Later from the North.
Orange C. H., Jan. 21.
--Dates from the North to the 16th have been received.
The National Democratic Convention to nominate a candidate for the Presidency meets at Chicago on the 4th of July.
A cadous of Democratic members of Congress was held at the Capitol on the 11th--Resolutions were unanimously adopted disapproving of the emancipation proclamation.
A Democratic organ is to be started in Washington to be called the Constitutional Union.
The following resolution was also adopted by the caucus of Democratic members of Congress: ‘
Resolved, That we are for the restoration of all the States to the Union.
Patriotism and true statesmanship demand that such a policy should be pursued towards the people of the States where the insurrection exists as shall be best calculated to bring this expensive and exhausting war in which we are now engaged to a close, and to restore said States to the Union, under the Constitution, with all their constitutions, rights unimpaired. ’
The utmost harmony prevailed between Democrats and Conservatives.
Gen. McClellan's nomination by the conservatives at Philadelphia and Cincinnati was simply a suggestion of his name.
His friends promised in this caucus to support cordially any man who might be nominated at Chicago.
A bill will shortly be introduced in Congress, and will probably pass, putting all male free negroes in the Yankee States, between the ages of sixteen and sixty, in the military service.
The Marshal of the District of Columbia, under the confiscation act, has seized the property of Senators Trusten Polk and W. T. Smithson.
Gen. Meade arrived at Philadelphia on the 12th and was serenaded.
He made a speech urging his hearers to do everything to put then in the army, as the only way to crush the rebellion.
He promised to do everything himself to crush out armed traitors.
Wilson's resolution to expel Garret Davis from the Senate was taken up on the 13th.--An immense crowd attended.
Seward and nearly all the representatives were on the floor of the Senate.
Wilson and Davis both spoke.
Davis said if expelled he would go to Kentucky and raise the cry of oppression, usurpation, tyranny, and revolution against the faithless men new in charge of the Government.
Other Senators are yet to speak.
Lincoln has decided that his amnesty proclamation does not extend to prisoners of war.
The New York Times says that at least three fourths of Meade's army have re-enlisted for three years.
The Mexicans attacked the French on the 17th December, and were repulsed with the loss of 2,000.
A telegram from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac says that John Minor Botts has been urged to accept the place of Senator from Virginia in Washington, in place of Bowden, and that he has written a letter in response, stating that he is unwilling to accept the honor intended to be conferred upon him, hoping that the time is not far distant when he can stand as a connecting link between the North and South.
The letter is said to be brief, but eloquent.
Heavy laden wagons were crossing the Mississippi at St. Louis on the ice on the 15th January.
The Herald, of the 15th, has a dispatch from Culpeper, saying that Stuart, with 5,000 men, had arrived at Leesburg, and would either out the Orange Railroad a Bull Run, or the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Point of Rocks.
Lincoln has been mentioned for re-election by the Republicans in the Legislatures of Indiana, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
A brigade from the Army of the Potomac has been sent to Johnson's Island.
The Richmond correspondent of the London Times says if the rebel Congress, which, it must be confessed has hitherto shown little grasp or earnestness, or capacity, fails to rise to the height of the great argument before it, then may be expected such misery as upon earth has never yet been known.
Gold in New York, on the 15th, was 155 ¼, which was higher than at any time since April last.
The New York Herald's correspondent says the impression prevails that Davis will not be expelled, but that the Senate will express disapproval at Davis's course.
Gens. Cadwallader, Hunter, and Wedsworth have been appointed a committee to go to Chattanooga and investigate the Chickamauga fight.
The New York Herald says Fremont is determined to run as an independent candidate for President, and fears the canvass will be carried on to scenes of violence, bloodshed, and confusion.
Grant has left Nashville to prepare for a great conflict in East Tennessee.
The Washington Chronicles says Gen. Magruder has 16,000 men under him in Texas.
A number of mechanics and carpenters have been sent from Washington to repair the railroads in Tennessee.
The New York Senate has passed a bill changing the Constitution of that State so as to allow soldiers to vote.