The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-30

France,---The Gazette dc France had received
o hrst warning from the Minister Of the In
torior. ''Hs'9799 PSF y1dWlssE g4 " sfil
L. ,ss1 Warrington News.
NEW YoRk,, January 2S,--Ths Tr;bune's
Washington correspon dent says Mr.. Sher-
man has called q conference of his friends to
meet at noon to.day, and will withdraw il
anotbcr candidate can be elected. He has
been prepared to do 80. for a fortnight, and
was only restrained By tho fact that additional
votes had not been demonstrated upon Messrs.
Pennington, Oorwin and Morris, No has been
repeatedly promised. Mr.. Pennington will
probably be nominated.
Mr.. Smith WILDE dropped by the Democrats,
and the Americans allowed to select Demo :.
crst upon whom they can unite.
Tho Tmess correspondent says the chances
now are that Corwin will be elected on Mon
day. ssa. ssi. fsa-, M
lhe Heralds correspondent says, The pro-
ceedings IN the House to-day demonstrated
| the fsct that Mr.. Sherman can not be elected.
SIX OF his friends from Pennsylvania and New
Jersey wont over to Smith, Of North Carolina,
| more 70 tantalze the Democrats, not from any
Iuppositicn that the latter would concentrate
upon Mr.. Smith, he being an American; but
to the CONSERVATION of these gentlemen, all
the Democrats except Holman and Davis, Of
I1dians, and Allen, Of Ohio, voted for him,
which would have elected him had not five Of
thp Sherman Inen taken the back track and
Changed their votes from Smith to Corwin
and Pennington. They did not do SO until
Mr.. Sherman rose and recorded his vote for
CorWin, making an additional vote necessary
to choice, which was the signal of danger.
Many Of the Republicans would like to vote
for oorwin, others for Hickman, bat It is EVIL
dent from the canvass Of opinion tonight,
that Pennington can reach more men outside
of Sherman's strength than any other man,
and tho friends Of Sherman will not object to
him Il the majority of the Republicans do
clare for him. ses 80. ~. 81
Mr.. Adrian refused to vote for Smith,
Southern Whig, because he understood him to
be in favor Of protecting slavery in the Terri
tories, but says he will vote for Northern
Wing, like Gov. Pennington, which he will
probably have an opportunity Of doing on
Monday. a''}
Mr. Seward had public reception at his
residence tonight, which was numsrously
attended. Sshtee ssepM sas7M gdF
Z WASHINGTON, January 27.-In the discus.
sion to-day which preceded the vote for
Speaker, valladigham, Of Ohio, said, under
standing Mr.. Smith to always have been o
Whig, and never anything but Whig, and
representing as no (Mr. w did, large and
tnostrespsctable Wing element, he was ready,
whenever his vote could ba made efficient, to
vote for Mr.. Smith for Speaker over Mr.. Sher-
man. He would not, in such o ease, be re-
sponsible for the disorganizstion Of the House,
If not q dissolution of the Government. Public
duty demanded the waving of mems prsfsr-
ences as to the candidate, and tho time when
bis vote would elect o national man Speaker
over Mr.. Sherman having arrived, he would
now vots for Mr.. Smith. ......,,
Pendleton, of Ohio, said he represented
native and naturaIized citzens Of oil religious
beliefs, German and Irish, Protestant and Oath
olic. His naturalized constituents were honest
end patriotic. . He would vote for no man who
would prescribe them, or whose sympathies
were against them. He had converted with
Mr.. Smith and learned from him that be had
never had any connection with the Know
Nothing seder, or sympathy with its prosorip-
tive tenets. he, therefore, to organize tho
House on national basis, voted for Smith.
Mr.. Cox, Of Chic, said whom Mr.. Smiths
name was presented, he made inquiry, and
learned that he was an Old-lino Whig. His
(Cox's) colleague endlston) had just besn
in conversation with Smith, and reported that
Mr.. Smith was not only mot Know Nothing,
but thst he was opposed to the order and the
principles, and that he had never been and
was not now member Of o Know Nothing
lodge, but had denounced il. If this be true,
and say Il 10, and look Mr.. Smith, who Is
now present, in tho eye whom asserti II, there
can be no difficulty in my giving him my
vote in this emergency Of the Republic, and
defeat the Republicans. ipeIlsase
" An Old-line Whig who iy not In any wav