Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-02-22
WashinstO News


/ WASHINGTON, Feb. l5.-'i'he Republican
caucus tonight unanimously approved Bing-
hams Force Bill, which authorizes the collec-
ton of the revenue on ship-board outside of
/ the instruction ports. 1t will be pressed to
passage next week.
( A fracas occurred tonight at the National
Hotel between Messrs. Kellogg of Illinois, and
, Medill, editor ofihc Chicago Tribune. Medill
was Knocked down, when the bystanders sep
arated the beligercnts.
/ Private advices from Montgomery state
that arrangements have been made for loan
of fourteen millions of dollars by the lst Of
March, at which time the Confe,leracy viii
have fifty regiments of troops in the field for
the purpose of resisting coercion, and in case
of blockade, marching upon Washington.
1t is understood that delegations from Vir-
gnia, North Carolina and Missouri. will vote
against the report of the Peace Conference
Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee, will go
for it. 1t will probably BE- adopted by ma
jority of the States represented III the Confer
encr.
According to rumrr&. the debate to-day in
the Peace Conference WIS Of an exciting char
ac;cr among the Northern and Southern cx-
trcmiss. Another cffJrt was made to admit
reporters.
Another additional company of cavalry ar
rived in the city to-day.
Representative Ni5lack. of Indiana. has
been nominated by the President for Chief
Justice of Nebraska.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-It appears from in
vestigations by the House Military Committee.
that Secretary Floyd accepted \. r. Belk-
maps bid for one hundred thousand muskets.-
Secretary Holt refuses to recognize the con-
tract. Bclknap says they were intended for
the Sardinian Government. 1t is further
shown that Floyd distributed without any or
der, through Tie Engineer of the Department,
sixty-fve thousand percussion muskets, forty
thousand altered muskets and ten thousand
rifles, among the arsenals of Charleston, Mount
Vernon, Baton Rouge and North Carolina
With the exception Of til: last named all the
arms fell into the possession of the State au-
thoriticS.
The committee gave, as reason for report
ing the bill authorizing the President to accept
the services OF volunteers, that the regular
force is wholly inadequate to protect the forts,
arscnals dockyards &c, and other property
of the United States, large portion of the
army being necessary for the protection of the
frontiers.
Jefferson Davis, in his inaugural, is bitterly
denounced by Border State men,.
The Senate Committee on Post Offices re-
ported, without amendment, the House bill
discontinuing mail service in sundry States.
a member of the House is preparing a bill
authorizing the President TO take loans from
States, and issue coupon bonds in payment,
limited to 80 years. H..
A strong interest is again pressing Mont
gomery Blair of Maryland, for seat in Lin
coins Cabinet.
General Wool is lying critically ill with an
attack of pnuemonia.
Mr. Hooper, of Utah, gave notice to-day of
a bill for the admission of New Mexico as a
State
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Dispatches from
the Montgomery Convention received to-day
urge the border State men in Peace Congress-
no to consent to compromise amy land
A number of Democratic Senators in eau
Gus to-day, resolved to make no fac tious oppo-
stion to the tariff bill
The result of the Missouri election created
--===2at excitement among the secessionists-
They consider it an indication that Missouri
will remain in the Union under any crcum-
stances.
The district troops will be kept under arms
during Thursday, Friday and Saturday
The Union men in Baltimore are making
great preparations for Lincol's reception. A
delegation has gone North to meet him.
+. Kingman. formerly member of Congress
from South Carnlina, received Il letter to-day, !
stating that Fort Sumter will be taken at
whatever cost before the 4th of March The
same letter also states that South Carolina
viii demand from tl.e Montgomery Conyeu- |
tion guarantee Of free trade, and that she
and other cotton States will oppose any i'm
port duties higher than per cent.
Mr.. Brown, late editor of the ConstHut ion,
has been deputised by the seeding States to
inform the Federal Government of the election
of Jefferson Davis. He will not be recogniz- !
ed.
Mr. Lincoln will occupy temporarily the |
dwelling on Franklin Square, lately occupied |
by the South Carolina commissioners.
The recent proceedings in the Montgomery |
Convention have led the border States to talk |
of separate Confederacy themselves, in case
they secede.
The Republicans of both Houses are ready |
to vote unanimously in favor of a National
Convention to settle difficulties.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-The mail contract
ors in the seeding States are continually ask
ing, whether they will be paid as heretofore.-l
To which the Postoffice Department responds
stating that drafts will be issued
to them from the Postoffice Department, to be
paid from postal revenue collected within their
States.
The Postmaster General has removed the
route agent, between Grafton and Parkersburg,
Va, on the ground that he left his business
without permission to engage in the secession
movement in that State.
Several Postmasters in Kentucky and Ten
nessee have been removed for similar cause.
The case of the Governor Of Ohio, VS.. the