, 1861-03-08

sehu ueleBhIeS 70 the w dSnluBLOu NOnNeu-
tion. Michigan declines sending delegates.
; The Senate of Kentucky resolved to adj
journ to the oath Of April before taking
definite action regarding the crisis.
Great suffering is now being experienced
by the inhabitants of Kansas Fifty thous-
and persons are on the brink of starvation.
The Louisiana Senators on the 4th pre-
sented a secession ordinance and withdrew.
The Republican caucus in New York
has nominated Ira Harris to succeed
Seward. Il;
An enthusiastic Union meeting at
/ Charlestown. Mass, was addressed by EY-
erett and others.
Lincoln, on his return to Springfield, had
a reception at Charlestown, ILL.,, but decli-
ned in any way to indicate his future policy.
More troops had arriVeda Washington
for the protection of the Capital. Secreta-
ry Thompson testified before the committee
that the plan to secure the Capital had
been discussed at bis house.
Insubordnation is reported among the
State troops at Pensacola, Fla.
Returns Of the election on the l4th Of
members Of the Convention 10 Northern
Virginia, indicate the success Of the anti
secessionsts.
Col, Lander has resigned the superinten-
dency of the Wagon Road.
In both Houses Of Congress, Feb. llh.
resolutions we're introduced inquiring into
the security of the mint at New Orleans.
The Pacific Railroad Bill has passed
the Senate with amendment.-U Union for
ever.
The Grand Jury Of the District Of Co
Iumbia has made three presentments Of ex-
Secretary Floyd First, for maladminis-
tration Of Office; second, for complicity IN
the abstraction Of bonds, and third, for
eonspiring against the Government.
1t is expected that the Indictments viii
be ready for the action Of the jury to-mor-
row. ~
An officer Of the navy, jnst from the
South, says that al the States which have
seeded, except South Carolina, are ready
70 come back upon reasonable concessions
being made.
tits established before The Investigating
COMMITTEES that Messrs. Russel, Majors &
Waddell received their pay for lransporla-
tioh as the service was performed, and there
was not q dollar doe them, authorizing the
aceeptanees which Floyd gave Their con-
tract stipulated the mode Of payment, which
was made through The Quartermaster at
ST. Louis. The prciense that these accept-
anees were to be protected BY uninlhllcd Or
future service, was only part Of the nont
strOus fraud.
It is rumored that the ground ofSeward's
confidence and GOODNESS is that Mr. Lincoln
will. In few days. issne manifesto In
which be Is to give satisfaction both to the
North and South.
Messrs Criitcnden, Biglcr. Douglas and
others called a meeting tonight, with Eth
ridge and other conservatives. Of the
House. TO consider new means Of compr0-
mise just elaborated. Of highly important
character. The proceedings are strictly
private.
The most intense excitement exists 10 GER
tain Congressional circles. 10 consequence
Of the fact leaking out that the Howard
Select Committee Of tho House has positive
evidence before them Of a conspiracy oxis-
ting 70 overthrow the Government, IN
which certain prominent officials and c|tI-
zens Of Washington figure.
The Minority Report, Of the Committee
Of Thiriy-three, signed BY Taylor. Of Louis
lana, Phelps, Of Missouri. Rusk. Of Arkan-
sas, and Winslow. Of North Carolina, en-
braces 10 substance the following: The
report says the preseut difficulties can only
be remedied By amendments 70 tho consii
tuition, and suggests that the amendments
proposed 10 tho Criitenden lresolations, IL
adopted, would restore iranquilily 70 The
country. and place the Uuion on such a
foundation that Il could never be shaken
These amendments. the report asserts,
would not in reality, change the Constitn-
tion; they would only have the effect Of re-
storing il, by the added provisions, to what
it was 10 point Of fact, on the day Of rs
adoption. IL 4 constitutional majority can
not be united In the support Of The Critlen-
den resolutions, or the substance Of them,
then q dissolution Of the Union Is Inevitable
The report recommends that steps Be IA
ken for calling Convention Of he States.
with a view for peaceable separation, hy
providing for a partition Of the property Of
the United States; settling terms on which
the commercial intercourse between tho
separate States shall be conducted, and
making permanent arrangemeut with re-
speot 10 tho navigation Of the Mississippi
river. The report gives what The signers
of it consider foil account Of the rise and
progress Of the slavery agitation, which has
produced the existing diiicnlties
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