The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1861, Page 8

YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1861. 8 pC res committicg # sid in permitting sla td | The power of the courts to for contempts ahou d asthe THE REVOLUTION. Bod ferry penn ow ge {bela away. A now Pane alwar® be limited 2° es ‘hon sho aaued raow rst General, | ment rev opinion of aii former ones, “Yh'Yaunrui, Smeal ap.’ Searheme ot he ee it CONTINUED . in the supplies | ond public mer and We WAY egaential to good oraer, 8nd good im woolety von R pecomen** .-- FAME) and that the fol.| to the popular tide, against OO tec enuiai 10 rad Uberty, ‘guduiiiiaibieeens uit ad entire tbe more hopeless, xo moans of ite vis:—dalary of | convictions of truth, right and sound policy, and per- ““Toviciutive acts in violation of .'° “nen ee wom, and @4('The problem of secession, the Salary of Gon- | mitted it to roll the wave of black barbariem ‘over the . ,4°*4 the Judiclary shall 90 declare ‘PM. sion of Cason, cea a NS, Pi preesod with the c00- | missioner to covlty tatate Law istants, $7,833; | once fair and civilized West India Islands, "Bes vost facto \aWe, OF laws Smnpairipg the _—e amet, ~ Pay salvation is 14 tL@ | intorest on $310 becription ‘This ie what the South intuitively feels to stand before or retroactive lezisiet:on | 2! the BO Remar conflict—and being @ confede- | - - eaaanlnah ot touthsrn tnadpennce rere on nei ea total debciency Qt { st, ifthe popular ‘majritics. in the North ‘onuinio te | Collies sre promibneds se re | THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, | thvetolding Statee under the consti’ op car Waile w the black fr ey ihe “ge We last Bscal yeay o: $118,456 Sad cedinasd hag ts ee be blnek repuhtionn pollens and i en | LAW ‘ould NAV & Operation, aid bo upon the resolutions, ~@ vote may be takem when the seceded States rovarn, ear are estimated at abou ‘ oy ae subure it eee oy epecial tie Union, oF be onerced back; while proposition after Frenne eta ose te cated foe ‘sreorLinary Merman Ta 8 etna aupreaching” smo tana. | 27,00 Varied AA MeFUcular cate DY Sociol thereby. | Remarks of Hom. Wm. L. Yancey, im the a proposition is being. made at aabingwon, for 9 ome wants, vie whitery, contingencies, $880,000; Conven DIMItT LO AC” 6 the alicrmatire of peaceful separenlod Mee tent Progen thpl my om nly by the poo. | eens State Com aejone The Ho Tits RIGHT OF BLOCKADE. muce, while Sou tor Bigler is besieged, with whole reams | tion expevic, $20,000 expenses of Commissioners 1 | ora civl wir. In the Nrat of were it recognised all th4 | pio, and should be exercised by their agents in_gevern- ree weuune (Frote the New Oriéans Picayune, January 16. Of paper Bigued by petitioners, eee Liat eine ¢ other sluve Sfates, $7 £00; uxpenses of Cdllecting taxes. } d’sadvantages of dimiutsted material and moral imp ?- | ment only for the legitimate purposes of governe’ at. ern Cemfederacy to Adopt the Basis ef Tr ee oe whicb is ly felt at mo- slavery but for the, preservation of the Union: Mauaac) | $00,c00—$227 600; $1.000.050. From sie amount abould | twice us a natinn, aha in Ye second all the horrors that | ty cars of necessity, privals ways may ve granted | the Wederal Comstitution, dic., de. ment ii to the security of commerce, and the pos- fcminketration is and paralyzed, na‘? | de deducted us follows, vie-=Dividends on South Caroli- | muy follow its v But it believes that either of | ypon just compensation being Bret paid, with Sins ex. ° eibinty of an pon tbe part of ‘the United States Saar, pens - quietly nea hd ba Raltroaa ost, £4 909: cividends on Charlotte 8c there is preferable 'to at it deems a, dishonorable and ception private prepert shall not be tke except, for sauee deren cuncn Caress ae to Blockade the 5 of the iosienign! comoele us tor hes ry . , amount «1 true wektne it that its soci rm of or; a | Hic use, and then only uj just compnaation. t an we hig hemsivs tou bape Suter com | UME ins ne at We ngeeAt a, cm at | SS ery Se at | Essa cg aa pe aan see ane c's | sn he sonst he feoue quanta oat wanted for the fiscal papa} $1,647,496. To mect the amount thus wanted, it is estimated that the bill here- with reported will produce about $1,724,000 The committee go on to state that “important acquist- tions of ams and munitions” having cone into posses: sion of the State, “render the expenditure of but a com- paratively small part of the provision necensary,”” As it js also uncertain whether much of the military contin Repey will be required, the committee propose to raise a large amount of the money by bonds, 40 a8 not to bar. then the people any more than is necessary with dircet taxation. The report closes with the remurk that the sum provided is ‘a larger amount than the estimate of wantaealie for, This discrepancy uris’s from tae fact that many of the subjects of taxaticn being new, no trae duta exist for what amounts will be real: ‘Yo the best of their abinty the committee have estimated what wilt be derived, and prefer exceeding rather than failing be- low the wants of tae State.” With the report isa bill, the provisions of which present below, giving the varivus items of the taxes tabular form, CHARLESTON CITY TAXES. By the folowing advertisement, trom the Charleston Courier, our readers may sve one of the sources oF the city revenue at.Charlesion. Comparatively tbe rates of heenses ure rather higher than Use in Now Work s— LICENSES FOR CARTS, DRAYS, XC. uses for carts, drays, carriages, ownib ed trom flee h lading men ©f the Louisiana Convention have mace out the Programme for ber immediate seces- efou, amd next week will see this State-iegatly out of the . Apion. It is aleady arranged that the seceding States shaft sud devegates to « geweral Couvention, ty be held at Mootgomery, Alebama, 0B or before the 20th of February: me xt, for the estaltisheeat of aa independent Southern: ‘adopt ou of the constitution of the Uai- , and such acts of tagate as shall not soadict with Soarhern imstitutions. An ordinance will be parsed wseembiing lagethee a Congress for a provisional goverpment, composed of the presemt Southern represen- faves ano Sépators ARwacy Geeegia and South Carolina have «ach appowted Gistinguieded citizens as commis- stoners to the Eurapret cearts to procure the recogaition of the modpendence dud separate nationality of the - eru coniederacy under the ttle of “The Unitel States,” S10 Comminsioners to be lik»wise empowered to act for the oure> Stites, aud to procure and negotiate for att other wevessary arrangements in the establishment of the ew gover ni ‘Thos the irrevocable dissolusion of the Union may be vced upon es un ‘firt-acormpli, and the establishment of Southern conte: eravy as fixed and determined, Wha ws *hore to prevent ity Takmg Wie matter in its’ worst hight cm the North muster orce strong eaough to cor: ce'the seced wg States, into the Union? Let us see. Acourding to % careful analysis uiready made of the lato Presiential vote it appears that the whole number of eiTiages cat was 4,710,443. Of this aumber 3,681,500 mn Voted agmnst the wbulition black republican candi dute, leaving thy abolition army proper to cougist of only 130395048 men. [t wi) barely be supposed chat this force gout! overcome the South, for tLe couservative men of the Norsh coulo never be mace to Hight against us. Without going inte am examination of the cause of le gitmmate separation ou the part of the South, let us take 2 philosotieal and statesmaulike view of the case, arowing uside the nigger question, disumion, the “irre: © na or Wagon, drawn by one horse or mule Cart! dray or wagou, drawn by two horses or cul Hack or carrinve, two wheels. Huck or earring: ummibus (exeept tine), Omnibus (except li tour horses. Bread cart or wage rie « on, exehisive of horse ¢ premmole confit,” &c., and. see if we can | /rivate cart, érey oF wagon, exclusive 0 Dore or come to a prceful solution of the question. : reaes Ah tae a ie Suypose thut the territorial eutpire of these ho ordivances concerning lice for Unite: tutes bes become so large and unwieldy that the ongmal governuent is found inaiequate Wo adunimister Lo the whee, withonteommitting injustice to a part—as for cons and other © instance, hegvectir g the private claims and rights of mdi Gy ets) spateliig ics tna wank he eaanekonaied Viduals, Se, ans that the several departments are insuf | 4, bYery Far on ee Boren fo emda i Pespio atl gover |e AT mpastey, CianuEsTOs, Tie. 1 ment without ould there he aay op position to the e Lot ap additional government, €nd would it not be tyraumcal to devy the people this ect of justice Viewiug the case ia this hgbt, which is the true que after ail, Tsee no treason in tue formation of anow goveruinent, wider the same consttint more thap that oF Canada, which has its separa and is entirely @ sep onae of ably, Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Reprerentatives Low met ano sitting in General Aw and by the authority of the came, that a tax for the and in the manner hereinatter mentivned and paid into the public trewsury of this State for the and sei versthereot—that is to Say ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the val use rate goverument, except being under she constitution Enghsad fy still be a republican democratic go vernme il be the “land of the free and the komOe! Lie c ud the ‘Goddess of Liberty’? would atill be d intact m all her purity and virtue, . Aeon seep withou ne modern Fug suieaddition of hoops or | Qin Ueginie Seer eri: olin Capital stock of banks. per $100, Cupitat stock of banks doing busine per $100...... eine Capital stock of gas companic Premi ms of insu sae ving been cut off by telegraph betw North apd the south en e yesterday morning have hao nothing by rail tor the past three da you thie brief statement of facts. arn to-night that a tremendous tora pr d day be sterday in Misexempi, which wasued away ive Of the Mississippi Central road, ueross Big Biack Swamp, mino Miles hort! of Cavtop, which will take serosal da, to replace. Yh at Cantoa hot away, w Orleaus Intérest ou bond Private earringe Private buggies ie h avrived yrst arde of G nthe cars. til ve ne rafts and floated to dry In water be six to eight fect acep on : . J tables owned er 15 the emba: ie cut. All this tite they were ¥ tebe ing, pe altbrugh they could see tuto the kitchen windows of Spevaxdpythyedy a Dee StF Pears Canton Hotel, 1ot over a quarter of a mile off mietock of mative railway and dry do ite), ver $100, stock of manuf expect no mals fof several days. I shai Mobile, the oid slow coach route, which {s the only cue BOW Oped. A distinction is already made here between Atacrican orth in the exportatioa of cot ton and other as from other ports, a pr yen to Britich bette ni Wages over $600, per $100 ., sre ceived, per $100......... : 1 betore the Leg'-hiture, and iMFtance : Liverpoo! commands one penny sterling per pound, while $m Amer icon (Northern) versels 11-161. to 2d. only was 00 offere 1, thu that a discrimination is a! ready mace tity between the repub North and the new Southern republic that will soon be inaugurated Factern aud Northern abolition shipowaers eC who talk ot their money to coorce the South, . hhad better look nearer nome, for hundreds of letters of marque aro be iasued to privateers the moment that | uy oot shall be committed amounting toa deciaration of sated, > ga “ ye War upon tho South The subject here is openly talked } Le RS ey Lirica Bes ef on the streets; but this preference to British ships 38 Shoat the ——., of bur ever Yankee vercols is @ lerson in privateering Which S] witat. pac ore fas Shey must already fool © bound for ——, hi “BOUTH CAROLINA. OUR CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. Cuarcastox, Jan. 22, 1861 Rifle Shooting Anong the Troops—The Ladies Making Bed | 3 Sacks, de., for the Trops—A New Fort at Sullivan's | 3 Aland, de. H ‘A fow items of news as to what has occurred to me cosionists are the descendants of the | © What I mean is that the sons of men from tho States of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Iskwvd and Connecticut, who have wedded Carolina ladies, burn with fervor in the cause of Southern rights. To give you an idea of how our country boys practise with the rifle in shooting, I can inform you that they Bunt for a tall, dead pine tree, with a woodpecker lark that is contiguallly hopping around it tapping the tree for worms: then they, with certain aim, put a ball in the ing to law. GC rvocovecsseesrocses, Gitiee, the Siate of South Hina JOHN LAUREN Naval Otieer, TEXAS. OUR GALVESTON CORRESPONDENCE, ling in Teras—D Rewlutionary T° cept No Other Compromise from the N England Towards the West Indi.s—The K: Avoided—Separation Preferable to Prospecti pation, de, eye of the woodpe Another mark is to cut a Every gale that comes from orth bring: pices of white in the shape of a fish tail, | that the people of the free States do comprehend and place a % at the apot. All of our fire | the depth and neity of the feeling that an companies are A into rifle companies. From | those of this eeetion of the country the citizens have been formed the q know anything of the rapid deve Brooks, Richardson, Hibernian and Home neing bh Guards, er ¥, with full ranks. Old men past not” duty are h Tl es are busy in making rahe Ded sucks ping iu ali manner to nid the « I mast not hose who peppered the f the troops. field, as als tes hey id from thre and to m. wh We have at olution a© ever was mate woek faiy weather, tha Fest of the tim: ‘i * : clondy,fogry. ‘fv. Gamewell is progreas- poop ay be on bey: . 7 re telegraph Tis anvuaing to listen ogg mal ge to the retaar’ nowvall race absut It. They think it i* a priv fe that what «very 1 Furty-vix # ve wil We are rt, le bein provements, « ‘ Flow Mf m9 ; tempe: . the, me of the to tel) hh blow hig br wo whi a party wer lny rie wad in g told to ehut th performed fis d when over ; ! fakiag the otfiers tnquued if every book was full in thie | | Ghats kur cal prot Sls crowd, meanix could be rpared @ jady's arin ‘ Satones Ghul leer etl oe 1 tow OD Uke erection of the traneparency i Culhour at the Pavilion Mo “i acre cluster round the past it held fast reg miing wake tod tey at Lart Is baried deop; nv more dow estou? our haud It epreade ite in? Two Homa dic banal on THY fiw cares ov RAV) WUE OF S90 ede A bill new pr nding oueys which it will b esbibite the amount o , sacar Which are provi J dota he | ° ‘ wing stavoments ar 4 rat ro | Blows bo regia h to the pre bs e0! 00 ti | Bee Pr we ‘ Je, Me of attains thor ' ' 7 o when wis ra. | on , Ioucy t.9 Uoveraur, bl Wi fi our city—ore fort : On peur i ts ry ol a t Mi west corner and M ts, will ovcar. the | P culime h € ut at 1 their soft ¥ e sprouting ond teoes are sproutiog. Sliad lish rbe | crime,” led atenane ) \ large quantity of the reo straw is soid mow for | & nt ‘ 10 ; Ui so much hay ts found as aved t on qi * n re « t th your city ts wioter, | 3 Y 1 rt oF ie (hat one of the soldice’s i a " there Liw ui to t 6, 80 there ts au in. a . t to the § t al Zovorument. Ihave | hat ¢ : ner etrew . es the Propesiunn tecaproure Fort | 1 ty t ‘ 4 we ip the seeret kuow of a | * are Nees HL Coty [ r etter Way e without spilling a drop of y the voicon, but the », of ost oo ; tbe Tilted againet them. Pregont it | 1 I have r a ye ear anew | terert Y world to compromise temporaril fort, mude of t nea ta hth vat in the ond these compromiscs thust lars temesct Rututer, ws vre, and that | & atiintions afd the intorevts that have ; erg ce weive hours bat D up ander at de destroy 4 4 ; > the cotitest that w now : me in 4 Union © Union. It tu @ontest betwoen the per. | phe * hin of tue Rhopkera boy | Ben fleas of two grea’ terms of eociety, and ie far tn " ff usked 2 © had gow in the hing aur tiuker ny oxivtiug body of obur woe ' he ‘ bite ny d politickr We Seo duet vindiea and (ha po, ve of Le So with ti inion. of ¥ m of ite poelal form: congent to be awept | Hater awoy with the great mane of err and cousigned with | The Hon, sh & bavir y elty to day 1 in the page wy. Ths vi s0tial reasons Ubat impel it to avoid @ i} separa ion or acivil war areas binding on the as on the Southern States, The results of this contest will atiect al sections and all interests alike, and as thosoof the people are Tar more permanent than those of politivians or parties, it must be the people that must act, aud ac- cept or reject at once the destructive doctrine of an “ir represtibie copflict” between the social theories of the Northern and Southern States. THE VOTE FOR THE CONVENTION. A letter dated Austin, January 12, in tho Galveston Corvin, say s-— ‘Ibe indiestions are thet not more than one-third of the voters of the State have voted for the Convention. The tone of the Jeaders here is mach lowered since the reault was made known. Tbey say the Convention should not presume to speak for the people unless it represents alarge majority of them, We have eturns from 616—real vote of san ant: votes: Comal, ne vote: Williamson, elected; Bell, 300 votes, of which 176 were at Belt MeLeppan, 422; Traviv, ‘343, of which 202 were cast at Aust n; Bastrop, about one-third vote; Vayetta, about one third; Burnet, Union cancidate cleoted; Gillespie, no vote, The secessionists bave received about ono third of the vote of theae eounties, They represent about 9,000 votes. An elect was held in Trayis couaty on the 14th inst. , to Hil the vacancy occasioned by the resiguation of the RJ. member of the Logisluture, and we ed in tavor of the Hon, John Hat (united Southera action), over James <inney, (Ommediste secession), by abont 225 majority. The of Austin gave Hancock 169 majority. This, we are sured, isa fair showing of tho sentiment at the capital of Texas, ~ THE GEORGIA SEC! ION CONVENTION. Miunporviise, Jan. 23, 1861 The President of the Convention anaouneod that the hour for the consideration of the special order had ar of marbal law. - ‘to liberty. by inberitance number of counties, Bexar, have hitherto o'eleck, frorct session, Adupted. -veral ainendment= were added to the ordinance, and we HOW Insert it Complete, as UbADIMonsly adoptod. AN ORDINANCE TO DECLARE AND CONTINUE IN FORCE IN THIS STATE SUNDRY LAWS OF THE LATE UMTED STATES OF AMER- FERENCE TO TH APKICAN SLAVE. TRAM © of Georgia, i Convention assembled, do here: ¢ ordain that ail the laws passed by the Con Unived States of America, and {h force in pasu with hee. the objectiors m; ot the Le he removed. But ton of the 1500, be, and the same are hereby cecia ed to be, in fall force igebhis State; an the cetof 15th May, (820, as declares the of- will of the people indepeurient republics of south Carolina, Alia oriva or Mississippi, provided further, the slaves so 1 from the slavehoiding States of North Amoric the General bauma,F introdu D of the sail St from the committee, reported the foliow gent Mr. Conn ondsin politieal than to mo the G ions, or other improvements erected oa the | eded to the eatd United States, or other pro. be held by this State subject to be accounted for In any future adjustisent of the claims Detween this State and the enid United States. Vive hundred copies of the above ordinance were or. dered to be printed or Legisiature to cil. Mirrenceveun, Jan, 24, 186%. The resolutions offered by Mr. Cochran, of Wilkinson, some days sines, were taken up. ‘They are as follo people of the Northorn Stateg of ublic of the Uuited States of America upen the constit i righte of the people of Georgia having | been deemed by the people of Georgia sufficient cange to | impel her, in thie maintenance of Ler rights and honor, to witherow her conmection with the federal Union, ant | to resume her frem the the North. and preserving the Georgia was a of the payment tof the United evasion of this | member thereot, urge ber to a guaran | of her ro rata part of the public tates, existing at the timo of the act of | State from the Union. = heretore resolved, That Georgia will demand and enforces her right to her proportion of the public proper: the general government at the time of the diss £ the partnershi lved, further, That Georgia will assume and gu © the poyment of her pro rate part of tho publ of the United States, ex sting at the time of her © o from the Uuion. ved, further, ‘That the sary and expedient. As to the the Court aeery Wo carry the subject. That f Geogia respect r sister receding States co-operation tn the pol sted to © ernors there Convention of | the call the atteation of Djoct, and ack theit Governor of Geor the same to the re “ance and manh the 1 ve Ge tives and purposes s to his atdress selves ia the power this moment, when bh connected with hers. 0 80 or removed thay be ay be defeated and destiny made subject to the policy of the black republi- has already uncon ¥ ono cad believe Sou hern State com and crbarrassments with what portion her fortuner—it is for the people themselves to de- But when State after state South, and we may goon see every State out of this Union po action on t land is virtually annexation to © liad not his Excell enjoy The Convention then au MARYLAND. A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, ok TO THE PLOPLE OF MARYLAND. 4 Jn the present pertious coudition of public affairs it has y | becn very generally suggested that the Logisiature should as | be informally convened by invitation of the Senate and Speaker of the Louse of Delegates, und thereby an opportunity afforded for the expression of the opinion of the State and the mitiation of proper action in regard to ite duty in the pi Lecersity fer Such proceesing gro and unaccountable action of the Governor in the preseat alarming condition of national a We do no not hesitate to that the Legislature rived, weeks: B LCS, Mr. Coun, of Clark, moved that the Convention go into sly with that correctness of our judgme Assembly adopt measures of scecssi mo Public rumor has many re tor, but we prefer t (ue interests of the State dematd ri government are falling around { are being ‘ormed, it iz tay of quently convened: amd second article of the constitution Governor) shall, from timo t ture of the condition of the their consideration such tu ‘The plain meaning of theze prov lative branch of the government protection of the liberties of thy from executive encroachment wer of the T°, Appeals in Reporte, 472, in substance denying the power there times like these, when th« Governo when civil war is pending ® Legisiatuire upon acting, Maryland alone is ono this ( lie supiuely on their backs her fite, without daring tor Such is the © masterly Governor adopts and con . ri we oe We Weld watataptions ct Rismture would pr Toked, are, we are sure, uilor ouly by the assault made en th we should not have felt c » whit official author ity tu tay tat vin ther " © euependdd, une | aed, perhays, servile wor belen « wsion the public | “tate has organige ' arms enough to re 5 ho scone | armed seloters. the 7 to koop | know, are thus u Will they awa ‘ religion among the | (rimenty Can they d af Christian principt tying | vareed, when the State te to be ranked anon the Chet vised pnd counselled de rth, and thore principle fe | bend, and harmony and € Atlin I gions te ul | Statee on the other, with ie ten ¢ ro. | the Unio c 1 | 8 eocablisht weil be | war; failing im both pury | deprived of any right or pri re | {ones against aggression and a 110114 bolic Morylund, we a | mofthoveht aut or o yox you tot f the prees are th i will place you un But wh ery Kk, sthom in forther On ny eubject, vie | and commit you f tis. ti vile war, Will you of the peopl »the courts, to pe. | committed to wrong. 1 g0 orement on all itunate cognizance, | question pracoably (0 aw be sonaiderativn be cor f pribytie ent or ha impatrud whether you will Yo. every right tt honld he provided a remedy, | poriy and murdered your ¢ ry ollizen ought to + tley witheut pur. | with those who are now resi " wt dent and without deluy, ooururmably to | will dete @ it without f 1 the land. . ¥ of } y persen th on offeaeo against he law ‘air tite ot W “ f coud tien f t with a copy of the © DoW hove b h 1 # of the court to " 4 Fj ft atifylng i! t " t mw bul bal not be res eournivn fi tog a, nor gruel aud Wut bie miteted, | denne Jounre the Prescribed by law. Tiues of nobility are inccnaistent with republican | of the report and resolutions now under cousideration is equality, and civil honors should come by merit and not rs. journed until Tu of tho President sent crisis. compenseiion, except ID cuses Of presming nevessity should be ihst provided and paid. ‘The rights of the people to be geoure in their persons, houses, pupers and eff cts against woreasonadle searches and #.fzures shall not be violated, and no warrants shail imnue but upon probable cause. supported by oath or affir- | to trame mation, perticularly describing the place or places to | seceding 8. be searched, apd the persons or uuungs to be seized. Extreme necessity only should justify the declaration Large etanding armies in times of peace are dangerous No soxiiers shall, in time of peace, be quartered la any hovse without the congent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a mauper All powers not delegated to the government expressly. ‘or by becessary implication are reserved to the people of the Stute; and, in ali doubtful cases, the denial of the gront is the ground safest for the tiverty of the people. ‘The enomeration of rights bere’n contained shall not be rued to deny to the peopie any inberent right which | people day, at ten The ‘out of the stotid vertments for a Southern Confederacy being uader co: ¢ sideration, the Hon. Wa. L. Yanosy rose and said:— 5 & : ; | ourselves Je of South Carolina havo ‘n+ | the purposes of blockade, and the announcement of a f¢ Mx. Peesipent—The peop! ow vited the people of Alabama > meet them in convention | Practical rules deouced from the principles of public law, sional and. permanent governments for the | which at any time permit the exercise of a which of In the resolutions accompanying the or- | beceesity must be a restriction and a burden upon all na- dinance dissolving the Union—the ordinance of seces- | tions as well as those Spent! interested. sion—this Convention accepted that invitation; and adopt- | The right of blockade is essentially @ military right, and ing the suggestion of the Commissioner from South | recos nized only as @ m Mug and worrying an Carolipa, we invited thore, as well as the Southern States, to mect us in convention of this city, on the #th of February, of framing provisional and ‘permanent goverumeats, for our common future peace aud security, The object simply to carry into effect the desixn then and thus an- nounced, and, therefore, Bo cvlegate who voted for the ordinance and resolutions atiached can consistently vote against this report. Several objections have been urged air st the report, which | propose briefly to consider. pe is, that by the report deputies to that Southern Con- vention are to be elected by this body, and not by the nd also that no provision is made for the elec- ton o' another convention to consider the plan tor the permanent government to be submitted for ratifica- tion, The points are correctly atated, but constitute no ‘objection with me. Tbe peopie have had this question of gecession before them for a long time, and have maturelv considered it im two late elections, namely: those f F electors of President and for delegates to this body. The issue was ag c)stinctly made in ove as in the other, and in both they decided the issue in favor of secession, ‘They bave intrusted their delegat-s with unlimited power—power to ‘erveider, determine and do whatever, in the opinion of this convention, the rights, interests and honor of the State of Alaama requires to be done for their protection.” The law that autborized the election contained that enumeration of ample authority, aud the people endorsed it. We have been selected fcr our supposed wisdom, experience in public affairs, integrity aud couroge to take all propor espocsibility in the premises. Tv my opinion, the seven 1861, for the purpose | ed to by a recognized Power or State’aguinst another enemy with whom the biockading power is at war—ac- tual war. It is a right which in general can ooly be resort- re- cognized Power or State—in other words, ‘it must be the act of a belligerent.” And in case of blockade of @ port of an enemy, to which the commerce of the world finds daily entry, due notice must be given of such block~ ade, ano the belligerent right acknowledged, before car- g0e8 can be estopped. The right cf foreign nations tor enter the port of New Orleans, for ex«mple, is guaran— teed by treaty—the right 1 absolute, so fur as the treaty: goes, ano the government which conceded it cannot, of. eelt, withdraw it, unless cue notice is given, and the reasons for 80 doing re satistactory. The right which. nations exercite in clesing or open: ports for the bet- ter accommodation of commerce and the greater conve- nience of the State, is a very different proposition from: the right to cloge a port in order to hinder aod disturb- commerce, and especially to repress it in A commodity necersary to the quiet and comfort of the world. From the geveral definition of bleckade, it follows that. before the Uni States con resort to that means of an- noy ing the Southern Stats she must acknowledge their indepencenee, and go rgularly to war with them as a separate Power. The right of embargo, which has been resorted to by the United statgs government, in common with other nations, is a viffer¢ht rigbt from blockade, in: this—that when a poverument finus it impersible for to bleckade the ports of a hostile nation, she can prohibit. toreign or otber vessels trom leavwg her owa ports, if the commodity with which they wouid be laden were es- rential to ihe weil being of that pation. This would not be exactly war, but it would be an unfriendly act in that express the opinion | States that wili be out of the Union by the 4th of Febeu- direction towarcs the States with whom commerce was: ehould lave been con. | ary will need acommon government in craer to meet a | thus to be interdicted | To lay au embargo on the ports or certainly cotempora- | common enemy as scon a8 ono can be organized. It is | of New Orleans would be an unfriendly act towards of — Virgiuia, ed on all hands that onr fortunes are indissolubly We shou} then have moved part We are the more fully c trince it has been sustamed by the action of every other slave Stato—the Legislatures of ali of them baving either alroady met or are soon tv do so under calls already made fenees ther j-eified to be piracy; and in lieu of the | caus, to which, it is believed, penalty of death thereie speciiea’there shall be substi- | ditiona'ly yicloed. Is it possible tated hoprisonment inthe penitentiary for @ term of | that he is the only Govornor years not less than live nor exceeding twenty, in the dis petent to understand the ditiicul retion of the Court; provided the me iL not be | of the day? ed to extend (0 the importation of negro i s from any one of the slaveholding States | Gov. Hicks to the peopte of M the lute United States of America, ‘the general purport of t ir n. where the L a. Ge ‘ to revist exec pr » and we ehaul ly ic right to act with them 1 the rest the responsibility of \lictat ived of r land until the people may bo Porn “ ‘ ived rights of gelt-dciones, We izens, ing lik eouvenedt orts with re ‘wgcribe bis unwill pillars of tho. federal ind new combinations not for either the Governor our State the Union ste 3 goin, d for amendirg, #6 to eal ecision fr being vineed of the One after another ¢ by the Executive to the convening ure, by the happening of the events which timated woull induce him to act, been answered or jection been answered others, whereby the heir right aud is t will from us at the aveholting part of Mary- e North and other shy uth. The Governor, by preventing e:— | virtually decides that question, aud endorses ue over to We say that the people o Lim for no such purpose, and that be decided only by the people tion elected for that eepecia} p It is contemplated by some persons that tho Legisla ture has no power to call a Convention. has? Where does the Goyeraor get the powe Article 10 of the Bill of Rights provides « redress of grievances, a State e ia ono to a Conven. ror as to that M. wer, then t ertion# Tarin wh that Matne hoy their foregoing resolutions were referred to the Crmmit. | address, after the most eele fee on Foreign Relstiovs. the South and Southern interes, de —— to live and die in a Micuaocevile, Jan. 28, 1964, that address are vo tr 7 uvention met (hi t cl ‘clock, | “eniste from Penneyly to After the taneeelion of med Sst nh their approbation of eee Pct . zi guns in honor of bis devetion t ir, Conn, of Clarke, it r report, | one State has already sent @ bieek republ witel was not at be cated | on to counsel with him ov ih 8 ny the re Can he expect that the peop'e of t sce through his #hallow preven Bipips i ire tucsit eaunol J tue South will not look boy or be too we r ton te hence intent and purpose of Af poouite £ devotion t hie int ngness to act, as he should do, rather to y. ad- ve We have read with no little surprise the address of dated January 3, at address 15. ¢ designed to impress the public mind with the idea that would forthwith dently ‘d to this nat. nor hag dared and assumed to decide it. Whilo, icst the wishes of Maryland, plain that with divided councils, and diviced resources, and divided action, these States cannot contend against the united power of toe Northern States as weil as if they met their enemy with the strength and wisdom sf union im counc] aud action. Hostilities already exist between the seceding States and tho federal Union. Cuercion ia the policy at Washington. To poetpono the meeting of the Southern Convention until we could submit the a tion of deputies to the people would postpone it. meeting till the 4th of March, and that, in my opinion, would be hazareous to the last degree. Such an act would be sui. cical—.o to be looked for, perhaps, from @ friend of re: construction of the Union, but not from a fricud of a South- erm confederacy. But, it 8 said, why not cail another Con- veution to ratify the permanent government to be adopt- ec? Lanswer, because it is unvecessary. A permanent government fora Southern confederacy was looked for by the friends of secession—wos spoken of and entered into all the @ ps in the lato canvass. It was a part of the plan of seceasion, and when the people docided tor sevession they decided for a Southern confeteracy. Therefore, in that point, we already know the views of the people, and no new expression of op.nion is needed. Neither is euch expression needed as to the charae- ter of the permanent government. That character the people have indicated, and it is expressed in the report— the State, and have asked time for reflection, in order to its correction. Who {s not awac that it was a great misfortune that the election for delegates to this body came off so goon after the heated Presidential ill be bearing the burthens of such a2 contest. Commor- cial and agricultural int to will be sutfering. Dobts France avd England and whatever nation trades to this port. And the right of embargo also implies the actual de facto possession and sovereignty ot the port and terri- tory whose products and commerce are in this mode to be interfered with. Our pugpoee at this time being merely to state the genera! principle of blockade and cinbargo, we shallon @ future cccasion examine into the exceptional cases of ex- ercise of these powere, conteutivg ourselves, for the mo- ment, with orawing a corollary or two from the proposi- tions laid down. First. Tke right of blockade being a hostile right of na- tion against nation, if the United States wishes to bleck- ade the ports of the South, she can do £0 by acknowlodg- ing their independence and making war upon them in due form. Second. The United States, when she declares war on @ seceding State, can lay an embargo on the portof Boston t prevent tbe people of Lynn from shippimg shocs to such State, if ehe thivks Ot to dogo. It will be geen that blockade is a right exercived against a foreign Power, in foreign waters; that ombargo is a right exercised at home, and withia the possession and sovereignty of the power enforcing it So much for the present. It is asad theme tw the possible contiogen- cy which bas inducea us to advert to itnow. When the stars ane stripes shal! have b-en lowered to make a wind~ iI 201 » been imp« ‘ou boyond seas sud 0 rte d out of UL it must be a government a3 nearly similar ag possible to " Cireneet aaah pn icone rn : a ise phar “th obese ta - premise the federal coueniation We pe no di ey before | ing sbect for the Union, over which they havo floated sa Be it fo ordained and declared, That the G nor | tare of the horrors of civil war is the people, nor other expression of their views ou that | grucefuly~and so proudly, we will be able to hand e these of Georgia shail discharge all the duties required by said | the people of the State. 1’ his Px S ° point. Besides these views, in themsclvee conclusive to | topes in botter heart, if not with better strength, jaws of the President of the United States, and the At. | the cbarge he has thus insinuated against the General | any mird, no statesman would willingly throw such - yo: Solicitor General of the Judicial district where | Aseembly, we candidly assert that wo believe he is tho | grave issues before the people after once Teceiving their MISSOURT, riees shall discharge all tue duties required of | only intelligent man within the State who has ever been | decision, until the irritations and prejudices and passions THE LATE CALL TO ARMS IN MASSACHUSETTS. the Iustrict Attorney, and the Sheriff of the county all | disturbed by such agroundiess opprohension. We should | of the previous contest had cooled. It is vuly wiso, | ‘The following pertinent remarks fiom the st. Louis tho duties required,by the Marshal. F be just as willing to believe thot tho true reason why the | before throwing off upon theweople + pousibilities | yeraid justly rebuke the hot haste of the Legislature of Sorualueé, That the State of Goorgia shalt } Legislature is not eonvencd iz, that the Governor appre- | which attach to us, to coneider the const oa of the pub- | Mascachuzetis and other States who are fficiously prof for the Uhited States in every portion of | Lends an investigation us to what vecome of the | Ke mind, Gentlemen hore have told us of an excited and | foring men and arms to the foderal government, and de. ere the substitution iz required by the pre- y voted at the | jon for the purchase of arma. | unhealthy state of public feeling in some sections of er to hasten a cleat w ipg all m their = ‘The indecent haste with which sundry free State Legia- jatures bave voted arms, men and money to support the government, as they call it, has found, of course, 2 c0py- ist in Massachusetts, That State, through its aboll NANCE TO RESUME JURISDICHON OVER We knew what we ‘assert that there ienot | contest? Who is not aware that in one section of the | Governor, also promises to eunport it with its whole phy- WIN THE LIMITS OF GEORGIA OVER WHICH JC @ member of either biatch of the General Asse: who | State the angry passions and prejudices of that contest | gical and financial power. It is something new for Massa LEN HEREROF( ki) 1 THE LATE UNE would think of assuming to decide for the poople Fgely and almest exelusively in that #ec- | chusetts to assume that attitude. She has generally op- A, AND TO PROVIDE FOR COMPENSATION WO ryland a question like that suggested, the di tion into the election for del And is it wise, is it | posed the government, both in peace and war, She pass- UNITED STATES POR THE 190 ENTS ERECTED THER which every one must concede belongs of right to the | not eminently unwise, to throw thie whole question | 6d a resolution in her Legislature declaring it “unbecom- The people of #, in Convention assembled, do | people themselves, think it would be almost as pre- | again before uch a people, to blow ofthe ashes and re- | ing a moral and religious people to rejeice over the victo- here! y deciare und ordain that the ecssions heretofore | sumptuous for the Legi . sume to decide that | vive once again the glowing embers of that bitter strife? | rieg obtained against our enemics.”” ‘The resolution wag: the General Assembly of this Stote, granting | queetion as for the Governor to do 5: There is another reagon why I oppove the clection of an- | aimed against the government, and at any rejoicings over on to the Inte United over | _ If the Legislature were convened tt would feel it to bo | other convention. Such 2 propesition has a tendency to | victories against the British arma. Now, how Mas- portions of the territory within the present | its paramcunt duty to give to tho people of Maryland an | reopen the question of secession, by bringing up the issue | gachugetts rushes to arms with hot hast. Yat now, the e St ; be and the same are | opportunity to veclare t will gard to the present | of a reconstruction of the federal govern me Itallows | “enemy” is their own countrymen. joes (ra! woke the y ud the full jurisdiction | eatraordinary state of affeir Nd not elect the Le. | such an issue to be made—it invites it, infact. And | giference? Is Massachusetts that kind of State and peo- vereignty ever the sane are hereby resumed by | gislature fourteen months age wo der le Ghat questic under what circumstances? T'rom the signe of the tines | ple that will oppose-and resist, even to loud threats of the sud state. neither did they elect the Goveraur thr. >years ago to it would seem as if coercive ineasures were to be adopt- | gisunion, a war against a foreign foo, and yet spring with ther ordained, That the buildings, machinery, | cide it. Legislature would not dare 10 decide it, but { ed. If go about the time of suck sn oloctian the people | gincrity fo a war against their fellow countrymen? Woula they mourn at victorios over tho Knglish, and rejoice at victories over Americans? will be hard to py, Provisions will @ scarce. Perhaps death ot the hands of the enemy will have come to doors of many families, Men's minds this surrounded and atfected by strong pervoual and selfish consiterations, will not bo in that calm and wel! balanced condition which is fa- yorable toa correct and patriotic judgmentofthequestion. | volvers, intended for the use of the republic of Migsis- The very state of things will perhaps exist, which our | sippi, passed over tho Orauge aud Alexandria Railroad om Vlack republicsn ene will exist, and which | Friday last, on their way to Jackson, Miss, they sneeringly rely upon to force our people to ask for MUNITIONS OF WAR FOR THE SOUTH. The Alexandria (®a.) Gazelle of the 30th ult, says:— Twonty cases of Minnie rifles and ton cages of Colt’s r or ito oration action, If so, then who hat for tho igthening ght to be fre ion ef the that he (the the Legislu- recommend to as ho may Judge necos. ‘ase of its boing con i eS readmission inte the Shall wo, the celected a these wily and ying this whole u the very question, vs it culmin eve of fika! triumph, buck to the consideration of a peo ple thor surrounded and influenced by most unpropitious circumstances? To do so twig accord with the pur poses Of a friend of @ ion of the federal government, but in myo 1 policy which every true friend of the people’ shouki condemn. Mr. Prosi- dent, Layow myself os utterly, wualtorably opposed to ony ‘and all plans of reconstructing a union with the black republican Stutes of the North. No new guasan- tees, no amendments of the constitution, ro peaceful regolutiens, no repeal of offensive laws, can olfer to me any, the least, inducement to consider, even, upon a pro- as a political wrong CHANGE OF THE NaME OF A POST OFFICER. ‘The Postmaster General has changad the name of the: Post office at Speonk, New York, to Westhampton, The change to take eftoct immediately, THE CONGRESSIONAL RAID. INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. The House Investigating Committee at Washington are vigorously and secretly pushing thoir inquiries in relation to tho alleged coneptracy to take forcible posseasion of the capital on or before the 4th of March noxt. John D. Tormey, of Baltimore, and Mr. Hicks, a hotel-koeper in Montgomery county, Maryland, wore examined on Wednes_ Vache to gay et onr relations pote Frey non-slave- | day and yesterday. Dr. Boyle, Navy Agent Flynn, Godard nolding States. opinion je not founded on any ob- 7 ¥ > Liat the Zouis- | jectiee to confederation ‘with States north of Macon | Dalley, ex-ecretary Thompson and Daniel Ratcliffe, of tobe the | and Dixon's line on principles mutually agreeable | Washingtcn, will appear before the committee to answer 2 -, i a ix founded on the cony veg that | regarding the desigus of a secret oath-bound organiza- he digeuse which preys on the vituls of the foderal te ‘. . Unien dors not & @ from any defect in the fode- | 00 there composed of furious aisunionsets. eral conatitution—but froma desper source-—the hoarta, Mr. Hoffinan, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Re- heads and conecier of the Northern people. a presentatives at Washington, was in Baltimore on Wed- are ted to believe slavery to be a religions as well nesday looking up witnesses to testify before the Invasion wud « quent © hate the Flave- . ; holder. Mr. Seward was right, whon he declared that | Committee as to their knowledge of any organization ex: conte must that there was “e Wreprescible ot Wie i ~ st ir, the elements of #1 to be found in | Of capturing and holding the seat of government om or be~ constitution, but brs cu a ithern 4 £09 the inauguration of the Presideht elect, flo nabbed people, Neguarantecs, no tl Uta | sever t od knowing ones, and returted with Lon, be compromises piel: re tothe North | tne veh ek expen z — the benefits of C , ean re edncate em to Washington. that people om the sia \ Laving the majority, ja aid of thay iy OF steh réeonsty a over the irrita h bas been cating perhape an appar heome and ive to induce them, its to en noer cl Vhion, eff while still the its fatal pro. THE MASSACHUSET'S LEGISLATURE. Boston, Feb. 2, 1961. ‘The House wont into reeret session to-day, to consider the bill appropriating one hundred thousand dolla: to tho Emergency Fund. It is supposed that au important com- munication hos been received, aa the bill passed under @ gress, and daily weaken: until finally it 5 dreoks forth again with ¥ ause temporarily | Suspension of the rulee. ue = . : Aig Ba wi at ‘uke woah. Maryland. | One other oh y friend © TLLIN G > cm Clarke, Mr a ee THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. fordamental in its t is, that by the Cmcaco, Fob. 2, 1861 41h of February , but ma that day, ‘Tho Ninoly Senate Committee on Federal Relations yess itt worker ha mig Ridge vid make © 8. | terday reported that, with the earnest desire for the re- tates will secede by ih! apd when they | '?® of harmovy among all our eistor States, and out of if this report them Will Gnd a | respect to the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Governor Me Biooal as it P nent government In ope. | bo requested to appoint five Commissioners to attend the fs py dog Seg by Pg making: {the ceood- 7 Convention at Waehingion on the 4th inttant. The eecond, trom, at thie junety ref but little moment, if | rrectation eoys that the appeintment of Comiissioners | cirevanetances d extraordinary promptitude | by the State of TMinois, in response to the invitat | action, trength aud effect to 3 a P irslos y pol invitation of Mi othor op. | the mover partof the seceding | State of Virginia, is not an expression of eptaion on nulor our | State, 1 €¢ nof my friond from | the part of this State that any amendment to the federal teers Loch woot tr Wee bo 4 al assent, rp corstitation is requisite to secure the people of the slaves south Carol ‘Oramo hostile movements have boon | Polding States adequate guarantees for scourity of their will Toode open military coc r contr ishin} demanded. ‘Ih iL seoms to me for ernment seems to bo Prompt aetion in rights, nor an approval of the basts of sottloment of owe Aifficulties proposed by the Stare of Virginia, but ie ain expression of our willingness to unito with the State of Virginia in an earnest effort to adjust the present unhappy aa controversy in the spirit In which tho constitution wa indicdse the eee ‘isional and perma, | °riginally formed, and consistent with its priucipls, bent goverment They aro both to bo ‘Tho third revolves that the appropriate and conetity med on the pr Jora} constitution. This nna’ met or ering ai lov ctucein oh nto all the santana poo his | tena! method of concidoring and acting apon tho griev Hin revered t sre hues boon to desire ty op | ences complained of by our isto States would be by tha has e he South, yo of the colebrated Virgiuin regoln: constitution hee been uniformly held ' 2 1 buckler again ‘outh is content with it now— hereafter. Mf all the Soutborn jon, who doubte that they would pimowely call of a Cony tion, in the nm: that instron The r itions were adopted by a vote of 15 to 10 trict party vote. Gustavus Koerner has declined the appointment of Commissioner, and Judge Palmer has been appointed ix on for the ainendmont of the constitu. ver contemplated by the Gfih article of te government for a Southern con- stead, sph | feceraey pon ~ 4 id the federal constitution? aiygge St pena an rong to | Nove of ud the five or seven States that y viet determine | ant 1 cn ith of February next | THE ILLINOIS COMMISSIONERS TO Wasit olen you" pro. visiomal government INGTON, tonke cor cima afterwards frame Caters, TH., Feb. 2, 1900. elayelold in: mt a compror the like principles, who it retires from the witiesion into the Sonthera mubt. One creat and prime nt of the Horror States in eapread belief that the In acoordance with resolutions of tho Legislature paseed yerterday, Gov. Yates appointet the following Com- missioners to Washington:—st»puon T. Logan, Gustavus A. Koerner, Fx-Goy. Wood, B. C. Cook, Thomas J. Turner. ise anid tesigned, ih Recod of to establish a govern one voter of ring e ntinlly froin the fod onstibaution, ¥ . + 7 ) that tha African slave trade would to re THE MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE. letters from diptingutatted Dernorr, Feb. 2, 1861 Mat yar? point tatoneiae | 2h the Senato yostortay a rorcintion authorizing the ' ‘© itnot for the fear ef the now confederacy | COVE Hor to appoint fivo Commissioners to Washington hie Aftioon glave trade, there would bea much | Was rejected—yong 16, uays 16, J wore yen nt in tl “tates to ) ? it ‘ ay # me mle h fea “d Death of Ex-Governor Harris. hart ‘ tint ; Provirnven, Re L, Bob. 2, 1801 a Wy , ‘ k nor Flieha Harrie died last night, at bie reat eral wm will © deuce h Covontry