The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-28
LATEST NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH TO ST. PAUL.
WIN SLOWS LINE.
EXCLUSIVELY for the PIONEER 4 DEMOCRAT.
FROM THE SOUTH.
MARK FROM THE TOOMBs :.
A Full sou n d.
Fort .MouItyie to be Captured.
Crittenden's Compromise Rejected by
the Senate Committee.

WASHINGTONs Suuudys OcCs Cd.
Times Correspondence The Senate
Committee of Thirteen will report to-mor-
row, when Senator Toombs will speak in
remuneration of the Republican party and
will repudiate any effort at reconsidera-
alton. Mr.. Toombs telegraphs this evening,
the following address to the people of Geor-
gia:
SENATOR TONES ADDRESS.
81 came here to serve your constitutional
rights and to demonstrate to you that you
can get no guarantee for those rights from
your northern confederates. The whole
subject was referred to Committee of
Thirteen in the Senate. was appointed
on the Committee and accepted the
trust. 1 submitted propositions which
so far from receiving decided support from
a single member of the Republican part of
the Committee, they were all treated with
derision and contempt. A vote was then
taken in the Committee on amendments to
the constitution proposed by Hon. j. j.
Crittenden, and each and all we're voted
against unanimously by the Black Repub-
lican members of the Committee. In addi-
tion to these facts, minority of the Black
Republican members of the Committee de-
clared distinctly they had no guarantee to
offer which was silently acquiesced in by
the other members.
"The Black Republicans of this com.
mittee are representative men of the party
and section, and to the extent of my infor-
nation, truly represent their party. The
House Compromise Committee OF Thirty
three, on Friday adjourned for week,
without coming to any vote, after solemnly
pledging themselves to vote on all the pro-
positions then before them on that day. 1t
is controlled by the Black Republicans,
your enemies, who only seek to amuse you
with delusive hope until your election. If
you are deceived by them it shall not be my
fault. l have put the test fairly and
frankly. 1t is decisive against US. Now |
tell you, upon the faith of true man, that
all further looking to the North for security,
for your constitutional rights in the Union,
ought to be instantly abandoned. 1t is
fraught with nothing but ruin to your
selves and your posterity. Secession by the
4th day of March next should be Numbered
from the ballot box by the unanimous voice
of Georgia. On the second day of January
next, voice will be your best guarantee
for liberty, security, tranquility and glory.
[Signed.] r. TOOMBS."
WASHINGTON Dec. %.
General Cushing went to South Carolina
at the request OF the Supreme Court to
counsel with the leaders touching secession.
He reports that state as acting with view
to cooperation of all the slave states. The
report that Gov. Pickens had threatened an
attack on Fort Moultrie if the revenue
cutter was not withdrawn from Charleston
harbor, is fabrication.
The commissioners from South Carolina
are expected on Wednesday next, when
President Buchanan will send special
message to Congress communicating the
TACT. 1t is now generally understood that
the commissioners will not be admitted to
the floor of the Senate or House, or recOg-
nized by either branch.
NEW YORK, Dec. %.
The Herald Washington correspondent
telegraphs that Senators Davis and Wigfall
received dispatches this evening stating that
the forts would be taken in less than twenty
four hours. Mr.. Davis Immediately CON-
municated this intelligence to the President.
The cabinet, together with several leading
southern Senators, have been in council. 1t
has not yet transpired what course the gov.
ernment will pursue. A naval feet will
probably be forthwith despatched to
Charleston.
The Committee of Thirty-Three were in
session to-day six and half hours, consid-
eriDg various propositions to arrest the
progress of dissolution and give peace to the
country. The amendment to the constitution
proposed by Mr.. Crittenden, to settle the
controversy between the North and South
finally and forever, by division of the
country from ocean to ocean, on the parallel
of the Missouri line, was the great subject
of discussion. After long debate it was
lost under the rule of the committee requir-
ing for any proposition majority of both
Democrats and Republicans, the latter
voting in the negative. Several other
propositions were proposed, but without
acting on them. The committee adjourned