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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec. 25. Christmas Day has been very dull, and everybody seems to be gloomy. Very many gentlemen have gone home to spend the holidays. The investigation has been pursued in the matter of the frauds at the Department of the Interior to-day. Nothing beyond the amount first mentioned has yet been discovered. A rumor has been current for the past three days of frauds in the Treasury Department, but it is without foundation, so far as I can learn. No investigation has been instituted, as stated, in that Department. RUSSELL has gone to jail for want of bonds;...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 24. Governor ANDREW, Senators DOOLITTLE and TRUMBULL, Representatives BURLINGAME and TAPPAN, and a number of other Senators and members of Congress, held a conference, yesterday, at the rooms of FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Sr., and unanimously agreed that the integrity of the Union should be preserved, though it cost millions of lives. Private information reports Gov. HOUSTON as making a great Union speech, in the face of threats, and eventually carrying with him the largest audience ever assembled in Texas. Prominent Republicans are moving here to secure HOUSTON a seat in the Cabinet, as he has indicated his...
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Interesting from the Federal Capital. Failure of the Senate Committee to Agree upon a Basis of Settlement. Address from Senator Toombs to the People of Georgia. He Advises Secession by the Fourth of March. RETURN OF GEN. CUSHING TO WASHINGTON. BELLIGERENT RUMORS FROM CHARLESTON. Proceedings of the South Carolina State Convention. OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 23. The Senate Committee of Thirteen will report to-morrow, when Senator TOOMBS will speak in denunciation of the Republican Party, and will repudiate any further effort at reconciliation. Mr. TOOMBS telegraphs this evening the following address to the people of Georgia: "I came...
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CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 21. The Convention met at noon. Prayer was offered, invoking God's blessing on the new Confederacy. Immediately after reading the journal -- Mr. ADAMS moved to exclude the reporters and strangers. Mr. HARLLER offered a written substitute, appointing a Committee to wait on the Governor, so that the Convention can advise with him, in secret session, relative to the present state of affairs. Laid aside. Mr. ADAMS wanted the presence of the Postmaster Carried. Mr. INGLIS wanted an official reporter. Lost. Mr. RHETT reported from the Committee appointed to prepare an address to the Southern people. Mr....
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The full report of Wednesday's proceedings having been received too late for insertion in our entire edition of yesterday, we reproduce the following portion: J.P. REED introduced a resolution, first ordering the President to appoint a Cashier and Deputy-Cashier; second, ordering the Clerk to superintend the printing of the Convention; third, that reporters for public journals shall be allowed access to the hail for the purpose of reporting; fourth, that the regular hour for meeting shall be 10 o'clock, subject to a special order; fifth, that an alphabetical list of their members, with their Post-office address, be provided; sixth, that...
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 19. Senator JOHNSON'S speech to-day was a strong vindication of the supremacy of the Constitution, and a refutation of the asserted right of any State to secede. It was able and impressive, and was listened to with interest. Naturally enough the ultra Southern Senators are dissatisfied with it, as it was severe in its denunciation of Southern ultraism, and left little hope that Tennessee would yield to it. Gen. LANE made a brief reply. The Deficiency bill was passed in the House, including an appropriation of $900,000 for the return of recaptured Africans. EDWIN E. STANTON, of...
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THE LATEST REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON. The Special Committee of Thirteen Ordered in the Senate. A Plan of Compromise Submitted by Senator Lane, of Oregon. Mr. Crittenden Proposes to Restore the Missouri Compromise. INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. The South Carolina Convention in Charleston. APPOINTMENT OF STANDING COMMITTEES, An Inquiry Relative to the Federal Property in the State. OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec. 18. Conservative men find little cause for confidence in the speech of Mr. CRITTENDEN, or in the manner in which it was received. There was no indication of a disposition on the part of the Republicans to...
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IMPORTANT FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. Speech of Hon. Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, in the Senate. His Exposition of the Principles and Intentions of the Republican Party. PEACEABLE SECESSION AN IMPOSSIBILITY. More Conciliatory Propositions in the House. Probable Break-up of the Special Committee. The Secession Movement in South Carolina. MEETING OF THE STATE CONVENTION. Organization and Adjournment to Charleston. WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 17. The Senate was densely packed to-day to hear Mr. WADE, as it was supposed that he would speak in some degree for the incoming Administration. Not only were the immense galleries crowded, but all the lobbies and ante-rooms...
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WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 16. In my dispatch of Friday, I am made to say, in speaking of the rumors as to the cause of Secretary CASS' resignation, "all these rumors are untrue." It should have been, "two" of them are untrue. The other -- the refusal of the President to send troops to Charleston -- was the cause of the withdrawal of Gen. CASS from the Cabinet, as his letter to Mr. BUCHANAN proves. I understand that the President's reply is in course of preparation, and that it will be very severe upon the late Premier. It appears that Gen....
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WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 14. The resignation of Secretary CASS created a great sensation in political circles here. Although it was rumored early this morning, it was not consummated till late this afternoon. Various causes have been assigned. One report attributes it to the President's course towards Peru, in refusing to. arbitrate our difficulties, and withdrawing Mr. CLAY. Another says it was because the President refused to send troops to strengthen the garrison at Fort Moultrie; and still another, to escape the odium attaching to the Administration, which he charges with complicity in the secession programme. All these reports are untrue,...
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WASHINGTON, Thursday, Dec. 13. A dispatch, signed by REAGAN of Texas, HINDMAN of Arkansas, LANDRUM of Louisiana, all the Mississippi members, all the Alabama members but HOUSTON and COBB, all the Georgians except HILL and HARDMAN, all the South Carolinians here, and by Mr. RUFFIN of North Carolina, was this evening sent South to their respective constituents, declaring that there is no hope whatever for conciliation or settlement, and urging prompt action and immediate secession. The above fact came to the knowledge of the Committee of Thirty-three while in session, and while Mr. KELLOGG was speaking. He immediately suspended his...
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Hon. W.L. YANCEY -- Dear Sir: You will see from my last letter that I have no faith in the validity or sincerity of the reasons assigned for a secession of the Southern States. The motive for that movement is neither the failure of the North to surrender fugitive slaves, nor the enactment of Personal Liberty bills, nor the practical inability of Southern slaveholders to take their slaves into the Territories of the United States. If you could have full and sufficient guarantees upon every one of these points you would be just as zealous, though not perhaps so sanguine,...
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NASHVILLE, Dec. 6, 1860. DEAR SIR: Could I have flattered myself that any argument that I could address to the mass meeting appointed for the 29th ult., at Vicksburgh, would contribute in any important degree to aid you and your compatriots in staying the progress of the sentiment which threatens to precipitate your State into a political vortex which, in my judgment, would be no less fatal to her own interests than ruinous to those of her neighbors, I would, at any personal sacrifice, have obeyed the summons of my friends; but feeling no such confidence in my ability to...
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WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 10. The debate in the Senate to-day seems to augur rather badly for the preservation of the Union. The speech of Gen. DAVIS, while it was dignified and parliamentary, was well calculated to obliterate the last hope for conciliation. The speeches delivered by Senator IVERSON, and others of his calibre, do much to aid the Union cause, but the cool, deliberate, dignified remarks of the Mississippi Senator are truly dangerous, and are to be deeply regretted. Never has the Senate appeared before so impressed with its responsibility. When Senator DOUGLAS announced that he ignored party, the galleries...
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WASHINGTON, Saturday, Dec. 8. The Senators from the Slaveholding States are in conference to-day at the Capitol, in reference to the political state of the country. The meeting is without respect to party. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 9. The only result of the Southern Senatorial caucus yesterday, was the assurance that eight States are certain to secede. Most of the Southern Senators, including Vice-President BRECKINRIDGE, were present, and the prospects of the country were freely discussed. A large majority considered it too late to save the present Confederacy, but expressed the belief that a new Union would be speedily formed. Senator...
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CONDITION OF THE NATIONAL FINANCES. Two Millions Wanted on the First of January. The Issue of Ten Millions in Treasury Notes Necessary. LATEST FROM THE SOUTH. WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 7. The purpose of the Select Committee on the State of the Union seems to be misconceived, and Speaker PENNINGTON is denounced for not appointing representative men, who could control their respective parties. The members of the Committee are merely spokesmen for their delegations, and will act under and by their advice. Mr. HUMPHREY would hardly undertake to say what the State of New-York would be willing to do in this...
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WASHINGTON, Thursday, Dec. 6. The Select Committee on the Perilous Condition of the Country was announced to-day, and will go to work and report each proposition separately, as agreed on, beginning with that of Fugitive Slaves. This, it is believed, will strengthen the conservative party in the Gulf States, and prevent separate secession. HOUSTON and COBB say their Districts will send thirty of the one hundred delegates to the Alabama Convention, pledged against, precipitation. Costa will send three, Mobile four, Green three, and Autagua one, also pledged against it. The Republicans are alive to the dangers threatening the country. SHERMAN,...
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