The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

AMERICA.

RAPID PROGRESS OF THE SECESSION
MOVEMENT.

By the Canada, which arrived in the river
yesterday, having landed her mails at Queens-
town on the previous day, with the exception of
those for Liverpool, we have received New York
papers to the Bth inst. in6hisiVe. The following
are extracts from the intelligence by this arrival :
(From the New York Herald, of January 8)
TERMS OF .ADJUSTMENT PROPOSED BY THE

SECEDING STATES.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1861.

The Committee of the Border States, including Dela-
ware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri; and
North Carolina; from the South, and New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania; Ohio; Indiana, Illinois, &c., from the North,
to-day agreed upon propositions for aii adjustment of
pending difficulties; by anithiding the constitution; as
folloWs , . .

1. Rdoonimending a repeal o all the Personal Liberty

That the Pligitive Slave Law be amended for the
prevention of kidnapping, and so as to provide for the
equalisation of the COmniissioners' fee, &C.
3. That the conStittition 136.50 aniended as td prohibit
any interferenCe *WI slaVery in any di tile States wheie
it ito* dist&

4. That Congress shall not abolish slavery in the
Southern dockyards, arsenals, &c., nor in the district of
Columbia, without the consent of Maryland and the
consent of the inhabitants of the District, nor without
compensation. . .

5: That Oonrrest shall tiot ihtefiefe With the rite ~
State sitiVe tiadel

6. Tha't there shall be a nonlethal prohibition df the
African slaire trade. .

7. That line Of 36. degrees 30 minutes Shall be
run throUgh Al the eiistitit terirtbil of the United
Stales; tb'at in all north of that line slavery shall be
prohibited, and that south of that line neither Congress
the Territorial Legislature shall hereafteepass any law
abolishing, prohibiting, or in any manner interfering
with African slavery, and that when any Territory Con-'
iOning ,a .sufacieht population for ono member Of
Congress in an area of 60,000 sqttare miles shall OAT
for admission M §tAte., it shalt te adinitte'd, *itli or
• „,
without slavery, as its constitution may determine.

It is known that these propositions would have been
acceptable to Senator Toombs a fortnight since, and they
will now, unless the secession race in his State has out-
stripped all sense of moderation and conciliation.

This last compromise has the advantage of being
fatherless, and hence is not likely to be opposed or
picked to pieces on acoount of its parentage.

PROGRAMME OF THE SOUTH CAROLiN.A.
COM HISSIONERS:
WASHtNGtON, San. 4, 1861.
The departure of the South Carolina Commissioners,
chafed and belligerent, awakens the public mind to mat-
ters which must follow. Pending the negotiations of
these Commissioners with the President. it was well
understood the following propositions had been met and
considered by the governments of the States interested;
but they Were not then known to the government of the
United States :-
1. That, in the event of a: rupture with the United
States government, the authorities of South Carolina, in
their sovereign capacity, would immediately seize the
fortifications and all defences of the State harbours.
It would seem that Major Anderson had a premonition
of this determinatiop, and acted accordingly on last
Christmas night, by removing his forces from a weak
point to the strongest one in the harbour of Charleston.
2. That all forts, arsenals, dockyards, barracks, &c.,
belonging to the United States, situated on the Southern
coast, including fortifications from Cape Henry, in Vir-
ginia, to the southermost coast borders of Texas, should
be immediately seized by State troops, upon the first
intimation of government coercion upon South Carolina.
3. That the telegraph, railroad and stage statiohs in
the interior districts should be placed under the censor-
ship and control of duly appointed State agents in their
several localities.
4. That intercommunication between Southern and
Northern ports should be interdicted, so far as the intro-
duction of articles contraband of war into Southern
from Northern States may be concerned.
5. The expatriation from Southern States of all
Northerners and others who do not recognise the right
of secession, or co-operate in the secession or co-opera-
tion movement.
6. The seizure and confiscation of all goods contra-
band of war.
7. The confiscation of the property of non-sym-
pathisers.
8. The defence of the State against foreign legions,
come from what quarter they may.
The above programme will be followed out if the
border States sustain South Carolina in her initiative
movement. Georgia is in arms already ;so are Alabama
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, with the more
northern of the Southern Confederacy—to join them in
the first flush of victory or of decisive action on the part
of the Palmetto State. That Virginia will not be
behindhand there is the best assurance from the border
counties.

Some of the Alabama delegation have gone home.
Messrs. Pugh and Curry, of the house, have gone. Mr.
Curry took but one month's allowance in cash from the
stationery department. This was esteemed an honour-
able compromise on federal paper and twine.
Ex-Mayor D. C. Baker, of Lynn, Mass., has just
arrived from Louisiana, having taken passing notes of
the condition of things en route. He is firm in the
conviction that the Southern people are almost unani-
mously in favour of secession, and that at a trumpet's
tone three hundred thousand men will rally under
southern banners for the defence of southern rights.

THE SEIZURE OF THE SOUTHERN FORTS,
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 4
_ _ _

It is now evident, from certain demonstrations, tha
a preconcerted action among the cotton States prevails
to seize the. forts and arsenals. Georgia is already in
possession of Fort Pulaski.

Alabama to-day seized the Arsenal and Fort Morgan
at Mobile.

Florida is expected soon to be heard from.

Louisiana is ready to follow. Meetings are being
held ail over New Orleans to-night. The highest excite-
ment and enthusiasm prevails.

THE SECESSION FEELING AT NEW ORLEANS

.T...„ o..tritris, Jan. 2

The despatch from the President of the South Carolina
Convention to the Governor of Louisiana and the Mayor
of New Orleans, that the Commissioners at Washington
believe war inevitable, produced intense excitement
here.

Companies raising in New Orleans to embark for
Charleston contemplate to obtain possession of two
Spanish war steamers, now off New Orleans, con-
demned by government ; also to seize the forts on the
Mississippi river immediately on the secession of
Louisiana.

The resignation of Secretary Floyd hss done much to
hasten secession action. President Buchanan is univer-
sally condemned.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7,

The secession ticket is triumphant. All the Sena-
torial delegates, and all but four of the representative
ticket, are elected. The city has been carried by over
five hundred majority. The city is jubilant. There
are great rejoicings.
The election for delegates to the Convention, it is
supposed, will result three to one in favour of immediate
secession candidates. Many Union men have gone

The State Military Board met here yesterday, in
secret session, it is conjectured for the preparations of
seizing all the fortifications and arsenals on the Bth of
January.

Ms. LINCOLN'S CABINET.-SIGNS OF A COM-
PROMISE IN BEHALF OF THE INCOMING

ADMINISTRATION,

Our hopes in the Union revive. The darkest hour,
says an encouraging old aphorism, is just before the
break of day. We think that the indications in behalf
of conciliation and compromise involved in the certain
recent political movements, directly bearing upon the
policy of the incoming administration, justify the opinion
that the Union will yet be saved.
We refer to the selection by Mr. Lincoln of William
H. Seward as the head of his Cabinet, and of Simon
Cameron as an associate member thereof. Extraordinary,
and even incredible to many of our intelligent readers,
as the inference may appear, we do infer, from these two
well authenticated appointments, that the door is opened
to a treaty of peace.
Mr. Seward, until within a few weeks past, has stood
forward as the head and front, the great apostle and
living embodiment, of the anti-slavery alliance of the
North. His radical anti-slavery views and opinions
were doubtless the cause of his defeat at the Chicago
Convention ; and yet he reiterated them from Maine to
Kansas in behalf of Lincoln's election. The public will
have discovered, however, since the election, that Mr.
Seward not only understands the cards of the politician,
but the necessities of the statesman. His late Astor
House speech, no doubt carefully studied, though
apparently impromptu, shows him to be clearly and
broadly in favour of a compromise with the South.
Nor, in this connection, can it be supposed that the
venerable Thurlow Weed, of the Albany Journal, as an
advocate of liberal concessions, has been speaking at
random. He speaks as the friend and organ of Mr.
Seward, and after a pilgrimage to Springfield in this
capacity.
General Cameron is universally known as a republican
conservative, entirely untrammelled by party principles
or platforms, when great expediencies of government
policy are at stake. No Cabinet selection could be made
within the lines of the republican camp better calculated
to assure the South of the conservative inclinations of