Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-22
Affairs at the National Capital

i Affairs at the National Capital.
| Especial Dispatches to the Cincinnati Gazette.l
4 WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.
l There was a serious collision at the
National Hotel, at midnight last night,
I between Kellogg, Republican member of
I Congress from Illinois, and Medill, one
of the editors of the Chicago Tribune.
Kellogg is in favor of plan of compro-
mise. Medill is uncompromising. The
latter has written, severely about the
former, and out of this grew the trouble
Medill was knocked down and consid-
erably injured. Kellogg followed up
his blows, and continued to punch his
antagonist after the latter had fallen
I The spectators at this point interfered,
hand pulled Kellogg off. g.
t The Peace Conference this morning
have the Guthrie plan before them, it
having been reported, as amended, by
the sub b-committee 1t is compromise
of Guthrie S original proposition and the
Border State Scheme Wilmot of Penn
4 sylvania opposes it; but it is favored by
r majority of the Conference.
Information has been received here
that the Sumpter question has been con-
sidered in the secret session Of the Mont
4 gomery Congress. The South Carolina
delegation urged an attack under the war
making power given BY the Constitution,
but the majority of the other delegations
opposed it on the ground that there was
mo policy in making war on another
Government in the absence oflany inter
national relations; and contended that
after the inaugural ton of President Da-
Wis, Minister should be sent to this
Government. So Lincoln will have
some difficulties to encounter on this
l.question.
The Senate to-day had under consid
Grafton the Tariff bill, and agreed on
the most important amendments of the
Committee. That of Seward, restoring
the present warehousing system, was
agreed to. The New York interest de-
manded that bonded warehouses should
not be abolished in these times. Sena-
tor Wade voted against Seward's amend
ment. The duty ON fax seed and linseed
in this bill IS ten cents bushel. Sena-
tor Wade said there was a great interest
in this respect in his State, which de-
served protection, and moved to raise it
to Is cents bushel. The amendment
was agreed to-. ........
The session of the Peace Conference
to day was anything but harmonious
,Messrs. Tyler, Seddon and Brocken-
.brough, Of Virginia, have agreed on a
minority report, dissenting from the
Guthrie plan, and opposing it in the
Convention. There is likewise opposi-
tion from some Republicans. Wilmot,
of Pennsylvania, opposes the Guthrie
proposition, and there is every prospect
of long and excited debate, without
any decisive results. The opinion is
quite prevalent to-day that the Peace
Convention will end in nothing. No
little excitement has been caused by
these developments, The Virginia and
Missouri Commissioners demand of the
Peace Conference an immediate settle
ment, otherwise they will withdraw
The Republicans say they must have
time for discussion. . r.a.- IT,.
One of the most ardent Secessionlsts
| in North Carolina telegraphs to Mr..
Kennedy, Superintendent of the Census,
his regrets that North Carolina will go
for submission.
All the Charleston papers of Friday
and Saturday copy Lincoln's speeches
and comment on them. The Mercury,
received tonight, says; 'In Lincoln S
opinion the United States, hol ling those
forts which have not yet been captured,
and retaking those which have been
captured by the Confederate States, and
| the collection of duties in their hafbors,
would be neither coercion nor invasion,
but a gentle e1ercise of Legitimate power
towards many rebellious counties, bring
ing them to their senses. Lincoln is
cool man; an able man; a determined
man; man not of words but of action;
who says what he means and means what
he saws; an earnest man withal, and no
politician.
Large numbers of visitors arrived to-
day, and the city is rapidly filing up.
Great preparations are being made by
the hotel keepers and others for the rush
at the Inauguration. The local com
mittees on the part of the city, and Ex-
ecutive Committee, have made complete
and ample arrangements for the forth
coming event. The Mayor will appoint
one thousand extra police. to preserve
the peace of the city. a
-. WASHINGTON, Feb. IS
The tariff on books was reduced to-
day from fifteen cents per pound on
works printed in English, and eight
cents per pound on those printed in
/. French, to uniform rate OF fifteen per
cent. ad valorem.
The Hon. Reuben Fenton, of New
York, intends to introduce proposition
in the House for calling National
Convention for the settlement Of exist