Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1861 — Page 2

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The faion Convention. Tbe af ths OtfisOnS of Indiana, r edn the birth-day of the Father i country, to take into consideration tbe I exmenciai 01 our puDiic anairs. was irgwly attended. Every county in tbe State was ' I, and ij its best and wisest men. It ry a Union meeting. We never a convention more imposing in charac- . . . & ae more esness. to sec are me oojecx ior it convened, or at which a greater unanim ity of sentiment prevailed. The unanimous voice jf the convention wae for the maintamance of the v'oion, by any honorable and permanent adjustment of the antagonism existing between the Xorth and the South, without regard to the party au'orma which have heretofore divided the country. It was no less emphatic in its expression against coercion, or, in other words, civil i.r and internecine strife. The convention was "or concession, conciliation, compromise for the reservation of the Union upon the principles hieb the Government was formed , and upon vhich it rests for its perpetuity. If the spirit inch animated the convention is the prevailing entiment of the people of Indiana, we hall en the hope that Liberty and Union, one and is bow, and will ever be, the motto .ad destiny of the American people. The convention spoke with one voice, and that voice could not be misunderstood. It was for oeace. It was against disunion, if the separation could do prevented by any honorable compromise. Bwt if disunion was the only alternative, .he seu -Dent of the convention was for peaceable separation. We cannot war with brothers. We can in t fight the men the people who have 'ought our battles. If division must take place, let os part as brethren, as friends. It was felt that the only hope of reunion, or the reconstruc. .on of the Government is in maintaining peace. This feeling animated the convention, and, if we may be allowed to judge from the representation rcscut. it is the entiment of a vast majority of iie people of Indians. There was no parti zan spirit manifested in the convention Reparlicaas. Democrats, and Consti.utiooal Union mm met to consult upon the uui.appy differences which divide thecountry. Party latforms and individual opinions were surrendered to obtain whfct was regarded a greater good, .he preservation of the Union and the govern ;aent ander which we have obtained honor abroad ad prosperity at aome. To maictain and peretuate those bless ngs was the obje-t of the convention. Most nncerely do we hope that its Sorte may be successful. The address and restutions adopted iritii entire unanimity are tern erat in tone, in good spirit and present the only ractieable mode of healing the existing divisions jitl re uniting tho country. These ends, we beiieve, can on!y le acccomplished by the prompt ..doption of "the plan of adjustment of Senator aiTTXXDEX. or any other fair and just proposition substantially resembling it." While we e would not oppese the alternative of a Hatonal Convention, composed of delegates eleced by the people, e fear its operation would be oo slow to meet :he crisis, and the adoption of uch a measure would be subject to misconstructiea by even the most moderate men of the South. It would look tc them as though it was intended for delay and not for reconciliation. A new onfederated government has been successfully rganized, whic'i will rapidly gain strength by t te acceton of ether Sates it' the coruprom ise of . .o prussnt difficulties is even deferred. The SSV esston of a single State might oe regarded as -'hellion easily overcome, but the union of six States, with large resources, in opposition to the eneral Government, must be considered revotion, which it taay not only be difficult to subue, but impolitic even to attempt its subjugation. Conquered hot:le provinces would add o strength '.j the L'u.ou. The patriotic and conservative sentiments Jopted by the convention, composed as it was of 'hebeatmen of all parties, should receive the rmlial approval of every citizen of Indiana, who esirea a reunion of the States apon a permanent '.asm. The proposed adjustment of Mr. CaiTTxxi is fair between contending parties. By it ich yields sort et hing, but tbe North gets the .ion's share. And then it becomes a permanent ulement by Constitutional enactment, and r:ops an agitation by which demagogues hare flourished, and turns the attention of thecountry to the development of its resources and those internal improvements which would go far to bind .he States in a lasting Union. We have already nade wonderful and unexampled progress as a nation, but with peace and union the imagination can hardly conceive the grc.itneae and the wealth that tbe United Suites could achieve in another eighty-five years. Ts not this a de-tin y and a heritage which every .,ood citisen should de-ire to transmit to his children to the generations which shall succeed us ? To accomplish so beneficent an object it only re aires the surret! er of partisan prej udicea and visions of se Vnal and a resdoratior of that patri Jtic, conservative and conciliatory spirit which .initiated the Fathers of the Republic. The Union was born of concession, and it can only be maintained by concession. To achieve Independence and Union, the men of the Revolution pledged tier lives, their fortunes, their sacred honors, und yielded se.tional prejudices, party creeds, and government! theories. To erpetuate a Government which has conferred mequallei personal liberty and happiness, and .eneral prosperity and progress, will not the Sons ' governed by the wisdom, the patriotism, and the conciliatory spirit which controlled the Fathers? Let the People Decide. The Sew York Journal of Commerce well re roarks that as tiie seision of Congress approaches ts dose, and h becomes painfully evident that no relief for the evils under which the country is uttering can be expected from Congressional action, the pnblic mind becomes oppressed with the sadness of our political condition, and demands in opportunity to be board. It is next to a certainty that there is no help to be expected from Congress in any form available for present relief; rut that body can refer the subject to the people, ia the form of a submission of tbe Crittknpvn proposition, or some similar plan, which can re:eiv the authoritative approval or condemnation of the electors of the country, It is idle to denv the fact that the Northern States are many of them shamefully misrepresented in our National Councils that the Senaors and Representatives holding seats there do not reflect the opinions of the people of their respective States, and if tbe question were to be referred to their constituents, their doctrines and their political acts would be repudiated by an overwhelming majority. Believing this, snd not doubting that the voice of the Northern States is for compromise and peace, we demand of Congress, as the l ist and only boon they can grant, that they allow tbe people to pronounce noon the issues before the country, and declare, by their votes, whether they will allow the Union to be lestroyed, thrc uh the madness of sectional ani mosity, or whether, by adopting the proposition of he venerable and patriotic Senator from Kentucky, or sonwthing equivalent thereto, they will rrant that justice to the slaveholding States ivhich. if not faMr enual to their demands, will vet bo accepted as a basis of settlement, and load I - ,. . , . . eveaaow to a restoration of polittcal relations,; and save the Union from disintegration. ' The Peace Conference at Washington does not promise to prcdnce tbe results desired. Tbe rjity of the elements of which it is composed as to tope for the good which it seemed of aeccmplishing Destitute of the au thority to enforce its conclusions, could it reach those of a satisfactory character. Us action must be chiefly reec amendatory, and to give such action any value, it most be netrly or quite unani mous To pass upon any plan of adjustment by s ssere majority vote, gives to such plan do force or power, since tho earns divisions have existed there as with the Congress. But there is one .hing tho Pesos Conference snd the House of

Cn gross may unite in we mean an agreement to let the people of the country speak for them- : selves on the subject. To do less, is to deny to I them the exercise of their plainest and dearest

rightsto persist in ruining the country without eivirnr to them an ormortunitT to annrove or dis- - ip m r ww i approve the action of their representative. In their name we demand that they be permitted to j speak upon this disunion question. 1 bey are misrepresented, in many instances, in both branches of Congress, and have no means of declaring their opinions excepting at the ballot box. Shall this be denied them? Let the members of Congress from New York, from Pennsylvania, from Connecticut and from other Northern Mates, where the populai majority would now declare by thousands in favor of an honorable adjustment answer. If the Peace Conference can agree to no other settlement, it ought, at least, to unite upon this, and recommend to Congress an immediate sub mission of the question to the people. We will be content with that appeal, and we confidently believe it would result in a triumphant vindication of the position of those conservative men, who have sought to meet the South with honorable concessions, and to stay the tide of secession, by reason and not b force. Dare the Sectional-i-its refuse this trial? Have they the hardihood to reject all plans of adjustment, and withhold from the people the right to speak for themselves. The Telegraph at Partisan .TJacnine. One of the largest and most imposing Conventions ever assembled in Indiana, composed of the most prominent and best citizens of the State, irrespective of past party affiliations, met in this city on Friday last. Its action was of general interest and the result of its deliberations was looked for with greit solicitude by a large number of the people of the State and other portions of the country. It was, however, too small an affair for telegraphic notice. If it had been a Republican gathering, the telegraphic wires would have given it prompt attention, and it need be, magnified it into due importance That we may do the telegraph operators no injustice, we will state that it did thus manifest its partizanship. On the same day there was a little gathering of old soldiers and those w ho had been engaged in the Mexican war. That meeting was diverted from its object and it passed mere partisan reso lutions. For that -eason we suppose a very full report of its proceedings was transmitted !y telegjaph over the country. Why the difference? Why the favoritism? A full report of the Union Convention was furnished the operator here, at hie-equest, but it never saw light. He says bJmnsmitted an abstract of the resolutions to Cincinnati. If so, why was it suppressed there ? Is the telegraph to be converted into a partizan machine? If so, it is time the country knew it. A meeting, numbering about one hundred, had the special attention of the telegraph, but a State Convention that filled Metropolitsn Hall to overflowing, was unwortny of notice. We notice that the telegraph even magnifies the former meeting twenty fold. The Louisville papers hare it that the resolutions were adopted by a vote of 1 ,8522 for, to 47 against ! By the time the report got to New York, wesupp -c the number present was magnified in proportion to the distance telegraphed. We notice that the Republican press are charging that the Union Convention was a failure, because the telegraph was silent about it. Did the telegraph operators suppress a report of the meeting, that euch an impression might be made by the Re publican press ? It certainly has that appearance. If these failures of the telegraph were not habitual, we might believe an-omission occasionally was accidental and unintentional. Hr. Lincoln's Coup D'Etat. Mr. Lincoln wound up his journey by a signa feat. He went from Hamsburg to Washington City ineop disguised by a special train. He was met on his arrival at the Federal Capita by a lew friends, and conveyed at once to private quarters. This movement will strike the country with surprise The telegraph says he was advised to go thither without delay. Why? Was Mr. Lincoln, who talked so valiantly in Philadelphia about laying down his life in defense of the great principles announced in the Declaration of Indcpendence.afraid to pass through Maryland? Was it cowardice that induced him to steal through that portion of his route? Will not that impression be made upon the country? Is he that deficient in both moral and physical courage. We can see no possible motive for this abrupt termination of his journey, except the inference that will force itself upon the public mind. When the people along the route found they had thus been tricked, after making due preparations to show their respect to the President elect, they were excessively indignant. And we do not wonder that they so felt. If Mr. Lixcol.v had made the entire journey from Springheld to Washington as he did from Harrisburg, it would have been creditable to him. But after courting ovations and travelling a very circuitous route to receive them, it certainly looks very singular that he suddenly changed his notion when he reached Maon's and Dixon's line. Mr. Lincoln's coup d'etat will not add to his good fame. It is an ill omen for the future. It will increase the general distrust in Iiis character, and ability to wisely and safely administer the Government. If Mr. Lincoln should have sought public attention any where on his route to Washington, it was that part he stole through, as a felon would to escape detection. Does not Mr. Lincoln's course give the lie to his repeated assertion that "nothing is the matter" that the "crisis is an artificial one ?" An Elegant Motion. It is of current rnmor that the "fighting wing" of the Republican party in Gov. Mobton's district are resolved upon having their share of the spoils of their recent victory. The "shads" of that re gion, bearing "faithful testimony against war and slavery," are urging the appointment of one IIenrv B. Hill, a Quaker of Rush county, to the office of United State Marshal. Who can deny that the consciences of the faithful of that party are "letting up" on the nigger question, when even Quakcas show such commendable anxiety to do justice to the South, that they are keen to become "slave-catchers," under the fugitive slave law? At last, then, all the Republican hostility to the fugitive slave law is to be attributed to the fact that tbe office, with its duties, was in other hands than their own. Hexxt B. Hill maj ceed, the "fighting wing" may be appreciated and properly rewarded, and obedience to the fugitive slave law enforced by Quaker affirmation. Saintia M tria ! "Xobody 1 Suffering." That is what Mr. Lincoln says in all his speeches, snd it is supposed Mr. Lincoln knows what he says. Uc is the acknowledge! head of he Kepublican party, and with them, must be the highest authority. How do they agree with him on that bare statement of a fact ? Is there no suffering amontr them ? Why, when there is a world of produce in the country, and these lake so poorly supplied with vessels, i- tuere comparatively, no ship building now going n ? We know one ship owner who cleared $'!". "H i last yesr, and who had plenty of money before, re fuses to invest one dollar more in the business, although the great gale of November desti so much property, because "he don't know what the country is coming to " No new manufacture es are building, old ones are stopping, thousands of working men are turned out of employ, and still "nobody is suffering." At a period when the country never was so rich in actual wealth, the currencv of the best agricultural State in the Union, suddenlv falls from 5 to 15 cents below par, depreciating half a million in a sjn.'le by. and yet "nobody is suffering." Banks suspetid, commercial houe fan, business men whose t wilhst0Mi the panics of twenty JSJKW, nil, and yet "nobody is suffering." Go to our Poor Houses and places of public charity, and ' f 5 ?. "!cn .ml ein lrn ntul nslr tluni it "iioImh V is sutler injr" These are the first fruits of the triumphs of a M tional party in this country. The next will be war, taxation and starvation. 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UNION STATE CONVENTION.

MORNINw SLSSIOX. The Convention assembled at Metropolitan

Hall on the morning of the 22d of February. It Hit people were lor tbe Union ürst, last and all was numerously attended. The parquette and , the time, irrespective of party, boxes were filled, chiefly by delegates from the Mr- Hamilton, of Allen, said thit he had prodistant counties, and in the crowd we noticed men ted hke petitions to the Senate. There was from every partr. The Convention was called , no sentiment that his people would not sacrifice to order at eleven o'clolck by Hon. M. T. Car- j fr the Union The majority of the Renahan. of Pose v count v, on whose motion Hon. W. j publicans of his county said this.

K. Edwards, of Vigo county, was called to preside over the Convention, and Mr. Carnahan called upon Hon. T. A. Hendricks and Gov. Hammond to conduct Mr. Edwards to the chair. He was received with loud applause, and said in sub stance as follows: Fellow-Citizexs: I thank you for the honor you have just conferred on me. The purpose of the Convention was that all Union loving citizens, without distinction of party should come forward for the Union. We appeal to the affec tion of patriotic citizens to avert the calamities of civil war. This may be difficult. Our people inherited the true Anglo Saxon blood. Neither North or South of Mason and Dixon's line would they take offence. He hoped this passionate blood would be kept down just now. Brother was meeting brother. American citizens were now called upon to act, without reference to sectionalism and without reference to party. They had come up as patriots. And as patriots they were now called upon to lay everything upon the altar of their couutrv. This was an auspicious day. This was the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Loud applause. George Washington, the first in war, the first in petce and the first in the hearts of his countnmen. Renewed applause. Never should ho and his precepts be the last to be remembered by the American people every where. Here there was a perfect storm of applause, and it was some minutes before order was restored. Would to God that every citizen could find it in his heart to act in this emergency as George Washington acted when his country called him. Let each citizen to d iv remember that his country demands his services, and let J him render them as the patriots of the revo'urion rendered them. He trustel that brotherly auction, that conciliation and compromise would le brought to bear, and that we would to-day do something to reunite the Confederacy in a more perfect union than ever. "A union of lakes, a union of Wr Is, A union that nonecin dissever; union of hr.-irts. a union of b.inda, The American Uuion forever." Loud applause. Mr. Edwards continued, "E Pluribns Unum" now and forever, our Government is the only hope of the oppressed throughout the world. Francis Scott Key, (in sight of Baltimore, in sight of Fort McHenry.bomhtrdel by the British in the war of 11:2-14. wrote that inspiring song, the echos of which thrill every patriotic heart: "The Star-spangled Banner, oh, lonR may it wave. O'er the land i f the free and the home of the brave." Greit applause. Men may differ politically, but that was no rea son why we would not ajrree upon some plan to preserve this glorious Union. He hoped that would be the result of this day's deliberations. fMr. Edwards took his sc it amid a storm of patriotic applause Mr. Slack, of Huntington, move! the appointment of one Vice President from each Congressional District, which, after several motions in regard to the mode of appointing them, was agreed to the districts to nominate. Secretaries we:e also nominated and appointed, and the permanent organization was completed as follows : President William R. Edwards, of Vigo. TICS rKESIOEXTS. 1st District Samuel Hall, of Gibson. 1 1 " Wm. K. Dixon, of Clarke. 3d M Thos. M. Adams, of Brown. 4th " Mijor John Andregg, Deirborn. 5th " W. P. Anplcgate, of Fayette. 6th " James H. Clay, of Hendricks. 7th " Dr. Dobsna, of Owen. 8th " Dr. D. T. Yoikel, Tippecanoe. 9th " Dr. James Gordon, of Cass. 10th " Simuel Hmna, of Allen. 11th " Andrew Jackson, of Madison. Secretaries. J. R. Bracken, J. J. Havden. Wm. Culley, of Marion; Wm. F. Delamater, of Martin. Hon. Robert Dale Owen offered the following, which was unanimously adopted: Resolrrd, That a Committee of one from each Congressional District be appointed by the Chair to take into consideration the state of the Union and the most effectual means for its preservation, with lea e to report thereon by resolutions or otherwise. Mr. Bdsoa, of Posey, offered the following : Resolved, That a Committee of one from etch Congressional District be appointed to establish the ratio of apportionment between the different counties the census returns ot I860 to be taken as a basis. Mr. Heffren, of Washington, moved to table, which, not being seconded, Mr. Slack moved that for every two hundred vote without regard to party each county should be entitled to one vote in the Convention. Mr. McDonald suggested that as this was not a party Convention, the counties be callel im I lists of delegates be sent up. Mr. Buskirk, of Monroe, approved of Mr. McDonald's suggestion, and the s ime views were entert. line 1 by Mr. Ford, of Jackson. . Mr. EJsonsaid that as gentlemen misconceivel the purport of his reiolution, he would withdraw it. Mr Ryan movel that the counticj be calle l upon a vote of all important iuetions not taken by consent, and that the citizens from the several counties who were present be entitled to cast the vote3 of their respective counties, as mny coun ties had not appointed delegates. The motion was not agreed to. The President on appointing the Committee on Resolutions as follows, said that he had endeavored to se'.ert them without regard to party. COMMITTEE OX RESCLUTtO.XS. 1. Robert Dale Owen, Posey. 2. J.J. Douglass, Harrison. 3. Thomas M. Adams. Brown. 4. Cornelius O'Brien. Dearborn. 5. William H. Beck, Fayette. 6. A. H. Davidson, Marion. 7. O. F. Cookerly, Vigo. 8. James Spc irs, Tippecanoe. 9. J. C. Walker. Laporte. 10. Hugh McCulluch, Allen. 11. John Hunt, Madison. On motion of Mr. Sproule, of Mirion.fhe Convention took a re:cs until two o'clock P. M. ifiaWWI sessiox. The Convention was called to order by the President at two o'clock. Gov. Hammond rose and said that at the time the call was made for this Convention a petition was published in the State Sentinel, which he read. These petitions had been sent to different parts of the State. Many of these petitions had been returned numerously signed for the purpose of being presented by the members of the Legis lature of the respective counties to that lody. He moved that those petitions in the hands of parties here, be sent up to the Secretary 's dck, and that the Secretary enderse the names of the counties on the several papers, and that they then be handed to Senator Johnson, when properly indorsed, to be by him presented to the Legislature now in session. Mr. Dobbins had a petition from the people of Martin county. Gentlemen of all political parties represented Martin in this regard Bell, Lincoln and Bre-kinridgc men. Applause Unanimously we're the people of Mxriin in favor of compromise. Mr. McFarland presented a petition from sun dry citizens of Shelby county in favor of the Crittenden amendments, or some other plan of amicable adjustment, instructing Senators and Representatives in Congress in this regard. P.e publicans. Bell and Breckinridge men were, in Shelby county, unanimously for Union. Mr. Edson of Posey, said that he had just sent np a petition. It was unanimous for union. Douglas, Bell and Breckinridge men were in fa vor of it. The President of the Lincoln county club, in Posey, had headed the list for the Union. Out of three thousand voters in that county, there are notone hundred who are not in favor of the Crittenden or border State propositions. Mr. Landers from Morgan county, presented like petitions. Mr. Coonrider of Clay, presented like petitions. Bell, Douglas and Breckinridge men all joined in the Crittenden amendments. Frank Smith, of Bartholomew county, presented like petitions. There was but one sentiment there Union first, and party afterward. Mr. Kightly of Johnson county, preseute.- like petitions. All men, whether Republicans, Doug las or Breckinridge, were for peace and coinpro mise, and opposed to cnernon.

Mr. of Knox, presented like petitions. For the Union now, and the Union all the time. For anything which will save the Union. Mr. Davis, of Sjott, presented like petitions.

Mr. , of Dearborn county said that like petitions were in circulation there. The sentiments which prevail in this meeting would warm the heart's blood of the people of his county. They thought this Union could not be preserved by force. Mr. Prosser, of Brown, presented resolutions i from the citizens of his county, in favor of the Crittenden amendments, or any other reasonable adjustment. Mr. Shoulder, of Dubois county, presented petitions from Lincoln, Bell, Douglas and Breckinridge men, all in favor of compromise and the Union. They will not give up the ship under any circumstances. Mr. Ray, of Shelby county, presented like petitions, irreipective of prty. In one township forty-nine were Republicans and fifty three Democrats who signed the jetitions. In other townships the proportion was tho same. Mr. Frazier said that the people of his county, Kosciusko, were oppose 1 to the Crittenden amendments. The D.tu'las Democracy had rejected similar propositions at CharleUown. Mr. Prosser called the gentleman to order. He could prove by the gentleman's voles in the Leg islature that he opposed all honorable coin promise; he had voted for coercion yesterday. Mr. McDonald rose to a point of order. He understood that petitions were in order. The gentleman from Kosciusko had said that he had no petition to preicut; ou this point he called him to order. Mr. Frazier I will submit to the ruling of the Chair. Governor Hammond said a point of order had been made by Mr. McDonald. He hoped that point of order would be withdrawn and the gentleman be heard. Mr. Frazier came here as a citizen of Indiana. He was for free speech. Mr. McDonald Arc you in favor of the sentiments which have called this meeting together? Mr. Frazier wanted to know what those sentiments were. Voices "Did you not vote yesterday in the Legislator for coercion?" Mr. Frazier If it had keen the Chicago platform yesterday before the House, I should have voted "No !" The Chair Mr. Frazier is out of order.as he i. not speaking to a motion or on the presentation of petitions. He and every other man shall have the liberty of free speech in this Convention. Mr. , from C.ijtss county, said Douglas Democrats came uo for the Crittenden amendments. His county never faltered. They could not be frightened by the raw he id and bloody bones held up as the Bteckinridge platform. Two-thirds of the voters of Cass would favor either of the petitions for the Union, although Schuyler Colfax did represent that District in Congress. Mr. Zegler, of Clark county, said the forefathers of this Union had bvptized its name in blood. That name wa3 "The United States of America " He regrette 1 that there were excen tious taken to the settlement of our difiu-ulties. He would tell Young America that tliis was a dangerous time BS mike records, ami a ery good time to correct them. The man who would not now come to the rescue of his country would he one day politically de id, damnel an 1 deli v ere 1 Applause The sentiment of coercion, was more (it for hell than it was for earth. The Crittenden amendment was what we asked. On motion of Mr. Hendricks, the order of bu-:-ness was suspended in order that the committee on resolutions might report. Mr. Stotr enberg, of Floyd, said it might not be in order, yet he would state that the prople of his county had got tired of presenting petitions. L'niversally they were in favor of the Crittenden amendment. They had sent to Congress jietitions therefor signed by 1,500 out of a total of 2,100 voters. Mr. McLean, of Vigo, presented like petitions in favor of the Crittenden amendments or bonier State propositions: The committee on resolutions reported by their Chairman, Hon. Robert Dale Owen, who when he appeared on the stage was received with great cheering. He reid the following: Ma. President: The Committee appointed to take into consideration the state of the Union and the most effectual means for its preservation. have instructed me to make the following RKPORT. Your Committee consider the danger to the Union of dissolution, probably of civil war, and possibly of anarchy, to be great and impending, and that a few rash steps on the part of our Government may suffice to produce these lamentable results. Six States have already seceded and elected their Chief Magistrate. Two more will probably fii!uvv them. The remainder, the Middle and Bordei- Suites, to-wit: Virginia, Delaware. Mary land, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, seven in number, await the action of the North lcfore they decide whether they will remain in the Union or join the Southern Confeleracv. Their leader, Virginia, while expressing her love for the Union and her desire to remain within it, has declared two things. She declares, that, notwithstanding that desire, she elects to join the S -uth und to aid in defense of Southern rights. First, If coercion is employed against the sc ceüng States. Second, If all offers of conciliation and adjust ment are refused. No man who knows Virginia will doubt, that he will keep her word. Nor is there a reasonable doubt, that, whenever she secedes, nil the other Border and Middle Slates will follow her example. To resort to coercion, therefore, and to reject all terms of adjustment, is to decide that the Southern Confederacy shall consist, not of six or eight States, but of fifteen; and that it shall include within its limits our present seat of Government. If the Middle and Bonier States remain in the Union, we may reasonably hope, that the seceding Cotton Stati-s will gradually return to it. If the entire South unites, the Union, in all human probibility, is broken up for ever. If the Middle ami Bonier States remain with us and the Cotton States persist in refusing to return we shall have twenty-si... State- to ei'ht; we -diall retain our eit of government; the grave of Washington will still le within the limits of our Union; our flajr, if a few stars have dropped out. will still be respected throughout the world as the ensign of the United States of America; we shall still have double the number of the original thirteen State-;; the identity und the consideration of our country will still be preserved. To insure these invaluable blessings, what is required of us to do? First. To obey the injunctions of our religion and act the ptrt of Christians to our brethren of the South; to avoid violence and coerciotU to remember that a soft answer turneth am wrath, but that grievous words stir up anger, and that we arc bidden to forgive our brother, not seven times, I but seventy times seven. Se-oiid. To assent to certain proffered terms of j adjustment. W hat are the-eV In the first place, they embrace some matteis, itlier ot trining importance or self -evident pro priety, as the repeal of the so called personal liberty bills; the due execution of the fugitive slave law; the right ot transit, with slaves, from one Suite to another; a prohibition to abolish slavery in United States arsenals, dock yards, etc., when these lie within slave States; an assurance that slavery shall not be interfered with within the States in which it prevails. Next, a provision tliat slavery shall not be abolished in the District of Columbia without the on -ent of Virginia and Maryland. This proposes no actual ch...ge; for slavery has always existed there. And if by refusirijr this, Virginia und M try land secede, "will fL District then become free? And if it were free and were in our power, can we conduct our Government in a foreigu country? But no serious objection is madehy any reison able man to these provisions. The true point in dispute is the 1 erritonal question. A to this, the proposal is, to divide the territories of the United States by the parallel of 3fi deg. 30 min.; prohibiting slavery north of that line and permitting it south of it. This is the contested iwint, uion thedecisioti of which may depend the maintenance or the disruption of the Union. This is a question not of humanity to the nero : out of advantage to the white. It is very CQaV j monly, hut very improperly culled a proposal for

the extension or increase of slavery. It is nothing of the kind. It is at most a mere proposal j tuxtend Ike area on trkich slaces shall reside. If hundred African siaves were resident in a particulnr county, and if it were proposed to take fifty of them into the county adjoining, would that i be an exteusiou or an increase of slavery? Cer- j tainly not. We cannot extend slavery except by adding to the number of slaves. And this can 1 only be done by re-opening the African slave ' trade. But the slsve trade never will be re- j opened so long as the Union holds torether, while it miv be establishel if Southern States form a i Confederacy of their own. The effectual mode, therefore, of preventing the extension of slavery j is to preserve the Union. It is only while the i Uiriou holds together that we OU be certain that

slavery never will be extended. Thonn- Jefferson, in his letter to John Holmes, then Senator Iron: Maine, dated April 2'2;1. l-! '. says: "Of one thing I am certain, that us the free passage of slaves from one State to another would not ike l siave of a single human being who would not be so without it, so their diffusion over a preater surface would make them indiviiiuallv happier and proportionately facilitate their emancipation by dividing the burden on a greater number of coadjutors." It is sufficient, however, for our present purpose to admit that, as regards the iio.to, Iii condition is not, directly or indirectly, made worse by being removed from State to a Territory. For if so, it is evident that the welfare of the white race only, not that of tbe African, is in any degree concerned. But if it be a question as between whitealone, then the n-rh;s of the Southern white ought to be regarded just as .uuch as those of the North ern white. What is ja nice between them? That a portion of the Terrt iries of the United States should be open to Bid Northern emigrant, unshared by slave-; and .hat another jortioii should be open to the Southern emigrant with his slaves. Bv taking slaves to a Territory, the Sou'h, for the time, loses political power; for in a State, by the three firth principle, slaves form a basis of rjprsnsasstian; but as there is no Representative from a Territory but only a single delegate, so the three fifth principle is wholly inoperative there. It revive only when the Territory be corner a State. But even then there is no political gain to the South except in the Senate only; and to that she is entitled in virtue of her white population not of her slaves. The s!avc who, in the new State become, by virtue of the three fifth provision, a basis of representation would equally have been such in the older States w hence they were w ithdrawn. The political inlltienee derived through them is neither increased nor dimidished by their transfer from one State to another. Considerations of sectional ascendancy, then, do not enter into the question; but, in addition, the ijuestion itself has ceased to be a practical one, for.during the last twelve years, though slave own ers were free to take the r slaves into the territo lies of the Unite 1 States, only twenty four slaves were actually taken there If, as it is claimed by many, slavery is, by an opinion of the Supreme Court, acknowledge! and pretectel in every foot of United States territory, even up to the British boundary, then nothing but a Constitutional provision can exclude it from territory north of i6 deg. .'10 min. The Northern laborer gains, therefore, by such a Constitutional provision. It is possible that the opinion expree 1 by the Supreme Court, may. by some future decision, be revet-el. But it is certain, that, meanwhile, there is no prohibition of slavery either north or south of the line. Meanwhile, too, there is danger of a controversy regarding jurisdiction between Congress and the Supreme Court, than which nothing can be imagined more fatal to the supremacy of the law. DOS tuse subversive of the authority of the highest judicial tribunal in the land. There is danger, too, that Supreme Judges may hereafter le sc le " I solely with reference to the views they are believe 1 to entertain on a single point; SOoarXtion of things, which would tend beyond measure, to degrade the dignity, and character, aud inde pendence of that Court. Thus we reich the conclusion that a division of territory such as is propose 1 by the Crittenden or other similar plan of adjustment, and demande 1 by the border States, is equally just and expedient. " It remains to speak of the" effects, at the present juncture, ot coercion. The first and certain effect is, that it will unite the fifteen slave Slates against us. This Southern Confederacy, of some ten million inhabitants:, will claim to be independent. We may admit the claim, or we may reject it. If we admit their independence, then we have cle ul v no right whatever to invade them cr to collect duties Pos them; an attempt to do cither would be cause of war. As to ports and other United States property, the disposition tobe made of them would be the subject of negotiation. In this case, by bidding the seceders depirt in peace and agreeing upon terms of separation, though w e loss them as sister Slates, we may retain them as a friendly Power. Ii, on the other hand, we deny their claim and persevere in our denial, and proceed to enforce that denial, either by invasion of any territory held by them, or by attempting, by means of the naval or military power of the Government, to collect duties from them, such proceelings are absolutely certain to be regarded by them as cause of war. They are absolutely certaiu to lead to a declaration of war by the South. Coercion, then, whatever shape it assume, is absolutely certain to pr-uluce, first a united South, and next a belligerent South. We shall have, by our side, a hostile nation of some ten million inhabitants, with a boundary of more than a thousand miles to defend against them. We shall have all the horrors und the sufferings and the immoralities of war. There will be security neither to person nor to property. The farmer will sow, not knowing whether his own sickie. or an enemy's sabre, is to reap. Men and women and children w ill lie down at night, uncer tain whether their lives are safe until the morn "XS- , ... Coercion, in its commencement, is a decision that, on the other side of the Ohio, in brave old Kentucky, there shall be a foreign soil. Coercion, if persevered in will make Kentuckians not foreigners only but enemies; among whom we may carry fire and sword; whom no law wall re strain from carrying fire and sword among us. Coercion, then, is civil war. Whether coercion fails or succeeds, the consequences will beeua!ly (fetal. II it fails, disgrace will be added to dis aster. If it succeeds, what shall we have but oonniiered provinces, which it will require a nu nicrous standing armv to maintain in subui to a Government which they will detest? Coercion, tlien, is far worse than is a rejection of all terms of adjustment. For while the latter dissolves the Union, peace mav still be main tained. But coercion is certain to bring upon us hostilities as well us dissolution. Guided bv such considerations vour Committee propose, for adoption, the following arson, tions. Rrsolrrd, That it is the duty of every pood citizen, in view ot the imminent dangers that threaten our coutry, to act first with a single eye to the preservation of the Union, and the maintainance of peace between its citizens; and to that end, to postpone all political predilections, partisan inteicst, and party creeds, so far as thee in iy conflict with conciliation and may tend to bre ik up into fragments this confederacy of Suites; and to assent to any just and reasonable plan of accommodation, which promises to settle the enisling difficulties. Rixolrcd. That, if the Southern form of labor is excluded from one portion of the common ter ritories of the Unite! Stiles, it is just that there be another portion of the United States wherein that form of labor is admitted. Rimlred, That an extension of the limits w ith in w hich the slaves of the diife i St itos are to he permitted to dw ell, is not an extension of slavery, which can only be effected by an importaaOa' of slaies; and that a relusal to accept any terms of adjustment, bv imperiling the in lintaiiiauce of tbe I'liinn, is the most likely means to extend slavery itself, seeing that while the slavetrade will never be allowed while we remain unitel, it may be re opened by a Southern Confederacy. Remltrd, That if the Peace Conference shall adopt and propose, for the settlement of the present difficulties, the plaM of adjustment of Senator Crittenden, or any other fair aud just proposition, substantially resembling it. such plan shall rapsjrs) our chee.-iul and he.irty suptort. Rrsolrrd, That if the Peace Conference shall fail to agree on any proposition, then we earnestly re iimmend that a National Convention of delegates, to be elected by the people, be callel by Congress or by the States, to which shall be referred the question of the settlement of our Nation il difficulties ; it being our firm be'.e; t;iit the popular will, rede-ted through delegates so e.e ted, cannot fail to result in some fair and hon orablc plan of adjustment. Resoled, That we letieve the final refual to accept some satisfactory plan of adjustment will cause the defection of the bonier and middle State-, will divide the Union into two Confederacies, which may or may not remain at peace with each other, and w ill open the door to such agitation in the North itself as may result in other smaller divisions of the free States. Resolced. That in view af the pre-ent distracted and deplorable condition of the country, of the imminent danger of hostile collision, and of the fact that efforts are now in progress to ring about a peaceable solution of our National difficulties, it is the duty of tbe Government, while such efforts are in progress, to maintain the piecut status, and to refrain from all aits whatsoever of a arlike or aggressive character; and tint, if, ur fortunately, such efforts should finally fail, we deprecate all attempts to maintain the Union by war. Ri-nolreil. That we earnestly commend to our fellow citizens the duty of abstaining from all violent, criminating and irritating Ixiigtiage towards our brethren of tbe South, and of adopting, in practice, that Christian spirit which is gentle and e.tsy to be cntreite-l. which is not easily provoked, which betreib all things and which leuis us to do unto others us we would that they should do ui'o us. Rmolpcd, That we will use our utmost exer

tions to induce our fellow citizens of this State, by memorials or otherwise, to prote-t against tbe spirit of violence which mingles in our public councils, and which we believe to be the expression of political partisanship, and opposed to the true sentiment of the pe ple. Mr. Hendricks moved the previous question,

upon the conclusion of the reading of the report and resolutions. No more cogent arguments could be presented in favor of concession and compromise than were cotitainel therein. Governor Hammond moved that the Chairman, in putting the vote, call upon those voting in the affirmative and negative to rise. The report and resolutions were adopter, by a rising vote, according to Governor Hammond's suggestion, nem. con., amid greit cheering, waving of hats, and every evidence of the most heartfelt enthusiasm. Mr. Ray offered the following additional resolutions, which were adopted mem. con.: Resolocd, That our Senators nnd Representatives in Congress can not disregard the sentiments expressed b the resolutions of this Convention without disregarding the wishes of n large majority of the people of this State, aud that it is the duty of the OOMral Assembly of this State to instruct our Senators and request our Kepre.en tatives in Congress so to vote as tu give effect to said sentiments. Resolced, That it is the duty of the Commissioness representing the State of Indiana in the Peace Conference at Washington, to support such measures of adjustment as are contemplated by the resolutions of this Convention, aud that it is the duty of the General Assembly of this State so to instruct said Commissioners. Judge Reid, of Clark, offered the following, which was adopted mem. con.: Resolced, That the thanks of this meeting are hereby cordially tendered to Hon. John J. Crit tenden for his consistent and untiring efforts to effect a settlement of the difficulties which threaten to distroy both the Feleral Constitution and the Union formed by that immortal instrument. Mr. Owen being loudly called for, took the stand, and said that already recently he bad ail. dressed his fellow citizens at length on the perils and exigencies of the crisis. The report just reid also embodied all he could wish to say. Certainly his fellow citizens did not just now wish to hear from him further. Judge Reid, of Clark, being called upon said he was now ') years of age. He came to Indian t when it was a territory, in Who then fought our battles? Kentucky, God bless her! Where were your Whites and your Davis's? Who rescued our territory from the savage foe? His heart beat for Kentucky, that noble old State. Gov. Hendricks was vociferously called upon, and took the stage. He said he had been a6cs pied with professional duties lately, therefore he w.i not fully prepared to speak. However, whenever a Democrat w as callel upon in this exigency he ought always to be on hand. Every sentiment utterel by the Chair this morning lie indorsed. He believed that the Union could not be preserved (Mit stop short of what the committee that had j isi reported had enunciated. To avoid civil war and all the dire consequence which would flow therefrom, he would be in favor of any reasonable adjustment. O ir troubles all came from the question of domestic slavery. Henry Clay had slid that this question occasioned all our difficulties. Fanatical men. North and South, had brought these troubles upon us. But what were our dutei as citizens or Indiana? That duty of every citizen was set forth in the resolutions w hich had just been unanimously adoptel. He discussed the resolutions at length. The Union, he said, belongel to us all. It was acquired by the blood and treasure of all. Looking at this, and admitting this, the great Kentucky statesman (Mr. Crittenden) had come forward with his proposition of pacification. Our rights the rights of Northern and of Southern men must le established, must be established with reference to the Territories, by a line, a geographical line, aud that settlement made a part of the Constitution itself. . He was for no temporary arrangements. Here alter he was for no strife about this matter. The line would be purely arbritary. Did you ever know a number of owners to a piece of land that applied to the courts for a partition, and, pop. partition be'ng nude, all were content? We, withjTCgard to tbe territories, had to establish an arbitrary line. It was proposed that that line should be fixed in the Constitution, and apply to future acquisitions. Let the division proposed be the division for all time to come. The people of this country were no common people. The world astonished, regarded us. Our course was onward and upward. Could any barrier the Mexicans might establish stop the tide of the Anglo Saxon r.u-e toward the South? From the Atlantic to the Pacific, our dominion alieidy extended. We had more territory to acquire in the future, and, when it is acquired, let it be governed by the line which we now propose to make authoritative by the Constitution. There were no objections to be urged to to this proposition. Where slavery was profitable it would exist Where it was not profitable, there it would not exi-t. We must. North and South, progress together. Shall we have one law of progress for the North and another for the South? We are one people, with one destiny, and a common law ouht to be over us all. Wh:it is the question of slavery here? Does the North lose anything by slave going into territory south of the line proposed? Why should we complain? Does the negro suffer any? A!mHtionists say that if you take niggers into free territory they w ill increase very rapidly. He could not say about this until he had consulted some standard work on physiology. Did a slave, leaving a slave State and cmi grating with hi master into a Territory, become worse in condition? That was a question for the an t i - com pre misers. If we dissolve this Union if we say to the fifteen Southern States we will not compromise with yon, what security have we thai Use leave trads in the ii niiation of a Southern Confederacy will not be reopened? How was it that a gentleman from the beauti ful and fertile regions of S uithern Indiana Judge Hall) was here to-day? He came because his country called him. It cheered his heart to sec him here. Uon the counties in the south, upon the counties Judge Hall representel, the red wave of blood would flow when it came to civil war. Men like him, Republican though he was, would, in conjunction w ith Democrats, make the voice of Indiana be heard. That voice was strangled in the Legislature; it was strangled in Congress, and so far as Indiana was concerned it was, under ex-ei-utive appointment, strangle! in the Peace Congress now in session in Washington City. The people had come up on this day the anniversary of the birth of Gearge Washington an anniversary that every patriot celebrate!, to in ike their voice heard. Disturbers of the invention here to-day, and there were some d-unioni-t-present, would find that when this question was decided nothing partisan would enter into the devision as made aud emphatically and ulti mutely pronounced by the American people. Good faith am. national honor would be sustained by that decision of SBC peiple. If Indiana in this Convention can start the ball can bring the whole nation luck to Honor and Right, oh, will not this be a proud day for us that have met here. Mr. Hendricks took his seat amid great ap-plau-e, and we regret that the length of the proceedings of the Convention, and the late hour at which we write this, precludes our giving more than the above synopsis of w hat he said. Judge Hall, an eminent and distinguished Re publican, indorsed the sentiments set forth in the report and resolutions in every iota. His i e ipte were for concession and compromise. Four to one of them were for the Crittenden amendments The pe ple we-e t iking this matter up, and would settle it, as Mr. Hendricks h id said, in favor of the Constitution and the Union, respecting the rights of all. Mr. Dixon followel Judge Hall, and said that the voice of the people h id heretofore been stifled. This suppression of the voice of the people had not been confined to Indiana, hut was com Oft to all the States. I( this nutter had been left in the hands of the whole people, the whole thing would have been settled Ions ago even prior to Lincoln's election. If partisans had not possoMd the government of this thing, to-dav the Commissioners w ho repre-cntel the State of Indiana would have sent out the cheering news that a compromise had been effected. Heretofore he had been somewhat of a partisan. He had workel hard, and it had been said that he was uncompromising. He was uncompromising when he thought he was rieht. Hut he was not w ith the man who would not compromise for the sake of his country. He was willing to do all in his power for peace and concord. Jud:e Smith, of Randolph, moved that ten thousand copies of the proceedidgs of this meet ing be published for general circulation, and that the thanks of this meeting Im returnel to the officers there f. and also to Valentine Butsvh, for the ue of MetmpolitMl Hall Mr. McDonald w as callel to the stand. He acknowledged the compliment, so unexpected, and said he would be brief. We, fie said, had asciiiblel under circumstance of no ordinary character. The bone and sinew and intelle'tual strength of Indiana were here to day. The unanimous voice by which the resolutions had lecn adopted gate him hopes that the Con fed racy might yet le saved. He could not lielicve, when he rcinembcsed an overruling Providence, that this great and glorious country, under the Constitution and as a Confederacy, was about to come to an end. Mr. McDonald went into the argument at length. Considering the Territorial question, declaring that according to the Constitution and fir-t principles, we must look for a settlement of all vexed questions to the people primarily. Any

settlement which would bring peace to the coun- j try would meet his approltatioii. Let u- put this fair fabric again upon the sei of experiment, and i

be believed it would descend to the latest posterity. If this Confederacy was broken up what hope had you of free Government on this continent? Insteid of one proud republic we should have as many Governments as we now hive State. If we would deal rightly and justly by the South they would return. Our glorious flag, how before this had it been honored? Capt. Ingraham vindicated the stars and stripes when he was callel upon to m aintaiu the rights of an American citizen Martin Kosta. That saw, Kosta, claimed the protection of the American dag. Th it Hag had commanded the veneration and the obedience of the whole world. When Capt. Ingraham spoke under that flag, and by authority of that Hag, the tyrant of Austria was compelled to succumb. That was the position our flag at that day occupied. What went to his heu t was that f '! gn potentates were now considering how they would treat that nag. He had Iteen a partisan, a strong partisan, a Demo crate if you would so have it, but nothing of that kind should stand in his way when compromise and peace for his beloved country was the question. Peace and compromise: true Republican states men were for it. Mr. Seward had taken a high position in this regard, and he honored him for it. He felt like standing by him. He would meet patriotic Republican hand in hand. Disturtiers of this meeting, Reptndicans, ought to hide their diminished he ids when Seward had thus spoken. The fell spirit of party ought not make its appe trance here. Let us first look to our Government, then it would be timecnough to talk about party. Until adjustment tmk place, in this, the national emergency, be had no party he be longed only to his country. He called upon all to le up and doing in this exigency. So soon as the first note of disunion fell upon his car the patriot ought to have bestirred himelf. The people were never lowerless. Let them be up and doing. The conservatr e Republicans hold a meeting to-morrow. He hoped that they would declare for the Constitution, the Union, and for the rights of all, so th ttor.e sentiment might pervade the country from the Ohio to the lake-. On motion of Mr. Davidson of Marion, the proceedings of this meeting were ordered to be published in the papers of the city, and papers throughout the couutrv requested to copy the same. On motion of James B. Ryan, of Marion, the Convention adjourned sine die. The Soar hern Confederacy. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer has the following items in refer ence to the Southern Republic: The following, I hear stated, will be President Davis' Cabinet: Secretary of State Ilerschel V. Johnson, of Georgia. Secretary of War P. 0. Hidcr, of Louisiana. Secretary of Navy S. R. Mallory, of Florida. Secretary of Interior W. Porcher Mills, of South Carolina. Postoffice Department J. H. Hemphill, of Te Attorney General General John A. Elmore, of Alabama. Messrs Siideli and Toombs will probably be sent as Embassadors to France aud England respectively. The Southern Republic will not be a free trade Republic as some would have it. The men of sound judgment in the Congress know that it is the most equitable way to support a Government, and hence will adopt a tariff making the duty about twenty per cent, ad ttalnrrm. This, or one hundred and eighty millions of imports, w ill raise a revenue of about thirty ii millions of dollars, which will be ample even if a war 1 1 riff. Ittiftatta iQisl;ituri IegialatiTc Kumvtary. Mom'at, Februsry IS, 1961. Sfnate The one session per day rule was re scinded and the Senate returus to its old mode of meeting. The President laid before the Senate an ofhcial statemeut of the population of Indiana under the eighth census; it was referred to a joint committee of five on the part of the Senate and six on the part of the House, to be appointed by tbe presiding officers thereof after consultation, so that one committee man mav be chosen from i eich district. The Judiciarv Committee re potted on a numtier of bills, several new ones were introduced and five were passed, viz: Mr. Claypool's bill regulating stock banking; Mr. Lomax's, concerning the tax duplicate of Newton county; Mr. Dickinson's, defining who may administer oaths; the bill from a select committee re spc .'ting docket books for Justices of the Peace, and Mr. Lauder's bill to prevent illegal voting. Mr. Conley's bill respecting stationery and postage for members and an official reporter for eich House was discussed and referred with instruc tions to a committee, and Mr. Craven's bill in re gard to stock killed by railroads was called up aud was pending at adjournment. IIocsE. A number of petitions for protection against sheep-killing dogs were presented and re ferrcd to the Agricultural Committee, and memorials were presented by Messrs. Edson and Heffren praying for a joint resolution, asking the Peace Convention and instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress, to use their influence fur the adoption of the Crittenden proposition, which were referred. The committees reported on a number of bil Is. These i dog bills were disposed of and one (Mr. Anderson's) was ordered to be engrossed with amend ments. The Temperance Committee reported (on the petition of Susan B. Hunt and others) that a prohibitory liquor law would be inexpedient as destructive of the end it sought, and under the decisions of our Courts it would be void. The Select Committtee to whom was referred the resolution to fence the battle ground of Tippecanoe reported a bill which was passel to the second reading making apptopriatious therefor. The Speaker announce! the Select Committee on the Hefl'reti and Moody affair to consist of Messrs. Bingham. Ford, Haworth, Crain and Brett. A number of new bills were introduced and Mr. Jenkinson's bill restricting County Commissioners from a levy for county purposes of more than 5'J ceuts on the $100, was passed. Tcesdat, Februsry 19, lSel. Sehate. A petition was presentel from Clark county, praying that provision be made to erect s monument over the grave of Jonathan Jennings, the first Governor of Indiana; referred to a seie t committee. The Senate, after a long discussion, pa.-sel the f-ouse embezzlement bill, with some immaterial amendments. A number of new bills were introduce!, running up to 209. The bill to perfect railroad titles was debated at length, and laid over until Welnesday. House. Resolutions were introduced recom mending the Committee on Ways and Means to report a bill for an appropriation of $2,000 to aid the suffering poor in Kansas. It was re sistel by Me.;-s Stotsenburg. Dobbins and others, on the ground of the im;overihcd state of the Treasury, and was finally referred to the Committee of Thirteen on the State of the Union. The bill authorizing conventional rate of interest was brought up and debated up to adjournment "ithout any action. Hon. G. C. Moody spoke "n the county bill and it was ordered to be engrossed. A joint resolution to appoint a committee to investigate the books of State officers and one instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Cuigre-s to ask an appr- y-ria tion for the impcotcnient of the harbor af Michi gan City were passel. The use of the Hall of Representative was grante I to Mr A D Streight on Thursday to lecture on the exigencies of the existing crisis. Mr. Jenkinson of Allen introduce! a resolution to instruct the Committee on Ways and Means to inquire and report as to the extcJiency of building a substantial iron fence around the Governor' Circle A resolution of inquiry by Mr. Roberts was passed as to the ex pediency of passing a law requiring all persons, before taking charge of a movable or stationary steam engine in this State, to procure a certificate of qualifications. Wriwr..TAt, February 20. 1SS1. Sesate. Petition, numerously signed, were pre entel by Senators Williams, Slack and Lan ders prating that an adjustment of our national difficulties mat be h id n the basis of the Crittenden propo-ition; and also one by Mr. Line asking aid for the Indiana Historical Society. A bill was reported from a select committee pro tiding f"i the collection and preservation of ma terials relating t the early settlement of the State. Among the new bills introduced was one ti amend -c ti..ns 1 and 2 of an act rclathe to tet iiil elections, so a- to provide fr the election of a Governor of Indiana to fill the vacancy c iti-ed by the rc-ignation of Hon. Henry S. Lane, lately elected I'nitel States Senator, snd one from

the Committee on Education, to provide for general system ot common schools, the officers thereof, and their respective powers sad duties, and matters properly connected therewith, and for tbe establishment and regulation of township libraries This bill is reported m lien of tbe several bills referred to the Committee. It h is tbe sanction of Mr Rugg late and Mr. Fletcher present Superintendent of Public Instruction It was laid on the table and two hundred copies ordered to be printed. The House bill authorizing a loan of $75,00(1 from the school funds of the State was passed after a long debate, the Democrats, with one exception, voting against it. Hovsk. The House, by unanimous consent, agreed to hold two sessions per day. Messrs Prosser. Cooprider and Edson presented petitions favoring the Crittenden amendment, and Mr. Fisher presented a memorial fr m the Grand Division of tlie Sonsof Temperance, praying for tbe repeal of all laws on tie subject of temperance, and the enactment of one law distinctly defining a nuisance. Mr. Veatch from the Judiciary Committee reported that a law districting the State for Representative purposes, w.thout the prescribed constitutional causes, would be constitutional. The conventional interest bill, with Mr. Branlian's amendment, which snakes tbe rate six per cent, and strikes out the usury clause, was passed after considerable debate. Bills were introduced running the House number up to 2?2 a number were read a second time and re! erred to committees and two or three were passed. An effort w as made to get a final report from the Committee of Thirteen on the state of tbe Union, but without success. TlrcasDAT, fsbruary 21, Hat Senate. An ineffectual effort was made to correct tbe Journal of the Senate so as to show the motions made, and make it give a true -kel eton of the proceedings. The special order being the consideration of tbe minority report of the Committee on Federal Relations, its consideration

was postponed until Tuesday next. The Judiciary Committee reported on a number of bills. Mr. Slack's bill allowing county courts to hold courts of conciliation was indefinitely postponed, after debate. Mr. Hamilton's bill to perfect railroad titles; Mr. Claypool's, concerning the Supreme Court Reporters; Mr. Slack's bill, concerning Common Pleas Courts, and that in relation to Common Pl s juries; and the bills in relation to Michael O'Brian's heirs advertisement of land sale to amend section 163 of tbe practice act, were all pa-v-ed. The bill t re luce the salary of the President of the Board of Sinking Fund Com. missioners from $3,000 to $1,500 was iudefi nite'y postponed by a vote of yeas 36, nays 6. Horse. The vote on the passage of the bill limiting the taxing powers of County Commts doners, was reconsidered and the bill takes its place in the calendar. Petitions in favor of compromise were presentel by Mr. Stotseoburg, from Floyd county, and by Mr. Packard; by Mr. Randall, from Xoble county, against sheep killing dogs, and by Mr. Anderson, from Elkhart county, asking for a law declaring that worthless seed stock shall not be commc aers. The Committee on Ways and Means reported it inexpedient to appropriate money to build an iron fence around the Governor's Circle. The order of business was suspended, aud tbe reports of tbe majority and minority of the Committee of Thirteen were taken up Mr. Stotsenburg's amendment calling for a convention of the several States was read and voted down, and the question then being on the adoption of the resolutions reported by the majority of the committee, they were adopted by a vote of 58 to 26; present, and refusing to rots, 6. The minority report was then considered, and rejected by a party vote PmiSAT, February Ti, 1S61. Senate A memorial from the contractors of the Jeffersonville penitentiary, praying for relief, was referred. Mr. New comb' bill for the relief of trust fund borrowers, was returned by the Committee on Finance, and recommitted, with instructions to strike out all parts of tbe bill but which refers to any fund but the sinking fund. Mr. March's bill, concerning interest on money, was returned with a recommendatiou that it lie on the table,but after some debate, the bill and report were laid over until to-morrow. Mr. Shoulders made an ineffectual effort to get an adjournment for the purpose of attending tbe Union Convention. A number of bills were returned by the committees, and the reports upon them were generally concurred in. Hot'sc. The bill to amend the game law of 157 was reported from the committee to which it was sent, with an amendment to the section re lating to phosants and quails, striking out the 1st of October and inserting the 1st of November, The report, after a short debate, was concurred in. Mr. McLean's bill to repeal the amendments of the last session to the city corporation law ordered to be engrossed. The Senate's rent resolution for a joint committee to i the trradaal liquidation of the State debt adopted, and the Speaker appointed Messrs. Bran ham, Fisher, Crain, Gifforl and Brett on the part of the House. A number of Senate and House bills were read a second time, and fourteen new bills were introduced and read a first time. Sattsoat, February 18SJ. Si?r ate. Petitions of citizens of Indian, without respect to party, asking tbe G neral A-. sembly to instruct the Commissioners appointed by the Governor to toe Washington Convention to co operate with the friends of compromise on the basis of the Crittenden propositions, or some other basis equally lair and h notable; and that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to support some compromise on that or a like basis, were presented: By Mr. Tarkington. from a meeting lately held in Brown county; by Mr. Odell, signed by 132 citizens of Democrat township, Carroll county; by Mr. Johnson, signed by 7,500 citizens of Indiana, residents of portions of twenty counj tie8. bj Mr Wolf(, froni oottnty; by Mr Sludabaker, Crom Jay county; by Mr. Claypool, from Union county; By Mr. O'Brien, from Dearborn county; by Mr. Ray, the proceedings of the Union State Convention held in this city yesterday, without respect to party, and asking that the i wo resolutions which relate to the expression of the opinion of the Constitution without regard to the duty of the General Assembly of Indiana be read; by Mr. Wagner, the resolutions adopted at the t '.intention of the soldiers of 1-12, and of the Mexican war, held yesterday in the Hall of the House; numerous other petitions were presented two or three in regard to the temperance law and hey were all referred. Messrs Miller, V agncr, and Hamilton were appointed a committee to examine the of the vaults and safes of the State and to report their conditions to the Sensal. The Judiciary Committee reported adversely to the claims of those who advance 1 money for the support of friends in Uic Insane Asylum. A bill was replied tissa ton select committee on that subject, providing for the erection by the State of a monument to Hon. Jonathan Jennings, the first Gove nor of Indiana. A minority report was also presentel. After much discussion and tlie offer of an am ndmcnt to appropriate $ü,O00 for the im ravemcat ot Tippecanoe battle ground the iiole - object was laid over uutd Monday rt 2 o'clock P. M. A resolution was offered to appropriate money to pay the Peace Commission s sent from this Slate to Washington, hut it was laid over until Monday. Nine new bills were introducedamong others, one by Mr. Tarkington, to regulate the rates of exchange in certain cases, and declaring it usury to tike or charge ex change contrary to the provisions thereof, by any bank, individual or coqoratioii. Hoi st: Messrs. Stotseolierg. Polk. Jenkinson ami Roberts, presented petitions and resolutions passed DJ Union meetings in fat or of Übt OrfeaaV den compromise. The interest bill, which repeals the usury clauc in the present law. with s proviso that, when usury j placed on suit, judgment shall only be rendered, ith six per cant, interest, was passed. The Speaker, on motion of Mr. Jenkinson. directed to issue a warrant to bring William F. Baggat as witness before the Northern Penitentiary Committee A large nnmlicr of bills were disposed of bv committees. aiHl several new bills were introduced. Mr eron apportionment bill came up on the reading, and .'100 copies a ere ordered to be for the use of the House.