The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-25

pledged in the act Of 1850 will be preserved
and the territory lying south of SO deg. 80 min.
will be disposed Of, and the subject wealth of
controversy removed from the Jurisdiction of
the Federal Government. Thus, all claimed
by the South will be obtained, while the north
subject to such law as the constitution and
Congress may furnish for its government. By
this adjustment of the present territory of the
Union, including the territory of all the States,
it will be found that the area of the free States
and Territories, including all north of the line
of 36 deg. 30 miD., contains l,648,779 square
miles, and q population of 10, O36, 1876, making q
population of about IL 5-l0ths to the square
mile.
The area of the slaveholding states, includ-
ing New Mexico, is 1904, 504 square miles, with
Q Federal popolution of about 9 ITO to the
square mile. By this arrangement of all the
territory now possessed by the United States
when New Mexico is admitted, if admitted as
slave state, that possessed by the slavehold.
ing states will be greater, in proportion to
Federal population, than that occupied by the
non-slaveholding states and territories.
As to future territory, the committee
make no recommendation.
The minority report from the Committee
of Thirty-three, signed by Taylor Of Louisi.
ana Phelps, of Missouri Rust, of Arkan-
sas Whitley, of Delaware, and Winslow,
of North Carolina, embraces in sub.
stance the following The report says
the present difficulty can only be remedied
by amendments to the constitution, and
suggests that the amendment proposed in
the Crittenden resolution, if adopted,
would restore tranquility to the country,
and place the Union on such foundation
that it could never be shaken. Those
amendments, the report asserts, would not,
in reality, change the constitution. They
would only have the effect of restoring it,
by the added provisions, to what it
was in point of fact on the day
of its adoption. Through the opera.
tions of the circumstances which then
surrounded it, and which erected as e6ectual
the barriers against the present sectional
contest, as constitutional provisions would
now. If a constitutional majority cannot
be united on the support Of the Crittenden
resolutions, or the substances of them, then
dissolution of the Union is inevitable.
The report recommends that steps be taken
for calling convention of the states with
view of peaceful separation by prov iding
for portion of the property of the United
States; setting terms by which the CON-
mercial intercourse between the separate
states shall be conducted and making
permanent arrangement with respect to the
navigation of the Mississippi River. The
report gives what the signers of it consider
full account of the rise and progress of
the slavery agitation which has produced
the existing difficulties.
GEN. SANFORD, who commands the first
division of New York volunteer militia, has
rendered the services of his division to Gov.
MORGAN. He states in bis letter, that the
organized, uniformed and disciplined troops
in the division, amounts to 1000 men, and
the enrolled ununiformed militia of the
division, to $4,000 men of these a large
number consist of persons who have served
seven years in the various regiments, and
upon an emergency would flock to the
standard, and the uniformed corps could
then be increased to $4,000 or 10000 dis.
ciplined soldiers. Gen. SANDFoRD's division
comprises New York and Brooklyn. Gov.
MORGAN Professionally accepts the services
of the division.
Gov. ELLIS, of North Carolina, has
written to the President, informing him that
the forts which were recently captured by q
body of volunteer so!diery, withoutauthority,
will be promptly restored to the custody of
the government, accompanied by becoming
expression of bis condemnation of the law
less act. This conduct stands out in marked
contrast with the revolutionary proceedings
elsewhere.
The New Orleans True Delta, of Jan.
18th, contains the following telegraphic
dispatches from Baton Rouge, relative to
the seizure of the United States arsenal, at
that place, by the State troops:
BATON ROUGE, Jan. 1.-Major Haskins, COM
manding at the arsenal, capitulated to-day at
twelve o'clock, and evacuated the ordinance
department of the barracks. The officers
quarters are still occupied by the United States
forces, but will be delivered up when proper
conveyance can be procured to take them
away. The companies from New Orleans now
hold possession of the arsenal and barracks.
Upon the summons of Gov. Moore, backed
by six hundred men, the commanding officer,
seeing resistance would be q rash sacrifice,
surrendered the fort and property to the State
of Louisiana.
The arsenal is now in the possession of the
State troops. Major Haskins, with the United
States troops, is still in the barracks, but will
leave by the first up-river boat.
The officers and soldiers of the United States
army were treated with the greatest respect
and courtesy.
- Judge SMALLEY's charge on the SUBJ
ject of high treason, to the Grand Jury, in
the United States Circuit Court, for the
Southern District of New York, has at
tracted considerable attention in the eastern
press, and is generally commended. After
referring to the unlawful acts of the people
OF South Carolina, in Selling public proper
ty, firing upon ship bearing the national
flag, &C., the Judge says:
This is usurpation of the authority of the
federal government; it is high treason by levy
ing war. Either one of those acts will consti-
into hiUh treason There cau ho M dnnh< ~