New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-29

kIeedeep tI0kh vi vermont L1AW or IN West
ern courtroom on rainy day, where. tobacco
flows in rivulets and wet overcOats generate a
musty steam. Even if l were an accredited re-
porter from the most rabid Southern paper,
should be thrust into the gallery, where only
fragments of the discussion would reach my ear;
but as it is not choosing to apply to the Presi-
dent of the Convention for a seat on the strength
Of my connection with THE TRIBUNE, l am
compelled to Undergo such tortures in the midst
Of the jostling crowd, that even now look on
possible interview with the affable Judge Lynch
as not the worst thing that can happen to a man.
You can ensily understand that it is impossible,
for many reasons, to take notes OF the proceed
ings, and the effort to keep record Of them in
ones head would soon induce badness. So much
by way of growl. Now to the work of the day.
Having prayed, in public, the Convention trans
acted business in secret, for one hour or there
abouts, and thus having felt the temper of the
delegates and seen that it would be safe to let
them have the ear Of the people at the expira-
ton of the time mentioned the multitude were
let in. On another day viii give you sketch
of this multitude when they are shut out from the
cOnyocatiOn of their servants.
The best joke of the season was perpetrated
this morning by the Convention, and my lnyolln-
tary explosion Of laughter thereat came near
being dangerous to me. Ii came in the form OF a
resolution offered by Mr.. Cochran of Wilkinson
his name ought to be knogn-to the effect that
the State of Georgia is entitled to her share Of The
LII La, Oh, hat ia
which Georgia has not yet stolen-and that the
Governor be directed to conveae the Legislature
for the purpose of dividing it This honest prop
osition was followed by an exceedingly handsome
offer to pay the Federal Government proper
share of the expenses attending the transmission
of the mails, on condition that the Federal Gov
eminent continues to do the job properly. Then
Occurred row concerning the half-dozen dele
gates who did not sign the Ordinance of Seces-
sion. These men have pluck and prnciple-two
good things TO have, but which are not in favor
with TOo,nbs and his followers. All last evening,
and into the night, the most earnest talk of
tie bar-rooms was directed against the sturdy
individuals who refused TO sign. am not exag
geratng point when I tell you that there was
positive danger that they would be lynched-not
by the decent or semi-decent people, mind, but
by wild fellows, whom the decent people can no
more manage or control than they can bride the
whirwind. This morning these outstanding
delegates saw clearly enough that some action
must be taken, in order 10 satisfactorily define
their position before their world. Consequently a
paper was drawn up and signed by them, stating
that they felt it duty to protest against the
precipitate action Of the State, but that their
lives fortunes, and hOnors at the service
of Georgia, if she were attacked. This paper
they offered to the Convention, and then there
ensued lively and very acrimonious debate.
The violence and yrulence of the TOombs party
we're displayed in q strong Eight. Finally, the
paper-protest, they call it here-was entered on
the journal.
The old phrase concerning the solution of a
difficulty might nov be well amended by substi-
tutng the Georgian knot" for the other, so
often told Of This Convention does not spend
much time in untyiDg things. Out come the
scissors and with one snip the trouble is tempo
rarily removed. For instance, the delegates who
are doing the thinkiDg-yery few of them, jus
now-suddenly thought that inasmuch as Georgia
had put stop TO the operation OF the United
States laws in the State . number of criminals
under confinement within her borders, for ofenses
against the General Government, could be re
leased on haJeGs corpus. Here was a knot. Mr.
Cobb, Thos. X. r., Immediately produced an &C
by which the people of the seeding State prom
ised TO oficate as the haugmen and jallors OF
the Federal Government, conhning and furnishing
public criminals. The only opposition made to
this act was offered on legal grounds, Judge
Warner, IN able jurist, defining the powers OF
the Convention with much clearness, and holding
the opinion that such body had no right 10 act
in a legislative character, as it would do IN pass
ing such an ordinance. Nevertheless, after long
and really excellent debate, the ordinance was
adopted.
The next thing ! remember was the reading
of a communication from the Postmaster OF Sa'
yannah, who sent to the Convention memorial
stating that the United States Government did
the business of mal-carrying better than It could
be done in any other way; that it went sadly
against bis grain to acknowledge the corn Tex
cuse the pun in consideration of my being IN
strange and); but that he really saw no way oil
receiving letters, except to beg the Federal Gov
erument 10 continue the thankless and unremu-
neratiye business of supplying the South with
postal facilities. The Savannah Postmaster con-
a. .ded his memorial by most magnanimouSiy OIL
feripg 10 submit the consequences OF hs act TO
the Ruler of the Universe, Whose blessing and
direction he invoked upon the Convention. his
communication was in the most prosac way re-
ferred 10 the Committee on Commercial Affairs.