The national Republican., 1861-02-01
NORTHERN GRIEVANCES.

Among the memorials presented to the Sen.
ate on Wednesday, were the following:
"By Mr.. Foster From citizens of the Uni.
ted States, masters and crews of fishing vessels,
licensed under United States laws, setting forth
that persons claiming to act under laws OF
Florida, said to have been passed by that State,
| have forcibly seized their vessels, and e&acted
sums of money to the great damage to the
peace and rights of citizens Of the United
States that not being able by their own means
and power to protect themselves from these i'm
prisonments and exactions, they ask Congress
| to protect their rights and preserve the peace
and dignity of the United States from further
insult.
"By Mr.. Trumbull From members Of the
| Southern Illinois Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, setting forth that one Of
their ministers, engaged in the holy exercise
of religious devotion, was assaulted in the State
of Texas by lawless mob, and ordered to leave
the State under pain Of death while, on the
18th Of last September, another was hung, his
only crime being connected with the Methodist
Church. They merely ask them not TO make
union without providing that no person shall
be prescribed for religious opinions that where
violent prosecutions for opinion sake take place,
the guilty parties shall be brought to justice
and punished according to the magnitude Of
their crime"
Where the South has one real ground o.
complaint, the North has hundred. To say
nothing of banishments and confiscations
there have been twenty free white men from
the free States murdered upon political suspi
cion at the South, where one negro has beer
illegally helped to freedom by the North.
MIssoURI-The St. Louis Democrat Of Jan
uary 20, gives extracts from fifteen Of its coun
ty exchanges, denouncing disunion out ant
out
The Democrat says:
I" 1t will be seen, from these extracts, tha
the hearts of the people are true and loyal t
the Union, and the secessionists in this CIT,
and elsewhere may as well prepare themselve
for a most complete and notifying overthrow
in the results of the State Convention election
on the 18th proxmo. he citizens of Missouri
it seems, are Just waking up to the value o
this great Confederacy of States. There won
be single secession member returned to tina
Convention, while the Union men who are fo
the Union, without conditions, will undoubted
ly largely preponderate in that body"
LAWSUIT BETWEEN HORSE TAMERs.
action for 100000 damages has been com
menced in the Supreme Court in New York b.
Denton Offutt, of New Orleans, against job
S. Rarey, the famous horse tanner, for an allege,
violation of q contract. Mr.. Offutt claim
that he is the originator of this system of hors,
tanning, and that in the year 1850 he taught i
to Rarey, who bound himself in the penalty o
$50 in each case in which he should impart tn,
secret to any other person that he gave Rarey
book of the system, which he (Rarey) ha.
since republished and has further violated tn,
contract by imparting the secret of the system
to divers persons in Europe and the Unitet
States.
The Richmond Wing of yesterday, says, il
speaking Of the secession movements
awe have all the time been convinced tba
the secession movement in the Gulf States, de
rived its stimulus, in great degree, from tn,
constant and earnest appeals of the secession
lists of Virginia. We have no doubt-we neye
have had doubt-that the leading member,
of the Breckenridge faction in this State, are il
full fellowship and communion with the Rhett
and Yanceys of the cotton States, and that tn,
conspiracy to overthrow the Union, and estab
lish Southern Confederacy, which has beer
in existence for many years past met with tht
hearty approval and encouragement of tn,
aforesaid Virginia malcontents."
D9- A telegram from this city says;
"There is no truth in the statement that III,
Hon. Jacob Thompson, while Secretary of thu
Interior, purchased Florida bonds at par, whe,
the market value of the same was opiy fft,
cents on the dollar. What were purchase;
were Of Riggs Il Co., for which the marke
price only was paid"
Riggs & Co. have always had good luck il
dealing with Democratic Secretaries.
What is the "market price, of Florid,