamber by her mother until a certificate was procured from a phy sician that she was in ill health and must be seat to Ku rope. Her stepfathor showed his disapproval of this treatment by handing her a check for a thonsand pounds asshe stepped on board of the vessel to sail for Europe ‘Those who had charge of her on this voyage were di rected to place her in the charge of Mr. David Cragie, re siding at Perth, Scotland, But upon her arrival at [oa don she refused to go there, and went to rezide with a giftedlady by the name of Fanny Kelly. She decided upon becoming an actress, but being deficient in Fuglish it prevented her from making an immediate appearance It was therefore settled that she should become a dan suese. Studying that art for fourfmonths, under tho in struction of a teacher, she paid a brief visit to the Moa talvos in Spain, when she returned to London and mate her debut at her Majesty's theatre. As soon as her mothor received the news of that eveat, she put on mourning and scat out funeral cards to all of her friends, and has to this day refused to see or com municategwith hor. The debut was considerad a success ful one, but owing to some financial difficulty tho on gagement was broken off, and she soon aftor appeared at the Royal Theatre in Dresden. Her appearance thers created a great furor, and she at once became a faverite of the royal families. Leaving Dresden, she made a suc cessful tour at both Berlin and Warsaw, attracting marked attention from the roya! families whenever sho appeared. At the latter place, on being hissed, she rushed to the footlights, and declared that they camo from the director, because she had refused gifts from his master. For this expression she was obliged to leave Warsaw, and it was only through the interference of the French Consul that her arrest was prevented. Her next appearance was at St. Petersburg. On leay ing the latter place she visited Paris, aud, forming tho acquaintance of Dujarrier, editor of La Press and ove of the leaders of the republican party, in his society formed a taste for politics, and learned from him to hate tyranny and oppression in every form that it ahowad leelf, and became an enthusiastic republican. She piedg. ed hereeif in marriage to Dajwrrier, but before the day ‘xed upon for the nuptials her betrothed was killed in a duel by Beauveilon, ‘After this melancholy affair she left Paris for Bavaria, and again appeared On the theatrical stago at Munich Her manners and originality attracted the notice of Kiag Louis, who, ascertaining that she was versed in political matters, received her counsels and promoted her to the nobility as a reward for her political services. She soon after became Countess Lansfeld, with an income of seventy thousand tlor! position she used evi per aunum. fn this influential Y ifort to put in practice those principles that she bad learned of Dujarrier. Her test was to indvoe the King to abolish the Ministry, which had stood for a quarter of a century, and prevailed pon him to form a new Cabinet without any regard to wility, taking them from the ranks of the This net aroused a furions rage against peopl er, not only im Bavaria but throughout Germaay With « storm gathering »bout her head, she continued her reformatory movements, (0 the great consternation cof the tyrants that bed grown fat with power. Her next effort was an attempt to introduce the Codo Napoleon aa laws of the This waa more than the enragod nobi- lity would bear. All manuer of devices were resorted to by the Jeguity, 98 well as the nobility, to get rid of her. ‘They tried coaxing, bribing and then threateniog, but to no avail. At length a revolution broke out, aad sha, finding herself unable to reaist it, left the countey dis: guited oe a peasant gitl and sovgut tetuge im the laad of reer b Bavaria brought down pou ber head the most bitter caiumuies from the Jesuits, whieh has foi- lowed her, poisoning the atmosphe;e whefaver ske went, following her even to this count Remaining in Swit: r she visited the King of Bavaria ed in boy'sclething. Roturning to Switzerland, she ened of to London, aud afterwards to Paris, where she resided a number of years, Shattered in for tune and broken in health she turned her attention ty s couptry, end fount her way to our shores ia the ne ship thut brought Koaauth: About to mouths ago she, then being ill, came to this and, by invitation, took op her abede with Mes Bu ‘an, the wife of the celebrated tloriat, who koew Lola ‘otland, they Leing in their younger days schoo! com fanione. Tela gradually grew woree, although # host Of medical skill was emplayed and everything suppiied tlated to aller a’ ber auiforings. About two ehe began to sink, and, being aware of the fact gr whole tie was 1 exerel Bat in thes reepoct f we ailur , she exhibited a marked change on her pre life, Her whole desire seomed bent tow ed Paogiig in religious conversation with everybody with schem she eany: to Copteet, and in them: oh: ta ee rer on theebigicat subjects the last werk of her lite #he se 1 by the Rev, Pr, Hawks, ed by members Culvary ehurels was also a load chereh wt to them, while engaged in relay vorstion, alte ox hibited @ thorough reper «hot peat ortetio iif 0 Thaveday, th da he diel, Oe Hawke wae oat her ond whet male by tho clergyman if sh aight eho bs4 fund forge with her Sevier, net being able te frouk she nodied assent win thea asieyd If nyo thov yt she on fae and she pee nupt ly stan Atte Wear 1 ' attend i sieknoss apis wae all that an event of this The faneral Look plane yaglor fon@em services waa Buchanan's and the fu peetall Uveve Cameos, Peodeadad (9 Groen: Wood, whore the bedy wag euterted ’ “