The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-10
WASHINGTON u O. DEC : 1

| Senator Peerce, Vi lIaryland has ex pressed
| the Oniuion that civil war Is inevitable. On
| the olher hand, an intelligent member from
Virginia takes more hopeful view. He thinks
| :hat even il lincoln should get con trci OF the
Federal power, the North, being unwilling 70
exas perate the South, will yield the District
a. s0on rs Maryland and Virginia 60 cut that
It defensive alliance will be formed between
the two Republics, and peculiar privileges i'll
the way of navigation and postal arrange
ments will be agreed upon; so that q very f. "
years will find Us, in the language OF Jetfer-
son, one as 10 the restot the world, >eresaE rs
10 each other -
/ wss thrown, yesterday, in contact with
thu man WHO, beyond doubt, carried Mary
land for Breckenridge He tells ne that the
National Volunteers, Of Baltimore organized
~ drst for political purposes. 10 still kent no
for purposes which may be necessary # Lin
coin attempts TO march through Baltimore
with al army 81 Wide wakes behind him.
The volunteers number .WN all YOUNG men
and ali true to the Sonth As Virginia goes
50 will Maryland &c. fhis was the CONCLUSION
OF me Electors Of the latter Htaie III private
meeting the other day.
The disposition Of The various uartiss in Vir
ginia TO come together, as manifested in the
honorable course OF the Breckenridge electors
tho the unanimous appreciation % Tr. Cog
J GINS resolutions 4t th5 last Bedford Court
nils every Eirginian here with unfeigned low
Let US III this crisis be worthy of our name
aud taIne
To show Inc temper of the South, | relate an
iLCiuSAl "nlSA 1T Inc caucus OF
Southern members night before last. Repre-
sentatIves were present from South Carolina
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and
Louisiana. memher from South Carolina
wishing TO get the sense OF the meeting as to
the Buchanau-Cobb scheme OF getting his State
TO postpone action TIL the 4th of March next
put the vote direct, small South Carolina
postpone - Not Cnc voice was uttered III the
affirmative,
Attorney General Blacks article in the Con.
sulution sustains the views of the Message
concerning secession. OF course; If IL be true
as charged, that Judge Black wrote that part
OF the Message with his own hrnd.
The modest proposal CO Mr.. Toucey that he
be permitted to purchase supplies for tbs Navy
privately, instead Of advertising for contracts
exeites no comment. Disuuiou and - empty
! Treasury absorb everything else
Gentlemen from TIE North tell me that thu
rural districts are beginning to IseI the stress
OF the crisis, and that we may xpect very soon
10 see Tue Tribune and the Black Republican
poluclans come down, IS the n. Y Times has
atreaay done. / see the n Y. Express and
the Tribune are giving each other the Yankee
the word Yankee beginning to smell not
s~eetly IN the nostrils of the would-b be FREE
city OF New York.
The States" newspaper changes hands
next Monday. Mai HESS retires, and Messrs.
Harris and Savage become proprietors. Maj.
Il. mas had little or nothing TO do with the pa
per for many months, being absent as bearer
OF dlspat hes to COSTA Rica.
Lord Lyons, the British Minister, has ta-
Ken umbrage at Ger ain passages In Secretary
Floyd's late letter, which show mp The hypoe-
risy and insiLcerIty of the English govern
ment and people in regard TO the institution
OF slavery. He demands TO know whether
GOV. FIoyd's sentiments are those OF the
American government, and II so the Tumor is
that he will u once leave Washington and re-
turn home This, however, can be nothing
more than a mere rumor, since there is no
passage in Gov. F.'s letter comparable 10 the
omen face To face insult offered soma month or
hxy .oT rn 10 Qf IN I- naII
Minister at the Court OF st. James But the
matter was considered of a nature SO serious
as 10 call for special meeting of the Cabinet.
which was said 10 have been held on FRIDAY
morning, and The result OF which has not M
to this time TRANSFERRED.
It's remarked that the ueWsboys here are
begging people To buy papers on the simple
plea OF munger. They never did this before
mat am aware of. Poor little fellows, some
or them show in their pale faces and eIaacia-
.ed frames that their plea is founded in the
horrible truth OF actual or impending starya-
ion. Aud the worst is yet to come. God help
the poor. FED.