The national Republican., 1860-12-10
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Items Telegraphed from Washinet,

Items Telegraphed from Washington.
Washington, Dec. 9.-It is stated by distin.
guished Senators that Mr.. Cobb, Secretary Of
the Treasury, has resigned. w. :
The amount received from customs last week
at New York was about two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, one-third Of which was in
treasury notes. At this rate, the cash receipts
for December may be about eight hundred
thousand dollars. For the corresponding month
Of last year, they were 1880, 900. 1t is under.
stood that q treasury loan for ten million dol.
lars, with q pledge Of sales Of public funds for
its redemption, is suggested by Mr.. Hunter as
preferable to the authorization Of the issue Of
more treasury notes. The latter, it is supposed,
would at once be at discount in the money
market. Only few thousand dollars were
received last week on loan accounts.
/ hear that the President openly declares
that he SHAH cause the revenue to be collected
at Charleston, even ifSouth Carolina secedes at
the time contemplated by her statesmen.
Senator Salisbury, Of Delaware, was not
present at the caucus Of Southern Senators
yesterday, being confined to his room by a
severe throat disease.
Besides the South Carolina Senators, there
are still absent from the city Senator johnson,
Of Arkansas, Mallory Of Florida and Toombs Of
Georgia.
1t is understood that Senators Crittenden,
Pearce, Green, Powell, and Baysrd, strongly
urged the expedency of adopting measures
for an accommodation of difficulties between
the North and the South, but it is not to be
disguised that the most moderate or conserva
tive Of Southern statesmen regard a secession
Of several Southern States as inevitable.
1t is stated to be an understanding here
with Senators and Representatives from the
FIVE States that are early to secede from the
Union, that their ordinances of secession are to
declare that all laws and treaties Of the United
States shall stand until all efforts or plans for
a reunion Of the States shall have failed.
THE SOUTHERN CAUCUS.
Washington, Dec. 9.-The Senatorial caucus
yesterday was attended by nearly all the Sena.
tors from the slsveholding States, from Della.
ware to Florida. Mr.. Toombs, of Georgia,
was absent, not being in the city. Maryland
was represented, and Vice President Breckin-
ridge was also at the conference. 1t is said
that the call did not contemplate any action,
and certainly none was formally proposed.
There was, however, full and free interchange
of opinions, together with some suggestions
among them one looking to the call Of
Southern Convention, with a view of forming a
ground Of conciation between the two sections
of the country. The best personal feeling pre-.
vailed, but, politically, there were no indica.
tions to induce hope that the present ditficul.
ties will be adjusted. The causus adjourned,
without providing for future meeting and
the impression was, according to report-eft
on the minds of the Senators-that at least
seven States will secede from the Union.
There are, however, gentlemen who believe
that no means should remain unexhausted to
effect settlement.
The following amendments to the Constitu.
ton are privately discussed among others, and
are here given merely as an item ofinteligence:
First. Territory may be acquired by treaty,
but not otherwise.
Second. The white inhabitants of any Terri.
tory, numbering twenty thousand, shall have
the right to elect all officers necessary to its
government, under rules prescribed by Con.
gress and the Legislature thereof may deter.
mine to recognise slavery or not during its Ter.
ritorial existence.
Third. Whenever any Territory, preparatory
to admission as State, having white inhabit.
ants equal to the number required for Repre-.
sentative in Congress, and having submitted
its Constitution to a vote of the people, applies
for admission, it ahall be admitted into the
Union, whatever may be its provisions in regard
to slavery, upon an equal footing with the origi
nal States.
Fourth. Congress shall not in any wise in.
tertere with slavery where it exists under the
sanction Of law, nor shall it prohibit the trans
portation of slaves from one slaveholding State
to another.
1t may be remarked that the above PROPOSE.
tions for an amendment to the Constitution do
not emanate from Southern quarter.
Though, politically, prospects are exceed.
plnOmy. there hn will
endeavor so to act that, excepting the Gulf or
cotton States, the other members Of the Union
may remain together, looking to time and To
necessity to reunite the retiring members of
the Coniederacy on a mutually satisfactory
basis