The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1861, Page 1

Seizure of the Mint and Custom House at New Orleans, The Government Funds Held by the Secessionists. fol. Hayne’s Communication to the President, THE ULTIMATUM OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Meeting of the Peace and Disunion Conventions To-Morrow. What Will Result from their Deliberations? Passage of the $25,000,000 Loan Bill in the House. Interesting Correspondence from the South, de, he. ke. THE ULTIMATUM OF SOUTH CAROLINA SENT TO THE PRESIDENT. Wasianotoy, Feb, 2, 1861. The President bas received Colonel Hayno’s communi- ¢ation in regard to the public property in South Carolina, ord demanding, in caso he will not enter into negotiations ‘far it, the surrender of Fort Sumter. ‘This letter has been prepared with great care, having been submitted to Messrs, Hunter and Mason, and also to Meesrs, Benjamin anid Slidell. ‘The President will reply to it as carly as passible. His views are already well known to the people of South Cerolina in regard to this matter. He has seen nothing in tho events of the last few weeks to change them. Lieut. Holl’s departure for South Carolina, with official deepatc ues, has been postponed for the present. He ex- pected to have gone to-night. SRIZURE OF THE MINT AND PUBLIC MONEY AT NEW ORLEANS. Wasnrxcrox, Feb. 2, 1861. Some ten days ago Seoretary Dix gave to Adams’ Express Company « draft on the Assistant Treasurer at New Or- Jeans, for the purpose of transferring the coin and bullion in the Branch Mint in that city to the Mint in Philadel- phia. The «mount of the draft was three hundred and Safty thousand dollars, Three days ago he received a des- ; toh from Adams’ agent in New Orleans, stating that the amount would be delivered in two or three days, but that the Assistant Treasurer declined to deliver a part, as- sgning as a reason that he wished to pay the entire draft at once, ')o Sceretary immediately telegraphed to the ‘Yredwurer to pay to the Express agent on that day as largo an amount as the agent could transport. The coin and bullion are chiefly silver, weighing several tons, ‘fo any the Secretary has received a dispatch from tho Express Company informing him that the Assistant Treasurer refused tojpay any portion of the draft, and that tho Branch Mint has been taken possession of by the wuthorities of the State of Louisiana. ‘The circumstances clearly indicate deliberate contri- vanee on the part of the State authorities to get pos- session of the money in the Mint. This action on their yart is universally condemned, and is regarded by the goverpm.nt as one of the most high-handed and outrage- ous transactions that has yet been perpetrated. Even Sorth Carolina refused to take the money belonging to thd govergment, having accounted for and paid over every doilar to the United States. On receipt of this news this morning the President called an extraordigary session of the Cabinet, and tho whole subject was considered, It is understood that Se- nators Benjamin and Slidell were gent for to know if they werg aware of (his transaction, The government, being without apy orem! Kecwledge respecting this matter, immediately telegraphed tho Colleo.cr and Treasurer to know the fact connected with this seizure, Up toa late nouf this evening no reply had been received. THB WASHINGTON AND MONTGOMERY CONVENTIONS. Wasninetox, Feb, 2, 1861. Notwithstanding the high character of the delegates appointed to atteud the Peace Conference in this city on Mondmy next, it must be confessed there is little prospect that ny thing calculated to restore harmony can be pro- sonteg. But, ag a matter of historical record, this Confe- ronge Will be cf the-highest importance, and if its delibo- rations are not secret, but are submitted to the people fromday to day through the mediuin of the press, much good moy be realized which will otherwise be Jost, It ie not ascertained whether the sittings will be open or vecrot. Indeed, but few of the delegates aro ng yot hore, and thete seems to be no disposition on the part of Congressmen to give the conference that degree of conatquence which people at a distance oonceive it to bo entitied. i Montgomery Convention, which meets on the rome day, promptly proceeds to action, as it probably will,and propores a Bouthern confederacy, agreeably to the plan of Alexunder H, Stephens, a vifigle faise step on ference will preci the part of the Washington the entire Werder Southern £ tho sec’ movement, avd the South then v vesont aa united front ¥ pe eannct bedeniod that the eeniiment agsinstyehe old which h b par in ther palready gone out sachangeable; and it ¢ady woceded, and the loving en is to save of the six States that Lave grand object of moderate, poace whabetn bo saved from among the number of slavebold ing States 64.) vomaining ia tho Union. The efforts of tho Poace onforence should be dircoted to this end, which may be cccomplishod, rathor than by striving to do too mucit, ww! thus paerifiee all, This is the toue of sentimmnt in conservative circles in Washington to-day. Mugh anxiety provails to hear from Charleston aad Ponsseda. ‘le Southerners aro confident that both Forts Sumter and Pickens will be wrested from tho Fe oral Government Within a few days, if both events have not already occurred. Between this and Monday tho Noth may bo flooded with bogas despatches, pro tending ‘9 give accounts of bloodshed between Stato and Unitod Sietes troops, but in reality intended to operate upon thee important evente—the Washington Peaco Cong ere the Montgomery Southern Confederacy Omyon- jon, anithe election of dologites to the Virginia state ‘onventia, all of which occur on Monday, Among ihe delegates to the Peace Conference arrived night nie Hon, James Guthrie and Gen. W. 0. Rater, é Kentucky; &. 6. Arnold, of Rhode Island, and a few = Janes A. Seddon, of Virginia, Charlos 3. Olden, F, | | John A. Gihnar (aleo Amertean) ,of North Carot Ja the opinion of rvative men who stick to the Motion, that ¢ ulf was paseod when the acts of ge- ooagion were adopted; that then all love and feeling for tho common Union ccaged at ouco anfforever, and that | the aspiratic the see now are to construct a formidable gwverntient ont of the receding States, to Hive in amity with the make an equitadie divieitn the public p pro- yorty, “owed that two confoteracies may con v tinue to move toward a common parpéze, although in © Werent ey 1t is believed that all che qgunents and all tho chains ba the world cannot bring back two out SUNDAY MORNING, 1861. FEBRUARY 3, Ly Frelinghuysen, Jos. F. Randolph, and W. C. Alexander, of New Jersey, have arrived, Merers. Guthrie, Movehead, Clay and Bell, of Kentucky, arrived this even'rg, and have taken quarters at Wil- Jard’s, as ajo the Ohio and New Jersey delegates. It is expected that nearly ail that have been appointed | will reach here by Monday morning, and that | they will proceed at once to business. Everything is | readiness for them, the Willards having tendered to ex-President Tyler the uso of their spacious hall attached to their hotel, an’ Mr. Tyler having accepted the seme. It will be one of the most important and interesting Gog- | ventions ever assembled in this or any other city, forgn | the action of this Convention in great measure depends | the settlement of the momentous question now agitating | the country. These men are believed to be equal to the crisis. THE TWENTY-FIVE MILLION LOAN BILL. Wasnincoy, Feb. 2, 1961. The bill to enable the incoming administration to carry onthe government, authorizing a loan of twenty-five millions of dollars, passed the House to-day. The first section provides that the President of the United States be and hereby is authorized, at any time before the Ist of July next, to borrow on the credit of ‘the United States asum not exceeding twonty-ive mil- lions of dollars, or so much thereof as in his opinion the exigencies of the public service may require, to be used in the payment of the current demands upon the Treasu- rer, or for the redemption of Treasury notes now out standing, and to replace in the Treasury any amount of taid notes which shall have been paid and received for public dues, Section second provides that stock shal! be issued for the amount 80 borrowed, bearing interest not excosding six per centum per annum, and to be reimbursed within @ period no’ beyond twenty years and not less than wa years; and the Secretary of the Treasury be and is here- by authorized, with the conseut of tho Presid)’, to cause certificates of stock to be prepared, which shall be signed by the Register and sealed with the seal of the Trea. sury Department, for the amount so borrowod, in favor of the parties len ling the same, or their igns, whfth certificates may be transferred on the books of the Treaeury, under such regulations 23 may bo established by the Secretary of the Troasary ; provided thay no certificate shali vo issued for aleas sum than one thousand dollars; and provided, also, that whenever ro quired the Secretary of the Treasury may canso cot of semi-annual interest payable thereon to be attached to certificates issued under this act, and any certificate with such conpons of interest attached may be assigned and transferred by delivery of the same, instead of being » transferred on the books of the Treasury. Section third provides that bofore awarding said loan, the Secretary of the Treasury shail cause to be insertod in two or three pablic newspapors of the city of Washing ton, and in one or more public newspapers in other cities of the United States, public notice that sealed propoals for such loan will be received until a certain day, to be specified in such notice, not fess than ton days from first insertion in a Washington newspaper, and snch not shall state the amount of the loan, in what portions the money shall be paid, if by instalments, and at what ple ‘Such sealed proposals shall be opened on the day appoint. ed in the notice, in the presence of such persons as may choose to attend, and the proposals be dovided on by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall pt the most favorable offered by responsible bidders for salt stock and the said Secretary shall report to Congress, at the commencement of the next seasion, the amount of money borrowed under this act, and of whom, and on what terms it shall have been obtained, with an abstract or brief statement of all the proposals submitted for the same, distinguishing between those accopted and thove rejected, with a detailed statement of the exponse of making such loans. Section fourth provides that the fuith of the United States is hereby pledged for the due p>... at of tv tercst and the principal of said stock. ‘Tho dill reached the Senate, but was not cositered. An attack will undoubtedly be mado upon it similar to the opposition manifested in the House today, but it is_| believed that it will pass. Wasniwenoy, Feb. 2, 1851. One hundred guns were fired to-day ti jataohment | of United States artillery in honor of the admiesion of j Kansas. The first gun caused a thrill among the peop! fearing it was the signal for cometh 1g MOTE serious | sk | vention is going on, and wrapped in a neat American flag. Mr. Rice moved that the petition be read and printed. Ilinois, objected, At this the democratic Howse applauded; but the Speaker failed to hear th» ob- jection until it a epee declare: to be ‘too late,” ia which dechiration the sonorous voice of the Speaker ha self was heard. During the presentation of the petition the Boston delegation, cousisting of Messrs. ddward Ever- ett (formerly socretary of state), Robert C Winthrop ‘formerly Speaker of the House), Chas. Lavi Woodbury ‘United States District Attormey, ami son of a late Sere- tary of the Treasury), A. A. Lawrence (one of the sotia men of Boston) and KE. 8 Tobey (largely ‘ntorested in the commercial presperity of the eouniry) oecupied seats | ip the gallery assigned for the foreign diplomatic vorpa. Some one thought South Carolina should have been re- j heedetye there at the same time, and thon, with Massa- chuesetts and routh Carolina—the Kilkenny cats .f the pion ib one Dox, MMe a ellecied, or they wilt dat each 01 benefit of the balance ot the country, Rumors of war coutinue, and we have important infor- Depactmcet of the iaterice atin pcelpt of tatortea interior 18 in receipt of information to the effect that the Wesvern Sioux, Cheyeunes, Kiowasand other tribes in Nebraska ave forining whauces for the purpose of taking porsession of (be Platte Valley. emi- = route and driving off the settiers, Letters have em received from reliable Weater n nev and representa- tives here urging them to lay before the Executive the necessity of sending troops there for the protection of the settle 2 post rout ‘The Department of the Interior the notification that this state of things exi-ts, ans “ecrotary states that the protection: asked shall be grontes it the present he stile attitude of the incians is mamtained, Asstrong pressure will be bronght to bear upon the tariff Dill, expecially in relation to the duty ou iron, Fostern iroomongers are here, and urge that if the duty be established as proposed ic will operate aga virtual prob bition of the importation of the article, and thus reduce, instead ot increasing, the revenues, Mr. Ourtis, of Towa, has introduced reselucons ,whieb lie over, alverse to the purchase of the Fermitage for the parposes of a mili lary academy, It is now, we believe, the prope: ty of the State of Tennessee, or that State has expressed a willing- ness to purchase it from A. J. Donelson, if the United States will buy it for some permanent military purpose. ‘The recent seizure of the United States arsenals and other pubhe property in several of tho Southern States will operate adversely to the fulfilment of this pa’ riotic desigo—for it is evidevt the country is not inclined to expend more money for mibtary purposes in the South, upless it be of a belligerent character, until harmony is restored. That a spot 80 worthy of ‘the patriotic con- siveratiog of the whoie country should be suffered to go to decay and ruin is much to be deplored. istment might he ir up, much tw the Wasnt@ron, Jan, 29, 1861. Mule Rumors of Concession—No Voice Heard Fron Mr Lincoln—Deportment of South Carotina tw Viryinia, be. If Abrabam Lineoln has written to prominent republi- cans here, urging t to smooth the way for his advent into the city of Washington, by agreeing to some pln of adjustment that wil! pacify the South— which was the current report not twenty-four hours ago—sueh letters or such intimations have vot come to the hands nor to the knowledge of repyblieans, who are likely to be among the first consulted on such suhjevts, The siatement that such letters had been received is to- day authoritatively denicd over the signatures of repub- Licans. The compromise pressure comes more aircetly from merchants and Dusivess people generally im the West, rather than from within the m cle that sur- rounds the President elect. government, and that it will then be too late, those who Seah the Jurid signs resting upon the Southern horizon mvet be coropelied to admit. ‘The course of South Carolina in declining to receive of- ticially the ambaseador from Virginia, Judge Rob and ai the game tme coolly rebuking ‘the State ang United States troops to b@ sent {fiom her soi Ule mission to the South, falls like a lump of we epon the warm blood of the representatives of te Old Dominion, ‘Lhe pride of the mother of Stats and statesmen is touched, her dignity is affronted, an! she, who has boo. in the habit of dictating to her Southern ‘sisters, is treated al most contumeliously by the comparatively little state of South Carolia, and that, too, that little State is going it alone, without war sh. enue, exeupt from oppicesive taxation, as au independent Commonwealth, What a spectacle it will preseat to the work! whea the maguifcent empire of the Vid Dominion ghall be acen dangling at the tail of a Southern confederary, of which the little “‘gamecock State” shali be the contre and con trolling power. If the eyes of the peopie of Virginia are not opened by this initiative act of arroganoo or impi- dence on the part of South Carolina, then it wast be con- pded that Old Virginia has seceded from hor lofty posi jon in the Union, and quietly submitted Lo boing siiuubed } by one of the most tantulizing, reckless, brave, ime: pendent, saucy little communities ox the ‘cont! nent of America, If the repibticans shoald seize this opportune moment and pour the bal oil of compromise into the ooincils of Vir- guria, that great State, and with her ali the border ‘© States, would be saved ta tho Union. the selection of delegates to tho Vs 1 That Conventi is to devide whether the State shall or shall nol secode; and if ever words were fitly spoken now is tho time to speak them, if the lntter calamity woyid be averte Virginia received from the United States government, as surplus revenue, §m’36-"37, the sum « » ‘The joint resolution which paseed the Mouse thie jon | Wt bas been commonly understood tut this gum lias pover been touched by the State. That is true fo fat as ing provides for a relinquishment to fowa of all titles to | the pripetpal is concerned; but the money wus Invested lands heretofore erromeously cevtilied under the Drs. | im puke stock, and the State draws vivilinds therefrom, moines Improvement act. | es from other stocks. Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, arrive to-night, aud wae | Wasmxcrox, Jan, 29, 1861, at once closeted with Cassius M. Clay, whether to remion strate or encourage has not transpired. | Colonel John T. Magruder, of the flying artillery, now | on a tour of inspection in Europe, hav been erderhd homo | by the government. His companies are now here | Geo, 0, Weddenburn, of the Lovision: State army, ac. | rived this evening. The President to-day gent to the Senate the name of George McHenry, of Pennsylvania, ae Coren! to 1 . peol. OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Wasnrectox, Jun, 28, 1861 Movements Regarding Lincoln's Cabinet Aprointinewls— Compromise with Cameron—A New Humpshire States man’s Coming Views on the Crisis—United Py Compromise with the South—The Missrchuovld Memorial—More Rumors of Hostility, €. A movement is oa foot among republicws to lu differences in their camp relative to fin pointments. It ts generally understoo! “yat s Weed have supported Cameron for the post of y of the Treasury, and ‘lat Greoley and Bryant, of the Evowing Port, nays tustained Chase, baelved by tho York barnburner interest. Accor Programrie, the quartette—sew ae ae Now and Bryant—will use their infiuence with | Lincoln in fayor, for tho Trea of Sherman, of Ohio, who, as Choirman of } Committee of Ways and Means, has obteine’ » | rough insight into the financial condition aud wants of the country. For the sake of ci up the deadiy | breach, it is supposed that General Cameron will | fully waive his claims to the Treasury, as President elect, and assume the Secretary partment of War. By this arrangement i ig conject the existing differences may be hea | q unit when unity is most to be covete. Reports, readily belioved, are that offurte are | by republicans here to induco Mr. Lincoln to oft } Emerson Etheridge (American), of Tenner anil na, Y | im the new Cabinet, Governo »eition to tho | Lecompton bill, and his late Union speech, b his | batarally high toned and patriotic views on matter | national polity, give him a favorable position bof aud the party | country. Mr. Etheridge is algo koown ay a strong Union man, devoid, like Governor Gilmer, of the ultratems of | | the extreme South, and realy to stand th whenever the dominant party shall extend th branch of compromise, Both these gentlemen are supported for positions ia tho new wdaine istration by protmineut coun U New York, Now Jersey, Vor | It ts doubtful, howeve: | whole country, and not a porti | is not likely’ the President cl upon the composition of his Cabin of the Potomac. } ‘of New York, mi to-day to got’in a resolution callin the Treasury for information ns tc Georgia, South Carolina and Alabina nue hac failed to be collected, with the causos therefor, | It was objected to by a Southern member, and tiv over Hon. Magon W. Tappan, af Now Hampshire, will short ly make a slashing Union spevc ing bight grounds in favor of sustaining the national protecting publie | operty, &e. He will even soar to thy realm of poe to sustain and oruainent his pe ; and make a fe | happy and stirring quotations from ove of New Hamp- | whire’s favorite poets for that purpose. The Chicago and Milwankee Boards of Trate, before | mentioned, and a number of other Westera merchante, | arrived to-day in large nurbers—upwards of ono hun dred. They are all Union men, and urge coneiliation and compromise, To-night they eallod upen {ho President, | General Scott, a number of Senators and other dignita ries, and seemed to enjoy the oceagion vastly: A'large number of uaval appointments were mote to day, mostly from the Naval Academy, sich as midship men, masiers, &e, Some were nssigned to the Pacific, others to the Mediterranean, Nono of the appointments were to fill vacancies, No resignations were received at the Navy Department to-day, As you have already been informod waa likely to be tho case, Hon, Alex. HL. Kice, ot Boston, presented the mon fter petition of cithens of that city in fever of compro. mite, The petition wag in bulk about two feet square, | | elty by the middle of next monde Order totetrsttiatiy: Apprehendia Disturtance at the Nalimal Uapital—Opera tions of the Lobby Jobers, &e.. « Paiuful apprehensions have boen gardto the preservation of the peso » the 4th of March, Frora a soure Hiest confidence I learn that Governor Mick lnnd, bas written @ letter to General Soott, urgiug hin by i means to have at least cight thousand troops in this vived in re £ (he capita up d to the 4, of Mary again 3 overawe any intention to disturb. peace, “OF 4o iuent troops there will be about beven hundred conce trated bere, which, with the foree of the District, will make an army of about five or six thousand ‘men, effective for the defence of the placo in case of attack. A donbt seems to exist in regard t a mina of the District militia as oreanize’ Ts Troup érnor of Maryland sugecate snat aff th g to mect the angicipat~t exigency be ascombled directly upderth- Tall of the government. Noone seoms capi- ‘ble of detming what the threatening dangor ts or from what quarter it will make its appearance. Ail is dim and chadowy, and the very uncertainty which involves the matter adds materially to the fears of tho eocagion. ‘There may be a reason to believe that surious intentions exist to make this city the stage for the rst set of eivil , and it may be that the fog which cuvircies the dan- er greatly distorts its proportions. lobby bas become as br ny 08 nest i avts as the in the lobbies of the House, and there are striki dences that these worthies are engaged in their old work vi of bamboogling tho representatives of the nation. It is surmised that the India rubber patents are to be revived, if the times present the occasion. Other schemes are in embryo, sud mare anon. Prowinent members of the repullican party deny that tho President elect bas written lotters recommending compromise. It is said that, on the contrary, he coun sels a strict adberence to the Chicago. p there is a shaking among the couservative rey Ponsequence. SEIZURE OF THE NEW ORLEANS MINT AND CUSTOM HOUSE. New Oninans, Fob. 1, 1861. The Mint and Custom Honse were quictly taken yoxtor day. Today the officials tok the oath under the ordl nance of the Convention. The report of the Committes on Citizership comer up to-day. a THE NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTION, Rarnian, N. C., Fob. 2, 1861. The State Convention is the leading tople of eonversa- tion heres Several members of tho Legislature have gone home to prepare for the coming election of dele gates, Volunteer companies are forming throughout the State to bo rendy for any emergency except cooreion, GREAT UNION MEETING IN CHARLESTOWN, MASS. Howtos, Tb, 2, 1861. \ great end enthusiastic meeting was hold last evening tho City Hall at Charleetown, over which the Ion. B. . Thompson presided. Tho speakers tneluded Messrs. Everett, Saltonstall, Jones Dona and Richard Frothingham, Jr. ‘ihe following resolutions were adopted :—= Rorels That this moeting concurs moet hoartily in tho rentiment of the distinguisbed republican leader and romier of the incoming administration, William loward, vir-—That the qneetion of slayery is not now to he taken into account; that “wo are to save tho Union, and then that we eave all that {s worth aaving.” Resolved, Tit we earwestiy hope that tie propest tion of Hen, John d. Crit ontuoky, will be adopted ttlement jinpenting por iis of the Unit tt ty practicable plan tn f oorably adopt, and 3 Leon able to vilor Hegolwer, That the proceedings of thie meoting be forwarded io the tion, John J. Crittenden, with a re qneet that he will prewent them to the Fenate of the Unived States of the votes of the Union mon of Hunker Mill. A cal has been tamed for a nits Vaion meeting of tho people of Massachusetts in Faneuil Hell on Pasrlay wight ment. GRESS, SECOND SESSION, Senar. Wasunxoron, Feb. 2, 1862, Mesére, Brox, PUGH and Cs vaxow presented a number of memorials in favor of the Crittenden resolutions, Mr, CHANDLER ,(rop.) of Mich , presented a potition of the citizens of Meobigan asking the Senato:;—Pirst, to ascor- tain whether they have a government de fact. or not second, that if 60 that measures be taken for the appr hension of ali persons presenting themselves at tho of geverpment under pretence of beluy Coma trom independent governaents of charge of third, that measures be taken to protect the archives 9 the government ; fourth, that the forta, while in the pos session of the government in the south, be promptly supplied with men ; fi'th, thata suflicient oumber of ver sels be placed % >outherd porta to pro eet commerce and collect the revenue, Mr. TRUMUOT2, (rep.) of II, called up the resolution offered yesterfay tor the vppolntment of a jointcom mittee To previo’ a mode for counting the votes for Presi dent Vigo Presivout, and notifying the person elect s passed, orted from the Committee on | Se" Indian attiirs “ve ‘Yhe Dill was them postponed until Monday. Fr cay ext was set apart for the consideration o° private bills. The Post Route bill, with the amendment from tho | Honge, was taken up | Mr. Har, (vop.) of NH, said that he was in favor of the over lan’ neal, but thought 11 this route was adopted the Butterfield route ought to be dispensed with. ‘The bil) waa then ordered to bo printet and postponed. The Dill to organize the government of Idabo was House of Representatives. Wastuseron, Neb, 2, 1861, Mesere. Joun Cocunane, Moni, of Pa., and Nort, of Mo., presented momoria’s expressive of the strong « for an a justment of the difloulcies, Those by the last pamed included signatures of thirty (vo ladies, who do pot thus approath Congress in a spirit of dictavion, but as the dese: ndan's of honored worsen of the Revolution. Mr. SueaMan, (fep.) of Objo, called vp thy bl suthor. izing the President, at any time beforo the Lst of July, to borrow on the ereddit of the United Sta! $25,000,000; certifica'es w be issued for not less than $1.00, with coupons payable semiannually with ia- terest, and the faith of the Unis d States plodged for the payment of the interest and principal Mr. Puewrs, ) of Mo, offered a substitute that the third gection 0 xf June, 1860, providing for the redemption of the wry Notes, be moditie? go as to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate the batance of the loan not takeu under that act on the most favorable terms, instead of restricting the negotiation of the loan at not less than par, and after notice of ten in- stead of thirty days. , Bot exceeding | OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE | Addves of ve Dir, Pris Faid'tho Morrill Tariff bill proposed a Yoan of $21,000 000, and the bill reported from the Cammutttee on Ways and Means $25,000,0(0, thus making $46 000 000, when there is an unexhausted loan of $14 000,000 under the act of June, of which he desired the government to avail itself without unnecessary celay. Mr. Sitenwan approved of the amendment, saying that the ten millions under the act of Juno was speciically ap. recempticn of the Treasury notes. To apply this amount for the payment of the current expenses, a8 proposed by Mr. Phelps, would, therefor a vinlation of the pub- faith. ‘The loan now prop 'sed was for twenty-five mil 8. fle eupposed it would tie up the accounts of this administration, As thero was no money and little Tevenus they would be obliged to resort to the credit of the government. forces tonuke war against any State which has or may Bece’ Mr. Sherman refueed to accept the arnendment. In re- ply toa question by Mr. Garnett, be said that every dol- lur under this bill woula be required to moet the liabili- ties up to July next, and the remaining fourteen mil- lions under the actof June lo meet the outstanding Trea- sury botes. Mr. Gakxerr, (opp.) of Ga., considering that th - rill tariff bil! provides for a loan of twenty ope millivns, regarded this bill aa designod for war purpoaes, ir. Joun Coownave, (opp ) of N. ¥., said thet if My Sherman depended on that tar for sufficient va nue he would be mistaken. | DM ocation Ime ‘the warebo) %95 would Md poowy “win «LES, (Opp.) of N. ¥., said that it wee not sur- prising that a protective tari bill shat gmbrace au thority to borrow twenty-one millions, as ie make up for the revenue lost from diminished Mports. This is the republicen tari’ promised in the Clause plat form. Mr. Misox, (opp.) of Va., moved to seit re Phelps’ substitule the words, the proceods “Of sald lg iy be applied to disebarge the current egpeases ol government.” Agreed to, by 126 ageinst £2. ‘The substitute of Mr. Phelps was then rejected, by “2 gimme bit éginall ted, b &y,.: @ bill, as originally reported, was then paged, .by Bhegsn 40 7 7 nies ‘Tbe opposition came from the democratic «ide. The Senate's of the construction mileage to the widow of Senator Linn, «10 opposition to the order of the Senato that ff sliould be paid, was then taken up and discussed at considerable length, and referred to the Committee on Aceyunts. ‘the indian Appropriation bill was then takon up, when Mr. Wasnnvry, (rep.) of Ill., moved that the ‘House proceed to the consieration of the Sonate’s resolution Providing for a joint committee to count the votes for resicent and Vico President of the United States, and | inform and notify the persons chosen of their cleetion. Mr. Ganxert hw no objection to consk lution in the regular way, but was opposed up at this time, it not being, in bis opinion, a question affecting the privileges of any member of the Iouse. h 4 o taking it rolution in relatton to the non payment ” propriated, while in that of Decembor last it was tor the | missioners: frow ture, de. VIRGINIA, Ricumosp, Va., dan. 15, 1801. Arthur P, Hopleins, One of the Som the Virginia Legista- Hen. Alabama, info Ron. Arthur F. Hopkins, one of the Commissiumers from Alabama, aldressed both [ov gislature today, in the hy jes and lobby y The gai the address, which lasted Itt) tened to with the utmost attention, Mr, Nopkins began by saying that under an flanges he should, as a citizen of tho South, * bolict sion movemen? hone r which bas bo to the aggressions committed by the free on tie de that holding States, our rights hag been wade on paper only, in the ghape of Fesolutions threatening resistance to any outrage. The | contomned and disregarded, not by | contaming threats again of r we bave been derided by our | tude for this union with the oldest of the states, most powerful of the slayels 808 of the Virginia Le Jot the Louse of 1 throngod with y ver a ites, rs, and was tis. glia should unite tined, ho thought, to 9 diminished by submityi Our wistauce against tae violttions ¢ tition of rosulutions have been rv : zo ot p and the Jing, is geeatly ineroassd by the fact that this is my own native State, Twas horn and brought up iv it, as my aneustors of my own natae were for several generations before me. V more native sons in Alabama, the State whjeb 1 have the honor to represent here, than live in any othor of her confederates. {have been charged withghe duty of making known the re Alabama to purs nion, the mircailed € # Se10n majority of whom are umed that granted t the federal government. dition to form another | existed—the 1 consequent people: conely State. observ is ratified ompact will o in the exercise the grounds that Mr. Hispwan, (opp.) of Ark., offered tho proviso that no | plish the objects for whic! part of this loan should be used ior the maintenance of | State seceded from th it net was the rat present co. separately, The Conve elested by the people of each made by the seve dipances of sec Rhode Island div two years 9 In thes: fled the constit of the right of put an of the parti ties aro £07 ‘Tho Srrakek overruled the point, on the ground that tho constitution required that the yotes should bo counted, and such arrangemeuts must be made for the Be. ¥ usrrr felt himself constra eal from the decision of the Chair, but the Ilo ppeal ou the table by 194 against 19. On motion oF Mr wWasunvrn a committee of five was | to join that on the part of the n of the #, Washburn of Minols, Adrvia, E Ander id Cruig of Migsoud, wore’ appointed t hen went inte tho Detiaioney bill, and the Cuiriqu disoursed, Mr. franton, (rep.) of Ohio, was not to the conditn of the finances, to make the tion Mr. Scort, (app.) of Cal. on the ground of tho Pacific over the Chir of economy, con.itering t tari of the Inom. government wil and ¢o forth. wren, (rop.) of Tnd., av nt, when the commit Mr. Conwy, (rep.) of Olio, gave notice of h to move to clase the debate on the report of th toe of Thirty-three noxt Thursday. mijtee of iho Whale on ihamendiment wa: dis . Lisporod, owing eppropria. ed. the tention amit not be taken tor the ai Mr. Couwin replic oumstances in that y 1 Sa ae A MASONIC APPEAL. fellow citizens of a wide spread ropubii | how the » jendment | And it ma government i known the menecment | The government | and the agent | the constitution ¢ tion, the to grant the power { war vpon a State Madison « tion to the mot ties ariving f which he found in ¢ original thirteen state: ;t) change the gove ed the gover! ebjccts for which iC wa wren colonies Wi Pe elaration that. the be perpetual, a by every State. was prohibited, unless sueh alteration should be to ina Congress of the con: firmed by the Le the strong languge of the art it—that the Union ehould be perpetual afterwards made ir separate proceed iy separate secession of ¢ with the tree States, toompuct Letwoen the State a bof the thir which preferred egreement that the Union shoaki be pe no such etipulation in the cons eyes, given by the confederation; and to eceede separ government foun compact amen che not deem ithiccersat a recession in the of ratileation AEnten they ro spectively mal the States—Virginia, New York 21 exch — expressi¢ reser = © ratification each mado z is an equality of oblige ; ull the States, no State ¢ Union by an, other State; the tie by Alabama, by her ¢ grete, and upon ‘ahd the Union, expressly reserved goverument Fhewid it bee Ae with a know ledge of this fm 0 Wik | grese into the Union. nd to the constitution results from thd were partics wo the arti which seceded peaceably fre | federation, Congress | States uncer the constitution. What we “This age as the general government, is no party esnstitution, which existed ‘before the co to this As the courses! sh bly which determined a8, and withdraw (roa e Convention now ta as a St Ie consiste of one hundred delegutes, a large in favor of secession. "She his portion of her sovereignty which she She is how in with the States whic et by each of the They proclaimed ieiple not ad. which then and the right, govermuent of any nation ht of self governmen' pment when! shed. h of the thir s proclaimed by that declaration to be a he King of Great Britain, by the wledzed them to be so stain that declaration they fought through hardship, and admission r amiry Chat | The first Union wos formed to which the tharteon: wore the parties. ‘That instrament con Union formed by it should ticles should be inviolably Any alteration of the slature fh n and alter. it, ex in Congress, by the Legis Siate—the was afterwards aud set aside tes, against the This pvormment , 9 nit orn Fach rate act, ately of y a Convention of each 1 of delegates ratilication was rent tines, qs the or- ed. North Carolina and y the consttution for nearly ‘ation was made by a State, ataple authority for erverted Uni cession from the cogoized and ex. for North Colina to ae ul States at di States wh State rati. ition, with that Copstituen before their wocesion of ail the States from the y maintained that in tha exercise sel!-government they hod the same right rom the jocisdi@tion of the constitotion— the eo most of second 10 States did he right of upon th tes, Te exPieasly Lo rese The right for a of the eo federatis ee mn them. iter the gl? th. was the federative sgency of the il the general their fed operations of the governments are of the constitution uly partios to | no more power for divest. power than Congress protection of not eiviliggtion. v render neccksary Stale, (Applanas.) tone was furnished PRICE “icrees from this patriotic action on the part of Virginia, i have the honor to be, very truly, yours, i tts. H. BICKS. His Execileney Jouy Lercue, Governor of Virginia. Ihe Govervor also transmitted to the Legislature the scceson ordinence passed by Georgia, and sent to him by the Governor of that State; also a copy of the-resola- tien adopted by that Convention accepting the “ invita- tiem extended by the Convention of the republic of Ala- Doma” to send Commissioners to Montgomery, on the 4thr of beat month, to wid Commissioners from other seceding: +8 /n orgonizing a provisional government. laio om the table and ordered to be printed. The paseuge of the bill appropriating one million of for purposes of State defence was delayed owing to the engrafting upon it o designating the particular — loca ities where efenecs should be erected. Five hun @ thovrend dollars of the amount will be applied to the esioblishmentof an ordnance department ‘n thi city; two hondred thousand dollars for de- febers on York river, the Bastera shore, apd North- Werterl Virginia, along the Obio river and Pennsylvania Une, ond three handred thousand dollars for the purchase of arms. An agent will b hwith despatched to Eng- lard to make the purebase, that ukey may reach here atter the Ith of March as possinie, This will be North, because of the couiuet of the in the able ished in last al and cordiat All wera wnt to-dey, awendiments $200,000 lost to th New York police the of a double confederacy, detaile: torcf your New Orleans correspondent p y's Herat, movts with visl than any suggestion heretofore made im connec hon with the preseut difticuities, The Haraup’s editori- als relerrig to that plan have been a:tentively read, and generaily commented on in terms of the highest eulo- gy It offers, according to the opinions of the most en- hghtened among us, the best solution of existing diffical- tis f apy pla yet presented. There seems to be no posetbility’ of at reconetidation between the two sections, leat of a character which could give hope of | peace, Al admit’ the mutual antag- bo too dep even to admit of ond the two sections: stable union of r truthful picture drawo by enfederacies r of the two | aster they shi tively fulfiled their destiny 6} territory Lexpangion—the ove to the Arctic Ovean, the rtothe Orinceo--has lierally taken captive the opinions of thousands who were heretofore wavering and upsettied with refer cpee to the poticy heat to be purened, ge, the idea of this grand Southern confederacy: never entered the head of auy of our wisest men before it found expression in the colamns of the Hgra. developement bas relaxed the conservative or Union te- pacity ef thousanes, In this connection, too, the simple eof raising revenue by an export duty’ of ono per cet upon cotton has prodvced a decided revolution” im public sentiment. It effective 1 apprehey- sion of exorbitant taxation, and bos thas won to tho se- ny who dreaded the enormous burdens ination 4 up as results of this rd speak on this subject the Henan conteder expressed a par= to enter into treaties § #ifensiva with tho North, and con. ‘hk commercial arrangements as will prove lly beneficial. This will uuquestionabty be the y of existing dieulties if a collision is avoided. Ae attempt ot cocrcion will be the end of peace: able adjustment, es it willbe of union Tho latter result bar come any how, and is destived to be permanent, no matter what takes place. A peaceful solution of dillical- ties will unpart the best phase to disunion of which it cap admit. War will but aggravate its evils, if any it in- volves, while it cannot possibly avert disunion, tb result of any attempt at coercion, on the part of tha th, will be the opening of ever: thern port to free » with foreign nations, and the imposition of sucks '¥ on all Northern imports as will effectually secure a monopoly of Southern trade to foreign exporters. Peaxe- ful & paration would probably avert this, and cause a dis- crunination to be mare rather against foreign importa tions than otherwise, People here laugh at the threats off coercion whieh are thundered forth in black repablicam journals, The tereh of the incendiary will be applied ta your Northern cs upon the firing of the firet coercion gon. Your thousands of unem- ployed, starving poor will be invited two Join in'the plunder and ranesckivg of the rich Northern | Placers upon terms of an equal share in the grand aggre- mi the mother coun pnstitution , the conatita lo to give it, rams 168 in opposi- Ajusting diftient compact by some of must vitled, if at 1. m. The oul a. wand Master Wivalow Lewis, of the Massachusetts . Grand Lodge of Vreemnsone, hos addreseed the follow'ng | Pro a future, fatien bo ihe Of Master of Virgs | our 1m eof the now : . fostox, Dec, 10,1860, | upon the terme ts “coastution. 0 pe mth. Gnas Masr ur Todgo of | cipal causes or ager the most material broaches arserg lyn fica aA | of ovr treaty with our co-Statea, haye not been commit | ted by the federati tho com | pact, but by a ma p ; our | the | constitution a - power lo the ¢ § hh threatens ita dissolution, In tho ro- | State or make ie | and no tate effost vo proved ineffectual. Fanaticiem ix th mizept cemen, and the ties whieh have bound the South and North go long together, which carried them shoulder to shoulder in the aye of our fathers, and have con. tivned them in their proeperty os a united nation, are | now jn preparation. to be rod. | Js it 100 lave t9 avert the calamity? Is there nought remains of coneorvation to be tried? Have we not an inptitution which binds us together, not only as fellow | citizens, bot as brothers, and as broikers can we lacorate those pledyee, th our faith and practice? © it aa w eirong elemeat to Therefere, may wo u ish of thee dark days in our nation's allay the biter ang history? It was wy goo fort it Richmond with a band of our orde>, and to wit the mighty operation which cemented the bewrts of all the partte nta on that orea- sion. ‘The iviluences of that meoting are ineffaceable, the linpress ipdetli With such feelings of so poworful a fravernization, how disenioy most pall the hoarts of thogs whose nifeotions as brothers are so warmed aud as towards those % dear to them in Virgi one, I was resolved to pour out my own and to express to you What [ deom to be tho pradomi- nont sentiment in Boston, if not ia the whole ju rueiietion over whieh I have the honor to preside; and I u, my cear brother, that wo cling to you, not “roth follow citizens, and may that but evil day bo far removed when Virginia and Maesachu- cette, the States whieh gave to our e y & Waebington nd a Franklin, and to Freemasonry two of its brightest Higlite, shall be found oppored as enemies, and severed as componente of the United States May God avert that terriblo teste, and may Io instil Into the hearts of all ovr Order the observange of that precept of His Holy Word, this frat lesson to every neo: phyte ip Freemasonry, ‘Rebold bow goud and how plea sant it {8 for brothers to dwell together im unity;’” anc y ull under your fraternal jrriedietion domouairate by acts that in the Dominion,” o& woll a8 among ourtelves of the “O'd Bay Stato,” Union as fellow ult and brotherly love os Masons, ebali now in this re 8 bour, 9@ herétefore nader the days of proepority, be their te | | | w Dear of a pr ry kome from Mai fin aad revolys. © mote tt bo. Fraternally yours, WINSLOW LEWIS, M. D., Grand Master, frort Chat it w cthor States, tended that secession shy xiving no powe Parties having Lo pi from the artictea of confeder Mir. Hopkins read some pa t provents © compact 1d be peaceable, the constitn of coorelon to tho agency, and the te secession vger from a lottor aldressed y the Hon. L, P. Walker to Hien, W. IT, Fornoy, Jackaon- ville, Ala., in December ast, svataining these views, and further elabor #0 Viey nts of raach fores, His epecch was enthusiasiieally received, and gavo decided entisfaction to all who listened to it, those cepecialty who fs or immediate seceas on. . Ricrotonn, Vo., Jan, 28, 186 Communication from Governor Hicks, of Maryland—The | Secession Ordinance of Georgia, he.— for ArmexPornilarity of the Plan of a Dovtte Confele- rocyThe Feeling in Virginia Alcut the Reinforcement of Furt Picton, de. The Governor of Virginia rent to the T the following communication from Governor Hicks, of Maryland, in response to the fesolutions appointing Com- missioners to mect Commissioners from other Statea in Warhingion on the 4th of next month, adopted by the Legislature of this State on the 19th inst, :— Stave ov Monyraxn, Exsemovs Cnawnen, ialature to day ANNArons, Jan. 26, 1861, 1 bave tho honor to acknowledge the receipt ted copy of the resolutions adopted by the Gone- ral Assembly of Virginia on ho 10th inst., apportin Comumiseioners to meet in Washington on’ the 4th “to consider sitab'e adjastmen' I take great pleasure in assuring you thet Conmminsion ‘Fianed will meet thoxo from Virginia and other States in Washingt-n on the day named Tom rejoiced that Virginia haa mado this move, and dl, If practicable, agree upon, i} be met in a corresponding spirit by If 20, We may antivizate the best conse- Hing to England | | one of the } | | to the invitation of #ome citizens whose ‘This is no ‘baseless fabric of a vision,” but a orgenized plan which will have its developement in | Spontaneous rush of thousands to your Northern cities | the moment the first act of war is consummated. Great indignation is felt here et the despatch of re- ments by the Breoklyn to Fort Pickens, after Com- nitsloners bas been sent by Virgiaia to the President and South Carolina to preserve statu q respectively tuntil thoresult of the Peace measures frstituee 4 Dy. ths Old Doroinien should have been ascertainet. Ex- I dem! Tyler is expected here to-night or to morrow morn- m Woshington, and if he ants that the ith in this matter 6 secession will no lopger be a matter of doubt. Botts is out in a card in this morning's Despatch agreelag to become a Candidate for the Convention, in con’ res wo card were procured after a long and laborious canvass by Botts’ fiends, The Enquirer says that many of the £ were those of dead men, while from disclaim- published it appears that some others were Potts has been ehuftied off scores of times by thee poop! Richmond; but be still eticks with the tenacity” ef the ehirt o What the fate of Botts will be: 4 rend Southern confederacy is formed | tremble to con- template, * The subject of fixing the compensation of the Commis- sioncrs from this State to Washington and South Caroling has been referred to the Finance Committee of the House: of Delegates to-day. The State Armory for the construction of which a suny of $£00,000 was appropriated last winter, is now in pro= of completion here. There has an gat | we uithorities have acted in bad eignaly 5 Pephins in the city for years, which was occupied by the Guard. This bas been alloted for the dered under this new law, and a or= with Jcsoph R. Ande: [3 tho Trete Wane soph R. Anderson, heq.. 0 inery. It will be in porcine weet ‘hee year. LOUISIANA. OUR NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE. + New Onveaws, Jan. 16, 1961. Practical Coercion and Civil Wer—A Clear View of the Ques~ tion—Dresent Condition of the Southern Statea—A Warn ing to the Nor th—Bxtension of the Cordm for a Southern Confeleracy—Edattichment of Southern Independence— Povition of the North and South—General Convention to te Heli at Montgomery—The Provisional Government— Commistioners to be Sent to Europe to Procure Re-ognitim of 8 Indeperlence ant Nationality—The Union Irrevoca- Uy Divsoled—Peaceable Solution of the Question—Britiah and American Vessels—Great Freshet in Mississippi— Railroad Washed Away—Scenes in the Cars, dc. ‘These days are dangerous! Virtue is chok'd with foulambition, And charity chas’d beace nO 's band, Voul sobornatien is predominant, And eqnity exil'd your highness’ land. So replied Gloster to Henry VI. when accused of high trensou, «nd the words aré hot inapplicable to our own troublous times of revolution, whea the States have be~ come discordant and dissevered, when our land is fraught with fraternal feuds,’ and soon it may be “deluged by fraternal blood.” The theory of coercion so earnestly recommended at the North by the Governors of Penney!vania, New York, Massachnsctts, and such vete- ron warriors as Generals Wool and Seott, practically put into effect by the federal government, can alone produce this latter calamity of atrocity and — injustice. For, if ence commenced, it would but lead to « wretched revolting wars which ever attend between &t, when wedged upon fanatical questions of either 1 \igious or political faith, And under whatsoever plea coercion may be attempted, whether under the guise of enforcing the laws or collecting the revenue, when tha act of coercion shall be manifested by the employment of militory power, from that moment the country will be uehed into a bloody strife and ceaseless carnage, | which must Moally end, according to Seward’s “ irrepres- sible conflict,” either in the subjugation of the North or the South. It ia all important, then, at this moment, that your leading men of al parties North should take this question into serious consideration and deep contemplation, and I propose, in this connection, to give you @ very concise and reliable view of the preeent condition of the Southern States, so that your readers may become fully awakened to the position and determiaation now occupied by the | South. A majority cf the Southern States have already thrown off their allegiance to the federal govern- ment, either by @ direct declaration of their sovereign independence on the part of the pesple, throvgh the ballot box, or by an overt act of withdrawal from the confederacy, by the setaure of the federal forti- fications within their territories, which only await tha legal forme of ratification. Thus Florida, Texas, Louist- nna, Mirsiseipp!, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and — : 4 Ly wn wit i and take rank a8 dissevored, separate sovere Arkaneos, Tennerece and tho tobacco States are quietly preparing to follow. [tis best that tho people of the Korth should be prepared to realize the truth, for how~ ever benighted or incredulous they continue to be, the fact must coon burst apon ‘hem that the Southern States have thrown around {hemseives & cordon which will a: Dind them together’as a soparate indepen of dent THO: “This ling Tor a separate republic has wonderfull ly fall through the South within the last tem Son set aa et prom Feat men, Doth tp and out of con. J tlone, who were the strongest and most powerful advo- cates for the maintenance of tho Union, co-operation men, fave since ebaud ned a)! hope of such a course, and now fre clamorous for a separate confederacy, The mre closely our Sovthorn statesmen have studied and investi. gated tho possibility of acompromire with tha North, {CONVINUED ON WORTH PAGhy