The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE prsrArcH.

WAsHIEaror, Dec ~, 1890
Stewards proposition about dividing the
Territories and admitting them az States i'm
uediately, as given in my Geographic dispatch
OF yesterday, seems TO be yet unknown to the
payers. l zee they do not mention IL this
morning. Nut my informant assures me mat
he received IL frnm a most reliable souro6-
from Winter Davis, and from two gentlemen
more trustworthy than he
l paused Senators Hunter and Toombs yea
terday as they were walking down from tbs
CAPITOL after the session of the Committee of
Thirteen. Their faces were ciouded aud sad
II Seward submitted his proposal, they
do blless considered II ~ yankee trick, iu
W hich no con tldence was to be placed. They,
and the people Of Virginia as we'll, cannot for
get that the Northern presses have declared,
In language most positive, that any conees-
siona made pow will be "snatched back" the
moment our troubles are over.
Bailey Is in Jail again. He is visionary and
a passionate lover of the game OF faro. lie 10
tall. slender, light-haired man, with a deci-
dediy intellectual face. His superior talent
canuot be questioned. de comes of high stock
His father was Attorney General Of South
Carolina.
Raymond. editor of the Times. In q long
letter 10 VIM. L. Yancey, declares that the
Northern people will fsnt before they will
admit that the Consultation recognizes prop
erty in slaves. HOW we come TO terms
then
Senator Dixon, of Conn, says that since the
publication of his moderate speech, advo-
Chtiuk uuiOu anu no bds ItSciNe gu
letter after letter dsnouncing him for SO doing;
and Ferry member of the House from the
same State, says that Dixons speech by 70
means represents the sentiments Of his con-
stituents. So, day by day, the possibility of
Union diminishes, and the probability of CIVIL
war increases.
The Republicans, In threatening to close all
the Sou thern ports, rely mainly ON the Navy,
not on The regular army. They think the
South can be coerced by a few vessels Of wa:
without the aid OF a siugle soldier. They
seem to forget that the Sou th can issue letters
OF marque, and that they rave Il commerce %
suffer, while we have none.
Adams Express Company, to the systema-
tic efficiency Of which the South Is already so
IN UGH indebted, is about 10 assume an unex-
peeted magnitude and importance as a car
Tier OF the =: uthern mail 1 suppose no man
will doubt that the Express Will render the
service with promptitude and certainty that
will put the former service 10 shame.
Since the above sen tence was written, news
of the abandonment of Fort Mouitrie, the
spiking Of Lhe guns and burning OF the gun
carriages, and the occupation OF Fort Sumter.
(Which IS said To be impreguable,) has reached
us. 1t was not known At the Capitol 1t the
time left there, but down town 1t creates
intense exci' ement. The only question emong
Southern men is, WAS this evacuation,
spiktng and burning done without orders
from the Secretary of War? How would the
commander of the forces dare abandon his
post and destroy government properly with
out direct, positive, unequIvocal, imperative
orders from headquarters - We are in the
midst of terrible national troubles. The only
way 10 meet these troubles is to face them
We must quit ourselves like men" FED.