The Shasta courier., 1861-01-12
SHASTA COURIER.
Pony News.

We have news by the Pony Express to Dec.
24th. We quote from the Union:
At NEE ing of the Committee of Thirty
three, the proposition of Davis, of Maryland,
requesting the several State Legislatures to re-
wise their laws, and if any were found conflict
ing with the Constitution or laws of the United
states to repeal them, was adopted, with but
Two dissenting voices. A proposition of Davis,
OF Maryland, previously submitted, embodying o
Dill which requires the Marshal to deliver fugi-
yves to the District Judge in the District of the
State from which the fugitives escaped, for trial
oy jury, was referred to a subcommittee of the
members of the border States. Subsequently,
at q meeting of the Committee, proposition of
Kansas and New Mexico, which would settle the
difficulties in these Territories. Nothing was
done, and the Committee adjourned till Thurs
day next. Subsequently. the Republican mem
bers held caucus, aad concluded that no pro-
position satisfactory to ultra Southern States, by
way of amendment to the Constitution, could be
adopted by the people, therefore it was neces-
sary to prepare.
The st. Louis Democrat announced on au-
thority both from Lincoln and Bates, that the
latter will occupy place in the Cabinet, prob
ably that of Secretary of the Interior.
Private advices from New York published
have represented a bad feeling prevailing
there, and if possible it is worse in Boston. The
writer would not be surprised to see bloodshed
in those cities before long.
A large meeting was held at Norfolk, Va, and
resolutions passed in favor of National State
Convention, opposing coercion, arming the
State. and declaring against the re-opening of
the African Slave trade.
Friday abont Is young ladies seeded from
seminaries in New York and Pennsylvania
They passed through Washington yesterday.
Toombs has telegraphed to Georgia that all
his propositions for compromise were treated
with derision ard contempt by the Republican
members of the Committee of Thirteen, and that
every Republican member voted against each of
Cnttenden's propositions, and majority declar-
ed that they had no guarantees to offer, which
was silently acquiesced in by the other men,
bers. He says the Committee of Thirty three is
composed of a majority 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
latest.
Senator Johnsoa was burned in effigy at
Memphis on Saturday night.
The Supreme Court of the United States have
granted mandamus against the Governor of
Ohio on application OF Kentucky, returnable on
the lth of January.
terly opposed to any concession or compromise,
or yield one iota of the position occupied by the
Republican party on the subject of slavery in
the Territories.
1t is rumored that a paper was being signed
requesting Bolts to leave the State of Virginia
There was meeting of the Senate Committed
of Thirteen on Friday. Douglas is said to bs
ready for for any amendments to take slavery
out of Congress without regard to his previou:
action, as if he had never made speech or giver
a vote.
Seward spoke on Saturday night at a ban
quet of the New England Society, at New York
He counseled fraternal kindness and forbear
ance; said TIE secession feeling getting
weaker since election day. and within sixty day
the trouble would pass away.
In the Senate, Pugh and Douglas submitte,
amendments to the Constitution, which wer
submitted to the Committee of Thirteen.