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The Secession FollxI


Three ThOusand Minute Men in New York
a STATE ConVea,iOH 10 Be Held in PennSyl-
VGnia-The QuestoH ofG North Carolina
Convention TO be Submitted to the People
A Ne1o Congregational Bill on Revenue and
Coercion-Alezdnder H. Stephens of
]. Georgia Mentioned as President of the
Southern Confederdcy-RePorted Disagree
ment of Gen. Scott Nth President Buch-
dnan-Pariculdr Orders 10 the Brooklyn
a Collision Expected at PsnsaeoSd-PrOb
ability of an Attack on Fort Smtsr--A
Fight anticipated in Thirty Hours.
NEW York, January 30.-A special dis
| patch to the Times, from Baltimore, says a
meeting will be held Friday night under pre-
tense of indorsing Crittenden's propositions,
bat believed to be an act in concert With
other movements throughout the State
toward holding Convention.
Three thousand Minute-men are enrolled
here, who drill nightly, swearing fidelity to
| the Union.
The Breckinridge Guard and Southern
Volunteers have united, and drill nightly.
The latter favor Southern Confederacy.
Two companies of troops arrived to day
for Fort McEIenry.
Sixty free negroes went through to day
| for Ohio.
HARRISBURG PENN, January 3d. The
| Democratic State Convention to-day adopted
a call for Convention on the 2lst of Feb
| ruary.
The House tonight adopted resolution
to send Commissioners to Washington.
RALEIGH, N. c., January 3O.--The Con-
vention bill has passed both Houses. 1t is
to be voted on by the people.
WAsHINGToN, January 30.-J John Coch-
rane, in reporting bill for the collection of
the revenue to. day, said he fully concurred
with the President, in his opinions against
| Secession therefore, all acts and ordinances
of Secession are to be considered infractions
of the supreme law of the land also, that
the Constitution does not confer authority
on the Government TO wage war against a
seeding State, in order to coerce or compel
her to remain nominally member of the
Union. ..r
The bill proposes that vessels from foreign
ports, bound to ports in seeding States
where distractions are put to the laws,
with their foreign cargo be liable to seiz-
uIe and condemnation. All vessels in the
coastwise trade are exempt, its restrictions
applying only to foreign commerce on
which revenue is by law collected. 1t also
provides, when the revenue laws are
obstructed, the President may proclaim
the port where such distractions existed
closed.
The Senate will report the Tariff Bill Fri
day. The warehousing feature is amended
so as to allow goods to be stored three
months before the duty is passed, and six
months thereafter, and when taken out for
export, the duties to be refunded.
Private accounts state that Alex. H. Steph-
ems will be pressed for the Provisional
President of the Southern Confederacy, to
! eonciliate conservatives. .
The friends of the Pacific Railroad Bill,
! IL Al. ~. r. II
8 saDguine of the Presidents approval.
Amendments are yetto be acted upon by the
4 House. p. 81 ..g D.
. 1t is rumored that there is serious dis
agreement between Gen. Scott and the
President touching recent movements at
Fort Monroe. l- .E
8 The President expressed much annoyance
a at turning the guns of this fortress inland,
e and declined to admit the Secession authori-
ties in possession of the commercial ports
= have any power to grant clearances or re-
ia ceive payment of duties.
In a letter to Lord Lyons he has defined
the position of this Government, and de.
s clares that the revenue laws will be regarded
s as in full operation. .fa
f Hon. f. J. Judge, the Alabama Commis
: sioner to arrange the property question, has
{ arrived, and is IN conference with the Vir.
l. giDia Commissioners, Colonel Hayne and
8 others.
The commander of the Brooklyn is ordered
= to lay off Port Pickens after landing supplies
}, and if he sees an attempt to attack the fort
n ress, to land his artillerymen, and bring the
p ships guns to bear Oh the forces.
Intense anxiety exists at the White House
r to hear from Pensacola, as a collision il
e strongly apprehended.
9 A messenger arrived to-day with dis
d patches from South Carolina to Colone
r Hayne.
: The Select Committee to-day examined
s John Tormey, Clerk in the Interior Court
Baltimore, touching secret organizations il
Maryland for the seizure of the Capital. HI
N denied all knowledge, but asserted if military
e companies from the North attempted to pas
b through Maryland to Washington, to attenC
ot the Inauguration OF Lincoln, they would b
a stopped.
It. Means have reported a sufficiency bill re
of commencing the purchase of Wendell
Ks printing office; dscountenancing the CHR
IS aui contract, and reducing the approprif
e. tion for returning recaptured Africans
Id $400, 900. .l .-
n. Mr.. Cass will return to Detroit in a fev
at weeks.
lg Mr.. Magraw, of Maryland, has resigne
le the Liverpool Consulate, to which he wa
r recently appointed.
of 1t is understood that the messenger froI
South Carolina brings the resolutions passe
by the South Carolina Legislature, demand
N. ing the surrender of Fort Sumter. Colon
OF Hayne will present the demand to the Pres
TO dent, and if refused, an attack will be mad
us on Fort Sumter.
~ WASHINGTON, January 3o.-The who
VI Massachusetts, delegation, except Sumne
in unite in urging the sending Of delegates
~ the Border State Conference. .
nas Private advices from the South, receive
~ to. night, indicate that there will be tgl
a. in less than thirty hours. Capt, Meigs, con
~ manding the fort at Tortugas informs Il
os Government he is sufficiently REINFORCED
u defy any attack.
Col. Judge, Commissioner from Alabam
a. has arrived, with power TO negotiate for h
va Federal property situated in that Stat
~. arsenals, forts, &c. D..
~ WASHINGTON, January 3l.-Captain Ra
an dOlph is the only naval officer of that raj
ssr who has resigned, and he was on the resery
~, 70 list. His resignation was accepted befo
r. the information reached the Department
~ the surrender of the Pensacola Nayy-ysrd
More care is now taken than heretofore,
n, both the Navy and War Departments, to p
vi vent their secret orders from obtaining p
mature publicity, which has on several oc'
n, sions frustrated the designs of the Admin
,.T 1os tration, to the public detriment.
an Applications continue to be received b.
nv nv from postmasters in the seeding States
~ supplies Of postage stamps, blanks VIZ
he ping-paper, &c.i but they are furnished