Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-01-19


to transmit dispatches. 1t is thought
that it will pass, as the existence OF the
Express, it is saitl, depends on it.
In the Senate to-day the Pacific Rail-
road bill was received from the House.
t;win moved to make it the special or
der t.'r the ID Of January. Bragg
moved to refer it toaspccial committee.
III. LOUIS, yu Fort Kcarncy, Dec. "a.
ON the 21st, the House was not i'll
session.
The Senate on the 21st rcconsidcrcd
cxcusimg jefferson Davis upon the Com
tnittcc of Thirteen. On the motion,
Davis said that owing to the solicita-
tions of Southern friends, he would
consent to serve.
At a meeting of the Committee of
Thirteen, held on the 21st, Douglas
said he was ready for any amendment
to take slavery out of Congress, with
out regard to his previous action and us
if he had never made speech or given
vote on the subject.
At IL meeting of the Committee of
Thirty-thrcc, proposition was dis
cttsscd for the admission OF Kansas
and New Mexico, which settle the diff
cultics in these territories. Nothing
was done, and the Committee adjourned
till Thursday next.
Subsequently, the Republican men,
bcrs had Il caucus, and concluded that
no propositions satisfactory to the scccs-
sionists, could be adopted by the peo-
pie; therefore it was necessary to pre-
pare.
In the House today, Cochranc in
troducc,l Union-saving resolutions, to
which 1Iaskin proposed to substitute an
enquiry into South Carolina affairs.
Nothing was done, and the House adj
iourncd till Thursday.
The Very Latest.
st. LOUIS, Dee. 24.-Tn the House
To-day, (Monday) the Speaker pre-
scented letter from the South Carolina
delegation. dissolving their connection
with the House, since that State had
assumed her sovereign capacity.
The Commissioners from South Car
DINA received their credentials on Sat-
urday, on their way to Washington.
The President will send special Mes
sage to Congress on their arrival.
Gushing had returned to Washing
ton, and reports that South Carolina
was acting with the view of the co-opc-
ration with all the slave States.
Toombs had telcgraphcd to Georgia
that all his propositions of compromise
were treated with dcrision and contempt
by the Republican members of the
Committee of Thirteen; that every
Republican member had voted against
each of CrittcnIcn's propositions, and
that the majority then declared that
they had no guarantecsstO offer, which
was silently acquicsccd in by other
members.
The Union Committee of New York
received letter from Fillmore, not yet
permitted to he published.
Senator johnson was burned in ctfigv
at Memphis, Oh Saturday night.
Seward spoke OH Saturday nj ght at
a banquet Of the Newfoundland Society,
New York. lie counsclled fratcrnal
forbcarancc, and said that the Secession
feeling had been getting weaker since
the election day. Within sixty days
the trouble would pass away.
In the Senate to-day, PuSh and
Douglas submitted amendments to the
Constitution, which were referred to
the Committee of Thirteen.
Nicholson made speech on the
Southern side; he had scarcely hope
that the demands Of the South would
he granted by the North.
Davis submitted an amendment to
the Constitution, declaring the rights
Of slave property.
Two defalcations have been liscov-
cred in the Interior Dcpartmcnt--onc
in Indian Trust Bonds, and the other
$4,000 in cash.
In the South Carolina Convention,
to-day, nothing was done of q definite
nature.
Intense excitement cmsucd to-day at
Pittsburg, Oh the discovery that the U.
$. Quartcrmastcr was about shipping
125 guns from Allegheny Arsenal to
Galveston and the Balizc, supposed for
the purpose Of stripping the Arsenal,
and placing the guns where the Sccc-
ders could get them. Major Lyttcling-
ton, in command, declined to give any
positive information on the subject.
Leading Democrats tclcgraphed to
Washington to have the orders cOun-
fernandez, saying that tho people
would not suffer the guns to be re-
moved.