The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-22
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT.
THE PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION.

- There is a prospect of trouble already,
between Great Britain and Georgia. On
the I'd instant, Capt. VAUGHAN, of the Bri.
fish ship Kalos, was tarred and feathered
by certain rufians Of Savannah, for the exs
preston Of abolition sentiments. The
Mayor of the city offered reward of $500
and the British Consul of $1,000 for the
arrest OF the culprits. The papers very
generally denounce the outrage, especially
in view of the present condition of affairs
at the South.
The city of Montgomery, the capital
of Alabama, has assumed such a sudden
Importance as the capital of the southern
conlederacy, and the seat of the federal ope-
rations OF the new government, that we give
below brief sketch OF its locality and sur
roundings. 1t is situated on the left bank
OF the Alabama river, 33l miles by water
from Mobile, and is $50 miles from Wash
ington, D. g. 1t is the second city in the
state in respect to trade nd population, and
is one of the most flourishing inland towns
Of the southern states, possessing great facil-
tiles for communication with the surrounding
country. For steamboat navigation the
Alabama river is one of the best in the
Union, the largest steamers ascending to this
point from Mobile. The city is also the
western termination of the Montgomery and
West Point railroad. 1t contains several
extensive iron foundries, large warehouses,
numerous elegant stores and private resi-
dences. The cotton shipped at this place
annually amounts to about one hundred
Thousand bales. The public records were
removed from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery
in November, l847. The State House was
destroyed by fire in 1849, and another one
was erected on the same site in 1851. The
present population of the city is not far from
10000, and it is probable that, with all its
natural advantages, the fact of its present
selection as the southern capital will soon
place it in the first rank of southern cities.
The British Consul recognizes clear
ance under the State or Republic of Lousi-
ana to this extent: He grants certificate
that the vessel has implied with all the
rules and regulations of the port, on pre-
sumption of the above described clearance,
so far as British vessels are concerned. In
regard to American vessels, he has no
action, nothing to do with them. If British
property is on board of such vessels, he gives
certificate to bills fladiDg.-New Orleans
Delta.
Tennessee, the State in which JACKSON
sleeps, has voted that the Union must and
shall be preserved. Just before the election
in Tennessee, Col. Polk, the brother of ex,
President Polk, sent a Geographic despatch
to Judge DOUGLAS that the Secessionists
were representing that all hope of compro-
mise was abandoned in Washington, and
asked Judge DOUGLAS to get Governor
CR1rTENDEN to join in his reply. 10 this
despatch Messrs. CR1rTENDEN and DOUGLAS
replied as follows:
Your despatch received. Our hopes of the
Union never irmer. Take courage from old
Virginia. Save Tennessee and the Union is
safe.
To which Col. Polk responds on the day
after the election
COLUMBIA, Tenn, Feb. 9, 1861.
S. A. DOUGLAS and j. j. CRITTENDEN, WASH
for the Union. There will not be twenty Sc
cessionists in the Convention. Tennessee IS
saved: saue the Union! WIN. Il. POLK.
Judge DOUGLAS also received the follow.
ing despatch from the very headquarters of
secession in Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Feb. 8, 1861.
Hon. S. A. DOUGLAS, Washington: Tennes-
see is safe. This (Shelby) county gives over
five hundred majority against the Secessionists.
WIN. h. CARROLL.
The Committee appointed by the
Peace Conference, to report plan of ad-
iustment, the telegraph informed US, agreed
after a lengthy debate, to accept and
report the Kentucky propositions, previous
ly presented to the Convention by Hon
JAMES GUTHRIE. Mr.. G.. is chairman of
the special Committee. The following is
the plan agreed upon, but we have yet to
hear the action of the Conference upon it:
Art. l. That all the territory of the United
States shall be divided by line from east to
west, on the parallel of thirty six degrees thirty
minutes north latitude; and in all territory north
of that line involuntary servitude, except in
punishment of crime, is prohibited whilst it
shall belong to the United States or be under
q territorial government; aud in all territory
south of said line involuntary sCrvitude is rec
Ognized it exists in the Southern States of the
UAion whilst such territory shall belong to the
United States OF be under Territorial govern
ment; ana neither Congress nor the Territorial
government shall have power to hinder or pre-
vent emigrants to said Territory from taking
with them persons held by them to labor or in.
voluntary service, according to the laws or
usage OF the State from which sIch persons may
be taken, nor to impair the right arising out of
said relations. and be subject to judicial cog.
nizaIce. The United States Courts of such
Territory shall have jurisdiction thereof, and
those rights shall be protected by the conrts
and all the departments of the Territorial gov
eminent, under or according to the laws of the
State from which the person bound to such
service may have been taken. And when any
territory north or south of said line, within such
boundary as Congress may prescribed, shall
contain the population required for member
of Congress, according to the then federal ratio
of representation of the people of the United
States, it may, if its form of government be
republican, be admitted into the Union on an
equal footing with the original States, with or
without involuntary seryitude or labor as the