Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-01-09

/, militia of the District of Columbia who are all
/ for the Union. and learn that ten companies
OF United States troops will be brought 10 TINS
city at an early day, as an additional preeau-
! tion. Gen. Scott will remain here anu take
command of the whole force.
Mr.. Thomson will retire from the CaoincI
| as soon Mississippi passes her ordinance OF
i secession. He is much pressed now, and wouto
yield but for the Investigation into the roooe.
| ry perpetrated by his confidential clerk ana
/ private secretary, which was the relation Bal
! lev held toward him. At first Mr.. Thompson
profe ssed a readiness to make good any loss
suffered by the Indians, but he has abandoned
! this romantic idea, and will probably leave
Ithem to the mercy of Congress.
j 4 Mr.. Toombs telegraphed to Georgia urging
the State authorities to take the forts, and the
/ order of Gov. Brown to that effect was doubt
less prompted by his dispatch. Thus the sci
4 zure of public property and rebellion against
the e overnment are counseled openly from
the Senate. Gen. jackson would make short
| work of such advisers, and this experiment
would not have been tried on Gen. Taylor,
1 with whom Mr.. Toombs had some experience
| about secession'in 1850. t-a
MANY of the most distinguished men. who
heretofore sustained Mr.. Rouglas, utterly re-
pudiate the doubtful positions he took yes
terday in the Senate, which are wholly iDcon-
sistent with his bold declaration at Norfolk.
| after the Presidential election, that attracted
| such general commeDdahon. 1t requires an
| expert rider to manage two horses at this
| time and even Mr.. Doaglass great experience
in this respect is at fanR.
| Dispatches were received this afternoon no.
tifying the President that an attempt would
| be made by Gov. Wise's Minute Men at Nor
| folk to prevent the departure of the steam
| frigate BROOKLYN, which is now taking in Goals
at the Gosport navy-yard, and being put in
| readiness to proceed immediately to South
Carolina. The President has sent word back
| that force shall be rcpelled by force.
Three hundred marines will be ordered here
in addition to the Flying Artillery, mentioned
| yesterday, for the purpose OF protecting the
public property against all possible depreda-
tions. The Mayor and city authorities express
| the fullest confidence in being able TO guar
antee the peace of the city from any threaten
ed rufiianism outside. They are abundantiy
prepared for all contingencies.
| Mr.. Buchanan is, after all, coming to his
senses. At least, he permitted others, who
love the Union, to act for him. Gen. Scott,
who was not even on ssspeaking terms" with
| the proceeding Secretaries of War; Davis and
Floyd,is now at home at the War Department,
| being an intimate friend of Mr.. Holt, who is
really an amiable and Union loving man.
! Representatives Curry and Pngh of Alaba-
mat have left for home. Other representatives
| Of the same State will follow during the COM
| ing week, while members of other prospective
| ly seeding States are making preparations
| to take their departure.
| The departure of four companies OF flying ar
/ tilery, which has made such sensation at For
tress Monroe, not designed for Charleston,
| but for Washington.
| THE LATEST.
| WASHINGTON, JAN. 5, I860.-The Committee
| of the border States, including Delaware,
| Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and
| North Carolina, from the South, and New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
| 70 IN l,.-
| positions for an adjnstm ent of pending difficult
| ties, by amending the Constitution as follows
| l. Recommending repeal OF all the Per-
| soma | Liberty bills.
| 2. That the Fugitive Slave law be amended
| for the preventing of kidnapping. and as to
provide for the equalization Of the Commis-
| sioners' fee, &c.
| 3. That the Constitution be amended
| to prohibit any interference with Slavery In
any of the States, where it now exists.
| f. That Congress shall not abolish Slavery
! in the Southern dockyards, arsenals, &c, nor
in the District of Columbia without the con-
| sent of Maryland and the consent of the in
habitants of the District, nor without compen-
| sation. 8
! 5. That Congress shall not interfere with
the inter State slave-tradc.
/ 6. That there shall be perpetual prohibit
| tion of the African slavetrade.
| 7. That the line of &c degrees 30 minutes
| shall be run through all the existing territory
of the United States that in all north OF that
| line Slavery shall be prohibited, and that sonth
| of that line neither Congress nor the Terrific
| rial Legislature shall hereafter pass any law
| aboishing, prohibiting, or in any manner in
| terfering with Afriean Slavery and that
| when any Territory containing sufficient
| population for one member of Congress in any
! area of 80 900 square miles shall apply for ad-
| mission as state, it shall be admitted, with
or without Slavery, its Constitution may
| determine. S. 81 aH
The 9TH clause originated with Mr.. Hale. of
| Pennsylvania.
! This compromise is not accepted by the
| South. The South will not consent to leay-
! ing the Territories south of sc so to be free or
slave as the people may elect, believing that,
| by leaving the question open, the scenes of
| Kansas will he revived, and the country over
run by Anti Slavery people, through the a.
| gency of the Northern emigrant aid societies.
| They demand the unequivocal recognition, by
the North that Slavery shall exist in territory
| south of the proposed line, until it shall be di-
| vided into States, when, in their sovereign ca
| pacity as States, they may alter or confirm
| their statue in regard TO Slavery. In other
words, all territory North shall be considered
free; and all South slave, unless the people
shall choose to change the condition after
their Government shall be clothed with State
authority. Nothing else will be.accepted by
| the South and, as false Impressions may be
| formed from the favor in which the proposition
| of the Border Committee are received in some
quarters, it is proper that this explanation
| should GO before the country as soon as pos
| sibe.
New York, JAN. The steamer sStar of
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