Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-29

WASHINGTON, January 27.-The r1mor
was rife here to-day thai Gen. Scott had re-
ceived new intelligence relative to designs
on the Capital by Secession invaders, which
causes him much anxiety.
Judge Robinson, who was dispatched to
the Southern States, by Virginia, to induce
them to keep the peace, telegraphs that if
the BrookLy is destined for Pensacola, his
mission will prove failure.
A dispatch to Senators Crittenden aud
Powell says the'Legislature of Kentucky has
appointed John F. Bell, j. B. Clay, Mr.. Guth-
rie, Ex- Governors Morehead and Wicklife,
Commissioners to proceed TO Washington on
the 4th of February.
The Grand Jury has made three present.
ments of ex-Secretary Floyd: First, for mall
administration in office; second, for COM
plicity in the abstraction of bonds; and third,
for conspiracy against the Government. 1t
is expected that the indictments will be
ready for the action of the jury to morrow.
New York Herald Correspondonce.l
WASHINGTON, January 2S.-I learn from
gentleman who had sn interview with Mr..
Lincoln at Springfield, within the past
week, that the latter, in discussing the excit-
ing state of affairs, expressed himself as fol-
lows:
81 will suffer death before will consent
or will advise my friends to consent to any
concession or compromise, which looks like
buying the privilege of taking possession of
the forts of this Government, to which it has
a constitutional right, because whatever
might think of the merit of the various
propositions before Congress l should regard
any concession in the face of menace, the
destruction of the Government ITSELF and
the consent on all hands that our system
shall be brought down to a level with the
existing dsorganized state of affairs in Mex
ico but this thing will hereafter be. as it is
now, in the hands Of the people, and ifthey de-
sire to call O convention to remove any
grievance complained Of sor to give new
guarantees for the permanence of vested
rights, it is not mine to oppose"
In this conversation, Mr.. Lincoln urged
no objection to the Border State or Ether
idge propositions as future basis of agree
ment, if the Republicans, as party, desire 1t.
The most intense excitement exists in GER
tain Congressional circles, in consequence Of
the fact leaking out that the Howard Select
| Committee of the House has positive evi.
| dence before them of conspiracy existing
in this city and vicinity to overthrow the
| Government, in which certain prominent of
| fcials and citizens of Washington and else
| where figure.
RICHMOND, Va, January ~. Intelli-
| gence has reached here that previous to the
| passage of the Georgia ordinance of Seces-
sion, Harrison W. Reilly, prominent citi-
zen of the mountain region of that State,
| proclaimed in another part of Georgia that
he was on his way home, and intended to
raise party to take possession of the United
States Mint, at Dahlonega, for the United
States Government, in case Georgia passed
a Secession Ordinance.
His declaration caused considerable excite
ment in Miledgeville, and the Government
was requested to send a military force to
Dahlonega, but had not so done at the date of
| the advice.
On the same authority as the above, we
learn that there is considerable Union ele-
ment in the resolutions of Georgia, and an
anti-Secession meeting was held in Pickens
County. When they heard of the passage of
the Secession ordinance the old stars and
stripes were run up, and the demonstrations
of the resistance to Secession were emphatic
and unequivocal. The impression, however,
was, at Milledgeville, that the people oi
Georgia will generally sustain the ordinance
of Secession, and o.operate in the formation
Of a Southern Cotton-State Republic.
Especial Dispatch to the New York Herald
SPRNGFIELD, ILL.,, January 2s.-It is now
positively settled that Mr.. Lincoln will de-
part for Washington on llth ofFebruary. He
will go hence UiG Lafayette to Indianapolis,
where he will receive the hospitalities Of the
Indiana Legislature.
Thence he will proceed, by way of Cincin.
matt, to Columbus, Cleveland, Buffalo, anC
Albany. From Albany he intends to makt
for Harrisburg direct, thence to Baltimort
and the Federal Capital, but the tour to New
York and Philadelphia is not impossible.
Arrangements for special trains all the way
through are making. No military escor
will be accepted. The entire journey is ex
pected to be made inside of ten days.