New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-20
FROM VIRGINIA.
SECESSION FEELING.
A FOOL IN COUNCIL-NORTIIERN WORK SECEssA-
RY--A REIGN OF TERROR.

RY--A REIGN OF TERROR.
From Our own Correspondent.
RICHMOND, Va, March IL, 1861.
On Saturday, in the Convention Mr.. Goggin
presented an ordinance providing for the resump-
ton, by Virginia, of the powers delegated by her
to the Federal Government. His proposition 10
that Virginia shah not enter into an alliance
with the Cotton Coniederacy, their interests be-
ing foreign, if not nimica TO the interests OF the
tobacco-growing States, and that the Border
Southern States shall call Convention for the
purpose of ascertainiug what measures shau be
adopted by them with a view to the organlza-
ton of q permanent, separate and independent
Government. The document was laid on the Ia
bic, ordered TO be printed, and referred to the
Committee Of the Whole When the course of
Mr.. Goggin is remembered from the commence
ment of our existing national difficulties, up 10
the present time-preyOus to his election TO the
Convention, and since he has been member of
that body (haying made more than one strong
Union speedy, it 10 not to be wondered at that
the emanation Of such an instrument from him
created no email degree Of surprise, not only in
the Convention, but among his numerous friends,
and with the public generally. 1t is an indirect
abnegation of all that he has said upon the sub
ject of Federal relations, entirely changes his
political status, and, in the expressive language
of prominent Union man here, warm personal
friend of Goggn, "He has broken his neck"
/" Instructions" from bis constituents may be
urged by him in palliatiOn of his weathercOck
course.
A resolution was introduced in the HOuse VI
Delegates yesterday, TO the effect that the Com
mittee for Courts of Justice inquire into the eI-
pediency OF taking the sense OF the voters Of the
Commonwealth upon calling another sovereign
Convention and abolishing and supersediIg the
present one. This extraordinary resolution was
offered by Mr.. Jones, the delegate from the
County of AppomattOI. Mr.. Jones is young,
and what the ladies usually call, "pretty man."
He wears beautiful mustache and long hair,
and having plenty Of money, usually dresses in
the fashionable style. Failing signaDy, as, with
all bis vanity, he felt he had done, to make his
mark as delegate in the Legislature be thought
to attract to himself some degree of attention by
Offering this resolution. His wish for notOriety
is gratifed, for he has brought upon himself not
only the ridicule and contempt of the body of
which be is al unworthy member, but the alb
surdity Of his proposition has stamped him as q
fool, even with those who nre for more hasty
action on the part Of the Convention. Wonder
if Jones does not say to himself, in his earnest
desire TO attract public notice:
9TH aspiring youth who tired tn Ephesian dome,
Ouliyss In tame tho pious fools that reared it."
When the question on the adoption of tho resO.
luton was put, it was rejected by an over.
whelming majority. If straws Indicate tho direc-
ton in which the wind blows, this seems signiti-
can't, as there WAS an unusually full attendance
of members on the occasion.
The Tredegar Iron Works, in this city, have
been some time engaged in the manufacture OF
heavy guns for South Carolina and other Cotton
States The orders were given them from the South
in the temper of glowing patriotism. IL was to
encourage home manufacture and to give eyi"
dence to the North Of what could be done here,
and how entirely independent Of the re,t Of man
kind the South was for anything that human
skill and industry could produce. The order was
accepted, of<course, and guns have been sent
South and are still being made for that region.
The guns are good, and viii doubtless give salts
faction, bat how will the Norfhern.made gun.
carriages, on which they are mounted, please
the Secessionistsl 1t is literally true that,
with all their patriotism, with their earnest
ly aroused hatred Of any and everything per-
tanning to Yankee land, with many workmen
here in that line Of business upon the verge
Of starvation, the proprieton Of the Tredegar
Works get every guu-carriage used by them from
the North. Consistency, thou art jewel! Talk
shout Virginia oy any sshsr Southern State DO.