The Nevada journal., 1861-01-11

no disposition among the Republicans in Con-
tenden's plan of compromise. Senotor wade
is said to have spoken fairly the Republican
sentiment in bis late speech.
| At meeting of the Committee of Thirty
three, the position of Davis, of Maryland, re-
questing the several State Legislatures to re-
wise their laws, and if any were found conflict
ing with the Constitution and laws of the
United States, to repeal them, was adopted with
| but two dissenting votes.
| Davis of Mississippi, unsuccessfully attempt
cd to have the question in reference to Terrific
ries disposed of first.
| A proposition of Davis of Maryland, previ-
ously submitted embodying a bill which re-
| qures the United States Marshal to deliver ftl-
gtiyes to the District Judge in the District of
the State from which the fugitives escaped, for
trial by jury, was referred to a sub Committee
of members from the border States
| The proceedings of the Committee of Thirty
! three are not considered indicative of salts
factory solution of the present differences.
| The Post Office Committee have the Pony Ex-
press matter under consideration for contract
| with Russell Il Co., to transmit dispatches. 1t
| is thought that 1t will pass, as the existence Of
the Express is thought to depend ON it.
! The Postmaster General will stop South Car
olina mails on its secession. The Postmaster
at Charleston having signifed his intention to
resign after secession, there can be no distfibu-
| tion there.
Many idle rumors and hoaxes are in circua-
tion among others, the resignation of Gen.
| Scott
Tic New York World learns that the British
and French Consuls have been approached by
the seccssionists, with view to secure their CO.
operation, but they replied that any communi-
cation to them would be transmitted to the
State Department at Washington.
South Carolina secession was celebrated by the
firing of one hundred guns, and other rejoicings
were observed, at Montgomery, Alabama, and
Pensacola, Florida.
The New York Tribune's Washington cores
pondent says the news created no excitement in
the House
The Methodist Conference, in South Carolina,
Dec. 18th, passed resolutions favoring secession.
Eleven new cases of small pox had occurred.
About eighteen young ladies' seceded fror:
seminaries in New York and Pennsylvania.
They passed through Washington yesterday.
The Governor of Alabama, in consequence of
the present crisis, has assumed the responsible
ty of advising the banks to suspend, and all
have done except three.
In the South Carolina Legislature, Dec. 81,
the House entertained resolutions providing for
feeding and transporting troops; establishing
telegraph lines to exposed posts under authority
of Government in of war or apprehendcd
invasion.
The New York Tribune says, positively, Lin
coin is opposed to any secession or compromise,
or yielding one iota of the position occupied by
the Republican party ON the subject Of slavery
in the Territories.
Seward spoke on Saturday night AZ banquet
at the New England Society, at New York. He
counseled fraternal Kindness and forbearance
said the secession feeling getting weaker
since clectiod day, and within sixty days would
pass away.
The Governor of Maryland, in reply to the
Mississippi Commissioners, says, not until all
honorable, constitutional and lawful efforts fail
will Maryland consent to dissolution. He is
now awaiting with solicitude the result of cor
respondenco with the Governors of the border
States relative to the course to be pursued by
them.
A Jackson dispatch says that seventy dele
gates out of one hundred elected to the Mississ
ippi Convention are in favor of separate secess-
ion. The popular majority is thirty thousand.
There was meeting of the committee of Eff
teen on Friday Douglas is said to be ready for
any amendments to take slavery out of Con
gress, without regard to his previous action, as
if he had never made a speech given vote.
The subject in the meeting of the Committee
Of Thirty three was proposition for tho admiss-
ion of Kansas and New Mexico, which would
settle the difficulties. Nothing done. 1t
adjourned till Thursday next
Subsequently the Republican members had
caucus, but concluded on no proposition that
was satisfactory to the ultra Southern States, by
way of amendment to the Constitution, or which
could be adopted by the people.