Show TM E NO SPEAKER YE yet til tit by the express espre ss which arrived from st joseph on monday the we received st louis and other dates to the of december from which we glean a few items the news from washington is to the uit up to which time no speaker had been elected two ballots the fourth and fifth were taken on the the first of which resulted as follows sherman herm an bocock 85 gilmer 22 scattering 9 necessary to choice on the other ballot sherman and bocock each ro received the saine same number as before gilmer 18 8 scattering 13 in the senate on the same day mr pugh of ohio submitted a resolution which was laid over instructing the committee on territories to inquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act for tor the organization of tiko tike th territorial government of new mexico and utah as requires that all laws passed by those territories shall be submitted to congress for approval or rejection the senate then proceeded to the election of a chaplain on first ballot there was no choice the second ballot resulted in the election of the rev dr gurley who received 35 votes out of 50 on the sixth ballot taken on the MR sherman received 96 06 votes bocock 86 gilmer 36 scattering hypon 9 upon which mr gil mer withdrew the seventh ballot taken immediately after resulted as follows sherman bocock 83 botiller Bo teller 25 scattering 9 the time not taken up in the ballo tings 0 was occupied by the members in wrangling and in making speeches as a specimen of which w m a extract the following from that of mr simms of Kentucky the constitution was formed by northern and southern men when it was signed the tha former had a right to sell bell their slaves in southern states and did so the southern men had a right to keep their slaves and purchase those of northern men and did so the northern men took the money received for slaves and invested it in houses and lands merchandize merchandise dize and commerce to this day they have that property and its profits and yet they turn round and denounce the south because they retain the property sold them by the north at that time the ring of the cash was dearer to their hearts than the clank of bonds mens chains was offensive to them if there be in that burning lake where hissing serpents and fiery dragons torment the damned a place more fiery than all the rest it should be reserved for these northern fanatics who would seek to scatter seeds of sectionalism among brothers and friends and with the terrors of in one hand and the dagger of the assassin in the other would invade every capital and nation and around and amid its fallen columns exult in the desolation they had caused unless the north ceased invading the rights of the south they would be prepared to meet them at the cannons mouth I 1 for or the last forty years they had submitted to these things for the sake of the union altho aitho smarting r under ten thousand wrongs there was not a man in his district whose aase heart would not bleed today to day to hear the knell of the federal union they were for union with the constitution unless this was preserved the union was worthless worse than worthless it was time to talk plainly he wanted no more dodging or subterfuge after much speechifying speechify ing t on the the roll was and the hou house se proceeded to the eidth ballot with the following result sherman bocock 85 83 botiller Bo teller 38 scattering 9 total mr tir growlingly Rowlin gly of new york nominated mn mr brim briggs 19 s of new york as a candidate for speaker on motion of mr cochrane of new york the ballots for speaker taken resulted sherman bocock 84 botiller Bo teller 15 briggs 9 sea scattering W 9 A acael call cali of the house was then ordered atory for a vote for speaker the result was as fol foi follows lowE lows sherman bocock 85 botiller Bo teller 23 scattering 0 9 necessary to a choice another vote was taken resulting sherman bocock 84 botiller Bo teller 15 geo briggs 9 and the remainder scattering 0 the house then adjourned the house on the result being mediately adjourned on the after an animated discussion a call of the house was made and the eleventh ballot was taken whole number of votes necessary to a choice Sherman bocock 85 botiller Bo teller 21 scattering 12 mr bocock then said that he consented to the use of his name as a candidate for speaker in the hope that it would prove a rallying point for all opposed to what was termed an aggressive party this hope had gradually CONTINUED ON THE THIS LAST rage PAGE MORE DIORE BY THE express S FROM FROH PAGE A biown grown dim and had become entirely extinguished gui gul shed he therefore formally withdrew his name mr moore of ala nominated mr botiller Bo teller the vote proceeded with the following 0 result whole number of votes necessary to a choice sherman botiller Bo teller 29 bocock 19 miles taylor 12 phelps 16 remainder scattering on the announcement of the result there was considerable confusion many members being desirous of adjourning others to vote again finally another vote was ordered thirteenth ballot whole sary to a choice barksdale 20 bocock 12 miles taylor 7 sherman the rest scattering 0 adjourned in the senate the vice president bein being baing 0 absent mr bright 0 of indiana moved that mr fitzpatrick of alabama f be appointed president of the senate pro tem tern mr foote of vermont said the more recent practice of the senate had been to proceed to a ballot the senate then balloted for a president pro term tern with the following result mr fitzpatrick 33 mr foster poster 19 mr hamlin 1 mr fitzpatrick then took the chair the chair presented a petition from the treasurer of the united states with copies of his accounts for the third and fourth quarters of 1858 and the first and second quarters of 1859 much of the time on the was taken up in in the house in making 0 speeches and then after it was called to ord ora erthe fourteenth ballot was taken the whole number of sary bary to a choice sherman ill lil mccier rland mand 21 botiller Bo teller 39 barksdale 15 scattering 34 fifteenth ballot whole number necessary to a choice 43 mcclarnand ernand 25 barksdale 10 37 scattering sixteenth ballot whole number necessary to a choice sherman botiller Bo teller 33 mcclarnand ernand 28 remainder scattering adjourned in the senate mr pughs s resolution relative to new mexico and utah was taken up mr pugh puh pu 41 h read an extract from the dred scott decision which he accidentally omitted in yesterdays speech mr harlan of iowa moved to amend the resolution by adding that the committee on territories be also instructed to inquire into the ahe propriety of authorizing the people of new mexico and utah to elect all their territorial officers executive legislative and judicial in in such a manner as the le legislatures 0 thereof shall shall provide on the mr cobb of alabama rose and was liste listened nei to with marked attention he said his humble name had been before the Hou sebut not through t any act of his own he did not presume to a aspire st e to the speakers chair he was here her e for t the first time without parliamentary experience and unacquainted with the business of the house and therefore had no right or reason to expect any such token of consideration and regard as these he had received ile he desired to express his grateful acknowledgements acknowledge ments to his political friends who had stood by him and most especially ally those from whom he had heretofore differed he desired to express to him his gratitude not in cold language of conventionalism but in these simple words words that leap up from the heart to the lip henith he withdrew from the contest to name a gentleman who he was sure would be acceptable to both sides bides he meant the conservative portion portio of the house who battle for the Constitution and to protect it from angry ingry surges produced by the persistent course of those who call themselves republicans he nominated mr millson of va trusting he would claim the sup port of those who are nou not only conservatives in name but in conduct applause impatient cries of vote ballot 12 mr mcclarnand ernand said some gentlemen had hac voted for him without w phout the slightest solicitation itai ion lon on his part and as many knew contrary to his wishes he beg begged og ed his friends friend after thanking in 11 them for their kind regard t sto vote for him no ion lon loner longer ioner 0 er he then complimented mr millson as a patriot and statesman and entirely capable of discharging Z the duties of the chair seventeenth ballot whole number voting sherman millson 96 gilmer 6 atheridge the ridge 7 davis 4 scattering 7 mr winslow desired one more ballot and if no election he intended to offer a resolution that from and after today today or tomorrow to morrow as gentlemen might choose no vote for speaker be taken till the ath of january after some further remarks the house adjourned jour ned the american and whig members of the opposition were in caucus in the morning and a agreed 0 reed fo jo continue voting 0 for botiller Bo teller for speaker the expediency of having a resolution offered in the house by one of their number declaring 0 mr millson speaker was considered but not adopted the delay in the election of a speaker causes some of the members of the house of representatives a little inconvenience as they cannot get their pay until the election of a speaker whose warrant on the treasury is necessary for that purpose in the meantime however mr gloss blenner bienner sergeant at arms of the last I house louse has advanced various members sums amounting in the aggregate 0 to forty or fifty thousand dollars chic ivsich h he generously raised on his individual credit the execution of cook and coppie copple and of the two ne negroes roes green and copeland took place at charlestown Charles town on the of december according to the sentence of the court the ile lle negroes roes were first taken out and executed at 11 precisely they were on the scaffold only five minutes before the fatal trap was sprung after han hanging haning g ing 0 30 minutes they were pr pronounced dead cut down and buried cook and coppie copple were then taken from the jail lali to the same scaffold which they ascended at nineteen minutes to one and were on the scaffold only four minutes before they were swung off some three or four clergymen were in attendance administering to them religious consolation on the scaffold the rev green north offered up a prayer of one minutes duration the evenin evening before their execution cook and coppie effected their escape from the jail and came very near getting off they succeeded in in removing one of the planks forming 0 the inside casing of the wall of their cell and then by means of a barlow knife they loosened the brick formin forming the oater outer wall wail removing removing their Bh shackles ackles by means of the same knife which they converted into a saw they crawled out at the hole they had made and dropped themselves down fourteen feet their cell being in the second story then ascended the wall around the jail by using a piece of scantling which had formed a part of browns scaffold and subsequently part of their own As soon as they reached the top of the wall they were discovered and fired upon by the guard on the outside whereupon they jumped down inside of the inclosure and were soon secured a again ain aln and lodged in prison the excitement produced by that circumstance was intense the weather on the day of the execution was cold and chilly the ground covered with snow the next day the rain poured down in torrents on orp the the military that had been on duty from the time the criminals were committed to jail be began bean an to disperse two companies taking their departure on that day and five the next about four hundred men were to be retained till after the inauguration i of governor letcher on the first of january and perhaps till sprin spring what the result of the harpers ferry tragedy will be can be better told ten or twenty years hence than it can now but from present appearances the excitement created by it I 1 and the beelin feelings 0 s that have been aroused by the executions that have since taken place will not soon be allayed in the south carolina legislature on the mr whaley a member from charleston submitted to the house of representatives the fol foi followed following lowiD preamble and resolutions WHEREAS fraternal relations are dissolved between the north and the south the slaveholding states demanding the dissolution of the union to be consummated and this state of affairs will probably render a resort to arms necessary therefore be it resolved that the sum of be placed at the disposal of the governor to be used at his discretion according 0 to the expediency of the times the richmond va papers are flooded with reports of county meetings resolutions concerning slavery 11 irrepressible conflict ic signs of the times ac the ile accounts exhibit an unusual state of activity amongst amon st the I 1 military of the old dominion liew new comia compa companies nies being formed in almost every county old ones being revived arms distributed and ever every y preparation pa ration koput the citizen soldiers on a war footing governor magoffin of kentucky in his an nual message to the legislature takes strong pro slavery groundland ground and recommends a tax upon ped ned peddlers lers a law to prevent free colored persons from coming into kentucky from other states stages and an appropriation to enable that sort of population to emigrate not again to return a reorganization of the militia is urgently recommended er |