New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-29
FROM WASHINGTON.

From Our Own Correspondent
W.sHISGTos, Saturday, April ., 1851.
Hundreds Of Southenen employed in the DEPART
mens have resigned and left for the South. The De-
pstment of the Interior os the greater proportion Of
two hundred of these worthless the other day. The
oath prescribed stagge these traitors 1t il as
follows:
"W,suISGro.. d. C.. April -, 1861
al this preset, time In the United SAKE, service
-, do .oleuy tina: will support pToee', and de-
eud the Constitution aud Government % the United States
against al enemies whether domestic or foreign, and tht viii
bsGr Sh and Loyalty to the same established by the
Constitution and laws and further that do this with fall de-
termination and pledge without any mental or eva
on perform IN good faith all the duties which may be legally
required Of me ,ah.p my God j.,
D',d 81 Columbia, q.
sworn and Subscribed to before me- thi'day Of April,
TIE States and Union, that feebly bad newspaper,
which has for time dragged along its snaky life, died
between Saturday and Monday. For a day or two
last week it made sort Of sensation, when the first
excitement took possession of mems minds. But after
short time the editor found that the cold shoulder was
more unbearabe than threats of violence. So he pro-
poses 10 remove his residential sheet TO Alexandria.
Virginia has erred sadly; but for her sins some
punishmens are too severe.
The coolest thing on record is the offer made TO
General Scott of the command OF the " Confederate
Army No one here believed the story till within q
short time when il is corroborated BY the General
himself Ii IL said that the old soldier commanded the
rebel who brought LiEa The insulting OFFER to stop in the
midst of his sentence, adding that if he went any fur
ther in making such proposition, he would not go
back alive to Richmond.
Tie resignation of Col. Magruder hes been felt
seroufly, IA also that Of Col Lee. The policy of past
Administrations in so far filing up the Army and Navy
H.. Z, L.
fruit II would be better for us to clear out entirely
boh branches of the service at once, and commence
anew, than 10 meet continual deecons on the Of
important movements.
\ report was i'll town two or three days ago to the
effect that the Hon. Reverdy johnson had arrived i'll
breahess state 10 say that NewYork City, nfnrated
and raging ike lion bereft, Was arming with the de-
termination TO lay Baltimore low, and that Gov.
Letcher of Virginia startled from his proprey by this
evidence Of a wrath he had not counted on. had pro-
posed An informal cessation OF hosttes for sixty days
or words TO that effect. am not aware that any
one gave crcdence to the latter portion OF the state
mcnt however probable il might be; nor do l think
that the intention of Nsw-York fully matured in
all It's details but yet the foundation fact seemed firmly
laid that the metropolis terribly excited, and tins
made the eyes of many glisten with joyful light.
An persons Of Northern birth and loyal feelings are
compelled TO lily from many parts OF Virginia Tor
their lives. The other night company OF twenty or
more arrived here in great confusion, leaving their
property behind them; some Of them were forced 10
escape under DISCUSSES of various Sorts Among them
were several women AM it appears that the mob spare
neither age nor sex. They each have interesting and
thrilling incidents to relate but all agree that the pF
of the Old Dominion from which they came is under
reign of terror worse tan any that they have dreane
OF in Alabama.
Senator Mason up the other evening from Rich
Inond 10 Alexandra. lie amused himself on the way
by making short speeches at the stations, assuring his
excited listeners that they should all be in Washington
in u very lew day..