AFFAIRS OF THE NATION: MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT; IMPORTANT NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS; Indian Troubles in Arizona (3/1/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 3/1/1861

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OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 28.

It is said that the President elect was much depressed to-day by a sense of the responsibility devolving upon him, and by the irrepressible conflict now going on between opposing interests among his political friends.

Mr. BATES arrived to-night.

Gov. BOUTWELL and Gen. WOOL had protracted interviews with Mr. LINCOLN to-day. He has also received several hundred callers.

Hon. Mr. SPAULDING, of the Buffalo District, New-York, dined with Mr. LINCOLN to-day at the National Hotel. Mr. Hamlin, Gen. Scott, Gov. Chase, Messrs. Seward, Sumner, Bates, Weed, Crittenden, Cameron, Caleb B. Smith, Speaker Pennington, John Sherman, Chas. Francis Adams, Preston King, Hale, Wm. E. Dodge, of New-York, Judge Davis, of Illinois, and other guests, were present. The dinner was, undoubtedly, the most complete affair of the season.

There is much excitement at the hotels to-night, which are crowded so that it is difficult to pass through them.

Gov. HICKS, of Maryland, is making very earnest efforts to procure a Cabinet appointment for HENRY WINTER DAVIS, much to the alarm of many well-wishers of the new Administration, who foresee that, while DAVIS' selection would add no substantial strength to the Administration, it would be rejected by Maryland as not meeting the wishes of any respectable body of her citizens, and would, on the contrary, be highly obnoxious to a large majority. Besides, his radical Know-Nothingism could not fail to make his selection very offensive to the Northwest. It would be far more judicious to ignore Maryland altogether, than to offer her such a selection.

JOHN BELL denies, as unfounded, the report that he had been offered, or desires a seat in LINCOLN'S Cabinet.

The appointment of SALMON P. CHASE Secretary to the Treasury Department, was definitely settled to-night.

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Affairs of the Nation: Movements of the President Elect – 2-4
Mr. Lincoln’s Passage through Baltimore – 4
Important Naval and Military News – 4
Indian Trouble in Arizona – 4
The Plots of Assassination – 4
Editorial: From Fort Sumter – 4
From Charleston: Southern Papers Not Newspapers – 4-5