Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-04
WAsHIHaroN, Dec. %


# Washington, Dec. 20.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has refused
to accept any bids for the ive-million loan
which demanded more than ~ per cent in
terest - thus less tnan two millions are
accepted, an amount about sufficient, it is
said, to pay the interest on the public debt,
due on the LIST Of January. ,ass.s. sas.a
As it was never stipulated or promised by
the President that the troops should be with
drawn from the forts around Charleston har-
Dor, the Administration does not consider it
is under any obligations to do so. As to the
request of the South Carolina commissioners
namely, for the restoration of the military
status 1t is considered by the largest por-
ton Of the Cabinet impossible.
Secretaries Floyd, Thompson and Thomas,
who hold to the constitutional right Of
secession, were separated on the South Car
DINA question from their Cabinet associates.
There was no positive decision at the meet.
ing to-day, although the prospect certainly
| is not favorable to the commissioners; and
this statement is strengthened by the fact
that to-day Secretary Floyd resigned his
Office. 1t is said that Secretary Thompson
would also have resigned were it not for the
Investigation pending concerning the affairs
|of the Interior Department in connection
with the abstraction of the Indian Trust
bonds; an investigation which he asked for
to redeem his own tonor and integrity.
The report prevails that Secretary Thomas
has resigned ; but this results from his indie
cision as to whether he shall remain in thu
Cabinet rnd his generally believed earnest
sympathy with Secretary Floyd.
WASHINGTON, Dec %.
Herald Correspondence - The Cabine
has Just adjourned, after a protracted session
of six hours. The affairs at Charleston wa
Secretory Floyd stated to the President
in writing, that, unless Maj Anderson wa
Withdrawn from Fort Sumpter, he conlt
| not remain in the Cabinet.
Secretaries Thompson and Thomas wer
understood to entertain the same views, blu
events Of to-day changed their minds some
: what.
r The President determined, after full dclib
Grafton, not to withdraw Maj. Anderson
and Mr.. Noyd's resignation was, therefore
accepted, Among the persons named o
lMr. Floyds succ ssors is B =. Butler, Q
E Massachusetts, who has been in confdentia
consultation with the President for severa
days. A serious division exists in the Cabi
net, and break up may at almost eny hou
, be anticipated. Recent and highly import
ant intelligence from the South, received b
the Government, may precipitate the event
The Secretary of the Treasury has jus
received dispatch from Charleston stain
that the Revenue cutter in the port c
: Charleston had been seized by the authori
ties, and that the captain, who is native {
: South Carolina, has resigned. The INTEL
gence was Immediately communicated to th
: Cabinet.
81 The Naval Department received, at
I clock, dispatch from Lieut. James I
9 Foster, commanding the SLAYER Bonita, whic
7 he carried into Charleston stating that hi
II prisoner, the captain of the SLAYER, had bee
n taken before State Judge, by writ {
habeas corpus, and that the Judge remande
the prisoner to his custody, on the groun
that he had no guards and that on his wa
n to the Bonita, with his prisoner, he (tt
prisoncr) had been taken by force from h
It custody, by mob.