, 1861-01-18

the admission Of Kansas and New No IOr
which settle the difficulties in these ono' $50
ries. Nothing was done, and The rosl oelrl'o-
tee adjourned till Thursday next 0O~'n''-
Subsequently, the Republican m.,,,.
had n caucus, and concluded that No oelS ..OS
sition satisfactory to the ConstilutoD moPo' uoTs
be adopted by the people; therefore Il tCu.u "nl
necessary to prepare. w"
In the House to-day, Cochrans iD,,.
duced Union-saving resolutions, 10 wbioE
Haskin proposed to substitute an iroD;.l
into South Carolina affairs. Notbino w.!
done, and the House adjourned till Thur
day.
THE VERY LATEST.
ST.. LOUIs, Deo a.
In the House to-day, MONDAY, III.
Speaker presented a letter from the SoutS
Carolina delegation, dissolving their con.
nection with the House, since that State
had assumed her sovereign capacity.
The Commissioners from South Caroline
received their credentials on Saturday on
their way to Washington. The President
will send special message to Congress on
their arrival
Gushing had returned to Washington
and reports that South Carolina was acting
with the view of the cooperation with ali
the slave States.
Toombs had telegraphed to Georgia
that all his propositions Of compromise
we're treated with derision and contempt
by the Republican members of the com
mittee Of Thirteen; that every Republican
member had voted against each Of Crit
tenden's propositions, and that the majority
then declared that they had no guarantees
to offer, which was silently aequiesced in
by other members r... La.
The Union Committee Of New York re-
ceived letter from Fillmore, not yet per.
mitted to be published.
Senator johnson was burned in efigy at
Memphis, on Saturday night.
Seward spoke on Saturday night at a
banquet of the Newfoundland Society, N.
York He counselled fraternal forbear-
ance, and said that the Secession feeling
had been getting weaker since the election
day. Within sixty days the trouble would
pass away. U.s.
In the Senate to-day, Pugh and Doug.
las submitted amendments to the Consttu-
tion, which were referred to a committee Of
Thirteen.
Nicholson made speech on the South
ern side; he had scarcely hope that the
demands Of the Sonth would be granted by
the North.
Davis submitted an amendment to the
Constitution, declaring the rights Of slave
property.
Two defalcatioDs have been discovered
in the Interior Department-one in Indian
Trust Bonds, and the other 5000 in cash.
In the South Carolina Convention, to-
day, nothing was done Of definite na-
ture.
Intense excitement ensued to-day OF
Pittsburg, on the discovery that the U. S.
Quartermaster was about shipping 1876
gnns from Allegheny Arsenal to Galveston
aud the Balize, supposed for the purpose Of
stripping the Arsenal, and placing the guns
where the Seceders could get them. Mnj.
Lyttelipgton, in command, declined to give
any positive information on the subject.
Leading Democrats telegraphed to Wash
ington to have the orders countermanded,
saying that the people would not suffer the
guns to be removed.
The South Carolina Convention, on the
2lst, was in secret session most Of the day.
The Convention adopted the ReVenue
and Postal laws of the United States, re-
uuiring the moneys collected to be depOs-
tied in the Bank Of Sonth Carolina, sub
ject to the Assembly; and that said officers
retain it as public property, for the dispo-
sal of the Assembly, till the final seetle-
ment with the United States.
In the South Carolina Legislature, on
the 2lst, the House entertained resolutions
for the feeding aud transportation Of troops,
and establishing telegraPhic lines to ex-
posed points, under authority Of tie Gov
ernor, in case of war or apprehended inVA-
sion.
Another SLAYER, with 900 Africans on
board, has been captured.
Col. Ruder has been pardoned.
In Baltimore, secession has produced no
sensation, one way or the other. People
are cheerful, business is better, and the
impression is, that if the North will make
concessions, and repeal obnox-
ious laws, the Southern States will cheer
fully meet them.
The Governor Of Maryland, in his reply
to the Mississippi Commissioners, says that,
not until all honorable constitutional and
lawful efforts fail, will Maryland consent to
a dissolution. He is now waiting with
anxious solcitude the result of his cores
dondence with the Governors Of the bor-
der States relative to the course to be Pur-
sued by them.