The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-01-03
Very Important trom Washington.
ThIngs sitshsIy Mtxcd.
HkCMETARY FLOYD RESIGNS.

WAsHNoror, Dec. 80.
The Secretary of tho Treasury has refused
to accept any Of the bids for the Ave million
loans which demanded more than IL per cent
interest. Thus less than 50 600, 900 are 40
cepted-an amount q bout sufficient, il is said,
to pay the interest on the public debt due on
the frst Of January.
As it was never stipulated or agreed by
the President that the troops should be with
drawn from the forts around Charleston bar
Dor, tho Administration does not consider it
is under any obligation to comply with the
request of the South Carolina commissi ners,
for the restoration Of the military status.--
This is considered BY the larger portion Of
the Cabinet ~ impossible. Secretaries Floyd,
Thompson and Thomas, who hold the consti-
tutional right Of secession, were separated,
on the South Carolina question, from their
Cabinet associates.
There was no positive decision at the meet
ing yesterday, although the prospect is not
favorable to the commissioners. This state
ment is strengthened by the fact that yester-
day Secretary Floyd resigned his Office. 1t is
said that Secretary Thompson would also
have resigned we're it not that the investiga-
ton is pending concerning the affairs of the
Interior Department in connection with the
abstraction Of the Indian trust bonds, an in
yestigatinn which haeasked for, for the vim
dication Of his own honor and integrity
The report prevails that Secretary Thomas
has resigned, but this results from his indie
cision, Ls to whether be shall remain in the
Cabinet, and his generally believed earnest
sympathy with Sec'v Floyd.
NEW YoRK, Dec 80.
The lIerald's Washington correspondent
| telegraphs the following:
Washington Dec. 29.-The Cabinet has
| Just adjourned, after a protracted session OF
six hours. The affairs Ut Charleston was the
subject under consider alton. Secretary Floyd
stated to the President in the meeting tina,
unless Major Anderson was withdrawn from
Fort Sunpter, he could not remain in the
Cabinet. Secretaries Thompson and Thomas
were understood to entertain the same views,
but the events to- day changed their minds
somewhat. The President determined, nf! OF
| full deliberation, not TO withdraw Major An.
derson, and MIR. Flovd's resignation Was
therefore accepted.
Among the persons named as Mr.. Floyd't
successor. is BENZ. F. Butler, OF Mass, who
| has been 10 confidential consultation with the
/ President for several days. A serious di
vision exists in the Cabinet, and break uE
may at almost any hoiir be anticipated. So.
/
the South received by the Government may
precipitate the event.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has just re-
ociyed a dispatch from Charleston, stating
that the revenue cutter in the port OF Charles
ton had been seized ly the authorities, ant
that the captain, who j. native OF Charles
ton, had resigned. Ills intelligence has beer
communicated to the Cabinet.
The Navy Department, at z O'Clock re-
ceived dispatch from Lieut.. Jas. P. Foster
commanding the SLAYER Bonita, which wal
carried into Charleston, stating that bis pris
oner, the captain Of the SLAYER, had been Ia.
ken before State Judge by a writ Of habeal
corpus; that the Judge remanded the prison
er to his custody, on the ground that he ha,
no jurisdiction, and that on his way to tn
Bonita with his prisoner, he had been taker
by force from his custody by mob.