Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-04-11
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The N. Y. Times correspondent, writing o
Wednesday April saws

The N. Y. Times correspondent, writing on
Wednesday April 8 says
Of the thirty four millions of dollars offered IN
the Government in the bids opened at the Treas
ury Department yesterday, only three millions
ninety nine thousand were accepted all bids
lower than ninety four being rejected The
number of bids TOR this loan is unprecedented in
the history of the Department. They RANGED
from eighty five to par.
A portion of the stock has already been
issued. This result is most creditable 10 the
Department and constitutes striking evidence Of
a marked Improvement IN its administration
since the Attn of March. Promptness. decision
and efficiency have thoroughly supplanted pro-
crastInatlon, timidIty and shittlessness. 1t was
a bold aud JudIclouS stroke of policy on Mr.
Cbase's part 10 refuse to award more of the
loan than was offered to be taken at fair rates.
He has administered rebuke to the combina-
ton of bidders, which must show them that thew
oyershot their mark, and he has, by this one acI
advanced the public credit and greatly promoted
public confidence. He says he expects caDitaI-
lists to hid for the Government loan as an invest
ment and not toy with it as fancy stock
The President on Wednesday informed sew
| eraI Senators that there would be no extra ses-
| sion calei at present.
Mr.. Corwin, the WHY appointed minister to
! Mexico is expected to leave April Is Sir
| Charles Wyke, the British minister will arrive
in Mexico about the LIST of May.
The Mexican question receives the special
| cons Iteration OF the administration, and an i'm
mediate treaty with Mexico is one object of ex-
pedlting Mar. Corwin's mission. be Spanish
| heet which has been ordered to the Gulf of Mex
leo will be delayed till further instructions are
| received from Madrid.
| The decision of the Secretary of the Treasury
against all bids under 81 for the new loan has
caused great disappointment among the bidders.
hoe laI
| for the remaining SIS ,OO0,O 900.
A dispatch OF Friday says
IF Virginia secedes, it is the determination
of the cOnsplrators to capture Washington and
the excitement there is increasing rapidly, from
fears OF approaching civil war. The secession
ISIS are making desperate efforts, and have OBJ
aimed instructions from the people to several
Union delegates IN the State convention to vote
| tor secession. They also denOunce Gov Letcher
IN bitter terms as a submissionist. A special
dispatch to the Herald says the revolutionary
movement Is progressing in Virginia. Five
thousand men are getting ready in Richmond to
take up arms against the government, under
Ben McCulloch, on the first pretext, and rein
orcements are expected from New York, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore
special dispatch to the Pest says that the
southern commissioners have demanded the i'm
mediate evacuation of forts Sumter and Pickens.
1t IS understood that Secretary Chase accept
ed, on Monday, an offer of the Bank of Com.
merce of New York, for the remaining FIVE mil
lion dollars loan in Treasury notes above par
A special dispatch to the Commercial says the
Secretary of the Interior has directed that no
more land warrants from the pension Office to
the citizens of the seeded States be issued
Much alarm exists at Washington on account
of military preparations and ominous move
ments, respecting which entire silence is pres
erved by all in authority.
The Attorney General is considering the legal
authority of the President to collect duties on
shipboard, and also his authority to call for vol
unteers,