Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-10
WAsHfSGToS, Dec. {, 1860

WAsHrSGToS, Dec. g, 1860.
As the telegraph has long ere this app.
prised you, Congress adjourned over until.
Monday next. Perhaps it did not tellyou
s.a stragetical.
movement on the part of tho Union aud
conservative men. Several of the most
prominentextrems mensfrom both sections
;oted against it. In the House the Yeas
and nays were called on the motion, so
that the country might seewho it was that
wanted tosprecipitate an inaammatory de-
bate, which could be productive of moth
ing but increased bitterness. Tue Senate
passed The motion early. Everybody
went over to thatss,sd5 at swclve o'clock,
III the expectation sc seeing some scenes
at was thought that tue ball opened by
,Clingman, Hale, Wigfall, Iversoa, 8 Co.
would go Oh, and that like as not the
whole programme of revolution would
leak out. Bat this was mistake. The
only thing they done was 10 offer tby Mr.
Powell. of Ky.l the following resolution
similar to those that had already been
offered and passed in the House:
Resolre3, That 80 much Of the Presidents Message
as relates TO the present condi
ton OF the country and the grievances between the
BlAYehonE and the holding States be retcr
to special committee of thirteen memoersRnd that
said committee bsinstructed to inquire whether any
additional legislation within the sphere of federal
thorty aud duty be necessary for the protection and
security of property in tie States and If So that
they report by BILL Aud that said committee be al
instructed to consider and report upon the expo
diency of proposing such amendment or amend
H,entS Of the Constitution of the United States
may DC necessary 10 give certain. prompt and full
protection to the rights of property of citizens of
cry state and Territory of the United States and
the equality OF the Suites. and tho equal rights
of all the citizens aforesaid, under the Federal Con-
stitution.
Mr.. Biglcr then moved that the Senate
adjourn; and at twenty minutes past l2
o'clock, the Senate adjourned until Mon
day next.
As soou as the Senate adjourned Icame
over to the House and found Mr.. Speaker
Pennington just in the act of announcing
his Conference Committee. AS you have
seen, Corwin was made its chairman, and
there were appointed with him one mem
Der from each State. Corwin's announce
ment as Chairman gave great satisfaction
to the galleries, thus showing the high
patriotic position which the sold wagon
boy'.occupies in the estimation ofthe peo-
pie. So soon as the committee were APP
pointed Slr. Hawkins, of Florida, the only
representative which that State has, got
up very pOmpously and theatricnlly an
| n0unced his purpose to resign. Tue first
thing that he SAID was, that he understood.
that under the rules Of the House, it WAS
made obligatory on any member to serve
on a committee to which lie was appoint
ed by the President. But as for him, he
had to say, that no odds what the rules
were, andno odds what penalties or cen
sure he might incur, hewould ;ot serve
Gfhe did serve, he snid, it would beno use.
1t would be impossible for tInt committee
to draft any measures to which he would
nccede. This matter is not an impulse
| This secession movement) with me, said
he, it is q thing that have been maturing
in my mind for the last twenty years, and
| |, therefore, desire no such measures as
that committee would be likely to intro
ducc.
take some pains to give you Mr..
Hawkins language as near as car
your reRdeFs Should SEE u i%RoTW1fatt thu tbI.
whole secession movement is based. a:
coon as Mr. Hawkins had taken his seaf
john Cochr1ne. from y. Y, got up ant
IN an eloquent and telling little speech
hesought the gentleman from Florida Il
l@reconsile1 his determination to withdraw
from the committee. He hoped that til,
House would exert its full power over th,
gentleman in imposing on him the oblira
ton to remain on the committee
GUchrane's speech was very eloquent ant
very patriotic. Once it brought down til,
galleries in aperfect storm of applause. ant
so palpably showed which way tile over
whctmlng mass publicsentment was set
ting, that MuscoeR. II. Garnet, from our Stat,
5l-aHlolcntand unprecedented isunionist-
tue man who made the dtsunion speech 81
the Statue banquet at Richmond a coupl,
otyears ago, and insulted Edward Everett
who was prcsent-got up aud gave no
tee that if the applause was repeated Ii,
would make a motion that the gaIleric.
be cleared. This remark from him wa.
greeted with n perfect hurricane of Kisses
This reused his most tumultuous indipna
ton, land jumping up said: s.Mr. Speaker
move the biackgunrds be now expelled
from the galleries." Two thirds. how.
ever, OF the members said, mo-" "no,'
no., and tue Speaker said, very mildly
that he hoped that the galleries would moi
let their feelings, however creditabIe, cnusr
them to forget what was due to the pco.
pies representatives. think Mr.. Mnscoe
must have felt very aat ut bis attempt tc
CHOKE off the patriotic uproars OF ths
people. lis not parliamentary, know
to- allow applause or any noise from any
persons in the galleries, but certainly it Is
excusable now, when the people are So
much concerned for the public veal.
Last night was an unusually stirring
time on the. streets and in the hotels, cs.
pecialiY at the "National," at which place
were quartered the "Pntnam Phalanx, ii
military battalion from Hartford, Connec-
slcllt. First, must tell you that this is
country. 1t is.made up mostly of old
veterans, soldiers of the war of 1917. and
has in it one or two who have come down
to US from Revolutionary times. Their