Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-04-05
Affairs at the National Capital.
Especial Dispatches to the Cincinnati Gazette.;
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Especial Dispatches to the Cincinnati Gazette.;
WASHINGTON, March 80.
The great point which the Coufed-
crate Commissioners hope to gain in the
evacuation of Fort Sumter has lust
been developed. By the Withdrawal OF
the troops, they maintain that all Fed
eral jurisdiction has ceased oeer the So
called Confederate States, This step
on the part of this Governments, they
contend, will Immediately insure the
foraign recognition they desire Not
oaly do they intimate that the evacua-
tinn OF Fort Sumter is ecrt;iia, but that
Fort Piekcps will soon be placed in
sfho same category, When this is done,
all doubts as to the acknowledgement OF
tlie independence of these States, it is
maintained, are at an end. The toler-
Enee Of the postal service is alleged to
be an international relation, which
should not detract from the indepen-
esnce Of either party.
This Is one Of many diplomats arsu-
meats rcsorted to by the Secessionists
The Cabinet had an extraordinary
,session to day at | clock, on South
ern affairs. Col. Lannon's report to the
effect that Major Anderson cannot hold
out more than ten days longer, was be-
fore them. Much anxiety is felt for
the result of the debate in the South
Carolina Conveation upon the PROPOSE
ton to cut of, the supplies Of Maj jor
Anderson, this measure necessarily
fastening the evacuation of the fort
This fact was no doubt considered by
the Cabinet. The South Carolina au-
thorit;cs are more beligerent than ever
The most decided and earnest intima-
tions are given, that, unless Fort Sum
, ter is evacuated very soon, indeed, an
attack will be made upon it.
Governmental and political circles
lsaye Teen commenting to day, with
great carnestness, on the reception of
telegraphic advices that England and
France arc fitting out squaarons to visit
the American waters, and especially the
Gulf of Mexico The statement is not
believed by many, though it is creating
a feferish excitement wherever re-
peated.
{ A delegation of one hundred Repub-
licans from Baltimore waited On the
President to-day
; The Pennsylvanians are angry about
The threatened repeal of the tariff, and
say they and others voted for Lincoln
with the explicit understanding that
the revenue lava which initiated against
their interests should be changed. The
President told western member of
Congress yesterday that he feared the
Morill tariff bill would not yer, and
did not conceal his apprehensions that
the Treasury would soon be bankrupt
in consequences of the impossibility Of
realizing a revenue from the law.
Nothing had been heard from Fort
Sumter at the War Department to day.
The friends of the Southern Comnis-
sieners, however, declare that the terms
of the evacuation of the fort were agreed
upon at Charleston on Tuesday. The
officers of the army insist that orders
for the evacuation Of Fort Sumter were
virtually given nearly three weeks since,
by directing Major Anderson to prepare
for removal, after his report of short sup.
plies was received.
The Pennsylvaniars now in Washing
ton, held meeting tonight at the resi-
dence of Hon. L. Joy Morris, to express
their sorrow at the death of Hon. Mr..
Scranton, Representative from their
State.
namitn ana wfre, -feft-
the city to-day for their home in Maine.
The Postmaster General has issued
orders for su j. ply of letter paper, cut,
gummed, and embossed with three-cent
stamp, combining in one both letter
sheet and envelope. This sheet is about
half the size of the old-fashioned sheet
Of letter paper, folded out and prepared
as above, rendering it an exceedingly
neat and convenient prepaid letter, Of
only about half the weight of those now
in use, with envelopes.