Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
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Inc Apprehe'lde0 Aft1cE on IT, StGnste
ed The Peace Congress - Suicide of Ga
he 7I1ton, Of the Navy-7ns Gulf Squad
D. =" Secession Of the Cherokees es-M II
he Light on Floyd's Corruption -
ed Haynes Reply to the President, &c., &c
ne WAsu1NGroN, Feb. 7.
!. The artillery company lately at Augu
- ~ arrived here this morning. They are qu,
Z, tered in the south wing of the Treasu
=" building, owing to the difficulty of procuri
accommodations elsewhere.
!" Gov. Letcher is among the latest arriva
10 The Senate bill which passed tho Hou
today provides that there shall be no exte
e e sion Of any patent when the commission
- - is satisfied that the net profits are $1,000
. . d that the commissioner is authorized
' dispense with models when drawings will
8 sufficient
This statement in relation to the surrend
. Of the revenue cutter Robert McOlelland
derived from an official source: The cutt,
is one Of the largest and best in the reven,
I service, and was just rebuilt and re- fitted
, Her commander was Capt Brushwood,
Virginia. On the 10Th of January--for
/, /, days after Secretary Dix took charge of th
Treasury Department - he sent VIM. +
!, Jones to New Orleans and Mobile, to save,
possible, the cutters on service there.
Capt. Morrison, a Georgian, commanding th
Lewis Cass, at Mobile, must have surre1
dered her before Mr.. Jones arrived.
On the 3Oth of January the Secretary re
ceived the following telegraph dispatch fl on
Jones
New ORLEANS, Jan. 29.-To Hon. John A
Dix: Capt. Brushwood has refused posi-
lively in writing to obey any of the instruc
tions of the Department. In this, am sure
he is sustained by the Collector and Ibeliev,
acts by his advice. What must do7
W. Fl. JONES.
To this dispatch Secretary Dix immedi
ately returned the following:
WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - To VIM. Fl
Jones: Tell Lieut.. Caldwell to arrest
Capt. Brushwo0d, assume command ol
the cutter McClelland and obey orders
gave through you. If Capt Brushwood
after arrest, undertakes to interfere with
the command of the cutter, Lieut. Caldwell
will consider him q mutineer and treat him
accordingly. If he attempts to haul down
the American flag, shoot him on the spot
| Signed. JOHN A. DIX.
! The dispatch, it is said, must have been in.
tercepted both at Augusta and New Orlean
and withheld from Nj. Jones' and that the
conduct of Capt. Brushwood csnsummated
| by this means was Of completely on the
part of the telegraph line with the States of
Alabama and Mississippi, which latter State
has accepted the cutte~.
WASHINGTON, Feb. s.
Col Hayne and Lieut.. Hall left, this morn.
ing, for Charleston. They came here together
by agreement, and so return.
The Postmaster ut Mobile denies to the
Post Office Department that letters passing
through his office have been violated.
The President, in message transmitted
to both Houses, to-day, gives the co:respcn-
dence between himself and Col. llnyne
Much of it is already published. The fol-
lowing is the substance of the concluding
part: In Haynes letter o! Jan. 31st, after
stating the refusal to surrender Fort Sumter
to be an occasion tor war, and stating the
question to be one of mere property, he says
if the evils of war are to be encountered es.
pecialy ca)amitous civil war, elevated states
manship would seem to require it should be
accepted as an unavoidable alternative OF
something still more disastrous, such as ma
tional di>honor or measures materially affect
ny the safety or permanent interest of the
people that should be deliberately entered
upon and of set purpose, but that war should
be the incident or accident attendant upon
policy prolessedly peaceful and not required
70 effect the object which is avowed as the
only end intended, can only be excused
where no warning has been given as to the
consequences
South Carolina cannot, by her silence,
IN in, NJ &cbo
is guilty of an act Of unprovokcd aggression in
firing on the Star of the West. Though an
unarmed vessel, she was filed with arms
when entering her territories against his
(Gov. Pickens) instructions to him, accom-
panying Haynes letter.
Secretary Holt replied on the sixth
Acknowledgment ont of the Presidents receipt
of Haynes instructions, which are to the
effect: II do not come as military man
to demand the surrender of a fortress, but
as legal officer as o States Attorney and
to claim to the State the exercise of its right
of eminent domain-to pledge to make good
all injury and all rights of property which
arise from the exercise of the claim.
The proposition, therefore, is to buy
fort Sumter sustained by the fact that if
South Carolina is not permitted to make the
purchase she will sieze the fort by force of
arms. As an invitation for negotiations to
transfer property between friendly Govern.
ments, this proposal impressed the President
as having assumed most unusual form.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
The impression here, among gentlemen
who are we'll acquainted with the subject, is
that no apprehensions need be entertained
relative to an immediate attack on Fort Sumter,
as it will be referred to the Southern Congress.
Meanwhile, the South Carolina authorities
will keep strictcr guard on the Fort, to inter.
cept any reinforcement to Major Anderson.
All domestic supplies and mail facilities are
starve out the garrison.
Tho Commissioners of the Peace Congress
we're engaged, to-day, on measures looking to
an adjustment. Nearly all the Commissioners
have arrived, including those from Massachu-
sets and New York.
A large number Of influential gentlemen
from nearly all parts of ths country are con,
stantly arriving, embracing many members Of
the Virginia Legislature.
| Capt Tilton, of Maryland, attached to the
Navy, and member of the Light House
BoaId, committed suicide, this afternoon, by
blowing his brains out with pistol. he had
for some time been much depressed, owing tc
the political state of the country.
There are eleven naval vessels on our coast
one at Cuba and another at Tortugas. The
Macedonian and Brooklyn have arrived in the
neighborhood Of Fort Pickeps. While The
Mexican Government was in more unsettled
condition than at present, and there was {
prospect of a demonstration BY Spain agains
Vera Cruz, it was the policy of the Govern
ment to keep strong feet in the Gulf for thu
protection of our merchant interest. Sine,
the Juarez Government has been established
the necessity for the continuance of a stronj
force in that quarter has ceased, aud henc
the fleet mas been distributed in the name
above stated.
| A dispatch announces that the Cherokee
have rebelled and seized Fort Gibson.
The testimony Of ex-senator BENJAMIN
, hofnro the Indian Rond Committoa 10 cold =