The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-12-08
(From the n. O. Pcayune
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
THIRTY-SIxTH CONGRESS

States Senate assembled this morning
Seventeen Senators were absent.
On hearing that the Presidents message
would not be read to-day, the Senate adj
journcd.
The House is in excessively good hui
NOR Two hundred members answered to
their names.
| The House followed the example of the
Senate, and adjourned till Tomorrow on,
account of the non-reception of the Prcsi-
dents message.
The L. :. Supreme Court also assembled
to-day. Judge Wayne was absent, but he
had called on the President The Court
soon adjourned.
The assurances of the Representatives
and others from Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, that those States will positive
" follow South Carolina, have unmistaka-
bly, alarmed the conservatives who believ-
ed that South Carolina would have no sup
porters among the Southern States.
a proposition is on foot for a conference
of the Representatives of all the Southern
States, South Carolina excepted, to pre-
pare list oftheir grievances, and set forth
what will satisfy them. This list is to be-
submitted to the Conservative Republicans
and i'll the event of receiving their favor,
to be referred to n committee of one from
each State
This proposition is under discussion
Several prominent Black Republicans have
acquicsced therein.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-An evening con-
sutation is now being held between sever
al delegates of the Southern States on the
cooperation of the border States IN the ST.
ccssiOn movement.
NEW YORK, Dee. l.-Thc Washington
correspondent of the Times tclcgraphs
Texas adviccs representing the people on
the eve Of revolution against the State
Government, Gov. Houston having refused
To call Il convention.
The Presidents message fills eight col
umns of the Constitution newspaper.
Nearly half the message is devoted to the
secession question.
1t is believed that Senator Clingman, of
North Carolina, will soon offer PROPOSE
ton for the pcaccable secession ofthe States
and Il fair distribution of the assets and H.
abilities.
1t is rumorcd that Secretary Thompson
will resign on Thursday next, and will be
succeeded by Governor Pratt of Mary
land
The President has sent an assistant Sec
Rotary of State TO Gov. Gist, with copies
of the Message, TO guard against mis-
takes.
Nh. IL, nf al. N,,,.,n1
being called by Congress is not favo:ably
received by either party.
The naval estimates for the year amount
to over eleven and halt millions.
General Intelligence.
Dispatches from Fort Scott to the lntc-
rior Department, dated the 18th ult, say
the business of the office has not been inter
lcred with, nor is likely to be.
The dispatches further state that Mont
Somery's raid amounts to nothing.
TALLAHASSEE, Dee. 1.-The bill provi-
ding for the assemblagc of II convention of
the people has passed both branches of the
Florida Legislature.
The convention is to meet on the Sd dav
of January, 1851.
bk l hEAkNN, I'iN. D. Ht bNtTiall'l
pony express passed here to-day on its
way to st. Joseph with advices from san
Francisco to the 2lst ult.
Lincoln has carried the State of Califor-
MIA by 700 to 1000 plurality.
Lincoln's plurality in Oregon thus far
amounts to 3lS.
California has of late been visited by 4
severe storm, unroofng l,onscs and doing
other damages of a serious character.
VIM. Governor Morris killed Nm
shannon, editor of the Nisalia Delta, in u
rrncomtrc growing out of politics. Morris
was prosecuted, and afterwards acquit-
ted.
The Pacific Mail Company's steamer
Golden Age sailed from San Francisco on
the DIST, for Panama, taking out Sl,21j,
900 of treasure.
At San Francisco provisions were de
Ginning. Sugar was l-l-2c. lower.
New York, Dee 3.-The United States
mail steamship Northern Light arrived
here to-day from Aspinwall.
She brings on freight upward of $500
900 of treasure.
Mr.. Clay, The United States Minstcrt'
Peru, was among the passengers.
The |. :. steamer of war Saranac ar
= rived at Panama on the 10Th ult., from San
FrauCiscO-all WELL
= BosToN, Dec. i-Bcdpath's JOIN
Brown meeting was taken possession ofb.
Union men.
Richard 5. Fay was nominated chair
a man.
t Resolutions were passed dcnouncinI
| John Brown and justifyiug his execution
II for having landed in Virginia.
: The Abolitionists unsuccessfully CT
t dcavored to obtain hearing. Finally til
: police were called.
II fremont Temple was cleared and clio:
n ed by order ofthc ilayor.
John Blown Sympathy Meeting i