The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-31
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Ihe number OF Federal
troops which arrived here last night, is eighty
making in all less than three hundred here. These
are divided into three com yanies of Artillery, and
one of Infantry Arrangements have been made
for concentrating them at any particular point in
case their presence should be necessary to quel a
disturbance of the public peace.
Acting Postmaster General King has received
complaints from Northern gentlemen that their let.
ters from the South have been violated. One writes
that six addressed to him by lady in Mobile, and
not on political subjects, have evidently been
opened by unauthorized parties. The Department
has promptly instituted an Investigation.
TIE President has approved the bill for the ad-
mission of Kansas into the Union
Lieutenant Sanders, of the Unite States Army,
will leave Washington to-day with dispatches from
the War Depar tment to Florida.
The Constitution newspaper will be discontinued
tomorrow, to be re issued, the editor says, under
better and more favorable auspices and in the
more genial atmosphere of the Southern Republic
The paper is to be established at Montgomery,
Alabama
RESOLUTIONS OF THE PHILADELPHIA woRKGsGMEN.
WASHINGTON, jar. .3O-A delegation of a Commit
tee of Thirty-three, representing fifty thousand
workngmen of Philadelphia, this morning waited
on Messrs. .Crttenden and Cameron at their respec-
tive residences, where they were introduced by
Senator Bigler in a brief and appropriate address,
j. B. Nicholson, Esq, responded for the deega-
ton eloquenty and patrioticay. He stated the
object of their visit be to testify their apprecia
tion CT the Union entertained by themselves and
by those they represent; their desire for settle
ment of the national difficulties on a satisfactory
basis and that the proposition of the Senator from
Kentucky, whose character they revered, whose
patriotism they admired, was heartily endorsed by
them and they wished its adoption. The Senators
feeingy and hopefully responded to the address.
VIEWS OF HON. JOHN CoCHRANE, OF NEW YORK, ON
THE SECESSION QUESTION.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Hon. John Cochrane to.
day, in reporting the bill from the Select Commit
tee, further to provide for the collection of the
revenue, accompanied it with an expression of his
views. He fully concurs with the President in his
opinion against secession, and therefore that all
acts and ordinances of secession far as the same
may be carried into effect are to be considered as
revolutionary iniractions of the supreme law of the
land, however they may be regarded as the proper
exercise of an indefeasabe right of resisting acts
which are plainly unconstitutional and too oppres-
sive to be endured
He also concurs with the President that the Fede.
raj Constitution has abstaired from comforting on
the Federal Government or any Department there
OF, authority to declare and wage oppressive war
against SeceClng state, IN Order to the
peal OF any act or ordinance of secession she NAV
have passed. or to compel her to remain nominally,
as well az IN TACT, member OF the Federal Union.
A just conception of the constitutional authority
OF Congress, combines with other, and if possible,
higher and more commanding motives to prescribe
other measures than aggressive and cOercve war;
to remedy the grave Inconvenience pers and
evils of such secession. In framing the bill,
there has been kept steadily in view;-
First-The obstacles of every character which
0f he Eada
to coer State; and
Secondly-The principle which it is conceived
the whole cOercive action of our revenue system
has from its inception been founded
The bill proposes that vessels from foreign ports
bound to port within the scope of its provisions,
shall, with its foreign cargo, be liable to seizure
and condemnation; and in the same view of apply
ing Its restrictions only to foreign commerce, on
which revenue is by law collected, all vessels law.
fully engaged in the coastwise trade are exempted
from the operation of its purely remedial and de-
fensive operations. 1t further provides that when
the revenue laws are obstructed and it becomes
lmpracticable to collect the revenue, the President
shall by procan alton specify the port in which the
restrictions exist.
tFR0M OUR VA RINGToN NCORRESPo oNDEET.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80.
The presence here of committees of the mer-
chants of New York and workingmen of Phiadel-
phia, is beginning to tell upon Northern members,
and for the first time during the session symptoms
of yielding are apparent upon that side. The
speeches of Conkling, of New York, and Morris, of
Pennsylvania, to-day decidedly in favor of
and conciliation, and these, coupled
with the declarations of Cameron in the
Senate, have given buoyancy to I'm
ion stock which it has not exhibited
for some time. To be sure these favorable indica
tons are somewhat neutralized by the coercive,
onti- Of
to day, and the letter which Governor Chase, of
Ohio, has written here, denouncng the Adams
proposition to admit New Mexico, and coupseIing
his party to make no compromise whatever. 1t is
undenable, however, that the Union men are great
y elated to day and believe after the Border State
Conference shall have acted, that a compromise
measure will be carried through Congress by the
requisite vote.
The Committee Of Five are working very hard
and nave Two or three stenographers engaged in
taking down the mass of testimony So far moth
ing has been elected going to show that anv seri-
Gus designs against the capitol have been contem-
plated. large number of Baltimore witnesses
were examined to-day, but they knew nothing
about the matter. The whole thing seems to have
grown out of little bar-rOom talk in Baltimore
and Washington, to which Gov. Hicks and Gen.
Scott have attached undue Importance
Southern movements and intentions are involved
in mystery and it is impossible amid the numerous
and conflicting rumors to separate truth from false.
backward
ward, between Washington and Charleston, and
teegraphic communications are incessanty pas.
sing. messenger to Col. Hayne arrived to dav,
and he telegraphed instantly in reply to Governor
Plckens. Up to to-day, however, I have reason to
believe that the utimatum in regard to Fort Sum
ter had not been presented by Col Havne to the
President, nor was it certain that. such a demand
would be made. The Administration men saw no.
sitiveiE that nothing will be done by the Brook
lyn, at Pensacola, to bring on a collision at Fort
Pickens, and if does occur, the State authori-
ties will be responsible
Mr.. Parrot, of Kansas, the late delegate, has
gone home, and learn expects to return to Wash
ington of the Senators from that State lie
recently received a legacy from a female relative
IN Maryland negro man, whom he has taken on to
Dayton, Ohio, with him, where he will liberate
him.
Prior to the meeting Of the Senate TODAY. the
Committee Of Workingmen from Philadelphia
visited Gen. Cameron and Mr. Crittenden and
were introduced by Mr.. Bgler. They stated their
desire to have the existing difficulties satisfac-
tory adjusted, and the Senators appropriately re-
sponded.
1t is said that great indignation ia felt by the
masses at the North at the apathy with which the
Republicans have viewed the disruption of the
contederacy, and they are determined to make their
Influence felt. OBSERVER.
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w WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-The Senate's Select Com
mittee will report tariff bill on Friday. 1t is Mr.
MorrilPs Dill essentially altered The warehouse
In store three months instead of thirty days before
the duties are paid. They can remain six months
thereafter and when taken out for expectation the
duties refunded.
From private accounts received here the indica-
tions are that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of
Georgia. will be pressed fer the Office of Provisional
President in the contemplated Southern Confede-
racy, the object being to conciliate the conserya-
tives of the seeded States.
The friends of the Pacific Railroad are congratu-
lating themselves that the decided vote BY which
1t passed the Senate, secures its approval by the
President. The amendments however have to be
acted on by the House.
Governor Sprague, in telegraphing to ex Gov
ernor Corwin the fact that the Rhode Island lie
gislature had appointed Commissioners to the
Union Convention, adds, ''God give success to the
movement"
private despatch from Tennessee, states that
commissioners have been appointed by the Legis-
ature OF that Slate, instructed to meet the Border
state Commissioners at Washington. This is said
to be Union triumph, ten of the twelve commits
sloners are known certainly to be in favor of the
Union.
THE PLOT To SEIZE WASHINGTON.
The w ashington correspondent of the New York
World, says that ''the revival of the late rumor
about the threatened seizure of the Capitol arose
out OF letter written by Gov. Hicks, of Mary
land, to Gen. Scott, in which he stated that he had
good authority for asserting that an attempt at in
vaslon would be made and ordering Gen. Scott to
nave eight thousand men to resist it. An investi-
CATION has been going on in Washington for seve-
raj days past, in reference to the matter but has
developed nothing Mayor Berrett was before the
whatever of any organization having such pur-
pose, and discredited the suspicion as without
color of truth or probability. His attention had
been called to the subject, and after strenuous and