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THE NATIONAL CRISIS.

LOUISIANA SOVEREIGN CONVENTION
THE SECESSION ORDINANCE RESOLUTIONS
RETURNING THANKS To THE GOVERNOR FOR SEEING
THE FORTS.
BATON ROUGE, Jan. 24.-The Committee of Fifteen
reported the Ordinance on Secession and resolutions
regarding the navigation of the Mississippi river.
Both were ordered to be printed.
The Committee asked postponement of the dis
cusson till noon tomorrow.
Several substitutes were offered for settlement
of the present difficulties, which were ordered to
BE- printed for consideration tomorrow.
The Commissioners from South Carolina and Ala
bama were welcomed
An invitation from the Mayor of New Orleans for
the Convention to meet in that city, was received
and laid over.
A resolution was offered returning thanks to the
Governor for his prompt action in seizing the forts
On Louisiana, stating that we will defend them here
and elsewhere with all the means in our power.
Mr. Roselius asked, before voting, under what
authority the acts had been done. The Governor,
he said, the highest conservative of peace, and
thought such disregard of the Federal authority
might become necessary and right; but until he
was informed why the action was necessitated, be
not prepared to thank or censure the Cover
nor.
A message was here received from the Governor
and motion was made to read that portion in re-
ference to seizing the forts.
There was much discussion both for and against
the motion, and the confusion became so great that
the President was forced to rebuke the Convention
for the disorder.
The resolution finally passed-yeas 1l8,
nays 3.
FROM FLORIDA
THE LATEST FROM PESsACoLA-PREpARArGoNs FOR AS
sAULTING FORT PICKENs.
PENSACOLA, Jan. 24.-The volunteers are engag-
ed in mounting and arranging their cannon, the
carpenters engaged in making sealing ladders,
and the utmost hustle prevails
The United States steamer Wyandotte is an
chored westward of Fort Pickens, under the guns
and it is supposed will assist Lieut.. Slemmer in
case OF an assault
The pilots have been notified that they may
bring any United States war vessels inside of the
harbor, if they carry flags of truce.
GEORGIA CONVENTION.
M1LLEDGEvILLE, Jan. 25.-The credentials of the
Commissioners from Mississippi were presented in
the Convention this morning.
A report was submitted, providing that no State
federacy, unless the same be slaveholding State
and that any State admitted which shall subse-
quently abolish slavery, be excluded from said
union. The report was tabled for the present.
A resolution about direct Southern trade was in
troduced and it was proposed to send Commis-
sioner to the slavehoIding States, in reference
thereto Objection was made to sending Commits
sioners to Delaware.
An brl;e ~ Eal.
Courts, andre-establiah the authority of the State
Courts.
An ordinance continuing in force certain Federal
laws under the control of the State.
An ordinance declaring what constitutes trea.
son, and an ordinance concerning citizenship, were
severally offered, and made the special order for
tomorrow.
An ordinance adopted relative to oaths to be
taken by lawyers.
The Secretary of the Convention was given au
thorty to have the ordinance of secession, with the
sgners names, Autographed.
The Convention will probably take recess after
Tuesday.
A large portion of to-day was spent in secret
session. An ordinance has been passed by the Con
ventiOn resuming the States authority over all ter
ritOry heretofore ceded to the United States.
NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE.
APPROVAL OF THE CRlTTENDEN RESOLUTIONS.
TRENTON, Jan. 24.-The Crttenden resolutions
were taken up to-day in the Senate, on the final
passage. Speeches were made by the Democratic
Senators in favor, and the Republicans in opposi-
tion to their passage. They were passed-yeas II,
nays G. Ten Democrats and one National Union
voted in the affirmative.
The Governor has nominated George II. Brown,
of Somerset county, for Judge of the Supreme
Court. The nomin alton was referred.
NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
RALEIGH, Jan. 25.-A resolution to send commits
sioners to Washington on the 4th of February
discussed; also proposition to send commissioners
TO MONTGOMERY The latter measure was strongly
opposed, and is now under debate. The same pro.
position has been debated in the Senate, but de-
cision reached. Senator Bragg spoke this after
noon, making a conservative Southern rights
speech.
Matters here move on slowly.
TFROM OUR WASHINGTON CORRESP ONDENTl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.
Mr.. Iverson, of Georgia, retains his place in the
Senate and votes. He probably awaits the retire
ment of the Louisiana Senators.
Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, is here, and is
erting all his influence with the Republicans to in
duce them to accept the Corwin proposition. He
particularly favors Mr.. Adams amendment for the
! admission of New Mexico.
! As soon as it is known that the Louisiana Con-
yenton has passed the ordinance of secession, bill
will be introduced into Congress, and will probably
pass, repeating the duties upon sugar. This it is
supposed will have a deleteriOus effect upon the
sugar planting interests of Louisiana.
All hopes of the passage of the Crittenden
lutions have been abandoned, and | believe even
| by the author of them. But it is asserted, conf
| IDENTIFY, that some measures of adjustment will be
adopted by the requisite two-thrds of both branches
of Congress. Whether these will be of character
to satisfy the demands of the South even of the
| border slave States, is by no means so certain.
Mr.. VIM. II. West bas to-day been despatched
by the Government, in great haste, to the South
ern Cities with dispatches Of an important charac
ter the nature of which are not permitted to tran
! spire.
The difficulty between Messrs. Rust and Dunn
| will terminate boodlessly. Shortly after the Oc-
in the House yesterday, Mr.. Rust selected
as his friend and adviser, his colleague Mr.. Hind
man, and Mr.. Dunn called to his aid Mr.. English,
of the Indiana delegation. The two seconds then
had an interview, and after thorough understand
| ing of all the facts, Mr.. Hndman expressed the
| so the matter will be amicably arranged.
Messrs. Crittenden, Bigler, Douglas and other
conservatives of the Senate have called consulta
ton for tonight with Mr.. Etheridge and others of
| the House to consider new plan of compromise,
to which they attach great Importance. The pro-
! ceedings will be kept very private.
Cassius NJ. Clay, by request, will address
the Republican Association of this city tomorrow
| night.
| An officer of the navy, Just arrived from an ex-
tensive tour through the South, says that all the
seeding States except South Carolina will come
back into the Union, but not unless they get the
most satisfactory guarantees.
Reliable information from Arkansas and Texas
received to day, is to the effect that the secession
of those States is inevitable.
A careful count of the House has disclosed the
fact that of the lis Republican members of the
House, so are inlexibly opposed even to the adop.
ton of Mr.. Adams proposition as a measure of
compromise, and to the Corwin report as a whole a
much larger proportion are hostile vote upon
! the report will not be reached for week as
there are some thirty or more speeches yet to be
made. The stream Of eloquence seems inexhaust-
| ble.
1t is said that some of the Republicans are exert