Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-08

Az hlchmohd, secession seems to give gen.
eral satisfaction.
1t is rumored that paper is being signed,
requesting Bolts to leave the State.
at Baltimore, secession produced no sensa
tion one way or the other People were
cheerful, business was better, and the i'm
preston was that the North will make hon
ora6le concessions and repeal the obnoxious
laws. Other Southern States will cheerfullv
meet them.
AT, Memphis there was an enthusiastic
meeting, and fifteen guns fired. The Ava.
lanche newspaper office was illuminated.
AT Wilmington, Delaware, one hundred guns
were fired
AT Mobile there was an immense meeting
much wild enthusiasm and many places illu-
minated-old men taking prominent part.
A Jackson dispatch says that 20 delegates
out of 100 elected to the Mississippi Conven-
tion are in favor of separate secession. The
popular majority is thirty thousand.
There was a meeting of the Committee of
Thirteen on Friday. Douglas is said to be
ready for any amendments to take slavery
out of Congress without regard to his previous
action, as if he had never made a speech or
given a vote.
The subject in the meeting of the Commit
tee OF Ihirty-three was a proposition for the
admission of Kansas and New Mexico, which
would settle the difficulties. Nothing was
done. 1t adjourned till Thursday next.
Subsequently the Republican members had
a caucus, but agreed upon nothing.
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
lie Is now awaiting result of correspondence
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tive to the course to be pursued by them.
In the South Carolina legislature, Dec 81
the House entertained resolutions providing
for feeding and transporting troops; estab-
fishing telegraph lines to exposed posts under
authority of Government in case of war or
apprehended invasion.
The Supreme Court of the United States
have granted mandamus against the Gov
ernor ofOhio on application of Kentucky, re-
turnable on the llth of January.
The Tribune says, positively, Lincoln is
utterly opposed to any concession or compro
mise, or yield one iota of the position occu-
pied by the Republican party on the subject
of slavery in the Territories.
Another SLAYER with 900 Africans has been
captured. Col. Rudler has been pardoned.
ST.. LOUIS, Dee. 24-In the House to dav,
the Speaker presented letter from the South
Carolina delegation, dissolving their con-
nection with the House since their State had
assumed sovereign capacity.
In the proceedings of the South Carolina
Convention, Saturday, secresy was observed
1t is supposed the revenue laws of N. York
will be adopted, and that the Collector will
be required to take an oath of allegiance to
the State. Postal matters remain unchanged.
Commissioners received their credentials on
Saturday, and are on their way to Washing
ton. The President will send a special mes
sage to Congress on their arrival.
ToomLs has telegraphed to Georgia that all
his propositions for compromise were treat
ed with derision and contempt by the Repub
lican members of the Committee of Thirteen,
and that every Republican member voted
against each of Crittendens propositions, and
majority declared that they had no guaran-
tees to offer, which was silently acquiesced in
by the other members. He says the Com
mittee of Thirty three is composed of q ma
jority OF Republicans, who seek to amuse the
South with delusive hopes, and tells his
friends that secession is defeated if they wait
for Convention. Finally, he urges Georgia
to secede by the 4th of March, at the lltest.
The Union Committee of New York have
received a letter from Fillmore which is not
yet permitted to be published.
Senator johnson was burned in effgy at
Memphis on Saturday night.
General John Tyler, in a late speech, said ::
Let the Union go to hell" Received with
loud and repeated cheers
Seward spoke on Saturday night at ban
quet of the New England Society, at New
York. He counseled fraternal Kindness and
forbearance: said the secession feeling was
getting weaker since election day, and within
sixty days the trouble would pass away.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24-lOP. NJ.
In the House, to-day, Cochrane introduced
a set of Union saving resolutions, to which
Haskin proposed a substitute inquiring into
South Carolina affairs.
In the Senate, Pugh and Douglas submit
ted amendments to the Constitution, which
were submitted to the Committee of Thir
teen