The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1861, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 8914. PEACE CONCRES Meeting To-Day of the (Con- vention in Washinrton as | Requested by Virginia. Eight Northern and Seven Southern States to be Represemted. The Delegates Arpointed by the State Legislatures aad Gevernors. WHO ARE THEY? The Talk Yesterdey in Washington About the Congross:and ‘What it ‘Will Do. The Illinois Besolutions Drafted Under the ion of Mr. Lincoln. ” BOSTON T@ ‘BEND -DELEGATES TODAY, ae, ‘Ses he. Wasmmxeron, Feb. 3, 1861. ‘The trains South aud North this mornin. brought large accessions of Comminsieners to the Peace Congtees, which ‘meets to-morrow, and ‘o-day has ‘been a busy one among them, in conforring tegether and co mparison of views. All geom to be impressed with he great importante of the work before them, and of ¢he alarming posture of public affairs. at the preeent time. Virgimia, the originator and mover of this scheme, will be allowed to occupy 2 prominent position in the Conver | ond consult with the Cosnuissiouera of oder States who | | | | ap expression of oar W o “NEW: YOR shall met at Washington; Provided, TRat said Commis Sherk shall at all tames be subject te the control of the General Apsembiy the State of iB. Reeolved, Thatthe appointment of Oommirstouers by the State of Mhuois in response Yo the inviteXion of the Suto of Vingmva is not an expression of opimion on the art of this Mate that any ameudment of the Yederal con. rtitution fs Tequisite te novel of the basis of sottloment of our diftsatties proposed ay the State of Virginia, but it is hi nogvess to wale with thw Suate of Virgitt's in an earnest offort lo adjust Se presect unhappy controrersy in the spirit. in which ‘tho constitution was origidally framed ane cousietently with its principles, Revoived, That Whsle we are Wiling to appoiat Com- missioners to mo in Convention with those of other Sieies for considtetion upon meiters which at present os8tract our harteny as u pation, we also metst that the @prepriate covMivutional wmefhod of conswering and ecting upem the grievances eotaplained of by our sister ‘Btates, would be by the cali of a convention for the amendinent ‘of the constituéion in the manner contem- plated by the fifth article of Yhat instrument; and it the States deemh ¢ themselves aggrieved shall request Con- gress to call such Convention, the Legislature of Thtinois will and dees concur in such culls. SrRNGFIRLD, Mlk, Feb. 2, 1861. Governer Yates appointed to-day ExGovernor Wood, Judge Logan, B. C. Cook, John M. Palmer, and Chomes J. Turner, ‘til deciled anti-compromise republicans, Gom- missions:s to the Washingten Convention. MASS MEETING IN BOSTON. Boston, Feb. 8, 1861. ‘There will be a mass People’s Convention, without dis. tinetica of party, in the Merchante’ Exchange to-morrow to send Commissioners to Washington. THE DELEGATES. FIFTEEN STATES TO BE REPRESENT. The Washington Conference, to assemble te day in the city of Washington, by invitation ef the State ef Virginia, mests for the purpose of devising measures, if possible, for the pacification of this now distracted country, and for the restoriug of the entente cordiale between the two great sections of the Union. The following is the basis of settlement of existing troubles recommended by the Legislature of Virginia: — Resolved, That in the opinion of the General assembly of Virginia, the propositions embraced in the resolutions presented to the Senate of the United States by the fon. Jobn J. Crittenden, so modified as that the Gretarticle pro- free aS an amendment to tue constitution of the United States shall apply to ail the territory of the United States, now held or hereafter acquired, south of latitute thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes, and provided that slave: y of the African race shall be effectually protect as pro: (oN to the people of the slave- | » holding Stoves adequate «#arantees for Yhe security of | their rights, nor an tion. One of her Commissioners, probably ex-President | perty therein, during the .coutiouance of the Cerritorial He ig a strong, warm, pereonal friend of Mr. Lincoln, ant bas Deen aged for ® positon im the Pepnbiican Cubiaet. Ho js want to be a conservative man and in favor of the Weed compromi, John Wood & an ex-Govermor of the State, and was Bucereded by the present owe, Be is a strong anty-com- promise repablican, NOW YORK. + adackscp democrat, 14 MORNING EDITION—- MONDAY, FEBRUARY He secured his State for the hero of New Oneaps, ond to his exertions i# largely duc tbe gab lant front the democrats of Kentacky bav® made, thougo simort consteutry in the minority He was for nine years a nemder of the State Legislature. Ip 1852 be was ¢lected President of the Convention to revise the constitution of the State. He subaeqneutly became & leading epirit in State railroad enterprises, and ¢ls- played cepsidernbio exeoutive and financial abibty. Io James 8, WadswortS isa wealthy gentleman of the | 1883 he entered President Preree’s Cabmet, where bis | wertern part of this State, Addirvn Gardiner ix a democrat, and former Lieutenant | Govermer of the State. He stands in high repotation with hia party. Greene © Brontop isan eminent lawyer of this city. | Ho was formerly Chie? Justice of the Court of Appeals, | sand Collector of the port under the Pierce adminiatra- | tion, im throvgh which to reward the Buffalo democracy of this city. He is astrong national democrat, and now | holds the responsible poe ition of Corporation Counsel. William E booge is a preminent merchant of this city, Be is an witra Lincoln man, and during (Be last campaign spoke in public for bis nominee. Erastus Corping is a wetl known dempoerat, financier aud rajlroaa manager and pobtician, Tle i# the member of Congrers elect trom the Albany district. succestor of Senator Seward, is a New Englauder by birth, and early came to New York, where he bas pur- anassed alarge fortune. He carly linked bis political influence withthe republican party, and was one of its position, and shrewdness and strategy will procure it Tavid Duoley Field i also a New Englander by birth and eduestion. Ho early adopted the profession of the Jaw, and tock up his abode in this city. Ho is a lawyer and repebhcan politician, and, like his intimate friend | Evarts, i= anxioas for a public position. Wr. Curtis Noyes ts also a celebrated lawyer and re- publican politician, He vacated bis placo rather than to be the medi- talents became more apparent, and wh re they hat full scope, Siee Mr. Guthrie's retirement from public po- litiea) life he bas devoted his time to railroad en:erprises and to the enjoyment of domestic apd sectal intercourse. James B. Clay, son of Hoory Clay, and ex-member of Congress. Mr. Morehead, ex Governor. Charles Wicklitfe was Postmaster General ander Presi- dent Harrison, and subsequentiy Governor of Kentucky Wm. 0. Butler was one of the early settiers of Ken tucky, and tock an active part in the dian wars in the carly bistory of that State and in the warof Ist He and a member of the house of Phelps, Dodge & COmPABY- | ag pominated for the Vice Presidency in the Couveénajon | that nominated Gonera Cass tor President, | Wiliam M, Evarte, recently on the anxions soxt ae tho | Political career at an early a sued the legal profegsion with ability and profit, having | | eancy in the Sen advocates in the recent campaign that elected Abraham | Lincoln to the Pretideney. He is ambitions for public | VIRGINIA. | Jobm Tyler, ox-President of the United Stites, the chairman of the Vireinia delygation, He commenced bis having been elvoted to | the Virginia Ly giklature at tho age of twenty ene yours. | and five years later to Cor geoes, In 1826 he was elevated | to the station of Governcr of bis pative State He dis | charged the duties of that office but one year and 9 half, | when the Virginia Lepipiamre elected bimt> 4 a va- of tho Unrted states, He served in | this capacity until, on a ditfrence of opinion between Gen. Jackson and bimseif, he resigned his eeat and went appars determined to heve it, if money, | i265 voluntary retirement. Mr. Tyler did not aguin mak his appearance in public Ifo until 1840, when hv was se lected by the whig party 8 their candidate for Vico President. He was elected to that office by a largo ma jority, and entered upon his duties on the 4° of March,1841. The @eath of President Harrison, which | eceurred fhortly after, raised him t) the Chief Migis: | tracy of the republic. His term of office oxpired in 1845, OHIO, | since which time be has been living iu retirement. He Salmon P. Chase, one «f the bright and shining lighta | is eventy-one years of age. of the republican party, is a native of the State of New | George W. Summers, a distinguished [iterateur. He is Hampshire, where be was born in 1808, moved to Ghio; he subsequently entered and graduated | He carly re- | #87 ate of William and Mary College, and was for- merly a legislative representative of the western part of Virginia, A few years ago he delivered a very able ad Hy aa 7 oe & 4, 1861. Ly) THE REVOLUTION. MPCRTANT FROM WASHINGTON. The Future Policy of the Republicans. PEACEABLE SECESSION TO BE CONCEDED, The Boundaries of the Two Confede- racies to be tbe Question at Issue. REPORTS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. Seizure of the Cutter McClel- | land at New Orleans. Spirited Igstructions Secretary Dix. from Interception of a Despatch by the Governor of Alabama. THE REASONS WHY GEORGIA SECEDED. WHAT WILL MARYLAND DO? PRICE TWO CENTS. ean great question, the point of the revolution now belng vertou#ly considered among atatesmen. No war, no | lighting, auless the South madly rune @ muck and must buve a fight with somebody. The unity of the repub- jeans still assures the union of the Northern States, and promises a peaceable Union of those States with the | Canadas; and now they strike the nerves and interest of | commerce to gain their point, leaving Seward and the Conference to doal with fossils hke slavery and tho Territories, ‘This policy now seriously considered by leading states- men of the republican party, if ad»pted, the next step, | already indicated above, willbe a peaceable union of the | Northero states with t adas, ating at once an empire mueb greater, reer, stronger and more eplight- | ened, as a whole, than ever existed upon the American | conthert brfore. It would be an empire in full sympa- | thy with Great Britain, Once in active operation its | Polley would be to invite emigration to the vast free Ter- Titories of the West, open them up, develope their re- pew States, open communiestion with the ales, Dot ouly by a tier of free States, but by a | direct line of railroad. Noxt acqnire Mexico and Cen- | tral America, peaceably if possible, but acquire them and hold the key to the two oceans. This is the policy. It commences with the settioment of the boan- | daries, and if the South odject to the national line herein. indicated nothing but war will settle tt. Mark the pro- | diction, This is the only basis upon which the North will acqniesee in a peaceable settlement of existing af- fairs. There is considerable gossip about Caesius M. Clay’d | letter to the Jrivune, tho republicans generally express- ing the opinion that Clay has decidedly got the best of it. The wiseacres who are exhibiting their knowledge of the navigation of naval ships in Charleston har- bor, assert that the Brooklyn war steamer once entered that port. She never did any such thing. In 1868, when she made her trial trip, it was known that she drew so much water that she could not | get over Charleston bar, consequently she went into the | harbor of Beaufort, North Carolina, Perhaps it is unfor- | tunate that she did not get into Charleston at that time, | as the knowledge of the fact might change the face of | things now. | _ The Governor of Mississippi announces that Jefferson | Davis and ex-Secretary Thompson have guaranteed to | pay in May and June next twenty-four thougand dollars | for the purchase of arms for that State. This is the | Tyler, will be named as President. At least that is the present feeling among the momb rs_here. ‘The choice, however, may falFapon James Guthrie, of Kentucky. It is said they intend to set with closed doors. government, and the fourth article shall secure to the owners of slaves the right of transit with thei slaves between and through the non Maveholding tates and Territories, constitute the paris of such au adjustment of tho unhappy controversy whick now divides the States of this confederacy, as would be accepted by the people It is becoming: mere manifest every hour that the bor- | of this Commonwéulth. der slave States wilbteke nothing leas than the Crittenden- This Conference will consist of delegates from the at Dartmouth College; he qualided himself for the legal | Profession in Washington, D.C. and in 1820 was admitted | to the bar of the District of Columbia, and soon after returned to practise in his adopted State, In 1837 Mr. | dre+s before the Old Dominion Society of this city on the subject of the “Union.” 4 Fx-Judgo Brockenhrough is one of the most distin IMPORTANT MEETING IN BALTIMORE, | «me stv. davis, who by some extraordinary means un- known to Congressmen, got an amendment to the Army bill through Congress during the closing hours of the last Violent Speeches of Ex-Minister MeLane ANd | session prohiviting the Seerctaries of War and Navy from. purchasing any patented articles whatever, which in- | ‘Chase came prominently forward in the advocacy of those ideas with which his name is now so widely itentifled. | guiehed jurists in Virginia, and is a descendant of a dis- tinguisbed family of that State. He is a democrat in poli Ex-Governor Lowe. | cludes arms and powder—two things very much needed | just now. Mr. Chase had taken but slight part in polities until 841— | tics, and was strongly urged for the nomination for Goy Bigler proposition. Neither the border States proposition | several States, appointed under the authority of the nor those introdueed by Corwin and Adams will satisfy | State Iegislatures. These delegates do not come directly theee States; and waless the republicans come square up | from the people, but they are nearer to them than the tothe work—-no backing or filling—and indicate the / political bodies which have up to this time had the right spirit.and proper disposition to bring aboutan | management of ailaira. This will be the bordor States amicable and speedy adjustmont, all will be lost. It rests with the jeaiers of this great party to docide between peace or war. The more moderate .of them understand and fully comprehend the great end vital questions at issue, and would gladly come forward and Settle the differences at once and restore peace to our distracted country. But they have thus far beon re- strained by the bed men in their party, and the fear of olive branch offering to the Northarn States. If it is not met with a fraternal spirit of conciliation, and a dosire to eave the country from the impending danger to which it is now exposed, then the Conference will be of short duration, and the border slave States will abandon all hopo of settlement and at once follow the seceded States. Great responsibility, therefore, reste upon this Couference, and our earnest prayer is that that responsibility may be felt en-ountering the hostility of the Zribune and kindred | andappreciated. It is quite obvious that whatever course spapers. ‘The Commissioners from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Maryland, ow dorsry and Rhode Island are quartered at Willard’s. ‘WaswmNcrow, Feb. 3, 1861. As the hour approaches for the assembling of the ‘| Feace Conference the public mind a: the seat of govern. ,| mea! is becaming more and more agitated. In prominent and influentia! cirees the subject of the Conference is viewed from diferent stand points. The out-and-out re- publicans, who ga for na compromise, following the dicts of the Tribune, regaed-tlie presence of the Peace Commis sioners with undisguiaed disfavor. They openly denounce the Conference a 8 preanmptuous interference with the poliey of the majorhty im Congress and of the incoming administray ion, whatever that policy may be. They say that the » resident elect is capable of restoring confidence, and that ‘6 measures of concilia- tion should not be thwarted by the ,"recipitate and almost of action the Conference may adopt will net Le Maal, for it will be referred to the several States there repreeented; but they can consider and adopt any plan of adjustment embodying the principles of the Crittenden proposition, with the addition of some details since proposed by tho Virginia Legislature. Should the delegates iguore all “party lines and affiliations, and, with the hearts of truo patriots ana lovers of the wholo Union, of fer some good and acceptable plan for the ad. fustment of tho questions that now threaten tho peace and tranqnillity of the country, they will have their names, covered with honor, handed down to pos- terity as the saviours of this great republic. South Carclina has in plain terms declined the invita- tion, stating, by @ resolution unanimously adopted by its Legialavure, that they donot deem it advisable to ini- tiate negotiations when they have no desire nor intention to promote the ultimate object in view, that object being, as declared in the resolution of the Virginia Legislature, “the procurement of amendments or new guarantees to unauthorized action of a fow States ay the instigation of & | (5 constitution of the United States.” Blaveholding State. Michigan and Mastachusetts, through their Legislatures, Joshua R. Giddings, who has just arrive’: declares tho | nave positively refused to send delegates to this Confe- republicans havo now their heel upon the nck of the monster slavery and that they must keep it there. | ‘The representatives from Maine, Vermont, New Hantp- | hire, Massachueetts, Rhode Island, Kansse, the wostert! part of New York, Thad. Stevens and Grow of Penn- fylvania, tho members from Ohio, Indiana, Ilinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, are not far behind Giddings in determination, but that they command a ma- jority of their several delegations is doubtful. Ne- vertheless, they are powerful enough to defeat any com- promise measure that may look to the reassertion of the rights of the Sonth jn tho Territories, without which any posroiumnize would be idle, and utterly fail to conciliate tho South. ‘ On the other Land, the “Promise and Uaion mon haii the arrival of these peace Comn.*#oners as the harbia- ger of « happy adjustment of onr n<tonal difticulties, ‘They eay that too many good and true men Sannot como to the national capital at this crisis; and all thé Mastor minds of the country ehould now be aggregated and the advice fand counsels of our best and most patriotic statesmen be heard and respected, but I fest no yoize is lond enough; no patriotism deep and broad enough; no spirit self-sacrificmg enough to recall the se- ceding States back to the fraternal fold of the Union. | Let the efforts of those who would mainlain tne g-Ter™™ ment and Uaion be directed to saving the border States. | ‘That is the earnest prayer of those who know and have @ | solemn appreciation of the fearful posture in which the | country is now placed. ] The plot to capture tho Capitol, which has led to the | warlike attitude and preparations of General Scott, waa disclosed to Senator Douglas by one of the conspirators. Judge Douglas instantly denounced the plot as treason. ‘able, and told his informant that unless he revealed it to the War Department he himself would, The informer resolved to do go, and subsequently disclosed the project | to General Seott, who immediately took the precautionary | measures of ordering to this city the additional force of four companies of artillery. Nahum Capen, Postmaster of Boston, gnd on the closest | terms with the President, is here, tarrying with Pro- *foasor Henry fof the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Capen ie strong in his endeavors to maintain what he terms the continental policy of the country, taking the ground that the government is a consolidation of States, the constitution simply a convenience, and the origival mission of the republic an absorption of the entire territory of the continent of America. Mr. Capen says, better have a twenty years’ war to maintain the Union rather than a hundred years’ war after se- paration, Governor Powell, of Kentucky, gave a dinner party to- . day, at Kirkwood’, to the Kentucky peace Commission- Thore were present, Vice-President Breckinridge, | ors. General William 0. Butler, Hon, James B. Clay, and Colone Steveneon, of Kentueky; Mr. Hindman of Arkansas and others, It waa a very agreeable reunion, More of tie peace Commissionors arrived today, iu- eluding Ex-Prosident Tyler and others, from Virginia; Ruflin, Morehead and Reid, of North Carolina; Rodney, Houston, Ridgeiey and Cunnon, of Delaware. New York, (bio, Ponneylvania, Maryland, Missouri and Tonnassee Caynmissionors Jive not yet reportet them- solves. Some aro expected t row. THE ILLINOIS COMMISSION. ‘ Svrivoytenn, 1, Feb. 2, 1861. ‘The disourkion of tho proporition to send Commissioners to tho Washington Convention was” brought to a head to- day in the Iegislature by the pareage of the following rosalutions, They are understood to be prepared undor Mr. Lincoln's super? ision:— Whereas, Resolntions of tho Slate of Virginia have deon communicated ty the General Assembly of this Fave, proposing tho appointment of Come ra by the st veral States to meet in Convention on the 4th day of February, 1861, at Washiogton, Resolved, by tho Senate, the House of Reprosontatives cononrring herein, That with the earnest desiro for the rewra of harmony aad Kind ro: amoog our Stat s, 1 the Commonwealth of Virginia, the ho requested to appoint fed com part of the State of Liinois to confer af their no compromise be reprecented are as 1. Wows: renec, and the remgining States not enumerated tn our table will not be represented. Mayor Berret, of Waeington, has tendered to ex-Preei- dent “yler the use of Willgrd’s Concert Hall for the ses- sions of th." Convention, the proprietors having empow- ered him tom. *¢ the offer. ‘The States who h.*@ #Ppointed delegates and who will oRER STATES. FREE . Illinois, Qhio, Indiana, ySonsylvania, New York, Rho." Island, New Jersey, Vermont. New Hampshire, SLAVE STATES. Delaware, North Carolina, © Kentucky’ Tennessee, Mary'and, Virginia, NAMES OF THE DELEGATES, FREE STATES. TLUINOI, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Stophen S Logan, Amos Tuck, John M. Palmer, Asa Powler, Jo Levi Cham! , B.C, Cook,” — T. J. Turner. Salmon P. Chase, INDIANA. 8. ©. Wright, ©, B. Sinith, V, Harlow, P. A. Huckloman, Thos. Ewing, Orth, Wm. G 5 W.H. Lewis, Renden Hitehevek, C. Stonghtog, |g ¥. 7. Backus. Siw yore. PENNSYLVANIA. David Dudley Fielt, Wm. M Meredith, ‘Wm. Curtie Noyes, James Poiluck, James &. Wadsworth, Thomas E. Franklin, James C. Smith Thomas White, ‘Addison Gardiner, David Wilmot, Andrew W. Loomis, William McKenna. Amazirh DB. RHODE INLAND. Chief Justice Ames, x-Governor Hoppin, Chas. 8. Olden, der Duneap, bert F. Stockton, George H. Browne, ph K, Randolph, 8. . man M, Price, VFRMONT. Peter D. Vroct, Hiland Hall, Penjamin Wilhameon, B.D, Harris, Fred. T. Frelinghuysen, Lavi Underwood, Thomas J. Stryker H. H. Baxter, William ©, Alexander. L. E. Chittenden. SLAVE STATES. DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA, George B. Rodney, Thomas Ruffin, John W. Houston, John M. Morehead, Daniel M. Bates, deorge Davis, IL. Ridgely, David 8. Reid, Willian Cannon, D. M. Barringer. KEVTUCKY. TENS PANEK. Jomes B. € Robert J. McKinney, Ex Morehrad Samuel Milligan, James Guthrie, JN. Anderson, Joshua F. Bell; Robert L. Caruthers, Wm. 0. Butler, Thomas Martin, Charles A. Wieklitte. Teaae R. Hawkins, MARYLAND, A. 0. W. Patton, Reverdy Jobnson, Alvin 8. Cullom, Wm. 8. Goldsborough, Wm, P, Hickerson, Augustus W. Bradford, Geo, W. Jones, Jobn W. Crivatield, ¥. K. Zolieotr, Benj. ©. Howard, Wm. H. Stephens. J, Dixon Romaine, VIRGINIA, MIFOU RI, John Tyler. Waldo P. Johnson, James A . Col. Doniphan, Wim. ©. Rives, Judge Hough, Judge Buckner, John D. Coulter. Wo give the names of the New York delegates as agreed npon in the Legielative Committeo, Sut it is thought by our Albany eorrcepondent, in his despatch under the pro per head, that two or three of the names above enumiera- ted will be stricken ont, but that a delegation will be sent. Information received from Connecticut late last night states that Governdr Buckinghem has appothted dele. gates to the Washington Conference. We regret that our limliod space forbids us noticing moro in detail the services of the delegntes to the Con. ference; but it will be apparont to the reader of the subjoined that a majority of the delegates have occupied high positions of public trust and are eminently qualified to dichargo tho duties which they have undertaken. We therefore give very brief notices of some of the delegates to the Conferenco:— George W. Summers, John W. Brockenbrowgh. ILLINOIS. Stephen §. Logan is known ig Iinots a Judge Log a he had uct settied himeelf into a party man. Sometimes he voted with the democrats, bat more generally with tho whigs, and this because the Northern whixa were | more favor ble to anti slavery doctrines than their poli- | erpor in the Conveytion that nomisated Governor Letcher. William C. Rives is an eminont lawyer, and formerly represented Virginia in the United States Senate, He was tical aptagonists, He supported Harrison for the Presi- | #ls0 a representative in both houses of tho Virginia State dency in 1840, but afterwards changed front on account of the non-anti-slayery action of that administration. In 1841 he called a conventinn of those opposed to savory and slavery extension. This convention met in December | of that year, organized the hberty party of Ohio, nvmni- bated a candidate for Governor and issued an address | defiving its priveiples and purposes, Mr. Chaso Legislature, and was United States Minister to France under the Harrison admin‘stration. On his return to this country he was re-elected to the United States Senate Mr. Rives ranks high as a lawyer, jurist and statesman, NOM CAROLIN David S. Reid, ex-Governor of the State. Mr. Morehead, ex-Goyernor and ex United States wrote and reported the address, which has a historical | Senator. importance in being ope of the earlicst expositions of the | political warfa’e against slavery, In 1848 Mr. Chase was ‘an active participant iu the National Liberty Convention | graduate of the University of that state, His ance which assembied at Buffalo He was on the Committee on Resolutions, to which was reforred, under the rule of the Convention, a resolution proposing “to regard and treat the third clause of the constitution of the United States null and void whenever applied to the case of a fugitwe slave, and conrequently forming no part of that in- strument whenover we are called upon of sworn to support it."’ The Southern and Western Liberty Convention (anti- slavery), bold in Ciuciwnati in 1846, originatea with him His action in that body showed him the avowed enemy of slavery and pledged to the overthrow of the slave institu tion, In 1848 he called the Buffalo Free Soil Convention (anticipating the Whig and Dem ratic Conventions), which nominated Martin Van Buren for the Prosidency. In February of the pame year he was elected to the United Btates Senate, where his growing anti-slayory sentimont« were ventilated ad Uilatum ad nauseum. He opposed th compromise measures of 1850. In 1855 he was elected Governor of Obio by the opponents of the Pierce admi- nstration, He is a republican of the ultra school. Thomas Ewing was tho Secretary of tho Treasury in the Harrtson administration. Ho is an old line whig, and cherishes 4 strong desire to make tho incoming adminis- tration after his ideas of whiggery. As Lincoln was an old line whig, Ewing is in hopes to indoce him to return to his fret lovo. ‘Wm. Groesbeck is an ex-member of Congrogs. PENNSYLVANIA. Wm. Meredith was Secretary of the Treasury tu the Taylor administration. Jemes Pollock is an ex-Governor of the State. David Wilmot a the author of the celebrated proviso Dearing his coguomen; he refused a seat in Lincola’s Cabinet, boping to be elected United States Senator in placo of ex-Governor Bigler. In this hope he was de- feuted. NEW HAMPSHIRE, Aino” Tuck, 8 an ex-member of Congress. NEW JERSEY. Governor Chatlea S. Olden is the present Executive of New Jersey. 30 1860 ho was elected by the opposition and American patties to that post. He ie a moral and upright gentleman, aio @ Feprosentative of the New Jer- sey conservative sentiment, Mr. Olden i @ native of Btony Brook, N. J., and about O'SY-two years of age, He commeneed life as a clerk in his *Sthor’s store at his native place; from thence be removed to Trenton, and af terwards went to Philadelphia, ag 4 clork in the mercan- tilk establishment of Matthew Newkirk, aud by his strict probity of character, energy and business qua. “cations, soon became a partner, was entrusted with the sole md- nagement of a branch house in New Orleans, where he ac- quired a fortune, aad then returned to Prinecton, where | be has since resided. In 1844 he was chosen to repre- sent bis county in the State Senate, and in 1847 again re- elected, serving six years as Senator. In 1866 he sup ported and voted for Fillmore for the Presidency, and since then he has been a Sim supporter of the opposi- tion, Richard F. Stocktoa ir a native of New Jersey, and in 1812 entered the Lnited States Navy as a midshipman, Ae participated in tho naval operations during the war with Great Britain in that year, and from that time he ‘was rapidly promoted until be roeo to the highert rank in the navy. He resigned im 1850. In 1861 he was clected to tho United States Renate, whore he aisplayed splendid natural talents. When the compromise agitation question-of 1860 was being agitated, exposition of Commodore Stocktou's views on the ques- tion of slavery, and the measures necessary to preserve the Union, has been extensively publishod, and recsived | with commendation, as eleiting sound stateemanehip. In birth, blood, feeling and education, he is every inch a Jersey man. He is a man of immense wealth. Rodman M, Price was formerly a purser in the United States Navy. Ho amaseed a fortune in California, and re turned to New Jersey , where he was subsequently elected to the State Logisiature, and afterwards to the post of Governor of the Stator Peter D, Vicom is an ex Governor of the State, RHODE ISLAND. Samuel Ames i# the present Chief Justice of the State, n ex Govervor of the Stato, in is one of the wealthiest men in firm of Dutean, Sherman & Co., the celebrated bankers. KENTUCKY, Jomer Guthrio wae Secrotary of theTrearury in the Cabl- net of President Pierce. He is a native of Kentucky, aud was born in 1795. Ills father, General Adar Guthrie, a Scotchman, waean carly pioneor to Kentucky from Vir- our early hietory, fn carly life the subject of our notice ergadd in the enterprise—common in those daye—of fending produce to No: on his own flat boats, returning home heavily laden wi the“earnings of bis ndventure, He subsequently studied and adupted the lega! profession. Ta 1820 he romoved to | Lovirviile, hen ae now the comme. ciel on tal | queky, wud cron 4896 w the present arr. Gutiariy hae boon i Themas Rutlin, ex Chief Justice of tho State, | DM. Barringer ts a native of North Carolina and a ators, both maternal and paternal, were among the early pot ters of North Carolina, and favored the Revolutionary War. Mr, Barringer is a lewyer by profession. His early political career commenced as & member of the | Legislature of his native state, abd he was. subsequently | elected to Congress, where bo continued durng the | gears 1843-6-7. In 1849 he was appointed Minister to pain by President Taylor. MARYLAND. Reverdy Jobnaen iv a distinguished lawyer and an ex. member of the United States Senate and House of Repro- sentatives. He was Attorney General in tho Fillmor administration. ‘TENNESSEE. Alex. Wm. Doniphan is romewhat celebrated oa th Colonel of the Tennessee regiment of volunteer cavalry i the Mexican war, and was in command at tho battle of Brazito and Sacramento, in Chihuabua; be was also in comman on the famous marci from Santa Fe, by Chi huahua ond Monterey, to the Rio Grande, and by wate home to St. Louis. THE SOUTHERN C)JNFEDERACY. MEETING TO-DAY OF THE SOUTHERN CON- FEDERACY CONGRESS IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA. The much taiked of Southern Confederacy Congress will meet today in Montgomery, Ala. The Congress will beconvened pursuant to the invitation of the Ala- ‘Lema Secession Convention, who extended the invitation to the Southerm States in the following preamble and re- eolutions = And, as it is the desire and the purpose of the pe of Alabama to meet the slaveholding States of the uth who ‘¢ of such a purpose, in order to frame ‘a provisional or a permanent government upon the princi- — of the government of the United States, be it, there- ‘ore, Resolved, by the people of Alabama, in Convention aa- the of the States of Delaware, a Fiorida, rembled, That ia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkapaas, Tonnes- mode of securing concerted. ious action in whatever measures may be deemed most deeirabie for the common peace and se- And be it further ‘ed, That the President of this Convention be and he is bereby instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of for ry prrainble, ordinance and resolutions to the Terngri.of the several Stater named in the said resolu. tious. We subjoin « completo lish of the names of the dele. gates to the Congress:-— aan. 1 Large. Robert H. Smith, Richard W, Waller. 1—Cotn J. MoRea. 2—W. R. Chilton, 3—David P. Lewis. 4—Jobn Gill. 6—8 F. Hale. €—Th mas Fearn. j—J. 1. M, Ourry. FLORIDA, Jackeon Morten, J, Patten Ar derson, James Powers. Lovisiana, John Perkins, Jr., ‘A. D. Clenet, | 1—Francis Bartin, Mr Webster addressed @ letter to Commodore Stockton | on the subject, which was followed by a reply. This | Ginia, end a participator in many of the Indian battles of es ag Ye CRORGLA. A! Large. Robert Tocmbs, Howell Cond. Destrict Delegates 2—martin Crawfcrd. 2—Jucge Nesbitt. 4—Renjamin Will. 6—Avguetus R. Wright, 6—The mas R. Cobb. 7— Auguetus Keenan, S—A. I. Stephene. It is thought, as all the stave States have not declared their couree in the present crisis, that the Montgomery Convention will merely set in motion a provisional gov- erpment, until such time as a more perfect government can be established, and that the provisional government will be on the basis of the constitution of the United States, It ia eupposed they will moald the incipient nationality to suit the exigencies of the times, olect a provisional chief magistrate and order clections for va rious offices. Among tho principal questions that will arise in th deliberations of the Conference ie the question of the re opening of the African slavye'trade. Some of the seceding States oppoee the measure and others favor it, Another question, and ono of the most importance to a Southern Confederacy, is that-of the right of search. Khooo Island, and fatber of tho senior member of the | The leading journals of Burope, assuming that one of the purposes of the Southern Confederacy is the recpening of the slave trade, dectaro that the right of eearch will be maintained and rigidly enforced tn reepect to the ships from thet confederacy when its in- dependence is established, This will require a large navy to be maintained by the South to assert tho tivio ite flog. Rhett, tr, the chairman of tho South Caro tina delegation,’ will be urgod as tho Presideut of the Congress, in honor to Aouth Curolina ag the first ao w Orleane, and made twe voyages | Ceding State. Johnson J. Hooper, of Alsbama, is oro. minently mentioned for the post of Seoretary of the Con grees. ‘The nemes of Hon. Jefferson Davig,of Miseiesppi, ant Alex. A. Stephens, roprosenting tho two extromes of the Southorn sentiment, are vsed mest prominoutyy in om ecotion with theProsid.oer of the new coufederated re. podie. It ts a subject of inquiry just now, whether Mr. Davis THREATS AGAINST GOVERNOR HICKS, | | ant'cipated tbe present stato of affairs, and secretly in- & Cry & C5 ke. | vented bis amendment to cripple the government. A dragoon detachment of United States troopa, acting” Wastnscrow, Feb. 3, 1861. Governor Pickens has assured his friends hero that there will be no hostile movements on the part of South Carolina, or any attempt made to take Fort Sumter un. | til ail efforts have session of that fort. It will be at leagt @ week yet before the President's letter in reply to Colonel Hayne is laid. before the autho. rities of South Carolina, Therefore we may look fora week yet of peace. The New Orleans Della, of the 80th January, arrived bere to-night, containing the following announcements, which not only show where the traitors are, but that we have a Secretary of the Treasury who, although he did oon exhausted to get peaceable pos- not know on the 29th of January that the telegraphic | Mines of tho extreme South were not in reliable hands, is | a bold man, and is determined to execute the laws of his country:— ‘The Mayor of New Orleans, Mr. Monroe, last night re- ceived a highly important derpatch from Governor Moore, of Alabama, addreeved to the Governor of Louisiana or the Mayor of New Orleans. Mr. Monroo finding himself unable to communicate with Captain Brushwood last night, bas thought {t best to give publicity to this do- spatch, in order that its object may thus be attained. We think his course in the matter the best that can be adopted under the circumstances, The following is the despatch — Mowrcomery, Jan. 29, 1861. To Tux Governor or Lovisuxa on nm Mixon o New ORLEANS: — Tho following despatch was received here to-day and has been held for a few hours:— To We. Hxwrnms Jor, of New Orleans:— Tell Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain Brushwood, Assume command of the cutter—the MoClelland—and obey the order I gave through you. If Captain Brush- wood, after arrest, undertakes to interfere with the com- mand of the cutter, Lieutenant Caldwell to bold him asa Mmutineer and treat bim accordingly. If any one attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on tho spot. JON A. DIX, Secretary of the Trewury. Signed, A. B. Moons, Governor of Alabama, It appears the revenue cutter Lewis Case, supposed to bavo been seized wt New Orleans, was mistaken for the MoCielland. ‘The despatches brought here from Governor Pickens by Colonel Haskell, four days since, were submitted to Colonel Hayne. Tho latter has been in coarultation with Senators Wigfall, Benjamin, Slidell and others, aud yoo- teraay @ paper, the ultimatum of South Carolina, was banded to the President. The latter has not replied, but probably will to-morrow, as Colouel Hayne haa decided t retyrn to-morrow, whether the Presi- dent consenta to reply or not. Growing out of thia negotiation an absurd report is in circulation, which may reach the columns of some pres, that the President has ordered Colonel Anderson to eurrender Fort Sumter to the Carolinians, The people would sooner believe that Mr, Buchanan is ingane than such a story Lieutenant Hall, of Major Anderson's corps, will ac company Colonel Hayne, on his return with instructions. It ie believed that, upon the return of these parties, the administration declining to yield to the soosssionists, the forces will open on Fort Sumter. A letter received here from Charleston yesterday says that the troops are only waiting for Colonol Hayne to re. turn, and if the whole United States does not surrender to South Carolina they will attack the Fort, Thore seems to be a new and unexpected turn of the erfiis, and the question is seriously asked:—Is itday or blacker night abead? The leading spirits of the republi can party are far ebead of their adversaries. Every one now understands how completely they outwitted the Fouthrons in the diplomacy of statesmanship pending Crittenden’s peace propositions. They acted upon a single idea, Divide the South but keep the North united. They were silent to hear the South taik themselves to death, and then won. Bat now the new conferences present a point of danger to them which drives them from the Jet-alone policy and compels thom to take the initiative. They change the question right about face and put themeelyes #ix months ahead of the movement. | The future will present a question of boundaries not @ question of about slavery or Territories. This new policy of the republicans admits tho whole of tho slave States except Maryland ware, They admit that the border slave States masters of their own fate, and or laver must go with the plantirg States. They have made up their minds to this, But elavery in Maryland and Delaware is not a noecssary institution, and may give way before the money power, to which tho republi cans will not seriously object. If they conclude to adopt this now policy, they are ready to eay to the reet of the slave Statee—Go tn peace. Wo do not propose to forco you into @ fight againgt your appeal for peaceable seces- sion, Let ws eettic tho only question between we, the ‘one of boundaries. On the reet we know wo never can agree, and our highert desire is to part in peace.’’ Boundaries—what boundaries? [mperturbable in his polisy, the republican embraces the Capitol and the go- vernment archives, and all the metories which belong to them, by indicating:—Frat—The lines of the Po. tomac and Obio rivers, leaving tho States of Missouri, Arkansas and Texas free to chose their own porition, Second=-The fortifications at tho Tortugas, controlling the Gulf, and those covering the menth of the Mississipp! river. That i ail, the tows 0” a Dela are nO oner That te the givarced state of the | as a light battery, embracing seventy-five men and seven- | ty-eight horses and four commissioned officers, under command of Liout. Griffin, arrived here this morning, and are quartered upon Judiciary square, back of tha | City Hall. On their way here the train this side of New York run off the track. None of the men were injured. A valuable horse had bis leg broken an was killed, Major Harvey Brown, Brevet Colonel of Secopd regi- ment of artillery, has been assigned the command of ail the troops in the District of Columbia, except the sappera and miners, who will remain as they are under the im- | Modiate esmmand of Libut. James C. Duane, subject at all | times te the order of Liout. General Scott, | ‘The bill making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the u0th of June, 1862, provides for the eum of fifteen mil- | Hons of dollare, and an estimated doficiency of five mil- lion three hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars. Speaker Pennington bas appointed the following gontle- men 4 committee on the part of the House to meet similar committee on the part of tho Senate to make ar- rangements for counting tho electoral votes for President on the 13th inst;—Messrs. Washburno, of Illinois: By, of New York; Craig, of Missouri; Anderson, of Kentucky; Adrain, of New Jorsey. Senators Trumbull, Foote and Latham compose the sommittee on the part of the Senate. No reply bas been received by Se:retary Dix to the de- spatch sent yesterday to the Collector and United States ‘Treasurer, inquiring into the cireumstances of setzure of the mint by the State authorities of Louisiana, The re- fusal of thore officers to reply shows conclusively that there hus bean a deliberate plan in which these officers were parties to seize the money inthe mint, Information just received by the government from tho Collector at Savannah, in which be states thathe bas been notified by the Governor of the State of Georgia that no more money must be paid over to the Unked States without his, the Governor's, order. The govern- ment have telegraphed to the Collector to know whether he intends to obey the President of the United States or the Governor. It is reported that the cutter Robert McClelland, the finest in the service, stationed at New Orleans, has been taken. The officer in command notified the government | Some days ago that he did not intend to obey the instruc- tions of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury. despatched an agent some three weeks ago fouth to look after all the revenue cutters, and to prevent their boing seized. But the officers in command in most cases have surrendered them to the State authorities where they were stationed Captain Ingraham yesterday tendered his resignation to the Secretary of the Navy, and it was accepted. It ie | understood he intends to join his fortunes with the peo- ple of South Carolina, He took this step after matara deliberation. It is understood that Commodore Shubrick will pursue arimilar course. An effort will bo made by a member of the Committee of Five to report a joint resolution providing for a call of & nations! Convention for the adjustment of existing difficulties. An official copy of the Louisiana Ordinance of Seces- «ion hos been received, and the dolegation from thag Ftate in Congress, with the exception of Mr. Bouligny, will probably withdraw from further deliberations in | Congress to-morrow. He is the only one from the se- coded State who has taken part in the proceedings sinca the several ordinances of secession have been passed. The names of all the members of the House from tha Feeding Stater continue to be called when voting. Governor Hicks, of Maryland, will be before the 8e- lect Committee to-morrow, as a witnees, concerning the alleged conspiracy to seize Washington. Wasmmvoros, Feb. 3, 1861. It is telegraphed here that the Montgomery Congress | will probably adjourn over to await the action of the Peaco Conference. There is but littic prospect that the Conference will transact aby important business on Monday. No coneert of action or general arrangement has been made for tha meeting of the Conference further than engaging Wile lard’s Hall for the purpose of assembling. Many Com missioners are in the dark about preliminary matters, and no one knows positively what measures will be pro= | posed or who wil’ take the lead. Fx Governor Hoppin, of Rhode Island, is willing ta make auy reasonable concession. Reports from Virginia relative to the Convention not 80 favorable to the | Union as was anticipated. It is thought there will be | nearly an equal number of secessionists and Union men. | If the seceasioniats have a majority, and attempt to im- | Powe any new taxation, the Union men, most of whoa | are from the western part of the State, will secede, and declare for a new froe State, west of the Blue Ridge. MIE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE. Lourvitus, Feb, 2, 1861. Tho Kentucky Iegiglature, in the Senate, passed by @ vote of 26 to 12 Mr. Fisk’s resolutions appeating to the South to stop the progress of revolution and protest ing againet federal coercion, and resolving that, when the Logielature adjourns on the 6th of February, it be to the 24th of April, to bear the responces of her sister Stateq to our application to Congress to call # National Conven+ tion, IMPORTANT, IF TRUE. SOMETHING TO BE INVESTIGATED. ‘The New York correspondent of the Philadelphig Ledger tnys that a $100,000 contract for munitions of war for North Carolina i being filled at a manufactory some- whore in the vieinity of this city. Tho contract in ques- io to be executed in thirty days from date; but ia SONTIN WD QN BICETH PAGE or